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MONDAY. J I'LY 11. 1919
And he shall judge between the na
tions, and shall decide concerning many
peoples; and they shall beat their
strxrrds info plowshares, and fheir
speors info pruninghooks; nations shall
not lift up strord against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.—lsa.
2 :4.
GOOD APPOINTMENTS
GOVERNOR sproul. continues
to gain in public confidence
through the wisdom of his
selections of fit public servants. His
long business experience has given
him ability to choose wisely In the
many appointments which he Is re
quired to make for the public ser
vice.
Political critics, of course, will en
deavor to persuade their partisan
followers that the Governor Is al
ways dominated by party consider- j
attons In his official nctlons, but the
fact that Democratic ns well as He- |
publican approval has been given
many of his appointments empha-j
sites the good sense which he Is dls- '
playing In this matter.
Public opinion Is rapidly crystal
lizing In favor of such reservations
aa to tho League of Nations as will i
safeguard American sovereignty j
and American interests now and j
hereafter. Some such alliance of ,
the principal nations opposed to i
Germany in the recent war as made !
possible the crushing of the Hun '
menace may be necessary for the j
preservation of peace, but this alii- j
ance need not necessarily involve the
surrender of any of the freedom of
action which has always character
ised the conduct of our Government
in the development of a great peo
ple.
A MODEL SMALL TOWN
THE Kansas City Star calls at
tention to what a small town
can do in the way of helping
itself, citing as an example the pro
gressive borough of Brimiield, 11!.,
which, with a population of only
600, has erected for itself a com
mnnlty house at a cost of $30,000.
According to the Star, until Brim
field accomplished this unusual un
dertaking its young people were
compelled to go to the city of Peoria
for amusements and entertainment.
The town had an old and out-of
date "opera house," which was noth
ing more than a town hall under
private ownership. Just as In tho
average small town. It had no
motion picture shows, no theaters,
no skating rink, no common meet
ing place for the public, no place
for dancing, no place for public
parties of any kind.
Every small town will recognise
at once the conditions that existed
In Brlmfleld. They are common to
small towns In Pennsylvania as well
as Illinois.
Now, the story of lirlmiicld re
lates. there Is a different atmos
phere in the town. The young peo
ple no longer say: "There is noth
ing going on In this old town."
There Is something "going on" In
Brlmfleld. according to the Star's
correspondent. In the way of whole
some, standard amusement and en
tertainment. The young people
know Marguerite Clark and Mary
Flekford and Dorothy Dalton and
the "Talmadge girls." The kids are
all acquainted with Charlie Chaplin
and Douglas Fairbanks. The boys
play basketball according to the
191k rules of the game, and they
AH the gymnasium every night
for healthful, purposeful egarclse.
Whan the women of the town went
to glr* a reception- -there Is the re.
noption room at the community
house. When the churches give a
"sapper"—the community house.
When the cemetery association
meets, when the township board
holds a asasion, when the businsea-
IBM give a banquet, when the pub.
Ha schools hold commencement #-
ecu ess, when the garage society
it* am.Ml exhibition—the
MONDAY EVENING, '
community house answers every
purpose.
And. best of all, one can Imagine
the good fellowship of the com
munity being Increased and built up
by the frequent community meet
ings at the public service house In
Rrimtield. It brings tho community
together in almost every activity of
the social and business life.
Brimtield Is brimful of the sest of >
life and public spirit is rife. Brim- j
field is about five years ahead of the j
times. Community houses or ,
neighborhood clubs—are going to j
be as numerous in a short time as
"town halls" now are in the villages
and boroughs of the country. And
not the small towns alone. Cities,
too. will have them —Harrlsburg
along with the rest. The trend is
rapidly in that direction and the
Legislature recognised the tendency
when it provided recently that third
class cities in Pennsylvania might
finance and operate indoor recrea
tion centers.
Every stiff fine imposed upon the
noise-makers, including the cut-out
offenders, means a more livable city.
No mercy should be shown the per
sistent violators of the anti-noise or
dinance.
ONE LAW FOR ALL
IT IS gratifying to note that even
in Germany former Prince
Henry's appeal to the King of
England not to bring the ex-Kaiser
to trial is received with no applause.
Prince Henry should have known
that his plea would prove futile.
The world wants William to pay for
his crimes. No penalty that can be
exacted Is severe enough, but inso
far as it is possible he must be
punished.
