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ANOTHER PRISON SCANDAL?
MORE than a casual denial b tlit mil-
nlcipnl Department i)f Welfare is re
quired iti nnswer te the chnrzes eC misman
agement nnil deliberate cruelty fermnlly
ledged by the Grand Jury jesterdny against
the officials at the Heuse of Correction
There are occnslens when the solitary
confinement of unruly prisoner Is found
necessary. Hut these occasions are rate in
any prison. Ne en? ntmiulms can regard the
use of dnnk and ancient cells as telemblc or
decent, particular!) when they arc set .Hide
for the punishment of women prisoners.
The llghtless dungeon and a brcad-nnd-wntcr
diet have been eliininnted in most jails.
But the Grand Jury found both inllictul en
Women inmates at the Heuse of Correction.
In past j ears scandals due te the Htupid
and cruel management of prisons in this
city recurred as regularly ns the seasons.
It Is geed te hear that the Grand Jury found
cause for unfavorable criticism nowhere but
at the "Conectien," which nlwnys has had
a bad name. It reports conditions at Mint
Institution te be "barbarous nnd cruel. The
Department of Welfare, with an air of mild
BUrprlsc, expresses an opposite opinion.
Which Is right?
A KLEAGLE IS STREETED -
' rpHK owners of the office building in which
JL some kleagles nnd klrnslcttes of Wizard
Simmons' organization settled down im
posingly when they set about the business
of kluxing Philadelphia have just provided
an excellent example te these who seels an
efficient and noiseless method of dealing with
a public nuisance. Kleagle Atkin and his
office force have decided, under pressure, te
seek ether quarters. Thut is hew the an
nouncement runs.
" In effect it means that the kleagle and the
Klenglettcs have betn, as you might say,
trceted.
If the owners of ether effire buildings
prove te be as considerate of their tennnts
as the owners of the Bellevue Court Hulld
Ing are, kluxism will net persist long enough
te be a matter of concern te Congress or
the general public.
Gradually, as disclosure fellows disclosure,
, the sudden sprend of the Ku Klux is being
l explained. The field force of the organlra erganlra organlra
tien appears te include all the propagandists,
promoters and "drive expertN" who found
themselves out of easy nnd profitable jobs
when the emergency of the war was ended.
Simmons found an army of shrewd "organ
izers" ready nt his hand and eager for cumu
lative percentages. A kleagle usually is n
man who, having made nn easy living out
of the war while better men were suffering
and sacrificing, hates te return te the normal
tasks of peare.
"IFFERS"
ACTING 1'ROVOST niNXIMAN'S ao ae
dress te the undergraduates assembled
,ut I'eun for the opening of the college term
,'hnd n peculiar felicity because of its infermul
and human tone. In telling the students
that no man ought te "die en third" the
acting provost put in a few words a bit of
advice that should be even mere useful out
side the classrooms than in them. It has
been said with truth that the failures nre
the men who grew tired tee seen.
When he talked of the "ifters" and the
problem the present te college faculties Dr.
Penniuian added a bright new definition te
the slang of the hour an achictcmcnt for
the spokesman of n uutveiMty.
"Iffer" deserve-, te live. It fills a void in
the language. Hnve jeu a little Iffer in
your home? Probably you have.
Iffers are all about. They are the men
and wemwi and the boys itnil the gills who
fall because they de net desire te mitcetd,
and then go about alng mournfully that
the world is a rotten place te live in.
INDIAN SUMMER MALIGNED
ATTEMPTS te poetize the lettnt tin
mourned September warrant tailure.
As is invanabl the ctue when high tem
peratures outstay their welcome, cheerful
idiocies are circulated in defense of Indian
Bummer. A delicious season is thus defamed
As a matter of chronelogienl fnet, Indian
Bummer needs no detense. Its charms are
self-evident nnd nre te be sensed in for
tunate years en cloudless dnjs. softened by
autumnal hnzes In October, November or
even ns late us Ueceuiber. The glamoureus
period contrasts f monthly with the gray
monotones of the waning jenr. It is well
worthy the attention of sonneteers or ether
versifiers.
An excessively v arm September stieh as
Phllndelphlans have been experiencing is
without this category ami is nothing less
thnn nn Ignoble usurpation of the iHmate
by nn 111 -mannered summer.
A compensatory October is In order, nnd
by the time one Is adjusted te seasonable
temperatures he can legitimately open the
qust for the real Indian Summer, which is
WerMi the lileasuialiii' nHi-'tin'-m.
THE WOODEN SHIP HOODOO
THE pleiibiirc which the Government may
hae experienced in accepting nn offer of
VJ100 a ship for units of the wooden (leet,
which originally cost from $100,000 te
5500,000 each, was short-lived.
