16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI.JfciRAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Uulldlng, Federal Sguaro E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited tx> it or not otherwiso credited In this paper and also the local nihs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American r \ _ Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa- Bureau of Clrcu latton and^Ponn jljgp ffi jgj| Eastern ce ; jjjjf Avenue Building Chicago, Vl" Dg ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. -affix By carrier, ten cents a 4tfafip week; by mail. $3.00 'Wii.is-!*-' a year In advance. Pity and need make all flesh kin.; —Edwin Arnold. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918 KNOX STRIKES KEYNOTE IN TWO short paragraphs Senator Knox, speaking before the Sen ate yesterday, explained why many Americans hesitate about en dorsing the President's proposal for a League of Nations as a part of the peace conference program. The former Secretary of State, who has had as wide an experience in foreign relations as any man in the country, said: After all. why such hurry?. If a League of Nations is a good thing, surely its merit will be the belter appreciated after careful study. If a League of Nations may not be a good thing, certainly the agi tated dnvs following a great war should not be seized upon to sad dle the country with a policy it has not examined and which is no necessary part of the making of peace. Senator Knox belives that the League of Nations idea should be divorced from the peace program, lie withholds his opinion as to the wisdom of eventually adopting some such plan, until he knows Just what the President proposes. That is the great difficulty. Nobody knows what Mr. Wilson means by his "League of Nations." He has taken nobody into li s confidence. The idea at first thought appears good, but the more it Is studied the more complex it becomes. It is not without merit, but it involves so many possibilities for both good and evil that it might well be separated frcm the peace conference, to be taken up imme diately after the delegates complete the final draft of the peace agree ment. Mr. Taft has proposd a "League to Enforce Peace." That, also, may be Mr. Wilson's purpose, or it may not. He has told nobody and asks the Senate and the people of the country as a whole to accept his "pig in a poke" without question or debate. If he had taken them into his conlidence he might have had them solidly behind him, instead of doubtful and divided. Senator Knox is right when he concludes that Americans will re fuse to be led blindly into what may turn out to be "entangling alli ances" of a very embarrassing na ture. They are not trusting their consciences and the peace for which they fought to the majority vote of European diplomats intent upon furthering their own seltish pur poses. They have seen too much of that in the cases of Austria, Bul garia and Turkey. They have been mistrustful of tying themselves up with foreign governments ever since the far-sighted Washington pointed out the danger that lies that way. "Free and independent" has been their proudest boast, and they are not ready to surrender one iota of that independence until they are convinced It is for our own good and that of the world at large! As Sen ator Knox said: "I think the Ameri can people believe in Americanism. I do not for one moment believe they would be willing to see this country ordered about by a heterogenenous world league of all nations." Vice-President Marshall presiding over the Cabinet meeting, doubtless afforded a delightful conversational occasion without undue mental exer tion for those present. FOR A CLEAN CITY OUR good wishes go with the churchmen who have at tempted through a perma nent association to make the city clean and keep it so. But it Is a shame that private citizens must band themselves together to do what our paid public servants will not do. To bo sure, vice Is not al ways tho easiest evii to run down, but honesty and vigilance can do much to prevent ;t from showing Its ugly head In ths community and there are cities vvherg the regularly constituted authorities find It pos- THURSDAY EVENING, sible to enforce the laws on the sub ject. That not being true here, as witness the recent federal raid, let us hope that the association formed to correct conditions will be highly successful in its important and disagreeable undertaking. President Wilson will not Increase the good will of the nations allied with us by an arbitrary insistence up on any preconceived notions of his own. We are not the only pebble on the beach. WHY ARE YOU WAITING? WHAT are you waiting for, you Harrisburg people who have not yet Joined the Red Cross? Did the Red Cross wait when your- I boys were being wounded 'in France? Did the Red Cross wait while the influenza raged In the training camps of the country? If a great flood or a fire swept over Harrisburg to-day would the Red Cross wait until it figured out whether it could afford to come to ] your rescue? No, indeed; the Red Cross work ers went over the top with your boys and brought them back to the hospitals through a hail of death, and Red Cross surgeons and Red Cross nurses dared disease and the Huns' aerial bombing that your boys ! might come back to you. Red Cross [ men and women sacrificed their I own lives to stay the influenza epi demic in the cantonments and Red Cross funds apd Red Cross volun teers would break speed records j reaching Harrisburg if disaster overtook us. The war is over, but the Red Cross work must continue. Are you an al!