12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH faL NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI,%HRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GVS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. It. MICHEKER. Circufafion Manager Executive Board J. P. MeCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY. F. It. OYSTER. GVS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local published herein. , , £.ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein aro also reserved. A Member American Newspaper Pub- QQEI C Cdt 3 Eastern office, ShßiH n Story, Brooks & ImHRH Avenue Building t f agro "n!' nK> Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. There are epidemics of nobleness as well as of disease. —Froudc. TUESDAY,' DECEMBER 10, 1018 ! ANOTHER TURNING POINT WITH the formal opening of the Penn-Hurris Hotel on New Year's Eve Harrisburg will j mark another step forward in its. progress as a leader among the mu- j nicipalities of Pennsylvania. This hotel represents one of the great needs of the city and its erec tion at a time when most enterprises were suspended by reasftn of war i conditions demonstrates the energy | and courage of those who have made the hotel possible. Other great pro- ! jects undertaken at the beginning of ] the war were abandoned altogether | or postponed until the cessation of hostilities, but the men who put their ! faith and their money into the Penn- . Harris were neither discouraged nor halted for a minute by the unprece- ' dented incidents that wrecked many civic enterprises. It is a tribute to ! the public spirit und the vision of these men that, recognizing the greatj need, they were not to be held back by the circumstances growing out of the war. Harrisburg is an un- 1 usual city, and the fact that this' great hotel has been erected and I will be opened on the eve of the New j Year is an illustration of the sub stantial character of the community. I One of the most distinguished Penn- j sylyanians, writing the other day, j said; "I fully recognize what a de- ! sirable and important public im-1 provement the Penn-Harris Hotel' promises, not only for Harrisburg, ' but for the people of the State." | This is the general sentiment of all, who realize what a modern hotel will mean for the city and the State at large. Harrisburg is more than a city. It is the seat of government of a great' Commonwealth and as such must j provide entertainment for thousands who pass this way. It is fortunate, i also, that the Penn-Harris will be! opened with the beginning of a new , State administration. It is the turn ing of another page in the develop- I ment of a progressive and prosperous | community. All our people feel aj sense of ownership and pride in the hotel; it represents the spirit and the aspirations of a new day, and i those who have had the courage to go forward against almost insuper able obstacles deserve the apprecia- 1 tion of all who will make the hotel ; a great gathering place and a social' center. FIOLSHEVIKI CONTROL THE Bolshevik! are iivalmost un disputed control in Petrograd. The Bolshevikl are the people who promised the poor peasants of the country land, food and money, If they were permitted to have their way with the government. Deluded souls, with visions of heaven and earth in their minds, let them take charge. Kill the rich and feed the poor, was the slogan of the Bol sheviki. But how have they suc ceeded? Conditions were bad in Russia under the Czar, but they are ia finitely worse under the rule of the Bolsheviki. Every man with one doTar to rub against another is a criminal in their eyes. The prosper ous working man of America would be stood up against a wall and shot for his possessions by the Bol sheviki. Where the Czar killed his hundreds, the Bolsheviki have mur dered their thousands. And the land and food and money which the poor people were to have are vanished. Men, women and chil dren are starving. There is left only one million of the two million resi dents of Petrograd, and the death rate from starvation is alarming. TWB coming winter will bo a night mare in Russia. The Bolsheviki are Bearing the end of their string. Government by classes never did work well. When the Bolsheviki snatched the administration of Rus- TUESDAY EVENING, Bahiuhburo CTP& TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 10, 1918. sia from the Czar, they turned out the prosperous and in their place* they placed the poor and the un trained. Prosperity has no place in Bolshevik! doctrine. To be virtuous and worthy a mun must be in pov erty. Such a government is as bad, or worse, thun autocracy. The only government that can succeed is one in which all classes and all individ uals have their