12 IARRISBURG TELEGRAPH tXNEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Hiblished evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGHAPH PHI.XTIKG CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sguare E. J. STACK POLE Pretident and Editor-in-Chief OYSTER, Business Manager HJ& M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor k. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board McCULLOUGH, n BOYD M. OQLKSBY. F. R. OYSTER, OUa M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to'the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 11l rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Awsocia ated Dailies. Si. tern office Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Building, Western office! Story, Brooks Gas' Building t Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1919 If you are acquainted icith happi - less, introduce him to your neigh tor. —PHTLI.TPS BROOKS. MEETING THE SHORTAGE TT IS most encouraging that dur ing a period of extremely high prices and costs of everything hat goes into building operations, ill records for new construction in he past fifteen years should he iroken in Harrisburg. Permits imounting to more than $2,000,000 lave been issued during the year, o date, and the rapid approach of :old weather seems but to have idded impetus to the activity. The housing movement started. ty the Telegraph last year and fath ?red during this year by the Cham ber of Commerce is bearing fruit. But the need is far from filled. Colonel Martin, State Health Com missioner, speaking before the Ro tary Club the other day, said that his studies of the local situation lead Sim to the belief that Harrisburg might have at least 6.000 more resi ients were there homes here for lhat number, and It iS the observa tion of everybody who has come ,nto touch with the situation that t is of little use to talk of new in lustries until we shall have pro vided homes for those employed in Ihe mills and factories we already have. There are those who say it is bad for the city to advertise the house scarcity, but the one sure way to cure a public evil is to call the attention of the people to it. The high cost of materials and labor preclude the possibility of cheap rentals, tut it is encouraging to note that builders at least are doing something toward meeting the ever-pressing demand for bouses lo rent or sell. JOHN'S WATERLOO JOHN BARLEYCORN has met what seems to he his Waterloo In the adoption by Congress of the prohibition enforcement act which practically eliminates the "2.75 beer" that has been regarded as the legal hrew. Unless President Wilson approves the bill within ten days frcrU the date of passage the law will become effective without his signature. Under this legisla tion liquor containing more than one-half of #ne per cent, of alcohol is prohibited. BEATING OLD H. C. L. FAILURE to produce goods in quantities sufficient to meet tlie needs of the country is the main cause of the high cost of living, according to the findings of the United States Council of National Defense in a statement just issued. The way to cheaper prices lies mainly in producing more goods, the Commission believes. There are other rallies, of course, like the waste of war and profiteer ing, but failure to produce stands 11 ret. The waste of war never can lie replaced. Profiteering, to a large degree, can be prevented by proper laws, now being formulated. But the remedy that all of Us can help apply lies in the Commission's ad vice—*work and save." We might have all the money in the world, but if there were no goods to buy we would starve to (lentil or freeze for lack of clothing. And unless we work and save we will have neither goods nor money. Robinson Crusoe survived on a desert island because he worked and saved. When he was rescued he had more of the necessities of life than when he was cast away. He had no money and he needed none. Al) of us have been thinking in terms of dollars instead of the things money will buy. We have been working less and spending more. That means we have been producing less and valng more. So the supply has been going down, and, as always happens In ouch case, prices have been stead ily advancing. And law or no law, TUESDAY EVENING, j they will continue to go up until I we get together and produce more — until we make the supply of all the things we need exceed the demand. Then will come competition and prices will fall. It Is very simple. Just as soon as we—all of us—get down to pro ducing as much per day as we did before the war that soon prices will begin to sag—and not before. It la up to each one of us. COMMUNITY SERVICE THERE is a conviction among many of the leaders in the social and welfare activities of i Harrisburg that the remarkable work of the War