10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JL NEWrSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THIS TEI.9GRAPII PRINTING CO. tslepsph Building, Federal Sgnere E. J. STACKPOLO President and Editor-in-Chief F. K. OYSTER, Business Manager. OEB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager, Executive Board J. P. McOULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited t.o it or net otherwise credited in this paper and also the local n*vs published herein. . . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American Chicago, 111. g ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa, as second class matter. _ Bv carrier, ten cents a 'week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. A firm chin is helpless without a !ff Upper lip.—Kin Hubbard. A fault known is a fault cured the strotig. but to the weak it is tetter riveted. —Stevenson. MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 1018 AS TO THE TREES r the City Council does not think J_ it advisable to creat a Shade Tree Commission for reasons best known to the members, it ought to be possible to take some action look ing to the preservation of the shade trees we now have and to increase their number through a system of planting before the winter is farther advanced. There has been some lit tle planting here and there, but there ought to be hundreds and thousands of trees set out before the old trees, which are fast disappear ing. shall have left Harrisburg a treeless city. When the snow falls and the trees are burdened with icicles, those indifferent persons who never can "see the use" of a Shade Tree Com mission or anything of that sort will probably realize through the discomfort of having their hats knocked from their heads and branches of overhanging trees sweeping their faces that the tree matter is not a joke. Now is the time to attend to these matters, and we are still hope ful that the disposition to "let George do it" will not further delay the shade-tree program. One need only to glance over the Government figures as to income and excess profits tax to discover that Pennsylvania and New York were the strong pillars of the war —Pennsylva- nia $495,889,801 and New York $689,- 265,600. JUSTICE CRIES OUT j A S President Wilson is deter mined to go to Europe to par ticipate to some extent in the peace negotiations, those who ques tioned the propriety of his doing so must accept the situation and trust that his presence will prove helpful rather than embarrassing to the peace commissioners. It may be well for the President to see the results of the Hun's visitations in France and Belgium, that his heart may be steeled against any pacitlstlc tendencies in the making of the terms of settlement. It is intimated in dispatches from Washington that France and Eng land and Italy are looking to the President to say whether or not— ■with regard to the llohenzollerns •and their ilk—it shall be "thumbs lip" or "thumbs down." With the rising tide of feeling among the belligerent nations against the Kaiser and his group of cut-throats and thieves, there is not likely to be any attention given to the sophistries of pacifists who have had no part in the struggle save as they have exercised their tongues in telling men of courage and convic tion what ought to be done. Pershing may be expected to send the boys home as rapidly as possible. Leave it to him. THE BUSY JAPS WHILE politics raged and thrones tumbled, the indus trious little Jap, with the assistance of the Democratic tariff law, continued to score enormous gains In the American market. The latest figures Issued by the Depart ment of Commerce show that we im ported from Japan for the first nine months of the current fiscal year $227,000,000 worth of goods, an fn crease of $46,000,000 over the same period of 1917, and $158,000,000, or 212 per cent., over the same period of 1913, which marked the close of the protective tariff period. It is a matter for serious con sideration to note that imports from Japan during the first nine months vt this year were but $23,000,000 mm tJllmsw mm. less than out - total Imports from all Europo for the same period—sloB,- 000,000 more than from Great Bri tain, and $179,000,000 more than from France. Japan realizes that with the com ing of peace the United States, un der the present tariff policy, will suffer greatly increased competi tion from Europe, and particularly from Germany, which, according to Mr. Wilson's third principle, is to receive just as much benefit from Democratic tartfl legislation as our Allies will receive. But stilt the Jap can rely on satis factory profits, because his goods cost no where near as much to pro duce under the Japanese wage scale as do similar goods of European manufacture. Japan has had a mar velous run of trade with the United States since the war broke out, the total aggregating about $81G,000,000 worth of sales to us. Where, in 1913, less than 4 per cent, of our import trade came from Japan, to-day about 10 per cent, originates from that source, and it is growing all the time. The period of reconstruction calls for a serious study of the competi tion coming from the Orient, par ticularly Japan, and how best to regulate it to the end that the American wageearner and manu facturer may not have to yield too much to Oriental encroachment. Certainly, that study will show the fallacy of a tariff law now averaging less than six per cent, ad valorem on