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FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TRIP
IT is a pleasure to note the success
that attended the Chamber of Com
merce trade extension trip to York,
Lancaster, Lebanon .and interme
diate towns. This little journey of
some seventy of Harrisburg's live-wire
business and professional men was
much broader in its scope than its title
might indicate.
Not a man of the party that was not
the better for having gone. Not a citi
zen of any of the other towns who
turned out to meet the travelers that
was not the better for the association.
Looking at the thing from a purely
business standpoint, the money for the
trip was well spent. The Chamber of
Commerce could not have purchased
Rt any price the advertising given to
Harrisburg In the newspapers of the
cities visited. And tne towns that did
the entertaining profited to an almost
equal degree.
A city needs advertising quite as
much as a private business. A few
more such trips as that of yesterday
will do wonders in fostering the
neighborly feeling expressed in York
Haven, York, Wrightsville, Columbia,
Lancaster, Manheim, Lebanon and
Hershey during the trip that came to
such a pleasant conclusion last even
ing, and in spreading broadcast the
merits of the towns participating.
President Tripp and the representa
tives of the Chamber of Commerce
made it clear in all the speech-making
of the tour that the only purpose and
wish of the Harrisburg business men
was the enlargement of the good feel
ing which has existed for years be
tween the several communities cov
ered in this first swing around the
circle. So successful was the tour in
establishing better relations that there
Is now talk of a further enlargement
of the Harrisburg influence In other
directions. It was exceedingly gratify
ing to all the Harrisburg visitors to
learn from the mouths of the speakers
from other towns and cities how much
of Inspiration they have received from
this city in the way of municipal bet
terment and progress. It would have
been well for all the citizens of Harris
burg if they had heard the compli
ments bestowed upon this city and
the admiration of our neighbors for
the way in which the capital city had
eet the pace for the other municipali
ties.
It was a flying squadron of active
Spirits of this community, their eyes
were the eyes of the entire citizenship
In observing what is good elsewhere
that we may as a community reap the
benefit. So well pleased were all on
this tour with the results that it Is now
proposed to have one or more business
tours of our own city by our own peo
ple. It is believed by many members
of the Chamber of Commerce that the
citizens of Harrisburg do not realize
ns they should the splendid progress
which has been made here at home
during the last decade and that a tour
of Harrisburg of 1914 would be illumi
nating and beneficial.
MRS. FLY'S NURSERY
DR. RAUMCK, Harrisburg's ener
getic health officer, is going after
the flies just as vigorously as he
went after their breeding places
during the anti-dirt campaign of clean
up week. Dr. Raunick well knows that
"swatting" adult flies will only help.
He knows, also, that there is but one
way of preventing the breeding of
myriads of these little germ-bearing
demons. That is the removal of the
places in which they deposit their eggs
—but "swatting" is helpful. There
fore "swat," advises Dr. Raunick and
thereby prevent individual families of
flies from multiplying to about the nth
power in the next three months.
It is strange indeed, that, knowing
the fly as we do, we are so callous to
its presence. We know that flies al
lowed to feed on milk or sugar-water
In which germs are placed will be
found to deposit those microbes ten
times in every hour, besides placing
them in everything upon which they
alight. A fly, after a good meal, may
often be seen blowing fluid bubbles
from its trunk and sucking them in
ngain. These bubbles, as well as their
feet, contain all of the filth as well as
th* bacteria they have previously
visited. Many instances have been per
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH " MAY 22, 1914. \
manently proved in which the bacteria
of tuberculosis, typhoid, dysentery,
plague, anthrax and cholera have been
found in the dejecta, in the saliva and
on the feet of the common housefly.
It has been proved very conclusively
that epldemios of typhoid, dysentery
and those other peßts in military en
campments have been due to flies. Yet
many people say, "merely a harmless
insect."
This being true, it may be seen
readily enough that every fly is the
harbinger of disease and possible
death. Flies will crowd each other for
food and for breeding places. Tho
garbage cans, open gutters, decaying
fruits and vegetables, exposed market
edibles, the mosses, ferns and decaying
leaves upon the eaves of your roofs, all
of these, as well as green groceries,
butcher shops, thatched shingles, and
all exposed liquids and foods will be
quickly seized upon by the plague of
flies that will have already been born
before April was warned.
So let us "swat" as often and as
vigorously as we may, but let us also
look for Mrs. Fly's nursery and de
stroy that.
