14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. KEWSPAPER FOR TBE HOME Founded 18Si Published evenings except Sunday by THE- TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard 2. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en- ) titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this I fiaper and also the local news pub- | isned herein. All rights of republication of special 1 dispatches herein are also reserved, j A Member American W\ Newspaper Pub- Isyl Assocla- office Avenue Building, I Chfca S go, j Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ' -jut *"'"*3- By carrier, ten cents a week: bv mail. $3.00 a ' year in advance. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919 The fate of the country doef not de pend on what kind of paper you drop | into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. —Thoreau. WHY THEY CRITICISE THE Telegraph is in daily receipt of letters from its readers favor ing or opposing President Wil son's course in the matter of the League of Nations. One anonymous writer urges us to "come out strong against everything Wilsonian." These communications are not al ways in good temper, but they serve to demonstrate the interest of the American public in what is going on at Paris. President Wilson's apologists are constantly excusing his weather vane tactics, but the average Ameri can is not going to overlook the President's inconsistencies and his flagrant disregard of the rights of the United States Senate, a co-ordin ate branch of the Government in the making of treaties. The people had a right to expect that his repeated declarations in favor of "open cov enants openly arrived at" would be observed in the peace negotiations, but instead of frankly taking the people into his confidence, he has been responsible for repeated efforts to keep his countrymen in the dark. There are those who will continue to criticise the attitude of the United] States Senators, but these critics j must remember that a grave obliga- I tion rests upon the upper branch | of Congress and its responsibility! cannot be shifted on the score of patriotism or any other pretext. The people of the United States have a right to expect that the Senate will j discharge its full duty in this criti- ] cal hour and without reference to the ruffled feelings of President Wil-j son or those who believe that he is j a super-man, in spite of his frequent] changes of front on vital features of i the peace treaty and the incidental ' League of Nations. Governor Sproui has met public j expectation in the reappointment of Captain George F. Lumb, as the act ting superintendent of the Depart ment of State Police. Captain Lumb has demonstrated in the most effi cient manner has unusual fitness for this important post. His large mili tary experience and high ideals of public service admirably qualify him | for the important duties devolving j upon the superintendent in the or ganization and supervision of the constabulary of the Commonwealth. He can be trusted to organize the new Harrisburg troop. Just author ized by the Legislature and approved by the Governor, as a model for the whole organization. A P. R. R. PRODUCT A WRITER, in the New York Sun. commenting upon the election of Samuel M. Vau clain to the presidency of the Bald win Locomotive Works, recalls that not o many years ago "Sam" was a machinist's helper in the Penn-] sylvania Railroad shops at Altoona. ] And so, indeed, he was. as many it I veteran of the Middle division will fell you. for Vauclain was at one 1 time "one of the hands," and a few i years later was recognized from Altoona to Harrisburg as the "best engine mechanic on the division." : As such he got out of trouble more than one locomotive manned by j engineers older than himself, most' of whom are now on the retired list. All of which points anew the les son that opportunity is not dead in America; that the machinist of to day may be the corporation presi dent of to-morrow, that advance ment comes as the reward of indi vidual effort and ability and that poverty and riches are next door neighbors in America. Also, this I henomenal rise of the former ma g• - mist's helper Is seriously in con i t with some very popu'ar actions tf compulsory education, for at six teen. when most of his companions were at school, Vauclain was clean- FRIDAY EVENING, SLAJUUSBURO iSßft "nstEGRXPK JUNE 13, 1919. Ins flue" and polishing the brass work on engines in the Altoona roundhouse. Vauclain, however, was not an ordinary lad, for after twelve hours in the shops, he spent his evenings in study of technical subjects, so that what he missed of common school education he gained , in specialization. That kind of a life, plus brains and energy, will take a boy anywhere he aspires to go. J But "Sam" Vauclain is not the only captain of industry the Altoona shops has produced. What a re- j union it would be if they all got i