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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-07-18
Local News
Montpelier. Friday, July IS. 1919.

A son registered at the home OF
VIM. Hirschi last Tuesday.
Mrs. James Sherrod and little
of Salt Lake, are visiting with ma
pelier friends.
Ladies' and misses oxfords
slippers only $1.95 while they La
at H. B. Whitman's.
A daughter registered at the homo
of Ed Bostrom Of Dingle. last sun
day.
II you need anything in the fruit
far line, we have it.-City Meat Mar
ket.
l.. Holbrook of Salt Lake spent
several days this week at the home
of his brother-in- law, Dr.. Hinckiey'
Clarence Hess and family motoreq
to Logan Tuesday, where they Will
visit for a couple Of weeks with reia-
tives.
Remember, our prices are still low
on groceries; buy of US and save
money.-H. B. Whitman.
Mrs. d. L. Rice came up from Salt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
MUST GET BUSY

= OANS for the construction of
sewers, for street paving and
bathing beaches and proposal
to transfer 100000 from the Wal
nut street bridge fund to the State
Memorial Bridge fund will come be-
fore the voters in November. All OF
them are important to the growth
and progress of the city and, ap-
parently, all are popular. But let
us take nothing for granted. II
would be unfortunate if any of them
should fail, but it would he little less
than calamitous should the bridge
item 20 down. The good faith of the
city is bound up in this proposal. The
State must have the support of the
city in the bridge building scheme
IL it is to go ahead. The bigger
the majority the bridge item has the
better the State will feel concerning
Harrisburg's part in the Capitol en-
tension development.
But none of the loans should bc
endangered through lack of atten-
ton We, as good citizens. must get
behind them. talk in favor of them,
explain them, arouse interest i'm
them and see to it that they arc
approved by big ma jorities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Out of Politics but in Politics
[From the Phila. Public Ledger.l

LFrom the Phila. Public Ledger.J
General Pershing is too good an
American and too practical a citi-
zen to have his address to the mem
bers of the American Legion in New
York misunderstood when he was
quoted as having told the Legion to
keep out of politics. OF course, what
the Commander meant was that
they should keep out of factional
politics, since, of course, he knows
that their participation as citizens
in the government of the country is
! a primary political duty which none
should shirk. and Sinking which the
civic Stacker is more of q menace
to his country than the military
| Stacker. Indeed, the remarks of
Pershing were admirable, and the
| full context shows exactly what was
in his mind. For this is what he
said:
ours is a country of laws, not
of men, and it should be the purpose
of this organization to stand for laws
| based upon the sound principles OF
the constitution. L should deplore
it If l felt there was any chance of
the American Legion becoming a
political tool in the hands of politi-
cal aspirants. I believe the organi-
great good in the country by be-
coming n school of patriotism-it
you will-by fostering these things
which are dear and near to us as
| having come down to us by our fore
| fathers" .-... ...
Every one will agree with this and
will also see at once that to become
a practical school of patriotism
and to hand down those things that
have come down to us from the
fathers" it will be necessary for the
American Legion to go into public
affairs in the manner prescribed foI
all Americans. But by all means lei
, the Legion keep out of politics as
is politics." but let them get into the
politics represented by an intelli.
| gent interest in public questions and
a hearty concern that the best mer
shall be elected to public office
This is the kind of politics that be.
comes the Legion and will give il
) an opportunity to do just what it.
former Commander-in-Ch would
like to see it accomplish. s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Why Coffee Is High
(Forbes Magazine.) }

During the war imports of coffee
were so severely restricted that the
Brazilian farmers, who are the
worlds chief producers, could not
find a market. To protect them the
Brazilian government bought more
than 100000 bags of coffee
which one can see from the above
figures is just about equivalent to
the worlds excess supply-.and is
sued paper money against it. Ow-
ing to these war restrictions Brazil's
total exports of coffee for the cal
endar year 1918 were only 7,433,OOO
bags, against 10,606,000 in 1917,
and 13,26S,000 in 1913.
incidentally, the restriction policy
had the effect of making coffee ex-
tremely scarce in the United States
and other consuming countries. and
of transferring the bulk of the
worlds supply from the hands of
the consumer to those of the pro-
ducer The producer, too, has
learned that through monopolistic
control it is Just as easy to sell one
pound of coffee for 20 cents as il
used to be to sell two pounds for
20 cents. In 1914, on January 1,
only about S,O71.0OO bags out OF
the worlds visible supply of 1894
600 bags was in Brazil; but on
January 1, 1919, the Brazilian hold
ings. were about 9.296,00O bags
Meantime the supply here in the
United States was cut i'm half.
We have virtually taught Brazil
how to charge double for her coffee
and it is doubtful whether she if
going to forget it soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
TEACHING Us NEW WAYS

