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PUBLICITY CLEANS STREETS
rpitE gentlemen contractors who havo
- grown rich not cleaning the streets of
Philadelphia, and, up to this time, havo
corned tho efforts of honest citizens to
have tho filth that litters highways and
alleys carted away, havo run against a
nag. They could laugh nt abortive efforts
to drlvo them to tho performance of their .'
duties, but particularity Is about to smite
them In thJ loins. "What did they care
about dirt l.t general? Hut along came
this newspaper and discovered Nelly's
Alley. Tho namo has leaped Into popu
larity as the synonym of utterly Intoler
able conditions, of garbage uncollected, of
rubbish that breeds death and of filth that
lies ungathercd for days and weeks.
CitlzeNS havo seen In It a slogan and a
hope. Every day scores of pcoplo tele
phone or w'rlto to this newspaper, giving
the location of tho particular Nelly's
Alley In their neighborhood and urging
that wo do our bit to sco that It Is cleaned
up. Our function has been to carry their
complaints direct to tho responsible city
department. Wo back them with th
power of publicity; for pictures can tell
the truth In such form that no contrac
tor can gainsay It, nnd the truth
Is something our investigators do not
foar. Nor havo we, therefore, up to this
'time, oxporltmccd Insuperable difficulties
In procuring prompt remedial measures.
Not ono Nelly's Alley, but many, within
the past few days, havo felt tho shove of
the shovel and tho rumblo of tho cleaning
cart, and pure, sweet air has flowed
where formerly It was unknown.
Thero Is no Nelly's Alley In Philadel
phia which need remain a Nelly's Alley
forever. Tho public has come to tho assist
ance of the city authorities. Our readors
constitute nn Inspection forco of their
own. Theirs Is a voluntary service, vital
ized by Indignation, and extremely effi
cient on that account. Wo shall, there
fore, continue to Invito complaints, which
we shall Investigate ns rapidly as possible,
and we feel comparatively safo In assur
ing the public that action will follow.
The street-cleaning and garbage-collecting
systems of tho city, however, are In
herently wrong. How can wo expect
clean streets when It Is money In tho
pocket of a politician to have them dirty?
It Is Infamous, for Instance, that a news
paper should havo to undcttako an Inspec
tion service, furnished by Us readers, to
assure even a modicum of good service
from paid employes. But an allevlatlve
vjneasuro of that sort Is the only remedy
In sight, and none other will appear, tho
public Bhould understand, until tho
municipality sweeps tho entlro contractor
ystem out of being and Itself performs
tho functions which properly belong to It.
Tho city spends enough money to
assure good streets; tho part that becomes
private profit Is measured by the condi
tion of the streets. Tho more profit, tho
moro dirt; the less profit, tho less dirt.
Generally speaking, every Nolly's Alley
means another bottle of champagne for
somebody. But under a municipal system
of street cleaning, every Nelly's Alley
would mean tho loss of his Job for some
body. That Is tho difference between
street cleaning for profit and street clean
lng for service. The latter gives health;
tho former gives business to undertakers.
HISTORY ON A TANGENT
WHEN it cornea to Russia, History
flatly refuses to repeat herself and
flies off at entirely unexpected tangents.
The analogy hunters were quick to fasten
on Nicholas Romanoff. They called him
a Charles I, proud but unreasonable; a
Louis XVI, blundering and unperceptlve.
Lately, In his seclusion, the ex-Czar has
x-wi rorprvired to Charles V of Spain, a
cloistered recluse, cut off from the "smoke
and stir of this dim spot which men call
. earth." But the ex-Emperor Charles, In
Yuste, winding up his favorite clocks and
letting the world spin on, was never a
friend of freedom. In the person of his
son Philip he handed down the methods
of oppression.
Not o Mr. Romanoff. Petrograd now
ends word that ho has appealed to the
provisional government for permission to
purchase Jlueslan "liberty bonds." This
is Indeed, turning History completely
Mpcy-turvy! Th land where such ralr.
jploa m M4 ? '" Weed b
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iAciml!fm
who havo been financial Blacker, but par
ticularly for the city of Chicago, tho sltua
tlon Is significantly suggestive. Mayor
Thompson, unshackled, turned down
and oven fought our loan. Why not glvo
him somo of Nicholas's rriedlclne? It
might Inspire him to come across.
