4 1 N'.. f BMW fT '-i. ) rt ' a-S-r iJtu,'. , .' ( . '.ip - a. e ',. y ! fr x i ' BH .; &???;. - TfltjrtH ' w fettmfttjr Jjgjg 9car PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CYRUS It. IC CUP.T18, ricaiotxr -Otavrtaa K. Litdlnston, Vic Pntldentt John K.rtlfi, Secretary and Treaanreri I'hlllp fl. OMUn. John n. William, John J, Bpurgton, KDITOniAL DOArtDl Ctsc II. IC Ccti, Chairman. . X. Wri'ALET Editor P. MAPTIM..Qjncrttl Puilnc iltnmr rtahe-d dallr a Trr.nr) T.vrmvii TtutMIn. Independence Square, Philadelphia. AS CrfN"niAI....Ilr.iaii And Chatnut Rtrata 1XT1A CITT ....... . . Jrea.fr,trt nnlMIn lr Toac....... 200 Metropolitan Tonr Waoir... ....... ....(M Kurd rtutMlnr T. uftVIM ........... ...lOOA Fullerton Itulldtncp CfUOAOO , 1202 iTitulH jlulldlng NF.W8 IIUI1.1AU! ViaillKnTOi Ulaull, ' . N. R. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave., and 11th 8t. , ,rtir ToK ncniiU Tho iflmra Bulldlmx ,8 Losnoff ncnaic. ,,.,.. .Marconi Houn, mrand ! , Ocmad 32 .lUi. Loula 1 Grand bcbscmftion terms Th Ersststi T.rnosft la arrvrd to aubicrlbera in Philadelphia and aurroundlng town at tho fata of twain (12) cent per week, payable to tha carrier. Br mall to polnta outtlda of Philadelphia. In t United States. Canada or United Btatea poa Maalona, poatare frea. flftr (SOI eenta per month. 8U (16) dollar per year, payable In advance, To all foreign countries on (tl) dollar r fjaonth. t Korica Subecrlbera nlablnr addrea chanced Snuat (tire old a well aa nay addren. HELL, MOO wAINIT KETSTONE, MAW JOOO V-t dArttn oil commwalcfftona fn Fvrntng . Ltdgtr, Indtpcndcnce flguare. Philadelphia. xtid at inr rmt.iMti.ruta. rnTorncx x SKCUXtCLAa l.AIL liATlCR Philadelphia. Menday, November S, 1917 THE WILL TO WIN "tTICTORY Is assured tomorrow because tho people have tho will to win. No light was ever won by forces that ex pected defeat. Thousands of contests have been won because one sldo entered the fight determined, to use every ounco of strength and power to defeat Its op ponents. Tho followers of football were sur prised a few years ago when the eleven ef Colgate defeated l'nle. Colgate had played many games with the greater college and Its meii had been contented with the honor of appearing on the New Haven gridiron. One day 'somo one said that this sort of thing had been going on long enough and that the time had come for tho Colgate players to go to New Haven determined to put up the bes' fight tliqt was In them. The whole collego began to talk about defeating Yalo. A deliberate campaign was planned to cultlvato the will to win. After S year or two an eleven was built up, very man In which was determined to Use every ounce of strength In him to the last minute of the game in an effort to defeat Yale. And Yale was defeated. The men of Colgate understood tho psychology of victory. Tho voters of Philadelphia today nro Inspired by the same spirit which won the football victory. Everything that has happened since Mayor Blankcnburg went out of offlco has strengthened their determination to elze control of their owt. government once more. The Fifth Ward outrages occurred at the right moment to set them &',. 6 L-r-nit- - , . .. .. .. -7m uij jiro. inose outrages urougni me r9T' tMAtttula .. !. n1t.lnl -....1 !.- .v..wMfl u. nits ifuuiit;ui iiecuuuiers llliu the, clear light of day. The public of fleers whose duty It was to protect tho citizens In tho free expression of their opinions were found to be engaged In cc-operatlng with thugs to blackjack every voter who dared oppose the orders Issued from the City Hall. As soon as the Town Meeting ticket was nominated the oligarchy that sits In City Hall began to use every trick nnd dv'lco to prevent the appeal unco at tho polls tomorrow of an opposition ticket. Not content with appeals to the courts, V the leaders used the police once more to bulldoze and Intimidate' the signers of tho nomination petitions. This sort . of thing might have been expected In tho Russia of last year while it was still ;,' : -jfe, ,' despotism. It Is an outrage such ns KS !'f wkes the blood of every Independent -American citizen boll. It Is but the con.. . summation of the methods practiced by the freebooters who have been, fof tenlng Bt the publlo crib for a generation. Conditions are now so Ijad that It Id T. Jnconcelvablo that they could be worse. .Any change would be for the better. There ore no citizens so Indifferent to . the result that they are taking no Inter- - tst In the contest. Every man worthy ?, the name knows that when the standard , fit