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The Tinv Hull Unit BrM.iv nuitmc CO Frldrlelntrne Loinc HuitPAOit Mirconl House Strand Pasis UtinruD.. 32 Hue Louis la tlrand eunscniPTto.v TEnM.i Dy carrier, Mx cents per week, liy mall, postpaid eulalde of Philadelphia, except where foreign postage Is required, one month. twentj.JUo cents; one year, three dollars. All mall subscriptions payable In idiance Notion Suh'Crlbers wishing address changed must give old as trell as new address. BFIL, JOOO WALNUT KEYSTONl". MAIN JOOO i I. ii . tt" JLMrcaa oil communications to Exerting Ledger, Independence Smart, IVtlfditeliiAln. ntihi it ina run ADitr-tiM fosTorrics is bbco.nd- CSS Milt MATTES. THE AVEnAQE NET PAID DAILY ClltCULA- TION OF THE EVENING LEDOEIl FOIl BEPTEMUEK WAS 100,00a. PHILADELPHIA. SATURDAY, OCTOnEIt 50, WIS. Time spent in holding inquests on past mis takes Is so much subtracted from that which can be given to new achievements. OUR IRRESISTIBLE BABIES TIID half-million dollar fund for tlio Chil dren's Hospital lias not been completed; the little baby on tho boardings lias not yot broken Into a real laugh, but tho Children's Hospital la to bo built at a cost of a wholo million. Tho halt-million mark was high, but tho spirit of tho workers was higher still. Actually $303,053 63 was raised in 10 days nn astonishing total and a trlbuto to tho generosity of this generous city, neyonri that sum it is certain that another hundred thousand will como In. Tho tireless workers, who closed tholr campaign last night, havo only ended to begin again. It Is a causo to which there can bo no exception. It la hardly charity, as charity Is generally known, because it comes with out afterthought of the sacrlilco. Wo glvo to tho children not becauso wo ought, not becauso wo aro soothing our conscience by giving, but becauso wo aro uncontrollably compelled to glVe by our own impulses. Tho Children's Hospital will be a success in spirit as well as in finance. OVER SUNDAY FOR SUFFRAGE TOMORROW will be tho last Sunday which the voters of Pennsylvania .can glvo over to thoughts of tho very serious problems they will have to answer on Tuesday. Quito apart from local elections tho voters havo to face four amendments, all of them im portant, and one of tho highest significance. That one Is the first. It Is to be hoped that many men will think without cynicism and without prejudlco on this question of equal suffrage. It Is to bo hoped that after dinner on Sunday they will talk frankly and quietly with tho women of their household'-. It will not be a time for heated argument, nor for statistics. It will be a time when tho ordinary humanity of equality will make Its appeal. Equal suffrago Is not half so much a political problem as it is a human problem. If tho voters should reallzo before Sunday night that all their lives they had been treat ing women as human beings, and that women woro even at times more gloriously human than themselves, the victory for suffrago would be complete Pennsylvania knows that It will be. SILENT IN EVERY LANGUAGE THERE aro 3424 spoken languages and dialects, In each of which It la possible to make ono's self understood. Tho people, of Philadelphia have been wait ing patiently for Mr. Smith to proclaim him self on the subject of free transfers, but ho has been silent In every one of the known languages and In all tho unknown tongues, as well as In the language of tho deaf and dumb and tho blind. His silence gives consent to the continu ance of tho tax of three cents for a trans fer Blip. JOHNNY POE FIGHTING as a private In tho famous Black Watch, Bomewhere In the north of France, Johnny Poo, the popular hero of Princeton's football history, was killed In action. He was an extraordinary example of tho modern type of filibuster, a gentleman ad venturer to the hilt. He went Into the war as he went Into his great games, and In the last charge he must have felt surging through him the same thrill of desperate endeavor which came to htm an he tore through the lines of Harvard and of Yale for the ultimate touchdown. There Is a story that once, when he was pointed out as "Poe" by nn undergraduate, the question watf asked: "la he any relation to the great Poe?" And the reply came back, "Why he Is the great Poe!" It Is not wrong to recall this story, now that ho Is dead. If he died as he lived. It was with a smile on his lips. WE HAVE TIME TO HONOR THE DEAD THEY are burying their soldier dead In heaps In Europe and marking the graves -with rude crosses or not at all. There are bo many of them that no one save the mothers has time to think of them as In dividuals. Today all Philadelphia will go to Broad street and York road to dedicate a monu ment In honor of George Poinsett, one of the. few American youths who fell In the adventure at Vera Cruz. The Mayor will be there and the Governor of the