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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
LANE HAS HAD ENOUGH

JUNIORS that Secretary Lane was to
IL retire from the Department of the
Interior are at last officially confirmed.
His resignation is to take effect March /.
Mr.. Lane has been an efficient secre-
tary and has been one of the ablest ad-
visers of the President. But it is general
Iy understood that he has been out of
sympathy with many things done or left
undone by the administration and that if
the nation had not been at war he would
have resigned year and half ago, just
as Secretary Garrison resigned from the
War Department.
Mr. Lane has patriotically remained at
his post as long as it has seemed to him
that any good ends could be served by
preserving the solidarity of the admin
istration. He is now to engage in private
business where he will doubtless win the
success that he deserves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
OLD-TlME OCEAN FURY

A LTHOUGH the Atlantic has of recent
j years heen formidably reasscrtirg
its powers, human courage and skill have
~also risen inspiringly to their Obligations
The latest instance is the rescue of the
passengers of the old Dominion liner
Princess Anne which stranded periously
at Rockaway Point in last weeks violent
snowstorm.
If this vessel also is saved the case will
thrillingly parallel the Northern Pacific
and Powhatan epcs. The latter was per-
haps the most pulse tinglinC and the
work of the relief crews in the Nova
Scotian tempest quite outmatched Clark
Russell fiction. If the Princess Anne is
restored to service new testimony to the
durability of modern ships will he avail
able even though our respect for the sea s
furies will have increased since those
days when the ante-bellum racing grey
hounds used to assume that nothing could
harm them save fog.
The latest indications are that the At
lantic's wintry RACES are still a test for
seamanship
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
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A PRETTY MIDDLE

IF WE did not have evidence to the con-
trary it would be difficult to escapa the
conclusion that the members of the Now
York Legislature who are doing their best
to unseat five Socialists are children in a
kindergarten.
The five Socialists, under suspension
and trial, took the oatn to support the
constitution when they Iere first admit
ted to their seats, But it is cha "ged
against them that they took the oath with
a mental reservation to disregard it when
they saw fit. On this assumed mental res
ervation the whole case OF the prosecu-
tion rests.
Now it is announced that if the men are
unseated, and the prosecution is confident
that they will be, the districts which
elected them in the first place are not to
be allowed to send them back. IN order tn
prevent this it is planned to amend the
election laws in such q way that the name
of no candidate NAV appear on any ticket
who has not sworn to suppo-. the con-
stitution and who has not also sworn that
he is not controlled by any organization
which includes aliens among its members.
This. Il .esumed, viii effectually bar
the five Sor'alISts But what is to prevent
them Iro,a liking the required oaths with
the mental reservation with which they
are accused Of having taken the oath Of
Office as assemblymen? The statesmen
framing the bill do not seem to have
thought as far as this. They have got
themselves into a pretty muddle and they
will do lot more f1oundering before they
get out of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
THE GERMAN INDEMNITY

OUTSIDE the Senate, whose particular
" interest in the peace treaty is centered
in the League of Nations, criticism of the
pact with Germany is largely confined to
the alleged harshness of the indemnity
provisions.
Frank A. Nanderlip, recognized au
thority on American finance, both in
theory and practice, told a Philadelphia
audience that Germany simply could not
pay the SUMS demanded from her by the
Allies. His reasoning, echoed in several
quarters here and in England, has the ap-
pearance of soundness until that neglect
ed document, the treaty itself is reopened
and reread.
The text does, indeed, specify the sum
of the equivalent of 100000 gold
marks to be fixed by the reparation COM
mission this year. The commission is also
empowered to compel the issuance forth
with by Germany of 100000, 100000 marks
worth of gold-bearing bonds. Beyond
the 10000 100000 marks, equal on the
par value basis to about S14,000, 100000,
payment by Germany for the havoc she
wrought is to be arranged for by the
commission.
1t is particularly set forth that this in
tcrnational body shall be guided by JUS
tice, equity and good faith and that no
further German bond issues can be made
until the commission is Satisfied that
Germany can meet the interest and sink
ing fund obligations.
"Questons of determining the amount
and conditions of bonds," declares the
treaty, cor other obligations to be issued
by the German Government and of fixing
the time and manner for selling, negotiat-
ing and distributing such bonds" shall be
the result of unanimous vote by the rep
| aration commission. The same proceed
| urc applies to the question of postponinG
! the payment of installments beyond Ger.
| tain dates. In other words the huge in.
! demnity which has been so much crit,
| cized is not yet a fixed sum. The commits.
! sion, moreover, has wide latitude ir
| making its rulings. 1t shall give TO the
| German Government = just opportunity
! to be heard"
! 1t is not therefore so much "revison'
! of the peace treaty as sane decisions or
the part of the reparation commission
which is necessary to prevent information
al financial qualification. The many sub
/
| missioners makes it imperative that the
United States should be speedily repre-
sented IN the vastly important machin
cry. Is it a square deal to predicate in
justice or insanity by tne reparatior
body? Is it indeed as fair as to condemn
the peace treaty for provisions which i
does not contain and to ignore its pair
provisions?
David Hunter Miller, legal adviser o
the American peace commission, recent!
exposed in the New York Evening Pos
some of the contagious misconceptions 0
the financial clauses of the treaty of Yer
sailles. His clarity of reaSonlng although
welcome is no wise abnormally keen. Sim
liar sound conclusions can be reached b,
any ordinary individual who will take tn
trouble to examine the pact signed b.
Germany last June. Chronic public gno
rance of the treaty is by far its wors
| foe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

