p n PUBtlC LEDGER COMPANY Ctnt'S it K CtmTIB, rsiarMtw ,CfcH II tu4lnitm.VlcPrrMfnt: lehnC Martin, tiESfilf Treasurer! Philip 8 Collin, Jelm ft r gBini. Dlrecter v RDITOJltAt. DOAttb! CtxeSIt K CBane, Chairman. P, It WHALgt ......tttyutlt feaiiM JOHN e MAnTtN . . General Duilntit Manaser ,H I 'ii. ' i i .i i . m ii i i . m ii mini I i FuMlahed dully at rDLio I.txn Eulldlnt. Independence eJimr, Philadelphia. I.KMfn CritiUl. ...... ..Broad Rnd Chtvlnut Btreets ATUKTte Cm...... Prti-Vnln Buildlns Xt Tin 1J0-A. Wtrctiilltan Tower Dtrtoi B28 Ford IfcilMInt By, Lotus 409 Otebt Democrat JJnlMlnr Gitlctfto 120J rrteiin Ilulldlnf riKro.t s Waterloo Place, ran Man, b. w. NEW8 BtntBAUSj AafitwiJTOi BOUD Th Tt fttilldln- EW Tome Diiud The Timet nulldlnr 8rUi ncitun ,,....(10 FrledrichatreM ixi.yixiy i)i:iut) 4 run mii e, b w. rm Uciiio 83 nu Louis I Grand SL'BfcCMPTIO.V TEnMS Br carrier, tir.t oiir, alt eenta ir mull, po(rli utalda ft( Philadelphia. ttpt where forulm poetess la required, mn.T O-ar, en numth, twentr.flve cental m,t omt, on year, thro dollars, All mall eub fterlptlona parable In advance KottfB Subecrltxrs wlihlnf address chanted must Civ old will ii new addreit. DEtt, im WALNUT KETSTONE. MAIN Wl tZT AAdr? all rnmmunlcatten to KvtMnp Ltiotr, Indtptndenc Savart, PMIadtlphUi. iMiwtn at in rmtin.rnU roTorric is iecokd citae Mill. uin. TUB AVERAGE NET PAID DAILY CIRCULA TION OF THE EVENINO LEDOEn ron june was oj,ss7. nillADFLTHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1915. The Evening Ledger will not bo published Monday, July 5, which will be generally observed as Inde pendence Day. One trouble with tclf-advcrtiscmcnt It that It often leads to neglect of the real business of life. Reinterpreted Fourth PEOPLE are apt to forgot that tho forces behind political revolutions and political reform are as old as the immutable hills. One hundred and thirty-nine years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation. Tho Fourth of July Is the natal, day of American Independence. Thereforo wo cele brate It as Independence Day. But what, after all, Is Its real meaning? The early history of this country has been misread and misinterpreted In several partic ulars, but no more unfortunately than In ro gard to the lsue which evoked the Declara tion of Independence. Tho founders of tho new nation sought, not Independence of Great Britain, but Independence; not Independence of the British Government, but Independence of bad government. Kven nfter Lexington and Bunker Hill their cry of "Liberty and Union" signified liberty under continued union with Oreat Britain. ,When finally they gave up hopo of securing the blessings of good government without es tablishing a now government, they enumer ated In their charter of freedom the reasons which impelled them to sever the old bonds, describing King George In language applica ble today to a political boss, tho head of a gang: i "He has refused his assent to laws, tho most wholesome and necesaary to the public good." And so on a perfect picture of all enemies of the rights of the people. Good government is today, as it was then, the goal toward which wo are striving. Five Millions for Philadelphia TJIIVE millions saved by efficiency! -JL There is nothing indefinite about that! It Is a hard, concrete fate. Let men prate that : tho Blankenburg Administration has accom plished nothing. Figures cannot bo laughed out of court. No sophistry can outargua them. Soberly and efficiently, with no other mo tive than public service, Mayor Blankenburg and his associates have gone about their ap pointed tasks. They havo accomplished things; they havo achieved results worth achieving. Tho directors of any corporation in tho world would reward such faithful steward- t ship with a vote of confidence. The citizens, who are the directors of tho munclpal cor- ; poratlon, must see to It that the standards of efficiency set during the last four years be h come guide posts In tho future conduct of the city, Still Cutting Its Wisdom Teeth ,mHE final triumph of "equal rights" will X be the disappearance of the double stand ard in Judgment of the moral conduct of men and women It Is not a woman's privilege to be accounted a more "horrible example" than a man when she falls a victim to evil. It Is ht-r right to stand equal with-him at the bar of public opinion. That Is tho negative way of puttlns It, but Injustice itself Is negative. That is Its ugli ness'. The determination of the new morals court to deal without favor with men and women is h token of the fact that civiliza tion Is