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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-11-15

Carranza reported the defensive against But
the are exceedingly
offensive.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-11-15

The National Association undertaken the task
of educating the reaar Why also buyer as
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-11-15

Osborne Monnett Chicago coal expert says wasage
coal is usoca Consumers of the opinion that is
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-02

breast nj some exceptional slaves Spar
tacus, gladiator OF the Roman arenas.
led wonderful revolt OF the slaves or
servants that deed the Roman authori-
ties for years. He was Il great pioneer
OF equality, but he was far ahead of his
time
Ihc idea OF personal faithfuncss To
death was always part OF the ideal OF
domestic service. In the days OF our
grandfath2rs a good servant was ready
to be beaten and killed in defense OF his
masters interests.
Constant attention to the bodily needs
nf the master is an essential character
istic Of slavery az Of true domestic
service. We sec the Slaves scraping and
maSsaglnG the bodies of their lords and
ladies in the Roman baths The in
innate cares. which were required OF
servant in our luxurious eighteenth cen
fury life in France, were not less a
form OF slavery than the Roman kind.
and the one who yields such service
must always no a slave
rs long as an aristocratic ideal ruled
The relations of men as long as a clearly
defined hierarchy kept every man in The
class that his father belonged to- in fact,
as long ms one was born noble or a
bourgeois. an artisan or a slave, domes-
tic service, taking the form of com
Daratiye slavery, was possible, and con.
Great Britain Rights Reserved
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trrbnted TO tho development OF civiiza-
ton.
But as this ancient aristocratic ideal
mas changed since THE French Revolu.
tloh. oblitcratins progressively differ.
cnccs in social condition and DESTROYING
caste, and ending in the modern demo.
cratic idea OF equality, domestic service
mas become rcpugnant. Domestic service
implies Il vcritable bodily service, which
is me ncgation of all equality of rights
and OF personality
The abolition Of slavery was a logical
ACT ana an inevitable affirmation of the
democratic ideal but TO ne consistent
with itself and in harmony with all its
principles democratic society ought to
suppress domestic service
we snail reach this point before long
from force OF necessity, with or without
change IN the laws. II is better 10 face
ms question at once and find a rational
soiutlon Tor it rather than to founder
ABOUT III our present miserics Il is
ne'tcr mat every person should educate
himself and be able to do without the
ridiculous domestic service OF 1odav
which is parody OF slavery and results
only in degrading morally the master
and servant.
While the servant trouble rs very
TeAatlous among the old nations OF
EUROPE where certain class still de-
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The Modern Servant
a Rebel in the House.

The masters who feel that their prop
crty Ia being devourcd in spite OF all the
efforts they make to prevent II can have
no confidence in these hostile creatures,
who are vet familiar with their most
prlyate analrs, who are slanderers by
habit and who feel obliged to drag their
EMPLOYERS morally in the mud, in order 20
prove that they. the servants, are Ill
treated The servant is set apart
stranger in the house where he lives.
How then can we expect that he should
regard otherwise than as an enemy the
employer who spoils his life?
Among the servants OF former days
the humiliating side OF the calling was
forgotten in the sense OF duty and devo.
ton which made them take the part or
their masters IN everything for the sake
OF the good name of the family. 1t seemed
to them that little OF this good name
belonged 10 them, and this moral ideal
raised them above the purely material
state Of domestic service.
To-day these old feelings no longer
exist. The servant shares the material
life OF his master but has no sense OF
moral unity with him.
The trouble arises because we have
retained ancient habits and customs, and
have not changed them to suit tho
changed ideas of the present day. The
political and legal rights which have
been conferred by the system OF equal
ity have been put into force. The cor
responding duties are less attractive. They
have not yet been fully defined. Ser
wants are no longer servants, but yet
:hey are not anything else. For the mo.
lnent they are only parasites. lodged with
n master who has become for them an
enemy to be cnved and despoiled.
The excessive individualism which pre-
walls prevents them from being interested
In the affairs of their masters but leads
them 10 pursue their own interests with.
out remembering that most often IT,
would be more profitable to make one
agree with the other.
Aristocracy established long ago sys.
tenn Of slavery which was in harmony
with It's ideal. Democracy has not vet
solved the problem Of replacing that sys-
tenn. Present-day domestic service is
only transient and defective state OF
slaves. bearing the most sumptuous
slavery. True servants always have been
slaves. The good servants" whose ser
vices we enjoyed up to the beginning of
the nineteenth century were the direct
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-02

