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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1917
He maketh the storm a calm, so
■Vhat the waves thereof are stilt. —
Ps. 107:29.
■
RECKLESS GUNNERS
THE Park Department was wise
in placing special officers in
Wlldwood Park to protect city
property and those who use it legiti
mately from the reckless gunners
who formerly slew the game that
found refuge there and endangered
their own lives and the lives of pe
destrians and automobllists by the
careless use of firearms.
There is another class of gunners,
nlso, who need attention. They are
the "pot hunters" who invade pri
vate property in the suburbs and
about school houses. No real sports
man would be guilty of such conduct
and the penalties of the law are too
mild for them. There is just about as
much real sport in shooting a cat, as
■in firing pointblank at the half-tame
"bunnies" wjjich frequent the home
.pardens of suburban residents. There
'is all the excitement of firing at a
chicken in running to earth the rab
bit that has liis home in a drain
pipe by the side of a house and by
long observance of people has learn
ed to be about as fearsome of hu
mans as is the rooster in the adjacent
poultry yard.
Yet there are hunters to whom a
rabbit is a rabbit and who will run
any risk of damaging property or
hilling pedestrians in order to get a
shot at one of these.
The true 'sportsman takes his
pleasure in the open, where the game
has at least an equal chance, and
where he may discharge his gun
without fear of stray shots finding
human marks.
Beware of the backyard gunner.
'"Usually he knows nothing about
unting and very little about a gun.
'He is a person to be shunned.
FROM BAD TO WORSE
T -IE Kaiser goes from bad to
worse. His appointment of Count
Von Hertling to be Imperial
chancellor is a slap at those of the
Jieichstag who have been demanding
reforms of a democratic character.
*This will he discouraging to those
'who have looked for some sincere
effort on the part of the Emperor
to meet the public desires for more
liberal government, but it will be ag
gravating also. There is an old say
tng that those "whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad." and it
Is also true that the autocrat almost
snvariably holds on to all his power
(until an enraged populace, that in the
arly stages of discontent would
■have accepted and been satisfied
•with a little yielding, rises up and
takes everything from the stubborn
S-uler. A glance back over the narty
Dilatory of the United States reveals
that tendency very strongly. Per
haps in the long run this may happen
In Germany. We shall be able to
ftrin and hear the Michaellses and
the von Hertlings the more grace
tfully with that hope In view.
CHILDREN DID WELL
THE boys and girls of this local
ity, at least, did very well last
night when they refrained from
scattering corn and flour in their
Hallowe'en revels, as has been the
custom for years. On the West Shore
*he school pupils took their corn to
Bchool and gave it to their teachers
to be ground into meal, and the pro
ceeds used for charitable purposes or
Hvar work. Many bushels of grain
twere thus saved that otherwise
(would have been wasted. Here is an
(example of the way the young peo
jple of the country may help win the
•war when their efforts are properly
Mirected.
SWEDEN'S ANCIENT GRUDGE
,Q| WEDEN has a real grievance
against Great Britain for the
holding up at Washington of
(diplomatic pouches and for denying
)lhe use of cables in cipher. Great
Britain has an adequate rejoinder in
paying that the von Luxburg incident
•warrants the most drastic of meas
ures to prevent further abuse of the
privileges of neutrality.
It Is not likely that the incident
* n itself will cause Sweden to enter
•the war on the Teutonic side, but it
may serve as a make-weight in such
m move. If Sweden should join Ger-
F ■ fenany it would be as much because
THURSDAY EVENING,
of her "hereditary enemy" as any
thing else. Most nations have an
"hereditary enemy," and Russia is
Sweden's, dating from the days of
Charles XII and Peter the Great.
The Swedes were the early victors
in those distant combats; and It was
a shrewd counsellor of the Swedish
King who advised Charles to be care
ful not to punish Peter too severely,
"lest he learn how to fight." Grow
ing Russia at length vanquished the
Swede and an age-long enmity re
sulted. Sweden has always since
feared Russia. But that menace has
disappeared in fact, even though its
mental shadow remains.
Sweden has nothing to fear from
Russia now: and if her ancient
grudge sends her into the war it
will be a reversion to type such as
this war has been producing every
where.