The proposed sale has fallen through and
the Unltul States remains in possession of
the grcntei.t number of timber ships ever
,Atiatriift(l fti nnn iirnL-rmti sfm'e Heme
t. Wet felled her forests te vanquish Carthage.
need a hh Legal experts of the Shipping Heard ul
k went e'.-go that no certified check wus ever deposited
Inpailgh. !. H, ..........lln tmrxlin&et-H. the Khln Cm.
' . - w villi ii"PJ'viiv !. ,- ""i' "- "
t """clVs,''ctlen und Trading Company, Inc. With-
eui, ua, pn.iri te ..niavcl the additional com-
b ' fcltles of the ense, this barrier te the
r.immiitlen of the sale Is convincing.
Bi llceurse, a new legal contest Is threat
y'mBtetJfe The most involved records of the
t Clmucery nre as simple as the New
England primer cetnpnrcd with the labyrin
thine miseries of the Shipping Heard.
Hut intricate as the situation is, its
primary factors nre plain. The Government
possesses a fleet of ships which private indi
viduals or organizations nre unwilling te
purchase nt anj thing like a reasonable price.
The ?2100 bids were ridiculously low.
Nibbles raising the scale te f.1000 per ship
have recently lightened the gloom in the
Shipping Heard offices.
Hut even this price, nltheugh acceptance
of It might be preferable te the burden of
maintaining the vessels, Is absurd.
Only the richest Government en earth can
afford te nccept with n certain degree of
philosophy the penalty for embarking en one
of the most extravagantly futile programs
ever undertaVen i n" ninde nation.
THE DAWN OF SOPHISTICATION
BREAKS AT LAST IN NEW YORK
A Heme Rule Plan for Street Cars
Which Shows That Cliff Dwellers
Aren't Se Artless as They
Sometimes 8eem
FASHIONS come and go and change, even
In public opinion. Te be rcnlly stylish,
for example, jeti must believe that the city
of New Yerk is the last stronghold nnd abid
ing place of the irreclaimable hick.
It is a fuct that one of the richest mnrkets
for fake oil stock Is in the general region of
Forty -second street nnd Hrendway. Felk
from up Hurllngten County way nnd from
Qunkettewn nnd such like places leek nt the
funny restaurant cards when they go te
Manhattan, nnd nt the five-dellnr highballs
and the Greenwich Vlllngers und Mayer
Hylnti and Tammany Hall and the reef
garden shows, nnd wink gravely at one an
other while they hurry nwny te Stnten
Island or .Tcrsej te lnugh In a truly ribald
manner.
Hut the world ought te be fair te the
Mnnhnttnnese. Thcj hnve achieved mere
than sk scrapers nnd the stnge bath and the
most distressing police administration known
te mnn.
They hnve five-cent trolley fares en their
siirpilslngly efficient lines. They hnve al
wuvs hnd them even while the rest of the
country has had te dig painfully for mere.
They propose te keep nickel fnres and, with
thut purpose In view, they hnve formnlnted
n plnn for the merger and future municipal
ownership of nil street enr systems en their
island.
Thcj believe that they can buy nil sub
wny, overhead and surface lines and re
order them in one system for the geed of
the city, nnd then retire their purchase bends
with future profits from five-cent fares!
They have redefined the issues at stake in a
hundred controversies nnd formulated n sim
ple prlnei1e that sooner or later must be
unhcrsnlly ncceptnble.
They held, by Inference, that In every
large city trolley service is n necessity of
life nnd Mint it should be free forever from
the depressing influence of political and
financial opportunism.
The cliff-dwcllys nre Indubitably right in
that assumption. Se large hnve American
cities grown that you cannot get te work
without the trolleys. Yeu cannot get home
without them. Yeu cannot held a Jeb or
earn a living or de the day's shopping with
out the incidental Iielp of the street cars.
Street car systems ought te be as free
from deliberate exploitation by profit-takers
ns the water supply is. Ordinarily there Is
no substitute no alternative.
The service may be tee cefltly or it may
be inadequate or se poorly organized ns te
be nn absolute detriment te business and te
the community. Yeu have te take It or
leave it. Y'eu take it as a matter of course.
Who would walk from Germnntewn te Mar
ket street or from West Philadelphia te
Kensington?
The people in New Jersey have been won
dering why street car fares go steadily up
ward while the quality of the service main
tains a downward trend. In this citv few
people knew the basic truth about the ap
palling tangle of transit affairs which has
led te unused elevated structures and rising
fares.
