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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1918
HOME HIS PLACE
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THE President's reasons for find
ing it "necessary" to attend
the opening sessions of the
peace conference in Europe will not
appeal to many Americans. Just why
it is "necessary" for him to sit at the
peace table, even if the meetings
were held in the United States, is
not clear. The country will be repre
sented by able delegates, who would
be perfectly conversant with his
views, and who would be better able
to sound out the sentiments of the
other delegates than the President
himself, since the expressions of the
executive would be regarded as pro
nouncements of opinion from which
he might find it embarrassing to re
cede, if that became necessary. Fur
thermore, the President at the peace
conference will outrank ail of the
other delegates, which is not fair
either to France qr Great Britain,
which have borne the brunt of the,
war.
There appears to be no reason
why the President should absent him
self from his own country where other
great problems are waiting solution
to engage in peace discussions which
might just as well be left to other
American representatives quite as
well qualified as the President to
pass upon the points at issue as they
come up.
Even since the fifth of November,
when the people answered the
President's demand for a partisan
Congress, there has been an evident
purpose among his friends to force
the head of the government into a
position where he alone may exercise
power which should rest equally
upon the legislative and executive
department^.
The Congress which will assemble
at the conclusion of the present ses
sion will not be a rubber-stamp body.
It is going to Insist upon a proper
participation in all matters affect
ing the government of the United
States and as the President has
raised the issue he must abide by the
consequences. One of the most
astute of the press correspondents
at Washington says, "Mr. Wilson
himself never Has trusted his own
Congress, although it has been
manned by Democrats ever since he
has been President. He never has
consulted with its leaders, even ol
his own party, except to call them
in and issue his orders to them. \he
Republicans he has Ignored com
pletely because they might not have
agreed with him in all details o(
domestic legislation and Mr. Wilson
has only contempt for men not ol
his own view."
But the conditions have changed,
and realizing that he can no longer
use Congress as a rubber stamp ih<
President now seeks to force his
views and dominate the peace settle
ment without regard to the clear
Impression of public sentiment at
the November election.
President Wilson has developed an
ambition which will not be gratified
by the people of the United States,
nor will the able men in the Senate
and House at Washington consent to
his being the exclusive arbitor ol
the issues of the European war. Un
fortunately for the President, hr
attitude from the very beginning ol
the war and before the entrance ol
the United Statos into it has nol
strengthened his hold upon the
people, He has switched too often
to be regarded as a superman to
direct the peace conference. On thir
point the Washington representative
of the Boston Transcript says:
The country had no sooner
Plunged Itself heroically and
whole-heartedly Into the war than
the President began talking
peace; not that there were any
signs of peace on the horizon or
TUESDAY EVENING,
that he expected any. but that
when peace came It should be a
Wilson peace, devtsed and carried
through by Woodrow Wilson. The
President's speech defining the es
sentials of such a peace as he
would negotiate, some fourteen In
number, was made January S, 1918.
when it was a toss-up whether
Germany or the Allies would
win the ~war. As construed at the
time, it was rather an effort to
block certain purposes of Ger
many in case she were victorious
than an attempt to lay down the
simple principles of a dictated
peace. Germany almost won the
war. but the fourteen points, with
a few amendments covering the
Csecho-Slovaks and the proposed
league of nations, are still doing
business at the old stand—not
withstanding that, as Frank It.
Simonds has pointed out, five of
them have nothing to do with
peace, but relate to certain social
and economic Questions which can
not be considered by any Govern
ment until peace has been pro
claimed. These five points, as Mr.
Simonds indicates, deal with open
covenants, freedom of navigation,
the removal of economic barriers
between nations, adequate guar
antees for the reduction of arma
ments and the Institution of a
figue of nations. Some of these
e highly controversial matters
this as in other countries with
which Germany Is at war.
It is obvious to any thinking per
sons that the President will be satis
fied with nothing save absolute free
dom of political action, "without as
sistance, Interference, consultation
or anything else from the Senate of
the United States as far as his per
sonal conduct of peace negotiations
is concerned." It seems absurd at
this late day for the United States
to assume autocratic power in the
final adjustment of peace conditions.
