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THE TIME FOR TIMIDITY
b.
fjten blHUm dollars will bo needed
Government mis jear in ico
pproprtallons for last year. The
rtment s estimates call for tmr-
ons and the Shipping Board needs
aa. These are only two Items of
' hat must be considered.
must devise vaa to find the
leYet they are talklnc In Washing-
the disastrous political effect on
cratlc party of the passage at
ent session of the necessary tax
fhe Democratic party woum oe
strously affected If Its leaders
tfall to Introduce the tax bill and
vernment should then find Itself
sT money.
ountry Is committed to the war.
aocratlc party happens to be the
arough which It must work. But
atry does not care a continental
cracy or Republicanism In this
kit does care for courage to attack
ndous task laid upon us and to
whole force of the nation, financial
i human, In order to win the war.
sr the taxes are to do leviea at
ent session or aro to be postponed
session beginning In December Is
of detail to be answered accord-
f considerations of expediency and
rdlng as it will affect the political
of any Congressman. The desire
smen for an early adjournment,
may go home to look after their
.fences while the world Is on fire.
be allowed to Interfere with the
extinguishing the great conflagra-
IV
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Senate, In the clipped words of the
idllnes, began an "Investigation of
'after the Borglum uproar. And
It hot.
STRIKES AND WAR
i have been backward-minded em-
i who tries? to use war sentiment
s;ends In unfair fights with their
"'But they are growing fewer. And
(tug; record of the current I. W. W.
'Chicago Is adequate to show why
Ice should now be scrutinized to
whether It Is engineered en be
ne workers or as a stroKe irom
It the nation Itself and at the
nt.
ran of the Industrial Workers
rstpokesmen, for that explosive or-
babbled and bragged or their
js'delay American war plans. Dls-
abor agitators, men whose utter
'Integrity caused their unceremo-
Jon from trades union organlza-
IX'days of peace, are enjoying a
or influence, it is apparent
i of the Isolated labor troubles In
ustrles have been artificially
And the business of the Gov.
fand of public opinion is to de-
i-whether agitators of the type
to be purchasable by crook
are now abroad and busy In
' more dangerous enemies of the
r
:.upon men of this type Implies no
of limitation to the normal
labor and labor unions to free
'And it may be remarked that the
.Whose selfishness and Ignorance
k subtle propaganda of corrupt
!ft reiauvn easy mailer are
I. dangerous to the country at this
preachers of discord.
erlcan Federation of Labor has
represented the advanced and
Ument of labor In relation to
.crisis. It has had no difflcul-
th Government. It has nr.
Marger view of common respon-
fMt44tha examples which It has
may properly be followed
, world of Industry. Enllght-
ry opinion has. differed from out,-
m new or industrialism by
tW thatjthe present war Is for
hatmnttal' to the freedom of
.which no man can realize
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The Huns Are Gaining Ground Un
der Cocr of War's Alarum
TT IS unmistakably apparent that the
-1 war has turned the attention of most
men away from the affairs of State poli
tics. And these are bright days, there-
"fore, for every enterprising prospector
in that overworked but always rich field.
Factional workers operate comfortably
behind a barrage of rumors and stories
of battle, and they are relatively free
from the scrutiny of those who give all
their minds to the war and its reactions
upon themselves or their environment.
Thus tho average citizen can tell you
of the things that happened at Zcebrugge
and at Ostcnd. He knows something of
tho British oblcm nt Ypres and a lot
about the strategy of Amiens and the
strength of the British navy. His geog
raphy has been mightily improved. He
has time for a leisurely analysis of the
theory of Bolshevism.
But he probably doesn't Know even
the name of the man who may be run
ning as a candidate for the State Senate
in his own' district. He has pored over
the maps to study the strategy of the
Hindenburg drive. But of the drive being
made on the State Government by the
factional overlords ho knows nothing
at all.
And so it has come about that the war
being fought by all America on behalf
of the institutions of its government
makes it all the easier for the men who
have consistently and tirelessly attacked
these same institutions from the rear.