steam, electricity and perfected machin-
IerE mad not come TO multiply the handi.
work OF man. those who were thinkers
inventors. artists. discoveries and Gre
'ators would not have been able TO work
so effectively rs they did ii their tine
had been taken mp by the material cares
from which the slaves saved them The
progress Of civilization would at least.
have been infinitely slower.
Without slavery the great public works
highways, bridges. aQueducts, crcuscs
and temples. which were the necessary
elements OF ancient civilization, could not
have been executed.
IhtIs, what is considered mOnstroSiiv
by our modern minds. impressed with
equality and liberty, was. in another age
thing harmonious, useful. capable of
freeing human thought. and for these rea-
sons perfectly moral, when the conditions
of the time are taken into considcra.
ton.
So complete was the submission OF the
slave that he expected TO be beaten or
killed when he dispeascd his master,
and he even gave his life for the amlisc-
ment of his lord. The gadiators who
killed one another for the amusement
OF Roman society were d class of SER
wants
Even in those days there were occa-
sionat warnings for freedom in the
Copyright 1916, by the Star Compa
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Madame de St. Point,
Distinguished Social
Philosopher and Poetess,
Argues That Our Servants
Are Still Essentially Slaves
and That We Must Replace
Them by Business Employees
BIZ Nine. Valentine de ST. Point

TN All nations OF the white race,
whether In Europe or America, there
is a crisis known as the Servant
question" crisis which is exceedingly
distressing and continually grows worse
Instead OF better.
Every domestic seems TO detest his or
her master more and more and all the
employers exhibit growing dstrust OF
their servants. The two classes are now
irreconcilable enemies whom social
habits have forced to live together. Each
side accuses the other OF being the sole
cause OF the trouble. Both are equally
wrong. Like all other social troubles,
this one cannot be imputed 10 any par.
ocular class. The evil is general and the
..ausc OF the evil is general also. 1t arises
from the very nature OF modern life.
The negative virtues OF devotion and
resignation which made a good servant
In other days exist no longer. In life as
the serving classes accepted it formerly
there was no place for the slightest de-
sire OF liberty or for the many wants
which arc now increasing from day to
day Such humility cannot exist in mod
anteed by the masters answered all the
material requirements OF servants. Very
small wages meant luxury. little store
OF money 10 be set aside for the future.
To-day the most unframed maid Is am
bilious TO dress herself exactly like her
mistress. Her needs, her tastes and her
desires are the same; the degree OF re-
t'nemcnt alone varies. Small wages are
entirely inadequate 10 satisfy any OF tho
girls ambitions.
From these conditions there has arisen
In Europe system OF larceny among our
servants disguised under various pretty
names The nominal wages are nothing
compared to the commissions collected
on all kinds OF purchases, which vary
from small sums up TO very large ones IN
the homes OF the rich. The servants
have little concern about their duties
10 their employers: they are only con
cerned TO retain the largest possible
share of the money which passes through
their hands.
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The True Solution of
the Servant Problem.

iou must suppress domestic service for
these reasons: l. Because tho servant
has become unattached, and Is a strange
ana hostile element in united household
which he or she DISCREPANCIES. Because
the state OF domestic service or modified
slavery. not honestly accepted with all
lis consequences, is degrading, like every
hypocrisy. ). Because the habit OF al.
Ways yielding TO the caprices Of servants
III orner 10 avoid disorganiZing the house
holn every day, is cowardly and degrad
ing. 4 Because domestic service which
a,lachcs one person 10 another and keeps
MN constantly at his orders is humili.'
a'ins 10 a being who wishes to be free /
10 do away with servants who belong
10 the different ideals and tho luxurious
domestic life OF other days we must. {
l. Limit as FAR as possible the require.
mcntS OF strictly personal service. with.
out OF course. abandoning those which
are essential 10 the refinement of life
:. Perform oneself such domestic work
as does nor occupy too much time and
!eave the rest 10 non domestic specialists
.. Organize life in common on a co.
operative basis so as 10 replace by ma.
chinery much that has been done al home
by hand.
T. For all work that canno, be done
by machinery. replace the present ser.
wants by business employees. Every
apartment house or dwelling house should
nave a series of specialists Who look ate,
the needs OF all the occupants
AS long as domestic service is not sun
pressed slavery will not have been ab0l.
ished. 1t Is 70 America 10 give SLAYER,
the finishing blow
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-02

