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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29
The youth of the soul is everlasting,
and eternity is youth. — RICHTEK.
THE PROPOSED GAME CODE
PROPOSAL to codify the game laws
of the State, uniting all the game
regulations under one general
title. Is in line with the simplification
of statutes of all kinds and the group
ing of borough, school and other laws
in such manner as to make them eas
ily accessible and in accord with the
needs and conditions of the present.
There should be no difficulty in get
ting such a measure through the next
session of the Legislature. The prob
lem will lie in putting a bill together
that will meet the views of the sports
men of the State to a degree where
one or more dissatisfied factions will
not seriously oppose it on the floors
of the legislative bodies.
Evidently the Game Commission
had something of this sort in mind
when it suggested the calling together
of the sportsmen of "the State in ad
vance of the legislative session for
the purpose of endeavoring to thresh
out existing differences and to get to
gether, if possible, on a common
ground. At all events this is a wise
move. The sportsmen now know
what the Commission has proposed
and they have ample time in which
to decide for themselves what changes
in this program, if any, they desire.
Unqestionably, the change in the
rabbit season will be popular. Rab
bits are becoming so plentiful in some
parts of the State as to be a nuisance
to farmers and a menace to young
orchards. They multiply more rapidly
than any other kind of game and they
no doubt will be well able to survive
without serious diminution of num
bers the proposed two months open
season.
The other change of season sug
gested, that limiting the shooting sea
son for turkeys, grouse and quail to
November alone, will be the subject of
ivo little debate. There will develop
legitimate grounds for differences of
opinion on this subject. The outcome
will be watched with interest by every
lover of gamebird hunting in Penn
sylvania. Unquestionably something
must be done for the better protection
of the young birds in the early Fall
and for Increasing the supply in coun
ties where the birds are becoming
scarcer and scarcer each year.
Whether this is the remedy or not
must be developed by men who have
given the matter thought and who are
familiar with conditions.
Dr. Kalbfus, in his letter accompany
ing the draft of the proposed code,
makes a plea for the creation of more
game sanctuaries. Unquestionably, the
Dumber of these places where game
may find refuge at all seasons of the
year and in the shelter of which young
birds and animals may come to ma
turity and spread over the surround
ing country should be increased. They
are doing more than almost any one
other thing to keep up the game sup
ply In Pennsylvania.
THE GRANGERS* PICNIC
THE persistent attraction of the
Grangers' picnic, that annua!
exhibition and exposition at
Williams Grove, has for Central Penn
sylvania people is one of the marvels
of those who have seen scores of
similar affairs come and go while
crowds continue to flock year after
year to see the same old sights and
meet the same old crowd at the Cum
berland county gathering. The farm
er who does not take a day or two
from work to "go to the Grangers" is
an exception in his community.
Reason for the success of this pop
ularity probably lies in the fact that
the management wisely chose a week
after harvest work is out of the way
and before the county fair has entered
l9to competition. Farmers and city
people, too, are fond of fairs and ex
positions and the crowds they bring.
If the Grangers' picnic is the drawing
card it is. how much more so would
be a great properly conducted State
fair In Harrlsburg or vicinity.
OUR UNMOUNTED CAVALRY
PENNSYLVANIA well may be
proud of the showing made by
the more than 13,000 National
Guardsmen who marched in review
last Saturday before the regular army
officers in Texas. Accounts from the
border and comments by the review
ing officers all tend to show that the
men made an excellent appearance
and created a most favorable impres
sion on those whose duty It was to
pass criticism upon them.
But there are two things which
*hould bring the blush of shame to the
cheeks of those responsible. The cav
TUESDAY EVENING,
airy marched unmounted and there
was not a motor transport In the
Pennsylvania line. Think of it—all
this chatter about preparedness, all
this gush about the "great emergency"
the troops were to meet at the border,
and the cavalry—by far the mo6t use
ful branch of the service in putting
down bandit raids—without a single
horse fit to ride after some two months
in camp.
And not a motor transport, when
Europe reports that the only possi
bility of maintaining the great armies
pitted against each other there has
been through the rapid and depend
able gasoline driven vehicle.
