14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 . Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRI.\TI\G CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare 1 =3 E, J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief I*. R. OTSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor •A. R. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager I Execatlve Hoard J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBr. • F. R. OYSTER, GU'S. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha 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 r\ Newspaper Pub- I Eastern office Fmiey, B F°? k f S t 1 Chicago, ui!" 1 '" 8 Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a <T"!* week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Brethren, even if a man be over- j taken in any trespass, ye who are , spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted,—Gal. 6:1. FIUDAY, FEBRUARY 28, HMD LEAGUE OF NATIONS IT IS plainly evident that a war- | weary world favors the cxperi- j ment of a League of Nations to enforce peace and that the idea first expressed by former President Taft, tnd more recently advocated with so much fervor by President Wilson, will be adopted in one form or an other. With the Idea itself there is little objection in the United J States. Men of all parties are will ing, even desirous, of getting to gether in an effort to prevent a repe tition of the frightful slaughter of *he past four years. But Americans ire not willing to sign away their national rights. They feel that they must retain all of those principles of liberty and independence for which ihey and their forefathers fought | tnd died since Washington's day | nd which have made the United] talcs the refuge of the oppressed j nd our government the ideal of own-trodden people everywhere. ! .!lse we shall have gained nothing' . y the war and we shall be pulled j down to more nearly the level of ] Europe. To the end that the bulwarks of ! ur liberties shall be safeguarded, j lie proposed constitution of the j . .-ague, as pronounced by President j Wilson should be torn to pieces, i hred by shred in as careful analysis I 3 it is possible to apply. Nor should | ilie President regard this process as! ecessarily an unfriendly proceeding. !e must remember that the Senate • f the United States has it within J s power to destroy utterly all that I e proposes. The Senate must be ■ itisfied that the constitution of the j ague is in the best possible form. ! s yet the public has heard very lit- ! e from the President with respect ] > the inner workings of the pro osed league and what it will mean 1 1 the final analysis to this country. ! lis Boston speech was an admirable resentation of the ideals of Amer a, but it dealt largely in generali ses, and the effects of the proposed 1 lague upon the nation received but mall attention. It is here, how i ver, that tlie crux of the whole j latter is reached. Americans will 1 ot willingly a League of Na- j ions that subordinate the rights of ' ationalism, as it has been developed I •t the United States, to a more or less ' ague internationalism that may lead j swe know not where. The public 1 not averse to the league idea. It ! inly wants to be shown and then ! o be sure that it is not asked to j urrender more than it will receive. ! i'hat is. the situation in a nutshell | .nd if the President is wise he will i iiscuss his proposition as freely with .he people as he has behind closed loors. Americans always have been uspicious of secret diplomacy • and dictation. Judge McCormick is giving to thou-1 ands of Philadelphlahs a 'sAldtdry mason in the majesty of the law. Te has already been nicknamed by he criminal elements "Treat-em lough" McCormick and that is a ,-rcat compliment for the pojir.agCQUs urist who is vindicating law and or er through the imposition of prompt nd adequate punishment upon those vho are ru-stting wild in the met . opolis. WHATEVER may he done re garding temporary quarters for the Mayor and the Police Department ougljt to have reference o the Inevitable joint city and ounty building. No large amount •>f money should be expended even .'or an emergency building and .tothlng should be done at this time which might be used hereafter as •in argument against proceeding .rltfc the municipal and county: building that la now universally de manded by the people of the city and county. We sympathize with Mayor Kela ter in his desire to install his force In a more desirable place; in fact, this newspaper has consistently, for a long period o- years, advocated 1 the concentration of the city offices in some suitable building, but on the eve of the consummation of the movement of years for a joint build ing it might be unwise to expend any considerable sum of money in prqvlding temporary quarters. It is generally