10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A FEWBPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building. federal Square E. J, STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief I-'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager CUTS. M. STEINMET2S, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive lloard 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 fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rl Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn jflßrofflfsa-m sylvania Associa- I Sffll 5 8"!? Iff ated Dailies. Si SBB (K Eastern office Am* m. im Story, Brooks & KIS4SBB W Kinley, Fifth ■ gaLvtiSß ® Avenue Building. Western office". Story, Brooks & Gas' 13 uU ding - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a <twinweek: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Societg does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. — Phillips Brooks. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919. GOOD POLICY THE County Commissioners are planning to use tlie increased revenues from coal lands for public improvements, such as good roads, better county bridges and a new Courthouse. It is to be hoped they will adopt this as a fixed pol icy. The county tax rate is lower now than in most counties and the people want public improvements far more than a lower millage. The coal taxes come as a wind fall, and at a very opportune mo ment. They will permit Dauphin county to join the State in the great road rebuilding program now being outlined. The money will allow Dauphin county to link up with the main highways stretches of country road that are well nigh impassable four months in the year and will give the farmers the cheap, easy access to market they should have. The County Commissioners will be able, without adding one penny of tax burden to the people in general, to join with the city in the erection of a Courthouse and City Hall. The Commissioners and the people are both to be congratulated upon the turn affairs have taken, but it must not be forgotten that without the efforts of the Commissioners there would have been no movement for increased taxation of coal lands. Do you want the daylight saving law to remain in force? If sot wire or write Senators Penrose and Knox, or any of the Pennsylvania Con gressmen. PAYLIGHT SAVING • CONGRESSMEN who have any respect for the sentiments of the city and town people will not vote for the repeal of the "day light saving" law. This measure was of tremendous good to the urban dweller last year. It enabled him to have a home gar den and to increase wonderfully his earning capacity by providing his family with their own green stuff. It enabled the working man and wo man to have a little daylight to themselves for pleasure and recrea tion as well. It was a great boon to the Indoor worker, and he does not mean to have it snatched from him at the whim of a few farm asso ciation organizers who imagine they cannot regulate work on their farms unless the colck runs according to standards fixed by their grandfathers. The farmer can regulate his own ris ing and going to bed. The sun is his guide. Rut with the city worker the whistle must lie obeyed, and there can be no daylight leisure unless it is uniform. The law is a good law. It should not be repealed and Congressmen who trifle with it may expect to feel the displeasure of their constituents nt the next elections. "Von Tirpits living in abject pov erty."—Newspaper headline. Fami lies of Dusltania victims, please take note. HANSON AND SPROLL EVEN those who thought they knew Governor .Sproul and have watched with Interest his pub -Ift activities for many years have been frankly surprised and more than gratified with the broadness of . his vision and the strength and cour age of official utterances since his induction into the high ofllce which he now occupies. Always a man of strong convictions and with the courage to express these whenever proper occasion arose the Governor has manifested in these later days a firmness of attitude that has In creased the confidence of the people generally in his fitness for the re sponsible duties which now devolve upon him. 1 When he declared at the Scotch r Irish Society's digner the other night TUESDAY EVENING; "that obstructionists/ agitators and promoters of disorder in Pennsylva nia who desire 'rough house' will get" the Governor showed the fight ing spirit of Pennsylvania since the earliest days. He made it clear that the State authorities are prepared to invoke the force of the Common wealth to stamp out any Bolshevik ism which may show its ugly head ' here and in this one statement em i phasized the general feeling and at ! titude of the public mind in Penn -1 sylvania. The Governor is not an ! alarmist and is not bothering partic j ularly about the alleged undercurrent lof anarchy and destructive social ism in his bailiwick but he is pos sessed of strong common