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TUESDAY. SEITEMBKR 0. 1911)
Verily I say tin lo you. Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God as
a little child, he shall in no tcise enter
therein. — Matt. 10:15.
AN INDUSTRY'S START
THIS particular period of the
twentieth century is rich in
centennial anniversaries, es
pecially in Pennsylvania and in our
own part of the State, because it
was just about 200 years ago that
the beneficent effects of Penn's
form of government were commenc
ing to be realized and 100 years
ago that we were striking our
stride in the Union as a manufac
turing and transportation Cont
jjionwealth. Some of the anniver
saries have been commemorated
fittingly; some have been forgotten.
Just now we are joining homecom
ing greetings to soldiers with the
noting of centennials of organiza
tion of governmental divisions,
founding of towns or some other in
teresting event. We arc about to
celebrate the Constitutional anniver
sary in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
other places.
This is all very good, but next
year, by common consent of his
torians, is the 200th anniversary of
the commencement of Pennsyl
vania's premier industry, the busi
ness that has brought this State
World-wide eminence and untold
Wealth. From all account, it was in
1720 that Thomas Rutter. with as
sistance of some of the Society of
Friends and men of wealth in Eng
land, established the first blast
furnace near Boyertown. It was
called Colebrookdale and from 1720
on down through a century and a
half, it made iron and supplied
cannon and shot for the American
armies in two wars. It was the
parent of other furnaces and the
place whence numerous forges in
the vicinity of Philadelphia drew
their iron.
Thomas Rutter, his name un
known to many men active in iron
and steel, and Colebroolcdale fur
nace, the pioneer establishment of a
mighty industry that has just won
a world war, deserve some com
memoration in Pennsylvania next
year.
Most thoughtful and patriotic Amer
icans deplore the superheated dis
cussion of the Peace Treaty and the
Covenant of Nations. But most of
all they regret the President's ten
dency to call names and denounce
rancorously all who happen to differ
with him on public questions. Char
acterizing statesmen of ability as
'pygmj-minded men," as "contempti
ble quitters." and so on. simply em
phasizes the President's intolerance
and his utter failure to recognize the
right of every United States Senator
to express his own vi'ews and inter
pret the Versailles documents accord
ing to his own light and conscience.
This is no one-man government—not
yet.
SOMETHING HAS GONE
SOMETHING has gone from the
earth that was here only a week
ago something intangible
but very real, nevertheless; some
thing we scarcely thought about,
but something now that it is gone,
we look for in vain and sigh be
cause it is not. Summer has de
parted. The skies are as blue as
they were in mid-August, the sun
is as bright and the fields are as
green. But there is a new tang in
the morning air and a haze hangs
over the fields toward evening thut
speaks of approaching autumn.
Something has gone, but something
new is here, and we turn from our
•pleasure-seeking and vacationing
in far places to face with zest li>e
work from which we shrank when
the spell of summer was full upon
and the lure of the open was not
to be denied.
Now conies the season of prepar
ing for the long, cold winter. There
ia the home to lie made tight against
•lie freoz ng blasts Ihe coal liinr to
.■t'tpd, Ui - vvocd pilaa to replenish.
i.ppiibH cf food' to be stored
a,uy (if one be wise and thrifty)
TUESDAY EVENING,
and the hearth-stone to be swept for
many a cozy winter evening of fun
and frolic or silent musing. Oh,
summer has her joys, no doubt, but
autumn is delightful and winter is
not without its charms, and variety
is the spice of life. It's "off with the
old love and on with the new," and
"goodbye summer" and "hail Sep
tember."
Counties are joining with the State
in authorizing loans for permanent
highways and Dauphin county must
not lag at any stage of this great
road-hullding era. Only this week
farmers of the Lower End considered
the joining of two parallel State high
ways by a county or township road.
Cc-operation of this sort indicates the
changing attitude of the farming
community and means ultimately a
line system of modern highways for
Pennsylvania. It will also mean, in the
last analysis, better farms, a larger
return for the industry and a more
prosperous people generally through a
better understanding of mutual inter
ests by residents of the cities and
towns and those of the rural sections.
HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE
THE American Woolen Company,
a big corporation with ample
capital to support its under-
I taking, has started out to make life
I more attractive for its employes by
| assisting them to own their own
j homes and some of the features of
| the method whereby this is to be
I accomplished are worth the study
j of any industrial community facing
I a shortage of houses,
j These are plans. Under Plan No.
| 1 any worker of the group life in
surance list of the company can buy
one of the company's new houses to
' be built on the company's land near
the mills. The land will be sold at
a low ligure and the houses to be
constructed will be built on as low a
basis as is possible. The terms to
the purchaser will be as follows:
A house selling for about $4,000
will be sold for $2OO down and a
monthly payment equal to the rental
value of such a house, say $25 per
month. In three months the worker
would have paid $75. From that
amount would be deducted the in
terest on the mortgage ($3,800 for
three months at 4% per cent, equals
$42.75) plus the taxes and insurance
for three months, equalling about
$lB. The balance of the monthly
payment would apply to reduce the
mortgage.
If any worker leaves the American
Woolen Company, or is discharged
for any reason, the Homestead As
sociation, Inc., will take over the
house and return the initial payment
with interest at 4V per cent, from
time payment was made, if the
worker so desires, or he can retain
his house just as though he were
an American Woolen Company
worker until he has paid up his
mortgage to that point where he
could transfer it to a bank and thus
continue to live in his house.
Under Plan 2 a worker who wants
to build his home may apply to the
Homestead Association, Inc., for a
building loan up to 75 per cent, of
the total cost of his lot and the house
he plans to build. The only limita
tion on his selection of a lot is that
it be convenient to the mills, so that
if he ever gave up the property it
would be suitable for another
worker. In this case he would
have his own plans prepared and
hire his own builder. The Home
stead Association, Inc., will loan
money only on single houses.
A fixed payment on the loan would
be made monthly, which would
cover interest on the mortgage at
414 per cent., and the remainder of
the monthly payment would go to
ward paying off the mortgage.
Every month the mortgage is re
duced by an increasing amount.
Every three months interest charges
will be reduced to cover the amount
remaining to be paid on the mort
gage. That part applying toward
the mortgage will increase until the
last payment, all of which will go
toward the mortgage. These pay
ments are the minimum which can
be made. Any additional payment
which the worker cares to make
will be credited toward reducing his
mortgage, saving him interest on
' that amount.
If the worker leaves, or is dis
charged for any reason, the associa
tion will continue to carry the mort
gage until sufficient payment has
been made to make the loan accept
able to a bank.
Plan 3—lf a worker wishes to
buy a single house in which he will
live the Homestead Association. Inc.,
will take a mortgage at 4 per
cent, interest on the property up
to 75 per cent, of the appraised val
uation of the house and land.
The only limitation on his selec
tion of a lot is that it be convenient
to the mills, so that if he ever gave
up the property it would be suit
able for another worker. Payment
on this mortgage will be made
monthly by the same payment plan
as used In the building loans, just
explained.
It the worker leaves the Ameri
can Woolen Company, or is dis
charged for any reason, the Home
stead Association, Inc., will continue
to carry the mortgage until suffi
cient payment has been made to
make the loan acceptable to a bank-
With the practical co-operation of
the forming and educational forces of
the State, through the departments on
Capitol Hill, it is certain that many
of the problems now engaging the at
tention of Dr. Finegan, superinten
dent of Public Instruction, and Secre
tary Itusmussen, of the Department of
Agriculture, will be solved in a satis
factory manner. Governor Sproul is
intensely interested In the work of
these two Important departments of
the State government and is in close
touch with the policies which are be
ing developed by their respective
heads.
Several hundred tons of cheap Gei
mnn toys held in warehouses at Ant
werp and Rotterdam during the war
have urr!ved ut the port of Philadel
phia Joyous news fof those who
arc digging deep to pay war bills* of
the Huns' making.
IK
By the Ex-Committeeman
Importance of the various con
tests being waged for purely mu
nicipal or county honors in the
primary campaign not only to the
State, but the National campaign
next year is commencing to be
realized, and there is as much in
terest being manifested in the
Philadelphia mayoralty contest in
Williamsport, as there is in the
Allegheny county struggle in Du-
Bois. People who have generally
regarded the political outbreaks in
the two big counties as the Key
stone Slate's hardy annuals are
noting every day's developments and
speculating on what it may mean
a year from now. Washington and
New York people are observing the
movements and in Chicago, the out
come of the Quaker City battle is
being awaited with an eye on 1920.
