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worth Just now will be In signing appli
cations for Liberty Lonns.
Of truly "lasting" significance Is
,lio nearly ono million tlollars' worth of
chewing gum which, according to Gov
lernment reports, this country has sent
abroad within the last nine months.
The reported "cordiality" of the
mote with which Germany replied to
Spain's protest on a recent U-boat out
I rage was probably only equaled by the
charming spirit of good-fellowship In
'which tho act of piracy was committed.
An announcement of local regis
tration plans contains the statement
that tho Republican organization officials
lore to "dn-ft men free." This will bo a
'real novelty atsome of the polling places
where the potential troops are to sign up.
The rumors that Russia Is "out of
the war" for some tlmo are not exactly
I confirmed by tho news that German re
i enforcements now are being hurried from
'the western to tho eastern front. Armies
lare seldom strengthened as a protection
'against friends.
Some of the greatest cities In tho
land Chicago. Iloston, San Francisco,
(Baltimore have been through devastating
I conflagrations such as tho ono that has
Just destroyed many blocks In Atlanta.
In the history of our metropolises Ten
nyson's trust "that somehow good will
I be the final goal of ill" has been Justl
I fled many times. A better built Chl
icago, a more splendid Iloston, n moro
spacious San Francisco nnd a cleaner
Baltimore nrosn from tlin nslin nf .In.
Istructlon. It Is entirely in Keeping with
1 the American spirit that the new AV
lanta will far transcend tho old.
Investigation of the tragic acci
dent that icsulted in the killing of the
two Red Cross nurses on tho Mongolia
must be rigid and thorough. Accounts
of the explosion disagree. If n defective
hell was really responsible for this
wanton sacrlflco of life, tho Government
should leave nothing undone In tracing
Ieuch criminal weakness of munitions
equipment to its source. Death Is a ter
rible concomitant of war, but tho Inex
cusable taking of lives particularly of
lives devoted to the relict of agony and
isuffcrlng arouses a feeling of poignant
Indignation that not even tho human
j losses In a great battle engender.
Tho movement among the House
Republicans to remove Mr. Mann from
I a leadership In which ho does not lead
should lnsplro tho Democrats to relieve
Jlr. Kitchln from his similarly unfortu
jnato prominence. It Ik no wonder that
o many voices have taken up the cry
'for a "responsible ministry," with Cabinet
officers chosen from tho personnel of
.Congress and permitted to retain their
peats at the Capitol, since members
I cling to archaic rules of precedence
Which make It Impossible for really rep
resentative congressional leaders to co
operate with the heads of executive de
partments. There was somo criticism of
Mr. 'Wilson ior not calling Senators Into
conference with Mr. Balfour and M.
jvivlanl. But the explanation was sim
i pie. Tho men who would naturally be
called to such a conference had not been
In sympathy with the war.
Unless statesmanship and settle
ment of the Irish question are altogether
irreconcilable, the Emerald Isle's prospect
for home rule at last unfolds. Lloyd
George has authorized a convention
of all classes of Irishmen to agree for
themselves on some plan of self-government
to be submitted to Parliament. This
! precisely In line wltji the scheme that
"bore such brilliant results In South Africa.
The problems of the Afrikanders were
almost as dllllcult as those now before the
Irish people, Boers and British settlers
had clashed on the battlefields of the
VeldU England had been both Intensely
hated and passionately loved from Cape
Town to the Zambesi. The South Afrl-
fcan convention was held behind closed
doors, and so Is Ireland's assembly to be.
John Redmond, who a few days ago flatly
turned down the compromise whereby
the counties of northeast Ulster were to
luive been excluded from the home rule
pln, has expressed the hope that "the
af Ukvtt!e rw'M b!ted
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one- for Ireland and the nplre." The
spirit of hfs word will surely be echoed
by lovers of liberty throughout the world.
Ireland's greatest opportunity to assert
herself as a nation has come at last. A
final settlement of all the difficulties
would not only Justify tho new Urltaln as
a champion of freedom, but It would also
prove that It was the lack of a free hand
that prevented Ireland from being har
monious and self-governed.
SALUS BILL SHOULD PASS
rpiIHRU are four measures to bo con
slclered at tho transit hearing In Har
rlsburg today.
Tho Onns bill, providing for through
routing of Darby ond Frankford trains
over tho present Market street subway
tracks, Is coered by tho Salus bill,
which provides the same thing and, In
addition, gives the Public Service Com
mission the right to compel tho Issuing
of transfers between tho proposed transit
system and the existing system under
such terms as the commission may direct.
