12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Hi NEWSPAPER FOp THE HOME Founded 1831 {"Published evenings except Sunday by "THa TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. 3Tele*raph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. k OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIN MET/5, Managing Editor I.A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 0. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. (Members of the Associated Press—Tho 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. UAH rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. J Member American Newspaper Pub yrn/Jft lishers' Assocla &BSm Bureau of Circu pQßyk lation and Penn- Hff % Associa tes Eastern office. jgy jjw Story, Brooks & in m Avenue Building. Hi; Western office', ■DKn Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building. ~~~i Chicago, 111. L. at the Post Office in Harris- burg, Pa., as second class matter. . carrier, ten cents a ►<TBBjfoQjl§fe> week; by mail, 13.00 a year in advance. W —— TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1919 fc In everything you do, consider the Hend. —Solon. . HUNNISH REASONING TERRORISTS who believe they can weaken the United States government and turn the thoughts of the people toward its by means of cowardly fcbomb outrages are reasoning as did fthe Hun when he called in "fright fulness" in the hope of bringing the | roeople of tho Allied nations to their (Jcnees. We all know that the effect ♦was precisely the opposite. Germany .plotted her own ruin when she idurned her bayonets and her bullets .against the innocent men, women and children of Belgium and started upon her career of vandalism and Mncendtarism. Germany has paid Nearly in blood and will pay even wore extensively in money for every i crime of the kind her armies com- J jnttted. j So with the terrorist who bombs •the homes of good people. He ac .complishee no more than to make every decent man tighten his jaws register determination to do his /utmost to see these cowards brought (to the gallows where they belong. □ nstea'd of arousing the masses against the government these mid xr.ght murderers bring us ull more .closely together in its defense. They Onake us reflect upon the benefits of flaw and order as compared with the fbloody uncertainties of anarchism. ■They cause us to turn whatever of ■discontent we may have with the existing order of things against the men who put their bombs in the -way of orderly progress. Instead of ■weakening the government they are •jnaking It stronger by giving to it uthe unqualified support of every de icent-thlnking man and woman in -the country. We need no revolutions in Amer ica. Whenever the people want any .one thing sufficiently they will go /to the polls and get it. Americans fiave no patience with the fool who -■would have us believe that the way •tp procure better government is by ■destroying all government. We have ibeen too lenient with anarchists and Industrial Workers of the World and their ilk. The only thing they can understand is the kind of force they employ and the law should be brought to bear upon ihem with all the power and vigor of the federal courts. They must be made to feel the heavy hand of Uncle Sam. The hunt for them should not cease un til every one of the brutes has been hunted to his hole and put where he will throw no more bombs. PUERILE OPPOSITION OME remarkable objections to the Hess bills providing for ' permanent sittings of the and Superior Courts at the are put forth In a circular jeaid to have been issued by the County Bar Association. fThis circular is being sent, accord ling to advices from Pittsburgh, to fhoards of trade and other civic or ganizations and lawyers throughout Khe State. Under the caption of >*' More Burdens For Litigants and 'Lawyers," the circular asserts that lithe passage of the Hess bills will ►add such burdens upon litigants "as to prohibit the right of citi zens to have their controversies de jtermined by the highest tribunals" pond "the most precious heritage of (American freedom is security in hav ing right and justice impartially ad ministered to rich and poor alike. ' some more of the same sort, ithe circular declares that "Its origin (the proposed change) Is undiscov rerable, that no reason for the revo lutionary change has been advanced k ,and unless opposed, the 'unknown ■ forces' are expected to compel pass ' page of the legislation." It was naturally expected when jjtbe proposal to have the higher , .. • TUESDAY EVENING, courts sit permanently at the seat of government was presented to the Legislature that some opposition would develop" In the quarters whence the most vigorous protests have come. But unless these objec tors are able to present something more legitimate in the way of argu ment than the hysterical appeals from which we have