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Marconi House, Strand Pitll rictnt. 33 nua I-ntils le Grind SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Tho ETtM"to I.idoi Ii rerved to subscribers pajablo In Philadelphia and aurroundlnc tiwni at the. rat of twelr (is) nts MP week, parable u ttia. farrier. Uy mall to points outside of Philadelphia. In !w m: a.- tho united Statu. Canada or united Mates nps sessions, postage free, titty ISO) cent 4er month. 8I (Isl dollan per year, rajaljte In advance. To all foreign countries one (II' dollar vtr month, Nnncs Subscribes I witting address chanted Must giro old as "ell as new address. " BEtL, JOOJ.VALNCT KEYSTONF, MAIN 3009 WfAiitttt all communlratloct to Kivntrifl tdstr, Indttendruct Swarr, rhliadtlphia. iNTiitD at ths rittt.tnatj'Pia roiorncx as ECOND-CLAIS MAIL 1IATI1B riillidtlphli, Mondar. Septrrabtr 17. 117 WM - 1.. ik f t. I ,fw ftJ-' VrHEIlE THE MONEY COMES FROM pi.OTUK a lie In clever language and It can masquerade us truth almost without fear of detection. Somebody aid that the trouble In Amcilca was not the high co3t of living, but the cost of high living, und that philosophy gained thousands of adherents stialghtway. Some body else announced the discovery that Americans were the moit thriftless people In the world. Kverybody presumed that It must be a fact, because It was roltcrated o often, und It became accepted as an axiom. Ask the first man you meet who are the most thriftless people on earth and In a more or less boastful way he will say the Americans. "We do not save, we spend," Is the boast. Hut consider the facts. More money U saved In the United States every jear nd more people save it than In any othei country under the sun. There ato ap proximately 40,000,000 bank depositors, ome duplicates, and ubout one-fourth of theso are depositors In savings banks. Savings deposits and time certificates of deposit amounted a car ago to about ten billions of dollars. In addition, millions Upon millions of dollars are being saved In the form of Insurance payments, mem berships In building and loan associations, purchases of goods on the Installment plan,, etc. It Is not dltllcult to Und an American family that Is Kivlng some thing, but it Is very dtincult to find an American family that Is not saving Kome thlng. It Is true that waste Is a national habit. That It Is necessarily destructive of good citizenship and national progress Is not ao certain. Waste, If It docs nothing else, keeps money In circulation. Money in circulation keeps business going. The old and absurd Idea that the way to finance the war was for every citizen to It tight and spend no money camo Intu vogue for a Miort period in the v.prlng, and threatened for a time to wreck Ameil can business and tie the Covet ument'.s hands. How wcie we going to finance an enterprise costing billions of dollars If, everybody was to cjult buying and do his share to throw thousands of other citizens out of work? The business In terests of the country weio quick to see the fallacy of the old argument, and they began to call for bufclness as usual and more of It. Hufcluehs Is not as usdal, and cannot be under the abnormal condi tions existing, but the volume of business Is greater than ever befoie and Is grow ing day by "day. The man who decided not to plant sued In the spring because signs pointed to a long and hard winter when he would need corn, would be no more foolish than a nation which decided to contract business because it was about to engage nationally In the biggest bust neks ever undertaken by u people or an association of peoples. The average American has an ee for a dollar. He does not keep his nose in the garbage can. Perhaps this apparent fault 1 a blessing in disguise. Wo hae heard; of men -who achieved great suc cess because they did not bathe their hands in molasbes befoie handling coin. It may be that In saving a dime in the garbago can one loses a dollar at the office. Frugality and stinginess are often mistaken for one and the same thing. In the matter of mere money, it is not a time tor citizens to tighten up, but to loosen up. Where we need absolute saving is in the actual consumption of food, .not because the waste of food is always an economic crime, but because waste of it Just now Is a crime against civilization. To throw away bread when other mouths need It is to be a barbarian and a Hun, 'lY'illo fxi savings banks prosper as tj'they do we need uot despair of