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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-25
THE PEOPLES FORUM
Is Ours Really "City of Brotherly Loue"9
Getting Away From the Point

70 ne Editor OF the Evening Public Ledger:
Slr-l have read with great interest
n a. the letters printed in the People 8
horum on the subject as to whether
Ihiladelphia is really "City of Broth
cry Love. l was in the hope that
some good would come out of this dis
clssion, and that many of the people
VINO treat strangers here SO unkindly
would read these letters and mend their
ways. Inc discussion has drifted into
sort OF personal abuse of the city
on the part of the visiting writer's and
sarcastic remarks about the city's crit
les among its defenders.
Let get back to the first significance
Oh the subject, and try to keep our dis
cussion from personal channel and
see II we cannot find some way to bring
good out of the arguments pro and con.
am a young womap from the coun-
Try who came to this city several years
ago to seek employment and earn n liy-
ing, which 1t was not possible for me to
40 IN my. home town, where there are
no factories employing help, no stores,
ana even where the families do their
own work and do no4 employ domestics.
Ny coming was a case of necessity. l
dreaded leaving my home town, where
l had many friends, but there was a
must" in the case.
Upon reaching the city looked up the
cheapest kind of boarding house and
then work. l needed salary upon
which l could live respectfully. This
was most hard to find, and in my case.
Tor the three years / have been here l
have not been able to save a cent to
buy the little necessities that 1 needed,
but only was able to pay my board and
buy modest clothing. ] have had moth
ing left for any sort Of amusement. A
girl in my position Is unable to make
friends In this city, as have found,
much to my regret, after living an hon.
est, honorable life for three years.
Why should Philadelphia be cold and
indifferent to one In my circumstances,
unfortunately through no fault Of mine? ?
There are no doubt thousands of girls
from the country in the same situation
as myself. And there are still more
thousands Of girls from the country who
came here under the same circumstances
as / did who were not morally strong
enough to hold themselves respectable
and above temptation. The cold, in
different people of this city are resron-
sible for the other thousands, and to
hold these that are wavering from q
precipitation.
You may not feel IN great city like
this that you are your brothers. or sis
ter's keeper, but in the sight of God
you are, and Indifference or selfishness
on your part is going to be counted
against you. Men and women who are
forced into n great city to earn live
lihood have need OF a friendly hand,
and you are responsible If you are not
willing to extend it when the opportu-
nifty Is afforded, or even to look around
for such an opportunity.
A COUNTRY GIRL.
Philadelphia, January %. 1922.
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Letters to the Editor
.e.n.,d Not pisbar

rs55, ~ the Epeninp Pablo Ledger I
' s,r-Nbtiding recently, the announce- 's,,
on ,bot The p. II. II. was dischargihs
,nen % over forty five years OF ass, no, .nt
axcnse being that their ages woulu nos os
q. In with the pension. Requirements as
~ isnoth of service before reachibe re-
.,.amant age. / think that such ac,lon
shonld be discouraged, If not 1orolduen.
yt has always been my. contention thu,
n,on,s age was part of his assets. anu
..hera his live ihood was Jeopardized oy
wnt atatement of age, that refusal to state
% mo should not be barrier 10 en-
ply ~ ,m get ony kind Of employment the
rsd tape of age and a multitude OF per.
sonal questions that nre oDlectlonup,e
40 many persons are asked and requireu.
4 man over forty years OF age iaces
handicap in this respect.
Az In pensions, etc.. subjects that are
.,rontv. Ave or more years in the future
~ less consequence to the men than
ahe matter of Immediate employment
md a chance to live that long. Where
4 nension and time ure part OF the re-
1uIrements the applicant shou'd be given
w.. aro rota pension, no matter how many
Years he Is employed, until he reaches
fbe retirement age. Discriminating as
10 age should be stopped by law, as age
IA one thing beyond our control, In a
truthful sense. Let q persons physical
ability be the accepted standard.
PHILADELPHIA, January ~, 1922.
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DEATHS

