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Take lime to speake a loving word
Where loving words are seldom
heard,
And it will linger in the mind
And gather others of its kind;
' Till loving words will echo where
Erstwhile the heart was poor and
bare;
And, somewhere on the Heavenward
track,
Their music will come echoing
back, —Anon.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1918
CHEER UP, FOLKS
CHEER up, folks, the war is over
and the Thanksgiving season is
at hand. One might Judge from
the tone of some of the newspapers
that the country is headed for a fu
ineral, instead of a jubilee. Here we
'' ;have been waitng and praying for the
war to end, and now, with blue skies
over head, King Albert back in
Brusels, the Kaiser in exile and our
boys coming home by the thousands,
we are behaving as a people as
though we have no confidence in our
ability to win as great a victory in
peace as we did in the war. It is
absurd.
An old man once said: "The worst
troubles I ever had were those that
never happened." Here we are, with
every wheel turning that lias a shaft
attached and no sign of a serious
letup anywhere, worrying over the
hard times we fear may be ahead.
This country is, and is going to bf
just what we as a people think it
is going to be. If we think panW,
panic will result. If we think pros
perity, and put our thoughts into
action, good business and good wages
are certain to continue.
Cheer up; be glad you are living,
put your shoulder to the wheel, do
your part, and "smile, smile, smile."
There are better days ahead than
the world ever saw, but they won't
come the faster by growling and
glooming.
MR. FORD, JOURNALIST
SO Henry Ford is to become over
night a world-famous Journalist
and publisher! Admitting the
unquestioned genius of tho Detroit
automobile builder, we suspect that
the literary world will show indica
tions of being from Missouri in pass
ing upon the recent candidate's new
venture. Doubtless Mr. Ford will be
Just as good an editor as the late Mr.
Pulitzer would have been an automo
bile manufacturer had the instance
been reversed. Mr. Ford will have
to learn that successful newspapers
and magazines are not cut out of the
■whole cloth in a day's time. One
may write or buy an admittedly
choice selection of "copy," spice it
up with attractive illustrations or
"syndicate matter," give tho whole
a name and put it into type, but that
does not necessarily make a Journal
that the public will buy. Newspapers
—and magazines—are built, none
upon stone, with many errors, 're
placements and reconstructions.
Their growth is slow. To begin with,
they must have a place, a mcssago
and a purpose—and the message
| and the purpose must have an appeal
to the reading public. People must
be convinced of the sincerity and
trustworthiness of the publication.
Papers of mushroom growth and cir
culation there are, but they have
no foundation on which to stand;
their structure Is flimsy and they are
wrecked by the first adverse wind
that blows.
Cyrus Curtis Is regarded as a high
ly successful publisher, but his has
been a life-time of constant effort.
Mr. Ford will discover, ltke many
another millionaire ambitious to buy
a voice In public affairs, tbat there is
no royal road to journalism. The way
'V
MONDAY EVENING
is lung, the bead is steep and not
even the subsidised publication finds
It easy. Indeed, it 1b strange, but true,
that the only really influential news
papers and magaslnes In the eeuntry
are those whloh are paying their own
way and earning reasonable profits
for their owners, and It is well for
the public that this is so, for upop
this fact rests the whole fabric of
the free and uncontrolled press of
America.
UP TO COUNCIL
THANKS to the regligence—or
worse—of our police department,
liarrlsburg nua been advertised
for and wide as a city of vice. From
one end of the county to the other,
Harrisburg is known to-day as a town
that has harbored speakeasies and
houses of prostitution with which to
tempt the visiting soldier. Unfor
tunately for our fair reputation as
a community, the newspapers of
other cities, which gave prominence
to accounts of the wholesale and
sensntlonai raids p* Saturday night,
make no mention of 'the work of
the Y. M. C. A., "the Red Cross
and our Hostess House iu pro
viding wholesome entertainment for
men in uniform. Nor is there any
report of the generous gifts of our
people to the recent United War
Work drive for the collection of
funds with which to provide recre
ation and amusement for soldiers
and sailors. All that the public at
large knows is that scores of disor
derly houses and speakeasies were
operated under the very noses of the
local police as traps fev unwary men
from the nearby cantonments. A
stigma has been pieced upon us that
should arouse the indignation and
resentment of every decent, thinking
man and women in the city.
