6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Fetl-rnl Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STBINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board t. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The 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. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finlcy, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office, Story, Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a Ic<uvj l l. week; by mail, $3.00 a MSsyear in advance. Then a voice within his breast Whispered audible and clear: "Do thy duty that is best; Leave unto the Lord the rest!" —LONGFELLOW. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919 A NEW FRONTIER AFTER every war in the history of America we have opened up a new frontier. When we had settled down to peace follow ing the Revolution we had vast stretches of virgin territory right at our doors waiting to be conquer ed and turned into productive farm lands. The same lure with a fresh incentive followed the war with England in 1812. The Mexican war gave us Texas and vast territories beyond, which we went into with great energy and determination when the Civil War had determined for all times the stability of the Union. Always America has been a coun try of frontiers. Always, previous to the present, there has been a mighty empire of wilderness to con vert into habitations for our people, with all that has meant to us in the way of material reward for indi vidual initiative and daring. New territory makes for new business and where opportunity is open to all who will do and dare public dis content never comes to the danger point. So we must look about us now for new worlds to conquer in a business and industrial way if we are to remain true to our traditions and get back to the principle that has been potent in the up-building of the United States, and the in dicator points unerringly toward Mexico. Not that Mexico should be an nexed to the United States, but that through the protective arm of Uncle Sam that vast country, fertile as to soil and rich in its mineral de posits beyond almost any similiar area on the face of the earth, may be opened to the American pioneer who wants nothing but to be as sured of life and opportunity south of the Rio Grande to do for that great empire what his forefathers did for the land west of the Mis sissippi. Wise statesmanship would have recognized the need long ago. But perhaps it is just as well, from the American standpoint, that affairs should drift along to the point where the United States will have to interfere for the sake of the Monroe Doctrine and the safety of the peo ple residing close to the border. In the end our chance to do in Mexico what we did in Cuba will be all the greater. Nobody wants the United States to loot Mexico of territory or pos sessions, but it would be a God's blessing to the down-trodden masses of that benighted country if they could be brought temporarily un der the sheltering folds of the Stars and Stripes and placed in position to work out their own salvation without the constant threat of self seeking revolutionists and murder ous bandits. Perhaps we are just on the verge of one of these great pioneering movements that have followed in the wake of every war —even the Spanish-American, when we set about freeing Cuba and put ting the Filipinos in position to gov ern themselves. NEARING THE LIMIT THE American public has always had a feeling of sympathy for the coal miner and his efforts to better his condition in life. In every great strike or wage con troversy the miner has had the ear of the people. They have believed that his demands were in very large measure Justified and that the dan ger of his calling and the disagree able nature of his work entitled him to the best of wages and as short a working day as conditions would permit. But when the miner comes for ward with a request for a six-hour day, five working days to the week and at the same time a big increase SATURDAY EVENING, In wages, he strains the good will of the public almost to the breaking point. The miner should consider that hard coal is now so expensive as to be almost prohibitive and the sup ply none too large. The time has arrived when people in general must think of their own interests as well as those of the miner, and if the miner loses that moral sup port which has been his great stand by in time of trouble he must not blame the public. Every girl and boy, and old folks as well, should have a part in the Kiponn celebration. You can at least cheer. j THEY WILL COME BACK THOUSANDS of alien laborers are returning to their native countries and the danger of manpower in the industries and on public work grows apace. These foreign-born people have managed to save a few hundred dollars each and on arriving in the homeland, they are immediately classed as nabobs. American money represents several times the value of the native currency and the chap who spent a few years in this country waxing fat and prosperous at once becomes a real plutocrat in Macedonia and elsewhere. The older men will probably not return, but the belief is generally entertained among these in touch with the migratory population that the younger men. after seeing the folks with whom they have been out of touch since the beginning of the war will come back to America, and take out I naturalization