r f. r"T', i'l'ir ' . ' T,if. . .V -ifin jj-. ( V J , .Ul 1 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERr-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,4, 1918 " srv m P&, UiJ " W w f ' i uvjy a M ,rfff ntnQ public HeDgec nT THE EVENING TELEGRAPH rUBLIL LtUUbK CUMrANX CTRUS II. K. CURTIS. Psisidint. larlea H. Ludlnrton. Vice Preaiaent! John C In. SJeeretary and Tniiurtt! rhlllps. Collins, B. Williams. John J. Spurseon, Dlrtctora. &. tr IfeST EDITORIAL HOARD! n Clio II. K. Ccstis. Chairman AVID & BMIt.BT Editor OHN ' C. MARTIN.... General Business Manaser ti ('Published dally at Pcsuo I.BraSR Uulldlng, r1H Independence Square, Philadelphia, L ' TMlIU CiNTtAt, llroad and Chestnut Streets mVafaH-'Ilo Cm PrrifVnlon Building Esp". I.Hkt Vmaw ... )tln latMnn1Han TflWai- l-Aft.P1""1 '.40.1 Kord llulldlnc kik'SM'' KC1S., inns Fuuerton nullum KMCaUCAOp 1203 Tribune Bulldlnt 6vrf2, NEWS BUREAUS. !VT " N. E. Cor. Pennavlranla Ae. and 14th St. Kw ToaK Hcar.AU. . . ..The Sun llulldlnc ItOMPO?; Biread Iondon rime - ' - a TiiarntnTinv rirn,a w, Th Etimno TiBLia Lcmn la served to sub- W'tcZLt ocnoera in i nuaaeipnia nnu aurrounauiK iuwhb f.J" at the rate of twelve (121 cents per week, pajable ' Br mall to points outside of Philadelphia, In 1331'' til United States, Canada, or United mates po fK ' aeoalona, postage free, fitty (501 cents per month. ', lUUN dollar per year, payable In advance. iv. To 'all f6relcn countries one (tl) dollar per Ssonth. Nones Subscrlbrra wishing address chanced snusi sive oia as wen as new aaaress. &?' . SILL, J00 VtLMJT KEYSTONE. MAIN J000 &- Attitfmm nil rnmmtinlrntianM la Evenlna Public a1 . Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia. i Member of the Associated Press Rjr ,THE A8S0CIATED PltESft It cxcltf I; v- swcil'eniltica ro ric use or icuuiL-aiion IjKHm "c'c aispaicnes crcanca 10 ti or noi !..T"-1 " .I".-."..''.' HtlUt local tines puonsftea rirrrin. 4 " rights of republication of special dls- fvivncj ncflin urc utau f c jfi. -i.u. rkUnlelpSd, Jilurdi;. 5rplrmbtr 14. l'U LIFTING THE DAN FROM MARRIED TEACHERS , fTlHE tecommcndatlon, Indorsed by Su 1 VA perlntendent Gnrber, that married c women be permitted to teach in the Phlla delphla. public schools Is put forward as a wartime measure. Presumably the Board of : , Kducatlon will pass It as a means of re lieving the shortage In the teaching staffs caused by the draft. But the wisdom of such a ruling, like that of many another suddenly made operath e In these abnor mal days, will warrant attention when the crisis hast passed,'' The ban on married women teachers hds been based on a lsionary picture of so ciety. It implied that marriage lifted all financial burdens from the wife's shoul ders and that In the distribution of teach ing positions single women generally de served the first consideration. As a matter of fact, no hard ajid fust rule (a legitimately applicable to either class of' teachers. The board should be,'free to decide each par ticular case on Its own merits. It can y?? then at the same time recognize both com- Ian n mMr4 Afkantin , . ..... . . fftn . . . ... ucn enas in 'vaew, nna tnere seems no reason why the vital business of educa- gf tion should not be conducted, unfettered ', on me same souna principle. PSVV peneral Pershing was fifty-elghf'jears old iS'rle 'our yearB old today. Each Is doing pretty ITTING TOO MUCH ON CONSCIENCE conviction of Debs was a foregone conclusion from the moment he made his Canton speech. He claimed immunity .from punishment under the free-speech guarantee of the Constitution. A man ito accused of libel or slander might as well ' claim Immunity under the same guarantee. SEA While the Constitution forbids the passage P or laws Interfering with the freedom of Kkn speech or of the press, both the press and fn? y. private individuals must assume respon sibility for what they say. If they do In .JwV they must suffer the consequences. A LAiAica u icavc a. iiiuit 1,1,1 oa; tuill3 K about the national uovernment and es- & - cainj, uui il m ume 01 war ne uoes any- JfiA ' 'Ums wnicn gives uia ana comiort to ine BS-t enemy he is guilty of a form of treason K '---;. and exposes himself to punishment. l'.jt JitbB was accused of attempting to In- F cite insubordination and disloyalty In the gSsmilltary and naval forces, attempting to