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Lead life of love; that others who
Behold your life, may kindle too
With Love, and cast their lot with you.
—Christina Bossetti.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1#1
VOTE TOMORROW
DAUPHIN county citizens sh'ould
be sure to cast their votes at
the special senatorial election
to-morrow.
The senatorship of Dauphin coun
ty is an important office. It is sec
ond to none in the Legislature.
From it as a stepping stone have
come presidents pro tem. of the
Senate, one Lieutenant Governor and
at least one judge of the court*.
The filling of the vacancy should
command the attention of the peo
ple.
The certainty of the election of
Frank A. Smith, the Republican can
didate, does not relieve the Repub
lican voter of any responsibility. The
time is here when every Republican
should make his party sentiments
felt at the polls on every possible
occasion. Every to
that at which the next President of
the United States is chosen will have
some bearing on that contest. It is
important that we in Dauphin coun
ty renew our allegiance to the prin
ciples of Republicanism and regis
ter our protest ugainst the high
handed conduct of federal affairs at
Washington by the present adminis
tration.
By all means go to the polls to
morrow. Mr. Smith is a candidate
whom any voter can support with
good conscience. He should have a
big majority both for his own sake
and because of the reflection of pub
lic sentiment which it is so import
ant the Democratic machine man
agers should have at this time.
A New York businessman has of
fered $50,000 to act as mechanician
on the first 'cross-the-Atlantic aero
plane trip, and if he is as good a me
chanic as he is a sport, he's the man
for the job.
Go to the polls to-morrow and
vote for Frank A. Smith, for State
Senator. The bigger the Republican
majority now, the Demo
crats will be discouraged when It
comes to tho election of a President.
JUSTICE AND BUSINESS
ONE can hardly read the facts
set out in the annual report of
the State Police by Captain
Lumb, the acting superintendent, in
regard to the work and pay of the
troopers and consider conditions in
various parts of the world without
coming to the conclusion that Penn
sylvania has something worth having,
and that it would be simple Justice
for the services rendered and good
as well to overhaul the
salary and living provisions for the
men and put them on a basis more in
accord with other police organiza
tions. Every city In this State has
given Its guardians advances in pay
and while there are some municipali
ties whose police forces have enviable
reputations It is generally admitted.
Inside and outside Pennsylvania, that
the State Police are In a class by
themselves.
In ordinary times a record of 10,-
000 arrests, double the figures of
the year before, with a force short
of authorized strength and lacking
many of the earlier trained men,
would be sufficient for commenda
tion, but in two other particulars the
State Police, in the language of the
hour, "were there." When this State,
with its diverse population, was agi
tated by rumors of dangerous talk
among foreigners the State Police
took over investigations and af
fected results of a beneficial nature
by methods vastly different from
-those of loud-sounding deputy fed
eral marshals, for instance. When in
fluenza prostrated its thousands and
death stalked in rregions where the
people were dazed by calamity and
disturbed by health orders which
they did not grasp It was the State
Policeman who straightened them
out, kept lawlessness down, took sick
to the hospitals established by the
State and even looked after mother-
MONDAY EVENING, 1
i lefcs children, sacrificing sleep and
rent hours to do it. '
The tinio has come to consider'
the services of the State Poliefe fairly
and squarely.
A "parlor Bolshevik" is an anar
chist without the courage of his con- i
victions.
* HOME RULE
UNQUESTIONAfeLY the reso
tion to our problems of city
! government lies in "home rule,"
as City Solicitor Hare, of Al
toona, said in an address before the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
on municipal law last week. But ,
"home rule" Is not To be accom- 1
!
plished in a- single session of the |
Legislature and it will not be
brought to ptfss in many years un
less the Third Class City League,
which persists in holding to the
poor old Clarlt Act as the ne plus,
uttra of all municipal legislation,
sees a light. The league, of course,
hesitates to endorse any plan that
might seriously disturb present W
rangements, because most of its
members are job holders whose in
terests lie primarily along the lines
of salaries, much as they would have,
us believe otherwise.
