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PAGE EIGHT THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISBURG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938 JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST Copyright 1938. Edgar A. Quest New York Day by Day By O. O.

McINTYRE Br the McNaught Syndicate, Ine. Copyright. 1838, Established February 18. 101T Published every evening except Sunday THB PATRIOT COMPANY 11 North Market Square. Harrisburs.

Fa. i 1 THE OLD HORSE-CAR vancb c. Mccormick President We knew the driver and we knew And at a slow, but pleasant pace The neighborly conductor, too: Exchanged opinions, face to face. The horse-drawn car of years ago, There as the horses jogged or 9 i HENRY B. McCORMICK Vice-President and Secretary CHARLES H.

MORRISON and Business Manager HOMER MOYER Advertising Manager PEAN HOFFMAN Editor V. HUMMEL. BKRGHAUS. JR Managing Editor communications to THB EVENINQ NEWS Editorial. Business or wmcn moved at easy pace and walked.

slow, The platform riders smoked and Long vanished now from every street, talked, But at the ending of the run Circulation Departments, not to individuals. Call Bell 5252. Same number reaches all departments. Single copy, 8 cents: 15 cents per week delivered. Sintered as second olass matter at Harrleburf F.

Ob Under the Aot March 8. 1870 Gave rich and poor a chance to They had their problem settling done. meet Upon the platform, side bv side. Together morn and night we'd All that was forty years asro. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938 ride.

The old horse car was much too there we daily stood to COURT SUBSTITUTES slow, But traveling now at swifter pace smoke: Twas there we told the latest fNCE there was a small-time produce merchant we have no common meeting place; No friendly hour, when dinner pail can speak its mind to swallow who bought $50 worth of fruit of specified grade from a wholesaler. When fruit arrived, the merchant XJEW YORK, Feb. 5. Purely personal piffle Emily Post's best eloquence could not convince me dunking doughnuts is not perfectly dandy. My best dish of soupy hash was in Sopchoppy, Fla.

When things used to go wrong during' courting days I played "Poor Butterfly" on the grama-phone. Art hoot from the bleachers: No movie star has yet topped Tom Mix's $20,000 a week. A picture I covet: "The End of the Hunt" by Dale Nichols In the Chicago Museum. When I get excited in argument I babble somewhat like that cry of the tobacco auctioneer on the radio. I have to hear a Cole Porter tune several times before I want to hum it.

Gorgeous eyeful: Mr3. William Rhinelander Stewart. Add well kept sideburns: Lee Shubert's. Tempus fugit note: Former Zieg-feld girls now shrink from such identification. It dates them.

In my scrap-book is a Hollywood letter from Marie Dressier that is a sermon on holding on: It reads: "The outlook is bleak. I am tempted to take what little is left and go to Paris to open a family pension for Americans." The danc tail: No spot where men their views can tell joke; Twas there we aired our differing views Arising from the morning news. The toiler with his dinner pail Met high silk hat and swallow tail And settled in polite debate The various affairs of state. There capital and labor found refused to accept or pay for it because it did not come And get to know each other well The horse-car kept Us side by side, up to specifications. Where now classes we divide.

We've lost the common touch we So the wholesaler hired a lawyer and sued for had A crowded, but a common ground payment. It was six months before the case came up A loss, I think, that's just too bad, on a crowded court docket. By the time the trial ended, both litigants had lost money after paying lawyer fees, witness fees, and court costs. And the THE ONCE OVER By H. I.

PHILLIPS "Out of Control" Copyright 1938. by Associated Newspapers fruit had long since spoiled. How many times has that story, with variations, ing of Nijinski and Duncan did not President (on the phone) Dan. haven't you eot those small been told in the history of American jurisprudence? Dusmess men under control yet 7 Koper My right wing has been turned back, my left wing Is thrill me like Harriet Hoctor's. 1ZISSES to Oscar Wilde for "A party Ig something a hostess' unaer pressure, I am attacking all along the line.

rresiuent I dont hear you distinctly. Roper With all these little fellows vellinc at once I can't even wishes she had not given." Hen- dnk Willem Van Loon gets better near myseu. vv nose idea was this, anyhow 7 President You sent out the invitations. Roper But I was acting under orders. President What's the matter with these small business men every time out on the radio.