Camp Community Service in this city should not be permitted to languish because the war organization is being demobil ized. The matter has been under consideration for some time and it is believed some definite plan will yet be outlined for continuing ns a local activity similar work in Harrisburg. Joseph L. Garvin, who was trans ferred from Harrisburg to tbe War Camp Community Service at Pitts burgh some time ago. leaving a rec ord of real achievement hese. writes The Telegraph "entirely 011 my own, initiative," as he observes, and "be cause of my good will toward your City and desire to see the values of community service, which have been developed and conserved, carried on," for information as to what, if anything, is being done to establish a program for community service, lie adds: Httrrisburg impresses me as one of tbe cities where such a program would he easy of accm pl'shiuent and would he a good return to every established or ganization and institution of th< city. Besides, the people them selves would tie greatly helped and stirred with 'hew ideals and visions of hope. A recent circular from the gen- ; eral headquarters of the War Camp j Community Service makes these oh- j servations on the real character of j what is proposed: Community service is organ- i ized pleasure. localized and made ' practical: it makes a good com- j mcnity, a good place ft>r all its members to live in. We all ought to be real members of our com- | munity: it is the medium through 1 which the residents of a com munity get together and truly lie- | come members of the community ! with a consequent real interest in community welfare, prosper ity and stability: it provides tlie opportunity in the community for the members of the community to meet together as neighbors and cm liange ideas and put into effect ideas for community bet- ; terment; it mokes the community I a fact instead of a name; it oper- j ntes nationally. applies itself locally and thinks in terms of ' leisure time; it is social insurance 1 on a national scale applied lo- | cally: it is organized common sense: it is the answer to a de mand: it is not a theory, it is a fact. Some of the brainest and most practical and far-vlsloned men in the United States are interested in this movement. Harrisburg has never lagged in anything that is helpful for the com- I munity as a whole and there are i enough unseltish men and women in (his city to make u local com munity organization of real benefit to everybody. The comment of one of the most , useful women of Hurrisburg during the war activities the other night j was to tlie effect that it would be i too bad should all the community effort, as represented in the Red Cross, the National War Aid, the 1 Canteen Service and all the other'! welfare activities, he dissipated and i lost through ii closing down of every j avenue that made possible tbe line j spirit that pervaded 1 larrisburg | throughout the great crisis. KXAMPLE OF LOYALTY THE- King and Queen of Keigium i have planted a number of trees; since theiy arrival in America, I notably in Central Park. New York, and on the Pacific Coast. sradually ; the people everj wlie'f are lioeont-; ing interested in tree planting and il ! is hoped the coming Arbor Day in j Pennsylvania will mark a new era j throughout the State. Here In I lar risburg city Commissioner Gross, head of the Department of Parks,! lias arranged a most appropriate feu- I tore for the official program of the ' day. lie will plant in a grove on : a high point in Iteservoir Park .one. white pint for every Hurrisburg boy ; who died In the war. This will mnktgj j i considerable grove and a uitnbl<*' j memorial, inasmuch as these trees ! | are long-lived anti each will contain' I the name of the soldier for which it 1 | stands in memory. But Commissioner Gross will also , | plant many other trees out of. the I I Islund Park nursery along the river i I and in other sections of the park I I system. He will set the example for the whole community and the school nthorities and other organizations should Immediately provide for their part in the practical observance? of the day. But the tree planting must not stop with Hie official activities. Every property owner ought to provide for at least one tree either on his lawn or sidewalk. If you have not yet ordered that tree, do it at onee and see to it that it is of the proper size |and species, (in another page this evening will lie found a list of trees suitable for this climate and for planting this fall. C(INVENTION CENTER HAKKISBUUG is becoming the convention center of Pennsyl vania. Scarcely a day passes without some engagement for a con vention or Important conference. The latest large body to determine upon this city for its meeting place in 1320 is the State Sabbath