Tho Hecht measures arc: First, to give
tho city the light of eminent domain
over tho franchises of the P. It. T. and
Its underlying companies; second, a con
stitutional amendment that wilt put the
city In a financial position to tnko advantage-
of this right of eminent domain.
The Gans hill was suggested originally
by Mr Taylor nnd there Is no public op
position to It. Mr. Taylor objects to tho
Salus bill, however, as too radical, nnd
feels that It Is vicious legislation There
Is somo suspicion that thero are sinister
purposes back of It. V'o find no proof
of such purposes, however.
Tho bill would strengthen vastly the
city's position, and would not bo unfair
to the company for the following reasons:
First. Kery public franchise carries
with It the risk of changes In public
policy nnd the likelihood of being sub
jected to such n servitude ns through
routing of competltlo cars Such
through-routing Is an established prin
ciple In rallrosd operation Public neces
flty. which may demnnd transfer privi
leges. Is a contingency written by the
very nature of eentn Into ecry fran
chise held by a public carrier.
Second The conditions of such trans
fer arrangements must necessarily be
Just, allowing the existing company to
earn fair dividends, or virtual confisca
tion would result nnd confiscation Is never
permitted by tho courts.
The Salus bill, therefore, ought to pass.
Tho arguments against It nre not con
vincing and tho city Is unquestionably
entitled to have the authority piopcctd.
Tho Hecht bills are not of such Imme
diate Importance. Tho city Is not likely,
In spite of constitutional amendments, to
bo in a position to finance a 200,000.000
enterprise for many years to come, nor
Is there any particular reason why It
should If universal transfers are In vogue.
Tho real purposo of the Hecht measures,
In fact, Is ultimately to finance tho hugo
property of tho P. R. T. on a 4 per cent
basis, thus saving 2 per cent annually,
more or less. In Interest. They contem
plate public Instead of prlvato financing
for tho entire street railway system of
Philadelphia, which may bo feasible
enough some years hence, when tho
money markets are again normal. It Is
doubtful, however. If the city can bor
row much money nt 4 per cent now.
In caso of the exercise by the city of
the right of eminent domain there would
be no injustice to tho company, as tho
amount of payment would bo decided by
fair arbitration. Nor Is the plan
lacking in ultlmato feasibility, as Is
shown by the fact that many railroad
men anticipate Government ownership of
their property, nnd thero Is no great pro
test against it. The cases are analogous.
Mr. Taylor, having borne tho burden
and tho heat of the day In bringing any
thing resembling order out of the chaos
existing In transit affairs, and having
forced nnd driven the company Into n
great number of vital concessions, which
a careful study of the proposed leaso re
veals, doubtless feels that tho lash has
been applied with sutllclcnt severity to
the company's shoulders. His Judgment
is entitled to, and should receive, tho most
serious attention. But he grievously errs,
we believe, In regard to tho legislation
now under discussion, particularly the
Salus bill. It ought to be passed, and It
must be passed without delay.
BE HONEST
FOR every man who cannot spend his
blood there Is a chance to spend his
rrrbney In defense of liberty. Contempti
ble as Is the military slacker, more con
temptible Is the financial slacker who
hesitates even to lend his money for a
price to tho nation.
Those who go to tho front have a right
to expect that those who remain nt home
will furnish tho necessary cash to assure
vigorous prosecution of the war. Few
men are so poor that they cannot buy
at least a 1&0 bond, and none Is so poor
as he who refuses to do so.
SQUEEZING DEAD YEARS FOR
CASH
IT IS clear that Important sections of the
House revenue bill will have to be re
written Jn the Senate. Tho proposal to
make the Income tax retroactive for 1918
Is Inconceivably mischievous. Kvery busi
ness In the land has already made Its
returns for 191(1, set aside the lega)
amount for Income tax, settled Its books
and paid Its dividends. To thrpw an addi
tional burden back on completed business,
causing endless confusion, would be the
rankest sort of folly.