Wilson Mizner was once barred from the Lambs for remarking that Don't they trust me? Roper Say, Franklin, the motto over the counter in everv without its full length mirror near the entrance it would have no members. Homespun note: A friend has a letter from Calvin Coolidge's father writen on the side of an small store in America is "No Trust." President The way they are behaving is most embarrassine- naven i you told tnem everything is all right. ironed-out paper bag. Winston Koper Yes, but they seem more skeptical than the big fellows. Churchill is paneling his new home President I can't understand.

Those bkr fellows stuck to the script, did everything as arranged and never once stole the show. on his Cornish, N. estate pine grown thereon. He is also a landscape painter and sits two And here are all these little fellows throwing 1 everything but the kitchen sink at us. How do you explain it, Dan? Aren't the email leiiows behind us 7 hours a day at his easel and two hours writing a novel of philoso Roper They're behind us.

in front of us. and on all sides of ns. phy. At 66 what a pleasant down i Toft. Etc.

O. B. Pt Off All llFlU tvstnt iney ve got us surrounded. coast! 1938's No. 1 picture stealer: 1 TOURISTS IN MEXICO President Be firm.

Tell 'em they've got to play ball with me, The fact of the matter is that "going to court" is a luxury which few can afford in the United States. More, and more the saying is heard: "The law is made for the But there is a remedy arbitration. 't Arbitration is sponsored chiefly by the American Arbitration Association, formed by far-sighted business leaders who were willing to give their time and experience to the task of cutting through the oceans of red tape which had made "justice" a jest to the man without means. Here, it would appear, is the answer to a man's prayer for immediate legal relief. Before impartial experts in the matters involved in the case a man may explain his grievance and expect a fair and unbiased decision.

For a fee of only 5 per cent, of the amount involved, litigants may come before one or several arbiters and adjust claims ranging anywhere from a few dollars to millions. The association is entirely non-profit-making, and its nominal fee for expenses compares with conservative estimates that the average court suit costs the litigant as high as 40 per cent, of the amount involved. There is no formal trial. Each litigant states his side of the case, bringing witnesses if desired. The Alice Brady.

ioper i aid, out they all prefer ice hockey. "I hope he's going to kill him over on that other side, then we won't have to see him do it." The New York idea: I know a President That's gratitude. Haven't I snent vpat prafikinp- uown on tne Dig teliows and building up the little fejuows? Roper Yes, but the trouble is no business man wants to be considered as being too small. We made a mistake in violating an Aunt Het By ROBERT QUILLEN accepted conclusion ot show business. fellow broke and jobless who got some fancy engraved stationery on tick, had his replies sent to a wacky hotel and with that start re-launched himself in a $15,000 a year job.

The best dinners, in Chinatown are served at 6 p. as regulars know. Last of the rugged and blasphemous old UNCOMMON SENSE By JOHN BLAKE A Good Investment Copyright. 1938. by The Bell Syndicate.

Ine. President What conclusion was that. Dan? Roper The conclusion that nobody ever eot anvwhere with a miaget snow except JtSarnum. President (nervously) What's all that screaming? Roper They're opening another meeting. President Ask the chairman to rap for order.

Roper The trouble is they're all chairmen. Boulder Dam is not slated to be completed until next year and timers: Jim Moore, the restaurant man. No man would look askance yet John C. Page, commissioner of reclamation has reported to Secretary Ickes a return of more than two million dollars to the United Presidents-We got to break this ud somehow. You never eon at full evening dress if he could look like Jack Buchanan does in one.