PERMANENT FOOD CONTROL
mHE Administration food bill Is tech
nlcally a temporary measure but
practically It Is tho first tentative chapter
In tho book of food control, tho beginning
of n permanent system to enforco fair
pricos, and ovcrjbody knows lv. Senators
from farming .States know It. They know
that, war or peace, food Is going to bo a
big lssuo In Congress for years to come,
and they ato putting themselves right
with the farmers at tho very stnrt as men
Alio are "ugln' everything." The Missouri
signboards of 1022 will demand votes for
"Senator Reed, tho farmers friend," be
cause whenever a bill cume up with tho
word "food" In tho title Mr. Heed voted
"No."
Becauso "the farmers' friends" held up
tho food bill, tho unregulated condition
of distribution today Ih Indicting unneces
sary hardships on tho farmers. Prices are
ns changeable as the weather.
You can't havo cvci y household In tho
land uttering protests, sarcasm and bitter
Jokes about "high cost" every day for
years without something happening
eventually. America is learning tho boy
cott. Stato and city governments nro
awake to market conditions. Newspapers
keep housewives Informed, nnd women
fitting themselves for the citizenship they
will Inevitably win In tho populous and
powerful eastern States will make
"cheaper food" tho object of every ballot
they cast.
Farmers, in spite of Senator Reed, will
bo the chief gainers. Speculators drove
the farmer's profits down to the vanish
ing point until tho farm workers to whom
he could pay only a pittance began to
seek tho factories of tho towns. These
parasites will be crushed between the
upper and nether millstones of maximum
prices to consumers and minimum pay
ments to farmers. It will not be difficult
to do It, because 09 per cent of the people
uro now awake to tho facts.
THE KAISER'S STALKING-HORSE
SINCE July. 1900. Theobald vnn Beth-mann-Ilollweg,
whose downfall at
last seems Imminent, hai managed to
hold tho unenvlablo post of Imperial
Chancellor. In those early years, when
war clouds gathered thicker and faster
In Kurope and at last broke In the storm
of world war, nnd even afterward, no
Prlmo Minister outsldo of Germany could
rival him In tenacity In office. Tho war
overthrew Asqulth in England, Vlianl in
Frunce, and even Bryan In distant Amer
ica wont down before tho hurricane. But
It was Germany's boast that, so firmly
fixed and united wns her Government,
no ephemeral clamor could unsettle it.
But Bethmann's apparent strength was
Germany's real weakness. Ho kept his
place not becauso ho had power, but be
cause, having none. It was not worth
while changing him for another Kaiser
lstlc stalking-horse. The Kaiser Is really
his own Prlmo Minister. He, and not tho
Reichstag's majority, appoints the Chan
cellor, who Is rosponslblo to him and to
no one else. Tho revolt which strikes nt
poor, vacillating Bethmnnn was years In
developing, because It was recognized In
Germany that when It did como the whole
world would know that tho real target
was William himself.
PROFITEERING PATRIOTS
I am not questioning motives I am
merely statins a fact, and stating It In
order that attention may bo fixed on It
Mr. Wilson to "profiteering patriots."
"lyrOTIVES are habits. A man's phi
"! Iosophy of things In general Is his
elaborate defense of his personal habits of
mind. If ho jeally believes It Is right to
chargo wartlmo freight rates on the
prtnciplo of "all that the ttalflc can bear,"
It Is becauso ho has mado his conception
of country, religion, personal honor and
politics correspond oxactly with his con
ception of business.
Mr. Wilson Is too much of a political
economist to go Into the motives of
"profiteering patriots." Ench one of them
Is no doubt kind to tils children, a devout
church member, scrupulous in the pay
ment of his debts. The sclenco of prlco
fixing takes no account of prlvato
motives. It takes no account even of
patriotic motives, for nil tho desperate
chivalry In Franco will not savo her If
she can't get war materials and food.
Tho law of public necessity must fix the
prices for tho profiteer. If he thinks the
law of his own conscience Is a higher
law, he Is cheerfully invited to find in It
what consolation his strange gods can
give him.
