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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-09
NijIED MEN T0BACK
GOOD CITIZEN DAY.
s,,rmittee of Leaders in
Church Work Will Assist
in Campaign Here
NOVEMBER 27 THE DATE

committce Of citizens prominent in
.,sn,cb work in this city will be chosen
fnuihS ,ho ncor future to further the project
~ ob ~" has been initiated by the phila-
H1lnh;o Sunday School Association to
ae,.,"tbc Tho 9th Of November set aside bv
nma ,iayor as Good Citizenship Day. "
Wy " nm effort TO draw added public at
,.ntion TO the part played by the Sunday
.shsl ..shools in developing good citizens the
NnnOc,otion addressed letter to Mayor
,Ioorc asking him to designate that day
MN Orc in which all citizens shall attend
SsswIov Via schools throughout the city to
sn"w their interest in the work which
s' ], hSinr done along these lines.
y Among those who will he asked 10
+ NV" n' on the committee are Robert d.
Tnwue, T w. chairman: II. Il. Whitcraft,
'rE Mcmillan. Bruce Wcnncr. James
a. = clarke. Arthur II. Clevcngcr. Henry
aa.ot,t, John J. Arbogast. Joseph b.
nncbteI. !. 7. Rltzman. Arthur J.. Ire
,,uj Howard r. Sheppard. John G..
ia1""um,phries. i1"u, Randolph w. De Wald,
~ Alexander Henry. Theodore Brown
T WTilliams and d. T. Richmond.
The committee will take such meas
..as os II shall devise to keep the move
uso msnt in the public eye and to make 1t
~ much Of success as possible in
srpry way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-09
w. N. LAKE LEFT $4,000
Daughter to Get Entire Estate by
Terms of VIII

:, The will of Washington y. Lake. who
eied at Reading. leaving an estate OF
M24l4 in trust TO his daughter. Laura
j. Lake. was probatcd today. Be.
quests Of from $500 to $500 will go TO
fratcrnal societies.
:, Other Wills probutcd were those OF
u. Howard Fusscll. SiI, 900 TO his widow
SaIIie; Henry NrOmcll. 3SO South For
P'serond street. 5000: Joseph s. BOr q
genski, Forty seventh street and Balti-
more avenue. $2i. 900: Carmine Riggs
~ Christian street. $40, 900, and
James Tate. $4,000.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-09
AUToIST WHO HIT BOY HELD

Arthur Cousins. 1114 Rodman street.
this city. was held in S4O0 bail for
further hearing by Magistrate Price
this morning. after he had run down
Francis Sturgs. eleven years old. 1896
Pearl street. at $ 80 last night. The
boy was discharged from the West
Philadelphia General ITomcupathie
Hospital this morning The hearing is
set for two weeks from this date. in
order to discovc? the extent Of the
chiid's injuries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-09
HAD LOSING FIGHT
Ranus Was Full of Ginger Until He
Reached Court

Frank Manus. 900 South Eleventh
street. started serving five days in the
County Prison this morning for at
TEMPTING to "clcan out" the polling
place ar 1871 South Sixth street last
night. and also to win n fight with Dis
tirt Detective Gallagher. Of the Scv
tnth and Carpenter streets station, when
he,was placed under arrest.
Flank had found "a place" and un-
der the influence Of what he got there
took dislike To the polling place De-
tectye Gallagher appeared and Frank
took bigger dislike to him. He hit
the detective and ran. Ovcrtakcn Il
half block away he resumed the fight
but was finally subdued
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-09
HELD AS DRUNKEN DRIVER
North Park Avenue Mans Machine

Charged with having driven an auto.
Mobile while drunk, and with driving
without II license. Charles W. Finley,
lI2 North Park avenue. was held un-
Ger $500 bail for further hearing by
Magistrate Oswald today.
At 30 this morning. according TO
PatrdImHn Peacock. Finlcy'S car
smashed into the wagon OF Andrew
BazmOrc. Of 262o Arizona street. at
Seventeenth and Columbia avenue. de-
molishng it. The patrolman first had
Shley pronounced drunk by phySi-
elan. and thNn locked him up.
The mirror., 1921-02-17
THE PROGRESS OF MUSIC

