12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. XEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Ilalldlng, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, itusi ness Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Moord J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. . , , All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American fSSIt Ushers' P Assocla- ! {j !at[on"and Pcnn jjjj'ij 4 flab office,! Sfil gilt Hi Btory . Brooks & JgS 22 25 Avenue Building. | qLb Bu Hi l P n g, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. gfP*?Ti By carrier, ten cents a Tfcffif.'a*rgiifrr> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. There are the sins I fain Would have Thee take away: Malice and cold disdain, Hot anger and sullen hate, Scorn of the lowly and envy of the great, And discontent that casts a shadowy gray On all the brightness of a common day. —Van Dyke. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919 THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE death of Theodore Roose velt finds the nation all unpre pared for the event. It is true there had come intimations that the Colonel was not in the best of health. He had undergone an oper ation and was in a hospital. But we j thought little of that. Roosevelt, ] the strenuous; Roosevelt, the | "Rough Rider," boxer, wood-chop- j per, hunter, explorer, was the very j embodiment of American strength | and vigor. Death and he were not i to be considered in the same J thought. And so the news from j Oyster Bay yesterday morning was a severe shock to millions of Ameri cans. What a pity, since he had to go, j that he could not have had his j heart's desire and have laid down his life for his country and have i died with his brave son on the ffelds ! of France. The life of Theodore Roosevelt ' is part and parcel of the history of j the times In which he lived. The , twain are inseparable. Like Grover j Cleveland ho wilt grow in popular I estimation as the years provide a | clearer perspective of the greatness j of his figure. Roosevelt's was a positive person- j altty. He made strong friendships { and violent enmities. He was never ' lukewarm in his likes and dislikes, | nor ih his policies. "The man -who never made a mistake never did anything." lie was fond of saying, and as the Colonel was a big man, ■o his mistakes, when he made them, were big. But his accom- i plishments for good immeasurably i outweigh his errors, just as his I many virtues outnumber the faults such a fiery and impetuous charac ter must have so long as men are less than angels. Roosevelt was a great and typical American. Whatever men said of him in the heat of political contro- ' versy, they did not doubt his sin- j • cerlty nor question his patriotism. 1 He was closer to tho people of the country probably than any other man. He had abiding faith in Am erica and Americans and his one passion was for the preservation and up-building of the nation; the advancement of the common people i and the development on these shores | of a government as nearly ideal as the frailties of humanity will per- : mit. Ho was of a magnetic person- i ality, a leader of power to sway and j to organize. He was the stormy ■ petrel of the American politics for ! years and yet he so lived that "whpn the summons came to Join the in numerable caravan" he approached the grave "like one that draws the drapery of his couch about him and ! lies down to pleasant dreams." j His calm passing is in strong con- . trast with his tempestuous career; 1 just as a nation that accepted him with divided opinion yesterday will unite now in acclaiming him as a truely great American whose life an<J deeds will stand out sharply in the history of the period. ■ THE KUNKEL BEQUESTS public bequests of Charles A. I Kunkel will be gratefully re ceived by their beneficiaries. But more than that, they will pro vide Inspiration for other men. Mr. Kunkel looked upon himself not as ths owner but the steward ot his TUESDAY EVENING. | wealth. He acted accordingly both ! during his life and in his will. This Is a proper attitude. The man who has made a fortune in Harrisburg ougljt to turn a part of his money back to the uses of the community which made his rise in life possible. Every man or wom an who has means above the needs of his heirs should think seriously of following Mr. Kunkel's lead in Harrisburg. Thero have been in the past all too many will-makers with absolutely no conception of their duties to the city and its institu tions. With the return of our military units from overseas and the camps of the United States serious attention should be given to the