RfllR .fK J B ' -', " V ' '"' w ;, 11 ij . "" -,; i v ,-i-vx .-, j , " 0,' ' 'Si EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADtelPl, FRIDAY,- NOVEMBER 29, 1915 ir, -af v: 'if tf&' K i k K. E& m tK Uf m?Z ?c.J? u mng Jublip Ueftgei: nTHE EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY v ' . Crnus h, k. cuiitis, iiuimsnt , Ctiarlra H. Ludlnaton. Vlec Preldnt. John C ?UM n RHr(tir anil Trnmpi m.ilinu tnni. Wm t l" , . .Vohn D. WMIlAmn, John J. Fpurcton, Directors! vr .. ' KDITORIAb HOAIID! Cues If. K. Ctmtis, Chairman rii IfilVtn Y. QffT.TV. Editor fc-V . KJOltJI C MAIlTltf. i.. General lluftlnesa Manucer fc-fc , i V . ruwiahfd dally at I'tuiir I.nmra Ilulldlnc. AWi Inilependenco r)uarr, l'h I In d-tl.lil.i ,fV lyEPora wn-tTiui, uruau ana LTh'fltnul sireia v ii .ATtANTO Cltr P.TBfl'nlon llulldlns . $" JtonK.f -Oil Metropolitan Tower 4, Mhtuuiiiiiifi -fu.i i urti iiuii.uiii; jAt'ST. LotJII 10ns Pullerton UulLIItiB Itl v$ vuwuijh l.u.' i nonne nuiiaing &,- news nunnAus: j J T.AniNOTON ntiMi, V"V-, " N, E. Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. 'nnd 11th St. I. . 4 k Vfla t, .,. '11.- U..u llnll.ilni. .London Duftnvu Loii'ion rft'Kj sunscnirTioN minis Th nrrxiMi I'riiuo Lmkjrr lit rvM to nub - scribe r In I'lillndetphln ptnl urrouii'HiiK towii aVthe rate o( twelve (1-) cents inr m-W, pouMa to th tai-rltr. S' j j Ur mall to point outMJo of rhlladflphia. In S.-y- ln United SUtm. Cnnmln, or Unit ! Stiites ikm- utitBionn, iotfic rree. nrty tr.ni crit- iht monin. Six (G) dollar ptr 5fr, pa j able In advance. To ail tore-Ian eountrtp- une (S1 1 iloltrtr ncr v month. XSfOTicB Bubuprlbers wln-hlnc niMn aa chanted I - xntut glvo oM um iell ah n w mMrtK-, iv ' BELL, WOO VALNLT KrYSTOM", MAIN iOOO C3T Adttrras all communication to livening Pulilic 2'Cdacr, lmlcpcmlcvcc Hquat, l'hUatlrltihia. Member of the Associated Press TIW ASSOCI lTi:i) J'I!:SS ,, exclu sively entitled to the use for republication Of all news ilisitntclirs cicilitcd to it nr not othcrxcLic credited in thii pnprr, and also the local netcs publlihcd therein. All riphts of republication of special dis patches herein arc also reserved. rtiHidrlphU, Fri.I... Nirmlirr J1), 111H FUTURE OF HO(; ISLAND THE Government Invested nlmut J0O.O00, 000 at IIok Island In Improvements Without talsintr title to tin- land. Hut bc ftiro It pevnt any money it took nu option to purchase nt a pileo nsrecd upon. It has Just exercised that option. When the title passes the Government will own the land as.well as the ship fain Icntlng plant and the plars niid all the other impiovcmcnts. "What Is to he done with IIok Island mill lemalnH to bo decided. It must be ad .mltted, now that the Government is taklns " title to the land, that the property is beinu put In pioper shape for MeJIlm? to private purchasers If Mich can be found It mu.st also bo Admitted that If the Government wishes to opciate the pleiH and terminals it Is making an.iiwmentM ivhlrh will put It In supreme control. Uut no one knows what the put pose of the Government is, and It Is doubtful if the Government itself knows Just what it will do with the prop erty. That remains for Congress to de cide. The executive departments must do as they are told by the law -making depart ment. The future relation of the national Gov ernment to Hob Island Is still unknown. In exercising Its option on the land It has done (Only what u prudent business man Would do when ho was prn.KirlnK himself to protect his invcstmint. . Bavaria, uhkh Ii.ih suddenly disso ciated Itself from the Berlin Goiernment, & j, sums to be pliiylnit fast as well as loose. ' SKIP.STOPPING IS MURDER TATIUOTIC defense of the skip-stop sys - tern crumbled when the I-'cderal fuel administration ceased to unrr- It as a coal conservation measure. With the war at an end. the arKument for the continuance Of the plan Is now perforce exclusively commercial. It saves money. That It places the public's llvi s in Jeop ardy and has even caused two fatalities this week In the same neighborhood arc facts domlmcrlnfily brushed aside by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, which hais found a way materially to profit by tha exigencies of a crisis. The deaths at Sixtieth street and Larch wood avenue, the numerous accidents In other parts of the city have squarely raised the Issue between humanity and greedy obstinacy. Fortunately the West Philadel phia public Is Justly aroused over the trol ley company's brutal perversity, and Coro- -' ner Knlcht and the United Unslnpsn Mnn'u P-l aannlnlnn n -- .... Snnl .