r -.p(PpWW5,lllllll I IIWflfipPIPKI ' T" f" it- lr- --n- M u v Euening public ftefoijei; PUI1L1C LEDGER COMPANY ..CTi.Hea II laxilneton Vice rrc"M.nti John C. ttartln. Scrtry and Trcurrrhlllp fl, Collin;. Jnn Willi m Jnhn Bourgeon ISlr-ctore. ' EDITOMAI. UOAUDl Ctidi It IC Ccbth, Chairman mvip u, siiiLnr ... 0IW r MArtTlNTT Dene ralnulnf M tantjr rubll.hM dully nt TruLio T.rnnrn nulUtnr. Indp-nlnee fliuare, rhlledclprda ,, .. I.ronra CRVTnL.....llroJ and hnut "'J" tmhtio Citi r ' I'"'"" "i'lll" Knur TnK SOo MMrojollUn Tjwr Ft. Iwiru .. , ions milerton jvi M n Clllcwo . 122 Tribune llulldlns NEWS DUnEAUS! N n. Cor. Penneylvanla Av. and "Jh.!". Xr Tome HtBEAO The ''""''" tauiDOf Ucssai? IAindon Timet SUBSCnilTION THUMB The Etxsinci rrr.ua I.trxira la ecrvM "."J?: rrlbcra In Philadelphia and "UToundln townj atlha rate of twelve Hi) centa pr week, payable "nrnalf'to Mint, out.ld. of rhll.-WrMa. In the United Htatea Canada, or United JK -Mslon. imntnae free fifty CiOl rente Ir month Sir $( dollar- per ear. Payable In adtanc. To alt foreign countries one 1 dollar per ' IvWi'ce Putucrfbers wishing no fess chnneed nun give old as vrell an new nnlreee. DELL. S000 WALNUT KE STONE. MAIN J00O ET AMrr oil coinmualcnlloMS l f,'t"l".l,'"WIS Ledorr. rndntndrnce Swore MIirfbMn YiTiuit:D t tiiii iiutAPCtriiu rojT orric s ercosn ciahh maii MATim rhil.Jrlphla. Friday. -pril ' ' PAY THEM FIVE MOLLAHS A DAY WILL tlio estimable citizen who lift- his hands and his osebrows and mourns "police Ineniclencj " ov cr realize that the men of the police force arc at bottom v cry much like himself, quite as human nnd quite as eager to do the decent thins If they niebut Etven an oppurtunltj ? Will It evci o-cur to the leformcis that the police as ti gen eral class lender n scitico perhaps better than a shortsighted and pcnuilous munici pality has a right to cpcct7 To be In fetjlo these class J on must deride tho police. You must look upon the. man In the clts's uniform with sus piclon and distrust. This Is tlia cas and popular attitude of mind rtter every shnho up. Ard jet It Is significant to observe that out of all tho present uproar at Cltj Hall there has come nothing to show that the men of the rank and lllc have been at fault r.nd much to prove that It was tome offlclals of the department nnd the polit ical tinhorns who did their excellent best to debase and disorganize tho service. When proof of cfllclency Is required In Instances bejond political control; when a Are or a gieat public demonstration pro aides n test of the police personnel, there is good evidence of R willing nnd smooth -working organization. The dim cult matter of tralllo in tho congested parts of tho clt Is well handled by overworked men. Traffic might be better regulated at night. The pollco themselves admit this The Improvement will not bo possjblo until Councils provides the mono for Illuminated night signals such as aro used In every other progressive cits . The fact of the matter Is that the cits as a whole, as well as tho politicians, lias the habit of treat ing tho pollco abominably. Properly to handle city street traffic a man must have endurance, a quick Intclll sence and a level head. Tho reserve squad and the traffic men can boast a wcll-di tiled and highly capable organization. "What business man would expect to jbtaln for his own service training and equipment like theirs for a wage of $3.30 a day? AVc Jyiow of none. Yet $3 50 a day is the most that a policeman can earn In Phila delphia, Only a little while ago ho could not caVn that much If Major Smith wlhcs to do a llttlo really constiuctlvu work ho will demand at once a flat rate of $3 a day for every properly qualified policeman. Hvcn though the monej may not be available, a begin nlng siiould thus be made toward tho pa inent of a living wage. Councils manages to find plcntj of mono for all sorts of contracts. Its traditional Indisposition to treat tie police decently would quickly bj overcome if the business people of tho cltj, whoo Interests nro most lntlmatcl In xoived, demanded that tho reform in tho police force begin at the bottom w 1th feomo such logical and humane plan as this. The Trench Rlrls t.ay that our bojs make "Incoherent noises" when they try to talk French. We can well believe It We'vo tried It ourselves. Hut the point lw. Can tho Bodies understand their basonet talk? PANAMA METHODS AT HOME BECAUSE of the requirements of sanita tion at Leaguo Island tho pig sties were owept out of South Philadelphia. Now a group of tho experts who helped General