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We learn tcisdom from failure
tnuch more than from success; tee
often discover what will do by find
ing out what will not do; and prob
ably he who never made a mistake
never made a discovery. —Samuel
Smiles.
MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1919
NO NEED FOR HASTE
REPRESENTATIVE John w.
Vlckerman, "dry" leader in the
Legislature, speaks wisely
when he advises against extreme
haste in voting upon the national
prohibition amendment. There is
no need to rush action on the
amendment out of its order. It
should be permitted to take its regu
lar course.
On the other hand there should
he no undue delay. The people are
in no mood to have this Important
piece of legislation bandied about by
political interests nor made the
football of factional politics, as it
wohld do if held oft until the clos
ing days of the session.
The day is past when the liquor
forces can smother bills of this
nature, and it is doubtful, after
their miserable showing in the
Bonniwell campaign, if they will at
tempt any of the bulldozing meth
ods that have marked their course
in years past.
The prohibition amendment must
have an absolutely square deal. It
must be adopted or rejected upon
its own merits and upon the con
victions of members and senators,
and there is much more likelihood
now that it will be adopted than
directly after election when the
"wets" were claiming a clean
sweep.
No matter how Pennsylvania
votes the amendment is going to
be approved by more than the
necessary number of States, but it
is highly desirable that this Com
monwealth be on the side of de
cency and order in the final line-up
and there are Indications that a
growing number of legislators feel
that way about it.
Al. S. Cooper, Assistant Senate Li
brarian, who has Just been appointed
Prison Inspector, is well acquainted
with local affairs, and is as well fitted
as anybody in the county for the
place.
THE LEGISLATURE
HARRISBURG is enjoying its
biennial visitation of the Leg
islature. Enjoying is the
proper word, for it is a real pleas
ure for this city to entertain its
neighbors from all the various dis
tricts of the great commonwealth.
These men represent an empire.
They preside over the destiniife of a
State that would rank as sr great
nation did it stand alone; a nation
that could live within itself, If
necessary, and protect Its boundaries
by the strength and numbers of its
own men, equipped with the pro-
its ample resources. It
could feed itself, if necessary, and
clothe Itself, too, if it were put to it
To be the capitol of such a com
monwealth Is no mean honor and
Harrisburg tikes just pride in its
distinction and Is striving to make
itself fit the dignity of its position.
Its new hotel, which will be a home
for most of the members and senators
during the session, is an evidence of
Its desire to provide for the com
fort and well-being of the stranger
within Its gates. It is planning to
co-operate in the improvement of
the Capitol Extension zone, it will
spend its money by the hundreds of
thousands of dollars to do its share
In making the capitol of Pennsyl
vania and its surroundings one of
the beauty spots of the world.
Consideration of this Capitol Park
Extension legislation, which has the
endorsement of every one of the
>£tate officials associated with It. will
be one of the Important Items of the
session, hut It will he one oyer which
MONDAY EVENING,
\1horo will b >lO controversy and
therefor* will hot figure tnuoh In
th* limelight. Th* program hb*
been BO well formulated and the
groundwork laid by euoh capable
men that the Legislature will have
little to do except approve after a
careful study of th* admirable plans.
The session should not be lengthy,
and most probably will not be.
There Is perfect harmony within the
Republican ranks with regard to the
organization of both House and
Senate and this good feeling will do
much to further the business to be
considered. Little time will be lost
following the inauguration in get
ting down to work, and while a vast
amount of very important legisla
tion of a constructive nature Is to
be enacted, there is ltitle chanco of
prolonged debate or contests on any
subject that would hold up the ses
sion unreasonably.
The leaders have every oppor
tunity to expedite business and Sen
ator Sproul being a businessman
may be expected to do his part In
getting the work under way and
completed in as short a time as
possible.
The legislators have a big oppor
tunity for service. The outlook of
the people is broader and their in
terest in the welfare of their fellows
is deeper than ever before. They
expect the Legislature to take the
same large, liberal view. The worn
out theories with which legislators
of qjlier days have been hectored
must give way to common sense;
but the ideals for which hundreds
of thousands of our young men have
fought must be fostered and encour
aged. Humanity expects to benefit
from its sacrifices in the war and
Pennsylvania, in many respects the
greatest State of the greatest nation
in the world, must stand in the fore
front of social advancement along
sane, practical lines. We look to the
Legislature to lead the way.