part and their voice. WHAT THE FIGURES MEAN THE amazing majorities accord ed Senators Sproul and Beidle man at the November election indicate the confidence the voters of Pennsylvania have in the new Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. But the figures also illustrate the dissatisfaction of the electorate of the State with the national admin istration and everything connected therewith. The McCormick-Palmer outfit cannot escapo responsibility | by the assertion that it had repudi j ated Bonniwell, the head of the j Democratic ticket, for it gave its , full and unstinted support to Logue I for second pluce, and Senator Bcl ; dlemun defeated him even more | decisively than Senator Sproul beat | Bonniwell. The McCormick-Palmer crowd lost every fight it made by majorities that were overwhelming. With the prestige of the administra l tion und the whole of the Federal i patronage and party machinery back of them, and unlimited millions at their command, they were de feated to the point of repudiation. If a Demoratic party reorganization is not affected soon, there will be nothing left to reorganize. Studying the figures one is im pressed with the utter inability of the "liquor interests" to deliver any- J thing to anybody in State politics i in Pennsylvania. Senator Sproul was openly "dry." Judge Bonni well based his whole candidacy on the "wet" plank in his platform. The liquor crowd threatened Sena tor Sproul with their power at the j polls if he did not recede. He stood firm. The "wets" lined up behind j Bonniwell —and Senator Sproul was j elected by the largest majority ever j given a gubernatorial candidate in J Pennsylvania. Never again will old | John Barleycorn stand as a terrify- j ing bugaboo in the pathway of a j political candidate in this State. He ] is as harmless as a last year's j sea recrow. Republicans are naturally jubilant j over the outcome, but their rejoic- I ings should be tempered by a sense ! of the responsibilities placed upon j the party and its chosen represent- j atives in this period of transition from war to peace. The whole | weight of the Government of the | Commonwealth rests upon their; shoulders. They must see to it that! they acquit themselves as triumph- ! antly as they were elected, and the j past performances of the men in! question are ample guarantee of; that. A MUNICIPAL BUILDING i I ON another page of the Telegraph j to-day is a reference to the i the next important step in the | development of Harrisburg—a com- J bined city and county building. We have talked about such a struc- j ture for so many years that any fur- j ther discussion would seem to be un- | necessary. It is obvious that the con- j centration of the city and county of-1 flees in one building is desirable from i every standpoint. The wonder is that; the people of Dauphin county and; the city of Harrisburg have so long j endured the incjavenience of the present big-village arrangement. Of course, it will be said that this j obstacle and that stand in the way I of such a project, but so long as the ; people will stand for arguments of j this kind they will be forced to lose their time and patience and religion in seeking out the municipal and county officials scattered far and wide in rented quarters. We have talked snough about this matter; now is the time to act. WE MUST FIND A WAY IT IS unthinkable that families of soldiers should be permitted to suffer during the absence of their bread-winners in the service of the nation. The complaints of soldier pay being withheld, as recit ed to the Harrisburg Red Cross, should be investigated at once. There is no good excuse for such gross carelessness at Washington. To be sure, the task of keeping up with the army payroll is great, but it all resolves itself into a question of hiring adequate clerical forces, and heaven knows nobody in the federal service has been bashful on that score. If want exists here and Wash ington continues slow we must find some way of meeting the situation locally. It would be an outrage and a disgrace to the community to per mit the family of a single soldier to lack the means of a livelihood. THE DRAFT BOARDS THE local draft boards close their reports and seal their records to-day, preparatory to filing them with the Adjutant General at Washington and going out of busi ness. Nobody ignorant of the vast machinery necessary to engineer the draft has any true conception of the magnitude of the task or of the! difficulties attendant upon the in auguration and operation of the con' scriptlon law. Conscientious draft board mem bers, for nearly two years, have given freely of their time and efTort that the draft be honestly administered, without delay and with the least possible hardship