6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 'A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evening* except Sunday by THE TELMOIUI'H PRINTING CO. Telesrapk Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Aeeoclated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited t.o It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local nAvs published . herein. . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American AssocU- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Assocl- Eastorn office, Story. Brooks Building, Western office, Story. Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a 4week; by mall. $3.00 a year in advance. Conscience is the highest of all courts. —Victor Hugo. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1918 THE PROSPECT BRIGHT SPEAKING before the Harris burg Rotary Club last Monday, E. S. Herman, of this city, fore casted good .business and steady work following a period of read , justment, and his judgment was that this period would be of brief duration. He gave as his reason for this opinion that the reserve stocks of the world's markets are at low ebb. For four years the world has been making a business of war, with the result that supplies of all man ner of manufactured goods are near the vanishing point at a time when people are beginning to buy after an interval of self-denial. The demand is heavy and the available supply small, Mr. Herman said, which is a condition that makes for fair wages, good prices and busy days ahead for manufacturers and merchants. This is an optimistic survey of a situation which has been fraught with anxiety for the makers and sel lers of peace-time products. It is borne out in every respect by the speakers at the Atlantic City con vention of the United States Cham ber of Commerce. Better days are ahead than we have ever known, for however great the volume of trade, the degree of profit and the height of wages during the past four years, the whole fabric of war time business was flimsy and admit tedly resting on the shakiest of foundations. But the new prosper ity will be based upon real human needs, backed by unlimited ability to buy and a market that it will require years to saturate. When the most astute businessmen of the country agree with one voice that the outlook is rosey and prospects bright, even the most timid manu facturer or dealer may tack on more sail to take advantage of the favor able wind. NOW FOR "CLEARTOYS" NOW that the sugar restrictions have been lifted, won't you please, oh Mr. Candymaker, add some cleartoys to your Christ mas stock? Christmas is no more Christmas without a few cleartoys to sweeten the disposition and glad den the heart of childhood—old and young—than Christmas would be Christmas without Santa Claus. Listen children; once there was a man who admitted, right here in the Telegraph office, that he didn't know what you meant when you said "cleartoy." Yes, indeed, he was just that ignorant. He had never admired a red or yellow candy elephant, or a horse or a lion, and he had never known the deliciously sticky delights of a toy engine, or a steamboat, or a ship in full sail. He came away from a pro-German community in "Wisconsin, which at once absolves him from blame and explains his lack of knowledge as to things Chrlstmasy. But there are none such among the natives of this community, young or old, to whom the "cleartoy" is' as such an indication that Santa 1 Claus is hanging around the back j porches and roofs trying to get a line on the behavior of boys and girls aa Is the coming to town of Christmas trees and holly wreaths. Even the oldest and the most sedate of us easily hearken back to the days when the "cleartoy" was the sym bol of all that childhood holds dear est of yuletide revelry; of untold vistas of that dear, delightful fairy land where the good old Saint with reindeer and sleigh holds sway; where every minute holds a song and every second a laugh; where sorrow is not and never was, where warmth and good cheer abound; where the holly berries are no rosier than the cheeks they match; where dark secrets bloom into golden realisations of* our deepest desires I SATURDAY EVENING. IHAKRISBURG NWGBL TELEGRAPH * DECEMBER 7,1915. and fondest hopes; that lovely land of joy and sunshine through which we pass on our way from the cradle to old age, and where the wisest of us linger in memory when the candles burn low on Christmas eve and the hanging stockings In a row await the annual visitation. We have missed our old friend, the "cleartoy" the past year or two, and right heartily have we "cussed" the Kaiser, whose U-boats made war on our sugar supply, and we are right glad to note that the lift ing of the sugar bans will give the candymen full latitude in the way of holiday preparations. We are getting back to normal. Christmas this year will not be marred by the thought of millions sleeping in frozen trenches with the shells of the Ilun roaring over head. It's a good old world after all, and Christmas Is Christmas again, and the "clear toy" Is the sign and the symbol thereof in childhood's realm. CAPITOL DEVELOPMENT ARNOLD W. BRUNNER, the Capitol extension architect, one day remarked upon the unsually happy state of affairs In Harrlsburg where the State and city authorities