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"Whitnan"
BY Gene Stratton-Porter.

Il VERY slender, shining leaf of grass,
IL Keeping undaunted with winding foOtworn roads,
Becomes warning blade upled for Democracy,
Because Of him.
Every freshenng, salty breeze of ocean
Or clovcrperfumed breath of inland field
Makes priceless wine OF heady vintage,
Because of him.
Every ruminant herd in pasture lush and tender
Lifts eyes Of placid selfcontainment
And gives me hearening greeting as pass,
In signs learned more intimately to translate
Because of him.
follow the road cOmbng its bordering
With exploring fingers in long continued daily search
For the twinkle gold the blue of Sekirk violet;
Scanning sought wild estate
nquent creeper like Dutcman pipe cmbingbon
Watching higher the lace of coffee fringe of Chonanthus;
Ever as CO. before always marches heroic figure
breathing agleyed sometimes with deliberate absorbent STEP
Sometimes outdistancng the rush of frenzed gale,
A figure compelling Justly selfdenominated Immortal
With clouds and sky gras flowers, birds and animals
aboure choolmsress free companion
motley each eagerly companonng him for little hour
Whitman marches down the road ahead of me.
Happy follow, working patiently in his shadow,
loving sky and animal with deeper Devotion
Striving to do cleanercu, more faithful work.
Because of him.
Copyright, 1919, by Gene StratonPOrter
L1NBERLosr CABIN W1DFLowER WOODS, INDIANA, 1919.
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"Women in Business" by Amelia E. Barr

which decides in their favor whenever
there is work they can do.
But | do not see that because women
have appropriated elerkships man is any
the worse for it. The loss of clerkships
will not leave them Clogs upon the water"
Work without end is waiting for them
work for their hands and brains that no
women can do. Only men can fight. Only
men can dig trenches and face walls Of
liquid fire. Only men can fly above the
clouds and sail at the bottom of the sea.
Only men ear build subways and big
BRIGGS, open the mines and navigate great
liners across stormy oceans. Only men
can edit and publish the great daily news
papers of the great cities. Only men could
finance fighting nations and loan billions
of money and have nothing but civil
words TO say about it. If we could give
men list of the worlds work they must
do because women could not do II, they
would be silent with amazement and
women would hold their tongues forever
on his subject.
And if women will only do with all
their hearts and souls the work that has
been Woman's work ever since the Crea-
ton they need not trouble themselves
about mems work. They are to continue
to be the wife of their husbands heart
his help and consider in all trouble. They
are to bring into Life and raise to noble
maturity brave sons and lovely daughters.
They are to be the builders of happy
homes, the lawgivers of households, the
conservers of moralities, the power behind
the throne in every domestic and national
crisis. They are to feel sincere SYM
patty and respect for those women whom
calamity Of any kind forces out of their
homes into the labor market.
But this or that, find comfort in the
knowledge that with all orr skill we can
not make new humanity. As it was in
the beginning it shall be forever Women
will continue to be women until Time shall
be no more; and we may confidently pre-
diet that men will not cease to be men.
vi.
A woman with nominal husband and
a marriage without maternity is a transi-
tional creation; and that is a good thing
for the world and the humanity Of the
future. One thing is certain-a woman
cannot be clerk and a wife and .
mother at the same time She cannot
have the old love and saeredness of a
tcOmsdn Of the hearth and the self-asser-
ton and independence of a poman Of the
counting house. She gives her life and
she takes her choice.
AMELIA E. BARR,
45 Bedford Avenue,
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writers or religious workers. Such women
have generally a decided vocation for
what they undertake and no one envies
genius of any kind its just reward
We must remember that women doing
what is called "men's work" is not new
thing on the face of the earth. From the
most remote ages they have been conquer
Ors and rulers, seers, poets and prophets,
painters and writers. They have kept
inns and hostelries, been active in manu-
features and even rulers in church, and
ecclesiastical matters have never wanted
representatives. The present movement
against their competition appears to be
UNIQUE and unlocked for. II is evidently
their rapid appropriation Of all clerksl.ips
which has made them in mems eyes in
tru1ers and usurpers, and this because
they are said to have accomplished their
object by constant method Of underbid-
ding.
Now business is in reality other peo-
pies money and there is not in it one law
for men and another for women. There
fore if women-free from all other obi
gatiors-feel that clerkships are the most
desirable work and can manage by any
legitimate means to push men off their
Office stools there is no reasonable objec-
ton to be made against their doing so.
The tools to those who can handle them!
And if women can afford to handle them
at cheaper rate to employers than men,
being men and not yet angels, are sure to
employ women, through they may do badly
what men did well. 1t is the cash outlay
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A page of Whitmanesque tribute to
Walt Whitman by living American poets
will be published in Books and the Book
Worlds next issue.
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so, it is in a wrong direction.
w.
Another Objectionable class in the labor
market are unmarried women who are
under no necessity whatever to enter busi-
ness life. But they like the attrition with
men better than the dulness of home;
and there is also in such cases the rivalry
with other women clerks whom they can
outdress and outhirt. All of US know
many of such girls; they are generally
fairly educated and they have kind OF
little court in any store they go into
reipning bellies of the counter! And they
like it better than looking after meals or
home housekeeping Of any kind.
1 might enter into some discussion of
the modesty of this act, but Mr.. Mill has
told women that nothing is indicate
provided the mind is in scientific or
business attitude" and of course no one is
expected to dispute Mr.. Mills arguments.
can only suggest that the wise discipline
Of the Roman Catholic Church centuries
ago discovered that even the practice and
pursuit of religion was most wisely ear
ried on in separate establishments. Young
women may not mind working with young
men-may even like it-but it is by no
means sure that young men like working
with young women. This is not an i'm
possible chance and may deserve consider
aticn from the New Womer.
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There sne=n- to exist an appetite for
The GreG. Hanger, which has just gone
into a fifI printing.
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the results of his labor. Every woman
who takes work which she does not need
on an underbid is injuring some other
woman's husband, son or brother. Is this
development and reimbursement II
so, it is in a wrong direction.
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A KNIGHT OF TO-DAY. By ELISE How
ARD-SMITH. Philadelphia: The John c.
Winston Company. $1.40.
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II.