It Is not probable that the Senate will
acquiesce In so foolish a measure. If
there Is anything worse than taxing the
future It Is taxing the past. No Industry
and few citizens are objecting to the
necessary levies proposed, but all alike
certainly will object to squeezing financial
id. cut of dead yews,
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EVENING
CITY REFORM AT
HOBART COLLEGE
Conference of Philadclphians
nnd Others on Powell Evans's
Plnn to Educate Men for
Public Office
TIIK fact thnt we are nt war Interfered
with the plans of somn of thoso who
had announced their Intention of attending
the conference on city management nt Ho
bart College, at Oenen, N V.. but tho con
ference was an unqualified success
Dcneva In a llc little city, situated mid
way between Syracuse and Rochester. Ho
bart is one of the small American colleges,
of which the nation has a large number,
where traditions nnd scholarship, stimu
lating environment nnil devoted teachers all
combine to give tho student valuable equip
ment for life.
Hut wn nre n the midst of a rapidly
changing age. lMucatlon for the use of
leisure Is Important, but we have forever
left behind us the time when higher edu
cation can be designed excluslxely for pros
pective gentlemen nf leltire America de
mands ton much of Its rltlrens In the future
to permit tho college to confine Its curric
ulum excluslielv to the "humanities. nio
problem of higher eilunlors today. n de
fined tiv President Lyman P Powell, of
llobart Is how In retain what Is best In
the old and et give the students equipment
that will qualify them for greater usefulness
tn the communities In which they live
With thlH thought In mind. President
Powell renllsed that It might be we II to
add to the curriculum of the college electue
courses nf n qunsl-xocatlonal character, and
It seemed to him that one nf the flr?t courses
thnt should be considered for thin purpose
was one In municipal management. Through
tho generosltv ..f Mr Powell r.wins. r.f Phil
adelphia, nn alumnus nnd trustee of tho
college. It became possible for llobart to
plan for the academic year 1917-18 nn ex
perimental course of this character, and
If the experiment p!ocs successful even
tually to establish n chair of political
(elenre ami to make plans for applied work
In the solution of goxernmentnl problems.
A McctinK of Experts
As a piellmlnary to the Inauguration of
the projected course, Doctor Powell called a
conference nt the college to discuss the ex
isting needs nnd to get some of tho best
available opinions ns to conducting the ex
periment There met In f'.enea, therefore,
on Frldav and Saturday, May 1 and C. a
number of persons from various parts- or
the countrv. who In three or four kpssIoiis
unanimously agreed that It Is one of the
crvlng needs of the time to train young
men nnd women for public service, that
existing facilities are entirely Inadequate
to the needs nnd that we must look to our
Institutions of higher learning to supply
the deficiency. To the best knowledge of
thoso present nt tho conference no small
college In the country has undertaken nnv
work of this kind, nnd all heartily approved
of this step at llobart nnd were enthu
siastic In acclaiming It ns marking n new
era In tho history of the small collego In
this country. ... ,
In addition to the visiting delegates nnd
members of the faculty nnd (-Indent body
of Hobart College, there was a largo
number of citizens of (lenevn present, nnd
II was very gratifying to note the extent
to which the alert men and women of a
tvplcal American community showed an
interest In what might bo considered by
many ns purely nn educational proposal.
At one of the (.esslons there were present
at least 200 persons, nnd all through the
meotlngs a note of interest and Intelligent
understanding was manifest.
At tho first session of tho conference
Mayor GuMn, of tho city, welcomed the
delegates. He was followed by President
Powell, of the college, who made a stirring
nddrcss on the relation between tho city
and the college P-octor Powell was fol
lowed by Prof Charles A. Heard, of Colum
bia Unlersltv. who Is also supervisor of tho
Training School for Public Service con
nected with tho New York Bureau of Mu
nicipal Research Doctor Heard went into
tho historical background of tho present
need for trained public servants, and. In
short, gave the ke note of the whole present
need for trained and competent workers In
every field of government. Ho was fol
lowed by Mr. Powell l'.vans, who outlined
many of the specific plans in connection with
llobart.
Mr. Kvnns was followed by Dr. J M. Wil
liams, professor of economics and sociology
at Hobart, who cited modern authorities
In education to show thnt tho linn of work
proposed was exactly In nccordanco with
the new tendency and expressed tho enthu
siasm of tho faculty for co-operating with
the plans of Doctor Powell nnd Mr Hvans.
