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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-26

FOR SALE-oue four.room house and
vacant lot adjoining, near Adnmston
Glass Factory, just on Of Chestnut
street. Apply to u. T.. Kidd, Care Wal.
lace Bank, Wallace, W. Va.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-26
NOTICE

We have for sale 500 empty whIsfsy bar
rels fer cider purposes. Call or phone
brotherhood Junk Company, Glen Elk
No. ., Bell phone CAV, Consolidated
phone 646.L.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-26

FOR sABE-A Shetland pony, is months
old. Call Bell phone 800 W. or see Mike
Criss, 4I0 Monticello avenue.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-26
WAN | ED-Male Help

SALESMAN wANTED-To sell real estate
In new addition, over 1000 lots. ranging
can make big money. Call at office, 2O4
Union Bank Bldg.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-26

MEN LOOKING FOR woRKZBarber nro
busy the year around, making SO week
while learning, Cut rates given, Write
Leader Barber College, Cincinnati, o.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
Soldiers and Collars
Army and Navy Journal.


Although the recommendations of
Br.gadier General Clarence r. Ed
wards for some radical changes in the
uniform of the troops serving on the
Canal Zone have been disapproved by
tho War Department, his suggestions
may result in II change in the collar
of the service clothing. It is rec
ognized that the high collar is not only
uncomfortable, but unsanitary High
ranking officers. both of the army and
navy, have protested against what has
been termed the barbarous collar of
the uniform of both services. The
suggestion is frequently made that the
rolling collar of the English uniform
should be adopted by the United States
Army 1t is argued that 1t is every bit
as dressy and it is generally admitted
that ii is more comfortable than the
one the army now has. Those who
would cling to the present uniform in
sist that the summer khaki is as cool
as the canvas trousers proposed by
General Edwards. The high collar,
however. has few defenders, and the
change would have been made before
this IL 1t were not for the general op-
position to any change in the uniform.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
HOWLINCOLNS CABIN WASSAVED
Story of It's Building It's Change of Ownership and
Preservation Reads Like Romance

Lincoln cabin was acquired by Mr.
Collier.
Shortly after Mr.. Collier had ac-
CURED the Lincoln farm and cabin the
Lincoln Farm Association was organ
ized, to which Mr.. Collier decided the
property, to be held in trust for the
nation.
Joseph w. Folk became president of
the organization; Robert j. Collier,
vice-president and chairman of the
| executive committee; Clarence H. Mac
kay, treasurer, and Richard Lloyd
Jones. secretary.
The members of the board of trus-
tees were William II. Taft, Joseph H.
Choate, Samuel L. Clemens, Cardinal
Gibbons, Albert Shaw Henry Waiter
son, William Travers Jerome, Lyman
j. Gage, Ida M. Tarbell. Charles A.
| Towne, General Horace Porter, Angus
tus Saint Gaudens, Norman Hapgood,
Edward M. Shepard, August Belmont,
| Oscar S. Strauss, John A. johnson.
Charles E. Hughes. Samuel Gompers,
! Augustus e. Wilson, William Jen-
| ninEs Bryan, Charles E. Miner and
Jenkir Lloyd Jones.
A campaign for funds with which
to rear a memorial over the log cabin
on its original site was then begun and
the response was quick and generous.
More than 100000 persons contributed
sums ranging from 25 cents to $25, 900,
a total of $3S3,000 being raised. This
response was limited to no one section,
men and women of the South coming
forward with readiness equal to that
of the citizens of any other section in
| their desire to pay tribute to the
me mory of Abraham Lincoln.
On the centenary of Lincoln's birth,
! February 10, 1909, the cornerstone of
the beautiful granite memorial struc-
ture was laid by President Theodore
Roosevelt. On November 8, 1911, the
memorial was dedicated by President
Taft.
Within the Lincoln Memorial Hall
resting upon its original site, is the
Lincoln cabin. Surrounding the cabin
is q heavy bronze chain, for no one is
allowed to enter it's portals.
The memorial building itself stands
| at the head of broad flight of granite
steps that lead from an old spring.
Over the entrance of the building is
inscribed the following:
Here over the log cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln was born, destined
to preserve the Union and free the
slave, grateful people have dedicated
this memorial to unity, peace and
brotherhood among these states"
Upon the walls of the interior are
cut the Gettysburg speech and the
LiEcoln ancestry. Beneath the build
ing is a basement with arrangements
for keeping the records of the asso-
citation and it's roll of membership
which includes every contributor OF
| 25 cents or more.
The memorial building is about a
mile from the entrance gates and is
reached by fine winding road. The
custodian of the farm lives m an old
log farmhouse nearly as old as the
Lincoln cabin itself.
The farm itself is divided by turn
pike which leads directly from the
| square at Hodgenville. where the
pedestal of the Lincoln statue by Vein
man points the way to Lincoln's birth
place. The road where it passes
! through the farm is flanked by an old
| fashioned worm fence made of rails
such as Lincoln himself split.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT is DUE

