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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
ST. GEoRGE'S-oN-THE-PARKWAY

TNdE furry over the threatened dcstrur-
Il tion of Old St Georges Methodist
Episcopal Church has ended not only in the
Interchange of gracious amenities, but an
entirely new proposal of possible inspira.
tional value.
Bishop Berry generously realized the
difhculties confronting the Bridge Commits
sioners. Landmarks of some consequence
were almost certain to be sacrificed in
locating the structure. This Is usually the
way with progress, in consideration of which
sense of proportion is needful.
Engineer Ralph Modjesk considerably re-
sponded with the suggestion that with a few
r1fiing alterations in the. plans st. Georges
could be spared on its present site. Bishop
Berry continues the courtcsies by advancing
the idea that St. Georges as a memorial
edifce would lend pirturcsqucness and his
toric interest to the Parkway.
As n shrine of carly MethodiSm in this
city its appeal would be- unOuestionably
broadened. 1t would be accessible to thou
sands of persons who now seldom think of
visiting the Franklin Square ncighbOrhood.
There is such thing. of course, as ruth
less vandalism It is also we'll to note that
special cases deserve special treatment
The suggested change would present no
precedent for dismantling Independence
Hall or transferring il To another location.
A ssnsc Of tho fitness of things is often
an effective cure for problems which. If
pedantically and narrowly viewed. seem in
noluble
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
COOL THOUGHTS


A me outer '"" T." "1"H'I" IN; NV
~ n'I'S M''' " I"' ",.' -. 'u"u ii"pe ,p
and io'" 'ni.G' n"r'"'"Sl "i : np" morn IITT
Tristan ga u"h", '""irIN'"E '"r'' S''lnI
V"l'ahr i-!ahHN' "u'" WIN ,"I,I' unu'r '.'
SrI"h'ihc survey "' H'' ERNEST CI"'Ni'''T III
ms new ,Ap''"t'o" '"I'"s" N''""''''
rlic ana Ah'ar''" ''"''
Human ISOLATION f'amh'S 'N '''InaA 10 Inis Inis
l'nu,h '","n!' 10y COMPARISON LI'-
earn island III "a" H"u'n 'o''r'' 'a't'u a'
III" last refuge "i thr "'u.in''rH oi the
b"nny Is oPI1rS Ion@ ""o 'Horo Contiguous !" CIV ~
Ii,.ir,, 80, ror,a,,o ,rria,o,,
ninety rj T" j.Ion%E 's o" once "rr ""casionou
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
HOPE IN MORE HOMES

THERE is encouragement for home seek
j ers in an overcrowded city in the
marked spurt in dwelling construction re-
corded in the permits granted by the Bureau
Of Building CONSTRUCTION during last month.
While the figures are still far from the pre-
war normalty, it is apparent that the season
of stagnation is ending Mt last.
The total of 149 dwellings, plans for
which were officially registered in June, 1927
is higher than that reached in nearly every
month of last year. Moreover. the propor-
tions between alterations permits and those
for new construction have radically changed,
Patching-up processes are giving way to
vigorous enterprise.
Summer Is. of course. the building ,rHSon.
and it's records provide the most trustworthy
indices of the actual state of tho industry.
The fact that construction operations begun
In June. 1913, amounted in value 10 only
81 .141 ,045, az against S4.5S7 800 for last
month, encouragingly reveals the extent Of
Improvement
Nothing like the true needs Of the case arc
met even by this progress. bur July. August
apd September of this year may be expected
No make still better showinGs It is unlikely
that the depression Of the critical year of
the war will soon rcCur.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Plladelphians Subjects They
KnO,U Best

put one over and has not obtained posi-
tion he is likely to find himself out of luck
as we have Il way of investigating these
matters.
"We are caring for about 200 men q day
here now We house about 130 every night
Every man is fed, given clean bed and
clean nightclothes. He is also obliged to
take a shower, bath If he needs it and is
closely inspected. In fact. our mission com
pares favorably in cleanliness with any first
class hotel
1--WE don't believe in preaching man back
to normal We find that good square meal
and little human interest and understand :
ing are the most effective methods. Many of
these fellows have gone for years, probably
without having single person to take n
genuine. honest interest in them
Many a man who would ordinarily be
sent to jail, have criminal record regis
tered against him and turn into the paths
OF crime, is saved by being taken in hand at
the right time and given little help and
encouragement.
IAN the men who come here are not buns,
either. We have had bankers ruined by
speculation, physicians. men of wide fame,
writer's and prominent men of various types.
who have received n severe setback of some
sort and have lost their ambition. We never
reveal their names, because Il man can help
himself better if shielded from the unsympa :
thetic eyes of the multitude.
1--WE do the best we can, but it is a heavy
struggle when you face conditions such as
we have today. which have seemed to con
spire against the lesscning of the ranks Of
the down and -outcrs.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
SEcTARlANISM AND CHARITY