Tho morning session on Saturday was less
formal nnd, while thero was a number of
distinguished citizens present, the popular
noto was less prominent Tho presiding
olllcer was Frederick I. Gruenberg. direc
tor of the Philadelphia Bureau of Munici
pal Research, who has been invited to begin
tho experiment next year by giving a courso
of ten or twelve lectures on municipal gov
ernment. Mr. Gruenberg expressed somo
general views ns tn tho scope of the course
nnd tho social significance of Buch Instruc
tion. The Ideal City Manager
The Chamber of Commerce of Geneva, nn
alert nnd aggressive body of business peo
ple, expressed their Interest In tho move
ment by giving a luncheon nt the Hotel
Seneca to the guests of tho conference. The
presiding officer nt this meeting In the aft
ernoon was Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of
Philadelphia, secretary of tho National Mu
nicipal League. This was tho first meeting
at which any differences of opinion were
developed, nnd It was perhaps duo to that
fact that this session was In manv ways
one of tho most interesting oi mi mo meet
ings H- S (lllbertson, of New York city,
executive secretary of tho National Short
Ballot Association, said In his address that
the trained administrator of the future the
eitv manager, for Instance should be a
man of broad general equipment who could
appoint technical experts in the various
specialties of city go-.ernmcnt, whoso ef.
forts ho as administrator would bo obliged to
co-ordinate and correlate.
O B. Carr. city manager of Niagara
T.-nii' followed Mr. Gllbertson with an In
teresting paper on some practical problems
In city management collected from his ex
periences In Niagara Falls and Cadillac,
Mich Mrs. Carr succeeded her husband In
a delightful, chatty, conversational address,
sparkling with humor and punctuated with
satire. Mrs Carr took decided Issue with
Mr (illbertBon. She believed that the ad
ministrators of tho future should bo men
with practical training In one or more of
tho specialties and emphasized tho value of
having en6lneers ln administrative positions.
MrB Cnrr admitted that the fact that her
husband was an engineer may have colored
her Judgment somewhat, and also admitted
that the engineer was a man who could do
things nnd rarely had much Imagination.
Mr. Evans presided nt the closing session.
n. Fulton Cutting, of New York, chairman
of the board of trustees of the New York
Bureau of Municipal Research of that city,
was the first speaker. Mr. Cutting dis
cussed the question of training for public
service in an Interesting and broadly In
clusive manner. He was followed by Mr.
Woodruff, whose topic was the proper edu
cation of the city manager. Mr. Woodruff
.dwelt on the service that trained city man
agers had been able to render to com
munities throughout the country even ln
the short period that has elapsed since the
movement was Instituted, and then stirred
his audience by telling how the cltv man.
ager system of Dayton, Ohio, Is now
threatened at the next election because
strong efforts are being made to supplant
the wholly efficient manager, Mr. Walte.
Without turning Hobart Into a technical
or graduate school In any sense of the
word, the conclusion of the delegates was
that practical elective courses would re
tain all the value and advantage of the co.
lege of the gtner1 type and still meet the
more exacting demands of a new age.
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LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1917
Tom Daly's Column
DOVT YOU
I ain't mMcTi ute for rotes;
This star stuff ain't mil style.
An' songs o' verse an' such arc tcorse
Thev misses me a rntic.
nut when mv eyes I closes
To sleep llcsscd If 1 do.
1 lie an' blink an' wink an' think
'Bout you,
J used to cat so hearty
An' feel like forty kings,
nut pork an' leans don't Jllc wV
queens
J hate the smell o' things.
This sure's n lonesome party;
1 feels oh, kind o' blue;
I'm nlti-aiM bad or glad or mad
'llout you.
I ain't In lovcvhy, bless you,
It's jes' the time o' year.
It makes the trees, the lirds an' bees
An' cvcrylhln' seem dear.
An' yet I must confess you
Haunt nit my days clean through;
In camp at night I write or fight
llout you. VAIILHT.
It is with pain wo acknowledge to our
self that our Irish Convention on Satur
day was. for ono reason" or another, a
sort O'Fllvver. It didn't coagulate nt nil.
It needed our guiding hand, mayhap.
