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TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919
TVJten mists around the mountain
wreathe a vail,
Don't go exploring keep the well
marked trail.
NEW STATION NEEDS
SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM
ELMER'S frank talk before the
Rotary Club yesterday on pas
senger station needs in Harrisburg
was appreciated by all who heard it.
He frankly admitted that depot con
ditions in Harrisburg are bad and
that the time is rapidly approaching
when some relief will be absolutely
necessary. But he does not believe
there is $5,000,000 in sight for such
a building as he thinks the city
should have. Probably if the rail
roads were in the hands of their
owners it would not be difficult to
finance such an undertaking, but
with the government losing money
on the railroads at the rate of two
hundred million dollars a month It
is not likely that any such sunt as
Mr. Elmer mentions will be forth
coming, and any less amount would
not meet the situation here.
As the superintendent says, the
kind of station Harrisburg should
have is one that would meet the
rapidly-growing importance "of this
city as a transfer point and of which
the people and the company both
could he proud. The State is de
veloping a wonderfully beautiful
Capitol here. The people are plan
ning a courthouse and city hall to
match the State's buildings, and any
depot that the railroad company
erects must be in harmony with
what the Commonwealth and the
municipality are doing.
In connection with whatever tem
porary improvements will be neces
sary it might be well for those in
control to think of applying such
cost as interest on the investment
of un amount sufficient to erect a
new station. Why spend some hun
dreds of thousands of dollars for a
make-shift when the money could
be used as carrying charges for a
loan sufficient to finance the new
station program? ,
"Democrats of Dauphin county un
able to find men for office," says a
newspaper headline. Evidently some
body has been reading the registra
tion returns.
CI'TTLE FISH TACTICS
TRUE to form, the leaders of the
administration at Washington
are striving to place the respon
sibility for failure to act in the
matter of high food prices upon the
Republican Congress. In attempt
ing to shift the onus of the cost-of
living situation upon the House,
President Wilson evidently forgets
that when he insisted upon the
House remaining in session for this
purpose he at once drew attention
to his own failure to summon Con
gress in special session when he
sailed away to Europe months ago.
It was only after repeated urging
from prominent statesmen and
members of his own party that he
was finally induced to issue the call
for an extra session a few weeks
' ago.
Had Congress been summoned at
the close of the regular session to
immediately take up the grave do--
mestic problem now confronting the
country there would have been no
occasion for the present hectic ac
tivities of the administration in its
efforts to escape universal criticism
for apparent Indifference to the
United States, while showing all
manner of concern for the people
overseas.
President Wilson should rise
above the pettiness of politics in a
matter of so great concern as the
living cost of the people. It is much
more important to find a solution
than it iB to manufacture partisan
capital by endeavoring to shift re
sponsibility to the legislative branch
now in control of the Republican
party. It looks like the old cuttle
fish game by which the administra
tion .hopes to get away from a too
close study of conditions through a
riling of the waters incident to the
TUESDAY EVENING,
discussion of the League of Nations
and collateral questions.
While making a pretense of avoid,
ing partisanship in these important
matters of public policy, the man in
the White House and his satellites
are constantly inviting public repro
! bation by their inconsistent atti
| tude. When the Wilson newspapers
] declare that the President has done
| a wonderful thing in requesting the
; House to remain in session to '
1 sider the cost of Hying and other "j
problems, meanwhile accusing Con
| gress of arranging to "sneak away
! while grave National problems were
: awaiting solution," they remind the
I people of how the President him
' self, against the protest of Demo
! cratic and Republican newspapers
j and thousands of his countrymen,
! skipped away to Europe and spent
; six months abroad while vital do
, mcstic problems awaited his pleas-
I ure in convening a Republican Con
! gress in extra session.
President Wilson has put over
! many things on the people through
I phrases that tickle the ear, but he
| will hardly succeed in making his
! countrymen forget that the welfare
; of this country was neglected while
j the world was being made safe for
j democracy. If it is the duty of
I Congress, according to the Wilson
' view, to remain in Washington to
consider the problems that now con
; front all the people—and perhaps
our National lawmakers should re
-1 main on the job—then it was the
j duty of the- President to remain in |
I Washington and with Congress in J
j session last winter, strive to meet
j the situation which had already de- !
i veloped months ago. I
It were better, however, for the
I President and his political oppon
[ ents to put away all political am
j bitions and work earnestly to solve
; the problems which so vitally in
- volve the interests of the people of
! the United States.
