. ':.. " s j -r - " ' i,,."i ;, v,ti;"W'w5";' n .r - . "tvt. i-v'tii j i."i . w-7 -A). ' '?!.' Kf -V " r PPV - "H' - , EVENED EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUAllY 31, 1918 g-.r,v ),"-," .'--WT ''' flK? V'tJ "M.-''."--- h -' fc.v m A' ?f rv .. LVr Sfcf A sir fLf, v. i X iif m-.. p." Ki fcK. & '& ' .11 BuWic Hcoacx rUBtlC LEDGER COMPANY1 'CTlM7;WrjlKf'CO8. 'aHiit , ffaJLiifM",! yw rreeldanti John C ijW .i -William. John J, gpurreon, typa. - Twwyt iiroctorei ' i JEWJI- Ccitis, Chairman , ''. W1IALEI ..... .Editor ftjOlBCC: KAnTIN... general limine Manager L r,labttaried daltr at PtiiUa J.anara nulldlor. 'i ' it. Independence Square. 1'hilade Iphla. Ieoa CNTaL,..Hroad and Chestnut 8lreeti TUNTIO ClTXi. .... i'reaa-ilo, Hull. lint i.S (Saw ToaK.i .- imhioit... ,', KT. 1-OCIi...,... ..i-uo Jietropolltan Tower .......40.1 j'ord IJulldlm ..100 Futlerton llulldlna tuwuvti .... -tm xriouiie uuuuini ...... S!"vs nunEAuai JU ' ... If. K, Cor. renn)hnla Ave. and Hlli Hi. r aw xobk mane. Th Sim Iluldina Losdoy iitaam. ..Marconi Home, Rtrand .32 Hue Loula la OranJ it'uia uuauu. sunscntPTiov tkiimh The Krasivo Piano Lseoia In -erved lo sub serlhera In Philadelphia and aurroiindlnc lowna at tha rats pf twelve (la) centa-per week, rayabla to tha carrier, , iutI?,'?A!i li 0'n,-" 0,'tJ ' Philadelphia. In tha United Male. Canada or United Mates to 'alone, rostace free, flltj- (BO) eenla r-r month. l5,Wllioollar rer year, paabl In adtame. To all foralm countries ona (1) dollar per ntontn. NoTica Subserlbera wlahlnic addrem chanted aflat tlva old as well aa new addreai. BtH, C0 TALNUT KEYSTOXE. ttAt J00O CrUdirttt all rommunlcnllom (o Krenltte VnbUa lMltr. indrpeaclcitca Souore, rhtladtlchla. IXTiiiD at th rninonrnn roT orrica xi arco.xo clas Mill. uatt(. rhilidflplili.Thariilir. Jnory .11. Hl ERA OF THE PROLETARIAT rTIHB war, &o far a- Kurope 1h concerned, moves now Into the era of the prole tariats. Tho ties that bind men to obedience to government aro at best tenuous. They snap when In conflict with the Immutable laws of economy, or If sacrifices beyond the power of the masses to endure are asked. Government rests on the consent of the Koverncd, examples to tho contrary not withstanding, and the governed, through an agony of suffering brought about solely by a class for purposes of aggrandizement, have learned that Avar without their sanc tion Is an Impossibility. They constitute the cannon fodder, hey are the victims. and tho pulsing of the telegraph Instru ment, the long arms of tho wifeless, pli-k this truth out of Its prison and diffuse It universally. Autocracy clothes Itself In the garments of the actor, sets a lavish stage and relies on tho glamour of name and place to sustain It. Hut the printing press knows no respect for place or name. It pitilessly exposes both. There Is no living brain that cannot now see the truth if It wants to see It. Between "I, your king," and "Wo, the people," science has raised a gieat barrier, for the latter In their vastness revrrse the telescope and see at the other end of It merely a puny human being, spoiled by tho accident of inheritance and training, strutting perhaps majestically but of In finitesimal importance in the onrush nf modernity and human progress. Tha fakir is always a fakir. It was natural for the .Prussian military c.iste, having fooled all Germany and hurled millions Into unnecessary calamity by setting up the plea that It was n war of defense, to conclude that It could ,lust as easily fool people who were not nermann. When an autocracy begins to tell citizens of other nations that they ought to rule themselves and disseminates the seed of revolution, it Is not rocking the boat: It Is boring holes In It. It was fine business to destroy the morale of IJussla and win a triumph In Italy by deception and fraud, but revolution is a prairie lire and also a boomerang. To further its own ends the Oerman Government has been showing the proletariats of other nations their power. What wonder that the German proletariat takes a hint from the exhibit! The truth is fhat all Europe is on tin; verge of collapse. It is not that guns are lacking, or munitions, or men, but the romance has gone out of the conflict, the hopelessness of It has become apparent, and there is not a village In any belligerent nation of Europe that in the breasts of its inhabitants there is not a deep longing for peace, a longing which seeks utterance and when it breaks into voice will speak In thunder. The foment Is everywheie. Is realization of the Kaiser's dteam worth tankards of blood? If men of ambition cannot agree on a pea:e, cannot the masses of the nations themselves agree on one? May not discipline bo treason if obedience wrecks and ruins the world? Aro all men, too. Insane that they must sustain with blood and. heart tho folly of a mad man? Social upheaval, like an earthquake, knows no national confines. It is the great heart of humanity struggling for freedom. 'The reason of the German proletariat has been darkened, but It reaches for the light. S.V&S Tha proletariat of every other nation holds !v..-f. Ha senses acute. Signals of action hniint ? 