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TCESPAY. JTLY 1. 1919
Be u-ho has conquered doubt and !
fear has conquered failure. James j
Allen.
GOOD SUGGESTION
GEORGE G. MCKARLAND. lay
ing before the Rotary Club
the possibility of a movement
for the rerouting of vehicular traf
fic down town in order to expedite
travel and of making some rulings
regarding the parking of cars in
the center of the city, makes an ex
cellent suggestion.
The traffic question in the heart
of the city has come to be a very
serious matter. It is getting worse
as the town grows and will con
tinue to be a source of annoyance
and a danger to pedestrians until
some remedy is found. The same
may be said of parking. Marxct
street at best is none too wide for
the uses to which it is put. but ;l
is no uncommon sight to see from
forty to fifty cars parked along the
curbs as closely they can be
packed in. Both sides of the street
are used and there is no regulation
to prevent.
Just how to go about correcting
the tvils mentioned is not apparent.
The subject ought to have the closest
kind of study. If the Rotary Club
could suggest to the city authorities
a feasible plan to that end it would
perform a distinct service to the
city for which everybody would be
grateful.
SAFETY FIRST
THE MAYOR and the police very
properly have placed the ban
upon dangerous fireworks. Even
the celebration of so great an event
as the Fourth of July following a
victoriously fought world's war must
be conducted in the spirit of the
times—"safety first." We have lost
too many of our young men the
past two years to run the risk of
putting out more young lives simply
that we make a "joyful noise."
The accident and fire list at the
close of an old-fashioned Fourth of
July in Harrisburg used to occupy
columns of type in the newspapers.
We had a rackety, rocketv, noisy
time; but was the game worth the
candle? Are we not now just as
good Americans, even if the size
of the firecracker is limited and the
skyrocket has been eliminated alto
gether?
The safe and sane Fourth of July
idea has spread to all parts of the
United States. Strange to say, the
only communities that are lax in
its observance are the rural locali
ties where local municipal regula
tions are either not up to date or
are difficult to enforce in the face
of what appears to be popular sen
timent.
"FIGHT DOPE"
THE pugilistic fans are filling
themselves so full of "fight
dope" that they are getting
groggy a week ahead of the July 4
demonstration at which Mr. Willard
expects to make Mr. Dempsey look
like a Palm Beach suit after a hard
shower, or vice versa. Not since
poor old Jim Jeffries was transform
ed from a "white hope" to a "hope
less white" in the fraction of a sin
gle mid-summer aftfernoon has the
public been regaled with such quan
tities of "ring-side" literature as have
come out of Toledo in the past fort
night.
Even Mr. Willard has been seized
with the writing bug—at so much
per column, no doubt—and no soon
er does he leave off his exercises
for the day than he rushes to his
type-writer and unwinds yard after
yard of intimate trifles - about the
fat on his stomach, the duration of
his wind, how many first rate spar
ring partners he has put to the mat
in the course of the morning and
leaves us with the impression that
if General Foch had only turned
him—Willard—loose with a pair of
two-ounce gloves along the west
front it would have been all over
with Germany long before the spring
drive of last year. Mr. Willard is
•ho niftiest little bunch of muscles
TtJESDAY EVENING,
that was ever overpaid for an hour
or two of give-and-take. a la Marquis
do Queensbury. If you doubt it,
read what Mr. Willard has to say
of himself; he admits it all, and
more.
As for Mr. Dempsey, his manager
wasn't bright enough to think of the
syndicate stuff (gotten out with the
assistance of a bright but modest
newspaper Boswell, paid so much
of the total receipts for his part in
putting before the public what the
man who signs his name to the arti
cle would have said if he had said it),
but he's getting plenty of publicity
for all that; oh. yes. indeed. A half
score of sporting editors who could
have written just as good stuff from
their home offices have bunked their
employers out of the price of car
fare and hotel accommodations on
the ground that they must have tirst
hand information for the army of
subscribers who spend their evenings
reading ream upon ream of expert
opinion front the training quarters,
and they are putting Mr. Pempsey
not only on the newspaper map. but
all over it. Enough space is being
used to give publicity to the two
fighters to make a new brand of
chewing gunt earn profits for its
promoter the first month. If an
advertiser could get hold of it free
he could make himself a millionaire
by use of it over night. Did any
national advertiser want it he would
have to pay for it a staggering
price. But these two bruisers get
it for nothing, actually paid good
hard money for providing the
"dope." Either one can have a I
column or a pane to-day free, but
j after next Friday one of them isn't
going to be good for a two-inch item
| once a month. Such is public taste.
