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MONDAY, JULY 28, 1019
I am not bound to make the world |
go right, but, only to discover and to
do with cheerful heart the work that
God appoints.—Jean Ingclow.
EXTRAVAGANT BUYING
REFLECTING the Telegraph's
views on the folly of ex
travagance in dress, the Kan
sas City Times goes farther and
blames much of the profiteering on
the tendency of the public to buy,
not only clothing, but anything else
it may want at any price asked.
The Times observes:
Perhaps the feeling that money
counts for so little and that it
might as well go anyway, and
for one thing as well as anoth
er, explains in part this peculiar
situation. Centainly, the buying
powei of the American dollar has
been decreased about forty per
cent, and some estimates make it
decline in value still more. What
ever its exact value relative to
the pre-war period, money
"talks" more quietly to-day than
for many a year.
Yet the enormous amount of
money in circulation means that
more people are in possession of
fairly large sums than in normal
times. This, of course, is readily
explained by high wages during
the war and to the present time,
and bv the economy, largely
forced while hostilities were in
progress While the big fortunes
of the war have gone into the
bands of the few, wage increases
and enforced economy for a year
and a half affected large Portions
of the people, many of whom had
not been accustomed to the pos
session of more than actual ex
pense money before.
These peorle take high prices as
a matter of course. They ask few
questions, but they get what their
desire happens to be. That is not
good either for them or for the coun
try. The skies are bright over head,
they say, so why worry about the
possibility of a rainy day? But
rainy days are ahead, be sure of
that; they always are, whether in
the way of personal misfortune or
countrywide panic, and the man
who has lived up to his means is
the first to suffer when the clouds
begin to gather. He has provided
for himself neither a roof for his
head nor the wherewith to supply
himself during the season of ad
versity.
It is one thing to go about clad
In fine raiment and eating costly
foods and another thing to have no
clothing or food whatsoever, and the
man who is extravagant in his day
of plenty is apt to be in sorest
straits when the harvest time is
over.
WANT THE TRUTH
THOSE Democratic newspaper
organs of the Washington ad
ministration which insist, with
hysterical emphasis, that the distin
guished members of the United
States Senate who are out of agree
ment with the President on Ohe
League of Nations provisions are lit
tle short of traitors to their coun
try fail to discern any reason for
of the course of President
Wilson in ignoring the Senate
throughout the reaco negotiations.
Because these now refuse to accept
without discussion, amendment or
reservation all the provisions of the
remarkable document which is now
under review they are pilloried as
pygmy-minded and unpatriotic. It
matters little to this class of news
paper kowtowers that some of the
most able men in the country are
questioning the surrender of the Na
tion's sovereignty to an experimental
body that may prove of benefit or
develop as a grave menace to the
future peace of the United States.
When men of the great public
experience of W. H. Taft, Charles E.
Hughes, Elihu Root, Philander C.
Knox and scores of others declare In
favor of modification or reservations
, there must be some reason for a
thorough discussion of the whole
matter, with a view of maintaining
the inalienable rights of the Ameri
can people.
Because our soldiers made pos
sible the winning of the war when
MONDAY EVENING.
the Allies had about reached the
point of exhaustion does not Impose
upon this country any obligation to
become involved or entangled In an
alliance that may disastrously affect
our future position as a free and in
dependent Nation.
President Wilson may have his
swing around the country and in
dulge in those beautiful glittering
generalties which he is so capable
of evolving, but he is going to en
counter a different atmosphere from
that which he manifestly anticipates
when he comes into close touch with
the people. They have not forgot
ten the "kept us out of war" fiction,
the "peace without victory" slogan
and the "too proud to fight" fallacy,
nor will they be satisfied with beauti
ful phrase-making on the forthcom
ing tour. They want facts and they
want above all else the truth.
I All tho Central Pennsylvania towns,
in harmony with their traditions and
the patriotism of the people, are giv
ing the returning soldiers such recep
tions as these brave homecoming
boys deserve. #lt will be necessary
fcr Harrisburg. at the proper time in
autumn, to honor the men who have
returned after gallant service for
Uncle Sam, and who are now resum
ing their places in their accustom
ed occupations.
