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THURSDAY", JUNK 12, 1910
A voice within us speaks the startling
word, "Man, thou shalt never die!"—
Richard H. Dana.
A SCHOOL DUTY
TEACHING the school children
their responsibility as future
citizens is a duty \4hfch' de-'
volves upon the school officials and
teachers as one of the most impor
tant of the matters to which atten
tion should be given in the most
serious fashion. Unless our girls
and boys in the formative stage of
their lives are taught their obliga
tions to the community, there can
be no reasonable hope of any im
provement in our civic ideals. It's
all very well to discuss proper offi
cials and those qualified for the
public service, but unless the people
generally are fully aroused to their
share in the conduct of public af
fairs there will be no headway in
overcoming conditions which now
confront every municipality.
Dr. Finegan, the new head of the
State Department of Public Instruc
tion, comes to us with a fine repu
tation for constructive educational
work and in giving attention to the
future educational policies of the
Commonwealth we believe he will
be more than justified in devoting
considerable thought to the awaken
ing of the child mind to individual
responsibility for community prog
ress and commonsense administra
tion of the people's business.
The relation of the school pupil
to the community is a problem
worthy the most serious considera
tion of, our educational authorities.
As the girls and boys learn how
much depends upon them and their
future activities they will approach
the study of civic'duty with en
thusiasm, but they must be guided
by their elders at home and in the
schools.
HUNTING COVER
AND now Brother Frank L. Polk,
about the only official in the
State Department to remain on
the job, has resigned. "His health
will not permit," etc., etc. Oh, no!
No unpleasantness because of Mr.
"Wilson's refusal to tell the Senate
or the people-what Is going on in
Europe. Everything O. K., but he
quits! He's through! Never again!
Ee-nuff! So say they all of them —
McAdoo, Reynolds and a string of
others. That black storm cloud is
growing larger daily. It is the peo
ple's wrath.
A FITTING OBSERVANCE
IT IS very fitting that July 1
should have been chosen as the
date for dedicating the memor
ials erected at Gettysburg to three
of Pennsylvania's distinguished com
manders in that titanic conflict and
it is proper, also, that the State
should pay the expenses of trans
porting to the battlefields the sur
vivors of the hosts these generals
led with such marked success. It
was on July 1, 1863, that these men
went to Gettysburg on a far differ
ent mission and it is appropriate
indeed that they be permitted, as the
guests of the State they dared all
to defend, to celebrate the anniver
sary there.
The three heroic memorials to be
dedicated on widely separated parts
of the National Park were erected
several years ago to General Andrew
Alyrfpson Humphreys, General Alex
ander ila.vs and General John White
Geary. The stirring times of the
"World War\ and other conditions
made necessary the postponement
of formal ceremonies of dedication
until the present time, but now
July 1 has been officially announced
for the events.
What significance the unveilings
may have lost through the delay
will be more than compensated by
the plans now under way for the
event. Governor William C. Sproul
will make the formal address of
presentation, In which he will turn
over *the memorials from tha State
of Pennsylvania to the War Depart
ment. Secretary of "War Newtton D.
Baker will be present to accept, In
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THURSDAY EVENING, >ESXEBR3CEH: JUNE 12, 1919.
person, the trust, A battery of reg
ular army artillery will be detailed
from Fort Myer, Virginia, to fire the
salute and take part In the prooes
slon before the dedication.
As the monuments are so widely
separated it has been decided by the
commission that but one program
shall be held and that this shall take
place at the rostrum In the Soldiers'
National Cemetery—the stand from
which Presidents, Governors, Sen
ators and others high in the coun
cils of the Nation have spoken from
year to year.
It is a good sign that in the joy
and triumph of another great war
victoriously concluded, we have not
lost sight of the glorious deeds of a
generation now fast passing and that
we gladly give them the place in
our thoughts they so richly deserve.
A Nation that remembers and re
veres its heroic dead is as safe from
the insidious plottings of foes within
as it is ready to meet Vith drawn
sword the threat of any foe from
without.
A whisky bottle was thrown from
a train near Altoona the other day
and a trackhand suffered a painful
injury. The bottle thrower was re
moved from the train and paid a fine
of $lO and costs of $4.40. These are
tough days for John Barleycorn.
