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THE CITY MUST HOUSE AN
ARMY OF WORKERS
TT IS not often that tin1 opportunity Is
presented to clttzein to niaku one
course of action fulfill tliPlr iluty to llio
nation In Its why effort nut! to the clt's
permanent prospeiltj ntu! ciruie t one
and the panic time. The best kind of
"helping to win the wai" usually Implies
sacrifice. But theio Is today un in Rent
tank befoio I'hlladelphians lit the dolus
of which they will be lielpiiiB IhemseUesi
fts much as tho War Admlnlstiatloii.
An army of men It pouting Into the
City to work In bhlpyardt and other war
industries. Every day the housing piob
lm becomes moie dllllcult to solve. So
cai'co are good lodgings that one of the
corporations, eniplojing thousands of men
ngaged on Government w oik, has started
to erect temporary banoUs for Us em
ployea. Tho Ilouf-lng Ahsorlatlon '.las an
nounced that between COW) ami lo.noo
wage-earners' dwellings tun needed, and to
meet tho emergency It it appealing to
householders to make every effort to
supply a greater number of lounit than
are now available.
If this emergency involved a situation
to last but a few weeks or months it
could be met by temporal y expedients.
But these woikmen havo come to stay.
Not only are wo lu for a long war, but
for years after peace- is mado ship
building will proceed on a scale far above.
normal here and in all other gieat centers
of Industry. AVo must do moio than till
the, gaps which tho U-boat has loin In
the world's tnei chant marine. Viv must
have a merchant marine of our own. so
that never In the future shall wo bo de
pendent upon the vessels of other nations.
By the end of tho war we shall have
nearly as many merchant chips at Brit
ain, and to insuie tho futuie freedom of
tho seas we must have the gieatest navy
In the world. He Is blind who does not
ee that the thousands of workmen who
rave recently comu to Philadelphia, and
who are still coming, will be a permanent
part of our population.
The provision of comfortable dwellings
In streets propeily cleaned and drained
will first of ull expedite (Joveinment
work by keeping woikmen healthy and
happy. Then It will attiact those with
families and will enable men now living
In barracks to btlng their families from
the towns they left when high wages
called .them here. Some of the men who
now seek good dwellings In vain are
making more than 100 u week. Our
standard of citizenship will be raised by
jiving these newcomers tho facilities to
live well.
Capital will not be slow to see the pos
sibilities in this new and rcmatkable
chapter of tho city's history. There Is
one practical obstacle against which
pressure muit be brought to bear. Build
ing materials are diverted to other uses
by the Government's war needs. AVar
needs come first In importance; but tho
bousing situation hero Is a war need.
England's Immense Industrial changes
have necessitated the building of many
thousands of workmen's dwellings for
which materials, however scarce, had to
be found, and materials are not so scarce
here as they are in England.
We may expect In our civic life a de
mand for better government from the
Incoming army of new Phlladelphlans.
Skilled and energetic men are not easily
made the gulls and tools of crafty poli
ticians. We who have been on the spot
have a sorry spectacle of Inefficient and
dishonest government to show the new
arrivals. But we must make it plain aa
Jay light" that tho struggle to restore civic
Itiecency js continuous and that it will not
w fit n tYinrfisnt until Ihto la !-.. .,
&(?- " " "'" ucai'
overned and best-managed municipality
JKte,the country.
iA BETTER SAFE THAN HASTY
,
fr CRITICS who chafe at tho apparent
v slowness of Uncle Sam in getting his
- jalamif Into action "over there" might
ti'ssWdljate profitably over the old proverb,
' '"hasten slowly." And they might stilt
L Hhelri tingrounded, caustic conynents if
&3 sbaf nvs some mllvht cnnsfriArntlnn tn tt.A
Uuqbtr by .bitter experience In the
'HBaMn rnn rAnir,i e
bodies of troops are different far from
running an excursion. It took Kitchener
moro th'.n n year and u half to drill, equip
and move his armies to tho Trench
trenches. But tho result, apparently
slow as the Initiation was, has justified
tho careful premeditation and prepara
tion. Britain and Kranco havo been send
ing an army to Greece for two ycais In
preparation for u, drive from Salonlca, for
tho redemption of Serbia nnd the Ru
manian Dohrudja from the Hun. Yet
the offensive cannot como till next spring
at tho earliest, owing to tho dlfllcuUlcs
and dangers of transporting troops and
supplies In great numbers over long dis
tances. Tho American war problem Is even
moro taking on account of the larger
number of men, the vaster amount of
munitions and supplies and tho moro
considerable distances involved. Missteps,
miscalculations, must be nvolded Tho
stakes nro too momentous to let even do
tlrablo speed override tho discretion that
means cfllclency nnd that precludes
chanco of mlsdlrtctcd energy and loss of
forcu In tho smashing blow for which
America Is gathering power nnd momen
tum. Let Uncle Sam tako his good time,
without carping at Ills Judgment; ho will
bhow tho home crltlrs, tho orld nnd the
Hun.
