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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
NOISES FROM THE GRAVE

THERE was no whisky rebellion" in
= Michigan. There was no thought or
shadow of one. What you heard yester-
day was merely the shade of j. Barley
corn giving still another vicious rattle to
the gate of that Gehenna to which all
demons go when they die.
In Michigan there were federal agents
and county officials whose personal
egotism temporarily unbalanced them.
P. A. McDonough, the county prosecutor,
who was said to have fouted the federal
authority, loudly discaimed any desire
to question the authority of federal pro-
hibiton agents.
A good deal of tact is necessary to the
proper enforcement of any internal reve-
nue. law and in this instance the revenue
agents and the county prosecutor seem
to have been alike tactless. What was
reported as a ''rising" among the for
eigners in Iron county was case of mis-
understanding and mistaken identity.
There may be differences of opinion
about some of the clauses in the prohibi-
tion amendment, but what ought to be
apparent to everybody is that no one in
this country, native or foreign born, is
foolish enough or thirsty enough openly
to substitute his own opinions for the law
Of the land. The law may be changed,
but it will not be changed by force.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
PENRoSE AND HOOVER

SENATOR PENROSE has dismissed
~ Hoover from among presidential pos
sibilities acceptable to those leaders in
the Republican party who, for want of a
better term, are called conservative.
Mr.. Penrosc, departing for Florida
yesterday, spoke in measured terms, by
the book. He was explicit, uncompromis-
ing, final. It is not to be supposed that
he spoke only for himself. He was, for
the moment, mirror in which you could
read the mature opinion of all his asso-
ciates in the dominant wing of the G..
o. P.
There will be outcries now, especially
from certain Democrats. But it is
already plain that Hoover is no moro ac-
ceptable to many old guard leaders Of
the Democratic party than he is to the
elder statesmen Of the opposition. Sena-
tor Reed shouted abuse at the food adj
minstrator and pooh-poohcd his candi
dacy even before any Republican had
time to speak.
It becomes more apparent every day
that the Hoover boom, if il is to make
any progress at all will have to go with
out assistance from standpatters in
either party. 1t must become the nu-
cleus of vast progressive movement in
one camp or the other or go, before long,
to oblivion
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
AS OTHERS HEAR YOU

THE country is full of college graduates
= who would be appalled, if they could
hear their own daily speech reproduced
distinctly through a phonograph. They
would hear not English but a clipped,
slurred dialect that often seems to have
only distant relationship to the tongue
of our inheritance.
1t is Of these Americans that Prof.
Felix E. Scheling, of the University Of
Pennsylvania, was thinking when he
raised his own voice in a demand for bet
ter language training in colleges and a
stricter regard for English speech as a
test Of scholarship.
Carelessness in speech is national
habit. 1t is true that in the United
States the percentage Of actual illiteracy
is low. Educational facilities are more
general in this country than anywhere
else in the world. Yet as a people we
show little regard for the rules which
make English a various and beautiful
language. Haste is largely to blame for
this.
The masses of unlettered aliens whose
children fill the public schools contribute
indirectly to the defects of commonplace
speech in America. It is not difficult to
find school teachers and faculty men who
are not beyond reproach. Any one who
has to listen TO public speakers knows
that many people who really know better
drop regularly into slovenly English
from force of habit
Education begins in schools and COL
leges. It is finished in the outer world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Of the people afterward is again being
vividly illustrated at Trenton.
One party has the governor. The other
has majority in the Assembly. The
balance is pretty even and no one can
agree with any one else. Legislation of
the most important sort is deadlocked as
solidly as the treaty of peace is dead
locked in the Senate.
An intensive survey of the states
utilities and reorganization of the
State Utilities Commission are impera-
lively necessary if the Public Service
Corporation and the people are ever to
reach decent working agreements based
upon fair schedules of rates for street
car, gas and electric service. Every
move made by one faction to these ends
is blocked by the opposition. This state
of affairs may continue far into the
spring, while the party leaders fight for
position.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

The labor unions are dissatisfied with
the labor provisions of the bill and GER
tain groups of capital are also displeased
with it, but the general feeling among
the railroad managers is that it is much
better and fairer measure than seemed
possible to get through Congress few
months ago. They prefer to accept it
and get their property back on March
rather than endure uncertainty for a
longer period This, after all, Is the most
important thing accomplished. Future
legislation can be depended upon, backed
by public opinion, to protect the tri-
partite interests recognized by the bill.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
RAILROAD BILLS EFFECT ON
LABOR AND THE PUBLIC
Capital Is Protected, While a Plan 10
Provided to Safeguard Wages
and Prevent Strikes

