Evening public ledger. [volume], October 28, 1918, Night Extra, Image 12

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rlTHEY CANT FOOL THE Pf.OPLE
IjXWHE Philadelphia Record and the New
W Tork Times, an well as the AVIilte House
'cwtary, Mr. Tumulty, are defending; the
;v President's appeal for the election of' a
, ?;mocratlc Congress by -what they call the
VtWeeedent of 1898, when former President
H Harr'laon said thai a Republican Congross
failwuld be elected in order that Spain mlcht
T &t)derstand that the nation stood behind
. rr VMsM.tif HfiVlnlnir In lilu imnrxi frfi
"if limn timla urtAM Rmln
1 ,rJ!iThe conditions are not analogous. In
tylhi first place, President McKlnley did not
,fi1mn the appeal from the White House.
TiVl the second place, the Democratic party
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. r'...v opposed tne war, nau none its Dcst to
-f.oiei mo war loans ana ns opposeu 10
;jll terms of pcaco on which President
r Hl.l. lllt nf a rtfnl nf 1 in In thn Unn.n
IIP"". Vfc W. IWM.I Ui AWV 411 1L AJUUOV
itd for 'the $600,000,000 war-reenue
Wt4 bill and only seven Democrats out
'Vjrfit'total of thirty-four in the Senate oted
ri'fcHr"lt. Champ Clark, now Speaker of the
I' ,-,Heuse, said that if it were not for his per-
- "Jawnal affection for Amos Cummings, one
"ofthe Democrats who broke from his
4rtyuand voted for the loan, he would
Mftrt a movement to read out of the party
Hjkvsry Representative and Senator who
'.wpported the bond measure. And J. Ham-
t ,t nn 4vvvto, liicii ill uiu xiuuacr, uul iiuw ill
.'MWiTjOenaie, aenounceu uummings ior
jA'TicinK patriotism aoovo party.
iTilji was the attitude of the great Demo
'rtitlc party when Benjamin Harrison is-
' MMd his appeal for a Republican Congress.
t'lfr.Bryan, defeated for the presidency
N Mily" two years before, was using all his
Suence to prevent the consummation of
, elans of President McKlnley. If ever
ppeal for the support of the party of
sldent was justified It was justified
conditions which existed in 1898.
h? ""SToday both parties are committed to the
rajiiigcessful prosecution of the-war, and If
iyiire.Ja any difference between, them the
Jkubllcans insist on a more vlgoious
jMunpalgn against Germany than the Dcin-
;$mtM do.
h HXm 5? the 'Allied
k 'Siiitltthev will i
armies It may be said
iat',', they will
not do their Christmas
k &loipln early.
JiJ FAREWELL TO A FERRY
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r,Twinri preciousness or me unreclalmable
41iitnd the nonexistent is the food of sen-
'ttwent, The appeal of lost causes, lost
vks, lost trinkets, lost buildings, lost
wViPvt 1 irresistible.
Yrfifiwip on me sieriorous ana unstaoic old
.FjJMikford "dummy" is now a gracious
tnwnory of many a middle-aged Phlladel-
'Uui'i childhood. Take away the ponder-
, tiuuiHy uuu repuaieaiy criucizea City
.ru ana me mere recollection or that inept
would probably start affectionate tears
eyes now averted in distaste.
wiore we knew ft theOld Tom Smith"
: mammy 0Vmwf flint rUPlm nf elnlota. mn.
Pjfjallf; would perhaps seem sympathetically
r V Irrecoverable.
KJCi.lder the South Street Ferry. Its
Sf . i octogenarian, its wharves are
6' aeutlf ill ; the venerable structure which
rjMMtUins s meianciioly waltlnt, room, like
IJfrtM,'4 Its service is largely superfluous.
oily o, according to Jlr. McAdoo, who.
i'aa'ith '& fine sense nf drnmnMr rnntrjut
ffiftSTrf its utter extinction on that night
.V.ra'ry, itauoween.
-kTs'awiy uiic, nave inzriitum nan tviuunan,
;Safr;,luded the functioning of this fluvial
.t9 ira viict,i3iica uuu in tirurei.