erection of a suitable armory in this city for all branches of the service. No city is more deserving consideration in this matter than Harrisburg. THE RUSSIAN CRISIS MUCH interest has developed recently in the Italian phase of the peace negotiations, and very properly so. for thero is bound to be some clash between the pres ent Italian foreign minister and the Jugo-Slavs with respect to the con trol of territory fronting on the Adriatic. But that can be adjusted by diplomatic interchange, and no doubt will be without further blood shed. But Russia is the real prob lem and it demands immediate at tention. If the Allies can get to gether the forces in Russia that oppose the Bolshevik! that mon strous despotism can be crushed easily. The Allies ought to encourage the movement to unite the Ukranlans, the Don Cossacks, the Orenburg Cossacks and the lesser elements opposed to Lenine, and provide them with means to overthrow the impossible Bolsheviki, as they de sire to do. Although the Bolsheviki have many followers throughout the Ukraine, they never were predomi nant, even in the shipbuilding cities of the Black Sea. In the Don region and in the Caucasus and Trans- Caucasus their hold has been even slighter. Cossacks of all sorts have been enemies of the Bolsheviki, as they are all landholders and unalter ably opposed to the domination of their districts by outsiders. Many British naval and military officers, as well as civil officials, have left London for the Black Sea district since the signing of the armistice and commercial interests are also sending representatives to look the situation over preparatory to opening up the extensive oil and grain districts. Siberia, the Ukraine, Finland and the new government at Archangel shut Bolshevik Russia off entirely from Its ports, and the unfriendli ness of the government in all these sections to the Moscow government under Lenine is dally increasing the strain on soviet Russia. The new governments in these various sec tions which have refused to accept Bolshevism are not as stable as the Entente powers might wish. While they all express their desire to be come a part of Russia should fed oration become possible under an acceptable central government, the political differences in all the four sections named have been keen, and party quarrels and the ambition of rival leaders have frequently ex ceeded patriotism In the struggle for power. Only about 40,000,060 inhabitants now remain under Bolshevik con trol. Tho total population of the Russian empire as it existed before the revolution was estimated at 180,- 000,000. The great majority of this population is in the portion of Russia south of Bolshevik rule, which is far the richest and mogt populous portion of the former em pire. Consequently, developments in South Russia should be watched with great eagerness. A stable cen tral government established at Kiev, Odessa or Sebastopol and recognized by the Allies would control the great majority of Russia's natural re sources, especially if it gained con trol of the Volga and established communication with the mineral de posits of the Urals, and the grain fields of Siberia. Such a government would natur ally be the key to Russia's political and economic future. Northern Russia is sterile In contrast with the south. Its lands are poor. Moscow and Petrograd Industries depend en tirely upon distant centers for their raw products. The factories and in. dustrial populations of North Russia, or soviet Russia, are entirely within districts which cannot feed themselves. And therein lies the greatest inherent weakness of the Russian Bolshevik movement. It is based on theories which are re pugnant to the districts which pro duce the foodstuffs and can starve soviet Russia as a sign of their dis approval. Senator Lodge urges an early peace pact. Fewer royal welcomes and more business, in other words. TOMMY-ROT SO the "Third Class City League Is organizing to resist any at tempt to change the Clark Act!" What a foolish attitude! The poor old Clark Act is so rotten that it ought to be revamped before It falls to pieces. It never was any thing but a hastily concocted ex perimental makeshift and Its opera ttons'have been grossly expensive to the cities that must operate under It. Harrisburg, for one, would be glad to see the whole law repealed and something better framed to take Its place. But as to resisting any at tempt to change the law, that is all tommy-rot. The only persons in terested in it are those who are get ting good salaries under it who fear they may lose their jobs if the act is amended or revised. That is thq whole story. The Third Class City