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—TINY TIM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1918
AT THE SIGN OF THE
CHRISTMAS TREE
WELL, well, good folks, here
we arc again at the Sign of
the Christmas Tree!
It seems hardly possible, does It,
that twelve months have passed
since last we chanced this way •'
Life is like that; so brief in the
passing, and so long when we look
hack over it and ltvo old days and |
dream old dreams on Christmas:
e Eve-
But the past year lias been so dif
ferent from all others that the path
way across its shifting sands and
changing landscape WIN always,
stand out in our memories above all
othprs. . What a wonderful year it
has been!
Who could have forecasted a year
ago its possibilities!
When last we scraped the snow |
from our boots and doffed our hats I
atHhe Sign of the Christmas Tree a ;
darksome shadow hung over the j
picture of the Manger where the j
Child lay—and so over the lives of ,
all of us. Its shape was' that of the
hateful Hun. The awful fate of j
Belgium and of Northern France j
oppressed our souls. Civilization ,
was in the balance; Christianity,!
with all that Christmas —its natal j
day—meant to us, was at stako; ;
humanity was bearing its cross to '
its Calvary. Years of suffering and j
sacrifice lay ahead, it seemed.
. At Easter the dread portent had
materialized into a threat that none
of us failed to recognize. And then, j
in a flash, almost as a miracle, 1
Something happened—and the rush j
of the Hun was stayed. Americans j
were in the lighting in all earnest- i
ness. From the exhausted hands of j
French and English they had \
p snatched the drooping standards of ;
humanity, and the day was won. j
"Who shall say what Invincible Pres- j
ence led our men from Chateau
Thierry to the Sedan, as they lashed ,
the miscreant Hun even as He tysh- '
ed the money-changers and drove 1
them from the temple?
Who could have foreseen a year j
ago that the President of the United
States would dine this Christmas
with American soldiers on the banks
of the Rhine? What a splendid
prospect it would have been could
we. but have had a vision of it to
brighten our thoughts as we sat
abotit our cheerless hearths twelve
months ago this Eve, grieving for
the Merry Christmases that had
passed, perhaps never to return.
Looking back upon it all it seems
little less wonderful that the Great
Miracle itself. •
And now, with all we dreamed,
and hoped and prayed for come
true, let us enter with thankfulness,
devotion and good cheer into the
joys of the season. Over the Sign
of the Christmas Tree there burns
brightly again the Star, the bril
liancy of which, please God, shall
never again grow dim in the battle
smoke of a world at war; a Star,
the beams of which are radiant
with hospitality, gentleness, kindli
ness and love; and if we listen we
shall hear on the evening air a song
tl\e chorus of which is—
"And on earth peace.
Good will towards men."
Save Just one dollar for the Red
Cross.
JUDGMENT VERIFIED
IWE always thought Technical
High School boys "knew a
■ lot." Now we are sure of It.
I On what grounds do we reach this
1 conclusion? Why, haven't the Tech
students voted the Telegraph the
best newspaper in Harrlsburg? Cer
tainly they did, and if that doesn't
display good Judgment what, we arise
TUESDAY EVENING,
to ask, does? And right here wo de
sire to return the compliment. The
Tech Tatler for December is "some
paper." It is not only a handsome
publication, but it reflects the excel
lent morale, the high tone, the spirit
unci the "pep" that have made the
school known and admired through
out the country. Our congratulations
to its editors.
And now. all together, for the mer
riest of Merry Christmases.
A BORROWED EDITORIAL
SIAI'R we stand upon the threshold
of UN Birthday, let me Introduce
you to the moat nttrotlvc, most de
lightful young man lit the world.
You have never known Hint nx he
really IN: nil the plofure* ever drawn
misrepresent Him. They have utnde
Him out weakling, u womun'N fea
ture* with n beard He Mho for
thirty yearn swung nn„iidx and drove
it saw through henvy timber*, who
for long dnyn tramped the borders of
His loved lake, and would not nlcep
Indoors If He could slip mvny into
Hi* garden.
