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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
POLITICS BY SCHEDULE

TREQTENTERS Of political meetings
lave always known that there was SOM
thing lnrkinE in their management \
'ong wind, d candidate would occupr so much
time that tho other candidates who liked to
hear the sound Of thcr 70 occs had to shorten
their remarks or keep the Listeners suurming
in rhcir seats until midnight.
The League Of Women Voters Of Dcla
ware County is going TO change all this It
has adOUtph q series Of rules 10 he observed
at the politicrl meetings under its auspices
this fall. The rules provide that before n
candidate is introduced the presiding officer
must rcnd without comment statement
setting forth the duties, qualifications and
salaries attached to each Office.
\ limit OF time for each speaker is fixed
varying with the Importance Of the office
he seeks to fill. 4 candidate for judgcship
or proxy speaking for him may talk for
fifteen minutes. II he brings some one along
with him to introduce HIM the time used bv
the lntroduccr IL 10 be taken from tho time
Of the Introduce, A candidate for Sheriff
may talk eight minutes. while candidate
for clerk Of court or for n director of the
poor or for delegate to the Constitutional
Convention may speak only five minutes.
In order that things may be done decently
and in order every formal speaker must take
the Platform. lie is not to be hecked but
after he has finished questions may be asked
and he must make his answer In not to OK i.
ceed a minute
These are admirable rules. Their only
defect lies in the length of time allowed to
the speakers. 1t ought not to take any man
five minutes to tell why he should be elected.
Most candidates could say all there is to be
said In four words: II want the Office. I"
The rest Is CUFF ana elaboration In nine cases
out Of ten.
Now It remains 20 be seen how this plan
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
PENROSE SPEAKS

uOW deep into the consciousness of the
IL PenrOse leaders in this city will the
Senator'S message of Yesterday actually
sink? Will it sink at all?
The people of Philadelphia waited so long
10 hear the voice Of the oracle that they may
have grown to expect too much. That may
explain the sense of doubt that ensups auto
matically after a reading Of the pronounce.
ment in favor of good government and the
incidental expression of opposition to the
Fifty Fifty ticket.
Nowhere is there any reference to the
character or Importance Of the fight that
the Mayor has been carrying on almost
single. handed against n campaign of betrayal
directed against him and against the mu-
nicipnlity by powerful factionists of his
own party.
1t is still within Senator Penrose's power
definitely and permanently to rescue his
ganzation here from the organzat Of
the Wares. But he will have to be less
casual before such n split is assured or
even probable
The Senator depends too 2briously on
terms conveniently broad and gcncral. He
is a champion of good government. SO.
for that matter are Mr.. Ware and Judge
Brown and Magistrat" Campbell. Aren't
they forever saying so? Isn't it under that
slogan that they are now united? Mean
while. there is nothing in tn" PpnroSp pro-
nounrrm"nt to frightcn any PcnrosN leader
who desires to 60 along as n Fifty Fiftyite.
The sincerity or inSirCHr;y Cf Mr.. Pen
rose will be demonstrated ~ tn" campaign
progrpsScs az the ncc-sstr arises. aS it
will. to hCp or binder in the field in the
days immediately before the primary election
and finally at the polls.
TIE question now &c whether. II tn" i'm
49,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
Answers to Yesterdays ouI,

l. A gargoyle was orig rnllv Il rainspout
with grotesque decorations
9 "a pnsteriori" Ia a name given IN tba
process Of reasoning from effects to
causes,
g. Apollo was the sun god OF classic
mythology.
4 Single G. is the fastest PAGER horse In
the world at the present time His
record IL a mile In l minute and IA
seconds,
5. John Gay the English writer published
in 17l6 a burlesque poem entItied
Trivia, or the Art OF Walking the
Streets OF London"
6, The four, horsemen, OF the Apocalypse
were War or Conquest PestilenCe
Famine and Death,
T. Bungalows originated In India
s Emporium in imperio" is the name piven
to supreme authority within the iuris.
diction Of another authority
q A trundle-bsd or truckle-bed is a Io,v bod
on wheels that may be wheeled under
!, another bed,
80. w. NJ Haskell has been appointed Amer
In Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
What Do You Know?


