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Half Century Since
Birth of “Tom Sawyer’
That perennial American boy, “Tom
Sawyer,” is fifty years old and liter-
ary societies of the country are cele-
brating the birth of Mark Twain's in«
corrigible pen child, an event which
marked a distinct epoch in Amenican
literature, While his stories of “Tom”
and “Huckleberry Finn” established
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later-day critics, his worldwide repu-
tation as a humorist had been achieved |
almost ten years before they gained |
wide circulation, A. H.
recalls, writing a biographical sketch
of Mark Twain in St. Nicholas Maga-
zine.
His “Innocents Abroad,” a collection
of newspaper letters sent back during |
his trip to Europe and the Holy land, |
was published in 1869, and by that
date his popularity and royalties were
rivaling even those of modern best-
seller authors. On a single lecture
tour he earned $8,000 and the royal-
ties on “Innocents Abroad” reached
$6,000 in the first six months.
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Mae—Yes, you may come over,
I've been so lonesome since my gold-
fish died.
really want me to
When They Heard the News
The Girl—What did your people say
when you announced our engagement?
The Boy—Mother exclaimed “mad!”
and the governor said the same—
backwards.
,
The man who can acknowledge a
mistake without blaming it on some
one else has true moral courage.
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THE PATTON COURIER
Toilers Must Rely on Trade Unions to Improve
Economic Welfare
By REV. FRANCIS J. HAAS, Ph. D., Milwaukee.
ECAUSE of the difficulties in securing legislation for labor and
because the general welfare requires that the state should not
do for its citizens what they should do for themselves, the work=
ing people must and should rely upon the trade union and col-
lective bargaining to attain the economic welfare of themselves and
their families. Unless they are successful in this the result will be
additional regulation of industry. The problem then is, how to organize
the four-fifths of the working people in the United States who are not
organized.
The large reserves of concentrated capital are drawn upon in vari-
ous ways to prevent the spread of organization. The financing of under-
cover men, card indexes and blacklists, the maintenance of propaganda
bureaus, the creation of funds for legislation and litigation, and the
establishment of paternalistic welfare schemes are some of the means
used.
Court decisions restricting the labor movement tending to
strengthen a belief that labor is out of harmony with American ideas of
justice and the news and editorial columns of newspapers subtly or
openly attacking the working people are doing incalculable harm.
The church is within her jurisdiction when she opposes this false
and pernicious attitude. The churches and priests and ministers should
reconstruct a sane attitude toward the dignity of labor.
Failing of Youth Is Inability to Discover Real
Meaning to Life
By REV. DR. ROBERT R. WICKS, Holyoke, Mass.
Are we becoming an overindulged generation? This question
touches the most persistent and insidious problem of our American life.
Its root lies in the failure of Americans generally and of our youth in
particular to discover any real meaning to life. We drift toward secu-
larism and materialism as a solution to our dilemma, and it is not
amazing that we only succeed in becoming more perplexed and fed up.
Compare these two statements of life’s meaning, one from a college
senior and the other from the founder of the college at which the young
man is a student. “The only meaning of life,” says the student, “is to
get all the fun you can out of it and don’t’do anything you can’t get
by with, because that’s what everybody does anyway.” The founder of
the college says, on the other hand: “I received during my years of
university training one thing that I have never had to change. That
In a comparison of these
two statements we find a key to the present unrest.
In an age when everything is done for us and everything is easy
of attainment, we lose the opportunity for the strenuous endeavor that
characterized our predecessors, the pioneers.
was a sense of what was worth while in life.”
Pastor, to Be Influential, Must Be Honest in
His Pulpit Utterances
By REV. DR. ALBERT EDWARD DAY, Pittsburgh.
How can a congregation trust its minister as a spiritual adviser if it !
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suspects that he is saying what he does not believe, or is not saying what |
he does believe? Only a few weeks ago I sat in a company of the most
intellectual men of the day. One of them, an educator of national repu- |
tation, told of having gone to a prominent church, andy as he listened to |
the preacher, having jotted down on paper some things which the
preacher uttered.
A few days later this educator confronted that preacher with his pul-
pit declamations and asked: “Do you believe these things?”
The preacher hastened to avow that he did not; that he only said
such things to please his pew holders, who would be shocked by a revela-
tion of his real state of mind.