UK? DKEl'KR FOR Y. M. C. A.
j NFLATED In
- the war tax. i
ncomes can escape some of
according to a ruling made
by tho United States Internal Bcvcnuo
Commissioner. Generosity toward the
V, M. C. A. fund Is the way. Contribu
tions to this splendid fund may bo de
ducted from the total Income In order to
compute the sum on which the income
tax must bo paid, piovided the contribu
tion does not exceed 15 per rent of tho in
dividual's net Income. Big Incomes,
theiefoie, got out jour check books. And
little liiconifs, not subject to Income tax
and siipoitax, icmcmber your sluue it
needed to help nviko life better and
easier for the lads In khaki "over thcie."
Dig deeper Into purses Do without
something else. Add another to your
war denials. Totals for tour days of the
fund campaign show a country-wide sub
scilptlon of $1L',000,OUO The sum of
$3.",000,000 Is askeil and It needed. Phila
delphia has subscribed $800,000. This
city and iiclghboilng tountlet arc ns
s-essed $1,300,000. Half a million moie
and two dajs to get It. Dig deeper.
Mako another sacilllce.
VON TIKIMTZISM WEAKENS
U-BOATS ill tho last week have made
no greater Inroad Into transatlantic
shipping than a heavy stoim might have
done In times of peace. One Biltlsh ship
of more than 1C0O tons is lost, as against
foity of that size In the worst wee't of
the campaign.
Our shipbuilding piociatn must con
tinue at top speed, for se!s uio still
badly needed. But It It a gieat encour
agement that at this time, when men ant,
equipment nio in gently needed by our
Allies, tho seas me safer than they have
been slurs the davs brfoie i uthlestness
started.
.AIR. PENNVI'ACKER'S LIFE SIORY
MEMOIRS nro the textbooks or life.
The most valuable books, whether of
fiction or fact, nio autobiographies. It
is fiom tho men who have "put them
selves" most faithfully Into their writings
that wo learn most. That Samuel W.
Pennypacker put himself into his book Is
well Indicated by this fiank prologue:
I have been brought Into relations
with tli Presidents, from Lincoln to
Housevelt; with the Generals Urnnt,
Sherman, Hancock, Sickles. Howatd and
Sheridan, and have corresponded with
Darwin, l.o Comte fin Paris. DeHoop
' Schelfer. Bayard Taylor and Llovd Mlf
tlhi. I have inadu addresses at Stony
Tolnt and at Gcttjsburg. I have pre
sided over the Law Academy, the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, a lourt and the
Commonwealth I have walked 175 miles
on a stretch and have ridden down Penn
sylvania avenue from the Capitol to tha
While House at tho head of 10,000 men.
I have carried on my back at one time
twenty pounds of putty and at another a,
musket. I have made pills In Kensing
ton, thrown a load of wood Into a Chest
nut street cellar, kept tho books of an
oil company, mowed weeds In a meadow,
gathered a great library, written eighty
books and pamphlet", tried men for mur
der and sent sixty-six criminals to bo
hanged. Therefore Is this story begun.
Tho Evksino Ledoeii considers Itself
fortunate to bo the medium through
which so cosmopolitan a mind can teach
Its lesson nnd leave its lasting Imprint
on tho thought of tho Commonwealth.
The autobloginphy, which will appear In
dally Installments, beginning tomorrow,
Is an Invaluable historical document and
constitutes perhaps tho most Important
public service which the late Governor
lendeied to his State.
German troops continue to bo as
Impotent against strong forces as they
nre successful against weak ones. Hln
denburg ordered the retaking of Pass
chendaele at all costs, and tho Hun
attack utterly failed, with all costs paid.
