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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-
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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
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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
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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
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