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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.
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"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,
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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,