are in perfect accord as to the development of the larger park and its surroundings. Many cities in similar circumstances have not been so fortunate. Frequently State and city officials have jangled over improvements of far lesser im portance than are being outlined here. Of course, Harrlsburg has the ad vantage of a city solicitor who was identified from the first with the park development idea. John E. Fox was responsible for the success of the bill in the Senate and he will do his utmost to co-operate for the early development of the newly acquired area and the erection of a bridge at State street. Indeed, Mayor ICeister, the city councilmen and the state officials from Gover nor down are so enthusiastically fa vorable to the project that it is fair to assume that next year thie time, the Legislature willing, the j work will be well under way. The j city stands ready to do Its full share, and more. REACH UNDERSTANDING BUSINESSMEN meeting in Atlan tic City foresee closer and more friendly relations between em ployer and employe. "The employer feels more kindly toward the em ploye than ever previously and there is evident a spirit of fair play and co-operation such as was never known before," says one corre spondent. This is a good sign. There is no room for the Bolshevik! in the coun try where capital and labor respect each other and deal fairly by each other. It used to be thought that the employe was always the injured party in a dispute, and in most cases he was. But all virtue does not lie with the workingman any more than all evil lies with the employer. If capital plays fair with labor, labor must play fair with capital. "Useless each without the other." No partnership can be one-sided and succeed. Both employer and em ploye must come to an understanding of that before they let their feelings get the better of them in rash and hasty action. Until the two really do understand each other, conditions will not materially improve. But there are sigh's that both are coming to their senses. BRITAIN'S DAY IT IS appropriate indeed that the Union Jack should be to-day en twined with the Stars and Stripes. Tho United States does well to join In the observance of Britain's Day. No nation ever had a more gal lant or helpful ally than America In Britain In the year and more we were at war. But beyond that is the debt we owe to England for making possible the victory over the Hun and the preservation of our own country from invasion. When the "contemptlbles," 100,000 strong, were thrown across the path of the unrushing German millions they knew and England knew that they wojild be annihilated. They were the price the nation was to pay for time to give Joffre opportunity to prepare for the first battle of the Marne. Few of them are alive to-day. But their spirit became the spirit of the I Allied armies and the millions who followed them bared their breasts as gallantly as men ever did to the barb of a cruel foe. Perhaps England might for a time have remained out of the war If Belgium had not been violated. But when that helpless nation was crushed under the heel of the In vader, there was but one thought in the hearts of liberty-loving Brit ishers the world around and that was to rush to the rescue. How splendidly they maintained the tra ditions of their race their graves from Bagdad to the channel ports show. But not alpne on land was British valor a factor in the win ning of the war. On all the seas of the world her brave jacktars were fighting the submarine from the decks of reeling destroyers and the guns of staid old merchant ships. They bearded the Hun In his den i and they swept film from the filch seas. They crushed his vaunted mer chant, marine and they finally ac cepted the full surrender of a fleet that waa afraid to meet them In open battle. Can you picture what would have happened had the British fleet been unequal to the task imposed upon It, or had the British armies yielded? In all likelihood we should be at this moment fighting the victorious German armies not far east of Har rlsburg. British armies and the Brit ish fleet alone prevented this cat-, astrophe. So it Is with grateful hearts, indeed, that we' should salute the British colors to-day wherever we see flying. By the Ex-Committeeman j From what can be learned about the State Capitol,.there is no Inten tion on the part of either officials of the outgoing or incoming govern ments of abolishing the State De fense Commission. On the contrary, It will bo continued as a useful body to cope with any emergencies which may arise, it being held that It pro vides a body which can to a certain extent act without calling the Leg islature, as it co-ordinates the exec utive and fiscal offices of the gov ernment, who are elected by the people, with the Adjutant General, the military chief of the state, who Is an appointive officer. The Emer gency Works Commission, of which the Governor is ex-officio chairman, can take care of any construction which has to be handled to provide work for men in times of industrial depression or unemployment. The opinion expressed here is that the State Defense Commission will be continued as an emergency body and that the State Council of National Defense will be continued in a limited way to meet conditions which may arise