jsyw- otwiruci recruuing anu uttering language Stiftthdlng to encourage resistance to the fegr;PBited' States and to promote the cause EH ovtte enemy. He admitted the charges V 'pleaded that he conscientiously he- . j. II il irl. a i antil n . A .... iU ....fr Anl.A WiWv ?' aaxsai a worn 01 it. rhiJ.' . ... .. ... jT.wr w wd no ouier course open to me taW-Jwy than to find him guilty. Conscientious .iMfters of insubordination are not lm- ;mune, else uerman agents might ply their K trade here with Impunity. We may be .tolerant of conscience when it makes con. vSsjrtU of us, but not when it makes us ljp,, Who can offer a Job to a half-witted Ztr MMUtrl GIRL MARINES rWo'sJiyHAT'S this what's this? A Ladies' fe-taySiM Day in &i?i Day in the marines' recruiting offices! W WlI we ! es clmnee so swiftly S",..1.1. A. .V. . O 5- "fs.V TTtjvift who icj,uji .119 jjapoia. OUlllQ rK t HAr .ttna afttft that .vh fnA ninv lu n... . - mirf - .. ..hi. ,n..w. v,v nA n UCt .TV-ieeF-Tyuoay win nave lost oui me laaies M'' ', , ..... ... , n-rt.an, v .5wv ,TT,,i w;,,di. m muai ways $?i1ear th reantlnnn dun with thn Am Hovi (fitf ht. Peace,. That may be. But It cannot be UMM that women aren't doing a marvelous ,JaaTt to help save the world for democracy. wwaj euuuiuii i nicy us 111 me marines, 1-1 IstieVo there is much to be done that they .' '...a. il. ..... . -t.-t t ,. BO in &J1C way ui uivriual worK S AllQ y -with a prophet's eye Is forced to ive that this is merely the beginning. JWyetrten are appearing everjwhere in the xnoy aio even uiivin plunging am- ces over the broken roads of France. I Any dnedoubt that there aren't many (BsT them who would be steady-handed ipiti-Meady-'Souled enough to take the next ""ma run a oattiepiane if all their irs were' downed and out of the 7 we tnuiK not. te are few herplnes formally glorlr 4'(he JHistorJes-of -war. But the deeds i.yoii ate Privileged 'to read about aa Immortal glory,, Joan of Arc was 'Ottr own Molly Pitcher was an- '. jrvnat win me nistones say or the Cross la this war, of the English And the French women and the 1? Marys and the Elizabeths and the u. Marching home from their long to a, Koud place in citizenship winepajiney nave neipea WBICII mu t4HT THE BRIDGEPORT STRIKE SETTLEMENT Significance of the President's New Attitude Toward War Industries PRESIDENT WILSON'S manner of denlinrr yesterday with the strike at Bridgeport was a new thing: under the sun. And yet Mr. Wilson's method was not so startlingly new or so significant as the situation that made it necessary. No single principle of trades unionism was involved in the general question raised by the 4000 striking gunmakers at Bridgeport. Again, in an extraordi narily difficult field, the President found himself opposed to "a little group of willful men." He found a rebellion ex isting within the ranks of trades union ism and headed by a group which defied not only the war labor boaid, but the officers of their own organization. This in itself might not have justified an invasion of the field by the President. But there were other ominous symptoms at Bridgeport. The gunmakers were operating in this instance as r self-isolated group, recog nizing no interest or authority but their own. They were, apparently, doing their utmost to set up similar movements in other industries essential to the war. They threatened not only an interruption in war work. They threatened the prin ciples upon which labor organizations are founded. And, therefore, while it is not chceting to find the President breaking a strike under the weight of govern mental war machinery and invoking the processes of the selective service and the Federal employment system to this end, there can be no doubt whatever about the justice and wisdom of the course he followed. Certainly the iron prejudices of em ployers on the one hand and the budding Bolshevism that has made itself evident among remote groups of workers on the other have driven the President to un happy alternatives within the last year. It is not like Mr. Wilson to threaten a group of men especially workingmen with a revocation of the simple rights granted them under the Constitution and to force strikers back to work by so unusual a method. Nor pan it be sup posed that the President seized the West ern Union and the railroads and the Smith & Wesson arms plant because