So, being unable to get "home
rule" for Harrisburg at this time,
we may turn our attention as to
how otherwise we escape from the
strangling regulations of the Clark
law. Most of us are convinced that
we in Harrisburg are not getting
the best results possible for the
money we are spending. This is no
reflection upon any one of the com
missioners. Some of them at least
are doing as well as possible under
the circumstances, but the method is
wrong. There is no concentration of
power anywhere. There is no cen
tralization of executive authority, and
administration therefore becomes ne
cessarily more or less haphazard, and
a business run in a haphazard man
ner never can be efficient.
There is just one way eut of the
difficulty Aoona', way. Altoona
has four councilmen who contribute
the bulk of their salaries to the em
ployment of a city manager. The j
city manager is responsible to the |
four commissioners sitting in session ;
once or twice a week. He, through I
them gs a board of directors, runs the
city government. If there is a fail
ure there is no difficulty in ascer
taining where the blame lies. If
too much money is spent, the voter
knows who is doing it, and the city
councilmen, with no salary to hang
to and no job to perpetuate, is in
terested only in seeing to it that the
best possible results are obtained
for the city.
The experiment is certainly worth
while.
The question then is, are we big
enough and broad enough to pick
out four men who will pledge them
selves to such an administration and
after they are in the field elect them
to office? It is a question that must
be answered soon or it will be too
late to do any good during the com
ing two-year period.
— y
A BIG PROBLEM
HATSOEVER shall be the out-
Wcome of the present high
school discussion, the solving
of that difficulty will by no means
let us out of the woods with respect
to our school problem as a whole.
We have been building many flne
new school hemses to take- care of
the growth of* the city. Most of
them are up to the minute with re-
Bpect to modern thought in school
construction. They have auditoriums,
gymnasiums and all those features
in the way of light, heat, ventilation,
etc., which progressive school offi
cials have insisted upon.
Generally speaking, with regard to
our newer buildings, we are on a
par with most cities of our size and
ahead of many. The public does not
fully understand just how excellently
Dr. Downes and the school board
have done In this respect
But there remain to be considered
frightful relics of antiquity in the
very heart of the city, such as the
Beily building, tor example, which
long since outlived their usefulness.
It is not fair to the boys and girls
who are required to attend them that
their opportunities should not be as
many and as' great as those of the
pupils who are housed in modern
structures. Nor is it fa(r to the tax
payer who is assessed that the new
buildings may be ereoted to put his
child into an undesirable school
house. Every pupil is entitled to
fresh air, sunlight and wholesome
surroundings.
The financial burden entailed by a
wholesale demolition of these older
buildings and their replacement by
modern structures would be heavy;
very. -Jlkely, than the school
district would bs able to stand at this
time. But the topic is timely and
should be considered. Let us not fool
ourselves into the belief that all our
| troubles will be at an end with the
j erection of a new school or high
schools.
'petitcc* Ck
By the Kx-Committeeman
Signs that Governor William C.
iSproul will soon ask the Legislature
to enact the bills orutlined by him
in his irmugural Address as needed
lo promote efficiency and better
business methods in the state gov
ernment are appearing at the Capi
tol and the bulk of the measures
will appear early in March. They
will mark the commencement of the
real activities of the Legislature
and probably cause a speeding up
of action on the bills now in hand.
'Once the highway bills are enacted
the administration measures will go
to the front and after them the long
list of appropriations for charities
and the general appropriation bill.
Men conversant with the situa
;'°™ *5 th e Capitol are predicting
tnat the Legislature will close about
11 Is*' -MaJ' and that a very
well flefined program for the state
is being shaped up. One
or the matters which is causing de
lay is the constitutional revision
problem. The Governor will have
to decide whether he wants to have
the question of a new document
voted on in his administration and
ir he does this extremely important
subject must be dealt with in a pre
liminary way by the present session.
I'ew governors in recent years
have been so overwhelmed by vis
itors as Governor Sproul. People
have been thronging his offices and
it lias become necessary for him to
refuse engagements to callers on
days when the Legislature is here as
such times are given to the law
makers. It is not uncommon for
people without appointments to ap
pear at the Governor's office as early
as nine in the morning and the long
waits they have had to endure has
taught the importance of making
engagements.