to those affected. Early and late they have labored, peglectful of their own afTuirs and with little public recognition or commendation. They are the silent patriots. "By their fruits ye shail know them," and the local draft • bosurds of Pennsylvania are t > be congratulated upon the succeesful termination of their labors, as well as upon the fuct that everybody be lieves the draft law to have been honestly and efficiently enforced in this State. LOAN THEM OUR GOLD THERE are good and sufficient business reusons—aside from the humanitarian —why the United States government should accede to the request of Secretary McAdoo for a continuation of louns to our Allies. ! In the first pluce, the devastated sec tions of France, Belgium and other j invaded countries must be rebuilt j before we can hope to resume nor i mal trade relations with them. Sec- I ondly, our gold reserve is such now j that we can afford to let some of it ' go back to Europe, whence it came. | To attempt to add to it now would ibe to engender bitterness among ! people who are our friends. It were i far better to follow Mr. McAdoo's ! advice, pluce our loans where they I are most needed and at one and tho j same time rehabilitate shattered 1 Europe and get the reconstruction work at onee under way. We have the opportunity here of doing a generous thing and making it yield dividends. 41 podtfcu# Ik By the Ex-Committeeman Governor-elect William C. Sproul while proclaiming that he proposes to be a "regular Republican Gov ernor," made it clear to the members of the Philadelphia Republican City Committee yesterday that he favors a dropping of unnecessary or incom petent officials in the state govern j ment and that his ldear is that there "should be fewer, better paid and a I higher class of people in the state j service." Among those in attendance ' [were candidates on the recently-j 1 elected state ticket and also Supreme , I Court Justice Alexander Simpson, i Jr., and Justice-elect John W. Kep- j i hart and Judg • William D. Porter, f of the Superiui Court. "1 ani extremely grateful for the splendid support which you fellows J gave the state ticket," Senator Sproul [ continued. "The whole result in the | state is most gratifying. The ticket j carried fifty-nine of the sixty-seven j counties. It is a long time since the I Republican ticket in Pennsylvania has done so well. We want to con- | tinue that sort of work so that Penn- j sylvania may be the influence which it should and must be in the affairs j of the nation. "One of the great things we must I remember is that in the national j crisis the Republican leaders, and, | in fact, all Republicans of the coun- 1 try, were loyal, although at times j they were almost baited to go wrong, j and make mistakes, they did not do j so. The Republicans in Congress and j in the nation made no mistakes dur ing the war. The minority party I stood by tho government. It might ] have been easy to make'mistakes, but I we did not and we in Pennsylvania | followed the flag more effectively than was done anywhere else. "I hav tried to attend to my Sena torial duties, just as your leader, Sen ator Vare, has tried to attend to his. I am going ot take the duties of my new office very seriously. 1 have been looking forward to it for a long time. David Martin and 'Bill' McCoach were looking forward to it for a long time also, und I don't forget these things, and I wont forget them now. I expect every man whom I call to aid me to give lofty public service. The government is somewhat loosely hung together. There is a duplica tion of effort and_Jost motion. My thought is that there should be few er. better paid and higher class peo ple in the state government. I want your assistance to help me do the things which should be done for the state." Senator Sproul said we in Pennsylvania have stood by the Presi dent and the government and that war work had been most marked in Republican states. —The Governor-elect was loudly applauded when he had finished Justice Simpson briefly expressed appreciation, of the support given him at the polls and Justice-elect Kcphart in a good-natured wav, told of his efforts to garner votes in Phila delphia from many of the men. in the room, several of whom he men tioned by name, but of their failure to respond, they having turned in almost solidly for Justice Simpson. Justice-elect Kephart then paid a tribute to the ability of his asso ciate and as to himself said he took the vote given him as an expression of approval of his'course upon the Superior Court bench and that ho would endeavor in his new position to justify similar popular commen dation. —H. C. Niles, of York, denies that he contributed SI2OO to the late Democratic state campaign. To a reporter when his attention was called to the printed announcement that he had made such a contribu tion to the Democratic state cam paign fund of 1918. Mr. Niles said: "I did contribute SIOO on October 18 for that purpose, and nothing more." —Says the Philadelphia: Record: "That the Vares will oppose any at tempt to provide a small Council in Philadelphia by charter revision was shown yesterday when Congressman William S. Vare delivered an address at the City Business Club luncheon at the Adelphia Hotel. "Congress man Vare was scheduled to speak on "Inside the Political Game.'