Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, August 20, 1919, Page 10, Image 10
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Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. carrier, ten cents a prt week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, AUG IST 20, 1019 He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living, — HELPS. MR. WILSON YIELDS net result of the remark able conference of the Presi dent and the Foreign Rela tions Committee of the Senate at Washington yesterday is that Mr. Wilson yields to the Senate's in sistajice on interpretations and reservations. Since that is practically the only point at issue, little time should be lost in setting a date for a vote on the treaty and the league covenant, getting the debate under way and clearing the Senate decks of the wreckage of the war. The President pleads for early approval of the peace proposals, but he should remember that if he had agreed at the outset that the Senate should have a voice in fram ing the terms It was asked to ratify, the whole peace wrangle would have been avoided and the country would be at this moment at peace with the world in name as well as in fact. If anybody is to blame for the long delay it is Mr. Wilson him self. who insisted, until he saw his case was hopeless, that not a single reservation or interpretation would be permitted and that any changes on the part of the United States would endanger the treaty with England, France and Italy. Now he finds that any such reservations on the part of this country will be perfectly acceptable to our allies in the war, who apparently are not nearly so unreasonable nor so self willed as Mr. Wilson himself. The Senate leaders are practical ly agreed upon the interpretations and reservations that are necessary to safeguard American interests and free this country from the danger of entangling foreign alliances, so that little time should be required to put them into text, and that done, a vote should not be delayed a mo ment longer than is necessary to permit of proper discussion. The country is tired of the whole thing and anxious to move forward with the big task of peace which con front it. H. C. Lodge and H. C. Living seem to be causing the President a lot of trouble these days. EVEN IT UP IT IS claimed by at least one of the members of the Foreign Re lations Committee that a major ity of its members favor an amend ment to the League covenant that will give the United States an equal vote with the British Empire in the League assembly. As at present written the Empire and its colonies will cast six votes and the United States but one. Going to be an awful lot of "canned willy" for supper in this man's town the next few weeks. POPULAR SUPPORT THE prompt endorsement of the municipal aviation field pro posal by the Rotary Club will be followed by similar action on the part of other civic organizations. As Chairman Herman, of the City Planning Commission, said, in sup port of the resolutions adopted, it is imperative that immediate action be taken and that every man and wo man interested in the future of Harrisburg should get behind the movement and show the City Com missioners that public sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of the ex penditure of whatever sum is neces sary to finance the project. That is an important point. Un questionably, the City Councilmen nre entitled to know how the people think on such an important matter, but the unanimous endorsement of such a representative organization as the Rotary Club ought to, go a long way toward convincing the mu nicipal authorities that the estab lishment of an aviation field lis not only a good thing, but *it has WEDNESDAY EVENING, the backing of the public at large. Fort Wayne has overcome tho legal difficulties Involved by purchasing the necessary ground, turning it over to the park department for park purposes and giving permission to aviators to land there. This may be the way Harrisburg will have to go about solving its problem. That it is a workable idea is shown by the fact that it has the recommendation of Warren J. Manning, the park ex pert, who five years ago urged it upon the City Planning Commission. We must have this landing field. The people want it. If Councilmen I have doubts on that score let them [ put the matter up to the voters in the form of a loan at the Novem | ber elections. So far as prices are concerned, we'd ; be satisfied to return to a state of war. SENATE MUST KNOW THE President has definitely re fused to supply the Committee on Foreign Relations with the letter of General Bliss containing the remonstrances of himself and Messrs. Lansing and White against the Shantung settlement. He like wise declines to permit the commit tee to inspect the memoranda taken by members of the League of Nations Commission, of which the I President was chairman. The only [ documents that Mr. Wilson has seen fit to surrender to the Senate are the American draft of the League I covenant, the first report of the League Commission and the final report which was adopted by the conference. The two last, of course, have been in the possession of the Senate and the country for several months. The committee made specific requests for all of those papers and also for "all data bearing upon or used in connection with the Treaty of Peace with Germany now pending." None