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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
REINSTATEMENT OF CIvIL-SER-
VICE EMPLOYEES WHO ENTER
ED THE ARMY OR NAVY.

Washington, d. c., February 26,
1919.-In a circular recently distribut-
ed by the United States Civil Service
Commission attention is called to an
Executive Order promulgated by the
President on July IS, 1918, which pro-
vides that "a person leaving the clas-
sified civil service to engage in the
military or naval service of the Gov
eminent during the present war with
Germany and who has been h%onorably
discharged, may be reinstated in the
civil service at any time within five
years after his discharge, provided
that at the time of reinstatement he
has the required fitness to perform
the duties of the position to which re-
instatement is sought"
The Civil Service Commission states
that, in recognition of the services rem
dered by civil-service employees who
entered the military or naval service
during the present war, the Commits
sion will make special effort to assist
these men in securing suitable posi-
tions in the Government service rath-
er than to leave upon them the entire
burden of finding suitable vacancies.
A man who is eligible for %reinstate-
ment under the order may apply to
any office or establishment of the Gov
eminent under which he desires re-
instatement, but, if he prefers, he may
request the Civil Service Commission
or one of it's district secretaries to en-
ter his name upon a reinstatement list
which will be brought to the atten-
ton of appointing officers when va
panoipC are IN hp filled
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
SMITHS LANDING NOTES.

known citizen of Harrison avenue, oc-
Cured last Saturday. The funeral
was conducted at ST. Paul's Church by
Rev. H. A. Ivey and Rev. E. F. Morris.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
DI ED.

COLLINS.-At Pleasantville, N. j., on
February %, Eunice S., wife OF Jos
eph B. Collins, in her 18th year.
Funeral services from the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Byron l.. Martin,
20 E. Greenfield ave, Saturday, Mar.
/, at 2 p. M. Interment Salem GEM
etery.
SWAIN. At Pleasantville, Feb. 26,
Edna C. Erie, wife of Albert W
Swain. Funeral Sunday, March 2.
Services First M. E. Church, Clayton,
n. j., l P. M. Interment Cedar
Green Cemetery. Remains can be
viewed Saturday evening, March l,
7 to 9.
ADAMS.-At Pleasantville, February
27, John P, husband of Minnie B.
Adams. Funeral services at his late
residence, Marion Ave-, this Sa ur-
day at 8 p. m. Interment Mt. Pleas
ant Cemetery.
THOMAS.-At Pleasantville, February
"a, Mary b., wife of Charles w.
Thomas. Funeral Thursday after
noon at her late residence, 1853 Shade
land avenue. Interment Egg Har-
Dor.
If you give a party, tell The Pleas
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH.
Rev. H. A. Ivey, Pastor.

Services Sunday as follows:
10.45 a. M, Preaching.
II M, General Glass Meeting.
2.30 p. M, Sabbath School.
6 p. M, Jr. c. e. Society.
Z p. M, Sr. c. E. Society.
s p. M, Preaching and Communion.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
Holding Forth
the Word of Life
By REV. HOWARD W. POPE
Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago

TEXT-Holding forth the word of life;
that I may rejoice in the day of Christ,
that l have not run in vain, neither Ia
bored in vain.-Phil 2:16.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01

b | a m e | e S S and
harmless, it was
their duty also to
h old forth the
word of life. He
intimated that if
he did not find
them engaged in
personal work on
his re he
should consider
his labor upon
t h e m practically
wasted.
Every Christian
has opportunities
to do personal
work. A friend of
mine was giving
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01

If you give a party, tell The Pleas
antville Press.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
SURPRISE PARTY GIVEN
TO MISS EDNA HOWSER.