.' but he declared there is no longer any "inside," claiming that the primary election system has- "cleared up" all underhand political methods. The Congressman also is against ■% com mission form of government." I Completion of the official count of the vote polled at the November election Is being awaited here with some interest because of the effect it may have upon the continu ance of some parties upon the bal lot. The law prescribes that to maintain the right to make direct nominations at a primury a party must poll at least two per cent, of the vote and in at least ten counties. The Roosevelt Progressive and Bull Moose parties, relics of the cam paign of 1912, disappeared this year and there are signs that the Wash ington party may ulso pass as it does not seem to have polled over 5.000 votes. The Fair Pluy party's right will depend upon the showing in Luzerne county. The Single Tax I party will have to continue to use WONDER WHAT BILL HOHENZOLLERN THINKS ABOUT -:- -:- -:- VEIL- ANODDER I AM *STILL -VUNDCR VOT DeV GAMT To 60MrSTlf*\£S 1 i>AY HAS CAM£- auvE _ DER ALLICS ARE GET MCS DM D HEAR. STRAivJGtS ■wco EMPCROR SAYiMG ASODT Me HANIG M£ L>P NOISES AROUMI* OF SERMAMY SbMeTliG* ROTTCiJ t GUCSS _ VOT JJEFt- HOUSE HAM-!!* vJoke-- ME 1 - Pgß^^ PgßO<Bt '' " ~ ' MODJ 1 H6F TO FIKST - iSS DER I CERTAISJLY I SEE SOME QOOT NACHT.' IT Tawc. MY morning Coast clear LUF MY liddle bushes wiggle- might be a VALH' IN D6P KIC£ . WALK- NOT SOMSYUW ISS irU YanY" Me garden- ooe-!!' / AMBUSH Ai p OR der how IT wr-f : > ' vJ ' SlX>e ,0 I 111 idM felt klH\ '' ' -i\ nomination papers as it did not poll i | 2,000 votes. Without Luzerne the total num ber of votes polled was about 873,- 1 000 taking the votes for governor. The total vote at the last guberna- i tonal election, that of 1914, was! 1,111,252. Presidential totals have generally run slightly higher. ! The British Navy 1 [From the Kansas City Star.] Two speeches yesterday by British ] statesmen, one by Winston Spencer i Churchill and one by Sir Eric Ged- j des, indicate the sentiment in Great j Britain regarding the question of J limitation of the British navy. 'We do not intend," says Winson I Churchill, minister of munitions, "no ; matter what argument or appeals I are 'addressed to us, to lend our- | selves in any way to any fettering | restrictions which will prevent the ] British navy maintaining its well tried and well deserved supremacy." I Sir Eric Geddes, in his utterance, I declared that the British navy was j the pivot upon which the fate of the 1 world turned. 'The sea power of, the British navy," he said "from i the very outbreak of the war, held all the fleets of the world in a silent, grip, crushed the life out of the en- 1 emy countries and assured the free- i dom of the world by its efforts."' These two utterances may be | taken as the answer of Great Brit- j ain's answer us to the meaning of J the term, "the freedom of the seas." | In the United States there has j been a class of statemen who have ( spilled much eloquence in Congress j at times, touching the subject of the : British navy. Particularly have j waxed, wordy on the subject at such | times as they desired to justify their | voles against the building of our 1 own navy, and they pointed to Eng- | land's supremacy on the seas as j a menace to the "world's liberty." But even these pacifist statesmen lived to thank God for the British | navy. In the darkest hours of the past four years the British fleet, j the bulldog of the seas, was the hope of the world. "The silent 1 grip," which was crushing the life j out of the enemy, was the one hold j which was not weakened, the one j hope which did not fail. The whole world will agree with Sir Eric Geddes in his conclusion that the British navy was the pivot upon which the fate of the world turned, and will give thanks, so long as the memory of the war lives, ! that the pivot held firm and stead fast. It was the power which gave to civilization the freedom of the seas at a time when that expression meant something more than a rhe torical phrase. Holland Misunderstands (From the New York Tribune.) It is reported from Amsterdam that the