"Life is not all beer and skittles,"
observes the Philadelphia
Right, Oh! skittles disappeared long
ago and now beer is nearing its finish.
. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
IT is creditable to the Board of
County Commissioners that the
financial status of the county is
so satisfactory at this time. Thou
sands of dollars worth of bonds were
redeemed during the last year
5121,000 to be exact and at the
same time the sinking fund was
given full consideration. With the
bonded debt now scarcely more than
$lOO,OOO, Dauphin county is in fine
shape to undertake tire long deferred
combination with the city on an ade
quate building for public purposes.
Good housekeeping is always ap
proved by the voters and the record
of the present Board is an assur
ance of business efficiency in the
administration.
The Uniontown postman who sold
$lOO,OOO worth of Thrift Stamps last
year missed his calling. A salesman
of that caliber has no business de
livering letters.
MILITARY TRAINING
THERE is TO be real military
training at the State College and
this training be a oart of
the curriculum of the institution. It
is the intention of the War Depart,
ment to make available for the State
College a large amount of cientiilc
and technical material.
Other institutions of Pennsylva- j
nia should immediately follow the |
lead of the Harrisburg Academy and i
preparatory and public schools in |
adopting military training as a part i
of the course of instruction. Even if
we never have war again the benefit
which is derived from military train
ing and discipline is incalculable.
An agreement seems to have been
arrived at between the British and
Dutch governments as to. the status
of the former Kaiser. This will be re
assuring news to the thousands
throughout the world who have re
garded the apparent indifferenco of
the allied governments to the activi
ties of the Kaiser with apprehension.
Unless and until the Hohenzollern
group shall have been utterly de
stroyed as a further menace to the
peace of the world, there will be un
rest everywhere.
Those statesmen at Washington
who believe that the first business of
the peace conference is to settle pres
ent-day difficulties, rather than solve
the problems of the distant future, are
properly interpreting American senti
ment. It may be very desirable to
have an altruistic arrangement with
our allies in Europe, but it Is much
more important to get the business in
hand settled so that the world may
proceed upon some definite line of de
velopment in overcoming after-war
conditions.
Colonel Roosevelt has been re
quested to serve upon the great home
coming reception committee, which is
preparing at Brooklyn a real program
for the proper greeting of the re
turned soldiers. The resentment
against service with William Ran
dolph Hearst on Mayor com
mittee has become so marked that pa
triotic citizens have determined there
shall be an Independent committee to
meet the soldiers who are streaming
back from Europe.
There was not much fuss over the
return of the American torpedoboat de
stroyers which slipped into the port
of Philadelphia on Saturday, but the
record of this fleet is a shining chap
ter in the achiements of the American
Navy during the war. The people of
the United States are not going to
soon forget the services of the men
who put out of business the Hun sub
marine menace.
Most people will agree with United
States Senator Lodge that the time
has come for final and definite action
on the peace, agreement. There is
! bound to be unrest so long as the
! chaotic conditions are permitted to
• continue In Germany and other war-
I tort countries.
T>ofctfc* CK
By the Ex-Committeemen
' L Jl
When Pennsylvania's legislators
assemble at The Capitol to-morrow
for the opening of the general
assembly it will be the 123 rd of the
kind since 1776. There were earlier
assemblies of people's law-making
representatives back in the days of
the Penn government and the Penn
sylvania lawmakers were not always
well beloved. The first assembly
of free Pennsylvania dates front the
year of independence, the represen
tatives of the Keystone State meet
ing in Philadelphia on November
28, 1776.
Under the constitution of 1776,
framed by Pennsylvanians with the
Philadelphia influence much to the
fore, the lawmakers met annually
and some fourteen sessions, some
lengthy, are recorded. These ses
sions were generally held in October.
Under the constitution of 1790 the
sessions were also held annually and
began in December, which continued
the rule until the constitution of
183 8, when January was fixed, only
one December session being listed.