1t is hardly necessary to point out the
effect of such national condition. Every
man and every woman working for them
selves. IF there were any children, chill
dren left to hired help. Homes were lodg-
ing houses, if homes existed at all. Father
hood and motherhood old fashioned con-
ditions-hardly respectabe-the marriage
tie slavery that could be done without
a nation of unattached" individuals, in
capable Of being built into anything CO.
hesive and lasting cities and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
A BOLSHEVIK COLLEGE
(From the New Orleans Item)

(From the New Orleans Item)
The former Danish minister to
Petrograd is authority for the state
ment that the Bolsheviki have estab-
lished a special revolutionary school
at Moscow under the direction OF
Professor Radek, the revolutionary
leader, where agitators from all
parts of the world are receiving in
struction and fitting themselves for
missionary work.
1t would be interesting to receive
a prospectus of DIR. Redek's univer-
sity and an outline of it's course of
study. Presumably little attention
will be paid to bomb-throwing, the
handling of explosives and the like,
these being purely elementary
branches. One would look rather
for special emphasis to be laid upon
the Theory and Art of Bolshevizing
and Approved Methods of Dealing
with the Bourgeoisie and securing
their possessions without using phys
ical force. Advanced students might
take up the problems. How to COL
lect taxes without taking money
away from anybody, and The coun-
ter-revolution and how to counter 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06

