10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. XEWSPJPEH EOS- THE HOME Founded 1831 i i * Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING COl Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GU&. M. STEIXMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circtdation Manager Executive Board •J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it.or not otherwise credited in this f<aper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rj Newspaper Pub § Ushers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Flnley. Fifth Avenue Building. Western office" " Gas Building - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second rlass matter. By carrier, ten cents a Tiu3s;\Sip?."4.> week; by mail. $3.00 a higw* " year in advance. God is never in a hurry —tee always j ■ore.— Landrith. *" 1 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1919 MAKING FINE PROGRESS THE celerity with which Lewis j S. Sadler, the new State High- j way Commissioner, has got- j ten his bills into the Legislature 1 indicates that he and Governor j Sproul are in perfect accord on the \ importance of getting this great j public work promptly under way. Mr. Sadler is proceeding with his program in a manner that bids fair to make him the greatest road build er In the history of Pennsylvania.. He is wasting no time in long winded discussion. He has back of him a Governor who knows Pennsyl vania's highway problems in all their ramifications. There is absolute har mony between the executive and I the highway departments. Mr. Sad- J ler knows what he wants and he j has the money with wfitfeh to get it. | This is a combination that should j produce results and that with any thing like favorable weather-condi- | tions will give the State more new I roads by the time snow flies in 1919 than ever have come irtto being in | iny txvo previous years. Indeed, neither Governor Sproul i nor Mr. Sadler appear to have any j regard for the weather. Yesterday, j with the snow falling rapidly, the j road builders were as busy in Camp ! Hill as it would hax-e been possible j for them to have been on a bright spring day. This decision of Mr. Sadler to improve,all of the high ways leading into Harrisburg. assist ing oie boroughs where the roads are bad through small towns, is a i recognition of the fact that this city j is a" great center for automobile and 1 vehicular traffic in general. Main ' highways converge here like spokes | in a wheel. All over the State this j is to be repeated until the automo- i bilist or the farmer will no longer ! be able to tell when he has crossed j a borough line by the roughness of ! the roads on the town side. The j boroughs have been sadly neglected | by the State. Commissioner. Sadler i means to remedy this and in that as j in every other part of the program as | outlined up to this time he has the ' approx-al of the public. | COMING INTO ITS OWN MILITARY training is coming ; intd its own. From General 1 Leonard Wood down the line i there is insistent demand for some form of military instruction in the public schools and other educa tiona institutions. Two or three bills already have been introduced in the Legislature on this subject and j unless w • are to drop back into our old pacifistlc attitude a million men in a night—we must give heed to preparation, and in viexy of what is now transpiring in Europe we huve no right to assume that the era of peace,, good will to men, has come for indefinite ages. indeed, the fact that there are still so many people who believe that all sxvord.- should be converted into pruning hooks is the best argu ment in favor of some consistent form of military training that will keep our men "fit for the national defense. A WARNING NOTE SENATOR PENROSE. in his speech on the new revenue bill at Washington, sounds a warn in--: note and indicates the policy of the Republican Congress when it shall conte into control. Unfortu nately two years must elapse be fore the evil effects of the bill about to be passed by the Democrats can be counteracted. Taxation has reached the danger point, extravagance is rampant, waste is evident on every hand. Industry is being sorely beset, in dividual incomes are being made to yield up money to pay for the pet schemes of theorists or those using their offices to feather their own political nests, 247,000 new of fices have been created —these are some of the points argued, by the THURSDAY EVENING senior Pennsylvania Senator before the Senate. Tfiey need neither [ amplification or demonstration. They are self-evident to even the most casual newspaper reader. Democratic officials know they are approaching the end of their string. They are loading the public reck lessly with taxes. They are spend ing money extravagantly while tjiey can. After them the deluge. After them, also, the Republican party, with two years of