On Friday evening a surprise party
was given to Miss Edna Howser at her
home, 521 N. Main st. The evening
was spent in games and dancing, and
afterwards delicious refreshments
we're served.
Those present were: Martha Cram
er. Frances Thomas, Theresa Miller,
Edna Howser, Gilbert Lake, Stephen
and Morgan Johnson of Atlantic City,
Richard Howser and Mr.. and Mrs.
HowSer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01

1t is foolish to be afraid of making
our ties too spiritual, as if so we could
lose any genuine loye.-Lucy Larcom.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01

The Emergency Aid is quite active
yet in meeting demands from the vari-
Gus hospitals where our boys are con-
fined.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01

See Clifton Monk for a copy of Thu
Pleasantville Press each week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
Christmas on the Rhine

Christmas Mass on the Rhine! In
1916, our midnight mass was under
the open sky along the Rio Grande;
in 1917, in the old medieval church
at Grand in the Vosges; and now,
thank Heaven, in this year of grace.
1918, we celebrated it peacefully and
triumphant1y in the country with
which we had been at war. Attend
ance was, of course, voluntary, but L
think the whole regiment marched
to the service with the band preced-
ing them playing Onward, Christian
Soldiers and .'Adeste Fideles' We
took full possession of the church,
though many of the townsfolk came
in, and when at the end, our men
sang the hymn of Thanksgiving,
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name,
the Germans swelled our chorus in
their own language. 'Grosser Gott
wir loben Dich.' / preached on
the theme, Can the war be ascribed
to failure on the part of Christian
ity?' 1 have been often irritared by
ideas on this subject coming from
leaders of thought who have given
little place or opportunity to Chris
tianity in their lives or projects. AS
not been tried out and found wantL
ing; Christianity has been tried
little-and found difficult Father
Hanley sang the Mass, the Guard of
Honor with the Colors being from
Company X, with Captain Hurley in
charge.
For the Company dinners | was
able to supply ample funds through
the never -ceaSing generosity of our
Board of Trustees in New York City,
and funds also placed at my dispo-
sal which We're sent by Mrs. Barend
Van Gerbig through the Veteran
Corps of the Goth New York. But
in their purchase of food, the willy
mess sergeants found that soap was
a better medium of exchange than
money" - From Father Duffy's S
story" by Francis p. Duffy, Chap
lain 165th Infantry George II. Do
ran Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
Bachelors and Old Maids

From the Des Moines Register.
Bachelors who prefer their club to
wife and kiddies; and old maids
who place the song OF a canary
above the cry of a babe, beware lest
you die in the state of Iowa! Some
wealthy bachelors and rich spin
listers within the last six years have
dled minus kith or kin, and Iowa
derived $4,S20,000 thereby. The
state OF Iowa does not permit estates
and large sums of money left behind
by those who die without heirs to
go to waste. The thirty-fifth gem
eral assembly provided for just this
emergency and arranged that Iowa
should receive such unclaimed es-
tates. The net result is $4,S2O. 900
in the permanent school fund of the
state. The law is known as the col
lateral inheritance tax. 1t provides
for advertising of estates for six
months after the death of any per-
son who apparently has neither chill
dren, heirs or descendants. Should
no heirs appear the state treasurer
swings back the vault door and the
state auditor merrily counts off the
dollars left by the heirless descen-
dents. The moral is. for bachelors
and rich old maids to get married :"
said an attache of the auditors Of
flee. IF you don't, well, Iowa will
spend your money after you are
dead and gone"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
AS TO the CentrdPS Fire
ByB BRIGGS

TO the Editor Of the Telegraph:
1 am sorry that a slight misun-
derstanding with the Chief of the
City Fire Department regarding ad-
ditional equipment to fight "a fire at
the Central Iron and Steel Co. s
plant has received any publicity and
in justice to Mr.. Gross l wish to
supplement the article appearing in
yesterdays issue of the Telegraph
with a few lines in explanation.
The fire started one week ago in
a large pile of steel turnings and the
City supplied us with what was re-
garded at that time as adequate
equipment to handle the fire. The
high winds a few days following
spread the fire but by the latter end
of the week the fire seemed to be
under control and at that time we
started TO use the material in our
steel furnaces. 1t was found that
the scrap had been oxidized to a
greater extent than we had expected.
AS we were confronted with a
serious loss if the entire pile of scrap
caught fire and deteriorated through
oxidation we asked for additional
equipment and help from the City
Fire Department. MIR. Gross, after
having the matter explained TO him
fully, realized the seriousness of the
situation and agreed to furnish us
with additional equipment
Under the capable direction of
Mr.. Kinder and his very able as
sistant. Mr.. Herbeke, the firemen
did splendid work and soon had the
fire under better control and due to
their united and untiring efforts re-
duced the danger to Il minimum.
We regret very deeply that we
have been the cause of some con-
troversy. regarding the matter and
feel that if any one is at fault. it is
ourselves in failing to grasp the
seriousness of the situation and in
failing to ask for additional help
sooner than we did
| will take this opportunity to
thank Mr.. Gross for his prompt ac-
tion and the Fire Department for
It's ready response and efficient work.
Yours truly,
Robert III. Irons, President.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
Dry Grasses Back 10 Parlor

