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BICIpnON TERMS
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lJ?Jt'- CAnaoVEr United BUtra pea"
wajMj. Kk (M) dollars Mr yaar, payable, In
mU& feretsm eeaatrle ona (1) dollar per
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at a-fr aid a waft t naw address.
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MORE BILLIONSPOR LIBERTY
npHB campaign to launch the second
groat lAtwty Loan logins today. Tho
call )a for a. mlnlmusi of three billions.
Ton jratm ago tho Immensity of tho sum
would' bavo staggered the Imagination.
Clue then ovr theories of finance
hava ' Uh4arjme radical revision and
wa Jiava -Acun to understand that
tha, proapr" ef the world has been hand!.
i cappejoySy our failure property to tap tho
laouraaVof credit and utilize the wealth
aa earth for the good and comfort ot
go. lnhabMaa4 thereof. If the war does
nothing more. It has definitely shown the
way to tha achievement of prodigious
peaceful undertakings!, tho financing of
which a generation ago, or even four
years aaa, would have seemed hopeless
and tnapoaaible. No man after this 1U
.question tho financial feasibility of con
structing a- aubway under the English
phannet and a transcontinental railway,
via Alaska, would cost no more than a
week or two of war. We have had tho
wealth all along, but have been unable to
utillM the evidences of it ful' and com
prehnWiy. The war, wr surmise, will
prepay. Uta way for tblorsat national and
International enterprlae's of' priceless
wrUi to the eMBfort and well-being of
thahtma mm.
XfaMr hi merely money. The nation's
ropa tfcfa year will he worth at least
two Unions mora tha.1 they were worth
hut yv What ! true of crops I3 truo
f nsaJMKactures, Vast as are tho national
xpaMttMrec, '? do not outrun the
I lnjawzn.deei, the nation sucks
Mk
a- largo part of the
ilbod that Is taken from them.
( process W a remarkable one and
tlnetly ehcoraglng. But were this not
wre avory dollar spent on the. war
leav them shores forever, were
man who supplies a dollar ever
It back; or any Interest upon It,
tken the entire amount asked by
lOovernment would bo subscribed and
sjild Jm a good Investment.
(oner i erely money. Man after man
gotta Bankrupt and lived to ride In
or yachts. There Is alwayB
' to bo got. The world is full
4 It. JKt fw individuals have lost their
obarawtar ad got it back. Few have sac
ilAoa WalaVaepect and lived to regain
forma atoIng, A nation can never be
paujsartMd ay offering its cash in defense
ot its iafcaltv, It can sink Into nothing-
1 only by making gold Instead of Ideals
Ita Idol, Croesus had wealth, but It
.vallatt Mm not, and men of Carthage,
cfeo Yal their wealth above the liber
1 oftbo Mate, awoke to find that they
uatthar wealth nor liberty, but were
L'n-afuoeA to Oh condition of slaves. This
MKtntry eouM afford to sacrifice every
lauoco ot oM that Is in It, every cent
income It possesses, and begin again
artNtr our ancestors began If it were nec
HM-uy to pay auch a price for the ylndlca
paj of Um principles which are menaced
ftttj-MnA by the conspiracy or
Tfcare aro few men who can
Hot ta subscribe to the new loan,
It U Oa ot medium through which
ry uttt aa testify to his Indorse-
I T , kfa lovo of country and
1 tfavotMat to Ha Institutions.
0 tajto that a threo-billlon-dollar
W at amau thing to ask. It
nraaprf4a at all to the con-
In a4 blood which the
la oaadttaar- We wno can give.
loved omm n also end our
jjkjra, Mf hap leBJlng or giving
avebaen-attained."
Isaaertapi that Phila7
t'Ma ana -Mttld set an exam-
(aw TMa- pawtry in the prompt.
tt ta asvccftpnaaw, far history has
tMa str ts Jaial iear In all
ftattoneJ maaas g$t, (ha pr.
'rs-iultlng It ts wrt aur while to
aUitti
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kFAN'S XONBOK D0CT1IXK
dik..n)r) of a MJaaajMaa
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: i'vfiw w I"- rmx apaax
fat J'i w of a fnn ai
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ornment la most frank and reassuring.
