The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 May 1913 — Page 6

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N and around a picturesque E village on the verge of the Taunus mountains, north of Frankfort, may be witnessed in summer time the daily migration of hundreds of geese from

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their confined quarters in the cottage yards to the green uplands above the hamlet. To one unaccustomed to the sight it is a quaint and interesting spectacle to watch the passing of such a flock on the highway and to follow it until the goal is reached. In the summer days the work of the village begins very early. The men go to the fields to guide the plow or prune fruit trees. Buxom women are seen walking to the allotments nearer home. Girls help in the fields and the children go to school. The youngest of these are liberated early; they must not be cooped up in a schoolroom in the heat of the day. so they are free to help in various easy ways in the work of the village. If you en(er this Hessian hamlet at half-past nine you find quite a commotion, and you hear tho cackling of large numbers of geese. From nearly every cottage gateway come geese, in twos, threes, tens and sometimes twenty, each with a dab of gay color on its wing, the mark of ownership. The housewife or her children “shoo” them out into the road, and soon the village Is alive with them. The older members of the flock sOon steer in the direction of the well-known pond, but the young recruits are very unruly and want to srmple the contents of the gutter, or to invade the yards higher up the street. But here comes Gretchen, one of the daily drivers of the geese. With a wisp of birch she gathers these wilful ones from under the great farm wagons and out of the gutter, and moves them along towards the old castle, where the noise of a rattle announces that Hans has already started with the main flock. There he is, near one of the four fine towers of the old Schloss, his coat thrown over one shoulder, stick in one hand, birch switch in the other, and his rattle under his arm. Gretchen adds her con-

ONCE PATRIOTS WERE FOOLED Had Struck a Lazy Neighborhood and Nobody Would Order Hirn to Stop His Work, In the opinion of friends and enemies alike Patrick was the laziest white man that ever drew breath It was one cf the anomalies of Patrick’s existence that the only firm with whom he could hold a job was a coal company whose strenuous methods sometimes compelled him to he out delivering coal at seven o’clock In the morning. Certain of the company's customers and their neighbors resented that inhuman activity almost as much as Patrick did. The first rattling of coal down the iron chute banished sleep, and irate aristocrats who could afford the luxury of a morning snooze popped their heads out of the window and ordered Patrick to postpone his labors until a more reasonable hour.

DISABLED, BUT NOT KILLED Modern Bullet Puts Soldier Hit Out of Action, but He Generally Recovers Frorh Wound. Medical reports from the Balkan ■war show the comparative humaneness of modern weapons. It spite of terrific artillery duels and occasional bayonet work most wounds are Inflict- I £d by rifle fire, and the modern rifle is a mild and humane thing compared ■with the old-time musket.

Paragraph From Behind the Bar*. From Good Words, published in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.: In editing this paper there is one consolation, we don’t have to worry about pay day.’ . . . Here we “make ao bones” of speeding the parting guest—and urging him never to return. . . . The congressional committee investigating the money trust called no witnesses from here. . . . Rich relatives didn't help you In coming bare, and why should you expect them to help you tn getting out?

tingent to his, Julie and Rosine join them with other straggling cacklers, Karl, Moritz and Ernest must be in at the drive, and before long the last houses of the village are left behind and six hundred geese begin to climb the dusty road that leads to the pond. Hans has a shaggy-coated dog. He carries a stick in his mouth. His services are really not required, and he gladly walks quietly with the drivers. The children keep the geese from straying from the road on to the tempting herbage of the banks, and progress is slowly made under the increasing heat of the sun. The passage of so many hundreds of webbed feet raises a dust, so that by the time the top of the hill is reached it is very pleasant for all to leave the road and turn on to the turfy ground, in the direction of the longed-for water and the tree-shaded boggy land. And now the older geese, the knowing ones, may be seen to hurry forward, quite outstripping the main flock, for the goal is near. They see water ahead. Their quick waddle becomes a half-flight, until, with a joyful rush, they dive into the cool waters of the pond, making rippling eddies as they swim. Willows and poplars shade the south bank, green weeds and rushes harbor insect food, and acres of swampy land are backed by pleasant coppiced knolls. It is the promised land. Here comes the main flock: rushing, cackling, splashing they go into the pond until it is seething with life. The early comers have swum across and are cut again on the further side, grubbing in the grass-land. Hans throws himself on the ground to rest after the dusty walk. His dog stays with him. They spend the day with the geese. Gretchen has other work to do in the village, and after a short rest she slowly trudges home again, accompanied by some of the children. But out here with the geese we stay for a while, enjoying the air. White fleecy clouds float in the blue sky, reminding one of the poetical Italian saying: “Lt Madonna fa la lana.” From the edge of the forest near by comes the scent of the firs.

