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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
SENATOR EDGES LOGIC

THE blend of demagogic and Byzantine
l. tactics which have held up the sale of
the former German liners by the ship
ping board is refreshingly countered by a
resolution of Walter f. Edge, which
crsply summarizes public sentiment on
this needessly complicated subject. "The
government" insists the New Jersey
senator, "should be retired from private
business and unfair competition with pri-
vate business. The government-owned
ships should be sold and the private busi-
ness of land and sea be encouraged"
Considering the general current of'op-
position to government ownership, the
delay in disposing of the seized vessels
seems indeed perverse. Naturally, the
sale should be conducted along Legitimate
business lines and the ships ought not be
sacrificed or transferred TO foreign flags
But convincing evidence that repudiatior
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
MARKET PRICE FOR BRAINS

TT OUGHT not to be necessary for the
school teachers to be spending their
time and energy in campaign for an in
crease in their pay to meet the increased
cost of living.
The increase would be made as mat
ter of course if the salary schedules were
fixed on sound principles The Board of
Public Education pays the market price
for coal and for textbooks without ques-
tion, but it has not yet made any ade-
quate adjustment of the salary schedule
to meet the market price for brains.
AS a result teachers are leaving the
schools to enter other occupations or they
are going to other cities where the pay
is more nearly adequate. In Camden the
minimum wage is $1,000 year, or 1925
more than in Philadelphia. and Camden
is drawing teachers from us. But even
in Camden it is impossible to get teach
ers enough for all the classes.
Such slight increases as have been
made here have been more than absorbed
by the increased cost of living, and the
teachers are receiving sum the purchas
ing power of which is much less than it
was five years ago.
A humane policy was adopted in one
of the western cities two or three years
ago. The pay Of all city employees was
increased voluntarily as an act of JUS
tice. A year after the first increase it
was discovered that the cost of living
had advanced 121a per cent and arrange
ments were made to increase the pay of
the city employees by that much so that
the purchasing power of their pay might
not be impaired.
1t is understood that the Board of
Public Education is to consider the mat
ter next Tuesday. Financial objections
will undoubtedly be raised. But the ques-
tion at issue is not one of dollars and
cents, but one of the preservation of the
standards of the public school system.
| Those standards will be lowered and the
children will suffer unless an efficient
| teaching force is maintained. 1t cannot
| be maintained on the present wage scale.
| If we are to permit the children to be
| taught by incompetents because we are
| too nggardly to provide money enough
| to hire competent teachers we might as
well admit it at once. But if we wish to
| have our children properly taught we will
provide all the money that is necessary
to pay the market price for brains as we'll
| as for coal and textbooks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
GOVERNOR NORRIS

THE promotion of George W. Norris,
i executive officer of the national Farm
Loan Commission, to the governorship of
the Federal Reserve Bank in this city
will give general satisfaction.
Mr.. Norris is man of proved public
spirit and of demonstrated executive
ability. He acquitted himself we'll as
director of wharves, docks and ferries
under Mayor Blankenburg and he has ad-
ministered the affairs of the Federal
Farm Loan Bureau in Washington with
great skill. AS the head of the bureau
he has been the director of the financial
policies of the government in administer
ing the farm loan funds through the fed
eral land banks. AS the governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank here he will be
charged with broader duties, for the per-
formance Of which he has received admir-
able training.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
WHO is HE?

A CANDIDATE for the United States
"A Senate is advertising for stenog-
rapher capable of securing the signatures
of the "better class of voters" to nomi-
mating petitions in ten counties, and able
also to organize meetings.
The advertisement, which does not dis
close the name of the candidate, piques
curiosity. The man, whoever he is, ap-
parently plans to bring about his own
nomination, instead of responding to the
undoubted call of the voters that he run.
He is not deluding himself with the
theory that the Office ought to seek the
man. When he gets his nominating Pc
titions signed, however, he may take the
stump and tell the innocent voters that
he has felt compelled to respond to the
call of duty. Perhaps this is why he ad-
vertises anonymously.
The man cannot be Senator Penrose,
for his nominating petitions are already
in the hands of the agents of the Republi-
can organization in the various counties.
Mr.. Penrose does not have to hire Sec
retary to do this sort of work. And he
has a secretary already. Can it be Mar
tin Brumbaugh or Clifford Pinchot or Eu-
gene Bonniwell? Time alone can tell.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
THE BELTLHNE DEADLOCK

