Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, September 10, 1919, Page 10, Image 10
10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ▲ NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TBLKGUAriI PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, t'cd-rnl Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QCS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXEK, Circulation Manager ' Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. , F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Xdmbers of the Associated Press— The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication , of ail news dispatches credited to It ,pr not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein ore also reserved. d Member American rl Newspaper Pub §lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocla ated Dallies. c.|tern •ff | / ittt People^ G a u Building, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Poet Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. 4 By carrier, ten cents a ♦"S'-flf||week: by mall. |3.00a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 10, 1919 If 1 knew you and you knew me— If both of us could clearly see, And with an inner sight divine The meaning• of your heart and mine, I'm sure that we- would differ less And clasp our hands In /ricndltnesss Our thoughts tt'oula. pleasantly agree If I knew you and you knew me. Viron Waterman. KNOW YOUR BUSINESS ! THE Chamber of Commerce has arranged its Merchants' In stitute at a particularly oppor tune time, when businessmen more than ever have come to an under standing that their only hope for success lies in an intimate and de tailed knowledge of their line. Frank Stockdale, who will be the j \. ' institute speaker, is a man of wide | experience and br.ngs to Harris -j the best thought o" the moqt pro gressive merchants in the country. The opportunity offered by this institute is one that does not often come, and for that reason ought to attract the - attendance of every re , j tailer In the city. A BUMPY BOULEVARD UNLESS and until the city authorities provide definite traffic regulations for tlie i River Drive, the city's main boule vard, the pride of Harrlsburg in its well-paved streets and its reputation . as well will surely suffer. Unrestricted use of heavy trucks of every sort from one end of the city to the other along the river is breaking down the asphalt pav ing in such a way us to practically ruin Front street as a pleasure drive. Certain stretches of the street are so full of depressions aa to make auto mobile driving unsafe. It is an ex > pensive operation to repair the as phalt streets, which are seriously damaged by unrestricted use of enormous trucks, and the City Coun cil will be compelled in the legiti mate discharge of its duties to the taxpayers to take some action to confine heavy trucks and drays to traffic streets, and perhaps through municipal regulation, reduce their legal weight on improved highways. When the William JPenn High way shall have been finally thrown open to the public as one of the noted highways of the Stale there I will be tremendously increased traf - fic over that portion of the highway represented by Front street in Har risburg. The citv must see to it that the thousands of travelers who come this way shall go out of the city with no unfavorable impression of our streets. But unless some thing Is done to protect the River; Drive from the unnecessarily heavy j trucks now crowding that highway l that Is bound to happen. A CITY TREE CAMPAIGN THERE arc said to be at least five hundred oaks, maples, elms and other trees suitable for shade purposes ready for trans planting at the Island Park nurs ery. These trees aro owned by the city, and it would be a good thing for Harrishurg to have the Department of Purk3 lead the way in a groat campaign . In October. The setting of an ex ample by the municipal authorities would have a tremendous effect upon the individual property owners and result in thousands of trees being set out along the curblines and on ' private premises next mofith. Un less the trees now in the city nursery, and ready for replanting, are removed there is likely to be a loss which ought to be avoided by tlio City Council. We have no doubt that a recommendation from Park Commissioner Gross to his col leagues in the municipal adminis tration would be promptly ap proved. There is no time to be lost . in the preliminaries of such a cam paign as ought to be organized with in the next three or four weeks, j. State Forestry Commissioner Conklin, in a letter to the Tele graph, has pledged his Department to aid in every way possib'c lite shade tree situation in this city. Mis Judgment is that the first thing to Uo is to have the City Council adopt WEDNESDAY EVENING, the Shade Tree act, or pass suitable ordinances In accordance therewith, in order that there may be proper supervision of planting, removal and protection of the trees of the city. He properly suggests ♦ hat "the city