Int. Fernwood Gem. Trends- may. call at
above address Thurs.. after p M
| Taylor. Jan. 20, 1929, THOMAS. hus-
band of the late Esther Taylor NEE Whellen),
aged 10 Relatives and friends ere invited to
the funeral, Thurs. 3 A. NJ, from his late
high requiem mass Church of the Ascension
4; AT;RorHi..Pan. 1 H. v"2S 80. HIFRED TRoTH. AGED
10, Relatives and friends invited to fu-
neral, Thurs. 2:sO p. NJ. from residence Of
his son. 1904 Catharine st. Int. private.
MI "vSkHi%Jan. iii a2. MICHAEL wArL. aged
70. Relatives and friends. also members OF
Eisass.Loth!ngen Beneficial Society and EN- /.
FR5Gyfs FRuaysrsl Thurs % $40 a. NJ: 1899 gsS So t.
10 vy9k,Gpi96eh..-tsn 9,Gpi96eh. ' %, MARY A.. daughter OF
Eiizabeth A. and the late Patrick II Ward
ReiatIyes and friends also b. " NJ. SO.
daIity. sacred Heart Society and Mont
and from ON bsT tsTtsd ste to fgP5s
Se2o c6MIarSas III ggts Church 10 A. n. int HSiy fSs
Cross Gem New York and Chicago papers
risWYfifi isWYfifirfHp'yGAt ffpy summit n J.. Jan. 20. MAR.
rhSNis Il. WHITE. widow of Horace NJ.
White, Of Ph!ladclpIhi,s.; ,. Funeral seryLGet
d this s%ss Ssnpss 1sc s " h' fRs f5RRR
lotw w1HstTiE."eJar. 90. 1872, So sANNN M
widow of william H. White, (nee Shlbe
srcJ 90 Rclatiyes and friends are invited
~ ~ attend funeral services. We'd, s p NJ
20 20 bsr late residence 8542 n. 10th st. Int
az convenience of the family - -
a' 'WSSIiSoN.--Ian. 20. SAMUEL FIFE Will.
son, aged SO. Relatives and friends. also
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PhIIadelphIa's Faults

TO the Editor Of tho Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-If you were to believe many OF
the writer's to your Peoples Forum coli
umn you would think this was the very
worst city in America in which to live.
I beg to differ with them. Philadelphia
Is all right IL you look at the conditions
here in the right way.
Too often people come here through
having read that Philadelphia was the
third largest city In the country, and
one of the greatest of our manufacturing
centers. They expect too much. They
know we are called THE City of
Homes" and "The City Of Brotherly
Love-" They have read Of these titles
in histories, many Of which were writ
ten a century or n half century ago,
and have never been brought up to date.
The people Of the nation generally look
upon this city as the Cradle Of LIB
erty." The persons who rocked this
cradle come from all parts Of the coun-
try, and when the infant was large
enough to leave the cradle, they each
betook themselves to different sections
OF the Country, Huu ieh'ofcu tuc tiau"
to Washington, ID. c., leaving Philadel-
phia only memory. :.
Philadelphians are continuing to live
in that memory. The histories Of the
country fail to attach to us the odium
of being the most rock ridden city OF
political corruption in the country. They
fail to point out that from our City
Hall down TO our municipal bath houses
three fourths of the money expended
has gone to feather the nests Of the
political gangsters. The people have
become so used to being cheated and
taken advantage Of, that they have be-
come suspicious of everything and
everybody, and that Is why they lail
to warm UP to any body but the mem =
bers Of their own immediate family.
This is the cause of the lack of brother
ly love here today.
There was time in recent years
when we really were entitled to the
name "Ctty Of Homes,' but untor-
tunately the graft system has cut asun-
der this title through allowing these
homes to get into the hands Of s',e"u-
lators who have been able to grind the
public to n condition which is not to be
found in any other city in the country,
with the possible exception of New
York City, which Is controlled by the
same element.
We may have reason to be proud of
certain things In this city which are
still uncontrolled by this graft system,
but the officials of this system are grad
ually getting the upper hand in every
way, and things are going from bad tn
orse with no relief in sight to bring
back to US the delightful conditions to
which we onco were so proud to refer.
S. w. FISHER.
Philadelphia. January %. 1922.
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DESTITUTE FAMILY AIDED
BY G00D-HEARTED GIvERs
$6 Will Help Mrs. Trainor Buy Food
for Her Little Brood