-the-time patriot or merely one of the hurrah boys whose enthusi asm goes no farther than cheering and flag-waving? Demonstrate by joining the Red Cross. What are you waiting for? i President Wilson, having been made a citizen of Paris, might decide to run for the French presidency before re turning. Maybe that was why he sent for his political cabinet. "WORK OF TUSKEGEE THE recent report of the Tuske gee school shows how largely that institute participated in the war activities. Major Moton, successor to Booker T. Washington, says, in conclusion, that it may not be immodest to quote from an edi torial which appeared in the Char lotte, N, C., Observer, regarding the work at Tuskegee: So long as the Booker T. Wash ington ideals prevail at Tuske gee. that institution will continue to perform a valuable service to the negroes of the South, and under the management of Dr. Moton. these ideals have been lived up to in an admirable man ner. Throughout the war the colored men have maintained a record of patriotic devotion to the country which was manifested not only on the fighting line but in the impor tant work at home. Many trained workers went out from Tuskegee and what they did during the war will constitute a fine chapter when the history of war activities shall be made up. The most artistic and elaborate holiday edition that has reached the Telegraph this season is the Christ mas number of the Mount Union Times. Not only does it abound in Christmas features, poems, pictures and stories, but it is a good news paper as well, and the amount of adver tising it carries indicates that the end of the war has had no effect on the prosperity of the wonderful little city that is the home of the publication. The paper is made up of twenty pages, filled with the holiday spirit from first page to last. A STATE PROBLEM IN the consideration of bills hav ing for their object the rehabili tation and re-education of in capacitated soldiers. It is hoped Congress will give due thought to the eventual transformation of whatever machinery is devised for the purpose to the uses of the In jured industrial worker. This will not be so easy as It may at first glance appear, for while the re habilitation of the soldier is dis tinctly the nation's problem, the re education of the injured workman is a matter for the individual States. Some way should be found to en able the States to avail themselves of the nation's schools after the sol diers all have been cared for. Other wise a highly useful agency will have been lost. But in doing so due con sideration must be given to thought of State control. Pennsylvania, for example, is well able to look after its own people, once the way Is shown, but would be very glad to avail Itself of the Federal govern ment's knowledge and experience, onco the soldier no longer requires them. Tou cau't celebrate Christmas prop erly without a Red Cross button fMtUtiK By the Ex-Committeeman Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain yesterday definitely dispos ed of reports that there was any chance of him becoming secretary of agriculture, when he said that he did not desire to be the head of any department of the state gov ernment and that what talents he possessed or special information he might have would be at the disposal of Governor-elect William C. Sproul, if he would call upon hint at any time. The Lieutenant Governor said that he had never been an ap plicant for the leadership of any branch of the state government, and that he felt that he could be of more use to his old friend, the Governor elect, in his capacity of private oiti zen ready to respond to all calls. —From what has been learned here Mr. McClain will retain"his of ficial position with the state defense activities as his term as Lieutenant Governor ends. He has found the oversight of expenditures by the Council of National Defense and the working out of the work com mitted to that body by the State Defense Commission a congenial task and has given much time to it. He will continue in charge of this work after the new administration takes office as there will be con siderable for the council during the readjustment period. —Appointment of a commission by Governor-elect Sproul to make a scientific study of the Philadelphia port problem similar to that now being planned in New York was urged yesterday in a talk before the Philadelphia Rotary Club by John Irwin Bright, chairman of the plan ning committee of the American committee of architects. —Governor-elect William C. Sproul, of Pennsylvania, has replied favorably to a letter from Governor