Netherlands government will offer to intern the ex-Kaiser for life on some Dutch East Indian or West Indian island. If this re port is true. Holland entirely mis understands the attitude of the- Al lies toward the fugitive she is now sheltering. The precedent of Napoleon's exile j to Elba syid then to St. Helena 1 does not interest the Allies. They do not regard William II as a dan- | gerous political prisoner., Na poleon was a poor statesman, but | he was a military genius. William j II has no talents either as a states man or a military leader. He can do the world no harm. He has been completely exposed as a pitiable in competent. The Allied powers do not want to see him immured as a matter of military precaution. They have no dread of a Hohenzpllern restoration in Germany. They want to see him receive his deserts as a criminal. LABOR NOTES The Keystone Co-operative Asso ciation has been formed in Pennsyl vania to promote the sale ot labeled, goods. Wages of Kingston (Canada) car penters have been Increased 10 cents an hour making them 60 Cents j an hour, or $4.80 day. • Fifteen hundred Northumberland (England) miners have resumed work after a strike which lasted one week. Irish munition workers who came back from England when the con scription act was passed are now returning to England. By a referendum vote the Interna tional Glove Workers' Union has postponed its convenion to August of next year. " The Great Army That Died" PREMIER CLEMENCEAU stir red the great heart of France to its depths when he added a few simple words to his communication of the armis tice terms in the Chamber of Depu ties, says the Literary Digest. "Let us honor the great army that died. France in older times had soldiers of God; to-day it has soldiers of hu manity and always soldiers of ideals." They were noble words, says the New York World. "In that moving phrase he spoke the inmost feelings not only of millions of French men and women, but of the peoples of all the Allied nations that shared in the winning of the war." It continues. "It is a time for universal rejoic ing that the shedding of blood on the battlefields of Europe has ceased. It is also a time for reverent tribute to the men who gave their lives that the right should prevail. They have made the supreme sacrifice. To them has been denied the reward of join ing in the final triumph and exulta tion over victory. They have passed beyond reach of the clamor of shout ing multitudes, of pealing peace bells, of the voices of loving friends and kindred, and the touch of hands they held dear. 'But they, too, wear the victor's crown, though they failed to see the hour of ultimate victory. They have bequeathed to those left behind the glory and the honors. "In the men who return from the war we shall show our pride, but with Premier Clemenceau, may we never forget to honor the great army that died.'" From another angle the Newark News speaks of that unreturning army and the pity that would "shield the mothers of the sons who brought precious victory with their death" — "In the grand silence of the peace so dearly won they sleep the war rior's sleep. They will not again sit about the hearth. Those of us who are to clasp beloved hands once more shrink at the thought of tne loneliness of the mothers whose sons return not. "It is a kind and tender impulse, but we are wrong. If in those mother hearts there yearns the sor row of loss, there triumphs the' glory of sacrifice. The sons whose lives were spent for the highest that OUR HERITAGE (From an address by G. B. Stadden before the Association of Life ' Insurance Presidents.) This generation has been rudely, but jet us hope effectually, awak ened to its responsibility in pre serving and promoting the welfare of the country by re-establishing among all the people genuine per manent habits of thrift so that the comfort and enjoyment of the present may be greater, and that the heritage of the future may be augmented. True as this may be regarding material things, it becomes even more emphatic with respect to the inherent rights of a people—fore most among which is the inalien able rights of personal liberty. Having by th'eir thrift paved the way for the further development of this vast region, and by means of that same thrift having firmly established here that which "in one form or another is the great object of life" the homes of a people those dauntless pioneers unhesitatingly shouldered their trusty muskets and stood defiantly for the protection of that which they had builded and which, through countless generations, should be their children's forever "to have and to hold." Art to Be Recovered (From the London Times. One of the arts which must be re paired after the war is the art of conversation. A