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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*