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MONDAY. MAIUH 24. 101
Whether a life is noble or ignoble
i
<l< vend*, not On the catling which is
adopted, but on the spirit in which [
it is followed. —Slß JOHN LVBBOCK. 1
'
A TWO-FOLD BLESSING
JUDGE GARY'S remarks on steel I
price revision are most inter-j
esting. Outlining the reduc
tions agreed upon by leading iron-i
makers of the country at a confer-1
en-e last week in Washlngon, thej
spokesman for the United States]
steel Corporation said that thef
prices fixed, while enough lower!
than those previously quoted to give j
the consumer a marked advantage, I
would still permit a fair return on I
investments and allow wages to re
main at their present high level. j
if that can be accomplished,!
much will have been done to re
store the country to normal condi
tions. Indeed, if steel prices can
!■■> brought down without wage cut
t lit. we shall see an era of pros
perity the like of which we have
n-ver known.
High wages mean trade in large
vulume along all lines as a result of
increased purchasing capacity and
lower prices in the iron markets
would result in a resumption of
building on a vast scale. There are
those who have doubted the possi
bility of the two-fold blessing of
top-notch wages and materially low
ered prices, but Judge Gary is an
authority whose word will go a long
vv ay toward general belief that the
steelmakers will find a way t p work
the miracle.
BAKER MUST ANSWER
SECRETARY BAKER dismisses
Major Foster's charges that the
head of the War Department
"intentionally or unintentionally
aided those who conspired against
• onscription during the war" with a
wave of his hand and a brusque "I
have no interest in them."
But the public has, and it is en
-titled to know whether they are true
or false.
Here we have a subordinate in
the Army publicly alleging that his
chief conspired or was the tool of
tiiose who took sides with Germany
and against the United States. The
Secretary owes it to himself and the
people he represents to require
Major Foster to prove his charges
or suffer the penalty. He cannot
wave them aside as of no conse
quence. The more he tries to ig
nore them the more truth many will
see in them.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
ANOTHER important public
utility corporation has gone
into the hands of a receiver,
the United States court having ap
pointed Job E. Hedges, once a can
didate for Governor cf New York,
receiver of the New York Railways
" company.
This action follows a series of dif
ficulties which have beset the trans
portation utilities of New Y'ork City.
President Shonts, commenting on
the appointement of the receiver of
his company, says they had been try
ing for months to educate the public
and the public authorities as to the
necessity for increased revenue be
cause of increased costs of main
tenance and operation which had
to be faced as a result of the war.
ile declared that the company had
lived through several months of
strain in the hope of relief, but when
the creditors began to press for
payment of obligations there was
only one thing to do and the re
ceivership was' agreed upon by the
directors.
The head of the company declared
that if authority to charge an eight
cent fare had been granted it would
have been possible to weather the
storm, but that the company had
• been receiving a fraction over three
cents as revenue for each passenger
carried, because of transfers. This
development in New York City and
.**
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MONDAY EVENING,
jtlie general trend toward reorgan
j izatioti among important public
service corporations has provoked
ja good deal of public comment as
(to the unfortunate attitude toward
! public utilities on the part of those
, who do not understand the con
ditions surrounding the transporta
tion systems.
One authority, discussing the situa-
I tion, declared that there is a good
| deal cf unintentional Bolshevism in
| this country and an indifference to
'the results which affect large
groups of individuals who happen
: to be investors in securities of public
I utility concerns. For years the
j government at Washington refused
| to permit the railroad people to in
i crease freight rates and the result
| was the general demoralization of
| transportation agencies.
; It is manifestly important for the
■ welfare of the country that the an
tagonisms which have been eneour
'aged through a mistaken individual
i attitude which affects adversely
, public utilities shall give way to a
; saner understanding of the mutual
interests which exist between the
public and these necessary business
| organizations. We must avoid the
bolshevistic tendency and give no
ground for the development of the
spirit which now animates Russia.
In the last analysis a mistaken at
titude of this sort reacts upon the
public. As some one has said, there
are too many people -who are wil
ling to be dishonest toward the be
longings of other people.
