10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A ITEWS PAPER FOR TBB BOMB Founded 1831 PnMUhed evenings except Sunday by TH* TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. | Teleeragh Building, Federal Square !■> in —= ■ ■ EJ. J. STACKPOLB Fret id en C and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER. But inert Manager { GUS. M. BTKINMETZ, Managing Editor ; A.R. MICHWNER. Circulation Manager Executive Beard > Ji *. McCULLOUQH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, OUR M. STEINMETZ. i Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press la exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or npt otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. " All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. i _ 1 Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocta- Penn | 9 Eastern flo e ' Chicago, lIL B Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ttlWpMlaiyt week; by mail. 13.00 a ' year in advance. I mmmmm — ■' MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1919 l When God calls you, be ready to go; and. if you haven't courage ask God to give it to you, and he icill.—D. L. Moody. DISTRIBUTING ESTATES WHILE the disposition of pri- j vate estates is a matter for decedents there is always ' more or less public interest in the distribution of the accumulations of years. We are passing into a new day with relation to the responsl- i bility of stewardship of property and j there is an increasing public senti- | ment favorable to a more intelligent and generous attitude on the part * of owners of property toward the larger demands of the public inter est as against the purely personal and family relation. The other day a well-known wo- j man of Harrisburg passed to her reward leaving considerable sums to j ; worthy public charities in this city | and this feature of her will has been the subject of much favorable com ment The Telegraph has on more than one occasion urged the establish ment of a "Harrisburg Foundation" for the purpose of making more practical the handling of public be quests in this city. We believe that manv generous givers in providing for the distribution of their estates] would be glad to have such an or- j ganization through which to make , effective their gifts to the commun ity. Next to fhe generous citizen ( carrying out during his own life the purposes which appeal to him in the matter of public benefits, such a foundation would be the most prac tical solution of the difficulties which frequently confront those charged with the distribution of private prop erty. We shall hope that the "Harris burg Foundation" may become a reality soon, and that, through it, millions of dollars now in private hands will find their way into sub stantial and worthy enterprises for the benefit of all the people. For instance, such a foundation would find a way to build a public natatorium, erect a community house, provide for public memo rials, to set up the Donato statuary and do many other things which are neglected or cannot be done by the municipal authorities. Have you seen the Telegraph window boxes this year? They were placed in position on the eve of Me morial Lay. as has been the custom for several years, and the beautiful | blooms have already attracted much attention. The entire front of the building is a mass of flowers. MAKING PATRIOTS NO MORE touching sight has been seen in Harrisburg for many a day than that of the aged veterans of the Civil War and I* • the Boy Scouts marching side by i side in the Memorial Day parade. There is nothing spectacular about the Scouts—no fancy military drills, no gay uniforms, nothing of pomp or ceremony; the keynote of their organization is service, and service it was that took them into the pa fade on Friday with the men of the IGrand Army. They carried canteens . of pure, cool water thut the older ™ marchers might have needed as re freshment against the unusual phy sical exertions of the long march in the heat. Service, not self, is as much the motto of the Scouts as that other motto of theirs—"Be prepared." It is a fine thing to have once a year such a procession as that of Memorial Day, when the veterans of the 'Sixties, of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, China and Mexico, marched in serried ranks with the younger men Just hack from the hard-fought fields of France, on their flanks the khaki-clad Scouts —the soldiers of to-morrow —and above ! them- all the rippling folds of the frgtarix-flagthat has never-known de- MONDAY EVENING, feat. By such means Is patriotism nurtured and the great traditions of the nation kept alive In hearts that must be kept In tune with the high ideals for which Americanism stands. By all means let the boys have