EVENING LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1915:
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Case of the Ncbraskan
IT IS Inconceivable that a Gorman sub
marine, would deliberately torpedo a ship
flying tho American flag, homeward bound,
and particularly Inconceivable Is it at this
time when tho entire diplomatic talent of
Berlin 1b engaged In an effort to answer tho
latest American note In such a way, pre
sumably, as to ease the resentmont and In
dignation of tho people of this nation.
If, unfortunately, It should bo established
that a German submarine was guilty, a
prompt disavowal by Berlin would follow,
for Germany has already declared that re
gret would bo expressed and damages paid
without prize court proceedings for all nou
tral vessels attacked by mlstako. But a long
series of such mistakes, no one of them ex
cusable, since tho most elaborate efforts have
been made to render tho nationality of neu
tral ships recognizable readily, could not bo
considered by this country as other than a
deliberate campaign against our shipping,
Infamously planned and wantonly persisted
In. Our Government Is no longer content
with explanations of why outrages happen;
its purpose Is to see that they do not hap
pen. The Government, of courso, will do nothing
pending an investigation, particularly as the
captain of tho Ncbraskan Is1 not sure that his
ship was tho victim of a submarine. Tho
country can afford to bo patient, too, and
It has shown no disposition to be anything
else.
Give the Juvenile Court a Chance
IT MAY bo that Judgo Gorman has per
formed for tho Juvenile Court tho most
"feplej!cHd possible service by determining to
withdraw from it. His Intense interest in
tho work permits of no doubt that he would
have continued in it had there been any pos
sibility whatever under existing conditions
of achieving tho results that ought to be
achieved.
His withdrawal, therefore, emphasizes as
would not have been possible otherwise the
supreme necessity of that special legislative
enactment without which, the Supreme Court
has said, the Juvenile Court Is Impotent to
perform certain natural and imperative func
tions. Judge Gorman's action brings the un
fortunate condition dramatically before the
people.
They will Insist, as they should Insist, on
the passage of whatever laws' are necessary
to make this branch of the Municipal Court
fully and completely effective.
Regulate, but Do Not Persecute, the Jitneys
THE Jitneys must not be legislated out of
existence. Neither must they be permit
ted to monopolize tho streets and operate
without proper guarantees of their good be
havior. Our streets have not heretofore been giving
a maximum service to the community. They
should not, however, bo taxed now beyond
their capacity.
The Jitneys have answered a crying need
In the community. They give a Broad street
Bervlce that Is distinctly worth while. Their
Immediate popularity la sufficient proof that
there Is a real place for them in modern life.
They are the poor man's friend, and well
may any politicians beware of putting severe
hands dn them or burdening them beyond
endurance.
There should be regulation, and the quicker
the better. But it should be regulation and
not persecution. It should be regulation that
will encourage the business, devised for that
purpose, and not with the Idea of driving
Jitneys off tho streets to serve the Interests
of existing corporations. The service of the
public is the first Interest to be considered,
and the only Interest In this case.
Proper registration, license, a moderate
bond, examination of drivers and possibly
Inspection of cars to assure their being In a
safe condition are suggested as a solution.
But once having enjoyed the Jitneys, the peo
ple of Philadelphia will never be willing to
do without them. They are here to stay.
Triumph of the Little Welshman
THE appointment of David Lloyd-George
to a new Cabinet position aa Minister of
Munitions Is a high compliment to the great
abilities of the man. At the present time
the supply of munitions Is of vital import
ance. The British may have men in the
field well equipped with rifles and they may
be supported by the finest artillery that It
Is possible to build, but if there are no car
tridges and no shells tho men might as well
be at home.
I,ord Kitchener, overburdened as Secretary
for War. organized his armies admirably, but
he failed when It came to dealing with the civ
ilian munition manufacturers failed either
because he did not appreciate the difficulties
in the way of production or because he did
not properly estimate the amount needed.
