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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29.
Blessed is everyone that feareth
Jehovah, that walketh in his \cay.
—Ps. 128:1.
NO IiONGER AN ADMIRER
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD,
of the New York Evening Post,
has contributed a valuable paper
to the political history of the Wilson
administration by writing on "The
Mystery of Woodrow Wilson" for the
North American Review. Villard was
once an ardent admirer of Wilson.
The great mystery is the change that
came over Wilson when he became
President. From a man who took
counsel with his co-workers he be
came the most Inaccessible and se
cluded President who has ever occu
pied the White House. Even promi
nent diplomats returning from their I
posts abroad and ready with lnforma- (
tion that ought to be of uso to the j
head of a nation found that their I
advice and facts were not wanted.
Cabinet meetings were discontinued
until public criticism caused resump- ;
tion. Meetings with representatives of
the press were abandoned and secrecy
became the chief characteristic of the
administration.
Public men from over the country, 1
whether members of his own party or
Republicans, were not invited or wel- |
corned to the White House. Where
other Presidents taken almost '
dally opportunity to confer with men j
of affairs by entertaining them at i
luncheon, Wilson maintained the ut- j
most privacy. This became a one- j
man government and Democracy be- I
came a one-man party. It was assumed
that all wisdom and integrity and I
patriotism were confined to one man's 1
personality and the rest of the world
"was kept from contact with him.
No wor.der the Wilson ad minis- '
•tration has been such a dismal failure. 1
The Department of Justice is com.
plaining: because Congress failed to
pass all the laws asked for on the sub
ject of neutrality. Well, it was a
Democratic Congress, in both branches.
If it wasted time and money making
extravagant appropriations instead of
passing good laws desired by the
President, then Congress, in both
branches, should be taken from control
of the Democrats. If the laws asked
for were not wise, then we need a
change in the Presidency. In tin>
event, the criticism of a Democratic
Congress by a Democratic Department
of Justice is certain to help the Re
publican campaign.
TRI E TO THEIR CONTRACTS
THE most encouraging sign of the
times Is the failure of the pro-
posed sympathc-Uc strike in
New York City, called for the pur
pose of helping the street car em
ployes enforce their demands.
Nearly all of the unions Involved
are under specific agreement with
their employers. A majority of them
have signed scales and are virtually
under contract to work when work
Is offered In accordance with the pro
visions of their mutual agreements.
For these union men to have quit
work, embarrassing their employers
and ruining their business, would have
been an act of bad faith that would
have reacted seriously upon the men
themselves. A broken contract is a
broken contract whether it be between
businessmen or between businessmen
y<l employes. Nobody has any faith
B the company, the man or the labor
Kaion that does not keep faith. The
H-ongost pleas the union makes to the
is that by recognizing It he
his working force, Insures
against sudden and unreason
demands during the term of the
Be signed and is dealing with one
head instead of with
Take that away and every
Ksinessman In the land would be
ropposed to unions.
If, therefore, the union workmen
of New York had walked out at the
call of the street car mtn they would
have broken their contracts with their
employers and would have placed
themselves In tho unenviable light of
Germany regarding a written agree
ment aa no more than a "scrap of
paper." They would have lost pub
lic support and public confidence and
their "scales,", solemnly agreed upon
and signed as a pledge of sincerity,
would have been as worthless as Bel
gium's treaty with the Kaiser.
By refusing to be stampeded Into
a disastrous strike not of their own
making tho union men as a whole
have demonstrated an independence of
spirit and a sturdy American honesty
Of Intent that will do much to restore
the oonftdence of a more or leas doubt
ful public and have dealt at the same
time a stinging blow to the presump-
FRIDAY EVENING, fcARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! SEPTEMBER '
tion of so-called leaders who have
tpeen endeavoring to manipulate or
ganized labor to their own selfish ends.
Backet-s of President Wilson In
sporting circles are declining: to take
bets at 2 to 1 and say they are waiting
for two and a half to one. They will
get It, and, before election, the odds
will be four or five to one that Hughes
will win.