together—Majoir General W. W. | Atterbury, who .was a vital factor j in winning the World War while in charge of all the American railroads j in FYance; Gen. Sir Henry Worth' 1 Thornton, placed by Great Britain at: the head of the Great Eastern Rail- i way. and another war winner; Sam- i uel Rea, president of the Pennsyl- ] 1 vania Railroad, not to mention j Alexander J. Cassatt, former presi- | dent of the same company, and a host of others who have made their j mark and their fortunes in the j railroad world. The "Pennsy" re- i cruits from the ranks and merit is | the watchword of those who are| constantly on the lookout for men' to fill important places. There is] nothing miraculous about Vauclain's ; advance. He is the logical product ] of his own industry, ability and j ambition. Supplementing the activities of the ; hotels of the city, the Homes Register j Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce I is doing a commendable work. Scores , and hundreds of rooms in private j homes available for the hotel ovet-j flow are registered at the beadquar- i ters of the Chamber of Commerce j and during the present week this j service has been greatly appreciated ] by hundreds of people. A BRILLIANT OFFICER WITH more or less frequency] there appears in important newspapers references to the I slight recognition which has been paid by the United States Govern- i ment to Admiral William S. Sims, j who won the admiration of all fight- j ing men by his splendid service dur- ■ ing the war. Indeed, this fine Penn- | sylvania naval officer has quietly j returned home, assumed his duties] as president of the Naval War Col lege at Newport and without a mur- ; mur has dropped back front a Vice i Admiral to Rear Admiral. The Wilkes-Barre Record, com menting on this indifferent treat ment of a splendid officer, observes that Admiral Sims maintained the proud traditions of the American Navy in foreign waters and won the praise of the fighting seamen of Great Britain and France. Those who 1,-riow the Admiral understand his stoical acceptance of whatever is passed out to liim through official channels, but just! the same his friends everywhere be lieve that this brilliant officer has not received his desserts and that he is worthy of the greatest honors which can be bestowed upon a patri otic. efficient and gallant com mander. June 20 is to be another great day in the social activities of the Cham ber of Commerce. Under the general title of "A June Joy Jaunt." the busi ness men of the central organization are ■ going to give the new members ! a unique reception at the Colonial I Country Club. These get-together | occasions mean more for Harrisburg : than may appear on the surface. As j the live-wires of the community learn i to know each other better, the pro gress of the city is further assured. SPROUL AND ADVICE Governor sproul in an ad-j dress at the commencement exercises at Swarthmore Col lege deqlared that he would not give much advice, because he got too much of it himself and yet had none to spare. He suggested as an American weakness the free distri bution of advice in large quantities and significantly observed that every citizen "knows better how to run the Government than those entrust ed with the duty." He thought this was a good thing, however, as it showed interest. He told the stu dents and those gathered for the day that his daily correspondence was ] ' an instructive lesson in human na j ture, inasmuch as he got advice up on every possible subject. Manifestly, the Governor is find ing his large experience in public life on Capitol Hill valuable in shielding him from the amateur ex perts in government and political reform. In his Swarthmore speech he urged the people to stand firmly for the tried and proven- American institutions and not be carried into the currents of impractical and ut terly impossible theories of govern ment. He appealed strongly against all false teaching and left for the people this pregnant thought: "Where the spirit of the Lord is. j there is liberty." It would seem to the average i American citizen that the time has ! tome to eliminate the preferential i treatment, of German newspapers in ! existing laws of this Commonwealth, j During a long period of years the Ge'.nan publisher, working the old game of the German vote, managed to have inserted in many acts of As sembly a provision which compels sheriffs and other officials to place official advertising In German news papers. There is pending in the Leg islature a bill which repeals this mandatory clause and leaves to the officials the right to place the ad vertising in English newspapers at their discretion. Why not? MEN FOR OUR SHIPS THE War Department reports that 44,700 officers retired by the demobilization of the Offi cers' Reserve list —more than fifty per cent, of the whole number re lieved of active duty—have applied for places as officers. In the new Regular