TTlGII prices are teaching us
n many things. For example,
there is the chap who used to
have four pairs of shoes. Now he
gets along with two. There is the
other fellow who would have
scorned Il few years back TO be seen
on the streets with patched or
mended suit, who now fares forth
to business boastins that he has on
a last years outfit repaired and
pressed for another winter of hard
service. and there is the man who
now takes his old hat to cleaner
and wears his straw until the man
with the iron back of the stand can
get through with the pile of head
gear that has almost swamped him.
We are learning new ways. which,
while they may be very profitable
to us, will not help trade when things
get back to normal. The thrifty
practices of necessity, i'm all likeli-
hood, will become habit with u.s.
There is such Il thing as killing the
goose that lays the golden egg, and
any man who adds penny need
lessy to present prices Is doing so
to the hurt of his trade later.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19

whim Of lnwless Mexicans in the
mountains of that benighted coun-
try the blood of every true Amerl-
can runs hot with indignation.
1t becomes more and more evil
dent that the Carranza government
Is a farce and that the whole situa-
tion is fast drifting to a condition
bordering On anarchy. II 1t has not
already reached that stage. Inter-
ference in Mexican affairs is beyond
question: subject fraught with all
manner of dire possibilities. but
much as the average American
wants to live anu let live he is fast
approaching the place where he feels
that Mexico must be taught to be-
have herself. Just how we are to
go about improving conditions there
is not Gear, but something must be
done and that soon.
We have stood and are standing
as champions of the Monroe Doc
trine. We will not permit any Eu-
ropean power to come into Mexico.
We cannot play the dog in the man.
ger. 1t is up to the United States
to find way at least OF preventing
Mexican bandits from perpetrating
their outrages in this country. To
do so, 1t would appear, we will
eventually have to cross the border
with armed forces and remain there
until Mexicans are ready to listen
to reasoning.
1T is to be hoped that the Foreign
Relations Committee will find some
vigorous way of dealing with these
conditions without the necessity of
armed intervention, but how that is
to be brought about nobody has as
yet been able to see. The prospects
are that one OF these days we shall
nave TO send an army into Mexico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Walls Recipe For Success

What are the qualifications of a
$4,000 year man? What is de-
manded of him?
Well, the man who earns $4,000
to $4,000 a year must first of all
know his business from the ground
up. Large salaries are paid be-
cause of ability to so systematize
and organize that the same effort
will produce greater results, and so
organize operations that neither eff
fort or material or time is wasted.
Mere drivers are not valuable. 1t
is organization, system, ease, and
comfort in operation with produc-
tion that is valuable.
He must be absolutely efficient;
that is, he must have ability, Judg-
ment, courage, enthusiasm, self
confidence, energy, initiative, fore
sight. experience, a great knowledge
of human nature and personality
enough to be q real leader of men.
He must take infinite pains in
small things as well as in large. He
must demand of himself as well as
of others nothing but the best.
He must win and retain the con-
fdence and the friendship of his
superiors, his associates, and his
subordinates.
He must always be ready to take
responsibility, to decide quickly,
and he must be right more than
half the time,
With all that he must have back
bone and a real desire not only to
excel but also to serve.
OF course. a man has to earn a
big salary before we can pay 1t;
| hut we are only too anxious to pay
| it to men who can earn it.-Theo-
! dore n. Vail in Forbes Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Req. Fl. c. Pdrdoe, d. ID.
[From the Altoona Mirror. 7