papers. | These returning immigrants are preparing to cut some swath in their native villages. It is quite the common thing for an individual who has skimped in clothing and been nourished with the plainest food to purchase silk shirts and classy underwear and otherwise ar ray himself in gorgeous apparel as against the day of his triumphant return to the fatherland. It's going to be a continuous "old home week" observance in the Balkans and the peninsulas of the Adriatic and Mediterranean when the husky tide of humanity sweeps back upon the coasts which saw these men sail away, toward the West, years ago. We're going to miss the muscular and industrious workers, but it is hardly conceivable that, having ex perienced the advantages of our free and independent institutions, they will long remain amid the poverty and depression of the scenes of their youth. The lure of the West is certain to bring these rest less spirits back to the American shores after they have learned defi nitely, the fate of their relatives in the years of war. Meanwhile, we must give earnest heed to the great summons for Americanization effort that these aliens may learn how to become real citizens and participate in the development of all that is helpful and worth while in our American life. FOOT POWER FLYING THERE is interest in the an nouncement from Paris that Gabriel Poulain is the first man to set a flight out of a strictly man-power device. Poulain, who first won fame as a cyclist, expects (o win a SIO,OOO prize in a few weeks by proving that his "aero bike" or "aviette" really can fly by leg power. Airmen who witnessed his recent trial flight at the Hong Champs race course were thrilled by the possibilities of the machine that lifted Poulain one meter off the ground in a flight of twelve meters, the dispatch says. They see in his device an antidote for engine trouble, that dread of aviators, and Poulain explains that when his in vention is developed there will be an attachment for motor powered planes. By this means flight may be maintained by pedaling, while mechanics affect repairs to recal citrant motors or pilots seek safe landings, the inventor believes. In trans-Atlantic flights, he says, the aero bike attachment will become indispensable for emergencies. In the prize flight to win the SIO,OOO offered by the Reugot Bi cycle Company, Poulain is required to fly only ten meters, and having done twelve already, he regards the money as good as won. The "aviette" is a bicycle with wings. On it Poulain gained a speed of about twenty-five miles an hour by vigorous pedaling and then, with a twist of the handles he ele vated the planes and glided through the air. To land he simply depress ed the wings and eased up on the pedals; no greater exertion is neces sary, he reported, than in ordinary cycling on good roads. The inventor hopes that when his device is brought to the commercial stage of perfection, it will become the popular jaunting aero car of the common people, inasmuch as there is no expensive motors to be bought nor costly gas therefor. Can it be that we are to witness the dream of our old and much derided friend, Darius Green, come true at last. The aerial bicycle has been a standing Joke for cartoon ists ever since poor Langley essayed his disastrous flight with a heavier than air machine along the Po tomuc. The "comic" artist has filled in many a dull day with grotesque conceptions of the man power flying machine and now we expect a fresh outburst of energy on his part. Let us hope M. Pou lain's invention is a success, if it does nothing more than take into the air those motorcycle fiends whose chief delight is using the highways of the Commonwealth for racing purposes, when they are not annoying sleepy folks by running up and down the streets with cut outs open. Ik By the Ex-Commtttccman One of the striking features of the close of the period for tiling nomi nating petitions with county com missioners for municipal nominations was the fact that there were so few withdrawals. Some counties report ed very small numbers of withdraw als and in numerous instances news papers comment upon the failure of some candidates who had advertised ambitions to enter the races. The fact that the time for withdrawal came so soon after the close of the tiling time may have had something to do with the matter. The primary contests which will be settled on September 16 are now on and every county, every city, every borough and every township together with wards and precincts have nominations to be made. It is generally believed that there will be a serious test of the nonpartisan election law and that If it fails in contests this year there will be a redoubling of the demand next leg islative session for its repeal. In deed, there are some plans being formed in anticipation of such a contingency. The repeal of the third-class city nonpartisan act has had the effect of greatly stimulating political interest in such cities and results will bo closely watched. —The next matters of interest are registration days. The last days to be assessed in boroughs and town ships are September 2 and 3 and the payment of tax must be made by October 4. For the first time the three classes of cities have different registration days. Philadelphia's three days begin on August 26, next I Tuesday; Pittsburgh and Scranton's first day i 3 September 4 and the | third-class