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A Ileal Fcocomalcer
ijttLui award of tho Nobel peaco prize to
Xpope Banedlot XV honors a real peaco
malcer, Tho Pope hsa beon using all his
influence since tho war began In ordor to
brine about peaoo. Ho holds himself In
readlneoa to not wtienovor the belligerents
oro In a mood to consider terms on which
the fighting; can be irtoppod. IIo Is states
man enough to reoognlso tho facts as thoy
8T8 and to nnderat&nd tho futility of at
tempting the Impossible. Ho will yield to
no man in hia objection to war and in his
preforenco for peaoo. His high rollglous ol
flco makes him the most oonsplouous Hying
representative of tho Prince of Peaoo.
Benedict XV has conducted himself with
wisdom and discretion In a great world
crista whon the faith of men has been
shaken and when they have doubted that
nineteen oenturles of Christian teaching haa
produced any tangible result. But his faith
hao remained sereno and clear, and hl3 con
fidence in the ultimata triumph of the ideal
has not been destroyed. He hao not thought
It necessary to indict Christendom, but haa
seen in tho conflict tho manifestation of
somo of the aubllmcat and dlvlnost human
traits, along with somo of the most bestial
passions. He deserves tho Nobel prizo if any
man has earned it In tho last year.
Noise Is Not Patriotism
THERE can bo a successful celebration of
tho Fourth of July without burning a lot
of gunpowdor and maiming a lot of children.
It seems to be tho purpose of tho committee
In chargo of the celebration thin yoar to pro
vide for a display of patriotic Bentlment in
stead of a display of fireworks. Publlo senti
ment Is cortolnly behind tho committee.
Music and parados, games and npeoches lend
themselves admirably to the needs of tho oo
caslon. A safe and sane Fourth is as desir
able as a sane and safo foreign policy.
Necessity's Latest Progeny
THE war, which haa cut off tho supply of
fustic used in producing yellow dye needed
in tho leather trade, has spurred on tho
chemists of tho Government until they havo
succeodod in demonstrating that osage orange
yields a good dyo at less cost than the im
ported wood. The difference in favor of tho
American wood runs from J6-to S a ton.
The announcement of tho success of the Gov
ernment experiments woo made at tho meet
ing of tho American Leather Chemists' Asso
ciation In Atlantio City.
Vegetable dyes were used in all textile in
dustries until the coal tar colors displaced
them. They oro better than the coal tar
dyes, holding their color longer and produc
ing more beautiful effects. The only advan
tage which the chemical dyes have over tho
dyes which they displaced is tho ease with
Whloh different shades can bo produced.
The oountry is as full of dyo woods and
herbs as It over was. If our chemists cannot
use the secret processes employed by tho Ger
mano in producing dyes though this is by no
means certain they can succeed in perfecting
simple and inexpensive methods of extracting
coiors irom mo native products. Necessity is
the mother of a numerous progeny and she Is
still In her prime.
Chicago to the Gulf
IT WAS a good many years ago that tho
Chlcogo drainage canal made the eastern
half of tho United States an island. But It
was only this week that commerce took cog
nizance of tho fact and sent the first of a
regular lino of freight steamers from Chicago
to New Orleans. That initial cargo might
havo continued its trip if it had wanted to,
taken an ocean-going, vessel to Boston, an
other to Quebeo and then sailed on up the
BU Lawrence and the Great Lakes to tho
city it started from, circumnavigating half
tho United States. The old steamboatlng days
on the Mississippi and Ohio wero wonderful
enough, but modern science and business en
terprise have always new wonders to show.
Give Yourself a Chance
TWO successful men have recently retired
from business, one at 10. the other at 60.
One wants o get a chane to look at his
soul The other, having acquired his com
petency, thinks he ought to gat out and give
the fellows lower down a show.
