6 ' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph BalMiag, Federal Sqaare *: : i i E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief v- F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager Gl'd. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members 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 pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rl Newspaper Pub tt' ~lerS h " A " Bsoci *" Jg33ffiS9M Bureau of Circu hg/BMPfIMB latiou and Penn sylvania &31 931 jlfifi (fl Eastern office taStEfUl Story, Brooks & fpM S IfU rw Flnley. Fifth Avenue Building, a'a'T' Building" -l Chicago, 111. • Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., aa second class matter. - - By carrier, ten cents a ,"3tweek: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. When thou hast thanked God for every blessing sent, What time tcill then remain for mur murs and lamentf —Trench. SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1919 FOR A SHORT SESSION THERE is very general approval of the suggestion that the Legis " lature shall have a short busi ness session. Owing to the read justment period following the war it is extremely important that all in terests be disturbed as little as pos sible by new law making or restric tions of any sort at this time. We been passing through a long and trying period of regulation, much of which was made necessary by the war, but since hostilities have ceased there ought to be as little as to further disturb the com mercial and* industrial life of the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania has had an impor tant part in winning the victory over the Hun and Governor-elect Sproul has indicated in recent addresses a clear perception of the conditions which now surround our normal life. It is no time to indulge in theories and the people will be content with mighty little in the way of new legis lation. The average citizen just now wants to be let alone to think over his own problems and work out their solution. The election of Dr. Hugh Hamil ton as president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies is n line tribute to a Harrisburg man. who has devoted much of his time to a careful study of the early his tory of the State, and who has writ ten numerous papers and pamphlets on the subject. Succeeding such* men Governor-elect William C. Sproul, the office carries with it no little honor, but it as far from being merely honorary. In that the Federa tion is a live, working organization of men and women interested in see ing to it that contemporary as well as past history is properly recorded and due credit given where it be longs. Governor-elect Sproul/ who, as head of the organization, did much to bring it before the public in a favorable light, is deserving the vote of confidence the Federation gave him. It will be of vast assist ance to him and the State History Commission in the difficult work of gathering and linking up records of the multitudlous activities of Penn sylvania in the world's war. BAKER PASSES THE BUCK MR. Baker complacently passes the buck to Congress by de claring that additional legis lation will be necessary before hs can pay any money to men in hos pitals. in a letter to Speaker Clark of the House he asks legislative au thority to prepare rolls for payment of soldiers who have returned for treatment in government hospitals. He whines that bitter criticism of the War Department has resulted from the loss by many of the men of their papers and records, with con sequent delays in their payment. If there has been an instance dur ing the prosecution of the war when Secretary Baker ha 3 admitted the inefficiency of his department or any branch of It it lias not come to our attention. In every case where sup plies of the most vital nature have to reach our armies at the front"* he has either skillfully side stepped responsibility or . brazonly asserted that everything was going according to schedule. When the French came to our rescue with of feVe of airplanes, cannon and tanks Mr. Baker allowed- the inference to ho drawn that such a course was part of the War Department pro gran*. On occasions ho has not hesitated to resort to seemingly de liberate misstatements of fact, as witness the notorious history of air craft production. One of the Sec retary's most frequent subterfuges In escaping criticism has been to de clare that further legislation from Congress was necessary to meet difficult sltutttlonp, thus leading the country to believe that Congress was SATURDAY EVENING* responsible for delays In our war program. At the present moment the most crying need of our soldiers Is pay ment for the months of toll, danger and