Edge, of New Jersey, urging him to give special treatment in his first message to the Pennsylvania legis lature to the project to bridge the Delaware river between Camden and Philadelphia. —The Pittsburgh newspapers are watching with considerable interest the studies of the small council form of government being made by the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Ledger's move is regarded as a slap at the Yares who do not favor the small council, which is what the re formers want. —"I had a talk with Mayor Bab cock, of Pittsburgh," Governor elect Sproul said, "and while the small council out there is all right the fact that it is elected by the people at large is complained of. The same situation would be experi enced in this city. I am in ravor of a small council for Philadelphia, but I am of the opinion the mem bers should be elected upon a pro portionate basis. In this way the people of every section would have some one to whom to go when they have grievances to express or re quests to make." —York city school board has taken steps to have committee confer with legislators regarding the teachers' salary raiser. —W. T. Tredway has been elected president of the Young Men's Re publican Tariff club, of Pittsburgh, which will have a dinner on Mc- Kinley day. —ln Philadelphia there is consider able stir over the fact that the men in charge of the charter revision committee left off City Solicitor John P. Connelly. —Things are nice in Pittsburgh council. Here is an extract from an account of proceedings: "W. J. Burke told Director Prichard that he had not been very helpful in re ducing the budget and that he him self was opposed to the creation of new jobs, although insistent upon giving better wages to capable men already employed. John 11. Daily was opposed to using sixteen firemen to drive the assistant chiefs' auto mobiles, intimating that the officials could themselves drive their ears. —The Philadelphia Press says ed itorially: "When William I. Schaf fer, who is to be Attorney General in the Sproul Administration, said in an after-dinned speech that Pennsylvania 'is not understood by the country at large,' he gave utter ances to an obvious truth. Penn sylvania understands herself pretty well, however, and that understand ing accounts for the thrift of her people, the immense importance of her Industries, the exceptional aid she was enabled to render the Gov ernment in the war and her great and unfailing Republican majori ties. It would do some of the other states a power of good not only to understand Pennsylvania better, but to imitate her more in their eco nomic policies. The Refuge Religion is a democratic refuge. The- democracy of faith transcends all democracies of the imagination. Nature and art can in no wise be compared to it, for from their conso lations large groups of human be ings are automatically excluded by some condition of servitude. Philosophers have had much to say of inner citadels, from which the outward order could tranquilly be surveyed. Thought, says one of them, has us free from "the tyranny of outside forces, free even "from the petty planet on which our bodies itn potently crawl.' But the thought of the philosopher Is no more a refuge for the illiterate than song is for the deaf, or Nature for miners sunk in the bowels of the earth. "You can't buy God," my char woman said to me as she scrubbed my floor. No not with money, nor with education, nor with talent, nor with opportunity. A refuge wide enough to receive the poilu with the general, the child with the philos opher, the dull with the gifted, is the only refuge wide enough to satis fy my soul, to give me beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. —Anne C. E. Allinson in Atlantic Monthly. Lafayette's Ashes A proposal has been laid before the French government by M. Le hey. Socialist deputy of Seine-et- Oise, that the ashes of Lafayette be removed front the Picpus Cemetery, where he was buried, to the Pan theon. It is suggested that the cere mony should take place during Pres ident Wilson's visit to Paris.—Con tinental Edition of the London Mali. Youth and Age Verily, *er:'y, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkest whither thou wouldest; but when thou shall be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry th ?e whither thou wouldest i not—St. John, xxi. 18. 