Army about to the recruited and that more than 17,000 enlisted men already have gone back Into the service. We should like to hear a report covering similar applica tions and re-enllstments in the navy and merchant marine. If we are to transport our own goods, we must have seamen as well as ships and officers of training and ability. The war has given us a sea-going element of population that it would have required a generation of peace ful pursuits to develop. Is it all to slip back Into land service, or will a serious effort be made to retain a large part of it to man our new and growing merchant fleet? IK "~P LxlhlCl By the Kx-Committeeman Exercise of the supreme authority of the House of Representatives to enforce attendance of a quorum for the transaction of public business has seldom occurred in the Penn sylvania Legislature in the last quarter of a century. It is not uncommon for the doors to be locked a couple of times and the, House polled to ascertain the pres- ] ence of a quorum when the men do not vote, hut only three times in the last decade has the sergeant at-arms been directed to bring mem bers to the bar of the House such as he was directed to do yesterday. The events of yesterday recall how in 1913 the House failed to show a quorum on a call and George E. Alter, then speaker, directed that I the absentees be rounded up and I as a result of a hurry call to the' Island, the attendance at a ball j game dwindled while that of the House increased. In 1909 the ser-j geant-at-arms went out by orders! of Speaker John F. Cox and arrested j a number of members as a result of the deliberate breaking of a quorum j by up-State members under leader- | ship of some men who hold rather | -Important positions to-day. This occurred on a Thursday and the next Monday night half the House I was haled to the space in front of ] the desks and the incident forgotten. | Absence without leave is serious only when conditions become such as they have grown this session j through the dragging along of busi ness or when things are tense such as they were ten years ago. Some twenty-six years ago the House was polled one afternoon when a big ball game was on. This was when the old Capitol was still standing and the members were thoroughly scared and the sight of | men climbing in windows was re-1 called yeserday by some of the old timers. It was a rare event and a couple of the older newspapermen talked about the frightened state of the members. —The most serious outbreak in the history of the House occurred in 1911 when M. Clyde Kelly, now in Congress, and George Baldwin, now judge of Beaver county, de clined to take their seats at the di- i rection of Speaker Cox and precipi tated a small sized riot in which the sergeant-at-arms took the mace to them and was defied. The members got into a serious wrangle and an ink well narrowly missed Daniel L. Kiester, now mayor of Harrisburg, and then a member from Harris burg. Several members doffed their coats and a couple had fist fights. Some of the most dignified lost their heads and were only persuaded from making spectacles of themselves by friends. Through it all. Speaker Cox, supported by Chief Clerk Thomas H. Garvin, Resident Clerk Charles Johnson and James N. Moore and others at the desks, maintained their places, the Speaker demanding order, which he finally obtained. It was an unpleasant in cident and laid the foundation for some of the bickering of 1913. —The Senate has rarely had any troublulous scenes in the last halt century, but the House, because of its larger membership, has furnished much history. —ln connection with yesterday's developments it may be said that Representative Richard Powell, who was one of the figures in the debate, has not been out of the House five minutes since the sessions began. Messrs. Cox and Glass, of Philadel phia, Vare leaders, and Chairman Dawson, of the ways and means committee, are other men who have j not been away and their records are I with that of Speaker Spangler for ! attendance. Some of the rural mem bers like Bower, of Perry; Corbin, |of Mifflin; Berckley and Bowman, :of Cumberland; Rolard. of Craw ford: Mallery, of Venango; Jordan, of Lawrence, and others have good attendance records. Messrs. Ulsh and Bechtold. of Dauphin, have also been regular in attendance and were on hand yesterday when the test came. —lf sergeants-at-arms had been sent ' after everyone-of the absent members of the legislature there would have been a big bill rolled up for the State. The expedient was adopted of sending telegrams to men whom It was thought would prompt ly respond. If they do not, the House may demand that the men purge themselves of the contempt in which they stand, all of which would go into the Journal. —Members of the House coming back to Harrisburg in answer to the summons to explain absence I without leave encountered unpleas ant hotel conditions in this city. Practically