People have also been calling
on the Governor for speeches at a
rate never known "before and he
has been compelled to refuse many
of them in order to find time to
work. Hbtween visitors and demands
for his appearance to discuss his
legislative program the Governor
has to work until late at night to
catch up with his correspondence
and to tit In conferences with State
officials between times.
—With the bills reorganizing the
Executive. State and Highway De
partments well on the way toward
the Governors desk attention will
be given immediately to the com
pletion of the measures to place the
State Departments of Agriculture
and Banking on a modern basis and
then bills will be drawn to promote
more efficiency in the inspection
systems and to relieve the Governor
from the duties of auditing many
accounts and settlements in pay
ment for state supplies. Construc
tion of state buildings, starting with
the Capitol annexes will go into the
hands of a bureau of construction
in the Department of Public Grounds
and Buildings, as already outlined.
The latter proposition grows out of
the extensive program for the im
provement of Capitol park and the
laying out of the extension as
planned by Arnold W. Brunner.
Erection of the Delaware river and
memorial bridges would also be put
in the hands of this bureau. Its
staff would include a State archi
tect, a State engineer and a State
superintendent of construction. In
all probability steps to take over all
future construction of State build
ings will be taken when the Capitol
work is well advanced. This would
systematize ail State hospital and
other buildings and place control in
the State administration instead of
in various boards.
—For years Governors have
sought to be relieved of the neces
sity of passing on all bills and ac
counts of the Forestry, Health, Labor
and Industry and other departments.
They are now handled by the execu
tive controller. One of the schemes
suggested is for a disbursing bureau
in the Department of Public Grounds
and Buildings and a special auditing
bureau in the auditor general's de
partment to look after such mat
ters, allowing the Governor tp de
vote himself to State business with
a freer hand, which would facilitate
matters. The Governor under the
constitution would have to sign con
tracts, but the requirement of his
signature to settlements is the re
sult of statutes which could be re
pealed.
—Governor Sproul, Lieutenant
Governor Betdleman and Secretary
Baker, of the Senate, wilt leave
Thursday morning for Pittsburgh to
attend ithe. ceremonial session at
Syria Temple, Shriners., They will
be escorted to Pittsburgh by a com
mittee o£ members of the Shriners.
They will be escorted to Pittsburgh
by a committee of the Shriners.
Joseph N. Mackreli will preside at
the session.
—The Governor will splnd the
weekend at Philadelphia where he is
to speak.
—Nobody from Delaware ccounty
waa about the Capitol today. Gov
ernor Sproul and Attorney General
SchaKer and the Delaware legisla
tors and officials and attaches were
all in the "home county" because
of the special election to elevate
Ex-Speaker "Dick" Baldwin to the
Senate as the Sproul successor to
morrow. From all information at
hand the Republican organization in
Delaware was working well.
—Ratification of the prohibition
amendment to-morrow will be flashed
all over the country. The attitude
of Pennsylvania has been hard for
many people in the nation at large
to understand and the "drys" in
tend to make a "splash" in send
ing out the word, having been forced
to stand by and note "splashes" by
the other side for many a year.
—Governor Sproul's addresses in
Philadelphia are a theme at the Cap
itol and his firmness in dealing with
law and order problems is generally
commended among the legislators.
It is an Interesting thing that the
average legislator regards the Gov
ernor's utterances differently from
what has been the case with any of
the last five Governors at least. The
lawmakers consider that owing to his
long senatorial experience he speaks
from the standpoint of a legislator
as well as an executive and that fact
is going to give unusual weight to
what he desires asido from his pres
tige and personality.
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Increase in Railway Expenses !
[From the Willlamsport Gazette and
Bulletin.]
In its current issus the Railway
Age, which is admitted to be one
of the best authorities with regard
to transportation matters in this'
country, says that statistics for De
cember disclose that the downward
trend of railway earnings continued
thru that month.
As a matter of fact, the net op
erating income of the railroads per
month, under government control, ,
steadily declined from $128,000,000 j
in August to $57,000,000 in Novem- |
ber. In December it wag $23,000,- |
000.