conduct of our public servants can tlnH no lower the time has come to turn out the unfaithful and replace them Wlth men of honor and high ldeals. . - -rnai ume is now. jj,: K' But the forces of evil which have been behind all the thuggery and legal trick ery and moral obfuscatlon of recent weeks will fight to the last ditch. It la Important that honest citizens be on their iruard tomorrow and that every Illegal S ct Qt the police be resented Instantly i&&Jt vry attempt to prevent the poMmr i M honest vote be checked before Its Fimatlon, the voters should etand up to bo i4 today an overwhelming majority tfaakfrj would be found supporting the Meeting ticket, They are going to palla tomorrow to be counted ia Bother way The Jails yawn for every Man who attempt to prevent an honest vote, The jails got the men in Indlatiap pSU and Terre Hdute who monkeyed with th )toa. The men of their kind in usf My wW . wH to remember thU, Wis 11 ill, 1 .,, 11. 1. .jXSS? Ygftf WAB 4H K. ., gardeners who fancied otherwise havo onV Bcratched the surface of the possi bilities and of their ground. Secretary of Agriculture Patton tells them what's what. Soil can bo prepared now for spring planting, some crops can be put In now and kept under cover for earliest spring bearing, many vegetables can be "grown or wintered over In hotbeds and cold frames. There's lots to bo done, you war gar- doners, whoso record last spring Is tho mcouraglng fact In food production nnd conservation and discomforting tidings to tho enemy that America's home gar denors Increased their number and area by 222 per cent nnd produced "truck" valued at about $400,000,000 for summer consumption and winter storage. Tho National Emergency Food Garden Com' mission's survey Is authority for these amazing statistics. And with tho expe rl'cnce gained by Innumerable "green horns" this year the harvest should bo double t)xt year. Food Is to win this war, and gardens aro munition plants. Prepare now to moke weapons nnd ammunition ovory whit as Important as howitzers nnd 1 la"' on European battlefields. Several al shrapnel. If you aro In need of ndvlco I rC!uIy lmve bccn l!llled- 0nc- at least has Just nsk the Department of Agrlculturo at Harrlsburg and get all you want free. BALANCING LOSSES WIIKN tho enemy made I1I1 last big "Rtl'.ltpln rntrpnfM (n M.ipnh tin lind no victory elsewhere to offset It. It was generally agreed that another German retrent on the west front would bo an open confession of Inferiority. Such n retreat seer, s to bo under way. But this tlmo tho high command prepared tho German people for It by creating a diver slon In Italy. Under tho cover of an lmprcsslvo Invasion In tho south, tho Germans have abandoned untenable ground along tho Alsne, having In tho last ten days lost 422 cannon and 720 machine guns. It seems probablo now that tho Italian Invasion was planned very largely because of expected trouble In the west. Some experts even talk of a possible retreat to the Mouse, with the surrender of nearly all the occupied French territory. Now would be the time to do it. with nil Germany being told that Italy Is hopelessly disabled. It 1.1 Important to realize that tho Ger mans did not dream of such a retreat last summer. The Crown Prince, from April to July, tried to overwhelm the French on the Chemln-des-Dames, em ploying seventy-ono divisions, or about 1,065,000 men, nnd losing nearly C00.000, Borne say more, In tho whole operation. Counting the huge casualties In the last month In Belgium nnd on tho Aisne, wo see a German loss at least three times 03 great as that of tho Italians. MAKE IT OVERWHELMING ""pLircVENTH IK)Un numerical estimates - of tomorrow's vote In the city are Interesting, but even less reliable. than tho usual preelection forecasts, when tho Issue Is deeply moral, as In the pres ent case, when tho way' a man's vote Is cast tells whether he thinks murder Is right or wrong, thero Is no telling what landslldo may bo started. But let no man be overconfident. Every Town Meeting party vote will bo needed. When the most degraded elements In tho com munity conspire, every honest man must show his colors. Do not bo satisfied with mere victory. Make It overwhelming. A CONTINUOUS CAMPAIGN ITHVO States. New York and Ohio, will express an opinion on woman suffrage tomorrow. It will be only an opinion, for suffrage will never be decided until It Is decided rl'-'it and decided univer sally. It Is u co. Unuous campaign. If those States turn t'own the women to morrow the suffrage campaign will start! again