STATE AND CITY
LEST we forget, there is an obli
gation resting upon the people
of Harrisburg to co-operate
with the Commonwealth in every
possible way in its plans for the de
velopment of the Capitol Park civic
center which must mot be over
looked. Already we have deter
mined that the new high school
shall be located elsewhere than on
this beautiful park frontage, but
there are other buildings of a public
character in contemplation—the big
auditorium of Zembo Temple and
the combined city hall and court
house—and it ought to be the pleas
ure and the ambition of all concern
ed to work out, with the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings, such
plans as will enable the city to do
its part in creating this dignified
civic development.
Our City Planning Commission
has done many admirable things and
nothing more important than the
recently submitted scheme for the
changing of streets and the creation
of a small lake at Division and Third
streets, (Italian Park), but there is
still much more to do and we believe
the City Council and all others in
authority arc more than willing to
aid the oommission in its unselfish
and constructive program.
Officials of the Commonwealth, in
cluding the members of theßoard of
Public Grounds and Buildings, are in
thorough accord with the Harris
burg plans for betterment, and they
will expect the city to do its full
share in making the environment of
the Capitol all that is contemplated
in the comprehensive scheme design
ed by Arnold W. Brunner in con
sultation with Sproul and
those associated with him.
SAME OLD GAME
THE McSparrens, the Creaseys
and others who misrepresent
the State Grange are raving
over the increased cost of roads, just
as though good roads could be built
at low cost when prices of labor, ma
terial and everything else entering
into them are the highest in the his
tory of thq country.
The McSparrens and the Creaseys
are the same men who a year or two
ago were telling us that the farmers
did not want good roads by means of
a State loan and would turn down
the proposition at the fall elections.
The majority by which the loan car
ried shows how little they know of
the real sentiments of the farmers,
who appreciate what the State is do
ing for them and are going calmly
on their way regardless of the chat
tering of this little band of self-
Beekers.
FIGHTERS AND WORKERS
FRENCHMEN are working as
they fought and the rehabilita
tion of the country is marvel
ous. Reliable reports Indicate that
90 per cent, of the French destroyed
railroads are reconstructed and that
canal communications in the north
and the east of France are 80 per
cent, restored. It is further stated
that all the French automobile fac
tories, which had been turning out
shells, artillery, tractors, Itc., are
once more in full swing building cars,
with plenty of purchasers in sight,
and deliveries have already begun.
French spinning and woolen indus
tries are ahead of the supply of raw
materials, and many factories in the
devastated regions have already re
opened; some have oil-paper ceilings
and canvas walls, and old machinery,
but they work.
The French Government has es
tablished a large, new institution to
make loans to the people of the de
vastated regions and discount the in
demnities allotted by the French
Government. The capital is sub
scribed, and any day, upon ratifica
tion of the charter by the Parlia
ment, the "Credit National" will start
its activities. The investment mar
ket is good, industrial bonds and
notes are eagerly absorbed; the City
of Paris has just issued a loan of
1,500.000,000 francs, which is quot
ed at 3 per cent, premium.
The gist of this matter is that the
wonderful French nation is already
on its feet and working out its salva
tion, as It did so marvelously In 1870.
Pennsylvania is pushing: Congress
hard for honors along the line of
public appropriations. A billion dol
lar Congress is scarcely more impos
ing than a hundred-million Common
wealth. Such a total a few years ago
would have staggered the average
citizen.
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By the Kx-Committeeman
In acting upon the appropriation
bills for hospitals, homes and other
charities Governor -William C.
Sproul followed the recommenda
tions of the State Board of Public
Charities closer than any Governor
has ever done and dozens of bills
were approved in the sums that
the board had listed after its in
quiry last winter into the "free
hospital service" that institutions
were giving. In the cases where the
Governor departed from the recom
mendations to make reductions he
did so after considering some spe
cial reports.
Before leaving the city the Gov
ernor remarked upon this following
of the recommendations. "As far
as possible I took the recommenda
tions of the board which had gone
into the question of free service
and where I made cuts I discussed
them with Judge Isaac Johnson, the
chairman of the board." said he.