/. Kurt Won Lersner is the German dele
gate who refused to transmit trom
Paris to Berlin the list of Germans
demanded by the allied governments
for trial for alleged criminal offenses'
.. Heium is a transparent gas, inferred A.
existing in the suns atmosphere IN
1868 and first obtained In 1895.
3. The government has announced that u
will sell the former German liners al
auction.
4. The Obi is great river Of Siberia,
flowing north and east into the Gun
of Obi, an arm of the Arctic ocean -,
g. John U. Walter was the architect oil
the national Capitol. =.
6. Oliver Wendell Holmes said "a caui'
flower is only cabbage that has gone
to college"
T. The gesture of biting ones thumb al
person indicates contempt with IN
tention to offend or defy.
S. Three American generals OF the Mexl-
can War were Scott, Taylor and Fre'
mont.
o. Ecarte is a game Of cards for two per
sons. In French ecPrte bystanders
are permitted to advise, and the
player losing leaves the table; n"
adviser takes his place.
10. 'Eclat" should be pronounced as though
il we're spelled "a -cifh,"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
ITALIAN COURTESY

T0REMIER NITTI, of Italy, has IDEAS
= about the proper respect that should
be shown to President Wilson that differ
from those entertained in our own Senate.
Sem Senelli, Italy's distinguished poet.
dramatist and librettst Of proved abil-
ity, who sits in tho Italian Chamber of
Deputies, remarked on Saturday that it
was reported that "the austere philoso-
pher who rules America, or at least part
Of it, on the same day that he denied
Fiume to Italy went with his wife and
daughter to inaugurate a music hall in
Paris" Premier Nitti Immediately pro-
tested "against such dsresp pectful Ian
guage toward the head of the great
American democracy"
But this language was innocent and
harmless in comparison with that which
is frequently heard on the floor Of the
United States Senate. Only last Thursday
Senator Sherman made as his own a re-
mark by an English writer that "it was
harder to debamboozle the old Presbvte-
rian who represented us lin Paris) than il
was originally for Lloyd George to BAN.
boozle him" and no one protested, moi
even Senator Hitchcock.
Yet we have been led to believe that
Italy has serious grievance against Mr.
Wilson. But in spite of il not even a poe
is TO be permitted to talk of him in tht
italian Parliament save in terms of tn,
profoundest respect. We do not suppos,
that Mr. Wilson is seriously disturbed il
either case, but it must be admitted tha
the standard of courtesy in italy ha
much to commend It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
A CENSUS SURPRISE

II TNSCIENTIFIC observers may he in
~ clined to fix the center of population
Of the United States at Forty-second
street and Broadway on Saturday night
or at Broad and Chestnut streets on a
parade day or at trolley-entrance door
n the rush hour
But the census experts are not fooled
..by the superficial. They have the facts,
the latest accumulation of which is said
Is forecast that our population radiates,
81 TO speak, from point in Indiana.
This does not mean that the state of
Charles Warren Fairbanks, Thomas R.
Marshall, James Whitcomb Riley and
Booth Harrington is congeste with hu-
nlanity, celebrated or otherwise. The little
eame which the statisticians play every
tsn Vearssie based on a hypothesis that
1lSry indlfidual in the nation has the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
A Canadian Cure

