12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I VEWSPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telearraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTfcR, Business Manager 3US. M. STSINMETZ, Managing Editor k. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board T. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. 411 rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American pi| Newspaper Pub §§ liahers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; ■Western office. Story. Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building l Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa,, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919 If one hope fails, find another.—So 'ena Sheets Martin. ANDREW CARNEGIE ANNOUNCEMENT that Andrew Carnegie gave away during his life $350,000,000 reveals the magnitude of his charities and philanthropies as greater even than most people had imagined. If the old iron master did not fulfill his expressed intention of "dying poor" it was no fault of his own. At first blush one might be tempted to the old expression "too much money for any one man to have," and it does seem out of proportion that one should command such vast amounts of money while many others are never able to put away even a hun dred dollars. But, on the other hand, if Mr. Carnegie's millions had been distributed per capita they would have meant very little in the life of the community, whereas, Accumulat ed and under the guidance of one master hand, they have gone exten sively into public benefactions and will work for countless years for the good of the people of communities the country over. The poor Scotch lad has left his mark indelibly on the country of his adoption. Carnegie was a pioneer in the iron business as it is known to-day. Not only did he make himself rich by developing a great industry, but he made millionaires of dozens of others. Schwab was a pupil of Car negie and many other high lights in the steel business were poor boys when they came to him. He be lieved in sharing his good fortune among those who showed marked ability. He paid liberally according to earning capacity. Carnegie was a man of action first and a man of dreams after that. He dreamed of universal education and enlightenment and spent mil lions to make the dream come true. He dreamed of world peace and pended his wealth generously for the promotion of harmony among the nations. He was not always prac tical, but his intentions were of the best. He used his money almost en tirely for the benefit of the people of the country which had given him his fortune. He lived frugally al ways and was never guilty of any of the fantastic foibles that sometimes go with immense riches. His fam ily life was old-fashioned and ideal. In short, he was a good citizen. Money did not spoil him; rather it mellowed him and aroused in him a sense of his responsibilities to his fellowmen. In his later years he regarded himself simply as the steward of his vast fortune and took care to administer his trust after the manner of biblical injunction, even though he ~ never professed himself in accord with commonly accepted religious belief. There is a strong group of Repub licans at Washington who are back of a resolution introduced in the Senate, which in effect provides for a budget, system to bring -ibout an actual reduction in governmental expenditures. This group of con structive ana practical statesmen de clare that endless investigations, fancy remedies and indirect methods of pursuing the high cost of living evil will never get anywhere and they propose a simple remedy—that of a spending less money. And there's no other way. WELCOME HOME HE IS back home again, is Col onel "Joe" Thompson, the be loved commander of the 110 th regiment of the Twenty-eighth Di vision. He came back a few weeks ago with the Pennsylvanians, wear ing his wound stripes and the deco rations of a grateful country, but almost immediately he returned to Europe as head of the American army athletes who won distinguish ed honors in the Pershing stadium at Paris. And now he is back for good and will take up his custom ary duties where the war inter rupted them. Colonel Thompson is a fine type of the stalwart American soldier TUESDAY EVENING, and is proud of the splendid record of the boys whom he led into battle. He was a witness to their courage and devotion to high ideals, and none knows better than he why the Hun could not stand before them. We're all glad to welcome Colonel Thompson to the old home State. He deserves all the praise that has j been bestowed upon him by those I who fought at his side and the j home folks who appreciate his j qualities as man and soldier. i In view of some incidents in the Philadelphia bank failure, it may be expected that the next Legislature will have important work to do in revising legislation relating