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sings. v —Emerson.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1910
TWO SIDES TO IT
THROUGH the courtesy of Di
rectors Keen and Witman and
Secretary Hammelbaugh, all
members of the organization, the
Rotary Club last evening got first
hand working knowledge of Harris
burg's open air school. Many of
the guests, who include some of the
most active business and profes
sional men of the city, were aston
ished at the completeness of the
building and its many conveniences.
They learned that It is regarded as
one of the model schools of the
United States, that it bears the ap
proval of the state and. national
health authorities and that photo
graphs and descriptions of it have
been published with favorable com
ment in many of the architectural,
medical and school Journals of the
United States.
Knowledge of this kind is highly
beneficial. The school board has
done much good work in recent
yours and some method of bringing
the taxpayer into Closer touch with
it ought to be found. An annual
public inspection of buildings might
bo a good thing.
We are all prone to adverse criti
cism. It is so easy to condemn
School directors when things happen
to be not to our liking, and nobody
questions that there has been room
for criticism, but just the same the
school directors have done a lot of
mighty hard work of an advanced
and constructive nature in recent
years. They deserve the commen
dation of their fellows for what they
have done along this line just as
much as they deserve the censure
for mistakes with which we are so
free.
THE FARM SHOWS
SUCH farm exhibitions as the
State Department of Agricul
cure and the allied societies of
the state have staged in Harrisburg
this week are highly beneficial to all
concerned. They promote friend
ly rivalry and are a constant en
couragement to the agriculturist to
grow more and better products.
They bring together farmers, stock
men and fruit and corn growers
from all parts of the Commonwealth
for discussion of methods and com
parison of results. They, teach the
farm boy his rightful place in the
scheme of things and help to keep
him on the land. They are good for
producer and deserve good treat
ment at the hands of the budget
makers of the Legislature.
LOP OFF THE SURPLUS
IT develops that instead of scarc
ity of clothing materials there
is a vast surplus in the hands
of manufacturers. The makers of
men's suits will favor double-breast
ed coats in order to use up the cloth
on hand. But they will find that
the public is not so much interested
in double-breasted coats as In single
breasted prices.
RUM AND BOLSHEVISM
SAYS Lloyd Osbourne, of San
Francisco, asserting that pro
hibition is going to help Bolshe
vism, referring to the vineyard
owners of California:
"At a time when the nation must
brace itself to meet the terrific Im
pact of Bolshevism, how foolish it
does seem to give the enemy these
tens of thousands of recruits."
And so the grape growers of Cali
fornia are ready to turn Bolshevik
if they can't continue to sell "booze."
A pretty state of affairs, if true, but
it is not. The vineyards of the Golden
State can be put to hotter uses
than the making of wine. There Is
grape juice, for example. A sober
nntion is not nearly so liable to
turn Bolshevik than one driven mad
by rum. Mr. Osbourne simply gives
a new turn to the time-worn argu
ment that a few men ought ,to be
WENINV7.
permitted to sell poison to the
many because there Is more profit J
In poison than In some other fotw
of mercantile activity.
UNTO THE LEAST OF THEM
HE little folks of the Children's
I Industrial Home and the Day
Nursery are In need.
They extend their little hands to
the people of Harrlsburg and ask for
a few of the crumbs that fall from
the tables spread in homes where
there Is plenty and to spare.
They do not ask for much —Just
enough to pay their debts contract
ed during their illness of Influenza,,
with enough left over to buy some
warm blankets, a few simple clothes
and some groceries.
Groceries, yes, and clothing, also,
for you may not think It, you folks
who have been giving nothing to
these worthy charities, but It Is a
fact beyond dispute that these chil
dren actually do have robust appe
tites, Just like your own boys and
girls, and they must have clothing
fit to keep them clean and pre
sentable. You may never have
thought about the matter, but we
assure you, good folks, that It Is
true. And more than that, they
have no fond parents making good
wages or salaries to provide for
their wants. They are the wards of
the city.