A Lancaster foreman while telling
the men under him that the Government
did wrong In entering the war was sud
denly Interrupted by a halter slipped
around his neck and was rescued with
difficulty. The men went too far, but the
disloyal may be reminded by the Incident
that when a Government halter is in
place nothing can loosen It.
One youth jwltlj a withered arm
and scores who failed to pass the sim
plest eye tests were sent to Camp Meade,
and 1800 In all have been sent homo
from Little Penn. This sort of thing
wastes time and money. Much of it will
be eliminated In the second draft If the
overworked medical officers are assisted
by physicians in each of the districts.
Lights are out on the gay white
ways. But there shouldn't be any gloom
about It Fuel is conserved for warmth,
not wasted in mere brightness. Lobster
palace, cabaret and roof gardens yield to
the furnace, kitchen range and factory
fire. And the glimmering landscape can
fade from, sight
naturally Instead of belnj Judge advocate generals omces are cauea-1 Taylor's column in the Chicago
EVENING LEDGEB-PHILADELPHIA, FBIAY,
ARMY LAW OFTEN
A BRAIN-TWISTER
Some Difficult Cases the Judge
Advocate General Has
Had to Decide
By SAMUEL M'COY
CourtT.vnv van bunssblabu de
rUYSTER FREMNGMUYSB.V DID
DLE JONES was a large, heavy joulh who
had wrestled In a losing fight with the
curriculum of the fashionable preparatory
school to which his parents had sent him.
Ho gave up the unequal contest when ho
was twenty and his mother felt that for
the next year or two lie should be allowed
to "rest up" after his mental labors. So
he drove his car happily nnd learned much
about gas engines without realizing It,
Then the United StRtes declared war on
the Kaiser. Courtney was "the real Amer
ican stuff." oven If he was n bit plow on
logarithms, and he promptly enlisted In the
engineering corps. His older brother, who
had Inherited tho family brains nnd had
graduated from the civil engineering course
at Cornell with honors, got a lieutenancy
In tho same corps, but the best that Court
ney nnd the rest of his names could pull
down was the title of corporal And he
was made corporal on the strength of his
good looks, there being no time to test
him out on any other qualifications.
Courtncv. etc. went acioss the big creek
with tho fliRt of the pub. He and the
rest of his corps promptly got on the Job
"hoinewhern In Prance" Courtney and a
group of engineers, all of whom ranked ns
coiporals or higher, were sent out on some
survey work back of the lines Then It
was that Courtney began to "pull boners"
"bonera" of a density that meant Ferlous
danger If they hadn't been discovered In
time.
The last one got the goat of the omcef
roinmandlng the detachment. Ho ordered
Courtney, etc., summarily court-martialed.
The court examined the evidence and sen
tenced Courtney to be l educed from corporal
to private.
Then Courtney burst out with a gleam of
almost human Intelligence Ho may not
have been much at an engineer, ho ad
mitted, but he set the Van Tlenselaer De
Pryster Krellnghusen Blddlo fighting Jaw
and rallied all the legal strain In tho family,
to his own assistance. And tills wan his
masterly argument:
A Cause Cclcbru
"How can j nu reduce a man to the rank
nf pi hate In a detachment of tho engineer
ing corps when there It no such grade iih
'private' lu tho whnl detachment?"
The question was a staggerer The of
ficer who acted ns his counsel In the court
martial seized on It and made the most of
It. The caso lagcd bauk and forth, being
dleussed at camp fires and ofllcers' billets
until It became a cause celebre Finally It
had to be appealed to the Judgo advocate
geneial of the armv. sitting In rlato In
Washington, for a decision
And this I" what the Judge advocate gen
eral ileclded'
"That as there It a grade of private of
enElneers, and as a summary court-martial
has Jurisdiction to reduce noncommissioned
ofllcers to the ranks, the fact that ill the
particular detachment there was no grade
of private did not affect the power of the
court nnd that the sentence was lecal If
there was no other objection"
There was not. Courtticj. etc. Is now
the lone private In a detachment composed
solely of otllcers He doesn't know whether
to be peeved or to glory in his pioud
eminence.
