Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, January 09, 1919, Page 10, Image 10
10 MRRiSBURG TELEGRAPH! L XEWSPAPBR FOH TUB. HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by (gg TELEGRAPH PHISTIJJO CO. rtlempk BalldlaK. Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief R. OYSTER. Business Manager JUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor .L R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGKLSBY, F R. OYSTER, _ GUS. M. STEINMLTZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or , not otherwise credited in this paper and alsd the local news published j 111 'rights of republication of dispatches herein are also reserved. , , Member American ! , Newspaper Pub- j _ —Chicago, lib Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., aa second class matter. Bv carrier, ten cents a "week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. To-day, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and tvery to-morrow a dream of hope.— Anon. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 118 A NEW HOSPITAL EVERYBODY who has given any : thought to the subject or who : lias had experience in recent j months with.the overcrowed condi- j tions at the Harrisburg Hospital will j be in hearty sympathy with the resolutions adopted at the suggestion of Dr. John B. McAllister by the Dauphin County Medical Tuesday evening recommending the' erection of a new hospital for Har risburg. Dr. McAllister believes that a huge, well equipped, properly sitti- | aied hospital would be a splendid memorial for the men who repre- j seated the city in the war with Uer- j many and with that there would be i few to disagree, but whether it is built as a monument or simply to fill a growing need it must come shortly if the city is to do its duty by its people. p Without any thought of adverse j criticism it may be sqjd that the , Harrisburg Hospital is no longer adequate to meet the needs of the j community. It is old and badly lo- . cated. It cannot be enlarged except j in a haphazard way that would never be satisfactory. What wc need is a big, metropolitan hospital situated j on the outskirts of the city where ' tlieie is open space and pure air j about but which can be reached from the industrial centers and the 1 heart of the city over paved thor oughfares in a very short time. The physicians have been slow to turn their backs on the old hospital | building. They have stood by it ! nobly fqr years, giving freely of their j time and ability, urging changes and improvements to tide over the ever pressing needs. Now they see the im possibility of going farther. They have asked that they be given prop er quarters and proper surround ings in which to perform their work of mercy. The people must heed or pay the penalty in suffering and death. it is not that' Americans are opposed ' necessarily to a League of Nations, j but that they want peace first and I consideration of a league afterward, j NOT MONEY ENOUGH THE liquor interests are like the Germans They think that pro hibition is coming simply be cause they did not spend enough money to prevent it, just as the Junkers believe they were defeated because they did' not put physical force enough Into their military preparations. Neither can under stand that there is in the world such s thing as moral force and public opinion, which combined are irre sistable. Theodors Roosevelt proved very conclusively that not alldhe money In the country is as powerful as the government of the United States when he made his famous fight against corporate control at Wash ington, and the government of the United States is merely the will of the people as expressed at the polls. On the same plane is national pro hibition. Public opinion is against booze and the great moral forces of the country have gotten into motion agalnat it. Nothing can prevent its •nactment into law. „ The liquor men are said .to have pledged & billion dollars to balk the ■will of the voters. They will find the •um is not big enough. Indeed there is not enough money in the United States to "throw" this plectlon. The liquor makers and sellers them selves admit, down in their hearts, that the business is not good for so ciety. They know in their souls that the end is in sight. Every dollar they spend will be so much money thrown away. When a majority of the peo ple of the United States decide se ■piously upon one course of aotloa THURSDAY EVENING, tktra Is no powtr short of divinity that cob prevent them attaining th* end sought. And just now they are determined to have national 'prohi bition. Unquestionably, Governor Brum baugh's farewell message is Che best he has written, and contatns many things that the Legislature might do well to consider. ROOSEVELT AND RUSSIA AMONG the latest of his mes sages of hope