Thanks to the vigilance of Captain
DeLappe, of the Middletown Ord
nance Depot, and the assistance of
the State Police, the dens of iniquity
have been wiped cut and their pro
prietors are either under bond for
trial in United States court or are
in Jail, where they all ought to be.
For that much we may be grateful.
But what about the Ilarrisburg
police department? What is to be
done with a chief of xolice and a
force that will permit such condi
tions to exist without an effort to
correct them? They cannot plead
ignorance. They either wilfully
shut their eyes to what was transpir
ing about them or they are grossly
inefficient. If City Council does not
start an investigation, at. once, of the
whole department and Its every con
nection with this shameful incident,
it will be derelict tr> lis duty. Not
every officer is guilty, but a suffi
cient number are to warrant whole
sale dismissals.
The police ate asking for an in
crease in salaries, and Council may
be expected ttf make certain they arc
earning what they receive be
fore giving them more. A police
officer, high or low, who winks at
vice, is a party to l, and no better
than the proprietor cf the house of
prostitution or speakeasy he permits
to operate. It is high time we got
rid of all such.
Gentlemen of City Council, it is
up to you! What a-e you going to
do about it?
The way to bring Christmas turkey
down in price is to eat none on
Thanksgiving Day.
MORE GOOD WORK
SCORE another point to rtte credit
of the City Planning Commis
sion. The dedication of the Italian
Park tract by the McKee-Grahfim
estate to the city is a distinct
triumph for the Commission, since
it was the survey by the commis
sion's engineer that convinced the
owners of the wisdom of giving
their land to the municipality. This
is in line with the Commission's re
cent achievement in procuring title
to river frontage along the West
Shore and near Lucknow, and like
the work of the old Park Commis
sion in. securing the land along Front
street, it makes for a better and more
beautiful city. The Commission in
proposing to turn an ugly, mosquito
breeding swamp into a beautiful lake
of flowing fresh water is both ar
tistic and practical.
A BUILDING PROGRAM
AT A MEETING of the Operator
Builders' Association in Phila
delphia it was decided unani
mously to inaugurate early next year
a house building campaign which
will give Philadelphia at least ten
thousand new houses ready for oc
cupancy early next summer. The as
sociation Includes virtually all of the
house builders, and their nctlon was
the result of an urgent recognition
for concerted action next Spring, in
view of the large and growing short
age of houses in every section of the
city.
Harrlsburg builders will do well
to take similar action, as the hous
ing conditions here are so serious as
to Justify a large constructive pro
gram.
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*fvKK4^6raKta
By the Kx-Committocman I
Belief la growing very general
about Capitol Hill that no lesa than
half a dozen departments of the
•tate government will undergo re
organization in the coming aeislon
of the Legislature and that charges
in personnel of heads of departmenta
not scheduled to be modernized and
improvdti will follow promptly on
inauguration. It is expected that
consolidation of activities of the
Game and Fisheries Commissions
will be effected along the lines of
the proposed conservation depart
ment of some years ago at least as
far as outdoor forces are concerned
ahd that the Department of Mines
will be divided into two bureaus,
one for the anthracite and the other
for the bituminous operations. These
two plans have been heard of. for
eight years, Inquiries made here
indicate that there may be some
thing doing at last.
Governor-elect William C. Sproul
I'dng a farm owner and far more
familiar with, such matters than
many people think has indicated
that the administration of that de,
partment is to be changed and
while it is not settled whether the
Commission is to bo abolished or
made an advisory board some one
actively connected with farming like
Morris T. Phillips, of Chester coun
ty, a member of the commission
and active in the State Council of
National Defense, may be chosen.
Charles E. Carothers, deputy secre
tary, will likely stay, it is intimated.
One of the stories heard is that
the Public Service Commission will
be given increased authority over
water, while the quadrennial report
that the Commission and the De
partment of Internal Affairs are to
be more closely linked is again
abroad in Capitol Park.
—Twenty counties have filed offi
cial returns of - their elections of
November 5 at the Department of
the Secretary of tho Common
wealth and tabulation has been start
ed on the big sheets which estab
lish the official vote at the state elec
tion. The table for congressmen
at-large is one of—tho largest ever
made up as there were twenty can
didates for the four seats.