all of those living at hotels during the session had given up their rooms when they left on Tuesday or Wednesday and on their return found the city entertaining the State Council of the Red Men and the State Laundrymen's conven tion about to begin. Hardly a room was to be had in hotels and many hctel men had been sending guests to boarding and lodging houses. —Speaker Spangler received nu merous telegrams, some of them declaring that members were very ill, while ex-Senator George W. Williams, of Tioga, who left the House a few minutes before the roll to ascertain a quorum was called, wired that by no possible train con nect'ons could he get here before 2 o'clock In the afternoon. Some of the members had gone to Philadel r Ilia fo- tho weekend and others to homes in distant parts of the State wtich tould not be reached under a U v. teon e of the telegrams came back to the Speaker with informa tion that the member addressed was not at hand, but in Harrisburg. —The Friday meeting of the House is the first in ten years, while no one refnembers when the Sen ate held a Friday session. OH, MAN! By BRIGGS I .SHOULD WORRY- —— . ■ ( ABoor THIS JUCY fieLieue 1 BUT! -'WHAT'S \{ O UT | s \ FIRST TH.nJG-ILL nr Does WT CO.MG TO HAPPEU /WHY OF \ , ,* !^ AL \/~ + V 6E ti^—M, ° p r~n WORRY M£ /To TH£ COUW TRR// CouRSS ) ' DONJ T CARS- 1r ME Too —S 12 — AMY { ITS I IN> (SEIJ'ERAL ?- If '"J" {^',? F / I- CAM 6sr HARRY , S A (SOOD l Ten. You Sill j COURSE / ALOUC, WITHOUT 7V. y TH ' 5^"F^ R Anus TA KEy __y . j r —v I ABOUT THE WHOLE ] / .SHALI. OR SHALL NoT/\i OP FOSEP BUT ,T MAKES \ / -™ E W- "A B Hs.* 7 j (** >) 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 (Continued From Yesterday) The Rollcall of Counties From the Maryland line to the New York line is 158 miles, while from the Ohio line to the deepest salient in the Delaware River sec tor, between Trenton and Bristol, is 306 miles. The diversity of physical aspect, soil, and resource is great. Southeast of the Blue Ridge Moun tains lies one of the finest agricul tural regions east of the Appalach- | ian chain. Franklin, Adams, Cum- j berland, York, Lancaster, Lebanon, Rerks, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware —was there ever a group of counties with fairer farms than these possess? Then come the eastern mountains and beyond, the wonderful succes sion of ridge and hollow that em braces the anthracite mines, the slate quarries, the cement rock beds, and so much else of the State's re sources. Further westward is the great Allegheny upland region, whose deposits of bituminous coal are richer than all the gold mines of the earth. A Canal Equipped With Amphibious Boats A high plain, undulating in wide, low swells and gently descending southward and southwestward, this area comprises more than half of the territory of the State. Its oil and its gas have been almost ex hausted under the demands of in dustry, but its _coal mines go on . and on. yielding more fuel in a year [ than all the world produced at the j beginning of the American Civil War. With its unequaled situation as respects the navigable waters of the nation, it was but natural that Pennsylvania should have early taken steps to develop her ifiland waterways. A hundred million dol lars were spent in the building of canals to handle the State's com merce. Public appropriations and private funds alike were made available for the building of a net work of waterways. As time went on. these spread out over the State like the branches of a tree. The Schuylkill Navigation Com pany built a 108-mile canal up the Schuylkill river, and at one time had a thousand boats in operation. The Union Canal, from Middletown to Reading byway of Lebanon, was seventy-seven miles long, with a twenty-two-mile branch. It had more than a hundred lift-locks. Sixteen of these were in a tunnel just west of Lebanon, carrying the canal to Swatara creek. The Mo nongahela was canalized by the con struction of sixteen dams in order to form slackwater navigation. The Main Line Canal, connecting Philadelphia with Pittsburgh, was in reality half canal and half rail way. The journey began at Broad and Vine streets, Philadelphia. Mr. Wilson Uninformed } [From the Chicago Tribune.] If Mr. Wilson had ever served at] the front in the, war, he would not have said that our soldiers died for a cause not strictly their own, but for the cause of humanity and man kind. It is not that soldiers are less altruistic than civilians. Indeed, in the constant presence of death, they reach a spiritual development that the civilians perhaps do not attain. The American infantry did not charge through the German barrage to create a mandatory in Armenia. The artillery did not serve its guns' to the death in lethal gases to obtain self-determination for Fiume. Our soldiers fought and gave their lives for their own country, for their America that it might live. Our sol diers died for