Much of, the trouble Is dne te absentee
ownership of the street car systems. A
group of financiers sitting In Buffalo or in
New Yerk naturally can knew little or
nothing about the transit requirements of
Comden, N. J. Hut. ns matters are going
Nowadays, they may have full power te dic
tate the rate of fare and the operating pelicv
of the Camden car lines. If schemes of
financial centralization and control new being
worked out nre perfected, nn excluelve group
of large Investors may obtain complete con
trol of most of the big street car systems
in the Gust, including the lines In this city.
The expanding influence of these ambi
tious fmnnclers is largely responsible for the
steady increase of street railway fnres lu
legions where competitive transit service
is net maintained.
Knowledge of this general tnevnment
toward n new sort of street car monopoly
is in part responsible for the scheme of
mergers nnd municipal ownership new pro
posed In New Yerk. The people in New
Yerk want te get their car lines out of the
stock market.
Can they get them out of politics, tee?
Proponents of municipal trolley control
have a reassuring answer for that question.
They belle e thnt the practice of municipal
ownership would be fatal te "the rotten
politicians" whose sins are forever being
recounted In defense of the private owner
ship of bas.ic public utilities. Men who
ruppnrt tha New Y'erk plnn insist thnt the
public tolerates rotten polities only he long
an it feels no direct Injury from the system.
The public will net realize that it is beinu
hurt eery day Indirectly. Hut translate
Tammanylsm or Vnrelsm In terms of street
car fares or service and, the New Yorkers
believe, you will have the public en the
warpath In no time.
A REVOLUTION IN TRADE ROUTES
SI'P
ri'POUTKKS of the quota Immigration
,aw new operative cannot consistently
object te inclination of important shipping
interests te effect radical change, in Atlantic
routes.
The program new under consideration in in
vehes the diversion of many liners new
making ports en the Knstern seaboard of the
I'nited States te Canada, Central America,
Mexico, Seuth America and Seuth Africa.
The majority of such vessels as will un
dergo route alterations ate especially equipped
for enrrying emigrants. Manv of them,
however, receive ether classes of passengers
nnd all are, of course, partly cargo beats.
According te Londen ndvices, something
like a revolution in ocean traffic is new
under wny.
The results In this country will be mixed.
Americans in general are unlikely te view
r,
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
with favor n policy increasing the difficulties
et communication and particularly trade,
between the United States and Europe.
On the ether hand, advocates of restricted
immigration will te some extent rcnllwj their
desires. Net only will the flood of strangers
be checked, but the Hmltntiens of service
established by tha steamship companies
themselves should put an end te the non
sensical race of liners from the three-mile
limit te quarantine, en the monthly dates
when new quotas of immigrants are nd
mlsslblc. .
Anything thnt will alleviate the injustices
of the system as lately mnnlfested should be
welcome.
As for the reduced liner service, thnt rep
resents one of the possibilities apparently
unconsidered by the lnwmnkers.
I 3
THE UNEMPLOYMENT REPORT
MUCH of what the unemployment confer
ence suggests In a series et suggestions
offered as an emergency program Intended
te operate whlle the various committees seek
means for permanent industrial stabilization
in Uic future is necessnrliy contingent upon
n return te the rule of normal prices nnd
profits nt the sources of the essential ma
terials of industry.
Hreadly, it is urged by the unemployment
eommlttees Uiat all people who have work
te de de It new. Hut it happens that all
sorts of people, from Uic executives of Im
portant Government departments te Uie
man who has only a small house or new
plumbing in view, have been waiting for
further declines In the cost of mntcrlnl nnd
lnber. Seme materials are new almost nt
bedrock. Others nre high. Involved with
the question of high prices is the question
et high wages. That complication can be
cured only by time.
Meanwhile, no set of rules Oiat the con
ference might formulate would be adequate
te enae the unemployment situation wholly
nnd at once.
What the country must rely en new is
the public spirit of all sorts and conditions
of men nnd the ability of employers and em em
peoyes alike te recegnise nn emergency when
they see It. Great sacrifices are net neces
sary. Small ones will help Immensely If
they can be mode by large and small em
ployers ns well ns by wage earners.
As usual, tha chief source of trouble Is
the profiteer, who will net mend his ways.
He Is a man who must be reckoned with
even by the manufacturers who would fellow
the suggestion of Mr. Hoever's committee
nnd "manufacture for stock." A manufac
turer cannot safely manufacture for future
snles If the prices of his raw material nre
mnintalned somewhere In the sky nleng with
the prices of fuel
BRIAND DEFIES AUGURY
PREMIER UltlAND'S contempt for re
cent warning precedents extends beyond
his determination te represent abroad the
republic of which he is the actual hesd.
Net only has he decided te defy political
opposition nt home by heading the Trench
delegation te the Washington conference,
but he Is arranging te quit the sessions
should they be prolonged beyond Chrlstmns.