The only consolation for Pennsyl
vanians in this condition lies In the
fact that the Keystone soldiers and
officers at the border are "in nowise to
blame.
THE DROP IX WHEAT
THE drop in wheat prices yesterday
following the announcement that
Rumania had entered the Euro
pean war was to have been expected.
Two prime factors have been at work
to run prices up in the American mar
kets —the shortage of the crop at
home, as compared with that of last
year, and the inability of Russia to get
her immense quantities of grain to the
world markets.
Rumania is itself a great wheat
raising country. Large quantities of
its yield have been going into Austria
and thence into Germany. Now all
of this grain will have to find a market
elsewhere and it will go naturally to
France and England, with a com
paratively small quantity to feed the
Russian soldiers who no doubt will
shortly pour through Rumania Jnto
Austria.
This unlooked for supply of Euro
pean grain can be delivered at lower
j cost to England and France than can
the wheat of the American plains, and
thus the American home supply will
be conserved. Then, too, in the eyes
of the wheat speculators. Russia will
be able to market quantities of Its
wheat through Rumania, and the en
trance of Rumania into the war nat
urally brings nearer by many months
the opening of the Dardanelles, with
the flood of grain that will then flow
throvgh that port to the outside world.
This may not be good news to the
farmer and the wheat speculator, but
it will not be badly received by the
consumer, who has been facing the
possibility of six-cent bread or smaller
loaves for five cents.
GOOD WORK
SUFFRAGISTS of Pennsylvania are
to be commended for the
promptness with which they
have volunteered to assist the State
Health Department in its fight against
the sprea'd of infantile paralysis and
to have "better health ordinances pass
ed in every quarter of the Common
wealth. Very apparently these women
are interested in more than merely
getting the vote.
The task of the State Health De
partment in the present instance is
largely one of popular education, j
People must be brought to a knowl
edge of how best to protect their chil
dren from the mysterious scourge
concerning which science itself can in
struct them only to the extent of
teaching them the necessary precau
tionary measures to be taken. In this
work the suffragists have been of vast
assistance, making hundreds of per
sonal visits, distributing thousands of
circulars, arranging with moving pic
ture proprietors to show films bear
ing on the subject and calling confer
ences in various counties where the
need is great.
One list of health hints just issued
by Mrs. Orlady, president'of the State
Suffrage Association, is so well worth
while that it ought to be pinned up in
every home where there are children.
Here is is:
Clean bodies, clean finger nails,
clean clothes, clean houses, clean
yards, clean food, clean water and
clean milk.
Finger nails short and clean. Cut
every second day. Dirty finger
nails are the greatest source or
sickness. —even greater than dirty
milk. Cut finger nails —do not bite
them.
Two tepid tub baths a day for
children of all sizes and ages.
Little clothing. A cotton shirt—
diaper and very thin dress. No
shoes and stockings or bands. Guard
the baby from sudden changes in
the weather. When it becomes sud
denly cold put on stockings and an
extra shirt. Keep the hair short.
Plenty of sleep. Out-of-door
sleeping is excellent. Afternoon
napping for the growing children.
Babies should be left alone as
much as possible—not handled or
carried about.
Screen houses and porches
against flies and mosquitoes.
Keep children out of the hot sun.
Do not take them downtown. Do
not take them shopping.
Plenty of good food, under three
years of age no raw fruit, melons,
ice cream, ice cream soda ana
candy. Children of no age tea or
coffee—not even a taste. Plenty or
good milk and plenty of good
drinking water. Keep milk cold
and sweet.
A sick (child should be kept apart
from others until the doctor has
called.
Castor oil is a good cureall.
This kind of work will do more than
years of speech-making to win votes
for suffrage, although to be fair to
those who inaugurated the movement
it should be said that it was not under
taken as a campaign measure.
LET THE SOUTH "COME ACROSS"
COLLECTORS of campaign funds
for the Democratic national
committee are using the ar
gument that since the South has been
a very large gainer by Democratic
administration, there should be large
contributions from that section of the
country. Sure. If the South is at all
grateful, It will put up the larger part
of the fund. The administration has
so manipulated revenue legislation as
to place the tax burden chiefly on the
North, and has spent the government
funds largely In the South. It is dif
ficult to understand why any North
ern Democrat should contribute, but,
of course, they will be asked to do so.
