12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 I Published evenings except Sunday by TBI TEI.%BHAIH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPQLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. It OYSTER. Business Stanager GUS M. BTEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager. EzeentlTe Board 7. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en tltlod to the use for republication of ell news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper agd also tho local n<*vs published . Sireln. . , All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American Newspaper Pub latlon ® nd Pcnn |jgjj| Eastern office. BjSSgl W Avenue Building Entered ai. the Post Office In Harrls barg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week; by mall, IJ. 00 s a year In advance. Next to being right in this world, the best of all things to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. —Huxley. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1918 fczsr; GOOD WORK THE Harrisburg T. M. C. A. Is doing the community an excel lent service in extending free membership for three months to all returning soldiers. The men in uni form have learned to look upon the red triangle of the "Y hut" as a sign of home —a symbol of rest, good cheer, generous hospitality, warmth, baths, amusements and comrade ship, The "Y" followed them half way around the world, through train ing camp and into the front line trench; it went "over the top" with them and having seen them through a thouand perils, it must come back home with them. The Y. M. C. A. must continue its wonderful war pro gram in the days of peace that lie ahead, and it is by just such means as the local association has adopted that this will be brought about. WhJlc Lewis S. Sadler, the Carlisle banker and business man. is main taining a silence that is characteristic regarding rumors of his probable ap pointment as State Highway Commis sioner by the Governor-elect, there ap pears to be good ground for believing that he will accept this Important post in the new administration. Mr. Sadler Is not a professional road builder, but we doubt whether there Is in all Pennsylvania one better equipped for getting results in any public activity. As executive manager of the Pennsylvania Council of Na tional Defense he has impressed all with whom he has been associated with his ability and energy. Gover nor-elect Sproul is going to make the road-building program a great feature of his administration, and he natur ally wants a business map to direct the work. A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT NOT for nothing has the Penn sylvania been called the "standard railroad of America" —which means of the world. Sec retary McAdoo, telling the Presi dent that the Philadelphia division has broken all records for car move- j "ment, is amazed at the achievement, ; but those familiar with the won- j dcrful system that wrought the! miracle of putting more than -aI quarter million cars past Columbia! In a single month, and who are' acquainted with the men who did, the trick, are not much surprised. ■ Pennsylvania Railroad men are ac-' customed to doing the impossible! They are proud of their service and I confident ot their own ability. So, J when the government cried out for greater speed in war transportation thej simply crowded on more' •team, pulled the throttle wide open, I stuck to the jpb and delivered the; goods. Superintendent Smith sayst he is proud of the men and the sys-1 tem, and well he may be. Colonel Harvey's War Weekly pre sents a cartoon that is of unusual sig nificance at this time It shows Colo nel Roosevelt and Major-General Leonard Wood exchanging views, pre sumably on their personal relations to the present Administration, and uniting feelingly In the observation, "Well, he kept US out of war." WOEFUL INEFFICIENCY THE Red Cross has undertaken to i prevent distress as a result of : tho outrageous delay In soldiers'! allotments and government allow ances to dependents. Much actual hardship, no doubt, will be saved through the activity of this agency; but the Red Cross will fall to reach many worthy cases because of the unwillingness of hundreds who will suffer In silence rather than admit their need. Every effort should be made to list those to whom allot ments and allowances have been as signed, so that the extent of the War .. . , : • • - - • P"- * —' ? • ' ' * '" ' ' , - ' ■ , f ■ • * ' * ' , " v • " > TUESDAY EVENING. HAJUUSBURQ TEtEGKSPH DECEMBER 17, 1918. r Department's neglect may be realised [ and steps taken to remedy It. j There have been failures and fail ures at Washington since the war started, but none that has come home to the people with such force as this. There is no excuse for it, j The money is at hand, the records . are complete and only an inefficient working force Is to blame. It might be a good thing to get rid of a few of the chair-warmers at Washington and give their places to returning! soldiers who would sympathize with those who are depending upon the! meager earnings of men In khakt for their support. If there Is any suffering in Harris . burg among the families of soldiers, i it should be immediately brought to public attention in some way that there may be prompt relief. Of course, such families will. not want their j necessities blazoned in the public eye, but this will not be necessary. A little