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WEDMiSDAV, JANUARY 22, 1919
H ON THE WANE
■j-jOLSHEVISM is 0,1 the wano in
IK Russia, according to appar
ently authentic reports rc-
in Paris. Most likely tho re-
are true. Indeed it would be
Hiurprising if they were not.. 80l-
cannot live long where
are no treasuries to loot, no
to consume. Bolshevism
not a constructive force. It builds
it creates nothing. It is a
Hlest rover and a consumer. It takes
Hiway from the wealth of the coun-
Hry but it puts nothing back, for it (
Mloos not believe in wealth, and
vhere there is no wealth there is
>overty, and idleness, and misery,
md starvation.
Bolshevism's power in Russia
'ame from tho looted treasuries of
he empire, from tile banks that
-.enine systematically robbed, from
he wheat bins of the peasants
vhose grain was stolen. This wealth
md food kept the country going in
laphazard fashion for a time. But
tarvation is ixjw rampant in Russia,
housands of peoplo are dying;
here is no more gobl to steal and
he Bolsheviki regime will fall of
ts own weight. We may expect big
lappenings in Russia shortly.
WE'VE GOT 'EM
np HE Kansas City Star hopes the
new Governor of Missouri will
urge the Legislature of that
(tato to pass a workmen's componsa
lon law and provide for a $40,000,-
100 road loan.
Governor Sproul needs no such
irging s Both are written on the
itatute books of Pennsylvania and
le was instrumental in the passage
>f both.
We merely mention these facts in
jassing for the benefit of those who
ry to make the public believe that
Pennsylvania is not abreast with
he times.
FRANCE A COMPETITOR
ppHAT France will supersede Ger-
I nian Y as tho chief competitor
of our steel manufacturers in
the American market is the belief of
rpany who are studying the situa
tion. Tho capitulation of Germany
wi November 10 found its armies in
occupation of an important part of
tho Department *of Meurthe-et-
Moselle in which is located tho cele
brated Briey basin. This territory
having been evacuated by the Ger- '
mans restores to France one of the
richest and most extensive iron de
posits in the world, which extends
into the Alsace-Lorraine provinces
wrested from France in the Franco-
Prussian War and to be restored by
the peace treaty now in process of
framing. Of the 22.000,000 tons of
icon ore produced by France in 1913
the Department of Meurthe-et-Mo
selle supplied 20,000,000 tons. It
also supplied nearly 70 per ocnt. of
the 5,300,000 tons of pig-iron pro
duced by France that year, 50 per
cent, of the 4.428,000 tons of steel
ingots produced in 1912, and 37 per
cent, of the 3,250,000 tons of rolled
Bteel products of 1912. There has
been considerable damage done to
the furnaces and mines on the part
of the Huns, but no permanent dc
etruciion appears to have been
wrought, and it is merely a matter
pf 'a few months when the output
of these miqes will be subjected to
the intensive application of the
French factories, which have or
ganized not only to supply to the ex
tent of their power the requirements
of France for economic rehabilita
tion, but to expand the export trade
in steel manufactures of that coun
try.
| One of tho first objectives of the
German armies, with the outbreak
ff the war, It will, bo remembered
was possession of these vast ore
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fields, and to the fact that Germany
was successful in achieving this ob
jective was due much of her mili
tary success thereafter. Germany
well knew the value of iron in the
winning of the war, and it was not
until the vast resources of the Unit
ed States were thrown into the bal
ance against her that she acknowl
edged the loss of her evil cause.
Nevertheless, shorn as she was of
the rich deposits of the Brtey, France
produced 100 per cent, more pig iron
and steel manufactures in 1916 than
she did the year before, a fact which
moved The Iron Age, perhaps the
most authoritative periodical on
the steel trade in this country, to
declare in 1916: "Thus there bids
fair to be a greater French steel out
put after the war, to be added to
the increases in Germany and Great
Britain."
I A man who has for years studied
I the iron and steel trade in conncc
! tion with the tariff, remarked at
that time that "in normal times, the
I big steel business of Germany, Eng-
I land and France is in export
markets. Of course a large propor
tion of their iron and steel,indus
tries recently has been devoted to
the manufacture of war material.