8k. J,..- ,, -- ... .. . ft - ."jr; jne PKies. .every one .is a luncrui winner fcr'Sik 'for autocracy, vhether that autocracv Is K"t- : . .. ." , , ucrman or Austrian, or bears the stamp : ki'- t tomo other nationality, Mr. Wilson ..viiad his flnrer on the nulse of th nntlont !''Srr'lw'"',e differentiated tho. German people from tne caste that rules them. Ills dlag- ft?1-1" Xt'itoai was- right,- directlonall': the medl- K?f ', !twmay 'not bo strong enough. Hut he EV .. - t$- " . . .. - ,.. jirBugni us to me era or tne prole- y 'tMaM end thing are. going to happen in t)aa,tsMtre that will cause conservative cltl- ,. jt-hkave. nightmares when wide awake. j pt fcf&; of. the. social organism Is lir1 V:rwiuiirui;iivii ami wnai tt will p JtJMIw renovated neither prince r: can( joreien. MMtubct urwji.sre1 ;iC to lilamV . ft .' jjiitey.ooinii, a - - .1L ' .i. .:.-" j,j;, . u'wnv K imw- L.ri .HW f pears from tho proceedings o- the Nntlonat Iletall Shoe Dealers' Association. Hut bees wax: costs more, hence tho high cost of being shod properly. An esthetic cult among bootmakers" seems to add a complication to tha situation and a dollar or two to tho cost of shoes. As for us, we are Inspired by the attack on the bee to cast utility asldo and, Joining the esthetic bootmakers, to harp on tho slnglo string of beauty. Avnunt, tho com mercial l)eo and Its lying wax factory 1 Hall to tho heo of our ideals, tho poetic garnerer of honey! Our thoughts warm up tho mercury to tho top of the column and recreate summer day-dreaming, despite tho cold and the lack of coal. Oilr hearts lean longingly toward l.oney, the product of drowsily humming bees, winging softly nmong the orchard trees or exacting trib ute from tho garden flowers, bees In quest of sunburn nectar In fragile chalices of tinted blossoms. That's the bee for us the bee whoso poet-soul is expressed In tho lyric of honey, honey conceived lit thu magic o a perfect day, mellowed by tho rays of nn early sun. discovered by a sorrel beo with pep In his appendix and poott-y In his soul and hived In u paint worn nplary under an old applo tree. HKKAKING LOOSK FKOM CENSOK THE T llltll. LINO us tho news of the safe passage of thousands of American tioops to France on board the greatest liners of Germany's merchant fleet Is the news that the long light against stupid censorship nppaicntly has been won. These princely vessels left our ports ten days ago and have been eastward bound whllu many Americans still believed the damage wrought to them by their interned German crews would take mouths to repair; but promptly upon their ni rival In "A French Port" the announcement is cabled straight from that port to our newspaper olllees without intervention of American censor ship. At lust America can read the news about Itself as soon as Merlin reads It. It has been the absurd, panicky practice to submit dispatches of this kind to a double and even triple censorship before they were put into the hands of American readers. Paris could read them and shout for joy, every spy In Switzerland could read them and wire them posthaste to Ger many. German generals have openly sneered over their foreknowledge of our operations. Lloyd Geoige has told mem bers of Pailitiment to speak freely, sis Ger many knew more about Amcrlrnn news than the Amei leans. When the sizzling pot of our impatience at last boiled over and Irritation went the length of endan gering with partisanship the most united nation on the globe it was indeed high time to let In the fret-h air of sanity. Halt a million tons of Central European shipping Is now used by America and her Allies. The. people can well be proud of their engineers and workmen who have so quickly restored moie tonnage to activity than the Germans at their present rate of sinkings can destiny In half a year. Some of the ships are the largest, one of them the old Vnterland, now the Leviathan the very largest in the world. We can rewrite Perry's message: "We iav met the enemy's elllcleney and it is ours." All the German people's woe Is traceable to their years of dull submission to ten soi. ship. It heemod that we were trying to imitate that dullness, liut we remembered at last that we were Americans ami, thank heaven, broke free! ROVEIIXMRXT COXTROL OK CKEDJT NK dlilleulty in the way of a flee ciiun " try when It goes to war Is that the old habit of Individual liberty has made each business enterprise a separate entity. Had our Industries been one unified machine, with each Arm dovetailing Into another, our organizing effort would have been as easy as was socialized Prussia's. As it Is, with the great majority of war-material plants under private financial management, the drawing off of vast amounts of capital in loans and welfare crumdes has threatened to dampen the dashing ardor with which Industry should plan to widen in every direction. Thus Mr. McAdoo's plan for a yiOd.OOO.uoo Government corporation to make loans to enterprises essential to tho war Is an Important emergency ineusure. As It is our expressed war policy to maintain, while fighting, our democratic In stitutions as much as