"Throughout the consideration of
the bills for tlte charities Judge
Johnson was here and I also had
the assistance of Chairman W. J.
McCaig, of the House Appropria
tions Committee. T?he reductions
are not numerous because I kept in
pretty close touch with the legisla
tion."
As a result of the Governor's ex
tensive use of the State Board of
Charities data it is believed about
the Capitol that the board will
begin a number of inquiries into the
free service for use a year and a
half from now, this being a subject
to which the Governor has directed
special attention.
Governor Sproul in his discussion
of appropriations with heads of de
partments has let it be known that
he does not want the appropriations
used up because authorized. "In
some cases," said he, "the money
will be available it needed for cer
tain propositions. That does not
mean that it is to be spent. I think
this is wise because if for any rea
son there should be a slump in rev
enue from any source we would
have money unexpended." The
Governor's plan of having money
"available" is a new one for Capitol
Hill.
—A pew brand of trouble has
turned up for the Democratic ma
chine already burdened with the
Bonniweil insurgency, the fuss over
the abolition of the Lancaster rev
enue office and the refusal of Fed
eral officeholders to help pay run
ning expenses. The new row is over
census supervisorships, with a view
to strengthening the lines for next
year. In the Chester-Delaware dis
trict Lewis B. King, accused of fail
ing to be regular in certain fights,
has been slated and some Democrats
are gunning for him.
—The impression is gaining rap
idly that the conference of the Bull
Moose leaders here to-morrow is
designed with the idea of getting
the I'inchot boom started for United
States Senator. The former fores
ter is said to be quite modest about
it and to be leaving it in the hands
of his friends. What the friends
will do depends upon what kind of
a showing is made.
—With State legislation all cleared
up through the Governor's disposal of
the last of the bills left on his desk
by the General Assembly there is
a marked tendency among the news
papers to give attention to their own
affairs and columns are devoted to
Philadelphia's history-making cam
paign under the new charter, which
the Philadelphia Press expects to be
a matter of national interest; to the
coming clash of the factions in Alle
gheny over county nominations and
in the third-class cities to absorbing
battles for local nominations now
that the deadening effect of non
partisanism in municipal affairs has
been overdone by the Willson bill.
—Lehigh Republicans are getting
busy already. With Senator Horace
W. Schantz, county chairman, pre
siding, the Republican couny com
mittee held one of the most enthu
siastic sessions of recent years at
Allentown on Saturday, fixing Dor
ney Park as the place and Saturday,
August 30, as the date for the an
nual county meeting. The county
committee session was attended by
more than seventy of the committee
men out of a total membership of
eighty-five. Senator Schantz is a
candidate for the additional judge
ship of Lehigh county.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that things are going to boom soon
in the mayoralty campaign and the
Evening Bulletin looks for the may
oralty candidates to be slated this
week. The Evening Ledger thinks
the Vare people will turn to Judge
John M. Patterson. The Philadel
phia Record says that Governor
Sproul went away to avoid getting
taqgled in the fight and that he re
fused to "enforce harmony." It also
comments upon the meeting be
tween Senator Penrose and the Gov
ernor and the Senator's great cheer
fulness over the situation in his
native city.
—John McCluskie, a returned sol
dier, is the only Republican in the
field for the Luzerne nomination for
sheriff.
—Harry Bechtel, well known here,
has been chosen Pottstown Republi
can chairman.
—Chester county politics are in
the usual boiling stage and it is said
that Register of Wills L. H. Miller is
going to have trouble getting re
noinated.
—William Boyd Smith, one of tho
Workmen's Compensation Bureau
adjusters, has been brought out as
a candidate for council in Philadel
phia. So has Andrew J. Roggen
berger, who took a prominent part
in Senator George Woodward's cam
paign last year.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
which has been canvassing various
eastern counties for a lineup on their
county nominations, has this to say
in a review: "Republican victories
in Delaware, Chester, Montgomery,
Lebanon, Franklin, Berks and Lan
caster counties at the fall primaries
are indicated in latest reports and
in almost every one of these the
campaigns promise to be close.