of the latter was forthcoming. It is the, business of the President to negotiate treaties. It is the busi ness of the Senate to examine the result of those negotiations. It in vestigates the finished Treaty in the light of all the facts and from the viewpoint of the protection of American interests. That investiga tion fails of its full purpose and the value of its outcome to the Ameri can people is endangered if the Sen ate does not reach a decision in the ljght of the same information that was at the disposal of the negotia tors. There were reasons why the President assented to each provision in the Treaty. The Senate has a right to be apprised of those con siderations in order that it may form intelligent judgment. The Presi dent had access to those documents as an agent of the American people. That agency now rests in the Senate, and the same privileges enjoyed by Mr. Wilson should be accorded to it. HE WAS SPARED THIS IF FORD had, by any chance, at tained his coveted seat in the Upper House of Congress, he might nbw be known as the Six- Cent Senator. "A NEW POLICY" WE ARE informed from Wash ington that Mexico has been notified of a "new policy" adopted by the United States Gov ernment. Mexico has been told that drastic action will be taken un less outrages against Americans are stopped. And to think that it has required nearly eight years to find that the Wilsonian policy of "watchful waiting" is a failure- Meantime Americans have been murdered by the wholesale, their properties plundered and their public con cessions confiscated. Our valuable oil holdings are slipping away from us and soon Europe will control the petroleum supply so much needed in our industries and for our new oil burning naval vessels. How old Carranza must laugh! Surely, he will say to himself. Presi dent Wilson must be merely bluff ing; a President who has stood all the insults heaped upon him can not be in earnest when he threatens force. And from previous experiences it is a fair gamble that Carranza will guess right. The outrages will con tinue right along with punctuality and regularity and we will continue to do nothing—until after March 4, 1921. PUBLIC SUPPORT THE Kipona celebration, to ward the success of which V. Grant tForrer and his able assistants are doing so much, is the one big purely Harrisburg celebra tion of the whole year. No city in the country can duplicate it, for none has such a set of front steps as we have, fronting on such a beau tiful river basin. Those actively in charge of the program have been working for months to make it a success. It remains for the people to finance their efforts. They have given generously of their time; we must give the money. In years to come the Kipona will draw thousands of excursionists to Harrisburg annually. It will be come an event in Central Pennsyl vania to which throngs will flock. But even now it provides a day's vacation and a free show for many people of Harrisburg, old and young, who cannot get away from town for a summer vacation. It is celebrations such as this that make the city a better place in which to live and the people more contented. Support the Kipona. LAST CALL THOSE benighted individuals who still cry for the League of Nations are advised to get on the band wagon of Americanism be fore it is too late and they find themselves labeled "Tories" and shunned by patriots generally. tx By the Ex-Oommlttccman The desperate efforts of local Democrats at the eleventh hour last evening to find candidates with which to till their local tickets dem onstrates better than anything that might be written the frightful wreck of the once well-oiled Demo cratic machine. It is on the rocks and about the only thing the faith li'.i ones have been able to salvage is the name. The captain has be-;n convicted of gross carelessness, if net worse, and the survivors are in a mutinous mood. If only an elttcl ent tirst mate were at hand the erstwhile commander would find himself demoted to the ranks of common sailor. Indeed there is every likelihood that this will nap ren at all events. "We want a new leader," de riared one of the disgruntled mem bers of the Central Democratic Clut last evening." a man who will give us his best all the time; a man who will do something nit re than offer unl'a"orable criticism for U<.se who are really tryinj to do something and who will be inter ested in the welfare of the party all the time; not only when his own future is at stake but when the fate of the ticket depends upon wise leadership and good judgment." That seems to be the attitude of Democrats everywhere to-day. The spectacle of their gallant old ship being smashed to bits on a rocky coast with no help at hand and only a few sturdy survivors on the shore has aroused anger in the hearts of those who are true followers of Jef ferson and who sincerely believe that the best interests of the coun try demand a militant Democracy. —Strange to say the same senti ment is to be heard among Repub licans, who are ordinarily gleeful over any discomfiture that may '"■"e to the Democratic organiza tion. They cannot understand hew a boss with all the Federal patron age at his disposal that the Dau phin county Democratic dictator is supposed to have been able to wield should have let slip the chance to demonstrate his political ability in l his home district by building up a really strong Democratic