A REAL NEWS ITEM
T 1 HE Telegraph's Gettysburg cor
respondent is a good reporter,
i He digs up a lot of news and
j detail is one of his strong points, j
'on Saturday, for example, his week
-1 l.v letter contained the following |
j item:
. l>av id Thomas. Wert Malone |
i and Oletus Gulp. of Arendtsvllle, |
i on a day's fishing trip to the j
fonewago creek. caught with j
hook and line eighteen suckers I
j that measured from twelve to six
• teen and one-half inches in I
i length.
j Now it must be admitted that j
| there was both interest and detail j
j in this news, down to the last half- j
j inch on the tail of the largest fish, j
I Indeed, it was far too interesting, ;
| which is not generally the complaint
| that editors make concerning the i
| daily grist that comes to their ,
j mill. It upset the discipline of ;
| the entire office anil heaven j
f only knows what damage re- i
J suited in other centers of industry j
j When the State editor ran across
lit in copy he rushed over to the !
i news editor and after a hurried con- ;
I saltation they applied for a "day;
off." Soon the news spread to the f
I composing room and circulation de- 1
partment and for a time it looked
as though there would be no Tele- j
graph to-day. A violent outbreak ■
of tishing fever resulted.
The word that "suckers are run- |
ning" is music to the ear of those j
who love the open. It means long j
afternoons and pleasant evenings far i
from the grind and care of office !
and mill. It is as soothing to the j
winter-weary mind, that phrase, i
"suckers are running," as the croon- j
ing of a mother to a tired child. It
turns the face toward the window,
toward the sunshine, the green
meadows, the bursting buds, the
singing birds, the gentle, whispering j
winds of spring and the gurgle and j
swish of the bank-full creek, as it ]
surges along toward the river. It i
speaks of peace and quiet and rest, j
It lures the tisherman with thoughts!
like these and pictures for him a !
pan ot" tine, fresh, black suckers j
browning odoriferously over a bed j
of drift-wood coals and recalls the
lip-smacking process with which j
they are sent to abate the cravings j
of the man-size appetite that only j
the sportsman acquires.
Oh. yes, our Gettysburg corres
pondent knows a news item when he
sees it, no doubt about it. But if
he sends many more like that we
very much fear the foreman will
have to use "tiller" in this particu
lar corner of the Telegraph the next
day or two.
PUBLIC APPROVES
THE Grand Jury, fairly represen
tative of popular thought in
both city and county, makes two
recommendations of primary import
ance.
First—that the city and county
join in the erection of a city hall
and courthouse.
Second —that the county jail be re
moved from its present site to a;
farm in Jlie country.
This reflection of the thought of
the County Commissioners by the
Grand Jury indicates that both city
and county officials have the support
of the public in their efforts to
properly house tlie local seats of
government and to remove the pris
on from its present ccstly and un
suitable site to a place in the coun
try where prisoners might earn their
keep amid surroundings and in a way
that would make better and more
healthful men and women of them.
■ This ought to be most encouraging
to them and stimulate them to
prompt consideration of the details!
' necessary to getting the projects'
under way.
No objection whatsoever having
. been raised to the joint courthouse
and municipal hall development. It
! is to be assumed that the need lias
' been so impressed upon taxpayers
i in general that nothing remains to
■ be decided but the matter of site,
i design and method of financing the
improvement, and mjy difficulty that
: might have arisen as to money has
been obviated by the wisdom of the
[ County Commissioners in reassessing
: the coal lands of the county, which
I will add sufficiently to the revenues
i to care for all manner of public im-
I provements without adding to the
; burdens of property owners in gen
■ eral.
i But it is just possible that the jail
I problem is not so widely understood.
jit is true that the present building
!is well built nnd big enough for
| present needs. But the ground upon
) which it stands, if sold would pur
chase a 500-acre farm nnd leave a
nice surplus toward rebuilding. At
present the prisoners are closely
confined in cells and are fed at the
expense of the county. Every year
j the jail breeds loafers who become
| a burden on the community, not to
'speak of the tubercular and other
j infection bound to spread under
j conditions of close confinement even
I under the most favorable circum
! stances. With the jail located on a
i farm these prisoners could be made
Jto earn their keep and more. And
i they would become better
too, getting back to normal health
land learning the ways of industry
land thrift. We provided such places
I for our pro-German prisoners dur
j ing the war. Certainly, we ought to
I be willing to do as much for petty
' offenders among our own people.
The Grand Jury, coming into close
touch with jail conditions, under
i stands, and its recommendations
j will _be helpful in molding senti
i nient where some doubt otherwise
j might have arisen.
