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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1917
~[Yhen all the blandishments of life
are gone,
The coward sneaks to death —the
brave live on.
— MARTIAL,
A STANDING COMMITTEE
THE proposal to organize a com
mittee of 1,500 Harrlsburg peo
ple for war work, Including
Liberty Loan, Bed Cross and other
-campaigns of the kind, is a step in
the right direction.
By keeping such a body Intact for
the period of the war much duplica
tion of effort In the choice of workers
for various lines, the preparation of
card index systems and similar work
of a preliminary nature will be
avoided.
Also, it will prevent the calling of,
one set of citizens only to the
public service to the exclusion of j
others just as able and just as de
sirous of contributing their efforts, j
■because front 1,50(0 workers can be j
chosen a sufficient number for any j
one task, with regard to previous j
service, as well as adaptability, at the
(same time giving all an opportunity
eventually for work.
GOOD SELECTIONS
THE appointment of Donald Mc-
Cormick as food administrator
for this district, is a particularly
happy selection, Mr. McCormick
having been at the head of this work
in the Chamber of Commerce for the
past year and having organized the
very successful home-garden move
ment in this city last summer. Mr.
McCormick has given hundreds of
dollars from his own pocket to the
l'ood conservation program in Har
rishurg and vicinity. He has made a
careful study of the situation, under
stands its importance from the
standpoint of a patriotic citizen and
practical businessman and should be
able to give valuable services both to
the people and the government.
The choice of Mr. McCormick for
this post follows fast upon the
naming of Ross A. Hickok as fuel ad
ministrator, which was eminently
satisfactory and which Is working
out well in supplying consumers
through a system of coal cards de
signed to prevent duplication and in
jure fair play for everybody.
MILLIONS FOR ROADS
FSW States in the Union are in a
position to say to the national
government that they will
maintain open roads on great cross
country highways all winter, come
•what may in the shape of weather,
to relieve the congestion of traffic on
the railroads because of war or to
pour out thousands of dollars for
construction of roads to enable coal
operators to put their output within
reach of cars. Yet that is exactly
what Pennsylvania is doing now. It
Is only a few short weeks since an
nouncement was made in this news
paper that main highways, such as
tho William Penn and the Lincoln,
were to be put into shape so that
squadrons of motor trucks and auto
mobiles could speed from the fac
tory towns of Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana to the seaboard and that the
passes of the Blue Ridge would be
kept free from snow. Work is al
ready under way to perfect working
forces, while every man and boy
who can be procured in some sec
tions is working on new roads to
tap the mines. It is work which the
national government and the people
nt large will more than appreciate
when winter comes and the assist
ance of the Keystone State govern
ment reaches its full measure.
Not only Is the State fortunate in
that It has the organization to swing
ip on this work for the nation, but
It is blessed 'with an ever-flowing
revenue to meet the expense. Un
der the law, which a few foolish
men sought to nulify some years
ego, all of the revenue' from motor
vehicle licenses goes automatically
to the maintenance of the main
highways. The wisdom of creation
of the great system of main roads
to connect the Important towns and
to afford means of communication
to relieve the railroads Is becoming
apparent, while the plans laid half
fL dozen years ago are commencing
MONDAY EVENING.
to bear fruit In a system that Is
ready to meet the strain of co-opera
tion with the government in war
time.
RAISE MOKE I'IGS
I IEUT. GOVERNOR FRANK B.
J . McCLAIN, who is reckoned as
one of the livestock experts of
the country, has issued a call to the
fnrmers of the State to raise more
pigs. He points out the adaptability
of pork as army food which when
salted and cured keeps in all climates
without refrigeration.
This Is in line with the proposal
now before council for the feeding
of the city's garbage to pigs. Aside
from being the lowest bidder, the
piggery concern plans to be an aid
to the government by helping in
crease the food supply in a really big j
way.
Council will so to Lancaster to-j
dav to see how the plan is working
out there. Sirtce the company which
conducts the piggeries of that city
ptoposes to extend its system to
Harrisburg. it must And the project
profitable, and since it is by far the
lowest bidder on the surface, there
appears no reason why the plan
should not be given a trial here. One
thing that Council should insist upon
lis that the piggeries be located far
i enough from frequented roads or
' residential districts to prevent them
| from being the nuisance the garbage
! disposal plant in the West End long
has been.
