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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1919
No man's fortune can be an end
- worthy of his being. Francis Bacon.
THAT SCHOOL SITE
THE School Board will meet Mon
day to consider the proposal of
the City Planning Commission
for the purchase of the Italian Park-
Hoffman's Woods site for the new
High School. It is to be hoped that
the deal will be closed without de
lay In order that the board may
proceed at once to get its plans un
day way.
The Central High School situation
is undeniably bad, and now comes
Dr. Fager with the announcement
that, the Technical High School also
will be over-crowded the coming
year. We cannot permit these con
ditions to go indefinitely. It is not
fair to the school boys and girls of
ditions to go on indefinitely. It is not
Harrisburg and it gives the city an
unenviable reputation abroad.
The uptown location has been be
fore the people a sufficient time to
develop adverse sentiment if any
were forthcoming and not a word of
serious opposition has been raised.
So It may be fairly judged that there
is iiohe.
The only criticism that has been
offered is that the location is not
central, but that has been largely
due to a lack of knowledge on the
part of thise who offered that objec
tion to the general practice of school
districts with respect to high schools.
Location with regard to the center of
population is not now greatly con
sidered. Healthful situation, ample
room for expansion, athletic fields
and street car connections are the
factors by which high school sites
are judged. All these the Hoff- (
man's Wood site has to an excep
tional degree.
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
RESIDENT WILSON, "acting
Pin his own name and by his
own proper authority, has ex
tended an invitation to King Albert
and Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium,
to visit the United States, and it is
expected that the Belgium rulers
will come here in September. It
was twenty years ago that King,
then Prince, Albert paid a visit to
this country. William McKinley
was then President and this coun
try was operating under a Republi
can form of government and under
the Republican party. Albert was
then a stripling of 24 years, but
keenly interested in governmental
affairs. We had just finished clean
ing up Spain and cleaning her out
of Cuba, where, under Weyler the
Bloody, an attempt was being made
to choke national aspiration out of
the champions of Cuba Libre, and
it was common gossip among the
chancelleries of Europe that once
the United States had assumed con
trol of Cuban affairs we would never
let up until we had reduced the
island to the status of an Ameri
can colony. Europe was at that
time covertly enjoining the various
Latin-American Republics to take
warning from the pending fate of
Cuba and beware the Colossus of
the North. Review Republican
record in Cuba and be proud!
Prince Albert found a well con
tented people here twenty years ago.
The Dlngley protective tariff law had
been in operation for about two
years and the country was on the
high road to recovery from the aw
ful Industrial depression which fol
lowed the Wilson-Gorman law of
evil memory and Democratic parent
age. Such a thing as bolshevism
was practically unknown. National
ism was sturdy, internationalism
and a league of nations undreamed
of. If anyone at that time had sug
gested that the American people
should delegate their powers to a
super-state, he would hgve been
laughted at as a lunatic. If William
McKinley had attempted the over
throw of popular government and
the establishment of a dictatorship
with any such ruthlessness as has
SATURDAY EVENING,
characterized this administration he
would have been promptly impeach
ed and kicked out of office by his
own party majority in Congress. But
who could imagine anything of the
sort from the high-minded Mc-
Kinley ?
King Albert's second visit to this
country will find us again struggling
to snap the Democratic bonds which
have enmeshed us. This time we are
working for the restoration of con
stitutional government, which for
over six years has been reviled and
spit upon by the party in power. We
are also seeking to revive American
ideals s*nd to weed out fatuous
idealism. We are struggling to re
gain our foothold on honest fact,
away from the slime of academic
theories. Cuba need not be told
that had the League of Nations
been in existence in 1898, the United
States, under Article X, could never
have come to her relie?.
King Albert will note many
changes when he compares 1919
with 1899, and while it is quite
probable that no Republican leaders
in Congress will be invited to at
tend functions in his honor, if he
will pay a visit to the legislative
halls he will witness a republic in
resurrection. And, if he will pay
a third visit to this country about
March 4, 1921, he will find a Re
publican President in the White
House who will accord him a dig
nity befitting a comrade-in-arms,
but who recognizes neither the
sanctity nor the divine right of
kings.
