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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but when
thou liv'st
Live well: how long or short permit
to heaven. *
—Milton.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919
RECORD OF SERVICE
WITH the return of the soldiers
to the homeland the recent
suggestion of a citizen of Har
risburg that there should be a dally
register in some official way of those
who are coming back to civil life is
worthy of serious attention.
Inasmuch as many of the men are
being mustered out at distant points,
singly or in groups, and not as mili
tary units, it is highly important that
some record be made of the terms of
their enlistment.
We believe this is a distinct and
important service which could be
rendered by the Chamber of Com
merce or some similar body. It ought
to be an easy matter to set up a
system through which the returning
soldier could report to the head
quarters of the local business organ
ization, or other body, and record
his military service, which would in
clude the place of enlistment, the
unit with which he served, his mus
ter out and the date of his return to
civil life. This information would be
of great value when the time comes
for making up an accurate roll of
the soldiers of Dauphin county and
this section.
Unless some such plan is adopted
it is certain that men who served
for a brief time and were then mus
tered out will cease to have their
proper place in the rolls of the coun
try's defenders. After the Civil War
there was much difficulty of this
sort and while the military enroll
ment for the present great struggle
was more carefully conducted there
is still likely to be omissions and er
rors unless there is some definite
plan of recording the return of sol
diers to private life.
Blanks could be prepared which
could be filled out and thus form the
basis of a correct roll of all those
who served in any branch of the
country's defense during the war.
Whether the man served one day or
for years would make no difference.
There ought to be an accurate record
of this service from the start to the
finish of the war.
The Turks continue to behave as
though the Kuiscr were still on h,and
to approve. The place for the Turks,
one and all, is the bottom of the Black
Sea. and if the Allies don't drive them
Into it one of the blessings of the war
will have been missed,
missed.
BACK TO NORMAL
AS WE settle back to'normal con
ditions the appreciation during
hostilities of public willingness
to accept unusual war conditions is
evident everywhere. So long as the
restrictions and limitations were on
the people they observed these with
a cheerfulness and willingness that
could not have been imagined be
fore the war. Now that there is no
longer occasion for these drastic
regulations the people are begin
ning to assume their normal activi
ties. but there is still a disposition
a wise disposition—to continue in
definitely those economics and the
sanity of living which were made
necessary during the struggle.
More and more the practical na
ture of the self-restraint imposed
upon the people is understood now
that the direct need for such re
straint has passed. There is also
a recognition of the finer attitude
of the average person toward his
neighbor. Less selfishness and more
consideration are observable In the
daily actions of all classes of our
citizenry.
So the war, horrible in all its de
tail and entailing untold suffering
FRIDAY EVENING,
and loss, has not been without Us
compensations. We have come to
realize the better things of life and
entering upon a new year there will
be a general proneness to treat with
much consideration our fellowmen
and to be kinder and more thought
ful of others and less concerned with
things purely selfish and individual.
During the reconstruction era
upon which we have entered there
will be calls for a high order of pa
tience and we must endeavor to do
our part to alleviate the suffering
and the tribulation which are cer
tain to follow the shock of war and
the demoralization necessarily en
suing from the calling of millions of
men from their ordinary employ
ment into the national defense.
Each can contribute his share to
the general welfare. This does not
Involve money, but does demand
personal service and personal con
sideration with which all are pos
sessed and which has no price, but
which has a value higher than any
legal-tender.
The Bolsheviki want everything for
themselves, even if they have to blow
everything up to get what they want.
Many other burglars feel the same
way.
PRISON, NOT CONGRESS
PRISON at hard labor and not
Congress is tht place for Repre
sentative-elect Berger who, yes
terday, admitted in court that he ad
vocated a "bloody revolution" in the
United States and justified the sink
ing of Lusitania with its cargo of
women and children. Samuel Gom
pcrs is a "poor weakling" in the eyes
of Berger.
