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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
A BLOW TO LIBERIA

7 IBERIA is small republic on the West
IL Coast of Africa. 1t boasts n population
of about two million people. most of whom
are savages who live wildly and joyously
in the far interior. handful of Negro
officials and n small element of industrious
natives live in the coast districts and are
the elite of the country. What they would
want with 500 barrels of alcohol or where
they got the money to make such purchase,
no one outside Liberia may know or guess.
Were they going to open summer resort?
Were they intending to rival Scotland in
the export business? Did these Iibcrians
really contract in the United States for the
800 barrels of alcohol which caused the port
authorities here to dCtain the schooner
Lizzie V. Hall; and, if they didn't, what
is the meaning of the queer procedure?
Trusting folk who have been paying to
the hilt for bootleg whisky will be more
comfortable If they do not inquire too deeply
into the mystery suggested by the Lizzie
V. Hall. For all We know, the Lizzie may
be a perfectly honest ship with a legitimate
plan to carry 800 barrels of alcohol to the
thirsty lbcrians. But Mr.. Kurtz. Sur
vpyOr Of the Port implies broadly that
alcohol consigned from this general area to
places like Liberia never gets far beyond the
three mile limit. Sometimes, if we are to
believe the Federal officials. it is delivered
safely in little friendly coves. from which
it cmcrgcs next day as imported Scotch or
good old American rye.
Made in minute whisky is no new
thing under the sun. 1t was sold over
highly polished bars, once upon time, for
fifteen or twenty five cents II drink, though
it was best known along the river front,
whcr" n Knockout portion could be pur-
chased for five cents. One gallon Of alco-
hol, with a gallon Of water and some flavor
ing matter, will max" two gallons of bootleg
liquor. A gallon of pure alcohol purchased
legitimatcly costs approximately SO. Water
costs nothing. Is it any wonder that the
illicit whisky business is hard to control?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
Member of the Associated Pres,
PENROSE TALKS

TNVENTS have forced Senator Penrose to
~ come here from Washington and inter-
fere in the political situation. He has cX-
pressed his hostility to the forces which
were repudiHted by the voters two years ago,
forces that are now seeking to control the
Republican primaries for the nomination of
a ticket of their choosing.
He has announced that he will support
and that he expects his friends to support
"a ticket of honest. efficient, patriotic Re-
publicans whose sole allegiance is to the
Republican Party and to good municipal
government.
This announcement means much or little.
according as 1t is followed by the naming Of
the names of the patriotic Republican"
whom he summons his friends to support.
Events are likely to force such n state
ment from him in the near future II they
do not and if he is content with gencraliza-
tions his followers. who have been making
their own deals while he has been other
wise occupied, will be likely to use their
own judgment in indorsing candidates.
The significance Of his intervention at this
time will not appear until he does name
names. publicly or in private conference
with his lieutenants, and until he brings
what pressure he can exercise to bear upon
these lieutenants to induce them to follow
his lead,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
FATE OF BURYING GROUNDS

TT IS impossible to lay down any hard
i and fast rule for the treatment of old
burying grounds. The controversy waging
over the disposal of the burying ground
around the old Oak Lane Baptist Church
is an illustration of what usually happens
when it is proposed to devote such a place
to uses other than those for which it was
set apart. The decision in this case must
timental reasons Of sufficient strength to
justify the preservation Of the place in its
present condition.
= 1t has never been seriously proposed to
remove the graves from Christ Church bury
ing ground in Arch street, although the
land that it occupies could be sold for bust
ness purposes at high price. The fact
that Franklin lies there is sufficient inSur-
ance against its molestaton. st. Peter 5
churchyard in Pine street will doubtless re-
main undisturbed because of the interest in
It and because of the historic graves that it
contains. The Old Granary burying ground
in fremont street, in Boston, within Il
stones throw of the Common, is as safe as
the old State House at the head Of Stat"
street, and the graves around Trinity
Church in Broadway, New York. will be
there a hundred years from now just as they
are today.
II those persons who wish to preserve the
Oak Lane burying ground will concentrate
their attention on efforts to prove its his
toric character they will be more likely to
( succeed than If they devote themselves ~
!, raising objections to the use Of the land for
q garage and for block Of houses.
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TIE WORLD COURT