But their mills can and will imme-'
diately return to the business of ex
port when the war ceases, while the
American industries must inevitably
experience a severe cutting down of
their export trade." That his fore
cast was sound is indicated by the
figures showing our export trade of
manufactures of iron and steel for
the nine months of the current year
ended September, the most recent
available, which show that, despite
the increase in the value of these
goods, we exported for that period
$791,000,000 worth, compared with
| $908,000,000 worth for the corre
sponding period of 1917, while im
ports, notwithstanding European
embargoes, show a tendency to get
back to the pre-war, low duty nor
mal.
More than any other industry,
perhaps, the steel industry is de
pendent for low production cost on
capacity operation of the mills. To
achieve this capacity operation our
manufacturers must be able to rely
on a commanding position in the
home market. If that is denied them
to an extent which slows down tho
mills and decreases the demand for
labor, the unit cost of production in
creases, and the ability to compete
with European producers in foreign
markets is lessened. We can not
hope to retain such markets as we
have built up in South and Central
America, for instance, maintain a
wage scale which has been doubled
during the war, and at the same
time leave the home market open
to French and English competition.
Knowledge of this fact is what in
duces manufacturers to urge the Re
publicans to clear the decks for a
tariff revision upward.
PROPER PROTECTION
SENATOR PENROSE is very
properly (\isturbed over the
proposed expenditures of the
emergency food fund for which
Congress is providing at President
Wilson's request. One hundred mil
lions of dollars constitute a lot of
money and the utmost care
be exercised to see that it is neither
wasted nor misappropriated. He
asks that it be spent by a commis
sion of three men under the direc
tion of the President. The amend
ments to the bill should be enacted
without delay. We want to help the
starving people of Europe, but we
want to know also that they get a
dollar's worth for every dollar ex
pended and careful supervision is
essential to a proper administration
great charity fund.
A WINTER RESORT
HX.RRISBURG gave visitors yes
terday a very favorable im
pression of the brand of mid
winter weather Forecaster Demuin
doles out for local consumption.
"Just like a winter resort," was
the smiling comment of dozens of
folks from up-state, where the
snow falls in November and gener
ally remains until late March.
All of which made us feel mighty
goo'd until we reliected upon the
disreputable conduct of the ele
ments only twelve months since.
Dear up-state admirers, you ought
to have been with us then. The in
augural parade would have re
sembled a band of arctic explorers on
U ten days' hike across the eternal
snowdrifts and Governor Sproul
would have been forced to the ne
cessity of taking the oath on top of
a snowdrift.
It's a line thing to acquire such a
weather reputation as wus handed
out to us yesterday by a generous
forecaster, and we trust he does
nothing in the future to take the
wind out of our sails, as it were.
• •
OUTLAWED
LORD CECIL expresses tho pre
vailing thought in America
when he says that the Uerinun
people are as yet not to be trusted
and should not be admitted to the
proposed league of nations until
they have proved their worthiness.
The Germans are outlawed by
their own acts. one of us
would receive a German soldier into
our homes? None of us, wo feel
sure. There is the test. Why ask
us to associate as a people nationally
with those Npith whom wo would
have absolutely nothing to do indi
vidually?
Tho English view is the correct
view. Whcn Germany has repented
in sackcloth and nshes and shows
by her good deeds that she has
really reformed, then and then only
may she be considered as a candi
date for the congress of nations.
°|hiHtLcQ. IK
By the Ex-Committeeman
x One.of the things which impressed
almost everyone on the inaugural
stand and In the great crowds about
it yesterday during the impressive
procession was the wide acquaintance
of Governor William C. Sproul. He
seemed to know people without num
ber.
The military part of the proces
sion had barely passed before it be
gan to be apparent how extensive
was his acquaintance. Men in the
Philadelphia and Chester clubs
waved lings to him or culled and he
was continually doffing •his hat,
waving his hand and even calling
greetings. From the marchers came
shouts and acclamations for the new
governor, ranging all the way from
"Hnrray for Sproul" to "Hello Bill."
