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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks m Thinking Philadephans Subjects They
KnotU Best
ganize the women of their divisions. run q
campaign and push their candidates through
As Candidates for MaRistrata


campaign and push their candidates through
As Candidates for Magistrate
Another Office to which some women
might well aspire is that of magistrate. 1t
has already been suggested by those who
know our city conditions well that one or
two women, either lawyers or experts in
sociological problems, would be well to have
on our minor judiciary. We women have
an important task now in the next months
to find one or two available women and per-
suade them to run and also to find some
men who may more nearly approach our
Of the law than has been the usual tradition
among our magistrates. We should study
the records OF the aspirants for re election,
give Endorsement to those only who have
done well and defend the city BY our votes
next September from danger of recurrence
OF the problem as to whether a magistrate
in jail is still magistrate.
W hen 1t comes to the county Offices and
tine Judges, women are probably less pre-
pared to take the initiative in choice and
certainly Will not present any women as
candidates. But we trust that they will be
more insistent than the mass Of voters has
been in the past, that the candidates pre-
sented for their Endorsement shall be really
mt for their jobs.
III the Legislature gives us a chance to
vote for members of a constitutional CON
VenttoR, it will be a matter Of deepest con
Germ to women to see to 1t that their In
huence counts for the election of the riRht
men to make our new fundamental law
Although 1t il doubtful whether there 10
any woman in the state Of Pennsylyania
sufficiently versed in the problems of consu-
tutional law to make any valuable contribm.
ton to such convention, it may be we'll to
nave few women as members Of il to rem
resent the wOmen's interests Any elected
should be women who know enough to know
that they dom know anything, who know
how to learn from those who know and who
have high ideals and good common sense.
Us for the September primaries. Ii ia for
US now to set the precedent that women \
influence in politics Is worth while,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
YOUR UNcLE'S PURSE

MO QUESTION confronting the Dew ad.
IN mnistration is SO pPrpexing AZ that Of
national revenue How much more compli-
Gated that particular problem may be within
the next fiscal year We may know when the
aggregate of the first income tax payments
for 1920 is suggested tomorrow.
The returns from this source under exist
ing schedules are likely to show a startling
decline. The creative and productive ener
gies of the United States have relaxed and
income taxes in the final analysis will be the
best indication Of the degree Of our loss.
Many people who were earning large sal
aries in 1920 are now finding it difficult to
make both ends meet, and it is and always
mas been difficult 10 make the average cit
zen understand that what he owes the gov
eminent in war taxes represents a 1.-THE from
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

TNHE task of meeting the demands of
l. audiences is no mean one, says Repre-
sentative Philip p. Campbell, chairman ot
the House committee on rules. Audiences
have way Of insisting
There was the case Of one gathering
which he addressed in n very large and
very packed hall where the acoustics were
bad and the assemblage noisy. He couldn't
make the folks in the back Of the room hear.
The cry Of Louder, louder" came in.
sistently. Mr.. Campbell shrieked, but to
no avail. The cries were repeated Finally
there pierced the confusion a clear and
bell like call from the gallery, which Mr..
Campbell holds. sums up the modern demand
Of the audience upon the public speaker
This voice said:
Louder and funnier."
Senator Pat Harrison not long ago re.
ceived n reminder of the time when he was
a newsboy in Crystal Springs, Miss, and
used TO sell the Memphis and New Orleans
papers. -. .
vening years. four Of them in college, where
he worked his way, two Of them teaching
he paid $8 for board and laundry. II was
during these two lonesome years that be
read law and passed his bar examinations.
Then there were six years as district attor
ney. eight years in the House Of Repre-,
sentatives, two years in the Senate and al
by the time he was forty.
And this package that he got was from
Silver Springs. 1t seems that they were
tearing up the floor Of the railway station
down there and underneath it they found
a roll Of fifteen Memphis papers addressed
to Pat Harrison.
Dated twenty FIVE years back they mutelS
told their tale Of q careless baggage man
and a sad day in the life of newsboy who
failed his customers.
DR.. Robert 8. Woodward, for sixteen
years president Of the Carnegie Institution,
Of Washington, and for fifty five years an
active worker in advanced scientific circles,
having reached the ago of seventy two, has
retired.
In doing SO he sent out a card to his
friends which said that she hopes to resume
his ancestral profession of farming and ms
adopted profession of civil engineering. TO
me he explained that he thought IL advisable
to retire while still vigorous and avoid the
tragedy Of being put out after he had begun
to fail.
At the same time he told me Of his plans
for prosecuting future scientific work. There
is no greater tragedy, he said than ths'
of the man who had led an active life trying
to quit altogether. lie had just been tag
ing with an army surgeon. That gentle,
man had confirmed the theory that army ana
navy officers, retiring as vigorous men IN
,the early sixties, usually die within nNe
years. Having been active for no long ld'e
ness kills them. It robs them OF TWEEN"
wears.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
OUR WEAK ARM
OCCASIONALLY there are s