State. There are plans for a parade of a thousand men from the Navy Yard, representing the tuition, and of members of military organl ,i zations, representing the State. All In honor of ij single soldier killed in a skirmish. x a-eivln He the greaj, difference between t a nation at peace and a tuition at war. A multiplicity of woes deadens, the capacity tor grief, and when men are killed by the ten thousand the tragedy cannot be fully comprehended by those in the front rows. The horror of the Urcat War awes us on this d,e of the oeean. To England and 'France and Germany, bur with tho work of flgbyy lng and with little time to consider the sac rifices, tho great Issues involved seem of raoro Importance than the price that Is being paid; whllo the men In tho trenches, who havo lived close to danger for months, wel come their old neighbor, Death, when ho finds them out. IS THE CITY "DAVE" LANE'S? THE present political campaign Is Import ant not on account of tho personality or ambition of any of tho candidates, but solely In so far as the fortunes and future of this city nre concerned. Philadelphia enn never be the Philadelphia that Its devoted sons wish It to bo Until It has nn adequate transit sjslem. It cah never havo such a system unless the otllccrs rep resenting tho city are set In their purpose to obtain tho best terms possible for tho city, to see to It that thoro Is no stiricndcr of mu nicipal rights and that tho opportunity foi a universal flvo-cent faro is not lost. Tho Organization, in splto of Senator Pen rose, Is following Lano ami Connelly In tran sit matters. It has Issued oulors to candi dates for Councils not to pledge themselves in favor of the program. Mr. Connelly has openly, persistently and often vowed that there will bo no delivery loop If he can pre vent It. That is equivalent to saying that ho is nguinst real rapid transit and will ln dorso only a kind of transit which sacrifices tho Interests of tho public to special and self ish Interests, Thoro is no question about where Connelly stands, or whero "Davo" Lano stands, or where Smith, their candidate, stands. Tho lattcr's crocodile professions of adhcrenco to tho cause nro almost Insulting to the com munity, in that they conspicuously lack specific support of tho very parts of tho pro gram essontlal to tho public interest. Voters may, if they wish, deliver them selves :aggcd and crated to tho transit ob structionists, but they cannot do so blindly. Tho facts are all beforo them. They aro so plain that all may umlci stand them. Tho Taylor plan will not go through if Smith is elected Mayor and Connolly Is elected City Solicitor. SCHOLARSHIPS MUST BE KEPT UP THE thing that really matters In tho up setting by tho courts of tho transfer of lands by tho Commercial Museums to tho University is tho consequent invalidation of soventy-fivo free scholarships In the Univer sity. There aro too few scholarships there, open to tho youth of the city, for tho number to bo reduced. It may not bo tho duty of tho Commonwealth or of the city to provido free higher education for all who seek It. "Opin ions differ on this point. But thoro can bo no two opinions on tho importance of offer ing to worthy youths who aio graduntcd from tho city schools tho opportunity to con tinue their studies in tho University with out chargo for tuition. Provost Smith has already announced that tho young men ad mitted on tho museum lands' scholai ships will be allowed to continuo their studies for tho current year at least. Beforo college opens next fall some way ought to be found not only to continuo tho scventy-fivo scholarships, but to increase their number, for tho city, In serving youth, is serving it self. DANGER SIGNS THE sudden weakness In war stocks fol lowing tho French Cabinet crisis and tho rovlvod gossip of contemplated pence over tures must suggest even to tho most Inex perienced speculator what will happen when actual peace negotiations begin or when a great disaster overtakes the armies of tho Allies. Bethlehem Steel, for example, is not worth anything like 559, at which it has been soiling; and when it slumped to 523 that prico was so largely speculative that only those willing to risk loss of all they put In would buy It at that figure. Thero must bo a largo number of such persons, however, for tho stock has recovered and Is again finding a fow buyers at tho high prico. Thero Is no doubt whatever that the pru dent Investors will soon shift their attention to securities tho prico of which is not likely 3 bo seriously affected by sudden changes Europe. They havo read tho signs of tho times. Somo of them aro already buying railroad shares, even though those securities have risen along with tho wai shares. Tho man who Invested In railroads a fow months ago at tho prevailing prices can unload to day and tako a handsome profit. PAYING NO DIVIDENDS YET