When the Pittsburgh contingent
came along the marchers seemed to
be desirous of greeting Secretary of
Internal Affuirs-elect James F.
Woodward, who got many a greet
ing, while the popularity of Llcuten
ant-Governor Edward K. Beidleman
wus attested by tho greetings for
him from the men x>f Dauphin, York
and Schuylkill. The Harrlsburg
peoplo seemed particularly joyous
over the Beidleman inauguration and
cheered the Dauphin countian.
—The new governor had to break
his way through crowds when he
moved about yesterday. It was a
great greeting that was given him
when he reached the Capitol after
the ceremony and in the evening.
—Harry S. McDevitt's appoint
ment was applauded when an
nounced in the House. The work of
Mr. McDevitt on the Economy and
Efficiency Commission was well re
membered, it seemed.
—Francis Shunk Brown, the retir
ing attorney general, was presented
with a loving cup at a dinner ten
dered him at the Harrlsburg club by
his deputies. Horace IV. Davis, now
of New York, came here for the
dinner.
—People who liavo followed poli
tics in Pennsylvania for the last
twenty years were commenting last
n ight upon the fact that three of
the four men who swung the des
tinies of the Senate back in 1905
and 1907 und in the special session
ot 1906 were in high office as a re
sult of the inauguration. They are
Governor Sproul, Secretary of the
Commonwealth Woods and Banking
Commissioner John S. Fisher. Mr.
Woods was president pro tem in
those days, Senator Sproul having
held that honor earlier. Together
with the iate Senator A. B. Roberts,
ot Montgomery, these men used to
sit up late at night working on legis
on and planning the day's work.
Together with other capable men
t/iey are on the way to make the
new administration as fine for Penn
sylvania as was the day upon which
it beganx
oa th of office signed yes
terday by Governor Sproul and at
tested by Chief Justice Brown was
filed late in the afternoon in the of
fice of Secretary of the Common
wealth Cyrus E. Woods. It was
written on parchment and is one of
the finest specimens of penmanship
seen at the Capitol. Wilmer John
son, of Secretary Woods' depart
ment, wrote it. The outh is given
in full with an ornamental heading
—Much comment was caused by
Lieutenant Governor Heldleman's
graceful tribute to Judge S. J M
McCarrell, his preceptor in the 'law'
who administered the oath to him
yesterday. It happened that Judge
McCarrell was a senator years ago
and president pro tem, an office
which the lieutenant governor filled
a few years ago.
—The inauguration day, as far ns
weather is concerned, was some
thing unequalled in State history.
There has never been a day like it
in recent history of inaugurations.
The crowds in the citv and the
weatheryise and politically wise
gieeted it as a happy omen.
—One of the incidents which at
tracted comment yesterday was that
when the new .governor and the in
augural party walked out of the
building to tho stand the Capitol
pigeorfs flew about in a great circle.
What happened was that a salute
fired far away startled them, Just
as any noise does and sends them
whirring about the trees, it made
ti pretty coincidence, however.
—Harrlsburg saw the first of the
seven Sproul cars, all licensed in
the seven series, yesterday. The
new governor has licenses Nos 7
77, 777, 7777 and 77777. Officially he
also has No. 1, the governor's car.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods and Banking Commissioner
I* *'Si\er, two former senators, were
given a hearty greeting in tho sen
ate chamber yesterday.
—lt seems to be generally ac
cepted that the session will adjourn
the middle of April. Everything
seems to he tending toward gettinir
the business going so that commit
tees can start reporting out bills
next week The bills for codes and
matters of state-wide importance
are due in a few days.