States Treasury from Boulder Dam already. The money comes from tell how far a show of this kind may go. It might even win the two sources: The revenue from power and money from payments for Pulitzer prize from us. What seems to be the trouble a nutshell? Roper As nearly as I can make out they contend that it is even generating machinery by the purchasers of power. Ihe Government retains the title to the equipment.

TfOR the goodness sakes alive more important for a dwarf to know where he is going and have "The demand for power from Boulder Dam is increasing at a re department: The Egyptian gov a wen-iinted road than it is for a gnant. President What became of our plan to let them shoot off steam markable rate," Mr. Page said, "and the demand comes not only from those who originally contracted for Boulder Dam power, but also from other agencies as well." and then leave everything to a small committee of quiet little fellows wno ve read the book or etiquette 7 Koper You re asking me! Boulder Dam is an investment of about 123 million dollars, ninety- six million of that for the dam itself and another fifteen and a half Washington is going to mint a new nickel, but a lot of people million for interest during construction, power house equipment and wouiu do sausnea tney could get one ot the old ones. power machinery. wouldn't have surprised me if Adam and Eve hadn't fell.

They had mighty little chance to stay good without any neighbors to watch 'em." Cony't '193a Publishers' Syndicate The present contracts for power will return the entire investment That new nickel will have a head of Jefferson on it instead of in the dam with interest at 4 per cent, and will create a surplus in the familiar buffalo. We understand the buffalo was caught frater ernment asks me to see the coronation of young King Farouk with all expenses paid, and the next day they try to give the king the bum's rush. The first actor I ever interviewed in a dressing room was Julian Eltinge, the female impersonator. And the thing that impressed me most was that he chewed tobacco. Few conversations intrigue me more than those among taxi drivers around midnight in a Coffee Pot.

New high in dumb-bells: Amos n' Andy's secretary, Miss Blue. The first year I wore a wrist watch I took it off when company came and when I went out in town. It's a show to watch Cene the Colony restaurant keen an fifty years, according to latest reports. 1 nizing witn republicans. One splendid way of creating natural wealth the construction of great public works like Boulder Dam.

The Country as a whole will The more you read about those wars in Spain and China the benefit from it over a long period of time. more you realize that when Sherman said "War is hell" he was turning which set me wondering, Planning such projects means looking ahead many years, uur practically accusing it of effeminacy. fearfully. grandchildren and their children will benefit from such a work. arbiters listen, unimpeded by legal technicalities, and arrive at decisions on a common sense basis.

There is no delay, no drawn-out court proceedings, very little squawking at the rulings. Forty-six of the. forty-eight states have now given legal status to arbitration. Many industries, particularly those in which there are many disputes involving small amounts, are writing arbitration clauses into all contracts. Approximately 7000 business and professional men have volunteered their services to act as arbiters without pay.

Their decisions are binding. Leaders of the movement are heartened by the public response. A vivia ncture A moment since, the bubbles had The more solid the foundation of wealth the stronger the Nation. Giant dams that convert the power of mighty rivers into useful elec Qiftg Uearsdgo broken at my feet Now they were a yard away a rod and between us had appeared a stretch of gleaming dark sand that briefly cupped tricity are just about as permanent a way of assuring future wealth eagle eye on every customer. Flor as can be made.

The free power that nature offers has inexhaustible the last light in its hollows, men ence Walton writes me that she possibilities. Coal fields can be exhausted, oil wells can be used up. lay black and stui. places flowers on the grave of her But rivers continue to roar downhill to the sea. So the waters moved out and out Water power is as perpetual as the action of the sun on the earth's taking with them their beauty and atmosphere, as permanent as the human race can ever hope to be.

former dancing partner, Maurice Mauvet, in Pere Lachaise every Christmas day. His body lies near the crypts of Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Rossini, Patti and Alfred their music, and the space widened and widened. And the sun set. And the night wind rose and The United States is geographically suited for such schemes. The initial cost of even a huge project like Boulder Dam is small compared fumbled stiffly through the rushes.