'f'ditlca- Ik Ij
* ptKK&ifIi?CLKUL
I 'I
By the Ex-Commlttccman
Members of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature who have been showing in
: dications of desire to get the session
iof 191 !• over are going to have their
wish gratvhd and to hive all tin;
chance they want to work. If it tan
be done •! c session .. ill be wound
up in six weeks. It is not likely to
last more than seven from next
Thursday.
In the next few days the program
for which everyone lias been look- !
ing will :i ipear and the -itat April 1
wti'. Sco things speeded .)> al .> rate j
whit li will give the .•sen-*- .il '
the business they want to do. For I
about three weeks there are going
to be hearings and then the ap-1
proprlation bills w ill start to come'
out and the rest of the legislation'
will take its chances. For several !
weeks there lias been complaint from
members who remain here over!
week-ends that progress was not !
being made and that as it is the'
sentiment of the public that as few;
laws as possible should be enacted
things should be rushed. Author!-!
tutlve announcement about what is,
going lo happen came Saturday night !
in Philadelphia, although many oft
the people who read it may not ha\ e
realized what it meant. " J
M illfam T. Ramsey, member from |
the city of t'hester, chairman of the
House committee on rules and in- '
Huentlal members decided that every i
effort would be made to close up !
U' e • •-'"ore it;, MM lie -J.\
-yaj. litis means a resolution to fix ■
the date of adjournment and an
other shutting off new legislation will
appear very soon.
The legislative situation is in
shape whereby adjourn eau b,.
had in six weeks, although some tra
ditions may be shattered, trips cur
tailed and other things done away
with.
, ~ The ln 'lk of the administration
bills are in hand, the rest are to
come within a few days and all will
be passed.
—The appropriation bills are now
being gone over and the details of
the finances will be settled by April
rhe highway program is out of
the road; the agricultural program
is under way and there is not going
to be so awful much to the forestrv
program. Outdoor activities will b" e
mn,| or (' nate ? ? ml a PPropriations
made for extension of forests, water
resource survey and other things.
To ichers will get some increase
in salary. The State government will
go under a salary board.
■in7n?'!°''lr arli W '" be im P'OVed
and new buildings put up as outlined
b> the Governor.
° r tlle Auditor General
to get the revenue needed is to be
extended. If it is not some am!
h-io US v proje, ' ts in 'hich legislators
been displaying interest and
some charily appropriations will not
go as far as desired.
. ©I fa re. State Police, anti sedi
tion and similar measures born of the
hour of readjustment are to be ad
vanced rapidly.
Flection laws are not going to
be changed. This is not an oppor!
tune tune to do it. hold n°n e x
perienced in politics. Pltihideinhia
and Pittsburgh will get some changes
in government and the third Tints
cti> legislation will be confined to
what is now on calendars.
"•■buueation Is to be given a
with a view to advancing the posV
lot ,h " Keystone State to a point
commensurate with its wealth and
enterprises. "nu
rvi7T The f onstit ution will be Studied
with a view to revision or .'intend
ment us the case may be.
—llr. Ramsey made his announce
a visit senator Pen
rose at which leg.'elativematters
discussed and the fact that the plan
o close the legislative session about
the time the special concession
iris.&.r 1 v:: g a^ o > in
weeks.
—The Philadelphia .
which generally speaks by tlie
in such matters quotes jjr. Rmmev
this way: "There is a demand from
many of the members of the 7 caiVlV
ure that the work be , peeled up
that we may get away from Harris
burg for good as soon as POS it i
We should not be obliged to stav
there later than May 13, and I th'nk
WOrk 'h"r.
t licit. \\ c want to naas riii <
which the Republican Party and the
.-.ate uaminMrut.on are commute 1
and lose no time it. acting upon any
other measure that should command
oni i cm.deration." '""ana
—Various Philadelphia newspapers
predict that bills to regulate uico!
ho He content of-liquors will appear
this week and look for lively times
over it. *
LABOR XOTES
Irish theatrical artists have decid
ed to form an Irish Theatrical Ar
tists' Union and affiliate with the
Variety Artists' Federation.
Railroads are paying women less
than men despite the McAdoo order
is the claim of the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks.
The jewelry factories in Attleboro
Mass.. are to be converted into in
stitutions where returned soldiers
may obtain employment.
Flax pulling is now in full swing
in the Ballymena district, and one
woman earned as much as 3a sliill
lings in one day.
BAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT ~ ~ By BRICGS |'
Favorable Factors
[From The Hache Review 1
The favorable factors are. first of
all. that the last three or four years
have been ones of unprecedented
prosperity for America, and peoj'"
and corporations have reaped ah
enormous harvest of profits und high
wages, widely distributing new
wealth in large and small holdings,
to an extent never before exanipled
in any nation.
Thus fortified, the country is pre
pared to wait almost with indiffer
ence. certainly with fortitude, for
readjustment, no matter how long it
takes. That is one reason for op
timism. It is the reason for the re
markably small number of failures
and for the sound banking situation,
for facing heavy taxes' and large
Government loans imperturbably.
Our resources, practically unlimit
ed botli in raw materials und in
manufacturing facilities, must be de
pended upon, for a long time, to
build tip the peoples of Kurope and
repair the great wastes: for a long
time we will be the storehouse from
which a vast need in food, cloth
ing, manufactures, and raw materials
must draw.
Taxes and loans we can stand un
moved, bulkw'arked by already ac
cumulated holdings. With our help,
which must be given in loans and
credit, we will aid in rapid re
storation of Kurope for their good
and for our own.
If, with an alliance of internat
ional forces, and war made an in
ternational crime, the whole world
becomes a brotherhood, the bless- ;
ings of a definitely settled, long last
ing peace, will give opportunity for
indefinitely continued prosperity.
The opinion of experts headed by
Professor Irving Kisher, of Yale,
was that no decrease in labor wages
may be expected for some time to
come. Professor Fisher states: "We
are on a permanently higher price
level, and the sooner the business
men of the country take this view
and adapt themselves'to it, the soon
er will they save themselves and the
Nation from the misfortune which
will come if we persist in our pres
ent false hope.
"Business men should find the
facts. To talk reverently about
1913-14 prices is to speak a dead
language to-day. The buyers ,of the
country, since ■the armistice, have
made an unexampled attack upon
prices through their waiting atti
tude, and vet price recessions have
been insignificant. The reason is
that we are on a new' high nrice
level, which will be found a stub
born reality. Business men are
going to find out that the clever man
is not the man who waits, but the
one who finds out the new price
facts and acts accordingly."
The Soldier's Chance
He stopped one day at the office —
A fellow haggard and tall.
And asked if a place were vacant
For clerical work—that's all.
Of course I was awfully sorry,
That at present things were slow
But he only smiled and thanked me,
And then as he turned to go
I noticed an arm was missing,
And said. with a different;
glance—
"How did it happen?"—he answed
ec\ —
"Out in the Fields of France."
My hand went up to his shoulder,
Yet he didn't show surprise.
At my sudden change of feeling,
Or the tears that filled my eyes, j
You bet T could find him something.
And give him a Soldier's Chance —
For a boy of mine was lying
Out in the Fields of France.
—Nan Terrell Reed in I.eslie's.
Tiventy-Sevenlh Division
National Guard
of New York; Ar
rived in Franco
May 10* 1918. Ac- /
livities: Fast Pope- | ■ 1
ringhe line. Bel-
giuin (four battal
lions at a time)
July 9 to Septeni
her 3; Dickebush
sector. Belgium, August 34 to Sep
tember 3 (operation of Yierstrast
Ridge, August 31 to September 2);
Ilinderburg line, France, September
34 to October 1 (operation at Canal
tunnel, Bellicourt and east, Septem
ber 27 to 30) St. Souplet sector,
October 12 to 20 (Selle river, Oc
tober 17): Jonc de Mer Bridge. Oc
tober 18; St. Maurice River, Octo
ber 19 to 21.
Prisoners captured: 65 officers,
2.2 92 men. Total advance on front
line, 11 kilometers.
Insignia: Black circle with red
border, with menogram N. Y. D.,
super-imposed—New York Division
—and seven red stars. The stars
represent the constellation Orion
and were chosen in honor,of Major
General O'Ryan. who has command
ed the division during the last seven
years.
, - !