U was doubtless because of a combina
tion of tho two reasons, for thero never was
war in which so much ammunition was
.usfd The British alone,. In the first few
mouth ey were In the field, used more
shsils and cartridges than were supplied to
the armies for the whole South African War.
I4oy4-Oerge, whe was most bitterly at
tacked a year or two ago by alt the vested
interests in Great Britain, pursued his courso
: d rfcfctf'd f.be rvnuf) ueesary to floanc
oilifcM awBMg in which the Oovsro-1-
jEttemttg ;
ment Is engaged More than that, his tre
mendous abilities brought order out of chaos
In tho financing of the war and won for
him the npprovnt of his former fiercest ene
mies, Now Iho nation needs a man to get
the munitions made as fast as they can bo
used, nnd tho little Welsh lawyer Is selected
for tho task. And ho will got them, nil right.
Massacre of tho Innocents
DEATH cmno to nn eighth of tho babies
born In Philadelphia Inst year. Almost
6000 little lives were snuffed out by disease,
exposure or malnutrition. Only two other
lnrgo cities In tho United States Baltimore
and Chicago exceeded Philadelphia's Infant
death rnto of 121.3 per thousand births; even
overcrowded New York appreciated her situ
ation, and drove the rnto down to 04 6 by tho
flno work of her child hygiene division.
Opponents of housing laws, men who sco
no necessity for tho most rigid milk inspec
tion, legislators who pooh-pooh every com
munal effort toward a healthier, safer city,
should ponder Philadelphia's uncnvlnblo
record. If they cannot appreciate the social
wastage, they must at least feel tho terrible
weight of mental pnln which tltosc K000 little
deaths brought on anxious parents.
There arc n few very simple things that
make for child health. Good milk and good
housing are primary. But even moro Im
portant Is knowledge. The mother who
knows how to care for her baby nnd when
to call for tho expert ndvlec of the doctor 13
the mother who sees her baby grow up Into
healthy childhood. To spread that knowledge
Philadelphia needs n division of child hygiene.
While tho city waits, tho Blankenburg Ad
ministration nnd tho Child Federation aro
doing everything thoy con to spread tho
truth. That stuccoed pavilion In tho City
Hall court has nover housed a moro vital
exhibit than tho present Baby Saving Show. ,
Go and seo it!
Everybody Loves a Horse
DID you over seo a man or woman stop
on Chestnut or Market street and glvo
a lump of sugar or a piece of candy to an
automobile and then pat It caressingly on
tho radiator or the mud guard?
When you do sco this you may say farewell
to the horse, but so long as tho horso re
sponds to human affection his place is safe.
Tho automobllo Is a useful machine, but no
nutomobllo show ever hold compared In Inter
est and attraction with the Devon Horse
Show, which began today. The horses nro
showing out thero what tho hutnnn Intelli
gence working on bruto intelligence can
accomplish. And incidentally the phow Is an
exhibit of chnrmtng women and athletic men
engaged in the sport which has worked its
fascination upon the rnco since first tho
horso was tamed.
Billions for South America
SOUTH AMERICANS In Washington this
week are looking to tho United States to
finance their countries. They have hitherto
looked to Europe. Tho greater part of their
total national debts, amounting to $2,000,000,
000, Is hold in Europe, and tho interest on It
Is paid by shipment of South American
products to European markets.
But Europe can no longer finance tho rest
of the world. Instead, It Is looking outsldo
for money with which to finance Its own
war. South America must get money here
or go without It. If it hod not been for tho
revision of the banking laws and tho crea
tion of tho Federal Reserve Banks tho
United States would have been unable to
finance any country. Our banking reserves,
however, are now mobile, and thoy havo in
creased the loaning power of tho country to
such an extent that we could buy all the
South American bonds held In Europe and
then have more than a billion dollars left
for further loans. Tho president of the Na
tional City Bank, of Now York, which has
opened a branch In South America, has re
minded tho pan-Amencan delegates of the
enormous financial resources of the United
States, and has held out to them tho hope
of such relief as they may need.
