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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
PHIL ADELPHIA CLUBS
ARE VALUABLE ASSET
This City Ranks 4bope Most Others in the orld in Influence
and Variety of Organizations

but in national affairs. In that field it
has had noteworthy record. un-
matched anywhere. and has entertained
a greater number of famous men than
any other club in the country.
a distinct credit to the city Is the
Racquet Club. It owns Il superb house
and as the name would suggest has a
sporting tngc to its career altogether
admirable. The Racquet Club is thor
oughly cosmopolitan. and out of town
visitors who are permitted to share its
hospitality go away again with a
heightened opinion of Philadelphia as n
place to live.
The Rittcnhouse and the Art are a
pair of exceptionally high class clubs,
while the University Club. wits. It's 400
resident and non resident members. all
graduates of some college or university,
has its own distinct field.
Among the colleges. Princeton has led
with it's well established club. but the
alumni of Yale have recently organized
a club which may rival that of the
Tigers from Nassau.
Camac is called the greatest little
street in the world" That is because
it houses such fine assortment of the
smaller but thoroughly good clubs. such
as the Franklin Inn. made up Of 100
men, 'd'h oi Whom lS supposed 10 nave
done more or less notable thing in
literary way.
The women of Philadelphia have their
New Century and College Clubs and the
moro famous Acorn Club. Besides that.
they have had great success in keeping
alive musical clubs and clubs whose OBJ
Ject Is to foster personal welfare.
Around the rim of the city are about
twenty five country clubs. The aggre-
gate membership of these runs up into
the thousands. while the value of their
pronrrtics mounts into the millions.
Since no city, not even London. the
mother of clubs. surpasses PHILADELPHIA
in tho variety and excellence of its clubs.
they comprise civic asset of real i'm
portance to our well being.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA w

charged with using the mails to dcfraud.
II he knows anything about the child.
aud II his connection with its kidnap.
ping can be proved, he will be charged
with the serious crime OF child stealing
But whoever demanded the reward on
promise of the return Of the child. and
then took the money and disappeared,
is guilty of crime SO iuhuman that it
is difficult to believe that such thing
happened. Yet the evidence seems IN /.
disputable, ..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

NUo~CEo " 'SosS'oo S1k
I Spaghetti is the singular 4
spaghetti.
: II literally means a little cord.
3. The first recorded date Of "
Olympic games Is 776 B. c, TN
contests were held at Olympia
the Peloponnesus. Greece. !,
4. Put your trust in God, but mind I
keep your powder dry" is a n
mark attributed to Oliver Cron
welf
s. Richard Crashaw was an Engls'
poet. He died In 1850. His secui'
and religious poems were publisntl
in 1916 under the titles Steps I
the Temple" and THE Delights
the Muses."
6. st. Swithin was bishop OF wiz
chester. In which English town
was born about the year 500 A. y
lie Is noted In folklore. a com
mon adage being that If 1t rains .
st. Swithin's day. July Is, 1t VII
rain for forty days more.
Z. F'lemings Is the name for inhabitsn1
of Flanders.
g. Adrianople Is a town IN what va
formerly European Turkey II
1877 miles northwest Of Constanl1
nople. The city was founded n
the Roman Emperor Hadrian I
the second century A. d.
0. Ballistics Ia the science relating
the hurting of missiles or IN
motion of projectiles.
10. A cathedral church is Il dome,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
MSnnakinc Of the housing sh

Speaking Of tho housing short
age" remarks the Boston Evening
Transcript. chow many houses would
the money that workers have invested
with Mr.. PonZi have huilt?" The con
lecture is interesting but unimpOrtant
We have had a labor shortage. raw
material shortage and a transportation
shortage: but there has been no real
money shortage. Money there has been
in abundance. Ponzi is only one oi
many instances where wOuld-bc build
crs have seen it otherwise employed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