U,th, Street Ferry, now commonplace,
lit to pass in tne sweet trlstfulness
ne annals. Gabblers about "Old
si will summon 1 s memory to
stlmental sessions. Photographs
iwterior of its wharf-house will be
1 "Scenes of tbe Historic Quaker
!vA'iat ttlco tfln Itlnprnnt r'nllnwVilll
fiT.Tr' .. ... :. . .
;;irfiey, it win oe alluringly rare
(use It la securely beyond recall.
Wti Austrian rular. says a headline
lj-'lailur step down. That is the way
t if "&rywn" In Europe.
Mifmi WFP
Btsi.es uovernment nas pro-
er Us itreaty rights, against
scheme, of a syndicate fC
kllsta to te-establlsh the In-
lie opium traffic and the opium
ina.
Ugent people of China have
tt'd. The Government In
ie4 by tbe Allies appears
a, be a partner to the monstrous
t Tbe British Government has
t, though the opium combine
af men who reside In Pekin
kattluns under the protection of
KP-
rvvv. iiiv uiiir rower
lifted a hand on behalf of
'Chines.
plication like this are
ut tbe Allies can ask with
M4 better grace for the
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' t22,O60,VM BonrHielders Interested
in Stability
SOCIALISTS of all shades In Europe
and America are prophesyinff an in
dustrial revolution. They are tcllinf? us
that It is sure to come in the process of
readjustment after tho war." Politicians
with their car to the ground arc prepar
ing to trim their sails to 'meet tho shift
ing breeze in the hope that they may be
able to keep their hold on office.
Politicians and Socialists arc forget
ting that n great financial revolution
has already taken plncc, a revolution
which is likely to put back tho cause of
socialism for many generations. The
evidence of it Is found in the wide dis
tribution of the Liberty Bonds.
It is cstimnted that twenty-two mil
lion persons subscribed to the fourth
Liberty Loan. This is at the rate of one
subscriber for every family in the whole
nation. Some families nre too poor to
take any bonds, but in other families
subscriptions have been made in the
name of every member. There were sev
enteen million subscribers to the third
Liberty Loan and of these only about
twenty-five thousand took ?10,000 or
more. The same proportion doubtless
prevails in the fourth loan. The mere
statement of this fact carries its own
lesson to the thoughtful mind.
Every one of the. bondholders is
vitally interested in tho solvency of the
Government and in the conservation of
the wealth of the nation in order that
he may receive his interest every six
months and the principal when it falls
due. He may have been willing to ex
periment with Government ownership of
industry and of great public utilities in
the past when the financial failure of
such nn experiment would not involve
the diversion to the payment of deficits
of tho money which should be used to
pay him his semiannual interest. He
has become a conservative through the
mere fact of acquiring a stake in the
Government. He will insist that we let
well enough alone or, if we arc to seek
improvements in industrial organization,
that they be made slowly and with
great caution. He will prefer that tho
railroads and the telephone lines be
taxed for the benefit of the public to
having them owned by the Government,
which will have to tax other property to
raise money to pay the difference be
tween the receipts and the cost of opera-
tion . and maintenance. He knows
already that Mr. McAdoo has piled up a
.deficit of several hundred millions in
railroad accounts since he has been in
charge. And he knows that if the Gov
ernment had consented to such increases
in freight and passenger rates as it had
to make itself as soon as it took over
the roads the private managers would be
piling up wealth which would pay its
fair share of Government expenses.
The politicians and the economists
would better begin to study the mean
ing of this wide distribution of Govern
ment securities among all classes of so
ciety. They will find it profitable and
encouraging.
While it is morally certain that there
will be no industrial revolution after the
war for the reasons set forth, it is also
likely that there will be. a demand for a
widespread reform in governmental
methods. The voters, who hold the
bonds, will have a new interest in the
kind of men they send to Washington.
Tho mere political hack will no longer
satisfy them if they are as alert to the
protection of their investment in Gov
ernment bonds as they are to the pro
tection of their other investments. They
have a new incentive to political activity,
and the political managers who foresee
the possibilities of this new issue of effi
ciency and economy and conservation
will be those who will lead the parties
for the next generation. And unless we
mistake the meaning of the whisperings
about extravagance and waste that are
coming out of Washington, the disclos
ure of the undoubted misuse of some of
the funds which the people have sub
scribed for the conduct of the war will
give the first impetus to a demand for
a new order of things in the conduct of
public business.