to the conduct of banking institutions in this State It is a question, how- | ever, whether any law will ever pre vent deliberate dishonesty and col- . lusion. GOOD IKE WALTON THE New York Sun draws atten tion to the 326 th birthday of good old Izaalt Walton, and makes a few remarks anent the j patron saint of all fishermen and his | immortal work, "The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's j Recreation." The editorial is timely. Ike Wal ! ton's book ought to be in the hands : of every discontented man in Amer -1 ica. There is nothing like a fishing ; trip to give one a new outlook on i life, to renew one's faith in the fu ture, to reduce the nerve tension and get back to normal. Out where the August skies are , blue and cloudless, where the water runs silently and deep or rushes , through the narrower channels in a hurry / toward the sea, where the lilypads axe stirred by the gentle breeze and there is nothing, abso lutely nothing to do until to-morrow except fish, fish, fish, he must be • soup-souled mortal indeed who can ( think other than gentle, kindly thoughts. With the town, and its stiff collars and its stiffer people twenty or fifty miles in the hazy mid-summer dis tance and with the cares and tasks of office and shop forgotten for the moment life lies out before us not j what we make it, but what it really ; is. It is then that we come to know ; that "God is in his heaven, and j all's well with the world," and to i realize that the world is not a hard j place in which to live save only as we, the people in it, make it hard. It was the splendid courage and spirit of the women of the United States that kept up the morale of the American Army in France. The wives, mothers and sweet hearts had as much to do with winning the war as the soldiers. That's the testimony of Major- General Lejeune, the brilliant com mander of the famous Second Divi sion, just back from overseas, and it's high praise indeed. But it's ] every word true as gospel; the American women helped a lot to ! defeat the Hun. Governor Sproul's newspaper prop- ! erty at Chester is being handsomely i remodeled to conform to an ambi-i tious and attractive civic center plan. It is comforting to know that there is now on Capitol Hill one who is able to recognize the esthetic as well as the practical side of public im provement projects. It is equally comforting to realize that the Gov ernor is associated with other State 1 officials who are ever ready to give emphasis to the slogan—"Pennsyl- j vania First." Now that another important step j is about to be taken in the Capitol. Park development by the Board of j Public Grounds and Buildings in the asking of proposals for the State! memorial viaduct, it is the hope of all [ interested in the great undertaking | that no time will be lost in placing i a contract for the coping along Wal- | nut and Third streets, so that those j two highways may be widened by the | city this year. Commissioner Lynch I is ready to begin work at the drop of j the hat. Gradually the Rotary Club's anti noise campaign is achieving results. Official orders have been issued by the Philadelphia division superin tendent to stop all unnecessary whis tling by locomotives on the West j Shore; in fact, at all points along the division. But until the motor cycle corps in the Police Department has been properly organized the cut out nuisance will persist. There is pending in the lower House of Congress a bill providing for universal military, naval and vo cational training and for mobilization of the manhood of the Nation in a National emergency. Outside any military need, the training of the young men of the county will be of incalculable Service in fitting the youth of the Nation for their life work. A convention for Harrisburg every day appears to be the slogan of the Chamber of Commerce. This city always was attractive as a meeting place for every sort of association, and naturally so. because of its su perior railroad facilities to which have been added modern hotel ac commodations. That's going to be some function when the West End Republican Club, on Saturday, August 23, opens its country club branch for the members and their guests. Republican activi ties are indicative of the great in terest of party men in the important campaign of next year. • Carlisle is showing all the pep of a municipal youth. With the new hotel and incidental activity in all manner of civic enterprises the metropolis of the Cumberland Valley is showing fine form. Price fixing in the curb markets at Altoona is agitating the municipal authorities of the mountain city. It has been a long time coming, but the food profiteer is not far from Ma finish here and elsewhere. *^£l tlcc- Ik TWjW* By the Ex-Committeeman ] J I —George Nox McCain, writing in , the Philadelphia Evening Public I Ledger, traces back the North Penn ! Bank disaster, in so far