—The commissioner to one Pacific
coast camp remains to tile his 'elec
tion return and it is reported that
he took sick on his return.
—The Philadelphia Public Led
ger. which editorially criticised the
proposal to make Governor Brum
baugh the state's historian of the
war, gives lirst page prominence to
the protest tiled by Walter H. Gaith
er, former public service commis
sioner, against payment of any
money by the Auditor General for
that purpose. The Inquirer says
that Governor Brumbaugh "may
not be chosen' us the historian of the
war and the North American says
that Mr. Gaither has "opened up a
barrage" between the Governor and
the job.
—Considerable" attention is being
given by newspapers throughout the
state to the charges against the
Chester policemen* The Chester
council will hear what there is to
be said and-then hear the-police
men about conditions in the ship
building city.
—Prom all accounts Representa
tive Robert S. Spangler, of York,
is looming up stronger to-day as the
possible choice for speaker. There
has been a letdown by the friends
of George W. Williams, but the west
ern end of the state is insistent, too,
on Dethrich or Stadtlander.
—Arrangements are being made
by a comittee named by Mayor H.
W. Heidenreich for a suitable cele
bration of Briton day in Hazleton
December 7 and 8, when there will
be mass meetings in churches and
■theaters and addresses by visiting
representatives of the British gov
ernment.
—After six months' delay the
office of alderman In the Second
ward of Pottsville, made vacant by
the death of Alderman P. J. Murtin,
has been tilled by the appointment of
ex-Councilman A. 1., Eckert. Differ
ences among politicians caused the
delay, and the Governor, >vhen ap
pealed to, refused to break the dead
lock, says a Pottsville dispatch.
—Ex-Senator Charles E. Mills, of
Bradford county, is seriously ill._
—Official counts being announced
show that the results given within
a few days alter the election were
about whut to expect. Allegheny
shows that Sproui's majority over
Bonniwell was 21,775 out of a total
of 86,517 votes polled, which was
32,000 less than the total polled in
1914 for Governor. Sproul got 50,922
votes and Ronniwell 29,147; Beldle
man, 53,128 and Rogue, 23,867, ac
cording to the Pittsburgh Gazette-
Times. The Philadelphia official
count shows Sproul 154,001; Bonni
well, 60,147.
—Justice Kephart carried Alle
gheny county, receiving 36,745, while
he got 35,665 in Philadelphia. Jus
tice Simpson got 95,226 in Philadel
phia.
The Philadelphia Ledger says
that theVares have changed from
a new charter and that they will ac
cept one which has a council of 48
members, or one from each ward. ,
—Sunday newspapers say that the
Delaware senatorial seat Is still In
doubt with J. Lord Rigby and ex-
Speaker Richard J. Baldwin as the
chief men spoken of. There is no
question about the Dauphin seat.
♦ a sketch printed of Harold C.
Pike, of the First Montgomery, the
old Ambler district, says that he will
be the youngest member and that
he will be 26 on Friday, December
13 He Is head of the Montgomery
county baseball organization, an ar
dent fan and newspaper writer. He
is one of Charles Johnson's men and
is said to be a "comer."
—Reading is bobbing up a sug
gested amendment to the third class
city act to provide for councilmen to
serve four years.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that the woods of Northumberland
county are full of candidates for
county offices to be filled next year.
RAINING
It is not raining rain for me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild llowers on the hills. /
The cloudrf of gray engulf the day
And overwhelm the town,
It is not raining rain for nie,
It's raining roses down. .
It Is not raining rain to me
But fields of clover bloom,
Where any buccaneering bee
Can find a bed and room.
A health unto the happy!
A flg for him who frets!
It is not raining rain to me
It's raining violets!
—Robert Loveman.
IctJtimisßTJßG *TF.I.r.GiR-kX>ii
WHEN A FELLER HEEDS A FRIEND .... BY BRIGGS
/vUILLIAM > /
' fOf\|tlolH MIS. NEW YORK TRIBUNE INC..
The Eyes of Love
When May was crowned with lilac
plumes
And garlanded with leaves,
And robins built their happy nests
Beneath my cottage eaves.