sacrifice In France. Congress, at the beginning of hostilities, doubled the compensation of enlisted men of the Army and llxed S3O per month as the basic pay of a private. But In spite of the far-sighted gen erosity of our lawmakers most dis tressing stories are coming to light every day of the non-payment of our men, an* consequent suffering to them and their dependents at home. The worst conditions prevail in the case of the wounded who have been in French hospitals. In some in stances men who have been brought home on hospital ships and placed In hospitals in the United States have not received a cent from the Government for eight months. In at least one case a public beneflt wns held by sympathetic friends to raise funds for ordinary comforts /or soldiers wounded in the defense of a country whose Secretary of War was unable to devise a way to pay them the money they had earned in the trenches. As a sample of the generous way in which Congress has placed huge lump sums in the hand of the Sec retary for the payment of the Army we quote from two typical appro priation acts. The Army Act of last July reads in part as follows. "Officers of the line: For pay of 87.183 officers, $201,654,279." "Enlisted men of the line: For pay of 1,964,376 enlisted men of the line, *776,468,721.04." The deficiency appropriation Act of November 4th reads: "For pay of officers and enlisted men of the line and of the staff de partments, nurses and enlisted men of tho Philippine Scouts, as author ized by law, *696,32 7,159." In those two laws alone Mr. Baker has had given to him without limitation over a billion and a half for pay alone, which has been sup plemented by additional millions in other acts. It has been up to Baker to distribute the money, a duty that he has shamefully neglected. In the light of the facts It is puerile and disgusting for the Secretary of War to shunt responsibility for the finan cial plight of our soldiers on to Con gress. Harrisburg will not be able to en tertain all the guests of the city next Tuesday, but the hospitality of our people will be stretched to the ut most limit to accommodate all who come to participate in the Inaugu ration of the Governor-elect. It will not be a question of a rfeal welcome so much as a problem of providing a place at the table for all who come. "DRY" BENEFITS WE may expect to hear a great deal during the next few weeks about the loss of rev enue as a result of the country go ing on a prohibition basis. This is the stock argument which has been dinned into our ears for many years. Of course, there will be a reduction of revenue from liquor licenses, but there will, also be a large reduction of expenses in the courts and the criminal processes. In many states where liquor has been banned for years it has been demonstrated that the reduction of criminal expense has more than equaled the loss in liquor revenues to say nothing of the happier condi tion of tfie people as a result of the suspension of the liquor business. GOOD CITIZENSHIP WOULD you bo a good citizen? Then sjudy tvcll this defini tion as given by Theodore Roosevelt at the Dr. Nicholas Mur ray Butler dinner: In the unending strife for civic betterment small is the use of those people who mean well but who mean well feebly. The man who counts is the man who is decent and who makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanli ness. for civic righteousness. Ho must have several qualities: first and foremost, of course, he must be honest, he must have the*root v of right thinking in him. Thrft is not enough, in the next place he must have courage; the timid man counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well the world's work. And finally. In ad dition to being honest and brave, he must have common sense. If lie does not have It, no matter what other qualities he may have, he will find himself at the mercy of those who. without possessing I his desire to do right, know only too well how to make the wrong effective. Common<eense! What has not the world lost through lack of It! What wonders might have been wrought by countless brilliant minds had they possessed It! Common sense! The world will be a better world when schools teach it, when govern ment is framed by it, when its hand la on the throttle of all our multitu dinous activities. THE RAILROADS DISCUSSION of the railroad ques tion is having the effect of clearing the transportation question to some extent. An authority on this subject says: "One or two points have been tacitly agreed ujjon. The first is, that certain advantages developed under Government control must not bs lost in whatever plan .Js finally adopted. The second is, that secur ity holders