That means they look to you for
for support, because they have no
body else to whom they can look.
• Will you turn them away cold
and hungry?
Will you refuse to give them a
little of your plenty?
Remember it was the Master him
self who said that even as you do
It unto the least of these, ye do it
also unto Him.
And who are you that you should
turn HIM away empty handed?
ENOUGH FOR PRESENT
GOVERNOR SPROUL and Frank
Morrison, Secretary of the
American Federation of La
bor, are of one mind as to the ne
cessity of limiting immigration dur
ing the reconstruction period. Ad
dressing the House Immigration
Committee at Washington on this
subject Mr. Morrison said that fur
ther proof is being obtained * daily
of the increasing extent of unem
ployment, and that action must be
taken immediately if serious labor
troubles are to be avoided. He ad
ded that two things should be done
by Congress; first, that the legisla
tion providing for the employment
of returning soldiers be passed, and
second, that immigration be stopped
until normal times are again
reached.
These are reasonable suggestions.
There is much work pressing for at
tention in this country, and proba
bly in the next four months we shall
be almost as busy as during the war
period. But Congress can do much
to relieve conditions now develop
ing that if not corrected will result
in more or less distress in some dis
tricts.
With regard to restriction of im
migration, it needs no proof to argue
that where idleness exists it is folly
to add to the population by increas
ing the number clamoring for em
ployment. Europe needs all her
people Just now, and we for the
present need none of them. Gover
nor Sproul recognized this in his
inaugural address and Mr. Morrison
emphasizes the condition.
TIRED OF LIFE *
ACCOUNT of the suicide of a
hundred years old man killed
himself because he was "tired
of life" Is one of the most unusual
items that has turned up in the
newspapers in a year. He was
weary of being a "back number"
friends, he thought, hid their scorn
for his bent and tottering steps.
It is strange that a man who had
been content to accept the buffet
ings of life for a century should
suddenly decide that the "game is
not worth the candle." We may
hold life lightly enough In our
youth, but usually the older we be
come the more we pfize it. We are
careless of the criticisms of younger
folks who are not so wise and agree
with the poet who sang—
And if I should live to be
The last leaf on the tree,
Let them laugh as I do now
At the old, forsaken bough.
Where I cling.
WELL RECEIVED
The newspapers of Pennsylvania
have received with favor the inaug
ural address of Governor Sproul.
Even the Democratic press teems
with editorial approval. The Phila
delphia Record, leading minority
newspaper of Pennsylvania, sums up
tho thought of the editors of tho
state when it says:
The new Governor's program Is
broad enough to keep the Legislature
busy, and is thoroughly constructive.
He can count upon the co-operation
of the public in putting most of it
through.
This is high praise from a source
that it ordinarily is chary of its com
plimentary references to Pennsylva-
I nla Republicans and party policies. It
lahowf what a Hold Sproul
hs.'j upw tiw
or part* the breadth
lof his legislative program.
"Politic* £*
By the Ex-Committeeman
Governor William C. Sproul's very
evident intention to get down to bus
iness right away and to push along
his plans for reorganization of the
state government Is winning favora
ble comment from legislators and
they have been calling at his offices
,to tender their support. The new
Governor made a most striking Im
pression upon the lawmakers and
there have been few governors in
years who have been able to com
mand so much strength In the two
houses.
Very general commendation has
followed his expression In favor of
every action on the prohibition
amendment and the Law and Order
Committee of the House will likely
meet Tuesday to dispose of the
measure. I will be given a promi
nent place In the calendars.
—-It was said to-day that Governor
Sproul woul,d send a number of
names of appointees to the Senate
Monday and that by Tuesday he
would make up his mind regarding
most of the hold-over appointees of
the Brumbaugh administration. The
names of Fire Marshal Howard E.
B>itz, Huntingdon, and Commissioner
of Fisheries Than R. Buller, Wayne,
will go to the Senate soon, It is said.
