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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, lt
Do not look for wrong or evil—- ,
You will find them if you do;
As you measure for your neighbor,
He will measure back to you.
—Alice Carey.
FISHERMAN AND GENIE
THE present situation at Wash
ington reminds one of the
Arabian Night's story of "The
Fisherman and the Genie," which, as j
you will recall, runs something like ;
this: A fisherman, casting his net |
into the sea, drew forth a copper j
casket instead of the fish he sought, j
Eagerly opening it, hoping to find |
something of value, he was amazed |
to see issue therefrom a great black
cloud that enveloped the skies in ,
smoke, in the midst of which ap
peared a giant genie, who announced |
that he had sworn to kill the person j
who should set him free. The fish-1
erman persuaded the genie to go
back into the box, whereupon he
slapped shut the lid and cast the
ungrateful genie back into the deep.
The President and his Democratic.
Congress opened the genie's casket
when they took over the railroads
of the country and put business
under a ban, the effects of which
only a few favored lines were able
to escape. Now the skies are full
ot black clouds, the genie is
threatening and what the people
would like to know is how are the
President and Congress going to get
the genie back into the bottle, or
that being impossible to induce the
genie to be a good, reasonable fel
low, capable of listening to logic
and possessing some regard for the
welfare of others? Indeed, we would
much prefer the latter arrangement,
If that can be brought about. The
President has a "cure-all" for every
ill. Let him try his hand at this.
Bully for the Kiwanls Club! It has
lined up behind the Children's Indus
trial Home, just as a lot of live wires
might have been expected to do. Har
risburg is blessed in a number of or
ganizations of this sort which are
contributing so largely to its pros
perity and good-fellowship.
LET US PAUSE
BEFORE we rush headlong into
public ownership of railroads
—which is only a step toward
the taking over of many lines of
utilities it might be well to look
back for a moment over some of our
experiments along this' line in the
past. Patrick Henry once said that
he had but one lamp by which his
feet were guided and that was the
lump ot' experience, and the saying
holds good to-day. We need look no
farther than our own city or State
for example. This idea of bringing
about the millennium by public own
ership of public utilities is by no
means new. It was tried out when
Pennsylvania built the great canal
system of the State and the Portage
railroad. And it didn't work. Not
only that, but the State became al
most bankrupt, panic ensued and
thousands of people lost every pt>nny
they had saved.
It is a common saying that the
"canals were grabbed by the rail
roads." Such is not the case, as the
records of the Department of In
ternal Affairs will show. The canals,
owned by the public, and the State
railroad, too, went steadily from
bad to worse. They were a failuro,
so far us earning capacity is con
cerned, long before the railroads
came to compete, Indeed, they were
In such bad state that the Pennsyl
vania Railroad politely declined the
State's offer to sell the system to
the railroad company and purchased
the canals only after long years of
effort on the State's part to dis
pose or its bad barguln, So rejoiced
were the people to get rid of them
that they celebratod and the
legislature passed a vote of thanks
to the company for relieving the
State of "an Intolerable burden."
The same thing occurred In a
doncn other States. Albert W At
wood, in an article In a recent issue
of the Saturday Evening Post, an
THURSDAY EVENING.
"Our Forgotten Socialism," has this
"to say concerning Pennsylvania's
part in the nation's public ownership
spree:
Pennsylvania planned a com
plete vertebrate system of track
and water courses, and unlike
most of the other states actually
built it. Men even said that by
digging seventy-five miles more
of canals Philadelphia would soon
be connected directly with the
Pacific Ocean.
Only a few years later, how
ever, Pennsylvania tried in vain
to sell to private interests two
million dollars of stocks in banks,
turnpikes, bridges, canals and
railroads. Finally its canals were
sold out to private interests after
they had got deeply In debt. In
deed before many decades had
passed, half of the nearly five '
thousand miles of canals in the
country, built mostly by the
states at a cost of possibly two
hundred millions, had been aban
doned, and most of the rest had
become unprofitable because of
railroad competition.
But the states fared only a little
better with their railroads. After
a time Pennsylvania sold out her
railroad interests to private com
panies at what is said to be only
one-sixth of their cost, and on
| easy terms at that.
j Times may have changed since
| then, but' public ownership has not.