Gorgas eliminate the mosquito pest In .Panama will expend $210,000 to keep Hog Island healthful and cheerful by draining tho marshes In tho lclnlty nnd thus wiping out the mosquito plague forever. Surely such work as thin speaks well for the sort of militarism that used to be hated and suspected Jn every plac-o T-liere ilr. Bryan and his disciples raised mourn ful voices In the day before the war. Only tho united hearts, hands and souls Of the whole nation will Klve us the power tieeded to bring the war to an end. FOCH'S ASSISTANTS FOLLOWING the appointment of Mr. Schwab as general manager of the ship fclnsboard comes tho naming of General Goehals as director of the shipment of 11 supplies and troops to France. .Each man Is an expert, unsurpassed In lib particular field Ea$. has a reputa-" 4!on for getting things done. Difficulties jtst o be surmounted and obstacles are en only to be removed 0 Wo are making progress in the right attraction by putting the right kind of men 19 pJwrse. The war entered on a new tvhan General Foch wai put in corrr- Lt the Allied armies Goethals and LSfeJC Jfiff ?? S1 loch ,n UTS?" 12 AWAKE AT LAST "WTAR I3 doing to men's vision what ' Commodoro Decatur said it docs to men's lives. It broadens it. Nothing but this war would have forced the utilization of the canals which has been begun by Mr. McAdoo's order taki.ig over the Erie Cannl in New York to sjpplcment the railroads. It would have taken years of ordinary develop ment of thnt newly improved waterway to reach the stage of use at which it will -live in n few months. There has been n concerted campaign to pcisunde tho countiy that New York has wasted the $1G1,U00,000 which It has spent in en larging the Erie nnd its tributaries. Wo have been told thnt the day of water transportation had passed and that the railroadi coull serve businc s much bet ter then it could be served by the canals. rut the lailronds have broken down under the pressure of business. Thcv nro incapable of carrying the freight of fered. The Erie Canal is providentially ready to do the business. It nfTords a water route from the great grain fields 01 the West to the Atlantic poits, and by its tributaries running south to the finger lakes in central New York it brings the coal fields of this State in onnection with the lailroads feeding New England from Albany. The main cannl is big enough to float 12000-ton barges propelled by their own power or towed in fleets by tugs. Such batges arc big enough to withstand the storms of tho Great Lakes. Necessity has foiced the use of this great canul. The lailroads aic fortu nately under tho direction of the i-nme mail who has taken over the liiie. It is his evie'ent purpose to bring nbout the closest possible co-opeiation between rail nnd water transportation routes through New Yoik. He is expected to continue in the way he has staited and bring nbout the transformation of the Delaware anil Chesapeake and the Delaware and Itaii tan Canals into watciways adapted to modern needs. These vvatciwajs con nect the Chesapeake Hay with New York Ilnrbor. They offer cheap communication between the great wai industiies about this citv and the naval stations to the south and the north. And they will affoid cheap transportation of coal both north and south. Contrary to the gen eial impression, freight can be moved on a modern canal faster than by rail road. Baiges can go from Buffalo to New York in eighty-five houis. This is a shoiter time than it takc3 to lun an ordinary fi eight tuiin between these two points. We called attention on this page not long ago to the fact that war has accus tomed us to spending money lavishly to accomplish u specific puiposc, and we ic marked that the habit which we arc now forming must not be abandoned when peace comes if we nie to piocced with the work of industiial rehabilitation. If we can begin now to spend money on thc. gicnt watciways between Balti more nnd New York so much the bet ter. They arc needed as pai t of the ma chinery for winning the war. They will be needed as part of the machine! y of commerce in time of peace. Money spent on them is invested, just as money used in buying Liberty Bonds is put out at interest. But the war returns alone will be gieat enough to justify taking over the Chesapeake Canal at once and putting the Panama Canal engineers at woik on its cnlargemer.t. Working under pressure, wo are now building in three months ships which used to Like six times us long. Working under the same kind of pressuie, the canal could be enlarged