It would puzzle the aveiago man to
know why John R. K. Scott has lined up
with J. Denny O'Neil or why tho Vare
and Penrose factions are at such bitter
odds. Governor Brumbaugh has disor
ganized the processes of the State Su
preme Court. The most powerful fac
tion of the Republican machine in this
part of the State has consistently re
fused to reveal its pui poses in relation
to the Governorship fight. These aie
merely symptoms of the larger fight
underneath of plots and counter-plots
being worked quietly out of sight for con
trol at the primaries.
At the coming election some of the
most important masters of State gov
ernment will be decided. Prohibition is
an issue. The courts are involved. The
future government of Philadelphia hangs
more or less definitely in the balance.
Because of the inertia Ithat is ever the
characteristic of the virtuous and because
of the lack of interest of the man in the
street, small groups of men whom no
one could possibly suspect of unselfish
ness aie permitted to decide all these
matters in advance or to leave them to
their greasy emissaries in the wards and
districts.
With all of the extraordinary ballyhoo
of Mr. Vare and the trumpeting of Mr.
Penrose and the deferential obbligato of
Mr. Scott no one yet knows what shape
the Republican fight in Pennsylvania is
to take. The primary will be held a
week from tomorrow, yet the general
public seems to have no inteiest what
ever in the issues to be decided.
Tho trouble seems to be with the com
munity itself, which appears unable to
produce one man or one gioup of men
whose leadership would be acceptable to
mora enlightened ends or whose judg
ments would bo accepted in relation to
the fitness or unfitness of political candi
dates. The Town Meeting party is now
the adjunct of one of the Republican
factions. There is nothing or no one to
take the place which it presumed to
occupy.
Meanwhile, wc have the extraordinary
spectacle of a nation fighting for
decency and o State slipping com
placently in the opposite direction, with
out a squirmr a struggle.
"Stop sniping." said Lloyd George to the
English politicians. There are Americans
who well might keep that rule In mind.
Dorrr we believe in our boys?
WHAT Is the matter with Philadelphia?
Don't we bellee in the bojs who are
fighting for us? Don't we want to get back
of them nnd ghe them the courage, the
right sphll to sUnd up, the "pep," as we
call It. tint makes real fighters? It would
really seem as If these chatges (for charges
they are) were true. Look at these figures:
We were asked to give to the Red Crosi
last year. Surely If there Is a war activity
that should arouse the best within us It Is
the Red Cross And what do we do; what
do we give? Cleveland gives 16 85 for every
man, woman and child In Its population.
New York city gives J6.74. Pittsburgh
(mark thlsl) ghes $6.77. Little Rochester,
N. Y. (little In tho sense that It has one
tenth of our population), gives $5.96 per
person. And what do we give, we of the
five Counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery,
Chester, Delaware and Bucks, 2,500,000 of
us approximately?'
LE88 THAN" H.50 PER PERSON.
It Isn't that we haen't the money. We
have, plenty of jt. We have made as much
or more money out of the ar as any
city In the United States. And we hae
given to war relief less than J1.50 per per
son! Why arn not people on the outside
perfectly justified In their conclusion that
Philadelphia Is falling to back our boys?
The fact that we have given thousands of
boys to service does not alter the case. It
only makes our parsimonious giving the
more Inexplicable. What Is the use of
giving those boys If we don't back them
up when we are called to give money eo
that they may bo cared for if they are
stele or nursed when they are wounded?
Ar we folng'to withhold the hand of help
at Mea a. tune? Yet, in comparison with
fiBJc'eJtrthat to taaetly what wa have
IMP'- It IS a case or not backing
bbbvt Wa.
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rABtfiy.Tkaj "Ww OhW' represents "titi
morale of our boys day and night, welt and
sick, happy and depressed, fighting or
wounded. To such a fund wo should give
out uimost. Not our "bit"; that Is not
enough. That Is what we have been doing
and that is why we have been ghlng less
than $1.50 per person. We must give our
best. That Is what everybody over there Is
giving for us. Wo cannot do less.
Mr. Corglum's soaring Imagination
doesn't seem to hae qualified him as an
mlatlon expert.
NAPOLEON A GERMAN?
