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Strand 1'jLBlt Binuu,...,, . .32 Ilna Louis lo Grand si'DscnirriOM terms The Evemvo Liducr la served to aubacrlbcra in Philadelphia, find aurroundlnc towna at the rate of twelvo (IS) centa tier week, payable to the carrier. By mail to point outride of Philadelphia. In the United Htatea, Canada or United Statu poe aeatlona, poetace free, fifty 501 renta per month. Sic (SO) dollara per year, payable In advance. To all forelen countrlea one (tl) dollar per month. Notice Subscriber lehlnc address chanced muat five old aa well as new address. nrix. soao walnut klystom:. main jmo ptT Address all rommwnlrnflone fo J?rew0 ledger. Independence Square, Philadelphia. I.fTEBED it TttB raiLirai.rntA. roTorriri as nECOvn-CLans mail mitt. THE AVEIIAOE NET IU1D DAILY Cirt. CULATION OF THE EVENING LEDQEU ron MA WAS ioi.ua I'lilladtlphla. Monday. June II. 1917 The ordinary man's Judgment Is that transit is anything but lapld. "What difference does It make how the Trench pronounce Pershing? The Germans pronounce him anathema. The Governor of Delaware owns nine canneries, and he Is going to operate all of them this summer. There is money In canning vegetables and there Is pros perity for the farmer who knows It. In East Galtcla and Volhynla thero Is Increased Itus-siun lighting, and activities continue at Eeveral points Statement from Vienna The hibernation of the Bear may be about over. German militarists are still preach ing the doctrine of indemnities and point lng out that Uncle S.im will reimburso the Central Empires for the cost of tho war Majbe they expect to demand Mr, Ford as a hostage. Waterloo was fought on this day 102 years ago. But England will not celebrate the oerthrow of the Little Corporal. Instead of that she is pralng that another Napoleon will arise to march as of old to Berlin. Secretary of State Lansing wtas bitter In his arraignment of Geimany in his address at Princeton. He and tho President, better than any other men, understand the purposes of the Kaiser and the diplomatic methods used by him prior to our entrance into the war. To know Kalscrism is to hate It The Government's official bulletin says 09 per cent of the newspapers are scrupulously observing the rules of vol untary censorship, f the Government will announce the names of the 1 per cent the people will see to It that they will soon be names known only to news paper history and not to the newsstands. Portuguese troops are doing their bit for the Great Alliance, having ie pelled several German raids. On the western front there are now French English, Russian, Belgian, American. Portuguese and some Japanese lighters, and behind the lines In French munitions works many thousands of Chinese. In fact, the League to Enforce Peace is on the Job. We have been pointing out for months that the Insurance laws of Penn sylvania are a disgrace to a civilized Com monwealth and an Invitation to wreckers. There are- now before the Legislature some remedial bills which are altogether praiseworthy. conbervative and certain to work no hardship on any honest Insur ance company But they arc held up and their passage seems hopelesa. Why? The belief Is general In Washing ton that Congress will enact suitable leg islation to prevent the mulcting of the public by extraoidtnary prices for coal next winter A maximum price will doubtless be fixed Americans as a rulo have pot heretofore favored drastic legis lation of this sort, but an analysis of tha situation indicates that by this means and by no other can the publlo.be pro tected, The man who condemned hundreds of Belgians to death now turns out to have been a madman who could work only under the Influence of liquor, ac cording to the German court which has Imprisoned him, Thus the whole German defense of the treatment of Belgium falls gaS-. - fe ." jJvto nB ground. But Doctor Ivers will not IsjifcVP' th "Bat-" Th0 real crime was the a Violation of Belgian soil. And ivers did hOt order the official public ill treatment cf women in the market place of Liege. The new municipal market house In Second (street, between Fairmount ave. nue and Brown street, affords facilities for the care of food at least equal .to those offered by any other market house ln the world. We trust that the Mayor -ill navo no difficulty in setting the IS0.OOQ heeded for sompictln? additional W. buildings. Jn view of the emphasis re- tuomlcal handling of foods, the city should 4uip itself at once for the work. The public is rapidly being educated away from old standards Etoctpr Surface, who