and encourage ment was a letter from Col onel Roosevelt to Ivan Nafodny, vice-president cJ the Russian-Arner ' ican-Asiatic-Uorporation. In this let j ter the former President compli-s | mented his friend upon a translation j of Plsk's "Critical Period of Amerl- I can History," and added. "Like every good American, all my j instincts are for friendship and ad j miration toward Russia. I welcomed ! the revolution which overthrew the • autocratic and bureaucratic tyrrany 'of the Roriianoffs. I was saddened j and rendered indignant by the ty -1 rany and anarchy with which the | Bolshevist leaders supplanted it. I ' now most earnestly hops to see a genuine republican Russia, a demo. I cratlc Russia, the United State of I Russia, a democratic Federal Re j public of Russia come out of the | present chaos. The motto must be Justice for nil and an abhorrence of class tyranny of every kind." In all his public utterances and in the many things that he wrote the 'lamented leader of American thought and American Ideals showed an abid ing friendship for the struggling peo ples of earth. He seemed to sense the aspirations of those who have striven and are striving toward the light, and liis appreciation of the conditions in Russia was clearly demonstrated in much that he said and wrote during recent months. Like many public men who are concerned with the world-wide con ditions, he foreshadowed the great ness of Russia and manifested confi dence in its ultimate regeneration. I Men familiar with the inside de velopments believe that Russia Is ■ bound to throw off the shackles of ■ ignorance and emerge into a sane era I of development that will make of the ! millions of oppressed people a happy ! and contented family under leader | ship that will point the way to a I higher and better civilization. Had Colonel Roosevelt been sent ; to Russia at the time of the revo ! lution as Mr. Xarodny and other i prominent Russians urged at the ; time, as the head of the United States mission, it is believed he ; would have been able, owing to his ' great popularity, to have saved the ■ situation and prevented the break : down which followed the plotting at i Berlin and the reign of Trotzky and | liis infamous group of traitors. A STRONG CABINET GOVERNOR-ELECT SPROUL IS! surrounding .himself with a strong cabinet. The selection of former State Senator John S. Fisher,' for the post of State Banking Com- ) missioner is another move in that direction. Mf. Fisher's record in the Senate is a recommendation and his experience in corporate. banking|and | trust company management admir ably fits him for the place. Fisher i it was who headed the Capitol graft probe, and it was he who signed the 1 report on which the State's suits were based which brought the guilty ; persons to justice and large sums of \ stolen money back to the Common- | wealth. He has a fine reputation as j a financier and is especially well j equipped for the office he has ac- i cepted. Prqf. Rasmussen, the new Secre- I tary of Agriculture, is not so well known generally, but he holds a high j place In the estimation of agricul-, tural experts who look upon him as one of the foremost young men of his calling in the country. Evidently Governor-elect Sproul picked him be cause he believed him to be the man to lift the Department of Agriculture from the slough of' despond into which it has falle, not through any fault of anybody in particular but largely because of division of re sponsibility and other faults of the laws under which it operates. Noth ing of politics enters into the selec tion, which is a good thing, for if there is one department on Capitol Hill that should be free from politi cal bias it is that which administers to the needs and developments of the agricultural interests of the State. MAJOR GENERAL O'NEILL BRIGADIER GENERAL C. T. | O'NEILL, long a popular of ficer in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, will be retired with the rank of major general. This is a worthy honor for the brave soldier who as "Bucky" O'Neill endeared himself to every one in the old guard and in the new army during service on the Mexican border and later in the southern cantonments. We salute Major General Christo pher T. O'Neill and trust that the gooil(hunior which constantly per vaded hla presence may continue to brighten the lives of all with whom he comes into contact General O'Neill ia ao well known in Harris burg that the honor which has now come to him is quite aa much ap preciated here aB at hia home in AllentoW. THE "COOTIE" WHAT shall we do with the 'cootie?'" asks a London i exchange after relating that 'the little parasite has been respon | sible for the deaths of a large num ber of and the illndss of many others Curing the war. Well, 'cootie' hunting la said to be a .pop ular