This constitution of 1838 lasted
longer than any except the present,
which Is generally known as that of,
1873. Under it the biennial session
was ordained and January the time
for meetings. Two wars have oc
curred in the time of this document
and no special sessions were re
quired by those struggles. In fact
while there were two special ses
sions of the Senate there has been
but one special session, the historic
reform gathering called by the late
Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker
for January, 1906. In all twenty
three regular sessions have been
held under the constitution of 1873.
They have varied in length from
April to July, that of 1897, when
the old Capitol burned, extending
until July 1. Of late there has been
a tendency toward June sessions,
which, judging from newspaper ar
ticles, is not much desired for a
while. In fact, an April adjourn
ment would be popular if arranged
promptly.
The first session of the Legis
lature to be held in Ilarrisburg
was that of 1813. It met on Decem
ber 1 and adjourned on March 29
following. It was the thirty-seventh
assembly and sat in the old court
house where other legislatures sat
until January 2, 1522, when the
State House was finished and occu
pied with ceremony.
—Robert S. Spangler is the first
speaker to hail from York county
in many years and probably the first
Republican front York to get the 1
office. Back in the days when Penn
sylvania was often Democratic York
producer some big Democrats and
there are records of speakers of
either branch, but recent history
gives all the honors to Spangler.
—George J. Brennan, of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, will miss the
opening of the Legislature for the
first time in twenty-eight years. He
is in Florida but will be here for
the inauguration. Thomas ( M. Jones
or Samuel E. Hudson, two of the
oldest correspondents, died since the
last session.
The Legislature Correspondents'
Association will meet for organiza
tion the afternoon of Inauguration
Day.
The organization of the Legis
lature will miss James P. McNichol,
of Philadelphia, for whom.the Sen
ate will hold a memorial service.
The Senator was known to many
men.
—ln the House ex-Speaker Rich
ard J. Baldwin will not be in seat
No. 1. The Delaware veteran sat
in seven sessions but did not run
this time.
—State Chairman William E.
Craw, who will head the inaugural
committee, is now the senior
Senator.
—Representative John M. Flynn.
of Elk, is now House senior member
with Fred C. Elirhardt next. Flynn
dates from 1903, while Ehrhardt I
came along a session later.
—Governor-elect Sproul will sit
at the organization of his thirteenth
consecutive session to-morrow when
he will resign. The Public Ledger
says: '"Mr. Sproul describes this
business of a Governor's staff as so
much "military camouflage," and he
undoubtedly will take no action in
any event until Pennsylvania's fight
ing men return from the battlefields.
Then, if he does appoint a staff, it
will be made up of real colonels
whose deeds entitle them to that
high rank.'"
—The long list of Brumbaugh ap
polnments will be sent to the Sen
ate Committee on "executive nom
inations" when submitted to-mor
row. This was done in 1915. Ar.%
some will not come out again.
—Senator Penro'se says there will
be a new' chapter in Philadelphia in
spite of the Vares.
—Philadelphia newspapers say:
"Governor-elect William C. Sproul
has offered the post of First Deputy
Attorney General to ex-Judge Rob
ert S. Gawthrop, of West Chester.
It is understood Mr. Gawthrop will
accept the appointment. He will
take the place of William H. Keller,
of Lancaster. Deputy Attorneys
General Emerson Collins, of Wil
liamsport, and William M. Hargest,
of Harrisburg, will be retained.
"Appointments as Deputy Attor
neys General will "be offered to Bar
nard J. Myers, for nine years City
Solicitor of Lancaster, and W. I.
Swoope, of Clearfield."
A BOLSHEVIK COLLEGE
(From the New Orleans Item)
The former Danish minister to
Petrograd is authority for the state
ment that the Bolshevik! have estab
lished a special revolutionary school
at Moscow under the direction of
Professor Radek, the revolutionary
leader, where agitators from all
parts of the world are receiving in
struction and fitting themselves for
missionary work.