possible, even to the extent of forbearing to take over railroads or mines until pilvate Initiative and co operation have had full trial. It was obvi ously Impossible to draw a sharp line be tween more essential and less essential enterprise. A system of preferential ci edit is made necessary. The more essential enterprises must have flr.it call upon capi tal. They must not be made to take their chances of getting funds In the open mar ket. A Government poid of corporate financing will obviate this. Through the redlscountlng system of the Federal Iteservc banks the fund of half a billion is ex pected to expand to about Jt.000,000,000 credit. And the Government is the most interested party, because it is only by tho steady extension of enterprises that money for taxes and Liberty Loans can, become available. Iteolntlons are verbotcn In Germany, but maybe some of the people there do not know It, When f'zernln said "America anil Aus tria arc virtually in agreement" he probably had an Inkling of what the Italian drive was likely to accomplish. That man Francis la a dangerous fellow for anarchists to trifle with. He knows how to handle something that Is a law from which no appeal lies. This fellow Mars Is after all nothing more than a servant of tho enow man, who can tucK him Into bis bed of white and put him to sleep at any time. Our conduct of the war has been en tirely too cold-blooded. Senator Chamber lain may have been a Ilttlo extra-meant In his utterances, but we suspect that friction still producea heat and heat Is another name for enthusiasm. If, It Is true that Kcheldemaun has Joined1 the radical Socialists tho German political situation is nearer revolution than It has ever been, Scheldemann was sup. poeed to be the tool of the Kaiser, authorized to talk peace to keep the German workers, ,'luieU ?. iffhefdea'tha'u'state'and'.nlunliliuil, n 'pfoyH'ra 'pr&teted, y the. Constitution against puyipcrit .of .the Federal Income tux A not based on Jlrm' ground. There wa a deelaicm.of thatsort.frqm.tne' auureiiift.Court iVyfav ago, ,t, th'.qaWrt' UjnU ,wm I'to dlr.. 3t9it?f1 PENNYPACKEH'S MESSAGE OF 1905 Governor Telia of His Fight for Stale Regulation of Newspapers IT.NNVI'.U'Kt'.K AlTOItKKIItAI'IIV Ml. til (I'opurtohl, ., hn Public Uihfr Ctimpanijl IT WOULIJ be nn udvnntnge If the houses had counsel charged with tho duty of nsccrtnlnlng tho relation of pro posed legislation to existing laws, and of seeing that legislation Is so expressed ns lo accomplish tho object Intended. It Is not to be expected that legislators should have technical training in law, uud It Is fair to them that they should be supplied with such assistance. At the last session several meritorious nets wcro necessarily vetoed because of Imperfect construction. (Hern ii iwrtof Hi" iio"iiri lilli npponrs In "ul.llraVinnj''1 "mn,r:' '" ln0 eF.i.?r serial At the last session of the Gencnil As sembly an net was passed requiring nous p.ipers to exercise reasonable enro with respect to what thev published, nntl further requiring them to print upon tho editorial page the names of those re sponsible for the publication. Although, us was natural, it caused some adverse criticism upon the part of many of thoe nlTected by it. the requirement of the pub. Iratlon of the names of the editors und business managera was nt once obeyed by the press of the State, and tho net has resulted in a marked Improvement in the amenities of Journalism in so far as they concern persons In private life. It Is also evident that the act nut with the grateful approval of the people. At the recent election, of those members of the Senate and House who voted for this bill seventy-six were icelccted mid two were defeated. Of those who v.itcd against the bill, twenty-eight were ie elected and ten were defeated. Of those who voted ag.ilnst the bill 2fi.:i per cent, and of those who supported It -.." per cent were defeated. Further legislation Is re quired for the protection of the Common wealth from the Injury to he;- reputation and the disadvantage lo the administra tion of her affairs which arise from the pievnlent dissemination of scandalous In ventions concerning her olllclals and their efforts In her behalf. It Is not only an unseemly spec tacle, but It Is n crime which the State ought lo punish when day after day the mayor of one of her cities is depicted In communion with it monster compounded from the Illustra tions of Cope's Palaeontology and Dole's Dante. The enforcement of the tnuiilrl pnl law is impeded, and, therefore, tho State is concerned. Wo nre compelled t" recognize that since the cry of liberty of the in ess became a shibboleth, the rela tion of the newspaper to the Government and the people has been erv much modi fied. No ruler now sits by divine light In his palace and writes letties de rnchct to confine his subjects In some biistlle nt Ills own will, and on the other hand the newspaper will sometimes become not the representative of the people seek ing Information for their good, but a commercial venture, the adjunct of a business house, the main object of wlnvo existence Is to aid Its patrons in selling Ills