League is made up of Job holders. "* T fMti c£n. "puoi^uLcuua. By the E.t- Committeeman William H. Keller, of Lancaster, I First Deputy Attorney General, was j at 9.30 last night appo'nietl by Gov- I ernor Brumbaugh a judge in the Su ! perlor Court, to succeed John W. j Kepliart, who was elected to the Su j prerne Court last November. Judge j Kephort was sworn in as a member ' of tho Supreme fiench in Philadel- I phia yesterday, among those witness- I ing the ceremony being A'.torney | General Francis Shunk Brown. Rumors on Capitol Hill during the , day that Mr. Keller would be named for the plate were thick, and tho ap pointment \vas announced through the Governor's office at 9.30 o'clock. | Attorney General Brown, who spoke >n the highest praise of Mr. Keller •r.st night, said his appointment to the Superior Court bench would not require the confirmation of rli> Sen ate as that bodv does not como into existence uutil noon to-day. Some surprise was expressed among Republican "members of the Legislature over the Governor's ac tion in naming a successor to Judge Kephart on the eve of the meeting of the Legislature, Some thought he would leave the appointment to Governor-elect Sproul. Mr. Keller will serve on the bench one year until Ills successor is se lected at the election next November and takes his seat in January, 1920. —lt is now reported that at an early date tho appointment of Gov ernor Brumbaugh as State Historian will bo revoked. No meeting of the official Wat Hoard of tie State is scheduled, nir is one likely :o ho held before January 21. when Gov ernor Sproul will replace Brum baugh and Lieutenant Governor Beidleman will take the place of Frank B. McClain. The selection of Governor Brumbaugh was made sev eral weeks ago by the Public Safety Committee. A meeting had been held prior to that time, at which the af fair was talked over. —The Republican caucuses of Representatives and Senators took place last night at the Capitol with cut end dried precision. Harmony was the watchword. Senator Clar ence J. Buckman. of Bucks county, was Indorsed as the Republican can didate for president pro tempore of the Senate, and Robert S. Spang!er, cC Vcrk, received the designation for Speaker of the House, both without a single dissent.ng vote. It was a foregone conclusion that the two will be elected to the rcrpective offices to day as the Democrats arc iff n hope less minority in both chambers. Their caucuses designutod Asa K. Dowitt, of Luzerne, as candidate for president pro tempore, and Henry L Laa.ius, of York, for Speaker. —ln his speech of acccpance Rob ert S. Spangler won liis bearers with a short and clear-cut statement of his policies. He said the Republicans ought to take care that the harmony which had prevailed during the cam paign should characterize the ses sions of the Legislature. He also de clared emphatically for a short ses sion and said he had an agrement on this principle frtfm such state 'eaders os Governor-elect Sproul, Senator Penrose, "the Messrs. Vare," Mayor Babcock, Senator Crow and Auditor General Snyder. He advised that the Legislature reform its procedure, es pecially with regard to committee routine, so that the session could dis pose of the state's business with ef liciency in a short space of time. On this point he had the following to say. "It is my wish and no doubt it is the wish and expectation of each one of you to make this session of the Legislature as brief as the business of the state will permit. I believe that tho coming session can be ma terially shortened if each one of us will bear his full share of the burden In the legislative program of the House. In the past we have been handicapped by failure of the com mittees to get down to solid work in the early part of the session, causing congestion later on and lack of prop er consideration of important legis lation that was vither delayed In its introduction or its consideration postponed by the pommittees. "During previous Legislatures it has been the custom to pnduly de lay consideration of the general and other important appropriation bills. This procrastination on' the part of the House resulted in hasty and im mature consideration and passage of these bills, with the result that in their aggregate they greatly exceed ed the revenues of the state, so that the Governor was compelled to per form tho task of shearing off the appropriations to meet the avail able revenue of the state. I trust that this gruve error can be avoid ed at the present session. I feel that legislative activity early in the session would greatly relieve us of the crowding that has in the past harassed our closing hours. "I