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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
THE PEOPLES FORUM

and looked among some OF my mothers =
music and am sending II to you.
MRS. A. II. JONES.
Philadelphia, March 3, 1921.
BARNEY mccoy
I am going far away, Norsh darling.
And leaving such an angel far behind;
IL will break my heart In two, which !
fondly sive to you.
And no other one 30 loving, true and kind
CHORUS
Then come 10 my arms Norah darling.
Bid your friends In dear old ireland
good-by:
And It's happy we will be. In that dear land
OF the free.
Living happy with your Barney Coy.
l would go away with you. Barney darling.
But the reason why told you Oft before.
T~ould break my poor mothers heart, II
from her had to part,
And 80 roaming with you, Barney NJ Coy.
I am going far away. Norah darling.
Just as sure as there's a God that !
adore,
Hut remember what I say. that until the
judgment day,
You will never see your Barney any more.
would go away with YOU barney darling
IL my mother and tho rest OF them were
there:
For know We would be biest, in that dear
land Of the West,
Living happy with you, Barney Mccoy
I am going far away. Norah darling,
ana the ship is now anchored In the bay:
ana pefore tomorrow's sun, you will hear
the signal KUN,
90 De ready. for twill carry us away
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
The carIcature "Unele Sam"

To the Editor Of the Evening Public LEDGER:
Sir-wiil you inform mo OF the origin OF
the caricature 'Uncle Sam? Where and
when Il first appeared? X. Y. u.
Philadelphia. March @. 1921.
Careful investigation leads to the concu-
sion that the modern and current cartoon
picture OF Uncle Sam originated In Eng
land as n caricature of Brother Jonathan.
and was adopted and transplanted as "Uncle
Sam" b. Thomas Mast. the founder OF Amer
lean caricature and special artist OF Har-
per's Weekly during the Civil War.
During the years OF Nasts cartoon work
In Harper's Weekly he portrayed Uncle Sam
In a great variety OF situations and atti-
tudes. and his pictures always told story.
Once he drew Uncle Sam with beil-shaped
hat and striped trousers. but In shirt sleeves
and with an apron. scrubbing something.
Standing BY was Miss Columbia. also with
sleeves folded up and saying: Uncle Sam.
you keep on cleaning the ballot box while I
give the bench n scrubbing." Sometimes
Uncle Sam appeared with the elephant. also
created by Mast. as tho emblem Of tho Re-
publican party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
Two Songs Requested

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Lcdoer.
sir am anxious To obtain two poems
the following poems: THE Gypsy's Warn
ing and The Little Old log Cabin in the
Lae? b. f. QUINN.
We printed The Gypsys Warming on
october II. 1920. and cannot reprint It 30
soon You can get a copy OF that issue at
LITTLE OLD LOG CABIN IN THE LANE
I am getting old and feeble now, I cannot
work no more
have laid the rusty.bladed hoe to rest.
OLD Massa and old M'ssus they're sleeping
side by side.
And their spirits now are roaming with
the blost.
Things are changed about the place. the
darkies now am gone,
And I cannot hear them singing In the
and the only friend. that's left me IA that
little boy OF mine
In my little old log cabin in the lane.
ihsre was happy time to me. no. many
When the darlsies used to gather round
the door.
they used to sing and dance at night. and
play the old banjo:
But. alas. they cannot do Il any more
THO hinges are all rusty now, the door Is
tumblInR down.
And the roof let's In the sunshine and
the rain.
Oh! the only friend that's left mo Is that
little boy OF mine
In my little old log cabin In the lane.
Oh! daddy. don't you be 30 sad and me!an-
choly now.
For YOU there's many happy days In store:
Although you're old and feeble. your boy II
young and strong.
Ard VIII love and cherish ycu forever
more.
happy now:
TIL comfort and protect you from all pain
And the angels they will bless US In our
happy littie home
In our little old log cabin In the lane
Oh. child. 7 am contented. but the day must
quichly como
When I'll have to leave this earth forever
The angels they will take me from my hum
BILE little cot
And wait me to that bright celestial shore
Oh! don't despair: but come what may, you
will he happy yet.
II from sorrow aih bad feeling you re.
frain.
For the angels they will bless us IN our
happy little hour-
In our little old log cabin in the lane
"E. C. D" wants to locate the follow
Ing: Like Rion's kiss, unaslsed. un-
sought"
"E G. G." wants to know where he can
fnd the selection Sad Effects OF Good In
tentions."
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Two Poems Requested