CHICAGO AND HUGHES
CHICAGO may be said to reflect
with no little accuracy the
general opinion of the great
territory contributory to that city's
commercial and financial leadership
of the Middle West Hence, the view
whlcJx Chicago takes of Hughes is of
much more than local or municipal
interest. And Chicago, be it said,
has made unmistakably known its
opinion that Hughes is all right.
IK
By the Ex-Committecman
To succeed Dr. E. L. Moore as State
superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Anti-Saloon League, the headquarters
committee has elected Dr. Charles F.
Swift, of New York. The committee
also elected as attorney J. Day Brown
lee, Jr., of Indiana, Pa., as State so
licitor. Both Dr. Swift and Mr. Brown-
Ice make Philadelphia their headquar
ters. Mr. Brownlee will devote him
self exclusively to the legal end of the
tight against the saloons and will be
ready to give counsel and help in any
county where the organization may
have work to do before the courts. He
will also become one of the speaking
staff of the organization.
Congressman \V. H. Coleman, chair
man of the Allegheny county Repub
lican committee, has made public his
list of committees for the management
of the presidential campaign In that
county. He announced at the same
time that an active campaign will be
made which will prevent the Demo
crats from making any notable gains.
Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic county
chairman, and acting Democratic State
chairman, also made some announce
ments. According to Mr. Guffey. Penn
sylvania is to be made doubtful terri
tory. If the claims of the chairmen
are made good, the voters of Alle
gheny county will at all events be
given some lively political entertain
ment. Mr. Coleman said the Repub
lican headquarters will be opened on
September 6. He repeated his expres
sion of hope that Candidate Hughes
will make a speech in Allegheny coun
ty. So far it is admitted no promise
has been obtained from either Hughes
or tho national party managers. In
making up his committees Mr. Cole
man very carefully gave ample rec
ognition to all elements of the Repub
lican party. E. V. Babcock is chair
man of the finance committee, which
is the committee honor of greatest
distinction and responsibility, but Wil
liam Flinn and George T. Oliver both
have conspicuous places on this com
mittee. •
Frank E. Baldwin is receiving con
gratulations from his friends all over
the State, In and out of the Twenty
fifth Senatorial district, because of the
strong hold he has obtained upon the
scnutorship at the November election.
With the Potter-Tioga-McKcan district
normally Republican. Baldwin Is op
posed now only by Harry Sherwood,
Democrat, and Sherwood is not re
garded as a formidable candidate.
Samuel W. Smith, a Washington party
man in the district, ran for the nomi
nation in May. but Baldwin defeated
him. Smith, however, captured the
Prohibition and Washington party
nominations, but formally withdrew
as a candidate last week. Smith's
withdrawal shows the back-to-the
party drift in the Twenty-fifth district
and indicates that the normal Repub
lican majority will be increased be
cause of the sentiment for Hughes and
'Fairbanks. Talk has been heard of
putting a substitute on the Washing
ton ticket in place of Smith, but this
is unlikely. Progressive leaders feel
that it is too late to do this, even if
pronounced anti-Hughes sentiment was
seon. Besides, they have not been
able to find a candidate. Another rea
son ae-ainst such a course Is that Smith
antagonized many independents imme
diately after the primaries. Baldwin
had beaten him 3 to 1 for the Re
publican nomination and Smith openly
threatened to close out all his busi
ness interests and leave the com
munity because the people had r not
supported him. Badlwin represented
the Twenty-fifth district in the Senate
In 1909-1911. He has made friends of
many former political enemies because
of tireless work for good roads, for
Improved agricultural conditions and
to develop manufacturing in his dis
trict.
United States' Honor
(Portland, Ore., Telegram)
The Republican party has selected
a standardbearer whose utterances
from day to day justify the people
who chose him. Not only does he
bring before the country the short
comings of the administration that
owes its existence to a divided Repub
licanism, but his criticism Is every
where constructive.