The poor showing of this latter
month was almost entirely due to
an increase in operating expenses. :
The weather was favorable, yet the j
expenses were much greater than j
in the corresponding month of the
previous year, when the weather
conditions were as bad as ever were ,
known in the history of railroading.
The Age fears that when , all the j
necessary adjustments are made it |
will be found that for handling a
corresponding amount of traffic, op- ]
erating expenses are running at the ,
rate of one million five hundred mil- ;
lion dollars a year more than they ]
were in 1917.
Made in the face of efforts econo- |
mies, this enormous increase in ex
penses constitutes a very poor show- 1
ing for government control.
Certainly it is far more expensive i
than private operating, and there is
bound to be a revolt on the part, i
especially of people who, making
little use of the railroads, receive
no benefits from the increase in tax
ation necessary to meet appropria
tions required to make up the de
ficits.
To Explore British Guiana
[From the New York World]
Eighteen men apd women, na
turalists, scientists and artists, will
sail for British Guiana soon for ex
ploration work in the jungles out-,
lying Kalacoon, .the station estab
lished by the New York Zoological
Society in 19X5, to enable William
Beebe. curitor of birds in the Bronx
Zoo, to obtain a complete collec
tion from the American tropics.
Beebe will lead the new party, and
his associate for several years, John
Tee Van, will accompany him. Oth
ers in the party will include Miss
Mabel Satterlee, grand-daughter of
the late J. P. Morgan, assisted by
Miss Sarah Bturges, who will study
bird life; Prof. William H. Wheeler
of Harvard, who will study ants;
Prof. Ulrlc Dahlgren of Princeton,
and Prof. Albert Reese of the Uni
versity of West Virginia, whose spe
cialties will be eels and crocodiles,
and Miss Carita Spencer, who won
decorations for Belgian war work,
and Mrs. Gussle Garvin, students of
jungle birds.
LABOR NOTES
A member om organized labor has
been appointed on a permanent com
mission to administer New Bruns
wick's compensation act.
Nearly all the stores and busi
ness houses in the principal cities in
Texas have replaced their men em
ployees with women.
Over 30,000 motion picture studio
workers In Dos Angeles. Cal., were
thrown out of work during the "flu"
epidemic in that city.
The failure to grant St. John (N.
B.) longshoremen an increase In
wages has caused a cmplete tie-up
in all harbor work.
In many- of the Industrial
truck and tractor factories in this
country women are successfully em
ployed to operate them.
Many of the women workers em
ployed to take the places of hotel
workers on strike In New York city
earn-from $2OO to $3OO per month.
Inverness, the largest town In
Scotland, north of Aberdeen, is tak
ing a forward step In connection
with the development of shipbuild
ing.
A "Free Love" Delegate
Doctor ller roll's Qualifications SIIUHIII Please Itulslirviki
[From Col. Harvey's War Weekly]
LENINE and Trotzky, or whoever
shall appear for those advanced
anarchists at the Marmora con
ference, will meet a congenial spirit
in the ex-Rev. George D. Herron,
whom President Wilson has appoint
ed to represent the United States,
along with William Allen White, of
Emporia, Kas.
George was born in Montezuma,
Ind., in ISU2, attended a college at
Ripon, Wis., received a D. D. degree
from Tabor College, began to preach
in Rake City, Minn., continued as
pastor of the First Congregational
church in Burlington, and served late
as professor of applied Christianity in
lowa College. "Who's Who's," rec
ord. prepared by himself, informs us
that he resigned owing to opposition
of trustees to his teachings." As a
matter of fact, he was expelled by
both the college and the Congiega
tional Church of lowa.
The "teachings-which produced
this untoward effect conform pre
cisely to the edicts respecting the
martial relationship recently imposed
by Lenine and Trotzky upon the Rus
sian people. George wears no shack
les in love. A few sentences from
his published works will indicate
his viewß, to-wit:
"People who love each other and j
who therefore ought to live with each j
other need 110 laws to bind them to-!
gether. The coercive family will pass
away with the coercive economic |
system. Even when love on;
the part of one and not on the parti
of the other there can be no possible
good in the two being kept together!
by external law.