LIBERALINTERPRETATION
IF, AS has been reported, there
are sections of the teachers' sal
ary bill now in the Governor's
hands that will have to be Inter
preted after the measure becomes a
law, by all means let the construc
tions which the Department of Pub
lic Instruction places upon them be
as liberal as possible. The evident
intent of the law, and not the mere
letter of the statute, should be the
guide by which its provisions should
be construed.
Why the act should be obscure is
difficult to understand. No bill be
fore the Legislature was scanned so
closely. Its every step was watched
and followed by a committee of
earnest friends. It was written and
rewritten before being submitted
and amended to meet changes of
sentiment and viewpoint of legisla
tors after its introduction. It was
more carefully read and more wide
ly discussed than any other measure
before the lawmakers last session.
If there is anything seriously at fault
with it the teachers themselves are
largely to blame. It was their bill
and most of its provisions were
framed by them.
OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK
CHEER up, folks! When finan
cial forecasters are optimistic
there is absolutely no ground
for pessimism, for often they see
the dark side only and panics loom
in their minds that nobody else ever
so much as dreams about. One of
the most conservative of market and
industrial observers has this to say
in the Bach Review:
The money situation is unfa
vorable to any large speculative
operation and money is under
control of the bankers. The re
sult Is somewhat like thai of a
fire which has been banked up.
There is a temporary cooling off
at the top and a steady, effectual
burning underneath. The tires
there are very much alive.
As this process of curtailment
continues, the foundation is ap
, parently strengthening ail the
time and optimism as to values
increasing. Developments in the
steel business and in the copper
trade are favorable, and in gen
eral it may be said that industry
is constantly working toward
larger volume, with good profits
steadily accumulating. The buy
ing power of the country is enor
mous and will be augmented by
| the harvest. Increasing tonnage
will enlarge the export trade and
demand abroad is undoubtedly
waiting in great volume for In
creased tonnage. With prosperity
looming, the labor problems are
more capable of ultimate satis
factory settlement. The quiet pur
chasing "of carefully selected se
curities is proceeding and appears
to be justified.
PROPER RECOGNITION
THE public will agree that no
principle of Civil Service is
violated by giving preference
to United States soldiers, sailors
and marines who were injured in
the service in the allotment of posi
tions from which ordinarily they
might be barred by physical de
fects.
When the Civil Service Commis
sion receives an application for
Examination from a discharged
Yank, whose physical condition is
such that he would not ordinarily
be accepted, his case is referred to
the Federal Board for Vocational
Education. The Federal Board
turns the matter over to a field offi
cer, who promptly goes out after the
man and offers him the services of
the board's organization for special
training to fit him for the work for
which he has applied, or for some
other employment if it does not
seem practicable to train him for
the work for which he made appli
cation to the Civil Service Commis
sion. Hundreds of such cases have
been referred to the Federal Board
by the Civil Service Commission.
Under a recent amendment of the
Civil Service rules, made on the rec
ommendation of the Civil Service
Commission, the commission may
waive the established physical re
quirements ,in favor of a disabled
and honorably discharged soldier,
sailor or marine, upon the certifica
tion of the Federal Board for Voca
tional Education that he has been
specially trained for and has passed
a practical test demonstrating his
physical ability to perform the
duties of the class of positions in
which employment is sought
Physical qualification is often
little more than a farce at best.
Many persons are turned down on
that score who are perfectly fit for
the work they desire to do, and
when it comes to letting down the
physical test rules in favor of re
turned soldiers, sailors or marines
there can be no argument against it.
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By the Kx-Committee man
—Nominating petitions for less
than a dozen aspirants for judicial
nominations to be voted upon at the
primary on September 17 have been
taken out at the department of 'the
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Generally, there are numerous ap
plications, but although the time for
circulating such petitions began on
Monday last few requests have been
filed.