Ills country la pledged to defend China
against aggression, Just aa wo aro pledged
to protect South America. He maintain
that Japan has no desire to attack
Chinese sovereignty nnd that tho door
lc open to tho world's trade.
Ishll asks us" to "cast out tho devil ot
suspicion and distrust." Ills principal
message seems to be that all thought of
a future possible war between his country
and ours should bo abandoned forever,
uim wo certainty nave met him nan
waj. Distrust of Japan's motives has
olwaya been a manufactured product in
this country. AVhenover a Congress
man wanted to strengthen an argument
for more battleships, ho nald, "Look at
Japanl" Ho was not concerned for
Chlncso sovereignty, and he knew that
fighting was no wuy to get trade. But
Is was an cuay argument to cry, "Look
at Japan!" and the habit was rormco. n
li a habit that we are going to cut out,
beginning now.
TWIN ALLEGIANCES
PHILADELPHIA and New York are
now engaged In a fight to a finish
,wlth gang autocracy. The issue In both
cases Is whether the people are to own
their own city or hand it over to a little
group of corrupt men. While we nro
fighting for democracy abroad wo ure
fighting for It at home.
Thus the pacIflco-Soc,lallst, that strange
hyphen of tho times, is answered Ho
has been whining that wo ought to make
America safe for democracy while making
the world safe for It. But that is what
we are trying to do, while he helps tho
Kaiser with one hand and tho city gang
with tho other. Ho will not vote for
Mltchel, Just as ho would not voto for
Blankenburg or for Porter.
t It may be said that a man has twin
allegiances: ono to his country and ono
to his city. The two go hand In hand.
It is not only civic patriotism, It is na
tional patriotism lis well, that demands
tho defeat of the gang In November. For
the outrages committed by city gangs
distract men's attention from their na
tional duty. Theso gangs help our ene
mies abroad by stirring up dissension at
the very time that wo should be most
united.
EFFECT OF STEEL PRICES ON
TRANSIT
HAVE never bad much faith In
I F SOI
some of the extremely high esti
mates of the cost of tho new transit sys
tem. Mr. Taylor has averred that wltn
reasonable caro In the awarding of con
tracts It would be posslblo to keep far
below the cost on which recent calcula
tions have been made. In view of the
prlcesafor steel recently fixed by the Gov
ernment, which may bo considered maxi
mum prices for some time to come, would
It not bo worth the while of tho Depart
ment ftf PltV TVnnsIt in nrnnnra nan, nc
tlmates? Deficits that nro so much tnlked
about result In large part from prospec-
tlvo abnormally high cost of construction.
If we can get tho first cost back to a rea
sonable figure, we may get tho leaso ne
gotiation back also to a reasonable basis.
METHOD IN GERMAN MADNESS
KITCHENER at the beginning of the
war asked Parliament to authorize
tho enlistment of 500,000 men, which
seemed so trivial a preparation, begun at
the eleventh hour to head oft Germany's
countless legions, that Matthias Erzber
ger broke Into loud guffaws. Ho wrote:
Germany will be enchanted when this
halt million advance against us. We
wilt put pome old military man. so de
crepit that he can hardly Bit on his horse,
In command of a squadron of seml-lma-lids,
and he will soon capture all these
English and turn them over to a Barnum
to be shown at fairs as the .atest wonder
of tho world 1
But Great Britain has raised nearly
5,500,000 men and her dominions another
1,000,000 for the British army. So there
must be a new Joke, the American army.
Says the Lelpzlger Neueste Nachrlchten:
Heally, any one who has seen parts of
the regular army of the Americans and
knows something of the modern history
of these braves Is reminded of Falstaff's
Ouards. Hlndenburg Will make short
work of the recrultH and volunteers from
the other side of the great pond should
there be time enough to enable them to
bs trained. Conscientious and cautious
study enables us to say that we need not
overestimate the American danger.
And now Von Tlrpltz Informs the Hun
garlans that America's army is a phan
tom and that -oil Gentral Europe has to
do is to hold fast while tho U-boats win
tho war, 'although1 Her knows that the
U-boat campaign Is n failure.