pastime in the camps, and wouldn't It b# a good thing to drop 'em, one by one. Into long .distance sheila and drop 'am over among the Bolahevikl of Germany and Russia? Or would that be regarded as too harsh treatment even for a 'cootie?' VK I • I By the Ex-Committeeman j It is generally agreed among Re-' publicans active in politics that Frank A. Smith is to have no oppo sition as candidate to succeed Sen ator E. E. Beidleman when the Dau phin county leader is elevated to the Lieutenant Governorship. Senator Beidleman and Mr. are very close friends und have been fat"many years. Smith was chairman during the strenuous campaign of 1912 when Beidleman won the Senator ship for the first time in a three cornered fight that has no equal in the history of the county. Smith's devotion and skill in handling the sit uation were very lurgely responsible for the Beidleman majority and Beidleman, who forgets a friend, would do anything for Smith within his power. So he is more than willing that Smith should be his successor. Incidentally, it is pretty well known that Smith is thoroughly "dry" in his sentiments and that he will vote for, both prohibition and suffrage if he gets the opportunity. ■ —The newspapers of the state in that Governor Brum baugh's farewell message to the Legislature was the best he ever wrote and that it contains matters to which the Legislature might well address its attention. The Philadel phia Press says of it: "The Legis lature opened yesterday with a great show of harmony. Insofar as it dis penses with useless wrangling and time consuming contests, harmony is a good thing but it may be a bad thing, too. It may primage unity of purpose and oneness or mind in pur suing an entirely vicious course of legislation. Our best Legislatures, judging them by their work, have not usually been the most harmoni ous. If, however, the present Leg-' islature is hgrmonious in following the counsel of Governor Sprout the state will approve both its harmony and its action. "The election of Robert S. Span gler as Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives and Clarence J. Buck man president pro fern, of the Senate was a good beginning. Gov ernor Brumbaugh's retiring message is the best he has written and the most futile. The Legislature pays no attention to an outgoing Governor. But some of the recommendations of i Governor Brumbaugh might well be | taken up by Governor Sproul and made effective. His suggestion of a World's Fair in Philadelphia in 1926 is one that is not too early to medi tate upon and take preparatory ac tion. The San Francisco fair was marred not a little by the breaking out Of the European war. The pres ent is no time for a World's Fair any- ! where but the 150 th anniversary or! the Independence of the United j States is still seven years off. The | wounds of the great world's war.will j be in large measure healed by that j time. A World's Fair in Philadelphia will be' in order and it is not too! early to begin to make preparations! for it. "Most of the recommenda- ; of Governor Brumbaugh are ex- | eel lent. It Is a pity they do not come I before the Legislature with some! force behind them rather than 'be \ only mildly warmed by the Gover nor's exhaust steam. The experiment in the Constitution of 1574 of hav-I ing the retiring Governor's term' overlap by two weeks the term of | the Legislature chosen with the in> i coming Governor is a fanciful idea j that has never justified itsilf in prac tice. The new Governor should have been sworn in yester'duy and in rec- I ognition of this the Legislature hav-1 ing convened as the Constitution re- j quires will adjourn until it can sets and work under a Governor of its; own political generation." —The Philadelphia Record says: i "An outgoing Governor cannot ex- I pect that his words shall be listened to as eargerlji as those of an incom-1 ing Governor —as eagerly as his j own words were four years before. It is not that Governors necessarily, deteriorate in ortice; their last mes sages may be better than their first. But the rising sun is a summons to alertness and action, and the set ting sun haS somnolent associations. "Governor Brumbaugh is justified in hitting once more a grave legisla tive ln appropriating more money than is available, leaving it to the Governor to reduce the coat to the dimensions of the cloth. By this process members of the Legislature assume the popular role of voting money at every one's request, and leave to the Governor the unpopu lar duty of cutting items down or out. The abuse will probably go on so long as the Constitution re mains unchanged. The power of the Governor to rectuce or exclude an item without sacrificing the whole appropriation bill was hailed orig inally as a great step forward, but one of the discouraging things