Such petitions must be filed on or
before Friday, August 8, at the De
partment of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
Petitions for county and munici
pal nominations', which are to be
filed with the county commissioners,
come under a separate provision.
The time for circulating such peti
tions has not yet arrived.
Only four parties have the right
to nominate at the primary this year,
being the Republican, Democratic,
Socialist and Prohibition.
There are an unusual number of
judges to elect this year, all of them
being on the nonpartisan basis. In
the number are nearly a dozen in-'
stances where judges are filling offi
ces by appointment. In only one,
Somerset county, will the incumbent
not be a candidate for election to the
full term. Lehigh county will elect an
additional law judge for the first
time, no appointment having been
made where the place was created,
a provision in the bill being that
the voters should elect.
—Nominating petitions in behalf
of Superior Court Judge William H.
Keller, of Lancaster, have made
their appearance in this city and
have also been placed in the hands
of friends of the justice in the Cum
berland and Juniata valleys. The
time for filing judicial petitions with
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
will expire on August 9. Judge
Keller has many personal friends
here because of his service for over
three years as first deputy Attorney
General and his papers will be
freely signed on personal as well as
political grounds. Some of them
have been in circulation on Capitol
Hill.
—'Governor William C. Sproul,
who is expected to be back at his
desk in the Capitol on Monday after
his visit to White Sulphur, will find
things already for him to take up
in the matter of the appropriation
bills, of which several hundred await
his action. Chairman William J.
McCaig, of the House appropriations
committee, has been here all week
going over the bills as passed and
assembling comparative data rel
ative to other sessions so that com
plete information will be ready for
the Governor. Meanwhile Attorney
General William I. Schaffer and his
full staff of deputies has been work
ing night and day on the general
bills. The staff of the law depart
ment has almost abandoned every
thing els# and the men have been
working in short sleeves until late
at night on studies of the various
measures. There were over 650
bills to be acted upon at the be
ginning of the week, some of them
having been sent with notations to
the Governor.
—Allegheny county will elect Ave
common pleas judges, two orphans'
court judges and one county court
judge. Philadelphia has four to
elect, including Judge Joseph P. Mc-
Cullen, just appointed. In Lacka
wanna district Attorney George W.
Maxey will run for the Neill place
on the bench. Berks county will
elect two judges, both Judges End
lich and Wagner being candidates.
—The Wilkes-Barre Record ob
serves: "It seems strange that Con
gressmen who are so anxious to en
force prohibition are so indifferent
and slow about other laudable meas
ures of reform. Probably because
there is no • powerful organization
back of the other movements."
—The Philadelphia Evening
Ledger has criticised the appoint
ment of James S. Bent, Philadelphia
newspaperman, to the Public Serv
ice Commission and the Philadel
phia Record has approved it, say
ing that newspapermen are taught
to work and that one newspaperman
may give an example of industry to
lawyer members The Record, how
ever, is not exactly correct when it
says that none of the lawyer mem
bers of the commission has given up
his law business. Two of the mem
bers, one the chairman and the
other a Democratic commissioner,
have severed all connection with
their offices and staying in Harris
burg and devoting all of their time
to the work of the commission.
Other lawyer members are under
stood to be doing likewise.
—Men just home from the Army
are commencing to take an active
part in county politics in many a
county. There are half a dozen
such men candidates for nomination
in Cumberland and others are aspi
rants in Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Leb
anon and Schuylkill counties. Ches
ter county has four soldier candi
dates for Republican nominations,
among them Colonel John C. Groff
for register of wills. In Lebanon
Captain H. H. Barnhart is being
prominently mentioned for register
of wills.
—Pittsburgh's bond election,
which goes to the polls next week,
is proving one of the most interest
ing contests of the kind ever known
in the State. Mayor Babco>ck and
his friends are boosting the election,
but some of the councilmen and
the Pittsburgh Dispatch are oppos
ing a $6,000,000 loan for a subway
which is a part of the $22,000,000
issue.
