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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
A FAIR WITH A MEANING

WHlLE the magnitude Of the World
" Fair program in this city lays heavy
responsibilities upon its publicity cam
paigners, they are privileged to begin their
task with at least one signal advantage.
The Sesqui Centennial signalzcs no OBJ
scure occurrence, no psrochial event. no
achievement circumscribed by limited in.
terests of special concern only TO the few.
The anniversary has neither to be ex-
planned nor justified It tells its own story
the birth and progress of a nation.
Propagandists. mores the pity, have
wrought wonders with inspiration Of the
most dubious nature. If the commemoration
OF the l60th year Of American independence
cannot be populari2ed and brought TO the
consciousness Of the citizens of the Re-
public, then they are not to be moved by
the majesty Of history.
The only other celebration comparable in
Significance with the project now launched
10 that memorable one held in Fairmount
Park in 1879.
The Publicity Committee. of which Colonel
John Gribbel has just been appointed chair
man, need never be apprehensive Of strain
ing the proprieties Of enthusiasm. The topic
which they are commissioned to exploit
magnifcently warrants n clarion appeal for
national interest and support
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

all the vessels now operated by the Govern
ment can be turned over to private owners.
Federal control of railways or steamships is
in disfavor. The board has no intention OF
combating the emphatic and widespread sen.
timent upon this point.
BY the present arrangement steamship
companies are brought TO realize that the
Government is heartily in sympathy with
the principle of private ownership and will
place no unwarrnntcd distractions In the
way Of its progress.
The appointment of such practical ship
ping men as ]. Barston Smull and William
J. Love. Of New York, and A. J. Frey, OF
Los Angeles. as vice presidents Of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, is vigorous
display of fortnight business methods.
Similarly, the procedure adopted regard
ing the feet of 2S5 wooden cargo carriers
Is void Of preteuse or doubt. The Govern.
mcnt wishes to dispose Of this feet ms rapidly
rs possible. Under present conditions these
vessels are failures. Nothing is to be
gained by Disgusting this fact. Sales not
tears. are in order now.
Mr.. 1.nsker is too busy to indulge In
lamentations. With an enormous task upon
his hands, he envisages the goal to be at
tnincd. That It is still long distance away
is no reason for surposing that it will not
eventually be reached.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

HNHE Mayors instructions to Director
L Cortelyou 10y down u clear and easily
understood policy regarding Sunday sport.
There Is TO be no interference with games
INDUCED in for recreation. provided they are
played whore they disturb no one. This
means that there is to be- no ball playing
on vacant lots near churches where services
are being held or in the built.up residential
sections of the city. but that in the parks
and on vacant land in the outskirts of the
city the games can BE- played without in
terruption by the police.
But no baseball or other game mny be-
played where admission is charged in nny
form or under any guisc. This means that
there is TO be no money making sport on
Sunday.
These rules conform to the desire of the
great majority of the people in the city.
And they are within the law. They can
be enforced readily IL tho police care to do
1t. The Mayor points out the way when
he says that games played for money must
be broken up and the players dispersed.
The police have authority to do this with
out warrants and without making arrests.
Just as they have authority to keep crowds
moving in the street. Superintendent Mills
knows this very well. And he knows also
that the people expect the commcrCialza-
tion OF Sunday sport to be stopped at once.
The Mayor instructions have been issued
IN time to give warning TO every one II
they are obeycd inteligrntly no young men
playing for the fun they get out of it will
be disturbed on Sundays and no men seeking
to make money will find it worth while.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
DANGEROUS TRUTH

