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ECHOES OF ARMACEDDoN

TT is only necessary to listen to the
L campaign speeches Of the hour and
to view the drift of political thinking
in California, in Massachusetts,, in
Washington and elsewhere to know that
the war and all it's terrible lessons are
being swiftly forgotten.
For most people Armageddon is a
closed incident. They were not there.
There seems to be a general comfort
able conviction that ''the thing is over
and done with" The looming question
of war debts is still in the future, and
it doesn't appear to figure greatly in the
calculations of people who are willing
to dismiss all hopes Of permanent
peace. But the report Of DR.. G. w.
Rucker, chief medical adviser of the
bureau of war risk insurance, is one
of the echoes of war which ought to
rouse the mind of the country to fresh
understanding of the greater costs oi
the recent adventure.
The government is caring for 641 ,9OC
men who were permanently disabled in
Europe. The care of these youthful
veterans will require an annual outlay
Of 1925 900, 900. The money is the
smallest part Of the matter. The larger
cost Of modern warfare, as Doctor
Rucker's survey has shown, is in human
suffering.
New and strange diseases, not men
toned in the record Of other wars, Wis.
tied themselves on those who had tC
endure the strain and horrors of trench
fighting, gas and heavy artillery. More
than 10000 men returned to America
with shattered nervous systems. More
| than 12 900 returned insane.
The people of Europe who suffered
the full force of the shock are now lis
tening to talk of "the next war" They
know what war is. And it is largely
because they prefer any alternative tc
a return of the nightmare that they are
turbulent and hard to control. Who
can blame them?
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conclusion is by jury trial Until a
return to this practice is instituted the
public will be menaced by tendency
more fundamentally disastrous to the
United States as whole than the most
violent threats of . crack Drained revo-
lutionist.
There can, of course. be no toleration
of criminals. Berkman and Emma
Goldman were such. They were for
mally tried. The charges raised against
them were proved. Their fate can start
no tears in any sincere believer in the
American system of government and the
American social order. But tears shed
over the suspension of court procedure
and the stoppage of a traditional method
of justice would not bespeak causeless
emotion.
The time for a reckoning on sane
normal principles is here. When the
public, victim as usual, receives
something like its deserts, it can afford
TO smile at the spectacle of two mem
bers of the same cabinet each engaged
in determining cases which lie without
their own legitimate provinces. They
have both forgotten the one true and
fixed safeguard Of our individual liber-
'ties-the courts of law and justice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07
THE BONUS DILEMMA

CONGRESS is anxious to pay bonuses
~ to the men who wore the uniform
during the war. but it does not know
how or where to get the money.
The suggestion of tax on retail
sales. which would produce more than
81 900. 900, 900. is unpopular with them
for the reason that every person who
bought anything would be reminded of
the tax that Congress had levied on
him. The congressman seeking e-elec-
ton are afraid of this plan.
Then the plan to tax the rich. which
they can always be counted on to favor.
has some serious objections at the pres
ent time.
The rich have been taxed so heavily
by the present laws that the great mass
of new capital created each year has
been largely absorbed by the government
and there is little left for the normal
expansion of business. When cor
poration goes into the market for money
it cannot find it because it is not there.
And the business man who has been in
the habit of expanding his plant by the
expenditure Of his surplus profits is
forced 10 get along with his old plant,
for his surplus profits have been paid to
the internal revenue collector. If the
taxes were made still heavier it would
be a matter only of months before the
crash would come and all profits would
| disappear.
This is dawning upon a few congress
men and they are up in the air. II
begins to look as il the bonus bill would
/ remain I'D there with them.
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tion with one of her too numerous
mates. on the ground that his regular
presence would crush out individuality
q g q
STlCklNG ont all over the announce
~ ments of the two is also fear of
what people will say about it.
Miss Hurst wants the world to know
that she is not radical: dear. no: not
IN these days of Mitchell Palmer that
she is no Greenwich Nillager with
horn rim glasses, but regular woman,
except that she has an individuality that
must and shall be preserved.
Mr.. Danielson. like the bob tailed
fox in the fable. wants every male to
envy him because he can 60 out O
nights.
And both must have the public under
stand they are happy, happy. happy.
They'know the public wei. enough to
feel that this little best seller of theirs
won't sell unless it has the happy end
ing.
No drinking in of life at big gulps
there, only taking as much Of it as is
good for you, good for your precious
individuality.
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WEATHER AND THINGS

