16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 , Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager ExecntlTr Board j J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American PS Newspaper Pub -uOldffrSSL s h ers ' Associa- Bureau of Circu- SaflSECln® lation and l'enn sylvanui fifSG 2 fiflfi Eastern office l§92ifiin p to F' & j2 Avenue Building, Western office'. ! Gas Building, -I Chicago, 111. I | Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *' week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1919 I What is fameT an empty bubble; ' GoldT a transient shining trouble. —JAMES GRAINGER. . CHICAGO ELECTIONS TRUE-BLUE Republicans will take little pleasure in the re election of Mayor Thompson on the Republican ticket in Chicago. The election was neither a victory ' for the Republican party in the na- | tion nor yet a defeat for the Demo- j crats. It was a purely local fight in which all the passions and preju dices of the day entered with ex treme bitterness. Mayor Thompson not only fought the election of a Republican candidate for tlic Senate last fall, but be was notoriously pro- German during the war and Repub licans as a whole long since repu diated him. But the elections present at least ! one encouraging feature. Xot a sin- j glie Socialist was elected to any office, j although they tried most strenuous- j ly to capture council. All their nominees were beaten by over whelming majorities. Xot an ultra radical showed his head in Chicago but was not sharply rapped. For that much we may be thankful, for Chicago above all other cities is reckoned as a hotbed of radicalism, due largely to its great foreign-born population. Most surprising to the temper ance forces of the country was the amazingly large "wet" vote east by the women. Of course, the "drys" made no fight, but that does not alter the fact that women voted largely on the side of the* saloon. This will not be very encouraging to those who have been pointing to universal suffrage as the cure-all for all ills and the hope of the reform element of the country. This Chi cago vote indicates that the exten sion of the voting privilege, while an eminently fair and proper recog nition of women's right to participate in the public life of the Xation, will j have little general effect on elections except to double the number of votes cast. KINDLY AND GENEROUS THAT was a generous and a kindly act of the Kiwanis Club yesterday in entertaining at luncheon and the theater afterward a large number of the soldiers of the Carlisle hospital. Other organi zations should see in it a lesson for themselves. We are so near to Car lisle that there is no excuse for neglect of our duty to these con " valescing wounded soldier lads of ours. We owe them a lot; more than we can ever pay, for that mat ter, but wo must not let them think that because the war is over we have forgotten them and their heroic services. What' the Kiwanis Club did for many, each one of us who owns an automobile may do for in dividuals or couples of them. GOAL ASSESSMENTS THE big coal companies in the upper end of the county are striving for the lowest possible assessment on their fuel land hold ings. That, we suppose, is "busi ness." But the county has an inter est at i.take as great as that of the coal companies and Commissioners Stine and Cumbler, who insisted on a leassessment of the coal proper ties, should not permit the corpora tions to "bluff" them into radical re visions. of figures. The situation is simply this: The county's experts say the coal lands are worth $117,000,000. One of the coal companies says its holdings are worth less than $2,000,000, although it confesses to a payroll each year amounting to more than $2,225,000. There is such a variance here and euch an absurd difference between company valuations and annual rev enues that the commissioners should accept the estimates of their own dis.nterested experts and let the matter be threshed out in the courts, if the companies continue to object. As for selling the lands for less than two millions, that is mere stage FRIDAY EVENING, HAHRISBPRG TELEGRAPH <' APRIL 4, 1919. W,M "' play. Lykens Valley coal is a su perior product always in demand at premium prices. The coal companies are playing to the galleries in their advertisements. They won't close the mines and they won't sell the property. The public would no more stand for a prolonged lockout by the mine owners than they would a strike of workmen with the purpose of closing the mines permanently. The taxpayers believe the own ers have not paid their fair share of taxes. They arc in full harmony with the County Commissioners in the leassessment. They want no money that is not justly theirs; but they do want every cent to which they are entitled. It may be that the courts will have to decide just I how much that is. | CONFIDENCE NEEDED U' XPR E C EDEXTED burdens were placed upon public util ities by the war and as a re- I suit street railways and other pub lic service corporations were