8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JBSI B3sa= . Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square ——— 1 3. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QU& M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press is exclusively en titled to tho use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub tshed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Assoc^a- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- office Avenue Building, O a s'' Bulltfing, i Chicago, 111. Entered at tha Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, 13.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919 All Die so (to 10 and worry On all this green-covered earth Ia followed soon, if we wait and hope. By a generous measure of mirth. —Jeanctte Lawrence. LEE'S STATEMENT MOST railroad men know person ally or by reputation William G. Lee, the head of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and his courageous declaration in Washingaon as to the prevailing cause of the high cost of living has caused something of a sensation. He urges that the Government had better be doing something to sup press the profiteering in foodstuffs Instead of considering at public hearings further increases. "All of us are to blame," said he, "because we are exerting every ef fort to get more money for our selves and better conditions, while the profiteers are taking double from the working man what is given him." "I will admit to you," he further declared, "that we are going the wrong way and that it is time to call a halt. Until we get together to stop this there will be hell in this country." Mr. Leo referred to the rather satisfactory conditions prior to the war and said that there was some peace "until the commodities that working people are compelled to pay for were permitted to be in creased, doubled and trebled, with out any question and often seem ingly with the approval of the Gov ernment." He accused the lawmakers of playing politics, instead of finding a way to bring about normal condi tions, and indicated that the labor organizations were also playing politics. "It is the same down the line," was his conclusion. It is such statements as Lee's that have aroused the Washington ad ministration to its responsibility and its obligations to the people. With millions of dollars worth of foodstuffs stored in the military warehouses of the Government, it is little wonder that the labor leaders and others are calling the Washington authori ties to account. A CITY FOUNDATION RECENTLY a good woman of Pittsburgh passed away leav ing $1,000,000 to establish a fund for the relief of the poverty and distress of children and babies in want through abandonment or the death or poverty of their parents. This large bequest will be handled by a foundation named in honor of the donor and the entire residuary estate is to be devoted to this philan thropic work. Here is another argument in favor of the Harrisburg Foundation which The Telegraph has suggested as a proper agency for the care of be quests to be devoted to public wel fare objects in this city. There is such a Foundation at Cleveland and it is a community trust, created by the union of many gifts—many dif ferent estates or parts of estates— held in. trust," contributed by the people and managed by them for the benefit of the city. In the Ohio metropolis the Foundation provides an income for assisting educational and charit able Institutions, for the improve ment of living conditions, in provid ing facilities for recreation and for any other educational or charitable purposes which will best make for the mental, moral and physical im provement of the people of the city. Such r. Foundation for Harrisburg would hppeal not only to men and women of wealth, but to those of moderate means whose surplus (after caring for children and rel atives) would not be great enough to endow a chair or a charity or accomplish any other notable pur pose. By the combining of many small funds a large income would be provtded with which work of real significance to the community SATURDAY EVENING, might be accomplished. Under ap pointment by the court, trustees for tho proposed Harrisburg Foundation would be elected and women would be eligible to membership on this committee. No distinction should be made in the use of the money on account of race, color or creed and all receipts and disbursements, as at Cleveland, would be audited annually and the certified statement showing invest ments held, amount of income re ceived, purposes for which it has been used and expenses of the com mittee would be published in news papers of the city. Several millions of dollars have already been pledged under wills and trust agreements for the use of the Foundation at Cleve land and similar community trusts have been