An outdoor mint He was, n man'*
man who could stand watch when nil
Ids friends deserted Hint In sleep, and
could face the tempest in n little boat
calm-eyed and unafraid.
They hate called Hint n pacifist,
llotv could they forget that day, 1
wonder, when In the midst of the
linrd-faccd crowd. He stood and,
luaiding n little whip, drove thent out
before Hint:
Think you it was only the glance
of righteous anger in Ills eye Ihut
sent them scurrying f I tell you tliut
behind that little whip were muscles
of Iron, made strong by miiny years !
of labor, and u spirit that never once ;
knew fear, not even in the presence '
ot the cross.
I have met men long-faced and 1
sorrowful, wagging their bends bit
terly over the evil of the world, and
ly their very joylcsvnexx adding to
that evil. And in their hearts they
supposed that they were representing
Hint.
Think of It representing Hint, to
whom little children flocked with
joyous laughter and men, beseeching
Him to have dinner with them in
their home*.
You remember the frrxt of Ills
miracles—or perhaps you do not. Too
often those who claim His name have
preferred to forget that miracle. It
does not lit la with the picture of
Hint that they hn\e wrought.
lie was at a wedding party with
Ills mother and some friend* where
the merriment ran high. In the midst
of It they came to Him In conster
nation. The wine had given out.
So He performed Ills first miracle,
.hint to ave a hostess from embur
rassinent mid 11c thought It worth
n miracle. Just to save n group of
simple folk from having tlicir hour
of Joy cut short—it was for such a
cause. He thought, that His divine
power had been intrusted to Him.
Xo ouc ever felt His goodness st
cloud upon the company. Xo one
ever laughed less heartily because lie
lind joined the group. Ill*' was the
gospel of joy fulness: His the message
that the CJod of men would have them
travel happily with llim, a* children
l>y a Father's side, not n* servants
shuffling behind.
They killed Him, of course, in the
end. and sometimes I am almost
glad—glad that He died at thirty
three, with youth still nthroh in His
vein*, and never an illusion lost or an
ideal dimmed by age.
Claim Him, you who are young and
love life; let no man dispute your
claim.
For He too was young, and Is: He
too loved laughter and life.
Old age and the creeds hate had
Iliiti too long: 1 offer llim now to you
not in creed but In truth—Jesus of
.Xa/orcth, the joyous companion, the
young imtu whom young men can
love.—Bruce Ilarton in the December
Hed Hook.
We read an article the other day
written bj a man with u German
sounding name who didn't believe in
ChristmSH. The foolish fellow
thought he was right and the whole
world wrong. We had intended to
call him a hard name. But what's the
use. Bet's all get together and laugh
at him.
GROTESQUE
__HE most grotesque Christmas
I celebration in the whole world
to-morrow will be that in thi*
Dutch castle where the former
1 Kaiser will preside and preach a
[Christmas sermon.
Think of it —this ravager of na
tions, this murderer of millions, this 1
arch fiend, tills hound of hell preach- j
i ing a Christmas sermon!
i No wonder the simple Holland j
peasantry declined to lia\e him in j
their church. No wonder the nobility [
of the land declined the invitation |
!to be present at his yuletide festlvl
| ties.
One thing it shows, that Herr Wil
j helm is Kaiser Wilhelm still—ego
tistic, bombastic and unropentent.
But what a fall of the mighty do
; we witness—Ho who was a year ago
; the Supreme War Lord before whom
j half a world rendered homage as to
| a god, to-day mouthing sacrilege be-
I hue a parcel of kitchen servants, who
I needs must listen because they of
his once mighty hosts alone re
j main for him to command.
| \V<; wouldn't mind a white Chrlst
dius. but the Weather Bureau deliver
i us from a repetition of last year's
I snows.
IThe former Kaiser has requested
that nobody give him Christmas gifts.
! and an exchange thinks this is bo
i cause he believes nobody would, any
way. But we know a lot of folks
who would like to send him neckties.