It should be added that the wide dis
tribution of war bonds among the people
of Great Britain and France is likely to
have a similar stabilizing effect in those
countries. An industrial revolution
which will revolve the people out of their
savings has little prospect of succeed
ing anywhere.
It's a far cry from Beersheba to Danube,
and yet the voices of freedom can be .heard
every kilometer of the way,
THE LESSON OF CAMDEN BOOZE
mHERB will alwa'ys be two points of
view in relation to the theory .of (pro
hibition. There are Intelligent men In
great numbers who do not believe that
bone-dryness Is In Itself a cure for all
social Ills. Yet any one who wished to
perceive a flagrant demonstration of the
forces that have contributed to the pro
hibition Issue a constantly Increasing
strength and validity had only to view the
Indecent energies of the saloon owners In
Camden and Gloucester when they en
deavored recently to profit by the Interrup.
tlon of liquor sales on this side of the
river.
If half that witnesses in Camden and
Gloucester report is to be accepted as flat
truth the liquor men In these two com
munities observed neither the license laws
nor the laws of common decency. They
were opportunists, bent upon profit, eager
for an unfair advantage and willing to
degrade the business In which they are
engaged. It Is Illegal, under any license
statute, to sell liquor to a man who is
drunk. Yet in Camden men were so
drunk that they were unable to stand after
they were forced out of the saloons. When
the authorities stopped the orgy by ford-
I Vr elosUg Ik mIwih) Gloucester liquor
WSstWSw S"JBH HnlVoVTCVrV WWSRsVSl
te'fct he paWlo now tkftt'iUwM tttt
open.
It Is this general lawlessness In the
trade rather than the particular evil In
herent In liquor Itself that has Inspired
tho general revolt of public opinion ex
pressed In the prohibition movement.
Those who are fighting liquor are fighting
the forces that are arrayed behind It. The
disgraceful scenes In New Jersey show
again that these hidden forces are actually
dangerous and a menace to any torn,
munlty.
The American soldiers, In fact, 2,100,000
of therii, now nre Implacably and Irresist
ibly "on theVrllx."
AT INDEPENDENCE HALL
WHEN our own Declaration of Inde
pendence was signed at Sixth and
Chestnut streets tho American colonists
began thelrv great and beneficent expert
ment In free government under conditions
far less advantageous than those that pre
vail today for the 65,000,000 oppressed peo
ples of Middle Europe, whose Independence
was declared at the molng ceremonial ar
ranged at Independence Hall on Saturday
by Dr. Thomas O. Masaryk ar.d his asso
ciates lif the movement for Czecho-Slovak
freedom. In the cars to come a very
large and vital and aspiring part of cen
tral Europe will look backward upon Phil
adelphia to r.vcre the old building at In
dependence Square as the place in which
their ancient hopes were first &len reality
and new life.
It is not always adequately realised that
the conquests which wo arc making in
this war aro of the sort that must endure
through all tlmo, above all wars and over
all dissensions.
They arc conquests In friendship.
We nre seeking nothing material In re
turn for all our unparalleled expenditures.
The esteem that we shall have won In
Middle Europe alone amo.ig the peoples
who would not have been lifted from op
pression but for our part In the war Is
something that will endure to serve not
only oursehes but he rest of mankind
For Middle Europe is certain to be demo
cratized. And the work of unselfish Ideal
ism tint we are contributing there and in
other parts of the world will surely per
sist to operate In our behalf and to be like
bread upon the waters that returns after
many days.
'Roll eastward, happy earth"' sang
Tennyson. Substitute troops for the final
word of that line and you hae a poet
laureate up-to-date.
GOOD MUSIC IN-THE WAR
mHE capacity of war for Invading all
- realms even . that of art Is iecalcd
suggestively, but It must be confessed In
spirlngly, in the 'proposed contribution of
tho Philadelphia Orchestra to the govern
mental machinery. If the housing and
training quarters problems can be solved,
Leopold Stokowski will supplement his di
rectorship duties with supervision of a
school of some 200 bandsmen to be sent
here for Instruction.
The plan is part of a movement which
the War Department Is conducting
throughout the country for the purpose
of Improving the music In the army. The
intention is to train at least 20,000 soldiers
as bandsmen. The contention that music
is a necessity may rest its case on this
program.