lacks uniformity in its trees, and without uniformity, tree planting is at best desultory." Commissioner Conklin makes the further suggestion that the streets of the city should be carefully studied and definite species of trees assigned to each street. We are glad to advise him on this point that the Department of Parks has al ready completed a survey of the city, with a view of determining the kind of trees to he planted and the streets to be improved in this respect, which will make it easier to go ahead with a tree-planting campaign without any loss of time during the next few weeks. : But there must be leadership, anil jit would seem the Department of Parks, with control over the nursery land several hundred trees ready for j transplanting, is equipped as no in j dividual or group of individuals to i blaze the way for citizens generally lin this great, work. | THEY COME AND GO MARION, ILL., where the late Colonel Ingersoll once lived and which he aspired to see | a churchless town, has become a j veritable city of churches. There i are now fourteen within its borders, j two new structures having been i started despite the high cost of ' building, which will give it the di - I tinotion of having more churches for I its size than any other community j in Illinois. j We don't know whether this is a | reflex of the Colonel's teachings or j if it is merely one of those peculiar j coincidences in which history ap- I pears to take delight, but it serves | to remind owe that while the dis ! turbing doctrines of Ingersoll are al- I most forgotten, the church he slighted is still a mighty and ever growing force for good in the world. So it is with all disturbers. The world listens, some times gets ex cited and throws a few bricks, but after a time sufficient for sober second thought, it settles back again to ways of law and order and the disorderly factor is forgotten. Radical Socialists, Bolshevists, j Communists and their like, will I please take notice. Within another j generation they will be as extinct I as the Populi3ts, the Know-Nothings or the Graenbaekers. NOT FOR I S AMERICAN representatives in Paris may as well save them selves the pains they appar ently are taking to procure for the United States a mandatory of Ar menia, Constantinople and the Straits. The people of this country are tired of meddling in European affairs and want to be left alone to solve their own problems first. We have no more business in Con stantinople than England, for ex ample, has in Mexico, an intrusion which we would resent by force of arms. Constantinople, the Straits and Armenia, it is true, are constant menaces to the peuce of the world, but the way to remove their threat is not to entrust their keeping to any one nation, hut to make them a mandatory of all Europe. It is estimated that 50,000 Amer ican troops would he required in Armenia alone. That would mean that our military establishment of necessity would have to be kept constantly on a war basis. It would increase our peril if war should threaten and entangle us for all time in the very heart of the European spider web of diplomacy and du plicity. Trouble is sure to follow if the •esident takes seriously the Crane suggestions and advance them when the Turkish negotiations are taken up. also because they would bring Ihc United States in direct conflict with the British claims in Meso potamia and the French claims in I Syria. [ Although the Cranq report makes no mention of Constantinople, that city is included in the ambitious scheme. America wants none of it and it is not likely the Senate in its pres ent rnood would listen for a moment to such a recommendation, but it indicates how deeply the President's friends would involve the United States in European politics. MONEY THAT GOT AWAY IN THE last decade probab'y several dozen men who had amassed fortunes in business of various kinds in Pennsylvania died in New York. New England, Florida or California and the State within whose limits they had made mill ions did not get a cent in the way of taxes. The commonwealths wherein the decedents were domi ciled got their share of the money, although the estates consisted in some instances of Pennsylvania property, Pennsylvania securities and Pennsylvania assets of other kinds. No one knows how many millions this State lost through operation of law that worked against it. Thanks to the policy of the Sproul administration in urging laws to get after the money that belongs to Pennsylvania and to the far-sighted recommendations of Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, this State is now able to serve notice that transfers of property under wills or Intestate laws can not be made unless the State receives the share of taxation which present day public policy provides shall go back to the people. The fiscal officer has been energetic In getting the system started and the financial institutions of the State are helping him. Pennsylvania will get thousands to which it has been entitled be cause it was made here, but which under the old laws got away. fditfccc* Ck . 