TO every participant and to all
those who had part in prepar-
ing for yesterdays great river
carnival Harrisburg doffs it's hat to-
day and most sincerely says: THANK
you"
TO the Greater Harrisburg Navy,
its executive committee and commit
tees on arrangements, and to V. Grant
Forrer, who represented Commission
er Gross, of the Park Department, and
who was the most active spirit in out
lining and executing the program, the
city owes a debt of gratitude it is not
slow in acknowledging. The mer-
chants and businessmen whose en-
terprise made the decorated floats
possible also are deserving of praise
They share in the general congratu-
lations that are being generously
passed about to-day.
Nor must be overlooked the splen-
did display of fireworks through the
generosity and direction of the Cham
Der of Commerce. This was one OF
the great features.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
THE NEWSBOY

HARRISBURG newsboys richly
merited the good time they had
as the guests of James Steiner
at Good Hope Mills yesterday. No
body appreciates an outing so much
as he who works for it, and that ap-
plies to young as well as old. The
newsboys are Woodworking and their
holidays are few. For that reason
they enjoy them all the more.
Nobody envies the newsboy his good
times. He has the respect and often
the admiration of those who know
him. From his ranks come many of
the successful men of every genera
ton. 1t is remarkable the number
of men in any representative gather
ing who admit having earned their
first money selling or delivering news
papers.
Newsboys have scored more sue
cess in after life than almost any other
class of youthful workers. This is
not surprising. The newsboy is apt
to be naturally ambitious and in
dustrious. Either desire for gain or
the force of necessity has driven him
to work when other boys play. In
either case he learns in youth what
many another lad acquires only in
adult life, and this knowledge and
experience are great handicap in
his favor when he comes to manhood's
years.
Much has been said and written
|
tions the evil of all work and no play,
but the truth is that more boys are
ruined by idleness than by toll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
SOLDIERS AS WILSON'S PAwNs

90 WOODROW, the First and Last,
is not pleased with the disclos-
ures from the Mexican border.
1t was not his imperial desire that
the folks at home should know the
truth about the keeping of the volun-
teers on the border; that they are
simply being made the pawns of
q political game at Washington. 1t
is now alleged that an army officer,
whose judgment is respected through
out army circles, told a reputable
newspaper correspondent in effect
that there was no military reason in
the world for keeping the American
troops in Mexico. The health reports,
he showed, clearly indicated that the
regular army was suffering in COM
parison with the less seasoned troops
of the militia simply because they
were aimlessly kept in an unhealthy
country.
mot Second Lieutenant of the
National Guard would be so reckless
of his reputation as to recommend
that Pershing's command be kept in
Mexico" this communication stated.
But the opportunist now occupying
the White House cares nothing for
the men at the border, or the honor
of the country, or its splendid tradi-
tions or anything else save his own
political ambition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
Indirection