their part In all our patriotic demonstra tions. NEXT YEAR, PERHAPS THE Harrlsburg Chamber of Commerce has acted wisely In calling oft the parade for re turned soldiers which It had planned for the Fourth of July. The soldiers have had a surfeit of parades. They have been "under orders" so long that they are naturally resentful of any attempt to get them back into the ranks, if even for a day. They want to feel free to observe the great national holiday precisely as they see .fit. It is for us to bow to their wishes, much as some of us might like to have opportunity of seeing them all together and of paying to them tribute of the ap plause they so much deserve. Next year, perhaps, they may feel differently about it. May be then a | grand reunion of Harrisburg men who served with the colors in the war with Germany might prove a popular means of getting them to gether for a parade, to be followed j by a celebration. At all events, the idea is worth keeping in mind. One of these days there will come creep ing into the hearts of these men, just now so heartily sic kof every thing military, a desire for a taste of the old life, a longing to touch shoulders with their comrades of camp and field, and to march again in the long, swinging columns for which the American armies are famous. Then will come our oppor tunity to finance a really popular demonstration in their honor. AT LAST SO AT LAST the Legislature is to be speeded up with the idea of final adjournment before the close of June. Both members of the Assembly and their constituents will breathe a sigh of relief and hope that the effort will be successful. No good is likely to come from an unnecessarily prolonged session and the expense is inexcusable. With the Philadelphia bills out of the way, the Governor's program well nigh complete, compensation re vision the end of its lengthy debate, woman's suffrage and pro- j hibition safely out of the way and l teachers' pay legislation reaching a 1 point where it will be beyond dis pute, there remains little of prime j importance beyond general appro-. priations and revenue .producftion, I which are inter-dependent. Little time should be required here, as the, leaders already are near a point of understanding on both these vital matters. Through the publicity committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Harrlsburg is to have an effective presentation of its attraction from the business and home standpoint in the placing of road signs within a fifty-mile radius and the publication of a booklet set ting forth the advantages of the city. This is the day of advertising, and municipalities, like merchants, find it unprofitable to hide their light under a bushel. LETS BE CONSISTENT AFTER ail, are Americans far removed from the Spaniards and their bull fights or the old Romans and their gladiatorial con tests. when thousands of them can sit through an afternoon of automo bile races in which three of the con testants are killed, and call it sport? We are not consistent. We strain at gnats and swallow cafnels by the drove. A fev.' weeks ago the Legis lature of a great State was thrown into an uproar and thousands of well-intentioned people the country over raged or wept, according to their individual temperaments, be cause two husky human brutes pro-- posed to pummel each other in a contests of fists the effects of which would be no more serious than a couple of black eyes and sundry bruises. But which of these zealots rose up to protest against the car nival of blood at Indianapolis? Un less we are willing to condone bull fighting. fisticuffs and the like, let us not put the stamp of public approval upon the so-called sport of automo bile racing. PRO-GERMAN ATTITUDE IT IS difficult to understand the attitude of the Legislature as it approaches the close of the ses sion in the matter of certain meas ures providing for the elimination of regulations established for the bene fit of German interests in pre-war times. In view of persistent Ger man propaganda, through publica tions of one sort and another, it would seem that the legislature of Pennsylvania would get into line with tbe law-making bodies of other States in repealing acts having no other purpose than the promotion of alien interests. It has been suggested that certain members of the legislature will be entitled to return home with the spiked helmet and an iron cross for their consistent and zealous sup port and defense of measures which should have been wiped olt the stat ute books long ago. The Bolard bill, providing for official advertis ing in English newspapers only, is through the House, but has been re posing a long time in the judiciary general committee of the Senate. At this late day it ought not be .neces sary for the