A careful canvass of Tennessee leg
islators by woman suffragists has re-
suited, they say. In the certainty that
the woman suffrage amendment will not
be ratified. and they have appealed to
Governor Cox and intend to appeal to
Senator Harding to have these gentle
men use their influence in the matter.
the suppoSition being. we presume. that
the Tennessee legislators don't know
their own minds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOB
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trate its attention:
The DeIutCdrc riper bridge.
A drydock big enough TO dccommo-
date the largest ships
Development Of the rapid transit SyS-
tom.
A conrontion hail
A building for the free Library.
An Art Museum.
Homes 10 accommodate the populd-
iiou.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Once upon time an eloquent
statesman in tho British House of Com
mons declared that the proposed tax on
leather would work great hardship on
the bare footed pcasantry of Ireland
On exactly the same principle and with
as much whimsical though concealed
truth it may be said that the railroads
are victims of the excess profits tax.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Is there not bcncficent significance
in the fact that all treaties between
nations are submitted to the league?
The league will pass on the pact be d.
tween France and Belgium: and later
will scan the agreement between Eng
land and japan. II is the beginning OF
play with all the cards on the table.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

to give names to things. II is a part
of the truth that we ourselves are made
in the image of God. Why. my boat.
which is but "a material, inanimatc body.
has II name. ] must tell you. though
you ridiculc mo, that when | saw that
German gun ] wished It also had u
name
And what sort of name would it have
had? 1t could not have had "a name
for an abstract virtue or idea. like a
French gun. II might have had the
name Of great German man. but the
names of great men are soon exhausted.
1t might have had the name of Il jest.
for jCStS arc innumerable but. then,
the reader would have had to under.
stand the jest. which would probably
have been local. like "Grandmamma"
or "Archic," or the French gun / knew
which the men of my youth called
"Sience in the Ranks''-an enormous
| piece on the top of a fort. Indeed,
cannot conceive what name could nave
zen given to this one gun out Of so
| many guns. Still ! wish it had had u
name.
II it had had name. now that !
have left it, could look back on it
| and say to myself: What fun | had
in those few minutes before the train
came in, examining the outward cN-
preston of -. his character. his toilet
| his elevation, and all the rest of it,.
But the gun had no name and 30
must still carry it in my mind as the
German gun
OF all the hundreds of guns that
| have seen lying about or being carried
| on trucks or drawn by horses or stand
ing in the great factories during I'll
| these years, only one gun has ton, hoe
me more, and this also was n German
gun. saw it in February, 1918. II
| lay 6ercliCt IN ditch close to the road
near the River Durrq, within an hou'
of Meaux. and Paris not so far away
1t was perhaps the extreme gun of all
the invasion-the mark of the high tide
1t lay pitifully Oh one side, like the
corpse in Baudclaircs poem One
wheel it had not at all. but only the
axle sticking up into the air. and the
other wheel was rotted into the ground
And there lay the poor dead gun like
fool.
said to my companion: "Why does
not some one of the peasants take il
away aud keep il for RELIEF" To
which my companion answered in the
French fashion (which differs so mucE
from our, / think, more human and, al
any rate, more sentimental way) ;
"Why should he?" WA
cessri0nt. lsse. A. X. Epsrsns Post IMc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

"Wcts and vets only" is to be the
slogan of the New Jersey Wholesale
Dealers Association during the primary
and general election campaigns That
is to say. the members propose to be
LIQUOR dea lcrs first and Americans as an
aftcrthought.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

The Houston Post speaks of "thc
dcpSaved and devilsh Republican
party" This. however, awakens con
rcrn for the Houston Post rather than
for the Republican party. How docs it
get that way?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

\ Newark. y. J.. canary has been
given a 5000 funeral. including a hcarse.
five coaches and fifteen piece band.
We know cat that could have done the
job just as effectively with music) and
much more chcaply.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Two men arrested for shooting at
robins and blackbirds had narrowly es-
capped hitting woman. That dope
about every bullet having its billet is.
happily. bunk.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Booze is going to he the hardest
thing in the world to buy, says the
United States commissioner of prohibi-
tion in New York. Living up. to it's
name of hard liquor. as il were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