all imports. The swarms of Federal office holders throughout the country arc to be de mobilized and in this way essential industries will be helped. AN IMPORTANT WORK WITH respect to the selection of Governor Brumbaugh as the historian of the State in the matter of an adequate record of Pennsylvania's part in the war there is iess concern as to who shall do the work than that it shall be done well. It ought to be a comprehen sive and accurate story from begin ning to end. Under no circum stances should it be a mere treatise or the expression of personal views, nor should it be dragged over a long period of time in the preparation, j It is highly important that the groundwork should be well laid while the memories of those who were participants in the great drama are fresh as to the immediate happenings here and abroad. Pennsylvania has suffered to some extent in previous histories—espe cially in school text-books—and there can be no excuse n,ow for any failure to prepare an adequate and worthy record of the State's share in safeguarding the liberties of the world. No history can be complete which does not deal with all the activities of the war. Pennsylvania's part was so important in men and measures and materials that the undertaking of such a work calls for the high est ability and the exercise of the greatest patience and accuracy in collecting the-facts. There was printed in the Telegraph a day or two ago a fine letter from a Ilarrisburg soldier to his mother. He concluded with the following beau tiful verse, adapted as his own senti ment: We fight for every mother as she sings Her babe to sleep upon her throb bing breast; We battle for the womanhood of Earth For Liberty, for Honor and for Right; Be proud, O Mother dear, that you gave birth To one who lived to enter such a light. Is it any wonder that the American army in France gave so fine an ac count of itself when the fighting forces are composed of boys with such ideals. Unless some regulations are promul gated regarding the use of heavy trucks on paved streets of the city, we shall soon reach the time when we can no longer boast of our splendid highways. If is a foolish idea that individuals and corporations should not be restrained by traffic regula tions in the use of trucks weighing several thousand tons. It Is all very well for the owners of these trucks to conserve their own expenditures at the expense of the people gt large, who pay for the paving of the streets, but the taxpayer must in the end pay the freight. The dye manufacturers of the United States arc looking to the War Industries Board, or some Federal body, to prevent importation of an avalanche of foreign dyes manufac tured on the low-wage scale of Eu rope. The American dye industry has been greatly developed during the period of the war and this infant in dustry ought to be immediately pro tected in some effective way. Our dye manufacturers assert that foreign dyes worth $2,600,000 were being im ported Into the United States monthly. President Wilson and certain of his official advisers are said to be obsessed with the Government ownership bee. Theoretical statesmen have had plenty of room to exercise thfllr notions of government during the last six years, but the time Is not far distant when the people will demand something more substantial than hot air and ex perimental administration. Now, that the war Is over and the ban lifted on many enterprises that might otherwise have been nonessen tial in their character, may .we not look to the City Council for some definite and favorable action in the placing of the Donato statuary, which has so long reposed in a -warehouse? It now develops that Germany's yell for bread was more propaganda, intended to influence the peace com missioners and to arouse sympathy for the dastard Huns, who never once thought of mercy in their dealings with the ravaged countries of Europe. By the Ex-Oommitlccnipn Between the close of the war and the readjustment of business the attention of even men who were sur prised at the tremendous majority rolled up for Governor-elect Williuiu C. Sproul has been distracted from one of the most remarkable results of the November election. This was not the fact that the people of the state reduced the Democratic re presentation in Congress by one and that but for s6me liquor lights there might have been still further cutting down of the Democratic Congress men, but that the next Legislature of Pennsylvania will be Republican by within one of 200 majority on joint ballot. There is something so unprecedent ed that* its effe.cts can not fail to be felt this coming winter. It will call for care in Republican party management and at the same time force the Democrats to struggle to stay on the map. There will be only six Democratic senators in fifty and 23 representatives in 207. In the sessions of 1917 the Repub lican majority on joint ballot was 159, a substantial gain over 1915 in spife of the Democratic, presidential victofy and congressional elections, in the session of 1919 the Repub lican majority on joint ballot will be 199. This gain of forty legislators has occurred in a year when the official management of the Democratic party had everything its own way— federal appointments, Presidential smiles, subservient jobholders and liberal responses to the assessments for campaign purposes. The Mc- Cormick regime as national chair man, which has its root in the con trol of