—Congressman Henry W. Temple
in an address to the Board of Trade
at Washington, predicted that the
Senate would ratify the peace treajy,
with the League of Nations cove
nant. The Congressman is a Re
publican who was formerly an active
progressive.
—H. W. Wlnnemyer has been
electecLPittsburgh's official city pay
—A Pottsville dispatch says:
"Miners and other affllated unions of
this county are about to form a party
of their own, it was announced. The
first meeting will be held at Girard
ville, July 7. C. F. Foley, a national
official of the Barber's Union, and
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Central Labor Union, will
speak."
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Cannot Shield the Kaiser
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] |
Von Bethmann-Hollweg, who was j
Chancellor when the Kaiser ordered
Germany into war, comes to the
front with a proposition. An article
in the Peace Treaty makes it obliga
tory on the part of the German gov
ernment to deliver for trial men
charged with criminality during the
war. The Kaiser, having fled like
a frightened cur to Holland, is not
now under German jurisdiction, but
it is the intention to ask Holland
to give him up.' Bobs up now the
former Chancellor. He assumes all
responsibility. Won't the Allies
kindly take him, therefore, in place
of the Kaiser? He will be glad to
stand trial.
He will have to stand trial any
way, glad or not glad, for he is one
of the persons wanted, hence he
cannot substitute for the imperial
sawyer. For it is really necessary
to bring Wilhelm before an inter
national court. It is not at all prob
able that the royal despot will be
hanged or stood up against a wall
of -the Tower of London and shot.
He deserves death, of course, but
banishment will do. What is re
quired is an example for future
would-be despots to study. And
what is also required is to open up
the secret archives, to bring forth
into the glaring light of publicity
the documents bearing upon the
world upheaval, to summon wit
nesses, to fix the blood guilt so that
history may have faithful records.
"As former German Imperial
Chancellor, I bear for my period of
office sole responsibility," says Dr.
von Bethmann-Hollweg, "for the
political acts of the Emperor."
Yes? Did he, then, convene that
council at Potsdam on July 5, 1914,
when the Emperor called before him
his army and navy chieftains and j
the bankers of Berlin and gave
notice of impending hostilities?
The Chancellor was but a pawn,
and the coming judicial investiga
tions of the responsibility for the
war cannot be content with the
trials of pawns. The probe must
reach "the man higher up."
Of course, the question will be
raised that there is no precedent for
dragging the head of a nation be
fore a tribunal. But what of that?
No such situation as the present
has ever been faced before. There
is a first time for all things, and
what is a precedent but a first
time?
Von Bethmann-Hollweg may be
pleased to indulge in mock heroics,
but he cannot shield the former
Kaiser. That individual is wanted,
and surely there is a way to reach
him.
Films to Promote Safely
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
According to the figures of the
Division of Safety Engineering of
the Department of Labor, 88 per
cent, of the industrial accidents re
ported are due to the failure of the
human element, and are not directly
chargeable to machinery at all.
Of the 38,000,000 working men
and women in the United States, ac
cording to this report, 700,000 each
year lose limbs or are laid up for
an average of four weeks each, en
tailing a monetary loss to the wage
earners of the Nation aggregating
at least $00,000,000.
Mr. Bonsib, the chief of this di
vision, believes it most important
that workmen should understand
clearly the hazards of the occupa
tions in which they are engaged and
how they may be avoided. Films
and slides make a more effective
presentation of the case than any
speaker can offer. One large motor
company has made a specialty for
some time of showing a safety film
to its men in groups of about 175.
Where films are shown Mr. Bon
sib advises that the safety fllm be
only one of a program. He sug
gests a comedy film and a drama
for the finale. One large company
make a specialty of nnonday films,
with one Industrial fllm weekly.
Married Captivity
"A woman who flanks with doubts
tho man she marries, and limits him
with the tyranny of her affections,
can do more toward depriving him
of his freedom than un invading
army." From "Sunup to Sun
down," by Corra Harris and Faith
Hurris Leech, recently published by
Doubleday, Page & Co.
JAPAN WILL MENACE WORLD
Occupation of Shantung Regarded as Disaster by Chinese.
