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Bath some good In him, all agree.
Bin in flat opposite to W Almighty,
seeing
ft wants the good of virtue and of
being.
—George Herbert,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919
SEND IN YOUR PROTESTS
DAYLIGHT saving appeals to mil
lions of people who are not
being heard in -the unfair at
tempt at Washington to repeal the
daylight saving law without hearing
and through the means of a rider
attached to an appropriation bill by
a committee which does not have
Jurisdiction regarding such matters
as daylight saving.
This rider has been hung on to
j the agricultural appropriation bill
j by a committee without notice and
with no sense of fair treatment for
the millions of industrial workers
who want a continuance of the day
light saving plan which was inaug
urated last year with widespread
favor.
The hill, which was approved by
the President on March 19, 1918, in
augurated daylight saving in the
United States during seven months
of each year, beginning with the last
Sunday of March and ending with
the last Sunday of October. Nobody
ever dreamed that an underhand at
tempt would be made to repeal the
law which proved so popular during
the first year of its trial and it is
now up to the people to make their
protest heard at "Washington before
it is too late.
It appears that farmers in some
sections or the country arc opposed
to the law, but as the farmer regu
lates his activities by the sun and
not by the clock he is less to be con
sidered in this respect than the in
dustrial workers who regulate their
activities entirely by the clock. These
are In favor of the daylight saving
plan.
The first weather report from the
seashore resorts is that It was very
warm last night at Asbury Parle..
GREAT WORK AHEAD
COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS
SADLER is giving full expres
sion to the Sproul theory of im
proved roads in Pennsylvania. We
are proud that our neighboring
county of Cumberland has furnished
at this important period of road de
velopment one so admirably equipped
in business experience and acumen
for the important work which has
been entrusted to him by the Gov
ernor. His conferences with county
delegations and his straightforward
talks without camouflage or any
thought of evasion have impressed
all who have heard them with his
sincerity and the practical character
of his policies and purposes.
Commissioner Sadler has made it
clear that the milliqns of dollars set
aside by the Commonwealth for gen
eral highways will not build scores
and hundreds of connecting roads
which ought to be maintained for
the traffic that is increasing by leaps'
and bounds in every community. He
knows, as docs every intelligent
man who has given the subject
thought, that the only way in which
. this great State can possibly secure
the road system that is necessary to
its development Is through the co
operation of the counties with the
State. Out of the general revenue
and through loans It is proper to
appropriate funds for the construc
tion of main or trunk highways, but
the counties themselves must pro
vide the means for connecting roads.
Dauphin county must not fall
back in the slightest degree In its
■bare in the great highway cam
paign. This county has been elow in
the past and now it must keep step
with the Commonwealth unless the
county which has the honor of being
the seat of the State government
■hall be forced to bear the odium of
(allure to mftidtaln lis place In the
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
new road-making era that la now
upon us.
Nor must we forget that the build
ing of roads means employment for
thousands of men, and the duty of
the State and all the subordinate
municipalities is to provide employ
ment for returning soldiers and all
who are made idle through the
cessation of war activities.
Now is the time not only to build
roads but to do all manner of public
work that has been postponed or sus
pended during the war. The com
munities which adopt this policy
will be the prosperous and contented
sections of the State, and Harrisburg
and the county of Dauphin, which
have not fallen short in any phase
of the war, will certainly uphold the
traditions of the past in going for
ward with the projects which are
now under discussion and which
generally have the approval of the
people.
Among commercial and industrial
leaders there is increasing confidence
in the future prosperity and expan
sion of business in this country. When
the disturbing elements which are
alien to everything that is important
in the development of the United
States are suppressed and business
and general employment are per
mitted to resume the normal condi
tions, there should be a general re
sumption of activities along every
line. But the elements which are
antagonistic to general prosperity
must be sent to the rear.