But It' would" b'e most" unwise" 'to dls
miss this talk as mere froth. There Is
method in the madness of these state
ments. They prove that It Is the inten
tion of the German ruling class to deceive
the people to the end. They prove that
what We have before us Is no mere flour
ish of arms, but some very real and ter
rible fighting. The masters of Germany
know their country is beaten, but they
are only concerned for themselves. .It is
their own future they are fighting for.
If they made peace now on reasonable
terms they would see- their own power
gone. Bather than that they will prefer
to see Germany so crippled and hu
miliated that she will not have spirit
enough left to ask for self-government.
They are not waiting for the Allies to
wear themselves out They are waiting
for Germany to wear herself out, so that
she win fair, a broken and Intimidated
slave, to be ruled over by their sons.
Lending the Government money Is
Just another way of buying an annuity,
Mayor Stands by Bennett Haadllne.
Well, the, evidence seems to show
that Bennett stood by the Mayor,
The London 'Times feels that Ger
jaany baa closed the door to peace.
jCaybe so, but wo can't help believing that
Pershing will open it.
We do not thmk that any Con
greaaraen gdt monejfi from the. German
CJoyomment, ljut itis, beyond Question
tkt soma of them earned It
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PARADISE WOOD
A Colonel Tells of an Episode
Near Chemln-des-
Dames
By HENRI BAZIN
Slat Corrtntxxident l Hit Kvenha .erfocr tvtlh
American Armv l Franca ,-
AMERICAN KEADqUAKTEIta IN
vrtAvriH Kent 10
- .y OFFICER, escort said to me! "Let
jyj
us visit a regiment that has Just come
out of the trenches after a full forty days'
stay, during which time It successfully
stood the shock of formidable Boche at
tacks upon three different occasions,"
Our car rolled rapidly toward n little Ul
lage, a village that, like hdndreds of others
I have seen this last year, was a ruined
habitation of peaceful country folk. Tho
regiment of chasseurs had been thcro
tlfree days, coming direct from front-line
trenches Their objective was a partial
cleaning up ere full repose, a change ot
clothing, n decent wash, luxuries that the
pollua of Franco hae almost forgotten
these last three years, and which in mild
astonishment they find are still part and
parcel of the life of peace they luc left
behind them.
They had scrubbed themseUcs and
washed themsehes, changed their undei
wear and shirts and socks, put on new uni
forms In either part or whole, and for the
first time In more than a month rcmoed the
mud from their boots and leggings Hut for
the unmlstakablo expression of men who
have fought, they were ns new soldiers.
The Bky overhead was grny and the re
cent unaccountable August rains, for all
the world, rave Iclness. llko those of No
vember, continued. The village streets were
mlret of mud It was a tiny lllago with
few houses left standing, nnd most of these
showing shell or shrapnel scar. Little gar
dens sloped from the gray Btono moss-co-ered
cottages to the roud, a mass nt red field
popples and marguerites, the grass showing
through them hero nnd there, n touch of
green and red nnd gold and white.
The colonel with a few of his ofllcers,
received us In a peasant's modest home,
a simple liouso of a story and a hnlf. with
the typical sloping roof of the French
country districts. Hero In a scantily fur
nished room he smiled upon us, bade us
welcome and without ado led us to n
table on which a map was spread. And In
quiet tones he told of one of forty days-
"We stood In the trenches In Paris wood
on the Clicmln-des.Damcs, opposite Courte
con, still In the hands of the enemy You
know the Cliemln-des-DameH It Is or was,
until torn to pieces by xltellflrc. nn ancient
Itoman road elevated nboe water lecl
through a low section resting upon a
height, rebuilt In tho Napoleonic era on the
plateau rising north from Kolssons and
northeast ot Ithclms nbout the vlllnge of
Craonne
A Veritable Inferno
"It Is upon the outlined form of this
plateau that the front shapes Itself nt this
section, Its edges of spur-shaped land den
tiled between little alleys.
"Paradise wood Is partially Inclosed In
one of these alleys. The trenches of our
regiment were In Its very center, first, sec
ond nnd third line with communications
On tho fourth day after our occupation of
this sector, at 8 o'clock In the evening, a
hall of Itoche shells began to fall upon our
lines. It was a veritable inferno, great
shells sent toward us and bursting every
where about us, destroying small nhrl and
observation, breaking connection with the
rear That meant the Immediate establish
ment of a relay courier system. In which
man after man picks up a message nnd
carries It under fire to a given point. It's
life-giving business, nnd to avoid loss of
the message In transmission I divided tho
relays Into two sections, starting from dif
ferent points and going toward tho objective
by different routes Sometimes both reached
home' ; sometimes but one. And often during
that day neither.
