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THURSDAY, JUI.Y 31, 1919
. i
Thy word is n lamp unto my feet, j
and a light unto my path. Psalm j
119 :105.
FAULT OF HOUSEHOLDER?'
COLONEL MARTIN'S complaint j
against garbage collection con- j
ditions in Harrisburg is just.- j
fled. The volunteer workers who j
have been making a health survey |
of the city have turned over to Dr. |
Raunick the names of a large num
ber of people who claim that their
garbage has not been properly col
lected, but by far the larger fault
lies with those who have not pro
vided proper receptacles for house
hold refuse. This fault lies with
the householder rather than the city.
As the Health Commissioner says,
the garbage can is one of the decen
cies of life, but it should be a can,
not an open basket or box. It should
be of ample size to accommodate
the needs of the family and capable
of being closed and kept closed. This
having been done the responsibility
for collection then rests with those
the city has entrusted with the work
of taking it up.
If either the householder or the
collector is at fault he should be
punished. If, as Colonel Majtin be
lieves, the ordinance is weak with
respect to the householder, then it
should be so amended as to make
it possible to fine the guilty resi
dent as well as the careless col
lector.
Now that the preliminary canvass
for municipal officials is under way,
it's about time for those interested in
civic improvement to obtain from
the several candidates their views on
tree planting and the care of the trees
we already have, the establishing of
permanent bathing facilities and
other subjects of vital local concern.
UP TO THE PRESIDENT
IT IS to be hoped that President
Wilson will exercise again the
wise statesmanship and under
standing of popular will that caused
him to repeal the agricultural bid
with its "daylight saving" rider
when the repealer now in Congre3
comes up to him in its latest form.
Mr. Wilson in all his career as Pres
ident never performed a more gen
uinely popular service than when
he killed the move of the farmers,
the gas trust, the electrical trust
and the coal operators to rob the
workingman of the additional hour
of daylight granted him during the
summer months under this bene
ficent act of Congress. Republicans
who vote for this measure are
simply making friends for the Presi
dent.. If they like that let them gc
ahend.
The anti-noise campaign, with spe
cial reference to the cutout nuisance,
is making some little headway here
aijd there, but until the police author
ities awake to the importance of con
sistent and persistent activity along
this line we can hardly expect real
relief from the infernal din that
makes life scarcely worth living In
some sections of the city.
TIME TO SLOW LP
SENATOR PENROSE does not
speak very often, but when he
does his remarks are worth at
tention. Said he the other day:
"Unless the wanton waste and ex
travagance of recent years shall
cease and there shall follow a policy
of economy, with an adequate
budget system, no revenues, how
ever vast, will be sufficient to meet
our needs."
This is the observation of a Sen
ator who knows as much about the
United States government and its
financial resources as any man in
the world. It should be heeded.
The people of this country have
paid their war taxes cheerfully.
They made no complaint when
called upon to contribute toward the
defeat of Germany and the triumph
of democracy, but they are weary
of their burden and they would like
to have it lightened a little.
There was much waste during the
wai that was unavoidable and much
THURSDAY EVENING,
that might have been prevented. Wo
are willing to close the book on that
and begin a new account, but wo
want the new account to balance. A.
national budget would go a longway
in that direction, although it would
not cure all the financial ills of the
Nation.
Senator Penrose asks simply tbat
the United States conduct its affairs
along business lines, that it recog
nize the limitations of even so great
a nation as ours and that it arrange
its finances according to definite
and practical methods.
! Japan is reported from Lima to
' have purchased 800,000 acres to start
a colony in Peru. She will probably
1 start something more than a colony
unless the Monroe Doctrine has
passed into innocuous destuetude.
GOING UP?
THERE is an old, old childhood
saying to the general effect that
"whatever goes up is sure to
come down," but the laws of gravity
appear to have absolutely no control
over shoe and clothing prices. Shoes
at $2O and clothing much higher, is
, the cheerful sort of advice forth
| coming from every gathering of
i wholesalers these days. But theie
| is still some truth in the ndage, wo
' suspect, and one of these days eome
j thing is going to happen to this
I tower of blocks that is being built
i from shoes and clothing, and the
j result may not be pleasan' or those
■ who happen to be lingering about
| when the top-heavy mass tumbles
| over.