"A NY man who, like Mr.. Bliss, the
"A weather merchant. spends his days
In the contemplation Of elemental forces
and in more or less successful efforts to
rend the inner meanings of clouds. rains
and winds, wild or gentle, will quite
naturally acquire large, impersonal
view of life and q serenity of mind that
cannot be disturbed by such trivial
things as unrealized human desires.
Since this is the season in which people
expect warm weather, observes Mr..
Bliss evenly. the cold. which is not cold
at all. seems much colder than 1t really
Is And there you are.
III we could all be weather men exist
epce might really seem less compli-
Gated and more promising. When one
pauses to remember that there is no
limit to which the imagination of a
urofiteer might not carry prices, it is
possible to believe for n delirious in
teryal that the cost of living is almost
low. General Woods talk of "a small
army of 225 900 men fully equipped
Is chilling only because We were led TO
believe that We were fighting in the last
of the great wars.
All things are relative. But every
ope cannot be a weather man with a
weather mans philosophy. Prices are
high. The candidates are a disappoint-
ment. And if Mr.. Bliss wants to know
whether T. is cold or not he has only
20 ask any man who has just invested
his all in a new straw hat.
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BENSON ADMITS 1T

THERE can be no longer any doubt
i of the identity of the man who told
Admiral Sims not to let the British pull
the wool over his eyes and that the
United States would as soon fight Eng
land as Germany.
Admiral Benson confessed before the
Senate investigating committee yester
day that he made the remark to Ad-
miral Sims. But he said he made it in
the course of confidential converse
tion, and he explained that his refer
ence to England and Germany was "a
mere figure OF speech
The remark. confidential or other
wise. was idiotc coming from a re
sponsible executive Of the Navy De
partmcnt presumably having authority
as chief Of naval operations, to trans
nit grave matters OF policy to subordi
mates. 1t should not have been made
and probably Admiral Benson realize
that fact most of all. Now that he ha
''fessed up" and the truth is known
surely the Senate committee can devOt
its attention TO more important affairs
as. for example. whether the manage
ment of naval operations was compe
tent. as Secretary Daniels ayers. or in
competent, as charged by Sims.
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PREVAILING INCOMES

T,yERY mau is curious TO know how
II bis income compares with that of
his neighbors. Until the income tax
rctllrns were analysed it W. not posi-
bic flor any one to discover with any
degree Of accuracy whether his income
was larger or smaller than that of the
average OF men in his social group, The
income tax returns will not give him all
<hes data that he needs, but they will
helm him, for they shcw the number of
persons with incomes in excess of $1,000
d year arranged in groups.
Representative Griffin. of New York,
cited them in u speech in the House OF
Represcntatives. His tables showed
that there were | ,S32 900 Income tax
payers, and that Of these ,2l3 900 had
incomes OF $1,000 or less. There We're
ss0.OO0 who received between $1,000 and
$500, 55S,000 who received between
800 and $1,000 aud 3T5, 900 who
errncI betweep s3CG0 and $1,000 Then
tlers was a big slaipp, for the number
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07
IS COOLIDGE DRY?

