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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
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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.