ROOM FOR ALL
OTHER organizations ought to fol
low the example of the Rotary
Club In lining up back of the
Chamber of Commerce In support of
the new hotel movement. Ninety per
cent, of the Rotarlans, It Is said, will
become stockholders In the new hotel
project. Not content with canvassing
their own membership the Rotarlans
will carry their solicitation to hun
dreds of others.
The Rotary Club is made up of
shrewd businessmen. They are not
going into the hotel company as phil
anthropists. They see In It what they
believe to be a good investment. They
believe that If an outside concern is
willing to rent the hotel property on
a six per cent, guarantee on a million
dollar valuation, the hotel company
operating the hostelry itself after the
first year or two will be able to earn
substantially more than even the grat
ifying dividend of six per cent.
But there is more than mere money
getting behind the hotel movement
There Is civic pride and a desire that
Harrlsburg shall rank with other cities
of the land with respect to hotel facil
ities as It does in public improvements
i and desirable living conditions. To
that end such Influential organizations
as the railroad brotherhoods, the Civic
Club, the various secret societies which
would like to see their State and nat
ional conventions come to Harrisburg,
the Commercial Travelers and all
others who have an Interest In the
welfare and proper development of
the city ought to take a part in raising
funds for the new hotel.
It would be a fine thing indeed if
the hotel could be built without either
a mortgage or a bond Issue and with
out going outside the immediate com
munity for a dollar of the money. If
this Is to be done other organizations
must got behind the Chamber and the
Rotary Club. Beyond doubt the
Chamber's hotel committee would be
glad to appear before any organiza
tion that may deelre, to explain the
hotel project at length. Co-operation
along this line would be mighty good
advertising for any society. Which
will be first to volunteer?
AMATEUR TALENT
WHERE there's a will there's a
way. Fortunately for the Civic
Club this is true, and because
it is they will have at least two
of the rooms In their new home at
Front and North streets completely
furnished as soon as the furniture can
be Installed. The will was found in
the consciousness of one young lady,
whose personality and determination,
aided by the hearty co-operation of
some score of other young ladies, car
ried through to a successful conclu
sion, socially and financially, the
project of amateur theatricals as a
result 'of which the Civic Club is th*s
beneficiary.
"Prunella" should be but the fore
runner of similar productions. If the
hopes of the moving spirits do not
flag, it is more than probable that
some lasting organization may be
evolved that will assure the perma
nence of a body of young ladies In
terested in dramatics.
HllT X BURGLARS COME
APROPOS of burglars a contro
versy has arisen in the Toklo
newspapers as to how a man
should proceed whose home was In
vaded. A correspondent tells of a
foreigner in that town whose house
waa visited by burglars at regular In
tervals and who on each occasion
shouted from his window "Robbers!
Help!" but nobody ever responded.
Another writer gives the following
advice:
If your house Is visited by rob
bers, don't- so so foolish as to open
your window and to cry at the top
of your voice: "Dorobn! Dorobo'
(Robber! Robber!). In this <-as
all your neighbors will very care
fully lock their doors and not move
one Inch, because their own safetv
requires not to save you. But if
you really want help in case you
nre surprised or attacked by a
burglar, open the window and crv
at the top of your voice: ••Kali!
Ka.1l!" (Fire! Fire!) —and all your
neighbors will like lightning and
even in a pitch dark night run out
. of their houses and come in crowds
to assist you. They will act under
the Impression that thev must save
you for the sake of their own
safety.
The Telegraph gives this bit of Japa
nese odvleo as a hint to Harrisburg
ers who may be visited by some of the
nocturnal intruders the police are un
able to catch. It would have been
particularly helpful the other night at
the United States Hotel, where Are
and thieves came at the same time.
It Is well that President Wilson de
fends his attitude toward the wage-In
crease legislation. The great mass of
the people might be misled If h tried
to change his mind Just before election.
It Is far better that we have assurance
that he chose his course deliberately
and that he will follow the same policy
any time and every time one or more
unions threaten to tie up the transpor-
I tatlon systems of the country unless
their demands are granted within a
specified number of hours. Everybody
now knows the kind of stuff Wilson
has In him and those who want a Pres
ident who yields to dictation at home
and bluff abroad can have him.