HNHE expectation that one or more judges
l. of the new Court of international JUS
ticc will be Americans lends to the i'm
pending meeting of the Assembly Of the
League Of Nations at Geneva a special i'm
portanCc.
Opponents of the schcm" Of international
partnership devised in Paris need not fear
that the forcshaduwed elections insidou,ly
involve this Government in a Cooperative
concern which the United States Senate
regarded with such emphatic disfavor Al
though the structure If the arbtral tribunal
has been varously misrcpr"scntcd. rs am
bilious novelties usually are, nothing but Il
complete pcrvcrsion Of fact is responsible
for the impression, current in some quarters,
that participation in it means coutanna-
tion by the League Of Nations.
Nothing of the sort. The world court is
open to every State on earth, regardless Of
League status. For this reason the nomi-
nation of 50 many Americans Us candidates
for the international bench must be viewed
as a tribute to merit and not As Il rusc to
cntanglc the United States in a cooperative
undertaking which it formally rcpudatrd.
The American nominees are Elihu Root,
Or. James Brown Scott, president Of the
American Institute of international Law
Prof. Roscoe Pound, dean Of the Harvard
University Law School, and John BasNctt
Moore Eleven judges will be selected from
the list Of ninety candidates.
The fitness of the four American nominees
for their proposed posts is unqucstonabIo.
Mr.. Roots was evidently 50 appealing that
he has been named by five Countries
France, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and
Venezuela.
The propricty of installing him as an in.
tcrnational adjudicator is 80 marked that
the question of his service is affected chiefly
by his personal inclinations. Should he take
office in an enterprise in the launching of
which he was yitally concerned, this Nation
will be no more involved In obligations Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
THE FARMERS BLOC

THE surprising feature about the farmers
i bloc in Congress is not that 1t has been
formed, but that its formation has been
delayed so many years.
There have been solid groups of Congress
men committed to the support Of the in
tcrests of the manufacturers of the cotton
growers, of the steel industry of the wool
growers and of various other business ac-
tivitics. When legislation affecting any OF
these activities was proposed the groups in
terested in it acted together, frequently
without regard to party lines.
The farmers make up the largest single
class of producers in the country. They
have becn slow in discovering that they have
interests in common and that those inter-
csts can be advanced by united political
action.
Nothing would be easier than to dcnounce
them, but denunCiation will not break up
the combination of representatives from the
Western agricultural States. 1t did not
break up the combination Of Republican
representatives from the manufacturing
States, which has always done its best to
secure protective duties for the manufac-
turers. The Democrats have exhausted the
vituperative resources of the dictionary in
their comments on the activities of the
manufacturers bloc without any other re-
suit than loading down the Congressional
Record with their futile speeches.
Farming is a national industry. 1t is not
confined to any section of the country.
Pennsylvania. New York and New Jersey
are great agricultural States. Their repre-
scntativcs in Congress are supposed to be
as deeply Interested in their welfare as are
the representatives Of the farmers of any
other States Senator WadswOrth, OF New
York. is himself farmer. He Cultivutes
more acres than any but the greatest ranch
owners in the West.
The agricultural bloc in Congress is at
present made up of Westerners. as though
there were farmers nowhere else. If it is
to be prevented from becoming sectional
group it must be enlarged to include all
representatives from farming communities.
Then the extreme iddhs of the Westerners
who are toying with the semi Socialist
panaccns may be modified in the interest
of soundcr thinking. The farmers are GER
tainly entitled to whatever legislative relief
they need, but they should not be benefited
at the expense of the rest of us
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

that has been heavily mined. Great gaps
open suddenly and through them dwellings
and other buildings slip down into the mine
workings. Scranton is dangerously un-
dermincd. Parts Of many oal"region towns
are far from safe for those whose homes are
built over the mines. a man who sees his
house and his lot disappear through the
ground and the work of his days vanish in
a flash certainly has n right to complain Of
injustice. But there was no protection for
him and no guarantee even for the safety
Of his life until, at n recent session of the
state Legislature, law was passed to com
pei mine owners to keep their workings
safe for those overhead.
In Schuylkill County the operators have
just announced their intention to fight that
law. They have formally called it uncon-
stitutional. That argument doesn't sound
like the argument of a practical business
man. 1t sounds more like the plea of a
lawyer who was never nearer to the coal
regions than Wall street.-the sort of lawyer
who still is willing to say, after us, the
dcluge :"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!, BatrachanS are animals that discard
gil lis and tail. such as frogs.
2. Brahminism Is the predominant religion
of India.
8. Ousel or Ouzel Is another name for the
European blackbird.
4. The character of Miranda occurs in
Shakespeare's comedy THE Tempest"
., Great Britain Is so called from it's an
Client Roman name, Britannia Major
CGreater Britain), to distinguish il
from the Northwest portion of France
known as "Rritannia Minor (Smaller
Britain), and now bearing in English
the name Brittany and in French the
nam0 Brctagnc.
6. Rodomontade, boastful, Dragging talk,
takes it's name from the character OF
the boastful ROdomonte in Ariosto's 8
"OTlando Furiosd"
7. Elias Howe was the inventor of the
sewing machine.
s. Philomel is the poetic name for night.
ingale.
0. Tuesday Is the regular meeting day for
tho presidential Cabinet
10. Rosemary IL the shrub emblematic NJ
remembrance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
LAST NIGHT AT TRENTON