,
Every soldier who was in the ser
vice of the country between the decla
ration of war and the armistice is
eligible to membership in the Ameri
can I/C-gion, the great organization j
which is now being formed for the I
perpetuation of American ideals and i
the maintenance of the principles up- I
on which our system of government ]
is based. As in many other ways j
the War Camp Community Service Is j
aiding in the preliminary work of
the Legion and all who are desirous j
of becoming charter members of the
Harrisburg posts should immediately j
get Into touch with the headquarters |
on Market street.
AND NOW IT'S COMBS
LOVELY woman fs given al
ways to some form of "mid
summer madness." Sometimes
it is "peekaboo" waists, at others it
is the slashed skirt, and now, we
are told by the advance fashion
notes (yes. we read 'em; all men do,
although they will tell you they do
not) it is to be combs; Spanish
combs, via Mexico. Just as though
enough trouble had not come out
of Mexico already.
The combs, we are told, are "of
tortoise-shell, spangled with jewels,
and rise from the back of the head
like a rampart to a tremendous
height." They form a sort of
background for the wearer's face
and are- described as "decidedly
smart looking." They are supposed
to arouse in the minds of the know
ing visions of old Spain, fandan
goes, castinets, guitars, latticed
windows and, we suppose, the le-"
gendary castle.
But it is not so much with the
looks as with the effect that we
are interested. We wonder if it
will be necessary to pass an ordi
nance regulating the height of the
comb that may be worn in the the
ater and if the time is fast ap
proaching when the movie '"fea
ture" will be preceded by a flash
on the screen of "Ladies will kindly
remove their combs."
PERSHING'S HOME COMING
GENERAL PERSHING win re
turn to the United States in
a few weeks to receive the ap
proval of his countrymen. Through
out the great conflict in Europe he
has upheld the best traditions of
the American army and the high j
ideals of the American people. With
dignity and a fine perception of the
obligations resting upon him as the
dir_ect military representative of the
United States he discharged with
rare fidelity the duties which fell 1
to his lot as the leader of the men
in khaki.
Whether he ever made that dra
matic speech at the tomb of Lafay-.i
ette or not, his actions throughout
gave expression to- the A. E. F.
thought which took form in the
famous sentence, "Lafayette, we are
here!" His spirit was the spirit of
the American army and the Ameri
can people and at no time did he
fail to meet public expectation, es
pecially in the crucial days when
the German horde was advancing on
Paris and he tendered, without fur- 1
ther delay, the services of the Ameri
cans already in France and arriving
in constantly increasing force at
every port.
General Pershing has made for
himself ♦his own niche in his
country's temple of fame and will
share with Grant and Sherman and
Sheridan and other great military
leaders imperishable glory.
He has earned the gratitude of
the American people and will come
back home to receive their sincere
plaudits and the high honors which
Congress will bestow upon him.
If prices keep on going up the fel
low who used to give wine suppers
won't have to worry how to spend
his money; he'll only have to invest
in a pork chop and a qup of coffee.
By thev way, what has become of
that "No beer, no work" slogan?
"H. C. L." sounds like a chemical
terra for a poisonous gas.
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Ik
{ By the Ex- Committeeman
| A special digest of the changes
made to the election laws of the
, State through bills passed by the
I recent Legislature/find approved last
by the Gpt'ernor is being pre
• pared by George D. Thorn, chief
of the bureau of elections of the
Stute Department. It will take some
weeks to complete and have print
j ed. Almost a. dozen acts were plac
' ed on the books which will affect
i elections in Pennsylvania and the
ehanges 'they bring about are bsing
worked out. Announcements has
been made as to the changes in
dates of tiling petitions and other,
election details, but there are others
| which will bo summarized.
The time for filing judicial nomi
nating petitions will close at the
' State Department on Thursday
I afternoon at 4 o'clock, the close of
' the business day.
