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jnurt lv old MwtlUi nw addreu.
bell, toco vAunrr keystone, maw jmo
ltm Otttr to twntstfcl to 4lr te fs
Mrfc don tshsl a. few (Mermlnod men
wth ito th ether ways amidst the npathy
6t erory oho slue Tho Incident show
tfatit the nnrcoUo liftblt strikes at high
as well us low. It is painfully aMMtront
that overt wclItMo- families nro power
lew to aid black sheep who take rime
with enough shrewdness to destroy char
acter without dtroylnflr fnlnd nnd body.
"dr eighteen years thlff mnn committed
Krndtml suicide. Thoo near to him hftd
ho authority to tell them whether they
should regard hint as nick or hnd, whether
his case should he hidden or exposed.
Tho law could not help him until tho
Poor soul began to steal overcoats.
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OULATION OP TUB BVENINO I.EDOEft
von jjovEMnm wao ui.oit
rhlltitlf.hu, Thnrtilijr, Vtrtmltr It, mi,
A butlmit mutt be profitable if
it it to contlnua to xiit, but tha glory
of buiinatt it to mahe it to tuectstful
that you can do great thing bteaute
they ara great and bteauta thty ought
fo bt done Charter M, Schwab.
Eat 'cm tillvo, Bolosi Eat 'cm alive,
Bhrunk! '
'When boozo sets through with In
dustry there won't bo anything left ot
fcooze. '3 ,
How docs It como thut with all tho
Influx of nolil wo hear so llttlo of tho
"gold euro" that was so fashionable In
"wet" Statos noma yoars asol
Somo pooplo bclloyo so firmly In
tho principles of democracy that thoy
stay awnko nlclits thinking how much
better thoy arc thai other pooplo.
THE SUIJMEIIGED TENTH
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pHnirAl'S rennnylvnnladevolops Btates.
x men so wondorful that they can con
duct ft factional fight with nlno-tcntha of
tholr brains and with tho remaining tenth
put through a program of reform. Hut
audi men do not ofton conduct potty fac
tional flhla. Wo must iifto what nsonts
the gode have provided! Both Baldwin
and Cox are committed to n revision of
tho State's Insuranco lawn. No opponltlon
has arlson or could well nrlo to tho antl-
nnrcollo monsurcs required. Thoso nb
soluto essentials will doubtlcBn como bo
foro tho Assombly.
But tho ominous feature of tho nltua
tlon Is that, In tho storm of Jealousies
nnd mutual attempts to discredit, tho fac-tlon-toin
Ansombly may oaslly put forth
carelessly drawn nnd viciously Jokcred
bills. It Is conceivable that politicians
sooklng any. and oyory opportunity to
stultify oppohcntn would uso even tho
machinations of drug flonds and insur
ance crooks. And If uch danger hnng
ovor tho baro necessities of legislation,
what chanco is there of rrottlnK ood work
dono on tho ciiually important, though
less pressing, romalndcr of tho piogrum?
IOVS IB BTRMTAL
Lovo I tlernal, It never can die.
Thouph ee lull It telfft IdiiuAfcr or druo
U telth sorrow, '
Hot the primeval tea, not this tun In the
ky,
A'ot the reaohct of tpaee Are to sure
of a morroio,
.It thr icateri of ocean in vapor flscend-
ino,
Then In rflln-HonrIAl ttreamt through
the green vaUcjs wending
Have iho ocean again for their ulti
mate winning,
Bhall not ,ote, through all changes,
move on to lit ending ' f
In tho botom of Qod, ohcncc It had Ui
beginning?
Love It immortal It It not of earllu
Though IU fortune retard It, dear iohat
doe,r It mattert
Shall a harvest of roses he cfecmcil of no
tcorth
When the taint of each canker Is
purged In flic allarT
If earth's catefs are purest 'through
heaven's refining, ' '
Bhall the Ills of thh Uorld chill our love
with reptnlttaf
Here ivo sow, but not here reap the
meed of endeavor,
For the fruits of our love, past all human
divining,
In the bosom of God ice 7inJ! harvest
forever.
PROBABLY NOT SMRIOUS, BUT CERTAINLY MOST ANNOYING
Pnotcls In Prose
Men's souls ato born old nnd trrow yniine
with tho Joy of llvlnc.