so quickly that it would be open for in creased traffic before most of us realized that woik had begun. Now that the start has been made by taking over the most etensiv e canal sys tem in the world the Government can not permit neglect of water transporta tion to continue. It cannot allow the rail loads to stifle competition, noi can it deprive the people of the economies to be found in the use of n gieat but neglected resource of the nation. We aie awake at last. There aic alert men who will see to it that the nation does not go to sleep again. The third Liberty Ixmn Is behind sched ule It Is lnconcplMihU that It should not be heall ovcrxubserlbed Itlght now there Is nothing more imiiortant In tin life of cvrrv citizen than to take all the bonds lie posslhl) can STRAIGHT TALK SIP EDWAHD CAHSON, hitherto it-rc-concllablo Ulsterltc, has announced la Parliament that ho will tupport tho man power bill, "even If jou put Ulster In a subordinate position to the rest of Ireland and f sou put mo under n government of Nationalists or Sinn relucts" Ho con tinned, "I support It because no moro de testable domination could be put over the world than that of tho Germans" Thero Is a bigness of outlook In this which tho Nationalists ought to emulate. Tho great Issuo beforo tho world Is Ger man domination, and not what kind of a homc-rulo bill Is passed for Ireland and not whether thero Is conscription In Ire land by act of the British Parliament. Sir Edward has set an example to the Irish partisans. America. Is waiting to hear from them something as patriotic A Kentueklan from a feud sertlnn, now 11 soldier In Prance, told his officer this was tho first "public war" ho hud participated In WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ONE cannot read the program for tho meeting of the American Philosophical Society without thlnkiqg of Hamlet's famous remark about tho multitude of things In heaven and earth of which Ho ratio had not dreamt. How many persons, for example, have ever heard (.bout para sitism among the red algae? or who knows anything about the luminescence of radium salts? or has flirtctl with the Naiades of tho Upper Tennessee drainage? or Is deeply Interested In experiments to 'change the sex ratio In rats? Theso are only a few of the topics that aro to be discussed by learned persons In the course of the meeting. They are of no general Interest. But that' does not make them unimportant. The Industrial progress of the world and the advancement of civilization itself are dependent on the work of men ai.d women who are making oareful Investigation in such remote ttakic Tix ctmlit, the. physicist, the cn- mmmm cJm' wo, i EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, Ing to wrest from nature her secrets nnd then to apply the knowledge to Industry or to sanitation. Thero was a tlmo when the business man looked with contempt on such Investigation, but ho has learned bet ter Every great nnd successful industrial plant has a laboratory nttached In chargo of n trained expert. Ills discoveries some times make fortunes for his cmplosers and they have been known to snvo a business from bonkrupto-. Tho late P. V Armour was ono of the Ilrst great buslnesi or ganisers who appreciated tho Importance of chemistry In the industrs lie put ex perts at work on the waste of the slaugh ter houses, and as a result there Is no waste Every part of the pig but his squeal Is commercialized, nnd some day n phsslclst may find out a way to can tho squeil Things seemingly as Impossible have been done. So when son rend of the nddiewes be fore tho Philosophical Soclcts on subjects that seem ridiculous to jou. don't laugh. Just remember that these men are pio neers marking tho road to future con quests in tho great unexplored icnlm of nature So hurry, Mr Mnsor, and polish up the town, And drlvo tho naughts' vlco aw as' nnd put the bootleg down, And close up tho disorderlies, arrest the Pimp and tout. Or I'osdiclv will get s-ou If SOU don't watch out' An hiRcnlous nnd hunuTv man 1 iv down on tho IVnnsshnnl.i Itallrnml track near Norrlsloun In tho hope that tonic ono would think tint lie had been hit by a train nnd would give him n free meal lie choso the wtong rntlwas. He should have tried It 011 the Panhandle. ' Positioned game gives footsore fielders chnnrp for das-'s rest ' So rum a baseball headline Pootsore Tommies In the Yprrs ullent don t get many dajs orf We li.no lompinitlvely little sjinpith for footsoro bill pl.isers .Some jiennle In Germain were Im prisoned for six weeks