THE bill transferring the railroads
from government control back to
their owners has passed both houses Of
Congress.
In spite of the objections of the labor
leaders, it received $50 affirmative votes
in the House and $50 negative votes.
Only forty-five of the affirmative votes
were cast by Democrats, while 125 Demo
crates voted against the bill. The ex-
planation for this will doubtless be found
in the fact that the two Democratic men,
bers of the House conference committee
refused to sign the majority report and
opposed the passage of the bill as it came
from the conference. The Democrats in
the House supported the action of their
representatives on the committee.
1t passed the Senate by vote of AZ to
II, with more Democrats supporting it
than opposing it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
Member of the Associated Press
A roUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect the
new administration to concentrate It's at
tention;
The DFlurdrc river bridge.
a drydoCk big enough 10 accommodate the
largest ships
Development Of the rapid transit system.
A contention hail
building for the Free Library
AH Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the ,Ddtcr supply.
Homes to accommodate the population.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
OLD TIMES RETURN IN JERSEY

TT is said that old times never return.
n Yet any one in New Jersey who stops
to listen to the uproar from the State
Legislature might suppose, with good
reason, that he was back in the terrible
old days that Jim Nugent made famous
before he ceased to be the boss of all
bosses at the Capitol. The habit of party
leaders to think of themselves first and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
What Do You Kno,U?


QUIZ
l. Who was American ambassador to Tur.
key Immediately preceding our sever
ance of diplomatic relations with that
country?
. What is an eponym?
g. What British general captured Jeru.
salem in the world war?
A. What was the Whisky Rebellion 10
American history and when did
occur?
g. How many times did William Jennings
Bryan run for the presidency!
g. Which is the higher title in Great BTU
ain, knight or baronet?
Z. What is the plural of the word dwarf
s. What is the difference between the nag
of Switzerland and the Red Cross nag
o. What is the Court of Tynwald1
10. What are the seven virtues in contrast
to the seven deadly sins?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The calumet pipe was the symbol I"
peace among the American Indians
Q. The Easter rebellion in ireland occurred
in 1916.
Inc icbio'o'uN 90
II degrees below zero and as low as oo
degrees below while Peary remained I"
the North Pole.
A.. In case of the death Of both King aeotso
v and the present Prince OF wales, tps Ss
British crown would be inheIited y.
Prince Albert Frederick. he ""'
born in 1896.
9. A chantry is an endowment for pr,ess
to sing masses for founders sGul, ,.S a
a priests chapel or altar SO enu0"'''
G. Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest noun noun,
tain in Africa. It's summit is aUVu'
%, 900 feet above sea level. The n'oan, ~,
tain il in the northern part OF 'n'
former colony of East Africa
7. John Jay was the first chief justice u
the United States. 1,
s. The total number Of men ,sa callfu iu tho G
President Lincoln for service in wv
civil war was 1858, ,062.
o. A meter is equal to 3s.S' incn.d .sod IN
10 Signatures in lead pencil are s0''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
Mars to Mars

Bryn Mawr profes-
Mars to Mars sor suggests that Mars
be signaled with n
smoke screen the size Of PENNSYLVANIA, and
that old war material be used for the pur-
pose. The supposition is, of course, that
War and his namesake talk the same
language
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

If it is true, as reported by n member
OF the American board of the Congregational
Church and commissioner from Albania To
America that France is arming Jugo SIavs
TO COMBAT Italy expansion policy, there is
addltlonai reason for tho immediate func-
tioning of the League of Nations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

ury may lend the money on proper se-
curity.
As already said, the present freight
and passenger rates are protected for six
months against reduction, but not against
increase. If it should be found necessary
to increase the wages of the employees the
way is open for enabling the railroads to
pay the increase at the expense of the
public which uses the roads.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Time and hard necessity will eventually
bring about an equalization Of hours of labor
in town and country, an equalization with
out which we may eventually go hungry :;
what is needed is genius who can spur the
economic law into getting a move on -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
FROM DAY TO DAY

literary standpoint
must be capable Of
being furniture.
Mr.. Veblen probably
says or would say that
a library, n private
library, is one Of the
evidences Of ''con-
spicuous waste" by
which we demonstrate
@ belong to the leisure
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

When the Allies demand the German
war criminals the presumption is that they
are able and ready to enforce their demands
Otherwise the seeming gesture of strength
becomes a sign of dangerous weakness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Senator Penrose says Herbert Hoover
is Wilson Democrat. Probably an error
II Hoover is Democrat at all he ia n
Hoover Democrat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Incidentally it may be noted that the
foreign exchange slump is indirectly boost
for bolshevism. If their money won't buy
what they can neither borrow nor get as a
gift Europeans are going perforce to be bad
neighbOrs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

The most we can reasonably hope of the
railroad bill is that. passed in haste, it NAV
not be repented at leisure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Policemen and firemen now know that
Finance is a tickle jade who does not always
let good Council control her.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

There seems to be equal dissatisfaction
with the way Philip II. johnson draws his
plans and the way he draws his salary,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
MONTANA