The name and the setting of this story
me. of course, fictitious. But a parallel
case did ailse In American army annals
of the present war, and the ruling of the
Judge advocate general, quoted above, la
transcribed erhatlm from the pages of the
Government's Ofllclal Bulletin
The case It an example of the questions
of military law which nre now perplexing
thousands of enlisted men, who weie law
yers In civil life before thev joined tho
ranks of Uncle Sam's soldiers, but who
never were called upon to file briefs In such
cases hs they now hear of But all these
cases. If they baffle the legal Intelligence
nf the officers conducting courts-martial or
the olllcer called upon to nuswer the pleas
of men In his command, are unraveled nt
the last by the Judge advocate general, lu
the words of Omar Khayjanc
"He knows about It all, ho knows, he
knows!" ,
Here arc some of the brain-twisters which
th Judge advocate general has recently
cleared up:
Some Brain-Twisters
A National Guard enlisted man who had
responded to the President's call for Fed
eral service, but had not been mustered In,
suffered a bioken leg In a friendly scuffle
with other enlisted men of his company.
There being no Government facilities avail
able for his treatment, ho was sent to a
private hospital by order of his commanding
ofllcer There he remained for several weeks
and was not able to report to his organ
ization for duty before It was mustered out
of the National Guard It waB not clear
from th record whether the soldier had
been formally rejected as unfit for the Fed
eral service. When he called upon the
Government for his pay as a member of
the regular army, to date from the time
his company was mustered into the Federal
service and for the amount of his ex
nenses of hospital treatment, there was
Scclrdlngly some doubt in the matter. Up
went the case to tho Judge advocate gen
oral. He ruled: . ,. ,
"That tn view of tha nature of the sol
dler's disability, his rejection as being un
fit for the Federal service was necessar y
implied, assuming that he was not formal y
rejected. The date of this rejection would
have been the dato on which It would have
been Ws duty, except for his Injuries o
report for musier-Cn. and he was entitled to
P V?oUbl.Son tts United States
to pay the expenses of his medical and
hospital treatment, his status after the date
oi ! his implied rejection for physical dls
ability was analogous to tho case of a
Midler discharged from the service while
confined In a hospital for treatment, who,
under the army regulations, would be en
titled to remain In the hospital at the ex
pense of the United States until such t me
only as he was able to leave tho hospital
and proceed to his home.
Loss of Pay the Penalty
a properly swift kick In the Jaw has
been administered by the Judge advocate
...ni n those "slackers' and time-
Servers now wearing Unclo Sam's uniform
who would rather serve ' sentences In the
guardhouse than to perform the hard work
which their comrades are obliged to do,
so long as their pay went on Just the same.
The Judge advocate general noticed that
In a number of cases recently the sentences,
while calling for long terms of confinement,
were Imposed without any forfeiture or
detention of pay. Now that he has com
pleted his excoriation of such offenders, It
18 certain that no military court will send
a mm to the guardhouse for a, long term
without at the same time cutting oft his
Still another question which has caused
endless discussion among the young men,
many of whom have found It no easy matter
to provide themselves with an officer s uni
form ahd at the same time send money horns
to their families from the pay they get
as members of the officers' reserve corps,
has been that of the legality of their being
charged by the quartermaster corps for
fuel and light consumed by them while on
duty at a military post. To the rescue of
their pocketbooks came the Judge advo
cate general recenUy. He ruled that they
should no more be charged for such heat
and light than should any regular army
officer of equal rank.
With a half million men now In Uncle
Sam's service, puzzling questions qf every
conceivable sort are .constantly arising, it
in hardly exaggeration to say that the
Tom Daly's Column
1WIIED1TY
When I teas quite a Ultle lad
Oh, many years ago
A curious trait my father had
That mysitlcd mo so.
Voit sec he uas the greatest hand
To feed on chicken stew
And mother aUcays cooked It grand
The best I ever know.
Tha gravy was so rich, yon know,
Tho meat leas never tough;
J)ut ice it'as poor them days and so
We never had enough.
Yet Vathcr "held his hosses" when
I yelled for right o' way
I never understood it then,
But now It's plain as dayl
I still can see my father's face
As hungry as can oc;
Yet slttln' quiet In his place
lie scraped the dish for me.
I knew he loved that chicken stew
For that's a family fault
And he'd have buckled to U, too.
And never called a halt.