'TNHE condition produced by the Supreme
l. Court decision upsetting State appro-
prlatlons to sectarian or denomina a ational
charities will have TO receive the serious
attention of all the charitably disposed.
Inc Constitution forbids appropriations
10 such institutions. But many, II not all,
that have received State aid are omen to
persons of all sects and denominations. Al.
though they are under scctarian control. the
Legislature has appropriated money to them
on the theory that the Constitution merely
torbidS the use of State funds for the
bcneht OF various sects but does not forbid
the use of State funds for the charitable
work of the sects which is not confined to
adherents Of those sects.
Ihe validity of this theory had not been
tested In this State until the suits we're
brought on which the decision has just been
made. Although there are similar provisions
in the Constitutions of other states, public
money is appropriated in those States in the
same way that IL has been appropriated here
and on the same theory
Until the Constitution Is changed the in
stitutions which have been receiving State
aid will be dependent entirely on private
contributions Some of them will be COM
PEELED to curtail their activities, and the
inmates or patients who have been cared
for In them viii have to be cared for in non
sectarian institutions under private control
or in State institutions supported entirely
from State funds.
The plain purpose Of the Constitution is
to prevent the use Of public money for the
spread of scctnrian doctrines. II is to insure
the complete separation of Church and State
1t is generally admitted that this is in
accord with the spirit of American institu-
tions and no one would urge that any other
policy should be adopted. II there is an
institution the inmates Of which are subject
TO the discipline in any way of any sect,
that institution should not be helped with
money from the State funds. II there Is an
institution in which no one but members Of
certain sect are admitted. such an insti-
tuition should clearly be supported by the
members of that sect. But every one knows
that there are many institutions open to the
needy and the suffering of every sect, even
though they are managed by one sect, and
that in such institutions there is no com
pulSion TO conform to any seCtarian tests or
to submit to any sectarian teaching.
II way cannot be found to assist these
institutions TO do the work which but for
them the State itself would have to do. then
the State institutions will have to be enlarged
and tho purely secular institutions privately
maintained will have to receive larger appro-
priatiOns
Tho decision Of the Court has made II
certain thnt when the convention is called
n revise the Constitution the section Of that
document dealing with appropriations to
charities will be discussed with n fuller
understanding Of its Importance than would
have hcrn tho case IL the appropriations had
not been invalidated.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
THE COAL TAX

VyHE State Fuel Administrator If Massa-
j chusetts has asked the State Attorney
General to contest the validity Of the Penn
fylyania tax on anthracite. He saws that
a the tax will increase the cost Of anthracite
n New England by from thirty TO forty
ents a ton.
" The tax to be collected here amounts to
only small fraction Of this sum The
( difference, if it is collected, will be collected
by the coal profteors.
The Massachusetts official j. going about
the protection of the coal CONSUMERS in the
wrong way. They can b" protected by the
passage of the Freinghuyscn publicity bill
which the coal barOns are attacking by a
large and highly organized and abundantly
fnanced lobby in Washington.
The barons do not want publicity They
object to disclosing the costs of mining and
the amount mined from time to time and the
amount sold and the prices obtained. They
are charging the men who arr demanding
this sort of publicity with seeking 10 apply
bolshevistic methods in the United States,
As 10 the right of PENNSYLVANIA to tax
anthracite in the way il has been taxed
opinions in this State differ. But as to the
right of a State to levy such taxes as its
own courts regard as constitutional without
interference from other States there can be
no anestion SO long AZ those taxes ARE not
2,.eort trycr within the meaning Of the
Federal Constitution. The tax on anthra-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