AMERICAN Investment In tho recognition . of Carranza does not seem to bo earning any dividends to speak of. Indeed, it looks at present as if we had taken over a liability Instead of Increasing our assets. Thus far all we havo got out of It is a renewal of the troublesome activity of Villa. This interest ing bandit Is amusing himself by shooting our soldiers across tho border. A call al ready has been sent to Washington for more troops, and unless Carranza himself succeeds In suppressing Villa tho call will have to be repeated again and again. ; The period of watchful waiting has como to an end at least. It is to be hoped that It has, and that the Administration is prepared to back up its investment In the most likely prospect In Mexico, by further action until there la the semblance of order there and something Is set up which can be called, gov ernment without doing violence to the word. Those are nothing but toy balloons which the peace talkers are sending up, The antl-suffraglsts have proved that wom en know something about politics. Brland's Union Cabinet will not insist on the eightrhour day in the trenches. Henry G. Wasson's declaration, fqr equal suffrage la one. of the straws which shows the direction of the wind. Governor Brumbaugh must be sympathiz ing with both Greece and Rumania in their predicament. He knows how it Is himself. - The French soldlera have no Idea of how to behave in a crisis. Just as th,e Cabinet collapsed they drove 20 miles into Bulgaria. Brumbaugh praUes Smith as all American. Hasn't the Governor realized that tho flrat principle in American government Mi going to be honest independence? THE FAILURE AT THE DARDANELLES Turks Have Upset Allies' Diplomacy in the Balkans and Earned the Admiration of the World By FRANK II. SIMONDS GIVEN the Gorman fondness for tho his torical parallel, it Is odd that thoy havo not Insisted upon the striking resemblanco of the great British adventure nt tho Darda nelles to that equally great and wholly fatal Athenian expedition to Syracuse, which, In tho end, was the cause of tho downfall of n Kirat sea power, at grips with Sparta, yet risking alt In a campaign far awny from tho main field of operations. Like all parallels, tho Syiacusan falls down when pushed too far, for While Sir Ian Hamilton makes a fair Ntclaa, Winston Chin chill will hardly do for Atrlbladcs, but thero must bo mournful like nesses fnr every Briton. Ttto naval attack began In February and terminated after the sinking of tho Bouvot, Ocean mid Irresistible, on March IS. It was not until April 23 that the first troops of tho expeditionary nrmy began to land onthcGnl llpoll Peninsula. This promontory Is perhaps f0 miles long, extending westward from tho European mainland, with the Dardanelles Straits to the south and tho Gulf of Saros to tho north In his first report Sir Ian Hamil ton compared it to a well-worn hoot, and this flgmo makes It easy to describe both tho main fcaltuos of the battlefield and tho prog ICBS of tho conflict Itself. The Boot Had a Kick in It Thus the too of the boot l.s the western end of tho peninsula, tho cNtremo point of which Is Cape Hellas, and tho notable fcaturo is tho town of Sodul llnlir, tho site of tho Tuik isli forts commanding the cntranco to tho straits and tho scene of tho first fighting. Eastwnrd from Sulul Bnhr, along tho solo of tho hoot to tho heel, Is slightly less than ton miles, and exactly nt tho heel Is tho nar row point In tho Dardanelles, commanded by a cluster of Turkish forts on the Oalllpoll Peninsula and faced by others on the Asiatic shore. On tho north shore of tho peninsula, at tho ankle, is a curving bay beginning at tho hill of Gnba Tcpe and ending at Suvla Bay a stretch of threo or four miles, dominated by tho ridge of Sari Bahr, some 300 fort over tho Gulf of Snros From Cape Hellas to Suvla Hay is perhaps twelve miles. At Gnba Tope, tho ankle, the Galllpoli Peninsula is about flvo miles wide, nt tho toe, botween Scdul Bahr and Capo Hollas, less than two. The Vulnerable Heel Tho objective of tho Allied forces was tho cluster of foi ts just under tho heel, abovo tho vlllago of Kllld Bahr. To reach this two ways wcro open. Troops could bo landed along tho shore of the ankle from Gaba Tcpo to Suvla Bay. They could also bo landed at tho toe from Capo Hellas to Sedul Bahr, and Just under tho too at Morto Bay tho best landing placo of all, but under fire from Tutklsh batteries on tho Asiatic shore near tho .site of Troy. East of Cnpo Hellas as far as Gaba Tepo tho character of tho coast was such as to make landing operations difficult, and nn effort hero ended In relative failure. Tho first problem of Sir Inn Hamilton was to get his troops nshoro, and ho was obliged to mako a general attempt that is, to fling his forces at every avallablo landing placo nt once In order to avoid tho destruction of each separate landing