- . 1. . 1-t. JJ J1-MWUUIIUII .C lU-VIJlUILillK lilt- SJ11I1L Ul .-!. w- "Ml utumnv LU- llfl-SLUp SyKLeill IS J&pierely Inconvenient, but bocauso It lm- tg -perils human lives that It should be at once &?s abandoned. Tttrinphmint fVinf tu nnt miiK BV'v -...-. ... ..--- ... SJv, Serous Is purely the concern of the jg,,,,:jtranslt management. Careful car opera- f-tora might perhaps Justify the policy. As EL , jtliey seem, however, to be dangerously In' lacklncr. the eoninanv Is ntliUntr Incnm. W netence to Its hazardous offenses. The public's right to interfere Is clear W 1VW ... .... m ana mo agitation snoum not cease until S the slaughterous penny.foollsh "skli-stop- , A Lansdowne man says that he Ij afraid the country will go bone dry and bonehead J' ttt the same time. ii ...... $& DIPLOMACY'S CHANGING TONGUE mfL THB expectation of a new diplomacy In rsj, ytf-" vuuiiiiK uiiiiueiiious conierences in 4fe'tJE'ftrl iH re-enforced by Indications that feXS-riBlUh and not Krench will be the Ian--JIP-guage of the sessions. Precedents will ilHJJrlndwd be enervated should this hint be GL'tsonflrmed, 5tCC. Ever slnce 1-ou.h XIV dominated tf'p-ffiutope his native tongue has been the jitfi0U franca of high envoys. Not even .!;rltaln's potent contribution to the over- ., throw1 of Napoleon availed to Imperil tra- f ' ijiJ-. .1.. - ... . p. at the Congress of Vienna In 1815. oral negotiations were conducted then jStfthe speech of the defeated nation. ' 'v,WroUBhout the nineteenth century the -AwMtfom HUrvlved. fllthouch the Germnn "4 oS$5lUeror ,;a,ked a ft ln 11b middle of ? ' AmUtice tiarleVS with Kuvrn nml Thlors In RVTBM ".. It 1u .liHllrf.nnl 4 11 M. a.. mi ' ohitiviit. iuu, iuui until Ihelm tied to Amerongen the other day tmt bleheut distinction In tha rsamn. ynplre wub" that of the order "Pour le rlte." vValid practical considerations us well as '09!-, aristocratic inertia of custom have this survival of French. It has 'been the second tongue of most edu. iuropeans. The stranger ln Russia, and Greece has for years employed - most serviceable verbal currency. (possible shadow on its sway in the of all international conferences r, however, authentic basis. Jt is t 411 but two of the delegates know whereas n number of them are jtrln French, These new condl- Cty!"'prjaIe. tty? fact tlat It xjnu wmf ui not wrr a 9p Outside of Canada b!llngu! folk beyond the confine) of the European continent are comparatively rare, and when a second Idiom Is mastcied It Is usually English. More of the belligerents llrltlsh, Austra lian, New Zealander, Canadian, American have been l ngllsh-speaking thnn conver sant with any other language. Recogni tion of this fart seems fitting, even though It reflects on the International spread of linguistic culture. Georges Clenienceau might een take n certain amount of per sonal pllde it. the noelt, for he has lived in New England and Is actually conver sant with "American" On the whole, then, the piospect of u new speech In the sessions augurs well for the fashioning of a badly needed new dlplom.icj. OL K COURSE IN EUROPE IS SPLENDID AND PERILOUS The Orraiion DcmnniN Calm Analvfis Rutlier Tluii IIIaniR or rntcinpcrcil Praise Tor the PrcMilcnt TN MOODS of violent partisanship rather thnn with the constructive rea soning now so terribly nccessaiy, politi cal leaflets on both sides at Washington and elsewhere are drifting toward the gravest days in the history of the repub lic. Headlong and hitter criticism of the Administration is common, on the one hand. On the other is an almost religious disposition to approve every new move and development in Mr. Wilson's policy of internationalism. Yet this is not a time for wild blame or mere praise. It is a time for analysis. Few of the men upon whom the nation is accustomed to depend for guidance seem willing or able to realize the im mensity of the