HOW FREAK LAWS WORK
THE futility of much of the freak
legislation of which the Demo
crats in late years, and the Pro
ocot'-f. narty since its birth,
have been ardent advocates is well
... itne manner in which the
"recall" Is being used in the State of
Washington. The Pittsburgh Gazette-
Times notes that a Washington court
has recently held that a secret con
tract, whereby the defendant in the
case before It employed the plaintiff
to carry out a movement for the recall
of certain officials, was void as con
trary to public policy. The court de
clares that such a private compact,
"looking to the advancement of per
sonal ends by the financing of a recall
is Just as inimical to a sound public
policy as would be the same course of
conduct when applied to an election it
self, or as would be a contract to in
fluence legislation by a secretly paid
lobby."
All very well! But is this decision
going to stop the secret contracting?
We think not. Conspiracy is one of
the most difficult offenses to prove and
the professional circulator of petitions
for the recall of this or that official
will continue, beyond doifbt. Here is
a fine opportunity for some enterpris
ing politician in Washington to "make
a little on the side" or "get even" with
a successful rival in office.
And if it is possible to buy signatures
to a recall petition, isn't It apparent
that the initiative and the referendum
may be as readily mantpv'ated and
abused?
"SAFETY FIRST" RULES
THE American Museum of Safety
Is promulgating a set of "Safety
First" rules that ought to be
posted in every shop in the land.
They have been framed after very
careful study by practical factory and
mill men and are the result of fre
quent applications for some such code.
The rules are easily understood and
are workable without adding burdens
of expense or complexity to the estab
lishment adopting them. For the
benefit of manufacturing concerns
throughout Central Pennsylvania the
Telegraph herewith, at the request of
the Museum of Safety, publishes the
proposed regulations:
Form a committee of safety com
posed of one or two men from every
department, its chief duty being to
eliminate all hazardous conditions,
such as defects in machinery and
buildings, dangerous methods of work
ing or handling material, and to con
duct frequent and Impartial Inspec
tions.
The committee should furnish the
officials with reports and recommen
dations regarding their findings and
the officials should act promptly and
back up the efforts of the committee
in a broad minded and liberal manner;
human lives depend on it
Lectures should be held at least
once a month and the workmen en
couraged in caution, cleanliness, sani
tation, proper use and care of tools
and their responsibility to their fel
low workmen; "speeding-up" should
be discouraged.
Keep the plant clean. Do not al
low the floor, work benches, closets
and shelves to be littered with tools,
stock or other material. Do not throw
oily material, waste paper, food scraps
or refuse of any kind under things
or in out-of-the-way places; allow no
n atches to He around loose.
All dangerous machinery, such as
cutters, lathes, punches, cog wheels,
belts and moving parts should be
guarded so that accidents are impos
sible except through gross careless
ness; a visit to the museum will show
that it can be done without lessening
the output.
The committee of safety should see
that all rules, signs, regulations and
Instructions relating to safety, health
and sanitation are strictly adhered to;
continued disobedience should mean
dismissal.
The workmen themselves should be
encouraged in every possible way to
! co-operate in the safety work and get
| the safety spirit. Safety boxes, with
| pencil and paper attached, placed
throughout the various departments
and yards, will tend to influence every
workman to be a safety inspector.
If these rules were carried out to
the letter shop managers would have
little dread of the workings of even
the most drastic of workmen's com
pensation laws.
TEACHERS' TRAINING CLASS
TO-NIGHT there will be grad
uated another class of the Har
risburg teachers' training school,
from the members of which will
be recruited the teachers necessary to
fill vacancies during the coming year.
The teachers' training school is
doing a double work in Harrisburg.
In the first place it guarantees a con
tinuous force of available teachers of
known education and ability. In the
second place It gives young women all
the advantages of a normal school
course, and much more, at practically
no cost to themselves and recruits to
the ranks of the teaching profession
many ambitious girls who otherwise
would not have the means of pursuing
the studies necessary to the obtaining
of a teacher's certificate.