I'RniE AND KFUICIENCY
O\E of the subjects which the J
conference of State Factory In- .
spectors specializing in Indus- j
trial accident investigation, held here j
the other day, seemed to consider of
much importance, was the workman
who, from a sense of pride, fails to
ask attention for an Injury which ap
pears to be slight. It Is one of the
finest examples of what we call the
Pennsylvania workers' spirit to stick
to the job and not let a little cut <• r
a bruise, or something like that, in
terfere with work. It may be all
right In going "over the top" In war
j or in the intensive training which is
part of the task of the hour In the
cantonment, and we applaud It on
the football field, while those who
remain at posts, although injured, to
prevent harm to others or to save
property are rightly lauded.
But the inspectors have made the
rather startling discovery that ef
ficiency of a good many workers has
been impaired by their failure to se
cure attention for slight accidents,
and that the advantage to their f<*l
low workmen of the accident lias
been lost. This may sound like a
cold-blooded statement, but the cut
or 'crush which a high-spirited
worker will not have properly treat
ed because of possibility of being
called "a quitter," has been shown
by figures to have resulted in infec
tion, loss of productive capacity,
which means wages, and even death,
llence, reluctance to run the gamut
of ridicule or "kidding" can be proved
to lower efficiency. Industrial history
Is tilled with instances where a series
of trifling accidents or injuries of
the same kind occurring, one after
the other, lias pointed the way to
a defect speedily remedied by a safe
guard. The operative who gets hurt,
by reporting the injury when having
It dressed, may be the means of sav
ing loss to himself or herself, and
also of preventing harm to the next
door neighbor.
In these days of high pressure in
Industry we want to maintain the
standard of product, but we want
more than that to keep the worker i
safe and sound. A rise in accident j
rate is as significant to the safety j
( man as the jump in temperature is to j
the doctor. The man who gets a tern- I
perature of 101 and doesn't hunt a j
doctor is apt to be called foolish. The
man who suffers little accidents con- I
tinually and does not get cared for |
and call attention to the mishaps i
needs another job. He reduces his I
own efficiency and he endangers I
others.
THE CONSUMER AGAIN
ACCORDING to the report ot the
State Milk Commission, which
1 made an exhaustive investiga
[ tion into the milk situations in Phll
j adelphia last winter and in Pitts
burgh last summer, the consumer
can bring down the price of milk by
following a few simple rules. ,
The consumer is urged to —
Drink more milk
Urge neighbors to do so,
Learn the food properties of milk.
Return the milk bottles promptly.
These are four of the ways where
by the Pittsburgh consumer can re
duce the price of milk, according to
the report of the commission in this
particular case.
Pittsburgh prices are higher than
we are accustomed to here, but, as
consumers, we have a kindly feeling
toward the Smoky City wage-earner,
and we can appreciate the effort
made by the commission to help him
out. But we fail to understand the
reasoning that prompts the state
ment that If the people will drink
moro milk the farmers will raise
more cows. The farmer can get
more gold coin for "bossy" now than
at any time In recent years. While
we are very sorry that he can not
make ends meet in milk production,
we would like to know a place where
the price of milk or any other agri
cultural or allied product has come
down when everybody started using
more of It. And we may say, in illus
tration, we all need and want more
coal, and more of it after that, and
yet the price has a Fourth of July
rocket beaten to a faint glow.
As for the dealer, he ought to
get his bottles back promptly, but
he ought also to see that we do not
get some other dealer's bottles. And
we also voice the fear that if we
start to drink more milk to help out
the farmer, the dealer will tack on
another cent because of the increased
work required In handling the prod
uct of the speeded-up cow.
Likewise, we are inclined to view I
the statement that the saving to the
dealer, the dealer will then turn over
to the farmer as more or less
academic.
FIAT BOND VALUES.
JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS'
instructions to National Bank
Examiners to disregard current
market quotations for bonds in mak
ing up-schedules of resources and "to
exercise an intelligent and conser
vative discretion as to the prices at
which the banks shall continue to
carry such securities" will have the
effect to "peg" bond prices and to
steady conditions in the financial
world to an appreciable extent.
But it will set up an artificial and
| arbitrary standard of value for book-
keeping purposes which may for a
long time affect the fluidity ot bank
ing assets, which has always been re
garded as of prime importance. If
the result should be that banks are
to take bonds as collateral at the
same price which Mr. Williams' "ln
, telllgent* and conservative" subordi
nates have put upon them for the
purposes of the balance sheet, the
plan may prove to be doubly bene
ficial. And if it works well with
bonds, why should it not be tried
with stocks?