'PmuwG kAoQMitL By the Kx-Committeeman One of the interesting things about the final ten days of the pri mary campaign in Pennsylvania is the sudden awakening of people in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities where there has been interest centered in mayoralty or county nomination contests to the impor tance of the cuncilmanic elections In a number of newspapers there have been calls made to the voters not to forget to study the qualifica tions of the councilmen and a good bit more attention will be given to the personnel of primary tickets or such nominations in the big cities than expected. Philadelphia is electing its first council to serve under the new char ter. This will be a "small" council, consisting of a single chamber of twenty-one men, apportioned among the senatorial districts. Pittsburgh is electing a new council and so arc most of the third class cities. In Philadelphia the light to prevent the council getting into the hands of the Yares is being freshened up by the Moore Town Meeting coterie. One of the most interesting con tests in the State is that in Scran ton where there are three women running for school board. If they win the Lackawanna capital will have more women directors than any other place in the State. I —ln Philadelphia the Evening | Bulletin is calling attention to coun cil elections and also handing Judge John M. Patterson some pretty stiff jabs for remaining on the bench I when he is engaged in a strenuous j campaign for voting, circulating ! about the city and addressing meet j ings. It holds that this is in con trast to the public sentiment that has been built up in recent years. ! —The Inquirer, Press and Eedger | call upon voters to scrutinize the i names of the men who are candi- I dates for council. The ledger says: "Good citizens will be forewarned I against yielding to specious appeals to sectional prejudice or mere per sonal preference as between candi dates. In this crisis principle is more important than persons, and a council loyal to Philadelphia and honest in its endeavor to secure tha advantage of a clean, unbossed ad ministration of its affairs, is some thing worth fighting for." -—The Philadelphia Record con tinues to have fun with the mayor alty campaign and refuses to take seriously Thomas Robins, chairman of the committee of 1,000 The Rec ord remarks: "Further injection of humor into the mayoralty campaign was attempted yesterday when j Thomas Robins, chief apologist for the Yare ticket, issued a statement expressing his delight at the heavy registration of voters and claiming that it 'gives absolute assurance of the nomination of Judge Patterson by a substantial majority.' His statement also said the Patterson managers were disappointed that the registration had not reached a total of 400,000, "which had been their calculation.' 'The registration seems to have been merely normal,' said Mr. Robins, and that seems to have started it." ■ —Things are getting strenuous in Pittsburgh. Here is one instance from the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph: "When Mayor Babcock at tempts to defend the practices of Max G. Leslie 1 feel as though he is more entitled to pity than to scorn," said John S. Herron, president of city council, in an address at the noon meeting of the anti-Leslie Re publican committee. —Men connected with the recent Legislature will be interested in this paragraph from the Scranton Re publican: "Frank J. Toohey, for the past five years a member of the Republican news staff, was appoint ed yesterday as manager of a newly created publicity bureau with the in ternational Correspondence Schools. One. of the most important under takings of the new publicity bureau to be conducted by Mr. Toohey will 1)0 the handling of newspaper pub licity on the educational feature lilm. Mr. Toohey was educated in the pub lie and high schools of Scranton and joined the Republican staff in 1914. Shortly after the United States en tered the war he went into the serv ice, being assigned to the medical corps. On being discharged last De cember he rejoined the Republican and was assigned to cover the 1919 session of the Legislature. He is a brother of John P. Toohey, also a former Scranton newspaper man, who is general press representative for George C. Tyler's theatrical en terprises and whose sho|-t stories are now appearing in the Saturday Eve ning l'ost." —At the next meeting of Potts ville city council the ordinance pro viding for submission to the people of the proposition to loan half a million dollars for street improve ments will be unanimously adopted. The loan campaign is now in full swing and the only opposition it is experiencing is upon the part of citizens wiio believe road making material will greatly drop in the next two years and, therefore, the investment at the present high prices would he inadvisable for the city at present. One thing i 8 cer tain, the time is