for hivlin; a faiu-x-drcss bill when tho PalherHnd vwm In danger And et the Kaiser has been wear ing fanes dress nil Ills life, nnd getting nwas with It Park benches are warm to Mt on I THE CHAFFING DISH 1 Sucial Gossip PAGE ALMNPON, of Town's End rami, West Chester, lias another daughter. That makes three Alllndaughtcrs, wo call them The future of Uryn ilawr College Is assuicd. ham Scovllle, Jr., sass he has written a perfectly corking book on Abraham Jhi coin Three plants have como up In lllll Stltcs's gaidcn. Ho sass tlicj aro rhu batb, but ho called In Hank Harris for an expert upprnlal. Hank M53 tiles' are skunk cabbage. Philip Warner, of l.cnrs's Hook Store, who knows mole about books than the persons who wilto them, has been to the dentist. Thr enrmy 7.nocl.cl tlnun the Uhcrt chunk tnucr, the toitci of the golden 1 liflin, uho had bent hrtid Uownuartl 01 cr thnt mined el(y tilth her babe out stretched It tins uriat landmarl. bound up iiltlt all out memories l'uiuv ainus THE Leaning Mrgln of Albert had be come In the m.nds of British fight ing men a moving symbol of tho agony endured by Innocent human lives slnco Germany Invaded Belgium and Prance Mans a human mother ami child have peilshcd In this war slmplj because tlleli little lives stood In tho path of a brutal and senseless ambition Thoso who love motherhood and childhood have not forgotten WILL sou remember, ns sou look down In tenderness and lovo on sour own sleeping children, that every Lib erty Bond Is one moro pulse of succor for the llttlo ones of tho world? A Humble Tribute In the classic mvtholoss thero wero sup posed to bo nsmphs that lived In trees; gracious, slender goddesses who laid cool bands on tho brows of fainting warriors and all that sort of thing Hamadrsads, they called them But we wouldn't give a snap for those frails compared to tho magic und unfailing voices that livo just Inside our tclepliono instrument. If wo were a great poet we'd liko to sing the pralso of somo of those phone drsnds In tho was It ought to bo done. Bos', page Mr. Kipling! Tho courtesy and efficiency with which tho telephone girl performs her harassing task aro besond praise. Her wits aro like lightning. And no politeness pass so well as politeness In her ear. Thero aro few thrills moro pleasant than when some clear llttlo voice at tho switchboard (you didn't even think sho knew sour name) sass, ' Good morning, Mr, Socrates; how are s'ou this morning?" Those girls havo problems of their own, and set they never seem to go woolgath ering. They aro tho gracious fairies of our business life. They are accurate, prompt and divinely helpful. We hope to heaven they get h,usbands that are half good enough for them. But we doubt It. It's extraordinary the way those nymphs remember voices. A voice Is an Intangible and a disconnected kind of thing (quite often disconnected, but not alwajs tho girl's fault), set they seem to carry It In their fluffy llttlo heads. There's an operator In New York, at an office we used to call up very often. She got to know Intif n!rn whtrh Hpem in tin verv lllra nnu UM. .. , ......... .......... . 'V . M..J one else's. Nowadays we don't call that office more than onca in three or four months. But she knows us Instantly, "Good morning, Mr. Socrates," she says; "when did you got to town?" Has modern civilization Invented any thing half so richly compounded of the divine and the Human as .Ihe telephone girl? ' ' ' K3JJATES. PAINTING A CHAIR And What Come of It By Walter Prichard Eaton ONCE upon a tlmo my mother entered an emporium labeled 'Tho Arts and Crafts Shop" to mako a purchase, or to see If tho wanted to make n purchase Presently ho emerged . Ith the statement that she found n great deal of craft, but very little art The maternal epigram very xvcll epitomized my own feeling toward the movement until. In an unguarded moment, 1 undertook to re paint nn old chair. Slnco then I have become n Rlave, a glad nnd willing slave, to latho and tool bench, semper and sand paper, paint pot nnd enamel nnd, nbovo all, to my precious box of oil paint tubes nnd brushes, the Implements with which my work Is finally crowned IT WAS n nice old chair. It had no sent, one rung was gone entlrels'. nnother was broken nomehodv had taken a bite out of the hack the original pilnt nnd several later lavers clung to It In dlrtv patches and tho cat had sharpened her claws up and down tho legs nut It was a nice old clnlr Jii'-t the same and tin wife had bought It at nn miction for twentj-fivo cents thinking, she said that