He tells what must be done and
will be done by the party he repre
sents to prevent wastefulness and ex
travagance in the governmental ex
penditures and to put a stop to the
vacillating policy that has caused
other nations to believe that the
United States has no intention of
backing up its demands made in the
interests of justice and humanity.
Most vulnerable of all points in the
Democratic armor is its foreign policy.
Primarily this is because of the spoils
system by which men trained in the
consular and diplomatic service
through long years, have been dis
placed to make room for politicians
and friends of politicians, whose sole
claim to preferment was their serv
ices to the Democratic party.
"If I am elected President of the
United StateSi" said Mr. Hughes last
night, "I propose that every man I
put in charge of an important depart
ment shall be a man eminently fit to
discharge the duties of that depart
ment."
The denuding of the diplomatic
service of men of experience in order
to supply political jobs, as has been
done by Mr. Wilson, or with his con
sent, Mr. Hughes denounces as "a
capital offense—trading in the good
name of the United States and dam
aging its honor." "Nobody," he adds
"has a right to pay political debts
with the good name and honor of the
United States."
Which is clear proof that Mr.
Hughes has not been unmindful of
the high principles of government
which must be maintained in order
that this republic shall maintain its
place as a shining example to all na
tions.
Suffragists Busy
Suffragists of the State continue
their campaign for the vote. They
have prepared a series of new fliers
the first two of which have just come
from the press. All the new litera
ture will carry the organization's n«w
slogan: "Suffrage First: Safety Will
Follow."
The most striking of the new fliers
shows a map of the North American
continent, white and black subdivi
sions denoting sections where women
do and do not vote.
Another of the fliers reveals the
attitude of suffragists toward women
in general, mentions advantages that
the workers have gained by coming
in contact with their sisters through
out the State and calling for a unified
womanhood to fight for suffrage.
TOO FAR
By Wing Dinger
When I told my younzsters
That school-opening: date
Was postponed some two weeks.
Both exclaimed, "That's great."
But when I oaid ball games,
Movies and street car
Were tabooed, both said "That's
Going a'bit too far."
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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SYKES. 10 Philadelphia Evening Ledger
Kindling
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE~I
—Rabindranth Tagore Is coming
to this country, but it is not stated
whether he is to build a new Hindu
temple or make a speech in favor of
universal peace.
—Something tells us that we are go
ing to say farewell pretty soon to that
old friend our Palm Beach suit.
—We guess the new dances aren't
going to be very popular. They are
said to have'been passed favorably by
a party of ministers.
—What has become of that once
popular war cry, "Give us Wilson and
ws will give you Pennsylvania"?
—New York has boasted that it has
no such wholesale vice raids as Phila
delphia, one of the reasons being, per
haps that the police force couldn't
make a complete roundup in a single
night.
—Atlantic City has extended its
bathing season one full month and we
would like to know before taking ad
vantage of it how the weatherman
feels on the subject.
EDITORIAL COMMENT"
Agfent Buying Munitions Here For
Venezuela. —Headline. Probably mere
ly preparing for a Presidential elec
tion.—New York World.
The shade of Moses must look down
with keen interest upon the latest Sinai
expedition that is followed by a lino of
water-pipes.—Cincinnati Times-Star.
Marquis Okum says it was not Com
modore Perry, but a Russian envoy,
that opened Japan. But we are speak
ing of the front door. —Boston Herald.
Apparently, when a German drops a
bomb, he hits only women and children,
while an allied aviator can throw one
into a crowd and never vouch a soul
except soldiers in uniform. —Indian-
apolis Star.,
After these political orators finish
the campaign and are all through tell
ing the public what they really think
of one another, they shouldn't complain
if a lot of us fail to vote for any can
didate. —New York Morning Telegraph.
Puck Rewrites History
Puck, the famous humorous weekly,
is going to revise the history of the
country according to the modern
theory of telling the naked truth about
historical events.
The first of its Historical Numbers
appears on the newsstands this week,
and if we may accept tne Initial ar
ticle as an indication of what is to
come ,our satirical contemporary alms
to upset some cherished traditions of
the little red schoolhouse.