There is no place in the United
States government for the Lenines,
the Bergers and their ilk. The people
of the United States don't make their
governmental changes by "bloody
revolutions." They have the ballot
and whenever enough of them are
sufficiently interested they can get
anything they demand.
There is no power on earth great
enough to prevent the people of the
United States getting precisely what
they want in the way of laws if they
use their ballots properly. Nor are
the people of this country accus
tomed to taking orders from anarch
ists and other enemies of the Berger
type. They have provided nice,
strong prisons and plenty of good
hard work for such as he and if he
gets his just desserts Berger will go
to Atlanta instead of to Washington.
Mayor Keister spoke with pride, the
other night, of the achievements of
Harrisburg since 1901, and there
should never arise an occasion for de
ploring any reaction which would in
volve a letting down in our municipal
activities as a progressive and up-to
date city.
PUT THEM UNDER GROUND
ONE of the tasks to which the
Chamber of Commerce might
address itself in the new year is
the placing under ground of the
wires in the center of the city, es
pecially those in the Capitol Park
extension area.
President George S. Reinoehl, no
doubt, will be in sympathy with this
movement as he has had a large part
as manager of the Bell Telephone
Company in placing hundreds of
wires in conduits that used to mar
the beauty of some of the downtown
streets.
The policy of progressive public
service corporations is to put their
cross-country lines under ground,
where they are not subject to rapid
deterioration and are safe from
storm damage, and there is much
more reason why they should get
rid of their overhead lines in towns
and cities, especially the crowded
sections.
We can't help wondering whether
docks at the principal Atlantic ports
are still crowded with the pathetic
figures of those members of Washing
ton commissions and boards, who were
told by the President to hold them
selves in readiness for a call to Eu
rope during the peace sessions. Each
outgoing boat carries a few more of
the "watchful waiters," but until the
transportation facilities shall have
been increased we can hardly expect
that the last of these extraordinary
plenipotentiaries will get to Europe
before those who first went across
have started home.
City Commissioner Lynch is prop
erly arranging a program of street
improvement for next year which con
templates maintaining at its high
point the reputation of the city as a
well-paved municipality. May we not
hope that similar attention will be
given the park system, including the
appointment of a Shade Tree Commis
sion that will in truth give Harris
burg the shade trees which it must
have to prevent a treeless desert.
Governor Brumbaugh will have the
satisfaction of having contributed
largely during his administration in
the furtherance of the Capitol Park
improvement project. He has been
particularly anxious to have Pennsyl
vania trees planted in the park zone,
and the plan which has been adopted
by the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings contemplates an avenue of
red oaks.
President Reinoehl made a hit with
his little speech at the Penn-Harris
opening, and his suggestion that Mrs.
John Harris, in the pioneer days, in
sisted that Harrisburg should have
as good a tavern as Lebanon and
Lancaster, caused a broad smile among
those who recall that the new head
of the Chamber of Commerce Is a na
tive of Lebanon.
"Lewis Charges G. O. P. Leaders
Conspire to Discredit President."
Newspaper headline. If we're not
careful we may get some of those "Mo
und Gott" Ideas in the United States.
From the silence on the part of Ger
many's two food commissioners, we
judge they understood perfectly what
Herbert Hoover meant when he said it.
. t >dm<#iK
By the Ex-Committeeman
The Philadelphia delegation to the
House of Representatives will hold
a caucus at the headquarters of the
Republican City Committee late to
day when a slate committee will be
selected. As each of the Congres
sional districts are entitled to repre
sentation on this committee, six
members will be appointed.
William S. Leib, resident clerk of
the House, will attend the meeting
and will ask the forty-one Phila
delphia members to select their
seats. In this connection it was learn
ed thut efforts will be made to have
Senator William McNichol seated at
the desk occupied by his father, the
late Senator James P. McNichol.
—Regarding this meeting the
Philadelphia Press says: "The Vare
organization has invited the opposi
tion Republicans elected as state
representatives into the fold with
their own followers for a meeting to
day at the City Committee head
quarters. William S. Leib, resident
clerk of the House of Representa
tives, will be on hand with a dia
gram of the seats in the House
chamber at Harrisburg and the Phil
adelphia legislators will be given an
opportunity to pick the desks they
would like to occupy.