I ould 'pilnt It up" Such touching faith In mv abilities was not to be Ignored In fact I wns Flung bv pride Into action Ah the rlmlr ohvlouslv hid to be mended first. I procured xevernl dollars' worth of tools nnd tnckled the Job The rungs wero eas. but the onlv waj to mend the broken piece In the back was to cut out a mw plei e This toolt time and patience, but T finalls succeeded so tint th new piece looked like the old Of course I dldnt tackle the sent Putting In a rush bottom Is mil n Job for a professional puttcr-ln of ruh notions, if vou can find one Thnt could best be done later I de cided So then I got n scraper and a solution of sal-itoda nnd nun h sandpaper nnd ftartd In removing the old paint and varnMi fMTTIIAT do vou do all that for" mv wiro W asked ' Can't 5 oil Just paint over if" I looked at her 111 scorn "Vou can ' said I. "hut it would never look smooth What woith doing Is worth doing well "Hut II onh cost twentv-flve cents mid rho "It II never be good for am thing but tho klt hen " "Is tint so" I nnxwered "Vou wnll 1 111 going to decorate It after It Is painted Mv wife looked a little anxious but mv blood was lip nnd after that dec 1 ir.ition I knew, of course that I was going to deoornte the thing, though I hadn't known it before I spoke It took neirlj an entire afternoon lo clem that old chair down to the original wood nnd even then I was faced In the marks of the cat's claws some small bov s knife nnd various other furniture enemies of an elder dav. So I went out and bought puttv 'Working putts Into a small, slnllow surfaeo Irregu larly and making It stay there when sou smooth It off is not c.isv, peclalls for n person of hnstv, nervous deposition Hut In the courso of time I nnsteicd the technique, and at length was rtadv to begin painting After consultation with mv wife, I decided on Trench grav nnd went forth to procuro It, together with slcel wool brushes and enamel, which had to be mixed to match the giav I got the clnlr all painted once, and It looked like an aged sjcamoie tree, magnificently mottled A second coat Improved It how ever and n third coit caused It to look all of a color I hen I rubbed It down with mj- steel wool and took all the paint elf the corners' SO I PAIXTEH It again, nnd at last staited to enamel It Now, I'm the kind of mulehcad who would rather go ten blocks down the wrong street than confess Ignorance by asking u police man the was I dldn t ask a painter how to applj enamel I put It on one cold after noon working out on tho porch nnd I dldnt work it verv caiefulls I thought It was like pajnt It Isn't The next morning mv chair was covered with a kind of shins I'renih grav goose ficsh So then I consulted a painter After" I had rubbed down 1111 errors to approximate smoothness I applied tho next co it In a hot room, working It with long strokes, thoroughls I could at last see and feel It How and set beneath my brush A great Joy c line to me the Jo of mastering a manual technique The following day tho chair looked smooth and clean. I was nroud of It Ms wife appeared surprised. THEN I got a kit of oil paints, brushes nnd palette I studied the old stencils on ancient painted furniture I went Into a shop and studied the decorations on modem P tinted furniture I decided tho old-tlnieis would have done better If thcv could, .and the moderns eouldn t do vtorso If thcv tried II was getting vou see. Into tho genuine artistic frame of mind by now ') So I came homo and made mj own designs, cutting Just enough of a stencil lo rIvo mo ms outer dimensions and resolving to do the rest free hand .Mv hand was undoubtedly free It was complete! free of my control Only the fact that fresh oil pilnt or enamel wines off with a rag saved int chair. Hut patience and practice finally enabled mo to complete ms basket of gav flowers and fruits und ms rings and strlplngs Whs" cried my wife, "its reallj quite pretts ' ' (Yet thcv are dear, good creatures and take the best of care of us ) "Whs didn't sou do n whole bedroom set?' sho added ' There s tho old pine bureau It s got a good shape to do next." THAT was a sear ago. Slnco then I have "done" threo more old chairs. Including a Boston rocker. I have made mjself a table and a imrror with a broken pediment top I havo purchased an old battered desk front, a barn nnd converted It Into as prettv a pieco of furniture as joud caro to see, with a gas blue and sellow nnd black and orange parrot perched on the front panel (Which lowers to mako tho desk nvnllable). I have decorated wooden candlesticks with