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CULATION Or TltK KVENtNO MCDOEn
roa MovjutnEu wao iiijjii
I'hUtJ.lphl., riUtj. Dtflmhtt H, 1916.
It is no secret that reckless ills
Wgard of American r!gUt by 'tho bellls
ronts of both sides has become increan
Ingfy Intolerable. Wo havo beon pushed
toward n break with ono bUIo or tho
othor. A high minded people could not
much longror enduro the outrages to
which wo havo been Bubjocted. Thla
View has Impressed Itself with nmont
tragic emphasis on tho Department of
Btate. Tho propositi of a dodnlto state
jnent of terms of peaco by tho two groups
Of bolllgcronts results not only from thin
Treat Ilopubllo'n passion for civilization
nnd peaco nmong other peoples, but nlso
fiom a deliberate effort on tho part of our
Government to avoid participation In tho
''cataclysmic dlwistor into which Europe
Is plunged. Tho logtu of tho situation Is
all against quick peace. This cannot,
howovor, act to dotcr the United States
from making every effort compatlblo
With tho practices of nations to protect
by suggestion her Inherent and vital
rights.
Stock speculator!! aro finding llfo
Just ono peaco rumor after another.
It Is Just tin Important (o got tho
Christmas Bplrlt early as to do your
shopping icforo It Is too lato.
Excessive meat eating produces
hardonlng of tho arteries, a dlscaso that
la likely to disappear unless prices como
down.
Tho French moratorium haH beon
oxtonded for thtco months. This does
not help tho poor felloua In America who
Will bo floodod with bills ti woelc from
noxt Monday.
Schwab in Control of Now Stool
Plants Headline.
This sort of thing Is gottlng mo
notonous. Can't Mr. Ilrjnn or Bomo other
enemy of Big Business (lnd a way to
etop It?
Tho Federal Rosorvo banks havo
begun to declaro dividends, but tho Fod
ernl (Jovornmcnt Is thinking of borrow
ing money to pay running expenses.
Tho Democracy claims credit for both
conditions. ""
Until tho statute of limitations
freqs him, Martin O. Brumbaugh la likely
to bo reminded periodically of tho check
for 9100Q which lie received from Mr.
Oliver and failed to report whan lie made
bis statoment of campaign receipts and
expenditures under oath. That Is, un
less he takes tho bt In his teeth and
charges his political opponents with at
tempted blackmail. Ho could thus halo
them" Into court and forco the losuo to a
eettlomenl Why not?
Dotnllad plans for a now tt asporta
tion system which will provide adequate
service fpr a population of C, 000.000 at
cost Of 1490,000.000 In 1960 wero sent
to the City Council today by the Chi
cago Traction and Subway Commission.
News Item,
Tills Is tho right way to plan for
. tho future. Chicago, New York and Bos
ton, as well as Philadelphia, havo out
'grown every new extension of rapid tran
sit lines befqra they waro completed.
Forty.foui: years' Is a short timo to look
forward to In planning for the growth of
B. city.
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If tho Divinity School of tho Prot
estant Episcopal Church is .to be kept
within the city It would have been dim
cult to find a better sito than that which
)ia;t been purchased at Forty-second and
Sprues streets. Tho nva-aure plot covers
tils' Bqgaro between Spruca nnd Locust,
It lends Itself admirably to landscape
treatment. It la convenient of access.
It ts In u, neighborhood already devel
oped In KUph a way that tho future sur
roundings of the school wilt be alt that
can be desired. When the buildings
pocowiary have been ereeted. there will
t enough open space lft for the use
at Moments of that part of tho city as a
ltreUbng place to supplement Clark
Pari:, throa or four bloeks. away.
A fprger has been set free ,t tho
sye at slxtytwo, after Hire yetr In JalL
ip work at $60 a month to repay those
who gav 3(0,000 for Ms worthlm paper
ffhto Is a feat entirely out of the prt of
a ticleaUtie nga. We have been seftcoled
t biievo that the ruts of the mind ajjt
Vry deep, that haWt U our master, that
tfi)HVU-4Dll3 a.r naxt to laipojMiblf, It
U to bo ftra Uwt tf &u lotnitmywibj
ii tin ! iii.i( in .iwiiiii fi nn ii inn '
and prftmWwr friuntf mn would bo fduhd
to believe In tho poselblllly of mimcle.
