davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Mrs. Chapman Sails
= For RIGA. Latviia

Mrs. c. Durand Chapman Of Newark.
N. J.. sailed August 5, for Riga. Latvia.
to visit her son. Mr.. John Holbrook
Chapman. who has been with the Amer
lean mission to the Baltic states since
1918,
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Capt. and Mrs. Snow
Entertain Children

Capt. and Mrs. Elliott Snow of
Washington. who are spending the
season at Chocorua. are doing much
entertaining there and last week ar
ranged party for the children of the
resort at the Chocorua Inn.
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ton for Q time following the death of
her mother, but was in heavy mourn
ing at the time. This winter she will
no doubt be leader in the smart
set ana will entertain extensively.
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Will Visit Virginia
Beach and Boston

Miss Lee Gary Rucker. Miss Julia
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

Federal board which made the award was
the cause Of a great outburst Of grief and
resentment among the coal producers.
Yet survey of the official statistics now
made available shows that in 1919 approx
mately 81 per cent of the cost of anthracite
was turned over in wages to the workers In
the field, while in 1920 the wage outlay OF
the mine owners represented only about %
per cent Of the valuation Of their product.
In other words, the public bore the burden
of the wage increase ordered by the Gov
ernment-and a good deal more.
The excess of S71 ,6S6,900 was not the
result of any increased cost Of coal at the
source or Of any practical work OF the lessees
and owners Of coal land or the mine owners
or the distributors. 1t Is safe to view it as
velvet obtained by the simple expedient OF
showing prices upward by organized action
and keeping them at a point approximating
the uttermost limits Of human endurance.
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ONE PRICE TO ALL

THAT is significant decision made by the
l. Superior Court invalidating a contract
for electric light supplied to buildings owned
by the Frick estate in Pittsburgh.
The estate had contract for light which
contained provision that the rate charged
was not to be changed except at five-year
intervals, and that it was to be based on the
cost of producing the light. The Court
holds that the electric light company is a
public utility and that it's rates are subject
to the approval of the Public Service Com
mission, and that it cannot escape that
supervision by any private contracts with
consumers. The decision in effect Is that
rates of public service corporations must be
uniform to all consumers.
The point at issue is so important that
It is likely that the Supreme Court will be
asked to pass upon it, but the rule laid
down by the Superior Court is so reasonable
that it is difficult 70 see how the higher
Court can overrule the decision. 1t Is that
when ones rights are subject to State
restrictions he cannot remove them from the
power of the State by making a contract
about them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
A VICTORY FOR Mr.. HUGHES

HNHE Hughes brand of diplomacy, as firm
i as it is unsensational, is obviously re-
sponsible for the negotiations upon the vexed
boundary question now progressing between
Costa Rica and Panama.
The 1sthmian Republic, which is In a
sense our ward, INDUCED in a refractory
mood last March. Pledges categorically as
sumed in the past were violated. Chagrined
because Of its obligation to abide by the
late Chief Justice Whites award, the little
republic proceeded to threaten its neighbor
and actually did provoke Brief war. Vir-
tually all Central America was arrayed
against her.
After few days Of hostilities the State
Department Of the United States addressed
both belligerents emphatically but not un-
kindly and peace was restored. Since that
date Panama has been pursuing the arts of
persuasion, but to little purpose.
The frontier problem resolved itself into
the simple yet vital question of the will
ingness of Panama to submit to an arbitral
decision which she had originally promised
to respect. Secretary Hughes in one Of his
vigorous notes recommended that Costa
Rica and Panama should discuss their diff
ferences amicably and reach an honorable
conclusion. His advice was excellent and
It is, happily, bearing fruit
Mr.. Hughes policy Is not IN the least
darkened by the shadow Of unwarrantably
dictatorial methods toward weaker nations.
Unlike the majority Of international diff
culties, the Panama boundary case was
consplcuously one sided. Respect for Judi
cial arbitral award Is fundamental without
which the present earnest efforts Of the
nations to dwell together in amity will come
to naught
The recalcitrancy Of Panama was a
manifestation in little of precisely such out
breaks as the League of Nations or any other
peace preservitive is designed to prevent
and discountenance. 1t is stimulating to
note that the Panamanians are thinking
clearly at last
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JAPAN WILL PARTICIPATE