useJ to be .SMiolat, in a rd,-nbt letter, to t)w 0 take In direcUnc people to plant potato peelings has not yet been corrected." Doctor Surface, we believe, has been misinformed. Very few people have planted peelings and most of them wefe experimenters rather than gnrdenem. Besides, the Governor pointed out that tho peelings ought tb havo eyes In them to bo "worth anything. Let's bo fair in this matter and realize that the Cover nor had no ulterior purposes In view In his potato-planting crusade. Even Doc tor Surface Will admit that n Governor must do spmethlng In time of ctlsls. SYSTEM THAT BREEDS DISEASE AND DEATH THERE Is going to be a parade of street cleaners In this city tomorrow morn ing. It will be worth seeing, for In It will march scores of men whoso muscles are strong and whose brains are willing, men who do and do well the specific tasks to which they arc assigned. Wo have never heard a criticism against the street clean ers in tho ranks. Yet the dirtiness of our streets has be come a by-word. Citizens take the con dition for granted. If their children arc stricken down by Infantile paralysis or other diseases, of which dirt Is tho carrier, thoy weep their tears and lay their flow ers on the graves of the innocent, be wailing tho evil fortune which has en compassed them. Better might their consciences smlto them and their tears beg purdon of the dead for their own negligenco In having permitted the con- tlnuame of conditions which they knew, or ought to have known, were a constant Invitation to death. Wc svmpathlzo no more with communities which arc visited by yellow focr or smallpox, for we know that only negligence permits cither to get a hold. No more can sympathy be de served by communities which in this day of scientific sanitation countenance high ways of filth and accept as Inevitable these breeding places and carriers of dis ease. Tho cleaning of streets ought not to be a money-making business. It ought not to bo to the financial advantage of any man to havo tho streets unclean. It ought not to be possible for the person responsible for clean streets to fall In his duty and as a punishment therefor merely be fined. We hae dirty streets because wo espouse a system which nssurcs dirty streets, and lie always will have dirty streets so long ns the care of the sticcts Is let by contract to firms to which profit Is the first conslrtetatlon and tho lemoval of dirt the second Get rid of the contract svstem of street cleaning' It is infamous, it Is criminal, It Is medieval, and Its effects ute fatal. The cleaning of streets Is a pi oper munici pal function, a necessary function not to be farmed out to private citizens. Im agine a police system under which a pri vate firm would undertake for a price to keep tho city clean of crime. Yet such a contract would be nu more Infamous morally than to make the sanitary con dition of the city dependent on the effi ciency, the honesty and the profit-making lust of the private contractor. Tho age Is against such unscientific practice, the public will is opposed to It, and there Is about to dawn a day when tho citizens of this community will rise In their might and sweep out of existence the death breeding system. We believe that a candidate for Mayor running on u platform calling for clean streets would sweep the city In a double sense, and the first thing he would do upon taking his seat would be to put the city to work at the city's business and bequeath street-cleaning contracts to a national museum for citizens Jn succeed ing ears to read and man el at. 500,000 GUARANTORS THERE were. It la announced, more than 500,000 buyers of Liberty Bonds In this district. Every purchaser attested anew his belief In the eternal verities of democracy and pledged his faith in the triumph of democratic principles through out the world. The one big, dominating. Inexcusable and disastrous failure of democracy has been In American municipal government, where unofficial tyrannies, more powerful than any autocracies established in the Old -World, have reigned and robbed and misgoverned year after year. If even SO per cent of the more than 500,000 pur chasers of Liberty Bonds would highly resolve now and ever after to take with them to the ballot-boxes the patriotism which Inspired vhelr subscriptions, a new era in this city and State would begin, to the everlasting glory of our citizenship and the fuller, more enduring prosperity of every unit of that citizenship. We need 600,000 guarantors of liberty at home. THE DELILAH OF NATIONS THE Russian Samson, long of