established in a score or or more of the leading cities of the country. Tho Telegraph is advised from Cleveland that the Foundation in that city has met public expecta tions and has given a new signifi cance to the ownership of wealth. Instead of diverting ownership it perpetuates it and at the same time guarantees proper custody, proper management and proper use of in come. It makes it honorable for a man to build up a fortune in a com munity, because it provides the means for the return of that for tune as a whole or in part for the permanent service of the community. At Cleveland bequests and gifts, large and small, are solicited from those who are in sympathy with the idea and who desire the assur ance that their bequests for educa tion and other purposes will be per manently under the control of men of wide experience and sound judg ment. Harrisburg has many generous cit izens who doubtless would be glad to have such a Foundation as has been outlined organized in this city, to give full force and effect to their philanthropic impulses, and The Telegraph will be pleased to print any comments which may be re ceived upon this suggestion, Harrisburg canteen workers who have seen manacled American prison ers go through this city on crowded railroad cars enroute to Leavenworth and other Government prisons are disposed to believe the stories of bru tality which " are now coming out through investigations. These boys, in may cases, had simply violated military discipline in being absent without leave and the punishment in flicted has been out of all proportion with the nature of the offense. It has been quite a common thing to see a white soldier handcuffed to a color ed comrade and frequently the prison ers were without shoes. These men, who fought for "world-wide democ racy," cannot be blamed for feeling that a little of the same idealism might be utilized in this country, especially in the treatment of many who rallied to the colors and fought in a great cause. MODERN CHIVALRY WHO says the age of chivalry is dead, when 100 men and women will come forward to give their lifeblood to save an un known hospital patient? What knight ever did more than shed his blood for his lady fair? But the knight rode forth on a charger amid the plaudits of the gathered populace, the blare of trumpets and the pomp of circum stances, while the men and women who volunteered in response to the Harrisburg Hospital's call for aid knew they would suffer in obscurity and gain no fame for themselves. Theirs was an unselfish offer. America is safe so long as it breeds men and women of such heroic mold. TURN ON THE LIGHT HOMER S. CUMMINGS, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is quite perturbed over the probing by com mittees of Congress into some of the war expenditures. In view of the burning of a lot of aeroplanes in France and the way the foodstuffs for which the public already has paid are being handled by the Gov ment, it would seem that a little turning on of the light might be good for the American people. During a hearing before the House subcommittee investigating aviation. Chairman Cummings said regarding expenditures for the investigations: "It is perfect folly to spend money now. When Congress should be look ing into the high cost of living and reconstruction problems committees should not go trooping off to do clerical work on the Pacific Coast." The average Wilson Democrat, taking his cue from Chairman Cum mings, perhaps, is always greatly concerned over the waste of "time and momy" by committees of Con gress appointed to investigate the profligacy of an Incompetent ad ministration, but until forced by a public sentiment to disclose the facts no information was volunteered by the partisan apologists of an arbi trary and dictatorial leadership. A PERMANENT CAMP MEMBERS of the Harrisburg Rotary Club who heard Arch Dinsmore's plea for a perma nent camp site during their visit to the Y. M. C. A. boys' camp at Big Pond understood how he felt about it. The success of the camp under the direction of Mr. Dinsmore and Mr. Miller the past two years has demonstrated the wisdom of provid ing the association with a place where the camps can be held from year to year; where the equipment purchased for one year will be on hand for the next season. The camp site ought to include certain permanent buildings and a lodge where boys and men, under proper regulations, could spend a few days or a night at any time during the year. More and more outdoor life Is coming to be part and parcel of the American boy's training. Whatever money is spent in that direction is well invested, but while we are at it we should get as much for our money as is possible. l By the Ex-Committeeman The time for filing nominating petitions for judicial primaries will expire