Prince Henry is a believer in
the old tenets of kingship, chief of
which is that "the king can do no
wrong," but that period is past and
the popular belief of to-day is that
few kings ever do anything right.
The Prince thinks he can prove
that the Kaiser, his brother, was not
responsible for tho war. May le
not, although tho world has good
reason to believe tho contrary, but
we know that he was responsible
for its conduct and that a word I
from him would have halted the
outrages in Belgium and France,
and on the high seas. It is for
these crimes that we want Wilhelm
to answer, and answer he must.
The new doctrine on earth is
"Bobby" Burns' dictum that "A
man's a man for a' that," and a
king who commits crime is no bet
ter than the tramp who breaks a law.
There is one law for all, and he who
breaks it must answer for the of
fense.
Providing a suitable memorial in
honor of the men who rallied to the
colors in the great war is a com
munity obligation and the Chamber
of Commerce deserves public ap
preciation of its initiative in the
matter.
EATING IN THE AIR
FHOM press reports we learn i
that tho R-34 was "well
stocked up with cold ham, .
roast beef, steak pie, tea and cof- |
fee," and that all the little luxuries I
of a well appointed hotel table were
in the larder.
And yet there were those who •
pitied the crew. Offered a similiar |
menu and the crowd that would ,
have volunteered for the ride back
would have overflowed a real ocean I
liner. The minute it is reported |
nbout that "good eating" and air i
travel go hand in hand the railroad |
diners will be deserted.
May be you haven't eaten on a ,
dining car recently. Perhaps you |
haven't noted the change that has j
come over the dining car bill of fare i
since the Government took over the '
roads. If not take it from one who
knows and don't investigate. There 1
WHS a time when a dining car dinner
was a meal to be remembered.
Now it is a thing one can't forget.
If you eat as much as your appetite
demands your pocketbook protests;
if you eat what you feel you could
afford, you starve.
One used to send back half of an
order uneaten—it was too much;
now if you don't eat everything set
before you it is too bad; hut mostly
you lick the plate and then wonder
how the man who has to make a
trans-continental trip by train avoids
starving to death. It's a great life.
Most of tho side show "living
skeletons" get thin by eating their
meals regularly on diners.
The only reasonably priced Items
are griddle cakes, lettuce and pie,
but these make a strangely unsatis
factory meal, tine of these days
somebody is going to make a mis
take and put something really
cheap, plentiful and good on a diner
blll-of-fare, but that won't help
much for all the regular patrons
will die of shock.
80 bring on your "cold ham,
lamb, roast beef, steak pie," and
the little luxuries aforementioned,
; trot out the old R-3t, we're ready
for the trip.
P. 5,.--\\'hy not take along a few
of (lie gentry who arrange the rail
road dining car menus and drop
"em oterboard half a mile up?
—
j it is going to be difficult for the
Secretary of War to explain to the
people who have been compelled to
purchase food stuffs at abnormal
prices why the millions ($121,100,.
OOOi of dollars worth of meats and
canned goods of every description
were permitted to remain in ths
great military depots for months
without any real effort to place thte
hoarded food upon the market In
some reasonable way.
aevsrnor sprout is using a double-
Hitted aa to disposing ef a let of bills
lsft for him to worry with by ths
legislature Hs Is manifestly scruti
nising with great ears the accumula
tion of measures referred to him by
the lawmaking branch.
'PuutrOifttfuua
*r am Ex o
Newspapers of Pennsylvania, es
pecially those In the third class
cities, seem to be far more Inter
ested in the activities of the politi
cians near and real, since the repeal
of the nonpartisan election feature
of the third class city code,- than In
commenting upon the action of the
Governor In approving it. It seems
to be the general Idea that the non
partisan municipal election, like
some other governmental panaceas
of which much was heard in years
gone by on Capitol Hill and in the
newspapers, has not been the suc
cess claimed for it so vociferously
and much of the lamentation over
the approval of tho Willson repealer
is coming from newspapers whose |
owners -or editors are more or less j
interested in the political fortunes
of a clique or personal factor rather !
than the welfare of a party.
From what the newspapers print !
there were many men surprised that j
the repealer was signed and some
politicians who have been active in
nonpartisan schemes \gt\re rather I
stunned, although in this city ap- j
proval of the repealer has been con- 1
sidered a probability ever since the
bill went back to the Governor after
being recalled in the same shape as
it originally passed.