I telegraph PERISCOPE "1
—The Democrats have placed Penn
sylvania In the "doubtful" column—
doubtful as to the size of Hughes' ma
jority, perhaps.
—We have not yet noted that annual
dispatch about the shortage of the
chestnut crop. We hope the blight
got It.
—Flour is used for dough, but to
have any flour these days a man must
first get considerable dough.
—Loaves of bread may be smaller,
but the holes In the doughnuts are
getting larger.
—There seems to be very little sym
pathy for- that New York sympathy
strike.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT]
Our volunteer soldiery has given a
fine demonstration of the two predomi
nating passions of youth; first, to get
away from home, and then to get back.
—New York Telegraph.
As ypu may have read with con
siderable emotion. President Wilson
signed the eight-hour law with four
pens, which he presented to the four
brotherhood chiefs. A gentleman call
ed; us on the telephone to Inquire
whether the dear peepul will get the
blotter.—Rocky Mountain News.
The study of European geography
this fall Is largely a matter of opin
ion.—Kansas city Star.
Efficiency of Scoundrelism
(New York World)
Further investigation of the black
mailing enterprise founded upon the
provisions of the Mann White Slave
Law has revealed a rare thorough
ness of preparation and scientific
method,
The operating gang, it appears, was
in posession of a fairly complete
record of the family skeletons of the
country. It had lists as well of rich
young sowers of wild oats with handy
notes on the dates and other par
ticulars of their sowing. Old bones
could bo rattled at any time to en
force a demand for coin. Happy
turners of new leaves could be shaken
out of their serenity and their cash
by reference to a card index.
Safe - breakers have kept pace
through the years with scientific
progress in explosives, electric meth
ods and workings in hard metals.
Counterfeiters have taken advantage
of the latest developments in print
ing, engraving and papermaking.
Other offenders have profited by in
ventions of special bearing on their
lines of work. It has been left for
the blackmailer to show most strik
ingly how aptly Big Roguery can mis
appropriate the technics of Big Busi
ness.
Villa Again
(Salt Lake Tribune)
Villa attacked Columbus, N. M., to
force an American invasion. He al
most accomplished his entire purpose,
but the invasion frittered away into
nothingness. Now he sees a new op
portunity. If he can overthrow Car
ranza and establish himseir as a de
facto ruler, he can laugh at. Presi
dent Wilson while at the same time
demanding recognition. He can ren
der nugatory all the negotiations of
Carranza's representatives and can
demand new terms from the United
States. What the moral may be we
do not pretend to say. With Presi
| dent Wilson in power it probably
1 would mean another period of
"watchful waiting." With Hughes in
the presidential office Villa probably
would be called to immediate ac
countability and forced to establish
I law and order or give way to those
1 who could.
Saving His Excuses
(Youngstown. O. "feregrami
"How would you like to go with me
on a fishing trip in a few weeks?"
the fat plumber asked his friend, the
thin carpenter.
"I'd like it all right," the carpen
ter returned, "but I am afraid it is
out of the question."
"Why?"
"I couldn't think of an excuse to
give my wife for going out of town
at this time."
"Haven't you any good excuses at
all?"
"Yes, but I don't want to use them
Just now."
"Why not?"
"Well, to tell the truth. I am sav
ing them up for housecleaning time."
The Dawn
(From a poem by E. B. Reed In the
October Yale Review)
Two spirits stand beside her bed
Softly stroking her curly head.
Death whißpers, "Come''—Life whispers
"Stay."
Child, little child, go not away.
Life pleads, "Remember"—and Death
"Forget."
Little childfc little child, go not yet.
By ail your mother's love and "pain
Child of our heart, child of our brain
Stay with us; go not till you see
The Fairy land that life can be.
Work and Play
(Louisville Courier Journal)
Work is all very well in Its place.
And its place should be large and
lasting, but if a worker is to allow
it to consume his capacity for the en
joyments of a normal life. If ho is to
become a piece of efficient machinery
like a piston rod or a wheel, he is'
unless he is viewed as the provider of
others, almost as great a failure as
the fellow who cannot drive himself
to work because of his desire to play
Making Amends
(Philadelphia Ledger)
Richard Strauss' new opera, The
Woman Without a Shadow, Is prob
ably conceived as an act of penitence
for the many operas that he wrote
In which his woman heroines all had
a past, and a shadowy or shady one
at that.