School Association, which has just concluded its sessions at Wilkes-Barre. This will be one of the big gatherings of the next year. It is little wonder, under the circumstances, that our principal hotel is proving already too small for the increasing demands upon it. ll TMltfcw# CK j 1 | ®Y the Ex-Committeeman 1 1 Constitutionality of the nonparti- I san act amendment of 191k. was up j held by President Judge George I Kunkel last night in an opinion | handed down in refusing the man j damns asked by Judge Henry G. | Wasson, of Pittsburgh, to compel i certification of his name as a candi jdate for common pleas bench in Al | leglieny county. The judge at once ! took an appeal to the Supreme , Court and the case will he argued j within a short time. The appeal j will hold up certification of the names of some judicial candidates, j The time for certification by the Sec | retary of the Commonwealth ex ! pired some time ugo. but owing to ; this mandamus proceeding and the 1 delays in counts this formal action could not he taken, j The Kunkel decision not only set- I ties the Wasson case as far as this 1 county s court, which has special I jurisdiction in ballot cases, is con- I cerned, but the question of "sole | nominees" in several other districts. The Wasson uction assailed the ■ consiilutionality of tile amendment 1 of 1919 fixing a method for deter- I mining t lie "sole nominees." There are five judges to lie elected in Allc * gheny and Judge Wasson, one of I the sitting judges, ran sixth. Four [ other sitting judges, including two iSproul appointees, and Judge James B. Drew, of the Allegheny county | court, were the five highest and, ap plying the method set forth in the act of 1919, the State Department j held that Judge Wasson was not j entitled to go 011 lite ballot. The judge holds that in atnend jing the act of 1913. the original non -1 partisan act. and the supplement of 1913 by providing a method of com ' putiition of the "sole nominees." the I legislature tlid not exceed i( s au -1 t hority and that the act does not infringe rights of either voters or j 1 candidates and does not change election privileges. In the main the questions involved are held to have been determined in previous tests of J the basic act and that of 1915, and as lite law of 1919 prescribes a method and is a proper legislative 1 procedure (he act withstands the I attack. —Campaigning by airplane is tlie ! latest in Montgomery county poli- 1 tics. -Things are always rather speedy in the political line In that ! section of the Stnte. bul Boy A. 1 Hatfield, candidate for county com missioner, took an airplane to scat- j tcr leaflets and circulars nnnounc- j ing his candidacy about tlic county. From all accounts Fayette ■ county pol tics have quieted down 1 r.nd another of those independent movements has been put on a sid- ' ing. —Withdrawal of James W. Beech J as a candidate for orphans court judge in Cambria leaves the field clear for Judge S. I.emoil Reed, the Governor's appoinleo to the bench. Mr. Leech says that although State officials will not receive his with drawal. claiming that they have no authority, he is out of the race and ! thanks his loving friends for their support. —Confidence of victory for the I Bucks County ticket at the next election was strong among the Re publicans at their County Commit tee meeting in Doylestown when | they re-elected County Chairman ! Hit-ant 11. Keller. A. Harry Clay. ' ton was re-elected secretary. Conn- ■ ty Chairman Keller, in acknowl- i edging re-election, asked for the hearty co-operation of committee ; men and candidates. lie pointed i out that organization was the key | to success as had lieen shown by the growth ot the Republican tna- ' jority from 2,000 to .1,000 in the county. With active committee co-] operation and fourteen candidates' working, lie said, there would not ! lie much chance of failure. —Steps have been taken in Alle- j ghenv county courts to prevent the ; printing of the name of George AV, j McNeil, candidate for county com- ' miss oner on lite American party i ticket, on the official baljot at the routing general election, when At- I torneys William J. Ilrennen, Carl !. Smith and It. It. MeGinness. rep- ; resenting the Democratic party, ap- ; pen red in Common i'leas Court, asking that an order lie made di recting the county commissioners! not to print McNeil's name on the i ballot. It is alleged the nomination 1 papers are irregular in thai the nf- i Hants to the petitions did not see the signers affix their signatures to 1 them, that alterations were made after they were signed and that the signers in some instances are Re- i publicans. . t . - The Wilkes-Barre Record In dulges in this neighborly remark: ! "The new Scranton directory gives ! tlie city a population of