LNROM the standpoint of realities, it is
J. difficult to describe the reply Of Japan
to the American Governments call for an
international conference in Washington as
q qualified acceptance.
That Toxic is reluctant to have the prob
lens Of the Pacific reopened is the inference
that may be drawn from the absence of any
reference to this subject in the note just
received by the State Department The
situation Is such that the preferences of
Japan and the courses which she may be
obliged to take do not necessarily coincide
There were only two ways of dealing with
the invitation of the United States 1t was
possible to accept the call or to decline it,
Japan has adopted the affirmative attitude
The privilege will be hers Of Withdrawing
from the sessions when topics of the Pacific
are broached. But the likelihood Of such
behavior is small. Her position, none too
good as it is, would not in the least be
benefited by her absence from discussions
b. the leading Powers Of the world of sub
jects intimately affecting her ambitions and
prestige.
The japanese cannot be blind to such a
possibility, and the acuteness Of their vision
may be expected to increase rather than
diminish when the sessions are in full swing
Willing or unwilling, Japan has agreed
to sit at the conference table with her sister
nations. In the Island Empire belief may
exist that the Toxic Government has dis.
patched only a partial acceptance. The in
exorable facts are otherwise.
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cLOGGED COURTS

THE congestion of court dockets in many
i cities with a multiplicity of cases for
violation of prohibition laws is given as
the specific excuse for a conference between
Attorney General Dausherty and Chief
Justice Taft, with view to eIpediting legal
procedure.
1t is unnecessary for the cause to be thus
narrowed. Legal procedure, Federal, State
and municipal, has been notoriousy slow
in the United States for many years. With
dry laws or without them, the courts have
been clogged. The condition is chronic.
That it is remediable, at least to some
extent, has, however, been convincingly
proved by reforms which have encouragingly
Increased the tempo of legal procedure in
England since the days of Jarndyce VS..
Jarndyce. The American reputation for
quick action and prompt results has been
lamentably disproved in the judicial affairs.
Even the suggestion of n speeding up pro-
gram by Chief Justice Taft will be accept
able. One of the salient defects of the sit
uation is the widespread and pedantic belief
that conditions are incapable of improve
ment
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AN OLD AND DELICATE SUBJECT

THE division of the Twenty second Ward
i is one of those stock subjects which
recur periodically in the political history of
Philadelphia. Theoretically, the idea is
commendable enough. But its proponents
have usually been inspired by the same mo-
tives which gave birth to the original
gcrrymander.
On the whole, it is wiser to let the ward
boundaries of this city alone until they can
be revised upon some scientific and ethcally
unimpeachable basis. 1t is useless, of
course, to pretend that this is not remote
ideal.
Councilman Roper, who lately supported
the notion of dividing the disproportionaly
large Twenty second Ward, appears to have
realized the difficulties and delicacies in
volved. Having deserted his own program,
his project is unlikely to take on much i'm
petus at this time.
The status quo Is undoubtedly preferable,
so far as the general public is concerned.
to a scheme of gcrrymandering in which
voters of similar political compilations are
segregated in ingeniously devised districts.
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PROGRESS

CONTINUING tests of the efficiency Of
~ aircraft pttcd against battleshps, in
which army fighters have been engaging
with the navy, reveak some suggestions of
the tactics which in the future will govern
combats between forces Of the air and the
forces of the sea and land.
1t has been contended that an airpIane
could be but a futile sort of weapon in a
sea fight, since, II it were to get within
striking distance of battleship, it would
go to certain destruction. That, apparently
is just what airmen in the next war will be
required to do.
In maneuvers of army planes directed by
General Mitchell against naval targets off
the Capes an advance or "shock" squadron
of planes was assigned to clear the decks of
the battleship attacked. The duty of the
advance planes was to drop close to the
target and fire, the theory being that though
in an actual battle they would be destroyed
they would last long enough to put the deck
guns Of the enemy out of action.
In the wake Of the fast and agile "shock"
planes the heavier bOmbcrs approached and
dropped toward the battleship to finish it
off at leisure.
War isn't to be any genter In the future
than it has been in the past. That, at least
is certain.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
ANOTHER LOST OPPORTUNITY