This country has done well in the
eleventh honor of the conflict, but
it should not be placed in a false
position by any ambitious role arbi
trarily assumed by the President.
We should modestly and disinter
estedly aid in a broa„ and generous
and permanent peace settlement by
and with the co-operation of the
other nations concerned,
"Up to a certain point," says the
same correspondent, "Mr. Wilson has
rendered a world service of inesti
mate value in co-ordinating the war
aims of the Allies and the United
States as .a moral proposition, but
the events of the last two weeks
have demonstrated very clearly that
he can render a disservice by putting
the cart before the horse. *
In fact, it might almost be inti
mated that the American people
would like to listen to ths peace
propositions of England, France and
Belgium before singing too loud of
.heir own. No doubt these would
not differ materially from the Wil
son propositions in most respects,
but they would be so clear that they
would leave no room for debate as
to their meaning."
But even more important than
these considerations is that of the
needs of the moment in the United
States. At a time when industry is
struggling with the problem of turn
ing from \sar to peace, the place of
the President is at home. Vital ques
tions of policy, important decisions
which only the executive cpn makp,
will be matters of everyday develop
ment at Washington for the next
three or four months, or longer, and
his place is at his desk. There never
was a time when it was so import
ant that the finger of the President
should be constantly on the pulse of
the country as now. Our peace dele
gates will be very well able to look
after our interests abroad, but the
President alone is authorized to an
swer many of the questions notf
arising at home.
Nothing will be accomplished by
the President going abroad save the
embarrassment of the peace dele
gates and a little personal aggran
dizement for himself, and it is to be
strongly suspected that a desire to
bask for a little while in the spot
light of popular attention in Europe
is the prompting influence back of
his decision to participate in the con
ference. •
THE MEETING TONIGHT
HARRISBURG people ought to
turn out In largo numbers to
night to hear Major William
B. Gray discuss his proposal to make
the Susquehanna river navigable.
This meeting at the Technical High
school ought to be made memorable
in the history of the city. It will
mark the first step toward making
Harrisburg a maritime as well as a
railroad traffic center.
Major Gray, who is one of the dis
tinguished engineers of the country,
and who is an authority on the
handling of waterway developments,
is confident the river can be suffi
ciently deepened at reasonable ex
pense to warrant the undertaking of
the enterprise. He is prepared to
show 'that many of the difficulties
which less enterprising engineers
have regarded as insurmountable
can be disposed of at reasonable cost
and effort, and that the project Is
such as should have the prompt and
energetic attention of the com
munity.
Major Gray's findings will be
backed up with data collected by
the State Water Supply Commission,
and presented by Chairman Zent
myer, of that body. The importance
of the subject to be discussed is
recognized by the people of other
towns along the river and big dele
gations will be here from Colum
bia and elsewhere. If the major's
planq, are to come to anything the
whole Susquehanna vfe&ay must get
back of the movement. Harrisburg,
the central point and one which
would bo most benefitted, perhaps,
is vgry properly the rallying point,
but the Chambers of Commerce and
other civic bodies all the way from
the bay to Willlamsport and beyond
ought to become sufficiently inter
ested to send representatives to
future gatherings at which the sub
ject will be discussed.
The deepening of the river would,
within a decade or two, make Har
risburg the third most important city
in the State and would greatly en
hance property values and make for
the general prosperity of the com
munity.
Field Marshal Von Hiqdenburg
said to the German troops after the
collapse: "You will never be aban
doned by your Held marshal In the
struggle. He will ever be confident
in you." Which is another form for
"You can't lose me, Charley!" Mean
while, old Tirpitz, the arch-murderer
of innocents, has skipped to Switzer
land. And the Kaiser's personal press
agent—O, where is he?