1. Ilolo, on the Island of Panay, is the
second largest city in the Philippines,
with population In 1914 of As, 900
2. woodrow Wilson was graduated from
Princeton and in law from the Uni.
Versity OF Virginia.
3. Pride and Prejudice" and "Northanper
Abbey" arc two novels by Jane Austen
4. Tho principal war between the Boer Re
publlcs OF South africa and Great
Britain lasted from 1899 to 1902
B. "Meuniere" sauce means ,"mier's wife"
sauce. "Meunere" is the feminine or
the French "meunier." miller ~
6. Vermont was the first State to be nd
mitted to the Union after the original
thirteen. 40 '''a'
7, TeGumseh was n noted chief of tbe
Shawnee Indians. He served as an ir'5
portant ally OF the British in the War
or ISL? and was killed in the BattIa
. ,,nr the Thames, Canada, In 1918.
g. inc nautical term abaft means bebipd .
. IN the stern half Of the ship. '''u
u ~ ueus eH maChina" Is "A power or event
mat comes In the nick OF time to solvs
dlnlcuity provdential interpositinn
cSplGlaliy In II play or novel Tho tern,'
when is Latin, was given TO thn
god VINO III tho ancient theatre va"
suspended In the air over the sto%s
by niachinery. It's literal meanIne -
"a god from the machine" ~
~ dragoman is am Interpreter. esneciau,,
III Arabic, Turkish or Persian ""S
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
Today's Birthdays

Jan Kubelk, one of the worlds most
celebrated violinists, born near Prague
forty one years ago
DR.. William ]. Hutchins, president Of
Berea College, born in Brooklyn, n. Y,
fifty years ago.
Rabbi Judah l.. Magnes, celebrated jew
ish scholar and social worker Of New York
City, born in San Francisco forty-four
years ago.
Frances Tiernan C"Christian Reid'D, a
prolific writer Of popular novels, born at
Salisbury, n. c., seventy five years ago.
Admiral Sir Hcdworth Mrux, distin-
guishcd British naval officer, born sixty five
years ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
l. What is a dumdum bullet and why is II
SO called?
>. In what famous work of fiction does the
character OF DuCnea occur?
3. What IL geOphagy'
4. Who preceded Karl as Emperor of Aus
riu-liungary?
b. What is the particular distinction of
Mount Mitchell In tho Appalachian
systems
s. Who was Ceres in classical mythology?
7. What does the first amendment to the
Federal Constitution provide?
s. What Is n prosCenium?
.. Who was the first American captain to
carry the national flag around the globe
on a continuous voyage"
10. What Is a squcegee?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

cite cannot be made an export tax by such
characterization of II by either Congress
man or State Fuel Administrator. The
anthracite tax is levied uniformly on all
anthracite mined in the State, whether for
domestic consumption or for sale in other
states. II Is an export tax no more than
Is the tax on wholesale business in this State
levied by the Mercantile Appraisers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Just as the young artist was about to
be evicted from his room in New York for
non payment Of rent, the postman arrived
with letter informing him that he had won
the Prix dc Rome, which meant that his
troubles were over and he might study
abroad.--No. that isn't the end Of a masa
zine story. II comes from that best collec-
ton of short stories, the news columns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

The Young Lady Next Door But One
says that now that London has put a statue
of Washington in Trafalgar square, Phila.
Trafalgar in Washington Suuarp.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

DR.. Valcria Parker says "he vamps'
are responsible for girls who wear short
skirts and paint and powder. Righto And
girls who wear short skirts and paint and
powder are responsible for "he vamps. "
Same old vicious circle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Smoking has been prohibited in the
cyclone swept area of the Olympic Peninsula
patriotic smoker in the country will object.
The order was issued to protect the district
fron,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Reports of an alligator upsctting a boat
and attacking a man in the Ohio River near
GallipOliS. O., cause one to wonder what
the prohibition agents are doing in that
section,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

The annual festival of the joint church
brotherhoods in Port Norris y. j.. on
Saturday last was marked by three boxing
bouts. See what the example of Jersey City
hoS done already
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

4 Chicago man defeated forty five
women in a bread baking contest and was
awarded dainty ribboned apron. This
will cntitle him to put on some crust, but
he probably would have preferred the dough.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Buffalo has raised the price Of marriage
licenses from 81 to 81. and the number of
licenses issued in month has decreased %
per cent. Who would have believed Cupid
WaS such n mixer;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

A Northwestern University professor
has succeeded in producing an ear of corn
with red, white and blue kernels. From
this he ought to be able to produce 100 per
cent American cOrnjure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

carload of fresh fruit arriving in
New York from California sold in packages
of ten or twelve pounds for 81. - and $3.50
a package What kind of fruit? In the
name Of the profit figs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Slcuths Of the International Reform
Bureau are alleged to have discovered that
each Of the heavy contenderS in the big fight
Watson got the needle all right.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

At the State Fair In Syracuse. y. Y,
there is to be exhibited n twelve ton cheese
We'd like to see the loaf of bread that goes
with it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

climbs and the crops burn, think Of Tristan
da Cunha. 1t is far away, of course-like
Paradise
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Far be it from US to swank but we kind
of like the stuff our own Bob and Bart
turned in from the "roped arena"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