A POPULAR WRITER
THE illness of Ella Wheeler Wil
cox, which threatens to prove
fatal, has deprived the Tele
graph of contributions in verse that
have been published in these col
umns at intervals for years through
the medium of the great feature
syndicate byway of which her writ
ings reached the public. Mrs. Wil
cox is an outstanding figure in
American literature, a peculiar
genius whose place among the writ
ers of hef day remains to be fixed.
Some of her verse will stand the test
of years and nearly all of it has, or
did have when it was written, a
wide appeal. A little of it has lost
the identity of its authorship and
has passed into the form of current
quotation, among these bits from
•her pen being the universally pop
ular:
Laugh and the world laughs with
you,
Weep and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must bor
row its mirth.
It has sorrow enough of its own.
A± the age- of nine she had writ
ten a "poem" that attracted the at
tention of at least one editor, but it
was not until her widely, but un
fairly criticised "Poems of Passion"
appeared that she gained the notice
some of her better verso so richly
merits. Unlike many of the writers
cf her period. b"r married life was
one long romance until the death
of her husband, for whom she
mourned for year, and it was in
response to what she believed to be
the promptings of his spirit that she
went to France to take up the war
work which has produced a ner
vous and physical breakdown from
which her doctors say there can be
no recovery.
No more popular author has ever
contributed to the columns of the
Telegraph and it is with sincerest
regret that thousands of readers
will learn that she has at last laid
down her pen, perhaps for all time.
FOLLOWING PRECEDENT
THE select committee on inves
tigation of war activities re
cently provided for by the
House is made up of fifteen mem
bers, ten Republicans and five
Democrats. Since it is the purpose
of the committee to split into about
five sub-committees of three mem
bers each, this was necessary in or
der that no man should serve on
two different sub-committees. There
will be two Republicans and one
Democrat on each sub-committee.
Representative Garrett, of Ten
nessee, had a coniption fit over what
he termed the injustice of such a
small minority representation, as
suring the new members of the
House that it was without prece
dent. Whereupon Representative
Longworth arose and called atten
tion to the Democratic investigating
committee of the Sixty-third Con
gress—the committee on expendi
tures in the Interior Department—
which was made up of five Demo
crats and two Republicans, while
the Democratic committee on ex
penditures in the War Department
seated five Democrats and only one
Republican.
How the Democrats do beef when
they are out of power. _
OUT WITH THEM
THOSE Germans who have been
interned at Fort Ogelthorpe in
Georgia since the entrance of
the United States into the war, and
who have constantly rubbed into
Americans their theories of the Ger
man superman and the superiority
of the fatherland over every other
corner of the earth, are going to be
sent back to the country whence
they came, where they can browse
to their hearts' content, and let us
hope that they will never again trod
the soil of free America.
One of these is Dr. Karl Muck,
the former conductor of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. His name may
be significant of the character of his
propaganda. Muck will be accom
panied by a group of other super
men, including the captain of the
Prince Eitel Frederick, now the
property of the United States Gov
ernment. Most of the bunch were
active in weaving the net of German
intrigue which was responsible for
getting a lot of otherwise decent
citizens into trouble. What causes
most surprise in the mind of the
average American is the great con
sideration which has been given
these pro-German propagandists by
those in authority in Washington.
It is high time that the country
was rid of them.
IfotitU* Lk
*PtKo^6ra>ua.
By tlte Kx-Committeeman
Latest objections to the Philadel
phia charter bill, which developed
after the bill had been passed
I through the House with only two
votes in opposition, are not regarded
as serious and the general opinion
is that the charter bill will find its
way to the Governor's desk a week
hence. The objections were raised
by Senator E. H. Vare, whose House
people had acclaimed the bill as
one of the grand pieces of legisla
tion of the whole session, but the
temper of the members of the Gen
eral Assembly is against any fur
ther delays because of the charter.
The objections were not consid
ered serious either by Senator Boies
Penrose, Attorney General William
I. Sqhaffer or John C. Winston,
chairman of the charter committee,
when they were told about them,
Mr. Schaffer being as insistent that
the bill was all right as he was on
the amendments, which the charter
i people accepted and which the Vare
element cheered so heartily. It Is
the plan to make such changes, as
would be needed to complete the
Philadelphia legislation in the reg
istration commission bill, which is
in the hands of a conference com
mittee, and let the House amend
ments to the charter bill be con
curred in, which would result in the
bill being passed early next week.