still at the business of cutting Its wis- dojn teeth. "The Hamlet of Nations" f ''AMERICA Is the Hamlet of nations," says ,Xi James M. Beck; "it is too deliberative." ?pthng is easier than to turn a. virtue Into -vice or a vice Into a virtue. There is good treason to be thankful that America is delib erative enough to escape the peril of rash ness. It Is hard to see any folly in the course of action which has saved the United States from precipitate entrance into the present world war- It is on the virtue of national deliberation that the worth of "sober second-thought treaties" and of "leagues of peace" depends. Nothing is lost If, in deliberative Hamlet's words, "conscience doth make cowards jm Jl" That kind of cowardice Is strength. pawjaver, mo economic iqrces ueem to 14$ In world affairs more effectively than mural forces, the effect of deliberation Is tin ami It Is normal for a war to start sud- 4nly, Abnormal for a war to cour after - avsrwierclal and financial interests have had p oi'fHirtunUy ta tpmtt themselves. Yiwjr Wealth Has Doubled 8AM Pleasantly surprised hj nJMiwr yesterday with, the news that 1fltliha4 ? than doubltd luthejast y- Hi pjjttadelpWa relatives, however, 2er coASIAejra. wore terastd In th& 9J- of the rnsntJily report from ttte Fed Beaerve Bearg and the Inability at ths ritmstu'ii Lbor Distribution Bureau fwre tii flod noih mea to fill the Jobs on Us lt Pmrttf&m if t& Cesau? Buru wasn't offi EVENING . r i - - w-im i. " rul cially attesting to this swollen state of our fortunes we shouldn't take much stock In it It may be true that If the wealth of America were divided per capita that pathetic de lusion of statisticians we should each have almost the proverbial $2000 necessary to stock and run a farm after it is purchased; but tho announcement Is not Inducing a "nouveau rlche" feeling about the regions of etiquette and good manners. Tho key to troubles over wealth Is, of course, distribution A noma crammed with tho riches of tribute enn go to smash. Even in our own country there can be considerable difficulty in making such an Increase of wealth felt. It takes time for tho overplus to soak down from the employing class and tho skilled artisan to the body of middle class and proletarian life. Tho nation with a strong and happy ruture Is the nation that can achieve such readjustments of wealth most smoothly and most swiftly. Democratic Deficits Make Republican Majorities TUB Administration cut tho bottom out of our revenue system. It then built new pipes from tho pockets of citizens to the na tional till. Through one, carrying tho Income tax, It was expected that tho exchequer could bo kept filled. But the experiment was a dis mal failure. So tho second was constructed, and through It (low tho war taxes. Tet still tho Intake Is not equal to tho outgo. There is a deficiency, a really colossal deficit. That deficit appears In cold figures in tho Government's reports. Tho other deficit, far more vast and awful In Its effects, Is the un measured deficit in tho, pockots of citizens throughout tho whole country, a deficit occa sioned by tho repudiation of tho fiscal policy on which tho prosperity of many of our greatest Industries was based. Tho Govern ment's Incomo has been unequal to Its out lay. That reflects the eltuation in which thousands, even millions, of citizens havo found themselves. Congress legislated tho national treasury Into a stringency; it forced that same stringency into the pockets of mora than half tho population. It Is curront gossip that tho war will carry President Wilson Into another term. On tho contrary, free trado will carry him Into a de feat as emphatic as was his success In 1012. Prosperity Is something tho American peoplo must have. They are not enjoying It, al though millions and millions of foreign gold has been poured into tho country. This indi cates how horrible conditions were, how hope Ices of actual betterment without a roturn to the wise policy under which the national wealth had doubled and redoubled. For the one lesson that he who runB may read, the ono euro conclusion to be reached frpm the experimentation of tho last three years is that of all our economic policies pro tection Is tho most essential and Important. It will bo years before the nation will ever again vote against It or the people fall to mass themselves In Its support. Democratic deficits make Republican ma jorities. Market Price of Cquncilmcn THIS Liberty Bell affair Is teaching us a lot about our Councllmen. Tho latest thing is. their Innate caution and sound busi ness