paity by tho Turks, who could easily concentrato overwhelming numbers at any threatened point The land ing cost 15,000 British casualties that Is, a number equal to the whole of tho first Amer ican expedition to Santiago In 1S9S. Tho landing was mado mainly at tho too from Capo Hellas to Sedul Bahr. Mcantlmo the French landed on tho Asiatic side, near the slto of Troy, and for tho moment so en gaged tho Asiatic battel ies that Morto Bay was occupied. At" tho same time, other par ties wcro put ashore at the ankle, above Gaba Tepe, and below it on tho instep, east of Cape Hollas and Gaba Tepe.' But these two landing parties wero Instantly checked and until tho last fow days could make no prog ress w hatcver. The Three Attacks Onco the main forco was ashore it moved up tho too of tho boot, stretching a lino straight ncrofcs the peninsula. But after having progressed for somo threo miles it reached tho first strong defensive position, that of Achl Baba. Hero a lino of hills stretches straight across tho peninsula, ris ing abruptly from tho Gulf of Saros to an elevation of 100 feet and from tho Straits to 500 feet. Midway across tho peninsula and Just east of tho vlllago of Krlthla Is tho dom inating hill of Achl Baba, 700 feet high. Against this position tho Allied forces moved on tho first day after they landed, but they were halted thero, and have been unable to mako any substantial progress. Meantime a second force landed abovo Gaba Tepo was designed to move south across the instep, thus arriving In the rear of tho Achl Baba position and compelling the Turks to retire from it. But this force was no less promptly checked along tho face of tho Sari Bahr hill. The third and last Attack was made north off Sari Bahr, tho landing taking place In the broad roadstead between Suvla Cape and the seaward slopes of Sari Bahr. The object was to seize tho ridge of hills extending from Sari Bahr northeastward to tho Gulf of Saros, marked on the map Hanafart and known In tho reports by the name of Ana farta, to get hold of Sari Bahr and flow over the wholo range down upon the roadway at the foot, which Is tho only landward line of communications of the Turks on the pe ninsula. More than 100,000 men were used in this attack; It was momentarily successful; Sari Bahr, the key of tho peninsula, was occu pied, but the Turks retook it, and continued to lipid a portion of the crests of the Ana- farta range. This operation took place in the mlddlo of August. It lasted several days, but after terrific slaughter ended In a new check. And with the check the Dardanelles jampalgn fell to a deadlock. By October 1 It had coat the British alone more than 10Q, 090 casualties. The French loss Is not known. For this enormous slaughter there was noth ing to show except a few square mllea of ground, some trenches huddled under the crests of the hills, which the Turks etlll hold, a precarious position, destitute of safe sea bases. A Marvelous Recovery Had the British been able to hold Sari Bahr they would have won the campaign. Had they been able to push on after the first landing, they would probably have carried Achl Baba, still lightly held by the Turk. Twice success has Just slipped through their fingers. Only military men can guess now whether the successor to Sir- Ian Hamilton, who has been recalled, will be asked to try .rr,Witvii!A, Jtfj aiwi A'-.'.l - . . JVl&WSfl'ff!. V,i K'fcaSSfl'r IStrJiUSLM. P TV lf.lt-1 li I, T11 m Vs again or commissioned to withdraw his army from Its perilous post and tako it to tho mainland. This will bo an operation fraught with Incalculable peril. But so far as It is possible to seo now, the military operations, from the purely military aspect, havo been a complete failure, and they have been respon sible for tho equally grave collapse of Allied diplomacy In tho Balkans. Never In his long history has tho Turk done better than at Galllpoli. Nothing has boon more marvelous In military records than tho Osmanll recovery between 1912 and 1915. Fighting on tho very placo through which ho mnrched Into Europe flvo centuries and a half ago, fighting with the devotion thnt mudo Plevna memorable In tho Inst century, ho has won tho admiration of tho wholo world, of his British foes first. RIGHTS OF WOMEN Thomas B. Reed's Compelling Argument in Behalf of Equnl Suffrago In the course of a minority leport of tho Com mittee on Judiciary picscntcd to tho Houso of Representatives on April 24, 1SS4, Thomas B. Ucd, of Maine, submitted theao arguments In behalf of the'polltlcal rights of women: Today a woman's property belongs to her self; her earnings are her own; she has been emancipated beyond tho wildest hopes of any reformer of 25 years ago Notwithstand ing all these chanses, the family clrclo remains unbroken, tho man child gets ns well educated ns before, and the ameliorating Influence of woman has become only