at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth next Thurs day, but there are very few papers entered at the department, notwith standing the fact that Pennsylvania will this fall elect eighteen common pleas and five orphans' court judges in addition to municipal court judges in Philadelphia and a county court judge in Allegheny. The office of associate judge ap- I pears to have many attractions, as there are over three dozen petitions on tile for the fourteen judgeships to be filled. In some districts there are six and eight candidates where one man is to be elected. The State Department is receiving numerous petitions from aspirants for county and municipal nomina tions, although such papers have to be filed with county commissioners. The time on this class of nominating petitions expires on August 19. —Ten of the desks in the hall of the House of Representatives are in the hands of repairmen who are re placing parts which were broken or damaged during the session and I every desk in the big chamber will be gone over by the furniture force of the Capitol. Half a dozen chairs have had to be repaired. —Committee rooms in use by the Legislature have been converted into offices for Capitol departments again, pending completion of office buildings in this city. —Efforts on the part of the Pin chot committee on organization of the State for election of Republican National delegates attuned the ideas of the former Federal forester j to form a unit in the Eighteenth Congressional district have not been very successful and men who tried to organize in the Seventeenth dis trict for the same purpose met with a rather cold reception. Representa tion from the counties in the two districts at the conference on Tues day was mighty slim and some of the men announced as intending to participate did not show up. The general impression among people at the Capitol and others who attended the Tuesday meeting was that it lacked the ginger that formerly characterized the old-time Bull Moose gatherings and that Pin ehot was not likely to secure much of a gathering. At the Capitol the conference was looked upon as more or less of a failure and the contro versy which raged at the conclusion over the men invited and those left out was regarded as pretty nearly winding up the movement as far as State-wide effect is concerned. Only some unforeseen situation will make it of any account. —Mercer county people say that under terms of a recent decision of the Attorney General the vacancy caused by the death of Senator James M. Campbell, of Mercer, in the Fifteenth Senatorial District can not be filled this fall. The coming . election is not a general election, but for county and local offices and [a State Senator cannot be elected at any other than a general election. Should a special session of the I,egis lature be called then the vacancy would be filled by a special election, otherwise it will carry over until the election next year. There are candid ates announced for the office, John L. Morrison, of Sharon a " d Fred A " Service . of —Commissions for all of the men named as members of State Boards and as trustees and man agers of various institutions in the closing hours of the legislative ses sion have been issued by the State department and they are now filing their bonds. B Judges G. A. Endlich and George W. Wagner, of the Berks county common pleas court, filed papers to be candidates for re nomination at the State department. They have been endorsed by manv members of the Berks bar. —From all indications there will be more real fights over nomina tions for associate judge in Penn sylvania counties this vear than known in a long time. In Hunting don county, the only one to elect two judges this year there are a dozen candidates already. —County Controller E. S. Mor row, of Allegheny, will not be op posed for renomination. —Entrance of Dan L. Parsons, a Johnstown attorney, long active in Republican affairs, into the Cam bria county orphans court contest means a strenuous battle in tho cen tral county. —Center county Republicans have gained nearly 500 in enroll ment and confident that the Demo crats will get to fighting among themselves long before the general election. —Relative to the Philadelphia mayorality fight the Philadelphia Press to-day says: "The Republican Alliance is still continuing its efforts to get A. Lin coln Acker into the field but to date there has been no evidence that he has agreed to make the fight to be come mayor. The petitions urging him to run are still being circu lated and it is reported that there arc many signatures. "Senator Penrose is expected in Philadelphia to-day. The Senator will probably arrive here from Washington early in the day. He will spend the day in conference with the anti-Vare leaders and is expected to depart for Atlantic City late in the