as it relates !to State politics, to the enforced , resignation of William H. Smith, who was forced out by Governor Brumbaugh early in 1917. Col. Mc j Cain recalls events in the political | history of that period familiar to J everybody who knows anything | about Capitol Hill and published in : part at the time. He recalls that | when Smith got an inkling that Brumbaugh was considering his I dismissal he conferred with a num ber of influential men in Philadel phia who told him to hold on at all costs. Mean time the bankers of the State, who had been treated fairly by Smith and who was held by them in high respect as an honest, efficient commissioner, got into touch with the Governor and I McCain estimates the then Gover nor must have received as many as 200 letters urging that Smith be retained and predicting disaster if a less efficient or less experinced i man be put in his place. Finally Smith was forced out and it was then that LaFean came in. —All over the State the returning soldiers are beginning to manifest interest in political developments. Over in Cumberland county there are at least two or three soldiers in the spotlight, including John E. Myers of Lemoyne, who wants the Democratic nomination for district attorney and Captain Ralph C. Crow, of the same town, who seeks the ! Democratic nomination for county treasurer. Another Keystone Divi sion man is Merle E. Coover of Carlisle, who is being urged for the Republican nomination for register |of wills. Rippey T- Shearer, also [ a Carlisle soldier, is being favor ably considered by the Democrats as a candidate for clerk of the courts and recorder of deeds. There is no dearth of candidates in the Cumberland Valley and the primary election promises to be more than usually interesting. —A fine shindy is staged in Le high county where three experienc ed politicians are seeking a position on the bench. These are State Snator Horace W. Schantz, State Senator Milton C. Henninger and Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt. All are experienced campaigners, Schantz being chairman of the Re publican county committee. Hen inger was for some years Demo cratic chairman. The contest is being watched with interest in other parts of the State. —Governor Sproul is back from his business trip to the northwest and is being urged to iron out the political difficulties at Chester. Things are said to be greatly mud dled from the political standpoint and the Governor's good offices as a peace-maker are being sought by both sides. As the head of th State government, he expects to leave for Salt Lake City to attend an important conference of Gov ernors this week, and he will be some busy threshing out 'the situa tion in his home town. —Senators Penrose and Knox will be the star guests at the big jubilee for soldiers, sailors and marines on the fair-grounds at Reading, next Saturday. Congressional medals and other decorations will be pre sented to several soldiers and the distinguished representatives of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate will be escorted- to the grounds by three hundred in uni form. —Congressman W. W. Greist is choosing a ticket for Lancaster county that will be a fine mixture of the civilian and the soldier in its personnel. Judge Landis will have no opposition for the Republican nomination for another term on the bench. Colonel Edward C. Shan non of Columbia, late commander of the 111 th regimeut, is expected to receive the nomination for pro thonotary on the Republican ticket and Major B. O. Reitzel of Salunga, who served with the Rainbow Divi sion, is likely to be the nominee for register on the organization ticket. Captain William C. Rehm, who has returned from overseas and who has been acting as city solicit or. is said to be booked for district attorney. —Judge John M. Patterson has the backing of David H. Lane and State Senator Martin in the fight for the Republican nomination for mayor of Philadelphia. Congress man J. Hampton Moore will be sup ported by the Committee of One Hundred in the primary fight. As Moore has stated in several inter views, it is now a square issue whether it is to be "Moore or Vare." He dosen't think the situation should be camouflaged in any way as to personalities. —J. A. Pryor, a former Prohibi tionist of Lemoyne, is reported to have entered the Republican ranks a a candidate for commissioner in Cumberland county. George W. Musser, of Camp Hill, J. B. Ocker, of Mechanicsburg, and others are in the running for the same office. —Judge John M. Garman has been touring this part of the State with friends from the anthracite coal region and took occasion while there to look into the judicial pap ers on file at the State Department. He has no doubt as to the re-elec i tion to the judgeship in Luzerne county. Judge Garman is well known in Harrisburg, where he frequently visits, and his character istic news on politics are always in teresting. He was for several years chairman of the Democratic State Committee and never avoided a fight with his factional opponents. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore is the unanimously accepted Mayor alty candidate of the Philadelphia Committee of One Hundred; Com mon Pleas Court Judge John M. Patterson will announce his accept ance as the Vare candidate to-day. and Director of Supplies Joseph S. MacLaughlin has reiterated his de termination to stick to the pri marles. Thus Philadelphia enters upon a triangular fight for the Re publican Mayoralty nomination, with the independents and followers of Senator Penrose arrayed behind Congressman Moore, and the Re publican City Committee expected momentarily to declare Itself for judge Patterson. No Dispute [From the Louisville Courier-Jour nal.] "W 7 hy do people speak of single blessedness? I should think married folks would resent that expression." "I never heard any of them take exceptions to It." Senatorial Courtesy [From the Columbus Dispatch.] Senator La Follette ought to have a pretty good opinion of senatorial courtesy, for without it he would not be writing M. C. after his name now. * BJUUUaBDRO TELEGRXPH WONDER WHAT "THE THINKER" THINKS ABOUT? ~ By BRIGGS I Ive CERTAINLY Dor4(z MINJG IS A THINKING ■ NOW I lAJAS JUST feSTBROAY I A BAffftEL Of TminKinG PART. UST AWFU, W&A LA-reiV. That QF COURSE hbao ACHt 5 , fRO/y. IT 7 r „tu JTv WHY &AM<= op M(- IT S < w ' vM BUT £*-r T. £, * T-o k i,TTIM6 CUT OUT .T . J"'|eTTm<J I'M A HUSKY GUV AROUND LI K£ TV, I A PICK AX.6, ' lit GO nutty FRoak -at that I'D hate To -my Right arm is ujSLL I Think Thinking So much- Tell Som6 op THE rie ' lUL TaK6 a naP IVE thought up lots Thoughts Thumk. ■£ OP IDEAS - BUT WHAT Vou CAN T SUANE ME so LOfvJ< j. fy L SO I (jOOD Does IT DO-!? THO" FOR SOM6 THINGS W(Sh J HAJ3 A p-ffw , CAN T Ten ANY- I'NI ThnkinS.. CIOTHfS ON Body • I Repatriated Oh, fair Alsace and loved Lorraine, j Your scattered children fondly ; call To vine—clad slope and sunny plain, j With joy triumphant over all. To Strasbourg's spire our full hearts turn, And Metz's frowning fortress stern. France, be not cold to us! We fled Because we could not bear the , yoke, The haughty Prussian martial tread i In our sad breasts wild echoes i woke. We fled from Thionville's retreats. j And left old Colmat-'s winding streets. And so we came av-oss the sea. Since deep within us burned the | fire, Tne deathless torch of Liberty Was handed down to son by sire. I Lips that had sung the "Mar . seillaise" Were loath to chant the "Kultur" praise. On these wild shores our homes we made. Like other pilgrims here we found Shelter and comfort, arts and trade; But in our hearts we bore a wound— Memory of ravihsed mother-land, Of iron heel and mailed hand. So ever turned our thoughts to thee, And now the hard-fought fight is won, We long our native land to see Clean purged of goose-step and the Hun. On mountains blue to gaze again. Where corn-flowers bloom amid the grain. Oh, fair Alsace and loved Lorraine, What rapture unalloyed 'twill be Far-flung from Starsbourg's sacred spire | The tri-color of Liberty! To know that Metz's stony street Re-echoes to the Poilu's feet! —Lillian B. Schmeidler in Victory. The Remedies [From the New York Times.] In his address to Congress upon the high co6t of living, President Wilson gave utterance to two truths so obvious and incontestable that they should long ago have found lodgment in every mind, that they should be the basis of any dis cussion of remedies for the swollen costs of daily existence. Yet multi tudes of the American people ignore these foundation verities or pass them lightly by. One is that, as the President put it, "We must quicken, not slacken, our National production." That is absolutely the only effective and permanent cure for the present disturbance of price levels. Senator Gronna used the emphasis of exaggeration when he said that the way out was for every body to work fourteen hours a day, but beyond all doubt the resolve of every capable person to work ten hours a day, if kept, would be the shortest way to the return of normal conditions. Men of great responsibilities, men charged, with the duties of management,' are working ten hours a day or more— they have to. The prevailing dispo sition to demand a reduction of working hours is in effect a demand that the cost of living shall con tinue to be unbearably high. The troubles of which we now complain are part of the burdens of the war. They should be borne, as they might be borne, in rthe spirit that was shown during the war, with the i firm determination to end them as I soon as possible by the only reason | able and sure method. Mr. Wilson was again on solid j ground when he declared that no legislative or executive action can force the processes of supply and demand "into full natural operation until there is peace. There is now neither peace nor war." Let's Be Frank In the meantime —now and it. the days of readjustment and re cuperation that are ahead of us—let us resort more and more to frank and intimate counsel and make our selves a great and triumphant Na tion by making ourselves a united force in the life of the world. It will not then have looked to us for leadership in vain.