i*>B,Bßl. The census enumeration to tie tak- | "n next year will probably take down these figures a few pegs. ! Scranton has undoubtedly had a good growth in the pusl ten years but there is nothing to indicate that growth lias been phenomenal." —School statistics compiled by i Ben l'\ .Graham, superintendent of the New Castle schools, show a startling condition in the matter of housing for pupils. Est:mates based I on the statistics show that the . population of the city lias increased ' approximately 17,000 in the last 10 ; years. During the same period i seven permanent classrooms were I added to the school system. There are now 900 pupils who are cared j for in portable school houses. The ehool population of the city has I doubled since 1 f 10. r~Statements were made at (lie ' meeting of the Montgomery Re- j publican county- executive commit- I tee to-day that the party candidates ' for county office will probably have malorities ranging from r.,000 to' 10,000. The candidates will tour th<* upper Perklnson Valley, starting at Sellwenksville. other places to be visited from then until the close of the campaign include; Norristown, Itoyersford, North Wales, ("onsho liocken. Jenkintown. Ambler and llatboro. -The Philadelphia Evening Ledger makes this comment on Philadelphia polities: "Under the reconstructed charter Hie town needs a new deal in its criss-cross and bargain-counter politics; and a real Republican convention -- it would lie a wholesome idea to have an orderly and respected Demo cratic party evolved from out of a Ike convention^-would go far Ira turn the local political thought of the whole community into cleaner and more up-to-date channels." —Montgomery County's Republi can Executive Committee is laying plans for carrying on an active cam paign for the election of the ticket nominated at the primaries. Ow ing to the continued illness of Henry M. Brownbnck, chairman of the committee. J. Aubrey Anderson, the retiring district attorney, was named chairman, and the campaign wiii be carried into every district of the countv for the election of the full ticket. ■TMUSBDIML iffSl TELEGIOPA SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By BRIGGS V _VIELL HE R6. I A'rv\ WITH I HELLO TR £VUETL THE RE*S J /*" \ MV DANDY FLSHIMG OUTFIT TO 3EE YUH— V/EU-J / FISHINJG.7/NOT- N-J \ AMD MY OLD "(MY DEAR OLD 1 HOM/S THE. P<-SH — V \ ALLVJ T > THEBE?// OC.TOOE \ FLSHLNFI HAT AMD DJOTHING I SLTIM<S -J . ) / MR, WJEBSTE^ T° CO ,M BASS V RLL SF&f&J \T*?r*Tj BASS OUT OF I THST DOW Y ■ c~—- I OCTOBCR \ L _ L ' \ F '' RR ' WR DID YOU KNOW THAT: lly MAJOR FRANK C. MARIN Of the Army Recruiting Station , When war was declared the Army j had on hand nearly COO,OOO Spring field rifles. Their manufacture was f continued, and the American Enfield j rifle designed and put into produc- ! tion. The total production of Springfield I and Enfield rifles up to the signing | o.' the armistice was over 2.900,000. The use of machine guns on a large | scale is a development of the Euro-j pean War. In the American Army, the allowance in 1912 was four ma chine guns per regiment. In 1919 the new Army plans provide for an equip ment of 338 guns per regiment or 81 times as many. The entire number of American! machine guns produced to the end of 1918 was 227.000. During the war the Browning au tomatic rifle and the Browning ma chine gun were developed, put into quantity production, and used in large numbers in the final battle in France. The Browning machine guns are believed to be more effective than the corresponding weapons used in any other army. American production of rifle am munition amounted to approximately 3,500.000.000 of which 1.500.000,000 were shipped overseas. Hypocrisy of Modern Life lFrom the New York Times] Life, as we civilized beings live it, is one vast hypocrisy. And it would all he inexpressibly pathetic were it not for the fact that it is so splendid. How often it is that a smile but 'masks tin acliitig heart; how often the cheery word hides despair. Very brave, indeed, is this hypocrisy.of life. * You will meet a man on the street and say, "How are things go ing With you?" And lie will say, "Fine." You will meet a woman and ask, "How are you feeling?" And she will say "Fine." ■ And, as | likely as not, things are not going | well "at all with the man. And the j woman feels any way but well. Yet they hide their fears, their j worries, their disappointments, theit mental and physical sufferings from j tile eyes of those whom tliey meet and with whom they associate in life. Women are the brav#st. How tnnny a woman there is who has a liad husband or a bad son. yet who never whines about it. Tliey smile though their hearts are breaking. They make themselves look well though tbev may be seldom well. It is a line bravado, is