By the reduction method of dis
posal. while large quantities of fats
are recovered, other large quantities j
of organic matter go to waste. Feed
to pigs and nothing is wasted, even
the residue being sold to farmers for
fertilizer. It amounts only to this—
that what the human consumer re
jects the hog eats and this refuse
Is turned into animal fat and meat,
both of which are needed by the
world now as never before.
Beside, the collector who has a
large number of pip's to feed will
make prompt collections in order to j
be able to give his porkers food that ;
is still fresh.
PHEASANT PROTECTION
ONE of two things must happen !
—either the pheasants of Penn- j
sylvania must be better pro
tected or they will be exterminated.
Pheasant shofttlng is one of the
gamest sports- known to the hvinter
of small game. The forests of this
State have been prime gunning
ground ever since the white men
came. But of late years the birds
have been shot off in very large num
bers.
The repeating shotgun has been
their worst enemy, and men who
evade the law or openly break it by
shooting more than the legal limit
are also largely responsible for the
rapid depletion of the pheasant sup
ply. The man who takes more than
two shots at a pheasant doesn't de
serve to have his bird, yet the woods
are full of those who bang away
sometimes a half dozen times be
fore they finally bring down their
tird and by others who kill their
own limit and then fill the bag of a
companion. If this wanton slaugh
ter JL not stopped in a few years the
pheasant will be as extinct as the
passenger pigeon
A JOINT HOSPITAL
THE always Inadequate smallpox
quarantine building, which the
city has been pleased to term
the Municipal Hospital, has long j
since outlived whatever usefulness itj
ever may have had. It is neither j
.large enough to meet the kind of an
epidemic with which we are threat
ened nor such a place as the com
munity should provide for persons
who are forced to go there whether
they will or no.
The time has arrived when the
city and the county should join
fortes looking toward the erection
of a modern contagious disease hos
pital to be operated in conjunction
with the county home. The burden
of caring for the smallpox victims j
of the county has been largely on
Harrisburg's shoulders for many
years, outside towns contributing
only when they had patients in
quarantine. The investment and j
tip-keep have been borne by the tax- i
payers of the city. This is scarcely j
fair and the time may come when |
the city, by the very nature of condi. j
tlons* may find It necessary to turn!
away patients from other parts of
the county, In which case distress
ing results might follow.
The protection of all concerned
and the Interests of general econ
omy demand that the city and county
should join In the building of a suit
able hospital, at least the project
should be financed so that in an
arising emergency could be met even
If the conclusion, should be reached
that the scarcity of labor and high
cost of materials make building at
| this particular time Inadvisable.
CHANCE FOR VOLUNTEERS
WHAT probably will be the last
chance of the man of draft
age to go into the Army as a
volunteer Is afforded by the exten
sion of time announced by the Har
risburg recruiting office to-day under
orders from Washington permitting
conscripts, even though called to the
colors, to jolh the Army through the
regular channels.
This gives the recruit opportunity
to choose his own branch of the ser
vice. It is likely that the new order
will take into the Army a large
number of young men whose enlist
ments will count heat-ily against
the next draft for this district.
'ptKKOijfccanXa
By the Ex-Committeeman
The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
which a few days ago said that the
choice of the leaders of the Demo
cratic state machine for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor was
Acting Htate Chairman "Joe" Gut
fey, state petroleum administrator, 1
and that Secretary of Labor W. B.:
Wilson, Chairman Vance C. McCor-l
inick, of the War Trade Board, and]
A. Mitchell Palmer, who also has a
federal place, would not consider the ;
nomination, to-day says that the
scheme of the Democratic leaders is
to run McCormick for governor next
year and for president in 1920, if he 1
is elected governor. ,
The Ledger's story harks back to,
the days when Robert E. Patton was
elected governor of Pennsylvania and!
was re-elected. When Pattison was
elected for the second time In 1890!
the Pennsylvania Democracy's lead- 1
er, William F. Harrlty, became na
tional chairman. Cleveland was
elected president in 1892. When
Pattison was nominated for the third
time in 1902 it was proclaimed that
if he won Pennsylvania he would
be candidate for president in 1904.:
A week ago Michael J. Ryan, pub-'
lie service commissioner, defeated
for the nomination by McCormick
after a bitter fight in 1914, set up
a loud shout in Atlantic City and be
gan waving an olive branch at Mc-
Cormick, proclaiming him as the
logical Democratic candidate for
governor next year.