Democratic fi nancing to hamper and restrict the new constructive policy. But Sen ator Penrose is sounding the warn ing ntfw. Tho people are learning early to whom they must attribute the hardships of taxation about to be dumped upon them. The Sena tor's protests will be, of course, in vain. The gigantic appropriations will be pushed through without pruning. But it is at least encour aging to know that the next Con gress is -pledged to save as much money as possible, instead of spend ing as much as the country can stand without actual bankruptcy. HE'S OFF AGAIN THIS is a letter to all officers and employes throughout the postal service of the United States from Albert S. Burleson, postmaster general: I desire to express to all the emffioyes of the Postal Establish ment my appreciation of the splendid way they liave perform- , ed during the past year. Never have they been more loyal, never have they labored so incessantly or. pertornied their duties more promptly and efficiently, notwith standing the fact that thousands of them have responded to the call of their country and have been withdrawn from the postal service, and many others attract ed by alluring compensation of fered by industrial and commer cial enterprises have been sepa rated from the service, thereby forcing the Department to en list the aid of Inexperienced help. The Postal Establishment of the United States, in the face of tho great difficulties created by the war. continued to give an efficient postal service practically without curtailment or restriction. From reports received from the Audi tor for the Post Office Depart ment. from the hundreds of Post Oftioe Inspectors in the field, from the Superintendents of t*e Rail way Mail Service throughout the country and from postmasters of all the larger cities comes the same story—that the postal ser vice has been and is being main tained at a standard of efficiency the highest known in its history, when one considers that this has been accomplished in the face of the fact that war activities have been imposed on the service, tre mendous in their burdens, it is little short of marvelous that you have been able to discharge your duties so satisfactorily. For this wonderful "result the American, people are indebted to the hdn dreds of thousands of faithful postal workers who have labored, hard without the glare of the spotlDtht and with no recompense save the knowledge and satisfac tion that comes with the con . scipusness of duty well per formed. I send this word that you may know that the head of this Department is not unmindful of what you have done, but has the keenest appreciation of your unselfish efforts and the arduous ana important tasks you have performed. It's a fine, high sounding bit of literature and we wish it were nil true: but f it is not Fo fa t ■aa the efforts of the men are concerned Mr. Burleson speaks gospel. They have done wonders under condi tions that have been most. discour aging and disheartening. , What ever of- the oldtime efficiency is left in,the Post Office Department is due to their loyalty and devotion. They have worked long hours with under-manned forces at pay which would have attracted only the riff raff of the labor world if offered by any employer other than the gov ernment. Many of them did leave, and small blame to them, for they saw others earning two or three times as much for half, the effort. But when Burleson says that the "postal serx-ice has been and is being maintained a standaVrl of efficiency the highest known in its history," he makes an assertion that any person who sends or receix-es mail is in position to disprox-e to his own satisfaction. There nex-er was a time when the postal serx-ice was so bad as it has been since Burleson took charge, ut doxvn the working forces and began his campaign of demoralization. Ask i the first postal employe you meet what he thinks of Burieson and hi"? inefficiency. FIERY CHARIOTS CONSIDERABLE testimony has been offered recently by officers 1 in the aviation service to the effect that the airplanes sent over by j Mr. Baker's department were fire ! traps, or. as one officer expresses it i "gamins coffins." It is said that the Liberty Motor was an excellent piece of mechan ism, but that it would have been dif [ ficult to pick a worse machine than the De Haviland. The fiery chariot S which wafted Enoch heavenward i had nothing on the planes that were ! constructed under the supervision of j Colonel Deeds, whom Hughes re i commended for court martial, but 1 whom Baker lauded, saying, "his im agination peopled the sky with air planes." What few planes Deeds | was able to deliver apparently did j something to de-people the army of j aviators. SKY'S THE LIMIT THE President's demand for a $700,000,000 navy at once, made just as the question of general disarmament was being discussed, wotfld indicate that the