In thnt case, Itene Vlvianl will probably rep
resent the Prime Minister.
It Is net n little fascinating te trace the
parallels between his purposes nnd these
executed when America was the guest nnd
France Mie host.
Although accounts still differ, it is gener
ally understood Mint the intentions of the
President of the I'nited States were net
scrupulously Carried out In the intervnl be
tween the Geerge Washington's first return
voyage nnd her second trip neress.
Perhnps M. Brland, closely pressed by his
political adversaries, is in u mood te defy
augury. Certninlv his cie-t" 's undeniable.
BEER AND TREATIES
NOT the obstinacy et a former President,
net Democratic sniping in the Senate,
net the antagonism et William E. Horah
nor the irritability of humbled Germany Is
of sufficient ebstrucHve force te forestall a
speedy legislative ratification of the peace
treaties In Washington.
Mr. Wilsen, It appears, has net been
posing as an aggressive general of shattered
political troops. The results of a conference
of Democratic Senators confirm tfie view
that the treaties will net be made a party
matter.
The Helchsrath, or upper chamber of the
German Parliament, formally approved the
pacts en September 17. The Reichstag, or
lower house, swung Inte line yesterdny and
voted for the ratification bill.
What, therefore, has been Imperiling
prompt consideration of the treaties and
their expeditious passage through the Senate?
Eche answers, "Heer!"
The plan for bringing up Uie German,
Austrian and Hungarian instruments en
October 14 was temporarily blocked yesterday
when the fight ever alcoholic percentages and
medical exemptions was given momentary
precedence ever international affairs.
It was insisted thnt Immediate prevision
be made for voting upon the much-discussed
"Heer Bill," which is already the cause of
friction and devastating complications be
tween the Senate nnd the house. Later In
the dny a glimmering of reason prevailed
and the objectors climbed down.
While the course of diplomacy seldom runs
smooth, there is novelty, indeed, in the tac
tics displayed. Even n Talleyrand weuid
conceivably have been embarrassed, net te
say dazed, by the spectacle In the Senate
yesterday.
Members of the Amerl
Shocking Details can Association for
Medice-Physical Re
search, meeting In Chicago, were treated te
demonstration of hew putients nre shocked,
sometimes by electricity nnd sometimes with
hammers, In order te effect cures. Ne
demonstrations wcre deemed necessary of
the shocks produced hv the receipt of bills
nfter Uie cures n(i cf,.,nj
A Poughkeepsie, N. 1,, street car con
ductor who lest his memory .a lenr age as
the result of an accident has had it restored
by being thrown from a street enr. This,
though remarkable is by no means un
precedented j nor is the peculiarity noted
peculiar te humankind, supplements the Sub
urbanite. I have an alarm clock that is
periodically afflicted in just that wav. It
sometimes forgets te go nfter a fall from the
table, but the accident of a swift kick will
Invariably restore its memory.
Jesse R. Fifer. one of the nine mem
bers of the Scheel Benrd of Lyndhurst,
N. J., says the teachers in the public schools
are like bathing beauties with skirts tee
short nnd stockings tee fancy and clothing
tee loud. Hut Fifer's toot was no ciarien
call, for the ether members of the beard
refused te take nny nctlen In the matter.
"It is much easier te shorten n dreis than
te lengthen it," said one of the teachers. If
this is a thrent Mr. Flfcr seems te be due
for a shock.
When a lawyer In a New Y'erk court
tauntingly asked n doctor what nn intoxi
cated man's breath "smelled like these dn'vs,"
the witness promptly replied, "Something
like a combination of chlorine, mustard gas
nnd garbage." This is net nice, but it is
be descriptive and true nnd se discouraging
te souses that it deserves all the publicity
possible.
The New Jersey Penltry Producers'
Association has been summoned te New
Yerk by the United Stntcs District Attor
ney te explain why the association should
net be charged with profiteering. We ven
ture the opinion that one explanation is that
the term hes never yet been adequately
defined
EiEOXADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1,
LIVING MEMORIALS
At the Maaonle Hemes, Elizabeth
town, There Is a Tree for Each
Here Five Acres In Red, Pepples,
Toe Harry Brown's Indus
trial Scheel
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
XITTIEN Highway Commissioner Lewis S.
W Sadler announced his intention of bor
dering every arterial highway with trees
until enough had been plantrd te permit the
State te name n tree for each Pennsylvania
soldier sacrificed in the World Wnr, he wn
unnware thnt the nucleus of his plnn had
, already been established.
On one Pennsylvania hillside already there
has been planted n grove of trees, one for
every soldier of n ccrtnln distinction who
went forth te battle nnd came net home
again.