"We knew an attack would follow the
bombardment Probably the attack would
begin In cloce formation Immediately after
the bombardment ceased And when this
moment should be announced by n lull In
the storm of shells thrown upon us, our
men stood to tnlte to the open, to leavo
their deep shelters nnd girded to the loins,
receive the Boche shock We had only ona
aim the aim of Verdun and all the rest ot
It 'They shall not pass '"
"Hut on this occasion the grenadiers of
the Guard left their trenches before the
bombardment ceased, while their artillery
was still launching shells upon the terrl
torv to be assaulted
"Here and there along the line our de
fenses were a wreck. Here nnd there, too,
we had no mon living to defend them. Here
and there finally, we held firm, a little group
of heroic men standing fast In a hell of
fire Ono of the couriers sent forward with
Instructions from myself to Major .
saw the enemy's preparation for assault
and understood It was to be something new.
an assault with a continuous fire. Instead
of an assault after fire He Immediately
abandoned his mission, returned to me and
delivered the Information, Indicating to .me
on this veiy map the portions of our line
that were destroyed, the portions still hold
ing. I sent him back for further recon
naissance. He never returned.
Hand-to-Hand Fighting
"Hut the information he had given me
enabled me to learn that a mitrailleuse
squad was pouring lead with deadly de
struction Into the Boche and that two com
panies hnd counter-attacked with tho Hoche
attack and broken through, to be Imme
diately surrounded ; that Captain , with
one company, had come to the rescue and
broken the Boche line. I sent forward a
fresh battalion In counter-attack. They
went through the enemy line like a train
through a tunnel and took as prisoners
Boche troops that had held some of their
comrades captive for twelve minutes.
"There was death nil about. Hand to
hand and body to body, men fought and
died and won and lost, amid shell explosion
and bayonet thrust. Later we found two
of our machine guns Intact and every man
ot 4ach crew dead about them. We fought
the fight alt night and gave more than we
lost At dawn we held true to the previous
night's positions, save for a few meters here
and there, and by 9 in the morning we
had regained these. Not a foot of our line
was In enemy hands. Not an observation
post belonging to us was taken. All our
line was ours. Our dead and theirs attested
why."
After a moment's silence he said, "Let
US stroll through the village."
Here during this walk I saw again the
true France, the fighting France, that has
astonished Germany and tho world; saw
why France Is what she Is what she has
so jolten proved Herself to be during these
last three years. Saw it in countless little
significant ways. For one, the smiles of
affection between the colonel and his men.
"They are all des braves," he said; "aiL
Ce chers enfant si"
Stopping to speak to some of them I
was struck by a cUrlous combination of
pride and confusion In their expression
They all had about the same thing to say
to me; yes. It had been something like
hell out there, but they had come through
It and after a little while they would.be
ready to go In It again if need be. They
had had a chance to clean up, to eat, to
sleep and rest; never had the plnard taa&d
so good, and now they waro going en repos.
back home to see their own, And bna
added with a smile, "I'll be glad tp ,, mZ
Wlf and tho two faovl train II
I looked at this smlllnir. no lm,r. ......
ntan who was going home fcw a timr .n.ii
mt hra aani a waXa
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Tom Daly's Column
TO A VLAJN SWVETltVART
I lovo thec, dear, for what thou art,
Nor would I have thec otherwise,
.For tcTien thy lashes lift apart,
I read, dccp-mlrrorcd In thine eyes
The olorv of a sinless heart.
Wert thou as fair as thou art pood,
It ucrc not given to any man
With darlna eves of flesh and blood
To look thee In the face and scan
The splendor of thy womanhood.