Chill teports neutrality to be un
popular. It's moroathan that. It's Im
possible. "Slacken your food and you're no
food slacker" may Bound paradoxical,
but It's wondrously efficient.
Measuring tho Russian advance In
miles Instead of yards Is one of the most
comforting proofs of Its magnitude.
Submarine attacks on shipping
pale beforo the kind of blows that Presi
dent Wilson very properly hands It.
Just what part Mr. Bryan Is play
lng In tho great war we do not know.
Wo suspect that he Is In charge of the
Weather Bureau.
The German Crown Prince may be
of dubious value to the Berlin Crown
Council, to which he has Just been called,
but his absence from the front deals the
worst blow to the Allies they have suf
fered In many a day.
Although- the news that Rio Janeiro
has named a street after President Wil
son la flattering, the further Information
that this thoroughfare was formerly
called Avenlda AJhangabahu Indicates
that some drastic reform In nomenclature
was needed quite apart from compli
mentary considerations.
Of all Incompetent managers of a busi
ness plant, governments are the most In
competent The Government can take
over a .factory, but It cannot run It
Senator lodge
Why any people allow a govern-
mttvWjjrm umm w faqtory called ?,
Krlr.jKiyi,Ua.
EVENING
FRIDAY THE 13TH!
WHO'S AFRAID?
This Day the' Kinp; of Supersti
tions From Ancient
Times
By H. T. CRAVEN
iiTTENCE where superstitions persist,"
XI declares a learned writer, "they may
bo regarded ns survivals, as vestigial relics
from n past when they were In full bloom."
Pcrhapi he's right, but thoro Is cold
comfort even In so grand a word as
"eatlglal" when the Immediate presence of
Friday, the thirteenth, confronts ono. To
day's tho day, nnd we defy tho most skepti
cal person not to give It somo consideration.
If he says ho doean't give a rnp for this
dark dato In the calendar, tho least little
swagger of self-patlnfactlon will betray an
attitudo of challenging fate The mlnuto
a man does that ho Is Jmt ns superstitious
as tho other chap In whom Friday, the
thirteenth, Insplrei dismal foreboding''
For. after all, there .Isn't a great deal of
difference between tho pessimistic fellow
who expects bad luck from a marked day
and tho bold optimist who sett out to
Fpurn the ugly ducklings of Father Time.
Tho element of recognliing something un
usual Is present In both rahes. And when
tho alleged unbeliever actually overdoes
things by proclaiming the figure thirteen,
tho day of Friday, or both of them In
conjunction, to he omen'! of posltlo good,
superstition may bo turned topsy-turvy, but
superstition It remains.
Our modern nstrologcrs nnd augury ex
perts with a bent for looking on the bright
side of thirteen havo been exceedingly busy
with Woodrow Wilson. Ho stepped the
first time Into tho presidential office In
1913. Ills second election was won by the
thirteen votei of California. Ho has thir
teen letters In his name. Industrious di
viners havo dug up still moro of these
"enchanted" statistics There K Indeed,
such a profusion of them that certain crit
ics wcro so unkind ns to hint that when
Mr. Hughes cast the thirteenth ballot In
his division last November ho was seeking
to acquire some of his rival's "dope."
That the nnswer was defeat stronglv forti
fied the position of tho "glooms" In this
matter of Interpreting thlrteens.
When It comes to Unking up thirteen
with Friday nu have a combination of
omens that has been regarded for centuries
ns uncommonly fateful. Kery portion of
the world has Its special unlucky day. In
fhrletlan lands tho selection of Friday is
said to he duo to tho fact that the crucifixion
took placo on that day. There wero thir
teen participants nt tho Last Supper, nnd
to this may probably be traced tho belief
that thirteen at the tnblo will bring death
to at least ono of the number within a
year Of all current superstitions this
shows perhaps the most vltullty Some of
tho most practical, hard-headed folks In
tho world shy at being part of a dinner
party of a dozen nnd ono guests.