The Changing West
THK cowboy is going the way of
the stage coach, the marauding I
Red Indian, the buffa'o, and j
other pioneer institutions of the 1
American "Wild West." Ob the old !
type cowboys who were in their !
prime between 1883 and 1900, who:
' wanted no way of moving from
J place to place except in the saddle. |
who scorned any work but that of
: the round up. who looked with dis- :
dain upon the farmer, the nester, i
the sheepman, whose name brings
up memories of long days on the ;
trail, of longer nights on the "bed
grounds," of wild stampedes of fear ■
crazed cattle, of blinding snowstorms :
before which many a herd has walk-'
I ed over the edge of a cliff almost j
carrying its herders with it—of i
these picturesque figures of the i
; country's youth, but few remain. :
There are large herds of cattle
; in the Southwest, especially in Ari- j
j zona and New Mexico, where their j
i numbers often run into five figures. \
• and here the cowboy is still seen. :
!as picturesque as ever. He stiil j
i wears the flapping leather "chaps:"
! the characteristic high heeled boots j
j are fairly plentiful; and the big j
I white, broad brimmed sombreros ■
j have not all been replaced by the |
j smaller modern headgear. But the |
, former display of fancy bridles, j
| headstalls, and reins, the long raw- j
] hide "riatas" or lasso ropes, stamp- i
! ed and silver mounted saddles, spurs '
HANDS OFF I
(From the Phila. Public ledger) I
i Officials of the Building Associa- i
j tion league of Pennsylvania have:
' made earnest protest against two\
| identical bills now pending in the'
Legislature and framed ostensibly!
to "reorganize" the State Banking!
Department. These measures, how- I
i ever, go a great deal further than
; their title would indicate; and aside!
from the other objections to which '
they may be justly open, they sub- j
] ject the building associations to a j
! taxation and to an onerous system ■
of "examination" against which they !
properly protest. These beneiicient i
institutions, which render a service j
j of incalculable value in aiding per- :
sons of moderate means to own
: their homes, and which have dur- j
j ing the war been conspicuously use- t
1 ful. in that they enabled the com- :
munity to meet the abnormal situ- j
ation created by the cessation of j
building operations and the un- ;
wonted demand for dwellings for!
war workers, have been long the:
especial subject of fostering care by I
the state and national governments. '
They have been exempted from tax- !
i ation, and while they have properly
been subjected to official supervision
| as a safeguard against mismanage- ]
; ment and abuses, they have enjoy- ;
| ed a measure of'self-determination j
! in the conduct of their affairs which |
| has contributed greatly to their
: prosperity. Considering the great
j number of the associations, the tnul
i titude of their members and the
] enormous aggregate of their receipts,
1 etc., these associations compare fa
; vorably in their successful results
with any like undertaking in the
| country. And the Pennsylvania
system has been the model on which I
j every sound and successful building-j
| association scheme has been built'
and carried to success. It would j
!be a fatal mistake, therefore, to
I hamper it by unwise and ill-digested !
legislation such as that embodied in !
the bills in question. They are both j
unwise and unnecessary and ought 1
to be negatived.
-1 Garden
j Go and plant a lilac tree
With water and with sun,
, Gardens are a surety.
Gardening's never done.
i
i Shut the gateway and let pass
The windy throng of war.
See the sky in the water glass
Ripple as before—
A rosebud bending at a cloud,
A mountain and a tree,
; A shadow telling what a shroud
Rain can be.
| Would you bring unduly folk
I To a ruly land?
! Would you plant the poison oak
| For the sake of a poisoned hand?
j Shut them out and have no ruth.
Bid them all good-by,
| All who have not learned the truth
! That beauty dares to die.
; And If ruin seems to come.awhile.
In your grave renew
j The gradual beauty, mile by mile.
Which is always you.
| —Witter Bynner in Contemporary
i Verse.'
ami spur leathers ornamented with!
I solid silver "conchas" for which i
! every cowboy in I lie early 'Bns de-|
lighted to spend his wages—all these '
cowboys of 1918 ride a "backer" I
I quite as well as did their predecos- i
i sors of 1885, but they lack their
j recklessness their rough and ready, j
wild and wool.v dash in handling an j
untamed broncho. Again, the owner '
1 of one of these modern herds, in- j
i stead of using a buckbourd pulled by |
i a pair of retired cow ponies, runs I
: out to the roundup or horse camp j
m his high powered motor car. from ■
j which he watches the boys "c ut out" j
or separate the desired steers from l
■ the herd. It should be said, how- j
lever, that tales of motor cars und j
oven airplanes being used for rid- j
i ing the range and rounding up cattle |
i are fiction pure and simple,
i Klsewhere throughout the West, if |
: you find one of the old timers, the i
j chances are that he has exchanged i
| the bui king broncho for an equally
j unstable low priced motor car and !
