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TUESDAY DECEMBER 2, 119
Not in the clamor of the crowded
street.
Not in the shouts mid plaudits of the
thri/ng,
But in ourselves arc triumph and
defeat.— -Axox.
"OTHER PEOPLE"
GRADUALLY the people of Hat-- j
risburg are learning to appre
ciate the real value of the As
lociated Aids of Harrisburg in the
welfare work of the community. Only
those intimately in touch with
this organization have a full realiza
tion of its work in the relief of
the poor and needy of the city.
At the annual meeting this eve
ning at the Civic Club, the public
will be given first-hand informa
tion regarding the operations of the
toeiety for the last year and will also
have the pleasure of hearing Karl de
Bchweinitz, who has long been
prominent in organized charity work
ind is regarded as an expert hi get
ting the best results in activities
f this character. His subject will
he "Other People" and all interest-
Hi in effective distribution of be
nevolent funds should hear him.
This is community service of the
highest order and it is due those
prho are giving of their time and ef
fort for the promotion of welfare
work to hear from them the story
f the Associated Aids and the de
riands which are made upon the
irganization in the performance of
its important duty to the commun
ity. There are many human in
terest stories which illustrate the
(ffective character of what is being
lone and these stories should have
i wide hearing through those who
will be present at the meeting at
die Civic Club to-night.
Certain I. W. W. strikers at Ta
suna. are in jail and as a measure
if protest are refusing to eat or
adk. We can imagine self-imposed
itarvation, but an T. W\ W. who will
lot talk, is inconceivable. Must be an
irror in transmission.
IN HOOD HANDS
DIBECTON of school board af
fairs will be in good hands the
coming year, the re-election of
Robert A. Enders as president and
Dr. C. E. I-i. Keen, as vice president
it the annual meeting yesterday,
ruaranteeing that.
Mr. Enders* administration the
yast year has been eminently satis-,
lactory to the public. The school
>oard has taken several long steps
ihead and the new junior high
ichools are proving all and more
Sian was promised for them.
In addition, botli Mr. Enders and
Dr. Keen are strong believers in
'.he creation of a central high
ichool on the university plan and
were among those' of Ihe direc
tors who were behind the move
nent to purchase the Hoffman's
H'oods site for such a school. The
!act that they will be at the head
if school hoard affairs the coni
ng year is guarantee that this
noject will be pushed forward as
lupidly as possible. High school
ionditions ar£ not what they should
e in this city. The solution lies in
the direction of a university plan
rlionl to properly take up the
work so well begun by the junior
K-hools.
AH this will cost a lot of money,
lut Harrlsburg people are not
ifraid to assess themselves for
icliool purposes. Good schools
ire an essential to any progres-
Sve cltv and every good-thinking
litizen will rejoice that we are at
nst in the way of getting them,
torn primary to the highest grade.
Isive may he blind, but only tompo
wrily so.
NOT NEW
HALK-RAKED theories and flat
misstatements of fact are the
stock in trade of self-apnoint
kl agitators and theirJtfKwhonal>
leen going about the country stic
ks .... . \
TUESDAY EVENING, '
ring up trouble by the preaching of
false doctrines. Take, for Illustra
tion, this gem from a western publi
cation which pretends to "hold aloft
tlib torch of truth and freedom for
the down-trodden of the-earth":
This injunction (that by which
the Government called off the
mine strike order) is a new
I'angled device of the law by
which the masters hope to hold
us in subjection. It was Invented
In "democratic?" America as a
weapon to strike down the labor
ing man's liberties, but new as it
i*. and powerful as it Is, It will
not .succeed.
This would be startling enough, j
if true. Unfortunately for friend j
editor of the up-lift, the injunction j
is as old as the Roman law, and
I there is a suspicion that the formu- j
| lators of those so-called fttnda
i mental tenets reached back even to,
j times then remote for the principle, i
|The term itself shows its 1-utin ori
gin and indicates its source In Kng
lish law, where it dates as far back,
almost, as trial by jury. The pur
pose of the injunction was from the
| lirst, as it is now, to prevent, the
perpetration of irreparable wrong.
Instead of calling in the law to re
store the stolen horse or to punish
the th'lef, the injunction is intended
merely to prevent the crime, which,
it would appear, is not only good
law, but hard common sense.