wares, as anxious to attract attention to them by startling postures ns n circus poster. This means that tho attitude of the statesman with respect to them must be changed with the change In condi tions. In this Commonwealth. In the main, the country press endeavors to as certain mid further tho interests of the people surrounding them. In the large cities, what Is popularly called "yellow Journalism." with its gross headlines, Its vulgar and perverted ait. Us relish for salacious events and horrible crimes, and all the other symptoms of newspaper disease, Is gaining a foothold A Specific Newspaper There Is a dully newspaper of wide cli dilation, published In the city of Philadelphia, ostensibly by a Pennsylvania corporation. This coiporatlon wiis chartered .May lv 1K39. with an authoilzed capital stock of $J.".noi). of which the amount octuajly paid into the treasury of the coiporatlon was $Jj"0. So far as the records In the olllce of the Secretary of the Common wealth show this amount has never been increased. A twenty-story building on the main street In the heart of the city, largely rented out for olllce and other business purposes, bears its name. Since Its Incorporation It has paid to tho Com- moiiweulth In taxes $3.73. Since its con trol of what had been n useful nntl vener able newspaper began, ever Mayor of Philadelphia, every Governor, every I'nlted Stales Senator, sive one who bt only been In olllce four weeks, and eveiy Legislature of the Commonwealth has been subjected to a dailv flood In Its col umns not of adverse comment, but of Invented untruths. The State expended u considerable sum of money upon the celebration of Pennsylvania Day, August '.'ll. 1904. at the Louisiana Purchase Impo sition in an effoit to Impress upon the nation the Importance of her p.utlclpa tlon in the settlement of the West. Her building and much of what she put on exhibition were exceptionally meritorious. Hut the gentleman put ill charge of tho agricultural exhibit at the outset bought in St. Louis two lots of seeds, one cost lug $17.fi0 and the other about to. and put upon plates, without names, some breakfast foods manufactured in various States, the various products of corn wherever made, and added them to Ids llxplay. Ho had been selected, overlook ing political affiliations, because of his connection with the Pennsylvania State College, where iigrlcultuie Is taught and his previous experience In a similar charge at Chicago. His explanation Is that seeds are a marketable commodity, which, wherever bought, may have been grown in any other locality, that It was nn Important education for farmers to see all the ways in which corn could be utilized even if they had to step over pome State lines, and that no one could tell where the corn was grown from which Its products were made. However forreful this reasoning may be. the management differed with him In Judg ment, his connection with the exhibit terminated May 31. 1904, and these ffr tides were removed. If there had been any mistake. It had long been corrected. An Example These few simple facts, nt most of un certain significance, this newspaper, by the addition of falsehoods, innuendoes nnd extravagancies, elaboiated Into nine columns and Illustrated will) seventeen pictures. Tho publication, saved up ujitll August 13, was adroitly timed ho as to have It do what could bo done by scat tering It over the country to soil the celebration nnd thwart tho object of tho State. It talked of "unparalleled fraud" and "graft," although such u suggestion In connection with the sum of $22.60 was a manifest absurdity. It gave what pur ported to be an interview with n member of the commission. The written denla by the, commissioner of the facts alleged In the Interview Is on file among tho papers of the commission. Ho was mado to say about tobacco that "I understand that not a leaf of this most Important part of Pennsylvania's agricultural proauct Is on exhibition," The tobacco then on dis play subsequently received In competi tion with the whole world the very high, est prlzo. It Raid tho num expended upon tho exhibit was $10,000. The sum actu ally expended was $8999.26. It told the people over the country that this exhibit was "a fraud, a hypocritical sham, an .In sujt to the farming Interests and a dis grace." As. a matter of fact, tho exhibit was so creditable that, the olllclals of the wipoaHlonTWardert tj It. three grand prizes, tho highest poasibla'avvard, twenty gold msdals. twenty-one silver medals and thirty-two medals In bronze. .AlLof thepeopje; proprietor and .peas "anti churchman ,npd -heathen, -taw conV ';eM?id alUmi! that . ndliberUpM," of J' aanaaai- rvnt- w avu wwiaaa JPW THE BIRTH OF A SINGING ARMY One Outgrowth of This War That the Soldiers of Old Never Knew ONU perdurable thing to conic out of this war. If plans now under way rench fruition, will be llio practice among Its vet erans, when they gather In whatever may ho the equivalent of the canipflrts of tho G. A. H. posts, of reviving tho songs beloved by the regiments while they wero In train ing to bo i.ent "over there," During the Civil war, so veterans of t hut conflict tell us, there was no concerted effort to pel feet a singing army slich ns Is now In process at Camp Dlx. What singing the men did was sporadic and the remit of Indi vidual Impulse. Few regimental or corps songs born of the Itehcllloti have come down to us, and very llisely few of them wero rtcncrvlng of peipetuatlon beyond the period of their creation, although some would have a special Interest now to tho youngsters who aro being Inducted Into the routine of camp life. .1. L. Smith, the map publisher of this It.v. wlrjse memories of camp life ate per haps as vivid ns those of any of his com rades, offers as the most popular of his recollection Ibis ditty, which vvns a favorlta of the Plflh corps on the march! 