cities begin to register on Thursday, August 28. Owing to the tremendous interest in the primary contests in many places there will be regular rushes to register. —The opening of the registration in Philadelphia will be watched, as it may indicate strength in the ranks of the factions which will go to the mat in the absorbing fight for the first Republican nominations for mayor and councilmen under the charter of 1919. The city's charter will become effective in January and replace the famous Bullitt act of the early eighties. —ln Pittsburgh the registration will furnish some straws to show the way of the wind in the battle be tween the Leslie-Babcock faction and the people who seek a change of leadership in Allegheny county. Some men of State-wide standing are involved in this fight which is warming up. —Third-class city contests are nu merous and the soldier element fig ures in some. Reading will have its last election as a third-class city, as the next census will send it over the 100,000 population mark and yet there is one of the hottest con tests ever known for nominations in the Berks capital. Altoona, Uniontown, Erie, Easton, Allentown, Chester, McKeesport, Carbondale, Williamsport, Wilkes-Barre, York hnd other cities have contests un der way which will be worth watch ing. Harrisburg, it may be re marked, is one of the most inter esting cities in the list, largely be cause of the pronounced sentiment here for repeal of the third-class city nonpartisan act. —Scranton is more interested in the county nomination fights than, in municipal selections, although ad vertising is getting started. —The Philadelphia Bulletin ex presses the hope that the Supreme Court will soon settle the troubles over a loan issue in that city. Pitts burgh is selling its bonds under the great loan authorized this summer and Wilkes-Barre is about to put out over a quarter million of bonds. Harrisburg is looked to for an elec tion on transfer of the $300,000 bridge loan so that it can provide at once for its share of the Me morial bridge. —The old-time game of getting men with names similar to men of prominence to become rival candi dates is being tried again in Phil adelphia, where the Woodward nomination episode, bringing in a truck driver against the Senator, is well recalled. A man named Horn was named in a paper as a candidate against Councilman W. R. Horn. Philadelphia papers charge that every name on the list was spurious. ■—The Altoona Tribune presents this thought; "Daylight saving legislation having gone, the dis gruntled and discontented must look around for something else to attack." —Huntingdon county, ' the only county in the State to elect two associates judges, had a dozen candi dates a month ago. Now it has two. —Up in Tioga county 252 men filed papers to be candidates for nominations. The Democrats have no candidates for district attorney or county treasurer. Five Republi cans are willing to serve the county as county treasurer. —A few harsh words are being said among Democrats over the se lection of men to run the census. Some of the men named were more friends of friends than prominent in party affairs, it would seem. —Wayne county is without a candidate for coroner on any ticket. —Congressman Edgar R. Kiesa is showing signs of stirring for renom ination in the Williamsport district. The Gazette and Bulletin notes that he gave a lively talk on the pro hibition issue before the Lycoming cold water folks. They have al ways backed him in his campaign and given him their nomination. • —The light for judge in Somerset county is proving vastly entertain ing, while the Garman-Sherwood contest in Luzerne is of State-wide importance. —Judge William H. Keller, of the Superior Court, who has a clear field for nomination for the full term, v/ill head the nonpartisan ticket. —The Wilkes-Barre Record says: "Holding that the facility afforded by law for obtaining divorce is suf ficiently disgraceful without disre garding (he I rocedure, Judge Fuller by opinions has refused to maite ab solute rules for divorce in two di vorce suits and scored the atto-neys for carelessness in preparing pa pers." —ln making further observations Congressman Focht suggested that ex-President Taft might apply his time and talents to better purpose if he would endeavor to rectify this great wrong and los 3 to the news papers of the country than to de vote so much of his time writing scare articles on the League of Nations question. "I have every conhdenee in the United States Sen ate which iB the co-ordinate treaty making body with the President, that that body will not permit the surrender of our nation's sovereignty or independence to accommodate the designs und purposes of European diplomatic intriguers and for the self-glorification of President Wil son." HA.HRISBTTRG TTETEGTTXPH! THAT GUILTIEST FEELING By BRIGGS _ \WHEM VOO H AU6 BEERJ SO AS To MAV/E VSUCED IH TO TM R= ROUSM ALONGSIDE' £JF A HEDGS - - AND ON TH£ OTM6R SLDCI OP 1/JHICW IS YOUR EMPLOYER UJMO HAS QEEM TOLD THAT YOU ARC ABSENT CROM THP DPPICE BECAUSE ILINCS& • No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAIIIN Of the Army Recruiting Station NUMBER FIFTY-FOUR "The scouts' life was not a happy I one in the trenches. He had to go I out into No Man's Land at dusk and j stay there till dawn, rain or shine, | hot or cold, maybe to get Caught j in a barrage laid down not only ov j the Boche