sense. "While 11 out of tho bell's 16 Junketeer guardsmen take out accident policies, tho committee announces that It will not insure the relia against fire, derailment, theft or vandalism. This Is no mere caso of Councils' wll-known economy with QUbllc funds It goes deeper. Our Councllmen may Imperil America's finest historic symbol by a trip which they themselves won't risk without in surance; but they know the futility of esti mating the value of their free pass to the Panama exposition in dollars and cents. Sen timental and historic associations aro not to be measured in terms of commerce. Tho price of a Councilman, on tho other hand, is another matter. The loss of a city legislator or two could be roughly adjusted on a cash basis. Such, at least, Is the general Impression abroad. Officers for the Army RUSSIA has plenty of men for Its armies, but lacks trained officers. That is one of Its most serious difficulties at present. If America should be forced to go to war there would not bo great difficulty In as sembling multitudes of citizens, but where would the trained officers come from? A glance at the advertising pages of the magazines discovers a source of supply of considerable Importance. In one of the cur rent periodicals appear advertisements of' forty-one boys' schools which glvo military training a place of prominence In the cur riculum, some of them making it their chief system of discipline. In an emergency the military knowledge and experience acquired in theBe institutions would be of great value to the country. Some shell-game at the front! Germany Is clrcumvallated, not circum vented. The Jitney Industry begins to look like six Jitneys, In the vernacular. Last year's accident-children are Exhibit A for safety and sanity next Monday, How unerringly the Anti-Saloon Leagua picked out Atlantic. City for a conference! Putting salt on the tall of the Dardanelles does no good, What Is needed Is more salt petre. ii i i nwwwi 'I Tho new axiom from Soranton; Those who sell stock make more money than those who buy it. PWfp.iimiii-.iiiiaiiia. . It would be more to the point If Huerta should renounce Mexico Instead of denounc ing the United States, Ah! Senator McNIeftpl, If 9nly "midsummer fiction," even when U Involves political retire ments, might grow up Into "fall faats." Jf the Freneh shell produotlon has been IOOjW a day" in excess of consumption, tho parts of Franco behind the German line ought to make a nrst-olass mining dUtrJet when the war Is over. There ta certain taint of healthiness in the PrusslanUm which st prisoner Rothschild out haying at 4 in the morning following the Spanish BmbaswUs' plea for ipeelal treatment of the rleh Frwisluaan. CBDG18tt - PHIEADBtlPHlA SATTmD'AY, JITBY - n r 'V i ' " ' """ "IT" " T '"rilnii " 'J. ' "-'""1'"!", """""-" 'T,"?1'"1'"'1- - ' - ' " '-' - --- - - " FORD DARED THE LIONS IN THE WAY Michigan Farm Boy, With Income of $14,500,000, Is Fourth of July Example of What an American Can Do With Opportunities. By JOHN LUM a WERE Is no better time than tho Fourth .of July to consider Henry Ford $id tho opportunities before every other American to duplicate the success of the Detroit manu facturer. Mr. Ford Is In town today and while ho Is hero ho will visit Independ ence Hatl. One hundred and thirty-nine years ago a Virginian sat in a modost house at tho corner of 7th and Market streets and wrotot "Wo hold these truths to bo Belf-ovl-dent, that all men nro created equal," mean ing with a right to equal opportunities. This sentiment wob adopted in Independ ence Hall nnd pro- HENRY FonD claimed to tho world as "the unanimous declaration of tho Thir teen United States of America." It opened tho doors of opportunity to every American wherever ho was born Thnt door has not been closed to this day, although there aro some agitators who would have us bellevo that tho aggregations of great wealth havo blocked tho way of advancement to tho many. Tried to Make n Former of Him Honry Fnrd, If ho thought of the subject at all In his youth, as he probably did not, decided that tho door was open to him, Ho was born on a farm about half a century ago, gifted with an interest in mechanics. His father wanted him to bo a farmer. Tho boy wanted to bo a machinist. Ho got a Job In n shop In Detroit and later was employed by tho Edison Company. Ho married him a wlfo and his father bought a farm for him and put him on it. The young man worked tho farm for a while, but had a llttlo ma chine shop in his barn. Ho becamo inter ested in tho gasoline cnglno and decided to build ono