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It is the heart and not the brain
That to the highest doth attain.
—Longfellow.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918
SNYDER'S WISE COURSE
AUDITOR General Bnyder is
quoted by a Philadelphia news
paper as having decided opin
ions regarding the location of State
offices outside of Harrisburg. He be
lieves that the personal conveni
enco of temporary officials should
I have nothing whatever to do with
the location of their offices. He also
believes that the State should not be
at the expense of maintaining quar
ters for such officials outside the cap
ital of'the Commonwealth. The Audi
tor General is extremely practical in
all his views and Is determined, so far
as he is able, to bring about the con
centration of ail State officials here.
While hg is about it he might also
undertake, at the approaching ses
.. sijon of the Legislature, to fix and de
. termine the permanent location of
the Supreme Court. As the highest
tribunal in the Commonwealth there
is no longer any occasion for this
body to coptinqe its peripatetic ram
blings from one end of the State to
the other. As the court of last resort
it should occupy its dignified and
spacious quarters in the Capitol. It
is known that Chief Justice Brown
and others of his distinguished asso
ciates favor permanent sittings of
the court here. ,
There might ftave been reason j
years ago—when transportation was
more difficult and when Harrisburg
was less able to provide proper ac
commodations —for the justices to
maintain their sittings more or less ]
permanently in Philadelphia, but (
that day is past and we believe Gov
ernor Sproul will be of the same opin- j
ion as Auditor General Snyder In
.his matter of bringing about without
further ado the concentration of the
State government in all Its functions
here on the Susquehanna.
It is reassuring to note the inter
est of the Auditor General and other
I officials in concentrating the author-
lty of the State where It belongs,
Harrisburg Is now preparing to con
solidate and concentrate its official
life In one dignified and proper build
ing and the State can with propriety
In this reconstruction period prepare
for the same thing.
Harrisburg is watching with genu
ine approval the various steps in the
co-operation of the city with the
State regarding the development of
the Capitol Park area and the abut
ting streets. Also, tho people will vote 1
with special enthusiasm to transfer <
the loan appropriation for a proposed
bridge at Walnut street to the gbeat
monumental viaduct at State street.
Harrisburg Is in step with the Com
monwealth. and will Join In every
proper way.
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SHORT AND BUSY
IT is a matter of general gratifica- !
tion to the people of the State
to lcorn that tho commissions
charged with codifying certain
classes of Pennsylvania law and with
investigating for purposes of leg- !
lsiation sucls matters as health in- '
euranee, old age pensions and the i
like, have their work well In hand j
and will Introduce bills promptly in
the next Legislature. And it is a 1
matter of pleasure to note that sen- <
timent in favor of adjourning the <
session the middle of April is grow- 1
lng. It seems to be generally real- <
ized that the new administration i
will have a program, not theories, i
and that enactments to improve con- 1
dl lions instead of political standing, i
can be expected. 1
The last three Legislatures were <
long. The members themselves i
were tired or them. Some men re- i
fused to return week after week, i
feeling that meeting for two daysii
L and adjourning simply because i
k there was no sailing chart and that i
i everything wai viewed from a Fhlla- <
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MONDAY EVENING, RARRISBURO TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 30, 1918.
delphia political angle, was wore#
than a waste of time. Valuable
time which could have been de
voted to legislation wae loet In bick
ering and when the wind-up period
came It wae wearying on members
and officials, to say nothing of the
public which paid the bllla.
This year both branches of the
Legislature will start off without the
contests over presiding officers which
marked the last two sessions; tho
Governor will be one of the most ex
perienced of legislators; the needs
of the hour will have been thought
out and the bills prepared. Although
the perennial Philadelphia fight ie
going to crop up, the chances are
that a date will be set for adjourn- i
ment and a business session be held, i
iThe State wants It short and active, j
I
FUTURE OF OUR SCHOOLS j
ARGE issues and questions of j
vital importance to the country
press for discussion and de- |
jclslon at the annual convention
of the Pennsylvania educators In
Harrisburg this week. The war has
given us new light on the subject of ,
early schooling. We have seen tho ;
German government drive millions I
of its subjects blood-mad through |
the means ot a debauched educa-1
tional system, designed to turn out j
soldiers instead of citizens. We have '
come to a new understanding of i
what the schoolroom may be made j
to be in the life of, the nation.