it not? How gloomy and grouchy the world would be were it not for this hy pocrisy. Tt is a tiling that makes us take our liat off to the average man and woman. In the face of it, the sol- I dier on the battlefield is not so ; worthy of his laurel wreath as i those folks are who trudge the i commonplace walks of the world. We think it will be very interest ing on the Dav of Judgment when i we are all lined up in the open and i each man sees what the other man j had to contend against, and how ] lie bore it, and hear what God will I say then. The Poor Fish f From London Blighty 1 i "I hear you are going to marry j Archie I'lueblood?" said one society woman to another. "Is it true?" ; "Marry him?" exclaimed the other, j "Not likely. What on earth could jl do with him? lie's rejected from ; the army, he can't ride, he can't j play tennis, golf, nor. for that nint ! ter. ran he even drive a motor car!" "Gli!" said the friend, "but be can swim beautifully, you know." "Swim, indeed! Now, I ask you. ,'would you like a husband you lind | to keep in an aquarium?" • Searing End of Ihe World j [From the Edinburgh Scotsman! Mrs, Kelly-—Lor', Mrs. Green, it ] must be near Ihe end of the world I now, anyway, when the corpses are j flying about. • | Mrs. Green—Lord bless us, Mrs. | Kelly, who told you that? I Mrs. Kelly—-Shure. I had a letter I from John, an' he sez he has seen j the flying corps several times. But Sot Wauling Work [From Philadelphia Public: Ledger! In the list of household appliances ithe girl who used to apply for gen eral housework is wanting. Albert Of The Belgians [From Harper's Weekly] I THERE was a cartoon in London] Punch early in the war, than which none more truthful or impressive has been produced during all the great struggle. It pictured the King of the Belgians standing amid his ravished and desolated country, confronted by the insolent and triumphant German Kaiser, who reproached him for his folly in not breaking liis faith and letting the Huns use his hands as a base of at tack upon France and England. "So, you see, you've lost every thing!" "But not my soul!" It was only the fancy of a facile artist; but it was the very truth of everlasting history. By his refusal of the German demand. King Albert brought upon himself and upon his country such woe and tragedy as no other sovereign and nation have ever known. But he saved his integrity, his self respect, his honor; in a word, his soul. Saving his own soul, he saved the soul of Belgium. Saving the soul of Belgium, he saved the soul of Europe, of the world. It is an old story, though because of its truth it must never grow outworn, that through the stubborn self-sacri fice of Liege the Huns were checked just long enough to give France time to meet them; that the first levies of France and England's "con temptible little army" in turn check The Youth's Two Reunions [From the Atlanta Constitution] This week Atlanta is hostess to the Confederate veterans, who so valiantly defended the cause of the South in the '6os. Next week the delegates of the Georgia posts of the American Legion, representing the third gen eration of the Civil War heroes, will be the visitors to the city. In these, two reunions—the first of the gray clad, white-haired old men who were the backbone of tlie South sixty years ago; the latter of tlie recently khaki clad, stalwart young men, who during the past few tumultuous years were the bone and sinew of the South and of America —the Constitution sees a lesson. From Appomattox to Chateau Thierry they present themselves as tlie builders of the new South —the men who, "foot-sore and weary," heat their swords into plowshares" —the indomitable souls, who van quished in war, set themselves wholeheartedly to the stupendous task of resurrecting the prostrate and crushed Southland from the chaos and destruction of war to the pinnacle of prosperity and success. Ludendorf's Error Ludendorff wanted to make peace in August, when he saw that he could not win the war; that the peace as finally made was a peace of defeat and not a draw lie blames on the cowardice and stupidity of civil ian statesmen. T'ndoubtcdly,~as ap pears not only from his story but from outside evidence, many Gor man statesmen lost their heads last fall: but in the long run it is not likely that any of them made an error so costly to Germany as Lu dendorff's error of the spring, when he thought he could break through and win a smashing victory. It was only a miscalculation, • but the his toric penalty of miscalculation must be familiar to as good a student of history as Ludendorff. Not tlie Only Mr. Jones TNew York Letter to the St. Louis Times.] William Hamby, who learned to write in Missouri, hut moved to San Diego when he got prosperous, was in New York recently. He was