But, panic ot no panic, and no
body wants to think of a business I
depression brought about by m- {
tinted prices and a limit that the
public can no longer pay, the end
, of price-boosting must come pretty
| soon unless serious results are to
i follow. There is one way to bring '
jit about. Don't buy the high price
j stuff. Don't pay $2O for shoes that
in all reason should .. 1 at haif
or lower, and don't pay excessive
prices for clothing. If everybody in
the country, or even one-half 'he
people, would adopt that motto
prices would break in a short time.
The great trouble is that too
many people are putting generous |
wages and good salaries into high
priced food and costly raiment who
could do very well and be much bet
ter off, both in purse and person, if
they were more moderate.
Don't pay excessive prices. Insist
on something cheaper and you will
get it.
Mayor Keister and the municipal
officials were probably forced to
apologize to tile distinguished Balti- '
more visitors the other day fur ;
obvious violation of traffic regula-j
tions in the use of the open cutouts
on motorcycles and automobiles.
PUBLIC RIVER BATHS
WIDESPREAD interest
throughout the city is be
ing manifested in the im
provement of the Susquehanna
basin and the approaching Kipona
will still further arouse interest in
the improvement of the city's water
front and the incidental features of
the river channel improvements.
This annual carnival has given Har
risburg favorable publicity and old
and young are becoming more and
more interested in developing the
Kipona as a means of educating the
people to the importance of the
river as a great aquatic playground.
Fortunately for the city, there is
a constant widening of the circle of
those who appreciate what a great
asset this noble river is for Harris
burg and the carnival celebration
is bound to attract still more atten
tion through what is planned for
the comfort and pleasure of the
people.
City Commissioner Lynch has
earned the good opinion of every
body through the introduction of a
resolution providing for expert in
vestigation of the bathing problem.
The city has long urged bathing
facilities and as the population in
creases this need becomes more ap
parent, and Commissioner Lyncli's
official recognition of the situation
has encouraged thousands to expect
some definite arrangements for real
bathing pools and bath houses be
fore next summer.
He will have the hearty support
of all who believe the river was
intended for use and that the hun
dreds of girls and boys who are
unable to get away to the moun
tains and lakes during the summer
are entitled to every consideration
on the part of the municipal au
thorities.
With the dredging of channels
through the reefs for motor boats
and canoes and other river craft,
the establishing of bathing beaches
in suitable locations and the re
moval of dangerous obstructions in
the river channels the Susquehanna
basin will become one of the great
factors in the summer life of the
people.
There was an absence of the old
time Progressive leaders at a con
ference in this city yesterday. Mary
of them are doubtless wondering
why there should be so many hectic
outgivings when those responsible
are insisting that harmony is the
watchword, it is not likely that any
considerable number of Republicans
are going to get "bet up" this year
over individual ambitions or the re
vival of inusty factional differences.
Washington dispatches state that
President Wilson has resumed dis
cussion of the treaty with Democratic
Senators and that further conferences
with Republican Senators are held
in abeyance. The atmosphere of
last November, when the President
appealed for a Democratic Congress
to support his policies, evidently per
sists.
Roasting ears may not be as
numerous as we were led to expect a
few weeks ago, but there will be
enough corn on the cob to give facial
exercise for those who manipulate the
ear from ear to ear.
In,
By the Ex-Committeeman
Men aligned with the Washington
party movement in years gone by
do not seem to be displaying much
interest in the campaign launched
here on Tuesday by Gilford Plnchot,
to secure election of National He
publican delegates in accord with
his own ideas. Newspaper comment
is not extensive and some of the
remarks indicate that the former
forester will have considerable diffi
culty getting out of the woods next
year.
Air. Pinchot is generally accepted
as a candidate for Republican Nat
ional delegate himself. He would
like to go at large, but he may run
as a candidate for district dele
gate in the 26th district which
would bring him into collision with
a bunch of Republicans who would
like nothing bettor than a fight over
the seats.
From now on there will be con
siderable heard from the Pinchot
headquarters in Philadelphia about
the cause and the Pike county man
and his staff will be swinging
around organizing local conferences
on the plan outlined, awaiting, in
belief of many, an opportune time
to announce himself as a candidate
for Senator.
