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PAPER?
TTE ,im averse, utterly A.erse, to nt
tael.s tliat aro mcroly factional on tho
administration of municipal affaire. AVc
find no sympathy anywhere, except among
chronic malcontents, with political warfare
asralnst the President of tho United States.
(ft ' The telegram of CJovernor Edse offcrlnc a
toga to Senator Balrd will talo Its place
among, the Incunabula of patriotism, we
believe, expressing, as It does, the firm
conviction of Xew Jersey that r.ll faction
alism and politics must be sidetracked
until the great national business on which
we aro now engaged Is satisfactorily ter
minated. We lament the statement given out by
Senator Tenrose rccentty at St. Louis
wherein ho declared that tho Republican
campalen this fall vould be an attack on
the war policies of the nation and an, at
tempt to discredit those policies. Its after
math Is found in the equally reprehensible
announcement by Mr. Palmer that the
Democratic campaign for tho governorship
will bo an appeal to this Commonwealth
to stand by the T're.ldcnt In. his conduct
of the war.
This is political camouilasc, pule und
simple. Tho war is not the issue. Mitchel
tried to tnaku it tho lssuo In his lucent
campaign In Xew York, but Wellington
was quick to frown on such a division
and very promptly and properly took that
wind from the Mitchel sails. We do not
believe the President will permit tho Demo
crats of Pennsylvania to throw his policies
and reputation on the rcc.i table and
jeopardize thereby the unanimity of sup
port which has heretofore characterized
th conduct of tho war.
It may be necessary, in the national in
terest, to corribat at tho polls eomo specific
policy or policies of the President, but the
country will not endure captious criticism
for political purposes only, :..r will It tol
erate an effort of pap-seekln? partisans to
be towed into ofllce by the presidential
toga, as if such action were a war ne
cessity. The government of Philadelphia for
two years has been peculiarly disgraceful.
It has been featured by olllclal lawlessness
of the worst sort and arrogant disregard
of tho proprletjes and decencies of official
life. But the condition of affairs was well
known to the electorate last fall, and
equally well known two yearn previously.
Unless, it can be shown definitely, there
fore, -just what. relief to the public can
come from councilmanlc investigations of
one sort or another, of what use will they
be? Merely to stir up muddy waters will
get us nowhere. Tho voters decided In
November that the 'Mayor Miould not be
Impeached nor
his Director of Public
Safety disciplined.
Spasmodic political
aktrmlshes never accomplish anything.
Crack tho city administration over tho
head, we say, when something can be
gained by so doing, but It is, on the whole,
entitled to relief from goading, Just as is
the national Government.
Instead of hysterical Investigations of
comparatively little final Importance, If we
must have an Investigation why not a real
one to discover how many thousands of
dollars. If any, the city is likely to lose
through abrogation of contracts entered
!' Into last summer? Why, pray tell, should
',; Philadelphia suffer loss Instead of the con
' ' tra.etng company and tho. bonding com
'"'. pany which last July guaranteed that the
ESHj contracts would bo carried out and 'war
ranted to protect the city against any loss
initherefrom resulting?
;,i U a bond a scrap of paper?
BJ .VV Kfl ItAllRAItlAYR' MIvK TIIF.KH
a ts .
i ?:
Ch ARCHITECTS and other artist some-
XX time.! like to talk about the present
Waste and decay of so much of that which
- we CJUI ciYiiizauuu. naw materials aro
f tMns' destroyed, many craftsmen have
tta aisapiea or nave ueen wunurawn
from .the practice' of skilled work or the
achlng- of if to others. It Is dolefully
ffarfnted out that' whenever old civilization
it the 4rts to a ttandstlll for cen-
This- pessimism may relieve the
of some who- would rather eat
jHcht, but the analogy lias the dla-
jm Ol. DtNnjr a iuo one. uur civile-
Mt 'decaying. It is coming to
PMa Carthase and Greece had -false
ud tjeeervet to die. , '
to a atiMPeqt: Wif . the ..,
J,!,JiP,!, ;
normal? They ,are tho tame young men
who a fow months ago wcro decaying for
lack of cxerclso and mental stimulant,
who wore dying at a higher rate- of per
centage at home than men dlo In tho
army, Barbarians wcro tho survivors of
tho old civilizations. Hut tho survivors
of this war will have all tho vigor of bar
barians and all tho facilities for carrying
on tho arts with an Inspiration that no
other aga has experienced.
LABOR TO VISIT MR. tVILSOX
AN UVENT of tho first magnitude has
taken placo In London. The Interallied
labor conference, supported by the Labor
or Socialist parties of Kngland, Trance,
Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Uumanla and
South Africa, has taken action which,
while It emphatically Indorses tho war
alms of tl.eir Governments, Insists on an
Immediate conference between tho radicals
of Germany and Allied countries. 1'lvo
delegates will be sent to the I'nltcd States
"for tho purposo of conferring with the
representatives of the American democracy
on the war situation."
