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PUIILIC LEDGER COMPANY
crtlUS !. K. CUIITIS. l'r.sitr;NT
Charles H. t,tidlnton, Vice President! John
C., Martin. Serretarv nml Trensurrri Philip 8.
Collins. John U. Williams, John J. Simrgeon,
P. II. Whaley, Directors.
HDITOlllAI, 110A11D!
Ones It. K. Ccims, Chairman.
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MAHT1X.. General Ituslness Mannner
ruullhr-i1 dallv nt I'int.io f.riir.n HulMIn.
Independence Square, Philadelphia.
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Tho EtnxiMi I.r.rsiKn It served In subscribers
In Philadelphia nnd surrnundltii; imvna at the
ralo of twelve ML') cents Mr week, rayublo
to tho carrier.
Hy mall to rolnts outsl.to of Philadelphia, In
the InltoJ Male.. Canada or I'lilted Rates pn.
sessions. rost.ii.-e Jre. fifty ".'.ill tents per
iiiuiiwi. j.ix itut uanars per : ear. payaDie in
advance.
To all forelen countries one. ($1) dollar per ,
month.
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Philadelphia, Wrdnodav. Nniemlicr M, 1517
OUR OWN BOLSHEVIKI
TTtrn AIH-2 niaklnc war alms nr.,1 pence
terms hero at home as much as they
arc makltiK them In the famous (lennaii
city of I'cti'ouratl. Theie H n tendency
In man to belittle the effect of quietly
expressed opinion In his own street and
to ex.iKu'erate tho effect of a riot tu n
foreign city. And, by the same token, a
riot at home makes n, man In the midst
of It think the whole world Is allame.
A IJolshevik, gallantly raking with his
machlno gun a low of women soldiers or
beardlet-s cadets, devoutly believes ho Is,
making London and I'arts beg tho Kaiser
for peace. An American, benignly listen
lug to tho outpouring of some Socialist
nbout "Allied Imperialism" and 'Wall
street's war," fancies that tin harm is
being done to thos-o In his home circle
who courteously glvo ear to the pacllist's
"idealism." lioth are wrong. Uolshevlklsm
Is capable of harm to a righteous cause
every whet p. whether It talks with
honeyed tongue or with Hi u ami sword.
What Is tills "imperialism" that is sup
posed to be hidden In Allied closets?
Are wo of tho Allies supposed to have
designs on Turkey, for example? Wo
have Indeed. Tho Turks have massacred
a nation. Armenia has been put to the
swotd. A remnant of that Christian
nation, mostly women and little children,
cries out. In nakedness, hunger and
tquiilor, under the whip and tho clenched
list. And our "idealistic" young Amerl
:cnn Bokhevik, safe and warm here at
our ilrcslilc, tells us wo must "reassure"
Turkey and "reassure" the Herman manti
facturcra that their Interests In the Xear
Ea.st will not bo disturbed. Out- Holshevlk,
hero In Philadelphia, is careful not to
mention tho atrocities. It wouldn't be
polite In tho presence of ladles. Ho our
wives and sisters occasionally give assent,
find liberal-minded iimn givu a hesitant
assent, and when tho little conversation
has been repeated In a million homes
there Is crystallized out of it ail a repot!
tion of tho slogan. "Doilno war alms."
Define, then. Oeilne, if you can, the
nameless crimes In Armenia. Doilno one
war aim as the freeing of that nation
, from tho unspeakable Turk and tho
graining to .rmcnians or the soil of
Armenia.
Around tho circle of the seven seas the
American llolshevlk will take you. point
ing out tho vestiges of .Allied "Imperial
ism." What are wo going to do with
Germany's colonics? We shall hold them
until the CJerman peoplo come to their
senses and show that they are capable
of holding even Herman s-oll secure from
their own murderous and tyrannical auto
crats. We shall talk no peace with an
irresponsible Kaiser If we hnvu to light
our way clear to Berlin to get the
ear of the German people. Wo can give
no subject peoples back to perjurers and
felons. Let the German people, absolve
themselves, by reparation and repentance,
from the crimes they have been led to
commit and every possession that Is
rightfully theirs will be restored.
The American Bolshevik wants us to
keep talking to tho German people.
Would that wo could! Has he arranged
with the German censor for transmission
of our literature across the battle lines
and frontiers? Tho only way we could
get Germans to read President Wilson's
war speech, fn which he maintained with
a candor disconcerting to militarists the
world over' that "wo are still the firm
friends of tho German people," was by
dropping copies of it from airplanes. It
a man tried to enter Germany with liberal
messages to the German peoplo written
on his skin lit invisible Ink, the frontier
guards would give him an acid bath.