Such is also fame.
HAPPY DAYS IN HUNGARY
HAPPY days in Hungary! The
soviet lawmakers at Budapest
have adjourned and gone
home, largely for the reason that
the food supply has been exhausted
in that city, and the only consola
tion the people are given is that
they can choose between scattering
throughout the country or starving
to death.
Parlor bolshevists in the United
States will please sit up and take
notice, for if there is one plank more
important than another in the par
lor radical's platform it is that call
ing for three square meals a day,
without work, if possible. The radi
cal social reformer, as we know
him, loves nothing so much as to
tell other folks how to do things
without having to do anything him
self more enervating than that in
volved in the """nsional combing of I
bushy hair, the tying of Windsor
neckwear and the dining well at
somebody else's expense.
Happy days for the Hungarian
bolshevists, indeed. Pity that a few
of those on this side of the water
can't be sent over there to help the
good work along. Theories of gov
ernment that lead to empty cup
boards and dinner pails will never
get far in America.
WE WANT WILHELM
ANY one of a half dozen rea
sons might be advanced (
why Von Bethmann-Holweg j
should offer himself as a sacrifice j
to save the ex-Kaiser from trial by
the Allied powers, but none of them I
will sound good to the people of j
the countries the wretched ruler
of the Germans planned to wreck
and ruin. Nothing but the physical
piesence of the one-time haughty
Wilhelm himself, standing a pris
oner before the bar of justice wiil
suffice to soothe their wounded feel
ings.
Holweg makes a poor case for
himself. He asserts that as Imperial
German Chancellor in 1914 he was:
responsible for the official acts of
'.lie Kaiser in violating Belgium and
his subsequent acts of depravity and
beastiality, and he speaks arrant
nonsense when he says so. How
Wilhelm would have laughed in the j
heyday of his overlordship had it
been hinted that anybody in the !
whole world was responsible for his
acts and how wrathy he would have i
become if Holweg had dared posej
before the world as boss of the Ger- j
man all-highest. Nobody believes |
what Holweg savs not even Hoi- [
weg himself.
No; whatever crimes are charged
against the troops of Germany must
be laid at the door of the Kaiser
himself. He proclaimed himself
time and time again as the supreme
ruler in Germany, and he must be
taken at his word. He and no mere
underling must be brought to tria..
and the sooner the better.
Isn't it fine that the President will
arrive heme in time for his summer
vacation?
A WRECKED MACHINE
NOTHING could better illustrate
the utter wreck of the once
formidable McCormick Demo
cratic machine in Dauphin county
than the re-election of Robert D.
Stucker as county chairman yester
day and particularly the choice of
Howard O. Holstein as secretary.
Stucker has been for many years
a thorn in the McCormick flesh. He
and his friends have trained with
the McCormick crowd only when
they saw fit to do so and have per
sisted in being as independent as
they liked, no matter what the one
time boss desired them to do. And
as for Holstein, he ran for lieuten
ant-governor in opposition to Mc-
Cormick last year and was an open
advocate of the election of Judge
Bonniwell. ,
The Stucker-Holstein election was
a bitter pill for the McCormick out
fit, but they had to swallow it. There
was talk of opposition before the
meeting, but it didn't develop, for
I the Stuckers had the votes. Thus,
almost on the eve of a national cam
paign, what is left of the Democratic
party in this county is split wide
open with old-line Democrats hold
! ing the strings and ready to pull
them in case a contest should de
| velop for national delegates.
t i
fOUlctLx
'Pcjuioiflcaala
By the Ex-Committeeman
Appointment of Public Service
I Commissioner Samuel M. Clement,
Jr., for the ten-year term following
the end of the tenure of Commission
er James Alcorn and the selection
of James S. Benn, Philadelphia
newspaper man. to fill out the two
year term vacated by Mr. Clement
on his promotion, which were an
nounced front the Governor's office
late yesterday, are regarded as pure
ly personal appointments. Mr. Clem
ent is a close personal friend of Gov
ernor William C. Sproul, while Mr.