near at hand when Pottsville will present an entire area of paved streets, as virtually all citizens arc agreed as to the economy and general utility of a paved road over the best macadam ized highway. —Samuel C. Jamison is about to resign from the office of coroner of Allegheny county and accept a business proposition, which will net him more than his present largo salary. Mr. Jamison is chairman of the Republican Committee and is one of the political friends of Sen ator'Penrose, co-operating as be does, with Mayor Babcock, State Senator Max G. Leslie and other Penrose supporters. Edward Frelb ertshauser, at present county treas urer, is suggested as successor to Mr. Jamison as coroner. Mr. Jamison's resignation as coroner will not take effect until October 1. There is no foundation for the report that he will quit his activities in politics. —The contest for the additional law judgeship, created for Lehigh county at the recent session of tho Legislature, already is showing signs of bitterness between the adherents of Congressman Dewalt and former State Senator Henninger, Democrats, and State Senator Schantz, Repub lican county chairman, the three aspirants for the % 10,000-a-year of fice. Friends of Henninger, who for many years wus a political ally and law partner of Dewalt, accuse the latter of playing into the hands of the Republicans. —Governor William C. Sproul has let it be known that he does not in tend to take up changes in various departments of the State govern ment for a month or so at least. Several plans for reorganizations have been prepared, including the Compensation Bureau, but the Gov ernor will wait. HATOUSBTTRG TELEGKXPO SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By BRIGGS F\ I ,? If I HOPE ThaT | ThaT f= y <£UI.SI T(r //) OAJL y \( rgi T r H £ / \ VMOH D 6 R P"UL \ \ BACK T.Re UWDSCAP 6- n j/ H AV)6 OM6 \ B^CK WHEEL / WMAT LOUELY r gT V 6uCM shoe \ BUMP.MS -7/ " ) /oJ 05 BEFORE V \ L / \ -- / s,vc>orH AS V \ \ >* GET , ( *<*—' c A TABLE /TAJELL WE UE _~l —( OTJLY s — ~ —/VBITSPOIII^ MADE 75" MIL £- f ] MILES Anj D VUE L L 1 j ' anoTMCR M H.S. \ | VA/HOLE 30 EAR D lO / a PRET~y / PF That BUM 5M06- I _ f WO OLD BE TOO6W I ( T \AJOOLL> HAVE / ,STBVAHM6 I HOPE 'T / . LUCK FOR THAT y 1 BLOVAJM- AIM'T That HOLDS OUT TILL/ /SO Qy*'* T - 1 sHoe To \ uue GET (Tut LA _ V OUT MOVU- / I HOME BtFOREy y' v-~>r _ y pip j No Wonder Germany Quit 1 By MAJOR FRANK C. MARIN Of tlie Army Recruiting Station "We're rarin' to go, used to be I echoed down the long column of footsore, weary men, stretching i away an unknown distance into the j darkness. And I say advisedly an] unknown distance, for there might j be twenty or thirty miles of dough- | boys strung out behind, a solid col- ! umn of fours. Perhaps you have noticed how the infantry back from France march. There is a uniform j swing and cadence, a rythmic thud! to the hobnailed shoes that is thril ling, the marching of veterans, j They got that swinging cadence not by much drill, but by much night j marching, marching with tremen- i dous packs, crowded elbow to el- i bow, exhausted, lame, sleepy, in-' subconsciously keeping' in step because it was easier to' march in time than out of time. In j pitch-black darkness there was i nothing to look at, nothing to dis- i tract your attention, so, half asleep, heads down, they tramped. To stop and watch a column of veterans | pass in the night was an experience j never to be forgotten. would come the thud, thud, thud of thou-[ sands of hobnailed shoes on a ma-1 cadam road, all in perfect time, as though they were marching at atten tion. Suddenly out of the darkness would loom a solid mass of black, I startling in its sense and feel of I irresistible power. It gave you a feeling that if a wall blocked the road it would be brushed out of the ; way as though it were a cobweb. 1 Thud, thud, the might* mass would stream by, without a creak, without | a clink of metal, nor a word nor a j flicker of light, nothing but the j never-ending thud of feet. So steady I wus this rhythm that there would not be a variation of ten seconds to the kilometer one way or the other I all night long, up hi'l or down date. Twelve minutes and thirty seconds | accounted for each kilometer until four had been passed, when simul taneously, as far as you could hear, whistles would blow, the tramping of feet would change to a scuffling i and then silence. Twenty or thirty thousand men were sitting by the roadside resting. Nine minutes j would pass and again the whistles would blow, again you would hear the great beast scuffling, again the echoing call would go out, 'We're rarin' to go,' and at the end of ten minutes from the halt, away the mass would go with its stunning, brain-paralyzing thud, thud. To wards morning, when acute exhaus tion would begin to set in, the sing ers would . tune up, and rollicking choruses would be bandied back and forth from company to company, every man trying his best to deceive himself and everyone else into thinking he