'rim t'nlon ! nn mnvlnsr on tlie Wt nnd rleht, Tim Intel mil Is Founding, our shelters we mint atrlk'i duo flnokor Is jiiir lender, li takes lib whisky si rone. So our knmiFafks wo will sllnu and bo tnnrchlns nlonc. liinrm: Vlflrthlnit iilnntr, innrrlilng alone. Willi rlitlit d-is' ratlonn we'll cu niHrrlilitR almar. our overcoats nnd drees toals ore strewn nloim llio riMd. They rrnwded them upon m-na couldn't tote tho londj , . ronlrnriorn put tho Jolt up, nntl we must foot Urn Mil, Put Sinn, our denr old nniie, wo know 11 s not sour will. Miirililnc ulonir, etc, There arc eight or ten such verses, and Hie. last ran: The wur won't lt forcier, aumr day we will ho done With drill nnd march nnd battle, and cartridge hitx nnd eun: Weil iriiinn up Xnrlh from Itlchmond lo drum nnd life: nn.l then. Oh, won't nur folkn hf llrkled to -o us home a en In! Hut the crop of marching songs lo conic out of the sowing now beginning In the camps'tliroiigliout the country should bo big mill varied A splendid start has already been made by W. Stanley Hawkins, director of mass sing ing nt Camp Dl, and nt n meeting of the officers In charge of singing held yesterday afternoon under the chairmanship of Captain C. I. Morganruth plans were made for tho standardizing of singling In the camp. The aim, ns set forth In the order from hend quaiters. Is to train "all units of the IJvIfI'iii to King a number of mutually known songs; to in range singing contests: to encourage the composition and adoption of legluientul songs: lo promote and cultivate the singing spirit throughout the division." From the first big singing contest, held by Mr. Hawkins in .November last, there has come much resultant good and the dis covery of some small mltnkes, as Newt lluker might say, "which will not he le peated." Ten nulls of 100 men each from the sev eral regiments wete diilled 111 the singing of "Over There" and "When the Gieat lted Dawn Is Shining," nnd for n third number each wns permitted to piesent an original song of military character or an .irkrlnal paiody of ntilltnry character or a song of military character unique to that organiza tion oi branch of military service. The prize for m.ifes singing was won by the ,112th In fantry, under the leadership of Lieutenant ("Lefty") Lewis, of Sjnuilsc t'nlverslty. and 111" prize for the best original Icglineiitnl song went to the ninth Infantry for "Tho Scrapping Three-Tenth,'' bj Private Harold .1. Fptlghr. The rhlef good to come out of that first contest was the discovery of sulllcU-iit oilg lual tnlcnl In the camp to furnish all tho songs that may he needed without assistance I'lnm beyond the borders of Dlx. Five new songs were turned up, and while the wnrd.i nie no great shakes (a not uncommon thing Willi poptil.i- songs) the music is bullv. Ilaiidniaster John II. Holan's snug of the :i"Sth Field artillery. Lieutenant Lewis's ".My Code Sammy" and Louis F. Scannolln'r "Weil Keep old Gloiy Fljlng" nre the best of these. It Is now planned, with the hacking of 11 e military authorities, to make such a musical dilv-B as has never befoie been attempted. Hach legiment will have a song leader who, It Is hoped, will he selected by the men them selves, and all the legiments will ho drilled hi the singing of the "Star Spangled Hau lier." "America" and the "H.-ttlle Hymn of the Uepubllc." It Is further planned to offer a mize of, say, $10 for the lie-t song for each regiment, and n similar prize for the music. And the Riiinil climax to which all this is to lend will he the holding of a singing review as soon as fair weather permits. Theie's food for your Imagination' .lust think of a great green parade ground in the fit st fresh panoply of spilng, under a bright blue sky, and 45,1100 linn (the entire division) marching by a reviewing stand singing the Inspiring songs of their country nnd yours with all the fire of strong hearts and tl.e full vigor of young throats, it will be n glorious sight to see and ,a soul-stlrrlng con course, of sound to hear! T. A r. should not succeed. What is the i mil dly'.' Sooner or later one must be pro vided. P.ecently. In one of the States, nn offended citizen shot and killed an editor, was tried for murder and acquit ted. Lawlessness Is the Inevitable re sult of a failure of the law to cortect existing evils. How can the right of a newspaper to publish the facts concern ing the government nnd Its officials nnd to comment on them even mistakenly be preserved, and the continuance of In tentional fabrication hi the guise of news be prevented? The Constitution In the same section provides for freedom of speech, as well as freedom of the press. I'nder the English common law, when a woman habitually made outcries of scan dals upon the public highways to the an noyance of the neighborhood, she was held to he a common scold and a public nuisance. Anybody may abato a public nuisance, and sho was punished by being ducked In a neighboring pond. Notwith standing our constitutional provision con cerning freedom of speech, In tho case of Commonwealth vs. Molin. 