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By The Ex-Commlttccinan
, A branch post ofllce in the State
Capitol and a central addressing bu
reau where the enormous amount
jof outgoing mail of purely official
I character can be expeditiously
I handled are among projects which
| are being seriously discussed as
I likely to be inaugurated when the
! new state administration takes of
i flee. With the creation of the state
j salary board to readjust the pay of
j attaches now limited by acts and the
I reorganization or tile Department of
j Agriculture and other plans to pro-
I mote business efficiency at the Cap
i itol these propositions may come
I early.
i There is scarcely a department or
; bureau which does not. have its own
! post office box. and mailing depart
| ment with clerks to handle addrcss
. ing machinery and in charge of
| postage and messengers to carry the
I mail to and front the post office.
| This may Recount for the unpopu-
I iavity of the plan to place a post
; office tin the basement of the State
j flouse and to consolidate the ad
dressing end of the business. There
| are a couple of expensive blue
| printing offices and some othpr
branches, of routine affairs which it
is said could also be consolidated
and which have been studied.
—The Philadelphia Evening Led
ger expresses the belief that the
politicians should at least be con
sulted about the.new city charter.
It says editorially: "When it conies
to drafting an act embodying the
principles laid down in those nine
points it may be as difficult a3 to
embody President Wilson's four
teen points in a peace treaty, but
nevertheless the attempt should be
made sincerely, and in good faith
by all the parties in interest, which
means all groups of opinion in the
city."
—Congressman John R. Farr has
attacked the returns from thirty
eight Lackawanna county districts
and the courts will decide the con
tested seat. The Scranton Repub
lican looks for a lively hearing.
—Reading firemen will ask the
Legislature to revise the third class
city law because of a row with
■counellmen over the annual appro
priations for firemen.
—Ways have been cleared for a
review of the legality of the soldiers'
vote last month by the Supreme
Court, when two formal opinions
were filed at Wllkes-Barre, one by
Judge Strauss for the majority of
the Supreme Court, setting forth the
reasons why the vote from six mil
itary camps were counted, and an
other, a minority opinion, by Judge
Fuller, recording a disapproval by
a minority of the court of the ma
jority decision, and giving reasons
why the vote from all military
camps should have been rejected as
irregular and void. The Wilkes-
Barre Record says of the decisions:
"In deciding to count the vote from
the six military camps that were ac
cepted by a majority of the judges,
the controlling opinion bases the
decision on a clause of the act of
18C4 which gives authority to ten
or more soldier voters who arc un
able to attend their companv polls,
to open a poll at such place as they
may select. Judge Fuller, in his
minority opinion, while not formal
ly dissenting, says that the minority
of the court favored the rejection
01 the votes from all the camps, he
cause the six "accepted" returns
were affected with the same fatal
infirmity which caused the rejec
tion of the sixty-seven other re
turns."
The Schuylkill county commis
sioners yesterday re-elected Auditor
General Charles A. Snyder as county
solicitor, a post he has held for
years. He was elected unanimously.
Philip Esrig, the chief of police of
the nourishing metropolis of Taraa
qua, was selected as "mercantile ap
praiser.
—Samuel Patterson has been
chosen the tax gatherer of Greens
burg, one of the best paying offices
in the capital of Westmoreland.
—The Delaware county license
court granted all but one license in
thirty-nine minutes yesterday, es
tablishing a record.
—School directors all over the
state are reorganizing their asso
ciations and indications are getting
strong that they will have some leg
islative committees here.
—Chester, which has been affect
ed by the industrial boom as much
as any place in the state, has an
increase of $17.1,000 estimated for
1910 revenue. The total is given as
about $443,000.
—Tlte Philadelphia Record says
that four till is are being drawn to
take the Philadelphia police out of
politics and also announces that
Mayor Thomas S. Smith has his own
plan for charter revision. ' Mean
while several citizens and commit
tees and one big committee are at
work on a small council plan and all
fussed up over boundaries.
—Pittsburgh is having quite a
time over police protection. The
people of some sections are demand
ing better protection and newspa
pers like the Gazette-Times are in
clined to be insistent about it.
