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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1919
Go put j /our creed into your deed,
Nor speak icith double tongue.
—Emerson.
THE "Y" PICNIC
WOULD that there were m<yc
such gatherings as the Y. M.
C. A. picnic held at the sum
mer home of J. William Bowman
Thursday afternoon. That was a
truly democratic party if ever
there was one. Dignity was thrown
to the winds. Pride there was, to
be sure, but only the pride of
achievement In the sports of the
day, and even that . went by* the
board when fun and good fellow
ship were to'the fore. It was a real
neighborhood jollification, and every
one of those who attended came
home better men and better Har
rlsburgers than when they went. A
half day of such association brings
men more closely together and
breeds more friendship than a year
of formal meetings.
THE NEW GUARD
NOW that definite announce
ment has been made regard
ing the reorganization of the
National Guard of the country we
may expect a prompt mobilizing of
the Pennsylvania divjslon. In view
of the splendid record of the Twenty
eighth Division, which comprised
most of the old N. G. P., it is be
lieved the reorganization of the
Guard on modern military lines will
have the approval of all who be
lieve in military efficiency and rea
sonable preparedness against any
eventuality.
Time was when the National
Guard was contemptuously referred
to as an organization of "tin sol
„ diers," but since this week one year
ago. when the gallant Twenty-eighth
, Division of Pennsylvania was thrown
against the advancing Hun in the
second battle of the Marne, only
praise has been heard of that divi
sion and the other National Guard
jinits which comprised a consider
able portion of the American Army
in France.
The training received for years be
fore the war in the armories and en
campments was a vital factor in the
quick mobilization of an effective
military force in a few months after
- we entered the war. Many of those
" who participated in the fighting in
France will re-enter the Guard in
this State and thus form the nucleus
of an efficient division.
WILL NOT BE RUSHED
CABLES from Paris carry a
story to the effect that the
American delegates still at the
French capital are restive over the
. uncertainties as to Senate action
• on the pact; that it ties their hands
; and that as a result they hesitate
to act with the Allies in carrying
out provisions imposed on Germany.
This is the sort of stuff that arouses
suspicion regarding the practicality
of the League of Nations and doubt
as to its efficiency in establishing
world-wide peace.
There is absolutely no reason why
the United States Senate, important
as a treaty-making factor under our
system of Government, should he
rushed in the consideration of this
document. President Wilson had
ample time for consideration of the
various phases of the nego
tiations and it is only proper that
the co-ordinate treaty-making pow
er should have a like opportunity
to pass upon questions which vi
tally affect the American people.
United States senators who have
already been in conference with the
President at the White House have
2 not been convinced through their
confidential talks that the whole
. thing should be swallowed without
amendment or reservation of any
.. sort. More and more this country
•is beginning to understand that
purely domestic questions, such as
Immigration and the tariff, the Mon
' roe Doctrine and other matters of
the greatest moment,; must be safe
SATURDAY EVENING,
guarded j n the document now under
I discussion at Washington.
| Senator Knox, Senator Lodge )
other strong opponents of the j
I treaty and its League of Nations
j appendix are determined that there *
j shall be no rushing of the situa- i
I tion by the man In the White House ,
! and no surrender of the principles
which they conceive to be vital to j
the future development and welfare
of the American nation.
President Wilson is now exper- |
iencing just what was invited by his j
unfortunate attitude throughout the i
negotiations at Paris. He ignored j
j the Senate and the statesmen of j
1 that body are not now disposed to
1 adopt as their own the views which
j he has submitted in a more or less
; general way through public ad
j dresses. Nor are they likely to be
i influenced by the secret confabs
j now going on at the White House
, from day to day, especially in view
of the President's own insistence
i that there must be open covenants
openly arrived at.
All the world wants peace, and
this great peaceful Nation, which
made possible the winning of the
war, above all countries yearns for
a return to the ways of peace, but
in every quarter is a strong under
current of opinion favorable to a
thorough study of all the problems
which are involved in the accept
ance or rejection of the proposals
embodied in the combination treaty
and League of Nations plan inter
woven with it.