strain jed to the utmost of their facilities j and resources. It is stated by an I expert that the purchasing power of j the street car fare is forty per cent. | less than it was two years ago. Under the circumstances, there has ! been a gradual decadence in the j maintenance of the systems and the J passing of dividends to stockholders ! has become quite the usual thing. Lloyd George, premier of England, who has had his troubles, recently de clared that "the difficulty is not with interests, it is with prejudices. Peo ple talk vested interests. It is not the vested interests I am afraid of; it is the prejudices. We must sweep aside vested prejudices." In this readjustment period it is going to be very necessary to divest our minds of prejudices of every sort and get back to a normal at titude that will not regard with sus picion business and industry and the activities which make for gen eral prosperity. Unless and until all classes of our people realize that there is a mutuality of interest in business there will be no real prog ress. Employment dbpends upon commercial and industrial prosperi ty and every move which tends to destroy confidence is a move against the welfare of the individual, wheth er ho be employer or employe. It is the opinion of careful stu dents of affairs that the United States is advancing toward a period of substantial prosperity, but these observers also believe that the pe riod of better times will come only with intelligent co-operation of all classes and that the part of i the workingman in the restoration of confidence and business activity is quite as important as that of the capitalist whose courage is needed to make the wheels go round. IT TO US IT BEGINS to look as though the Kctary Club's efforts toward a natigable Susquehanna may bear real fruit. As Congressman J. Hampton Moore said at Columbia the other evening, the movement has 'cached a stage where all de pends upon how much the people of the Susquehanna river want this improvement as to whether or not they will get it. That is the whole truth in a nut shell. If we really want a deeper stream we must demand it of Con gress in terms that will bespeak a strong public sentiment for it. Why have the South and West been successful in getting millions upon millions of dollars from the national treasury for improvement of streams that are mere creeks as compared with the Susquehanna? Because they have argued, and fought, and insisted—pressing their claims eagerly and enthusiastically, in season and out. That is the an swer, and there is nothing more to it. We in Pennsylvania have been lulled to sleep by railroads that formerly met all our needs and whose managers told us that a navigable Susquehanna was impos sible. Meanwhile, the South and the West carried home the bacon. COUNTY ROAD BUILDING | MILLIOXS of dollars will be expended this year by the Federal Government and the various states in the making of per manent highways. Pennsylvania has already set the pace for the pro gressive Commonwealths of the country and, with the awarding of contracts by Commissioner Sadler, the dirt will soon fly in every di rection. Meanwhile, what is Dauphin coun ty going to do in co-operation with the State in the building of modern roads leading from the seat of gov ernment? Commissioner Sadler has declared over and over again that the aim of Pennsylvania is to build roads that will stay; that there will be no throwing away of money on ex perimental highways. He has also told delegation after delegation that the election of county commission, ers this fall should be on a good robds basis; that the people are bound to elect officials in every coun ty who will promise to help pull the State out of the mud. Governor Sproul was mighty for tunate in his selection of a head for the important Department of High ways and the energy that has been displayed in getting things going has been the subject of very general comment of a complimentary char acter. If one keeps liis ears open he can't help hearing from the common people on the subject of I. W. W.ism and the Bolshevik menace. The thrifty work ingmen of the United States, millions of whom own their homes and love their families, are not going to follow like sheep the degenerate pro pagandists of a false philosophy which would lead them into national disorder and anarchy. Here and there one may hear a thoughtless word in favor of the Russian idea of liberty, 'but the groat majority of industrial workers in this country would stand as a stone wall against the horde of malcontents who would upset law and order and substitute therefor the rule of brute force and savagery. foliUetU "PuiHOijLnDua By the Kx-Committeeman Governor William C. .Sproul's ab sence from the city on a vacation enforced by his doctors, will not interfere with the progress of legis lation. The Governor plans to leave .1 iarrisburg to-night for Virginia Hot Springs and before leaving, will clean up all the,bills in his hands which must be acted upon next week. Any