Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-10

SHORT CUTS
Tho crooked mile walked by crooked
man Usually ends at the Bridge Of Signs.
One reason that Eve cannot sing the old
songs is that we have forgotten most 0!
them.
Some Of the money saved from the arms
might well be devoted to making the patent
Office more efficient.
President Wilson is apparently et.
periencng more and more difficulty in find.
ing minds that go along with his.
Let us be charitable. When all is said
and done. it is but general news sense that
makes the gossip general nuisance.
If there must be naval holiday ii,
duel between Secretary Daniels aud General
Mitchell might prove an interesting feature,
The public is hoping. Of course. that tn,
conviction of Brindell, the labor car, Il
merely the beginning of necessary cleanup
DR.. Broomc has several difficult job;
ahead of him, and perhaps not the least o'
them is to win the 90 operation necessary t0
success.
The Louisiana sheriff who forgot to han:
n prisoner will never be chidcd for absent
mindCdncss by the other party to the schcd'
ulcd operation.
Thomas 4. Edison will be seventy foQ'
years old tomorrow. Watch ont for this
youngSt"r. The world may expect great
things from him.
Tho rate at which tho Sewers bill IS
being rushed in the House suggests that per-
haps our legislators have decided to get along
without intelligence during Lent.
After the Senate has talked itself hoaFs'
concerning other matters it will throw IN
few appropriation bills for n billion and a
half dollars by way of lagniopp",
Noiva says man is the head OF tt'
house and woman Is the neck. To whlCa
may be- added that during the prcsrut hou"
shortage both are living on trunk.
The fact that the Legislature at llarr,I|;
hurg has passed bill making November u,
Armistirr Day. II legal holiday possesses
merely academic interest for newspaper
man.
Thc suggestion Of Sir PhiIip Gibbs, that
if the BolshevstS would be- good the woTl
might disnrm, reminds Us that il the crooS'
wuuld reform we might abolish the ponce
force.
Germans arc quoting British and Amer,
lean authorities 10 prov" that thry catuo.
pay their bills: another instance Of the iS iSrt
that there are people in the world who taA
too much.
Work Is speeding up in the PawtucM,,
Il. o. thread factories. Which suggests wy
tuntuli2ing thought that when business j. ~
its best with Il scamstrcss 1t is mercy
sew sew.
Far hc it from mo, said Drmo>ih'1i"',
MrGimnis. to obic" TO II siy-N"ar'tCrm ~
II city councilman. | wouldn ohlr't i d., -"
were little more for some OF en- "'
what was the charge:
Perhaps one Of the things that nGu'
clurd DR.. Broomc in accepting I hc superb, TN,
tendency Of Philadelphia schools was oS uoSJ
hNIItl lNul H' NONlu nov 'lH w 'N''
by the present Board of Education,
As nobody knows just what Sir Aur%ii
land Grdd"s and Premier Lloyd E'otS' %r ors
to each other. London correspondents 1'"
whole hCurtcdly ayailcd themselves OF
glorious opportunity to do some ta'' gN'SS"''
After hc had called two members SneGr ,i,,
aud one cigarette i"nd, the conGr'saMmoyr,
Of II krnuott Square church locked out TLtcS
pastor, the Rev Elias Anger. IRON Mrj M,~oj
We gather that Anger may b" gImIc' '''''
bat he i no bore,
!, the report that Andrew W. Mra,r"' Mao,..
said to be- Mr.. IIarding's choic" Tor Syy'ri Al
iary Of III" treasury, is one of the 4Wmgn Wdmn 0Oo
the Oyrrholt distilIcry, with , N'U'"'tto "a
worth Of whisky IN bonded warehouses;
be- considered as u knock or BOOST
Captain Edward J. Sweeney, rh,' IN.
police Of Radnor township, has hrrn in
slrucling the Saturday club, of way, jnnce.
the gentle art of handling burg lars lr'S "a.
forth when any Radnor township woman 30
Quires information concerning burs'o' -
win promptly tell II to Sweeney.