conferees are not playing table-stakes. . TOO MUCH PUBLICITY IT is x a question whether we' are not giving too much space in our thought and in the press to alleged Bolshevism on this side of the ocean. These malcontents thrive on publicity and discussion; they perish without it. It is their food and drink. Prompt action by the courts and the civil authorities will i tend to shorten the period of un rest_owlng out. pt the noisy actlvl ■ "• • m ties of the uncanny buzzards of evil which are getting more attention than they deserve. . IK By the Ex-Committee man Cumulative nominations or the running of a candidate on more than one party ticket will be stop ped by this Legislature and a bill to forbid the practice which has grovAi up in a number of counties of the State will be presented short ly. State Chairman William E. Crow, who .remained here tonight to see his law partner, E. Ray Shel by, take the oath of office as public ] service commissioner to-morrow, said to-night that the demand for a law. which would stop "party raid ing" had become very strong. "From what 1 have heard from persons who have discussed changes in the election law I am satisfied that there is a strong sentiment throughout the State in favor of the enactment of such Legislation as would prevent party raiding" said the State Chairman. "If the inte grity of the primary is to be main tained and one party stopped from raiding another, this State should prohibit a candidate from receiving more than one party nomination. Some States, including West Vir ginia, have such a law and 1 am hopeful that this Legislature wilt decide that every man seeking an office, whether it be high or low, must be content to go before the people as the nominee of one party." People who have been here have been anxious to prevent party raid ing at the primary, which has been productive of the same candidate on three and some times four tickets in the big cities and in some of the hard coal counties especially. There is, however, no intention of trying to prevent fusion after a prl livquiries made here the last few davs have indicated that some peo ple have been seeking in re gard to a move to repeal all the_non partisan laws. The stand by Go - ernor William C. Sproul in tax or of repeal of the judicial non Partisan law has not been even criticised among the Legislators jnd pOT judicial nominations will be author ized as soon as the non partisan act is repealed. The idea would be to have the party nomination system return this P falh Whether the whole non partisan system goes on the third class city people. There has been a sharp division of opinion among third class city offl cialsrand legislators on the retention of the non partisan system foi elect niavors and councilmen and many criticisms of results have been heard. Last session the advocates of the non partisan system succeeded in preventing any change after* a strenuous contest. The attitude of the third class city representatives in the general assembl> would be watched with interest in the two second class cities where mOV f 3haN A been heard of from time to time to* return to the partisan system of electing city officers, The Philadelphia Inquirer says regarding appointments: "The se lection of Mr Clement fs a purely personal one. He and the Governor have been intimate friends for years. While the Governor -was president of thi tnton League Mr. Clements served with hlm o " th i ® board, of directors, of which he is still a member. He cannot be cla-s --ed as identified with .either of the Republican factions in Philadelphia Tiolitfcs. He was treasurer of the Citizens' Committee which directed the campaign for Mr. nom ination for Governor. M r \ Clem ent's term will expire dan" g the Sproul administration, which may mean that he will be reappointed for a term of ten years xxhen his present term nuns out. Judge Mc- Clure, who is named to succeed himself, is a stalwart Republican of the old school." The Philadelphia Record takes a whack at Philadelphia charter re vision plans this way: "The sug gestion of the charter revisionists of twenty-one councilmen to be elected by Senatorial districts, rep resentation to be based upon the number of assessed voters in each district, is an improvement on the original suggestion to elect five of the councilmen at large. But it is not the right suggestion. If we gre sure to have a paid council of txvtfn ty-one members, each of the twent ty-one members should he elected by the voters of the section of the city in which he resides. This plan would offer greater possibilities of popular representation in councils than the one now suggested." When Judge Thomas J. Baidrige granted 4 7 liquor licenses in Blair county he refused three, reducing the total by one as compared with last year. Regarding rules, the court" merely warned landlords not to relax any old rules. including sale by the bottle. 