One cannot easily define the relations
between political and social changes, and
the character of music; yet whoever OBJ
serves them well will see that they always
bear most expressive relations to each
other. In Gothic times arose the Fugue,
musical composition which has been thus
described: "It goes circling upward like
many-tongued fame, always aspiring,
never finished, ascending higher, telling
of more and more that it would be.
There are innumerable airs winding
and blending into one another, and lead
ing you into the depths of mysterious
whole" How strikingly is this in keep
ing with the architecture of those times,
and how expressive are both of the dim,
The mirror., 1921-02-17
mystical sentiment of the

superstitious, mystical sentiment of the
age.
Before the Reformation, music as well as
literature, was mostly. shut up in the
church, and masses and anthems, like
monkish books, were elaborately learned
and artificial. But before the beginning
of the Seventeenth Century, popular ais
which people sang at their work and by
the wayside, the melodies of a nations
heart, began to be arranged and har-
monized. Music glided out of church and
monastery into the free air of social life
and became the opera. Literature did the
same and took form in drama and novel.
Formerly the Air reigned absolute, and
the accompaniment were triAing and al
together subordinate appendages; but in
modern times, the orchestra has constant
ly increased in importance. Now, every
instrument is an individual character,
every one has its say, each attracts at
tention in turn, and according as it is more
VI 1893 PAoHiheht, 'hc WhoiS SAPiSSSioh VI
the piece is changed. 1t could not be
otherwise with music in this age, when
each judges for himself
That which orchestral music. is aiming
at and approaching nearer and nearer to,
is to combine variety into unity; to have
each class of instrument distinct, yet so
to mingle and work together, by harmony
or contrast that one spirit shall pervade
the whole.-Ex.
The mirror., 1921-02-17
THE DESERT

nc QcSert! DOMAIN OF aust, cactus
and centipedes; wilderness, solitude,
vast stony, sandy stretch void of vege-
tation and moisture; an uninhabited tract
of land; place where people attempt to
run away from the world; a resort for
fools and wise men, savages and sages.
The desert is place of bare rocks, sand
and crevices. Instead of snow there is
scorching sand; in lieu of birds there are
serpents; you hear the hiss of snake and
hot wind. During the day the traveller
sees shapes of ships, spires, walls and
towers in the mountain crags, and listens
in vain for word from stone lips petrifed
in silence. AT sunset he Journeys through
the clouds in thought and sails rivers of
gold. What is this world but desert,
and humanity cloud Of dust that passes
away! Time has written history on its
rocky leaves its drifting sands are the
hour-glass for those who have gone from
time to eternity. What wonderful pic
lures one sees in the desert where the
brushes of the air plant from the palette of
the golden sun and silver moon. The
desert is land of passion and repose, of
dreams and endless calm.
How many men, sick in body and soul,
are glad to be self-sentenced exiles to the
desert, anxious to get away from life's
dreary turmoil of fears and frowns mean
ness and malice, folly and falseness.
To some the desert is an empire of
emptiness only inhabited by the spirits of
Famine and Fire. There is no river, brook
nor fountain-tis an endless horizon of
burning sky and barren earth.
To the desert come thugs, thieves and
brutes. Others come thirsting for gold and
adventure only to die of thirst. No mat
ter how much you gush about scenery, you
long for gush of water. The saint loves
the signing night winds and burning,
bright stars. Like Elijah at Horeb, God
is in the still small voice, saying to His
child, "Man is distant but God is near"
Most of the earth's surfaces is sea and
sand. The traveller learns how many de-
serted places this world has and each has
a charm and beauty all its own. One
sometimes asks the question why was the
desert put here, or anywhere, and what's
its use? don't know except to get out of.
If Bacon were living he could give the
final cause-reason. Perhaps the desert is
just sun-burn tan or fever blister on the
body of Mother Earth.
Some flee to the desert with the words
The mirror., 1921-02-17