It is as easy to train our children |
for high and noble service as it was :
for Germany to turn hers into paths
of treachery, selfishness and final de
feat. /
"In this hour America is great of
purpose, noble and unselfish in
ideals," says Margaret Slattery, in !
her admirable book, "The Second |
Line of Defense." "Her passion is j
demorcacy an even greater dem- |
ocracy than she herself has known, |
for all the struggling world. Her
first line of defense dies for it. Will
she train her second line of defense
to live for it? Home and school and
church must answer, and any stu
dent of American, child life knows
that they should. answer at once,
and as a unit, for childhood is an
easy prey."
We have, been so wrapt up in j
means and methods that we too
often have lost sight of funda
mentals. First and foremost, it is
the Muty of the school to develop j
good citizenship. After that the rest ,
is easy, for the good citizen is not J
only a bulwark of society, but his j :
own best friend as well. The good j;
citizen is a producer, not a waster;
he is ambitious for himself and his '
children; he is progressive, unselfish •
and honest. Our schools are a long ]
way from perfection in this respect.
To put them thoroughly In accord i|
with popular thought on the subject j,
la the duty of those who direct them
and much more than a week of dis- -
cussion might be given to it and
relating subjects. |j
THE ROTARY CLUB
THE keynote of Ed. S. Herman's !'
address before the Rotary Club !j
to-day, in which he reviewed !<
the organization's activities for the | 1
year, was "unselfish service." In |"
all of Us enterprises, Mr. Herman j
pointed out, the club has acted for (j
the benefit of the community. It j'
has given lts effort and Its money I 1
for the public welfare, and so has
come to be favorably known as a j]
levening force for good in the life t s
of tho city. If there is anything in!,
the motto of the organization—He Jj
profits most who serves best—the;i
Rotary Club may look forward con- I"
fidently to an extremely prosperous J
Now Year. j
GET IT OVER SOON j
IT is to be hoped that the Legis
ature. as lias been forecasted, will j
vote on the prohibition amend-
ment early In February. There can !<
bo no excuse for making this issue j (
a political football this session. It ij
is a non-partisan question and In its ! (
consideration there should be noth- Jl
lng of partisan politics—none of the j'
"you - vote - for-thls-and-I'll-vote
for-that" tactics such as are bound |,
to find their way into the consider- j;
ation of legislation in the crowed
days toward the end of the session, j
Let us get the prohibition matter .
settled as soon as possible. Nobody i
can say positively Just how the vote 1
will be. although the prospects are i
better for a favorable decision now|>
than just after the election. The|i
fact that enough states will pass |1
the amendment to make it part of < f
tho constitution, no matter what j
Pennsylvania may do, may have il
some bearing on the situation, al- j ]
though Just what this may be will ij
depend largely upon the way the i,
first ten or twelve states to vote In !<
January go.
NO SWINDLING HERE h
PHILADELPHIA is bewailing its
annual Christmas club swindle.'!
Philadelphia doesn't know as i
much about conducting Christmas;'
clubs as does Harrisburg. In this ,
city we operate saving organizations ]
through our banks. When the end I
of the year rolls around tho checks
are forthcoming in a flood that al
most swamps the shopping centers.
Philadelphia entrusts its money to
individuals chiefly engaged In the
lucrative practice of feathering their
own nests. Christmas savings clubs
are * blessing where properly con
ducted by banks or by mutual agree
ment among the employes of Individ
ual stores or industries, but the man
who entrusts his money to an Ir
responsible individual is taking long
chances of losing it
T>otaxc* tK . *
fIK MAfCtfUuQ,
i | Bp the Kx-Committeemen !
Every Indication Is that the Legls
-1 future ot 1919 will be in full running
order and business be going on at a
more advanced stage than known for
a long time by the first of February. ,
jThe feeling here Is that April 21 will
be selected as the time for the ad
journment and that It will be fixed
promptly and an effort made to get
all of the bills in hand by the first
' jof March.
j In addition to various bills for
{reorganization of the Department of
(Agriculture ai\d other departmental
.activities which the now state ad
imlntstratlon may have it is believed j
.that the various commissions in
(charge of legislative studies will have
j their bills prepared early. Some
are now being drafted and a couple
(of codes will he reported In February, j
| The Capitol is undergoing its us
ual cleanup In advance of the ses
sion and every apartment devoted to
legislative use is being overhauled
and put into good order, while tons
|of supplies are ready to distribute.
