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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1919
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Take short views, hope for the best,
| and trust i God.—Sydney Smith.
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SHEER WASTE OF EFFORT
THE Philadelphia Record, uot
always very friendly to prohibi
tion, is not so blindly partisan
that it cannot see the futility of
attempting tx> set aside the force of
i the "dry" amendment to the Federal
| constitution. "If the Association
| Opposed to National Prohibition has
t any hope of preventing enforcement
[ of the eighteenth amendment, it
' must move public opinion to such
an extent that persons opposed to
prohibition will be elected to Con
gress and the Legislatures," says the
Record and points out that "as
forty-five Legislatures ratified the
J amendment and thirteen can defeat
, the repeal, the prospect of undoing
' the amendment is not bright."
This is precisely the view of this
newspaper, expressed months ago,
I when it was reported that the liquor
men based their hope on an appeal
, ~v to the Supreme Court of the United
States ori the ground that the laws
of fourteen States, the Legislatures
of which ' adopted the national
amendment, require the submission
1 of constitutional changes to popular
vote. They forget that the Federal
i~ constitution requires action by
the Legislatures only and that
the Supreme Court pays no attention
to State statutes, being guided soleiy
by national law. It is. therefore,
evident that, notwithstanding the
growing tendency of the Supreme
Court to disregard technical points
of law in favor of popular opinion,
the court will act only in conformity
with Federal provisions, regardless
of State laws.
Money spent to halt prohibition
now is money wasted. The brewers,
the distillers and others in the
liquor trade would do well to keep
their dollars against the time they
will have to change their line of
trade.
WHY THE PUSSYFOOTING?
A STORM of indignation is
sweeping the country as a re
sult of the recent bomb out
rages and the activities of the De
partment of Justice at Washington
are being watched with increasing
interest. What many intelligent
persons cannot understand is why
after every such outrage statements
are made by those in authority, se
cret service officials and others, to
the effect that this or that head
quarters of anarchists and anti-
American agents is being more
closely watched than ever before.
If these places were known and
there was defir.-ite knowledge of the
sort of activities being carried on
in the particular locations referred
to why in the name of all that is
reasonable were the criminals or
ganized for murder permitted to con
tinue their operations unhindered.
Until the American govern-fhent
assumes an attitude of vigorous
prosecution in the treatment of
these alien propagandists of every
thing un-American we may expect
the sporadic outbursts to continue
with the inevitable loss of life and
property. Spineless temporizir.-g with
this dangerous element will only en
courage "further activities and result
ant indifference to what the govern
ment may attempt to achieve in
suppression of the menace.
There is a ray of hope that some
thing in the way of san-tty in the
policy of our government respecting
the deportation of the anarchists
who have been operating in this
country may develop through the
tecision this week at Boston by
Judge Aldrich in the United States
District Court refusing the petltlor.-s
Of certain anarchists fighting against
deportation for writs of habeas
corpus. Reading the list of names
of these petitioners one finds the
source of the trouble. Everyone was
a foreigner who had come to this
country to pursue his blood-fhirsty
trade among a people who had
thrown open- its doors to the op
-pressed of the world, but why are
the processes of the law jpermltted
WEDNESDAY EV ENING,
to interfere with the prompt re
moval of these undesirables from the
sell of the United mateof As noxious
weeds they should be Uprooted, to
the end that wo may have the sense
of security and comfort to which a
nation of free men is entitled.
If our national altruistic ideals
are destroying our judgment as to
what constitutes Justice in dealing
with these dangerous immigrants,
then it would seem to be about time
to revise our Ideals and give greater
consideration to commonsonse in our
treatment of the criminals who
would break down our institutions
and menace our welfare.
When you stroll about Harrisburg
aren't you glad that you are priv
ileged to live in this good old town
which is going to be still more at
tractive in the days to come? Let's
get together for another forward
shove!
NO WASTE OF WAISTS
THE United Waist League is
puzzled. It has a question that
might have given old man Sol
omon pause for thought. "When is
a waist not a waist, and when is a
waist a blouse?" asks the League.