Chicago bankers are planning to follow the
example of tho New York bank by opening
offices In the South American capitals and
seeking to attract business by way of the
Panama Canal and the Mississippi Valley.
They and all other students of the situation
are aware that so long as South America
settles Its debts in the United States by ex
change drawn on London American trade
must suffer.
Opportunity Is knocking at our doors, and
It will enter If wo merely lift the latch and
give It a chance to get Its foot In.
What a Pity!
IOnD LANSDOWNE Joins the new Brlt
J Ish Cabinet as a Minister without a port
folio, while Winston Churchill Is given a
sinecure In order that the new Cabinet may
have tho benefit of his advice and experi
ence. What a pity that the President of the
United States cannot have a few sinecures
of the same Bort to hand about, wherewith
to reward deserving politicians without turn
ing over to them Important duties that re
quire knowledge and care! For instance,
Mr. Bryan as an adviser, with salary at
tached, could have been of great service to
the Administration without his lectures be
ing Interfered with to any considerable ex
tent. And, at the same time, the President
would have been able to appoint a Secretary
of State who would have given his entire
time and attention to the office and have
upheld the traditions of dignity and prestige
which formerly clung to It.
Becker learns that Supreme Courts, unlike
Juries, don't have to agree.
First prosperity touch: "Meat prices rise
under tho stimulus of war's demand."
Other Nebraskans have been torpedoed be
fore, as a distinguished Democrat very well
knows.
Party government is a good, thing, but
when a nation gets Into trouble efficient lead
ership Is better.
Governor Brumbaugh gave the Public Ser
vice Commission a talking to, but It was tho
previous commission that needed It.
The man who said "only single men want
war because most married men have had
enough of It" was doubtless a bachelor.
Brewers may become knights In England,
but they are. expluded from the Knights Tem
plar eommanderles in this Commonwealth.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
thinks thof It is cheaper to spend J600.000 in
yHlldlns 3ee box cars than ,QOO.0O for
jfe same numbs of new ones.
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MR. WIRT'S "WONDER
SCHOnT 3" IN GARY
Making "Prisons ur Half-day Invbl
untary labor" Into Workrooms
That Children' Hate to Leave.
Better Schooling at Less Cost.
By PETER STAINFORTH
PUNISHMENT In Philadelphia schools!
"Being kept In." Punishment In Gary's
schools: "Being kept out." That Is a distinc
tion which ought to mean ns much to tho ed
ucator ns It would to the child. Out In Indi
ana n man named William Wirt has put to
gether a sort of public school that the chil
dren like and where their energies go Into
learning things lnstend of breaking rules.
Is It nt nil romnrknble that the vlco president
of Glrard College, Joseph M. Jameson, should
have recommended last week tho ntloptlon of
the Wirt system here? Or thnt Now York
should havo Invited Mr. Wirt to remodel n
few of Its school buildings for It?
Moro Schools, Less Tnxes
But tho most remarkable thing about tho
Wirt Bystcm Is that It means better schools
nt a smaller cost. Working with a relatively
poor town, which grow from 300 to 35,000 In
eight years, with no advantages In tax ap
praisals, edticntlonnl laws or teaching forco,
Mr. Wirt has produced what Randolph S.
Bourne, writing In the New Republic, calls
"probably the mot varied nnd stimulating
course of public Instruction In tho United
Stntcs, ns well ns an equipment of buildings
which In beauty and convenience nro not, I
think surpassed. All this hns been done w'th
th lowest tax rate In tho county, nnd a !'
cnpltn cost of instruction loss than that pnld
by tho city of Chlcngo, with Its overcrowded
nnd poorly equipped school buildings."
Tho economy hni been accomplished prlncl
pnllv bv doubling up or "rotation of crops "
In the Gnry system there nro "two complete
schools, ench with Its net of tenchors, func
tioning together In tho snme building all day
long." Whllo ono-hnlf the school Is at work
In th classrooms, the other half Is In tho
shops nnd laboratories. All tho school Is used
nil the time. One old school, for Instance,
originally built for 3C0 children, nctually ac
commodates over 800.