the Re- jR'.v public, Our thrift may not be the thrift '',lf of other peonies, but It is the thrift that is ' (,i i able, tp finance the greatest war in history iii'i.nI do it without extraordinary hardship. av t.J TALKATIVE HINDY -i 'P T ItlUAT incorrigible chatterbox, Von -, XRln!rtrurtT. is getting deeper into ' jailjteca vry day, Mr. Wilson, lie aay. raP UTWI jo anunue " uermans is only iMl)m cipser logeuier. financier MUai-BoliUiftn..he foretells a crush. ' "4T 1 ..f -. r -i: WrWtJ tne strafd WJK p ly fashion for an "Iron man" to do the talking? All the- tradition of military history Is against this sort of thing. Wellington sitting llko n statue on his horse for- twenty-six hours at Waterloo, Orant muttering a few syllables nlwut keeping at It If It took all summer, Wil liam the Silent, these and "scot es of other powerful figures havo' taught us to be lieve that tho typical great general never fights with his tongue. Halg and I'ctaln do not talk. Neither did Hlndcnburg until lately. But hit system has gono wrong nnd he has to fall back on what every failure comes to talk. I CHARGES OF TREASON T MUST bo for every one a sobering thought that Is brought by tho news that two Philadelphia editors have been indicted on the charge of tteason. Tho maximum penalty for men found guilty of this crime Is death. This Is the flist time since the Civil War that a citizen of Philadelphia has been accused of tteason, Home of the blame for the state of af fairs which has led to this pass must bo laid at the door of loyal Americans, who have petinlltcit tin incrcdlblo amount of disloyal talk, printed matter und action to go unchallenged. Pro-GernmuH havo been allowed to talk "aid and comfort to the enemy" in prluite conversations, to celvlng no moio ichuke than being laughed at. It Is natural that some heavy German minds have taken this genial at titude to mean Indifference, nnd have gone ahead ti .instating their feelings Into actions, as If we were not at war. Tho serious pha.se of the matter Is th.it professional American pacifists uro In effect doing the same things as the pro Germans, but are shrewdly keeping Just within tho law. They nic trying to make tho people believe that fieo speech and a free press are being .suppressed. It does not seem to bo generally understood Just how far a pacifist can go without being arrested. It is lawful to urge that any law bo lepealed In the regular man ner or that peace he sought immediately on any terms. It Is not only lawful but It is being dono every day by a tiny minority without punishment. Hut it is not lawful to urgo thnt a law be broken; It Is not lawful to tnke sides with tho enemy nnd give him aid nnd comfort. The line between the light and wrong of this matter Is as clear as a line diawn on a map. Xo one wants to blur that lino except friends of the German Government. POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS fTUIB declaration of the Mayor that he J- does not believe In political assess ments at this time, when the high cost of living is such a burden to most fam ilies, Indicates that his Honor is fully alive to the exigencies of the situation. There aro some thousands of families, however, not dependent on pay checks from the City Treasury, who cannot understand why u political assessment of five cents the thousand cubic feet of gas should be placed on them beginning next January. Wo Imagine that our political contractors Und the conduct of a cam paign In the "liloody Fifth" an expensive undertaking. TREATMENT OF SUSPICIOUS NATIONS WK 1)0 not doubt that the people of Sweden are themselves friendly to demon acy and aic disposed to favor tho cause of this nation against Knlseiism. But it is established that the Government of Swedn has been lending aid und com fort to the enemy. The privilege of com munication has been prostituted by the Swedish Government to assist Geunuuy lr her piratical Mnklng of merchant ships. The Government of Sweden has been made tho vehicle of German Intrigue. Before we can undertake to feed the people of Sweden and piovido them with the means to live we must, therefore, io celve guarantees that confidence In tho Swedish Government Is safe for democ tacy. The Swedes, In other wotds, must prove that they contiol their Government and that they control it In their own Intel est. C'aef-ur's wife should be above1 suspicion. BFti Is THE MYSTERIES OF BREAD RKAD Is cheaper In London than It of this poit, expects to bee a fourteen ounce