Our ship of state is sailing now
on an uncharted sea so far as
our relations with the rest of the i
world are concerned. For this rea- |
son, and in view of the tremendous
difficulties which may confront the
United States through surrender of
its sovereignty or control of its own
destinies, the statesmen of the Sen
ate will be expected to guard
against any false step in this criti
cal hour.
It doesn't follow because objec
tions are made ,to certain features
of the combination document that
there shall not be some proper al
liance with the countries overseas,
but blindly accepting all the provi
sions of this agreement between the
Allies and their recent foes is not
to be considered for a moment. It
is our duty as a free people to safe
guard at every turn our sovereignty
and the inalienable rights of an in
dependent and just Nation.
STOP FORESTALLING
T T IS apparent that the old-farc
in stalling ordinance now on the
statute books of the city can
not be made to apply to the pres
ent situation. Its Intent Is all that
might be asked, but its operations
are limited. A new ordinance, meet
ing modern conditions, should be
written around the general thought
embraced in the old ordinance and
new and heavier penalties should be
attached. No time should be lost In
this.
It is an indisputable fact that
many retailers buy in the city mar
kets goods brought to town for sale
directly to the consumer. This
should be stopped. The markets
are intended for the consumer and
the farmer, not for the middlemen
who is interested only in the taking
of a profit. If there is any surplus
after the regular market hours,
then it would be only reasonable to
j permit the sale of such surplus to
j retailers for reselling, in which
j case the consumer would have only
himself to blame if he did not take
advantage of market-house prices.
Worse even than the mere buying
by retailers is that the additional
prices they are compelled to ask in
order to live results in the farmer
advancing his prices to meet the
new maximum, and s§ the con
sumer is made the goat of the whole
transaction.
An anti-forestalling ordinance is
demanded. The councilman who
votes for such a measure will be
popular in Harrisburg.
GO SLOW
RADICAL prohibitionists in Con
gress may do the cause more
harm than good if they are
not careful. For years prohibition
ists have been crying for fair play.
Now they are charged with jamming
legislation through the House with
out opportunity for debate and in
violation of all the principles of
democracy. Their excuse is that
any means is Justifiable in their fight
against rum. But Americans be
lieve in fair play for even the under
dog, and in this case the violence of
the prohibition leaders may be very
hurtful to the admirable object they
have in mind. •
A grhat majority of the people
are opposed to a resumption of the
sale of intoxicating liquors. They
have had their fill of the saloon, and
the police records already show the
beneficial effects of temperance leg
islation. But they will resent any
effort to go behind the intent of the
-present war-time prohibition meas
ure, which was to (stop the sale of
intoxicating beverages on July 1 of
this year. Nothing is said therein
concerning the right of the private
individual to his own stock of
liquors, and there can be no excuse
at this time for interfering with
what looks like personal privilege,
condoned, if not actually permitted,
by the law.
Next January the prohibition
amendment goes into effect and it
will be enough at that time to con
sider the more stringent enforce
ment legislation that then will be
necessary. Wise and conservative
thought is desirable. Hit-and-run
methods will not do either now nor
then. Congress would do better by
confining itself at this time to a
clear definition as to what degree
of alcohol may bo permitted in
drinks rather than in attempting
radical regulations not in keeping
with the letter of the present pro
hibition statute and tending only to
strengthen the hands of the liquor
forces. 1
fUUUsIx
'PfcJVKOlffccaiua.
By the Ex-Committeeman
Pennsylvania will elect forty-one
judges of various classes at the No
vember election and petitions are
now being circulated in advance of
the September primary in a number
of counties with prospects of inter
esting contests. In Lehigh and
Washington counties judges will be
elected to fill newly created posi
tions, the Governor not appointing,
while in Cambria an orphans' court
judge will be elected for the full
term, an appointment having been
made.
There will be elected one superior
court judge by the State at large
and eighteen common pleas judges,
Allegheny having the most. Five
orphans' court judges will be elect
ed, one Allegheny county court judge
and two Philadelphia municipal
court Judges.