That deneral Pershing fully recognizes
its appeal was recently exemplified In his
extended discussion of the theme with
Walter Damrosch at the front and on tho
eve of a battle. In the rapid growth of
the new American army It naturally fol
lowed that the military bands, sometimes
hastily assembled and not scrupulously
trained, were not of the first caliber.
The musical reform, however, is now
well under way and Phlladelphlans may
rejoice that Mr. Stokowski may have the
opportunity ol fostering Its progress. It
will need some pretty fine martial strains
to give even approximately fitting musical
expression to the thrill of the inevitable
day of victory. .Present preparedness,
however, Is a good augury.
The Varcs and David
I'nlillci s It Martin are reported
I. Lived to have solemnly
warned the liquor in
terests that they must fight J!onnleIl ut the
coming elections or risk Republican support
for prohibition later along. Are we to as
sume that the rule will work the other way
If the liquor Interests support Republican
candidates, and that the candidate, rather
than the principle, Is the thing?
Why is It that in
America there are
scientists, poets, phil
Impossible Question
Number 0311
osophers, doctors of
this and doctors of that, and teachers and
wise men and women without number .who
never -venture to talk openly of the grueling
problems of theHe days and leave the whole
general field to politicians, who make of
office-holding not a trust, but a trade?
"The enemy," moan
Consistent to the German states
ide Last men, "are at our
doors I" How diffi
cult trulh la In Ocrmany, where the men
In ofllce know better than any one else that
the enemy has been In Berlin since the war
began !
Colonel Roosevelt's
In Times of announcement that
TroubU he will "deal with
President Wilson's
party appeal to the country In a speech"
Is altogether disappointing. We had ex
pected nothing leas from Oyster Bay than
an ode.
There are sure to be
Treating 'Km a good many candl-
Bough dates for office on the
Republican side who
will feel t'iat President Wilson could do
pretty good service In the tank corps. ,
It the Hun soldier
All Hons was as good a quitter
Ar.n't'cl.T.r aa the average Hun
Chancellor the war
would haye been oyer long ago.
It might be sug-
An Appr.prlst. gested that Turkey's
Arrsng.aa.nt appeal for "justice"
b. submitted to a
commission of Armenians.
Turkey has ever found Thanksgiving
a day of dole. The one that Is approach
ing will therefore carry tradition to its logi
cal conclusion. y
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our long-leashed contributors.
Days
rjAYS and days and days, j
k'Days stretched out In a row,
Days bunched. ,.
Somo rainy, some sunshiny
But always Just days.
Sometimes, however, a week,
The gray mass,
A mixture of the primary colors of the days,
The container, the circumference of
whirling days,
The frame In which they are set and hung
In the corridors of the Past.
Bufthc days are the squads of the year, the
1 units, tho pivots.
On them the ear turns and wheels,
They nre essentials.
Now a long rut of Thursdays,
Again, too often, a ditch of Mondays,
At long Intervals a procession of
glowing Saturdays and while Sun
days, Bui, after All. Just days,
Retreating with their
plunder of golden youth,
Week days, .
Holidays.
Pay days!! , . HORACE HOOK.
Golosh t
When, tractablo to early bird subornlngs
I sally forth In these time-saving mornings
Whose misty skies hang out mendacious
warnings,
Constrained to choose
Footgear of gunvfrom the connubial cup
board -
Infallibly high noon finds me o'erlubbered
And nilred In sunny streets, hopelessly
rubbered
In overt shoes.
Conspicuously plowing through dry gutters.
Clumping the flcckless pavements with
loud sputters
Of stubbing toes which free compressed
air flutters,
Forthright I lose
The zest of life, become ineptly rooted
To earth where normally I should have
scooted,
And bowwowwqrd a whole rich day is
booted
By oveit shoes.
Beside me innuendoes glide, and giggles;
Self-consciously the soul within me wrig
gles Timed to these ghastly groaning subsole
w Igglcs ;
All eyebrows bruise; '
Burdened by tons of mucilage' I toddle
,1'raylng that Jupe or any other god'll
Weep, ev'n If from laughter, on my waddle
In overt shoes.
STANLEY K. WILSON.
When Is a Pumpkin?