sense and believes that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. He believes with most sensible persons that there is a good deal of hot air which is find ing vent in foolish threats and pes simistic prophecies, but he is also firmly persuaded that the public sen timent of Pennsylvantans is strongly back of reasonable tolerance com bined with determination, to meet all signs of disorder with prompt meas ures of suppression. Like Mayor 010 Hanson, who squelched the incipient outbreak of anarchy at Seattle, the Governor has faith in the common people and be lieves all that is necessary to main tain order and safeguard the lives and property of the people is a reasonable exercise of police powers coupled with a distinct disavowal of anji sympathy of any sort with the turbulent elements which are en couraged in their assaults upon the public pence and the liberties of their fellow men by the weakness of pub lic officials and the indifference of people generally to the individual obligation of the citizen. Governor Sproul is in harmony : with those in official position who give full endorsement to the position of Mayor Hanson, in his declaration that anarchists and all enemies of the United States should go, in this statement: "Let the National Government stop pandering to and conciliat ing the men who talk against it. Lot ns clean up the United States of America. Let all men stand up and be counted. If the majority of the people of this country are disloyal, and owe su perior allegiance to some other country or some other cause, now is the time to find it out. We refuse to treat with these re\ olutionists. Unconditional sur render are our only terms." I More and more the level-headed people of the United States are com- ( ing to the conclusion that those who who are not for us are against us and that the sooner the Government at Washington gives its attention to the deportation of all undesirables — those who will not become Ameri can citizens, but who insist on mak ing this country the hotbed of anarchy and disordet—the better it will be for all classes of our people. Let us have a show down of real American citizenship and the clearing out of all who have raised their hands against our institutions and the splendid liberties which have been safeguarded through blood and sacrifice. We are proud of Governor Sproul's red blooded defiance of "rough necks" who would invite dis order and he can rest assured that real Americans are back of him to a man. The Governor increased the splendid impression of the speech to which we have referred by another patriotic and thoughtful address at the Washington Birthday exercises at the University of Pennsylvania. Here he declared that we should "go about the business of settling down to our own problems, holding in full earnestness to our international obli gations and giving our aid, in sub stantial ways, to the great experiment but insisting upon the handling of our own national affairs, our econ omic, racial and political questions, in a sane and practical way, which will keep up a great nation, united and virile." But he went further along this line and adverted to the hair-brained agitators who would destroy the in stitutions and upset the system of government which have meant so much of happiness and prosperity for our people. On this point he said: "Today we hear much of agita tion for radical changes in our methods of government; indeed some alien enemies aided by na tive social neurotics, evep plan the destruction of the Republic and advise "direct action," or vio lence and terrorism toward this end. We will attend to these matters without much trouble, al though there may be disturbances o.nd attempts at disorder which mnv impress the timid and the unreasoning. But no cult which aims at the dethronement of all religion and t lie destruction of law and order will get very far. Our people though they have been diluted a hit in their 1 acini characteristics, will again stand the test, and the comparatively few who want 'di rect action' will be likely to find plenty of it when the time comes. Our national ideals will withstand, without a tremor the attack of the unfit, the criminal and the perverted. The Governor is matching up to expectations. He improves in the opinion of the public as he • goes along, lie is vigorous, constructive and a fine type of virile American manhood. A COMMON HOUSE IN France they call the community building the "common house." It was President Poincare who said: Come with me now to the com mon house, the Maison Commune and tell me, first, if you know of a more beautiful name than this —the common house. There is in • lie village a house that belongs to 110 one in particular, that is ope:, to the poor as to the rich: that is, so to speak, the domestic eehter. the home of the village itself. The "common house." The time will come when they will be "common" in the United States, and the sooner