that would propel a carriage. Ho had no capital, but was Just an ordinary American citizen with an Idea. Peoplo laughed at his first horseless carriage, but the carriage would move under its own power provided by an cnglno which ho built with his own hands. Ho left tho farm and opened n machlno shop in Detroit and kept working at his automobile. A trained grad uate of a technical school was offered a part nership In tho shop, but tho man of training went back homo and spoko contemptuously of the Detroit mechanic who was doing a llt tlo business with no prospect of making it any bigger. Hq was employed in an automobile, factory controlled by others and worked In it for soma time but ho did not seo tho opportunity thcro for carrying out his Ideas. Ho wanted to build a motorcar at a low price to be sold In large quantities. This was at a period when a workable car cost several thousand dollars. Ho said he could build a runabout to sell for J500. Other automobile makers ridiculed him, and thq man of small means who wanted a car regarded tho promise as ono of those things too good to bo true. In 1903 he decided to set up for himself nnd ho organized his present company and began to manufacture cars in largo quan tities and to make progressive reductions In the price. Tho J500 car has long been on the market and there is a promise of a car for somewhere near $400 Tho factory where tho rnrs are made occupies more than 60 acres, It turned out about 300,000 cars last year, for which tho company received about $90,000,000 with a profit of $25,000,000 to be added to surplus and distributed In dividends, Mr. Ford owns 68 per cont. of the capital stock of his company, and his share of the profits, therefore, amounted to $14,600,000. This is what has happened In 12 years to a Michigan machinist, who followed his natural taste and did not let any obstacles block his way. He Fought the Selden Patents There were lions in his path which fright ened the timorous who started on the way with him. The biggest was the Selden patents on the fundamental principle of the gasoline motor. Other automobile makers paid roy alties to the holders of the Setdcn patents. They told people that If they bought a Ford they bought a lawsuit. But Ford promised to defend any law suits brought against pur chasers of his cars. He maintained that his motor did not infringe any patent and fought the case to the highest court and won, Just as Christian discovered when he reached the lions, that although they looked threatening from a distance, they were really chained so they could not harm the determined pilgrim. The most remarkable characteristic of this remarkable product of America Is that ho haB kept his head and his democratic sym pathies and has not been carried away by any of the sociological fads of the theorists. He Is planning a new factory for making tractors for use on the farms. Some one asked him if he Intended to build a model town for his employes. "I do not bellevo In this model town busi ness," he replied. "Do you know what makes the model town? The living wage makes the model town. Let tho employer pay his help what his help earns, and there will be no need to speak of model towns. The model town will make Itself by a process of natural adjustment." There spoke the American of the Declara tion of Independence who believed In equality of opportunity and was opposed to every form of coddling paternalism. He defends his eys tern of high wages as a form of dividends paid weekly Instead of in a lump sum and Justifies It by declaring that the men who have served the company faithfully should be treated really as partners in the business. Edison says that Ford Is one of the greatest Americans and Ford Insists that Edison "is the top man of the world." ECONOMIZE AND GET A NAVY Krom In Cleveland Plln rr Hudson Maxim ! quoted s saying that nourh money Is spent for ehewlog gym every year to build three battleships, Yea, and enough liquids are paid for to neat em, MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY from tiia Clsclonatl Enqulrar Man wants but little hue below, A wive old pot tells u so. But you will And It a sJ bet That ram wants nws thaa he will get A MAN'S VIEWS He Maintains That Women Do Servants, and Cites That He " '" By PERRY CONCERNING tho ideal hired girl, how to get her, how to hold her, how to increase her efficiency and dependability, how to hu manize or dehumanize her, and how to flro her in periods of stress. Tinkering with tho fourth dimension Is like making a dent in soft soap by comparison with the