newspapers of Penn sylvania to combat German propa ganda as exploited in official adver tising and the Bolard bill should ilong ago have been in the hands of 'Governor Sproul. i. aim ii ■' ,i mm 1 i j I T<ntuu ' ?w,U By ttM Ex-Oommttteemjui United States Senator Boles Pen- I rose seems to have summed up the leglsltalve situation pretty aptly and also met the approval of nine-tenths of the members of the General Assembly by his remark that natur ally the lawmakers were getting im patient at the delays over the char ter bill for Philadelphia and that he hopes to see things so shaped up ' that adjournment could come by the j middle of this month. The legis lature ,1M going to be more or less of an Issue next year because of the ' way things have been drifting and | the voice of the up-State members last Wednesday in the House has i found an echo In many newspapers, i The Philadelphia Press in an ex ] tensive review of the legislative situ j atlon says that the last week in May, i when most legislatures have either j adjourned or been on the home I stretch In recent years, conditions ! were "chaotic," while the Philadel | phia Public ledger says that since the Senutor was here last "virtually . nothing" has been done on the bill ' which has beld up the session. Some of the smaller newspapers i throughout the State are objecting ! to the long session and remark that it has been a long Juno 1 ! came without a revenue policy be | ing adopted and the bulk of the work unfinished. —Some rather sarcastic remarks are being made in Pennsylvania newspapers about the mention of Attorney General A. MitcheH*Palmer as a possible "favorite son" candi date for Pennsylvania, which ap peared in certain Democratiq ma chine organs last week. Weeks ago, when Palmer had various cogs of the State machine assemble at Phil adelphia to prepare a survey of the field, the men opposed to domina tion of the Democratic organization in Pennsylvania by the Federal of fice-holding clique, started out to muddy the waters for Palmer's j scouts and It was freely said that Palmer wanted the delegation so that he would be in a position to play with it to his own advantage in the next Democratic national con vention. The emissaries of the At torney General have been reported as at various places in the State en deavoring to iron out differences and i to stiffen up Federal jobholders who do not want to meet the assessments and expenses of a fresh campaign. One newspaper says that Palmer will have the grandest little fight he ever saw next year if he tries to be a Presidential possibility candidate, and the general impression is that the Bonniwell people will set up i their own delegates. One Pittsburgh! newspaper says that if Palmer is re lying on past performance as the: strong point of the Democracy next year, the cause is hopeless. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times is calling upon Governor Sproul to "use his ax" on the hill increasing the number and pay of police mag istrates and assessors in second class cities. The measure has been strongly protested by the influential Western Pennsylvania newspaper. —ln an editorial about the Phila delphia registration bill, the Phila delphia Inquirer takes a decided stand which has caused much com ment. The Inquirer says: "Never mind the talk about 'rippers' and the Governor's objection to them. There is but one thing to do—put through the bill and send it to the Governor. And he will sign it as a matter of course. He isn't going to flaunt the dirty rag of contractor bossism in the face of the public." The Inquirer editorial has been widely read at the Capitol in view of developments in relation to the registration board. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin, while not going as far as the Inquirer in regard to the Registra tion Commission, makes an appeal for a change, saying: "It is a matter of only the most ordinary political fairness, therefore, that this Board shall he reorganized to the end that there shall be a proper distribution of representation. Governor Sproul should clear it of all suspicion by the exercise of his power of removal, give the Democrats and indepen dents of the town a just recognition among the commissioners, and en able the registrations of the electors for the unusually important munic ipal contest of next autumn to be conducted without undue advantage to any political interest. At pres ent the Board is utterly without balance or proportion. —The approval of the Wallace bill has brought out quite a crop of can didates for council in every third class city. Over a dozen men are either "out" or about to make their debut In Chester: Reading has a number and Erie a flock. The dis position is not to wait for the Gov ernor