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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
Lines to a Chariot

Lines to Chariot
rTNHE little sedan that drive
L Is not so small thing
Filled with blossoming apple boughs,
1t holds the heart of Spring.
The little sedan means to me
Long days of summer gold
And any little road, l find,
May much adventure hold
The little sedan gives me wings
On mornings cool and blue
l fill it with Octobers leaves,
And thus my soul renewi
The little sedan even now,
Although the paths are white,
Will take me to some friendly house,
With warmth and love alight!
L'Enuoi
n LITTLE sedan, tried and true,
" When all of life seems stale,
When dreams seem only dreams to me
And all ambitions fail,
If I may run away with you
Returning, ! may bring
A more cOntented spirit for
My hours adventuring!
ID. p. W.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
What Do You KnO,V?
QUIZ

1. At what age does citizen become eligible
for the United States Senate?
.. Where is the Caucasus?
8. Who was the fourth President OF the
United States?
4. Who wrote the novel ''Ten Thousand
Year?
5. In what century did Sir Isaac Newton
live?
6. What is the correct pronunciation OF tne
word congeries?
7. What is an "editio princeps'?
8. When is Michaelmas Day?
8. Who were the parents OF the MUSES. AL
classical mythology? go
10. OF what state is Carson City the capitai'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
Page George Gibbs!

Dear SocrGteS-Joe Hergesheimer talking
about some one cOmpoundng pills in
pestle is a mere trihe compared with George
Gibbs's heroine who, in "The Bo.ted Door"
! think, said good night to the hero, stand
ing on the Intel of her bedroom door; that
is, she was standing on the Intel.
Being as how she was lady of average
height she must have done so in the attitude
which a fly assumes in lettering on the cell
ing, Fiction is stranger than truth.
ARTHUR ChABB,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
|. life

(Atter Gerald du MaurierJ
r IFE, what is it?
- All, who knows?
Just visit,
/ suppose.
TOY and sorrow
- For day;
Then-tomorrOw
We're away.
YOUTH, and morning.
l. Manhood, noon;
Age-the warning
Night comes soon.
CHIMES star
~ To light us, then
We're not far
From home again.
EDWARD N. SAN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

reason now to forget their resentment.
We have done Russia great service.
And at the same time we have wounded
the feelings of the Japanese military
party. Every law of morals justifies our
policy. Only time can tell exactly what
its practical effect will be in international
affairs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
Lewis Bernays promised long ago to i

Lewis Bernays promised long ago to hunt
up for us copy of his favorite poem, called
"When Your Pants Begin to Co." But an
other of our clients, Mr.. Charles Wilson,
who is librarian of the New Zealand Parlia
ment writes that he has mailed the ditty
and it is on its way from the antipodes. The
author is Henry Lawson, an Australian poet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Jim Shields is looking up the history Of
corncob pipes for us, and says the earliest
reference he has found to them so far is in
1856. Did any of our clients smoke a Mis-
souri, meerschaum before that date?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Congressman Freeman, of Connecticut,
suggests that the appropriation bill this ses.
sion should be called the spare rib bill instead
of the pork barrel This suggests slim pick
ings. But the spare rib bill might also be
a good name for the suffrage amendment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Ibsen, says Bjorkman, did his best work
between fifty -one and seventy -one. This
should be encouragement to the man who
feels that he is long in hitting the bullseye.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

A Washington scientist has discovered
that seaweed was the same thirty million
years ago as it is today. Must be the origi-
nal stand patter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Bernhard says the kaiser will never
return to Germany as ruler. The allied
powers who are demanding his extradition
are Of exactly the same opinion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

1t may be that after thorough investiga-
ton has been made the owners of land
purchased by the city may themselves be sub
ject to condemnation proceedings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

A boy has been arrested in Gloucester
for breaking into school,. Evidently the de-
sire of unruliness to break Out in a new
place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
Desk Notices

