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The Executive Controller's own state-
ment is accepted as his subordinate's
complete exculpation. "Mr. Todd, in
his testimony, made it very plain his ca-
pability and efficiency." County Clerk
Meyers is dubbed "very valuable, de-
sirable, advantageous and economical."
and another of the Auditor General's
assistants is described as "peculiarly
fitted with rare and extensive knowl-
edge."

Such an investigation is a farce.
It starts out with the deliberate inten-
tion of find nothing out—at least,
nothing out of the way. The evil, in
two-score cases at Harrisburg as in
more than a dozen cases in Philadel-
phia's Councils, is dual office holding.
The evidence is perfectly available
even to a sodden gangster to prove or
disprove the charge. The findings of
Mr. Roney and his committee consist
of impassioned rhetoric, fatuous eulogy,
whitewash and buncombe.

Yet Mr. Roney, secretary and guid-
ing genius of this ridiculous investiga-
ting committee, is the man who pro-
poses to tell Philadelphia how to spend
$45,000,000 for the municipal expansion and
improvement:

Save us from a gang Legislature.

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RACE ADJUSTMENT.

There is already in this city an or-
ganization, "The Joint Organization of
the Association for Equalizing Indus-
trial Opportunities of the League of
Civil and Political Reform," the ob-
jects of which are to adjust certain
differences between the white and
negro races along the very lines which
have been suggested in this publica-
tion. This organization is being pro-
moted by some of the ripest thinkers of
both races. Men like Rev. Dr. A.
J. Rowland, secretary of the American
Baptist Publication Society; the Rev.
Dr. Frank P. Parkin, superintendent of
the Central District, Philadelphia Con-
ference, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and the Rev. Dr. Alpha G.
Kynett, secretary of the Board of
Home Missions and Church Extension
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
have been intimately connected with
the organization since its inception in
this city five years ago.

The active work is being largely done
by a man who has devoted nearly two
decades to a systematic study of these
peculiar phases of the negro problem,
and it must be conceded that his con-
clusions are founded upon logic and
common sense, their culmination being
in this organization. The organization
proceeds on the theory that there are
two sides to the negro problem; that
the negro is giving the white man just
cause for complaint, and that the white
man is giving the negro just cause for
complaint. It holds that the first step
toward any righteous adjustment of
these conditions is for each race to do
its utmost to overcome any conditions
or tendencies that the other may justly
claim to be subversive of its own in-
terests or of the highest interests of
society.

Applying this principle, the League
of Civic and Political Reform seeks the
support of the colored church and
clergy in co-operating with municipal
authorities in suppressing the rowdy,
ruffianly, corner lounging, dive infest-
ing, election debauching, decency de-
fying elements among negroes as those
who are giving the white race the most
serious cause for complaint. The As-
sociation for Equalizing Industrial Op-
portunities, backed, as far as possible,
by the moral support of the churches
and clergy of both races, purposes to
take up jointly with the owners and
employes of specified industrial con-

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The foreign policy of the nation will
be an application of the Golden Rule,
granting to all other nations their just
dues and demanding of them what in
justice they should give. It is not a
mollycoddle programme that is pro-
posed, but a programme which has in-
herent virility becase of his open[?]
and honesty.

[?]
date rumors of [?]
loyalty in the Cabinet should have been
circulated, but the discreet, yet frank,
utterance of the Secretary of State
should definitely put an end to them
and be effective in strengthening the
confidence of the country in the moral
integrity and discipline of the Admin-
istration.
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In Pennsylvania 212 daily newspapers
have organized under the name of Penn-
sylvania Associated Dailies. Think of
that number of daily journals of enlight-
enment in the Commonwealth! It may
soon be in order for the Keystone State
to change its name to the Imposing-stone
State.

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Kansas young women have decided that
the ideal husband must make a good ap-
pearance, be jolly, talk well, revere the
aged, show courtesy to men and neither
smoke nor drink, also measure up to a
few other qualifications. A young man
of that type would never get as far as
Kansas
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If the Mayor's counsel is good the Coun-
cil is bad: if the Mayor's counsel is bad
the Council is good; but no matter what
the Mayor counsels the Councils are
against it.

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There have been almost as many peaces
declared in the Balkans as there have
seen deaths of Menlik.

_______________________________________

The progressives do not like the way
the Democrats are cutting the tariff, but
if it had not been for the Progressives
they would not be cutting it at all.

_________________________________________

How can the Powers buy Scutari from
Montenegro for $6,000,000 when the Powers
insist that Scutari does not belong to
Montenegro?

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With 5,332,000 people in town New York
ought to be able to support the police force.

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Well, anyhow, Willie Moore held on to
his job of weather prophet for eighteen
years, and that is a lot more than the
average office holder is able to do.

SUNDAY'S PUBLIC LEDGER.

James Huneker will contribute to the Illus-
trated Magazine tomorrow at a most interesting
article on "Richard Wagner, the Man," con-
taining some important new biographical ma-
terial. Another timely feature is "The New
House of J. P. Morgan & Co.," showing how
the financier perfected a strong organization
to take up his work. "How Hagenbeck Be-
came the Animal King," is the subject of an-
other entertaining story.

"What Washington Thinks of President Wil-
son" will make timely reading. The relation
of the Associated Press to the public will also
be illuminatingly presented.

Other magazine features include "Two Phil-
adelphians in the Heart of Siberia," "Germany
About to Rob Her Princely Hen Roosts" and
"Famous French Duelist Defends Affairs of
Honor."

"Woman's Interests." the new weekly maga-
zine for women, issued as part of Sunday's
PUBLIC LEDGER, contains 16 pages devoted to
every field of woman's activity. Every week
shows improvement and not woman can afford
to miss it.

Many and varied are the attractions in the
Copperplate Pictorial. Tomorrow's subjects
include: United States Navy aviation practice at
Guantanamo Bay, opening the National League
baseball season in Philadelphia, Democrats as-
sume full control of the National Government,
President Wilson's "Summer White House,"
Philadelphia's fashionables in society enter-
tainments, suffragettes take their cause to
Congress, steeplechase of the Whitemarsh Val-
ley Hunt, elimination contests in international
polo and sisters of Pope Pius X visiting the Vatican.

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OPPORUNITY FOR NEGROES

A Member of the Police Force
Indorses Editorials

To the Editor of the Public Ledger:
Sir—Allow me to thank you for your edi-
torials on the negro. They are sincere and
truthful and of great interest to both races.
As a policeman I come in daily contact with
the true situation and am open to say that
yours is a correct analysis, especially that
today bearing the laziness and crime among
negroes. Suppresing the negro industrially is
making a criminal of him. Then there is no
one to blame but those that are ignorantly
driving him to the wall. When a business
man refuses to employ a negro, he is simply
jeopardizing his life, his home and family:
because if he can't get work, if the white man
refuses to give him work, then there is no
work for him, ande finally driven to desera-
tion he is forced to steal. I tell you, Mr.
Editor, it is a serious state of affairs, and
I sincerely trust that God may help you in
your effort to open the eyes of the American
white man to this grave wrong.
CHARLES BELGROVE
Philadelphia, April 18, 1913.

A LINE O' CHEER
THE WORLD

BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
(Copyright, 1913.)

Someimes the world's a dreary place,
And were inclined to doubt it,
And then the question we must face—
What would we do without it?
Upon the whole, despite its drear,
We should be happy to be here,
And maybe when it seems most sad
It's up to us to make it glad.

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