the better. We shall soon know whether the President took the wire lines over as a war measure or as an excuse to 'extend federal control. ■ T>oOt£c fa\ "'piH.aaigttfaiua By the Kx-Committeeman Representatives of third class cities of the State are taking the greatest interest in the developments in the movements for changes in the laws governing first and second class cities because what is done in re spect to those municipalities will have an effect on the third class city code. The Third Class City League has submitted a series of amendments to clarify and improve 1 the code, but does not touch the nonpartisan elective feature. There is a considerable demand, however, in various sections of the State for elimination of that method of select ing city officials and it will appear in the form of a bill. The Philadelphia charter is in the course of discussion, in fact, it is much involved. The only things certain are that policemen, firemen and officeholders will be taken out of politics considerably and there will be a single chamber. The com position of the body is what is making more or less talk as some of the reformers want the members chosen at large and others want districts created, while some would like to see one man from each ward. The bill was due this week. It may not appear until the middle of March. —Pittsburgh papers with two ex ceptions opposing the repeal of the nonpartisan law for second class cities. Scranton newspapers have not made any very positive declara tions as yet. The bill for repeal of the nonpartisan system of electing all judges, which is contained in the act of 1913 along with the sec ond class city provision, is generally favored and will go through. The second class city feature is doubtful. A strong demand is made in the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times for re tention of the present system for second class cities. There will be some tall legislative work done to abolish the system by some Alle gheny and Lackawanna legislators. —The third class city people will probably ask for a hearing on their bills soon aid will fight any attempt to make a change In the method of selecting councllmen. The so called Legislative League is opposed to taking away the nonpartisan elec tion feature. —Pennsylvania is today ' having special senatorial'elections in Dau phin and Delaware counties and the men elected will take their seats next Monday. —Major E. Lowry Humes, former Crawford county legislator, was imistered out of the United States army a few days ago. He had been in the judge advocate general's de partment in charge of unearthing the Bolsheviks. One story is thfet he will be reappointed United States District Attorney for western Penn sylvania. R. L. Crawford is now act ing, having been named by the judges when the Democratic bosses failed to agree. —From all accounts the compen sation law amendments will not be presented for some time. Mean while various bills are to be held in the judiciary general committee. —Chester J. Tyson of, Adams county, is being mentioned as a pos sible chief of the bureau of markets in the Department of Agriculture. He is prominent in the apple grow ing business. —The House .appropriations com mittee is sending out call 3 for esti mates of money needed by depart ments. —Ex-Senator W. M. Lynch, of Lackawanna, visited the capltol and it is rumored he is interested in some hospital appointments. —"I have come to see the others work where I used to work" said Ex-Lieutenant Governor McClain while at the Capitol. Hi Is busy getting the Council of Defense into new shape. —Arrangements were made for a session of the House fo considera tion of bills on third reading on Wednesday at a conference of Speaker Spangler and the chairmen of the committees of the House at a conference immediately after Ad journment of the House. The speaker called attention to the bills not acted upon and stated that com mittees would report out many measures tomorrow so that it is de sirable to make as much progress as possible. Practically all of the bills in hands of House clerks have been taken put. —The House military committee which has in charge the military training bills is arranging to start its hearings in Philadelphia next week. The bills were discussed at a meet ing of the committee and sessions will be held in various places and a conference held with Adjutant Gen eral Beary who has been n Wash ington to-day. Sound Man From Sound State (From the New York Sun.) Representative Frederick H. Gil lett, of Massachusetts, is a sound man from a sound state. The Republicans in the House of Representatives have acted wisely In agreetng on him for Speaker of the House. In the situa tion created by the repudiation of Representative Mann, of Illinois, it was necessary to select a candidate on wh.om all factions could unite. Mr. Gillett fills the bill. He may not be a speaker to rank with Blaine or Reed, but he should