GIT for an hour in any criminal court and
~ you will see that the innocent and the
blameless suffer most as a consequence of
formal punishment visited on the guilty.
The case of the two Camden men who went
to the electric chair in Trenton last night
was no exception to the general average of
such cases. Both of them were dazed
toward the end. They had not the capacity
for suffering that was apparent in the
mother of one and the wife of the other.
Capital punishment is an ugly business
at best and great many people doubt it's
usefulness. But in the case Of SChuck and
James there was no reason for mercy.
Grimes such as they committed 60 far to
justify a system of punishment against
which complaint is loud. continuous and,
for the most part, logical.
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LAW-AND SOME LAWYERS

tNFTEN it is interesting to speculate upon
" the character aud identity Of the men
who formulate the working policies of the
anthracite operators. 1t doesn't seem
probable that practical business men would
continue a system of profit taking that is
certain to cost coal producers far more in
the end than they ever can get out of it.
l6sr is II like intelligent investors in public
utilities to disregard the lessons of the past
and direct their affairs according to plans
first laid down by the capitalists who said
"the public be damned" Are the coal
men being misled after all, by theorists
who call themselves lawyers
An answer to this interesting question
my be found between the lines of news
w coming out of the anthracite region of
II State Ii is no uncommon thing to see
house or a group of houses suddenly dis
ear In part of the hard coal region
IL \
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
THE STAKE

nIRECTOR CAVEN. who said two or
- three months ago that the city would
clean the streets in the central section for
$500 900 less than the lowest bid, has just
announced that the saving will be ut least
$3.50, 900.
If the contract had been awarded to Sen
ator Ware, who bid for it, he would have
made this much profit at least. He might
have made more, for work done by the city
usually costs more than private contractors
have to pay for it.
Unwilingness to lose the profits on con-
tracts is back of the political activity at
this time Of the Contractor Combine. They
are fighting for dollars and cents to be taken
out of the pockets of the taxpayers. They
cannot get the opportunity to put their
hands in the pockets of the people again
unless the people consent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Phadelphians Subjects They
knO1U Best

In this city, for instance, we have no fault
to find with the economic administration of
the city on the whole.
'We think that the cost of street clean
ing can and should be reduced and that the
tax rate must come down. We also believe
that payrols are too large. More efficient
helpers in some of the municipal depart
ments and not so many of them should be
the case, rather than reductions in salaries.
In the Department of Receiver of Taxes,
for instance, 1t is a serious question whether
the existence of branch Offices is justified
Some other way could be devised that would
be more economical and efficient and would
involve less waste of time and expansion OF
the payroll.
1T has been suggested that the various
banks and trust companies of the city thar
are properly certified could do this work very
nicely and would be glad to do it.
1--WE have no fault to find with political
organizations; we believe that they are
necessary. But the tendency in the regular
organization is for one or two men to be in
control who select for Office men from the
ranks who have seen service in the party.
they are selected not SO much for their
fitness for the jobs as for their interest in
and allegiance to the party that nominated
them.
Against Fifty. Fifty Party
The Fifty Fifty Party, we believe, does
not represent the voters Of the city nor its
best interests.
The Voters League is not party; it is
an organization of citizens that is interested
in good government in the party or out OF
it.
After candidates are elected we propose
to follow them, to check up and advise them
of their errors and to help them wherever
we can. Frequently man gets into office
who finds himself lonely. He has no one
TO turn to to explain his troubles. The Voters
League will cndeavor to fill that need
1T will not only interest itself in election
and candidates, but will work for civic and
State improvement, for better laws. for en-
actment of proper and needed legislation IN
Council and the Legislature and in every
civic way that such body can.
1--WE will act. as | said before. as a clear
ing house, where individuals may get needed
information on matters of civic Importance,
where they may enter complaints and max
suggestions that may be received and acted
upon. 1t will be an advisory and helpful
body. willing to investigate, ready to work
prepared to fight, II necessary, for the thing,
that are right end a means wherein the in
dependent, straight thinking sentiment OF
the city may be able to function intclligenty
and effectively"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
What DO You KnoW?