tho more marked. Thirty jears ago hardly any political assem blage of tho people wns graced by the presenco of women Had It needed a law to enable them to bo present, what an argument could havo been mado against It! And yet tho actual pres enco of women at political meetings has not debased them, but has raised tho other sex. IC suffrago be a right, If It be truo that no man has a claim to govei n any other man ex cept to tho extent that tho other man lias a right to govern him, then thero can bo no discussion of tho question of woman suffrage No reason on earth can bo Riven by those who claim suffrage ns a right of manhood which does not mako it n right of womanhood also. If tho suffrago Is to bo given man to protect him In his life, liberty and property, tho same reasons urge that It bo glcn to woman, for sho has tho same life, liberty and property to pro tect. If it be urged that her Interests aro so bound up In thoso of man that they nro sure to bo pro tected, tho answer is that tho same argument was Urged as tho merger In the husband of the wife's right of property, and was pronounced by the Judgment of mankind fallacious in prac tice and in principle. If the natures of men and women aro so allko that for that reason no harm Is done by sup pressing women, what harm can bo dono by elevating them to equality? If tho natures bo different, what right can thero bo In refusing representation to thoso who might take Justcr views about many social and political ques tions? It is sometimes nsserted that women now have a great inlluenco In politics through their husbands nnd brothers. That Is undoubtedly true. But that is just tho kind of Inlluenco which Is not wholisome for tho community, for it Is Influence unaccompanied by responsibility. Peoplo aro always ready to recommend to others what thoy would not do themselves. If It bo truo that women con not bo prevented from exercising political Influence, is not that only another reason why they should bo steadied In their political action by that proper sense of responsibility which comes from act ing themselves? RARE INDEED " What Is so rare as a German plot In the United States that really works? Chicago Herald. . AND PERHAPS THE HAPPIEST Spain Is the sunniest European country. De troit Times. TONIGHT IS HALLOWEEN Tonight's the night, the gala night, The Joy plght of tho year, When pumpkin face" and harlequin Parade, and strut, and leer; You'll see more grotesque costumes, You'll hear more laughs, I ween. Than you have heard for many moons. Tonight Is Halloween. In gay West Philadelphia There'll be a big parade, Two thousand loystcrers will walk, In freakish garb artayed; You'll see more funny sights tonight Than you have ever seen. If you travel o'er the Schuylkill, Tonight Is Halloween. If you should walk on Chestnut street. You must not be dismayed If your cars are gently boxed by A garish costumed maid; She may haye a dainty figure; May seem to be a queen; And yet her first name may be "Mike." Tonight Is Halloween, If some fellow chucks your sweetheart Beneath her dimpled chin, And your ear drums fairly rattle. From all the noise and din. Don't you 1 them get your number, And do n,ot vent your spleen; Do your best to make things happy. Tonight Is Halloween- If your eyes choke with confetti. Your hat is battered in; If they swat you with a flour sack, It Is up to you to grin; No matter how they heckle you, Just smile, and don't act mean; Don't let the crowd purloin your goat. Tonight Is Halloween, Mr : jjifi r-i r ' w..i,ti'ii'.f" .- .J--- - .1 t M 1 H KNOWS IT SfejTfi -'- ffi -fttlS ?- -r.--.lfe,. Jtfff jflfek IPC y gf iHP8 If XMWtfJ ;'A .: AL,..JZd t.l2&2Z--K"fjrl-TrrZZjr jf SPEAKING THE PUBLIC MIND . Views of Readers on Various Civic and Political Questions of Local, State and National Interest and Concern Preparedness ana unemployment Among uie ouujecis jjiscussea To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir One of the reasons for the scarcity of help for our basic American Industries, is tho unwillingness of the boy nnd girl of today to nter the Industrial field of employment. Sov-cnty-five per cent, of tho boys, and 00 per cent, of tho girls, of tho present generation, seek commercial opportunities, with the consequent result a surplus of help In the commercial and mercantile field of employment, and a scarcity In Industrial lines. Another reason Is that nenr ly CO per cent, of tho wngo earners In tho United States employed in a productlvo capacity, aro foreign born, nnd more than CO per cent, of this number aio natives of Western and South ern Europe. For tho first eight t.nths of this year the net Increase In tho population of tho United States, due to Immigration, was 73,000, ns compared with a yearly average of about 500,000 for the preceding 10 years? If the num ber of belligerent countries Increase, and for other perfectly