0NLY brave men set forth to be tellers Of
" unwelcome truths and none over ESCAPES
without encounterng plenty Of trouble.
Here for example. is tn" Rev Or Charles
Townsend. rector Of the Episcopal Church
Of the Good Shepherd, at Rosemont, who,
irving as every earnest man tries now and
then. 10 make subtle definitions plain. OBJ
served in a Sunday address that the enforce
mpnt Of prohibition is not necessarily purely
Christian work. Promptly the 'wPts'
seized upon that statement and now they
are quoting Dr. Townsend and describing
him as n clergyman who believes that the
'dry'' laws are un Christian What is
more. they probably believe that that is what
the rector meant.
What Dr. Townsend did mean and what
he said clearly enough 10 be understood by
nny dsinterestcd listener was that in
thoroughly Christian world prohibition and
prchibitionists wouldn't be necessary and
that the first aim Of religion should be to
eliminate all impulses of intcmperance In
the hearts and consciences and minds Of men
rather than to depend on the forcble sup
preston Of metl superficial symptoms Of
folly and wrong difference in methods
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
BEST SELLERS

TT is interesting, but not in the least
L astonishing, to hear from one Of the
best informed men in the American book
trade that the character of best sellers"
has changed for tho better everywhere in the
East and especially in Philadelphia.
Chicago book merchants were reported not
long ago to have said that the Bible and
Mother Goose were the best sellers in
their community. 1t is possible to assume
that the Bible has in Chicago something Of
the appeal of a freshly discovered literary
novelty. The vogue of Mother Goose
may indicate that the new Mid Western
war millionaires have gone in for culture
and the literary life. But it Is significant
TO observe thnt even in Chicago the swift
and ephemeral fiction that swept oil other
writing before it in the years prior to the
World War and held first place in popular
interest no longer leads the field.
In Philadelphia book stores and Libraries
the books most in demand represent work
OF different and higher trend. Thus a
recent biography Of Queen Victoria. dstin-
guishcd for frankness aud fine literary style.
Is among the best sellers in the Philadelphia
book market, and the demand for books OF
philosophy inspired by the war-notably the
vivid speculations of Mr.. Wells-is steady
and growing.
Wise publishers ought to be able to rpnd
clear meaning in the newer demands Of
book buyers They are dealing largely with
new generation Of readers, many Of whom
were stimulated to curiosity and criticism
by tremendous personal experiences during
the period of the war People are thinking
more earnestly than they used to think
There are many millions who have q new
interest in Europe. The public schools arc
teaching vast multitudPs Of Youngsters to
be critical and discerning. The country
isn't so easily entertained as il used to be-
And it isn't SO easily fooled
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
GOOD SENSE ABOUT SHIPS

THE few weeks that have elapsed since
4 A. ID. Lasker assumed control Of the
shipping Board have been sufficient for the
production of novelty In this organization.
For the first time since its activities began
10 revolutionize the entire status of the
American merchant marine the board is DOS .
sessed of policy explicit and calculated to
endure until certain definite and ineligible
purposes are carried out
Chairman Lasker is obviously not sen
sationalist, and at the outset he has dis
abused the public Of the ridiculous notion
that the administration Of maritime interests
by the Government could be instantancously
abolished.
The board will continue, through the re.
nval of the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
10 operate its vast squadrons and 10 do
velop their worth in the most advantageous
commercial routes 80 long as it is necessary
10 preserve the new merchant marine pres
'tige ofthe United States.
The Sprogram looks toward the day when
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

here suggested is an old one. DR.. Town
sends view and the views Of the people
whose methods he deems Intellectual are
familiar enough to every one who thinks at
nll Time will tell which theory is most
successful in practice.
Il am not attacking prohibition, said
DR.. Townsend AS he saw the matter, a
religious method that would let light into a
mans soul--that, in a word, would make
every man his own enforcement officer
was to be preferred in the end to that which
would lead zcalot out to break saloon
windows. And for that he has been called
a champion of the wet" principle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
Hot Weather stun

Lay of the sodas ="
Hot Weather stun cry the kids in the
Bronx. New York
and the strike is on. Their mothers are
backing them. They threaten to start home
breweries II soda water dealers don't bring
down prices. This seems an effective way
70 register a kick. 49,. Boston has joined
the protest. The kids have inauguratcd the
pnrnde and the boycott. There arc those
who consider ice cream n luxury. 1t isn't.
It's necessity. At least. that's the posi-
Commission on the Necessarics OF Life,
which has called on dealers to cut the prices
of ice cream and soda water. Every
where people continue to get hot because Of
the price of keeping cool ... The pastor of
an East st. Louis church appears TO have
found a remedy While he preached big
fan played over a dozen hundred pound
blocks OF Ice and waftearsooiins breczes over
his congregation. "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
What Do You Knot0?