Fourteen associate judges will be
elected. Huntingdon county will
elect two and one each will be
elected in other counties.
These elections will all be under
the nonpartisan act.
> —Thus far Governor William C.
Sproul has approved 413 bills of
general character and 43 appropria
tion bills passed by the last Legisla
ture with prospects that the number
will be increased in the next twenty
four hours. Sixty-two bills have
been vetoed. The Governor has
been at work for the last three days
on the 420 bills making appropria
tions to charities and various other
objects. He has between sixty and
seventy bills of general character in
his hands to dispose of.
—The time for acting on bil's ex
pires next Saturday.
—Harvey Wible, brother of L. H. j
Wible, of the State Department of !
Agriculture, is a candidate for Re
publican nomination for county
commissioner in Fulton county.
—District Attorney John J. Pat
terson, of Juniata, and George E.
Lloyd, of Cumberland, will be can
didates for renomination.
—Entrance of James W. Leech
into the Cambria county orphans'
court judgeship contest means a
lively fight as Mr. is well
known all over the county. How
ever, Judge Reed, the Governor's
appointee, is pretty strong.
—Xorman E. Clark, candidate for
judge in Washington county a few
years ago, will likely run for the
new orphans' court.
—ln an editorial commending i
Governor Sproul for commencing the !
cutting of the general appropriation I
bill in his own department and on j
the futid for his own personal use, j
the Philadelphi. Bulletin says: "He j
imposes the same rule of economy j
on himself in the personal use of i
the public funds to which he is !
privileged, that he would enforce on j
departmental heads, and sets an |
example that ought to be followed j
even beyond the point of necessity j
marked by the limitation of appro
priations. Some day the people, j
burdened with the increasing cost of
administrative government will ap
preciate in full the official who does
not regard public office as a private
crib, or measure his power by the
appropriation he can pull through
the Legislature, but rather prides
himself in matching the maximum
of efficiency with the minimum of
cost to the taxpayer."
—Reading Socialists will hold a
caucus to-night to name a full city
and county ticket. The party plat
form will also be prepared and
adopted at the meeting. Interest
centers in mayor, council, controller,
treasurer and school board. The
names of J. Henrv Stump A. R.
Rower and James H. Maurer loom
up prominently for the mayoralty.
—Candidates arc thick in Union
county this year and the primary,
will be lively. Candidates for coun
ty commissioner on the Republican
ticket are Gettleb Kowe, who has
been prominent in polices fop years:
J. E. Hubler, J. W. Ruhl, j. W.
Zimmerman. Walter Lilley, Scott S.
Walter and A. A. Showers. Wil
liam H. Groover and M. H. Lesher
are Democratic aspirants. District
Attorney C. C. Lesher may not have
any opposition. The county treas
urership is sought by John E.
Haekcnburg, E. E. Kling, Wilbur E.
Bennage and James B. Chambers
with Charles S. Zellers in the Demc
cratie end of the Meld.
—George W. Atherton, one of the
oldest attorneys of the Franklin bar,
is out for district attorney.
—Abolition of the historic Xinth
Internal district takes with it a
unique figure in Pennsylvania Demo
cratic politics, B. F. Davis. He has
been a storm center in Lancaster
for years and managed to boss the
county committee. He was made
revenue collector after having been
a member of the Democratic reor
ganization committee which "be
headed" various party leaders and
gave Palmer, McCormick et al their
start. And now Davis gets the ax,
while Xortheastern Pennsylvania
Democrats, who recently gave Pal
mer a dinner, are not disturbed. It
will be recalled that the Scranton
district was reconstituted to reward
deserving Democrats and flourished
much in the newspapers for a time.
-—The Philadelphia reformers and
independents have adopted the his
toric designation of the "Committee
of 100" for their official body to
buck the Vares.