We confess we do not know at
just what point a waist becomes a
blouse, but we think we know when
a waist is not a waist. May be a
very young waist may be a blouse,
or vice versa, just as a young frog
is a tadpole. Or perhaps a waist
becomes a blouse after the artists
who create feminine confections of
this variety hang about nine dollars'
I worth of trimmings on a dollar
i waist and then tag it up at the
I especially reduced price of $17.99.
But be that as it may, we
feel fully competent to judge when
a waist is no longer a waist. There
are many such in Harrisburg; hun
dreds of 'em in fact. A waist, in
our opinion, ceases to be a waist
when it degenerates into a mere
whisp of mosquito netting designed
to keep the flies away from the
highly ornamental silk lingerie so
many of the girls have on display
these days. Then, too, there is the
waist that loses its identity when
its owner snips the whole front or
buck away and leaves one forgetful
of the dress that should have been
there in embarrassment over the
charms of another kind so lavishly
displayed. Yes, we think we know
when a waist is not a waist. It is
when its presence is conspicuous by
its absence, so to speak.
CHANGING VALUES
f-f-. HE saying has come up from
I the dark ages that the way to
make money is to buy cheap
and sell dear.
As the Governments of Canada
and Great Britain are pointing out
to their citizens, one way to do this
is to buy standard securities when
general prices are high and hold
them for redemption when prices
are lower. Canadian W. S. 8.
posters urge investors to use the
present "low power" dollar to buy
government securities and to receive
in redemption at a later period
"high power" dollars.
Here is how it works.
Before the war you earned, say, |
for purposes of illustration, $3 a day.
Now you earn, say, $3 for doing the
same work. But you can't buy any
more with your five dollars than you
could with your three dollars—other j
prices have gone up in proportion j
to the price of your labor.
To-day you pay about SB3 for 20 |
War Savings Stamps with a par j
value of SIOO at maturity. What l
you actually give for this security is
about sixteen and one-half days'
labor.
If, some years after the war is
over, prices and wages decrease
somewhat you may, for example, be
earning and spending $4 per day.
Your War Savings Stamps become
due and the Government gives you
back your SB3, or the then value |
of nearly 21 days' labor, plus sl7 |
interest. In terms of days' labor
the Government is giving back over
four days more than it received i
from you, besides your sl7 interest. |
This changing value of the dollar i
ha.) .nade many persons richer and |
others poorer without their knowing
exactly how it happened. Now is
the chance to join the class of those
who are going to be made richer,
and cue safe way to join is by buy
ing the convenienc security—the
War Savings Stamp.
SIX LITTLE KNIGHTS
THUS far six officers of the United
State Army, beginning with Sir
John J. Pershing, have been
knighted by the King of England,
and it is reported that the stroke
of the accolade awaits that old salt
Bos'n Jo Daniels. Recently the
first carload of gifts from Euro
the first carload of gifts from Euro
pean royalty to the Wilsons arrived
at the White House.
Is it possible that Section Nine of
Article One of the United States
Constitution is to be utterly disre
garded and thrown into the Wilson
waste basket?
The language of the last para
graph of that section is plain and
conclusive, to wit: "No title of nobil
ity shall be granted by the United
States: And no person holding any
office of profit or trust under them,
shall, without the consent of Con
gress, accept any present, emolument,
office, or title, of any kind whatever,
from any king, prince or foreign
state."
These titles and presents have been
accepted without the slightest refer
ence to Congress to obtain the con
sent of that body. If the Constitu
tion of the United States is a hollow
mockery, by all means have it
scrapped at once. If it is not, then
it remains for the incoming Republi
can Congress to support It.
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By the Ex-Oommlttecuiaa
The Philadelphia bills, storm cen
ter of the General Assembly of 1919,
are as good as In the Governor's
hands and the ways are now cleared
for the winding up of the session.
The Philadelphia charter bill Bwept
through the House last hlght and
the registration bills went to u con
ference committee. The Senate will
concur In the charter bill and It Is
expected that not many changes will
be put Into the registration meas
ures.