—President Wil son. Honest Missouri Merchant [Advertisement in Cabool Enter prise-Press.] This week we have to offer a choice lot of draperies, cretons and some heavier stuff for making kimonos out of. I don't know what a kimono is, but that's what it's for wway. Rains in Mesa Verde Park Hold Key to America's Past Temples and Community Houses Built by Cliff Dwellers of Prehis toric Times Are tlie Wonder of Archaeologists Today ONE effect of the creation of the , United States' new national parks in the West will be to preserve for the archeologists the magic and mystery of the great structures once inhabited by strange prehistoric Americans, according to E. W. Leightner, writing in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The most wonderful of the ruins, he adds, are in the Mesa Verde Park, and he quotes a pamphlet issued by the Department of the Interior, and written by Stephen T- Mather, direc tor of the National Park Service, continuing: "The most striking of the ruins in this region of prehistoric ruins, is the Sun Temple, excavated within the last two or three years. It is built in the form of the letter D and is in two sections, the larger of which, taken separately, is also D shaped. There are more than ono thousand feet of walls in the struc ture, uniformly well made, with an average thickness of four feet. The unity of plan, the fine masonry, the decorated stones, mark the Sun Temple as the highest order of Mesa Verde architecture. "One of the most remarkable fea tures is a stone fossil set in the outer wall near the southwestern corner. It has been identitied as the leaf of a palm tree of the Cretaceous epoch. The rayed front bears a resemblance to the sun, and this possibly explains the sacred use of it. It is said there can be no doubt that the walled in closure was a shrine and the figure may be a key to the purpose of the building. "In the discovery of this structure, according to Dr. Walter J. Pewkes, chief of the Bureau of American Etanology, who supervised the ex cavations for several seasons, "there was brought to l.ight a type of ruin hitherto unknown in the park, show ing the best of masonry, and it is the most mysterious ruin yet dis covered in a region rich in so many prehistoric remains. It was early recognized that it was not construct ed for habitation, qnd it is how be lieved that it was intended for the performance of rites and ceremonies; the first of its type devoted to re ligious purposes yet recognized in ! the Southwest. A Kcmnrkablc Site 1 "The ruin was purposely construct ; ed in a commanding situation in the j neighborhood of large inhabited cliff Universal Military Training [Prom Harvey's Weekly.] The Chamberlain-Kahn bill for universal military training, now be fore Congress, may not bo perfect in I every detail. Few measures are. But its general principle is admirable, and it marks a delinite and hopeful step toward the creation of a ration al military establishment. It is of course as far as possible removed from militarism. Indeed, it might properly be called an anti-militarist : measure. No sensible man will pre tend that six months' military train | ing of every young man between the | ages of eighteen and twenty is going j to transform us into a Nation of j swashbuckling cutthroats. That it j will have a beneficial effect upon the | young men, morally, mentally and I physically, is not to be doubted. Of | course it will considerably facilitate j the prompt organization of the ; military strength of the Nation on a i war basis if ever again there shall Ibe occasion for it. It will not in | terfere with industry and the or- I dinary peaceful activities of the Na tion, nor burden us with great ex penses. Not least of all, it will en able us to reduce our standing army to 22 5,000 or less. We shall hope to see it promptly enaced and put into effect, to the great good of the Nation. Even in Ancient Times [Front the Houston Post.] ] The uproar in New York about the | shutting off of the booze supply is not surprising. Old Isaiah foresaw all this 2,800 years ago when he said: "There is a crying for wine' in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land Is gone." But he ought to have added that things brighten materially after the hang over passes. Consolation [From the Kansas City Star.] Germany ought to cheer up. Her future is just as bright as that of the American Brewers' Association houses. It must have presented a commanding appearance, rising on top of a point high