in, the readjust ment following the war, the de mobilization and tho like. Its coun ty councils, from what is learned here, will no longer be active, but be maintained as a body which can be called together should occasion arise. —Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh is at work on his farewell message to the Legislature. Under the Con stitution, the retiring Governor submits ideas and recommendations *•-> the General Assembly, which meets just before he goes out of office. As a rule, these messages are more or less of a review and the Governor has asked the head of each department, commission or state bureau to submit statements to him of what has been done. The Governor has given no intimations j of what he may recommend, except j an increase of the Reserve Militia. —Democratic legislators will be scarcer during tho coming session than in any one since the birth of the majority of the men who are now bossing the official machine of the Pennsylvania Democracy. The official record shows six Democrat ic Senators and twenty-three Dem ocratic Representatives. The Wash ington and Socialist parties' repre sentation In the General Assembly disappeared in the tremendous Re publican vote piled up last month and search of the records for years does n.ot disclose any time when the Democratic list in a Keystone State Legislature was so small. The men at the Democratic state headquar ters, which are now visited by the men so prominent as leaders half a dozen years ago about once a year, have attempted no explanation of the decline in the Democratic mem bership in the Legislature of the home state of the Democratic na tional chairman in a year when the expense account shows a widespread interest in party contributions on the part ol federal officeholders. They seem to have left that job on the titular leaders who are too busy preparing for the coming of storms at Washington to pay much atten tion to the uncomfortable situation. —For the last fortnight there have been rumors that the rout of the Democratic state ticket by such a tremendous majority and tho drop of Democratic representation in legislative halls to the lowest point would be made the occasion of a demand for a reorganization of the party machinery such as that which enabled the McCormick-Pal mer-Morris crowd to ride into power in 1911, but it has not amounted to anything. That a majority of the state committeemen would approve a reorganization of the official end of the party is . believed, but it is not thought that anything to tear down the present party chiefs will be essayed until the national out look clarifies. Meanwhile it is probable that the rank and file of the party will allow the leaders of the state organization to carry the $B,OOO notes. This debt is said to have been incurred in other years and there is a disposition to let the men who got the glory of the war in perfectly safe jobs at Washing ton meet the obligations. —Albert Kolb is the new presi dent of the Scranton school board. —Marcus Aaron, member of the state board of education and of the board of public education of Pitts burgh, created a stir at that city when he told members of the Cham ber of Commerce that Pennsylvania taxing laws were antiquated and urged the members to support the state board's bill to be presented to the Legislature, providing for a 25 per cent, increase in the salaries of public school teachers of Pennsyl vania. "Our taxing laws need to be 'scrapped,' " said Mr. Aaron. "We in Pennsylvania need much more money than is now collected throughout the state for education. Teaching must eventually receive greater reward than the 25 per cent. Increase that is now suggested. So long as real estate foots the bill, it will not come to pass." —Congressman John M. Rose had 8,179 majority in the Nineteenth district.— ... —Captain E. L. Taylor was re elected president of the Williams port school board. —ln the.course of his comments upon the need for a new constitu tion ex-Governor William A. Stone says in the Philadelphia North American: "The second constitu tion of Pennsylvania was adopted fourteen years after the first: the thlro, forty-eight years after the second; the fourth, thirty-six years after the third. Forty-four years have elapsed since the adoption of the constitution of 1874. From 1874 up till 1901 there were no amend ments to the constitution, but since 1901 there have been twenty-seven lunaiidments adopted, until to-day THAT GUILTIEST FEELING .... By BRIGGS our constitution Is a patched, shin gled roof and still leaks. These vari ous amendments have been the out growth of local or individual thought. It is much better to have a convention composed of represeh tatives of the whole state make a constitution, than to patch it up from local or individual suggestion. There are many evolutions in the politlcal.and iflaterial wants of the state that have come to us because of our growth and development." CHRISTMAS IS COMING The play-day of the world is near— The one glad day of all the year When kindly thoughts their comforts bring And every heart Inclines to sing Of friendship, brother-love, and all That should the human bosom thrall! The day of cheer for all mankind! We leave our cares, our griefs, be hind, And living only in the light Of one