When the bills left the House
there was a general sigh of relief
and members turned to postponed
calendars and began to call up
measures In a way that Indicated
that they wished to be safe before
the closing fortnight opened. The
Philadelphia bills have been hold
ing Interest week In and week out
to exclusion even of revenue and ap
propriation problems.
Just as an indication of the way
the House felt about the Philadel
phia bills it may be said that not
withstanding a plea by John R.
Scott for up-State members to take
a hand in settlement of Philadel
phia registration problems the vote
was less than 54 in favor of Scott's
side. In other words, many of the
rural members did not care who ran
the politics of Philadelphia.
—Senator Boies Penrose, who has
been here a couple of days this
week to help along legislation, ex
pressed pleasure at the passage of
the Philadelphia bills, which, he
says, are now up to the people of
the city to use for their advan
tage. The Senator will remain here
a couple of days more and meet
with friends from up State.
—With the charter and registra
tion bills out of the way the dif
ferences in regard to workmen's
compensation and the chances of
woman suffrage began to attract at
tention among legislators and the
many people here for the meetings
this week. The compensation con
troversy showed signs early to-day
of getting to an acute stage with
the State administration standing
pat and the coal operators calling
for changes. The suffragists were
urging ratification this session and
there was talk today that they
might win because of the attitude
of the Governor in favor of prompt
acceptance of the federal amend
ment.
—Defeat of the prohibition en
forcement bills yesterday was the
cause of considerable talk among
"dry" legislators to-day. Some were
of the opinion that if they had
"gone to the mat" two weeks ago
and not been postponed they could
have been passed on to the Senate
for action. •
—The committee in charge of the
Hess bills to establish the head
quarters of the appellate courts in
this city did not act on the meas
ures yesterday. Numerous protests
have been received and people who
urged the bills have not bestirred
themselves very much.
—According to what folks from
the hard coal regions say the mine
cave bills are dead for this ses
sion, but will be around next time.
—The bill reorganizing the State
Compensation Bureau is in the
hands of the House manufactures
committee.
—Commissioner I.ewis S. Sadler
will give a dinner for the legisla
tive correspondents at his country
home near Carlisle to-night.
—William Flinn. former Senator
and leader of the Bull Moose, was
a conspicuous figure about the Cap
itol yesterday. He came here to
look over the session and to urge
woman suffrage. Gifford Pinchot
and other Bull Moosers were also
here. An interesting thing about it
was that Senator Penrose was at
the same hotel.
—A second unsuccessful attempt
to present to the House a resolution
ratifying the suffrage amendment
was made at the afternoon session
of the House by Mr. Phillips, Clear
field. Mr. Phillips asked for unan
imous consent and when the title
of the resolution was read, several
members objected to its presenta
tion. Mr. Phillips said he thought
the House should receive it in view
of the Governor's statement, which
had just been read. He predicted its
approval in the Senate saying, "It
will soon be over here anyhow."
Delegations of suffragists were in
'the House when Mr. Phillips spoke.
—Dr. C. F. Swift, State superin
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
has issued a statement regarding
the defeat of the prohibition en
forcement bill in which he says the
action "was practically an annull
ment of the eighteenth amendment
which was ratified by the Legisla
ture earlier in the session." He says
the defeat places the matter of en
forcement in the hands of the court
and charges that "the State admin
istration in connection with the
Legislature has failed to provide the
needed measures to carry into effect
the amendment to the constitution
which they ratified." It is declared
that the failure to pass the bills is
a failure to keep faith with the
temperance forces, which will carry
on the fight.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer in the
course of a discussion of the Su
preme Court, says "There is con
siderable speculation- as to the pos
sible successor to Chief Justice
Brown. Attorney General William
I. Schaffer, who has been styled
"The Man of Wisdom" by that prac
tical and far-seeking politician, Sen
ator Max G. Leslie, of Allegheny
county, is looked upon by many as
likely to be a serious contender for
this honor. If Philadelphia did not
have two members sitting on the
present court, Judges J. Willis Mar
tin and Charles Y. Audenried, of the
local Common Pleas Courts, would
be seriously considered for deserved
promotion. In the notheren tier of
counties. Judge Jcseph W. Routon.
