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EVENING LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 80 1915.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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