Whether Mr.. Hoover calls himself a
Democrat Republican or Progressive
or an Independent, he is the kind of man
that ought to be President of the United
States.-New York World.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

G.. o. P. Lamb at Peace with Grundy
Lion.-Headline.
This somehow suggests mint sauce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Mr.. J. st. George Joyce suggests, as an
other movie that would be worth seeing,
Charley Sykes playing Hamlet with Tiny
Maxwell as the ghost
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Twelve hundred tons of herrings we're
shipped from Seattle one day recently to
Shanghai, China presumably because there
is no sense in cultiyating thirst nearer
home. =.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

There seems a disposition among the
powers to allow soviet Russia t. achieve re-
spectabiity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

The police shake up
The Last Ditch? of yesterday makes 1t
appear that the enemy
in the present factional war is retiring swiftly
to what you might call the Rhine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

David Abcel writing to us from the Hotel
Montgomery, Norristown, o. X. Bean,
Prop, offers this as Il desk motto; "1hank
you should be said as aWdiJIy as "Piease. >
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
Eternal Peace

After reading all these stories about the
fatal olives it seems appropriate that the
olive branch has been chosen as the emblem
of peace.
We know a number Of high spirited Amer
lean men who are now more anxious than
ever to be Veuve Ciquot's second husband.
We can't help wishing, selfshly, that Life
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

The daily bulletin from Albany, n. Y,
shows that Sweet is still striking that sour
note
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
Help! Help!

far to walk and not far enough to justify an
extra fare refuse to pay more than a nickel
on Camden cars and refuse to get off. That's
what has happened and what is going to
happen, they say, until the company is con-
tent with one fare. The company is calling
for the police, but the humor of the situation
is liable to kill all sympathy on the part of
the public.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
A Test

Great enlightenment is
A Test possible these days to
any one who will keep
an eye peeled to see whether the man who
talks most ardently about the duties of citi-
zenship is prepared to keep his pavement
clean.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
To an OId-Fashioned Poet

MOST tender poet, when the gods confer
AVA They save your gracile songs nook
apart,
And bless with Times untainted lavender
The ageless April of your singing heart.
VOU, in an age unbridled, ne'er declined
l. The appointed anguish for the needed
phrase:
And conned the fragrant garden of your mind
AS strictly as your bees on sunny days.
DY STUPID praise or stupid blame un-
- stirred
The placid gods grant gifts where they be-
long:
To you, who understand, the perfect word,
The recompensed necessities of song.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese, of Balti-
more, to whom the above humble tribute is
addressed, will read some of her poems be-
fore the Browning Society of this city to-
night. Much is to be said fo" Browning
societies if they can lure such gentle poets
from their seclusion. Miss Rees''s volumes,
"a Handful of Lavender" "a Wayside
Lute' and others, are known to every dis
eliminating anthologist. She needs no
stumbling praise from us; but we offer it in
the same sincere spirit in which the crow
might compliment the skylark.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
THE CHAFFING DISH

had given the double page picture in this
weeks issue its obviously appropriate title.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22

Girls employed in a
Camden factory who
nlninn firn hlnnko is tnn
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
SERVICE TRUCK co. MOVES
INTO PERMANENT QUARTERS

The Service Truck company has
moved from North Kansas street to
its permanent location at AZ Mills
street Frank NJ Brown. branch
manager, has secured sales, office
and service rooms at this address.
r E Gates has been appointed
service manager for the branch. Mr.
Gates has been IS years in the au-
tomobile business. several years Of
this in charge OF the Ranger Oil
and Gas company's fleet OF SO trucks
at Ranger, Texas. He spent quite
a while at the factory Of the Serv-
ice Motor Truck company at Wa
bash. Indiana, when Il started the
manufacture Of trucks II years ago.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