War-time prohibition comes just
about the time peace is to be declared,
and one cannot but wonder how much
grain would have been saved If the
President had agreed to It a year ago.
i
Says Count Bentlnck: "Here's your
hat. Bill, what's your hurry."
foCctu* Ml,
By the Ex-Committeeman
Now that the first rush of discus
sion of gubernatorial appointments
and policies and tho Reorganization
of legislative bodies which always
follows an election is over and Gov
ernor-elect \yilliani C. Sproul is go
ing away for a short rest and Repub
lican leaders are back in their home
districts, the big topic of discusssion
seems to be the proposed constitu
tional convention. Many men of af
airs think that by the time a conven
tion could be called conditions will
be in such a shape that the problems
could be approached better than at
any time in the last decade, while
others have come right out in op
position to consideration of changes
in the fundemental law of the Com
monwealth Just after a war.
While Governor-elect Sproul has
stated in the Public Ledger that he
regards the constitution as in need
of modernization it is pointed out
by some of the newpapers, especially
the Philadelphia Inquirer, which
speaks by the book in many cases,
that he is not committed to a con
vention.
—A typical up-state view of the
situation is that given by the Altoona
Tribune, which says editorially:
"Pennsylvania may owe it to the
present and the future to remodel
her present constitution, or to re
place it by a more modern and more
serviceable document. We know
there is some risk Involved, but per
haps it will be Just as well to take
the risk for the sake of the probable
advantages to be reaped.
—The Inquirer says: "While it is
true that Governor-elect William C.'
Sproul has, in common with others
who have studied the question, ex
pressed the belief that there should
be a revision of the State Constitu
tion, he has not gone upon record
that such a convention should be
held at once. There are conditions
which could arise which would make
it desirable to defer the calling of a
constitutional convention within the
next year. There was a proposi
tion before the Legislature at Harris
burg two years ago to call a con
stitutional convention, but the po
tential members of the Senate and
the House concluded that the time
was not ripe for such action. Mat
ters of Federal taxation growing out
of the war and other unusual con
ditions- have been mentioned as like
ly to be considered in the discussion
of a proposition to call a constitu
tional convention at this time. Some
of the men who are known to be
in the confidence of the Governor
elect have within the last few days
expressed doubt as to his being pre
pared to urge an early calling of a
convention to 1 revise the constitu
tion."
—People at the State Capitol are
looking for an early announcement
of the appointment of Harry Syl
vester McDevitt, deputy auditor gen
eral, to be private secretary to Gov T
ernor-elect William C. Sproul, and it
is understood that aq soon as the pri
mary bill case is ended in Philadel
phia that he will come here to close
up certain other work connected with
the fiscal branch of the state govern
ment. Mr. MclJevitt will probably
have much to do with drafting the
legislation for reorganization of vari
ous activities of the state government
which it is expected the new gov
ernor will launch.
—The name of Dr. J. M. Baldy.
of Philadelphia, chairman of the
State Bureau of Medical Education
and Licensure, is being prominently
mentioned as a possible appointee to
the health commissionership by
Governor-elect Sproul. Dr. Baldy
had charge of the legislation creating
the bureau.
—Judge John W. Kephart, of tho
Superior Court, who was here yes
terday looking up precedents In re
gard to the Supreme Court bench,
will take his seat on the first Tues
day of January. The justice-elect
will also draw lots with Justice Alex
ander Simpson Sr. for priority of
commission, it is understood. The
last time two justices were elected at
the same election was nineteen years
ago, when J. Hay Brown and S. Les
lie Mestrezat were chosen. Mr.
Brown had been appointed to the
vacancy on the bench caused by the
death of Justice Williams some
months before the election. The Jus
tices drew and Brown won seniority
and eventually became chief justice
of Pennsylvania.
—lt is generally believed that Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will leave the fill
ing of the Kephart vacancy on the
Superior Court bench to Iris suc
cessor. Senator Charles H. Kline, of
Pittsburgh, and Judge C. V. Henry,
of Lebanon, are much mentioned for
the vacancy. Lebanon men are mak
ing strong effort for Judge Henry.