investigation will soon estab lish the facts, and Harrisburg may be trusted to do the rest. Any failure on the part of officials at Washington to properly look after the remittances of soldiers in the service must not be permitted to work hardship upon the folks at home. A LIGHT BREAKS PRESIDENT WILSON Is believed to huve seen a new light since he arrived in France regarding the attitude which he should assume toward the German autocracy. If he left out shores with any idea of an exaggerated sympathy for the German people, he is likely to change his viewpoint since learning from those on the ground of the utter indifference of the Hun to the ideals for which the American sol dier and sailor have fought. This paragraph from his first speech in Paris shows that the President is going- to demand, with the allied governments, a peace that will mean justice for all the world: I am sure that I shall look upon the ruin wrought by the ; armies of the Central empires with the same repulsion and deep indignation that they stir in the hearts of men of France and Bel gium, and I appreciate, as you do, , the necessity of such action in the final settlement of the Issues of the war as will not only re buke such acts of terror and spoliation but make men every where aware that they can not be ventured upon without the certainty of just punishment. The American people are of one mind respecting the punishment due Germany. They believe that any fail ure to rid the world of the Kaiser and his group of cut-throats and thieves will simply encourage some other "superman" to attempt the | same thing at another time. There 1 is no evidence of a change of heart on the part of the German people. They are being told, and manifestly believe, that their armies are re turning unconquered; that these sim ply retired from France- apd Bel gium: that they prevented an in- , vasion of Germdny by the Allied armies, and that Hindenburg and ' the other bullies are the greatest , soldiers the world has ever pro- I duced and the finest humanitarians because they saved the German J towns from being ravaged and the , German women and children from i being outraged. Also, Erzberger is continuing his , whining for better peace terms, the , raising of the blockade, the libera- I tion of prisoners and consideration ' in other directions. Any weakening J in the peace terms will simply en- > courage the German barbarians to 1 plan future raids on an unsuspect- ' ing world. Any failure to punish in J a spirit of justice those responsible | for the crime of the ages is bound t to react upon the whole world and 1 disgust the men who have fought ' while thousands of their comrades died for decency and freedom. Colonel George Harvey, in his j weekly comment, declares that "day by day German camouflage becomes more obvious. Our troops in the j Ithineland find no marks of famine ;or dire distress. Meat markets and ; groceries are well stocked, and the people are well fed and prosperous. | The plaintive bleatings for pity and I mercy and therefore for a relaxa ! tion of the armistice terms, because ;of their lamentable plight, were j nothing but pretense. More and ! more it appears probable that the Germans surrendored not because I they were at the end of their re i sources, but because they thought i that by shrewd camouflaging they j could obtain better terms than would ' I be possible if they fought to a finish. I and also that they planned and are ! still trying to work out a trick that ! would, if successful, win for them in j peace what they failed to win in i war." i J Whatever the German purpose, it j ! is plainly evident that shrewdness | and a stern sense of justice must 1 govern the peace terms that the scotched snake of Berlin may not 1 revive. With suspicious frequency there comes bounding over the billows the ' command "Hold yourself in readiness 1 to Join me in France." And every member of the boards and commis sions still holding down their Jobs look hopefully toward the East. But ,the injunction to hold themselves in readiness was hardly necessary, as most of them have had their suitcases packed and their hats In hand wait- I ing for a rush to the first boat. There Is very general Interest throughout the State In the comple tion of the Capitol Park Improve ment. It Is generally recognized that Harrisburg has done its part and will continue to do so In making the setting for the Capitol what It should be. With the comprehensive 1 plans that have been agreed upon the environment of the State buildings : will be In harmony with the Import ance and dignity of the Common wealth. "PwvMEjCoaiua By the Ex-Committeeman More nomination papers were filed this year at the state capitol than in any recent year, because of | the unusual circumstances attend ! Ing the supreme court elections. In , the year ending with November fifty ' four were filed, while the largest number recently was In 1916, when thirty-eight were filed. The num ber of nominating petitions filed in the two-year period ending Decem ber 1 was 1,664, against 2,594 in the previous two-year period. In the last two years 185 pre-emp tions of parly names have been filed against 145 in the previous two years, and the records also show 144 expense accounts filed In two years, against 325 in the previous two years. The Dauphin county court set aside three petitions for nomination in the last two years. Nine were ret aside