important bills which may be passed early next week, or upon which the time may be getting short, will be taken to him late next week by Harry S. McDevltt, his private secretary. The doctors have ordered the Governor to refrain from think ing about State governmental mat ters and he will have a week of quiet. All engagements for the re mainder of this month are can celled or very tentative, as far as tlve Governor is concerned. It is the plan to have alt adminis tration legislation advanced during the Governor's absence, but to hold as many bills as possible on the final stages in the two houses, so that there will be no danger of time allowances for executive action lap sing before he is able to resume work. Three or four administration measures will appear next week. The others are all through the Senate or in committee awaiting proper time to send them out. The plan to stop introduction of lulls the middle of this month, is finding favor among members of the House who are in the city, who say that there is enough to. keep the Legislature busy. —Considerable interest is being manifested in the series of hearings planned for next week, which will include the hanking code, as far as it affects building and loan associa tions, which will he before a Senate committee; the liquor bills before tile House Law and Order commit tee; the Conservation department bill before a Senate committee and the educational bills. —The Jennings bill, re-establish ing ihe State Board of Agriculture, comes from Slate board sources and will be oposed by administration forces. —The problem of providing funds for the State government to meet the teachers' salary increase, has suddenly assigned big proportions in the Legislature, and it now looks as though the State would offer to go half and half with the school districts in providing the $15,000,000 or $7,000,000, which it is calculated would ho necessary. This matter will be thrashed out next Tuesday. The original hope of flie legislators, backing teachers' salary increases, was that the State would finance it, but this is said to he impossible after a study of the preliminary estimate of the revenue in sight. The belief is that the State will have something like $85,000,000 to appropriate for two years and this would mean that the total educational appropriation would he $23,000,000, three millions to he "ear-marked" for teachers if the districts agree' to raise the rest. The plan is to take the Woodruff bill, endorsed by Senator Penrose and others, as the bill on which to work and provision that districts which do not meet the State, would not share in the allowance. —At the opening of this Legisla ture. the hope was expressed by the administration, that it would not he found necessary to lay a tax on man ufacturing corporations. The view point is beginning to change and it is possible that legislation levying a tax of one mill on every dollar of capital invested in manufacturing eoiporniions will find support from the administration. This capital is now exempt from taxation. A bill has been presented fixing the rate at five mills, but this levy is considered excessive. In order to make it pos sible for the Pittsurgli and Phila delphia school boards to aicl in the salary increase movement, it will be necessary to pass the Scott bill, now on the Senate calendar. This meas ure increases the maximum levy which can be made in these districts from six to eight mills. The legis lation has passed the House and is on the second reading calendar of the Senate. —Here is another illustration of the sentiment in regard to the much diseussed law. Jt is taken from the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times: "Action by the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh against repeal of the non pa itisan election laws doubtless re fleets the majority sentiment of the Pittsburgh District on an important civic and political question. The Friday night meeting of the Cham ber was well .attended and represen tative of the whole membership. Full notice of the meeting and of the business to be considered had been given. The committee which had been assigned to examine and report on the proposed election law changes was composed of able and public-spirited men. Its judgment had been published in advance of the meeting. But the assemblage, by a decisive majority, rejected the report and adopted a substitute mo tion approving the existing non partisan election laws. The subject was ably debated and argued from both of the oposing viewpoints by representative citizens. As the Chambers as a whole is representa tive of the community the decision which the vote records must be ac cepted as Pittsburgh's judgment. It is warning to the Legislature that tampering with the election laws is not desired by the people here, bills for the repeal of the nonparti san acts should be killed." EDITORIAL COMMENT If we had the League of Nations, it might induce us to go into some European war, instead of staying out. as we did this last one.