about reforms is that every one of them brings in some new abuse. "The Governor's suggestion that the state should provide the tuition in a college of this state for every man mustered out of -the arniy and navy who desires to have a college education is interesting, and not at all impracticable. Many of the men are over college age or lack college preparation or tastes, and the pro posed expenditure would be only for tuition, not for maintenance. It would probably not involve a very large expense. The Governor makes the also interesting suggestion that the state forests would provide 5,000 men with employment and market 1,000,000 feet of lumber. "The substantial reason for good roads, we presume, is that they re duce the cost of hauling from farms, and forests and mines to the rail ways, but it is quite characteristicof Dr. Brumbaugh's soaring thoughts that he finds another and a more esthetic reason for an improvement in which he is greatly interested. He speaks enthusiastically of the pros pects for furthef development In the near future when "tourists, as well as our owb people, will And good roads an incentive to view the many matchless miles of scenic splendor with which Pennsylvania is so rich ly blessed." —Samuel S, Castles, who has been appointed deputy sheriff of Lacka wanna county by Sheriff J. ft. Schlager, has been in business in South Scranton many years, lie has been president of the South Scranton Republican Club and secretary of the County Republican Committee. He was exaltad ruler of the Elks and is active in Masonic organisations. / HARRISBURO fltfSßte TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES By BRIGGS , . aoothEß BeUIEUE M£ - VLL I TS LITTLC CUD P I "fiSLf 0 ?, A.'iS'* WfcLL ntK _ i iiz-k-v "Tn wni n iuiv ev/CwtY VWCCK HAPPY LI~TU(3 DAV .5 OVER AMO JAB Si BSrre AMO Bv/CN/.M* - trNTOY I £>T*L HANG ON op Tna W.Jtlr ' SSTTiR - HOPC IX4B /=V® UF ® WH 'h E I?J\THT OLD JOS OF W,N)TdR ' JO3 WILL* • Va " AV ~, /* Malcolm' You Don t ' look^N? Voo Go >6ht im " rue f You HwOW vjfiY vaJCLL ThaTLl) L —__. —y MT r w x% A Kt SJJ s. yo^ s You <iu,T Hr —<s .1 Brave Correspondent It was early morning and the j broken roads were miry. We sat and smoked our pipes in the gray ; car of the British War Ofllee, wait- j ing till the way was "a bit less un- j healthy." We were both feeling | something of the monotony of war, for even an artillery duel become monotonous. The old soldier with the tanned j and crackled cheeks Began to. chuckle. "You know Thingamy?" j he asked. I did not know him personlly. But j he was a famous newspaper corru- j spondent who wrote fervid descrip- , tions of battle which made the blood ! pulse as one read them. I admired j his brilliance, and said so. "He was along with me in this j very car last Sunday morning," said ! the Colonel, still laughing. "\ye j were held up as you aud I are held , up by the bochg. He's a great, writ- j er, is Thingamy. You see, when we got back w> General Headquarters I had to censor his stuff." "Well?" „ "Well, it was deuced funny. We 1 were having as lively a time as you i and I are having; but it was won derful. I didn't know till I rqad 1 that article that we drove along,the j road with shells bursting by the ; dozens all round us, and that I was j nervous and pale, while the news- | paper man insisted that we drive j otlf though the car rocked with the j convulsions of the explosions. It i was good reading, exciting, though j Thingamy did suggest I was a | coward and he was very much of a i hero." He chuckled again. • "And when you censored the ar ticle 1 suppose you cut onfall that rubbish?" "Not a line. Don't you know that it is not the business of a military censor to cut out lies? His job is to prevent unwise publication of the truth. I think we might slowly push on. Don't you?"— Sir John Foster Eraser in Harper's Magazine for January. FOCH AND NAPOLEON (From Answers, London) Napoleon was a prolific war maxim maker. His maxims number more than a hundred. Many of them are as true' to-day as when they were made. "In war," said Napoleon, "there is never more than one favorable moment. The great art is to seize it and use it well. Foch seized the "favorable mom m.ent and in a month not only saved the situation, but turned the tables on the enemy. He "concentrated his troops and acted with energy," as Napoleon laid down. Common sense—the application of wisdom to circumstances —is Foch's*maxim, as it was Napoleon's. Napoleon wrote: "Plans may be modified ad infinitum, according to circumstances, the genius of the general, the character of the tropps, and the features of the country." Napoleon Insisted upon the study of past campaigns. "The science of strategy." he said, "is only to be ac quired by experience and by study ing the campaigns of all the great