THE ethics of the old financial quarrel
L between the Pennsylvania and Read
ing Railroads, which has long restricted
the proper use of the Belt Line, is not Of
primary concern to the public. W. r.
Tucker, secretary of the Board of Trade,
is inclined to think that only an act of
the Legislature is capable of ending the
exasperating deadlock. Phladelphlans
are naturally much more indifferent
about the method of solution than the
imperative need of it.
At present the Reading is the only road
taking advantage of the Belt Lines
facilities. This is an absurd situation
and fatty subversive of the original and
still valid purposes of the road.
Paris has two Centuries" or belt
lines, which have for years been signal
factors in the industrial and commercial
development of the French capital. The
various railways, private and govern
,ment-owned, have co-operated construc-
lively in making use of the road Some
thing of the sane spirit of municipal en-
terprise which has prevailed over there is
deserving of importation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
PARKING GRAFT REDRESS

TALES of the sharper's old game of
4 selling the postoffict TO guiIeless
strangers may be apocrypha In the
field of eXtravaganc outrage such a swim
die meets its match in the rentals for city
streets for cab-stand purposes and, iudg-
ing from the warning of the Public Serv-
ice Commission, the subject cannot be so
easily dismissed as a mere facetious
myth.
"The commission" declared Mr. Glenn
ent at hearing yesterday clocks with
extreme disfavor on the practice of pay
ing rent to hotels or railroads for per-
mission to park cabs along the curb out
side" To a representative of taxi
company which had applied for certif-
cate of operation, the commissioner said
that of any hotel or raiIroa attempts to
force your company to pay for such
privileges come to US Immediately"
The advice is significant. If the cab
concerns continue to pay for rights" ="
which property owners have not a scin-
tilla of authority to grant, the graft will
be of the partnership complexion Means
of redress are now clearly set forth.
Failure to apply them will indicate
highly unsavory collusion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
SANITY IN FRANCE

THE swift collapse of the French rail-
way strike hardly squares with the
tinder-box conception of continental
Europe. M. Millerand, it is true, did in
a monitOry way flourish the word "revo-
luton" Happily, however, the paucity
of verbal restraint in the councils of au-
thority and in the juntas of alleged radi-
calism does not accurately reflect the
temper of civilized peoples.
The French mind is intensely realistic.
The shock of war is still grievously felt
in French industry, finance and living
conditions. The stark folly of still fur
ther wrecking the nation by railway
strike seems to have been speedily OBJ
vious to employers, employees and the
general public.
1t is curious to reflect that in "solid"
England the transportation tie-up as
sumed far more serious proportions than
did the abortive and somewhat sensa-
tionally advertised effort across the chan
mel.
In France the arbitration system has
been materially strengthened by these
last developments. This movement,
which is the only remedy in sight for
labor disputes, appears to be easily beat
ing bolshevism in girdling the globe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
COMPETITION IN MUSIC

UERY few blessings are unmixed.
Theoretically, the fourishing state Of
music in America should be cause for
congratuation, and yet it is precisely this
increase Of artistic vigor which is at the
root of singular situation confronting
the Philadelphia Orchestra. Fifteen Of
its members have accepted contracts else
where for next season. That these play.
crs will be replaced by good men is in
evitable. The orchestra is well managed,
II is happily fortified with an endowment
fund and its reputation and magnetic
conductor are inspirationaI assets. The
honor of playing with this fine band is in
itself an aid to the acquisition of excel
lent personal material.
The novelty in the case is the lively
spirit of competition New orchestras
have been sprouting throughout the land
Cities with a population of 100000
there are more of these in the United
States than in any other nation-now
regard symphonic organizations as in
dispensable.
The venerable yet yirile economic law
III supply and demand rather embarrass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

sites of prospective communities within
a twenty-fve-mile radius.
Good, wide motor highways have be-
come almost as important as street rail-
way service as building stimulus in
suburban regions. 1t is imperatively
necessary that the various questions in
volved in the city's expansion be viewed
as a whole, as details that may be CO.
ordinated with advantage to everybody.
A bold and imaginative approach to the
problem of communities that may be left
to sprawl and struggle and crowd and
get in each others way and remain iso-
lated from beneficial contact with the
city is what is needed now as it was
never needed before.
If metropolitan commission were to
do as well as the city planning commits
sion did in the first hard years of its ex-
istence the populated regions about
Philadelphia would be in ten years not
scattered and dissociated and uninvit-
ing towns such as they may become, but
suburban communities of model sort,
with many of the advantages of the city
proper.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
NARHEART

nEARHEART, If / had known I'd gree
- Her some day as my wife, o Sweet.
Before the glance of whose pure eyes
Each thought that is ignoble flies
AS darkness from the mornings feet,
I'd not feel now SO like a cheat,
A shameless aaf from out the street
A-sfdden dropt in paradise,
Dearheart.
Nor would my heart remorseful beat
Recalling days with shame replete,
For lit by hope they'd been more wise
And with joy unmarried by sighs
To love you now were more meet,
Dearheart.
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

ingly asserts itself. There are, it seems,
hardly enough musicians to go round
Three important orchestras in New
York demand full ranks. Boston, Cleve-
land, Detroit, Cincinnati, Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Chicago vie with one
another in their siren cries for the best
performers at seductive wages.
When necessary Philadelphia can bid
against the most assertive competitors.
But that fact does not render less novel
this problem of artistic distribution,
which is, after all, so telling an index of
our musical awakening.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
Concerning the
Beautiful