Should an owner lose his car. he
should at once report to the nearest
Buick dealer the correct model OF the
car, Its frame and motor numbers, as
well as his name and address.
When a dealer is advised OF a stolen
Buick and is given the required in
formation, he Immediately gets in
touch with the branch manager or dis
tributor under whom he is operating,
who in turn makes records OF the car
and advises the department at the
Buick factory, giving a brief summary
OF the facts. With the frame and
motor numbers as a basis. the depart
ment is able TO refer to the identifi-
cation cards on file and 70 work out
a means OF Identifying the car when
It IS found.
Has Obtained Results.
Whenever a dealer reports a car
stolen in his territory. all other deal
ers throughout the country are no
titled from the main offices and in
the missing car. BY cooperating in
the recovery OF stolen cars, Buick
dealers are fulfilling In concerted ef-
fort the spirit OF working together
the spirit that distinguishes the entire
Buick organization
While IL is not advisable 20 give all
the details in connection with this i'm
portant department il is significant
TO note that the results are gratifying
to owners Full benefit from this
service comes in reporting thefts to
the nearest Buick dealer at the
earliest possible moment. giving all
detailed Information about the car,
as mentioned above.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

IL The nations industrial progress
i department OF a recent issue Of the
Outlook" appeared an article by
Role c. Spinning. advertising man
aEer Of the Service Motor Truck
company. Wabash. Ind in which he
tod Of a conversation with a South
Dakota farmer, whom he met on one
Of the recent motor truck tours
The farmer took the position that
the prices that we are having to pay
for our foods were occasioned more
By faulty distribution than by the
actual cost Of raising crop.
Real Cause OF H C. l.
NY friend was right" declares
Mr.. Spinning The problem we are
now facing is one not only Of pro-
ductiou, but Of distribution. as well;
and distribution. as our population
tends to become conferred in large
cities. assume an ever increasing i'm
portance.
Civilization IS the result Of moth
ing more than distribution; distri-
bation Of ideas. goods and an manner
Of commodities
The Individual Of today is not
Eelf-sustaining. The population OF
our cities could live but a few days,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
SLOWING DOWN AND STOPPING
CONSUMES MUCH GASOLINE

The city owner will tell you that
his car shows considerably more fuel
consumption when he drives around
the streets than It does when the
driving is done IN the country. The
reason is that frequent starts and
stops. acceleration and little continu-
Gus driving. all require a great deal
Of fuel It has been shown that even
heavy cars. those weighing more than
$500 pounds, can be made to give u
TO Is miles per gallon II the operat-
ing conditions are right. On fixed
throttle a car will show less fuel
consumption than on variable throt-
tie movement, that IS, II the accelera-
tor pedal is pressed and released al
ternately as some drivers control IL,
II will require more fuel 10 do 8
given work Even slight acceleration
enriches the mixture. On long
steady drive one may cut the fuel
down enormously by a careful and
not too frequent use OF the accelera-
tor
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

considerable period viii overhead It
and II continued will manifest itself
in Injured plates. Machine pasted
plates, the latest IN battery construc-
ton. viii stand this strain longer than
the hand pasted brand. but must sue
cumb to such drastic attacks in time
unless the motorist- corrects his
habits
Abnormal charging or discharsing
OF a battery also will cause unnec-
essary buckling OF its plates II per
sisted In One way OF causing eN-
cessfve dfscharging IS for one to run
his automobile on the electric starter
instead Of the engine. On the other
hand, with reference TO overcharging.
there is no excuse for examining ones
battery with a 30 ampere charge when
its proper rate is but 12 omperes-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
MANY BATTERIES RUINED
BY CARELESS CHARGING

Many a good storage Dartery mas
been literally boiled 70 death by ga
rage men having little respect for
the rules OF charging" declared J. Q.
DunIsvey, Of the FL Paso Battery
and Ignition company.
Conditions are gradually lettering
themselves. however he continued,
"and garage men are waking up 70
me fact that a battery should be
charged in series with batteries sew
eral times larger. The service sta
ton. having come by more expert
ence, sticks by the set rule OF bat
terry boiling
Excessive charging OF violent dis
charging OF a battery kept up for a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
MANY SERVICEABLE PARTS
RECLAIMED FROM OLD CARS