—The Pottsville Republican ad
vances this thought: "It may be
possible some time to evolve a sys
tem of public office holding which
will require the incumbent to be
thoroughly competent in every re
spect for the duties he will he called
upon to perform, to make it possi
ble to remove him on a thirty day
notice for failure to give faithful
and efficient service and to continue
him in office indefinitely at increas-
HAXUEUHBUKO TELEGRAPH
THE NEW NINETEENTH ..... ..... ... ByBRIGGS
ing compensation as long as he is
I an asset to the community."
—York county Democrats are at
'it again. The well informed York
I Dispatch says: "In the nomination
| of county tickets bitter factionalism
lias already developed among the
I Democrats. This is not at all new,
i but it is of special interest at this
[ time, because the coming primaries
will witness an important clash in
[ the fight for political supremacy be-
I tween the Brodbeck and Fix forces,
looking ahead to the nomination for
! Congress next year. For this nom
ination. A. R. Brodbeck, of Han- (
over, who was decisively defeated :
for re-election by his Republican
opponent. Congressman E. S. j
Brooks, last fall, and A. F. Fix, j
1 present county treasurer, who was
defeated by Mr. Brodbeck for the
Democratic nomination for Congress i
last spring, both aspire, and head ]
opposing factional forces. As the j
primaries of this fall approach, the j
breach between them is becoming |
wider."
The Man of Morn
[From the Baltimore Sun.]
The Man of Morn came down the
way
With laughter in his eyes of light;
He saw the world a sunny day,
He helped the world forget the i
night,
He took the care and took the grief, :
And fled with them and cast them
out,
| And brought the world a new belief
And sang and rang a battle shout.
j The Man of Morn was good to sec
i Because of smiles that decked his
face,
i He broke men's gyves and set them
free
And made the world a sunnier ■
place.
| He grasped the shadow, rolled it j
back, ]
And put the vision in men's
hearts,
And lifted them from off the rack
And swept old sorrow from the
marts.
He played and danced, he was a
beam
From hills of beauty and of dawn; j
He showed the world the way to
dream.
He took the greed and hate and
scorn,
And cast them down, and with
the sun •
Of hope and cheer relit the morn
In spirits that had cried them
done.
The man of Morn came down the
street.
And all the weary and the old
! Turned young and gay and blithe
and sweet
And travelled back from gray to
gold.
He took the sighs and sobs and tears
I And turned them into smiles and
song. . _ . i j
! And stayed the doubt and healed
the fears
And steeled the right against the
wrong.
j He loved and suffered and was true
He gave and served, and answered
deqth
' With Spring, and on his trumpet
blew
A challenge with his morning
breath.
1 A piper of the peace of earth,
I He led the legions, and they came
I With dance and song and smiles of
mirth .
I That sprang from his auroral
flame.
TRADE BRIEFS
'■ The fusion of the well known
British shoe polish firm of Day &
' Martin Ltd., with Hargreaves Broth-
I ers & Co.. Ltd., a long established
I concern, which for many years
manufactured only laundry "blue"
and black lead but which has more
I recently added floor, metal and hoot
! polish ' and other household re-
I quisites to its products, is reported
1 from London by Trade Commission
| or H. G. Brock.
Japanese peppermint and menthol
! dealers expect a revival in their
trade soon. There was quite a
slump in this industry during the
war, the only orders that were re
ceived being small ones coming from
America and parts of Europe.
Chinese Government railroads
yielded a good profit for the year
1917. The report for that year shows
a surplus for the' entire system of
$21,630,195, which is a slightly larg
er sum than the 1916 surplus and
! nearly double that of 1915
j. Japan's foreign trade in forest pro
j ducts has greatly increased during
1 the past year. The export Of lum
ber amounted to $6,000,000, vegetable
wax to $1,792,000. Camphok was
shipped to the value of $1,5f1L500,
and exports of cocoanut oil smnfcisd
to $5,840,000. R
A REJECTION SLIP
[From the Saturday Evening Post]
W OULD-BE contributors whose |
theories of world saving are
returned by us because they j
are in opposition to human limitations j
and the sometimes regrettable but !
always immutable laws of Nature, <
write us occasionally that the press '
is owned, body and soul, by the soul- j
less corporations.