The Importance of this coming visit must
bo measured by tho political power of the
men the delegates represent. Arthur Hen
derson, leader of tho British labor move
ment, was a member of tho Lloyd George
war cabinet and resigned bocaut-o ho fa
vored a more definite invitation to German
liberals to state their war alms than the
British Government found advisable to
suggest. He Is for n nrgotl.ited peace on
a nonlmperlallstlc basis, but tho word "ne
gotiations" no longer Implies paclflt In
clinations. Mr. Wilson on one hand and
Czernln and Hertllng on tho other havo
"negotiated" by public speech as fluently
as and moro advantageously than they
could If their delegates sat about a table
together.
But who aro "the reprccutativrs of tho
American democracy".' The visitors will
And them at tho capital. Strong labor
men, such as Secretary of Labor Wilson
and his assistant, Louis V. Post, have not
felt called upon to resign from the Ad
ministration, and yet they nrc ns radical
as Mr. Henderson. Mr. Gompcrs Is co
operating with tho Government. He said
on Washington's Birthday:
I say to the Kalscr, I say to the Ciermans
In the iiarno of the American labor move
ment, "You can't talk peace with American
workers: um cjn't talk peace with us; you
can't tall; to us at all now. W are llRht
Ing now. Bltlier you smash your Kaiser
autocracy or wo will sinas-h It for ou."
And that is the spirit which the dele
gates will find everywhere.
ON SCHEDULE TI.M1
M'KVKU lias an cxtensio invasion
aroused to little Interest as that of
tho Germans in Bussia. Tho ni rival of
advance guards at points fifteen or twenty
miles nearer Petrograil Is an uneventful
ts the pate arrival of n local milk train
on xvhedulo time. Everybody has been so
"fed up," as the English pay, on the sub
ject of P.ussia that sho has for a. time
entered the realm of llctlon. When tho
Germans capture that wireless plant In
Petiograd the only difference will bj that,
instead of entertaining fiction, tho product
will he af dull as old Von Hertlinr; him
self. WHEAT OR CATASTROPHE?
rTIIIUIti: l.i no camouflage in Hoover's
-Lstrateg. Ho never hangs to tho tail
of the bull, lut takes It by the horns. And'
this' Is his ultimatum: Wheat or catas
trophe? NEXT CONGRESS MUST RE
ALL-AMERICAN
rpili: next Congress It will bo er U-
tally a war Congress must be i.'l
American. To bar any misplaced Beichs
tag members from the Capitol and to
scourgo out somo who now defile the
temple, it is not too soon to anticipate next
fall's poll". Wo need unity of policy and
action now, but much more will we need
national t-olidarity when tho war Is moving
in its third year for us. and without a
genuinely American national legislature wo
cannot have the national unity of policy
and action which will win the war as. much
as any other factor.
Tho Democratic Xational Committeeman
from Minnesota, In the heart of the sus
pected zone, proposes fusion of Democrats
and Republicans In every district or State
in which there is a possibility of tho return
of the pro-German, pacifist or Socialist
Senator or Represent-ttve. Tho proposl
tlon is revolutionary In a partisan sense,
of course. Democrats and Republicans havo
fused time and "yain for municipal reform,
but not on a largo national scale. However,
the proposition Is not extraordinary, as
party lines have been well-nigh obliterated
on large issues In Congress since last
April. Record votes on them aro so near
unanimity that one would hardly suspect
a memberbhlp almost equally divided be
tween the two great parties.
Equitable coal distribution to be put
Into effect April 1. Abslt omen!
The Democrats apparently do not know
what they want and they Intend to get It,
The slacker who marrjed his mother-in-law
to avoid the draft had moro "courage
than he gavo himself credit for.
We are mUhty glad that locomotives
Intended for Russia were never pe.-.nltted
to bo heiit. Otherwise, the Hun would bo in
the cab.
Voluntary rationing ended In London
yesterday and th city goes on a Vatlon
card system today. Good luck, London
we'ro eating war bread, too.
A Germah schoplboy has robbed one of
the Kaiser's castles of JI5.000 worth of art
objects. That boy ought to become a great
Minister for X'orelgn Affairs.
Doubtless aome eminent local adminis
trator, will advise against the purchase of
automobiles on tho ground that It promotes
Immorality In that it Induces citizens to
steal the things. Let's ,inake the streets safe
for automobiles. ,
t
A. IJttle Italy grocer has had his shop
closed for selling sugar at exorbitant prices.
The only reason wo have no law to punish
wasters as well as extortioners s tnat It
Is hard even for the law to reach cowards.
The grocer at least had the nerve to do
wrong In public.
The Fedaral Government must be In
error in its opinion that vice flaunts Itself
In the face of the community. We were In
formed some tlma since that all the disrep
utable folic, had bean driven away and a
OBBlementary campaign had Dut tho cam.