—Lieutenant Governor Beidleman
received more gifts that have ever
fallen to the lot of a governor
Frank 15. McClain, who retired yes!
terday, said that he felt that Har
rlsburg was mighty proU d of his
successor. 3
COMFORT BAGS
What's in 'a comfort bag' T
know. It is the generous heart of
St. Louis, Brooklyn, Chicago, Bos
ton, Rochester and Nushua, N H
that has revealed Itself to me in one
little thoughtfulness after another
A scrapbook inscribed in n schooi
child s hand to "My Soldier Boy"
a cake of soap tied* with red rib
on, nnd labeled "Liet's soap it's
good for somebody;" a piecq of wed
ding-cake with an autograph ac
count of tho event! You are very
painstaking and rather wonderful—
you women of America! From
"What's in a Comfort Bag," by Shir
ley Putnam, in the January Red
Cross Magazine.
It Seems Appropriate
Postmaster fteneral Burleson has
asked Congress to provide him with
a horse-drawn vehicle for personal
use, in preference to a motor car
Mr. Burleson's sense of proportions
will not allow him to travel any fast
er than his official department runs
—From the Kansas City Star.
NEW LIFE
The war is done,
Peace has begun.
There's endless reconstruction
Let all arise
And organize,
To save waste, loss and ruction.
Less levity,
More brevity,
More harmony, less strife;
Clean house and city
An end to pity,
Peace calls for a NEW LIFE.
Joseph Meinrath.
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"DOCTORED" NEWS
(From the Kansas City Star.)
When it was announced that the
government was taking over the ca
bles and sending its publicity organ
ization to Paris, a protest went up
from the country. The substance of
.■i that It feared the coloring
of the news of the conference by
administration agencies.
The most vigorous denials were at
once issued by \he government. It
was stated on behalf of the admin
istration that there would be no
hampering of the freedom of cor
respondents.
Now exactly what was feared has
come true!
The correspondents have finally
united in a solemn protest to the
President on the secrecy which has
clothed all the negotiations and on
their inability to get the news. The
Associated Press carries this signif
icant statement.
"The President himself has rarely
seen any ot the American corres
pondents, and tho newspaper men
who have expressed themselves at a
meeting of the organization they
have formed as considering them
selves trustees obligated to inform
public opinion at home of the
moves which are being made here
in Paris, have been chuflng at what (
they have characterized as bcHng
kept out of touch with the fountain
• f official Information, having
been confined to lniorniation dis
scmlyated. by an official publicity
agent.
"Confined to information dissem
inated by an official publicity agent."
The President was pledged to
open diplomacy and to freedom of
news. Instead we have secret di
plomacy and an administration
press agent handing out publicity of
administration diplomatic victories.
ROOSEVELT
Through the great hush that marks
. his funeral
Still runs the current of his fiery
zeal
Which, like a storm, to prove its
august power.
Curbs its own force and for the time
is still,
Then rocks, ugain plain, mountain,
forest sea —■
So when this moment's holy hush is
done.
His mighty spirit, like to John of
old, I
Will cry again in this vast wilder
ness
Of man's bewilderment: "Make
straight the path
Between your duty and tho end you
seek."
Still like a river, deep and strong
and 'wide,
His life will flow through lives of
other men,
While hearts shall thrill at thoughts
of noble deeds,
For he has made all future good
his own.
—Charles Eugene Banks, Author of
"Roosevelt, a Typical American,"
in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Maybe the Light Is Dawning
The mental depression which is
said to exist in Germany is probably
due to the fact that the German peo
ple are beginning to understand that
peace is not to arranged for their
exclusive benefit. —From the Now
Orleans States.
LABOR NOTES
The output of coal in Sheffield,
Eng., has been seriously restricted
owing to the ravages of influenza,
which attacked the workers in large
numbers.
The increase in war bonuses to all
day workers in the British woolen
textile trade is from 81 3-4 to 104
3-4 per cent., or an -advance of
$7.64 a week.
Owing to the strike of employes
of tile builders, hotels, printing of
fices and coachmakers, nearly 19,-
000 workers were idle recently in
Dublin, Ireland.
A French company has been form
ed for the manufacture In Algeria of
paper pulp from alfalfa, of which
there is an almost unlimited sut
ply.
Larger automobile manufacturers
throughout the country plan to add
to thela forces instead of laying off
men on account of war contract can
cellations.
