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MR.. PENRoSE'S VIEWS

CENATOR PENROSE. as n soiourner
~ in Florida, has been out Of Wash
ington and away from the mdddening
crowd for several months. He has had
the advantage of the distant view. and
it is probable that clearer focus on
national affairs such as is possible from
the SidcincS prompted him to attack
the general question Of taxes in the first
statement which he has issued since the
campaign took form.
Money is uhpermoSt in everybody :
mind. Everybody is in mad pursuit Of
it. The government needs vast guam
titles Of it. and the question of fair
or half.fair distribution is growing not
only troublesome but painful. War
taxes were >hurriedly devised and Ger
tainly some Of them have reacted to
limit production--thc one consideration
that is more important even than
money. There is point at which ma
.tional taxation will defeat its own pur-
pose. and there arc times when il
appears that we have reached and
passed it.
The suggestion that the whole OuCS @.
ton be taken up anew and considered
in conferences OF experts. where all
people and all interests shall have rep
resPntaton, is a good one.
In other avenues Of criticism Mr.
Penrose is not 80 happy. The Lcagu,
of Nations. observes tho senator. ~,
a bubble that has burst II may br
that the plan for Il league of nation,
is lost to the world. But Mr.. PcnroS
would better have met the requirement,
Of tho time If he had vcnturcd to sug.
gcSt what we may have as an aterna
tive. Shall We drift and arm and builC
an enormous navy and accept position
Of isolation and hope that an impOver,
iShed Europe will pay its debts and buy
our goods: Shall We permit the whole
economic system Of the Old World to b,
rPcaSt and revised without any rrgart
for American interests such. for cx,
ample. as would have been assured b,
American representation in the reccn
important councils of Europe: We ar
in Europe with enormous loans ant
enormous moral responsibilities. How
shall we got out:
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. on March 20. 1854, several hundred
citizcns met in the town hall Of
Rlpon. Wisconsin, and passed
resolutions that a new national
gested the name Republican. 4
similar movement In Vermont
followed few days later,
>. car and kaiser are titles derived
from the word Caesar. Mpret,
formerly the title of the ruler of
Albania. is derived from the title
which the Roman Caesars assumed
- -Imperator.
3. Tiziano Necello or Titan, the
painter. lived during parts of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
He was born in 1877 and died in
1875.
4. The desert OF GobI is chiefly in
Mongolia in central Asia One
section extends into eastern
TurkeStan.
8. The first battle of the Marne was
fought between September and
September 10. 1914.
6. A cause celebre" is a lawsuit thai
attracts much attention
7. Richard Neville. Earl OF Warwick
was known as THE King Maker
on account of his influence il
securing the accession Of Edward
" as king of England and alsC
the restoration OF Henry VI. "Th,
King Maker" died in li7l.
8. Majolica ware takes its name from
the island OF Majorca in the Medi
terranean. whence specimens o
It were first brought.
0. Julia Marlowe's name was original!
Sarah Frances Frost, She becam
Mrs. Robert Taber and later Mrs
f. III. Sothern,
10. The Democratic presidential nom
inee defeated by Theodore Roose
welt in the election of 1904 wa
Alton p. Parker of New York.
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HOW DOES 1T ,
STRIKE YOU? .
HENRY ALLEN.