—lndian apolis Star. It would be thoughtful of the army and navy to delay their demobilaza tion until the public catches up with the war-books already written.— Chicago Daily News. The Paris Conference is now dis cussing the future of the Bolshe viki. At first blush this looks more like a subject for clergymen than diplomats.—Manila Bulletin. A study of the income-tax blanks convinces us that Uncle Sam de serves the money for having thought of such a wonderfully complicated way of getting it.—Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Lloyd George warns the small na tions that there is danger in annex ing territory not their own. We dearly love England, but we, must sny that she can on this subject give expert advice.—Columbia State. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE .... .... Byßrittt . :>* i, [[ see. Thpy areN • ieME'OoDy_ Ts' .J? 1 To F-OSYBI-D J ALWAY'S lAKWG' \ TmC S Th - .Joy ooT j V T° Bac^__ — J or life* <■ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor of the Telctrroph: I have just read an article in your issue of March 31st entitled "Quail Shooting De Luxe in Okla homa" by Tom Marshall, that is ex ceedingly misleading in certain par ticulars. If this story had been sent out April 1, we might have thought it an April day joke no matter how it might deceive and harrow the feelings of sportsmen. Mr. Alarshall says: "Oklahoma, at this writing, is the favored state for the speckled beauties, there they have congregated In vast number, multiplying and increasing regard less of their liberal laws, which per mits the shipping of thousands of birds into sister states for propaga tion purposes," through this state ment, leading sportsmen believe that when we, who represent the Game Commission of Pennsylvania, say we have been unable to secure quail in the United States, that we have either neglected our duites or have deliberately, lied while in truth we are guilty of neither charge, for quail cannot be secured in Okla homa, as the writer states "in thou sands for propagating purposes" or in any other numbers. We have tried more than once and failed. Some years ago I attended a sportsmen's meeting at Columbus, Ohio, and there met a man who was an Indian agent in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. This man told me quail were very plentiful in the country around where he lived and that if 1 could get a permit from the Secretary of the Interior at Washington, he could have his In dians trap and send me ten thou sand quail, in a week. I at once took the matter up with Senator Penrose who called personally on the Secretary -of the Interior at Washington who said to the Sena tor: "All you say regarding the presence of quail in that country is true, but unfortunately a United State statute forbids the shipment of these birds out of that Territory, and I cannot, therefore, givo the permit you desire. I would like to oblige Pennsylvania but cannot leg ally do so." Within four weeks after that time I was informed by Washington that the Indian police of Indian Terri tory had arrested a number of men who were illegally taking quail and shipping them to Charles Paine, in Wichita, Kansas. Air. Paine Mas then and is now a dealer in quail. Since that time Indian Territory has become Oklahoma, and is under state law instead of United States law. The export of quail from that state is just as strictly forbidden to-day as it ever was. I have before me while I write, a bulletin issued by the Biological Survey. Washington, D. C., in -which the laws and regulations of every state of the Union and of the pro vinces of Canada published for the year 1918, and I find under the name of Oklahoma this statement: "Open seasons, quail Dec. Ist to Dec. 31st," showing- that notwith standing the supposed vast numbers of quail in that state, those in au thority have seen fit to limit the open season to thirty days. Under the head of Bag Limit, "The num ber of quail that may be legally killed in one day is fixed at 15." Under the heading of Export ap pears the following: "Export pro hibited of all protected game, ex cept non-resident licensee may carry to his home two day's bag limit of game birds if license permit is at tached." XoM-here is permissidn given to carry quail out for propa gation purposes. I know of various dealers in game for propagating purposes who are trying and have been trying to secure living quail wherever that might be possible, and know that every one of these men have been doing Iheir best to get quail from Mexico, because they could not get any elsewhere. I have in my office a letter from a depler in quail located at Eagle Pass, Texas, written not ten days ago, in which the M-riter says that certain men from Kansas Mho were looking for quail in Mexico have gone home disappointed, having se cured no quail. These very men handled Indian Territory quail in years gone and would be glod to handle them now if they could get them legally. Quail cannot be se cured from Oklahoma or from any other state in this Union as Air. Marshall writes and 1 protest against the publication of such state ments, that are unfair to both sportsmen and to officials in various states who have tried their best but without avail to please sportsmen. Respectfully yours. JOSEPH KALBFUS, Secretary, Game Commission. A Prohibition Goddess Venus emerged from the fodm. "It is only M-ater," she hastened to explain.