but by our own guns, ; shot at by rifles, pistols, machine | guns and hand grenades. All of this ; they didn't mind so much, but one j thing they did hate and that was j the Boche light Minnie (trench I mortar). The Minnie threw a shell ] weighing about a pound and a half for a distance of approximately a mile. And that blamed little, shell could be dropped with beautiful ac curacy just where they wanted it, and when it hit it burst with a sharp, penetrating crack that made every nerve in your b.ody jump—1 know and speak from experience. Now the Boche had a bunch of so called 'listening posts' and when oi.e of these posts heard one of our patrols he would shoot in a signal star and within about a minute the Minnies would start dropping all over that part of No Man's land. Then was the time to do a sprint for the nearest dugout. And the worst of it always was that once you got to running you always got real good and scared, in fact the faster you ran the worse scared you got. In one place right on the edge of No Man's Land was a deep dug out with a very step stairs and when the patrols would get caught by the Minnies anywhere near that i dugout, everyone instantly departed for that place. There was consid erable wire in front of the dugout but by the time they would get. that far they were all so scared they were really volplaning through the air and simply soared unbeknown over such things as barb wire en tanglements. The first man to the entrance would literally dive head first down those step stairs and each one followedd using those first in as cushions to break his fall. Once in the dugout and breath re covered it was all a huge joke and everyone would lie there and laugh like a lot of idiots. As soon as the. Boche got tired sending friend Min nie over calling on us, out the pa trol would go. Perhaps before they got into the Boche lines the same performance would be gone through with again. Frequently they woulu actually get into the Boche lines before the Minnies would arrive and in that case our boys sure had a chance to laugh, for all the sweet little Minnies would go calling out in No Man's Land where nobody was and the Boche wouldn't know the Yanks were in their trenchc„. Then were the times the patrols made up for all their past unpleas ant experiences and they would have the time of their lives mak ing life unpleasant for the Boolio garrison of that particular trench sector. But sometimes the Hun would get so exasperated ho would drop Min nies for half a mile back in our trenches and just generally sprinkle the landscape all night long. About 4 o'clock one morning I was walk ing along a path through the woods thinking intently about something miles away and not paying the least attention to the Minnies bursting on the other side of a little ridge. The thing that brought me to life was when a Minnie hit a tree right over my head. It never touched ma but tore up my runner pretty bauly who was following fifteen or twenty feet behind. About one-twentieth of a second after that Minnie hit 1 was spread-eagled just as flat on the ground as it was humanly possible to get and that is some fiat. About every second Minnie burst either on the ground around me or in the air when they hit trees. Suddenly I heard, even above the infernal cracking of the shells, the thud of hobnailed shoes ftnning and run ning fast. Of course I was right in the path and that fool was running aling the path through utter black ness. Well! with one foot he stepped on one of my hands, skinning every knuckle and with the other foot ho kicked mo in the ribs, nearly burst ing in half a dozen ribs. The unex pected obstacle ho hit caused him to turn a somersault in the air, but he landed on his feet, still, running and never even slowed up. I cabin right up off the ground and started after him with but one idea in my mind, and that was catch him and kick him in the ribs as hard as he kicked me, but I never caught him. much to my regret, even though I What's Ahead of the Trolley? [From the Nation's Business.] TIME is showing that, in so far as the facts are reflected by street car traffic, the "riding habit" is ceasing to grow.. May hap it is declining. Between 1902 and 1907, street car riding increased ! at the rate of 2 7 rides per inhabi- ! tant of the United States. The in crease fell to 15 during the suc ceeding live years and to nine for the period ending with 1917. Of cotirse, the automobile ac counts for much of it, though the doctors and physical culturists ac count for some. But whatever the cause, the fact, along with many others of more immediate impor tance, is bringing dream 3 of indus trial dissolution to the managers of electric railways. Already nearly 20 per cent, of the country's electric railway mileage has been scrapped used to sprint some, for he was | evidently somewhat scared, and Duffy himself couldn't catch a | scared man. Enshrines Pride of Kings [V. C. Scott O'Connor in Asia.] The flux of life has recently brought the writer into fellowship with a certain ancient library re mote from Europe and its troubles; into a world of vanished men and j vanished things. Here, in Patna (Bengal India), upon the edge of a great Indian river, there are gath ered together, as into a safe har borage at last, the remnants of a once mighty fleet that put its sails of purple and vermillion and gold to the breeze of a sultan's pleasure and