organiza tion here. The thing was possible. The groundwork was well laid. There are many ardent Democrats in Harrisburg always ready to- fol low a real leader and who will stick to even a losing cause to the bitter end. Rut instead of encouragement these men have met nothing but carelessness of consequences, neg lect of opportunity and criticism of those who have dared to try to save something from the wreck. —Republicans viewing the situa tion are at a loss to understand. Oa the eve of a Presidental election the minority party is allowed to go id pot and control to drift from those who will want a big place in the national counsels of the party into the hands of men who were favor able either to the old Fritchey or Meyers wings of the party and have been openly opposed to the McCor mick control ever since the former Mayor assumed the bosship here. The whole thing is a puzzle to local political observers who see in it op portunity for a strong young Demo crat to come to the front and take away the reins of power from those who have misused them for the past fifteen years. The Scranton Republican in the following editorial commends Con gressman Kolas' new printing bill: "For years there has been criticism, generally of a humorous character, of the waste connected with the pub lic printing offlce in Washington. Congressmen themselves have joined in pointing out some of the evils connected with this office, but have not shown themselves specially inter ested in checking them. Represen tative Kiess, of Pennsylvania, has decided to take the lead in reform ing public printing. He has intro duced a hill at Washington which aims to restrict the quantity of Gov ernment printing, and also provides for other economies which he be lieves will total a half billion dollars a year. Mr. Kiess points out that in the past seven years the accumu lation of unused public documents has reached the enormous total of 7,000,000 publications, most of which has been disposed of as waste paper. There have been bulky volumes of reports of no real interest to anyone and there has been promiscuous scattering of small volumes and pamphlets. If Mr. Kiess's efforts re sults in a checking of the gross abuse of the franking privilege he will have rendered a real service to the country." Industrial Bank For Scranton [From Scranton Republican] The names of the well known cit izens who have organized the Indus trial Thrift and Loan Corporation of Scranton are a strong recom mendation to the people of this city and a guarantee that its affairs will be conducted on a sound and fair basis. Similar institutions, which have been formed elsewhere, are said to have been found to be of great use fulness, so a charter has been ob tained and headquarters established on Adams avenue as announced in yesterday's Republican. The object of this industrial bank will be to loan money in smaller sums than is customary with the average banking house, the loans being made for a year and at rea sonable rate of interest. Back of this financing will be the praiseworthy purpose of affording the industrial toiler a means of fi nancial assistance, in an emergency, at a minimum of cost. If, in more than one hundred cities of the country, banks of this character have proved profitable to stockholders, and beneficial to their customers, such an institution should prove a success in Scranton. Coming to Fifth Avenue The Rev. Dr. John Kelman, of Edinburgh, famous among British clergymen, is to become pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, New York. He will succeed the Rev. Dr. Henry Jowett, who re signed in May, 1918, to take charge of the Westminster Congregational Chapel in London, after having been here seven years. Dr. Kelman, who is about 50, in addition to being regarded as a great preacher, is known as an efficient organizer and a successful worker among men. He is well known in America having visited here on several occasions. He gave a course of lectures at Yale last spring. During the war he served with the British Y. M. C. A. and was deco rated with the order of the British Empire. Among Dr. Kelman's writ ings are several books published by George H. Doran Company of New York; "The Road 6f Life" a study of the Pilgrim's Progress, "Thoughts on Things Eternal," a volume of Dr. Kelman's sermons, and "Among Fa mous Books," a worth-while com mentary on literature. Eabheburg telegraph SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS'TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By Briggj C~l' tra ilPl FIRST VLL LOAD IMVSELF \ ASOU i /( TneRS'S )To The Golf /( Thcrg's a I I \}P WITH CIGARS -THEW J THIS CERTAIN! I J I CLUQ ? 7 \ .STRIKE OH/ \ To The Golf Links-amW sßamd of J{ !LL~S A ~ / A ShovaJ ANJYWAY- I WHAi TK --. ,/ *ge oF ( | There'S AUAJAYS \ / CREPE >l®' V^f I THAT ConJSOL ATI onJ I v J HANGERSRLL V^k EDITORIAL COMMENT | ! A German has been arrested in j Frankfurt-am-Main for posing as | an American. If an American in i this country should pose as a Get - ! man we shouldn't Jail him—we'l ! put him in an asylum. —Tacoma Ledger. The price of food has declined one-half of one per cent., the Gov ernment experts tell us. Less thai'. • one-half of one per cent, of the re tail dealers have had this sad news broken to them, however.—New York Evening Sun. At the hour of going to press Haiti was not claiming that it won the war.