I We are losing hundreds of millions
! of dollars in Federal control of rall
! roads. Who is going to assume
j this burden if the roads are taken
over permanently? The taxpayers?
We think the people will have some
thing to say about that. And then
there is the $20,000,000,000 debt to
he assumed. Can we stand such an
addition to our credit at a time
when war debts are weighing
on the taxpayers? And if we <l°. |
what are the benefits which the peo
| pie _1 and by this we mean all the
J people are to receive? And what
: do the railroadmen themselves hope
| to gain by making the railroads a
football for partisan politics?
These are fair and sober questions.
They, and our own disastrous his
tory as it relates to public owner
ship should have careful study he
fore we take the plunge.
Upon the return of the telephone
properties to their owners by the
I nitfd States Government last Friday
one of the big wire-speaking systems j
let it be known that while the prop- ,
erty had been properly maintained it
was not the same property which the
Government had token over a year
ago. But in a statement to the stock
holders the management explains
that the fault was not of Federal con
trol, but was due to causes growing
out of the war. It is plainly evident,
however, that the experiment of Gov
ernment ownership has not demon
strated its virtue as a panacea for all i
the ills of the public utilities in this]
country.
GIVE THEM A CHANCE
WHILE the Knights of Colum
bus performed an important
service during the war, it is |
preparing to do a still greater ser- i
vice in peace. At the Buffalo con- i
vention special attention is being
given to the unrest of the countrv |
and especially to the imported 1
deviltry under the name of 80l- '
shevlsm. One of the leaders of the j
K. of C. In his annual report de
clared that the organization would !
fight the menace from overseas to |
the bitter end by every means in j
its power and that the chief weapon j
in the new warfare would be educa- i
tion. He favored the operation of r
supplementary night schools in ev
ery city and town where there is a
K. of C. council. "We shall fight
to the uttermost of our strength,"
declared this courageous and clear
vlsioned official, "the forces of ex
treme radicalism and the crazy dpc
trines of false foreign philosophers
who seek to spread their perniciouo
propaganda on our free soil."
With the Knights of Columbus
and other great organizations of
men who recognize the danger of
the devil of unrest and discontent
standing as a bulwark against this
peril, the people of this country aie
justified in believing that terrorism
and the bloodthirsty hordes of men
and women out of sympathy with
our Institutions will he suppressed.
It seems incredible that with the
starvation of their victims in Rus
sia and elsewhere in Europe, the
outraging of women, the nationaliz
ing of innocent girls and destruction
of property and the homes of thrifty
worktngmen, the apostles of anarchy
and radicalism should have an/ fol- !
lowers in this free and enlightened |
country, where liberty and oppoi-|
tunity have attracted the oppressed I
of the world and given them new j
hope and inspiration. I
While many aliens are now re
turning whence they came to dis
cover what became of their families
and friends during the war period,
it is believed that these and thou
sands more will come back to
America with a determination lo
make this land their permanent
home. But it is due these and thou
sands more who are looking toward
America that our system of educa
tion shall be so changed as to throw
the light where it is needed and
give these aliens who want to be
come decent American citizens a
reasonable chance.
An army engineer says the impend
ing survey of the Susquehanna River
looking to making the stream naviga
ble will depend somewhat on the
showing that shall be made with re
spect to possible traffic and the
amount of freight which will he
transported by water. Those who
have made a study of the problem
believe that the millions of tons of
coal and agricultural products and
lumber and manufactured goods-will
ccnstitute an imposing and forceful
avgument In favor of converting the
Susquehanna Into a navigable stream
The Ponn-Harris Hotel will blos
som forth next. Spring as the Tele
graph and other big buildings with
window boxes filled wtlh flowers.
Every year sees an increase In the
, number of homes and business places
thus decorated.
Ik
| By the Kx-Dommittccman
To-day marks the close of the
1 period for tiling nominating peti
jtions for judicial primaries at the
office of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth and indications are that
I there will be more tiled this year
: than generally known. Few of the
i judges seeking re-election will be
i unopposed.
This year Pennsylvania will elect
one superior court judge, eighteen
common pleas judges, Philadelphia
and Allegheny having the most; live
orphans' court judges, one county
court judge in Allegheny, two mu
nicipal court judges in Philadelphia
and fourteen associate judges. The
latter will be elected in thirteen
counties, Huntingdon having two to
elect.