And while I reached my caper hand
To grab tho final sup,
I simply couldn't understand
llow he could give It up.
But here's another greedy elf
That claims the right of way
Yotl seo I've got a aoii myself,
And now it's plain ns day.
I
The House of Eppelshcimer
THE SIGN upon tho window of the
grocery nt 3037 Spring Garden ctreet
reads:
SWIFT & CALDWELL
Employes of the late
ANDREW EPPELSHEIMER.
It came home to us, glimpsing the sign
in passing, that to our certain knowledge
Mr. Eppelshelmer had been "late" for at
least thirty years. We felt that none
of tho store's present neighbors had ever
dealt with him and that few, If any, had
knowledge of him at all, It sounded like
hero worship that loyalty of his one
time cmplojes nnd so It proved' to be.
WHEN we uppioachcd the piesent head
nnd sole memher of tho firm for the
story of Mr. Eppelshelmer wo did It In
too brusque and cold a way. "The mem
ory of Andrew Eppelshelmer," said Mr.
Edward F. Swift, "is too sacied to ma to
discusa with you over the telephone. Come
and sit by my desk nnd I will tell you
tho story." So we did and he did.
Tho smell of floor matting always
takes us by tho noso and leads us
through tho "arches of tho years" to the
parlor, or best loom, of our gi cat-aunt
It was a chamber full of wax fruit, Rog
ers gioups, walnut furniture covered with
linen slips and gloom stabbed hero and
there by daylight filtering through tho
cracks of black-bowed shutters. The
place never changed as long as wo knew
It.
This grocery store, when we entered It,
was llko that, yet different. ltLt a mod
ern, up-todato establishment; yet It has
about It a faint old-tlmy aroma, reminis
cent of Andrew Eppelshelmer. And Au
di ew Eppelshelmer has been "late" even
longer than wo supposed.
ANDREW EPPELSHELMER has been
but u memory for fifty years; a memory
kept allvo by tho sign on tho grocery
window nnd it tall mm bio column in
Laurel Hill Cemetery.
"Fifty jeais ago," said Mr. Swift, "my
dear old cmplojer was known among
grocers at 'tho met chant prlnco of up
town.' He was the youngest of tho eight
children of Eppelshelmer, the sugar ie
finer. He and his brother John were
tin- first to ciect n building lu this block
on Spilng Garden street; that was at tho
northeast corner, at Eleventh. After
ward ho built his store ut tho noithwest
corner, ut Tenth, und It was thero that I
went to him. James Caldwell, his nephew,
and I wero his clerks and Joe Dugan
drove tho wagon.
"Thero surely never was a handsomer
man than Andrew Eppelshelmer. He was,
tall and btiong and of juddy complexion,
and ho wore a noblo beard, every hair In
Its place. Ho was tho merchant prince
of uptown, ns I said before, and cannot
say too often: and Spring Garden street
was tho promenade In those days. Joseph
Thornley's dry goods store, at tho cor
ner of Eighth street, was the biggest up
town. The njarket houses In tho center
of the street were famous for good things,
and over one stall near Franklin street,
was the name Peter A. B. Wldener. Fur
ther to the north of us what Is now
Columbia avenue was open fields, but tho
Spring Garden district was a center of
fashion.
"My dear old employer was a power
there for twenty-flvo or thirty years, and
when ho died Swift, Caldwell & Dugan,
'employes of tho lato Andrew Eppel
shelmer,' proudly launched out Into busi
ness fur themselves. But Bugan has
gono and so has Caldwell, and I call my
self the last of tho line of Eppelshelmer,
tho oldest, or surely the second oldest,
retail grocery house in the city."
AS we said before, there Is a tall
marble column in Laurel Hill Cemetery
erected to the memory of Andrew Eppel
shelmer, but his name upon the sign of
his worshipful employes shines In letters
of gold.
IT'S comforting to know that there's
at least one Wise Guy In this old town;
and If you don't believe It, Just take up
the Bell Telephone Directory and look
among the Wises.
BABETTE BALLADS
mther, thither, little feet
Patter on the floor;
Bttll am I In my retreat,
MA behind the door.
If mv hiding-place Is guessed,
Comes a gleeful cry;
But If vain should be the quest,
There are tears to'dry.
I
In the House of Life, my dear.