their country. What the living will do about the peace treaty is a different subject. To attach it to our reverence for the departed smacks of impiety. Students Must Know Bible [From the Youth's Companion.] Beginning with this year, some knowledge of the Bible will be a part of the requirements for admis sion to Columbia University. Stu dents must know the epic narrative of the Old Testament, the history of the Hebrews from the Egyptian per iod to the destruction of the Jewish commonwealth in A. D. 70, be able to repeat some of the most memor able passages of ptbltcal prose and noetry and know something of early Christian biography. How many men and women of to-dav could pass an examination covering those sub jects? I Students Must Know Bible [From the Youth's Companion.] Beginning with this year, some knowledge of the Bible will be a part of the requirements for admis sion to Columbia University. Stu dents must know the epic narrative of the Old Testament, the history of the Hebrews from the Egyptian per iod to the destruction of the Jewish commonwealth in A. D. 70, be able to repeat some of the most memor able passages of ptbltcal prose and noetry and know something of early Christian biography. How many men and women of to-dav could pass an examination covering those sub jects? From there to Columbia, on the Sus quehanna. sectional canal-boats and railway cars were hauled on wheeled trucks. There the boats were pinned together and towed up the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers to Hollidaysburg. Here they were put on an inclined railway, dragged up the mountain by steam winches and let down by the same method to Johnstown. From there they pro ceeded to Pittsburgh through the I Coriemaugh, Kiskiminetas and Alle | gheny rivers. Waging a Losing Battle Inadequately constructed to meet the competition of the railroads, as j th° latter transportation facilities j improved and expanded, the canal system began to fail and now is! practically in ruins. Everywhere one sees decaying locks and rotting canal-boats, relics of a remarkable era. But recently the strain of the tremendous volume of local and through traffic is too great, even for the splendid railroad systems of the State, and there is a strong movement to rehabilitate the canal system and to extend it. Tentative plans have been formu lated to connect Pittsburgh with ] Lake Erie by a canal which will j touch Ohio at Beaver, enabling tho ores from Minnesota and Michigan to come into the Pittsburgh district by water, and the coal from the bi tuminous regions to float practically from the mouth of the mine to the Northwest. Plans have also been | made to bring Philadelphia into I touch with New York waters by a I canai across Jersey from the Dela y/are at Trenton, to Raritan Bay at South Amboy. It is almost impossible for the layman to realize what vast advan tage there is in canal transportation j for heavy and slow freight. It costs hut little more to bring ore from ! Duluth, at the head of the fresh- ! water seas, to Erie and Conneaut j and Ashtabula, nearly a thousand | miles, than it costs to haul it from the Erie ore piles to the Pittsburgh j furnaces, less than 125 miles. Cutting Down the Disease Harvest ! In matters of health Pennsylvania ! has always been one of the forward- i looking States. It long ago came I to realize the Commonwealth which ] is willing to give Its sanitarians ade- ] quate support can go before the | world with a clean health slate. In 1906 the State's typhoid death rate was 56.'5 persons for each 100,000 population. In 1915 it was 12 2. In oilier words, Pennsylvania's health agencies are rescuing 3,700 people from typhoid graves every year. The same situation prevails with I refeience to tuberctilosis. In 1907, | 129.6 persons died of that disease] out of each 100,000 population. In ; 1915 the.'e were only 97.8 such i i I deaths—a rescue of 2,600 people I from tubercular ends each year. Through a system of in spection of water supplies and sew- The Two Fountains I saw, from yonder silent cave, t Two fountains running hide by I side; ' The one was Memory's limpid wave, ] t] The other cold Oblivion's tide. • "O love!" said I, in thoughtless! i] dream, i! "Here in this dark and chilly ctEgam, j '! Be all my pains forgot at last." I t| ..But who could bear that gloomy] t| blank. Where joy was lost as well as ] pain ? > Quickly of Memory's fount I drank. ] And brought the past all back j again; ; And said. "O love! what'er my lot. Still let this soul to thee be true— ! Rather than have one bliss forgot. Be all my pains remembere'd, ; too!" ] —Thomas Moore. j Quentin Roosevelt's Prayer | When the personal effects of l Quentin Roosevelt were returned to , ] his father's home at Oyster Bay, L the following prayer, a copy of . which was recently sent to Mrs. . Hector Baxter. of Minneapolis, > Minn., by a neighbor of the Roose r velt family, was found In a