Mr. McCormick is "somewhere in I
Europe."
—Echoes of Reading's strenuous 1
municipal campaign are still being!
heard along the Schuylkill and one
of the city assessors uccused of help
ing the Socialists in their drlvo will
be dropped.
• —Connellsvllle's chief of police, j
Barthold Rottler, has handed in his!
resignation as he was accused of be- j
ing too pro-German for an Amer-!
lean municipal officer. It is said
that some of the policemen threat- i
ened to strike If he remained.
—The name of the Town Meet-1
ing party was to-day pre-empted for
Adams county.
—Pittsburgh's school board has.
thrown out the school books in
which ' the Kaiser is praised. The
city's books will be censored.
—Democrats throughout the state
are wondering what things are com
ing to. Men desiring to be Income
tax Inspectors must take examina
tions. What's the use of being a
party worker, ask somo of the ma
chine men.
Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin, of j
Philadelphia, will join the party of!
speakers to go through the state to
combat the German propaganda.
—The Supreme Court has refused i
to grant a supersedeas In the Dick- j
son City election case. The case Willl
now be heard by the Supremo Court j
the fourth Monday In January. This!
is the case in which Thomas Thomas, \
a member of the faction in Dickson 1
city that lost out in the recent elec-1
tion, came into court a few days!
alter election, alleging fraud in the
First ward and asking that the bal-j
lot boxes from tho entire borough
be opened.
A dispatch from Coatesville saysi
that city's auditorship is in a mud- j
die and Attorney General Francis j
Sliunk Brown may be called upon to!
straighten It out. George G. Myer
was elected In November for thoi
seventh consecutive term as the city's j
single alderman. At the same time
Myer was re-elected, the electors
voted to divide the city into five
wards. Under the third-class city j
act, each ward is entitled to an al-1
derntan and a constable, but these |
officers could not be voted for until i
the measure to divide the city into!
wards was decided upon. Two years'
hence,.candidates will be voted for. |
As soon as the ward measure pass-1
ed, numbers of citizens desired to be- j
come aldermen and constables fori
the various wards. Petitions wero
forwarded to Governor Brumbaugh,;
to make appointments.
—An Interchange of broadsides
between Senators Penrose and Vare
enlivened Philadelphia last night.
The Senator stirred up the city with ;
the declaration that he feared that]
beforo the Smith administration
closed tho city would face a $3 tax|
rate and after assailing what he
termed wasting of the people's
money said that he would stay in the
tight with tho independents until the
city was freed of "contractor rule."
The Senator also said that he would
insist on a bill taking police out of
politics in Philadelphia. Senator
Vara countered by again reading
Senator Penrose out of the party
and assertirtg that he is not inter
ested in garbage contracts. He also
announced that the Republican
party oommittee favored a bill to
take police out of politics.
—The offices of the late Senator
McNichol in Philadelphia have been
closed. They were on the same floor
of the Lincoln building as those of
Senator Vare.
—D. T. McKelvey, city detective
of Hazleton, has resigned and the
city council will not fill the place
because of economy.