In Ohio nnd New irk on Wednes day morning. Suffrago Is not only a question of Jus tice. It is also a war measure. In those amazing English factories, with their acres of shells, women workers are In many cases In the majority. They ar winning the war and they are winning tho vote for women everywhere. For they are smashing tho last of tho sad "antl" arguments, that men can fight without women's aid. A dozen German vessels put out of business without losg to the British Is rather more than a good day's work. It looks like "Tho Day's" work. It Is easy to forget to put a three cent stamp on a letter, but It Is easier to forget that November 15 is the last day Christmas boxes for soldiers In France can be put in tho malls. The man who was compelled to kss tho American flay at Wellsboro, Pa., because of his pro-German chatter will find further punishment In the fact that he will be obliged to talk to himself in the future. In 1905 the Organization was en gulfed by the wave of reform. In 1911, Just six years later, tho wave again rose and swept it from power. It' is Just an other six years since these alleged Re publicans received their last drenching. They'd better get their raincoats ready tor tomorrow. Berlin and Vienna ore moving heaven and earth to Insure the success of the pacifist conference to be held at Berne, in Switzerland, on November 12 a strange . role for victors. It would sometimes be hard to believe In ultimate German defeat If German peace efforts did not reassure us. The United States Is often charged with being a country with few traditions and Institutions. Youth in nationhood is, of course, responsible for the alleged de ficiency In a. rich h'atorlo past. Such established institutions as we have should be cherished, then, and not discarded. So tho news that one Philadelphia Institu tion of somewhat venerable standing, the First City Troop, Ja to maintain its in irity m military body is doubly wel- jf Vewfui purpose wouM have r.H, 4 s EVENING LEDGER-IHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, Y. M. C. A. IS 'HOME' FOR THE SOLDIERS Organization's Work Goes From Cantonments to tho Firing Lino ' By FRANKLYN K, G. FOX UNQUESTIONABLY ono Of tho most notable features of the grnt world war Is the work of the Young Men's Christian Association. All tho Allied Gov ernments, the Vatican, army ofllcers and soldiers, diplomats and clergymen of all denominations have welcomed, the associa tion work as a godsend In this terrific ago of bloodshed. The association has become tho very life of our nrmy cantonments, and today Is playing an all-Important nnd vitally osscn tlal part In military training and morale. Far from being "slackers," tho Y. M. C. A. Held secretaries should be commissioned officers. Tlioy aro officers In every senso of the word. They are risking their lives received tho Itrltlrh military medal for bravery In action. And In our own -army cantonments more than 3000 of these up right and courageous young men nro looked Jto dally by American soldiers for advice, courage and assistance. Prominent and public-spirited Phlladel phl'tns are Intensely aroused over a criti cism expressed by Mr. Itoosevelt that the Y. M. C. A. workers are "slackers." They "say tho Colonel's only excuse Is that ho "erred because not Informed of existing conditions." That nny ono should so have misinformed him la considered unpardon able. Of course, many persons who aro behind the times still think the Y. M. C. A. nothing moro than a prayer-meeting or ganization. It Is high time that somo of the following truths should sink home and sink deep. If your son, brother or sweetheart In the American nrmy Is captured by the Ger mans, tho Young Men's Christian AHSoda tlon Is the only exlBtlng agency by which you will be able to communicate with him. Tho association's official representative In Berlin an American citizen Is the only American officially recognized by the Ger man Government. Ho still Is at his post. The Y. M. C. A. has established small uni versities In all the prisoners' camps. It Is helping mightily to teach and cheer the men. It Is feeding the soldiers in the trenches. It Is supplying them with food to be used only In case they nro wounded In "Xo Man's Land." It has brought a real atmosphere of home to tho "Sammecs" In France and to our own boys In the army cantonments. Helps Men to Write Homo These are facts. The association is sup plying paper, envelopes and stamps for the men to write homo from every army camp In this country ind In France. Better still, the