private . book of his: i "Teach us, good Lord, to serve s Thee as Thou deservedst, to give and .! not to count the cost: to fight and I not to heed the wounds; to foil and r not to seek for rest: to labor and i not to ask for any reward, save that i of knowing that we do Thy will; . through Jesus Christ, our Lord. , Amen/ ' , age disposal; through its sanaLor iums, its Visiting nurses and it ao medical aid for the tubercular, through its tiee antitoxin service m diphtheria and other diseases, and through the employment of all mod ern agencies for keeping the people free from contagion, the State lias won the lasting gratitude of its citi zens for the longer, better and healthier lives it is enabling them to live. Millions of Seedling Trees I'lnnted Only threescore years ago Penn sylvania was richly provided with forests. A former Commissioner of j Forestry relates how in his youth j he traveled through almost unbrok- I cn forests of splendid trees from ! the mouth of the Sinnamahoning to ihe Allegheny river a Warren-*—sev enty-five miles-—and also from Clearfield via St. Marys to SmeUi port—sixty miles. In his day, he says, he has seen one-seventh of the total area of the Commonwealth cut over and made barren and des olate. Aroused to the necessity of sav.ug l,cr upland soils by lestoring to Lie bare nills and mountain sides the ] trees that thoughtless industry rc- I moved, the State oiganized a fores tiy l.u'ieau and acquired more than a in ": >ii acres, ivi/ch it is fast re foresti ing. Millions of seedlings have been planted and the work is tut well begun. Corporations, the publii schoola anu institutions of many kinds have joined in a gen eral "nin\rment to restore every actc of waste la"d to the condition which existed before the woodman's ax 'ik.x si.ch te'iiblc toll of the tim ber resources. No State in the entire Union has a broader or more comprehensive | plan of highway building than the i Keystone Commonwealth. Under a i law passed eight years ago, 7,500 ! miles of highway were taken over, i and recently a $50,000,000 bond is- I sue was authorized. With local and Federal contributions, the amount | to be spent will reach the enormous total ol $125,000,000. I Under the plan now in force some ! 300 routes are marked for improve jirent. These include jhe main high ! w.ivt between county seats, those ji. ning the State roads of .adjoining j ,-tn'es, and those connecting prin i cipal cities and towns. They are under State rather than local juris diction. In addition to bearing the entire burden of the construction and maintenance ot inter-county and inter State highways, the State will fin nisi: the counties with half tho I fu.-.ds for improvement for local I roads. One who tiavels over such splen did highways as the new concrete 1 road from Easton to Allentown w.ll not fa;' io appreciate the Keystone State r splendid good roads policy. (To Be Con tilled) "Bleeding Kansas" [From the Hartford, Conn., Times.] Kansas is still bleeding. Latest i bulletins concerning its condition are jof general interest. Apparently the j Agricultural Department's forecast j of a wheat crop of 197 million | bushels was not an exaggeration. A prospect of 400 million dollars | pouring into a State of less than two j million people for wheat alone is lone to move the stoutest heart. The great soul of the Nation is stirred for bleeding Kansas. The sympathy of sellers of tractors and motor trucks and pleasure cars and air planes will be especially excited. A great multitude of mobile persons will come from all parts of the country to aid in staunching the wounds of Kansas. For that which exudes from Kansas's wounds now is good, warm cash. -• Root on the Revised Version [From Harvey's Weekly.] Soon after the revised version (of the League of Nations covenant) appeared, Mr. Taft's ■ brother, Mr. Henry, and Mr. Henry's partner, Mr. Wtckersham, hailed Mr. Root upon the street and asked that distin guished statesman If he did not con sider that the corrected covenant embodied all essential amendments suggested by himself. Now every body knows that Mr. Root has no superior in the selection of words designed to express precisely the thought in his mind, but never be fore has he demonstarted it better than when he ejaculated: "Hell, no!" | —and went hie way. Damon Sproul,Pythias Palmer Governor Sproul, otherwise "Bill," and United States Attorney General Palmer, otherwise "Mitch," chums at Swarthmore, hobnobbed at the commencement exercises of the old college this week. Here is the way the president introduced them: "You are favored in having at your two academic occasions, bacca lnureate nnd commencement, the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Attorney General of the United States. It would have been a mem orable event at any commencement season to have had the Governor of this State and the Attorney General of the United States, the one the most important