—City Solicitor John P. Conpelly
has co'led V conference to discuss a
new city charter for Philadelphia,
which the Record says is "badly
needed."
—State Chairman William E. Crot#
was here yesterday for a short visit
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to Secretary W. Harry Paker on his
way home from Philadelphia.
—The Philadelphia newspapers say
that the suit over th'e Philadelphia
primary bills looks as though there
waß a dispute as to whether guards
should be fed.
—Chester is about to have a flare
up over the tax rate. It will also crur
Bade against the third-class city law,
from all accounts.
—The official computation of the
vote in Lehigh county shows a plu
rality for Judge Bonnlwell of 737,
but Senator Beidleman, Republican
nominee for Lieutenant Governor,
carried the county by 608, the other
Republican nominees having plurali
ties of about the same size.
—John W. Vickerman, Allegheny
"dry" leader in the House says re
garding notification of the amend
ment: "From the facts we have in
hand, I am satisfied the next Legis
ture will ratify the prohibition
amendment. We have 100 written
pledges from members of the House
and enough other pledges to give
us a vote of not less than 108, four
more than the required number. In
the Senate we have the pledges of
22 members, with assurance .of
enough additional votes to reach 26,
a majority."
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
November 7 gave the names of
ninety-five members of the House
pledged to vote for ratification. In
making up the list of 100 Mr. Vick
erman counts the ninety-five and
adds these five additional names:
Ross L. Beckley and William C.
Bowman, Cumberland; George A.
Comerer, Fulton; Philip H. Crock
ett, Philadelphia, and T. E. Brooks,
York. The men are Republicans
and have given their pledge to vote
for ratification.
SAVE US FROM MUSII
(From the Kansas City Star)
Heaven spare us now from mush.
Save us, oh. Gracious Providence,
from the food of the pacifist, the
dreamer and the mollycoddle. We
have a work to do which calls for
a diet for red-blooded statesman
ship.
We have been "fed up" on rhetor
ical mush: on the theory of doing
nothing rude to the Hun. The vic
tory which Americans and the Eng
lish and the French and all the Al
lies are celebrating is not a pacifist
victory. It was not won by a gen
tle slap on the wrist. It was won
by a smash of iron and steel.
Only a week ago the pacifist was
shedding tears over the fact that
those who demanded unconditional
surrender 'were asking for the im
possible, asking something that
would prolong the war for another
year at the loss of millions of lives
in the futile effort to gain a mili
tary victory.
Had it been a pacifist war there
would have been no military vic
tory. It would have been a nego
tiated peace. There would have
been no white flag for the Huns. It
would have been a situation of com
promise in honor.
Now that there has been a mili
tary conclusion, now that Germany
is broken, the pacifists, theorists and
the parlor Socialists will come forth,
all bearing mush.
We will hear n\uch of "charity
for a fallen foe." We will be ex
horted to "show mercy to the de
feated." They will come bearing
bouquets, asking to be permitted to
offer consolation to the prisoner and
to leave tracts and flowers in his
cell.
The terms of the armistice, it was
told in the story of the meeting of
the envoys to hear the terms from
Marshal Foch, were a "shock" to
the Germans. They were not the
terms of the pacifists. They were
the terms that brought Germany to
her knees, broken and crushed.
The peace terms must also shock
Germany. They must contain the
stern expression of the world's dis
cipline against the world's greatest
offender. Otherwise. Germany never
will realize the crime she has com
mitted against civilization. There
must be no paroling of the criminal
to his "next friend." A man or a
nation cannot be saved from the
result of crimes by putting on a
new coat.
LABOR NOTES
Toronto, Canada, has 76 local
unions.
Lehigh Valley R. R. shop men have
formed a system federation.
Trade unionism is making great
gains in Kansas.
Ottawa (Can.) street car men have
received increased pay.
Firefighters at Toronto, Can., have
formed a union.
Londonderry (Ireland) teamsters
have been granted Higher wages.