was as fresh as a daisy. If anyone quit and tried to fall out, he had a mighty unpleasant time. "Yellow' would be one of the mild est epithets hurled at him. One morning, just as it was getting gray in the east and we were winding up a twenty-nine kilometer hike for the night, we passed a colonel and all his staff, who had stopped to see how we were muking it. He stopped on a bank. To hear that column you would think they were a bunch of schoolboys off for a picnic, the singing, whistling, yells, laughter, and soforth, absolutely drowned out the thud of feet. But in the gray dawn you .could see the faces, and what faces of agony they were, utter exhaustion stamped on every face, but also a look of grim determination. The colonel on his bank aroused much curiosity and more than one decidedly fresh re mark, but all were mild compared with what came to pass as a little red-haired Irishman, Pat Judge, came along. When he saw the colonel Jie cocked his head on one side and sized him up, then as ho passed he sung out in a stentorian voice, 'Sure, Colonel, and is the pulr horse tired, the putr baste. Bednd, if he is, just bring him down in the road and we will carry him on our nacks til' he is rested." The colonel Just smiled, and Pat roared out, 'We're rarin' to go.' and passed dn into the gloom. That is the spirit, the morale, that made writers sav j'a spirit of the Crusaders pervades the A. E. F.' but if you asked any I doughboy if t>>at were true he would ] lust laugh end nnswe- it was notli- I In" bp* a determination to get a jneetv ieb over and done with as quick as ever it could be done." Midvale Workers' Sound Stand [From the Bache Review.] I It should be a matter of record, | 'well preserved, that the Midvale I Steel workers sounded the first note j of sane doctrine for labor through j out the world, in this period of seri | ous upheaval among the working i classes in all parts of the earth. 1 Their injunction that efforts to i increase wages should cease and the best energies of the laboring world 1 be devoted to increasing production ; and so releasing the destructive pressure which a nearly universal luck of supply was insistently ex ! ci ting, is worthy of a convention of profound thinkers. So full of constructive common ! sense and an amazing apprehension of cause and effect in the real situ | ation is what these pioneers in sound i procedure have to propose, that we j print in full the resolutions expound ! ing the action which they insist , should be taken in restoring the ! Balance of Reason from which the ! whole working world has been car i ried off by the war. ! There were ninety-three members ;of the committee of employes of j the Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co. present at the meeting at, Atlantic i City a week ago, when the resolu tions were adopted. These members 1 had been elected under the bar | gaining plan supported by Midvale ' workmen.. It may be claimed that ! these delegates were of an unusually ! intelligent character and stand { above- the rank and file of work i men in the Company. Even so the 1 brains and conservative purpose of I the thousands who elected them are shown by the fact that from their number they chose the best. The 1 full text of the resolutions follow: i Whereas, The high cost of living ! needs to be abated by diligent, effl i cient and conscientious labor, by j thrift and by avoidance of waste land extravagance; and Whereas, The price of commodi ' ties is regulated by the day's labor of a man and the real unit of value or the unit of compensation is not ! a dollar, but the purchasing price i of a dollar, and that the price of jail things, meaning the average price of everything we use and consume, I Naturalizing Names [From the St. Joseph Gazette.] During the war it became very I common for foreign residents of America and Great Britain to adopt 1 English names. In many cases this I was done by simplifying the spell ing or by translating the foreign name into the English equivalent. A third method was to choose some English name and ask the court to bestow it upon the alien-named in dividual. This last system became a nuis ance in England, where foreign peo ple showed a decided preference for historic or old family names. Con -1 fusion of indentity arose. One case is told of two students at Ox ford. One was an upper classman who had adopted an English name in place of his original very foreign 1 one. The other was a humble freshman of the same name. It 1 had belonged to his family for gen -1 erations. Most of the time the younger man thought nothing ' about the matter. But when the relationship of the two men was '! confused and the older, better ' known student was naturally as sumed to be the real member of • the ancient family, the freshman decided something ought to be done • about the business. ' England .now has a law provid ' ing that in Anglicizing their names i foreigners must use "the equivalent 1 in English of the former name" and. 1 if it turns out to resemble an old ' | family name, the consent of that • family must be secured. Also, only ' naturalized citizens are allowed to ' alter their names. Persons who are • stitl aliens must keep the names ' they bore on August 4, 1914. ! The latter part of this law will ' appeal particularly to Americans. 