1 EVENING CHAT I
Few people are aware of the fact
that as far us laud urea goes the city
of Harrisburg is not nearly as large
as,some of the smaller cities, in point
of population, and oven some of the 1
boroughs. The city's total acreage
within its Incorporated limits amounts
to 5,504.41, of which 3,448.50 is land
and_ the test Susquehanna river. The
city's line goes to the west shore of tho
Susquehanna and comes near to touch
ing three counties. Allentown is a
larger city in area than Harrisburg by
over 300 acres and the borough of
Carlisle is almost half as large as Har
risburg in area. Chambersburg has
11,015 acres and Dußois and Dickson
City, in which many Harrisburgers
have never been, are more than half
the area of the State Capital, while
Dunmore borough, the halfslster of
Seranton, has an acreage of 5,269, or
more than Harrisburg, land and
water. Krie's area is 4,739 acres und
Franklin and Hazleton are both about
300 acres larger than we are. We are
larger than Altoona, Johnstown, Lan
caster, Lebanon and McKeesport and
a little bit larger than Wilkes-Barre,
New Castle has us beaten, showing*
5,815 acres. Williamsport goes to
4,455 and the borough of Lurksville, in
Luzerne county, 3,092. Pottstown is
almost as large as we are. And as
for the borough of Taylor, which be
longs to the principality of Lacka
wanna, it is not so much smaller than
the State Capital. Steelton has an area
of 1.090 acres, or a little smaller than
Coatesviile, Connellsville, Donora, Sun
bury, Northampton and Winber and
being closo to Pittston and Shenandoah
in area.
Late travelers on the Derry street
trolley lines have a new form of enter
tainment on their trips owing to the
operations in relaying the rails on that
thoroughfare. Owing to the immi
nence of the paving the company is
pushing the work and concreting goes
on until as late in the night as the
people will stand for the noise. The
concreting force has a machine that is
lighted up like a battleship and then
there is a rock crusher or ballast
maker that eats up cobble stones and
which is also rigged out with wreaths
of lights. Both machines furnish much
of Interest. Then when the noise zone
is passed the traveler goes about a
quarter of a mile between a lane of
red lights, one stationed every twenty
live or thirty feet. These mark the
excavations for the new rails.
The riverside up above Alaclay street
is rapidly offering sidewalks to the
hundreds ot" people who stroll along
that thoroughfare and within a short
time people will no longer have to
walk in the street with automobiles
buzzing by every few minutes. Some
of the sidewalk operations are exten
sive and have attracted much atten
tion. Before long the street will be
provided with sidewalks from end to
end.
South Harrisburg people are not
bothered by the smoke nuisance and
to hear some of them talk they are
rather yearning for the smoky days to
come back. Only sonic portions of the
Central iron and steel works are in
operation and the real smoke makers
among the tall stacks are not doing
much. The Chesapeake nail works and
Paxton and Lochiel furnaces are all
idle and the only very tall stacks in
South Harrisburg which are smoking
are those at the old Paxtang electric
plant and the Harrisburg Railways
power plant.
The Odd Fellows' convention, which
adjourned yesterday, was one of the
most pleasant to Harrisburg people of
the long series that huve been held
here. This great fraternity has a large
membership in this city and its dele
gates are entertained in Harrisburg
homes to a great extent, Many of the
men who come here h^. e been at
tending conventions in the city for a
long time and contribute to the pleas
ure of the meetings here. Everv live
or six years the Odd Fellows' pick
Harrisburg for a convention and they
are always welcomed and taken to
the hearthstones of the State's capital.
The other morning a dog was being
given a trip on the front end of a
pay-within car. He did not like the
place of travel and he kept bolting
back into the car until his mistress
was flustered and passengers in the
car irritated or amused, according as
their breakfasts sat with them. Finally
the motorman hit on a scheme. He
just "meowed" like a cat and the dog
sat up on the platform watching for
the cat until he got over his scare.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—ln a speech at Philadelphia, John
Wanamaker said that mercantile or
ganizations could get closer together
and chase away strange ghosts in the
air of the business world.
—The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexander,
the new moderator of the Presbyte
rians, is pastor of the First Church
of Pittsburgh.
—Robert Y. Gerhart, of Danville,
has been made adjutant of the new
Third Squadron of cavalry.
—The Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell
was given a notable tribute to his
work in the ministry and for educa
tion in Philadelphia last night.
THESTATE PRESS
On tbe Other Hand
[From the Seranton Times.]
Because the cases against Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Mor
rison, officials of the American Federa
tion of Labor, were dismissed bv the
Supreme Court of the United States on
the ground that the statute of limita
tions barred prosecution of the men,
there is an expression of dissatisfac
tion in antiunion and corporate circles
opposed to the Federation. Consider
ing the fact that we are witnessing in
the Federal courts, almost daily, the
frantic efforts of capitalists and cor
porations caught doing tilings improp
| erly to evade responsibility upon all
manner of technicalities that shrewd
| lawyers only can devise, there is noth
j ing strange in the Supreme Court's de
cison giving the labor leaders the bene
fit of what the law declares everybody
is entitled to. *
The Book Yards
[From the Pittston Gazette.]