And rainbows arched the shining j
sky, ' #
And jewels tipped the spray, j
My eyes beheld a world of gloom
Whree al was black and gray,
My heart wus like an empty room
Devoid of light and heat.
And echoing only to the sound
.Of drums and marching feet.
I
Now grim November strips the j
bough
And whirls the dust along,
And robs the garden of its bloom,
And stills the 'thrush's song.
Drab vapors hide the morning sun, |
And cloud the evening's close,
And yet the landscape of iny gaze
Is lovely as the rose;
For 10. from France the glory land, j
Across the ocean foam,
With medals ond his gallant breast, I
My soldier's sailing home.
Minna Irving. !
The Way They'll Tell It j
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer f°
German newspapers will probably j
announce Germany's unconditional,
surrender with the words: "Wej
have retired to previously prepared
positions in the interior of thei
Fatherland, and in accordance with)
our prearranged plan have loaded
the enemy down with our now use-)
less arms and unimportant fortified
positions.
The Armies It
[Front the Des Moines Register]
It is a peace of military victory,
complete and indisputable, on which
the peace of political victory, as com
plete, ha? yet to be built by the
world's statesmanship.
A Warrant For Hohenzollern ,
[Front the Washington Post.]
Holund is very small. When the!
Allies want the person of the for-!
mer imperial highness the con
stable will know where to find him.
LABOR NOTES
In the chemical industries of the i
Bltterfeld (Germany) district time
wages have increused by 36 lo SI per
cent, and piecework wages by 31 per
I cent, since the war started.
Seventy-five thousand stenograph
ers, clerks, office iioys, messengers,
watchmen, section nen and others in i
the employ of the Canudiun railways,
were granted an increase in wages
amounting to more than $22,t)00,0uu a j
year.
The British Labor party insists —as j
no other political part/ iias thought ;
fif to do—that the obligation to find !
suitable employment in productive j
work for all men and women rests J
upon the Government for the time
being.
Women in England are engaged in
lens polishing, oxy-acetylene welding
and artificial teeth and limb con
struction. There are women engi
neers, radiographers, printers, glass
blowers, opticians, assayers, optical
glues cutters, coil und condenser
builders and engravers.
In actotber, 1916, under tlie name
of "Cooperative Funds of War Fac
tories," an association was established
in France having for its object the
receiving of subscriptions, gifts and
grants to to be used in the estab
lishment of workers' restaurants, tip
to last October more than 220,000
francH $42,460) had been distributed
for this purpose.
On December 8. 1917, tlie Feder
ation of the German Building Trades
Workers made an investigation of the
wages of its members. The investiga
tion included 90,000 workmen and
covered all Germany. The results
showed that at the time of the Inves
tigation the average hourly wage
rate of masons was 96.7 pfennigs
(22.8 cents) and that of helpers 85
pfennings (20.2 cents), representing
an average increase of 87.6 and 88.9
pur cent., respectively, over the pre
war wage rates. The average hour
ly wage rate of excavation laborers
was found to be 82.6 pfennigs (19.6
cents), that of cement workers 103.7
pfennigs (24.7 cents), of plasters 140.6
pfennigs (33.6 cents), and of stone
flooc layers and terrazzo workers
-144.4 pfennigs (34.4 cents).
State's Great Fight in
Epidemic Historical Event
WHEN the full story contes to he
written of the way Pennsyl
vania fought well on to 350,-
000 cases Qf influenza and the devo
tion of her doctors, nurses, soldiers
and officials who tna.-dialled volun
teers and workers in tile face of a
little-understood disease ,tliat took
a death toil of over 1,000 per
sons a day in October, one of
the outstanding features will he
the way a body of volunteer cit
izens turned in and helped. Then
it is borne in mind that the
Pennsylvania lieserve Militia was
organized to take the place of the
Pennsylvania National Guard when
it went into the war and became the
Iron Division . with imperishable
glory of service on the battlefields
of Prance, the record of what was
done is remarkable.