1914 PROPHECY VERIFIED
Paris Cable Message to The Times Foretold War's End,
A MONTH after the war began
the New York Times, in its
issue of September 11, 1914,
printed a special cable from Paris
carrying extracts from an article in
the Figaro upon a series of prophe
cies alleged to have been written jjy
a monk three centuries before the
outbreak of the war. These alleged
prophecies foresaw many of the
events and conditions of the war and
are reprinted, so that a comparison
of the text with recent events may
be made. The special cable said;
Paris, Sept. 10—The Figaro,
which is now issuing a small edi
tion in Bordeaux, besides its
usual four pages in Paris, on its
first page publishes an extraor
dinary translation of a Latin
'prophecy alleged to have been
written by a monk, Brother
Johannes, in the year 1600, de
scribing the destruction of Anti
christ ih a great war." Follow
ing are some significant pas
sages:
"The real Antichrist will be
one of the monarclis of his time.
A son of Luther will invoke God,
proclaiming himself his envoy.
He will have only one arm. His
armies, which will appear in
numerable, will take for the de
vice the words, 'God with us,'
(the motto actually stamped on
the Prussians' belts.) He will
long act by ruse and treachery,
and his spies will overrun the
earth, but a war will furnish the
occasion for his throwing off the
mask —not that war waged
against the French monarchy,
but another easily recognized,
because .in two weeks it will be
come universal, bringing into
battle the most distant peoples
NAPOLEON AND KAISER
[New York Times]
The cases of Napoleon and the
former Geiman Emperor are paral
lel in some respects, in others not.
If William II has not been a great
soldier, he has been the cause of far
more bloodshed and misery, which
he could have prevented by refusing
to exercise his war powers. Botn
Napoleon and William planned to set
up a vast empire, to dominate the
world. Napoleon made war many
times to realize his ambition. Wil
liam thought to accomplish his ob
ject in one desolating conflict. He
failed ignominiously and meanly,
after falsely professing himself a
friend of peace for twenty-five years.
Military glory makes no halo around
the head of William. He was not a
hero to his own army, for ho shun
ned the perils of the battlefield. He
has not been distinguished as a leg
islator nor as an educator. He has
had nd conception of human liberty.
His mental qualities are common
place. Posterity will regard hjm as
more responsible than any other hu
man being for the sacrifice of mil
lions of lives in the great war, us a
:uler who might have been benefi
cent and wise, but atteriipted to de
stroy the liberties of mankind and
to raise on their ruins an odious
depotism. To forgive him and to
forget his terrible transgressions
would be to condone them.
It can never be said of William's
career what Professor J. Holland
Rose has said of Napoleon's.: "The
man who •bridled the Revolution and
remolded the life of France, who
laid broad and deep the foundations
of a new life in Italy, Switzerland
and Germany, who rolled the west
in on the east in the greatest move
ment known since the Crusades, and
finally drew the yearning thoughts
of myriads to that solitary rock in
the South \Atlantic, must ever stand
in the very forefront of the immor
tals of human history." William can
be immortal only in his "bad emi
nence."
"At Attention" Before God
Paying tribute to the services per
formed Dy the British Y. M. C. A.
W. Gordon Sprigg, writing in Asso
ciation Men, the organ of the Amer.
leap "Y," is reminded of the reply
made by Field Marshal Sir George
White to an inquiry addressed to
him at-the close of the three months'
siege at Ladysmlth, South Africa,
in the Boer War. Sir George was
asked to explain how he maintained
his cheerfulness and upheld the
splrit'and morale of his weary JurnoPs
amidst so much discomfort, depres
sion and uncertainty. "Because,
said the field marshal, "I stand at
attention befdre God every morning
so that 1 may receive my daily or
ders."
of the earth. Antichrist will
massacre priests, women, chil
dren, and the aged. He will show
no mercy, holding the torch like
the barbarians, but invoking
Christ. There will be ifn eagle
in his arms, also in those of his
acolyte, the other bad monarch, *
who, a Christian, will die
through the curse of Pope
Benedictus.