Almost every city has had an
outburst of political activity that j
indicates a revival of the old time !
party contests and the general run
of the voters of the thirty odd third j
class cities appears to be glad of the j
chance to carry the party banner
again and to he showing little re- J
gard for the wailing in the market !
places over the passing of a law
that brought many unexpected and
absurd situations into the politics of
Pennsylvania's smaller municipali
ties.
—The Philadelphia North Ameri
can, which is generally credited
with having kept the judicial non
partisan net on the books this year,
criticises the Governor rather sharp
ly for approving the repealer, while
odell Hauser, writing in the Phila
delphia Press, says: "After consid
erable delay the Governor approved
the bill with his signature. 1 sup
pose he did it on the principle that
he had dragooned the faithful into
voting for so much they didn't want,
that he might as well give them
something they did want for a des
sert. Anyway, he signed it. That
will make the coming campaign for
Mayor and Councllmen 'a lively pro
position in some of our best third
class cities this fall." Other Phila- j
delphta newspapers seem too much i
interested in their own political sit
uation to pay much attention to the
rest of the State or laws affecting its
cities.
—Taking newspapers of Altoona.
which is well up in the alphabetical
list of third-class cities, for example
we find the Altoona Mirror weeping
over the repealer and blaming the
politicians as did the Harrishurg
Patriot in one of its characteristic
editorials. The Mirror says; "What
the party bosses could never get the
third class cities to agree to, they
succeeded in Influencing the Legisla
ture to enact and the Governor to
approve. Instead of selecting the
best men for office from all the
citizens at large, we will now choose
them from political parties." The
Altoona Tribune makes this con
servative comment: "We have never
thought much of the nonpartisan
method of nomination and election:
it has never secured a better class
of officials and has tended to de
crease the interest of the people in
both the primaries and the election.
We have likewise objected to that
provision of the Clark act which per
mits council to elect tho city treas
urer. It will be prudent, however,
to study the act in all its sections
before indulging in unreserved ap
proval or condemnation."
—The York Gazette and Daily
goes almost as far as the Harrishurg
organ of the worst Democratic ma
chine known in the Keystone in
years. This York paper says it is
"a lamentable slop backward" and
then remarks: "It Is silly and ridic
ulous to elect men to direct muni
cipal affairs simply because they
happen to belong to one political
party or another."
—The Pottsville newspapers say
the approval of the bill caused "con
sternation" among the politicians
who did not seem to think it was
going to become a law. Kaston and
Lancaster peoples seem to have re
ceived the news with indifference,
while in other parts of the State
Democratic newspapers of the same
stripe as the Harrishurg machine
organ are throwing dust on their
bends, and at the eyes of the public,
by saying the politicians did it.
The Heading Herald, which has the
! faculty of getting considerabble
I from out of Berks polities has this
to say: "It has no material effect
1 on tho Socialists, because in either
1 event that party would vote for can
didates of their own for office. But
j in both the Democratic and Repub
! Ilea A ranks things are different.
' Each party hnd representation at
city hall and between the two there
< was a mutual understanding. The
! new law will change all this nnd
| put everybody up in the air as to
! results."
—The Reading Kagle feels badly
about it, saying the Governor's ac
tion "surprised and chagrined"
many of Reading's city officials and
people. It says some candidates,
Including 11 Democratic randldnte
for mayor, called It "a freeze-out."
—l'p in Carbondals and Pittston,
where they are very practical In
their politics, the n< wspupers re
cord great activity among the candi
dates for office on getting petitions
signed Hnd In perfecting their linea.
Hazleton newspapers any the elec.
lion this VCH r in that city will be the
"llvelteat" In years.
—This is the way a Philadelphia
Press dispatch from Allentown
: views the situation in the Lehigh
j metropolis: "There WHS a wave of
] satisfaction throughout Allentown
the last two days over the action of
Governor Hprnul in signing the non
partisan repealer for elections In
cities of the third class For sev
eral terms under the nonpartisan
luw the Allentown City Council con
tained Socialist* and near-Roclallsts,
whose hsndllng of ths public funds
has resulted In extravagant waste
of public funds In unsuccessful at
tempts to demnnstrat* their theo
ries; • multiplication of nfltres for
the benefit of Hoctaliets, and an In
rrsase in the tax rats without ads
quale improvements."