No matter what else Is done there
will be a ruction over the registra
tion bill, but as it will be in the
conference committee, it will not
disturb the Legislature until the
committee reports.
—The woman suffrage people
were disappointed yesterday in not
getting action on the ratification
resolution. The judiciary general
committee did not meet, and Gover
nor Sproul, Senator Penrose and
Senator Crow were out of the city.
However, the committee is to meet
again on Tuesday. On that day
there, will be a mobilization of the
pro and anti-suffragists in Harris
burg and some strenuous times may
be looked for. There is talk of a
hearing, which will be opposed by
the suffragists. Strong pressure Is
being brought to have the resolution
for ratification acted upon next
week.
—Opponents of the fishermen's
license bill, who lost their fight in
the House this week, are planning
to carry their campaign to the Sen
ate, whose committee in charge of
the bill has not yet given any signs
6f action. The point that the bill
will raise enough money to care for
the Department of Fisheries and
thus relieve the State Treasuiy to
extent of probably half a million
dollars in two years, is being much
mused about the Capitol, while much
the same argument is being used
against the bill as was used against
hunters' licenses some years ago. It
was said about the £apitol to-day
that the opponents of the bill would
have been able to defeat it if they!
had been able to keep their people
In the House. As it was, Richard
Powell, in charge of the bill, seized
a favorable opportunity and called
the bill up. The men fighting the
bill were caught off their -guard.
Many members voted agairist the
effort to recall the bill as establish
ing a dangerous precedent, especial
ly in the closing days of the session.
—Chester D. Potter, formerly con
nected with the Pittsburgh Dispatch
as legislative correspondent and now
active in insurance affairs, was here
this week to see the Legislature at
wqrk.
—The Philadelphia Press says re
garding certain features of the Phil
adelphia charter bill: "'The provision
against the participation of police
and firemen in politics merely sup
plies some strong teeth to the pres
ent toothless Shern law. To keep
the armed and uniformed police
from active participation in city pol
itics has been the aspiration of re
formers for half a century. The
Fifth Ward troubles of two years
ago show how greatly such exclu
sion is needed here. This part of
the bill is a large reform. To check
the pernicious political activity of
City Hall clerks and employes in
city politics was also aimed at by
this bill, but there it failed. The
elimination of this feature is one of
the concessions which Attorney
General Schaffer made necessary. It
weakens the hill, but doubtless
aided its passage."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer pays
this compliment to Speaker Spang
ler in its "Who's Who" column:
"Robert S. Spangler, Speaker of the
House of Representatives received
an exceptional expression of confi
dence and appreciation from his fel
low members of the General Assem
bly in the vote sustaining his ruling
last week upon the appeal from his
decision in the Philadelphia charter
legislation fight. There was mani
fested evidence of friendship and
regard even from those who for
factional or other considerations
spoke against his contention that
the proposed referendum vote was
In violation of the spirit of the
State constitution. Speaker Spang
ler has shown a disposition to be
absolutely impartial and while this
has been a remarkably harmonious
session, compared with many pre
vious gatherings, whenever there has
been a brush on the floor, the dis
putants have had no occasion to
question the fairness of the Speaker.
—"Probably not for years has
there been such an absence of parti
san or personal feeling among the
great body of the membership of the
Legislature. Governor Sproul has
been supported in practically every
measure of general scope which he
has sponsored. Even the Democrats
have concurred in what are known
as administration measures and
there has scarcely been a whisper
of party hostility from the minority
since the session began. The Phila
delphia legislation ajone has given
rise to bitterness and that feeling is
largely confined to the leaders,
rather than the rank and file of the
lawmakers from the Quaker Pity.
O'd-timc legislators recall with keen
interest some turbulent scenes wit
nessed in the House when presiding
officers did not have the easy time
which up to date It has been Speaker
Spanaler's good fortune to experi
ence."