administer the office with credit to his party and acceptably to the nation. LABOR NOTES Boot and shoe workers In Canada have been granted an increase of 10 per certt. in wages. One hundred and twenty-nine la bor organizations passed resolutions condemning the postal zone law. Salaried employes under the Wis consin law are put on the same foot ing as wage-earners in the matter of compensation. Normally the Canadian paper in dustry gives regular employment to about 25,000 mill operatives and of fice workers. Even as far back as November, 1917, 80 per cent, of the manufac turers of explosives in England was done by women. New car shops, estimated to cost nearly $6,000,000. will soon be erect ed at Marietta. Pa., by the Pennsyl vania Railroad. The North Dakota State Council of Defense is solving the surplus labor problem by putting workmen on unused farms. Sheet-metal workers in Dayton. Ohio, since organizing have received In some Instances as high as 100 per cent., and In no case less than 30 per cent Increase over the wage aecelved before organizing. ' 'I BXMUADURO TELEGHXPH WONDER WHAT A GOLDFISH THINKS ABOUT? ByBRIGGS A>AI €6TT SICK " "THEY CALL T(. A IRVJLIO COBB WAS ' ** COESS |\L T^E AND Tl*€T> 6OING CASTLE'. WHY I RIGHT WHEN HE SAID ANOTHSR LITTLE ROUND AND AOUND CAN'T CVEM GET 'AS MUCH "PRTUACY TFTLP AROONT) THE THIS- . THING THEY NU THC THING. AS A GOLDFISH! OLD CASTLH. TWR E CALL AW AQ.UARIUAA. THEN A FEW LITTLE * REALLY ISN'T A KID LOOK AT TH6 OF SEAWEED FL ATTEAED A. I £ E TO 00 J House THEY-GIVE SUPPOSED R FC 7** *" SH ST I , ME - - #E IN AW OCEAN OR ,RUV T TLR MY UTT *- E ©CE/&J J SOMETHING A IM ANOTME** R^M. GOC>D MEAL F*OR A CHFTN&B *1 > "'HOW'PEOPLC DO " I WLSH 'I HAD A "TNERE'SF THAT CAT ; FLATTER C ! THBY NLCKEL FO EACH TLME LOOL/.NG AT ME F \ CALL, ME*.BEAUTIFUL 1 V/E GOME ABOUND AGAIN . SHE HAS A \}~ :_T 1 * AND "FASCINATIN4 THIS OLD -SHACK". I'D NASTY LOOK IN HER AND STICK AND GRACCFUL'. .1 LIKB IT BETTER IF EYE. .OH FOR A MV R> *P' SE ,#J TNE WISH THEY'D FURNISH *^ E SHACK WASN'T LITTLE FRIEND "TO • ® EO ROON* .. V/LNDOW MS WITH ANOTHER HERE AT ALL. IT;S PLAY WITH. SOMEONE LITTLE PAL. I GET V A GLOOM* TO LQV/E/ WE R&H AWFULLY LONE SOME ' HAUFI"FTELI NGS "- . => 1 * _ 11 " " 1 7 . . ' ' Let City Council Alone (From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times) The more the people of Pittsburgh consider the proposal at Harrisburg to change the councilmanic system of cities of the second class, the more they must be convinced that it should be defeated. The public never was so satisfied with its city lawmakers as it has been since the Council of Nine came into being. That we have perfection in city government through the present sys tem nobody will assert. But that improvement CQuld be secured through increasing the number of councilmen is ridiculous in light of experience with larger bodies. If any change were desirable it would be logically in the direction of re ducing the number. The Council of Nine works well. It is representa tive of the people. No breath of scandal has touched it. It should not be disturbed. Nor will it be if the people of Pittsburgh make known to the Legislature their oppo sition to any tampering with the law governing Council. The associated proposition, to re peal the nonpartisan election law for municipalities, likewise should be defeated. While this act has not operated in all respects as it was hoped thnt it would, there is much more to be said in its favor than in condemnation of it. As to Pittsburgh nonpartisan elections of councilmen are to be credited very largely with the success at the polls of a better type of candidates than we coufd hope would be elected otherwise, with vicious factional contests un ameliorated as they now are. Fur ther, it is to be considered that In the present unsettled state of public af fairs generally it is unwise to make changes for which there is no public demand and which may be undone in the near future. For example, there is a movement for revision of the Constitution which may take shape in a couple of years. This is not a time for a constitutional con vention, but when one is held it will concern itself with city government as well as other questions. Then will be time enough to make. changes which experience and the public wel fare shall have demonstrated to be needful. There Is no good reason for altering the municipal election laws now. But'the people should not confuse second class city election schemes with legislation to repeal the non partisan election law applying to the. judiciary. This latter act has failed to yield the benefits expected of it. Instead of removing the judiciary from politics it has put it in deeper, compelling candidates for judgeships to make two undignified campaigns for votes and often lowering the standard of the bench. Worst of all, it tends to exclude minority represen tation on the bench, as was signally demonstrated last fall when