—Naw Caatia. Bradford. Eria arid
Johnatown nawapapara do not Ilka
tka ehanga and ara Incltnad to
Mama "tba politician*."
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SIDELIGHTS ON PERSONALITY AND
CAREER OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
FROM HARVARD DAYS
How From a Weakling Youth He Developed a Sturdy
Constitution—He Cultivated Every Natural Advan
tage and Converted Liabilities Into Assets A
Potent Moral Influence
By CHARLKS G. WASHBURN
NC) one who, like myself, met
Theodore Roosevelt for the first
time in 1878, when he entered
college, would have tailed to be sur
prised to be told that he had been- a
delicate child, subject to severe at
tacks of asthma. He is described
by a member of his family as having
been a rather small patient and suf
fering boy, but always the head Of
the nursery at 28 Kust Twentieth
street. New York, where he was born.
He there amused his companions
with stories relating to strange and
marvelous anlmul adventures, in
which the animals were personalities
quite as vivid as Kipling gave to the
world a generation later in his "Jun
gle Hook." His father transformed
one of the rooms in the house into
an outdoor piazza gymnasium, to
which he introduced his son. as I
have been told, in the following
words: "Theodore, you have the
brains, but brains are of compara
tively little use without the body;
you have got to make your body,
and it lies with you to make it. and
it's dull, hard work, but you can do
it." This was Theodore Roosevelt's
flrst flght, the struggle to become
physically strong, which he began at
the age of nine years.
One of his most striking charac
teristics, even at this tender age, was
his power of concentration. Because
of his Inability in his early childhood
to engage in rough sports ho spent
much of his time in rending and
writing; while so occupied he was
always able to detach himself from
whatever was going on about him.
This characteristic, he preserved
throughout his life. Because of his
frail health he was educated by tu
tors until he went to college and wns
of necessity more or less of a recluse.
When he was nhout fourteen years
old his father lived for part of the
year, at lenst, at Oyster Bay. As
Theodore grew older and strongor ho
developed a great fondness for the
water. He did not care to sail, there
being too little physical exertion in
that: he preferred the smallest boat
that could live in the bay or sound.
He would row himself and made
long excursions shooting ducks, his
pleasure increasing as rough water
and fog made the trip more perilous.
He wns also huslly engaged in col
lecting nnd studying the hnblts of
I birds and animals, of various kinds,
which he stuffed nnd skinned him
self. His love of naturnl history nnd
literature was a pnasion throughout
hl life. Paring all this time he rndo
ran nnd boxed, nnd at eighteen, when
Ihe went to college, had become a
strong and normal yonng man, nenr-
I sighted to he "are. hut able to he
1 a verv respectable figure as a fencer
nnd lightweight boxer
Tn speaklne of his early political
life Roosevelt said lr a speech h
made at the Tfarvnrd T'nlon In 1907,
while he was President:
"\s soon as T left college T wanted
|to take so Interest In political life;
T wanted to find out how the work
of govcnlng was reallv done Ooite
s number o' nice people tr- Vw
York along Fifth Avenue solemnlv
advised me not to ioln nnv of the
regular political ergo nltu Mona, he
canre T would And that they were
eomnnoed on'v of 'muckers' not of
•eentlemen ' The answer waa easv;
Then they are the ones that govern
if it is the mocker* that govern, I
want to aee If I cannot hold mv
own with then' 1 will loin with
•hem in governing you It von are
top week tp govern voiirsdves ' T
intend to ha one of the etas* that
rov rns rstt one of the class fhst |a
governed An T telned the nnlltiea'
eiuh In mv district I tolned if lull
as ' did the Vgtienal Hoard "
Meantime. In 111*, when he wet
twenty-tour yeere old. hie drat book^
which he had began to write tn col
lege, was published, "The Naval War
of 1812."
One would expect to find an author
so young ar.xl of Roosevelt's tempera
ment engrossed in the romantic side
of his subject with little attention
paid in detail to the technique of
naval warfare. On the contrary, the
book deals with the inaccuracies of
earlier writers, rrruch space is given
to the careful sifting of evidence ami
it is decidedly controversial in its tone
dealing in technicalities to such a
degree as to make it perhaps of
greater interest to the student than
to the general reader. Roosevelt
once said of it that it wns as interest
ing as a dictionary. This was ar?
exaggeration; the book is not lacking
in interest and what is of more
importance, had a positive influence
In stimulating the development of
our navy.