When the judicial papers are all
filed political interest will largely
center in the tiling of papers for
county and municipal nominations
with County Commissioners which
must be tiled under a recently ap
proved act before nightfall of Au
gust 19.
Superior Court Judge William L.
Keller, of Lancaster, appointed last
winter, has filed papers to be a
candidate for election to the full
term of ten years.
- —Some very interesting situations
have been created by the judicial
contests. In Philadelphia and Alle
gheny all of the sitting judges, who
aspire to election and among whom
are almost ten appointees, are op
posed. Patrick P. Conway, of Phil
adelphia, has established an unusual
I record in tiling petitions to run for
both orphans' and common pleas
i court places. This is probably the
. tirst time such a thing has occurred.
-—Some of tile best known judges
of the State, men like Judge John
Garman, of Luzerne; Mac Henry
Wilhelm, of Schuylkill, and J. N.
Keller, of Perry-Juniata, face tights,
while Judges G. A. Endlich and ,G.
W. Wagner, of Berks, and C. I.
Landis, of Lancaster, will not be op
posed. at least from indications.
—Somerset county is to the front
again with a tight which must de
light the shades of those old-time
political warriors, "The Frosty Sons
of Thunder." Ex-Banking Commis
sioner John A. Berkey, Norman T.
Boose, Charles F. Uhl, Jr., Demo
cratic leader, and E. O. Kooser, son
of Judge F. J. Kooser, named to fill
a vacancy, are candidates. The sit
ting judge, who was called from re
tirement to till the place last winter,
will not be a candidate.
—Representative C. M. Palmer, of
Schuylkill, has been picked by
Schuylkill leaders to run for District
Attorney on the Republican ticket,
being preferred over four other
men.
—The Connellsville Courier says
that William L. Wood, member of
the House in 1905 and 1907, will be
a candidate for the Republican
nomination for county treasurer in
Fayette. He is one of the big stock
raisers of the county of Crow, Kep
hart and Coke.
—Among petitions filed late yes
terday were three which mean bat
tles at the primary. They were for
the following: John Rebman, Jr.,
Pittsburgh, for Allegheny county
orphans' court, and M. A. Kilker,
Girardsville, for Schuylkill orphans'
court. J. Frank Keller, Selinsgrove,
Hied to be a candidate for associate
Judge in Snyder county.
—The battle against Senator Max
Leslie and Mayor E. V. Babcock in
Allegheny county has been opened,
the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times print
ing a list of men who will be sup
ported against the Leslie ticket.
This battle will attract State-wide
attention and if the Philadelphia
mayoralty contest is averted it will
be the big contest of the State. On
the anti-Leslie slate are several men
whoffoughtt t in France. That the
tight is going to be vigorous is indi
cated by this statement in the Ga
zette-Times; "The campaign to
bring to an end the political domi
nation of Allegheny county by Max
Leslie is about to be opened and will
be vigorously waged in the Septem
ber primaries. A complete anti-
Leslie Republican ticket of candi
dates for the principal county offices
to be tilled this fall is now in the
field. Behind these men are thou
sands of good citizens ready to bat
tle for the eradication of Leslie
ism. Joining in the movement for
the election of good men to fill the
county offices and the wiping out of
the Leslie machine are citizens from ]
all walks of life in Allegheny
county."
—Pottsville newspapers say. "Cap
tain John E. Schlottman, who left
here as N lteutenant of Company D,
103 d Engineers, but was later made
captain of Company E, of Philadel
phia, has been selected as the Re
publican party nominee, for county
controller. Major G. O. Santee, of
Cressona, who left here as a surgeon,
but returned as a major attached to
the 317 th Infantry of the 80th, or
Blue Ridge Division, is slated for
coroner. Joseph Davenport, otf j
pottsville, has been listed to succeed
W. S. Leib as county commissioner, !
the other Republican nominee to I
be County Treasurer W. A. Adam
son.
—According to reports from Phil- !
ndelphia to-day the Vare faction |
has virtually conceded the fact that
Congressman J. Hampton Moore I
will be the Mayoralty candidate of ]
the Independents and Penrose I
forces. "This general attitude as ex- |
pressed among the rank and file of !
the men who llourish under the
banner of the Republican City Com- |
mitteo is perhaps one of the strong- |
est indications that the stage is set |
for the Committee of One Hundred ]
to declare for Congressman Moore |
and throw down the gauntlet for a !
fight-to-the-finish at the September :
primaries on a straight anti-con
tractor boss issue," says the Phila- '
delphta Press.