Policemen and firemen in Quebec,
Canada, have been granted an in
crease of $3 a week, and a commis
sion will revise salaries of other city
employes.
HOW. GEN. BELL CONVERTED A
"CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR"
I
WHEN the lute Maj. Gen. Frank-
JO PUBIUUIOO U] BUM UOH UFF
Camp Upton he did not con
tent himself with talking to C. O.'s
In groujw. One of the stories his
friends have been recalling with
most satisfaction since his recent
death tells of his treatment of a
young Russian Jew from the East
Side, who was in the guardhouse at
Upton refusal to obey orders.
General Bell had him brought to his
office.
"What's the matter, son?" ho
asked.
"Nothing, 1 ' was the somewhat sul
len response.
"Oh, yes there is, or you wouldn't
be In the guard, house. Why won't
you obey orders?"
"X left Russia," burst out tho boy,
"because the army was everything,
because it was everywhere. I came
to America to be free from mili
tarism, and I'm no more than set
tled here before I find, militarism
being forced on me. 1 won't have
anything to do with it."
"You are wrong," said General
Rell. "You haven't been called into
the army to bring militarism about
In America, but to prevent it. Can't
you see that if Germany wins there
will be her kind of militarism in
Russia and everywhere else in the
world? Can't you see that it is to
keep that kind of militarism out of
America that we have gone to war,
and that we have called you to do
your share?-''
The boy thought it over. Under
standing at length spread over his
face and he said:
"I see."
"Now," said the general, "what is
wrong with you?"
"Nothing," was the reply, but it
was plain that there was.
"Oh, yeß there is," the general in
sisted. "Out with it."
"Tomorrow's Yom Kippur," an
swered the boy doubtfully. "All the
others are going home, but I can't
because I'm in the guardhouse."
"But you can." cried General Bell.
"Get up to your barracks and gqt
your things."
He looked at his watch.
THE REAR-END COLLISION
[From the Providence Journal.]
Too frequently comes a distressing
reminder that all the safeguarding
resources of railroad science are as
yet unable to abolish the rear-end
collision, though they are largely
concentrated on that objective and
no form of accident Is so inexcusa
ble In any circumstances. ' Not in
recent years have appalling examples
in quick succession been afford
ed as has now happened on the New
York Central, Sunday night, and-or
the Reading Monday night.
It is a question in both these cases
whether the mechanical agency of
protection failed, or the human ele
ment, and that has always been the
question. The former works auto
matically, and the utmost care is
taken to see that it is always in
wording order—a matter of no great
difficulty. * The dependability of the
liuniun element is less easily guaran
teed, and unfortunately for the se
curity of the combined system, hu
man and mechanician, it will fail
unless the locomotive engineer or
fireman, or the men who may have
the duly of supplementing the auto
matic signals with lings, torpedoes or
lights, ure fully efficient wlient the
emergency urlses. Tills individual
efficiency Is subject to conditions
over which the higher command of
a railroad can exercise no control.
They may be beyond the control of
the man himself.
SUCCESS
Not the fruit of experience but
experience itself is the end. A
counted number of pulses only is
given to us of a variegated dramatic •
life. How may we see In them all j
that there is to be seen in them by !
the finest senses? How shall wej
pass most swiftly from point to
point and be present always at the
focus where the greutcst number of
vital forces unite in their V purest
energy? To burn always with this
hard, gem-like flame to maintain
this ecstacy is success in life.—Wal
ten Pater.
No, Let's Let 'Em Resign
Shall we have to take up a popu
lar subscription for impecunious
cabinet officers?— From the Toledo
Blade.
"You can't make it if you walk,"
he added. "You go out and get in
my car; it will take you to your
barracks and then down to the train.
Goodby. Remember, you're coming
back to me as \ell as the army."
And the boy rode away in the
general's car to the festival that he
had thought he would miss entirely
and to come back to the army that
he had sworn he would never serve
In. ,
• Glossary of the Movies.
(From Film Fun.
Pie —Something with which to
swat a mun in the face. See Com
edy. .