Petitions to be candidates for
county and municipal nominations
go to county commissioners and the
time for tiling does not expire until
later in the month. A number of
sucli petitions have been sent hero
by mistake.
—The Philadelphia Evening Bul
l letin opposes any platform business
in the Philadelphia mayoralty tight
of the Committee of 100. It says:
"To offer the people a profusion of
principles and pledges is an old and
easy performance. It will count for
little or nothing as compared with
the general competency of the head
of the ticket. There will be n<s need
of bothering much about the plat
| form if he shall be a man of sense
and honor, who is free of all de
, pendence on municipal contractors
'or political keepers, and who will
I be recognized as a platform in him
self."
—Pretty lively filing of nominat
ing petitions is going on in I-acka
wanna county where there will be
numerous contests for the county
nominations. The Scranton city
contest appears to be very quiet.
. —Register of Wills William Con
ner, of Allegheny, is a candidate for
renomination.
—The Pittsburgh Dispatch says
that in Mercer and various counties
in Western Pennsylvania there is a
marked decrease in drunkenness
and arrests. The Scranton Times
! says there were more arrests for
| being drunk in Scranton last month
; under prohibition than in July, 191 S.
j —Peter Noll and P. J. Boland will
' likely be the Democratic slate for
! county commissioners in Lacka
j wanna.
j —The Wilkes-Barre Record says
I that candidates are slow to file in
i Luzerne, but looks for a strenuous (
j finish for the filing period.
| —Captain E. S. Chase, appointed
associate judge of Sullivan county,
I will have opposition for election for
i the full term.
Hun Prisoners' Crime
[Langdon Warner, American Vice
Consul, in Scribner's Magazine.]
So far as one could gather from
men hot from battle, the Bolsheviki
of the Russian race were less often
concerned in the atrocities in Si
beria. The execution, it is true, were
more often than not ordered by Rus
sian Jews. But the mutilation of
wounded and of prisoners was com
monly practiced by the Magyar and
German troops.
For a long time the various Euro
pean and American governments did
[not believe that the prisoners of the
Central Powers in Siberia had actilhl
-Ily taken the field in large numbers.
It is probable that Washington was
the last to believe it. But as early
ns June, 1918, Geitzmann, Bolshevist
commissar at Irkutsk, threatened to
arm every German and Magyar in
Siberia if the Czechs persisted in
their advance, and it was not a
month before h e carried out his
threat as nearly as he could.
I saw train load after train load
of them pass my ear. I saw them
lounging in the streets of the cities
near their internment camps. I
talked to them where they lay in
the sun with the red Bolshevist
brassards around their arms, nurs
ing their rifles between their knees.
I was arrested by them and brought
both to the Red Guard camp and
the "Internationalist" headquarters.
On one occasion it took considerable
search and inquiry before a soldier
could be found able to speak any
thing but German who should escort
the American vice consul back to his
train.
Pershing a Poor Dancer
[From the Columbus Dispatch.]
"He's some general, ljut not mucfl
of a dancer," declared a Columbus
singer, Mrs. Gladys Pettit Bumstead,
in a recent letter home comment
ing upon General Pershing, after
attending a dinner and dance at
which the General was present. It
is hinted she will keep her badly
scratched shoes as a memento of her
meeting with the famous soldier.
"I was so glad to get to dance with
him that I let him walk over my
toes all he wanted to and didn't
mind a bit," she continued.
This honor came to Mrs. Bumstead
on France's Peace Day, when the en
tertainment company with which she
is identified was chosen to be pres
ent at a dinner at general head
quarters in honor of General Persh
ing. The Columbus soprano sang
for him and later he asked her to
dance. She has been with the Old
Glory quintet at Paris and Le Mans
for several months.
LABOR NOTES
Virtually all the shipping in the
harbors of Melbourne and Sydney,
Australia, lias been tied up as a re
sult of the seamen's refusal to work
until they are granted more pay.
It is estimated that in 1918 in Great
Britain there were 1,262 strikes. The
average number of working days lost
was 6,237,100, and the average lost
amounted to 26,237,000.