King Alexander of Greece says he
would willingly trade his crown for a
derby hat. Some other kings have al
ready made the trade for brown one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Have YOU noticed how the ,rrunc
during the last few years has moved
from the cheap boarding house into
high society?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Senator Penrosc says he has a first =.
class appetite. Nothing new in that.
Alcssrs. Wood and Lowdcn can testify
that he cats en- alive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
HILAIRE BELLoc

The noted .Writer begins hcretcith
a series Of delightful essays in
o style Chich has made him
famous. Others tOill appear on
THIS page from time to time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Judging by the.opcn muflcrs. most
of tho autotrucks we have met must
have stiff necks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ


I. Who was Caesar Rodney?
.. How does poplin get It's name?
3. Who was Guido Reni?
4. What patriot of the America
Revolution was celebrated as d
engraver?
5. Who were the. predecessors Of N
Aztecs In Mexico?
6. Who was Stentor in classic mNl
ology?
Z. What Is the name of the chief wof
of the American humorist, Ar>emd
Ward?
s. What is the capital of Soul
Carolina?
0. What. were moidores. which ofs
figure prominently In accounts 4
the treasure Of the Spanish Mzi
buccaneers?
10. What Democrat was defeated for N
presidency by Garfield?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Come to think of it, every has been
is a finished artist.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Whenever an autodrivcr is sent to
Jail for speeding, the foolkiller takes a
day off,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

So far we have heard no complaints
from the lifeguards about the one piece
ta'hing suits.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

November will decide which party
will be in power when the United States
enters the League of Nations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Word comes from Paris that the
Tiger may come back" Tammany
t1attcrs itself that it thought of it first.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

The Chaplin divorce proves that not
even pie comedy can kill romance and
tragedy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

As stunt aviator, Death still
holds the record.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

ronzi money is still talking dor
publication.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Mt. Gretna furnishes additional
evidence. that the military life has its
fascinations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

1t may yet come to pass ths2
Kansas farmers will have to move thcii
wheat in their own motor cars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

NOR there on that gun, in the
wrctchcd little. absurd little, Squalid
little station square of little English
port, with no one to pay it even the
honor of curiosity, | remarked craven
things slavishIy copied from Louis XIV.
First. just above tho trunnions there
was a crown, and under it. in cxactl.,
the same fourishing script of the seven .
teeRth century, the two letters, "W.
r." interlncpd, and between them an
eagle looking fcrccly to its right. SO |
take it that this gun worked for the
king of Prussia aud not for the emperor.
Then at the breach there was n scroll.
and in the scroll was Il similar Script
lust like that of Louis XIV. And the
regis" mind you. not ''rcgum."
We all have the defects OF our qual
tiles, and there dogs go with the Ger
man. even with the Prussian. simple
ity. an astonishing lack Of critical
power. Ultima ratio rcgum" is ono
thing Ultima ratio regis" is quite an
other. 1t reminded me of the famous
Uuotation, "Frailty, thy name is lady. -
Now why was that script ever en-
craven (thc date was 1900? Against
whom was this king going to use his
argumcnt-his last argument? ] carry
back my mind to 1909 and | can re
member no one against whom at thar
! moment he was preparing to argue IN
! such fashion. 1t was quiet time
| There was no worry within the Prus
! sinn state. Agadir had not been hrar
| Of. Yet that was the date and that
was the motto. And there was the
eagle and there was the inscribed
| hourishng initial, and there was the
! crown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is
crciusire'y entitled 10 the use for
republication Of all ncws dispatches
credited 10 IL or not otherwise credited
~ his paper. and also The local ncus
Published therein.
An righ'S Of republication of special
dispatches herein drc also rcScrved.
- rhiInLnln M,.in..L.. A A,,.,,, A loen
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Franklin X. Lane says the rail-
roads are now entering tcSt period
and that 'if they do not make good
something clSo must be- attcmpted-thc
Plumb plan or some form of govern
ment ownership" But perhaps there
is another altPrnativc--the unrestricted
competition Of pre- war times. 1t may
not be popular: it may not be wise ::
but while considering dire possibilities
it cannot be ignored. And, anyhow, it
may not be as black as it is painted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
T KNOW very we'll that some, per