and Legislature to decide what they are going to do about the nonpartisan repealer. —Captain J. V. Eisenbrown. just home from France, will run for coroner in Berks county. —Notwithstanding the approach of the first of July, the liquor in terests have been very busy in ef forts to overturn no-license deci sions in various counties, Westmore land being a conspicuous example. A Greensville dispatch savs in con nection with it: "The chances of moisture and rejoicing in West moreland county are good." said At torney John W. McFadden, repere senting the "wet" forces of this county, upon his return from Phila delphia. The following order from the Supreme Court was received bv Judges A. D. MeConnell and D. J. Snyder: "Let writ of mandamus is sue, returnable June 3, 1919, direct ed to Hon. Alexander G. McConneli and Hon. Daniel J. Snyder, judges of the Court of Quarter Session of Westmoreland county, commanding them to meet forthwith and make a formal order granting or refusing the applicants for licenses referred to in this petition for the writ and upon their disagreement as to any application to mark it refused." American Efficiency [From the Philadelphia Record.] It was a wise little dose of psychol ogy that the Second regiment of en gineers at Coblenz administered to the Germans on Sunday when they bridged the Rhine in Just one min ute less than one hour. A German major testified that when his peo ple, in their retreat, moved back across the Rhine their engineers using the same material, bridged the river in four hours, and thought it a particularly rapid job. Two weeks ago another regiment of American engineers cut that time in half, and greatly amazed the Germans. Now that record, in turn, has been halved —and a. little better. "ITtis will not only amaze the Germans, but make thym thjnfr i BABIUBBTJRO TELEGRAPH IT WILL HAPEN IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES By BRIGGS f CUT UP A SVAJCS.-T TORNIP - I THE BAG OF MIKIWG" THS LAYING T . I ALS 6 !U< 3 AR--SAVEK>Y!J SWEEXRURRO.PS COMCOCT.CM UEO£ 7V.6 J^ FUL H J CK TNJ PERMCNT HAPPENS TO POUS OUT TAKES IT- J RE-I-SULT RSMCMQCFL IT. LIBATIOM ' Profit and Loss in Peace [From Col. Harvey's War Weekly.t! It is now possible to compute with accuracy the profit and loss of \ the diplomacy in which the Presi- i dent has been unjustifiably engaged for the last six months. The bal j ance sheet runs substantially as fol- : lows: GREAT BRITAIN WINS: Guaranteed and undiminished con- ! trol of the seas; Virtual control of the League of Nations, with six votes to the one 1 of the United States or any other] Power; The major part of the former Ger- j man colonies. Confirmed possession of Egypt; Greatly increased Influence in the East. Reparation for injuries and losses to civilians. FRANCE WINS: Alsace Lorraine: The Sarre Valley: A barrier all along the Rhine against another German attack; Reparation for injuries and losses to civilians. BELGIUM WINS: Additional territory; Restored independence. Reparation for her injuries and I losses in the war. ITALY WINS: Restoration of Italia Irredenta: Security for her Alpine frontier. Control of the Adriatic Sea; Reparation for injuries and losses in the war. JAPAN WINS: Former German islands in the ■ Pacific: Control of China: Increased influence in Asiatic! Russia. i WOODROW WILSON WINS: A place in history as the Founder; of the League of Nations which ; threatens his country with undoing. ; THE UNITfcD STATES LOSES: ] Her independence and sover-1 eignty. The friendship of Italy, Japan, and China; The power of self-defense; Self-determination of the size of; her army and navy. I The right to make treaties at will, j The right to mind only her own { business. WAS IT WORTH WHILE? LONGER TERMS [From the Wtlkes-Barre Record.] Among the changes made in the third-class city by the legislature is one extending the terms of council men or commissioners from two Tears to four years. Whether this! is a good or a bad move uepends, upon the point of view and also upon political conditions in the in-, dividual cities. Two years is 100 short a term for a good set of com missioners and four years is too] long for a. bad set. In two years a good set of men only become fair ly acquainted with municipal affairs and the period of their greater use fulness lies before them. The same question has arisen in occasional dis cussion about extending the term of the President of the ("nited States to six years and making him inel igible for re-election. A categorical answer cannot be; given to the act of the Legislature; and the Governor. But it may be, said that if the voters of the cities Want to be certain that four years; is not too long a term, they have it] in their power to elect the kind of men that will give good