Another side of Gary's economy merges
Into Its remnrknblc new system of vocational
teaching. "Vocational training In the schools
of Gary means that whntever work Is neces
sary In the way of repnlrlng, conserving,
beautifying or enhancing tho facilities, Is
done by the school Itself. Their shops aro
tho industrial and manual shops for tho
school. The children work in them with
skilled union workmen, who are employed
not primarily ns 'manual training' teachers,
but nn assistants to tho building superin
tendent. 'Where the ordinary trado
Bchool must havo large classes to make tho
enterprise pay, tho Gary vocntlonal work
may bo done with tho smallest groups, for
tho shops are paying for themselves anyway.
Vocational Training nt a Profit
"In Gary the domestic science room Is a
real kitchen In which tho dally luncheon Is
prepared and served nt cost to tho teachers
nnd pupils who desire It." The printing class
supplies all the record blanks for tho school.
Tho botany clns3 cares for tho garden nnd
shrubbery. A shoe shop wns started In tho
Froebel School to relieve tho shoeless condi
tion of many of the children.
All this menns more than economy, of
course. It means tho arousing of a new In
terest In the work. The children aro making
something concrete, of appreciable value and
Importance.
The same practical method of teaching Is
pushed Into other studies. Tho chemistry
class Is under the t'lrection of tho city chem
ist, nnd tests tho supplies sent tho nchoolB,
thp water nnd milk of the city, and tho food
products nnd candles of tho stores. With his
pupils' co-operation the city chemist has nn
enviable list of successful prosecutions for
pure food law violations.
The history class works In a laboratory full
of maps and charts prepared by tho pupils. It
frames reports on "Tho city as a healthful
place to live In," while tho city fights for a
water-front park. One class, Mr. Bourne
found, had been working on a comparison of
Greek education with Gary education.
The vocational training of Gary is not a
matter of picking out a child and deciding
Just what machine he shall tend through tho
rest of his life. There Is none of that harden
ing of class lines which often seems bo evil
a thing In vocational work. Tho school turns
out Its pupils skilled amateurs with ma
chinery in general, and proficient In a num
ber of fields, "equipped to cope with a dyna
mic, rapidly changing Industrial society."
Moreover, the child pretty much chooses
for himself what ho will work at. The shops
nnd studies and conservatories nro scattered
among the classrooms. Moving freely about
as the child does, he gets peeks at various
Interesting mosses of machinery through tho
glass doors, watches older children at work,
and, almost before he knows It, finds himself
a "helper" In some class or other. If he finds
the work unattractive, he can still change
to something else.
The New Physics
There is also a considerable reform In the
general methods of teaching. Read, for ex
ample, Mr, Bourne's description of a physics
class: "I found a dczen 12-year-old girls and
their 9-year-old 'helpers' studying the motor
cycle, With that fine disregard for boundaries
which characterizes Gary education, the hour
began with a spelling lesson of the names of
the parts and processes of tho machine. After
the words were learned, the mechanism was
explained to them as they pored over It, and
their memory of vaporization, evaporation,
etc., called into play. The motorcycle wbb set
going, the girls described Its action, and the
lesson was ov'rr, us perfect a piece of teaching
as I have ever heard, To these physics classes
the ventilating, heating and electric systems
In the schools are all textbooks."
There are a hundred more details to the
organization that makes Gary's schools a.
mlcrocosmos of the city's life. But the hu
manness of tho whole thing and its success
are summed up In the attitude of theBchool
and tho children toward each other, "There
Is pone of that slightly depressing atmos
phere of the mild if excellent prison for half-
day Involuntary labor which Is too often the
ordinary school. You are dealing
with interested Individuals who, singly or In
spontaneous groups, are utilizing all the
facilities of a lavishly equipped and stimu
lating community."