Hog Island shipyard at Philadelphia,
which cost the government $70,000,000,
was offered for sale and brought $4,000,-
900 as the highest bid. The yard was
closed February 1, 1921, and will be held
until better business conditions bring bids
more in keeping with its value.
In an experiment to ascertain something
of the force that makes sap flow in plants
vine was cut off and bladder was tied
securely over the stump. Two hours later
the bladder was found greatly distended
and within another hour it burst with
loud report due to the pressure exerted
by the sap.
Although its highest point, $40 feet
above sea level, is higher than the high
est ground in Florida, Louisiana or the
District of Columbia, the average eleva-
ton of Delaware, so feet above sea level,
is less than that of any other state in the
Union, according to the U. S. geological
survey.
Most people have a decided shrinking
from snakes, which is not to be wondered
at in tropical countries, where their bite is
venomous and often fatal. But the Cana
dian grass snake ought not to be con-
founded with the rattlers, cobras or
pythons. 1t is as harmless to humanity as
a frog and a good deal more useful. No
greater enemy to bugs is in existence. And
slugs are among the most hurtful of gar
den and field pests. They keep down the
plumbers also of such other pests as mice,
shrews and other small rodents. But as
slug destroyers they deserve to be cher
ished rather than massacred.
The steel encased feet of Olaf Bjorjnk-
son, lumberjack and ice harvester of
Racine, Wis.,, clanked themselves into
prominence, recently, on State street, Chi
cago, above the rattle of the elevated and
the rumble of surface cars. Curious pedes-
trians followed Olaf until traffic police
man stopped the procession. Olaf ex-
planned that he was beating salient into
one front of the high cost of living line.
Here's his system,- as told to the policeman:
"Aye buy army shoes. Then Aye go to
foundry and have mold taken. Then Aye
go to blacksmith and have steel forms
made. For 81 Aye bane make my feet in
dependent of shoe dealers for life"
One of the most prolific causes of acute
disease of the middle ear, with consequent
deafness, is the incorrect use of the hand
kerchief, according to medical authority.
The average adult constricts the ,nostrils
when he blows his nose, thus producing
extraordinary compression of the air in
the naso-pharynx. When he has a cold
there is infection and swelling around the
eustachian tubes, and the effort to expel
the compressed air through the CONSTRUCTED
nostrils is likely to blow some of the in
fected mucus into these tubes, thus start
ing the trouble. When a person has a
cold he should sleep on his side and not
on his back, for thus he will establish good
drainage from the eustachian tubes.
The mirror., 1921-02-17
RELATA REFERO

INTERESTING READING AND INFORMATION
GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES
By Scissors
The United States is the worlds largest
coal exporter.
The roots of violet plants are used for
fuel in China.
In Japan the police have the power to
grant divorces.
Dueling has been legalized by the legis-
lature of Uruguay.
There were three deaths to two births
in France last year.
Emperor Wilhelm continues to buy only
German goods when possible.
Freight train operation is more costly
than that of passenger trains.
The oldest occupied dwelling in the
United States is at Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Omoto-kyo, a new Japanese mystic re-
ligion, proclaims the approaching end of
the world.
English churches are allowing films of
religious nature to be shown to their
congregations.
Sea sleds capable of carrying airplanes
out in midocean are being developed by a
Boston concern.
Nome, Alaska, center of the gold rush
of 1900, when it had population of 49,
900, now has only 200 inhabitants.
For visiting the battlefelds of France,
luxurious automobile trailer hotels have
been provided in which six persons can
live conveniently.
The name "Old Faithful" has been
given to an oil we'll in Kansas because the
we'll today is producing just as much as
the day it was brought in, nearly two
years ago.
Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, who
won the 1920 Nobel Prize for literature,
was formerly conductor on the old Hal
sted street horse car line in Chicago in the
early eighties.
Successful experiments upon 50 persons
suffering from leprosy led officials of the
United States Public Health Service to be-
live that they have at last found cure
for that disease.
Large numbers of fossil sea-shells re-
Gently found on the coasts of the Andes
Mountains indicate that the strata form
ing the mountains were once submerged
below the level OF the sea.
A modern Noah's Ark docked in New
York Harbor recently when freighter
arrived with 1000 specimens of animals,
birds and reptiles captured in Central
and Northern Australia for the Bronx Zoo.
Omaha, Nebraska, has had its first ar
rest on a charge of "reckless aviation"
A flyer who was charged with disturbing
the peace by flying very low through the
business district was let off with warn
ing that the next time he would be fined.
After fifteen years of waiting the great
memorial to General U. S. Grant in the
botanical gardens at Washington is to be
dedicated next spring. The memorial,
The mirror., 1921-02-17

Hog Island shipyard at Philadelphia,
which cost the government $70,000,000,
was offered for sale and brought $4,000
900 as the highest bid. The yard was
closed February /, 1921, and will be held
until better business conditions bring bids
more in keeping with its value.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21
SIZE OF FIRE DEPARTMENTS.