"To conquer Antichrist more
men must be killed than Rome
held. It will require the efforts
of all the kingdoms. This will
happen twenty centuries after
the incarnation of God's world."
The "prophecy" is contributed
by a writer signing himself
"Peladanj" who, showing
its application to the present
war, says that it is only the first *
part and that he Will give the
rest later. The Figaro makes
no comment.
The Petit Journal prints an
other prediction said to have
appeared early this year in an
almanac published in the In
dian native state of Jodpore and
to have been brought to the edi
tor's notice by a Hindu named
Varnia, living in Paris, whose
two sons have just joined the
Foreign Legion:
."In the month of July," says
the prediction, "all Europe will
be upset by a war setting in con
flict the greatesFpowers, accom
panied by enormous disaster.
In November a great Emperor
will lose his crown and the war
will end."
Many persons, remembering the
prophecy, which seemed a bit ex
travagant in 1914, have called at
tention to its accuracy.
LET THE HUN SHOW US
(Boston Herald)
The present German leaders
dently think they can appeal to
President Wilson when they know
they cannot appeal to Foch or to
the British, French and* Italians.
Only by long oversight of the many;
by long laDor in rebuilding Bel
gium, Serbia and France; by long
payment of indemnities; by the ex
treme penalties imposed on the lead
ers of the enterprise, can the Ger
man people be taught that if "might
makes right," it is equally applicable
to Germany, when a loser as to any
other nation in the same .circum
stances.
Let-\us help build up Belgium,
France and Serbia; let us feed them,
clothe them and rehabilitate them,
and let Germany pay for it. Rus
sia needs help much more than Ger
many; there is no doubt about the
starving of the Russians. The Ger
mans and Austrians managed to
feed and clothe themselves while
lighting for four and ane-half years,
blockade or no blockade. They have
had time to make munitions and
keep millions of men in the their
army and navy; their lands have
not been Injured, nor even invaded;'
let these men, who are now released
from murdr and plunder, go home,
go to feeding and clothing them
selves, their wives and children and
not culling upon President Wilson to
feed and clothe them. If they could
look out for themselves during the
war. the nations of the earth should
see If they likewise cannot feed and
clothe themselves in time of peace.
If, on examination, it is true they
are- starving, we must help feed
them, we must supply necessary
food; but they are not entitled to
charity, certainly not until by their
works they show the penitence which
so far they have failed to exhibit.
Our Exports and Shipping
In the three years prior to the
war our average annual exports to
the Allies averaged 5,j;3,000 tons of
food. Last year, under the stimu
lus of a well-directed food conserva
tion and food-production campaign,
we succeeded In sending to the Allies
11,820,00 tons of food. The mini
mum pledged for this year is an In
crease of close to 6,000,000 tons.
That was based on a continuance cf
the war. With peace, and the added
responsibility to head off starva
tion in large areas of Kuropo that
could not be reached before, it is
estimated that this country will
have to add another 6.000,000 tons,
if not more, raising the requirement
from this country to close to 18,-
000,00 tons. This takes into consid
eration such relief as
shipping facilities can provide from
South America and Australia.
NOVEMBER 19, 1918 V
A HOME IN THE HEART
Oh, ask not a home in the mansions
of pride,
Where marble shines out in the
pillars and walls;
Though the roof be of gold it is bril
liantly cold.
And joy may not be found in its
torch-lighted halls.
But seek.for a bosom all honest and
true.
Where love once awakened will
never depart;
Turn, turn to that breast like the
dove to its nest,
And you'll find there's no home
' like a home in the heart.
Oh! link but one spirit that's warm
ly sincere, .
That will heighten your pleasure
and solace your care;
Find a soul you may trust as the
kind' and the just.
And be sure tlie wide world holds
no treasure so rare.
Then the frowns of misfortune may
shadow our lot,
The cheek-searing tear-drops of
sorrow may start,
But a star never dim sheds a halo
for him
Who can turn for repose to a home
in the heart.
—Eliza Cook.
