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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.
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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. *
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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
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