—George A. Cotnerer, the repre-
I sentatlve-elect from Fulton, was
here yesterday visiting the Capitol.
I lie is the first Republican legislator
elect from that county in a long
time and it rather indicates what
1 the people of the county, normally
Democratic, think about the man
l agement of their party.
! —At Scranton yesterday by a vote
j of ten to ten the Lackawanna grand
i jury whitewashed the charges
! against close to 100 residents of Car-
I hondale that they had their names
illegally placed on the registration
! lists so that they might vote at the
j recent election. Twelve votes were
necessary to indict. Two reports
| were presented to court.
Silence at Last
A certain gentleman objected
very much to being talked to by his
barber while he was being shaved.
Ho had not thought of any way of
curing his talkative burber, when
one day a brilliant opportunity arose.
The barber asked him if he could
feel the razor on his face.
"My dear man,' replied the gentle
man. "if you hadn't mentioned it
just now I should never have known
there was a razor qn my face."
"Thank you, sir!" beamed the bar
ber.
The gentleman (continuing)—"l
thought you were using a file."—
Front the Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph.
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Lei lis Get the Ships First
(From the Indianapolis Star. )
The United States Shipping Board,
in its second annual report to Con
gress, recommends that its eon- i
structlon plan, modified • to meet i
peace conditions, be carried out. j
Without going into great detail as to I
contracts and ynrds in which work
is under way, it would seem like
good business judgment to get the
maximum of results out of the
money that has been invested. Large
sums have been expended in the
construction of yards and in assem
bling material and all that should
not be thrown away simply because
the war emergency is past.
A member of the Shipping Board
made an estimate, according to a ]
Philadelphia paper a few weeks
ago. that the government's invest
ment at Hog Island is approximate
ly $180,000,000, which includes the
cost of constructing the great ship
building plant, the material assem
bled and the hulls under construc
tion. He estimated that the entire
lot might be sold to yield the gov
ernment $80,000,000, or a shrink
age of $100,000,000. That money
should not be wasted if it can be
saved by continuation of the pro
gram for construction.
The government has at Hog
Island the greatest shipyard in the
world. Frantically all the prelim
inaries had been made for the pro- ,
duction of ships on a wholesale ba- i
sis. That money has been spent, j
We need ships and should be' able
to build them at Hog Island as
cheaply as anywhere. Therefore,
the plant should be operated, not
junked or permitted to stand idle,
even if we are undecided as to the
future of our merchant marine pol
icy.
Mr. Kinnard's Greeting
[From the Telephone News.]
Well met is this Christmas season
and the termination of the war.
"Peace on earth to men of good
will"—is restored to us.
The men and women of the allies'
great war machines gave peace to
this old world—it is their Christmas
gift to humankind—bought with
their sacrifices.
The power of great physical force
is an awesome thing—the power of
the Christmas spirit a ■ beautiful
thing and forceful. This old world
must be purged of a vast amount of
hate —its place can best be tilled
with Christmas virtues.
My "A Merry Christmas to You"
is meant to carry more than a wish.
I am eager that you may have a
large share of the Christmas happi
ness—the fruit of a victory you' did
you£ full part to achieve. —L. H.
Kinnard, vice-president and general
manager. Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Kinnard is a native of Har
risburg and well-known here.
.4 Sigh of Regret
We are wondering if we shall ever,
ever again gaze on the blue blaze
that plays around the plum pudding
—that is, used to play around.—
Waco (Tcjtas) Times-Herald.
Envy Alligators
"In its natural state, the alligator
eats nothing from September to
May." And the higher eggs and but
ter go, the more we envy alligators.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
LABOR NOTES
Painters and paperhangers in
Wichita Falls (Texas) have been
granted an increase of 10 cent an
hour, which makes their wage scale
for eight hours $0.40.
In France one-third of the employes
in munition factories are women, and
in plants engaged in light mechanical
work women constitute two-thirds of
the total force.
The number of Industrial workers
Injured,in two and one-half years in
Pennsylvania is greater than the
army that either Canada or Pennsyl
vania sent against Germany.