XK
out or uusinesa. Aiayoe vice is so camou-
atta.Vh. .r-oUce, dmlnlstratlon mis-
iIlm It 'In virtus j I
EVE&ING PUBLIC liLl)GER -
dOV. PENNYPACKER
DESCRIBES STUART
Says Alain Thoutfht of His Suc
cessor nt Hnrrisburg Was to
"Avoid Responsibility"
fKNM PACK Kit AfTnlllOtiltArilV Ml, US
ICorirlaht, ttlt. bu Vublic Ledger Conpn.ij)
A 1101T tlila tlmo I became associated with
tX Alton II. Parker, who ran agulnst P.ooj'e
vdt for tho presidency; Richard Olney,
Mr, Cleveland's Attorney General; Nicholns
Lnngworth, Roosevelt's son-in-law; 1'rcd
crick II. Xlfdrlnghaiis, of St. Louis; Gen
eral Benjamin V, Tracy. Thomas B. Wnua
maker, George Gray, of Delaware, und
others, in nn effort to change tho manage
ment of tho New Vork Llfo Insurance
Company and tho New Vork Mutual Life
Insuranco Company. Samuel Untermyer,
of New York, was tho underlying Influence
of the movement, and there were a num
ber of meetings In his ofllce. Like many
such efforts, It did not succeed, and also,
llko many of them. It produced result.
On tie 26th of Juno I mado an address
at Fredericksburg, Vu nt tho dedication
In tho park there of the monument to the
i:;th Pennsylvania Regiment, which was
commanded In that battlo by my old cnl
one!, William W. Jennings, and, ns it hap
pened, it was tho .forty-third unnlvorsary
of our engagement at Gettysburg. Mis.
Jennings was among thoso present. I
then had the opportunity to go over the
battlefields of I'lcdcrlcksburg nnd Chan
cellorsvillc. Governor Stokes, of New Jersey
On tho I'lsl of June Governor 1". ('.
Stokes, of New Jersey, und I delivered
addresses at tho dedication of tho monu
ment nt Re.l Bank. A dreadfully hot day,
a long ride amid shouting throngs over
duty country roads and a crodcd plat
form covered with canvas Just unovc our
heads which shut out tho nlr were the
Incidents which marked tho orcaslon.
Stokes is a small man with a pronounced
mus-tiiche. keen nnd alert and canny
enough to keep his head above water In
New Jersey politics.
About this time I appointed tho first
board of Registration Commissioners to
register voters In Philadelphia, and selected
George G. Pierlc, Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
J. Henry Scattcrgood and Jehu Cadwala
der, Jr. Plerlo and Scattcrgood were ac
ceptnblo to Pcnroo and the party mana
gers. Cadwalader I appointed against tho
earnest protest of tho leaders of both tho
Republican and Democratic parties, be
cause ho was u gentleman who 1 knew
would lie fair, though narrow and beyond
Influence, and partly bectuuo of my great
regard for his father. 1 found an a general
thing that nice people have little sense of
gratitude. They nrc apt to feel that they
confer a fin or by rcccptlng what Is given
thorn. At the close of my administration
Woodruff wrote a deubtlng sketch of mo
for tho Yulo Review. Somo years later,
over another matter, Cadwalader wrote a
paper for the Public Ledger assailing my
personal motives. I nb-o saw a sketch of
himself In print, evidently sur".TVlcd b
him, which said he had been retained in
ofTIco by Governor Stuart nnd made ?t
mention of tho man who put lil.n therj
having to override tho political forces of
both parties in order to do It. It wus un
manly anl disingenuous. Ho made :i capa
ble and useful nfllclnl.
This year, July 25; the National Guard
had their encampment tit Gett; sburg,
where I again inspected, on foot, ecry man
nnd tool: tho review from a bu louche, Thcro
was littlo comment on tho method.
Edwin S. Stuart
In September came the effort to over
throw Penrose as the State Icadc, of which
I had forewarned him and Durham two
years before, nnd much to my surprise It
camo In tho shape of an attack upon the
Capitol nnd the moneys expended In Its
erection and equipment over which 1 had
supposed everybody was happy. It is not
my purpose hero to do mom than make
a few general statements upon the sub
ject. I made a thorough study of the whole
matter In my "Desecration and Profana
tion of tho Pennsylvania Stato Capitol,"
published In 131 1 and never answered, to
which- tho leader is referred. Hdwin S.
Stuart had been nominated by the Repub
"Jeans as their candidate for Governor, and
to comprehend tho situation which re
sulted, it Is absolutely necessary to .have
n measure of his characteristics. Forty
years before, when he was nn errand boy
for Leary anil I was a notary public, we
had gone out into the country together to
take tho testimony of a witness, and we
had known each other well ever since. Big,
good-heaitcd, upright and kindly, his dis
position was to bo pleasing to everybody
with whom he wis brought Into contact.