To the EDITOR Of the Evening Fnbic Ledger;
Sir-I am anxious OF obtaining two poems
and would be very much Obliged II you or
your readers could supply me with same.
one In entitled "a Dream" cannot
quote any Of the lines TO give you an idea.
but It Is about an Irishman standing out
aide the gates OF Heaven after having been
refused admittance by 81. Peter. who stands
guarding the gates The lrishman threw
his hat over the gates and st. Peter gave
him permission TO no inside to get his hat,
with the understanding that he must come
directly out. But once inside the Irishman
stayed In and locked ST. Peter out.
I do not know the title OF the other, but
that Is about a lover serenadlng his sweet
heart (whose name happens to be Name
O'Ricily) from beneath her window. while
In the middle OF his serepadinE a big. black
woolly head comes out OF the window and
says:
Young man below dah, young man below
dah
Miss Name o REILLY lives three doors below. -
MISS Il. II,
Philadelphia. March .. 1921.
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The Lucky Number
v HS IuSNy 1NU''VV'
To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:

To the Editor Of the Evening Public ledger:
Sir--I believe tho following would inter-
est your mathematicians. Many persons
have what they consider n lucky" number.
Show such person the following row OF
figures:
B q
This consists Of the numerals from to D.
with the g missing, and inquire what Is his
number he pieases from / to 9-say 7.
You reply that. as he is fond of sevens, h-
rhail have plenty OF them and nccordinEly
proceed to multiply the series above given
BY such a number that the resulting product
consists Of sevens only. He Is required to
find the muitiplier which will produce the
above result. CLARE FORBES.
Philadelphia. March g. 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10

Letters to the Editor should be as
brief and to the point as possible,
avoiding anything that would open a
denominational or sectarian discus
sion.
No attention will be paid to anony-
nous letters. Names and addresses
must be signed as an evidence Of
good faith, although names will not
they be omitted.
Tho publication of a letter is not
to be taken as an Endorsement OF Its
Views by this paper.
Communications will not be re-
turned unless accompanied by post
age, nor will manuscript be saved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
Would Push Cases

70 tie Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
sir-Relative to the bonus question. say
.he government can never repay the s1'
,ols,.r, for the sacrifices they made and the
,srrors they suffered. How about the con-
tractors who robbed the government on can.
,orment and other workT The committee OF
Congress- found they had hecced the govern
mrnt out OF billions. Why Is this not col :
.c,ed from the traitors and crooks? II
would help considerably toward that bonus.
But, no. that graft matter was dropped In
A hurry. 80 It Is up TO US ex-sold'erS 10 Keep
4 alive and demand that those who de-
trauded the government arc tried and made
10 dIsgorge. What do the other boys think
.hout this? WILLIAM r. RANKIN.
Philadelphia. March 4, 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
letters to the Editor
-, rv.,escert Fame

,,,o, oj TIC Evening Pubic Lcdoe''
70 the Few, n. that spinners OF yarns are
sometime ,.m. IL "Dioscnss," and
hs" 'O'" ,,,. George Nox McCain's para.
After reso"m mvrs,so PuBtic LEpSEn anent
rsph n 'pv %bbey, at 1 o'clock today ! also
Edwin A. HOo ,Sc Academy of the Fine Arts:
t.l.paoneda a.aT ,"' sir, they have not yet found
out s"T ,'',ed them to buy or borrow an EVE, EVE.
advns,' ,,c LrpoEH Of Tuesday and turn
Hse r.'.'n an column four and read. THIS
~ is quite true: -,
sIV 40. YOU amused or sadT ,,oorxrs
o,iadelphia. March U. i'%i'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
The "Eortv.f7ve" Puzzle

To the Editor Of the Ecen!nD Public Ledger:
Sir-Plrnss print the inciosed mathe-
matical puzzle in Jour Peoples Forum for
the cnterta tainr,ent Of your readers. who
seem to like questions OF this character:
See n you can find n number which. null
tiplied by q. @. o. IL. l5. lS. 81. "a or 81
shall In each case give as product the
same digit three times repeated.
JOHN r. HENRY.
Philadelphia. February %. 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
Wants Irish Soma