Friday's Revenges
Men that go down to tho f.ea In ships
have their own reasons for being fearful
of Fridays. Among English sailors' tales
Is one of n ship whoso keel wns laid on a
Friday. Tho ship was launched on a Fri
day, her masts wcro taken from the sheer
hulk On a Friday, tho cargo was shipped
on a Friday. These omlnout days wero
chosen by tho merchantman's owner with
tho express purposo of destroying tho Fri
day superstition. He even went to the
extent of unearthing a Captain Friday to
command tho boat. She sailed on a Friday
and never returned. So much for scoffing
at tho "sisters three"!
Folk poetry, with ono notable exception,
is full of unfavorable references to Friday.
Good words aro spoken In tho familiar
rhyme:
Sunday's child ne'er lacfcs In place:
Mondij'a child la fair of face;
Tuesdays child Is full of grace:
Wednesday's child Is sour and Bad:
Thursday's child Is loving; and alad,
Friday's child la loving and giving:
And Haturday'a child must work for a living.
We get, however, the reverse side of tho
medal In the following:
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses
Saturday no day at all
This seems unreasonably hard on Satur
day, which, as the end of tho working week
and a day whoso toll Is In many circles con
fined to the morning hours, Is popularly re
garded with high favor. Note, however,
that Friday has Its "losses." On the famous
"BJack Friday" of 1869 they came with
dramatic celerity. The number thirteen was
not Involved here, for the actual data was
September 24. Colonel "Jim" Flake and
Jay Gould tried to corner the gold market.
It was a daring hold-up scheme which even
involved luring President Grant away to
visit a friend in a remote corner of Penn
sylvania, beyond tho reach of the telegraph.
Hut the plot brought disaster to Its pro
moters and a number of other financial
linns Innocent of Intrigue.
A much greater panic occurred on tho
Black Friday of September 19. 1873, when
a memorable financial crash demoralized
American stock exchanges, ruining, among
other rich men of the land. Jay Cooke, tho
savior of Union credit during the Civil
War England had a Black Friday on De
cember 6. 174 6, when tho news reached
London that tho Jacobite Pretender had
safely arrived at Derby and tho security of
the House of Hanover was thought to bo
Imperiled. Thero was also u British finan
cial Black Friday on May 11, 18CC, when
the rich firm of Overend, Gurney & Co., of
London, failed.
"A Fatal Day"
According to the records, July Fridays
seem to have been comparatively harmless.
The thirteenth of that month, however,
comes In for some rough treatment In Latin
verses from tho Old Sarum Missal. Char
acteristics of the months are described un
der separate headings. Tho July section
asserts that "the thirteenth is a fatal day."
This looks particularly cheerless when in
this year of 1917 Friday and tho thirteenth
are In conlunctlon. ,
Reason, which Sarah Bernhardt has re
cently declared to be the "naughtiest In
vention of tho human mind," of course, tells
us that all this Friday nnd thirteenth busi
ness is nonsense. A sober-thinking man
will etho this verdict and yet he may bo
lust the fellow to Btep beyond a ladder
Instead of walking under it I Or he may be
chary of wearing opals. Or If he be a
Neapolitan he may dread the evil eye.
And this laBt may seem to bo a wholly ab
surd obsession to the very person who Is
loath to have his cigarette lighted by the
same match that has Just served two other
smokers. On tne oiner nana, nis wiie may
Jeer at such a notion, and yet be thor
oughly distressed when sho breaks a mir
ror In fact, the man or woman entirely
free from superstltloU is as raro as the hu
man being without emotion. Even the
bravest of us have a weak spot In our
armor of professed skepticism.
Children often Indulge In some of the
oddest superstitions. Few of them care to
maks a practice of looking at the moon
over the left shoulder or of spilling salt
at the table without throwing a pinch over
the left shoulder, which, In this case. Is
supposed to break the charm. Warts and
superstition bring forth some curious prac
tices. Mark Twaln's'"Tom Sawyer" Is, of
course, largely autobiographical. Ills Im
mortal hero advocates "spunk water" as
a cure for warts, but claims that It Is
valueless without the following Incanta-
"Barley-corn, barley-corn,
Injun meal shorts!
Bpur.k-wattr, spunk-water,
Bwallsr thsse warts!"
Furthermore, what about hoptoads as
the alleged cause of warts? Science says
nothing about It, but superstition Insists
upon It Returning to adults, put your
foot on the rung of a gambler'a chair and
note hi keen displeasure!