The men whose appointments were
withdrawn will serve until the end
of the Senate unless their successors
are named in the meantime. This
means that the Public Service Com
mission will have three "temporary"
commissioners, only one of whom,
Judge H. B. McClure, of Lewisburg,
Is any way sure of retention. Wil
liam A. Mngec and Michael J. Ryan
will go, it is said. The snarl over
the clerkships and attaches of the
House is easing up. William S'. Lelb,
of Pottsville, is not a candidate for
resident clerk of the House and some
shifts will be made between now and
Monday night, when the announce
ments will be made.
—The Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin contains this interesting com
ment upon the Sproul cabinet selec
tions as announced and qualified—
which, by the way, seems to reflect
the general view of the officials: "It
is pretty generally conceded that
those whom Sproul has called around
him as the heads of the executive
departments form an able and cred
itable outfit. Their average of expe
rience and capacity is high. Every
one of them has the reputation of
clean handedness and of having
made good in his previous profes
sional of official pursuits. In respect
to most of them, the new Governor
has had the benefit of knowing them
well either in long personal friend
ship or in the intimacies of official
contact on 'the Hill.' At least two,
if not three, of them are either of
gubernatorial timber or are not un
likely to grow into samples of that
material before the end of the next
four years. 'The next Republican
nomination will probably be consid
ered as due to the interior of the
state,' said a veteran in public life as
we were scanning the names of the
new appointees, 'and it is possible
that John S. Fisher or Lewis S. Sad
ler may eventually catch the public
eye in that direction.' "
—Tho Governor's office last night
announced the appointment of the
following deputies attorney general:
Robert S. Gawthrop, West Chester,
first deputy attorney general, and ad
ditional deputies: William M. Har
dest, Harrisburg; Emerson Collins,
Wllllamsport; Bernard J. Myers,
Lancaster, and William I. Swope,
Clearfield.
—The Pennsylvania State Legisla
tive Correspondents Association, one
of the oldest organizations of the
kind in the country, held its four
teenth biennial meeting to-day and
elected John R. Ball, of the Pitts
burgh Post and Sun, as president.
Newspapermen from half a dozen
cities and representing the big press
associations and newspapers of the
state are members. Hiram G. An
drews, Harrisburg correspondent for
the North American, was elected
vice-president; A. Boyd Hamilton,
of the Harrisburg Telegraph and As
sociated Press, secretary for the sixth
time; John H. Reitinger, of the Phil
adelphia office of The Associated
Press, treasurer, and E. J. Hart, of
the Scranton Times, sergeant-at
arms. Appropriate action was taken
on the deaths of Thomas M. Jones,
Harrisburg, president of the associ
ation, and Samuel E. Hudson, Phila
delphia, both charter members, and
Senator George T. Oliver, as honor
ary member. Governor William C.
Sproul, who owns the Chester Times,
was elected to honorary member
ship. Harry S. McDevltt, his secre
tary, is also a member, having earned
his spurs while with the Philadelphia
Press. Several correspondents who
have come here for the 1919 session
presented their credentials nnd were
accorded newspaper privileges.
A RADICAL OUTRAGE
(From Ohio State Journal)
The Bolsheviks over in Petrograd
have issued un order that husbands
shall be selected for all women who
are between 18 and 4 5 years of age
and that the women will be com
pelled to marry these men; and that
the children which may result from
these marriages shall be the prop
erty of the state, to be supported
and educated by It. Thus the home
and filial love and duty are abol
ished by this red radicalism. The
very mention of it ought to excite
horror in the human breast. And
yet it is only one radical step in the
perversion of the social status of
humanity that we see bubbling forth
from every crevice of our clviliza
tfon. It Is time to take a determined
stand against this Insidious attack
upon the fairest aspirations of tho
people; this attack that changes in
dividualism into machinery and
makes every man and woman and
child a mere rivet, bolt, pinion,
lever, pulley, winch, screw and
wheel a part of the government ma
chine operated by Ignorance, sel-
Ishness, prejudice and politics. The
very thought of It is enough to call
for bloodshed.