"The other important business of
the meeting will be the selecting of
candidates for the indorsement of
the organization as members of the
'slate' committee, which decides on
the personnel of the House employes.
There is one member of this com
mittee from each Congressional dis
trict, which will mean thatgthe Vare
men will pick six of their representa
tives for indorsement. Although the
anti-Vare representatives will be in
vited to attend, it is not considered
likely that they will fill Important
roles in making the selections.
"The organization this year has
violated a precedent of several ses
sion in not holding a caucus as to
whom they will support for Speak
er. The attitude of the leaders this
year has been that they had no can
didate and therefore there was no
need of binding their men to support
any particular aspirant. Robert S.
Spangler, of York, has been agreed
upon by the different Republican in
terests as the man to be elected
Speaker of the new House and there
is little disposition to think the Vare
meeting will upset the proceedings
by bringing forward a candidate of
its otvn.
"It has been customary for the
Vare men to get an opportunity of
selecting their seats in advance, but
it has generally been done in Senator
Vare's office informally. Not in re
cent years have they held a meeting
for the purpose and invited their op
ponents to take part.
"The seats for Philadelphia mem
bers of the State Senate already have
been assigned. An effort has been
made to have the newly-elected Sen
ator, William J. McNichol, occupy
the same desk his father, James P.
McNichol, held during his last term
in the Senate. It is believed this will
be done."
—Bitter attack upon the public
spirited citizens named as a com
mittee to draw up a new charter for
the city of Philadelphia was made
yesterday by Common Councilman
Clinton A. Sower, of the Twentieth
ward, who resigned his seat in the
body at the session on account of his
election to the Legislature.
Municipal Government
(From the Ohio State Journal.)
Why is it that all the municipali
ties have deficits and continuously
clamor for a carte blanche system
of taxation? The reason is the whole
system of city government is wrong.
It has been contrived to spend money
and to turn over to politics the duty
to spend the money. The people pay
enough taxes to.make city govern
ment delightful and it turns out so
in nearly every case where the com
mission form, with the managerial
attachment, has been provided. It
is just as sensible to have the con
glomerated populace run a city as it
would be for a family to call in all
the neighbors to take care of the do
mestic tranquility.
Democracy is not a pell-mell mob
with a hurrah and "go-for-'em"
spirit. It is a quiet, well-regulated
will that turns away from the bran
dished fist and the loud voice and
executes its judgment as quietly as
the buds burst or the snowfiakes fall,
if humanity has any enemy worse
than the Bolsheviki it is the loud
mouth politician whose love of the
people has a string to it. And the
present system of municipal govern
ment isj just that kind. It was built
out of chaos in Ihe lirst place and
reveals its origin at every step in
its cafreer.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
(From the St. Louis Censor)
There have been leagues of na
tions before. There was one called
the Holy Alliance. There was a
league of nations to guarantee the
security and independence of Bel
gium. To say (hat the nations fought
only because they had conscription
is to deny all the wars which have
been fought by democratic nations
which had no armies when they be
gan to light.
A league of nations will operate
within its limitations. If the United
States does not consider what the
limitations are or what they will be
found to be, it will find that its
whole dependence has been placed
upon a thing not wholly dependable.
The British, the French and the
Japanese will not put their whole
dependence upon such international
arrangements as may be made. The
British are absolutely candid in their
reservations. Their big reservation is
that their fleet shall be superior to
any other fleet—or, In fact, to any
probable combination of fleets.
If the United States enters Into
new international agreements with
the consciousness that there are pos
sible issues in the future which the
American people will not submit to
the decisions of other nations—no
matter what we at present stipulate
that Americans in the future will do
—it will guard against trouble.
No More Dominant Powers
[From St. Louis Globe-Deinocrat.]