—Speaking at Philadelphia Sena
tor Penrose said: "Fraud was reck
lessly and systematically practiced in
the recent election against the Town
Meeting candidates, more so than
ever before in the history of Phila
delphia. Even in the face of the
avalanche of fraud the Town Meet
ing ticket would have been electe.l
on the police returns had there been
a proper interpretation of the mark
ing of the ballot. 1 intend to adhere
steadfastly to the resolution an
nounced by me on several occasions
to co-operate with any body of citi
zens until contractor rulo shall be
exterminated from the councils of
the Republican party in Philadel
phia. And in this connection I may
add that scores of up-state l{publi
cans have called on me In the last
few days and have expressed hearty
commendation of my course in this
important situation. These leaders
and their friends are glad to be re
lieved of the stigma of rule by street
cleaners and garbage collectors and
they are happy that tliev will be
backed up by a majority of the qual
ified electors of this city."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer in a
Chester County political review says:
"Evidently assuming that Superin
tendent McDowell was too closely re
lated and altogether too useful to
the Penrose-Eyre wing of the parly,
Governor Brumbaugh, through
Highway Commissioner O'Neil, last
week asked for the resignation of
the ministcr-roadbuilder. The action
of the eighteen foremen was in the
nature of a walkout. The summary
action of the miffed officials in no
way affected the Exalted Broadaxe
of the Great White Palace along the
Susquehanna, who promptly ap
pointed to be county superintendent,
AVilliam H. Clark, of Denape. The
latter, whose official regime begins
December 1, states that he neither
had desire nor intention of dismiss-
the 'li<;runtlpd officials. The
citizens of the county, 1 however, re
gard the removal of McDowell as
purely a move in the came of poli
tics." p
HAHRISBURG CjSKS& TELEGRAPH
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The promotion of honey as a food
product has been taken up by bee
keepers in this state with the object
of using it instead of sugar. Last
week proprietors of restaurants in
Providence, R. 1., utilized SI,OOO
worth of honey in this way and the
customers said they liked it.
• • *
What a change in twenty years!
The City of London celebrated Field
Marshal Haigr's victory, in France
with "ringing of bells, flying of!
flags and sober thanksgiving." Dur-'
ing the Boer War when Mafeking I
fell all London was drunk for one I
week."
• • •
Here is the very last word in draft!
escaping, comes from New York I
stfite, Just over the Keystone bound
ary. A woman married her step
son so that he might evade service.
The secret was discovered by her
husband who was the father of the
newly-wed son by a former mar
riage. Even Solomon might have
been puzzled.
• • •
Only the man who handles one
knows the inconvenience of traveling
with a cello. Thus bitterly spoke a
musician the other day when he
tumbled, 'cello and all, off a train
platform in Philadelphia. Reminds
one of the Irishman, somewhat in
toxicated, who saw a gentleman, a
connoiseur who would trust the
valuable thing to no express wagon,
lugging home a grandfather's clock
from a sale. '"Scuse me" suggested
Pat soulfully, "but, sorr, why don't
ye buy yourself a watch?"
• • •
In letters written home from
Pennsylvania lads with the flying
corps in France.it appears that the
aviators have an uncommon attach
ment for their machines. A recent
one tells a thrilling story of a mere
boy who refused to descend to Ger-I
man territory and save himself, pre-1
ferring to land on friendly soil
though it cost him death. "I'm aw
ful sorry, Doctor, I couldn't bring
the old bus back intact," were his
last words.
♦ • •
Writer's cramp affects the wrist,
Informs a local cure-all doctor in
answer to an anxious inquirer. Not l
always, though. Sometimes it hits
the stomach.
MAYOR KEISTER
"C. W. Fink, of 1716 West Phila- 1
delphia street, who has been at work 1
on the buildings at the Middletown
Aviation Camp, and a member of the!
Carpenters' Union, has returned to'
his home, the Middletown work be-'
ing completed.
"George M. Weigle, of local 242, i
Typographical Union, was in Harris- i
burg last Saturday shaking hands
with Jiro. Dan L. Keister, of Harris-!
burg local, who was elevated from
the case o th.-t of Mayor of th
Capital City. The new Mayor told
George that he came to Harrisburg
from Altoona in 1885 to work for
two weeks and they wouldn't let :
him go back to the Mountain City. 1
Keister has been councilman, state
assemblyman, representative to the
International Typographical Union
and now Mayor. He thinks of run
ning for governor later on. The
beauty of Dan is that he never con
siders himself more than a working
man or a volunteer fireman, being
president of Friendship, No. 1. for
years."—York Labor Advocate.
JUDGE HALL'S DEATH
The death of Judge Harry Alvin
Hall of this city on Saturday, re
moved the youngest and the last of
a notable trio of the Hall family of
Elk County, all of whom were in
their time prominent in the Demo
cratic politics of the state. John G.