And as for being an instrument
devised by the rich for the exploita
tion of the poor, that is equally as
false as that the principle of the
thing is new, for it was especially
intended for the protection of the
helpless against the
as far as 138 2 we find the com
mon people of England using the
Injunction as a means of saving
themselves from the barons who
were overriding lite processes of the
lower courts.
The injunction is almost as old as
law itself. It is an instrument
which the employe may use as well
as the employer. And it is also a
holy terror to the man or group of
men who would use force to over
power right, whether they be rich or
poor. A little more fact and a Utile
loss fancy in the writings and teach
ings of radical editors and speakers
would be extremely helpful in this
critical period.
Conditions have reached a pretty
pass when Paris priests complain
against American dances.
BETTER SERVICE
IN AN effort to improve its services
and to bring about a better un
derstanding between llie public
and the corporation, the Harrlsburg
Railways Company some time ago
selected C. P. Crane, an experienced
street railway man, as assistant to
President Frank B. Musser, in
charge of traffic, and now has named
Captain J. G. Gredler also as an
assistant to look after details of
the company's, accounting business
and public affairs.
All over the country street car
| companies have had difficulties since
the beginning of the war in 1914,
and especially during the trying
period in which llie United States
participated in the conflict. As
President Mitten, of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company, has put it,
"increased fares where necessary
should be followed by improvements
in service." There is no gainsaying
that the local traction company
needed more revenue than had been
forthcoming under the 5-cent rate,
land having added 1 cent for each
passenger carried it now proposes to
better its service ii\ every way pos-
I sible.
No street car company is getting
rich these days, but lliost of the
managers believe that better limes
are ahead, that t lie most trying
period is at hand and" that, having
been compelled to ask more money
of the traveling public, they should
be in position to give something in
addition in return.
President Musser lias been fortu
nate in procuring men of the type
just appointed and no doubt their
efforts will begin to make them
selves felt as soon as they have be
come familiar with their new duties.
| Pome of Ihe Senators have gotten
Uo used to talking they can't stop
even in recess.
'WHAT SHALL WE THINK?
THE coal miners have declined
to accept a fourteen per cent,
advance in wages.
Most of us would he only .too
happy to accept such an increase,
i Not often in the history of indus
try has such a raise of wages been
granted, either voluntarily or under
pressure. v
To many Americans fourteen per!
cent, advance in pay looks large, os- |
pecially since the public, must pay j
' Ihe bill.
But the miners want more.
I And they are willing that railroad
i men shall he thrown into idleness
J because of lack of coal; that millions
iof Workers in factories shall tempo r I
jiarily lose their jobs, with winter I
[staring them in the face, because ofj
11: ek of fuel; tliat thousands of men,;
I women and children shall suffer,
| from cold and some actually shall |
I freeze, io enforce their demands.
If the operators deliberately closed j
Ihe mines and created such direful
conditions would wo sympathize
wilh them?
Not much; you know what you
would want to do with them.
Very well, then; what shall we
think of a group of workmen —most.
lof them foreigners—who 'throw us
out of jobs and leave us to freeze
or starve because they decline to
accept a raise of wages that most
of us would regard as a rare stroke
of good fortune?
What shall we think of such a
group, we ask?
The place for "parlor Bolshevists,"
we think, is in the kitchen.
Plumb hill has none in it for
anybody,
politico CK
By tlie Ex-Committeeman
Appearance of Governor William :
C. Sproul til the proposed "open ses- 1
sion" of the Republican National j
Committee in Washington next week
as one of (lie representative Repttb- ,
lieans of the Eastern states is going
to make the Governor very much i
talked about as presidential timber,
and already the backers of General
Leonard Wood have started observ
ing the trend of affairs in the Key
stone State. It was taken for granted
by some of tile Wood boomers that
I'ennsylvania would be for the Gen
eral because of the strong Roosevelt
sentiment and the feeling that he
received a raw deal from the Wilson
administration.
Should Sprout announce his candi
dacy there Would be no doubt of a
solid delegation for him, but many
people beitevc that there will be an
unpledged delegation and that I'enn
sylvania will cut a considerable
figure in the convention, with all
kinds of possibilities.
The Democratic situation is quite
the reverse. ' The candidacy of A.