Physical boundaries will be nec
essary element in peace making, but
they will be fixed for the good of
the Inhabitants and not chiefly In the
interest of the dominant Powers.
Playing Germany's Game'
Insinuations that Great Britain
stands In the way of freedom of the
seas is playing Germany's game,
even though the fighting is over.—
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
HAHJRISBURG (Asm TELEGRAPH
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT
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The HE-an/V; \A/et
BLANKET OF SNOW-
From War to Peace
(From the New York Times)
If the transition from war to
peace were a mere matter of beat
ing swords into ploughshares the
problem would be a simple one of
the smithy. But that phrase, an
easy symbolism of our language, de
notes in the case of this war a task
that is complex, immensely difficult,
gigantic. Its difficulties are every
day increased by the unconscion
able, perhaps inevitable, delay in
beginning the actual formulation of
the terms of peace at Paris. A great
part of the world is in a state of
disorganization, without responsi
ble government, a prey to accumu
lating ills and dangerous disorders.
Unrest, and apprehension will grow
until the chaos of armistice gives
place to the positive determination
of a peace treaty.
While the war was in progress
men's minds were concentrated
upon one's purpose, the use of force,
always more force, ''force to the
utmost." Victory was achieved, and
now we are embarked upon the sea
of speculation about peace terms.
A peace that shall be permanent is
the end sought—the nations are
agreed upon that. There is only
a general rough agreement as to the
means by which that end is to be
attained; we hope the preliminary
conferences will bring complete
agreement nearer. The .chief men
of the great nations are getting
acquainted; that counts for much;
it is essential to the meeting of
their minds. It is most fervently
to be hoped that, without much
further delay, they will feel that
they understand each other well
enough to sit down at the table and
begin to put their agreements into
form. The world must know the
conditions of peace before it can in
telligently and with confidence un
dertake the immense tasks of recon
struction. Other nations, had beset
and with sufferings incomparably
greater than ours, are weary of war.
In this country, we are becoming
weary of the legal fiction that the
\yar has not yet ended. It is made
the pretext of ventures and under
takings against which the public
registers its protest but has no
power to inhibit. The sword won
the war, the victory of peace must
be won by brains, by the highest
wisdom, foresight, breadth and so
berness of view. Last year brought
victory, this year puts before us the
tasks of a magnitude that makes
them fit to be compared with the
problems of war.
America Today
Now that we're happy in victorious j
pride
We see another war before us
lie—
A war upon ourselves! Not yet 1
to cry:
"On with the dance—make festal
Joy your bride!"
For still each pleasant wish must
be denied
That we send help where they of
• hunger die—
Where children with gaunt face
and hollow eye
Grow daily weaker by their parents'
side.
And we, who never yet have gone
unfed.
Let us give freely and with will
ing heart,
That they, our more than hundred
thousand dead.
May know we honor them, nor
slow to start. ,
We need but sacrifice till one year's
fled —
Then go our way and know we've
done our part.
—G. M. G., in New York Times.
LABOR NOTES
Washington's army of war workers
is being demobilized, and by July 1
next it is expected that 25,000 clerks
alone will have been discharged by
the War Department.
The iron and steel industry of Swit
zerland employs thousands of work
men and furnishes the means of a
livelihood to a large and influential
port of the Swiss population.
During the last six months the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Bailway Employes has
paid $179,590.37 In death benefits and
$1,600 in old-age pensions.
Less than five per cent, of the work
ing force employed at the United
States Arsenal in Rock Island, 111.,
have left the Government service
since the signing of the armistice.
Miss Emily Tarr has been elected
chairman of the "chapel" in one of the
large printing houses in New York
City. She is the first woman ever
elected to this important
BOMBS, MADNESS AND
AMERICAN BOLSHEVIK I
Philadelphia lias uit Illustration of the Force That Is Blocking
Liberal Hopes Everywhere
(From the Philadelphia Evening
Public Ledger.)