understood that the change of the city electrician's equipment—the switchboard and other electrical machinery—would | I involve much difficulty and expense, ] • and it might be better to endure the . evils we have for a little while than j press on toward the better day I when our officials can be properly I j housed and the taxpayers be re j lieved of frequent jaunts about the 1 city while transacting business with ! the municipal authorities, j I j Senator Edwin H. Yarc is one of the lawmakers who is consistently an ad-j | vocate of walking as the most whole- | I some form of physical exercise. It! | is interesting to observe that there | lias just l\een organized the Varo 1 j Hiking Club which will meet eVerv [ j morning at 7 o'clock at the Senate I 1 Hotel for a hike along the river drive, j j it is a fact that the visitor to Harris burg appreciates the splendid scenery j of the Susquehanna basin more than the resident ,who accepts as a matter| of course what nature has so lavishly) bestowed upon the people of this sec-j tion. Senatoi Vare has been walking; along the river front of Harrtsburg j for several years during the session j j of the Legislature and it lias not been| j an uncommon sight to observe him j ! leading a score ot his colleagues in 1 ian early morning hike along the! river. It would bo well for many of I our own citizens to take note of the \ are Hiking Club and organize a few j such walking groups themselves. | BOROUGH PROGRESS THE importance of the State' Bureau of Municipalities, under ] whose auspices an important I conference of borough officials has j been in session at the Penn-Harris luring tlie week, is beginning to be understood by many who have not: heretofore realized the serious de- j fects in the administration of the j boroughs of Pennsylvania. It has developed that these smaller ! municipalities have been run in a 1 slipshod and haphazard fashion to j the point ot financial bankruptcy j and the conference this week will I doubtless lead to legislation which j will effect reforms that 'are rnani- j festly greatly needed unless the borough is to become a by-word of ! reproach among the organized civic ' bodies of the Commonwealth. It is almost certain that out of the exchange of views this week will ! come some practical methods of I administration which will serve to overcome the serious difficulties which now confront many bor oughs. One of the things which has called attention to the gen eral breakdown of the borough system is tlie movement for better highways in the State. All travelers know that the borough has been the one great obstacle to continuous highways of modern construction be cause it could not or would not co operate with the State in the on struction of better roads. This re sulted in frequent stretches of high ways between borough boundaries so intolerable as to make travel actually dangerous in many places. There is much that the Bureau of Municipalities can do to aid the borough authorities, and it is only fair to say that the bureau already has justified its usefulness in what has been accomplished in the way of | discussion and actual methods of improvement. There is much yet to be done, of course, but now that a start has been made it is reasonable to expect that definite regulations will be adopted through legislation in the way of providing sinking funds and proper financing so that these minor municipalities may over come the handicap which has re tarded their reasonable and inevit able development. SEND THEM HOME CABLE advices arc to the effect that four ships have been chartered for the voyage from China to Europe for repatriation of all Germans in China, excepting a few missionaries, The average Amer ican citizen, however, will not be I satisfied until he sees an announce ment from Washington of the char tering of as many ships as may be necessary to return to Germany every native of that country who ! has been interned during the war j or who persists In shouting "Deuteh iand Ober Allcs!" Their room is much more desirable than their company and it is time anyhow for | America to clean up from one end I of the country to the other, to the J end thai we may have a homogenous i population devoted to American ideals and ready to support American principles of government. We must not drift back to the old contented order in which we were willing to permit the malcon tents of the world to come to our shores and immediately engage In anti-American propaganda. If they want to come here and enjoy the privileges of our liberty and our de cent home life, then they should be welcomed with outstretched arms. But when they establish here bases of opposition against the countries whence they came-and plan the destruction of our own government, the strong urrn of authority from Washington should come down with immediate