rTyHE veto by Governor Coolidge, of
i Massachusetts, of the bill legalizing
the sale of beverages containing 2.75
per cent of alcohol at once raises the
question whether Coolidge has aligned
himself with the drys.
The answer cannot be found in the
mere fact of the veto. The Nolstead
net forbids the sale of beverages con :
tanning more than 1 per cent of alcohol
il may be that Coolidge holds that the
states have no right to pass any law
that conflicts with the act Of Congress
and that his veto is based on a legal
irtie argument and not on any sympathy
With either the vets or the drys.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

is an archaic invective. formerly
used in the sense of "A plague upon
you .
4. A regcids Is the killer of king or a
participator in the killing of a
king.
5. Three generals on the Spanish side
in the Spanish-American War were
Blanco, Torral and Linares.
G. Rococo furniture Is that with much
conventional decoration, tastelessly
tlorid, or the Louis Quatorze or Louis
QuinZe style. a"
I. Richard Trevethick a Cornish en-.
gineer. was called the Father of the
Locomotive" He is said to have been
the first to use Il steam carriage or
a railway in 1904
S. Skye is an island. the largest OF the
Inner Hebrides off the coast o.
Scotland. Skye terriers, a variety a
Scotch terriers, take their name from
this place.
O. The pile of the plush Is the nap
Pile is the soft hair, down, wool OF
sheep.
TO- The United States consumes more
ice cream than any other nation
The consumption. of commercial
origin only. in 1919 amounted to
511, ,S60,S16 quarts,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07
A FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

ThinEs on which the people expect
the new administration TO concen-
trafe It's attention:
The Deiopdre riper bridge.
A drydock big enough TO dccomnto-
date the largest ships.
fem.
a courenttoH hall.
A buitding for the Free Librdry.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the touter supply.
tion
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07
A CALIFORNIA PARALLEL

8COOD losers are rare. Good winners
NJ are rarer. A man who aspires to
the presidency ought 10 be one or the
other--or both. Senator johnson ap-
pears to be neither.
More interesting even than the re-
turns from the California primaries
were the statements issued by Mr..
Johns6n and Mr.. Hoover after the votes
were counted. A single parallel will
illustrate the difference between the
Hoover aud the Johnson mind AM
method:
JOHNSON HOOVER
am the most in. The people of
vense. bitter and California have c
yiruient campaign been torn between
ever conducted in their loyalty anc
(.alifornia { have friendship TO the
won. Hoover senator for hi:
risked his all po- able rescue of tbs
liticaily. He made state from vicious
= fght of greater corporation control
uoliticai bitterness and his too narrow
and more lavish vision of our in
exp nditure of ternational neces'
money than any sites
ever conducted in
our state
Hoover may not know or care t
know great deal about partisan tao
ties. But he can teach Senator John
son great deal about national au'
international affairs, about the funda
mentals of good sportsmanship and goot
manners and about the value and Dig
nifty of simple truth.
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WOODS TWO JOBS

GENERAL WOOD, on a flying visit
" to New York. called in the re-
norters to announce that he was" not
engaged in a special effort to stop the
row among his managers. That row is
a serious one. Plainly, it ought to be
stopped if the Wood boom is to get any
where. Yet it is easy TO perceive that
the general is not trying to stop it.
He hasn't time. lie needs to conserve
ell his energies to stop Hi Johnson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

earning between $4,000 and $4,000 is
only $4,000. and only 100000 earn
between $4,000 and $4,000. There are
ITO persons with incomes between
$4,000 and $500 900 and 225 who re-
ceive every year between $500 900 and
$3.50, 900.
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What DO You Kno,u?