His Possible Hope
Probably the kaiser feels that jus
tice is not wholly dead yet and on
| this theory Is looking forward hope
| fully to being able to bribe one
I member of the Jury.—From the
Ohio State Journal.
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PARIS, NOT VERSAILLES
(From the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger)
The impression, long prevalent
and persistent, that the Peace Con
ference would sit in Versailles, has
been augustly dissipated by the
formal opening of the sessions in
the Foreign Office of the banks of
the Seine. The change has imagina
tive stimulus. Versailles is tradi
tionally a stage for "set pieces." It
is the shrine of scheduled historic
events of which unequivocal fore
cast could be made.
The well-oiled wheels of Louis I
XlV's autocratic machinery revolved !
there with authoritative precision, j
The carefully prepared debut (A the
German empire was made there 1
with time-clock rigidity in 1871. Its
bow was expected. It was spectacu
lar, but not inherently surprising.
With the implacability of a tax col
lector the Supreme War Council
drafted the armistice terms hard by
the famous chateau. They were
forecast as drastic. Advance notices
proved fully Justified.
. So do they at Versailles almost in
variably. When events of .the
French Revolution outran the pace
of prbphetlc assurance and no man
could foresee the pranks of destiny,
the whole scene shifted to the
French capital.' The character of
national or international dramas at
Versailles is ever established at the
outset.
Chances often pulls the strings at
Paris. Tho action may be comic,
trugic, ironic, sentimental, salutary,
malign, vivid or merely nebulous,
but programming definitely ahead is
traditionally of experimental value
only.
The historic fitness of the transfer j
of the Peace Congress to Paris is
hence obvious. The nature of the
conference shatters precedent. Man
kind passionately desires that acts
and hopes will be in accord. Rut
the possible interplay of circum- I
stances rebukes prophecy. Each
day of the sessions must necessarily
develop tendencies, moods, currents,
uncharted reefs, unforeseen harbors,
with history so unrehearsed. For
Versailles could not possibly cope
centuries its swirl at Paris has been
dizzying, but never so awesome as
now.
Ebb Tide of Bolshevism
(From the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger)
Recently in these columns, when
Senator Uorah and Senator Kenyon
were solemnly warning the United
States of "the menace of Bolshe
vism," we reviewed the evidence,
which shows plainly that the wave
of ultra-radicalism is alrdady reced
ing even in Russia.
Since then Lenine and Trotsky
have sought conferences with Allied j
representatives. They express a.
willingness to cease their propa- ]
ganda. Liebknecht has been killed
in Berlin. Germans in other cities
are making war on the Bolshevists. \
Leaders of the troublesome cult are
confessing despair.
Passion is transient. It is upon
the passion of crowds that the
Bolsheviki leaders depend, and
sooner or later reason and a desire
for peace must bring peace.
Those who talk of a spread of,
Bolshevism have, been talking rather!
wildly. And It would be better if,
instead of indulging hysteria, they
turned in with a desire to help elim
inate war and misery—the two cen
tral causes of the recent tumult in
, Europe.
LABOR NOTES
The Policemen's Federation of To
ronto, Can., is demanding an eight
hour day and that ull promotions
shall be made by seniority, merit and
ability.
Women workers in Great Britain
are making a vigorous fight to secure
the same wages paid men for the
The production of soft coal now ex
ceeds the demand, and during the last
week in November an Increase of 11,-
000,000 was mined.
Foundrymen in Japan receive only
$1 per day.
Norway has nearly 400,000 per
sons engaged in agriculture.
Thousands of women are em
ployed in the silk filatures in
China.
Stone workers and pottery work
cs in Germany receive $1.07 a day.
Gun carriage makers in Worces
ter, Mass., now receive 78 cents an
I hour
AND JESUS SAID
From The Literary Digest for January 18, 1919
IF ye shall ask anything of the
Father in my name, He will
give It you."