Tradition has clouded history since
the beginning of time, explains Puck's
historian. There is abundant testi
mony extant that Joan of Arc was
burned by proxy only, and as a mat
ter of fact lived long enough to settle
down and marry the man of her
choice.
Beatrice, the flame of Dante's pas
sion, was a giddy young debutante of
nine summers at the time of her
death: and facts indicate that if Sir
Walter Raleigh ever laid a cloak over
a mud puddle to protect Elizabeth's
feet, it was the garment of an unfor
tunate retainer and not own richly
brocaded Inverness.
Tradition has painted the Bastile as
a prison of horrors, crowded with un
happy victims of the royal displeas
ure. Facts indicate that it never con
tained more than sixteen or seventeen
prisoners at any one time and that
these reveled in any luxury they
craved.
Puck has uncovered many tradi
tions of our own history as widely at
variance with the facts as the inci
dents quoted.
In the first place, says Puck, Queen
Tsabella never pawned her Jewels to
start Columbus on his voyage of dis
covery, for the very simple reason
that Isabella's jewels had been t>ut to
the slaughter many months before
Columbus appeared at the Spanish
cpurt and asked for yelp.
Nor did the doughty adventurers
on the Mayflower first set foot on
Plymouth Rock, unless they used a
hydroaeroplane, for the waters around
Plymouth Rock would hardly float a
cream skimmer.
Peter Stuyvesant. we learn, enjoyed
the full use of two perfectly good
legs, and the wooden stump handed
down to posterity seems to have been
a figment of the imagination.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
Who are the officers of the Police
Department? How many in the Police
Department? How many divisions in
de --rtment?
Chief of police. T. J. Zell; cap
tain of police, J. P. Thompson; lieu
tenant of police, J. Ed. Wetzel; su
perintendent of detectives, William
L. Windsor. Including officers and
patrolmen the Police Department
consists of 67. The department is
divided as follows; Police and de
tectives.
HOW ABOUT JAPAN?
Uninvited Guests
. By Frederic J. Haskin
L_ __ ' J
BETWEEN Japan and the United
States to-day lie two great un
solved problems. They are the
problem of conflicting Pacific policies
and the problem of immigration.
We are too prone to regard these
questions as settled, as soon as they
drop out of sight for a few weeks or a
few months. They are as far from be
ing settled to-day as they ever were.
More than that, they are continually
adding to their vitality and impor
tance with the passage of time.
Along with the many disadvantages
attaching to the centralizing of power
in the hands of a small group of men,
Japan has derived one compensating
benefit from the system. She has
gained a consistent foreign policy.
Her statesmen have never lost sight
of the two great issues that face their
empire. They have withdrawn those
issues from notice at times, when cir
cumstances seemed unfavorable, but
they have never for a moment for
gotten them. They never relax their
efforts to put Japan in the most favor
able position to meet them when the
time comes.
These issues will come to the front
again, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
They are so real and fundamental
that they will arise of their own vital
ity sooner or later; and Japan stands
ready to raise them as soon as she
thinks the time has come to do so
with advantage.
Japan has steadily pursued her two
fold foreign policy. Her objects are
the opening of a road for her people
to emigrate to the Occident, and the
extension of her power in Asia, with
a view to ultimate dominance of the
Orient. At the time of the sudden
outbreak of the European war, she
had been devoting her attention to
the matter of emigration. With the
war came an unexpectedly perfect op
portunity to further her other aim,
the domination of China, and she
hastily turned to avail herself of it.
Lnder cover of the world-conflict
she extorted concessions from China
that she might never have gained
otherwise. It is no wonder that she
let the emigration question lapse for
the moment. To regard that question
therefore as settled, to imagine that
she has let it lapse for good, would
be the height of short-sighted folly.
Every sign points to a renewal of the
dispute on the part of Japan in the
near future.