captains." Foch has been a lifelong student of military history. In the spring he was acting up to Napoleon'.j dic tum —"the measure which is not profoundly meditated in all Its de tails produces no result." When Foch was ready he "dared at the right moment." For twenty years past Foch has been "profoundly meditating" the details of the stra | tegy which has given him such sig- I nal success. • LABOR NOTES Canadian trade unionists have protested against the Lemieux act. claiming that employes use it to their advantage because of delays before an award is made. Portland (i)re.) meat cutters are demanding an eight-hour day, a *36,- a-week minimum and $25 a week for women employed as sausage makers and on counter work. The first organization of its kind in the UnUed States to advocate ex tensive Fdieral ownership of public utilities is the Ohio Federation of i 1-abor. • f \ * i Thousands at women have invaded I the realms ofenan in the machine shop and various other lines of em ployment which heretofore have been operated exclusively by men. Experiments with paper textiles have proved successful In Norway. Bartlett Airplane Expedition May % Find the Polar Continent Plans Now Arc Completed l>y tlie Arctic Navigator to Fly, From Cape Columbia to the Siberian Coast, Willi Fuih, Greenland, as His Base of Operations THE exploration by airplane of more than one million square miles of territory never before seen by a white man, and incidental ly a visit to the North Pole, is the daring project of Captain Bartlett, who was the commander of Admiral Peary's ship on his last voyage, and for years a wanderer within the Arc tic Circle. Were the plan the product of the mind of just one man, even of such a man as Captain Bartlett, the world would dismiss it vj'ith a few caustic comments about the danger of read ing too much of Gerne, Poe and Wells. But back of Captain Bart lett, nof only theoretically, but finan cially, and at the risk of their repu tations, stand such men as Rear Ad miral Robert E. Peary, the iirst man to reach the pole; Alan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club of Amer ica; Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, Rear Admiral William N. Dittle, John Hays Hammond, Jr., and other members of the special committee of the Aero Club of America, who have announced their belief in the success of such a plan and their will ingness to finance the expedition. The cost will be borne by the Aero Club* and possibly by geographical and other scientific organizations in terested in revealing the hitherto un solved mysteries of the North. An Oiliccr of the Navy Captain Bartlott, a Newfoundland man, although a citizen of the United States since 1911, and at present an officer of the United States Navy, has a becoming amount of respect for his birthplace's indus try, so he has selected to bear hint and his party to Etah, Greenland, one of those stout wooden New foundland craft which are almost uncrushable in the most menacing ice packs. The name of the vessel is still withheld, as are tlio names all members of the party except Cap tain Bartlett himself. The vessel, howevfer, is 125 feet, long, thirty feet of beam and draws fifteen feet of water. She is equipped with a 250- liorsepower oil engine, but will rely mainly on her sails. She will be rig ged as. a three-masted schooner, it is probable she will leave New York about May 31. The vessel will carry in her hold folded up one large airplane, pos sibly of the type known as seaplanes, and several smaller planes. In ad dition she will be fitted with all the latest and best scientific Instruments, and will become on her arrival at Etah a lioating laboratory. At Etah, which will bo reached In from ten to thirty days after setting sail from 'New York, depending on ice conditions, the smaller airplanes will wing their way north 350 miles across Ellesmere Land to Cape Co lumbia, where a cache of gasoline and supplies will be made. Then as the weather moderates the ship it self will be used to dredge the Polar seas for the submarlno flora and fauna of the Arctic Basin. Planes to lteplace Dog Sleds Skilled meteorologists will study the air currents with the aid of small balloons and airplanes that travel hundreds of miles a day where In former years dog sledges crawled miles. Cape Columbia, the point from which Peary made his dash to the pqle in 1909, will be the base for the exploration of the vast territory to the westward. Eroirt Cape Colum bia h'e will make d flight in a huge airplane across the Polar Sea to Si beria. It is known that coal, mica and many minerals are abundant in some of the explored portions of the North, so it Is within the bounds of probability that this region. If it is above w%ter, 'may be rich In valu able minerals. The great mineral wealth of Al