A man who cannot bellevo a forger would
want to make good Is not llkly to be
lieve Lazarus could bo called from the
tomb. Tito world bus wnoted nino-tenths
of I tit wits trying to prove certain rnlr
ftelH did not happen, wheretw tho whole
point Is whether nny mirnolM mn happen.
A An elementary o ton In learning to
put faith In the Incredible, It would be
well to await with encouraging attention
tho experiment of Mr. O'Connor, late of
Jollet
FAME
jr BOlin cataAtropho wcto to sweep
lawny every itocumonl of this Stnto
except prison records and salary ohoots,
posterity would bcllova that Ilobert
Morris, who went to Jail after financing
Oeorfio "VVanhlnRton, was ono of rennsyl
vanla'a most notnblo roKiioi, and that
Jnmea I). fJheehatt, whoso nalary and fees
brine him about 30,0b6 n year, was ono
of her mott, notablo benofnotors.
JIAKE
PEACE HERE
STAUTKU
AS A
HAS Prosldent Wlteon 0rysSnlll7Cd tho
public opinion of Amnrlca about
peace and wnr or has lie only cxprcssod a
longoxpcclfd nnd nlrcaily discounted for
mality? If any man would try to tuno hln
thought tn tho many-tongued populnro It
would bo Mr. Wilson. That endeavor ho
has tiled to make bin particular bUHlncpi.
Ho has asserted again and ngnln that in
every movement ho ims ted his onr won
to tho ground and his conclusions based
on "what 1 know tho American people nro
thinking." Tho locomotive driver leaned
from his cab and whlspotod in his ear,
"Mr. 'resident, don't go into Mexico."
And such straws that aro the sport of
tho wind of sentiment ho hnn described nn
on (i par with tho lersoim of history and
tho light they throw upon tho futuio.
If tho opinion of a hundred million peo
ple could bo brought to ono head 'at this
tlmo it would bo tho mult poworful fo.-co
in tho world tow aid peaco. Amorlcan
opinion has not beon of ono mind. That
bus boon lis Impotence. I)ut tliu pro
Allied and pro German sentiment on this
side of the sea reflect In only an attenu
ated form tho fierce divisions abroad. Tho
very fact that the Staits Zoltunga and
Tagoblntts of America lmo been na
finnkly proQermnn as their prototypes In
tho rathorland Is a hopeful baslu for
peaco. Tor, after nil, German-American
editors and nngllsh-Amerlc.in editors
bicak bread together nnd shako hands
after hurling nt each other tho camo in
vectives that iihrlok In print 'twlxt Lon
don and Horlln. Tho wnr has beon fought
out hcriyln tho cities of Amorlca, as well
ns thoro; but whllu It has nearly wrecked
tho wholo testing laboratory of tho Conti
nent, It has only scorched a cructblo hero.
Thoro tho molting pot blow up: horo It ban
only simmered nnd can still produco a re
sult. If tho President has said a thing in his
address to tho Powers that will make tho
odltorlals In tho Chicago Trlbuno nnd th'o
Mlhvaukeo Gormnnla-IIerold and tho Now
York World nnd tho New Yorker Stants
Zoltung say tho como things, ho has won
half tho battlo of peaco. If ho can got
Doctor Ilexamor and Itobort Bacon to
mako torms, it should not bo long befora
tholr European counterparts will at least
consider them, i
JUST TWO YEARS TOO LATE
Had tho eonlor Senator from Tcnn
sylvanln, nt tho name o'octlon (1914),
had fusion acalnst lilm. ho would have
beon defeated by 10,000 votes; this In
splto of tho fact that tho Oovemor,
ngnlnst fusion, polled a majority qf
134.000 Congreamntn Vure.
STRjVNan that tho Iteprosentntivo from
tho I'irst District did not think of that
sooner. Can It bo that ho agreed so defi
nitely with tho sonior Sonator about such
a practical matter ai. for Instance, liquor
nnd local option, that tho only fusion ho
could bntartaln In 1V14 wu9 political con
fusion? His Idea Is only two years too
late, Otherwise It Is bplendld.