there will be no controversy and
therefore will not figure much In
the EmeliEht. The program has
been 30 we'll formulated and the
groundwork laid by such capable
men that the Legislature will have
little to do except approve after q
careful study of the admirable plans.
The session should not be lengthy,
and most probably will not be.
There Is perfect harmony within the
Republican ranks with regard to the
organization of both House and
Senate and this good feeling will do
much to further the business to be
considered. Little time will be lost
following the inauguration in get
ting down to work. and while vast
amount of very important legisla-
ton of a constructive nature is to
be enacted, there is little chance of
prolonged debate or contests on any
subject that would hold up the ses-
sion unreasonably.
hC CNCiy oPPoA-
tunity to expedite business and Sem
ator Sproul being businessman
may be expected to do his part in
getting the work under way and
completed in as short a time as
possible.
The legislators have big oppor-
tunity for service. The outlook of
the people is broader and their in
terest in the welfare of their fellows
is deeper than ever before. They
expect the Legislature to take the
same large, liberal view. The worn
out theories with which legislators
of other days have been hectored
must give way to common sense;
but the ideals for which hundreds
of thousands of our young men have
fought must be fostered and encour-
aged. Humanity expects to benefit
from its sacrifices in the war and
in many respects the
greatest State of the greatest nation
in the world. must stand in the fore
front of social advancement along
sane, practical lines. We look to the
to lead the way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
Some Thoughts For Germany
tFrom the Nations Businessl

tFrom the Nations Business1
New industries that have devel-
oped in the United States since the
European war began in 1914 have
an important place in the Tariff
Commissions annual report. In
1917 some 100 firms were manufac-
turing coal-tar chemicals and 81
making dyes. In 1918 progress was
made in remedying the earlier de-
feet in our production of coal-tar
dyes in that but small quantities of
indigo and fast vat dyes were made
in our plants.
Citric acid, Tactic acid of an edible
grade and formic acid are being
made from American materials.
Chamoisette gloves which used to
come from SaXony nave been added
to our domestic products. The devel-
opment of our heavy chemical in
dustry is part of the history of the
development of our strength in war.
Optical glass which used to come
from Germany was developed in
seven months. Glass for pictures
and Photographic plates is being
made by a machine process that will
defy foreign competition. Siphon
bottles of which Germany and Aus
tria sold us 100000 a year are
turned out by an automatic ma
chine.
New devices and systems have in
creased the competitive power of
our potteries. Decalcomanias for
transferring designs to white ware
so per cent. of which used to come
from Germany and 40 per cent. from
England now come to the extent of
80 per cent. from American fac
tories. Porcelain guides which our
textile mills used to buy in Ger
many for their looms are now AM
erican made. Chemical pottery, the
manufacture of which was praeti-
cally unknown in the United States
has become an item in our industries.
In little more than a year the War
Department called for SS.500,000
worth of surgical instruments and
our manufacturers who had made
mostly soft-metal goods responded
and replaced the steel articles that
Germany used to supply.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
CROSSES OF WAR
By BRIGGS

One of the best of American poets
is Mary Raymond Shipman An
drews. who is also one of the most
successful authors of worthwhile
novels. In Crosses of War Mrs.
Andrews has nine poems that are
imbued with the military spirit. a
singers tribute to fighting heroes
and to the brave souls at home. The
final poem is "The Boy in France"
which we give here:
STEPPED in hot have of the August
afternoon,
The garden dreams in a many
splendored trance;
The locusts drone a long, insistent
tune;
And the boy-the boys in France.
Down the stone steps the rose
pink phloxes stand.
Like delicate sculptures, through
the breathlesss day,
Brilliant yet shadowy, as the bright,
vague land;
And the boy-the boys away.
The dogs about the terrace listless
lie,
WalLlnS u SpilHBiH6 SlSp lucS
used to know;
We wait, we also-and the days
crawl by;
The boy-we miss him so.
Green fields reach over hills to fields
of gold;
Far off the city glitters. gay but
wan;
The radiant scene breathes loneli-
ness untold; 4-..t
The boy-the boy is gone.
Sudden his service flags impetuous
I story t.s
Flashes bugle note across the
flowers;
Sudden the aching loss is pride and
glory;
He is in France-he's ours!
Lad of my heart! From all across
your land
One thought wings to that land
of old romance;
One proud America stretches a long
ing hand
To the boy-the boy in France!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
What Is Secret Of the Czech?