How can a minister stand in the pulpit and utter insincere words
and expect to retain either the blessings of God, or the confidence of men ?
It costs something to be honest, but as long as a preacher stands in
any pulpit his congregation should be sure that he is dealing honestly,
and that what he says in the pulpit represents a conviction and not a bid
for salary.
Economic Facts Ignored by United States in War
Debt Settlements
By JOSEPH 8S. DAVIS, Adviser to Dawes Commission.
The United States used its legal position and ecenomic power to
force war debt settlements which fall short of commending themselves |
to allied and neutral countries as fair, reasonable, or even political.
Except on the humiliating ground of capacity to pay, our repre-
sentatives apparently ignored practically all suggestions and consider-
ations brought forward by our own critics and by the debtor nations.
As the allied powers did in the cause of the Versailles treaty and
as Germany’s reparation creditors also did for several years, the United
States arrogated to itself the right to be the final judge of what was
just and expedient. As a result, it is likely that adjustments of the debt
settlements will have to be made.
America’s position as the great creditor nation of the world has
given latitude to its foreign investments, which are estimated at between
11 and 13 billions of dollars. Because of this, the nation is interested
In maintaining political and economic conditions that will make such
investments safe and productive, and thus may take a more liberal attis
tude on the question of debt adjustment.
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Country’s Prosperity Dependent Upon Workers’
“Fat Pay Envelopes”
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By JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor.
There isn’t any room in this country for people who love other |
flags, and the soofer they get out the better it will be.
I am in favor of restricted immigration. If mere population makes
for prosperity, China and India would be the most prosperous and we |
know their present condition.
If I wanted to start a panic in this country, and if I had the power,
I would immediately close all factories manufacturing the things called |
luxuries. A country is only prosperous when the toilers are prosperous. |
As soon 8 you stop the power to buy luxuries you stop the greatest pur-
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chasing power we have.
When you cut the pay envelope you start a panic. There is pros-
perity only when the workers in this country have fat pay envelopes.
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adopt. The building to be of brick,
and to contain the following apart-
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HE Capitol at Washing-
ton, symbol as it is of
the nation’s growth, is
soon to have an addi-
tion, according to pres-
ent plans. Although the
Capitol has passed
through three major
stages of expansion, it
is not yet completed.
t To relieve the congest-
ed state of the quarters in which the
government is called upon to tran-
sact its business at the present time
and to give the Capitol better archi-
tectural balance with the present
senate and house wings, a new wing
is to be added to the central part of
the east front,
The history of the Capitol goes
back to the first administration of
George Washington. In July, 1790,
Washington signed a bill passed by
the senate, definitely locating the
Capitol on the Potomac river in the
established under the eighth section
and first article of the Constitution.
The bill provided for the appoint-
ment by the President of three com-
were to make a survey of a required
territory and were empowered to pur-
chase or receive by present such land
as the President thought necessary for
the use of the government.
The three commissioners selected
by Washington were David Stuart of
Virginia and Daniel Carroll and
Thomas Johnson of Maryland. In or-
der to give every architect in the
country opportunity to offer a plan
for the Capitol, Washington and the
three commissioners wrote the follow-
ing advertisement:
A premium of a lot in this city to
be designated by impartial judges, and
five hundred dollars, or a medal of that
value at the option of the party, will
be given by the commissioners of the
Federal building to the person who be-
them the most approved
plan for a Capitol to be erected in
this city; and two hundred and fifty
dollars, or a medal, to the plan deemed
cient to accommodate three hundred
persons each; a lobby or anteroom to
the latter; a senate room of 1200
square feet area; an ante-chamber;
12 rooms of 600 square feet each for
committee rooms and clerks’ offices.
It will be a recommendation of any
plan if the central part of it may be
detached and erected for the present
with the appearance of a complete
whole, and be capable of admitting
the additional parts in future, if they
shall be wanted. Drawings will be
expected of the ground plots, eleva-
tions of each front, and seétions
through the building in such diree-
tions as may be necessary to explain
the internal structure; and an esti-
mate of the cubic feet of brick work
composing the whole mass of walls.