Mitchell Palmer for the presidential
nomination is the big thing among
the Democrats and the machine
leaders are already striving to set
up delegates who can win as out
and out Palmer men. They have
encountered some trouble in the
Berks-Lehigh district and may not
have easy sailing in other districts
where the arrogance which marked
(he early days of the reorganisation
machine has not been forgotten and
tite Old Guard .influence is strong.
But Palmer has been busy on the
men who do things and it is even
possible that he may turn up with
old opponents in his camp just as
he won Charles P. Donnelley and
others to his side in Philadelphia.
—News from Senator Penrose's
residence in Philadelphia is reas
suring and (he Senator now hopes
to be able to get back to Washing
ton in January. His brother and
other physicians will insist that lie
take a complete rest this month and
will probably induce him to go IO
one of the southern states.
—News of the Senator's illness has
caused a rush of telegrams to Phila
delphia, and- even inen who have
opposed him, but who recognize his
importance to State interests at
Washington have expressed "hopes
for an early return of his former
vigor.
—From wliut some up-State peo
ple say, it is by no means certain
that ex-Senator W. IV. Hindman, of
the Clarion district, will accept the
place of prohibition enforcer for the
State. Hindman is a young l)emo T
crat who has ambitions and means
and his ideas are not said to run in
the direction of such a thorny path
as the man who would see that
Pennsylvania stays "dry."
—Hind man's selection is inter
esting from the fact that he was not
always a Palmer man. There are
some stories from Washington that
"dry" forces looked for the selection
of some other man.
—There has been a recurrence of
the' talk that the nomination for
Auditor General may go west. Names
t of Samuel C. Jamison, of Allegheny,
'and Joseph 11. Thompson, of Beaver,
are still being heard. The western
leaders were not inclined to favor
such a move for a while, owing to
gubernatorial possibilities, but cer
tain of them are said to have be
come impressed with Susquehanna
valley timber. .
—Judging from what is
printed in newspapers, some people
have been harking back, to the tiles
of papers printed in the strenuous
days of the legislature of 1919,
especially when c ompenaatio n
amendments were under discussion.
—Auditor General Charles A.
Snyder is being complimented by
many people for the showing made
in his department's collection of the
revenues. The record is one which
\ is striking when the figures of for
mer years are reviewed and when
one considers the misgivings attend
ing lite approval of appropriations
last summer.
—The Allegheny county treasurer
is about to receive a commission
from tiie Governor in pursuance of
an old act. lie is the only treasurer
in the State who receives- such u
parchment.
—From indications llic State
Democrats will have t'o figure on a
new Kutz-Croll situation in Berks
county next spring. Botli of the
leaders have definite ambitions and
I hey are not in accord.
—There is another tiling about
Berks politics that should*prove in
teresting. The election of Walter
A. liingler as a county commissioner
means that there will be a new
Democratic member from the city,
assuming that the Democrats will
get one of the Beading men. and
there is a possibility that Bepre
sentat.ive James E. X'orton may be
a Bepubltcun candidate for Senator
with a look-in due to the Sassaman-
Surig fight. Surig will not run for
Ilie House again, and as D. A. Itotti
enberger died recently, O. K. Brendle
is the only man likely to run again.
F. B. Brown, of West Eeesport; 11.
G. McGowan. a former member; I. P.
Kessler, of West Beading, and O. A.
11. Jacobs, of Boyortown, are said
lo have ambitions buzzing around.
Brown is a newspaperman with a
wide' acquaintance.
—The , Cumberland situation is
rapidly taking shnfle that looks like
T. J. Ferguson as the county's candi
date for Ihe senatorial honor#!, with
Perry and Juniata likely to accord
Cumberland the preference. Boss
1,. Berkley will run uguin and George
11. Stewart, Jr.. of Shippeusburg,
will probably be the upper end
candidate. The Democrats are so
split because of this year's primary
rumpus that they have not Indicated
any standard-bearers.
-—Congressman J. i lampion Moore
appears to have a good many cabinet
makers dizzy in Philadelphia. lie
I has been making appointments lo
j suit himself and sending applicants
I for the various places io tlie Civil
| Service Commission.
I —Philadelphia people are men
tioning Stale Treasurer 11. M. Kep
liart for Congress at large, lie lias
not expressed any desires as yet.