2 P. F, Smith, pago 243, it was held that tho law of com mon scolds Is retained In Pennsylvania, though tho punishment is by fine and Imprisonment. To punish nil old woman, whoso scandalous outcries are confined to tho precincts of one alley, and to over- ' look the ululatious which aro dally dinned Into the ears of an unwilling but helpless public by such journals as have been described. Is unjust to both her and them, I suggest tho application of this legal principle to tho habitual publica tion of scnndalous untruths. Let the per sons harmed or annoyed present a peti tion to the Attorney General setting forth tho facts nnd If, In his Judgment, thoy show a case of habitual falsehood, def amation, nnd scandal so as to consti tute n. public nuljsance, let him fllo a bill in he Court of Common Pleas having Jurisdiction, asking for an abatement of the nuisance, and let the court have authority, upon sufficient proof, to make such abatement by suppression of the Journal so offending, In whole or in part, ns may be necessary. Since this adaptation of existing law Is only to be applied to the elimination of habitual falsehood In public expression, It will probably meet with no objection from reputable newspapers. Since both" the Attorney General and the courts .would have to .curicur, the rights of logltlmato journalism aru .sufilclently profited, and It is only In an extreme ease that tho law could be Invoked. .For that case, It pro vides a remedy. I submit hcrowlth, marked, A, ft draft ,of an, act upon these ,-. 4 rfti' WHY. fife " mmmmw&s 1 -. r., ,'ii-i' .U.V.- ,'.. kip mi -r I "... .V '. . ( ''!,. ,1 ' I i(..:'!'!''i.0 f. . j'r' .' I it : ' X. - a v V t r&? '!&. CGE.tiK.1: i-HDUK f in ;t "jr ROMANCE OF A WEAVER BOY Alexander Wilson, Philadelphia Orni thologist, Moving Spirit in James Lane Allen's Now Story TAMF.S I.ANF ALLEN'S new tale, "The J Kentucky AVarbler," just published by Doubieday, Page .1 Co., Is likely to renew Intel est In the catcer of Alexander Wilson, of this city, the first ornithologist to make a setlous study of the habits of American birds. Wilson discovered the warbler, the only bird which Is identified by Its name with the State of Kentucky. Mr. Allen In his tale has a college professor tell the boys and girls In a Lexington high school of the career of Wilson, of his visit to Lexington nnd of his discovery in the woods of the beautiful and melodious blul. As a lestilt, a boy, who had no Interest in his studies and did not know what he wanted to do, had his mind awak ened nnd suddenly developed from a careless and Indifferent youth Into a person with a purpose In life. Allen describes the boy with sympathy and truth and makes him a type. He lakes him Into tho fields about bis homo In the outskirts of Lexington mid describes the wonder which In felt when he discovered that he was sui rounded by nn abounding life. It Is u book for lovers of olith and for lovers of nature. Hut we In Philadelphia will he particu larly interested In what he has the college professor say about Alexander Wilson. The story of the career of this ornithologist ought to be tead by every discouraged man, for Wilson did not find his work, till after lie was foity years old. He was boin In Paisley, Scotland, and learned the trade of a weaver. He also wrote verse, some of which was ascribed to Hums. Hecause of the In dignation which followed the publication of a poem In which he lampooned, a rich manu factuier be lied llio country nnd sailed for America as a deck passenger on a sailing vessel He wus so eager to reach Philadel phia that when the ship touched at New Castle on Us way up the Delaware he landed and walked the lemalnlng distance. This was In 1791. lie worked as a weaver for u time nnd peddled In New Jersey. Then he taught In schools north of Frankford, at Jillestown on tho Old York load, and finally ut Klngsesslng, near Gray's Ferry. He taught elocution to the boy F.dwln Forrest. It was at Gray's Ferry that he met William Ilartram, tho only son of John Hartram, who was In terested In science. Ilartram had made a list of American birds, and when he discov ered that Wilson could draw he suggested that he make pictures of the birds, Wilson was so successful at this that he succeeded In making arrangements with Samuel p. Bradford to publish a series of volumes of an American ornithology to be illustrated with colored plates and descriptions of the birds. The set of books was to sell for $120, and Wilson was to