quoted, they can hardly look for very serious consideration of their protests in the legislature. It is preposterons to advance as a reason for opposing the two higher courts meeting here that the change would add burdens to litigants to such an extent as to endanger the rights of citizens. This silly appeal is on a par with the other sugges tion that there are ulterior motives and "unknown forces" back of the proposition. Governor Sproul and many other officials and lawyers throughout the State believe that the two higher judicial tribunals should sit regular ly in Harrisburg and now that the issue is Joined, let the truth be known. Instead of the interests of the litigants being considered in these frantic appeals, the real rea son for the attacks is the selfish desire of certain lawyers to promote their own interests by forcing the courts to meet in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. If litigants are wise, they will see to it that their repre sentatives in the Legislature are urged to support the Hess bills and to insist upon their prompt consid eration. For years it has been regarded as certain that there would be a con centration here of the judicial de partments, as there has been of the executive and legislative depart ments. This is the proper place for the sittings of the courts. There was never any excuse for their ses sions elsewhere save in the earlier days when travel was more incon venient and expensive than now and when no provision had been made at the seat of government for the regular business of the State courts. Those who realize the emptiness of the arguments against the prop osition should force a show-down in the Legislature and not permit the bill to be buried in committee or defeated by log-rolling or other methods. Governor Sproul would i be entirely justified, as one who fa- | vors more efficient functioning of the ; government of the Commonweaith here, in taking a hand in bringing about this desirable change. Mean while, it is interesting to observe that many of the most prominent members of the legal fraternity throughout the State are in favor of the courts having their perma- ' nent sittings in Harrisburg. These I do not fear that "the most precious heritage of American freedom," nor the rights of rich and poor are in the slightest peril should the Hess bills prevail. Xeither are they wor ried over the statement of the Pitts burgh circular regarding the pro posal that "its origin is undiscover able." Certainly, the "tfnkrtdwn* forces" said to be back of the bills are less to be feared than those equally "unknown forces" which are frantically setting up opposition .to the measures. When Governor Sproul started out to increase the efficiency of the State government by concentrating its various departments here, there was not a whimper of opposition. Everywhere his plan was commend ed and is still being commended. Why the judicial department should find it necessary to conduct its bus iness outside the capital city when the executive and legislative depart ments with, all their machinery arc located at the seat of government, is hard to understand and the rea sons advanced by the Pittsburgh ob jectors will provoke a smile wher ever the purposes back of the oppo sition are understood. Governor Sproul has the sympathy of his fellow citizens in the perplex ing problems which have been put up to him as a result of the contro versy over a wider measure of home rule for Philadelphia. He would be justified in demanding that the legis lation new upon the calendars pro viding for changes in the Philadelphia charter be given prompt consideration so that other important matters may be cleared away in time for a reason able adjournment of the Legislature. Philadelphia has held the center of the stage on Capitol Hill entirely too long. German leaders are now boasting that they will renew the struggle when they have a rest. That is pre cisely the opinion of all who favor imposing upon the Hun crowd such a peace as will destroy their will for future conquest. Our pacifist friends, however, are In the same frame of mind as they were before we entered the world war and it is quite the common thing to hear their protests against "unreasonable terms" for poor dear Germany. "More than Ger man people can bear!" wails Rantzau, forgetting the Hun record of un speakable atrocities. contrivances are in creasing in Harrisburg in proportion to the nonenforcement of regulations ..gainst open cutouts on motor ve hicles and unnecessary shrieking of locomotive whistles. We suggest that any candidate for City Council who bases his platform on less noise will make considerable headway with the voters. l-t the strong arm of the law reach out for the thugs and crooks who are now active in Harrisburg. No leniency should be shown these chaps and the police department should leave no