he and the members of his Cabinet have not enough work and a plenitude of wor- , ries in other avenues of 'war effort. In few of the industrial disputes recently .settled by heroic methods have the rights and wrongs been entirely on one side. The surly prejudice of the plant- owners against thei trades union principle ag , gravated the difficulties at, Bridgeport and served, by constant .irritation, to elaborate and extend the trouble until it became a menace to the country. And, strangely enough, small groups of un lepresentative trades unionists in many quarters have lately been doing much to encourage this very piejudice among the employers. What the President has done in each instance is to recognize the moral obli gation of industry as a whole to the fighting armies at the front. He has acted upon the belief that the interest and safety of the nation itself and of the men in France are of greater impor tance than the piejudices and concerns of different groups which exist peace fully, comfortably and in great pros perity within the safe borders of the United States. This attitude of mind is a complete justification for the sweeping departure from traditional methods re' fleeted in the edict sent to Bridgeport yesterday. No one who has stopped to realize what the war is about and no one who has a son or a brother in the army overseas will do other than applaud Mr. Wilson for a course inspired by courage and singleness of purpose. Meanwhile, it is interesting to observe carefully the conditions with which the President has had to deal in' several recent labor disputes. At Bridgeport and in some of the other industries the employers or the employes have held to the ancient rule of "every man for .him self." This was the case at the Smith & Wesson gun factory. And yet that prin ciple is one which mankind has every reason to detest at this particular hour. It cannot work in the present emergency. The gunmakers at Bridgeport help to provide an interesting study for any one who would wish to tabulate and envalue the war's reactions in America. Debs was indicted in Cleveland and charged on one count with "attempts to interfere with the production of war essentials." He was convicted for attempts to hinder the war program and is liable, in his old age, to a sentence of sixty years' im prisonment and a vast fipe. And yet none of Debs's prosecutors charged that he was animated by selfishness or that he has ever been anything more than an unbalanced and sometimes dangerous zealot. Factory owners and workers who are still under the delusion that the war is to be regarded mainly as a means of profit might look again at Debs before they object to the methods which the Government adopts at this time to keep them from imperiling the nation at home and the army in France. Guns as well as pens have registered our resolve. COOPERATIVE WARFARE BERLIN announces that it has had the. evacuation of the St. Mlhiel salient "under consideration for some years." In that case the general staff owes General Pershing a vote of thanks. It had the "will to retreat," but lacked a sufficiently forcible Incentive to that action. We sup ply the specific 'excuse for withdrawal and the dreams of the war lords are at last turned to reality. The arrangement seems admirable, 1- "w.-wf1'?? i'? co-operative expansion. Of course, in per fecting the scheme the Hun should over come his shyness about expressing his desires. When he feels like moving back ward and can't quite bring himself to do so, let him speak out. Pershing will furnish the knockdown argument. The German Joy in retiring from the St. Mlhiel wedge has evidently been clouded by j ears of delay. Such things should not be. Happily, some Of us ha-e a feeling that the years of consideration about moving further eastward have been ma terially cut .short. The American mind has a trick of coming to rapid decisions. The war demands on peach pits have ghen Joy to many a pie eater whose af fronted molars have had occasion to curse a careless pastry cook. SEVENTY-FOUR MILES OF WARSHIPS fTlHE German bent for suicide may per- haps drlxo the Kaiser some day to attempt a naval battle. Otherwise a war of prodigious mechanical wonders ' will have to be concluded without a spectacu lar mass exhibit of some of Its most tre mendous tools In thunderous operation. It