afternoon to spend the weekend on his yacht. "Penrose's arrival may bring the Acker situation to a head. The Senator Is said to have given the Republican Alliance this week to get Acker around, and if it is re ported to him to-day that no definite progress has been made, he may give the word to try elsewhere. In that event It is thought the AUi unce may turn Its attention in the direction of District Attorney Sam uel P. Rotan. Mr. Rotan's availa bility has lately been discussed by Important anti-Vare leaders. Durell Shuster, secretary to Con gressman J. Hampton MooVe, yes terday visited the Republican Alli ance headquarters. In view of Mr. Moore's stutement that he was not a candidate, but did not want to em barrass friends who had pro posed his candidacy, a somewhat doubtful declination, the visit of his secretary to the Alliance headquar ters was considered of some signifi cance. Mr. Shuster said he had nothing to say about his chief's pur poses, but that many letters had been received from writers who HARRIBBURO Gd§S?&& TELEGK3LPH OH, MAN! .... By BRIGGS — —J I C Yes - H6 s IyaTVATVA ( /<m 6R6SoiiV r \WZ%mI \ I (OH VJMY DID I \ /MADToG.v/e Nox„ ino Tb Do S Bllli' , / T6LL ' HA ° \ f &Y G &*& TOMORROW BUT \ / N , ce _ THAT /, t - a Gc) T i l \ NoT, ' ,,Ne ' To 1)0 , )/ OF THE R*.im PLAY GOLF - MY \ / y O)J CAM t RAIN) / lAT THE I BUT HeM.L WORK AT 7ME HAV/C A COM- I IT VS A V&gyi- V l / 1 FOR TH - L*JVA , H6LP Me / OFF.CE >S ALL lN)y PLET6. DAY JeRRtBLG / \ MK6 , V°° T *° S Good SHAOe- S w.TH nothing J, - 1 Y" ! rjg? C w '^ x J*~VVHAT A -FOOL Tl } /^H" V*HAT CoULD^i WAS To Tell ! / &md ' N <s° AND sPill \ / i HAve BeeN , / W6R I WAS ALL } \ Thf BAQY Cora I | Th£ HOUSE (Th 6 BEAM* / f_ ( THIMKiMC. OF -• I UP IN) MY WORK -/ \MP JI IS just \BY TGLLIMO H£R/ J TAKE ALL I '.! T ! !? ? / Th.S S&RUGS / r 5 —f<JLL of /Tuo*e out) _/ X^ r,sht J w urged the Congressman to stay in the promising field he was cultivat ing at Washington and not think of running for mayor. "On the Vare side the talk is still all for Judge Patterson. Around Vare headquarters it was said yes terday that Judge Patterson's boom is making headway all over the city and that ho seemed a very popular candidate." The Unguarded Gates [From the Newark 'Sun.] When we read the interesting pages of the Atlantic Monthly, that venerable and remarkable maga zine of New England which once embodied so much of what was pure Americanism; and when we note its present aspect, colored sometimes faintly, sometimes strongly, by the newer philosophites of socialism and internationalism, always restrained, however, by polite culture and the discernment of fine literary taste, wo recall these verses, written many years ago by a former editor of the Atlantic: "Wide open and ungarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild, motley throng— Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppefe, Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt and Slav, Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn; These bringing with them unknown gods and rites— Thoes, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In street and alley what strange tongues are loud, Accents of menace alien to our air. Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! "O Liberty, white Goddess, is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate. Lift the downtrodden, but with hand of steel Stay those who to thy sacred por tals come To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn And trampled in the dust. For so of old The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome, And where the temples of the Cae sars stood The lean wolf unmolested made her lair." The melting pot is the greatest institution on the face of the globe. But it makes a vast difference what goes into the pot. Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, as Thomas Bailey Aid rich sang with patriotic fervor and true prescience. But what prophetic vision could have forseen a time when the White Goddess.should be summoned by a President of the United States, in the' name of the heart of the world, not merely to do her duty within her portals to the wild, motley throng pressing in, bujt actually to go forth through the wide open, unguarded gates and seek out the motley throng in its owp foreign homes and assume re sponsibility for those strange gods and rites and tiger passions in terri tory alien to our air? "Have a care Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn And trampled in the dust." New Evening Paper Suspends [From Newspaperdom.] ' Suspension of the Newark Evening Ledger concentrates attention upon the proposition of publishing a morning and afternoon edition with a single advertising rate card. Lu cius T. Russell, publisher of the Ledger and well known in New j Jersey journalism, admits that