Fair are the flowers and the children,
but their subtle suggestion is
Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the
secret that clasps it is rarer;
Sweet the eXultance of song, but the
strain that precedes 1t is Sweeter;
And never was poem yet writ but the
meaning outmastered the meter.
Never a daisy that grows but a mys-
terry guideth the growing;
Never river that flows, but a majesty
scepters the flowing;
Never q Shakespeare that SCARED but I.
stronger than he did enfold him.
Nor ever a prophet foretells, but /,
mightier seer hath foretold him.
Back of. the canvas that throbs the
painter is hinted and hidden;
Into the statue that breathes the soul
of the sculptor is bidden;
Under the joy that is felt lie the infinite
issues of feeling;
Growing the glory revealed is the
Great are the symbols of being, but that
which is symboled is greater;
vast the create and beheld, but vaster
the inward creator;
Back or the sound broods the silence,
back of the gift stands the CIV
ing;
Back of the hand that receives thrill
the sensitive nerves of receiving.
Space is as nothing to spirit, the deed
is outdone by the doing;
The heart of the wooer is warm, bur
warmer the heart of the WOO
And up from the pits where these
shiVer, and up from the heights
where these shine,
Twin voices and shadows swim STAR
ward, and the essence of life is divine,
Richard Realf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
TIME Lincoln farm of 10 acres
near HodgenNille KY.. the little

TIME Lincoln farm of 10 acres
near Hodgenville, KY, the little
log cabin in which Abraham Lin
coin was born, a magnificent memorial
hall which shelters it and an endow-
ment fund of $4,000 for its main
tenance was presented as gift to the
nation yesterday by the Lincoln Farm
Association.
Around that little cabin is twined a
story that should be an announcement
to every American boy.
In March, 1906, Thomas Lincoln,
with his bride, Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
took possession of farm on the banks
of Nolin creek, in Larue county, then
a part of Hardin county. Here with
his own hands Thomas Lincoln put up
a rude log cabin, constructed of un-
hewn logs, the chinks daubed with
clay, and in it Abraham Lincoln was
born, February IL, 1909.
Here during the next nine years he
who was to be known as the Great
EmaDcipator" enjoyed the only real
boyhood that ever came to him, for
with the removal of Thomas Lincoln
with his family to Indiana and later to
Illinois many of the burdens of man.
hood were thrust upon the child's
shoulders.
The Lincoln farm remained in the
hands of the family of the first pur-
chaser for about seventy years, al
though they considered it to be of but
little value. Then it was sold to A. w.
bennett, of New York, wealthy res
taurant owner, who purposed to con-
vert it into public park. Financial
reverses made it impossible for him
TO carry out his intentions.
The farm had constantly declined
and presented a woeful scene of neg
lect and decay. So poor was it that a
caretaker into whose hands it was
given in consideration of his agree
ment to pay the taxes was considered
by his neighbors to have made a bad
bargain because the land would not
produce enough of value to pay the
taxes and the value of his labor.
A short time later the little log
cabin which Thomas Lincoln had built
for his bride and in which Abraham
Lincoln was born was sold to a travel
ing Snowman. He took 1t about the
country exhibiting it and finally stored
the dismembered structure in a cellar,
from which it was rescued at the in
stance of Robert ]. Collier who pur-
chased the showmans claims.
In 1905 Mr.. Collier learned that the
Lincoln farm was about to be sold and
was in danger of falling into the hands
of persons who wished to use it for
exploiting their ware, among them be-
ing man with big distilling interests.
He sent Richard Lloyd to Kentucky
TO investigate the possibility OF acquir-
ing title to the property Mr.. Jones
found the farm involved in court pro-
cee0ings and returned to New York,
first instructing local attorneys to
notify him when the case was finally
adjudicated.
In August of the same year came
word that the farm had been ordered
sold at auction at the courthouse door
of Larue county. Mr. Jones imme-
dat ely returned to Kentucky, arriving
in Hodgenville somewhat in advance
of those most keenly interested in
securing the farm for commercial ex-
ploitation, and 1t was knocked down
to him for $500. 1t was after Mr..
Jones return to New York that the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05

fancy themselves going down into his
tory as a coarse crew.?
Quotation after quotation from the
speeches and writings of Woodrow
Wilson might be repeated to show that
he has been for years hostile to every
form of labor union. Perhaps one
example will suffice. At a dinner in
the Waldorf Hotel. in New York,
March 1S. 1907. DR.. Wilson spoke as
follows: I'VE speak too exclusively of
the capitalistic class. THERE IS an
other as formidable AN ENEMY TO
FREEDOM AND EQUALITY OF OP-
PORTUNITY as it is. and THAT is
THE CLASS FORMED BY THE La
ROR ORGANIZATIONS AND LEAD
ERS OF THE COUNTRY"
That is the kind of friend" Wood
row Wilson. with his suddenly formed
ideas about the necessity of an eight
road men of the country. and ten or
twelve hour day for the rest, is of
organized labor.
On the other hand. consider the
record of Mr.. Hughes. Never in his
life has he been guilty of word or
decd inimical to the working classes of
the country But he has by word and
act demonstrated his friendship for
labor.
During his term as Governor of New
York he advocated the passage of and
signed fifty-eight labor laws. In New
York during 1872 years only 1852 labor
acts were passed. One-third of these
were enacted during Governor Hughes
term.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
Labor and Leisure