Tho unfortunate part of It nil Is that
their bodies can't bo synchronised to tho
nuul'a aspirations.
Js tho wator department trying to
tnako a record in brokon mains boforo
tho year closes? It so, it Is to be con
gratulated on tho latest ono ycBtorday
t mount Airy.
With $50,000,000 bolonglng to farm
ers ot Lancaster County lying In tha
banks nt throo per cent, ns was tho caua
recently, no ono was uurprised that tho
Inderal Farm Loan Board passed up this
Siato as a location for ono of their institutions.
Tho confldonco of tho leaders ot
each faction that thov cannot nosslblv
"""SiIo'bO Wack as tiioy know tho lcadors of
tho other sldo to bo indicates that tho
ordinary citizen would need a magnifying
Glnsa to find a white spot on any ono
of them.
r
Tho lato Mnio. do Thebes, who foro
told tho war, also propheslod that tho
Koisor would dlo tin oxllo in England
,twenty-flvo years after ascending tho
throne. That data happened somo years
ego, and latest accounts say ho was an
tha west front, which Is likely to bo
changad to the cast front before this rocs
to press, and again to tho west front
boforo it Is read.
Tho oenlor Senator Is oomowhat In
accurate -when ho says that "tho people of
'the State will be astonished whan tho
extravagance, absenteeism, misappropria
tion of funds, political coercion and in
timidation and other scandalous condi
tions aro exposed." Thoy wjll bo nstorv
. lahod if they are cxposod, but no political
scandal' could, be so monstrouo as to as
tonish thorn at this time. As to absen
teeism, Penroso may think that John
It. IC Rcott holds the championship; but
John It. K, Scott knows that Penroso
holds tho record.
TAXATION DY JUDGES
TUDOR MacNHILLKS statement that
" tho President .ludgo of the Munlclpnt
Court enn crento ofllcos at his pleasure,
fill thorn and forco tho city to pay the
salarlos Is tantamount t6 a cnnrKo Hint
part of tho powur to levy tuxes nnd
appropriate money lias jiono from Conn
cih Into the hands of on Individual not
choson for thut purpose. That Judgo Mac
Nolllo happens to believe his HUiiorlor
"craves publicity" has nothing to do with
tho principle Involved. Possibly the eighty
flvo Jobs JudRo Brown recently usked of
Councils would havo bcen evolved undor
another system, but to ac(uiesco In tho
holding by him nnd his successor:) of a
prlvllogo which no othor ufllcoholdor in
tho United Stated enjoys, and which H
forolRit to American Institutions, would
bo to invito untold abuse.
Judgo MacNullIo complulns that Jud;o
Brown's creations of posts go to Councils
as from tho Municipal Court ns u body,
whereas, h says, the mdotlnga of tho
court nio-u moro formality, "so tho blamo
dooo not rost upon tho court, but upon
tho President Judgo." It Is curious thnt
ho did not quolo tlio law oitabllshlnc tho
court and the rcmnrknblo nmoiulmcnt,
vvhlch UQoms to give Judgo Broun tho
prlvllego of shouldering whntover "blamo"
Ho may cnio to Incur. Tho act of 1913
onys:
Section 0. The President Judge shall
appoint a chief probation olllcor, whoso
salary shall not exceed 9.1000 a year,
and such addltldnal probation olllcors
at a majority a (ho Juituci may defer
in du', nt salaries not to exceed $11,00
a year.
But this was amended In 101C to rend:
Section D. Tha President Judge shall
appoint a chlof probation oulc'er, whoso
salary shall not exceed J5000 a year,
and Hikli nddltloual probation ofllccrs
cini(.cniplojrt ns he may iletcrinlni, at
salaries not to excoed L'3O0 n year.
Tho ltullcl?.6d words explain why Judgo
Brown makes his meetings moroly
formal. '
Section S should bo promptly nmended
again to make It clear that new court
ofllcoa are mndo upon the Initiative nnd
solo responsibility of tho taxpayers' repre.
sentatlves. The advice of tho court might
well be sought, but not Us command.