of McKean, whose friends started
him in the race last year, but who
quit when sentiment crystallized up
on Judge Kephart, of Cambria, is
still a prime favorite and he may
|be a factor in the coming contest
for the Supreme bench. Judge
George Kunkle, of Dauphin county,
who presided with rare ability and
impartiality in the Capitol graft
cases, is generally regarded as pos
sessing all the qualifications for the
higher court, and his admirers are
looking forward to embrace the first
opportunity to see that his claims
shall be recognized. Judge Sylvester
B. Sadler, of Cumberland county,
whose brother \w State Highway
Commissioner under the Sproul ad
ministration-, is among others men
tioned as available for the Supreme
Court election next year."
Baker's Estimates
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Republicans in the House are cut
ting four hundred millions out of
Secretary Baker's estimate for the
army, it looks as if we were going
to remember that the war has been
won and that the League of Nations
'will aee to ih that we don't have
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another. These facts ought to put
us in the way of saving quite a lot
of money, if the department /spend
ing habit can be curbed.
LITERARY NOTES
"Silver and Gold," a love story of
a western- mining region, full of ac
tion, romance and adventure, is an
nounced for mid-June publication
bv E. P. Dutton & Co. It is by Dane
Coolidge, whose "Fighting Fool,"
also a western story, was published
by the Duttons last year.
Prof. W. J. Crawford's new work
on "Experimer.-ts in Psychical
Science" will be published by E. P.
Dutton & Co. in a fortnight. Prof.
Crawford's previous volume, "The
Reality of Psychic Phenomena,"
which the Duttons published two
years ago, attracted wide attention
in both the United States and Eng
land because of the new methods by
which the author, a scientist famous
for his investigations into the physi
cal properties of matter, carried on
his study of psychical manifestations.
Fqr he used exactly the same kind of j
investigation and study that he was j
accustomed to apply in the physical |
sciences, and brought laboratory
processes and appliances to bear
upon all the doings of the spiritist
medium and seance. His previous I
book described his methods and re
sults up to the time of its writing
and indicated his conclusion that he
was on the verge of the discovery of
a new form of matter. The forth
coming volume will recount his fur
ther experiments and investigations
since that time and show whether
or not they have furnished further
proof of the conclusions he had pre
viously formed.
Lieut. Camillo de Carlo is an Ital
ian aviator who during the war un
dertook a very hazardous task and
carried it through to triumphant suc
cess, although every minute of the
time was full of perils aqd thrills
and threat of death. Because of the
dangers of the work and the courage
and success with which he did it the
Italian? government gave him its
most coveted decoration. He tells
the whole story in "The Flying Spy,"
which E. P. Dutton & Co. will pub
lish the middle of June.
E. P. Dutton & Co. announce for
June 18 a new book by Arthur Sym
ons "Studies in Elizebethan Drama,
a series of critical and interpretative
essays nearly all of which have not
had previous publication in book
form.
Edward Jenks's "The State and
the Nation," which E. D. Dutton &
Co have just published, was written
especially for the use of those men
and women who feel the need of
more knowledge of how society has
developed and of a clearer concep
tion ot the fundamentals of' govern
ment It is based upon his little
book, "A Short History of Politics,"
published twenty or more yea"
in the Temple Primer Series, "hich
met with immediate success and of
which many thousands of copies
have been read as text-books in the
colleges. To meet the demand for
a similar work in the disturbed and
uncertain presen-t day conditions Mr.
Jenks has rewritten and very much
enlarged the former work.
A Proper Refusal
[From the Philadelphia Record.]
Our Government has very proper
ly refused the application of the
Mexican government for leave to
move troops for use against Vina
from Agua Prteta to Juarez over
American territory. Three years ago,
in a spirit of neighborliness, we
allowed Mexican troops to be moved
between the same points and for
the same purposes, and all the re
turn we got for it was the bitter
hostiltty of Carranza to every effort
of ours to punish the Mexican-ban
dits who raided our border. If Mr.
Carranza cannot be civil, he can
move his troops over Mexican soil.