;A number of bureaus which have oc
cupied committee rooms are being
(moved up to the attic or to outside
: buildings. The legislative halls have
I been in the hands of a clean-up force
[for weeks and everything has been
,polished and refurnished for the
(opening of the 1919 deliberations.
I —Governor-elect Sproul is getting
{invitations to speak at a rate of two
jor three a day. He will make few
; speeches before his inauguration,
! say his friends.
I —Speaking at Philadelphia to a j
.Public Ledger man, Senator Penrose j
said he knew of no opposition to the ;
jcandidacy of Mr. Spangler. a*nd that I
the latter axpected little trouble. "Mr. j
Spangler met many politicians while j
in the city yesterday," says the;
Ledger, "and he received universal ■
pledges of support. He is favorably'
considered by Senator Sproul, anil I
having been elected to the House on I
[a pledge to support the national pro- I
'hibition amendment, the dry forces
(throughout the state undoubtedly j
j will support him. Ho has indorsed
|the chief planks in the Sproul plat
jform, and being acceptable to the
iGovernor-elect, he undoubtedly will
receive the support of the Vares.
There seems to be little doubt of his
election as Speaker at the Republican
caucus January 6."
—John Durkan, head of the Scran
ton Protective Association, may be a
candidate for mayor of Scranton.
—A Media dispatch to the Phila
delphia Press says: "It is evident
that Governor-elect Sproul is anxious !
jto give Pennsylvania the best and j
most efficient administration in its j
history. He has shown by the ap
pointment of his Cabinet that he is
going to surround himself by men
;who are well trained in the business
(world. Therefore, it is likely Senator
I Sproul is desirous that his successor
[shall be a big broad-minded business
jman, who will reflect credit on little
(Delaware county. Two names have
been prominetly mentioned—John P.
Crozer, the millionaire Ynanufacturer ,
and philanthropist, of Upland, and |
T. W. Allison, of Ridley Park. The
latter is a big manufacturer."
—At least 1,000 Delaware county
(men are coming for the inauguration.
The York and State College cadets
i may also be here.
—The Delaware county tax rate
has been cut from four and one-half
to four mills.
—John Jones, a Wilkes-Barre min
ing engineer has been engaged by
(AVilkes-Barre council to make sur
| veys of coal lands within the city
I limits In preparation for any legal
;battle Jhe mining corporations mav
iwage. It 1b understood the com- <
(panies are planning to carry Into
■ court their complaint of a too high
taxation, based on the last triennial
| assessment".
| —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
(indulges in this shot. "Interest in
■ Creel's resignation is no sign of pub
jlic regret at his going."
—Some of the Democratic legis
lators are said to feel that it would
[hardly be worth while to put up a <
[slate for the Democrats in the House, i
—The Wilkes-Barre Record says
I "It is good of the Democratic major
lityIity to let the people know how much
in taxes they will have to pay in
11920, but the Incoming Republican
majority will reserve the right to re
duce the taxes wherever possible, and :
it is not unlikely that It will be pos
sible when Republican retrenchment
is mado effective."
—Whether or not Major E. Lowry
Humes, -former United States dis
trict attorney for Western Pennsyl
vania and former legislator, and now
on the staff of the Judge Advocate
[General, will return to his old posi
tion as Federal prosecutor, is a mat
ter entirely in the hands of Attorney
General T. W. Gregory, declared
Major Humes. In Pittsburgh. Fol
lowing Major Humes' resignation as
United Stales district attorney to en
ter the army as a major on the staff
of the Judge Advocate General.
Judge C. P. Orr and Judge W. H. S.
Thomson of the United States Dis
trict Court, appointed former Judge
R. L. Crawford acting United States
attorney. No permanent appoint
ment to the place has been sent to
the Senate by the President.