Last Chapters of Novels
I
GlMJBItT IC CIinSTKUTON has phrased
It inthcr delightfully, "Tlio membors
of Hie well-known human race," he says,
"to which no many of my renders (be
long " '
The members of tho well-known human
race, mostly women, turn to the Inst chap
ter. Hoes It end happily? Yon? Then
wo'll begin tho story.
nut want's tno uso7 Why waste the
tlmo In rending nil beforo? it Is tho ob
ject, then, of thin llttlo series to niako tho
ending of the tale happy or not, as tho
mood moves. These clinptors will bo done,
D. V., In tho manner of others. At tho In
stant ono chooses the manner of M. Guy
do Maupnss.int Thus:
"How mnny jears Is It?"
"Flftoon "
"And wo have been married so long?"
"Yes so long "
"And this Is tho dny? Heart of mlno,
ono 1i:ib hnd many terrors In nil the days.
Yes?" ,
"Yes, but yes; wan there naught but
terrors?"
"I did not say Still, might ono kiss
you?"
"Let me, then, kiss ou rtrst. Hero then
It Is: Once for tho mother henrt of you
so. Then twlco upon jour eyes so twlco
for my sweetheart's eyes I"
And then she: "Twice," she said, "for my
loer's lips!"
RAPID TRANSIT MAKES TRAFFIC
Strange how an honost phrase can
bo perverted as it falls from tho wrong
man's pen! Ono can swallow Penrose's
attack on Brumbaugh as ho writes of
his ceasing to bo "tho Governor of tho
whole pooplo," and with some relish; but
when he aUds "and not treating people
fairly," tha muddy origin of tho crystal
Bprlng of rhetoric Is laid bare. "Not
treating people fairly". has beon harped
upon by McNIchol, Penrose and every
other spoilsman in Philadelphia until
every child has como to know that it
means precisely "the, giving of Jobs to
,Vor men Instead of, Penrose men"
Why tho temperance movement Is
gaining in momentum was shown In
Delaware County when tha Sun Ship
building Company and tho suburban
traction companies protested against tho
granting of licenses. The traction com
imnies opposed the sale of liquor near
their terminal at Sixty-ninth Street, and
the shipbuilders objected to a saloon
JlMr tjjojr Blmt Xn. Chestftr. Liauor
nd efficiency -jyiu not mix any more
successfully than oil and water. It has
been discovered that temperance payB,
Just as we know that honesty is the best
fc 4?oUey, Jf men would oe honest and tern
's derate from higher, motives an moralists
jl. weulef be delighted, but If they will be
temperate and honest for selfish motives
only It must bo admitted that this la
better thaft not at all
Tho son of a prominent lawyer was
ght stealing an ovenat ho was going
ffi P4WA for drujpj. Five years ago that
, wpBlf have been ft one-day scandal for
-Jwsimpers and their readers. Today it
j: jjg 4infcd at ones, ta c pile of data, used
ff m tmr determined men. an4" a news
jUr bur and thre to force restrle
iiv Km! humanitarian laws that tvilt
j- 4fte oaf tik uawgliwized usa of drugs.
tMriWnt U IrrwtatlWe. Five years
mm t anunlty will lastly
X jwt tmtwraUy evoU-ed tha ra-
IF THE developments which havo fol
lowed tho ox tension of rapid transit
facilities In, Now York can afford any
criterion on which to bnso nn opinion
of tho results that should bo obtained in
this city, the latest statistics Issued by
Public Service Commissioner Whitney, ot
Now York, should bo most encouraging.
A brief study of thoso statistics shows
that tho Increaso of population resulting
from the extension of rapid transit facili
ties soon outstrips every provision made
to meet it and that tha Inarcasod earn
ings are moro than' sufficient to meet
any additional extensions and improve
ments which result from such conges
tlon. Commissioner Whitney poIntB out that
in 1872,, tan years before the opening
of the "L" system, tho surface lines ot
New York carried a total of J3S.722.190
passengers, or an average of 147 rides
during tho year for each person in the
city.
In 1SS2, the first year of the "L," 260,.
010,832 passengers wero carried, making
an average of 215 rides for each person.
In, 1906, tho II rat year ot the subway,
838,081.200 passengers were carried, or
an average ot 203 rides for each person,
and in 1916 1,201,067,703 passengers have
been carried, or an average ot 332 rides
for each person in tho city.