The EVENING PUMIC JrDcrp
acknowledges receipt of $6 for the rn.
lief of Mrs. Mary Trainor, 2519 Fair.
mount avenue, u widow, destitute sine,
the recent death of her son. An snony .
nous giver sent So and 81 was rs =.
ceived from John NJ. Hall, 1888 West .
moleland street. The money has beep
forwarded to Mrs. Trainor.
The widow and her four small
children are left almost without income
as the result of the death of the son
Joseph, who died Sunday from n fron'
tured skull, received when he was strncl,
by an automobile. He was sixteen
years old, and his wages, received frorn
a downtown clothing store, ndded 30
her own, barely were able to sumner ~
the family. ppo''
Mrs. Trainor now must provide for
William, twelve: Francis, nine. and
Catherine, seven, all Of whom are at
school. Thomas, seventeen, who is nov.
the oldest, earns small wage In an.
other clothing store.
Her husband succumbed to th. ,n
fuenza epidemic three years ago.
The family is staying temporaril,
with Mrs. Catherine Knen, go Was,
College avenue, n married daughter. Tha
funeral OF Joseph took place TODAY.
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Are We 70 Be Left out7

In inc Editor Of the Eventi,o Public Ledger:
sir-Now that the European .coun-
tries are about to hold a financial con-
ference at Genoa, Italy, to try to
arrange an International consortium to
provide a method or effort for internal
|construction among themselves, by some
sort of Joint loan, 1t may be that they
are attempting to get along without the
United States, which has assumed the
same position in finance that it had for
1.-THE period following the war; that 1t
UNITED States) will do nothing for re-
|habilitation that will commit 1t to any
responsibility, but desires to profit from
1.-The conditions Of necessities of Europe
without the risk, and have thus protitcd
| to the extent OF billions Of dollars per
|year, without doing anything for the
keneral good further than the chnri-
liable contributions of few liberal and
|sympathetic citizens.
Is It any wonder that the rest of the
world Is tired of such selfish actions,
and will try to get together and leave
1.-The United States out altogether and
bet us be seen in our selfishness and
greed, and the individua, policy of
Hodge and the Anti Wilson crowd to be
|shown up with their selfishness.?
C. JESS YOUNG.
Philadelphia, January II, 1922.
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Three World Falrs

TO the Editor Of The EUenin0 Public Ledger:
Sir-Please give the dates OF the Chicago.
ST. Louis and Pan-Pac!ac Expositions. when
they opened and closed. d. l.. ID.
Philadelphia. January 10. 1922.
These three world fairs have been hold
since 1898 The Chicago fair opened May
l. 1893. and closed October 80 OF that year;
the st. Louis Fair opened April 80 and closed
December /. 1904. and the Panama Pacific
Exposition In San Francisco opened Feb.
ruary 20 and closed December 4. 1918.
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SUGGESTION to Help the Gumps

To the Editor Of the Eventn0 Public Ledger:
Sir-Please say to your cartoonist,
Mr.. Smith: my wife and children are
CRYING tonight because Uncle BIN is
!tting on the sofa with that Zander
cat. We know you feel bad about 1t
too, but please do all you can to save
dear Uncle BIN.
"It would be so nice If he would take
ANDY. Min and Chester to visit his
house in Australia and leave the crab to
fuss along with Carlos, Please do the
best you can, but don't let Toots'
land him." .nnco>-
Philadelphia, January 20, 1922.
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Short Verses

To the Editor Of the Euenin0 Public Eedger:
Sir--"J. X. L. asks for a poem cor
taining the lines
Solomon wrote the Proverbs
And David wrote the Psalms."
Is It possible he means the following.
King David and King Solomon
Led very merry lives;
Each had q thousand swecthearta
And several hundred wives
But when old age crept DER EN-.
with all its aches and uuaIms,
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs
And David wrote the Psalms,
r,r J. r. TRoTR.
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Poems and Songs Desired
"God Made the Flowers"

To the Editor Of the Epenino Public LEDGER:
Sir-I am looking for a poem containing
tho following lines:
God made the flowers to beautify
The earth and cheer mans careful mood
AND he 10 happ!est who has power
To gather wisdom from a flower
To wake his heart in every hour
To pleasant gratitude"
MARY T. MORRIS.
Philadelphia. January 90. 1922.
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To Beat the Widow

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I am one of the few persons
(maybe the only one) who thinks Uncle
him should marry Mrs. Iander, because
If he does not she may sue him for
breach of promise.
But if he does marry her, let him be
so severe that she will not dare ask
him for n aney, and will (beforc they
10 to Australia) get divorce or do
something to leave him, and he will go
back to Australia alone rlease, please,
please! MIRIAM ltoSEMONT.
Philadelphia. January Il. 1922.
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DEATHS

employees of Shields & Bros. and Griffith
services. Thurs, 2 i. NJ, at the resldeIcee
% his nephew. William x; wilson; 499 W.
omit flowers. Take 1.25 train from Broad
st FOR Upsal Station. z..,,,,.- =,
YOUNG-On 25fh inst. GERTRUDE R..
wife Of Frederick w Young. Relatives and
frlerris invited to serv ceg. on Saturday, az
80 =. NJ, at late residence 403S Locust
st. Interment private.
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Where's Our Merchant Marine? ?