service dur ing four years. A Sample of Intolerance [From the Scranton Republican.] An example of Democratic intoler ance appears in a recent issue of one of the party organs in Boston which says that "the House of Representa tives has no more to do with the League of Nations constitution • • • than has the Boston city council." All this because a resolution has appear ed in the House asking the State I c- j partment for a copy of the "so-called > American proposal for a League of Nations." . . The House at Washington is what its name indicates, the representa tive of the people of the United States. The constitution does not give it power to'pass upon treaties, that is the prerogative of the Senate, but it is one of the very important branches of the Government and it is entitled to know what the Gov-; eminent is doing in anything that would affect, In a most serious way, the interests of the country. When a Democratic newspaper coolly tells the House of Represen tatives that If has nothing to do with the League Of Nations it is equiva lent to telling the American people that It ts not their business what the covenant contain*. < THE HAPSBURGS IN THEIR ASYLUM IN SWITZERLAND A French Writer Tells of the Life of the Exiled Austrian Rulers and the Little Princes at Wartegg. No Foundation For Rumors of Divorce, He Says. Vaucher in L'lllustration, Paris.] THE Chateau of Wartegg (Switz erland, where Charles 1 of Aus tria found asylum, is situated on a hill overlooking the pretty village of Staad, surrounded by a superb park which fringes Lake Constance. It was for a long time the property of the lords of Wartensee, but after 1557 it chnnged masters frequently, and was finally purchased in 1866 by Robert I. Duke of Parma,! who restored and enlarged it. Ac tually it is occupied by the Duchess of Parma, mother of the old sover eign. by the Duke of Braganza, his duchess and sisters of the ex-Em press Zita. They lead there, very simply, the life of country gentlemen. Without any degree of pomp, Charles I and Zita, often accompanied by the little] hereditary prince, Othon, the Arch duchess Adelaide and the Archduke; Robert d'Este, go for walks along; the picturesque shores of the lake or ; climb the nearby wooded hills, in terspersed with numerous orchards] and great farmhouses of character-j istic architecture. The great family table brings to gether morning and night, the guests of the chateau. Decidedly little poli tics is spoken there. Charles, with his thirtv years, seems to be scarce lv older "than the Princes of Parma, hiswife's brothers. After the evening meal, at which the young princes are not present, there is music. In the great salon, the Duchess of Parma eagerly engages in bridge and the ex-emperor, who detests the game, amuses himself with his chil dren. . During the sad April days when the snow falls in great flakes as in, mid-winter, the evenings arc long at Wartegg. The hereditary ex rrince loves to .scribble. He draws with all the imagination of his six and a half years, long railroads and locomotives vomiting clouds of black smoke. The little Archduchess Adel aide plays with her dolls and Arch duke Robert d'Este, who is only 4 years old, crawls into his father's arms so that the latter may guide his little hand and permit him to i imitate the drawings of his older brother. Recently the little princes] have had the great enjoyment of making a big snow man at the en trance of the chateau. "He will be the porter," decreed Archduke Othon. They dress him up in a big hat with an umbrella and an old j pipe, like all good snowmen, whether 1 bourgeois or proletariat. During a snowball flglit, in which Charles, himself, took part with his brother in-law, the hereditary ex-prince i found it much quicker to sn^ c J* i snow from his "porter" with which ;to bombard his uncles, who, from the height of the ivy covered turret I over the entrance, resisted their as ! sailants to the best of their ability. It is truly the family life in all its simplicity. The ex-empress, how ever. is often uneasy over the illness of her son. Archduke Felix, 3 years old, who is at Lucerne. Twice a day the Countess of Karsenbroek. a ladv-in-waiting,, sends reassuring news over the. telephone Zda de votes the greatest part of her time to ner children. Prince Othon al ready speaks German and Hungar ian fluently, he is beginning to study ! French and English. When one I views the intimate life of the ex -1 sovereigns closely, one understands I how false was the rumor of a di -1 voree between Charles and Zita, cur rent a few weeks ago. On the cin travy, adveisity appears to have united the 1 young couple more than ever —and this familv life can be chert as an example.. At Early Mass Every Day ' Every day Charles