Clawss
HATUrtDAY. nt 2:30 p. m. approxi
mately, I was eating nnd drinking un ico
cream soda ut a well-known Chestnut
street candy store where tho material is
good and tho girl behind tho counter a
bit untidy. I puld ten cents for said boda
nnd had not less than ono thousand dol
lars' worth of fun out of it; to wit as
follow s:
A husky girl (Swede perchance) nt my
left was counting a pllo of checks when
the damo entered. Sho looked round and
spjlng only Bald Swede (perchance)
Utiotoil:
"You nic busy, nrcn't jou?" nnd tho
voice bald, "You poor, benighted, useless
rag."
I guve It tho onco over. It was dressed
piQPcr, us would becomo a duchess walk
ing incog., but thcro was a suspicious color
on her checks that ended In a suspicious
stialght line nt tho Jaw.
Entei u little pill, back ot tho counter,
slim, black-haired, untidy, not pretty, but
rather intelligent ns to looks.
Tho olco cumo forth again, to tho Ut
tlo datk glil. Thcro was class to that
voice. I know class when I hear It, or 1
ought to, but 1 cun't tell yet whether that
voice wusn't Just a little too classy. Any
way, It bald: "I'd llko a Hiked chicken
(what'd sho expect, chicken a la king?)
baudvvlch and 11 ginger Ice cream boda
with u good deal of ginger, pleaso (that
was a new ono on me). How much will
that be?"
And the voice said: " 'TIs 1! Behold!
I, tho most wonderful woman in tho
vvoild, I who condescend to address you.
You, ou Insignificant, useless, low-down,
good for-nothlng atom of humanity. Uo
impressed! There Is nothing like mo in
tho vvoild. Bow down, worship, and ui,
dci&tand that, though I am always polite,
I havo not, as a mutter of fact, seen you
at all," und tho queen, duchess and
gianddamo all In ono went across to tho
desk to buy her thirty-five cent check.
Was tho black-haired kid duly im
pressed? Sho was not! She clicked her
heels together, stood up very straight, put
her left arm ngulnht her side, brought
her right hand, palm outward, to her
templo In tho saluting posture, and for
un instant stood without a smile. Then
sho opened her mouth In mock wonder,
her tonguo flew out and downward over
her lower Up not at tho duchess. Then
sho rolled her eves nnd gilnncd at mo
and 1 heard her whisper to herself, "My
goodncos!" and tho voice said: "Forget It!
You can't pull none o' that stuff iound
here. Say! I see more real ladles In a
day than you do In a jear. You can't
put nono o' that over on mo."
I slipped off my stool and went my
way. But if the duchess sees theso lines
I'll be Indebted if she'll tell mo whether
that red stuff was only paint or some
terrible allllctlon. A. CHABB.
Can You Remember Your Hats?
KIT MOR.LEY, tho young author of
whom wo spoke to you briefly tho other
day, had what ho calls "a great ndven
turo In Norrlstown." "In a shop window,"
bez he, "I saw a cap mado out of some
fabric counterfeiting the bpotted fur of
tho leopard. It was remarkable. Who
on earth do jou suppose would wear a
lid like that?" Oh, some young Bavage,
Kit. Wo wore ono ouibelf many, manv
year ago. Let's see if we can trace our
hats and caps back to tho beginning:
Well, here's this flno Stetson wo won
last fall on tho election, and which 13
plenty good enough for the winds of 1017
18 to play with. And hopping lightly
over the many straws, felts and deibles
which are too modern to be Interesting,
we come to a mouse-colored derby with
a peaked crown (circa 1892) which mado
us look like a squireen In one of Dion
Boucicaulfs plays. Beyond that there
were severalsane intervals. Then came
a cartwheel straw hat with a black un
derbilm (circa 1888). About the same
time our winter thatch was an enormous
derby which mado our Adam's nnnle
shout aloud to every passerby. And only
a fow years before that we used a fried
egg; a low white dip, with our initials
on a silk band Inside. Now we como to
the leopard skin.' It was a plush polo
cap and looked like heck.
Our first real hat (after baby caps with
"boomaladdies") was a felt telescope. If
any of you can remember that bird,
jou'ie old enough to voto this new party
ticket.
BOB MISHLEH says he knows the
color of Frank n. Stockton's hair.