All U not to fair:
Happiness la hiding here,
Borrow hiding there. ,
' '
May the godaiour life endow
From thelr-boundless store!
May you always find, as now,
Love oe'iOicl the door,
BERT LEBTON TAYLOJt.
We quote the above lines from Bert
Tribune,
NOVMBEB 16, 1917
"WHO ELSE ISS VICTORIOUS IN RUSSIA YOU
jj ' l 1 V' I KW - -7 ""
Ml: r t a -"' I v' If.wta- -'
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M A A'Wr-T ;
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SUFFRAGE IN U. S.
A WAR MEASURE
'It Can Be Settled Next Month
in One Hour's
Time"
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir I am sure that W. A. Stone and
many other fair-minded men are amazed
when they clearly understand the story of
tho pickets In Washington. May I mako
a brief statement of th'o facts?
Ab a law-abiding citizen, I carried a ban
ner with the courteous question. "Mr. Presi
dent, What Will You Do for Woman Suf
frage?" to the White House gates on July
14, held It there for four minutes in the
presence of two policemen and of a friendly
and orderly group of men and women. I
was then arrested, cheered by the "crowd"
and later tiled and sentenced to sixty days
In Occoquan Workhouse. And this not for
picketing, for that Is legal In tho District
of Columbia, nor for petitioning for liberty,
for that Is u constitutional right of every
American, but on a purely technical chatge
of "obstruction of trafllc." More than a
hundred women have been arrested for
similar acts on tho same charge, and Alice
Paul, leader of a national party organized
In every State of the Union. Is In solitary
confinement on n sentence of seven months
for nothing but the same charge,
The two banners that offended the taste
of some who did not fully comprehend their
purpose were declared lawful by the Fed
eral authorities before they were carried,
and In no case was any one arrested while
carrying them. The banners arrested by
tho police bore such phrases as the above
or quotations from the President's own
words or from tho Declaration of Inde
pendence. ,
This state of affairs Is Intolerable In a
nation that Is at war for the safety of
democracy. I appeal to llberty-lovlng men
and women to urge upon the President to
end It by the exercUe of his undoubted
power, by declaring the passage of the Fed
eral suffrage amendmont to be ti war meas
ure and therefore to be passed Immediately,
thus following the same procedure that any
other war measure has followed and open
Ing the way for the State Legislatures to
act on It In the same manner as any othei
amendment has been acted on by the demo
cratic method adopted by the people In the
Federal Constitution.
Slxty-slx women have gone to prison In
order to hasten the time when they and
hundreds of thousands more can devote all
the time and money and thought now flow
Ing Into suffrage propaganda to the con
structive work of assisting In solving the
tremendous political problems facing this
nation The President and Congress can
settle this question next month in one hour's
time IARY H- INGHAM.
Philadelphia. November 13.
PROFITS ON BAGS OP COAL
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Under the heading. "Doom of Coal
Peddler Pirate," etc., your valuable paper
warns the publlo against tho grocers' exor
bitant prices on Dags oi coui. nuw let us
do a little figuring. According to your
statement the (reputable) coal dealer sells
to the grocer a bag of coal of twenty-five
pounds at thirteen cents. Now 2210 divided
by twenty-five comes to eighty-nine and a
half bags of coal and eighty-nine, and a
half times thirteen to f 11.63 per ton.
The cost to the coal de'aler Is approxi
mately 7 for the coal. With eighty-nine
.mr,t,. ham at one cent each tho total cost
Is $7.89. leaving the coal -dealer a net profit
of $3.74 on tach ton sold, or nearly 50 per
cent. On the other hand, the grocer pays
$11.87 for the coal and retails It for (elghty
nlne times fifteen) $13.35, and makes a
profit of $1.78. or about 16 per cent.
The coal dealer makes one delivery and
his profit Is $3.74. The grocer makes
eighty-nine deliveries and his profit Is $1.78.
And your valuable paper undertakes to call
the grocer a. '"pirate" and the coal dealer a
'ieputable coal dealer" 1
I am a dally reader of the Evenino
"LBDOEn'and consider It to be a fair paper.
While I do not undertake to defend the
grocer, I think that In all fairness he Is
entitled to'the same profit tho coal dealer
Is. I am not a grocer. n. y.
Philadelphia, November 15.