—Reorganization of the State
Bureau of Standards under one of
the recently approved Woodward
laws for the expansion of the De
partment of Internal Affaire will be
made effective early in the coming
month when four deputies will be
named in addition to other attaches.
It is generally believed that James
| Sweeney, the first chief of the bu
reau who organized it several years
j ago under Dr. Henry Ilouck, will
Ibe reappointed. One of the most
important features of the new law
is that giving the State officials au
thority to make inspections which
had hitherto been the province of
the local inspectors, the State Bu
reau being confined to verifying
weights and measures. Secretary
James F. Woodward in speaking of
the plan outlined by the new law
said that the State inspectors would
co-operate with local authorities
and would have power to make in
spections on highways as well as in
stores. "Since 1912," said he, "the
local inspections have numbered 2,-
543,126 weighing or measuring de
vices and 2,608,165 packages not
stamped under the law. Of the de
vices tested 263,790 were confiscat
ed and 87,120 adjusted. Of the
packages over 136,000 were con
fiscated as short. The inspectors
secured 837 convictions. I think
that our men will aid local authori
ties materially and be of consider
able assistance in helping fight the
high cost of living."
—Just to show how the Pinchot
movement is regarded up the State,
the Keystone Gazette of Rellcfonte
prints an editorial headed "A Wail
from the Wilderness," which is
written in the best Harter style. It
denies that Mr. Pinchot is the only
living representative of the lament
ed Roosevelt and goes on to give a
long list of places where he falls
short. The Gazette says: "Few.
if any, true Republicans will heed
Mr. Pinchot's wail from the poli
tical wilderness. His effort is futile
and will go unrewarded. He has
gained some notoriety in his pursuit
of office, hut he has delivered little
to existing humanity nor to post
erity in return therefor. Pinchot is
a non-luminous, wandering political
planet; a nut without a kernel, a
politican without a job."
—Some comment is heard that A.
Nevin Detrich, one of the galvaniz
ing: forces at the sparsely attended
gathering of the former Bull
Moosers, was the undertaker at a
meeting held here some three years
ago. At that meeting, held in the
old Board of Trade lower hall one
hot, hot afternoon, Mr. Detrich pre
sided over a conference at which
it was formally resolved to disband
the Washington party. William
Flinn and the lag leaders, who did
not attend Tuesday's meeting, were
there and with evident relief saw
the organization laid away. Mr.
Detrich then established a reeord
in producing proxies to attend the
meeting. Even Democratic meet
ings never presented anything like
it.
—And now Mr. Detrich is enter
taining the State by stirring up the
organization he helped take out of
politics.
—The Philadelphia Record gets
considerable fun out of the gather
ing of Pinchot's men, and the In
quirer intimates that some of the
people at the meeting were more
spectators than participants. The
Evening Ledger says: "The Bull
Moose, roaming the green places
where great hopes go when they
die, is without doubt glad to be
dead and free from contact with the
haples wights in politics who do not
know how to lead or be led. Mr.
Pinchot's hysterical cries to the uti
answering ground show that the
Moose is indeed gone forever. Noth
ing remains to his survivors but the
first word of a composite designa
tion that once was magic in men's
ears."
—Gifford Pinchot, the new mem
ber of the State Forestry Commis
sion, paid his first visit to the of
fices of the department to-day and
spent several hours going over the
system of forest control and man
agement He discussed the plans
for extension of reserves with Com
missioner Robert S. Conklin and
plans to attend the meeting of the
Commission on Friday.
A Great Collapse
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Mr. Henry Ford will always be
worthy of some consideration, for he
has served the public in several
ways. He has given it a cheap and
handy automobile and has made and
is still making an immense fortune
in the process. He has taught the
public also that it is possible for a
man to be very great in one par
ticular line and be very much below
par in eveYy other field.
If Mr. Ford had been a little hum
ble-minded and if he had something
like a just estimate of his own lim
itations he would have stuck to his
factory, where he was a success and
not make himself a laughing stock
by attempting to settle the peace of
the world. He would not have been
a candidate for the United States
Senate, and he would not have
brought suit against the Chicago
"Tribune" for calling him an "igno
rant idealist."