Hall, the eldest and ablest, was a
leader for his party in the State Sen
ate a nu'i of learning and IK:I1
acumen. Later James Knox Polk
Hall was a member of the as
well as at another time a member
of Congress. He was very active in
politics, and was a valuable financial
assistant to Colonel Guffey during
the time the Colonel was conducting
the operations of the Democratic
party in the state. Harry Alvin Hall
also served in the State Senate, but
resigned and was chosen to the
Judgeship in the Clinton-Cameron-
Elk district. They were all men of
ability and were popular in Elk
county where the Democrats could
always turn up a majority and were
ever ready to give it to one of the
Hall family.—-Philadelphia Press.
INSPIRATIONS
Every life has its potentialities of
greatness.
Renounce yourself, accept the cup
given you, with its honey and its gall
as it comes.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph
of the soul over the llesh.
Heroism is the dazzling and glor
ious concentration of courage.
Duty has the virtue of making ws
feel the reality of a positive world
while at the same time detaching us
from it.
Action is but coarsened thought.
Spite is anger which is afraid to
show itself; it is an impotent fury
conscious of its impotence.
Nothing resembles pride so much
as discouragement:
Life is but a tissue of habits.—
Amiel.
BETSY S BATTLE FLAG
From dusk till dawn the livelong
night
Sho kept the tallow dips alight,
And fast her nimble fingers flew
To sew the stars upon the blue.
With weary eyes and aching head
She stitched the stripes of white and
red,
.And when the day came up the stair
Complete across a carven chair
Hung Betsy's battle flag.
Like shadows in the evening gray
The Continentals filed away.
With broken boots and ragged coats,
But hoarse defiance in their throats;
They bore the marks of want and
cold,
And some were lame and some were
old,
And some with wounds untended
bled,
But floating bravely overhead
Was Betsy's battle flag.
When fell the battle's leaden rain
The soldier hushed his moans of
pain
And raised his dying head to see
King George's troopers turn and flee
Their charging column reeled and
broke, *
And vanished in the rolling smoke,
Before the glory of the stars
The snowy stripes and scarlet bars
Of Betsy's battle flag.
The simple stone of Betsy Ross
Is covered now with mold and moss,
But still her deathless banner files.
And keeps the color of the skies,
A nation thrills, a nation bleeds,
A nation follows where it leads.
And every man is proud to yield
His life upon a crimson field
For Betsy's battle flag.
I -—Minna Irving.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By Briggs
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Kultur—The Law of the Hive
Editorial Reprinted from The Chris, ian Science Monitor
FOR three years the world has
heard the word Kultur used
with a frequency which has
caused it to accept it almost as a
matter of course. Yet it is doubtful
if even yet it attaches to it the
meaning with which it is weighted:
in Bonn or Jena. In the English
language culture means simply the 1
cultivation of the human mind so
as to produce a certain intellectual
refinement. And this is the mean
ing the ordinary speaker of English
is apt mentally to read into the word
Kultur. But the meaning of Kultur
to the German mind is something
entirely different. It may be
summed up almost as the law of the
hive. In other words it is the the
ory that the state is the manifesta
tion of the divine idea.
No man ever put this more clear
ly than Heinrich von Treitschke, the
very high priest of Kultur. The es
sence of the state, he insists, is pow
er. As a result, it follows that the
ideal of self-sacrifice ends with the
individual, and does not apply to tne
state, since there is nothing higher
than the state to which the stute
can sacrifice itselt. l'nus the highest
duty of the state, like that of the
hive, is one of self-conservation.
Out of this, then, inevitably grows
the distinction. Treitschke himself
insists upon, between private and
public morality. The moral law in
cumbent on the individual is abro
gated in the person of the state, tor
the state, being power, lias no law
save that of sell-preservation or self
assertion. Owing to this the arch
political crimo is weakness. Weak
ness in the name of the state is the
sin against the Holy Ghost.
Mystery of i'rightfulness Unveiled
Anybody who grasps what' this
means will have no difficulty what
ever in unveiling the mystery of the
German exhibition of frightfulness
during the present war.
The individual must not repudiate
his signature to a lease or a bond,
but the stato may regard a treaty,
as in the case of the Belgian guar
antee. as "a scrap of paper."
The Individual must not ignore tlio
law of property or trespass, but the
state may invade a country, as in
the case of Belgium, which it is
pledged to defend, and seize thu
property of the nation for its own
purposes.