ANOTHER dutiful German professor
. the cables 'do not say whether he Is a
mere Doctor of rightfulness In an obscure
university or a distinguished Professor of
Murder at Heidelberg has appeared with
one of the discoveries that have been found
so useful In Germany to console a popula
tion In the almost total absence of things
to eat.
He has found that Napoleon was In
reality of German origin.
Does this explain the Corslcan's fervid
efforts to obliterate Germany from the map
of Europe? Certainly Napoleon managed
adroitly to conceal the dreadful fact com
pletely while he lived.
It 1 easy to understand that Germany
should claim him. Germany needs to make
a pretense of the simpler virtues. And
Napoleon appears relatively n modest and
unassuming person when considered In re
lation to the Hun of today.
It will not do seriously to accept nn
thlng like an opinion that happens out of
Germany nowadays. Any one who has
ever observed the commorer hallucina
tions In an Insane nsjlum knows how often
the delusion of grandeur recurs as a hope
lets sjmptom of mental unbalance.
Germany Is no longer a country. It Is a
sublimated madhouse.
Tho Allli on the
Th Blow west front, say the
Maj lie t'p war cable, aie await
ing another great Ger
man Wow. Can Is bn that the Knlier la
preparing to make still another specc'i"
Hog lsliml Is to
launch fifty thlps this
ear And all th.t
critics could launch
It ta Murli
I.atlrr
was rumors
Ludmdorff and Hindenburg have quar
reled and the Crown Prince Is making a war
of Intrigue on the Ktlser Surely there Is
at least one frankfurter somewhere In Ger
many waiting to be divided
Tho Germans had the right Idea In
calling one brand of their battleplanes
Gothas. They nhow all tho tactics of the
Goths
Hog Inland will bpgln to Hunch ships
In August And about that time we may
expct another peaco drive from Germany.
Speaking of the succcst of concrete ships,
how nbout the old Vindictive?
THE BURNING GLASS
W"hat Germany Is Taught to Believe
General von I'rcj-
tag-Lorlnghoven, of
the German Imperial
staff, writes as fol
lows: llngland has been
successful In keeping
the Entente together,
and has utilized the
fact that the destruc
tion nf the Centril
Powers proved to be
far more dltllcult than
had been anticipated
In brder to strength
en the bond between
herself and her allies.
They had Involved
themselves In a com
mon u n d e rtaklng.
which had not pros
pered according to ex
pectations Now there was no
alternative but to
carry It through.
Thin wearing down
o f forces I n trench
warfare has taken
place on most sec
tions of the front?,
but we have reapel
positive results only
from the war of
movement.
The Trench author
ities left no stone un
turned In order, with
the aid of a corrupt
and Ijlng pre. to
Btistain the confldenco
of the nation In an
ultimate victory
to strengthen the tis
sue nf lies which
France wove around
herself more and
more closely, so close
lv that the French
finally lost all lerue
of truth.
Thus the French
army Is Inspired with
the feeing that It Is
not only :i question
of freeing the native
soil from a hated In
vader, but also of a
struggle for the fu
ture world position of
France.
In the future, as In
the past, the German
people will have to
seek firm cohesion In
Us glorious army and
In Its belaureled
young fleet
And we
venture
to remark:
But It I ad not been
anticipated.
There were no such
expectations.
True.
Results such as the
capture of rarls, Ver
dun. Amiens and the
channel ports?
It I not true, then,
that Rhelms Cathe
dral Is In ruins and
the orchards cut down
and the nurseries
bombarded and the
women deported?
How stupid of
France not to realize
that the dermaa In
vaded her with only
the kindest possible
motives I
What are those
laurels? Let's have
a look at them. In
the Kiel Canal, are
they?
A Correction
Dear Socrates I note our comments on
General' von Kieytag-Lorlnghoven'a book.
Allow me to make a correction as to tfie
General's reference to fllmpl(c((mua. I
believe it Is not the comlo paper to which
the General refers, but a book of that
name (whose author I do not recall), vividly
describing the Thirty Years' War (1611-48).
This book Is a classic In German literature
and believed to be tho best account of 'that
war extant. To my knowledge It has
never been translated Into English,
' J. T. JAMES.