in the previous two years. —The Philadelphia Record to-day gives considerable attention to the legislative situation and says that with everyone among the Republi cans agreed upon Robert S. Spang ler, Of York, for speaker, there is a rush for chairmanships. Senators Daix and Salus, of Philadelphia, and Baldwin, Potter, are mentioned for the Senate appropriation chairman ship, and Representative McCaig, Allegheny; Cox, Philadelphia; Sin clair, Fayette, and Ramsey, Dela ware, for the House post. John R. K. Scott, of course, is a candidate for chairman of judiciary special, which he has headed in tumultuous years. —Reading legislators will sponsor a bill for a central tax receiving sta tion. —Senator-elect Max G. Leslie, of Pittsburgh, is out against a consti tutional convention. —The Philadelphia Bulletin strongly praises the selection of Lewis S. Sadler to be state highway commissioner. -—Wilkes-Barre school directors are in a row over the closing of schools because of infiuenza. There is a clash of authority between the city and school administrations which may be refiected in legislation. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is out for a single council of forty eight members for his city. —At Scranton yesterday President Judge Edwards directed the grand Jury to investigate charges that the j registration lists of voters in Car- j bondale were padded In the interest i of Congressman John R. Farr and j other Republican candidates' in the i November election. The court also j directed the jury to probe into the charges made against six election boards and Representative W. W. Jones, of the fifth legislative district. Charges against them are that they engineered fraud in the primaries in the interest of Professor David Phillips, candidate against David Da vis for the Republican nomination for senator. The last grand jury failed to return any indictment In these cases. —The report of the grand jury I to Berks Quarter Sessions Court recommends .the removal of the county jail from the city park in Reading. Outdoor exercise for pris oners is also urged. —Coal companies have started to fight the new coal land assessments in Hazleton. An increase was made. —The Philadelphia Press calls the Moore dinner at Washington Sena tor Sprout's Introduction to national politics, and says: "The occasion inevitably recalled the'dinner given to Governor Brumbaugh just after he was elected, when Representati%-e Wlllianj S. Vare was the host. That dinner gave notice that the Vares had captured him. He was then being boomed as a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomi nation. Nobody has offered to boom Senator Sproul for President. They know better. He was dining there under different conditions than his predecessor. His position was that of the man elected Governor by the largest majority ever given in Penn sylvania, strong enough in his own , right to maintain his announced neutrality between'the two factions." —Although Francis L. Klemmer, Reading's plumbing inspector, was suspended last week for thirty days by city council for "Joy riding" in; city autos, he is given an increase; of S2OO a year In the new city bud get. —The Twentieth Congressional district, comprising York and Adams counties. Vill no doubt give the na tional prohibition amendment more votes than any other single congres sional district in the commonwealth. In addition to the votes of Senator George S. Marlow and Representa tive Robert S. Spangler, Representa tives C. E. Cook, T. E. Brooks and Henry E. Lanius, of the Second, Third and Fourth Legislative dis tricts, respectively, of York county, and Representative C. Arthur Gretst, of Guernsey, Adams county, have alt reaffirmed their promise to and will support the national prohibition amendment when the vote is taken by the next Legislature. Calling the Red Cross Roll (From the New York Sun) There are now about 22,000,000 members of the American Red Cross, and this week the society confidently expects to enroll a much larger num ber for the year 1919. There should be no question of the success of its plan. At home or abroad, in peace or in war, wherever and whenever dis aster beyond the power of routine machinery to relieve occurs, the Red Cross is the proper medium for dis tributing aid, the. appropriate in strument for rehabilitating stricken communities. Nonpolltlcal and nonsectarian, the Red Cross is truly national in Us ex pression of humane ambitions. Its system of organization permits com plete co-operation with the govern ment of the United States, the gov ernments of other powers, the states of the Union and the authorities of political subdivisions. The Red Cross can ignore red tape; it can adapt itself Instantly to the necessities of any situation that may arise with out hampering restrictions that fre quently obstruct the endeavors of public officials, who must act always in accordance with statutory enact ments. The Red Cross deserves ihe sup port of all. Through it the Interest and sympathy Americans feel for those who suffer are made effective, and every person who joins it be comes an active partner In the prac tical application of high principles to the intricate problems of human U-v MOVIE OF A MAN AND A BUSTED SHOE LACE .... .... ...... ... • I F.~F N.6HTS REST 1 s„.v, FfSL,™ FEEC.oS.EXUBFBAr-T vsr, r eL T BE TT S . I Agk BW.IV-. L ,„. Fire'LtMG TOP HOLE FeeiuoG CO'RKIMG BUSTS SHOeLftClr Shirt-fail Sagacity [N. A. Review's War Weekly.] It seems that it was in what he de scribes as "a shirt-tail" —or was it pajamas?