Most every one. In great or small degree,
has a pet hobby. But hobbies can, under
-Mst-KWW, ba.'abanAeswI. rll.
ra . a.M Kri&r the felnattSb
kit of thm all.
LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917
Tom Daly's Column
TOX OLAMANT1B
'Twaa vcart apoahl God had marked
that day
For xcccpino; vet I put my tears avcau
And braved the world the morn that he
was wed.
Then it was only fjien felt 7ilm dead.
Hush, they xomc sobbing now beside
my door
To tell mo vainly that ho Is no moro
As though my heart were stranger to
It all.
Today thero Is no prlsonment or thrall
Can stay me from Mm; yea, by that
beyond
Wherethrough he soars 1 stand to claim
my bond.
I have grotcn strong beside the fount of
grief;
Crowned me with patience; plucked me
sheaf on sheaf
Of scorn's rich harvest, and I contc apace,
Love panoplied, to greet htm face to face.
'Ay, let them knock fic funeral foot
steps go
Sounding upon the pavement down below;
Hut think not I shall open, though they
said
A hundred times that one I loved Is dead!
THOMAS WALSH.
Physio-Psychic Pronormnlism
Tho gentleman whoso sign excited our
curiosity tho other day writes In to
explain:
Physio abbreviation for "physiological."
Psychic short term for "psychological."
Pronortnallsm practice favorable to nor
malizing, hence a practice fnvorabio to nor
malizing the physiological and psychological
functlvltles of that super-organism called
"genus homo."
To harmonize the co-ordination of
"physiological expression," or "blood pros
suro objectified physically." with "psycho
logical Impression," or "nerve-tension sub
jectified psychically," describes tho purpose
(and largely the achievement) of Physio
Psychic I'ronormalism.
Upon the character of the creature's
psychical Impression altogether depends tho
degree of tho creature's physical expression,
nnd vice versa, hence should either of the
Interoperatlvo and Innllcnablo functlvltles
becomo "unfit," the othor one correspond
ingly suffers.
To maintain the balance of reciprocal in
teropcratlou means to maintain equilibrium :
hence tho signification of tho practice of
Physlo-Ps chic Pronormalism.
Now will you be good?
Good? We feel better nlready. All
those p's nnd s's confused us before.
Dear T. A. D. Apiopos "Boche." With
duo respect to Henri Ha.:ln, thero Is In the
French language the word "caboche"; It
means stubborn, pig-headed, dumb, "Ivory
topped." etc. A near t dative of this same
word exists In Spanish as (If I remember
rightly) "cabozo." Tho word "caboche" had
been for many years employed colloquially
In contempt for tho Germans. At tho be
ginning of the war It was constantly used
nnd the first syllable was dropped In rapid
spcoi.li. Try pronouncing It quickly nnd seo
how easily "ca" will vanish. I might add
that the word has been In tho language for
nearly three hundred years I wonder
where our word "kibosh" comes from?
TEEGEE.
BAD CESS TO TIW P. li. T.
A dainty damsel smiled at me
On Chestnut street, on Chestnut street.
Her eyes danced so Invitingly
That I, though bald and forty-three.
Was fain to join that lovely she.
On Chestnut street near Klnth.
Hut she was on the other side
Of Chestnut street, of Chestnut street;
Between us gaped a chasm wide
From which earth's entrails had been
pried;
I could not cross the great divide
On Chestnut street near Xtnth.
FILBERT.
It's bad enough for Pat Moron's poor
old Phils to bo what they aro without
having It rubbed In by the Inspired com
positor on our morning sister, who sot
up the head, "Rest Days Helpful to
Crippled Girls."
Pat Moran's "Dobs"! There's a chance
for another truthful error.
Again we havo with us Friday the 13th.
PHIL-
FROD
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MABTKIlVlECi:
If thee u'ou hi sol re
How deathless
things crolt'p,
Hoio great uoiks
come to be.
Ascend these stairs
utth me.
Here In this attic room,
So near the sky,
Thca may descry
Aeu 6cafy comic fo bloom.