rises at 7 o'clock and attends the family mass, f which Is solemnized In the chateau 1 chapel by Bisljop Seydl. the ex-arch- I bishop at the Hofbourg, who lives !in a chalet in the park. The former ; sovereign studies a -great deal and ' Is an omntverous reader of historical ; works. At Eckartsau he began a i study of the historical documents ; relating to the Thirty Years War. ] He has never thought of writing his I memoirs, as has been said of him. Every day an average of a hundred Letters come testtmnntali of fidelity or homage from his for mer subjects. Every day, willingly enough, the ex-emperor fares abroad in his motor car, an open car of field gray, or a splendid Mercedes, on the doors and rear of which may still be noticed traces of the im perial arms under a fresh coat of black enamel. As Charles is now considered a plain citizen, his carS do not bear the official insignia, hut a simple license number with the Swiss coat of arms on one side and the arms of the canton of St. Gall on the other. Ordinarily, Prince Rene or Prince Felix of Parma ride with him. The change in the life of the for mer rulers has not modified much the habits of the little princes, who have been reared as children and not as futjire rulers. The crown prince, however, has taken part in I the coronation ceremonies at Buda pest and at the funeral ceremonies of Francis Joseph. Doubting the effect on her sop's already extremely vivid imagination of the sumptuous fetes. Zita ordained for the boy a simple life in the country. Visited by Children from Vienna Charles, who receives no visitors, made an exception recently for a . hundred children from Vienna who had comfi to pass several vacation weeks at Heidcn, not far from Ror schach, in order to rest in the Swiss country. They were exhausted by privations. They ran to the ex emperor's house in a gleeful swarm, loaded down with bouquets of spring flowers, related all their joys and sorrows to him and told him how many kilograms of weight they had | gained since coming to Switzerland. The children left, enchanted, and from afar, at every opportunity, send charming letters to Charles and Zita. The mayor of the little com mune of Thai, who has the chateau under his care, sends the Hapsburgs their bread, milk, fat. butter, sugar and cheese cards. They have not the right to a coupon more than tne peasants of the surrounding farms. Not long ago an Austrian living in Switzerland, sent the ex-emperor the unused coupons on the food his wife who had just died. The | letter accompanying the coupons was. touching. The wife begged Charles to accept them so that they might help him to forget the penury of Vienna." The ex-emperor was much touched by this attention, and sent the coupons to the Viennese chil dren at Heiden. Japan's Growing Commerce [From the Nation's Business] j Japanese industries and commer-1 cial enterprises were multiplying ten | times faster at the end of the war than in 1914. In 1918, of course, | | the number of promotions that got j !no farther than the paper stage was 1 much larger than in the earlier year, and there is at present no way of eliminating these from the figures. On the face of the statistics, manu facturing showed the greatest rate of growth. In 1914 about $14,000,- 000 of new capital went into manu facturing, and 1918 the announced capitalization of new enterprises was $366,000,000. That the Japan ese have got a taste for big under- j takings appears in a recent an nouncement of a new steamship company; it plans to have construct ed 33 steamers of 9,000 tons this year, and 34 next year, with a few 5-000-ton boats thrown in for good measure. Japan can probably build the vessels, too; for she had 14 building ways in 1914 and now pos' sesses 145. Japan has always managed to have a reputation for great re sources. In that respect it appar ently has not changed greatly since the year 1228, when that ancient worthy. Marco Polo, assured his readers the amount of gold in Japan was endless. One of our modem contemporaries points out that Jap an now has in one of her banks more gold than all the feudal chiefs of the thirteenth centuries could-count in thnir treasnrles, . JUNE 2, 1919. The Same Germans [From the New York Times.