the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, hns seen rflie Democratic congressional and legislative strength sink astoundingly. —The Millers lead in representa tion in both branches of the Legisla ture which will meet in Harrisburg on January 7. There are two ill the Senate and four in the House and if Albert Millar, of Harrisburg, can lie counted as belonging to the clan, there will be five in the House. I-ast session there were four in the House. There were no Smiths in the Senate and the family representative lias been cut from four to two in the House. Neither branch has a Brown, White or Black, but each has a member of the Jones family. There are only two senators with Mc to their but the House has seven. There are no members whose names begin with O. For the first time there is no llall in either house. —The Senate has a Barr. Its membership also includes a Weaver and a Turner, while it has a Crow and a Craig and one new member is Gray. Senator Norman A. Whitten, of Allegheny, loses last place on the roll to George Woodward, of Phila delphia, but Senator Frank Iv. Bald win, of Potter, holds the leading place. —The House Is well equipped as far as names go as it has a Bell, a Collier, a Cook, a Day, a Bower, a Drinkhouse, a Wood and a Glass. It has Wells and Rlioads while its membership includes two Foxs. a Pike, a Pidgeon and a Martin. It also lias West and North, Allunt and Blanck. On the roll are Bowman, a Walker and a Goldsmith. Near Brooks are a Crum and two Currys, Jordan and Goodnough, Spangler and Golder ornament the roll. —William Cloud Alexander, of Delaware, will be the new roll leader while Harry Zanders, of Carbon, who closed the list last session, gives way to Simon F. Zook, of Blair. —Philadelphia newspapers gen erally agree that Dr. Edward Mar tin, now a major in. the army and stationed at Camp Greenleaf, can be commissioner of health if lie so desires A week ago Dr. J. M. Baldy, chairman of the State Bureau of Medical Education, was much mentioned. In Philadelphia some people say that Dr. B. F. Itoyer, now acting commissioner, may become chief medical inspector again. The mention of Maurice T. Phillips, of Pomeroy, for secretary of agriculture, is general. He is a member of the commission and knows what the department needs. Reappointment of Commissioner 9C Fisheries Nathan R. Buller is as sured, but the Capitol looks for changes in the heads of the Insur ance. Banking, Labor and Industry, Highways and some of the bureaus. It is not certain what will be done about Mines, except that there will be two bureaus created. Harry A. | Mackey, chairman of the Compen sation Board will be reappointed. —Ex-Govern(F William A. Stone is quoted by to-day's North Ameri can as saying a new constitution is "badly needed." He presents seven points Including larger municipal home government; better election laws with abolition of the non-parti san. ballot which he calls "a mon strosity"; regulation in a modern way of taxation, indebtedness and general welfare. A convention he said would curtui! the reformer, who Is always abroad in the land and who frequently has theories only. He also takes a rap at the school master in the Whife House. —James B. Fagen, appointed Pittsburgh registration commissioner by the Governor a few days ago, has declined,the PittsburghGazette-Times says: "There are two other lead ing local Democrats willing to take the place. One is M. B. Donnelly, a grocer,- who is chairman of the party organization in the Fifth Ward. The other is Attorney Paul McClelland of the Fourteenth Ward. Under the law a Republican cannot be appoint ed. Mr. McCelland belongs to the Washington party, which is now con sidered extinct. The appointment will hold for two years. —Reading people are suggesting the Rev. J. Warren Klein, an Evan gelical minister, for mayor. Most of the council and the mayor are candidates for the mayoralty, as in Harrisburg. —The Sayre Times and Athens Gazette have consolidated and there will be one evening newspaper for the two northern tier towns. Denatured Facts George Creel is .going to Europe to Georgecreel the cable news from Europe. The country has had pretty near a stflmachjoad of his torical fiction from that quarter dur ing the war, but evidently we are gping to cpntinile to be treated to denatured facts for some time to come. —National Republican. Each Should Be Thankful [From the New York Evening Post] The ex-kaiser and the ex-crown prince are said not to be together. Each one has something to be thank l l'ul for anyway. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS /v>* f I ThimK T3 i\ / ~ \ 'Too PULL N \ \ / v\W \ Nolo \ \ Ti-ifi \ / \\\\\i AN — ' \ / IM -y \ ,A/ [ CORYRIGHIMMtTNEW" YORK" TRDCNI U*Cv LETTERS TO THE EDITOR*] Insists on Compensation To the Editor of the Telegraph: Your correspondent, Jeff Wilson, is impatient concerning my plea for compensation for distillers, brewers, winemakers and the like if pro hibition is adopted as a national policy. That is his privilege, but I still contend that nothing short of full compensation will comport with the dignity, the history and the national honor of the American people. It is true that some people abuse whisky, wine and beer, even as some abuse tobacco, the right to own firearms, the right of free speech and innumerable other privi leges, but that does not alter the fact that for over one hundred years people have been encouraged to build distilleries, breweries