"Why," sez he, "when I was a kid In knee
breeches one of me buddies was a feller
bo thd name of 'Muggins,' and every onco
in awhile F. H. 8. used to como down to
'Mansard Square' to see his brother, who
was Muggins's Dad, and tho whole' gang
had a good look at Undo Frank's black
hair and heard of the stories about tigers
and things that his uncle told."
"Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt"
Bemember when you used to pull your
boiled shirt over your head? Buttalo
News.
And hooked your bow tie at the back of
your celluloid collar? Pltttburpn roit.
And went out buggy riding on Sunday
afternoon? Boston Olobt.
And bought three pounds of pork for a
quarter? New York World.
And wore a fancy vest with nearly
every color of the rainbow? Bpartanbura
Journal "
And twisted knots in our socks to keeD
them up? .AUe)i Journal. "
And bought a strawberry milkshake for
a nickel a glass Pickens Sentinel,
And wanted the girls to think you a
regular "lah-de-dah"? ffotiajon Post
Artd wora a short covert-cloth overcoat
over our wfde-waie suit.
EVEN ONE so unagrlcuitural as our
book editor f buckled a he passed over
to ua wa mm, tew Wewtaw p,,,'
MOKDAY, OCTOBER 1 1917
NOW
PROGRESS ON BIG
PLANT NEAR CITY
Westinghouse Company Expects
All the Buildings to Be Com
pleted by January 1
To the Vdltor of the Evening Ledger. ,
Sir I take pleasure In responding to a
request for a brief description of my com
pany's latest manufacturing development
near Philadelphia.
Starting thirty-one jcars ago on tho top
floor of a building owned and operated by
another concern, tho WestlnghOuso Electric
and Manufacturing Company has grown ana
expanded until for Itself and some fourteen
subsidiary corporations it owns and oper
ates twenty-one separate factories or seta
of factories distributed through eight States.
It has outstanding just under $76,000,000 ut
capital stock and no bonds there being,
however, a ljttle less than J3,000,000 of
debt, represented mostly by the remnant
of a note issue still to be liquidated beforo
tho company's property will belong entirely
unencumbered to Its shareholders.
The company directly or through Its sub
sidiary companies Is engaged In the busi
ness of manufacturing and selling a wide
variety of electrical and steam machinery
and appliances, ranging all the way from
the smallest lamp socket and switch nnd
the miniature Incandescent lamp to thu
largest generating units for electric povve.
houses or for ship propulsion. During the
fiscal year ending March 31, 1917, the
gross sales totaled just under $90,000,000,
the largest year's business In the company's
history
During 1916 it was decided to increase
existing facilities, and after an exhaustive
study of the advantages of manufacturing
in different parts of the United "States tho
Philadelphia district was selected as the
most desirable location A tract ot land o,
about BOO acres was acquired, situated be
tween the towns of Ksslngton and Lester,
about nine miles from City Hall, and having
a frontage of something more than one mile
on the Delaware River, and at just about
the close of the year 1916 tho Immediate
construction of a factory development there
on was begun. ,
To Employ 5000 Men
The first section of this development Is
now rapidly nearlng completion. In fact,
manufacturing operations were started
there the latter part ot August, and It Is
expected that by or before January 1 all
of the buildings and equipment will be ready
for production. There will be seven build
ings, aggregating approximately fourteen
acres of floor space, which when fully
manned will furnish employment for about
COOO people and call for a monthly payroll
of more than (400,000.
About 9000 tons ot structural steel are
being used In the framework and roofs of
the buildings, and between Ave and six miles
ot railroad track on the company's prop
erty are necessary to provide transporta
tion facilities. The Chester branch of th
Philadelphia and neadlng Hallway runs
through our property, passing Immediately
north of the first development, and that
company la making an extensive change
In the grade and alignment of Its main
tracks and constructing a new yard at that
point The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has almost completed the construction of
an entirely new branch line bordering our
development on the south.
The section now nearlng completion will
be utilized by the Westinghouse Company
for the production of steam turbine engines,
and It now seems more than probable that
the Federal Government will require u...
entire Output ot these works running at
their maximum capacity on turbines tor
their shipbuilding program.
Ready for Rapid Extension
The factories now building will amount tj
between 2B per cent and 10 per cent of
the ultimate development planned for this
property. Most ot the grading necessary
and much other preliminary work for th
completed plfwt ve already been done.