Benn is generally believed to have
been named through the influence
of Attorney General William I.
Schaffer. He is credited with hating
done much to get the Philadelphia
North American in line for Sproul
in the primary campaign.
The dropping of Mr. Alcorn was
not unexpected at the Capitol. He
was named July 1. 1913. by Dr. Mar
tin G. Brumbaugh for a six-year
term and his tenure ends with to
day. He was former city solicitor of
Philadelphia and close personal
friend of Edwin S. Stuart. He was
regarded as a Vare man. He has been
one of the most active commission
ers and handled many water and
traction cases, some of which have
not been finished. He was in con
sultation with his colleagues yester
day afternoon when the word of the
changes came and was greatly sur
prised. but gracefully accepted the
fortunes of politics.
—The shake-up is the second to
occur in the commission since the
Sproul term began. Two Brumbaugh
appointees. M. J. Ryan and William
:A. Magee, were dropped February 11
I for S. Ray Shelby and Mr. Clement.
Judge H. M. McClure, who died re
cently. was named on that date. He
was succeeded by Judge John W.
Reed, of Clearfield. With Mr. Benn
Governor Sproul has named four
commissioners, although in office
only half a year.
.Mr. Bonn's appointment makes
two laymen on the commission. All |
others except Commissioner Milton
J. Brecht are attorneys. Mr. Benn
has been in newspaper work a long
time and years ago traveled with the
Attorney General on campaign tours.
He has been a frequent visitor here
since the Sproul administration be
gan.
- Democratic affairs seem to be
engaging the attention of manv
newspaper editors, most of whom I
are frankly curious as to what is
going to happen to Palmer, McCor
mick. Ouflfy and the rest of the
reorganization bosses. The recent
dinner to Attorney General Palmer
at Scranton and the visit of the chief
law officer to Bedford when the State
Bar Association was meeting were
neither such big events as forecast.
~ The Philadelphia Press says
editorially in this connection: "At
torney General Palmer gets his
Presidential boom started in Scran
ton. We should be very well satis
fied to see our Democratic friends
make him their candidate next year,
if for no other reason than to shat
ter the everlasting talk that no
Pennsylvania Democrat is available,
because he could not carrv the State,
and no Republican available because
any Republican can carrv it.
That kind of logic may do for the
politicians, but the people in general
want the best in candidates, and
right here in Pennsylvania is the
place to get them."
Here is an interesting Demo
cratic view of the anti-sedition bill,
which until it became a law attract
ed national attention and got much
editorial comment. The Philadelphia
Record, the State's leading Demo
crat daily says: "Governor Sproul
will be commended by law-loving
citizens everywhere for placing the
anti-sedition law, which received
his signature yesterday, on the
statute books. There is no danger of
any law passed by any Legislature
prohibiting or halting free speech of
the kind guaranteed by the Consti
tution. There has been lacking in
Pennsylvania a law to check and
punish some of those who have
abused free speech, and who have
taken advantage of this fact to at
tempt to discredit the Government.
If the new law meets the need long
felt to deal with the comparatively
few to whose kind of speech it will 1
apply it is well that it has been
adopted in Pennsylvania, as it should
be in every State."
—The campaign in Philadelphia
has already started. The newspapers
are talking of various men for mayor
and the Kvening Bulletin after men
tioning several men says: "If this
town ever needed in the mayoralty
a first-rater in point of common
sense, square-toed honesty, and a
pood working knowledge of munici
pal affairs and of the people at large,
he will be needed there after the
end of this year. Within a few
weeks, the period during which
nominations for the primary elec
tion in September will be made will
come to a close, and it is now time
for wide-awake and healthy public
sentiment to get into action for the
production of candidates who will be
something more than either faction
al creatures or ornamental stuffed
shirts."