[Gregory Mason in the Outlook.]
THE peace of the whole world
is endangered by the decision
of the peace conference to give
Japan the special rights and privi
leges in Shantung formerly held by
Germany," said Dr. C. T. Wang, one
of the most important members of
the Chinese delegation to negotiate
peace at Paris. 'We intend to ap
peal from the decision of the peace
conference to the League of Nations.
If Japan is left in possession of these
particular privileges in Shantung
that province will become an Orien
tal Alsace-Lorraine.
If you Americans will just think
how you would feel if Japan were
awarded the state of California you
can imagine about how we feel as
regards Shantung. Or, to use an
other illustration, how would the
Belgians feel if Antwerp were
awarded to Great Britain because
the British soldiers were instru
mental in driving the Germans out
of Belgium?
"But the danger is not to China
alone," Doctor Wang continued;
"the whole world ought to open its
eyes. The creation of this special
position for Japan in Shantung is a
long step toward a very dangerous
degree of Japanese domination in
ull China. Suppose Japan gets her
hand on China's vastly rich mineral
resources, and suppose she begins to
train and direct the great reservoir
of man power found in China's
population of 400 million. Can you
not see that there would be a men-
TRADE BRIEFS
The amount of tin exported from
the Federated Mulay States in the
past year was 37,370 tons, valued
at $51,520,532.
Japanese interests are contem
plating the establishment of a mill
in Antung, China, for the manufac
ture on a large scale of paper from
Corean wood pulp. The proposed
company is to be capitalized at $2,-
500,000.
The continued decline in freights
since the armistice has stimulated
the demand in India for Japanese
confectionery and cakes. This de
mand exists mainly because of the
impossibility of obtaining such goods
from England.
A trade association is reported to
have been formed comprising the
entire British manufacturing,
wholesale and retail industry of
machine made drawing instruments
—a practically new trade establish
ed in Great Britain as a result of
the tvar.
It is reported that Tokio is to
have a subway to help solve its
transportation problem, but in order
to render immediate relief to the
traffic conditions the Mayor of Tokio
has recommended to the city coun
cil the purchase of 200 street cars.
The Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce is in receipt of a
list of the divisions of the Imperial
Government railways of Japan, with
the name of the purchasing agent of
each division,' copies of which may
be obtained from the bureau or its
district or co-operative offices by
referring to File No. 9823.
The result of an official census of
live stock in the Netherlands is now
published. It appears from this re
port that the total number, in com
parison with that of a census taken
in 1910, was as follows: March,
11919, horses, 362,011; cattle. 1,968.-
| 609; sheep, 437,075; swine, 449,829.
For 1910 the figures were: Horses,
327,377; cattle. 2.026,943; sheep,
889,036. swine, 1,259,844.
According to recent reports pub
lished In Japan, the number of mer
chant vessels of over 1,000 tons reg
istered to the end of March, 1919,
was 678. totaling 2,053.151 tons. Of
these vessels. 372. totaling 758,137
tons, were used on the coasting and
"near sea" routes, and 286, aggre
gating '1.242,658 tons, on ocean
routes. Seventeen vessels of a total
of 44,543 tons, were under repairs,
while three, .vessels, totaling 7,823
tons, had met with accidents and
were under salvage.
ace to the world much more serious
than Germany could ever be?
"Let me say that I have very
many Japanese friends, especially
among the Christian Japanese, for I
am a Christian myself. But the un
pleasant fact remains that the Jap
anese government is moved by a
spirit of militarism, imperialism,
and all of those things which have
come to be called Prussian. Really,
I am very much worried about the
effect of this decision on the people
of China. Perhaps there will be
some horrible reaction, possibly an
uprising of monarchists with the
aim of breaking down all the last
walls between us and Japan and ac
cepting the Japanese as the avowed
directors of the destinies of the two
great Oriental peoples. Or perhaps
general anarchy.