aska Is widely known. As the unex plored portion of the Arctic le north of Alaska and Canada, those foster ing the Bartlett expedition believe It logical to assume that minerals exist here also. The primary pur- I pose, hovgevor. is not a search for mineral wealth but merely to dispel the ignorance of man concerning an area of the globe greater than the United States east of the Mississippi. The exact, character of the air planes which will be used In explor atlon has not yet been determined, but as many experts In airplane construction are members of the Aero Club and deeply Interested In the project, the planes selected will undoubtedly be unique of their kind. Plan Discussed Two Years The exploration of the Polar basin by airplane has been a topic ot' dis cussion and argument at the club for two years and much valuable data has been uncovered. For a man who lias followed the sea and fought the North since his first trip with Admiral Peary in 189", Captain Bartlett is surprisingly up to the minute. To him airplanes ure not "new-fangled contraptions" of extremely doubtful value, but ma chines of the greatest possible use fulness. Despite his weather worn face, scored by the winds of the Arctic Circle, he appears to be a mnn in his early 30s. although by calendar count ho is 43. His opin ions and view of life, too, seem those of a much younger man. "The airplane is the big thing of the present age," he says, confident ly. "There are machines in Europe of which we are Just beginning to get an inkling, and they are going to be big things mighty soon. Dong distance records have been made over there which are about the most astonishing things of the war." In addition the former followers of his fortunes, Captain Bartlett will ship on the schooner several avia tors —possibly army and navy men who have shown their courage, skill and endurance on theother side. This is the way Captain sums up his project; A Three-fold Enterprise "We have three important mis sions to accomplish. The first is to fly across the top of the world from Cape Columbia on 'the American side to Cape Chelyuskin on the Si berian side; the second, to conduct extensive soundings in the Polar basin p.nd make a map of the floors of the basin and collect the flora and fauna of the ocean bottom: and, third, to send up sounding balloons and explore the upper air of the po lar regions. "So you see," the captain con cludes, "we intend to do it thor oughly; submarine, surface and aerial exploration. There are more than one million square miles of territory in the Arctic basin, par ticularly that part north of Canada and Alaska, which still remains to be explored. It is possible wo shall find'land there, for Admiral Peary on his trip to the Pole did not tra verse this territory. He found no land from Cape Columbia to the pole, but further westward there might be a continent, for all we know."—New York Sun. THE MING TEA SET (By Aline Michaels) It stands upon my table there With such a quaint and artless air. Within its yellow garden-close Twin turquoise ladies, so demure, Tread purple bridges miniature, To pluck a glowing, golden rose. One would not dream to see them smile, Those turquoise maids with witch ing wile, That some six hundred years have sped Since first they saw Spring's blos soming When came the dynasty of Ming, And Kublai Khan's hordes fought and fled. Hung-Wu, the Son of Heaven, is dead. His temples dust, his glory fled; That potter,. too, at King-te-chen, Who wrought with such consum mate art In centuries past each smallest part, Will paint nor rose, nor maid again. Strange, kings and dynasties are gone. And still this fragile thing lives on. As tho Death's self it could defy! The mind that planned, tho hand that wrought Are naught, ay, even less than naught To beauty's immortality. We'll Complain to the Janitor Tho Grandmother of the Russian revolution Is on her way to the United States. We she Isn't bringing the kid along.—From The Detroit News. , JANUARY 9, 1919* EDITORIAL COMMENT With all respect to the venerable John Burroughs, who says that the time lias come for Germany to re pent openly, we would suggest that repenting openly is one of the easiest things a sinner does—it is repenting Inwardly that counts. We should see to it that Germany repents all the way through.—Chicago Daily News. Taxes are heavy, but not as heavy as the crops.—Washington l'ost. The Hohenzollerns' and the cooties aro sorry the war is over.—Syracuse llerald. Having landed In France, Presi dent Wilson may proceed to land on Germany.—Chicago Daily News. The Dr. Jekyll of Berlin now has fears for safety of his Hyde.— The Gamecock (University of South Carolina). ' • It looks as if repairedness were going to cost Germany more than preparedness did.