BLACK HEROES
SINCE the return to this country
of the famous New York regi
ment of colored troops the peo
ple have learned something of the
splendid character of the sendee of
of the black Americans In the
world war. Their heroism, devo
tion to the ideals of the Republic
and their cheerfulness under great
hardships have embellished a new
page in the history of those who
have come up out of great tribula
tion to have the privilege of fight
ing for the liberty which was
vouchsafed to them through the
sacrifices of an earlier generation.
Harrisburg has had a distinguished
place in the history of the negro
soldier abroad and it is highly ap
propriate that every distinction
should be given these returning sol
diers that the people of all races
may understand the gallantry and
bravery of the men who fought with
Colonel Hayward and other officers
of distinction during the supreme
conflict in Europe.
DEAD ISSUES
THE power of the old "liquor
ring" in Pennsylvania business
and politics is smashed for all
time. The House of Representatives
broke its back when it passed the
prohibition amendment some weeks
ago and the Senate ended its misery
yesterday by concurring in the ac
tion of the lower branch.
The liquor interests have been an
evil influence in Pennsylvania as
they have beep in every other State.
For years their agents have been
active in elections and during ses
sions of the Legislature. Party poli
tics has meant nothing to them.
They have infested both the Repub
lican and Democratic parties and
they have never fathered a piece
of constructive or beneficial leglsla*
tlon. We are well rid of them.
A snake does not die until the
sun goes down, it is said, and we
may look for a few more kicks from
the liquor serpent's tail about the
time enabling legislation comes up
for a vote. There will be, no doubt,
an effort to override the will of the
people by pushing through the Leg
islature a bill that would rob the
prohibition measure of its teeth. But
it will fail. Governor Sproul has
pledged his word to the adoption of
such laws as will make the new
amendment effective, and his word
is as good as his bond. Besides,
the Legislature that voted booze out
will not be aosily induced to get
it back again camouflaged as a "soft
drink."
No; liquor and liquor influences,
are dead issues in Pennsylvania. It
remains only to bury them. The
Senate Is to be congratulated upon
its decisive vote.
SENATOR SMITH
THE Telegraph extends its con
gratulations to Dauphin coun
ty's newest representative in the
State government—Senator Frank
A Smith. The office is one of dig
nity and importance, and those who
know Senator Smith best predict
that he will fill It as It should be
filled. He has had wide experience
in politics and in business and for
'years has made a careful study of
State legislative procedure. He goes
to the Senate well equipped for the
place he is to occupy and with the
overwhelming sentiment of the
voters of the county behind him.
He succeeds such men as Senator
John E. Fox, Judge S. J. M. Mc-
Carrell and Lieutenant-Governor E.
E. Beldleman. He may well feel
elated.
"KATY, BAR THE DOOR!"
PRESIDENT WILSON declared
for "open covenants of peace
openly arrived at" long before
the armistice was signed. Just be
fore he left for Europe he told Con
gress that its members would know
all th'tt he knew concerning pro
ceed ngs over in Europe.
But the New York World. Demo
cratic and Wllsonlan, says that at
one ot the sessions of the peace con
ference President Wilson took ex
ception to the publication of certain
accounts of the proceedings "on the
ground that the publication implied
a breach of confidence on the part
of some delegate."
If the President can find out
which delegate gave out the facts,
perhaps he will move to have him
barred from the eonference.
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By the Kx-Committeeman j
If the plans of some of the legis
lators for holding morning meetings
of committees work out, the House
°f Representatives is likely to meet
oftener at 10:30 and 11 than 10. The
to o clock session has never been
popular on Tuesdays and the sessions
on that morning have seldom started
on time, not at least since 1913.
Speaker Spongier has been talk
ing over matters with chairmen of
committees and some of them have
ottered to have meetings in the morn
ings which would certainly expediate
business and leave the afternoons
rree to dispose of bills on the cal
endars it is probable that the 10:30
and 11 o'clock sharp will be given
a tryout next week.