PASSENGERS en dnyllght trains, east or
west, en the Pennsylvania Railroad mny
notice at Ellaabcthtewn a Greek temple en
an Isolated hill hnlf n mile south of the
tracks.
Beyond it, ever the hill, arc the square
stone structures and red reefs of the clus
tered buildings of the Mnsenlc Hemes.
The Greek temple is the guiding hand, the
indicator, thnt marks the location of the
largest institution of Its kind in the Ma
sonic fraternity, which Is world-wide In its
scene and of almost universal membership.
Hut the little Greek temple witl stnnd out
In its rectangular whiteness and beauty for
only n few years longer.
Year by year Its graceful outlines will
disappear behind n curtain of living green.
In twenty yenrs from new It will be in
visible nnd will then fulfill one lden of the
nnclent Greeks conception of beauty, sub
limity and worship a temple within a grove.
OUT of the thousands of Pennsylvania
Freemasons who put off the gnrb of
pence te plunge Inte the world's Inferno, 204
"went west."
Bv shell or hnnd grenade or steel, by
deadly gns or disenee, that number of the
faithful, from the lowest te the highest In
the ngc-eld fraternity, poured out gener
ously a libation te death with their lives.
The committee of the Grand Ledge of
Pennsylvnnln In charge of tbe Mnsenlc
Heme! shortly nfter the close of Uie war
planned a memorial te the memory of these
silent brothers.
It was ngrceil that the most fitting testi
monial, the most npproprlate memorial,
would be a tree for ench man.
A grove was planned, symbolic of their
association, nnd yet with ench Individual
tree ultimately bearing en a bronze plate the
name, the battle In which he fell and the
number of his ledge of every here.
Fer mero than n year new the sloping
hillslde hns been transformed.
W HARRY BROWN, of Pittsburgh, Is
n nnme that Is destined te endure ns
long ns the grent frntcrnnl benefaction at
Ellzabethtewn endures.
I wrote n few days nge nbeut Frank
Thomsen's boys; the eight schelnrshlps In
technical schools that his family founded in
his name.
nnrry Brown hns endowed n school en
the domain of 1000 acres which, with the
completion of the main building nlenc, will
nccominedute eighty -five boys.
It will be an industrial school. Hand as
well as brain will be trained.
It wns in December two years age that
W. Harry Brown, of Pittsburgh, presented
te the Committee en Masonic Hemes $30,000
worth of securities.
In the accompanying letter he stated that
the gift was te be applied for such purposes
as the committee might designate.
After cenference with Mr. Brown it was
derided te use the fund in the erection of
a home for Uic education of dependent or
phan sons of Free and Accepted Masens in
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Brown died unexpectedly In March
of this jear. It wts then discovered that
he had arranged te add $30,000 te the fund,
nnd his executers have since contributed
that amount.
THE Masonic Hemes nt Ellznbethtewn
comprise the largest institution of its
Iclnd among Masens in the world.
The original purpose of the architects and
committee In charge Is being carried forward,
with the result that the next quarter of a
century will sec this a;temblnge of magnifi
cent buildings nssutne th appearance of a
huge vlllnge. where art and nature will blend
In perfect hnrmeny.
Philadelphia Masens are erecting a hos
pital, the estimated cost of which is JB30,
000. It will contain 1B0 beds.
The entire sum for the erection, furnish
ment and outfitting of the wards, rooms,
laboratories and clinic' and operating rooms
will be berne by the Masens of Philadelphia
County.
The building will be ready for eecnpancy
early the coming year. It will be the most
modern and up-te-dato building of Its kind
In the State.
THERn are ECO guests In Use homes.
Their environment is that of a high-clais
hotel with a vast number of unique features
added, as, for Instance, a splendid library
of approximately 10,000 volumes and a motion-picture
auditorium.
Included among the guests nn forty boys
nnd thirty girls, for whom tench era of the
highest grade nre employed.
The guests consume nt one meal alone 873
quarts of milk, fiOO npple dumplings, sixty
dozens of eggs and nther feed in proportion.
The homes rcnlly constitute a vast manu
facturing concern. It Is all for the benefit
of the !!50 guests, however.
Scattered ever the 1000 acres of the de
mesne, In separate buildings, are 4000 Leg
horn chickens, 100 registered Ayrshire cows,
400 registered Berkshire plgB, as well as
geese, turkeys nnd ether fewi.
Four cows in the herd give their weight
in milk every month.
THE greve of oak trees surrounding the
temple hnve been selected net only for
their lnstlng qunlitles. but for their beauty.
In autumn, when fully grown, their foli
age will present, owing te their different
characteristics, a brilliant combination of
color.
Te heighten the effect, the enttre five
ncres covered by the memorial grove have
this yenr been sewn In Oriental pepples.