QUIZ
l. How many lives were lost by France
in the world war?
. Where is the Aral sea?
g. What is an endemic disease?
l. The proposed new two-cent piece
will bear the face Of an eminent
American statesman, Who was he:
5 What is the correct pronunciation
Of Juarez?
g. Who was the only American Presi.
dent whose terms were not consecu-
tiVe?
: What famous novelist was partly OF
negro blood?
s. OF what state is Columbia the
capital?
.. What is meant by Draconian sever
ity?
TO- After whom is the month of August
named?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
/ The left bank of a river is the one
at the left hand OF person facing
the direction in which the current is
flowing.
. Tell It not in Gath; publish II not
in the streets of Ascalon" Is from
Second Daniel. first chapter.
3. A murrain is an infectious 'disea Sc
in cattle. "A murrain seize you !!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

1t is suggested by the commander
Of n Louisville post Of the American
Legion that the government finance the
soldiers bonus by issuing shipping
board shin bonds in $50, 500, $500
and $1,000 denominations. to be given
TO the veterans according to their
length of service. He says it would
mean no additional taxation. as all in =
tercst accruing would be earned bv the
ships. Speaking ofhand. we should
say it would go as surely as the
shin with the paddlewheels in a tube
running fore and aft in the hull. The
water rushing through the hull turned
the paddlewheels which propelled the
ship. so. naturally, the swifter sh'
won't. why. the faster she'd 60
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Madame Maeterlinck, wife of the
Belgian poet, fought two fistic battles
in mid Atlantic. winning one and
drawing one. But she can hardly be
called a novice as she won a k. o. title
over the first Mrs. Maeterlinck in a
perfectly friendly bout some months
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

There is not chat CO ordination
between the heads of the Department
of Labor and the Department of Justice
that one would expect from cabinet
members whose minds run along
approved channels.
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JOE CANNON AT 81
Plain Man Of Plain People, Who
Abhors Friils, is an Author.
ity on Profanity

n 1905, when Joseph G. Cannon was
L running for Congress for the eight =
eenth time, he went to Danville. Ill.
to address railroad men. Outside the
shops there was n platform. Four high
steps led to it and he climbed them
sedately.
You Sec" he cried chow an old
man would do it. Now I'll show you
how young man does it."
He descended. walked ten or twelve
PAGES, swung on his heel. pranced and
jumped to the middle of the platform.
Which wasn't half bad for septua
genarian.
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Senator Martin says he knows
enough about the election laws to be at
his city residence sixty days before
election. This, we take it, is a mild
protest against Johnny McLean's sup
posing that there are one or two things
about the election law that he has
oVprlooked
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Judging by the floods of campaign
oratory, ever so many candidates ex-
pect TO swim into Office on a tide of
light wine and beer.
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HOW DOES Theft Made Easy o" Wau Street
STRIKE YOU?. Cts., poua,
BY KELLAMY

TN THESE days of the cheap dollar,
easiest of the arts. -
A young messenger boy in Wall
street. operating for a few months, is
able to steal 81 900, 900 in securities.
The thing is so easy that all he
charges his principal in the transac-
tion, the notorious Arnstein, is 10000.
Arnstcin. operating through this mes :
senger and others. takes away So.oo0'
600 and eludes arrest quite easily,
though we'll known to the police.
Thirty million dollars or so is stolen
every year by means of raised checks.
Goods in transit pay regular and
large tribute to thieves of many tens
of millions year. -,
New York used to have dead
line"
No crook could get below a certain
street which was well above wall
street, where the Arnstein gang oper-
ated so successfully. :.
But now the gun Of the crooks wit
easily pierces the armor Of police pro-
lection, or perhaps the loot has grown
so large that it pays the police not to
see.
The only vigilance is in watching the
contents of hip pockets.
This is so great that the bellhops OF
Chicago have decided to NIL no hip
pockets at the Republican national con
yention for less than Sal pint.
And the officers of the law are con
fident that they can cut off the SAL q
pint supply.
1t might be we'll to set the hip pocket
sleuths to guarding Wall street and set
the men who have lost the art of main
tanning the dead line to Feeping an eye
out for the SAL pint stuff.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

John d. Rockefeller, Jr., has given
81 ,000, 900 TO the new world fund being
raissd by the Northern Baptists. oil
IA the troubled waters, Is II were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

We gather from dispatches from
Silesia that the Koos do not proceed
from the dove of peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