.?^ e i vspa ' )ers generally give the
SiKi' the Passage of the pro
niDition amendment ratification to
Governor Sproul. The Philadelphia
uecord, a Democratic organ, says
tnat it was the governor who put it
through and this view is also held
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times at
the other end of the State. Although
Senator William E. Crow, the state
chairman, voted against the resolu
tion. he is blamed by some of the
wets for lining up men for it and
git en a share of credit by unbiased
observers. „
The next thing in order will be
r 1 ® regulatory legislature which
may be expected to appear promptly.
, . • b , e rnore or 'es based on
what is done by Congress and other
A howl is expected from liquor
W J °„ haVe Paid ,he f>'H
li . quor licenses if the
.£? b i" to Provide for monthly
instalment licenses are passed and
hili W ?n "if 4 b ® Bur P rlß,n to see a
•>•11 to make a refund appear.
James A. Gardner, the veteran
city solicitor from New Castle, ap
peared before the House committee
in charge of the third class city bill
yesterday and explained its provi
sions. No attempt to strike out the
the nonpartisan feature was made.
—Highway Commissioner Lewis S.
badler is the most astonishing pro
position about the Capitol and some
of the legislators say frankly that
they do not understand him. He
talks so directly and positively that
they can not get used to him. " "This
man Sadler" said a man from one
or the smaller counties who had
called at the Highway Department
showed us just what he intends to
do and gave me a memorandum In
writing about it. I understand that
it goes. •
The commissioner has managed
to get more promises in the millions
than any man ever connected with
the state government and his
pledgok of support for lateral road
construction are far and away above
anything ever known. Judging from
what the people who call upon him
say. he does it by stating the plans
and letting it be known, as he did
last evening, that when once a thing
is put down and agreed upon it goes
Just like a contract for construction.
The legislative I.eague is com
mencing to take a big interest in
legislation and it will be worth
watching to see how the so-called
rural legislators lined up when the
Philadelphia charter legislation
comes along. It is safe to say that
the third class city bill sponsored bv
Representative Wallace is going to
be treated with much respect and
the New Castle legislator is pretty
canny in getting it out of commit
tee and started on its way through
the Legislature so early in the ses
sion. *
—Members of the League of Bor
oughs got some rare entertainment
yesterday afternoon when Represen
tative "Jerry" Simpson made his
speech on the Shunk bill to authorize
the Public Service Commission to
suspend increased rates. Simpson's
speech was acclaimed as the best ef
fort of the session, but his motion
to postpone after a plea for passage
caught some of the spectators*
breath.
Means whereby the State chiefs
of standards, who ilxes the stand
ard weights and measures will have
authority to enforce adherence to
the standards established by him
and displayed in fhe Capitol will
be provided in a bill being drawn
pp. James Sweeney is chief of
standards, but the limitations of the
law do not allow the State to take
steps against any city or county
whose standards are nqt just what
the State has set up. Local authori
ties have considerable lattitude now
and it is held that it does not make
for State-wide uniformity.
FOCH'S CIGAR
(From Life.)
Marshal Foch was puffing a large
cigar as he arrived, suggestive of
General Grant. —Associated Press
Dispatch from Paris.
And if the contemporary historian
will but do his duty, and the Peace
Conference runs on long enough, we
may pick up our paper one morn
ing to learn that :
"When Premier Lloyd George
reached the council chamber he was
persnirlng freely, suggestive of the
Village Blacksmith."
Or
"President Polncare tripped as ho
reached the top landings of the for
eign office steps to-day. and in fall
ing was painfully bruised, quaintly
recalling the fall of Jack, the com
panion of Jill, in Mother Goose."
Or:
"Premier Orlando, who is recover
ing from an attack of Influenza, was
observed to sneeze upon checking
his coat In the lobby, reminding
many of Lewis Carrol's Immortal
lines:
'Speak roughly to your little boy,
And spank him when he
sneezes;
He only does It to snnov,
Because he knows It teases ' "
Or
President Wilson, it has becoms
known, has three tlmea declined the
honorary presidency of the French
Society for the Establishment of
Permanent Pence. This Is sugges
tive of Julius Caesar."