The session of 1884 ended his ser
in the Assembly. He refused a re
nomination and two nominations to
Congress. His purpose to abandon
political life seems clear.
Several years ago I happened to
be sitting next President Eliot at
a public ditvner—Roosevelt was then
President. Mr. Eliot said to nie that
a certain prominent banker had told
him that the banking fraternity
would not then do things which it
would have done two years before —
fine 108110101*5' to the changed feeling
In commercial circles; It was a very
different feeling in 1907 from that
which prevailed In 1897. For this
Roosevelt was largely responsible.
His great power wns a moral power,
and moral questions Intciosted him
more than any others. He was at
his very heat tn any controversy in
which they were ir/volvcd. For ex
ample. he did not believe that the
question of lowering or raising tho
duties as proposed by the two parties
in nny way approached in Import
ance the trust or labor questions,
so culled, in which the rights of dif
ferent classes of society were In
volved and the question of social
justice was at Issue. He believed
that those who urged upon him the
necessity for taking up the tariff
knew that the tariff would be a rod
herring ucross the path of moral and
industrial reform.
! n 1905, when the first Moroccan
Incident occurred and It looked very
much like war, he wrote a very
strong letter, as Senator I-odge has
told me. to the kaiser. In which ho
said in substance that the ctvtlized
world would regard with horror a
war with France and thnt the kaiser
would bring upon himself the hos
tility of all civilized nations. Tho
kaiser replied that there would be
no war and that he would do al any
time what. Roosevelt advised That
danger passed, and Ihe result was
tho Algeclras conference, where
Henry Whits represented the T'nlted
States. It will ho remembered that
the conference came to a deadlock
and appeared to be about to break
up. Henator Bodge has told me that
one afternoon when they were riding
and discussing the subject Roosevelt
said to him: "I have cabled to the
kataer reminding him of Ills note
end asking him to take steps to se
cure the conclusion of the confer
ence I do not know whether he will
do anythtnk, but have done my
part." The result was that the Oer
man resistance was withdrawn and
a settlement reached Henator t-odge
raid that Mr White told him that
he did not know that nooaeve't had
done anything but that he was struck
with th# sudden disappearance of the
Oermat* opposition snd the quick
settlement which fallowed, all the
result at the cable
Us tu not tn hit youth a ready
speaker. Ha wee halting and toaat-
tating in his delivery. In the early
days no one would have predicted
a great future for him as an "orator."
In the later years, while he had none
of the arts of the orator, the subject
matter of his addresses had been so
interesting and his personality so
compelling that he was a most im
pressive speaker. He has, as every
one knows, been a most voluminous
writer, and I was surprised when
he said to me some years ago, in sub
stance: "Do you know I am not a
very ready writet ? No one knows
how much time I put into my arti
cles for the Outlook." He then
pulled a typewritten manuscript
from his pocket and said: "Here is
an article that 1 am going over as
I have opportunity, correcting and
recasting it," and then added, "but
my work is done three months
ahead." Here was one great secret
of his ability to accomplish much;
he was always doing today the work
of tomorrow, of next week or of
next year. During the winter of
1909 he was at work on the addresses
he was to deliver after his African
trip and while in Europe the follow
ing year.
Ho was always impatient with
well-meaning but futile people.
New York Cats Dempseys
[From the New York Sun.]
Among the worthiest creatures in
the animal kingdom is the cat, and
particularly the kind of cat that
lives and works in lower Manhat
tan. Observers whose way takes
them through the streets of the
warehouses, wholesale groceries,
markets and factories see the cat
occasionally by day as it passes from
door to stairway or from cellar to
street, nimbly avoiding the shifting
boxes and bales and the boots of
the drivers and passerby. Nimbly
and gracefully the cat does it, avoid
ing all appearance of haste or fear.
Of the latter it probably has none;
cats are fatalists, and it was one
of the sights of besieged towns in
Europe during the war to watch the
cat disregard the roar of the shells
and the flying stones and earth,
while the dog, a sensitive creature
with an imagination, sought refuge
even as his master man did.