Other Big Crops
Nothing has been said officially
yet about corn. That will be treat
ed by the Department, of Agricul
ture later on. But several crops,
in addition to wheat, have been
reported on. Oats, for one, is re
ported at a condition of 93.2, the
same as at this time last year, but
considerably better than the ten
year average of 89.4. Rye is placed
at 93.5 at the pressent time, against
83.6 in 1918, and 88.8 for the ter.-
year average, while hay, both kinds,
is put at 94.1, against 89.0 a year
ago, and a ten-year average of 87.3.
The question Wall Street Is now ask
ing is: What will the West do with
Its money?— New York Times.
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The Industrial Titan of America
A Great Story of Pennsylvania's Wonderful Resources, by John Oliver La Gorce
Reprinted From National Geographic Magazine With Special Permission
TO attempt a survey of the
Commonwealth of Pensylvania
in a magazine article is "• kn }
to describing an empire on a sheet
of note paper; for more than a
dozen of the sovereign nations of
the earth as they were in the years
before the Prussian ran amuck weie
smaller in area, and more than half
of the rulers of the world governed
fewer people than live within the
confines of that State.
With vast natural resources, im
mense industries, pips the uncon
querable spirit of progress that tends
to create local happiness and na
tional well-being, the keystone
State, as it is proudly called, chal
lenges admiration and stirs the im
country, Pennsylvania has many
surprises for the investigator of its
position in the Union. One might
add the populations of four far
western States to that of all New
England and still have fewer people
than dwell in the land of William
Penn Draw a line from the Cana
dian border to the Rio Orunde on
the meridian that separates the Pa
kotas and Nebraska from Montana
and Wyoming, and all of the PC° pl ®
who live between that line and the
shores of the Pacific would barely
suffice to equal Penn-land s popula-
U °Traveling through the State, one
quicklv gathers the impression that
it is peopled with foreign-born. Its
vast industries have laid h ® kyy
drafts upon the labor markets of the
world in times gone by, and for
years not a ship that carried im
migrant to America came without
a quota bound for the iron, steel,
and coal centers of the Common-.
Nations Have Contributed
An analysis proves, however, that
even with the influx of alien labor
Ponnsvlvania outranks every other
State 'in the Union in the number
of sons and daughters of native par
entage. Even New York has a mil
lion fewer people whose parents
were born under the aegis of the
Al Stiil Ci the f State is distinguished for
its great number of foreigners. No
other State has so many Welsh,
Austrians, or Hungarians. It has
more Welsh than County Radnor
shire. more Austrians than the Prov
ince of Salzburg, more Hungarians
than any two cities In Hungary.
Budapest excepted. It has as many
English as the counties of Cam
bridge and Oxford together; as
many Irish as County Kerry; as
many Scotch as County Clackman
nan; as many Russians as the Gov
eminent of Kharkov.
Essentially a Thrifty People
Pennsylvanians are not alone cup
♦ inguished because of the large
numbers who boast of native ancee
trv for an examination of the cen
sus returns dealing with the owner
ship of the homes of the people of
the nation reveals the fact that it
has more home-owners than any
other State. They are essentially a
thriftv people. Nearly seven hun
dred thousand families live under
their own roof-trees —and the strik
ing part of that situation is that
most of these homes are mortgage
fr°Many men have essayed to look
into the future of the American peo
ple to see what the United States
will be when the nation reaches its
maturity. Perhaps Pennsylvania
can supply the answer. When one
travels through the farming and in
dustrial section of the southeast,
visits the anthracite country of the
northeast, wanders around through
the splendid valleys of the central
section, and then goes into the bi
tuminous and manufacturing region
beyond the AUeghenies, he marvels
at the number of people who find
there a homeland, and at the tre
mendous volume of business which
has been developed.
Yet Pennsylvanians know that
there Is room in the State for mil
lions more, and see no reason why
the country at large cannot support
a population as dense as that of '
Keystone State to-day. Such a den
sity of population would make ours
a nation of half a billion souls —
more people than Inhabit the entire
continent of Europe.
The manufacturing industry of
the State is an epic of human en.
ergy. What bit of fiction could
thrill more than the facts showing
how one-twelfth of the people pf
the United States, the busiest nation
on earth, can succeed in producing
one-eighth of the Republic's manu
factures and more than a fourth of
its minerals! Or what story could
appeal more than the one which
tells how a district constituting only
, thousandth part of the earth's
people produces one-sixth of the
world's pig iron and the same pro
portion of its coal!