—The Philadelphia Record says:
"It is gratifying to note that Gover
nor-elect Sproul,- in discussing the 1
plans of his administration, shows a
special desire to further the inter
ests of the farmer. There is ho hiore
beautiful agricultural territory in the
[United States than Southeastern
[Pennsylvania. Many other sections
of the Commonwealth have been
equally productive. It would be ab
'surd, however, to claim that In all
[cases the best results have been at
tained and that there Is no room for
[improvement. The experience ot
other countries shows thht American
{farmers, hard-headed and practical
■as they are, tun learn much from
thern. If the new Governor can in
troduce new ideas and advanced
methods of agriculture he will be
[doing a great work. With beffter
-roads and better farms the food
.question will become less of a prob
lem for the future."
|
LABOR NOTES
Great Britain's demobilisation plans
Include money grants to civilians and
ex-soldlera who are unemployed ow
ing to peace.
The recognition of organized labor
In Jackson, Miss., is proving a big
ractlr In the adjustment of wages in
that territory.
Realizing the benefits derived from
organization, colored railroad shop
helpers, ear cleaners, etc.. In San
Antonio, Texas, have perfected a
union.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS
; THE NATIONAL GUARD
(Philadelphia Press.)
I Now we have a ruling by the
| Judge Advocate General that the
[Gqardman's discharge from the
militia on being drifted into Federal
service is perpetual and not merely
for the emergency and that when
the Federal Government is done
with them they are as other dis
charged soldiers and have no status
as National Guardsmen.
This looks more like the annihila
tion of the National Guard than its
temporary dall Into Federal service
to meet an emergency. There is no
indication on record that Congress
In passing the law for the complete
Federalization of the National Guard
intended the effects of Federaliza
tion to operate beyond the emerg
ency and the discharge of the Guards
men from Federal service. An
earlier decision of the Judge Advo
cate General held that when tho
Guardsmen are mustered out of the
Federal service they would revert to
their militia status and to their
status in tho National Guaj-d. This
is a sensible ruling and ought not
to be disturbed. As far as the sol
dier is concerned there is no dif
ference between an honorable dis
charge and being mustered out of
service. The Guardsmen of Penn
sylvania are enlisted lor three years.
Under the State National Guard Act
of 1917, they are enlisted for three
years as active Guardsmen and three
years in the National Guard Reserve.
They were sworn to give this six
years' service to the state. Before
they could complete this obligation
they were taken into the Federal
service "having in view," so the
President said, "the danger of ag
gression by a foreign enemy upon
the territory of the United States."
That danger is over. The term of
most of the State Guardsmen has
not yet expired. They are through
with tho Federal service vhen dis
charged from it, but there still re
mains their obligation under this
state enlistment as militia of the
Commonwealth to hold themselves
in readiness to repel invasion or in
surrection in their state and put
down tumult, riot or mob. Many ot
them belong to regiments which
have a long and honorable history
of public service and they should
not be forcibly dissevered from
them by a technical and unreason
able construction of a statute that
was never Intended to have any such
effect.
It is a case where Congress should
intervene to prevent the annihilation
bf the National Guard even tempor
arily. If General Ansell's ruling had
ueen In effect when the National
Guard came back from service on
the Mexioan border its members
would have become civilians and
when wanted for the German war
there would have been very little
National Guard In- existence. Off
course a new army law has been
enacted since then but the destruc
tion of the National Guard was
never one of its objects.
1 BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
In view of the fact that the Lon
don Saturday Review . has been,
formerly, not very pro-American in
matters literary and political, the
confidence It Is professing in our
Imaglst poets Is most gratifying.
Perhaps the recent setting-together
of America and the Allies has
caused a new capacity for sym
pathy and understanding of Ameri
can "ultraism" among tho foreign
literateurs. "Vividness, vitality, and
concentration, beauty and original
ity of expression, may be looked for
In the work of Amy Lowell, 'H. D.,'
and John Gould Fletcher," writes a
critic In the Saturday Review.