OMETHING at least of the rea-
Ssons why the Allies are deter
mined to send relentjess armies
into Russia is revealed in the mal
evolent bomb outrages prepetrated
at the homes of Justice von Mosch
zisker, Mr. Trigg and Captain Mills.
The incident is in itself an ironic
answer, complete and overwhelming,
to the pseudo-humanitarianism
which is still disposed to look upon
Bolsheviki with tolerant pity. Noth
ing could have better illustrated the
causes which make of the anarchist
a detested outcast assured always of
the enmity of rational minds and a
laugh or a kick from plain men who
take no trouble to explain instinctive
dislike.
Men who gave the world freedom
and those who endured martyrdom
for the sake of humanity did their
fighting decently in the open after a
plain statement of their case. There
is nothing anywhere to show that the
mind and methods of a snake can
ever be applied in the maintenance
of a right principle. And certainly,
in the present state of society, there
is no room for a cult that must em
ploy pro°t ling imbeciles to set
bombs at tile homes of sleeping men.
The bontb outrages of Monday
night represent the isolated work of
mental deficients. The problem is
one for the alienists as well as for
the police. It is chiefly as an illus
tration of the essential difference be
tween two methods of reasoning now
violently opposed in Europe that the
case commands a general interest.
Violent radicalism and anarchy,
expressed actively or as a political
principle, are not unnatural in parts
of continental Europe. But we have
in America none of the conditions
which inspire general unrest else
where. Abroad millions of people,
For a Big Navy
(From the Washington Post.)
There is no inconsistency in build
ing up a great navy and at the same
time advocating disarmament. The
latter represents the ultimate aim
of civilization, which may or may
not be attained in the present era.
Pending its attainment, is it the part
of wisdom for America to sit idle
and unprepared for a possible at
tack? President Wilson spoke frank
ly upon this point in his address to
Congress on December 2. Advocat
ing the naval building program, he
said: "It would clearly be unwise
for us to attempt to adjust our pro
grams to a future world policy as
yet undetermined."
It is hoped that much good will
come out of the peace conference,
that dreams long harbored in the
interest of peace and progress will
be realized; that reforms will develop
and that in the conduct of nutions
force will yield to reason. But these
are still hopes, and no one can tell
whether the time has yet arrived for
them to bloom into facts. They re
main to be written into the treaty in
terms; and so writ, experience is the
only means of testing their practica
bility.
Meantime, what is America's duty?
To sit passive and unalert, dreaming
of a Utopia where men shall dwell
in peace and where justice shall pre
vail? Clearly not. She must face the
stern facts, the realities of the world,
Hoping for permanent peace, striv
ing for it, she must, nevertheless,
make provision to protect herself in
any eventuality.
Greek Meets Greek
"What 8 coming off out in front
there?" aske I the proprietor of the
Tote Fair store In Tumlinville, Ark.
"A couple of fellers from Straddle
Kldge swapped mules," replied the
clerk, "ana now each is accusing
the other ot skinning hint."
"Well, then, why don't they trade
back.'
"I reckon they are both afraid
of getting skinned again."—From
the Kansus City Star.
Sartorial Progress in Okla.
Mim Car's orchestra furnished tho
music. The grand march was led by
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Sumner, and a
notable feature of it was the in
creased number of dress suits.—
From the Antlers Times-KecoML
depressed in sodden masses, suffer
ing from long and tragic negligence
and the hideous errors of govern
ments, have a definite incitement to
violence. Anarchy is the product of
centuries of misrule.
There is nothin in America to jus
tify any shadow of this sort of thing.
Life here is not fixed in strata. No
one is submerged unless he wishes
to be submerged. We are a nation
of individuals. We are individualists
by preference. There are no old sins
to be wiped out—no fixed traditions
to be broken down by brute force.
It is for this reason that Socialism
does not and cannot thrive in the
United States. And the effort, there
fore, to transplant from the Russian
slums a cult far more radical is not
only a peurile attempt to ape woes
which do not exist. It is a revela
tion of criminal perversity which,
when it becomes perilously active,
demands the harshest treatment that
the police power can give it. The
wonder is that a state of mind so
foreign to the atmosphere of Am
erica should be so persistent. And
in this connection it is necessary to
say that the police direction has not
acted with entire intelligence in
handling the problem.