A fee of $500 for designing a na-
tional capitol would be looked upon
as a joke by architects of today, but
in the early days of the Republic that
sum was a munificent one, indeed. At
any rate, 16 plans were submitted
as a result of the advertisement in
the newspapers and they yere sent
in by a few real architects, a few
draftsmen and by a number of other
persons who were neither architects
or draftsmen, but to whom that $500
and the glory of being the designer
of the government building were very
attractive. The architect whose plan
was accepted was Stephen Hallet of
Philadelphia, a Frenchman. But he
was deprived of the honor by a cu-
rious accident. Jonathan Trumbull,
the celebrated artist, had a friend,
Dr. William Thornton, of Philadel-
phia, whose hobby was that of ama-
teur drafting and who had won some
renown as a designer of the Phila-
delphia library. Trumbull suggested to
Thornton that he submit a design for
the Capitol and send it to the Pres-
ident. Washington preferred Thorn-
ton's plan to Hallet’s, and although
the latter and his friends stirred up
considerable of a row over the matter,
the doctor's » plan was finally ‘ac-
cepted.
The design by Doctor Thornton
called for a domed rotunda, a portico
and two wings. But funds were so
scarce when the young government
set out to build the Capitol, it was
decided to erect only the north wing
at first. It was this wing which was
compfeted in 1800 and into which
ments to wit: a conference room and
a room for the representatives, suffi-
congress, the Supreme court and the
library were moved. “The Oven,” a
temporary round brick structure, was
put up the next year on the site of
the house wing, but the permanent
structure of this was not finished until
1811. Then came the great calamity,
one of the most disheartening which
the infant republic had ever suffered.
During the War of 1812 the British
captured Washington, burned the new
Capitol, the White House and other
public buildings. It seemed an al-
most impossible task to President
Madison and his subordinates to re-
build the charred remnants of the
government buildings. But a few
weeks later, Madison called congress
in special session, and as a result of
its action the rebuilding of the Cap-
itol began.
By 1843, however, it was discovered
that the Capitol was already too
small for the needs of the govern-
ment, and congress passed a resolu-
tion providing for the enlargement of
the building by the addition of a wing
on the south side. Nothing was done
about the matter until 1850, when
Jefferson Davis, then a senator from
Mississippi, requested an architect
named Robert Mills to submit plans
for the enlargement of the Capitol.
Mills’ specifications called for new
wings on the north and south and a
dome in the center of the original
building. Davis succeeded in getting
through the senate an appropriation
of $100,000 for each wing, but the
house reduced it to $50,000 for each
and arranged for competitive bidding
in the planning. The plans submitted
by T. U. Walter of Philadelphia,
which were especially favored by
President Millard Fillmore, were final-
ly selected.
It took more than six years for the
completion of the work, and during
that time it was discovered that the
original appropriation of $50,000 for
each wing would be decidedly insuf-
ficient. In fact, the total cost was
something over $8,000,000. The new
house wing was occupied for the first
time December 16, 1857, but the sen-
ate did not move into its wing until
January 4, 1859. Now, after seventy
years, a new wing is to be added to
the Capitol to give Brother Johnathan,
the lusty young giant among nations,
plenty of room in which to carry on
his affairs of state,
Sold
A “swell-head” went to a fashion-
able artist to have his portrait paint-
| ed. The fee was pretty stiff, and the
likeness too true to be flattering. Not
well pleased, the sitter demurred at
the price.
“Well, you need not pay for it un-
less you want it,” said the artist.
“Then you'll have it on your hands.
How can vou sell it if I refuse to have
it?”
“As easily as T can paint a tall on
it,” said the artist, in a tone which
brought out the checkbook like a
flash. — Pittsburgh Chronicle - Tele-
graph,
To Preserve Ferns
There are at least two very satis-
factory ways to preserve maidenhair
ferns. One is to dip the ferns as soon
as gathered in perfectly limpid gum
water. This should be done carefully.
After allowing them to drain for two
or three minutes, arrange in a vase to
dry. Another very good way is to put
the ferns, when first gathered, be-
tween two clean sheets of blotting pa.
per. Lay between boards and press
for a week or so.
“Sneeze Gas”
The introduction of a small quan-
tity of a recently discovered “sneeze
gas” into illuminating gas is the sug-
gestion of a prominent American gas
expert, with a view to lessening the
large number of suicides and acci-
dental deaths by gas poisoning.
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