"You see. Shantung is the cradle
of China's civilization. It was the
birthplace of her two greatest
sages—Confucius and Mencius. The
seventy-third direct descendant of
Confucius, whose name is Kung
Hsiang-ko, is now on his way to
Paris to plead that this holy land
of the Chinese people be kept
Chinese."
"But, of course," I think Doo'.or
Wang, "Japan has solemnly promised
to give back to China all but a bare
foot-hold for herself in Shantung."
"No doubt," he replied, "Japan
will give us back most of the rocky
barren hillsides, and keep the rich
places and the strategic points for
herself. She will give us back the
shells and keep the oysters."
I
Kitchin on Economy
[From the New York Sun.]
Representative Claude Kttcnin,
having been dumped out of the
chairmanship of the Committee on
Ways and Means by the American
people, lifted his voice in debate
on Friday to say:
"The Republicans have saved not
a penny. The money would have
been saved anyway."
The fact is that the Republicam
majority in the House of Represen
tatives in the first thirty days of the
first session of the Sixty-sixth Con
gress cut $1,500,000,000 from the
amounts demanded by Democrats
in the executive departments and
bureaus to conduct the public busi
ness. Republican Congressman
checked up the spending program
of the Democrats and saved a bil
lion and a half of dollars for the
taxpayers by eliminating from it un
necessary, wasteful and unjustified
proposals.
Once more exhibiting his pro
found lack of acquaintance with the
processes of the Government which
puys his salary. Representative
Kitchin declared that "had the full
amounts appropriated by the Dem
ocratic) House last February been
made available only those amounts
found necessary would have been
spent."
Representative Kitchin lived in
Washington while the Democrats in
Congress were voting appropria
tions so enormous their sum made
the head swim and the Democrats
in the executive departments were
squandering the money in a way
never before recorded. Only a man
with a positive gift for ignorance
could seriously assert that the
authors of such prodigality would
ever save a cent.
Protect Dye Industry
[Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
So tremendously important is the
dye'industry with all that it involves
in wurfare to the Germuns that
they will strive in every war pre
serve it. -We say, therefore, that
no dtity, no matter how high, may
serve to foster the dye plants that
have been erected in the United
States. True, we now have the Ger
man patents and all of the German
secrets as to colors and shades, but
the plunts cannot be run at a loss,
and if Germany is permitted to in
vade the market she will herself
shoulder heavy losses in the re
newal of her old policy to maintain
a monopoly. There is only one way
to safety forbid the importation
of ail dyes for a term of years.
JULY 5, 1919.
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER TWENTY
"One day early in September we
were all ordered to report near a
certairf village about thirty miles
back of the trenches for a demon
stration," said Major Frank C.
Maliin, of the Army recruiting sta
tion, 325 Market street, Harrisburg.
"Everyone was much mystified, and
on our arrival at the designated
place we found the road lined with
trucks and some four or live hun
dred officers in the field or getting
out of their trucks. We were assem
bled out in the middle of the field
and an officer of the Ordnance Corps,
gave usji talk. He said there was
a big offensive in preparation and
in this offensive a surprise was to
be sprung on the Boche and that
the present meeting was to demon
strate to us this surprise. He in
formed us that American chemi
had finally perfected a compound
of thermite an phosphorus and had
made rifle and Stokes mortar gren
ades filled with this compound. Both
thermite and phosphorus are sub
stances which burn on exposure to
the air; thermite burns so violently
that if placed on top of a safe it
will burn a hole right through. Na
turally If a drop of either of these
substances should land on a man's
hanr it will burn right through and
the only way to stop it is to gral
a knife and cut the burning sub
stance out and that very quickly.
The officer told us he had some of
these new rifle grenades which he
proposed to fire off to show us at
least what they looked like- After
passing a number around through
the crowd to be examined he walked
across the field to a clump of bushes
about 200 yards away in which we
had noticed a couple of soldiers evi
dently waiting for something. Soon
after he disappeared In the bushes,
there came the old-familiar pop of
a rifle grenade being fired and we
saw a glistering object flying up, up
into the air and coming towards us.