have recently had the honor of conferring with many of our state Republican leaders, including Gov ernor-elect Sproul, Senator Penrose, the Messrs. Vare, Mayor Babcock, Senator Crow and Auditor General Snyder. I feel sure that these lead ers, as /well as the great body of people of Pennsylvania, will look forward to a harmonious session for 1919, a session that will give to the people of the state good laws in moderate quantity, enacted by a Legislature that knows when to ad journ." —Representative McCnlg, Thirty second Congressional district, was made chairman of the House slate committee. The other members are: First district, Cox. Philadelphia: Second, Scott, Philadelphia; Third, Curry, Philadelphia; Fourth, Con ner, Philadelphia; Fifth, Dunn, Phil adelphia; Sixth, Hefferman, Phila delphia; Seventh, Ramsey; Eighth, Haldeman; Ninth, Herr, Lancaster; Tenth. Jones, Lackawanna; Eleventh, Powell, Luzerne; Twelfth. Schaeffer! Schuylkill; Thirteenth. Evans, Le high; Fourteenth, Jennings, Brad ford; Fifteenth, Williams, Tioga; Sixteenth, Clements, Northumber land; Seventeenth, Benlchoff, Frank lin; Eighteenth, Ulher, Dauphin; Nineteenth, Smith, Bedford; Twen tieth, Brooks, York; Twenty-first, Ooodnough, Cameron; Twenty-sec ond, Huggnrd, Westmoreland; Twen ty-third, Sinclair, Fayette; Twenty fourth, Sprowls, Washington; Twen ty-fifth, Bhunk, Erie; Twenty-sixth, | Zanders, Carbon;, Twenty-seventh, HARRISBtTRG TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS / n> to Vou OS~SOM.G ) (it must \ / BEAuur N j ( v . I 1 eetfo \ JI'YKIGUT 1918. NEW YORK^TRIBUNE nJ^ Davis, Indiana; Twenty-eighth. Big-1 ler, Mercer; Twenty-ninth, Stadt- j lander, Allegheny; Thirtieth, Bald- ! ridge, Allegheny; Thirty-lirst, Wag- j ner, Allegheny. —The Senate caucus was brief. I At the suggestion of Senator Crow, . of Fayette Senator Sproul presided, j The Governor-elect was applauded I by the thirty-eight Senators present as he took the chair. Senator Vare, Philadelphia, nominated Senator Clarence J. Buckman, of Bucks county, for reelection as president pro tem of the Senate. The nomi nation was seconded by Senator Sny der, of Blair, and Mr. Buckman was unanimously selected. The following were named mem bers of the steering committee to select the employes of the Senate: Crow, Fayette; Vare, Philadel phia; Catlin, Luzerne; Eyre, Ches ter; Leslie Allegheny; McConnell, Northumberland, and Baldwin, of Potter. The Republicans decided to elect W. Harry Baker, Dauphin, as secre tary of the Senate; William P. Gal lagher, Luzerne, chief clerk, and Herman P. Miller, Senate librarian. Senator Snyder will be the teller on the part of the Senate to count the vote cast for Governor, Lieu tenant-governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs. —The Democratic members of the House in their caucus selected Henry, E. Lanius, of York county, as their candidate for speaker. John M. Flynn, of Elk county, was the cau cus chairman and Patrick H. Wynne, Luzerne county, secretary. Senator Asa K. Dewitt, Luzerne county, is the Democratic candidate for president pro tem of the Sen ate. Mr. Dewitt was named at the end of the last session of the Legis lature and the Democratic senator ial caucus merely confirmed that action. The Democrats have six rep resentatives in the Senate. EDITORIAL COMMENT [ How about Hibernia Irredenta?— ! Chicago Tribune. Holland is convinced that a Big j Bill is a liability.—Columbia Rec- j ord. The Huns expect us to go without | bread so they, can have cake. —Wor- cester Gazette. Blelaski is merely showing us how many geese can be caught by the propaganda.—Columbia Record. Germany needed none of her well known dyes to make the Hag that she finally hoisted. —Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. Germany acts as if she meant to rely on the plea of insanity when finally arraigned in court. —Louis- ! vllle Courier-Citizen. "You are still unbeaten," Ebert j is quoted as informing the Prussian | Guard. Boy, page the Marines!