The method of'arrivlng at results would
be adequate If all grocers and coal dealers
w '.V :.T
vy'vymw
not geneial. Tho following report Is made
by the investigator whose article It criti
cized bv II. Y : "The coal dealer hit been
willing to open hit hooks for my Inspection
and the grocer has not. The giocer's atti
tude toward hit paper-bag coal I have found
hi neirly every case to be evasive, lacking
complete frankness In lespert to both cus
tomer and wholesaler. Since the appeal ance
of this particular aitlcle other flagrant
cases have been found In which the gioccr
has boosted his price to four or five cents
above tho amount ho pass for oich bag of
coal As to the profit cleared bv the whole
saler, although some Instances of lapacity
havo appeared, In the case quoted in the
aitlcle of November 12 the dealer made
no such profit as $3 71. he made. In fact,
less than 7 per cent on Ids cost price. The
retailer's profit, as our cm respondent tloe3
not seem to know, is based on bis loir,
gross margin, to which 30 per cent may be
added. Flguied In cents, In the case ic
ferred to. It doC3 not exceed seventy cents
per ton on I1I3 bag coal, as against tho
universal $1 60 (ninety times two cents)
and very usual $2 70 and even $3 f.O ex
acted by tho grocer." Editor of the Eve
nino I,EDiinn.j
OFFICERS AID Y. M. C. A.
To the Editor of the Evenino Ledger:
Sir After n meeting In one of the Y.
M C. A. buildings nt a National Army can
tonmeiit ono of the ofllcers piesent came
up to tho Y. M. C. A. man In charge and
said, "Can we have a transaction that no
body will ever know about?"
A great many of the soldiers bring their
pilvatp problems to tho Y. M. C A. secre
taries "and ask them for advice. Tho gray
haired man In tho Red Triangle uniform
thought this was some personal matter.
They withdrew to a coiner and put their
heads together.
The officer said; "I've been admiring the
work you people are doing here, and I
want to help any way I can. Won't jou
please take this and use It at you think
best?" He gave the other a folded sheet
of paper.
He was a second lieutenant and the paper
was his monthly pay voucher which he had
Just received. It was made out for $121.67,
being Uncle Sam's indebtedness to him
during one-twelfth of a year.
That lieutenant Is giving all hit tlmo
to Uncle Sam's Job. He It prepared to give
the last full measure of devotion. And yet
he goes ono further and donates a month's
pay because he knows that the work tho
Y. M. C. A. Is doing is vital, splendid nnd
a military necessity. Dare we at home be
less generous? JOHN CUItRY.
Philadelphia, November 13.
BRITISH COURTESY
As a striking example of English cour
tesy. Brigadier General Sir William White,
commanding ofllcer pf the British recruiting
mission to the United States, has Issued
orders that American officers nre to be
saluted regardless of rank.
The order applies to nil British officers In
this country. Itaplgnlficance Is deeper thsn
one would think at first glance. It means
that British colonels, majors and captains
will saluto the American second lieutenant
on sight, and that they courteously waive
tho rule of "Junior otficer salutes4first,"
Many ofllcers of our own army, especially
those of the reserve corps, are lax about
saluting. This Is especially noticeable
among medical and dental corps ofllcers
who have had little or no military training.
The ruling of Brigadier Oeneral White does
not mention that fact. No criticism la ex
pressed. It does say, however, that Amer
ican ofllcers are to be saluted punctiliously
and that if these fall to salute first the
British officers should do so regardless of
rank.
British officers salute only with the right
hand. Enlisted men of that army salute
with either 'hand. That Is, they use the
hand farthest away from the ofllcer being
saluted.
AND REAL MONEY, TOO
If Germany can lend, herself $30,000,
000,000, America ought to be good for about
$30,000,000,000,000. Boston Transcript.
HELPING ALONG
On Sunday we no sugar cat;
On Monday we refrain from meat :
On Tuesday all our bread Is rye ;
On Wednesday we cut out our plo;
On Thursday butter has no call ;
On Friday we've no milk at all ;
On Saturday we dlpe on meal
, 'And so you see we somehow. fi
rhraraBixre,w''.v $;'-""A vrav
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Illatlnciilsh hetwern enplt il and caiHoL
3. Ulmt nre davits?
3. VU10 was "I.IMIe Kmii?" .
4. lime am States two cnpltnlK? Whit States
Imtl them?