force and effect in forc ing their prompt expulsion. We don't want them and the American , ; people are not going to stand for j any morp foolishness of the sort ' which has encouraged the anarch istic groups responsible for much of 1 our Industrial and social unrest. j fdUic*U [ By the Ex-Committeeman j Active consideration of the num- I eroua appropriation bills will be started by the House Committee on appropriations within the next fort night. A large portion of the bills for State grants to hospitals and other charities are in hand and they have been listed together with state ments by their boards and the re commendations of the State Board |of Public Charities, it is probable J that the first hearings of these rneas ures will be he.d at an early dale. ! Heads of several departments of ] the State government nave been in consultation wiiu Cnairman Vv. J. i AlcCaig, ot the House appropria tions committee, regarding incir es timates tor the two years for which appropriations will be made. The chairman called for budgets so that the general appropriation bill, which will go before the legislature next moiitn, may be fairly comp.ete. Almost 100 bills have appeared j in the House, a considerable number | of which are appropriation measures !or carry appropriations. They will i all be passed upon by the uproprla j lions cummlttec. j —Governor Sproul, who received I a notable reception front Pittsburgh Shriners last evening is in Philadel phia today and will spend the week , end in that city and vicinity. He is 1 to be the principal speaker at the I Terrapin club's unnuui dinner 011 I Saturday night and will return here I on Monday. j —lt is generally believed that i Governor Sproul will reach a de- I termination regarding the constitu | tlonal convention bills during the , next few days. The Governor is lis ; tening to all sides and the question lis whether to have the convention | and election on the subject in his j term. It is certain that the Gov ernor will ask for authority to name ! a commission on revision of the con stitution, but whether he will also ask enabling legislation is not known. —Among Hill visitors have been Congressman T. W. Templeton, of Wilkes-Barre. who is 011 his way to Washington to take part in the closing sessions of the present Con gress, and ex-Senator William Hertz lcr, of Port Royal, who was here on matters connected with highway im provements. —According to gossip heard about Capitol corridors it is unlikely that Governor Sproul will make any more changes in the personnel of the I Public Service Commission for some j time to come. It is not regarded as I likely that there will be any impor- I tant amendments made to the pub- I lie service act of 1913. —Bills to complete the plan of James F. Woodward, secretary of j internal affairs-elect, to concentrate j the statistical gathering activities of i the State government in the Depart ment of which he will become the-! head next May. are being completed and will be presented next week. ] This plan is designed to be an en tering wedge for a change in the j whole system of reports. It would 1 make one central bureau to which the half dozen branches of the gov ernment now gathering data would send reports and they would be is sued from it. The old industrial statistics bureau will be revived and a reference office established. It may also lead to some changes in inspection methods. —The keenest interest is being j taken in the legislation for reor- j ganization of various branches of the State government now being pre- i pared 011 the part of the attaches 1 who have interested many of the j legislators. Notwithstanding many ; inquiries facts about various much | discussed hills can not be obtained | and there is considerable uneasiness I among people on Capitol Hill and their political backers. —Philadelphia efforts to tag on to the bill to enable third class cit- i ies the authority to vote for trans fer of a loan, which was drawn to meet conditions here, are attracting attention at the Capitol, especially among third class city members. Some suggestions for a separate bill have been made because of different problems arising. —Governor Sproul is expected to name the two new judges for Alle gheny county soon. He is receiving numerous suggestions for appoint ment and his mail on the subject is pretty large. Silver Stripes Among Ihe Gold [Tune: "Silver Threads Among the Gold."] I am now a warrior bold. Wearing silver mongst the gold, I charged Wanamaker's hold. Met the charges as of old. But old timers come to me, to me, If you seek for repartee. Wearing silver, don't you see. With the Home Guards—Holy Gee! I've been left out in the cold, Silver stripes among the gold, Shine upon my sleeve today, I've never left the U. S. A. Just by gazing you shall see, vou'll see, Silver stripes for