Harmony was as remote from I
the situation yesterday as it has !
ever been. The interview granted
by David H. Lane, dean of the Vare
organization, in which he named
four possibilities for the Mayoralty
and ignored Congressman Moore is j
taken as the strongest kind of an
indication that the Republican City j
Committee is serving notice upon
the Congressman that he can expect
the stiffest kind of opposition if lie
j accepts the Committee of One Hun
dred's nomination.
On the Independent side it was
learned that Congressman Moore,
at present at Island Heights, N. J.,
is drawing up a platform which he
will submit to the Committee o l '
One Hundred and that the commit
tee will have to accept the platform
if they want him as theman who 13
to lead the anticontractor rule tight.
"The repeated interjection of the
name of former Governor Edwin 3.
.Stuart as a Mayoralty possibility in
Philadelphia is regarded as signifi
cant in political circles. He "was
first spoken of by Senator Vare and
then two days ago by Mr. Lane, - '
says the Press. "Those deep in
political machinations saw in the
Stuart boom a move on the Mayor
alty checkerboard, with the all
powerful name of the former Gov-
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ernor dangled before Congressman
Moore's eyes as a possible oppo
nent."
Another name, in addition to
those of Judge John M. Patterson
and Receiver of Taxes W. Freeland
Kendrick, was mentioned by Mr.
Lane, but whatever serious impor
tance may have been attached to it
faded yesterday when the individ
ual. City Solicitor John P. Connelly,
declared positively that he would
not be a candidate.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR j
THE FARMER DEFENDED
To the Editor of the Telegraph :
In the agitation to reduce the high
cost of living, certain factors have
been overlooked. Abnormal condi
tions have boosted the price of shoes,
wearing apparel, groceries, and in
brief, every necessity and luxury of
life. The end is not yet. Announce
ment is again made that footwear
and clothing are due for another
increase. Shoes that were formerly
$2 have doubled and sometimes
tripled in price; men's suits which
were once in the $l5 class are now
$2 5 and $3O. The same proportion
obtains in higher priced goods of
that variety and also with respect
to groceries. It matters not what
one desires to purchase, a propor
tional increase of twice or thrice the
pre-war cost must be paid.
These conditions have aroused a
protest. The justness of a sane
and properly directed protest is not
the issue of the present article. My
purpose is to show that "in their ef
forts to obtain what may be deemed
a more equitable adjustment of
prices, certain well meaning but
mistaken people are inflicting a
serious injustice upop the hardest
worked and least appreciated work
ers in the Nation. I refer to the
attacks on the farmer. One would
infer from the so-called arguments
of those who criticise the soil tillers
that the farmers are responsible for
all the ills that have- followed in
the wake of the kaiser's attempt to
bestride the world like a Colossus.
The criticism is unfair because it
does not take into consideration the
economic conditions under which the
farmer must labor. If any class of
workers has been hit harder than
another by the high cost of living,
that class is the agriculturist.' Here
is a brief resume of some of the
things with which he must contend.
Farmers work from daylight to
dark. The whole family must turn
to the toil. When many others have
ended the day's work, and are en
joying themselves at the movies or
are automobile riding, the farmer,
with his wife and children, are still
at their labors. The farmer must
invest in new implements. The price
of a plow a few years ago was $8 to
$l2. Now the price is $lB to $2O.
Harrows which formerly cost $lO
now cost $3O. The farmer must pay
$250 for a horse which he could
formerly buy for $lOO. He must pay
$lOO to $l5O for cows which for
merly cost $25 to $5O. Mill feed,
which formerly cost $l2 to $l5 a
ton, now costs the farmer $6O to
$7O a ton. When the farmer goes
to the mill to buy he must pay what
ever the miller asks. When he goes
to the mill to sell, the miller again
fixes the price and the farmer must
take whatever he offers. The soil
must be treated or crops will not
grow. Fertilizer formerly cost $l6
to $2O per ton; now it costs $4O to
$6O per ton. Seeds have run the
[ s-ale. For instance, spinach seed
j has raised from 20c per pound to
$2 per pound. But the price of
spinach at the market has .only
I increased from 10c a half peck to
20c. In other words, the farmer
I must pay ten times as much for his
seed, but the price he gets for the
product is only twice as much as
formerly. Beans, which were for
| merly $4. a bushel, are now $lB.
| Other seeds are in proportion. These
instances are only a few in com
| parison with the total number of
increases.
