Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
CHURCHES HIT BY
CALL TO COLORS
Pastors Begin Fall Season
With Shortage of Male
Workers

every human institution must suffer
from the war, excepting perhaps
cc--cerns producing war supplies. The
churches - which have sometimes
been blamed for 1ot preventing the
war in the first place-are no eX-
ception.
New York clergymen returnins
from vacations find themselves con-
fronted with the task of conducting
their churches without assistance of
many of their ablest male comnluni-
cants. Hundreds of Sunday schools
have lost superintendent and all Of
their men teachers. In many in
stances Bible classes cannot be re-
sumed until others have been trained
to fill the gaps.
In addition, ministers here are met
with two imperative requests. one
from the mayors committee urges
cooperation in work in behalf of
foreign born; The other comes from
Spartanburg churches asking tor
names of men of the twenty seventh
division from their churches so that
they may be searched out and well
coined upon their arrival at the
South Carolina cantonment.
The Rockefeller Bible class has
lost to the war twenty-five members.
including three of the most active.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Bible
class has lost fourteen, st. Andrews
Episcopal Church, Harlem, has lost
twenty-eight, including two Platts-u
burg officers; Harlem Presbyterian
Church has given up eighteen active
workers, including the Sunday school
superintendent, while similar losses
are reported from virtually every
congregation in the five boroughs.
Though pastor after pastor has
Il - i 1s..-as
active men of their congregations TO
fill the vacancies no regret was any
where expressed that the men have
gone as soldiers. Instead most of
the churches have honor rolls posted
in vestibules-s6me of them in chan
cels-bearing the names of enlisted
men.
Nearly all Southern cities near
cantonments planned for Northern
men have sent out and had read in
the churches of the Northern and
Central states invitations to soldiers.
Because some of the churches in
these cities are unable to bear the
expense of acting as host to so many
men arriving suddenly in their midst
they are asking their denominations
for no less than S1,S0O,O00 with
which to help further their plans.
When the men go to France IN
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be compelled to carry on the family
financial transactions. Bankers are
seeing the wisdom of making thiS
easy for her.
Many myths have been made by
mean man to maintain sex ascend
enCies. For instance, one day Ewes
arm had become CLASSY from curry
ing shards at the serpent and n wild
throw caught Adam. who was UNI
piripg, on the funny bone.
"Confound it. Eve" he exclaimed,
why don't you aim at me, If you
really want to hit Nick?"
Ever since. the sons of Adam have
insiStently asked like questions in
their boyhood from their sisters. in
their adolescence from other fellows
sisters and in their manhood from
:heir wives. To-day, almost the
whole race, of all ages, sexes and
colors. believes that women cannot
throw straight.
Then there is that other mystery
Of which history makes Solomon
sponsor. The Queen of Sheba was
telling her nine hundred and ninety
nine humble and inferior associates
their exact places in the King of
Jerusalem's affections and stablish-
ment. He having heard the tale
once or twice before, sought change
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Hiram, King of Tyre, who was then
helping him build the Temple. The
latters menage was not quite so
mum erously differed as Solomon's
for he only had fifty-seven varieties
Of wives but there were some witty
ones among the number who that
very day had made caustic comments
upon the taste displayed in the Tenn
pie tapestries and affected inability
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carving upon the columns on the
side of the main door. So Hiram
was quite in the mood to lend n
sympathetic ear to Solomon. There
and then those reprobates contrived
the Masonic myth with which the
ladies of succeeding centuries to this
day have been teased. They devised
an oathbound society whose mem
bers never could betray it's secrets,
because-lt had none.
To the Lombards, however, be-
longs the credit of originating the
most persistently successful hoax
ever universally perpetrated upon
the female by the male of the human
species. In the period when those
astute Italians invented banking,
women were insurgent and the su-
premacy of men was tottering So
all being of the Unity Mind degree
anC cOnNeTSanI with Ine WlleS OF
Solomon, the aforesaid Lombards
declared banking to be a mystery
more occult than alchemy. beyond
the ken even of the Rosicrucians
Until to-day this myth has been care
fully handed down from banker to
banker and from male to male de-
positor. But women, again resur-
gent. have penetrated the arcanum
and are spreading the tidings that
another ancient myth is a fake. No
longer are they content to sit in the
parlor, eating bread and honey"
while kings are in the counting
house. counting out their money"
They know they can operate adding
machines as we'll as anybody.
Among the New York banking
houses that are recognizing this new
condition is the Guaranty Trust
Company which summarizes the
platform of up-to-date institutions
as follows:
/. 1t desires the business of women
in all its banking and trust depart
ments as depositors, as borrowers, as