Of the 111 national union affiliated
with the American Federat[op of' L
abor in1916 only 69 were reported as
paying benefits of any kind, and of
these 35 had established only one kind
of benefit.
Shortage pf orders and the uncer
tainty of business has caused practi
cally all the mines at Sydney, Canada,
to suspend opeyitions.
Bookbinders and bindery employes
in Augusta, -Ga., have formed an or
ganization and affiliated with the In
ternational Brotherhood of Book
binders.
•
During the war the number of
women employed in the British postal
service doubled In numbers, and in
other branches of the civil servictf
they advanced from 5,500 toJK>7,6OO,
an increase of 1,960 per-sent. In the
tramway service the increase amount
ed to over 1,500 per cent, while the
Jump in the number employed In
finance and banking advanced 687
per cent.
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England Shirks the Honor
[From Harvey's Weekly.]
The more our English cousins
have been thinking and talking
about bringing old Mr. Hohenzollern
to trial in London, the less they like
It. Naturally they have been vent
ing their emotions on the subject by
exercising the Englishman's time
honored privilege of "writing to the
Times." Lord Northclifife's historic
newspaper has been fairly teeming of
late with effusion on the subject.
The objections are based largely
upon England's not altogether for
tunate experience as a jailer, as
instanced in the sinking of the Ger
man Scapa Flow fleet under its cus
todian noses, and upon the inevit
able length and mortal wearisome
ness of the trial, coupled with a
very decided uncertainty of any
other notable result than making a
martyr of the old man and thus
throwing a sort of halo of glory
about a very inconsequential and
rather absurd person for whom no
greater punishment than obscurity
could be imagined.
England wants the Hun member
of the Amalgamated Union of Royal
Hoboes tried, but prefers to have
him tried elsewhere. T. G. Bowles
writes to the Times that Mr. Hohen
zollern and his assorted crimes and
villanies" might be left to the judg
ment of history." Mr. H. Rider Hag
gard remarks that "if a trial is
thought necessary to prove facts that
are self evident," such trial should
be elsewhere than in London." Mr.
Haggard adds:
"Not only will mud be stirred up
but the resulting mixture will be
used to blacken Britannia's face be
fore the world. Teutonic hatred
against us will be accentuated for
generations—who can doubt it that
of late has noted the propagandist
power of a welcome lie? Can we
not imagine the tales told to un
born German children of the tor-
Iments inflicted upon the national
hero and martyr in the British dun-
I geons? Moreover, this trial will
certainly add to our home troubles in
I sundry ways, and in the end, unless
he escapes sentence in some dra
matic fashion, as is quite possible
(here let us remember the scuttling
of the" German fleet), we shall be
left to play the unpleasant role of
goaler."
And now comes Earl Curzon, of
Keddleston, government leader in the
House of Lords, with the announce
ment that Mr. Hohenzollern may
not be tried in London after all.
We feel very much inclined to
wager a large red apple that he will
never be greatly incommoded by the
results of the international trial,
even if the international trial ever
takes place. And there is a sporting
chance for a bet that it never will
take place.
The Buncombe Brigade
[Philadelphia Press.]
The pilgrimage of the national
Democratic troupe about the country
is about finished. It has been a spec
tacular crusade, planned with an eye
keen for dramatic effect. Practically
all of the headliners of the Demo
cratic National Committee has been
a part of it. The chairman has ex
pounded party- doctrine in State
after State. The secretary has pre
sented schemes of organization to
the party committees at each stop
ping place. The money raiser of the
committee has been on hand each
day to look out for the commisary
department. The head of the
women's branch of the organization
has made the daily appeal to the
new voters of the land in behalf of
Democracy.
It has been a real three-ring circus
that this company has staged from
the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast
and return. Some of its doings have
had the real comedy flavor, if one
of its performances, the one at
Omaha, is any criterion. By a
"curious coincidence, at almost the
same moment that these missioners
of a distracted Democracy were tell
ing the women of that city how much
the party has done for them, the
solidly Democratic Legislature of
Georgia was refusing by an over
whelming majority to ratify the
suffrage amendment. There was
also eulogy on the part of the woman
orator of the occasion of Senator
Hitchcock, in this his home town.