Sorry Indeed tiro wo thnt wo had to be
away; and chiefly because wo missed n
leal Irish palnvcicr who called in our
absence. Frank Ward O'.Malley, of tho
New York Sun, onetimo called "tho best
reporter in the t S." nnd other points,
seems now to bo otherwise engaged, nt
least In his spare time. Ho left this upon
out- desk:
Sir I called chloflv to tell you of my
deep admlrntlon of vour manv excellent
poems nnd also to relate to you the num
berless rompllmentnry things thnt I have
heard nbout your work while t have een
touring tho country seeking to supply the
demand for O'Conclarty's "Lives of tho
Irish Popes" In four volumes, published by
McGllllruddy & Hro , of Ilelfntt nnd Lon
donderry. It is only deep regret I have,
Mr Daly, that when I camo In you were
out The like of n man. of your acknowl
edged genius would I am sure, but liavo
added to tho Joy of mv visit In your hnnd
somo city nnd It Is you nnd I that could
hno put In a happy Intellectual hour skim
ming through (VConclarty's "Lives of tho
Irish Popes," n, set of which It's so by
chance I have under my nrm.
'Twns with no thoughts of buflnes. sir,
that I camo lu here, but Just by nccldcnt
that I had with mo the four volumes of
O'fonelnrty's "Lives of tho Irish Popes"
In four volumes on Indian paper It was to
tell jou that you are it coming man I came;
nye. you're more than a coming man
you're here' You. like (VConclarty's "Lives
nf the Irish Popes," nre Indispensable to
all that Is good In literature. Wo could
no moro do without you nnd your work,
wo men of culture couldn't, than ono of
our kind could do without O'Conclarty's
"Lives of the Irish Popes" lu four volumes
TIs with hope that I'll sen you before
I (nnd the last set of tho "Lives") leave
for tho dear old green Itlo that wo all love
so well, which, with tho help of God, soon
I shall seo ngnin unless one of the C-boats
of the great Impel inl German Government
slips around ono of the guarding destroyers
nnd sinks us My trip to your great
country and city lu the Interest of O'f'on
clarty'H magnificent and fast disappearing
work would Itself bo next to wasted un
less I could personally pay you my com
pllments. you poor. Godforsaken, over-Insured,
onc-cyllndered total loss.
FRANK WARD O'MALLI'.Y.
Making Free With Verse
Dear Tom I've been reading H. G,
Wells's now book, "God tho Invisible
King" (worth reading, by the way), nnd
found ln It a sentence that begs lo bo
sliced up Into free verse. Hero it Is:
A little while ago
Wo current Individuals,
Wo who nre allvo now,
Wcro each of us distributed
Between two parents.
Then between four grandparents,
And so on backward. . . .
Wo nro temporarily assembled, as It were.
Out of an nncestrnl diffusion;
Wo stand our trial, and presently
Our Individuality Is dispersed
And mixed ngaln with other Individualities
In nn uncertain multitude
Of descendants.
I'm afraid I don't know much about tho
tcclmiquo of freo verse. My only tralllc
rulo Is that ono must wait for tho lines
on the near side of tho paper, because you
never know Just where they will stop on
tho other side. KIT MORLEY.
On Monday and Tuesday William Fox
presents tho five-reel production "She,"
which Is taken from Peter Haggard's
famous novel of the same name.
Norrlstown Register.
Strange, remarks O. N., that famous
novels nro sometimes written by men
whoso names nro not famous enough to
bo remembered.
Wo don't remember ever to have seen
beforo a rhyme for either. None but an
Englishman could get awny with It. This
Is from a poem by E. W. Hornung ln the
London Spectator:
"Who Is tho ono with the heavy stick.
Who seems to walk from tho shoulder?"
"Why, many's the goal you have watched
him kick !"
"He's looking a lifetime older.
Who Is tho ono that's so full of fun
I never beheld a blither
Yet his eyes aro fixed as the furrow be
twixt?" "He cannot seo out of either."
STRONG language from ye World Al
manac, 1917, p. 513:
Prince Roland Bonaparte Is the only
living male cousin of Prince Charles
Napoleon. He Is a son of the late Prince
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, was born
1868, married, 1880, tho daughter of
Blanc, one of the proprietors of the Monte.
Carlo gambling-hell. ZUIS.
Then thero were some anagramj of
Sacrey's that might have filled a chink
or two. He made Ireland:
REAL. DIN
LAIN RED
DEAR NIL
A clever thing of this sort Is ln the
Eastern Enigma for this month. It's on
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
NO GO! STROLLER AMASSES NOTII
ING. Of course. It's natural to expect bridges
to be guarded these days, but at Niagara
Falls even the statements of hot 21 keep
ers regarding bridges are guarded. A
folder of the Imperial Hotel, Niagara
Falls, N. Y.. says:
The war situation has In no wise In
terfered with the tourists seeing the
Falls and big Cataract from both the
American and Canadian sides of the
river. You can cross the bridge with no
more Inconvenience than ever.