Like every other kind of price-flx
lng, there Is no limit to this sort of
thing.
By the Ex-Committerman
II
Between the general objections be
ing voiced to the operation of the
nonpartisan law as it now stands in
regard to judicial elections and those
in second and third class cities and
the developments of the Philadelphia
campaign it commences to look as
though a formidable {novement of
state-wide character would be start
ed soon to secure clearer election
laws from the next general assembly.
There is also a strong movement un
der way to take the police out of
politics in cities and the state gov
ernment civil service propaganda is
being revived.
In Philadelphia these movements
have been given a great measure of
popular attention because of the de
velopments since the primary, but
up the state and in western counties
the general dissatisfaction with 'he
primary and general election laws
has given force to objections which
did not command much hearing
when the general assembly was in
session.
The hearing in the Supreme Court
to-day on the Philadelphia ballot
cases, in which the right of men al
ready nominated or already defeated
to go on the ballot through nomina
tion papers is to be tested out, will be
of importance in every county and
the result will be awaited with'great
interest.
—Newspapers outside of Philadel
phia are seemingly watching the de-|
velopments In tlie Supreme Court!
with the greatest interest, realizing
tlie effect of the decision. Some of
the papers call for prompt action
and others regret that the crux of
the light 011 the value of nomination
papers had to come so close to elec
tion day.
—The Philadelphia Record gives
this plain statement of the issue as
raised in the Supreme Court: "The
specific appeal was taken in the
Forty-sixth ward case, but the prin
cipal will apply to a number of other
wards. It is not known, however,
whether any effort will be made to
hold up action in any ward beside
the Forty-sixth and Twenty-second
to await the court's decision. The
tight in the Supreme Court will hinge
on the interpretation put by Judge
Wessel on the act of 1897 and its
amendments, as to the right of citi
zens, by nominating petitions, to
place on the ballot names already
on It as candidates of a regular party,
nominated at the primary election.
Judge Wessel based his action almost
entirely on the opinion of Justice
Stewart, while specially presiding as
president judge of the Thirty-ninth
judicial district, in Commonwealth
vs. Martin, in 1898, and sustained the
objection to the nomination papers
of Francis E. Burch, I. Walter
Thompson, Karstaedt and W.
T. CoVburn, on the ground that their
names were already on the ballot in
the Washington party column."
—While in Philadelphia the city
administration is being assailed and
defended with a vehemence not
known since 1905, there are strenu
ous municipal and judicial battles
being fought in a dozen other coun
ties. Pittsburgh and Scranton have
mayoralty battles that would ne
headline affairs if Philadelphia's fight
was not of such state-wide signifi
cance. In Luzerne there is a judicial
battle on which is paralleled in Dela
ware, while in a dozen small coun
ties the "wet" and "dry" issue is giv
ing an unwonted importance to the
election of associate judges.
—Democratic newspapers in North
ampton do not take kindly to the elec
tion of C. S. Messinger as Register
of Wills of that county to succeed the
late Asher V. Stauffer. An Easton
dispatch to the Philadelphia Record
says: "His appointment was received
with smiles. It was recommended by
his son, Dr. Victor S. Messinger, of
Kaston, the Brumbaugh 'leader' in
Northampton county. When Harry
G. Seip, the Penrose leader, was ask
ed if he had recommended anyone
for the job, replied: 'Why should I
recommend anyone? Brumbaugh
isn't a Republican.' Messinger will
serve until January 7, next. In 1907
he was the Republican candidate for
county treasurer and four years later
he was a candidate for his party's
nomination for the same office. He
received a trimming each time."
—An estimated increase of $lO,-
000,000 in the annual charges for
operating the Philadelphia city gov
ernment and an increase in the tax
rate are forecast in some of the
speeches being made in Phlladeljfhia.
The annual budget making seems to
have gotten some of the taxpayers
stirred up.
—According to people who have
been in Reading there is about the
hottest campaign possible on in that
city. The Socialists have organized
very strongly and are making a drive
to get control of council, while men
active in the two old parties* have
united to prevent it. The new party,
which is working under the non
partisan law, is known as the Ameri
can. It is explained that the course
was necessary because of the open
Socialist movement.