[ It appears, strangely enough, that Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau is "critical if .not unfriendly toward America." He is very, very sad over the way President Wilson has de ceived him. "The German people counted on Mr. Wilson and has vol untarily made itself defenseless on his Fourteen Points," and notv finds to its pain that these were only "a military ruse." So with our engaging friend Count \on Bernstorff. He, too, seems to fear that the President has deceived him; nor, in spite of the numerous occasions on which he. deceived the President in Washington, does he feel that turn about is fair play. "German's real desire for peace," he tells us. "led her to make an offer unprecedented in the world's his tory." She has gone out of her way to fulfill her obligations, she contem plates with pain the vengeful spirit of her enemies, she reminds us that her magnanimous offer can lead to peace only if interpreted so as to leave her virtually the winner. Of course, these gentlemen are speaking untruths, and they know it. It is not unprecedented in the world's history for a nation whose armies have been defeated to ask for peace, the only thing which makes the Germans think they have a right to dictate terms. But that is because they are Germans. Be cause they are Germans they count ed on Mr. Wilson to side with them at the Conference; because they aro Germans they cannot see why any body should disagree with their in terpretation of the Fourteen Points Bernstorff and Brockdorff know that the German armies were beaten and I that this defeat forced Germany to surrender. But a good many Ger mans refuse to believe anything so i uncomplimentary, and their lender persist in feeding them with fictionr ' to keep their minds ready for thr : idea of a war of revenge, j The Germans will sign the treaty, but for the present they are the same Germans, under the same sort of leaders, who broke treaties when it suited them before. They do no' appear to understand that nobod} the world over believes their myth of a regenerated Germany; they are convicted out of their own mouths. As Captain Tardieu says, "the trick is too coarse." There may he, wt all hope there will be. a new Ger many; but it is not here as yet. That is why the French have insist ed, and rightly so, on some sanctions for the treaty better than the word of a Bernstorff. A GOOD BEGINNING [Household Weekly.] Great must be the disappointment | of those who hoped that the attempt of the Republicans to effect a strong and generally satisfactory organiza tion of Congress would result in failure. So far from "breaking up in a row," the party has installed as its presiding officers the two men most admirably equipped for their respec tive positions—Senators Cummins and Representative Glllett—and the committee chairmanships bid fair to be equally commendable. "Har ! mony," as we remarked weeks ago, was the word and, thanks chiefly to I the tactful and courageous leader i ship of Senator Lodge, the unswerv- I ing patriotism of Senator Borah, the I unflagging endeavors of Senator ! Brandegee, and, last hut far from least, the self abnegation of Sena tor Wadsworth, harmony and complete unity, has been at tained. All of which is good for the party i and better yet for the country. The test imposed by the aftermath of six years of blatant incompetence is a severe one and can he met success fully only by a rare combination. A intelligence and determination. A better beginning could not be de sired. There is no partisanship in the wish that the public confidence already inspired may be retained in full measure throughout the trying months to come. • A Popular Loan [From the New York Times.] To the Victory Loan, fifth of the series, there were 12,000,000 sub scribers. Significant and of good omen is the fact that nearly 60 per cent, of the loan, or $2,663,164,850, was taken by those whose subsertp j tions were not in excess of SIO,OOO. That is to say, it was a popular loan, , one in great part negotiation be j cause people of moderate means and I people with small savings bought ' most of the bonds. For every per | son who Invested SIO,OOO there were hundreds who bought one bond, or 1 limting (Etfal A brand new State law placing every public dance to which an ad mission is charged, which is con ducted in connection with Instruc tion or to which admission is had by any ticket or token and with which there is any charge for car ing for coats and hats connected, under control of the mayors of the three classes of cities in Pennsyl vania takes effect to-day. Bvery such dance must be conducted under a permit issued by the mayor or some official designated by him and every hall or place whore public dances are conducted comes under the same law. The new law has been the subject of much corres pondence with State officials. Copies of the act, "which was approved some days ago, have been in demand and the State printer has been di rected to push along printing of copies so that the provisions may be available. Some of the letters received display resentment at the placing of supervision in the hands of the mayors, while others ap parently wql,come the control. It is estimated that hundreds of dances will come under the authority of cities. One of the effects