Where Many Industries Thrive
Yet, with all of -this concentra
tion, Pennsylvania has a. greater di
versity of industries than any other
State, leading both New York and
Illinois in that particular. This ver
satile geographic Titan forgea the
heaviest castings civilization has
ever undertaken to make and the
most delicate micrometers that
science demands for traversing the
realms beyond tho millionth of an
inch.
With equal success it fabricates
trempndous testing machines that
squeeze met&lg to the tune of mil
lions of pounds, and makes watches
whose balance wheels measure time
down to the hundred-thousandth
part of a second, and chronometers
that do, mayhap, even ten times bet
ter than that.
Wide-ranged, yet concentrated,
famous for it sheavy manufactures,
.distinguished for its light ones, de
manding the most powerful forges
in the world, requiring the most
delicate turning machines, produc
ing raw iron which formerly could
be bought for less than a cent a
pound, and finished steel worth, in
some cases, hundreds of dollars an
ounce, Pennsylvania commands ad
miration for her manufacturing in
dustries and compels attention for
her position in the commercial
world.
Some one has observed that Penn
sylvania bridges span most of the
rivers of the earth, and that Penn
sylvania locomotives run over Penn
sylvania rails in the Occident and
Orient alike, across Arctic wastes
and through tropical jungles,
through the heart of civilization and
on the border of savage-land. The
clatter of the iron pig of Pennsyl
vania is heard throughout the world,
along with the squeal of the edible
porker of Illinois.
The -State makes nearly half of
the country's cotton lace, more than
a third of its carpets and rugs, more
than a third of its chocolates and
cocoa, nearly half of iUs felt hats,
and more than a third of its silk. It
broduces more asbestos manufac
tures than all the rest of the coun
try, and more bluing, ice cream,
hammocks and leather thnn any
other State represented on our
starry flag.
X Veritable Treasure-House
As might well be imagined, such
versatility in its manufacturing in
dustries, couplted with seemingly
endless natural resources, has
created great wealth. Therefore,
when it is stated that the estimated
true value of all the property in the
Commonwealth amounts to more
than fifteen billion dollars, on a pre
war basis of values, the mind fails
to grasp its full meaning. But when
one stops to consider that this is
four billion dollars greater than the
aggregate wealth of all New Eng
land and only five billion less than
the national wealth of all Italy, the
significance of the figure begins to
appear.
With this epitome of the State's
role as a component part of a pow
erful nation, one's interest turns to
the elements of its greatness. Poli
tics gave it the familiar sobriquet—
Keystone State. Yet even politics is
a matter of geography. Six colonies
lay to the east and north of Pennsyl
vania and six to the south, so it was
the geographical keystone of th? em
bryo nation. The early develop
ment of its iron deposits and opening
up of its coal mines made .it pre
eminently an industrial keystone.
By the time its limited supplies of
iron ore were exhausted the indus
tries based thereon had become so
well established that even the dis
covery of'unprecedented deposits of
ore in Michigan and Minnesota could
not break the State's position of
leadership in those fields. The Moun
tain of Manufacture refused to go to
the Mahomet of Ore, so the Maho
met of Ore came down the Great
Lakes to the Mountain of Manufac
ture.
Coal and limestone are as essen
tial in the production of iron and
steel as is the ore itself, and Penn
sylvania has both in as great abund
ance as Minnesota has iron. Fur
thermore, heavy manufacturing
seeks the neighborhoods of rich coal
deposits as unerringly as the fleedle
seeks the magnetic north.
The Value of n Favored location
By favor of location as well as by
richness of resource. Nature made
Pennsylvania a great State. Call the
roll of the forty-eight common
wealths of the American Union and
another will not be found that
shares with the land of Penn the
honor of being in navigable connec
tion with three of the nation's water
fronts-—the Atlantic Ocean the pulf
of Mexico and the Great Lakes.