GOVERNOR HENRY ALLEN. OF
" Kansas. will debate with Samuel
Gompers in the New York Hippodrome
toward the end of May, just before the
Republican national convention in Chi
cago.
Remember how Lincoln debated with
Douglas just before the Republican
party nominated its first successful
candidate for President in 1860?
That debate marked Lincoln out for
the presidency. brought on promptly
the .'irrepressible conflict and changed
the history of America.
The Lincoln Douglas debate had tc
do in the last analysis with freedom
| freedom of the southern slaves.
The Allen Gompers debate will have
/ to do with freedom--thc freedom o'
labor.
Mr.. Gompers will maintain that there
/ is no freedom for labor unless labor
right TO strike is unrestricted. no matter
what harm comes to the public in ccas'
ing Of work.
Governor Allen will maintain tha
labor is frccr when the public steps in
with his Court of Industrial Relations
and settles the disputes between worker
and employer.
MONl bl us non L hhpNf WIN u 10 Ibh'
We haven't made up our minds abou
what industrial freedom is. just as .ou
fathers had not made up their minds
what political freedom really was. th
South regarding the limitation of SLAYER!
as a species of northern tyranny.
Listen to the debate.
1t is the coming issue.
A candidate for President may cmerg
from the HippodrOmc.
Henry Allen says, II am, not
candidate. But do like to talk abou
it,
And he laughs.
q q
.uENRY. if nominated and elected
IL would bring back the laugh int
public life
He is the hero of the martial advCn
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He will tell how there were nearly
400 strikes among the miners of Kan
sas in the thirty three months prior to
the opening of his court, and only one
brief one since its opening: how those
strikes cost $1,000, 900 and netted the
miners less than $500 in additional
wages.
He will tell how his court got the
miners the right to collect their wages
without discount for less than two
week periods.
It used to cost n miner 10 per cent
of his wages to get them at the end of
ono week.
He will tell how his court settled the
long disputed issue Of the price to be
paid by the miners for explosives salts
factorily to the miners.
He will say that the Kansas miners
are frcer today than they were when
they obeyed the arbitrary will of Howat.
"the worst labor leader in the world, y
as Allen calls him.
q q q
A LII this is in Kansas, a state where
"A government is made up of Henry
Aliens. William Allen Whites and Har-
ivey Motters.
/ at any rate. tne Iresluent lnduS-
trial conference was not. sure enough
that the Bill and Jim style of govern
ment was to be found generally, for il
did not venture to recommend taking
away from labor its most vital posses :
sion, the right to quit work concertedly
q q q
A NYWAY, if the Hippodrome debate
n makes a President, Washington
will be On interesting place.
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CAvEMAN METHODS
MUST BE AVOIDED
A Better Way for Settling the An
thracite Labor Dispute Has Been
Proposed by the Operators

MTIlEN two men disagree. two courses
w are open to them They may either
fight it out, with the victory going to
brute force; or they can call in third
man and ask him to decide between
them.
Organized society began when the
cavemen began to discover that a set
tlement by brute force was usually un-
satisfactory. Primitive courts were set
up to settle grievances. and brute force
twas then used to compel the defeated
man to respect the decree Of approNi.
mate Justice
We call ourselves civilized. but the
Cavcman method of settling disagree
"outlaw' railroad strike a few days
ago.
Unless the rule of reason prevails il
will be tried in a dispute between the
anthracite mine operators and the mine
workers. A working agreement ex-
pires next Wednesday. Negotiations
for n new agreement have thus far
failed. Because of the failure and be e
cause of the deplorable consequences of
the resort to force by the mine workers
to secure what they ask for. the opera .
tors have requested the President tc
appoint three men representing the pub
lie 70 act as arbitrators. Here is Their
statement of the situation with theil
request to the President:
Whereas. Under date March ..
| 1920. at a general conference Of an
, thraCitc operators and anthracite
a .,-1a II
1 TO the operators certain specific de-
nands covering wages and working
conditions in the anthracite inGustry
upon the expiration of the contract
T OF May :. 1916: and
Whereas. At said general confer.
enCe fouf representatives Of each
party were appointed committee to
take under consideration the demands
presented by the mine workers and
( to negotiate a new contract; and
Whereas. During the sessions Of said
committee the mine workers modified
two of their demands. to wit: the
demand covering wages and the de.
mand covering hours per day and days
per week ; and
Whereas. The committee after sew
eral WEEKS OF earnest effort has been
unable to reach an agreement; and
Whereas. II is to the public interest
that there be no cessation OF work,
and that anthracite coal shall be sup
piled to .he consumer without inter
ruption: therefore be it
! Resolved. That the President OF the
United States be requested to appoint
three men unatfiliated with any an
thracite operation or with any labor
organization and representative OF
the public who shall sit as aIOitra
tors with this committee and decide
all uuesl;onS at issue based on the
demands before the conference. the
decision OF the arbitrators to be ina
and binding on the parties TO TINS
submission.
! rSignCdl W. l." CON > E.l':
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HE NIGHT