But our Bolshevik is not trying to talk
to tho Germans. Ho Is trying to sap tho
couraqo and determination of his neigh,
bora here lit home.
A HOME DINNER IN THIS CITY OF
HOMES
PHILADELPHIA takes Just pride In Its
distinction us "Tho City of Homes"
ft,, nearly ivu.uyu or inem. more than any
., metropolis In the world can boast In tho
Ef$ sense of separate houses that are homes,
Thouiands of Philadelphia, boys, away
lanwinwHL c ir on in alien trencheu
t?i
Thanksgiving fenst. Hut tho lovo of tlio
homo folks will lio fondly with them.
Why not turn tho lino scnthnciit of the
season Into n vital festival? That wns
tho happy thought uf mothers nml fathers
here. Just nB tho Philadelphia lads wcro
to hu missing from the family hoard so
would bo thousands of boys from all over
tho land, stationed nt Icuguo Island,
whoso homo ties hud been broken volun
tarily nml Kindly by them and their people
that they mlKht light their country's
battle. Tho connection was clear. The
occasion was ripe. Thanksgiving Invita
tions to sailors and marines stationed
I whose own boys arc nt the front.
So hundieds of temporarily homeless
J.'tckles will cut a home dinner totnor.
low In Philadelphia. City of Homes.
ITALY'S VKKDlW
has held back the run nulling
nt the l'lave without the aid of
TTA1.V
- Huns
Itiltlsh and French le-enfoiccments.
That ted river Is Italy's Verdun. "They
shall not pass" has been the watchword
there ns It was on the .Mouse. Many
have believed that Italy's Allies were
helping her to hold bark tho Invaders.
This Is now di'llnltcly proved false b.v
the announcement that tho Allied re
serves are only now arriving at positions
behind the flout. To the cohorts uf Diaz
alone N the credit due for the glorious
defense of Venice.
It Is no secret that .lofi're was adisrd
to give up Verdun and that the Italians
were prepared to yield Venice and retire
to tho Atllgt'. Hut a sentiment swept
Franco that Verdun meant more than a
strategic post. When It wns understood
that the Crown Prince was determined to
light (i derisive, engagement on tlm
Metise to prove that the French could
be beaten back wherever Germany chojn
to attack in force, the French army tool:
up the challenge mid ."nn.OOO Teutons
paid with their lives for Hie vain en
denvor. In the sumo way Italy mid the
world came to think of the l'lave ns a
testing ground for Allied inotale. Mili
tary experts said that a retreat to the
Adlgo would bo sounder strategy. It may
yet bo on Iho program. Put If the Ital
ians rctho now the world will know that
It Is not because they have to. but he
cause such n letlrentent would draw tho
Teutons farther from their base and pos
sibly Into a huge trap from which tho
Allies could roll them Into the Adilatlc.
TAKE I)()LT.TFUL HAI.LOT-HOXES
TO SUPREME COUKT
VAllK lawyers who are enl
tioiis to every ruling of
entering exrep-
the Common
Pleas Judges sitting us an Kleetion Court
on tho opening of suspected ballot-boxes
do so for the sole purpose of making a
last despetate stand to grip tho olllccs
which they won by slight majoiltles on
the face of the returns. Carrying the
ballot-boxes to the Supremo Court, made
possible by the exceptions, is Just what
the Town .Meeting party managers want.
For several political generations there
has hardly been a strictly honest election
in Philadelphia. The Town Meeting
party defiles nothing moio than an op
portunity to ii ove before tho highest
court in the State what it has been dem
onstrating at this week's hearing in the
lower court. The Vine attorneys have
offered the opportunity of making elec
tion frauds, which every one Is sure of
.hoso who perpetrate them and thoso who
sutler by them a matter of s-iiprenie
Court record. Such n vecord, even if It
fall to reverse tho palpably stolen election
oi this month, will be a deadly weapon in
tho reform arsenal In the mayoralty cam
paign two years hence.
UNIT CONTROL FOR WINNING
THE WAR
THH United Ptntes working with a
slnglo purpose and In no other wise
can win the war. The nation is singlo
in sentiment. But united sentiment must
bo backed by united control.
American war activities are now to bo
operated us a single-track, high-geared
system. They call it n "Super-War
Council" tho phrase makers who writo
Washington dispatches. Tho spectacular
and expressive brevity of the term Is at
once a definition of alms and an inspiring
epithet. It is a phraso with a "punch."