For nineteen centuries this glori
ous promise has been a source of
comfort and of strength to count
less millions of the opprest, the sick,
the suffering, the troubled, and the
grievously burdened. Theso burning
words have been a pillar of lire by
night and a pillar of cloud by day
to the heavily laden and the sore
distrest and to those multitudes who
have passed through tho Valley of
the Shadow of affliction or death.
And now in this latter day—nay, at
this very hour—millions of women
and children in and near those
lands, those hills and rivers made
holy by the sacred memories of our
Lord, are claiming this promise and
are crying out to Him in an agony
of spirit and body beseeching Him
that He will save them from starva
tion, from death, and from horrors
worse than death.
Four million Armenians, Syrians,
and other war-sufferers in western
Asia are practically without food,
clothing, or shelter, the vast major
ity helpless women and' children.
More than a million and h half have
been deported. Nearly a million
have been murdered and
massacred. Four hundred thousand
children are orphaned. It can be
said that there are practically no
more children left nnder the age of
five, all having perished from ex
posure and disease. For every hun
dred births there are from two to
three hundred deaths. The newiy
born children die almost immediate
ly, the mothers having nothing to
give them but tears. Deaths from
dysentery, typhus, tuberculosis, and
famine are increasing front day to
day with appalling rapidity. The
homeless—a pitiful stream of wom
en and children —wander aimlessly
through the streets of their wrecked
villages. If you stop a child toward
evening and ask him where he is
going he will tell you, "I am search
ing for a place to seep."
All winter long they have slept in
nooks and corners, in alleys and by
the roadsides, with no blankets, no
covering whatever, their clothing
the merest rags. The women clasp
their wan-faced children to their
breasts and on their faces is written
the pitiful story of their utter de
spair.
The scenes in theso lands of grief
and suffering are beyond the power
of imagination to conceive or of
words to describe. Throughout the
length and breadth of these coun
ti les there is no food save bread the
dry crusts of bread that they re
ceive at the hands of charity. No
meats, no soups, no vegetables, no
sugar, less than a pound of bread
dally, and even this poor morsel has
often to be shared with others "A
poor old woman faint with hunger
said to me today," writes one of the
devoted workers, " Sahib, the bread
won't go down. I soak it in water
but it sticks in my throat.' "
"Wheresoever I go," a missionary
reports. "I see men or women fallen
on the street dead or dying, and
little emaciated children stretching
out their wasted hands 'for Just one
shahie for bread,' tears running
down their cliceks, and still more
awful arc the little ones sitting
propt against a wall, listless and
torpid, indifferent even to food wait
ing quietly for death."
"Just now," says another worker,
"I have been interrupted in my
writing. A Jewess has come to toll
me of a woman who staggered to
her door begging late last evening
She was allowed to spend the night
in a corner of the house and this
morning she was dead. 'Won't you
please send,some one to bury her,"
implored my caller."
Such pleas are frequent now.
There arc more dead than burled
in Armenia. Men and women once
in good circumstances and self-re
specting, now hungry, helpless,
friendless, crawl away, like animals,
out of sight, die unseen, and lie un
buried.
There is no Joy of victory in these
distraught lands; but only the cries
of an agonized people to whom
peace has brought neithor benedic
tion nor blessing; neither rest nor
respite; lands where the war has
left an awful human wreckage in
its wake; a great Kingdom of Grief
11 led with the cries of mothers and
orphans, a distrest people prostrate
with desolation, numbed with suf
fering, having no partnership in tho
great Joy of a liberated world.
No sons, no fathers, no brothers
I are returning victorious to their
homes in Armenia or Syria, for their
villages and their cities have been
razed and ruined and lie in dust and
ashes, and the men by the thou
sands and hundreds of thousands
have been pitilessly murdered or
barbarously deported.