bravery. Decorate the Q M C, Field Clerks, Home Defense and me. Why should I begin to scold. Silver stripes out in the cold? Mine are growing, growing old. Soon they'll be just like the gold. Then my buddies, you shall see, shall see, Honor heaped on those that be. Members of the Q M C, Red Cross. Gas Defense and me. —F. J. Schneiderhan. Menace to Our Troops "In my judgment the most serious menace to our troops in France at this time is the lack of decent facili ties at the ports of embarkation. Unless the sanitary conditions at the ports of embarkation arc rapidly im proved many boys who escaped death in the trenches will meet it In these camps awaiting orders to relurn to America. It is my purpose, at once, to call the attention of the secretary of war to this matter and urge him to take immediate action."—Con gressman Edgar R. Kelss. just re turned from France. Bach to the Peace Basis A runiore.. reprimand of one high j army officer by another high army 'officer now makes as much stir as tnc smashing of a German division did six months ago. The army is getting btck to a peace basis where the quarrels between Colonels or Brigadiers take the place of battles. —From the Springfield Republican. WONDER WHAT AN ELEVEN MONTHS'OLD BABY THINKS ABOVT? .... an a - I (Tla* - ABOUT "WO hi pea what TRAT IVLL aui-ru j TWo A NA. HO.MI WA6 THAT A LIRTUE W' TMftißt* AMD SOUND \AJOK6 K\e OP f? IT , ' ... _ . LMI<aUA66 X N6V6B, 1 Oilsepy SOOMDED LIKt TKB J*". ■ I CLIC Of TH LATCH IS .** BOVT M T ThR fluTtin* LITTLE ATTENTION, vUAKINfr, OP. HS'3 Ooo? SLw rn. BBT THAT MAS ALVUAYS KtNPA CROSS k ' tS CtwiJ UP Tta MY DAD JUIT CAMS VUHeM CRY AT NI6HT. grf™- R.V R Bt a He ° bsnt * CRACKS . AVWFIJL - JUST A XAJEE \AJHIMP. MOVE oru IUL _UET_ouT -TCLLJ: " WHAT'S TMe MATTER " TEE H66-| HEARD "OH " YOO DEAR OLD / N VAJtTH MY FATnEA AND T>AD TELL MOTHER IT'S ORTTTI (= • T.IXT I ASLEEP I MOTHER AAJY..OYV? UUMY HER ToRpJ To BRIMC " LISTfiM TO DON'T TmBV DRl(vJ<i MV MY BoTTLe- - BUT -,1 HE •BoTTLe? / M ueAftLY AJOTtCe DAD IS OAJ GRUMBLIMG, HE STARVED - WCLL I'M H.S WAY. LMAR HIS NA/TV VOOK GOIU6 To CUT LOOSE G |TEA^T* B ' T SHOULD WORRY, UP u J" e HC*a we COMSJS t GOT 7*e.*OTTus NEIGHBORS H6e 2>IDM"T"|~? ~; ' •oCSv Sixteen Marriage Don'ts [From the Buffalo Courier.] "Life's Greatest Venture—Marri- ' age," was the topic of the Rev. Rob ert Mac Alpine at the Central Pres- j byterian Church. It was announced ! as a sermon to juung people and included advice embodied in a list; of "don'ts" as follows: Don't bank on good looks; it is as I unreliable as the weather. Don't marry for wealth, without I love; it would be as insipid as a salt less egg. Don't marry where common sense | is no greater than dollars and cents; I your happiness would soon be bank- ] rupt. Don't marry a person who thinks more of a good time than a good name; your good time would never j arrive. sDon't marry to reform; the fail- I ure of remaking would likely be your unmaking. Don't marry for a home; your: home in all probability would be 1 just a house. Don't marry a bad temper; your ] happiness would soon be untem- | pered. Don't marry a person whose I clothes are better than his habits; ] the habits would make such unhap piness as clothes could not cover. Don't marry for sentiment; like a perfumed flour, it is apt to fade be fore your honeymoon is over. Don't marry your opposite In re ligion; strangely true, your religion j is likely to outlive your love; like water and oil, they are hard to mix. Don't marry until you are in sound health; if you do your married hap piness will start off limping. Don't marry extravagance; you could never make ends meet, much less overlap. Don't marry in haste; it's a life leap; be sure you're ready before you jump. Don't marry reputation: without character, it is a worthless check. Don't marry until you have earn- j estly prayed about it; if marriages! are made in heaven, surely heaven ! should have something to say in the I choice. Don't forget that in the United I States one in every eight marriages i ends in divorce or separation, chiefly ! because these warnings are not ob- | served. PROPER PUNISHMENT Four hours front a highway rob bery to a sentence ot 10 years in the penitentiary shows that tlie police and courts can work with extreme celerity when all the conditions are favorable. The length of the sen tences may have some deterrent in fluence on persons tempted to be thugs, but the influence of the celer ity of the penalty will be very much greater. Every criminal In the city will know that one of his pestilential tribe was run down Immediately after his crime and that the law's delays were conspicuous by their ab sence. The robber was not at large for three months and then in Jail, or possibly on bail, a couple of years awaiting trial. All sorts of things may happen in such a long interval, and even