< —Magistrate George A. Persch was
arrested and held under $5,000 bail
yesterday on charges of embezzle
ment, misbehavior in office and illeg
ally releasing prisoners, in Philadel
phia. The arrest of Persch, a Vare
magistrate, was brought about by
District Attorney Rotan as the first
result of his probe into the city mag
istrates. With Persch under arrest,
Mr. Rotan announced that his next
move would be against Magistrate
Harry J. Imber.
ANOINTING OF DAVID
Jesse made seven of his song pass
before Samuel. And Samuel said
unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chos
en these. And Samuel said unto
Jesse, Are here all thy children? And
he said. There remaineth yet the
youngest, and behold lie keepeth the
sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse,
send and fetch him; for w e will not
sit dtown till he come hither. And
he sent and brought him in. Now
he was ruddy, and withal of beauti
ful countenance, and goodly to look
to. And the Lord said. Arise, anoint:
for this is he.—l Samuel xvi, 10 to
12.
HAHJUSBTJRG TELEGKXPBS
AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN"? .. .. ... BY BRIGGS
WHEN THE LAUNDRV AND YOU HAVE A ANT> ALL THE. SOCKS
iS RRni)fiHT UP Tn. VOU MENTAL PICTURE OK= THAT NEED DARNING
DROUGHT UP TO rou All the
THAT NEEL> SEVAJING ON
IF You UNION "AMO NOT A SoCK * OH-H-H-H GIRL- **
SUIT- VMtTH ITS FULL iMITM A HOLE. A| N'T.
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NOTICE—3-CENT POSTAGE,
"I am preparing for a hard No-J
vember," remarked a post office of
ficial recently. On inquiry it devel
oped that long experience had
taught him that a large percentage
of the people of this country will fail
to obey the law which, beginning No
vember 2, requires three cents post
age on first-class mail, and two cents
on postal cards, except when the lat
ter are printed only. The law does
not apply to letters to be delivered in
the city of mailing.
Now this law has been published
widely. Every newspaper has men
tioned it a number of times. There
would seem to be no excuse for ig
norance or forgetfulness, but the of
ficial in question is so well versed in
human psychology that he is going
ahead making preparations for the
deficiences certain to occur. The
failure to stamp letters properly is
going to affect unfavorably the effi
ciency of the postal service. It will
take men from other duties to look
after the letters which are under
paid. It is going to make serious de
lays in the delivery of such mail.
If you understamp your letters the
Government will send you a bill in
the event of finding you; otherwise
the addressee must pay it and this is
something that will not please busi
ness or personal correspondents. The
plain duty of every person is to keep
in mind that on November 2 an extra
cent is required. You don't need a
three-cent stamp, as many suppose,
but any combination which makes
three cents is sufficient.
Gentle reader, without wishing to
indulge in unlawful proceedings, it
i Is safe to say that It is dollars lo
doughnuts that many of you will,* <n
spite of this warning, and many
others, send out letters and postals
at the old rate—and be sorry.—Phil
adelphia Evening Bulletin.
U-BOAT FAILURE
[New York World]
Tt is more likely that the resigna
tion of Vice-Admiral Capelle, the
German minister of marine, was due
to tho failure of the submarine cam
paign than to any mutiny among the
men of the grand fleet. By his at
tempt to fasten on the Socialists the
responsibility for' the outbreak he
precipitated a ouarrel that merely
haftened the day of his retirement.
After more than eight months of
desperate efforts to starve Groat
Britain it has been brought home to
the German people that the U-boat
warfare leads nowhere. It has not
lessened the Entente Allies' strength;
it has not relieved the crushing
pressure against the Teuton lines in
the west. The promises made last
winter that the submarines would
make certain victory for Germany
have proved to be spurious. Tirpitz
finds it expedient to explain that he
did not make the statement that the
U-boats would win by August X.
That date is long past, and Lloyd
George officially announces that the
losses of British shipping during
September were the lowest in any
month since February 1.
The facts as they are cannot fall
to affect profoundly sentiment among
the German masses.
MEADOW FAIRIES
When twilight falls and all is still
O'er woodland, meadow, dale and
hill.
When moonlight silvers grass and
brook,
There is a rustling in each nook,
There is a stirring in each flower,
For 'tis the fairies' waking-up hour,
A faintest chiming as of bells
Drifts far and near in field and dells.