Deported? Yes, but what a euph
emism for the most heartless and
relentless cruelty. Deportation means
the loss of home, business property,
and every personal possession. It
means being driven into desert
places, forced to march at the point
of the bayonet until strength is ex
hausted; it means being refused
shelter, food, drink; it means being
subjected to outrage and calculated
cruelty.
Many such scenes of terrible and
tragic suffering are in the very lands
where Jesus walked with his dis
ciples; where He had compassion on
the needy multitudes, and fed them
and healed them and comforted
them. Many of these awful sights
are even in the very shadow of the
Mount of Olives, where Christ said:
"Suffer the littlo children and forbid
them not to come unto me: for such
is the kingdom of Heaven." Millions
of "the least of these my brethren"
are hungry and naked and sick and
in terrible prisons without walls. In
them and through them the King of
Pity and of Love is calling to you
to minister to them Just as you
would do if you saw Him lying at
your feet.
You, to whom the Christmas Just
past has meant a time of reunion, a
time of feasting and happiness; you
whose homes are war* and whose
children are well fed, think now of
these your brothers and sisters who
are perishing. The cries of these
children must reach your ears. The
prayers of these mothers must touch
your hearts. These homeless and
starving millions are dependent on
charity—your charity—for Turkish
charity provides lor no one—it be
gins and ends at home.
lender German Consciences
(From the New York Times)
Deep is the horror of the tender
houled Berlin press at the unlawful
tumultuous killing of Liebknecht
?i ?°f a . Lux emburg. -What will
they think of us in the rest of the
world. asks Vorwaerts, which,
through all the multiform innumer
able cruelties and crimes done by
the Germans in the war, was as
placid as a Hausfrau knitting. "Why
must they justify the names of
Hun? it asks plaintively.
Edifying if rather late, is this
faint tiek-tock of the German con
science run down so long; and how
curiously German! It is unfortu
nate, of course, and the enemies of
Germany have said so, that these
torchbearers of class-supremacy by
means of rapine and murder, the
Bolshevist gospel, perished sum
marily and not by due process of
law; but nobody blames the Ger
mans for that or fails to allow for
the furious justified hatred which
this man and this woman had
earned. What is singular to the
foreigner is the tremendous pother
over these lynchings, which, com
pared with' the habitual proceed
ings of Germany toward her foes,
are as a sheep-shearing to the
Massacre of the Innocents.
Looking into the German mind,
one understands a little the sorrow
of Vorwaerts and its brethren. Two
Germans have been killed. Front
Armenians to Ukrainians, how many
millions of how many races have
fallen by the fire and sword of Ger
many and her accomplices! The
killing of Germans In Germany Is
another thing. It is the business of
Germans to kill, not to ko killed,
and the population shouldn't bo de
creased unnecessarily. Besides, the
brisk German business of massacre
was done by order. The General
Staff, the Kaiser, all Olympus of the
old regime, commanded. Cheerfully
und joyfully was the command
obeyed. But to slay Germans with
out order and all the formalities
how dreadful What will the world
think?
Air, earth and sea drip with the
guilt of Germany. She is afraid that
a domestic murder or two will hurt
her reputation. Did Eccelina da
Romano toward his end torment his
soul because In youth he had robbed
a bird's nest.
An Artful Dodger
Our Idea of a man dodging brick
bats with transcendent skill centers
upon the personality of Postmastei
General Bur'eson. —Oklahoma Aro
moroite.
,£NUARY 23, 1919.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR~|
VOICE FROM OKLAHOMA
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Whlteagle, Okla., Jan. 15, 1919,
As a physician and former resi
dent of Pennsylvania, I have been
watching with a great deal of inter
est the proposed action of the State
Legislature on the ratification of the
prohibition amendment. There prob
ably has been and will bo much
written regarding this question, but
there has been up to date a no
ticeable lack of interest, displayed
by the medical profession: especltlly
in view of the action of the Ameri
can Medical Association convention
in Chicago when there was adopted
a resolution strongly condemning
the use of alcoholic liquor.