It would be Interesting to receive
a prospectus of Dr. Redek's univer
sity and an outline of its course of
study. Presumably little attention
will be paid to bomb-throwing, the
handling of explosives and the like,
these being purely elementary
branches. One Would look rather
for special emphasiß to be laid upon
the Theory and Art of Bolshevizing
and Approved Methods of Dealing
with the Bourgeoisie and securing
their possessions without using phys
ical force. Advanced students might
take up the problems. How to col
lect taxes without taking money
away from anybody, and The coun
ter-revolution and how to counter it.
Billy's Still Vigorous
Billy Sunday's Kansas City friends
will be glad to know that- he's still
hitting them up against the cent'er
ticld fence. In a recent sermon
Billy remarked that "the Kaiser has
sunk so low he'll have to take an
airplane to get to hell."—Kansas
City Star.
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Some Thoughts For Germany |
[From the Nation's BusinesS] i
New industries that have (level- j
oped in the United States since the j
European war began in 1914' have!
an important place in the Tariff
Commission's annual report. In
1917 some 190 tirms were manufac
turing coal-tar chemicals and 81 |
making dyes. In 1918 progress was!
made in remedying the earlier de- |
feet in our production of coal-tar j
dyes in that but small quantities of j
indigo and fast vat dyes were made !
in our plants.
Citric acid, lactic acid of an edible j
grade and formic acid are being :
made from American materials, j
Chamoisette gloves which used to !
come from Saxony Wave been added
to our domestic products. The devel
opment of our heavy-chemltal in- j
dustry is part of the history of the i
development of our strength in war.
Optical glass which used to come
from Germany was developed in
seven months. Glass for pictures
and photographic plates is being
made by a machine process that will
defy foreign competition. Siphon
bottles of which Germany and Aus
tria sold us 1,000,000 a year are
turned out by an automatic ma
chine.
New devices and systems have in- |
creased the competitive power of
our potteries. Decalcomanias for
transferring designs to white ware i
60 per cent, of which used to come |
from Germany and 40 per cent, from I
England now come to the extent of
90 per cent, from American fac
tories. Porcelain guides which our
textile mills used to buy in Ger
many for their looms are now Am
erican made. Chemical pottery, the |
manufacture of which was practi-!
cally unknown in the United States j
ha become an item in our industries. |
In little .move than a year the War j
Department called for ?8,500,000
worth of surgical instruments and j
our manufacturers who had made !
mostly soft-metal goods responded j
and replaced the steel articles that j
Ge.rmany used to supply.
What Is Secret of ths Czech?
If you ask the Czech himself, he
will tell you that the secret of his
life is perhaps what President Wil
son calis enthusiasm. He calls it
love—love of country, which lays
down life without question or stint;
love of beauty, without which he
considers life stupid, neither to be
lived through with joy nor departed
from with dignity. In this esthetic
apprehension which we call by the
thin and unsatisfactory word "taste"
the Czech is like the French —surely
he must be likened sooner or later
to the French!—beariii# the mark
of a race old in living, rich in tradi
tion, discerning in its appreciations.
He is, too, a lover of love, worship
ping women; a lover of life, more
joyous than the Russian, less light
minded than the Gaul. A lover not
of the form, but of the substance.
Life is short; youth is short; it is
to laugh, to work, to weep, to think,
to love, to be aware of that complex
and ever-changing stream of con
sciousness. When a Czech dies,
somehaw one feels that one may say
of hinmwhat may not be said of
every man, "He is dead, but he has
lived."
If you ask the American he will
tell you that the Czech's secret is
"Allied ideals with Teuton training."
It Is his efficiency that endears him
to the American, especially if he
is recuperating from the Russian
army.—Olive Gilbreath in Harper's
Magazine for January.
LABOR NOTES
Cleveland fire fighters have secured
an eight-hour day.
Lumbermen are in keen demand
in Maine forests.
Sunday work has been stopped in
the United States navy yards.
Indiana coal mines set a record
for production in October by produc
ing 3,037,751 tons.
Ten states now have women mem
bers on the executive councils cf
their state labor bodies.
Food, drug and tobacco plants
throughout the country employ 125,-
000 women workers.
| Railroad trackmen and mninten
ance-of-way employes in Columbus,
Ind., have organized.
