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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
NO EXCUSE FOR LAXITY

THE easiest way to qualify as voter
l. is. of course. to register on the days
set apart for enrolment But the reg
istration law. which. according to the
view of forgetful or negligent citi-
zens, is always imposing duties before
the right of franchise will be granted.
Is in reality very tender of lax electors.
Unregistered Philadelphians still have
. chance to participate in the spring
primaries on May 1S If they will take
the trouble to visit the Board of Reg
istration Commissioners at the City
Hall any day between tomorrow and
May s, answer few simple questions
and sign their names There is. in
fact, no valid excuse for hundreds of
citizens to be dsfrapchised each year.
The regulations arc made specific in
order to make fraudulent voting dim =
cult. But they are not burdensome
or unmindful of the fact that illness,
bad memory or absence from town
may prevent even well-intentioned citi-
,ens from signing up at the DIVISION
polling places on the established days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!. Sixteen ounces make pint
2. Theodore \. Vail, who died recently,
was described 'as the biggest
telephone man in the world" He
was Il pioneer in the development
OF the telephone and its extension
at home and abroad. Among hts
accomplishments was the introduce
ton of intercity telephone COM
muniCation
j. Paul Revere took his famous ride
from Boston to Lexington to
arouse the minute men on the
night OF April 1919, 1775.
4. General Townshend surrendered his
British garrison in kut-el-Amara,
MeSopotamia, on April %, 1916,
after siege by the Turks
.. Colorado is called the Centennial
state" because it was admitted TO
the Union in 1876.
6. In South America. century plants
often bloom in their eighth year,
but in hothouseS not until they
have reached very advanced
age: whence the gardeners fable
of their Towering only once in 100
years.
I. ST. Petersburg was officially changed
to Petrograd in 1914.
s. The Latin phrase "facile princeps''
Is freely translated as easily
first"
D Moses, Accord ing to the account in
Exodus, died on Mt. Nebo within
sigh of the Promised Land of
Palestine
10 n plaster is rectangular column.
especially one engaged in a wall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
"ClEAN-UP WEEK.

DOCTOR FURBUSH'S call for a
II Clean Up Week" from May 3 tc
May s is really a plea for the permanent
adoption of sanitary habits in the
household. There is. of course. nc
more necessity for keeping ones house
in order. repairing leaks. removing dust
and clearing out rubbish in May than
Mt any other stage of the calendar. This
is the proper course at all times.
But the American sense of the spec
tacular and the dramatic IS strong. If
we can turn our obvious duties into a
celebration the chances that they will
be performed are automatically in
creased. Furthermore. once the due
practice is inauGurated, familiarity
should breed survival.
This is the hope behind the summons
BY the director Of public health. Enthu-
siasm for "Clean-Up Week will be
especially warranted when it is made
the basis of hygienic custom essential
10 the we'll being and progress of a
modern metropolis.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
THE SAN RENO "REPRlEVE"

A LTHOUGH it cannot be said that
~ the hopes which liberals may en-
tertain of the San Reno conference
which opened yesterday are high, the
meeting has at least one signal advan-
tage over its much analysed predecessor
at PatHs
The treaty of Versailles was framed
at time when the world was still dizzy
from the madness of war. 1t was diff
ficult either for radicals or reactionaries
TO think clearly. ldcalism at times
grasped at the unattainable. The old
order summoned the old bogies from
vastly medieval deeps
But realities press hard today upon
the conferees of San Reno. IL selfish
interests are asscrtive, as they generally
are in man made affairs, the SOLDERING
balance of established facts cannot be
disregarded. The meeting is in a sense
a reprieve for judgments made in a con =
fused period of dclusiOn.
Methods of enforcing and interpreting
the peace treaty, explicit settlement OF
the Turkish, Asia Minor and Hunga rian
tanKles are subjects which can be no
longer eyaded, II realities do not give
the diplomatists of Great Britain,
France, Japan and Italy unimpeach-
able morals at least gain in vigor may
be expected.
The best influence against the ascen >
dancy of reactionaryism is knowledge of
the wsy the world has wagged since the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
DOWN TO TACkS