They may both be right, or both wrong,
but one thtg to certain, and that is the
utter reoklmnitap and wanton disregard of
natural laws displayed by the ordinary busi
ness man who keeps the machine working at
high pressure all the tint. Tbere is really
nu reason why a man should retire at W or
at M. provided he mas gumption enough t
ix play wit bis work, to eaee toe strain
by proper yatlona. A vacation (toes not
mean two weeks off every year. A vajtioa
of a siagl afternoon le often worth a dosea
bottla of medicine. A frequent release from
the eteraal grind thai la the thin- But the
average Anim. an buaiiuas men hg about
as much' rhji I r, r hlj body as be has fur
the trash, i t. -r Ht lefuses absolutely to
tek cre it it Me eits his way Into a
coflU He 4i toasts iu the undertaker
lie is eu busy tkkat-sfmv that he makes
u tummy of hitaeeif
;- Jae ow The royal tin for breath
. i, fmo air, coauuuttUtg tfc the biUs
EVENING
traipsing through green graft-, Is here. Tou
old nervous wreck, quit grumbling about the
doctor's bill You hoed not have any If you
will turn that thinking apparatus on the suc
mm of your health Instead of devoting It en
tirely to the success of your business. Bo a
human being for a while and forget the
desk. Get yourself waked up and you can
bo really efficient, as you wero 20 years ago
when you lnld the foundations for your bust
noss. So many mon can do all things well,
except live. They h'avo no Idea of How to do
that.
Not the Time to Quit
THE American business man Is not a quit
ter. Thereforo tho report that tho Pa
cific Mall Steamship Company Is to withdraw
its fleet of ships' from tho sen after Novem
ber 4, when tho La Folletto seaman's law
goes Into effect, cannot bo believed.
The law places Intolerable burdens on
American shipowners, while attempting to
protect American seamen. Its enforcement
will entail loss on every American steamship
company. But the nation is aroused now as
it was not aroused when tho law was passed.
Every citizen hao learned the lesson that If
this country Is to expand its foreign trade it
must command tho means of distribution.
American goods must bo carried in American
ships if wo oro to get them delivered when
and where wo want them delivered. Congress
meets In Deoomber, only n. month after the
La Follotto law goes into effeot It must re
spond to tho demand that It repeal the law
or that it provide, by subsidies or subven
tions, for meeting the extra exponno whloh
the statute lays upon American carriers.
But If Amorlcan shlpownero are to be quit
ters, what is" tho use of trying to do anything
to help them? They havo been willing to
fight in tho past, and they havo pocketed
present lossos in tho hope of futuro profits.
If tho owners of tho Pacific Matl Company
havo tho nervo to hold on and fight they will
win. This Is not the time to quit. It Is tho
tlmo to fight It Is tho tlmo to combino with
all advocates' of an enlarged merchant fleet
In an ovorwholmlng movemont against tho
narrow-vlsloned sentimentalists who Ignoro
tho larger issues in advocating tho smaller,
and against the socialistic advocated of pub
llo ownership, wtio think that It is right for
tho Government to loso money In tho ship
ping business and wrong for the Government
to assist private citizens to make money in
tho ocean trade.
A Few Thousnnds for Hundreds of Children
THURSDAY tho Mayor urged upon Coun
cils tho necessity of providing promptly
for the organization of a Division of Child
Hygiene. Tho cost of tho division for six
months would bo approximately $10,000.
Tho high Infant mortality In this city Is
BUfllclent reason for complying with the
Mayor's request. Thero are hundreds of pro
ventoblo deaths every year, particularly In
tho summer. Tlicro nro literally thousands
of mothers who aro Ignorant of tho most
simple rules for the preservation of child life.
Tho city could not possibly spend $16,000 more
advantageously than In tho manner proposed.
Not to provide tho money would bo extrava
gance; to provide it would bo economy.
Tho Organization certainly can forget its
hostility to tho Mayor long enough to Join
with him In so excellent a proceeding as the
preservation of tho lives of Infants lives
now needlessly, evon criminally, wasted.
Legal Protection for the Actor
ANY ono who knows tho precarious flnan
.clal condition of tho American theatre
at tho present moment Is likely to look ask
ance at the prospect of the Actors" Equity
Association calling a strlko of Its 2500 mem
bers to enforce demands It Is now making
on tho managers. Such action would seem
sure to wreck the wholo wobbly structure.
But that Is putting an unfair light on the
matter. The actors' union for that Is what
It Is appreciates tho precarious position of
tho managers. At Its recent meeting In New
York It was generally agreed that a strike
would mean only Irreparable losses to both
sides. But It also knows that what It fights
for Is right and must triumph. This Is not
higher pay. It Is simply a uniform equitable
contract.
