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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Won Helm
holtz, the German physiologlst. phys
iclst and specialist In optics. declared,
THE eye has every possible defect that
can be found in an optical instrument
and even some peculiar to Itself"
9 Elijah was the Hebrew prophet who even
tualy ascended to heaven In a chariot
of fire Elisha, also Hebrew prophet
was his friend and successor.
4 The battle of Cowpens in the American
Revolution. takes its name from the
town of Cowpens, in South Carolina.
It resulted in a decisive victory Of the
Americans under Morgan over the
British under Tarleton on January II,
1891.
4 The Out or Strait OF Canso ia the sea
passage which separates the mainland
OF Nova Scotia from Cape Breton
s, parwin's "origin of Species" was first
published in 1859,
G. The four names by which the Swiss
people know their own country are
Schweiz (German), Suisse (French)
syizzera Qtallan) and Helvetia
? The parents of Edward VII OF Great
Britain were Albert, the Prince Con.
sort, and Queen Victoria,
g. The Ohio Valley was the original home
Of the Kickapoo Indians.
O. Rosecrans was a distinguished general on
the Federal side In the Civil War
Rosencrantz Is the name Of a treacher-
GUS and sycophantic courtier in
Shakespeares Hamlet" He is espe-
cially tho companion of Guildenstern.
TO- The motto of West Virginia 10 'Montani
Semper Liberi' CMountaineers Always
Freemen'o. a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
THE MAYORS GAS PLAN

THE ordinance which Mayor Moore sub
L mitted to the City Council yesterday
afternoon provides n practicable and busi-
ness-like way to end the gas muddle.
The Maltbie Gas Commission, which the
Mayor wishes to continue in order that 1t
may enter into negotiations with the United
Gas Improvement Company and work out
in outline a satisfactory contract. is well
fitted for the task. 1t is composed of ex-
perts and business men with no interest
other than the ascertainment of the truth.
The commission has already spent some
months in studying the relation OF the gas
company to the city and the manufacture
of gas. 1t has substantially all the data
at hand needed to guide it in laying down
the general principles on which new con-
tract should be drafted.
The ordinance involves no trespass on
the rights of the Council. That body must
pass upon whatever contract is made. The
contract also will have to be approved by
the City Solicitor. The ordinance merely
summons to the task men with special
knowledge and impartial judgment.
It's adoption would mean that in few
months there would be before Council
specific proposition regarding new terms on
which the city gas plant is to be operated,
together with definite plans for the protec-
ton and enlargement of the plant to meet
the demands upon it.
There is no good reason why the ordi-
nance should not be adopted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
AT POINT BREEZE

r OSSES of life and property in successive
~ fires at the great Point Breeze oil plant
have been so great in recent years as to
deprive the suggestion of official negligence
of any weight. 1t is to be presumed that
practical as well as humane considerations
inspire care and precauton in the operation
Of the plant. And yet some sort of inquiry
should be directed with view to the pre-
ventiOn of tragedies like that which occurred
on Wednesday afternoon.
Like many other great industrial organi-
xations, the Point Breeze oil works have been
extended and elaborated in recent years to
meet extraordinary demands. The business
of oil production and refinement has been
rsvolutionized in decade.
It is easy to suppose, therefore, that in
the process of expansion under pressure
some of the rules of scientific plant con
struction and management may have been
disregarded. Fires and explosions at Point
Breeze are tragically frequent. They must
be enormously costly to the owning cor
poration. The recent loss Of life in such
accidents is staggering.
To an observer on the outside it would
seem that son ething is radically wrong
somewhere in the physical structure of the
plant. Whatever that something Is, it ought
10 be corrected.
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Mr.. HENDRICKS LAURELS