Through the Delaware River the
shipping of the world may come to
the very foot of the chief street of
her principal city. Down the Ohio
tho wealth of her mines may float,
through the very heart of the na
tion, to New Orleans and the Gulf
of Mexico. At Erie are touched the
broad waters of the unsalted seas,
where the raw materials and the fin
ished products of the West and East
How back and forth in the busiest
water-borne commerce in tho world.
With the Delaware River mean
dering southward in such a way as
to give the State two great salients
into New Jersey; bounded on the
north by the forty-second parallel
and a bit of 1-ake Erie; separated
from Maryland and West Virginia
by Mason and Dixon's Dine, and
from Ohio by one that runs nearly
midway between the eightieth and
eighty-first meridians, the State is a
parallelogram except for the wan
dering course of the Delaware River,
the arc of Delaware State, and the
jog up to Lake Erie.
(To Be Continued)
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER FOUR
ABOUT 8:30 a. m., September 12,
we were sure a cheerful
bunch," said Major Frank C.
Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Sta
tion, ilarrisburg. "We were about
sjx kilometers back of the German
p'ont lines, had killed oodles of
Boche, had, nobody knew how many
prisoners, a bunch of cannon, twen
ty-one, to be exact, machine guns
and all sorts of other booty, and to
top it all we weren't but about eight
hundred yards from the army ob
jective where we were due at 9 a.
m., and we knew there weren't any
Germans to speak of in that eight
hundred yards. The first American
offensive, the Saint Mihiel, was a
success we knew, because we were
the pivot and we had broken
through, so even if outfits on our
left were held up the Boche would
have to retire. Just as we were so
particularly pleased with ourselves,
the rolling barrage passed over a
small clump of woods and out
popped two Boche, not one hun
dred yards away. Exhaustion,
wounds, thirst, hunger, all were in
stantly forgotten, and like a pack of
hounds after a rabbit we all started
to run those two Boche down.
Whooping and yelling like a bunch
of small boys we flew. Those Boche
didn't run a hundred yards before
they quit, dropped their belts and
throw up their hands. 1 hurried up
to them and found one was a cap
tain and the other a private. I
spoke to the captain, asked him
what he was doing with only one
man and he answered that he and
his orderly were the last* men of his
regiment, the Three Hundred and
Fifty-First Prussian Regiment. Ho
was a very bright man, about thirty
years old, so I took him along to
question at leisure. Upon further
inquiry he proved to be a graduate
of the University of Breslau. and a
very well informed man. After an
swering a lot of questions, he asked
me if we were English. I said we
were Americans. He said: 'Nothing
but Americans?' looking all around.
I told him we were. He then re
marked that of course we had
French on the right and left and
absolutely refused to believe me
when I told him it was a purely
American attack, seventeen Ameri
can divisions. He said T was lying,
that there weren't that many Ameri
cans in France, including the men
In the Service of Supply; that ho
had seen the official figures of the
landings In Frnnce, and that due
to tlje submarine campaign, we had
only been able to land less than
400,000 men up to September 1. and
that seventeen divisions would bo
450,000 combat troop". T told him
we landed over 300,000 in the month
of August, and he just laughed and
said that was a good joke on a
poor prisoner.
"A month later, despite the lying
reports of the German government,
every German officer and soldier
knew that at least a million and a
half Americans were in France and
that their government was lying
to them." J
WHY BOMBS?
[From Christian Science Monitor.]
Thousands of people in the United
States, reading of the bomb explo
sions that have wrecked the door
ways of judges, lawmakers, and
others having some official share in
the support of the public law and
order, are asking one another:
"What is the answer to the bomb
outrages?" As if, indeed, there
were any doubt of the answer; as
if the ansewr had not established
and written down in this country
long before such a thing as a bomb
had ever been thrown in the protest
of radicalism against the existing
social order. The answer to the
bomb outrages in this country is
the United States of America. All
basis for a protest with bombs dis
appears wherever the United States
form of government is really under
stood and taken advantage of. That
is the answer. It is adequate. The
United States of Ajperica has always
been the answer to Europeanism.