Physicians from the nature of
their work are daily brought in con
tact with the end results of the use
and abuse of intoxicating liquor.
That it breaks down the natural re
sisting powers and incapacitates the
body has been forcibly impressed
upon all medical men during the ep
idemic of Spanish Influenza when a
noticeable increased mortality was
shown among those addicted to the
use of alcohol. Patients who for a
number of years had used liquor
were unable to withstand the at
tack of the disease and were much
more susceptible to the infection
than those not so addicted. In con
nection with this lack of immunity
and breaking down of the natural
body defenses from the use of alco
hol I desire to refer to an article,
Behold a Man." in Hearst's Maga
zine in which occurs a remark of
ueorge Clemeneeau, Premier of
France, himself a physician who re
plied to what he attributed his us
ual vitality at such an advanced
age, "That in his youth he had not
applied hot liquor to his blood."
This in a country whore the use of
intoxicating liquors is a national
obit.
As a resident physician at the
Harrlsburg Hospital and as a news
paper reporter covering the Harris
burg Police station I have witnessed
more of the harmful effects of the
use of liquor probably than have
many residents of the city. In strik
ing contrast to this has been my
experience the past four years as a
physician in a prohibition state on
an Indian reservation, where one
would naturally expect considerable
drinking and yet where it is conspic
uous by its absence for so strong
has been the campaign for "the sup
pression of the liquor traffic among
the Indians been waged that despite
the presence of bootleggers and
whiskey runners little finds an en
trance. If. therefore, the Govern
ment has the power to suppress this
liquor traffic among the Indians, why
not also suppress It among the sup
posedly more law abiding "white
man." If the use of liquor is harm
ful and deleterious to one race why
Is it not Just as much so to an
other.
No man should require artificial
stimulation to do good work, and If
he does require stimulation when he
is not stimulated he must be work
ing at a lower standard. To be ef
ficient, physically or mentally, the
human body should require nothing
to drive it on, nnd anything which
does drive It is doing more harm
than it is good.
I sincerely believe that if this
question of the harmfulness of liquor
is properly placed before the people
of Pennsylvania as it has been in
this state that Pennsylvania citizens
will ratify the amendment; not as a
matter of duty, but as a matter of
their own self protection.
Yours very sincerely,
Charles L. Zimmerman, M. D.
—
Germany's Moral Sense
(From the Philadelphia Record.)
The moral education of Germany
is proceeding rapidly. If we are not
mistaken it was Prince Maximilian
In the Chancellorship who remarked
on the fact that the war had opened
the eyes of the Germans to the fact
that might was not right. Presum
ably that was an Implication that
might was on the side of the Allies
-tnd right was on the side of Ger
many, but in recognizing that might
is*not the same thing ns right Ger
nqany gave evidence of an hitherto
dormant capacity for making moral
distinctions. And now Gustave
Norlce, In charge of the Berlin de
fensive measures, says: "It Is im
possible to restore order at the fron
tiers while in the capital might is
going before right." We welcome
tblr. additional Indication of an
,awakenlng moral sense in Germany,
lEiittitttg (Efja
"How "Agricultural Week,'
of the big seasons of the yea
men Interested in farming an
branches and for politicians whi
in rural districts, has had a cv
development. It has brought
dreds of farmers, live stock ra
fruit growers and others to
city this week, and they are t
not only a big interest In the
lng of the ten organizations ho
annual sessions hero, but are
manifesting concern as to the f
of the Department of Agricu
The selection of Prof. Frederic
mussen to be secretary seen
havo met approval generally. '
ago this week was devoted t
State Hoard of Agriculture,
the State Horticultural society
to meeting here at the same
and then one or two other orgs
tions. Four years ago the
Products show was Started, ir
to stimulate the corn growing
tests and it soon became more
ular than the meetings. Nov
week is an established instituti
Pennsylvania, and bids fair to
to greater things because H
burg is not pnly the oillcial, a
a certain transportation extent
graphical center of the state, I
the midst of a rich agricultun
gion. The people here this
are farmers of the prosperous
and they are all talking of th
portunities for a greater mid-v
display of the best of the ex
at the summer and autumn
The state board itself was cr
in 1876 and has been meeting
annually.