After q life full of years and
honors, the Rev. DR.. II. c. Pardoe
has passed to his reward. A minis
ter of the Gospel whose labors in
the Masters vineyard had been
confined to the Central Pennsylva-
ma conference, he held high place
IN the hearts of the Methodist clergy
and laity in Pennsylvania.
Altogether he had devoted fifty of
his best years to the active minis
try, and they were fifty fruitful,
blessed years. He carried the mes
sage of light and life to many be-
nlShted souls, and served the nu-
merous charges with a zeal entirely
worthy of the great cause he repre-
sented. He retired in 1910 and af-
ter living while in Harrisburg
came to Altoona, where he had pre-
viously been pastor of one of the
churches during his active career,
and made this city his home until he
was called on high.
Notwithstanding the fact that he
led a necessarily busy life as a
clergyman, he was such an effec-
tive and sympathetic worker that he
managed to find time to exercise his
literary bent. He gave to the world
a number of books that are worth
reading, some of which have been
translated into several languages. He
also wrote much for magazines, reli-
gious periodicals and the newspa
pers.
DR.. Pardoe was a true ambassado OF
of God, sterling citizen and a fine
friend.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
COLONEL LANGHORNES JOB
IN THE BIG BEND COUNTRY


oh, yesi Ask any officer of the
Eighth Cavalry, and he will tell you
that If it were not for Carranza
troops on the river there would be
no trouble.
Shipping across the line at Ameri-
can patrols is n favorite and almost
daily pastime of Carranza's soldiers.
Looking over my notes. l find that
according to officers of the Eighth
Cavalry, five of the eight serious
raids on American ranches in the
Big Bend district in the last two
years have been made by Carranza's s
soldiers.
In, one case one hundred and fifty
OF Carranza's men crossed the line
and attempted to steal q bunch of
cattle. Five American soldiers, led
by lieutenant drove them off.
A note of another. raid by Car
ranzistas tells of the thefts of cattle
from the Brite ranch: b.. -
Last Christmas Day Carranza SOL
diers, led by Carranza officer, raid
ed Brite's ranch, ran off cattle, loot
ed the store, killed an American
mail driver and two Mexican ranch
hands. American soldiers of the
Eighth Cavalry trailed the Mexican
raiders into Mexico and killed thirty
| five of them.
The next day Carranza forces fired
across the river at American sol
diers, who crossed and killed twelve
In March, 1918, a band of Mexi.
cans raided Neville's ranch in the Big
Bend district, killed an 1S-year-old
American boy and n Mexican WON
an. Two days later American troops
of the Eighth Cavalry overlook tn
raiders in Mexico and killed thirty.
eight of them.
I have lists of other raids in the
district. but they are no different
from those already cited, and repe.
tition wearies.
The fact is that practically all the
trouble in the Big Bend district is
made by Carranza troops who arc
supposed to cooperate with the
American forces in preventing the
very raids in which these Carranzis.
l tas themselves indulge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
One Great Difficulty

Recently, while waiting for a
train, l happened to notice n little
old man who stood near by. He
had been unsuccessful all his life,
this poor little old man, as any one
with eyes could easily see. He was
talking to friend in a weak, cack-
ling voice His eyes looked at moth
ing. His hands hung limp. He had
general look of detection and
what's-the-use While | was OBJ
serving him, I heard him say-"The
one great difficulty" The one great
difficulty! 1t was the secret of his
failure-that phrase. All his life,
that poor little old man had been
cackling-"The one great diff
Guilty" That phrase had been the
keynote of his life. I wish we knew
how many men and how many firms
have been ruined by this phrase of
failure. - Herbert n, Casson in
Forbes Magaz' ne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Hc Nho oTends against hedren
CoEFUcIUs.
TREES FOR THE CITY
RNoLD w. BRUNNER's ella