GENUS lives too constantly in the
VI clouds. 1t gives itself up to dreams
So Owen johnson was not mad when.
with n laundering clump of campaign
money in his pocket, nc proceeded to
round up about 900 writer's and artists
for a week end Of political study and
enlightenment at Atlantic City.
On the Boardwalk Mr.. JOhnson's s
guests will be able to perceive some of
the stern realities of life in America.
They can study the plight of the friend
less poor who crowd the beachfront
hotels and in the . o'clock parade
on Sunday afternoon they can find
thrilling evidence Of the pain and the
desolatiou that have been brought
about by the high cost Of living.
Still. the week -cndors will have to
pay $40 a night to sleep in the style
which their hosts consider necessary
to their comfort and their dignity. One
shudders to think OF what Senator Hi
johnson thinks Of his literary name
sake from broadway.
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MUCH VIRTUE IN AN ADVERB

A MERICAN women seeking the vote
n should be thanking their lucky stars
that they have not been opposed by such
a skilled dplomatist as Colonel Arthur
Shcc. Of tho British House of Com
mons.
Colonel Shcc. in a speech opposing
tho admission of women to the cleo
torate at the age of twenty one. said
that they were 'captivatingly capri
cious. fascinatingly futile, irrrsistibly
irrational, ingcnuously inexperienced
politically pusillanimous and wholly
and charmingly incomprehcnsible, and
therefore should not be allowed to get
into politics until they knew what they
were about.
Now the man who can use capt.
vatingly." "fascinatingly,' 'ingcnu
ously" and "charmingly' in speaking
Of the activities of women can get by
with almost anything else and still keep
in their good graces.
The men who are opposing equal suf
fragc here have not seemed to under
stand feminine psychology, and they
have got into trouble. But when the
women begin to vote they had better
begin to study the subject in order tc
qualify themselves to win the new
electors.
In addition to the adverbs used by
Colonel Shce, we suggest that they con
slider the utility of "alluringly, 'in-
comprehensibly," ''ineffably," zen.
ticingly' and "inscrutably," remem
bering that it matters little to what ad
jectives they attach them so long as
they give the proper emphasis to the
adverbs and utter them with n smile.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
FORESTS AND THE SCHOOLS

THOUGH they may not be aware of
l. it. all the school teachers in the state
have a money interest in Governor
Sprouts proclamation calling Oh them,
along with clergymen. boy scouts and
members of patriotic and benevolent So
cietcs to cooperate in the prevention
of forest fires.
Their interest lies in the fact that all
the revenues from the state forest lands
are paid into the school fund. Every
forest fire on state land decreases the
value of the property and seriously at-
fects the revenue.
There are more than 100000 acres
Of state forests. but they have not yet
begun to produce a tithe of the revenue
which it is possible to get from them.
The city Of Zurich, in Switzerland,
bought a large tract of waste land in
its vicinity years ago and planted. pro-
tccted and developed it as public for
est. 1t now receives an annual revenue
Of $15 an acre from this property. II
PENNSYLVANIA could make its forests as
profitable there would be S1J,OW.OOO Il
wear 10 hc added t. the fund for main
tanning the public schools. This would
mean that the state would have money
enough to pay living wage to every
school teacher. and the payment of a
living wage would attract TO the pro-
fCSSion properly trained men and women.
Then illitcracy would disappear and the
| standard Of citizenship would be raised.
| But much must be done before any
such revenue can BE- produced from the
state owned forests. They must be de-
| vclopcd in accordance with the most
| advanced theories Of forestry. under
| which bearing tract of land Is
| looked after aS carefully as n field "t
! corn. with the positive knowledge that
without such care there can be no Ger
tainty Of n profitable crop. That such
| care will produce revenue is proved by
| tho experience OF Zurich.
The Governor reminds the people that
! there is n market for the product of the
! forests in the state when he calls attcn
ton to the annual importation into the
commonwealth of SJ0. ZOO, 900 worth OF
| lumber which ought 10 be produced here
at home. If we got this lumber from
our own forests we would not only kecT
! the money within the state, but We
would lind work for hundreds of mills
and wood working factories that have
had to BE- closed for lack of the raw
material.
All that we need to do is to pursue
the policy on which the recent forestry
! laws were based Then, in the course
of a few years. We shall have an mex
haustiblc source Of revenue, the collcc-
ton OF which will place no tax burden
upon any one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
What DO You Know?
QUIZ