if the criminal goes to the penitentiary finally tlie fact does not make much impression on the minds of persons tempted to crime. But the possibility of in the peni tentiary, with a sentence of 10 years; four hours after the commission of a crime, will make almost any crook a liitle scary about yielding to temp tation. —The Philadelphia Record. LABOR NOTES Over 2 4 per cent, of the employees of the English banks are women. Women are successfully employed as welders in a Torrence (Cal.) steel plant. I The London City Council Is offer ing 324 trade scholarships to girls who are between the ages of 13(4 arid 15V4 years in March 31 next. Hopes for a basic eight-hour day and S3O a month increase in wages are held out foi*-the expressmen now working for the government. United Shoo Workers of America are demanding that the manufact urers Association in New York and Brooklyn deal collectively with their employes. The average wages of women muni ition workers in Great Britain are $8.29. ranging from $6.20 in Scot land to $lO.lO in South West London establishments. Female employees of the Lewis town, Augusta and Waterville Rail way Company in Maine are paid the same rate of pay as men where they do the same wotk. Roosevelt an American J GABRIEL H. Moyer, former President of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America In Pennsylvania has written an appre ciation of the late Colonel Roose velt for "Camp News" the organ of tlie fraternity. Mr. Moyer, who is prominently identified with the Auditor General's "Department and is well known in fraternal circles pays high tribute to the qualities of leadership which made Roosevelt great and to his thorough American ism. Among other things Mr. Moyer says: "Nature makes its return for everything it receives. The earth receives the grain and returns the waving harvest; the flowers receive the dew and the rain and return the fragrance; the ocean receives the rivers and returns the clouds; the clouds in turn become the great water carriers of the world. Roose velt announced the great truth that Americans should make their re turn to the founders and preserves of our mightv 'Federal Republic* for all that they have received; for the whole fabric of what we call modern civilization Is the result of yesterday's toils, yesterday's hero isms and yesterday's sacrifices. Whatever differences of opinion may obtain among men with respect to Theodore Roosevelt, when I speak of his honesty, sincerity, bravery and patriotism, the characteristics which Our Stupendous Illiteracy [From the Boston Herald.l If one may, judge rightly from the statistics supplied by the war de partment as the result of its expe rience with the selective service law, the amount of illiteracy in the United States is far beyond all our previous reckonings. The census of 1910 indicated fewer than 10,000,000 illiterate adults, but the tests ap plied to men in the different canton ments seem to show that this figure is away below the mark. The war department's records prove that nearly one-fourth of all the drafted I men were unable to read and under stand newspapers or to write letters j home. Even more significant as a com mentary upon the existing situation are the results of the intelligence tests given to more than 1,500,000 of these men under the auspices of the surgeon-general's department. Two such tests were prepared, one of them consisting of simple ques tions set down on paper, the other an even more elementary examina tion based upon oral instructions. The first was used in the case of all men who could read ordinary Eng lish; the second was for those who could not. Nearly 400,000 men were found to be in this second category. The lowest percentage of illiterates was found at Camp Lewis on the Pacific coast, the highest percent ages were in some of the southern cantonments. At Camp Devens the proportion was about 22 per cent, or a little more than one man in five. In view of the enormous sums which we spend upon elementary education, in view also of our pro vision for night schools and contin uation classes, our social settlement work and our laws against putting children to work until they have had educational opportunities, these fig ures are amazing. It is not the alien born population, nor yet the colored element in the South, that has fur nished the backbone of this illiter acy. Even among drafted men of native American stock the propor tion was far higher than it ought to have been. Surely these statistics deserve the careful attention of all who are interested in the problem of popular education. They indicate that we are carrying in the crucible of our citizenship a huge mass that has not yet been melted. Patriotism in Prisons Most of the service flags used In Massachusetts were made by women In the stato reformatory. These pris oners also supplied