—Columbus Ohio State Journal. NEEDLESS. TtiREA T (From the Philadelphia Ledger) No discussion of tho naval pro gram outlined by Secretaay Daniels before the House Naval Affairs Com mittee will deal fairly with tho sub ject or justly reflect American naval policy which fails to givo due em phasis to the proviso which accom panied and conditioned the an nouncement. It is not strange that foreign commentators should' have seen only the threat in that propo sal of the Secretary of the Navy. No secret was made of its purpose to bear on the coming peace conference. It was a notice to the maritime pow ers of the world that unless a full and satisfactory revision of the laws of warfare on sea shall be brought about and unless there shall be cre ated a league of nations to enforce the laws agreed upon then the United States must hold itself free to safeguard its own interests and do its own policing of tho seas. But that notice was accompanied by the express provision that any enactment by Congress should be • subject to suspension by the President in the event of concord among tho powers on the subject of the freedom of the scasr% i Opinions may differ as to the timeliness of the Daniels announce ment. in the face of conditions *n Europe, and especially with the echoes of British election manfes toes fresh in mind, the intimation that the United States has in delib erate. cornemplation a challenge to Britain's traditional command of tho seas has a significance so terrible that the great mass of English speaking folk will shrink with hor ror from Its contemplation. For the execution of that threat would mean an ultimate repetition of tho stupen dous horrors of the last four years on a vastly greater stage, a fratri cidal contest the possibility of which is unthinkable. *SEEING THE RHINE" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) The Americans at Coblenz have requisitioned a number of Rhine steamers, and the doughboys are going to have a good time this win ter "seeing the Rhine." Sightseeing trips of three and live days are ar ranged, which will be open lo offi cers and men on leaVe. They will see Bingen and the rock of the Lorelei and all the other famous places of myth and history. It will tend to make the winter in Germany rather pleasant. The trips will take the Yankees far beyond the American jurisdic tion. But they will not take them into German Jurisdiction. There is no German jurisdiction on the Rhine. North of the Americans are the British, south of the Americans are the French. Wherever the doughboys go they will be assured of a cordially friendly reception. And this Is the great German rl\#r; the German river of story ana devotion. Now a Yankee, who has been trained for the business and has been provided with a big megaphone, stands on the deck of a requisitioned German steamer and draws attention to tho points of in terest. And the other Yankees placidly chat and "rubber." It is to this that the Kaiser's war has brought proud Germanv, Tho ghosts of old kings and Rhenish barons may well marvel at "der tag." Standing the Watch I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the toarer, and will watch to see what he will say unto ws, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.—Habakkuk 11, i ifctfenmg dipt N | The Harrlsburg W. C. T. U. has determined to continue the custom of holding New Year's servicos in the county Juil. The altair on Now Year's day was so auspicious that it has decided to have another next yeay. Harrlsburg, Higlispire, Steel ton, Penbrook and other nearby towns wefe represented among those who had charge of the and the day was brightened for the pris oners bv gifts of cukes, tipples, can dles, holiday cards and reading mat ter. Few people realize how much of this kind of work the women of the W. C. T. U. do. The efforts of tho members have been so * much along tho lines of prohibition that nfmny persons believe that to be tho extent of efforts, but such is far from the fact. They are en gaged constantly in all manner of up-lift and educational enterprises. Thoy have seen prohibition develop from a mere theory to what In a very short time will be an actuality, and they now feel that their work along this litie is in such good hands that they can safely turn their attention, at least in large part, to other lines of endeavor. Ho was a French visitor in a Ha.r risburg home and the Inevitable dis cussion of the- English and French languages came up. Said the French man, "You have a funny language. You spell your Secretary's name L-A-N-S-I-N-G and pronounce It House!" Who said the French wit was without subtlety? Already an "Amen Corner" has been established at the Penn-TTarrls hotel. During the present week the northeast corner of the main lobby has been appropriated by Senator David Martin, of Philadelphia, and other old-timers