tnko subscriptions for ns many as possible. He went to Now Kngland, where he persuaded forty-ono persons to agree to toko the books. He got sixteen sub scriptions in Baltimore In a week nnd seven teen subscriptions In -.Washington, Sixty subsemptionn were obtained in New Ut leans In seventeen days, a pretty good record for a book agent. Few of them nowadays can sell $ .200 woith of books in so short a time, Philadelphia took seventy copies of tho book. Wilson died In 1813, when he had completed tho eighth volume of his work. In order to study the birds he had mado a trip to Niagara Falls and return on foot nnd ho later went down the Ohio and Mississippi nivers, starting from Pittsburgh In a boat In the early spring when tho river was full of Ice, His descriptions of tho birds are poetic and filled with an Intense love of nature, the same love of nature which shines through his long poem "The Forester," In which lie described his wnlklng trip to NI ngra, Ills prose, however. Is much better than his verso, and Ids life, beginning In a factory town and ending In the. open with a secure reputation as a man of science of undoubted parts, Is one of the most fascinat ing In the history of the development of the study of science In America or anywhere else, KIHTOBIAI, KriGRAMH Tli Kataer la now reported to have aet tha araud orlenalve for February. Ho'd better choota Eno o(,the. longer montha, Bprhisneld Republican" goraebodv ouiht to, remind llr, Trotaky that (1m arl ' ravolullonlata'peUed-llie, suillo. tlnO'Verr fondly when It vraa rounir, but t urrw up and outlived them Kaniaa pity Slar.. 'w .Tlieat aro Indeed dark hour a for Ilia' world,- but let u not foiirat our .root familiar- wvverb. Chlraio Pally ""-. l I . A ,1 C s.".. r YinA'' ' -. -;'- "-.-." KimU4 fi MwiM'i, .are fcr r ."-- -r tf : t-.'.. :.t.. - ngx.:'. .-' - rriiarrji-.v!iv. f-T-ii-v.-i-f j-i'L'i iirsT-r.i77r-TnmmL'tT'am-,vi,jmi -r i.i""--:'''i,:jc.i; si ii-.,'--i--lS-.v''"o--' la'rtlm-' :"- -.'.: l:r-j.-.-.r" Cr-1-i-!"'-i-V-l.vi:-'-vSj;i L i-7r:-'5''4.-r-:i- . . rijat3W'iLiii8fiytSaSi-wSgJgsi.c - '..'--:,, r'-L?!lSfl ..X!tQWifiJ. j 'i 38 fl JfM.si7 OF COURSE WE BELIEVE IT ,',..-'l- : :r , i!y 4m W-" .. v-' . i - saatt SPROUL FOR PRESIDENT Lancaster Editor Has Little Doubt About State Senator's Qualifications. Pennypacker's Standard 7o the Eilllor of the Evening Public I.etlticr: Sir I noticed hi nn editorial In the KvnxiNO Pum.ic LnnoEn that you touch upon a matter which I discussed in nn edi torial In the Lancaster News Journal of November ,", 1IU7. I believe with you that this situation affords on opportunity to elect a Pennsylvanlan to the presidency by way of the gubernatorial chair. I associated tills lino of succession with tho candidacy of Senator William C. Sproul, which 1 think, to some extent at least, an swers the final question In your very pcitl nent editorial. M. J, O'TOOLK. Managing F.dltnr News Journal. Lancaster, Pa.. January 30. PENNYPACKER'S STANDARDS To the V.iUtor of the llvenUtt) Public l.ctliicr: Sir Having gone thiough the Autobiog raphy of Governor Pennypneker befoie publi cation, may I suggest for use In your ad vertisements a thought which seems to have escaped attention In the many comments made upon the narrative? This is that theie runs through the auto biography consistently a standard of conduct for dally use, not on social occasions alone, or when no self-inteiest is Involved, hut for cvery-day application In practical affairs. The basis. of the standard is a correct solu tion of tho principle Involved, combined with decency and propriety of method, avoidance of meanness and pettiness, aversion to moral nnd physical cowardice, maintenance of fidelity und a standing to the guns. To con form to such a standard, perhaps, calls for more ability and character than many per sons possess, but to set it forth by example nnd precedent, direct and Indirect, should serve a useful purpose. A very largo proportion of the Incidents nnd ot the criticism of the autobiography are merely Illustrations of this stapdurd ot con duct, often an application of It to some fail ure, of understanding of what should be obvi ous, or In ethics, or to some act ot moral cowardice or underhand behavior.. The unity of the narrative In this respect Is perhaps not apt to be seen in serial publi cations, nnd I think It would bo well to call attention to It. It takes on then not the ap pearance of "impulsive abandon." but mani fests tne ueilDeraie imrius iu mo oilier. Tifv-Iiwr. PKNNAMITK. Philadelphia, January 30. AND YOU SHOUT A1)I I'.VTIIIOTISSI In fudalng man'a piety Measures ot apnea Aro all. out of place. A neraon'a rellclon la not lo ho caused Iiy tho length of his face. c What Do You Know? QUIZ J. What ' liellotroplain? . Width l '' Qu nw "' '" Went? 3! Who wrote "Ten Mehta In n llur-lloom"? ' 4, What li n romtltutlon? 5, Define autonomy. 0, Who la Federal cuitodlan of alien enemy property? 7, When waa the Kncllth Couuuonwenltlir 8. What la now? 0. Who la Arehduke Kuiene? 10, What la malie? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. I'ruWenta . born 'In Mjioiliu.e(tt John Adania. John Qulnry Adainn. j. Albany Conrel rt general ronieiillon of the American felonies. In dime. list, linn I of union propoaed hy Iriinklln rejeeled. ie .aia: "The uajeuibllea did net adopt II no ther.Hiouiht there waa loo mueh. prorata llr In It. .and In Knihind It waa i Jud.fd to l.aw. too much of the deniorratir." (Orthoiraphri Ihe science that treats of lettera and apelllnr. Smolnr Inatltsite. relroBTad. la the lieadguar. tere of the HolnlifTlk'somnuient. " AtTarlanlami llie theory or nractlre of tha equal dlalrlbutlon of lands, r '"' IMi. 1. (noetor of .riillasonlijrlf a decree In lourse. nnnrded to buelielora after ludy In n apeelaltr. Klnllo. brldaa oier (fi. (Irani! Caniilf Venice, .t'aed lo denote thoniuchfarr leiuViiled '!,r rerlnln ilaaaes; aurh a." nt or, iJi. tlclana. etc. ' Leopold. Hlokottakl l condurtur uf the Mill. delohut Orchestra. - a. :.H!alwtlWM'i'.?' frw.i.kd far rfi . Wea 'iteou. HMwMaV.Uainail' 'la I1U .IJ ilsHk M." f T" ' ww;Si . L.ww.vi' :If jjp vlqMH5iiiMBgMICc8r.re JIB s Vtoi".! . .-"7 1 3 & O . V , .? r roai i riiijss JjrXltm 1 1 , j &&&-. Jrrni-VT aStBl :-r:Hv-r'.1 --.,- ..-...-"7:., '?J: - .C - r - a - ji - - --4-'J' T.l'fflo "Pr11ir'a Tr.ma S I have a flower in a- pot, Si A fimnll cprnninm. yM Which when I prot it first was net's Much bigger than my thumb. But on my bedroom window sill j vniuvu ii w nil itiic A nd U'nf plinrl nnrt .intAnr1 If until tcnrtnrl it- lift l-i nnwA rfi Tf rvcAii ,.U 4-r.11 n,l : Hi v bv ijmivc can aiiu xaii iWWI Yet T wns nnf. tVif nnlv nna wl That helped to make it grow, Jome credit to the morning sun I must admit I owe. Yt it was I who placed the pot llt,ftn n.1, ,imln, nlll W'"'l ...J HIIIUUH Bill Till Where lots of sunlight could be got51 nna it coum nave its nil. va And now I think the little thing ?f Is trying hard to tell ,4dE now tun of thanks it is to me I' or treating it so well. Sj For every morning when I wake II sweetens all the room . You know that's how the flowers sp Ijv makinor a neriumc. TOM DALYJ ' CAMOUFLAGING THE CLOC'tl TtTl'ST we, then, camouflage the clock.) -'- tha nrltieinle nt tho "diivltcht BaVln scheme we give hearty assent: ns' tiiH measure and ns a peace measure, too.. ourselves have often practiced its rising to hoe tho lieanpatch whhVd neighbors were still seeking "a '.111 more sleep, a little more slumber.i5 Is illogical and wasteful to sleep In daylig tho morning and then to work by lampU In the evening. We nre told by experts In J hlirher niathematlcs that bv shifting the 'di oneratlons forward one liour. from .ApiHh Septomber, tliero would he effected InJ' mono a saving of $10,000,000 a year, in ti times ot conservation and economy -thit Is not to bo sneezed at, or yawned at, eitl The only question is, 'whether to make's a saving it is necessary 10 monuey m dial and say that It is 12 o'clock noon ws as a matter of fact, It Is only 11 o'clock M meridiem. The advocates of chronoio camouflage seem to think that it Is too I to exnect of neonle that they will cet'V (! o'clock whllo It Is called G, but thai we should only take to calling It 7 o'el getting out of bed vvobld Instantly ano.spi taneously become as easy as tho prove) rolling ore a log. Maybe, tliougn, we, f confess that we never vet have succai In making vinegar taste sweet by callia molasses, WTiy not shift the operations IcUtho names of the hours remain iruu Tf the rnmmnters' train neclllS runOlSl 7!su insieaa ot s:au ociock, n nnjij .. . . . . ..... . . .. j .i.?a opens nt 8 Instead of 9 otiocli, we that tho commuting bank clerk will i nt 0 Instead of 7 o'clock, evco though'!) tlaues to be called six; and so, mutan tandls. nil round tho clock. Let us SV lloiit mid oil nnd caB and electricity.') not to mention our eyes by all nieanM also let us consider whether mo psji of ludolcnco or ot energy will not pern iniin mi wlthnut savltic that six ls;l nnri tu'len Is one when we know all! i,,. ti.nt ii isn't fo. North AmerlcaaX view AVar Weekly. " A1 tsa FOOD AFTER THE WAB. Whatever other blepslngs peace niay'l It vvII not bring insiant reuei wn "i lm m, now distressed by food shorUM Its natural consequence, high prls, will bo as many mouuis io' ieeu n .iu n,.,i ,iArt-,r,i,iilYr,l nn there are flei Is trUeMhat tlio faro of the soldiers tfttl European countries is more nuei , - of the civil population, but no statem take comfort in tne prospeci ui ,,! disbanded soldiers reduced to' tn w civil undernourishment. Aim nraw civil populations that are now eour"?J starvation uncomplainingly, ""'""m no relief can pe expcciea wnno ... ot their Governments are, engrossed J ...a., ... e... In.u i.uIIaiiI when neacQ I ilore food, not less, will be.icnulred Ifl The" New republic!, , vJ!"J M ... 1 1... PACKIill ll.wua Ihe a u'clofk.ruah! tiourj'fcul W Timer befoie had an.;.ub-a'i'af.e' " l ;and,Jaam.eAt.! Aa'lho "train ;a-le,'SU alatta otraetJalaUou. a aaiall votaw oar, m 1 dt I IB Mil SSFwii . zhti iKSifSI .I .. i I tfnafgpgrV. '&.. n BBBaSfiSjlETtr ? .:' .-.&... , aSsssaP-!: r ' -.-ar' -J Kmmgfe i T- rf -cf. " i m i w ie1 w IP"1 i m alia v i'J-'JiSfJ '$ yr. ",m H ffllM.. .
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