We do not care what Villa does in
Mexico and we will take very good
care that he shall not do much in
the United States.
Keep the Council Small
[Philadelphia Ledger]
One of the most reassuring devel
opments in the struggle of a reform
of the Philadelphia city council, as
part of the charter-revision move
ment, is the emphatic and unquali
fied con-demnation by the Governor
of the lapse of the revisionists them
selves in agreeing to an increase in
the membership of the new council.
Governor Sproul should make a firm
stand against any change in the
pending bill design-ed to give Phila
delphia a larger council than twenty
one. and he would do better could
he bring it about that an even smal
ler number were written into the
bill. ...
THE GRA Y MAN OF CHRIST
[From the Ladies' Home Journal.]
THE story which illustrates the
beautiful painting on page nine
of-this issue of The Home Jour
nal is lold by a California boy serv
ing in the American Army in France,
and was published in the Los An
geles Times.
This American boy—Evans by
name—had gone into an old church
in France to have a look at it; and
as he stood there with bared head,
satisfying his respectful curiosity,
a gray man with the insignia of a
general on his shabby uniform also
entered the church. Only one or
derly accompanied the quiet, gray
man. No glittering staff ot officers,
no entourage of gold-laced aids,
were with him; nobody but just the
orderly.
Evans paid small attention at first
to the gray man, but was curious to
see him kneel in the church, pray
ing. The minutes passed until full
three-quarters of an hour had gone
by before the gray man arose from
his knees.
Evans went out of the church at
the same time with the French gen
eral and was surprised to see sol
diers salute this man in great ex
citement, and women and children
stop in their tracks with awe-struck
faces as he passed.
It was Foch. And now Evans
counts the experience as the great
est of his life.
Commenting editorially on the in
cident the Los Angeles Times says:
As the tide of battle in the great
war turned more and more from
doubt and anxiety to the certainty
of victory, there loomed with start
ling vividness in the world's imagia
ation the figure of one man whose
genuis has exceeded that of any
other soldier of whom time has
made record.
This man is General Ferdinand
Foch —the Gray Man of Christ.
This has been Christ's war
Christ on one side, and all that
stood opposed to Christ on the other
side. Asd the generalissimo, in su
preme command of all the armies
that fought on the side of Christ,
is Christ's man.
The fact is, that the deeper we
question as to who Foch is, the
clearer is the answer that in every
act of his life and in every thought
of . his brain he is Christ's man.
If you were to ask him, "Are you
Christ's man?" he would answer:
"Yes."
It seems to be beyond all shadow
of doubt that when the hour came
in which all that Christ stood for
was either to stand or fall, Christ
raised up a man to lead the hosts
that battled for Him.
When that hour came in which
truth and right, charity, brotherly
love, justice and liberty were either
to triumph or be blotted out of the
world, Christ came again upon the
road to Damascus. Whoever does
not realize this and see it clearly as
a fact does but blunder stupidly.
There will be a crowding com
pany of critics when the war is
ended, and they will all be filled
with the ego of their own conclu
sions. They will attempt to explain
the genius of Foch with maps and
diagrams.
But, while they are doing so, if
you will look for Foch In some quiet
church, it is there that he will be
found humbly giving God the glory
and absolutely declining to attribute
it to himself.
Can that klpd of a man win a
war? Can a man who is a practical
soldier be also a practical Chris
tian? And is Foch that kind of a
man? Let us see:
During the three-quarters of an
hour that the generalissimo of all
the Allied armies was on his knees
in humble supplication in that quiet
church, 10,000 guns were roaring at
his word on a hundred hills that
rocked with death.
Millions of armed men crouched
In trenches or rushed across blood -
drenched terrains at his command;
generals, artillery, cavalry, engi
neers, tanks, fought and wrought
across the map of Europe absolutely
as he commanded them to do, and
in no other manner, as he went into
that little church to pray.
Nor was it an unusual thing for
General Foch to do. There Is no
day that he did not do the same
thing if there was a church that
he could reach. He never failed
during the war to spend an hour
on his knees every morning; and
every night it was the same.
Moreover, it was not a new thing
with him. He has done it his
whole life long.