After all the work of preparing
the ground: tafter all the investment
in fertilizer, seels, labor, implements,
along come unfavorable weather
conditions, and the farmer finds
I that at the end of the year he has
little or nothing for his time and
investment. A comparison of
figures will show that for the time,
•abor, skill and money invested, the
farmer receives a poor return. When
farmers go to the clothing, shoe,
and grocery stores, they must pay
the high prices. They must pay
more for every single item than cen
ters into farming. How, then, can
they be expected to sell their goods
at the same price as they did* before
the abnormal conditions sent the
cost of goods up In every other line?
What the farmer asks for is a fair
deal. D. MADER.
OXE SOLUTION
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I noticed In your paper that you
(have stated that there is a $5O to
a $lOO dollar line or 30 days for
THINKING AMONG THE GUNS
A Clergyman's Conversion to Universal Military Training
By The Rev. Thomas Travis, Ph. D.
The man who carried the first American- Flag under fire in Flanders
X umber 1 i
There are literally scores of de
partments in a modern army where
each department needs men ass
thoroughly trained as are skilled
mechanics— at least that much.
To believe that all these will
spring into a co-ordinated, equipped
and efficient army inside of a month,
when need arises, is as foolish as to
believe that a burtiper crop of po
tatoes will spring up without plant
ing and get themselves harvested.
The French priesthood has scored
largely during this war; the Allied
clergy have lost. Why? Because
we have been stopgaps for the most
part while they were trained men.
able to go where the boys went and
do what *be boys did. They had a
military education many ot' them.
None of us had. The French, hav
ing a military education not only
went with the bcjys, but had the
foundation for an intelligent grip
and understanding of the whole war.
We, even those of us who went, had
to go as untrained and unskilled
men, as ignorant of military affairs
as a moss-covered backwoodsman:
we could not give even an intelligent
leadership.
Also, for the most part, we gloried
in our ignorance. We "hemmed"
and "hawed" in the days when opin
ions were being.moulded. We dodg
ed afid douhted when w.e should
have been clear-sighted leaders
and why? Not because we were less
brave and less red-blooded than our
French neighbors, but because wo
were so hopelessly ignorant of mili
tary matters that a mere hint mads
no impression, we had to be kicked
in the face with a plain fact befoio
we recognized it. And so, some of
us have had to stand in blind, help
less rage, not able even to poke the
business end of a machine gun
where it would do some good, nay,
not even seeing the necessity for
getting a machine gun. How bitter
ly some of us have repented, God
only knows. But we had to stand
aside out of it. locked up indoors on
board ship while our boys defended
us, washing pots and pans, apd serv
ing back of the lines while our boys,
any one that buys in market or stops
farmers before they get to market
and buys for wholesale.
Now if you will print this in your
paper I'll tell you that that is not
what makes prices high at all and
what the people buy for wholesale in
market the farmers sell for one
price to retailers and to wholesalers
for another.
I know some farmers who have
just so much for wholesale and so
much for retailing, so that will not
put the prices down any and it seems
it is always the little dealer has to
fight or pay a fine. Why don't the
1 Mayor, etc., get after the big guns?
Swift for one. Yes, Swift, he or
some one froYn Swift's go all around
the farms in autos and buy up all
the eggs they can get and pay an
enormous amount for them, which
means that next winter eggs will be
from 75 cents to $1 a dozen for no
reason at all.
Why, I can show you where one
farmer asked me why should I bring
eggs to market when I can get a
bigger price from Swift, and gets
them from my farm, and here I
have to haul them in here. I don't
care if you don't buy any.
Another one says: "Why, why
should I sell to you for 51 cents a
dozen when I can unload to Swift
for that and all I have to do is just
to go down two blocks or so. I'd be
foolish."