QUIZ
I Who created the science OF geometry!
. or whom was II said that he was ~, INV
all question the best chronicler o' -"
age or nation? -, orig.
3 In what country did the wor" ioo' ''''
nate?
l. What IL n gihus hat?
g. What Is a ghbous moon ,.de
g. How should the word be proimi9,u.h ~ Iiv.'
Z who was Sappho and when did she NV
g. What is nuagga? ,ro word
O. What is the meaning OF '"e
oboauy7 ,t.,, Ia OF.
TO- What dependency OF Great Britalh, '"
ficially STYLED Commemorative
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!. An nmphora is a Greek or Hoi'''" wv
handled vessel. ,tb ths
2 The word should be pronounced WV"
accent on the frst syllable, ,.oroisr Of
3. Ivanoe Bonomi Is the present F'o'''''
Italy. .ho Isle Of
l. The Solent IL n strait between ,,JnWr,nshre
England
8. Noiis are short wool combinEs pbilIp
6 The United States acquired Inn lmTb SnaIn
pine Islands by the treaty WI" ''
concluded on April II, lS9N, a man
T. Ajax in classical mythology !yoNTasnt T"s and
OF giant stature, self-con,g''tbe tbe slain
Hector was awarded to I've, tNsaFvSe vexa
stead of Ajax ne went MAD iro'" "
ton and stabbed himself. ,,,, ,neans
8. The musical term "prestiSsimo ~"
very Quickly. -, from tho
town OF Sellers in GERMANY "A witA
10. A hoopoe Is a large European nr.ur.rilc
veriegated plumage and a large efe'''
crest a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Former jacgers and sharpshooters OF ,'
German Army, who held memorial csn' ',
bration in Berlin for their fallen comsauvt,, !.
have been called upon by the authoriuss 80 "
nav an amusement tax This may throw
a light on history. Perhaps II was an
amusement tax they levied on Belgium .
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

The Rev. John Roach Strnton says !,
Roosevelt were alive he would have ns's' W
attended the "disgraccful affair the CM ,l,
pcntier Dempsey fight Kermit Roose,tss II,
and wife, who attended the 7ght, say oS SI
reverend gentleman is not well intor'nrm r am.
The rctort courteous, but none the less u"
phatic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

That French movie houses are cold %
the Carpenter Dempsey prize fight Is sim2y
added proof that nothing succeeds like suc'
cess, and nothing's 80 fat as failure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

The trouble with the Anglo. .Japanee
treaty is that China at any moment might
find her open door ajar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

TamaQua, Pa, angler fishing in toiv
Creek Weasel swimming by seizes oa.
Hooked. Pop goes the weasel Tamaaa,
congratulated for publication OF really queu
fish stony
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

A Detroit man has been arrested for
stealing fur overcoat. He ought to get
away with a plea Of insanity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

"Adaptability is first cousin to Fore.
sight" says a New York financial writer
To which 1t may be added that Remorse IS
own sister to Hindsight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Senator Edge advises radical revision
Of the income tax. Right-o. There might
be wisdom In revising it out Of existence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Light heavyweights, said pericarp'
Intrigue my interest, and yet
To other songs I'll tune my harp. :,
Oh, how ! love the blonde brunette
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Last year many apples rotted on the
ground. The cider press this year may pre-.
vent any such contingency.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

The one and only piece resort pubiciu
elocutionists appear to know is the one.
piece bathing suit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Grandma, the Demon chaperon Of
ToonerviIle, Has Her Work Cut
Out for Her In This Day
and Generation
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

