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had only old fashioned ammunition designs,
and we had not even begun to bring the
afmy's ordnance up to date The result was
feverish and enormously costly period OF
experimenting at Aberdeen proving grounds,
where experts set to work to evolve Amer
lean artillery types from foreign patterns. ;
That sort of work cannot be done over.
night. A big gun is more than a steel tube
Gated and dclicately balanced engine. 80
we lost money and we lost time at Aber-
deem. This was not because Of anything
tration. It was because Congress had
steadily refused to provide money for the
experiments necessary in the development OF
gunnery and the science Of ordnance in the
army.
Congress has managed easily to forget the
lessons Of Aberdeen. We are now without
adequate aviation forces. I'VE are without
modern air machines or guns. Still It Is
impossible to get appropriations for the air
service out Of Congress. British and
European motor and airplane factories are
rushed with orders from the Russians and
the japanese, and every foreign Power Is
pouring money into military aviation.
Now Congress has gone further in Its
frantic stinginess than It ever went before.
1t has actually planned to withdraw the
money necessary to buy oil and coal for the
navy. Thus the country's fighting ships
may be tied up for the rest Of the year to
rust while their crews 60 stale.
There are times when we seem to get
along in spite of Congress rather than with
its help or its guidance.
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surs whether ;it desires to b, Democratic or
Republican. 1t II most ambitious State.
And II will do almost anything humanity
possible for, any one who says pleasant or
Hattering things about its climate. Mr.
McAdoo Is e-combihg his vocabulary to
find words to express his admiration for the
California skies and the soft airs that drift
in from orange groves and rosebushes In
December and all that sort Of thing.
No one ought to be surprised IL the Far
West reports a wave Of Democratic senti-
ment about the beginning Of 1924 or IL Mr..
McAdoo appears suddenly in golden light,
advancing to the fray as Californa's favorite
son, as the sunkist candidate for what
Senator Hi johnson still calls ''the highest
Office in this great and glorious la-and.'
1t Is pretty well known that Mr.. McAdoo
would have preferred Washington as vaca +.
ton place. And he has done nothing and
said nothing to indicate that his views have
changed.
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NOW MY IDEA is THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Phladephans Subjects They
KnO,v Best

point out the utter fallacy of such belief.
Whisky has certain medicinal uses. but 1t
will do nothing as preventive In cases such
as these. Rest. proper nourishment and
normal state Of mind are the things which
will do the most in grip and cold cases.
where undue stimulation is not necessary or
desirable.
ventilation Is another important factor
IN the prevention Of grip and colds. and this
Is especially true where many persons are
assembled together.' 1t is clear that the
chances of infection from another person
are very much greater indoors than they are
out OF doors. and for this reason the great
est care should be taken in the home and,
MS ! have said before. in all places of as
semblage, whether public or private.
, The street cars naturally form one of
the most likely places for the spreading of
grip and similar diseases. and it is there
fore very important that they, as well as all
other means of public conveyance, should be
thoroughly ventilated and disnfccted when
ever this Is necessary.
All persons should be especially care.
iui IN sneezing, as the germs are scattered
IN this manner with great promiscuity and
~ wei developed cases, in great quantity.
disposition Of expectorated saliva indoors
ty 9y those who have contracted the disease.
In!s, 1t might be added, is an essential of
al respiratory and pulmonary ailments,
whether slight or serious. as it is one of the
h'ose pfollhc sources Of infection.
During tho Epidemic
Respiratory infection is USUALLY most
Mly Mwiaely spread indoors by group contact.
Lnis fact was recognized during the epidemic
OF 1913: when the authorities closed nil
places OF public assembly such as the thea !.
tres. saloons and other places where pconlc
gathered in numbers. Outside there is not
y nearly SO much danger, as the fresh mir md
tne srr sunlight do much to sterilize the germs.
a.. mere mere Is no cause for any alarm over
IN the city, and when the patient feols 8
real fright he is doing considerable. uncona o d
sclousy. to aid the disease. With rho n,oim
tenance of calm mind the right kind nf
tood and plenty Of rest, there is nothinp 70 r.,
the city," SITUATION IN
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A PROTEAN SHIP