OCCASIONALLY there are signs to in .
~ dicate that Congress has not greatly
changed its estimate of the possibilities of
aviation since the days when It used to laugh
at Prof. Langley's first experiments on the
Potomac
II appears certain now that virtually all
the countrys naval strength is to be con-
centratcd in the Pacific. The Navy Depart
ment appears to have been the original au
thority for the statement that the ships ore
to b. moved from the Atlantic because lit
would be relatively easy for an enemy to de-
stroy the Panama canal from the air in
the event Of sudden war"
Would it? II ought to be about as easy
for an enemy TO destroy the Panama canal
from the air as it was for Allied fliers TO
destroy the kiel canal or for the Germans
10 make the passage of Sues impossible. But
neither Of these canals was damaged. They
we're protected by well organized and
equipped air fleets and plenty Of anti air
craft guns. The Panama canal is not so
protected
When Congress set about to cut down
money allotments for the army and navy it
begun with the air service and hewed to the
bone. The development of military aviation
vas virtually halted in the United States
All the other nations have continued to build
and study and improve air machines Of the
types used in war.
The Canadian board Of air control has just
issued an order forbdding American air
planes from passing over Dominion terri
tory because there has never been estab
lishcd in this country a board which, under
the international air code, would be re-
sponsible for the stability of such machines
The United States Government apparently
never thought enough about aviation to ap-
point board such as now functions in the
interest Of fiers and the general public
alike in every other civilized country under
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
FREDERICK A. WALLIS, immigrant

FREDERICK A. WALLIS, immigrant
Il commissioner at New York, made an ad.
dress in Philadelphia one day recently.
1t was 10 startling in Its presentation Of
certain facts that some OF his hearers are
still talking about 1t.
The occasion was one day conference OF
life insurance underwriters at the Adelphia
Hotel.
Prof. John Dennis Mahoney, of this city,
was the other principal al speaker, inS r...
upon by this federal official concerning i'm.
migration at the port Of New York.
When he took charge the detention rooms
had not been cleaned for four months.
The floors were slimy with filth. Children
were playing around in It.
Diseased aliens slip through by the hun
dreds because of lack Of facilities and work
ing force to prevent It.
Recently two men, lepers were on the
point OF being passed when the skin odor
Of one of them attracted the physicians at
tentiOn.
Outwardly, they were above suspicion.
When the shoes of this man were removed
/, was found that three of his toes had
sloughed off from the horrible disease
Hundreds Of stowaways get ashore and
disappear Most Of them are Reds" or
criminals
What is the remedy?
Commissioner Wallis replies as follows:
Screen out the diseased and the unde
sirables on the other side.
Increase the examination force on this
side. 1t is hopelessly inadequate now.
Compel a closer physical examination OF
every adult and child demanding admittance.
Arrange some system of distribution for
immigrants There IL none now.
Cities and towns are crying for able
bodied emigrants farms for lnborers.
Other communities are frantically pro
testing against any more coming to their
section.
Let the government institute a wise syS-
TEN of distribution. Send the aliens where
they are needed; prevent them going where
the labor market is glutted,
These are only few of a multitude OF
other needed reforms.
Wallis is an expert.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Local brewers put out Of business to'
holic content OF more than one half OF Per
cent probably read with avid interest the hs
ruling that beer Of strong content may DC
made for medicinal purposes. IT may even
seem TO them that IL under the law they are
permitted to make regular beer, interference
with such manufacture was an Infringing. M
OF the law and punishable. Assuredly tne
ruling Of the former attorney general las
some interesting possibilities. The point a.
issue would seem to hinge on whether II 10 10
to be considered in the light of an edict OF
merely an Interpretation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
In the franklin Repository

In the Franklin Repository, Chambers.
burg, Pa, these two ads appear together:
IOST-Bunch Of keys containing eleven
keys Finder please return to Repository
office. II
FOCND-Bunch Of keys Owner can
have same by calling at this Office and prov
ing property. St
This seems to prove that it pays to ad.
yertiSp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Leon TrOtzky has. offered q reward u
five million rubles for the body OF the reVoInii
tionary leader. General Koslovsky, anu
Koslovsky has raised the bet by Offering zen
million rubles for the body of Trotzky,, N
a million rublcs II worth all Of fifty dolIars
It will be seen that the gaming spirit ma
inveigled the revolutionary leader into oherI
ing nm extrayagant price for the leader
the Bolsheviki.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
In barcelona, Spain, there is being held

