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LODGE PACT VIEW
MHcnry Scattergood, Now
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Senator Lodce's hght against the league
of nations, writes J. Henry Scattergood,
yV fhlladelDhla buslncsi nwn and ptomi-
' Jicnt member of the Society of l'rlcnds,
-tm L .llrrrllric- a department of the
iS1 isuhi).' rernnstructlon work In l'rance
Mr. Scattergood. who has been nbrosd
' since last December purchasing supplies
'from the nrmy for teconstiuctlon work
' and directing home rebuilding in the
Verdun area, lias written n letter full
J. HKNllY PC TTERGOOI)
wcie prWoners (n Germain brought bv
of obseratlons of I.uropean conditions tno rrcnili and Amerliiius to work here
fo Mrs. Scalleigood, at Vilt l'ovvclton ' for their keep, I suppose Trench sol
ave'nuc It was written In the rillroad idler told me they uro Ftlll icnllj the
avenue, u vvh- """ i salll0 a, prisoners I cunt Just jilico
station at Toul. while hundreds of Annus (helr , , sl ltu,f ,)U, ., M)nm 01. is
Tsero passing and repRsslngnrouml l.lm lhn 1P, ,irohlbiv ..r- willing
Ho warns that the wnluttoii In ocr- . tiiu , ,.,, or ,.,,
many s Just beginning, rges at all uneei mimics in lhoo
possible speed bo uod In getting the .
liomcslck Yanks back to the states ujumric-
tells of the unwillingness to work of What tt mg hIIuUIoiis Urn war lua
lnimnAimi nml Ha8 ' the war lias m nle made T ho Indhlduil work luibll Ins
rnpft nrnbleniB than It solved " bun lost li hiindnds of thousands of w,r.
He Klves a hint tint more pntnl men '1 hoj h.io Iwen fid for ho long
changes jnaj be looked for in lairol'c In . now In miri i isei om two or three
"soma nations that lime thus fai "l"i- vears 0f (ompiiNnrv mm he In foro tlio
stood any new developments In the '"pv.ir and then fom snd i lnlf vt uh of
teinatlonal and socl il orders when thnnlr ust If tlt,t llie li io ium to de
tinderstandlng of (liiatielil lu i ilent WUi upon stale miplnv input mil hue
caused by the war becomes genersl , 1()Sf ,,, lmlllt llf ll(j lu il work
chaos and tho break-up of the state and
clvllliatlon are threatened. Soldiers
form committees and get food tnern
HChcs because of quasi-governmental
powers and don't enro If otners euuei.
It Is a case of eerv one for hlmecir,
and a scramble with no real general co-
heienco or state authorltj
"This god that the central empires
hae worshiped thf slate has crum
bled to pieces and the feel lost
Ilrsprrule ttrIU lln.leii llolMirtlmn
I he desperate straits of starvation
...i .in. mr.it nnd demoralization
have, of cour-e. hasten, d the process or
proletariat unrest which breeds Bolshc-
1st phllosoph! nnd those rewnw m...
the Heme confeienre state that the Jlod
erates from Ocrman. whom they caw
. ...,r.... a tin. lew that tho rco-
liiiioi. In r.ermnin nnd Austria Is Just
1 beginning, not ending
The Allied powers h.-ne been late In
(realizing tho facts to which they hne
' been blind because of feelings nrlslng
from the war Kngland awoko first
1 through its members of the Inter-Alllcd
food commission und gave the warning
three weeks ago Its leading member
even resigned because of lack of support
for his lew at the time Vow even tho
Trench nppear to bee the danger ot ue-
'lav. Mr Lansing two nights ago In a
speech In Tarls repeated the warning r
the Instant need or reeuing uenimnv, w
there would be no Germany to feed.
"Hut none of the l nlted States $100.