Members of the Baltimore Stereo
|ty par's Union are receiving a war
I bonus of $2 a week.
A New Motor-Fuel
(From the Literary Digest.)
SO many "false alarms" have
raised vain hopes of new motor
fuels that it is refreshing to
hear that official tests vouch for a
substitute for gasoline which has
been named "Liberty fuel," de
scribed in The American Machinist
(New York, December 5). Al
though its exact composition and
the method of production are not
given we are told that it is derived
from a kerosene base by distillation,
and that chemical details may be
obtained from the JJnited States
Bureau of Standards, under whose
auspices tests have been made at
the United States Naval Academy.
According to these tests the new
iluid is superior to gasoline in many
respects, being non-corrosive, start
ing easily, leaving no residue, giv
ing greater mileage, and requiring
less air for combustion. The cost
of production is said to be less
than that of gasoline and the quan
tity may be varied in manufacture
to suit the requirements of different
industries. It is to be hoped that
the test of actual daily use on the
road, which will not come until the
fuel is put upon the market, will
bear out these somewhat roseate
statements. We read in The Ma
chinist:
"Unlike the stories that we have
had of hew fuels may by dropping
some sort of a mysterious pill into
water or some other equally inex
pensive liquid, this fuel is made from
kerosene as a base, as is the case
with the gasoline now produced. Nor
is it one of those accidents that
sometimes occur, but a carefully
studied method, the result of seven
years' work by Edwin C. Welsgerber,
Captain of Engineers in the Division
of Research and Development. Cap
tain Weisgcrber was fortunately
placed under the command of Major
O. B. Zimmerman, who, with his
long experience in internal-combus
tion motors, not only encouraged him
in the face of opposition, but aided
htm materially by practical sugges
tions from the motor end.
"The possibility of some such ac
complishment has been pointed out
by Bacon and Ilamor under the
heading of 'Peroxided Kerosene,'
but it remained for tAe Engineer
ing Division of the Army, in the
person of Captain Welsgerber, to
make the matter a reality. The
great difference between this pro
cess and others is that this is a
chemical method while the others
now employed are mechanical and
the possibilities of a greatly in
creased supply of motor-fuel at a
greatly decreased price make the
name Liberty particularly appro
priate.
"Over seven years ago Captain
Welsgerber started work on the
problem of finding a gasoline sub-
Red Cross Work in Palestine
For relief in Palestine the amount
appropriated to December 31 was
$470,000, comprising $320,000 for
industrial and social work, $lOO,OOO
for general relief, and $50,000 for
the medical department. The scope
of the commission, headed by Dr.
John H. Finley, was extended late
in October to cover the Near East,
including Palestine, Egypt, Syria
and Asia Minor. The suffering
brought upon the Holy Hand by
war is shown by the fact that a
third of the population of Lebanon
died of hunger and , disease. Epi
demics have raged unchecked. Tens
•of thousands of people were, in dire
need until relief came in the wake
of the British victories. In a single
month the Red Crosa cared for 10,-
000 sick civilians an" thousands of
Armenian refugees.—"The March of
the Red Cross," In the January Red
Cross Magazine.
A RATIONAL CONCLUSION
Not long ago I viewed with much
misgiviilfe
My form dnce typical of manly
grace, •
And paler grew the smile born of
good living
As rose my weight at an alarm
ing pace;
Now, as I draw my frugal war-time
ration
And view a figure once more
trim and svelte,
! I deem the foe—quite in the Teuton
fashion— •
! Once more has vainly struck be
low the belt. ~Punch
stitute. and his experience took hint
to various parts of the globe. He
had practically perfected the fuel
before entering the Army, the ad
ditional research and tests giving
it the finishing touches. The result
ia Liberty fuel, which, according to
reports of the Division of Research
Development, has the following
characteristics:
"The fuel is practically scentless
and tasteless and the products of
combustion are cooler than with
gasoline, which reduces the amount
of lubricant necessary as well as
the problems of cooling. It is also
noncorroslve • and has a less dele
terious effect on motors than gaso
line.