Sometimes a soap-box contemporary
charges that the' great dailies and
periodicals ale either bought by their ;
favorite prop, big business, or bribed 1
indirectly by their advertisers. But
it is the section of the press that most
often uses the words "bought," I
"bribed," "wage slaves,',' "capitalist
press," "kept press" tmit is most of- j
ten unreliable in both its editorial
and advertising columns. Their j
standards of advertising morality, !
when compared with thos<* of a ma- j
Jority of our great newspapers and j
periodicals, are as low and debased •
as tfieir editorial aims.
The professionally discontented j
and the professionally ground-down j
must have a soap-box newspaper or I
periodical and, if possible, some sort j
of an organization that will both 1
subscribe to their papers and pay i
dues to their organizations in order j
that they may stimulate discontent j
and coin it into an easy living and ;
a good-thing position for them- ;
selves. Divine discontent—heretofore j
the great American incentive to true '
progress—is being superseded by a i
new discontent that believes in noth- |
ing but the devil and all his works. 1
Nothing could be better for our j
country and Its citizens than the old I
American discontent that spurred one |
upward. Nothing could be worse |
than the new Russian discontent that
would drag all down except those
leaders who see in the stupidity and
credulity of their followers a chance
to gain positions that could never
be theirs in the competition of brains,
and fortunes that they eould x never
accumulate in the competition of
commerce. Facts, figures, reason,
logic and truth are all capitalist lies
to these fellows. They appeal to an j
age-old Instinct in humanity—a per-
Thc Building Situation
A current bulletin of the Ameri
can Exchange National Bank of
New York. City makes this interest
ing statement:
"Building statistics for May af
ford the highest satisfaction when
viewed in the relation of such fig
ures to general confidence. Econ
omists regard the evidence present
ed in the form of purchases of ma
terials to be used in permanent
construction as the highest that
can be adduced in proof of a state
of confidence in the existing price
level. That being true, May, with
| the highest values involved in build
t ing permits, but two in the history
j of the country, apparently offers a
guarantee that prices have reach
ed the "bottom" and an assurance
i for the future that should remove
I lingering doubt. The total value of
j the buildings projected under the
permits issued in 167 cities during
| the month reached the satisfactory
; figure of $107,701,000, an increase of
i nearly $57,000,000, or more than
j double the figures for the same
' month of last year and nearly $20,-
000,000 more than in the same
month of 1917. The only two months
that show h higher total are May
and July of 1916."
\Legion to Have an Emblem
A button adopted by the National
! Executive Committee of the Ameri-
I can Legion as the official emblem of
! the national organization of 4,000,-
j 000 American veterans of the great
' war will be distributed in a few
[ days to members of the legion
I through State branches and local
| posts throughout the country.
The button is three-quarters of
'an inch in diameter. It consists of
' a central small replica of the regu
j lation bronze five-pointed star dis
charge button issued by the War
Department to honorably discharg
ed service men, surrounded by a
narrow circular bond of blue en
amel, containing the words, "Amer
ican Legion" in gold letters. The
button has a fluted gold edge. The
central replica of the discharge
button will be silver instead of
I bronze for members of the legion
who were wounded in the service.
The necessary steps will be taken
by the Legislative Committee of the
American Legion, headed by former
Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee and
former Congressman Thomas W.
Miller of Delaware, to have the em
blem copyrighted and its use fully
protected. ,
ferse desire that crops out at inter
vals in mankind to follow after some
false god, in the secret hope that he
will be more lenient with their
stupidities, more sympathetic with
their laziness, kindlier with their
vices than the Just God of their fath
ers. The turning of the old Israelites
to Baal, to Dagoh and other false
j?ods of the Bast was probably a crude
Old-Testament Bolshevism.