fair space 'twixt night and night. Return to youth and childhood's glee—* Forgetting all life's misery! The precious day, when rays of love Shine here below, shine there above! Again we'll try with tenderness Friends, strangers, foes, alike to bless With that good-will which shall for aye Endear to all the Christmas Day! —Lurana Sheldon, in the New York Times. Let Us Say Yellow Streak Wilhelm wanted to go down in history as the greatest of the great. He has succeeded. But the greatest of the great what? —Knoxvllle Jour nal and Tribune. Point of Similarity Robert had a new brother about three weeks old. "Whom does your little brother look like?" asked one of the neigh bors. "X don't know that he looks much like anybody," replied Robert. "He looks a little like President Taft in the back of his neck."— Dallas News. LABOR NOTES rians for the organization of a na tional federation of manufacturers' councils to meet wartime and tfter the-war emergencies have been an nounced. Another world's record has been made at a Belfast (Ireland) ship building yard by completion of a standard ship in five working days after the launching of the vessel. The Gas and Electric Lighting Company of Baltimore is training women for the work of reading me ters and Installing heating and light ing appliances. According to an investigation of the Federation of German Textile Work ers, the average weekly wage of fe male workers in the Adorf district was 15.92 marks ($3.79) in July, 1917. The Co-operative Society of Spring held, 111., has paid $8,540 in dividends during the two years of its existence. The society has 362 members and its total resources amount to $18,172.70. Miss Elizabeth Christman, for six years general secretary-treasurer of the International Glove Workers' Union, has been appointed chief of women Investigators of the National War Labor Board. A bill has been introduced in the Brazilian Congress providing for the publication of a quarterly labor bul letin to begin with the date of the definite organization of the National Department of Labor, The Manitoba minimum wage sta tute is more limited in its scope than that of British Columbia, its provi sions extending only to female work ers "in any shop, mall order house or factory in any city in Manitoba." Tho. Parliament of Alberta, Canada, at its recent session enacted a new law on the subject of workmen's compensation, which supersedes the act of 1908 and considerably enlarges the scope and liberality of the pro visions made for Industrial Injuries, The retirement of teachers In New Jersey is taken care of by two sys tems —the teacher's retirement fund, established in 1896 and supported by contributions of the teachers, and the i 35-year service pension, establish ed in 1903 and paid at the expense ; of the stats. "The Gray Man of Christ" (From the Literary Digest) THE religion of William Hohen zollern has been one of the ac tive topics of the whole war. 1 It has only been in his very latest utterances that the former German monarch has not coupled Gott with himself as an equal, an abettor, or perchance a servant. One picture . of the kaiser sent out by the watch ful Boswell, Karl Rosner, showed ! William in the act of communion, and we are distinctly told that in that Belgian church with a waiting audience of German officers the worshiper never bent the knee. There is a strong contrast between him and the figure the Los Angeles Times draws of his conqueror, Gen eral Ferdinand Foch —"the Gray Man of Christ." "This has been Christ's war," says The Times. "Christ on one side, and all that stood opposed to Christ on the i other side. And the generalissimo, in supreme command of all the armies that fought on tho side of hrist, is Christ's man." , Lest readers think this a "strange statement for a secular newspaper to make," The Times brings for i ward the reminder that "it is the business of a newspaper to get at . facts." and "if the facts are of a supernal nature, it is still the busi ness of tho newspaper to get at them and to record them." When this was written the full span of General Foch's achievement had not been covered, but the end was then clearly in sight. We read: "The deeper we question as to who Foch is, the clearer is the answer that in every act of his life and in ■ every thought of his brain he is ■ Christ's man. "If you were to ask him, 'Are you Christ's man?' he would answer 'Yes.' "It seems to be beyond all shadow of doubt that when the hour came in which all Christ stood for was to , either stand or fall, Christ raised up a man to lead the hosts that battled for Him. "When the hour came in which truth and right, charity, brotherly love, justice and liberty were either to triumph or to be blotted out of the world, Christ came again upon the road to Damascus. "Whoever does not realize this and see it clearly as a fact, lie does but blunder stupidly. "There will be a crowding com pany of critics when the war is end -1 ed and they will all be filled with the ego of "their own conclusions. They will attempt to explain the genius of Foch with maps and dia grams. But, while they are doing so, if you will look for Foch in some quiet church, it is there that he will be found humbly giving God the glory, and absolutely declining to ■ attribute it to himself. "Can