secretaries are urging the men to write. If you luive a son in the service, you will know what this means. When the men arrived at Camp Dlx, Wrlg'.itstown, they wero seen trying 'to write on paper flattened against window panes, boxes, beds and even on the ground. They had no writing facilities. The Govern ment supplies none. The association now has nine huts, besides an auditorium and headquarters at Camp Dlx. From one hut alone bOOO lcttcis for the "folks back home" were posted In one day. All facili ties am supplied free of charge. Stamps are sold. The secretaries themselves col lect the mall and see that letters are sent. If you have a son or relative In tho service, you will realize tho all-Importance of that one cog of the gigantic machine of the association. An army official said only recently tint If tho Y. M. C. A. succeeded In getting the boys to write home, its whole existence would bo more than Justified. At Camp Dlx the association distributes more than 1,000,000 sheets of writing paper monthly. Ond Y. M. C. A. shipment sent from Brooklyn and It wai only one of many contained the following: Two hundred thousand envelopes, 1,000,000 sheets writ ing paper, 10 000 pounds sugar, 000 pack ages of biscuits, 20,000 p ickages of chew ing gum, 10 folding organs, 100 moving picture machines. 100 talking machines, DO. 000 records, 500,000 needles, 27,000 sets checkers, meat, condensed milk, baseball bats, gloves, baseballs, tobacco, typewriters, magazines, Ink and other things in count less variety. In every cantonment the Y. M. C. A. "huts," In their quaint green paint, spell homo for the soldiers In every senso of the word. They live In them all their spare time. There are 400 "huts" scatterea throughout the various army cantonments and 200 more have been ordered. They are found In Fiance, England, Germany, Rus sia, Italy, and there are more than forty along the Illver Nile. l Although called "huts," these are better thin palaces in tho soldiers' eyes. They aro largo and roomy, with big fireplaces in each, books, magazines, chairs galore, not to mention long writing tables. The men can smoke to their hearts' content. Movies are given every other night or so. Then there nre band concerts and singing which fairly shakes the roof from tho building. The men do not sing hymns except oc casionally. They sing rousing war songs. Able secretaries are leaders. Everything seems to be given over to the comfort of tho men. It was planned to have one hut for every 6000 men In cantonments, but the huts proved so popular that many more had to be ordered. Work Right at Firing Line No effort Is mad? to make "conversions" among the soldiers. Tho huts nre abso lutely nonsectarlan. All faiths aro welcome nnd intermingle. On Sundays Catholic, Protestant and Jewish services have been held In the same hut. There always Is "something on" at night entertainments of all kinds. On "stunt night" everybody gets up to do something. These are a great treat. When ona realizes that after mess there Is nothing for the sol dlers to do, It Is easy to see what the huts have como to mean to them. One look at the cheery flrep'.ace with Its sparkling big logs and with numberless chairs drawn around It, the men, healthy and happy, at once convinces the visiter. Besides sup plying the men with many things they need, the association teaches boxing, French and singing. Secretaries meet tho men on arrival at all ports "over there." The men, feeling rather lost. And themselves in huts In France similar to those here. Thus the strangeness" of a foreign landscape, dis appears. The secretaries work night and day, It would seem. They .are confidential advisors, cheerers and cheer leaders. At one of the recent battles the Y. M. 'C. A. dugout distributed 25,000 cups of hot choc olate near the battlefront. The association gives each man on going Into the trenches two large packages of chocolate, to be used only If he Is wounded. It would nourish him for two days while lying in "No Man's Land." Some secretaries are in the thick of the fight bandaging light wounds, doing every thing possible to help the men. There are association dugouts Just Jiack of the front trenches. The work xt thse secretaries Is of the hardest kind. Many have given up good positions to undertake the work. Ask tho soldiers themselves If the secretaries are slackers I e All the warring nations have asked for more secretaries and more huts, The work has accomplished wonders. Not only does it help to a great extent to keep the men out of trouble, but