decisions which wo soon must make in defining our future rela tions with Europe. They will not take time to consider and discuss in all justice the factors actually involved. They quibble like Mr. Wickersham or rail like Colonel Roosevelt or worship blindly like Senato- Lewis, and nsk no questions. The President's course is splendid and it is peiilous. The sooner both parties admit this the better it will be for the country. Calm thinking has become a pressing patriotic duty of the hour. And yet you will find men who aie supposed to inter pret political l eactions serving their parties, groping about for issues and per sonalities for 1020, magnifying episodes, filling the air with clamor, confusing the public mind. The causes and the men needed to revitalize the old parties arc still invisible in the twilight of the future. They need not concern us now. What we need to realize is that the country is confronted squarely in Europe with the necessity for a decision that will profoundly affect all our future days for good or ill. Can we serve America best by serving mankind as President Wilson wishes to do? Is it necessary for our own welfare that we attempt to be a dominant moral force in Europe? Mr. Wilson is the frank and sincere propagandist of ladical political theories conceived in all beneficence. The Presi dent is going forward with the assump tion that the nations of the earth have been drawn together against their will into a new community of interest. He believes that whatever good he can do in Europe will react to the benefit of the United States. He is assured, appar ently, that we cannot altogether dis sociate our interests from those of European peoples. The President's critics will not admit that there is much sound logic in this general belief, nnd that Mr. Wilson's singular course has been in many ways forced upon him. Certainly America would lose tragi cally by further devastating wars in Europe or by the overthrow of enlight ened governments. Civilization itself would be threatened if upheaval is per mitted to follow upheaval. Mr. Wilson has been charged with an ambition to sublimate his party. Yet, as a matter of fact, there can be little doubt that he is perfectly willing to leave his party in wreckage if he can but attain his ends which are new national rela tionships throughout the world and assured justice among all peoples. Opposed to the President's adven turous idealism is the collective opinion founded on all previous political experi ence here and in Europe. The maturer experience of statesmen as sincere if less yifted than the President convinces them that America may be stronger, safer and a surer pdwer for good in the world and as potent a moral force in world politics if it can find a way to withdraw from Europe and to resume its old spiritual isolation and its independence of action. It is utterly idle and foolish to deny that each of these two widely opposed views has a powerful appeal to the American mind and the American imagination. But which is mainly right and just and safe? And how shall we decide between the two ? It Is possible to look to Europe now for some signs of guidance. They aren't altogether hopeful for those who have faith in the President's ability to con vert the rest of mankind to his own point of view. The British navy is the foundation of the empire. It is a tradition. It sym bolizes the spirit of a race. Can it be put aside? , It is conceivable that at the peace conference Mr. Wilson will endeavor to make a culminating appeal to the con science of all humanity and to establish a basis for agreements that shall be fixed permanently by the force of an unde niable morality. If he is unable to do this America were bettor out of Europe. A failure In this respect must keep us in the" midst of perpetual brawls. We should face the certainty of new and bitter enemies and perhaps powerful grctipB ci enemies alrtady beginning to react to make per vutnent peace seem as far away at ever it was. Out of the recent war there is spring ing new group consciousness in some of the late belligcicnts, new pride of race, new assurance in their own prowess and their ability to win added glory. Much has been wtitten