has been generally believed that most of the French and Italian naval activities were confined to the Mediterranean. Con gressman Daniel Rlordan, lately returned from abroad, (.tlmulatcs other notions and paints a picture of concentrated co opera tion in sea war that has no parallel In history. For seen hours In the Nojth Sea he passed by "an eight-mile coidon of Allied warships Kiench, British, Ital ian and American." The mere conception of the thing pau perizes the imagination. Assemble all the Ingredients of a Salamls, a Navarlno, a I.epanto, on Armada fray, a Manila, a Santiago or even a Jutland, and the sum of them Is beggared bv the majesty and multiplicity of these fraternizing floating foil reuses. Words have obviously failed an awed Congressman, for he describes this stag gering battle array as n "flotilla." The word Is properly a Spanish dlmlnuthe of "flota," and means a small fleet: but per haps Mr. Rlordan might plead that even a word of grander bubstance would be almost equally futile. The vocabulary has not jet been expanded to the measure of this manifestation of .sea power. Maybe the skippers of inanimate ships at Kiel grasp Its meaning better than any one and have succeeded in expressing It In a host of guttural syllables. And as the barnacles grow thicker and tighter on rotting hulls It Is conceivable that the sheer feiocity of the word with Its impli cations is robbing history of a titanic scene. "The operation was successful, but the patient died." The phiase has angered us in the past, but Pershing can employ It as often as he likes. THE TRIUMPH AT ST. MIHIEL TIrEASUREMENT of the superb Amerl- 1V1 can Ictory undeigoes, olmost hourly revision. The drive for a limited objective was concluded, with a rich bag of prison ers, when the St. Mlhiel wedge was effaced. That movement not only nullified the Ger man spearthrust that had resisted all at tack for four j ears, but it released the Itally Important A'erdun-Commercy-Toul-Xancy rallioad, Hun possession of which had divided the Allied front fiom Verdun to the Swiss bolder Into two sections. The new consolidation establishes a line without dangerous indentations all the way from where it turns southeast near heroic Fort de Vaux down into German Alsace, east of Belfort. The new oppor tunities for freedom of action and for military operations safely conducted and on a massive scale have become imminent and Impressive. It wbb Inevitable and expected that the elimination of the St. Mlhiel salient would net such advantages. But there Is even a bigger thrill In the way General Per shing has amplified his schedule. The story of St. Mlhiel has been told In two dajs. The new and much more momen tous chapter In history is the threat against Metz. Not only has the American army swept northwest across the wedge, but the drive has also swung northeast. Pagny, almost on the Teuton border, has been entered. It lies four miles from Fort de Sommy, one of the outer defenses of Metz. The menace to what is supposedly the greatest fortress of the world Is significantly real. The fate of Metz, when Bazalne surren dered It In 1870, determined the course of the Franco-Prussian war even more per tinently than the debacle at Sedan. To day Its Ions to Germany would be of lethal consequences; so deadly, in fact, that the concept at this early Juncture fairly In timidates the Imagination, Perhaps Pershing Is not yet ready to undertake so magnificent a plan of con quest He may have his eyo on the Brley Iron fields between the Meuse and the Moselle. On the other hand, Metz, power ful as It Is, lies nearer at hand Metz and Rezonvllle, St. Prlvat, Gravelotte, names once fraught with tragedy and still as suredly destined to be pronounced with Joy. "If It be not now, yet It will come: the readiness Is all." The decline of football The Lars Goal in the colleges seems to be accompanied with the ascendancy of Its spirit on the bat tlefield. Variety of play Is Just as much a cardinal principle of Marshal Foch's suc cessful game as It ever was In the days of quarterback capUms like Stevenson or Carl Williams. Now that the bosses No I are passing the hat among municipal em ployes, will sny one be patriotic enough to ask about the uses to which this pirate fund Is usually put? At the present rate of movement In the Al lied armies France will i