of the new law, it was pointed out to-day by people at the Capitol will be to in crease the number of dances held at summer parks and similar resorts until the law gets to running smoothly when it is not anticipated that there will be any trouble. The enactment of the law seems to have been a surprise even in this city wliese the Legislature meets and the fact that a license would have to be paid for by each hall and that a dollar fee for each license to hold a dance would be required from the people in charge was rather a shock. In Harrisburg there are not so many dances In summer as in winter which would come under the new law. In the main, say police au thorities and people interested in public dances, there has been very, very little to complain of about donees 'in Harrisburg In years. The old "hops" that used to create talk and which were generally accom panied by plenty of beer for thoso attending passed away long ago. May and June appear to be the favorite months for the annual re unions of family clans which has become a prominent feature of American life. This thought was suggested by Prof. J. Howard Wert exhibiting to the writer his invita tion, just received, to the Wert re union to be held, June 12, on the fair grounds, at Bueyrus, Ohio. And then the Professor gave a remmis eent sketch of the growth and mi grations of his branch of the Wert family which is culled from the following brief synopsis: The ancestors of the family, now widely seattered over the Unit ed States, came to Philadel phia not twenty years after Penn had founded that city. Some years later most of them removed to the Lehigh Valley settling in the region where Bethlehem, Ailentown and Catasauqua now stand. But many years before the Revolution a con siderable number of the family push ed on to the Susquehanna region, one branch establishing ttrelf In the Lykens Valley section of Upper Dauphin, whilst another moved on to that part of "York county which subsequently became Adams. But soon after the Revolution many of the family, especially those of the Lykens Valley section migrated to the far West of that day, the famed "Western Reserve" of Northern Ohio. But descendants of those who settled in Ohio are now found in Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kansas and almost every western and southwestern State. Yet Ohio continues be recognized as the Wert headquarters and it is In some city of that State that the annual reunion is always held, the mem bers of the clan coming by hundreds from the more distant States as to an old home shrine. About the time that many members of the Wert family went frem the Susquehanna section to Ohio, a less numerous migration moved south. From this branch .of the family came Judge Thomas W. Wert, for many years one of the leading jurists of the State of Alabama. • • Seoretary of Agriculture Frcdertk Rasmussen, who has been taking a series of rides through the farm ing districts in this section of 1 the State has been impressed by the re sponse of the farmers of the Susque hanna Valley to the call for a grain supply. Last year, he says, the farmers turned In to raise wheat on a scale never before attempted in Pennsylvania and the yield promises to be large. Much corn planting is uiyler way- in sight of Pennsylvania's capital. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —General Adelbert Cronkhite, the Regular Army officer who command ed the Blue Ridge division, has been Invited to be the guest of Pitts burgh. —A. H. Smith, Jhe regional direc tor of railroads in the eastern sec tion of the country, who was here a few days ago, has resigned to re turn to his work with the New York Central. —General W. M. Black, chief of army engineers, in an address at Pittsburgh declared water transpor tation blocked by railroads. He Is a Lancaster countian. —The Rev. Dr. J. T. McCrory, Pittsburgh minister, has been elected moderator of the United Presby terians. —General Charles T. Menoher, who is a Somerset, countian and commanded the Rainbow division in France, is now director of military aeronautics. —Bishop J. F. Berry, of Phila delphia, Is expected to take some action in regard to Sunday amuse ments when he returns to that city this week. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, says he does not like the Job of regulating dances under the new law. DO YQU KNOW —That Harrlshurg pork pro ducts are sold all over Eastern Pennsylvania? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first capitol was completed two years after the corner stone was laid. Treasonable Talk [From the Springfield Union.] Perhaps It would be bordering .on treason to call attention to tjje fact that the failure of Hawker's enter
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