/ What nation has been Officially repre-.
scntinE the interests Of the United States
IN Germany since diplomatic relations
were broken of in 1917?
:. Name the six countries of Central
America.
3. What planet is sometimes known as
Lucifer?
I. What II rinderpest?
:. What IL the Rksdag?
6. Why Is q mezzan'ne floor, so called7
7, What Is a protoplasm?
s. or what country Is Alexander Graham,
Bell, inventor Of tho telephone a
native7
y. What has been the most terrific volcanic
disturbance In the world within the
last ten years?
TO- who were the Sadducees?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

raise whatever veil may have been cast over
the formative steps.
Whether they should or should not be
deliberately shrouded is a matter Of opinion.
There is no doubt, however, that one way to
suppress Grass criticism Of a treaty In its
early stages is to withhold the negotiations
from the public gaze. 1t is difficult to find
fault when the nature Of an offense Is un-
defined
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

The National Security League seeks 70
have the study of the Constitution one or tne
standard requirements in the public schoesS O,0n
Quite right and very proper. But why Mop
Mt the public schools? What's the ma''e'
with Congress-?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
HUMANLSMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

CECRETARY JOHN w. WEEKS, of the
~ War Department. chucklcs when he tells
upon himself joke which developed at the
time he was preparing for the entertainment
of President Harding at his summer home.
which sits on the top Of n hill near I.ancas-
ter, y. Fl.
a scout from the White House was sent
into the neighbOrhood to find place whore
the Secret Service men who accompany the
President might be put up during the
Chief Executives visit. This scout went to
n hotel near the Weeks summer home and
engaged Its proprietor in conversation.
''liow far is this from the residence of
john w. Weeks" asked this scout.
'Weeks Wecks.' said the proprietor.
scratching his head. There used to be n
man Of that name around here some place.
but I think he got job down at Wash.
ington.'
Last fall, down In Oklahoma the fight
over the election was ms desperate as any
where els" in the Nation. John William
Harreld was running for United States SEN
Ntor and was scheduled to make a half
dozen speeches on the last day Of the cam
paign. Iatc,in the afternoon he was to ad-
dress nm audience at Shawnee. and at night
his final speech was to be made in Okla
homa Cl1y' ny me two towns were forty miles
apart The bridge which connected them by
automobile road got itself washed out
so the candidate found himself face to-
face with an emergency. The only way he
could get from Shawnee to Oklahoma CIV
was hT hiring spccinl train. which would
cost him 5000. As he had already spcnt oIl
the money allowed him under the law r.
do this he would need to violate the Inv
Otherwise, he must miss his Oklahoma City
meeting.
Trusting to luck. he went ahead with his
speaking schedule not knowing how no was
TO get TO the point Of his final address A
ne hhished nj shawnee. however. he heard
much to his surprise the impatient whistle
OF an engine at the railway station. Tho
sound brought new hope to him, md In.
yestigatinG. he found that this engine. with
full st"nm UP. wns attached to n car and
rcndy for lh" dash to Oklahoma CITY,
He got aboard and vas whisked owav
ihr"ughnut me RID" he kept vowing 70
himself that should It develop that this Train
was tur9'Shen by som" individual who wanted
to exercise an undue control over him Lo
would take special pains 70 undo thnt ots
tempt. The mystery of the train WINS not
solved until next day after the votes n,ouo
counted, He met Mrs, IIarreld and sbc "re' re'
vcaled that it was she and not some aoo,,t
OF political control who had sent the speciaI
to Shawnee. "p''lai
Senator Frederick Hale. of Maine, is n
diffidcnt young fellow Of the college .chon
variety, slim clean cut, black haired One
looks more like n polo player.
Miss Temple Bailey, who is successful no
writer of romance and love storios ooto
her heart out because the tubic refuses
t. ,soacsa accept books OF deep .religious sig
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