BEYOND
, J wonder if the tide of spring
Will always bring me back again
Mute rapture at the simple thing
Of lilacs blowing In the ralnT
If so, my heart will ever be
Above all. fear, for I shall know
There Is a greater mystery
Beyond the time when Macs. blow.
Tbomaj S. Jems. Jr.. In "Tta Velcs of Silence,"
WHILE
AT THE COALITION LOVEFEAST
United in the Reconstructed B:itish Cabinet Are the Opposing
Personalities of Lord Lansdowne and Lloyd-George,
"Meek" McKenna and "King Carson."
By ELLIS
IN THE reconstructed British Cabinet Sir
Edward Groy remains in tho post which
ho hns occupied ever Blnco 1000. Every other
Power but Great Britain in that period has
changed its Foreign Minister at least once,
and some of them two or three times With
the exception of Premier Asqulth, Sir Ed
ward is tho only one of tho real directors
of tho Liberal Government to pass through
tho recent Cabinet crisis without any effect
on his official position and authority. Though
Lord Lnnsdowne Is expected to glvo him con
siderable relief from his arduous duties, Groy
is still Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
both In name and In fact. Somo of tho
chnnges of ofTlce brought about by coalition
do not, of course, signify loss of prestige, but
Sir Edward's continued tennre, though not
surprising. Is fresh and striking evidence of
tho remarkable confidence which ho com
mands throughout the country. In this re
spect ho Is an exceptional Foreign Minister
among those who havo figured In recent
English and Continental history. Sir Edward
Grey has always had the confidence of tho
British nation as a whole.
Tho editor of the London Dally News, writ,
lng In tho Atlantic Monthly, sizes him up
as follows: "If Mr. Asquith's lntelleotual
mastery of tho House Is supremo, Sir Ed
ward Grey's Influence Is not less remarkable
as a triumph of character. In many respects
his equipment Is undistinguished. He has
traveled little: It Is Jocularly said thnt ho
made his first visit to Paris when ho accom
panied tho King there a short time ago Ho
is not a linguist; ho Is wholly insular in his
tastes, almost unknown In society, much
moro devoted to fishing than to politics;
spooks little, and then In tho plainest and
most unadorned fashion; Is Indifferent to tho
currents of modern life, and turns for his
literature to the quietism of Wordsworth,
Walton and White's 'Selborne'; is rarely seen
In the House, nnd then seems to stray In, as
It were, like a visitor from another planet.
"And In spite of all this ho exercises nn al
most hypnotic Influence on Parliament. Tho
detachment of his mind, the Olympian aloof
ness nnd serenity of his manner, tho trans
parent honesty of his alms, his entlro free
dom from artifice and from appeals to tho
'gallery,' all combine to glvo him a certain
Isolation and authority that are unique. His
speech has the quality of finality. Mr. As
qulth wins by sheer mental superiority;
Lloyd-George wins by the swiftness and sup
pleness of his evolutions; Sir Edward Groy
wins by his mere presence, and the sense of
high purpose and firmness of mind which
that presence conveys. It is a favorite Jest
of his enemies that no man can be quite so
wise as Sir Edward Grey looks,"
A Man of Fourteen Titles
Lord Lansdowne, who Joins the Cabinet aa
"Minister Without Portfolio," was Foreign
Secretary In the last Tory administration.
In that office ho redeemed himself, at least
In the eyes of his friends, for the catas
trophes and bungllngs of which ho was ac
cused when he was War Secretary at tho
time of tho Boer War. His handling of the
Boxer situation was far Inferior In humanity,
foresight and practicality to that of John
Hay, and ho steered Great Britain Into the
Venezuelan mess of 1303, but he contributed
effectively to the making of an Anglo-French
entente. Confronted In 1901 with the alterna
tive of a Russo-Japanese or an Anglo-Japanese
alliance he boldly elected to cut loose
from tradition and to execute the most mo
mentous curve In British policy of the pre
vious half century. As Governor General of
Canada, his first office of real Importance,
he scored a great hit with the French-Canadians
by frequently addressing them In
their native tongue.