tho , idea didn't work out. In deciding I to suspend the afternoon edition, he reached a very sensible conclusion. By concentrating upon tho morning and the Sunday Ledger, greater re sults will be achieved and New Jer sey will be given the best A. M. newspaper that money and experi ence can produce in combination. There appears to have been noth ing to the report that Arthur Bris bane was to become identified with the ownership of the Evening Led ger. At least, the report didn't work out. Grace Is Abundant The grace of our Lord was ex ceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Chrißt Jesus—i Timothy 1, 14. Locomotive Engineers Recognize Higher Wages of Lower Values [From the New York Sun] THE Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers scrutinizing a wage that increases 100 per cent, in dollar marks but during that very process so shrinks in pur chasing power that it will not buy as much as it bought before has the horse sense to sec that such a con trivance cannot solve the cost of liv ing problem. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has the manly frankness to declare: "The true remedy for the situ ation, and one that will result in lifting the burden with which the whole people are struggling, is for the Government to take adequate measures to reduce the cost of the necessaries of life to a figure that the present wages and income of the people will meet." And the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers has the sturdy in dependence to go straight to the spot where these truths need first to be driven home—the White House. It is an inestimable service which this great labor organization has performed in popularly exposing the economic hallucination that you can put a dollar of cost into any article —labor cost or any other kind— and have it come out only the dol lar which went in. Not merely to tho great merchant but to the push cart peddler it is the A B C of his business that when an added dollar of cost goes into any commodity in any stage of its journey from pro duction to consumption it cannot escape taking on new dollar marks. It must take on the percentage of profit which has to be added to the new cost. It must take on the per centage of economic wa c te tho goods that spoil, or rot, or shrink: the goods that go to consumers who never pay; the goods that are burn ed up: the goods that are lost: the goods that are stolen. The cost of all this economic waste must go ir.to the rest of the commodities which finally reach the consumers. If to the now dollar of wages, or of freight charges, or of taxes, or whatever it may be, is further added on'y a reasonable 10 per cent, for profit, that new dollar of cost be comes sl.lO. If to that new dollar of cost is added for the economic wast age only 10 per cent., that new dol lar of cost becomes $1.20. If to that new dollar of cost is added only a necessary 5 per cent, to take care of all other items of operation and handling, that new dollar of cost be comes a dollar and a quarter. This will happen—it must happen —if the article into which is first in jected the new dollar of cost goes straight to the u'timate consumer from the point—farm, mill or fac tory—where it is injected. But as the vast bulk of all commodities never goes straight from the point of origin to the point of ultimate consumption, as it goes, in fact, several journeys from farm or mine or mill or factory, thence to the job ber, thence to the wholesaler, thence to the retailer, the profits and wast age and other charges must be add ed not merely once but again and again. In such a predicament profiteer ing cannot possibly be the expla nation of our inordinate cost of liv ing. Profiteering in food at a time like this ought to be dealt with mercilessly. But it must be as cical as sunshine that if excessive proliU were absolutely eliminated, if only a nominal profit were absolutely de creed, if even every vestige of profit were absolutely eliminated, there still would' have to be the multipli cations of tho economic wustago and other costs which go on stead ily ail the way to the hands of the ultimate consumer. And this is why the locomotive engineers went to the right spot with their demands for lower costs of commodities. They went to the right spot when they went to the White House, because it is U.o Washington administration which has injected a highly artificial, a grossly inflated, an acutely danget onb cost, inevitably multiplied all along the line, into the production of everything. When dear grain makes dear meat and dear food of all kinds it must make dear wages. It must then start the vicious circle whlcn the clear headed locomotive en gineers recognize. It must start tho multiplication of costs so that the dear grain, flrst expressed in dear fcod, then re-expressod in dear wages, comes out in dearer shoes, dearer clothes, dearer rent, dearer everything that the American peo ple consume. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers went to Washington to demand not higher wages—which cannot so've tlic problem—but low er living costs. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and otner great labor ot ganizations of the country should demand of the White House that the work of bringing down the cost of living be gin where it must begin if thg cost ol living is ever to come down— at its foundation. It is the Washington administra tion which has jacked up the whole cost of living above the reach of the public and insists on holding it up there. The Washington admtmslia ttoi. has made grain dear and keeps it dear to the consumer, although there is more wheat in this country than <he American people could possibly cat and although there is more corn in this country than would fatten, as animal life never before was fattened, every steer and hog on the range, every cow in the pasture, every fowl in the poultry yard. Gratitude [From Harvey's Weekly.] Nine hundred and thirteen regular army officers, including one hun dred and ninety-seven generals, have •been demoted to their pre-war ranks; and this is only the begin ning. During the next two months, every officer in the regular estab lishment will automatically return to the rank h e held in April, 1917. Striking an average, this means that the major general who com manded a division, if not a corps, in the Argonne, will become'a col onel; the brigade commander will become a major; the regimental commander will become a captain; and so on down the line to the non commissioned ranks, and if Mr. Baker has his way, they will one and all become little more than school teachers or property clerks. Now, putting aside altogether, for the moment, the question of justice and gratitude, and mindful that army men as a class are the least mercenary in the world, it is nev ertheless interesting to note that a colonel receives $4,000 a year; a lieutenant colonel $3,500; a major $3,000; and a captain $2,400. Con sidering the depreciation in the buy ing power of the dollar, we daresay that many of these officers will find It quite as engrossing if not as in teresting trying to support their families in the future as they found the tusk of making the world safe for democracy in the trenches. The rule is arbitrary. Services 'count for nothing in this new order. The men who made good in Fiance will get no consideration. If they were passed over the heads of in competents abroad, they will now find themselves ranked by the same incompetents when they return to their peace assignments. Fisher on Job [From the Philadelphia Public Led ger.] Fortunately for Governor Sproul and for the State, he possesses in liiH new banking commissioner, ex- Senator Fisher, an official who in the past did not hesitate to do his duty in the matter of the investiga tion of the great Capitol scandal at a time when politics controlled everything in Harrisburg and when it would have been easy for any legislator to investigate in a way that would not have yielded results But Senator Fisher turned the light on the Capitol grafters and grafting so relentlessly and so thoroughly that the criminal indictment of those offending came as a matter of course, and their conviction follow ed as the natural outgrowth of the incontrovertible body of facts elicit ed by his probe. So to-day. familiar with officialdom at first hand and fresh in his new office, his old capacity to get at the heart of things should lead the new banking com missioner not only to clear up the "North Penn banking scandal," as this amazing example of financial jugglery and almost thuggery will be called, but to clean his depart ment of all those holdovers who are in anyway involved in or besmirch ed by the collapse of the hank and the revelation of its criminal mis management AUGUST 2, 1919. In the Country Store Silas, I wuz a-readin' about thet trial out Chicago way, an' et looks like ever'body wuz supris'd ter hear thet a feller kin git rich just by bc'n' ig'or'nt hevin' no eddlcation; an Henry seems tryin' fer ter show thet th' ig'r'nt'r less eddlcation yer hev, th' richer yer kin git, Aint ther consid'rble Bolshevism in thet kind ov idealism? Well, lteuben, yes, an' no; yer see et iz this way: Them colleges hev been whoopln' up eddication ez bein' th' sure road ter wealth, an' kind-a makin' et look cz ef coin wuz th' hull thing, an' yer couldn't git money lest yer get eddication fust; an' mebbe Henry is tryin' fer ter show thet eddication iz necessary l'er ter make sonic automobiles run, but thet hiz 111' buzzers don't need ter be fed up on no bunk history nor nothin'. • But Henry should hev stuck ter hiz flivvers an' let idealism tr po-ets