—New York Sun. Republican Plans From the Literary Digest I IKE wise virgins, the Republi , can leaders in Congress intend to have their legislative lamps trimmed and burning when Presi dent Wilson returns to convene Con gress. It may be June 1, May 1, or even earlier, and already Republi cans have begun work on the big appropriation bills which failed in tlie last Congress, and, according to the Washington correspondent of the Xew York Evening Post, "two or three of these bills will be ready for the immediate consideration of the House wheh it meets." Such forehandedness wins hearty praise from independent journals like the Washington Star and Detroit Free Press. The Chicago Daily News characterizes as "admirable and op portune" the declaration of Con gressman Gillett, who will preside over the new House, that the main Republican task will be . "construc tive legislation for the period fol lowing the war." Past Democratic misdeeds may require looking into, but Chairman Hays, of the Republi can Xational Committee, agrees that "the Republican duty is now ahead." Mr. Hays, who speaks for the entire party as do few Republican leaders, thus outlines its duty in general terms in a recent speech in St. Paul: "We will establish policies which will once again bind up the wounds of war, which will renew our pros perity, and administer the affairs of this Government with the greatest economy, on a sound business basis, and which will enlarge our strength at home and abroad. With all our power we will strive to prevent the further spread of socialism and set this nation's feet once more firmly on the..path of progress and along ways which liberty and order must ever guard a'nd preserve. "To this end we have promised a forward-stepping as well as a for ward-looking program for labor, for business, for the farmer, and those promises we will keep." It will be a Republican task, says Mr. Hays, to bring the Government back to the limitations of the Con stitution, to show the world that 'we are a representative Govern ment, not a Bolshevik sypcopation," and to end "pedagogic paternalism." Coming down to the "brass tacks" of actual legislation, a writer in the Washington Star has been inter viewing prominent Republican lead ers in the new Congress and finds them alive to their "kaleidoscopic responsibility." The Republican steering committee, we are told, is now planning just how to enact laws for— "Passage of appropriation bills for the support of government depart ments and agencies totaling more than four billion dollars. "Revision of the tariff with care to protect domestic industries. "Redrafting the new reven.ue law to meet changed conditions and to provide six billion dollars the first year and four billion dollars there after —if that is sufficient. "Reconstruction, turning back in to peace-time production the plants that have been converted to manu facture of war supplies; finding economic and profitable use for tho plants and industries that sprang up to meet emergency needs during the war—and salvaging the human ma chinery wrecked in the war. "Disposition of tho railroads, in cluding citation of terms on which they may be turned back to their private ownership, with strict gov ernmental supervision of issuance of stocks and bonds; with attendant legislation providing for a healty, economic development of the water ways and highways as co-ordinated avenues of efficient transportation. "Upbuilding of a great American merchant marine, which will 'carry American-made and Amcrican trade-marked goods across the seven seas to all the nations of the world —even if the United States Shipping Board has to be disbanded to ac complish this. "Investigations of war-expendi tures and war-time administration, with olosqr attention to the welfare ot our own country. "New census legislation. "Revision and amplification of banking and currency laws, with re gard for revolutionized world-con ditions, international exchange, and tne requirements of an expanded commerce." The immediate responsibility for filling and trimming Republican lamps rests, of course, with the members of the committees which must draft the new laws. Mr. James W. Good, of lowa, \yho will head the House Appropriations Committee, is mindful that during the next few months "taxpayers will feel the heavy burden of increased I taxes and will take a more lively interest in the work of Congress"; | and to meet their demand for re j (lnerions in taxation, the new Con gress must practice strict economy, i In ll:i.s (onnection we may also note | Mr. Gillett's insistence upon budget reform. Congressman J. Hampton Moore