The individual must not commit
murder, but the state is entirely ex
empt from such restrictions, and
may take life individually, as in the
case of Miss Cavell, or in the mass,
as in the case of the passengers on
the Lusitania, without compunction.
This does not, of course, mean
that the people of Germany are pe
culiarly cruel, or that they are
troubled with a double dose of what
the world terms original sin. But it
does mean thay they have delivered
themselves over to a political philos
ophy which Is immoral in its theory
and inhuman in its practice.
The apostle of Kultur, however,
does not view it from this stand
point at all. He has worked out
his theory with the exactness of a
quadratic equation. In time of war
the one mind is the General Staff.
If the General Staff says, "Sink with
out trace," sink without trace.it
must be. Just as. If the General Staff
decides on deportations, deportations
there must be. The idea must be
right and must bo obeyed, even if
the world perishes under the demon
stration of it, because thp. General
Staff has so decided.
German Theory of Survival
Now, In practice, Kultur.is the ap
plication of the neo-Darwinlsm to
politics. It was the apostle of Kul
tur who first dreamed of applymp
the law of natural selection to the
state. Natural selection is the the
ory that nature eventually chooses
and preserves the types best adapted
to her purpose. Mankind, to the be
liever In Kultur, is entirely subject
to the law of evolution. It is divided
up into races and organizations all
committed to the law of struggle.
Since, however, both the types and
nre irreconcilable, the re
morseless and pitiless struggle must
continue until nature selects,
through victory over the others, the
fittest type and the moat goctool of
ganizatlon. J
The theory of the German profes
sors, then, is that the German race
is the fittest to survive, and as such
has been selected by nature, and that
this being so, its Kultur or form of
political organization must, by the
will of nature, be imposed, with the
same ruthlessness with which the
animal or the plant struggles for
supremacy, upon the rest of the
world. Such a struggle is to the
death, and just as physical nature
knows no mercy nor compromise, so
no mercy nor compromise must be
shown by the state. Mercy, com
promise, these are evidences of
weakness, and as such, in the words
of Treitschke, the sin, in politics,
against the Holy Ghost.
It is easy tc see from this how
the professor as well as, even more
than, the soldier, and the merchant
equally with the Junker, have been
able to acc?pt and justify scraps of
paper, Lusitania sinkings, deporta
tions, and even the most sanguinary
holocaust of German battalions on
the battlefield. War is brutal, but it
is nature's way of conducting the
struggle. The fittest must survive,
and to achieve the right to survive
the hive must send its battalions, if
necessary, in dense formations up
to the muzzle of the machine guns
in the trenches.
Germans the Chosen People
If there is this mercilessness for
the German variety of the species
destined to prevail for the purpose
of saving the species by impressing
Kultur on the other varieties, how
can it be expected that mercy should
be shown to those varieties. It is na
ture's method of selection, and really
needs no defense from men. It is
the law of the hive, and because of
this it is futile and unjust to blame
the Queen Bee.
That . promised land of the new
dispensation, then, is to be Mittel-
Kuropa. and the chosen people the
German inhabitants thereof. The
puro Germans would not be suffi
cient to impose Kultur upon man
kind, and therefore the first step is
to bring the other hives in its neigh
borhood under the Influence of Kul
tur. Friedric Naumann in his well
k'nown book, "Mittel-Europa," ex
plains how this is to be done. "All
the traditional separatism of these
lands," he writes, "must be so. ef
faced in the stress of the great war
as to make the idea of union tol
erable."
There will, he admits, no doubt be
strong opposition to the new stato
in Austria and Hungary, but the un
ion, in spite of this, is inevitable.
In plain English, just as the Mo
hammedan started out from Mecca to
impose the religion of the Prophet
on humanity with a scimitar, so the
German is to start out from Pots
da to impose the religion of Kultur
on humanity with a machine gun.
Kultur a Religion in Itself
For be it remarked, Kultur is a
religion in itself. Herr Naumann
makes this plain enough. "When
Bismarck's empire made its peace
with the Pope and the party of the
Center," he writes, "the Protestant
character of the Hohenzollern Em
perors became an unofficial private
affair of those who, as wearers of
of the crown were above creeds."