hair, should have no trouble In Identifying the Delilah ot nations. The Kaiser, in the feminine garb of peace, has auto cratic shears for republican locks, but the giant ought not to do much sleeping with the Root challenge tinging in his ears. ROME AT THE LIBERTY DELL W SHALL welcome here on Wednes day the representatives of Italy, whose sons for more than twenty centuries have set their bi easts against the Influx of barbarism and defended with their lives the institutions of civilization. Words cannot describe the history of Italy. The record runs with the ages, back to the mists of time, when Brutus overthrew the Tarqulns, and Horatlus held the bridge, and the ghosts of Cannae sailed with Sctplo to Zama, and Marlus drove the Clmbrl back, and Caesar launched his triremes for the campaign in Britain, and Constantino, under the shadow ot a Christian flag, leaped into glory. Aye, Italy has no history, for her history is the world's. That now the heirs of imperial Rome should link that era of triumphant gov ernment to the new ,tra of freedom by paying nomage io me nauoweq lenu mai first rant; out our Declaration of Ind'e pendence, about t5 become the guiding prlncfple of all human gownment, Is in itself a historic occasion of supreme im pel tanct. We have grown accustomed to participation In Immortal events In Philadelphia, but the edge Of our en thusiasm will not be dulled In our jubilant rce.ptie,n of Italy's rpr3Btative on EVENXtfG SPAIN'S. UNREST AND ITS CAUSES Curious Complexities in Penin sular Politics A Much Mis understood Nation By II. T. CRAVEN ALFONSO XIII has been accredited with . this remark: "Were the Spanish peo ple to establish a republic, I would be the first to offer my sword." Even supposing that this pledge Its au thenticity has never been fully confirmed belongs more to the realm of what Msrk Twain calls "magnanimous-Incident litera ture" than to the sphere of actuality, the very fact that euch a tale Is told empha sizes the curious complexities of Spanish politics Spain. Indeed, cannot be Inter preted by rules whose application to other nations would be entirely legitimate Her role In tho war, her attitude toward democ racy, have puzzled both sides of belligerents. At present so many shade3 of political opinion are existent In the Peninsula that to prophesy what her next step will be Is ex ceedingly hazardous; but bomo light on her actions thus far In the history of tho war may assuredly be thrown by setting forth certain truths about Spain and the dark clouds of popular foreign fallacies which havo obscured them. A Misunderstood Nation Unquestionably Spain la the most mis understood of modern nations. The average American, for Instance, Is apt to sum up Alfonso's land In this wise: First Spain Is a warm, languorous land of sunshine and flowers. Second Spain's people are lazy, semi degenerate, weaklings. Third. Spain's traditional pride Is based on supine reverence for aristocracy. Fourth Spain Is the most bnckward na tion In Europe Fifth Spain Is wholly impoverished. Sixth Spain's finances wcro permanently crippled after the Cuban war. Seventh. Spain has few Interests In mod crn tradje Eighth The Spanish people arc all alike Ninth Spain Is dominated by her priest hood In the last assertion there Is, of course, a modicum of truth All other counts In tho Indictment are purely snap Judgments Spain, with her great mountains, her vast elevated p ateaus, Is mostly a cold country The "operatic" land of sunlight and roses Is only a narrow strip along tho Mediter ranean coast The Spanish people are physically among the most virile in Europe, and thousands of Spanish laborers worked on the Panama Canal For ears Portugal, Albania, Serbia, large sections of Russia and parts of Greece have been much more baikwaid" than Spain in many ways Wealth In Spain has decidedly increased within the last decade, although much pov erty still exists. Finances Growing Sounder Spain's finances arc growing sounder every day, and her standard coin, tho pistta, now rates above Its par value in international exchange. Spain has great njid growing Interests In modern trade, chiefly developed with the South American Republics, whose close telatlons with her ate now vastly mote beneficial than when she held theso countries as colonies Uar cclona, one of the most enterprising and most beautiful cities In Euiope, suffered deep temperamental depression after the Spanish War. The entire loss of tha Cuban market was envisaged, but as a matter of fact nothing of the sort took place Speedy and capacious Spanish liners stocked