also It nurses thlr mi.. Its, it would seem, almost with a mother. cure. Aiiivrm ienj rcqueHrla) reIVMl for t,.t ,, 1 1 nrfA nni,i,ll,r ' . . " f ", K fc ff-l Tom Daly's Column THE DEVIL'S ACCENT I'm Jtut a common Jinn.", bo, like you Unlet i you chance to be a Moomln taint And maybe what I've gbt to tell It tieto And maybe, on the other hand, It ain't. If with a certain pcrton you're acquaint And chat with him at I do, you'll allow, When you hear the convcrtatlon Meant to lead you to temptation, That the Devil has a German accent now. Ilemcmbcr when he whispered In your car Before this dented disturbance came along, Ho talked In simple English, plain and clear, And sang a very pleasant kind of song. But lately you have noticed something wrong; You really can't 'xplaln it, why or how. But you notice when you listen, To those oily words of hls'n That the Devil has a German accent now. Of lata he has been busy, much too much, Where talk In purest English Isn't spoke; For several years he's put himself In Dutch And therefore he Is "out" with decent folk. I never thought good cats would hurt a bloke, But when I am too hungry for my ' "chow," I observe In each temptation To Ignore Food Conservation That the Devil hai a German accent now. It's funny, too, I never used to think 'That shirking of a duty was a sin, And when I saio the Devil smile and wink I never teas the mar. I should have been. But iioio o ray of light Is breaking In; I'm marching on my way with lifted brow! i I'm determined not to listen To those oily words of his'n For the Devil has a German accent now! EVERYBODY has hi. own notion of what's tho "softest" Job in tho world. Each ofVus thinks ho can lay a finger upon tho man who does tho least work for tho greatest amount of pay though we're likely, nt that, to bo wrong. But this story deals with a man whose Job, measured commercially, was tho most exacting nnd paid the least. And there can be no question ns to his standing, for all his fellows admitted that he was head nnd shoulders nbovo them. He wt.s the uncrowned king of his realm. We say "ho was," for ho s dead; and It Is a memorial of him, a, bool of 130 pages, a special number of the Ardmore Puzzler, that moves us hero to talk about him. Ho was born William P. Bourkc, but when ho entered "Puzzledom" nnd that wasn't long before ho ascended tho throno of that strange lomalr. he took the namo of "Kosciusko McGlnty." The mind of tho average man, at men tion of the word "puzzles" conjures up tho namo of Sam Loyd, but Loyd was a commercial puzzler, whose odd quips and cranks were made to pay him big money. This other man's puzzles probably brought him In no moro than $100 In cash all told, In twenty years' devotion to his work. Ills biographer says of him: "His was a genius which could and Old win critical recognition In the high do mains of literature but he de liberately and of choice dedicated It to tho art and tho fraternity which ho loved and, without regret, abandoned the plau dits of tho great world for a smaller one which he loved more." Many Philadelphlans who watched with boyish or girlish (as tho case may be) eagerness for the weekly appearance of "Golden Days," published by James El verson at Ninth and Spruce, will remem ber the department of "Puzzledom," al though 'they probably found the problems thero too hard to solve. It was there that Kosciusko McGlnty, in 1886, first won his spurs. In tho years that followed ho turned out witty and Ingenious con ceits which excited tho admiration of his fellows, but which would simply mystify tho average reader. Moro than one hun dred pages in the memorial book are given to them, hundreds of poems and sketches and seven-letter and eight-letter "squares" worked out with painstaking effort and much burning of midnight oil, Did you know, busy reader, that some of these square-building bugs havo even gone to tho trouble to compile a diction ary of eight-letter words and another of nine-letter words? It U even so, nnd moro so. There is a dictionary of three letter words, compiled from more than, two hundred autl orltles and there are probably not fifty people in the. world who would want such a thing. Some un requited labor I ' But labor Is a thing no puzzler is stingy about, and this King of the Puz zlers least of nlL LAST CARD WAIT a minute, voter,- on uur way to the polls! -. Here's something you should' know. We turn to page 1585 of Webster's Re vised Unabridged plctlory aud we find, at about the middlo of the first coltunn: Vare, n. A. wand or staff of author lty or Justice. Oli.J And bplow that Is a quotation from Dryden, who imlght have beeif writing of one Smith: 'HI hand a vara of Juatic did uphold," Butf "6bs" voter, mana obsolete, played out, done for, and,, all that sort of thing. Walt another minute J Here's another definitions Vm. v (oe). A WaJ. njrrjLTii' jilt j im f i ii.mrjr. "no jijj su ' .Tyi-iiuXfln-: .. 