l, What does the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States pro.
vide?
9 Distinguish between Calcut and Calcutta.
o. Wnen did General Pershing lead United
states Army into Mexico?
4. What Is nirvana?
3. What was the Clayton Bulyer treaty
and how did it affect the status of the
United States in. Central America?
6. Why Is the alluVial tract at the mouth OF
river called delta?
I. Who succeeded James X Polk as Prcs.
dent Of the United States?
:. Name two operas by Charles Gounod.
0. What is Il pavan?
10. What is Centillon?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
Thc Pittsburgh Dispatch quote,

The Pittsburgh Dispatch quote, ,,r' Sn
Eastern city doctOr's' admonition 70 ,, nao rou
fever sufferers: Don't sneeze-Ior. u ,o,r y~
must, snPeze through your mouth: N no tol, you
nose" Any hay fever sufferer wllI 'ei, Mt, T.
thnt this is adding insult to injury PIIsE Snt
but we don't know. DR.. LawrcncYe, +; ;.nont fM
tuberculosis expert, long ago said, o,rssdv pST
cough - And White Haven mas hi,i,v ant,' q
proved the wisdom and the practc.nhDi'ntSse ~ nsea.
his words. Incidentally. remarks the era u iOr
sionally Cynical phio. nhcr., sure in ru' from
hunger ought to be "Dont aps'"'"
food -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

The Omaha. Neb, couple who manu-.
facture pork and bean biscuit, accuse
Rockefeller Schwab. the Chicago. packers
Standard Oil men and a number OF national
banks of conspiracy to form trust, la Sha
ask 500, 900. 900 damages, are appaIehus
willing to give everybody beans in oruer I"
get the pork
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

George Bernard Shaw says Lloyd
Georges insistcnce on Il military union De-
tween Ireland and England means prac'!ttt, u'tt
caIly that Ireland must take SIDES wv W.,
England in case of war with America ~
which the British Prime Minister IS IeaSI
ing" Which goes to prove that u. ID, on ~
can talk as much nonsense as the next h'H'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

The Chester County Agricultural As.
sociation has received so many entries ior
its show that it has considerably more
chickens than coops to hold them. Demos.
themes McGinnis says he has noticed mucn
the same condition on Chestnut street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
To the Council, League u
SIlusl!

To the Council, League "
Sbush, Nations, VIA.
Soon will come the v"
count lshii
With statement on Silesia'
1t is everybody's wish he.
Bring the matter TO finish. .
Settling once for all the question
So the world may know amnes"
Where before it knew SilcSia.
Then will we with good digestion
And n hope that won't diminish
Shower him with gratulations
shake the bosh and shush the nshy'
shout aloud for Viscount lshii st
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
A Smile
From the Past

chomnogne will be broken over her ,iNud
Chamnagne. children, is IL kind ,tontS OF nSu'a A
That "Tr"S Concealed an adult kick bene0a" bent m,eS
smiling i sparkling exterior, It was was bstors SpS
esteemed by drinkers in the dark +, Msfs ho Ord made
prohibition. Thursdays kick VII. tons m ewes
BY thirsty ones who look with en'iO'' "
ON the new Wnrship.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Girl in wet bathing suit has been
shocked and killed by electricity in City
Island. \. Y. This will be an encourage
mcnt to the girls who never wet them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Municipal street cleaning has saved the
city $3.50, 900, but what gives the fact point
and promise is that the streets are cleaner
than they were under ashcart rule.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

The disposition of Upper Silesia now
faces the Council of the League of Nations
We fear the Council will find it has very
uncertain disposition.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

We gather from an Athens dispatch
that If the Greeks have been defeated they
don't know it, which is equivalent to not
being defeated
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
NJ. A. Perhaps

A Chicago clergyman.
NJ. A. Perhaps alleging that the
mothcr-in- law joke is
no joke at all and that the in-law is really
an outlaw responsible for most matrimonial
disasters, advocates Il university for the
education of all mothers in law. What de- :
gree would she get2 First3 And wouldn' Z
an injunction be better?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

The trouble with the experts who are
pointing out the weaknesses of the ZR.2
is that they are all equipped with hndsight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Taxes must be the most popular thin
in the world. judging from the present rusl
to pay 'em.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Students of the American merchant
marine appear to be Of the opinion that not
all of the deadwood is tied up at the docks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

There begins to be suspicion that Charls
Hoffman's newest alias Is Finnegan, Of
agen, on agen, gone agcn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

the suspected Article X Of the League Cow
enant than 1t is today.
The court, it is true, is n product of the
League but it will function with about the
same independence as The Hague tribunal,
whose field it seeks to expand and clarity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

These are days when professional poli.
ticians are also professed optmists.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Senator Penrose, being smoked out
smoked up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Hungarian Bands Fire on Austri.
ans. s.'-Headline. Goulash jazz band, prob.
ably.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31

Futilitarians - Democrats who regis
tered yesterday.