"Bloodhounds on the trail can always
bring thrill. but after years OF intenSNt
newspaper reading we fail to recall tha.
they ever did anything except lose t0V
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

will work In practice. II the women Of
Delaware County can run their meetings
according to the schedule, they will doubtless
be asked by women politicians In other parts
Of the State to tell them how they do It,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

The Young Lady Next Door But One
opncs that Lloyd Georges suggested sex.
tuple agreement" probably has something
to do with womans rights and privileges
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Baccarat players in Dcauville who n.
lieve in luck throw one fifth OF the chiis
they buy into the sea before they start "
uay. 1t is understood that the gamo!!hhs
houses are doing nothing to discourage '''
prActice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Wireless telephones have been used WIZ
success on moving trains In Germany. H.
the near future it may be possible for traSs, raw.
ers to learn en- route that there are no ro'"'
available in New York hotels.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

If you don't register you cant vote,
if you don't vote you may neither glory !.
victory nor Crouch Mt defeat; and one y,
the other is always the inestimable pr'Vi'ese
Of free citizen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Trade expert now declares that Gcr, ger
many is not the menace to American iu,
cign trade that it has been generaliy w, y.
while gloom sirs one to endeavor?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Fortunes Wheel Wheel Pump; jury
wheel One good turn deserves another
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Demosthencs McGinnis is OF the opinion
that they are called capital ships because
it takes an immense amount of capital to
build and run them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
A dispatch from a noN
York tells of a bar, i.
tender refusing n ma, ~,
Wild Story Given
Nerisimilitude

prohibition. But stay your wild hl,a,m nascr
asked for "a wee dram o. whusky." ~,
we knew that would stop YOU! lie W n
Scotch snilor. and wise bartender ,",a, knrm K
were vain to hold him up for any onlrnsY'yyee ye
price. IT'S no way to treat o'"''
ken.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

II anything has made more trouble since
Peace befell than self determination OF small
nations it has been working in disguise and
It's existence has been overlooked.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Is the Dali Eireann trying to demon
strate that its leaders are better paramPn'
tarians than statesmen, better controversial.
lists than exccutivpsy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

New York and Chicago having discoy.
cred automobile graveyards. why should
Philadelphia wait?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Uncle Sam. for perfectly good reasons
is both judge and sheriff in Panama.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

While De Valera looks at England he
is talking to Ulster out of the corner Of his
mouth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Cool days remind one that the time ap.
proacheS when the belt will be re enforced
or replaced by the suspcnders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Well, anyhow, the Mayor stands to win
more points If he goes 1t alone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

We had looked forward to seeing the
IR2 waltz across the Atlantic but 1t ap.
pears to be hesitation waltz.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Empire and Japan not having been rece,v,u e,Ts
with vocifcrous approval in this couhut
Lloyd George now AYERS Great Britain ""
receive with cordial attention any Ame,'taSs ~
suggestion OF a sextuple agreement o. oII..i, M
United States. Great Britain, France. hsn
Japan and China. But why not take oS., .,
the League of Nations and give 1t ano'n''
name?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

The second set Of the Mallory -Lcnslcn
match, remarked the Tuneful Sport. proved
an upset for Suzanne.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

You can't make Nassau believe tha,
prohibition in the United States is a bad
thing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

OF COURSE, this is no new idea. 1t is
" the way Pompci was built and it is still
the way many Europeans live from Italy t.
Flanders The new part of it would be the
square Of houses built around a community
garden instead Of one house built around its
garden In England they have come little
nearer than We have by making a garden
square. around which square Of houses
front, each owner having a key to the locked
gates But this somewhat snobbish plan Is
not so utilitarian as the one Of making ail
the back yards the common garden, upon
which all the houses front. and for our old
town not 50 practical as keeping the garden
thus private to the house with no necessity
of KEYS or iron fences or rocked gates
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Uncle Sam In Panama appears in III,
role of Beneficent Autocrat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Architect and Landscape Gardener
Who Plans to Specialize In Garages
and Cemetery Lots Provides
Text for Civic Beauty
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