Early this your, In ordor to relieve the
congestion in tho New York subways, tho
ML" system was virtually reconstructed
and art additional traqk added, at a cost
of almost l8,000,0eo for express trafflo
during the ruth hours. In ono month after
being put in rvlco there was a gain
of 100,000 passengers per day, and the
Inorease In earnings has ben so great
that for eight days alone it Is sufficient
to meet the intsieat obarge on tho eon
ajfMcUon. amounting to 81,191.67 euoh
mojntbj,
CommlssiftBW Vtyi)W imm ."Always
U the sw stt-rfjfl inatunliaw fr"t
rapid transit lines ajr- hUlJt In New
Yutfc. the trajiiw!ltolJ of the
people sewn to tapp abwui of them."
Thar is m ru whr Philadelphia
should itfore an exception to this rule.
May ono then bo piuiloncd for bringing
to tho light n forgotten poem wiltton by
Hloliard Watson Ollder.
It Is twolvp jenra ngo.tlmt Mr. Olldor
sent us these manuscript verses, and
since that tlmo ho lias gono away to u
far place, whero "tho uncensored prldo of
purity holds swny." Wo do not know if
tho lines havo over been seen In typo bo
fore, but If thoy havo not lot them now
nppoar:
THOU TIHNKi:.ST THOU HAST MVED
Thou thlnuost thou tins livid
If Fortune fair hath touched theo with her
wand i
If thou hast known but once tho top of Ufa
In giving royally, In truly loving.
In braving somo great deed In sight of men,
Or Issuing v.cloilpus from strife.
Not so, nor hnst ot life the flower nnd
height
In suffering th.it others might go froe.
For theso the heauent years still richly hold
A keener sense of tho deep Ufa thnt In,
Than thou, brave novice, xhalt cuduro tho
lore
Of Pate's Immonsurablo Ironies.
Thou inay'st behold tho scorn of these and
thlno,
Set on the laureled brow ot him thy hand
Helped to thnt heucn yes, thou mnyest sea
Success, In them thuu glvest strength to
rise.
Used for thine own disfigurement and loss ;
Mny'st hnon betrayul and furgetfulncss,
And, knowing, shalt thy spirit hold In
calm
Pitying tho arrogant, tho manly vain
Unbltterly, and with no cloying hate,
Disdain nor envy comforted and blest
With one kind thought of knowledge
worthily gained.
And the humility which makes men wise.
And tho uncensored prldo of purity.
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The Hoifthsast Gown
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Rabfllyat of a Commute
JUCV
I said unto tho Sctdemnn: "fli t .
A pecK or two Of your beat nJ.t V .
I wajte.1 PntltoSreX
lttW Wa" WW1 and M4
Uncle John tlilf stm..,-.-.. .
six contraetor, who Tow an. iVhU&U ,
blnatlon In Pocket billiards better tM:
iuvc. n uu,uuo eontraet, 0 ,,VJ
to long sentences. Spfakln ot M, uSSni
game the other night hs T m .J1?'1!
The first course In the educafilm - l
gentleman In the suprmi art of ii
popi consists In the Simula fl 0W?
"pi'"' nuantlty of mote or ls wJm,SS
alibis an to why Blyh ehot u STbi
and, falling In in, ptsXctlon of . feSft
aiiw, ns attitude toward lh gmft T-'Ti;
to b misconstrued by ribald oniok. ,'
ho s mote than llsbls to nndhimw,?' .
ously handljapped In the contlndMiJ'
his plcaiurabts nmuwmant. n. -" i""ft.'
own account, but on the part of tto J!S
usually walsd in th gallery. Silr tBfc
tsrvs the Dunelurlnir t.r. Jf'tv? X?M
tatlon' Thereupon." as Caesar dw - "-'
raw8s& jThniud : a
dtfricX l My anJM &
The only sort of tyranny that Is um..
I. that of iho wk over the strongf 'ffit
why the conqum ot the eternal t tratain J I
m0nhaUnv,3r Pe.rtMt "" t
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. LOVE'S STRUGGLE
Mr. aniSSSK?l8Sr2SBoA?IrU,db.
Bine. "T1IK DinTH OP A a.TION'-
THRILLS
ADVENTURE
MYSTERY
ROMANCE
What Do You Know?
Ourrin o enteral Inltrtll toll! bi anttctrfd
In (M rolumn. Trn tiuf lions, tin attMweri to
which ,fvrw lufll Informal jjrot) thould know,
are nskcil tiallu.