Little Good to Average
(Gary Times)
What good does Steel common at
107 do us of the common herd if we
have to pay 10 cents for bread 80
cents a peck for potatoes, $9 for coal
2R cents for pork chops and 40 cents
for butter? Somebody please hand
us a Socialist application blank.
Triumphant Vindication
(Columbia (S. C.) State)
Mr. So-and-So has been elected to
represent his county in the legislative
halls of the State by a very flattering
vote, the recount showing that he Jed
his opponent by three votes and not
two, as was at first thousrnt.
r~ T>outi<* LH. |
I By the Ex-Committeeman
Formation of Hughes clubs and
branches of the Hughes Alliance is go
ing forward in every part of the State
and yesterday in Philadelphia there
was also formed the Hughes Business
Men's League. These Jjfughes organ
izations are getting together many 01
the leading men of the country and In
this State some of the clubs and simi
lar organizations will wield a powerful
Influence, as they comprise Democrats
disgusted with Wilson.
The Philadelphia organiza tion formed
yesterday is one of eighty-five in
northern cities. Alba B. Johnson,
president of the Baldwin Ixicomotlve
Works, heads the Philadelphia organ
ization. Associated with htm are the
following: Ex-Judge Dlmner Beeber.
president of the Commercial Trust
Company; H. K. Mulford, president
of the H. K. Mulford Company, chem
lets; Howard Loeb, president of the
Tradesmen's National Bank; Powell
Evans, of Merchant, Evans & Co.;
John C. Winston, president of the
John C. Winston Company, publish
ers; John Walton, of Jacob W. Wal
ton Sons, comb manufacturers, and
Bayard Henry, of Henry, Pepper, Bo
dine & Pepper, lawyers.
Ex-Representative Fred W. Willard,
I hiladelphia, who was re-elected presi
dent of the league, in commenting
upon the New Jersey primaries, said:
"The President Is fast losing prestlgo
In his own State. Our information in
dicates 50.000 majority in this State in
November. nomination of Senator
Martine by the New Jersey Democrats
over Attorney General Wescott is
known to be considered a slap at the
President'? vacillating policies by
members of his own party In his home
State. Before very long results in
every section of the Union will bear
out tho prophecies now being made by
Republican leaders, and which were
so forcibly presented at the rousing
mass meeting last Tuesday night in the
Tabernacle. The reports of the dele
gates have shown that, although the
present evidences of prosperity are of
an artificial nature, it is at least prov
ing helpful in obtaining campaign con
tributions. The enthusiasm mani
fested during the convention has Im
bued club members with the deter
mination to get every possible voter
out for Hughes and FairbanksJln No
vember. We Republicans have no fear
that that pretty little bit of expedi
ency, the eight-hour law, is going to
help the cause of the Presdient. Those
railroad men who were Democrats be
fore its passage will remain Demo
crats. of course, and those who w_ "■
Republicans will remain true to
old party."
—Judging from the catterwauling
going on in Democratic papers, there
must have been some feelings of
Democrats hurt by the manner in
which Penrose and Fllnn buried the
hatchet and joined in making the tour
of Charles E. Hughes a success In
Western Pennsylvania. It was one of
the impressive events of the visit and
at traded national attention. The
Democrats, naturally, see no good in it.
Democratic State Chairman Joe
Guffey came out I his morning with a
very, ver.\ old yell about the tour of
the Republican presidential candidate
through the steel mills of Pittsburgh.
He declarer that Mr. Hughes' tour was
arranged by the Steel Trust. When
Democratic candidates go through
mills or shake hands with people in
factories the Democratic newspapers
and Guffey have acclaimed the visits
to the very work benches of the toilers.
It all depends upon who happens to he
making the tour, according to Guffey.
—Alderman George D. Herbert rather
emphasized the fact that he is the
Democrctic candidate for senator last
night at the Middletown Democratic
meeting. Right in the midst of some
Democrats whom it is suspected have
been trying to get him to withdraw the
veteran Democrat proclaimed his
Democracy and made a Jacksonian
speech compared to which the ad
dresses of the rest were like reports of
pop guns.
