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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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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.