tFrom Spokane Spokesman Review
Toward the end of summer grand
mother used to go out into the fields
and gather wild grasses, even the
purple thistles that no one but
donkcys liked. She would look for
sprays cf millet grain, bunch or
two of wild oats and If one of the
men folks presented her with cat
tails that We're found while fishing
her collection was complete. She
used TO dry the assortment and place
them, stiffly arranged, in n tall vase
where they formed one of the chief
ornaments of the rarely used best
parlor.
The fasi ion is coming in again
and to-day the newest things in
plants for Christmas are the old
grasses of grandmother's day. But
their old simplicity is gone. They
are arrayed more gayly than ever
they were in life when they grew in
the fields. They are more imposing
than they ever were in winter when
the weather feels sorry for them and
clothes them with white ermine
snow.
There is a new process that metal
Lies the plants and tints them all
colors. soft blues. bright yellows and
pfquant touches of clear red. The
large, some I'm small holiday baskets
com bined with holly and poinsettias.
Others are imposing collections of
mullen, milkweed pods. dock grass
bramble bush and cattails. They
are exceedingly beautiful, glorified
by their colorings, and the newest in
Christmas gifts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
Christmas With the A. E. F.

! lands and confetti that Paris had
happily sent. And they put their
real gifts in readiness. And they
fixed the great occasion for Christ
mas day at three o'clock.
BY one o'clock all the children
had already assembled, standing in
the snow in q circle gazing up at
the marvel with awe-filled eyes.
Scarcely did they whisper, scarcely
move, quietly staring, little white
faced images holding each others
hands for courage, waiting, patient
in the snow.
AT last came the hour, ard sud
denly, all those flocking soldiers
those big, big men that snatched up
| the kiddies and rode them on broad
shoulders that kissed them all and
squeezed them and tossed them in
the air; that played jolly. wordless
games with the boys, and with the
girls, that were so kind and so gen.
tie and so funny that everyone must
be happy and laugh. And then they
gave the enchanted gifts.
Impossible to describe how gay it
was - how full of light-winged,
frolicking gladness.
And then, in a flash, the whole
thing changed
Had someone told them to do it
| before they came? Or did the great,
grave shadow that always brooded
above them swing low to touch their
souls? No one knew. But in an in
stant, without apparent cause,
games and romping stopped. laugh
ter hushed, and all the frail, little
| black robed creatures, somber faced,
poised mot!orless, as together their
wavering voices rose in the "Marsel-
laise.'
At the very first notes every sol
dier saluted. And while those babies
sang all through their nations chant
| of sacrifice, our boys stood straight
and still and reVerent, the tears, un-
noticed, wet on many a cheek.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
The Homeland

My land was the west land; my
home was on the hill,
| never think of my land but 1t
makes my heart to thrill
l never smell the west wind that
blows the golden skies,
But old desire is in my feet and
dreams are in my eyes.
My home crowned the high land; it
had stately grace.
| never think of my land but ! see
my mothers face;
L never smell the west wind that
blows the silver ships
But old delight is in my heart and
mirth is on my lips.
My land was a high land; my home
was near the skies.
l never think of my land but light
is in my eyes:
never smelt the west wind that
blows the summer rain
But | am at my mothers knee, a
little lad again.
Dana Burnet in Second Book OF
Modern Verse" (Houghton- Mif-
fiin.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
CALM BEFORE STORM