Now for Oermssrl soon be un-Hunned. The "salient" facts are those of victory. Heart failure In England, says Lloyd George, can alone endanger the Allied cause. That particular malady Is more likely to pervade Germany. The Kaiser's confession that he does "not know when the struffle will end" com fortably, . deWus,u j44,,tjis time THE CHAFFING DISH Socrstes Bojs s list AJAl Well, Socrates, have you bought .your foil hat yet? SOCRATES I am sorry you raise that topic, AJax. Xanthippe has been after me to buy a new hat, but It requires courage. To tell you the truth, I cannot buy a hat until I get my hair cut: ani I cannot get my hair cut until I can find an hour with no other claim upon my attention. AJAX And' yet, my dear Socrates, I find you wandering here about Indepen dence Square, with nothing more urgent on hand than watching the workmen put new shingles on the State House. SOCRATES Ab usual, AJax, you touch only upon the fringe ot the problem. Let us demonstrate the matter. When do you go to lunch? t AJAX Why, wherf I feel hungry. SOCRATES No; in addition to feeling hungry you must feel the will to eat. You know very well that the will to continue working, or mole probabjy mere lethargy, often postpones the hour of your lunch. It is only when the will to eat takes prece dence In jour mind' oxer other mental elements that j-ou tell your stenographer you will be back in twenty minutes, and go off for an hour arid a half and a few furlongs of spaghetti. AJAX But what has this to do with jour hat? SOCRATES Just this: I am aware of the need of what Is vulgarly termed a new lid, but the will to be rehatted has not yet grown to sufficient strength to overcome the philosopher's natural dislike for sud den changes. AJAX If you continue to pace the streets with that ancient basket of straw on your brow j'our will to be lehatted Is likely to be accelerated by public com ments. Already I have heard It said that jour hat Is undermining the morale of the citizens. Positively, It Is pro"-German to wear It any longer. SOCRATES Your persistence unmans me, AJax. I will be frank with you. I must Indeed buy a new hat, but I tell you I dread it. Is there any man who can con template that ordeal without shrinking? Besides, no matter what I buy, Xanthippe will be sure to say I have made an evil choice. AJAX Why does she not accompany -ou to the milliner and supervise the se lection? SOCRATES I will show you something. Here Is a little pamphlet I got at a hatter's the other day. It shows the models which are to be worn this autumn by men of discrimination, with a picture of each. Now my mind hovers between these two, which you will see are called Argosy and Director. Of Argosy the booklet says: "A distinguished looking hat conservative, but one you'd notice an where." Of Direc tor It says, "A rather dignified model that Is acceptable to substantial men." Now which do you think would be more be coming to me? AJAX Turn around a minute, so that I can see jour profile. Hum well, I think, Socrates, that with your type of features jou should choose a hat that would lend them some assistance. Now I believo that both Argosy and Director would tend to neutralize the effect. On the whole, old chap. I think .you need something with a little more dash. SOCRATES Bravo! I was hoping you'd think so. Well, then, what do you think of this one, which Is made of what they call velour, and comes In lavender, cham pagne, cinnamon, moss green and pearl. The booklet saya, "Many men will find this model Is Just what they have been looking for." Don't you think that sounds rather promising? AJAX Dear me, no! That Is not your stj'le at all, Socrates. That Is the kind of substance they make smoking car seats out of. Xanthippe would never stand for that, I feel sure. SOCRATES You ee'e, the problem Is not without complexitj-. Well, turn over the page of the booklet. Here Is a model that Is said to be "A fine example of alert style, with a very sleek finish." And here is one of which the anonymous author says, "Looks good to the man who is stylewlse." AJAX I do not think cither of those would quite do you Justice. Particularly you ought to guard against those hats made of velour or plush. Ernst Llssauer, the man who wrote the hmn of hate, might wear one, but for your simple and primitive features jou need something