SHALL JUDGES LEVY TAXES?
JUDCC MacNniLLE'8 resignation from
tho Juvenlto Court concentrates atten
tion upon tho personal ciitlcbmi of Presi
dent Judgo Brown which ncoompanloJ It,
but the root of the evil Is In tho constitu
tion of tho Municipal Couit and Its
branches and not In its personnel. An
explosion was bound to tako plato sooner
or later. It had boon tecognized by tho
Judges) thumselvon that ninny clmngoa
wero necensary, Hut to the revision un
dertaken by tho late Mr. Horwltn must
bo added far more drastlo remedies,
Judgo MacNolllo's rovolt has revealed
that the court has beon Invested by poli
ticians with alt the attributes of n gold
mine for Job-hunters and Job providers. It
is possible for i President Judgo to man
damus from tho 6tty Treasury salaries
for an Indefinite number of employes, and
the law virtually leaves the creation of
placed to him. This amounts to permit
ting Judges to levy tnxea.
Judge MacNollli complains that Judge
Brown's creations of potts go to Councils
as from the Municipal Court as a body,
whereas, ho says, tho meetings of the
court are a mere formality, "so tho blame
does not rest upon tho court, but upon
the President Judge." It is curious that
lie did not quote tho law establishing the
court and the remarkable amendment,
iWhlch seems to give Judge Brown tho
privilege of shouldering whatever "blame"
ho may care to 1napr, The act of 1913
establishing the court says that the Prosl
dent Judgo may appoint ''such additional
probation olllcers as a majority of the
Judges may determine." But tho amend
ment of 1015 changes thla to lead, "Quoli
additional probation otilcera and employes
as he may determine."
Thla is evidently why Judgo Brown saw
fit to make a mere formality of consulta
tions with his fellow Judges as to the
propriety of requiring a number of extra
employes in his court. If polities are
to be kPt out of the oeurt it will not
help mattera to restore the "determining"
of what employes are beded to a ma
jority of the Judges, who aro already mid
to be aligned potlttoHUy The sole au
thority and i cjpoaaibuity fc - creating new
iHfciu should be la the city's legitlatuie,
in the taxpayers' rpreanUUvwi. The
adyfe 44 the ami " nmsht,
ti uflt thr ertMinrmrf af um "-"'' or
He a
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Tom Daly's Column
To rt Clothing Salesman
Jfd of the part I tcooed her In and teonl
yVhvmaft, the coat't stUl fragrant of
' her hatr.
Iter mMh and mine left bencdtcMont
there; ' ' '
The tccatth of pavdavf foil of tvork tcell
dono, '
Have made ma debtor to that ult. The
tun
Of Fortune" amtle would toither did ,1
dare ,
Prove Inorate. Whv, theta clothes vou
shoio I txecar,
I hatl not v.car1'd rather teed in
nonet
8hed never know thtt mirrored fop I
, tee
Dotted up In ttrtp'd pantt and tplUtailcd
Coat
Buch form, tuoh "tubtlo air of clatt,"
denote '
A clothing adver. In the fi, r P.
Whatf "Otothet of charactcrf" That's
what theu latkl
I'll xced her in mv "tcork-laijt." mid
'cm back I
MAO nwn.
Dcnr Tom I saw ono of 'tho l'hllndelpliln
Ulcclrlc Company's trucks yeaterday, wltli
the sign on It, "Jf It In't Eltctrle, It Isn't
Modern," lining towed up the stroot by an
automobile. What do thoy mean "modsrn"?
NICK.
Tljn British censors ntlowed ix bit of
bad news to flltor through to in from
Jrolnntl. W, M. 1Otts, ono of tho most
Ibvablo of Irish pools, Writes to us: ".My
dear old Irish tcrrlor Tim has gono tho
voyago. I'll novcr soo hln likes ngnin "
Tomorrow, If we can think to bring tho
book from homo, we'll reprint from tho
poet 'a "Sonas of Lclnstor" tho tender
npostropho to Tim. '
Tho beginning of our correspondence
with W M, Letts was nomowhat Interest
ing. Wo hud soon n poem from the Lon
don Spectator 'slgnod W. M. Letts nnd
wc liked it well enough to wrlto to Mr.