The Reserve Militia is composed
of over 3,600 men, including some
men of Army and National Guard |
service, but many men unused to j
military work, men with dependants, i
slight fdiysica! defects and in neces- j
sary places who thought it their
duty to help the state. In the ranks
were also many youths, including
students. It was a body which had j
been organised less than a yeur and \
whose ranks hud been depleted in ■
some organizations by enlistment in :
the Army or Navy and the draft. 1
But it gave remarkable service not '
as guards but as hospital attend-;
ants, orderlies and in other capuci- j
tries no one would have dreamed of
before the epidemic struck the state. !
From Adjutant General Frank D. j
Beary, the directing head, down to!
the youngest private in the ranks, !
gave up days and nights and ran]
risks while the Stute Arsenal force i
labored twenty-four hours at 'a;
stretch to fbrward cots and tents J
and supplies to strickeri communi
ties. Even Benjamin W. Demming. \
the chief clerk, had to do yeoman i
service and he not only went to |
Bowman's department store and i
routed out clerks to secure blankets'
and similar things on a Sunday I
evening when things were happen- I
ing, but helped load trucks, when I
the clocks were hitting the eleven j
o'clock hour. At the Arsenal Cap
tain W. IJ. Hicks and his crews did |
not wait for railroad trains. They j
took the Reserve Militia's trucks and !
am balances and when they were |
not enough they hired more and j
sent them across the state. Mem- I
bers of Captain R. C. Batley's new j
truck train were in service before!
they knew it, while officers who j
thought they would be on riot duty j
found themselves directing hospitals:
and acting as supply officers' with !
hundreds of dollars' worth of state j
property charged up against them j
and people clamoring for It.
Herr Solf's Words Disproved
[From the-New York Tribune.]
Meatless weeks have ended it*
Germany; the bread ration has been
made under which Germany Is to
furnish "Immediate help and suffi
cient cereals to relieve the misery in
Austria."
On the same day on which these
' unonuncements were made the
| French Minister of Provisions, Vic
| tor Boret, declared It would not be.
I possible at present to increase the
civilian rations in France.
It uppears, therefore, that Ger
many is not so badly off as Austria,
and is perhaps as well supplied with
fodo as France. Yet Merr Solf, the
vociferous propagandist, .endeavor
ing to excite sympathy throughout
the world, continues to beg for
modification of the armistice In be
half of "women and children."
Herr Solf's campaign appears to
be purely political and to bear no
relation to domestic conditions in
Germany. 1
A Different Lineup
The truth of the matter Is, God
has never been wjth "Wllhelm and
Wilhelm Is never going to be with
God. It will be an entirely different
lineup.—From the Houston Post. I
The service.of the Militia during
the influenza epidemic has not been
told and it has gotten scant recog
nition from official quarters, but its
record glows as it is uncovered and
the service given by men who left
work and business and homes and
although worn out by hours and
hours of continuous duty exposed
themselves to infection will some
day be properly remembered. The
Reserve Militia in its epidemic serv
ice, so sudden and so unforeseen by
the men who compose the ranks,
but who went out as volunteers, has
made itself a fitting successor to the
Pennsylvania National Guard. It
was not ative service jf the kind pro
vided for, but it wus very active
while it lusted.
Records of the service of members
of (he Militia which are now being
compiled at Adjutant General
Beary's department, show that pos
sibly a lifth of the members volun
teered for duty and hundreds' did
service in hospitals, handling sup
plies and aiding doctors, including
acting as chauffeurs for doctors and
ambulances. While many of the men
were so engaged in their homo dis
tricts, some were sent clear across
the state. All of the medical offi
cers, two sanitary detachments and
some platoons of companies were In
service for weeks.
The disaster following the explo
sion at Halifax gave a warning to
state military authorities which was
followed by General Beary without
many people becoming aware of it
and during the purchuse of equip
ment for the various units of the
MiHtia provision was made for hos
pital as well as military service. Ex
tensive supplies were laid in to cope
with any emergency whether call
ing for attention for wounded or
sick people. The records of the
state arsenal show more than 150
shipments to over 100 places for
either emergency hospitals opened
in schools, armories or other places
or tent hospitals or for local relief.