The immigration question has been
so thoroughly discussed that it seems
unnecessary to review it. Yet the
very richness of the comment and
argument poured forth on the mat
ter has contributed largely toward
burying the fundamental issue at
stake. The mass of the discussion has
concerned itself with superficial as
pect®. "? f the situation, until the real
conflict of interest, policy and prin
ciple has been almost lost to sight.
Japanese emigration to the Occi
dent so far is only the ripple before
the wa,ve. With Japan's population
increasing: at the rate of almost a mil
lion a year, with the spreading of oc
cidental methods of sanitation and
occidental ideas of the value of life
promising to augment that increase
L as P ass « s . It is obvious
that the eighty thousand Japanese
now in the United States can have no
real effect on the problem one way
or the other.
In themselves they constitute an
other problem, but it is a problem
. a J nd distlnct - American
thought tends to regard the two is
!! U S« fv ? n f' * J a P ar *ese diplomacy has
contributed to the error by focusinc
attention on the case of the Japanese
in America, but it is certain that
Japanese statesmen have never con
fused the problem of what to do with
an increase of population of almost a
million a year with the question of the
status of a few thousand Japanese in
California.
The case of the Japanese in Cali
fornia is in itself a. real issue in Japan
Japanese national pride is a very real
and sensitive thing. The California
question itself will arise again. Japan
dropped the negotiations over the
antlallen land bills with the express
stipulation of resuming them when
she got ready. The gentlemen's agree
ment, by which Japan voluntarily ex
eludes her laborers from the Pacific
coast, and to which she has adhered
with exemplary faithfulness, is still a
source of continual irritation to many
elements in Japan, as a study of the
Japanese press will show. The time
and study devoted to the California
question, the mass of evidence and
argument printed concerning it, all
apply to an important international
deadlock. The bulk of it does not
apply to the great underlying prob
lem at all.
Tlie question has been discussed
with a view to finding a solution which
should meet the wishes of both
parties. Americans of the Pacific
coast have plainly stated their wishes.
They do not want a stream of Japa
nese labor. The Japanese have shown
a willingness to meet the American
viewpoint on this angle, at least tem
porarily. They have voluntarily lim
ited their emigration. They demand
in return, however, that America
should respect thslr national pride
Thus In looking for a solution of the
conflict, investigators have tried to
find a sche/ne which should at once
exclude the Japanese without insult
ing them.
A typical device to this end Is the
AUGUST 29, 1916.
system which would amend all our
emigration laws so that the immi
grants admitted would bear some defi
nite proportion to those already here,
under this arrangement, the people
"of any nation which forms a large
j* n our Population would be
admitted as freely as ever, because
tnose who want to come in are only a
er j small fraction of those we al
ready have with us. On the other
u the Japanese immigration
It- oii dawn to next to nothing
' 11' At the sar ne time, Japanese
| h v " »e r i ut , on an equal footing with
i °f J t t e wol "ld, and thus their
pride would have nothing to take of
! fense at. The pill of exclusion would
go down sugar-coated.
| Such an expedient has its value
but what of the million extra Japa
-1 # m the empire has to find
room for every year?
our inv 'estigators have de-
T.fif themselves to discussion of the
2 the J a P an ese as a resident,
they have photographed him pick
i%.2?? Wber £."- they have compiled
hi« °" s ® arni »g capacity and
tm ? nt of the 80,1 and his
Reaches of contract. They have an
h.is political prejudices, his eco
' ® and his domestic moral
ui" ir conclusions are very valu
" , we must not forget that
they apply to the problem of the
Japanese in the United States, not to
mUHnnt il y ♦ '"? P res sure of Oriental
tion problem the real imm,Era
ti J, hat prohlem - the Chinese ques
"'V represents a fundamental con
flict of policy and principle. It is a
rfJhf t re each side sees itself in the
right, where eadr side feels that na
l'nce a m e I >einß,^ eVen national exist
ence, may depend on the triumph of
havfi°ronn tlon Tu The Japanese must
nfo wf he Un 'ted States bars
tereJts Tf" 1 «K bar the Way ' in the in "
terests of self-preservation—to the
very room they want.