Nothing is easier to be a fake
Messiah if one cares to deceive and
mislead the people. Almost any man
of plausible address who will let his
whiskers tgrow and walk down the
street proclaming a new creed—espe
cially if it promises less work, more
pay, more w'ine and more women—
can gather a following overnight and
head a new sect, with what theatri
cal people call "important money"
flowing Into his coffers. For life is
hard if lived rightly—but it is even
harder if lived wrongly. Happiness
is something that we are doing, not
getting, day by day. And nothing
permanent is built without slow and
deep foundations. A bomb may blow
up a factory, the torch may destroy
a city, but they must be rebuilt one
brick at a time. Lenine and Trotzky
and their followers, from the ' un
educated sincere fool to the edu
cated insincere ass, may destroy
civilization, but it must be rebuilt
in the sweat and blood of coming
generations—generations that they
would re-enslave in the name of
freedom.
Publishing is a field that is open to
anyone with an idea and the ability
to express it. For the real capital
of publishing—the only product of
publishing—is ideas. The actual
paper or periodical is simply a pack
age. Because of this, perhaps, it is
easier than in a business where the
product is a concrete thing to sell
poisonous, adulterated and meretric
ious goods to the unsuspecting and
uneducated. The market is full of
quack papers, containing easy-to
take nostrums for every human ill
and pink panaceas for white-livered
people; but they are all dope—at best,
cheap opium and wood alcohol—pur
veyors of half-lies, near-lies and lies.
Reorganizing the. Guard
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Gratifying indeed is the conces
sion to the patriotic pride of Phila
delphia and the State in the assur
ances of General March to Con
gressman Crago that the red Key
stone of the 2 Bth Division would
hot be transferred to a regular di
vision of the American army. This
departure from the intentions of the
War Department to confer the titles
and insignia of certain National
Guard Divisions on regulars is a re
cognition of the superior claims of
Pennsylvania in the perpetuation of
the deeds of valor and records of
her heroic sons.
The red Keystone will be a covet
ed badge of honor when the new
National Guard is organized. Vet
eran guardsmen and officers who
served in France have expressed
their desire that the Keystone Di
vision should not be the title of a
regular division. For the present
the famous insignia will not be ap
propriated to the National Guard
of Pennsylvania. But when reor
ganization of the National Guard
has proceeded toward completion,
there is reason to hope that the
red Keystone will be the authorized
emblem which every soldier of the
State'will be proud to wear.
In the meantime the War Depart
ment authorizes the formation of
four infantry regiments of the Na
tional Guard in Pennsylvania.. This
allotment is greater than that of
any other State, except New York,
which >8 authorized to organize and
maintain six regiments. In addition
to th's full division of infantry,
Pennsylvania is alloted the right to
maintain auxiliary troops compris
ing one cavalry squadron, one regi
ment of-field artillery, one battalion
of field engineers, one field signal
battalion, one engineer t/nin and
one sanitary train, complete.
A Real Show
The comely wUlow strolls this way.
And she's a pleasant sight,
For she is -nigh diaphanous,
Clad in her widow's mite.
—Tennyson J. Daft in Kansas City-
Star.
A Shattered Romance!
[From Medicine Lodge Republican]
Maud Muller, on a Kansas farm,
Drove out her father's binder.
The wheat was tall; so very tall.
The judge could never find hex.
JULY 19, 1919.
Germany's Guilt
In an article headed "The Ques
tion of Quilt at Versailles," Dr.
Richard Grelling, author of the fa
mous brochure "J'aecuse," in which
the guilt for the world war was
laid at the door of the German gov
ernment early in the European con
flict, returns to an analysis of this
question in bitter disappointment
because the revolutionary German
government has still failed to con
sider it frankly and to draw the
proper conclusions from it. The
article, which appeared in the Freie
Zeitung of Uerne of June 11, a copy
of which has just been received
hore, derives added interest from
the fact that immediately after the
armistice Dr. Grelling hurried back
to Germany to take part in the
purging und reconstructive ( pro
cesses of the revolutionary govern
ment and to co-operate with the
Socialist Karl Kautsky in examining
the secret German archives, with
a view to publishing these to the
world in the effort to bring to light
the true origin of the war. This
effort of Kautsky, however, was soon
•nipped in the bud by the Ebert- j
Scheidemann regime, which char- '
acteristized such a publication as
for the time being Inexpedient.