To tho Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir--wili you please ask some reader Of
your Peoples Forum II he or she can supply
an old Irish rong called banners Lonely
Shore? A few of the lines are:
When on my pillow I reclne,
The thoughts OF Banncr's lonely banks.
Throb within my breast when silent sleep
Steals DER my brow and sadly implore
The rocky cliffs that do surround sweet
Banners lonely shore.
ROBERT r. REILLY.
Norrstovn Pa, February "a. 1921.
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Can You Name u?

To tire Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
sir-wln you ask II any OF your readers
can find a number which is Just as much
short OF 80 as its quadruple Is above so?
W. l.. Il.
Philadelphia. March l. 1891.
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Supplies Old Song

To the Editor Of the ErCnilD PubIic LedGrr.
Sir--Some days ago | saw request In
the Peoples Forum for the inclosed old song
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10

"E. C. D" wants to locate the follow
ing: Like Rion's kiss unaslSed un-
sought"
"E. G. CO wants to know where he can
nnd the selection Sad Effects OF Good In
tentions."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10

Women's House Dresses
S1ss.S sss; FF''' SITS $1.35
Gingham and percale dressses in
straight-line styles. trimmed with
plain materials. Sizes 3S to AZ.
First Floor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10

Girls Colored Tub Frocks
.ss., s.s; Price ''.''' 81. 90
Plaid and checked Einghams and
plain color poplins, trimmed with
contrasting pattern collars, cuffs and
pockets and belts. Sizes to ~
yesrs Second Floor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10
Poems and Songs Desired

Philadelphia. March
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-10

RsS. Prles S7.so. Friday 9O s0o
New skirts in stripes, checks and
large broken piaids. shirrod and
pleated styles, some with tailored
pockets. In brown, tan. navy. green
and blue. Belted. Second Floor
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
REQ 6 TOURING

NATIONAL Six 1915, for sale cheap
or trade for Buick light six. 2ol West
Twelfth.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31

SIDE curtains and plate glass win
d"ws. Pueblo Auto Top Co.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
MAXWELL ROADSTER

Now in paint shop. New top,
new battery. hve tires with de-
mountable rims. motor runs
like a top. Price $4,000, $4,000
cash, balance one year.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
HARBOUR TOURING

passenger Touring.
Khaki top. thoroly overhauled.
with hve excellent tires. Very
economical and powerful. Price
$4,000. $4,000 down. balance
one year.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
1920 REQ 6 TOURING

Driven but 1000 miles.
Finish excellent and motor
absolutely perfect and has Just
been fitted with DeLuN. iron
pistons. Equipped with bumpers
front and rear and complete set
Of tools and Ave Royal Cord
tires. This IS one of the bes.
used cars we have ever offered.
Price $500, $500 down. balance
ono year.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
400 CHEVROLET TOURING

Excellent tires. new top. re-
built battery and a "peppy"
motor. Price $500 no.. 10000
down, balance one year.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
CHEVROLET TOURING,
1918 BABY GRAND

Refnished like brand new,
thcroly overhauled and runs
beautifully. Five excellent tires
and a new top. Owner added a
number Of attractive extras,
such as windshield. cleaner.
motormeter, chains and COM
plete set Of tools Price $4,000:
$4,000 down, balance one year.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31
OVERLAND ROADSTER

Very nice hnish, upholstery
and top Just like new: almost
new tires, runs like a top.
$4,000, $4,000 down, balance one
year.
Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31

FOR sALE-i-room stone house.
pnrtlv modern. Another brick house
room. modern This property can he
assu owner . Block II
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24
Out Watsoning Watson