VIZ FREELAND kENDRICK may rest
w. assured no ono will care to question
his statement that he has collected twice
as much in taxes at the end rs at the be-
ginning Of his term. Nor Is it likely that
many persons will covct such glory as may
be won by functionng under a regime OF
greatly increased assessments. Mr.. Ken
dricll's laurels are secure.
The financial burdens of the citizens Of
Philadelphia have grown heavier and the
present Receiver of Taxes and machine
candidate for denomination has, in con-
formity with law, collected the required
sums. His duty was commonplace. 1t Is
his presumable ambitions which are so frank
as to be unconventional
Who knows to what point taxes may not
be raised should the Contractor Combine
retain it's partial grip upon the community? :?
In that case, and from Mr.. Hendricks
standpoint, business in the Tax Office would
inevitably be hourishing.
AS super publican, however, this OFF,
cal must beware of vanity. 1t is not he
alone who has caused the tax rate to ascend.
The credit must be divided among the COM
poncnts of the whole machine, however ar
IDENTIFY he may seek to win all
The public Is not deceived. 1t simply
interprets Mr.. Kendrck as the official who
rcjoices when the levies go up.
That understanding should be enough for
any politician.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
CITY COMMITTEES FUNCTION

TTNHE Republican City Committee Is not a
i nominating organization. So far as it
participates In nominations its sole business
Is to exert itself to see that there Is free
vote and fair count in the nominating
primaries.
Yet Thomas w. Cunningham has issued
Q formal statement in which he says that
certain men are pushed forward for Office
TO defeat the candidates who have
and will have the support of the regularly
elected Republican City Committee of this
city,"
Mr.. Cunningham knows that while the
members OF the committee are free as indi-
viduals to work for the nomination Of any
candidates that please them, the committee
itself usurps power that does not belong to
it when II seeks to bring about the nomina-
tion Of any one.
IL Is no crime for the Republican voters
20 attempt to nominate their own candi-
dates. The primary system was established
in order to give this opportunity to them.
For the members Of the City Committee to
charge the voters with insurgency because
they seek to name their own candidates is
almost as preposterous as 1t would be for
Judge to charge a defendant in court with
resisting the processes OF tho law when he
offered testimony to prove that the charges
against him were unfounded.
Mrs. Altemus, who is serving on COM
mittes Of citizens working for the nomina-
ton Of the Voters League ticket while hold
Ing an ofhce in the Republican City Com
mittes, ID pursuing the right course. She
10 not ensangling the committee, which is
Supposed to represent all the Republicans,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

barking of his patients, heavcdNa brick at
the original visitor, which Immediately
lcaped upon his benefactor, rcpaying him
with a fatal dose Of rabies.
Consider the once much discussed Spikcr
family and the romance of the spectacu-
larly generous Guy, who welded the mother
Of his brothers. child and pledged himself
to raise the offspring as his own.
The once grateful recipient OF these
favo7s, the present Mrs. Guy Spiker. has
vanished. "She went" declares the Spiker
who sought to repair his errant brothers
misdecds. "and she can stay
This time the anccdote, not literary but
actual, is concluded.
To be extracted from this now finished
chain of circumstances is not so much the
deduction that life is wormwood as tina,
It is not all trenclc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
MAGNANIMlTY AND FACTS
"MAGNANIMoUs incidents" repeated

"MAGNANiMoUs incidents repeatedly
4'4 engaged the attention of n native
philosopher who saw life not SO much bit
terly as completely. 1t was Mark Twain
emphatic contention that the conventional
snappy anecdote Of 'the books" and the
overwhelmed happenings of actual ex-
istence were incompletely narrated.
There was, for instance, the tale Of the
benevolent physician" who, marvcling at
the gratitude of dumb animals, set the leg
of a stray dog, brought to his Office by an
other eur whose injuries he had treated the
day before.
This Is the alleged conclusion Of this
pious legend, but the scrutinizing humorist
was unsatisfed. His fancy roamed to the
third day, when the two dogs returned with
a damaged comrade. The quantity Of
CANNES increased by arithmetical progress
sion until the pavement was lined with dogs
and "the people were walking around"
At that junctare the benevolent physi-
clan, unable toyptolerate the cacophonc
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
FOR JCDGE OF MUNICIPAL COURT
JOHN III. MAURER