This hotel, by the way, Is the very
one ln which Herself and Ourself sat at
breakfast ono morning nearly a quarter
of a century ago, hoping we didn't look
as pew as we felt and that nobody else
could see the rice and confetti we were
I surreptitiously picking out 6f our balr.
THERE'LL BE NO TIKE TROUBLE ON OUR
:-M'tfk'Z.
t.VV. ri
vr.'.'M '
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Patriotism of the Roosevelt Vol
unteers Land Speculators At
tacked Self-Government
for Ireland Urged
TMl flrpnrlmcnl ( rr to nil traders cho
l'dh to express their opinion on aubteets of
current interest. It is an open Jorum nnd (he
Kventnp Ledger nMtimfl io lelponslbllily tor
the tfrm o its correspondents. Letters must
bv signed by the name and address of the
writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a
Guarantee of good faith.
DEFENDS "FAT OLD MEN"
To the fcdltor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir The remarks of one Colonel Alex
ander A. Bacon, of New York, typifying
thoso who offered their services to ex
Presldent Roosevelt as "fat old men," ought
tn bo condemned beyond the expression of
words. M.ijbo they nro "fat old men," but
they nro moro physically lit to l.vv down
their lives for their country than those who
ate continually slurring noble effort. Maybo
these volunteers aie "fat old men," but
even so, they possess enough patriotic heart
tn shoulder arms to defend their natlvo land.
Maybo they nro "f.it old men." but they
havo exemplified American Ideals ln de
siring to go to the nld of a nation to which
our country owes its very existence.
Colonel Bacon might be nn American nil
right, that no ono cares to doubt; but do
not Ills recent remarks, which have aroused
such a strong feeling of Indignation, show
traces of political enmity toward his taiget?
In times like theso politics ought to be
Ecatteted to tho four winds. Theso aro no
times for party feeling. These aro no times
for factional scruples coming to the sur
face. These times are Inopportune for civil
strife.
Let us nil he one; a united country back
ing united sentiments Let us tend to
praise, not condemn, tho doings of one
whoso pole purposo tn mind was to benefit
tho land which ho loves so dearly. Let
our dear Colonel Bacon bear In mind that
wars aie nt times lost by thoso dissenting
within the walls of a country moro than
by the forces of the foe.
A. LINCOLN MEYERS.
Philadelphia, May 19.
FREEDOM AND SINGLE TAX
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
fjlr It requires no great amount of
thought or power of nnabsls to recognize
that all our material wealth Is derived from
the land. It should be at once apparent to
nil who take tho trouble to Investigate that
tho class which controls tho land controls
also the produce of It. That Is to say,
every material thing.
It Is to this class that the nation, the
people, must appeat ln this most critical
time for the means with which to wage war.
Let is .not deceive ourselves nor Ignore
tho glaring fact that the land owner holds
In his hands the welfare of America, now
as always, dictating by his absolute owner
ship what use shall be mado of the land
and to what extent, now, as 'always, de
manding that all the product tihall be his
except an existing wage to labor and the
accepted rate of Interest to capital.
We enter the greatest war ln history to
fight for ideals, for progress and for human
ity with this millstone hanging on us. We
must first pay for the privilege of using
the land which God gave to all humanity
as He gave the air and light, then win tho
war If we can. Food speculators are
"panned" every day for the edification of
the public, but the more dangerous ajid
more costly land speculator goes unnoticed.
Every year that goes by sees thousands
pay with their lives for the Inaccessibility
and withholding of the natural resources
of this country. If this war brings home
to the people, or even some of the people,
this fact It will not have been fought In
vain, though we win, lose or It results In
a draw. GEORGE S. HAVENS.
Philadelphia, May 18.
A PLEA FOR COMPLETE HOME
RULE
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir In your editorial, "Hard on Ire
land's Friends." you say, "The grievances of
the Emerald Isle are Unquestionably Juatl
fied and hey are centuries aid. But what
can, be said ef .a nation that repeatedly
sv-fi.t-w..,4'' r, . ' " ' i'1! "iMf v "iM ' ffiTF'iTili iVii ' FitinwiittiwrTnW Wi " ' ' "v"f f n iiT
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blocks efforts to help her mado by her one
time oppressor?"
Will you ple:ie Inform mo and other curi
ous readers when did Ireland ever block
an honest effort to help her? Three times
the British I'.u llament passed u measure
granting home rulo tn tho whole of Ireland.