/. What is the poetical name Of the
West wind?
>. How much did the United States
pay for Alaska?
3. Who wrotc the music OF the Irish
song. Killarney?
T. Wha: is the correct pronunciation
Of the nan2 of the famous MeXi.
can volcano, Popocatepetl?
3. What is the near. ing OF the words
Del Gratia," which appear or
some foreign coins?
6. James NJ. Cox has been mentioned
as a possible Democratic nominee
for the presidency. What politicaI
office does he now hold"
O. What was the year of the great
famine in Ireland?
s. For how many years are United
States senator's elected?
O. What is denim?
10. or what state Is Helena the
capital?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

German ENJOYS affixed their signatures
at Versailles.
1t is conceivable, too. that reality may
bring a few truths home to Americans
in the circumstances. But for our
CHASTITY bungling over the treaty, it is
doubtful whether the San Reno convo
cation would exist at all and, il it did
we should probably be present. even
though Turkey and the United States
were never at war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration TO concen-
trate its attention:
The DclGtUdre riuer bridge.
A drydock big enough TO dccommo.
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rGpd transit Sys.
TEN.
A convention hoN.
A building for the Free Librdry.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the tcdter supply.
Homes to dccomn oddte the poputd.
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

Wharton School professors object
TO the establishment of an overall club
for the reason that it will hurt the
business of the clothing manufacturer
and, by indirection, other people, in
Guiding consumers. 'Tis true, 'tis pity
and pity tits. It's true. And yet il
truth it fails to confound the case for
overalls. Nobody expects to stay in
overalls long enough to kill business
Long enough to kill the profteer will be
long enough.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

mtnt will put on oyeralls until more
men in Office realize that they are the
trustees Of the men in overalls and the
women in Rinsham aprons, who pro-
vide out of their earnings the money
spent by them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

An English war correspondent las
been honored by his government be-
cause of the hard work entaiIed in
learning to use a typewriter on the bat
tletield. The presumption is that he
would have been douby honored if he
had acquired a public school education
there and learned how to write and
Ennll
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

If some entcrprising tailor will
begin to make khaki and denim suits of
conventional cut he will soon have n
market-unlcss he tries to profteer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

As a President, Senator Sutherland
is convinced he would be a good cabi :
net maker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

The young men who brave the
breczes by bathing in Atlantic City arc
probably intimate friends of the pub
licity managers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

Every friend of every candidate is
willing to swear that without the phan-
tom voter the other fellow hasn't
ghost of a chance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

Hoover won't have a chance with
the illiterate vote in New Jersey,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

"Hello, buds you pretty dears 20
cried April, smiling through her tears.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

Socialism in Europe appears to be
working toward logical conclusion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

II Misrule has her way hunger
strikes won't be confined to jails.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
GOVERNMENT MUST BE
PUT INTO ovERALLS
Then the People Who Pay the Bills
May Wear Wooien Clothes with.
out GolnQ into RankrupteY

