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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
KNOX AND JOHNSON

MEN in the confidence of Senator
lSl KuoX are saying that he expects to
sbc nominated for the presidency in
Chicago. Gossips in Washington arc
salking of a Knox and johnson ticket,
hndeterred by its incougruity.
johnson is radical. He bolted tho
party in 1912 and said many hard things
about the Old Guard.
Knox is one of the Old Guard proud
bf the distinction.
But both Knox and johnson are on.
posed 10 the treaty and to the League
pf Nations. johnson attacked the plan
outright. Knox attacked it by rcsolu p
iions making separate peace with
Germany, and formulated what had for
twenty four hours the distinction OF
being known as the Knox doctrine,
which Senator Penrose remarked in an
slnguarded moment was likely to be as
distinguished as the Monroe Doctrine.
Now IL the progressives and stand q
patters can be united on one ticket, the
politicians will see elements of strength
IN il.
Buts shrcwder political move would
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

j. May is regarded as uniucky for we'd
dlngs. The superstition is very
ancient. Ovid, the Roman poet.
says Ihe common people profess
mat It is unlucky to marry in the
= The Eiffel tower takes IL name from
NJ. Elnel, the French engineer who
in 1882. 80 '"''''
j. The Conquistadores were the ear,y
spanish conquerors of America.
T. The treaty of Versailles went into
torce for the European Allies and
uermany on January 10. 1920.
o. lhomas Masaryk Is president OF tho
CZecho-Slovak republic.
D. The fifteen decisive battles Of ,the
world, so classified by the English
historian. Edward Greasy, we're
Marathon. 400 B. c.: Syracuse,
tiS tiS b. C. Arbela, &31 B. {. :
FFeSrus; Forest : SS' +, C. TT GTeutoberger
\. D.; Tours, 732 Hastings, 1865
Orleans, 1879; the Armada ''Se Ses ,
hght, 1858 Blenheim, 17O4: PHI.
iowa, lIos; Saratoga. 17?7,
'altny' l'92, and Waterloo, 1915
l. The United States paid Sl5,O00 ooo
Ior the great territory of Louisi-
g. Madder Is a climbing plant with
yellow flowers. 1t Is also q dive
made from this plant. ''e
g. In. order to accept the nomination
for the Republican presidency,
Charles f. Hughes resigned as a
Justice OF the Supreme Court of
the United States in 1916. u
10. sidereal year is the time in
which the earth makes one com.
pie'e revolution around the sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
HIGH COST OF PASSPORTS

LNEN credentials of American citi.
IL zenship are susceptible to the up
ward trend Of prices. Autographs Of
Secretary Lansing were formerly pur-
rhasable for 50. If the consular ap-
preparation bill now pending in Con
Rress is passed Mr.. Colby is to charge
50 every time he issues a passport to
the intending traveller. 1t is estimated
ahat the increase in tho government :
revenues will amount 10 Sc 600 900
annually.
Taxation Of this sort is almost ideal.
why should the prospective tourist
reslly care? The high cost of pass.
ports should be welcomed as adjusting
his spirit to the inevitable financial
sorrows of his jourucyng. The bust =
mess representative can charge up the
extra expense to the firm The stay
Rt. homes will be enabled to count uD
how much money they are saving. The
government will wax richer. Every
body ought to be happier
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19


q q q
STIIHL there remain the joyful spend
~ ers. who must have shoes. decorated
with leather worked in fancy patterns,
of clothing at 500 to 5000 a suit.
Men who never until recently knew
the pleasure of paying more than $50
suit for clothing now enjoy the rap
turc of paying ten times that much.
They enter the tsilor's shop. He at.
tempts to show them cloth for a gar
ment at $50 to 500.
As soon as they learn the prices their
faces grow cold. They think they have
entered by mistake cheap. shop.
They ask. Haven't you anything
better than that?'
And they finally select four suits at
$50 a suit.
A tailor must know his customer we'll
not to fear to give offense by offering
anything as cheap as suit for less
than 500.
A wealthy man like Senator Under
wood may wear a pair of ovcralls.
Some of the established classes, like
the young men at Yale, may wear an
old coat and old trousers that don t
match.
But a man who has just arrived can
not be too particular not to wear any =
thing that costs less than $3.50.
Give those to whom money came
during the war n chance.
Prices must stay up until by con
spicuous expenditure their social posi- :
tion has been made secure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

be to get a ticket which would also
appeal to the friends and enemies Of the
League Of Nations--Hoover and Lodge,
for example, linking the two coasts of
the continent as we'll as two antago-
nistic ideas. And would not the we'll
known Lodge intimacy with Roosevelt
make the Massachusetts, senator as
available as johnson to pull the pro-
gressive vote?
This suggestion is made FOR what u
is worth, in order I It there may be an
alternative to the Knox johnson ticket
to be considered by the gossips before
the convention begins the serious work
of knocking ell pre-. convention states
into cooked hat aud making the best
ticket which the combined wisdom Of
the delegates can produce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
What Do You KnoU?