Peril—Any situation which has a
Chinaman in it or a man with a
bandanna and earrings.
llreeze—Something which bltiws
the heroine's hair in the garden
scenes.
Shawl Garment worn by a
stfange woman earning back for a
glimpse of her "chee-ild."
Chee-ild—Anything under 30 that
skips when it walks.
Goatee Facial adornment for
"fathers" and "colonels."
Fishing Village— A place where
men make love in hlpboots.
Tree —Something to climb mod
estly. See Stockings. See Breeze.
See Ingenue.
Boxing Gloves — Apparel for the
hands, usually stuffed with scrap
iron. See comedy.
Policeman—A person who, on be
ing kicked in the stomach, falls
down humorously.
Pipe—That which heroes smoke.
See Exile.
Clergyman A masculine person
in bjack clothes, who raises his
hand, palm outward, and looks up
in tho air.
Comedian—A man without a col
lar. See Pie. See Boxing Gloves.
Business Man Something with
white side whiskers.
Wedding—(l) An unhappy be
ginning. (2) A happy ending. See
Goatee.
Gout —Something to step on. See
Comedy.
Society Man—Any person with a
tennis racquet. See Breeze.
"A DAM OF DOLLARS"
[From the Omaha Bee.]
Appropriation of $100,000,000 as
an emergency fund to provide food
for starving Europeans will meet
popular approval because Americans
are generously and sympathetically
inclined towards the suffering at any
time. When we think of thousands
of millions of money so lavishly ex
pended in pursuit of the enterprise
of war, out of which the famine has
grown, the present sum looks small
enough for the work of rescue. But
is it not a mistake to view it from
the angle that has been thrifst for
ward, that of relieving the world
from the threat of Bolshevism?
Mr. Wilson says tfie social malady
cannot be remedied by force; it must
be treated by other means. In this
he is much nearer the mark than
many may realize, yet it js a serious
mistake to conclude that the up
heaval is due to hunger alone. Bol
shevism broke out in Russia when
plenty to eat was on hand. It lias
spread in lands where no famine
is felt. Argentina, for example,
where food is more plentiful than
anywhere on earth for the moment,
is undergoing a social disturbance
almost equal to that of any of the
anarchy-infested / countries where
the disorder is complicated by star
vation. This trhght to indicate that
the cause is deeper than mere hun
ger.
AMIABLE SUBTERFUGE
(From the Philadelphia Ledger)
Prohibitionists celebrating the
stampede of the brewer's big horses
have not failed to observe ex
. Governor Stuart's amusing little
■ private camouflage at public ban
) quets where the wine was red. Mr.
j Stuart is the very antithesis of a
toper, and he does not. care who
knows it—but neither does he care
to parade his abstemiousness by
turning down the wine glass con
spicuously.
So he has had, recourse to an
amiable little subterfuge.
When the bottle came his way it
was wrapped in a napkin, and the
contents were poured Into, a glass
just like the other glasses.
But the waiter's napkin concealed
the label of ginger ale, and the
sparkling fluid outpoured was that
innocuous beverage and not cham
pagne, as it seemed.
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The New Administration
(From the Philadelphia Evening!
Ledger)
Astonishing revisions in political
philosophy and great changes in the
relation of economics and industry
to government are inevitable. Penn
sylvania cannot remain an island
isolated in a world of aspiration and
change. We are facing a creative
era and minds that are not creative
will soon be overwhelmed and dis
credited. /
The times are fluid. People are
restless, dissatisfied, eager for new
leadership. Their minds are inquir
ing and receptive. They are in a
mood to recognize theii; man when
ever he happens along. And in
Pennsylvania their lives are closely
bound up with immense ' opposing
forces that will have to be co-oper
ative in the approaching period of
readjustment and settling down.
Governor Sproul, facing this situ
ation, will be hedged about with the
usual difficulties. To the east of
him will be the ivied minds in
politics and journalism consecrated
to the belief that whatever is is
right. To the west will be unstable
radicalism, energetic and uniformed.
Upon the north will be a backward
minded Legislature and on the
south will lie tho bosses moved, as
usual, by ferocious greed.