She must have forgotten that on
three occasions his vote alone de
feated the suffrage amendment in the
Senate, an4-thts In spite of the per
sonal appeal made by his President
to support the measure.
Alabama Takes Plunge
[From the Birmingham Age-Herald]
For the first time in its history,
Alabama has convicted white men
who took part in a lynching. We
may eventually reach the high stage
l of civilization where murderers of
that sort are hanged. ,
THINKING AMONG THE GUNS
A Clergyman's Conversion to Universal Military Training
By The Rev. Thomas p;-.. D.
The man who carried the first American* Flag under fire in Flanders
NUMBER 2
What was true of the clergymen
would be true of all other men so
far as college education is con
cerned, if they had had no move'
training than a thorough college
education gave.
It was a bitter line of thinking
—this the clergymen did in that
desolate region overlooking No
Man's Land. To be able bodied,
clear brained, eager as any one of
them, and yet a mere stop-gap
where others were doing great
things in this world crisis; and that
simply because he lacked just the
fundamentals of a military educa
tion. And the point that drove home
to the clergyman's soul was thin:
If half the time wasted on dead
and useless studies in the years
gone by had been put on definite
military training he could have been
a vastly 'more useful man in those
grim hours even had he been given
the job of clergyman.
He could have understood the act
ual military problem at hand. He
could have understood the needs of
these soldiers. He could have done
even his job of "stop-gap" with
finer grip, bigger understanding, and
broader effectiveness.
Y'ou may say "every man to his
job; and the job of stop-gap even is
as important as many others—some
body has to do it."
Wait a minute. It happened that
right from this spot where we lay
resting we could see a section of
our lines being bombarded by
Fritz. The shells were dropping in
particularly nasty fashion—great
jots of mud flying in the air at every
burst, livid flashes of flame gleam
ing amidst showers of splintered
steel. For a mile-long stretch the
boys in that trench were being
buried alive, blown to atoms and
our guns almost silent.
An airman, a Canadian as we
learned later, flew over, signalling
to our batteries giving them the
range and calling for heavy fire.
They kept silent. The airman land
ed, and called up H. Q. "What's
the matter? Why don't batteries
fire?"
The answer came —"No shells."
And we talked the matter over
again, with the Military Education
thought in our minds. The factories
—
The Call of Patriotism
[From Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin]
The Scranton Republican does the
country- a good turn 'in the assertion
that "there is as much need of
patriotism in the consideration of
public questions to-day as there was
during the most trying days of the
war when America was bending
every energy to marshal its strength
to save civilization."
There is, in fact, greater need of
caring for high ideals of Ameri
canism now that internationalism is
obtruding into high places.
The highest duties of citizenship
are to care for home and country.
With good reason, therefore, the
Republican objects to tlfe speeches
made by Champ Clark and Claude
Kitchen in the House of Repre
sentatives at Washington denounc
ing Republicans for what they chose
to term "one concentrated growl"
because of their attitude toward
measures advocated by the presi
dent.
As a matter of fact, those Demo
crats who are now taking the Re
publicans to task are the very ones
who in those critical days of the
war, when it was so vital for Ameri
cans to forget party and factional
divisions and stand shoulder to
sliouler, did a whole lot of growl
ing.
In the history of the United
States there is no finer illustration
of the unity of real Americans in
times of national stress than was
disclosed by the attitude of Repub
lican congressman when they held
up the hands of the president, de
feated the purpose of "growling"
Democrats and made it possible for
the United States to take the steps
which 'ended the world conflict and
defeated German autocracy. With
the war closed the time has come
when honest differences of opinion
can be expressed. Certainly it is
essential that the wisdom of Cho
nation must assert itself in safe
guarding the future of the country,
no matter who may be opposed or
criticised.
Patriotism's call has lost none of
its potency because the war in
ovfer.
in the home land couldn't turn out
shells quick enough for this war
and these gunners had just about
a half dozen shells a day to stand
off the German attacks.