His mind was full of half-baked
theories, misinformation and misun
derstood ideas, and- this his cross-ex
amination brought to light. He has
been a really pitiful spectacle on the
witness stand, portraying ignorance
of essential facts with which every
primary school boy is familiar. His
misconception of the meaning of
common words is grotesque. He
was President Wilson's candidate for
United States Senator, though prob
ably no man ever sat in that body so
ill-qualified for its duties as Mr.
Void has shown himself to be.
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-4 Time For Compromise
[From Lancaster Examiner. 1
Compromise is the ultimate road
to progress. To turn a deaf ear to
any offers of conciliation is the
method of fools. A man is never
too big or too wise to listen to the
suggestions of other capable men.
Ex-President Taft performed a very
considerable service for the people
of the United States when he pointed
out the grounds upon which the two
extreme factions in the treaty tur
moil may meet in common. His
suggestions are the suggestions of
a Republican, but at the same time,
of a man who is sincerely and deeply
interested in the League, and who
desires to see it become a reality.
No one will mistake Mr. Taft's
opinion of the President's attitude
of aloofness throughout the peace
negotiations. He points out, just
as others who have the best inter
ests of the country at heart and yet
favor the principles of a League have
pointed out before, that Mr. Wil
son created many unnecessary ob
stables for himself by refusing to
take the Senate or any but his own
immediate followers into his con
lidence. But the harm has been
done; a number of Senators have
been antagonized to a point where
anything the President advocates
seems intolerable, and it requires the
best efforts of the sane, cool and
level-headed statement to restore
affairs to a working basis.
Mr. Taft's suggestions are not only
commendable—they are workable.
America wants quick ratification of
the treaty. It favors an experiment
with a League of Nations provided
that we are not inextricably involved
in a scheme which may appear in a
very different and more dangerous
light a few years hence. Mr. Taft
offers the necessary reservations—
making it impossible for a nation to
block our withdrawal, the exclusion
of dominions, the alteration of
Article X. to make the powers there
granted advisory, and the safeguard
ing of the Monroe Doctrine. These
reservations should remove the
fears of the average American, who
does not want to jeopardize our in
dependence of action, and yet desires
to give the plan of the League a
fair trial. We do not, however, see
the necessity of the notice of with
drawal at the conclusion of a ten
year period. The other suggestions
eliminate the real dangers, and if we
then sign the treaty, we must deter
mine to give it a fair trial and do
our utmost to make it a permanent
force in our efforts to end wars in
the world.
Surely these suggestions of Mr.
Taft should offer a common meeting
ground for the two extremes in the
present controversy. President Wil
son will do well to leave behind his
unalterable decision to have the
treaty passed untouched or not at all.
And the opposition Senators will
also do well to forget their rancor,
and remember the best interests of
the country. Each faction must
meet the other half-way.
"Never Again!" For Finland
Jacob de Julin, commercial com
missioner from Finland, gives this
interesting sidelight on recent hap
penings in his country:
"I think wo are cured of Bolshev
ism, because the very people who
thought to benefit most by it ben
efited the least? Somehow or other
bourgeoisie and the capitalists so
called —meaning anybody who had
fifty marks—got along, those who
weren't shot or murdered in other
ways. But the proletariat, the work
ing class, had less to eat, less to
wear, and more troubles than they
ever had under the worst industrial
conditions.
"They saw their leaders run away
when danger threatened, they learn
ed that it is bettor to produce a
good deal and get part of it than to
produce nothing and get all of it,
and Finland stands to-day as the
one nation which has tried Bol
shevism, absorbed its bitter lesson,
and is saying, in the Finnish equiv
alent for your American slang,
'Never again.' "
A Good Old Fashion
[From Leslie's.]
Modern parents who have depart
ed from the advice of Solomon
should note the wisdom of the Stam
ford, Conn., judge, who sentenced
eight boys, guilty of trespass, to be
spanked in court by their fathers.
It was good exerciso for the fathers
and a valuable experience for the
boys. Usually the old-fashioned par
ent, skillful in the use of the rod,
had control over his household. The
attitude of the children toward such
a parent was one of wholesome fear
and respect. Too often the modern
parents enjoys neither. Parents
have an authority over children
which may not be abdicated.