—interview with Washing ton correspondents, that Secretary Redfield came out strong in favor of our holding aloof in foreign com merce until everybody, ' including Gernmny. had a good lead on us be fore we entered the race for business with the outside world. On just what grounds the Secretary of Com merce seems to feel that there is a mitigating circumstance in the fact that he talked foolishness in his shirt-tail instead of fully garbed, as he usually is when he talks that way, or talks at all, which is much the sane thing, it is difficult to compre hend. What he said in the course of an explicitly authorized interview, printed in Federal Trade Service, published by the Publicity Corpora tion of Washington, was this: We have a great decision to make. It is whether we shall take this op portunity and the immediate rich profit it offers or whether we shall restrain our energies for a while, giving France, England, Belgium, Italy, even the neutrals and even Germany's reborn people a fair and free opportunity to get on their feet. Mr. Redfield now says that this statement was "garbled," and that it was a shirt-tail statement anyway. As to it being garbled, that is in credible. It has the true Redfield ian ring. If it really was a shirt-tail statement it was in every way worthy of a proved si4rt-tail statesman. So there is no incongruity in that quar ter. Indeed, all the evidence, direct, presumptive and from the essence of the statement itself, is overwhelm ingly convincing of accuracy.* * * Mr. Redfield continues his emula tion of Secretary Baker as the bmke man of the Administration. He is palpitating with zeal to apply the brakes to American commerce! so that we shall not get ahead of other nations in after-the-war trade ex pansion. There isn't a bit of dan ger, Mr. Redlield, of the appalling horrors which your vision scans. Let American commerce have the freest course and the fullest advantage, and it will not be over-expanded. All the danger lies in the other direction. We have not heard British or French economists expressing any such ap prehensions concerning their fiscal and commercial future as our Sec-, retary of Commerce seems to be cherishing in his altruistic soul. A fair field and no favor is all they ask and is all they need. That is all that we ask for, too; and we do not think that the American people will permit even the super-sapient Mr. Redfield to deny it to them. A Woman Won the War A woman, no less a personage than Miss Christabel Pankhurst, is credited with the idea of unified command, which, under General Foch, proved the foundation stone of Allied success against the armies of the Hun. Premier Lloyd George, among the first to appreciate the value of the suggestion offered by the suffragist leader, is said to have promised that Miss Pankhurst will be given official recognition at the proper time. This is not the first time an idea born in the brain of woman has gotten man out of a bad tangle.—El Paso Times. LABOR NOTES England has more women Govern ment workers thun any other country on the globe. The quarterly report of the Bloom ington (III.) Co-operative Society shows a dividend of 5 per cent. The Universal Shipyard at Hous ton, Texas, has a woman oakum spinner who works nine hours every day. In the last two months there have been 65 strikes in Canada, entailing the los of 145,790 working days. Mole skins bring from 16 to 18 cents each in Aberdeenshire and Mo rayshire, Scotland, und women are being trained- as mole catchers. Metal trades employers say wo men are more conscientious and produce a better quanity of < work than men workers. The New York Board of Educa tion has authorized an addition for elementary teachers of S6O and SIOO a year. A 10 per cent, wa'ge increase and 26 weeks' back pay has been secured by Ottumwa (Iowa) Garment Work ers' Union W. Harry Baker, Subject of Fine Newspaper Tribute THE Philadelphia Press pub lishes the .following fine tribute to "W. Harry Baker, secretary of the Senate, and one of the best known citizens of Harrisburg: "A few weeks ago Governor-elect Sproul pttblicly made what amount ed to the statement that W. Harry Baker, of Harrisburg, could have any of the big appointments he wanted under the forthcoming state administration —perhaps an unpre cedented tribute to a man who had come up through the ranks in Penn sylvania politics. Laker started his political career as a page boy in the State Senate when he was eleven years old. "Few of the general public could have known the man to whom Sen ator Sproul referred when they read his remarks about him in the state ment the Governor-elect gave out, for during his whole career, Baker has never held elective office. Even in the present instance he followed his usual course and declined ap pointment, saying that he could be more useful wherp he is now, as secretary of the Senate. "Yet whrever politics is known in the State, llarry Baker is known. Fon some years he has been secre tary of the Republican State Com mittee. He is a member of the inner circle of the State organiza tion and his advice is sought on all important matters under considera tion. Hays Wanted Baker "As an administrator of the busi ness of the State Committee, which includes the actual direction of its election campaigns, he has