Of wax and merest dust
The sculptor's hands have formed
A wounded soldier's bust
With lifelike feel
ing warmed,
I asked this man
of art
.loraiiifj if,? name
And he but lately
came
From that most
lovely land
Beloved of Shel
ley ,
From what
source did his
hand
Draw such a work of art.
"I s'pose," said he, "my heart,
For notheen's een my stomach."
'Tls truet for eatfng nought
He caught
The sympathetic thought, .
And suffered what he wrought, i
So here for him we've brought '
Our tributary wreath
(Beneath)
With which we mean to croton
From time to time
Mute heroes of this town.
Let this man then begin It,
With Ms full title In It:
mmm.
ftWjf Sculptor, I jfTjJ
VNyijL ftl Wafrvuf Street. Wgi
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THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Mr. Chalfant Defends, Mr. Gib
boney Attacks, the Actions
of "Drys" at Wash
ington This Department It free to all reader uho
wish to experts their opinions on subjects o
current interest. It Is an open forum and the
Evening Ledger assumes no responsibility or
the vtetos of its correspondents. Letters must
b signed bu the name and address of the
writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a
ouaranfee of oood faith.
NO ANTI-SALOON LOBBYING
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir I have Just read your editorial en
titled "Puro Damfoollshness." Being a
reader of the Evenino LEDann, I want to
enter my protest against that editorial. To
start with, It Is grossly falso and misrep
resents tho real situation.
When tho food bill was beforo the House
of .Representatives the legislative commlt
teo of the Anti-Saloon League asked the
llouso to put Into that bill a section for
bidding the use of foodstuffs in tho manu
facture of liquor of any. kind. In doing
this they were simply voicing tho senti
ment not only of tho Christian manhood
and womanhood of America, but of a large
percentage of tho leading business Inter
ests of the country. Tho House of Repre
sentatives spent less than six hours In
reaching a decision as to what It would
do on this phaso of the question. When the
bill came before the Senate It was found
that In that body a filibuster would be made
and legislation would bo delayed. For that
reason President Wilson made his appeal
to tho Anti-Saloon League committee not
to embarrass him by Interfering In the
tight.
The pledge made by the Anti-Saloon
League committee to tho President In this
matter has been scrupulously carried out
to the Jetter.
To Bay that action on the food bill has
been delayed by the anti-saloon lobby Is
false and there Is absolutely no reason
why a woll-lnformed man Bhould make bucIi
a statement.
Taken as n whole, your editorial Is well
named. Quoting tho great soldier to whom
you refer, there seems to be little In It but
"pure damfoollshness."
HARRY M. CHALFANT,
Editor American Issue.
Philadelphia, July 11.
PROHIBITIONISTS ACCUSED
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir I have no desire to Inject myself
Into an Issue that Is bigger than any one
man or any one set of men, but as a private
citizen, who for a long period of years
has been deeply interested and almost con
stantly active in the matter In question, I
yield to the Impulse to extend to you my
heartiest congratulations upon the courage
and clarity with which the Evekinq
LEDOEit, In Its leading editorial of today.
has placed Uuiore nn readers the real
menace and the actual motives of the un
patriotic, professionalized, political prohibi
tion lobby in Washington, whose activities,
surpassing subterfuge and even plain hypoc
risy, approach perilously near to that with
which few Americans have been charged,
For more than a decade, and perhaps
more than any other one man, I have had
directed at me the slander and false accu
sation of their ''holier-than-thou" attitude,
because I dared to disagree with them by
standing unfalteringly for a process of mero
Justice In the settlement or. the business,
which the Government Itself established,
and from which the Treasury Department
now admtti that the people of this country,
through their Government, have been taking
a total annual revenue of (4,000,000,000.
It was not surprising to me, therefore,
that eventually the time should come when
their xeal for the accomplishment of their
own stubborn determination should over
come even their own natural and customary
cunning and convict mem or that with
which they nave bo "tn nu inuiscrim
Inately charged every one else who did not
scree with them.
It U an encouraging sign, or; tua times
I tksvt ' it wtteUyy mwnm 'f tfarf
th lkJw.X aupixwrura ate -,-,- Pa.