two Re publicans were elected to the Su preme Court, contrary to constitu tional intent. This condition is rem ediable by repeal of the law. The repealer should be enacted. THE NEW MAN Standing among the waiting crowds When soldier boys were coming back, I saw men walking in their shrouds — All, all in shrouds of black! I looked, and I, too, had a shroud, But no one saw it, in the crowd. Happy we were and yet there fell A shade upon our happiness, And every one looked down to find Some trouble in his dress. None knew but I, in all that crowd, That each of us had on his shroud. The soldiers came and women wept And men, too. cried, and laughed, and cried. (And some there were who stood apart. Because their sons had died. These separate watchers wore no shrouds. And they alone of all the crowds.) T looked and turned rr>v head awav— There was a flame about the place Unbearable, as if we saw. Like Moses, face to faci • • • T looked again, and cried aloud. Forgetting that -T wore a shroud! For we had read in common men— Our saviors—what the Scripture saith. That he who gives himself puts off The body of this death. They walked as angels in the crowds. But we—must still go. wearing shrouds. —DOROTHY LEONARD. DaUid to Solomon I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, ryid show thyself a man.—V Kings 11, 2. Books and Magazines Of Mr. Ordway Toad's "Instincts in Industry" Babson's Statistical Or ganization says the following: "To employers who want to know what Is the matter with their employes, what the feelings and instincts of their fellow workers are, what im pulses determine their efficiency, we recommend OrdwayTead's first book, "Instincts in Industry," published by Houghton Mittiin Company. Practi cal manufacturers whp have been impatient with the 'theorist' who have written voluminous and unreud able dissertations on industrial ef liciency can spend a profitable couple of hours with this author. He has gathered his material at first hand, dealing with labor problems as an industrial counsel. Despite the way through. The ten basic instincts of human conduct Partental, Sex, Property, Workmanship, Play, Pug nacity, Ambition. Art, Herd,, Self abasement, and Creative power, are all explained as the function in modern industry." The unconventional form of Mr. Charles D. Stewart's new novel, "Buck" has elicited a variety of criticism. That the characters are not bent to fit a preordained plot, but scamper about through the pages with "free will" and at their own pleasure, seems to have deeply troubled some of Mr. Stewart's critics But would it not have been a bit arbitrary of Mr. Stewart to treat the very original and independent char acters of this book in a strict, un yielding way? Would he not, per haps, have proved himself more a disciplinarian than an artist? The following critic would,seem to think so: "Mr. Stewart has none of the earmarks of the conventional novel. 'Buck" is, in fact, a story and noth ing else. But it is a good story, and though to all appearances it comes tumbling along anyhow, it really is presented according to the laws of its own being. As a matter of fact Buck is a character, and whatever he does is bound to be entertaining. Mr. Stewart has a knack with a yarn and the one about Buck and the can ary and the moving-van is a corker. Character, again, is in his line." ("Buck" —Houghton MifTUin Com pany.) "Laugh at me if you like," says the old shoemaker philosopher In Mr. SamueJ Hopkins Adam's "Corn man Cause" (Houghton Mifflin Com pany.) "You don't laugh at folks THE AMERICAN GIRL' (From the Philadelphia Inquirer) According to one of them who has just returned from France, the French were amazed at the prowess of our American girls. They may well have been. None can doubt that "it took solid physical strength and endurance to drive motor trucks, ito stand for hours in the mud handing out sandwiches to sol diers, to serve as nurses in the hos pitals." These und other things the American girls did gladly and effi ciently. Much has been said of the attrac tion of the French girls for our sol diers; but few of these, surely, can have surpassed our own in charm. There will Ije international mar riages, but the majority of American men will come home quite content with the girls they left behind them. America has no rponopoly of healthy women, to be sure; but the "athletic girl" is quite distinctly a product of that love of sport in which Americans and Englishmen surpass the rest of mankind. The development has been so gradual that only the oldest among us realize how great it is. The "young ladyishneßs" of the early Victorian era may linger in remote /communities, but it is not common even there. Of that fas tidious aversion to any kind of exer cise which characterized the hero ines of Jane Austen's day there is hardly a trace. "To sit In the shade and gaze upon verdure Is the most perfect refreshment," said Fanny Price. Today even the gentle