******
Every flip soapboxer is, in the
end, an enemy of the cause which
he presumes to represent. Every
petty crime done in the name of
liberalism is an obstacle to the
further progress of liberal ideas.
The country is in no mood to tol
erate unreason and errant madness
under any name. If the police can
get h6ld of the bomb makers public
opinion demands that they be treated
in a manner adequate to stun all
those who may have similar aberra
tions^
No bomb made by man, however
devilishly ingenious, can shake the
foundations of law and order in this
country.
War Insurance
(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
More than 4,000,000 officers and
men in the American Army and Navy
held life insurance with the national
government on December 1. The
total of insurance was more* than
$36,000,000,000. In its present form
this is annual renewable term insur
ance issued against death and total
permanent disability. Every person
holding this insurance may keep it
in this form even after he leaves the
service for a period of five years. Not
later than five years after the offlfcial
termination of the war, however, this
government insurance must be con
verted, without medical examination,
into some other form.
The establishment of the war risk
insurance bureau by the national
government was one of the far
sighted acts of Congress at the be
ginning of hostilities. It has con
ferred a valuable favor upon thou
sands of soldiers and sailors and
upon their dependents. It should
prove a safeguard against one of the
evils resultant from some of Am
erica's previous wars.
One of the last statements by Sec
retary McAdoo before his retirement
from the Treasury Department was
an appeal to the men of the Army
and Navy not to let their insurance
lapse now that the fighting hud
ceased and they were about to return
to a civilian status. It was a timely
suggestion. Were any considerable
number to surrender their valuable
policies now the loss would be large.
In very few cases will such surrender
be necessary.
Old Timber For New Ships
According to the rings on the
stumps of big oaks cut at Winne
gance, Me., this scuson for ship
building, a number of the trees were
from one hundred to one hundred
and twenty-five years old, and some
had been growing for one hundred
gnd fifty years. The Morse saw
mill, at Winnegance has been oper
ated for more than one hundred
years. The original frame of the
miir is still there, as sound as ever,
some of the hewn sticks of timber
,being eighty feet in length.—Bos
ton Globe.
Capable of Anything
Almost everything has been laid
to diseased teeth, except murder,
and one never can tell what might
be the outcome of "Jumping tooth
vPlhe." —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
r JANUARY 3, 1919. 1
THE SHIP'S RETURN
(John O'Keefc from the New York
World).
Light's fingers rip the eastern blur
And great, gray shapes reveal,
As if the Pole a furnace were
That forged its bergs of steel,
And a white eagle courier
Shrieks "Sea room!" to the seal.
Hey, ships! ho, ships!
High ships and low ships!
Battle-seeking;
Thunder-speaking
When the flaming starts,
Now the eastern sea is won,
Soft for you the western sun,
So to-day you go, ships,
To the Port of Hearts!
In the mirage's mirror glass
Loom phantom twins of you.
As if your souls desired to pass
To more ethereal blue,
And the high cloud armadas mass,
Gray brothers, for review!
Gray ships! gay ships!
Rendy-night-and-day ships!
Guns a-crackling
When you're tackling
Anything that rides.
Now to-day your cannon flame,
Aimed in love, as brothers aim-
Back from war to play, ships,
On the Yankee tides!
How puny seem the spires of town
As your squat masts rise o'er!
These are new peaks that come to
crown I "*
The sea that they adore,
As if a mountain range stepped
down
In love to guard the shore.
Great ships! fate ships!
Yet not built in hate, ships!
Gentle warders
At our borders:
Eagle, yea, yet dove!
Mastiffs lazy in your lolling
Till you hear your master call
ing! )
Welcome at the gate, ships,
Of the Port of Love!
"STANDING TO HIS GUNS"
[N. A. Review's War Weekly.]