obvious reasons, this condition is not likely to change for a considerable period of time. Now York State each jear Is tho destination for about 25 per cent, of tho alien Immigrants, nnd Now York city gets about CO per cent, of this number. There aro two fundamental causes for tho present decrease in unemployment; first, tho In creased production, ns a direct result of the war; second, tho tremendous reduction in tho number of alien Immigrants coming here. Tho seasonal weather has helped tho retail trado considerably. Holiday and other goods, for merly manufactured abroad, aro now being pioduced In this country. Tho Incrensed trado with South America and other countries has helped considerably Prior to tho war Ameri can tourists spent millions of dollars abroad annually, and now they aro spending their money In tho United States, with a correspond ing benefit to us. While nt the present time thero is considerable activity in tho garment and other seasonal trades, there is likely to bo less employment as soon as their seasons end. According to tho most reliable information there were approximately EOO.000 unemployed last winter in this city, or about 20 per cent, of tho total number of wago earners and salaried people, omitting Government employes. Today I should say it is less than 10 per cent. Ip this 10 per cent, should be included the increasing nrmy of incfucients men and women who can do anything, but who renlly can do nothing that requires any considerable amount of ex perience or training. Thcli we havo tho usual urmy of parasites (willingly unemployed) who Inhabit every largo city, and who aro not af fected to any appreciable extent as a result of Increased commeclal or industrial activity. Many of theso parasites would never become our guests if a proper work-test was applied, and well advertised. Perhaps a workable farm colony would sulllce. T do not bellevo in giving publicity to our ac tivities In caring for the worthy poor of tho city, for the reason that It serves as a magnet to tho unemployed from elsewhere nnd tho deserving peoplo of our own city nro sacrificed to Just that extent WALTER. . SEABS, Superintendent Public Employment Bureau. New York, October 26. VIEWS OF A FREE TRADER To the Editor of Evening Ledger; Sir Should the Evening LcooEn ever realize its wish to sCe in control of affairs in Wash ington, "men who understand (Ttelr business" (italics ours) the revenues to provide for both defense and current expenses will have to come from other than customs duties, simply be cause If these men had their way imports, ex cept as suited their purposes, would be nil. The ceaseless and senseless tirades of the Evening LEDQEn concerning national revenues make it appear as unable to reason in school boy fashion. If It were able or Inclined to make a few rational deductions it might render some public servlco instead of getting off a blast of hot air and dust. Were it not so sad It would be ludicrous. JOHN II, EVANS. Philadelphia, October 28, WORDS OF CHEER FROM DIOGENES To the Editor of the Evening Ledger; Sir I have been delighted to Bee that your own special Clerk of the Weather has resumed his comments on the changing atmospheric con ditions from day to day. Their buoyant cheer fulness, even under the most discouraging con ditions, is most pleasing. I hope that he will continue to give us the benefit of his entertain ing reflections during the fall and winter, IIOGENES. Bala, October 20. ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES To the Editor of the Evening Ledger; Sir A man decides to go Into the abattoir business, and for purely personal or selfish business reasons he locates at a place which will at periodic Intervals when the wind is favorable make living conditions in your neigh borhood rather unpleasant, to put it mildly, and not only your neighborhood, but when the wind blows the other way some one else's neighbor hood must be affected In other words, you and hundreds or thousands of owners or dwellers In homea In a populous section of the city must have your lives rendered at times more or less miserable, and you must put up with a very real and absolutely unnecessary nuisance be cause of the fact that one man or a few men at most In your general section were so abso lutely indifferent to the rights of others that for a slight personal advantage they are willing that you should nutter in this way, "Absurd, ridiculous or impossible," you say. Yes, but it isn't anything of the kind. This is Just what la happening, and far from being apologetic and anxious to richt tho wrnnc- t alleged offender says ho Is a much abused per- I dum tum ujucii) tuiuutiH inc rigiits or thou sands to bo comfortablo and to brcatlio clean nlr, If ho (tho Individual) must thereby removs his plant from a place whero under wise legis lation and an awakened sense of , civic duty It would