We Tgladly accept Mr. James's correction
and tender our apology 1,0 the General for
misrepresenting him. Mr. James is quit
right. We eam that the book "Der aben
teuerllche Simpllclsslmus," by Grlmmels
hausen, was published In 19 and to ft
novel describing tit horrors of the Thirty
Tr' War, ,W absolve Von Jreitag.
LadMhor'en from auetlnr-a caasin n.,,...
I jfAtKofity. fthtraiedtot'of wrfw.
A LESSON FROM
DAYLIGHT SAVING
By Walter Prichard Eaton
HOW long Is It slnco ou've heard anybody
sayv anything about "daylight saving." or
read an thing about It or even thought any
thing about It? You set your watch ahead
one hour on the last day of March ; the next
day or two jou read the Joke about the fam
ily who had breakfast at 3 a. m., because
pa, ma, Johnny and Sue all set the clock
back an hour; and since then ou'e gone
about our tasks and pleasures Just as If noth
ing 'had happened The habits of an entire
race of people have been altered overnight
by almost mutual consent (there was one old
lady In our town who refused to make it
unanimous: she "wa'n't goln' tq leld to no
such foolishness," she said, and her clock
still runs on the old schedule, while she does
some mental arithmetic every time she wants
to catch a train), and In a little more than
a month the new order Is as commonplace
as the old.
YOU can prove by this. If jou like, the
metaphlcal contention that time Is but
A delusion of the human mind, so that It
Isn't of the slightest consequence how ou
divide It, But ou can also prove that hu
man habits, waB of acting, feeling, think
ing are less flxd and unchangable than we
supposed, or than those who for various
reasons distrust change want us to suppose.
If the f.tlre nation can set Its clocks and
wrist watches ahead an hour, altering the
time routine of a century, nnd not feel In
a month any sense of strangeness what
ever, the entire nation can do a great many
other things in the way of change without
any Inconvenience.
GD. SHAW once said that Socialism is a
.practical possibility whenever people
believe It to be. There Is profound wisdom
In that remark. Daylight saving was a
practical possibility, simply because the n.-v-,
tlon saw the need for It and acted as a unit;
and then, when It was a realized possibility,
men went right on as before, accepting the
new order as though It had alwas been. Wo
can all recall the dire predictions which Used
to be made in the past when anybody sug
gested Government control of the railroads.
Hut circumstances made us all believe that
such control was necessarj and we go from
New York to Philadelphia, from Chicago to
St Louis, without any feeling that the world
Is about to come to an end or the heavens
to fall.
SOME da, perhaps, we shall reach the
point where we realize that poverty and
slums and unemplninent are a crime, a
crime of soclet. We have, hitherto, alwajs
spoken of them as "necessary evils" The
thought of the social and economic changes
necessary to abolish them was uncomfoita
blei wo didn't have the belief that they
could be abolished, that these changes could
be made, or that. If they were made, men
could get along. Nonsense. When the ma
jority of us want to make these changes,
really sense the need for them and have faith
In them, they will be made. And In a short
time we shall find ourselves still men and
women, tolling, loving, playing, marrjlng
and giving In marriage, with only a kind of
troubled and shamefaced memory of tho
social order we have left behind.
THE kame thing Is true of International re
latlons and peace. hv has there never
been it real league of nations and Interna
tional courts? We are suddenly, after the
centuries which have elapsed since a league
was tentatively tried around the shores of
the blue Aegean, asking that question The
true answer Is, thero has never been such a
league because the mass of men In the differ
ent nations didn't think It possible. They
didn't believe It would work, so, of course, It
wouldn't and didn't. The men of each na.
tlon saw with the ecs of selfish national
Imperialism and could not look beond that
habit of vision to find a different and nobler
habit.
JUST as the war has brought us da light
L.llnr ft la h.lnnl.H .. l. , ,
y ...,n, .. i. ui ,it,Mii, uo uuscr iiiu ciusei
to the belief In International federation,
vvhldh alone will make such federation pos
sible. These laat four ears have purged the
war alms of more than one of the Allies, and
when America entered tho Rtruggle It wis
with tho Idea of Internationalism and the
ultimate substitution of Justice for foico
already on tho lips of thousands upon thou
sands of our people.