must be assured of re turns on their investments. Any other procedure would be confisca tory, and further than that, would make it utterly impossible to attract new capital to the railroad business of the country." There were abuses under private ownership of course, but these nev kr approached in their menace to all concerned the colossal perils of jrovernmenl control. Thoughtful men of all classes are beginning to understand that political consider ations must not be permitted to in terfere with the development and operation of our great transportation ' agencies, and the public utilities. The fog of readjustment is bound to lift and sanity will set enthroned in high places. There were few failures in 1918, and n long period of prosperity is ahead providing common sense pre vails. ~ I fslltUt' IK By the Kx-Committccman Pennsylvania's general* assembly of 1919 will contain more attorneys at law" than men of any other avoca tion, there being forty in the House, which has a total membership of 207, while .thirteen of the fifty sen ators are members of the legal pro fession. Physicians are not numerous In this legislature as they have been In many years gone by, there being only two In the Senate and six In the House. Second place is held by the farmers, the House having twenty-five and the Senate oVe tiller of the soil. The Senate has eight manufacturers, the House nine. Alexander S. Cooper. assistant Senate librarian, has compiled a list showing the occupations of the members and It is"~an interesttfig ■study of the callings of the men chosen to the Legislature. The vocations of the senators in addition to those given are bankem, merchants and contractors, eami three; publishers and druggists, two each and one each of the following: Broker, general agent, prothonotury, automobile dealer, policeman, farm er. lumberman, congressman, coal operator, manager, inspector, in surance man and oil producer with one man who has retired. It is an unusually long list of occupations for senators and remarkably varied. In the House there are in addi tion to the attorneys, farmers, phy sicians and manufacturers enumer ated, fourteen merchants and twelve clerks; seven pianngers and seven salesmen and six insurance agents. The educators are represented by six teachers and the railroad work ers by four conductors and one brakeinan. There are three den tists and two druggists, three "ac countants and- three Inspectors and the same number of superintend ents, brokers and publishers, while three clergymen, the highest num ber In years, are on the list. Two representatives gave their occupa tions as retired and there are two each of the following: Bankers, contractors, real estate men, secre tary and treasurer, oil producers, miners and what are given as "legal representatives." Two men are put down as "unclassified." There is one each of the following: Agent, con veyancer, coal dealer, deputy cor oner, editor, surveyor, civil engineer, cashier, miller, electrician, Y. M. C. A. secretary, teamster, superintend ent, court officer, with one carpen ter and one builder to represent the construction trades: a well driller, a foreman, veterinarian, confec tioner, stock dealer, printer, plumb er, hotel keeper, bookkeeper and one metal worker. One man stated he was a "gentleman." —The legislative session of 1919, which will get down to business next week after the inauguration of Governor-elect William C. Sproul and the announcement of the com mittees, is not going to want for bills judging from what has been already heard about the State Capi tol. Without counting in any ad ministration legislation which the new Governor may have in mind-to place some departments of the state government on a more i—.slnehs like basis, there are over 300 in sight now. The departments of the state government' Will await the launching of the new administration before placing their legislative programs before the new Governor. The "State legislative Reference Bureau has thus far put over 250 bills into legis lative form. This bureau has made a specialty of this work the last half dozen years and Director James N. Moore and his capable assistant, John H. Fertlg, have been inundated by legislators asking that provisions supplied by them be put into proper shape for presentation to the Legis lature. None of the work of this bureau is ever made public and •bills drawn are regarded as confi dential, but the number sent in thus far has been most impressive and if anything, indicative of a busy ses sion. —The state commissions to re vise the banking, penal and insur ance laws will have extensive bills and the old age pension, health in surance and other commissions will present