His life-long training as a merchant was
such as to lead him to give everybody
Just what they wanted or thought they
wanted. This disposition and this training
united to mnko him entirely unfit for ex
ecutive office, whero tho object ought al
ways to be to ndvanco the public welfare,
with force, if need be, rather than to- be
agrceablo to Individuals, who often must
bo overruled. To expect him to resist
public clamor would bo to look for some
thing of which he was utterly Incapable,
As Governor, his main thought was to
avoid responsibility, and at tho end of his
term to escape unslnged. His administra
tion was, therefore, ultogctlrer colorless,
without a single achievement which made
-any Impression on tho Stato and, therefore,
ho left ofllce with tho npproval of every
body except thoso who had to do business
with him. Yet even the latter liked "Ned
Stuart."
Tomorrow, '.oirrnnr l'rnnjparker eoea Into a
dlsculon of the t'apllol arandal,
COLLEGE WOMEN AND THE WAR
Vassar took census of her resources and
appointed a war service committee. Welles
ley dispatched more than S000 surgical dress
ings to the front. Smith College students
contributed J2100 and 1300 hospital supplies
to the Red Cross. Mount Holyoke. boasts of
sixty-four Belgian "godsons" and many
adopted French war orphans. Barnard stu
dents have been feeding the children of a
Delxlan village. Bryn Mawr students car
ried on a twenty-acre vegetable garden, can
ning the products. Burges Johnson, In the
Bed Cross Magazine. i
r.nmmiAi, ki'ickams
Th Boaton Transcript aaya "thla la Juit lha
honaymoon period of tho war." Implyln Ibat th
real UihUnc baa not let btsun. Kanaaa City
8tar,
Tho aerroan workers m to have fanned on
their laat strike. Brooklyn Eaile,
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It la curioua how many erltlcs- thrre are nho
hava aoceaa to aouroea or Information which aro
denied Secretary Baker. 8prlna-eld republican.
tThrea hundred .society woman of New Tork
1..., nrnhlii In tAKi-n tha Mn, hnw ,a a....
fATe.Vh WVirfrula.hiTV,ni
xfM. ' ' '" j'1 y t - -"
omlae. In eelf-ffena' the ioor ahould orsanlxa
- liHlABELi'HiA; l SlbDAV, EEiiMyARY'D'lOlS
Mrs. Bridget Quinn, of Conifer
To Conifer, a villago in tho Stato
Whoso title is "tho woody land of
Pcnn,"
Distortcdiy and vaguely penetrate
The shouts and calls of distant fight
ing men,
To Conifer in some way camo tho news
The Government had need of human
hair
For making tho munitions that we use
To blaze tho path to (jlory "over there."
Of course it wasn't true,
Hut one who never knew
Wsplnyod n love of country rich and rare.
Prom Conifer this earnest letter went
"To Secretary Raker of the War:
Dear sir, please tell me where it should
lie sent
And I will send my own end maybe
more.
I'm triad to be of service in this way,.
And if n woman'" hair can help to win
By making of munitions, as they say,
I'll quickly cut mine off nnd send
it in
My little daughter's too,
I'lcnse tell me if it's true,
And also where to bend it. Budget
(juinn."
That's nil I It's just n simple little story
Of sacrifice and woman's crowning glory.
So rouse ye, men! and lift a cheer for
her:
Hail! Mrs. Ilridgcl Quinn. of Conifer!
TOM DALY.
WHY IS A PIADDIE
CALLED "FINNAN"?
A Couple of Incorrect Answers
and One That Seems to
Iling True
rplll'l't' teems to be sometliuis In the food
X furnished by certain restaurants which
malt's tho habitues disputatious. We name
li-i name, but tblt npiic.ir.i to be particu
larly Iruo of n house on Tenth street abovi
Chestnut, famous for the excellence, of Its.
conking and tho crank'ness of the guests.
Three of these guests rested around a table
at lunclitlmo on Saturday took another to
task for a little tale lie had written about
I'lndon Raddle. "In the first place," said
one, "you don't even know how to spell It.
It Isn't 'I'lndon Haddle.' but 'J-'Innan.' Ai.y
dictionary will tell you that."
" lilch, of course," ihlnW In another, "Is
merely a coemption of 'Finland.' "
Thin the fight began, and the noise attt.ict
ed Frank Dooner, who Is no cucst, but a ,oit
of policeman In that district.
"I think yru'ro right." said he to the
second critic ; "that species of dried haddock
Is so called because that's the way it's pre
pared In Finland. At least, It was In father's
time, ami things haven't changed much here
or anywhere else since, his day."