The lives of great men cannot too
often remind us of something^
Trouble in Germany
The real trouble in Germany will
siart when they begin to distribute
the postoffioes among the adherents
of the party In power.—Des Moines
Register.
The Proper Way
This talk of Trotzky for Czar of
Russia is an outrage'to Lenine. Why
not compromise by dividing Russia
between them?—Springtield Rooub-
hahrisburg telegkxph
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Daylight Law Attacked
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer.)
A rider has been attached to the
Agricultural Appropriation bill, un
der consideration by the Senate,
whereby the Daylight Saving Law is
repealed. It is understood that the
farmers have complained of the in
convenience to which that law sub
jects them and that their protests
have induced the action which has
been taken.
The farmers form a very import- ,
ant part of the community and their
political power is so great that Con
gressmen are always anxious to pro
pitiate them and to do anything!
in reason, or even out of reason, !
to secure their support, but after
all the rural votqr is not the .only
person in'this or in any other con
nection who deserves to be consid
ered, and the proposition to repeal
the law in question should be dis
cussed and determined on its merits.
Has the gain of an additional
hour of daylight during the summer
months been of sufficient benefit to
the people in general to Justify Its
retention, or has the innovation
failed to realize the expectations
with which it had been awaited
or to vindicate the arguments of
Its advocates?
That is the real issue and there
is not much doubt what the decision
would be were the matter submit
ted to a popular referendum. It
would almost unquestionably be in
favor of letting the law stand.
Surprisingly little trouble was ex
perienced when it became effective.
On the day set people adjusted their
clocks and watches to the new dis
pensation and presently went about
their daily business without any
disturbing consciousness of the
change which had been made. They
found to their satisfaction that the I
afternoon had been agreeably pro
longed at the cost of no appreciable
sacrifice and at the end of the pe
riod over which the artificial time
keeping extended, the return to nor.
mal conditions was accomplished
without the least consequent em
barrassment.
It is true that daylight saving was
adopted as a war measure, with the
professed purpose of restricting the
consumption of coal and the use of
the electric current, and it may
be Tirged that with the removal of
the war pressure It is no longer
necessary, but that consideration is
immaterial. It may not be neces
sary, but it is still desirable, and the
rider to the Agricultural Appropria.
tion bill will be eliminated if Con-1
gress cares to respect the public
preference.
PEACE
"There is no peace, no peace," the
big guns shout
To drown the little voice that
ev'ry hour.
Persistent as the Muezzin from his
tower,
Proclaims that all is well. Yet who
shall doubt
The deep sea thunder in dim moon
lit caves.
The green hills singing to the
morning sun.
The wild flowers flaunting till the ;
day is done.
Or plaintive sea gull cries o'er twilit
waves? —
"No peace," they growl! The little
voice pleads on:
A lark high singing o'er the bar
rage blast,
A moonbeam on the lake's dark
bosom cast,
"Lo! beauty, beauty may not, can
not cqase,
And beauty's thrice-starred crown is
peace, is peace."
Pvt. J. Peterson. Seaforth High
landers, in "More Songs by the 1
lighting Men."
LABOR NOTES 3
During the last year British trade
union membership has Increased
over 200.000.
Among the first men to be releas- \
ed from the army camps in the;
United States are the coal miners, j
Veterun soldiers reluming to Ppnn-j
sylvania will flrul over 50,000. jobs:
ready Tor them. .. ... j
The number of female trude un-;
ionlsls in Hungary Is nearly* five:
tintes as large is in pre-war times, j
Me.ni hers of the Machinists' Upion i
in Canada are demanding that they
be paid in cash instead of by cheek.
. Trolley workers In nine cities hri've
reoHved increased pay under u re
cent ruling by the War Labor Board.
Prison wardens tn England are
asking that they be paid the samel
rate of pay as is now given to tho
I oolice id that' country. ' '
Chaotic Mexico
BY NORMAN BRIDGE
(From au address lie fore tlie Council on Foreign Relations.)