more than two thousand socks to the American army. At the recent conference nr>- on prison labor, where these facts were stated, the plea was also made that judges shou'd cease to look upon all women delinquents as crim inals, but should acquaint them-, selves with the circumstances back of the delinquency. The Socialist As a general thing Socialists are the kind ot men who can be made to believe a turkey is all white meat. —From the Galveston News we emphasize in this imperfect ap preciation all stand on common ground. " 'He was, when all is said and sung, a man! The flower imperishable of this val iant age— A true AMERICAN!" "Among the very last words pen ned by the late Colonel Roosevelt are those in his now famous In troduction to "One Hundred Per Cent American' (Doran), a book ot patriotic speeches delivered before the Republican Club of New York, of which he was a member. In these lines one can almost see the seasoned face, the raised fist ac centuating the remark, the typical American of his generation speaking for all of us: " 'We care nothing where a man was born; we care nothing as to the land from which his parents came; we stand for absolute free dom of religious belief, but we in sist upon one flag, one language, one undivided loyalty to this nation and to the ideals of this nation. We are a new nation, differing from all other nations, friendly towards them all in so far as they will let us be friendly, desirous of helping them, but resolutely bent upon maintain ing our separate, self-respecting self-reliant national existence. We accept no substitute for American ism. We insist that all our people must be Americans and only Amer icans'." H err on Brand of Socialism A writer in the Boston Herald says: As Ihe nation realizes the in sult it is becoming amazed and dis gusted that the President should appoint a free lover and a Socialist to represent the American people in a high and most important official position. If it was necessary to appoint a | Socialist for the conference with the [ Bolsheviki the President should at least have given the "honor" to a man whose private life has been I moral and decent, like Mr. Debs for instance. In order that the Herald readers may know the kind of a man President Wilson picked to rep- I resent them I quote from the Social -1 ist papers the following attack made ! by Prof. George D. Herron in reply . to a Socialist who wanted the Social -1 ist party to appeal to the Christian church. Prof. Herron said: "Christianity today stands for what is lowest and basest in life. The church of today sounds the low est note in human life. It is the most degrading of all our Institu tions and the most brutalizing in its effect on the common life. The church is simply organized Chris tianity. For Socialism to use it, or make terms with it, or to let It make approaches to the Socialist move ment, is for Socialism to take a Judas to its bosom." And this is the kind of a man whom Woodrow Wilson inflicts upon I the American people as our repre- I sentatlve. Woodrow Wilson, the autocrat of the White House, in ! suits the entire American people excepting the Socialists, the I. W. W. gangs and the red flaggers in general. Like It? F. G. R. GORDON. Haverhill, Feb. 16. TIRPITZ THE PAUPER Pity for Tirpitz the pauper Is a dif ficult emotion for any of us to work up. We are told that he is "poor and friendless in Switzerland." But if he were anywhere but in Switzerland he might be in worse case than merely "poor and friendless." There are folks In other countries, even including Germany, who would wish to visit upon him even a severer measure of retributive justice than has so far been his lot. He is in many ways the arch-demon of the late war,, the Instigator of the sub marine atrocities which outraged the humane feeling of all non-Germans, and the man whose fatuous folly contributed as much as any other one agent to bring to his own country the pulverizing defeat under which It now groans and regrets.—The Phila delphia Record. Teji Years in County Prison Judge McCormick, who by his severe sentences lias earned the nickname of "Treat-'Em-Rough McCormick" In the underworld, wasted no time In disposing of the case. "Where are you from?" he asked the prisoner. "Connecticut," was the reply. "Very well. Ten years in the county prison." Reset Farmers' Clocks [From the New York Times] For the farmer's objection to "daylight saving" there was in real ity only the excuse, or rather the explanation, that it did not add to his profits and his joys in quite the same measure that it did to those of other people. As for the reasons assigned they were all bused on the obvious fallacy that he had to ad vance by an hour the daily work ing schedule of himself and his men. He was and is, of course, under no imaginable compulsion or obligation I to do that. He