In lower Manhattan dogs rarely
are seen. They would not like it,
for things are busy and noisy and
there is nobody to play with. The
downtown cat is not for play. Pos
sibly, ufter generations of life in the
mercantile world, a kitten would
not know how to play with a ball of
yarn. These cats are serious ani
mals, like Cassius, but not quite so
lean and hungry. Yet tHjey are not
fat. You neVer see a Wlllard among
them; they are all Dempseys, seem
ingly trained to the hour and with
death in either mitt for the corner
ed rat. They have an unmistakable
business look, a do It now, let effi
ciency be our motto, expression.
They have breathing spells, these
cats. Sometimes at night, after the
last truck has gone and the watch
man is making his rounds, cats may
be seen in the quiet cross streets
west of City Hall Park, busking in
the light of the electric lumps. Now
and then a cut mother will bring
her litter to the sidewalk as If to
teach them something about the
surface life of the city. On Hundavs
and holidays the cats, which may be
long to Feline Union No. 19, posi
tively loaf in front of their shops,
sprawled on the walk and confident
that nobody will step on them.
What do they live on when the
stores are closed for three days at
a stretch? Ask the ghost of any
downtown rodent. He knows!
Only Partirips Criminis
[From the New York Times]
It was not Bethmann who con
ceived the idea of the Potsdam con
ference' at which it was agreed to
start the war, and the legal fiction
of his responsibility cannot be
stretched to rover a conclusion so
absurd. It was not Bethmann who
ordered or permitted the atrocities,
and there is no law which can make
him guilty of It. The indictment
lies not against the late emperor,
but against William Hohensollern,
a man, and the man who
headed a conspiracy of which
Bethmann may have had no
knowledge, and In the carrying out
of which Bethmann was no more
{than lite pea la William Uoheaaol
iefii'a aaai J
JULY 14, 1919.
When He Can't Get a Drink j
E. M. Statler, the hotel man. In
the June American Magazine: As
a result of prohibition, we seem to
have these very definite effects: men
go out with their wives and their
famalles to the restaurants und
theaters, more than they did; they
drink soft drinks, and they cat more
food, especially sweets; they walk
more nnd ride less.
"They are also easier to get along
with. At least, my manager in De
troit says that it is like being 'trans
ported to heaven' since the drinking
man has boen almost eliminated
from the hotel guests.
"As the time goes on, more und
more men certainly are going to
take to soft drinks. In the' new .
| Motel Pennsylvania in New York we
will have three soda fountains and
| I expect they will do a big business.
lln Detroit the two most popular
| 'tcmpcranco drinks' with men are
! 'grape-Juice highball' which is
! grape juice and seltzer, and the
various ice cream sodas.
"I have been mnking inquiries,
and I find that men have been pat
ronizing soda fountains more and
more in recent years, even where
there was no prohibition. A woman
[told me the other day of going into
I one of these places in the New York
j financial district several times lately.
On each occasion she was the only
I woman in the place, aside from the
I girls behind the counters. And the
men in there were not office boys
or young clerks, but solid, substan
tial business men were taking their
ice cream sodas, their phosphates,
I and even their 'nut sundaes,' with
! evident enjoyment. If they did this
j when bars and saloons were open,
i they will surely do It still more when
there is no place else to go.
"In Detroit another effect of the
prohibition conditions is that people
are spending more for food when
they go to the restaurants. v The
j average- check for luncheon and
| dinner is twenty per cent higher
i than it used to be. Remember!
I This increase is in spite of the fact
| that all charges for drinks are now
! absolutely gone. That means that
j one large item has been subtracted
j from the amount spent in the res
taurants and yet the sum has in
creased. I mean the average sum
I per person.
Wander Song
Mad, restive city, you hold naught
for me;
Your glamour and your might; your
music and your light
Mere tinsel prove to nomads of the
sea.
I'm sick to death of all your sounds
and sights:
You call to me in vain; I loathe with
might and main
Your sin, your social laws, your
fool delights.
There is a wider life that holds me
fast:
It calls and ever calls; it's full of
lures and thralls,
And oh! it always draws me back at
last.
It speaks through halliards drum
ming on the mast;
Beckons from alien lands and lone
Pacific strands,
And hails me down the northern
storm-wind's blast.
Aboard, my men! Aboard! and
swing away. . . .
I long to leave behind, with all
their kith and kind,
Vain cities that would bind me to
their sway.
—Ntya Becke, in the Sydney Bulle
tin.
Soaked Hcrr Scheid £ 50,000
[Prom the Stars and Stripes.]