QUIZ
I. "t'reole" msn one tlilhr In Ner Orlrnna
ml nnethrr In -writ llorltU. i:i1aIii Ihe
illflTrrrnt turn of the word In Mm South.
8 Who was Virginia IJare?
3. Kinliiln tho word "Croton" In American
hlfitorr.
4 Wlmt nre the neutrnl nnlliina of KnropfT
S. I nt klnc took the curlou title "C'lisrlo
XIV John"?
0, Who win Will Cobbelt?
. In liruklni of motor, whit l n "four." t
"nix," nn "eight," n "tMrlte"?
R. W bo wn the Has ot Montlcellot
0. Who wm Ainerlrn's flrtt srist norrlUt?
10. What In u coir pony?
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Moving Thanks From Firemen's
Families for Efforta in Their
Behalf Does Loynlty
Pay?
Anawcrs to Yesterday's Quiz
1 Allicrlo I'nnl U iirenldnnt of the National
Itnllwuya of Mexico.
2. Moid doors li n natlte of Wale.
3. Th 1'anlinndlo of Tcifin nnd tlml of Writ
Virginia nro the norlhem ritromltle of
thoae htali-n, which project In Iho form ot
n panhandle,
4. Iluriuril U tho oldrnt liKlllutlon of learn
ing In the United Hlatoa
5. Yucatan la famous for 1I production of alual
hemp
0 SlsJor (leneral Hugh I Seotl. oa chief of
atan, la in lllgnrai tuukiiik uiurvr hi
the jinny, bot Major, llrnrrnl U-onanl
Mood rcceheil Ida nvnolntmrut oarllrr ami
In actual llncul runU liraila the Hit of
inaior Ecncrnla.
7. Hecrrlarr of Htnte, Sewnrd won Iho Amer
ican atateanmn Inatrumrntnl In nrgollat
Ing tho purchaae ot Alaakn.
S. Tennyaon wrote "Croaalng the, liar."
0, Quern Mory I of Knglonil anljl "CotaU"
wna written on her heart. Th elty wa
tho Inat poaaeaaion uf th J.ncll.h on
Krcncli aoll nud wu wreated nnny from
them In 103H.
10. The Kngllih King and tho Kuaalati Ciar are
llrat coualna.
Tlitl deliarttnent In
with to rxprcJi titir
re to oil renders who
otifufnnA An Aiififpnfjk nt
currtiit Intercut, It it an open forum, and iho
hvcnlno Lnlacr assume no rcaponalbllllv for
imp ikwi w tin rprrrsponurm. i.cirrra muni
ui
oi
' . nlunnl telti tha noma iinil diMrra
ouarantco of uooa fa
nl Ifi.
tnrflrr, not ncoeaanrllu tor iiubltculloii, but n a
Uli.
THE FIREMAN'S CHILD
To tha Ktlltor of the livening Ledger:
Sir Can't my papii bo homo moro at
night? Ho Is In n nrohouso all tho time
Wo don't go out My mamma has to take
mo nnd my brother when alio docs go. lly
pnn.1 goes to bed early ono dny ho la home,
ami ho tmys he la no glad to go to hod
without hl clothes on. If nil tho llttlo
glrli lime firemen pnpaii I nm sorry. It In
so lonely when pupa goes away from uu.
U M. IIAI.U
Philadelphia, December 22.
Evolution of tho Goad Gray Ones
OCCASIONALLY ono stumbles unexpect
edly upon a prophet. Ono, of course, im
mediately thlnhn wo are alluding more par-
fMilnitir In TT fl Wa1Ii ,i nil lltd nnnthftnvlfiir
concerning a war which hna followed pretty
closely his predletlonB, Hut tno guesser
would be all wrong, Wo hao stumbled by
chance upon Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers.
and ho may consider himself hereby hailed
as an augur uf some delicacy of understand
ing. Listen to the sooth said In his 'Tar
doner's Wallet," remembering that his little
essay of "Tho Peacemakers" was written
moro than sixteen years ngo;
There Is a periodicity in the passion
for war. It miirlis the coming Into
power of n now generation. A quarter
of a century from now "the good gray
poet" Itudyard Kipling may be singing
sweet ljrlcs of ipoace. All things como
In time. The Kipling we hnow simply
utters the sentiments of "the young men
brought up with him" "What he has
been to his contemporaries Tennyson
'was to the generation before. Kipling
never wroto a more scornful arraign
ment of peace or a more passionate
glorification ot war than Tennyson's
"Maud."