Fanny would find such inaction intolerable. No, the American girl is a fine, breezy, outdoor creature, quite able to hold her own at anything she un dertakes. Her capacity does not make her less feminine; on the con trary, she is all the better qualified for the role of sympathizer and helpmeet. Season For Everything * To everything there Is a season, and a time to every purpose under th'e heaven. —Ecclesiaetes 111, X that believe in palmistry. What's a man's-,palm to read! He can change every line in it with a hoe, or an awl, or a golf stick. But his shoes! Ah! As a man walks, so he is. An' his shoes tell the tale. Take these, young men." (And the old man produces the shoes of the story's heroine.) "Study'em. They'- ll repay you. There's a courage an' clean pride an' a warm heart that travels the path she walks. Yes, an' a touch of vanity—Why not An' a temper of their own, them boots. Hot an' quick an' generous. You've got to travel some to keep pace with them boots. dunno when I've had a pair to match 'em." Captain Carroll Swan's "My Com pany," published by Houghton Milliin Company, is being printed serially in one of the Boston newspapers. Major General Edwards says: "This is a simply told, delightful story, which I have .read with pleas ure. It typifies the 'esprit' of that company which was so characteris tic of all the other companies in the 26th division, and which in the com posite expresses that confidence be tween the officer and the soldier in the division and was a unique factor in its morale. "I am glad that you purpose to place it within the power of every body to read this delightful tale." Of the many addresses and mem orials brought out by the death of Theodore Roosevelt, perhaps ' the most intimate, complete and distlrf guished, was the address of Henry Cabot Lodge, at a joint session of Congress. Senator Lodge was. of course, a life-long friend, peculiarly intimate in both his political and literary re lations. His "Theodore Roosevelt" is at once a complete, brief bio graphy, and a . personal appreciation of the man, of extraordinary insight and veracity. Needless to say, it is also the most finished production brought out by "Roosevelt Bay." In deed, in its rich eloquence and mov ing imaginative quality, it holds a high mark in American letters and oratory. It has seemed fitting that this notable and historic address should be preserved in a suitable format. Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company are, therefore, planning to include it in their special series of Riverside Press editions in a beautiful and distinguished dress of type appro priate to the subject and to the oc casion. Chevrons and Chevrons (From Life) , T{ie other day I inet in the street a man in uniform. His coat sleeves were embroidered from shoulder to cuff with bars, .stripes, insignia and chevrons of the most gorgeous colors and fantastic designs. My curiosity was too much for me, and I was übout to stop him and question when I discovered he had already halted and was bursting to tell me. "Yes," he announced, "they are every one authorized by the War De partment. These three octangular triangles of orange meafo my third cousin did a good deal of war work. These ten vertical mauve stripes are ten embarkations; the ten hori zontal stripes denote ten times sea sick." "Then you never reached France," I sympathized. "No, but this gray dot indicates extreme disappointment. Now these pink crosses —" But I hurried off, and almost ran into a limping soldier with only a small gold chevron on each arm. My couriosity again overcame me. "My boy, how came you by those?" I asked feeling assured he could not say much) about only two chev rons. He did not. "Well," he answered as he passed, "I was abroad for a while and I happened to kind of go a little lame." An Extra Session—Some Day j (From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) * From the George Washington oomes the information that the pres ident intends to return to Paris im- ; mediately after the adjournment ot| Congress on March 4; that he may| remain abroad until summer; that the chances favor calling a special session of the new Congress after the work of the Peace Conference is finished to pass upon treaties and enact any necessary legislation. That is rather indefinite. Is it possible that the President has in mind a delay of several months before the problem of restoring the country to peace conditions can even be dls | cussed ( ' FEBRUARY 25, 19T9. GERMANY'S BILL OF COSTS (From the New York Times) Dr. Scljiffer, the German Minis ter of Finance, is asking for a loan of 25,300,000,000 marks. That is Germany's largest internal loan, and the requisition comes Just when the Allies are calculating how much they shall ask from Germany for reparation, and perhaps the costs of bringing Germany to a paying frame of mind. Evet) Germany is beginning to see that she is pros trate before those whom she deAed