with manufactured products of Industrious Cata lonia now carry the hlstork flag to all the busy ports of the "Latin Oceans " Most significant of all the current blun ders is that which pretends to establish the Spanish people as "all alike " The Basques, Inhabiting the energetic Industrial province of Vlscaya. are an ethnological riddle. They are neither Goth nor Latin They speak the most difficult language In the world next to Chinese, and philologists have been unable to fathom its origin The sturdy Gallcgans of the northwest our Isthmian workers are closelv akin to the Portuguese The province of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, is peopled by artisans, farmers and navigators, whose political opinions are the most radical on the Continent Racially, the Catalans are con ncted with the Proiencals of southern France, of whom Marshal Joffre is a lineal product They speak a language of their own and have a thriving modern literature of which the playwright Angel Gulmera Is a brilliant exponent The.Valenclans further down the coatt, are a passionate, art-loving people The painter Sorolla 3 their great nam Just now In the far south nre the animated Andaluslans, best typified in literature by Figaro, the resourceful "Barber of Seville " In their veins flows the blood of Roman ized Iberians, of the blond northern Van dals who succeeded the Latin rulers, and finally of the Invading Arabs, who swept through the land In 711 A D The Real Don It Is central Spain alone, that vast arid tableland, that produces something like our conventional Spaniard. In reality this Is the Castlllan He Is proud and reserved He speaks the undeflled tongue of Cer vantes, at its purest estate in Madrid and Valladolld He Is often a "Don " He Is almost always an aristocrat, and he Is really tho only inhabitant of the Peninsula to whom that term can be applied The bulk of the exceedingly varied people In this complex land are temperamentally and politically democratic to the core. They too have their pride, but It Is of the sort which makes earn man assert an equality w Ith his neighbor The effects of the European war on such a heterogeneous nation must therefore be manifold and contradictory Spain all of It Is, of course, heartily sick of wars She has had her fill of them long since Rome's empire was petty compared with that con quered by Spanish valor and endurance In the sixteenth century. "A p'ague o' both your houses" was naturally Spain's slogan when the world conflict opened. But indorsement of that attitude Is now by no means unanimous. The Spanish Church is bitterly opposed to the Allies. It remembers France's abrogation of the Papal concordat, and the thousands of French clerics wo flocked to the Peninsula have dono their best to keep this flame of an tagonism alive There Is also Spanish gov ernmental Irritation over the French policy In Morocco, where Spain still has claims. The royal house Is partly Austrian, but a strange paradox results from the attitude of the King, great'y beloved by the people, "a good fellow," a pro-Ally ruler, an ad mitted Liberal German Intrigue, working partly with the discredited Carllsts, has accomplished much In Spain, but It has failed to turn the majority of the people from democratic principles, Barcelona, Valencia and Cadiz see their overseas trade ruined by the depredations or German sub marines, which exempted Spanish ships, not. ably the mall steamships of the Companla Trasatlantlca, at the outbreak of the war. but now are ruthless toward them. The labor population Is constantly on the verge of general strikes, Trade unionism Is mighty along the Mediterranean littoral. Add to all this the prevailing Latlnlim of all varieties of the so-called "Spanish blood," and that the sympathies of the nation are largely wrtn tne E,nieme is in contestable. It is possible that Spain may retain her droit and skillful Alfonso. That she Is capable of dismissing even him, If need be. Is not wholly improbable. Spain, undar the profound but too theoretical Castelar was a republic In Ult. On the walls even of Castlllau Madrid wa written, "Forever yell the Moacrei iMteflwrtw.1 tEDaER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JXTNE 18, 1017 Tom Daly's Column itcAltOSl BALLADS (neprlnted by rrqutat.) LL'ETLA aiUBHVl'lXA Joe Baratta't Qlutcpplna She's so cute as she can be; Justa com' here from Messtna Wcclh da resta famllu. Joe had money ccn da oanka He been savin' for a vear; An' he brecng hees uAfe, Btanca, An' da three small children here I'lrst ecs baby, Catarlna, A'exfa Faolo (uat you call Vcn da Inglaicc langu-adoc ''Paul"), An' da smartest wan of all aiusepplnal Olusepplna's justa seven, But so smart as she can be; It'Wa.tcafcc at night-time even, Dere's so mooch dot's strange to see. Wat you theenk ces mos' surprise hert Xo; ccs not da butldln's tall, Eel, my fraud, you loould be wlsa You mus' theenk of som'thceng mail. Eft's an antl Wen first she scrna Wan o' dem upon da ground, How she laughed an' danced around: O! 