The experience which Worcester.
Ga-. had with the fire element on
"wednesday was OF that nature which
c'ery community hopes that it shall be
spared from IA multiplicity Of calls to
tl- Gre department at the same time
TonH aai TIE smaller cities-eyen
,on'c Is i'- larger cities too-are
ansua ally unable to maintain a FIRE
'r.,- t@srs force sufficient to cope
...A possible, although generally i'm
iro'sile cautHgcneies. In most mu
nic.pal corporations a fire Of consider
abb nTap tuu- would neccssitate the
cnPiumcH5 of tine entire fire depart
meg - taa community, 80 that were
snaiaer fr 81 equal proportions to
lr while The FIRE department
Ul- calagoi ia the first oonfarration
t.ere would be not enough men avail
s5it 81 ebpe with the second outbreak
and .til maintain q winning battle
agaa- the first Then. too. if other
are- develop from the tw8 great cen
i-rs q flames tle dilemma 8. increased
Tremendously o. a measure tins sized
up tar situation in Worcester Wedues-
log Worcester Is aus a. the larger
-uaA- eItiss Il tll esuBtry and pros
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21
Forest Taxation.

! State Forester w Gil Hastings in his
biennial report makes some meritorious
suggestions regarding the taxation Of
forest lands and timber in Vermont.
/ First he shows that the present system
OF taxing forest land and the growing
timber on il al It. actual value makes
timber growing Improbable because the
taxes at four per cent compound inter-
est amount To more than the value Of
the timber He states that any timber
/ in Vermont 100 years old or over has
cost more in taxes than the strmpage
is worth In addition to this is the pur
chase price as an increased loss in the
business He states that a crop of tim
Der should not be taxed 80 or more
times any more than any other crop,
To remedy the situation he recon-
mends the enactment of law setting
aside lands well stocked with forest
trees as forest land He would have all
timber on such lands classified as i'm
mature, mature and over mature stands.
Any timber once elassed as immature
must be claased as mature for a period
of not less than four years and not
more than II years before It can be
classified AZ over mature, this being the
period allowed the owner to harvest his
timber before ii can be assessed for
purposes Of taxation,
Forest lands are to be taxed annually
on the valuation Of the land alone based
on its power to grow timber and no
taxes are to be assessed upon the i'm
mature or mature stands Of timber ON
them. 0ver.mature stands are to be
taxed annually as personal property on
their full stumpage value. Mr. Hast
ings' suggestion is that no forest land
shall be set in the list at more than $40 !
or less than s. per acre and the other
class of land capable of producing for
est growth shall be given lower valu
alton than forest land.
The system is designed TO make il /
profitable to grow timber on the waste /
or partially waste lands of the state /
and change them from unproductive TO .
productive areas. If the owner should I
attempt to hoard a stand of over ma
ture timber the taxation of the full
stumpage value of such timber would
make it Improbable The purpose
seems eommendable and practical. The
valuation of the land, however. would 4
seem too high. There is little forest
and that could pay annual taxes on a
valuation Of $40 an acre and consider n
able land that is not worth IS an acre
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT
The Fine old PLAYS still Draw.

The pastor OF one Of the st. Johns
bury churches writes to his local news.
paper protesting against the character
of some of the theatrical advertising
seen on billboards and in other places,
Some who have been observant Of the
style of theatrical advertising now in
vogue will agree with the reverend
gentleman in his criticism when he
says: Certainly, picture featuring
the worlds most beautiful women in
daring dances, pistol duel on dark
river, the depths of dives and the
heights of high life,' together with the
portrayal Of scenes of intrigue and muir
der is not conducive to the awakening
of higher sense of morality among
the young men and women When such
PLAYS as "rhe Old Homestead" and
Way Down East" can still play to full
houses after all these years and NOV
ing picture whose story is based on
VIII Cartoons simple and touching
poem. Over the Hills to the Poor
house., can continue TO entertain
houses in New York City after
an unprecedented run of six months, it
goes to show that the public is as ready
as ever to patronize the sweet, sane and
theatrical production, and
he wonder is that the play and scenario
writers do not realize it more thor
oughly. The scenes and plots as set
forth by much of the advertising Of
to-day must tend to keep many away
from the productions themselves.
Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