000,000 for tho Hoover Tood Commission
can be used because of restrictions
passed b our enlightened' Congress,
prohibiting help being given to the cen
tral powers And et thtv wonder at tlm
gtowth of ltolshevlbtn ' Hut not no with
tlioso who see on tills side tho strnln
and stress of conditions ciuscd by tho
In Trance that Senator IXHlgc'ei views
tiro generally given very little spacs In
the Trench newsnunern now . and that
enlightened Turopean opinion sees the
new opportunity more nnd more
Jtlio great struggle Is still ahead,
however, to make tho teaguo ot nations
a real league and not merely a camou
flage alliance of one group assuming
counter-Interests against another group
This last conception would, of i ourse.
have In It the seeds of another struggle
of the future
Yet people 'taking counsel of their
feirs, ' both In the United Slates and In
Europe, seem prone to seek Immediate
safety In the latter kind of a league, or
lather alliance, and havo difficulty In
seeing through Into a greater conception
of trust In tho deeper moral forces un
derlying ull humanltv In which rests the
real security for all "
TAFT WILL SPEAR
AT AYER BANQUET
ONE RILLED, 2 HURT
IN RAID BY BANDITS
Former President to Attend Policeman Shot Dead When
LESS TYPHOID HERE
Cil. V itli KcniaiiKicr of Country,
Shows Dccicascd Mortality
tlileiigo. prll 4 A gratlfvlng reduc
tion In mortality from uphold fever Is
shown In the seventn annual survey ot
the Journal ot tho American Medical
Association, i.iado public 'iere v ester
da v.
'1 lie nine largo cities of tho country,
comprising about 15 per cent of the
population bhow agnln a very notable
Inipiovemcnt In their Uphold record,"
avs the survey. "Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia. New York, Cleveland, De.
trolt and Daltlmoro In fact, show the
low cm riles et reached In their sanl
tarv lilstnrj."
The following table gives the rate of
deaths from tv phold per 100,000 of
population for tho periods indicated.
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juncture for Senator Lodge and others
to bo 'throwing monktv wrenches inl
the gears"" he writes 'It Is taken
in Europe as meaning tint merU.i Is
much divided But It Is encouraging to
find that the league-ot-natlons idea has
mado such headwav In Trance, tint
senator Lodge's views nre generillj
given very little M'ato In the 1 rejich
newspapers now and that enlightened
European opinion sees tho new oppor
tunity moro and more
Two Tralnlond. 1 ed In 15 Minutes
' His letter, which is dated March It
Is as follows
"I started A lettci two divs ago fron
Paris, but was interrupted bj interviews,
and then suddcnlv found I I d to leive
that evening for cutchateau in the ea"t
of France, to seo some I n ted States
army ofllcors about materials which wb
need In tho Verdun area So esterda
was spent on trains and at Neutchatcau
ad today again on trains on my wnj lo
Clermont (our new headquarters In tho
Verdun area). I have an hour befote the
connecting train leaves for Bsr le Due
Hundreds of -Yanks' nre all around us
typical scene There is a constant string
Jn one door to tho canteen and out an
other, each fellow getting his can full of
hot coffee and a sandwich He pavs a
trifle If he has the money, otherwise it Is
given. ... , , j
.n.HtaA r.ni1 virnpri beef and hard
Se " oread It Is all they often get on a Jour-
:. -.. .ilnnn in nnnther
ney crum emo i.a ." -
"Last evening at Neufchatesu, while
Iwas getting supper at the A It C sta
tion canteen, I watched a girl I felt suro
I knew hand out cortee and sandwiches
"She proved to be Ruth Gibbons, of Hav
erford Meeting, and sho had Just fed
1700 bos In fortj-nvo minutes two
tralnloads. One feels for these fellows
and all of them sick and tired ot the
.army and all anxious to get homo and
back to their UBual work
"Many towns like this one, and most
of those In northeast i ranee, arc run
ot Americans This applies to the hec
tors taken over by tho United States
from tho French. In every little 'vlllsge
-titty are stationed; with too little to do
now, and tired of the Trench jnd the
French of them.