Third-term candidates are being op
posed strongly in Delaware county,
while in Montgomery the indica
tions are the office of recorder of
deeds will be filled again by the in
cumbent who has already had two
terms. In Chester county the Re
publican organization has set up a
new slate, eliminating every incum
bent in the courthouse. The office
i holders have organized a new or
■ ganizatlon. The contest for mayor
in Lebanon overshadows all other
fights. There ar e five candidates op
osing Mayor George T. Sparg, who
seeks another term. In Lancaster
county the Republican slate is still
i unfinished, while the Democrats have
their candidates in the field,"
HJIimiSBURO TELEGRAPH
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND -f BY BRIGGS
(Robert! VOO TAKE]
That DiRTY "Dog \
J>owro im THE ©ASE-^
MEot!! I WON'T
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
QUOTATION WANTED
To the Editor of the Telei/raph:
Can any one locate the following]
paragraph and tell where the article j
frcm which at is taken may be.
found and who the author is?
"But now we come to the last, and :
perhaps the greatest debt which no't
only America but every civilized and
honorable nation owes to France. A
barbaric and deluded people, lecj, by
an insane and criminal monarch,
threatened to conquer the Nations of
the world, and in place of their more
democratic governments, to substi
tute one based upon the principle
that Might makes Right. But when
j their countless hordes, having swept
I all resistance before them, came to
the Marne, and were on the e\ e of
victory, France arose and said 'Thou
slialt not pass!' and they did not
pass. For, just as many hundred!
years ago she checked Attila and his!
Huns at Chalons and stopped the I
Saracen armies at Tours, so on that!
memorable day in September, 1914,1
she stood like adamant, and sent the
invader recoiling almost to his own
borders; and in that battle of the!
Marne, were modem civilization and
ideals saved fir the world."
INTERESTED READER.
Commends Telegraph
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I have been a reader of the Tele
graph for but a short time, and
therefore am not in position to
judge, BUT when a paper draws
away from the "hurly-burly" of this
"fast" day and prints things of
worth such as "Learns Golden Rule"
which appeared on the editorial page
of your paper this day, it should be
highly commended for its unestima
ble worth.
At this moment I wish to thank
you most heartily for your unltant
ing editorials.
Yours very truly,
A CONSTANT READER.
Washington Riots
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Congratulations to the Harrisburg
Telegraph on its important editor
ial on the recent Race-Riots in
Washington, D. C. Shooting down
the black man on every flimsy pre
tense in these last days by blood
thirsty folks must stop.
O. LUTHER CUNNINGHAM.
Willows Guard Grand Pre
[From the Detroit News]
The Annapolis Valley in Nova
Scotia, Canada, and the country of
which Wolfville is the center, is the
land of Evangeline, made immortal
in Longfellow's poem. Grand Pre,
the little village which was the
scene of the deportation of the
Acadians in 1775, is only a short
distance from Wolfville, but little
is left of the village where the
tragedy told of by the poet was
enacted.
The chief objects of interest in
what was once Grand Pre, are the
mammoth, gnarled ancient willows,
which stand, a conspicuous group,
amid the fertile green meadows and
serve as a windbreak. They show
their age. these ancient trees, and
were undoubtedly planted by the
French Canadians, for the Acadians
invariably planted willows wherever
they settled and these trees are per
petual memorials of them.
Besides the willows there may be
seen at the site of Grand Pre the
old well, portions of the foundations
of the Church of St. Charles and
some stones that mark the site of
the priest's house.
These willow trees are always
visited by tourists, and although his
tory does not exactly tally with the
poet's account of the deportations of
the Acadians, and though there
may be a division of opinion as to
the justice of the act by the English
in the deportation of the Acadians,
the old willows tell no tales, but
stand, sturdy and strong, and are
sightly landmarks still hale and vig
orous.
THE SECOND BRAVEST YANK
Frank Gaffney Says His Bullheadedness Made Him a
Hero; Lock port, N. Y. Youth Acclaimed by Persh
ing to Be Next to Sergeant York
]From the Buffalo News.]
FRANK GAFFNEY, acclaimed by
General Pershing the second
bravest American soldier of the
war, told Buffalo friends the other
day that his heroic exploits resulted
from his bullheadedness, desire to
take a chance, love of fight and
eagerness to save his company from
annihilation.