And just the same with hucksters
who go around the country and buy
up all they can get and sell for
twice as much. The farmer has no
reason to charge much, and the good
God paged some of them up already,
but I guess that is not enough.
And so you see you always go
after the little fellow when it is the
big fellow that is the cause of it.
And like the fellow says, if you
kill one you get hung, but if you kill
thousands you ride around in a
Packard auto.
. DAILY READER.
On Ilis Way the
the Dallas News.]
Another strike was on, and walk
ing home was "the only way."
When Joynson arrived at his su
burb in the far north in the small
hours of the morning, he sent a
wire to the office:
"Will not be at the office to-day.
Am not home yesterday yet."
that wo ought to have shepherded
under fire, went and died for us
the shepherd. Big,, ablebodied,
scholarly men, patriotic and loyal as
any, yet, God forgive us, so ignorant
ot military education that we
couldn't even matriculate for an
awkward squad or see the need of
getting our Nation even as far as
the awkward squad stage.
Talking about the machine gun,
we who were there that day, resting
where the shells burst about us, had
the chance of seeing a machine gun
position—one that stands out among
thousands. For among the bat bed
wire that nested it. in the reeking
mud that fronted it, was a sugges
tive heap of bright young bodies
shot to pieces, red pulp and carrion
where once were brave men full of
life. The officers pointed out just
why so many of them were there.
They had charged on a wire trap,
much of military mat
ters, had bunched Just right as the
wire retarder them for that machine
gun fire, and they lacked both shells
and trained gunners to help them
out of the difficulty. People back
home didn't know enough of mili
tary matters to even visualize such
a possibility happened. And
the men who had learned in one
flashing instant of flame and blood
were gone where they couldn't tell
folks back home some very interest
ing things about military knowledge.
A heap of dead boys lying in shreds
of barbed wire and oozing pools of
clay mud. That's one side of it. The
other picture that came to my mind
was one in my own state back in
good old U. S. A. it was a picture
of a big, hulking lad watching some
officers pull apart and puir together
a machine gun. He saw it pull
ed apart and put together
just once—just onc.e* Eager to learn,
he came alone later to do It again
and was interrupted by a breathless
officer.
"Do you know anything about
that gun?" "Yes."
"Well, for God's sqke teach these
rookies—we have more than we can
possibly handle," and he rushed out.
(To Be Coutimieil)
Keystone National Guard
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
The Keystone National Guard
will perpetuate the historic glories
of the 28th Division. On the tunics
of the officers and enlisted men will
appear the famous red keystone,
which all will be proud to wear.
It is the insignia of heroic deeds
which have been -written large in
the history of the world war.
The War Department has taken
account of popular sentiment in
Pennsylvania in deciding not to
designate a division of the regular
army as the 2 Bth, or by the name
I "Keystone." Officers who had ser
ved with the American Expedition
ary Force were unanimous in re
garding the name and the Insignia
! as peculiarly appropriate only to the
i Pennsylvania troops. The men who
I fought so bravely, the regiments
I which suffered such terrific losses
! were members of the National
j Guard of Pennsylvania before thoy
were incorporated into the Nation
al Army.
The National Guard units are now
reinstated, though the individuals
who served in them before the war
are no longer held by duty to their
membership. Beyond a doubt most
of the survivors will be strongly
averse to severing the ties that have
bound them to their companions in
trench and field. These will furnish
a numerous body of veterans for the
reorganized National Guard of
Pennsylvania.
Changing Times in Missouri
[From the Armstrong Herald.]
The old hitch rack that has done
duty for farmers' horses for the
past forty years just east of the cor
ner drug store V-as moved away last
Friday by order of the Council. It
will be seen there no more forever.
This old rack was the favorite place
for the farmers to hitch their riding
horses and teams when they came to
town, especially in the days of long
ago when nothing was thought of
buying or selling booze and almost
every farmer left his horse tied there
while he took a quiet nip.
Reoealeth Secrets
There is a God in heaven that re
vealoth secrets, and maketh known
what shall be in the latter days.—
I Daniel ii, SJB.
AUGUST 7, 1919.
May Reduce Divorces
[Prom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
There are too many divorces.
There are many who believe that
any considerable number of di
vorces is too much, though some
think there should be a good many
divorces, and some few even pro
claim that there should be more
divorces than there are.