—Birmingham Age Herald. Every raise in street-car fares gives a greater area to the phrase, "within walking distance."—Boston Transcript. The building of a "sky-scraper church" would seem to be a move in the right direction. Brooklyn Eagle. It's beginning to look as tho the Philippines don't want a divorc3, but only separate maintenance.— Manila Bulletin. Moses doubtless had a hard time 1 convincing the Israelites that the ' Ten Commandments would work.— 1 Indianapolis Times. If they expect the League to be a life-raft for the world, they'll ha-'e to quit using it as a political plat form.—lndianapolis Times. After De Valera gets through looking around over here maybe he won't care to make a republic out of Ireland.—Columbia Record. No doubt one effect prohibition will have in this State is that fewer guides in the Adirondacks will look like deer.—Rochester Post-Express. Credit the Salaried Man [From Wiiliamsport Gazette and Bulletin.] Attorney General Palmer said something the other day when he was discussing the proposed investi gations into the apparently too high cost of living. He said that while economic conditions were the funda mental causes of the high prices of necessities, violations of law de signed to prevent concerted raising of prices also might be partly re sponsible, and then went on to say: "There is no doubt that the ma jority of the people are more pros perous than ever before, farmers and wage earners especially. The man who has suffered from high prices has been the salaried man. I wish we could do something to help him. I'm open to sugges tions." While the ones who have sug gestions to offer are putting them into presentable and workable shape, it is an appropriate time to pay a deserved tribute to the quali ties of the average salaried man who has borne the burden of the high cost of living incident to the war and who has suffered perhaps more than the men who have been in big, profitable business, more than the farmers who have reaped a harvest of gold from the fields, more than the wage earner who has found increase after increase await ing him on demand. The average salaried man has kept on the job; he has fed and clothed his family somehow; he has done his full share in buying bonds and sticking away thrift stamps and in giving to all the war causes; he has pinched and economized, taken on extra work evenings and spent his holidays and off hours in the home garden; he has done his duty in the main bravely, loyally, pa tiently, nobly. The biggest thing about him is that he hasn't kicked and howled, he hasn't threatened and menac ed; he hasn't bombed and bolshe viked, he hasn't often complained. He has, indeed, borne the middle of the big load and been a good citizen about it. He is not a whit less of a hero than some others whose work has been more spec tacular and whose suffering lias j been more sanguine. He deserves a tribute! And So the Cost Goes Up [From the Washington Star] "Aren't you afraid you will make furs cost so much that women will not be able to wear them the year 'round?" "No," replied the dealer. "The reason we raised the price was to make them more desirable. No fashionable lady will tolerate the suspicion that she is not wearing them because she can't afford them." Conservation [From the Boston Transcript] Nothing Is ever lost—the kick that was taken out o;' the beei is ow in the public. { KOPECS, DOGS AND POETRY ' A Moon That Rises Backwards; Cows That Arc Tliawed Before Milketl, Make Archangel Life Varied — . —— I [From the Red Cross Bulletin.] AMERICAN soldiers who have just returned from six months' service in Northern Russia have brought back enough inter esting impressions from Archangel and the surrounding country to re gale their friends with for many a long day. An idea of what our fighting men, mostly from Michigan and Wisconsin, thought of Arch angel, its girls, its customs and things in general at the top of the world is found in The American Sentinel, the newspaper published "up there" by the American Red Cross for their entertainment. Copies of The Sentinel show that the Arctic weather was not severe enough to freeze the humor out of the soldiers or clog their rhyming apparatus. The following descrip tion of Archangel, pronounced by the editor of The Sentinel as "the best pen picture of the place writ ten by an American soldier," proves that one of Uncle Sam's boys did not permit the job to get on his nerves: Lost Moon Comes Hack "We are so far north that the dog gone sun works only when it feels inclined to do so, and in that way, it is like everything else in Russia. | The moon isn't so particular, and | comes up, usually backwards, in any part of the sky, it having no set schedule, and often it will get lost and still be on the job at noon. Yes, we are so far north that 30 degrees below will soon be tropical weather for us, and they will have to build fires around both cows before they can milk them. Probably about next month someone will come around and say that we will be pulling out of here in a day or so, but then the days will be six months long. "Now, up here in this tough town there are 269,831 inhabitants, of which 61,329 are human beings and 208,502 are dogs. Dogs of every de scription, from the poodle to the St. Bernard, and from the wolfhound to the half-breed daschund. "The wind whistles across the Dvina like the Twentieth Century Limited