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HFTQRML LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Praise Harrisburg To the Editor of the Telegraph: The time has come when the men that wear the uniforms of Uncle Sam are beginning to return to their homes, and when tliey return to their homes they will convey with them the idea and impressions of the places where they have been, We, as a body, wish to say, that when we go home we are going to be eternal boosters for Harrisburg. We came to Harrisburg with the idea that it being a capital city would be cold blooded, conceited, and more interested in money and ancestors than in men. But our five months' stay in Harrisburg has convinced us that we were under the wrong im pressions. Never have we seen a more enthusiastically patriotic town in our lives. Of course, we, the sail ors, noticed the activities devoted to our entertainment most. The consideration, friendship and respect that our uniforms invariably rate, lias given us a greater respect for them ourselves, and the way peo ple of all classes have opened their hearts and homes to us has trans ferred Harrisburg from a mere name or place on the map to a place in our hearts we shall never forget. We could use several columns in mentioning the many good things we like about Harrisburg, but we shall reserve that for home con sumption. It is almost home here, and the best that we can hope for is that we have made good with Harrisburg as it has made good THE SAILORS. A Peripatetic Philosopher He overtook him swinging down the boulevard with his chest out the morning the strike came on. "Rotten business —this strike," we said. "Finest thing that ever happened,' he said. "Strikes saved my life — made a man of me." "Union man?" we asked. "Now. Office slave. Two years ago I was an anemic, dyspeptic, neu rasthenic, hypochondriac slave of desk. I had been trying to cut out tho heavy midday lunches and to start walking down in the morning for two years—couldn't make up my mind to do it. Then there came along that waiters' strike and I cut out the restaurant —brought a couple sandwiches down and Fletch erized them at noon. Then the street car boys struck and I had to walk. I haven't ridden in a street car since. I've gained twenty pounds, never have been sick a day since have a clear head for my work, never felt better in my life. There's just one more strike I'd like to see." "What's that?" VPie makers. I'm still a little overfond of pie. —■Kxchunge. November Dusk—a Portrait The drama of it! The poetry of it' The glorified justice and human satisfaction of it! The bully and braggart begging for peace and his envoys waiting by the wayside for their peons to mend the roads them selves had shattered. When the Shakespeare of this war gets down to Act V, Scene 111, he will head it: "The Chimay-Fourmies-La C'apelle Road on a November Duski." LABOR NOTES Wages for men workers in the shoe trade in the United States have Increased from $4 to $6 a week 1516, while women workers have been advanced from $2 to $4 a week in the same' period. The port of Santa Rosalia, Lower California, owes its Importance to a group of copper mines nearby and to the smelters, which support a pop ulation of about 10,000, composed chiefly of the working classes. Unless assurance is given that a recent award of tho Federal War Labor Board providing for an In crease of approximately 62 per cent. In wages will be put into effect at oncy 1 Memphis (Tenn.) street car workers will efiforce their deman Is by a walkout. A board of conciliation appointed by the Canadian Minister of Labor nas granted an increase of 5 cents an hour to carpenters and mill wrights. making the new scale 65 cents for carpenters and 70 cents .nu hour for irlilu'rUcbU, Inside a Tank Harold A. Llttledale In the Atlantic Monthly IX action in a tank, heat is one of the great hardships, for it is so exhausting that the men frequent ly have to buck themselves up with restoratives, carried in the tank's medicine bag. Usually, in the ordi nary course of travel, or going up, men walk outside the tank, or ride on top, the driver alone being in side; but in action all have to bo in side, and the tank is shut up so that in broad daylight it is quite dark within. Observation for the driver and gunners is made possible by look out ports, in which eight tiny holes (the size of pinheads) are drilled. Strangely enough, observation is not so difficult as might be imagin ed. it is above these holes that the only padding in the tank is placed, for, contrary to the general impression, tanks are not padded inside, nor are men strapped into seats. The gunners for the most part stand; the two men forward are seated, and when the driver is about to take a severe drop or in cline, he shouts back through the speaking tube and the men hang on, bracing themselves against the engine or the guns. The padding over the lookout holes consists of a headrest against which one presses the forehead in order to bring the eyes as close to the holes as possible. These look out holes superseded periscopic prisms, which proved unsatisfac tory. The prisms were made of glass about two inches thick; but bullets striking this glass, while not breaking it, starred it so that obser vation becume difficult, if not quite impossible. To meet this a steel reflector was tried out, but did not Nbw Era For Health Dept. [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] The Commonwealth can well con gratulate itself if, as now seems highly probable, Dr. Edward Martin becomes the second Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania. As all those who are familiar with the sit uation know, the department is in a state of high efficiency, the result of the untiring and unselfish labors of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, who impressed his