, perhaps spends hie days driving it j
: across the old familiar plains, hut j
I now between endless miles of barbed I
wire fencing, behind which the c-at
j tie graze contentedly. If he has had
1 the wisdom and good fortune to save
; a little of his former wages, he is |
i probably running a garage of his j
j own, over the door of which tiie old j
: sign "I.ivery Stable. Hay and Grain ,
j for Sale," painted out and made to ,
i read "Garage, Gasoline, Oil and Re- i
' pairs." tells its own story.
Voices Across the Sea
(From the Philadelphia Press) J
Though the experiments of the;
i Xavy Department have made the I
; public more more or less familiar t
'with the marvels to be expected off
! wireless telephony the actual per- !
! formance of the feat of talking?
; from coast to coast across the At- j
I lantic has had the effect of dra
i matie surprise. Even in this age |
| of mechanical marvels there is the i
j spice of miracle in the traversing j
i of the broad Atlantic by the human j
' voice.
An engineer at Clifden, Ireland, i
j spoke with another engineer at ;
| Glace Bay, Xova Scotia, "150 miles j
j away at seven o'clock in the morn-,
'ing of Thursday, March 19. Com-!
j munication, according to the an-!
j nouncement of the Marconi Com-1
j pany, was instantaneous and abso- ;
j lately clear. Throughout the day j
' the trans-oceanic conversation con-j
! tinned.
| Rooking forward *o the time'
; when wireless telephony will oe un !
j ordinary commercial service and j
, voices across the sea an otter com- ■
| monplaee of daily life it will be'
| seen that another great conquest of!
I lime and space lias been made and ;
) another great bond forged between 1
j the civilized peoples of the world. !
■ When the broad Atlantic can be!
j spanned by telephone with'n a few!
j minutes and crossed by airplane!
within a comparatively few hours, ;
our "splendid isolation" w.ll indeed !
be a figure of speech. Xone who!
has in mind the mechanical genius'
of our times can doubt that tie day'
is near at hand.
' " i
President Is Not Convincing j
i The President's reason for deelin- '
. ing to call a special session of Con-j
I gress, his own absence from the '
1 country, is not especially convincing. ,
|We refrain from consideration of
; the beuring the position here as- ;
;sum%d by Mr. Wilson may have on ;
■ the question of the general justifia- !
bility of his trip abroad. We only
I suggest thai the President's assump- !
tion that lie must be in Washington ;
to guide and control the National j
, legislature when it Is in session, is I
■equivalent to an assumption that the ;
; legislative branch of the Government j
J is a branch subordinate to the exec
; utive branch and is directly under j
| the orders of the President. Xow, I
[though subordination of Congress to j
the Witite House may have become'
i somewhat the practice of late, noth- j
: ing of tlie sort is contemplated in !
: the Federal constitution. There is !
j nothing In the fundamental law that |
, prevents it from functioning fully :
i while the President is across seas. !
j Mr. Wilson's reason for refusing!
jto allow the new Congress to con-!
1 vene is unconvincing. How ttneon-
I vincing each person may decide by
asking himself whether if the Demo- j
crats were in control the President ■
would decline to call the Sixty-sixth ;
Congress into session to insure the j
welfare of the nation,
welfare of the Nation —Detroit Free
Press.
The Internationalized Orb j
Old Sol —According to the i.eaguej
of Xations, shall X rise in,lhe east,
or the we* ° j
MARCH 24, 1919.
Germany Thinks 11 Over
[From the New York Tribune.]
Those Germans who are not just
now preoccupied with setting up
I separate republics in their home
i villages are transforming idyllic beer
] gardens into riotous soviet hewd
; quarters find it a fascinating pastime
I to figure out why Germany has lost
i the war.
Thus fount Monts de Mazin.
sometime German ambassador in
j Home, publishes an article in the
I Berliner Tageblatt, tabulating, with
j praiseworthy candor, the series of
: errors which in his opinion caused
| the collapse of the German imperial
: machine. The greatest mistake, uc.
! cording lo the count, was 110 other
j than the invasion of Belgium.