Patrick never disregarded that command. Backed up by a uniteci neighborhood, he could afford to be lazy, so he curled up on the driver’s seat and slept until the street was as lr Fortified by previous experience, Patrick accepted a recent order for early service with comparative cheerfulness. He Reported at the coal yard in good time, and at seven o’clock the first shovelful of coal awoke echoes in a quiet residential street. Having fired his first shot, Patrick closed the chute and awaited the usual command. It did not come. He let fly another volley. Still no tousled heads, no angry voices. Another shovelful, and still another, and another broke the stillness. Patrick looked despairingly at the lifeless win“For the love of Mike!” he groaned. “Ain’t any of youse people got'spunk enough to order me to stop shoveling coal at seven o’clock in the morning?”

The modern bullet is small, hard, and moves at great speed. At ordinary range it drills a small, clean hole, which disables the wounded man for a time. It carries no fragments of clothing into the body, and the heat of its passage sterilizes the wound it makes. Even wounds through the bowels are no longer a passport to death. Most men so wounded recover without operation. An asceptic bandage, rest, starvation, and proper nurslhg bring most cases through.

. . . Dante says: “Think today shall never come again.” We certainly do when Saturday is a rainy day during the baseball season. . . . Nine hundred minds with bat a single thought, nine hundred hearts that beat as one. Will the opening day of the prison league be clear and fair? Pleasantry of Astronomy. One thing at least baseball has done for the country. It has settled the question of the time when spring comes.—New York Evening Mail.

Occasionally a timber team emerges from the wood and passes by the high road tc the village below. Or a load o f brushwood may be seen in the distance, drawn by two patient oxen towards the farmstead on the up lands. All else is stillness, save for the cackling of the flock, and even this sound is al most stilled as noonday approaches and the heat stills

all. So passes the day. At five o’clock in the evening Hans sends his gentle dog to gather to gether his great white family. Soon the air is full of sound. The flock is in the move. The journey home is all down hill and the sun’s heat is spent. The geese have had a good day. As the village is reached they need no herding into their own yards. ADDITION TO WAR’S HORRORS English Chemist Has Produced Gas, Which Set on Fire, Can Not Be Extinguished. Ernest Welsh, a Chemist of Hull, England, has invented a remarkable machine gun which is discharged by gas, which will send projectiles five miles in a minute, and the projectiles set on fire anything they may strike. In appearance the new weapon resembles somewhat the Maxim gun, and the mechanism, according to Mr. Welsh, consists in part of three generators which manufactures three distinct gases, whose nature he keeps as his secret. He was willing to admit, however, that it had taken him 13 years to find out the different gases. “A feature of these,” he went on, “is that they will ignite on water, but one problem I have not yet solved is how to extinguish the flames which they cause. The projectiles are not large; it is the stuff they contain that does the mischief.” Mr. Welsh added with some pride: “I have also perfected a shot for bringing down aeroplanes. You don’t have to fire accurately at the machine. The gases are enough to suffocate any one within the area of their scope.” Both Theories. Mrs. Knicker —This frock is a creation. Knicker —Does that mean it was made in six days or that it will take me several hundred million years to pay for it? —Puck.

Apparently nobody had. Patrick had at last struck a neighborhood which, while arousing resentment, commanded his deepest respect. The entire population was too lazy to get up and bid him stop working, and his labors proceeded without the customary respite. America’s Privilege. Our country should never forget what a proud privilege and what an inestimable blessing it is not to need and not to have big armies or navies to support. It should . seek to influence mankind not by heavy artillery, but by good example and wise coun sei. It should see its highest glory, not in battles won but in wars prevented.—Carl Schurz. Pompous Coal Horse. “A coal horse,” said the magistrate, “has a pompous stride. There is more dignity about a coal horse than there is about a provincial mayor.”War never can be made a gentle, ladylike occupation. But a world of needless horrors have been eliminated from some phases of war, and prog ress at this time is not yet at an end Not Much of a Saving. Old Bachelor —Now that you are married you don’t have to send your garments out any more to be mended 1 presume. Married Friend—No, I don’t have tc send them out now. My wife always has the house full of sewing women. What Interested Andrew. The class in arithmetic was up lor duty. One of the pupils, a rather stupid boy, watched the teacher’s blackboard work with keen interest? The teacher did several sums on the board especially for this ‘ pupil, then asked: “Well, Andrew, do you understand the examples that I have just been doing?” “No, sir, but I’d like to ask a question about them." ‘Very well; what is it, Andrew’” . “When do the figures go,” Andrew demanded “when they are rubbed ut?” >