In Barcelona, Spain, there is being heIo
under the auspices OF the League OF Nations
a conference on communication and trans
port in which an attempt will be made 70 70
settle international controversies relative 70
railroads. waterways and ports. Ihltv
expressed that the United States was no.
among them. In the interest of our worLa
commerce this is a lack that ought 10 DC
remedicd In the near future.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
A Mcet Point cadet has cnmmi,ted ,ni

4 West Point cadet has committed sui
eide because he feared ''he would not MAKE
a good officer" Longfellows line Life is
real, life is earnest, " properly belongs to. a
book Of juvenile verse. Only the very young
view 1t that way and the fact is tragicafy
the young man elected to live, the years
would have brought him cynicism and stiff
joints. AsSurcdly, he wouldn't have worried
over his fitness for his job. He'd either be
making good or be convinced that he was NOT
getting q square desl.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

!. What is the capital Of Alabama?
:. Name the author of Guy Mann.rinx
g. What two American families have cor-
tri6uted two Presidents each to the
I. What Is mensuration"
B. Who Ia the conductor OF tho Boston s,,,,
phony Orchestral ~ III
6. Who was Mephistopheles?
I. Where Is the official seat OF the IA,ou.
OF Nations? League
s. What river is known as the F'atb.r =,
WRters'? '"et OF
g. What Is an umlaut?
TO- Where and what is the Aihambrso
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

THE phrase goes back four centuries.
l. Luks I am sure, is unaware of the fact
to this day. With him it was chance
phrase born of his labors.
Louis XII of France was indolent, care
less and extravagant. He was led around
like prize OK with ring IN it's nose by
his favorites.
His prime minister and man of all work
was George of Amb6iSc. Cardinal Of Rouen
an able, hard working courtier.
The great specially Of Louis MI was that
of getting into hot water with people His
clevorest attribute was sidestepping re-
sponsibility.
Whenever something unpleasant had to be
done or some difficult question was to be
decided his invnriable expression was:
"Ldi,sez foire Gcoroes'; let George
do il.
Kitchin in his history Of France quotes
the lazy king led by his favoriteS' as using
the expression the George referred to being
George of Amboise.
That was in the summer of 1904.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
A hundred and fifty shots wer

A hundred and fifty shots were fred in
a revolver fight between local police and
bandits yesterday morning, but only one of
the bullets, apparently, found its billet
The others evidently thought this was still
the Burleson administration and failed TO
rench their destination.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

After a Lancaster, Pa, blacksmith had
returned and subducd the horse and finished
his work Then and not till then he had
time to realize that he had three broken ribs
and q bruised foot. We take OFF our hat TO
that man. He knows that his jobs worth
uhile
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

The White House kennel is to be aug.
mented by an English bull pup. With the
Airedale already there all that will be needed
TO complete the hounds across the sea on
tente will be an Irish terrier and Welsh
rnhhit dog.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

There is nothing worth while done by
strike that cannot better be accomplished az
a conference table. The meeting Of railroad
executives and labor leaders 10 this city,
therefore, is legitimate excuse for hope
fulness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Among the disquieting things rumored
in Washington is that Laddie Boy. one
man dog. IL about to choose not the Prcsi-
dent but the little man who ministers to
his wants. That dog doesn't know on which
side his bread Is buttered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
: Once upon a time" said Miss

ing when Brother Warren heard the bells
ringing for President Garfield he said
Maybe they'll be ringing for me some day.
And it turned out that way" But the real
news story will come when a President is
elected who never In his life thought of the
possibility.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Representative Dunn's constituents are
about equally divided between farmers op-
posed TO daylight saving and millwofkers
who favor il. Whichever way things turn
out, Dunn is, as it were, undone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Now that it has engaged the earnest at
tention OF the Home Hooch Association, the
dandeion bids fair 10 be more popular than
ever it has been before.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Mrs. Harding has been urged by cor
respondent to make her husband wear
whiskers, as "only whiskered men are
great" But perhaps the President will OBJ.
iect to being the goat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

In some cases getting down TO brass
tscks means getting down 10 brazen tax col
lectorS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