'LU. v S ,'-'""V3'5ft.eV'r5ra Ahlj,M0tSla6OjiTO??,-: 'M HI i InllJ' BJLlP 'jJlaaaffwiJiffvlrT.r ' BaaCMafrj YnrfT I " iMuWRmBiiuii"'il MMM ''LJmSKL && Ilk '"' C':feKg.ftSPt'i''' jffiffil'5jfrv ''i "j ''W(BSS''''lfi!"''''" ''' 'Ilk ViiMM'-"!.'. -.''''. .j'"Si'' 'iiK1 ' ':;i '"T-': '"" ... i'aamf 3--r-gy,flwjrnra laa-pa;-. ,-,... -'.'.-r raisy tI Sii'.yJ ."Hall" -,- ' " .'i" ' , - . r!r -".. K -..' - .j;i-;-j.m-,i8-;;c-. . aJJ1 tl? "A PRESIDENT OP HUMANITY"? Internationalism Has Dodged This Question Political Discussion To irtc Editor of the Evening Ledger: Sir The suggestion In your financial column of October 20 that, following tho democratization of the world, the war dects of the nations should bo assumed by all, Bhould not pass without comment, as It Is one of the most luminous suggestions that have yet been made regarding that Im portant subject an International Govern ment. Before noting the main point, which 1 wish especially to present, let mo remind your writer that he would find no prece dent In our Civil War, which made only the successful side's debt payable by the Interstate Government. Possibly, however, your writer only expects that International Government to Include all the Allied or non-Teutonic nations. If It were to Include all nations, though, his proposition wou d be a magnificently mignanimous proposal, from the present point of view ; and yet It would only bo treating the present world convulsion as a surgical operation for which the whole world would offer to pay, Just as tho head, heart and lungs pay for the dis orders of a bad living. One could readily think of President Wilson offering, after tho surrender of the Teutons, so magnanimous a program. It would be like Lincoln and Grant. That, however Is for tho future. The point that I wish to make now, how ever. Is to note the recurrence In your ar ticle of expressions such as "International navy," "International police" and "Inter national court of arbitration" I For, like your own writer, other writers, almost with ono accord, do not name an "International legislature" to make proper International laws, an "International executive" to exe cute those laws and handle the "navy" and "police," or an "International court," which acts legally, not a mere arbitration board. And It Is plain that these necessities are not In their minds or they would be in their words. To speak of "navy" ' or "police" without provision for an executive Is like saying there must be a hand without a man to use It It will not do to say that an executive Is Inferred or assumed when one speaks of "navy" or "police," for It Is not. If It were, they would talk about Interna tional "constitution," "legislature," "execu tive" and "Judiciary" and ' "power of the press" and "electorate," without which there can be no International "navy" or "police" or any proper Government, which Is the real need. There will be no real progress until we begin to "discuss the real thing Instead of its appurtenances. BUUTON ALVA KONKLE. Swarthmore, Pa., November 3, PENROSE RESPONSIBLE To the A'dtlor of the Evening Ledger: Sir One of the highest duties of mem bership In a party Is fairly, freely nnd fear lessly to criticize the action of the party organization. This becomes all the mwe necessary In the preservation of the Re publican party, the promotion of the publlo welfare, the safeguarding qf society and the advancement of executive efficiency In city, State and nation. 'Between the time of his election and in auguration Thomas B, Smith, with an au dacity never equaled, proclaimed to the people of Pennsylvania that he was the leader of the Republican party in Philadel phia and announced that in matters of State polities' he would recognize Senator Penrose aa the leader and himself a leader of political affajrs in Philadelphia. . To many that declaration was a great surprise i to roe it was what I had expected. Inasmuch as Thomas B. Smith was Indebted to Senator Penrose for his advancement, from president of a bonding company to the mayoralty Of the third largest city in the United States and of the ninth largest In the world. During the summer of 1?1B a number of conferences of the party organization of Pennsylvania were held in Atlantlo City for the purpose of choosing a candidate tor Mayor of Philadelphia, for whom the mem bership rf M laty Should vote. 