Until the present impasse for chap
~ erons blows over, wise parents who can
wrench their young away from the usual
summer haunts of hotel and cottage colo
MES, and can nip them up before they quite
understand the game to remote ranches In
this country or strange cities on the Conti-
nent where they do not know the language
and have no acquaintances. let alone
friends. will doubtless be the envy of the
less forehanded ones, for undoubtedly this
will be the most difficult summer for the
chapcron that ever has passed into history.
Aiiserably forced to exist by their own
mistaken sense Of duty or of Importance,
they are drug on the market. cause Of
indignant protest, and worse than a fungous
growth in the eyes Of their refractory and
disapproving charges.
A quotation from the Psalmist fits the
attitude Of this generation toward the gen.
Grafton of mature adults. as though IL was
said by an infant Of sixteen but yesterday: 81:
Your why's are not my ways saith
the girl. Neither nre my ways your ways.
For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts
TT JUST happens that for bright. cheer
i full talk on hot day two perturbed
fathers have poured out their woes and ex.
perienccs in the last commencement orgies
of June. They could not contemplate the
arduous times ahead of them without shud-
ders. They were made to feel like dodder-
ing taggers, and in the end. around A. NJ.
In n bedraggled ballroom. they had lost their
charges completely. Any girl who is mod
erately fit can send her chaperon staggering
to the ropes between 3 and : 4. NJ without
any trouble. unless that chapcron belongs TO
her own vintage. in which case the youthful
matron is only too liable TO outdo her, out
dance her and outmotor her to n still more
distant club or restaurant or country inn
for breakfast
j tipped the two djsccnsolhtc fathers that
bit about chnperons Of their daughters own
age as being on the whole simpler all around.
All talk about 'You don't understand" or
That may have been the right thing when
you were young. but indeed 1t is not done
now would be omitted. All Bolshevist re-
pronches about the tyranny of agc would be
an anaChronism. If the chappron got tired
before the girl. she could call her home as
Mary called the cattle home. with face as
open and unapologctc as nm alarm clock.
and manner ns assured. IF the chapcron
stopped longer than the girl had partners.
the girl would be jolly glad TO bolt for bed
without hunting her up. which would be a
wholesome reaction for both parties. A
rcbukc from the young and innocent about
too late hours Is rcbukc that one feels
from its very rarity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

The news from London that the ther.
mometer registers 1913 in the shade at Basri,
Mesopotama, makes US feel cool by com.
pariSOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Zap appears to be an island entirey
surrounded by the japanese flag.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

"Yes" is to the fore in the plans d
disarmament. But" will come later
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Golf" said the Beginner. lis a gams
in which you pay n small boy to walk
around with You and give you the laugh"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Our new immigration Law appean b
strain at gnats while it swallows camels,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

Halls gas bill goes to prove that cor.
porations have no souls.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
SHORT CUTS

The Dove of Peace begins to preep
itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

DARENTS have put off the evil hour of
L chapcronagc by dclegating the task to
others. What they do not leave to the
schools all winter they throw over on the
summer camps all summer--until the awful
summer comes when the girls nre too old
for school, too old for summer camps and
no longer wish to go By thrces and fours
with arms entwincd about one another, but
consciously or unconsciously are on the
still hunt that has engaged their mothers
and their grandmothers before them.
Then are spectacles and teeth straight
eners laid aside, eyebrows are dealt with,
the whites and reds experimental with
until a sort Of habit of facial adornment is
formed: then is the hair made the crown Of
glory the Bible says it was meant to be.
and in the matter of dress. things that are
meant for sprightly matron of thirty are
annexed, to lend an air of assurance to
seventeen.
Then. too. n variety of manncrs-vamp.
CarmencsQuc. FollCs, naughty mankin.
sweet boyishness-Hre tried on and merged
into II composite. And then. most of all. is
independence worshiped as god and de-
Tended by slammed doors, stamped feet and
passionate rcproachcs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