A WOMAN know, whose son Is an archi-
"A tect and landscape gardener, said he was
going to specialize in garages and family
burial lots, as they were two necessary things
that had hitherto been the results of an
emergency rather than of careful design.
Certainly no two garages or burial lots
have any relationship to each other or to
the surrounding landscape. l suppose there
Is no reason why cemetery should not be
laid out like a continuous garden with di E
visions that would complete n whole design
and yet each make a separate resting place.
There are many lovely formal gardens that
would make ideal cemeteries Of this sort, but
l know of no cemetery that can be thought
of as a lovely garden.
Looking across at Laurel Hill from the
Park drives 1t seems fairly to bristle vita
marble spikes, that at best might be taken
for denuded and sharpened tree trunks.
The curious form of one Protestant re
action was to make mourncrs choose the
monoliths of an ancient sun worship cult
rather than the cross of Christendom to
mark their burial places. 1t seems curiou..
too that when it lies within the power Of
nearly every family to have burial garden
for their dead, they actually choose to have
a burial lot; just as in our. towns we
have most of us succumbed to living in lots
when we could have pooled our back yards
and lived in gardens.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

The gamblers are beginning to wear
chased expression.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24
SHORT CUTS

Deauvile appears to have wideawak,
press agent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Tn NEW YORK. whore the taxes are far
i higher and the land far scarcer and the
demand for family room space far greater
there have been some very successful COM
munity back ward real -cstat" ventures that
might Civ" Philadelphia builders heart to
go ahead.
\ notable one is called "Thc Turtle Ba%
Development, on Second and Third avenues
between Forty eighth and Forty n!ntn
streets The builders have transformed a
city block, that was sordid with crowded old
houses gone TO tenement lodging shacks. into
both paving and charming apartment
section The gardens Suggest Italy in their
grave dignity. and by the reconstruction the
backs Of the house have b"rOmc the fronts
so that from jutting balcony or second floor
terrace the owner may enjoy the trees and
grass spaces and strawberries and trcllSps at
their leisure while the business life Of the
house. the delivery and receiving end, the
noise and hustle. is-whcrc it rightly be-
lOngs-On the street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

T THINK back yards will have to go.
i They are chiefly what makes city life ugly
and sordid In the few cases where the
original owners built them for gardens and
not for places to keep garbage cans, hang
clothes and accumulate ashes against the
awful day of the ash and garbage collectors
they restore ones selfrcspect.
Back yards that are gardens or that were
meant TO be gardens Rre not confined to the
richer streets or the bigger houses or to the
new or to the old portions of the town.
Some owners have insisted on them and
some renters have made much of them, poor
and rich, white and colored. But they are
not common enough in any locality to make
living in that locality an ameiorating cir
cumstance. There is no widespread ideal Of
back yards in Philadelphia, no common re-
quirement except that they shall be made to
hold ash cans. garbage cans. futtering un-
dercothes and aprons and the weeks trash.
Yet more windows of the houses look out on
the back yards more depends on the sights
and the sounds of them than on the sights
and sounds Of the streets
There Is. to be sure. Il society called the
Society of Little Gardens that has an idcnl
for back yard gardens and which pushes that
ideal delicately but firmly each year. As yet
it has not made dent on the mind of the
builders in whose hands lies the future of the
back yards of today and tomorrow in the
town.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