But it was not the only one. The
| German diplomatist enumerates
j them all as follows:
"Error about Russia: The Ger
i man general staff thought it had
: several months at its disposal be-
I lore the bulk of the Russian forces
j could reach the Prussian border, it
j did not know that the armies of
I Siberia, the Caucasus and Turkes
j tan were already on heir way west
ward. This unexpected rapidity of
j the Russian mobilization shattered !
the German plan of campaign, which ;
I consisted in finishing France with :
one blow and then throw the whole I
combined strength of the Central I
Powers against Russia.
"Error about Italy- Until the'
1 last moment the German general
, stafr counted upon the active sup
; port of Italy. The assumption was
j that Italy would "tie down" three
; hundred thousand Frenchmen on
! !nm ( „, l|>lnc , frontier, A German
, military mission actually arrived at
I Florence, hut was told there to "beat
. it hom P ." At Freiburg every ur-
I jangement was made for the recep
tion of an Italian cavalry division,
lua.il U n PP Armyr angUartl ° C thc , ' Wt "
' lin"*tbo° r a UbOU J , Kn tend : In Ber
lin the admonitions of the British
I government were called 'English
; bluff. Nobody believed that the
i invasion of Belgium would serve
1 over The". >el " f< "' Kn * lun d. More
rated hV Ue , rma ad 'iralty under.
! Vuvv and " tron "! h of the British
: •■£,.' overestimated its own.
Error about France: According
' ,°dv .°e U,U Monte ' J| oltke's original
!in the c U ase U °r ted by isiffma ' ck, was.
! o attack 1 m a War on tUo fronts
!e^m7™;; n w ™ nti 7„T, mi
■ tempting inV ade France
j toiUfScHUons'ln Eor g ra,ne.'' U " d l "
The Economy Call
[From the Philadelphia Press 1
Congress 0 are' 1 ' !" 1 '® aders of the next
u,, 6' vss are ulrpurlv t•,
io.'ny "The "" 0 " ~)e rna tter of ecori
j . . I hey urc determined th-it c*rw
1 niggardlv e no endUure slla " be neither
i s°gnsThat h„ K p,ecede<l bv ( ' o " a r
Congress Th T." Very nvi(if 'nt in
: ... • The ultimate cost of the
! amount of his taxes that will be re
. quired even to pay the interest upon
I ™T h ts L he r r timated wealth of
at a ringV. een a bPropriated
s 'ngle session of Congress 4
fifth of the income of the average
j citizen of the country will b e taken
from hi 111 this year in taxes both
■direct and indirect. The Treasurer
; of the I nited State.s figures that it
i i.,1? American taxpayers over
a billion dollars a year for the next
j quarter of a century to pav off our
I le,,t ' f, . ,e to, ' ,b 'ned ambunt that
will be needed for interest payments
and the establishing of a sinking
i f 4 " nd ta take ca,-e of the debt itself
; And this does not include the billions
The T aVe , loaned 10 the Allies
! The Nation has certainly been
; princely in its spending for the pur-
I pose of war And not a dollar that
■ has been wisely spent is begrudged
j by the American people.
j But the war is now over. We
, must think again in terms of mill.
| ions, not of billions. We must realize
that we have no money to spend on
l any type of national experiment or
! extravagance. We have our work
cut out for us to pay off our war
debt without making the taxes more
j burdensome than American business
j can stand. The time is ripe for
genuine economy, for thorough in
i qulry before money is appropriated
1 for any purpose that is not patent
I upon its face. The Republicans in
1 Congress will have the country
.'solidly behind them in real efforts
; to economize, and it is encouraging
, to see that their leaders are awake
j to the condition and to the necessity.
lEtottutg (Efjat I
W hat will probably take rank asl
the prize request for information.'
made to the department of the Sec
retary of the Commonwealth has just
been filed away, it came from if
western tlrni which scented to be
specializing in general data and th
request was for detailed facts re
garding the mileage and ownership
of railroads, number of farms and
value of products, general welfare
laws, diversity of manufacturing,
nationality of persons coming to the
State in the last ten years and other
lines, "it would take about six men
six weeks just to compile that in
formation." said George D. Thorn,
the chief clerk of the department.
Mr. thorn answered the inquirer by
sending a copy of Small's handbook
as the best that eoubl be done with
out a State appropriation.