The property, fcJMw jn aha for a
very rapid "Mi!MNqfcl It aantatt ne
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FOR ANOTHER BtlltTL'lYB
contribution to tho prosperity of the regloi.
Just south of Philadelphia through the
medium of Its payrolls alone should amount
to $1,000,000 or more a month
The Westlnghousp Electric and Manufac
turing Company has long maintained one of
tho most Important branch ofllces In Phila
delphia, and, being a corporation chartered
by tho State of Pennsvlvanla and having
Its headquarters nt Hast Pittsburgh, has
felt at homo In our cltv The lslngton
development when completed will be mu...
the largest of tho companj's many facto
ries , will, give us a renewed and Increasing
interest In the prosperity of Philadelphia,
of Chester and the Intervening country,
nnd we hope will result In even closer and
moro friendly relatlonb with Philadelphia's
vast business interests than those which we
have been privileged to enjoj heretofore
CALVnitT TOWNI.EY.
Assistant to tho President, Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Co.
New York, September 29.
COAST DEFENSE RESERVISTS
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir It was with a great deal of pleasure
that I noticed In yesterday's Evening
J.EDonii the pictures of some of the coast
defense reservists at Cnpe May.
I believe that this Is the first that any
of our Philadelphia papers havo printed
regarding this camp, and so far as the
newspapers aro concerned I don't believe
any one outside of those who have bou in
this camp knew that there was such a
place. I hopo that jour paper will give us
more of what Is going on at this camp, as
most of the boys are from Philadelphia.
Another subject that I wish to comment
on Is the discriminating charges In the fare
the railroad companies are making. Last
Saturday BOO of these boys had leave to
como homo and stay tilt Sunday evening
The Philadelphia and Reading consented
to run a special for them leaving Cape
May at 1-30 Saturday afternoon and re
turlng leaving Camden Sunday evening at
9 o'clock For this accommodation they
charged them $2.50 for the round trip Now,
If It had been a party of Phlladel
phlans that wanted to go on a flshlrtg trip
and good time they would havo had the
same accommodations for $1 a round trip.
Here aro a lot of bos who have left their
home or schools, some of them good posi
tions to answer their country's call, and
for the privilege of serving their country
these great patriotic corporations charge
them two nnd one-half times ns much as
they would an ordinary person.
I understand that these boys will be
allowed to come homo every two or
three weeks and there will be 500 to 1000
that will come at a tlmo.
J. C, DRASHEIt
Philadelphia, September 20.
DREAM UNFULFILLED.
Threo years ago Germany began this
war for the cbnquest of Middle Europe.
What has she gained? What has this gain
cost her?
She has gained by her arms the terri
tories 01 ueiBium, iiuxemnurg, Serbia, a.
niuui uui dun Betuuu ui iiorinera r ranee
and parts of Lithuania, Poland and Ru
mania a total of a little less than 201,000
square miles.
She has lost:
Except for an Insignificant corner In
southern Africa, all her colonies, over a
million square miles.
Virtually all her shipping not bottled
up In Bremen and Hamburg, a loss esti
mated In tonnage at 3,600,000,
Of tbe flower of her youth, more than
2,000,000
' In cash, nearly $20,000,000,000 to be
added to her national debt
Before the war, though unpopular as a
people. Oermany was honored among all
nations for her intellectual scholarship and
her Industrial efficiency, she his lost Irre
trlevably this respect and won In Its place
the mingled hatred and contempt of the civ
lilted world Scarcely a considerable neutral
nation Is left except those whose safety com
'pels fhelr neutrality ' "
No one thinks Oermany can retain her
gains. No one imagines that ehe can re
cover her losses. It Is not strange that
some of the Oerman people ore eerioUBly
discussing among themselves the question
whether it is not time to change their bust,
neas managers The Outlook.
YOU AN NEVER TELL
"Whf woHld hare expected a year ago
lIUWiU Rout,
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is the Dutch name for The Hague?
2. amo the member ef the flermnn RelrhMac
who. In 1000. exposed mnlndmlnlatratlnn
In Oerman t-outhnreat Africa. He has
been In the puhfc eye of late In connec
tion with pence propoftalii.