The latest figures show that the ar
senal shipped for influenza service
C.219 cots. 9,065 blankets, 1,778
dozen • sheets, 1,122 dozen pillow
cases, 023 mattresses, 30 tleld ranges
for kitchens, 56 mess tents, 28
kitchen tents, 41 complete hospital
tents, 31 fly hospital tents, 339
pyramidal tents, 16 complete wall
tents with many litters, picks, shov
els and other material. These ar
ticles will all be stored In the ar
scnul after disinfection.
During the epidemic a number of
the officers and men became ill and
among the death 3 was Captain
H. J. Klaer, of the Chester com
pany, a son-in-law of Governor-elect
William C. Sproul.
IX BRUSSELS YESTERDAY
[Front the New York World.]
A royal pair went home yester
day upon whom a world that has
often little reason to love king£ will
hope for the descent and continu
ance of every blessing.
As nephew of a king, not his di
rect heir, Albert of Belgium was
free In youth to go among men und
learn front them. His queen is Die
daughter of a Bavarian prince who
dropped royal pump to serve the
poor with his skill as an oculist.
Both profited by opportunities not
common to royalty. Neither has
failed in tVie courage or the com
passion demanded of them by dang
ers and sorrows for which history
has few parallels.
Belgium, core of the war, was
yesterday the high light in its
righteous ending—the nightmare of
German occupation for a day almost
forgotten. She Is* assured of the
world's good wishes; In them abun
dantly share g queen who Is true
woman and a king who hus shown
himself first of all a man.
On the Gilliloo Bird
When the Germans abolish the
Prussian eagle, we might suggest
that the gull would be entirely ap
propriate as the national bird em
blem. —From the Columbia Record.
NOVEMBER 25, 1918.
CURE FOR RED FLAG
[From tho Phlla, Public Ledger]
Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, who
spoke Insultingly against the United
States under and for the red flag at
Chicago the' other day, and who,
umong other things In his defense
of Bolshevism to which all the so
called German-American Socialists
and the. Russo-Amerlcan Socialists
seem to have turned for consolation
in this, our glad hour, is certain that
it represents his views of a higher
civilisation. This is a case where
Mr. Berger should speak for himself,
since the absurdity of himself and
his srnull group of followers over the
country speaking for A'merica is
manifest on the face of It. Fortu
nately for America, the great mass
of the people have no stomach for
the kind of internationalism which
Berger stands for, which plots
against ciyjueity and ability and sees
in anarchy, and disorder an Ideal
state.
America, however, having success
fully tried out representative govern
ment for over a century, Is not being
stampeded by those who base their
argument for a change on what Rus
sia has accomplished on an empty
stomach. It is impossible for any
one to misrepresent Russia, save in
so far as it Is impossible to print
the actualities over there by reason
of the nature of the real horrors. For
the published facts do not tell all
that Bolshevism lias attempted in its
attack on the family, the home, pub
lic life and on all those things that
make even savage civilization pos
sible. It is very apparent, as the red
tlag that Berger flaunts Is bejng pub
licly forbidden here and in New
York and that the peculiar sedition
that marks the meetings of these
pro-Bolshevik-Americans is being
looked into, that the great cure is a
thorough course in Americanization.
For the amazing thing about this
American-Bolshevik braggadocio is
that it assumes that a country that
has revealed political, social, indus
trial and personal control for several
bunded years is to learn wisdom at
this late day from those who have
reduced their own country to a wel
ter of suspicion, with every man's
li nd against every other's and
where the stomach is Indeed in re
bellion since the things produced and
the men who are capable of pro
ducing them have been wantonly de
stroyed in farm and factory.
SEIZURE OF THE CABLES
[From the Pliila. Public Ledser.]\
President Wilson ought to realize
before it shall be too late to undo
the mischief how widespread and
deep is the feeling of distrust and
disquiet engendered by the an
nouncement of the program for
n "official press mission" under the
direction of Air. Creel at the com
ing peace conference, coincident with
the taking over of the Atlantic cables
by the Postmaster General. It is im
possible to remove from the public
mind the conviction that there is
some close if unexplained connection
between these two measures and
that the purpose is a sinister one,
aimed at the control of the news ser
vice from Versailles or at some sort
of a propaganda the real purpose
of which is undisclosed.