Similarly, there are other con
tests with a slant on State affairs
just like our primary in Dauphin
and the judicial struggles in Cam
bria, Washington, Westmoreland
and other counties and the Scran
ton school board, the Altoona- city
manager mayoralty issue, and the
Reading municipal affairs.
—The Philadelphia Press in an
interesting review of a couple of
contests points out this State wide
significance. It says in an article by
Odell Hauser, its legislative repre
sentative: "The coining Presidentnl
campaign will be momentous
enough, goodness knows, but it will
have an added significance in Penn
sylvania on account of the Penrose
candidacy. That is why it is worth
while paying particular attention to
these county contests. At the pres
ent moment they are more than
mere local squabbles."
—The Press comments on Gov
ernor Sprout's activity against the
McClure ring, in the city of Chester,
and says there was a big registra
tion.
—With politicians explaining, and
newspapers {rredicting on the
nmazing size of the Philadelphia
registration, which broke all rec
ords and many a man's reputation
as a prophet, the State is now
watching the result of Pittsburgh's
second day of registration, and some
charges and Counter charges are be
ing heard about it. The registration
on the first day was 45,000, it is
estimated. The Gazette-Times
says: "In 1915 the first day's regis
tration was 32,478 and in 1917, 32.-
414. The total for 1915 was 84,-
389 and that for 1917, 85.352. In
each year there were county and
city elections, as there are the pres
ent year. The number of voters in
terested on these occasions nearly
always exceeds the number of those
who wish to participate in a Presi
dential election."
—The Scranton Times says of the
registration in that city: "On Thurs
day, the Republicans registered 5,-
360. and the Democrats, 2,156.
Scattered registrations. Thursday,
include 36 prohibitionists, 28 Social
ists and 43 non-committals. Thurs
day's registration totaled 7.623, as
against 7,869 in 1917.
—The Lackawanna county seat is
a center of interest because two
women are running for school di
rector. Scranton had two women
school directors, and one died, and
one resigned. Men and women are
speaking on corners in the interest
of the candidacy of Mrs. Thomas
Murphy and Mrs. Edwin Gearhart.
Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Gearhart
will also speak from automobiles.
One other woman, Mrs. A. E. Cor
nell. is also a candidate.
—One of the side lights of the
Allegheny campaign, is the battle
for the Republican county trea
surer nomination, between Ex-
Mayor J. E. Armstrong and Captain
John H. Shenkel. Shenkel is the
soldier honored by the Belgian gov
ernment for extreme bravery on the
battlefield, and is very popular. For
clerk of courts, John Douglass is in
the transfer and hauling business,
and during the late street car strike
became endeared to the people by
carrying workingmen and women
to and from their work without
charge, while profiteers mulctied
the public a dollar a day for the
same service.
—Prohibitionists of Delaware
county are satisfied with the new
law governing the sale of intoxi
cants. but have decided to continue
the party organization for a time,
at least. At a conference held in
Chester, Daniel G. Hendricks pre
sided, and candidates for city and
county offices were indorsed.
—C. H. Galloway, who resigned
from the United States Civil Serv
ice Commission with a blast at
Postmaster General Burleson's pol
itical machinations the very same
day that Pennsylvania postmasters'
commended Mr. Burleson, is well
known here. He says he means to
keep up the fight.
—F. 1,. Truth is the name of a
candidate for sheriff of Beaver
county, where by the way, Judge G.
A. Baldwin decided that a woman
could not be a candidate for the
office or clerk cf the courts.
—Herman F. Reich, a returned
soldier, living at Sunbury, has been
appointed deputy clerk of the
United States Courts of the middle
district. He will serve at Sunbury
and this city.
—F. R. Hendershot, candidate
for renomination as county con
troller of Buzerne, says in his ad
vertisements that he has handled
$14,000,000, boosted coal land val
uations. and saved money and never
audited any man's religion, politics
or color.
—Coroner O. M. Kinner, of
Wyoming, is on all tickets for the
primary and has no opposition on
any of them.