—To-day was "Federal amyiiiment"
day among the suffragists and they
had meetings in a number of places.
The organization of the cong -ssional
fight is progressing faster Xll the
publicity end can keep track k,i.
—Selection of commissioners to take
the votes of Pennsylvania soldiers has
been occupying the time of the Gov
ernor for the last two weeks. The
Governor expects to act pretty soon.
—Governor Brumbaugh paid a tri
bute to Representative I'harles G. Cor
bln. the Republican and Prohibition
candidate- for the Legislature from
Mifflin county, while in that county
yesterday. Mr. Corbin is a candidate
for re-election and the Governor said
'hat he had stood four square for local
option and good things.
—Philadelphia city workers are ask
ing for increases in wages. One of
the pleas is for car fare.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer prints
the following interesting bit of news
to-day: "With the return to the city
last night of the delegates to the State
League convention at York announce
ment was made that there is to be a
round-up of the McNichol cohorts at
a big banquet to be given by Senator
McNichol. The affair is to take place
on Wednesday night, October 11, in
Scottish Kites Hall. It is likely to be
an event of more than passing in
terest on account of the men of promi
nence who will be invited and of what
shall be said by both Senator McNichol
and his guests. It was reported lasr
night that Mayor Thomas B.'Smith has
been asked to be present and that he
lias accepted the Invitation. Other
leading city officials are on the list,
along with Senator Penrose, State
Chairman Crow, Congressman George
S. Graham and nominees on the State
ticket." *
Not a Wilson Year
(Baltimore American)
This is surely not a Wilson year.
And November will disclose that
fact in the most enthusiastic man
ner. Maine had its word of weight.
Now comes New Jersey. It there was
one man above another anathema to
Mr. Wilson it was James E. Mar
tine. But the returns show that this
man. who was reud out of the party
by the one who is now President, has
defeated the candidate of Mr. Wil
son, Attorney General John W. West
cot t, for the senatorial honors.
This fact adds nothing to the Joy
of Mr. Wilson, but it must subtract
greatly from the measure of his con
fidence in the movement of political
thought at this time.
The return of Martine is sufficient
indication that New Jersey democra
cy has cast ofr all allegiance to the
Wilson domination. And there is no
reason to believe that this same dis
position to turn aside from him will
be shown to be general throughout
the country, and in many of the
Democratic strongholds.
This is true of the South. For
while the Solid South may not be
seriously invaded, there is ample rea
son to believe that the South exe
crates as much as any other section
the peculiar products of the Wilson
system of policies.
Truly, the signs of the year are all
adverse to the hopes of Mr. Wilson
for re-election, and New Jersey has
spoken significantly.
Editor Had the Advantage
Ix>cal Editor Brattan. of the News,
and Miss Cornetha Nesbit motored to
Everett last Sunday on a pleasure trip.
Max Sheets at the wheel.—Fulton Re
oubllcan.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
CALLED TO THE COLORS
YodR country ( " '
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—From the Columbian Illapntrh.
RAILROAD WORKER
VIEWS ON ADAMSON LA W
. FAGAN. author of "Confessions of a Railway Signalman," from
his tower on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine Railroad,
yesterday wrote for the Philadelphia Public Ledger his impressions of the
manner in which the Adamson law. recently passed by Congress to avert the
threatened railroad strike, will work out in practice which are herewith re
£ J" ■ . F^ K ?r member of ,he Switchmen's and Signalmen's Union
and has devoted his life to the study of labor conditions. He is highly re
garded by railroad managers and labor leaders, although he opposes some of
the present tendencies in the unions. His article follows:
Boston, Mass., Sept. 29. The ef
fect of the eight-hour law on the rail
road yard service will, of course, de
pend on Its application by the man
agers.
In meddling with the yard service
the new law butts in on a situation
that is now extremely satisfactory to
the employes. Let us remember this
to begin with. The practice of rigid
economy In the yard service after the"
first of January next, and that Is what
the managers will be driven to, will
introduce all sorts of makeshifts
which are likely to stir up a hornets'
nest of dissatisfaction.