Germany has enacted such a contract by
law. America must achieve It through tho
direct efforts of Its actors. Tho leaders in
the fight, men like Francis Wilson, Bruco
Mcltae and Edward Abeles, themselves have
nothing to gain by it. An honest contract,
with protection for both parties, rather than
one, will mean most to the players of small
parts, the beginners and the hard-working
men and women who make an honest If un
distinguished living on the stage.
Humorous Ravings
T-AVE" LANE is Indeed tho Lane that
XJ has no turning. Everything is bad
unless his hand was in tho doing of it. He
slnga his song of hato quite merrily. This is
the gentleman who Imagines that resolutions
of gratitude should bo passed by the populace
because the trolley fare to West Philadelphia
Is not ten cents. He does not want rapid
transit and ho does not want anything else
that Is trade-marked progress. No, things
must bo now as they were when he started
In to turn an honest penny in the politi
cal game. The Intelligent citizen does not
have to spend money for amusement these
days. Some of the best humor of the day
is being furnished free of charge by as cute
a set of political philanthropists as ever
strangled a municipality.
When you say "He means well," you aro
merely disguising your condemnation.
It Is fortunate for the local Democrats that
they are fighting for harmony Instead of for
victory, for they may possibly get It.
As one reads the fulmlnatlorw from Read
ins; about the coming war, one is reminded of
tfae ancient saw about the shoemaker and hU
Jlt.
Aaother men has taken poison by mistake
Car cough HUdlela. But natwtt medjolne
qaakers- stilt sell pe4aa without any manU
feet compunctions of eoBseienee.
Villa' wants to eliminate Zapata, and 'Jta
pata wants to eliminate Carranza, and Car
ranza wants to eJimtaate VUta, thus eoro
pfeting the triangle of Mexloas ambit loas.
The President announces that the retire
meat of Mr Bryan has not produced such a
grave crteU that it Is necessary to form a
(.oalltiou Cabinet composed of the patriots of
1 parties.
T.F.nttER - PHTLADELPniA, SATURDAY. JUNE 12, 1915.
PUBLICITY AS A'
WAR PREVENTIVE
Is the Proposed "Lengtte of Peace"
a Realizable Project? The Ele
ment of Obligation The End of
War Through Justice.
By THEODORE MARBURG
Former U S Mlnlatar to Belslum.
(ny Special Arrangement With tho independent.)
On Thursday, June 17, a conference tcttl be
held in Independence Hall for the purpose of
dls&usstno the formation of a League of
Peace. The movement, in ichlch thU meet
ing tcltt be an Important step, teas started by
Dr. Hamilton Holt, and has the sanction of
cx-Vresident Taft, President Lowell, of Har
vard, and the Hon. Theodore Marburg, a
leading authority on diplomacy and Interna
tional law, and other distinguished citizens.
THE falluro of existing Institutions 'to
prevent war points to the need of sanc
tion. All the present Hague Institutions for
tho settlement of International disputes nro
voluntnry. Nations may or may not resort
to tho Permanent Court of Arbitration, to
tho International Commission of Inquiry, to
Mediation and Good Offices, according as
they see fit.
Many men fonnorly satisfied with those
voluntary Institutions now believe that the
clement of obligation must be added. It Is
only a question of how far they aro willing
to go. Shall we, through the united action
of the nations, forbid war, or should we
simply oompel disputants to resort to Insti
tutions already In existence or hereaftof to
be set up In tho honest endeavor to compose
tholr quarrels before thoy aro allowed to
make tho appeal to armsf
In planning a now leoguo manifestly a
first duty is to ascertain why tho leagues
of the past have failed. And our search
nosd not carry us far aflold.
Wo aro confronted at once with the fact
that each of these leagues was composed of
a small number of Powors, so small as to
permit of collusion to prey upon nations out
side tho league, or of tho wilful triumph of
selfish Interests to tho injury both of Its
other mombers and of tho world at large.
Within the Stato tho causa ot Justtco Is
advanced under a democratlo regime by the
play of opposing interests, the Interests of
ono Individual against tho Interests of an
other individual, of one class against an
other class and by the united thinking of
tho many. This leads to the conclusion that
If wo can set up a eague which shall em
brace all the progressive nations, big and
little, wo may look for wise and Just action
from it.