If you ask the Czech himself, he
will tell you that the secret of his
life is perhaps what President Will
son calls enthusiasm. He calls it
love-love of country, which lays
down life without question or stint;
love of beauty, without which he
considers life stupid, neither to be
lived through with joy nor departed
from with dignity. In this esthetic
apprehension which we call by the
thin and unsatisfactory word taste"
the Czech is like the French-surely
he must be likened sooner or later
to the French!-bearinS the mark
of a race old in living, rich in tradi-
ton, discerning in its appreciations.
He is, too, lover of love, worship
ping women; a lover of life, more
joyous than the Russian, less light
minded than the Gaul. A lover not
of the form, but of the substance.
Life is short; youth is short; it is
to laugh, to work, to weep, to think,
to love, to be aware of that complex
and ever-changing stream of con-
sciousness. When a Czech dies,
somehow one feels that one may say
of hiniA what may not be said of
every man, HE is dead, but he has
lived"
If you ask the American he will
tell you that the Czech's secret is
Allied ideals with Teuton training"
1t is his efficiency that endears him
to the American, especially If he
is recuperating from the Russian
army.-Olive Gilbreath in Harper's
Magazine for January.
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stitute. and his experience took him
to various, parts of the globe. He
had practically perfected the fuel
before entering the Army the adj
ditional research and tests giving
1T the finishing touches. The result
is Liberty fuel, which, according to
reports of the Division of Research
Development has the following
characteristics:
The fuel is practically scentless
and tasteless and the products of
combustion are cooler than with
gasoline, which reduces the amount
of lubricant necessary as well as
the problems of cooling. 1t is also
noncorrosive and has less dele
terious effect on motors than gaso-
line.
1T starts more easily than gaso-
line and will explode at tempera-
ture below zero, this point being
readily controlled in manufacture.
1t leaves no residue. The effect of
the explosion is 80 per cent. greater
than gasoline, but this, as we'll as
the quality and specific gravity, can
be controlled at will. 1t will not eX-
plode prematurely, and only ignites
from spark or flame.
;"1t has been shown to give greater
mileage in airplanes, automobiles,
motorcycles. motor-trucks, and
tractors. 1t requires less air for
combustion. can be made at much
less cost than gasoline, and uses as
q base a product (kerosin) which
can readily be obtained in any de-
sired quantity 1t can be substituted
for gasoline for any purpose. 1t
needs no special apparatus and no
special engine or carburetor.
During the tests at the Naval Air
Station at" Anacostia. Liberty fuel
was found much superior to the best
gasoline, and with the motor running
1900 revolutions per minute the
water in the radiator never exceeded
100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the oil
in the crank case did not go above
1870 degrees. This quality of main
tanning low temperature may help to
solve some of the radiation problems
of aviation engineers.
"Those interested in the chemical
details relating to the temperature
of 'distillation can obtain them from
the report of the Bureau of Stand
under the supervision of DIR. Dickin-.
son, who has been in charge of the
motor development tests during the
war. The fuel is obtained by distil-
lation and the quality can be varied
to suit the requirements of different
industries.
There have been so many false
alarms regarding the problem of
fuel for Internal Combustion motors
that one hesitates to become en-
thusiastic over a question of this
kind, but it seems that Major Zim-
norman and Captain Weisgerber
have succeeded in producing a new
Liberty fuel. The need for such a
fuel is beyond question, and it is
stated that arrangements have been
completed for making 1t available in
the near future"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
Red Cross Work in Palestine

I For relief in Palestine the amount
appropriated to December 81 was
$470,00o, comprising $4,000 for
industrial and social work, 500, 900
for general relief. and $4,000 for
the medical department. The scope
of the commission, headed by DR..
John II. Finley. was extended late
in October to cover the Near East,
including Palestine, Egypt, Syria
and Asia Minor. The suffering
brought upon the Holy Land by
war is shown by the fact that a
third of the population of Lebanon
died of hunger and disease. Epi-
denies have ragged unchecked. Tens
'of thousands of people were in dire
need until relief came in the wake
of the British victories. In a single
month the Red CrosA cared for TO-
900 sick civilians and thousands of
Armenian refugees.-"The March of
the Red Cross" in the January Red
Cross Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
4 New MOtOrFueL
(From the Literary Digest.