And from the dark flats, on which to the return that is made. In nf years, we are told, Boulder Dam de Musset Bloodiest and best remembered prize fight: Ace Hud- no water could now be seen, there will be paid for; but in fifty years it will be just getting under way. came the smell of death. Across kins and Sammy Baker in Los By that time man will have devised more ways of utilizing electricity the marshes a strange bird cried Angeles. Most informed fellow and more ways of cashing in on what will then look like a very cheap harshly, once, then was still.

It was night investment. Harnessing our natural power today wiH bring wealth tomorrow. So the tide would go out and about Broadway life: Abel Green of Variety. A letter from Homer Croy is invariably a laugh. Auto-biography enjoyed most this Winter: Frazier Hunt's "One Amer verything would seem to stop.

came back again and life started A tnange Comes But after a long time, a change city in 1861, opening a merchant tailoring establishment in Fourth street, from which, because of his thorough business qualifications and his Integrity, he became prosperous. On the same date, John Leephard, 51 years old, died at his home, 314 South Second street Frank J. Hess announced that he had adopted the one price system of business at his big Uptown store in Harrisburg and the editor of The Patriot remarked on the subject, "This is a square method of transacting business." The following went Into the declination business, half a century ago, from offices of school director, assessors, and election Judges: S. H. Kautz, Aaron S.

Greenawalt Isaac Sheets, C. Blumenstein and Thomas Dohoney. Marriage licenses were issued to the following couples: Robert Weir and Elizabeth Koenig: J. J. Mc-Guire and Elizabeth Flynn; Fannie E.

and U. G. Hughes, all of this city. The new pastor of Salem Reformed Church, in this city was installed on Sunday, February 5, 1888. in the person of the Rev.

Dr. Ellis N. Kremer, the sermon being delivered by the Rev. E. V.

Gerhart, of Lancaster. Afterward, the Sunday School celebrated its one hundred and first anniversary, the same age as the church itself. On the same Sunday St. Michael's German Lutheran Church was re-dedicated with imposing ceremonies. It was the first time the building had been occupied since it was remodeled.

In addition to the pastor, the Rev. J. G. Pfuhl, there were present the Rev. W.

G. Laitzle and the Rev. P. F. Mayser.

president of the Fourth District Conference of the Synod of Pennsylvania. During the choir singing Misses Hahn were the soloists. Malachi Sheahan, widely known and honored citizen of Harrisburg, died on February 6, 1888. at the age of 61 years. He was born in Ireland in 1827, and came to this ican." Not many Yankees hav would come.

Even if you sat there, watching through the night, you anew. A Great Mystery As a child to me that waa a great mvsterv. And with the years that could not tell afterward how iti SNAPSHOTS FROM I OTHER SANCTUMS The Kansas State Journal complains because the new history book used in the schools of the iunflower State devotes only twenty-four pages lived such a cosmopolitan life as this square-toed country boy from Alexis, 111. What a bet for the radio. That goes too for Mr.

and Mrs. Menjou and Bob Benchley. mystery has broadened. For I have come to see that the lire 01 a man came. You only knew that something, somewhere, was waking, was moving in the darkness.

Moving far off, very softly, very slowly, yet deliberately drawing nearer and is much like that tide which filled After twenty-four years of col- to the Civil War and thirty-nine nearer. And presently, as you strained and emptied that sunny bay. So, too, does the strength and desire in our human hearts ebb and flow, ebb and flow. For a while we laugh and we MORE TDIE FOR WALKERS IT is not entirely complimentary to city traffic rules that a coroner's jury should ask that moretime be given pedestrians at street intersections. The jury had just absolved a motorist accused of running down a woman at Thirteenth and Derry streets.