I recalled an anti-preparedness
speech 1 had heard back home in
the States. I recalled how cogent
and convincing the argument of the
"great statesman" seemed to me
then —tn my ignorance of millitary
matters. X remember one part of
his speech ran something like this:
"Why all this talk about foolish and
wasteful war preparation? Bless
you, we have the greatest Nation on
the face of God's earth. A Nation
descended from the pioneers, a Na
tion of natural fighters. Why, if
this Nation should be plunged into
war to-morrow we could put half
a million, yes a million and a half
fighters in the field inside of a
month."
And now? How I wished that
"great statesman" who had swayed
the hearts of that vast audience by
means of his oratory and their ig
norance of military affairs could
have been placed in that section of
trench tire before us, just to learn
the difference between theory and
fact. He knew nothing of military
education, did not know even
enough to realize how long it takes
to teach a gunner the art of laying
a gun and firing it without crippling
his own men. He did not know that
it takes at least six months to teach
an airman the use of his machine
and the signalling needful just to
give accurately the range and di
rections from the sky by code. That
"great statesman" did • not know
how long it takes to organize and
build a shell factory large enough
to produce even a moderate num
ber of shells; or an airplane factory:
or a shipyard, or a battleship. He
did not know any more about mili
tary education than I did. The
only difference between his ignor
ance and mine was I had been made
to see with white clarity how and
why those boys were being blown
to bits. While he three thousand
miles back of the line, sought in
some library, proofs to convince an
other audience that military educa
tion is an unnecessary thing.
(To bo Continued.)'
(Copyright by National Service
with International Military Digest.)
j Gold at Pre-War Price
[From the Toronto Globe.]
Gold is about the only commodity
left, the price o{ which to the con-
I sumer has not gone up. This fact
! has given rise to a good deal of
I agitation by gold producers, but any
step towards a subsidy or increasing
the fixed price of gold, which stands
at $20.67 an ounce, has failed.
"Gold is hardly worth the mining,"
declared a producer from Bolivia in
New York the other day, and he
cited several mines which are un
workable at present prices.
Statistics of production for some
years past, published by the Finan
cial and Commercial Chronicle, New
York, shows that the production of
i gold in the world in 1918 was ap
proximately 18,603,929 ounces,
| valued at $384,576,700, or a decline
of 1,887,427 ounces, or $39,912,792
from the previous year, and the low
est since 1905. ,
Considering the ups and downs of
gold mining, the adventures in rich
and poor fields, the output from year
to year is remarkably stable. Be
tween 1886 and 1895, the world's
production of gold advanced steadily
from 104 million dollars to 199 mil
lion dollars, and it was not until
1906 that it reached 400 million dol
lars. From that date until 1915 it
was advancing to 470 million dollars.
In 1916 it dropped to 452 million
dollars, and in 1917 to 423 million
dollars. As the war has upset labor
conditions, part of the falling off
should be attributed to that, though
the time has apparently come when
increasing costs of materials have
made gold mining unprofitable for
low grade mines.
Editorial Comment
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Perhaps the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee can
not help being a Democrat, but he
doesn't have to be insolent and flip
, pant when testifying before a Con
j gressional Committee. The com
mittee represents the sovereignty of
the people; the chairman of the
Democratic Committee —if he has
the confidence of his party—repre
sents merely the partisanship of a
party which was voted into a mi
nority at the latest election.
AUGUST 5, 1919.
The Hills
I have walked along the river
That is peaceful in its flow,
Where the great hills stand for
ever—
Quiet hills that thrill me so!
Peaceful hills, all change defying.
To your somber silent rise,
When a noisy day is dying.
Trusting, lift up mine eyes.
When the ways of men arc palling
On the heart of men, I know
That the hills, the hills are calling
Me away: I rise.and go
From the town and noise and riot
Where the changing days go by.
And I seek the splendid quiet.
Of the hills and woods and sky.
There is shifting all around me.
There is endless, endless change;
And 'a narrow sight has bound me,
And from out the wistful range.
Is it all, I've often wondered.
Working out for ill or good?
Wiser men than I have pondered''
On these things, nor understood.
But when the doubts come creeping
Like the gathering of gloom.