can continue to work exactly as he always has done. In stead of beginning his day at five, six or seven o'clock, that is, he can begin it at six, seven or eight, ac cording to his preference or his needs, and instead of using the hour between twelve and one o'clock for rest and dinner, he can use for those purposes that between one and two. Then he would be on exactly his old time table, while all his weeds would disappear, while by having his clock set in the new or newer way he still would bo in as close touch as ever with the rest of the world. This easy expedient apparently has not occurred to the farmers, and instead of adopting it they are bom barding Congress with demands which, if granted, will, both displease and injure all of the millions and millions of people for whom the daylight-saving law appreciably has increased the not too numerous joys of life. And Congress, if it is not admonished, immediately and stern ly, by the other millions that they, too, have preferences and votes, is likely to heed the farmer's plea! Common Ground of Assassin (From New York World) The attack on Premier Clemen ceau by an anarchist is considered in the Paris papers as a blow to radicalism in favor of the demo cratic conservatism of Prance. By the same token, the assassination of Premier Kurt Eisner of Bavaria by a titled monarchist and the shoot ings in the Diet must be considered a blow to reaction in favor of radi cal republicanism in Germany. The extremes in current European poli tics here meet on common ground, and that is assassination. The news from Munich appears to have peculiar significance in re lation to the great transition front the old to the new In German so ciety, politics and government. It proves that to the monarchists and reactionaries oY Germany at least the general movement toward demo cracy is genuine, and they know if anybody does. It is not a masque rade of Pan-Germans for use merely in "getting by" at the peace table with easy terms. It Is not a device of Junkers to tide over the crisis of a crushing defeat at arms and then restore a militaristic state for renewed attempts to subdue the world. It is not just another ex ample of German cunning used to serve the ends of Kaiserism. It would be too much to expect that so profound a revolution as appears to be taking place in Ger many could escape many deeds of violence, however shocking and de plorable they may be. But it is im possible to suppose that a revolution accompanied by such deeds is a revo lution only in appearance. Governor Sprout's Warning [From the Philadelphia Bulletin.] At the annual dinner of the Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, in this city, last night, there were numerous patriotic sentiments earn estly'- and admirably expressed in their bearing on the preservation of American liberty, law and order according to the principles of Amer ican stability. But there was none of them that went home so straight to the hearts of this splendidly vigorous company of Pennsylvanians as the ringing sentences in which the Governor of Pennsylvania himself proclaimed the purpose of the State to stand firm and sure in putting down all enemies that may threaten our form of government or the peace of tho Commonwealth. When Governor Sproul declared that "if there were people who at tempt any rough house, they are going to get Rll of it they want," he uttered the loyal law-abiding and resolute spirit, never stronger than It is today, of a vast majority of the men and- women of this State. It is a good and reassuring thing that the Chief Executive of Pennsyl vania is a man who Is not only level headed, but who Is fully and un hesitatingly prepared to strike with fearless vigor at every act, menace, or crime that may be aimed at our Institutions by Ignoranco or by fa nattctam- ©mtittg (ttljat IJ===:== == ■ i Newspapers in the upper end Dauphin county are making cont! butions to the local history of t t'UnM a wny that should attract t t?. n . ot newspapermen all ov the s t®te and which is also a sour or pride to Harrisburgers. Wh they are printing now is not or U?m 1" U 1 K now - but ,n yea" to cor ™.f ( , important because there i ln Pennsylvania whe nfin ♦ work for the furnishing wl Uncle Sam was done thi in the section of Dauphin coun known as local district No. 3. S i ei m n undrec is of well instructed ai drilled men to the camps of tl , Army as well as supplyii 1!