reports and legislation. Changes in third class city, borough and township codes arc expected t)o be presented early. The Republican Steering Commit-1 tee, meeting this week at State headquarters In Philadelphia yester day in announcing that Senator Sterling R. Catlin, of Wilkcs-Barre, would be named chairman of the Senate Committee on Elections caused no great surprise. Senator Catlin succeeds the late Senator James P. McNichol as the head of the Elections Committee, one of considerable importance. There was some talk that Senator William J. McNichol. son of the late Senator, would succeed his father, but this was not taken very 'ser iously as it would be a violation of precedent to bestow such an honor on a new member. • Senator Max Leslie has done very well for the Allegheny delegation. Their score yesterday was four Sen ate and three House chairmanships. The Senate chairmanships are Nor man A. Whltten, Canals and Inland Navigation; William W. Mearkle, Pensions and Cadwal lader M. Barr, Milltray AfTalrs. und W. Crawford Murdoch. Legislative Apportionment. The House chair manships are Carl C. Baldrtdge, Legislative Apportionment; William J. Mnngan, Labor and Industry and William F Sfadlander, Municipal Corporations. These assignments leave Senator Leslie himself and Morris Einstein without chairmanships. However,- they have the compensation of being placed on almost all of the lmprrt ant commtttees of the Senate, which means more In a practical way. George W. Williams, of Tioga, yes terday sent a telegram to the State Committee, Haying he had seen his name •mentioned in the newspapers as the possible choice of the organ ization for chairman of the Com mittee on Law and Order in the House, to which the prohibition amendment will be referred. Mr, Williams asked that his name be dropped from consideration, as he did net want to be chairman or member of this committee. His reasons are not known. —His action was something <Jf a surprise, as he has been identified for years with the cause of the "drys." He had been nrominenUv HARRISBURG trfsSftgt TELBGRXPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF UFE ... Byßrigga ( i&T'°?T) / r5 e,a_ ( ALU R.4HT- EKCuse I /vss /STVo/~) \veßv IMPORTANT- MOST J (/ CotTERCMCc /MC A MiMOTe- •/ \ ( GuesS v — To YOO AT oioce / V ,T MAY Be v I 25® ... J \ VJHO IHIS V ~—_____ —• 1 important \ TiS ,s / V IS? / V__^ r ThA-r - y /""" \ /1 ft*" 6 7h h vr) —. v r UP J/ " - ,uel ™ -4~x • J \ iS it r \_ // FcW<) TTew / Su essEß-/ Another op * — y on- nKNfas VAJMO U? mentioned as_candidato for speaker of the present~House when the avail able "drys" tvere being canvassed. The organization men were thinking seriously of naming him chairman of the Law and Order Committee as a prominent "dry" in deference to Governor-elect Sproul's desire that a "dry" man should head this com mittee. He was chosen as a repre sentative of that wing not as extreme in his views as John W. Vickerman. of Allegheny, leader of the "dry" movement in the House. —Senator Vare spent considerable time at state headquarters yesterday with the conferees. There was a question whether he was urging the appointment of John R. K. Scott as chairman of the Judiciary. Special Committee, for which the former Congressman was supposed to be a candidate. A man in the best posi tion to know Scott's mind said yes terday, however, that he had notified the state leaders he didn't care a rap about being chairman of any com thittee and had not accepted the invi tation Speaker Spangler gave each Representative to name the com mitter. he would like to serve on. —lt was said the state leaders have practically finished slating the committee in the House. Similar work Senate was finished the day before. How ever, some important chairmanships in both chambers have not yet been decided upon. According to the plans of the leaders, these commit tee memberships will not be an nounced until the Legislature' re convenes. The matter of dlspensiifg the legislative patronage has not re ceived as much attention as the com mittees. It is said the decisions are only tentative and wiil not be taken up until the "slate" committees meet next week and will probably not be announced until Wednesday. The leaders meeting here will conclude their business to-day. -—John M. Nobre, formerly Phila delphia city surveyor and regula tor, was yesterday declared "not guilty" of libeling Senator Edwin H. Vare by the twenty-eighth word of an affidavit to the finance committee of councils, in which he swore that Vare directed him to destroy evi dence of payment by the city of Philadelphia for his government avenue fill. The Jury also said "not guilty" on the second indictment for handing the copies of said -supposed libel to reporters and to the finance committee proceedings and getting it published. Judge Audenried took twenty minutes to charge the jury and the jury one hour to deliberate and render its verdict. Mr. Nobre was present in court to hear the verdict and a demonstration in his favor was suppressed. Senator Vgre and Congressman William S. Vare and their attorneys were absent from court when the jury said Nobre was "not-guilty." Professional s Jealdiisy. It is also suspected that more than one eminent statesman in this coun try feels that he is a good deal more deserving of all that limelight than Mr. Wilson is.