1 Such a provision in this country ' would prevent the dishonest or • | treacherous alien from concealing ' his nationality by taking an Ameri ' can name, and it would add another 1 to the many advantages of attain • ing citizenship. i High Living r Baby Gertrude found some coal, I She nibbled it with great delight - Till pa said: "Gertrude, pray con i trol 5 Your expensive appetite." —Brooklyn Citizen. which is commonly referred to as the average price of commodities, is fixed, regulated, raised or lowered by tin* average eoiiipeiuntion re ceived for one hour's work by every man and every woman; and Whereas, We believe the only sure remedy for the high cost of living is increased production and the stabil ization of prices in conformity with wages now being paid; and Whereas, We believe any work man who demands a greater pro portionate return for his labor than his fellow workmen in other lines are getting is as guilty of profiteer ing as a grocer who Charges exorbi tant prices for the necessities of life, ana that increases in wages paid to certain classes of workers by the Government or others will result in higher prices being set by the profiteers for the necessities of living to all purchasers alike. It is, therefore, Resolved, That the persistent and unceasing demand of workmen em ployed in all classes and kinds of industries for a shorter day's work and an increased wage in order to meet the present high cost of living is iinccoraomic and unwise and should not la- encouraged. Resolved, further, That private monopolies should be controlled and profits restricted to a rate that shall be fair to the consumer; Resolved, further, That unneces sary exports of food and clothing be restricted and that all stores of hoarded supplies be uncovered and placed in the open market; Resolved, further, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, to the Senators in Congress from Penn sylvania and to the Congressmen of the various districts in which are located the various plants of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Com pany, and to the state, and municipal authorities, to the end that tlicy may by nil the powers anil means to them available, endeavor to bring nlMiut normal conditions, with spe cial privileges to none but justice to nil, and sure and swift retribu tion for those who may attempt to profiteer in the necessities of life. Hidden Facts of History [Henry Watterson in the Saturday Evening i-ost.J I wonder shall we ever get any real truth out of what is called his tory. There are so many sides to it I and such a confusing din of opin ! ion. How much does old Sam John son one of the fine figures he cuts to Boswell, and, minus Boswell, how much would be left of him? For nearly a century the Empress Jose phine was pictured as the effigy of the faithful and suffering wife sac rificed upon the altar of unprinci pled and selfish ambition—lovelorn, deserted, heartbroken. It was Na poleon, not Josephine, except in her pride, who suffered. On his return from Elba, though his very mo ments were numbered, he found time to go down to Malmaison, where, during his absence, Josephine had died, llortense showed him into the death chamber. He passed an hour there and came out, his eyes wet with tears. Who shall tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about Hamilton; about Burr; about Caesar, Caligula and Cleopatra? Did Washington, when he was angry, swear like a [ trooper? What was the matter with Nero? Winter Forecast From Mars [William Joseph Showalter in the National Geographic Magazine] It is quite generally believed that Mars has ice capped poles. Tho telescope reveals white spots at the poles that have every appearance of being like our ocean Polar region. They advance toward the equator m winter and retreat in summer. In the summer of 1916, Picker ing, who, with Lowell, has led the school of astronomers who believe they can see canals on Mars, said that he found the white caps stretching farther down toward the equator than he had ever seen them before. He said that if there was any connection between the weather of Mars and that of the earth, the winter of 1916-17 would be the cold est in many years. And it was. May it yet be possible to do long range weather forecasting on the earth by studying the waxing and the waning of the ice cap on the South Pole of Mars? SEPTEMBER 10, 1919 FARMING Farming is the one pursuit which all the ages have failed to invest with the glamour of romance. Perhaps this is because it began as woman's work, one of those in evitable necessities which may be elevated to the status of a homely virtue and rewarded as such. Per haps it is because the yearly triumph of the harvest was