that kind of a man win a war? Can a man who is a practical soldier be also a practical Christian? And is Foch that kind of a man? Let us see." The secret of where Foch used to go for "strength and magical power to bring home the marvelous 9ic tories" was surprised by a California boy. It was not published by any organ' of France, to show the world how "religious" its leader was: "A California boy, serving as a soldier in the Americian Expedi , tionary Forces in France, has recent ly written a letter to his parents in San Bernardino, in which he gives, i as well us any one else could give, the answer to the question we ask. i "This American boy—Evans by name—tells of meeting General Foch at close range In France. "Evans had gone into an old 1 church to have a look at it, and us he stood there with bared head sat • isfying his respectful curiosity, a 1 gray man with tho eugles of a gen eral on the collar of his Hhabby uni form- also entered the church. Only , one orderly accompanied the quiet, I gray man. No glittering staff of of ficers, no entourage of gold-laced . aids, were with htm; nobody but [ just the orderly. "Evans paid small attention at first to the gray man, but was cur ious to see him kneel in the church, praying. The minutes passed until ' full three-quarters of an hour had gone by before the gray man arose , from his knees. "Then Evans followed him down the street and was surprised to see soldiers salute this man In great excitement, and women and children stopping in their tracks with awe -1 struck faces as he passod. ! "It was Foch. And now Evans, of 1 San Bernardino, counts tho experi ence as the greatest In his life. Dur • Ing that three-quarters of an hour that the generalissimo of all the ' Allied armies was on his knees In ■ humble supplication In that ,quiet ■ church, 10,000 guns were roaring ' at his word on a hundred hills that > rocked with death. • "Millions of armed men crouched > In trenches or,rushed across blood drenched terrains at his command., ■ generals, artillery, cavalry, engi . neers, tanks, fought and wrought across the map of Europe abso ' lutely as he commanded them to ' do, and in no other manner, as he ' went into that little church to pray. I "Nor was it an unusual thing for , General Foch to do. There is no day ' that he does not do the same thing if there be a church that he can reach. He never fails to spend an hour on his knees every morning 1 thait he awakes from sleep; and every night it is the same. "Moreover, it is not a new thing 1 with him. He has done it his whole life long. "If young Evans could have fol j lowed the general on to headquar ters, where reports were waiting him and news of victory upon vic tory was piled high before him, he ' would doubtless have seen a great ' gladness on tho general's face, but ; lie would have seen no .look ot' sur , prise there. "Men who do that which Foch does have no doubts. When Premier , Clemenceau, the old Tiger of France, stood on the battlefront with anxious heart one look at the face of Foch . stilled all his fears. He returned to ' Paris with the vision of sure and ■ certain victory. "The great agnostic statesman ; doubted, but the Gray Man of Christ not doubt. "The facts, then, in the case are . that when the freedom of tho world hung in the balance the world turn ed to Foch as the one great genius ' who could save it against the Hun; and that Foch, who is perhaps the | greatest soldier the world has pro duced, is, first of all, a Chris tian. * • * "Young Evans, of San Bernardi no, just an every-day American boy , from under the shadow of old San Gorgonio, spent nearly an hour with ! Foch in an old French church, and ' not even one bayonet was there to ' keep them apart. 1 "They represented tho two great democracies of the world, but there | in that old church they rppresented, . jointly, a far greater thing—the democracy of Christ." Avoiding the Flu i The Influenza is not disappearing as fast as it was hoped. The situa- j . tion imposes upon everyone the ' . duty to watch himself closely and I keep away from it, and also as far I as possible not to carry it to others," i If you have a case at home, don't go ■ among people who might catch the ' malady. We strongly suspect that ! that is much thoughtlessness in this regard. If you are subject to the 1 flu, don't endanger other people, 1 even if you escape yourself. We are told that the epidemic may last into the winter and that is possible if people do not - exercise greater care than they seem to be doing. There is more danger to the community in carrying it than in going where lis and getting it. But if you get it, I or think you have, go home and stay there till it is all over.—Ohio State Journal. 11 Was Educational, Any way' Anyhow, the men between 37 and 40 who laboriously prepared to an i swer all the queries of the question naire learned a lot about themselves. —Boston Globe. Alas, If! Germany is nevertheless ahead of the time, though it has lost the 1 whole world if it has gained its own soul.