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

the law.
Rcrgdoll says hc is still an American.
HG tlHtters himself. He was never an
American.
Renal pasha appears to be successfully
negotiating the path from Anathema to
Recognition.
Or course there's not more than
shadow of evidence that the grounding is
really Il weather prophet.
Shall wc abolish the inevitable! asks
Mr. ChCstcrton. Well. there are income tax
dodgers who have tried it.
Justice McRey nods has at least demon
Strat"d that he himself is 10 "amorphous
dummy unspottcd by human emotions
u
Perhaps tho bandits arc hustliug TO gct
their crimes committed before the law is
changed to permit Sevcrcr penalties.
Il is remotely possible that when Mayor
Moore met Senator PcnroSc something more
than the Delaware bridge was discussed
rh" whole state will sympathzc with
the dcNirc of Senator Daix that words should
Dr spelled correctly in a bill dealing with
the Board Of Education.
-, may be accepted as a straight tip that
tho bellboy and the hat check bandit viii
retain their taking ways though the bill reg.
IIa'inG hotels should chance to pass the
Legislature.
II Germany doesn't know how she /,
going t" pay her debts France can tell hcr
rance learned how in 1870 and 1871. Which
Is ono reason why France has little sympathy
Tor advocates of soft peace.
The Delaware Senate has passed bill
making the penalty for highway robbery
iortE laSh"s on the bare back, twenty wears
imprisonment and $500 fine. There seems
:" be here sincere effort TO discourage
banditry.
sooner or later, it may be-. Debs will
be rardoncd; not because there Is doubt a,
10 tlIc righteousness Of his incarceration
but because. now that tho stress of war is
past perhaps justice may wisely be lnpcrcd
with mercy.
MarsC Henry Watterson, now soiourn.
l"E ~ Galveston. Tex, has lost none Of bis
l"'illty ~ ConccaIlng his thoughts in quaint
hnd T'chcrche phrases and in reaching his
Eonl ny lndlrcction. 'To hell with prohibi.
tlon' lie writes.
~ result Of the Miner service at cost
l,M,l' SlN cent fares and penny transfers have
superseded soy cent fares and Two cent
transfers IN Toledo, The motto OF the
o,,I ,,i,'G at cost plan appears to be "a penny
saved IS penny yearncd. -
hE TUG time the problem Of continuous
LnP,os Ih.ht, recently discussed by the Tayor
society IN the Engineers Society, has bccn
S"nrrn' ln' ueSirablllty of continuous uu"
employment will be seriously considered bv
some oi those continuously employed.
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a., JuSt by way Of simplifying the work Of
tn' railroad labor board few valuable
,m".S4 sn"pWorn maxim are here pre-.
s%mt'd' I" wit: "Iook before Won lean.
I'll" who hcSitatrs is LOST, = ..Niorc b"stc
loss speed, aud "DcInys arc dangerous"
inrtN two years from now our states.
niru ana historians will be able to sneak au.
lh"ritatNciy concerning the wisdom or un.
MlnGGini OF suggested rcparatious aud in
IDENTITIES from Germany. At the prcscnt
"butS W us ""'
EEer aud anon Germany acts as though
sue DrlieEed She Won the war; and if a
nhIrS her to get on her feet. willie Franc
!'n'iho, llnp"Ncrlshcd, IT may be. since the
'mpoNflNhm"nl of France was what She set
""' |" accomplish, her belief will be Justified.
May not tue ribald surmisc TINT if the
Hunr"mr Court should happen 10 he tine
lIr"d Ml'h prejudic" against federal Judge,
WI Ii,t "I,"W nnt themselves to become tinctured
M''n prejudice there il remote possibility
mat u recent ruling adverse to nm eminent
lnrlSt and baseball expert may, as il were,
u" r"lSd"rcd not wholly free. so to sneak,
ir"'" IN" rr"ludic" We ali unite in dcpIoring,
II Nou get what We mean?
Th" Finnish Gn,crnmcut bcfnrc sug
grsllng that Nh" \nbcI noncn nriyo he
awarded to the american Rcd Cross, doubt
",' n"I'd IT," tact that there is prccedcut
l"r Sl%h a"lt",, the Institute of Intcrna
l'@a, oE 1l Ia" ,,I nnd The International Red Cros;
nobody, 1t may be added could spend ths
money moro wisely and generously than the
organization now tentatively put forward.