By its direction of flight we saw it
was going to land twenty-five or
thirty yards to one side of the mob
of officers so everyone just stood
there watching. The grenade started
to come down, tumbling apparently
slowly through the air, it got down
to within about fifty feet of the
ground when it suddenly exploded
with a big burst of white smoke
and out of that smoke came a rain
of fire, literally a rain of fire. !•'
a fraction of a second that mob
of officers stood still while through
their brains passed a vision o f
of those drops of fire burning a
hole through a hand. No one waited
to see whether or not the rain was
going to hit us; some tried to run
backward, some turned and ran.
others just dove headfirst to ge'
out of range. Next to me was a
stout general who went into re
verse and started to back up; he
backed a couple of steps, caugh
his spurs in a clump of grass,
turned a backward somersault in
the air and landed on his prominent
tummy and kept right on moving
away from that fire sliding on his
stomach. If some of those in front
rank who tried to buck their way
through the crowd could do equally
good work in a football team, the
team would be a world beater.
"Ten days later we went over
the top in the St. Mihiel offensive
promptly ran into some Boche ma
chine gun nests and cut loose at
them with the new grenades. Many
times T saw Boche In a hurry, but
never in such a hurry as those ma
chine gunners were to get away
from the vicinity in which the skies
were raining fire."
SWAT THE LIE
What's the use of being honest,
'Cause the purchaser don't know—
Was the way they did business
In the not-so-long-ago.
Now the battle cry is different,
And the time will soon be nigh
When all business men shall holler;
SWAT THE LIE!
Swat the lie! and don't you ever
Let your words misrepresent:
Then you'll build a reputation
While on money-making bent.
Start to-day and keep agoing,
Do not only loudly cry,
For success consists in doing,
SWAT THE LIE!
Swkt the lie! By gad, ye Salesmen;
Don't you know it will return
And will cost you more to right it
Than the pesky thing will earn?
Cut it out!* It pays, you know it!
I need not tell you why, above all
things be honest!
SWAT THE LIE!
—H. Leslie West, in - "Demonstra
tion."
lEbming (Eljat
Dr. J. George Becht, executive
secretary of the State Board of
Education, who will be First Dep
uty Superintendent of Public In
struction, discussing Hoffman's
Woods location as a high school site,
told a Telegraph man that nearly
all progressive and growing com
munities are placing their high
schools well out from the closely
built sections and not a few of the
new schools are much farther from
the center of population than la
Hoffman's Woods. "The trend of ttv
times is toward large, open sj— ■"
for high schools," he said, awt
added, "that even in the
communities the tendency is to
regard central locations in favor t*
otherwise more advantageously gjv
uated plots.
Dr. O. E. H. Keen, discussing thg
subject, recalled that during his Ur
cent tour of the West he had noigd
that all the more progressive cit^a* 1
in which high schools have been
built recently, the same policy hw--
been followed as is being urged tot'
Harrisburg. "No attention is beiug
paid to the notion that it Is un
fair to one section of a city to lo
cate a school in another part," ho
remarked to a friend recently.
"These western cities took to the
greatest need for the greatest num
ber." Dr. Keen was particularly
impressed with the university At Balt
Lake City, which is located in rela
tion to that city much as it is pro
posed for the high school in Harris
burg. Hundreds of boys and girls of
Salt Hake City attend thlfc school
and make no complaint because
£ have to use the street car.
Wherever we locate our high
school," Dr. Keen said, "wo must
lealize that a very large number
of the students must use the street
ears. Dr. Keen made a verv care
ful study of school buildings'during
his journey and was much im
pressed by what he saw
• • •
ome of the creeks were
muddy, said R. H. Hyon, better
known to his friends as "Bob," "but
out where I was on the opening day
the water was clear as crystal, and
f>?ena o'shteen bass— my son, a
Hon of hi 1 • Says the looa
tion of his big catch is a secret.
mft tw n = Ve a ,0t of busings
nil ruf r y Is su mmer and has
no liking for competition. Two of
Dnneli ,S fi c ? u *l>t the first day
tipped the scales at two and cne
f„ilL V ach ' AU of them were
lUna? the artificial lure
made of painted wood that the skill
ful casting enthusiast finds so suc
cessful. Incidentally Hyon and his
Party were on the stream only two
hours in the afternoon
• 0 *
A friend of mine introduced me
to a f mighty seductive drink yester-
Iff' , snl ,' l 11 well-known Harrisburg
man to-day.