Has she got that measure et, although
Mpned by tho King? Has she been even
offered It? If (.ho has, I must confess my
self n Rip Van Winkle In politics, for 1 have
never heard of tho offer. When tho bill on
tho statute book is offered Ireland and when
sho rejects tho offer you will have been
right. As It Is, you aro entirely wrong
Suppose you wero robbed of a $10 bill
years ago, and that year nfter year you
asked In vain for the money Now sup
pose that tho robber had a twinge of re
gret nnd offered ou $7 in full restitution
of tho outrage. Would you regard such an
offer as fair from any standpoint, nnd would
you accept it as such? If jou did nccept It.
and if I Interfeied with tho protebt that you
wero repeatedly blocking the robber's at
tempt to "help" you, would you not regard
such Interference as uncalled for to use the
least objectlonablo term?
Ireland was robbed of her Parliament In
1800. That Parliament sho wants back
Can anything on God's earth bo plainer,
simpler or less susceptlblo to argument?
Philadelphia, May 21. J. J.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED
Tn thr Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Last evening I reread President
Wilson's personal address of January 22.
1917, to tho Vnltrd States Senate, nnd
was so much Impressed by tho following
excerpts that I beg permission to submit
them to your leadeis To one who for years
has woiked for tho political freedom of
women theso words may have a special slg.
nlllcance. but their beauty alone Is sufficient
to embolden mo to recommend them to the
general public for a second consideration.
In part President Wilson said:
"No peace can laf-t, or ought to last,
which does not ieco;;nl7e and accept the
principle that governments derive nil their
Just powers from the consent of the gov
erned, and that no right nnywhero exists
to hand peoples about from sovereignty to
sovereignty ns If thev wero property."
"Tho world can be nt peace only It Its
life Is stable, and thero can bo no stability
where tho will Is In ichelllon, where there
Is not tranquillity of spirit and a bense of
Justice, of freedom nnd of right."
The Susan II. Anthony amendment, to en.
franchise tho women of tho nation, has been
before Congress every year slnco 1878
CAROLING lUTOKvariMw
Executive secretary. Pennsylvania Branch
National Woman's Party.
Philadelphia, May IS.
NEW YORK'S PROVINCIALISM
Mary Austin, whoso latest novel "The
J-ord. has Just been published, came from
the American desert and lu a comparatively
few years has taken front rank as a writer
not only In tho t'nitid States but In Eurone
Sho tells the following amusing story" when
people ask her- nbout the advantages of
New Yoik. wl,..re she now lives, as a
terary environment: "A young Callfornlan
who came East tr. try out his fortune
gravitated naturally to Washington squarS"
where Genius Is supposed lo geFmlnate He
was personally conducted to the Libert
SftV&SAOT asS'h.'n?,
" 'Well,' said the young westerner, 'there's
the Grand Canyon, you know' "'
.ir'TJf0.yoU !,ave "" Mrs. Austin
If you haven't seen the Grand Canyon
?lhwbeUeP Ueel' nwa '' the VZra"
Club, but once you havo caught tho lift and
bigness of America outside of New York
hen New York Is the most inspiring pUc.
in the world In which to work."
USE WHOLE WHEAT
It Is said that 28 per cent of the wh. i
discarded by millers who make while fin,.1'
A large part of this 28 per cent has afU
value which is now wasted In the mn,n?01
ture of white flour. Whole-wheat br."?'
far healthier than the ordinary wh te b? J!
that has been conclusively moved !
times, and people would be- In mUch w"y
physical condition If they dlsart.,be,,V:r
white flour entirely. But it seem. .J"8
fad to put on the table bread aTVhlt.'
snow anemic bread with some of The. h...
parts of the wheat removed. The!.. . Ist
have tried out the whole-wheat hr.?i who
go back to the bleached a?tlcb"Vn'r
Wiley, former head of the Federal fo?5Cir
partment, aqvlsea all women to Sit "';
whoJ.-.atflovr-rAppltton'Ve'scf
ROAD TO VICTORY
What Do You Know?
Queries of general interest uill be answtrti
in this column. Ten Questions, the answers ll
which every u-cll-lnfonned person should know,
are asked aairy,
QUIZ
1. Why Is Mount I'nrnnsstis associated with
poets? Mhere Is It?