GOVERNOR SMITH. of New York,
~ has made. a plan for concentration
OF authority and economy of admins
tration in state government similar to
that which Governor Lowden. of Iii e
nois. persuaded his state to adopt.
Governor Sproul. of Pennsylvania
began the adoption of similar plan
during his first year in office, but he
did not carry it very far.
Former President Taft some time
ago remarked that contemplation of the
state governments excited in him pro
found admiration for the political
adaptability of the people to make a
machine work that nobody who had any
real business sense would think would
work under any other conditions.
The governments function. but it
costs the people double what it ought
to.
Mr. Taft might have made the same
remark about city governments that he
made about the governments Of the
state, for the indifference to economy
and efficiency in the cities is as great
as in the states and as expensive to
the people who have to pay the bills.
With city. state and national budgets
mounting and with the purchasing
power of the dollar falling. it is about
time that the governments began to
think seriously of putting on overalls
and abandoning their expensive frills
and furbelows.
If the men now in Office do not begin
the reforms Of their own volition the
people are likely TO put in Office in
the near future men who will do it.
They are getting tired of paying big
ger tax bills each year, apparently
made necessary by the need Of money
to meet the increasing cost of labor and
materials used in the service of the city
and the state.
In making their own budgets they
are forced to cut out the supcrfiuous
things. and to make their old clothes
last longer. They see no reason why
their public servants should not be
| economical in the use of the money
which they put at their disposal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
CHIEF KELLY is an admirer of

NHIEF KELLY is an admirer of
- James T. Cortelyou, the director Of
public safety, and he has been watching
his work in his new position with more
than ordinary interest.
"Cortelyou is a first class man in
every way" he said, the other day.
I've known him for a long time and
know he is the sort of an official to get
results. He has improved the force al
ready, and to my mind the best part of
his policy is that he thinks before he
acts. That's the way to get results
along the lines of conservative prog
rags -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

TELLY was a friend and an associ-
~ ate of James J. Brooks. one of the
most feared detectives Of his day and
generation, a man who was the terror
of the violators of the revenue. laws.
These two men, with staff Of assist
ants, helped to break the famous
whisky ring which flourished in the
early part of the Grant administration.
One Of the gangs in this city attacked
Brooks and nearly murdered him. For
weeks the faithful officer lay at the
point Of death, but he finally recovered
and he lived to capture and convict
practically every one of the gang tnat
had planned to put him out of business.
Kelly also had more than one close
| call. but he always insisted that it was
Brooks who was entitled to the credit
| for the effective Investigations made in
those days. After they had finished
that lob the President sent for Brooks
He called at the White House one morn
ing and found General Grant putting
away at the ever present cigar.
Brooks" said the President with
that brevity for which he was noted 4,
II sent for you to personally thank you
for the fine work you have been doing in
the whisky cases. But I'm not going
10 stop at mere thanks. ! want you to
accent the post OF chief Of the United
| States Secret Service.
Brooks accepted and made a fine
record in that position. At the same
| time Kelly was made lieutenant OF
| nolice on the Philadelphia police
| force, and eventually chief of detectives.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

price the producers offered, so as to
keep the price to the American con
sumner at ten cents pound. Professor
Taussig. a great expert. advised the
President to pin his faith in the law Of
supply and demand.
Attorney General Palmer, another
master Of the art of keeping prices
down. has cast his vote for the law OF
supply and demand.
Our government faith in the law Of
supply and demand is proving costly.
Sugar might have been ten cents n
pound.
1t is going to thirty cents pound.
Every additional cent a pound for
sugar costs the American public SI0,-
600 900.
A nice little bill for leaning over
backward in our respect for Il law
which is only true when operating in
what may be called an economic
vacuum.
The price of sugar has not gone UP
much measured in goods. measured in
cotton at sixty cents n pound, or wheat
at So bushcl.
The distinguished economists who ad-
vised the President overlooked the fact
that the Cuban grower, the refner, the
retailer of sugar has to get just as much
goods for his commodity as he used to
get before the war.
His price. measured in goods, is just
about what it used to be.
1t is only when you take it into
foolish dollars that it seems hard to
pay.
Everybody who has goods to trade for
goods is just as we'll off as ever.
Those who have services to trade for
goods and may dispose of their services
freely are nearly as well off as ever.
1t is only the fellows who have only
dollars TO trade. who have fixed in
comes. who would like to get their
hands upon Professor Taussig and At
torney General Palmer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
ON kELLY's BEAT
Crooks Fight Shy OF Financial
District PstrolIed by Veteran
Detective
DERsoNs whose business takes them