At a time some years ago, when a
craze for angular houses was spread
ing over the land, some writer re
marked that all the stylish houses had
Queen Anne fronts and Mary Ann back
yards. The craze referred to has pass
ed, but the majority of people still keen
back yards full of disorder. Most peo
ple's back yards are more visible and
exposed than they think.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of May 22, 1864.]
Elprhth Pennsylvania Her*
The Kighth Pennsylvania Reserves
1 arrived here on Saturday afternoon en
route for Pittsburgh, at which place
they will be mustered out of service.
Telegraphers Return
Messrs. Fottrel, Burkholder and Shel
ly, of the Inland telegraph office, in this
city, have returned from Washington,
to which place they were taken last
week, by order of the military authori
ties. Doubtless the office wlil be open
in a day or two.
NO THOUGHTLESS
The trouble with a fishing party is
that some follow m the crowd alwavs
Insists on flßliins.—Washington Herald
RYAN MIUI GIVES
MACHINE A MT
Philadelphian Says All the King's
Horses and King's Men
Lined Up
RYAN MAKES A STATEMENT
Palmer Loses Grip in Historic
Democratic District in
Northeast
i
j Notwithstanding the statement is-
I sued by Michael J. Ryan, in which he
says he bows to the decision of the
Democrats' on the nomination of a
State ticket and asks his friends to do
likewise, there has been no sign of any I
cordiality between the Pliiladolphian
and the party nominee. The state
ment Issued by Ryan is perfunctory
and if he has sent any congratulation
or tender of support to Candidate Mc-
Oormick it has not been made public.
I People throughout the State are
j watching the developments with a
good bit of interest and it is freely
predicted that the reorganization
hopes for a "United Democracy" are
very much in tho air.
While Ryan has made his statement,
Daniel Wade, chairman of the finance
committee of the Ryan campaign, gave
the machine a blast and handed a rap
to President Wilson. His statement
probably indicates the way many"
Democrats feel about the result last
Tuesday, and is a pretty sharp answer
to the pleas of Candidate McCormlck
for a united party and the statement
issued by Palmer at Stroudsburg in
which he asks that everyone line up.
Wade's statement is as follows: "The
battle waged by Mr. Ryan for the
Democratic nomination was one of tho
most remarkable in
the history of Penn
sylvania politics. Tremendous
There was arrayed Power of
against him all the the Machine
machinery of the
Democratic State
committee, all the patronage which
the national administration lias bp
stowed, all the Federal otfices not oniy
in the great cities, but in the towns
and villages throughout the State; and
notwithstanding the army of Federal
oiticeholders and the weight of the
national administration itself thrown
in the scales against him, Mr. Ryan is
defeated by less than 15,000. There
have been promised thousands of Fed
eral jobs. Money has been freely, lav
ished and corruptly used. Dispensers
of Federal patronage have threatened
with displeasure any person holding
public place. Three Cabinet officers
have invaded the State. All these
things have been done in tho interest
of Mr. McCormlck to defeat Mr. Ryan.
As a Democrat, I deeply regret that
President Wilson hesitated until elec
tion morning to denounce the con
duct of Palmer and McCormick in
attempting to link up his adminis
tration with their fortunes, and he
has probably awakened to the danger
of trusting to the counsel of men who
wouldv degrade the President of this
great republic into tho chief of a fac
tion of a State of which he is not a
resident."
Gifford Pinchot appears to have
been bitten by the early campaign
bug and he will start out from York
next Monday morning
to get a line on the
Hull Moosers feeling of the voters.
Anxious to Pinchot expects the
Get Colonel Colonel to make a
whole lot of speeches
for him, although
Fred F. Lewis, the candidate for Sec
retary of Internal Affairs, is making
a strong play to have the Colonel speak
for him, too. Lewis said yesterday
that to liis mind Palmer has no show
in the senatorial race. He believes
that it is between Penrose and Pin
chot, arguing that thousands of Dem
ocrats will not touch Palmer under
any conditions. Other Bull Moosers
are pulling for Roosevelt, too. Doc
Kreider also looks for him to come
here. —•
J. Benjamin Dimmick issued a state
ment last night at Scranton in which
he declined to be the candidate of the
Keystone -party for Sen
ator and also made a
declaration of his uttr- Pinunick
tude in regard to the Defines
senatorship. He says in Position
effect that he is still a
Republican. Mr. Dim
mick's statement is as follows: "Inas
much as during the latter part of my
compaign I fully realized and frankly
declared that Mr. Penrose had become
a moral issue, and thereby publicly
eliminated the possibility of my sup
porting him in the event of defeat, I
am called upon to make no further
declaration in this regard. In order,
however, that my fight for political
standards that are fundamentally, yes,
vitally important to the Republican
party, may not be misconstrued, I feel
called upon, at this time and without
further delay, to decline tho nomina
tion of the Keystone party."