personality on every phase of the work, since the necessities of or ganization forced him to those con tinuing sacrifices of time and atten tion which most executives aim to escape. But through these very pioneer activities of the specialist, who in one sense created the depart ment, the man selected by Governor Sproul will benefit hugely. Indeed, he will come into the work unham pered, as it were, by any necessity of looking into minor details, since what will required of him will be that broad expert knowledge and human experience that will meet the demands of what all recognize in a new era for the health department in this as well as in other states. For one thing, the great commun ity needs looking to the increase of resistance through better housing, up-to-date sewage and the preven tion of all those diseases that are preventable and yet too often as sume an epidemic character, and which will demand more than ever a closer touch betweer. tho depart ment und the public and communal relationships of individuals. It is a unique opportunity, therefore, that invites Doctor Martin; and his well known abilities, his energy and his professional devotion, In addition to his executive experiences in control of the health of the greatest city in the state, should all stand him in good stead. Should he accept the commissionerßhip, a career of great usefulness to the state is opened up. That the service he will render will be equal to the opportunities will be the common belief of all those fa miliar with his public record his professional status. Thought For the Day Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway. Can bribe the poor possession of a day. —Homer's Iliad. Where Is He? What lias become of tho old-fash ioned sick man who argued that it was cheaper to get drunk than to send for a doctor?— From tho Dallas answer the purpose, and so the holes were resorted to, and, while observation involves an unnatural straining of the neck, it is effec tive. While bullets do not penetrate the armor, but only ruffle it up a bit at the point where they are de flected, u great deal of bullet "splash" does come in. This is more annoying than serious, and after nn action one could pick out any number of these tiny splinters from one's face. So, as a means of protection against "splash" face ar mor was invented. This looks much like a bandit's mask, with a steel mesh chain hanging from it. The mask itself is of thin steel, with slits for the eyes, the whole padded for the face and adjustable to it. The greatest danger, however, whether in or out of action, is that of tire. Smoking inside a tank is forbidden. Usually smoking is not permitted within twenty yards of one. This is because of the great amount of petrol, or gasoline, car ried, and because of the fumes. Thus, an armor piercing shell enter ing the tank, not only explodes in a confined area, but usually sets the machine on lire. When that hap pens, men have to escape the best they can, tumbling out of the doors usually to be greeted by the ene my's machine gun tire. Often, how ever, so much damage was done by the shell itself, that only those near est the doors ever escaped. The rest perished in the flames, and those who have ever go back to a tank and sec their comrades burned almost beyond recognition, will bear testimony that death by fire was feared more than anything else. No Quick Cure (From tho Kansas City Times.) Of course, the "healing peace" about which so many honeyed words are now being spoken and written, is the sort of peace every body wants, but it is not to be had by the hasty process of sewing up the world's wounds and spreading salvo on them. Wounds must be cleansed before being closed, and it is also well to make sure that all the surgical instruments, sponges, etc., have been removed before the sewing up is proceeded with. The congress of Versailles prob ably will not be hurried into doing a botch job by the clamors of the "healers." The world is in no such great rush to have Germany fall on its neck and sob out the story of its life. The world can wait for that thrill a long time without suffering from heart yearning. It will ex amine this open wound called Ger many with sufficient care before it applies any healing lotion. So far as practical observations can judge Germany needs consider able swabbing out before the band ages are put on. We imagine the congress of Versailles will attend to this very thoroughly despite the screams of the patient and the snuf fles of the "healers." Our Soldiers "Knightly" (From speech by Otto If. Kalin at U. W. W. campaign meeting, Bos ton, November 13. Published in Current Opinion.) As I observed our army "over there," I felt that in them, in the mass of them, representing as they do all America, there had returned the spirit of knighthood. I meas ure my words. X am not exagger ating. If 1 had to find one single word with which to characterize our hoys, I should select the adject ive "knightly." A French officer who commanded a body of French troops fighting fiercely and almost hopelessly in Belleau Wood near Chateau Thier ry (since then officially designated by tho French as the Wood of the Marno Bridge), told me that when they had arrived almost at the point of total exhaustion, on the 4th or sth of June, suddenly the Ameri cans nppeared rushing to the res cue. One of their officers hurried up to him, suluted and said In ex ecrably pronounced French Just six words: "Vous— fatigues, vous patir, noire Job." "You tired, >ou — get away; our job." And right nobly did they do their job. Need I ask whether we shall do ours? Children's Curiosity Curiosity in children's nature was provided to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisltlveness, will make them dull.