and outraged. When that convic> tion is complete it will be time to present the bill. It should be pro portioned to the crime and to ability to pay. Germany's Ane should be all that her resources will bear, but not more, for that would defeat the purpose of the levy. The rate that stops the traffic produces no reve nue. It would be poor policy to demand more than could be paid on a marshaling of Germany's re sources. Nor should either the demand or the resources be underestimated. The amount Axed never could be increased, and if made too small it would lose something of effect in producing a penitent frame of mind; On the. other hand, if the demand is made too great and should prove crushing it could be reduced. The prospect of a reduction conditioned on good behavior would 'give Ger many something to look forward to and would encourage her under la bors whieh properly should be hard. Something in the nature of an" in determinate sentence would have much to recommend it, the condi tions of commutation being made known when the sentence is im posed. Germany is economically weaker than before the war by her loss of man power and by the check to her predatory methods of commerce. The man power will be made good with less delay than in almost any other nation. The check to her un fair competition is one of the bene fits for which Uie world has paid dear. The fitting: of the. figures to these broad outlines is difficult, and more within the power of the Su premo Economic Council than of others. At the threshold lies the question of what shall he done with Germany's internal debt. Internal debts are always subordinated by exterior debts, for reasons especially applicable to Germany's case. It is not permissible r that Germany should be allowed to plead interior interest obligations on the means of making war in priority to a similar annual charge to pay the cost of re pairing Jier ravages. It may be ar gued thnt to make Germany's in ternal interest subordinate would upset her finances. Tt would, but less than might be thought. There is something like a balance of debits and credits in Germany's internal loans. They are not ail paid for, and the loss of interest credits would be offset to an uncertain but considerable degree by the interest debits payable in taxes by the hold ers of the bonds. FOR A ROOSEVELT DAY Irving Putmnn of New York, writ ing a newspaper in city, makes the following appeal for a Roosevelt Day to be observed in Augustr In addition to marking great event s in history and honoring the memory of heroes, national holidays are a ben efit to the community by, giving a rest to the workers, especially the shut-in workers in tho great cities. Lincoln Day is only partly observed by the business world, because It | comes in the shortest'and one of the busiest months, in which there is another holiday a week later. The proposition to add Roosevelt to the names of Washiftgton and Lincoln meets with universal approval.' But ■ that the actual natal day should bo kept is certainly not of serious importance If this tends 'to hamper full observance. The wisdom of putting Labor Day on Monday has resulted In its becoming tho most completely celebrated holiday in tho year, most people being able to secure three full days of outing. August is a long and trying month and now hns no holiday. It is in a season when outing means something If the first Monday in August can be made Roosevelt Day it will be enthusiastically celebrated and will give joy to hundreds of thousands. The Job Is Worth It It is no wonder ex-Secretary Mc- Adoo is to get two hiyidred thousand dollars a year as counsel for the Chaplln-Fairbanks-Pickford film cor poration, dodging Chaplin's world rehowned custard pies, if they can be dodged, would make the job worth at least that . much.—Philadelphia Press* , Ibmttg CHljat Members of the local draft boarc In Pennsylvania aro ailllcted wit too much modesty judging from circular which Major W. G. Mui dock, the chief draft officer, lias Is sued calling for the ompletion of th historical data. The boards, as rule, says he, have been sending ii teresting, data, but not enough ir dividual incidents are being sent it 16 " la J° r soys that a paragrap should bo devotod to the personm of the board so that in future th occupations of the men who serve will be known. "Boards must no be too modest to give their ow personal opinions and impressions, says the major. "Some boards hav wisely forwarded papers by all mem bers of the board and the chie kept a diary of daily occurrence and incidents which has been sen here and will be preserved, whil others have sent a photographic rec ord of the draft. Dauphin Boar No. 3 filed seventy photographs giv ing pictures of many incidents, in eluding meetings of draftees, de partures and parades. "Some of th records have been lamentably shor and not even photographs have beei sent in to help make up the stor; of the draft," remarked