in praise of the Czccho Slavs. It is not always realized that the Czccho-Slavs like to think themselves a warrior race and that they love strife. It sui prised no one when the represen tatives of the now Czecho-Slav Govern ment began a series of clashes with Italy over boundary lines even before the ponce conference assembled. Doubt less there will be other fresh irritations. Theie may be 'new hntreds. New ambi tions are ceitnin. No one knows how long the moving idealism that animated the smaller countries in the war will last. Human nature is an uncertain quan tity. And it is with human nature in the mass with human nature largely strange to him and affected deeply by inc'adienbie traditions of race, religion ami ptide that Mr. Wilson it attempting to deal. Collective opinion in a country like ouis is the nearest thing to ultimate wisdom that wo may know. It is better than the opinions of politicians. It may bo for this reason that no very general enthusiasm greeted Senator Dick's sug gestion of General Pershing for the Presidency. This was not due to any failuie fully to esteem Pershing as a magnificent soldier and a great Americun. Somewhere deep in the general con sciousness of the nation there may bo a feeling that 1020 is likely to bring new problems of a sort that we do not now dream of and that in selecting the next President it wrfefcl be folly to react to emotions of sentiment rather than to consideiations of wisdom and exacting logic. Meanwhile those who are most pa triotic will temporarily forget their parties. They will do what they can to make the real difficulties and dangers of the President's task clear to the mind of America in older that Mr. Wilson may in turn have such guidance as an in formed public opinion, sanely and justly cxpiessed, may give him in the hardest days of his career. There are still far too many clouds In Germany for the Kaiser to come back with his rulgn-chiok. THE GREATER AMERICA FRANCE I-, no longer foreign soil. There is mingled with It the dust of thousands of Americans, sanctifying it and binding the thoughts of America with it for jears to come. Rupert Iirooke sensed the sig nificance of death In a strange land when on leaving his llrltlsh home to fight across the seas he wiote his beautiful sonnet, "TIim Soldier." It begins: if 1 should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That Is foreer Rngland Theie shall be In that rich earth a richer dusl concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware. Gave, onee, her flowers to Une, her ways to roam, A !od "f England's breathing English air. Washed by the rilers, blest by the suns of home Change England and English to America and American and this poem will express tho sentiments Jif those Americans who have died and of those who were willing to die In France They would be the last who would wish that what is left of them should bo brought back home to lie ln tho village churchyard or ln the cemetery on the edge of the city. Ilut their wishes are not thoso that should b "decisive. Tho fathers and mothers of the dead have rights in the premises. If they wish their heroes brought home, that they may water their graves with their tears, then tho Government should bring all such back. Enough will still remain to make Franco a part of the greater America which has arisen out of the tires of the war and to bind us more closely to all the nations of the earth. Winston Churchill speaks for England when he says lhat no M hut KiikIuiiiI nntn argument, howeier specious, should had the IJrltlsh to consent to the abandonment of their naval suprem acy, a supremacy which has three times pre served the woiid from military tyranny the tyranny of Philip II of Spain, of Napoleon i.nd of Ka'ser Wllhclm. What the freedom of the beas means to the Brltlshv Is per fectly obvious Rumors that the Czar TIliiiikIi Found may be alive do not He'd lie Lout make him any the less dead as a hereditary monarch. It Is eonceiable that the Jacobins of the French Revolution did not kill the "Lost Dauphin" when they said they did, but so far as his Influence on history went he ceased to exist when he entered the Tem ple. In their zest of cele r.nilulilo i;Ktuyv bratlon, as