"What have we to put beside their
strength, the audacity of their rich
ness. but an apathy of out-worn tra
dition, some expression of a past we
so imperfectly explore?" A three
volume imaglst anthology published
by Houghton Mifflin Company em
braces the most important Imaglst
poetry In AmerV>-
Met Penbrook Boy in France
T' HE odd manner in which men i
from the same communities
j bump into each other while on
[duty in France is illustrated in let- i
[ters received here from Ensign
•George A. Bacon, of the United States
I navy, to his mother, Mrs. Harry
[ Bacon, of this city. Ensign Bacon ts
a nephew of George A. Shreiner, Sup
lerintendent of Public Grounds and
[Buildings, and haf been' on foreign
[duty during the Avar. In writing
i from a French port he says that rc- ,
cently while taking a walk "I noticed
la soldier riding a motorcycle and
llookfrig me over pretty closely. When
II looked at him, he stopped, slid off
ithe seat, walked over to me and
saluted and said "Sir, are you Mr.
iGeorge Bacon, of Harrisburg?" I re
plied that I was and then he said
("Do you recognize me?" I looked
[him over but for the life of me I
Icould not place him just then. He
'said "I am George Wolf, of Penbrook,
you remember the baker's son?" He
told Ensign that Joe Novinger
[was at the same^amp.
[ In his letter Ensign Bacon tells j
'a good story of colored soldiers. One
[day a colored soldier approached him
■ and asked.
j "Ig you de paymaster of dis yere
ship,~sah?"
j. When told that he was the colored
[soldier said "Has you got any Abe
; Lincolf money to trade for dis yere
['frog money?'"
I "You mean do I have any Ameri
jcan money to exchange for French?"
| "Yes sah, you understands me per
fectly."
j "What do you want with American j
[money? You can spend your French i
'money wiUiout exchanging it."
j "No sah, I doesn't intend to get de
Abe Lincoln money exchanged. You
see. Boss, us fellows runs a little crap
igame and it sure am hard to shoot
Curiosity That Hurts
(From the New York Tribune.)
The Red Cross nurse in the army
service who pleaded with the public
not to stare at our wounded soldiers
gave a needed hint that it is worth
stressing. It is Instinctive human
nature to turn and eye any strange I
looking human being. Anybody who
has ever been temporarily lamed of
injured so as to display a queer limp
i or a conspicuous bandage can tes
tify to the morbid interest such af
fliction arouses. Ordinarily we do
not realize that thiß human fading
exists. We do not notice it in our
selves or others when the object is
some one else. But let the staring ]
curious circle of eyes be focused on !
ourselves and the sensation will
never be forgotten.
It is not so much a lack of sensi
bility that permits such staring as a
I lack of imagination. The starer
does not realize what acute discom
fort he is causing. That is why the
> warning with respect to our soldiers
1 is so valuable and timely. Try to
' put yourself in a maimed man's
' place. He wants your admiration
and respect and a certain degree of
' sympathy, yes. But he wants even
' more to feel that he is a regular
human being like everybody else,
■ able to work and play with the
i crowd. Such Is the right and true
i point of view, as all our "carry on"
programs of physical and mental
reconstruction hold and Inculcate.
To look at htm as a thing peculiar
and awful, or even gravely different
is to attack the whole basis of his
future. He is quite right to resent
Let us all remember this. Let us
cherish our wounded men, year by
year. Let us do everything we can
in small acts of courtesy and large.
But let us make it clear that our
fundamental feeling is, as it should
be, honor, not pity.
icraps wif dis 'frog money.' It con
fuses."
! Ensign Bacon says that a band
marches the colored men on duty at
the ports to and from their work and
that officers have found that since
they have music the efficiency of
the men is improved.
| The German prisoners, he writes,
are very jealous of their privileges
and he says that'they were given duty
when a man escaped and when he
was returned "His fellow prisoners
killed him, simply kicked him to
death because he had caused them
{extra qfuty.
The letter writer says that he is
much impressed by the cheerfulness
of the French in spite of their losses
and the smile that they keep al
though many of them are ruined and
all seem to have lost some one near
and dear to them during the war.
He is strong for the French cooks,
whom, he says, turn ant fine meals
in spite of shortages offood and sub
stitutes and their war bread is as
good as ordinary bread' at home.
The American system impresses the
French and the German prisoners
salute every American officer far
mere willingly than any other.
. Ensign Bacon writes entertaining
ly about the men who have been on
the ships he has been assigned to,
especially* when they get seasick. He
says one man, a veterinary officer
from Kansas kept a force of deck
hands busy with brooms and buckets
because he refused to diet and finally
declared that all he wanted to see
jws a tree. He says that the quar
termaster owes him thirty packs of
cigarcts because the time he selected
to play pinochle was when the quar
termaster was seasick.
| A dog which will take commands
(only in French is declared by Ensign
Bacon to furnish much of the enter
tainment for the officers' mess. He
is also forlorn and when he finds
any one asleep he believes lie has
been killed and howls a requiem.