"Love must be set free and liberty j
trusted if noble and beautiful homes |
are to spring up to make the earth a|
garden of truth and gladness. There |
is a new world coming whose wayj
can be made ready only by those who
will throw away their good names
and accept, perhaps, everlasting dis
grace as the*price of their protest.
"Lives that are essentially one, co
operative in love and truth that
make oneness, need no law of state
or church to bind or to keep them to
gether. Upon such the imposition of
force is a destruction •>nd a blas
phemy. On the other hand, no law
in the universe has a right to keep
together those vitally and essentially
one. It is only in ,freedom that love
can find Its own, or' truth blossom
in the soul or other than a slave
Individually unfold." •
It must be said for "George that he
practiced what he preached. In 1883
he courted Miss Mary Everhard of
Ripon, married her in the regular
way and lived with her seventeen
years. Then he fell In with Mrs.
E. D. Rand, a Wisconsin widow, who
had both faith and money. The
•omblnation attracted George, but
the impressionable widow was get
ting along in years too rapidly to
suit his fancy. Fortunately she had
a daughter of about the right age
named Carrie and George's heart
went out to Carrie. How Carrie felt
about it nobody could tell, but the old
lady was enchanted and started in
fortwlth to clear the way for an ideal
relationship. <
For some reason or other George
regarded his legalized wife as <an ob
stacle and for some other reason
or other he did not care personally
to undertake the tdsk of removing
it. Dhereupon the widow approach
ed the wife in a businesslike way
and offered to buy George for Carrie.
There was home haggling over the!
price, no two being able to agree!
as to what he was really worth,
but finally the widow fixed the upset
at sr>o,ooo and his wife accepted.
She was sick and tired of George
anyway. So she got a divorce and
the widow took George and Carrie
away somewhere and hired a minis
ter to "announce" that they were
man and wife. It was not according
to Hoyle, but neither was George
nor the widow for that matter, and
George said he felt just the same as
if he had gone through a regular
ceremony. Poor Carrie didn't say a
word. She stood it as long as she
could and then up and died.
Meanwhile, the widow bought some
land down in Metuchen, N. J., and
George started a free for all love
colony for those who had money, but
recruits had barely begun to arrive'
when the neighboring farmers' wives |
hiyided pitchforks to the hired men |
and told them to get busy. George
saw them coming and didn't stop
running till he got to Italy, where,
having left the widow at home, he
could develop his socialistic theories
in peace and quiet.
A Full Blown Internationalist
He is now a full blown interna
tionalist and a budding Bolshevik.
We quote from his more recent pub
lished utterances.
I am myself but a humble and un
important follower of "the interna-!
tional Socialist movement for the j
overthrow of the system which at j
present dooms the peoples of all na
tions to slavery, misery and hypocrisy
The church has wrought mainly by
brutal authority. That which was
atheism to Jesus has through the
centuries been the orthodoxy of the
church. The historic form of Chris- I
tianity has done its work and now;
ought to disappear from the service.
of life. The Socialist will at last'
crown Jesus with a human glory i
which shall spiritually transfigure
man. It is not Jysiis we ought to j
follow, but the highest truths of ouri
i own souls.
I have no expectation that the;
present kind of civilization can be
| amended—it can only be ended. The
new system that shall give to every
man at first wlmt he Is supposed to
have earned and afterward what he
needs, can no longer be called a
party or sectional term. All kinds
of socialism mean the organization
of a world in which every man shall
be born with an equal inheritance.
What Bliall become of God and
Gods, of temples, creeds and faiths
In the new morning of Socialism'.'
It seems to me that the effect of]
the Socialistic idea possessing the |
world would be to change the entire j
attitude of human life regarding ihe<
future.
Protestantism stands though it
doesn't stand very well today-—by
keeping man in an attitude of fear
toward the unknown.
Can you find me any representa
tive Protestant Christian in the city
of New York today who would not,
think civilization would fall Into
chaos if men were to take seriously
the things that they profess in their
churches Protestant Christianity!
believes today a thousand times more I
in the devil than in goodness.