Tom Watson has been bested. Gem
gresham Herrick, of Oklahoma, has
seen him and gone him one better, so to
speak. Tom wants liberty bonds made
legal tender and, in addition, wants
bankers compelled to lend money on
thent e par. With the first expedtent
in effect, however, it is not easy tc
understand the reed of the latter. MI.
HerriclS would compel the governm ent
t. issue currency in payment at par
for II. bonds pre- scented and would tsen
fine anybody $4,000 who offered TO
sell such bonds below par.
Such schemes are probably suggested
in the hope OF making their holders
solid with constituents minus a th.nk-
tank. 1t would doubtless be possible to
bring bonds tip to par in this way. Per-
haps it is more accurate to say that
parity would be brought down to the
bonds, for, under such initiation, 100
cents bonds would probably buy about
one-fourth as much as will present day
SO or 90-cent bonds. The government
could pay off it's national debt by the
printing press instead of by taxation
and its.currency would be worth about
as much as Russian money.-Chatta
nooga News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24

day night. His little boy and girl
friends were invited. They came. in
their party dresses and with their little
faces shining-but there was no party
Mother was baking birthday cake.
Just before time to take it from the
oven, she schemed to get Chester out of
the house so he would not see it. She
sent him to the grocery with his cousin
They ran laughing and shouting from
the house, and a short distance down
the street hoped on the rear end of
wagon. Later they hoped off. The
cousin was first and reached the curb.
Chester was second, and the automo-
bile killed him."
Surely that simple narrative will car
ry its lesson home, if anything could.
And yet
My boy knew that lesson better, or
ought to have known it better, than any
other boy in the world says the father.
"A thousand times 1 have said to him,
Boy, have all the fun you can, but
never hop on a wagon While it is being
driven along a city street."
All that a father could do to teach one
boy to obey all the sensible rules of eau
ton on public thoroughfare was done,
and 1t failed. Yet that father is not
discouraged He hopes now to save
some other mans boy. OF such stuff
are heroes made. If any mans warning
can carry conviction to boyish hearts,
it is his.-Tampa Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24
PUBLIC SCHOOLS EMoNSTRATE
WELFARE WORK TREATMENT.

As suggesting strongly that the pub
lie health of the community can be
improved through the medium of the
public school much more successfully
possibly than through other agencies,
thus emphasizing the fact that well
fare work should be subordinated to
education, attention is being directed
to the achievements OF Arlington Co.
Virginia, along this line. When a
health campaign was inaugurated in
Arlington county, the suggestion was
made that it could be made both eff
fective and popular only with the
assistance of the school children and
the public schools.
This suggestion was adopted with
the result that the children not only
are improving their own health but
they are setting an example for good
to their elders. Contests We're started
between the boys and girls, and be-
tween different classes, and today
the greatest enthusiasm is shown by
members of one group of contestants
who are able to show greater cleanli-
ness of face, hands, nails. teeth, and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24
Why Not Bodied Hair?


Bobbed hair is not dignified in he
opinion of Marshall Field & Co., uf
Chicago, the latest recruits to the en-
ployers' campaign against the fashion,
and the girl who refuses to wear her
crown of glory in the time-honored
manner will have to go.
If Marshall Field & Co., or any 9TH
err company employing girls, can think
of a more sensible innovation among
the hundreds adopted yearly by their
employees than the custom of bobbing
the hair, they have been more observ-
ant of passing styles than the average
citizen. The wonder is that more wo-
men have not rebelled earlier against
the less sanitary and less comfortable
mode SO long in vogue. Bobbed hair
is easy to comb, easy to wash, cooler
in summer, impossible to disarrange
and not disagreeable to look at. To
possess it is to share with men in a
degree the freedom from the necessity
of protracted labor in front of a mir
ror which has given the male a decid-
ed advantage in commercial and indus
trial competition. It removes one more
of the barriers to physical activity,
which were raised against women dur
ing the so-called age of chivalry Even
the Chinese are abandoning the prac-
tice of footbinding. The American girl
should be allowed to wear her hair the
way she likes it.
In essence the attempt to control wo-
mems styles is only one more evidence
of the rule of Mrs. Grundy and the
various leagues for the suppression of
personal liberty in this our normal age
Whatever is new is wrong in their
eyes. But when it happens to be SEN
sible 1t will probably win out anyway
New York World :.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24
NEGRO AVIATOR COMES TO
THE FRONT