who just naturally gravitated to that corner of the big hotel. Years ago the "amen cor ner" of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City was the dally meeting place of the most prominent leaders of the nation and the "amen corner" of the Penn-Hurris prom ises to be no less famous as the gathering spot of the prominent men of Pennsylvania. Incidentally, tho hundreds who came here for the or ganization of the Legislature are of one mind regarding the high char acter of the new hotel and there was universal praise. David B. Kraybill, a recent addi tion to the vocational section of the Pennsylvania State Educational De partment, assumes his new duties after a record of high achievement in t'his kind of work and is well fitted for the position. Before en tering the United States service from which he was released during the latter part of December. Professor Kraybill was director of the East Lam peter, Lancaster county, voca tional school, ono of the leading schools of its kind in Pennsylvania. He made an enviable record as head of the Lancaster county institution and was largely influential in having a handsome new structure erected for the school. Ho was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1911, and while an undergraduate was prominent in college affairs, lie is a member of Ihe Lambda Chi Al pha fraternity. He was principal of Camp Hill schools for several years after his graduation from college. The change from tho cash to the chepk plan of paying railroad em ployes promises to add quite an amount of extra work for banks and their employes. In some cases banking officials are planning lo keep their institutions open on tho first of the payday evenings in order to cosh checks of employes of their territory. They will be compelled in addi tion, officials say, to have on hand a larger amount of currency than they ordinarily carry in order that they may favor the railroaders without unnecessary delay. A bank in one of the smaller nearby railroad towns in which tho payroll amounts to 117,000 every two weeks expects to be obliged to carry $23,000 more In paper money and specie than it or dinarily docs. Rome employes are well pleased with the change in the system, but others are not altogether satisfied. Considerable inconvenience will be occasioned for many of them. Em ployes In places without banking in stitutions expect to have consider able difficulty in having their checks cashed. Just as certainly as you can be sure that Christmas is really bore when the magazines put in their spring numbers, so you can be mo rally certain that at last it is really the heart of winter, by the appear ance in fashionablo women's shops and in the streets, of the flrsfcstraw hats for women. New Year s day was featured by a number of new straw or near-straw hats, worn by Harrisburg's impatient, season-rush ing womankind. True to tradition, even though the days are cold, and the winter is only a few weeks old. matrons and maids sally forth in straw trimmed hats anil silken chap eaux docked with velvet carrots, radishes, celery and other garden products. All thediats are small and unusually bright in coloring. Just why women should tell themselves that January 1 is the time to begin wearing straws is a matter which no mere man can understand. Fash ionable shops have them aplenty, and men stand and gape. The poor ignorant fellows imagine they are merely advance models on show to furnish tho female of the species with an idea of what will be worn next spring. But she scoffs at her husband and informs him that when spring ilnaVly does come, those hats will be as much out of style as this winter's snow. In fact, it Is an un deniable tact that one or two stj-aw hats whoso owners for financial or other personal reasons failed to relegate them to tho ragbag, found their last slimmer straws clashing with next that is to say this spring's straw hats. Park officials all over the United States are kept busy each year de vising schemes In shrubbery plant ing to prevent the crowds enjoying public parks from making "cow paths" by taking short cuts across the grass plots. In Harrisburg folks are no different than in other cities, officials say, and will trample the grass and soon have a path unless something is done to prevent it During the fall planting by the Park Department, it was necessary to place scores of shrubs along the walks at street Intersection*,in tha •River Front Pn.rk so tnttt pfluWtn ans would use the walks which bave been laid out and rot cut across the grass an<f make unsightly barren spots. Permanency Desired "Wc are down and out; isn't that enough?" remarks the crownless prince in one of his Interviews. Everybody knows that they are down, but what must be made sure for all time is that they are out— [Utloa Observer.