If young Evans could have fol
lowed the General on to headquar
ter* where reports were-%.waiting,
him and news of victory upon vie- 1
tory was piled high before him, he j
would doubtless have seen a great I
gladness on the General's face, butl
he would have seen no look of sur
prise there. Men who do that which
Foch does have no doubts.
When Premier Clemenceau, the|
old "Tiger" of France, stood on the
battle front with anxious heart, one
look at the face of Foch stilled all
his fears. He returned to Paris with
the vision of sure and certain vic
tory. The great statesman doubted,
but the Gray Man of Christ did not
doubt. The facts in the case, then,
are that when the freedom of the
world hung in the balance, the
world turned to Foch as the one
great genuis who could save it
against the Hun; and that Foch,
who is perhaps the gieatest soldier
the world has produced, is, first of
all, a Christian.
Poung Evans spent nearly on hour
with Foch in an old Fiench church,
and not even one bayonet was there
to keep them apart They repre
sented the two great democracies of
the world, but there in that old
church they repieaentid. jointly, a
far greater thing the democracy
of Christ.
OPPORTUNITY
[By Walter Malone]
They do me wrong who say I come
no more
When once I knock and fail to
find you in;
For every day I stand outside your
door
And bid you wake and rise to
fight and win.
Wail not for the precious chan-ccs
passed away,
Weep not for golden ages on the
wane;
Each night I burn the record of the
day—
At sunrise every soul is born
again!
Laugh like a boy at splendors that
have sped,
To vanished joys be deaf, and
blind and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past
with its dead,
But n-ever bind a moment yet to
come.
Though deep in mire, wring not
your hands and weep;
I lend my arm to all who say "I
can."
No shame-faced outcast ever sank so
deep,
But yet might rise and be again a
man.
Labor Shortage Forecast
[Manufacturers' Record]
We venture the prediction that
before next year the labor shortage
will be so great that buslr/essmen
and farmers wtll be scrambling for
I men. To meet this condition labor
saving machinery should be brought
' into use everywhere and as rapidly
las possible. Household work can
| be lessened greatly by modern elec
j trie equipment. Work orr the farm
i and In the factory still offers an al-
I most limitless field for labor-sav
ing equipment to supplant or sup
plement muscle power.
Every manufacturer should as
quickly as possible so improve his
| plant, and when necessary so equip
it with labor-saving devices of every
kind as to be ready to meet the cer-
I tainty of a great labor shortage.
I With an enormous wheat crop as
sured, at high prices for the farmer;
with general improvement in all
agricultural conditions; with high
way work getting under way on a
very large scale; with a marked re
vival of general constructive activ
ities; with a heavy emigration and
but little immigration, the labor sit
uation will soon become acute.
The wise man will be the one who
now lays out his entire campaign to
utilize to the fullest extent every
labor-saving machine available for
his factory, his farm or his home.
Still Watchfully Waiting
[From the Topeka State Journal.]
The United States is maintaining
an army of several thousand men
along the Mexican border at an esti
mated expense of $1,000,000 a week.
Since the people no longer have
their minds distracted by the Euro
pean war from matters nearer home,
[ they are likely soon to ask why we
keep so large a force at the doors of
a country with which we are at
peace. Something should be done,
and that promptly, to render such a
situation unnecessary.
JUNE U, 1919.
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER THREE
THE other day I saw a descrip
tion of a new aeroplane in an
engineering magazine,, so I
guess that absolves me from keep
ing my mouth shut about it," said
Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army
Recruiting Office, 325 Market street.
"It seems that early last summer
a man, on American, figured out
a way to automatically control an
aeroplane, to set the machinery so
t.hut on leaving the ground the
plane would automatically go to a
certain place, do its business and
disappear. That sounds like a tisli
story, but it is the truth. Late in
October it was finally perfected and
contracts were let. They got the
machine so perfected that before
leaving the ground, they set it to go
to a certain place, turned it loose
without a pilot, it would travel fifty,
one hundred, two hundred miles,
and eventually drop its load of ex
plosive within fifty yards of the in
tended spot. After hundreds of tests
its accuracy was absolutely estab
lished, no matter what the wind
or weather conditions might be.