Dear Socrates Now hear me, briefly,
while I plead my case; not for the pumpkin
or agin it. My trouble Is that I am on
the verge of a nervous collapse all on
account of the Important and seemingly
unsolvablo problem, which, as I stated fn
paragraph one, is. When is a pumpkin?
Or, to go into a little more detail, When
is a squash that Is supposed to be a squash
not- a squash but a pumpkin? Or, in
versely speaking, when is a pumpkin that
looks like a pumpkin not a pumpkin but
a squasji? In other words, Is there such
a thing as an indisputable pumpkin? Or,
to put It more specifically, would It be
possible to have the President appoint a
commission or board composed of, say,
four members, two (one man and one
woman) living within a radius of 200 miles
of ' Boston, and two (one man and one
woman) living within a radius of 100 miles
of Philadelphia (native born, of course, or
citizens at the time of the adoption of the
Constitution), and have no less than three
of. the members of said board agree, first,
on what Is a squash; second, on what Is
not a squash, and third and finally, issue
a,brief statement to the, press as to whether
there is In existence, anywhere, such a
thing as a pumpkin not a squash-pumpkin
or a pumpkin-squash, but a pumpkin
what Is a pumpkin; a pumpkin that has
been preordained through all time to And
Itself one day Into a pumpkin pie, thereby
bringing great joy and satisfaction to
those fortunate persons who are lucky
enough to be invited to partake thereof.
' O, Socrates, I know" that somewheie
there must be a real, genuine pumpkin
pumpkin. Jim Riley must have believed
In them for he never could have written
"When the frost Is on the squash!"
Such a line is terrible even to contem
plate; and it doesn't help to add another
syllable to the end of the phrase to make
it balance with V'pump-kin," as witness:
"When the frost Is on the squash-squash!"
You see, from a purely poetical view
point it gets worse and worse the further
you go.
So I ask you, Socrates, as may to mam
where do I stand on this question? la
there such-a thing as a pumpkin? And, if
so, why? And again, if there Is, why Is it
that eight or ten million people living in
a northeasterly direction of the island of
Manhattan all of whose ancestors came
over on the Mayflower Insist that all so
called pumpkins are squashes?
And Anally, let me say tills; Nothing
with a name like "SQUASH" ever inspired
Mr. Riley to write his Immortal song of
the autumn, "and nothing with-that name
ever inspired my mother (and my wife, by
way of accident insurance) to create such
.masterpieces of culinary art 'as I have been
having served to me oil Thanksgiving Day
for these many years. Hopefully, yours,
THE DUKE OF NARBERTH.
'More Bitterness
It was a 'happy circumstance for the
torturers of the Spanish Inquisition that
they did not have to rely o.t Swedish
matches when they wanted to burn some"
one at the stake. The victim would have
died of old age while waiting for the
fagots to catch Are, And how ever could
they have brought their oil to a boll?
Not long ago the Kaiser confided to one
of his' ministers that the German people
were foolsh cattle, readily gulled.
What one might call the despot calling
the cattle black. - BOCRATE8.
Now we are informed that the new war
gas used by the Americans is more deadly
than any heretofore known:- Apparently the
army chemists have been ,sbl to mated the
output of their fellow seuatrrsjaea ,ta the po
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THE READER'S
Not Vengeance, but Justice
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Your editorial on President Wilson's
reply to Germany In last night's paper de
serves mere than pasrlng notice, for the
future security of 'the nation depends upon
the repetition and dissemination of such
nleas.
In the full flush of victory we are too
apt to forget our reasons for entering this
war, and, in fact, certain elements nre
doing their beat to make us forget. Theodore
Rooeevelt and Lodge, of Massachusetts, for
example, seem intent on stampeding the
nation Into a demand for a war of revengel
and extermination, which, if successful, would
nullify America's great mission and undo all
the good brought about by America's
entrance In the war.
Let us stop at nothing short of the Presi
dent's demands ; le( us be eure the guarantees
of their permanence are adequate, but for
the sake of future peace and those wfio
have died in the noblest cause iri history, let
us sow no new seeds of international dis
cord let us continue to keep our own banner
spotless and unsullied and demand, not
vengeance, but justice.
. GEORGE H. BOOST.-
Philadelphia, October 25.