rather more elemental. Something, I think, with a good swing and strong curves. Something that will draw the eje away fi6m your weak points. SOCRATES I have always rather yearned for a tam-o-shanter AJAX Your contributors would cut you on the street If you wore anjthlng like that. If you will turn to the little preface of this bqpklet jou will read that good style Is never freakish. SOCRATES But the author also says that "gooa styie is always different." Do you think a Scotch cap would be quite out of the question? AJAX Absolutely. SOCRATES How about a Tyrolean hat, one of those Jolly little conical ones, with a pheasant feather? AJAX All right for a colonel in the Death's Head Hussars or the Cockchafers, but really, you must remember that a' writer for the Philadelphia papers "has a certain duty to the public. SOCRATES I think probably a deer stalker cap and an Inverness coat with three little capes would help to establish me as a serious thinker. AJAX This ta no matter for Jesting. SOCRATES In my cellaretle at home I have a very nice old derby. Xanthippe threw it out two years ago, but I rescued It from the ashman and have been keep ing It for an emergency. Perhaps I could smuggle that out without Xanthippe see ing it. I could keep it at the newsstand round the corner AJAX You see, Socrates, it is as I have always said. You are very sage in dis cussing speculative problems, but any practical question bereaves you of sense. Now I will tell you what we will do. You go and get your hair cut. In the mean time I will go to the hat shop, taking this straw efflry as a Bample for size, and will buy for you something that will do you credit. There will be nothing Jaxz about it; it will be pure in outline and genial in hue. Trust me. ' SUTK-AJx, you are, true frie. A Jb -t- -0Sr, ..-IRuMWU "" ' .. (ct. .li-i !.-.-. Yira-sj a: , , r--:-" :&M;.'.'.- . Vi'-3rf.T--ifri5Jfri.r-'Vi'i:' Jf i&rV.HM mmm -. "f3".a' SiSBMPSBSsaaaucaB-l r .- T I - ....J-.-sifeTSL . BKSKttSSBm S .! XI t viuft-.s-r -. ,.3'::;r..-iy . - - jp.iSiBSf an - -1 ,n-e sv jr j- i i ufc;saiCjt!&aSJ-erH' a- IVT a "jfriBW.YV ' 31asssSBaMaS4fc8j5fllnI.iBtvk' " ell ilMaaut. o? -Jl VV "" -,. V wtittMClltXKiJWIfflt&ui&lxiyfcL atl F 1 ;UslsffarsrflBffaram.sev bhjF . wifiifii 1 VllSirV zri --.. irMstrsMMmmfflhTTBlssssssm L f I JsIssHFb ffi s. - 1 BIsasssisslPWFII IrHIHl'll II I sassssssssssslW sW 'sM aataaBBBsRjr. sff jftaP Mt, . al. . g 3su3eSmylaLssLssLssLssHBaHL -HpgtS-W"111 'JHragnli step r ; llrfarfiMtlgl.llTfffll I I JUlHillh Wflll ' ' M THE READER'S VIEWPOINT Joys of the Coffee House To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: Sir I have often wondered who edits the Quiz on your editorial page, and I wish I could meet him. He must be a delightful fellow, an abridgment of all that Is erudite In man and a, Joy to his wife and children. Some day I shall ask him out for lunch. I suspect him of being an epicure, because so many of his questions relate to food. But what I really want to say Is this: When the saloons and gin mills pass away, ns they will shortly do. why not a revival of the old coffee house? I am a bit stale on my English literature, but I seem to remember that the age of the coffee houses wasn't It the age of Dryden and Addison and Steele and Pope and Doctor Johnson and David Garrick? was the wittiest and most delightful era of human Intercourse Why shouldn't we have "scattered about the city a number of the old coffee Inns, with sanded floor and clay pipes and afternoon papers, where the gentry of the town might drop In of an afternoon and read your Quiz aloud and comment on the news of the day and the latest from Flanders. And our boys In uniform wouldn't then be reduced to the Ignominy of having to take Ice cream sundaes when they want to sit-down for a few con vivial moments. Imagine Just such a tavern, with an open fire glowing and tobacco smoke blowing about in blue and fragrant swirls, and the patrons making merry over cheerful beakers of hot coffee what a contrast to the mean, sordid, liquorish aspect of the usual bar! What about It? Let's go back to the days of good Queen Anne, when men knew how to be convivial without being sots. ' MILES METHEGLIN. Philadelphia, September 13. Prussia an Outlaw To the Editor of the Evening Pnblio Ledger: Sir when one reads In your columns that the "Plotting