Each fairy fay with shining face,
In dress of dew-bright, cobweb lace,
And little elves in silvery sheen.
Then circling, dance out on the
green;
To music that is tinkling sweet.
And then on tops o' thistles go
A-riding where'er breezes blow.
And so the elves and fairies play
Out in tlie meadows till it's day.
At the first pink sunrise hour.
They hide again in fern and flower.
—Grace May North in St. Nicholas.
HEARSAY EVIDENCE
A group of old ladies were talking
and knitting on a veranda. The con
versation got around to how much
each weighed at birth. One old
lady said: "Well, I weighed just
three and a half pounds."
The others gasped and one of them
asked: "And did you live?"
"They say I did," answered the
other woman, "and done well."—
From the Boston Transcript.
THE OUTLOOK
With a great harvest ahead —
great in bushels and in dollars—and
with prices of stocks at very low
levels, it would seem as though ,-al
ues must assert themselves when the
pressure of our greatest financial
operation thus far is lifted, especially
as the placing of the Liberty Loan
as a brilliant and im
pressive Success.—The Bache Re-
I view.
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Barnard Under Fire
J
ENGLAND, through the three
years of the war, has been cry
ing for a Lincoln to lead it to
victory. The acts and speeches of
the railsplitter who rose to be Presi
dent have been studied. A famous
peer lately wrote a new life of Lin
coln and everybody read it.
Then Charles P. Taft decided to
give a statute of Lincoln to the Eng
lish. A site was picked out in Lon
don near Westminster Abbey. His
proposal was to erect a duplicate of
llie Lincoln statute by George Barn
ard (creator of the statuary in front
of tlie Pennsylvania Capitol in this
city) which was given to the citv qf
Cincinnati by Mr. Taft. lie is also
willing lo pay for a duplicate for
Paris.
For tlie critics who were startled
by the first view of the sculptor's
Lincoln a few months ago this was a
bombshell. The editor of the Art
World called it a libel in bronze and
protested against giving foreigners
a distorted impression of the mar
tyred President.
ltobert Lincoln, the millionaire
son, also was perturbed. He did not
know < 'haries P. Taft,. so he wrote to
his brother, William H. Taft, pro
testing that Hie rough and ready
qualities are far beyond the*family
conception, or the generally accepted
embodiment of Lincoln made famil
iar by the poetically studied figure
by Saint Gaudens.
Mr. Barnard, who is by many con
sidered the foremost American sculp
tor, is said to be enjoying the con
troversy without joining in it. From
his boyhood days in Muscatine, la.,
through his struggle with poverty in
a basement room near a Chicago art
school, and his final triumph in the
salons of Paris, he has been filled to
the brim with unconventionality.
In some symbolic way his Lincoln
is sup nosed to svmbolize democracy.
The figure is standing, sixteen feet
high, and is intended to show the
President as a typical American of
his day, a pioneer who mastered the
forces of Nature. The huge feet,
the coarse shoes and the slouehiness
of pose are among the things the
objectors point out. Their case is
thus presented by a famous Oxford
VILIFYING RED CROSS
It is the part of every good citizen
and every Red Cross worker to de
nounce the vicious reports of Red
Cross commercialism that are circu
lated by Prussian spies to deceive
ignorant or thoughtless persons.
There are a dozen varieties of slan
der, every story palpably false but
all maliciously persistent, and all in
tended to undermine confidence in
the Red Cross.
The reports now persistently put
in circulation here have been abso
lutely disproved elsewhere after care
ful investigation. A Boston newspa
per searched every corner of New i
England for verification of tales re
lating the sales of sweaters and socks
which were made as gifts for sol
diers, and found not a line of evi
dence. Some one had "heard it from
a friend;" the friend had heard it
from anothter friend, but nowhere
could the scandal be traced to its ori
gin. A few soldiers, oversupplied.
had sold their sweaters, but the Red
Cross always had given freely and
with surprisingly little duplication of
its effort.
It is a natural development of
Prussian falseness and duplicity that
the Red Cross, the greatest and al
most the only remaining humanita
rian institution in the world, should
be attacked by Prussian agents in
this hateful spirit. For the sake of
our soldiers and in honor of the ef
forts of the thousands of generous
Red Cross workers let these dirty lit
tle whisperings cease and their au
thors be punished.