won a high opinion for his executive abil ity. When National Chairman Will H. Hays came to Philadelphia for the State Committee organization meeting after the recent primaries, he was so much impressed with the way Baker handled the large gath ering that he straightway tried to kidnap him for the National Com mittee. He wanted him to go to New York as one of a small group of ablest men among the young er politicians all over the country. Again Baker respectfully declined. Mr. Hays probably did not know in making his request that he would be taking from Pennsylvania the man who makes the wheels go round in a Republican campaign. But the State organization knew it. So Baker did not go. "The great thing about Baker is his square-dealing. It has probably put him where he is, fpr there are other able men in the field of poli tics who do not get as far. They lack that prime requisite in leader ship, the ability to command the confidence of the men they are working with. In this regard, Bakcr enjoys unusual distinction. No one Woman vs. Bolshevism (From the New York Tribune) About the most striking feature of women as they take their place in political lifq is an innate and nat ural antipathy to Bolshevism. The Battalion of Death set the example by fighting Lenine and Trotzky. Mme. Breshkovskaya, "Grandmoth er of the Russian Revolution," re fused to follow the red flag when it became stained with the new tyranny of the Bolshevik!. In England the leaders of the woman's movement displayed great patriotism and a vision. They aban doned their fight for the vote promptly and transferred all their grfcat ability and influence to the or ganizing of the nation against ihe German. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter fought vigorously the whole pacifist-Bolshevik movement in all its forms. Here in America our women, too, have been jealous and sure of rheir patriotism, in war spirit, in opposi tion to the ■ disintegrating forces of red-handed radicalism. Now comes the Women's National Committee of the American Defense Society with a stirring call to women to light the red Hag and all its works. Is it tjo soon to generalize con cerning the masses ol women? Pe • haps. Yet, have wo not always known which was, the more prac tical, commonscnse sex? The Four Chariots And I tuyned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from be tween two mountain's and the moun tains were mountains of brass.— Zacharlah vi, 1 j can bear testimony to that with more authority than the political writers of the newspapers, who run up against square dealing and deal ing that is not square, twenty linies a day. Soul of Truth "Among the political reporters i there is one way of ending all argu ] ment on a disputed fact. 'Harry j Baker says so,' is the phrase that I does it. He has a hankering after I truth and he even carries the virtue so far that he will admit without ! hesitation the authenticity of a : story upon which he is questioned. ! even when it is damaging to the j cause he is for the moment engaged i in. Where the average politician j would squirm and try to evade, ; linker comes out straight with the j truth. "Naturally, he does not reserve this habit only for* use with news ' paper men. He has the same repu i tation among his political associ- I atcs. In fact, it is said that he j often is disconcertingly frank with I the leaders when they ask his opin- I ion with the view of getting the ! answer they want, not his real opin- I ion. They say that Baker can tell i things to Senator Penrose that few | others would care about mentlon - Iln - . "Baker was born in what is now ! known as the downtown section of j Harrisburg. His father, James j Baker, who is one of the most re | speeted residents of Harrisburg, for I years was in charge of work at the f Central Iron and Steel Company, j "In the session of 1889 Harry s Baker was nan-.ed a page to *he State Senate. In those days it was | the ambition of every Harrisburg i boy to 'get on the Hill,' But not every boy who got there made good, i Baker did. j "It was only a short period of j years until he was assistant to Her | man P. Miller, the Senate Librarian, j and the officials and chief clerks be i gan to lean on him more and more. "One of his earliest friends was the then young Senator from Dela ! ware, William C. Sprout. Baker >\ as j still the youngest of the pages when ! Senator Sproul was sworn in, and the new Governor was shown where he had been assigned to sit at his first session by the man who by the turn of years was the guiding hand of the Republican State Committee which ran his campaign for the | highest office of the State. "Another early friend made while he was in the State Senate was Boies I Peniose. i "Baker is still a young man and . there Is no telling how far he will ' go. But whatever advances him, it | will not be advertising. His regu lar request is, 'don't use my name.' I The facts upon which this very aiti | cle is based were secured by a con ispiracy among a few of his friends." SONG 'Twas spring upon the uplands When my laddie said goodby, And oh, the earth slept pleasantly | Beneath a smiling sky. | The bloQdroot by the river bloomed And young leaves clothed the trees ■ And all the woods were blossoming With white anemones, j The folk that passed by told me The world was very fair I But yet my heart seemed cold and bleak And snow lay very heavy there. j The