—People interested In •avoiding; u
new Legislative row over the
schools are urging that plans where
by lessons from the intensive train
ing developed during the war In
pi any Pennsylvania industries and
in the war camps and schools can
tie applied to the vocational educa
tion courses of the State's schools be
taken up immediately at the Stale
Department of Public Instruction.
Special attention was given to voca
tional and similar specialized educa
tion at the recent educational con
gress in tliis city and conclusions
formally adopted and submitted to
Dr. Thomas E. Ftnegnn, the State
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, call for a reorganization of the
Bureau of Vocational Education
"bringing ull phaes of this field of
the work under one administrative
officer." The most important of the
! recommendations is that the experi
ence during the war indicutcs the
desirability of extending the part
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time training plan for wage employ
ments and that school authorities
should got into closer co-operation
with employers and find out what
is needed, while the employers
should see the capacities of the;
schools. It. is possible that the t
school authorities may arrange for
a series of studies so that cost can ,
he definitely ascertained, complete
data be obtained about the intensive j
training courses established during
the war with means to fit them into j
the curricula and advancement of
occupational efficiency. Several of j
the conferences urged that the con
tinuation school problem should not
be considered as solved, but that it i
he further studied by'school author
ities and employers. especially i
whether vocational training cannot j
he given better in regular schools J
than in industrial plants.
—Congressman J. Hampton Moore |
writes this way in the Philadelphia j
Kvening Ledger of a man connected
with the State Treasury: "Major!
Robert. Griffith, of East Cambria ]
street, who lives in llarrisburg part. ;
of the time, is the head of an or- j
ganization known as the Pennsyl- j
vania League of Patriotic Workers. '
The league lines up 011 the Republi- 1
Can side of every political eontro- 1
versy and is Inspired very largely !
by the poetic utterances of its chair- j
man. The major is strong on Phila- ;
delphia and Pennsylvania patriotism \
and likes to •hold fast to the prin- j
ciples true' and stand proudly by the 1
•old Red. White and Blue.'"
Germany American Colony
[lsaac P. Marcosson iti the Saturday j
Kvening Post]
I had some astonishing reveln-j
tions of the now German attitude,
especially toward America. At
Frankfort I dined one night with
a group of eight business men. They
represented a half do/en large in
terests and as many important com - 1
inanities.
One member of the party, who!
happens to be the head of a pdwer-'
fill iron and steel group, made this;
remark: "Economic conditions in
Germany could not be worse. In
deed they are so bad that, speaking j
for myself and my associates, .1
should ho perfectly willing to see j
Germany become an American col
ony, provided that we were guar
anteed protection against French
revenge and rapacity."
Of course, it was conversation for
my particular benefit and to create,
a good will for Germany. But it did
have the germ of truth in it, cer
tainly as illustrating the German ,
feeling about France. These two
nations will do business together be
cause they must, but so long as time
lusts there will he bitter hatred be
tween litem. And France has good
reason to hate.
American Fool-Binding
rFront the St. .Paul Dispatch 1
Women's foot dress in slylisli cir
cles—-and, of course, nil America Is
stylish—has progressed backward to
a point where ilie font-binding fash
ion is being compared with the foot
binding of the "heathen Chinee."
and where it ha* aroused a move
ment for reform among physicians,
girls' schools and the Y. AY. C. A.
The case against the high heeled,
sharp toed shoe Is that it causes a
walk which puis a strain upon the
spine and throws the internal or
gans out of place. The danger to
the foot itself is lliot the fashionable
shoe cramps and paralyzes the tors,
weakens muscles which normally
should be exercised, and generally
I unfits the foot for physical exercise
which is so essential to the general
1 health.
[ Efforts are being made to liave
stores and chains of stores all over
the country carry lines of hygienic
shoes, and some progress has been
made. Sad to say. however, this
mode of shoes Is resorted to in inosl
eases only when tlie feet have
broken down through long abuse
and refuse longer to function ac
cording lo style.
Barred a Winner
| From Punch. London].
As a result of attending a spirit
ualistic seance a man is reported to
have picked four winners in a
dream. Only tlie other day. after n
supper of Welsh rarebit, a gentle
man tried lo back a 9-legged green
nnd-yellow elephant, but the animal
was warned off the course liy Hie
stewards.