stone unturned In the ap prehension of the bold highwaymen who have been operating in different parts of the city. There are still some millions of peo ple in this country who do not believe the world war was fought to estab lish a league of Nations. Also they think the Hohenzollern group should be adequately punished, $i ; L IK "PtKKOi^ranXa || By thm Bx-Committeeman^ The Pennsylvania Legislature of 1919 will adjourn on June 26. This j was determined upon last night at j a conference of legislative leaders with Senator Boies Penrose and the I news caused general gratification on (jjapitol Hill. Country members who I had been inclined to protest against I Ihe failure to fix a date, expressed ! as pleased that the an | swer had come so promptly to the i protests of last week. Senator Penrose told many callers yesterday and last night that he would like to see adjournment a week earlier, but that the legisla tors thought it could not be done. He said that he was against any more delays and wanted action on everything, including the Philadel phia bills. The latter he expects to see through the Legislature next week and urged that there be no more waste of time. —lmportant decisions reached yesterday by the Senator and the legislative leaders, including Sena tors W. E. Crow and T. L. Eyre, Speaker R. S. Spangler, Representa tives W. T. Ramsey and W. J. Mc. Caig, were that there should be no repeal of the nonpartisan ""-judicial act, no new revenue or taxation leg islation and the passage of the bill to increase salaries of legislators. Sen ator Penrose said that this bill would not affect present members, but that it should be passed as sessions have been running long and other States pay their lawmakers more than Pennsylvania for shorter sessions. —The conference also agreed up on a substantial increase in pay for the school teachers of the State. This is a general policy and only the details are to be worked out. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch booms Senator Philander Chase Knox for President in an extended article sent from Washington by L. W. Strayer, who also reviews some history. The Dispatch says in its story: "Although Senator Philander Chase Knox has given no sign that he intends to be a candidate for President, the belief prevails among politiciahs in Wash ington that not only will his name be presented to the national conven tion, but that a serious effort will be made to nominate him. Discussion of the Pennsylvania Senator as a Presidential possibility is based to some extent upon the growing im pression that the present session of Congress will determine the issue upon which ihe Republican party will select its leader for the cam paign next year. —From all accounts, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer is in clined to take the mention of him self as a Democratic Presidential possibility seriously, but not nearly as seriously as the Bonniwell people will take it when they find out that Palmer and bis pals are working to repair the Democratic machine for next year's delegate elections. The Palmer boom will also be an inter esting thing to watch the next ten months and speculation whether it will run risk of collision with other booms now below the eastern hori zon. will also be in order. Pennsyl vania Democrats are likely to suffer from a number of favorite son booms as a result of war and diplomacy. —Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart, here for a short time on his way from Mercersburg, heard with much interest some things about the Leg-' Islattire, and gave the impression that he would not care to be Gover nor again. —Woman suffragists started in last night to prepare the ways for the Legislature of Pennsylvania to act on the Federal amendment pro posing suffrage. They anticipate that it will be through Congress within a short time and it is the plan to have it presented to the Keystone State among the earliest. If possible, it will be brought up in Pennsyl vania first, as this State has been considered as against suffrage and a victory here would come pretty near assuring ratification generally. —Senator Vare's defiance of Sena tor Penrose on the police commis sioner bill and the passage of the Eyre nonpartisan judicial repealer last evening furnished enough food for political talk for a week. It looks as though the Vare fight on the charter bill would be interesting. —The second-clnss city assesor's bill was recalled from the Governor by the House on motion of Mr. Goehring, Allegheny. This bill is being strongly opposed in Pittsburgh as it would increase assessors and their pay. The magistrate's bill, a companion bill, is also in the hands of the Governor. —An extension of five days on all bills on the postponed calendar was granted immediately after the House convened for the night session on motion of Chairman Ramsey, of