O*UR CHIEF words tonight:
I ought to be constructive. We
should try to help Mexico to
the things she needs and deserves.
But first we must know the facts
if we can. It does not profiet us to
fool ourselves as to conditions, or
for Mexicans to deceive themselves.
And three are conflicting voices in
the air as to conditions in Mexico.
We know from a masterful state
ment of Secretary Lansing, ad
dressed to 'Mexico some two years
ago, thafa long catalog of out
rages had been endured by our citi
zens, including many murders. The
list of such killings has now reached
five hundred or more.
Months ago a great cry of starva
tion and nakedness came up from
Mexico. Our Red Cross went down
there -with food and clothes, found
the desolation, and began to relieve
it. But Carranza soon told the Red
Cross workers they were not needed,
and they came home. But the deso
lation was there and has contin
ued.
Now tye have numerous reports
frohi our own investigators of wide
spread starvation even in Mexico
City,, of prevalent disorders, robber
ies, outrages upon people, blackmail
and graft by Mexican officials, and
of six or seven small armies of
counter-revolutionaries in different
parts of the country, and in open
hostility to the Carranza govern
ment.
Mr. Creel's Rosy Views
Mrr Creel has for months been
publishing in Mexico City a weekly
branch of his daily bulletin of pub
lic war information under an act
of our own congress. It has been
filled with little besides a roseate
story of the great progress of the
Mexican government toward normal
conditions. Yet Are know that in the
very last month on five different
railroads there were in eleven days
some thirteen instances of bandit
outrages of more or less destruc
tion.
We have the Indubitable proof
that during the last year in a small
area of the eastern littoral there oc
curred this list of outrages: Eighty
robberies (many of them highway
robberies') and of large sums of
noney; twenty-flve men killed,
mostly unarmed Americans: twenty
men and women brutally maltreated
(some of them in ways unprintable*
and several men captured and held
for ransom.
There can be no question that
the present Mexican government has
planned and is trying to effectuate
a wholesale confiscation of the prop
erty of foreigners, property acquired
under law by purchase and lease,
and that the United States, Holland
and Great- Britain have solemnly
protested against this violation of
international faith and usage.
We know that thousands of the best
and most brainy Mexicans are ex
patriated and fear death if they re
turn home.
There is no doubt Carranza is try
ing to bring about order, and with
poor success. Ills people are tired
and long for peace and security.
Many of them see no outlook for
these blessings at a permanency save
by American intervention—a feeling
they often voice in private to Ameri
can friends—of course, never pub
licly. To the dominating five per
cent, of Mexicans this idea Is abhor
rent, and they mostly hate Amer
icans.
There ought to be a better way to
help than by intervention. What is
that way? What are the things
necessary for the Mexican govern
ment to do. and how can we help
it to a laudable and possible suc
cess?
Tlie First Steps
Of course, the early steps are to
establish order, put down opposing
factions and protect life and prop
erty. stop the grafting of subor
dinates and conduct the government
on business lines. Next, rehabili
tate the railroads, now wrecked or
on tlie verge of wreckage, and re
establish travel and business. Make
it safe for men to plant and them
selves reap and have their harvest,
and not have it stolen by factional
armies and bandits, or the govern
ment soldiers.
But the government must be refin
anced before these tilings can be
done—lf they are to bo done in a
reasonable tlmo or in an effective
manner.
The bondholders and other credit
ors ought to be willing to accept
refunding at a lower interest, if se
curity can bo had. Claimants for
dayiegee ought to. be willing, to cut
down their claims if' there''can be
public order and opportunity to
work.
The government owes in interest
alone *110,000,000 (United States
money) and will need for a starter
(United States money,) to rehabili
tate the railroads and industries and
to provide for pressing obligations.
The United States and Great Britain!
can alone help if they will—no other!
people can, unless possibly Japan.'
The United States is the only one i
likely to help, and help would not 1
come from the American Treasury, 1
but only from American capitalists, |
by and with the approval of our gov- j
ernment in urrangement with that
of Mexico.