7 IFE in Germany since The Day for
IL which the kGiscr and his people
prepared so claJorately las been just
Que smash after another, and the for
NAL announcement by Doctor Wirth,
minister Of the treasury, that financial
collapse Is impending should not be in
the least surprising.
Germans who have to bear the re.
sponsibilities Of the new government
undertook an almost impossible task.
They have had little help from the out
side agQ less from within. Que exclu-
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We have no definite knowledge Of
the fact that You should wear q
crown" was sung by the members of
the Pennsylvania State Dental Society
when it adjourned its convention in
Reading Yesterday, but that is doubtless
their view Of the duty of every sover-
nign citizen.
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What DO You KnOW?
QUIZ

/. Who : the present secretary OF
agriculture?
.. What English word OF eight letters
contains only one consonant"
3. where did christopher Columbus
die"
4. What is specific gravity?
3. What is the laughing-jackass?
6. Who was Thomas A'Becket and
when did he live?
:. Who were the Three Graces"
s. What Is the original meaning oi
the word amateur?
.. How many times has the United
States gone to war IN defense oi
its rights as a neutral?
10. Into how many colors does prism
separate ray of light?
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A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trste Its attention:
The DeldDdre riUer bridge.
A drydock BIG enough to dccommo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rdpid transit sys-
TEN.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enluroeme ent Of the tCuter supply.
Homes TO accommodate the poputd-
ton.
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The Darby man who has invented
a "stoopless Sreder"--a ga pipe down
which the seeds are dropped on the hills
and rows in his garden - has simply
Illustrated the age old fact that Lazi
ness is the mother Of as many inventions
as Necessity
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-30

Iii Johnson says there is something
straug" connected with the returns from
New Jersey. And there is. of course.
Everybody noticed it. But that does
not necessarily mean fraud. senator
Baird remarks in passing that if there
was any fraud in the state it must have
been in the northern counties. where
Johnson ran strongest. That seems TO
b" plain statement that smacks of
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You may wake and call us early, call us
early. Labor dear,
For tomorrow. in Spain. at least. twill
be the maddest day in the year.
In all the glad new year, Labor. the
maddcst. craziest day
When Martial Law notifies Anarchy
+ she cannot be Queen Of the May.
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The United States Ordnance De.
partmcnt is selling women's clothes
hat, suit, coat and shocs-for $40. 4
woman so equipped will be dressed to
kill the n C. of l.
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It may be that Attorney General
Palmer states fact when he says that
eighteen cents is fair price for sugar,
but he can't expect any householder to
agree with him
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A Candidate for the Presidency May
Emerge From HippOdrome After
the Allen n-Gompers Debate