They nre n brilliant red and carry out
fully the iden.
"On Flanders fleldB the pepples crew,"
All the ornamental shrubbery and trees
for beautifying the grounds nre grown and
cultivated en the place.
There Is one nursery alone of 25,000
white plne seedlings,
Eight miles of macadamized reads run
through nnd around and nbeut the property.
All fruit nnd vegetables used are raised
right en the farms.
The great truck pntch Is Irrigated by thou
sands of feet of overhead Iren pipe that
sprajs It completely in hnlf nn hour.
A DAY'S visit as a transient guest dis
closed these interesting facts :
There were 0775 Pennsylvania Freemasons
in the nrmy nnd lf48 in the naval and ether
forces of the United States during the World
Wnr.
Of these, eighty were killed in battle and
184 died from wounds or disease.
Fifteen acres of the park land arc utilized
for water impounds.
The space utilized for farm buildings,
reads and garden comprises thirty-four
ncres.
There nre 2100 apple trees nnd 2780 peach
trees in the orchards.
The greatest number of guests 1b regis
tered from Philadelphia County, of whom
there nre 140. Allegheny County Is next
with twenty-eight.
More than 23,000 visitors registered dur
ing the last twelve months.
ChristmaB is the bublest tlme of nil the
year. Every guest receives net only one
useful and valuable gift, but mnny of them.
Their ledges remember them liberally,
The homes hne their own postefnee,
telephone service nnd election precinct.
A majority of the women guests voted at
the last primary.
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Knew Best
EDEN B. HUNT
On Induetrlal Welfare Werk
TEIAT welfnre work, especially that of
great corporations, pays excellent divi
dends in the satisfaction of the empleyes
and much Improved general morale, Is the
opinion of Eden B. Hunt, superintendent of
the veluntnry relief nnd pension departments
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
"Perhaps the biggest single thing that our
departments accomplish," snld Mr. Hunt,
"is thnt this work Induces men te stay with
the company. It reduces the lnber turnover,
which is nn enormous drain upon mnny of
the largest Industries.
"Our company is in the market for the
beet labor te be found, nnd when these men
come te work we wnnt them te remain.
Every company has a big investment In
ench empleye, and the Investment grows with
the yenrs the mnn remnlns at work.
"In order te held their loyalty nnd te
deserve their confidence nnd esteem It Is net
enough thnt we tnkc nn nctlve Interest In
their personal nffnlrs while they arc healthy
and able te remain at their work continu
ously. It is when n man hns been tnken 111,
when he hnn met with un necldcnt or when,
nt the close of a long nnd faithful term of
service, he finds thnt ndvanclng nge has
rendered him unfit longer te perform the
strenuous duties of his dally work, thnt he
needs attention.
Human Side of Railroading
"When these unfortunate contingencies
occur our departments come te his relief.
Every man nnd every officer lu the employ
of the company is entitled te these benefits.
"When each employe of the read Joins the
Relief Association he knows that he will re
ceive dally financial benefits If he should be
come 111 or meet with an accident. He
knows, also, that in the event of his death
the death benefits will be paid te his benefi
ciaries. But of equal If net of greater im
portance Is ths fact that every empleye
knows that he will be Tetlred en the roll
of honor, with ft pension allowance, when
he reaches the required age und Is no longer
able te de his dally work.
"These are the things which haunt every
man net of Independent fortune. Wheu
these anxieties are removed from the mind
of the worker he can and does devote nil his
thought te the performance of his work
during working hours, nnd he does thnt work
te the very best of his ability. In his free
hours he has time for his home and his
family. Therefore, ene of Uie main func
tions of our department is te eliminate the
overhead of worry one of the largest over
heads in Uie world from the 174,1142 mem
bers of the railroad's family.
II !g Payments Made
"During the first six months of the current
year the company has paid almost $l,USft,000
in pension allowances te retired empleyes.
In the same period that is, from January 1
te June .10 000 new names were placed en
the pension list, which is known ns the roll
of honor. In that time 2S7 retired empleyes
died, leaving ft net increase of 401) te the
pension list for the first six months of the
year.
"On August 1 the total number of former
empleyes en the roll of honor nnd new re
ceiving pensions was 0400. It Is estlmnted
thnt the average term of service of these men 1b
forty years, and the average uge of nil era era
plejea en the roll of honor Is a trifle mere
than seventy-three jeers. The complete pen
sion list represents approximately u quarter
of a million years of faithful service rendered
te the company and te the public by these
vetcrnus.
"The pension department was organized
January, 1000, and since then the company
has pnld almost $24,000,000 in pension al
lowances. This sum has been taken entirely
from the treasury of the company, without
the contribution of a dollar en the purt of
any of the empleyes.
