Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-29
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SHORT CUTS
The profiteer doesn't find sugar as sweet
as it was.
Philadelphia's latest Harvard man doe,
not consider thirteen an unlucky number
Life is full of contradictions. remarked
Pcricarp; while the price of lumber comes
down the Poles advance.
This is the day on which you have the
high privilege of helping the babies in Ar
mcnia.
Perhaps Japan is trying to prove to th.
United States the usefulness of League Of
Nations.
There is increasing evidence that pro.
hbition at Plattsburg is being swatted with
Il Canadian club.
The Lord helps a man who helps him
self, but government is forever being asked
to help the man who won't
We learn from New York poet that
toboggan time is here. Our notion was that
it didn't arrive until November ..
Sugar and -four drop" says head
line. With similar movement on the
part Of fruit and lard it will be pie for the
consumer.
Members of the American Legion who
., BOD 4 I1,.l1. ~
cpitomizcd the lives of many successful
Americans.
One wonders that there should be so
many spurious fruit drinks on the market
when fruit is being allowed to rot in all
parts of the country.
We venture the modest guess that when
the federal board of anchorage meets today
the members will decide that what Philadc'
phia needs is more piers.
Philadelphia school teachers may. o!
course, console themselves for small salaries
by Strollng out the Parkway to look at the
new Palace of Justice when it is built.
Pcrvcrse fate sees to it that at times
when necessity calls for individual labor and
sacrifice the sentiment of the world seems 10
favor passing the buck to the government
Fire losses in the United States laa
year amounted to 5000, 900 900. This gives
appositencsS to the fact that next week u
fire prevention week throughout the country
The woman candidate for councimanN
nomination in Camden has offered 10 heIP
women voters to wash their dishes IL they
e.. .l,tgt h,
subtle form of bribery?
Forty one Reds have been removed from
Ellis Island to make room for 2!O immi' immi
grants; which would seem to furnish adal.
tiOnal evidence that the Reds take UP t'O
much room.
The Cape May Chamber of Comne'ctt
announces that there are fifty six NacH1.' 1'
farms in one half of the county Inc paCJ
to the farm movement appears 10 pe sD'
fcring from locOmotor ataNia.
The huge speaking transmitter WnE" WIZ.
enabled men in a New York office builuns
to greet a friend sailing out of the hatoO,,
on Il transatlantic liner is gloomy poruII'
of the proportions to which the noise Hu''
SanCe Of the future may grow.
As Il result of the woman vote me F,i cir,i
tion in Philadelphia will cost about 81 IH.os' os'
more this year than last but the small per,
crntagc Of the women of the city VINO nav. nav.
made themselves eligible TO cast their GalT,s t%s
this year doubtless think it is wort" '"'
money.
While we cannot fail to sympathNe WHY
the declaration of the managing dlrcrt".;
the National Retail Dry Goods AsSovnL AsSova Tho
that retailers cannot Immediately renryl hS.
reduction of prices made by wholeSae ntocks
cause they must first dispose OF the SaInSd SaT,d
bought ut the peak, we also feel conStra'1tSSss tSs
to remember that when prices went I;,,oss llp os
retailers showed no disposition TO a.Spbt nouSbt
at rock bottom prices Of their stocks ~ prS rsasS