political officer in a great Commonwealth of over seven million, the other holding per-' haps the highest political office which a lawyer in the United States can attain. "When we remind ourselves that these dignitaries (or distinguished men) are just plain William and Mitchell or more familiarly 'Bill' and 'Mitch:' that they are class mates who have not allowed politi cal differences to interfere with their fine friendship; that they both are Swarthmore. alumni, who, in season and out of season, recognize their debt of gratitude to our college and are never too busy to give her and her children a helping hand: and that they are now giving to the State and nation Dy precept and ex ample those very ideals of co-op eration and service for which Swarthmore has stood from her foundation: when we remember these things, this event stands out as unique in the history of the col lege.: It should be an inspiration to you and vitally help you to realize something of what your opportunity may be if you each lay out a pro gram of life in harmony with the teaching and training which it has been your privilege to secure at Swarthmore." Legislators and the Law [From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] legislators who hold law in con tempt cannot expect the people to respect either themselves or the laws they enact. Members of the Penn sylvania General Assembly would do well to give some thought to that. Having done so, let them hasten to provide for enforcement of national prohibition. The tricks they are playing with this essential legisla tion do them no credit, will bring the Commonwealth into disrespect and in invite trouble that should not be courted. It is nothing less than self-stul-! tification for the legislature which] gave its approval to the prohibition amendment to refuse or neglect to make provision for its enforcement. In the end, to be sure, it will make little difference, so far as law en forcement is concerned, whether the Pennsylvania lawmakers have acted as they "should or not. The prohibi tion law will be enforced. It may be, and very probably will .be, vio lated for a period after January 16 next. That, however, will not be the fault of the amendment. And it will not convince any sensible persons that prohibition is unenforcible. Simply it will create a demand that cannot be ignored for the perform ance of duty bv the public authori ties. The next Legislature will have to pass an enforcing bill and it will be distinguished for the nhsence of anything promotive' of evasion of the fundamental law. For one thing, it is highly probable that the mem bers who are now so busv striving to prevent enforcement of prohibi tion will not be permitted to have a hand in the work two years hence. That also is worthy of consideration by the gentlemen at Harrlsburg. The present course finally will react most severely on those responsible for It. Items About Authors Captain James Norman Hall, author of "Kitchener's Mob" and "High Adventure" (Houghton Mif flin Company), is scheduled by the J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau to give a lecture also entitled "High Adven ture" during the coming season. Ellis Parker Butler, author of "Goat Feathers" (Houghton Mifflin Com pany), Is to give humorous readings from his works under the same auspices. The World Run When old Tribulation Is comin' 'round the bend, I've got a quick engagement At the wide world's end! For I tell him to his face; An' then he fears to follow, "My schedule is for gitttn' To the jump-off place!" —Arkajiaaw Thomas Cat. £b?ntttg (ttljaij; iw- ''■ ■ ■ .. II III* I The late Dr. J. W. Richards, for 1 several years professor of Practical! Theology at the Gettysburg Semin ary, was a strong believer in the future of Harrisburg. Twenty years 1 ago he favored the college remain ing in Gettysburg and the removal of the seminary to this city, pro phesying that "in twenty-five years Harrisburg will be the greatest in land city in the United States." Twenty years have elapsed since-this prophecy of Dr. Richards and for eighteen of these years Harrisburg has gone ahead in its wonderful ex pansion under a cohesive and co ordinated plan of modern develop ment. Seven years yet remain of the twenty-five embraced in the pre diction of the Gettysburg theologian and who can tell what greater stepa are still to be taken in the making of an inland city on the Susque-' hanna in the fulfillment of this in-> teresting prophecy? Dr. Richards had a great vision and many of this day are still dreaming of the city's future alongl substantial and artistic lines. It is for these to see that the dreamst come true. The old "fighting Tenth" infantry, i of Greensburg and vicinity, which became the One Hundred and Tenth in the recent war, will resume its interrupted social relations on the 28th of this month, at the Pike Rani Country Club, when the returnedi officers of the famous Pennsylvania