The Rape of Shantung
[From Harvey's Weekly]
I N 1896, Germany, having dis
covered the value of Kiao-Chau
Bay as a harbor and i>oint of
entrance into the inestimably rich
Chinese Province of Shantung,
sought a long-term lease of it. This
China definitely refused to grant.
Thereupon Germany began seeking
some other means of securing it.
Her opportunity came a year later,
when somewhere else in China two
German missionaries were killed in
a riot. Disregarding the usual
methods of exacting indemnity for
the wrong, Germany utilized the in
cident as a pretenxt for seizing arbi
trarily the land which she coveted.
Warships were sent to Kiao-Chau,
the German flag was raised in token
of conquest, and in March, 189 8, un
der ruthless military pressure, China
was compelled to sign a treaty giv
ing to Germany a lease for 99 years
of a large tract of land command
ing the entrance to the Bay of
Kiao-Chau, and railroad and min
ing concessions tantamount to con
trol of the entire Province of Shan
tung—one of the richest, most
populous, and in all respects most
important provinces in the whole
empire.
This performance was universally
regarded, outside of Germany, with
reprobation and detestation, as crim
inal spoliation of a helpless nation.
Upon such immoral and arbitrary
violence did Germany's sole "title" to
the Kiao-Chau "lease" and the Shan
tung "concessions" rest.
Now had that "title" been trans
ferred, by treaty and sale or by con
quest and seizure, to Japan, the lat
ter Power would have been in no
better position than that of a re-
The Story of Sutch A. Hogg
Who Once Profiteered in the Markets
By J. HOWARD WERT
"How nice! How nice!
Keep up the price!"
Old Sutch A. Hogg kept yelling:—
"We'll fleece them good
For their daily food,
In spite of their rebelling."
Hose murmurs loud,
From all the crowd
Of those who live by labor: —
"I care not much
For that," said Sutch;
"Nor care I for my neighbor."
"I love myself,
1 love my pelf,
In figures upward forging;
If food is dear.
Folks need not fear
Dyspepsia from gorging,"
At length Old Sutch
Fell in death's clutch,
Just like some poorer fellow;
Despite his gains,
The racking pains,
With anguish made him bellow.
When Sutch was dead,
Above his head
A stately shaft arising.
Told all mankind.
Who were not blind.
His virtues most surprising.
But. sad to tell,
Sutch went to ; Well,
I'll leave that to your guessing;
I might be wrong
By, in this song,
My private views expressing.
July 25, 1919, Harrisburg, Pa.
Ex-Kaiser and Jeff Davis
[From Nebraska State Journal.]
The demand for the trial of Jef
ferson Davis for treason was strong
er throughout the Northern States
at the close of the Civil War than
the present world demand for the
trial of the ex-kaiser. The Gov
ernment was pressed to make an ex
ample of the president of the de
funct confederacy. 1-Ie was held for
a time at Fortress Monroe and then
released. The only punishment
given him was the forfeiture of his
citizenship. He was allowed to live
in his old home in Mississippi and
to go and come and write and speak
at his pleasure. The result was that
Davis lost the martyr's crown and
in time was looked upon by his for
mer admirers as a man who had led
them into a fatal enterprise. Some
thing of the same kind may take
place in the case of ex-Emperor
William. It may be found that noth
ing more is needed than to bring
his full record to the gaze of the
world and then turn him loose, a
broken and harmless old man, who
will be blamed by all the German
people as being responsible for their
calamities. In the end this is not
unlikely to be a more serious punish-
i eeiver of stolen goods. But it was,
| as a matter of fact, not thus trans-
I ferred, so that Japan did not ac
! 'juire. even that worse than dubious
i "title" to China's property. Upon
! the outbreak of the war in 1914,
j China offered to join the Allies, to
| enter the war, and with Allied help
i ,1. ex P ol t,le Germans from Kiao
l Chan and resume possession of her
j property.