The ideal life would know how to
measure labor and leisure. Life with
out innocent joy is dwelling in penal
servitude, for broad and butter do not
feed the soul, and the slave may have
food and clothes and shelter. Then let
us apportion our days-time for work
and time for play-and let the children
into the secret. If ours is the right
eloquence in spreading the gospel of
leisure and the spirit of innocent play,
the next generation Will have finer
cheerfulness.
We may knock at the door of heaven.
giving praise in pleasure as well as in
work. Religion with a sour face and
downcast eve was invented by the evil
one, we know, because IL is SO hard to
follow when the natural world. free to
the hand OF the Creator, smiles and is
glad.-L. M. McCauley.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
The Canadian Form
GFrom the Ohio State Journal

lrroh the Ohlo state Journal
The Canadian form of arbitration rs
good; and it is sensible and efficient.
1t is simply the people, who are deeply
Interested in n labor dispute, inquirinB
into 1T and giving their opinion con.
cerning it. There is no compulsion LII
it. The opinion gathered from such an
examination binds nobody. 1t is only
the people saying this side or that Ia
right. They ought to be encouraged by
law to do 1T, for they are deeply inter
ested in the controversy. They are the
ones to suffer, and not the parties to the
dispute. 1t is only a matter of pub
licity, that the law provides for. The
theory lis that the report of such an
opinion, giving to that some effect in
the. decision. Public opinion is de-
clsive and the purpose is TO get an in
telllgent one. There ought to be no OBJ
lection to that; The people want to be
on the right side
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
What more need be said?
A JOB FOR THE NAVY

TIME success of the great water
4 carnival yesterday, with it's at
tendance of thousands, is con-
vincing evidence that Harrisburg has
come to full recognition of the Won
derful possibilities of its river basin
for public amusement and recreation
purposes. But for all that only mere
beginning has been made The public
has approved the development of the
basin, but that development is still
largely in the future. The front
steps," the plaza and the dam, impor-
tant though they be, are mere funda-
mentals; the essentials are the great
scheme of lighthouses, lighthouses and
municipal bathing beaches that are to
be. Work, hard work, and much of 1t,
remains to be done. and the bulk of it
must fall to the Greater Harrisburg
Navy which so admirably staged yes
terday's spectacle.
Plans must be commenced at once
for next years celebration, committees
must be named to urge upon Council
the Importance of including bathing
and boating appropriations in the
budget of 1917 and to cooperate with
city officials in the expenditure of this
money in a way that will best meet the
ends in view. The Kipona is going tc
be an important event in the years
calendar of holidays, but its greatest
service promises to be the interest tc
be maintained through it in the i'm.
provement and development of tht
river basin.
1t is not too much. in the light o
yesterdays celebration, to forecast tn,
no distant time when the Susquehann;
at this point will be the city's mos
popular recreation place; when it
canoe and motorboat owners will hav,
their headuarters in one or more com
modious and attractively designed
lighthouses and when the city will
own all of the adjacent islands
which will be dotted by bathing
beaches and properly conducted bath
houses. These are the signs of th
times and it requires no prophet t
foresee their accomplishment. All tha
is required is organized effort an
willingness to work. The Greater Har
risburg Navy has both. 1t is the in
strument by which the transformatio
of the river basin must be wrough
and it is ready for the task whic
must be begun without delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
WILSON AND LABOR