"Today I have seen Russians, who
Tills Is isiiclilh trin of (.ermjnv
and Austri i In the foniu i the present
government has hid to in iKo i genelal
ipililll to the CltUnllS to VVOlk, "HVlllg
that on work depends tlio whole welfare
of the stnte Think of what it me ins
to have tho work-loving Germ in nation
of the jmst reduced to this Thovj un
emploved, I tinilerbtanil are hi Ing pild
for tho moment bv the stito Ight minks
dav T hev would lather tal e tills and
not hunt work than find work and get
moie
III Vtlsltin rpnnrts from Sw llprlnli1
siv, the conditions arc even worse, and of-natlons idea has made such headwav
The Phil cdelplila figures show a
I ho mom one witihes tne ireti.'ieo.
struggle with the present problems of
national Interests of Internal finances
and limlgits of demobilization and tlio
re-startlng of tndusli) et . tho more
one re illzes that tin wtr has made more
problems than it settled I am having
.in e to tlin national budgets now In,
the making mil 1 look for Interesting ur'esV blneo ioil.
tl lUZStlOtlH IO OICWll Illl'iuuuiii ui'uil mo
consclotism ss of some nf the nations tint I
have withstood tints far nnv new devel
opments in the International and social i
orde rs
Ileal Mruittlf 1 Still Ahead
How lamentable It seems at this
Juutuic for henttor Idgo and otherH lo
bo 'tlirowlng monkej wenches Into tho
gears It is taken in Turope as mean
inir that America is much divided r.ut
It Is enccninglng to find that the league
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Former President Taft will be one
of tho guests at a banquet given In tho
Betlevue-Strntford tonight by the ad
vertising firm of N W. Aycr & Son, In
celebration of Its fiftieth anniversary.
In addition to Mr. Taft, who Is ex
pected to make an address, thero will
be present many of the nation's biggest
publishers, business executives and ad
vertising men.
Among others who will bo present
nre tho following publishers: Former
Tnlted States Senator Lafavetto Young,
publisher Des Moines Capital ; Hdward
W. Bok, editor Ladles' Home Journal;
Felix Agnus, Baltimore American; Wil
liam Paul Ahnelt, Pictorial Review ; El
bert H. Baker. Cleveland Plain Dealer;
Thomas Barret, Farm and Home, Spring
field, Mass ; Paul Block, newspaper
owner and representative: H. L Brldg
mnn. Brookljn Standard Union; J. Cot
er. Jr, Sprague Publishing Company;
Arthur Capper, Topeka Capital ; H. S
Houston, Worlds Work; Karl V. S
Howland, the Independent; M. J Law
rence. Ohio Tarmer, Cleveland; Herbert
C Mjrick, Tarm and Home, Springfield,
Mass : C A Rook, Pittsburgh Dispatch ;
Trman J. Rldgwaj, Trunk A. Munsev
Companv : Jason Rogers, New York
fllobe . John A blelchor. Leslie's Week
h, Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Boston
(iiobe nnd Oeorge W. Wilder, Butterick
Publishing Companj.
The Ayer firm was founded In 1869
bv X W Ayer and his son, V Wayland
Aser The former died a few ears
aftet the establishment of the business
I he firm now consUts of V WiivImh
Aver, who Is a warm personal friend
of former President Taft, and Wilfred
W Frj. Albert G Bradford, JarviR A.
Wood nnd Wllllim M Armstead. The
Ayer headquarters is at Third and
Chcstput Btreets
Pursuing Hold-Up Men
in Pittsburgh
TWO FIRES IN LUMBER YARD
llhcr-Front Property Gives En
gine Companies Encore Call
Two fires within less than two hours
partly destroyed an old stable nnd shed
In the abandoned lumber yard of John
A. Slonnker & Co , Beach and Poplar
F-treets this morning. The cause of the
fires Is not known. Firemen responded
in each raso and extinguished tho flames
M. W. Watklns, nn emplovo of the
U V Henson Lumber Companv. which
Ms located across lite street from tha. 'i
Kionaker yard, noticed smoke coinings,
from a section of the shed which had .
been used as a- stable. He called the ,
flfAtnA. nml ft, ft nav,An 4, a,A nAn a
tlngulshed. rtj
An hour nnd ic hnlf Intpi nnA nf Hi ?1
truck drivers for the same company
saw smoke coming from another section
of the Ehed and turned In the second
alarm. A part of the root and front
of the structure was destroved In tha
two fires. The jard was abandoned som
time ugo.cnd Is now city property.