Specifically, this would give to the league
the eight groat Powers Including tho United
States the secondary Powers of Europe, and
tho "A B C" oountrles of South America.
In this group wo find three great peoples
with common political aspirations, namely,
those of Great Britain, Franco and the
United States, peoples which no longer re
gard democracy as a passing phase of politi
cal experiment, but as a. permanent faot of
politics. We find In It two powerful nations.
Groat Britain and tho United States, whloh
may bo said to bo satisfied territorially. Wo
find, moreover, a group of smaller nations
with no disturbing ambitions.
Now, a desirable plan would embrace such
a broad league, a league which should not
Itself attempt to pronounce upon International
disputes, but would rofer tho disputants to
certain Institutions for the settlement of con
troversies and insist that they may not re
sort to war.
In such a project wo find four progressive
Btages:
First stage Institutions such as wo now
have, supplemented by a true court of Jus
tice all of which institutions shall be purely
voluntary or facultative.
Second stage Tho element of obligation
added, In so far as tho nations shall bind
themsolves to resort to theso Institutions.
Third stage The further addition of an
agreement to have the league act as an in
ternational grand Jury to halo tho nation
lawbreaker into court and to uso force to
bring it thero if recalcitrant.
Fourth stage Tho final addition of an
agreement to use force, if need be, to execute
the award of the tribunal.
Now, how muoh of this "desirable" plan Is
a "realizable" project?
The difficulty that faces us with regard to
tho last two steps Is the reluctance of na
tions to make the surrender of sovereignty
and Independence which they Involve. It
means that the signatories bind themselves
to make war, under certain conditions, in the
common Interest. Can tho United States
Senate bo brought to such a view of its duty
to mankind? The last step, that of enforc
ing the award, involves likewise the danger
of oppression unless tho league charged with
such a duty should embrace all or nearly all
of the progressive nations. On the other
hand, the demand that controversies be re
ferred to a tribunal and that tho decision of
such tribunal bo awaited before making war
Involves no danger of oppression. It Is a
reasonable demand. A project which In
cluded bringing a nation into tho presence
of a tribunal but made no attempt to exe
cute tho award could therefore bo safely In
stituted by a league embraolng all, or nearly
all, of the great Powers without awaiting
tho ndherence of tho secondary Powers,
though the prosenco of tho latter would make
the league all the stronger.
As the nation which consented so to refer
Its disputes to a tribunal would not be
obliged either by Its own Promise or by the
will of tho league to observe the award, the
proceedings would bo much In tho nature of
a mere Inquiry, But since publicity tends to
correct not only Illegal practices but unjust
ones, too, and does it without resort to a
court of law or even to a tribunal of arbi
tration, it is felt that in tho majority of
cases the controversy would be Btllled by in
vestigation alone.
It will be observed that the plan here pro
posed moves forward the present practice in
two particulars, namely, in binding the sig
natories to resort to International lnstltu
tlons for the settlement of controversies be
fore making war and In compelling them so
to do If recalcitrant.
This Is as far as some mm fit wide prac
tical experience are willing to go. They are
unwilling, for example, as part of a reallz.
able plact, to take the fourth step, namely,
bind the league to enforoe the award.
WAR "ADS" IN THE TIMES
Frwn tbt Lsadou Tlmaa.
April 38.
SKIN Officer requires four laehea by three
Inches ef skia to cover wound and expedite We
return to duty; opportunity for unseHUn patriot.
Box S, jn, tke Tbaes-
Aprll 30.
SKIN Offloer wishes to thank tin numerous
persons whose offers of skin he appreciates He
alma! regrets hi, lanhttily w aeet mu than
THE ONLY ONE INJURED IN THE GREAT GERMAN-AMERICAN WAR
FAILURE OF BRITISH SPRING "DRIVE"
Tommy Atkins' Dream Is Shattered, but He Keeps His "Grit"
and Cheers Himself by Remarking, "The First Two
Years Will Be the Worst."
By E. RICHARD SCHAYER
The author la an American newspaper
man, now a private- In tha British Army
Service Corps at tho front In northern
France.
THESE notes aro being written in tho
shade of an old apple tree near Bethune.