above how-to-do-its. A multitude of housewives will say hero comes another fool with a bunch of silly theories. "We have tho practical achievement to accomplish and men simply don't know." This is Just a femlnlno habit of mind, or as ono of Gcorgo Ade's slick heroes might say, "Some of Sister Sue's because stuff." Granted that men do not stick around tho house all day and keep tabs on every last lagging min ute of the hired Imperfection, It cannot be de nied that they are occasionally in the houso and havo ample opportunity for psychologiz ing tho situation. Tho reason so many men butt In with fool notions is that they do not study the subject or subjects'. As a relief from business care3 they seek to concentrate upon golf, tennis, Jitneys, bridge, war maps, politics and all sorts of abstractions Irrelevant to domestto happiness When the domestic gears are slip ping or Jamming they get peeved ovor It, ex press their annoyance in sarcasm and offer suggestions that are undoubtedly the rankest piffle. Both interest and humor may be obtained from a close study of the hired girl, both as a single general housework institution or in pairs that Is, an upstairs and downstairs bracket. When you get beyond pairs you approach retinues and wade Into intricacies that demand the skill of the post-graduate sociologist to unravel, Certes, He Picks a Lemon How to get one is the first step, and here the head of the houso rarely butts In. If he has been commanded to wash dishes for a few weeks he may rashly offer to go to town and get one. He will get a few agency ad dresses, go to the first one on the list and tako tho first one thrust In his way by tho employment agent. Certes, he picks a lemon. When an employment agent sees a man coming In he rubs his hands together, licks his chops and rumbles to himself, "Here's where I get rid of Big Ellen, or Cross-eyed Fanny, or All-thumbs Dora." A multitude of housewives have looked these hopeless pros pects over and turned them down. Tho agent puts the "hopeless prospects" down at the foot of the line and waits for a bride or a man. Men of violent tendencies have been known to go back and wreck employment agencies, but very rarely all too rarely. Well, let us say we have got one, one of the worst possible sort viewed from the angle of perfection. Not tho hopeless prospect the man has brought home, for that Is doomed from the Jump-off, No cagy housewlfo would ever let husband put it over on the household by bringing home a paragon and getting away with it. Of course, thero is only one chance In a thousand that he might hook a parngpn, but If he did he would never know It. It Is only a question of time anyway before .Class A paragons show that they are Just mero human beings They are great starters but almost Invariably poor finishers. We are discussing general houseworkers who carry the heaviest burdens. If they are superfine laundresses they will not shine as cooks. Vice versa. If the family has a large wash some slack wll be allowed for the cooking end of it. Faulty culinary craft will be overlooked. A Triumph in Diplomacy As a case in point I recall a relative who somehow obtained a G. H, that was a wizard at laundry work. She was a shine coolf. Worse than that, she Imagined she was an artist and could specialize In puddings. She bore in her first pudding proudly and beamed while It was helped all round. She went back to her den Just as the family began to dip In- The head of the houso took one mouthful and bit off the prong of his fork. The ohlt drn began to make loud adverse comments. The pudding was a complete horror. But the bad tidings must be kept frgm Sadie. It would hurt her feelings. She'd up and quit, and there was that terrine wash that she Just ate up with unbelievable art. The housewife thought swiftly and silenced the family In a whisper she commanded the burial of the pudding The platea were sflrapM back Into I tlia main dUh aM little Johosy was eajointd "SAFE AND SANE IS RIGHT!" ON HIRED GIRLS Not Know How to Treat Their a Case, Proving Is Wrong. i i i i . 