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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.
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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
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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.
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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