His rewards for saving Company
G, 108 th Infantry, at Ronssoy,
France, September 29, 1918, at the
peril of his life, and his later bril
liant performance along the Saint
Souplet front October 19, when he
lost his arm, are a Congressional
medal, a Distinguished Service Medal
and a pension of s2l a month. His
home is in Lockport, N. Y.
Dr. C. Frank Bruso, who accompa
nied Gaffney about Buffalo, de
clared: "Gaffney is not the second
bravest soldier; he is actually the
bravest American of the war, not
even excepting the remarkable Ser
geant Alvin C. York.
"The distinct difference between
York and Gaffney is that York was
a noncommissioned officer and car
ried authority to do things which
Gaffney was supposed to execute only
when ordered. But Gaffney went
beyond his line of duty when he
smashed the resistance of the ma
chine gunners at Ronssoy. Single
handed, he too, accomplished the
surrender of the German machine
! gunners after he had killed some
| ind crippled the remainder by
' dashing the body of a German over
their parapet." '
Until Doctor Bruso convinced him
that his many friends and every
American would be greatly pleased
to hear more of his wonderful ex
ploits, Gaffney stolidly refused to
discuss his heroics in France.
Kept Himself Ilappy
"I always was very optimistic,"
said Gaffney. "Seldom did I worry
when things went wrong 'over there!"
Somehow I always saw the bright
side of everything. Home to me
was wherever I hung myjfiat. Sure,
I thought of Lockport, my real
home, with a desire to be there. But
I kept myself happy by pretending
my home was back of the lines and
my work was up in the trenches.
"Many times I thought of the
great differences in jobs. How differ
ent the battle lines were to paper
making in the International Paper
Company in Niagara Falls. I al
ways thought things could have been
worse; those Germans, you know,
would have come to America if we
didn't go there.
"Homesickness was worse with
more of our boys than bullets or
real disease. In the thick of every
fight 1 always told the boys that the
work was like a pink tea party com
pared to our bottle parties back in
Lockport.
"Whenever I saw a chance for real
action 1 ached to take a long chance.
I must have the gambling spirit, all
right. All along I thought I was
born under a lucky star because I
was never wounded or captured.
"I guess I wasn't born under that
star, though. The last day my
company was in action I got struck
with shrapnel in the side beneath
the shoulder. That later caused me
to lose my left arm."
Major General John F. O'Ryan
wrote to FYivate Gaffney July 1 as
follows:
"I read in the press the fact that
you had been presented with the
Congressional Medal of Honor, as a
result of your extraordinary gal
lantry September 29 last. In the
same article I learned of your sub
sequent wound and was very sorry,
indeed, to know you suffered the
loss of an arm.
"After the Hindenburg line battle
I carefully examined the yecom-
mendations made by commanding
officers for the award of honors and
at that time it seemed to me that
no man had performed more daring
exploits and had exercised a big
ger influence upon those about him
by the gallantry of his conduct than
you had.
"I think you are entitled to know
this. It was therefore a matter of
particular gratification to me to
learn that you finally received this
most honored of all awards, the
Congressional Medal.
"I hope you will live long to en
joy it. If you are at any time in
New York city or you learn that I
am in the vicinity of your home town
and you are there, please be sure to
look me up as I would like to see
you."
Gaffney said he considered army
training good for every boy and man.
He said he would try and induce
the two young brothers to get' a
"little army life, anyway."
"Unprovoked Aggression"
[From the New Republic.]
How do we get around the fact
that the proposed Anglo-Franco-
American alliance violates the ad
dress of September 27, the terms of
the armistice, the address of Decem
ber 30th, and the spirit of the cove
nant itself? By the invention of
one of the most extraordinary
phrases in the ingenious language
of diplomacy, "Unprovoked aggres
sion." The New Republic is pre
pared to offer anyone, including Mr.