above inacces sible perpendicular cliffs. No better place could have been chosen for a religious building in which the in habitants of many cliff dwellings could gather, and together perform their great ceremonial dramas." The largest of the ruins, and known as the Cliff Palace, was dis covered and christened by two ranchers hunting for lost cattl e in 1888. Recent investigation shows that it was by no means a "palace," •but a great community house, con taining more than two hundred liv ing rooms and twenty-two sacred rooms for kivas. The Spruce Tree House is another big ruin of a community settlement which would house more than three hundred persons comfortably, and with eight sacred rooms. Thes e are examples of many other ruins, all constructed with keen regard to ac cessibility for any enemy or invader. With infinite patienc e the arch eologists studied all details for divi nation as to the life of these strange prehistoric peoples. The arrange ment of all the community houses shows that the population whs com posed of units, possibly clans, each ( with its own social organizations more or less distinct from the others. Each clan had its men's rooms, which were ceremoniously called "kivas." Probably Were Vegetarians Here the men lived and engaged in their occupations. Other rooms were for the storage of grains and roots, for in this region so appar j ently lacking wild game, and not conducive to the maintenance of do mestic animals to any considerable extent, except for milk and weav j ings, the population must have been ! mainly vegetarians. From the arrangement of the rooms of the Cliff Palace it would appear that there were at least l wenty-four clans or social units. All the indications are that the . ceremonials, councils and all sorts of assemblies were conducted by the ; men in the sacred rooms, or kivas, , and possibly the chief or only func tions of the women were the prep aration of food, care of the children, we'aving and basket making, nearly all of the purely domestic arrange ments. When caves could be used the sacred rooms were usually far back in them and strictly subter ' ranean. Closer to Big Criminals [From Philadelphia Inquirer.] Each day brings new disclosures in the North Penn Bank scandal, with new personalties involved and more warrants issued. The men higher up are being disclosed, but thus far it is not certain that a great amount of money is to be recovered. Naturally the thieves must be caught at the lirst opportunity, but those whose millions have been lost I wholly or in part are waiting to I know what cha/ce they have of re j covering some of their deposits. The j shift of losses to New York State I institutions is not promising for the j depositors, but there is still hope i that a good deal will be recovered I from the wreck. Indignant stnd angry depositors must be patient. The wreck is one jof the most complete in banking j history and thus far men working I night and day have not been able |to untangle the records which are ! in a slate of confusion and some of which are missing. It is now known that the bank was examined last fall and was un favorably reported on, even in case a reported shortage was made good. If, as stated, that report was pigeon holed there are those who will have much to explain. Moyer admits that the concern was bankrupt for eighteen months and that fact should have been known—it appar ently was known to a certain extent. The public will be content with nothing less than the punishment of all concerned and will demand that justice act speedily. The point at issue is whether guilty thieves can be made to disgorge. That is at present unknown, but it may be taken as assured that all that is possible, humanely speaking, will be done to recoup losses and put the guilty in jail, not one of whom should escape t • AUGUST 12,1919. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER FORTY-ONE "Everybody is growling about the, j H. C. L., high taxes, insufficient ] wages, and so forth these days, said Major Frank C. Mahin of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Market street, Harrisburg," but I wonder how many people have any concep tion of financial conditions in Eu rope. Take Italy for example: when the war started the total National Wealth of that country was figured at sixteen billion dollars. To-day their debt amounts to eleven bil lion dollars, eleven out of sixteen billions of wealth are mortgaged as a result of the war. Italy's govern ment had an annual income of about three hundred million dol lars: now the interest charge on their debt is about five hundred and fifty millions a year and the cost of running the government has in creased, so that taxation, high as it was before the war, must be at least three times as n at in order to merely meet the annual charges, without leaving one cent to put aside towards ultimate payment of the debt. France