passing Podunk, and snow flakes are as numerous as retreating Germans were in France. "We read in The Stars and Stripes that the boys in Italy had some tongue-twisters and brain-worriers, but listen to this. Centimes and sous and francs may be hard to count, but did you ever hear of a rouble or a kopec? A kopec is worth a tenth of a cent and there are a hundred of them in a rouble. As you will see, that makes a rouble worth a dime, and to make matters worse all the money is paper, coins having gone out of circulation since the beginning of the mix-up. A kopec is the size of a postage stamp, a rouble looks like a United Cigar Store Certificate, a 25-rouble note resembles a porous plaster, and a 100-rouble note, the Declaration of Independence. Drninwnys Arc ,1 am ways "Every time you get on a street car (dramway) you have to count out 60 kopecs for your fare and most of us would rather walk than be jammed in the two-by-four busses and fish for the money. Be fore boarding a car, each passenger usually hunts up a couple of five gallon milk cans, a market basket or two, and a bag of smoked her ring, so that they will get their ko pec's worth out of the ride, besides making the atmosphere nice and pleasant for the rest of the pas sengers. "When a soldier in search of a meal enters a restaurant, he says to the waitress, 'Barishnia. zaka zeetie bifstek, pazulouista,' which moans, 'An order of beefsteak, lady, please.' Y'ou see you always say 'barishnia,' which really means 'girl,' and until a young lady is married she is always addressed in that manner. She will answer the hungry customer with, 'Yah ochen sojalayu shtoo nas niet yestnik pre pasov* si'echas' (a simple home cure for lockjaw), meaning, 'I am sorry, but we are right out of food to-day.' "When a Russian meets another man he knows on the street, both lift their hats and flirt with each other. If they stop to talk, they always shake hands, even if they haven't seen each other for fully twenty minutes. Then they sim ply must shake hands again when they leave. When a man meets a lady friend, he usually kisses har hand and shows how far he can bend over without breaking his sus penders. Kak Vul Pozavayotlc " 'Ay,' he will say, 'Yah ochen rad vas veedet. kak vui pozavaye tie?' which, in the United States means,, 'How do you do?' To which she will reply, 'Blagadaru vas, yah ochen khoroshaw,' or 'Very well, thank you.' It is the knockout. A fellow has to shake hands so much that some of us are getting the habit around the com pany." Russian girls prompted the fol lowing tribute from one of the American boys: I wonder, little sister, as I see you pass me by. With your coarse, ill-fitting gar ments, And your huge, ungainly feet. If a lot of things aren't true of you, The which your looks belie. If some very minor changes Wouldn't make you mighty neat. I know a lot of damsels with twice the chance you've had. Who are twice as prone to grum ble as you ever seem to be, Who are twice as quick to anger, and every bit as bad, As their husky, Russky sister ever yet appeared to me. If you could change your clothes for some my Yankee sisters wear, I imagine they would envy you the roses in you face; With proper Yankee foot-gear and a ribbon in your hair. You would spot them several tal lies and give them second place. It's a weedy row you're hoeing, but the way you hoe is great, And I'm proud of your acquaint ance, just as proud as I can be; It is you, in my opinion, who will build the future state, Who will shape the greater Rus sia as a true democracy. Woman and Home [From the Philadelphia Ledger.] The housekeeper and homebullder is in the trenches on the firing line in the war it is to live. All the economic circumstances seem to be conspiring to rob her not merely of the sums apportioned in the household budget for this and that necessity, but of her peace of mind, as she contemplates the rising scale and wonders what limit there is be low the sky to the rapacity of the elusive profiteer. It makes her blood boil to learn that men are letting food rot or throwing it away sooner than let it come upon the market at a re spectable price. She begins to won der if presently she will have to let her family go barefoot when she finds herself called upon to pay fan tastic. rates for shoddy footgear un der the shameless mask of a bar gain. She finds that she must give for what used to be the cheap staples of diet as much as she used to give for the luxurious superfluities. Running a household in these post-bellum days calls for all the shrewdness and tact, the hindsight and foresight, the knowledge of hu man nature and the disciplinary firmness that a whole council of the sharpened wits of Europe finds re quisite in dealing with the League of Nations. Guaranteed High Prices [From the Detroit News.] Bread is cheap in England. The reason is that a barrel of flour costs the English baker not more than $6.72. The British government guarantees this price and stands such loss as is incurred in making good the guaranty. Bread is not cheap In the United States. The Government of the United States also makes guaranties but its interest is not in the people who eat bread. The Government guaranty merely protects the men who raise wheat. The Government says the farmers shall have at least v 2.26 per bushel for wheat and the Government regulations so work that in fact the wheat sells