The pivotal industries and the
miners will be the first to be demob
ilized by the British government,
while In the other trades will be mus
tered out in accordance with the na
tional needs.
An Increase from 67 ',4 cents to 83
cents an hour has been granted to
plumbers and steamfttters in Sioux
City. lowa, while othpr branches of
labor have been raised in proportion.
The Yank and the Rifle
THE Germans attempted a big
raid. Well, what had Gen
eral Pershing said about the
rifle? The new Englanders used it
with effect; and when they were
through they and their trench com
rades had completely repulsed the
Germans. This was the great his
torical event for the Twenty-sixth,
until the French took some of them
for something more thrilling than
creeping out at night over the shell
craters in a'patrol to feel of the ene
my's barbed wire which had been
thrilling enough at first. For we are
impatient, ambitiouq people. We
want to go on to new sensations.
The raid was not strictly an Amer
ican one: our detachments went
along with the French and of course
our instructors were worried less it
should not be a succes, for our
sakes. It was d perfect success,
with no American casualties. Twen
ty-two prisoners, including two of
ficers were brought in. • Tell that
to Back Bay and Penobscot! • The
French Staff gave the lieutenants,
who participated a dinner in honor
of their achievement. Brigadiers
who led charges six months later
were not so honored— overything
Child Labor Profits Tax
Philadelphia Ledger.)
Possibly "Hie principle of raising
revenue by a tax on profit. from the
products of child labor may be open
to objection; but the purpose of the
amendment levying a special tax of
10 per cent, on such profits is at
least morally defensible. The im- 1
portance of protecting children
from economic exploitation injuri
ous to their physical and moral wel
fare is beyond dispute; many states
have laws to this end. It was to
make such laws uniform that the
federal child-labor bill was passed—
a measure which was unfortunately
found to be unconstitutional by the
United States Supreme Court.
Whether the new bill meeting the
objections could be drawn or not it
might be difficult to say. But the
attitude of some of the Southern
states on the subject is such tfliat
there seems to be little present hope
of achieving the same end by state
legislation. The amendment to the
revenue bill, which was bitterly op
posed by twelve Southern senators,
is, of course, an attempt to whip the
devil around the stump. The main
argument, against it is similar to the
argument against legislative riders.
It is making a revenue bill the ve
hicle for social legislation. Yet it
is quite possible that there is no con
stitutional obstacle to the use of the
taxing power to discriminate against
profits to which public sentiment as
a whole is antagonistic. As the
Lord Chancellor in lolanthe would
say, "It's a nice point."
Where Could the Kaiser Co?
(From the Binghamton Press.)
The report that the ex-Kaiser has
been requested to leave Holland by
the authorities of that country j
seems entirely probable. And if
such a request were made, it ap
pears certain that William Hohen- .
zollern would refuse to heed it-, j
Where could ho go? Its all very I
well to talk of restoring the emper- !
or to Berlin. But, assuming that j
the revolution is a fake, it must j
endure at least until a peace treaty j
has been signed. The President of j
the United States refused to take up !
the peace question with the iniper-,!
alistic rulers of Germany, so Ger- i
many put them out and installed ;
new rulers. There would be no j
peace for Germany now with the .
Kaiser restored In Berlin. And, if ;
he can't go back to power, what is |
there for him to go back to in Ger- i
many?
Only three doors open for him
out of-Holland. If the door into
Germany is barred, he may walk
into Belgium and take his chances
of being saved from a Belgian mob
by Belgian soldiers, or he may put j
out to sea. In either case he will .
be surrendering to the Allies. Hoi- j
land Is not yet too hot to hold him, I
but anywhere he goes he is likely
to find it hotter..
Germany's Ambitions
Germany, once ambitious to make !
the laws of the world, is now clam- j
oring for permission to make the
[ toys.—From the Washington Star, j
: being relative, as the philosopher
says.