WHY TWO CENTS
(From Boston Exchange')
When the government asked the
newspapers to go to a "non-return
basis." which means that the re
tailer loses on such papers as re
main unsold on his hands the busi
ness became for him, at the one
cent price, decidedly unprofitable.
This naturally reflected itself in the
distribution. There was not margin
of profit enough to requite the dealer
for keeping an ademiate supply of
newspapers on hand, and even risk
ing some loss at nightfall in order
to keep his customers surely sup
plied. This situation further re
acted against the delivery of news
papers at the door. Boys could earn
more money doing something else
than the dealer could afford to pay
them, and so the phblic failed to
get the news service to which it had
become accustomed and for which,
we believe, it is only too glad to pay.
Then the price of newsprint paper
balked large in the affair. It .used
to cost $42 a ton delivered in Bos
i ton. The government has now fixe d
a minimum pric.e of $75 a ton, f.
o. b. at the mill, .and as a matter
of fact, newsprint can rarely be
bought in the general outside mar
ket under S9O a ton. We also have
to pay the freight the government
recently advancing its clgrges by
25 per cent., an increase which also
applies to the sending of the fin
ished product upon the trains to
their scattered destinations. 'Such
changes are Only symptomatic of
advance all along the line, includ
ing the great element of labor cost.
Boston has proved, nevertheless,
the last city in the country to go to
two cents. Months ago the war in
dustries board suggested *that no
newspaper should be sold *at less
than that figure. The publishers
of Boston, including ourselves, have
been reluctant to make the udvance,
and have done so only as a result
of circumstances which are beyond
our control. We have the assur
ance that this is not profiteering, or
taking an advantu'ge of war condi
tions. The change in price of out
basic material alone, which
threatens to bo quite permanent
would justify all the advance that
We have asked. And we hope and
confidently expect to be able to hold
the price at two tents against the
tendency now in existence in many
parts of the country to carry It for
ward to three.
Hair Wash, Instead ,of Ring
"I Just can't do a thing with my
hair to-day; it's Just been wash
ed."
In this country that remark is such
an old bromide that it doesn't call
forth even the ghost of a smile. But
in Yunnan China, it is breathtaking,
the sign and manifest of an event.
For it theans that the speaker has
Just been married.
Roy Chapman Andrews, who spent
a year in Yunnun collecting speci
mens of the American Museum of
Natual History, tell\ abodt the Ori
ental, once-in-a-lifetime halrwash
In his recently published book,
"Camps and Trails in China," where
in he describes his experiences in
the Flowery Kingdom. He says:
"The girls wear their hair/"bobb
ed' in front and with a long plait in
back. They wash their hair once
—on their wedding day—and then
it is. wrapped up in turbans for the i
rest of their llvesl" j
|Eumitto (Efjat
William C. Sproul will be the last
governor to bo Inaugurated from the
old entrance to the Capitol which
has done duty for ceremonies fu
more than thirty years and which la
to give way in the next few year*
to a handsome formal approach t
the Stato House more than 100 fee*
wide and adapted to such events.
The announcement that Senator
William E. Crow, the Republican
state chairman, would be chairman
of the inaugural committee, means
that immedialQ preparations will be
stnrted and people here look for a
notable demonstration. The gen
eral plan is for the inauguration to
take place from the big steps at
Third and State streets, facing the
Susquehanna river and to have a big
parade follow. The invitations will
bo issued some time in December
and there will be no difficulty about
caring for the crowds as the new
Penn-Harris hotel is to be finished
by that time. Senator Crow's as
sistant in the inagural ceremonies
will be W. Harry Baker, secretary
of the Stato Senate, who was the
youngest page boy in the Senate
when Senator Sproul took his seat as
the youngest Senator in 1897 and
whose boyhood friend, Senator Ed
ward E. Boidleman, becomes lleute
nunt governor. Senator Sproul will
begin preparation of his address in
a few weeks and it Is being looked
forward to by people here as they
have not awaited the address of any
incoming governor in years. Gov
ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh is al
ready working out thoughts for his
farewell messuge to the I-iegislature
which will be delivered on the first
day of the session and two weeks be
fore the inauguration.