• *
Propositions for restriction
weights and tires of trucks
state highways will obtain ct
erable report among people win
to and from this city. Kectlo
important state highways for
about Harrisburg show the e
of heavy truck traffic, espe
where the trucks have had to
out. There the side road is c
pieces and big ruts show what 1
cars can do in "soft" weather
will cost many dollars to repai
damage done by trucks this la
weeks on state highways.
* •
Belgium and France, which
furnished quantities of shru
and ornamental plants to Per
vnnia in years gone by will be
hundreds of thousands of shadi
roadside trees by the Keystone
this year if ways can be foui
ship them. The State Depart
of Forestry's nurseries, establ
some ten years have prot
immense quantities "of "trees i
valuable for reforestation and
were made through the t
States Government to war str
countries, including Italy ant
countries on the western front,
rangements have been made t(
for the trees when the time <
and they will be made availat
a contribution for this state,
lions of young trees have been
ed at the state nurseries the
two years and all the trees
could be set out were plantet
spring and fall in State Res
Many were also taken to plant
state highways and for woo*
development on farms and M
sheds, but the labor situ
prevented anything like what
hoped to set out. There arp
left over which will be sent a
as soon as ships can take them
is probable that the State Cor
sion of Forestry will ask for t
crease in the appropriation foi
forest reserves this year in
to acquire some of the lands i
have been in negotiation. If
are available there will be i
expansion of the reserves.
In considering the work o
Department of Parks for the
ent year many people belive
some consideration might be
with profit to encouragement c
song birds in Wildwood and
parks of the city. These birds
been driven away during the
yenrs and some attention oughl
to be given to coaxing them
Too often the park employes in
round of planting, pruning or
rating the rest spots of the p
says an authority, neglect birt
The sure result of this ncgh
the increase of insects so that i
end the hard-worked park su]
tendent has his duties multiplie
to mention the loss In charrr
attractiveness that follows th
parture of wild birds. Squirrel
the Inveterate foe of the birdi
it might be better to dispose c
squirrels rather than the birds,
ver has conducted a wild bird
paign with surprising results, i
and hundreds of birds that hac
viously disappeared, owing to n
and their natural foes, have
returned to the parks of Colo:
chief city. The Invitations too
form of small boxes tacked ai
the trunks of trees in which
placed lumps of suet so that th
travelers going south in the fa.
the early arrivals in the sprin
only might be saved from the b
sonable snowstorm but the 1
birds might survive starvation,
I" WELL KNOWN PEOPL
-—Lewis S. Sadler, the new
way commissioner, has been c
the most consistent movers fo:
ter highways in the Cumbt
valley for over a dozen years.
—John S. Fisher, the new
ing commissioner and one o
noted lawyers of the state, s
life on a farm and taught sch
—Prof. Frederick Kasmusse
new secretary of agriculture
wanted by New Hampshire to
its official farming activities.
HOW IT IJAPPENEI
(From the Kansas City SU
"Pardon me," said the army
for military chefs are prone
dress their underlings courti
"but I prithee tell me whei
learned to peel potatoes so i
ally? I notice that you do n
off the cuticle in great hunk
alas, too many do, but loosen
of the skin of the tuber am
deftly strip it all off. You mus
had much experience in sk
e'er entering upon a soldier'*']
"I did, thank you, sir," repli
accomplished member of the
en police. "Before I decldi
make the world safe lor dem
I was a country bunker."
Speaking of Fruit
A man never ascertains w
he married a peach or a lemoi
he happens to open a family
From Cassell's Saturday Jouri
A Popular Wish
President Paderewski! Mi
administration be a perfect r
—From the Philadelphia Rec