A RNOLD w. BRUNNER'S elabo-
4 ration of the Telegraph's
plans for the planting of trees
throughout the city deserves the
full consideration of those to whom
this important duty will fall. Mr..
Brunner is a lover of trees. He
would have Harrisburg streets
beautifed with them wherever it is
possible for a tree to grow, but he
realizes that there are planting
limitations; that there are thorough
fares too narrow for trees to thrive
and in this the City Forester, who
is displaying such a marked interest
in the movement, no doubt Will
concur.
ME- Brunner's proposal for the
planting of elm trees throughout
the business districts is a matter
that business men should look upon
in the broad light of experience
elsewhere. Many merchants have
contended that trees have no place
in front OF stores, but the expert
SltCS vi 4 oi anu ONAiNi S''''A
European cities is quite to the con
trary. There it has been found
that the elm, with its slim trunk
and branches starting far from the
ground does not detract from show
windows or signs and at the same
time makes a shady thoroughfarC.
which attracts pedestrians in sum
mertime away from streets where
the sun has full play. Certainly a
border of green along Market
Square in a very few years would
add greatly to that now barren
waste of asphalt which invites the
sweltering heat of summer to broil
those who must use its fiery side
walks and leaves unbroken space
for a full sweep of wintry blasts
during the cold season.
Tree planting in Harrisburg ought
to come to a climax for this year
on one of the Fall Arbor days. The
City Forester, the Park Depart
ment and others interested should
get together at once and formulate
a definite program for a great cam
paign to that end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Berkley II. Boyd. finer legis-
lator, has been ren"rNinated for
county commissioner in Westmore
land.
John X. Stauffer, Republican
candidate for mayor of Reading.
has been a member of the council
in that city for some time.
Robert F.. Lamberton. candi-
date for sheriff in Philadelphia is
active in business affairs in that
city.
Harry H. Huston, new preTi-
dent of the Pennsylvania veterans.
lives in Washington county and
served in the Philippines.
Marion Patterson, District At
torney of Blair county and well
known here, was renominated Tues
day.
lust home from Armenia. will speak
in Western Pennsylvania ON the
situation he found.
John M. Walton and E. S. Nor
row. city controllers of PHILADELPHIA
and Pittsburgh respectively. were
renominated without opposition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Sycamore Shade Trees
[From the Columbus Dispatch

GFrom the Columbus Dispatchl
The American Forestry Magazine
is urging the planting of sycamorcs
for shade trees. 1t shows that they
are of rapid growth and attain large
size 1t also calls attention to the
beauty of the tree-a thing which
many people do not really appreci-
ate. In the interest of more beauti-
full cities. it Is desirable that syca-
mores be encouraged, the magazine
urges.
The largest shade tree in this
country is a sycamore at Warthing-
ton. Ind. 1t is forty-six feet in cir
conference and $50 feet in height
the most beautiful specimen of n
tree to be found. at least in the
Middle West But it isn't the only
grand old sycamore" to be found +:
there are thousands and thousands
of them in this country.
The sycamore requires plenty of
moisture, but moisture is easily sup
piled in modern city. Besides, the
tree has habit of reaching out af-
ter moisture. its roots extending for
long distances and going deep into
the earth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
POOR MIR. BRANDON

n NE OF the reasons why we
II have so many active radicals
in the United States is because
We are too lenient with them. There
is, for example, Joseph Brandon,
red" leader of the "conscientious''
objectors at Camp Funston. Bran
don did all in his power to turn the
country over TO the Hun.
Brandon was sentenced by court
marshal Ito be shot to death with
musketry," after conviction October
l, 1918, on charge of willful dis
obedience of military orders vio-
lation of the Gath Article of War.
This was commuted to twenty-five
years Imprisonment. on June so,
1919, the President ordered the SEN
tence cut to five years.
And now what happens? Why.
Brandon is released by order of
Secretary Baker, provided with a
new suit of clothes something Mr..
Baker did not purchase for the men
who fought the nations battles in
France -- escorted to the station
under guard to protect his precious
skin from possible harm at the hands
Of indignant soldiers, given u ticket
and sent home. The news dis
patches do not say that Mr.. Baker
Was on hand 10 kiss Mr.. Brandon
goodby, but it is to he supposed that
he sent his benediction.
Here was a man who, had it been
possible. would have turned the
whole American army over. TO Ger
many and who admittedly is an
enemy of the Government, being
treated with more consideration than
is accorded our own loyal soldiers.
Thank heaven next year n way is
open to procure a ticket et-of-leave for
Baker ana those other sickly senti-
mcntalists of the type that cant
bear to see poor. suffering anarchists
behind the bars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
MORE HOUSES
TIFTY-TWO families desire TO
II rent or buy houses i'm Harris
burg for whom there are no