When the machine got over the in
tended spot, the wings dropped oft
and burst into flame, and the body
containing its charge of T. N. T.,
dropped like shot from the blue and
exploded on impact with the ground.
The normal machine was to carry
a load of one hundred and fifty
pounds of T. N. T„ but machines
to carry as much as two thousand;
pounds of T. N. T. were to be built.
The explosive being actually con
tained in the body of the machine
meant that every last fragment of
the plane and its machinery would
be utterly destroyed, thus preserving
the secret of its construction. When
the armistice was signed contracts
had actually been let, construction
and deliveries had started, and the
contracts called for two thousand
of ]the small machines per day.
Think of that, two thousand bomb
ing planes per day, carrying three
hundred thousand pounds of T. N.
T., would go over the German lines
every single day, to say nothing of
a couple of hundred big ones, each
carrying a ton of T. X. T. When the
Roche started bombing defenseless
'women and Children in 'open' towns,
i they started something that had too
much of a back-fire for their nerves
to stand."
Why Strawberries Are High
[From Kansas City Times]
Strawberries have been higher this
year than ever before, and more
than double the prices prevailing
in previous years. One reason for
the high prices is to be found in a
report by the Bureau of Markets,
Department of Agriculture, which
shoyrs that in ten states the area
of strawberries this year is 30 per
cent, less than last year and little
over half that of two years ago.
Every state reporting shows a de
crease, which seems to indicate that
production of strawberries has not
been- profitable.
The estimated Missouri acreage
of commercial strawberries is 4,370
acres, compared with 6,840 acres last
year. Arkansas shows less decrease,
with 8,960 acres this year, compared
with 9,550 acres last year, though
there is a big reduction since 1916,
when the acreage was 13,880 acres.
Arkansas has a larger acreage of
strawberries than any other state,
according to this report. Louisiana
is second and Tennessee third.
Estimated production in ten
states this year is 4,332,000 crates;
last year 4,332,000 crates; two years
two years ago 6,9 20,000 crates.
The Roosevelt Tradition
[Frederick M. Davenport in the
Outlook.]
The Republican party can win
permanently its old place in the
confidence of America only by the
power of the Roosevelt tradition.
And the Roosevelt tradition was not
simply straight Americanism, so
called. It was above everything else
a belief In the progressive ameliora
tion of the inequalities and injus
tices which under modern economic
and social conditions increasingly
rankle in the hearts of the mass of
people. £nd it included, naturally,
the protection of the property In
terests and of the men of ideas and
business genuis and initiative by the
simple process of insisting that these
Interests and these men act openly
and wholeheartedly in the spirit of
public service. It Is only by the
power of the Roosevelt tradition j
that the American people can per- 1
manehtly prawer and the Republl-|
can p* ixanenUy triumph.
?Ebmtng CMjal!
It is not often that a deliberate!
body votes to exercise free speech I
and then forgets to take advantage I
of it. And yet that is exactly what l
the House of Representatives did
yesterday and such an experienced,
parliamentarian os James N. Moore,-
director of the Legislative Reference-
Bureau, says that he never saw It
happen before. This session of the
General Assembly has been markedi
by many unusual things and It has
been as out of the ordinary as was 1
that of IB 13 and as that of 1821
will be. But the House yesterday'
did the queerest of all. There was
a debate raging on one of
Philadelphia bills, as usual, when
some one moved to shut oft the dis
cussion. It was desired to end the
flood of words and the motion was
to move the main question, which
means that what ever is to be de
cided must be taken up then and
there. But Instead of passing the
motion, which would have been an
official assent to the suspension of
debate, the House voted not to do
so. But when the announcement
was made of the passage of the
motion, no one wanted to say a
word, and the House proceeded to
the regular business. There have
been several parliamentary incidents
this session and Director Moore says
that the record will be an interest
ing study to any one who is con
cerned in reading up such matters.
And it has been rare that the House
has moved to stop debate. Generally,
when any one has moved the ques
tion, the orators have run down.