]. How many ounces make a pint?
?. Who was Theodore N. Vail?
J. When did Paul Revere take his ia.
nous ride?
a. What British general in the world
war surrendered his army to the
Turk in Mesopotamia?
3. Which Is the Centennial State?
6. How often do century plants bloom ?
T. When did st. Petersburg become
Petrograd?
8. What is the meaning OF the Latin
phrase 'facile princeps?"
Q. Where did Moses die?
10. What is a plaster?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
now to say that humanity "hath but

now to say that humanity hath but
one heart?
Abysses and chasms have been de-
liberately created between nations, and
even the nations themselves are divided
by fresh and unjusti6ablc hatreds. Five
unthinkable years have left walls and
terrible barriers to keep mankind di.
vidcd.
Enormous energies and vast re-
sources arc behind the present great
church movement in America. IL the
method appears intensely practical, 1t
ought to be remembered that it is de-
yiscd for an intensely practical time.
IL IL is possible to express through hos
pitsls, through schools, by a multitude
of general works, the charity aud for
bearancc and compassion without which
the world cannot move, very great
work will be done. But IL there is not
behind the new church movement and
dominating it spirit tempered by
simple and sincere beliefs, by the knowl-
edge that "all men are brothers and
carry in their hearts the same desire, !"
that there is no joy in possessions
alone the expected revival Of faith
and courage will not be accomplished.
To clear away the debris and the
wreckage that the war has left in men s
minds, to dissipate the darkness that
was created for their eyes, is in itself
a stupendous task. The desire for light,
the wish to sec, harass mankind like a
troubling pain. We have been deafencd
with lies about all sorts of things, and
particularly with lies about other peo-
pie. II understanding is necessary to
peace, then we are far from peace.
Truth is light that the world needs
now. All manner Of men without ex-
ception need to be made aware that all
humanity is cropping against terrific
obstacles toward common end. Can
the church spread that news? 1t can
If all its leaders. great and small. will
remember that QUO who wishes to con
vince others must be himself convinced.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Senator Penrose is going to At.
lantic City to study. we are told. the
affairs of the city, the state ard the ma
tion. 'Tis a large order and We trust
his attention will not be distracted by
the ocean, the sky or the Boardwalk.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

A New York municipal court has
ordered n number Of landlords to refund
excess rent profits. While rejoicing
with the tenants, We doubt if the news
will hastcn the erection Of new houses.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Henry Lane Wilson says Bryan ran
the State Department like the back
kitchen of restaurant. To which
might be- added that the opinion was
general at the time that Bryan himself
made the soup into which he landed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Now that the doctors in Kensing.
ton have raised their prices, the only
way their patients can get square is to
got we'll aud keep healthy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Senator Frelinghuyscn has intro
duced bill for the coinage of seven and
eight cent coins. But no law can make
the new coins buy more than five cents
worth of goods.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

4 May Day strike is threatened in
France. Weird things are forever prom
sed for May |. But though Misrule
would like to be crowned Queen Of the
Nav, there is expectation that Mother
Law will wake and "call her" early.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

With the Emergency Aid of Penn
sylvania planning mcatlcss days and
dress with fewer frlls and with overall
and denim clubs being founded in dit
ferent parts of the country, old II. c. Of
l.. may yet get his bumps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Again there is every indication that
something exciting is going 10 happen in
the fair price commission duckpond.
But nothing ever happens.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Counsel for the Los Angeles man
held on charge of having twenty FIVE
wives ought to have no difficulty in
proving the insanity of his client.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

During the G.. o. p convention.
says a dispatch from Chicago. flats may
be rented for $4,000 for five days. Case
OF one hat taking another.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

The thieves who plundered a local
barber shop were probably seeking hair
tonic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

1t NAV be that before the week is
out the sugar profiteers won't know
what hit them. Or it may be that they
won't know they've been hit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Those Johnson boosters show wis.
dom who refrain from halloaing until
after they are out Of the Wood territory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

The presumption is that the en-
gineers who went out at Chester didn I
know the strike was practically over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

There is always suspicion that the
Hungarians would be willing to make
goulash of the peace treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

The Mayor has cut the Gordian
knot by deciding that the way to com.
plete the Frankford ~" is to com
plete it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

When old II. c. of l.. has had a
tilt with the gallant knights Denim
and Khaki he'll be ready for the hos.
pital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
DITN the old clio" man !