90 many false alarms have
raised vain hopes of new motor
fuels that it is refreshing to
hear that official tests Youch for a
substitute for gasoline which has
been named Liberty fuel de-
scribed in The American Machinist
(New York, December 50. AL
though its exact composition and
the method of production are not
given. we are told that it is derived
from a kerosene base by distillation'
and that chemical details may be
obtained from the United States
Bureau of Standards, under whose
auspices tests have been made at
the United States Naval Academy.
According to these tests the new
fluid is superior to gasoline in many
respects, being non-corrosive, start
ing easily, leaving no residue, CIV
ing greater mileage, and requiring
less air for combustion. The cost
of production is said to be less
than that of gasoline and the guam
tity may be varied in manufacture
to suit the requirements of different
industries. 1t is to be hoped that
the test of actual daily use on the
road, which will not come until the
fuel is put upon the market, will
bear out these omewhat roseate
statements. We read in The Ma
chinist:
unlike the stories that we have
had of new fuels may by dropping
some sort of a mysterious pill into
water or some other equally mex
pensive liquid, this fuel is made from
kerosene as a base, as is the case
with the gasoline now produced. Nor
is it one of those accidents that
sometimes occur, but a carefully
studied method, the result of seven
years work by Edwin G.. Weisgerber,
Captain of Engineers in the Division
of Research and Development. Cap
tain Weisgerber was fortunately
placed under the command of Major
o.. B. Zimmerman, who. with his
long experience in internal-com
tion motors, not only encouraged him
in the face of opposition, but aided
him materially by practical sugges-
tions from the motor end.
THE possibility of some such ac-
has been pointed out
by BACON and Hamor under the
heading of 'Peroxided Kerosene.
but it remained for the Engineer
ing Division of the Army, in the
person of Captain Weisgerber, to
make the matter reality. The
great difference between this pro-
cess and others is that this is a
chemical method while the others
now employed are mechanical and
the possibilities of a greatly in
creased supply of motor-fuel at n
greatly decreased price make the
name Liberty particularly appro-
pirate.
over seven years ago Captain
Weisgerber started work on the
problem of finding gasoline sub
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
Nem Era For Women

Certainly a new era for woman
has dawned. when three million
women in France appeal to the
women Of America and Great Bri-
tain to unite their social position
and culture, their offices and honors.
for the protection and relief of many
thousand young women and girls of
Belgium and, France who have suf-
fered unspeakable wrongs at the
hands of German soldiers. Through
more than four years these girls
have dwelt in a Gethsemane. Each
morning the Hun has mixed for
them a bitter cup of pain and
anguish. Multitudes of these young
women are now being released to re-
turn to their homes. to bring with
them half-Qerman babes. So black
is their piteous tragedy that it ap-
peals to the women of the whole
world. Protected by three thou
sand miles of ocean, our women of
America have been exempt from
attack. Now comes the opportunity
when our strong women can bear
the, burden of their weak and
wounded sisters abroad. Men honor
crippled soldiers and recognize them
as heroes. Why should not the best
women of every land unite in forg-
ing shield to lift above the wound
ed girls OF France and Belgium? :?
Every American women's club.
every wofnan's college, should make
immediate answer to the appeal of
the women of France for help in this
hour. when thousands of broken
hearted girls can be held back from
suicide. insanity, and helped TO gain
a firm foothold upon which they
may stand for the working out of
a life career that in the nature OF
the case now. must be brief and
full of pain.-Newell Dwight Hills.