the rules committee. There are over forty hills on the postponed lists and this saved most of them from being dropped, including several of politi cal importance. —Pittsburgh newspapers say that Allegheny county's five judges of the Common Pleas Court who must go before the people next Fall for re election will stand together and con duct a united campaign. This was made in a brief statement by Judge John A. Evans,'senior member of the group on behalf of himself and Judges John C. Haymaker, Henry G. Wasson, Stephen Stone and Charles H. Kline. In the statement Judge Evans said: "In do not know what opposition, if any. may develop to any of the five, but whatever opposi tion comes we will be prepared to meet it." There will be no chance of dividing our forces." Judge Evans has been judge for twenty years, Haymaker for ten, Wasson a year and a half, while. Stone and Kline were recently appointed by Gover nor Sproul. —Much attention has been aroused by the Supreme Court rule on the Westmoreland county courts to show cause why they do not act on liquor licenses. The licenses involved would be for, only a few months but the points in the case will have State wide effect. —From all accounts the liquor bills will not be disturbed for some time to come ajid their chances of getting out of the House are grow ing slim owing to the position taken by influential people that the State should wait the action of Congress. A Bureaucratic Privilege [From the New York World.] . The railroad administration an nounces that reduced passenger-fare tickets to conventions will not be sold earlier than June 10 and that "more stringent regulations" will be applied to the sale of such , tickets "to make certain that only bonaflde delegates receive the privilege of the lower rates." That is to say, the priv ilege will be a characteristically bu reaucratic privilege and tied by the uaual amount of red tape. m - . &AJRJRISBUR.G FJSSSL TELEGTCSPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF UFE .... Byßrigg JoiueT YOU't-L FI/VJD ~ — —\ frvcPjusT TAHCW THAT POLICY YOU TAKEUU IS THE FNMT / , 5577 /TO SEN. H.A.R -MSUPAMCE CO. IWVeSTMCNjT IU TH£ / c */-svt JL-C~ I You A \ - I'M ThEM WITH VAJORLD- You SHOW A I \ > 5 ' ,T ftJSY AT / PpLi cv \ THE' BuiiweSS HBAO KCSM SEWSE OP 6OUUD/ \ THAT- \ C<£PA JR J \ HBY ? V -5 JuPfeME Nl T V - ~{ HA - HAH/THA- Dl-D roo ) f OIU TM£ SQUARES HARRY TAOWE OF (HCSE / YOU WEED A 6UARI>IAM- I \ POLICIES ? WHY You / / DIDW'T THIIMK YOU \ / I POOFT HUT— LISYEAJ \ THAT BAD A I / JOMEO o.t>Y IS ALWAYS I \ oS ft i OT TM A e poVcr ' V ® U3INJ ® &S rYAU- OH-H/ TPc JoY ooT ) NELL—AND OTHERS 1 1 wasn't fightin' for money; I wasn't fighting for fame. Or to save the world for Democrats, as some o' them statesmen claim, But I waded into the Boches, when ever I got a chance, An' kept 'em jumping' backward, till they jumped plumb out o' France. There wasn't much time for thinkin' when the shot an' shrapnel fell, But I reckon that I was fightin' for a girl o' the name o' Nell, (An' a girl named Sue an' a girl named Mame an' a girl named Flo as well). I seen what they done to Flanders, an' it kind o' occurred to me That we didn't want no Boches on j our own side of the sea. For they didn't act like humans, an' they didn't fight like merl. An' the safest way to deal with 'em was to head 'em home again. Just what I thought in the thick of, it is thunderin' hard to tell, But I reckon that I was thinkin' ofi a girl o' the name o' Nell (An' a girl named Jane, an' a girl I named Maud, an' a'girl named J May as well). There's always a little girl at homci that you sort o' wish was there I When a little General comes along an' hands you a Craw de Gare. There's always a girl that you hope to meet when the troop ship hits! the pier. When you've seen the last o' the kind of Janes that y' kid with over here. There's always a girl you are home sick for when you've been away a spell, An' that's the girl T was fighting for —a girl o' the name of Nell (An' a girl named Lou, an' a girl named Prne, an* a girl named Bess as well). —Exchange. Navy Must Br, Maintained! [From the Kansas City Times] Secretary Daniels urges Congress to "show its confidence in the cove nant of the League of Nations" by cutting down its naval program. He professes his own confidence in the league and calls the covenant "the most momentous document in two thousand years." The United States to trust to Its J defense to a treaty! It passes com-, prehension. Is the country to base its security on the personal faith of the Secre tary of the Navy in an experiment which has repeatedly been tried and always has failed? Mr. Daniels may risk his personal fortunes on any ex periment that appeals to him. That is his private affair. But the for tune of the Nation is another mat ter. China is appealing to the league to protect her. And how much pro tection is China getting? And if Italy-should get Fiume who would go to the rescue of the Jugo-Slavs? Not the League of Nations! The Navy is America's first line of defense. This Nation must see that that line is maintained. If it should ever be foolish enough to put its trust'in the good Intentions of the world, instead of in its own power, it will be inviting disaster. Hail!