loaf sell for a nickel before long. But right now a pound loaf sells In Lon don for four and a halt cents. "I am convinced that this cheap bread sold in London is not cannot be of a quality that would be acceptable to our people heie. It Is usually very dark In color and altogether coarse and unatti active," says Mr. Irwin. But the question need not depend upon any one's personal beliefs or convictions. The Kngllsh hiead can be unalyzed nnd its exact nutritive value determined. There need be no mystery about It. "We do not want to faie better or worse than our allies. Kngllsh people and Ameri cans must combine against the profiteers of both nations. We must have every fact we can get front the,Knglish to show up our own profiteers. Americans who mean to win this war at any cost will piefer to eat dark and unattractive biead to being gouged. What good will It do to have the wheat If we cannot afford to get the coal to bake It? The attempt of any union to strike first and adjust afterward cannot be coun tenanced when the shipbuilding program Ik menaced. The Government can treat only with men who are at work. The United States Government has It In Its power to save Switzerland or to ruin her. Professor Kappard, The land of William Tell and an cjent exponent of liberty and freedom In Europe will never be ruined by the United States. On Saturday the point was made that for the year 1913 "the gieat city of Philadelphia the ninth In point of lrn poitance in the world had an annual industrial output doubling the total Indus trial output of the whole State of Japan." The wealth of Philadelphia would be munificence to many independent nations, et we have citizens who give ,the Jnt- 'i.i.,. ...- ..... . ,;,..,' ., vMw f infuiDttsa STORAGE OF UNCLE SAM'S GOODS EX-DIRECTORCOOKE'S WAR TASK Government's Warehouse Problem Presents Many Difficulties Organization Being Built Up to Save Transportation Systems From Dislocation By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU 1'UY "TELL UNCLE SAM I'M READY, TOO, UNCLE DICK" WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. NO UliTTHR example of the renuirkablo co-operation that Is coming Into ex istence between tho commercial Interests of tho United States and tho military could bo found than in tho work of Morris U Ccoke, former Director of Public Works of tho city of Philadelphia, but now chahman of the storage rurninltteo of the Council of National defense I called upon Mr Cooke totlay and found hlin In tho midst of many activities. Ills ofllco Is in the new Interior Department building, a lingo stiuctmc of the Govern ment, ireently completed. In that building Is located tho storage committee of tho council Morris L. Cooke directs Its ncllvitlcs. which urn multitudinous, lie Is a man of intenso activity, cnpablo of lending his mind to many details at the same time, Incisive, quick of decision and of action. Ho l accomplishing much to ward hecurlng stornf,o capacity for tho Gov eminent for all thoso supplies that aro to maintain that rapidly Inci casing Amer ican army that Is to do Its part toward whipping the Kaiser. Ills is tho task of finding a place to put every item that the Government needs that It may bo kc.pt handy and without deterioration until it is needed. Tho first point In mch a task is the building up of a personnel that Is equal to It. Tho Gov ernment has never before gone with busl ncssllko thoroURhners Into the Horago problem on anything like this stupendous basis. Now It has asked tho men of tho nation who know most about wareliout-es to help It build up an organization. Colleges Train Workers The storago committee has looked over the v. alehouse situation of tho nation. It has begun by saying to tho great ware housemen: "Tho Govcinniciit needs experts in taking care of Its supplies. Who havo you In jour employ who can help win tho war?'1 Tho warehouse operators throughout the country havo offered their experts These men havo gone regularly Into the Govern ment service. Many of them hafcj been commissioned In tho army. They are lieu tenants and captains and majors. They draw from $2000 to $3000 a J ear. Some of them have drawn salaries ten times as great before tho war. But for the tasks In hand there havo not been enough such men. It was found necessary that many men should be ti allied for this rervlce. A number of colleges have co-operated In the development of stoiage cxpoils. There are schools In half a dozen of these now turning out