A Fall-Sized Banquet
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir I was surprised to And the criticism of
Ap Old Phlladelplilan on your editorial page
this .evening-. I suppose It depends on your
point of view, but I would like to know what
he considers good humor. I am pleased that
I have not his. I look forward every evening
to that page and enjoy It. "School Days."
"Captain Stubbs," "Petey" and "Andy Gump"
why, they are a cure for the bluea. 1 have
been living all summer with Andy Gump, and
Min, and little Chester, and Andy's bluff of
going to the country on his vacation while
'Min was away is almost equal to the pleasure
of taking one ourselves. Long may they live
and do funny things and we will laugn with
them.
-I admire and appreciate your paper, and
reading the wonderful stories from abroad
of Philip Qlbbs, the snappy editorials and up-to-date
news of the war, we young Phlla
delphlans congratulate you on your up-to-date
Evening Public Ledger.
YOUNO PHILADELPHIAN.
Philadelphia, October 21.
The Black Type Tells the Story
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir I cannot resist the temptation of an
swering your editorial on "The Lunch
Pussle." I read a similar statement about a
week ago and had a mind then to answer
you, but this Is a little more than I can
stand.
Surely, help must be very scarce in your
building when you pay a man to write up
such ridiculous truck. I think, before he
tackled that job, he must have been a cham
bermaid In a livery stable, for hlijdeas of
restaurants and public ' '.ting places are very
poor. ,
I am a risUinal keeper mystic, and I
would feel very sorry to think we w.re
depending on anything like him for a living.
I think while help la so scarce you could put
him to a better use to his coafy. Let the
food administration attend to Its own affairs.
The restaurants have not come to such a
state that they need any Lunch Box Willie's
trade. Let him stay out, and carry his angel
food with him. also a thermos, bottle with
some hot water In It, I think ha needs that
every once in a while to warm up his think
ing tubes. Give him some kind of. slow
death. I am not particular how yo'u'do It,
only do it quick, , RBADER.
Philadelphia, October 25.
Dsniers Tbst Lark in Alcohol
To the Editor of the Evening Publio Ledger!
Sir In vt.w of the numerous letters to'tbs
papars recommending alcohol as a .cure for.
Influenza, permit m. to call the'sttsntlon of
readers to a series at mast.rtul articles
published in the Atlantic Monthly about a
year sso. slvlns the most 'advanced 'nielli-
cal opinion upon th. effects of, alcohol, chiefly.
from a physical basis, tbougb jaorai. msjisi
and spiritual attests'; were. -U'sossaJtBslMt
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are well aware that some physicians still cling
tenaciously to whisky ns a remedy; but It
li essential that the nubile does not lose
sight of the fact that the remedy, so-called,,.
orien proves worre than the disease. If a
man's life Is hanging by a thread, so to
speak, he would far better be given his
chance to pull through without whisky than
be made a sorry victim of the whisky habit.
During ihe past week the writers work lias
taken her among people who have long been
either directly or Indirectlj v.ctlms of the
whisky habit; for If a diunkard neglects
his wife and chlldien, uses abusive language,
turns his home Into hell on earth, then the
wife and children, though thej be total
absit'lners. are victims of the whisky habit
that may have been implanted by the use of
whisky as a remedv. Tim ,.it- to ,.n ..
.Fordid neighborhoods where wives and chll-
uich me living in squalor, and In D5 per cent
of these homes whisky was the cause of
the squalor,
body but casts the f,nul Into hell?
Philadelphia. Orto'beV 25. "' WORKBR
Wliy the Grip Spreads
To theEdifor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir An Inquiring editorial In the Evening
Public LEDQnn, "Lessons of the Epidemic,"
sums up Into one ouestlon: "Who Is respon
slDle ror the Influenza epidemic?" The
answer, short and sweet, Is. "We are" Not
"i'flf ?y ."If ',!"" any of lne Slctims
committed ulide, but that collective and
Individually 99.44 per cent of us contributed
J . 'ntenshe breeding of the .germ In our
midst by our neglect of the ordinary de
cencles; spitting, anywhere mid everywhere,
all the time. Coughing and sneezing In
other people's faces (some of us), or In' the
Immediate vicinity, without the suppressing
handkerchief. Even today the handkerchief
is not used by Irresponsible, hence Ignorant,
people, not necessarily foreigners, who have
not been taught not to do so, but by appar
ently American ladles (?) and gentlemen (?),
We have our moral laws frumori u- ..in
state and Federal laws prescribing man's
L relation to his fellow beings; the Infraction
at which usually results In punishment being
mcicu uui, icmperea ny justice, in ratio to
the degree of infraction. ,
But we have no subdivision of the moral
law bearing on the Infraction of physical
laws as regards our fellow beings. It will,
Indeed, be a delicate and difficult proposi
tion not to encroach, on the personal liberties
of the many to apprehend the few In drafting
such measures.