"Nonsense!" snorted Dr. Peter IT. Lane,
who was speaker number one, "Finland has
no more to do with tills than sho will have
with tho final defeat of the Hun. This fish
was born In New Hnglaml, where all the best
food fisli come from, and here's tho way of
it: 1 mind when I was a small lad In
Massachusetts they were Etlll talking of the
invasion of Canada tnado a few yeara before
by some of tho cltlze.ns of thoso parts. You
may have hoard of the Ill-fated attempt of
certain Irlh gentlemen to conquer the Do
minion of Canada In the year 1808, or may
be it vas IBM. There are several stories pur
porting to explain why the expedition fulled,
but there is only one that's true, and I have
It. Wher, the Irish ciossed the border they
bad guns and ammunition enough to accom
plish their purpose, but their commissary de
partment fell down. They bad provided them
selves with great quantities of dried had
dock; plrnt, they thought, to feed them
for several weeks, which was tho maximum
time they had figured upon for the conquest
of the country. But haddock, no matter how
It's prepared, has a bad habit of mlsbc
halns Itself in warm weather, and it wasn't
long before tho commissary department was
In bad odor. An army, you know, travels
upon its stomach, nnd after the third or
fouith day nobody was able to stomach that
haddock. So tho expedition failed, and ever
since that brand of fish was culled 'Fenian
(or 'Finnan') Haddle,' after the Irtnluncn who
trusted and were betrayed by It."
"The only glimmer of truth In Ibat expla
nation," put In Ueorgo Donnelly, "Is the
suggestion of Iiish origin. Hut it goes back
hundreds of oars before tho Fenian Invasion
of Canada. im.8 upon a tlmo there was an
Irish llshciniun named Flnton, who was ad
venturous. a3 his race always has been. He
sailed far Into the North Sea upon one occa
sion and captured a ureat quantity of strange
fish, which be couldn't name at all. because
he spoke only tliB Gaelic; and, anyway, he
scorned to give them the Kngllsh name for
them, which was 'haddock.' Well, he landed
in Scotland with his catch, and the Scots,
ho have always hail a habit of getting
ahead of the Irish (see Scotch-Irish), stole
his fish away from him. But when one of
Flnlon's men saw tho fine fish displayed Ir,
the market he spoke up bravely and said:
'Sure. Flnton had them first." 'Had he?' said
the Scot. 'Ves, had he,' retorted Flnton's
man. So eer after they were called 'Flnton
Haddle.' "
The third guest, who hasn't figured before
111 this recital for the very ulmplo reason
that he bad said nothing, now takes a hand.
"My name, as you know," said be. "is
George C. Watson, and I was born In Aber
deen and lived there until i was close upon
my majority. I'll tell you the truth about
Finnan, Flndon or Flndhoin Haddle,' for all
that the otheis have said Is mere foolish
ness. When I was a lad In Aberdeen I used
often to buy for tcr.pence that Is to say,
as often as I had tenpence to spare a lino
dish of llsli which came from a small fishing
lllagc a few miles away called 'Flndon' or
'Flndhorn," or, ns it was most frequently
shortened, 'Finnan.' It was a small haddock,
partially salted and smoked, which was pre
pared by the folks of that vltlare, and no
where else. It was. not a good 'saver,' and I
remember that for a lor.g time it never got
further lito Bngland than Liverpool. It
wouldn't lfeep good long enough to be carried
to London. When 1 came over here. In 1884,
I was surprised to find It In Bsoton. I
learned, upon Inquiry, that a number of Fln
don fishermen, emigrating to Nova Scotia, had
brought with them the secret of preparing
the fish and had found a ready market for
It In this country. The climate, perhaps, has
something to do with it, but the fish always
keeps longer hero than in tho old country,
though even here It Is classed as 'perlsh
nble." Wherever It Is thero's no disguising
Its goodness, when It's right, and when it's
rlihit It's Scotch, and there's nao doot
about it,"
After carefully weighing all tho evidence
there is nothing to give but a Scotch verdict.
T. A. D.
WHY HUNS GRIP LORRAINE
The first stono In the foundation of the
present war waa laid lr, 1870, when Germany
despoiled France of Lorraine. This waa true
not alone because France regards with Jeal
ous (lollcltude every foot of French toll.
Rather, indeed, It as because of the im
portance of Iorra!no In the German 6cheme
of things, out of which scheme grew the
l'an-Uerman creed of a Teuton hegemony In
Mtttel Hurop'a.
In 1870 the French Iron mines at Long-ivy,
at Brley and at Nancy were unknown., Lor
raine waa supposed to contain all the Iron
fields embraced within the boundaries of the
French empire : and Germany, being the most
farseelng as, well as the moat unscrupulous
of nations, saw In her etlture of Lorraine
the reduction of France to a second-class"
Power and the acquisition by themselves of
the means whereby they could control the
world.
The fact that the basin of the Meuta
subsequently developed Iron ore In -greater
quantity and richness than were possessed
by Lorraine alone made an Allied victory
in this war possible, w-hlla accentuating to
Oermariy the necessity for her continued
possession of . the old French province).
3i B W, Gai diner, In World' Work. .