— New York Tribune. There are places In Europe where j the fourteen points appear to ! Scratch painfully. Philadelphia Evening Ledger. LABOR NOTES Carpenters in Japan get seventy- j five cents a day. Railway clerks employed on the West Shore Railroad are affiliated j with the trade union movement. Organized leather workers in this i country and Cnnada are paid $4.50 for an 8-hour day. Employes of the Dublin (Ireland) I movie houses have asked for increas- j ed wages and shorter working hours. Grand Rapids (Mich.) Steam Fit-, ters' Union haß established a new wage rate of 81% cents an hour. j Miss Mabel Gillespie of Boston has : been elected vice-president of the Massachusets State Federation of Labor. Foiled Gothas By Nets London Sent Up Balloons Carrying Mesh Inclosing City; and, Tangled In It, the Desperate Balding Crews of the liun Airships Mutinied Device Was Effective HOW London was ringed around with great nets that rose silently high in the heaven to catch the raiding Zeppelins and Gothas from Germany, and how the Hun pilots mutinied, after fighting these nets, is described as follows in a London letter to the Boston Transcript, under the heading, "They Fought the Hell in the Air:" Hell met them at the gate of Eng land, and fresh alarms and terrors were encountered at every mile. They knew, the raiders say, that the course they were following was being traced out minute by minute on an operations map in some head quarters. The wires beneath them were humming with coded signals. They knew that aerial barriers were being slammed behind them. To get in was comparatively easy—to get out again, as Napoleon said, was quite another matter. The knowledge of their approach, it well known now, was carried be fore them. One of the most won derful inventions of the war is the instrument which, like some giant stefhospope, heard with its super sensitive ears the faint humming on the breeze. It was the noise of the engines which gave the Gothas away. And it was the skilled, patiently trained men behind the "stethoscope" which controlled the movements of the alert searchlight crews, who, in turn, threw the spot light for the panting "Archie" boys. And what game they made of it! Scarcely a single Gotha came through that outer London barrage unscathed. Their recorded move ments show how the more daring of the pilots twisted and turned to find some loophole—while the faint heartß turned back to face, outnum bered four to one, the lurking night flying scouts, aloft with the spirit of the Raited lion, and driving ma- THE PATRIOT DINES (By Katharine Lee Bates) I'm a patriot; I'll not find fault with my dinner. My lady of Camelot Is likewise a patriot. The .soup is too thin; I'm not. Alack! I shall soon be thinner. But I am a patriot; I'll not find faalt with my dinner, I am a patriot. Thinking high thoughts like Plato. We must be thrifty—What! As I am a patriot. Nothing but shad! Great Scott! Carrots and boiled potato! i But 1 am a patriot, Thinking high thoughts like Plato. How He Lost His Leg Nothing is more irritating to a real fighting man than to be in terrogated about himself. Thoro was a sailor in a railway carriage. As he bad only one leg, he excited the interest of two elderly ladies, who In a round-about way began endeavor ing to find out how he lost his leg. For sonic time he sheered them oft. He did not like being cross-exam ined, but neither did he like to be rude. So at last he said: "Well, mums. If I tell' you how I lost my leg will you stop asking me questions aboht it?" "Of course welwlll," they prom ised. "Well mums," he answered, slyly, "It was bitten oft." —Sir John Foster Fraeer In Harper's. Magazine lor January, chines the like of which the world can show no equal. Drawn Into tlio Net Men who themselves "rode" the whirlwind of the barrage only can describe their experience. Machines in the rush of the bursting shells were thrown over on their backs, to dive and turn and be buffeted again. Propellers were split, engines tired, and crews mutilated while cringing on the floor of their compartments. This much we know for fact. Then came the terror of the unknown. All the world knows now of the balloon nets—the silent sentinels which, on the first raid warning, mounted guard thousands of feet above Lon don's suburban homes. The Ger mans who saw these things and lived to tell it say that the nets formed a complete ring round Bon don; that their position was con stantly changed, and future raids, except in small, high flying scouts, were futile. It was then they mu tinied. The way they came it took the Gothas around two and a half hours to reach the city. Lightened of bombs and petrol and flying as the crow, they could make the home run in two hours or under. The crews say it was the worst part of the journey. For one thing it was always a "scrape" with shor tening petrol and power to reach their airdromes, and at the back of their minds was the dread of the mist of low lying Belgium haying in the meantime enveloped their airdromes and blotted out the land marks. In the last raid of May 19- 20, when seven machines were shot down, no fewer than three were completely wrecked on landing. It was on the return trip also that they were pounced upon by the scouts. "Something worse than in cendiary bullets" was used, they said. One British pilot