the majo to-day. "This record will be of th greatest value in years to come ani newspaper clippings will be of im portance to show how the work am incidents were regarded at th< time. In fact, we want all the ap propriate newspaper accounts tha we can get. Some of the newspape cuts showing departures of men ani demonstrations are excellent. J few boards have had their historle printed with pictures. Some of thj most valuable parts of historlel have come in as supplements." Dr. Robert Bagnell, pastor o Grace Methodist Church, illustratini a talk before the Bible class of tha church lunching? at the Penn-Harri hotel last Saturday told this story "Once there was the wealth; widow of a Are works manufacture who searched long and in vain fo an epitaph suitable for the monu ment over the grave of her greatlj beloved husband. She thought hin a great genius in his lino of endeav or and her love for him was sucl that no epitaph she could And com plimentary enough for the grea •man whose body lay under th( stone. Finally in the North of Eng land, in an old graveyard, she rai across the following, which she hat carved on the stone over her lius band's head: 'Ho has gone to th< only place where his work coult be excelled.' "That," concluded Dr. Bagnell "I believe would make a good epi taph for the ex-Kaiser." Walter Shaffer, the aviator, it speaking before the Rotary Club a luncheon in the Penn-Harris yes terday got off this very good one: "When it came time for the Brit ish to go over the top the officer: gave the soldiers each a drink o rum. "When it came time for thd French to go over the top the offlJ cers gave them a drink of hot wine "When it came time for the Americans to go over the top the officers gave them—the word of command: that was sufficient." Just to show how carefully th models and sketches for the new Memorial bridge are being held by Arnold W. Rrunnor it may bo said that a photograph of one of the bis new steel • cars of the Harrisburg Railways Company together with r, statement of dimensions was secured from President Frank B, Musser foj use in the drawings. The model, which will be hero Tuesday night, will be one of the finest tilings ol the kind ever shown in Harrisburg, Search of the records of legal ex-, editions in Pennsylvania which is being made at the department of the secretary of the Commonwealth to ascertain for an lnqulror tho date of a hanging in 1790 has disclosed some grim occurrences. Charles R. "Willitts, who is making the search discovered the record of the execu tions in Pennsylvania from 1778 to 1782 in a bundle and the hangman seems to have been pretty busy. Men were hanged in Revolutionary days for robbery, counterfeiting and other offences which are now punishable by imprisonment in penitentiaries. Judging from the size of thef bundle of the records there were more exe cutions in a year in that far off time in Pennsylvania than occur in these days. —More interest "was taken in to day's legislative sessions by the peo ple of Harrisburg than in any sos siosn for a long time because of the liquor legislation. The word from the Senate about tho action on the prohibiticn amendment was eagerly awaited, while the House had the li cense bills which have caused much debate to hold the popular interest. —Captain Fred A. Godcharlcs. who is back in "cit" clothes after serving as a rifio demonstrator at Camp Funston under General Leon ard Wood, tells some interesting things about tho rifle work. The American soldiers were taught -to shoot and the captain, who is a crack shot, spent long hours on the ranges. One of his jobs was to take the service rifle apart and put it'together again to show men how to care for the weapons . I'hcre are ninety three pieces in a rille and he made a record for speedy assembling. The greatest care was taken in instruct* ing the men about thd rifies. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —Representative W. C. Alexander is Republican county chairman of Delaware. —Representative M. M. Hollings* worth, chairman of tho House Agrl-- sultural committee, is a Chester county stock breeder and officer in several cattle clubs. —Representative W. W. Jennings, of BradforcJ is ono of the wealthiest men in the House. He is interested in big stock farms in the northern tier and owns some prize cattle. —Representative T. P. Geary o© Pittsburgh is serving* his fifth con secutive term in the House. —Representative Duncan Sinclair, of Fayette, served in the Porto Rican campaign with the First United States Engineers. —Representative Byron Milner, of Philadelphia, wns valedictorian ,of his class at the University of Penn sylvania. —Representative D. J. Bechtold has been president of the Citizen Fire Company of Stcelton. DO YOU KNOW That Hnrrisburg machinery was used in French submarine chasers? HISTORIC HAHKISBUKG —Gun repair shops were locateC here in Iho war of 1812, (
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