E'ATHER LEGERE had strong stubbly
l. chin,
And piercing brown eyes into which would
steal in
A CLINT of old Adam s original sin.
His cassock was tumbled, his collar was
mussod,
His black shovel beaver was spotted with
dust
But his flock, not his clothes, were the good
fathers trust
To beat them at tennis he painted and tore,
No man pulled more stoutly no boy shouted
more
On the first of July in good tug war.
1--WE French are viveurs, but you English
can play,
And that's what I'm trying to teach, how
you say
When the body is healthy the soul cannot
stray.
"And de same wild my women, teach them
to sew
In one great big room, then each circle will
Dey are not the whole thing, and slowly will
grow
"New friendship and pity and dey'll under
stand
Dat we all are alike in de palm of God's hand
And dat He has chosen no people or land "
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
Grey Breaks Tradition
Deserves Thanks Therefor
Strapped Whisper for Shout
President Care Precedent
NorU the Truth Is Kno,Un
Old Pun Loses Point


went to Europe and toured England and
Italy, whispering not in the ears of Lloyd
George and Orlando but talking. in the
market places to the masses.
g
A Nd the gain in this instance of Lord
"A Grey's addressing himself not to the
President, but to the American people, is
that the American people have now the
truth.
MIR. Lodge was saying that the allied gov
ernments would not object to his reserva-
tions.
Mr., Wilson was implying very strongly
that they would.
through Lord Grey, the facts before the
American people.
If there is virtue in truth and franbness
between, let us not say governments, but
peoples, the Lord Grey way is the way to
arrive at it.
rTHEkE is an old pun which defines an
ambassador as man, who lies abroad
for his sovereign
Sir William Temple, Swift's patron. an
ambassador of distinction, tried TO turn il
into a Latin epigram, but there is no one
WOr0 IN LdLln lOf lie III Dotn JUS Engllsn
senses. and he had the usual trouble of a
translator.
The forgetfulness into which this old joke
has fallen shows how the character of ar
ambassador has changed
You might almost say now that an am
bassador, at least a special ambassador, Il
a man who tells the truth abroad for hif
people
When he does so some one is sure to cal
in the press and remind him that his rea
function is the historic one that Sir William
Temple tried to put into Latin epigram
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
What Do You KnoW?
QUIZ

QUIZ
/. Name three victories won by Washing
ton in the Revolutionary War!
,. What is the population of the earth?
3. What kind of animal is a hyrax?
4. What is a palmer?
E. What is a joss?
6. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase
mon sequitur"?
T. What is a suffragan bishop?
s. What Vice Presidents of the United
. States became Presidents?
2. Where are the Olympic games to be
held this year?
10. What was the grand total of men in
the American army on November IL,
1918?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
THE BUCLE

IF KNAVES beguile, by felon art,
1 The shifting favor of the hour;
If civic rule from right depart,
q, And brazen impudence has power;
If low ambition buy his place
While merit waits in half disgrace,
Still undecided sways the fight;
The bugle still to charge commands;
There is no truce of tongues or hands,
No quarter, while one foeman stands
To mock eternal Right,
-Bayard Taylor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

country. What justice was in their cause
was forgotten in the shadow of the
menace which they created. The error was
not due to the men. 1t was due to their
leaders.
The interests Of working humanity are
identical with the interests of the country
To assume that man can benefit by
laws and rules that impoverish his boss
is to cherish an nfantile delusion,
The fitness of man for important
work in politics is to be judged not by the
narrowness of his interests but by the
scope of his knowledge; not by the limi-
tations of his vision but by its breadth.
If all the money in the country were
suddenly divided evenly it would provide
a hardly discernible addition to weekly
wages.
Prosperity is not question of special
legislation. 1t is a question of production
and national efficiency.
Justice similarly cannot be expected to
come with laws enacted for the benefit Of
special sections of the population. 1t is
attainable only through the more intelli-
gent general exercise of the voting priv
ilege.
The question now is whether leaders of
the Federation of Labor. or the farmers
whose support they seek, are foolish
enough to think differently and whether
the unions actually would if they could,
repeat in Congress the disastrous mis-
takes made by the spokesmen who have
been misrepresenting them in recent
str,ikec
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

DR. Aonzo +. Taylor
Must Help Themselves says that Herbert
Hoover used the food
supply as n club 10 make European nations
shoulder their own responsibilities. Some
such club. some such combination of business
and philanthropy, is necessary today, while
Europe is at the one time limiting at can
collation. Of her indebtedness and spending
large sums on naval and military equipment.
And the one club available is membership
and participation in the League Of Nations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

In order to make a contractor use snow
shovel it is sometimes necessary to use
club
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Point has been given to the old song.
That's the way the money goes pop goes
the weasel" Pop has gone up from five to
gpvCn cents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Of course, the rest of the country may
be lin wrong in which case the President
is firm" rather than obstinate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Dr. Iouis A, Bauer says Philadelphia
is paying $50 10000 an ounce for light AT
that, the city has no grievance unless it can
prove that it is being given short weight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Mr. Wilson cannot, at least, be charged
with talking too much.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Western farmers who remember trouble
they have had with the l. w. W. will be
chary about backing movement indorsed
by the Wobblies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