—Behlgh county people say that
because of the Democratic row in
that county, there Is a chance of
Senator H. W. Schantz becoming
the sole nominee for the new judge
ship in that county.
—Hazleton people are consider
ing a $500,000 bond issue for im
provements and may send commit
tees to look over some of those
made in other cities.
—Here is where peaches get into
politics. Tt seems that at Wash
ington. There has been eonsider
i able rivalry between members of
Congress, as to whose state pro
duces the best peaches. Bast week
Congressman Rowers of West Vir
ginia. and Congressman Dayton of
Delaware had the Republican cloak
room all their own way. However,
Congressman B. K. Focht received
two large baskets of peaches from
the Buffalo Valley fruit farm, in
Union county, which were voted the
blue ribbon by the many congress
men, who quickly disposed of them.
A nuantttv of peaches from the
farm of Chief Clerk M. K. Bergner
of Chamhersburg, failed to arrive
in 'lme 'o enter the contqst. Jn
fact two baskets were stolen in
transit, and one arrived after be
ing on the road four days.
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No Wonder Germany Qnit
By MAJOR FRANK C. MARIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
Our American patrols that made i
life unhappy for the Boche used to
have some highly exciting times in
No Man's Band. One trouble they !
had which the French and Germans
never had. was getting shelled by i
our own artillery. When the French j
sent a patrol out into No Man's j
Land they started their preparations ;
several days in advance and before !
the patrol went out all units nearby j
were notified the exact time the pa- j
trol was going out, just where it ;
was going, and the exact time it was |
coming back. Also they would be |
careful to send out only one patrol !
in the same general area for fear j
that if they had two out, they might I
meet and fight each other. Further- j
more, the artillery were given all the i
data about the patrol and they 1
would carefully abstain from firing !
into the area in which the patrol |
was working. Now that works ]
beautifully where patroling isn't,
very active and in such sectors the |
Boche dominated No Man's Land. In
our sectors we couldn't tolerate any
Boche domination of No Man's
so instead of occasonally hav
ing one patrol out in a whole bat
talion area the way the French did
we would have from ten to twenty |
patrols out every night. Now you \
would think those patrols, who ;
often met in the dark, would get to I
lighting each other, but if such aj
thing ever happened it wasn't in our
part of the front and I never heard
of it. The reason was that we had '
prearranged signals for use when [
one patrol met another. For in- |
stance one patrol would hear some i
one approaching. At once everyone
was perfectly still while the patrol |
leader would tap twice with his
knuckles on the stock of his rifle, j
You would be surprised how far that |
is audible when every sense is highly
strung. At once would come two j
answering taps, a pause and the I
more taps, and the patrols would 1
approach and confer. Every two or j
three days we changed our signals j
and the method worked to perfec- ]
tion. But once in a while something ;
would go wrong and the patrols j
would have a sweet and lovely time, j
1 shall never forget one wild night j
up in the Vosges. That day we had j
received a new schedule of rocket :
signals for the coming week and it |
seems the Boche had changed theirs j
the same day. Extraordinary as it ;
might seem the Boche rocket signal j
calling for an artillery barrage was ;
the same ns our signal for artillery j
counter-preparation flee —red rocket j
of one red star —and their signal !
for artillery counter-preparation was ]
the same as our artillery barrage— j
a green caterpillar rocket. We were j
pulling off a small raid without ar
tillery when the Boche shot up a j
red rocket. At once a heavy Boche j
barrage came down and a few sec- I
onds later our own counter-prepara- !
tion fire caine down with our raiding i
party between the two zones of fire, j
By the way, counter-preparation is !
a zone of fire laid down say 500 j
yards back in the enemy trenches; j
at the end of a few seconds it jumps i
25 yards towards our own trenches, |
♦hen it jumps again and again until j
it reaches the enemy front line I
trench when it starts back again in j
the same way. As our fire ap- j
proachcd the Yank patrol they beat I
It towards our own trenches, and of I
course ran into the Boche barr&ge. I
About that time the Boche got good
and scared and sent up a green !