9 BALSAM to slip out and bury tho pudding under tho hedge. Little Johnny worked swiftly and was bactf with the empty dUh beforo Sadlo showed up again from tho kitchen. When she saw all the empty plates she was enraptured. She stayed. By means of somo finesse she was pro vented from perpetrating any more puddings and in the course of time tho "missus" taught her to make other and moro simple desserts, or else ordered in pastry and Ices. Too Much Expected of Them In the family whero Sadlo still dwells she is listed as a paragon. But first sho had to bo analyzed as a human being. All house wives will toll you how they humor and put up with their domestics. But as a matter of fact thej; do not. They may try to, but in going about it they trust too much to their instinct and fall utterly to make a competent study of tho subject. Undeveloped reasoning powers aro not carefully reckoned with. For getfulness is a common human fallibility, but in a hired girl It amounts to a cardinal sin. It has taken some wives a decade to learn to cook, yet they expect a greenhorn who has novor tackled anything more complicated than ham and eggs to qualify for a blue rib bon in a fortnight. If Bhe is a small eater, dislikes butter and does not put cream in her coffee sho Is a gem. Sho may havo brought overseas with her a husky peasant appetite, but that does not matter. She may have in grained In her tho customs of her tribe and henco be alow In building up a new train of consciousness. Inexcusable! Breakage is also unforgivable and should be corrected by a series of fines. And then the nolso they make with their dishwashing. Possibly this noise is sweet music to them. If they have no one to talk to the crashing of china and hardware may offer the solace of companionship. Tho great trouble is, s it seems to a man who thinks ho observes closely, that wives do not check up sufficiently on themselves when they do their own housework. If thoy would keep close tabs on their own errors and shortcomings they would soon be Infinite ly better equipped to deal with human aver ages. Thero are ardent champions of the hired girl who would go to Impossible extremes to Improve her lot, turn over tho parlor nnd vlctrola to her on set evenings for tho enter tainment of her friends, cook and carry up her breakfast when she is Indisposed, furnish her room In blrdseye maple, give her a pri vate telephone extension and ad lib. for calls. But thera is undoubtedly a middle-of-the-road course that should mako smoother go ing than the roads of tradition now traveled. The head of the houBe can assist mightily If ho will by looking round him keenly nnd slz ing up the situation. He need not butt in roughly, but Intervene tactfully and offer shrewd suggestions that may not meet with immediate response but are sure to sink In and In the end bear fruit. Thero may be no general housework paragon, but the hired girl is a member of the human family and should be handled on that basis, at least until we reach that stage of Teutonlo Uultur when we may reduce everything to a card Index Byatem and autocratic control. WAS "JOHN BULL" SARCASTIC? To the Bdttor of Evening Ledger: Sir As Artemus Ward would have said, "John Bull's" letter "wrote sarcastic," and as a naturalized Englishman I shall pot believe the writer is a fellow countryman of mine unless I see his certificate of birth. It was probably written by some ultra-Ke-publlcan who is merely slurring the Democratic party and has ai much right to call Himself English as the man had who wrote to the British Ambassador during the Cleveland Ad. ministration asking for advice as to how ha should vote. ji Philadelphia, July 1. THE ARGUMENT FROM HISTORY To the Editor of Evening Lixlgtr; Bir-Iieently l read In your columns that a oaln "John Bull" of Palmyra, has been suf. ferlng from blissful hallucinations ever tine. ?,U..,!n,goraTy "1,1ne us hop.) the United Slates. Can anything be done to r lleve hlmt I shoubl IHce to a, -John Lifi why he don't return to his native, land to loin the colomr Obviously, that I, ygj ftJg" ., wit-iwi ivt flXiq. Bear wltntM, that his are strong, sajural ies. " ;' mamuwnw mat me estates are revert. Vtf. H...r ""v."" ?"?'. "W. that ...H nVMWV.UB wu-.ev iiixiut to over- take our country la proven Mooluslvtlv I ljuly because Engltah capltalteti rI2 of owm m, targe wpcrUea of iObjUi i2S I nnd bonds, are in a position to aid material!?! In bringing this great event to pass. It Is, Itajl deed, a new thought, tnat wo are almost eta trely dependent upon England for HtersiurtS music, shows and even fasmons. I tnmit use' TTr.lfn.1 R,'i mnrn llltflv to become a dtnlnJ. ency of France, Germany or Italy, If miiileS literature or fasmons naa anyming o oo It. I consider it as sensible or ridlculoui j51 Bay tnat ureat uruain is as nuum iu oroya. a dependency of tne states, wnyi .tnintiiv under Egbert, began a form of centralized ioj ernment, In 800 A. D., and certainly fltie , a firmly established kingdom at the tliwrtfj hor overthrow by William tno vjonquerwsj; hn memorable Battle of Hastings, in 