—lndianapolis News. Must Be Hard Boiled Wanted —Two carpenters. —Advertisement in the Springfield Republican. LABOR NOTES Agricultural workers have formed a branch of the Workers' Union on the remote Foulness Island, on the Essex coast. The Federation of British Indus tries, composed of over 9.000 firms in every kind of. trade and industry, em ploy nearly 4.000,000 workmen. British employers who are paying less thnn the .minimum wages have been warned that they will be pro | ceeded against by the governmnt. 1 Labor at Taeoma. Wash., has elect -1 ed one commissioner out of five in the j City Council. Day laborers in Japan receive only 28 cents a day. Santa Barbara (Cal.) plumbers are earning $7 a day. Fifty cents an 'hour is being paid for common labor in Pomeroy, Ohio. The hair net trade ,in Shantung, CiWua, employs over 100,000 peo ple. Over 100,000 men are employed I in tliA flatting industry in Norway. I 1 Coblenz on the Rhine • By LIEUTENANT GRANTLAND RICE, Third Army, American Expeditionary Forces A SOLDIER of America isy starving in Coblenz; His government had made him live four months on thirty cents; A comrade stood beside hint while his last franc ebbed away, And bent with pitying giances to hear what he might say. "Tell my brothers and companions when they crowd around to get An earful on this bloody war that left us all in debt. We didn't mind the fighting Job, but, slogging through the rain, Full many a boke was starved to death along the Khenlsh Plain. "And drooping out the Mayen road were strong men, wan and pale, The last franc in their dirty grip along the Bitburg trail; And as I faltered forward I heard them curse and whine: 'For I went broke at Coblenz —at Coblenz on the Rhine.' "Tell my sister not to_weep for me, nor sob with drooping head When the troops come marching home again with glad and gallant tread, But to look upon them proudly, with a glance, that seems to say: 'My brother was a soldier, too, who never got his pay.' "Just say I got no D. S. O. for showing lack of fear; Tell her I never lost an arm, or ankle, or wo ear; But on the Third Army staff I faced a rougher line, For I went broke at Coblenz —at Coblenz on the Rhine. "We met no German bullets as we hiked on through the mist,' Nor yet a quartermaster with a shekel in his list; And as we damned him dally, we heard the low winds pine: 'He never heard of Coblenz—of Coblenz on the Rhine.' "Tell her the last night of my life—(for ere this moon is risen My body will be out of pain—my\soul be out of prison) I dreamed I stood with her again in lands beyond all grief, Where I had something else to eat besides this bully beef. "Tell her I yearn to pee again the trenches far away. Where we still had a yen or two, and sometimes drew our pay; For though I have no love for war like any other lout, , I'd rather meet a German shell than German sauerkraut." The starving soldier faltered in the old Third Army zone. His eyes put on a dying look—he had not strength to groan; 1 His comrade bent to lift him as he murmured softly: "Tell That quartermaster when ho comes I'll meet him down in hell.'i ABANDONED RAILROADS (From the Baltimore American) Officially prepared railroad statis tics covering 1918 furnish some items of information that are bf speculative interest. One disclosure is that the constructed railroad abandoned during 1918 more than equals the new mileage built. There was abandoned 1,183 miles of rail road, and on 446 miles the track age was actually taken up. Only 681 of new road was built— the least in any year of record, the records back to 1893. The new mileage consisted almost en tirely of extensions of established lines to new coal fields.- The year 1918 wijl be remembered as the year of comprehensive gov- Vrnment control of railroads, mines and other things, but it will als6 be remembered as the stressful war year for the United States. Not withstanding tho urgent need for more cars and more engines on all lines engaged in moving foods, mu nitions, soldiers, war materials and government supplies, * there was a great decrease in the construction of both passenger and freight cars as compared with the 1917 record. Of the 6,249 locomotives constructed last year a very * large pro'poftion went to France. It is difficult to draw definite con clusions about railroading from the 1918 figures, except as to this, that 1918 was certainly not in any re spect a year of dazzling progress in railroading. Government control as a war exigency has brought about a complex situation and the way out of this complex situation, which has been compared to unscrambling scrambled eggs, is not apparent# to the wisest of railroad prophets. Where Bond Money Went Not all the money invested in Lib erty Bonds by the people of the United States was spent for war ma terial or the wages of the fighters sent across the ocean. Some eight billion dollars was loaned to tho Allied nutlons and will came back to this country in the course of time. It did not take England, France or Italy very lqng to find out where the world's pocketbook was located, and they were prompt In availing them selves of the facilities offered he*e In tho way of .financing their part of the big war enterprise. A good part of the interest paid to American inves tors in national -securities will come from the treasuries of our European borrowers. From General to Specific Maximilian Harden says v the Kai ser was a mere tool I 9 the" war. He might have added that the Crown Prince was a sort of a monkey wrench. —Prom the Chicago News. Extending the Armistice (From the Cleveland Plaindcaler.) When the armistice commissioners assemble at Treves to extend the truce Germany will be emphatically infbrmcd that the terms imposed by the Allies were Intended for abso lutely literal acceptance. In many details Germany has failed t, up to the agreement. This remiss ness must be remedied or new and harder conditions will be imposed and the Allies will be in position to execute these conditions. The chief German remissness has been in the matter of turning over, railway rolling stock. In the deliv ery of artillery and airplanes there has also been a deficiency. Tho Ger mans seem to have assumed that Foch did not mean Just what he said in November,. and thnt a partial compliance would be acceptable to the Allies. There has been no diminution of the necessity for safest safeguards against German perfidy. The down fall of the imperial regime and the partial bolshevizing of the army has removed the immediate military danger, but the unsettled conditions throughout Germany make it need ful for the Allies to be in.a position from which intervention would bo least difficult. Intervention is by no means contemplated for the present, but no one cap read the future, least of nil the Germans themselves. A state of war still exists between Ger many and the Allies, and as long as it exists the victorious Allies must take every precaution not only to against present danger, but also to provide for future emergen cy . e. A Prophecy of Brotherhood Then France will suddenly arouso herself. She will become formid able., She will regain Alsace and Lorraine. Is it enough? No! "No! She will capture—listen—-Treves, Mainz. Cologne, Coblenz. And you shall hear France cry:- "The clock strikes my hour! Germany, hear me! Am I thine enemy? No, Inm thy sister! I have taken all from thee, I return all to thee upon one condition: Thnt we shall no longer bo a divided people; that we shall be one'unlted family, one republic, i will demolish my fortresses, thou thine—my vendetta is brotherhood. No jmore frontier. The Rhine, mine and thine."—Victor Hugo. MODERN JOURNALISM Fifty special correspondents of Amorican newspapers attending the Peace Conference and preliminaries are having desperately hard work trying to . tell precisely the same facts in fifty different special ways. • —Richmond Times Dispatch. JANUARY 18, 1919. Out of Their Own Mouths (From the N. A. Review Weekly) We have no special admiration for Maximilian Harden, who at one time was a champion of and apolo gist for the infamies of the Huns. Because of that very fact, however, his recent re-indictment of his fel low-colintrymen possesses additional force. He knows the facts, from the German side, and he \ not preju diced against Germany. We speak of his indictment of the Gorman people. That is the significant fea ture of the case. Ho does not mere ly rage against the government. The German people he in sists, are insensajtfe to the infamy which has been committed by Ger many, and to the actual plight in which thqy themselves now stand before ■ tlio world. So he reminds them of the account which has been made up against them, the validity of a single item in which ho does not