The same punch will bo found in tho
supreme body composed of the Secretaries
of War, tho Navy, tho Treasury, the In
terior, Agriculture and Commerce and
Labor, the food and fuel administrators
and the chairman of the Shipping and
War Industries Boards. It has a big job
cut out. nothing less than the unification
and co-ordination of all governmental
branches In prosecution of the war to
successful issue
The same kind of confusion and cross
purposes which marked tho early days of
the war developed recently with the mul
tiplicity of new committees and authori
ties, each with legitimate purpo.se, but all
working without a definitely centralized
master-control. Wastage, duplication and
congestion of energy and action will he
saved by the new hoard which the Presi
dent has created for victory.
The Organization will try to carry
its tight to hide the ballots to the Su
preme Court. It can be trusted to do
anything that requires supremo nerve.
December cotton sold at the record
quotation when Its market opened. Just
so wool does not follow suit will suit
everybody, now that winter suits aro
suddenly called by nipping weather.
Tho French are going through tho
same gaps In the Alps that Hannibal fol.
lowed. But thlB tlmo It is civilized man
that Is bound for the Itullau plain and
the barbarian who awaits his attack.
The pension burdens and scandals
of previous wars will be avoided by the
mammoth success of the soldiers' Govern
ment Insurance plan. Applications for
more than a billion dollars' worth of
policies are already on Me.
The attack on Italy was Intended
to relieve Allied pressure In France. But
Italy seems to need little assistance. Tne
Allied re-enforcements may even be
strong enough to start an offensive or
their own aad outflank the would-be
HMMTIiij-Sfcm,. ...f
FOOD-SAVING IN
THE RESTAURANT
Hotels and Tearooms Loyally
Support Hoover Administration
TWBNTV THOUSAND persons aro fed
three times dally by Philadelphia's first
and second class hotels, cafes and res
taurants. Fifteen thousand others nro fed
once dally by these establlchmenls 10,000
of tliein at or around midday nnd R00O nt
night. Of tho 20,000 that nre fed thrco
times a day, 2000 take a fourth meal nt
night.
So "S.ono meals are served In these first
and second class eating places In the city.
the rostamanls and tearooms of Mk de
partment stores being Included among (hem.
Those flguies are approximate. To obtain
exact olies would require a gioat niniiy
thousands of dollars and the labor of a
regiment of enumerators, bookkeepers, nc
cotintniitH and Investigators for a mouth.
The managements of these establishments
tire giving earnest, whole-souled and self
sacrificing co-operation to tlm National
Food Administration In Its huge task of
conserxlng the nation's food supply, anil
particularly the supply of those foods that
contain the highest percrnlngcs of nutil
tive elements, to the end that the 1'nlted
States troops heie and In the theatres of
war and tho soldiers nnd people of the Al
lied nations may not tnre.
If the rest of the nation reduces con
sumption of food In the nimn measure In
which these place hno i educed II the
problem of mod conservation Is solved.
These tlrst nnd second class eating places
aro not contenting themselves with what
they have accomplished ; they plan to ac
complish more.
In Hie tlrst place, the saving of 21 per cent
of nii-iit has been effected. That Is about
nnoo pounds n day. Of the 21 per cent,
the "meiilless Tuesday" Is credited with
14: the other 10 Is due to arou devices
of the mnn.'igimelits and to the disposition
ol pattons to rn.nperatr In conservation
Vhtually no meat Is rnten on Tuesd.i.
and on other das 10 per cent less than
fi rmerly Is cr.nmncl.
1 Ivory big hotel and restaurant Is pre
pared to serve meat on Tuesdays if meat
Is demanded. "We can't dictate to our
rustomeis any more than a clothier cm
dictate to Ills." one manager said. "W'e
can suggest, however, and we can make
It very easy or rather difficult fi.T i-ur
patrons to order certain dlehes. In this
place we rarely serve a meat dish on Tues
day. If our customers demanded meat we'd
have to give It to them, but they don't
oemand It Thev know what we ate trying
to do. and they are for us on tho meat
proposition as they are on others."
Vcjretiiriiiii Dinners
On other days than Tuo-dtiy moie game
end poultry dishes are plmed on the menus.