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GENERAL MEADE AT MINE RUN Highly Promising Plan Ruined by Blunders of Subordinates Thereby Preventing Concentration. In response to a query asking for an account of the Mine Run campaign the National Tribune makes the following reply: The Mine Run campaign was one of the best-conceived movements of the war, but utterly failed on account of the mismanagement of the corps commanders. November, 1863, saw what was virtually the end of the Gettysburg campaign, with its sequelae of manuvers back and forth from Alexandria to Orange Court House. Gen. Meade saw that he had Lee at a great disadvantage. Lee had sent Longstreet’s Corps to East Tennessee, and had left only Ewell’s and Kill’s Corps, Ewell’s Corps was watching the Rapidan in the neigh borhood of Culpeper Court House, while Hill’s Corps was a day’s march away up the river. Gen. Meade had the Army of the Potomac well in hand, only 20 miles away around Culpeper and Stevensburg. He conceived that he could throw his army across the river and overwhelm Ewell’s Corps before Hill could go to his assistance It was only a short day’s march to reach Ewell, and he could have been thrashed in a few hours. Meade carefully worked out his plans, and if his orders had been carried out a great victory would have resulted. The movement was to begin at dawn of Nov. 26, by the Fifth Corps, followed by the First Corps crossing the Rappahannock at Culpeper Mine Ford and marching to Parker’s Store on the Plank Road. The Second Corps was to cross at Germanna Ford and march to Robertson’s Tavern, where it was to be joined by the Third and Sixth Corps crossing at Jacob’s Mill Ford. Meade expected his whole army to be united across the Rapidan and cut the flank of Lee’s intrenchments on Mine Run, by noon of Nov. 27, and the plan had every prospect of success. The first blunder was in the movement of the Third Corps, which, having a greater distance to march, should have started earliest, but as a matter of fact was much behind its time and delayed the whole army. The next was that the engineers had not correctly measured the width of the Rapidan. and the pontoon bridges were too short. The banks of 4he Rapidan were so high and precipitous that they delayed the march of the artillery and cavalry so that the whole of Nov. 27 passed with less than half of the distance having been traversed. In the meanwhile Lee’s signal officers, looking down from Clark’s Mountain, had detected the movement, and Hill’s Corps was summoned back in haste to meet it. In the meantime the corps officers were mistaking the roads and making other blunders which prevented the concentration, and when the army was at last gotten together, Nov. 28. It was found that the whole rebel army was in front and fortified along the crest of a range of hills, which made a natural fortification in themselves for six or eight miles. The Confederates had their artillery so placed as to enfilade every line of approach. The corps commanders each examined their fronts for possible points of attack, and made strong reconnoissances. which cost a great many men’s lives. ‘As all the trains had been left on the north side of the Rapidan in anticipation of a quick, sharp movement, the army was now out of rations, and Meade saw frustrated bis hopes of ending the Gettysburg campaign by a decisive victory He therefore ordered the army to return to its camps around Culpeper He wanted to move his army to Fredericksburg, which would have been an excellent manuver. and placed Lee at a disadvantage, but he was prevented by Halleck’s orders not to make any change of base without authority from Washington. Lee’s Slim Animal. President Lincoln on June 14, 1863, wrote Gen. Hooker: “So far as we can make out here the enemy has Milroy surrounded at Winchester and Tyler at Martinsburg. IWhey could hold out a few days could you help them? If the head of Lee’s army Is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellopsville. the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?” How Could He Stop Him? An Irish recruit in the mounted infantry got on a high-mettled horse and it ran away with him. One of his companions called to him to stop him. “Arrah, now,” cried he, “how can I stop him when I haven’t got me spurs along?” A Slow Mover. A general in the western army was aggravatingly slow at a time when the president wanted him to “get a move on.” “Some of my generals are brave enough," regretfully remarked the president, “but somehow or other they get tangled up in a fence corner and can’t figure their way out.” Politics. By placing the proper number of coins in the slot the political machine may be operated. Find Statue In Tree Trunk. While cutting up a century-old fir tree on the Simplon (France) forest, ers found in the heart of the trunk a bronze statue of the Virgin Mary. It was about a foot tall and perfectly preserved. It is’ supposed that the statuette was placed in a niche carved in the tree and that the wood gradually grew all around it. Philosophic. . The difference between truth an<J gossip is that one is true and the oth» •r merely **ue to life.—Puck.