challenge: "Fifty-one months of brutal rule in Belgium, where administrative unity was broken and raw mater ials, machinery, goodß of evety kind, and three milliards in cash and banknotes alone were carried away. All law was broken, forced labor imposed, civilians were y de ported, and at the eleventh hour in dustries were still destroyed and towns plundered. "The devastation of Northern France and * the destruction of cathedrals, monuments, mines, fac tories and orchards. ' "Air raids against all law and all customs; The sinking of passenger ships and Hospital ships; "Secret agreements with Irish and the Flemish; "The smuggling of explosives, ba cilli and Incendiary • instruments into neutral countries; "Everywhere bribery, fraud and theft; "A cloud of witnesses brought to answer every accusation; "A country fertilized with the blood of the Armenian people, and all over the earth hardly a voice for Germany." These are some of the things for which, according to this eminent German authority, Germany will have to answer. It is well that he gives his fellow-countrymen that reminder. It is well, too, that he gives it to us; so that our jubilation over the prospect of peace will not Cause us to forget the things which, when they occurred, shocked us to utter abhorrence. Save in so far ,as some of these crimes were direct ed immediately against us, it is not for us to prescribe the penalty. There are other nations immeasur ably more concerned than we. But since we have joihed those other na tions in the war to bring the Hun nish criminals to justice, it is for us now to stand behind them and to say thnt whatever they demand in reparation nnd guarantees, that do we approve and upon that do wo in sist. Out of their own mouths, out of the mouths of their own authorita tive exponents, are the Huns con victed. Wo shall see to what extent it is posstble to rouse them to that realization of their guilt which is the first prerequisite to repentance and reform. Mazzini's Prophecy (From the New York Times) Mr. Wilson has visited the birth place of Columbus and the tomb qf Mazztni in Genoa. Giuseppe Mazzini, the father of Italian unity, of European republic anism, was the great idealist to whom Duty was "the common col lective faith." These words of his, long regarded afe dreams, come to the ear as prophecies realizable and soon to be realized: "Tho map of' Europe will be re made. The countries of the peoples will arise, defined by the voice of tho free, upon the ruins of the coun tries of kings and privileged castes. Between these countries there will be harmony and brotherhood." The new free nations, tho fall of absolute kings and privileged castes, the reirikklng of the map of Europe, we all accept ai facts. ' -tT . * Bolsher>ikTstn Propaganda M. Radek, chief of the ptJishevlk propaganda,- says: "Tho money sent to Berlin to finance the revolution was as nothing as compared to tho funds transmitted to New York for the purpose of spreading Bolshe vlklßm in tho United States." And yet there are people who say that anarchy thrives only in poverty and starvation. —San Francisco Chroni cle. lEuenitig Qlljat Almost without people realizing ! Dauphin county has become one < the big counties for hunting c small game in Pennsylvania and tt number of licensed hunters is u around the 10,000 mark, whjch lis been attained by comparatively fev The average man does ,not considc Dauphin as one of the'gamo cour ties, probably because there Is n large game, but as matter of fact i is one of the goqd quail countle due to tho care given to "Bo White" by many spgrtsmen and t the numerous docks of birds rt leased in this section. There ar some farms in Dauphin count which are closed to hunting Jus because of the quail, as the farmer realize their importance as destroj ers of potato bugs and other pest Probably more experiments hav been made with pheasants an grouse In Dauphin county than th average man is aware of and plans being considered mature thei should bo better hunting than ev along the Swatara and in the va! leys above First Mountain. State game authorities are ver hopeful regarding the purchase < quail from the Mexican highland for stocking Central Pennsylvanh Contracts were made last summc and correspondence indicates tttt there will be good birds to ship. ] is not the intention to have th birds started from Mexico until th weather conditions here are suitabli The shipment of quail into Penr sylvania in mid-winter some yeai ago was disastrous and it is no the plan to wait until temperatur and food conditions here approx* mate the habitat in the platea where tho birds are trapped. Mean while, some encouraging report about people trapping quail for