'Rver UM aaavui w aasatw (juay at) 1M 1917 WHERE THERE'S THE WILL mm ssssv Kli I V . BHarHOHBiBnTTCPul' t , ..jr vi'la'ia?i-iBaaUlr. '4?aEva . lLFTx -aaMBaDTiHflAil 4.-,4 AU,' i . BM In the confident belief that with Smith as Mayor tho Vare Influence In city and Stato could bo destroyed. Had Senator Penrose presented such a candidate ns ex-Governor Stuart, John Wanamakcr, Judge Audcnrled or DImncr Beebcr for Mayer that conference would readily havo acquiesced; but Smith had been the Ponroso postmaster for four'years, under Taft, and the Senator having abso lute confidence In tho fealty of Smith for 'tho paramount party leader, dominated that party organization conference and Thomas B. Smith was chosen as Its candidate for isiayor. And to tho extent that Mayor Smith Is neia responsioio ror the serious condition of affairs In tho municipality, either m'or ally, politically ct otherwise, to that n-ttnnt Boles Penrose should be held responsible j-itiuiiy nioruiiy mm politically responsi ble for that condition- expressed so forci bly by ono of the foremost statesmen of the United States IClihu Root, that Pennsyl vania Is corrupt and contented, and which has never been disputed by any newspaper In Pennsylvania. P. T. Barnum held that tho American peoplo wero happiest when they were being humbugged, and further to Increase that happiness he painted nn ordinary elephant white, exhibiting It for years as a sacred white elephant from India, secured at very great cost, and If the daub of whitewash of the Town Meeting will make our paramount political leader really and truly white, Xhen tho Armstrong-Blankenburg Town Meeting will not havo been held In vain. ,. JOHN W. FRAZIEU. Philadelphia, November 3. THE ORGANIZATION EULOGIZED To the Editor of tho Evening Ledger; Sir In Bpeaklng to my fellow citizens of the coming election I wish to say that I have been a voter for hiore than fifty years, a Republican In politics of the Abraham Lincoln type, who believes In reform not only In the Republican nnd Democratic parties, but In church nnd social Ufa ns well. Most earnestly do I adviso our citi zens to consider well before they rush off Into an abyss they are not now conscious of. It Is my theory that reform should take place Inside our organizations why rush outside when we have such men of the John M. Patterson and George Wharton Pepper type, not a few, but many? It Is true that "those whom the gods would destroy they first mako mad" so without knowing the whys or wherefores I cart upon tho two factions, on one Bide Penrose and Mc Nlchol and on the other the Vare brothers to get together, "In union there Is strength," It Is rather amusing to see Senator Pen rose against his party. In what respect has Mr. Nicholson (good as he ,may ha) qual Itles fitting him to be City Treasurer over Frederick J, Shoyer, who has been known many years and with a name beyond re proach? Just this afternoon I learned from one of his Sunday school scholars that he Is clean In h!j habits a total abstainer, does not use tobacco, pure In his life apd a hus band, father and citizen that any young man should be glad to follow In his foot, steps; What has George Walter Smith's ability over my friend James B. Sheehan for Register of "Wills 7 Tho only claim against the latter Is as to money. If he Is entitled to it by law, let him have It. Repeal the law, but doh't blame the man Mr Sheehan while Assistant Director of Publlo Safety did so much for me, or I should say for assisting tn the discharge and for giving, of many a poor fellow In the House . of Correction. In what respect will Mr Armstrong make a better Receiver of Taxes than the present one, Mr. Kendrlck? He and hta father before him were so well known and so much loved that, no matter how good hU opponent Is, how can he be better than the best? So I beg my fellow members of the old party to stand together shoulder to shoulder and give these three Sheehan, Shoyer, and Kendrlck, one of our old-Jlmo rousing majorities. Do not Imagine theyi&re any Inora murderers than I, and I trust I, am not one, but, on the con trary, am o. favor of pure politics and pure politicians and In favor of reform Inside cur rfarty.Hnee, DAVID L, WITIIER Philadelphia, November 3. i'"L'"' MOVIES CLOSE SALOONS "I don't know exactly how many saloons the moving picture hsa,put out of buslnewT" aid "BUly" Sunday to Mary Plckfordwhon he was a guest at the Arteraf. ..il. i1?? BsStfllSas SS '-mm What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. In lint pnrt of Ruaala la Finland anj frtai nhnt country did Ituaala obtain thli ter ritory? 