All the grcnt newspapers of the
civilized world have already made
arrangements to send competent rep
resentatives to the peace conference
and to have its proceedings fully re
ported from hour lo hour for the
enlightenment of their readers. They
have proceeded on the assumption,
an assumption based primarily upon
the repeated utterances of Presi
dent Wilson, that the coming con
ference will stand for open diplo
macy, that it will be In the conduct
of its deliberations the very antithe
sis of the Congress of Vienna, when
the destinies of nations and of peo
ple were determined in secret and
in utter disregard of justice or the
rights and Wishes of the people con
cerned. And they have assumed,
further, that the wire communica
tions would be open to all on equal
terms, unhampered by any narrow
censorship or bureaucratic inter
ferences.
Under these circumstances, what
then is to be accomplished by the
Creel mission, why the belated tak
ing over of the cable services at a
time when the war emergency can
no longer be_pleaded in justification?
These are questions to which the
people of America are entitled to
a full, Immediate and explicit uns
wer.
THE NA TIONITFINA SUES
[From the N. A. War Weekly]
One of the most beneficial results
of the election will be tho curtail
ment of the gross extravagance
which has marked the appropriation
and expenditure of the public funds.
Nor will it lie necessary to await
the convening c\ the new Congress
to enjoy this gratifying improvement.
Senator Martin, chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, has
already announced his purpose to
scrutinize more carefully the esti
mates of the executive departments
and to Insist upon economies wher
ever they are practicable.
The bitter resentment which the
administration has shown whenever
the committees of Congress have
sought to curb its extravagance, or
even persistently to inquire into the
necessity of the appropriations de
manded. together with the public cen
sure meted out by the President to
all Democratic Senators who opposed
his will (not excluding the ulways
loyal, able and energetic Senator
from Oregon. Mr. Chamberlain)-
have heretofore operated to restrain
Democrats, while the fear of misrep
resentation and of oven the appear
ance of doing anything to hamper
the President in ihe prosecution of
the war has acted as a brake on the
Republicans.
The vote of the people to restore
to Congress the legislative function
which had been wrested from it,
however has put courage into the
abler and more manly Democrats,
and the conviction of the Repub
licans that their success is largely
attributable to the confidence of tho
people that they stand as one man
for the establishment of a permanent
peace, will relieve them in large
measure of the ernbarussment under
which they have labored, an em
barrassment the greater because of
the powerful publicity machine
which tho administration possesses
in the Comniitte on Public Informa
tion, und the unscrupulous uses to
which that Institution has so often
I lent itself.
| Strange German Psychology
[From the Baltimore American]
Erzberger asked Marshal Foch if
the Allies had no consideration for
| Germany. It is part of 'psychology
of the German nature, Incomprehen
sible to other minds, how a. nation
| could expect consideration from the
I men whose lands they had ravaged,
whose men In war they had met with
treachery and atrocity of every kind,
whrse wemm and children they had
killed, whose 'owns they had pillaged
and burned and who had shown no
consideration for law, honor, de
cency or humanity. Yet, after acting
like wild beasts, they asked tho treat
, incut of nun,
lumttttg (E!;at
The flfty-flfth anniversary, a few
days ago, of the delivery of Lin
coln's Gettysburg address was com
memorated yesterday In a number
of Dauphin county churches and
that brief enunciation of deathless
principles styled an example of wtu-;
derful English by the foremost men
of letters of America and Greas
Britain was read from pulpits. 1*
was recited in every schoolhouse ir-
Harrisburg last "week and it is safw,
to say that the spirit which It
breathes is stronger to-day, in view
of world events, than ever before *
in this community, so close to the
battlefield and so associated with the
great event that occurred in the
Adams county town. This address,
which was one of the epochal deliv
erances on Pennsylvania soil, is to
the average Dauphin county school
boy one of the most delightful to
recite, not only because of its brqvit:))'
which sometimes carries its appeal
to the juvenile mind, but because It
is in words so understandable. A
veteran teacher said to-day that he
had seldom known a boy to repeat
the lines without throwing his heart
into thein. And there have been
few addresses not of a sacred char
acter that have been heard so often
from pulpits in this community.
a * •
Several residents of this county
are said to be living who heard the
martyr President deliver tho ad
dress. They went to the battlefield
town to-attend the ceremony at the
cemetery which brought the Presi
dent to Adams county and few of
them realized until they began to
think over what Lincoln said that
they had listened to words tliut
would be immortal as long as Eng
lish is spoken. From all accounts
there were hundreds of residents of
Southern Pennsylvania counties at
that gathering and to-day it is a
heritage in families that one of their
forebears hearij Lincoln speak.