What the Bulletin says is true of
some other cities it might be said in
passing.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
in the course of an editorial on
State support for State College urges
more attention to farming, saying
"The producers of our foods have
been shown that at comparatively
slight expense the millions of acres
of Pennsylvania lor.-g since aban
doned as uscl'-ss for agriculture may
he made to yield abundantly and
with large profit to the husband
man. There is no necessity for gur
people, tired of urban existence and
pining for rural delights and labors,
to rare far off in quest of land that
will respond to intelligent cultiva
tion. Pennsylvania land is good as
any if It is properlv treated."
Politics in Peace Treaties
[From the New York Sun.]
Being in, of and by politics, a
peace treaty must of necessity be a
political issue and become involved
with other political issues; and it is
right, proper and salutary that this
should be the case. The fact that
every peace treaty is a political doc
ument and a political issue is a mat
ter to cause regret or inspire alarm;
nor it is a cause for shame, any more
than the fact that bark grown on
trees ie a cause for shame.
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MOVIE OF A MAN WAKING UP ON JULY IST ~Z ByBRIGGS |
TIME - I P.M. AND A HALF HOUR LATER. "HAH- HO - HUM I . - "NO MORE FOR MS - 1
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SOMePARTr " 600 D /JNY^
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STUFF BILL GAue US OCCASION OF THAT -j Tnivnoa' IEMMS DIE
LAST NIGHT- NO ALWFUL PARTY ANYWAY-. Dfc. JULY NK3 ■
MORE FOR. ME- FROM -OH- H - YeS -IT WAS
NOW ON ! " June 3o Celebßatioiu
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Senator Knox's Great Service
[From Harvey's Weekly]
The Seriate has done well. After
the wind, the earthquake and the
tire, comes the still small voice of
ratriotic judgment. Seldom in all
the history of that body has there
been so tine a passage as that which
has just recorded the successful
campaign of reason over passion, of
patriotism over partisanship, of
American nationality over denation
alizing fads.
The triumphant turning point in
the great conflict was Senator
Knox's resolution and his masterful
speech in its support, advising the
divorcement of extraneous and in
congruous matter from the Treaty
of Peace, and indicating with uner
ring logic and the force of great
authority the way to peace without
the sacrifice of American independ
ence or the compromising of those
principles upon which our national
tranquility and integrity depend.
His action in that matter will hence
forth rank among the epochal pub
lic services which have been ren
dered in great crises by members of
the senior chamber of the national
legislature. How deep was the im
pression which he made and how
hard hit were those who fatuously
sought to barter our national birth
right for a mess of alien pottage
appeared in the agitation which
was roused in the Administration
ranks and in the partisan press, the
storm of wind and earthquake and
Are, raging against the resolution
and its supporters. Happily it ap
peared also in the prompt and in
creasingly strong response which
was given by the citizenry of Amer
ica. without regard to party. Sel
dom has any comparable proposi
tion so unequivocally and over
whelmingly commanded the public
favor. Never has one more fully
merited it.
If anything were needed to com
plement and to confirm the proposi
tion of Senator Knox, it was sup
plied in ex-Senator Root's masterly
analysis of the situation and his un
qualified support of the resolution
and its purpose. The three chief
grounds of objection to the League
Covenant were restated with con
vincing force, and with the added
reminder, too greatly overlooked, of
the incompatability between our
composite population and any pol
icy of universal meddling in the af
fairs of the world. It was a start
ling reminder that more than one
third of the people of the United
States are of alien birth or alien
parentage. "We can call upon these
people," said Mr. Root, "to stand by
America in all American quarrels;
but how can we control their sym
pathies and their action if America
interferes in foreign quarrels and
takes sides in these quarrels against
the countries to which they are at
tached by tradition and sentiment?"
A Mexican Crisis Near
[Harvey's Weekly]
What is to be done about Mexico?
With all the rest of humanity regu
lated and psychologized according
to the highest doctrinaire ideals of
our expatriated President, are the
wretched millions next door to us to
be left to stew in their own hell's
broth of anarchy, famine and
slaughter, of which our American
citizens are perpetually the victims?