Are Retired Automatically
"All officers nnd empleyes of the read who
rench the nge of seventy years are retired
automatically. Olficers and empleyes from
sixty-five te sixty-nine who, nfter thirty
yenrs or mere in the service of the com
pany, become disqualified for any reason,
are nlse eligible for a pension.
"The pension nllewnnces for officers or
empleyes are nutherbed en the following
basis: Fer each jear of service, 1 per cent
of the average regular monthly pay for the
ten years Immediately preceding retirement,
provided that no penbien shall be less than
slfi ner month.
"Therefere, if an empleye, hes worked for
the company for forty-five years, nnd If his
average monthly pay for the last ten yenis
has been, sny, .$125, his pension ullewnncu
en retirement will be forty-live times SI 23
or $5(1.23 per month. The ncceptnnce of n
pension nliewnnce docs net deh.ir nny em em
peoye from engaging in ether business, but
he cannot re-enter the employ of the rail
road, "The relief fund is for the aid of disabled
men, and te this fund the empleyes con
tribute The effect upon the morale of the
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men of both these organizations is excellent,
net only In reducing lnber turnover, but in
keening them satisfied with their places nnd
with their trentment by their employers.
"We hnve found from practical experience
thnt it is n geed denl chenper In the end te
pension men who can no longer perform their
duties en account of ndvanclng nge than It
Is te try te find them ether places in the
employment of the read, places which thev
perhaps would net fill satisfactorily nnd nil
the time be longing for their former positions.
"But besides tnese rensens, the time hns
new nrrlved when public sentiment, which
is yenrly becoming n greater nnd greater
economic factor, will no longer allow nn
employer, especially if thnt employer be s
large cornerntlon, te dismiss men after long
years of faithful service without some meas meas
ure of prevision for their future."
A Kentucky Challenge
Frem tha Hnrrea'sburg Herald.
Add Stoper, who Is In his eightieth yenr,
tells us he has been harvesting ever since
he was ten years old and hns only missed
two harvests in all that time, once when
he was laid up with two broken ribs nnd
ene yenr with a crippled feet. This yenr
he nnd his youngest son put all his wheat
In the shocks and when he put the last
bundle in place he Jumped up nnd cracked
his heels together twice. If nny one can
beat this Unde Add would like te hear from
them.
A Geed Sign
rrem the Portland Oresentan.
Inquiry is mnde whether a wave of some
thing cannot be discovered that would ndd te
the sum of happiness, as a relief from the
crime waves nnd suiclde wnves with which
we are constantly regaled. It is nevertheless
a geed sign that a wave of hnpplness still Is
net news. Happiness is n geed deal com
moner, nnd hence mere commonplace, than
the pessimists are willing te admit.
Missouri Nature Student's Discovery
Frem tha Lamar Democrat.
Judge Isenhower, who hns some corn in
Muddy Creek bottom, says mu6krnts nre cut
ting dewTi the big, heavy stalks of corn,
though they nre supposed te live chiefly en
smnll fish nnd frogs.
Mary'e 8tyle
Mary get n little skirt
The wny that ethera get 'cm;
It was ns long ns nny skirt
It went from top te bottom.
New Yerk Herald.
What De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
1. What Is the origin of the slanu werrt
noeu?
2. Who Is te liead the French delegation nt
the Disarmament Conference?
8. Who wns Mnzzlnl?
i Name three plnva by Bhakespeare the
. acfn.s of w,h!ch are laid In republics.
B. What 1b n enptas In law?
8. What Is meant by a LemnlRn deed?
7. Of what St.ite Is Jeffersen City the
capital? ' ""
8. What attributes are typified by the color
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8. What Is the eymbolle significance of n
sapphire? u
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Answers te Yesterday's Quiz
1. The Japanese delen-ites te the Disarma
ment Conference nre Pilnce Teltuiriiw.i.
ylcn Admiral Kate nnd Baren Hhldo Hhlde
liara. C. real Is te strip off the rind, skin, peel
bark, etc. Peal means n loud ringing
of bells, especially n. series of chances
en a set of bells; loud volley of
?ewn,(VS.I?r.clalIy thu"rt1,i te sound
lertn, te utter sonorously,
3' West Wind "th9 fam"S "0,e t0 Ule
. The new alrplnne altitude record Is
40,800 feet, ninde recently by Meu-
tenant MncRendy.
6. rtlenck Is the oppiebrlous nnme nnnlled
by the Seuth African Dutch te British
soldiers It means red neck,
8. r.oeeco furniture Is furnltura with much
conventional decoration, tnntelesslv
XV1 style" the L0UU XIV ",r l'"T"
7. Tellurium Is a rare, brittle Hllver-coler-il
element, resembling sulphur.