Can the conditions of such finan
cing be met One first condition
would have to be the abandonment
of all laws and decrees of confisca
tion of the property of foreigners
acquired under law. Then the cap
italists of America would, I believe,
be ready to help refinance if they
could see any adequate security for
money advanced and if they could
be shown a substantial certainty
that the money would be wisely j
spent for vital needs. Some suchj
conditions would be absolutely indis- 5
pensable to a helpful credit in l
money.
What material security can Mexico!
give? None such is in sight. The 1
customs dues have already been'
largely mortaged to the French to I
secure private loans. There is no
property Mexico could sell or hy
pothecate, unless it be a part of her:
territory, and she is debarred from!
doing this by two constitutions —orl
one constitution that is alleged to be j
an amendment to another.
There is no other promising wayi
except by some mutuality in the co-|
lossal job of financing and rehabilita
tion. I mean a mutuality betweenj
the borrower and the lenders: some '
Joint functions in spending the:
money and collecting the income fori
payment—approved actively by the
Mexican and the American govern
ments.
One Way Out
If Mexico should invito us to join
with her in forming an international
commission of our citizens and her
own, to be empowered to supervise
the expenditures of the money ad
vanced and control the collection of
money for the payment of the loans
i and interest, then the whole problem
Mould be solved, and both peoples
[would be blessed if not happy.
Nor is such a scheme impossible.
It would depend upon whether the
two peoples have the more good sense
more adaptility to new and difficult
[ problem, or the more pride of au
thority and the heroics of dignity.
Commercially we build houses, rail
roads, and public works on the basis
indicated, and feel no disparagement
of dignity, and many limes nations
have given to such commissions tasks
of perplexing sorts. Why not so re
finance a nation demoralized by years
of internecine frightfulness, with
millions of its helpless people pray
ing for relief?
Burleson's Telephone Failure
(From the New York World.)
Substantial popular support will
be given to tire appeal of the Na-~
lional Association of Hallway and
Public Utilities Commissioners that
the telegraphs and telephones bo
restored to their owners.
Tlie question is not whether there
was any justification for govern
mental seizure of these lines or
whether there lias been favoritism,
as is charged in llie financial ur
langements which the Post Office
Department has made with then).
What chiefly concerns (he people at
this time is the matter of service.
That it is poor and growing poorer
and that there is no prospect of
Improvement wilt lie very generally
admitted.
It lias been charged that tho de
partment took over these lines with
a definite purpose to establish na
tional ownership, a plan which Post
masters General of both parties
have advocated for several years.
If that was tho aim experience lias
not demonstrated the wisdom of the
enterprise.
Under privute management the
telephone in New York was efficient
and trustworthy. In the hands of
the Po3i Office Department it has
become in many cases an exasper
ating nuisance. Judging public op
eration bar its own performances for
six months past, it is a failure, and
furtlieemoro It furnishes the worst
possible recommendation for Post
master Genera) Burleson's grand
scheme of public ownership.
_ FEBRUARY 26, 1919.
JBerger Gets the Full Penalty
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer)
Twenty years In a federal prison
; faces Victor Berger, instead of that
j seat in the House of Representatives
which he intended to occupy. Ber
j ger and his fellow agitators have
j l>een given the full penalty, and
! Judge Landis, who imposed the sen
-1 tences, can have the satisfaction of
[ knowing that he has performed his
| duty and that his drastic handling
jof the defendants will have the
t hearty approval of the vast majority
,of the American people. There Will
j be no usual appeals, of course, be
j cause those who pretend to despise
the law, are nearly always the first
I to seek clemency and relief from it.
i The conviction and sentence of
Berger and his associates is not only
"a victory for law and order and for
red-blooded patriotism, but it is also
a triumph for democracy. We have
had other cases of sedition, of dis
loyalty, and of conspiracy to obstruct
the draft, and in each there has been
prompt punishment. To have made
an exception in the case of the Mil
waukee Congressman-elect would
have been the violation of the very
principles for which he himself pro
fesses to preach and hold. We have
no doubt that the defendants are
really very much surprised andshock
! Ed at the severity of the sentence.