Are we to continue watchful waiting
and "sitting back and chuckling"
while this perennial orgye of murder,
anarchy and ruin goes on at our
doors?
Apartmental Ditties
One more unfortunate
Hunting a flat.
Begging, importunate.
Doffing his hat.
Kick him out scornfully
If he should say it.
Hopelessly, mournfully,
"I cannot pay it."
Laugh at him, guyer!
Expose htm to raillery!
Everything's higher
Excepting his salary.
Alas! for the rarity
Of landlord's charity
Under the sun!
Oh, it was pitiful
In a whole city full.
Home he had none.
"Living is zero!
Existence a flivver!"
Shouted our hero,
And Jumped in the river.
Not till I drowned him
At the end of this pome
Could I have found him
An ultimate home.
—New York Tribune.
TATARS WISH TO BECOME
CHILDREN OF UNCLE SAM
Nakhichevan, tlic District Which Makes a Shrine of the Grave of Noah,
Is the 1 .atest to Ask the United States to Serve as Mandatory,
[From a Bulletin of the National Geographic Society.]
NOW add to the list of states |
that have asked the United
States to be their mandatory—
Nakhichevan.
Never heard of Nakhichevan?
Well, first consult Genesis viii, 4
for the district in question lies at
the foot of Mount Ararat and the
town of Nakhichevan contains the al
leged graveyard of Noah. The build
er of the Ark, local traditions af
firms, went down into the land that
now seeks the king of the United
States, and died of thirst in the
parched plain after his ark had
broken up on the snowy peak of the
world's most famous mountatin.
Maynard Owen Williams, who
was the last American to carry on
relief work in Armenia, to which
land he went from Nakhichevan just
before Chr'stmas, 1917, has written
th's description of the region:
Inliubitcd by Tatars
' The Nakhichevan district, inhab
ited by Tatars, under the peace
treaty is bounded on the north by
the Armenian district of Erivan. It
is bounded on the south by the Arax
River, which is the subject of many
an Armenian song, and which here
forms the boundary between Asiatic
Russia and Persia. In the hills of
the northeast is Shusha, a strong
Armenian center, where the Armen
ians held out against a circle of foes
in the summer of 191 S.
"When Russia's power in the
Caucasus declined and the soldats
flowed back from the former Rus
sian front in Turkey through the
Nakhichevan district the traditional
hatred between the Armenians of
the Erivan district and the Moham
medan Tatars broke out. The up
rising of the Nakhichevan Tartars
was ill timed. German propagandists
had placarded the district with post
ers exhorting the Tatars, who are
related to the Turks and are of the
Origin of Title "Ace"
Lieutenant Henry Farre in his
"Sky Fighters of France," (Houghton
Mifflin Company) gives a full ex
planation of the way in which the
airman's most coveted title, "Ace,"
came into general use.. He says,
"When a pilot has brought down
his fifth plane, the chief of the
squadron telegraphs his fifth victory
to headquarters, and that gives him
the right to be carried in the next
general orders to the whole army
with a citation of service rendered,
for the press to publish the follow
ing day in the official Gazette. When
ever pilots merited this distinction,
their machinists called them Aces,
which has the same signification
among pilots as the ace card has in
a game of cards: that is to say, the
strongest card, and this is the etymo
logy of the word ace of which
many persons are ignorant. This title
has nothing official, and it sprung
from the slang of the machinists,
but that does not prevent it from be
ing quoted in all languages and in
every country in the world."
Rapid Transit in Missouri
[From the Barnard Bulletin]
What is one of the strangest freaks
of the cyclone which passed through
Barnard recently was the finding of
a check belonging to Mrs. J. B. El
liott in a pasture near Denver, Mo.,
nearly forty miles away. The check
was an old one that had been put
away in a trunk. The trunk was
found near the river some distance
away.
May 1 Not?
[Seattle Post-lntelligencer]
In addressing his requests to the
Sixty-sixth Congress, doubtless Pres
ident Wilson will be fully justified
in his use of the usual "May I not;"
and he will be justified also in
doubting whether he may or may
not.