Rarely will there he any one with
a wise realization of the great good
that may come with wisdom or tho
confusion that may follow upon mis
takes or a lack of constructive
vision.
It is an axiom of Pennsylvania
politics, for instance, that a Gover
nor can never rise above the Legis
lature unless he happens to have
qualities of rnhid that approximate
genius. For tne people who expect
great things from the state's execu
tive uf-ually begin, with characteris
tic perversity, by tying his hands
through tho election of Representa
tives und Senators committed to the
selfish creed of hosHism. But in the
present case the Governor will have
unusual advantages. Ho is free
from entangling alliances. He was
selected without a surrender to any
of the factions. He is courageous.
And if he will follow a method re
cently tried out with brilliant suc
cess in the larger field of national
politics he will realize that when he
?nounts to his new office he ascends
o one of the great forums of the
world. From this on he will al
ways be able to get an audience. He
will always be listened to. The peo
ple will believe him. And he can
go to them whenever he wishes to
make war for what is right with the
assurance the people are always
upon the side of fairqess and de
cency when they are given the op
portunity to judge squarely between
right and wrong.
Lord Fisher and Shipbuilding
(From the Boston Herald)
Build a navy a ship at a time.
Tlyit's in essence,the advice of the
one man in England whom the
Kaiser used to say he feared. The
man was Lord Fisher, the first sea
lord of the Admiralty, who ( revolu
tionized naval warfare. He said to
Harold Begbic: "Tho secret of ship
building is, never lay down a lot;
lay down one nt a time. One im
provement leads to another. When
the- improvements come then a
whole squadron is not made obso
lete."
Lord Fisher let foreign nations lay
down four, six, eight ships at once
and secretly made his plans for a
bigger ship to bent them. He amazed
the world by the creation of the
dreadnought, but when the first
dreadnought came Into dock after
her first trip abroad no one outside
the inner circle knew she had come
back a failure. The great ship
would not steer.
Ali tho brains of the Admiralty
were focussed upon the resulting
problem. Thoy solved it, but the
world thought they were making
some improvements in the gun
mountings Lord Fisher held that
one big fellow was worth a fleet of
little fellows: "You won't leave
your house, will you," ho uped to
ask. you know Jack Johnson Is
waiting, on your doorstep to slug
you?"
.A SHELTERED LIVE
*A crystal of ice
"Where dry reeds in music shiver,
Gray gulls and white
On the blue, blue river • *
And across there in the city
Where the smoke Hags ure flying.
Each hour sees a baby's birtli
And man's dying.
—Amelia Josephine Burr in Con
temporary Verse,
Owning (Efyat
While parades have come to be as
much a part of inaugurations as the
gathering of the legislators and state
officials about the new Governor
when he takes the oath of office
that of yesterday, both as to make
up of the organizations participating
and route, was something greater*
than ever known in Harrisburg be
fore. The development of the in
augural parade of Pennsylvania gov
ernors is un interesting study. For I
years following the Civil War they
were largely military In character
with comparatively few political or
ganizations, but always with the
Harrisburg lire department, whose
members have a traditional right
: going back into the forties or fifties,
| to parade in honor or the "big chief"
lof the state. The inaugurations of
j Hartranft are remembered by some
of the older citizens as notable mili
| tary affairs, as was natural, because
I the Montgomery countian was a dis
tinguished soldier and the tremen-
I dous impulse given to the martial
I spirit of the Keystone State by the
I Civil War was then in strength. Sim
ilarly when Beaver was inaugurated,
his association with the military
forces of the state and nation caused!
him to be honored by a great gath
ering of soldiers, although the day
was bitterly cold. The Pattison in
augurals were marked by presence
of many Democratic clansmen, the
return to power sentiment being
very strong. When Hastings came
in, after long service in the National
Guard, the military end predomin
ated in the pageant and he had a;
superb day for commencing his
term. Military took part in gradu
ally lessening number in the inau
gurals of Stone, "Pennypacker,
Stuart, Tenet- and Brumbaugh. The
showing at the Brumbaugh inaugu
ration was more civic than anything
else, there being a comparatively
small representation of Guardsmen.