My back is agalnBt its snarly old trunk and
my dusty army shoes are grinding their
steel-shod heels Into a little bod ot daisies.
Overhead tho massed white blossoms flutter
In tho soft breeze, and still higher a skylark
chortles with gleo and performs marvels in
aerial gymnastics. A little further down tho
orchard a small flock of goats bleat and nib
ble at tho rich turf.
Tho goats seem to fit In tho picture, but
the goatherd Jars tho eye. Ho Is a black
man very black, with sharply out features
and straggly beard. Ho wears a grimy khaki
uniform of Oriental cut and a greasy turban.
His namo, as nearly as I could get it, is Mo
hammed Umphf. He Is a cook with a bat
talion of Pathans, but bo far, I Imagine, the
goats don't realize It
Barring the goatherd, thero Is nothing In
sight at the moment to disturb the serenity
of nature in her best spring raiment. Tho
little orchard rims a. curve In the highway,
and the outlook on every sldo Is calmly beau
tiful. At such moments out hero one almost
wishes he wero deaf. For It Is by tho sense
of hearing alone that ono Is chained to the
grim realization of things. Tho roar of tho
guns only a fow kilos away beats heavily on
tho eardrums In a ponderous sort of synco
pated rhythm, with a treble part, played by
the Maxims, that sounds at this dlstanae
exactly like a coal wagon emptying itself Into
your cellar on a sheet-Iron chute.
A Dream Gone to Smash
Tho great British dream ot tho winter has
gone to smash. The ono consoling thought
of all us thousands through tho bitter hard
ships of that killing winter campaign that
when spring camo and tho sun mado the
earth's surface negotiable and Kitchener's
new army was in tho field, the enemy would
Immediately find himself on the defensive
and tho new British hordes would swarm
upon him, orush him, beat him back, stead
ily, surely, Into Belgium and out again on
the other side, to make his last stand in the
valleys of his Fatherland has proved itself
a ghostly delusion.
"Licked, but Not Beaten"
It was all summed up for mo only an hour
or so ago, a mile or two up tho road. I had
been helping load lorries and wagons with
cases of ammunition at a division headquar
ters, and when released from tho Job and
told to get back to Bethune to my train, I
first took a good look around. Down the
road toward the battle line, half a mile away,
I came upon a young man. His uniform,
dirty and tattered though it was, still boro
tho stamp of good London tailoring, by
which, together with the faet that ho used a
sword for a cane as he hobbled toward me,
I knew him for an officer.
Ho proved a young first lieutenant of a
rifle brlgnde. I saluted as I passed, and he
answered with a slight gesture of hts free
hand. Something about the expression In
his eyes turned me about and I asked him If
I could be of any assistance.
"Thanks, awfly," he said, In that high
bred English tone, "but I think I can make
it quite well."
Then, for the first time, I realized that he
was freshly wounded. I had been so accus
tomed to seeing broken and torn men hob
bling around hospitals and camps that it
hadn't occurred to me to connect this Jimp
lng pedestrian with the battle then in prog,
ress. Besides, he was the first wounded man
I had ever seen making his own way back
to a dressing station. ,
His wound. In the right calf, while not dan.
geroua In Itself, was painful, and he was glad
to aooept pay proffered shoulder to help cover
the remaining hundred yards or so to the
marquee tents of the dressing station.
"Why didn't you get some qne to ride you
up, sir?" I asked.
His answer was typical of his breed.
"I'm not bM badly. The ambulances are
overcrowded wttb dangerously wounded. I
knew I could hoof it "
After few eteps in silence I asked
"How ie It oln, sir, down there toda?
"Bally awful. Wo tried three times yester
day to1 get through. Couldn't make It. Now
they're trying It on. Wo'vo stopped two
rushes today In our trench. We'll keep on
stopping them. But, damn It, wo'ro not get
ting anywhere."
"What do you make of It, sir?"
"It's a fizzle, a bally fizzle. Wo'ro licked
but wo'ro not beaton."
I turned him over to a R. A. M. C. orderly
by tho door of ono of tho hospital tonts, and
camo on down to this little orchard. And as
I think It over that Anglo-Saxon officer's
grim little admission, "Wo'ro licked, but
we'ro not beaton," Becms to sound tho koy
noto of tho general spirit I havo noticed In
all the branches of tho service during tho
past week.