Squelch the scandalmonger—and
keep on knitting.—New York Sun.
WAS APPREHENSIVE
Bandy McTavish was a highly
skilled workman in a new aircraft
factory.
Therefore, it happened one day
that Sandy was asked if he would
care to accompany the works avia
tor on one of his trial (lights in a
machine.
Sandy, after some hesitation,
agreed to do so.
During the flight the aviator
asked how he was enjoying it.
"To tell the truth," answered the
Scot, "t wad rather be on the
groun'."
"Tut, tut," replied the flying man.
"I'm just thinking of looping the
loop." ■
"For Heaven's sake don't dae
that!" yelled the now
McTavish. "I've some sill# in ray
vest pocket."—Tit-Bits.
archaeologist, who does not hesitate
to look a gift statue over closely:
"Barnard** statue certainly
exaggerates Lincoln's awkward
ness of bearing and angularity.
and caricatures the size of his
hands and feet and the troubled
expression of his face. The pho
tographs show that he was care
ful in dress and by no means
wanting in dignity. The face
shows far more repose and force
than are depicted in Barnard's
travesty."
The late Joseph H. Choate, who
had seen Sir. Lincoln in the flesh,
spent some of his last days in an
effort to prevent, as he expressed it,j
"the sending of a triplicate of the
horrible status to Russia."
Mr. Barnard is conceded to be an
artist customarily with a dashing and
brilliant manner. AVhat could have
been his purpose in creating this
bronze controversy? Upon the com
pletion of the statue he gave his
view, saying "that an imaginary Lin
coln is an insult to the American
people, a thwarting of democracy."
He did not accept the guidance of
photographs, because, he says, the
takers retouched his face, "fearing
its ugly lines might lose him the
presidency." He studied instead the
life mask and casts of his hands
from life.
"Out of the study of Lincoln's life
mask," he said, "grew the entire
pose of his figure. He must have
stood as the republic should stand,
strong, simple, carrying its weight
unconsciously, without pride in rank
or culture. He is clothed with cloth
worn, the history of labor. The rec
ords of labor in Lincoln's coltlies are
the wings of victory. The 'Winged
Victory' of Hamothrace was an alle
gory of what Lincoln lived. His
wings were acts, his fields of flight
the hearts of men, their laughter,
their life. Tradition is he stood bent
at the knees. This is not true.
Worn, batrgy trousers, forgotten, un
thought of, honored their history."
That sounds a bit like Whitman.
Europe sees America as a land of
Wliitmanesque magnitude, brute en
ergy and crude virility. Is it pos
sible that it would accept the Bar
nard conception as its own?— Kansas
City Times.
GET SEED CORN NOW
We wish we could impress firmly
upon the mind of every farmer tlie
necessity of securing next year's seed
corn this fall. It has been prophe
sied that seed next spring will be ten
dollars per bushel. Whether it is
that much or not, it is sure to be very
scarce and many farmers will feel
under the necessity of using poor
seed. In spite of the overdrawn
statements to the contrary, first
class crops of corn—that is, well
grown, fully-matured crops are
scarce when compared with the
world's needs. Although the number
of bushels may total billions, but a
small percentage will make first
class seed. The late, wet spring and
early frosts have seriously injured a
great deal of corn so that it is Im
mature, lience germination will be
uncertain.
In all probability enough corn
suitable for seed may be secured if
careful selection is made now. If
those who must buy from others will
bespeak it from farmers whose corn
fully matured, and have them pick
it out this fall, then take it home
and carefully dry and car& for it, a
serious situation next spring may be
avoided. It is usually best to secure
seed in your own locality if possible.
Do it Now. —Pennsylvania Farmer.
LOVE LIGHTS THE WAY
Dream a little dream of love, some
times,
Don't fret and toil all day;
Some dash in hand's a splendid
thing,
But love nlust light the way.
Throughout the changing years let's
leave
Some trace of love and song,
And count it well if we achieve
Some Joy as we go along.
Dream a little dream of love, my
friend;
Somewhere along your way;"
Treading a lovelit path through life
You cannot go astray.
So when the fever and the fret
Darken the clouds above
Into the troubled moments let
One little ray of love.
Dream a little dream of love, and
then
When life is near the close
In the cool shades of evening, love
Will blossom as a rose.