Judging from returns Congressman
A. Mitchell Palmer has lost his grip
on Northampton county, the key of
the Twenty - sixth
Congressional Dis-
Palmer Loses trict. He failed to
I Grip Right nominate his can-
Near His Home dldate for his suc
cession and his
whole slate in
Northampton went down. Congress
man Diefenderfer, one of Palmer's
backers, is In such danger that it may
| take the official count to determine
I whether he is nominated or not. Con
gressman Rothermel. another signer
|of the call for party reorganization,
was beaten by Arthur G. Dewalt, who
was dethroned by the reoganization
move he helped start. Palmer is said
to be slated for a job at Washington
when the people of Pennsylvania get
a chance to show what they think of
his use of Federal patronage.
I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I
—Judging from results, it's a good
thing Palmer did not run for Con
gress again.
—Ryan may have made a manly
statement, but there are some Demo
crats who are still sore.
—Reports that the Pa-Mc League
will give a reception to Congressional
Candidate Kaufman are premature.
—Diefenderfer's nomination ap
pears to be as doubtful as the support
the Ryanitos will give to McCormick. l
—Pinchot and liewia do not even
consider that Palmer Is in the run
ning.
—Lex N. Mitchell, Washington
party candidate for Congress-at-large,
who Is in the city, expects an early
and strenuous campaign.
—JUdge Brtimm lost no time in con
gratulating Lewis.
—That flglit made in behalf of Knd
lich by a certain mourning newspaper
of this city was resented by over 10,000
Dauphin countians. See returns.
| —Lorenzo Smith, one of the Phlla
Buy Good Ready Clothes
BUT BE SURE THEY'RE GOOD
There's Plenty of Cheap Stuff Sold. Ask to see a
Hart Schaffner & Marx Spring Suit
and get all-wool quality, newest designs, imported fabrics, best domes
tics, careful workmanship, expert tailoring.
Get value for your money—s2o worth in a S2O suit; others up to
$35. Chalk stripes, blue serges, new grays, Scotch weaves.
Other Suit Prices, $15.00, SIB.OO, $25.00, $30.00
This store is the home of good clothes and men's
furnishings—everything you need—all guaranteed
H. Maries Son
Pourth Sz Market Sts.
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes.
delphia Bull Moosers in the last
House, was beaten tor renominutiou
and for the State committee.
■—The reorganization faction or the
Democracy elected just one State com
mitteeman in Philadelphia.
—"Farmer" Creasy blames tne new
primary law for many things. And he
is one of them.
—That Wade statement has a rather
ominous sound. Something like the
sharpening of a hatchet.
( O(JR DAILY~~LAUGH 'j
Abou't the Samt q( course!
She What do ghe _ There's
you think of the a man W ho has
styles this been disappointed
Spring? in love three
He ell) one times
no longer has the jj e ' Well, I
desire to see a suppose he'll
good burlesque rnarry again just
show. „ the same.
Trimmed I———
You were en- Stuns
gaged to a man- Reggy—Aw-er,
leurest. I believe. I Kay, Peggy, do
Yes—and I got you believe in
trimmed. kissing children?
Peggy No,
Reggy, you'll
have to wait a
few years.
HOWT
Dy Wing Dinger
There's something I would like to know,
Won't someone? please tell me
How one correctly can pronounce
P-l-n-c-h-o-t?
I do not know if those who speak
His name, are right or not
When they give the last syllable
A sound the same as "shot."
Then there are others, who If they
Are right, I'd like to know.
They give that second syllable
The sound of s-h-o.
i
Just yesterday I heard a man
Spoak of him, and please note,
That' he pronounced the name as
though
It were spelled thus: Plnchote.
i
His friends say he will go after
The Senate job and cinch It,
And probably that will explain
Why these folks call him Plnchit.