WHEN the trials of German war guilty"
w were begun in Leipzig it was supposed
that the German courts and the German
people would seek every opportunity to prove
that the criminals formally accused Of un-
civilized practices In war were not in any
way representative of the German national
will or conscience.
But the courts have been studiously lenient
and forbearing. Civilians seem always to
lean in sympathy toward the accused. Sen
tences have been light in almost every case
thus far heard, though some Of the most
ruthless of the submarine commanders have
passed through the Leipzig tribunal.
Admiral Won Trotha, former chief of staff
in the German Navy, was the most recent
conspicuous witness. The admiral has not
changed. Glibly he defended the U-boat
commander who sank allied hospital ships
and fred on lifeboats
THE battle does not end for a submarine
boat until her home port is reached" said
he. "Her commander must think Of hidden
enemies. He must think only of his own
country. He has one obligation, and one
only. That is obedience to the higher com
mand ~
The world may move. A part Of Germany
obviously is standing still.
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Today's Anniversaries

1S4G-Congress resolved to give ro,1
medal to General Zachary Taylor for eI'H bta
victory on the Rio Grande. ''' MS
-, lS37-Pierre Jean de Bcranger. "tbe ma
tional song writer of France, died in Ports ra
Born there August 10. 1880 - a''S'
iSot4Gold reached 2S5 per cent, the max.
imum figure during the Civil War.
1S77-A carrier pigeon won in ro,o
London. Do'er 10
lSo2-The President issued a proclomo.
tion commanding all persons in insurrcction
In Idaho to dspersc. ''''oh
1005-Lieutcnant Pcnry sailed from, NJ
York in search of the North Pole, '>e"
!, loio-Panama Canal used for the first
time by United States battleships, ''''
1o20-ln County Donegal two courtBo,soo
were burned by Sim Fein, '"0uses
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
CONTEMPTIBlE GRAFT

THE present almost unwOrkable ImmIgra-
i tion Law and the pedantic manner Of
administering it render the harbors Of entry
into the United States anything but ports of
cheer for aliens entertaining credulous be-
liefs insa land Of liberty. To cap the climax
of disilusiOnment comes the tale of a
peculiarly contemplate form of graft said
TO have been long practiced at Ellis Island.
Augustus =. Schell, head Of the law
division of the Immigration Service. has
been suspended on charges of extorting
money from incoming foreigners and of
grossly capitalizing to his own advantage
their pathetic ignorance of American Gus
toms, language and monetary values.
The abuses are said to include the accept
Ance of bribes from immigrants not legally en-.
titled to admission and chicanery involving
desirable foreigners subjected to the indg-
nifty Of deportation. An instance of "bor-
rowing" $1,000 of helpless and perplexed
immigrant Is cited. The accusations, more
over. do not fall upon solitary official.
Dozens of inspectors, interpreters and
watchmen have already been tried and dis
charged. Some We're arrested for preying
upon aliens.
The situ4tion plainly demands the most
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. A tabard is the distinctive garment "
herald, a sleeveless cape or clnak, uas
2 The great siege OF the Crimean VI. Wn..n hy
that of Sebastopol. eventually InS IaNe ,nd
the allied armies-French, Ehs'''" ~"
Turkish-from the Russians. atom
3. The first aviators to make o.,icock
flight over the Atlantic were "N'
and Brown. In 1919. x,.rsys
l. An f-~>slical ia a letter Tor en- Ell, an
circulation. The word Is usua',S, y, tbs
piled TO open letters or bulletins ~
Pope. -,., Negro
8. Phillis Wheatley was an American hh,o,,rht mvht
poet. born in Africa. she was wss,.un.Sassd
TO America in 1851 and was pure"I Isf
by John Wheatley, of Boston, oious
Poems on Various Subjects, hensHbssrr hens her
and Moral" were published dur'"s -"
visit to London In l77S. a., .ordsring
Q. Mont Blanc forms wi IN lts po ~ Inc
heights an independent rldg9 ~ be.
Western Alps on the bonnoay an,ymmlt
tween France and Italy The su""'
Ia in France. cood Fsl.
7. The tune OF For He's a Jolly G9ou COG ornr
low" Is that OF an old FrenTcm, nTc,srrct
song, "Malbrook sen Ya.t-ei Ing Y
"Maibrook Goes on TO war, sHI
the soldiers after the battle 49,. -, {,
plaquet. The composer is unhnayns,s
s. The Land Of Cockaigne is the h'"'
land OF idleness and luxury ,,smiss
0. Arthur Meighen Is the preseh'
OF Canada. 49,. tum
10, Purree is yellaw csiorins matter
India and cktAA M
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
NO TEARS FOR THIS LANDMARK