GA ND each ship in its time plays many
n parts Shakespeare, had he been
nautically inclined, a fancy overwhelmingly
disproved by that unconvincing first scene in
1.-THE Tempest might have admitted as
much. Even without lis confirmation, the
fact holds.
The Great Northern, rakish and razor.
proved, barring deceased sister, the speed
lest large vessel ever built on the Delaware,
is about to undergo one more complete
metamorphosis. For so new a craft-she
was finished only In 1914--she has already
played diversity of roles.
Excursonists bound for the San Fran
cisco Fair crowded her on her initial long
voyage. Her course was Philadelphia TO
the Pacific via the Panama Canal. De.
signed for short, swift run from the
Golden Gate to Astoria, Ore. she wandered
eventually to Hawaii with winter tourists
The war recalled her East and she per.
formed prodigies of speed as troop ship,
one of the most satisfactory in the service
Her less fortunate twin, the Northern Pa
catc, went aground on our shores soon
after the conflict. A few weeks ago she
was burned to the waters edge.
But the slightly elder vessel Jared lux.
uriously and has Of late served as floating
hotel for the admiral of the Atlantic Fleet.
Her original owners, or rather their afil-
lated interests on the West coast, have
longed for her return to the major ocean.
And so the navy is to turn over the Great
Northern to the Shipping Board, which is to
sell-actually the trick can be done-the
craft to the Admiral Line, which will refit
her with passenger accommodations. She is
to ply, it is said, between American Pacific
! ports.
There are rumors that she may touch
| Alaska. The trim and stately oil burner IL
obviously ready for any pquant change OF
| circumstances. Phladelphians are naturally
| interested in the fate Of one Of tho finest
| products of their shipyards. She will re-
turn to Chester, it is intimated, for recon
ditioning.
| When Kpling wrote of the ship which
found herself on her maiden voyage, he wa.
evidently not reckoning with Grea
| Northern.
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BRIDLlNG BROKERS

I'M THE same day that District Attorney
~ Rotan said that a law should be passed
putting brokers under the same kind of
regulation and inspection to which the
hanks and insurance companies are sub
3ected the New York County Grand Jury
was filing a presentment making a similar
suggestion.
Tho Grand Jury in New York. however.
went further than our District Attorney. 1t
fecommended that before any security is
-elEsred for sale to the public it's value should
- determined by an investigation, the re-
sults of which should be made public. And
. Il recommended that stock exchanges as
we'll as stock brokers should be licensed by
tie State.
]. We shall hear more OF this before many
months. So many brokers have been failing
and 20 much worthless stock has been foisted
On the public by INSCRIPTIONS statesmen that
thsre is bound to be a demand that some
law be passed to make it more difficult for
eonscienceless men to rob the public.
We already have laws against getting
money by false pretenses, but 1t is not often
resorted to by people who have been swim
died by stockholders, perhaps because in
most cases the investors who have been
sWindled knew that II they had not been
greedy to get something for nothing they
would not have been taken in. They have
Z not been willing to make public exhibition
Of their cupidity and gullibility. But this
will not prevent those who think that law
can end an abuse from demanding its enact
uant.
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THE oUsTINo OF STAMM

MAYOR MOORE has done the proper
4N1 thing in ordering the removal of Nor
man i. Stamm. harbor engineer of the De-
pertinent of Wharves, Docks and Ferries.
provided the charges against him can be
sustained.
No subordinate who ignores the orders
Of his superior and fails to cooperate
heartily with him should be allowed to re-
main in Office. The civil service regulations
were not made to protect such men, and
they should not be twisted into shield for
them.
4 1t has been said that there are other men
attached to other departments who have not
been CO operating sincerely with the Mayor.
They have been allowed to remain in Office
ON account Of the difficulty of finding def
mite and precise charges to make against
them. But the general charge Of failure to
CO. -operate ought to be enough to warrant
their dismissal.
Such employees would be dismissed without
eefemony from any private business organi-
sation In the interest Of efficiency. They
should be dismissed from the business Or
ganization of the city, just as Stamm has
been dismissed, and the reasons cour-
aseously set forth.
Public sentiment would support the Mayor
In such course, and if the Civil Service
Commission sought to reinstate the men it
would be put on the defensive.
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LLOYD GEORGES ULTIMATUM