Herr Josef Scheid, one of the
leading citizens of Coblentz, will
not be obliged to refer to the vaca
tion guide this summer, nor will
he be concerned with the high cost
of ice, beer or other necessities. The
afer-mentioned gentleman has been
invited to spend six months in the
Third Army Military Prison at Cob
lentz, and all that will be required
of him will be to sweep the streets
daily and keep his bunk in good
shape. With tne persuasion of a
few M. P.'s he accepted the invita
tion.
Herr Scheid is one of the wealth
iest men in Coblentz, his worldly
assets amounting to something over
$2,000,000 in real money. Until he
took up his residence in the Third
Army brig he was a contractor, en
gaged in wholesale traffic along the
Rhine River.
A short time ago, he loaded up
one of his boats at Mainz, and headed
it for Coblentz. According to the
hill of lading, the cargo contained
"rock, crushed rock and wine," but
before it was even unloaded, the
American Intelligence Department
discovered 35,000 bottles of cognac,
worth about $200,000, camouflaged
under the crushed rock.
As traffic in cognac is distinctly
off limits, Herr Scheid was conse
quently out of luck. He was tried,
found guilty, fined 200,000 marks
and sentenced to six months at hard
labor.
"China a- Danger to Japan"
Marquis Kinunochi Saionji, senior
Japanese delegate at the Peace Con
ference, made the following remarks
with regard to Japan's relations with
China, when interviewed by Gregory
Mason for the Outlook:
"I have a great admiration for
many Chinese, unfortunately
some of the Chinese statesmen have
a way of saying things for effect
which they cannot mean. Japan has
solemnly promised to give back the
leased territory of Kiao-chau and to
restore Shantung to China in full
sovereignity, except a little land at
Tsingtan for establishing a Japan
ese settlment, and Japan will keep
her word. I do not need to defend
that word from any Innuendo. Japun
has always kept her international
agreements and her honor is above
reproach.
"It is not necessary for me to
take up other ridiculous Chinese pre
tentions, such us the pretension that
Jupan is aiming to gain military and
economic control of China u,id build
up a gigantic power with which to
try for th> hegemony of the world,
try intelligent man can see that
China Is much more of a danger to
Jupan nnd to the world than Japan
is to China. Whatever steps we have
taken or may lake In China are
aimed merely to protect our Just In
terests there and to preserve the
peace of the Ear East."
End Debt Next
[From the New York Times.]
The Oerman confiscation seem
less confiscatory to their opponents,
who have for four years or more
endured' rates not very much leas,
and not for like reasons. It is one
of the injustices and ironies of the
victory that the war to end war
leaves the world, both victors and
vanquished, under a burden of debt
larger than the burden of militar
ism But the burden of militarism
has lasted since tha time of the
Cesser*, and, since now there la an
and of ths Caesars, there will be
sooner er faster aa sad of ths war
debt.
Bmttng Qlljal|l
■■ ■■ ■■ -'j
One could come pretty near get
ting into Ithe section dbevoted to
names commencing with the letter
H in Boyd's 1919 directory of Har
risburg and Stcelton the whole of
Napey's Harrlsburg Directory and
Stranger's Quide for 1842. A copy
of this early directory, said to have
been the first worth whilo in Har
risburg, has been made available
for comparison with the 1919 guide
to the homes of 100,000 people by
D. C. Fadden, 112 Charles street.
It is certainly an interesting basis
upon which to rebuild the Harrls
burg of seventy-seven years *go.
The population of the borough, aa
it was then, was about 6,200. Har
risburg ultliough a settlement since
around 1719 ti'd not become a place
with many people until 1785, when
it was made the seat of the new
countv of Dauphin and later in 181-
became the Capital of Pennsylvania.
In tho fifty-seven years that had
passed up to 184 2 't had not pro
gressed much nnd Ulpolyto b-apeys
directory reveals a town smaller
than Middletown, Mechanicsburg or
Gettysburg today and actually con
taining fewer persons than wore in
the Second and Eighth wards of
Hurrtsburg at the 1910 census. In
deed the wholo population or
Dauphin county at that time was
not much over 30,000, und less thuri
Cumberland or York.
• ♦
Mr. Napey's director venture gave
way the following year to J. A.