exemplified hi repeated parades and celebrations In this city the Italians In splrlngly attest how deserving of victory they arc. Their capacity of appreciat'on Is a reul stimulus. Rome neer enjoyed her triumphs more than her heirs under the gallant House of Saioy. There was no postponement of thuukful iiess yisterday on account of tho rain. Once more It has been proved that If la Imposs'ble to sell turkeys at an exorbitant price. Secretary Daniels says that Justice should be done to Germany; but the Ger mans are crying for mercy. The Cologne committee of soldiers has put a price on the former Kaiser's head. And It tits better than the crown Which It used to wear. ' Let us hope that poctor Krusen Is right when he says that there Is -no evidence of a renewal of the Influenza epidemic In town. And now they want the Kalitr'a h In Cologne, and. that la rather a. oat I THE ELECTRIC CHAIR The Telephone Directory jiO MALORY of old romance, ' No Crusoe tale, it seems to me. Can eo.ua! In rich clrcumstanco This telephone directory. No ballad of fair ladles' eyes, No legend of proud Itnlghts r.nd dames, Can fill me with such bright surmise As this great book. of numbered names! How many hearts and lives unknown, Raro damsels pining for a squlie, Are wnltlng for the telephone To ring, at.d call them to tho wile Sonie wait to hear a loved voice say The news they will rejoice to know At Rome 2637 J Or Marathon HCO! And some, perhaps, are stung with fear And answer with reluctant tread: The message they expect to hear Means life or death or dally bread. A million hearts here wait our call, All naked to our distant speech I wish that I could ring them all And have some welcome news for each! To Henry Frank Singer Killed in action, September 2'J, 1018) HENRY, they said you hod wasted your outl, Because you were not confined vrttmn a business or profession. They begrudged you your little palrlmonj. Since it enabled you to read books, and scorn the seeking of wealth. Ilut you gave jour life lor an Ideal, And that was a deed unachievable by your detractors. Who Is there to stand in Judgment and say That another misspends his life? Who Is there now to decry you? Who dare boast of his virtues as he thinks of your new-digged gruve? You did not flaunt your patriotism And let your neighbor give up his life-blood. Restless, and spurred on by a passion for Justice, Heeding tho cries across the distant At lantic, Eleven times you sought enllstmtnt, And finally the draft board passed you. You did not seek the front because of a love of adventure. You were not a prey of barbarous Instincts become atavistic within you. HENRY, If ever a man unselfishly j lelded his life, you did. You died for an Idea no less than Kocratcs and Bruno. Youth, health, love, happiness, life were before you, And you freely forwjwit them. Prosperity may forcet you, Uut It will reap the blessings jou gae it. TT IS sn hard to believe ou aro dead, Henr, It Is so hard to believe that your neat little figure, Carrying your gloves in your hands, Will never again go trotting down Chest nut street. I see you again, your blue eyes lit up with n mischievous i mile, I watch you puff your cigarette, As you tell your little Joke. Henry, you were so human and a hall fellow well met, Intellect and wealth made jou not a bit less democratic. Your eje for a pretty girl was no less sine Than your taste for a good boo':, And you were a handsome fellow, Tipiry. AND then came the single newspaper . line under "Killed". "Henry F. Singer, 3809 Locust street, Phila delphia." Soon appeared your picture and a few lines of obituary: "Graduate of the University of Pennsyl anla," And "Collector of a library on the drama"; There were the w 1 descriptive of you. Ilut I had seen -the dliinc file flash In your eye And knew that words uld not portray our spirit. They say brave men lived before Agamem non; Yes, and today as well as ever. You were a hero and never knew It, And never went after ..ho honors; You were made of the stuff of martyrs And yet never shouted about your duty. And now your so-called wasted life, More fruitful than that of the creator of wealth, More noble than that of the pteacher of sermons, More beautiful