More (Nil also appears on the menus and
prepared in tin re different styles. Many
persons nre more or less dependent upon
the walteis vviiPti ordeilng. Menus are
sometimes- bewildering ; It is a sensible and
economic thing to ask the waiter for sug
gestions. Now the waiters die Instructed,
and they observe the Instructions carefully,
never to suggest meat. Anything else may
be suggested
fine testnuraut has a manager who Knows
n.ueli about wmkhig with type. His game
rnd poultry are printed on tho menu In
large letters; his meats. In i-mall ones. In
two places on his menu card appears
"VI:i!1;t.MIIA.V IH.Vi:iV In letters four
times- as large as any others. The dinner
Is raining favir.
The saving of butter is approximately
5o per cent, or Tilly's pounds a day. That
sounds almost Impossible, but it is true.
It Is possible and true because a great deal
too much butter was being used. An average
piece of butter weighs 1-3; to -2t of a
prund. Formerly bread and butter were
served af the very beginning of a meal,
and at the outset the sewing of butter
was two or three pieces, and the average
waiter seemed to be fired with an ambition
utterly to destroy the world's visible butter
supply. When a patron had eaten all but
one piece of his butler the waiter added a
ci uple of pieces. Steaks were aiwa.vs high
ly buttered It was nothing unusual for
a waiter to use four prt-ces In buttering a
bakrd potato, fireat quantities of butter
vvcih K-rved on vegetables and with grld'II"
cakes
Now all that Is changed. Bread nii'i
butter nre served after the rtrst course has
hi en served. That eliminates eating bread
and butter just to have sonicthing to do
while waiting for the meal to be served.
One or two pieces of butter are served and
the patron gets no more unless ho asks for
It Ortddlc cakes are no h nger accom
panied by enough butter to float them. One
piece of butter Is called sutllclent for a
baked potato. If you want more you have
to ask for It. Steaks and vegetables ur5
butteird enough for tho average person
but not tor. much, a'i formerly.
Saving Sugar
Consumption of sugar 1ms been reduced
about GO per cent, or 2.140 pounds. Some
managers have done away witti sugar
bowls and portion tho sugar out to patrons
two pieces (or one) at a time. If more Is
wanted the guest again must ask for It,
Persons who have thought they needed foui
or flvn lumps of sugar in a cup of coffee
find that one or two nro enough, other
managers have not dispensed with sugai
howls, but put less sugar In them. "We
used to send tho bowls to the tables full,"
said a manager. "We put In all they would
hold and they always came back empty.
Now we send them half full and there are
almost always Mime lumps left In them
when they come back."
Tho average person may not know It, but
It Is a fact that sugar will be used more,
sparingly from a half-filled bowl than from
a full one, even though the guests know
they may have all they want for th
asking.
One mnnager has some personal acquaint
ance with 90 per cent of his patrons. He
has been the manager for fifteen years.
He asks his guests to use sugar sparingly
for the sake of the country and Its allies.
He nsks them to partake sparingly of all
things that Mr. Hoover wants saved. Walt
ers and waitresses are cautioned against
wastefulness with sugar. That Increases
the saving. The saving Is still further
Increased by tho use of less,, sweetening in
cake, pies and puddlng3 nnd b the use of
honey.
The reduction of wheat-bread consump
tion Is about 30 per cent. Much of this Is
accomplished hy observance of "Wheatless
Wednesday." Guests are urged to use va
rious substitutes for wheat bread rye and
graham bread, corn bread and the others.
When wheat bread Is required most of tne
managers serve a bread of S2 per rent
wheat and 18 per cent corn flour. One
manager now uses no "white" bread, using
tho wheat nnd corn combination exclusively.
Ho serves ono roll of wheat and corn fiou
and a corn muffin or a graham gem,
Fewer Bread "Scraps"
The portions of bread are reduced every
where. Pread, like butter, is saved by
some manaeers by delaying tho service until
the first course has been served. Guests
are made to ask for more bread If they
want it; they nre no longer encouraged to
break a roll just to be doing something
and perhaps eat only a mouthful of it.
"Leok there," said a manager, seen in
his kitchen, iiolnttng to a tray on which
was about half a peck of broken pieces of
bread and rolls. "That Is all the bread
that has come back from, luncheon: We
used to have three barrels of It. People
are saving. Conservation Is a fact. It in
no dream of Hoover's any more. The peo-"?-...
v,.ine cured of the habit of wasta-
V,,T.. and when this war 1. over-th.r.
".,.. aaaln t sMBJksJMf M
Tom Daly's Column
a itEBroxsn to Tim rnooLAMA
ro.v Gtvc thanks, Mtethcr President, sail yd
Give thanks an' rejolccf
01 faith, I'm that alad to olev yo
There's tears hi me voice.