—A nd—Farewell! They died that we might live — Hail!— And Farewell! —All hbnor give— To those who, nobly striving, nobly fell, That we might live! That we might live they died— Hail!— And Farewell! —Their courage tried. By every 1 mean device of treacherous hate. Like Kings they died. Eternal honor give— Hail!—and Farewell! - —To those who died, In that full splendor of heroic pride, That we might live! The above poem is one of three from John Oxenham's book of verse called. "All's Well" (Doran), which the state of Vermont is using in a Memorial Day program for use in the schools. Says Texans Didn't "Bite" [From the Houston Post.] Senator Capper says in his news paper that Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas invested more money in fake oil stocks last year than they did in Liberty bonds. Speak for Kansas, Capper. Texas made some invest ments, but we take it that outside suckers owned most of the money invested in the fake Texas stocks. Our Strong Financial Position [From the Boche Review.] THE strength of the market con tinues, and no event of the week has shaken it. There have, in deed, been no real happenings of an adverse character. German counter proposals, it is true, present an in solent and defiant front. The pity of it is that the situation is such that these international outlaws dare come back with any proposals at all. This brings to mind regrets that the Wilson points and speeches were ever put out to vex the situation, and that Wilson intervention, when the German army was tottering, made an armistice possible; instead, straight thinking demanded insis tence upon unconditional surrender, failing which our armies would have marched through Germany. In either of the latter cases the world would long ago have been at peace, and the dangerous six months just passed, spent largely in working out ineffective ideals, would have been profitably occupied in vital rebuild ing of the world. It might have been supposed that the authoritative and solemn pre sentation of European conditions by Mr. Vanderltp would have given some halt to the steadiness of the market, Glimpse of War Zone [Congressman W. B. McKlnley in I^eslie's.] In the one thousand mile auto trip over Eastern France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Western Germany, one is brought face to face with the exhaustion of war. The man of from twenty to thirty years is gone, killed or disabled. Horses have been large ly destroyed by war or eaten. In ten days' ride I saw one hog, one flock of about one hundred sheep and one flock of seven sheep. In a pasture about fifty miles from Paris I counted one herd of thirty cows, in another group seven cows. lam sure fifty additional would aggregate all the cattle I saw in pastures in the ten days. Cows are used before the plow as freely as horses. In the war region you see crowds of Ger man prisoners filling up shell holes and trenches, but as in this section the houses are 'destroyed, great tracts of land are not being farmed this year. The population has not returned. Even in Luxemburg food and animals are scarce, because everything has been sold to the Ger mans at fancy prices. Germany is hungry. From information coming to me I am under the impression many thousands have died of mal nutrition, if not actual starvation. I was informed by some of our of ficials, stationed east of the Rhine, that condemned United States Army horses were sold for food at prices running as high as three hundred dollars. Our Government is begin ning to relieve suffering in our bridgehead around Coblenz. SCOUTS' GOOD Tl r RN [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] "The Boy Scouts deserve all that is done for them," said a noted Phil adelphia engineer. "Here's an incident which came under my notice: "Two of them were aides at a His torical Society party for soldiers and sailors. "On their way home they came across a colored man lying ill in a gutter with a cut on his head. Did they leave him there? They did not. "They didn't even call a police man to take chargp. They carried the man from Sixteenth and Locust to Eighteenth and Lombard, where they left him in a third-floor front room in care of his wife. "They were members of Troop 22 of Holy Trinity Church. They did only what other boys of other troops would do if they had the chance." If Germany Don't Sign [From the Philadelphia Ledger.] If the Germans refuse to sign, the first steps of the program thifs forced upon the allies will be much