Erzberger, of the Reichstag, and the Hapsburgers, Burlan and Czernln, are In favor of a league of nations one feels In clined to throw It overboard, on the ground that anything that precious plunderers could favor could not possibly be good. It reminds us how they are an echo of their German chief before them, who said, with unoonsclous but slde-spllttlng humor, that Germany also would favor such a league and graciously, not 'to say self-sacrlflclngly, even be willing to place herself at the head of It! The brazen Impudence of the dishonest man has its counterpart in the brazen Impu dence of a dishonest nation, and both must be treated alike. The sooner every member of the Allied nations gives the Teutonic pow ers to understand that their every statement. Is discounted In advance as the utterance of an outlaw to whom none listen with patience, the sooner those Powers will come to their senses, and the sooner the people of those lands will understand what has happened, namely, that this Is not a fight between equals; it is a fight to overpower a bandit nation and perform a surgical operauon on their diseased political morals; that they will have a hard time wiping off the criminal stain that rests upon them; that It will take a whole generation of new moral education before they will be beyond suspicion even If they are then. All this leads to the statement that a criminal Is disfranchised, and that the pres ent or any similar government In Germany and Austria will have no vote In a league of nations ; the word of the present Teutonic Governments Is "as good as their bond," and their bond Is "a scrap of paper." The sooner this is made plain to the Governments and peoples of the Teutonic allies the sooner will the people of those lands wake up and "clean house" make a beginning at housecleanlng, rather; for their cleansing Involves the reno vation of their whole educational system, so far as It relates to political morals. Prussia will probably be ostracized for a generation indeed until Prusslanlsm Is no longer a mi crobe In the German blood. Prusslanlsm Is an international crime to be made to disap pear from the face of the earth. Therefore It dees not seem probable that non-Prussian Germans can afford to form a new Govern ment in association with Prussia. Certainly nothlnr would so reassure the world as to 'their BJBoerity as the, organisation ef aOerr. 5e wffgwfri.?? vwW':nHm ; NOT YET, BUT- iiV"v i;j . sHKw$4r v tfZSiP' .s',. "w t ataBsgK3fcT JV V S ,, . 'J,. " iSlBBBSiSiSiSiSKL-l. -ISr -' -T jf .f ?? ii II pssasassaTaTlB N issssssta ."Sl .. 1 rv I -mmrnf?&3rsiM9? j . a . Isolation of Prussia Is all that will be satls-factorj- to mankind. The "Punishment of Prussia" Is a phrase that will lake Its place beside "Carthago delenda est." Therefore It la Immaterial what the mem bers or sympathizers of the present Teutonic Governments think or say about a league of nations; as Immaterial as the sayings of bachelors and spinsters on 'is Marriage a Failure?" because neither will be represented In the generations to come when both Insti tutions are In successful operation. BURTON ALVA KONKLE. Swarthmore, September 12. Memorial Trees for Soldiers To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: Sir Apropos of jour editorial of suggest ing a movement for heroes to be placed on the Parkway, why not also advocate subscrip tions bj- the public for durable trees to be planted on both sides of Broad street with Individual brass nameplates for each Phila delphia hero. Such a memorial would form an artistic as well as fitting feature for the "lqngest straight" street In the world, and would certainly maintain a lasting and visible reminder of our local heroes. But let us hope that there won't be so many heroeB to thus Immortalize that the entire length of Broad street from League Island to City Line would have to be utilized. DAILY READER. Philadelphia. September 11, What France Thinks of U To the Editor of the Evening Publfo Ledger: Sir Those of us who, like Bobble Burns, would see ourselves as others see us find for eign papers Interesting reading these days. Here are two "snapshots" from French papers dated about the time the Americans were busy moving the Chateau Thierry front to the rear: From General Verraux, In L'Oeuvre We believe we can count the day very near when