TT IL never conversation so far as 7 can
J. find out That Is deadly and apt to turn
you forever against an otherwise perfectly
good man.
That Is where bridge comes in as ones
salvation II worst comes to worst
woman told me she had at least made
a dent in her young daughters mind hv the
Following quick turntO conversation
me particular youth who was 'coming"
that particular evening was an "cnsign
somebody or other who was on shore for
the last two days Of his leave. ITo had given
the girl quite rush since dinner thnt
same week, at which they had met for
the first time. The girl. with the casun
ness that was meant to bc salutary to her
mother. happened TO mention that she would
probably be out rnther lntcsh as he was
coming ana they were going somewhere or
other.
''Iou might stay at home and have n
cozy talk, the mother had said with a
tactfn nir OF its being nothing to her.
Talk shouted her daughter. eyring her
mother suSpiciously and with n 'therc- YOU
go-ngnin-l -snppos" tightening of the neck
find to talk about"
'Oh. we'll. hts experiences. her mother
remarked, stu trying TO seem vague and
quite out of it.
Il think it would be a very stupid way
to spend your last evening on shore. II
would be great deal more fun 70 go around
n bit and soc show and maybe dance for
while" the girl announced firmly
AT every port he touches he can buy a
girl to do that with him." her mother said
carclPssly. but nowhere until he gets back
is he likely to find anything so unique as n
girl sitting by cozy open fire in Il room
like this. n girl who makes him feel at home
and vet sort Of special guest for whom a
whole intimnte evening Is set apart. But
then that takes ceverness and n certain sort
of suhtlcty and"
"Oh what's subtlcty?' her daughter in
terrupted shortly. But the idea evidently
caught her fancy for her mother observed
that she stayed AT home that evening and
wore a most becoming house frock and made
very pretty picture of herself by the open
FIRE
A Nd truly subtlety is not an art much
n prncticcd by the present generation of
Young things. II savors Of deception ot
studied effects of vamping gone mellow. of
that awful thing called ''mush, "
1t IL the age of the syncopatcd beat in
life as well as in music. Smoothness,
suavity, graciousness are not accented IL is
the unexpected, the restless, the begun and
not ended that characterizes the stune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13

rTHE present girl has 30 per cent more
l. Independence than her mother had at her
age-or hns yet. for the matter Of thnt-but
she defends the other 30 per cent which she
feels that She ought to have with sort OF
maternal fury of no compromise.
There agHin my feeling is. give her her
head. The old crupper that used TO loom
so mcnacingIy over every young independent
career-what the Nictorians called I'm
morality is not likely to ovcrtakc the
modern girls without their knowing It and
choosing it, They may come cruppers. but
they will be more SHINING than sinned
against il they do.
What they wish to do with their dearly
fought for independence seems 70 be harm.
less enough, viewed from the standpoint Of
most Of the Mosaic law. They wish to 20
'somcwhere else all the time" especially
in the small hours Of the morning Thrv
wish to see movie rather than read tho
book, dance nftrrward rather than have
conversation, "Rt afterward rather than
come home. Home and conversation after
/. NJ. until as near 3 4. NJ. as tho vouth
who is due at his Office by o can manage
TO hold out. Home and conversation are
signs Of failurc to improve the electric
shining hours.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-13
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NO SUNDAY SPORTS FOR MONEY

Philsdelphis, Wednesday. July u, 1921
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1921-12-21
al Real Sniff Cnal

If you have been in the habit Of
burning common soft coal, you will be
surprised and delighted with Dixie
Gem-the long-burning heavy-bodied
coal. Get one load, and you viii use
nothing else. Sold exclusively in vi
roqua by the
COLMAN LUMBER co.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1921-12-21
Take Tanlac and eat three square
meals day. Sold by c. F. Dahl.
MONEY TO LOAN

MUNEf 10 LOAN
On real estate. rates reasonable
Al. Ausiasss confidential. Lewis Real
ty Company. State Bant Bag. La
Crosse. Wis