caterpillar rqc.ket bringing down :
our barrage and their own counter
preparation. Maybe you think all |
hell didn't bust loose then! Every
machine gun, trench mortar, auto- I
matie rifle and everything else that j
would shoot cut loose on both sides. |
And there was that raiding party
running wildly towards our trenches |
followed by our counter-preparation |
until they ran into the Boche lire I
which chased them back again as 1
our fire receded. Now mind you, the j
ground was well sprinkled with .
trenches and barb wire entangle- '
inents but our men never realized j
the obstacles were there till things
finally quieted down. Their whole]
object in life at that time was mak
ing the utmost speed first one way
and then the other in order to avoid I
the mass of bursting shells. They ]
never even realized that scores of I
machine guns were spitting six hun- j
dred bullets each per minute In I
their direction. When they finally I
• rot back in our trenches the cloth- |
ing of most of the men consisted
of the waist bands of their trousers j
and the collars of their coats; the i
rest of their clothing was left on !
jthe birb wire, but except for an 1
I awful mess of scratches not a man j
| was hurt. Incidentally both sides j
' changed their rocket signals again |
America the Dominant Nation
Through Fortunes of War Grout Britain Surrenders First Place
[Mark Sullivan in Colliers Weekly.]
GREAT BRITA IX, as respects i
glory, as respects the moral
elevation that comes from |
| sacrifice in a fine cause, is right now I
iat the peak of her history; and one !
! shrinks from admitting that the I
• very sacrifices which brought the j
| glory brought also economic changes
j which will cause her to lose her
I position as the dominant nation of
i the world. But that is so; and to
' fail to see it or say it, is merely
| indulging in sentiment and tact at
I the expense of an important historic
| fact.
r The line of dominant nations is
j like the line of prize light cham-
I pions; they rise, they seize the place,
I they enjoy the prestige for a period,
| and then a new champion comes.
| Within the last six centuries Port-
I ugal had the position, and Spain
! took it away; Spain held it for more
| than two centuries, during which
i she discovered and colonized most
of America; tjien Spain lost it to
Holland, and Holland in turn lost
it to Great Britain. Now Great Bri
tain is in process of losing it to the
United States,
j The singular fact, however, is that
The Underpaid Professor
![From the Review]
He is being cramped and humili
ated on all sides, is conscious thvt
!he is becoming quasi-miserly
through over attention to pennies—
in fact, is himself living a petty
j and sordid life, and, what is much
I worse, sees those he most cares
I for, and for whom he is responsible
i involved in the same destiny. He
willingly took on the vow of pov
| erty for himself, perhaps, but not
| for them. He would go into plumb
i ing if he knew enough. He is in
! the clutch of an out-and-out exas
perating experience, one that is dc
j structive both of his dignity and his
| self-respect.
i Whether, under this harrow, lie
\ reveals Bolshevoid tendencies or
j not, a man in such a mood ought
| not to bp teaching our sons, lie
jis bound to be wearied and du
| traught, if not bitter and cynical.
| It takes enthusiasm and fervor to
I fire the heart of youth. There is
j call for the clear and equable mind,
j sufficiently at rest as respects its
i own concerns to be able to spare
I that force upon which his charges
j ought to have the right to draw,
i As things now go, the best men will
j keep out of teaching, and presently
j the inferior ones, less robust and
resistant of nonsense, may actually
j fall, as some have already fallen,
j into the status of suggestible mal
| contents. The heads of most pro
: fessors are not yet weak enough
I for Bolshevism; but certain joui
! nals that dish up brain softening
j compounds, full of insinuation and
| suggestion, are far too popular
] among them. To such influences
| they are becoming ever more "open
j minded." This is dangerous. Tf the
j cure of Russian Bolshevism is more
| food, the prophylaxis of professional
j Bolshevism is more salary.
All Mast Help
[From the Arkansas Gazette.]
| Attorney General Palmer, who is
I leading the light for the Government
i against the high cost of living, says
[ results nlready are beginning to
I show. But he added the following,
| which all of us should keep in mind;
j "We want to make clear, how
i ever, that nothing we can do can
i change the immutable economic
| laws on which prices depend. If
we can Increase the supply by
! greater production and lessen de
| mand by greater saving on the part
'of the people, then the cost of liv
! ing should come down."