! They huve been using the court room
I as a forum for the dissemination of
| their peculiar views, and they proba
j bly hoped for a light punishment that
; would enable them to pose as martyrs
| with the minimum amount of person
al discomfort and inconvenience. But
| they have received precisely what
: they deserve and they may be thank
ful -that they are not living in some
;of the countries where the death
penalty would have been the in
|evitablo result of their seditious
! course.
! It is folly to attempt to reason
j with a man like Berger. who con
| tends that the war was "imperialls
|tic and commercial," that "American"
j sim is now synonymous with capital
| ism" and that "the so-called League
of Nations is simply a thin screen
'behind which the capitalistic classes!
!of the winning side are dividing
| the spoils." The chief and most
| unforgivable offense of this misrep
resentation who was elected to the
American congress from a Milwaukee
district, was In trying to obstruct
the draft. Suppose the Bergers had
been successful in this effort, what
would have hjeen the result? The
United States would have been dis
graced in the eyes of the world. It
would have proclaimed its inability
to enforce its laws. That would have
the effect upon this Country as a
Nation. But it would have meant
I oven more than that. It would
| have ensured the triumph of Prus
sianism, and sounded the deathknell
of decency, of honor and of civiliza
tion.
The attempt failed, and for the con
spirators to escape the penalty of
their crime would have been a dis
grace and a miscarriage of justice.
Law reigns, (lie government at Wash
ington still exists, and those who
would destroy the temple of true
| liberty are meeting with a Just fate.
Burdening a Bog With Money
(From the New York World.)
The mother of a six-year-old New
York boy to whom a $:i,000,000 trust
| fund was left by his father plans
4to let the fund accumulate until he
becomes twenty-one. As estimated,
I the fund, with interest compounded
: annually, will then exceed $8,000,000.
It is to be hoped that this estimate
takes account of income and other
tuxes. But assuming the realization
of the project and granting that the
boy comes of ago with his inheri
tance multiplied, will he be any
better off with a fortune of $8,000,-
000 than with u fortune of $3,000,-
000? Is there" anything a normal
youth on reaching manhood has less
use for than money as mere money?
The ambition which seeks to pro
vide the largest possible < ndowment
for a son is, of course, creditable to
muternul affection. But it is doing
no favor to a boy to heap up un
earned millions for his benefit. Mak
ing a multimillionaire of him at the
start must necessarily dull incen
tive and stunt the development of
natural talent. Nor is public opin
ion as tolerant as it once was of
fortunes made through the mere
breeding of money.
|
An Improvement
The camels are coming. Hooray!
uooray!
An arid condition's arriving to stay.
Allegorical ly speaking, the camel
wl'l make
A much ulcer pal than tlio bibulous
snake
' —Tennyson J Baft, in the Kansas
City Star.
lEbroittg (Eljat
is=ai=r=—n , - ■ ,- .J
"The Harrisburg Telegraph hai
hit upon a vital need In Its sugr-es
t'on that a beltline be run around
the city to open up the great
stretch of land lying east of th
State hospital and arsenal propertlei
for industrial and housing develop
ments," said J. A. Kirkbaum, ©(
Pittsburgh, a warehouseman who
was in Harrisburg yesterday. The
Idea is not original with the Tele
graph, it was explained to him, and
he continued: "No matter where the
thought originated, it is a good one.