DITN the old clo' man!
He is on evil days. Along with the
overall movement in the S0Ith there is
the old clothes movement in the North:
AZ Yale University it is being good
sport to wear an old sweater and old
coat which s the survivor Of one suit
associated with but happily married to
an old pair Of trousers which are the
survivor of another
But why not gunnysack?
Ovcralls now cost SO pair.
And old clothes are now worth more
than they cost originally.
They are getting to be. like. old fur
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

The boys in khaki can overturn II.
%. OF l.. as they Overturned the kaiser,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Toot, toot! All aboard. Strike s
over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
AMERICAN cHURcHMEN AND
THE MOST ANCIENT QUEST
Through All Stress and All Darkness
Humanity Continues to Seek the
Ideal Of Brotherhood

A LMOST since the first dawn Of rea e
"A son. men Of knowledge have been
burning themselves out in the effort to
establish as reality the brotherhood
of peoples and to demonstrate the fun
damental sameness Of all human aims
and hopes.
William Blake. Walt Whitman and
even Nietzsche were among the moderns
who served religious ideal in irreli-
gious ways. They reinterpreted proph
ecies that are MS old as the world.
IAN men," say the earliest of philoso-
pliers. 'arc brothers :" Lao TIE held
that conviction to be the beginning Of
knowledge. And Lao TIE was a Chin
Csc who, almost 1000 years ago. died
insisting that all the evil in the world.
all the pain and all the violence, was
due cithCr.to ignorance or to accidental
circumstances which the mind of man
should and would control
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
HOW DOES 1T ,
STRIKE YOU? .

A YEAR ago the League Of Nations
n was going to rule the world, end
all war rCorganze society.
Yesterday man who had been at the
Peace Conference said: THE League
Of Nations owes me S40O and ! cannot
collect. have tried and tried and
tried to collect and they say they have
no funds. have threatened to sue
them. but they beg me not to. They
don want the world to know they arc
broke.
There is no more evident sign of the
gricvous state the league is in than that
little unpaid bill Of S400.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
League of Nations ODes Bill of
500 That Creditors Can
not Collect

niture. old pictures, and will make
splendid hcirlooms.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
MIR. HANDLEY PAGE. Of England

MI IL, HAN bl,E ] arE' VI EuSlunu'
1Nl who ranks with Mr.. Caproni, Of
Italy. as one of the great airplane man
llfacturers of the orld. greater than in
this country the place Of the airplane' s
invention, predicts one cheap thing,
cheap airplancs.
In little while there will be, he
saws. the Ford car of the air. not made
by Henry Of Detroit. but by Handlcy
I Page of England obably. which will
| cost only 500 and be no dcarer to
operate than a small automobile. Peo-
pic in a hurry will then all go by air,
/ for they will make 40 miles an hour
IN the iitn"y plane. and the surface
roads will be too crowded with autOmo
biles for rapid travel.
Why not:
When the automobile was new. did
any one think it would one day sell for
less than $3.50:
All Detroit once thought that Henry
| Ford was the crazicst man in town.
1t is as hard TO believe in low prices
for anything as a few years ago 1t was
to believe in high prices.
But no one has yet tried to make q
cheap airplanc.
As for low prices generally, the key
to them lies not in SOcialistic expert
mcnts or in monkcying with the cur
rrncy but in the discovery of new
sources of power and new applications
of power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

A NEWSPAPER MAN not long at the
"A Canitol met man in the corridors
whom he had seen often and whom he
thought he knew. He addressed his
supposed acquaintance:
II see you here often. DO you work
hprc?"
Yes"
whats your line"
I'm what they call q senator
Caught. the newspaper man tried to
bluff it out.
"Oh. yes. yes" hN said II rcmcm-
hcr YOU perfectly. How stupid Of me.
You're OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
swapping his fingers and waiting for
help. No help comes. AS il thinking
aloud
"It'S short and rather odd name"
YES. it is.
More paving of the air and vain ef-
forts TO recall.
ITS Smith" suggested the senator.
"Oh. yes. yes; of course. rcmem.
her you perfectly. How stupid Of me !!
You rc Smith of Arkansas
mo. Smith of Maryland. told
you it was an odd name. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Young Mr.. Rockefeller and his asso
ciatcs in the great new movement in
behalf of organized Christianity are.
therefore. not moving in a way that is
new. The path into which they have
venturcd is worn deep by the feet of
passionate believers whose words are
still the most enduring part of all
written literature.
Princes and priests these men were
philosophers and bcggars. Brahmin and
Christian. jew aud Gentle. old and
young. In grandeur or on their knees
they went. moved by the marvellous hops
of the peace of universal understanding
They pass through history like a dim
procession out Of the twilight Of the
world Wars and martyrdoms have
been as nothing to them. They have
seemed TO kuorr. They have gone pa
ticutly even when they were aware that
life was far too short to carry them to
the end Of the quest. And all that these
pilgrims dimly felt had eliminating and
perfect expression in the Man of Naza
roth and confederation in a life that.
when it went out, lit the world with a
permanent light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