Wilson, a handsomely bound set of
|Mr. Wilson's speeches for a consistent
interpretation of this phrase. If
there is such a thing as an unpro
voked aggression there must also
be such a thing, as provoked aggres
sion. Who under this treaty de
cides which it is? And having de
cided, what do we do in the case of
a provoked aggression. Do we not
come to the aid of the victim? In
other words do we tolerate some
kinds of aggression? Does the
League have anything to say as to
whether the aggression is provoked
or unprovoked ? Do we go to war
under the treaty if it is unprovoked,
and under the covenant if it is pro
voked?
The words are sound, not mean
ing. They are put together not to
signify a diplomatic reality but as
propaganda for the alliance. They
are a phrase like black black or
noisy noise. Their purpose is to
neutralize Americ'an objection by
seeming to obligate us only to the
very quintessence of sterilized inno
cence. They betray a lamentable
confusion of mind and a gross ex
ploitation of the gullibility of the
American Nation.
Tarred With the Same Old
Brush
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer.)
"Germany lives on though wound
ed sorely. We must do all in our
power to bring the German spirit,
German education and German Kul
tur to the American people."
This was not said in Berlin, but
New York. The occasion was a
meeting of German-Americans for
starting a relief fund to be expend
ed in Germany. And the six hun
dred present cheered to the echo
these and similar other utterances.
No one will quarrel with the pur
pose of the 'meeting. It Is natural
and proper that those of German
blood in America should seek to les
sen the sufferings of their brethren
across the sea. But the spirit here
manifested is not compatible with
loyalty. It Is the spirit which was
ao offensive before America entered
the war and so dangerous after. Its
recrudescence cannot be tolerated
now.
JULY 28, 1919.
China and Bolshevism
The following is a Chinese stu
dent's views on Bolshevism as it ap
peared in a letter to the editor of
a Canton newspaper recently:,
"The Foreigners Powers is for
eight years troubles responsible.
Their hand cannot make clean. It ,
is one painful thought when we con- j
sider to think they support so many (
bad men who suppress our democ- •
racy. Many things can proof the <
wrongs done by the Foreigners 1
in China. Yuan Shih-kai was the 1
foreigners powers pet. Tuan Chi- I
jui had foreigners helps. Hsu Shih- 1
chang is president of foreigners -<
helps. What for that way? What 1
do the Chinese peoples thinks on 1
that way? Is it not too much in- . i
terference on our insides? May be :
perhaps this is called foreigners l
friendships. Who wants these kinds
of friendships. They make one i
secret treaty by Japan and give ]
present territory what was belongs ;
China. What rights is for them to ,
do by this way. Thtr peoples shows
respect for foreigners. Is foreign
ers shows respects for Chinese?
Japan only is one power. He can
not do somethings by his alone. Un
less makes secret with Japan other
powers give him Klaoehow too. The
Chinese make angry with Japan.
They make not angry with others
powers, also too bad. Why for that
way? China wants one good govern
ment but foreigners powers help
pekings bad men. What for is that?
Students and merchants wants good
government. All peoples knows
Pekings government too much rot
ten. The peoples must stop foreign
ers is helping Pekings. If not they
stops helpngs then what is to do.
The peoples must make some tcle
grames to the Europe and to the
America, tell them stop. If not the
second then what is to do? The peo
ples must only united by each them
selves. It is not one hard thing.
Sometimes some countries like
China is in a dangerous. Who cares
for it? The peoples can salvation it
hut must have not interference with
its insides. If too much foreigners
interference it will be make the peo
ple gets crazy and like Bolshevisms.
They our country be gone away too
far. Nothing can its salva
tion. Bolshevisms very much like
crazy peoples. It is no good, what
for? Because anybody be Bolshe
visms must no laws. Then peoples
do everything no laws. Does foreign
ers powers want China be no laws
country? Then China is Bolshevisms.
It would make me a great sorry by
that. We must salvation our coun
try so not have no laws Bolshevisms.
Foreigners powers must listen for it
or students must dead for our sal
vation the country from Japan. Stu
dents is to be brave peoples. Not
weak in the front or back. Small
or large, old or young, mens or
girls students, must salvation our
country."
The Republican Attitude
[From the St. Louis Globe Demo
crat.]