The attempt to shake down Mr..
Schmidt was of course sub Roscnbach,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07
MIR. CANNON is an authority on

A'A profanity. He has ever regarded
himself as a plain man of the plain
people and abhors "frills." In Can
noksm ''frills' includes everything
cultural, from architecture to political
reform.
It was one outburst of profanity that
first broke his continuous service in
Congress from 1873 to the present time.
In 1890 during a debate on the subject
of compound lard William McAdoo,
of New Jersey, said something to annoy
him, and Cannon, laboring apparently
under much excitement, fred a coarse
joke at him.
The incident was enough to defeat
him; but at the next election he came
back.
I Why?
Well, principally because whatever
else he is. Uncle Joe is a man. I'm
afflicted with ideals. he Is courageous
and straightforward and eminently
likablc. Z
His absence from the Sixty third
Congress was also followed by come
back.
Men are respected for their strength
but loved for their weaknesscs-if the
weaknesses are manly" weaknesses.
How is one going to dislike an old
scout who. at an age when many men
are thinking of dying, makes a speech
at midnight. goes to bed at l and hands
out an interview at s 80, with his body
as elastic and his skin as pink and
clear in the morning as though he were
a younker and had gone to roost with
the brides?
Even the inevitable cigar. inseparable
from any mind picture of Cannon. has
become more or less badge Of affec
tiou.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

Naturally a Rosenbacher by any
other name would be as unsayory.
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Senator Hiram may be said TO have
! the disaffection Of the country.
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DERHAPs here we have a clue to an
J. timer Cannonism.
II may even be that this is the Can
nonism that has enabled him to live for
eighty four years and to be generally
liked despite the shortcomings he as
suredlv takes no trouble to hide.
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1NCLE JOE" is eighty four years

s" 1NCLE JOE" is eighty four years
~ old today. The only evidence
that he lacks any Of the pep" that
aforetime distinguished him is that he
is not a candidate for the presidential
nomination, as he was in 1908.
If he were, it would make the pres
cnt campaign even more unusual than
it is. There are three men of Quaker
stock who are presidential possibilities
-Hoover, Sproul and Palmer. Cannon
would have been fourth. His parents
were Quakers and he was named for a
distinguished man of that faith, Joseph
Gurney.
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SNAP RULINGS ON RADICALS
: IMPERlL PUBLlc'S RIGHTS
II Is Neither In Soft w. B. Wilson
Nor stern Mitchell Palmer, but
in Trials by Jury, That Re-
lance Can Be Placed

TNHE conflict between the opinions of
L the secretary of labor and the at
torney general regarding the treatment
of alleged radicals aud revolution
lists" raises deeper and more vital
question than any on which either of
these two cabinet officials has touched.
William Il. Wilson. commenting on
the test case of one Carl Miller. of the
Communist Labor group. takes some
pains TO distinguish between spokcsmen
of new social order who advocate vio-
lence and those who confine their eff
forts to teaching. propaganda and a
frank expression of views.
''If the American people," declares
the secretary Of labor, 'are left free to
discuss and decide the questions pre-
senting thepselves for consideration
from day to day, uninfluenced by the
threat Of force or violence, they can be
relied upon to protect themselves against
any false PHILOSOPHERS. wild-eyed revo-
lutions or relationships of any kind"
This is viewpoint with which most
Americans used to be in complete sym
pathy. It is not, however, a complete
rebuttal of Mr.. Palmer's arguments.
since the attorney general has the habit
of maintaining by his actions that the
nation is in dire peril from it's radicals
and that wholesale deportatious and
arrests are the only guarantees Of
safety.
The public. which in mass formation
is not good at analysis, is limited in its
opportunities Of discovering authorita-
lively whether some "revolutionists
are mild and in effect harmless, as Mr..
Wilson asserts, or whether all of them
are really the desperate demons pic
turcd by Mr.. Palmer. In consequence
the energies of the Department of Jus
tice have met with a mixed reception.