The dickerlng for jobs suggests that
Council is in some respects board of
trade"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

There has been more than one indica
ton that in certain diplomatic and financial
circles the push of Paish invokes Pish,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

George Sylvester Niereck does not an
prove of Herbert Hoover as a presidential
candidate. Hoover continues to play in
luck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Seventeen hundred optimists applied for
liquor licenses last week
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Bryan, however, is not suffering from
aphonia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

financial League of Nations may yet
be the first to arrive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

The best MIR. Bryan can hope for is to
add 90 his list Of presidential drfcats
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Did Or did not Grundy eat ssowl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
DRESIDENT WILL

DKESIDENT VIII
l. son has his private
reasons for being angry
at Lord Grey.
But why should the
rest of us be otherwise
than glad?
The British ambassa
dor has broken down n
rather silly diplomatic
lnnliI;nn IhnI lntnr kncl,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
FROM DAY. TO DAY

of the British Govern
mcnt, Lloyd George, but
then Lloyd George might
not have been the Brit
ish Government on the
morrow il Mr.. Wilson's
ambassador b a d n o t
talked to the British
people.
And Mr.. Wilson kept
- IL ..l.z .,.l,a. L -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-22

All $500 Suits and Overcoats
u off. .S16.67
All $4,000 Suits and Overcoats,
u off. $50 90
All S35.00 Suits and Overcoats,
Il off. ...... S23. 81
All $4,000 Suits and Overcoats.
y off . S26.67
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-22
TRAINOR GOES TO HUTCHINSON.
Youth Who Admits He Worked ''Con-
fidencc Came to Reformatory.

Raymond Trainor, who was arrested
Saturday and admitted working
confidence game" on the trains trav-
cling in and out Of Topeka for the last
year, has been sent to the state re-
formatory at Hutchinson. He asked
for 4 two-year sentence in order that
he might be cured of the morphine
abit. the police said.
Ed Smith. alias Huckstef, who was
arrested with him and who worked
with him. according TO TTainors con-
fessiou. will be prosecuted by the
Santa Fe railroad on a forgery charge,
ic was stated. Detective L w Jack
son took the mans finger prints and
called the state prison. where he was
told that Smith had served time in the
Oklahoma state prison and at Lans-
ing and had travelled under the name
of Fitzgerald. He has a record at
Kansas City, st. Paul and oklahoma
city. Jackson said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-22
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WeIch. Margetson & Co, London, Fancy Floral
Linen Handkerchiefs. entirely new,
for IS. or each. so
The log cabin Democrat., 1920-11-18
HARDING SEES
 TRYING TIMES
 AHEAD Of US.
(By United P.essl

New Orleans, Nov. l8.-Everything but prosperity was mentioned by Fresident-Elect Harding in his address today to the New Orleans chamber oI commerce.
 "RsNerscs and encouragement $ may lie ahead of the American people, the pres dsnJ-elcc, declared "l hope they VII face them courageously and will win out"
 President Elect Harding warned his hearers that new burdens will have to be assumed and extravagance re nounced while the people learn anew the lesson of old time thrift.
 No feats of statesmanship or po- litical miracles can be counted upon to save the American people from the trying era ahead of them, the Repub- lican president-elect stated.
 President Elect Harding did not mention international relations and their possible effect upon the United States during the next few years. He did urge, however, that America do it's full share in preserving friendly relations among the nations of the western hemisphere
The log cabin Democrat., 1920-11-18
MOB QUICKLY
 SHOOTS DOWN
 THREE BLACKS
(By nited preaal

Douglass, Ga, Nov. 18.-Three ne- groes, two men and one woman, were today taken from Sheriff Tanner and his deputies and shot down by a fir ing squad comprising about 150 white men.
 The negroes were implicated in yes- terday's murder of Pearly Harper, a prominent young planter. They were in the custody of Sheriff Tanner and two deputies, and were being removed to Fitzgerald for safe keeping. The work of the mob was sudden and thorough. The three were taken from the officers, and quickly ranged before the armed squad. A single volley accounted for all three. Sheriff Tanner and his deputies were released as soon as the work of the mob had been accomplished.
The log cabin Democrat., 1920-11-18
TELL FARMERS KEEP PRODUCE
 FROM MARKET
fRv United Preasl ]

Kansas City Nov. 18.--The Ma tional Farmers Union, in session here today, called upon farmers to hold cotton, wool and live stock from the market until prices offered cover the cost of production plus a reasonable profit. The union held that present markets do not enable the farmer to break even on the cost of producing.
 Speakers addressing the union gen. orally held to the declaration that farmers are growing weary of work ing without reward, and that unless the world is willing to pay reasonable prices for farm products, they will reduce production.