I have myself been surprised and heart
ened tCl KPA (hn fhnni-A lnntnrr Via a I.. .....
own small and very Yankee community, the
.1a.1u11.111s-.1a oiusier lading out, the self
asscrtlvo objections to International federa
tion crowlne fulnt-r nnrl nil Ih. !.... ,1...
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Idea growing that we are not In this strug-
nla ,n "ntAne-A ,Iia I .ll...l.U ...
t,... .v u,c..nt, me i.uaiiuina or protect our
"national honor," but to stop the onrush cf
reactionary force, which Is the great foe In
the world today to the Ideal of International
federation and the rule of reason and Justice
applied to the relations of States, as It Is
already applied to tho relations of individ
uals WE are coming to see that this federation
is not only possible, but that It must be.
We are catching up to the lone voices hither
to crlng In a wilderness of nationalistic dls
trusts and Imperialistic ambitions When
the great mass of us believe In this thing. It
will suddenly come, and moving In a securr
and more comfortable and happy world we
shall look back on the past with wonder.
Saving da light Is a useful thing. The
world certainly needs more light, of many
kinds, on many problems. We need to be
lieve that no change is Impossible, that If
faith can mf ve mountains and get you up nt
6 o'clock who never rose before 7 in all the
ears of jour life. It can abolish the rule
of hatred and fisticuff between nations and
substitute the rule of reason and orderly
Justice. The growth of such a belief among
the Allied nations Is the thing Oermany,
In reality, has most to fear, If her present
rulers remain In power and her peoples re
main obstreperous sheep.
... . , , This Is the thlr-
Unlocky (or teenth. but the old su-
tlie Hun, Though perstltlon about ililr-
u ,. . '"" belnK " unlucky
number walked the plank long ago. Aren't
there thirteen stripes In the flag? And thir
teen billions to be spent on our new armies?
And thirteen letters In our national motto. E
plurlbus unum?
When the Vindictive
Something left Dover on hit laM
Abaut and most glorious
Helgoland sally, watchers on
shore noticed that her
funnels had been painted with some message
In the International code flags. Evidently It
was some little word of tenderness for the
Germans at Ostend. Can any ono gue3 lis
purport?
Two things the Ger-
And lha mans will never I've
Kaiser down: their trea'niint
Ala of noncombatant and
the Llchnowsky mem-
prandum.
r 1
. We would have liked
Bough Pliod to see those American
r boys 'march through
London. Some of the English officers who
watched them feared that their boots were
not quite heavy enough for the Flanders
mire, but wa lmalne,that when It comes to
Hun-trampling they'll b on the Job.
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And1 facs that, thine through the rain,
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THE KAISER'S TEARS
A Reader Analyzes the Griefs of Potsdam Others Discuss the
More Important Matters of Coal and Spanish
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir There Is a world grief over the fact
noted In vour paper that the Kaiser weeps
over the destruction of St. Quentln.
Has he a seared and callous soul that ho
shows no vestige of grief over the destruc
tion of women and children? As has been
,sald, his family Is the onI German family
with six sons In the war unscatneu ami inn
women lelatlves of his family nre unlnjuicd
Why, then, should he weep over stones
and mortar and not shed tears over me
drowning of noncombatant women and chil
dren and the mutilation of mother nnd babe?
What penalty fits the crime of drowning
women and children, ae, and soul harrow
ing crimes to women, through his military
ngency, far worse than deatM?
The most fitting of nil punishment seems
to mo solitude on tomo such spot as th
Island of Elba, and tho terrible remorse of
a guilty conscience, If the blood lust of the
Insanity of conquest can have a contclence
the remorse of failure, of being Ignored,
despised, abhorred, loathed by his own peo
ple Just as he now is and forever, will be
by all peoples of the earth
We do n6t envy the Knlser. Time, timo
and the everlasting laws of the universe will
bring the Kaiser crowd its punishment.
The world wilt not be licked and stay licked
by the Kaiser.