outfit will get together for a big. picnic at the clubhouse which itti years past has been the scene of many a pleasant revel. There will; be some new faces this time, buti many of the old familiar ones will be missing from rollcall, for thei casualties in this old regiment were extremely heavy in France. "There, will be plenty doing at the club: even if someone wants to make a speech there are miles of country around there and he will finnoy no one." according to regimental adju tant, Captain William E. Pierce, who is handling the paper work and looking after the arrangements for the outing. The Coulters, Martins. Boyles, Hitchrpans, and other names familiar to everyone who knows the old Tenth will be there in force and all enlisted men who were com missioned into other outfits are wel come. It looks as though there Were a good time in store for those who were fortunate enough to come through the war and enjoy the after-pleasure of peace. There are beds in the club for one hundred people and it's going to be an ex clusive party for the officers so that the war can be rehashed at leisure and in detail. The guests are in vited to remain ad infinitum or ad perpetuam, whichever suits their convenience. • • • Proceedings in the House yester day when the unusual event of or dering a poll occurred had some funny sidelights. Just as the Speak er ordered the doors locked a num ber of school teachers were in the House, sitting along the walls and did not understand that every one I except those officially connected with the legislature had to with , draw. They were then shown the doors and told they might go into the gallery. All turned up in the gallery and there had a discussion with "some people already seated there who had started to go out under the impression that everyone had to leave the hall. In the midst of this the Speaker told people in the gallery they could remain and see what was going on. It suddenly occurred to one mild looking indi vidual who had sat in the rear of the hall that he had no business there and he started to leave with the intention of going to the safer vantage of the gallery. But by that time the sergeant-at-arms had closed the doors and no one was allowed to go out. So the whole procedure was gone through with one scared but curious citizen of somewhere in Pennsylvania sitting in one of the seats of the mighty, from a legislative point of view. ♦ * * The incidents of yesterday recall how a messenger boy who "ran copy" for The Associated Press from the Capitol to the operator in the Harrisburg Telegraph building in 1909 got into the hall of the House and got out again. Much the same thing occurred a decade ago as yes terday and John F. Cox, then speak er. ordered doors locked and a poll taken. Things were going along ! nicely when there was a terrific thumping on one of the big side doors. The man on the door paid no attention. The thumps grew worse and the irate officer opened the door and beheld one kid, about knee high to a grasshopper. "Whatcher doin'?" demanded th> sergeant-at-arms. "Lemme in, darn yer," declared the kid. "Go run yerself. Aus," answered the sergeant. "Say. der yer know who I am? inquired the unabashed boy. "Naw." "Wed, I carries copy fer A. P. An I'm goin' in." i The sergeant-at-arms was puzzled | and held the boy at the door. News paper men attracted by the fuss went to see what it was all about and championed the boy. The ser geant was inclined to stand fast, but Speaker Cox who was appealed to, suddenly broke into the rollcall with "a roar of laughter and called to the man at the door: "Det the boy in. He's a real one. The roll, wiil proceed." The boy carried the copy through all that strenuous day nnd got in when high officials did not. He quit the next week to work in a shoe factorv. If be is still alive he is probably getting wherever he sets out to go. V • • I .lieutenant Governor Edward B. Reidleman has half a dozen invita tions already to speak on the Fourth of July. He will be kept busy filling engagements that week alone. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —William Li. Rentz. New Castle newspaper man, has been elected head of the Rotary club of that city. —William A. Johnson, New York businessman, will be the speaker" at the University of Pittsburgh ex ercises. He has been out of col—, lege a quarter of a century. —W. M. Davidson was the speak-, er at the I.atrobe School Commence-, ment this week. —Samuel t>. Reed, the new or phans' court judge of Cambria, county, is one of the prominent law- j yers of that county and an authority j on orphans' court matters. Congressman J. Hampton j Moore has been given a degree by] Ursinus college. 1 T DO YOU KNOW 1 —That Harrlsborg steel Is being ( supplied for building of tank strips? | HISTORIC HARRISBURG .—The River Front had half a dosenJ big grain warehouses 110 years ago. 1
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