DR. GEORGE WILLIAM LINCOLN, the
- bibliophie whose delving after the odd
and unusual in literature Is always pro
ductive Of interesting results, calls my at =
tention to the antiquity Of modern slang
phrase that is popularly supposed to have
been coined within the last twenty years.
Let George do it is the expression.
As I recall, it was twenty years or 80 ago
that George I.uks, now u celebrated New
York artist brought the words into gen
crsl public use.
Luks twenty five years ago was an illus
traitor on the Philadelphia Press.
He was one of that brilliant galaxy OF
young artists and illustrators among whom
were Glackens. Gruger, John Sloan, Henry
McCartcr, Williams and others, once Press
men.
After leaving Philadelphia Luks became
a comic illustrator on a New York news
paper.
One Of his features was the daily exploita e
tion Of a pair Of "kids." George and Alex
The pet phrase ever on the tongue OF
Alex was Let George do it"
Since those days George Luks has become
a widely known painter, Gruger a famous
magazine illustrator and Sloan the leader oi
the artist colony in Greenwich Village, all
OF New York
Now as to DR.. Lincoln's find
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

The bills problem was either to save its
daylight or have daylight knocked out of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Tomorrow you may worry over what
you forgot to put in your income tax return
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

The Fool Killer has watchful eye for
every aspirant for the tail spin record.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

About half the time March appears TO
have foolish notion that her name is June.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
SHORT CUTS

The Wrisley situation continues wrig
,ley
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

The Philadelphia Fire Department
knows how to keep At at fifty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
vEST-POCKET RACING
New Gambling Device Where 70,
Carry the Ponies In Your Pocket.
LET George Do it".--Horrors
OF Our immigration System
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN
DIRECToR JAMES T. CoRTELYOU,

nIRECTOR JAMES r. CORTELYOU, Of
- the Department Of Public Safety, last
week came into possession Of the latest
gambling device.
It is the oldest combination Of it's kind
the director or any Of his chiefs have yet
seen.
Can you conceive Of vest pocket horse
racing?
be operated on a round top table in a soda
fountain shop with the same instrument;
or on the level expanse of a mahogany bar
in any one Of the hundreds Of saloons that
have survived the zero weather OF prohib-
tion2
II you don't care to spin the marble"
you can follow the ponies" It's n matter
OF choice, for the machine is adaptable to
either kind Of sport.
And you can race two nags or six, ac-
cording to the number Of bettors.
The horses are numbered, the same as
jockey with a placard on his back.
There's a red flag to mark the finishing
wire, too; A..
before vest pocket horse racing puts the
gypsy curse on Havre dc Grace or New Or
leans.
It's criminal device, just the same.
THE machine consists Of a metal case
L about half a size larger than the largest
Waterbury watch on the market. 1t looks
like one.
There is n glass or crystal that covers
the dinl or what in a watch should be the
dial
This dial spins around when n spring
that projects from the side of the watchlike
contraption is released by the finger.
On this movable metal dial are series
Of figures.
Around its outer edge, circling the entire
dial, Is small circle three sixtcenths OF an
inch wide Of metal. 1t is immovable. ,
Az tho uiDdiDO Of the 'yafch'
n tiny red flag.
II serves as point or pocket when rou;
when horse racing is the attraction.
The roulette gambler bets on number,
the dial is started, rotates rapidly, and the
number nearest the red flag when it ceases
to turn wins the money.
A S TO horse racing.
"A Set in this immovable metal circle or
rim on the circumference Of the device are
six small pockets or compartments
Each one contains a wee celluloid disk
an eighth Of an inch in diameter.
II six bettors are "in'' on the race, the
six tiny disks are dropped out on the re-
Each gambler selects "horse' or num-
bered disc and the spring is released
around the circular inclosure, heller. skelter,
but, OF course, always in the direction OF the
red flag.
The horse nearest the flag wins, when
the dial or track becomes stationary.
It's all over in five seconds.
This unlawful invention comes from Ger
many. II can be carried in the vest pocket
without any more inconvenience than
watch.
It is gambling device.
Users are therefore liable TO arrest for
having il in their possession.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Yet the rule is that the man interested
ters Is rarely financial success. His mind
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-13
AURORA

CONTINUED from Page g.
at the E. J. Korte home in Brookings.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. II. Gutteboe autoed
to Brookings Saturday evening.
The community has organized a pub
lie singing school, commencing Friday
evening, at the Methodist church,
promptly at 500 o'clock. No admis'
sion to be charged. Everyone desiring
vocal training should welcome this OPP
p~ortunity to be present for the first
lesson. Carl Denies of Brookings, has
been engaged as Instructor. Mr.. Be
mics is a we'll known vocalist and as
a leader has aroused many an audience
to an ecstacy Of song by his good hui
mored enthusiasm.
Aurora Farm Bureau members are
urged to be present at the next regu-
lar township meeting at the Tompkins
school house, October 21st. This IS
to be the annual business meeting
and election of officers.