™ ? for tlle regular arrr ?hZ 4 a 5 . (1. niarine corps, uplioldii the traditions of more than a ce = the United Stat authorities called for the history I i T 10 oarers of No. 3 di trict had things prepared and Chai Tlf.'L J Daniel lost no time setting down the facts. In const tation with James E. Lentz, chai man of the district's cnterprisii board of instruction, he assent bl> a chronicle that tells a fine stoi it gives all the incidents relative the drafting of the men, the instru tion meetings, the drills and the d partures, with names of everyoi connected with the operation of tl law in the district and who spoke worked in the instruction meetinf I he story of the big meeting whii started the military instruction Nlizabethville and several other u per end towns last August and the demonstrations when the draft, men left is well told and will bo value long after the men who we drafted are grandfathers. Where Harrisburg comes in is the military instruction work whli was handled by the Harrisburg R serves in that district on an evi greater scale than in the Paxtai district and at the high schools Harrisburg. The upper end new papers all pay tribute to their wo and Quotations from the story """in* in the Millersburg Sentir will be of interest to people in tl city and vicinity. Editor Hay 1 Bowman, who took Quite a part the general work for the draft men in the upper end, writes ti way about the August meeting ai the five or six weeks of drills whii followed at Elizkbethville. Millet Lykens, Uratz, Halifax ai Williamstown: "This initial dri although entirely new to the m jority of the men, was greatly e joyed by them as well as apprec ated by all the registrants, and whi it continued for but several hours was nevertheless of great value ai proved beneficial to all the men r ceiving this instruction. These dri held on each Saturday aQternoo and for several weeks, were und the direction of the Harrisburg R serves, who sent delegations to t various towns, until some one each town was capable of doing t work. The men who were afte Wards induced into the milita service, and nearly all of them wei spoke in glowing terms of apprei ation of the rudiments of milita drill, received in their prclimina drills. They were of great aid them upon entering camp, and e abled them to enter into the li of the army from the usual hanc caps so common to new men w] knew nothing of the life prior their induction, and the trainii they received almost invariably 1 to noncommission appointmen The chairmen of the local boa and the chairman of the instructii bord also stated that special me tion should be made, regarding t excellent work done by the Harri burg Reserves. Without the sple did assistance of the Reserves, at the of this body, t' results ajjftined would not ha been as successful as they othcrwi were. The trips to and from Ha risburg were made without expen to anyone; the Reserves cheerful gave their services, and time grat doing this as a patriotic duty. Tl was greatly appreciated by the loc board as well as by the oil zens in general, and usually a lig lunch was provided for the men one of the towns in which th drilled the registrants. All told, t movement for the instruction of t registrants was a. great success, at did much for the ntcn who we privileged to enter into it." • * * Major W. G. Murdock, the Statt chief draft officer, is having quite few letters sent to hint fro homes of men who were in the dra and when one considers how ha hundreds of folks tried to ke< their young men out of the dra the letters are interesting. Most the letters are insistent that tl authorities see that the services the men drafted are commemorate A few give life histories of the mi in the draft and one woman has se notice where her son can bo foun 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. James E. Burnett, form State treasurer, has been taking prominent part in military prepare ness in Allegheny county. —Robert McAfee, former seer tary of the Commonwealth, and Ci James Elverson, the Philadelph publisher, are celebrating birthda today. —George McPeak. former memb of the Legislature from Washingti county, is a candidate for coron in his county. —Dr. Robert Ellis Thompso head of Central high school in Ph adelphia, has just celebrated twent five years in that position. —E. T. Stotesbury, the financh is spending a couple of weeks Florida. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg steel is us to make razors? HISTORIC HARRISBURG llaprisburg used to have a pa sengcr station along the canal ne the old Penn lock. The Rose and the Grave The Grave said to tho rose "What of tho dews of dawn. Love's flower, what end is theirs "And what of spirits flown, The souls whereon doth close Tho tomb's mouth unawares?" The Rose said to the Grave. The Rose said: "In the shade From dawn's tears Is made A perfume faint ahd strange, Amber and honey sweet." "And all the spirits fleet Do suffer a sky-change , More strangely than the dew. To God's own angels new." The Grave said to the Rose. —VICTOR MARIE HUGO. Beating Orpheus or a stone move with his music, b there are piano players today w Orpheus of old could make a ti have made whole families mov®. Boston Transcrlot.
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