3. How many drnmntlo situation! ni"e there?
4. What nre the chorpte nmlnt Prmldent
Stonier, of the I'arla Court of Appeult?
8. Mho la Charles A. IJoien?
O. In military phraseolocr, what Is a "pom-
poia"?
7. Vtho composed the opera "La GlwonJa"?
5. When was the typewriter Invented?
0. Mho were the two Orrman attaches re-
ruueu irom me Lliltcil mates in 1DIS7
What does "llnicnarnk" signify In Scan
dlnutltin mstholot)?
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Answers to Saturday's Quii
1. Sappho was n Lesbian poetess, the head of
n coterie of yonnc women, whom she
ndilresved In her lyrics, ind whom she In
striicted In her nrt. She llred about 800
II. t .. rracments of her work survlTlns.
2. A drastic reduction In the price of bread Is
rxnrttnl to result from the "standard
jouf plan." alwut to he effected bv Her
bert Hoover and bis food administration.
3. The Kaiser has been compared br modern
poets to lldat, a ruthless, iiilllturlstlo
kin, described in Genesis.
4. Tientsin. Chlno, U threatened with de
struction by flood.
B. A lemur Is a kind of nocturnal mammal,
especially of Madagascar, allied to the
monkey, but with n pointed muiile.
0. "Probation nfter death" Is n theological
doctrine, according to which man's fu
ture, destiny Is not unalteruhly llird ut
denth. but either nil men or a irrtaln
.f.V!S!:.otii?"n wl",b?. Placed on trlatln
mother lite for dellnltv period or until
they shall have jlelded to (.od's . re
deeming love,
7. Theodore Itoosevelt's newly coined phrase.
1 n fi?TCOI " r-lf . with reference to
seditious attitudes In the United Mate
toward the war. means "new traitors."
A copperhead U a venomous American
Tbf, vUiiomnAi".,:,e f,r lnUniUe mTaU,,t
Unhi ." n"r,n" now nbroad hate
been spilt in, nt0 provost guards In
i'ng'land! li,a" 1'rance and al.2
"Has ewlg Welbllche rleht una hlnan"
JnwJKi Th.?h"fnul "omanly leads "a
"Fnu r hrua occurs In Ooethe'a
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THE BLUE ANCHOR TAVERN
PHILADELPHIA'S old taverns seem to
- have been cut to the scalo of the English
ones of the period. At least they preserved
the atmosphere which saturates "The Pick
wick Papers," and their bubbling punch and
creamy ale, seen In retrospect, bring up In
stant visions of Mr. Jingle, Doctor Slammer
and Job Trotter.
So far as size Is concerned, the modern
imagination rather boggles at the ancient
Ideas of comfort and space. Instead nf tb
big cafes and hlgh-celllnged grills of the "I
present day. the old Philadelphlan had to be
content with (nay, was content with) so
diminutive an Institution as the Blue Anchor
Tavern. This was 22 by 12 feet, with a
two-story height Catering "to man i&d
beast," theso jolly little affairs ot hostelries
featured the apple-cheeked barmaid and
tho eupeptic landlord. Napery and tables
were Immaculate, commentators assure n.
and the food alluringly wholesome. Tha
roaring nre of such places, Insisted on by
every novelist from Charles Dickens to
Compton MCKenzle, was not lackin-s
The rooms were small, the beds hard, the '
uoors nare, me windows tiny. Discussions
of news artd politics took place in the inns
which were a substitute for tbe twentieth
century business exchanges and clubs Com.
plaints against Intemperance were heard.
but tint tin ntl.n oa IU. . . "
peered. ""'" nav peen
AH the earliest Innkeepers were Friends,
at least bo far as the Blue Anchor wa.
concerned. In front of thl, attractive mor"
William Penn met and chatted most inti
mately with the Indians. The recorded
fact that he sat on the ground with tham
ate their roasted hominy Tnd awrns and
ou did them at jumplng'recall, tne grave
Krlend's disapprobation of such frivolity
However, he carried his point 4r,0,"y'
So the Btue Anchor grew into the stature
of a prominent institution. "U uaa the Vtv
llo butldlnJT.' remarl.a an ih..i... J. :.?
a timbered house, (llled 1p with small brleka,
?WWW, " wt U now ihi th!
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