11 o'clock clos ing, observance of Memorial Day and Christmas, no music in J>ar rooms and no free lunches. No ref erence was made to reducing the li cense fee at license court. He re ferred hotelkeepers to the Legisla ture for relief. —The Granger interests are lining up to fight the bills to reduce or abolish the licenses for the sale of oleomargarine in Pennsylvania and there will be an interesting time here next Tuesday when the Mc- Curdy bill to cut down licenses "will be given a hearing by a House com mittee. The Pennsylvania Farmer opens the fight this way: "As was to be expected, the oleo interests are seeking to destroy the bars to further substitution of their goods in this state. Among the first bills introduced in the Pennsylvania leg islature is House Bill No. 22 which proposes to reduce the retail license for sale of oleo from SIOO, as at present, to $lO. It would also re duce the restaurant and hotel li cense for use of oleo from" SSO to $5. The bill was referred to the judiblary committee rather than to the agricultural committee, and it is likely to receive favorable action in committee. The first effect of this bill would be to release oleo trade from its regular chanilels and in crease opportunity for violation of the Federal tax law. It would per mit the sale of oleo by every huck ster. pedlar and Junk store, where restrictions on proper labeling and sale of the uncolored oleo would be practically impossible of' enforce ment. It would not cheapen the retail price of the product but it would open the way to more gen eral substitution of oleo for genuine butter. The bill should be defeated, but It will require vigorous protest from the farmers to accomplish Its defeat." BARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH! OH, MAN! 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"Cor poral Martha" was a young woman of tact and presence of mind, but now and then here military title made complications too intricate for chicalry to solve. "I have diffcult situations to handle sometimes. Bill," writes Corporal Martha. "For instance: The other day the lieuten ant and I were waiting to go down in the elevator. Now, here's the question. If lam a lady and he is a gentleman, I go in first. If he's an officer and I'm a corporal, he goes in first. It all depends on how you look at it. I didn't know how he'd take it, so I thought I'd wait and see what he'd do. 1 guess he thought the same thing. So wq both stood there eyeing each other up on the right oblique. Then he stepped for ward and I stepped back. Then he stepped back and I stepped forward. Tiien we both stepped back. I was getting pretty dizzy by. that time. I guess he was too. Then we both squeezed in at the same time. 1 guess that's what they mean by military tactics.". , . Major General Clarence Edwards | spfttks thus of the 101 st Engineers, j the personel of which is the subject [ of Captain Carroll Swan's "My Com- ' pany" (Houghton Mifflin Company): i "They could build roads which were j the wonder of ourselves, not to say , anything of the French, and they could bring up a support for an in i fautry regiment, going through, that | made us want to shout for the glory of it. These were the boys who, ■ when I had occasion to call for ten ' volunteers for some particularly dif- i ficult piece of work, would force me to ejiminate one hundred afid sixty, in order to get the ten. Thus, you can see that, when I say the 101 st Engineers was the best engineer regiment in France. I am not boast ing. The regiment is a fitting exam ple of what universal military train ing can do and will do for the-youth of the couqjrv." • Prohibition and Revenue (Pittsburgh Gazette Times.) It is not a bad sign that the hys- j teria lately observable in those I solicitous of the public revenue'i which would be lost through cxtinc- 1 tion of the liquor traffic has sub sided. That signifies that common , sense is coming into its own. So . far as states and municipalities are | concerned, there*- need be no >fear | that they will not find ample means.l without imposing hardships on the taxpayers. As for the Federal Treas ury the income and profits tax fea tures of the revenue law give prom ise of making up all that is lost through reduction of income from excises. It is certain that prohibition will have far-reaching beneficial results on general business. Vast increase of volume in certain \,ines is assured, which means that these will profit [ more and consequently yield more j to the public treasury. Clothing in | all its branches and household goods and furnishings of all kinds will be I in* greater demand than ever before, i The money that men now spend for. liquor will not be hoarded. It will be usefully employed. There will j be fewer shabby-genteel people on ! view. The money which they have appropriated for