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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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.