There is one thing to be said of
Secretary Baker: He stand# to his
guns, whether he has any to stand
to or not. "Our machinery for war,"
he declared, byway of self-eulogy,
at Atluntic City last week, "was a
g-eat product of genius of the Amer
ican people." It seemed like old
times. Here are a few of the things
said officially by Mr. Baker upon
previous dates:
January 10.—Our initial needs
have been met. Every man in
France has full equipment. Every
man who goes will have full equip
ment.
January 28. —The American army
in France, now and to be there, is
provided with artillery of the types
they want as rapidly as they can use
it. Our own manufacture is in proc
ess. Deliveries of some pieces are
already begun, with a rising and
steadily increasing stream of Ameri
can production.
May 11 (Ofllcial statement). —The
Ordnance Department has thus far
met every demand imposed by the
new program for overseas shipment
of ordnance. Tonnuge is a limiting
factor in the shipment of ordnance.
Sufficient supplies of artillery
Frenrh 7-6-millimeter and 155-niilli
meter ami American heavy railway
artillery—are already in Frunce to
meet the present demand.
May 9. —There is no present short
age of light or heavy guns In either
France or America and there is no
shortage In prospect.
June 28. —The artillery program is
now approaching a point where
quantity production is approaching.
July 2 (Inspired dispatch to the
World). American-built 155-milli
meter howitzers are moving to
France. One American firm is turn
ing out howitzers at the rate of ten
a day.
What became of these products of
American genius nobody knows. They
certainly never reached the iiring
line.
"Our entry into the war," says
General Pershing in his official re
port, dated November 20, "found u
with few of the auxiliaries neces
sary for its conduct In the modern
sense. Among our most important
deficiencies in materiu! were artil
lery, aviation and tanks. In order
to meet our requirements as rapidly
as possible, we accepted the offer of
the French Government to provide
us with the necessary artillery equip
ment of 75's 3-inch), 155-mlllimetro
<6-lncli) howitzers, and 155-milli
metre G P F guns from their own
factories, for thirty divisions.
"The wisdom of this course is
full}* demonstrated by the fact that,
although we soon began the manu
facture of theso classes of guns ut
home, there were no guns of the
calibers mentioned, manufactured In
America, on our front, at the date
the armistice was sl^nad
fEnimng (Eljat |
Harrisburg fishermen are coming
into their own. Only e. few days
ago George S. Reinoehl, an ardent
disciple ot Isaac Walton, was elect
ed president of the Chamber of
Commerce, and yesterday Dr. Fred
erick E. Downes, superintendent of
Harrisburg pubHc schools, was made
president of thd| Pennsylvania State
Educational Asapciatlon by unani
mous vote. Dr. Downes, who is Just
recovering from a severe attack of
j pneumonia, has been very active In
the affairs of the association for
years, and he is well qualified for
the office, the importance of which
is growing with the membership of
the association. But, to get back
to fishing, Dr. Downes is one of the
most skillful bass anglers in this
section of the state. He knows
more about the creeks in Central
Pennsylvania than most men and
he seldom comes homo from his
fishing excursions with .an empty
creel. He disdains the use of live
bait and takes his fish for the most
part on "plugs," those ugly wooden
lures which bear no resemblance to
anything else over the earth, under
the earth or on the earth, and there
fore escape the biblical injunction
against being sworn by. "Swear
bys" somebody has called them, but
there are those who believe that
"swear-ats" would be more fitting.
But, be that as it may—when Dr.
Downes goes fishing there are al
ways those who would like to go
along, for he is one of the keenest
outdoorsmen in Harrisburg. "I
have been with him under the most
trying circumstances," said a com
panion of some of his ramblings the
other day, "and I never knew him
to be ruilled. He is always able to
swim just a bit better, walk a little
farther and get out just a littlo
more line on the cast than the other
fellow. But he does it all so well
and so modestly that his compan
ions have nothing but the most
friendly appreciation for his abil
ity." That, by the way, is saying a
great deal, as any outdoorsman will
know, for it is on the hike, the fish
ing or the hunting trip, when weath
er turns bad, or the fish won't bite,
or other adversity comes, that the
true qualities of the man come out.