1 time ' J a P an hoped to gain
Pi? g reat ends by gainins the
iof Kreat sf^H° Ped f that her d °minance
! s of eastern Asia would
!}? /?< give her the markets her in
dustries nqeds, but also the field that
her population demands for its expan
i«p.nha h ,l,f,TovirKS«a*a„d'p!, l ?-
•JKSi " r i» - »»:
cnuria. she has encouraged emisrra
"s?.,« nto thesc territories by evwv
possible means. Yet the quantitv of
t? emigration has been negligible
/n a? ? Japanese-controlled railways
in Manchuria find that If they want to
run on a business basis, they have to
labo ''' Ch,nese on
less and do more. They have a lower
Th o e n Tn,ne nda, ' d than ,he Japanese"
them cannot compete with
cid J e^i P t an ° Utlet is to the °c
ciaent. Here she sees land that is
hy Japanese standards sparselv <?et
hs,he«eos a high economfc stand.
HPS' W wages and great opportuni
ties. Her people, who will not colo-
P' z ®^°y ea and Formosa, are willing
to colonize America. «««»»
It is a part of the ironic interna
tional tangle which brings our broad
est principles into conflict with those
of Japan time and again, even atrainct
°" r that the United\stales should
*u ° e western nations
as the one with whom this immigra
tion problem must be settled. There
' s , mu e more land, and land much
more thinly settled, in the vast British
dominions of Canada and Australia
Obeying the natural laws of race
movement, the Japanese would turn
mr fen 111 before they turned to
thl „ . , coast. But complicating
the natural laws of race movement
stand the British navy and the Anglo-
Japanese alliance. Moreover the
Japanese feel that the British colonies
?T re . t °, nI L following the lead of thl
Ignited States in the question of ex
elusion, that to strike the root of the
United States" 1 " 81 d6a ' Wlth 11 in the
An even more natural field for Japa
nese expansion lies to the south of us
In Central and South America, as weli
as in Mexico. Japanese are flowing
slowly but steadily into these regions
where they are not excluded. Thev
have not yet assumed the proportions
m Beems inevitable
that they will. What will be the up
shot of such a situation?
The first South American country
to exclude the Japanese will come into
conflict with Japan. To whom will
South America look for support in the
unequal conflict? Suppose Japan re
to force What of the Monroe
Doctrine then?
The collision of necessity and of
prlnrtple arises at every turn. The
problem is not one to settle itself with
time. It is one that calls more loudly
for settlement as time passes. It Is
not only our national problem, it is a
world-problem. Certain it is that
Japan must find her outlet. She is
one of the great nations of the earth:
she must have room to live her life
and do her work in the world. On the
other hand, we cannot let the road of
her destiny lead over the ruins of
our principles and our institutions.
It is a very real dilemma, and until
it-is solved we must be prepared for
any contingency.
An Age Old Injustice
The Spider—l was the flrst person
to swat flies fn my parlor, yet every
one called me cruel.
lEbenmg (Etjal
It Is feared that Miss Violet Oak
ley's mural paintings will not be on
the walls of the Senate chamber when
the winter session opens. Unless the
paintings can be delivered to the offi
cials before Christmas they cannot be
placed until after the adjournment of
the next session, and word has just
reached them that Miss Oakley has
renewed her insurance upon the un
finished work for a period of six
months, dating from August 27 to
February 27.
Later in the day Miss Oakley issued
a statement that the renewal of the in
surance lipon her work had nothing
whatever to do with a delay in com
pletion, and that she hoped to have
the series of five panels that are to
adorn the senate chamber in a posi
tion facing the members and the vis
itors' gallery completed before the first
of the new year, although paintings
were not a thing that could be com
pleted in a specified time.
When the nineteen mural paintings
to adorn the senate rooms and the
supreme court room are in place the
State capitol will complete the most
notable collection of mural paintings
in the new world. The contract upon
which Miss Oakley is working was
awarded to her in 1913, when the
death of Edwin A. Abbey, whose
classics in the dome of the capitol and
the hall of representatives are among
the capitol's chief attractions.
The death of Mr. Abbey occurred
before he had even made the plans pr
cartoons for the work; so Miss Oak
ley was given one of the most notable
honors ever won by a woman artist
when she was chosen to furnish the
paintings.