Food Trusts an' the like have Icon Vavin'
A'o pottl In me! purse:
However, I'm daelnt an' savin'
It might have been icorae.
We might have had nofilit 6tif Katie's
Ottld cloth on the board,
Hut here tee're some bread an' some
be to the Lord I
Valth, sor, but the blcisln's of Heaven
.ire craudtn' us fast.
Mr board had but places fur seven
Tlmnksnii-tu' llav last,
Hut now there arf eight call mc"Dnddv"
Htght mouths to supply!
Jusht look at the baby; that's Vaddy
Who came in July.
Obsarvc the fat flshts of the Hlcssln
A-poundln' the board!
An' none o' the others arc mlssln',
Thanks be to the Lord!
Give thanks, Mlshtcr President, say yet
(tlvr tlwnki mi' rcjolcct
O! faith, I'm thai glad to obey ye
There's tears In mc voice.
Thai Hack Collar-Hutton
Pear Sir I rend w'ith great Interest
the poem and the paragraph relative to
thn saving of the rear foretop collar-button,
the same to be used for bullets to
smite the Huns. Such a spirit of war
economy Is surely praiseworthy, wno
wouldn't go around with his collar
around his ears like n, pair of hames for
thn cause? Any one but a misanthrope.
I have, sinco the war began, removed
tho little, metal dinguses from the ends
of my shoestrings for tho same purpose,
and much to my surprise I haw already
accumulated nearly a pillbox full of them.
It Is my hope that hi time 1 may obtain
enough of them to make a cannon. Go
ahead with the good work, for I feel sure,
all patriotic Phllndclphinns nro with
you. Very truly.
WILLIAM N. FAMOUS.
WK SHALL not discuss the merits of
this scheme of wiving shoelnco dinguses.
It goes to tho other cxtremo nnd is cal
culated to distract attention from tho
main Issue, as set forth in our poem of
Saturday, to wit: "Ono collar-button is
enough, so why use any more?"
Let critics rave, as critics Kill,
MY'rr of the seme opinion still;
We've tried the thing and we're tlje judge.
We know the collar will not budge,
It until neck and collar fit
And that's the simple truth of it!
Here me we, back-buttonless for nearly
n whole week now, nnd otherwise normal.
We do not even get hot under our collar
ns quickly as was onco our wont. Wo
can discuss calmly tho publics Indiffer
onco to our patriotic alms. Tho con
servation of shoelace dinguses may bo a
pro-Gcnnnn stalling of tho stalemate.
Tho collar-button In tho hand Is an In
stant weapon, ready for emergency.
Let us suppose a pacifist comes Into
your neighborhood. Ho begins to open
his mouth. You reach into your vest
pocket and, picking out tho collar-button,
hold !t with your thumb against the
nails of tho first and second fingers. When
tho pacifist's throat is nt Its widest you
flip the missile into his thorax and choke
him.
Possibly other patriotic uses for the
olf-duty button may occur to readers as
likely to bo moro helpful than tho slow
and therefore open to suspicion conser
vation of shoolaco whatyoumaycallems.
UXKMl'T
When I tried to pass for Mycr things
looked dandy at the start.
And they termed 'o Ilka me till they put
the 'scope against my heart.
Then the Major growled about the noisy
trolley cars ouUtde;
But he looked away and so I knew thoso
trolleys ran inside.
-You; r! .siMfn' (n an office chasing figures
up a line
Wish to God I were ullh General Byng
abingln' on the Tlliinc.
AXOVS.
THAT INTKltHSTING artlclo dealing
with dogs which graced this page a few
days ago reminded us of the strange case
of a man wo knov; who lives In tho town
of South Manchester, Conn. He's a hater
of dogs, and tho very sight of one scares
him stiff.
This man, who is normal in all other
ways, delights to walk In tho country,
but every such stroll becomes a fcarsomo
adventure. If a dog appears In tho road
beforo him our friend dodges Into a by
path If he can. or Incontinently falls back
and retreats tho way he came. When tho
dog Is near enough to notice this behavior
Its curiosity is naturally excited and It
jumps to Investigate. "I can never under
stand," says our friend, "why tho dogs I
detest should so delight to associate with
me."
"They wouldn't, if you didn't worry so
about them," wo told him. "Why don't
you walk right past them?"
"I couldn't," said he, "it would kill me."
And It probably would.
Once when a playful puppy pursued
him he took refute In a livery stable.