T KNOW very we'll that some, per.
haps most. of my readcrs--of those
who do me the honor to read this ram
bling-wll think me n fool for what 7
am next to say, But | confess to a
scntimentality toward that gun. When
was a boy and they were teaching
me to drive in the artillery school at
Toul they used to give us as a sort of
vile body on which to experiment our
horses and ourselves. old guns of As !:
old bronze guns. And these the French
had made with great art. They We're
beautiful things. What touched me
most about them was that each of them
had name. One was called Glib
erty," another "The Voice Of the Pco-
ple," another Equality and so on.
IL is . human instinct and q just one
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

7 KNOW not what it is; it may be
youth and it's permanent memories
but when I see gun firing at the
moon. cooked up at its utmost elcva
ton. I feel that the weapon has suffered
an indignity. 1t is as though it were au
animal going through performance.
For usually tn" natural position of Il
gun is some slight elevation for nor =
NAL range. and not this isolated. head =
in the. air, barking attitude which the
guns of captivity too often wear. They
are noblcst, these poor prisoners. when
they stand level with the earth, as
though they were firing at close range
in the hopeless effort to stop an ad-
vancing wave.
Well. anyhow. there il was. all lifted
up. absurdly like Il dog baying.
Then when / got nearer to the gun
and looked closely at it I saw some
thing which had seen so often in a
million German things that it had be-
come commonplace for them in my
mind. The thing that has become Il
commonplace in my mind is the fact
that Germans cannot make, but can
only copy. They have many negative
virtues. very unsuited to their last aber-
rationS. They arc fairly industrious,
very simple. normally kind aud dom"s
tic, and in their dreamy way they half
catch now and then what the older civ
ilzatiQn Of Europe expresses in strong
and positive beauty. But they copy.
They are impressed. They are soft
metal and ancient Europe is the die.
What made me think of this common
place was the seeing on that gun--ac-
tually engraved on Il modern gun "a
poor little copy Of Louis NV. Think
Of il After now much moro than two
hundred years. There it was before
my aStonishrd eyes and | could hardly
believe it.
For Louis XIV. in his proudest mo-
ment. had engraved upon his cannon,
just above the middle point where eau
mons turn upon their trunuionS. u great
IL" written in houriShing script with
n crown above it. and then along the
breach. just above the touchholc. he had
engraved upon sort OF scroll the
phrase, Ultima ratio rcgum.' 1t was
famous phrase in Europ" then. Swift
the greatest of English writer's, made
good fun of it when h" said, 1t seems
that his arguments have been turned
against himself.
That was Louis NlN's little manner
and, I say. thought everybody had
forgotten il. Thought that no one
remembered those guns except a few
miserable people like myself who potter
about doing useless things. But | was
wrong. The last king of Prussia. thu
last of the HohcnzolernS, the man
upon whom the famous oracle of the
thirteenth century had fallen, he re-
mcmbcrCd it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
SHORT CUTS

He is now merely a semi detached
Villa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
ULTIMA RATIO