Families of persons who have infectious
or contagious diseases have unhindered
egress and Ingress to their homes acting as
Intermediaries to the nth power.
Persons convalescent from Infectious and
contagious diseasea, feeling ofttlmes false
strength, go back to their duties, impelled
either by loyalty to their employers or for
pecuniary reasons, and are a prolific source
of danger to their fellow beings.
The conditions about the individual homes
are also conducive to sickness. Stagnant
pools of water, decavlng animal and vege
table matter In cellars or yards, broken
sewer pipes, allowing sewerage to flow down
the gutters (seen every day In all parts of
the city and smelled at all times In some
parts).
Last, but not least, the general ftltliy con
dition of. the streets, despite all the white
wash applied by camouflaged officials. Gar
bage and rubbish wagons are Industriously,
-filled up to overflowing- and then gracefully
,(?) rumble along the streets and spread a
nice, thin layer of ashes and garbage, and
as sn effective 'antidote read this; "AVOID
DU8T," ii
'Who Is willing snd cspable to lay before
the proper bodies the conditions as they are
and obtain at least a partial solution of the
safeguarding of our Uvea and happiness In
the near future? J. B, U.
Qermsntown, October 25.
Strictly speaking, there Is no "sigh" In
Siberia, ss that land, long synonymous with
woe, exultantly proclaims itself a republic.
I,, . .
Redrawing th. map of Europe to satisfy
-th Hlfl. nations seams t,o b. aa dlttluult as
'tha Kaiser has found it to be to ssdraw. It
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pEI-'OUE the Deputies the Premier stood
- With such a glory on his lifted face.
The thunders of their joy for one brief
space
Weie silenced. Let him bid them what he
would.
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For he had come fiom Lille, from lands
defiled
By tierce invasion. To his raiment still
Clung tragic ashes. How his woids
would thrill
All hearts to fury! But the old man
smiled.
Tile soul of France, too clear for wrath to
"blind,
Spoke fiom those lips, haloed that hoary
head:
'"Our victory is not revenge," he said,
"But freedom for the conscience of man
kind." Katharine Lee Bates, In the New York
Sun. t
We Believe in Defeating All Disloyalist!
Regardless of Parly
To the Editor of ihe Evening Public Ledger:
Sir I lead with Interest your editorial
condemning Democratic Congressmen who
are opposed to the war policy of the Admin-'
Istratton. They should be defeated. But
how about the Republican Congressmen ,whoi
are in the fame boat? For Jnstance, xi.
W. Watson, of, the Bucks-Montgomery dis
trict. He steadily voted against the Admin
istratlon. Should he be 'elected merely
because he Is a Republican or should he u.
defeated because of his antl-Admlnlstratlon
record?
K'ndlyaiiHwer this question ln your col-
limtlM Rn tllllt vollr rpllflprp will tennur wliAlh...
Lr not partisanship entered Into your edl-
torlal.
H. G. B.
Philadelphia, October
Austria haB been sowing her old Croats
so long that she seems to have been mis
takenly under the Impression that they had
gone to seed, when, lo! they were only blos
soming In fullest flower,
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Political writers will find one advantage
In the Present's appeal In behalf of the
members of his party. They may now revel ,
in the lingo of the battle front as the riot
spreads. s
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
Mhert Is riume?
To what raeo do the so-eslled Hsasarlss. be-
IsnaT
Of what wsr board Is Hsnurd Bsrath th.
chalrxnanf
Who sJl! "Ho wh. steal, my parse steel.
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Day original.?
7. What fireck soeetsa was" sswclatod with the
mooof
S. What Is plasm .English
. What Is dromedary
10. What Is th. femlnlMof tb. word eioeuUrT
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