'formica,' 'he hits found Qtuscpptnat" "O!" she cried to hcem, "Formica" IDat's Italian name for hcem), "Jlow you gatta here so queecka, For I know you no can stccem. An' you was not on da shcepa, for I deed not see you derrf How you cvia mak' da trcepaf Only birds can fly ccn air. How you gat here from Messina, O! at las' I ondrastand! You have dugga through da land Jus' to find your lectin fiand, Oluseppina!" "Speaking of this proposed Irish con vention," writes Sassenach, "I thought I'd look up the word 'convention,' and I found It In Vol. II of the Century Dictionary, which tnkes In 'Celt-Drool.' " Ycrra, In that same volume, Sassenach, ye'H find "contemptible" "cowards" "con cealed." Step from behind your disguise for a mlnyit an' both sldos will unite long enough to take a crack at ye. Let us consider nny old proposition de signed to restore to tho world the peace of mind It seems to have mislaid. This, In spite of the prevailing east wind, blew In from New York and Is Interesting at least for its adjectives. Gentlemen. First All wars are caused, not by "autocracy," but by universal greed for scarce money (the gold Idol) Second To prevent wars ou must pre vent universal greed for scarce money (Idolatry). Third To prevent universal greed for scarce money you must revolutionize the currency system There Is no other con ceivable way Fourth To revolutionize the currency system correctly ou must make money democratic bv completely excising the usury (Interest) cancer Fifth Ever other plan for social re generation Is absurd, baneful, fatuous, fragmentary, frivolous, fruitless, Illogical, inapplicable. Indefinite, palliative, per verted, prostituted, unethical, unjust and untenable. How about It 7 FRANKLIN HOPKINS, Land Currency Advancer. TO MI!. CHAItLEB McOLIXCHY, OF THE V. S. r. O. n. Arrah, Mr. Charles McGlinchy, You've the manners of a Frinchy, An' 'tis you, whose smile Is golden though your uniform is gray, You're a daeent man of letters An' the alqual of yer betters, An' I icant to thank you kindly for your thoughtfulncss today; For you came where I was sitting Bare o' thought, with brows a-knittlng, An' you handed me a package an' sez you, sex you to me: "Please excuse me Latin, Thoma, While I hand you this diploma, It's from South Bend, Ind., so it must be your degree Xow, I've brought It up in person. But the speech I was rehearsln' Isn't on me tongue this minute as I hoped that it would be." Ah' dear postman, Charles McGlinchy, There's as obsolete word "Chi)tc7ty" That must seem to you descriptive of the kind o' thing I am; For that speech your tongue forsakln' Was a speech you thought o' mafclit. While quite forget me manners an' was dumb as anny clam. An' I let ye get away, sir, Without tcllln' ye "Good-day, sir," An' tiAdout the common dacency to hand ye a cigar. a little bunch o' verses May stave off your proper curses. Sure, they cost me very little, dear Mc Glinchy; here they arel And an Interesting thing about that diploma Is that It's In plain, sane Eng lish, and very little of that. It's a rare thing for a college graduate, fresh from the classroom, to be able to translate the Latin upon his diploma, and It's refresh ing to find one of those universities pop ularly supposed to be chained to the dead languages one of the first to adopt the new style. SPECIAL warning to society reporters: There will be a fashionable wedding at St. Mark's Church on Saturday, June 28, and you will be terribly tempted to head it "Black-Jack Wedding," as the official organ of tho Walnut Street Business As sociation docs this week. YEARS ago when we attended the Thaddeus Stevens secondary school, at Seventeenth and Grayson streets, we came to fear but never to know Fran clsvtlle It was a tangle of strange streets and we never ventured very deep Into its mazes. The other day we passed through there in a car and noticed that great changes were being made; many of the old houses had been torn down and the ancient kinks and twists In the network of streets and alleys were to be straight ened out into a park, wnlch naturally in troduces this story from the San Fran cisco