LLOYD GEORGE is playing politics
- again. according to the news from Lon
don. Perhaps it would be nearer the truth
to say that he is playing politics yet. He
does not seem to do much else. -
This time he has announced that Sir
George Younger must get out as head Of the
Conservative Party organization or he will
resign rs Prime Minister. Lloyd George
objects to Younger because he organized a
revolt Of fifty Tories in Parliament while the
Prime Minister was absent in Cannes.
1t was not difficult to organize opposition
to Mr.. Lloyd George because lie is Mt the
head Of an artificial majority formed by a
coalition of unsympathetic elements. This
combination was formed late in 1918 after
the armistice, when Lloyd George appealed
TO the country on the issue Of hanging the
Kaiser and making Germany pay the whole
cost Of the war.
This is what every one in England wanted
at the time and Lloyd George knew that they
wanted it. and that if he wished a new
lease Of power he must capitalize this feel.
ing while it was acute. lie knew that Ger
many could not pay and he knew that the
Kaiser would not be hanged, but he played
these cards and took the trick. He is the
only war Premier still in office The rest
of them fell long ago. Clemenceau and
Orlando lasted only few months after the
armlStlce. And in the natural Order OF
events President Wilson retired from Office
year ago and his party, which was de-
feated in the congressional elections of 1913,
then lost its last hold on the Government.
The break up Of the Coalition Government
in England has been anticipated for some
time. Lloyd George attempted to postpone
the inevitable last week when he proposed
ten-y year truce in Europe under which all
the nations would agree to respect the
boundaries Of every other nation and reduce
their armies. He was going to make this
proposal to the Genoa conference. But it
does not seem to have been welcomed with
the enthusiasm which he had anticipated,
and now he is saying to the Conservative
leader, "You must get out or I WILL
Under ordinary circumstances a Conser-
vative reaction would be about due in Eng
land. The Liberals have been in power since
1905. when Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman
succeeded Arthur J. Balfour. A Coalition
Government was formed under H. Fl.
Asquith in 1915 in order to unite all the
parties in fighting the war. The Coalition
under Liberal leadership has been in power
ever since. The best that the Conservatives
can expect now is another Coalition Gov.
ernment, with the transferi of leadership
from the Liberals to the Conservatives. The
accumulated hostility to Lloyd George is so
great that he will find it difficult, If not
impossible, to retain his primacy.
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RAlLRoADlNG BY TELEPHONE

TT WILL be news to great many persons
l. that tho telephone has tended gradually
to supersede the more formal telegraph as
a medium for the transmission of railway
train orders.
Before telephones became the familiar de :.
vices that they are in this country orders
for the movement Of railway trains were
telegraphed between signal points, dupli-
Gated and formally entered in record books.
Dispatchers, conductors and engineers had
copies of each order. Moreover, the text OF
each train order was repeated between
sending and receiving points before It was
approved and issued.
Latterly verbal instructions over n tele-
phone wire have been considered adequate
for the movement Of trains over many short
or unimportant lines. A Coroners Jury at
Pittsburgh has just condemned this prac
tice and suggested that there be a general
return to the telegraph order system.
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a JERSEY WET GIVES TONGUE