This Is enough, without following Doctor
Crothers's further argument. Hut the time
is not yet. for It is only sixteen years since
tho nropheoy was uttered. At tho end of
tho quarter-century, Kipling, then coma to
be "the good gray poet," may be singing
lyrics of peace, but at this time of good
Will toward men the singing of them would
be as appropriate as the staging of Zleg
feld's "Follies" In the Cathedra) ot Ithelma
Nevertheless, Doctor Crothers was a
prophet, for Hope Js not yet dead nor will
she ever be!
In th extraordinary rush of modem
life we are apt to forget most important
matters. It is related by farcy In his
Reltnuss," how the son ot Lady IIsw of
Marryland was sntleed by an apple given
Htm by a Jewish damsel, she afterward
stabbed him with a penknife, rolled him In
lead and oast him Into a well. Of courss,
all this happened in the year of grace 1137.
but It serves to ryli the fast that there
were srlm tragedies even Jn those before-Uns-
Audj speaking of forgotten themes,
who rwo)brs Mr, Hubble in "Great Tix
peetatkm"T It appears that he was "a
hlgh-shouldcred, vtuvplng old man of a saw
OJJsiy fragrance" Just the other day at
ReltU's sofrmbfiily tiid uf a. mtn who was
arr4 m tfc W efcarga. Bywhlshw
larn that there t no ub-soIr novelty.
Mr. Sproul's Career
Editor of "What Do You Know" In to
day's quiz you ash: Who Is William SproulT
He Is a graduate of Swarthmore College.
He Is tho oldest Senator, In point of yoars
of continuous service, In the Pennsylvania
State Senate, When a student In the
Cheater High School Mr. Sproul contributed
to the columns of the Chester Times, which
he now owns, at tho munificent salary of
flftv cents a week! With this trd-lnlng he
eventually became college correapondent
for a Philadelphia newspaper (The Press)
shortly after entering Swarthmore, The
Sproul good roads bill hnd Its Inception In
tho Dolawaro County Senator's mind when
he was In his eurly teens, He was riding
a bicycle along tho Concord rood, a highway
leading Into Cluster, made hlstorlo by the
retreat of the Continental army under Gen
eral AVashlngton, following tha disastrous
battle of the Drandywlne, when the youth
ful rider won hurled to tho ground, his
silent steed striking a deep rut In the high
way. It was then that Sproul first realised
the needs of good roads throughout the
country districts, and ha was not long In tha
Senate when he introduced the measure that
bears his name. Senator Sproul organised
the Seaboard Steel Castings Company, ot
Chester, before he was thirty years of age,
becoming president of the corporation. Later
lie baama master or unesters maritime
business by his organisation of the Chester
Shipping Company, of which he la also
president. He Is a hard and tireless worker.
When -In his publication office he sets the
pace for his employes. He writes a per
sonal Item with the same care and delibera
tion that mark his work In typewriting
an editorial leader. "What thy hand
nndeth to do, do It with thy might" Is the
motto he has diligently (Practiced, and his
application of the old adage has been the
principal factor In achieving his remark-
able successes, kouaii u. MKLYILLK.
Chester, Pa., December 2.
Messages of Presidents
' J. S. C A ten-volume set of "Messages
and Papers of the Presidents," from Wash
ington to McKlnley, may be obtained from
the Superintendent ot Documents, Govern
ment Printing Office. Washington, D. C,
(or 9 (cloth) or 115 (sheep), or so cents
a oluma (cloth). A twenty-vplame set.
bringing the papers dwn to date, v,as pub
lished recently by the Bureau of National
Literature, HI West Thirty-sixth street.
New Vork. Allotment of the Government
set was pmde In 1900 to members of the
Senate and House for distribution upon
their order, but this distribution baa been
completed Have you tried the large sec
ond-hand bookstores?
ANOTHER WIPE SPEAKS
3o the lUlttor of the Evening Ledger-
Sir Tho unusual Interest ou havo shown
In behalf ot tho employes of tho Fire
Xlureuu to help better their conditions
Is surely worthy of appreciation. As I
am a wlfo of one of tho members I feel It
is my duty nnd pleasure to thank you for
your efforts la aiming to bring about u con
dition that wilt nllow tho employes more
time, nt least with tholr homo folks.