was in such close grips with his Gotha oppo nent that his face was scorched by the flames which ■ leaped up when the Huns' petrol tank exploded. Politics a Dead Language (From the London Post) Most of the politicians and most of the newspapers, are talking poll tics again just as if there had never been a war. But they do not seem to realize' that they are talking a dead language. They ought to be reminded that for more than four years the public has not cared a straw for party politics, and that we are now dealing with people who only dimly remember what a gener al election means. We should be gin at the very beginning and tell them what a parliament is, and what a party is, and what party funds are, and what a politician is, and what party loyalty means, and why can didates should be elected at all. For people have forgotten all that. If they are not told they may fall into all sorts of error. New Schools in Utah (From the New York Post.) Utah has recently put up six mod ern'district school buildings in Uinta county, and one of them will replace a tiny, ill lighted log cabin. It was not so many years ago that the pio neers of that state held school in tents, but school nevertheless was held, and as soon as they could spare time they built tho cabins. And now even Old Dry Fork has a $6,000 structure, "with standard class-rooms, corridors, offices, a li brary and all.". A Janitor wlllmoon be added. At Old Independence' the new school, must' do duty for flye tents used until now. JANUARY 7, 1919. " Pennsylvania Legislature (From the Scranton Republican.) Pennsylvania's greatest part In the world war. Industrially as well as In the valor of Its sons on the historic battlefields of France, furnishes a powerful incentive to the work of reconstruction with which the peo ble of this and every other state in the Union are now confronted and should stimulate at Harrisburg to morrow, to devote its energies to high service for the welfare of the commonwealth. History has been written large since the last meeting of the Gener al Assembly at the State Capitol, and | men have learned to take a broader view of their public duties than In former years. There are great ques tions demanding attention, and the spirit of the age requires that they shall be dealt with from the view point of progressive statesmanship. Among the problems to bo consid ered, in accordlnce with advanced ideas, are education, municipal gov ernment, apportionment, good roads, prohibition, suffrage and various other matters of timely Interest which will doubtless bo set forth in the piessuge of Governor-elect Sproul when he enters upon the duties of his office on the 21st of this month. The session of the General Assem bly will concern itssclf immediately with the organization of House and Senate. After the election of a Speaker of the House, and President pro tern of the Senate, a recess will be taken to afford the presiding of ficers an opportunity to appoint the committees essential to the work of legislation. No bill can bo consider ed without reference to committee, therefore, the appointment of com mittees is a necessary preliminary to the actual business of the session, but it is hoped this will not occasion much delay so that the work of the Legislature may be expedited. With a preponderant Republican majority in both branches of the Legislature, and a Republican Gov ernor, who was elected by a great majority, the responsibilities for wise legislation rests with the party that has long been pre-eminent in Pennsylvania, and they deserve to be met in a way that will best serve the interests of the state and meet with the approval of the people dur ing the days of construction and de velopment that are ahead. Lackawanna county is well rep resented in the next Legislature. The Senator and members of the House are men of experience in law making, and the interests of this city and county should be well cared for in such measures as may be con sidered during the session. j Interned Germans (From the New York Sun.) The request of the German Gov ernment, transmitted to the armis tice commission at Spa, for the lib eration of all interned Germans raises questions not only of military expediency, but of domestic policy. In this country the utmost consid eration has been shown to enemy aliens, and only those considered ac tually dangerous to the United States have been interned. So lib eral has the Government been that there has been a great deal of dis satisfaction with its handling of this matter. Already there is a demand that some of the aliens now under con finement shall be deported. If this I course is to be adopted new