10 the Editor OF the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-The shipping business, as we
all know, has been at standstill for
a very long period and especially so
with reference to the ships under the
American flag, which has caused tnou-
sands Of good, competent men 10 be out
of employment.
During the war we all rendered faith
,pul service in various capacities SO tnat
the ships that America butt could be
manned right, and kept in operation.
We have hoped that the time had surely
arrived when we would see our great
ieet back on the seas once more. Hut
Foreign competition has sent our mer-
khant men hard aport, lying there tied
PIP side by side, costing the Government
thousands Of dollars daily to keep them
IN condition.
Foreigners crowd our ships and
shores, and push our American seamen
put. They ship over here on foreign
yessels. When they reach our ports,
they jump ship, and go out on one of
Pur boats. The foreign ships can carry
our American goods at lower rate
because they don't pay as much to
their men as we do, 80 their expenses
ire not so large, but how can we do
[hatf When you go abroad one of
pur ships, you will find from so to 60
per cent Of the men are foreigners,
Rnd all mixed up. They cannot under
stand each others system of working
md the Government is paying for all
pf this.
Something should be adopted by
ongreSs which would prevent foreign
rs from working on our ships, or limit
ne number of British ships coming
MO our ports, and II any disagreement
WOULD follow, bar them entirely. II
wouldn't look very good. but we've got
save ourselves. Probably they would
hen bar US, too, but then we wouldn' I
ose much.
something must be done or surely
america will go under, so far as the
erchant marine ia concerned. Many
Aherican sailors are hungry right
gre IN the port Of Philadelphia, with
oerths or anything of any account,
Ut go down along the wharves and see
hips. "'' 'A o''
h'ery time you pick up paper and
Nm at the clearance and arrivals of
n,ps IN American ports, all you see Is,
SrrIVed SS-Br; SS-Br. Cleared
S-br; SS-Br." and you see scores
.O vessels ted up today at Hog Island
Ianse OF lack of shipping and no
esht' but it's the foreigner DONG it.
a. tts wake up and haul our lines
snip ana give us chance on tEy
Sm J seas, and adopt the slogan agail.
uur'ns the war, "America First"
nope haven't taken up too much
your va liable space, but | couldn'
rp II; l think there are millions OF
sa uo Americans, like myself, whose
;%ra' acne to take glance at ou,
esn ps' who look like creatures of the
~ p eager to have the freedom of the
"A even seas, and travel once more.
JGSr AN A. Il. SEAMAN.
An''"ueiphia. January 20, 1922.
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method than he has heretofore pursued,
and a method which he knows II the
Australian relative would pursue. the
widow would very soon dump him. But
such stuff as Andy presents it is quite
likely that BIN will fall for. and then
when he tries to work it on the widow
she will drop him, and the Gumps will
be triumphant and BIN will find that
Andy was right. The reason the Gump
drama is working out successfully, at
least for the time. is that Mr.. Smith
has eliminated the troublesome Min
from hand in the affair Will Mr.;
Smith allow Min to step in and spill
the soup? We must await develop
ments. II. w. l..
Philadelphia, January 1s, 1922.
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Questions AnS,Uered
Letters In Alphabets

To tho Editor Of tie Evening Public Ledger:
Slr--Please state In your Interesting Peo-
pies Forum department what three lam
guages have the most letters in their re-
spective alphabet and how many.
p. a. T.
Philadelphia. January 1s. 1922.
Sanskrit has forty-nine letters IN its al
phabet: Persian. forty five: Slavonic, forty;
Georgian. thirty mine; Armenian. thirty
eight; Russian, thirty-fve. etc. The Chinese
have no alphabet. but about 20 600 syllable
characters. The Japanese syllabary consists
OF seventy-two syllable sounds. to express
which forty-eight characters are employed.
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N0-REC0lL GUN INVENTED
Device OF French Engineer Nav
Revolutlonlze Ordnance auIIdI,,

"S'S.'0s a"a"oe Building
Brussels. Jan. 25.-Le Soir saws tbo,
experiments will begin at Liege Febru
ary @ with new gun which, If It ful.
fills expectations, will have world .
wide bearing on ordnance. The inyen. =.
tion is that of French eneipoer
De'amare Maze, who will direct thc
tests.
There is no recoil when the gun IL
fired, consequently it Is possible to
eliminate the brake and skid devices. I,
win have the same power as other
guns OF It's size. with only one third
Of their weight.
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mo Endeayorw