—Houston Post. Having Little Imagination Every German family should be ! furnished with an appetizing list of food cargoes sent to the bottom by ■ U-boats. —Wall Street Journal. New Watch on the Rhine There's a new watch on the Rhine, A lank, lean visaged man, Well knit and straight i And brisk of gait— Each inch American. i There's a new Hag on the Rhine, Red, white und blue with stars. . Without a smack Of pirate black; Just Freedom's glorious bars. There's a new song on the Rhine, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," • A chorus grand i Entlirllls the land, i Our hymn of Liberty. ; There's a new watch on the Rhine. White-souled American — "Come be ye free" — ; Wide flings his plea To the brotherhood of man. ,1 *-Tho New York Sua. j, A Remnant of the Wild West (From the New York Times) The red Indian wears a cutaway coat, or else khaki, and practises his stealthy warfare only against the Germans. The cowboy's wildest deed, outside the films, is eating a whole can of peaches at a sitting. The bison, almost extinct, is sitting up again, but in carefully tended herds in national parks. Is there nothing left in the lands of the settirg sun, wilder than Arthur Capper, for the American small boy to contemplate with anticipatory joy? Yes, by the red gods of the much advertised outdoors, there's one of the old frontier friends left, for the wild horse of the plains is with us yet. Instead of exulting in the discov ery of this remnant of romance, the Forester of the Department of Ag riculture, Henry S. Graves, views it with alarm. Ten years ago it was a menace, he says, but the demand for a certain class of light horses resulted in the round up of these wild ones, which are undesirable on the ranges because they graze closer than sheep. But now the wild horse is back again, a pest of the National Forests: "Where water is scarce they drink from tanks and reservoirs badly needed by the cattle, while they make heavy inroads qpon Bait, fight ing cattle away from the salt troughs and often injuring the calves and weaker cattle in their mad rushes from the* salt grounds on the ap proach of mounted men. Many of these bands of horses are unbranded and have no actual owners, although 'maverickers' operate among them constantly, thus keeping the animals on the move, disturbing the cattle, and injuring the range. Many are so wild as to make it difficult to round them up, except at heavy and al most prohibitive costs." Forester Graves declares that the ranges pre-empted by these rude horses are badly needed for the use of cattle. He sees a cure for the evil by refusing to permit further graz ing of horses on several of the for ests. Some of the horse breeders will take part of the wild horses. The organization of special round ups may clear out the rest of the animals. N Time was when such news would bend boys from every Eastern state sneaking down to the railroad sta tion to board the westbound fast mail, armed with bowie knife and I lassoo, and an unsanitary copy of | "Lariat Lon," from the Beadle j press; but such times are no more, i The boy nowadays would rather ship before the mast on a subma rine. FLY BRITISH FLAGS [From the New York Times.) If gratitude is American, if admi ration for the brave is American, then the streets of New York should be ablaze with British flags on Bri tain's Day. It is the day on which we show our gratitude to the nation whose navy prevented the German menace from coming to these shores and who enabled us to send our sol diers safely abroad. It is the day on which we show our udmlratlon for the Old Contemptibles and their gallant successors, who fought like heroes, suffered like martyrs, and never complained. It is twenty years since Admiral von Diederichs Of the German Navy was making So much trouble for Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay that our admiral was forced to warn him that unless ho stopped it he would have to prepare himself for war. The German admiral inquired of the British commander, Captain Chic hester, what the Britisher would do in case it came to a fight between the German and the American. Chichester's reply was, "you will have to inquire of Admiral Dewey about that." The fight did not.coino off. Britain, before that time and afterward, has been our friend; and it may be that but for the presence *of the British Navy, and the knowl edge that she would act as Chiches ter had done, Germany's first swoop toward world conquest would have been directed at Brazil and not Bel glum. . Our boys and Britain's have fought side by side in this war for liberty and democracy. The two countries are the two most democratic and llberul of all the great countries in the world. Their ideals are the same, and together they must press forward on the new path that lies before us both. Differences we have had in the past; the waving of the flags will exemplify not only the burial of them, but the comradeship that was born on so many battle flelds this year. Only Ones That Enjoyed It We surmise that the cooties will regret to learn that the wur is over. A pleasant time was had by them.