There are other things besides our
home brew" that nave kick" to
them, as a man Of color IN the Sunny
South has discovered. George Fisher,
claiming to be the only negro aviator
has come. forth into the aeronautical
world with a home made airplane. in
tending to startle the natives down in
New Orleans with his prcwess as a a
pilot In all likelihood, George car
ries in his hip pocket, two left hind
feet of rabbits said to have been
killed by the light of the moon in a
country graveyard, and a slicked up
dime amongst his spending change,
for in his first trial flight the pro-
peller of his machine flew off. tearing
a hole in a house and hurting itself
into a player piano. Not to be de-
tered. however. by this trifling Incl
dent, George, it is said, claims to know
what he is about and intends to fly
his "flivver' again. Nothing has been
heard thus far as to the result of
his second venture. but if the hind
pedal extremities of the two deceased
rabbits aforementioned still bear their
mystic charm 1t is quite likely that
an irate tenant will be after Georges
scalp and make him dig up for
house repairs and new player piano.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24
Why Not Boost Your Booster?

The other day an Avalon business
man asserted that he had had a GER
tain piece of printing done in Los An
geles for forty cents" less than the
Catalina Islander print shop had pre-
viously done it. just think of 1.-THE
saved forty cents by taking his work
to an outside shopi
Does the man he took it to do any
thing for Avalon? Does he print fifty
two issues of a paper every year boost
ing the interests of Avalon? Does he
tell every week from 1000 to 5000 peo-
pie about the attractions of Catalina
Island?? Does he burn the midnight
oil trying to write something from week
to week that viii help the material in
terest of this community? If he does
that business man took mon
ey out of Avalon and gave it to some
one who IS not helping him, and took
business away from one who is not
only materially helping him, but every
other legitimate business in this COM
What's his name2 Wen, that
would be telling. He read this and that
is enough for us.-Catalina Islander.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24
KEEPING THE BOYS AT HOME
NIGHTS

There has been agitation, pro and
con, in dozen or more cities recently
on topics ranging from stray dogs to
late stayers"-boys too young to be
on the streets at unseemly hours for
young folks. 1t does not seem amlss
at this time to suggest that the city
administration look into both these
subjects.
1t is a noticeable fact that boys in
knee trousers-and they wear long
ones now, at from IA to 16 years--are
seen on the streets at extremely late
hours for little boys. Is there q city
ordinance covering this, and Is it lack
of enforcement, or does the city lack
an ordinance so obviously potential 70
the welfare of the community.
About stray dogs, the police biotter
shows many instances of stray dogs,
vicious ones, too, being complained of.
In many cases, dogs are found dead IN
vacant lots and in the streets. Some
of them are killed in the traffic, but
not all of them. In a campaign re-
Gently conducted by the city Of Bir-
,mingham, (Ala.) upwards of 1000 dogs
We're killed, and still there is no no.
ticeable scarcity Of canine inaahita-
ton in the Maggie City, accor Iiug to
residents Of the Alabama metropolis,
visiting in this city.
Surely any person possessing a dog
Of any pedigree. OF any wortt. cares
enough for the animal to keep Il COR
fined to home bounds" during the
inight-there are many dogs roaming
the streets # Pensacola at Might and
some of them al decidedly vicious.
Why not put n campaign on against
these night prcM,ees, ravagers Of hens
nests, and ill-lemrered sons OF satan
Pensacola has many flea-bitten, man
gy. disrep1satle and nondescript cam
ines that Coil oe spared very coz
veniently AID .xpcdicLt.y.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-24

idea in the back or my brain that in
time we might hit it off.
$50 trust you will be a good scout
and get a divorce as quickly as you
can. Not that we need any little for
malities down here, bus it might be
awkward for me to be so much mar
ried If we ever wanted 10 come back
to the United States.
II suppose Madge win chortIe over
the fact that her father properly has
tscorned me on learning of my new
plans He evidently has a soft spot in
his heart for you, and thinks your
heart might be broken over my defec-
ton. or something like that. How
little he knowsl He has gone off by
himself, and I'm not sorry, for a more
mysterious old cuss never lived. He
has more schemes afoot, more intri-
guing and thieving officials coming to
see him than you can count. If had
an imagination 1 should say he was an
international spy, but he probably is
playing some little graft game OF his
own
! well. old girl. take care of your
self. and remember, no hard feelings
1 am just doing what we agreed to do
when we married. And If there is
ever anything can do for you, don't
fail to let me know. 1 mean it'll
HARRY"