never havo been posslblo for It tb be. Can wo not got together and come to a realization that this public sentiment should bo awakened that wise legislation Is badly needed nnd should bo Immediately passed and can we not only do nwav with past mistakes, but provent tho possibility of futuro ones in this direction? I for one will lend my earnest support to anything tho Evening LcDann may do to bring about this nwnkonlng of civic prldo and con- science and tho consequent Improvement In conditions which wjll make Philadelphia not only tho city of homes, but of healthy and happy ; ones, freo from all nuisances nnd menaces to health and comfort and from tho possibility of having nnything of tills sort como and settle nt any futuro time in our midst. N. S. Philadelphia, October 26. ARE WE PREPARED? To the Editor of Evening Ledger: Sir It Is so easy to forget what happened week ago that piobably most peoplo never re call that each year about a month beforo Con gress meets thnt our navy is sent to sea to exocuto some farcical war game In wlilch It Is always whipped. A peculiar thing about our navy Is that after costing the people of the cmiiiirj- niuro uuiu a uiiuon uoimrs in juie mat m 10 years It has never been able to do anything J but sink or run to port. If that Is all we have A accomplished with our money we havo been 8 badly fllm-finmmcd. jj Another favorlto scheme of our war nrtlsts, the military and naval trust Is to hold up In n warning the dreadful peril of a Japaneso In vnslon. This year we wero treated with a dosa of both, and to our horror It wns Philadelphia which loll prey to tho barbarities of war. Our Government had even had tho foresight to have wnlting at Capo May and across the Delaware trains with steam up to rapidly trans port tho Invading nrmy to tho city of "broth erly love." Or at least so wo wero led to be lieve by reports In tho papers. Now the second Invasion of our dear city oc curs. This time by tho Nntionnl Security League. Thoy do not intend to let you forget tho awful lessons which their paid publicity agents spread out for you In tho papers. They aro horo to scare you out of your wits 'by tell ing you It is all but up with you unless jou heed their advice. They nnnounco that they want 20,000 1 signers from this district to petition Congress to carry out tho cnrofully prepared and useless plan Known as nntlonal defense which will put prof Its into the pockets of a few ostlmabU multi millionaires and provido tho Governmeht with a large quantity of Junk to bo disposed of in from five to ten years as old Iron. If there are 20,000 suckers In the whojo State of Pennsylvania who will swallow tho "rubbish the National Security League Is offering for consumption, I miss my guess, ,' J. AUGUSTUS CAUWALUADLIH. Philadelphia. October 27. NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW Lansing Is young enough to be a possibility 'J In im-Ilocbester Herald. America must not only "prepare" for mili tary defense; she must pass laws adequate V deal with domestic assaults upon her peace and prosperity by foreign spies, foreign strike makers or foreign dynamiters, Chicago Even ing Post. l As the country is standing by tho President In the matter of preparedness, and as the men who come to Congress are the represen tatives of the people, conjecture as to what will be done should not be difficult.-Washington Star, x Socially, morally and economically the crlrfl- inais ana tnose WHO criminal tenuenciea a. irreat exnense. Cannot we reduce It? Th orison associations are trying, and they defl serve the co-operation of al good citizens. t uosion I'oai. As a test, how many readers can now in stantly recall any great Inventor of early American history, saving perhaps Benjamin Franklin or Robert Fulton? How many can name a pioneer American surgeon of great re nown? Cincinnati Times-Star, As for the seamen's law, that ought to be repealed. It doubtless has some good features, 3 but the sailors have been dolnir without it fori a good many years and could wait until what-1 ever is practical in it couia oe inciuaea in general revision q,f all the shipping laws. Bal timore Sun. The Idea of taking legal action that really! stops lawbreaklng when the lawbreakers ar caueht at the same will strike the average citizen as being the proper application of the law. ut it is a. diow at tne very duiwt of Jurisprudence, and almost any lawyer will tell you so. Kansas City Times. The Wilson Administration deserves credit! for two things, whatever ones opinion may h. nlullll ttia tni.tr? Cft-ot lit imv. h nAllOU an Improved banking and currency system. and, second, it has given the nation peace. And . peace has thus far been the rock bottom P A the prosperity which the United States now ea JoysSpringfield Republican. ' jr 3 1 -Lfi&L i mH----i--llm fjffRii
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