There is not a bit of spiritual dif
ference between the Standard Oil
combination and the Presbyterian
church, or, rather, take the Presby
terian church in which I was born
and reared, i One demands tribute
in the form of cash and the other
in the form of enslavement of souls
and all the cash it can get besides.
But when the Soctallstle-jnovement
comes to something like a really de
fined conflict with' the capitalistic
classes it will come as a program of
uncompromising Socialism without
regard as to whether you or I want It
or not.
It is already too late to reform so
ciety in America. It Is no longer a
ijuestton wliether you will have a So
cialistic revolution. It Is only left to
yo'u to decide what kind of a revolu
tion you will have.
So fa> as we uninspired Americans
are concerned, this leaves us about
where we were, but the fact remains
that an official representative of our
officially deserted country, George is
about to speak for U3 with the full au
thorlty of our President, of hlmaelf
and of whatever lady friend he has
been able to pick up in Florence
since or before Carrie passed away.
Why the President selected George
to represent himself and the United
States at the international conference
we can only guess.
i
Man For Congress
If we were in Congress we would
now and then remind our colleagues
that many economies are 1 poaetble
and the schedule of a billion and a
half a month le not making any hit
among the people.-— Houston Past.
FEBRUARY 24, 1919.
'FRANK HALL Wh'TES
PENNSYLVANIA SONG
Frank Hall, deputy i ief of the
Slate Department uf Hit.'-'*. author
of several songs v lilr 1 attraoted
'much attention during* t''j war, hag
■ Just issued a .song' to 1* itigylvanla.
It Is dedicated the khaki-clad
j heroes" who added to 'i s glory of
| tlie Keystone Slate hi i'Tui.ce and the
i words and music were >o'.h written
' bj- the author.*. The li filled
' with patriotic spirit and the air 1
! Inspiring. Mr. Hall also wrote "In
I Olden Days," "Good bye. I'm going
Over," and "Dear Old I*. S. A." which
j have been published locu.ll:.. the latter
| having a spirited chorus which made
; a big hit.
| The words of the new ong are!
I We love thee Pennsylvania,
1 Thy rocks and hills and colls,
'the smiling, verdant valUya,
Where sweet contentment dwells.
'We breathe the air of I'reedom,
'And pray God it may lust,
| And nothing mar the greatness
j Or the glory of the past.
Chora*
! Dear Pennsylvania, grand old Key.
stone State,
I Steadfast and loyal to all that*# truly
great.
When duty calls thee, thou haat lsd
the way.
We love thee and we'd (lis for thee,
Dear Old Penn-syl-va-ni-a.
IWe love the Pennsylvania,
And gladly sing thy prais*.
| We pledge to thee devotion
| Through all the coming days.
Thy fame we proudly (Sierlsh,
I We'll play our part with courage,
As our fathers did of old.
Day of the Motor Truck
When the pink primordial pride and
joy
Of our antediluvian hoi polloi
Had ichtryosaurian steak to tote
, lie dragged it along On an old stone
boat;
I Or when his congenial nuite and he
'"Would lug their luggage along the
lea
Or down to a gloomy and glacial
shore,
They l'ound their burden consider
able chore.
Oh, tougli was their lot and sad
their luck.
For they had no Gazimplkus motor
truck.
When Hauntbal scampered across an
Alp
The rollicking Romans hollered
"halp!"
For they bed been told that Jt
couldn't be done
And Hannibal fooled thera, the son
of-a-gun!
Some stunt for those Carthaginian
geeks , •••
Was peregrinating across the peaks.
For all of their baggage rode all
the way
Fpott their cervical vetebrae
, And into the ruck poor carthage
snuck
For she hud no Galumpical motor
truck.
! And 'tis unfortunate, too, the fate
Of Alexander, the so-called great,
Of Kid Vespasian, Brain Boru,
, Napoleon Bone and Stonewall, too,
t Copernicus. Newton and Peter and
> I Paul,
1 Solomon, Satan, Salome and Saul,
i | They limped along in their feeble
way
, Without the aid of tile benzine shay.
While you and I have superlative
' luck —
We have the GazoOtlcal motor truck.
Then hall to the cant and the cog
and wheel.
- The brass and copper,-the wood and
steel!