enshrined the pride of emper ors, more splendid in their day than any the world has known. There is nothing in the world that surpasses the exquisite caligraphy, the enameled gold, the priceless miniatures, the colors of lapis lazuli and vermillion. of indigo and scar let. green, purple, cinnabar and saf fron, of some of these illuminated pages; nothing more touching in its way than the simplicity with which they are lodged; more human than the vicissitudes through which they have borne their part. To enter this library then is to pass from out of the common world of the bazaar into the society of princes and divines—from a world that has been shaken to its founda tions by the terrific events of the hour, into a world that was no less troubled in its day, but is now at peace. Here the passing of empires is like a little picture on a screen; one can see how they come into being, how they grew and how they passed away. One is glad to meet this company of books in their quiet hours, to profit by the devotion of those who made them, the love of the* craftsman, the passion of the poet, the urbanity of the great prince, who In the midst of wars and tumults and the clashing of arms had yet the heart to water his gar den of culture and help man out upon his difficult road. Letting the Squirrels Do It Tree seed can't be bought in large quantities in the markets. To re stock the huge forests which are de molished every year Uncle Sam needs the seeds of the Douglas Fir, West ern Yellow Pine, Englemann Spruce, Lodge Polo Pine, not by the pound, but literally by the ton. The Government needs men from two to six weeks every fall to gather seed. When the call goes out lum ber jacks, college men, hoboes and ex-convicts drift into the camps and work side by side gathering huge stores of the precious seeds. Through experience they have found that their richest sources are the cunningly hidden squirrel hoards. The squir rel is canny; he always picks the very best of cones for his winter store. Storehouses of squirrels, chipmunks and white-footed mice yield quantities of cones —as much as it would take a man a whole day to gather otherwise. —The Nation's Business for September. Weeps Over the Idolaters I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning as the owls. He has come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in dust.—Micah I, 8 to 10. Forlorn Hope [Des Moines Kegister] Remember how we hoped far peace so that the price of shoes and other necessities would come down? or is in the receiver's hands. Divi dends have almost ceased and inter est payments are quite generally be ing passed. Equipmen is becoming rheumatic; virtually no extension of lines is being made; and no less than 763 miles of road have been dismantled, and 25 7 miles aban doned. Regulatory bodies in some cases i have permitted increases in the price of fares. But, according to the railway managers, the mere rais ing of rates, in a majority of cases, will prove only a temporary sur cease. The difficulties that threaten the industry with extinction are due to more deeply rooted things than the cheapening of the nickel. Cause for these difficulties reverts back to the beginning of the enter prise, which was christened in charactristic American optimism more than in sound economic prin ciple. Girl Does the Courting [Elizabeth Cooper, in Asia.] The women in Burma have un limited freedom in comparison to the women of other Eastern lands. Unlike the women of India, China or Egypt, they may choose their own husbands and indulge in a period of courtship such as we of the Western world so thoroughly understand. From the time of the first great event in a young girl's life, the boring of her ears, which announces to the world that she is no longer a child, but a woman, until her be trothal, the Burnese girl looks for ward to the search for a husband as the one aim and ambition of her life. Until her ears are bored she is a child and runs and plays free ly with her brothers upon the vil lage street. Finally the day arrives when her friends and relatives bring with them the earborer and the soothsayer, and the frightened girl must pay the price of gaining maid enhood. Her cries are drowned by the music and the talk and laughter that seem so heartless; but the pain is soon o.ver, and she herself will make the hole larger by every means in her power, because until the hole is la'rge enough to receive the great round tube, nearly half an inch in diameter, she does not feel that she is indeed a woman. This initiation of the girl into womanhood compares to the en trance of her brother into the mon astery or the tattooing of his legs, the sign that he is no longer a boy, but must sit with men and chew betelnut and discuss the affairs of the world with wondrous wisdom. After the ear boring ceremony each man our maiden sees may be a pos sible husband, and she copies the coquettish sway of the hips that is !so effective in her older sister, as she walks down the street with her mother, aunt or married friend who carefully guards her from all im proprieties now that she has ar rived at marriageable uge. LABOR NOTES The United Textile Workers of America have asked that silk work ers in Paterson, N. J., have their wages increased 15 per cent. In Argentina an employer may im pose a penalty on a workman for de fective work, including injury to materials, the fine not to