TT Is said in Washington that radi-
cal leaders have decided to soft
pedal for a while with n view
to bringing up reinforcements to
strengthen their lines and make the
next drive for class control of gov
ernment a certainty. They have de-
cided they are not yet strong enough
TO overturn the established order.
While the truce is on, overtures are
being made to the farming class in
a desperate attempt to secure an al
lance with the farmers so that, in
the next drive, starvation may be
added to Industrial paralysis to en-
force demands. Thus, far these over
lures have met with little or no sue
cess, nor is it ut all likely that they
ever will.
The attention of these radicals is
called to the recent discovery of
"Comrade" I.enine. the Russian imp
of the perverse. who. in recent
message to tire soviet declared: The
peasants haye become landowners
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge A. w. Johnson, judge of
the Union-Snyder courts, was among
visitors here yesterday.
-Heber Dithrich, one of the AL
legheny county legislators, is an Of
flcer in the new National Guard.
Attorney General William /.
Schaffer yesterday celebrated his
silver wedding anniversary.
Louis w. .Liebert, census super
visor of the Pittsburgh district, will
have nearly 1000 enumerators.
Dan L. Hart, the mayor-eleet OF
Wilkes-B Barre, is writing series of
new plays.
ID. Clarence Gibboney, Philadel-
phia lawyer active in law and order
work. enlivened the final sitting of
the Philadelphia license court with a
battle with Isadore Stern.
The Rev. r. NJ. Hunsieker has
been elected president of the Bucks
Montgomery Ministerial Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
AS A CHILD

-vHAT a wonderful Christmas
wv story that was which the
Telegraph gave its readers
yesterday, of the homecoming OF
General Pershing and his young son
to the little town and the little home
of the Generals boyhood days!
What thoughts of other Christ
masses, long since gone, must nave
trooped through the veterans mind
as he sat down to table in the hum
BILE diningroom. where the CHRISTMAS
feasts of his childhood's days were
spread: as he poked about the old
house where at his mothers knee he
first heard the story of the great
holiday and where he first hung ms
stocking in glad expectation OIL the
visit of Santa Claus. Little he reck-
ed. in those times, as he buckled
on his toy sword and proudly footed
Ats fitt.s -ed Christmas horn, that
some day ne would return Tor
Christmas celebration at the ola
home. with the sword of great gen
eral at his side, heralded by real
trumpets and accompanied by dis
tinguished men who were PROUD 10
do him honor.
The way has been long and the
going hard in the years that nave
intervened, and we fancy that, alter
many a trying day, the Generafs
mind must have turned back to that
little home, to the peaceful haPpE
days when Christmas was season
of magic and old Santa as real as
the old earth itself And we ike TO
think that it was some such sehtl-
ment as this that prompted the dls-
tinguished soldier TO leave the halls
of the mighty at this gladstone sea-
son and to turn his face again PACK
toward the scenes of his childhood,
there to live over again for a orlet
space those happy days when the
tinsel of a Christmas tree and the
hidden treasures of a stuffed stock
ing brought more JOY to his heart
than all the honors the world has
heaped upon him since.
For that is the measure of a real
man-that at Christmast:de, If at no
other time, he turn his thoughts
back with longing heart TO the home
that. no matter how poor and hum
BILE it may have been, lives now in
mellow memories as an enchanted
place where all was merry as
Christmas bell and carkins care
dared not show its wolfsh face.
That is the real secret of happy
Christmas, the living over again of
the pleasures of the years agone and
their renewal in the joys we pro-
vide for the little folks of our day.
Christmas is pre-eminertly chill
dren's feast, and fortunate, indeed,
is he who finds it in his heart to
celebrate it as a child. For of such
are the Kingdom of Heaven"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
Labor Must Curb Radicals
ICharles w. Fear in the Missouri
Trades Unionist, Joplin. Mol

ICharles w. Fear in the Missouri
Trades Unionist. Joplin. Mol
Conservative, patriotic American
union men must wake up and take
charge of running the union affairs
of America, must attend the unions
and curb the radicals, or the whole
labor movement of the Nation will
run pelI-mell to ruin!
Half baked union men, irrespons-
ible self appointed leaders in many
cases, have assumed to take full
charge of affairs in all too many
cases. Unwise strikes have been il
legally organized and called against
the wishes and advice of respons-
,ible leaders. and in open violation of
existing agreements and contracts.
Union workingmen, working under
agreements, have violated these
agreements, taken concerted vaca-
tions (?) and violated every union
principle-refused to obey and sup
port National or international off,
GERS, and otherwise brought the
whole American labor movement
into disrepute and contempt in many
cases.
Organized LABOR is to-day Sin bad"
with large portion of the Nation
and even union men themselves are
repudiating and denouncing the ln-
wise acts of other union men and
their fellow workers.
The conditions in the country de-
mand that the real union men of the
Nation - the conservative. steady
working, stay-at-home fellows =
wake up and attend the meetings of
their craft unions. the central bod
les, the State conventions, and the
National gatherings-and rout the
radical element-curb their unreas-
enable. irrational acts-and save or
ganized labor in the country before
it is too late.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
Katherine Mayo I'm til,
THE children played a large part
in our army's first Christmas in