legisla- I tion may be necessary, and it should i be enacted before the individuals it i will affect are set free. Should the ■ Government decide, on the other hand, that we have nothing to fear ' from these once dangerous persons, they should not be thrown on their I own resources possibly to become the cause of disorder. ' It will not help an alien to have I it known that he was regarded as a l dangerous enemy during the period lof active hostilities. The liberated men will surely And many difficul ties in their paths here for a long ! time to come. What their lot would I be in Germany it is now impossible ito tell, but it is well known that I many men, and women of German I antecedents who two years ago were proclaiming their intention to make Germany their home after the war now talk in another fashion. The future of the interned enemy aliens is not to be decided offhand, but for their good and our good must have careful study. Berger's Greater Crime (From the Wilkes-Barre Record.) If Victor Berger is convicted of violation of the Espionage Act he will likely be sent to a penitentiary; but if lie is not convicted, will his I fellow members in Copgress toler ] ate his presence in that body? By his testimony in the trial he has con victed himself of a greater crime. He admits that he advised the work ing men of the country to engage in revolution, to have rifles and rounds of ammunition in their homes, to enlist under the rad flag of the I. W. W. No anarchist ever counseled greater menace to the government and institutions of the United States. Berger was a Bolshevist before that monstrous creed appeared in Russia. No man who advocates a "violent and bloody revolution" and the overthrow of government is a safe representative of the Amerlcnn peo ple and should not be permitted to remain in Congress. A copy of the .evidence he has given in this trial should be sufficient to warrant his immediate ejection. How He Got It The ex-Kaisqr is reported to bo suffering from earache. . Perhaps ho has been sitting near an open win dow and overheard some of the re marks made about him. —Kansas City Journal. President as Professor Fixit The way in which all peoples and all lands are taking their troubles to President Wilson for adjustment it looks as If there is a growing dis position to consider him the Profes sor Fixit of the world. —Boston Transcript. SOLDIER'S SONG I shall return, my lass, my lass; I shall be with you in the spring. War, like winter, will pass, will pass. I shall return! This is no final kiss I give: There will be more in months to come. Courage! Droop not gray and dumb! I shall live on—as you will live. How do I know? I cannot say. Ask of the robbins southward bound Love, we too shall both be found Here with a song this coming May. I shall return, my lass, my lass; I* shall be with you in the spring. ' . War like 'winter, will pass, will pass. I shall return! —Richard B\yer Glaenzer iir Bos ion Transcript.'" • I Eumttg (Eljal L C. J. C. Clarke, representing the government reclamation and re-edu cation service for wounded and dis abled soldiers, addressing the Rotary Club yesterday at luncheon, said that the government will give the disabled soldier one. two, three, even six or ten years of education if it is I necessary to fit him for a desired calling which his infirmities will permit him to fill'acceptably. "This is not cht.rity," he sftid. "The returned soldier who accepts! charity is looked upon by his fel lows as having a brotd yellow streak in his make-up aid there / are] mighty few of those. These men* have paid for their inaurancei The government owes then an oppor tunity to re-educate themselves for new callings, since it was in the service of the governmeit they lost their ability to hold their former positions. "Of course there are limitations," said ho smilingly. "For example, there was a man of foreigri birth who came to us recently a*d we asked him what line he woulg like to take up. He said he had heard that being a bank president was a fine job and paid well and he thought he'd like to train to he a bank president. Of course this is impossible, but the man can have a business training, or he can, If he Is fitted mentally, learn to be a doc tor, a druggist or a lawyer. Most of the men are seeking mechanical jobs, the kind they had before going to war, and it is up to the employ ers of the country to see that they receive work. In case they cannot wages in their occupa tions, the labor unions have agreed to make exceptions in their cases so that there will be no difficulty about pay." Mr. Clarko says that the success of the plan lies with the employers believes