That offer was refused, for a time;
] until Japan could enter the war
: una, with British aid, capture the
i German holdings. Japan then prom
ised China that at the end of the
war she would restore Kiao-Chau to
i her, on condition that it be made
| an open commercial port, and a con
, cession of hind nearby be made to
! Japan. That was a fair proposal
j and China agreed to it. Then Japan
and the other Allies induced China
j to enter the war, in which she ren
dered them very substantial aid
i When China thus entered the war
at the solicitation of the Allies,
| however, the "treaty" which Ger
i many had extorted from her in 1898
| was automatically abrogated and an-
I nulled, and of course whatever
"title" Germany had to the lease
at Kiao-Chau and the concessions
in Shantung was under international
| law voided, and China came into
j 'full legal title to her own. Of
I this fact China took pains to re
\ mind the Allies, particularly in
cluding Japan.
] But at the end of the war that
| fact was ignored, and Japan's prom
ise to return Kiao-Chau was also
ignored. Instead, at the Peace Con
| ference the Allies treated China as
an entirely negligible factor in the
I settlement.
ment than conviction and execution
as the greatest criminal of the age.
Medals For Heroism
The King of Italy, through his
military representative, has award
ed the Italian War Cross of Merit,
to two Pennsylvanians who were
members of the A. E. F. The men
honored are: Sergeant Frank B.
Norton, Company M, Threee Hun
dred and Twenty-eighth Infantry,
whose home address is 4017 Third
avenue, Altoona, and Private Ray
mond J. Rauenzahn, formerly of
Company C, Three Hundred and
Fourth Field Signal Battalion,
whose home is in Leesport.
Others to receive foreign medals
are Captain Charles C. McCain, for
merly One Hundred and Tenth In
fantry, living in Indiana, and Pri
vate Willis P. Snyder, of 503 Souta
Twelfth street, Reading. These men
arc awarded the French War C IO.V,
with gilt star. The captain's cita
tion tells of his heroism and cool
ness in taking command (although
wounded) of troops whose officers
had been killed and of how he led
them successfully in a serious situa
tion.
Private Snyder, with rare cour
age in hand-to-hand combat, put
out of action enemy machine gun.-,.
These citations and medals were
received by the Army recruiting of
fice here and will be forwarded.
This is in accordance with a new
plan whereby all such distribution
will be made through this office.
Where practicable, medals will iio
presented with accompanying cere
mony, in which it is hoped to have
prominent citizens participate, along
with military music and troops.
Japan Protecting China
"Japan does not pretend to be
| wholly unselfish in her policy to
j ward China," says the "Herald of
i Asia," a conservative journal of
| Japanese thought. "Japan is pro-
I tccting China chiefly for the sake
| of her own security," the paper con
[ tinued.
"Japan cannot allow China to bar
ter away her birthright even if she
is simple enough to engage in such
folly. If China wants to test
Japan's sincerity let her refuse ail
further concessions to occidental
nations #nd secure for all time the
inalienation of her territory, and
Japan's task in regard to China will
be finished.
"It is a question, however, whether
China is yet utile to do without the
assistance of Japan in keeping for
eign nations at bay, and this help,
| strange to say, is just what China
' does not want. Is it that China
would rather be a slave of the white
races than the equal of Japan? We
can hardly credit this.
"There is no need for China to be
anxious about the return of Kiau
chow. Japan has promised to re
store the territory to China just us
JULY 31, 1919.
soon as China is able to guarantee
that it will not again fall into the
hands of a third party. What more
can China desire? And does justice
require more? China talks as if she
were an absolutely independent na
tion, granting concessions to no
country. If she will take this atti
tude toward all Western countries
Japan will be ready to concede China
her new status. But to show a de
sire to cast out Japan while leaving
the others in place is something no
one can expect Japan to approve."
No Wonder Germany Quit
XUM UEK THIRTY-SEVEN
"One day in the autumn of 1917
a young officer who had just re
turned from school at Fort Sill came
to me and showed me a brand new
French map," said Major Frank C.
Mahin, of the Army Recruiting
Station, 32 5 Market street, Harris
burg, "explaining that the French
and English had developed a new
system of map making which was
very wonderful. He then showed
me how one could locate a pin point
on the map by intersections, called
'co-ordinates.' During his lengthy
explanation I sat silent and smil
ing which finally brought the ques
tion as to whether I had ever seen
or heard of thc system. I said 'Son,
I admire your enthusiasm, but you
possibly don't know that we started
making maps by squares and using
the co-ordinate system of reading
early in 1902. When the great war
settled down to trench warfare thc
Allies discovered their maps were
useless for accurate work, so they
came over here and our much ma
ligned Regular Army taught them
how to make and use maps. For
years I have worked with maps
made on the co-ordinate system,
some of them made fifteen years
| ago, so your dope is old stuff. Son.'