"First Two Years tho Worst"
The thousands of wounded pouring into
tho base hospitals every day all Beom to re
flect this feeling of bitter disappointment,
crushing realization and doubly grim de
termination. Everywhere and with every ono there has
been but one topic of conversation tho col
lapse of tho British dream of Immensely suc
cessful operations In tho spring and a speedy
termination of the war. A hundred theories
are advanced. Arguments wax hot and cold.
But always the disputants como back to a
mutual admission that whatever tho causes
the new British army has been cut to rib
bons wherever It has attempted tho offensive,
and that the foemen aro the most marvelous
fighters, Individually and collectively, the
British have ever been called upon to face.
But tho old British spirit has not been
killed. There is no perceptible feeling of fear
as to tho final outcome. Nowhere can one
hoar a single voice raised to suggest any
other possible finish to all this horror than
complete and glorious vlotory for England
and her allies. Thoy put It Into a sort of
gloomy Joke, as Is Tommy's habit. Ho meets
you. asks you how you're getting on, what
you would give to bo homo again, and winds
up with tho cheering comment, "Well, the
first two years will be the worst."
And that, too, holds something of the
psychology of the British army in northern
France today. Tho first two years will be
the worst, meaning, obviously, that. If It
takes a dozen years, they are going to stick
to It, and stick to it, until they win.
But there Is no discounting the atmosphere
of gloom that hangs over tho entire expedi
tionary force Just now. Tho shifting fortunes
at that terrible little mound known as HIJ1 60
the horrible effect of tho new German gas
shells, the loss of tho ground gained south
east of Ypres at terrlflo cost.nd the appar
ently undiminished vigor with which the
enemy presses homo his counter-pharges
have all made their deep, bitter Impression.
Somebody's Blunder
And through it all comes the undercur
rents of gossip and rumor and suspicion that
indicate things aro not quite what they
should be at general headquarters, that some
where, somehow, some ono has blundered
Where are the big guns to match tho German
howitzers? All winter we have heard about
these new, huge guns that were to tear the'
German trenches to pieces and open tho road
to Berlin. Where, too, are the hlgb-power
explosive shell, so necessary at this stage of
the game before any general advance can be
made?
.A woun1ed artilleryman told me yesterday
that before the British charee th r.i .Vt,,.
his battery had to Are to prepare the way to
the German lines were' shrapnel
"Wot bleedln' good Is shrapnel," he com.
Plained. "wen them blokes is hid n' in K
dug outs? You might as well sprinkle
with a garden 'osa."
This same R. H. A. chap told mo what I
had heard from other, and less authoritative
sources, and had hardly credited. It w tht
batteries of French artillery had beln p" sS
Into service around Ypres to aid lnblS
?""" atU0k" fe Brlti.r
-If It hadn't been for them French w5T
fives." saU the artilleryman. -SwTSS
wot would -ave 'append. I gaw uwt
terie. of 'em workln' on the hill next to
of
... ,i nwuu rrom wr a.
'Wipers' for us last weok. Wot our generali
Is thlnkln' of I don't know. But somethln'ii
gono wrong, an' If thoy don't straighten it,
out them Germans will reach Calais yet."
My attention was Just called to a commo
tion among tho goats. Two turbancd gentle.
men have Joined tho goatherd, and tho trio',
nro doing something to those goats. I didn't'
reallzo Just what it was until one bleatlnJ
llttlo animal, with budding horns, camo gtf.
loping in my direction with tho goatherd
In oloso pursuit. Ho caught the little crea-'
turn up by tho horns, held it In midair and
then I saw tho knife In his other hand-and,:
looked awny.
It seems to mo this llttlo incident In this
blossomy sotting typifies this war In gtn
oral. Certainly my friends the soldiers ul
tho goats.
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"PETTIFOGGING PEDAGOGY"
To the Editor of Evening Ledger.
Sir Tour editorial on "PettlfogglnK Pd?
gogy" In the issue of Juno 10, struck mo u3
Deing very sensible. Prof E. H. Landla TftUJ
deserves to ne mo ncau or tno science Depart''
mem ot xne uoninu mgn scnooi.
NATHAN HALE GOODMAN.