Letts and say do. In duo couruo a ulca
nnto of thanks enmo ov omens to us, and
tho correjpondenco grow. In ono letter,
tho fourth or fifth, tlui poet wrote- "I
must mnko a confession. I do not wish
to norm to you anything that I am not,
but what I am about to nay to you, I
am auro, you wilt agceo, Is my mlsfar
tuno rnthor than my fault. I think )nu
should know of It, however, hofuro It lu
too late, nn it almost was In tho enso of
a dear old priest In Kerry,, who hnd In
vited mo down to spond ti weekend with
him; but tho fact Is, I am not entitled to
'Mr.' Loforo my name. My nnmo is Wini
fred Mabel."
Tor $C wo'd lot almost any ono slap
us in tho faco. A check supposod to bo
good for that .amount c.imo to us yes
terday In u scurrilous 1 iter from Miguel
Joso Blordan, of Flagstaff, Ariz., demand
ing "live copies of them 'Songs of Dead
lock.' "
Doar Sir Weather In this section must
bo granted ns ordered, for yesterdny In
Carllslo I saw ndvortlsod In n drug store
wlndqw, "Thormamotcrs That Itcclstcr
Thcinsoh es." r. LIP.
THIS Is our notion of tho function of
vers libra, to swnddlo thoughts llko theso;
ATTENTION POULTItY MEN
By Leo F. Nebel.
I came to Vlneland to work on a poultry
farm,
But they fed me on chicken middlings thnt
they kept out in the birn.
Chicken oatmeal for broakfatit, full of oat
hulls nnd romu cat hairs to wa:i
enough to make any man get dis
counted and feal kind of blue.
After trying me out for a couplo of weeks
the ownor said my work was grand,
So I hired out to stny n year, but 2'j
months was nil I could stand.
As my weight dropped from 1C0 to 13S In
this promised land
Ho said ho was the only man who could
mako his chlckons lay and pay, but
from 7 to IE egg a day from 900
hens very near took my breath away.
Till! (fl MOST OIVAHI.E HOOKS
Cantankerot'ii readers aro bulllnif up our Hat
aanln. Thla will bo nnal:
i. 'Tho lleloved Vagabond " W. J. Locke.
'J. "Tim l'leaaurca of nn Abientto Laadlord."
Crothnrs.
8. "Mve for nttle-Torn l'eonlea." Jenkln
Ijloyd Jone.
4. 'Talma of l'anrru." Monahnn.
S. "Itsclincl." Knthleen Norrla
0. "Tho Ueml-Oode" Jamra Stephana.
A QUAT-RAIN
Balndrops on the wlndowpane
Flash thla message through my brain:
If wo fell not through the nlr,
Brother, you would not bo there.
JENNINC-S.
Dear Tom Went to seo a mong-plo
turo show last night. Tho house was very
cold. I saw this sign ns I wan leaving:
"Use Young's Coal
This Place Is Hejted By It"
Incidontally. the owner of the moving
picture house Is also the coal dealer. Some
ad. JAY.
Im-ad-glnntlon
Ara jou fond of mutlat Vervf
Makes your glad heart loop-thc-loopT
Step tn anv caf4terrv,
Hear folks eating Campbell's Boup.
VI,
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And at Third, and Arch streets, W. II
reports ho was eomewhnt startled tn read:
7. YUSEJI.
CLOTHING AND REMNANTS
Police Commissioner Woods, of New
York, Beems to have employed an Irish
lad to prepare the "safety booklets"
which his department Is sending to all
preolnots In the big town. Ilero'e ono
of tho sentenpes:
Don't put flower boxes, or other loose
objects on your Window ledges un
less properly secured
On a farm, near MerchantviHe, N. J.:
No Fishing on This Land
SI Sudder.
I see by your o. d. p. (1JU418) that the
skating pond at Merlon ts 400 yards long
and Is on tha seventeenth green. Overlook
ing the fact that we have no 400-yard
greens, the statement Is correct except that
it ts not 400 yards long and U net on the
seventeenth green. KIIAD.
Comfort 5 Cllpshiun are. tailors on Ban
corn street, who 'would seem to ho the
very men to appeal to us old, 'uns, who'd
I willingly do the last to achieve the first.