winding bitter-sweet vines. And I'm not through set far from it In fact, I havo a set of carving tools and I mn about to flute and carvo a mantel, copied from ono of Mclntlre's, In old Salem, and to perform vari ous other miracles about tho houso which, a sear ago, not only my wife, but I msself, would havo considered qulto Impossible. ANH It was all duo to that twents-flvc-cent Xjl battered old chair and mj stubborn re solve to get nil the ancient paint off, down to a smooth surface, beforo I put any moro on. In short. I stumbled on tho first secret of good craftsmanship to do evers thing thoroughly, honestly, right. If sou do that at the very start sou will paint a chair or hang a screen door or nail up a box In such a way that the result will satisfy the artist which lurks In all of us. or, at least, stimu late him enough to drive you on to other efforts After I found I could get the chair smooth, and finally paint It so that It looked professional. I gained confidence After I found that I could master a brush sufficiently to decorate the chair so that It didn't offend tho eye I gained a positive enthusiasm After I'd decorated a few more pieces I asked my self why I Shouldn't make certain articles we didn't possess. And so I made them They had to be made w ell, for, by now-, noth ing else will satisfy sou after your- hand has once mastered, to a reasonable degree, the technique of tools. You cannot buy a table with a smoother top than mine. But It took me one whole day of rubbing and sandpapering to achieve the result. You cannot have handmade furniture without labor, yours or. somebody else's. That Is a lesson I have learned. I cannot pay In money, so I pay In labor. Perhaps I don't get so high a degree of art, but I get a lot more satisfac tion, and now, for the first time In my life. I think. J can really appreciate the beauty of Colonkil furnltuis and woodwork. I can feel kt Ucst Mw crafUHMB bofcted the ckM. u FRIDAY, APRIL 19, JUST WILSON AND ,'t Reader Studies Them Against gle Tax Problem Kmisevclt's Place To the Ml31 0 llir r:icnlu Public Lctlgrt Sh Tho Central Powers nnd the Allies havo a distinct dclre to "show up' each other The same Halt Is evident In Itoose vclt and A ilon and theli worlhv adherents WINon's followers sav that Ttooevelt Is a menace, dloiuptlng the lnrmons In the Gov ernment thcicbv aiding the enems Wilson's advisers are accused of liienmpctcncv and of camoull iglng the truth Whether or not the Administration should bo openlv ciltlclzed depends upon how- wo nro going to win the war If we aro going to ' talk' tho enemy into ncceptlng our terms, discretion should bo utcd, because if Roose velt 1.111 not sec the logic of Wilson's Ideas .and actions, bow can the German people or Government be expected to Hut If we are sure that tho cnemv must bo beaten bs force of arms, 'all hinds should tin 11 to" nnd no one should spue nnj wmrinted critlcl-an Wilson h actions are governed ihleflv hi the Information coining direct from his perl sonal ndvlscrs This should be nutbentlc but some of them ill iv icscmble n few of W'il helm's advisers who told the 'All Highest" whu thev thought ho would like to heal, nnd camoufl lgcd the 'blttei tnith" As even a man appointed bj Wilson may have fallings, and ns somo camouflage, if not Inelllclencs, has been dlscoveied, it is possl blo that somo ndt isers should be replaced bs men less sparing of the Piesldent's rulings and less Intrusted in keeping themselves and their depigments "inn pei cent puro ' In the eses of our Chief Executive The followeis of these two men rend about them as the 'vll one' reads the lllble, ac celerating nil nigimients fivoilng theli Idol nnd contesting tho nuthciitlcits of thoso who favm tho oilier It Is truo that Roosevelt could leplacc 1111 v Cabinet member and help the cause as well In that capacltj as tho incumbent Hut is not Hoosevelt too big, too versatile to be tied down to some special dutj ' Although ho ofteri radically disagrees with tho Adminis tration, It Is certain that all his words aro carefullv weighed bs both the executive and legislative brandies of our Government Wo can aafels st th it Roosevelt Is 'doing Ids bit ' belter us a free-lanco critic on nil subjects of Importance thin as 'hecretars of Something or Other" Roosevelt or W llson Never ' Roosevelt and Wilson Korever' APSLAND. Tuckcrton. N. J , April IS. Single Tax Optimism To thr lUlltjrof the hicnlng l'ubllo Ledger: Hlr An Antl-Slnglo Tax League has been formed to fight the passago of u single-tax amendment to