and win eries by demands on the part of the people and by the laws of our na tion, our states, and our municipali ties. To destroy this vast industry, without compensation, is as unjust, us it would be to destroy the tobacco business, with emit compensation, if anti-tobacconists gained temporary political control. Prohibition provides for the man ufacture and sale of whiskies, wines and beers for medicinal, govern mental, scientific, mechanical, sacra mental and industrial purposes, and the people will want and very greatly need these commodities, but who would invest his money in such enterprises in the future if confisca tion, without compensation, is to follow if the extremists gain a majority later? Wisky has proved and is daily proving its great value in the influ enza epidemic and to save lives the general government and the states have swept prohibitory laws tem porarily into the discard, but Mr. Wilson" no doubt, would prefer see ing thousands die tliun to see whisky employed as a means of cure. What the world needs and soon will have, no doubt, are "blue laws" lifted from the statutes of Con necticut and Massachusetts. It's wrong to enjoy life, because some will go to excess. In the meantime, however, if Mr. Wilson will make diligent inquiries he will find that the leading inen in Har risburg and in our cities generally, including our lawmakers, "wet" and "diy", have stocked up their cellars with whisky, wine and beer, and a big wine list might possibly be made up from the supplies in the White House cellars. Yours very truly, T. M. GILMORE, President National Model License League. Likes the Yank Edition Tc the Editor of the Telegraph: 1 had the pleasure of reading one of the "War Weekly" issues printed in your paper for the benefit of the soldiers oversea from Harrisburg, and nearby towns. 1 will assure you it was very in teresting, as news from home is very much appreciated. I am sure I voice the sentiment of every Har risburg man when I ask that it be continued until we are all back I home once more.. Hoping that you will continue to have much success in your under takings whatever they may be. I remain Your fellow-countryman, PRIVATE PATRICK H. TAYLOR. LABOR NOTES A distinctive war-time development in English Industry has been the es tablishment of women police forces in factories where women are em ployed. The powerful unions of ship wrights, blacksmiths and boiler-mak ers in England are talking amal gamation and conferences to this end have been held. San Francisco wholesale butchers have accepted the new wage agree ment of the Butchers' Union. Rates have been increased $25 a month. j | Governor-Elect Wra. C. Sproul Outlines Some of His Plans 11 J WHILE Governor-elect William C. Sproul did not announce any appointments in Phila delphia at the end of November that had not been forecast several times < he gave an interesting slant upon some of his plans for the reorgani zation of the State government, i There have been some people here ' who have been of the opinion that 1 the new Governor would leave men i and things as they are on Capitol Hill. The remark of the new execu tive on Saturday should dispel that .opinion because he said, "I am not going to take a mowing machine with me to Harrisburg, but I may need a weedor." The new Governor confirmed re ports that William I. Sc'haffer, one of the most brilliant attorneys of the state and a close personal friend, would be his attorney general and that Harry S. McDevitt, the state governmental expert andwho was in charge of details of the campaign, | would be his private secretary. He was quite confident that both would make excellent offiials. Senator Sproul in announcing that he would tender reappointment to Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods paid a high compliment to W. Harry Baker, whom lie said had decided to remain secretary of the Senate. What lie said about Mr. Baker was approved by everyone who heard' it in Philadelphia and it is interesting to note that Mr. Baker, who has frequently been mentioned for appointive office, will stay as secretary of the Senate, which is the most important place in the whole legislative system. Senator Sproul said, "I think he can lie of greater service to ine in the Senate post although I do not intend to attempt to influence legislation in the Senate." The Philadelphia Public Ledger in the course of an article yesterday quoted the new Governor us saying regarding the speakership: "Various gentlemen of large in fluence have suggested that my wishes would be considered on the speakership," he said. "I want to avoid any interference in legislative matters in the state government. There lias been too much of, that in the past. The House will have to pick its own speaker, but the man should be in sympathy with the chief issues of my platform. I will not take the responsibility of any hand-picked speaker." The Ledger also says: "Mr. Sproul said he would attend the conference dinner on charter revi sion on December 10 "as a listener only." lie would say nothing fur ther on the question of charter re vision, but when asked what Ills present thoughts are on the ques tion of a constitutional convention, he said: "I have no doubt tremen dous social changes are likely with in the near future. No one can fore tell what they will be. We cannot get a proper prospective on these tilings at this time. There may be a social turmoil one year from now. j I believe