Philadelphia. Monday. April 10. 1920
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

The journey will not be easy this
time for those who, in the name of
Christianity or otherwise, resume the
ancient search. 1t is almost appalling
to realize after the last few years that
those who have known most about hu.
manity insisted that the unity and har.
mony Of all life should be the ends Of
civilization and that any code which
has not that objective represents a
tread backward to disaster.
Unity and the peace of understand.
ing are passionate desires of unnum.
bered multitudes. Wherever leaders Of
men are free and wise they have a
simiIaryNim, But who is brave enough
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

The SagoS whose voices still come out
of the graves of the centuries could not
convince the world, they could not even
convince their own peoples, that "hu-
manity hath many minds and but one
heart. The background of their gor
geOus culture grows DINNER by the
process Of inevitable decay. But their
words, uttered against tempcsts of Cd
preston, spoken in the peace of open
fields, cried deiantly from the stake
after tho greater promises were made
on the Mount and from the waters Of
the Sea Of Galilee, are still radiant
And If ages and generations that for.
got them, and forgot the way in which
all their beliefs were justified. look
upward now from unutterablc grief and
loss and bewildcrmcnt to think of the
ancient commands we are merely wit.
Messing return to historic precedent.
IAN men are brothers and the long.
ing of their hearts is for brotherhood. -
The human quest for proof of this has
been forgotten for centuries at a time.
Wars and cataclysms interrupt the or.
dancd pilgrimage. But it is ALWAYS
resumed. Men struggle up from the
wreckagc that they have made and try
again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

1t is Lao TIE who provides the most
eloquent characterization OF the super
man of an ancient ideal I'm action. +"
said the sage to pupils sitting under a
plum tree, ''hc is without anxiety. He
forgives all errors but his own. Com
passion resides in him
For himself he desires nothing. He
does not know right and wrong. He
knows only knowledge and ignorance.
Within the Four Seas do others pros.
per. that is his happiness. Are Others
happy, that is his reposc. Men cling
to him like children who have lost their
mothers. and people rally about him
like wayfarcrs who have missed their
road 80
This conception of true aristocrat
and leader is so different from that pre
vailing in the West that it is not strange
TO find familiar maxim of the Euro.
pcans reversed in the Brahmin, who
still thinks like Lao TIE.
1.-THE poor. runs Que of the Brah-
min 5 rules Of life, can do no wrong. "
In other words. it is only the edu.
Gated man. trained in disccrnment, who
is supposed 10 suffer punishment for
violations of the code, and it is provided
that the punishment grows more severe
with the degree OF the offenders knowl.
edge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

1t was in the East thousands of years
ago that Il king first wcpt at the sight
Of people he had conquered and knew
that victory can be. and almost always
is. an odd form of terrible feat.
TO the scholars of India and China
even now the war just ended does not
seem like conflict between natural
enemies. To them it is the pitifu and
terrible civil war of Europe They
will not be convinced that different pco
pies. taken as u whole. have different
needs or, At heart. different desires.
To this day they depend greatly upon
culture in the East and regard it as an
indispensable attribute of emncnce
And culture Of this ancient sort is to b,
achieved with difficulty. 1t is a train
ing of the spirit by which man may
be turned away from reliance on ma
teral things. There is no peace amit
great possessions. say tie Hindus
and no ioyousness. Peace and hap
piness can come. we ar told. only
through the contemplation o. peace ant
happiness in others.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19

" Address oil commur icdtious TO Evening
Public Ledger, Independence S0uefe'
Philadelphia.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-10-21
TEACHERS EXAMINATION

Notice is hereby given that the
regular county teachers examina-
tion will be held at the office of the
county superintendent, on Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday, October
27-28-29. The Beaver County
Teachers Association will also be
held in Beaver at the same time,
Friday and Saturday, October 2s-
80.
All teachers OF Beaver county are
urged to keep these dates in mind.
II your certificate Is about to ex-
pire or IL you wish to take the
examination for county certificate.
be on hand at o'clock q. m,
Thursday, October 2Sth. II you
are not interested in the examina-
tion. remember the teachers asso-
citation meeting dates, Friday and
Saturday. October 1890. and bear
in mind. all teachers of the coun-
ty are required to attend the as
sociation.
w. L. HENSON,
1921 1t Co. Supt-
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