- And hull the dominant speed and
style,
. And super service of gas and lie!
.! No more need tlie proletariat pine
1 1 That the load must lean on the sag
-11 King spine.
.! For now it can lope o'er the loamy
y lea"
y On a Rackard. Fierce, or a Moon
, stone T;
s Gosh a'mighty, we're all in luck;
u We have the Gazzumikus motor
. j truck,
j. —J. P. McAvoy in the Chicago Trl
- j buiie.
POSITION OF FRANCE
(From the Boston Transcript.)
Evidence accumulates that some
body in the American delegation
at Paris is deliberately seeking to in
timidate the French nation by threat
ening it wjtli American displeasure—
with an American menace of "we
won't play" unless the French modify
(heir attitude toward Germany. The
French government and the French
press are reproached with a "propa
ganda" against the pure idealism of
of the American delegation. But
what Is this French "propaganda"
Is it not merely a plain insistence
upon the right of Fiance —a right
which is also a necessity—to make
herself secure against German ag
gression or invasion"
The situation of France in this mat
ter is simple—menacingly and terrib
ly simple. The country hag been per
iodically raided and ravaged by a
neighboring nation of greatly superior
material strength. A nation of less
than 40,000,000 people and one which
does Increase in numbers, is con
stantly menaced by one of 70,000,000
which even now is being reinforced
by the. 8,000,000 or 8.000,000 of Ger
mnn Ai'striu. Tt will take France
[many years, wifh the best fortune in
the world, to recover from the awful
i ravage which has just been inflicted
her by the last GeiAian invasion.
Can any one in the American peace
delegation or elsewhere wonder if
France proposes measurably to equal
ize the conditions between herself
and Germany before she once more
assumes, alone, the burden of stand
ing in the gap between an unfor
forgiving and insolent Germany and
the rest of the world?
FLOTSAAT
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.)
Above the seas was poised a butter
fly.
Beguiled from shore by sheen of
sunlit wave:
In frantic stress, I saw it vainly try,
On fragile wing, its threatened life
to save;
When, struggling near the foam, a
floating spar—
The fragment of some bark in
mortal throe —
Gave rest and strength for airy
flight afar
To safety where the honey-flowers
blow.
In days to come, if o'r a stormy sea
Of doubt and bitter grief, I lose
my -way.
And, sorely pressed, I only seem to
be
Descending nearer to the numb
ing spray,
Chance flotsam from another* mor
tal plight—
A lesson from the wreckage of
his dream —
May give me courage for a buoy
~ ant flight
To safety where the peaceful up
lands gleam.
HOWARD MARKLE HOKE.
jtbimmg <BU?at
Forntul demobilization of tl
service Hug of the Pennsylvania ra:
road containing thousands of stai
hundi sis of them golden, whl<
took place at New \ork the oth
vus u lemony which will '
followed In many places and in t
probability leuu io establishment
unlqu records of the war. Son
time übo tlie suggestion was mat
in this column tout when the w
is over una me men are home aga
that i lie service tlugs which are
prouuly shown in many a windo
anu ti liich adorn the doors and wal
of ottlces and factories and oth
places snouid be carefully preservt
and framed us reminders ol the tin
when Pennsylvania fulfilled hi
destiny in an American crisis,
is notv announced in Plflladelph
that several of the big manufactu
Ing concerns intend to have the
service tlags framed and put whet
they can be seen by all visitor
There are a number of flags in Ha
riabuig which should be framed b
they tell a story of patrlotla
that wilj quicken the blood In yea
to come and furnish to the seek
after facts in the future evidence
the part played by that eetabllel
ment or institution In a crucii
time which-is unfortunately lacl
ing as regards earlier times. Tl
service flags of tlie Harrisburg ire
and steel establishments, of Pit
Street church, the Bell Telephor
Company, the city itself will 4
most valuable to see ill times 1
come and the Commonwealth <
iwU'fu I ''' vania ,las something to sho
:°F uMi pe i° ple who wn t from Cap
-H'll into the war. Some <
the departments have dozens of stai
" aKs which are now di
Ifi?' ? • e departments could 1
united in one f| ag which could star
twL e' e e and luini sh an incei
enrdf' r* 0 .i le r 8 to P er l> e tuate the r<
cords of their young men and w
men.