subcommittee in the ministry of reconstruction might look into it. It will he to small purpose that we have reclaimed thousands of acres, achieved the citizenship of women, improved the art of cooking und performed many other unexpected feats, if the gen ial reflection of all this, and indeed the very stimulius to action, is dried up or muddy. The link be tween cookery and conversation is a notorious and net a freakish one. It is the chef's aim to set us free for Ideul pleasures. We must talk at meals, but we need not talk about our food. We have all been doing that too long. they knew are the sons of mothers whose ideals they carried forward with the banners of a just and holy cause. They drew from the blood that bore them the strength of will, the firmness of purpose, the feur- I lessness of death which we cele -1 brate In this tremendous hour. They \ fought and fell as the protagonists of American motherhood, which ! their signal devotion now has vin | dicated and enshrined. Their souls ! were steeped in patriot cradles and ! nurtured in homes where virtue and ! honor and faith were more than all. 'Forever living, incapable of death, I are the noble boys who lie where I freedom for the world was won. ; And joyful with a sacred joy are the j mothers of sons who return not. The 1 God of battles is also the God of [ compassion. They need npt the pity [of men and women. He has raised [ them up to greater heights by sac j l-yice made perfect." The American Army , assumes it a duty to bring back to their native soil the bodies of those who have fallen. But Colonel Roosevelt and his wife feel differently, and the for mer has written to General March, of the War Department, this letter, 1 which the press reproduces: "Mrs. Roosevelt and I wish to en ' ter a most respectful but most em phatic protest against the proposed course, so far us our son Quentin is I concerned. We have always be lieved that 'Where the tree falls, there let it lie.' We know that many good persons feel entirely different, but to us it is painful and harrow ing, long after death, to move the poor body from which the soul has fled. We greatly prefer that Quen tin shall continue to lie on the spot where he fell in battle and where the foemen buried him. "After the war is over, Mrs. Roosevelt and I intend to visit the grave and then to have a small stone put up saying it is put up by us, but not disturbing what has already been erected to his memory by his friends and American comrades in arms. "With apologies for troubling you, "Verv faithfully yotfrs. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." The request, to which assent has been given, may be pondered and approved by many others who have precious dead over there. Things That Had Grown Little The splendor of the little things is back once more. The Wonder of your luughing, or knocking at my door, The marvel of your glancing, or be ing in the place. Or speaking of the morning or of my face. The things that had grown little by being often done, ! They are all made large for us at last, each one. Pain and grief for measuring rod, how again Can I underrate them as we both did then? The months I lay alone at night in my fear Made me know a single word's worth was dear. With war's hand upon you and death's near by. Have time and distance made you wise as I? ! The splendor of the little things now shines bright, |Of your laughter In the morning, and your touch at night, But when kindly danger ceases pushing you and me To kiss, shall we grow careless, as we used to be? —Mary Carolyn Davies, Braith walte's Anthology, Boston Trans script. son STUFF CFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.) "The Crown Prince cried while signing his renunciation"; "Ger map envoys sobbed when they heard the armistice terms": "Dr. Solf pleads for help for Germany," .and so 011 nnd so on. One always expects a whine from a beaten bully, but the concerted bleat of the former German leaders Is nauseating and disgusting. Every Man a Neighbor In that day. salth Qie Lord of Hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the flg tree.