Who It Hurls
[From the Washington Star]
"hocking up an Anarchist." suitl
Hill the Tturg. "is good l'or him. But j
it's kind of tough on the other fel- !
lers that have to live in the same'
Jail." I
Has Butterfly Girl "Grown Up?"
TO one who frequents the erst- 1
wliile haunts of butterflies,
whether 011 Fifth Avenue or
i Main .street, this query will promptly !
i occur. (Of course wc aren't talking !
! about insects). And a persual o! |
the society section of the Sunday j
newspaper will have a similar ef- |
j feet. For the butterflies 110 longer 1
i flit in bright-colored droves through
our American life, pretty, heedless ;
i and useless. Great numbers of them !
1 are making themselves valuable, in |
tlie professions, in social work, in i
! industry. Idleness, even for the 1
[ pretty girl, is no longer fashionable, j
j Is the silk-stockinged, soda- j
1 drinking, empty-headed miss really j
! a thing of the past, then? Of course !
I it is impossible to reply with any ]
j certainty, but it surely looks that !
! way. In New York, at least, the j
; returns in the recent election pre- I
| liminaries would seem to indicate |
that the women are even more in- ;
! terested in civic affairs than are the j
I men. More women are working, 1
i and especially at skilled trades, than ,
! ever before in the history of the!
j I'nited States, and employment ex-I
1 pens say that they are very loath I
> 1o give up their jobs, even lo be I
I married. Feminine America seems j
1 to have "grown up" for good.
Why? Well, that iff not such an '
' easy question to answer, it might j
be. because of any one of a number |
of causes such as the rapid spread of ;
| Woman Suffrage, or "the spirit of !
the age," of "Ilie new industrial- |
j ism" or-—But why prolong the list? j
We can all think of cutcli phrases I
that sound just as well as these and j
don't mean a bit less—or more. I
After all the whole question is I
rather problematical and more ;
; likely to be solved by our grand-.'
Those 5-Cenl Days 1
[From Birmingham Age-Herald] j
Once upon a time a nickel was :
real money—but those days are !
gone.
Tll tlie days of our youth, water
melons could be purchased from the ;
passing farm wagon for tlie sum
of 5 cents, but now not even the
transparent sli( c can 'be obtained
for this sum.
Enough bananas could he bought
for 5 cents to give three boys Indi
gestion, but that was long ago.
There was a time when snipll
boys were wont to do chores around
the home for tlie coveted nickel —
hut not now.
Who can forget the man who used
to walk into the cigar store and say;
in a loud voice, "Give me a good
nickel cigar."
There was a time when a nickel
bought u loaf of bread, or a dish of
ice cream, paid for a shoe shine and
even made a sizable tip. Sonte Of
the old citizens, in their more rem
iniscent moods, cun .recall those
days—or at least they say they can.
But gradually, one by one, the
uses of the "jitney" passed away. It
would buy nothing to eat. nothing to
drink, unless . re-en forced by the
once despised penny, until only a
ride on a street car remained to he
secured in exchange for the nickel.
And then the street railway com
pany followed in tlie wake of a long
and illustrious procession of profi
teers.
"Millionaire Troop's" Record
I From tlie Stars and Stripes,
Washington. I
A unique organization of veter
ans has just been formed in Wash
ington. It is comprised of former
members of A Troop, District of Co
lumbia. National Guard, familiarly
known to Washingtonlans us the
"Millionaire Troop." All the men
saw Vhe Mexican border;
all but live saw service overseas.
All but these live of tlie eiglity
tlirec men won commissions, and a
majority of them woli citations or
medals for valor. Nevertheless, tlie
new organization wanted lo call
themselves "Tlie men who never
wanted to he soldiers."
The troop boasts a remarkable
personnel. One of its members is
the son of a member of tlie cabinet,
one was tlie son of a United States
senator, two the sons of congress
men. another lite son of the minister
; of tlie capital's most fashionable
church, and a majority of the rest
1 young men about town of means.
All are university men.
.4 Sure Knock Out to //. C. L.
| [From the Watch on the Rhine.]