TIF~rY-TWO families desire TO
II rent or buy houses in Harris
burg for whom there are no
houses.
Seventy seven families want
apartments in Harrisburg for whom
there are no apartments.
These are the Chamber of Com
merce housing bureaus figures.
Doubtless these represent only a
fraction of the total, but the figures
are large enough to be alarming.
We call ours a progressive city.
We talk glihly about getting more
industries. We are gratified be-
cause Governor Sproul expresses his
intention of concentrating State Of
lices here. We are ambitious to
have the next census report give us
n population of 100000. But we
are not building houses rapidly
enough TO accommodate the people
who want to come to Harrisburg to
live.
A speaker before the Realty
Board the other evening expressed
the belief that Harrisburg should
have 1000 new houses in the next
three years. Our builders have done
very we'll this summer. Our housing
campaign is yielding gratifying re-
suits. We lead the cities of our size
in the United States in the matter
of new buildings for the past sum.
mer. But we are not doing enough
We must make up our minds &c
| build rapidly or see many oppor'
tunities 10 increase both the city,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
AS Hamlet Might Haze Put II

.IFrom the Columbus Dispatch1
TO join the League or not to join,
That Is the question::
whether 'tis nobler to embroil
ourselves.
In endless foreign strife.
Or heed tn advice of our illustrous
fathers:
To concern ourselves with such
ills as we have
And not take on others
That we know not OF.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
TN the Big Bend country in Texas,
Colonel George T. Langhorne,

TN the Big Bend country in Texas,
Colonel George T. Langhorne,
with his Eighth Cavalry, keeps
watch over the largest bit of remote
wild country in the United States.
The regimental headquarters is at
Maria, a little town on the Southern
Pacific. The Border posts are from
fifty to ninety-five miles distant from
railroad in a land of desert and
mountains which need only the
presence and rulership of Lucifer to
make inferno a truthfully descriptive
title. ''
The Eighth Cavalry in the Big
Bend country has thirteen widely
scattered posts on the Rio Grande
and patrols a reasonably active line
as long as the late unlamented
western front in France.
The regiment has in figures 450
miles of line to patrol, all of it from
fifty to nfnety-five miles distant
from a railroad.
Supplying these posts necessitates
keeping up nine hundred miles of
military road across the desert and
mountain. and 1,75O miles of mill
tary telephone and telegraph lines.
The Big Bend district, in which
there is no railroad, is larger than
Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island combined. and is SO
per cent. mountainous. 1t is the
roughest Stag heap of a world that
ever saw. 1t suggests q Uttered
back attic of the universe jammed
with the geographical junk left over
from the creation of an ordinary
world!
The Big Bend district is n country
of isolated ranches and mines, and
has one inhabitant to every eight
square miles. Because of it's remote
ness and difficulties of patrol, it has
been and is vet a favorite raidine
ground for Mexican bandits. On
the Mexican side of the river, oppo-
site each American post, is a Car
rama garrison: and, of course, these
Carranza troops do their best to pre-
vent raiders crossing the line into
American territory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
IN MEXICO

"HE Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee investigating re-
lations between this country
and Mexico is revealing a startling
situation. The outrages of Mexican
bandits along the Rio Grande have
been . matter of common news-
paper report. The murder of Ameri-
properties and even the holding for
ransom of American aviators in
Mexico have been more or less
quietly received in the United States.
But when 1t is brought out
that American girls have been
dragged away from their homes in
the United States and held at the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
Thrift

Thrift means intelligent Spending.
To spend a dollar now may save
YOU two dollars next month.
Thrift implies a Budget. If you
have no wise plan, it makes little
difference how much you make.
What is the use of forging ahead
when you don't know your destina-
ton.
1t is Thrift that creates Capital.
And Capital represents the diner-
ence between civilization and bar
ba'rism. Where there is no Capital
there is no progress. The intellf-
gent and industrious Laborer does
not despise Capital; he becomes
Capitalist.
Is not that what Labor is con-
tending for? Enough wages to lay
by something ?-Dr. Frank Crane in
Forbes Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19

business and its population slip
away to other communities better
prepared to take advantage OF them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-19
DO YOU KNOW

THAT HarTisburg's plan for
river front bathing is attracting
attention OF other cities? ~