1066,'ttr. Inir nil theaa centuries, what has she lea building? A little Island, exclusive-of here. ntrtn nosacaslons. about the size of our Poim vnnle. The United States began a central!) form of eovernment with tho Articles of Con federation In 1781, about 131 years ago. WW has she been building? A country, excluilft nf Iiat outside rjossesslons. many of them larrer than the little Isle of Britain. Look at htt achievements in this brief time, -jonn urna and dare to say our United states will ever; VinAmn i ilAn,n1infv tit OrflfLt Urtt&itt. KftjV nay, "John," you are laboring under a deluslpM that often attacks your countrymen, wnen tn Declaration of Independence was signed In 1TI thft nnvnrnm.nl underwent a COmDlete met. nrhorohosls. It can never return to its olfl form. EVELYN R. HAMERTOK Philadelphia. June 30. ' MAINE'S DISTINCTION 11 ' iii j The First Part of tho United States Seen by White Men. From the Portland Argua. The State of Maine can lay claim to the distinction of being the first part of the Unite! States discovered by white men. This is trui( whether we tako Into account the hypothetical visit of Lief Erlcson to this reslon in about w year 1000 or not. There are marks on MohegsS Island and the nearby mainland which In cato that tho Icelanders at least called th at that time and also later. But those eveS are nrehlstorlc. as no other record of thta, was left to posterity by Erlcson and his c nnnlons. fl Hut thn vovaee of John Cabot, the EntSlH explorer. In H97, Is a well authentic!? chapter In the annals of early American 99 coverles This adventurer, wun nis son, mj hnntlnn. sailed nlonc- this coast in the summit of that year and took possession in the namejotl the English sovereign. It wob not until a yHl later that Columbus, on his third voyage, it! last reached the mainland, his previous ais-J pnvrIH hftvlnir heen the West. Tndin. TslAndi? far from the American coast. "3 So it is a well-established fact that Malnt was the first territory In what Is now the United States that was seen by European travs elers. She has the rlchta of precedence over sH other States always accorded to places ySDl persons oi me greatest antiquity, ner prj tensions to the oldest and highest respeotij. blllty cannot be disputed even by Massachu; setts. Englishmen sailed through Casco Bit, and rounded Cape Elizabeth weeks before th7 navigated Massachusetts Bay and weathered (jnpo uoa. Among nil her other attractions and honertl this Is surely something for old Maine tew proudly Doner, or, to nave been tne spot wneri the English language wns first heard, snl where tho English flag was first planted makes her noted above all other localities In this grew country. It seems as thouch same nubile cere' mony should be held, or a monument be reared! to commemorate the Cabot expedition to, Maine In the summer of H07. THE NATIONAL POINT OF. VIEW The educational route Is the shortest one t the Mexican problem. Pes Moines Capital-. If our Government should stOD the ehloroent of ammunition It would do an unneutral acta Savannah News. Wonder If Mr. Taggart considers Indictment! a good advertisement for a senatorial boom!3 Milwaukee Journal. Teaching extreme pacifism to school children is apt to result In a race of mollycoddles B Dirmingnam Age-weram. Mr. Bryan Is merely campaigning aea!nl iiouooy una pieaamg against a sentiment tag nas no existence.-rKouston Post. It is not unlikely that General Huerta hM learned to admire the man in the 'White House: the Genera) is no mollycoddle and he h nj use ior one. unauanooga Times. The chief argument against the propo'lffl jeuerai snipping company is the lacK or lOia centtve In a Government-owned concern t9j make profits and reduce expenses. Galveston trioune. If this nation wants a merchant marine Oil the high seas, It must choose between subsldlfM When that alternative is presented clearly gl the peoplo of the United States we do nSil apprenenu inai aeclslon will be difficult long delayed.Rlchmond Timea-Plspatch. SONG FOR YOUTH Gather alt the sweet of May, Leek it tenderly away. Precious night and perfect day. Make a trova. of shining things. Roses, raindrops, dreams and wings. Catch a skylark while he slugs! Gather aji tho. summer's sweet Hush of kevreji, sqns of street. Stars that dane en silver feet! WWle thy breath is young and warm, "w wt ntstiea n my arm, .g Tak thy trove and weave a ebarml -M Thau grow old with gallant esse. 1 For I'm told such wealths a these J Mak4 tho fat?st memorUs1 ti Ktw Teffc gk. - I - tfcJfeJ
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers