Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-26
JAMES A. REAMY.
Philadelphia, May %, 1922.
moderate Drinking" an Evil

70 tho Editor q the EvenirJ Iuhir Ledcev
Si-I feel like saying something
that won't come within bounds Of the
English language. ! have no use for
a temperate man." Either get drunk
in the ditch once week regular or be a
total abstainer. Go to the dogs alone
instead Of dragging scores behind you.
Get on one side of the fence or the
other. Be man, a mouse or q long
tail rat. To drink one drink a day the
week through is drinking first as much
as the fellow who takes seven on Satur-
day and his influence thousand times
worse. To commit any sin or crime mod
erately makes the thing no less. No
great stunt anyway to be temperate,
either for wise man or fool. It
makes me tired.
I have worked my head of twenty
preaching, lecturing. bowling. pound
but as fast as could ply the broom
somebody would be shoveling dirt under
my nose by the carload instead Of help
ing to clean out the old filth and rub
bish of 800 years. accumulation. What
has been accomplished since tho year
1910 ia nothing more or less than
a miracle and still the dirt flies.
J. H. G. says he never drank him
self. but he seems to want others to
drink 1t. Some people seem possessed
with the devil to want to back up
crime by law. which means to break
Gods laws. His laws are not to
license crime in any form.
1t makes very little difference to
thinking people. but there are so few
comparatively who do their own think
ing. we regret the influence. If people
would only distinguish between purity
and r0ttenne's there might tt b : ssT hSpes; :
Philadelphia, May %, 1922.
Sees Hardship In Daylight Saving
TO the Editor oy ths Evening rubHc LEDGER:
Sir-The advocates Of daylight sav.
ing say that it benefits everybody.
would like to say I am one that, 1t
hurts: I have been reduced SIS a week
with prospects Of being out Of work
altogether. Now, I am a working man
and a taxpayer. I protest against this
law that makes q tax every summer of
$500 on me and thousands Of others.
Ninety out Of a hundred people you
meet are against 1t. Why force Il on
us? The following solution will solve
the daylight foolishness and not work
any hardship on any one.
President Harding has solved the
daylight saving problem. His solution
Is a ''novel one." The clocks are not
turned forward. yet an hour is gained
in the afternoon. The President simply
suggests that everybody, get up an hour
euit eaies, work * an n hour ca sarier How sim. no
pie, vet how remarkable for the Presi.
dent to conceive such an easy solution
to so complex question.
President Harding is newspaper
man who happened to become President.
Evidently there are some newspapermen
In Philadelphia who will never be Pres.
ident, because they could not think Of
such a novel way Of saving daylight |;
couldn't think Of anything but moving
the hands OF the clocks ahead.
So in Washington the Government
departments, the banks and stores will
open at o'clock instead Of 0, and
close an hour earlier than formerly,
while here In Philadelphia the news
papers will still be congratulating them
selves that they succeeded In putting
over monkeying with the CLOCK
scheme. even II 1t does mix things up.
Philadelphia, May %. 1922.
Business In Good Old Colony Times
To tho Editor OF tho Evening Public ledger.
Sir-The following may be Of In
terest to your readers In connection
with the present reception being given
to the firms more than a century old
by the Chamber of Commerce
In 1887 the first party Of Swedes
under Captain Minuet arrived and set
tied In Pennsylvania. Among them was
Claus Jansen (Johnson), who brought
over with him a still. as was usual In
those days. lie took up piece Of land
extending from Percusing Creek to the
Neshaminy Creek. and at the lower
falls near Flushing built himself cabin
which he called a hotel and set up the
still. Being the lowest possible passage
ping place for all people going north
Of that creek. That log cabin was
standing TO the recollection OF the
writer. who Is one Of the descendants
of the above Claus Jansen, and was
occupied until torn down for additions
to later addition to the building by
Charles Daniels, and afterward by his
son In law, who Is still resident OF
Bristol.
Later, when whisky became taxable,
1t was moved away back in the woods
above Ncshaminy Falls, and was used
even as late as the time of my mother.
1t was finally dismantlcd by the late
Francis TOmlinson. who was a good
Quaker, and owned the property to
within the time Of the present genera.
ttou tina cloarlv estahtfshlns tha fact