Nineteen hundred and forty-one
divorce decrees were granted by
four St. Louis judges in the court
year ended July 1. The judges who
gianted most of them—Judges Karl
Kimmel, Benjamin J. Klene and Vic
tor H. Paikenhainer believe the
number was too large, and they
gave their opinions, in reply to in
quiries, as to the means which might
lessen the number of divorce de
crees, which is belipved to be the
largest ever granted here in a court
year.
Judge Kimmel, in the year,
granted 655 decrees. Judge Klene
granted 563. Both believe that the
number of divorce suits, and hence
the number of divorces granted, will
become fewer from now on, because
of prohibition. Judge "Paikenhainer
says he has formed no cqnclusion
as to this matter, but will watch the
future figures with interest.
Judge Kimmel said:
"I am just as certain now as I
would be if next year's figures were
before me, that prohibition is going
to make a difference in the work
of the divorce courts. The part
taken by liquor in many divorce
cases is too plain for anyone to over
look. I have taken occasion, in a
good many cases, to lean over the
bench, and point my finger at a
man, and say, 'You could get along
with your wife all right if you would
cut out the highballs.'
"Some of them paid no attention
to me, but they will have to "pay at
tention to the law, and some who
thought they couldn't live well
rounded lives without a highball
every few hours will find out other
wise, and wonder why they didn't
get rid of the drink on their own
account a long while before. I
know."
Judge Klene said:
"Women are frequent sufferers
from ill treatment, du e to the exces
sive use of liquor by men. It would
I certainly seem that, with the sale of
liquor forbidden by law, the number
of divorce suits brought by women
j should decrease greatly. This ef
fect should appear within the com
ing year.
"It is not natural for most men to
be cruel or harsh with their wives.
I The ill treatment usually comes when
the husband is 'tanked up.' "
Dog Comes Into His Own
[Front Christian Science Monitor.]
And now, during the past four
years, the dog has given such a
proof of his faithfulness to the best
traditions of the dog race that all
! over the world his praises are being
sounded. The story of the war-dog
and hifl doings is gradually being
pieced together. From the very
beginning of the war, as one writer
has expressed it, dogs "had a paw
in it." When the Germans invaded
Belgium the harness dogs, which up
to that time had been used for haul
ing milk, vegetables, and other
produce, began to assist the refugees
in getting their childre nand house
hold goods out of the invaded coun
try. Later they hauled light artil
lery, and carts laden with blankets,
j bread, hay, and scores of other
things for the comfort of the sol
diers and their horses. Dogs did
sentry duty in the trenches, patrolled
No-Man's Land, carried dispatches
through barbed wire entanglements,
I amid a hail of bullets, and above all
added to the laurels of their an
cestors through the ages by seeking
out and helping the wounded every
where, on the far-flung battlefields
of Europe and beyond.
Government Wheat Restric
tions
[From the New York Tribune.]
The Government is accused of
keeping the cost of living unduly
high by maintaining control of
wheat, the theory being that if it
were to remove all restrictions the
price would drop. Recently all re
strictions on trading in wheat
futures on the Winnipeg exchange
were removed. Instead of declin
ing, prices promptly advanced 20
cents a bushel. Yesterday the re
strictions were put on again, with
Jhe apparent object of preventing
a further advance in the cost of liv
ing.
Old Fashioned Judge Dentz
[From the Arkansas Thomas Cat.]
Judge Peter Bentz is an old-fash
ioned farmer who carries his buggy
whip from store to store.
r~" it
fomng (El)at I
In line with the plains to make
Harrisburg a demonstration city, so
to speak, for sanitation and market
ing, it is possible that Harrisburg
may also get a model barracks for
the State Police. The plans for this
improvement, for which $75,000 was
appropriated by the recent Legisla
ture, are being revised so that they
will meet modern conditions and
the idea is to erect the building on
the tract just east of the State
Arsenal and along the city parkway. *
One of the details of the plan is to
make a very handsome building
with location between the parkway
and the run which meanders along
the State Arsenal and the State
hospital properties. The barracks
will house a whole troop and provi
sion will be made for stables and
also for a training ground. It will
give Harrisburg a garrison, if such
a term can be applied to State Po
licemen, most of whom are required
to be out patrolling the country
side. When one comes to think
about it the State has immense
property holdings, but the fact i>-
that from Herr street clear nortu
to a point well above Maclay theie
are large State properties. The lo
cation of the new troop, however,
does not mean that the men wijl
be held here. They will be scat
tered through sub stations all over
southern central Pennsylvania and
be on constant patrol duty through
agricultural districts.