This letter Is Intended to be written about
women and children. I pity the man who
would not gladly and willingly die to have
a chance nt one, two or three of these purely
military vipers who are cumbering tho earth
If only to conserve and avenge the sacred
ness of womanhood, that our hearthstones
may not be desecrated as were those of Bel
glum and France.
We have seen that forty cars of trained
soldiery and militarism, with no Ideals ex
cept military Ideals, develops brutes.
I need not mention women sh lighters in
this connection mothers, sisters, wives,
sweethearts are all fighting women to the
unit and to the limit American women are
surpassed by none as real fighters in their
wonderful spirit grounded on the knowledge
that this is directly their light. Heaven bless
them In their praers and support and work
and Inspiration to the boys going and at the
front I H. C. T.
Philadelphia, May 11.
A Call for Coal
i
To the Editor of the Evenlnp PabUc Ledger:
Sir These are the das when to destroy
we must build. Destruction must be fol
lowed by construction. Don't knock unless
ou are ready to come In. Don't knock with
a sledge hammer; you might maBh In the
door. "If jou can't boost, don't knock." The
old knocker Is out of date. Be constructive;
for Instance, In one of our morning papers
I notice that Mr. Lewis, of the coal commis
sion, says that If we do not order more coal
than we are at present ordering wo shall
have a coal famine here next winter. Now,
inasmuch as Mr. Lewis knows this, don't
jou think If he had the people's welfare at
heart he would contrive some way to offset
this threatening condition?
Don't you think he would get- busy and
see that this calamity could not happen?
But no, he puts It up to the people, and if
through shortage of money or becau.se a man
will havo to move at a thirty-day notice, or
on account of many hardships and uncer
tainties he cannot at present put in hla coal,
why he stands a chance of freezing. Lovely,
Isn't It? It Is certainly some conservation
commission to keep the coal In the earth
simply because the people are not able to
store It In their cellars. Why shouldn't the
Government erect a great coal yard In this
city and sell the coal to the people next
winter? '
la it any harder to lease sufficient space
to do this than It Is to bu'.ld large docks In
France? If the coal commission Is-not equal
to this, why not put It up to Secretary
Bakar. If Oarfleld will not commandeer the
coal mines and the necessary space to a tor'
coal for this city, then fire Oarfleld and put,
in a man like Schwab or soma .working man
who has backbone enough to protect the
mothers and wives 'an irHnJ of tor.
over thara. W have so'sWc ooavl wa wuia.'
mandeered the railroads because It was sure
It could get better service, and that is the
reason why it must commandeer the coal
mines, and then, If necessary. It must con
script the miners. We have a war here as
vi ell ns In France.
Now Is the time to express jour opinion
regarding next winter's coal. 'Don't wait
until November You hive a right to com
plain If ou have a remedv, and commandeer
ing and storing Is a remedy. Get busy.
ROBERT B. NIXON, JR.
Philadelphia, )lay 11.
Study Spanish
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir There Is excellent opportunity now
for teachers with a moderate degree of origi
nality to develop a system of Instruction In
Spanish ; to develop an Interest that Is not
historical but prospective It Is customary
nmong teachers to follow historical lines In
stead of the lines of originality. Germany
hasftowered and gone to seed. The century
Just passed was the German centurj-. It pro
duced its musicians, poets and philosophers.
There Is no use of belittling Its influence on
human thought. But It is dead. To revivify
Itself It has sold Itself to the devil In the
manner of Faust, but the devil Is the prince
of darkness, not of light. The century Is
passing to the nation that has the forward
vision
But that vision Is not one of commerce,
though commerce is the outward token of
spiritual energy. It seems to me that our
President has given a new trend to political
valuation, though I think hla adoption of
racial origin as the basis of self-determination
is wrongly founded It is too liUtorlc
and not sufficiently co-operative from every
standpoint. I think racial origin Is diametri
cally opposed to the basis of unified action
nnd that that fact has been demonstrated In
the laboratory of our national life. Racial
Integrity as u basis of law and civilization
Is Hebraic and caused the dispersion of that
race. It 13 founded on killing off the Philis
tines Jn order to displace them. The Germans
are engaged In that now and will be dis
persed. -
We havo not girded our loins. We are
still remiss and negligent of our duty. The
Hun Is nt our gates. How can any one In
this crisis study German, teach German, ad
vocate German except he sell himself for the
monthly stipend of a teacher's wage? A
teacher must believe or he cannot teach. He
must have enthusiasm and belief. No one
believes In Germany now. It Is a symbol' of
death. C. J. WILSON.