.But the Harrisbdrg firemen, who
. paraded just as they were after
fighting a big fire all night and
most of the morning, took the crowd
far more than all the embattled
Philadelphia partisans. The weather
of the last three inaugurations was
not unpleasant. There was not much
sunshine, but there was no snow
or rain and the air while cold was
not wintry. But the weather of
Stone and Pennypacker was winter,
especially when the Sago of
Schwenksvillc took the oath. It was
snowy, blowy and cold and the Gov
ernor remarked when he got
through with the ride that he felt
as though ho had been out sleigh
riding and envied the men who had
a chance to march instead of sitting
still in a carriage as he had to do.
• • *
The Sproul parade route was the
first Inaugural procession to go so
far north. Other inaugural parades
went up to Reilly or Maclny streets,
but the parade of yesterday invaded
the Tenth ward, which in the last
two years, because of the numerous
big parades, has furnished the turn
ing point for the pageants. It used
to be that Reily street, being a wide
thoroughfare, was the highway
where- parades turned, but as the
city got paved more and more and
the size of the parades grew Ma
clay street was fixed up as the limit.
Some years ago one parade went as
far as Hamilton street and there
was complaint because of the length
of the line. Now, after the big pa
triotic demonstrations of the last
two pears we do not think a parade
is a parade unless it goes above
Maclay, Seneca preferred.
• * •
A couple of men were talking the
other day about parades in Harris
burg in the future and while it may
be years before anything like what
we have had under stimulus of war
time is organized in Harrisburg, it
was agreed that the construction of
the Memorial Bridge in the Capitol
Park Extension plans will have an
effect upon processions here. It is
interesting to note that Governor
Sproul is in hearty sympathy with
the plans for making the public
domain unsurpassed by any state
capital and the project conceived
by Arnold W. Brunner may be ex
pected to be pushed through. The
firemen upon the occasion of the
big state convention here some years
ago gave the Hil its last big parade,
essaying a nine mile route which
gave the city something to think
about and the Ilill a desire to see
more demonstrations. With the
coming of the Memorial Bridge the
Hill will ha,ve a chance for witness
ing parados because this bridge and
Mulberry street will afford oppor
tunity for processions to straighten
themselves out, a rather important
fnatter in these latter days of doing
things on a big scale and when we
are filled with the military and
marching spirit. Just think of
what a fine close to a procession
such as an inaugural. demonstration
a march over the great wide Mem
orial Bridge will be, especially when
it can countermarch about the Cap
itol Park Extension boundaries and
disband in State street in front of
the Capitol.
• • •
By the time the next inauguration
comes around the state will have at
the west front of the Capitol a for
mul entrance which will not only be
in architectural harmony with the
splendid building and the terraced
park, but which will bo specially
adapted for just such ceremonies
•as that of yesterday. This is one of
the Brunner plans and everyone who
has seen his study is keenly inter
ested in it. Every time there is a
big event a stand has to be erected
and inspected and criticised. The
formal entrance will be the stand
and yet fit right in with the Capitol.
f PEOPLE |
—Senator Sterling R. Catlin, the
nestor of the Senutors, likes to tell
of old days in the Far West, which
he visited when a young man.
—State Treasurer H. M. Kephart
yesterday attended his fifth inaugu
ration.
—W. Harry Baker, secretary of the
State Senate, has taken part In tho
organization of fourteen sessions,
not counting a special session, either,
—Thomas 11. Gurvin, chief clerk
of the House for years, served for a
while as a member and knows that
end too, he says.
—Speaker Robert S. Spangler is
a tennis devotee when it come to
exercise and plays a very active
game. i
—President pro tern Clarpnfe J.
Buckman, of the Senate, is a
Quaker, but also a Plattsburger.
T DO YOU KNOW |
—That Harrisburg is ninMng
shoes that go to the West Indies?
HISTORIC lIAKRISBJJRG
—One hundred years ago North
street was about the limit of lip*., '
town.