In small yards, where the switch
ing is comparatively easy and by no
means continuous, there is sure to be
a great deal of overtime, but in termi
nals and big yards where switching
never ceases, every man under the
eight-hour law will be held to his
eight-hour shift.
So far as I can make out from ex
tensive inquiries, the law will fall far
short of yard-service expectation.
Some of the men will be satisfied; a
majority will put up a big kick. On
the Boston and Maine, for example, in
a present ten-hour yard, the law will
actually mean loss of money per day
for the individual worker. The older
employes in the yard service say they
will gladly accept shorter hours and
a little less pay, but the younger men,
that Is, the majority, will not be will
ing to accept loss money than they are
getting now without putting up a
kick.
This situation and this diagnosis
wil probably hold good all over the
country. The manager, of course,
could probably find ways to straighten
out the situation, but economy, for one
thing, forbids.
They, the managers, are not talking
for publication. Nevertheless, they
certainly hold the whlphand in this
business. They are going to make
everybody tired of the Wilson experi
ment. That is really what they mean
when they say they are going to fight
the law. At any rate, that is what I
Wabbling Chauffeur
There was once n chauffeur who was
employed to drive a car wherein many
did ride. And the road whereon the car
ran was not smootlii neither was It
without unexpected urves and sudden
grades. And there were deep ditches
on either side of that road.
Now that chauffeur, being: short of
sight. kept his gaze upon the road Im
mediately before the front wheels of
that car. nor did he look ahead, where
fore was he taken aback by unexpected
things in that road, and was perturbed
In spirit, and in his perturbation did
make countless wabblings of the steer
ing wheel, whereby the path of that car
was sinuous even as the path of a ser
pent in the road. And though at times
he did open the muffler and make a
mighty noise, even at that instant did
he apply the brakes, and slight was the
progress of that car. Ever and anon
.would he stop and back up, and with
hesitation would he start again. At
times would) he bring the car to rest
on the verge, yet, on the very marge of
the ditch, and there would he tarry a
while. And this h, called watchful
waiting, for he was full of words.
Bo that they who rode In other cars
gazed scornfully upon that car, Its
chauffeur and them who rode therein.
Then said some of them that rode In
that car: "Come, let us now engage 11
competent chauffeur, one who looks
ahead as far as the road permits and
who will drive with a clear understand
ing of the principles of driving. For
this man brlngeth ns all into peril of
the ditch by his shortsightedness and
habitual wabblings and into contempt
In the eyes of men by his sinuosities."
But some there were In that car who
were ignorant of the art of driving
and had therefore taken little heed
thereof, and they said: "Nay, let us
keep this man." And the others asked:
"Wherefore?" And they replied: "Be
cause he hath kept us out of the ditch."
And there was dissension In that car.
—George Help In the New York Sun.
"Silence Is Golden"
A great deal was said about the si
lence of Mr. Hushes before the He
publican national convention.
It was this sllenco that attracted me
to Hughes. If you select a man as
your banker, you do not expect him to
print declarations about his honesty
or ability; nor do you expect htm to
make speeches about his Progressive
Ideas, or his fairness to his patrons, or
his willingness to protect their Inter
ests, as experience directs. You select
him as your banker because of his rec
ord; because of his known reputation;
because of his proven ability to meet
emergencies In a fair and intelligent
way.
The fact that Hughes "did not en
gage in the contest of candidates to
say the most "popular things," strong
ly attracted me to him.—E. W. Howe's
Monthly.
think they mean. In other words, in
the application of the law they are
going to start a rumpus among the
federated employes, and in this way
the law itself is liable to be thrown
back into the lap of Congress for re
adjustment. Of course, this is simply
and solely my personal opinion and
horoscope.
But the real noise in the business Is
going to get started when managers
and men get together and try to ad-
Just the eight-hour law to the rail
road man's schedule.
This schedule is and always has
been a law unto itself. It is the rail
road man's Bible as well as his dic
tionary. Now the basic working day
in the eight-hour law is not the basic
working day of hours and mileage In
the trainmen's schedule.