—Locke. , DECEMBER 19, 1918. Dave—a Fife Hero "Falkland Forever! Leslie for Longer!" [Old Waterloo War Cry] When the war broke out, and the pipes were skirling. Dave gued wast to the camp at Stirling. A douce lad Dave, and a canty fere, When he li.v'd on the land a plow man here; But a deevil to fecht when he donn'd the kilt, An' gripplt the gun with the sword intilt He cross'd the seas in a ship that sank, And he thrice o" the briny ocean drank, But he wan safe owre to a ditch in Flanders, An' riskit his life for his auld Com mander's. An' he got for the deed a something grand, Pinn'ed on his briest by the King's ain hand. But it's no' for me to sing the praise Oor Dave deserv'd in his soger days. An* it's better no' to attempt the i thing Than fail to celebrate what ye sing; Och, life was mair, tho' wi' cuts an' scare Than a medal to Dave, or a cross wi' bars. My sang's of Dave when he settles doun Thrifty an' douce in hi sain farm toun. He has dune his bit at the King's command, Focht wi' the lave for his native land; And his best reward is the prize of life. And a canty hame in the liowe o' Fife. —Hugh Haliburton in the Edinburgh Scotsman. Fame and the Fold Collar (From the Haberdasher, N. Y.) Just recently we ran across Sen ator Root wearing a gray overcoat, soft hat, black shoes, low fold collar, gray suit and scarf with a large knot. Of an older race of statesmen, he far outweighs the most who have grown up about him, and who, with a most incredulous belief in their own genius, might learn from him certain excellent lessons to mortify their vanity and serve them to advantage. Picking our path warily through the great throngs clustered about Fifth Avenue a little while later, we ran across our old friend Dr. Wel lington, the Chinese minister to the United States. He wore a handsome cutaway with gray striped trousers, black boots, high fold collar, white shirt and waistcoat with white edg ing, fancy cravat without a pin. William S. Hart wore a modest gray sack suit, a dark four-in-hand scarf, fancy shirt, fold collar and black laced' boots. Hard by this little sketch we find mention in our notebook of a recent meeting with Herbert Hoover. When we saw him he wore a heavy, dark ulster, black boots, soft hat, dark sack suit, high fold collar, fancy shirt and striped scarf. We recently spied John D. Rocke feller, Jr. He wore a good looking cutaway coat, fold collar, black shoes and dark scarf. Gentlemen, the President! We will always remember him as he looked the other afternoon, weuring a black cutnway, gray trousers, suede gloves, silk hat, black and white scarf and fold collar. On Hie Return of a Book I give humUe and hearty thanks for the safe return of this book, which, having endured the perils of my friend's bookcase and the book cases of my friend's friends, now re turns to me in reasonably good con dition. I give humble and hearty thanks that my friends did not see fit to give this book to his infant as a plaything, nor uso it as an ashtray for his burning cigar, nor us a teeth ing ring for his mastiff. When I lent this book I doomed it as lost; T was resigned to the bit terness of the long parting; I never thought to look upon its pages again. But, now that my book is coming back to me. 1 rejoice and am ex ceedingly glad! Hring hither the fatted morocco and let us rebind the volume und set It on the shelf of honor; for this my book was lent, and is returned again. Presently, therefore, I may return some of the books that 1 myself Lave borrowed.—From XJJt*. I lumtmg (Eljat It Is not generally known that th< State Board of Pardons, at least bj| the average person who reads of lt< meetings, that tlio Pennsylvania Board Is unique tn tills Very few states have a tribunal which lins such powers as those en* Joyed by the Board which yesterdaj holds-its final meeting as at present constituted. The Board change! with each administration and while its authority is recommendatory time and usage and disposition by governors to lean upon It have mada it a branch of the government of importance. It was created, say some, to take tho burden of pardong from the shoulders of state execu tlves, und by others so that thera might bo a tribunal which could upon considerations oif mercy on other things which could not ha taken into account In law decide upon remission or change of punish ment. So It happens that this board which was created by a paragraph of tlie constitution of 1873 can