trained men. Theo joungsters are taught how to go Into a marsh and prepaie a stoiage depot In bucli a way that supplies may bo placed there and will nut deteriorate. They know how to take o.iro of the cargo of a ship when unloaded on a duck In I'tarice. They aro given Intensive and practical training for two months and put to work. The personnel is only an Incident to tho work of Mr. 1'ool.o's committee. Tho pioblem nri-es from two main con ditions first. the enormous purchases which the Government is making, and, fcc ond, the heavy demands upon tho railroads for transportation service The former will result In great nccuiniilatlori of mate rials during tho process of manufacture arid In the abM-mhUng of vast quantities of finished product pi lor to use hero or ship ment to Prance, and the latter Is going to Interfere with the transportation service given to general business, producing from time to time much accumulation of raw materials and finished products In all Hues of business The storago committee has been at work for many weeks In connection with the first phase of tho pioblem and has been of far-reaching assistance to tho War and Navy Departments, not merely hi making clear the nature und extent of tho problem and tho measures which must be taken to meet It, but In effectively co-operating In putting there Into effect. Economy Is Essential There are Ave branches of the army which aro actively Interested In tho stor age problem the Ordnance Department, the Signal Corps (Including aviation), the Medical Corps, the Engineering Corps and the Quarter master's Department and tho Secretary of War has appointed a board composed of a reprepentatlvo of each of tho above departments and two members of the storage committee of the Council of National Defense. This Is lenovvn as tho depot board and Is assisting in ro-ordl-natlng the work of the flvo departments In meeting the storage problem. Three principal considerations have been In mind first, to develop storago facilities at points of production, to avoid congestion In manufacture; second, to develop storage facilities for finished goods near tho -point of consumption or of shipment abroad In order to minimize the need for railroad cars, and, third, In general to create condi tions under which railroad cais will not be used for storage purposes. Large storage facilities at points of pro duction are necessary, because an even flow ;f raw materials, supplies and finished product cannot be anticipated when the present enormous emergency work Is being done and when business conditions gener ally are upset by the extraordinary condl tlons prevailing during tho war. All pro ducers and manufacturers are therefore urged to create additional storage facilities. Unusual measures must be taken to meet unusual conditions. In nddltlon, storage facilities near the point of consumption or of shipment abroad are needed so that goods may be shipped only once. Kvery economy must be prac ticed In the use of transportation facilities, and tho Government must see to It that in connection with Government purchases no avoidable demands are made upon railroads, overburdened as they are by a load beyond their utmost capacity. If' trie Government were to ship to one warehouse and later ship the same goods to another warehouse, or ship goods back and forth from ware houses to points of consumption or forelan shipment, rllJ.WHH;t W9iiM u4 pieparallons nro maelo to store uiatetlals or goods on the arrival of railroad cars, thesq railroad cars themselves inunt of necessity be used to storo materials and goods for fcrolgrt shipment. Ocean tram portatlon at tho best is Irregular and today tho conditions are uncertain, to say tho leas't. Often In the last two years ship ments for Prance and England have so ac cumulated at Now York nnd cither ports that many hundreds of cats for months have not only blocked terminal facilities but ehlo tracks nil the wny to Huffalo nnd Pittsburgh. Tho work of the storage com mittee, is directed toward avoiding this condition cm the enormous shipments to he made by our own Government. The Baling of Goods Other activities of tho Btorago committee In connection with tho Government situa tion havo related to the' baling of products for shipment, developing motortruck haul uno for short distances, placing experienced warehousemen at the disposal of Govern ment bureaus nnd departments, and through committees of experts studying terminal nnd port facilities. Itegardlng