the people can settle these matters. " Constitutional conventions are serious propositions. New York recently defeated a new constitution and that of Ohio has not exactly worked out happily. Here in Penn . sylvania it may be desirable to call a constitutional convention at once, or it may be considered wiser to await a better view of coming events. We must adopt a waiting policy for the time being." William Perrine, writing in the Philadelphia Bulletin presents these interesting comments about the next Governor of Pennsylvania: "At the age of forty-eight he is an example of a well-balanced combination of bodily bulk, well-ordered nerves, mental quickness and wholesome spirits. Th 6 clear, large gray eyes are keen, shrewd, bright and kindly, with something of a quizzical glance in them. The head betokens both force and balance; the clean-shaven face is at once sunny and serious, [ and there is a strong masculine quality in it, tempered by a genial refinement. A man would like it because of its frankness and verac ity, and a woman might trust it be cause she would be likely to see in it the graciousness of a gentleman. It is a face of an essentially Amer ican type. The lines of a nature energetic and mobile are plainly impressed on it. If Sproul were in a crowd of all sorts of European foreigners who had never seen him and knew nothing about him it is doubtful whether there „ would be one who would not immediately rec ognize him as an American, so dif ferent is the face from any Euro pean type and so much is it charac teristic of the evolution which is de veloping a distinctive American one, Poise without stiffness, dignity with out solemnity, cheer without flip pancy, and comradeship or affabil ity without sloppiness, are in the figure and the bearing. He might 1 be taken at first glance to be a pros ! perous man of affairs who is a "live wire" and who smacks something of a hearty, genteel sport. "Sproul is engaged in a variety of enterprises, financial, journalistic, patriotic and social, performs his part in each of them without either irksomeness of fuss, and readily grows in favor among even those who may have only a cursory ac quaintance with him. In politics he has been ambitious since he cast his first vote, but he has not been noisy or pretentious. Until it is remembered that lie made his start in public life when he was still a very young man, it cannot be readily understood how it is that looking younger than he is, he should have been continuously in the State Senate for twenty-two years. There are some men who are always refreshing; their voices sound good at any hour of the day or night; their glad countenance doeth good like a medicine; and SprOui is one of them." SECURITY , [From the Houston Post] ' "What security has the United States for the biljions of dollars lent to Great Britain ?"asks an anonymous muttonhead of St. Louis. The secur ity of as sub]ime a courage, as in vincible a spirit, as unwavering n faith, and as knightly an example oi Belf-sacriflce as' the annals of the human race disclose. HOMEWARD BOUND Lap softly, •waves, the high gray prows! . Blow gently, winds, through joy ous days, Nor any slumbering Sea King rouse, To peril safety, cause delays. Watch, stars, through silent, bliss ful nights! Sun, with a newer splendor shine! Bring nearer rapturous delights— Loved exiles bring, for whom hearts pine! Glad hours, move swiftly, till once more Home faces dear those dear ones greet! Speed, tides, the ships toward this proud shore, Where flags will wave and drums will beat! Hide, Mercy, all the hurts and scars That War so ruthlessly has left! Assuage the pain that triumph mars, For those of hero-lads bereft. Sky, sea, combine! Safeguard the way Through ocean's rainbow-tinted foam. "Victors returning!" men will say, But we—"Our boys are coming home!" —ELLA A. FANNING, in New York Times, t FOCH'S DECISION [New York Times] The German Armistice Commis sioners complained that they found Marshal Foch cold, stern, implac able. He read the terms, that seemed to them ruthless, in a voice in which there was no consideration for them as representatives of the Imperial Government and its arttU powerful army. They expected a show of courtesy, even if it were formal, but the man who had Ger many's destiny in his hands wasted no time in preliminaries and empty forms. He was doing his duty with out sparing them or himself. He was not even tempted by a great ambition. A correspondent of the British Wireless Service in France now asserts that If hostilities had lasted ten days more Marshal Foch would have brought about the sur render of the entire German army, and won (he greatest victory "of all ■ ages." Says this correspondent: "The Marshal renounced that great victory deliberately and with his eyes open, because continuation jof the struggle would have cost a certain number of French and Brit ish lives, and he could not have it on his conscience to sacrifice one life after it was in his power to make peace on terms of victory." Hence the armistice requirements were expressed in terms of decisive victory. Marshal Foch kneiv that the Germans came to him with no illusion about their military condi tion. There was nothing to nego tiate. They might have expected something less tliun an inexorable ultlmatupi, but the Marshal's words and manner signified, "Surrender or be destroyed." At the time of the 1 reception of the German commis sioners there was a story