CUCH have been the devious twists and
- turns of practical prohibition and so
arrange have been the overturns and up
heavals Of earlier theory that not few
persons will experience n sickening shock Of
fresh suspicion when they read of the as
sertions flung in the face of the dry ma.
jority at Trenton a day or so ago by
opponents of Jerseys new State Prohibition
Enforcement Bill.
~ am against this BILL" shouted Repre-
4 sentative Roegner, of Passaic, because I
have reasons to believe that the Anti Saloon
League, whose leaders helped to draw it up.
10 supported chiefly by the bootleggers Of
the country"
Mr.. Hobart, of Essex, who wrote the sub
stitute for the discredited Van Ness act and
who is a conscientious dry, went white with
rage. There was an interval in which he
could not speak because of the soundless
covered his self-possession he flung the lie
% Mr.. Roegner. His bill was approved by
good majority and now we shall see what
Governor Edwards will do to it.
81 OF course, the bootleggers in New Jersey
are not aiding the Anti-Saloon League, and
the Anti Saloon League is not looking for
their aid. 1t doesn't need it. The boot
lsescrs have 10 lobby ut Trenton or at
washington. That, however, is not because
they would not like to have one. 1t is be-
cause they haven't had the courage to carry
their fight into the open as other malefactors
~ great wealth are accustomed to do.
". II decision relative to dry enforcement
n loEs were left to the men who are now
&1hollng in or manufacturing illicit whisky
~ volstead law would be made more rigor
- than Il is. Mr.. VOlstead did more for 9
considerable class of liquor men and ex.
eamblers than any fairy godmother Of legent
ever did for Princess in a fairy tale. II,
{: made them rich. He gave them palaces II
yalifornia, vacations at Palm Beach. for
unes to put in banks and innumerabl
= mousines.
A man who nowadays can get whisky, o.
\ kat passes for it, to sell will make NOR
q ahex In q month than he could have hope,
snake In lifetime of the pre- Volsteat
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ADIEU, McADOO!

NJ from the madding crowd Of old
(nehioned Democratic bosses William G.
30 viii pitch his tent and rest and
ITO zee what we shall see. Like Mr..
on, Mr.. McAdoo will seek the consoa-
|( Il warm airs and skies perpetually
NJ. He will 80 to Los Angeles, which is
NJ Bouthern California, and there will not
|oltay loud mourning among the members Of
IVY "a crowd In the East. There will be
Xoeping-for the present at least.
~ may transpire later is another mat
1or California 10 still in the formative
A5 ef palikieel sxrsSiencs. 1t 10 never
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answers to Yesterday's ouiz

, ,-,, ~ 'SssS'oayS quiz
]. Nebulae in the heavens ar. ~
luminous matter occurring IN cone; es or
apie numbers and Differing fro.s frs'aer.
STATS Stars In that they do NOT Um nr tne
SIMPLY small. definite points r'eesent
nut rather large surfaces ~ Mght,
rsarylng brllllancy. VI "ideiy
" tnat llk'' means Of that sam.
rio iSuo9ris ~ ef 9f that ilk," meaning Gu,h as
o. H'SthGiiius Shi,ns was a celebrated Po,
philosophical poet, especiaIiv rdan homan
me author Of "De Reruwy n9ted as
died Sn in IKE e Nature of Things"Sa. "Sa'uTa Ia
T. frames mas the third largest meroh..
r murine In the world 'efchant
O. 6eige is kind Of grayish browr
r. karo is the largest city in Epvn,
Z. alexander Hamilton was bnrsypt.
q Domiainno iah1 or Nevis in the West Indi.s' 'ne
orated PIN. French astronomer and nSe.s, Seie-
S!st FAMED particularly for ,physl-
perlments and discoverie. IN mis ex-
ISM and optics and for his sl M snet-
popular expounder of scientina as 2
aRRg Reg. theories. He died in ParI.i iact
.. The Dnieper is a Russian H,v., -,
ih!rd larEsst In Europe 1t flow, ,n1e 1he
w. EoWard Detaille was n noted r,,.,
military painter. Many OF hi. ,,,rench
we're taken from the France nj p p.,sis .menes
war. 1901, His dates scI are ists.iiss';a,n srIis'an
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ

]. WHO was "currer Bell"7
9 now wnd1y many SECRETARIES Of State sorr0o
4, who were they? ''@'fatioh and
o. "TS youakiq saia He whom the gods favor dies
p, country in tho world? ''"'producing
!" frnrW moW many days did Columbu. s,u
first fr vpan aa!os. Spain, to America on Ta, bjs
= Wp" r1Hw long is the Panama Canal,
Warano ana where was the BATH. -.
bnairengo fought and who were ,n or
O. "nat Is meant by the sedentarv non,,o
y ,tlon of country? popula-
~ Who, Who was the Greek god of war,
w. "hat IS plantigrade Animal
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The cautious penitent Is now conscenS
tiously cutting out all those things that ns y
knows very well are not good for his stomac'
! anyhow.
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1t IS in the middle
Help tho Poor classes that we have the
Middle Class highest rate Of infant
mortality, says a Balti-
social condition. Only the very rich can
afford the medical experts the very poor
get for nothing and the man Of moderate
means who pays. his way must suffer.
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IS CONGRESS WORTH HAVING?

WHEN we entered the war against Ger.
w many there was not in the army of the
United States a single piece Of field artillery
that might have been called modern. We
had no guns it for use against the guns that
were playing On French battleaslds. We
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-03

No sooner did the March lion arri!1ee
than the careful pavement cleaner put sals
on his tail. VT. "f
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Syndicate plans to run . regular pa.
Senger and freight air service between span
and South America. World continues 70
contract. lt
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The new bonus plan of the Ways ana
Means Committee will receive the hearU
Endorsement Of every loan shark In tn'
country.
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WIN Hays is now being urged to elm
mate from the films all cigarette smok'ns
by women Of reputable character. tbs "
one OF the fir.t efforts to be made 70 Ms'
him tire OF his Job. ftg9
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The only cheerful thing about the com;
ing coal strike is the doubt that it Will
eventuate. 49,.
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Study Of the Plckford case begcts tns
quantity. curious thought that movie actres::si'
make almost as much money as editor''
paragraphers.
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1t is no comfort to the old oaEen
bucket. shopper who hangs in the well 70
know the truth that lies at the bottom OF u,
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What the Ways and Means Commltitsss
cant do Is to give the Bonus Bill certln'
cate of good character.
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New Jersey has killed the mosquito joka
by killing the mosquito. Step up, mother
in-law; you're next.
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Strange that SO many yappers should
be opposed to the ratification Of the Yap
Treaty. .-.t
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Every time we think light Is to h
thrown on the Taylor case Director Fate
calls, "Save it," M
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When he gets back from his Bermuda
trip 1t will be Hughes to the line as chippss
as may befall.
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Taffy. the ancient bard tells US, was Z
WeIshman. Lloyd George is some tahJ
puller.
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!, New York has q honey bear. He 10 Il
the Zoo, but may soon be In jazz parlor.
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As a man of letters. George BernAN
Shaw sees no sense in adding NJ. p. to then.
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Brazils representative Is Of the opinion
that Philadelphians will be nuts on expOsi.
tions after we have seen the one in Rio de
Janeiro. n. .-.,..,... >i.>JAA
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The only thing now protecting the pub.
lie treasury from the bonus Is deadlock.
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.Curiously enough. one doesn't need very
much tin TO start a bucket shop.
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Lloyd George appears to be wonderinS
IL they are not by by elections. /
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Helping the
Farmer

injured by storms are
to be helped by the Federal Government,
which, under the provisions of bill already
passed by the Senate, will lend them sums
not exceeding $500 for present necessities.
Similar relief may be given cotton planters
in the South whose crops have suffered
from the boil weeyil. Paternalism, If you
like; but the problems are not local ones
they cannot be judged in the light Of past
experience because, though old in them.
selves, they are applied to republic unlike
any other in the history of the world; the
problem of an inland country born OF an
entirely new system Of transportation with.
out which it cannot endure.
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Members Of Lindsay's Domino Club may
all have gone to the boneyard.
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Daylight saving pays interest in hap.
niness !.
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England's retreat from Egypt Is for tn
moment merely strategic.
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Doctor Is right. kissing is q great
spreader Of heart disease.
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1t wasn't exactly a sacrifice hit Lands
pulled. NJ
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The. Easter hat is already looming ps
the offng.
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, Capital can't raise corn and hell with
the same loan. tt