exceed one sixth of a day's pay. Illinois is the only State In the Union that can report a decrease in child labor for the period of the war. In one chemical factory in Switzerland, which is representative of other chemical and dye concerns, The Union of Theatrical Stage Em ployes, in Toronto, Can., is preparing a new schedule of wages to present to the theatrical managers in that city. Maid servants in Germany are demanding a 13-hour-day and In addition want a separate room with a key so that they can go and come when they like. Manufacturers of rough pine lumber claim that the white pine in Northern Chihuahua, Mexico, is admirably adapted to the manu facture of paper. French actors and singers have formed a union and affiliated with the recognized French trade union movement. The new unions will endeavor to establish a minimum of $4 a day with extra pay for all rehearsals. "AUGUST 23, 1919. EDITORIAL COMMENT Our guess is that Europe would like to appoint a mandatary for the Senate. Greenville (S. C.) Pied mont. The packers suggest that it we eat more meat, prices will come down. What's a little thing like the law of supply and demand between packers?— New York World. There can be no doubt of the willingness of Congress to investi gate the cost of living; but can the consumer survive the long years be fore a report is made?— Baltimore American. It is perfectly proper for a British newspaper to suggest the dropping of "Ilun." German has acquired a meaning since 1914 that makes synonyms unnecessary.—New York Morning Telegraph. It is idle to talk of coining seven cent pieces for street-car fares. It would be only another year before we would have to discontinue them and begin to coin fourteen-cent pieces.—New York World. Henry Ford would lie in a bad way if authors, historians, artists, lawyers, and statesmen didn't know more about automobiles than he knows about literature, history, art, etc.—Boston Shoe and Leather Re porter. It's such a comfort to hear that the trouble is not that prices are going up, but that the value of the dollar is going down. —Minneapolis Evening Tribune. "It's a hard come down," says Walter Pulitzer, "that the country that produced William of Orange should have to continue to harbor William the Demon." New York Evening Mail. That $2,000,000 worth of leather the Government has to sell will probably make its appearance later as $20,000,000 worth of shoes. Des Moines Register. By the time lie's through with it, the President will doubtless feel nretty pleased if he can get even "half a League, half a League, half a League onward."—New York Call. Why Not Fix Prices? ',' The belief is now almost univer sal among the peoples of the world that high prices are due to profiteer ing and that prosecution of the profiteers or the fixing of a few prices will drop us back on the pre war level of prices overnight," says Homer Hoyt, formerly of the Price Section of the War Trade Board in the Nation's Business for Septem ber. "If Congress starts to fix prices, it must fix thousands of prices. If it fixes retail prices, it must fix wholesale prices or else the retailer will be forced out of business. If it fixes wholesale prices, it must fix costs, for the Supreme Court will not issue a writ of mandamus to compel a manufacturer to produce at a loss. If it fixes costs at a lower level, it must inevitably fix wages at a lower level, for wages are the ultimate basis of cost. Wages are the chief element in the expense of putting raw materials on the mar ket, and wages are the chief factor in fabricating those raw materials into finished products. Thus the end of the gigantic price-fixing un dertaking would be a lowering of wages. Lower prices bought by lower wages would be a fruitless trade." Baker's Complacency [Ft„m the New York Times.] Secretary Baker seems to be luke warm when the maintenance of the air service on a plane of efficiency is urged. Senator New reminded him at a committee hearing the other day that of the 11,000 planes finally built for the front in France 89 per cent had been struck off the service list, and he asked the Secretary if he thought that in the event of an other war emergency the delay in supplying the army with machines would be repeated. Mr. Baker was positive that nothing of the kind would occur. The industry, said he confidently, would survive. There will be dissent by those who know how it is running to seed for lack of interest by the War and Navy De partments. Congress should heed the American mission that came back from a study of aviation in Great Britain and France with a recommendation that the air service of the army and navy should not be neglected. It is certainly in greut danger of neglect when the Director of Military Aeronautics can say that the number of uvlation officers on the army list is "too small even to maintain an expedition to Mexico." That is so startling a statement that it should dissipate official compla cency. Eiuftttttg (Efjat Refusal of the city to certify va cancies in the street supervisorshlps bring to a close a long official ca reer of the Tress family in Harris burg. For 60 years at least this family has held continuously the supervisorship in the lower end of the city. The late Lewis Tress, familiarly known as "Lewey," and later his /son, Charles Tress, held the place. Now the office lapses be cause the city declines to recognize it, and council