set aside tho verdict of a Jury and the sentence of a judge, which may have been upheld in the supreme [court of the commonwealth. The board is created by a paragraph which gives the governor power to "remit fines and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commutation of sentence and pardons" and then adds "but no pardon shall be granted nor sen tence commuted except upon the recommendation in writing of the lieutenant governor, secretary of the commonwealth, attorney general and secretary of Internal affairs or any three of them, after full hear ing. upon duo public notice and In open session." The Board has all the ceremony of a court and its decis ions when written out have to be signed by the members. Its ses sions are open to everyone and upon proper prcedure any one may speak. Wives, mothers, brothers and sons, ministers and nurses, friends and persons representing prison socie ties have spoken before it, although us a rule and so that the mercy of tho state may not be fightly regard ed, the advocates are mainly law yers who are bound by rules of the Board and the ethics of their pro fession. For years it is interesting to note that by force of the election or appointment there have been two attorneys and two laymen upon tho Board. There arc two elective and two appointive officers and next year for the first time in a long vrhile there will be three lawyers. As a rule governors have accepted the findings of the Board, but not always: The late Samuel W. Pen nypacker used to occasionally de cline to accept a recommendation and once bluntly set one aside and went into a case himself with a. rather startling result. John K. Tener once sent a case back to the Board to revise and other governors have occasionally indicated that they did not concur in the recom mendations. And after all it is within the province of the governor to exercise the final act of clemency. It is interesting to note the work of the Board and the confidence re posed in it, the words of the Judges who at times address it in recom mendation or protest and the at titude of the public. It is an un usual tribunal and fills what some call an intermediate, but what is in fact, a most important place by di rect mandate of the people of the state. "There are more deer in the woods now than I liaye ever known," said Max Robison, a well-known South Mountain gunner just home from two weeks spent in a deer camp. "I have been in t*e South Mountains for upward of twenty-flve years, and I have never seen so many deer as this fall. I got my buck early in the game, and stayed on for the fun of being in camp, although I could do no more hunting, and X believe I saw as many as twelve in my tramp ing about, most of them sleek look ing well-fed does. I believe that next year the hunting will be even better than this season." A man walked into the Central Y. M. C. A. yesterday and asked for Arch H. Dinßmore, secretary for boys' work. 'X want a membership in the"Y" for my boy as a Christmas gift,' he said. Inside of three min utes the card was ready for the boy's stocking. Another man came into the building this morning, applying for renewal of his boy's membership. "I want it as a Christmas gift, too," he said. And Mr. Dinsmore thinks it a good idea. Speaking of the Y. M. •C. A. and its activities, "Doc" Mil ler, the physical director, went on the gym floor the other night to take charge of a class. The floor was so crowded with men that he had to stand in a corner while directing them. "It is a usual occurrence." he said, when a bystander asked about it. * | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j Governor - elect William C. Sproul is an authority upon history of southeastern Pennsylvania. —George P. Donehoo, of Potter county, a member of the State His torical Commission, has given years to study of the Indians of Pennsyl vania. Robert W. Chambers, the novel ist, has delved deep into Indian his tory in Pennsylvania. —Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia, says the new Jewish State In Palestine is to be a great moral force among the nations. —Bainbridge Colby, prominent in national shipping matters, Is to niako addresses In this state upon what are the plans for the future. —Judge Peter A. O'Boyle, of the Luzerne courts, will make the speech at the big Knights of Columbus gath ering next week. r DO YOU KNOW I That narrisburg lias hand- , led more car repairs this year tluiu ever before? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Conestoga wagons used to be parked along the river front below Harris Ferry in the olden days. Chateau Thierry 0 God! liow vast The distance seems to loom 'Twixt these heroic men and me, High Priests of Liberty! Unarmed, but unafraid, Alas! I have no part, J But thrust aside 'iful , <y With lacerated heart, if I i , 1 watch the tide, • j*! ' r - \ Undaunted, undismayed, lit! i- ( Go rushing past, ' "'v 1 Amid volcanic gloom, H Unto their crimson Calvary. To set their brothers free. —Chaplain Thomas F. Ooakley in the Stars and stripes, Franca.
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