Empty Envelopes
[Washington Star]
An I. W. W. man sometimes suc
ceeds in making a slight impression
under the glare of a gasoline torch.
But he always looks lonesome in the
broad sunlight of a payday.
same religion to arise against the
Armenians, whom the retreating
Russians had left to their own de
vices. This they did. But the Ar
menians had spent the winter in
raising an army to take over the
former Russian front and about
twenty-five thousand of these vol
unteers were assembled in Erivan.
Women and Children Not Touched
"The Tatars advanced along the
railway (Tiflis to Tabriz) and met
serious resistence first at Kamarlyu,
eighty miles from the city of Nakhi
chevan. There was some spirited
fighting and the Tatars were soon
defeated and at least one well was
filled with their dead bodies. Wo
men and children were not touched
by the Armenians. By circling be
tween Kamarlyu and Mount Ararat
along the wide plain of the Arax,
the Tatars reached the junction of
Ulukhanlu and burned the railway
station there, also cutting the Indo"-
European telegraph line which
joins Tiflis to the rest of the world.
This necessitated the sending of
Vice Consul Doolittle to Teheran in
order to establish connection with
Washington at a time when all
Americans were being forced to
leave Tiflis.
"When I crossed the Igdir plain,
where Armenians are starving today
these much persecuted people were
having their innings and the smoke
from a score of burning Tatar vil
lages could be seen. Tatars with
arms were allowed to live if they
surrendered their guns, and women
and children were not touched but
their villages were looted and burn
ed by the Armenians. This was in
March. '1919. All the Tatars re
treated to the Nakhichevan district
where they formed a majority of the
population. There they have re
mained. Hatred between them and
the Armenians is strong, but due
to the greater strength of the Ar
menians there are not atracities."
THE RADIANT
When this body drifts in dust
Lightly on the nervous air.
Vagabonding everywhere
In this restless planet's crust.
Wet by foam of every sea.
Dancing up the thinning sky
To its terrible and high
Journey through infinity—
When it softly voyages
Past the outermost lone star,
On to what dim wonders are
In the spaceless distances.
It shall never lose the zest
That is mine by night and day,
As I push my groping way
On life's fogged and clouded quest;
It shall never waste or lose
The illogical delight
That is mine by day and night.
As I steer my chartless cruise;
Or the love that fires me through,
Or the hope that lifts my eyes
Higher than the present skies,
Toward the goal I struggle to.
When this spirit makes its way
Scatteringly further still.
It shall bear the deathless will
That I build—and bear—to-day!
—Clement Wood, "The Earth Turns
South," (E. P. Dutton )
Big Results From Ads
Milwaukee—A report on market
promotion by M. P. McCullugh,
Schofleld, Wis., at a recent conven
tion in Milwaukee of the Northern
Hemlock and Hardwood Manufac
turers' Association was a striking
tribute to newspaper advertising.
The report showed that the best
results were attained by the local
dealer using his home town paper.
Next year the association will in
crease its advertising expenditures
to about $50,000. This represents an
addition of $5,000. which will be de
voted chiefly to service to the re
tailers.
The White Cedar Shingle Man
ufacturers' Association, which met
in conjunction with the hemlock
manuXacturers. decided to add a
newspaper advertising campaign
to its promotion. Advertisements
will be placed in the home town
newspapers of the retailers to
whom the cedar manuXacturers sell.,
JULY 1, 1919.
| Shall WP Insure Europe?
[From the Kansas City Star] I
Frank H. Simonds, returning to
! America after six months in Europe,
j notes u complete contrast in the dis-
I cussion of peace. In America the dis
mission centers around the League
!of Nations. In Europe, he says, the
! League of Nations has ceased to
S exist.
! Of course what he means is that
| while Europe has acquiesced in the
I league it has no contidence in its
I provisions except in so far as they
| may bind America to come to its aid
lin the event of war. Peace will con
! tinue to be based on force, not on
| promises. The powers of the En
tente expect to take care of them
selves as they always have. France
j will resume its ancient vigil against
ithe enemy on the Rhine. England
I will maintain its naval supremacy,
j Whatever value the league has to
j them will be measured 1n the as
sistance its terms bring them from
America in time of need. All the
evidence, except that coming from
the fervid upholders of President
Wilson, is to the same effect.