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AN OLD LAWSUIT
ON LIQUOR IN CLUBS
Pennypaclror Decision Reversed.
Criticism in Rhyme Auto
biographies Compared
Wo lite HOttoi- oj the i:vc:.,p I'ltblU J.edprr:
Sir There wan ono court event in the
history of sx-Governnr 1'enilypacker, a very
Important one nt the time, that has net ap
peared in his autobiography, but which has
been recalled bv reason of the outbreak
between Joseph l'cnnell, the artist, nnd the
Art Club, caused by the nrtlst taking ex
ception to British oflloers being served with
nines while American officers were refused.
Tho matter referred to as occurring while
Mr. l'ennypaeker wan on tho bench Ir, our
Court of Common Picas was In connection
with the serving (or selling) of liquor In a
club, and was the first case coming up under
the new license law. It was in the fall of
18fi8. An ex-saloonkeeper living near Twenty
fcccond and L'llsworlh street, who had been
refued a license by tho first License Court,
which met hi the spring of 1888, was ar
rested by the Law and Order Society agents
for selling liquor illegally. In other words,
he was charged with keeping a speakeasy.
When the case came up in court (he de
fendant and witnesses It, his favor testified
that he was the steward of a club, a literary
club, the membership dues being twenty
five cents a month. After hearing- tho tes
timony the Jury convicted the man. nnd then
Judge l'ennypaeker proceeded to deliver the
sentence. If I remember correctly, the Judge
handed dowr, a written decision. He said
"that it made no difference whether the dues
of tho club were twenty-five cents or $5 a
month. The principle Is the same In both
cases. It contravenes tho State license law,"
This decision of the Judge on the subject
of club dues and liquor selling was quickly
seen to Include all clubs where liquor was
sold, and on the day that tho decision ap
peared In tho morning papers tho reporters,
particularly of the Puhlio Ledger, got busy
Interviewing the presidents of the Art Club,
tho Vnlon League, tho Catholic Club, the
Rlttenhouso Club and other leading clubs.
These gentlemen were all Inexpressibly
shocked, and each ono declared that Judgo
l'ennypaeker could not have meant the par
ticular club over which ho presided. It
was shocking, the Idea that their arls.tocr.itlo
clubs should bo considered on a plane with
Patilck Tlernej Club downtown, whoso
literary geni3 Included, as testified to, the
Police Gazette and tho Philadelphia Eve
ning Item.
The opinions of those club presidents wore
recorded In the Public Ledger tho next dav,
but these printed negations were not con
sidered conclusive. They were not authorita
tive. A court of record had classed them
with the associations of a low-down club,
and only a court of record would clear their
club escutcheons of the stain.
Tho Supremo Court of Pennsylvania was
then In session and tho matter was hastily
carried to that tribunal to have Judge Penny
packer's dictum set aside. Judge Kdward S.
Paxson, then Chief Justice, saw tho dilemma
of tho Art Club peoplo and came to their
rescue. In a "learned opinion" ho reversed
Judge Pennypacker on the matter of club
"principle," and the result wus that the down
town man did his bit for a term and tho
dilettanti clubs wero re-established In their
social standing and remained so until Joseph
Penuell cast aevero personal reflections on tho
Art Club"s differentiation between American
and Hngllsh officers.
It can also bo recalled that when Judge
Paxson came 60 quickly to the rescue off the
dilettanti he Boverely reflected upon the Pro
hibitionists for their attltudo toward the new
llcenso law.
JAMES F.-DAILEY.
Philadelphia, February :4,
fEx-Governor Pennypacker discussed tills
case Ir. chapter IX of his autobrlography He
puts It In ISM. editor of the Rvenino Pcb
uc LEDOEn.1 '
PENNYPACKER AND MORLEY
To the Kdltor of tht Evening Publlo ledger:
Sir Writing under the date January 2S,
over the pseudonym "Hlstorjcus," a cor
respondent of the lvcviNO Punuo Leooeb
drew a comparlsbr, between the autobi
ography of the Englishman, Morley, and that
of aovemor. Pennypacker. setting the former
book up as a model of propriety and ra
velling the letter writer's own mental ten
dencies and preferences by . dwelling-' ex
clusively upon the Pennsylvar.lan's criticisms
and Ignoring altogether his equally frequent
praise of good work and conduct.
iMb1 !w
THE ONLY SQUEALERS
a at- .. ..
sp'.'ct, but leaving an impression of weak
ness and giving littlo Indication of vigorous
political leadership. The letter of "HIs
toricub'", wus an Interesting instance-of in
dulgence by a critlo In the very thing that
be wrote to disapprove of.
Harrison S. Morris showed a much
keener Insight when hn said In an Inter
view that Governor I'cnnypacker's autobi
ography was better worth reading than
J'epys, a comparison favorable to the Pcnn
sylvanlan's book made by. a number of other
persons of discrimination. READER.