Ho began incoherently to call upon the
proprietor for help
"What aro you sayln'7 Want mo to
hitch up?" he asked. "Yes," said the
poor cynophoblac; "hitch up and take mo
home."
We Thank Yon
Is It hard to write columns? Well rather
It Isn't all skittles and bliss.
The quatrains especially bother
They are seldom as easy as this.
John D. Weill, In UurTalo News.
Which accounts In a way for the habit
(And it surely Is nothing amiss)
When we seo a four-liner, wo grab it.
And tack on another like this.
C. A. Iedy, In Younirton Telegram.
We're tlckted to death when we strike 'cm
As over exchanges wo pore; '
And gosh! how our readers all like 'em
They eat 'em and holler for more I
R. P. McPhee, in Springfield Union.
We thank you, dear colyumlng brother.
For saving us labor and fret j
Behold, we have written another
And happily the end is not yet I
Ted noblnion. In Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Let me get In the game while It's going
I can tack on a verse, and I will,
Just look at the' way it Is growing, .
And notice the space it can fill.
K. A. Uuera, In Detroit Kree Pren.
And here comes Thanksgiving tomorrow.
And all J can think of i turk;
I'll add to the$9 quatrain J horrif
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THE VQICE OF
THE PEOPLE
White House Pickets Defended.
An American
Peace
DEFENSE OF PICKETS
To the Vriltar of Ihc Krcning Ledger:
Sir Your editorial on the National
Woman's Party calls for a dlspasslonato re
statement of our position. In tho first
place, we aro not a militant body, We
have broken no laws and luivo never at
tempted to use force against our Oovern
ment. Alice Paul saw In 1013, aa tho railroad
employes saw In lDlfi, that a strongly or
ganized body of voters, though opposed b.v
both parties, could force u measure through
Congress by exerting political pressure on
tho President before a national election.
Mr. Dudley Field Malono has paid tributo
to tho effectiveness of tho campaign waged
by tho National Woman's party In the
Western States and has said that our
organization's work was tho most difficult
problem ho had to meet In his campaigning
for President Wilson's ic-election. Tho
Woman's party was able to turn two States
against Wilson, Illinois with Its twenty
nino electoral votes and Oregon with Its
five, although tho campaign cry of tho
Democratic party, "Wilson kept us out of
war," mado so strong an appeal to tho
West, whero women vote, that largo num
bers of both men and women forgot their
party alllliatlon and voted for his re
election. As the women's votes wcro kept
separate only In Illinois, It wns Impossible
to know Just how many of their votes In
other States wcro registered ngalnst tho
Democratic party as a protest ngalnst that
party s four years opposition r.o me tea
eral suffrage amendment.
Wo recognlzo that men In political llfo
do not seo suffrage ns a war measure and
that, therefore, they cannot understand
why tho Woman's party has to use the
kind of political pressure that we have
exerted. On tho other hand, tho women
of all suffrage organizations havo now
declared for suffrago as a war measure and
every one now knows that suffrago can
only bo a war measure It tho President
makes It so.
Four years ago nq suffragists except
leaders of the National Woman's paity
had recognized the power of the President,
as leader of the dominant party, to pass
this measure. Convinced of this fact and
Intent upon bringing this knowledge to all
women, tho National Woman's party
adopted a policy of open and direct action
on the President through the mpst intel
lectually brilliant and successful campaign
of publicity ever carried on by a political
party.
After all other methods had been ex
hausted, tho plan of carrying petitions on
banners to the AVhlte House was adopted
on January 10, 1017. Tho political wisdom
of centralizing the campaign In Washing
ton has been proved, The message has
gone from end to end of tho country, nnd
every woman voter knows that the Presi
dent has not advocated the Federal suffrago
amendment and also that he can pass that
amendment at his will. With our entry
Into the European'war, the necessity for In
creased effort was ovldont, and tho
plcketers continued to stand at tho AVhlte
House gates with banners emphasizing tho
relation of democracy at home to a war for
democracy abroad.
The extraordinary attempts of tho au
thorities In Washington to suppress tho
agitation by the most extreme form of
persecution only show tho strength of tho
women's position. A hundred women have
been Imprisoned, sentenced on tho same
trumped-up charge that they had caused
the violation of a utututo forbidding un
lawful assemblage, obstruction of traffic
and Incommoding the public. It Is need
less to dwell now on the obvious fact that
tho police testimony, the attorney's charge,
the judge's verdict, the Insulting treatment
at Occoquan Workhouse and the District
of Columbia Jail were component parts of
a plan of Intimidation, which has utterly
failed.