Argonaut: Two friends were discuss ing the characteristics of various cities. One of the friends, Mr. Penn, remarked that he had 'heard that in Boston the streets were frightfully crooked. "They are," remarked the other, Mr. Hubb, "Why, do you know when I first went there I could hardly And my way around." "That must be embarrassing." "It Is, The first week I was there I wanted to get rid of an old cat we had, and my wife got me to take It to the river, a mile away'' "And you lost the cat all right?" "Lost nothing 1 I never would have fouft w way. U X iuuWt-tol- THE j.Mfc)-npp'g'iaay3riMtfrT;.tt:ai ' . i . iT. 1 1 , i jjJiTT U.yilllWffl.TOnDirffi . . ww?iwHa p v. fflfflaHaKaSKSPSaaKr rsry&Kilfi HvSkrsPi?? &t '"" " 'j--- - - 'ftMiir) "'. ;,-: r'--:"" ,.- vXo1 - - tSpR . I'w-'r.-r'- -'::' T'-v. - ?'$C . --Tv.."' ...' :- . .-..T'i.'-- ". ' '. jtf xJsSs-Ct&j . - .-- - ' . ' -iJK .rf-c. rfP;eiu . - v ' ." . " ' -'". '.:-.rs-j-Siffi v. . .-- - . a-' tm Jfll-- a a"T avf -IW: ' i .r ' i . THE VOICE OP THE PEOPLE A Day of Prayer The Cost of Food and Child Labor in Wartime This Department it tree to all renders uho U.lsh to express their opinions on tubccts of current interest. It is an open forum and the Evening Ledger assume no responsibility for the vtewv at its eorrrsnondrnts. Letters mull be signed by the name nttri address ot the uriter, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good fau inn. A DAY OF PRAYER To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Your article In last night's Bve nino Ledger on "A Day for Prayer" was both timely and to the point It always seems that the Evenino Ledger doea the right thing at the right time Strange that the "powers that be" have not called the nation to prayer long since. Apostle James sajs, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraldeth not, and It shall be given him" How explicit the promise ' To your knees, then, O nation, and prove by earnest prayer what God can and will do ALBERT FITZGERALD Philadelphia, June 15. THE COST OF FOOD To the Editor of the Evening Ledger Sir It was hard enough for the poor to keep the wolf from the door when prices were at their lowest, but what can they do now, those with large families' It Is the poor with largo families that give men to our country In such times as now to defend our flag and rights, and yet the heads of the nation stand aside and let the food stuffs Boar higher and higher so that It Is impossible for even those In medium cir cumstances to get a square meal with the high cost of all the other necessaries of life. Why. I do not believe that the poor get enough food to keep their bodies In healthy condition. What kind of men and women will these children make If they cannot re ceive the necessities of life? And these ore the children our country will have to depend on In years to come If these con ditions are allowed to exist It will drive the people to despair and crime. There should be no speculation allowed In foodstuffs. It is not shortage of food stuffs and materials that causes the prices to go up, It Is greed TUDOR Philadelphia. June 15. CHILD LABOR IN WARTIME . To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir At the memorial meeting of the Brotherhoods of Englnemen, Firemen, Con ductors and Trainmen at the Metropolitan Opera House J C McDonald, a local mem ber of the B R. T . a wage worker, voiced a true, unbiased, unselfish American prin ciple when he said that the brother hoods would Join In the suspension of any law enacted for their protection If the Presi dent made such a request, If by so doing It would mean the winning of universal free dom, but he only cpoke tor the wage earners the backbone of the nation It remained for the vice president of the B. R. T., Mr. Dodge, who Introduced him self aa the spokesman for Stone,' Carter. Lee and Garretson, to voice the true dema gogic spirit that ever causes the dollars to roll from the pockets of the unthinking In a burst of oratory backed up by the known $4, 000.000 In the treasury, he said If the war had to be won by suspension of the child labor laws, the war deserved to be lost No war should be crowned with victory at the expense of children working In the factory ; and to prove his sincerity and loyalty he said his ancestors fought In the Revolution ary War Some of them must have turned In their graves. It only shows that the meVi who work the workers get Into a line of thought and speech that wins the sup port ot the unthinking, who admire cheap oratory, and that they are out of place when action is required and not words. For Inspiration, for Incentive to do or die. for love of country, for loftiest Ideals, for Immense sacrifices give me the spirit breathed by McDonald. He would suspend the child labor law If he could thereby prevent me ravisping ana murder of hi children! hf would consent to have time work In atv American factory rather tbn u iM uru ku piAyimst of tattviLsa ROUGH WUATHER GETS , '-'. itw . ;;-' -y '. .