votes itself nominally to domestic
service, the trouble in. America Is much
greater -
1t is natural that the rebels who
created the great Republic should no,
have founded a. class Of servants
The emigrants driven later from
European countries by poverty and at.
tracted by the higher wages OF America
are not disposed toward the narrow life
of the servant. They are also entirel,
ignorant Of their calling. They submit
to 1t only az temporary means O
existence, while they are looking 70,
better opportunity TO make a new
career. Such persons can never max,
good servants. Iney are lacking in the
essential quality OF the servant sub
mission
AS to professional servants from Ell
rope, there are too few of them for tn,
growing needs which the immense Amer
lean prosperity is creating daily. Thus
it happens that among American servant:
iilfeeling toward their employers ha.
heen raised 10 the dignity Of a prin
clpie. They bring to it a harsh i'll will
supported by labor organization which
insures them against all risks They are
the true masters OF the household There
is no end to their eXactions, and will
be none until you suppress them alto.
gcther.
America owes 1t to herself to suppress
domestic service and show method OF
realizing this capital social reform to the
ola tradltlonaiist nations OF Europe. This
ACT would be worthy completion of the
struggle which America began in the last
generation for the abolition OF slavery
NO country is better prepared TO find
the means OF accomplishing this reform.
me importance OF club life i'm America.
The great development OF life outside the
nome. suggest the methods that NAV be
followed. Americans must step forward
boldly and go rcsolutcly to the end The
Practicai sense and the thorough under.
standing of comfort. which characterize
Americans. are guarantees that they will
succeed in this experiment.
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dishes, moved among the guests, satisfy
ing or anticipating every desire.
AS the slaves had been thoroughly
adapted TO their existence they did not
suifer from H. They were ignorant Of
any other ideal and they were happy
Their ambition did not go beyond a pos
siblc acknowledgment which might make
them small tradcsmen and which would
change their condition very little. They
worked with good will for the benefit of
the master because they knew that they
profiled by il. When the master grew
number Of slaves was proportonatcy in
creased
A certain hierarchy Of duties was cs-
tabiShed among them in which various
abilities might achieve a certain degree
OF comfort and leisure In this aristo-
cratic social life material wants were
much more restricted than with us. both
for the masters and the slaves. The
masters did not trouble their minds with
material requirements. which they left
entirely TO their slaves. All their pre-
occupations were OF an Intellectual. sen
Sual or aesthetic nature. They lived in
and for beauty, demigods for whom their
slaves multiplied time and created per-
petual leisure
From this point Of view, slavery was
an element OF civilization of the first i'm
nortance. If the Mediterranean civiliza
ton, which we have inherited and with
out which our world would be very diff.
rcrent from what II is today had not &C
cepted slavery it would not have de-
Veloped so magnifcently as it did In
an age when speed did not exist, when
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-02

descendants OF the ancient slaves and
differed from them In no essential re.
spcct. Our bad servants" OF today are
still slaves in outward form, but revolt.
ing more or less successfully against
their condition.
In the luxurious life OF Oriental, Greek
or Roman antiquity slaves abounded
They formed the majority OF the inhab.
ilants OF State which was ruled by
very restricted elite. For these privileged
persons all sordid and material cares
were unknown. Every necessary ser.
vice o. the household or the care Of their
persons was faithfully performed by the
slaves. Al every step OF the master
slave attended, trained 10 yield absolute
obedience. A meal times innumcrab bic
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Roman Slaves Driving the Beasts O
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
ISUFFRAGISTS ARE
NOW IN SESSION
National Association to Decide
Which Campaign to Con-
centrate On
By Associated Press