In New York, moreover. there are II thousand
miles of streets in the suburbs still uucleared
1t is an immense sum of money. but to put
the whole amount down as dead loss is to
find fault with Nature One might with as
much reason 50 put down the cost of soap
Faces and streets alike get dirty and must
be cleaned. The S3,000,000 spent in New
York and the S150.000 spent in this city
paid the wages of thousands of men who
bought food and clothing with the money.
Money was also expended on shovcls and
wagons which suffered wear and tear and
will eventually have to be replaced. thus
giving employment to shovel makers and
wagon makers On the other hand. the bliz-
zard prevented money being spent on amusc-
mcnts and carfarc and stopped the salaries
of those affected Taking the snow then as
something inevitable. the recent blizzard
simply accelerated circulation Of the cur
rcncy in many directions and retarded it in
many othVS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

of such principles was planned has not
been Forthcoming.
1t is good news that the Department
of Justice is preparing to enter a mo-
tion for the dissolution Of the injunction
restraining the board from selling the
thirty steamships. The United States
has gone out of the railroad business.
Why should retirement from paternalis-
tic control of the merchant marine ap-
pear so shocking?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

The theory upon which metropolitan
planning commissions are formed is not
new or untred. In Detroit, for example,
the city government has right under its
charter to give practical aid and encour-
agement in the construction of street
railway lines anywhere within ten miles
of the city limits, and it may actually
acquire land for public uses anywhere
within three miles of the city limits.
The people of Detroit are actually
doing in their own way work which the
metropolitan planning commission once
aimed to do here. Yet Detroit has no op--
poftunities such as are apparent all
about Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!. Jules Jusserand is the present ffep"
ambassador to the United States
.. Bamboo is the tallest of the grasses
3. The song Home, Sweet Home" occur, !,
in the opera, "Clari, the Maio :"
Milan"
4. Dry air is heavier than wet air
3. The tobacco blossom is pinkish wnl''
6. The Edict of Nantes, issued by hepj
~, in 1898, guaranteed freedC% p.,,. !.
religious worship to the French I% o"i,
- estants. 1t was revoked by hO'''
XIV in 1885.
Z. Justices of the United States sup''~
Court are appointed for lie r,,
8. Charleston is the capital of west W
ginia, i,
o. Wheal is an antique word for pint
II is also mine, especially 'O''
tin mine.
10. Duluth was once described IN sopsj
as the Zenith City OF the un'''
Seas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
A FoUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect the
new administration to concentrate its at
fentlon;
The DeldiUdro river bridge.
4 drvdock big enough to accommodate the
largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit system.
A contention hail.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the pdter supply.
Homes TO dcco N moddtc the population.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

IL may be that only
Divided Thoughts one third of General
Pershing's thoughts
will be in Hog Island tomorrow when he
secs the army transport Marine launched
1t is mt least conceivable that one third will
be in the past in France with another Marine /;
aud ono third in the future at the Rcpub.
lican national convention with still another,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
President LolDelrs Efforts to Make Hdr-
Uard Safe for Democracy Strike Sndg.
HOusemaids in Italy Make Demands

They have been remarkably successful for
hundreds of years in training the ruling class
for public life.
The boys who go to Oxford or Cambridge
know fairly well what they go there for.
You might call the English universities
technical schools, like the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology.
They fit men for a profession-governing
England and her colonies. And they have n
record, in the words of the sporting depart
ment, of doing it amazingly well.
q q q
TT GIVES an American little feeling Of
malicious satisfaction to read that the
housemaids of Italy have united in demand
ing of their employers two weeks vacation
at the seaside each year, with extra pay to
cover the expenses of the outing and an al
lowance of two cigarettes a day.
One touch Of trouble in the kitchen makes
the whole world kin.
Or, rather, nothing makes your own maid
less house seem more tolcrable than news
that your neighbours maid has delivered an
ultimatum.
1t was rather unfair that Europe should
have come out Of the war with maids while
we arrived ut peace without any.
But with the Italian housemaids demand
ing sea baths aud cigarettes, it is plain that
EuropC'S respite is only short.
An institution as old as timc--you read
about handmaidens in the Bbe--will shortly
disappear.
And why not?
A thousand things have gone ous of the
home.
And why not housekeeping just as much
as the home weaving Of garments?
Anyway, rents are becoming 30 high that
no one can afford to have a kitchen.
q q q
CTlLL the surplus woman problem re-
~ mains, and two weeks sea baths and
two cigarettes day does not solve it.
England is approaching it by shipping her
surplus women to her colonies, and there are
1,S00,0 900 of them.
In the colonies, 60 per cent Of them thus
far sent have found husbands
Thus the colonies are proving "place in
the sun for the women and the whole force
of the voting strength of women is attached
to empire.
Imperialism gains a new hold upon man
kind
England, usually foresighted has the ad e.
vantage of her rivals in Europe.
For this new purpose, will mandates serve
| as well as colonies? If not, another OBJ .
stacle is in the path of the League of Na a.
| tions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