When Alex. JIamUton. who bookueopj
for our favorite Soot eh publisher, was
admitted to the N O. P some time Ago,
the otttaer who passed him satd "Hjtpq
yeut're & faster irbet than that tfe tniy
e ttoo wahi Sw.
What Do You Know?
j
0rrl o pnernl (nlfrt iclll be antvurtil
(ti thUi roIumt. Ten uucaIIohiv, the fitjur (it
wMch ntru "irll liiornifrt penoii ahaufii know,
or allied ilnlli.
QUIZ
Whot j the origin of tl o Herd "pnnU"?
Uhiit city Ii tnllwl "Hie tltr of tho fen"?
Mho wrote "The Crifkrt on Hip Heart!i"T
AMicrc it (he fur Iht: the Krnr Knt?
Whnt la the rutlmat.d nnmlirr of nutoino-
hllea In ue In the Unltnl hiatetT
Wr r-nd of "rurtnln fire" In wur dlipatehe.
Uit ! It?
W ho In Jino Deeter Itlppln?
K. Tint It the Alttmo?
U. ltlut cnuicj nimwfnllf
In Arnhlnn nanion whnt dor "lbn" mean?
Answers to Ycstcrtlaj's Quta
1. A ter.mhli lioa Junt iirranpllnheit tl c Mv
llrnurh tho rnnnti Cm 11 In nix hours
nnil tvventr fninutei, uhlcli hrcuVs c.
irrlou rcccnlM
3. Turntr ler tent la mM In I.miOon for In
fcurnnio proltltiH fr hi lutyment of
rhilma fchould n? lee hi uf-, Inn-ii Uy Juno
30. Thla nniounta to bettlni: four to uno
nralnut iicaco hi Jtinc no.
3, John 11 irrett la director ceneral of the l'ftn
Amirlrnn L'nion.
4 Mean la thn nnmo for it (nlilelund In Mrtlro.
5 Itnrorlmek hoc are n miiI-iIIJ aprrlca In
the houth. Tlip hvyp btei ullfmpd to rin
Inoio In tho minutim nnd ur-il klnei
tho nrlr iluja. riiey nr leun nnd
criiiny nnd t'n rl lira it tho Imc 1 it
well.drllned ertelirul
nume "rurorutii'k," nnd not tlm niiDdeu
mi riiav. -,,r it,, ii,,.
bnck or tu well-rctl donienllrntiMl Uiu
0. Thfi iwcnS In "urbjtun" l on the first
urtlnblo.
7. hnnit frold netna literally "(old blood."
8. "IrU" In tho, nana of n cenua of plantoi of
the thin, clrrulnr curtain, plrreej by the
I mull, urhlth hnnca In the nntrrlor tlmni
icr of the rjn In front of tho rryatalllnu
ten, And of the lrln mrieiuer of the
cntlH In the llonierlr imrin
l. ill
rerotutlnn nf July.
18S0. I-atIb nirMr.
tl retr thn lluurbnti itr
I retr tun llourbnn dynni t. nnd liraasht
tlm liuno of Orleuim. In (ho nrrnon of
.mill I'hltttJIH. to ttin thrnrw, tit Vrnnr
mo irtrone or rrnnce.
wn no railed because
II of rilHatlanlrv- lli
4U. uuunn nip jipofliniri
ai nis reniinriniinii
wan Ilomau I inperor from 301 to 883.
f
Otto Welningcr
It. V. There Is a German edition In
Roman characters of "Dr Otto Welnlngor
Uebcr die Lotaten Dingo" In the Mercantllu
Library, which contains a biography of
Welntnger. Ho was born In Vienna April 3,
1880. Ho was en eager student, soon mas
tering Trench, Italian and English and
being a fluent reider of Spanish and Nor
wegian, nnd malting rapid strides tn philos
ophy, philology, hlqlogy, physiology, physics,
mathematics and human nnd animal psy
chology. As he approached his majority ht
concentrate! his attention on philosophy,
following Kant nnd Plato, and psychology,
and hi) gradually ovohed his doctrlno ot
tho ethical duality of life good and bad,
knsmos und chaos. Ho saw this duality
and a never-coaslng conflict between good
and bad In all things, even In nituro, which
he viewed In a symbolic light His Intro
spective trond (he seldom smiled) led him
to exaggerate-tho conflict between kosmos
and chads In ha own being, resulting In nn
approach to melancholia and tclf-accusatlon
that preyed on his mind H sought to
ward off his fear of self by working, and
during th's struggle produced hln book,
"Sex and Character" That finished, he
gave up tho atrango fight and committed
sutcldo by shooting himself In tho breast
October 3, 1903. In the house where Bee
thoven died, Boforo his death he wrote,
"I kill myself In order not to have to kill
some one el'je."