Atlantic City, n. J., Sept. 6.-The
forty-eishth annual convention of the
National American Woman's Suffrage
Association opened here to-day with
representative women from all sections
OF the country in attendance. Mayor
Bacharach welcomed the delegates at
the opening session in St. PauTs
church. Reports of committees oc-
cupied most of the morning session.
one or the most important questions
beIore the convention, whether to con-
centrate on Federal or State cam
palgnS or TO continue to work for both,
VIII be decided later in the day when
amendments to the constitution will
be voted upon following a three-cor-
nered debate in which the merits of
each plan will be argued by promi-
nent speakers.
The presidential address of Mrs.
carrie Chapman Gait is expected to be
inc feature of to-morrows session.
DiTie evening" will be celebrated at
the night session and Southern women
VIII be the speakers. President Wilson
IS expected to address the convention
on Friday.
On Saturday morning the polls will
De opened for the general election of
oHncerS OF the association. The MORN
ing will be devoted to the reading of
reports and routine work and in the
AFTERNOON there will be a conference of
the publicity council and a meeting OF
tho executive council. In the evening
there Will be public meeting with
speakers of national reputation.
The convention will close on Sunday
afternoon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
WEST SHORE NEWS
Social and Personal News
of Towns Along West Shore

George X Hopple. of Philadelphia,
is the guest of his aunts, Mrs. j. w.
Beers and Mrs. Margaret Meyer, at
Mary
Miss Helen Gnau, of York. spent
Labor Day with Mr.. and Mrs. II. E
Boyer at Marysville.
On Sunday Miss Barbara Roush
Miss Eva Ellenberger. Paul Ellen
berger and r. n. Hench, of Marys-
Vile. motored to Gettysburg.
Cassius Kennedy. of Marysville, Wis
tied at York on Sunday.
Dewey Bare has returned to his
Marysville home after visiting rela-
tives at ely. York county.
Scott S. Leiby of Marysville, Demo
cratic candidate for senator in the
Thl; ty-first district. attended the an
nual convention of the Perry-Juniata-
Snyder -Miffiin Rural Letter Carriers
Association at New Bloomfield on Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Leiby, of New
Cumberland, entertained the REV. Mr.
Lichlighter, of Harrisburg, who
preached in the Methodist Church
Sunday morning, at dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koellner, OF
New Cumberland, announce the birth
of a daughter, Marian Koellner.
Mrs. Jennie Feight has returned to
her home at Lewisburg after an ex-
tended visit at New Cumberland.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Church of God, of New Cumberland
met at the home of Mrs. f. B. Bair
in Third street. last evening.
Mrs. John Shaffer, of Carlisle, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cal
vim Haverstick, at New Cumberland
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Sipe, of New
Cumberland, have returned from
Williams Grove, where they spent the
summer.
Miss Marjorie oren and Claude
HefflemGn, of New Cumberland, took
a hike on Monday to Lewisberry and
Goldsboro.
Mrs. Kate Snyder, Harry Fahs, of
Elizabethtown, and Samuel Fahs, of
Highspire, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Schell, at, New Cumberland.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Bricker, daugh-
ters, Miss Elmira and Miss Margaret,
Of Lemoyne, returned home last night
from an extensive automobile trip
through the New England States.
Miss Resta Bushey of Lemoyne,
left to-day for a stay with friends at
Carlisle.
Harry Slothower, of Lemoyne, re-
turned home last evening after Wis
iting friends at Huntington.
The following persons from Le-
moyne, spent Labor Day on a fishing
trip near Dillsburg: Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam klugh, and daughter Thelma; I;
DR.. and Mrs. Walter Deitz, DIR. and
Mrs. j. w. Bowman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Eshelman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Appler. The trip was made in auto
mobiles.
Miss Ethel Zeigler, of Harrisburg, is
visiting her cousin, Miss Arletta Titzel,
at Lemoyne.
Mrs. McLane and daughter, Ruth,
of Lemoyne, returned from a visit
at Columbia.
Miss Hazel Mumma, of Lemoyne,
will leave tomorrow, for a visit at
Philadelphia.
Harvey Ilgenfritz, of Lemoyne, has
returned from Carlisle.
Winifred Flicker, of Lemoyne, is
visiting friends at York
Milford Miller. of Millersburg, is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
ms of Interest
iii Central Pennsylvania
Special to the Telegraph

Lcwistown. Dogs were caught
running large elk, one of the State
Game Commissions protected herd.
near the line between Miffiin and
Juniata counties.
Mauch Chunk. The water oues-
ton in this vicinity is beginning to be
serious. and unless an abundance of
rain will soon be forthcoming. one of
the most serious water famines in
many years will have to be faced.
Shenandoah. - George Wentler. So
years old, contract miner, prominent
in Episcopal church work, was in
stantly Killed at Turkey Run Colliery
by fall of rock.
Reading. - Tobacco growers at
Morgantown have been offered 14h
cents pound for their 1916 crop.
Hazleton. - Two hold-up men se-
lected Police Sergeant Harry Bloesine .
as victim while returning home in
the early morning hours and were
given the surprise of their lives. One
was knocked down and the other fed
Carlisle. - So troublesome have
blackbirds become in Shippensbutg
and about the normal school grounds
in that town that special permits have
been issued to hunters to shoot the
birds.
Columbia. - The Gary Silk Com
pany, of Paterson, N. J., has leased a
large factory building in East Column
bia, and will begin the manufacture of
neckties within the next three weeks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
VIRGINIA GIRL ENTERTAINs

Lemoyne, Pa, Sept. 6. - A number
of Lemoyne young people were enter
tanned by Miss Ruth Throckmorton,
of Richmond. Va, at the home of DR..
Edgar S. Everhart, in Hummel avenue
last night. Those in the party were
Miss Ruth Mccormick, Miss Matora
White Miss Bertha Malick, Miss
Hazel Mumma, Miss Mary Nebinger,
Miss Hazel keeler, Miss Mildred Wit
man, Miss Zophia Hasskarl, Miss
Edith Nebinger, Miss Nerissa Sadler,
Miss Katherine March, Miss Ethel
Knisely, Miss Frances Bates, Anthony
Matro, Irwin Malick. Guy Nebinger,
Clarence Slike, Harold Haag, Paul
Harkison, Harry Warden, Ernest
Dopkee, Casper Wohlfarth, and Paul
st. Peter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
100000 BUSHELS
OF APPLES GROWN
Hundreds of Carloads of
Peaches Already Shipped Out
by Hancock Section

Waynesboro, Pa, Sept. 6.-The Han
cock peach crop will be 75 per cent. of
last year with its bumper yield. The
Pot omac Valley Fruit Exchange, which
peach crop will amount to about 1,50O
carloads, against 2,200 carloads last
year. A total of 617 carloads was
shipped last week, selling for from So
to 1915 for a three-cuarter bushel
carrier in New York and Boston.
The apple crop from Hancock and
Cohill will amount to about $50 car
loads. The Tonoloway Orchard Com
pany and the orchards of Edmund P.
Cohtll, the pioneer fruit growers of the
Hancock section, will produce 10000
bushels of apples. They have sold
already $4,000 bushels of Grimes
Golden, Jonathan, Rome Beauties and
BellefioWerS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
TO GUARD BOUNDARY
By Associated Prcts

Panama, Sept. 6. - The Panama
government has dispatched thirty
policemen in a barge by way of the
Pacific ocean. to guard the Costa Rica
boundary. where brother of the Sec
retary OF War of Costa Rica is said to
desire to seize cocoanut plantations on
land in the Republic of Panama.
Panama has not yet recognized the de-
cision handed down in Washington in
September, 1914, by Chief Justice
White giving the land in question to
Costa Rica. Up to the present no dis
turbance have been reported from the
frontier.
The Costa Rica-Panama boundary
dispute dates back to the time when
costa Rica and Colombia declared
their independence of Spain and was
passed on to Panama when Panama
bee" 800 separate nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
STRAWRIDE TO DAUPHIN
Special to the Telegraph

Dauphin, Pa, Sept. 6. - Last even
ing the Market Square Presbyterian
Christian Endeavor Society, of Har-
risburg, enjoyed a strawride to the
Elm Tree, and held It cornroast there.
In the party were Mr.. and Mrs. Gar
field McAllister, Mrs. James Reed,
the Misses Mabel Clark, Emily Cum
mings, Dorothy Taylor, Louise Augh-
limbaugh, Maryland and Nellie Gour-
ley, Emily Edwards, Cora Shertzer,
Caroline Hatton, and Minetta Hosmer,
Stewart Blair, Donald Meyer, Daniel
Roberts, Glenn Reeves, John McCul-
lah, Lewis Kraybill. Lynn Bierman,
Stewart Taylor, and Joseph Montgom-
cry, II.