"It starts more easily than gaso
line and will explode at a tempera
ture below zero, this point being
readily controlled in manufacture.
It leaves no residue. The effect of
the explosion is 30 per cent, greater
than gasoline, but this, as well as
the quality and specific gravity, can
be cdntrolled at will. It will not ex
plode prematurely, and only ignites
from spark or flame.
"It has been shown to give greater
mileagfa in airplanes, automobiles,
mOtor-cycles, motor-trucks, and
tractors. It requires less air for
combustion, can be made at much
less cost than gasoline, and uses as
a base a product (kerosin) which
can readily be obtained in any de
sired quantity. It can be substituted
for gasoline for any purpose. It
needs no special apparatus and rto
special engine or carbureter.
During the tests at the Naval Air
Station at' Anacostia, Liberty fuel
was found much superior to the best
gasoline, and with the motor running
1,600 revolutions • per minute the
wateV in the radiator never exceeded
160 degrees Fahrenheit, and the oil
in the crank-case did not go above
130 deferces. This quality of main
taining low temperature may help to
solve some of the radiation problems
ot aviation engineers.
"Jhose interested in the chemical
details relating to the temperuture
of distillation can obtain them from
the report of the Bureau of Stand
ards. these tests having been made
under the supervision of Dr. Dickin
son. who has been in charge of the
motor-development tests during the
war. The fuel is obtained by distil
lation and the quality can be varied
to 'fault the requirements of different
industries.
"There have been so many false
alarms regarding the problem of
fuel for hiternal-Combustlon motors
that one hesitates to become en
thusiastic over a question of this
kind, but it seems that Major Zim
merman and Captain Weisgerber
have sdcoebded in producing a new
Liberty fuel. The need for such a
fuel is beyond question, and it is
stated that arrangements have been
completed for making it available In
the near future."
. New Era For Women
Certainly a new era for woman
has dawned, when three million
women in France appeal to the
women of America and Great Bri
tain to unite their social position
and.culture, their offices and honors,
for the protection and relief of many
thousand young women and girls of
Belgium and, France who have suf
fered unspeakable wrongs at the
hands of German soldiers. Through
more than four years these girls
have dwelt in a Gethsemane. Each
morning the Hun has mixed for
them a bitter cup of pain and
anguish. Multitudes of these young
women are now being released to re
turn to their homes, to bring with
them half-German babes. So black
Is their piteous tragedy that it ap
peals to the women of the whole
world. Projected by three thou
sand miles of ocean, our women of
America have been exempt from
attack. Now comes the opportunity
when our strong women can bear
the . burden of their weak and
wounded sisters abroad. Men honor
crippled soldiers and recognize them
as heroes. .Why should not the best
women of every land unite in forg
ing a shield to lift above the wound
ed girls of France and Belgium?
Every American women's club,
every woman's college, should make
Immediate answer to the appeal of
the women of France for help in this
houf, when thousands of broken
hearted girls can be held back from
suicide, Insanity, and helped to gain
a Arm foothold upon which they
may stand for the 'working out of
a life career that In the nature of
the case now, must be brief and
full of pain.-—Newell Dwight Hlllis.
JANUARY 6, 1919. "
CROSSES OF WAR
One of the best of American poets
is Mary Raymond Shipman An
drews. who is also one of the most
successful authors of ' worth-while
novels. In "Crosses of War" Mrs.
Andrews has nine poems that are
imbued with the military spirit, a
singer's tribute to fighting heroes
and to the brave souls at home, The
final poem is "The Boy in France,"
which we give here:
Steeped in hot have of the August
afternoon,
The garden dreams in a many
splendored trance:
The locusts drone a long, insistent
tune:
And the hoy—the bojPs in France.
Down the stone steps the rose
plnlc phloxes stand.
Like delicate sculptures, through
the breathlesss day.
Brilliant yet shadowy, as the bright,
vague land;
And the boy—the boy's away.
The dogs about the terrace listless
lie,
Waiting a springing step they
used to know:
We wait, we also—and the days
crawl by:
The boy—we miss him so.
Green fields reach over hills to tields
of gold:
Far off the city glitters, gay but
wan:
The radiant scene breathes loneli
ness untold:
The boy—the boy is gone.