ENAR away in old Montana, whers the
mountains reach the sky,
Where the rivers roar through canyons, and
the eagles soar on high
In gulch beside q waterfall that tumbeS
down in foam;
There's little old log cabin that I've
learned to call my home.
When the snow capped mountain tops first
catch the CLEAN of dawn SO pale,
And the sunrise clears the mists away from
out my little vale;
Then I rise and mount boulder, there BY
reckless Nature hurled,
And | drink a breath of Gods pure air.
and feel I own the world!
Far away in old Montana, when the sun
is on the wane; Y
When the shadows fill the valleys with q
purple mist again;
In a gulch beneath pine tree, mid the
silence all alone,
I've a little old log cabin that I'm pleased
to call my own.
Oh and when the sun has vanished, sunk
beneath the western range;
And the wild night creatures fill the air will
savage cries and strange;
Then ! gaze into the heavens, and my min
is purged Of scars
For although my body's in the gulch, my
soul is with the stars!
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Gloucester road bonds are going beg
ging Is it possible that Doctor Foster has
forgotten the puddle he fell into?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

What miners, operators and consumers
need is coalition.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

q q q
HAVING most Of us certain prudence
IL even in our Conspicuous waste" we will
not pay more than a certain price, say 50,
for something to read once stick on our
shelves and ever after say to ourselves,
"Why in the world did / ever buy that
thing!
Hence the British publishers cry that with
increasing costs the novel, especially the
novel published at venture, Is becoming
impossible
There is limit to what the public will
pay for the latest fiction.
And within that limit there is not profit
enough to permit the publisher to take
chances.
q q q
THE answer is as the French have found it
- in books made to read and throw away.
The French pay a higher compliment TO
books than we do by recognizing frankly
that most of them are not worth keeping.
There is no such idea as books is books"
in France.
novel, or treatise, for that matter.
has to win its way into the company of
books wearing covers just as its author has
to win his way into the Academic Franchise
Primarily, book is made to read over
there; not to stand on shelves as one of many
imposing themselves upon the uninitiated as
culture in mass formation.
q q q
IF YOU want book in permanent form
you may buy it bound over there.
Or if YOU buy book in yellow paper
covers and subsequently decide that it is
worth keeping you may have it bound to suit
your own taste or to conform to the style of
your library.
In FrenChman's library YOU do not find
last years best sellers any more than YOU
find last weeks newspapers
Mercifully your literary indiscretions of n
few weeks ago disappear.
In their yellow paper covers they cost three
francs fifty ccntimes, with temporary
maJoration" of price during the war
You do not feel that you must keep them
because they cost you $175 or 50.
Nor do you feel that their mere presence
in rows about a room will subdue any ope
into the belief that you are person of wide
reading and much culture any more than
would the presence of all the all fiction mag
azines upon your library table do so. The
theory that books is books" helms onIv
congressman with government reports to give
away, sectional bookcase men with additional
sections to sell, and men who have themselves
to sell.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Young America made it Children's Day
at Independence Hall yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Senator Harding at least demonstrated
that his Is boom and not merely tinkle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

A fearful public now sees possible
blizzard in every snow furry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

This is poor political weather for lame
ducks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

Organization men are now realizinl
which is the organization,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

The fall of foreign exchange which
brings fall in the price of commodities to
the domestic consumer may, alas also bring
about a slowing up of production and con-
sequent fall in wages. Favoring breezes are
sometimes as tickle as ill winds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

TO the world that we bt
class.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24
THE President sc

THE President set
an example Of
"conciliatory" CORE =
spondence in his let
ters to Secretary Ian =
sing which the Allies
might have followed,
at a distance, in their
"conciliatory' letter
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

IORIEFLf summarized, both plans, ac.
- cordlng to report. seem to sanction an
Italian mandute for Albania Italian DOS
session of the valuable strategic harbors of
Pola and Nalona and islands of Pelagossa.
Lussin and LsSa and free sovereignty for
the port of Iara under the League of
Nations.
The tffst proposition, however, creates a
buffer state between Italy and "Jugo-
Slavia.' This free nation, under the league,
is to include Fiumc and will contain about
200 900 Jugo Slavs and 40 900 Italians.
most of whom arc concentrated in Fume,
where they constitute the dominating racial
element. This state, which will include the
important railway and the coast strp TO
Istria, will have the right to determine it's
own fate by a plebiscite." 1t is fore
shadowed that it will be in sympathetic
relationship with the Serbo Croat -Sovene
kingdom.
Under the second agreement, In which the
United states had no part in making, the
buffer state, it is said, will disappear and
Fiume will be created a free city under the
League of Nations, with the right to choose
its own diplomatic representatives who Dre .
sumably will favor Italy in their COM
mercial arrangements, it is intimated in
some quarters at the expense of the Serbo-
Croat- -Slovene state. Moreover, although the
railway will be retained by "Jugo Slavia 4"
Italy is to acquire a strip of territory be-
tween this line and the sea, thus cutting off
the SerbO CrOat Slovene state from the ex :
treme littora and presaging customs com
plexities and jurisdictions antagonsms.
THE Fiumc debate thus resolves itself into
l. question of possible dominance of Serbo .
Croat Slovene or Italian influences" rather
than into n dispute concerning aetna,
sovereignty by the governments at Belgrade
or Rome. That much at least seems settled
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-24