Queried his companion.
rHuto M thoughts upon the "dry
edicts that recently have caused so
much comment "What do vou
nioan. drink?
"°?lu 1 0t that klnd " the re
ply. but very good nevertheless—
t was nothing but a fine quality of
cod tea—very cold—with a slice of
lemon, sugar to taste and a sprig of
fresh mint. If you doubt me just
try it.
• • •
What would you say if some night
about 1 o clock, a night owl would
call you up on the phone and tell
you that there were four men un
lawfully catching frogs (I guess
catching them is the term—or is it
bagging them?) some twenty miles
away. And you were nicelv asleep
in a good, warm bed when the call
came and felt that your position as
State Game Protector was not all
that it was cracked up to be. Well
that is exactly what happened to J*
A. Bretz. who occupies that position
in the Lykens neighborhood. Mr.
Bretz doubtless felt the call of
Morpheus as strongly as you or I
but bravely rising and girding up
liis loins with a couple of six shoot
ers he sallied forth and hired an
a '^£ n ?£ bi,c P re P nr ed to do battle
with the law breakers. After a long
cold, cheerless ride, Mr. Bretz ar
rived in the vicinity of the crime
and having debarked from his jit
ney crept up on the criminals. After
some little creeping, he appeared in
a cloud of dust and with Run in
hand demanded their surrender. Ac
cording to Mr. Bretz several of the
gentlemen, who hall from a little
fown near Lykens, were, what Mr. I.
Cobb, of Georgia, would call three
sheets to the wind, or to be more
clear and A-E-F-ically, speaking,
bokoo zig-zag." This made no dif
ference to the wily warden, how
ever, who kept them covered In his
best billhnrt manner. And with the
prisoners before him he made his
way hack to Lykens where the next
morning the four merry wags were
fined sixty dollars each. As each
of them had devoted more time to
the late lamented John B. than they
had fo catching frogs, the total bag
was not more than twenty of the
specie. Frog legs are quoted In Ly
kens at the customary high rate.
With Cannons Booming
With the sound of cannon's boom
ing,
From the East, South, West and
North,
Heralding the day of Julius,
Called the patriotic Fourth.
With Old Glory proudly waving
Over land and over sea—
Emblem of a mighty nation,
Of a nation that is free—
And ere the bright sun's risen.
Long before the stroke of nine,
The old town will awaken
And be on the firing line.
'Twill be a thought Inspiring
When you hear the minute gun;
'Twill revive the dying spirit
That was born In Lexington;
'Twill recall the naval feats
Of our admirals on the sea
Jones, Farragut, Dewey—
The noble fighting three;
And then, within our glorious land.
The generals who have won
Fame imperishable and Immortal,
Like Stark at Bennlnton;
There too, is Molly Pitcher,
Dared the crimson field to face.
Who when husband fell at Mon
* mouth.
Took the dying gunner's place.
Or our heroes fiow returning
From the bloody fields of France,
Who subdued the haughty tyrant.
Breaking scepter, sword and lance;
Let the nation's joy be full to-day,
And may her children be lni
pressed.
By the many deeds of valor
Of her sons now laid to rest.
For with wise men at the helm
Steering clear the reefs of fate,
Within a peace-born harbor.
They will land the Ship of Stata
GEO. R. PRITCHARD.
"My Daddff
[From the Continental Edit!e
the London Mail.]
"Who can give the name of a
great man who fought in the war?"
was a question put by the vicar of
Chertsey to the Infants in Empire
Day examinations. "My daddy,"
came. the prompt reply from a
smart flve-year-old.