• * *
John L. Kendlehart, who is in
charge of various matters connected
with the Stuto Board of Pardons
and Is oho of the legal luminaries
of the department of tho Secretary
of the Commonwealth, was one of
the men who heard the President
speak. Mr. Kendlehart was a young
ster and like most boys got pretty
close to the stand and heard every
word. He gives some interesting im
pressions of the address and of the
great affection manifested for Lin
coln by tho people. George D.
Thorn, acting deputy Secretary of
the Commonwealth, also heard tho
address, but as he was jusl about
half a decade old, his recollections
of the great occasion are interest
ing, too. Ho was impressed with
the reverent manner with which the
great crowd listened to the short
remarks.
• •
Lincoln's Gettysburg address is to
he placed in a fitting placo in the
Pennsylvania State Capitol within
the next few years and it will ho 0.011-
i sidered by the proposed commission
in charge of art works for the state's
official center which it ts believed
| will be established eurly in the com
ing administration. In spite of tho
fact that Lincoln's address ranks
with ihe Declaration of Independ
ence in the historical paintings in
the series placed recently in tho
Senate Chamber tho complete text
is not set forth in any of tho apart
ments in the Capitol. There have
been propositions from time to time
to have it placed in legislative halls
or corridors, but nothing has come
of them and the latest idea present
ed to the Legislature was for tho
painting of the words in gilt letters
on the vacant space immediately be
hind the chair of the Speaker of the
House of Representatives. The ad
dress has been quoted in legislative
sessions probably oftener than any
other, while reference has also been
made to the fact that the state had
not properly commemorated in tho
Capitol the words delivered on Key
stone State soil by a descendant of
a Pennsylvania settler speaking ata
cerenionv intimately related to the
.great struggle that occurred within
! the boundaries of this Common
wealth.
• ♦
Announcement that applications
for automobile license registrations
made after this week would possibly
not result in applicants getting num
bers requested because of the rush
that comes with December lias
caused a flood of letters to reach
George M. Brusstar, registrar of the
automobile division, asking for spe
cial numbers. Some of the letters
are Insistent, too. The first ship
ments will be made next week and
as far as possible the numbers will
follow requests, although it has re
quired some diplomacy to take care
of persons who wanted the same
numbers. Certain requests were for
"doublets," "trips" and 'all alikes,
while there were others which were
called "poker hands" by the men
handling them. Combinations with
out limit seem to be desired.
[ WELL KNQWN~ FEOPLE
t-
E. K. Morse, well known to
many residents of this city, has been
made the tunnel expert in the Pitts
burgh transportation problems.
General C. B. Dougherty, vice
chairman of the State War History
Commission, is an authority on his
tory of the Wyoming section.
Superintendent of Schools J. P.
Garber, of Philadelphia, was a visi
tor here for the weekend.
Noah Dietrich, past commander
of tho State G. A. It., presented with
a watch at the Easton meeting, is
one of tho most acttvo members of
the veteran's organization.
—John E. Dempsey, who has re
tired as chief of the miners in tho
Lackawanna district, has been their
president since 1910. He is well
known to many people here.
James W. Costello, l'hilad~^-
phla street cleaning engineer, wit
resigned, goes to Newark to take a
$5,000 post.
Major H. Laird Curtin, who com
mands the Militia Cavalry, Is a men.
ber of the famous Curtin family <*•
Center county.
Major W. P. Clark, tho Mtlltla
ordnance officer, Is a Willlamsport
man and an authority in such mat
ters.
DO YQU~KNOW
—That Harrisburg water mcll.
oils arc still serving as models In
various parts of the country?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first move to get Harrisburg
people to build houses other than
wood was started after a big Are In
1810,
Peace al Last
[From the Buffalo Express.]
Speaking of the humors of war.
George Creel. will soon be demo
bilized
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