Under the management OF 2 A.
Graves, the used car parts depot Is
doing a thriving business at It's
warehouse on South chihuahua
street This company started about
two months ago to reclaim all the
parts from 1unksd motor cars. Thou
sands OF dollars worth OF material
has been lost every year. When q
car has outiived its usefulness there
are quite sure TO be a few bearings.
an axle shaft or two, springs. bolts
and nuts that stiu have a lot Of serv-
ice left IN them This IS the work
OF the Used Car Parts company.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY HELPS
OWNER FIND HIS STOLEN CAR

TO assist the owner in recovering his
1 car, a special department Is in op-
Grafton at the Flint offices Of the
Buick Motor company. under the di-
rection OF which a systematic plan Of
protection is being carried on through
Buick dealers everywhere
This department IS significant Of
the Buick policy in keeping an in
terest in Buick cars that goes far be-
yond the completion Of the sale Not
only has a nationwide service organ
ization been built up to insure own
ers the uninterrupted use OF their in
vestment, but a still broader service
has been established to help return
stolen cars to their proper owners as
quickly as possible
The purpose of the department IS to
give the Buick owner as much pro-
lection as within the manufacturer s
power and ability After spending
considerable time in studying the var
Identification. the department adopted
a system which. TO a very large extent.
overcomes any means that might be
taken TO wipe out completely the
Identity Of the car
Report Loss to Dealer.
Before each car leaves the factory
its means Of Identification IS recorded
by a specially designed machine.
which prints on a series OF cards all
OF the various ways Of determining
the identity OF the car. These cards
are filed IN cabinets. as illustrated
above. which make II possible 10 give
a complete description OF the car at
any time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
LACK Of TRANSPORTATION CAUSE
Of H.G.L.:: TRUCKS OFFER HELP

once communication with the outside
world was stopped
TRANSPORTATION Is Thy.
AN the goods manufactured IN
this country. all the foodstuIIs
raised on our farms. must, in some
manner. be distributed to the ulti-
mate consumer, and the more direct
the route the lower the price; for
next to the item OF labor, Transports
ton is the biggest factor in the cost
Of the average manufactured prod
uct. be it an automobile or a loat OF
bread.
stance. consider how transportation
affects the price you and must pay.
transportation enters into conidera-
ton from the time the ripened wheat
IS cut. II must be hauled to the
thresher, hauled to the mill, hauled
to the jobber. hauled to the bakery
hauled TO the grocery, hauled TO the
back door, and your wife tells you
that the bread is costing IS cents a
loaf and she cannot see why. Trans
portation is whyl
aThe bill we are paying for in
efficient means Of transportation Is
astounding. and is one OF the reasons
for the high prices now being asked.
we are approaching the winter OF
192O-2l in a condition which IS more
serious than many OF US realize.
There is a startling situation that
confronts everybody.
Poor Average For Freight.
The sand IN the hour glass would
get 10 its destination in a fraction
OF a second, were It not retricted by
the narrow neck.
The second way to meet a car
shortage is. OF course, TO get more
work from the cars we have. Ex-
perts say that our freight cars aver
age only "a miles g day. but that II
miles, It would give rs the equiva-
lent Of 100000 new cars
Think OF it-enough cars 70 take
care Of our present needsi
Cant We widen the neck OF the
hour glass; in other words, stop the
terminal congestion2
I'VE can If we viii relieve the rail-
road Of the short haul BY giving IL
70 the motor truck Freight cars in
short haul work seldom carry their
fun capacity. One investigation
made on the Cleveland. Cincinnati.
Chicago & St Louis railroad. showed
that the average car load for less
than-cariot freight, which is the
tons.
Best For short Haul
and the capacity Of each car
averaged IS tons The motor truck
can handle short haul freight and
make money doing It It can handle
it at a lower cost. Il can deliver
short haul freight at the consignes's
door in quicker time and in better
condition than can the railroad.
But the big thing IS this: It viii
relieve our railroad terminals; leave
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