no such glorious pageant as the spoils of a victorious war: and there were no expert eco nomists to compute costs and prof its. As civilization advanced there were always slaves to turn to the monotonous tasks and landholders merely supervised without griming their hands by contact with the soil. Even where some such early Social ist as Cincinnatus recognized the dignity of the occupation, his fame now rests on his political and mili tary successes. Wo know he farm ed, but who tells us how wisely or how well? In the early days of America came the first chance to ennoble farming. The highest as well as the lowest turned their hand to it perforce. We were a nation of agriculturists. Songs were written about the "horny handed son of toil," and praise meted out to him who earned his bread, as the Bible puts it, "by the sweat of his brow." The country beauty in her crisp calico was com pared with the silken lady of the town to the latter's detriment. But the incontrovertible fact remains that sweat is uncomfortable, and no poetic rationalism can make a wo i man prefer cotton to the fabric | whose lustrous folds whisper of lux l ur.v and ease, of lutes and love, [ rather than soapsuds and self-de nial. And rarely does any one voice the inward satisfactions which turn I the balance. Indeed, the fnrmer who can recog | nize them for himself is rare. For | his ambitions are as various as the I minds of men. I have one neighbor j who wants money money enough to retire. Money is what everything he touches means to him; his fancy invests each head of wheat, each cackling hen or new-born pig with the Midas touch. I wonder if in tho end he will find the satisfac tion he hopes in what he dimly vis ions for himself as "city life." Another, w4iom I have always thought an unambitious man, started me thinking these things. Being un lettered he came to me to put his small accounts in shape for him. After th£ exorbitant wages of the day labor he had been forced to hire through harvest time, his own . eward seemed liumiliatingly slim. "It's enough to make you want to try the shipyard," I said. He shook his head. "No, farm in's a natural work. A man ain't doin' it just for what he gets out of it alone. He kin always feel it's the most use he could ever be. It's the most need. And I want to do as I see, not be doin' accordin' to what the other fellow says. I mightn't agree with h'.ia." You can hardly call him uneducated after that. Many a trained mind never reasons things so far. But I know another who has raised his work to where it truly belongs, among tho arts. The sweat of the harvest cannot blind his ey.es to the least detail of the life around him, the lark as well as the hen, the weeds with the corn, the field mouse roused by the tread of the ewe. He feels not only the, triumph of his individual achieve ment, but the thrill of growth and fruition through the greatest plan. He touches hands with Nature, works her under the vitalizing sun. And to him, as to the artist, sheer joy in his work is to be counted in his reward.—John Breck. The Black Bore en There's a lane beyant the village that they call the Black Bo reen, There come the earliest cowslips, and grass is soonest green; And if you're there at noontide when shadows shortest fall, You'll maybe hear a fairy voice out of the hedgerow call— So they say! If you should go nt twilight into the Black Boreen, Shut fast the lids upon your eyes lest fairy hands be seen Stretched from the hedge to you, to stop you as you pass. To draw you to their dancing upon the hungry grass— Och, you may! If you should go by moonlight into the Black Boreen, You never will come out again as lightheart as you've been; You will have looked on beauty too much for earth to bear— Och, I was In the Black Boreen and saw the fairies there — Yesterday. —Nora Chessom In the Irish World, I New York. Eimttng (Mfat j The woman hunter seems to have come to stay in Pennsylvania, ac cording to the returns being made by the various county treasurers to * the State Game Commission on the hunters' licenses issued. A few years ago the issuance of a license to a woman to hunt, was a rarity and caused much comment, but now it is nothing uncommon, and several of the counties in the southeri part of the State, especial- a. ly the mountain counties, have re- T ported women taking out licenses and they have also been issued to women in the north central sec tion. The State game authorities are arranging to place hundreds of pheasants on the game preserves J this year, and some may be sent to new preserves in the western part of the State. The pheasants have been bought in various sections, and have been reported in prime con- .