liquor would have been better spent for clothing; when we have prohibition a good share of it will go to the clothifg mer chant. Thousands upon thousands of households are 4n want of new | furniture, of carpets and draperies | that could not be bought because i too much'of the family income went t to the groggery. That leak being closed the homes will be refurnish ed. The benefits will be felt through out the retail and wholesale trades and in manufacturing circles as well. Think a few minutes about the range of business that will grow through new found ability to gratify individual desires for comforts and the evidences of self-respect. Think of the new Joy in life of those who will get what they need and desire and which they could not have while beer and whisky were claiming a large share of the family funds. The necessaries can fill the treasury as well AS can liquor. And they will do so. - ... The New Attorney General George J. Brennan, who writes, the "Who's Who" column in the Philadelphia Inquirer, presents this interesting story about William I. Schaffer, the attorney general: Pennsylvania's protest against the attempt of the Wilson administra tion to force an ( increase- in the rates for' telephone service, so elo quently voiced by Attorney General William I. Schaffer, before the Dau phin county court, evoked from Henry Graham Ashmcad, the vet eran historian of Delaware county, a tribute of esteem and admiration for Governor Sprout's official legal adviser, which came from the heart and covered the full period of the career of this live wire of the new administration. "The example found in contem-, plating the obstacles which have con-' fronted the pathway of distinguish ed men in their rise to positions of j commanding eminence," said Mr. | Ashmead, "will ever remain an ob- j ject lesson to youth struggling for; prominent place in the fierce battle; of life, presented in every field of! hunjan endeavor. This . lesson is' taught-in the life story of all sue-j cessful men and will be found in that of William Irwin Schaffer, now; in the limelight as Attorney General of the Commonwealth. His early life! is identified with Delaware county, j although his natal place was Ger mantown, Philadelphia, where he wa% born February 11, 1867. When' he was a mere child his father en-1 gaged in business in Chester, on thej site of the present Crozier Building, j the home of the Delaware County Trust Company. His rudimentary education was acquired in the pub lic schodls of that city but at fifteen, owing to heavy financial reverses in his parents' business enterprises, he was compelled to rely on his own endeavors and he began his active; career as a newsboy vending the Chester Evening News and the Ches-1 ter Times on the streets of that city, i Yet he m never abandoned his pur pose to" acquire an education and | with that object in view every spare! moment, day or night, he devoted to studious application in mastery of useful knowledge. Professor Charles Foster, then superintendent! of the Public. Schools of Chester, i pleased with the lad's ambition, dill-1 gence and attractive personality, of fered to hear young Schaffcr's les sons at night, which proposition was promptly and gladly accepted. Pos sessing indomitable will, a quickness of perception, and a tenacious mem ory, he absorbed and digested his; studies with rapidity, so that as &i youth he was noticeable for his abun dant vocabulary and conversational abilities. [ "When seventeen he fentered the office of WiUiam B. Broomall. then the recognized leader of the bar of Delaware county, and his studious habits secured him the confidence of his preceptor, who, many times before Mr. Schaffer was called to | the bar, gave to him the manage- I ment of litigations in minor fribu- I nals. "During his first year as a student, ' almost without any tuition, he ! taught himself shorthand writing I and was soon recognized as an ex | pert stenographer, an acquisition i that later in life in his large Y>rac | tlce, he found of utmost importance. He was admitted to the bar of Dela ware county on February 11, 1897, the. twenty-first anniversary of his birth, and when twenty-two he was admitted to practice before the Su preme Court, the youngest man in j half a century who has received that honor. "About the time he was licensed J to practice," continued Mr. Ashmead, "Chester and Its neighborhood were turmoiled by a series of fires which had succeeded each other with slight intermission until finally the police announced that the depart ment had traced the outrages to some young men. whom the officers termed 'firebugs.'