lures of Henry and Me-" by William
Allen White.
His best story is about instructing
French maid to cut a Nshaped area
out of khaki flannel shirt of Whites
and insert it into the back of Whites
Red Cross uniform brceches. which
White had bought without trying them
on, and of the loud report with which
the insertion gave way when White was
ducking shellfire while inspecting the
French front.
Henry insisted that William was
Wounded.
But William stuck bravely to the
renches, declining medical aid and
showing great generalship in protecting
the rear.
White is Aliens guide. philosopher,
riend and poet laureate.
IL Allen were President. White would
Lave to go to Washington and edit
he' Congressional Record, making it
he gayest of personal journals.
q q q
TF HENRY ALIENS martial adycn-
lures have all been shared with Will
liam Allen White. his political adven-
lures have all been managed by Harvey
Motter. Republican state chairman of
Kansas. who elected Henry governor
while Henry was experimenting the en-
largcment of William Aliens trousers
in France.
Harvcy-no one in Kansas calls the
governor anything but Henry. the state
chairman anything but Harvey and the
poet laureate of Kansas anything but
Bill-Harvey. the most amusing, inter
esting and original of all the Kansans.
q travelling salesman by occupation,
knows every voter in Kansas by his
/ first name
IT Henry were nominated for Presi =
dent Harvey would start out with his
sample case in his hand and call per-
sonally on every voter in the United
States. tell him funny story and on
thc day before election he could tell YOU
exactly what Hepry's majority would
be to the last digit
! q q g
/ HARVEY MOTTER bosses the Re.
IL publicans of Kansas, in Govcrno,
Lanes interest about like this:
Some time ago William Roscoe
Stubbs. one of the seven little gov
crnorS, took it into his head that he
wanted to run for the scnatorship.
lie came 10 Harvey and said: "Ilar.
vcy, all my friends keep coming to ms
and telling me that | ought to go out
for the scnatorship."
1t would have messed up the politica
landscape if Stubbs had run for til,
senatOrship.
Harvey replied: Your friends ar,
some liars, Roscoe Don't trust 'em
They come to me and say: Harvey
Roscoc's got his snoot full of runnin,
for senator. We tell him not to. bu
can't get it out of his head Roscoe
a man cant be too careful about hi.
friends.
Roscoe didn't run.
q q q
uENRY ALLEN will make a goo,
IL showing for his Court of Indus
. trial Relations in Kansas when he de
bates with Mr., Gompcrs.
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There may still be one or two ma
tional questions that the United States
Chamber OF Commerce has not dis
cussCd. but we cannot think of them.
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W. l.. COMM Eli"
W. j. RlCHARDS.
{. f. HUBER.
= D. WARRINEiI

II j. inrOncelvabIC that the MIN"
workers will BE- 81 ilI-advised aS 10
strike. They have undoubtrd gricv.
onccs. Their employers have shown a
disposition to redress them. The prob
lens involved are :" complicated that
no outside spectator ran pass upon them.
Rut representatives OF the public can
be found capable Of hearing both sides
Il and arriving at Il conclusion which
would be fair not only to the workers
and to the operators, but to the anthra
cite consumers also.
The refusal of the operators to con
ccdc all the demands of the miners may
be primarily selfish, but it is in the in
crest of the houscholdcrs who have to
bcat their houses. II would be easy for
tho workers and the operators TO come
i to an agreement for a readjustment of
rho hours Of labor and an increase in
the rate Of pay if they We're disposed to
increase the price of anthracite enough
to cover the extra cost Of mining. The
mblir is at the mercy Of the coal pro
uccr~ 1t must pay what they demand.
Every increase in wages comes out Of
the packet Of the ultimate consumer
The operators know this. and when
they object to such an incrca>" as the
mrn are now demanding they are stand
H.g out against an increase in the price
Of coal above present rates.
Such disputes a. this one ought to
be taken before an industrial court.
whore the merits Of the cas-" could be
poSsed upon in the interests Of all par
ties As we have no industrial courts,
the plan suggested by the operators j,
rho hest one conceivable in all the cir
Icumstancps. \ commission Of three
men. sitting as arbitrators, could reach
a decision that ought 70 commend itself
TO every fair minded person
President Roosevelt appointed such a
commission to settle the coal strike OF
1902 which contained some of the most
distinguished citizens. There are men
available now Just as able as those ap
pointcd by President Roosevelt, and
they could be induced 10 serve in the
public interest. The fitness OF forme,
President Taft for such work will at
once suggest itself He has had OK,
prricncp on the war labor board which
CSDPClaIlN UuullUPS MN. ne uDlIlll'N
and fairness of Franklin X. Lane, for,
mcr secretary of the interior, make hin
available. Charles +. Hughes. former
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. is a man of wide judicial cx,
.pcriencr and peculiar gifts for unravel,
ng the details of a complicated indus
trial dispute. Alton b. Parker, who
ran for the presidency on the Demo
ratio ticket, is former judge with I
fine record for fairness. Prof. EmOr!
II. johnson, of the University of Penn
ylvania, is an expert on questions 0
wages and transportation, with expert
ence in industrial arbitration.
President Wilson should not find /
difficult to persuade three men of tn
.vpc of those mentioned who would b
willing to serve. They should be mel
of national reputation in whose impair
tiality all parties would have conf
deuCc.
l.
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The yeggmcn who blew a safe in a
tailor shop and got 81 80 are almost
convinced that honesty is the best
nolirv
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-30