When we read a statement by the
emergency labor commissioner of To-
ledo that "at least ten thousand peo-
pie in Toledo are mighty close to the
starving line" we begin to realize that
we Americans may have a duty at
home as urgent as any we have per
formed for suffering people in Europe,
China or elsewhere. The statement of
the emergency commissioner is height
cncd By the newspaper dispatch that
on the first free meal distribution,
there were more than twelve hundred
applicants in Toledo And the condi-
tion+ OF unemployment in Toledo are
probably no worse than they are in
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other
communities throughout the United
States.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

The White River Junction Landmark
which has long been in the Jamason
family goes under the management of
Leroy V. Chew of Salem, n. Y, who
is already in charge of the business.
Since the death of Charles r. Jamason,
the paper has been conducted by his
three sons, Horace, Karl and Harry
Jamason, who now relinquish their
work. The new publisher has the good
wishes Of the newspaper fraternity of
Vermont and starts off with fairly
good prospects as White River June
ton ought to be fertile field for a
weekly newspaper, i being in itself
lively village and there being large
field Of operation in the adjacent Ter
ritory Of Vermont and New Hamp
shire. The Landmark is paper of con.
siderable possibilities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21
of Frills Was Misleading to
Coachman

A story told by the late Bishop Greer
illustrates the plain nature Of the man,
On nm occasion when he was to confirm
class carriage was sent for him in
charge of an English coachman who had
been imported by a wealthy American
Bishop Greer walked unaccompanied
from his front door to the carriage and
entered it, but the driver did not move
his horse. After waiting for a moment
the bishop asked the man why he did
not drive on.
Tin waiting for the lord bishop of
New York, sir" the proper person re-
piled.
"Tell. said the bishop I'm it. Drive
on. Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

porous in its full share. Yet Worces-
ter had not maintained sufficient fire
department to cope with the situation
alone and the city authorities felt
called upon to seek aid from other
communities and even from Boston,
which is located as far away as is Bur
lington from Barre. Such an emergency
comes very infrequently, so that it is
unreasonable for any community to
maintain an excessively large fire de-
partment to lie in comparative idle
ness while waiting for that which may
never happen. Instead of that, every
community relies to a certain extent
upon the neighborliness of its sister
communities; and generally those 9TH
er communities rise to the occasion al
though it is not to be expected that
any single corporation should main
tain a fire department for the protec-
ton of its ncighboring communities as
well as the protection of its own com
munity. Each community, large or
small, ought to take reasonable meas
ures to prepare itself to meet with nor
NAL calls inside its own jurisdiction
Then when the situation gets beyond
control, it might be expected that
neighbors would lend their aid.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

The Marion, O., Star viii probably
sc.ntillate as much as ever, despite the
fact that its directing hand has prac-
tically severed connection with the ac-
tive business in order to go into the
White House. The nominal surrender
OF the leadership of the paper does not
mean a great deal inasmueh as Hard
ing has not been ION the job" very
regularly of late years. To those who
are in control of the daily routine it
will be quite task to maintain the
presidents paper under the gaze and
criticism of many people without max
ing some slips" or errors in judg
ment
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

The cold weather did one good turn,
il formed an ice bridge across the Con-
necticut river so that traffic between
BrattIeboro and Hinsdale, n. H., can
once more be resumed, there having
been no bridge since the temporary
structure was carried out by high wa
ter some weeks ago. 1t may be nee.
cssary, however, to organize a life-sav.
ing squad to patrol the highway"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

Governor Hartness' first appoint
ments Of municipal judges rather be
lies the prediction that there would
not be much change in the list of APP
pointees at the outset of the present
administration Perhaps. however, the
prediction was intended to apply TO ad-
positions rather than to
judgeships.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21

American Legion men in Vermont
are very properly receiving comnien-
dation for their refusal to acquiesce
in the legislative plan to exempt vet
Grams OF the World war from payment
of poll tax 1t is refreshing change
from the everyday policy of people in
general who grab everything in sight
and then seek for more.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21
A Spatter Shield.

Mrs Excl hate to have my hus-
band prop up newspaper at the break.
fast table, don't you?
Mrs Wye-Not while he's eating his
grapefruit; it keeps lot of stains off
the tablecloth.--Bo Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-21
His Wad Caught Fire.

Hobo-Yes lady, dere was time
when had money to burn, an worse n
dat ! did burn il.
Old lady-And what did you burn it
with, my poor MANI
Hobo-With an old fame o. mine
Boston Transcript