"iniiio wvxiii4w. m
tempt to picture It ; and I am convinced
In my own mind that a congressional In
vestigation Into tho source of tho tre
mendous financial resources at the disposal
of the nforesald lobby would bring forth
somo rather startling revelations and place
Its much-heralded sincerity and morality Id
rather a questionable light.
This Is no time for clogging the legislative
machinery of tho Government with unnec
essary or extraneous matters, but it might
prove as Interesting as enlightening to the
country at large to know the real Incentive
for the activities of these men who would go
so far as to Jeopardize the safety of their
country In order to destroy, without re
muneration, a business from which tho Gov
ernment has been taking one-third its
normal revenue, and In the destruction of
which would be created a precedent to
Jeopardize any or all other similarly lawful
enterprises, and thus weaken the whole
commercial and Industrial structure of the
country.
If the desperate activity of the profession
alized prohibition lobby in Washington dur
ing the last few weeks has accomplished
nothing else, It has proved to the pooplo
who are fair-minded enough to give the sub
ject temperate consideration that its prom
ises and proposals no longer can be accepted
at their face value, but must be scrutinized
with the greatest caution, If not suspicion.
D. CLARENCE GIBBONEY.
Philadelphia, July 11. '
INSIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIALIST
REVOLT
To the Editor of the Evcning,Lcdger:
Sir Since this country chtered tho Euro
pean conflagration readers of dally papers
get tho impression that thero is a wide
spread rebellious movement among the
Socialists of this country. All insignificant
sporadic incidents aro smeared In big head
lines across the front pages of the press.
Intelligent readers pay little attention to
such news Items, knowing full well tho
tendency of the newspapers to manufacture
sensational news. An editorial comment of
July 9 ran as follows. "Forty-nine Socialist
rebels, half of them under age." The very
fact that they are under ago makes said
editorial look ridiculous. The anxiety of
an unscrupulous rooky olficer to mako good
prompted him to hold up and arrest mem-,
bers of a Socialist club In the peaceful
procedure of a regular routine meeting.
You cannot find the names of Swartz,
Levy and Zanan In American history Per
haps It Is true. Nevertheless, men with such
names helped make this country rich and
powerful. Men with such narjes are numer
ous among the personnel of the army and
navy and In all peaceful developments of
this country. How absurd and ridiculous
to blame all for the questionable sins of the
few! PHILIP WEINER
Philadelphia, July 11.
LETTER FROM A MARINE
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Allow me to answer M. S. W. When
the National Guard went to tho border they
growled about the methods of transporta
tion, the food and the work. Now when
the country Is at war they are again called
Into the Federal service. Why should tho
railroads give them free transportation?
Aro they not mustered Into the Federal
service? Are we not at war? Won't we
marines have to do some fighting In the
near future without any chance to travel
about on American railroads to see our
families and friends?
Have you ever heard a complaint from
a marine Decause ne was in the Tropics for
two years and then was sent somewhere
else without a chance to gq home? The
National Guard must learn not to com
plain. E. W. L.
Philadelphia, July 10.
GUARDSMEN GETTING MARRIED
To tha Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir We noticed a recent article In one
of the Philadelphia papers saying that the
boys of Company M, Third Regiment. wr
not contented in western Pennsylvania doing
guard duty and were Jealous of the
first Jteiimeni; out una is not so. because
the majority of us are all In fine shape and
are having the time of our life, as the
western Pennsylvania girls sure know how
to treat the boys here, as two of our boys
were married since we arrived and there
are quite u. iciv wnu nro going iq qo the
same thing In the near future.
We have ball games every day and al
ways get Invitations to all the social tui
tions that are held here. We hope the time
never come when they will take ua avuavr
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What Bo You Know?
QUIZ
1. Vthat city Is the temporary capital el tb
revled Chinese Republic? j
2. Who wns Ignatius Loyoln?
3. What famous writer wns called "Its Oral
Unknown"?
4. What wns the first steamship to trail lb
Atlantlo Drenn?