And round the dreamer's heart shall
fall
A radiance of cheer,
For love will triumph over all,
If we but dream it here.
—Jay B. Iden.
NOVEMBER 1, 1917.
LABOR NOTES
Over 50,000 women in the United
States are making surgical dressings
for the Allied armies.
There are more than 6,000 female
cooks and waitresses in the 200 or
more army camps located in various
parts of Kngland.
The United States Steel Company
has granted another 10 per cent,
wage increase to its men. This is
the fourth since the war.
Kbbw Vale (Wales) by-product
workers, who struck twice in the
Inst month, have been granted 50
per cent, extra pay for the week-end
work.
The members of the American Fed
eration of Musicians have increased
their purchase of Liberty bonds in
the United States. At a recent con
vt lit ion the treasurer was authorized
to purchase $25,000. Recently the
amount was increased to $60,000 in
the second series, which means the
purchase of $83,000 worth.
The Cotton Control Board recom
mendations, approved by the
(Kngland) Board of Trade, include a
week's notice to all cotton-spinning
firms ordering a stoppage of all but
(10 per cent of their total spindleage.
This to be in force for a period of
three months.
Overalled women and gills are no
lcnger a novelty in the state of
Washington, reports the State De
partment of Labor. They are em
ployed in the mills, furniturp fac
tories, box factories and other indus
tries. Two shingle mills report that
women between tlie ages of 35 and 40
make the best workers.
More than 30.000 workmen are
killed and 300,000 are seriously in
jured each year in United States in
dustries alone. Then, too, each of
the 30,000,000 workers in the country
loses approximately nine days each
year due to sickness. This is a wage
loss of more than $500,000,000. and
does not include the loss suffered by
industry.
The new education bill Introduced
in the British Commons introduces
important and far-reaehing reforms
ir element^.y school life. Summar
ized briefly, they are: Nursery schools
for young children: attendance at
school not compulsory before six
years old (new five); age for leaving
school raised to 14; "half time" to
end with- the war; children's work
before and after school severely re
stricted; full time education up to
or attendance at continuation schools
(in the employer's time) compulsory
up to 18; physical training in contin
uation schools.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THOSE WALK.
v INO BKIRTS
(f 'mS. Let's take in a
ifirSg aflk |} burlesque show
this afternoon,
vfe- The best.seats are
WW only a half a dol
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'lt H i a |m\ around here in
itfii Ik r]' the shopping dla
tr'ct- It coata
ON THE JOB.
Eminent Artist . jS
—Here is my
latest picture, ' jc Jf
The Soul Kiss!
Film Censor— \/ if
Very fine. But V
you musn't allow
visitors to look at
It more than four Ij I
seconds at a time.
SUMMER GIRL
OF TODAY. ,fTBt
The summer girl
This year it may
She wears an
awning for a 1
4 screen upon tVit' w
her head,
1 r TIP* COME DOWN.'
Mr ' flivver
' 1 suppose I'm ar
rested for speed
fer 1n g with
j&attttg (flfralj
Lawyers not only in Dauphin, but
In Cumberland and other counties
are awaiting with interest the in
quiry which has been inaugurated at
the Capitol as a result of agitation
for replacement of the Lemoyne
bridge, the \vooden structure span
ning the Cumberland Valley railroad
tracks where tlio Valley Hallways
line to New Cumberland begins and
which it carries. The bridgo is one
of the most traveled in that part of
Cumberland County, touching as it
does on the state highway to Carllsla
and forming a part of a main high
way of the Commonwealth itself.
When the state authorities started
to look into the matter of repairs T
or replacement as a result of tlio
complaints there was about as In
teresting a problem as could 1)8
found and no one seemed "to know
much about the history of the bridgo
or the obligations to maintain it.
The Highway Department people
scratched their heads and took it to
the Public Service Commission and
now it is understood to be in the At
torney General's Department, law
yers in this city and Carlisle are
looking up the matter. It is possible
that the state authorities if they are
unablo to find a solution may adoj*
the plan pursued at Butler. In that
city there was more than doubts or
uncertainties about who should pay
for a new J#idge. There was a con
troversy. So the Public Service and
Highway ends of the Government
adopted the Gordian policy of assess
ing the cost and letting a contract
for a bridge. It seems to have been
effective. There are said to bo other
bridge problems beside that at
raoyne which came down from other
days when people were not as'care
ful about contracts to maintain as
they are in this day and generation.