that once the re turned soldiers are trained along their particular lines they will prove to bo very valuable workmen. * * * Norris S. Longaker is a happy man today. The announcement that the Harrisburg-New York sleeper is to bo restored came as the culmina tion of prolonged effort on his part. As division passenger agent for the Pennsylvania railroad with head quarters here he has long seen the need of the restoration of thie serv ice and ever since the war ended ho has been busy with it. "It is a great pleasure to be of service to Harris burg," said Air. Longaker, "because the people afo so appreciative. The new sleeper will fill a long felt need." • • • This belated Christmas letter was received by the Telegraph on Sat urday: "The soldiers of Harrisburg and vicinity in Truck Company A, 103 rd, Ammunition Train, now in France, send best wishes for a Alerry Christ mas to the folks at home. And, coupled with these well wishes, they send the assurance of their own comfort and health and prospects for a jolly celebration of their own, in camp, in billet, or even on the march wherever the day over takes them. "Furthermore, they ask the folks at home who may be inclined to regret too deeply their absence from the family circles on this day of days, to remember that it is duo to their absence from home that Christmas day this year will be a far happier one in thousands of homes all over the world because of their presence in France and their share into the events of the. past year in the great world war. "The fighting has ceased but there is much work still to be done ere the last of the soldier boys will set sail for home, conscious of a task well done. In the meantime, then, they ask tho home folks to realize that their further stay here is fraught with no more danger than thfeir daily lives at home and that worries that brought sleepless nights and days of anxieties to the loved ones at home, uro things of the past. "It is more, then, like tourists abroad, that the soldiers send the gay season's greetings back across the Atlantic. "Home-comings will soon be in order and, in tho meantime, let joy reign supreme on both sides of the water." • "It would be well for autoists and others traveling in vehicles to be watchful in passing over a certain out-of-the-,way perhaps nameless bit of traveled roadway, or some iark night or sunshiny day, even, they may come to grief," said a well known Elliott-Fisher company man the other day. "Enter the Old Cameron Parkway that part of it ceded to the city— at the entrance right opposite the door of the general office of the Elliott-Fisher Company in South Cameron street, walk for a fow minutes, pass behind the bridge for another half minute, and you will see the last large tree in the line, the truck of a large locust. Now look toward the public road and you will see an old terra-cotta Bewer pipe leading to the bluff on which tho road pusses. At some time In the past this bluff was pierced with many of these terra-cotta pipes, and the water following the outside of the pipes instead of the inside, has filled the cliff with sinkholes, and some of them in years gone has fallen in. Just behind the ascent of this particular terra-cotta pipe on Its way up the bank is a hole large enough for a horse to enter. The opening is. at its mouth, per haps six or eight feet under the surface of tho road, but on its way to its origin, the sewer inlet on the opposite side of the road, it has com. so near to the top#of the roadway that there is an ugly depression al ready developed above the passage of the fissure underneath, and *t several points the top already hife holes, showing that the passage hw honeycombed the roadway, ant from present appearances, is gettinc ready for a drop into the pit. Onj of these little fissures, on the part side of the wagon-rut, is larg enough that if nh auto wheel flndi it, it is a hole with no bottom. "Nearby, a few rods away, is t very large sink fallen in for a lonf time past, largo enough for a hat dozen autos, with its margin riglt along the road, without any dange signal dav or night. There are nt street lights in this section. Th sink crossing underneath the road) way is menacing and hard to ren> edy. There are no houses near, anl the one feasible plan would be t plßce a heavy charge of dynamlts under the roadway, drop the to) Into the pit and fill it up. Thfc would not cost much and might saui sad consequences if it is not rem edied." j The Just God Howbelt, thou art Just in all that is brought upon us: for thou last done right, but we have done wick edly.—Nehemiah Ix, 33,
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