* dition. They will be put in charge of experienced wardens to distrib ute. The Commission has not yet selected the preserves where beaver will be placed, but they will likely go into the older game reserves. Among the 216 participants in the recent pilgrimage of the His torical Society of Berks County to points of interest in Berks, Lancas ter and Lebanon counties was Miss Annie L. Boyer, of Harrisburg. It was termed a "Baron Stiegel Pil grimage," because many of the " places visited are connected with scenes of incidents in the life of the eccentric Baron Henry Wil- " liam Stiegel, ironmaster, glass man ufacturer, and in the latter years of his life (when his fortune had vanished!, organist, music teacher and schoolmaster. Miss Boyer is a great-great-granddaughter of Bar on Stiegel, and at the special session of the automobile excursionists who made this pilgrimage, held in Zion Lutheran Church, Manhelm, the pastor, the Rev. J. F. Knittle, called attention to a tablet in the church, placed there by Mrs. Rebecca Boyer, mother of Miss Annie L. Boyer, and .< great-granddaughter of Baron Stieg- . el. The pastor, also, described the • "feast of roses," celebrated annual- ( ly in this church, and stated that Miss Boyer is the recipient at this a festival of the red rose, given by the * trustees of tfie church, in accordance with the stipulation in the deed given by Baron Stiegel, to the Lu theran congregation for the large lot upon which the church was erected, and the remaining portion used as a burial ground. The land was granted in 1772 for the con sideration of five shillings as the annual rent "of the red rose." The pilgrimage was the most successful ever arranged by the Historical Society of Berks County, and among the participants, were rep resented many of the most promi nent and influential people of Berks county. It ended with a ban quet at "Grand View," near JWer nersville. • • • Opening days of school generally develop some common line of in terest among school children and this year, judging from the way the youngsters have been inquiring at the Harrisburg Public Library, it is airplanes. More boys have asked x at the Library for books on air- 1 planes, and how to make model? lately, than ever known before and the Library has been trying to meet the demand, by ordering every book on air machines, suitable for chil dren's reading that it is possible " to obtain. Most of the books on the subject are more or less tech nical, but the knowledge of details of machines and of their appear ance, construction individual char acteristics are displayed by the aver age boy who has been around at the Library for books on the sub ject is a matter of comment. The interest taken by the boys and girls in the subject is generally believed to be due to the frequent flights over the city the last year or so, the proximity of the Middle town aviation reserve depot and the many articles printed in the news papers about planes and the men who fly them. If it is possible the Library would like to obtain models of airplanes and any new books or directions how to make toy air planes for the juvenile aviators to read and to try their hands upon •' * * If anyone wants to get a line on the way to handle youngsters, all that is necessary, is to watch "Charley" Boyer marshal a band when taking them through the State Capitol. They are formed in two lines and stay that way; I they are lined up to drink at the fountains one at a time —and they do it; they are told to take their hats off and keep them off—and they do, and they are told to ho silent—which they also do. The "Boyer parties" are among the daily sights at the Capitol and the discipline is worth observing. • Leo Kriner and Harry Bitner have the highest job in Harrisburg. Theso two men, who comprise a local firm of slate and tile roofers, are spend ing these September days working about 250 to 260 feet above the heads of most of the people of Har risburg and do not seem to mind the weather. In fact, most of what happens in the city comes to them in more or less ruffled fashion and only an occasional pigeon or swal- k low or a rare airplane comes along to make them realize other activi ties. They have the job of repair ing the tiles on the Capitol dome which they won in competition with a number of firms, and have found about seventy-five which have to be replaced. It is the first time any thing has had to be done to tile dome of any account since It was completed in 1905. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Kx-Congressman H. B. Pack- ' er, of Wellsboro. was among the visitors to Harrisburg yesterday. " He came here on highway matters. —Public Service Commissioner J. W. Reed will make his home in 4 Harrisburg during the winter. —President J. W. A. Haas, of Muhlenburg College, is arranging to have the college continue military training. —James A. Gorman, the Hazle ton food administrator, has named fair price committees for his sec tion of the State. He says that Is the way to obtain action. —Jolin R. Bechtel. the honorary head of the Bechtel clan, lives at Reading and is ninety-one years old. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg made cartridge silk during the war?' HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first water was turned in to the canal here nineiy-one years ago.