C. Harry Kain, the well-known ar
chitect, who has been doing war
work for the government in recent
months, has just finished passing
upon the final plans for a 1,500-ton
ice making and cold storage plant
for the expeditionary force to
France. "This plant," said he dur
ing a brief visit home the other day.
"is large enough to take care of
one million men. Its capacity is 800
tons of ice and practically 1,000 tons
of refrigeration per day. The beef
storaga is 100 feet wide and over 900
feet long, with a capacity of 5,000
tons of beef. Six boilers of 72 Inches
diameter will be installed, using 100
tons of coal a day. The buildings
are divided into two groups, those of
the plant proper and those of the
officers' quarters. All are built of
frame construction. The canton
ment construction will be used for
the officers' quarters, going one bet
ter in several cases. Modern plumb
ing fixtures will be installed through
out, as well as steam heat furnished
from a central plant. Both hospi
tal and laundry are equipped with
modern apparatus and machinery;
everything, In fact, was planned to
secure the most sanitary surround
ings for the men. Practically all
materials are to be shipped across
from this country, and this is why
the work of getting out the lists of
materials is tedious.
"Following are a few items that
might interest you to know. To
equip and run the plant will require
400 tons of salt; 75 tons of am
monia; half a million square feet of
roofing paper, and a like amount of
asbestos. Over five million feet of
lumber will be needed together with
nearly a billion and a half of nails,
ranging in sizes from 8-inch spikes
down to six-penny.
"It, took nearly 65 carloads of wood
shavings for the insulation, not
counting the granulated cork. Re
garding' the mill work, I understand
the government is drawing on forty
planing mills."
Benjamin W. Demming, chief
clerk to the Adjutant General, sets
about twenty-seven interesting ques
tions a day, especially since the war
began. The other day he was ad
dressed by an officer of a club in
Berks County, where clubs are part
of life to a greater extent than even
in York, who desired to know if the
club could serve liquor to men in
uniform. The letter specifically
mentioned officers. Yesterday Mr.
Demming was addressed by a woman
in Pittsburgh who was indignant
over the operation of the draft law
in taking her "man." The manner of
her interrogatory to Mr. Demming
was as follows: "What's a marriage
license worth, if it don't keep my
man to take care of me?"
Col. Frank G. Sweeney, officer in
charge of state draft headquarters,
receives many letters of like tenor.
The other day he was addressed by a
woman who appealed to him by the
heavens, the skies and the constella
tion for relief of her son, her one
'amb, from the draft. The day
after she wrote the letter the Colonel
was called on the telephone and
given fits because the aforesaid son
was not exempted. Folks are not
sure whether the lamb would not
just as soon be at camp learning real
discipline and having instilled into
him the qualities Uncle Sam puts
into his soldiers if they are not dis
covered in the course of training
camp developments.
• * *
Commissioner of Fisheries Buller
went on a tour of fish hatcheries the
other day and found the superin
tendent at Bellefonte had an auto
mobile, a new one.
"Humph, making so much money
you can buy a car, eh? Guess I'll
have to reduce your salary," he ob
served.
• "Well, that car's my wife's," re
plied the superintendent.
Next day he found another super
intendent had bought a car. He
sprung the same remark and the
man replied that it belonged to his
wife.
Not long after he met another
owner of a new car. When he asked
who owned it the man said with per
fect candor: "1 think the bank do "
* * •
Col. Charles T. Cresswell, formt.
commander of the Third Infantry of
the National Guard, was here yester
day: The Colonel has been named as
a member of the State Armory
Board and is much mentioned in con
nection with the Reserve Militia.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Judge R. H. Koch, who was
here yesterday, takes a big interest
in state normal schools.
—Judge T. J. Baldridge, of Blair
County, has been so husv with court
that he has not had time to hunt.
Speaker Richard J. Baldwin -A
likes to break In bird dogs and often
travels miles on his hunting trips.
—Senator E. H. Vare rides to
school with his children almost every
morning.
| DO YOU KNOW
—Tlmt Hnrrislnirg ships tons J
of printed matter to big cities J
every day?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG A
General Zachary Taylor once
a speech in the Sta}e Capitol
but refused to wear a uniform
he called on the state official*,