LT.1ZABKTH QOHDO.V MOODIli
Philadelphia, Decombcr 27.
Suffrage In Prussia
W S. L CitUens of Prussia, whlcb Is a
constitutional hereditary monarchy, have
the right of ballot hi tha selection of legis
lative representatives of the kingdom. The
Imperial German Consulate furnishes the
Information that every .male cuixen of the
age of twenty-four years. nd not deprived
of bis dvle rights by us"swn, u entitled
to vote.
REWARD FOR LOYALTY
To the Editor of the Evening Lodgor;
Blr It is, a great surprise to us non
agroement Pennsylvania Italtroad em
ployes, who stood by tho Pennsjlvnnla Hall
road shoulder to shoulder In tho trouble
between the railroad and Its tralnmon
over tho eight-hour day, that something
substantial In higher wages on account of
the high cost ot living lias not been given
us.
It has been appreciated by a nufhber of
railroads of tho country, which haie si von
tholr nonagreement men a bonus of ten
per cenWirm a year's pay Why not the
great Pennsylvania Railroad? It Is no
wonder men organize for their protection
on tha Pennsylvania If loyalty of the em
ployes Ih not appreciated by the company.
.u.AUiii.i..ur.,r i Jirt.ii.HUAU MAN.
Philadelphia, DecemWer 19.
WHERE VILLA IS
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir A Washington news Item today has
the following; "Secretary of State Lansing
said today thnt ho was not et fully con
vinced thnt Francisco Villa la at the heaU
of the present movement In northern Mex
ico." Mr- Lansing's doubts are perfectly
natural and Justifiable. Villa Is now con
ducting a live and ten cent store In Ala
bama. ONE WHO KNOWS.
West Philadelphia, .December ST,
A STEP TOWARD PEACE
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir "We are ready to talk peace" was
the sum total of Germany's recent note, and
England's reply should have been "So aro
we," or "We are not " in effect Lloyd
George says, "So are. we,1' so that it Is vn-,
tlrely wrong to Insist tha,k he has rejected
Germany's proposals, for Germany did net
make any proposals,
Lloyd Oeorge indicates that it is up to
Germany to nam? .pcclflo terms as a pre
liminary for any peace negotiations. That
Is entirely fair, for, as Germany took tho
initiative toward peace. It is Incumbent on
her to outline the terms she has to offer.
This she will most assuredly do, so that,
after all, her peaoe nun has not been bar
ren ot Rood results.
Lloyd George's attitude now Is "Let Oer.
many name 1 er terms and we will oanihlor
them." What more could hate been ex
pectedT Is not this a step toward peace?
K- J. 00'.
Philadelphia, December 19.
' WAR PROSPERITY
T the Editor of the Svantng I.ftlu'nr; s
, Sir I nole that sWetar-y LaaiB jays
that the material rights of the natlun were
not attested because, according to hm, the
nation has prospered on account pf the
war I would like to be enlightened on
vrtu? or what constitutes the nation. Does
he mean a handfjgl of sleet kiage and
powder men and a very small percentage
of $be army nt workmen who work la the.
plants thnt aro controlled by tho steel and
powder men? I mlfht remark that the
majority of workers In these plants get less
thnn $18 a week and In most of them tho
sanitary conditions nro bad. I fall to sco
whero even these workmen benefit any. So
tho percentage of pcoplo who profit by the
wor and work In places like I lwv6 men
tioned don't amount to a whole lot.
On tho other hnnd, tho majority of work
men who hid ordinary jobs beforo tho war
intlll have tlio same Jobs nt tho samo wages
nnd the benefit that tho war does them
couldn't Ho discovered by a telcscopo. Thoy
have tho plensuro of knowing that they
havo to pay. In somo cases, one nnd a half
llmex ns much for food na they have been
In the habit of paying.
Thoso pooplo form considerably more of
tho population of tho United States than
do the munition workers. If war occurs
thoy will !mo to form tho fighting force
because tho lilgh-prlced munition men will
be too -valimulo to be sent to the front.
Of courso there nro dealers In other com
modities who havo mado fortunes since
tho war begnn, but I havo not noticed any
hondllncs tolling about them sharing tholr
profits with tholr employes, J. JOYCE.
Philadelphia, December 2S.
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