tell ing about a recent libel suit that, was threatened on account of his stories by an indignant reader in Oregon. The man came all the way to New York to see the editor and brought his lawyer with him. lie asserted that Hamby libeled him by using his name in a story. His name was Jake Jones, Adding Authoritative Word [From the Washington Star] "Why was it necessary for you to add anything to the voluminous and enlightening remarks already of fered on this subject?" "It wasn't positively necessary," answered Senator Sorghum, "except on my own account. I had lo say something to keep the folks out I home from thinking 1 was losing my ! influence." Ed them just long enough to give both countries time to rally all their strength; and that finally those countries at awful cost held the line of civilization against barbar ism just long enough to give sloth ful and dilatory America time to awake to her duty and to hurl her determining weight into the scale. But it all began with Belgium. And it is commensurately true that the ineffable moral and spiritual uplift which roused humanity against the Beast, had its initial impulse in King Albert's heroic decision Jo save his soul, though he should lose all the world. We have welcomed home our own returning heroes and their gallant chief. We have welcomed the Princely Priest who proved to the world that the spirit of Elijah at Carmel, and of Paul at Ephesus still lived and triumphed. And they were worthy of all that an appreciative people could offer them. But no warmth of welcome, no splendor of pageantry, no blaze of banners and blaring of massed bands, not noisy acclaim of multitudinous tongues j nor silent tribute of grateful hearts, ; can be too great for the desserts of I this later guest who now revisits these shores. Not only a King but also a man, the sternest democrat will honor himself by honoring him: and the Red, White and Blue of America will win new*luster through being entwined with the Branters' black, gold and red. The Old Service Flag [Read at the demobilization of the service flag of the First Congre gational Church, Manhattan. Kan., Sunday, October 5, 1919. This flag was dedicated September 22, 1918, by the author while in uniform as member of the 10th Division.] By WILD ARB WATTLES A year ago within this friendly place We raised a flag, woven of faiths and tears. Knowing what thoughts were in each lifted face, What memories, what unac knowledged fears. "Would he come back?" and "Was he safe, in truth, Who flung for France the challenge of his youth?" We have our answer—there Is no question now, , We know the final color of each star; For some have seen the laughter lighted brow Of love returning out of the gates of war # And some have called and have not even heard The voice that once through all their being stirred. Take down the flag. We do not need it now. Its work is over as their work is done; But if some day we have forgotten how Brave men have laughed and given up the sun, Then while the eynies sroff, and blusterers shout, Doubting the future, fling this old flag out! Loses 90,000 in Population [Prom the New York Tribune! New York state has sustained a potential loss of ninety thousand in population during the last twenty months, due to a remarkably low birth rate and the ravages of influ enza last year, according to Dr. Her man M. Biggs, state commissioner of health. The death rate has declined stead ily since the epidemic, and the present rate, 10.4, is the lowest re corded for many years. The birth rate, at the same time, is the lowest ever recorded, the rates for July and August having been 18.7 and 18.8 a thousand population, or about 20 per cent, lower than for the cor responding months of 1918. j "In each month of 1919," says i Doctor Biggs, "the hirth rates for the entire state have been lower than the rates for the corresponding months of last year. "The marked decline in the birth rate, due largely to war conditions, represents a loss of potential popu lation of more than 36,000 since the | beginning of the year 1918, and if j there is added to this the excess ] mortality of more than fifty-one ! thousand due to the influenza epl . demlc, we find the total loss since | January 1, 1918, is almost 90,000, ; without figuring the loss of men In 1 military service." OCTOBER 14, 1919. How Germany Thinks By RUPERT HUGHES To run down and disarm a maniac who has burned and slain is wisdom that requires no argument. To overpower him and let him up again with a stolen weapon in his posses sion and a greater rage than ever in his heart is folly that will undo the courage and the wisdom of his first defeat. Germany has suffered from para noiac delusions of persecution and from megalomaniac delusions of grandeur. She believed and pro claimed that it was