For the very purpose of giving such
an answer, this Government came
into being. It was the answer to
the monarchical tyranny of Europe
in 1776; it is the answer to the Eur
opean proletarian tyranny of to-day
But it requires to be understood
and applied. If the proletarian
hosts who have come to this country
from Europe—and it matters not,
for the moment, whether they came
voluntarily or were induced to come
by American capitalists in need of
laborers; they came seeking indvid
ual benefit—only understood the
American idea as built into the Unit
ed States form of government, thev
would see that their protest against
the government here, in spite of
their feeling that the government
is at present capitalistic, is as need
less as motive power to give motion
to a ball in the middle of an in
clined plane.
The Government is a government
of the people, by the people, and
for the people, now as ever; but
the people must consciously and
definitely tuke and keep their Gov
ernment for themselves, or they
must expect to sec it usurped and
turned against them. The founders
of the Nation made control of gov
ernment easy in order that the com
mon people might control it. If the
radicals, the Bolsheviki, and the an
archists in this country are not a
minority, if they really represent the
people, they can take over the Gov
ernment at any time by merely or.
ganizing and casting the majority
vote in a national election. They
need do no more than this in order
UniTert b 9t Sl l thC SOVlet • sys,om the
letilu ♦ states, or to make the pro
of wh!tT en "'„ 0r to aboli! "' much
of what they call order, or to take
money from the very pockets „f
do P thi!.' a r ,0 h ' iVe a revolu, iom To
the roc- h ° WeVer - ,hey must talk for
the Government of the United States
not against it; the free speech which
♦he So hißhly must uphold
hL C ° nßt tUtion ' not undermine it
thej must speak for liberty and not
for mere license; they must use the°J
to destroy° not it
and'thl?® 1 "*". 11, ,t h ° bonil>
thfs fr J on,ls insist that all
this if they should .do it, would
merely establish what thev wish on
win a w°t n " IIStI C basts ' whpr eas their
7' 1 ' }* << make it international the
fh;T Cr ,hat ha, f * 'oaf is better
than no bread, and if thev build
their social heaven in one countrv
only success achieved there will
sueee y ss P in e tl^ e e Wny to '"^national
So why bombs?
Britain's Huge Estates
' a r n ' w , ho > ,rp "* their names by Sir
L ° r d or Marquis, who might of
fer them a few pointers. These
British chaps know how the thing
is done. A thousand or so
is a mere drop in the bucket to them
An interesting light was thrown on
the great estates the' other day at
a hearing before the Coal Comms
sion.
Lord Tredegar testified that his
estate approximated 82,000 acres, of
which 18,800 contained coal. From
royalties on this coal land, Lord
Tredegar derives an income of al
most 8375,000 a year.
The Marquis of Bute confessed to
owning 1128,582 acres of land in
South Wales and Scotland, of which
48,878 acres is underlaid with coal.
From royalties on this coal land,
he said, his annual income is more
than Mi million dollars a year. His
entire estate, to which he succeeded
a few years ago, Is valued at more
I than 20 million dollars.
lEbmitg <E^at}j
Harrisburg may be among the<
dead when It comes down to profes
sional baseball, but it is certainly!
among the quick in regard to draw-'
ing crowds for amateur games.
There are half a dozen diamonds*
about the city which you can 10-.
cate by the cheers of the crowdl
any week-day evening that it doeS'
not rain. These diamonds include,
some owned by the city and the
way the men and women and the>
children flock to them after supper
is the best evidence of popular in
terest in baseball and an argument
against repeal of the daylight sav
ing law. The games are being play
ed chiefly by neighborhood men, but
representatives of different sections
of the city are among the contenders
and when uptown goes after a scalp
on the Hill the procession of auto
mobiles that follows the nine and
mobilizes about the baseball field is
worth noting. Incidentally, it may
be worth mentioning that some of
♦he games played at the diamond at
Fifth and Seneca draw from 1,200 to
1,800 persons and that the grounds'
in Seventeenth street below Market
attract folks from all over the Hill.
It is so in lesser degrees in regard
to other diamonds downtown and In
the outlying sections. The extra
hour or so of daylight after supper
enables games ranging from five to
seven innings to be played before
darkness comes along and the way
the crowds "root" is a revelation.
There is more real genuine local
pride manifested in the nines at
these evening games on the open
lots in Harrisburg than on the
average college diamond.
*
The Red Men's convention in ses
sion in this city, is the fifth meeting
of the kind held in Harrisburg. Ac
cording to the veteran member of
this famous order the first meeting
was held twenty-eight years ago.