S. In what portion of the Ilrltlsh lilt an
laws made by tne House ol neyir
I
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fTa
0 What Is the mennlnt; nnd appllcstloa tf tks
wora nliaa"r
7. What Is the mennlnt: of Santa ItT
8. What fNmoua Xaw York mercfisat nl
I'retldent tirant's first choice for Setts-
lary 01 Blaler
0. What noted Amerlrnn urlter and natanSa
died 100 icars ago yesterday? f
1U. What plare has been selected as the fitta)
capital or Australia1.'
Answers to Yesterday's Quli
1. The New York draft riots occurred laxlaf
the Ciill War on July 13-10. 1863.
s. ".viuiwump" ronies from tho Aiwsma.
Indian word mennlnr "rldef" or Mleaotr. .,
In IBM the Independent Republicans tw,
KA4affAj1 fivtiii 4 in a AHrai1,iai tiasv satin It fl WtA p
called ".Mugwumps." 4
3. The Homme offensive was the treat W 1
operation In progress u tear ato. n
. ine r.ngiun call u camoriuce lurem
man a "Cantab." If
S. On June 22. 1803. the Ilrltlsh battings 'J
Victoria was rammed nnd sunk Br tM'l
C'amperdown In naval maneuvers h.I
Tripoli. Three hundred and thlrtr-sensH
men were drowned In tho catastropu. K
8. The career of drover Cleveland Is sail J 1
have furnished tho basis for l'sm
fester lord's novel, "Tho iionorawe
Stirling." f.
7. Herr.Zlmmermann has been Foreign Sens. I
lary or the Uermun cabinet. ou
now rumored that he has resigned. '
8. lenr Kwo Chang Is I'ravlslonai rretuw
of China. V-
D. "Would that tho people of Rome nil M
one neck" Is a remark attributed ts
Klnneror Callsrulu. 4
I
10. TliA lun Amrtrntf nnrfa In the Canal ZOSt
uro Uulboa and Cristobal. 1;J
a. ja
KJUU I IlIWlUtiLrillrt. l.UlIJimi-'I
TJERSONS whoso sensitiveness in ru;
that tho mere word "lottery," ai aomj
times applied to the selective con8crlptio
system, offends them Bhould have lived la
this city In the old days. Lotteries werj
frequently adopted as measures for rUW
funds for various endeavors,
The earliest mention of a lottery In Wk
adelphla occurs In 1720. when Charles Ri
advertised "to sell his brick house In ThliM
street by lottery " A few years Uter uJ
City Council forbade Samuel Kelrner
one time a partner of Benjamin Franxlto)
iu mail u luiicry ai u iau. wu. .- r
public gambling of this sort was sanctloawK
by law under stress of a burst of pamoi
Ism. It was In time of war, when IMjjil
apprehension was felt that the plundril,
of the city mlKht be attempted by mil'
vessels. Funds were raised to estsblWjE
what was called the "Associatea xjai.(
constructed near the present navy yf
by selling lottery tickets all over the cHJj
On this occasion the Society of Friends vtM.
enabled to oppose two popular movements
at once the lottery and militarism. Bt
the gambling spirit had by this tuns sj
streat an imuetus that when, four yrl
later, 'tickets were sold to raise money foj
the building of Christ Church eteepl U"
was little objection.
n ,Vila 41m tliA InMArv tvSB A nStlOl
InoHtutlnn tl-lrt htio. nnM tuT ttOJti tM.
place where the money was needed. Con-,
necticut raised 188,000 In 17B to alo,
the construction of Princeton College. TJJ
prises were quite large. For examplj,
1780 St. Paul's Church was flnlsbsd IJi
fundB gained from a publlo lottery. V
thousand tickets were sold at U P'"H
bringing In a total of $20,000. But oBlfl
sjSOOQ went to the church, and $17,000 .
to the Drlie winners. i
Evidently this sort of thing could nol ; W
on without becoming an abuse. It J
the gamblers was only an excuse for qgj
game. Large parcels ot real estate -
In double or three times their value to
vni.ra Ihn Vinldei- rt tha luckV BUI
acquiring an estate for the 12 or '
paid in the "land lottery"! The gam1
wheel was used to build schools, to
a company ox rangers ror aaryjc
tte. UsAtsMtsV m erst. a, jtjzttneuae
niilisum is butU a fcrtda o
jfiumw- ' 9tamy th LUlat
loj
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