Sudden his service flag's impetuous
V. story
Flashes a bugle note across the
flowers;
Sudden the aching loss is pride and
glory:
lie is in France —he s ours!
Lad of my heart! From all across
your land
One thought wings to that land
of old romance:
One proud America stretches a long
ing hand
To the boy—the boy in France!
Point of Foch's Strategy
The outstanding feature of Foch's
generalship is that he has kept the
Uatt'e going continuously for two
months on an ever-widening front,
which embraced eventually the
whole one hundred and fifty miles
[from Flanders to Champagne. Be
fore Foch made his counter-stroke
both Allied and German generals
had, after months of preparation,
and by employing a great superiority
of force upon a comparatively nar
row battle-front, sustained an offen
sive for long periods, but no com
mander before. Foch, In this war,
has succeeded on the western front
in waging battle with continuous
and ever-growing success without
greatly superior numbers and with
out long preparation. It is well
known that before the second battle
of the Marno the German forces on
the western front were superior to
those of the French and British. It
is also well known that, although
the number of American troops in
France was large, those whose train
ing for battle was completed were
not. prior to General Pershing's
victory at St. Mihle 1 , very numerous.
The measure of Foch's genius is
shown by the fact that he has in
flicted a crushing defeat upon the
enemy without any great preponder
ance of force. The enemy's swift
| progress in March and in May was
| possible because he had great
weight behind his blows: the Allied
! progress was more deliberate be
cause that weight was lacking. Now
that the ultimate defeat of Germany
has come, we know that in Marshal
Foch the Allies have had a leader of
the first rank. The Hindenburg-
Ludendorff combination has proved
to be no better than that of any
other German commanders who
have tried their hands in the west
and failed.—Maj.-Gen. Sir Freder
ick Maurice in Harper's Magazine
for January.
A Certain Green-Eyed Monster
(By Esther Lilian Duff)
Charles gave Elizabeth a Dodo,
Charles never offered one to me—
i Thp loveliest lemon-colored Dodo
With the greenest eyes that you
could wish to see.
Now It isn't that I'm doubting if
Charles loves me,
And 1 know that he would ask
me out to :ea,
But he did give Elizabeth a Dodo,
And he never even offered one to
me.
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iEmtittg CCJjat |
"The dtffliculty in thd way of Ma
yor Keister's suggestion of a grow
ing Christmas tree in one of our
parks," said Dr. Thomas S. Blair,
to a Telegraph man, "is this:
"The evergreens, especially thosd
forming 'needles,' do not survive for
long in the atmosphere of a manu
facturing city using soft coal. The
leaves of an evergreen must breathe
just like the leaves of a deciduous
tree. The soot, gases and acida in
out; atmosphere choke all leaves
more or less; but there is not time,
in the growing period of a few
months, to kill deciduous leaves,
so they merely drop oft earlier in
the season than in places with
cleaner atmosphere, or many of the
leaves do. Evergreens hold their
leaves for so long that city gases ami
smoke quite choke them; they cease
to function, and the tree dies.
"Incidentally, our impure air is
Just as hard on human beings; but
man Is a hard animal to kill."
• * •
An interesting "follow up" on the
article of a week ago in this column
on Conrad "Wetser and his Indian
friend, Shlkillemy, is that the two
were among the early Prohibition
ists of Pennsylvania. It is about
150 years since the famous chief who
used to come down the Susquehanna
from Shamokin creek urged the
colonial authorities to forbid the
furnishing ot' whisky and rum to
the braves. He had seen the ter
rible effects in the villages of the
Susquehanna and the tragedies in
more than one settlement,, predict
ing that liquor would be the ruin of
the Indians of the country. About
the same time Weiser was writing
to colonial authority after author
ity seseeching them to halt the sale
and to forbid the trading or gift
of liquor to the Red Men. Time
and again Weiser was called out to
exert his influence to keep Indians
off the war path and after every call
ho renewed his warnings. The result
was very much what one could ex
pect when traders' business was apt
to be affected is not an ancient argu
ment by any means. Hence, it is
appropriate that a cold water foun
tain dedicated to two heroic enough
in that far off time to urge prohl
j bition should be at least taken from
I its resting place in a marble yard
I in the year when it looks as though
I Pennsylvania may bo in the "dry 1 *
column.