Labor Reconstruction
(From the New York Times.) *
The readjustment of labor seems
to be proceeding more smoothly and
quickly than many have feared. The
Federal Director of the United
States Employment Service for this
I state, Henry Bruere, says that not 5
per cent, of the war workers re
leased from war industries lack
work. For the last week 15,251
registered for work and were offered
19,000 Jobs. Three-fourths of the
returning soldiers are placed within
a fortnight of their return. One ex
ample is that of the Remington
| arms plant at llion. Monday
j It shut down on war Work, and an
nounced that it would start on
sporting goods next week. The plant
employs 18,000 men. At the great
munitions centre, Bridgeport, the
Remington Cartridge Company stop
ped at the same time, and asked all
its old employes to report the day
after New Year's for preference in
re-employment.
The reports from Washington are
better yet. Telegraphic reports from
forty-nine states say that thero are
vacancies for seven times more men
than women workers, and that there
are more Jobs than workers. During
tho week 132,798 asked for work,
and there were 273,636 calls for
workers. The department offered
employment to all nsking, and em
ployers accepted 94,020. It Is true
that the cantonments discharged
rnoro men than there were Jobs
available, but 50,000 of the dis
charged men placed themselves,
and there was an actual shortage.
Tho survey of the Mechanics' As
sociation resembles the Federal re
ports: "In some cases there Is an
actual shortage of labor of all kinds,
while in other cases there is simply
a shortage of skilled labor, or even
, a surplus."
The Return of Nicholas
(From the N. Y, Sun]
A Polish officer returning to War
saw from the Crimea saye the former
dowager Empress of Russia, how llv
ln at Ltvadla, has been receiving
regularly letters from her son, the
former Czar Nicholas 11. A corre- ,
spondent who went to Ekaterinburg
to investigate the Bolshevik report j
of the execution of Nicholas says
that ho found (he house where tho
Romanoff family had lived, the place ]
where they are supposed to have (
been killed, had even examined tho 1
bullet holes In the wall, but had riot I
found either their burial place or any .
one who could definitely, say that '
they had boen executed. There Is
mystery enough In the disappearance I
of the former Russian ruler to give ,
him a place In that strange border- .
land between life and death whence ]
men never return, yet never die.
Not long ago Mrs. Parker, sister!
of Lord Kitchener, expressed the be- |
lief that her brother was still alive
and would return. A London news- i
paper commenting upon this said
that it was a curious fact that there
■wero many persons in England who
held tho same belief despite the offi
cial report of Lord Kitchener's death j
off tho Scottish coast.-
• Yuan Shih-k'al, who asked only |
to rest In the tombs of his ancestors.
Is found now and then, a sad and
silent old man, wandering in sorao
foreign Chinese quarter. A return
ing traveler reports that Gonieral
Gordon rules a negro kindom in the
heart of Africa. "John Orth" w&s
a shoemaker in Denver, an iron
worker in Ohio, a cattleman on the
Argentine pampas, before the courts
of Vienna declared that Archd#ke
John Salvator was officially dead.
He would then have been almost a [
hundred, longer lived than any other ,
Austrian Archduke.
But in what guise is the Czar to|
return to us? He must eventually
come to America; these shadows al
ways cross the sea. Ney |
reappeared as the Carolina school
teacher, the Dauphin of France as
the Indian missionary Eleazar Will
iams. Are we to see a Nicholas in ;
every Russian coffee house plotting. (
always plotting his return to the
throne of the Czar, or shall we find
him In every whiskered, medium'
sized, sad and silent man of the East
Side? Even the Bolshevik report,
gave a degree of nobility to his last ■
days and a glamor of chivalry to
his death. Why not s let him rest
thus instead of sending him out to '
Join the great and inconspicuous
company of kings in extler
"Wave of Moral Force"
(New York Evening Telegram.)
Accorded the high but not unex
pected nor undeserved honor of a
degree from the Sorbonne as "Wil
son the Righteous," the President,
not unnaturally, in reply touched
upon his aims.