ice had clothed the river When my lad came back to me, His dear bright face burned thin and brown By wind on land and sea, ■ The wind sang high and bitterly About my cottage eaves; i And driving snowflakes hissed upon The piles of russet leaves. Held tight within a frigid hand The world was sturk and dumb, ' But deep within my heart of hearts I knew that spring had come. —New York Tribune. Not in Evidence The ex-Kaiser has tried to com mit suicide, and failed. Previous to j'that he had tried to hold on to a I throne that had been given to him, rent free, and failed. He had tried to continue and extend the Bystem of kaiserlsm according to the di rections he found on the bottle, and failed. He had tried to make war like Frederick and peace like Bls march, and tailed. If there Is any thing William Hohenzollern can do it is pretty evident it is something he has not yat tried.— Kansas City Star, i Sound Sense From Knox [Col. Harvey's "War Weekly."] The League of Free Nations in its actions condemning the Knox Senate resolution concerning the Paris peace conference, seems to misapprehend just what the Knox resolution really is. The league describes it as an "arbitrary settlement which would be short-lived in its effect and would vastly increase the growing danger to world safety." This is inaccurate in about as many ways as it well could be. The Knox proposition is not a "settle ment" of the League of Nations question, still less is it an "arbi trary" settlement of that same. Fur thermore it would not "vastly in crease the growing danger to world safety," for the reason that there isn't any growing danger to world safety. On the contrary, whatever, if any, danger to world safety there may be Is diminishing with head long rapidity with every passing day. The growing season for world dan ger was coincident to, and an in tegral part of, the past fifty years' growth of the German empire. Thanks to Providence and the strongest battalions, the German empire is smashed. Its power for international villainy is ended. And with the downfall of Germany went, for a long time at least, the danger to world safety which the worthy people of the League of Free Na tions see so ominously increased by- Senator Knox's very clear-headed and commonsense resolution. By that resolution the peace con ference would occupy itself, so far as the United States is concerned, with the objects for which the United States went to war, and with these objects only. These objects Senator Knox clearly and accurately defines. They "were to vindicate the ancient rights of navigation as established under international law, and in or der to remove forever the German menace to our peace." The Senator then recites the fact that "confer ences are about to take place with the purpose to complete, perfect and to guarantee the attainment of these war aims and thus to pass to the state of formal peace." The resolu tion then provides for the safeguard ing of these attained war aims by a definite understanding that, 'the same necessity again arising, there shall be the same accord and co operation with our chief co-bel ligerents for the defense of civiliza tion." • • ♦ Mr. Knox's resolution is not, as the League of Free Nations asserts, a of the League of Na tions plan any more than it is a set tlement of the "freedom of the seas" idea, whatever that remark able Idea may be. It is a "settle ment" of nothing. It merely puts the United States Senate on record as favoring relegfition of the be fogged Fourteen Commandments to their proper place for consideration, after formal proclamation of peace, on their own merits and in their own appropriate time and order. TRADE BRIEFS The live stock show held by the Argentine Rural Society was emi nently successful, and the price of $42,500, American currency, paid for the champion short-horn bull is said to be the world's record price for such an animal. Dr. 11. M. Brown, of the State of Ohio, was the Judge this year., A wave' of popularity for things western is sweepifg over the whole of China, and with the cessation of war there may be expected to be hugo demands for all sorts of for eign machinery, building materials and equipments generally. An American firm is-about to erect a factory in Brazil for the manufacture of caustic soda and other chemicals. The company has already purchased 720,000 square meters of land near the city of San tos, state of Sao Paulo. Reports of the grinding of sugar cane in Tucuman Province, Argen tina, up to September 30, 118, show a total of 1,036,394 metric tons of cane milled and metric tons of sugar produced. The aggregate value of declared exports from London to the United States during the ten months ended October, 1918, totalled $60,022,252, compared with $133,740,783 in the same period in 1917, thus showing a decrease of 63 per cent. Switzerland is at present engaged in the electrification of a portion of the railway connecting the country with Italy through the St. Gothard tunnel. Always Something Lacking She —WHat do you consider the things that make life worth living? He—-The things we don't possess. —Edinburgh Scotman. I lEuenxttg (Eljat Apparently some of the men con nected with the state's draft system intend to maintain the relation they have occupied toward each other and toward the state and nation as steps to organize organizations of county draft board members are under way. In Allegheny county the