• * *
One of the odd things about the
lire which wrecked the beautiful new
home of the Country Club of Harris
burg early Saturday morning, was
that members of the c-iub which
rushed to the scene when the news
of the fire got abroad succeeded in
saving the handsome mahogany
buffet in the dining room. This is
the second time this article has been
saved from a tire which destroyed
I the club house, it was part of the
original furniture of the club and
when the building at I.ucknow was
burned it was among the pices drag
ged to safety. it underwent the
same experience at the Kort Hun
ter site."
# • •
I.ines of several of the smaller
islands in the Susquehanna opposite
this city ha\> been materially chang
| od by the action of the river since
last '.ell and the island that used to
I 'bow in the middle of the river a
| sho t distance above the sanitary
Ida n seems to have been a'.-
I n.o-t washed away. While there
j lias • een no bcod in the rive-"
j this > car :i :i i.nber of periods
i high water have occurred
j and rivermen say that the currents
j have been so swift and the rises due
to rainfall so fast that the sandbanks
j have been cut away in many places
and the islands which resulted' from
j sueli accumulations in the past have
been suffering the same fate. The
| city's big island, where the play
| grounds and filter plant are located,
I lias gained somewhat by these freaks
I of the currents.
* *
Over a score of grade crossings
I are being studied at the Capitol with
j a view to determining whether the
' conditions surrounding them would
j justify the State Highway Depart
j men! makiii" formal complaint vo file
I Public Service Commission for orders
; for their abolition. These crossings
! are on primary road routes and were
listed when the highways which it
| is planned to build wholly at State
j expense were outlined. The idea is
j to get the work of elimination of
i those which are perilous under way
while the highway construction i
1 being pushed. In every case the
! Department is giving consideration
I to the situation whether the cross
! iiig c-.tn be easily eliminated a t I rc
i lation to getting rid of other eross-
I ings in the neighborhood by means
jof a single subway or bridge. The
i engineering features have been given
thorough study and personal inspec
tion by officials of the department
in some cases with the result that
i information which will show the
I Public Service body exactly what
i situations prevail is to be filed. The
i first of these complaints has been
! tiled against a West Chester road and
] steps have been taken in regard to
! central counties and these will lie
j grouped with the complaints tiled in
■ the last two years against crossings.
I The attitude of the United States
I Railroad Administration has thus far
I been against any expenditures for
j permanent improvements, but in
i view of the return of normal times
| and the exigencies of the State High
l way construction program it is be
; lieved that there will be some agree-
J inent reached where it is easy to
| better conditions at crossings.
I ...
I Even if the average man in the
: street is not showing much interest
j in the legislative session which enters
| upon its tenth week of actual work
! to-night it can not be said ttiat the
! high school students and the school
! boys and girls of the towns in this
! section of the State are not being
J polite to the lawmakers. Almost
' every session there is a delegation
I of students in the galleries, some of
| them coining from as far away as
, Ohambersburg and Sunbury to hear
the discussions. And it may be said
j that James N. Moore and R. Ross
Seaman have nothing on any of them
i when it comes down to parlimentary
i procedure.
i ...
"The farmer who sold his potatoes
1 at last fall's prices knew his bugi
i ness," observed IJ. F. Umberger, for
! merly lfarrisburg Councilman and
I city planner, who now practices law
I when he finds time to get away from
his country place near Duncannon.
"That's what 1 did," he added com
placently. And that is the truth. The
price last autumn was $2.25 to $2.50
and to-day it is nearer $1 than $2.
Umberger didn't know potato seed
from French fried when he went to
Duncannon, but he has become such
a graden sharp that now the farm
ers come from miles around to hang
on his garden fence and listen to his
speeches on scientific agriculture.
And he not only lias a fine line of
talk: but around about crop time ho
is always able to "show goods."
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—George Wharton Pepper has
been chosen head of the new consti
tutional league.
—Col. T. J. Keenan, prominent
Pittsburgh man, is active in the
movement for a permanent body of
draft officials.
Dr. H. W. Temple, Washington
congressman, believes that haste,
would imperil the Eeague of Na
tions idea.
•—Dr. A. A. Hammerschlag, prom
inent Pittsburgh educator, is against
the plan for "ripping" out the first
class school boards.
Friends of Dr. Emory R. John
son, former public service commis
sioner, congratulated him upon his
birthday on Saturday.
—Powell Evans, of Philadelphia,
has gone to White Sulphur for Eas
ter.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg has add
ed a ward a decade lately.
HISTORIC HAItRISIHJKG
—John Harris originally planned
Market Square for farmers curb
makcts-