The statement of Will H. Hays,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee, in regard to the League
of Nations should serve to clear the
air. Mr. Hays has spent much time
in Washington of late, conferring
with Republican Senators, and what
he says is undoubtedly in accord
with the convictions of the great
majority of the Republican members
of that body. It expresses, we may
assume, the attitude of the official
leaders of the Republican Party.
For emphasis, as well as for the
purpose of discussion, we repeat Mr.
Hays statement here:
"The situation respecting the
League covenant is simply this:
There must be effective reservations.
These reservations must safeguard
the sovereignty of the United States
in every particular; must guarantee
the Monroe doctrine beyond the
shadow of a doubt; must either
eliminate Article X entirely or so
modify it that our own Congress
shall be morally as well as legally
free after a specified period to de
cide when and whore and to what
extent our soldiers shall be em
ployed; must retain our full control
of immigration, tariff and all other
purely domestic policies, and must
provide full right to withdraw from
the League at any time without hin
drance or conditions of ahy kind,
upon giving suitable notice. It is
up to the administration to decide
whether it will or will not accept
these essential guarantees of Ameri
can independence, which would un
questionably be promptly accepted
bv the other nation."
Let it be noted, in the first placo,
that there is here no question of a
League or no League. That ques
tion is already settled, and all the
talk against a League of Nations, or,
if you please, against the League of
Nations as a whole, is altogether ir
relevant. The League of Nations is.
It was before President Wilson went
to France. It was not created by
him or by any other man. It was
created by the war. The covenant
of the League is but the flesh for
an entity that already existed in
spirit, and which the great majority
of thinking and forward-looking
• men all over the world realize must
be nourished and sustained. Nor is
( this statement of Mr. Hays in any
sense antagonistic to the League or
to the covenant of the League. It in
sists, it is true, upon certain reserva
■ tions, but by the mere statement of
these reservations it is plainly im
' plied that if they are made the cove
i nant iB acceptable. Not one of these
, reservations would alter a single line
i of the provisions of the covenant
[ creating the essential machinery of
• the League.
Store Visits Customers
[From Popular Mechanics.]
\ A man in Dallas, Tex., has a whole
, grocery store mounted on a motor
. truck and takes a complete stock of
, household supplies to the very doors
. of his customers. The traveling em
, porium is of the self help variety;
, the proprietor driver remains at the
\ wheel of his craft, his patrons mak
ing their own selections and deliver
| ies. A fixed time schedule is ob
served, and the customer whose pur
chases are not completed when time
Is up, gets a short ride to the next
[ stop. The pecuniary arrangement
is "pay as you leave."
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laimttg (EJjat
Secretary of Internal Affairs
James F. Woodward's announce
ment the other day that United
States authorities had informed him
of intention to start upon the survey
of the lower Susquehanna called
for by the Griest resolution in Con
giess has not only aroused the in
terest of many people among the 2,-
-000,000 living in the Suquehanna
basin, but attracted attention to the
historic character of the work. It
,is almost a century and a quarter
since this project was first brought
to the attention of Congress. In fact,
it was one of the very first matters
to be laid before the newly-estab
lished legislative authority of the
infant federation. The value of the
stream as a means of communica
tion was recognized 200 years ago
by John Harris and the writings of
Weiser, Maclay and other men who
figure in the splendid history of the
ousquehanna valley are filled with
references to traffic borne on it and
what developments were possible.
1,1 far off days when
Harrisburg was a trading post and
Heading and Lancaster just com
mencing to be hoard of men pon
dered on how the river which fur
nished such an ample supply of
water could be cleared of rocks so
that navigation could be made safe
and more than one army engineer,
n °„, distinguished than
George Washington, thought of ap-
P ying the explosives of his time to
blowing out the channels in the
i T his I H '°P osi tion with the
potential force of TNT behind it was
much heard of here this last year.
n qUe^an na, as every student
of its winding course knows, is a
succession of shallow ponds con-
The fMii T ,V v te J'. Ways due to erosion.
The fall is slight, the width magnifi
cent and the population to be served
growing every day.