- yT X revolutionary ancestors would prefer to sac rifice not only his own children but the children of the nation to the savage soldiery rather than havo them take the place ot other woikers so that their safety and that of the nation could bo Insured and preserved VERITAS Philadelphia, June 14 LAND MONOPOLY To the Editor of the Vvcninq Ledger. Sir The committee on the hlGh cost of living, with headquarters at 320 Broadway, i New York, has issued the following state ment: "The greatest waste of which we are guilty Is due to our policy of permitting a few persons to possess and exploit the natural resources and natural monopolies of the countrv Tho net ground tent off the country over and above the taxes now paid on land values is at lesst $3,600,. 000,000 The annual increase in the sell ing price of urban and agricultural land is stated to be $2,000,000,000. or an amount equal to the loan which the Government is now trying to float Existing tax methods compel Ameilcan producers to pay at least $5,000,000,000 a year In tribute to monopoly, or $50 per capita " How far are these figures from the truth? Are they 100 or 75 or 50 or even 25 per cent true" If they are 'lOO or even 50 per cent true, our Senators apd Representatives in Wash ington are guilty of something with a very ugly name when they waste valuable time in trying to devise vexatious, cumbersome, wasteful, unscientific and perjury-lnstlgat-Ing schemes of taxation The Government needs money, oceans of it, to carry on the most righteous war In history It looks as if Congress Is going to place the cost of it on the useful and Industrious forces of production, thus dis couraging while wo profess to encourage them It looks as If Congress, while the world is threatened with starvation, Is going to continue a policy which has been, Is now and always will be a policy which discourages the production of food by making It profitable to hold land out of use. OLIVER MCKNIGHT. Philadelphia, June 13 KULTUR HARD ON THE BLIND To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir On the steamship Southland, which was recently torpedoed after leaving Liver pool, were three case3 ot embo3ted books consigned to the Pennsylvania Home Teach ing Society for the Blind The books were copies of "My Year of the Great War," by Frederick It Palmer. In the well-known Moon embossed type for the blind The half cost of stereotyping this book and the value of tho copies was $800 This half cost was met by a special fund of the society Inaugurated by Mrs L Webster Fox in 1911 for the purpose of giving to the blind one new book annually as a Christ mas gift ' Owing to the war the work of stereo typing was delayed, and the blind adults will be bitterly disappointed, after waiting so long, to learn that the books they were eagerly awaiting have gone down with the Southland ISABEL W. KENNEDY. Philadelphia, June 15 A MEETING OF GIANTS Two figures that will go down In history as the dominant personages in the develop. ment of the great northwest are James J Hill and Donald Smith, who hei-am. t ,i Strathcona. Joseph Gilpin Pyle thus describes mo iiroi meeting oeiween these men In his Just published biography of Mr Hill: "Mr. Smith was traveling out of Fort Oarry, which he had left March 19 1870 by dog team over the great wastes of snow Mr Hill was traveling toward Fort Garry In the same manner Each man had heard of the other, and the solitudes of nature are evocative of human frlendllnesa We met on tho prairies,' said Mr. Hill The nearest house behind him was 140 miles away, and I had stayed the evening before at the frontier house of the Hudson Bay Company, of which he was the chief execQ Uve, They stopped, made themselves known to each other and interchanged tho courtesies of the frontier This Interview was charged with momentous consequence! I liked him then' said Sir Donald Smith a quarter of a century afterward, 'and I have never had reason to change my opln Ion Mr Hill was to know later the value of this friend In the great transaction In which they both engaged, and was to Inspire Vim Virlth rnisnliAtt t.t- (. ... " "v it ii 12 i anomer ure.