Philadelphia, Juno 11.
DR. WHITE'S DIAGNOSIS OF GOLF
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir I see that my Innocent attempt to rellen
tho University of tho odium of profiting by'
gambling has resulted in an outbreak of violent'
and almost delirious objurgation on the part of
Dr. Edward Martin.
I would not notice tho matter further wer
It not that Doctor Martin seems to Imply that?
I am a "golfer." This Is not to be endured. 1,5
cannot better or more oucclnctly express mrfl
VlAWq nl in hntti trnlf and rtfntfn fortln then 1
by noting the fact that recently In rejponjj'f
to a request that I Join In the organization of a r
"Medical Golf Club," I wrote that I regarded i
as unworthy of a noblo and scientific professloa
a game, success In which was attainable onlr
by such vacuity of mind that the universal
should seem to the player to consist of a small 1
ball, a clumsy crooked stick, and a minute boll
invisible to the naked eyo at a few yards' dlJ-'i
tance. J. WILLIAM WHITE.
Philadelphia. June 8.
WARTIME SALE OF STEAMERS
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
8lr In view of certain adverse criticisms ft
our company on the purchase by the SpanliaJ
uuvominem, auring me Bpanisn-Amencan irar,?
of our steamers Columbia and Normannla, msfl
wo request the courtesy of publication In oor
paper, that three steamers were not sold bfj
our company to Spain, but, as we have Hl
peatedly stated at the time when this accusation!
was first published here, these two vessels ww1
sold by our company to a British firm, by whlrtl
tney were subsequently sold to Spain.
surety mera was no reason why our compaw
ehould have hesitated to dispose of two of thetrj
uiu vessels in mis legitimate manner. j
If they had been sold to Spain direct, wblcbj
however, was not the case, there should hare
been no criticism, as otherwise It would net
have been right for us to have sold our steamer.
Scandla at the very same time to the Unltw
States Government for use as an auxiliary la
their navy during the war. ,
HAMBURG-AMEIUCAN LINE.
J. Pannes. Phllartelnhla. Managtr.,-1
Philadelphia, 'June 9.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
To the Editor of Evening Ledger.
Sir-Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict testl
oerore the United Stales Commission on iw
trial Relations in Washington, May 17, that B
pronounced cause of unrest is the convittm
sale political discrimination against woman M.
a Sex is a lone-Rtnnrtlnp- Indmtlre. ODeratlSg II
their detriment in every department fit lift TJJ ,
purpose or me commission is to get ' 'x
cause of social unrest,
"Wpmen employes of the Governtnent," f&
ueneaict said, "ore discriminated against
along the line. Many of the civil seryi"
animations call only for men competitors, ij
mo positions might suitably be nlled oy """"
ut mo zt pending civil service examna"
but two are olosc4 in wnmn. Women are '
criminated against, too, when appolntm4 &
maae. in the year ended June 30, ". '
women to thrp m.n nauAH th YAniinatV
for work under the civil service rules In W"
:cgton, but the men were appointed in tn '
ui mora man two to one. 'ine wag"
women am 1nu?,. han m.n's fni- the S
vnflr rrh.. .. . .....im.nt fltB&Si
..v.,. , average luaie uuw""t iM
rapher gets a wage of J100O and J1S0O a y' ?
whloh a woman gets 11200 and JHW, Jm
"The standards set by the Government W8B
the private employment of women, too. SM
uwveriuneni aisenminates against wiu -n
adopts a double standard of wages, the pptj
employer will surely do so." nr1
CAROLINE KATZENSTWHi
Philadelphia. June 6.
Within the limits of Greater Boston la Jgl
Bine HtU reservation, a parkland free fro
learning to be friendly with humans Wlouwjw
Packard, naturalUt, author and lecturer. W
that foxes abound n this protected region, JW
evidence of the feet is given in a recent
u uw jjuaio Animals, In the picture "
jsppea y tiw camera, of Howard t Al
Th litllA fu.rf. KUA w.ro. an bold
tllftv nun ... ..i . --.itoR. and eVifti,:
fellow people who are tramples imoufh !
-o ..n .. wo. m- om- ". iwh wno are tramples im- ,.
tun said it was uy, jrrnch. gun iiULt gaed u"1' kto Ucr a4 " .