Until all of us realize that the
'high cost of living cannot be brought
jdown unless each of us does his part
there will be no real or permanent
results from the Government's fight,
lit will help, of course, to stop
| profiteering and to force on the mar
| ket goods hoarded hy profiteers, but
jto solve the problem permanently
I we must increase production.
I We should fix in our minds this
i fact —the Government cannot by the
j mere passage of laws bring about a
| situation that will Insure for each
iof us increased income and de
l creased outgo. The big part In solv
' ing the high cost of living must be
j done by the individual through
j thrift, common sense and unseltlsh
| r.css. ,
this present passing of dominance
is not a case of an old champion
losing the belt in a final light
against a younger challenger. All
the other historic cases of the pass
ing of dominance have been marked
by a great war between the two
rivals. But in the process by which
Great Britain is losing her domi
nance, she and the nation that is
taking the prize from her were not
rivals, but partners. We did not
fight Great Britain for it; Germany
and fate thrust it upon us. That is
a fact that should make us modest
as it is possible to be and consider
ate in the exercise of our new su
premacy.
Germany started to seize Great
Britain's place in the sun by force
of arms; she failed to get it for
herslf, but she did deprive Great
Britain of it. Ry virtue of the
economic changes wrought by the
vtar, dominance comes to America.
And when the London Statist says
that the United States will be the
first of exisiting nations "within the
present century," that is merely a
way of stating it softly. The fact
is that America is the greatest of ex
isting Nations to-day.
Good Will Dividends
[From Louisville Courier-Journal.]
The financial distress of city rail
way companies has provoked dis
cussion of increase of fare as a
matter of Justice to the corpora
tions and discussion of decreases of
fare as a practical means of in
creasing revenue. While the dis
cussion has gone forward in many
cities the experience of Philadel
phia with the conventional 5-cent
fare has been satisfactory from the
point of view of the transportation
company and that of the public.
The Public Ledger, of Philadel
phia, says:
"The nickel standard fare still
prevails here, and President Mitten
gives the assurance that the main
tenance of this standard is the ideal
for which he is striving and will
continue to strive. He does not
need to be told that there Is a deep
seated tradition in America in favor
of the 5-cent unit and that a de
parture from that unit fare is in
variably accompanied by a falling
off in the number of the profitable
short distance riders and, as a rule,
by a reduction in revenue."
It has been said that the dividend
payers stand in the aisles on street
cars. It is true that empty seats
pay no part of operating expenses.
The fact that during a period of
increasing costs of 'various kinds
the Philadelphia company volun
tarily adopted the War Labor
Board level of wages, and the fact
that under the present management
a company which was poorly equip
ped and not earning dividends has
become well equipped and is paying
dividends without increase of fare
are facts which make the experience
of Philadelphia interesting to all
American cities whose city railways
are in financial difficulties. The old
rule of many stiles and small profits
has been relied upon in the Quaker
City with results which cannot fail
to attract the attention of stock
holders and passengers who are
I concerned about the situation of
i street railway companies in other
cities.
Intellectual Snobbery
[A. A. Milne in the Outlook London]
I used to know a man who car
ried always with him a Russian
novel in the original; not because he
read Russian, but because a day
m'.ght come when, as the result of
some accident, the "pockets of the
deceased" would be. exposed in tho
public press. As he said, you never
know; but the only accident whi'h
happened to him was to be stranded
for twelve hours one August at a
wayside station in the Highlands,
j After this he maintained that the
Russians were overrated.
A Problem in Natural History
[From Blighty, London.]
Two sailors at a dog show were
gazing at a valuable Skye terrier,
which hadi so much hair that it
looked more like a woolen mat than
a dog
"Which end Is 'is 'end, Tom,"
asked one.
"Blowcd if I know," was the re
ply, "but, 'ere I'll stick a pin in hiu.
I and you look which end barkel"
SEPTEMBER 9, 1919.
Trade Briefs
There is a good market in Ecuador
for matches.
The Department of State an
nounces that the consular agency at
Townsville, Queensland, has been
closed.
It is reported that Japanese in
terests are organizing a company
with a capital of $10,000,000 for the
lixation of atmospheric nitrogen un
der certain American patents.