-ni, 4 rAllS4d liUr In tb- htiii.iti .C A'"""' 'EM .m r i' r i -,..' . r . rj yi .i . iV jfj' J j,rv ,(.' What Do You Know? QUIZ 1, Who U the new SpjnUli Tremltr? S. Ulint portion of firenter New York li epe- ciulty ustorlateil with (tjrlhnlili? 3. Whit relelirnteil p.ilntrr na railed "The IIIJCkMiiltli of Antuerp"? 1. Who wiih !tnroe Conkllng? 5, Who K.ild "N:rap me an emperor who wai ever Mrutk hy n minion ball"? fl, DIstlnsuMi the citv of Vlenne from Vienna, 7, Wlui t Ik the mennlim of the I.utln nhrau "e tnthptlra"? 8, What rfl.it Ion i Mnrk Tuuln to the ilanlt, Ooilp (.ulirllcmlnrli? 9. What epnih-mnklnc battle was foutht 103 .veitr, urn twlto? 10, Whit hettKt of hunlrn habltuallr refute to urrv on its bark more than 100 poandii? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Qulntann. Hoo. rn the oaht nf which Ger- minv whm rerentit reported to have ev tahlmierl n Mtbmnrlne bn&p. If a terri tory of the Keptihlle of Mexico and oteo pie a portion of the penlnniila of ucatin. 2. "Dladoque" U the title of the heir appar ent of dreece. 3. Iteil Cro Societies are an outgrowth of the Convention of tieneva. Switzerland, held In lKBi. 4. Averroea wns n noted Arab philosopher, horn at Cordova, hpaln, earb in tlie tuolftl) century. 5. Oliver Cromwell first sold 'Tut your truit In Cod. hut be aure to keep jour powder ilr." 0. Tb nubtlfe cf "Vnnlti Fair" la "A Novel Without o Hero," 7. Ivmlllo Afulnuldo U the former Filipino rebel ARalnst the American Government who recently subscribed to the Liberty Loan, s. The original meaning of "chlfTon" ! mi. 0. A msroloclst N a mushroom and funrni expert. 10. The Chinese ent smin made from a certala Kind of bird' newts. INTRODUCING JAPAN To the United States Is usually given full credit for Introducing Japan Into the family of nations America did Indeed finally accomplish this Important work, but It was rather the reintroducing of the Island empire that Commodore Perry un dertook, for the Ice had been broken In the sixteenth century by the Portuguese. After a century of Intercourse with west ern nations, however, Japan returned to her Isolation Mendez Pinto landed in 1539 and Xavler In 1012. and during this period, naively records the historian, "Christianity and firearms were Introduced " The Japanese rulers permitted the Christian missionaries to speak to the people, but early In the seventeenth century began to fear that tha white men were intriguing In politics ana that tho new religion was undermining their power Accordingly, about 1620 the Euro peans were all excluded, and for more than 200 years Japan closed her ports to the white race Shipwrecks and the casting away of sta men gave the United States Government an opportunity to seek a treaty of friend ship and, If possible, of commerce, and Commodore Perry, to whom the task was Intrusted, succeeded In 1851 Four later other treaties opened several ports to foreign residence and trade In HO Japanese embassy visited the United States, and In the following year an embassy wa sent to the European courts Narrow minded Japanese patriots protested, but to no avail In 1867 the Shogun (a tyrannical subordinate of the Mikado) was compelled to resign and men with the new Ideas, tna fruit of the new Intercourse with the outslds world, obtained control of the Emperor nu the Government . ,. The leaders of the revolt Induced the Emperor to swear to rule according to "tne right way between heaven and earth that la, In deference to public opinion, nq to order the abolition of feudalism It was virtually a committee of four men Iwakura, Okubo. Kldo and Salgo, with their far seeing fellow and helpers, that swung tnt nation out of Us ancient regime and maae the new Japan. They Invited educators from the United States to teorganlse their educations I system, French ofHcers to re model the army. British seamen to re organize the navy and Dutch and otir engineers to make Internal Improvement?. TIiaba Im,nilnlt1 f.Vi!infra!1 were nOt SC compllshed without protest. In 1887 Salf? quarreled with his old friends, led an armj the Ratsuma rebellion cdat Japan W.MJj Hon was proclaimed and th Diet flrt . mJ i- . .i i- tn. ..Md. oiifnt thirty in -lain inui i uuio inw . --- -a i jears Japan had reorganised hte iwloowj 1110 UWiU) VUfila iu rtict(vi tTi tl models, a xcc$rj unsurpwea p nn"- rouijTw, (inkle w dftl iilqu3f' 1 -tW f araaaaaaiHBM .i ,. ,'., hJ r(i , 2JJ v r '. wwMvr ; vi f . .' r T- -'alTaBBl SaaBBaT QaY f" m - - I &.' t T-r- w - v (i . f t - uas, Q hk - - .,ayJ a. "v- ---' . rr,'"-UT "-TT... - VV UM I.H.1UL
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