♦ • •
The open Winter has hud the efte.
of stimulating the interest of tl
grey squirrels in flower beds and n<
only in Capitol park, but In varioi
" a '. s .®" es there have been some uj
of ,V,V lbs wh lch are ratht
Irritating, fiie squirrels are n
linger limited to the State domai
I hey hate voting rights now in a
most every ward in the city an
are influential in the life of Resei
voir park. Some have even bet
been on the city's island where tl
filter plant is located and they hat
acquatntances in Wormleysburg an
Camp Hill, Paxtang and the Sta
Hospital. They keep the Capitt
policemen busy watching the flowi
beds and have more friends amon
tne visitors to Harrisburg: than
returned marine.
• * *
Susquehanna navigation matter
are just now attracting attention u
Washington where the significant
of the stream which taps the har
and soft coal fields and border
great farming and fruit raising, lum
berlng, munitions making and tram
portation centers is commencing t
be realized and contrasted wit
economic value of the fords of th
Yadkin and the shallows of the Ta
lapoosa. As up-State business ma
who had beeh at Washington an
who was here for a time Saturda
said while sitting in the Penn-Harr
that the northern Congressmen wet
taking an Interest in developmef
of natural resources which augere
well. "Money has been flowing int
southern river and harbor improve
ments in a way that is impressive
while we have been fussing abor
post offices and suites for revenu
olfloers," said this visitor. "The re
suit is that our own State which ha
some streams infinitely more capabl
of being of value to the nation tha
rivers in the southern common
wealth is being studied. The Sus
quehanna has been picked out fo
study and the theory held at Wash
ington is that the war has furnishe
make a channel In the stream whlc
would have been too cosily to under
take with the methods we follow
ed before we had to set out in
venttve genius going to master th
Huns."
It commences to look as thoug]
the shores of Raritan river in th
State of Joe Tumulty was going t
get the big warehouses which th
War Department had planned fo
Middletown and Marsh Run arm
reserve depots. The plans were mad
for some notable additions to thos
Important centers of stores whos
value from standpoints of securit
and accessibility were long ago rc
cognized by the army. At first ther
were schemes started to remove th
establishments and to build ther
closer to New Tork, but from wha
has been learned this scheme wa
frustrated by some urgent repre
sentations after the November elee
tion. Then the plans for expansioi
as contemplated by long lieade<
army men were taken out agalr
but the latest information is tha
sites closer to seaboard are desirei
for the governmental storage plants
This does not mean that the ware
houses here will be abandoned. I
is possible that in the next fou
years some enlargements will b
made along the Susquehanna.
• * •
Grier Ilersh, the Tork banker
who is chairman of the district to
the new Victory Ixian and who wa
here Saturday, is an enthusiastic gol
player. Although he came fron
Princeton some years ago he make
the youths hustle on the York cours
and has fought many a battle 01
the Harrlsburg and Lancaster, links
| WELL PEOPLE
—Judge A. W. Johnson, of Lewis
burg, was speaker at the P. O. 8
of A. mass meeting in Philadelphia
—Ex-Speaker Richard J. Baldwin
who will be elected a senator tomor.
row, is a native of Delaware county
—John 11. Penniman, Philadel
phlan, suggests that Broad and Mar
ket streets in that city be namet
for Washington and Lafayette.
—Charles E. Hires is on a llsh.
ing trip along the Florida coast.
—Marcus Aaron, Pittsburgh mem
ber of the State Board of Education
is taking a prominent part in th<
movement for readjustment o
teachers salaries.
—Thomas G. Parrish, former proi
bation officer of Philadelphia, sayi
people are foolish to try to prevent
boys from fighting.
f DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsburg is becoming i
center for distribution of pipe
stock?
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG
—The first coal yard was eaUdb
liehed along the river front new
Market street. When the canaf-wm
opened it was abandoned.
The Sew Watchmaker
Marshal Foch wants the watch ot
the Rhine permanently equippo
with Freaeh works.