J. Ogden Armour. packer. naturally
wanted to know something of the men who
pack punch. Come to think Of it. a
pugilist is natural horn meat packer
anyway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

There is something more than apt allit-
Grafton in the Mayors phrase. "Wiggling
Wcglein." There is assonancc and ap-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Wisconsin has passed a law prohibiting
the manufacture of home brow. 1t will be,
however, no ban on trouble.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

The Weather Man feintcd so clevcrly
that nobody seemed to know whether OF
not to expect Knockout
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

The Eagle didn't scream yesterday.
Chorted safely and sancly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

You cant convince those who guessed
wrong that the best man won.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

There is now a lot Of good fircwood for
sale in Jersey City.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

WHEN really got to the real party the
w following week it was such n relief,
In prayer meeting phrase it was more thai
! could ask or think. The teachers we're
da time, they did dress informally-that ia,
IN what was becoming to the individuals,
just as it happened. And there was not a
heavy. opulent face among them, but plenty
of keen. masterful, gentle, dreamy. shy
meditative. intellectual faces. There was
the readicst laughter | have ever heard at
public dinner, and TO Judge by the round
table where my card directed me, very good
talk before the speeches. | had the prncipai
of a downtown school on my left and tbn
secretary of the Child Welfare Association
on my right, two youngish. pretty primary
teachers opposite me and a professor some
body next to them. The dinner itself was
very good and the speeches most spontaneous
and well directed. l could have shouted NV
pleasure and relief
DR.. Finegan made n little excursion out
side the town in his speech He made n
prediction to those 500 men and women
that, IL it comes true will be- tho best thing
a year.
lie spoke about the country schoolhouse.
the little red schoohOuSe' of poetry and
fiction. mostly fiction. lie said it was to
be scrapped. And unlike the man in the
Scriptures, who pulled down his barns and
built greater, it was to be Oh rhopped @ ID into n%o
kindltng wood so far as its pattern and its
type went, and both it and the kind NJ
mind training that it had sheltered were n
be replaced by n schOolhOuse and school nro
gram that would place the country how md
girl on an educational plane with their town
cousins.
To those Of us who know what n farco
the little red sChOolhouse on the hill'' bos
been for the last fifty years, except in rare
instances and in favored localities this was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

Frank Thomas Hines enlisted as a pri
vate in the army back ina1S9S. Twent,
years later he was retired as brigadier gen
cral at the age of forty one He il was VIII
had charge Of transportation for the arm,
during the great conflict and he it was VIII
made record on his job that was equalet
by few In that stupendous undertaking.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

The fans may now give little attention
| to baseball
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05

T WAS asking a country postmaster NOT
J. long ago what competitors he as a Demo
Crat expected to Oust him from the seot NJ
the mighty he has occupied in his village
through two Administrations. He chuckled
and said:
There are only two men I'm afraid of
and they don't want the job -
"Why are you afraid Of them, them" I
asked
because they could both Of them mass tbo
civil service examination necessary TO got
the appointment, and no one else can thai =
why" he said.
] thought he exaggerated the lack of school
learning Of his home village. There are
about 6oo men women and children in that
small farming community. On inquiry 7
discovered that very few Of the men and bows
have ever gone beyond tho first few grades
in the village school and barely know how
TO write, Some few can figure, almost ali
can read little, and beyond that they do
not care to go.
CURIOUSLY enough. plenty of their
~ women can write very well, and thev
could, some of them, pass an examination
for POstofice duties because they have heen
sent to high school in the nearby town
Going to high school is an expense in thc
family of a farmer about equal to profes-
sional mans sending son or daughter to
college, and therefore not to be entered into
lightly. One such family that ] know took
some savings and put another mortgage on
the barn and sent one of the girls of TO n
higher grade school. ] saw her this week
back from her years work. She told me
she had fiunked on mathematics but got high
grade on nature studies. She said they had
n different method of teaching mathematics
from the one she was used to, but the nature
studies were from the same course as she
had taken in the village school.
Apparently they all study nature out of a
book. Which accounts for the fact that an
ordinary country child does not know how to
weed flower garden. That is, he pulls up
the flowers and leaves the weeds. Which
may account also for the fact that when my
house up In the country was entered this
wear the only thing taken was "Iiow to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
SHORT CUTS
Next stop Labor Day

Still talking about tho big fight?
The New York herald., 1921-01-06

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