"H HE children played a large part
in our armys first Christmas in
France. At the artillery camp
at Mailly, for example, it was a top
sergeant who said, ten days or so be-
fore the day:
Say, fellows, these poor little viii
lage kids haven't had much Christ
mas in their lives, have they, now?
What do you say we pass the hat
and see what we can do?"
The idea took in flash. And they
did so well, giving as, they always
gave, with both hands, that the total
sum was amazing.
why" someone haZarded Il
reckon we could hand those little
shavers pretty near anything they
want, with all this wad to spend"
Again the idea caught. Deputa-
tions to the village and the environs
of the camp discovered some two
hundred children available for the
occasion-discovere too, by eau
t:ous inquiry, the fondeSt dream of
each child. And at last, when the
list was complete, the commanding
officer sent a messenger to Paris to
buy the stuff.
Upon that messengers shoulders
rested grave responsibility. Each
soldier by this time was personally
interested in some. particular child.
Should that child's hope be unful-
filled the messenger would have
earned against his name an ominous
mark. And he must have realized
his peril poor man. for he brought
back from his marketing such a
range of objects, from suits OF
clothes to live monkeys, as would
have made Santa Claus biggest
sleighload look like bargain coun-
ter the hour after the rush.
Then the boys cut great tree. set
it up in the open air before their Of
ficers' quarters, and dressed it with
the weird green spiders and frogs
and the .snappers and colored gar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
and now side with capitalism against

and now side with capitalism against
bolshevism.'
We have no peasantry in America.
and the only thing that would pro-
duce such a submerged class would
be class government. Nor is there
any danger that the American farm
ers will side with those included in
the category of capitalists. who are
ruthless monopolists or conscience
less profteers. But the farmers
know full we'll that legitimate bust
ness, however big it may be, is en-
titled to fair field, having secured
which it asks for no favor. The
farmers know that they can not
market their produce if industry is
paralyzed, whether by class war or
free trade.
And the man who, by the sweat
of his brow, breaks the glebe of his
own stubborn acres is not going to be
particularly anxious to feed the
loafer who curses capital and con-
demns his government. Labor should
oSNSPb Nhib lHG loIiuClo siihNS lOiiS
since accepted as true, namely, that
the greatest good to the greatest
number comes out of effective CO.
operation between labor agriculture
and capital; that without it constitu-
tional government, the guarantee of
our liberties, must function imper-
fectly or not at all; and that per-
sistence in class strife must in
evitably lead to bolshevism, which.
sponsible despotism known to man
kind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24

Justice Henry w. Williams, of Tioga
county, in 1899. Governor william
A. Stone appointed j. Hay Brown as
his successor on the Supreme bench
and he was elected for the full term
of twenty-one years in the fail of
the same year. There is a consti-
tutional provision making a justice
of the Supreme Court ineligible for
reelection.
Notwithstanding Mr., Brennan's
statement about Justice Brown being
the last survivor of the Pennsylvania
delegation, it is interesting to note
that Harrisburg has a survivor, who
happened to be the youngest of the
delegates to that historic convention.
He is none other than Charles H.
Bergner, the lawyer. Mr.. Bergner
was probably the youngest man in
that convention, and divides honors
with the Chief Justice
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-24
The Tear

O spring so gracious here below,
Thou shining silvery tear.
That bringest balm in every woe,
And healed pain and fear!
Q visit still these orbs, l prayl
That tender grace / need;
Thou takest mortals griefs away,
Though sore the heart may bleed.
A light from heaven within appears,
When dews fall sorrow-born,
Because my God will tell my tears
| trust and cease to mourn.
Translated from the Icelandic OF
kristjan Jonsson by Runolfur
Fjelsted for the American Sean
dinavian Review.