A Nd there also is in Philadelphia one
"A very successful experiment of Co opera.
tive garden back yards. About sixty years
ago a man named Harrison built great
house on RittCnhOuSc Square. and to protect
his view in the rear he built a garden from
his back garden to Seventeenth street.
whole city block in length and about fifty
feet in breadth. In order to pay the taxes
on this property and make some return on
his invested capital he built also row
of houses backing on this continuous garden
and facing on Locust street and he further
built n continuous row of stables facing the
alley way that divided Walnut street prop
critics from Locust street properties between
Eighteenth and Seventeenth streets. These
houses. therefore. had gardens or one COM
mon garden. but no back yards. Their
kitchen entrances are under the front door
entrances on Locust street. Their ashes and
garbage arc collected from the front sidewalk
unless they arc stored in the stables and
taken from the alley-way. Their laundry
work is either done at the top OF the house
or dried in the basement. These houses ara
always rented for high rental. This has
always been the case, though they must
now be half n century old
Sitting on the back terrace Of the great
Harrison hOuSe-nOw the property of Mr..
Edward Stotcsbury and loaned by Mr.. and
Mrs StOtesbury to the Emergency Aid-you
might be anywhere but in the heart OF Phila-
delphia. ! had dinner ont there one night
in June and there was scarcely sound OF
the city and much of the feeling and the
smell of the country. Gne looked over dark.
cool stirring leaves Of the trees straight up
into the evening sky.
The rows of former stables have become
orderly private garages or, better still, tca
houses or shops; the gardens are as pleasant
for the owner Of them as for those of houses
on the other side. Every dwelcr in that
block has n pleasant vista winter or summer.
better air and NOR" quiet And all who lv"
there are perforC" good ncighborS. for they
rent their dwellings subject to certain per-
frctly reasonable ncglhOrly rules.
Something like this experiment has been
tried down at the Girard estate and has
succeeded. Why should not Philadelphia.
having succeeded with the community garden
idea. work it out on large and general
scale not only in its new building enterprises
hut in making over its old dilapidated
streets:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

His suggestion OF al AZ
alliance Of the Uniteaa itea
States. the Brltlsn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Senator Frederick Hale. of Maine, is n
diffidcnt young, fellow of the college chm
would never pick him for n Senator IIo
looks more like n polo player.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-24

Miss Temple Bailey. who is successful nc
a writer of romance and love stories. q eats e,
her heart out because the tub'ic refuses
nifeance 's
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-18
AUTHORITIES HUNTING
DOWN EVERY CLUE IN
FRIDGE ST. BABY CASE

Every possible clue which presents
itself is being run to earth by the
county officials who are investigating
the case of the infants body which
was fond on an ash heap on Bridge
street, last Friday morning. The
eruesome find was made by some
small children who were playing
about. The case has created a great
deal of excitement. County Attorney
Walter NJ. Sanborn and Sheriff Ed
ward D. HARDWOOD have interviewed
in the progress of the case a great
MANY people who might possibly
have some connection with the case.
Runors of remotest origin, even,
have been traced down and found
groundless. s-..-..
The box, one of the bright purple
variety which a local dry goods store
nuts out, was scarcely soiled and it
was very loosely tied, when found.
BECAUSE it rained Wednesday night
and because, when it was found on
Friday it was dry, the supposition is
that the box with its pitiful contents
was put on the ash heap sometime
Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-18
Governors Message
CONTINUED from Page one)


any person, Or corporation, within
it,"
From this it will be seen that the
Commission has prepared a definite
plan foE submission to the Legisla-
ture. and in a letter addressed to me,
under date of March 18th, 1921, the
Commission writes, I'VE believe that
the Constitution of Maine should be
amended in regard to reservoirs and
water powers"
I have prepared and herewith sub
nit constitutional amendment for
your consideration.
This amendment will give the peo-
pie of Maine the opportunity to de-
eide for themselves whether or not
the State shall have the power to
control and develop water storage
basins. and undeveloped water pow
ers. If the State today were to adopt
n new constitution the people would
doubtless reserve to themselves the
right to control and develop water
powers and storage reservoirs, the
possibilities of which were unknown
In 1920 when our present constitution
was adopted. The people should be
allowed to vote upon this question
after ample opportunity has been