INTO our attitude toward books, as into
l. that of the border congressman CON
stituents, there enters large element of un
certainty. As in so many other things, we
are not sure of ourselves.
book is book.
Besides, book is furniture.
We use 1t TO fortify our social position.
Even the most temporary thing from the
Evening journal., 1920-06-05
SPECIAL SERMON TO
W0NIEN'S SOCIETIES

Services at Harrison Street NJ. y.
Church, the Rev William p. Hahbart.
win be: $50 o'clock, class meeting.
Leader. George b. CrOssan; 1880
o'clock, Holy Communion service
Musical Prelude, "Offertolre
In ~ Read; anthem, Lord God, We
Worship Thee" Stuls; bass solo, Sc
lected George Leslie Schafer; post
lude, FESTIVAL March, Teilman; f2i5
o'clock, Sunday school /. Elmer
Perry, superintendent; Mems Bible
class The Rev. w p Hahbsrt. teacher.
Charles H. Blaine win sneak on "The
Life Of John Wesley; $50 o'clock,
Senior EpWorth League. Topic Being
a Good Comrade." The Junior League
will have charge Of this service: 730
O'Clock. preaching service; organ num-
bers: (a) prelude" Jensen; (b)
"Melodie in r" Rockwell; ,o) pray
en-" Won Weber; anthem. Rise Crown
ed With Light; alto solo, selected.
Miss Edna j. Ball. anthem, "He Lead
eth Me" Edwards. Sermon by pastor
10 the Women's Home Missionary So
cietles IN honor Of the forticth ami
versary OF the organization. subject
OF sermon, 'The Christians Yoke
Postlude, 'Posuude," Lemalgre.
Evening journal., 1920-06-05
MUSICAL PROGRAM
WILL BE FEATURE

Students and strangers are invited
to an services in the Second Baptist
Church. Ninth and Franklin streets,
tomorrow, the Rev. s. B. Meeser, d..
d., minister In charge Dr. Meeser
will preach at both the morning and
evening services at 1880 and lAo
o'clock. The morning themo viii be,
''rhe Communion Service" new mem
bers will be welcomed and the Lord s
supper viii Immediately follow the
sermon The Bible School viii meet
at noon. The intermediate and Jun
iors viii have charge OF the C. r.
meeting at 6i5 o'clock.
The musical program viii be IN
charge OF Miss Fuller, chorlster Lead
er. Morning, organ prelude, Com
.munion." Lemargre; quartet 20 Lamb
of God" Slults; quartet, 20 BE JOYFUL
in the Lord" Folly; organ poht-
dude.
Evening: organ prelude; quartet
20 Joyful Light" Warren; quartet
20 Come TO My Heart, Lord Jesus,
Ambrose: organ selections, ballet II
LOOMS. organist
Evening journal., 1920-06-05
DIVINE COMPANION
MIR. JONES' THEME

The Rev. Elwood Jones. pastor OF
NJ. u. Church, opposite
Union Park Gardens, viii occupy his
pulpil tomorrow morning and even
ing The subject OF the morning ser
mon viii be 1.-THE Great Memorial.
The morning service Will begin az
1925 o'clock, opening with organ Sc
lectiOns by Miss Connell. Ihe Sacra-
ment Of The Lords supper VIII be
celebrated al this service. A class or
preparatory members VIII be recelN-
ed into full membership and an op-
portunity win be extended TO others
io united with the church. The choir
directed by Mr.. Wallace, viii provide
special numbers for the sevice.
The Sunday school will hold It's
session at ~ o'clock. Miss Connells
orchestra will furnish music for the
school. The Mems Glass Will hold
their business and social meeting on
Monday night at the home OF Ma
lhanlei WarburlOn, 1919 Lincoln 81
The evening service Will begin al
73O O'Clock opening with an organ
recital by Miss Connell followed by a
! CONGREGATIONAL song service led by
/ MIR Wallace. The pastors sermon
/ subject at this service will be, 9Th
IDlvine Companion" The choir vii
, provide special music for the ser
Glass meeting in charge OF Jos. w
Coley. win be held Tuesday evening
at 7.i5 o'clock.
The mld-week class and prayer ser.
vice I'm charge Of the pastor, viii b.
iheld Wednesday evening at O'Clock