We regret, but cannot be surprised, that
the Hvkninci LEPOEn. stanch advocate of
suffrage, has not yet understood the actual
situation. We who sat In the court
room "during the trials and who have been
In the Jail and workhouse found It dif
ficult to believe the evidence of our own
eyes and ears. But. persecution always
strenginens a nsmeous cause,
rBiiguicua nmwuii wubv,
Tho leatov of . the National Womn
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED
power of a Jailer. They have refused to
wear prison clothes, to eat prison food and
are demanding that all suffrage prisoners
shall havo tho rights given In every other
civilized country to political prisoners.
How long will It be beforo tho President
will understand that women who nro ready
to suffer and dlo for the causo of liberty lii
time of war nro Inspired by tho highest
patriotism? In this tlmo of need for
national unity, American women aro de
manding enfranchisement, not begging for
n toy to satisfy their deslro for equalitv,
not appealing for n privilege that they may
run for office, not even asking for a right,
but demanding that their hands shall ic
eeivo a tool to do tho work of democracy,
to make city and State governments and
legislatures responslhlo to women as well
as to men and to tako Immediate action on
thoso thlnga they carry nearest their
hearts tho protection of tho home, tho
education of tho child, tho purifying of our
cities from preventable disease and vice
in a word, tho welfare of the family upon
which depends, as Is being proved In every
belligerent country, tho endurance of tho
nation In war or peace.
MAUY II. INGHAM.
Philadelphia, November 27.
AN AMERICAN PEACE
To the Kdilor of the Hvcnlng Ledger:
Sir Tho whole world longs for peace
not an early peace at nny price, not a
German peace, not an Inconclusive- nego
tiated peace, not oven an Allied peace, but
an American peace tho only peace that
will enduro and. In fact, mnko tho world
safe for democracy.
If such an American peace Is to bo ob
tained. American public opinion must bo
welded Into a weapon that will not only
make It possible but Inevitable.
It Is upon broad, llberal-vlsloncd papers
like yours that this vital work depends
C. C. TAYLOR.
Philadelphia, November 27.
ORIGIN OF GRAMMAR
The world reached Its highest known
stage of Intelligence before grammar was
even Invented, much less studied. I have
had some curiosity to find out where and
how so great a blight upon tho young life
first came Into being and whv It ever be
camo a school study, nnd I find that the
(.reeks knew It not. that their triumphant
llteraturo and their matchless oratory came
to flovyer beforo grammar was dreamed of.
That it was not In any sense one of the
great arts which they wrought out and
with which they armed the human nice.
That after Greece had declined, a barbarous
Macedonian mado himself the owner of
al Lgypt, and in order to surround him
seir with the most spectacular form of
ostentation of which his vain mind could
conceive, he set to collecting not only all
the rare and precious objects and books
and manuscripts there wero In the world
tlon of tho living men of the world who
had any reputation anywhere for knowing
and thinking; taking them from their
homes where they had some relation to the
j! L",raS!llCS of 1,umnn bcl,,Ks. and had
really been of some use, he shut them un
for I fo n one of his palaces nt Alexandria
which tho folks there wero In the habit of
calling "the hencoop of tho muses," and out
of sheer desperation, since they could do
nothing better to amuse themselves, they
counted the words In the books which teal
men had written, and prepared tab es of
tho forms and endings which the users of
wu.3 eP,ploy.e,d Tno "fe'e" dregs of
books which their distilling left we now
call grammar, and study Instead . f bordis
and even speech Itself. I their ln...t
depth of Indifference to tho n ov ng ptt
life of man not even the Alexandrians sank
so low as that. Yalo Review.
THE SERVICE FLAG
Service flags, which already 100r the
men who have answered the nation's c-ili
oVtMlea8: Br ' mVe ft BI1ec,a" "
The plan Is to superimpose a smaller
white star upon tho blue service star to
Indicate the supreme sacrifice. The border
of the blue star will outline the white star
It was Intended to have a circle o "black
around the blue star. This was abandoned.
Tho service flag comes from Ohio. It was
Invented last summer by Robert U Qulesser
Km.! nf.xr u a ca.p,ai" ' "
Captain Quiesser has two sons In the
"RXm."d- !.v'n,SLUX "B? wh" they were
uauvu ,, v xuv mca DCCfUHtl Very -tjon-
ular l Cleveland and soon spread .Uirouah
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Wlm la the new technical head ef the TOto
Mates l.mentenry fleet Corporation?