United States law is bigger than a
brotherhood schedule. The railroad
managers, in my opinion, are now go
ing to interpret the eight-hour law
as an obligation as well as a privilege.
They are going to call upon a certain
number and class of train service em
ployes positively to work eight hours
for eight hours' pay.
Personally. I do not think this will
he much of a shock to public opinion.
But when the managers do call upon
the men In any and all circumstances
as they, the managers, see fit, to work
eight hours for eight hours' pay, then
I say, look out for the deluge!
It will certainly be another condi
tion to put over on the President for,
as the schedule is arranged to-day,
■ millions of dollars are being yearly
paid out by the railroads for what is
called constructive, or as I should sav,
presumptive mileage, when the men
render no actual service and are paid
full rates for the simple presumption.
To sum up, then, who is going to
tackle and to bell this schedule cat
when it gets its back up after the first
of January? Forewarned is forearm
ed. Now is the time to studv the
situation and to watch the hatching
of the most unpromising egg in Presi
dent Wilson's political incubator.
JAMES O. FAGAN.
British For Tariff
(Indianapolis Star)
A trades union congress was held
recently .n Birmingham, England, at
which representatives of 2,500,000 or
ganized laborers in Great Britain
went on record In favor of protective
tariff. A resolution adopted by a
majority of more than 1,000,000 votes
■ asks for "the adoption of methods of
restriction or preventing the impor
| tatlon of cheap manufactured goods
j produced at lower rates of wages and
under worse labor conditions than
1 prevail in this country."
Those British laborers who have
lived and worked all their lives in a
free-trade country and under free
trade conditions are asking their Par
liament to enact into law the princi
pies for which the Republican party
stands in behalf of American labor.
They do not "affirm our belief in the
doctrine of a tariff for the purpose
of the government." in the terms of
the platform adopted by the Demo
crats at St. Louis last June.
They are, in the words of the Re
publican platform, "in the fullest
sense for the policy of tariff protec
tion. There is no presidential elec
tion on in Great Britain. There Is
no Adamson law discussion to throw
dust in their eyes. The Britons were
unbiased In deciding what, is for the
best interest of the workingmen.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Question, submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."!
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by ordl'nance. Y ° f the ° ,ty
Our Daily Laugh
FROM THE
i>OPE.
That new letter
carrier should
baseball pitcher.
He's there with
1 h < * e ' ivery all
Fish may be /\
bought If they JllkV* C
can't be caught.
Ebpttimj <El|at
The way the Stat* Highway Departs
ment and the Pennsylvania Railroad
are getting ready to work on the new
highway that is to occupy the old
Pennsylvania canal for some distance
north and south of the Clark's Ferry
bridge should be noted by the goose
bone and sausage skin weather prorh
ets. The wagons and materials and
tools and men are being assembled
about the region of the old dam as
though the State and the railroad never
expected such a thing to come along.
The preliminary work has been under
way for the last seven weeks and wood
cutters have been chopping down the
trees that have grown In the space
where the coal boats used to navigate
and the appearance' of the berm bank
and the wall Indicate that perhaps the
task will not be so severe after all.
This Improvement, the full extent of
which will not be appreciated by Har
rlsburgers for some time because when
tourists learn of It the highway will
be one of the most popular in tha
State, is to be pushed. One of the men
identified with the operation declared
to-day that he expected some substan
tial progress to be made before the
snow flies. "October and November are
great months for outdoor work and
we may be able to work for a time
in December." paid .Tie. "This Fall
weather makes men and beasts want
to step lively and we will show you
something. We're not starting late.
We are going to start before the black
birds go awa.v and work as long us
old Mr. Winter will let us. And when
Spring comes we will be mighty well
organized and we will make a quick
clean up. The old canal section is go
ing to be a lively place for the next
year or so."
Deputy Fire Marshall James TT. Me-
Farland yesterday Investigated the
rumors of Incendiarism in connection
with the Metropolitan Hotel Annex
fire, and while going over the ruins
discovered a fire trap nearby. Deputy
McFarland notified Fire Chief John C.