A few moro boosts to prices will
! knock "L." ut of the H. C. of I>. In
; other words, there won't ho any liv
4ins with these high costs.
children than by us. But a good
many authorities are inclined to ac
cept Josephine Daskuin Bacon's idea
that the war had a good bit to do
with it. As she delightfully puts it
in the rhymed preface to "Square i
Peggy" a new book, written around ;
the same thought:
Before the Flag hail floated free, \
Before the Bugle blew.
Your elders rubbed their eyes, my
dear, _
(But much to their surprise, my;
dears).
You were our Veterans —You!'
You trotted up. you trotted down,
'Jn your Khaki and your Blue, .
It taught a lot to us, my dears, I
(Though we smiled at ull the fuss, ]
tny dears),
But it taught lots more to You! j
You cut your bread and met your
train.
And poured your coffee, too; {
It did a lot for Him, my dears,
(It insde his grey eyes swim, my
d ears),
But it did lots more for You!
They think you'll start to drift
again—
it's a thing you'll never do!
War's done a lot for the World, tny j
dears,
(The old Globe knew, as she 1
whirled, tny dears),
But it's done the Woi'l(j for You!
So when we biihince tlie dreadful
books,
Let's give the Devil iiis due!
The War made different things, my
dears,
. (Of Cabbages and Kings, my dears)
But it made a Woman of You!
1 lialh All They Xceded
[From tlie New York Tribune]
Bathtubs, an anti-beard cam
paign, and good meals have done '
j more to make 82 radicals, now held
at Ellis Island, look like American
! citizens than any- other experience
they have had in this country, ac
i cording to Officials at the island. The
radicals, some of whom were taken
;in recent Federal raids, are being
held pending charges that they are
undesirable aliens subject to depor
tation.
Officials at the island, in reply to
| charges that the aliens were not be
, ing properly treated, invited an in
i spection of their quarters. it was
said that the tlrst thing that • was
done to the men held was to subject
; them to a liberal lopping off of
beards and long hair. Then they
were inducted into tlie ceremony of
!a daily bath.
The result has been, ae'eording to
' tlfe officials, that in many instances
tlie prisoners have experienced a
I sivift and wonderful change of views
| on economic subjects.
"There is not so much social un
! rest since the daily visits lo tlie
{bathtub were inaugurated," said an
{official.
What lias impressed the immigra
tion officials most of nil is that some
jof the prisoners have expressed a
desire to go to work.
The Ceiling of Ihe Earth
[From the Columbus Dispatch I
Air experts say the next war will
lie fought on "Ihe celling of Wie
I earth/' and in the saying they give
;us a new expression. They flx the
: limit of altitude at 25,000 feet,
; thereby establishing the height of
the ceiling above the ground.
There is no reason to doubt tlie
; statement of the aviators. Indeed,
{military men generally express the
.belief that tlie next war will lie.
I fought largely in tlie air. The nation
[that dominat.es the njr in the begin
-1 ning of the struggle will lie the vlc-
I lor. they say, jnsl as it used to be
[the case that tlie nation which domi
nated the sea was the victor.
But, this coiling of the earth!
What a picturesque expression!
These airmen crawling over, the ceil
ing of the earth as flies used to
crawl upon the ceiling of the home
before the advent of screens. That
! is exactly what they are like—tiny
i insects far above their abode on tlie
| earth, twisting and turning in the
i air, swooping through and sweeping
[above the clouds.
Up there, out of sight from below,
| where all is eternal, blue, there is
j where the next war will be fought.
I But let us believe that the genera
i tion now anchored to the ground
will have passed away, and its im
mediate successors succumbed to old
age, before the "celling of the earth"
is splattered up with human wreck
age.
R DECEMBER 2. 1919.
The Origin of Woman
[From the Columbus Dispatch]
A magazine \yriter consumes con
siderable spuce in trying to prove
that it is wrong to teach that woman
was made from Adam's rib. lie says
the proposition is ridiculous, and j
while it may have beeh well enough j
to teach it in Ihe dim and distant j
i past, we ought to be ashamed of j
| ourselves for sticking to the "super-j
stition."
it' our own idea or belief of the.
! origin of woman js a superstition, |
then it is quite as good a superstition
as 0.l her people have. For ours is j
not the only theory of the origin of*
! woman. Many other people have
many other theories or superstitions.
The Australian natives believe
| that woman was once a toad —and
that isn't very nice. If it is true,
•.however, it shows what a wonderful
'creature the toad was transformed
j into and can rejoice thereat.