In his article Dr. Grelling says:
"Truly there is no help for the
unfortunate German people. All
addresses and sermons since the
beginning of the decline and the
overthrow of the crowned criminals,
all ardent injunctions and warnings
on the part of true lovers of their
fatherland, have been merely so
many words spoken into the wind,
fallen on dehf ears and hardened
hearts; also all attempts to say to
them: 'Confess your guilt in the
war; freely take,upon yourselves all
the burdens, that have been put
upon your opponents through the
misdeeds of your former rulers.
Free your conscience. purify the
morale of your people.'
"The very make-up of the first
revolutionary government, with
Ebert. Scheidemann. and Landsberg
as People's Commissioners in the
empire; Sudekum and Hanisch in
Prussia, and a David, most stubborn
champion of the 'war of defense'
theory, especially in the Foreign >
Office, seemed to destroy all hope
of an Inner change in the German
mentality, a voluntary confession,
and honest repentance.
What Next?
[From Forbes Magazine.]
It doesn't require a magnifying
glass to find evidences of profiteer
ing in this country. The prices we
are compelled to pay for suits, for
certain cotton materials, for shoes
and for numerous other necessities
are outrageous. And now comes a
prominent Brazilian authority on
coffee who gasped on arriving in
New York and finding that as high
as 75 cents a pound was being
charged for coffee and that medi
ocre stuff was selling for 40 cents
a pound. He declared most em
phatically that the 75-eent brand
sold in Brazil for 12 % cents and the
40-cent variety for 10 cents. He
added that every Brazilian port is
piled high with coffee ready for ship
ment, the vessel by which he traveled
brought no less than 30,000 bags of
coffee and fully half as much cocoa.
As if the prices here were not high
enough already, an increase of 7
cents a pound was audaciously an
nounced a week or two ago. New
York's commissioner of public mar
kets, Jonathan C. Day, states with
out equivocation that "mercantile
manipulation Is responsible." He
declares that he learned quietly
some time ago that a powerful ring
, was being formed to control coffee
prices here.
Street Railway Troubles
[New York Times.]
It is well that the fact that the
; nickel buys only one-half as much
! for the electric railway operators as
] for their passengers should be
I brought, home to the riders. The
; open-minded among them may be
! brought to see that they are ap-
I proaching the end of getting more
than they pay for. But it is neces
sary also to bring home to local reg
ulators the responsibility which they
share with the Federal War Board
for the creation of the present sit
uation. The electric railway bank,
i ruptcies are scattered through
I twenty-eight States, and the number
jis increasing. But in only few cases
: have the local regulators appreciat
ed any more thun the Interstate
Commerce Commission, or the
courts hitherto, their duty to keep
charges and costs in solvent rela
tion. * * * It appears to be
clear that fares must be increased,
or many riders must\ walk. Last
year there were eleven billions of
i electric railway passengers.
Ebenitig (£ljal j
Capitol park extension proper
ties have been turned into a huge
truck storage place by the State
Highway •Department, over 350
army trucks being parked
there with arrangements under way
to care for more. The mobilization
of the scores of trucks, many of
which saw service at army camps
during the war, has been under way
for several days just beside the
Capitol and they are now arranged
in long lines ready for any service.
The trucks have been turned over
to the State Highway Department
by the War Department for use on
State roads and more than origin
ally promised have been sent here.
The vehicles are part of the im
mense number bought for war ser
vice and not needed now, being
turned over for use on the re
pair and maintenance of State high
ways, especially those connecting
with inter-State roads and which
were used by the fleets of trucks
that passed through Pennsylvania
to the seaboard during the war.
The plan of the Highway Depart-
I ment is to assemble the trucks and
i then send them to the districts
! where State work is under way.
j The use of the trucks will save the
' State large outlays of money as
I there will be enough to distribute
through every county.