1 have looked about this city a bit
and 1 am convinced that you must
find more and cheaper railroad
frontage sites for industries and
housing if you want to attract man
ufacturers or trans-shippers to this
city. When you build a factory on
expensive ground you are handi
capped at the start, and add an
overhead that you must carry
throughout the years. When the
Pennsylvania railroad went into the
warehouse business in connection
with its freight stations, as it has
done with the new Keystone in the
lower end of the city, it recognized
in Harrisburg a very important
trans-shipping point. I am told that
its experts collected data for months
in order that the company might
provide a proper amount of room
for storage. But I am of the be
lief that generous though that ar
rangement is, the time will come
shortly when Harrisburg can be
made an even more important ware
house point, especially in connection
with the Pennsylvania railroad, now
that tlie southern connection byway
of the Cumberland Valley is pro
vided through the absorption of that
property by the Pennsylvania. The
only way you can get cheap sites is
to create them and the belt line ap
pears to answer the question that
arises in the minds of strangers who
come here to look the situation
over."
• m •
The average Harrisburg small boy
is not going to get over the war for
a long time. The youngsters are
drilling and the proudest ones are
those who have caps or parts of
uniforms. "Ono result of the war
is going to be that there will be
more cadet corps than you have any
idea of," said a teacher yesterday.
"There will be half a dozen this time
next year, and the men who were in
service will have all the fun they
want with the boys."
• * *
"I thought there was a law that
placards should not be within a cer
tain number of feet of a polling
place," said a man yesterday. "From
what I have seen the people read
inches instead of feet. There were
cards put where they hit you and
the election boards did not seem to
care. ' There is no use having elec
tion regulations unless they are com
piled with."
• • •
If activity in hot beds and cold
frames is anything to go by the
gardeners about Harrisburg, com
mercial, amateur, expert and time
passing, intend to add materiaily
to the food Supply of the State
capital this year. It ;s estimated
that the production ot vegetables
and the like in the Harrisburg dis
trict last year went ahead of any
thing ever known and that the im
petus given will be reflected for
years to come. There will be a de
crease in "war gardens," of course,
but many people have learned the
joy of eating a radish or gathering
beans from_ their own plants and
that a back yard tomato has a flavor
not equaled by any other variety
is a self evident truth. Winter has
not passed, but there are more little
stakes being set out in future gar
dens and seed catalogues examined
just at present than the average
man thinks of. And from indica
tions Allison Hill is going to chase
the First and Tenth wards.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Governor Sproul is almost the
only Swarthmore graduate In the
State government.
♦ —Secretary of the Common
wealth Woods is an alumnus and
doctor from Lafayette.
—Col. Edward Martin, Commis
sioner of Health, upholds University
of Pennsylvania traditions at the
Capitol.
—Banking Commissioner John S.
Fisher comes from Indiana State
Normal School, of which he is now
a trustee.
-—Dr. Nathan C. Schaefter, State
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, has degrees from Franklin and
Marshall and several other col
leges.
—Adjutant General Beary went
to a military school at Newark.
—James N. Moore, director of the
Legislative Reference Bureau, hails
from Grove City College.
| ' DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg people are
being complimented for their
improvement of lire apparatus?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The old Harris mansion used to
be a girls' college years ago.
Disposal of Books a Problem
Now that the American armies
are being demobilized, the Ameri
can Librarians' Association is con
sidering what shall be done with
the 3V4 million books in the sol
diers and sailors' libraries here and
overseas. Various proposals have
been under consideration, but the
one which is getting the most sup
port, it is said is to give the books
to towns of the southern states
which have no libraries. The ad
vocates of this proposal point out
that the Northern cities and most of
the Western cities are already well
equipped with libraries, while this
is not true of many towns of the
south. When the armistice was
signed in November the American
Library Association had a total of
2407 libraries and branches in op
eration in the United States and in
France. Of-tliese, forty-three were
full sized libraries in building* of
their own in the cantonments and
large military reservations in thjs
Ilnited States, with about thirty-five
thousand books tn each.—From the
New York Times.
.1 Nomination
Our nomination for
eral of the lenguc is Colonel House,
viz: *
Wholly unquotable,
Always ungoatable,
Secretly notable,
Silence's spouse—
Darkly inscrutable,
Quito irrefutable,
Nolily immutable,
Edward M. House!
—Philadelphia Evening Publlt
' 1 - Ledger. J