is much better off than Italy because its national wealth was sixty-seven billions of dollars. The French debt is twenty-seven billions, leaving sixty per cent un mortgaged. France's governmental income was about six hundred mil lion and the interest on the debt will amount to about thirteen hun dred millions a year, so taxation. The thing that is hurting France, however, is the destruction of prop erty in the very wealthiest part of France. Mines, orchards, fields, factories, buildings, have been de stroyed to the value of many bil lions of dollars. Great Britain had a wealth of eighty-five billions. Her debt now amounts to about thirty-four bil lions, seven billions more than France, but her wealth was eighteen billions greater and she has suffered no appreciable damage to her prop erty. For that reason Great Britain has been able to borrow money at a lower rate than France or Italy so their annual interest charges will run a little higher than those of France. •Now we come to poor, poverty stricken United States. Our wealth was the mere trifle of two hundred and twenty billions of dollars when the war started. Remember Italy with her sixteen billion as compared with out vast accumulation of filthy lucre. We had a trifling little debt when we started—more chicken feed —amounting to a little over a bil lion dollars. It has now run up t-> the vast total of twenty-four bil lions, but we are still tnree billions behind France and ten billions be hind Great Britain, despite the dif ference in our wealth. We have only a little more than twice Italy's debt and yet our wealth is fourteen times as great. As a result of out vast wealth and the small propor tion we were having to mortgage, we had no difficulty in largely over subscribing every loan, and selling those loans at lower interest rates than any other count-- could. And since such a war as this late one is largely a question of having enough money to buy the necessary equipment and supplies, when Ger many saw every Liberty loan go over the top with a big margin and at a lower interest rate than they themselves could get, when they realized that everyone of America's two hundred and twenty billions were on tap for use against them, they decided that was another ex cellent reason why they better call it a day and leave the war fiat on its back. Incidentally their own national wealth was only seventy eight billions and they had piled up the biggest debt of all, thirty-nine billions or just half their total wealth. Now on top of that, as a little present for having started the war and having caused the Allied countries to spend one hundred and twenty-three billions of dollars, Germany is to pay the greater part of the thirty billion dollars indem nity, which will leave them in worse shape than Italy is right now, and as the Allies year by year will re ceive that Indemnity they can slow ly imprdve their financial condition and remove the physical traces of the Hun devastation from their sun ny fields and thriving cities." God Who Trieth Hearts Our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor of guile: but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing, but God, which trieth our hearts.—l Thes oaloniana iL 2 and i. I iEiimttg (Eljat Hundreds of cars from other States are on the roads of Pennsyl vania, this summer, despite the torn up condition of many of the main highways where State Highway Commissioner Sadler is making the dirt fly in his campaign to givo Pennsylvania the best road system in the United States. A party going to Chambersburg. thence over the mountain to Gettysburg, across the battlefield and home byway of Mt. Holly and Carlisle, passed cars from New York, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro lina, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michi gan, Wisconsin, Washington and California. And this, remember, was in the course of one journey on Sunday, and included quite a few cars from the nearby states, and at least a half dozen from Michigan and Wisconsin, the Michigan party paying a visit to that section of the battlefield where the Michigan troops fought hardest and where their monuments stand. The hotel people of the State expect a great rush of automobile travel next year when all of the main highways across State will be in first class condition but they are surprised that so many braved the condition of the highways this year to visit the Keystone State. There is under consideration a plan for extensively advertising the scenery of Pennsyl vania all over the Union. • * * The Telegraph Companies had an odd experience yesterday. The earth currents were so strong that the wires could not be worked for hours at a time. So strong was the electricity in the atmosphere thai the voltage on the commercial lines had to be greatly increased and messages were taken "for delivery subject to earth current delays." This