. The latter were arrested. Indicted and brought to trial at the March criminal court of that year. The accused had but lit tle means. Mr. Schater as a young lawyer who had yet to win his spurs, was retained with a trifling fee to defend one Morton, one of the ac cused. This mn was generally be lieved to be a remote descendant of John Morton, the signer • of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Schaffer in his address to the Jury, which consumed more than two hours in its delivery, made most effective uje of his impression and during his speech (now one of the historic incidents connected, with the court house at Media) he held the undivided attention of every one in the room. It was a notable-maiden effort. Even the late Judge Thomas J. Clayton, who presided at the trial spoke of it as "as clever an argument as have listened to for a long time.' Schaffer acquitted his client and from that moment he was looked upon as a young man with a brilliant futu re. 'lt was early, his practice," smilingly remarked Mr. Ashmead, "that. Mr. Schaffer taught, members of the bar to be careful how they monkeyed with a wire'." On one occasion when an opposing, law yer. himself of little wbight, alluded disparagingly to Mr. Schaffer, the latter, in a stage whisper, heard throughout the courtroom, merely remarked. "I have learned to betteve that there is much in Sancho Panza' dictym, 'that it is a waste of lather to shave an ass'." Auditor General Charles A. Snyder has been giving officials who for years have been having their own way in departments at Harrisburg some hard jolts and has broken sev eral cherished traditions in checking up expenditures of State funds which he contends are unwarranted. Junkets of subordinate office holders to conventions of various kinds in all sections of the country he con tends have brought about a practice which has served to lower the dig nity of the Commonwealth. Men in very minor capacities in different departments of the State government have been sent as representatives of Pennsylvania to contentions in which the sentiments and policies of other States have been voiced by leading public officials. It is declar ed that these trips have been par celed out to favorites of department heads who find it inconvenient or undesirable to go themselves and the result has been that while individ uals have had a good time, the State has suffered in prestige through lack of proper representation. The Auditor General has served notice that he will not countersign warrants for the expenses of trips of this character unless he shall be as sured that the expenditures are proper and {hat representatives of the department concerned occupy positions that justify their assign ments. ' • He has called a hall upon the practice of State officials figuring in lecture tours while traveling at the expense of the State. 1 A roundup of officials responsible for the collection of taxes due the Commonwealth is now being made by the Auditor General with a view to promoting efficiency of adminis tratipn and to Increasing the rev enues. He is particularly interested In the collection of mercantile taxes and charges that in many 'counties individuals, firms and corporations which should be taxed, are relieved of payment of taxes through poli tical influence or personal 'favor itism. Letter to Hie Editor To the Editor of the Telegraph: I was literally shocked' when } ! learned that, one of our members of the Legislature introduced a bill to destroy our Sunday law under which we lived for so many years and were happy hs American peo ple of this great Commonwealth. And now after we have grown old in years must we. with sorrow, go down to our graves that our Sab bath is destroyed for our childrfen and the coming generation. Shall we throw everything open on Sun day for pleasure, any man who at tempts to do anything of that kind has no respect for God or man and is not a good American citizen. We as patriots of America love our state and our nation—and should follow the example of our forefathers that this should be a moral and christian nation. We have cheerfully fought during the Civil that this nation should live of the peo ple by the people and for the peo ple? We still love the flag under which you and I live and we should endeavor to uphold it. We should endeavor to make this country a better place to live in, and that more morality might exist amohg us as a people, so that the world might look upon us as a Christian nation, as we profess to be, and they might take example. , AN OLD VETERAN. r 'FEBRUARY 13, 1919. 