current in Paris that the great strategist had said a few days before: "I have not yet fought my battle." It was plaus ible. Some day he may write the history of the campaign and reveal his plans for striking the last deci sive blow. What we already know is that his snare had 'been laid and the net was being drawn closer every day. Rapidly he was narrow ing the only gap through which the million and a half of Germans with their cumberoua transportation could escape. Most of their trunk lines were in his hands or under the lire of the guns of the Allies. I The enemy could not break through in the south or in the north. He was an imminent danger of en j velopment, and apparently only a part of his army could have es caped capture or destruction. A man of Napoleonic lust for glory would have found some way to de fer negotiations for an armistice while he struck the blow that would end ail. Ferdinand Foch was never greater than in the hour when he decided that he would choose the lesser victory und renown rather than shed the blood of thousands j more of his soldiers. MR. WILSON'S SELECTIONS [New York Times] It. is when we contemplate some of the Americans who remain be hind, as well as those who are to go, that we have the right to feel that in naming his associates the President lias not made altogether the wisest possible selections. But at any rate they will be a harmonious group, and all Rtand for American ism. It is difficult to believe that the President's fellow-commissioners will really serve as a help or guide in the forming of his opinions. Self dependence is a quality of high val ue, but consultation of other opin ions has its uses. President Monroe, when the clouds growing out of the efforts of the lloly Alliance to sup press the struggle for South Ameri can freedom became threatening, took the advice of his predeces sors. Jefferson and Madison. "I am sensible, however, of the extent and difficulty of the question, and shall be happy to have yours and Mr. Madison's' opinion of it." He also had the opinion of that extra ordinarily hard-headed and pugna cious gentleman, John Quincy Adams, who was to be his successor. Out of the deliberation of those minds grew the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine, a public sys tem that has . resisted ail onslaughts for nearly a century and stands to day impregnable—unless we are to surrender it for the League of Na tions. The " country does not know whether Mr. Wilson has taken coun sel of the wise international ininds of our generation before reaching his conclusions. We are inclined to think that he must have consulted them, that he lias. We cherish the expectation, too, fliat in his address to Congress, he will take the coun try a little more into his confidence as to what he proposes to do and say in our interest at Paris. The people are very much in the dark about the League of Nations, about his conception of freedom of the seas. They certainly should know more about these matters before they are proclaimed at Paris as American principles. Hughes on Rceonstruction Former Justice Charles E. Hughes in a speech on reconstruction says: It has seemed to me that at this time it would be well to have a quick survey of all the important public work in the various states and municipalities which has been held up during the war, and that intelligent efforts should be made to set it going as rapidly as possible all over the country to take up the labor slack. I assume that this is re ceiving the attention of officers off the Government. The only real assurance of the fu ture lies in the spirit which brought England to the side of France, and Paly to the aid of both, and then, at last brought America to the de fense of liberty and while that spirit animates these great peoples, the small nations and the interests of international justice will be secured. There is no hope for the world in *n America which loses its virility, its intense national consciousness, and its patriotic ardor. Let us cher ish and stimulate the love of coun try so finely evidenced In the greut war for there is no cause for des pair in a republic for which men are willing to die. Why He Is a Bank President [From the Detroit News] Think of a 15-year-old office boy getting up at daylight, not only sweeping up the floor but oiling and polishing it, starting the fires, clean ing the windows, shining the brass railings, and then going out and scraping the mud off the street cross ing that led to his boss' office, so that folks could cross comfortably, and getting $3 a week for it; then having the vision to buy with ills liard-carned wages twelve weekly newspapers published in different cities so that he could find out what was going on in the world outside the town of Panora, la., and you have a picture of George M. Reyn olds, who is to-day ill Chicago, the president of the largest bank In the country, outside New York, with re sources of nearly one half billion dollars! lEtmttng (Eljat December has not brought the customary suspension of river coa! dredging operations on the Susque hanna and even on the Swatara, che Wiconisco and other creeks which carry down the small coal from the mines men and dredges are at work getting out the fine coal which la providing such an important addi tion to the supply of coal for indus tries and even for homes. Ordinar ily the iirst of December brings a cessation of the coal gathering be cause of the cold and the