I have found that it is the opinion
among the general public that
Uncle Sam's Army learned all about
war from the French and English
and that the lale war was entirely
different from any previous war.
Strange as it may seem the general
j public is wrong. There is not one
I thing that has been used in this war
that is new. True, there have been
, marvelous, incredible improvements
Itn things used in previous wars,
but that is all; they are improve-
and not new discoveries or
| inventions. Even our American maps
have been improved upon and the
i system slightly changed. People
i think gas is something new yet it
; dates bar k to the days of Alexander
! the Great in authentic history.
; Liquid tire is merely an improve
j ment on Greek tire that has been
j in use 2,000 years and more. Trench
I warfare runs back beyond the days
,of history, five or six thousand
I years. Grenades seem a new de
! parture, but whore do you suppose
the English, German, Russian, and
the other Grenadier Guards got
; their names? Why! back in the
; Sixteenth century, when hand gren-
I ades first came into use. Rifle
| grenades came in about the middle
of the Seventeenth century, but
I were never very successful. The ob
! servation balloon has been in use
for over 100 years; aeroplanes were
I used in the Balkan and Italian-
I Turkish wars. Machine guns of
various types have been in use for
fifty years. Railway artillery was
used in the siege of Petersburg, dur
ing the Civil War. Helmets and
body armor are of course merely a
[ relapse to medieval days. The use of
signal rockets runs back at least
two hundred years. And thus it
] goes, improvements in evorvthing
! > ,ut nothing new. I heard a French
i Staff Officer lecture on the tactics
[and troop handling of trench war
; fare and he wound up his lecture
by saying the clearest, most per
fect exposition of the subject was
contained in a few paragraphs he
was going to read us. We all real
ized at once that he had spoken
the truth about the quotation which
sounded strangely familiar He
smiled and told us be had read us
four pages from the Field Service
Regulations of the United States
Army, printed in March 1914, four
months before the war started and
still correct in the summer of 1918
The basic principals of combat
which we used so successfully on
the Maine, in the St. Mihiel, and
in thc Meuse-Argonne, to defeat the
Boche were enunciated, historically
by a Chinese General who died in
2960 B. C. Strange Isn't It, that a
Chinaman who died about 4900 years
ago gave us the principals of tac
tics that have governed every war
fought by trained troops right down
to and including the World War
just ended. And so the Regular
Army just smiles when people rave
and rant about how different this war
has been from every other."
Emtittg (Eljat j
Here is a thought for Harrisburg
to get into its mind and to keep there
now that reorganization of the Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania is well
started as far the preliminaries go
and the apportionment of various
units to Harrisburg will soon be con
sidered. The city of Krie has of
fered to give to the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania a lot almost the
size of an ordinary city block and
$75,000 to the State on condition
that the State appropriates a like
sum for the erection of an armory
on the plot. Half a dozen other
county seats have secured State ar
mories by the same system, although
none has done as handsomely in the
way of offers as the lake city. Towns
like Greensburg, Waynesburg and
Connellsville gave the State ground
and the Commonwealth through its
Armory Board erected handsome
armories. The only way that Har
risburg will be able to get the arms
of the National Guard that it should
have will be by offering to co-oper
ate in giving armory facilities. Sev
eral times in the last ten years the
I suggestion has been made that if
| Harrisburg would give a site front
[ mg on Capitol Park extension or in
t Wildwood Park or in Reservoir Park
| for a building and drill hall large
. enough to locate a battery of artil
lery or a troop of cavalry the State
I would put up the structure. This
same willingness remains at the
I State Capitol. Harrisburg is poorly
off for armory facilities. The build
ing at Second and Porster was greet
ed through line local enterprise, b'.'t
it is hardly suited now for the mili
tary organizations that properly be
long here. Indeed, when two infan
try companies and a truck company
have quarters there not much is
left. The situation is that Harris
burg is sure to have a troop of
cavalry, but it does not have a suit
able armory; it is certain to have
a company of infantry and perhaps
two, and a truck company, with in
adequate quarters, and it may get
a regimental headquarters with
headquarters and supply companies
with no place for them. It stands a
chance of securing a machine gun
company and a battery or artillery
it it puts up the necessary cash to
house them as required.