members of the draft boards have had an organization for a year and recently plans have been per fected to make it a permanent af fuir and to have occasional meet ings, while the Philadelphia boards have gone together and are about to secure a charter from the courts for nn association. In Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, each of which had ten boards permanent organi zations are to bo formed and simi lar steps are being talked of in other counties. The state draft headquarters force, which has been reduced since the armistice was signed, is now engaged on the gigantic task of preparing for the winding up of the draft system, which will take months. Major W. G. Murdoclt, who has directed the multitudinous details of the work, has been in Washington tho last few days at the general conference of draft officers in preparation for the future of the selective service system which will bo a permartent feature of tho government. The Murdock manner of handling the draft in Pennsylvania has been highly praised not only by the men in the system in this state, but at Washington. Just who makes up the Pennsyl vania State Illiterates' Commission is a question which is interesting a good many people at the State Capitol these days. This commis sion has been getting mail. The mail is sent from camps where men from Pennsylvania have been dis covered who need a, little educa tional attention. In spite of the ex cellence of the school system it would seem that there are sons of the Keystone State who are shy on the three It's. So the officers in chnrge of the camp have been writing here to see that they aro taken, care of. The letters, as usual, have gone roaming around the building, and yesterday some of them landed in the office of the State Board of Public Charities. That branch promptly called up the State Board of Education. Some of the hearings which aro being held in complaints before the \ Public Service Commission are ac tually being gone through with while complaints against further in creases in rates or fares of the same companies are on dockets. This is due to the rapid advance in rates which is too fast for almost the complainants to Set through with. • As for the commission it is almost swamped by the multitude of cases appearing. ' • An interesting interview with Ed gar C. Felton, the federal labor di rector for Pennsylvania, is published in the Philadelphia Press. Mr. Fel ton, who is well remembered by many here as the president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company and of the Harrisburg Traction Company, right after the consolidation of the two old lines,, has been giving his tintq to Uncle Sam since the war began., ' „ " "Although my salary is a dollar a year," he said with a smile, "I spent twenty-five cents out or this amount to make out my voucher to the government. I have four sons in the military and naval service of their country, and I am contented to give my services as they do theirs. There'll be no more riveting jobs at bank presidents' salaries. But no one need worry about a job. I will not quit until every man who comes to us for a Job gets one, and I make no empty promises. A lot of women workers will retain their men's jobs, for these are women's jobs, after all. It does not take a two-fisted man to jump a department store counter. Our wounded soldiers must be given employment, not as an act of charity, but to make them inde pendent producers." • Quite a galaxy of noted attorneys appeared at the Capitol yesterday in Public Service arguments. Among them were ex-Lieutenant Governor Waller Lyon, of Pittsburgh, who never seems to change; W. S. Kirk patrick, of Easton, who was Attor ney General under Beaver, and is as spry as ever; George R. Booth, of Allentown; Owen J. Roberts, promi nent Philadelphia attorney, and George Wharton Pepper, chairman of the State Council of National De fense. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE .—J. G. Rosengarden, the oldest trustee of the University of Penn sylvania, has resigned after long service. —T. T. Richards, active in Lacka wanna affairs, is coming homo from France after extended service. * —Dr. R. Tait McKenzle, promi nent in army affairs, is to speak at Philadelphia on the value of exer cise in daily life. —Representative Harry Zanders, of Carbon county, has been present ed by a friend in the army with a piece of a large German military balloon. —B. Frank Ruth, Reading coun cilman, well known here, is urging a new union station for his city. —Generul Tusker H. Bliss, one of the peace conferees, was born in Lewisburg, and graduated from the Academy in 1869. —George W. Elklns, Philadelphia financier, Is seriously ill. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg preserves are on tlic menu of the men over seas? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first Harrisburg printing office was in South Second street, near Mulberry, and the type came from Philadelphia. A Kentuckian's Valuable Load L. F. Barnes, of Neave, took a truckload, consisting of 300 turkeys, for which he was paid $1,275; 1,000 rabbits, $200; two beef hides, sl3, and one horsehide, $7; total value, $1,495, to Cincinnati last week.— Pendleton Ledger. Thankful Awful. Bore (making conversa tlon)-i-I passed your houße to-day. She< (pointedly)—Oh, thank you ever so much.—Edinburgh Scotman.
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