CONTRARY to Philadelphia practice,
~ tears are unshed, taxpayers suits un
fled in connection with the rapidly matur-
ing plans to tear down the South Street
Bridge. Even the scrupulous guardians of
tradition are mute.
The present wholly discredited structure
Is neither old enough to be venerable nor
new enough to serve adequately and securely
the public interests. A low bid of $516, 900
has been received by the Department of
Public Works for removing the tottering
edifce. erecting new piers of the tower
variety and doing some incidental dredging
In the river.
1t is promised that the new bridge will
be one of the finest spanning the Schuyl
kill. Almost any sort Of structure would be
an improvement upon the present decreplt
one, the impending demise of which elicits
not single wall from the community in
which what exists is so often automatically
regarded as preferable to what might be.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
ONE WAY OUT

T,HE adjustment of the labor situation at
i the League Island Navy Yard, made
necessary by the curtailed appropriation,
is similar to that adopted by private en-
ployers in many instances.
The plant at the yard is kept in opera
ton. Some of the men are laid off for two
weeks and all who remain are to be employed
for only five days a week.
Under this arrangement the sum available
for wages can be stretched out over longer
period than If the men were kept at work
full time.
In the present state Of business this IA q
humane plan. It means that tho amount
earned by the men will be decreased. but
they are still kept at work and are getting
something. It Is arecognition Of the human
obligation Of the employer to his employees,
q recognition that is becoming much more
general than formerly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

rigorous investigation. The substantiation
Of the most serious of these charges would
constitute shameful indictment of service
under particular obligations to uphold the
standards Of justice and decency. AS it is,
the branch Of the Department Of Immigra-
ton in New York is exhibited as an offense
to the Nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
OUT OE THE AIR

TN 1920 the yield of the anthracite mines
i in Pennsylvania showed decline of some
hundreds of thousands of tons from the
figures of the preceding year. Yet the est-
mated value Of the hard coal produced in
1920 Is, according TO the Department of
Internal Affairs, $71 ,6S8. 900 in excess of
the valuation Of the anthracite mined in
1919.
The wages Of mine workers were increased
slightly in 1920 and the decision of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

Canadian Pacific Railroad trains an
now equipped with smokers for women, tho
company declaring the equality of the sexes
should be recognized In travelling. 1t gn
may be. but n vanity bag Is poor substitu"
for n hin pocket 'N
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

The rum runner, presumably, has .
objection to newspaper talk about piran
ships. 1t may serve to divert suspicion frcm
what is said to be n lively trade between
this country and the Bahamas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ, .
I. Where was the largest and most Famous
library OF ancient times? ,..,,
2 OF what State is Carson City the captai.I
3. Who wrote the words OF Onward. Ch'"'
tian Soldiers?
4, Who was Sir John Tenniel? , Al,
s. In what century was the attraction W
gravitation theory first propouiueu
G. What was the middle name OF Glans'o,pSS.. ~.
T. What instruments are necessary 70 Wv
composition of modern orches.rn. "a
s. When did the Byzantine Empire con''
an end?
Q. What is the holy land OF China? A.. In.
10. Who Is the present Secretary OF u"' ~
terror?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

Daniel G. Reid and wife. of New York
recently divorced, are spending thousands of
dollars over the ownership of a Pekinese
pup which each claims. 1t seems a small
thing to go to law about. Let us hope that
the wheels Of Justice will steer It's bark to
some happy land Of Canine. Not, Of course,
that we care a whoop. 1t may 60 to the
acmnitiOn bow vows for all Of us.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
Today's BIrthdays