tho Constitution of Cnllfomla. glngle-taxcrs contend thero Is only ono was to produce food to apply the human element of labor to the natural elements of land and that it is tho highest function of Government to bring theso two forces to gether, expeclnlls at this tlmo when our (internment Is issuing frantic appeals for moro food production to wlp the war .Should the amendment under consideration In Cali fornia receive a majority of the votes cast next November, it would Immediately throw open to production of food 0,000,000 acres of land In that State which aro now held Idle. And useless Tho Antl-SIngle Tax League Is unpatrl otlcally demanding that these Idle acres re main Idle It will work and spend Its money to keep food from winning the war. It will work and spend Its money to allow the hold ers of these acres to hold on until the time when Increasing population will pay such a price that the holders may be Induced to let go nnd permit people to go to work. It will tell, not In words but In effect, our own Gov ernment and the Governments of our allies that they propose to hold for a higher price land enough to produce more than 200,000.000 bushels of wheat or Its equivalent, millions of tons of coal and other minerals, millions of gallons of coal oil and millions of eleetrla power units that might be derived from their privately owned water rights. OLIVER McICNiailT, Philadelphia, April 18. Under Which Flag? To the Editor Qf tht Evening l'ubllo Ledger1 BioI am one of the appaslonate reader of this dlstlngus paper and lti w through i,fji tit t kve !& mem of this ,w 1918 WAITING FOR THE GOOD ONE ROOSEVELT the Background of JFar Sin- of a New Citizen beautiful! 1 inguage, ami I havo ms hopo to find out the wns to get 1115- boj- over here. He Is a Phlladelphlan of birth, but mo and his fathci, wo are only naturalized citizens Ho is In Italj- file scars I send him over there for health and after this vvar I was afiald to let him come back Hut now he Is seventeen on Juno S, 191 S. and that Govern ment mas call him, but he would like better to serve for this country that ho call his count rj. He altvass firm of tho U S A and he Is very brokenheart if he have to stay there So if sou please tell me what to do for get him over here It Is t tie great favor that 5011 could do lies brother hen, ho Is a Hos Scouts and sou see he like to see us and we like to sco him so much tou Immagino It I am sure You are kind ness enough to Help mo out We all llko our countiv but wo love this bettci and we like to do sointhlng for the lountrs that wo Intend to stns for over and I would llko to barn the bos this law and nuke .out good citlves Please help me on this matter Thank vou foi sou kindness (Mis)'i: B DON1NI. Philadelphia, April 11 I V boy born of Italian subjects in anv part of tho world Is an Italian subject, ac cording to the law- of Hals, and llablo when bo becomes of military age to bo called to tho colors It might be possible, however, for the Stato Department In Washington to persuado tho Italian Government to permit the boy to come to his parents In America Editor of tho Evitmnq Pc-mac Lr.Dcinn I Kaiser's First Attempt milE stors of Von Dledcrlch. tho German J- admiral who attempted to Interfere with Pcwey nt Manila Has, Is well known to tho public, but tho fact that this was only tho final movo of tho Kaiser, following attempted steps of a moro drastic nature, Is not common knowledge. Ralph W. Pago has Illumined tho details of tho affair in his "Dianiatlc Moments In American Dlplomacj," iccently published Ho writes- "William McKlnles had determined to rec ognize and establish the Independence of the island of Tuba Por a century the royal .Spanish Government had failed to produco ans thing thero except riot, anarchs-, misery and confusion War was Impending. This appeared to the councils nt Potsdam to be an opiiortune moment to nRsert themselves nnd to ncnualnt the world with thrco or four self-evident but neglected facts. One was that the pretension of tho United States that affairs In America were her solu concern wns an impertinence and a dead letter, not to bo recognized bs an omnipotent sovereign hold ing dominion under high heaven Another was that 11 'debating soclets.' that rldlcu lous form of government, a dcmociacs, wljlch bs Its vers existence wus an Insult to innjesty should bo taught tho icspect duo a legitimate iiueen regent And the third Was tho familiar axiom that no affair of Impor tance should be undertaken ans where In the world without consulting tho German