To the Editor Of the Evenin0 Public Ledger:
Sir-1 would like to know tho name of
the poem. and the author, which contains
these lines.
NO endeavor Is In vain,
The reward Is In the doing
And the rapture OF pursuing,
Is the prize the vanquished gain"
ID. +. DUTTON,
Philadelphia. January 90. 1922.
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Referred to Readers

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir--This question has grown out OF an
arGumoat Kindly have one or more OF your
readers stats as best they can whether they
think Shakespeare's plays could be put in
the modern motion pictures.
A, CZELEpEN.
Philadelphia. January 90. 1922.
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Pleased With Editorial

10 the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I thank you for your editorial,
"Our Forgotten Soldiers" 1t was well
written and powerful. 1t is wonder
fnl thing for us to know that we have
friends in the newspaper field to put
those reminders before the people;
y EX AMERICAN SOLDIER,
Formerly United States Army.
Philadelphia, January ~, 1922.
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Muscle Shoals

To the Editor Of ths FvenhiO Public Ledger:
Slr--Will you please publish In your Peo-
pIe's Forum how Muscle Shoals" derived
it's name? I think little article on that
subject would be very interesting reading.
II. w. l..
Philadelphia. January 10. 1922
Muscle Shoals IN the Tennessee River
near Florence. Ala. was. before the Gov
crnment decided during tho Worlds War to
develop the water power there for the man.
ufacture OF nitrates. OF only local interest
a point In tho river where the water was
shallow and tho fall considerable. to which,
because OF the presence OF great many
muscles or fresh-water clans the residents
ind given the name Of Muscle Shoals, In
stead OF Aiussel Shoals. Some claim that
the name is improperly spelled Muscle
shoals instead OF Mussel Shoals. But the
nama Of the fresh-watsr clam 10 spelled both
wsvs. Though most dictionaries give pref
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Publishers OF "SIovenIy Peter"

10 the Editor OF the Evenino Public Ledger:
Sir-We are the publishers of the
original edition of "Slovenly Peter"
by Hoffman. which contains the col,
bred Illustrations that are stenciled by
|hand. The book is on general sale
|1n the leading stores of Philadelphia
|and elsewhere.
THE JOHN G. WINSTON CO.
Philadelphia, January 10, 1922.
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wv L. B."-Thc Presidents salary was
increased from $50. 900 TO $40. 900 n year at
the beginning Of Taft's Administration.
March 1. 1909.
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I'm III tSs fEsSpIS's nIn Forum will appear daily
k3is.use we sunday Public Ledger aha stiaso ho
! A. w.ii"s timely topics VIII be printed.
Mons q seS,rs, rss,qhestsd posTs. and aues.
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Is Uncle BIN Saped?
Diplomatic ANDY

CIV CIV SShor Of the Evening Public Ledosr,
r-l always felt that ANDY Gumn
kos, diplomat, and now know ho 10
ax NV" t9e way he handles Uncle Rim to-
r' ne encourages uncle to trv IN
'ne widow, but by different
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.MoRAN;--Jan. 30. 1922. JOHN, husband
friends invited 10 funeral Thurs. $50 A
NJ; from his late residence. 173t Latona st
solemn requiem mass at Church OF st.
Charles Borromeo 10 A. NJ. Int. Cathedral
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-25

wv. L. NJ Indians who have become
citizens have tho right to vote.
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crence to Mussel. they admit that Muscle Is
allowable. and. In fact. the clam got the
rame OF mussel or muscle from tho fact
that It resembles In consistency a. nabby
muscle.
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MTLLER.--At Buffalo. n. Y. on jar. 22.
1922 CARL c. MILLER formerly of 2G34 8
on Thursday afternoon. at 2:30 o'clock at
he Oliver II. Bar Bldg, 1920 Chestnut st.
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MoRTIMER.-Jan. 22. at her residence.
1431 Boyer st., Mt. Airy. EMILY BANER,
daughter of late William and Elizsbeth Ii
Baner Mortimer. Funeral services We'd,
$3.50 NJ. Int. private. -.
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PRESPER.--Jan. %. MARY e.. wife Of
Dr.. John A. Prosper. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend funeral services, Thurs,
p. NJ. precisely. at her late residence. 2307
Erankford ave. Int. private. Hillside Gem.