Among visitors to the city yester
day was Colonel J. L. Kerr, formerly
president of the Pittsburgh city
council and in charge of base hos
pital No. 77 in France. Dr. Kerr,
as he is best known to many Har
risburgers, has been one of the big
figures in Pittsburgh affairs and
gave up his practice and left munic
ipal work to take charge of a hos
pital in the army. Colonel Kerr was
given a hearty greeting here and
told some interesting stories of
army medical work.
• • •
Any one who has an idea that the
general public is not-, interested in
the Peace Treaty has only to listen
to the discussions in the street cars,
declared a conductor this morning.
This conductor, comparing notes
with his motorman, said that the
"leak" of the treaty, was the big
theme in the car talk, being even
more popular than the approach of
prohibition, which has heretofore
been the chief theme among home
ward bound folks. The conductor
said that many of the people he
heard were sore that the treaty had
not been made public long ago and
inclined to he a bit fussy over the
delays.
• • •
In this connection a couple of
legislators wero telling stories last
evening when one said that he had
been to a moving picture show and
there were a lot of jokes sprung.
People were asked, for instance,
when shaves were five cents and
pretzels two for a cent. But the way
the crowd carried on when some one
asked: "When did the President of
the United States live in this coun
try?" was the real rich occasion.
• • *
Governor Sproul's remark that
everyone should support the move
ment of the Red Men to perpetuate
the Indian names will find hearty
support in this city. There are
many streets with Indian names,
such as Swatara, Kittatinny, Seneca,,
Wiconisco, Mahantongo, Delaware
and the like. More could be simi
larly named, although the selection
of names of creeks such as Conod
guinet and the like wiuld be rather
hard on street car conductors, for
instance.
* • •
Approach of the end of the legis
lative session and the time when
people are commencing to get ex
cited about bills, is being reflected
I in a big increase In the mail at the
Governor's office. The Sproul ad
ministration has been the unfortun
ate breaker of all records in receipt
of mail and instead of one bag, two
and three are dumped on Secretary
Harry S. McDevitt's long suffering
desk every day. It takes the Gov
ernor three to four hours to go
through what he has to and Mr. Mc-
Devltt puts in five hours on tho same
task, while the rest of it is handled
in the office at high tension, because
to-morrow is going to bring just
as much.
• • •
Many people are regretting that
the city fathers cannot find enough
money to provide more bath houses,
the popularity of the Seneca street
establishment being the cause of the
reninrk. This bath house attracts
people from all over the city, many
folks who could go to the big island
as easy, being among those who
gather for a swim away up town.
"Here are all our councilmen, can
didates this year and thousands of
people wanting to go swimming and
they say they cannot find the money
for more bath houses," said one man
last evening. "Some one is over
looking a good bet."
• •
There is a new way of designat
ing bills in the Legislature. It is
according to dates. Yesterday some
one asked for Columbus in the of
fice of the Attorney General. Secre
tary Howard M. Hoke handed out
bill No. 1492. Similarly in anothe."
office some one asked for Independ
ence and drew 1776.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1
—General H. C. Trexler, of Al
lentown, came here yesterday to
look after legislative matters.
—C. F. Huber, Wtlkes-Barre, coal
operator, here for hearings at the
Capitol, is one of the big coal pro
ducers of the anthracite field.
—Provost E. F. Smith, of the Unt
virsity of Pennsylvania, was among
people here to-day.
—A. P. Moore, Pittsburgh pub
lisher, was here yesterday renewing
old acquaintances.
[ DO YQU KNOW
—That Hnrrisburg third-class
city methods are being studied £
by people in various parts of
the State?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—French traders are supposed to
have been near here as early as
1 650.
Historic Tavern Burned
[From the Continental Edition of
the London Mall.]
An interesting bit of old Edin
burgh. dating back to about 1600.
has been burned. The destroyed
building, which consisted of a single
story and attic, was one of the land
marks of the Holyrood area. It was
the old Yew Tree Tavern, and stood
inside the bounds of the Holyrood,
Sanctuary for Debtors, within which,
in days of yore, the fugitive was freej
from the attentions of his creditors^