an' preachers; an' mebbe he would hev done et ef hiz press ugent had learn ed him what ole Abe Lincoln writ th' Quakers what didn't want no civil war in '6l. Says Abe, ef yer don't like oppression, an' "yer don't like war, which iz yer gonna accept? Leavin' out patriotism Henry wuz smart enuf fer ter hev seed thet war iz bad, but other things could be worser. Lincoln sed it. But mebbe th' press agent wuz happy in hiz job. Anyhow ef I could hev seen Henry, I would hev sav'd him consid'rble, by telling' him about Jem Ming's son Jed, down Hackelbarny way an' about Ike Levinsky what drifted up ter th" Cross Hoads fer ter git a job takin' charge ov th' cemetery an' bein' gatekeeper at $8 per week. Jed cum back from college lookin' mighty pert an' sassy, an' th' sexton ov Jed's father's church says Jed, I s'pose yer jest loves books fer they tells yer what perfession ter choose an" how by hard work yer kin git rich in this world's goods. An' Jed says What's eatin' yer, Sexsy? X don't like no books an' I don't like no hard work. I hev one lalapaloosa ov a social entree an' X guess I'll marry some rich gal all righto. An' do yer know Jed ain't done a lick ov work fer 10 years an' ain't mar ried, neither, be gosh. Ike wont ter th' minister an' says please mister kin I hev th' job ov gatekcepin', and' th' minister says kin yer read an' write, an' Ike says no, an' th' minister says then yer can't hev no job ov gatekeeper. An' Ike went ter th' city an' sold matches till he got money enuf for tor build a factory, an' he got wuth $200,000, an' went ter th' bank fer ter borrow some extree money, an' the bank cashier writ' up a state ment showin' how much Ike said he wuz wuth, an' th' cashier says sign on this dotted line, an' Iko says I enn't write none, but I kin make my mark, by heck! an' th' cashier says Great Jehosaphat! wuth $200,000, an' can't write nuthin'! Jest think vhat yer would hev made ef yer hed lied a eddication. An' Ike says, yep, $8 per week bein' gatekeeper up ter th' cemetery, by gosh! The Shaded Road [New York Times.] If we insist on the practical and utilitarian side of the propaganda for the shaded road, it is not because of any lack of appreciation for trees. To the true forester a perfect oak or pine is more beautiful than the most splendid iris, the most impassioned rose; it touches springs of feeling far tenderer and deeper. No revela tion of character is more significant or more sure than when a man (or, as sometimes happens, a woman) prefers a grove to a garden. But with regard to trees it is doubly im portant to make sure that the re sult of our striving shall be beauty. Mere enthusiasm, however per suasive, will not carry one far in an ndeavor the time unit of which is, at the least, a generation. But we suggest firmly, however humbly, that the experiment is one for expert judgment to begin with and for expert control through all its early stages. Let it be tried by all means, but with no illusions as to the care and risk involved. A bare road is better than an avenue of diseased and dying trees. The maple and the oak, even the pine, seldom impose a burden beyond enemies, and dangerous ones; but in the knowledge of the local amateur, or beyond his devotion. They havo comparison to the nut trees they are virtually immune. The chief danger is that which strikes into the heart from decaying linibs. Throughout the land, many nien and some women have given over tennis, even the alluring exercise of the golf links, in order to carry on extension ladder through the woodland and minister with pruning saw, chisel, and paint brush to the noblest of all things that grow, and the most beautiful. fjwpttutg Olljat Clerks in the county recorder's office daily do track exercise through the three offices on the first floor of the court house searching for attorneys to answer telephone call* and most of the time these lawyers are "out." Four of them, in par ticular, are called more frequently than others because usually they are busy at that office. James G. Miles, deputy register of wills, is one of the persons who has been doing much of the telephone mes senger service and he devised a scheme to save himself all kinds of trouble. On a large sheet of cardboard he printed the names of four attorneys and after each name, "In" and "Out." Between these two words a small arrow was fast ened and each of the four lawyers were urged to turn the arrow to indicate they were in the office. At the bottom of the card there was room for another name. Mr. Miles jokingly printed in red ink "This space for rent," and live minutes after the card was up another mem ber of the bar came along and took it seriously. He offered $5 to have his name added to the bottom of the list. • * • John B. Demming, president of the Junior class of State College and son of Benjamin