simplified, whatever may eventually follow. The allies will be definitely challenged—not five or ten years hence, when they may be less able to act unitedly and promptly than now—but at once, when their armies stand .ready to leap forward from the Rhine and their ships can swiftly re-establish the blockade. It is this fact which renders it most unlikely that the Germans will not sign— something! but the alternative which the speaker presented—namely, that America's help must be given promptly and free-handedly, the people in the market seem to have accepted as the alternative which would be adopted, and to believe that the wonderful energy, ability and vast resources of the United States would be energeti cally employed to help Europe safely out. as Mr. Vanderlip had said must be done if disaster was to be escaped. Evidently, over here, the problem of readjustment is being solved with comparative steadiness, and the marks of progress this week are un mistakable. The demand for steel has improved definitely, accompa nied by growing confidence in the trade. Impressive evidence of the country's undiminished supply of funds is furnished by the oversub scription to the Victory Loan amounting to $750,000,000. The large oversubscription to $10,000,000 In bonds of the City of Rio de Ja neiro shows what can be done in our market with foreign securities. These occurrences and others like them mean that the buying power of the country is something well-nigh measureless. The effects which may come from this are hard to compute. Socialism's Dullest Side [From the New York Times.[ Mr. Hanford Henderson, with drawing from publication a social istic book written by himself, an nounces that he "now sees that Gov ernment ownership and interference, and paternalism generally, are con trary to the highest social welfare, and tend to make a people ineffi cient, unjust and singularly unin teresting." The first two counts of the indict ment, inefficiency and injustice, need hardly be taken into the court of American public opinion. After the experience of the United States with Government control of railroads and wires the verdict is unanimous against socialism, no matter how it may be disguised. That socialism is "singularly un interesting" is the point which ap peals most to the imagination, al though it is the point which the socialists seem never to consider. The individual human has always been the most interesting of visible tjiings, whether he or she is on the earth, in the air or under the sea; in the subway or on the battlefield or in the cradle. This country raised twenty billions or so for war because each and every John Smith fett that the war would be lost if he, John Smith, did not dig deep in his pocket. We fed Europe because each American on going to his meals found his conscience sitting on his plate. The singularly interesting thing about the singularly unintcrcsting ness of socialism is that the nearer that method of government got to the perfection its followers promise for it the duller and more deadly existence would be. When individ ualism at last was locked up in a Marxian tomb with the corpse of ambition life would be as stupid as last year's telephone book. The Death of Grammar [From the Spokane Spokesman Re view^ English as commonly written to day certainly seems to have lost the purity and strength that it had a century ago. Then BUch masters of the language as Cobbett, Coleridge, DeQuincey or Hazlitt were jurnal ists as well as poets or essayists, and their leading articles lost nothing of effect on the public from being liter ature. The arrival of the age of steam, electricity and cheap postage was followed by a change, not for the better, in the popular style of speak ing and writing. "Say what you have to say as briefly and quickly as pos sible, ants don't bother about fine ness of expression" became the gen eral rule and practice. The new millions of readers demanded that their reading be expressed In the language of every day speech. Tl\e obligation of compressing conclu sions about important matters Into one thousand words, or fewer, is death, in the end, to style. The lit erary form favored is in touch with the turned up trousers fashion of wearing one's clothing. It Is free and easy and crar.ved with linguis tic atrocities. Pi oral subjects are polygamously wedded to singular verbs, and Ltndley Murray turns in his grave on account of the death of scram mar, TTTNHE 3, T919. THE GERMAN THREAT Charles A. Selden, writing from Paris to the New York Times, says: Stephen Lauzanne in the Matin re ports a talk with Henry Morgenthau, who, the writer says, has just brought back from the Rhine the same sort of threat from the Ger i man people that he heard from Wangenheim, the German ambassa | dor to Turkey, in 1916, when he himself was in Contantinople as American ambassador. In 1915 Wangenheim