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HOW A BIG TIRE AHD RUBBER CMY TAKES CAREJF EMPLOYEES Provides Beautiful Homes at Cost —Rent Applying on Purchase SCALE OF WAGES CONSTANTLY INCREASING ■ ,r Untrained Men and Women Earn Amazing Wages After Few Weeks of Service—2,ooo More to Find -Employment By D. R. HINCKLEY

When the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, has completed the two new factory additions it is now building, its working force will be increased to 8,000, and places will be made for 2,000 more w;orkers. The additions will bring ‘he working riuvr space of the factory to 1,700,000 square feet. These figures are used to graphically summarize the growth of Goodyear from nothing In 1898 to the largest -single company tn the world engaged In rubber manufacture today. Akron, Ohio, with Its dozen odd rubber factories and other Industries, is recognized the country over as an industrial marvel. Its population has grown from less than 30,000 to nearly 100,000 in twenty years. More than half of Akron’s heads of families are home owners. The rubber Industry stimulated by the enormous demand for tires for automobiles and other motor vehicles, has grown by leaps and bounds, and Akron has grotvn with it, building up a busy city out of a village and taking a commanding place. In American industry. Akron pays a million and a half dollars * month in wages. The average monthlywage earned by Goodyear employes, including men, women and apprentices, for 1910, was 853.98; for 1911 was $57.48; for 1912 was 866.50. Among the 6.000 Goodyear employes, about 350 are women. Goodyear Company officials declare that the average for 1913 will >e still higher. How Mr. Seiberling Favors Factory Workers Some Important problems have been worked out in the Immense Akron factories. F. A. Seiberling. President of the Goodyear Company, believes that every family should be enabled to own its home. Mr. Seiberling has the reputation of living up to his beliefs, and In this matter he has made no exception. This is what Mr. Seiberling did: The Goodyear plant lies at the eastern edge of the city. Mr. Seiberling purchased 450 acres of land at farm prices. This he had platted into lots; then streets were laid out; then trees were planted; and a small lake within the allotment, he gave with Its grounds to the city as a park and playground. Then Mr. Seiberling asked for plans for houses—figuring on groups of 100 houses at a time. The plans soon followed. The first hundred houses are to be built at once, as soon as spring opens. The homes will range up and down in price and In elegance, but all of them will be modern, beautiful and really homey. Contracting for houses by the hundred obtains a rockbottom price.

Protection Against Haii. The French government is encouraging experiments with a new device to protect against hail, essentially a very large lightning rod of pure copper, which is claimed to affect atmospheric electricity bo that hall stones cannot form. Easy. / A farmer saw a recipe advertised for keeping wells and cisterns from freezing in winter. Having sent a dozen stamps he received the following: “Take in your well or cistern at night and stand It in front of the fire.” Ambiguous. Wife (Shaking her husband) — pohn, wake up! That’s three times I’ve roused you. Now go and attend to the doors and windows; you don’t expect me to shut up, do you?” Hub • (grouchily)—“l wish you would.” Bavarian Love Charms. Both boys . and girls in Bavaria, when they have made a choice or are desirous of better acquaintance with a member of the opposite sex, arm themselves with charms to inspire love and affection in the other. The myrrh is regarded as a most potent love inspirer if worn next to the skin In the vicinity of one’s heart, this probably on account of its supposed Plationship to the myrtle, which in .varia bnrt other German speaking . ..fr'.x k»s the place of orange ,<he wedding day

Who Will Own These Homes? These houses are to go to Goodyear workmen at actual cost; farm land cost for the lot—and pro rata cost for houses contracted in 100 lets The workman simply moves into the house of his choice and pays the equivalent of rent; the rent, in this case, applies on the purchase of bis home, lu ten years a Goodyear family man accustomed to paying rent glides Into the ownership of a beautiful modern home almost without knowing it — certainly without feeling the cost. Think what it will mean to these fortunate families to suddenly wake to the realization that their home is their own. Os the four hundred and fifty acres of land purchased, every acre is available for the Goodyear family allotment. All the land will be developed as the demand grows—and the beautiful hillsides and valleys east of the Goodyear plant will soon be dotted with homes. “I want every Goodyear workman to have his own home,” says President F. A. Seiberling. who has personally made the enormous investment necessary to develop the allotment plan. “I realize that It is often an uphill struggle for the worker to obtain a home of his own, especially it he has rent to pay at the same time. My plan is to convert the rent into home payments—and to provide the homes at cost. My pay? It’s a plain matter of business. Home owners are contented and make better workmen. The man who can and will settle down to paying for a home has more character and ability than the man without ambition. So the workman and Company both profit by the transaction.” The plan as worked out will mean a saving for men who buy homes that range from SSW to $2,000, to the size of the house. This saving is based upon regular Akron real estate prices. No “Occupational Diseases” Goodyear factory buildings are modern, with plenty of light; pure, cold drinking water, ample sanitation and working conditions as agreeable as money and care can make them. There are no “occupational diseases” In the rubber Industry. Men of skill earn $3.50 to $5,00 a day. Expert tire makers are developed tn from four to six weeks. Hundreds of men from small towns, untrained, unaccustomed to wages greater than $1.50 per day, have come to the Goodyear plant, and soon enabled themselves to earn from $3.50 to $4.50. All these things have contributed to Akron’s unique Industrial position. In 1907, when financial difficulties spread over the country, the Akron rubber sac-