than that of the dreamer of poems. Has conferred untold advantages upon us; Has proved Itself a poem and a bermon. WHEN on that memorable morning of November the eleventh, The glad tidings of peace were tolled by the whistles and sirens, I thought of jou as one of the spectral : .ilrlts, Sending forth the joyous music, And speeding the cheerful melodies to carol about ln the raw morning. When 1 read of the flight of rulers and the birth of republics, I said here were results you had accom plished. Hut you will never gather the rich har vest of your sowing, ' You will never exult In your splendid achievement, And a Homer to mako you Immortal Is lacking. T SEND you my humble tribute, - I, who sought the heroic ln the cottuge Instead of on the field of action, Who hated wars because of the slaughter of thousands of Innocents, To punish a few malefactors. And when I think you died for me, Literally and not met iphorlcallj', I feel a miserable wretch "Who Is drawing his breath only because you ceused you: :. God bless you, Henry, anC j'our "wasted" youth. ALBERT MORDELL, Humanity Is often very ungrateful to its greatest benefactors. We don't even know the name of the man who invented' ham and eess with hashed brown on the .PW, , . - . ' . nu IF ' i ' : hj I'll j ,- I 1 :. ;. "' ', ' -' 'I I "' I I ': ! ' J ' , t K ,' ' ' ' ' -7 -' ' 1 l' f , .-li.y.. f'S t"i -'4 v; UMh uis U " sB-iw-ssHt., Jj ''tewM&SMw Vi vl f"-ii,(ii- ft . -. ;--; vta r w " MTT.'ZZl'- J-.j .- " IV4 VV ,!' 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WASTEFULNESS OF UNCLE SAM tSvarly Ten Million Pounds of Public Documents Sold as Waste Paper Last Year in Spite of a Great Paper Shortage The following extracts from an aHiclc on the Government J'linting Office by llcnrj, CritchflcUl West in the llooluian for Dcrm bar throw a biilllant light upon the wasteful use of print jiicr by the Government tit n time when the newspapers have been arbitrarily restricted hi the amount of space which they may give to news became of the papir shortage: TODAY the C!o eminent Printing Olllce Including a new bu'ldlng that cost f 2,S00, 000 has at floor space of thirteen acres, with nearly 150 presses, 240 type-setting machines, bj' far the largest battery of composing ma. chines In the world; a complete blnderj ermlpment and an electrotype foundry capa ble of turning out 2000 electrotypes each daj-. There are nearly 1,600,000 plates storen In one vault. The metal-melting loom, where the type set on the machines Is recast Into Ingots, handles approximately tweho tons of metal daily. Within the building printing-ink and carbon-paper are manufac tured ; and sixteen elevators, a refrigerating plant and an emergency hospital are In stalled. In the latter institution nearly 4000 cases were treated last year. Altogether, the modest plant of fifty years ago now repre. sents an Investment of considerably more than $10,000,000. To thoroughly appreciate the extent to which Uncle Sam occupies the publle-atlon field one must think In terms of millions not merely millions of dollars but millions of books and pamphlets. It Is almost a strain upon the imagination to realize the existence of a plant which can turn out nearly 3,000,. 000 books a year, but, after all, even the gigantic totals just quoted do not adequately picture the extent of Federal printing. The Government Printing Olllce, merely as a rou tine procedure, prints and delivers 4,QOO,000 postal cards each day and hundreds of mil lions of postal money-order blanks each year, the latter on presses which print, perforate, collate and number In one operation. With Its virtually unlimited capacity the olllce can receive, set In type, proof-read, stereotype, print, bind and deliver a book of more than 2000 pages within twenty-four hours. There are two methods nf getting the printed material into the hands of the people free distribution and sale. The former In cludes nearly 00 per cent of the output. In the first place each Senator and Representa tive, as well as each department or hureau, Is entitled to a certain quota of all govern mental publications. Each Is allowed to re ceive without cost, for Instance, 12.500 copies of Farmers' Bulletin, or a