2' " ""''"rlptlon In the I.lhertr 1-onn vrfra
(Iltldrd eqnnllr nmont the Inhabitant of
the I'nlletl Mates, what would be each
litraon'a share?
3. Who Is Charles Inward ltusKCIl?
' Mh,n. , do the Initials mean In the naroa
"John Jones, .VI, l."y
- K,.n.,,'!ln."llJ' ,rUB friends nre said la b
"like I),ild nnd Jonathan."
' TIT. ,.,rl,ll1. ""r mission to the United
Miitrs vMtpil the nld capital of the Con
feileraejr. VHicre Is It?
". Correct the sentenre. "The Imloon ascended
to un altitude of 500 feet."
8. What Ih u curboj?
!. Who U "Ma" Sunday?
11). The Isle of Pines Is called the "Gem of
tho Caribbean." Where Is It?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
, A'.r,i!;,','n',k.'.!" t11 new Itusslan Minister
of ar mid Marine.
2. Ordinary tuble salt . Is sodium chloride, a
rhemlrul (omhlnntlon of two elements, so
dium und chlorine.
3. Major General John .1. I'crshlns. who com.
mumled the troop pursulnir Villa, will
loinmand the American force In France.
4. Jared. grandfather of Mcthin.elnh. lived to
5S.W"', - jeurs, according to ttas
llllile. Till. Ineirn jeara les than tbt
ukc of Metliuxeluli.
5. Drifter nre sleiini-nropelled flshlne vessels.
iiiej uro used In tho war to sweep up
mines.
J. Hpollle lrlcojen Is President of Arcentlnn.
.. A minute pi, , rilnnon ,. nj nterrnl
trci's minute, usually ns u signal of dls-
"' Tllrir."nlr,e"nt."ar nr" Germany. Austria
llunsurs, Turkey nnd llulaariii. opposed
Ic; Itussla. I'rame. (ireat Britain, t'nlted
Motes. Italy, Japan, Serbia. Ileluliim,
.vionteneBfo, San Marino. I'ortuxal. Itu.
m.inln mill fuliu. Panama, China, llrajil.
llollilii (iuatemala, Honduras, Liberia
mid Mramguii hate broken relations wild
Oernian.
' fif!'.1"' "earlns so-called fruit crops ars
inmaioes, peus, cucumbers, beuns, pump
kins, melons, etc.
10. Ccsirsr. Wharton Pepper Is n prominent
iI.",'i,nl,'. "?" and chairman of tht
SafelV Committee on l'nbllt
Excess Profits Tax
,T- u- K The nritlsh excess profits tax
or .November, 1915, prescribed a levy of
ou per cent on all profits In excess of
tne average profits of each business dur
ing two of tho three years preceding the
wu A 'ear ago the levy was Increased
to CO per cent, and only recently was In
creased to 80 per cent. This tax has proved
v ery profitable to the Government. It Is estl-
Sin1.11"11 U wl" 'lcld m than 11.000.
000.000 at the latest rate. As an example,
a company that earned $100,000 annually
before tho war and -now earns $400,000
must pay as a tax 80 rer cent of $300,000
(the excess profits), or $240,000.
Army Registration
WIFE An maio residents of the speci
fied age. whether citizens of tHls or of
some other country, are required to regis
icr June G in accordance with tho selective
service bill and the President's proclama-
Selective Age Limit
,.Jm;S' R.'. D' T As your husband will
be only thirty years old September 3 he
must register June 5. Non-cltlzens as well
as citizens must register.
Base Hospitals '
" I Only Physical examinations are
necessary for applicants for enlistment In
!UL.b? nosnItals being organized. Phar
macists nre being accepted for service. The
Pennsylvania Hospital unit hao left for
?. k. R.ni th0 unlu ot the Episcopal.
Presbyterian and Jefferson hospitals are
filling up rapidly.
War Bill "
.i31f.,ItJ,s..dlmcuIt t0 estimate the na
J . .wa.r.b,lll'I ne ""anclal writer puts
Ime 1B.00.000 a day at the present
"Alien Army"
oiiI,i!!,T.aer1an"born ldent who took
tew i.?t..p?,pi for c'nshlp last Oc-Nutm-iJi?.".!
al'" nemy." according to the
twn v?iiaVon,nureu " ls necessary for
naneE FJmE. ?PM b.(rween nr8t " final
K'" he applicant Is a member of
the country s naval or military forces.
Lafayette "
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