tho first point, It may bo said that haling or compressing products for shipment is developing great possibilities for saving transportation rpace Already socks ami blankets aro being baled, nnd sat isfactory pr ogress is being maelo toward baling uniforms, shoes, nnd even prunes Hales aro covered with a waterproof ma terial which Is later used for sand bags at tho float. One collateinl advantage of bal ing is that ue can ho mado nt flat cars in shipping merchandise. Again, tho uso of motortrucks for short haul Is necessary to release freight cars for long haul Ilalltoad cars havo fre quently been used In cities to transport goods only a few blocks. In lluropo today motortrucks are used In many places for all haulage under forty miles. Now that nur demand upon tho rallroada Is so great. no time Is lo bo lost hr making uso of tho opportunities presented by motortrucks for short hauls. Furthermore, the storage committee has called upon large shippers nnd warehouse men In all parts of tho country for men of exper lonco In handling transportation and warchou'o problems and has recommended hundreds of such men to tho Government for service hr the departments. Many men who a few weeks ago wore drawing salaries of ten, fifteen and twenty thousand dollars a jear In Important commercial positions are now working for the Government at the modest pay of men In chargo of Govern ment w alehouses for the receipt or handling of freight fur our auules. Such men ate already in Prance. Other efforts of tho storage committee havo resulted In special courses training men at tho Universities of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Washington, Dartmouth, Chicago, Northwestern, Georgia, Columbia and III1-nul-. Neatly one thousand men who nro now-attending, or who have attended, these courses havo enlisted In the Government servlco for tho period of the war. An activity of tho storage committee which can only bo referred to Is tho work of the committee on terminal port facilities. This committee has mado extensive Investi gations and its report Is now the basis of action by the depot board above refened to. All Business Affected What has been said above relates to the storago problem of the Government, but business men wilt no doubt Pee much In what tho Government Is doing which will suggest similar action upon their part In connection with their own business. In fact, the storage committee believes that what has been done for the Government t'an be tnadn of general help to business men. livery business man Is Interested In the effective meeting of the storago problems of his own, because the storage problem is a rart of the greater trans portation problem which affects all busi ness. The railroads are doing more than ever before, but the burden Is overwhelming, for business In this country today Is on a scale never before approached. On the one hand, the supply of new equipment Is restricted by material and labor conditions, and, on the other hand, not only Is exist ing equipment being given to our Allies, bui the output of many of our car and loco motive plants Is given to them because their need Is greater than ours. Therefore, with little opportunity of securing new equipment and having to rely upon what they have, using this to tho utmost until It wears out, the railroads aro called upon for Increasingly great efforts as our busi ness everywhere expands. But the general principles of the work may be given the public. It Is not stated where the great supply depots are to be located. It Is known that warehouses In existence are entirely Inadequate and that they are already glutted with business. The Government will build many great new warehouses at many points, build them strategically, place them with the Idea of economizing railroad haul and double han dling. The efficiency experts of a nation will work out the system. Probably the business of the nation will later profit by the lessons learned. It Is only nn item In the vast machine for winning the war a machine so vast that but a flash of it may be secured here and there as the titanic task In hand goes forward. In that flash Is revealed here and there a Phlladelphlan who Is performing a man-size Job. " v. W Csyo.a.0 - r iWJ I H THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Election of Judges Price of Sil ver Taylor and the Lease Tins ihiiarlmrnt f tree In all irnifti v ho 1'lh to rxjurvi (fifir epmioiii mi MiWrcru " rui-imt iiilcresl. it