DERSONS whose business takes them
L 70 tho old frono;o, d;str;o, ho.,roor
Second and Eis,h $500 49,, Nj, =.
and WaInut .traots 80 anu ted y
man with oror;sh n,,,stonho % I'D =
shrewd' L;ndlv arss so,,ntar;na o,onn
those busy and ;mnortont theromob ;
fares. Az FIRST c,anca bo would ba taton
for a banker os a bpoLor ~, nr a C,,Ston,
House offc;alW;n fsct fon onStb;mn ~
except what bc ;s and that L tbe
worlds greatest bank dateot;va
Francis a'e koIsr Ssnk ,oe ae'ec.vei ntvei,,a 0,
beat-his own nr;voto heot'fo- So
many Years. and Is so widciy aconoi,teJ
that he seems nc m,cb a narf "f tho
neigbborbood no tho Drexni R,;Id;n.
the Custom House or tho ola civ Hail
Mt the corner Of T;ftb and Choetn,t
streets. He has had n varicd and MIC
turesque and adventurous career, and
will be recalled bv some of the oId tim
ers as the efficient chief of detectives
under the administration of William II.
Smith, the Dandy Mayor of phila
delphia.
II ELY is still mentally and physi
n callv aIort o,,ho,,.. H.. Lo. H., +,
tho husinosa 90 dntooV;,s mu n"a g.en III
ipols for almost hoif nent,,nr ' ITu IT'a IN
Of how be con,n 70 LaiJ III. .u ,.,,,, s.o..
nosition is f,ii sc ;ntn.ost ' heSeh. a., :.
close of tho W;I,;an, u Sn,ith -; ;ne
tration ha was waii,;nr Jown %hnntn,,t
street whom bo mot Gsorno 80" W Th;iIl
the famous nrbl;sbor nf ,ho pIppt pun -,
I,EpGrR Nv Gb;Id, ,,.hosa L;nIi;,.no
of beart made hin, a Govt 80 60 ;n,, M
father IN Pb;IodnInbiops of go, 'i :. , sou
said that bc boncd Tbiof Kali sS nonsd mslIe i.
successful under tbo ;ncon,;r~ ~'Iu F;,,oe oe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20

A MOTHER senator, Fletcher of
"A Florida. is up for re- election and
has a candidate running against him III
the Democratic primaries.
They breed strange candidates in tho
South. but this opponent of Fletcher s
promises to be stranger senator than
even Nardaman or Jeff Davis of Ar
kansas were or than Cole BlcaSc of
South Carolina would have been if he
had achieved his ambition to come to
the Senate from the govcrnorship.
Fletcher's opponent is also gov
ernor. and his name is Sidney j. Cats.
Before entering politics he was q
country preacher.
And he mixes a great deal of religion
in his campaign.
Besides. he makes his campaign
speeches with good deal of the JUNCTION
with which he used to address the
brethren in meeting
q q q
TNIIEY say that Governor Cats will
l. not be nominated for the Senate
from Florida.
There are several senator's on tho
Democratic side who are interested in
seeing that he should not be.
They feel that all that has been done
to restore the Senate TO its ancient dig
nifty by fighting President Wilson would
be undone if Mr.. Cats took his seat
in it.
Nardaman is gone; jeff Davis is gone.
Cole Blease was stopped.
And the stories coming from Florida
make every one hope that Cats will
be stopped.
But the Florida campaign is only a
caricature of political campaigns in
general.
Wood was the beneficiary of cam =
paign in South Dakota which was con =
Quoted in behalf of Leonard Wood
against Colonel Frank Lowden on the
ground that Colonel Lowden was a
militarist and favored universal mill .
tary training, and that the distin-
guished civilian Leonard Wood was not
and did not.