Kindler at once, and the owner of the
property was ordered to clean up. In
the rear yard more than sixty large
packing boxes, partly filled with ex
celsior and old paper, were discovered
by the State fire investigator.
If the traditional meaning of the
rainbow had signillcance this morn
ing, then the scores of early risers
en route to office and factory and mill
should have enjoyed a doubly promis
ing day. From 6 o'clock until about
6.10 a giant double span of the deli
cate colors of the spectrum glowed
across the western skies. Each broad
band stood out with equal prominence
and this, coupled with the fact that,
the exhibition of the Fall sky painting
by the Master Hand had taken place
so early, was a more than ordinarily
cheerful indication to hurrying clerks
and stenographers and salesmen and
mill and factory hands that to-day
was due to t>e a mighty successful
twenty-four hours all around.
Front street in the vicinity of'■ Ma
rket ordinarily isn't the quietest thor
oughfare by any means, and now only
mere man and his wife and his babies
realize this. Here's a tale of how one
of the furred "little people" appre
ciated the dangers that lurk on the
smoothly paved street between the
east curb and the sheltering trees of
the park.
School days in the great wide world's
lessons in experience evidently had
l.egun yesterday for the squirrels and
one anxioisf little four-footed mother
had giver, over a portion of the morn
ing to teaching her very small baby
just how to climb trees, move from
trunk to trunk and so on. And when
the lesson was finished the mother
had a problem before her—how to get
her child across the much traveled
street to th'e far-away trees of the
park. For awhile she hesitated as
motor cars, trucks and teams passed,
and (hen, when a little lull occurred,
she found a solution. She grabbed
the youngster by the furry part of its
neck, hoisted it half way across her
shoulders and hustled across the street.
"That famous Wilson tango has
nothing on the dance you can do com
ing- In over the Mulberry street bridge
on a wet morning wearing a pair of
shoes which you have just had re
soled," peevishly declared an Allison
Hill man in greeting his' fellow em
ployes in a downtown office this morn
ing.
"It's not a case of 'one step forward,
two steps backward and a sidestep,'
but it's half a step forward and a) long
glide sldewise, backward or most any
other direction that your new $1.25
half soles take a notion to go," he
recited, punctuating every other word
with n hard expletive and tenderly
rubbing a pair of aching calves byway
of emphasis.
"It's bad enough." he ended with
Rn explosion, "to pay some dog-gone
robber in a leather apron your good
day's wages to induce hint to con
descend to part with four ounces of
leather for your only decent pair of
shoes, but when you try to walk in
those shoes first on a wet day and
have to attempt to persuade your
friends you were perfectly sober and
only trying out a r ew dance steps com
ing over the bridge—why. that's too
much!"
"Have you ever noticed that a hot
spell always comes around when Sep
tember quarter sessions Is being held?"
said one of tlie older nttorneys at the
Dauphin cpunty bar. I have hern prac
ticing law for years and I have never
known It to fall. I have gone to the
courthouse In the morning wearing
an overcoat, and by noon I have shaken
my vest. I have known the mercury
to (To around eighty In the September
court week. It generally always gets
cold about the time the court term
ends."
"I have sold Just one dozen red
lights for tliis campaign," was the
statement of one of the city's promi
nent druggists last night as he watched
the first club parade of the year. "In
times gone by we have sold red lights
by the gross, but then the political
fever was running high. It. does not
seem to be virulent this year."
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Charles Rohlands. active in coal
affairs in l-uzerne and vicinity. Is tak
ing a big interest in the game propa
gation work of the State and has
stocked a number of tracts.
-—-Ex-Congressman J. D. Hicks, of
Altoona, accompanied the Governor on
part of the agricultural tour. He was
the oldest man on the tour.
—The Rev. Andrew Spanogle, who
Is 92, was among those who went to
Hurnha'.n yesterday to greet the Gov
ernor on his tour.
—Justice E. A. Walling was yes
terday notified by York lawyers that
they pledged their support to him.
DO YOU KNOW I
That Harrlsburg Is the center of '
fifteen roads which enter city
streets?
HISTORIC HAKRISBURG
When John Harris a" 1 William M>
clay laid out Capitol 1 0. it was noted
.as a blackberry patch.