Lansdowne led the Unionists In their fight
against the program of Lloyd-George "the
Demagogue of the Cabinet," as they call
him for the solution of England's land prob
Jem. He accused the Little Welshman of
"waging a predatory campaign against prop
erty In land " The two are decidedly unlike.
If Mr- Lloyd-George may be taken as repre
sentative of the newer England tho England
that Judges men by what they are and do,
and not by the non-essentials of birth or po
sition or wealth Lord Lansdowne may
stand equally well for a type of the older
and moro aristocratic England His whole
career, as Sydney Brooks has said, is "a
picture in little of the British system." It
is a part of that system that men of ancient
lineage and great possessions should look
upon office as a birthright, Bhould find the
path to public activity and distinction thrown
Invitingly open to their footsteps, and should
gradually have. It recognized as something
YOU'RE ANSWERING, WILLIAM-
RANDALL
of a political axiom that they simply cannot
be got rid of. Losing his father In boyhood,
Lord Lansdowne came into tho family titles,
of which thero aro some fourtoen; tho family
estates half a dozen In number and Includ
ing nbout 160,000 acres of land and a seat
In tho House of Lords, all on his twenty-first
birthday.
Tho American fame of Reginald McKenna,
tho Homo Secretary who now becomes Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, is due In largo part
to tho militant suffragists. It wns he who
decided who should bo forcibly fed nnd how,
who should be released nt tho critical stage of
a hunger strike and who that throw missiles
at a Cabinet Minister should be reckoned
a "first-class misdemeanant." He was de
nounced all along by tho anti-mlnlsterlal
press as having caused by his weakness tho
whole Biiffrngetto crisis. Throughout his
career, likewise, his successive promotions
havo been ascribed to his most egregious
fatuity. Ho has ever been described as a
nullity in thought and action. This is tho
professed view of his political opponents,
hut tho view of a friondly Interpreter is cjj
different as can well bo Imagined. McKenna
In said to havo tho cold, logical mind of a
John Stuart Mill In tho nervous organiza
tion of a Disraeli. He has that supremo
genius for self-effacement of which born
leaders aro made. Ho reads men as If thoy
were books. His public npceches, while ex
temporaneous, havo all the beauty of an
essay by Ruskln. And so on. And tho
Liberal press sees In him a coming Prime
Minister, In splto of the divergence of public
opinion concerning his ability.
"The Sioux Chief of Politics"
McKenna has an opposite In Sir Edward
Carson, blunderbuss and fighter, "tho Hero
of Ulster." Carson defied tho Government
and tho law. The leading lawyer of Ireland
rendered himself liable, technically nt any
rate, to Imprisonment for crime, He Is an
Ulsterman only by ndoptlon and by the vio
lent temperament symbolized by tho black
thorn Btlck presented to him by the rebels.
An aristocrat to his finger tips, he Is likened,
In his "noble savagery," to a Sioux chief.
No man In the whole domain of British
politics has a rougher tonguo than Carson's.
In court the heavy, vibrant voice fills the
room, his words fall with a ruthless crash,
all the resources of his dominating person
ality aro brought Into play to stampede the
men In the box. For Sir Edward has the
gaiety of high animal spirits and the rough
wit of the streets.
"Ar-re yo a taytotaller?" he roars in his
rich brogue, seeing that the man in the wit
ness Is bottle-nosed. No answer.
"Ar-re ye a modherate drinker?"
"That's my business," replies the bottle
nosed mortal.
"An-ny other business?"
The question cornea swiftly the knock-out
blow of the sparrer, who plays lightly with a
poor antagonist and aends him spinning with
a scornful flick of his finger,
LAUGHING GAS AT THE FRONT
Progress in Poisons to Add to the Fearful
Frightfulness of Modern War.
AFTER all, why not gaa?
A When It tomes to losing a tooth, we
never let the extra fee to the dentist Btand
between us and pain. If it Is a matter of
losing a. life, why let International law get
In the way of a short death and an easy one?