PltUliurgh, April 4. Policeman Rob
ert M. Hamilton, a discharged soldier,
la dead; Peter Sampus, a waiter. Is
dying, and an unidentified bandit Is
suffering from wounds Inflicted by tho
policeman before his death, tho result
of a daring hold up In tho Mirror Res
taurant at Turtlo Creek, a suburb, early
today.
Hamilton was killed In a running gun
battlo with the bandits, his Jugular
vein being severed by a shot.
The hold up occurred shortly before
5 o'clock this morning, threo masked
men entering tho restaurant and de
manding from Sampus the contents of
tl e cash register. Sampuo grappled
with a bandit, who was holding a re
volver to his head and wrested the re
olvcr from the desperado. He then turn
ed It upon tho man. Another bandit, com
ing In from the rear where he had held
up the cook and then kicked him down
a flight of steps, fired upon Sampus,
a bullet passing entirely through his
body.
Patrolman Hamilton chased tho ban
dits, engaging In a duel with them after
they had taken refuge In a dooTWay.
When they made a daeh for their auto
mobile Hamilton was killed.
"Pcnnoy' Special Agent Retires
Thomas 11 Relllv, special ngent ot tho
transportation department of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, has been retired
under ihc pension sjstem of the cor
poration nt the age of seventy. One
month's additional service would have
completed fltty-flvo ears' connection
Wth the railroad.
Satisfaction
HERE is probably nothing that impercep
tibly varies more in its contents than
Nature's drinkinE water. Every drop has
the tendency to absorb something either gaseous
or solid.
Distillation is a natural process. It is the with
drawal of foreign matter for which the water has
had an affinity. We drink water to cleanse our
bodies, to absorb and carry away the impurities. If
this drinking water is already loaded with more or
less foreign matter, how can it do its work properly?
As a solution, science has given Us PUROCK, a
pleasant drinking water -J- the means to health.
Purock Water is delivered to
offices and homes in sterilized, nniNK"
bottles or a five-gallon demijohn,
50 cents.
Ordr el. eat Vattla. If th wtr
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pKui, w wui. at your rnunt,
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CHARLES E. HIRES CO.,
210 S. 24th St., Philadelphia
BOTH PHONES
WATER
Don't Let Easter
Catch You Without It
Ccrtainlcvciy woman who pretends at
all to clicss correctly should have a new
straw bonnet by I-aster Day! Tvvould be
a sartorial catastrophe indeed if there
were notliinjr but the shabby winter
chancau to Brace for would it be dis
grace) that glorious spring festival day.
In Spite of High Prices
Though tho bent quality materials from
which we create our millinery have soired In
price, wo have endeavored to consider tho
purses of our patrons (many of them friends
of vcars' standing) as well as our own profits.
That is whv we can offer jou fo reasonably
hats such as those pictured
Jvotnbl smart 1 tho purple llsero turban
trimmed slmplv with a mil row grosgraln rib
bon bund and a lovely bunch of velvet grapes
Priced at $9 CO
And then there in the pretty naw Users
straw chapeau with a eoft eilln finish It,
too Is trimmed with narrow grosgraln and Is
oddly bowed Us crowning glorv is a gorgeous
pheasant feather. Priced at $11 00.
George Allen, Inc.
1214 Chestnut St. 1214
NEXT WINTER MAY SEE
A COAL SHORTAGE
IT has been the custom in past years for coal-operators, to
accumulate a surplus of mined coal during the Summer
when the demand was at a minimum.
Until Fall-weather quickened the demand it was neces
sary to store the coal at the mines, which added to the cost
of production.
Owing to the high cost of labor and other items in
mining it is said that the operators will accumulate no sur
plus this Summer. In this case, unless householders buy
their Winter's supply this Spring and Summer, thus creat
ing a steady demand for the normal output of the mines,
there is certain to be a shortage of coal next Winter.
The United States Fuel Administrator has already said
that the best storage place for coal is in the homes of the
people.
Coupled with the fact that coal prices will advance be
ginning May first, we consider this an incentive for coal
buyers to order their Winter's supply this month.
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Ess $10.30 a ton Nut $10,65 a ton
Stove 10.55 a ton Pea 9.05 a ton
GEO. B. NEWTON COAL CO.
Tcltphonet: Bell, Spruce 1400; Kcyitnne, Kice,3300.
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