2. Who l Frederick JIocmonnlcuT 3. The tlermun have captured about 180.000 Itnlluns. About uhat lercentue of tl Itullnn forccH under anna doea that fi( uro reprenentf 4. The Ilrltlsh linto captured Deertbebt, Where u (J 5. Where Is JamalcaT 0. Mr. Illllqult, nho waa born In Itoaala. wii Erected lit "Our next frealdent" or an cnthuslnstlc rnlloncr. Why could lie Ml lecullr become l'renldent? 7. Che nnother nume for soft coal, 8. Uxplaln the old ;i)lnr. "Do not pat all rotr ecca Into one Imaket." 0. What la the Importance of Oatend now, aM ' Hluit una It dlatlnzuUbed for before u 10. Who ore the Moratlana? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Count von Urrtllnei Mlclmclla'a auccriior' U Oernmn Chancellor. S. romper coutrMrd the Icadcrahln ot tk Unman domain with Jullua Caeaar. 3. Facatmllet an exact copy. . Sir Arthur Hulllian waa n Ilrttlah com poser nho, ullli 8lr Wllllum (lllbert, wrote the famoua (lllbert nnd Sollltaa operua, "I'liiufore," Tutleiice," ct. B. riuKaext Emrllah county on the Channel at tho southeast corner of Knalarxl, 0, The TiiKllainento la a river llolnt .aoata Into the Adriatic In Vcnetla. In the ex treme nortlieuatcrn corner of Italr. It runa imrullel to the Austrian boundary and now form the line between tho bat tue Torre. 7. Orlando: the new Premier of Italy. , 8. Dr. Karl Murk! conductor of tha Doitas Kymuhony Orrheatra. , .0. "Welali Diaebtuhltaliment"! the morenifnl to arpurute Church and State In Walefc which iu Ions been an lue In Emilia Iwllllca. lie Milt la, chemically, aodlum chloride. RECLAIMING BILLIONS WELlADVANCED plans for the recla mation of borne 25,000 acres of swamp land In Lowndes County, Ala., are an nounced by a. correspondent of the Manufac turers.' Record, who adds that' "as this li already a very Important cotton, corn nd general produce farming section, as well M the second largest cattle and hog producing county In Alabama, the new enterprise takes on a semblance of national Im portance." Every successful project of this kind I of national Importance because of Its con tribution to the country's wealth and power. The South has approximately 60,000.000 acres of wet lands, which In their present condition aro virtually useless and In numer ous Instances a menace 'to health,' but which if properly drained would proyld farm sites of unsurpassed fertility, Thew lands are now worth only a few dollar an acre not more ttmn'JlO at the most liberal estimate. ' Rut suppose these 50. 000,000 acres were drained. They would sell for nt least S100 an acre and would yield harvests .of Incomparable rlchnes i inus in iana values aione mis swamp .i would Increase from (500,000,000 to ( 000,000,000, as much as the maximum of the colossal Liberty Loan. The consequent benefits would be no less marked for the community and' the State than for the In dividual land .owner. The augmented tax returns would bo enough to reimburse the State and county, even f they bore entire cost of the reclamation projects, while m gains for the community's health and pros perity would- be really incalculable. Georgia ha? the largest area of swamp and overflowed lands In any State on tha Atlantlo coast, with the single exception of Florida, and Florida is reclaiming her swamp lands at -a truly herculean paca, One-seventh of Oeorglai entire territory consists ot land which must ba drained be fore It can be used. But far frorh, being a liability, this will prove a priceless asset f reclamation Is brought duly Into servlca. The valley of the Nile Itself does not excel the fertility which the ages have packed into this swampy soil and which drainage will make easily available, While vast expanses like the Okefenokee present formidable engineering problems, there are thousand of acres which can be drained at a cost com jiaratlvely trivial, besides the profitable re- suns wruun are certain 10 follow. lit fact, few expenditures ot public money yield such rich and speedy returns as do those for the reclamation of swamp, or over flow lands. Under the Georgia law author ising the formation ot drainage d(tr'ts and the issuance of drain bo4 tMM imuravemeifU 'can be made wltaeut .bueetw tartutay-rs paoaavty jwrwrm r 1 mim -Pfeftr MM b bto kaatLi m tha aaaa aai ati ai fn
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