Ii (in niim ormn unit the l.icntito l.iio'f aisuwrs iiu ivsiioiislMlili or the Vitus of (M corirspnntlcnts. I.ittcts inuit he signed hy the name and add) ess of the writer, not ucceitarilv for jiutllcalloii, uut as a uittirantce of aood faith, FORMER JUDGE APPEALS FOR JUDGES 7 o the ndttnr of the Evening Ledger. Sir In what I shall say horcln I Imply no ndverso criticism of any gentleman of the bar who may aspiro to judicial olllce. I am solicitous In the coming election of but one thing, namcl, that Judges who have well performed tho dutic of the. Judicial oflicc should not be deposed at nil. and especially that they should not fall evf elec tion through accident duo to tho compli cated ballot required by existing law To this proposition every thoughtful lawyer and citizen, It Is believed, will agree. At recent elections had under the present form of ballot It has happened that tho can didates wileso names havo been given pre eminence by being at tho top or at the bottom of the ballot (by reason of tho re quired alphabetical older) have had an Inci eased vote. In borne cases tic Interme diate names have suffered serious loss. At the coining election this may happen again, to the Injury cf present acting Judges. For example, tho name of Judge Mc Mfchael, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 3, will probably be below or about the middle of tho list ot can didates on tho ballot. Haste or thoughtless ness Jn voting might lend to a loss of a sub stantial number of votes. This nesult would be a catastrophe. Ho has well' performed tho duties of a Judge for twenty enrs. Tho same condition may happen In other lists of Judicial candidates, Theio Is no provision mado that present Incumbents shall bo Indicated on tho ballot. It would seem to me that your newspaper might well com ment on this condition et things so that no mistakes shall bo Innocently made at tho primary election on Wednesday, It will be remembered that the pilmary vote may be the equivalent of an election, since a candidate at the primal y who receives more than DO per cent of the entire vote cast for the highest candidate will have to meet no opponent at the general election In No vember. WILLIAM W. POUTCK. Former Judge of tho Superior C'ouit of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, September 15 A BUDGET OF JAPANESE GOSSIP Toklo, with 2.00P.OOO people, has 761 newspapers and magazines, besides thirty eight news agencies. The city consumes J10,000,000 worth of fish annually. "Erla," meaning "famous, splendid," sf the catenworu in japan loaay. It Is the "hallmark" of good society and modern Japanese literature, says Mr. Tanaka in the JIJI, One thousand graduates for the Girls Dental School have applied to the Home Ofllce for examination. Many of them hate to,.draw teeth. Kquetrlanim bos become fashionable among Tokiov ladles, and the geisha are taxing vone.'iporj., witir entnuauma, ,y r-iiV.oBiiriori I -M' THE PRICE OF SILVER To the Udttor of the Evening Ledger: Sir I Inclose a clipping from tho edi torial column of tho Evening i-edoer, of September 14 stating: "The silver In a sil ver dollar Is now worth a dollar.' Silver. Iherefore, Is where It belongs, and so Is Mr, Bo an." I wish to call your attention to tho fact thut In order that the bullion In a silver dollar may be worth a dollar In American money sliver must sell nt 51.29 an ounce. It Is quoted today at slightly above $1 an ounce. Your statement, therefore, Is a mistake, Your reference to Mr. Bryan Is, I think, Inadvertently correct. Mr. Bryan Is where he belongs, to wit,: An American citizen, using his magnificent powers In supporting the President In his efforts to wIiId the Kaiser. It would be better for all con cerned If the editorial writers of our great, Influential papers were better Informed as to the silver controversy and as to Mr. Bryan. , I think you would do well to correct this statement, for some one, depending upon It as to sliver and finding bullion worth but $1,01 or J1.02 per ounce, might melt down his coin In a hope of realizing a prollt. If he did he would find himself to the bad to the extent of twenty-five cents plus to the ounce. No one of the six to seven million Ameri cans who voted for Mr. Bryan for Tresl dent three- times will be misled by your estimate of him, so It needs no correction. WILLIAM II. BCRKY. Philadelphia. September 14. Its trenches and these trenches would he occupied with tho Demo-Independent allied army, would