total requisition of nearly 7.000,000 for this purpose alone. Tim nret.ntance of the congressional nuota Ih not eompulsory. If, therefore, the books are not used, they remain to the credit of the Senator or Representative for a certain period and are then thrown back upon the Public Pi Inter, who eventually sells them for whh'o paper at a cent a pound. I'nfortunatcly. this Is the fate of literally thousands of volumes. .,,.., The last report of the Public Printer, dated December 3, 1917, contains this paragraph: v authority of the Joint Committee on Itlng, 585,059 obsolete publications weio condemned and sold. In a further effort to reduce this uselejs surplus, an Inventory covering 81,233 old or duplicate publlca- tlons was prepared In Januarj', 1917, and the usual course was follqwed In notifying members of Congress to select what they wanted from this list, but not more than one-third of the members took advantage of this privilege j such copies' as were se lected are being forwarded, and those that remain will be condemned and sold as wasto paper. One reason for this deplorable situation, which Is shown by this record to have existed .with Incalculable loss for more than twenty years. Is that a substantial proportion of the matter which isvpubllshed has no popular ap peal, being purely technical In Its nature; nnd another reason is that the law- arbitrarily fixes the minimum number of copies to be printed of .each publication, this figure being quite generous. With the view of realizing some return upon the time and labor Invested In tnu ltooks which the Government produces, and In the hope that perhaps some of the other wise discarded volumes might be halted on their way to the paper-mill. Congress estab lished, the btnee of tho Superintendent of Doc uments, where left-over and other publications could be deposited t and, If polbl,;a!d. Ut OHVrd most MRMWU tWTflM Vo JjMMiM ,,? tiiH-rtiniiar tutfr MaMir 4l!0lnaflMPMw :nrl-S-3kpS8HKB THE DIKE WEAKENS .w-.. ..,-...-" Notwithstanding thW tempting Inducement, the effort to dispose of governmental Issues at private ale has onlj- been partially sai Isfactoi y. In ten jears the- receipts have only Increased from $55,000 to a little more than $200,000. It Is against human nature to jiaj- for anything which may he had for nothing, besides which the Government prints and prints, constantly piling up Its stock, without providing adequate means for ac quainting the public with tho character of tne goods It has provided. No publishing firm would for an Instant print and bind hun dreds of thousands of volumes without pro viding for their distribution and sale. These fundamental business principles aie entirely Ignored by the Government. It manufactuies books without limit and then relies upon Individual- distributed price-lists as the only method of advertising Its wares. The conse eiuence Is that dining the fiscal year 1916 tho number of copies of condemned publications aggregated 2,692,278, although In 1917 this total had been reduced tov587,648. The amount of waste paper sold last year, ac cording to the report of the Public Printer, was more than 9,500,000 pounds. READER'S VIEWPOINT "Noblest Bit of Literature" To the Editor of theiEvenlng Public Ledger: Sir I wish to heartily congratulate you upon j-our editorial of Monday night, upon the surrender of the German fleet. Both In Its substanco n-nd Its form It Is the noblest bit of literaturo that has been Inspired by recent events. For the past year or more my time has been largely given to a study of existing democratic factors in American education. I have been espe cially concerned over the discovery and emphasis of l'teroture that brings our national Idealism into Impressive contrast with tbit of Prussia. This j-ou have mag nificently done In tho edltor'nl to which I refer. Before I am through I shall see that through my articles and reports the school men of- the whole country come to know of It and to make use of It. ' If, as I hope )-ou will, j-ou make a reprint of it, I should be glad to pcrscmully clrculato two or three hundred copies. ' A. DUNCAN YOCUM. Unlversltj- of Pennsylvania, November 27. Medals of Merit for the Doughboys