is very unusual. So violent was the disturbance at times that Western Union operators could hear the postal operators testing on their lines located a quarter mile away. This sort of wireless is very disturb ing to wire business and does not occur once in many years. * ♦ The domestic service problem is becoming more and more acute, but we have heard of nothing quite so significant of the attitude of qualified | house servants as an incident, a true i incident, related by a resident of I Washington, now a visitor in Har risburg. She was in need of a cook ' and responsive to a little want ad. a large, well-nourished and expan sive woman called to inquire as to the conditions of employment and the general environment. She was particularly anxious to know whether there was a garage on the property and when interrogated as to her reason for inquiry about a garage, replied: "I alius comes in my car!" • * * All Harrisburg is interested in the approaching Kipona celebration and the hundreds of athletic boys and girls who have learned to appreci ate the river as a place of resort during the summer will have much to do with the success of the carni val. Many fine swimmers have been developed in the Susquehanna ■ Basin and there is an increased use • of canoes, rowboats and other light craft. • * * An odd accident happened to a camping party from this city re . cently. A canteen of army pattern was put into the fire to heat some ; water for shaving purposes. While the party was getting breakfast the canteen was neglected and merrily began to boil with its cover tightly fastened. Following all natural laws, the metal stood so much press ure and then refused to bear fur ther treatment from the steam which was rapidly gathering head. With the slow sizzling reminiscent . of hand grenades, the canteen blew . up, scattering the fire in every di- I rection, slightly burning a few who were nearest the logs, making all look like Ethiopians, and throwing the canteen itself in two jagged pieces a hundred feet or so. "This," said one of the members as he arose ' slowly from behind a log, "somehow I reminds me of those dear old days in ■ sunny France." • • • "Girard" in the Philadelphia " Press makes these observations on . a well-known Capitol Hill official: "Besides owning and editing a news paper, being Deputy Secretary of ■ the Commonwealth and a captain in 1 the United States service, Frederick 1 A. Godcharles has not had very i much to do. "So he called my attention the i other day to a bit of history which t touches his own town of Milton. • There rests in his grave James Pol i lock, who was Governor of Pennsyl ' vania back in the fifties and to whom we owe the fact that upon our | coins is the motto, 'ln God We i Trust.' 1 "Long before Pollock's political i career began Francis Scott Key in r his 'Star Spangled Banner' wrote [ the words: r " 'Then conquer we must, when our t cause is Just, I " 'And this be our motto, in God is our trust." , "So Governor Pollock did not coin . the phrase but he did, as Superin s tendent of the United States Mint, . coin the first money that bore the . legend 'ln God We Trust.' s "He had recommended it to Lin j coin's Secretary of the Treasury, , Salmon P. Chase, and Chase urged it . upon Congress. "I believe that the motto is carved, on Pollock's tomb." ; Classification of Cities 1 [F"rom the Philadelphia Press.J t There is an agitation in Coates ■ ville for the return of that town to borough government, it is claimed - that the expense of keeping up a > government under the general law 1 covering cities of the third class, ' and which includes cities like Read " ing and Harrisburg, is too much, t and the machinery is more than rc i quired. At the next census Reading , will go out of the third class into' - the second, but a great dispropor-' ' tion in the population, and con i sequently in the official require i ments, of third class cities will still - remain. Corry gets along, and has ) for many years got along with a 3 third class city government, though 1 Corry has a population but little in i excess of 5,000, while 3 had over 11,000 at the last census, ! and now claims 18,000, which in 1 all probability is not extravagant. , Sentiment on the subject change t is divided in the town, however, and - the purpose appears to be to take a s popular vote on it. t Right You Are! J I believe, as I have hitherto had • occasion to say to the Congress, that • the industry and life of our people, and of the world will suffer ir reparable damage if employers and workmen are to go in a perpetual contest as antagonists. They must, , on one plan or another, be effective t ly associated. Have we not steadl t ness and self-possession and business 3 sense enough to work out that re , suit? Undoubtedly we have, and - we shall work it out.—President SVilsoa. -1
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