Then, the Laplanders believe tliat
j woman was once a rabbit, anil since
jn rabbit is more likable than a toad,
we prefer the Lapland superstition
! to the Australian.
The Japanese believe that woman
grew upon a tree —and that is get
ting along still belter. The feathery
I blossoms of the trees, with their
1 color and their perfume, seem more
nearly approaching the realm of
womanhood than, do rabbits or
toads.
But if we are compelled to give
up our idea that woman was made
from the rib of man, we are going,
to accept the Persian theory. That
is by all odds the prettiest one, and
ttip one we could more easily believe
than any other. The Persians assert
that woman fell from .heaven.
Our llond C.oinmon Tongue
[Lathrop Stoddard in World's Work]
The eminent English litterateur,
John" Galsworthy, while asserting
the existence of wide physical and
temperamental divergences between
. the English and American peoples,
: believes that these are more than
offset by their common possession of
• the English tongue. In an address
entitled "The Community of lan
guage," recently delivered before an
American audience in the Academy
of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Gals
worthy said:
"I do not think that you Ameri
cans and we English are any longer
strikingly alike in physical type or
general characteristics, no more
than I think there is much resem
blance between yourselves and the
Australians. Our link is now but the
community of language—and the in
finity which this connotes. * •
We, who possess in common the
English language—"host, result of
the confusion of tongues," Lowell
called it—that most superb instru
ment for the making of word music,
for the telling of the truth, and the
expression of ilie imagination, may
well remember this: That in the use
, we make of it. in the breadth, justice
and humanity of our thoughts, the
. vigor, restraint, clarity and beauty
of tiie setting we give to them, we
have our greatest chance to make
, our countries lovely and beloved, to
further tiie happiness of mankind,
and to keep immortal (he priceless
comradeship between us."
The lAt tie House
Ah, it's home, dearie, home, that my
tieart turns'to forever —
A little house, a bit o' green-upon
u quiet street;
White curtains at the windows, and
a red bloom peering outward;
And the clicking o' the kitchen
tiles to my'own happy feet.
I
Ah, its home, dearie, borne, and the
singing o' the kettle.
And a table spread at the even
ing time a waiting there for
yon—
The early lamp ail lighted, and the
tire burning cheery—
And a soft wind blowing inward
from the sweet world wet o'
dew.
And listen, dearie, close beside, a
baby in a cradle,
A-swinging low a-swinging low
-—(l'm singing for him. dear)
Just a little song o' loving, like the
south wind to the roses—
' "It's evening time, and home time,
and ire will soon.be here."
—Grace Noll Crowell in Contempor
ary Verse.
The Voice in the Wilderness
The word of God came unto John,
the son of Zacharias, in the wilder
ness. And lie came unto all the
country about Jordan, preaching
the baptism of repentance the
remission of sins; as It is written ill
the words of Esaias, the prophet,
saying, Prepure ye the way of the
Isrrd, make his paths straight.—
Luke ill, 2 to t.
lEuwttng (Etjat
Proceedings by the Common
wealth to close the old entrance to
the Harrlsburg cemetery will end
the career of 'a picturesque lane
that used to furnish a line for
drives or rambles for many people
a generation or two ago. This old
lane originally ran from State and
Cameron streets diagonally toward
the State arsenal. It was used
mainly to reach the James Calder
farm, where Simon Duey, long
prominent in afTairs political and
otherwise, resided. When the ceme
tery association was organized, the
lieirs of General John E. Forster'
gave certain rights for highway"
use and the lane was fenced in and
planted with willows. It was
known as the "Willow Jjane" and,
was the main entrance to thet
cemetery for a long time, serving
until the entrance near the top of
the State street incline was laid out*
It was closed some years ago when
traflic was diverted to lierr and
State streets, but there are many
who remember it as it wound over
the top of the bluff and what a
beautiful approach it. was to the
burying ground where so many
I larrisSurgers sleep. lake the
Jonestown road, which went down
the' hill to meet the city traffic
near Cameron and Market and
which survives numerous changes, it
will soon be a memory of the days
when the highland portion of Har
| risbnrg was farms.
•State Capitol officials are of the
opinion that changes of dayight
saving plans are a good thing as far.
as bringing people to work earlier.