holds that there is State law to sustain it in its stand. Originally the supervisor was a man of political importance in Har risburg. All of the street repair work, and there was a lot of it in the old time dirt street days, was superintended by him. He owned the carts and the tools and rented them to the city. Likewise he hired the laborers and saw to it that they were paid, the city meeting his pay roll every week. His duties cor responded somewhat with those of the highway commissioner of to day, but through some misunder standing not precisely clear the duties of highway head and those of the supervisors were allowed to over-lap for a long time, although the powers and influence of the supervisorship had long since been taken from him. In the upper end i of the city George Kautz has held ! the office for a quarter-century or more. Lewis Tress had many noted fights to maintain his supremacy but he never for a moment lost heart and usually swept the lower district by majorities that were convincing enough to lsave the held undisputed for the next few years. He was a good politician and a good highway repairman, too, and so kept everybody in his district pretty well satisfied. One of his most noted contests was with the late Andrew Knobl, when the whole city was stirred up over the claims and counter-claims of the two candi dates and their friends. Tress won, of course, and after that had very little opposition until the time of his death, when his son stepped in to the office and has had no diffi culty in being elected and re-elect ed ever since. A peculiar feature of the supervisorship in Harrisburg has been that in the lower end of town, a Republican has always held the office while in the West End, a Democrat has been supervisor for at least 25 years. The big pole in front of the Cun ningham restaurant, corner Walnut and Court streets, which was cut down by, the Western Union Tele graph Company this week accord ing to the records of that corpora tion had stood there for the past 35 years and was in as good condi tion when removed as when it was first placed. It was a chestnut of unusual length and thickness, there being very few left like it in the country to-day. Its surface was marred by thousands of small holes where lineman had gone up and down but at its base it was sound, no trace of rot being apparent. The life of a pole is ordinarily not near ly that long in such an exposed place as the heart of a business district. "Good-by old friend," said a wayfarer as the lineman attacked the pole. "Fully many a time and oft thou hast reared thine mighty form like a rock in the weary land in those good old days when a man needed support if he tried to go home after 1 A. M. Go lay thyself beside John Barleycorn and take your rest with him. I have need of thee no more." Those fellows at Augusta, Georg ia who' failed to get in on the announcement that the Coca-Cola business a few years ago when the chap who owned the formula of fered a half interest for SI,OOO which proposition they turned down must feel unhappy over this week's announcement that the Cocoa-Cola Company has just completed a deal whereby the business had been transferred to a new concern for cash and stock amounting to ap proximately $25,000,000. Sounds like a Henry Ford romance or that other story about the Harrisburg man who had an opportunity once to purchase a controlling interest in the Ilell Telephone Company for $6,000. A splendid opportunity for an ex soldier is offered by a minister in Western Pennsylvania on a postal card to the Bureau of Employment of the Department of Labor and Industry. The only qualifications the soldier must have it to know how to run a Happy Farmer Trac tor. a Buckeye Traction Ditcher, to prune a 60-aere orchard and to do plumbing work, "viz. install a sys tem of water works in my dwelling house." "To such a man (discharged soldier preferred)" the minister continues, "proper wages will be paid, according as the man and I shall agree." At the beginning of the letter the minister says he has no faith in em ployment bureaus, but nevertheless is willing to try the State Bureau. • People who have returned from the seashore say that Pennsylvania food is making a hit nowadays in the big hotels and restaurants. "Everything that has Pennsylvania attached to it has been selling and a good bit is now tagged with the State name that does not come from this State" said one man. "For years some hotels have been mak ing a speciality of food from Lan caster, York and other counties in Eastern Pennsylvania which are noted for farming and the public has just waked up to It." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —L. A. Weinstock. active in Philadelphia affairs, is home from France after serving with the Jew ish Welfare Board. —Ex Governor John K. Tener will take up his residence in Pittsburgh shortly. —G. T. Arms, long connected with Pottstown iron enterprises, will be 1 manager of the works acquired at that place by the Reading Iron com pany. —Thomas Kennedy, miners' lead er who spoke here during the spring, helped prepare the new de mands for presentation to the operators. • 1 DO YOU KNOW —That 'Harrisburg made some of the early experiments with steel manufacturing? HISTORIC IIARRISBrRG —Both the sites of the Y. M. C. jA. and Y. W. C. A. . were tavern places la their times.
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