Mr.. Maurer is the Assistant District
Attorney who was knocked down by the
thugs in the Fifth Ward in the fight
which resulted in murder. He is cap
able lawyer who should make a good
Judge.
The Republican voters who believe in pro-
sressive government, and in providing a
Constitution to insure it, should also vote
"Yes" on the proposition to hold a constitu-
tional convention, and should vote for the
nomination Of delegates to that convention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
Adyersity's Jewels

Blessed be the bug
Adyersity's Jewels He Is a benefactor 70
man. The reason hs
eats grain, fruit and vegetables is so thaI
he may wax fat and tempt the birds 70
meat diet. This year, alas he Is scarce
and the birds have become vegetarlann.., ~.
Blessed be the bug We have met ana hSI vi
have missed him. -. Blessed be the DOi
woevil He is a political economist naS aS
beloved by the merchant. Long has ne ps's
maigned by cotton growers. They hau =
perfectly unreasonable dislike for the We.
he ate into their profits. Now they re,os
nize him as a profit booster. His s'9San %;as.sd
you get more kale for every bale; h'S AZ,
be the boil weeyil u! Blessed be the w. -,
ease germ !--Eh?-Oh, well, perhaps MAJ
are right. but who knows "" '
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
What Do You Kno,c?


I. What animal is used as money?
2 who said. "a lifetime Of happiness no
man alive could bear It; It would be
hell on earth?
3. When did oliver Cromwell die?
4 Distinguish between appropriation and
expTopriation
& Which is the Buckeye State?
G. Distinguish between orgies and ogees.
Z Who was the original Little Eva In the
play Of Uncle Toms Cabin?
g. why Is the phrase guerrilla warfare"
redundant
O. Who was Old Chrome?
10 What Infamous poet died 600 years
ago this autumn?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
Member. of the Associated Press
Phiisdeiphis, Friday, September Is. 1921
TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS

THE Republican voters who wish to carry
i on the work which they began in 1910
and drive the contractor influence from the
party should vote at the primaries on Tues
day for the nomination of the following
candidates:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
FOR REGISTER OF WILLS
VIVIAN FRANK GABLE

Mr.. Gable, who is a practicing at
torney, is candidate for the Office
where the incumbent has received
$3.50 900 in fees which ought to have
gone into the public treasury to reduce
the taxes. He has committed himself
to opposition to the fee system and has
said that $4,000 year is all the re-
muneration which the Register should
receive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

England has just completed an armorn
aerial battleship, weighing ten tons, with
machine gun gallery and carrying capae,ly
embracing several hundred pounds of bome.
The world has moved rapidly during lns
last few years. Nothing could have Deen
more fanciful in a newspaper of twenty yea''
ago than the sober sooth Of today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

with the legitimate contest within the party
over the choice Of candidates for office.
Whoever are nominated, 1t will be the
business of the City Committee to work for
their election.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
A Jugo Slav, his wife and three chi

A Jugo- Slav, his wife and three cnil,
dren arrived In this country three weeks aso
other son. eighteen years old, delayed by
illness, arrived here Saturday and wa
turned back because the immigrant quota 70,
September from his country had pees
reached. His parents were not even alionsu
on the ship to say good-by to him. ~. w.
striction of immigration may be deslraos., :.
The application of the present law Is a.
heartless as 1t is nonsensical.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
FOR CITY TREASURER
ARTHUR c. GRAHAM

Mr.. Graham has had long experience
In handling the funds of the people en-
trusted to the care of one of the largest
savings banks in the city. lie is admir-
ably qualified to handle the funds of the
taxpayers in the City Treasury. And
he is pledged to do what he can to end
the abuses of the pern!cious fee system.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

The Methodist Ministerial Association
objects to a Constitutional Convention be-
cause it might result in an attempt to intrci
duce Continental Sabbaths 1t was sons
such thought born million years ago thal
has made the oyster so poor traveller.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

Berlin having lifted the seven years
ban on the language, tenor will sing th'
role of Mephisto in Faust" in French. Iht
rest Of the cast will sing in German. Bu!
this is not the first time French has raised
the devil with the Heinies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

A Springfield, Mo-. man, mistaking hi.
mother for a chicken thief, shot and KILLED
her. He will now subscribe to the belief
that there are more fools behind guns than
knaves in front of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
SAMUEL p. ROTAN