♦
William I. Schaffor, who will
probably be the next attorney gen
eral, was here yesterday as counsel
in an important argument before the
Public Service Commission. Mr.
Schaffer, who has been in charge of
the responsible work of preparing
the opinion of the state's appellate
courts, is one of the authorities on
the history of law and one of the
most widely read of attorneys. He
is a noted orator and is no stranger
to Harrisburg as he .has often ap
peared here in political campaigns,
generally as the speaker on the clos
ing night ir big contests, and as
counsel in oases at the Capitol and
in the Dauphin county courts.
Senator William E. Crow, who will
be the chairman of tho committee in
charge of the inauguration, will fill
that place because the Dauphin
Senator, who, according to prece
dent would be in charge, happens to
be very much of a participant in tho
ceremonies of that day. Senator
Edward E. Beidleman, presiding offi
cer at the Brumbaugh inauguration,
will be inaugurated as lieutenant
governor.
* * • •
It is possible that the two United
States Senators and E-Governor Ed
win S. Stuart may attend the Sproul
ceremonies. Governor Stuart is a
close friend of Senator Sproul and
one of tho strongest advocates of
his selection for months before the
election. His speeches in his behalf
attracted as much attention as his
address at Qirard College on tho
Fourth Liberty Loan, which has al
ready been referred to in the Har
risburg Telegraph. The two Sena
tors have not been at any big cere
mony here since the dedication of
the Capitol. # ,
It is probable that a very prompt
start will be made on the Capitol
Park Extension landscaping next
spring. The ground has been made
ready for the filling and as the plans
are in hand the idea is to get things
moving. Virtually nothing was done
this year except clear and fill in
owing to the war, but next year the
improvement of the old park, the
landscaping of the new and the
creation of the formal entrance will
be under way.*
• • •
"I don't think we are going to he
anv better off in regard to horses
and mules now that peace is here.
In fact, we will be up against it as
much as ever unless there is more
livestock raised for draft use, said
a man who follows farming condi
tions this morning. "There are
thousands of Pennsylvania horses
and the good old mule in Europe
and the demands of agriculture in
France will have to be met. Many
an army mule and many a horse will
wind up his days on a French farm.
It is up to us to encourage breeding
and also to study tractors."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Dr. Wiluier Krusen, Philadel
phia health director, says people
have not enough regard for fresh
air.
—Mayor E. V. Babcoclt, of Pitts
burgh, has been spending some days
at the seashore.
—Jules E. Msstbaum, prominent
Philadelphia theatrical man, says
work will be started on a new $2,-
000,000 theater in Philadelphia as
soon as the government permits.
—Edward. J. Fox, supreme court
justice, has been re-elected presi
dent of a bank at Easton ■ from
which he retired when appointed to
the bench.
—Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, Al
toona publisher, will assume his
duties on the new State Forestry
Board next month.
[ DO YOU KNOW y )
—That Harrlsburg's way of
celebrating tlc return of Its
sons is being awaited by some
other cities?
HISTORIC HARtSBURG
The early steamboats on the
Susquehanna had landings near
Market street.
THE RETORT DEADLY
It would be worth something
know who it was that uttered th*
pertinent answer of an Americ*?"
soldier to the German prison**!
who said: "What we can't undo*,
stand ia where you got shiw*
enough to bring you all over." Sal*
this American: "It took but one.
The Lusitania brought us ove."
— y
Murmured Against the Lord
And ye murmured in your tei)ts
and said. Because the Lord hated,
he hath brought us forth out of the
land of Egvpt, to deliver us unto the
land of the Amorltes, to destroy us.
—Deuteronomy i, 27.
Fully Supplied
"Gott mlt Uns!"" yelled the German
host.
The Yankee answered, "Pool
You haven't got a thing on us,
. For we've got mittens, too.
—Tennyson J, PafV j J