In other words, the state being
superior to the human sense of mor
ality, being in sort, a religion In it
self, the ruler of the state, thougn
he may continue in an unofficial way
to describe himself as a Protestant,
is placed above the creed.
In precisely the same way there Is
no reasoning with the hive. Given
such premises, there is only one ar
gument which has a chance of be
ing listened to in reply. It is that
"Wayland Smith" can swing a heav
ier hammer than Thor.
No man foresaw more clearly what
was coming, or understood more
thoroughly the Inevitable result of
the new philosophy, than that won
derful Jew, Heine. Long ago, in the
past century, he warned France, in
particular, of what would happen
in the days when the gods of the
Stone Age were revived In the scien
tific philosopher. In thnt day, lie
declared, Thor, with his coiossal
(hammer, would leap across the
DECEMBER 3, 1917.
Rhine to smash in pieces the Gothic
cathedrals.
Often, in the past few years, as
they have watched the German
shells dropping through the roof or
splintering the carvings of the great
Church of St. Itemi, in Rheims,
must the people of Champagne have
thought of this warning, and have
realized that there was nothing for
it but to accent t.hR advice of the
poet, and to remain on guard with
their rifles on their shoulders.
LABOR NOTES
Tokio, Japan has 800 public baths,
Of Canada's unionists 30.5 per
cent are railroad employes.
Texas railroads are hampered for
want of skilled labor.
The British postal department
employs 40,000 women.
British co-operative societies have
a membership of 3,310,724.
Edinburgh, Scotland, will experi
ment with women scavengers.
Grent efforts nre being made to
revive shipbuilding in Wales.
Virginia unions demand the regu
lation of injunctions in labor dis
putes.
I.i some German cities 30 per cent
of the metal workers are women.
Mexico makes the maximum limit
of night work seven hours.
Over 75.000 wnn-ion now are em
ployed in the British Civil Service.
New South Wales, Australia, has
a new workmen's compensation act
in operation.
The tribunal of Frankford-au-Main
recently decided that a woman who
was taking the place of a man was
entitled to receive the same pay.
At the convention of Pennsylvania
organized bookbinders it was decided
to include New Jersey and Maryland
in the next conference.
Barbers at Fort Wayne, Ind„ are
asking for increased pay.
The corn production bill (which
provides among other things for a
minimum weakly wage of 25 shil
lings—s6.oß—for farm labor) be
;cHii" In"' hefi" - e the adjournment
of tile British Parliament.
I
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
WHAT CHANGES TIME HATH
WROUGHT.
Customer— What kind of a ring la
his Mr. Giffany?
Mr. Giffany—That is a genuine
lugar solitaire, cut from select loaf
uigar. and very popular, 1 might
i(Jd
BESS EXPENSIVE.
"Edith says she would rather
dance than eat.
"Well, she'll find plenty of men
who would rather sign a dance pro
gramma than a dinner check.'*
Bfftttng ffllpt
Harrisburg'a unique situation in
regard to its supply of river coal,
which instead o£ becoming exhausted
seems to be increasing in extent
every year, is commencing to attract
statewide attention, especially among
the people of the North branch of
the Susquehanna whose mining
methods have been the means of
furnishing the state's capital with
fuel for the effort. Only a few weeks
ago a couple of men from Lacka
wanna and l-itizerne coCinties took oc
casion while here to make extensive
inquiries regarding the amount of
coal dredged from the SusquehannaA| v
and expressed the opinion that if the%.
communities up the stream took the
proper precautions there would not
be so much. They agreed, however,
with some folks from Northumber
land county, who made some obser
vations here last summer, that Har
risburg was sure of river coal for
years to come because the bed of
the stream is lined with coal for
many miles north of Harrisburg and
that each succeeding freshet would
bring to the doors ot the capital re
newal of its store. Rivermen say
that thte sanitary dam docs not
amount to very much as a coal
catcher. Sand bars are said to be
the great means of forming deposits.
The rocky ledges which extend
across the stream at Dauphin and
the "falls" at Kockville do not seem
to hold as much fine coal as the shal
low places near McCormick's island
or the grass patches between Inde
pendence Island and the Harrisburg
Academy. And, oddly enough, the
rivermen say that down around
Steelton and Higlispire there is the
b®st coal dredging to he found' in
the whole Harrisburg district every
now and then. The coal see'lis to go
with currents, which, as everyone
familiar with the vagaries of the
Susquehanna knows, swing and
switch around every year and move
sand bars and great trees with ease.