Added to its verdict was the recommendation that the amber or pedestrians' signal of a traffic light be extended. There will always be peril for those crossing the streets unless they are given more time to do it. The agitation to make the pedestrian "step lively" may apply to some laggards, but for the average person, it means racing across the street before the dammed up traffic breaks through. The jury's recommendation might well be con strued by traffic authorities as a command in which all foot passengers heartily join. pages to the Roosevelt Administra tion.

Well, the Roosevelt adminis umnmg, I can think of no other job I would trade for mine. Outside of Garbo, it strikes me the most mediocre actresses wear dark i -r tranon cost a lot more money, your eyes to see, there would be a glimmering and a quivering, and a gathering together work and we dream and then some didnt it Towanda Daily Review. Until further notice it mieht be a And suddenly, out of the darkness the Waters would come rushing, rac glasses in puDiic. aiagnincens tribute to society's boredom and swell fodder for the communist boys: Elsa Maxwell's "I Live by My Wits," in Harper's Bazaar. good thing if the Washington Gov ing, rising with a sigh and a swish thing happens.

A loss has come, or a shock, or some secret sickening we cannot define. But. suddenly, life is empty. Nothing moves. The waters have gone away.

And we do not think that life will ever on and a scoop and a swirl of foam up. and up, and up! into the morning! ernment were to add Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey and Jim Braddock, for Instance, to the diplomatic corps in China. Pittsburgh. LISTEN, WORLD! By ELSIE ROBINSON Copyright 1938. by Kin Features Syndicate.

Inc. So the tide would turn, and uxe again. So we settle down to face would beein again, and hope and The late Chic Sale had signed ud to do a syndicated column of home-spun philosophy a few weeks before his passing. Editors say it had much of the Abe Martin tang, I can never stand in front the bitter mocking silence of the vacant years. Then, suddenly, against all our laughter and the secret clamor of adventure would run like the wind through the tangled gardens and the through the tangled gardens and the narrow, crooked streets.

believing, something moves within the silence; something quivers in A Chicago university scientist predicts half of the Nation's married women will be working for wages by 1962. Hasnt he heard of our unemployment problem? Altoona Mirror. of a parrot's cage without a flinch that it will suddenly peck out an the And out of the night, hope comes ALWAYS THE TIDE COMES BACK I was born in a ramshackle town that tumbled down from sleepy hills into a lazy bay, and always there was about me the glow of the sky. the glitter of the waters and sound of the wind moving restlessly narrow streets. For the waters had come back.

Always it was like that Always, whenever the tide went out life would seem to stop, and one would feel that it never could start again eye. A simple life, warm and bright and open to the sun. But with night, a mystery would come. For always at night, or so it seemed, the tide would turn; and there was something about that rushing again; love comes racing; Approximately 11.000 persons Fire causes an annual damage of pride comes rising. And the tide is in! But always, and always, the waters1 work in toy factories of England.

$300,000,000 in the United States. Getting Down to the Boots By PERCY J. CEOSBI SK1PPY I IT" Do you resent being robbed Well, you own Olympic Park, the last stand of magnificent trees left on earth, and Congress is about to give it to the lumber interests. You may not believe it now, but a land stops being free when the people stop giving a darn. Limited edition: A reprint of an author's works designed for people who like to pay $10 for $2 book.

The gambler's cheerful losing what Affe mee I I THAT YMBYte W6 'L I fJT AIN'T THEY? yt fc-g kti i i rYr i rtCY atv xa mm rimi irs-viA doesn't prove him game. Losing money isn't painful if you didn't work for it. Representative government: Hiring men at $10,000 a year to raid the Treasury and support half of us at the expense of our grandchildren. Ultimate limit of nerve: An American saying the Filipinos aren't fit for self-government because they would get hopelessly in debt. A youngster should have self-respect, but not enough to think himself so valuable that somebody should take care of him.

Americanism: Telling one another that a man can't be honest and be a lawyer; electing lawyers to- govern us..