A Portland cement factory, which
is now being constructed in Singa
pore, Straits Settlements, at a cost
of•s 1,000,000 is to he equipped with
machinery of American manufac
ture.
A flour mill with a daily capacity
of 60,000 pounds recently began op
erations at Kaireng in the province
of Honan, China. The machinery,
said to be of the latest American
pattern, cost $50,000.
Samples of Swedish spinning
paper used in making paper textiles
may be inspected at the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce in
Washington or its district and co
operative offices. Refer to File No.
40495.
A report received from Mazatlan,
Mexico, says that owing to rains and
! the lack of sufficient labor for har
vesting about one-fourth of the
j garhanzo crop is lost, and that the
: market price is but two cents a
| kilo.
A beginning in the use of trac
|tors in Trinidad has been made by
i one of the. large cocoanut planta
| tions in the southern part of the is
| land, where a large caterpillar trac
tor is now hauling .ploughs and har
rows, dispensing with the use of
| oxen.
|
America's Call
The heart of a nation, do you know
what it is?
The spirit of you and of me!
Are we true to the highest, with a
dream that ascends.
With a hope that aspires, and a
purpose that blends
Accordant with God's equity?
The strength of a nation, yea, buck
ler and shield
I In peace or when foe would assail,
jls the homo that we're building;
and the basis of all
I Is the love that is pure in cottage or
hall.
The sword of morale cannot fail,
i The worth of a nation, not the gold
nor the grain
The bounty of heaven bestows;
No, the wealth is the giving of serv
ice to men
That the world may be brighter and
better, and then
to fullness its destiny grows.
Oh, land that we cherish, you arc
calling to us.
My brothers, let's up and arise!
Every man do his duty for Amer
ica's sake!
Stand strong till the dawn of the
blessings shall break—
Peace lighting forever the skies'
—Frederick A. Earle, in the New
York Times.
Rough on the Wolves
[From Kansas City Star]
"Before the war we used to see
a good many pictures of whiskered
Rooshian gents razooing over the
snow-clad plains in sledges drawn
by three snorting horses hitched
ahreust, and flinging children to the
ravening, red-mouthed wolves that
were pursuing 'em," musingly said
Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge,
Ark. "Last night, while my chil
dren were pulling hair and bump
ing each other's heads on the floor,
and wife was slapping 'em right
and left, and X was cussing 'em in
a gener'l way, and such as that, I
sorter got to contemplating that if
I was tearing acrost the prairie
with my kids in a'wagon and the
wolves raging around us, if I'd
fling Ave or six of the children out
amongst the varmints them wolves
would sure get the surprise of their
lives. I reckon In about two min
utes the children would be feeling
right at home and the wolves howl
ing for help."
Possession
Life has Jcy for everyone
Who has a mind to find it.
The soul must see immediately.
Nor stop, nor look behind it;
A birght wing flashing in the sun
Has power to lift up anyone.
Life has Joy for any man
Who lifts his hand to take it—
Prism of the morning and
The great sun that can make it;
Rain upon a dusty leaf
Can comfort even sullen grief.
—Liouise Driscall in the Villager.
Katonah, N. Y.
JEmtinij (Eljat j
Vacation days are rapidly com
ing to an end in and about Har
risburg and nowhere is it more no
ticeable than at the Capitol. The
400 or 500 folks whose daily work
centers in the big granite building
have had their fling and barring
those who arranged matters so that ,*
their free time coincides with the
primary election activity things arc
getting back to the normal, nor
mal meaning as they were a year
ago before the gubernatorial elec
tion, the influenza epidemic and the
inauguration and the Legislature
came along in turn. The way it
is told that vacation days are nearly
over, however, is not from the peo- •.
pie in the building regularly, but by
the stream of visitors. From a cou- J
pie of thousand a week they have '
started to fall and although auto- *
mobile tourists continue to come
j and go in Harrisburg, the number •
at the State House is not as great
although that striking distribution
of visitors throughout most of the
! counties of the State, noted a few
weeks ago, continues, men from
Wayne meeting men from Greene
and Erie. A good many farmers
are to be seen in the Capitol just
now. They all come in their own
automobiles and they tell of boun
teous corn crops and of trouble with
the apples and the peaches. In
the throngs are quite a few of the
"plain people" from Lancaster
county, Mennonites and Dunkards
and others of the various sects.