In connection with the tavern of
"Cooney" Knepley, one of the South
Harrisburg hotels of lonfc ago to
which reference was made some
days since, Eugene Snyder, the
lawyer, tells an interesting anecdote.
Back in the days before the Mexir
can war many people in Harrisburg
especially down town, had flocks of
geese. They were particularly the
affairs of the women folks and not
only furnished an occasional roast,
a source of income from fowls or
eggs, but likewise the feathers for
those early articles of good bedding
of which our day and generation
has only memories. The birds pre
ferred the sidewalks for promenades
and got to be such a nuisance that
the borough fathers enacted an or
dinance forbidding people to allow
any geese at all at large. This was
an infringement on Harrisburg liber
ties and the women folks just ig
nored it, while the geese in solemn,
silent contempt continued to stalk
over downtown pavements. The
newspapers contained some official
announcements and fulminatlons
and the air many words. Then,
said Mr. Snyder, Knepley, the high
constable, stentorian and vigorous
arm of the law, was called upon to
do his duty. Knepley arrested every
goose. The captures were a noisy
occasion and deaf alike to expostu
lations of housewives and hissing of
geese Knepley herded the fowls into
the big yard of his hotel. "There
must have been hundreds of them,"
said Mr. Snyder. "The arrest of the
geese made a great hubbub but
Knepley remained firm and kept
the geese locked up over night.
Finally he announced that they
would be turned loose next day at
noon. Every woman owning geese
was duly on hand and so were all
the boys, you may be sure. There
was great fear among the women
lest in the liberation the geese would
get mixed. Well, when tho time
came "Cooney" opened the gates and
instead of a stampede of geese the
ganders walked out, each onb with
nis tiock and hit the trail for home.
Not a goose was lost. The ganders
knew the way home and every fowl
followed. All the women and boys
had to do was to watch the parade."
• • •
The United States cruiser, Co
lumbia, which has been engaged in
war work in the vicinity of New
York has been under command of
Captain Harry E. Brlnser, of this
clTyr When the war broke out the
captain, who is a son of C. L.
Brinser, of Front and Emerald
streets, was stationed in Washington,
but has been at sea for some time,
the coming of peace disclosed.
WASH THE STREETS!
(From the Literary Digest.)
To dry-clean a dirty street with
scrapers and brooms is no more sat
isfactory than to rub the body with
a dry cloth us a substitute for a bath.
Washington is the true method of
ridding a surface of undesirable mat
ter, whether that surface is the skin
of one's face or the pavement of a
thoroughfare. An editorial writer in
Engineering and Contracting (Chi
cago, November 28) notifies the
munugers of water-works plants that
though they do not ordinarily have
charge of street-cleaning, it lies
within their power to assist, both
directly and indirectly, in secur
ing cleaner streets. He goes on:
"And by 'cleaner streets' we do
not mean streets free only of visible
dirt, but streets free of the invisible
microbes that ride upon tho finest
grains of dust. Water, the great
cleanser, should bo applied dally in
large quantities to all business
streets, and at frequent intervals
to all paved residence streets. The
germ-laden dust should be flushed
Into the sewers before it can spread
pneumonia, tuberculosis, grippe, or
Influenza, and other diseases of the
nose, throat, and lungs.
"It devolves upon every conscien
tious man who knows the efficacy
of water as a sanitary agent to do
his best to arouse the public and
its representatives to the desirabil
ity of flushing all paved streets peri
odically. The superintendent of every
water-works is particularly one who
should never rest until his city's
streets are as clean as a hospital
floor. While it is his duty to prevent
the waste of water by meterage and
otherwise,. It is also his duty to en
courage the consumption of more
water for sanitary purposes and for
garden Irrigation. A low per-caplta
consumption of water should not be
his ultimate goal, but rather as
high a per-caplta consumption as
may be attained after eliminating
all waste. \