Philadelphia, February II,
A CRITIC IN RHYME
To the r.dltoroj the Evening Public I.eiiga :
Kir
A good cigar and an evening paper -..
Is certainly tho proper caper.
After a day of ttiess and toil
In this woild of wild turmoil.
And nfter we havo read the news- -Tho
editors' and icportera' views
On the war and other current matter.
Wo turn to this T. laly chatter.
Methlnks that we have read enough
Of all this Dago poetry stuff.
This 1'etey sketch appearing on another page
Must purely put real artists in a rage,
To think that people get the dough
For picturing ruch awful woe.
Now poetry that haH real charm
And pictures that will truly warm
The heait aro worth the while.
And our spare moments wilt beguile,
When we, our paper will peruse,
And fill our mind with worlh-wlille news,
, A. J. CASS1DY.
Philadelphia, February IS.
GERMANS NOT BUYING STAMPS
The stamps of Great Britain's Virgin
Islands have always been popular with col
lectors. Tho postal report of that co.ony for
tne fiscal year which ended In 1016 showed
that the net los.i on the workings of tho post,
otnee was J8700, whereas In tho year which
ended before the war began there was a profit
of 533,5)0. a drop of more than $12,000. Re
garding this difference, V.. 1). A. Tlbblts. then
a chief postal clerk, said: "The loss Is almost
entirely due to tho decrease In the sale of
stamps to dealers." Tills decrease, of couie,
was brought about by tho war first, by the
Entente blockade, which prevented stamps
from getting Into Germany, and, second, by
Germany's own proclamation against Import
ing foreign stampj. That German dealers
wero heavy purchasers is shown by a state
ment of the then Governor of St. Helena,
another British colony, in explanation of why
postal receipts In 1013 wcro many thousands
less than in the previous year. The Governot
said lie believed It was due to "smaller ralci
of stamps to nonresident dealers nnd col
lectors, most of whom aro of German and
Austrian nationality."
l'OnWAHIl
One vim nrver turned Ma bail.-,
But mari-heii breast forward;
"evr Uoulitrd clouds would break
Never thought thotiKh riant were worsted
WrotiB would triumph. Held, we fall
To rlaej aleep to wal.e. nrownlpe.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
".? l?eP,V.er;er.V'C '"dfr '" "' ""
Who use Hie Forty Iramortiilt?
Where la Kathonla?
Who are the Menahetlkl
Who Wrote "Idills nf (lie Kins";
What fount ry Is called Albion and whj
"'dIn'I'wIndSn"? "," h'"' "T" fln,,h 'l'
Give the author of tho qnolallon "In (lie 1M.
con of vtnth there H no aurh word as ! fall "
Why la the Adam's apple so called '
Where la Minsk?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Admiral Weinras (pronounced Weenis) l. ii..
Kritl.h first Sea Lord of the T Admiral ItV
nt'L ,et!;r drTl." ,,,c1"' ?r, lisnnr day. ' In
the old calendar a red Initial wa..J.i
to mark holidays and holy di'V. U
William Wordsworth wrote "The 'Kimrelon '
Th. lloundheajla were tho Puritans .'
war with liln rharlesi so named h,. 1
they cropped their hair. ea "'"'"a
Vitebsk Is Itusslan prorlnec borderlnr ,,
Coorland. Ita capital, of like name u
bout mldwar betaicen Bl.a. on Jho llm,
iind Petrojrrpd. The ftesslaut are rriioril
to bo mohllliluc there for it stand VSHwS
the renewed Teuton ilrie. " "faln
roar Klchard! ii sobriquet for Ilenlamln Frank.
"The nini worthies" In medleys'! riminn
er Joshua, David. Jadai i J!ae?ib.M.
Heeler. Alexander, J"'ua ",saf?CArthur'
t'harleraaa-ne and Godfrey of BouUlon. '
The rentn.ular War, (sushi between f Franea
ffji. " " "" ,,,rtl. "OS
Old rrehel abbreviation for ma i k.i.iui..
10.
'mam .bh,I..I. !... . .. ! .. I
SuwS"i&;,7;r,V " V.,'a'
"lHsW
U-BOAT DIPLOMACY
We must beware of one great peril. Oufv?
common enemy, beaten aboe ground, is nft
verting moro nnd more to Eubtcrraneiii'; I
methods of warfare. He Is endeavoring, bj;
an enormous system of propiranda and iff?!
taiion, to losicr ui-ieeimg among tho A11IM.
countries. '
Some of his devices are cbaracterlstleiJu
transparent. But his campaign malt-i ui it A
coiiiprrhriislvei.css what"lt lacks In tntutlKi'
Tho Gtrmau propagandist Is ublqiltwi ti
i' mien peasants nro lnroimed liutthl
British army will never evacuate Cililivi
, - .