our locomotives will be running again on the line from Chateau-Thierry to Eper naj As a sort of homage to the brilliant operations of our friends In that corner, I should like that the first of these might be an American locomotive. From Monsieur Maurice Barres, In L'Echo de Paris Within five days the fate of the war, of which we have never been in doubt, has come to appear clearly to the universe. If Germany Is thus arrested and dominated, before having had time to see the Americans, what will It be tomorrow? Philadelphia, September 12. L. T. P. Liberty for EveryLand To the Editor of the Evening Publta Ledger: Sir Wilson, the democratize Will subdue the German Kaiser If we'll give him a helping hand. For the glory Is ours In these trying hours. And a blessing for every land. "Sons of will, determination! Do your duty for this Nation" 'Tls democracy's great command. Gather up your ammunition. Keep Intact your old tradition. Freedom for every land I Do not fear or shiver ! And we'll make the Kaiser quiver In his own land. Heed the writing on the wall, Pointing to the Kaiser's fall And to liberty for every land ! JACOB H. STEERMAN. Philadelphia. September 12, Heat-defying folk at A Charitable View the North Pole, poverty-defying million aires, hunger-defying restaurant owners and the ladies and gentlemen of the South Sea Islands for whom snow and Ice have no terrors, will understand the Kaiser when he talks of his death-defying navy. To the rest of us Wllhelm will seem merely an ass of dimensions so vast as' to defy all human calculation. , It will be difficult to convince the public that the Logan Company, dealer In bitumi nous.' fuel, which' has Just ..been penalised.. twtw ss HT9KMrsseT.i,,is, sat' a-vaajfl-y m&kh:. - oudtC- f -t sk y t The First American Troops in Paris rnHE tramp of feet - In a Paris street, The rhythmic beat Of drums; "' Line' after lino "' ' Of glowing eyes ' -' Hot with the Are Of a holy desire, The light of a high emprise. ,- A quiver stirs the waiting throng: How oft they had prayed, "O Lord, hot long? How long till the beat of the western drums Shall say to the weary, AtneWc'a comett" A cloud of dust In a Paris street, A cloud of glory - 1 From marching feet, A cloud of incense " Rising sweet " To the eager throng In the Paris street; And the rhythmic beat Of the western drums Proclaims to the world America comes! E. M. "STEVENS. The Ideal System ., No one, I, fancy, who has not waited far the evening mail to be distributed in the' little gray postofflce or loitered down the' land toward the big salt pond, with the laiy, tremendouaness of sky overhead and the soft' air stirring the grasses, and Block Island ilka a blue mirage out on the haiy horizon, quite appreciates what gives Rhode Island white cornmeal Its superlative quality, like no other cornmeal anywhere. It is gtouhd'- slowly, between soft millstones, water dr!veitwlJ onrl nAtrataai Viakais In tViak nwtAakee aUaktavasmal 1 a-tiM iiv Vi itvatio aa vua gJ uvvsoi HIIVsm q Tom tells how one miller he knew used to put a bushel of corn in the hopper, walk' two miles and court the Widow Brown, and return In time to catch the last of the soft,' suave, flourlike meal coming out. That isn't the way to make money but it Is the ,war to grind good cornmeal. Walter Prichard Eaton, In the Bookman. -, Season your mental cocktails with a dash' of geography and note the stimulating erTet4 of the fact that Pagny, now in American hands, lies some 1(0 miles from Paris and only twelve from Mets. ', What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Is the auTereaes la tine Wins Maw, XerU aa4 Baa rrsseleeef t. What Is the official title of the Memo. Church? , t. On wast river la Met situates ' 4. What la pantheon? 5. Wast la the Lotsat sad wast is the ertsta . of the asmer 6. Troea what Rosea ted Is the Basse SaatsriaVr sorites , , 7. Who wao the oa.lv American fiesUoai' frees Feiwsjrlteala ' S. What U a loproehauwT 9. Who aoM "To err is hamsa, te feciiTe vlne"T 10, How Ions is a forlonsT ' - . . Answers to Yesterday's Quis . 1. Mats la the Ins to Itanee. 2. 3, John Bhaw was the reel name ef Josh BluUsss, the Amenesa hsaaorist. ,, The rolors of the. Sao: of Belstaaa aqre roeV rouvw wmi VIBVB. renew sjm d i. Kimono Is eerreetlr tM-onoeaeoal with the a. 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