II New York rumors of steel
merger have a foundation in fact, it
will put the steel trust on its mettle.
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ERENCH labor, however, has quite
L another reason for asserting itself
on May |. The occasion is a sort of
Memorial Day. reminiscent of that re-
markable revolution, the Commune of
1871.
/ Save in Russia and Hungary. none of
the radical uphcavals associated with
the waning and termination of the world
war have assumed the proportions Of the
| Paris insurrection which followed the
occupation of that city by the German
/ troops at tho conclusion of the Franco
! Prussian conflict. The Communists rose
against the French regular troops and
took possession of the capital. They
held it from March IS to May -. 1871.
battling most of the time against the
forces of the government, which had
taken refuge in Versailles
The terror of those months bears
comparison in intensity with the grim
NEST days of the first French Rcvolu-
ton. Both sides carried the bitter
struggle to the most tragic extremes
Paris itself barely missed total de
Struction. AS 1t was. the Column Ven
dome was torn down, the city hall
(HOtcl de NilIel and the historic palace
of the Tuilerics were consumed by
flames.
The Commune, however. remains to
considerable body of Socialists and
Red partisans in France symbol of
triumph. large scaled, il brief. The
memory Of it which is preserved in the
May Day manifestations is also bitter.
The bourgeois government, led by
Thers, had no hesitancy in adopting
the sternest methods Of reprisal. The
radicals claim that on May |, the day
on which the Versailles army took the
important positions of Clamart and the
Chateau of lssy. twenty six COmmu =
mist prisoners taken in battle were
massaCrcd.
THE organized May Day outbreaks
l. in Paris are in a way a protest
against this decd. The Frenchmar
Iissagaray. whose history Of the up.
rising is frankly sympathetic 10 thu
Communards, recalls the results al
follows:
Twenty five thousand men, womer
and children killed during battle ol
after 5000 at least dead in the prisons
the pontoons, the forts, in consequence
of maladies contracted during their cap
ltiyity; 1900 condemned, most of then
for life: 10000 women, children an,
old men deprived of their natural sup
porters or thrown out of France
iii, 900 victims at least-that is tn
! bourgeois vengeance for the solitar!
insurrection OF March Is.
The French Government can tell an
: other story of frenzied excesses. II
r said that an unbiased history of th
Commune has yet TO be. written. Blu
there is no doubt that the reminiscenc
, AZ It Is partly responsible for May Day
q the oldest anpiyerssry 70 queer world
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The thieves who robbed an aims
box in local church have their own
ideas concerning, church drive.
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The House investigating committee
is going after Mr.. Palmer with a sugar
stick.
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There was some Kick to Secretary
Meredith's attack on chronic k.ckesf,
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But such commission cannot be ap-
pointed until the min$ workers agree to
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Philudelphia. Friday. April 30. 1920
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Member of the Associated Press

az address, oil comrur 'cdtiorS 10 Ecenno
Public Ledger, Independence square
Philadelphia.
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uENRY ALLEN will make a good
IL showing for his Court of Indus.
trial Relations in Kansas when he de .
bates with Mr.. Gompcrs.
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WILL ARRANGE BIG LEAGUE
SCHEDULE ON JANUARY stl

Chicago, Dec. 30.--The meeting
of the American and National Lea
held here on january 9th, according
to an announcement today by Pres
ident Johnson of the American
League.
By framing their playing charts
for 1921 at that time the schedule
committees will be ready to report
|. to. their. respective leagues at the
time. of the joint :meeing Of Nation
al and. American. leagues. January
IL, avoiding the necessity Of calling
the perfunctory schedule meeting
previously held in New York in Feb
ruary. At the January IL meeting
the proposed new national agree
ment between majors and minors
will be considered and ratified.
A special session of the minor
league association is scheduled to be
held here January 10 and IL.