—Zechariah, 111, 10. The Disappointed [From the New York Sun.] There are a million and a half men, more or. less, in the United States, who were ready to go to the front and could not. Hundreds of thousands of them ensured the re attaints of military iue cheerfully, their spirits upheld by the thought that eventually they would enter the trenches. They underwent rigor ous drills, prepared themselves for the final test, and then were unable to fulfill their ambitions because the war had ended. In Great Britain and in France there are other thousands of Ameri cans wh i have not reached the light ing line. Aiany of them will >•-, re turned to this country without hav j ing been outside their training areas ! except on leave. The prize of per | sonal participation in the struggle I with the Germans was denied to some of them only by days. Here and abroad thousands of en listed men and officers who since the I beginning of the war have served at posts which deprived them of any I immediate chance of fighting have | kept up their hope for active service. | They have believed that somehow i and somewhere they would be able jto get to the field and on it give | proof of their faith and valor. All of these men are bitterly dis appointed. They are not sorry that an armistice has been signed, that peace is to be made, but they deeply regret that their own contribution to victory was made in a manner j that did not meet their highest aspi rations. They wanted to have a ' hand in smashing the Germans in | the way the veterans of General | Pershing's combat troops did, and ! all their lives they will mourn the fact that opportunity was not given to them. What these men did was essen tial. The fight could not have been won without them. Their labors, their readiness, made victory possi ble, and he is a narrow-visioned American who does not recognize the debt the nation owes them. Was Willing to Serve [From the Washington Star] A Kansas representative was talk ing about the war profiteers exposed in the federal trade commission's re port: "And all these profiteers," he said, "pretend to be patriots! They pre tend to be helping on with the war. What though they are making SOO or 900 per cent profit, their motives are as pure as snow. "The profiteers, in their naivete, remind me of Bill Fargus. "Bill was summoned for jury duty, and most of the farmers summoned with him tried to back out; so when it came Bill's turn to b,e examined the Judge was pretty mad. " 'I guess ye can't serve on ac count o' yer hayin', Bill?' he snap ped. "'Hay's all in, Jedge," says Bill. "'Wheat to cut then, I presume?' " 'Wheat cut and threshed last Tuesday, yer honor.' " 'No fences wot hev to be re paired ?' " 'Nary, a fence.' "The judge smiled in a dazed way. " 'Why, Bill,' he said, 'ye don't mean to say yer ready to serve on the jury, do ye?" " 'That's what I do, jedge,' said Bill. " 'Tell these rapscallions and shirkers, then,' said the judge, "wot motive prompts ye to this noble i course, Bill, old man.' " 'Jedge,' said Bill, in ringing ; tones, 'I believe it's every man's pa- I triotic dooty to serve his kentry in | any dooty to which he may be called.' " 'That's rigbt, Bill.' And the judge nodded heartily. " 'Besides which,' suid Bill, draw ing himself up to his full height, '1 heer'd ye was goin' to fry Pete Logan this term. The skunk wunst shot a dog o' mine!" Commerce Commission [From the New York World] After a long jind patient trial of the administrative methods of the Interstate Commerce Commission it has been generally voted a failure. Its membership changes from time to time, the regulations and decis ions that It Issues periodically un dergo modifications, but- after all these years its character and its theory of operations remain the same. It has made of itself a re actionary body; it has proved a dead weight in the development of the railroads of the country, and it has failed to justify Itself as an agency that works for the public good with the intelligent end of getting the best results. |Emming (MjatJ When the new Memorial Bridfc.. to the Soldier and sailor sons of Pennsylvania in the great war is tinished Harriet)Urg will he as fa mous for its bridges as It is for its Klver Front. Throughout the State, and in many other parts of the country, there are people who ad mire immensely the manner in which the state capital lias treated the banks of the Susquehanna, which with the Riverside road makes an ideal drive to points rare scenic beauty in the Ble.* Ridge. Completion of the MemorUS Bridge will make six great bridge.* here, and in time there will uc; doubtedly be more. There are no-;? four spanning the Susquehanna an=* the new Heading bridge which wlf repluce the structure just south cC the Vanderbilt piers will bo almos-; on' the lines of the historic ford which was the genesis of Harris burg. The Cumberland Valley bridge is almost as well known as the Rockville bridge, although be cause of its four tracks that struc ture will long be unrivalled. The Mulberry street bridge is noted for its curve and construction, which has been much written upon by en gineers. Some day when the Me morial Bridge is built and the growth of 1-larrisburg extends to the northeastern section, which has long been overlooked, there will be a new bridge at Maclay street, too. The Memorial Bridge, to use tho words of Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, will be "something that the whole state can take pride in, but come to visit, a bridge which will lead right to tho State Capitol and perpetuate every man who was in the wai from this state." City Solicitor John E. Fox, who has traveled probably as extensively as nny man in Ilarrisburg, is highly pleased with tho designs for the Memorial Bridge, which will bo upon truly monumental lines. The models and plans for the bridge are to be made ready for the coming of the Legislature and will be exhibit ed at the Capitol. Governor-elect Sproul, it may be said, is much in terested in the proper improvement of the Capitol park. . E. B. Dorsett, the chief of the State Bureau of Markets, believes that the state's farmers are over looking a good bet in not paying more attention to the gathering of honey. 'The outlay is so small and the care of the bees requires such a little time that the returns are large. For the next year or two, or maybe longer, there will be a demand for honey which will make it an attractive form of farming by product. During the war the scarcity of sugar caused many people to turn to honey for various forms of swoet ening and consequently they have gotten to know its value and cheap ness. This will cause a greater de mund than usuul for honey and Mr. Dorsett urges thut farmers having colonies of bees take exceptional care of them this winter. • * * Major W. G. Murdoch's calcula tion that Pennsylvania registered 2,- 067,000 men for military service and sent more than 350,000 into the army by draft or enlistment is a theme of much discussion these days. This total registration is one of (lie most remarkable showings of the state's share of the draft for it is about the total population of the Colonies when the Revolution ended and the aggregate of the in habitants of the state's two big cities. ♦ • Evidently when the young Har risburgcrs who are in camps now in various states, come home they want to continue their military work and in all probability the same desire will be manifested by men who have been "over there." At least letters have come from a num ber of men in camps throughout the southern states suggesting that steps be taken to form more units of the Reserve Militia here and also that the Harrisburg Reserves ha kept up. The interest in military matters seemed to have been con siderably whetted among men who did notggett t overseas. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, the author and publisher, is engaged in government work at Washington. —George S. Davison, one of tho new receivers of the Pittsburgh Railways, was builder of a number of electric lines. —Senator Boies Penrose plans to spend some time in Philadelphia this week to discuss legislation. —Ex-Speaker George E. Alter, president of the Allegheny Bar As sociation, presided at the opening of the new quarters of the Bar As sociation in the city-county building in Pittsburgh. —Robert S. Spangler, of York, much mentioned for speaker, is a lawyer und tennis is his favorite pastime. —Carter Glass, the new secretary of the treasury, is a newspaperman and comes from Lynchburg. He has frequently spoken in this state. —General Goethals says that the reason Philadelphia does not get more as a port for government shipments is because of the high cost of handling supplies. —Captain John D. Hltchman, well-known Westmoreland countian, is on his way home from the war zone. He was head of the supply company of the 110 th. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has more than doubled its bread making capacity in recent years? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first company sent from the Susquehanna to join the army at Cambridge was that mobilized at Harris Ferry. Potash Found in Spain (Alonzo E. Taylor in the Saturdke Evening Post.) Everywhere in the world Uuj search for potash has been under tnken eagerly. It has led to one great discovery in Spain. There have been uncovered large iler*ieitp of potash like those g, furt fields of German- rsUmW nary surveys have rmifl the deposits are extensive?Vt dilions of mining easy und the composition of the salt favorable. In addition Spain has relatively cheap labor, and the deposits aro ! not far from seaboard. Naturally, the Germans are greatly concerned over the dlsi covery of these deposits and already attempting to secure ffiT* uncial and economic control; and there are already in the develop ment of the potash interests in Spain a pro-German party and an anti-German party. We may as sume that the Castillan paint of View will never tolerate the sub lection of Spnnlsh potash to the interests of the Stassfurt syndi cate.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers