New-York tribune., 1917-07-27


asked the local business man. after the mehonored Amer
OF beginning conversation with visitor The
question put to Senator Iman his pitchork days when
he good deal OF national curio, and speak
lyceum circles.
York said the great man. with the utmost deberaion and
fine regard Tor the naked truth B like thousand other
towns America In the the courthouse square Around
the square is the hitchng chain
The unoendng citizen skunk away eeening York
and Tilman less
1t might say the that ranked
started a great uplif movement in York
Anyway, time when the great vital issue in local
government the hching chain Parenthecaly it may be
explained that said chng chain plain ordinary chan
OF tying their horses For fifty years it the great
American rural town evidence of public spirit 1t monu-
ment to the neghbory feeling Of the orekeeper for the farmer
Beware OF the town that did not provide public htchng place
in its civic centre.
So when citizens proposed abolish the hching chain
nuisance offence eyes and nostrs and mu-
npa beauty there Of those fine vigorous good old
small town fights Its potagon declared that abolish the
the privileged the plain everyday farmer bull
wark of the Republic, uphoder OF our liberties,
The fight might have been raging yet had not
remarked the fact that there much providing hcng
place for nothing to hitch
Here was Daniel to judgment.
You know you don't hitch automobiles to chains.
York sensed a era.
Just to bury the horse age deceny hcng place pro-
ded side and York public ceased to be
stable.
Some day Senator Tlman may back to York Promi-
citizens hope he will Perhaps he will again that York IS
Just like thousand other American country townbut he
he will be paying the thousand great compliment
York the real spotess OF the thousand class 1t
had saloon hasn't pauper has millionaire though
is admitted ei-mionaire But he insists
on lending his his neghbors paper at
per cent he isn't considered Surrounding this one
financial 500 out OF lOO who worth up
ward of SIS 900 each.
Wealth is evenly distributed and pretty much according to
deserts The we'll paved and well cared for The bus
ness houses modern anything Fifth Avenue The
homes are comorabeand sp and span The young men are
keen and f the girls pretty and becomngy gowned It's
good and happy community pays cash for its paving and its
public buildings 1t hates municipal debt 1t is putting up
community budngso that the farmer who in to attend
the county won't have get ootsore and walking
from the grounds the shops The upodate ar will now
be right alongside thoroughly modern facilities for relieving
him of any excess Of pocket moneyrgh in the business district
What has all this do with the great war? Simply this
It is one more evidence of democratic American efficiency York
NAV be the leader in the l0Oas but there hundreds Of
close seconds The high quality OF individual efficiency that has
turned York into model community in evidence the con-
duct of the war as local problem The semmonaire heads
the County Defence Committee He might other ea-
son if YOU asked him. he that job because he loves his
America because he loves his and his teowcltzeS and
because he would cheery give his all rather than the demo-
cratic scheme in which he believes just much to-day as when
Door bow give place the eadymade scheme imposed auto
cratically from above -. go, 49,,
He thinks it is better for the citizens to have knocdown-
fight the htchng chain question than have 1t
settled bv uniformed official tackng verboen pIacard
IL would rather community clean than have cleaned up