8. The Chinese practlce of tlnelv cliennlnr
or outline Inte shreds feed,, hefere
coeklnB them Is due te n fuel economy
Ws'v?:"1 C0"'i', qUlkl'' "ni1 h'"'
0. The "I-nlce Scheel" la the name nlven te
. Kieiiii of poets, Including Words
worth. Celerldne nnd Seuthcv? from the
icsldenca or connection with the lnlrn
country of IJutrlanrt (Cumlirlnnd
AVestmerelaml nnd Lancashire)
10. Kngelbert Humperdlnck was n Oermnn
musical composer, noted chleflv for
his two fairy operas, "Haensel una
Oretel" snd "Kecnlgsltlnrter" CV .
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SHORT CUTS
Woodcock season opens today, Johnny,
get your gun.
It may be thnt 1021 will go thundering
down the nges as the Het Year.
Why can't Philadelphia hnve n World's
Scries of her own, loser te tnke the stakes?
The Irish situation has as many final
words as a prima denna has farewell engage
ments. The fact Mint there Is a new bogus $103
bill In circulation has merely academic in
terest for most of us.
On second thought we nre opposed te
nny movement te retire Cengrcssmnn Her
rick. The world luis little enough laughter.
"Harding Shakes a Thousand Hands"
Headline. That's nothing. Just in a little
while the Sennte is due te see him shake a
leg.
This eugenics idea, remarked Demos
thenes McGiunis, is a geed thing se long ns
you don't take it tee seriously. And Den
Cupid sees te it that nobody shall.
In n Honolulu court recently a Ha
waiian wemnn wns fined S3 for beating her
Chinese husband. Hasn't a woman any
rights in that benighted country?
A doctor Is quoted as saying that alco
hol befere the Velstead act was designed te
kill off all worthless human beings. We
wonder why he said "befere the Velstead
act."
Tnst about the time when the fodder's
In the shock the fact occurs te ns that at a
poet Jnrnes Whltcemb Riley wns some pun
kin thnt the frost never touches nnd that
needs no frost te ripen.
Fnte, n cynical satirist, never played a
mero characteristic trick than when she
mnde William Deeley, "n tumbling wkard,"
meet his denth in New Yerk by ranking a
misstep as he alighted from n tnxlcab.
We can remedy economic conditions If
we have grit enough, says Themas A. Edi Edi
eon. True enough j but the trouble has been
that some of us have been lettlnjr it get Inte
the bearings of the wheels of industry.
The president of the Menree County
Octegennnnns, In opening ttjelr convention
in Stroudsburg, dented that the werid ii
going te the bow-wows, nnd declared that
the geed old dn)H de net cempare with the
present time. He is eighty-nine years old.
If he wcre net nn optimist he might net
have lived se long.
The Amcrlcnn High Commission at
Budapest nnd the British Minister nre in
vestlgntlng whnt Is snld te be n perfect feed
Invented (or discovered) by n Hungarian
scientist after eight years of experiment.
The soy benn is snid te be its bnse. Of the
professor nnd his product nn admiring world
may remnrk, "Seme benn!"
Whnt the senatorial agricultural bloc
wants Is repeal of the transportation taxes,
centlnunnce of the excess -profits tnxcu and
nmlntcnunce of the present rate of sur
taxes. As selfishness Is Invariably short
sighted nnd therefore foolish, the bloc heads,
te acquire n term ndequntely descriptive,
might borrow nn extra "k" from another
bunch of zenlets recently discredited.
I SARGASSO
THE herring gull en tilted wing
Is wnry of its winnowing,
Ner shnrk nor barracuda's fin
AVlll venture 'ncath Its dreadful whin,
Fer ever since the world begnn
Atlantic currents round It ran,
Ner ever crossed its mighty span,
Ner counted It as kin.
Sometimes a ship that's lest nt sea
Slips down the green profundity,
Seme, rudderless from tempest (led,
Drift te this liquid Limbe dread,
Where, though the sky above is blue
And sun aril stnrs shlne brightly tee,
They stem like birds of brilliant hue
Thnt hover o'er the dead.
Here treasures from the Spanish Main
Walt for adventurers in vain.
Peer ships with rusty chains n-cllnk,
They cannot snll nnd cannot sink,
Wenrilj lurching te and fro,
Their huddling squadrons nil n-row
Cost en the granny tide below
Reflections blnck as Ink,
Of nil the shining ocean's fleer
This spot Is cursed forcvermere,
And ns n sign it's lest te grace,
(irent Ged Iiiih turned nwny IBs face,
And sallerniin In terror tell
When Lucifer from heaven fell
Right through the sea he Hunk te hell
I poll tills very place.
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