Premier Nitti is ask
some Blue Notes ing for revision Of
the Hungarian treaty
Under it 10000 Magyars he says. are
included in the Jugo Slav state. He thinks
this too large a Hungarian orchestra to pre-
serve harmony in the European concert. And
TO appreciate the potency of discordant tones
one has only TO take cognizance of this Ital-
inn nine
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05
What Do You KnO,U?
QUIZ

!. What was the population Of the United
States according to the census OF lelV'
2. Who was the last king of Portugal?
3. What common nut belongs to the ro'
family?
4. What is n ropewalk?
3. Which gives low notes on an organ long
pipes or short3 49,.
6. What Is the correct pronunciation oil '''
word metallurgist?
7. Where is the city of Agra?
8. 10 what royal house did the second wiz
of Napoleon Bonaparte belong'
o. Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata
10. Name leading general of the fOlsI
army who participated in the WORN
war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

The Lehigh Coal and, Navigation Com
pany has notified the Public Service Com
mission that, weather permitting, the Della
ware canal will be opened for navigation
March 10 and the Lehigh on April 10. Th
coal fat is an even surer sign Of spring thar
the robin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

Colonel Mordcn has given the politicians
an awful jolt by serving as chief of the
Bureau of Street Cleaning without pay until
he completes his work with the quarter
masters department. 1t is against pretty
nearly all municipal precedent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

1t gives us a joyous thrill to read that
the steamship Shamrock saved the steamship
Deva from damage off the Azores and towed
her into Fayal Why wouldn't it? They
were both built in Philadelphia. Philadel.
phia ships now dot the seas. If they keep on
they rule the waves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

That the Philadelphia Orchestra may
lose fifteen of its members at the close Of the
present season is due to the fact that there
is music in the clink of coin that finds it
echo in the heart.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

Germany is seeking from Finland 127, e.
600 900 marks for helping the Firms to turn
the scales against the Boshcvists in 1918.
Easy marks unless the Firms discover they
have other fish to fry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

A Hungarian waiter in st. Louis has
Just bought 500, 900 hotel with tips he
has received during the last twenty years.
This iolts but does not dislodgc the truth
that it is more blessed to give than to re.
,,aivp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

TaXicab competition should bring about
good service. And the company that insists
on untailing courtesy on the Part of employees
will get the biggest slice Of the business
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

1t all depends on the point of view, The
service that to the p. r. Il. seems o. H.
to the navy yard men seems k. o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

BY the time bunch of the presidential
candidates have committed political hara -kiri
the prophets will begin to take the public into
their confidence
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

County payrolls are to be investigated
this afternoon. 1t is understood that No.
sultant action will be curative rather thon
punitive. ''""
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

There is indication that being bottled
plcases Bergdoll as little as being on draft
so to speak
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

Germany is to be permitted to borrow
money to pay her debts. In the war she
earned hatred. She is TO have n chance to
earn self respect
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

II must be said for Mayor Moore that
in dealing with political recalctrants he is
perfectly willing to try curative rather than
nnnitiYc monsures.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

The newspapers of the country continu'
to note the fact that Ibanez had to come t.
Philadelphia before he said anything to maxi
people sit up and take notice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

1t is Chairman Burchs idea that beroro
the delaware can be bridged steps should bc
taken to bridge political difficulties W
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

The Turks themselves continue to fur
nish excellent reasons for their being driven
out of Europe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

Norway has begun to debate the matter
of joining the League Of Nations, Storthine
something, as it were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

Necessity nowadays is mothering num-
Der of economic compromises in Europe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-05

The main issues of any
Haven't Even period of reconstruc-
Slogan ton are la Dor aud
finance. There is no
striking divergence of principles on these
issues in the two big parties. What diver
gence there is is outside. Which is why
political leaders are beating time rather than
playing any political tunes.