To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: Sir Congress Is considering n resolution to provide a bronze medal of merit to bo given to-our returning soldleis from the bat tlefields of Europe, A very commendable purpose on the part of Congress, and I earnestly hope that the resolution may be. come a law and faithfully carried out. It Is to be hoped, however-, that no string will be attached to this expression of the nation's gratitude to our noble fighters overseas, as was the case some years nfter the close of the Civil War, when a conscience-stricken Con gressman had a bill passed which authorized the gift ?) of a bronze medal to the veterans of the Civil War. But when the boys In blut applied for the'.r medals they were charged fifty cents each for the honor of wearing It This puny attempt at economy by compelling the etcru-is to pay for this honor, disgusted thcrold fellows, and many of them refused the so-called gift. Our homo coming boys are more than worthy of this Mgnal iccognitlon of their valor as soldiers of the Republic, and I trust that they win not be humiliated In the same .manner as we veterans of the Civil War were. Let them have the medals without money and without price as the gift of an, appreciative Govern ment. 'J. I L-. One of the old Philadelphia Brigade. Philadelphia, November 27, . i ,i i i, A Judas Peace To the Editor of Hie Evening Publla Jiedger: Slr Your leading editorial today s O, If., and If you will refer to your file for several weeks you will find that the article of Wil liam Roscoe Thaye-. tn "A Judas Peace," bears out your "lender" ni I noted above. When I read said editorial I referred to the clipping of Mr, Thayer's, and after again reading the same, I think It would be a great benefit on the strength of your able and suc cinct article to republish the same (I mean Mr. Thayer')i The public then might have a better understanding, even our Washington e' -aR.-TT JEf-.'-l-c-iJ-3---f.--'--i jlvb vaur v u-nnv.. -t4 NOVEMBER 20, 1918 THE haughty galleons of Spain, Their standards flying, kept the main And sot ght with bellj'lng salts their 'oes In hostile waters, there to clOBe In struggle to the death, to light Against God's wrath and England's might. ' They fought till each ship frund hr graV4 Beneath the titter northern wave: Thus they upheld with gun nnd steel The ancient honor of Castile. Not such the cowardly, beaten Hun, His devil's work frustrate and done. Cowering he waits ln his safe sea lair Till Justice's long arm reach him there; Till summoned, a thin line of gray, The hostage ships crawl on their waj'. Dreadnoughts that dreaded nought MvT fight, Intact surrendered, shameful sUht, Out of the rr.ists like ghostB appear, Floating tho pallid flag of fear. A craven foe who slunk from fight, A coward assassin In the night, ' Who left babes, mothers, plteously Abandoned In an angry sea; Who scented, vulture-like, his prej- In such as ln sick cabins lay; Who broke the faith, tho chivalry. Time Immemorial, of the sea: Let not his bopes, when he shall die, Lie where his martyred victims lie. F. B. S. The skip-stop Issue Is rapidly changing , . i Into a stop-killing campaign. ' Spa'n Is willing to enter a league of na tions now that Its chief function Is to b the preservation of world peace. Amerlc SkJ, j entered tho league when It had to light to' - maKe peace. ; Even with prohibition In force naxt Julj-, it Is more xthan likely that returning transports will continue to bo loaded wU beyond that date. Pcnn's successful footballers yesterday' gave hopeful Ind'cntlon of how they might have scored against Germany had time not been called on November 11. What Do YouJCnow? QUIZ 1. Whn linn brrn mentioned r the nmuliltrtin member of the Ainrrleun delegation to tko penrr ronferrtirq? 2. At want, port In I-rmldent Wlhon eioectrd to liintl In KuropeT 3. In nhnt Medltrrranran eostt cltr l the Cata lan lamruuie apokrnr 4. Wlin pulntrd the plrturc entitled "Its Aa t1ii"T 3. Whfrr did the pearx conference which cnd4 thp hpanlHli-Amrrlran War meet? 0. Who wu Mr. Ilnker'a Immediate predteettav uh Mtretary of WarT 7. WImt In a liOMOck? 5. What n the Nenrate Calendar? 0. 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