Safeguarding Life and Limb. German society of electricians has offered a costly gold medal to be awarded annually for the best device or process produce! in any country for safeguarding Itfe or limb or promoting health in the electrical industry. Nice Scratchers. If a calendar seems too pretty to destroy, paste a piece of sandpaper over the calendar pad and use as a match scratch. One of these will not come amiss in each room if gas is used. Pointing Out the Moto. Financier —“To think that a son of mine would ‘crib,’ actually steal, to pass a college examination!” The Son .—“Come off, dad. How much did your company have to swipe to pass that government examination?’’—lJfe. Not Infantile Necessities. To be an “infant” in a legal sense is not the same as being an Infant. A recent case in London was concerned with the question of what constitutes an “infant’s" necessities. The young man, who was sued by a furniture dealer, had bought, among other things, 24 candlesticks, 38 weapons, 61 pictures, an Indian spittoon, Burmese and Chinese gongs, 23 snuff boxes and two stuffed iguanas. Refusing to pay the bill, the young man pleaded “infancy.” The judge gave for the plaintiff

tories went right on —and Akron becameknown the country over as "the city without a panic.” The slogan of the local Chamber of Commerce Is “Akron— TheCity of Opportunity.” A Few Welfare Features Here are a few noteworthy features of modern factory management as worked out by the Goodyear administrative force. Refrigerated well water piped throughout the factory. An efficient hospital, with doctor and trained nurses, to look after the general health of workers and give prompt treatment to injuries, however slight. A factory lunch room accommodating 1,500 at one time, where good, substantialfood is sold at actual cost. An efficiency and welfare department, to assist beginners; to see that men have the work for which they are best adapted; to look into grievances and see that they are adjusted on a basis of fair dealing for the men as well as for the management. This, department, under the direction of Mr. C. R. Johnson, has done wonders in building up Goodyear spirit and: welding Goodyear workers into a real family with a loyalty to the Company that withstands almost any crisis. Employment Bureau In the bureau of employment, red tapeis dispensed with as far as possible. Honesty of purpose is the chief credential And attracted by good wages, good, healthful work, and wonderful chances for the future, workers everywhere who want to do better, are looking toward Akron—the city of opportunity. Applications, both written and in person—from expert* —from apprentices—from men and from women—are pouring in—all to be carefully considered by Mr, Johnson. Yet so many are the stations to be filled and so many are the kinds of work to be done that the positions have scarcely begun to be filled. These recent developments have madeGoodyear stand out as a notable example of modern methods of management. On the whole, the Goodyear Family is a happy family. It has already attracted experts and apprentices from all over the country and now there’s room for 2,000 morel Contentment is seen on every .face—the strike, which affected Goodyear least of all, is settled—peace and prosperity now prevail among the Goodyear workers. And all, with the result that the tire output of the Goodyear factory is the largest In the world. And about the tire business, other lines of rubber manufacture are being built up to give the great Akron factory a balanced product.—Adv.

Metamorphosis. “Last month Jones suggested my going into a money-making scheme with him." “And did you embrace the opportunity?" “Yes, and soon found that I was hugging a delusion.” Fate. One bird sits on a bough and sing* gloriously. Another bird sits on a nearby bough and chirps. And you fancy you get a plaintive note in th* chirping—not the note of envy, but of longing. Drink Made From Kola Nut. Kola is one of the most popular soft drinks in Jamaica. The kola nut* grown in that country are exported to England, where the sirup U manufactured, colored, flavored, and then it is sent back again. Wild Flowers. How fitting to have every day in * vase of water on your table the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward as to pluck th* fruits of nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. . . . Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she la writing, what ode composing now.* Thoreau.