W. Demming, chiof clerk of the Adjutant General's De partment, is a chip of the old block. When college closed last June he decided to see what there was to the talk about harvest hands mak ing money in the Western States and also to see the country on his own hook, being somewhat of an independent nature. The other day he wrote to his father that he was getting $8 a day and his board and lodging. The first place he worked was Olathe, Kan. He went on the same basis as the other "hands" and when they turned him looso in a hay field with a scythe he had cut eight furlongs, two swathes each, before dinner. Then they put him to work on the wheat. At night the "hands" found he could play the piano and he played every sheet of music in the big home of a pros perous farmer. Next day the farmer cranked up the automobile and drove many miles to Kansas City where he bought a bale of new music. From Olathe, when the rush was over, he went to Manhattan, Kan., where he got more experi ence and now ho is in South Da kota. He says that tho wheat crop has been hard hit in that section and that when the folks found he was from Pennsylvania they slapped him on the back and said that was where the good wdrkers came from. • • < If you take a stroll on Allison Hill and notice long white chalk lines on the asphalt and tho names of some of the larger cities in Penn sylvania and adjacent states, you will have before you a panoramic view of the main lines of the "ex press wagon* railroad." About a dozen such corporations exist in various parts of the district and the directors, officials and train crews are boys from about 8 to 12 years of age, who have small wagons, plenty of chalk and also plenty of imagination. They have long par allel lines drawn on the sheet as phalt and about every half block there is a white square in which is printed the name of the station. Among them are "Harrisburg," "Philadelphia," "Lancaster," "Pitts burgh," "Altoona," "Reading," "New York," and many others. Here and there tracks have been provided for "flyers" and to see the youngsters tearing down the street you would have about as much safety on the asphalt as on the mainline tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. But the youngsters enjoy it and storekeepers are selling more chalk than candy to these boys. • • • One of the recruiting officers sta j tioned here who was with the Fifth Division in France tells the follow ing story from the weekly paper published by the division: Private Joseph Rinaldl, of Company K, tiuth Infantry, was with his regiment near Each, Luxembourg. Being unmar ried and of a seeming romantic dis position, Rinaldl thought he might look around and see if some nice Luxembourgeoise might not want to come to this country as Mrs. Rinaldl One day he saw Sister Marie, a nun in the Ecole Menagere, and im mediately fell in love with her. In spite of the opposition of the Mother Superior, who placed every obstaclo in nib way, Itinuldi assiduously pressed his suit. Sister Marie had been in the convent since early youth and had taken the vows, but Joseph was not to be denied and a short while before the division puled out for Brest, he and Sister Marie were married at Esch, after dispensation had been given • • • Some of the men engaged in pass ing around the petitions for candi dates to have their names printed are running across peculiar situa tions. Some men insist on signing with pencils, although that method is no longer followed. Occasionally when men refuse to accept such sig natures the man asked to sign gets mart and refuses to put down his name, one man lost a signer ho wanted for political effect through his declination to allow a man to use a rubber stamp. 11 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Col. H. B. Ferguson, organizer of the tank corps, has been detailed as United States engineer officer at Pittsburgh. —Col. Edward Martin, of Waynes burg, an officer of the 110 th, is tak ing a keen interest in the organi zation of the new National Guard. —The Rev. Duncan Thomas, new Scranton minister, comes from Vir ginia and is a noted athlete. —Judge Stephen Stone, who will he a candidate for renomination In Pittsburgh, used to be city solicitor of Pittsburgh. —Willis E. Ruffner, vice consul at Rome, is visiting at his home in Greensburg. —Dr. R. B. English, Washington and Jefferson professor, Is nomo after more than a year In France with the Y. M. C. A. —Major C. C. McLain, of Indiana, who was tho fourth generation of his family in American wars, will marshal Indiana's welcome home parade. | DO YOU KNOW ! j- ■ ' —That Harrisburg made ci gars were among those taken to France ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —This city used to have a wo man's college located in Front jtreet.
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