Mr.. Rotan has conducted the affairs
Of his office for several terms with eff
cheney and without scandal. and he has
secured the punishment of adhcrents of
the contractor machine for completely in
the murder in the Fifth Ward.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
FOR CITY CONTROLLER
EDWIN WOLF

Mr.. Wolf is a business man of wide
financial experience and sound judg-
mcnt. lie is his own master. and in
the Controllers Office he will not be
subservient either TO factional political
or selfish financial influences.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
FOR RECEIVER OF TAXES
COLONEL GEORGE E. KEMP

Colonel Kemp is soldier with a
splendid record in the World War and
with experience in a civilian executive
post which qualities him beyond ques-
tion for handling the business of the
tax office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

Diplomatic conversation between China
and Japan is somewhat hampcred by Chlna's
inability to refrain from seeing n joker il
Japan'S proposals.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

An Omaha, Neb., woman forty.ons
years old Is the mother of twenty two chi.
dren; but we'll bet fifteen cents that the
President won't write congratulating her Oh
the fact. One learns from experience.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

Great Britain's delegation to the Limi.
tation of Armament Conference may cause
the cynical to argue that she does not taxa
the matter as seriously as she might.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

1t Is little disquieting to realize that
there are immoral persons plenty who are
already planning infractions of the law In
order to win warm home for the winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

The keel has been laid in Gloucester fa
japanese navy ship: merely. we suppose,
as an evidence of faith in the coming Liml.
tation of Armament Conference.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

President Harding and Bill Johnston
may now condole with each other. r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

When Cunningham says Penrose. has
been betrayed by his friends, may it be con.
sdercd expert testimony? t6s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

One can sympathize with Maclyn Ar.
buckles desire to let the world know that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

Bill Tildcn is perhaps no better than
Bill Johnston, but there is more Of him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
SHORT CUTS

The virtue of the Invisible Empire ais
appears to be invisible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16

A FTER ALL civilization does take care of
"A us oftener than not When the for
ests began to 60 back on us coal was dis
covered, when the miners began to 20 back
on us electricity began to take GOALS place
New York State Is spending more than a
million in a survey of her lake and stream
resources, with view to turning all her
California there is n plan afoot to dynamite
two small mountains and dam a river that
win supply the whole Of California with the
great white power
The stupidity OF one set OF public pur-
yeyors is the opportunity of another. and in
the end the great eager public gets served
better and cheaper as the generations 20 by.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07

Tribune Legion Editor
To Report Conference

The American Legion editor of
The Tribune will attend the con-
ference of the National Executive
Committee of the Legion, to-day,
tomorrow and Wednesday, at
Washington, and will report in
detail the deliberations of that
body.
A summarized account of the
conference will be published next
Sunday, February Is, on the
American Legion page, the Off
cial publication of the veterans
organization in the New York
Department.
State Commander Charles G.
Blakeslee has indorsed The Trib-
une as the official state newspa-
per for the American Legion, and
on the second Sunday of each
month this newspaper will pub
lish a full page of state, national
and local news.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
Home Awaits Boy War Hero
s-~-~-
Polish Lad Who Left Newark to
fnin Legion Returns

Jozef Wisniewsh, thirteen years
old, last. of the Three Boy Mus
keteers" who ran away from their
homes In Newark three years ago to
fight in the Polish Legion, Is to be
adopted by Alexander Gwiazdowsh.
presidett OF the Polish Mechanics
Company, Inc, unless the boys uncle,
John Radico, is found within the next
few days.
After waiting a week at the pier
in South Brooklyn while the Polish
Consulate and Red Gross were trying
to locate hRs uncle, the boy was re-
moved to Ellis Island Saturday. Steps
toward adoption have been taken by
Gwiazdowski. The boys uncle formerly
lived at Sd Spring Street, Newark
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
welfare Committee,s pIans

There will be a meeting tomorrow
at noon at the Bankers Club for the
purpose of discussing the raising of
funds with which to aid needy veter-
ans. In addition to several prominent
men and wome.. interested in the work,
1t is hoped that General O'Ryan, Ad-
mIral Gleaves and Colonel Alexander,
formerly commander of the 77th Divi-
sion, will attend.
Tex Rickard and Joseph johnson.
chairman of the State Boxing Commits
sion, also have been invited to attend
for the purpose of discussing the feast
bility of staging great boxing tourna-
ment in Madison Square Garden as a
medium for raising the money.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
Toxic Said to Sacrifice
Sentry Who Slew Langdon
Press Declares Foreign Office
Urges Punishment 20 Avoid
Trouble with II. s.