I CAME out of the sea the other day
into a little English harbor and
landed there. After I had put away
everything on board and left my boat
in charge of the old man who looks
after her in the tidal lock, I stood
waiting outside the railway station till
my train should come and take me
home. And there it was that saw a
German gun.
They had put it up for a trophy.
Never was a war with trophies so pro
miScuouS. Never was a war with tro
phies so much Of an anticlimax. The
nearest thing to real trophy which
they have had since this war ended was
a great pyramid of guns in the middle
OF the Champs Elysecs, all hcapcd to-
gethcr pcll nell. with the cock growing
on the top of them. But ! never sec a
Bavarian or n prussian gun stuck up
mournfully in little English town
without thinking of the English and
French guns which arc knocking about
somewhere among the German states.
And what is more. I never see one
without thinking how poor a trophy the
modern gun makes; especially the Ger
man gun the carriage OF Wnlch always
reminds me of rather heavy and bad
agricultural machinery. I think of the
trophies of old, Of the fine bronze guns
of the French wars. and especially that
amazing ragged, dusty line of them in
the lnvalidcs in Paris. which look down
slantwisc through "A yellow window and
SEQ in its solemn pit below the huge
marble snrcophagus of Napoleon.
However, there was the gun. And
as the time of waiting for train is the
most empty time in the world (bccausc
YOU cannot limit it and you do not
know whether il is long enough to start
a gcometrical problem or some other en-
-tertaning pastime) ] filled it up by
walking round that gun.
I guessed it to be a $50. say six
inch. but ] am often wrong. At any
rate. it was II heavy piece not how
itzer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
Big Dividend for Members

II may give an idea Of the extraor-
binary character of the league when it
is stated that were the club 10 be dis
solved aud liquidated, each member
would be entitled to dividend Of up
ward OF 5000.
The Union Leagues activity In poll
tics Is ueyer shown In local contests,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04

Unquestionably the desire to stress
issues which the average citizen re-
CARDS as vivid and concrete is behind
the present jockeyIns strategy distin-
gushing the Leasus OF Nauons stu-
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-07-23
Sisseton Ball Team
at Eden Sunday

When Sisseton's salaried team
was disbanded. we thought that
baseball had ended for the season.
but by the way the home talent
PLAYERS are doing things it looks as
though there was still goodly
amount of material and enthusiasm
left for continuation of what has
been done on the diamond. Last
Sunday the home boys. having been
extended an invitation by the team
of Eden, repaired to that town, and
bats, gloves and uniforms were once
again in evidence. This game was
supposed to have been contest be-
tween home players exclusively. and
so it was. But before the game had
progressed very far ru III o L
were afloat that Sisseton had sal
aried battery, that their pitcher was
an arrival from Minneapolis. And
it was some time before the Eden
boys could be convinced that the
said pitcher was nobody else than
Jim Davis. But Eden should not be
blamed for thinking that way. for
we have number of such baseball
performers right here in town; and
with small part OF the funds that
is used up on outside material, APP
Piled to the maintainence of a real
home team. composed of home boys,
Sisseton could muster enough good
baseball material for real home
team.
1t may be too late for any pro-
nounced effort for more baseball
! this season, but this bunch of boys
would be good material for good
aggregation for the next season.
The outcome of the first game
| resulted in favor of Sisseton, 6 to 4
Davis and Melvin Christianson com
posed the battery. The secont
game which was also played at Eden,
resulted in to l victory for Eden.
The same battery presided. They
are arranging a game to be played
at Sisseton on Sunday, August l.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-07-23
Liebenstein- -Bedel(
Wedding at Clark
Surprises Friends

The latest surprise is that
MIR. Ernest Lisbenstein has gone
and got married ssLieb" always
was singular for keeping things to
himself He announced about i
week ago, that he was going to take
a trip. But no one suspected him OF
taking the eventful step But soon
a message came that Lieb was uni
ted in marriage to Miss Florence
Bedell of Clark. at the home of hei
parents in Clark.
Mr.. Liebenstein has been resi-
dent OF Sissetou for some years. He
is one OF those big good natured
fellows. with million dollar per.
sonality. and is liked accordingly
He has been connected with the
MCGOWAN Lumber Company OF this
city
We are informed that Mr.. ane
Mrs. Liebenstein will not return to
Sisseton. but have arranged to take
charge of a large store in Rockford
Iowa. which is one of the stores
owned by Mr.. Liebenstein and Q
brother.
Congratulations and best wishes
from the Standard