not these forces Boon becomo tired of tho care and expense of a lonjr war? Would not some of them sleep on their posts and otherwlso become care lesf, and would not tho trained veterans of the Itepubllcan army soon make n suc ccisful counter-attack and win back the sector of Philadelphia? Would It not ho better (as long as we are not sitro of even a temporary taking of the eiicniy trenches and as we cannot depend upon tho wakefulness and cfllclency of our forces) to hcaro them to death? You know till i comes very near to killing them. My plan Is this: Let the Evening I.Kiiarm come out In tho open for strnlght put, undiluted Slnglo Tav With such an itrlittcnllal nowspapcr supporting that cause, tho candidates of tho Single Tax party would ieceivo not fewer than 20,000 votes. What then? This, of course, would not elect the Slnglo Tt.x party candidates, and tho same may bo said of tho 50,000 or 60,000 votes which tho Dcino-Independent ticket would iccotvo, bin Oh, Hoy! Oh, Joy! where would tho Gang go from hero when tho returns would show that 20,000 stood up to he counted for some thing really fundamental something which will not only stop political graft for, whlcn some servlco Is rendered but will stop lano graft, for which no service whatever Is rcn deied, OHVEIt MCKNIGHT. Philadelphia, September 13. SUPPORTS MR. TAYLOR 7'o the Editor ot the Evening Ledger: Sir Having known Mr. A, Merrltt Taylor for a number of years, and feeling that he is unqualifiedly right In his position regard ing the new transit lease, I wish simply to teglster as one of the many who will back him und sou up in our fight. WALTEIl H. THOMAS. Philadelphia, September 14. RADICAL ADVICE To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir The Evening, ledqeh Is to be com mended for the fight It Is making against political and other forms of graft, but It seems to me you are doomed to disappoint ment It you think a majority of the voters of Philadelphia will go so far as to vote right. In order to develop even a respectable Republican must combine with what Ja lift, of th Damocratlo machine, ,but all told THE PRICE OF GAS To the Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir In your remarks upon tho terms upon which the consumers cun obtain gas ou are doing a great service to your read ers. Tho raw fiaud of charging Jl for a cubic thousand feet of gas on condition that tho producing company pav twenty cents to the city becomes Intolerable when a little attention Is paid to tho real cost of production and distribution. And every thno tho price of gas Is stirred up, the agi tation In jour neighboring cities, especial ly those of New Jersey, Is conducted with reference to the price paid in Philadelphia. The people know that they have the power, collectively as a municipality, to manufacture and distribute gas. They aro well awaro that they owe a duty to them selves to get nil the utilities and service that can be got from tho social state. C. Atlantic City, September 13. COMMENDS "R. M. B., 4TH" 7'o tho Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir Please permit me to express my approval of "It. M. B. 4th's" attitude on the subject of "Ncgroei as Fighters." There are. I believe, more than 350,000 negroes In Pennsylvania between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one. I was. In deed, proud to write an emphatic ".Vol" when I camo to the question, "Do vou In tend to claim exemption?" But 'i And, according to an evening contemporary, who .u...,a..v. ,.,a o.uuaitiB uinu aoove, mat more than 22,000 negroes In our State wrote "Yes!" ONE WHO IS SERVING HIS COUNTRY WITHOUT GOLD BP.AID OR GLORY Philadelphia, September 8. AN AUTOCRACY NEARER HOME Prussia Is not the only obnoxious autoc racy on trial for Its life. There Is one much nearer home. It la called Tammany. Its fate will be decided by the New York municipal election In November. No less nn eminent citizen than Charles E. Hughes pronounces tho Mltchel admin titration the best the city ever had. Mayor uiiciiei in miming ror re-election. Tam many opposes htm, for the very good leaBon that Mayor Mltchel has kept Tammany out In the cold, Tammany ovvesNhe Mayor no more than the Mayor owes Tammany, which Is precisely nothing. c" So the Tammany autocracy, led by the redoubtable Murphy, proposes to unseat Mltchel. The organization has been eight years out of power and the braves are hungry. In a Bense. the fate of the system hangs on the election, for Tammany can not exist Indefinitely without contact with the salary r9lls ; another four years of In voluntary fasting may well prove the tigers' complete undolngi Here, then, is a home-made, home-suu-portlng autocracy which the Intelligent voters of the metropolis are asked to quash once for all. The Issue between Mltchel and MUrphy, regardless of who his candi date for Mayor may be, Is dne between democracy In polltlps and autocracy In politics between letting the people of AmftrlrA'M nhlj.f flfv hihi el.. I. Lernment as suite thIr,-,wlahtancl their What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Name tire Kumlsn otxrat f ouiel m I torlcal happening!. . 