army and the German Kaiser "So It Is reliably reported (hat Von Hob leben, tho German ambassador, and Von Hengelraueller, his Austrian understudy, con vened the diplomatic corps In Washington under Instruction from nerlln to have the Yankees presented with an order beginning and ending with the single word Veruotii This program would have been carried through, and the rough riders would have found themselves confronted with an entirely different piopoMtlou, except for ono pbstaclo a constant and obstinate obstacle, beginning even then to be regarded by the Kaiser as the one fountain of all evil and sacrilege In the world to wit. the navy of England sir Julian Pauncefote Insisted that England could make no such arrangement must be left free to act as circumstances might dictate," We know lots of clerks who think It would take them a fortnight to wind up their Important business affairs. It took Charley Schwab one day, and then he re ported for work In Washington. Th bla Ihlns for America to do ! to ud port lh wariunnort It financially, lupport It 'nB2?VStnn..r'f en,liea' a courage. Are ym Mug vour utwett 1 I Cl''l 1" rflt A BOTS SHARE Iiy Agnes Mclchcr Martin T WISH I were In uniform and fighting o'er the sea. But still there's lots of woik at homo Juit II now. for sou and me. So mind what Mi. Hoover sass, save eterr'j thing sou can, And masbo thero won't be a war when U am grown a man. TE CAHEPEL of tho sugar in sour cotfta J-' nnd sour tea, Por sugar gives our boys the "pep" to fight for Llberts. And save the fat whene'er sou can we do not need much meat Eat only war-bread at sour meals, and so J conseivc tho wheat "TvON'T ask for cake nt evciy meal, and -"' only have It nlain- Prom doughnuts, pics and pastrs foods let j all of us abstain. Wo need big guns and basoncts and ves sels bj the score - But still wo know, ns Hoover sajs, that "Pood will win the war" T'M BUYING tlnlft stamps overs week, for even- one's .a nnnoh Against the Kaiser's arms And say, if navo a Hunch 4 That when tho vvar Is ovci and the relfflj of pcaco begun We'll nil take off our hats and say, "I helped to lick tho Hun' ' Mas be the girl from) .iiu it i-oor Galcsburg, 111 , maw I'laie AUo conspicuous at a Nej Sork hotel bs a jara or less of silken stockings of red, white and hlllQ FihnU lllp- liana. ,1. ).n .. I.I.. .III. -M, i a ivmul,l ,,c, , iiiiu BIIIV ontiMW remarks tho Boston Globe, had a right tol wear the national colors In that way, but lti was a poor way for her to show her patrl-1 cill-iil. Tlift rt nrru nt nrott Allll Iflijtn 4 a ilA 1t.,tA.l l.ti iVi Ituls It Maor an questionable .Ml.nhlu An M not alwnss know the uses to which their VI wusi'i ciru pui. iiut it is pretty certain mat they know when the rent is due German tavp.i' ers it There Won't ' "ild in the Rekhn- lln Anv tqir III pnach thtlf to ill wild, in S -VE torn or tue extent or tho war taxes uw inUSt nnV. Thnt ilnaun-C CrnnhlA Wlthclm.' who Is doing his best to kill them off spfl sparo them the trouble. QUIZ 1. When. U I 111.) '.!. Who U Mm iittv Auktrlnn l'nrflsn MlnlUrt 3. It hut It meant by ricochet"? 4. Whnt U the noureit of aatollncr 0. How many ceneriiN are there In Hie ; lean urmr i 1. Whut l the difference In form of addrCH . a cardinal und un archblnhoD? 4 7. What American woman hao compoticfl Wlj "iionj . 8. What l un otTenidre. In the military "" 0. What la (he Cincinnati featlrai? 10. Who painted "Chrlit llefore I'llale'T Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. (hurl VI K.l.ui.1. n) 1... IUttithia Blcdl toriiurallon, liua hern iminfj director rrul of the I nlted Mate Fmcracncr WJl tonwratlon to ncl iilihiilldliur " ",B vcioi, nie American nierciinitic miiiwi 2. Prom Information rcceltcd from prlMiacrt I.. t-i..l .).- !-... Jl.lftlAI) W numhrra lt.000 men. Tho number w .about 80,000 at the bcslnnlnc of tho M 3. Alriandrr- Ilumao, tho elder, wrote TM Thrco Mufkctcrra." ! 4, Cultivation! In cardenlna, kerplnr Ue ,lll,l a n.l Ca ffmm ujiHb- '. a. Apache! mciahrra of in Alhapawa IjJ tribe, of Arliona and JVew Jlnlcoi Terr bclllarrent and cruc. 6. HrMnirors. reported taken by ft'IJ. troopo. U the capital or tlnlandt It aeuport on thr Uulf of 1nland. 7. Tennrwn'a "lckilcy Hair" l the MilMIJ "In the onrlnf u young inan'e fancy IUj lurna 10 ineugnia oi lovc 8. Clowt or chamber drnmaj'a Piece In dra-M form, but without theatrical er '."U'Si reciKeiieoa, sou pence auiiro w- VfMtiUnff. . Kcaeueky I iwtfea "the Woe Orata HI A taggtm . iart tw "r g Uj ' is ! 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