Many a fair weather sportsman is
a poor companion when the rain be
gins to fall.
• ♦
Dr. Downes came to Harrisburg
from Carlisle, to be principal of the
High school and upon the death of
the late Superintendent L, O. Fooso,
and has been the head of the school
system ever since. He has come
into almost as many trying situa
tions as such as have confronted
him in the woods and along the
streams, but has proved as good a
sport in the office as out and has
weathered all of the storms with
triumph for himself and with good
results for the school system. It
is admitted that he has made the
best of difficult circumstances for
years in the Central High School,
and has maintained the efficiency
of that institution when the con
ditions were all against first class
results. He is an advocate of fair
pay for teachers, believing that the
man or woman who is worrying as
to where the month's rent or the
price of a new suit is to come from
is not in a fit frame of mind for
effective work in the school room.
• • •
Harrisburg has developed recent
ly one of the cleverest after-dinner
speakers the town ever had the
pleasure of boasting. Ho is Preston
Crowell, director of the Harrisburg
Rotary Club, and represents one of
the big breakfast food and feed
companies operating in the United
States. His speechmaking abilities
were discovered more by accident
than design when he was assigned
to preside at a meeting of the Ro
tary Club one day and now no
function is complete without a few
remarks from Preston. He is an
ideal toastmaster, quick of wit, brim
ful of humor and ulwuys kindly in
the personal shafts he knows so well
how to. direct. Mr. Crowell is just
recovering from a severe attack of
influenza but he was able to send
his regrets in humorous verse to his
fellow Rotarians on the occasion of
their luncheon at the Penn-Harris
this week.
• * •
"Wheat looks better than I have
seen it in many years," said Harry
Collins, a well-known salesman who
"makes" the rural districts of Cen
trul Pennsylvania once or twice a
month. The weather has been par
ticularly favorable, he says, and the
i fly has not been much in evidence.
llf it should happen now that the
weather would become colder and a
heavy full of snow would cover the
wheat for the next five or six weeks,
the yield next summer would be
phenomenal. At all events Central
Pennsylvania farmers will bring to
market more wheat next year than
ever before, the prospects now are.
• * •
"The coal situation seems very
good in Harrisburg just now," said
i a well-known dealer yesterday,
"and unquestionably it is far better
than last year at this time, but it is
my forecast that a week of severe
weather would cause a run on the
local yards that would take them
! down to the bottoms of their bins,
i Some people who have only a ton
or so on hand seem to think they
are perfectly safe and they are, but
if a cold snap descends suddenly
on us they will become panic-strick
en agd will be on the backs of tho
coal dealers in short order."
• •
Fishermen all over Pennsylvania
are delighted that Commissioner
Puller is to be continued in office.
Mr. Buller has done very much for
the fisheries of the state and has
stood constantly between the fish
pirate and tho law-abiding angler.
He has been particularly active in
stocking the streums of this section
with young trout and under favor
able conditions this sport in Central
Pennsylvania waters should be bet
ter a year or two hence than it has
been for many years.
Millions Lost in War
The total casualties of the Rus
sian army amount to more than 9,-
000,000 and those of Austria more
than 4,000,000. Tho more results are
becoming known the more this war,
unprovoked and needless in the de
fense of any nation or principle, is
shown as the greatest crime of civi
lized times. Even now its authors,
realizing the condemnation of his
tory, are feverishly denying theit
responsibility, each trying to should
er it upon the other.—Baltlmori
Coalition vs. l 9 arty
[From New York Evening World]
We wonder if President Wilson
being right on tho spot when the re
sults of the British elections cami
in, saw anything worth setting dowi
in his notebook as to the value oi
the coalition rather than the parti
Idea when appealing to electors foi
support in an era of transcendent
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