* • •
Daniel P. Gerberich. former presi
dent pro tem. of the State Senate and
long senator from Lebanon county,
who was buried today, had a host
of friends among men prominent in
affairs of Pennsylvania for the last
quarter century and was one of the
most traveled men in the Legislature
in a long time. He had been in prac
tically every state and after the
Spanish War made a point of visiting
the insular possessions. He was a
warm friend of Secretary of Internal
Affairs Henry Houck, who was also
a wide traveler, and the two used to
like to exchange impressions of
places they had visited. Dr. Ger
berich practiced medicine all his life
in Lebanon county and was known
to thousands of its people, while ho
enjoyed as large an acquaintance in
eastern Dauphin county as any one.
It la not generally known but Dr.
Gerberich was sponsor for most of
the pure food laws enacted here in
the last deeude.
*
The fine weather prevailing in the
middle of the last few days, a re
minder of the glorious Indian sum
mer weather we had before Thanks
giving day, has had the effect of
causing many people to go out for
runs in automobiles and they have
been well repaid, for the scenery
around Harrisburg in the bright
early winter sunlight is particularly
fine. Reservoir Park's knobs offer
a fine place for a view about noon
and any one who walks up will be
well repaid.
• • •
Harrisburg weather conditions,
which have been more than once r#
ferred to as unusual this fall, have
seldom produced a finer December
day than yesterday. The sunshine
was bright from early morning and
the sunset was one of the kind that
people visiting here have loved to go
home and tell of. The colors in the
western sky when the sun sank be
hind the first spurs of the Blue
Ridge wei'e brilliant as they were
varied and the paling from red to
pink and then to the lightest green
speedily giving way to the darkness
of evening attracted much attention.
*
Casper Dull, president of the board
of trustees of the Harrisburg Public
Library, is on his annual hunting
trip to North Carolina. Mr. Dull has
visited that state for years in the
hunting season.
•
Edgar C. Felton's plan for distrib
ution of labor in this state, which
has been endorsed by the Public Ser
vice Commission and will be put into
effect soon, has attracted attention
from other states. In a number of
instances letters have come to tho
state authorities making inquiry as
to the methods to be followed.
Pennsylvania has such a varied in
dustrial system that anything which
may be worked out to provide the
labor necessary to keep mines and
mills, factories and shipyards, farms
and railroads, to say nothing of
stores, going will be of vital impor
tance to every other state.
0 •
• £ •
Governor Brumbaugh, who visited
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods and Commissioner of Health
Dixon while in Philadelphia, reports
both of them improving rapidly. Dr.
Dixon is now at his home in the
Bryn Mawr district.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Ex-Representative Josiah How
ard has taken charge of the stamp
sales for Cameron county.
—Horace A. Beale, active in behalf
of the soldiers' aid committee in
Chester county, used to be connected
with tho works at Steelton years
ago.
—Attorney General Brown is one
of the attorneys engaged in the Nix
on-Schubert battle in Philadelphia.
—Charles M. Schwab has agreed
to be one of the speakers at the
Greater Bethlehem Chamber of Com
merce meeting.
—Ambassador Roland S. Morris is
making addresses on Democracy In
the capital of tho Mikados.
—C. H. Muir. one of the new
United States Army generals, is a
Pennsyivanian.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
That Ilarrisburu's new hotel
is already commencing to attract
comment from traveling men?.
HISTORIC HARRISBTTRG t
One hundred years ago there were*
two tanneries and a brewery in the
district which is now known as the
Fourth ward.
Chaplain Bassler's Post
Captain Bassler, formerly of the
old Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry,
and one of the foremost chaplains in
the division, has been attached to
the Ammunition Train. Services are
held regularly at 9 a. m. Sundays.—,
From Camp and Trenclj,
HERE'S XNFWTSDISON
Jim Jacobs has Invented a collar
with roller bearings inside the foli,
BO that the necktie may be slipped
without stretching it in two or bend
ing the collar all out of shape.—Coi
, feyvllle (Kaa) Journal.