Hypnotism
J. D. David McKay and the Peno Pub
lishing Company, both Philadelphia houses-,
have published bopks on hypnotism. In
which are given directions for Inducing hyp
notic sleep. They approach tho charaetor
of textbooks on this subject. Tha volumes
may be obtained In the larger book stores.
Secession of First State
A. J. J south Carolina was the first
State to secede after the electlqn of Presi
dent Lincoln. The ordinance of secession
was passed by South Carolina November
1?, 1880. Georgia was the next Stat to
take this step, and the other Southern Slate
were quick to follo.v, with the exception
of Virginia, which waited until after the
fall of Fojt Sumter.
Early Bloodhounds
xy. ., Jit The origin of bloodhounds
takes us back to early English history, and
here wp And records of the origin of breeds
rather meager. In the twelfth century
there is mwiMon of lemon ar,d rochea.
whloh may be said to be the ancestors of
the bloodhound; they wen dogs used in
trailing deer. They probably were Inter
bred with Norman hounds and fogs from
Bsstern countries, producing the blood
hound The first mention of dogs being
used to trait fugitives by scent is In con
nection with the pursuit of William Wal
lace, the Scottish I'.Aro-outliw
IT IS TO tAUGH
Grouehy folk who complain that ta
,uaHt of uuy are uoKIsk- in hMmor
W fWf1. y? dlspatoh minx I
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VObV FOR THOUGHT
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Woman's Cruelty to Woman.
English NavaliBm ,and Prus
sian Militarism
WOMAN'S CRUELTY TO WOMAN
To the Editor of 'the Evening Ledger:
Sir In n recent edition of McClure'a I
was pleased to rand a comprehensive criti
cism of tho woman who mnrrtca msrely to
gain her economic freedom But to mo
thoro Is a graver evil to combat, namely, tho
married woman who Is economically Inde
pendent, ct usurps the position of the
Kolf-dcpendent woman In Iit quest for
work.
Very recently In n Now York newspaper
I noticed nn ndvertlsement soliciting tho
help of woman "who wore married, but
willing to work part tlmo." Tho same prac
tice Is In evidence here, mostly In our de
partment ctores nnd manufacturing estab
lishments Tho rcaron for this Is that women
economically unembarrassed will work for
much less than a woman Bclf-dcpondent
Hence, when we do npt enjoy the present
unparalleled prosperity, thousand- of wom
en In our Statci are subjected to tho crud
est formn of economy, both In nctual living
and drnss expenditures, while often tho
loss ot moral uprightness Is dlicctly tho re
sult of this Inability to mnko "ends meet."
However, I do not moan to Infer that I
dlsapprovo of the married woman who
works thnt she may holp bear the economic
burden that Is heavier than her husband
can boar. But I do say that tho woman
who neglects nor household duties and her
family's welfare to tatlsfy a desire for ex
citement or vanity or dlallko for house
hold dutloa Is, to far as tho self-dependent
woman is concorned, n greatur monaco to
our social and economic world than Is the
parasite typo of woman who gladly ex
changes work and cconomlo freedom for tho
pnrasltlo exlstenco of many of our women of
leisure today.
Possibly In our evor-evolvlng readjust
ment of Industrial affairs due consideration
may bo given this grave lstue, as the In
dustrial world Is today obviously dependent
upon Its women workers as well ns Its
men. BERTHA SAPOV1TS.
Philadelphia, December IS.