And do not forget the guns. For
the first time the Twenty-sixth's ar
tillery had covered an uttaclc in
practice by their own men. "The
artillery worked well," said the of
ficial reports. Such little tributes
j count when you aro in the line for
the first time after months of train-
I ing. The wise men at American
] Headquarters were saying that, in
view of the way that the Twenty
! sixth repulsed other raids and of the
: way that lieutenant stayed out in
I the shell hole and kept his lieud
I when the Germans laid down a bar
rage, and in view of the conduct of
the Twenty-sixth in general, it
I might prove to be as good a division
as tbe First, while the Forty-second
would have to work hard if it were
to live up to the standard of the
Twenty-sixth.
"What did they think?" said a
down easter from Maine. "That we
would run away at the sight of them
Bushes, that we didn't have brains
enough to learn the rules; that we'd
melt in. the rain? Why, Gosh Al
mighty, we're growed up and got
beards on our chins."—Major Fred
erick Palmer, in "America in
France."
|
The Traitor
"One moment till I've smoked this
clgaret
He said—his back against the bar
rack wall.
I With folded arms and still eyes l
strangely set,
lie puffed it slowly in the sight of i
all.
Their hands upon their rifle stocks,
they saw
The glowing tip and the gray
sntokc ascend;
And as he flicked the ash away with
awe
They looked on him who onco had
been their friend.
His eyes gleamed dark above the
eigaret," 1 J
Till absently he flung the stump
aside,
But if with fear, defiance or regret,!
They never knew who watched
him as he died.
—Winfrid Wilson Gibson, in ' the
New Witness.
ART AM) MEMORIAL
[Philadelphia Bulletin.]
The Governor-elect has informally
suggested that It would be well, if
tr.e Commonwealth were to exorcise
a sort of artistic control over the
statues, monuments and other yne
morlals which will be erected
everywhere in Pennsylvania in honor
of events, heroes and achievements
,of the recent war.
If a body of citizens, possessed of
robust sense, manly taste and culti
vated minds, together with ample
knowledge of the principles and re
quirements of art, could thus be
created, they would be certain to
temper patriotic zeal with sound
judgment and save us from many a
freak, eyesore or abortion.
It is particularly agreeable also to
note the fact that the Governor-elect
i looks upon some useful and con
! spicuous public work as the best
j type of a "War Memorial" and that
ihe contemplates with satisfaction
(the possibility that the great bridge
j across the Delaware, which an ad
j vancing sentiment in both New Jer
[sey and Pennsylvania now earnestly
! favors, would be a finely fitting me
j morial of the war.
Meanwhile the influence of the in
] coming Governor's admonitions may
| be expected to be helpful in preserv
| ing cemeteries, parks, promenades.
| plazas and commons from many of
! the dreadful or the absurd "war
! memorials" which incompetent or
! fanatic artists and greenhorn eorn
! mittees will soon be getting ready
to plan and "create."
A Puzzle (
It is hard to tell whether the'
Germans are more indignant with
j their imperialistic and militaristic
! leaders for not obliterating the Al
j lied governments or for wrecking
! their own fatherland. —Savannah
j News.
Slogan Revised
[From the Kansas City Star]
I The Lawrence Journal-World
j suggests this lardy but appropriate
slogan for Kansas Democrary: "He
i kept us out of Congress." I
DECEMBER 24, 1918.
.4 State Art Commission
Governor-elect Sproul is quite
right in desiring the formation of a
state art commission which shall,
among other tilings, have control of
the erection of all war memorials.
The idea is to invest it with the
right to pass on any and all designs
with plenary powers of rejection and
to supervise construction work.
There is hardly any need of argu
ing for such a plan, sinco the evi
dence is before us. The country is
filled with civil war memorials
which are a tribute to the nation's
gratitude, the industry of stonecut
ters and the lack of artistic ap
preciation at the avcrago county
scat.
Many persons wonder why the
cost of erecting artistic memorials
Is so great. This cost involves many
considerations, and egpecially the
employment of artists. It is difficult
to reproduce in itone or bronze any
thing which is of value, because one
must actually put life or sentiment
into these inert materials. This is
a long and difficult task, but is worth
while.