Every now and then some party .
gives the elevator men a jolt by
asking if they will "mind it' if they
go up, while more than one per
son remarks with a sigh or a smile
as the time comes to step out of a
car that has "swushed" them up
four or five stories that it was "the
first time I ever rode in one of
these."
• * •
The folks who come to the Capi
tol for the lirst time can nearly
always be "spotted." The first ex
pressions are of surprise. The old.
old impression that was scattered i *
and smattered throughout Pennsyl
vania in 1905 and 1906 that the u
Capitol was made of putty or some- "
thing that would melt if the winds
and the rains ever got to it seems V
to linger in the minds of a great
many men and women. The stories
of its architectural beauties, of its
splendid proportions, its fine declar
ations, its notable works of art,
written by some of the famous writ
ers of the land do not seem to have
made near as much headway as the
average man would imagine. The
people who come here for the first
view of the Capitol candidly admit
that some one misrepresented or as
one stalwart farmer from up in
Centre county, who stood in the *
rotunda's center and gasped up at
the superb interior of the dome,
expressed it "Some one's a liar. '
It. all goes to show that Samuel
W. Pennypaeker knew what he was
talking about when thirteen years
ago he inaugurated the "penny-a
mile" excursions to see the Capitol.
"Seeing is believing" at the Capitol
in more ways than one.
There are lots of funny things up
at the Capitol. There are people
who come here thinking that there *
are gold pieces sticking around and
others who are so startled by the
beauty that they did not know was
here that they go about in awed V
silence and walk as though on eggs.
Nine of every ten men who visit f
the hall of the House of Represen
tatives sit in one of the seats of thp
lawmakers and oftentimes they
hunt up the seat of the man from
their home district. Senator "Ed"
Vare's seat is a matter of interest
to many a Philadelphian, while most
Elk countians want to go and sit
where John Flynn watches the
House. The curious effect produced
hy the lightc and shadows in the
rotunda that forms the "halo" about
the Quay statue causes much com
ment, while there is a general move
ment toward the glass cases con
taining the Civil war battle flags
on the part of people who had rela-
tives in that great struggle. Most
people who visit the Executive De
partment want to know if the Gov
ernor is "in." And similarly a good
many ask what the Abbey medal
lions in the rotunda are "all about?"
Perhaps the greatest entertain
ment watching the visitors comes
from observing the way they treat
the tile pavement of the first floor.
There is nothing more interesting,
more distinctive than this product
of old Moravian days, that has been •
so much derided and condemned.
It is one of the features of the
Capitol. aA notable in its way as is
that gem of interior arrangement '
and decoration—the supreme court
chamber, isolated, simple, spacious
and so suggestive of the dignity of
the courts. When a party with chil
dren comes along the first thing is a
squeal of delight as a youngster
spies on the tile pavement a butter
fly or an oyster. Some one lets off
a surprised giggle when the tele
phone is seen in the south wing
floor'with the o almost erased from
"hello." More people spend time
figuring out the designs on the tile
floor than they do the theme of the
Abbey paintings in the Senate or the
relation of the great of Pennsylvania,
to the history of the Commonwealth t
in the allegorical painting in the '
hall of the Representatives. As
matter of fact, the tiled flooring
tells the story of Pennsylvania,
shows industry, flora and fauna.
And most Harrisburgers know very
little about what there is in the
Capitol, it may be said in passing
on.
j| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Bishop P. J. Hoban. of Scran
ton, presided at the Valera ma-y<
meeting in that city Sunday*.
—Captain S. D. Foster, candidate
for county commissioner in Alle
gheny and well known here, is mak-
ing daily speeches in that county.
—Colonel Edward Martin, State
Commissioner of Health, is one of •
the golfers who golfs regularly, sel- •
dorri missing an afternoon.
—General Richard Coulter, who
will command -one of the National
Guard brigades, is making some vis
its to places where units may be
formed.
—Congressman J. Hampton
Moore, candidate for mayor of
Philadelphia, says he likes cam
paigns.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg is having more
automobile visitors than ever known
in its history?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG "*■
—The first bank in Harrisburg
was located on South Second street
near Chestnut, .