I've tried to find out who is right,
But, gee, there's no such luck—
All folks agree on the Pin end
Of his name—then we're stuck.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
A little fire is quickly trodden
out, which being suffered rivers
cannot quench.—Shakespeare.
I NCW o S r
[From the Telegraph of May 22, 1864.]
Grant to Force Out Lee
Washington, May 21. On Friday
evening General Grant comrneniajd a
movement for tbe purpose o£ compellln
ing Lee to abandon his position at
Spottsyivania, the details of which, for
obvious reasons, would not be made
public.
ItohelH Fire Town
New York, May 22. The North
Carolina Times, of the 21st, states that
the rebels in Little Washington had set
lire to that town on the 11th inst., de
stroying all but about twenty houses.
They also robbed all the women and
children in that place.
THE PRESIDENT'S FEELINGS
[From the Philadelphia North Ameri
can.]
From circles to tho White Hovise
comes the disclosure that President
Wilson is disturbed, even embittered,
by current criticism of his administra
tion.
To most persons, we think, this news
will be surprising, for ahy fair-minded
observer of the attitude of the news
papers and the people during the last
year must admit that no public man
was ever the object of more studious
tolerance and good +vill.
There has been, th'en. very little un
favorable public comment; and that lit
tle, which seems to have stung the
President into a resentful spirit, has
been caused chiefly by his feeble and
futile Mexican policy,
i Assuredly, tnere is no way in which
I he can divide that burden, if such It
be. He was the sole originator of that
policy, and he alone enforced It until
its development demanded the use of
the army and navy. How careful has
been the restraint of those who have
a right to criticise will best be shown
by recalling In their sequence the more
I important moves In this matter made
under the personal direction of the
! President.
Yet in spite of this studied attitude
of suport. if not of approval, the Presi
dent has taken pains to express his bit
ter resentment. And the strange vehicle
selected for making known his feelings
was the funeral oration he delivered
over the victims of the taking of Vera
Cruz.
That address was marked by a felicity
of phrase and loftiness of sentiment
which fully justified the high repute of
the President as a schodar and moral
ist; there are In sentences worthy of
lasting remembrance for their haunt
ing beauty and high-minded patriotism.
But these serve to emphasise the dis
cordant tone of the concluding part.
If ever there was an occasion to lift
a man out of himself, to All him with
the spirit of utter devotion, to the ex
clusion of all personal thoughts, surely
it was being called upon to speak over
those seventeen flag-draped biers, where
lay the bodies of brave men who had
given up their lives for the honor of
the nation.
But the President could not give his
thought wholly to those silent figures
of heroism. There was a personal mat
ter, a personal grievance, which came
between him and the contemplation of
their sublime service. It seemed to
him proper to utter, In the presence of
the nation's dead, this complaining pro
test:
I never went into battle, I never
was under fire, but I fancy that
there are some things just as hard
to do your duty when men are
sneering at you as when they are
shooting at you. When thev shoot
at you they can only take your
natural life; when they sneer at
you they cun wound your heart
Inevitably the occasion recalls a far
greater one—the dedication of the field
of Gettysburg. That was really In the
midst of war, and war not of the Presi
dent's making. He was bearing a bur-
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mo other leader of men had ever borne,
and he was the target for such sustain
ed enmity and abuse as might have Jus
tified a stern rebuke.
Yet was ever man so tender, so self
effacing, so inspirlngly forgetful of all
save his country, as Abraham Lincoln
vn that day in '63? His noble mind was
bowed with grief, but not for himself;
his heart was wounded, but not because
of pride; his most sacred feelings were
lacerated, but he hid them away. And
from his tired lips came, not words of
querulous complaint, but those match
less utterances of pure patriotism and
devotion which will thrill the world
for all time to come.
Tho crudity, the inapproprlatenenn
and tha bad taste of this part of Presi
dent Wilson's memorial oration shocked
every sensitive person who read it.
And the final proof of the forebearance
of his critics can be found in the fact
that it hns been passed over in compas
sionate silence.
Better for himself, and far better for
the people of this country, would it be
il' the President turned his thoughts
from his own bruised feelings, his own
wounded sensibilities, and considered
more the heart of the nation whose
honor he has in his keeping.
Not I.lke David
[From the Lebanon Daily News.]
President Wilson has a tent for his
executive mansion this summer. It is
In one of the White House gardens and
not in Mexico. The seat of government
refuses to float around after the fashion
of the Ark of Israel. You know Saul
and David used to set up headquarters
wherever the next battle was expected.
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