said to Morgenthau: "We know we cannot gain the war. We are ready to end it. Do you not wish to ask your country to intervene?" "Perhaps," replied Morgenthau. "I'll say to my President that you renounce—" "Yes," replied Wangenheim, inter rupting the American, "we renounce for the moment. We need peace to recuperate. When we are rested we will resume." And now, four years later, accord ing to M. Lauzanne, Mr. Morgen thau, Just back in Paris from a visit to Coblenz, has been hearing the same sentiment from Germans with whom he talked in the Rhine valley. "Yes," said Mr. Morgenthau to M. Eauzanne, "they have told me they wished to dominate the 'world be cause they thought themselves the best guides, constructors, organizers, and disciples of culture combating anarchy." Then, quoting the Germans direct ly, Mr. Morgenthau continued: "We have miscarried, and alt our forces are now too much overcome to continue. But our children will blot out the stain, resume our inter rupted work. Germany cannot re main conquered. She will find vic tory again and dominate the world." "Once more," comments M. Lau zanne, "Mr. Morgenthau has seen, understood, and repeated. What Waugenheim told him he has heard all along the Rhine. Thene are hun dreds of thousands of German chil dren who learn and repeat in their schools the same words the German ambassador said in 1915 at the Gol den Horn. "But who, then, will have time to day to listen, believe Morgenthau, returning from Germany, reported the truth? The poor Four! Poor The poor Forty! Tliey see only mines, ports, account. They [think that when they codified into formula a transaction half way be tween that of dreamers among clouds and men of earthly appetites they have created peace. They do not understand that the war has been made by the brutal will to dominate, and that we will have more wars unless that will is crush ed. It is not by mandates or cove nants that we can transfornj the soul of a race of prey. "Poor Four! Poor Ten! They have eyes, but do not see: ears, but do not understand; but they have tongues, and they talk—they talk." Want Roads Turned Rack Results of a questionnaire on Government ownership of the rail roads, announced yesterday by the Association of Railway Executives, showed the newspapers overwhelm ingly against continued control. The questions were sent to 13,424 news papers through the Press Service Company. The questions and the nature of the replies follow. Does public opinion, in your judg ment, seem to favor, the return of the railroads to private ownership and operation as soon as this can be properly accomplished? Yes, 83 per cent.; no, 11 per cent.; doubtful or not voting, 6 per cent. If so, is this opinion in pnrt based on the desire to see competition in service and facilities restored? Yes, 75 per cent.; no, 6 per cent.; loubt ful or not voting," 19 per cent. What is the present sentiment in your community on Government ownership and operation of rail roads? Seventy-eight per cent, esti mated public sentiment against Government ownership; 11 per cent, for; and 11 per cent, doubtful and not' voting. "• What has been the feeling regard ing the proposal to extenl the period of Government operation five years? Against, 74 per cent.; for, 10 per cent.;' doubtful and not voting, 16 per cent. In the questionnaires the .newspa pers were instructed not to record their own opinions only, but to ex press the sentiment of the territory covered by their circulation. It was pointed out that the vote apparently was not affected greatly by the pol itics of the papers, both Democratic and Republican organs reporting overwhelming public opinion for speedy return of the roads to their Lpwnexs, ' Abetting Glffat Four men having sod* water fountains In their establishments were asked about .the Federal tax of one cent per glass, because that Is what It amounts to when one con siders that a glass like a street car fare Is commonly associated, with one nickle's worth In the popular mind. These four men expressed different views, some of them heat ed, some calm. One man said that he hoped that the tax would stay. The others wanted it oft soon. The opinions they gave were Interesting, almost us varied as the ideas as to what will happen when prohibition comes in, which were presented in this column last week. "The soda tax is a confounded corrugated nuisance," said the first man. "It makes people mad; it cuts my sales and it makes a lot of extra work. If soda is to replace beer, its a poor way to irritate the public." "I hope the tax stays," said the second man. "It does make us some extra work, but it is not a bad idea. It affects a lot of people who did not feel the war. From several viewpoints I do not think it a bad thing. Let it stay on a while. We won't have to change things around again." "More people have come .in and said things about my place