Philadelphia, May 11. r
Cash Versus Credit
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir The editorial spanking given single
taxers In the Evenino Public Ledger was
to the point and deserved, The theory that
paying rent and holding land out of use Is
responsible for economic distress was long
ago exploded, as also was the Idea that social
.problems could be solved by taxation.
ine evil ot ine lana market Is In prevent
ing the proper crop ot buildings from grow
ing on land already In uae. thereby restrict
ing the employment of labor, with resulting
curtailment of all other markets. That the
land market Is directly responsible for ,all
the troubles of capital and labor Is abso
lutely true, but solution and cure of these
troubles are to be brought about not by
single tax but by a chapge In our financial
system. That change Is putting business on
a cash basis a, cash market,
The principle ot the caih market is par
tially recognised in the third Liberty Loan,
when the Government reserves 5 per cent
of the Issue. tormalntals) the bonds at par.
Now If th Government werei to" exchange
all its certificates of debt Into one uniform
Issue, having a S per cent reserve wlth'jwhlch
to redeem certificates in 'cash 01 demand. It
wouia noU.be neoeaaary ,to fix any time limit
for redeeming securities. Thaaa securities
would be resold, of course, and tha Govern
ment could maintain, any noesary 'number
of bllllona of dollars' worth with a 'very
mail raaervty for any length of tlmi. ' '
.J'V'AHTltUI" a. LBOWBUt
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TWO-TOED FOLKS
By Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
MY FIRST j car In America I had my.
laundry work .done by a negress named
Mlnty. She was an unlettered" but faith
ful soul, who In her simplicity and good
nature reminded me of charactera I had
read of In stories ot the old South.
I always wore Japanese dress and, aa I
lived near a manufacturing city, I waa
obliged to hav e thrco or four pairs of my,
white house-shoes In the wash every week.
The Japanese house-shoe is a foot-mltten
of white cotton or silk, the great toe sep
arated cb Is the thumb of a hand mitten.
Mlnty had washed these white shoes mdny
times, but as she hbd never spoken of them
I had not realized the amusing impression
they had given her regarding the feet of
Japanese people.
WHEN my baby was a few weeks old
Mlnty came to see it. The nurse dis
played the little one with pride and for
several minutes Mlnty squatted down by
the crib, talking baby-talk, cooing and
clucking in the most motherly fashion
Then suddenly she raised her head and
asked:
"May I see her feet?"
"Certainly," said the nurse, turning .up
the1 baby's long dress and cuddling the two
little pink feet in her hand.
"My lawsy me I" cried Mlnty in a tone
of the greatest astonishment "If they
ain't Jus' llko ournl"
"Of co'urse," said the surprised nurse;
"what did you think?" ,
"Why, the stockln's is double," said
Mlnty, almost in a tone of awe, "and I
'aposed they wuz two-toed folks 1"
WHEN the nurse told my husband he
shouted with merriment and finally
said:
."Well, Mlnty has struck back fpr the
wholeEuropean race and got even with
Japan."
The nurse was puzzled, but I knew very
well what she meant. When I was a child
it was a general belief among the common
people of Japan that Europeans had feet
like horses' hoofs, because they wore
leather bags on their feet Instead of san
dals. That is why one of our old-fashioned
names for foreigners was "one-toed fel
lows." i
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
I. What la the orlstn of the name of OeonlaT
3. Vthi l the Chief Jiittlr of tho BapresM
lOUTS til mo viutea Diairar
3. Name tho author of "Tho American Coma
woaun,"
. Whan la tho Scarpa Rlrerf
S. What la the meanls of Charlemoint?
. What Is a erltleatterT
1, IdeiVttfr "tho OK Dominion."
1. What la tho subjuaetl'o mood?
a. Who waa the third President of the l'nJta'
BtaleaT '
10. What la ahandMralTT
Answers to Saturday's Quii , "l
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