her sacred duty to Oott and to Man to make Kultur supreme in the whole world. She tried to do it. She failed. If anyone doubts that she still hopes to accomplish her divine mis sion it must be because he doubts the word of the Germans them selves. And there is no German more German than old von Hinden burg. / And here is what he said a few months ago at a secret meeting of German mine owners at Oppeln, in Upper Silesia. He spoke at a re union of a society called, for short, the "Hilfsscbutzenverein fur Qber schlesien," or Upper Silesian Rifle Club Auxiliary. Copies of Iris address were con fidentially distributed among the German mine owners, but one of them fell into the hands of a Pole, who transmitted it to Paris. I trans late a part of it as an eloquent ex ample of German eloquence, a sin cere expression of German opinion for German consumption, not for export. Supply your own italics. "We Germans, we are not con quered. We have been thrown to one shoulder, but we are not whip ! ped. In a little while our enemies will have occasion to realize what the force of the German soul amounts to, how invincible the Ger man muscles and fists are, what might of toil and what resistance to all weaknesses animate the brains and hearts of Germans. "Our enemies will learn that the idea of vanquishing us was folly. Blood will flow in great streams to expiate the crimes committed against the industrious people of Germany. ' "It is then that we shall see who enjoys the favor of Providence, and who grasps at the laurel of victory. "The time is near when the sac rilegious hands of those who have dared to raise them against us will fall helpless. And then, in the midst of the crawling of decrepit nations, we shall see the mighty list of Germany rise and strike, to chas tise, and to assure to our country, once for all, happiness, expansion, and supremacy. "Only then, and only on founda tions of German order and of our secular civilization, and under the pinions of steel of our great Ger man nation, will it be pdssible to establish the edifice of a true world peace." There speaks the Germany of to day, as of yesterday, and of to morrow. And to think that there are peo ple who feel it wise not to strength en oppressed nations by weakening Germany lest Germany should de sire revenge! As if any settlement on earth would ever satisfy that people except a triumph that should efface their defeat! As if there were any hope of keeping Germany at peace except by keeping a strong guard about her! Roosevelt and League Concerning a league of nations Theodora Roosevelt wrote this less than a year ago: "Without question there is a gen eral desire for some kind of inter national agreement or union or league which will tend to prevent the recurrence, or at least to mini mize the scope and the horrors of such a hideous disaster to humanity as the world war which is now closing. "If the league of Nations is built on a document as high-sounding and as meaningless ns the speech in which Mr. Wilson laid down his j Fourteen Points, it will simply add I one more scrap to the diplomatic j waste paper basket. "Let us begin by including in the League only the present Allies. . . . Let us explicitly reserve cer tain rights—to our territorial pos sessions, to our control of immigra tion and citizenship, to our fiscal policy and to our handling of our domestic questions generally —as : not to be questioned and not to be brought before any international tribunal. Let us absolutely decline any disarmament proposition that would leave us helpless to defend ourselves. "Let us absolutely refuse to abol ish nationalism." f • If anything was needed to draw to the attention of Harrisburg peo ple the changes that a few years and modern methods have brought into the y. M. C. A. of the Capital city the mere announcement of the edu cational work of the institution would suffice. The "Y," as it is termed for short, occupies a posi tion In Harrisburg such us it had some thirty years ago, although at present it happens to be just a bit ahead of the times instead of abreast. There are various things connected with the institution thai make it an attractive, aggressive force for good in the community, the old "gym" classes where suc cessive generations of business men got strong, the Sunday services, the reading room and standard, so i<> speak, features being retained. But the public speaking and other classes launched a few years ago have gone forward and the V. M. P. A. is now offering to the youth of its district educational advantages such as the army gave and more. The bulk of them are night classes because that is the way to get the men. Prof. H. H. Shenk, the his torian and educator, directs the pub lic speaking class; G. W. Spahr, of Elliott-Fisher, will give the talks