Now that the main work of the
peace conference is finished, we can
understand perfectly how this out
come developed.
As everybody knows, the President
dwells in a world apart. He takes
counsel with nobody. He tolerates
no differences of opinion. Phrases
[ appeal to him. He uses them lavish
ly without considering their conse
quences. No public man has con
tradicted himself oftener. He lives,
as someone has said, in the smoke
screen of his own words. His
speeches before the United States en
tered the war—reca'l for instance
the "too proud to fight" and the
"peace without victory" speeches
and the assertions that America had
no concern in the roots of war and
should be neutral in thought as well
as in act—showed almost incredible
lack of comprehension of the issues
of the war and of European affairs
in general.
This same lack of comprehension
he took to the peace conference. Tt
was his aim. as his supporters put it.
to make a "healing peace"—that is
a peace which should deal gently
with Germany—and then guarantee
that peace by a League of Nations.
He failed to understand that a
world that had been nearly ruined
from German agression would not
to'erate a peace which left Rritain,
I iranee and Ttaly to bear the burden
of war and left Germany unscathed.
He failed to understand the force of
those national rivalries that now and
again convulse Europe and that
state of mind that regards war as a
natural instrument of diplomacy.
With his cloistered mind he ap
proached the problem of European
peace as if it were a dispute between
Princeton and Harvard universities
oyer the eligihilty of a football
player.
The inevitable happened. The
President's beautiful rhetoric col
lapsed under the pressure of the
great realities of the struggle for na
tonal existence. The Entente Powers
imposed severely just terms on the
enemy. That was what they were
essentially interested in.
As for the League of Nations, they
tossed it lightly to Mr. Wilson after
so molding it that it would not ham
per them, and that any effeet've bur
den it might involve would be laid
on the United States. Thev would
have preferred a straight Rritish-
Franeo-Ameriean alliance. But as
American tradition is strongly
against alliances thev took the league
as the best substitute to be ob
tained.
Good For Dyspepsia, Too
[From the Dallas Texas, News]
Another reason why we think Di
ogenes was right is because we have
yet to see the man who didn't chew
tobacco because he was having trou
ble with his teeth.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
River Park Rubbish
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Walking along our unrivaled
river front one must be impressed
with the careless work of employes
ot the Department of Parks or
others in throwing over the beauti
ful slope and along the front steps,
tops of trees, severed branches and
cuttings of every sort which are
allowed to clutter the terrace for
blocks. Surely the most casual in
spection by officials of the Depart
ment of Parks would correct this
condition. Harrisburgers are proud
of their parks and the far-famed
treatment of the Susquehanna's
bank and this sort of abuse should
be stopped instantly.
PEDESTRIAN.
June 30, 1919. 1
|Ebtttittg ffitptj
"Why docs not the city of Harrta
burg do as some of the western
towns have done in providing camp
sites for motorists?" asked J. Frank
Slay maker, an automobile tourist
from Missouri who passed through
this city last week on his way to
the seashore where he and hls<
family will spend the summer under
canvas.
"Out in the western tourist dis
trict many towns have set aside
park reservations especially for the
automobile camper," he contlnned.
"The camp sites are furnished with
running water and shelter beneath
which have been placed built-in
stoves of brick on which the tourist
may prepare his meals. Of course
I know you have lovely hotels here
in the East for the tourist who feels
he can afford them, but for the man
who takes his family in the old Tin
Lizzie, straps the tent and bedding
on one running board and the trunk
for clothing on the other there is
no provision whatsoever and since
leaving Ohio I have kept away
from the larger cities because I
could find no place near them suit
able for camping out. People look
upon me here as something of a
tramp, but I am not. I have money
and u good business at home and I
am taking a summer off with my
folks nfter a year of service for
the Government. This is my way
of taking a vacation and we are
having a most enjoyable time. But
we do miss those western camping
places in the vicinity of the larger
cities. I think Harrisburg ought to
give this matter thought, as should
every other eastern city. In the
west this summer auto camping
practice is common. I passed scores
upon scores of outfits like mine
headed for the Rocky Mountain
tours but my folks wanted to see
the ocean and so here we are."