TOXIC. Feb. Elm sensational
article to-day the Kokumin Shimbun,
regarded as the organ of the military
party, charges the Foreign Office with
negotiating withthe War Department
to obtain the imposition of sentence
upon the Japanese sentry at vladivos-
tok in the Langdon incident. It alleges
that the Foreign Office aims to Sac
rifice" the sentry with the object of
avoiding troublesome diplomatic com
piication with America over the shoot
ing of the naval officer and to court the
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
A Real Reunion Here

On the night Of February 21, at the
McAlpin Hotel, there will be reunion
of exmembers of Company L, 308th
infantry. Only about 100 of the origi-
nal 250 of this command came back
from France, and many of those bear
sears of their service.
The president of the company ssso-
citation is S. M. Cohen. Milton Petzold
is vice-president; S, F. Dacci is treas.
urer. and the secretary. is f. C. Gay
Among the officers invited to the re-
anion are Colonel Averill, Lieutenant
Colonel Whittlesley and Colonel Alex
ander. Captain Sturgis, commander Of
the company after it left the lines, and
Captain Bernard Burns, who led it ir
action, will be there. Lieutenants Case
and Gard died in action.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
Coreans Ask Voice i'm Rule

TOXIC, Feb. 6.The president of the
Corea Association is leaving Seoul for
Toxic, according to dispatches from
Seoul, carrying petition to the Diet
asking for the right to participate in
the government OF the empire. The
document is signed by 5000 Coreans.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
Bronx Also Extends Drive

The Bronx organization also has ex-
tended it's membership drive for an
other two weeks. Harry Frank, of the
George Dahlbender Post, is chairman
OF the committee in charge, and ex-
poets to add 1000 members to the
county roster before he is through.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
Tiger Post Benefit

All the money realized by Tiger Post
from its ball at the Hotel Pennsylvania,
March IA, will be devoted to disabled
veterans. Tickets are So each. Lieu
tenant Fred w. Simpson, successor of
"Jim" Europe, will conduct the 18th
Infantry Band and there will be an
attractive entertainment.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07

good will of the American government
by this means.
The newspaper claims that many in
huential japanese officials are critical
of the Foreign Office for what they
charge has been It's interference in
the case. The leading inhabitants Of
the sentry's home village of Kochi. in
cooperation with the prefecture. the
kokumin declares, have organized an
association to obtain national support
for the cause of the sentry, whom thew
deem to have faithfully discharged his
duty. Ai'
The result of the court martial triaI
OF the sentry has not yet been an
nounced. "'A
Lieutenant Warren Fl. Langdon. chief
engineer OF the United States crn;sar
Albany, was shot and killed January 10
by sentry, who later sdmittea ths+
MS attack on Langdon was unprovokad
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07

On February II Herbert L, Miller Post
composed of members of Company X, the
Lost Battalion" will give reception and
dance at the Hotel Commodore.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07

Walter Hickman Post meets tonight at
the Valcour Club, 1906 Bathgate Avenue,
the Bronx, where final arrangements will
be made for the annual entertainment to
be given at Hunts Point Palace April Is.
Ed. Powers promises to produce a musical
comedy of high merit with members OF
the post and it's auxiliary
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07

Ad Mems Post viii meet tomorrow eve
ming at tho Advertising Club, ~ East
Twenty-hfth Street The organization
numbers moro than 200 members
New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
POST ACTIVITIES

Franklin Simon Company Post will hold
smoker on the evening of February 25
at the K of G. clubhouse. Webster Avenue
and Fordham Road, to raise funds for sick
and wounded veterans