southwest and the White Garage COM
pany OF Albuquerque viii become the
branch. Mr.. Little has been in busi-
ness in Albuquerque for the last SIX
wears. he will move to e. Paso early
next month and assume active man
agement OF the company. F. A Bar
rows, who has been in charge Of the
local branch. vii take charge Of the
territory sales, spending most OF his
time on the road D. O. Rakestraw
viii take charge OF retail sales. This
trio viii put the Olds on the map to
stay in the southwest
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

eral manager ob
the White Car
age company OF
Albuquerque, Nm,
OF which the FL
Paso company has
been a branch
This order Will be
reversed on the
first OF the month
when the FL Paso
salesroom will be-
c o m e headquar-
tiers and distrib-
uting office for
the ODDS in the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
AUTOGRAPHS

7 h LITTLE has been the power
l.. behind the throne OF the Oldsmo-
bile Sales company since It opened
here in the spring. Mr.. Little Is gen
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

the railroad freer to take care OF
the long hauls that they alone can
handler make It possible for them to
give rs coalI
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

The Special radiator shop has moved
from the old location on Sara Antonio
street to larger quarters at zoe South
Santa Fe street A. c. Elliott, the
proprietor. has installed several new
pieces OF apparatus. Re has the
southwestern agency for the Faber-
Schneider Manufacturing company,
makers OF radiators.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

There are fourteen bridges over the
Thames IN London alone.
Newark post., 1920-08-18

workers union, to which a large
number of women belong, but men
are also members of this union.
There is no provision in Delaware
law requiring equal pay for equal
work by women in industry.
Six towns in Delaware have
municipal suffrage-Milford, New
ark, Rehoboth, Middletown, Town
send and Wyoming. In the two
latter named, the women must be
unmarried to have the privilege
of voting. In all these towns the
women are required to be tax
payers. In some of them the vot-
ing can be done by proxy.
State offices are closed to women
but they can serve on State COM
missions. Women can serve on
the Labor Commission of Della
ware, the Public Archives Com.
, mission. Mothers Pensions Bureau
is composed Of women entirely
the State Board of Charities has
two women, the Reconstruction
Commission three; one woman
serves on the Park Commission OF
Wilmington, Mrs. Charles Cope.
land.
Women may be factory inspec.
tors in Delaware, which position
is now held by Miss Palmer. Wom
en- may sit on the State Board OF
Education without being property
owners. They are also eligible as
school supervisors outside of Will
mington. Miss Anna G. Barnes
was recently chosen supervisor Of
rural schools for New Castle
County.
Newark post., 1920-08-18
POETS MAKE GOOD WARRIORS

What power have the sacred
Nine over their loved ones to
make poets take to war?
Sidney, writer of deafness
lines, died a gallant soldier.
Dante defended his tenets In
arms.
Byron contracted a mortal fever
helping free Greece from her
tyanny, and Burns was a member
of Scotch dragons, with no op-
portunity arising for heroics that
marked him soldier. He was,
however, valiant, and lert what is
probably the greatest war poem in
all poetry, "Scots Wha Hae WI
Wallace Bled!"
And now out of the great de-
Tenders of humanity in the war
| just being Strengthened out comes
D'Annunzio, Italy's bard, fighting
the fight of captain who will
hold outfit it lasts all summer!
Joyce Kilmer sleeps inc France.
Allan Seeger is proud "a few
brave drops were ours"
And Robert Service was at the
front bringing in" the mangled
and has given US poem in his
rhymes of Red Cross Man," en-.
titled Grand Pere," that will
make the bravest shudder.
o, We who called the land tc
arms, We hypocrites tina, gave ar
outburst Of fine fire with your
pens, redden with shame and bow
an humble head to these who, as
Edwin Markham says, fought the
poetry they sang."-Milwauke
Sentinel.