When even in my, sleeping
My very dreams assume
The form .of mighty yearning.
And a terror through me thrills—
Look up, O Soul, and turning.
See the Presence in the Hills.
—Garnett Laidlaw Eskew, in Buf
falo Commercial.
Aerial Police Next
[Birmingham Age-Herald.]
The day when the skies will be
filled with airplanes, driven for
business and pleasure, is not far
distant. Henry Woodhouse, vice
i president of the Aeriat League of
America, says more than 500 persons
bought or ordered airplanes in the
Untted States during the last three
months. He estimates that 500
more are eager to place their orders,
but cannot do so because manufac
turers are unable to promise an
early delivery. One company alone
"has orders for over 300 airplanes
and is so rushed with prospective
orders that it has found it necessary
to put on two shifts in its factories."
Even at present prices, planes are
easily within the reach of persons
who buy the more expensive makes
of motorcars. There are thousands
of expert aviators who were trained
during the war and probably would
not object to serving as "air chauf
feurs" at wages comparable to their
altitude records. Furthermore, those
who wish to drive their own planes
and get the fullest amount of enjoy
ment out of the sport can easily
learn.
One flight in a plane, as a rule, is
sufficient to make an enthusiastic
convert to a person who has never
heen any higher above the earth's
surface than the top of an office
building. A few spiral glides, tail
spins and several loops thousands of
feet in the air and motoring ever
after seems the harmless diversion
of mollycoddles.
Watterson on Blaine
[Henry Watterson in Saturday Eve
ning Post.]
No man of his time could hold a
candle to Mr. Blaine in what we call
magnetism—that is, in manly charm,
supported by facility and brain
power. Clay and Douglas had set
the standard of party leadership be
fore his time. He made a good third
to them. I never knew Mr. Clay,
but with Judge Douglas I was well
I acquainted, and the difference be-
I tween him and Mr. Blaine In leader
ship might be called negligible.
Both were intellectually aggres
sive and individually amiable. They
at least seemed to love their fellow
men. Each had been tried by many
adventures. Each bad gone, as it
were, "through the flint mill." Born
to good conditions —Mr. Blaine
sprang from aristocratic forebears—
each knew by early, albeit brief, ex
perience the seamy side of life; as
each, like Clay, nursed a consuming
passion for the presidency. Neither
had been made jor a subaltern, and
they chafed under the subaltern yoke
to which fate had condemned them.
Airplanes For Missionaries
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
Incongruous though it may seem
for the moment, the request of Cen
tral African missionaries for an air
plane suggests a perfectly logical use
of the resources of civilization.
Travel by this means would no
doubt be an improvement o\er the
more common kind. In spite of the
colonizing labors of Europe the fa
cilities for getting about ure not so
convenient as they might be; nor
are railways and highways plenti
ful. But no trackless jungles can
impede air travel. Moreover, the
native villages have ample open
spaces for landing places.
farorotg (Htjat
Owing to processes developed by
demands of war and rapid improve
ment in chemical engineering meth
ods there is a possibility that the
Lower Susquehanna, the Juniata
and the Cumberland valleys may re
gain in part their prestige as iron
producing regions. Use of Superior
and Cuban ores has become so gen
eral hereabouts that scarcely any
of the brown hematite ores are em
ployed in the furnaces that glow
along the Susquehanna and Leba
non uses its own ores. There was
a time, commencing about 100 years
ago when Cumberland, Dauphin,
Adams, Franklin, Perry, Lebanon
and other counties in this section
were the premier iron producing
region of the State and of the coun
try for a short tipie. Many mining
enterprises developed all along the
Blue Ridge and there were deposits
worked which attained a notable
reputation. Some of them were al
most in sight of Harrisburg and
when it is stated that there were
furnaces at Dauphin, Union De
posit, Middletown, Boiling Springs,
Carlisle, Duncannon, Montebello anil
and other places which have no iron
works or very little to speak of
now, the extent and importance of
these local ore can be under
stood. Lately some experiments
have been made with brown hema
tite to get rid of certain substances
ther contain and which led to the
richer Superior ores supplanting
them. Whether they can be market
ed again in competition with the
ores from the lakes and Cuba is
interesting many people. If a pro
cess is devised that is not too costly
there may be a revival of iron ore
mining in this region which is closo
to the source of flux and on the steel
highways to the coal fields.