Spofford's Harrisburg Directory, tho
first of tho Spoffofd publications on
Harrlsburg. A copy of this 1843
directory has been loaned by John
Gastrock to the Harrisburg Public
Library and It, too, affords some in
teresting information. Mr. Spof
ford was a printer at 4 North Sec
ond street, now Market Square. Mr.
Napey conducted a grocery, Hour
and feed establishment at 63 South
Second street, which was at Mul
berry street boforo the borough
abandoned the Broadway system of
continuous numbers and. numbered
houses according to blocks. This
early business man also kept pills
and various medicines on hand
and handled "letters cut in zinc" to
make barrels, etc. He did not make
a success of his directory, but ho
woke up the town by showing its
varity of opportunities. The names
of the residents are contained in
ten pages of the sixty-four in tho
book, the rest being a very interest
ing classified business directory, a
Capital Hill list, statistical, data and
advertisements with a sketch of
Harrisburg.
• • •
It is of this sketch that much
might be said because it has been
taken as the foundation of nino
tenths of the sketches written of
Harrisburg since, cribbed from,
stolen bodily, revamped and em
bellished by more than one am
bitious historian, chronicler or
annalist of our fair city, were few
of whom credit Napey's enterprise
and most of whose plagorisms can
be traced by their use of certain
facts and arrangement of narratives.
This sketch is generally attributed
to Gearge Washington Harris, an
attorney and grandson of tho sec
ond John Harris, the founder of
Harrisburg. ilr. Harris had access
to family records and being a great
admirer of his sturdy patriotic
grandsire, was especially well posted
in the loro of the locality. Tho
sketch is most interesting and two
facts are worthy of repetition. One
was that letters addressed "John
Harris, Harris Ferry, N. America,"
by London merchants came to his
stone masion that still stands on
the river front and the other that
long before 1785 he predicted that
his infant town would be the seat
of government of Pennsylvania. Ho
I was so positive of this that he left
! a place for Capitol Park in his
: town plan, and his faith never
'wavered in the future of Harris
burg. With his son-in-law, William
Maclay, one of the first two United
States Senators from Pennsylvania,
he urged it for years and two de
cades after he had been laid to rest
in Paxton church yard and Maclay
was beside him, the State Capital
came here, and the prophecy mado
in the time of the Revolution was
fulfilled.
The classified business shows
twenty-four attorneys, twenty tailors,
twenty-five shoe and boot stores,
with one last maker, forty-two
grocery, dry goods and flour stores,
eleven butchers, twenty-four hotels,
fourteen boarding houses, the latter
occupied largely by State officials,
attaches and Legislators, eighteen
carpenters, seven masons, twelve
physicians, seven hardware stores,
nine cabinet makers, four hat
stores, four justices of the peace,
five chair makers, one potter, six
plasterers, three tobacco stores, nine
clergymen, fourteen smiths, four
confectioners, four soap nnd candle
makers, two dentists, six saddlers,
seven drug stores, ten bakers, ten
painters, four warehouses, "at the
canal," five tinware and stove manu
facturers, fifteen milliners and
"Mantua makers," two tunners nnd
"morocco dressers." five bookbind
ers, three liverymen, two brewers,
three cloekmukcrs, five lumber mer
chants, six brickmakcrs, four book
stores, ten "oyster and entlng
houses," eight burber shops, three
auctioneers, eleven printing houses,
three coal and wood yards, two
locksmiths and the same number of
gunsmiths, and nlno churches, only
one of each denomination. In tho
business list are names of several
men whose families are in the samo
lines of dally activity today, notably
Gilbert, Gross, Roberts, Ott, Alrlcks,
Shearer, Pager, Orth, Magluachlin,
Jonas and Hutter. There ure many
firms listed whoso names aro
familiar to older Harrlsbtirgers such
as John Brandt's warehouse and
wharf, Peter Hernheiscl, tho build
er; Zollinger's hat store, the Felix
candy store. Wyoth's book store,
Duncan's tobacco store, tho Hae
hulcns, Orcenawall's tannery, Clyde
A Co., the book binders, and Feun
A Wallace, who published Tho Tele
graph.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Martin Boland, well known
Scranton dentist, will go to India.
- General W. K. Price is one of &
syndicate to build a big office build
ing in Chester.
—Congressman J, M. Rose, of
Johnstown, will urge a six cent coin.
—lra W. Stratton, former mayor
of Reading, well known here, may
run again.
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