"' W,",U'H mrimt bj' "lomponltlon" la mI
3. Name (lie. President of Cuba.
4. Who wrote "Ilr. Jrlotl and Mr. BW?
It. Vthii Is the Princess Tutlaria?
fl. Where Is Hie llrcntn Hirer?
7. How many pounds In n barrel of flour?
5. Wlint Is the capital of Japan?
9. Which Is the Kcj clone State?
10. Who salil "die me llberti or the i
nenln. .
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz..
1. Juitce ' Itohrrt S. lorett In head f II
I nlted .Mates Trlnrltj Hoard, the fun
lion of which Is to mo order eiwrt i
niramodllles from IMs country la
.Miles ami Hie ilnmestlr moiement uf m
terlnfs Hint the let Intereiti ot all mi
lie. (.cried.
2. .lull; Wnnl lion wrot "The Battle Hn
of the lleiiuhllr."
3. Snlonlcij Is u nort In Oreece. now oied i
111 llnlkini liuse n f the Allies.
i. Wniululnds In nn onlientra are the lntr
menls such ns flutes and oboes mso
wood, noted for mellow lone.
!i. Prof. Tnnl Mltyukofr Is a T
Russian n
rn.alm lff.li
llrlst whit was Minister of Fo
In Hi early ilass of the revolution. R
ennserviitlt I .nil.n.l. mrtA -v.mI ti
Intf rnntloiiut nlilliallons brouiht bin III
illkfuvor of the radicuU.
6. A salient In military parlance la an
"nnl extension or "bulie" In a irratci
line.
7. An "edition d hive" la a sumptuous
printed, bound nnd Illustrated lue i
u book.
8. Trees are pruned In Into fall or Uler
rnuso life Is dornmnt and ruttlnr caa I
done without "hlcedlna" of the ss
I'riinlnfr Insures strength for the branch
that remain.
9. Enoch II. Crowder. Trovost Marshal (!
ernt of the I'nited States arm;, t
riinrK of th new draft.
10. Ohio is the Iluckejo State.
HOW MANY MEN DO WE NEED
WHEN the Committee of Public Inform
tlon (which operates as an annex of tl
Government departments) tells us from di
to day that wo had so many or so few
dlers In April and havo so many now
sounds Impressive to tome, and In fact lri
things have been done. When the war w
declared we had slightly ovor 100,000 rei
lar troops, a large proportion In earrlso
outsldo tho country, and 120,000 raillt:
We now have, November 1, In round fl
urcs, 1,200,000 men under arms, or rath
In camp, for many havo no arms. The
are yet to bo mobilized additional draft
men to bring our total to about UOO.O
officers and men. Of these, roughly, 700,0
ore volunteers and 700,000 (687,000 to
exact) drafted men. Of this number, on
a small fraction are trained troops, ll:
the force Is almost totally untrained.
As to equipment, this force Is greatly de
dent, most notnbly In artillery. It Is w
mon knowledge that we can supply a c
slderablo fighting force with the requi'
Artillery to fight a modern battle only fl
a, long lapse of time.
The difficulties of transportation and u
fact that all supplies, even down to rf
nnd cars and building material, must i
transported 3000 miles. In addition to n"
taken in conjunction with the necessUT i
long training of most of our troops, Inaia
that we will not be able to assemois. i
effectlvo fighting force In the summer
1918 of sufficient size to exercise a decis
Influenco In that campaign. This situan
Is ono that It Is well for the American pf
pie to appreciate at the earliest moiw
because If they do fully realize It they t
surely demand measures to put U1 in
position to exercise a decisive Influence
1919- . A '
Such an Influenco will be exerted o
by nn army of the slzo and fighting pov
of England's, a highly trained. welK
cored army of at least 4.000,000 men.
American peoplo must learn to appreci
tho necessity for replacement Hiid the
forenco between numbers and effect
forces on the line. The average Amerl'
thinking of 600,000 soldiers In France
likely to have a vision of 600,000 r
attacking tho uerman line in ;
stead of the actual picture of such a fc
holding perhaps forty miles of trench 1
with perhaps 200,000 In the combat
forces and the remainder working on r
roads, roads, repair shops, etc. Jvatle
Service Magazine.
BATTLEFIELD KAISER FORGC
A Berlin dispatch says that the Kai
has been over every foot of th? battlefle
This Is perhaps a little too Inclusive,
have, .not heard that he has mado. a I
Bona! study of the.gsouml whereonith
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