Captain Raold Amundscn, discovcrer 80
. the South Pole, born at Sarpsburg, Nopi Npi
way, forty nine years ago. ''of'
DR.; William ID. Mackenzie, president of
Hartford Theological Seminary. born In tbo
Orange River Colony, South Africa, siyty.
two years ago. ''N's
Eugen Ysaye, world lannon's vioI;,;..
and conductor of the Cincinnati sympbonv
Orchestra, born at Llcge, Belgium, sixtv,
three years ago. ''N's
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

The President has taken step towaru
making our dream of peace come true re-
marked the Globe -trotting Publiclst ~.
provingly. At all events. the second Peacs
Conference (for that is what it amounts !ol
will be free from the Nightmares OF Russ'ss
bolshevism and German revolution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16
NOW MY IDEA is THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Phadephians on Subjects They
KnotU Best

come from? But thereIis always money to
be had for necessary things.
when come to compare the willingness
OF people at large to accept the burdens Of
forced primary education with their unwill-
ingness to assume the smaller cost of free
higher education, this epigram often comes
to my mind with a new impersonal meaning.
Should we assume as readily as we do
that what affects Immediately and obviously
the many is therefore the proper care of all,
but what shows its first effects in the very
few is safely left to few or none?
II accept the principle of universal COM
pulsory education as a principle proved by
experience, but l am not blind to its dan
gers. Least of all do think these dangers
to be of the kind that clear themselves by
ferment from below and need no intelligent
removal from above.
Edwin Markham says of his Man With
the Hoe
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground
the emptiness of ages in his face.
AND on his back the burden OF the world
What the State Can Do
What can the sovereign State do for
him! The answer is, teach him The ques-
tion, teach him whatf Teach him to see
his, own condition somewhat as we see it.
No master teacher could be found to get that
much in his head No, but teach him a little
force him to learn a little, just enough, let
us say, to understand before we leave him
the meaning of the next lines Of the poem,
to ask the same questions:
"whee made him dead to rapture and despair.
thing that greves not and that never hopes
Stolld; stunned brother to the OK?
VINO loosened and let down this brutal Jaw
whose was the hand that slanted back this
Whose srsinr srHHsh blew out the l'sht within his
If he understands that much. no longer
is he a thing that grieves not and that never
hopes. lie has learned at mst to grieye,
put has he learned can he ever learn for
himself, to hope or think out a way to better
things! 1t is not likely. More likely he
wili turn an eye of supplication to those of
hlgher learning than he can as vet even
dream OF, and cry to them to think him ont
OF his life. And If we know no way to helm
II we refuse to study or help others to study
the way out, how think you the last lines
of the poem will fall on our careless ears
some day? AS the poet says:
" oh masters. lords and rulers IN nil ,a,s.
Is this the handiworK you Eve "; 20 10 GaSc'' iSsa''
in'S qncnshHG, mSnSthr9TS thing distorted and soul
How, How VIII you ever stra ighten up this shane:
Touch r It again with Immortality: ''"'''
Rebuild in 1T II the th"%pnIICoknS msIc and the lights
Make right the immemoral OF infamies
~ ~pernadous wrongs and immedlcable woes,
How Will tho future reckon with this MAJ,
How answer his brute question in tSat man hnII
when %hiIlwinds of rebellion shake IN.
How TW,inI!I. TWiI! !. be with Kingdoms and with
with those who shaped him to the tbirr y.
TeT When ,b this . dumb terror shall reply to God
At'er 'he silence OF the centuries! - 1'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

Because the Rocky Mountain locust,
commonly called the grasshopper, mas :
fondness for bran mash favored with arsenic,
FL Paso. Col, farmers have been aole y
exterminate the swarm that threatened then
crops. Wonder II the japanese beetle nss
a taste similar to that of the grasshoppcr'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

a new Wisconsin law gives woman
civil law, including, as Senators put 1t, the
right to wear trousers and chew tobacco.
We expect, however, that any man who
chooses to wear skirts and paint his cheeks
very properly will be pinched. Where Is
this here now soy puualitv?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-16

a New York Judge has pointed out
that the mother in law, instead of menacing
marital tranquility. in many cases protects
It. 1t is the truth, but most people will
consider the statement another mother In
law joke.