Immediately upon receiving the
commission she went abroad to study
history and art, the former in Eng
land, the later in Italy, coming back
six months later with her plans for
the paintings which were approved by
the officials. Since then she has been
busy working upon the panels at her
picturesque studio on the outskirts of
Mount Airy. It was found necessary
to enlarge the buidling which she had
converted into a studio until the ceil
ing is two stories high, to accommo
date the canvas for the two chief
panels of the cycle for the Senate.
The senate pictures, which are near
ing completion, consist of five panels
and have for their text "The Creation
and Preservation of the Union." The
chief panels are entitled "The Consti
tution Convention and the Birth of a
Nation," and "The Dedication of the
Living and the Preservation of that
Union." The former shows Washing
ton presiding over the convention in
Philadelphia, while the second panel
has Lincoln for the central figure and
the battle of Gettysburg for a back
ground. Two smaller panels portray
"The Protest of the Friends Against
Warfare" and "The Manumission of
Slaves." Another panel depicting a
great epic figure of peace flanked by
a representation of converting swords
into plow-shares and breaking the
chains of the slaves completes the
series.
Miss Oakley is under contract for
another series w r hich will com
pletely cover the walls of the superior
court room.
♦ « »
Have you ever seen a picture of
someone yawning and did it have a
similar effect on you? Well, if you
would like to see a realistic represen
tation of a baby in the process of be
ing bored, probably by some adoring
aunt or cousin, just take a look in one
of the well-known downtown photog
rapher's establishments and if your
hand doesn't voluntarily go up to
cover your mouth, why you aren't*
very polite, that's all!
* * «
The Sunday issue of the Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times contains a fine photo
gravure of Col. Edward L. Kearns, the
commander of the Eighteenth infan
try, the Pittsburgh regiment of the
National Guard. Col. Kearns is a for
mer Harrisburger and a relative of a
number of families here.
» * »
Mrs. Samuel Semple, of the State
Industrial Board, who has been investi
gating the manner in which people of
districts to which troops are called in
strikes, is a former president of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs
and one of the most progressive
women in the State. She was the first
woman named to the board.
It's a pleasure to see how the people
here are taking to the business of
sending papers, periodicals, magazines
and the like to the soldiers on the
border to read. They have been hav
ing weather just like the brand we
have enjoyed since Sunday ever since
they landed at the border and when
they finish a hike and camp chores
it's pretty fine to find something to
read. Yesterday afternoon I saw seven
persons mailing literature to soldiers
in the Eighth infantry and First cav
alry. Probably that many remember
the men at the border every day. If
they do not, they should.
This Is the season when the half
year licenses are being Issued by the
State Highway department's automo
bile bureau, but it seems that the de
mand Is keeping up at a rate which
would surprise the average person.
The total number of licenses issued
will be 215,000 before the end of the
month and of this number more than
200,000 will be pneumatic tired ma
chines. There are almost 20,250 mo
tor cycles licensed In the State.
♦ » ♦
Frederic W. Fleitz,former deputy at
torney general, is home from his an
nual fishing trip to Canada, where he
has gone for more than twenty years.
Mr. Flettz is wearing a fine coat of
tan, but admits that there has been
some heat here.
• • *
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew
art will not be able to attend the Na
tional Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Kansas City
this week and it will be the first gath
ering of the kind he has missed for
over a quarter of a century. He is a
past commander in chief and is chair
man of a permanent fund committee.
1-Ie will be unable to attend because of
the pressure of business on his (depart
ment due to National Guard matters.
Our Daily Laugh
INTENSIVE
, FARMING.
I* The Visitor—
Do you call thto
JyffLffipiiS a dairy farm?
' than a city lot.
WfeSS&r '"TllB Tho Dairyman
True! But, you
B ee, I feed my
JX'ji cows on com-
JH pressed hay tab
give condensed
milk.
NO WAT TO fiv
How did the —y
accident happen ? J
I can't make
out. According T\ y WSKli'*
to the statements /r
neither aide was
in any way to NY l\\ _
blame. J | \ >