"My conception of the league of
nations Is just this: —That It shall
operate as the organized moral
force of men throughout tho world,
and that wherever wrong and ag
gression are planned or contemplat
ed, this searching light of conscience
will be turned upon them, and men
everywhere will ask :'What are tho
purposes that you hold in your
heart against the fortunes of the
world?' "
We confess the President has not
yet made himself clear to the ordi
nary man in the street as to just
what his conceptions are.
Far more to tho point is the lan
guage of Senator Lodge, who wants
Germany punished. the United
States to share In Indemnities; the
Senate, which must ratify any
treaty, to resent being snubbed;
peace to be made first, freedom of
the seas and league of nations to be
taken tip later.
Nobody can misunderstand this.
Nor can it be told "what are the pur
poses you hold In your heart against
the fortunes of the world" unless
you speak plainly.
Maybe Mr. Creel is making a mess
of sending out the President's re
marks.
Mr. Wilson says further that
"There is a great wave of moral
force moving through the world,
and every man who opposes himself
to that wave will go down in dis
grace."
We can only hope the great wave
of morul force is not antagonistic to
frank expression. There is a great
difference between talking about
open covenants and living up to
them.
COURTESY PAYS
"I am just finding out the big rea
son for the success of certain busi
ness men," remarked a "cub" re
porter of Los Angeles. "In one word
it is courtesy. As a rule the big man
that I go to for information is the
very soul of kindness. Sometimes I
have asked very simple questions of
clerks and office boys and have been
insulted for my pains, but I have
seldom been rebuffed by a clerk's
employer, even when I have asked
apparently embarrassing questions.
"I do not think' this is because
clerks and office boys are at heart
any worse than their employers, but
it is probably because the latter,
having had more experience, have
learned that it Is good business, as
well as a source of great satisfaction,
to be polite."
The "cub" is right. Moreover,
courtesy in'the office boy is a mighty
good start toward the position oc
cupied by his boss.—Los Angeles
Times.
SALUTE
[From Life]
Another song for the brave old Flag,
As full-staff-high it flies,
Whether a shot-torn, smoke-grlmmcd
rag
Or bright as the wintry skies.
Wo watch from the slips as the
transport ships
Come plunging through the foam,
And mothers and dads hail the glori
ous lads
That bring the old Flag home.
They bore It away In the morn's
dim li>ht.
With never a good-by cheer,
For they stole to sea like a thief in
the night
Lest the Hun of their course should
hear.
But now In the breeze o'er the ran
somed seas
The proud ships make their track,
And the sirens sing and tlfb great
bells ring -
AS they bring the old Flag back.
There are stripes more red where
our heroes bled;
Their memory gilds the stars;
But thanks we give for the lads that
live,
For the "doughboys" and the tars.
Oh, let them l>rßg pf their wcllr
served Flag
Wherever their glad feet roam!
And let none be mute in the high
salute
As they bring "Old, Glory" home.
! —Edward A. Church.
| lEmtutg (Eljat
Conrad Welser and Shlktlllmy, to
whom Is dedicated tho fountain
which was located In the River
, l'urk Just below Murkct street .until
I tho city fathers sent It away for
! some repairs and seem to have for.
j gotten tho place, were two of the
big figures In the history of tho
I lower Susquehanna and It W re
; grcttable that even the small me
morial provided by the will of the >
late William A. Kelker should not
bo given better consideration In this
, city where Welser held Important
conferences for the pacification of
the colony. As records of Colonial M
i times coino to light these figures •
| assume a place in Pennsylvania his
j tory which is deserving of far more
recognition than ever bestowed. It
| was Woiscr who prevented worse
horrors in tho French and Indian
war and it was the Indian chief
who helped him. Weiser lived in
Berks county and Shikillimy at Sha
mokin. Both were friends of John
l Harris and labored with him to
! keep things quiet along the river.
' There is no record of any formal 4
visit paid to Harris' Ferry by tho
Indian chief, but lie is much men
tioned in Harris' letters and was
hero many times on trading trips,
probably a couple of times a year
and the presents sent to him Just
before he died in 1749 are said to
have been sent from the Ferry.