For more than a ,year a contro
versy has been going on over the
selection of a statue of Lincoln to
be placed in London. The verdict
is finally in favor of the figure of St.
Gaudens, which is one of the most
expressivd things ever accomplish
ed by bronze. The Barnard statue,
which has a certain sort of merit,
has been refused. To have prected
the latter in London would have
been to give the British people an
erroneous idea of the man or the
nation he served so well.
This is a case in point which Penn
sylyonians must remember. If we
are to honor our heroes it must be
done in a way to symbolize and em
blematize the highest of virtues, and
not to satisfy the financial desires of
a contractor.
After all, what better form could
a memorial take than a public build
ing or a bridge?
Pennsylvania Senators
[Lewislturg Saturday News.]
Pennsylvania's two distinguished
United States Senators stood large in
the proceedings of the upper branch
of Congress during recent days. The
wide experience of both in Ameri
can statecraft and knowledge of in
ternational affairs destines Senators
Penroso and Knox to occupy con
spicuous places in the direction of
the nation's destinies during pres
ent months and in immediate future
years. Well may the party to which
these statesmen hold allegiance con
gratulate itself in the presence of
men such as these at the forefront
at such a critical time for the na
tion's institutions. Much that will
be evolved out of this world war will
be installed to endure forever, and
while some changes or modifications
may be made to the great, universal
treaty, it will necessarily be a long
day hence before any change can be
made when the treaty is once ac
cepted pr ratified by the participat
ing nations. Hence the nation's
good fortune in l.iaving now daily 011
the lloor of the Senate two represen
tatives from Pennsylvania, who are
the peers of any now there or who
have heretofore been there, in the
mastery of economic and interna
tional subjects.
Thanks The Telegraph
To the liditor of tli* Tolograph:
As chairman of the committee dn
arrangements for the meeting of
the Synod of Pennsylvania which
has Just ended, I desire to express
to you, and through you to your as
sociates, our warm appreciation of
the kindness shown us by your pa
per.
The prominence given to the synod
by you in your news columns was
most gratifying; the full and accu
rate accounts published were much
appreciated by the commissioners.
We heard it said more than once
that nowhere had the synod re
ceived better treatment from the
local press.
We should like to cull your spe
cial attention to the reporters who
came to secure information. They
were uniformly courteous, intelli
gent and patient.
Thanking you for the help you
gave to make the meeting a success,
and assuring you that your Interest
is thoroughly appreciated, believe
me, yours sincerely.
Ij. S. MI'DGE,
Chairman of the Committee of Ar
rangements.
The Penalty For Evil
Tribulation and anguish, upon
every soul of lrtan that doeth evil,
of the Jew first, and also of the Gen
tile. —Romans ii,9-
fitting CMjat i
While Harrlsburg hag never ha<!
any celebration of Christmas ev!
such as it has In prospect for thii
evening It is interesting to note thai
back in the days when Harrlsburg
was young they used to put uj
Christinas trees in Market Squart
and one time, according to soma
traditions which have come down '
to us, there was a town tree in th
riverside park near Chestnut street
That was back in tho days when
llarrisburg did not extend much
above Walnut street and when tlw
social and business activities of th
young borough were mifinly below
the Square. Old newspapers tell ol
a pleasing custom of people putting
evergreens in front of their houses
in Christmas week, a fashion which
has boon revived in force in the last
half dozen years. Nothing has
come to us about the ceremonies
that attended the town tree, but
there aro some people living who
tell of years when Christmas trees
were placed at the entrances to the
markets. But while the Christmas
tree for tho public has not been
made much of except within the
last few years tho custom of singing
on Christmas eve has been followed
in llarrisburg' from the early days.
The Oracle of Dauphin and its
various sons and daughters iff jour
nalism in llarrisburg con.taiii ref
erences to bands of. carolers going
about singing and expressing t"he ap
preciation of ye editors and their
families at the early morning
serenades. There are also articles
in mention of the music of hands
ushering in Christmas day and old
tiles of the Harrlsburg Telegraph
toll of the sweet notes of Zlon
Lutheran chimes at dawn of Christ
mas morning.