The usual Change of the start
ing time from 8 to 9 o'clock for the
winter is now being made in various
departments at the Capitol and at
several of the departments clerks
accustomed to appearing at 8 could
not accustom themselves to the la
ter .hour and showed up ahead of
time. Most, of the departments
now work from 9 to 5. During the
summer and fall they close at 4.
Father Penn's gold fish have been
put into storage for the winter. The
gold fish were in the basins of the
big fountain in front of the Capitol
and had a precarious time until they
got used to cats, squirrels and chil
dren with ilshing lines. They sur
vived. however, and when freezing
weather came and the fountains
were shut off they were ready to go
into winter quarters. They were
taken into the Capitol in buckets and
placed in a tank.
Frank Davenport and Lieutenant
Jacobs, of the Harrisburg Recruiting
station, driving from Philadelphia
to Harrisburg' with several friends
the other night had an experience
that led them for a short time 1o
thinking that they were "seeing
things."
"Stop." called Jacobs to Daven
port, "we just passed a tire on the
road." So Davenport stopped, think
ing somebody had dropped a lire,
and backed his machine in tl.e vi
cinity of tlie spot Jacobs indicated.
When the lights were turned on the
spot there was no tire. So Daven
port kept on going back, believing
that he must have run farther than
he thought. Still no tire. So the
party "joshed" Jacobs about his
poor eyesigl'.t and started ahead.
"By jingo, you're right, Jacobs,"
called Davenport, as they passed the
spot where Jacobs had said he saw
the tire, "there is a tire, in the road
back there," and again the machine
was halted and started back.
Duvenport jumped out to pick up
the elusive ring of rubber, and again
it had disappeared. Then it was
his turn to be joshed, but Daven
port is nothing if not thorough, and
searching in the bushes he ran
across three giggling boys with an
automobile tire tied to a rope.
Every time a machino came along
they had thrown out the tire, jerk
ing it back into the bushes when
the automobilists came back to re
trieve the tire. Davenport, Jacobs
and the boys had a good laugh
together and the boys responding
to a question as to how many peo
ple they had fooled said they
"guessed about fifty."
Here's another automobile story,
it seems that up along the River
Drive there are a number of gangs
of boys who are practical jokers
and they have had all kinds of fun
with drivers some of jt.
along tlie line of the enjoyment qf
(he Lancaster countlans. One of
their pranks is to take a couple of
burlap bags and sew them into
some resemblance of a man. Then
the bag is filled with leaves and
propped against n pole so that it
can be pushed over right in front
of a car. Of course, tiie man run
ning the car thinks he has run over
some one and gets a laugh. One
man wlto had been hoaxed came
back next night and was given the
same treatment. He just set tire
to'the bag of dried leaves.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Senator Boies Penrose, who has
been ill in Philadelphia, has been
a mepiber of the Senate since 189".
—Warren H. Manning, the land
scape architect, lias been busy lay
ing out new parks in New England
cities which are to establish mem
orials.
E. liCderer, the- revenue col
lector. estimates that he has over
40,000 delinquents in his district
and ho is getting nfter them.
—H. W. Douglass, the new Al
legheny county chairman, who was
here yesterday, is one of the young
est men to hold that office.
—ltarry E. Apgar, one of the new
Scranton councilman, used to be sec
retary to Congressman John R. Parr.
■—Ernest 1,. Tusttn. new director
of welfare in Philadelphia, is a na
tive of Hewisburg and was born not
far from the home of General
Tasker IT. Bliss.
- William 11. Wilson, new presi
dent of the Philadelphia Keal Es
tate Board, helped organize that
body and has spent his life in the
business.
—Edward Prelbertshauser, Alle
gheny'county treasurer, had such a
rush of people for liquor license re
newals that be had to close his of
fice and refuse to work, at nights.
—Dr. W. P.' Lewis deputy super
intendent of public instruction, was
a speaker at the Pittsburgh Ameri
canization meeting.
—Frank P. Walsh, active in the
labor board and Irish affairs, is
speaking at Scranton.
| DO YOU KNOW 1
—That llarrisburg furnish
ed materials to manufacture
trucks during the war?
HISTORIC HARRISBtfRG
—A hundred years ngo people
used'to unite in Christmas services
which included carols sung tn Mar
[kct Square.