Announcement a few days ago of
the resignation of Robert Percy
Stewart, United States District At
torney for South Dakota, interested
quite a few people here, but this
feeling has been changed to one of
gratification by the official statement
from Washington that the former
Harrisburger has been appointed an
Assistant Attorney General of the
I United States. Mr. Stewart who has
| resided at Deadwood, where he rose
rapidly in his profession, is a Har
risburger. He is the eldest son of
the late James A. Stewart, a Penn
sylvania railroad conductor, well
known here and who resided on
Chestnut street. His mother resides
with him in South Dakota. Mr.
Stewart will remove to Washington.
One of the Deadwood papers has
this to say about the new Assistant
Attorney General: "This promotion
will come as no surprise to the many
friends of Mr. Stewart who have
long recognized his ability as an At
torney. Born near Harrisburg, Pa.,
therefore a native of the same State
as Attorney General Palmer, Stewart
went to Deadwood as a young man,
about 18 years ago and commenced
the practice of law. He studied under
some of the ablest members of tho
old Lawrence county bar noted fop
its le'gal brilliance and when elected
States Attorney established a new
record by winrnng every criminal
case before hinr during his incum
bency. He has been serving as
United States District Attorney for
South Dakota for the past five years
with distinction."
The White Book issued last week
by the German Government has
some very interesting disclosures in
it, not the least of which is the fact
wherever an attempt was made to
delay the armistice, the troops rose
in protest and all differences between
Berlin and the supreme army com
mand were dropped. One of the
men recently returned confirms this
statement. When November 11 came
along it found this Harrisburger sit
ting opposite the German trenches
on the Meuse. About twenty-four
hours after firing and ceased this
soldier and his captain rode across
the German front line and back to
a little town which they had been
shelling some days before. Here
they encountered a group of Ger
man officers who insisted that the
Americans have a glass of schnapps
with them. The boches spoke ex
cellent English and told the Ameri
cans many interesting things. In
their own particular company, they
said, there would have been a revolu
tion if the armistice had not coma
when it did. All the men were dis
satisfied and ready to quit and were
just about resolved to take over tho
military reign themselves. There
was great rejoicing and merry mak
ing when the firing ceased.
There is a good bit of a change
between the night appearance of
Harrisburg and Steelton now as com
pared with a year ago. Then every
thing was glowing and the iron and
steel establishments could be picked
out by the flares and smoke. Now
an occasional burst of light from
a furnace is all that tells where the
iron works are located. The change
is greatest at Steelton and Lochiel.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—William F. Ries, State Deputy
of the Knights of Columbus, has gone
to the Cleveland convention.
—Dr. James D. Rankin, of West
ern Theological Seminary, preached
at Pittsburgh on the great oppor
tunities for men in the pulpit.
—Judge J. T., Rooney, of th<|
United States courts at New York,
lectured on Ireland at Johnstown.
—W. J. Graef, Secretary of
Greensburg Y. M. C. A., resigned t<i
take up religious work.
-—The Rev. Joseph L. Whitaker,
who has been in the army as
chaplain, has been appointed secre
tary to Archbishop Dougherty.
—Col. Fred Taylor Pusey, tha
Special State's Attorney in the North
Penn bank matter; has given up his
vacation to look after the case.
—Rabbi James Heller, who open
ed the Zionist conference in Phila
delphia, is well known to Jewish
people here.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg soldiers
ran railroads in France and laid
track when needed ?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Harrisburg has been a center of
grain supply for 14 0 yeras.
Capital and Labor
[From the New York Times.]
Capital and labor by co-operating
for the full measure of production
can maintain the present prosperity
of the country's industries, can
maintain wages at the prevailing
high rate; and increased production
is the one sure way to reduce the
cost of living. It is in the power
of capital alone or of labor alone
to destroy prosperity and to compel
not merely the reduction of wages
by widespread unemployment, but
loss of wages through the enforced
closing ot Industries.