Some of the scenes at Union Sta
tion are quite in marked contrast to
those of a year ago. Then there
was the rush of men in khaki on
their way to the seacoast to go over
seas and men just drafted hustling
to camps and meeting In llarrisburg
with men who proud in their first
uniforms were home for a few days'
furlough at Christmas time. Yes
terday and to-day there seemed to
be more soldiers than ever about
the stations and they had the col
lege hoys and girls, who generally
monopolize things at this time faded
entirely as attractions. But there
were also some trains filled with
soldiers who won far more attention
than the men stalking about in the
crowds. They wcro wounded men
on, their way home for the great
holiday of the Christian world.
Some of them had just been landed,
some from hospitals where they hail
been undergoing treatment and ,
others were "discharged, fured."
There were carloads of them to be
seen at Union station yesterday and
they were all cheerful, far more so
than the bulk of the people who
saw them and all happy at the pros
pect of getting home. The numer
ous wounded men, made many a
resident of llarrisburg, which has
so many hundreds of its sons in the
Army and Navy, glad that it was
all over.
• * •
For a long time a certain bank in
llarrisburg has been trying to gi*
William Jennings, president of the
Dauphin County Council of National
Defense and of a couple of banks
as well as a man who stands mighty
high in the estimation of the com
munity, to take some money that i
was coming to him. Mr. Jennings
said he never could find the proper
paper. The story is that In the sum
mer time of 1879 William Jennings
was offered some money by his
father, the late Col. W. W. Jennings,
If lie would do something. Mr.
Jennings not only made good at the
early time, but in gathering in tha
money offered by the colonel he
annexed some additional cash in
the way of donations from his
grandmother and possibly other rel
atives and displayed ten dollars.
On September 20, 1879, a deposit on
interest was made for the aforesaid
son. The story goes that it was at *
four ]>er Cent, interest, but that is
an. unheard of thing in this day and
generation and no one will admit it.
As it was not either of Mr. Jennings'
banks lint paid it there is no need
to mention it, either. But the story
goes that tho deposit was made out
to "Master William Jennings." He
forgot it and one day the bank
found it. They asked him to coma
and get it. He did not have the dc
posit certificate and while they were
willing to run any risks on Identi
fying "Master Jennings' 'things had
to be regular. It was only the other •
day that he found the certilicato and
the last of the four per cents is go
ing to disappear one of these days.
* * *
The manner in which the filling
in of the lines of the proposed high. '
ways through Capitol park exten
sion is being pushed is worth watch,
ing. People who have not studied
tho plans for the improvement of ths
state's park will be surprised when
they note the height which is at
tained in tho preparations for the
new streets. Jt means that the
whole area to the railroads will be
made almost on a line with the pres.
ent Capitol park and this must be
attained before the planting of the
oaks to border the Mall can be
started. At the present rate things
will be in shape next autumn foi
some tree planting ceremonies thai
wil be worth while.
f
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—C. J. Ttoads, formerly prominent
in Philadelphia banking,!is directing
welfdre work for the army it
Switzerland.
—W. K. Thomas, of the /Cata
sauqua Iron family, is taking ai
active part in, the establishment ol
a community house for the soldiers
—Albert Davis, senator-ilect from "*
Seranton, is to be given a dinner l>j
lOU'friends 011 the day he takes hit
scat.
—C. L. S Tinglcy, of Philadelphia
who was hero yesterday, is head o:
a number of Pennsylvania tiollej
lines.
—Ci W. Eaby, well known here **
was the head and front of the rol
of honor movement in. Lancaster.
—Bishop J. F. Berry, of Philn.
delphia, is against the system o:
"calls" for ministers in the Mctlm
dint Church.
[" DQYOUKNO^
—That llarrisburg lias sent a
good many cakes to the soldiers'
camps in this country, this
week ?
HISTORIC lIARRISBURG
—ii was one of tho customs o>
John Harris to give Indians i p
square mi. * they came to his homt
on Christnnß