sal keeping and feeding during winte in co-operation with the commissio are being received from Suaqut hanna valley counties. There is als much interest being shown in plar for trapping and feeding pheasant The state will pay for tho feeding t trapped birds, but require that the shall be liberated where game wat dens direct next spring. Several es cellent quail traps have been trie out under tho supervision of D Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of th State Game Commission, and nea Middletown good results have fol lowed. Some trapping lias als been done,in York and Cumbe'rlan counties. It is probable that from two t three hundred deer will be put chased by the State Game Commit sion and distributed through gam preserves in various sections. Som will be plnccd in reserves in th central section, some in Schuylki county and the Juniata valley, an others in the Lykens valley regio of Dauphin county. The funds at in hand to purchase the animals an the only difficulties will be to obtai good specimens and to get titer safely delivered. The animals wi be secured in the next sixty day and liberated in the early sprint Home time ago steps were taken t buy deer in Michigan and othc states, but the results have not bee tabulated as some persons who ha animals decided not to sell. Dee suited to the conditions in Pennsyl vania will be bought wherever pot siblo ffo that therfe will be animai for the new preserves to be estat lished. Deer are not unknown i this county, but like the wild tur keys, which used to be so abundan they cling to the mountain region and are very shy. There used to be some good fo hunting in this county forty yeai ago but there is nothing doing noi and only an occasional red and ver rarely a grey is caught in the eas tern section around Hershey or u in the Wisconisco valley. As a matter of fact there is n reason why Dauphin county wit seven' or eight valleys traversing i its numerous streams, the mountai land that belts tho central sectio and the woodlands along the Cone wago. Swatara and Mahantong should not furnish excellent huntin and fishing. State game authoritie are more than willing to co-operat in distributing quail, pheasants an wild turkeys but want assurances c co-oieration from sportsmen an farmers. Dozens of pheasant egg have been offered for hatching i, this county without takers and i some sections not so very far awa from Harrisburg quail were froze to death last winter. Hunting wi not only give Harrißburgers oppot tunities for fine sport, but also th chance to see the beauties of thei own county which are known to a too few. Announcement through the colum of tho Telegraph yesterday that Ro Stannard Baker will act as publicit calle the recent revelation tha agent in the peace conference, re Baker and David Grayson are on and the same person. Baker wa formerly a magazine writer. Break ing down in health lie wont to Am h'erst; Mass., where he lived on farm with his sister for five yeari After this five years of country ai he began writing again and to-da the world knows and loves Davi Oraypon's "Adventures in Conteii ment," "Adventures in Friendship, "The Friendly Road," "Hempfleld, and "Groat Possessions." In thes volumes he has caught the spirit c the open road. Through the efforts c Mrs. Neal Wyatt Chapline, of Sara sota, Fla., a Graysonian Club tvn organized with hiking and study t nature as the object. The idea ha spread and in many towns and vi lages are to be found Graysonia clubs. Writing from one of the great go\ ernment army hospitals, a Jiarrif burg soldier tells of a dance give by a number of the wounded me at which were present hospiti nurses, Ited Cross workers and m< tor messenger women. dam was unusual in that the grant march—a Joyous affair—was led t a major walking with two canes an foHowed by nil manner of crij pled soldiers on crutches and whe chairs, but never a sign of gloom o any face. It was the spirit of- tt Americun soldier which had not su fercd through the hell ot war. A the participants in this unusui dance wore carnival caps and wei showered with confetti by the friends in the gallery and on tl floor. • • • Some day Harrlsburg will have zoo all its own and the natural loct tion is Wlldwood Park where lltt is necessary to be donft save pr< vldlng the animals and the birds, ar these should be largely the nath furred and feathered denizens < Pennsylvania. A natural hablti for the bear is the bluff on the eas em side of the park add there also a natuVal field in the park fi deer. The children of w [ bless the ronn or woman who pr< ivldes for their education and enSo: ment in starting the AJ'ildwood sSoo
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