3 SUFFRAGE FOR POLITICS (From the New York Times.) With all respect to the poetical expressions of Mrs. Catt that the nation is "dishonored," and so on, by the temporary failure of the Senate to recommend the Suffrage Amendment to the Legislatures, the 'woman minority has won. Its j triumph is but postponed. The high ' considerations of right that inter ject themselves every time into | these sacred considerations of polit ics need not longer concern us. 1 The things is put practically, to a ; practical generation. The Demo -1 crats have blundered politically. | The farther-seeing Republicans in the next Congress will hike advan tage of that mistake. To all the mysterious unknown world of "wo men," they will open,#by the sub mission of the Federal Amendment, that opportunity of politics that some women wish. The essentiality of the whole "movement," the gradual conquer ing by a small minority of the pub lic, the degradation of an agitation, fifty years ago altruistic and gen uine, couldn't be expressed bettor. I Nobody carep whether it is to the advantage of the national polity to have woman suffrage or not. .The point is: Who saw it first. Demo crats or Republicans? Millions of women on whom this privilege—for it is no "right"—has been foisted have yet to utter their opinion upon a change in their rela tions to the state as to which they have not been consulted. "Women" will do or think so and so. That is the assumption of the brave politi cians of the Senate. Women! There is a multitude of women not repre sented and not vocal by the leaders of a minority. The jelly-backed politicians will amuse themselves, according to their wont, with this great change in ttte fundamental law. Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it desirable Foolish questions. Should each state deter mine for itself the political status of its women? Idiot inquiries. Was the Democratic or the Republican party mqpt congenial to the great "re form?" How many votes are thole in it? This is all, this is all that any thing, apparently, amounts to. Even in the Southern states, which, before the passage, of the Prohibition Amendment, might have been re garded by the unwary as in the last stand of state rights, there was no united opposition. Their votes were divided. Their utmost oppo sition was but a trifle. They are not sincere or earnest about it. It is a matter of political finesse. The future of states and of a nation that regard these deep-lying problems xs pawns of politics may well call for some thought. THE TENTH STATE (Pennsylvania Farmer.) The United States Department of Agriculture has computed the total value of farm products in this country in 1918 at $14,090,769,000. This is over a hqlf billion in excess of any previous year. Pennsylvania ranks tenth in the list of states in the value of its farm products. The farm crops of the state are valued at $459,929,000, as compared with $407,612,000 in 1917. Illinois leads all states, with lowa, Texas. Georgia. 'Minnesota and Ohio following in the order named. New York state fol lows Pennsylvania in rank, with the value of her season's crops placed at $447,216,000. It has long been the general assumption that the great farm production Is in the Mid dle Western and Great Plains states. The ranking of Pennsylvania and New York ahead of Kansas, Ne braska, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Michigan may even surprise some of our eastern farmers. Our farm ers have been producing the goods even though they may not be mak ing much noise about it. LABOR NOTES A chimney sweep told the Seven Oaks, (Eng.) Tribunal that his aver l age earnings were S3O a week and he made a little profit on soot. The Massachusetts minimum wage commission has established a mini mum rate for women employed in retail millinery workshops. A new find of coal seams in the Irish Midlands promises to give an abundant yield and relieve the coal situation in Ireland. ' The New York Bureau of Muni cipal Research finds that cost of liv ing in New York has increased 53 per cent, in four years. A Rotherham, (Eng.) postman hfa walked 153,000 miles during his 46 years' of service, and recently celebrated his golden wedding. lEbttttttg CEttyat Benjamin M. Nead, the president of the Dauphin County Historical Society, whose researches and writ ings have added so much to the store of local history not only In Dauphin, but in Cumberland and Kranklin counties, has called atten tion to the fact that the Lafayette > cannon which was reported as again' "discovered" at the State Arsenal, was presented to the republic right l after the conclusion of the Revolu tion. in reality the cannctn once more "discovered" is one of three I and with its companion pieces and' two others from- another war re- 1 pose on a trestle in the State Arsenal yard. State military people say It! has been there for years and was ( never stowed away in the basement. of the Arsenal at all. Mr. Nead. ' who gave the history of the cannon in the address he delivered at the annual meeting of the State Fed eration of Historical Societies during. his presidency, worked out the his tory of the pieces and sets forth ■ the fact that the cannon that was "discovered" again and the other four pieces used to be in the State Capitol Park. The trestle which held them was climbed over by many a juvenile Harrisburger and terrible battles were fought in imagination