♦ •
Thanks were extended to-day to
the people of Pennsylvania who
gave books and the various public'
libraries throughout Pennsylvania
for assistance in handling books for
the soldiers, sailors and marines
during the war by Robert P. Bliss,
of the State Library, the represen
tative of the American Library As
sociation for this work. Mr. Bliss
stated that Pennsylvania had re
sponded handsomely to the call for
books and had contributed a good
share of the 5,000,000 books which
had been bought or donated for the
soldiers. Half of this number of
books were sent to the soldiers in
Europe, about one million of them
being bought. There are now thirty
five large libraries at various army
camps, 237 at hospitals for the army
and navy and Red Cross hospitals,
1206 on ships of the navy or the
Shipping board and 098 branches
scattered everywhere American sol
diers are stationed, including this
country, the colonies, European sta
tions, barracks, Y. M. C. A. and
Knights of Columbus huts and even
in Archangel and Siberia. When
the men are brought home many
of the books now in Europe will b
given to American colleges and
schools on the other side of the
ocean.
♦ •
Plans that will give the fcity of
Harrisburg one of the best systems
of school libraries in the State are
being worked out by Miss Alice R.
Eaton, librarian of the Harrisburg
Public Library, who has been giving
much time and thought to ways to
reach the children of the numerous
schools scattered all over the city.
The problem is not an easy one be
cause there are youngsters of all
nationalities and the funds of the
library are limited. However, the
best is being, made of the situation
and the number of school libraries
will be increased and the children
reached will be enlarged apprecia
bly. These school libraries were es
tablished over five years ago and
have grown from three to a dozen.
It is astonishing how many books
are circulated and what excellen'.
care the children under the guid
ance of their teachers, take of the
books loaned by the library. While
the way the very youthful pupils
remember and talk of what they
have read is one of those ever in
teresting childhood.
If there is any one line of busi
ness that is being pushed and which
•is attracting much attention from
store keeper it is the so-called
"soft" drink line. Scores of con
cerns have gone into the business
of manufacturing these drinks and
many of them are delicious concoc
tions. so good and refreshing that
people must wonder why the mak
ers did not take up that avenue of
manufacturing before. The auto
mobiles of the men getting the busi
ness started are to be seen on the
roads of the Lykens valley, out ii:
the Hanovers and down in Conewago
while they are all over Cumberland
and Perry counties. Signs announc
ing new drinks that only need ice
to make them "right" and which
are free from "kick" and headache
are popping up on every store and
on many a barn.
•
Dauphin county court procedure
for the return to license holders of
amounts of money paid by hem
and covering periods when they had
to be closed by army orders is being
followed in various counties of the
State. The action is taken under
a new law which permits such re
turn upon proper statements made
in court. It seems that there were
a dozen counties where the condi
tions which prevailed at Middle
town occurred.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Judge John M. Garman, of Lu
zerne county, who is a candidate for
re-election, used to live in this
county.
— r Guy W. Smith, the new chief?
of the Bureau of Markets, has
traveled through a score of states
studying marketing conditions.
—B. F. Davis, the foiincr Lancas
ter revenue collector, has returned
to the practice of law.
—James M. Barnett, candidate
for judge in the Perry-Juniata dis
trict, was supervisor of the census
in this district somo years ago.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
—Harrisburg rolled steel is used
for making motor truck parts?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The district about Royal Ter
race used to be a great place for
outdoor celebrations a century ago.
Buys One of British Isles
[From the Youth's Companion.]
No doubt there is a tendency in
England to reduce the size of hold
ings of the great landed proprietors,
but evidently not all of the land is
yet cut up into 10-acre lots. Lord
Leverhulme has recently bought
Lewis Island, off the west coast of
Scotland. Next to Groat Britian
and Ireland it is the largest of the
British Isles. It contains 770 square
miles and has a population of thirty
thousand. The new owner is am
bitious to make the island the cen
ter of the British fishing business
and believes that it can sustain a
population of three hundred thou
sand.*.