— Columbia Record i lEimttttg QKjat If arrangements can be made the 1 Hnrrisburg Public Library aW ea tablish its eleventh school library In the Melrose building la Dairy street, near Twenty-first la a rttort; time. The last of the tea Mhool libraries outlined by Miss Ailca ft., Eaton, the librarian, is being am-1 ' pleted and If Melrose can be gtWB I ' the books it will be cared Cor as a. reward of merit. Away back last! spring, when the school term wy approaching an end, a dclcratijp of youngster® from tho Melwisi school tramped all the way in to the Library to request Miss Baton* to give their school one of -tka libraries. They were very mucb la earnest about it and some of tham even offered to help earn money to get the books. Unfortunately, there were a number of schools which had applied before Melrose for libraries and the boys were told things would come around. This fall the delegation appeared again and as some readjustments had been made whereby some of the schools earlier on the list would be provided with books they were told that Mel rose was going to be looked after. If possible Melrose will be given the library this month. The instal lation of the school library la one of the finest features of the work of the city institution and laek of funds is all that has kept buildings from getting books, Melrose among them. • • • Just to let the folks at kou know that the Army is not etarvtav its soldiers, Lieut. Thomas P. Moran sends to friends in Hands- t burg copies of the printed maw cards of the Thanksgiving dinner he helped serve to Company X Sd battalion. United States Guard, Cap tain Jacob J. Herzog, commanding, at Menard Park, Galveston, Texas, where the company is stationed. The bill of fare included: "Oyster soup, crisp crackers, celery, olives, radishes, roast stuffed turkey, gib-, let gravy, cranberry sauce, candled sweet potatoes, green buttered pees, asparagus, butter sauce; mlnee and pumpkin pie, strawberry and pine apple Ice cream, chocolate cake, wafers, American cheese, ooftße. nuts, cigarets. It will be observed that the dessert overbalanced every- ' thing else on the menu, for the soldier gets always ample quantities of substantial an.d when the oppor tunity offers dearly delights to in dulge his taste for sweetmeats. Lieut. Moran observes that one of the cooks is surnamed Angel, which may or may not have anything to do with the heavenly character of the feast. 0 0 0 A Bloomsbqrg newspaper gives the following account of a hearing in which John G. Harman, a Judge well known to many llarrlsburgers by reason of his service as a legis- j lator, was on the bench: "Judge Harman has returned from Scranton where he presided last week over one of Lackawanna county's courts, and It was while he was presiding there that there occurred one of those laughable oc currences that sometimes creep into court. " 'We find the defendant, William Knott, guilty of larceny,' read Court Clerk Arlgonl, in announcing the verdict of a jury in a case of i chicken thievery in whieh William Knott, of Scranton, was the W fendant. " 'No, no; you got it wrong," pro tested the jurors in a chorus. *We found him guilty of larceny,' B. F. Squires, the foreman, explained to the clerk. " 'Well, that's what I said,* came back Arigoni. " 'We And the de fendant, William Knott, guilty of larceny.'" The matter was cleared up by Judge Harman, who Explained that Knott' and not 'not.' He then gave Knott a suspended sentence, so that he will not go to jail. • • Lieutenant - Governor - elect Ed ward E. Beldleman is home from Philadelphia where he made three speeches in one day and is now try ing to sandwich in some of his own 4 business with requests for him to make addresses at dinners, meetings and various occasions. The invita tions are coming from every section of the state and many of them are for events which are scheduled for the same day in different sections. While at Philadelphia the new lieutenant-governor addressed the United Business Men's Association, one of the largest of the kind in the eastern United States: the Jobbing Confectioners' Association ' and the Eighteenth Ward Republican Club. 4 [ WEa KNOWN PEOPLE \ —Robert A. Quin, head of the Susquehanna Coal Company, who la widely known among coal opera tors, has started a movement to have every man in the Luzerne field given his old job back when he come* from war. , —John Wanamaker is making a special study of the various war ac tivities and urges that the Emer gency Aid bo made a permanent body. —General W. G. Price, Jr., men tioned for senator to succeed the new Governor, is one of the senior officers of the Old National Guard and commands an artillery brigade in France. . —lsrael Carpenter, the veteran city engineer of Lancaster, and known to golfers all over the state, has been re-elected unanimously. —Bishop W. F. Heil, seriously In jured in a railroad accident, has been a minister since 1880. Court Judge Frank M. Trexler is president of the Allen town Masonic Temple Association. —The Rev. Dr. C. D. Leonard, of Wllliamsport, who has been In France on war work, is on his way home. [ DO YOU KNOW 1 , —That HarrWburg tin la use£ for work on naval vessels? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The soldiers who went out from Harrlsburg in the 1812 und Mexican Wurs disbanded in Capitol Park. ————— j Seem Cruel to His Gentleness The Huns think the armistice terms are harsh. The Hun. of course, is noted for the gentleness of his peace conditions. Detroit Flraa Press. German Trouble in a Nutshell The trouble with this war game was that It ran into extra innings and Germany had no relief pitcher •' or pinch-hitter.—Rochester Poat- Exgrea*
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