by boy gunners who "manned" the old cannon which faced toward the ' Cumberland hills. Mr. Nead says that when the War for Independence ended three can- , non, appropriately marked and all , Tine, were presented by Lafayette to the Continental Congress at Phila delphia. The so-called Lafayette cannon, with the arms on it, was one of them. When in due course the State of Pennsylvania succeeded to many things which the Congress possessed the state officials became trustees for the old French pieces, 1 which had been brought over by Lafayette when he came to the aid of the struggling colonies and fol lowed the migration of the capital of the Commonwealth from Philadel phia to Lancaster and then to the banks of the Susquehanna. They were placed in the Arsenal which was originally built in the park where our grandfathers and great grandfathers looked them over. When Scott captured most of the Mexican cannon at Cerrogordo he sent two t(j/Pennsylvania and the five pieces were mounted on a trestle and placed on the west side of the Mexican monument built in Capitol Park. This monument which was later moved to its present locntlon was surrounded with a fence made of muskets of the Mexican War. This fence was taken apart when the monument was moved and the mus kets were packed away in the cellar of the present Arsenal, which re placed the Capitol Arsenal some years after the Civil War. Mr. Nead gives a detailed description of the pieces, including those taken In Mexico and makes a plea for the ! State is so rich and which it is the hope of everyone interested in the story of the Keystone State to have gathered together and the parts they played told to the children. When the new buildings are erected in Capitol Park provision will be made for an enlarged State Museum in which can be grouped many ob jects which would cheerfully be pre sented to the State if suitable and commodious quarters were available. Legislative news flies, but It does not always fly with accuracy. Last evening a gfrl at one of the moving picture places was compelled to halt in the midst of sales of tickets to take her part in this: "Will the show be put on Sunday night? "What are you giving. We don t. show Sunday." "Guess, you'll be selling tickets hero next Sunday all right." "Say, go on. How many " What's biting you?" "New law allows Sunday movies. "Ain't come here yet." "Aw, call up the Capitol and find out." The epidemic of chicken pox which exists in some wards of the city is civing the usual amount of an noyance to Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, the city's health officer. One man threatened to appeal to the State if his neighbors were not compelled to observe quarantine because of prevalence of the ailment, dust the contrary view was held by another man who stormed because he did not think a card should be put up. Observers of traffic on the Penn sylvania and Reading systems say that there is considerable coal moving now than there was last January in spite of the demands due to thg winter conditions. The Penn sylvania has been sending east huge trains, its movement being helped bv the open winter, while the Read ing traffic, which is helped out by the "U. S. A." engines, seems almost like a continuous procession of coal cars over the bridge at Vine street. Sizes of the coal cars appear to have materially increased, too. • • • Just as an illustration of the way some of the counties of Pennsylva nia are going at the perpetuation of what their sons did in the great war, it may be said that in Warren coun ty a historical organization has pub lished an illustrated book of what Warren county did in various lines of war activity. It contains not only the names of all the men sent out under the draft, but a photograph of every draft contingent that went out from Warren county. Names of men who enlisted are also given and the book shows what an alert and vlg orous county can do. The book is the first in the field. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Auditor General Charles A. Snyder was Lincoln Day orator at two places yesterday. General Richard Coulter, who has refused to run for Congress in Westmoreland county, comes of a noted Democratic family. Dr. Newell Dwiglit Hillis, speak ing in Pittsburgh, said that Roose velt, was in reality a great seer. —Attorney General W. I. Schaffer had a birthday yesterday, but only a few friends knew about it. Major E. Dowry Humes, who is after the Bolshevlkt for Wash ington officials, comes from Craw ford County and has been Legislator, Giuardsman and Federal attorney. | DO YOU KNOW ~ That llarrisburg lus had floor mills within its limits siiice It was put on the map? Historic llarrisburg —ln 1815 the borough fathers passed an ordnance prohibiting pigs in the streets. Pork was up and everyone was raising hogs.
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