WE TRY TO BE FAIR
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir Ittwas a rctfl pleasure to read the
Inolosod slip (a tribute to Professor Mun
sterborg from, the 'Kvbmko Lnnonn), it
Wu.b pleasure even though It sounds a dis
cordant note In the swelling chcrus cf yelps
from our far too many superficial little
Journalistic curs. How did It happen?
B. I'. STOEBER.
Philadelphia, December SO,
END WAR
To the Editor of thi Evening Ledger:
Blr There are evidently many people In
the world today Vrhoie hatred of the Ger
mans la so strong that they would need
only to bite tbe tip of a match to enable
them to spit fire at them. To theaa the
Oerman la not only
"A monster of so frightful a mien.
As to be hated needs only to be teen,"
but he Is nn Incendiary, a savage, a beast,
a brute He is mean, contemptible, lying,
deceitful, cruel, atrocious, barbarous and
whatever other terms of opprobrium their
vocabulary 'may supply
Suppose Germany, for some reason par
1 apa not yet fully apparent to the rest of
the world, did Instigate this great European
war, she did not expept to bo called upon
to fight nearly all tho rest of Europe, with
Ktiglanil',3 possessions and the resources of
the neutiial world thrown in. But such being
the case, and whether she now realizes
that she Is fighting a losing game, or upon
purely humanitarian principles, desires and
is willing to end further carnage and
bloodshed;, and lend her aid in placing the
world upon a foundation of universal
peace, Is It not the duty of all the other
nations to Join with her and once for all
blot out this rtllo of barbarism warT
We hear and read much about crushing
Germany and German or Prussian mili
tarism, but never a word about Ungllah
navftUsm- Britain must remain mUvreaa
of tha sea, regardless of the rights of the
rest of tho world Xhe great trouble ts,
there are yet too many people who do not
want the world at peace. There ts too
n.ucb. money for, them in war This, un
fortunately, applies especially to our own
country. The fact that people are willing
and eager to gamble. Indirectly, even In
human Uvea was fully evidenced In the
effect produced on the stock market Im
mediately upon Germany's! proposal for
peace. l'"or would any one say, or even
think, for a momtnt that had the specula
tors felt confident that the war would con
tinue, saerMolng several more millions of
Uvea, thoce coadlUoaa would have pre
vailed? Nsverthelua, the impartial futuro
biabwi&B wltt set onjy hold acaoa one or
1 ! ttattea rwpwuUbto (- feU"tjMr fi
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prolonging It heedlessly; and also give some
ono or somo nation tha credit of ondlng It
Who shall It bo7 ANTI-WAR.
Allentown, Pa., Dccomber 17.
PRAISE FOR JUDGE MncNEILLE
To the Editor of the livening Ledger: (
Sir Just llko a bolt from a clear cky
comes to us tho sad news that Judgo Ray
mond MncNclllo was forced to hand In his
resignation to his superior In olllce, Judgo
BrOwn. It suroly Is n pity that such an
honorable gontlcmnn should havo to lcivo
a bonch that ho almost, by his Individual
effort, has made nearly sacred. Whoro can
there bo found another who so endoared
himself In the minds of all with whom ho
enmo In contnet? Where can thcro bo found
another who so galnod tho respect and lovo
of thoso who, by the virtue ot his olllce, ha
hnd reason to meet? He was tho fatlior
of fathers, tho mother ot mothers to tho
erring youths. How many of them are
better off ns a result of coming under his
lnlluenco? Who Is ablo to count such a
mass?
Just nn Instnnco of tho respect of ono
of "his" boys can bo had from the follow
ing: Somo boys- wero arrested for mis
chievously entering a freight car nnd taking
somo eggs. Ono of them was released upon
his word that ho would bohavo himself. I
happen to know tho boy. When last I saw
film I asked him If he over thought of
going back to hh old traits. Ho remarked
that over since ho gave his word of honor
to Judgo MacNelllo he had becomo n cred.t
to his people. Ho said that ho had slnco
worked atcndlly and that all In nil he was
glad that ho had been nrrested and had
come under tho Influence of such a mnn.
Good luck to you, Judgo Raymond
MncNelllo I May your endeavors In tho othor
branches of tho court bo as successfully
handled as your work on tho bench of
benches, tho Juvcnllo Court I
A. LINCOLN MEYERS.
Philadelphia, December 21,
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