vagaries of the Susquehanna. This fall there have been a. number of periods ol high water which have brought down large amounts of coal and furnished a considerable additional supply to work. The dredges have been moved frequently and< the dis trict between the northern end of Harrisburg and Hocltvllle "falls," which has supplied hundreds of tons has now been abandoned for stratches nearer the center of the city where small islands and rocks have caught the coal and sand. Be low the municipal sanitary dam, clear down to Rtiddletown dredges are working and some of the boats will he kept at the harvest until the cold makes work on the stream haz ardous. There have been more dredges and flats working this year than ever known before. South Carolina wants to get out of the mud. With that idea in mind, and learning that Pennsylvania on election duy took the iirst step out of the mud when it approved the proposition to bond the state for $50,000,000 for road purposes, South Carolina has asked Pennsylvania for information. The Charleston, S. C., Chamber of Commerce in a tele gram to M. 11. James, of Harris burg, secretary of the Associated Highways Organization of Pennsyl vania, and also secretary of the William Penn Highway Association, asks complete information relative to the Pennsylvania campaign; the nature of the proposition voted upon; and information relative to the bond issue itself. The Charles ton Chamber of Commerce proposes a campaign to bond South Carolina for money sufficient to give that Commonwealth a start on better roads. It is tired of the mud. That the southern state is on the right, trail is the belief of Pennsylvania road enthusiasts. In Willlanisport, Pennsylvania, the women have been taking the t) war to heart, and have striven by every means to do not only their bit, , but their uttermost. There are sev eral munitions plants there, and many of the patriotic women of the up-river city donned overalls and blouses to take their places in the second line of defense as inspectors and workers in munitions plants. They are not women who were forced to seek lucrative positions. They are members of the chapter of the American Red Cross. One of the young women who trudges off to work daily, carrying her dinner pail, and who comes home in the evening, greasy and dirt-begrimed, V is the daughter of the proprietor of the largest department store there. Another is the daughter of a prom inent lawyer, with a young son who also is working in a munitions plant. The pinch of manpower shortage has been severely felt in the pa triotic town, and the women have been doing their best to relieve con ditions. • * * Dr. J. George Beclit, secretary of the State Board of Education, has sailed for Europe on leave from the State Board, to engage in consulta- j tion work for the Y. M. C. A. and A United War Work activities, with ' which he has been much identified. * Dr. Beclit sailed from New Yovk on Saturday and his going was a sur prise to friends here. It is under stood that the opportunity to assist in work abroad a-nd to make some observations in regard to continua tion of education among young sol diers presented itself suddenly and • he left as soon as arrangements could be made. Dr. Becht will be gone several weeks, but return in time to present educational legisla tion to the next general assembly. His son, Howell Becht, is a mem ber of the "Gas and Flame" regi- * ment of Engineers and has been in active service for over a year. • * The fact that there is a transport in the United States service that bears the name of Harrisburg, which turned up in a news item the other day, was brought home to people at Union Station on Saturday when they saw sailors with "U. S. S. Har risburg" 011 their hats. The men were here on their way home on leave. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —General Hunter Liggett Is to be invited to Reading, his birth place. when the war ends. —Ex-Governor John K. Tener has , been traveling in eastern states lately. —Brua C. Keefer, who was ten dered a dinner by Williamsport friends, is well known to many peo ple here. —John M. Phillips, State Game Commissioner, active in the walnut planting movement, says thousands of young trees have been moved to roadsides. —William Perrine, the editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, who has attended every inaugura tion here for years, plans to come < to the Sproul ceremonies. —Senator Charles H. Kline, men tioned for judicial position, is an In diana countlan. [ DO YOU KNOW • —That Hnrrrisburg appliances were used to lit up many plants engaged in manufacturing mu nitions? 1 1 2 HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris helped build the first, road between Lancaster and Harris Ferry. WESTERN FARMS [From Tid-Bits, London] The American soldier was telling his host about the size of some of the farms In the west. "You might not believe It," Jie said, "but a friend of mine has a farm so large that he starts out with his plowing in the Spring. All that he can do Is to plow and sow one straight furrow before autumn. Then he turns around and harvests the crop on his way back." "Oh, yes, I can believe that," said the host. "It Is like my son-in-law's farm out there. Two weeks after they were married my daughter and . her husband started for their pasture to milk the cows and their two chil dren brought in the mills,"
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