William Hohenzollern, D, D. S., like our less
cosmic dentists at homo, never hesitates, He
supplies the gas, and his editors furnish the
laughs.
There aro admittedly a great many van
tages in the gas method besides the paltry,
materialistic Bide of gaining a trench or twar
If promptly and relentlessly applied, Jt paves
hospital bills, a big Item In twentieth century
war. The bereaved relatives Bhould also ap
preciate the fact that the body of the loved
one is thus saved from the mutilation of rifle
ball and tlje dismemberment of aerial bombs.
German chemists In Carlyle's favorite town
of Welssnlchtwo are, It Is hinted, even now
at work on the preparation of a gas which
will have an embalming effect on the human
system, thus saying labor, expense and dan
gers of Infection to tha victors. The report
is emphatically denied, however, that Prof.
Bchreckltch has discovered a gas which will
drive Its Inhalers crazy and set them to kill
ing everybody in sight. Prof Schreckllch l
working on tho problem, but has not yet re
ported success.
Of course it must bo admitted that gaa has
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Its drawbacks. Sometimes tho victims re
cover and havo to bo fed and housed as pris
oners. Often the chlorlno Is absorbed by th'sfl
air oeiuru it can overcomo mo enemy. Hydro- I
cyanic ncld, as Hudson Maxim suggests,'!
wouiu do a Dcticr suDstuuto. one whiff I
enough.
On tho whole, It is safo to say that the raj
period of tho war will soon be over. Tha
range of action Is too small. The aeroplane
has made It possible to distribute culture
tubes of virulent germs over a comparatively
wide area with no danger to tho distributor!.
The flow of rivers and tho prevalent fad for
drinking water among soldiers renders poison
a much more effective and economical agent.
With tho descendants of tho Borglas and tha
Medlcls now In tho battle line, had they been
properly trained, real progress In the mora
modern aspects of warfaro might be
pected. Somo "frightfulness" with more
puncii in it tnnn me tentative proposals, to
drop a flock of potato bugs on Germany's
oacic lots may yet ue.
ENTHUSIASM FOR EVENING LEDGER
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir The Atnbol Country Club, comoosed of
and retlccting to a great extent the opinion of J
young Itnllnn-Amcrlcans, hns Instructed me, as i
its president, to tell you of the tremendous wava 1
of enthusiasm that Is sweeping over the Italian 1
colony In favor of your paper, the Evchino
Ledger.
The generous policy ou are pursuing In tha
treatment of news relating to the entrance ef
Italy Into the conflict now raging abroad has1
aroused much favorable comment. The, most
prominent men, as well as the most humble n
tho Latin Quarter, have almost come to look
upon your paper as their official organ and are
delighted with the well-written, authorltatlvt
.articles, both In English and Italian, which r
dally a part of your Issues.
It certnlnly gives me great pleasure personally
to write you these few lines of commendation,
for I know this opinion Is nn accurate reflection f
of the sincere feeling toward the Evewno
Lnoucn in the entire colony. We trust tha
good work will continue and increase the gro
lng prestige of one of the oest newspapers in
the city. CHARLES M. BANDIERE,
President Atnbol Country Club,
Philadelphia, May 25,
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir You have the vessel In your cartoon la
beled "Civilization." You are aware that this
vessel carried 5500 cases of ammunition to kill
Germans. The British are the guilty ones to
carry passengers on a war vessel, and you art
wrong to draw such a rotten picture. Th
world doesn't seo It the way you do.
GEOBGB IC. GOLDEN.
Klttannlng, Pa., May 25.
WHO CAN ANSWER?
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"orange." Or are there others?
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TODAY. 8:80 TO 10:30
AT CHESTNUT HILL,
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Imported novettlea In shops and unlqua features.
Innumerable amusements for children.
DANCING TEA SUPPER
For St. Luke's International Hospital, Tour.
IaJnKeya and buses at P. R. R. trains, Allen U
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