2. What Is the meanlnt ef th Frutk i nun," uied In connection irlta i 3. In what month did thi Atlmlu besln? 4. What Is the dlftVrrnr hitman - nnd evening rainbow no wethr lions'.- S. What was the object ot the Ko-KJuuJ 6. To the armr of what nation tow ! ceneral bugano belont? 7. What Is a thurible? 8. What EniUsh romance hit bta In a "a hrn t If limit a. naval la. dlntlnctlon to Tfaackc-ru'o "V.rdtj lafcfl which has been railed "a nocriwltiiil liero"T j What were the seven vrondtn of tie M die At eo? -J ..... ,.... . . - . : t.iin i popunarir raced n uernunri I Important llvlni- port? Answers to Saturday's Qui. i "hpurlns Teroenlct" mrtoi took iriatifl leavlnt a trace. It veto too MlnUter'R direction for wb.l nh I done with Argentine merctuutaio. Daenos Aires is the capital ot tit An Itepublle. A typhoon la a violent harrtciM b hfl China teat. Amor It a port M I southeastern roatt ot Calia. Formosa. A porte-cochere is a carriage tntruc. ('roan-trees are tno horiionlal hers at head of lower and too mud. In 1848 a British train madt ibtHl miles un hour. The ftat nai. tf I ecDtlonal at that time. The Society of Tammanr m ftroti I 180, being the effect of MtuaM ment In New York to oppot the) I "nrlMocratle" Society of the Old Tho Chautauqua Institution wt i In 1874 for public education bj i lectures, concerts, etc. A nedometer Is an Instrument ftr I Inc distances traveled on foot hr I Ine the number ot atepa last. The language of Brazil It Fortune!. ' H m m OLD SWEDES' CHURCH, J int. tim. el,.. ..'no. Knms IndecilloB si 1UJ. unio ...t.v .. jaaj to the proper locale for the new tmwsj 8, 0. 10, F Some thought It should be built "J the minister's house and gardens w' V"J place Is now Point areczej. "--the site of the old blockhouse church at Wlcaco, at that time nan - .. ..-- n-. .ll..i..in.nr 1C2.9 gl I me cuy. job uiit""- -, .puia settled by writing "Wlcaco nd ,"3 yunk" on two bits of paper, foldlnt . shaking them in a nat ana n on the ground, wicaco v,i. ..,,,, Catharine Swanson gave tM J""LJ which the edifice was to rise. ,"" of erection commenced on way "J Just about two years later Swedes wvm was dedicated by the Ilev. Eric ffim A great concourse ui ip''i - -. j, came to attcnu ine cereim.... -- --. cation, marveling nt the masnincentwij ture. At this service the church rwt the name of "Gloria Del,' or TMJ of God." . ,,,, ,i til ...-. l .'at"rf.1. VhV I CUY, ' I union ui cnui fc" - -;; ... . m the Swedes should want It road " tlful as possible. Already about Swedish dollars naa ueeu "y'A.hatitlstM came the Installation of an antique b.puaj font of marble, ine pa. - - other esthetlo adornments Am'M was a strange carving " esteMH lery of two cherubs with wlnii '"rgM ovr an open Bible. A "$1 Isaiah 'The people who wall" , J3 ness have seen a great sh , In Swedish on one of the pa- XZ site page contains that pa 'j New Testament describing . "'"bi the Saviour's birth ?"'".. pure Glory to God In the 11 ghest Wfl of an organ and a bell, partly c' an older one. helped to add to tM pleteness and beauty of the church , The mind easily conjures up tureBque aspects of those Ul ' , Swedes lived far apart, and th it " obliged to come a great dl-JU'W " services, they must have ' Provl and pictorial sight each Sunday way up and down the river. TP ..... ...ii, eh morning nynui . , v.T v'ug." and ih. flr.t Mrw. breached between the flrat ana - . lng of the bells. eh, the Old Testament and one v l were read and then expi '- ,l4 m service was ended the " baclc home, a couple n "J.JwJi elders lingered, discussing their g llefs. sometimes wi ivt t,i On lousra huiii Mt. --. i latteri irom oi (l v, Gloria Dal still stands wh ' "! -..l.. eM,M l.nrirrf veSrS-. j XOr; llflil - .....".. - ,.aatC rent , ivlronment. i nowey ,j m
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