because of that tax than anything else. I hope they get it taken off. The city was just getting used to the six-cent fare when along comes this six-cent soda business and we have to work a lot to get it. Have you any idea what it means to us on a hot even ing? Well, come around and help get the tax," was the proposition of the third man spoken to. "Taxa bad. People getta mlf. Me not for, but Unc Sam he says so. I get," was the lucid discussion of the fourth man, who was born in a country where tax is a tax. • • * In the course of the visits to ob tain the basis for the above series of statements, the sum of six cents was contributed to your Uncle Samuel and the views of several of the patrons of thirst emporia were added to the opinions of the owners of the plants. Without exception they said unkind things about the tax and suggested different ways of getting • money. Two men, oddly enough, speaking a mile apart, said that they thought there should be a tax on collars. One, who was in an explosive frame of mind, suggested that automobile tires could be made to bear a little more because in his opinion they needed standardizing as to price. One man dropped into an establishment while the informa tion was being obtained and asked for iced tea. He paid a dime for what used to cost a nickle two years ago, but he grinned and said that he did not have to pay any tax and liked,<it just as well. • • • In opinion of some people who are familiar with things in Harris burg such occurrences as in Cin cinnati on Sunday when the saloons kept open all day and sold oceans of near beer, would be impossible in this State. It would bring down en forcement of the Blue Laws and shut up, as a consequence, every sqda fountain from Saturday midnight until dawn of Monday. The Ohio situation was that before prohibition went into effect, Sunday sales of intoxicants were not allowed. Ohio now being "dry" and the near beer not being classed as alcoholic, there was nothing to prevent the saloons opening on Sunday and selling "suds," as the brewery men term the "near" product. Public opinion in Pennsylvania would revolt at the idea of saloons being opfen on Sun day to sell near beer and if they do open for sale of soda water and coffee, it is likely that there will bo some recourse to the old laws in certain communities. The coming of the "dry" days in Pennsylvania is going to usher in an interesting period. • • • During Colonel "Joe" Thomson's speech before the Senate and House of Representatives the other even ing, a quiet individual in ordinary business suit listened attentively. To those who did not know the gentle man, there was nothing unusual about him. But to the few returned veterans of the Twenty-Eighth Divi sion, who were scattered thfbugh the audience, there was no mistake as to his identity. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Martin, of Waynes burg, who commanded the One Hun dred and Tenth Infantry during its baptism of fire at Chateau Thierry and in the three-day engagement on the Ourcq river, was held in high esteem by every man and officer In the regiment. As an organizer and leader he was the best in the busi ness,' according to their idea. And then, too, as it happens, he is the only man in the entire Twenty- Eighth Division who has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross with bronze oak leaf, for ex traordinary heroism in action at Courmont, France. • • • "Harrisburg needs some attention to mosquitoes." declared an officer of the State Department of Health yesterday afternoon. "The wet weather caused water to gather in many parts of the outlying districts! and the 'skeeters' laid eggs by thtx million. What this city ought to rloj is to Invest in some gallons of kero-, sene and go out and impregnate the! water that is stagnant. It will savW a lot of trouble for hundreds of peo ple later on. And If Dr. Rarartclr, gets started, it will encourage a. Jots of private enterprise nlorg thc-samd line." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE**"] —The Rev. Dr. Samnel C. Black, the new president of Washington and Jefferson, lias assumed his duties. —The Rev. Dr. J. R. Denys, of Pittsburgh, is to have charge of one of the sections of the big Methodist centenary exhibition in Columbus this summer. —The P,ev. Willlan F. Rentz, pro minent Williamsport clergyman well known here, has resigned and will retire from (ho ministry. The Rev. Frederick P. Haughton. chaplain of the One Hundred and Third Engineers, spoke at Scranton on what the Keystone men did in France. r DO YQU KNOW —That Harrisburg was repre sented in every branch of army service In France from chap lains to railroad trainmen? _ ' HISTORIC HARRISBURG' —John Harris'was thiee timet ambushed by Indians and shot at while running bis ferry on other occasions. ' \
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