NHARLES EVANS HUGHES chal-
~ lenges the sincerity of President
Wilson's sudden conversion as
the friend and advocate of labor. and
very justly so.
President Wilson has never been a
friend of labor. He is a typical South
erner in thought and action, and labor
is nowhere in America so poorly paid
or so badly treated as in the South.
Not in all his long career has he
appeared as the apostle of the eight
hour day until failing in effecting n
settlement of the railroad dispute, he
forced Congress into passing the eight
hour law, which, lawyers say, will be
declared unconstitutional because it
affects only one class of railroad men.
Just how President Gompers can
consistently ask the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor to support Wilson in
view of his past antagonisms to organ
lied labor is not apparent.
In Mr.. Wilson's History of the
American People" he says: "The Chi
nese are more to be desired as work.
men, If not as citizens, than most of
the coarse crew that come crowding
in every year at the eastern ports"
Organized labor, it will be remem-
bered, has had little quarrel with
laborers from Europe, for the reason
that the newcomers were willing to do
the meaner work from which Ameri-
can labor naturally shrank, but not at
the starvation wages which the Chi
nese were ready and willing to accent.
Chinese exclusion has been an impor-
'tant plank in every labor platform
written since the yellow peril first
began to show itself
The coarse crew" the President de-
scribed as "crowding in" embrace
thousands of worthy men who are
now law-abiding. progressive, patriotic
citizens of the nation, many of them
members of the American Federation
of Labor, which Gompers is trying to
drag into line for Wilson.
Do the citizens of German. Italian.
Hungarian, Polish and Russian birth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John w. Slayton, who was the So
cialist candidate for Governor re-
Gently, was the Labor Day speaker
at Uniontown.
DR.. r. G.. Burns, the Pittsburgh
health officer, created some stir by in
specting Fairgrounds in that city He
feared paralysis sources.
BILLY" Sunday paid a six-minute
visit to Philadelphia yesterday and
met sixty friends.
Perry a. Shaner, of Pittsburgh,
grand master of the Odd Fellows, was
the chief speaker at the dedication of
the orphans home at Sunbury yester-
day.
Archbishop Prendergast paid a
visit yesterday to Coaldale where he
dedicated a school. The archbishop
makes frequent visits to the anthracite
region.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05

If this thing keeps UP we may one
day find capital striking against work
ing conditions imposed by labor.
This" says an Ohio exchange, "is
the season of succotash." Succotash
being the Ohio way of running other
wise perfectly good roasting ears
The Chicago beef packers may go
on strike if they want. but the man
who likes his roast beef rare won't
mind.
EVERY man considers a fib to be
of feminine gender" says the Kansas
City Star. Sure, any man who fibs
does so in a high falsetto voice; the
man who has respect for himself lies.
A Texas farmer having ploughed
up $4,000 will in all likelihood add
that sum to the profit per acre of corn
he raises this year.
Of course we know that Hughes
will be elected, but it looks as though
the barber vote might be divided
Hughes wears whiskers and Wilson
slaves himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
Columbus Made Mistakes

IFTom the washington Post
Rightly considered, modern explorers
should not be discredited because some
OF their reported discoveries have NOT
materialized or because they cannot
prove they have visited certain regions.
What does 1t matter that Crockerland
goes into myth, along with Manoa, the
Cities of Cibola, Estoitland. the Isle or
Devils and Atlantic itself? Nobody was
more in error than Columbus as to tho
regions he discovered, and Balboa,
Raleigh, Ponce de Leon, Hudson and
dozens of others followed will-o'-the-
wisps. Yet their contributions to
geography Were valuable for all that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
NO INTEREST A-TALL
by WING DInger

Yesterday 1 took the family
To the River Front to see
Floats and sports upon the water,
But it didn't interest me.
For l knew that on the golf course
All the bunch were quite content
Playing twosomes, threesomes, fou
somes,
In a one-day tournament.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The rather pathetic thing about it
is that the candidate never seems to
realize that he could say substantially
the same things about his own party
that he does about the other and have
them just as truthful.-Columbu
(Ohio) State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED, OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."l
What was the total per capita cost
for 1914-1915?
$36.4S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05

Paragraphers feel so stupid some
times that they think very seriously of
applying for positions as British cen
sors.-Columbus (Ohio) State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05

The threatened increase in the price
of bread should be easily accom-
pliehed. considering the experience the
bakers have had in making bread rise,
Nashville Southern Lumberman.