for more than that. Is it any wonder that under such a system of propping the high cost of living there should be protest from all consumers who are so organised as to be able to „volce their protest? AUGUST 20, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIX Of the Army Recruiting Station "I was to go on my first tour of inspection. It was to be a trip through the boyaux to the front line; then along our entire front. In the course of our journey we were to visit our sentry posts, and mind you, this at the creepy hour of two o'clock in the morning. I had been in the line at that hour before, but in an American sector, and had gone in with others ear lier in the night. Prowling around at that hour, just two of us, I knew would mean, that we would be stop ped many times. And let me tell you that a sentry in the trenches takes no chances—you may look like a general to him, but he will wait until he can surely kill you, if you prove to be an enemy, before he discloses himself. You needn't strain your imagination to appreci ate —that it isn't exactly pleasant, in the pitchy darkness, when your nerves are jangled, to have a bay onet point almost into your skin, before the other fellow has even let you know he is there. So it wasn't wholly with relish tha,t I looked forward to my trip. To make it worse, the French Lieutenant with me was reputed to be a reckless cuss. We made most of the round without mishap, although my heart had raced several times when Boche machine guns had spit a burst at us in the pale moonlight. It was doomed to something even worse, however. Near the right limit of our sector was a ravine, which ran at right angles to our front, and here our front trench feathered out to nothing, for a dis tance of about eighty yards. One could detour around this place, by way of boyaux up either side of the ravine, but my friend, instead of turning up the detour, continued along the fast disappearing front line. There was a sentry at this junction, and because of him I was ashamed to even suggest that we take the detour. I was the first American these Frenchmen had seen and I could not let them think I was afraid. But better reason than that —I did not dare to speak, for the Boche front line was across a little valley, not over a hundred yards away. I could only follow. We had gone but a few yards when machine gun bullets began to sing over our heads. Quick as a flash we flattened on the ground. When the firing ceased we sprang up and rushed only to hit the ground again in a few seconds, because of shots. After that we squirmed and 'crawl ed until again in the trench far enough to be protected. The expe rience was certainly exciting, but needlessly risked. My friend, how ever, thought little of it, having ' been face to face with death for three years. He had such contempt for the Boche that it seemed he felt no harm could come to him from such a source. He had never been wounded, although he had been in the thick of things from the start, and as he said to me, it was through good luck. Some weeks later he asked me how to apply for a transfer to the Americans, to act as an instructor. He said he was the last of four brothers—the oth ers having been killed—and that if he were killed, as he surely would be if he continued in the iine. there would be no one to pass on the family name to a new generation. So he felt he was justified, after three years of active service, to ask to be put out of danger; with three brothers killed in battle, his mother killed in an air raid, and his father a general in service, he thought his family had done its share. It was such patriotism and willing self sacrifice that came from a spirit Germany couldn't conquer. Car Strikes and Hobbles [From Milwaukee Journal.] Hobble skirts have gone by the board during the Chicago street car strike. Only loose fitting and sport skirts are being worn because of the perils of walking home. As a stop saving garment the loose skirt has proved its value, a hobble skirt requiring three times as many steps to the block as a sport skirt. To a girl who lives fifty blocks from tho loop more thnn 20,000 steps would bo necessary. With a loose skirt she could make it with about 7.000 steps, And, be sides, one almost has a wear a bath ing suit to cltmb aboard an auto i truck with any amount of decorum. I fumtlng (Eljat L. F, Neefe, president of the Ki wanis Club, has his hands full these days arranging for the picnic of Kiwanis clubs of Pennsylvania at Hershey park, August 28. All the clubs of the State and the Wilming ton Kiwanians have been invited. Much as the members would like it, there will be no "basket" dinner. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and otheh Kiwanis enthusiasts object to toting hampers all the way across the State. So arrangements have been made for ' a light luncheon at noon and for' an old-fashioned country chicken i d/jaor such as only the housewives oL this locality know how to pre pare. During the day there will be stunts of all sorts, including baseball, golf, swimming races, etc., with prizes | for each and band and orchestra, music all day. So far as known this lis the tiist State-wide picnic ever I attempted. The attendance is prob lematical but some thousands at least are expected, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Musser ' have just returned from a 1500 mile motor trip, visiting their son, Clay ton, at Booneville, X. Y., and their' daughter, near Wilmington, Del aware. Not an unpleasant inci dent marred their trip. They mo tored to the Thousand Islands, up the St. Lawrence and to Placid Lake j and the seashore. Mr. Musser's son, A who is engaged in the newspaper ■ and general printing business at Boonsboro, with his father-in-law, H former Senator Willard, is a keen ■ sportsman. A "You ought to let me take you out for bass while you are up here,"/ i said he to his father. The elder Mr. Musser agreed. The son carefully instructed his father in the gentle art of making timid bass take the bait. I The trip took place. Result—ten bass for father; sis perch for son. "Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow." Nothing new in that, but it is true, nevertheless. It is also true that big things are accom plished as a result of an experiment. Several years ago there was trouble at the soft coal mines. This was before the war. Railroads just had to do something to be sure of a supply of coal for winter. One offi cial high up, in discussing the situa tion at Altoona remarked, "let us store coal." That is just what the Pennsy did. Thousands of tons were stored at Enola and in other Pennsy yards, and wherever it was possible coal was piled up almost as high as a mountain. One day another Pennsylvania Railroad official on a trip to the west in discussing the coal supply said, "don't you think we have enough." A younger official ans wered, "yes and now is the time to begin to save." How best to save coal was discussed at length, and finally the young man offered a sug gestion that a count be kept on the number of shovels used on each trip. The experiment was started the fol lowing day and within ten days every fireman on a Middle division passenger train was counting coal by the shovelful. Then interest died out, as coal conditions improved. Later on came the war and again, the slogan went out "save coal." Now records of coal consumption on engines are being kept all over the United States, based on the amount of coal used by the shovelful. It is bringing the results. The young man who started this movement was just taking up duties as a super intendent. He is now a general su perintendent and his name is Noel \V. Smith. Along the line of coal saving there was a time when firemen and en ginemen received a bonus on the amount of coal saved. Sometimes the monthly pay check was increased from $lO to SSO. Of course the stylo of engines was different, and trains were not so heavy as at present, and sometimes it was said that bags of coal were taken from cars on sidings and added to that on the tanks, and other schemes used to get a good bonus check. There was also dissatisfaction because the amount of coal on a tank at the end of a run was not always computed correctly. These kicks increased wages and changes in runs made it necessary to cut out the bonus. Now there is some talk that the bonus system may be taken up in the near future, after it is proven beyond a doubt that trains can be run on a certain amount of coal computed by the shovelful. German Propaganda [From the Review.] Some months before the outbreak of the Great War there was formed in Berlin an association for influenc ing the press of other countries. Sir Edward Goshen in February, 1914, reported it as a vast system of in ternational blackmail. It was directed by Harmann, head of the Press Bureau of the German Foreign Office, and participated in by representatives of the Deutsche Bank, the Diskonto Gesellschaft, the- North German Lloyd, the Hamburg- American Line, the Gruson Works, the Allgemeine Elecktricitas Geseli schaft, the Schuckert Works, Sie mens & Halske, and Krupps. There is no space here to enumer ate even a few of their known oper ations or how they acted as a sort of special general staff to direct tho activities of a great organization all over the world that was tho complement of Germany's military machine. Many of the operations in Spain, in Switzerland, and in Italy have been exposed through treason trials, through the discoveries of anarchists, through the discoveries of the se cret service. Everywhere they pro moted strikes and labor unrest, sub sidized socialist and other radical papers, influenced public opinion by the circulation of lies. Their big gest success was in Russia. But here in America they were no less active. They worked through many groups and in divers ways. Leviathan to Be a IJner The Leviathan sailed Wednesday from the Port of Debarkation. Ho boken, on her last trip as an Army transport. It Is understood that she will remain at Brest until General Pershing ar.-d his staff, aa well as a large part of tho First Division, start for home. On heit return from Brest, it was said, tha steamer would be turned over by the Navy to the United States Ship ping Board to be refitted for pas senger and commercial service. Tho Imperator, tho sister ship of the Leviathan, both of which are spoils of the war, will make her last trip as a transport this week also. While nothing definite has been decided upon in regard to her future disposition it is believed irs shipping circles that she will bo given to the British.' The Finland, now enroute from Brest, will be re turned Immediately to the Interna tional Mercantile Marine for service as a passenger vessol between this , port and Antwerp,