Canadians and Australians are- toll tilt
the British army authorities hnbltuAllr lit
pose Dominion troops to tho greatest 4-j
"'-'
Toung American soldiers, aro asked trtj;
they uro fighting for Wall street.
working men all over Europe ana tie
Fulled States are urged to strike for hIB:
.. ...,. j-.K l.n ........ ...1 !... S.0.. n k.l
exploited by profiteers. (There Is Just tnooiA'J
.....I. l.. .l.t.. t-.. ... .1 .- .. ..,!J
11UUI 111 linn laiiur 1I&.1C1 null UJ rciluwu
particularly formidable.) :
.ii mis propaKanaa, clumsy ana uscicm
n. ...mil, rf I, la l.lu .. j-lAll.tlfa l,i In PTS.
i.-. tin, v,i ... ,1. ,f., .tun ., ut.iiiiK ai.t, w yi
ate au atmosphere of mutual distrust 1'
war weariness until the time comes for -.
other peuco offensive. lau Hay, In "iVorltfiJ
u hi u.
FOREIGN TRADE IN WORLD WAR
Proportions and values of InternatlOMlj
closed In tho foreign trade figure of virions J
countries! tor tno year i ii,. ine loreim irsasa
of the United States bus more than dovMetl
sliieo 1313, jumping irom less man aijrwd
one nnn in iqi-i to mnrn Hun lo.nfln.aOft.fltleial
f17 ; Great Britain's fotelgn trade hu-bb-J
. .. A. , AAA AAA -,a. 4l1flJI
creased more man 5i.duu,uuu,uuu aiuca,ir
.-HrinnA'a ennlr-,, l,'.i,l- 1tn Inerensed tn0fa
than DO per cent, and Canada's JncriMJjJ
from JSS.000,000 to .,Ju,uui),uliu. Ail vnt
tho international trade of the Allies In tf
was 7,000,000,000 greater than in iij.,4J
Tho neutral sections oi ine worm
a decreaso In their International trade sit
1013. In South American countries u
t...n..a r.t 1017 even at the much hit
,1k.. ii.... I,, liv iiinr, than ILOvh
lUllltiliun ...... ,- ..-. .- ...w.w .. . --.-a,
non.OOO than their total Imports of Iljjj
r-i-inn' itmiorTH k now n oecrraBC. nm-
.... -A..A...I.. nf II.a tiAittrnt nnttnns Of Kit
indicate an enormous increase In tneif
l...niln..l tr.nl. nniilvuht nf the ftflS
shows that much of their trade wil OfJ
clearing house character, the imports
the exports being Identical in a litfl ,
.AAt.Y(A. ,S l,ietiii li.Sllilteil.
Tho world, apparently, despite :I,Jje'
volume, is not uomg nusiness s ?'
,... .1 1 ,-a.Ia a.r,nnw til flllUd bellll
llllfriiaiiuuui iirtuo .,..w.. ... A-.Ti
ents hns been largely that of war WM
Markets of neutrals navo not oecn '""'''
vti their existent, normal needs hits
been bupplled. -iM
- tja
ODE TO THE HARD-BOILED
a 1 i.H. 1 .t Tt-i liAri-l.i-ifl.iMllt
"Which 3Iothi prced and Father wnj
- a 1. .! .A..a (
now ,ouucr lllCliiuuc-v iuipi. . -
To .lays nnd thtnpa that ar no moM.
n niians Mi-itntll trinrtl 1 1 . rflrt jAf
. m a . IiUIh,. Ulllt
Ana leu upon nu wrnu...v. ..--
Beneath his one black eult dt uJtMl S1
Ito! Shining! Destitute of dirt, -A
An awesome thing, that hard-bolW airj
1 1 in buiriiui. nuiitwci juaswj - - -,
rt .si - .AK1 l enftufiirl Jfln
lie hoed the corn and mowed the w. - 1
. ...., ...j ,1.- .ah.b in nin the rneiiis A-.a
Ana miiKeu iww uup w -"'
To dress up on tne levenin uj. ,t.
On Sunday he would sleep till '.,'
Comb out nis wnisKera, uru --; t
Andput that gleaming garmen .
-'.?. ..-"S"' ."-" I.'. , .hSih "0
VSfis what they called him through tbir
It lent him dignity and poise, -
It gave him standing; In the town,
When '? - "'." '-"'"a',o front
y ouia snuaaer u n t"' -. y ,a
Jtl tneto nuru iiiio wv " "
. !- l-art'-l na-aril AM inil Oil '
'The Iiard-bolled shirt returns no mo
v. .lM vMttn-nt. anle.k arid SPIUl .w
nemalns tb mark th nj',m"!,, yfi
--new iori-i ',.-
. 'i y
NOT AX 0ffcnA OTB tj
Of coarse,- tho rumor of KerenskJ
to a STana opera eiiiser tyvJJ" 1AM
vriiii a war e,l'-'f-- v,--"",B
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