t„? ?{J be most delightful fea
h" iH S ° i the . bo >' s ' camp now being
held under the auspices of the Hai-
Cumhe l ,* M- C " A - at Bi Pond,
Cumberland county, is the nightlv
ca.npiire The lads, under the
!P^®,? h 'P, of Arch Dinsmore and
Miller, sit about a huge
vhled r ° °t'l a circle of stonc s pro
le ids ,K '' . , P ur P° se - Dinsmore
„4l s , l ' c Mnsrlng and Miller looks
games ar ni "s"" A " of
? P'ayed, camp experiences
omn t„ f told all(1 the evening
tiful linm T T With a niost beau
uh .n n . an P rayer song in
and sln'S ?, y " Stand hand in han 'l *
ulcaditiff nnt crooning, wistful,
h -ri 11,0 Sba wnce to
U.Lf Spirit." It is a mightv
who 1 ccremon y and one which few
who have seen it will ever forget
t. -v bO ' H of thc Harrisburg ftoi
taiy Club and their families are
spending to-day at camp and will
take part in the campfire to-niglu.
"When tho wind blows ovpr the
oat stubble summer is on the wane "
observed Harry Fisk. agHcultur'.l <
machinery agent, yesterday, "and
ike to th°in| l 8 h Cre ' much as 1 dis
"Fnrthe about fa " an d winter
£ urthcr than that, many of the *
fall nfn ar ° alread y doing their
•ill plowing and there are indica
"Th h despite disaster to muclt
of the wheat crops about here this
IT* ZZ 'h arse p ! antin o? that
gtain will b e made this year. I
passed scores of farmers comirn
down the Cumberland Valley last
whc-itTnd i VC , rC J r USt gettln B in theft
Tng in tho r. ? ° ats is s,ill stand
ing in the held. The loss from
sprouted grain must have cost thou
sands upon thousands of dollars in
this vicinity alone." 8 m
H. E. Bufhngton, the Lykens at
torney, is blossoming out as a wcl
home promoter of note in
addition to his already famous rep
\Vnr'n" as a h " nter a,,d fisherman.
\\ord comes that Lebanon folks
have retained Mr. Bulllngton as the
manager ot their big home coming
celebration for the service men of
that town "Buff just finished put
ting on the most successful pro
gram of its kind that Lykens and
,na V w ® y 0 ovcr sccn - Lykcn i
and Wiconisco united in honoring
the returned soldiers and Mr. Buf
-11 ngton was the leading spirit behind
every move, in addition to acting as
publicity man for the affair, Air
Bufflngton assisted all the other
committees and it was due to his ef
forts and untiring energy that tho
I celebration went as it did, with a
smoothness unsurpassed by those
welcomes that New York gave its
returning divisions.
II WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Republican County Chairman
Joseph Gilroy, of Lebanon county,
was among visitors to Harrisburg
yesterday.
—Representative W. M. Ben
ninger, of Northampton county, here
yesterday, says he has the finest
liolstein cattle in the State.
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der is to make Labor Day addresses
in his county.
—Ex-Representative Harry B.
Scott, of Centre county, who wa.i
in Harrisburg yesterday, is a coal
operator and interested in develop
ment in the Philipsburg district.
—Enoch Williams, active in tho
miners' controversy, started life in
a northeastern Pennsylvania mine.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg street re
pair costs are being closely
watched by other cities which
have their own plants in mind?
HISTORIC .HARRISBURG
—The first building program for
Capitol Hill was not finished until
the thirties.
Thanks Governor
[From the Scranton Times.]
The arguments of the Times for
larger appropriations from the State
for our local hospitals and charities
are vindicated by the action of the
Governor in approving bills calling
for such increases.
It is always the desire to get as
much as possible. Local pride and
I local interest always strive to that
end, but actual need prompted our
local institutions to ask more. The
cost of everything has seriously
affected these Institutions, which at
best find it a continual struggle to
make ends meet. Nobody will dis- {
pute It and therein is the Justifica
tion for increased appropriations,
j The Times congratulates the Gov
ernor upon appreciating it.