Conrad Weiser averted famine
among the Indians in 1755 by a dis
tribution of food and presents with
Harris Ferry as the center, a facf,
which made much stir in Colonial
! records of the time. He was fre
j quently in conference with John '
i Harris in his mansion in South Front
street and the influence he had with
file Indians, much of it througkl
Shikillimy was very strong. One of
the interesting stories told is that
Shikillimy prevented Maryland from
claiming a good part of what is now
j the southern tier of counties by re- *
| fusing to sign an Indian deed. Wei
| ser was made a colonel for his sen.
! vices, but neither he, nor the Indian
j were ever given sufficient rocognt.
I tion for what they did for tho peo
ple of the lower Susquehanna valley,
i And it Is all the more reason thas
1 the sole memorial to those twu
giants of Colonial days In Pennsyl
vania should be put lack where it
■ belcyigs and not be given tho treat
ment accorded to the Donato statu
ary which seems to bo appreciated t
more in other places than the city
to which it was given.
• • *
In this connection there is an in
teresting story about Weiser and
Shikillimy and the Isle of Quo
where a number of Harrisburgere
have gone annually to camp. This
island is well known to many living
In tills city and it has un odd name,
a queer configuration and some his
tory as well as a line location. Shikil
limy, who owned most of Northum
berland county, or at least deeded a
good bit of it, owned this Island. .
Weiser liked it and what happened 4
showed that In spite of their friend
ship llie two were pretty sharp.
Joseph S. Walton, who wrote a life
of Weiser says that one day the In
dian, according to a rumor started
by enemies of Weiser, told Conrad
that he had (Jreamed that Weiser
had given him a rifle. Weiser had
a fine gun in his hands and at once
told the Indian that his dream was
true. Then says Walton, "Some
days later Weiser had his dream. a
He fook it to the old chief, saying,
'I dreamed that Shikillimy presented
me vit.h the large and beautiful is- a
land nestled in the Susquehanna
river.' The chief, we are told, deedefl 1
over the land and then said, 'Conrad,
let us never dream again."
•
Plans for the visit of the Cham
ber of Commerce to the Army's Re
serve aviation depot at Middletown
to-night call to mind the fact that
Middletown which is the oldest place
in Dauphin county, was an army de
pot in the days of the Revolution.
Harris Ferry and Middletown Ferry
were two points of crossing tho
Susquehanna and York and Cum
berland counties brought their sup
plies across by boat. The fact that
Harris Ferry was at the junction J
point of the Susquehanna with the
Cumberland and Lebanon valleys
gave it the prestige which it is said
Conrad Weiser hoped that Middle
town would have. Weiser refers to
supplies stored at Middletown and
Revolutionary Army records tell of
accumulations of provisions and.ma
terial at Middletown for the Army,
while some of the food gathet ed for
Sullivan's expedition against the In
dians and for the American Army in
the winter of Valley Forgo wus as
sembled at Middletown and sent
across country by wagons or mules. .
These repetitions of history are not
only gratifying to patriotic Pennsyl
vanians, but indicate that our county
has borne its part in every struggle
from the earliest days of the Com
monwealth. i
• 1 *
Some of the machine gun presents
that were so much In vogue for
voungstors this Christmas seem to
have had a hard effect on tree deco
rations. The glittering, balls and
other ornaments are a tempting tar
ret for the Juvenile gunners and
some Allison Hill homes have hnd
ro repair trees several times, accord .
Jng to reports.
[""'WELL KNOWN PEOPLE!
Howard J. Heinz, the state food ]
administrator, who goes to help
Hoover run the foreign food prob
lem, was given a-dinner by county
food administrators.
-William A. Patton, assistant to
tho president of the Pennsylvania,
who retires to-morrow, has given
most of his life to railroad work.
—W. C. Coffin, prominent Pitts
burgh businessman, is giving all of
his time to the work of the Cham
ber of Commerce in getting the
transit problem bettered.
—Joseph A. Stcinmetz, president
of the Aero Club of Pennsylvania, *
lias sailed for Europe to study avla-
Powell Evans, head of the pub- \
licity committee for the charter
revisionists m Philadelphia, is an In
surance man.
R DO YOU"KNOW 1
Tlint Ilnrrlsbnrg Is still send
lug materials to Europe but they
ore for reconstruction now?
HISTORIC lIARRISBURO
—John Harris Feijy grant datei
from 1753.
The Difference
[From the Columbia Record]
As %ve understand the Russian
situation, the difference between a
Bolshevik and a bourgeois is about *
thirty rubles. .