• • •
The earliest record, as far as
Harrisburg is concerned, shows that
clearing out of the rocks to make
navigable was
formally considered here in 1795
wmf t0 time John Harris and
William Maclay had paid to remove
rocks from landing and along the
° f v \ hat is now Harrisburg
both being interested in the barges
that brought down various materials
west' i Jl , miata and the north and
When w nc n Tradi °n says that
when Washington was here on his
rection h?, PrCSa lhe Whisky Insur
rection ho discussed the clearing out
the locks in the river and that
army officer? studied it seriously as
regions" 8 m S™ Vis ' on,ng the c °ta"
Tradition is not always re
ti!,un i sounds reasonable and
old C m , tn °? in the legends of
old families here that Anthony
" y " e ' who owned land here and in
the Cumberland Valley, more than
m Ce the ea s r n ily d r° unced "he rocks
in the Suspuehanna as spoiling a
tanee Wa A ot w vust economic impor-
Hnrl ' A , b Wayne was here often
and was known to use explicit lan
gunge this is probably true
on T August C i°2 °, f 7 Vr aUPhin tells that
of I aiiraai,,! v ! representatives
ot Lancaster, York, Dauphin Cum-
Mifflin Huntingdon and
togethe" wah" 11 counties met here
lugetnei with men named by the
-laijland authorities to devise a
rivo. nS , °! rlppiner out rocks in the
Marv!and W l?ne and the
or V Wlth eventual advance
of the work to HarrisburgThis
and aln. WaS heW in the courthouse
and a subscription list opened Monov
was raised and rocks blown out and
after th l , lan G uish ed until
wavs ° , 2 when water
ways having been found valuable the
legislature was spurred into action
The session of 1823 passed an an
propriation to improve navigation
r ° m Northumberland to tidewater
and named commissioners. This
story, together with some facts'
4^ OII t early newspapers about the
troubles of commissioners, has al
ready been told in this column The
State spent about $15,000 and found
In 1832 the b ® the ' rOCky kind '
in the matter was revived
Valentine Hummel taking a promi
nent part in the affair and in Sep
tember. 1833, another courthouse
meeting was held and a committee
named which drafted a memorial to
bo hv Sß ' " enry Beuhler is said
inirtnn IT lt- Geor Be Wash
ington Harris wrote another and
next year Henry K. Strong IV™*
ft-i°in and later Prominent in the
Case ?h°rr n H ment ; ' nte, "csted Lewis
case, then Secretary of War and
fw'toward was assigned
by the army to make a survey.
This project fell through but the
story of its abandonment is interest-
J nS 'i, j *" >r " Howard came here
he had a meeting with the citizens
and made an estimate of the ex
-2~ The citizens started out to
be , m ,° ney ; the executive com
mittee being Mr. Strong, John C
"Cher, Jacob M. Haldeman, Valen
tine Hummel and George Mish. Be
!i e a™a 0h cou,<l be done Dr. How
ard died suddenly and Congress, fail
e an uPPropriation to
match what the citizens raised, tho
army engineer officers got busy else
where and the survey of the Susque-
E, the might resulted
in the wide branching river being
of tremendous value to the Union
ill The nivn w matter ot Previsions
in the Civil TV ar was forgotten. Tho
opening of the era of canals and tho
coming of the railroad pushed tho
projest further from the public mind
of nXLf° r t S ° m ° revivals time
°L" at i?nal stress or when a steam
boat tried to get here and was held
back by a lodge of rocks nothing has
been done. It is a project filled with
great possibilities. The Susquehanna
taps coal, lumber, wheat, iron
quarry, produce and other regions
and its current could cut freight
rates and make Harrisburg's "front
y 8 °' st '" B reate r value some
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Col. J. Franklin McFadden, the
old commander of the City Troop, is
back in Philadelphia after service
in France.
—District Attorney W. J. Maxey,
who wants to be a judge in Lack
awanna, is well known here, as ho
has often appeared at meetings and
hearings.
—John Vogt, deputy prothono
tary of Allegheny county, is a can
didate to succeed W. B. Kirker,
prothonotary for years, who will not
run again.
DO YOU KNOW
■ i
—Harrisburg lias over two
dozen river steamers now?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Market street was used as a
landing place for steamers on the
Susquehanna ninety years ago.