on salesmanship; W. E. Strawinski the business course; William D. Meikle the classes in commercial Spanish; Miley T. Sheaffer will give a practi cal course in elementary and ad vanced bookkeeping; James W. Phillips in mechanical drawing, and .other men active in various lines I will give the benefit of their know I ledge. It's a fine chance for the young men and front all indications they are going to meet the chance. The Masonic Homes at Elizabeth town, founded and managed by men of the great fraternity, have become so well known and admired throughout the middle states that they are now looked for by every one who goes by the pretty Lancas ter county town. The annals of the homes, just issued under the au thority of James B. Krause, the grand master, give some interesting facts about the establishment which is growing on Lancaster hills. The homes are maintained by direct ap propriations from the subordinate lodges, payments from petitioners, bequests and interest from bequests. The property consists of 992 con tinuous acres, a tract whose size would surprise the casual visitor and thus far there have been spent upon it $1,448,324.40. No less than 589 of the acres are in the arable class with 185 acres in timber. It is just ten years ago that the Elizabeth town site was selected by the com mittee in charge, which also looked over the famous Young farms near Middletown and in June, 1910, the first of the guests was received. The main building, which is seen from the railroad, is the Grand Lodge hall, a three-story building of gran ite and one of the handsomest structures of the kind in the State. Then, in order of start, there is fio Girls' Home, the Blair County Me morial, the Boys' Home, John Hen ry Daman Memorial, Berks Home, Levis Memorial, Philadelphia Free masons' Memorial Hospital, Alle gheny County Memorial, the Groez inger Memorial and the Cumberland Valley Memorial, dedicated last year. One of the most attractive fea tures of the lay-out of the homes is the planting of the trees and shrub bery. A crimson rambler, a Dorothy Perkins, an American Beauty and a Tausendschen rose was planted in 1816 and 1917 at each one of four hundred fence posts on the east boundary road alone, while in the Memorial grove there were planted 112 white pine trees with fifty bor der groups. There have been 1,400 apple trees planted, making 2,200 in all on the property, 2,180 peach trees and over 2,000 nut bearing trees. The new housing director of the State Chamber of Commerce has a problem right away. Proof may be found in the classified columns, He's trying to find a house for him self In Harrisburg and though he has scoured the to\v*n has been un able to find what he wants as yet. Ritchie Lawrie, Jr., which is the gentleman's name, has recently been released from service with the army, is an engineer of eight years' experience following his graduation from Carnegie Tech and has an nexed a wife, whom he desires to bring to Harrisburg and locate in a home. He states that the housing problem, from his personal observa tions, appears to be quite acute here. Who remembers when there was a bandstand on the top of the upper market house in Market Square? There are some folks who recall it very well and some who say never was there anything of the kind on the roof of that ancient edifice. From all accounts there were band con certs given in the Square when the Dauphin county centennial was held in 1885 and several bands, including that conducted by Paris Chambers discoursed the music of the day in the evening. The stand remained for several weeks after the centen nial and until cold weather set in and the funds gave out Harrisburg had some concerts. Now this is what some people say. Others say that there was nothing of the kimi. Who remembers the stand and tho concerts? | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Senator L. C. Phipps, of Colo rado, one of the steel strike prob ers, comes from the Phipps family of Pittsburgh. —Ralph Busser, York county man, long in consular service in Europe, is home on a furlough. —Ex-Governor John K. Tener was one of the speakers at the Pennsylvania! Society luncheon to Cardinal Mercier at New York. —General J. W. McAndrew, who accompanied the cardinal in the an thracite region tour, comes from Scranton. —Capt. Daniel Jackson, of Pitts burgh, has been sent on a medical .mission to Palestine. —William H. Berry will debate the League of Nations at Chester to-night with business men. 'f DO YOU KNOW 1 —That Harrisburg made a record among State cities for its j school gardens? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —ln early days the fire companies had their houses along the rtvog front because that was the big bu:i nesa place.
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