This is from the Scranton Re
publican: "Local autoists will feel
an interest in the announcement
that a telegram from Congressman
Casey states that the President has
signed the . bill giving authority to
the commissioners of Luzerne
county to erect bridges over the
Susquehanna river in Pittston,
Wilkes-Barre and Shickshinny.
Scranton interest, of course, cen
ters in the new bridges in Pittston
and Wilkes-Barre. The bridge plans
must be approved by the Water
ways' Commission at Harrisburg
before anything more can be done.
It is expected that this body will
act quickly and then bids for the
construction of the new structures
will be invited. It seems that pro
gress has already been made on the
design and plans for the Wilkes-
Barre bridge.
State officials and chemists will
decide here next Tuesday when an
egg is stale. This will be the first
time that an official meeting has
been arranged for the determination
when an egg censes to be fresh
and is the result of the approval of
the legislative hill forbidding un
der penalty of a line the offering of
stale eggs as fresh. This bill, whiclt
was advocated several sessions, is
now a law and there have been
some questions raised as to just
when the egg may no longer bo
presented to the buying public as
fresh. As a result JameS Foust,
director of the Bureau of Foods of
the State Department of Agricul
ture, has arranged for a conference
of officials of the department with
the chemists of the bureau at the
Capitol on Tuesday to obtain expert
opinion and discussions. A formal
ruling will be handed out and mean
while some interesting tests and ex
periments are being made by the
chemists.
• • •
As a result of the period for the
Governor to act upon legislativo
bills the mail of the various depart
ments at the State Capitol has in
creased considerably through let
ters sent here by inquirers' as to
effect of legislation. The office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
has been unundatcd by such letters
and some of the writers seem to
have the opinion that bills in which
they were interested passed tho
Legislature when they did not,
while others have asked for rulings
I on the effect of bills which met the
I Governor's veto ax. An unusual
I interest has been manifested all
■ over the State in the work of the
Legislature in which the variety of
bills affect almost every walk of
life.
Just an illustration of the way
school children become interested
in books and the way they follow
up efforts to broaden educational
advantages this story may be told
about the Harrishurg Public
Library. A branch of the work of
the Library of which the average
person knows very little is the
school library. The Library puts
out about a dozen branch libraries
in schools during the school year
and the. books are read by thou
sands. When the schools end the
service ends too. The other day
a couple of youngsters from a build
ing in one of the outlying parts of
the city asked Miss Eaton for in
formation about books and it de
veloped that they wanted to read at
the Library the books they had seen
in the branch at their school.
• • •
Edward A. Howell, the veteran
librarian in charge of Reading's
City Public Library was among the
Capitol Hill visitors. Mr. Howell
is a first cousin of General Hunter
Liggett, of the United States Army
who won such signal honors in
France. He was a schoolmate of
the late Governor Pennypacker, and
his stock of reminiscences is most
interesting. In 1880 Mr. Howell
was the U. S. Census Supervisor ,of
his Congressional District.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Francis Fisher Kane, United
States Distrity Attorney at Phila
delphia. was a visitor to the State
Capitol.
—Judge John R. Head, who filed
the decision in the Superior Court
in the Fifth Ward case, is one of
the early members of the court..
He lives at Greensburg.
—Col. Fred Taylor Pusev, quar
termaster of the Keystone Division,
may become an officer of the new
National Guard.
—Roy A. Hatfield, president of
Montgomery county commissioners,
is an advocate of a memorial bridge
for the soldiers of that county.
—Mayor William H. Smart of
Uniontown, has made his city be
good through a crusade against the
gamblers.
—Col. Asher Miner, commander
of the Luzerne artillery, cited by
General Pershing, used to be a
member of the Legislature.
—Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, was a guest of the Governor
for a day accompanied by Mrs.
Babcock and his son.
I" DO YOU"KNOW
—That narrlsburg has double tho
number of automobiles It had flvo
years ago?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—One of the first corps of rifle
men for the service of the Congress
was formed at Harris Ferry.