.1. Mini Is Joseph rrmiell?
n. Prflne. selenocrapli.
7, linn- ImiK Is the term nf a United SUtalj
heiutor?
5. Vthnt nre the sljlrs nf clale archltecttutt.
0. VMin Is the Federal coal admlnUtratnt
10. tvhitt Is the meanlnc of Vermont? '
Answers to Yesterday's Qujz
1. Ravninml I'oidlrk Is rlinlrninn of the Tt
ernl commission cm training caun sclltl
ties. S. .Inlousles nre horltontallr slattfd Inntr l&
dovv shades, mnde cf uood.
3. ftermun monejs nnd propert lln this cere
try will he selied. hut not confiscate!
under the alien enemy art. Thej will M
In chnrBe nf the custodian of ennnj Pn
erty nnd Invested In Vnlted SttM
securities mid villi he returned to t
owners et the close of tho war iilthlrtsl
usufruct. v
4. Inrltlsm Is 11 Krurral term eml.ratlni flj -
lojulty. treason and even dlirfjirs1
proper responsibilities of citizenship'.
t. Joseph Rodman Drake wrote tho poeo "!
American Ylac,"
it. I)r. Samuel John-on tins tilled the "CJ
Cham of Literature" In nllnslon t
helns the literary dictator of his era.
7. The lnltlul V In U-boat sires the forest
NUhinnrlne. The German word Is nntne
boot undersrahunt. .
K. Tho former National Guard of rennsrltlsls
Is now classified ns the Twenty-elthth
Tlslon. U. S. A. .
0. . service flag- has a deep red border srwM
a white field, on which Is placed
stor for each member of a family of "
ploje of a firm In the service. ,
10. 31. I'alnleie: formerly French 1JI';lt'ruH
Mnr and 1'remlcr In the Cabinet wans
fell from power this week. o
ARCTIC COMMUNITY CENTERS'
TN EVERY' Eskimo village of any Imp0
J. tnncn In At-rlln Alaska stands a '
tanco In
I1.1DI(- .- u
frame echoolhouse. Kiom a llagpo e n
TT-...J d. ..,.. io n..in. nut the buna-
Ing, contrasting sharply with tn w
mounds which are really the native "
Is more than an ordinary gchoolhouie.
Is hi a very real sense a community """
The villagers gather in the '"
on weekdays for Instruction in the t"
llsh language, manners nnd customs, u
Sundays their simple religious services .
held In this same room. On holidays wej
gather thero for the feasts prepared lor
them by tho teacher In charge or W
missionary. ..-
There is also In the schoolhouse a room
set apart where the villagers. may gain"
at any time of the day or even ng to '
around tho fire and smoke while they,;'"
At these Informal gatherings """"!
Is discussed, from the teacher, wnow
popularity depends to an appreciable
upon the number of presents he hands out.
to hunting, the weather, the white mB"
ships, etc , ....lis
Is there Illness In any Igloo, the medic"
chest In the "big house" Is the first tt
thought of. and to the "big house v
Eskimos come for nld, be; It night or w.
If a dog-team Is sighted coming toware
the village, "messengers" hurry to the
house" to Inform the teacher of the comiw
of "strangers" so that he may be pre
pared to receive them.
And so It goes. The center ot "
tlvlty and thought and life In the vllttn .
Is the red-roofed schoolhouse ,na'.
white man In charge. Besides a fairly w
equipped schoolroom there Is a large ""
room In the building, where are Pr'!
of 'alt kinds and living quarters ,-"?.
teacher and his family. Helen Sinclair I"
World Outlook. ,
OUR "WAR" WITH AUSTBIA,
There Is a good deal of common sens,
of the sort that seems to have been ntt my
lacking In dealing with the Italian IW?!
as a whole by the antl-Kalser countries io
gsneral, In the suggestion, made dlrecuyv
...- n. Uh !, ,. nt nnrfl declare "'
on Austria-Hungary and Turkey and at" ,M
don the anomalous relations this wuMJ7 41
has toware. a coun ry .. "-,'for
Being useci uBuuiat vur " """,. 01n Q
all we know may even no be ' 7A
across No Man's iana ai our u" -- "-j. '.'j
One can understand the academic J
from whlcn me leaders 01 a oeiini---
asJUnerlca mignt conceive 'y'i.
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