The presiding officer was John M.
McCulley, of Lancaster Tribe No. 2.
He is now recognized as the Senior
Past Great Sachem. He has been
an attendant at Red Men's conven
tions for fifty-three years. It was
at this meeting that the late Gover
nor John W. Geary was made a
member of the Octarora Tribe of
this city. Mr. McCully is known to
many veteran Red Men throughout
the United Seates. Later conven
tions were held in 1885, 1904, 1909
and 1919.
• • •
Another veteran Red Man is
Richard "Rick" Chellew of this city.
He is a member of Pokoson Tribe,
No. 331, and has been identified
with the order for thirty years. He
wears veteran button given to
members who have been in the or
der for twenty-five years, and is
still active in service. He has been
a resident of South Harrisburg for
many years, was a long time an
iron worker and served as a mem
ber of Common Council.
• *
'The State of Pennsylvania accu
mulated another asset yesterday. It
happens to be a bear this time. The
bear is about three months old and
was found half drowned along a
stream near Renovo. It had become
separated from its mother and as it
was lively and took an interest in
things in general Warden Stout got
the idea that it would like to visit
Harrisburg and sent it to Dr. Joseph
Kalbfus, secretary of the State Gamo
Commission. So the bear registered
in the Franklin building back where,
T. Cleary, of Clearfield, presides
over the bounties and was given a
voting residence on the big table.
He was fed bread and milk and
made to feel at home. He will re
move, however, in a day or so to
Paxtang Park.
* * *
Open cutouts caused some caus
tic remarks in court the other day
when President Judge George Kun
kel was hearing a criminal suit.
During the examination of one of
the witnesses some auto driver in
Court street, just west of the court
room. opened his cutout and speed
ed up his engine. The noise was
almost deafening and Judge Kun
kel thundered, "Wait a minute un
til it's over." In about three minu-
I tes the case was resumed after
Judge Kunkel and District Attorney
Michael E. Stroup had exchanged
some severe criticisms of the chauf
feur.
• • •
A colored man, called before
Judge Kunkel for sentence, was
asked what he had done. He ad
mitted .that while intoxicated he
stole a package from an automobile
which he thought was meat but
which happened to be a rubber in
nertube. "Pretty tough chewing
that would have been?" the court
queried. The prisoner admitted he
didn't want the tube when he found
out what it was but the police had
already arrested him. He told the
court he was 69 years old and it was
his first offense, so Judge Kunkel
imposed a sentence of one month in
jail.
* • *
To minimize the punishment for
a crime results in minimizing the
offense in the eyes of the public and
the offender Judge Kunkel remark
ed in disposing of a case recently.
He said that from his experience on
the bench he has found that sus
pended or short sentences make of
fenses against the law less abhor
rent to the public and the guilty
person, a condition which should
not exist.
* * *
Harrisburg certainly likes to see
parades, but it does have a partiality
for Red Men's parades. There
have been half a dozen held here in
recent years and there have been
numerous parades of other kinds,
but the crowds that gathered yes
terday along the streets to greet the
warriors were prefty big and came
from all sections. A Red Man's
parade demonstrates that there must
be a lot of members of the order
to draw people from their homes
.to see the lines go by.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—Ex-Judge William Field Shay,
of Pottsville, was among visitors to
the Capitol yesterday.
—George C. Simons, prominent
Elk county businessman, spent a
day here observing the Legislature.
—William Flinn, the former
senator and Progressive leader, says
being in Harrisburg in June re
minds him of some sessions that ran
clear to July.
—Frederic Courtland Penfleld,
former ambassador to Austria, has
gone to Alexandria Bay to epend the
summer.
—George H. Gardner, the Allen
town contractor, has been awarded
big paving work in Bethlehem.
—General F. W. Stillwell. former
brigade commander in the National
Guard, was chief marshal of the
Scranton "welcome home" parade.
DO YQU KNOW
—That Harrisburg lcnlt goods
arc being shipped to foreign
climes?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Governor Wolf was the first
Governor to have his office in the
Capitol. Before him the governors
had their offices in their homee or
1 la offices they rented themeelvea.