• • •
The Slaymaker family has a
queer outfit, from the eastern view
point, but it travels in comfort and
stops where night overtakes it, or
where the family so desires. The
machine in which they travel has
been refined down to the last notch
for touring. It is a four cylinder
car, not a Ford, but very little
larger. On one side is the tent,
which is made to fold out from the
side of the car and which contains
sleeping quarters for three. The
little five year old boy sleeps '.n
the automobile itself. Under the
seats there has been arranged room
for tin dishes and cooking utensils,
toilet articles and a few grocery
staples held in for use in emergency
but up to this time not needed. The
family will go to the Atlantic Coast,
pick out a quiet spot where the
bathing and fishing are good and
after visiting Atlantic City, Wildwood
and other lively points will settle
down for the summer, starting back
home shortly after Labor Day.
• • •
"I predict that an outfit like mine
will attract no attention whatever
in the next year or two," said Mr.
Slaymaker to a party of inquirers
who wanted to know about his
long journey, having been attracted
by his foreign license tag. "The
idea has gained great popularity
throughout the west and I believe
that with the coming of good roads
through lowa and Nebraska western
people from the northern section of
the country as well as from the
South will be found flocking to the
east in large numbers, following the
pioneer trail we have laid for them.
Some of those westbound this sum
mer told us they expected to come
east next year."
• • •
Another stranger in town yester
day was the Rev. Clarence Piatt,
formerly a newspaperman of Har
risburg and afterward connected
with Market Square Presbyterian
church. Mr. Piatt also is the pos
sessor of an automobile and planned
to bring his family back to Cham
bersburg and Harrisburg from his
present location in New York State,
near Rochester, by automobile, but
was discouraged by the weath
er. Mr. Piatt served among the
Indians in Arizona for several years
but for the past several years has
been preaching in New York State.
He has been spending his vacation
with his aged father in Chambers
burg.
• • *
Unusually large numbers of doves
have taken up their abode near
Harrisburg this year and one has
not to go far from town to hear
their cooing among the trees and
shrubbery in the fields. There was
a time, not so many years ago, that
the dove became almost extinct in
this vicinity, so closely was the bird
hunted. But with the coming of
legal protection they have returned
in large numbers and are now more
numerous than at any time within
the past ten years. Many of them
have become tame, and while usually
very timid may be approached
within a very few feet before they
will fly. The wood thrush and the
finch also are more numerous than
usual this summer.
• • •
Some of the fishermen who were
out scouting last Saturday went to
Sherman's creek bass fishing today.
It was the only stream in this vicin
ity where the water was anything
like good for angling. Wise old
rivermen soy that if there is no
more rain until the end of the week
some unusually large catches should
be made on July 4th, which is a
great fishing day in this vicinity, aa
the water will be clear enough for
fishing and the bass will be hungry.
* *
Dr. C. E. L. Keen, school director
and well-known physician, has Just
returned from a trip through Yellow
stone Park, following attendance
at the Rotary convention in Salt
Lake City. While in the park he
stepped into a fissure in the rocks
and broke a small bone of the foot.
For a time he had difficulty in get
ting around. "But the trip was worth
it," he said. During his visit to many
cities he studied the types of school
houses erected and especially the
treatment of the high school prob
lems. He brought back with him
some suggestions for the local
school board.
The Hitch i/i Hitchcock
[From the National Republican]
The pro-leaguers, treaty-of-any
old-kind advocates and Wilson-can
do-no-mistaklng Democrats in the
United States Senate charged that if
any "Interests" in New York got hol<t
of a copy of the Peace Treaty they:
did so by theft, bribery or some oth
er nefarious practice. But after all
that squawk, the truth turned out
to be that Mr. Lamont, Mr. Wilson's
adviser at Paris on financial fea
tures of the treaty, got the treaty by
the President's authority and turned
it over to Mr. Davison who gave It
to Mr. Root who showed it to Mr.
Lodge. And there you are. So Mr.,
Hitchcock went off half-cocked— aj|
usual.