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MONDAY, AUGI'ST 25, 1019
All the great Things of life arc
tacramcntal, nor is there anything
so common, hut rightly conceived,
some light of the spirit breaks forth
from it. — GAIUS GLENN ATKINS.
WHAT THE KIPONA MEANS
THIS week will be a busy one for
the active spirits in charge of
details of the Kipona. These
are largely young men who appre
ciate the importance of the river
carnival from a civic standpoint.
They are giving of their time and
energy; the men and women who are
on the sidelines, as it were, shouid
provide promptly and generously
the necessary funds. The Kipona is
more than a remarkable river spec
tacle; it is the educational propa
ganda of a more general use of the
Susquehanna basin and permanent
improvement of the water way for
boating, bathing and healthful
aquatic sports. Each year the
Kipona will become more and more
popular until It becomes the big
summer carnival of Central Penn
sylvania.
So Pennsylvania's great road-build
ing program is interrupted by the
Government requisitioning broken
stone consigned to State highway
contractors. And we thought the war
was over'
TREATY REVISION
PERHAPS the most unfortunate
admission of the President in
the White Housq conference
with United States Senators was his
bold statement that the point made
by Senator Fall that it would not bo
necessary to submit an amended
treaty to Germany - the country
not yet being a member of the pro
posed League of Nations had
never occurred to him. Yet the
newspaper mouthpieces of the Presi
dent have been insisting that it
would be "an intolerable humilia
tion" for this country to be forced
to go to Weimar to beg Germany to
assent to the reservations and
amendment that are almost certain
to be after by the Senate.
So, after all. the dotting of every
"1" and the crossing of every "t"
in the treaty and its companion
paper are not necessary in the rati
fication of the Paris instrument sub
mitted to the Senate for approval.
Were ever before peace negotia
tions so camouflaged with insincere
and hypocritical pretense?
Of course. Steelton is going to enter
for the various Kipona contests. Most
of the suburban towns will be in lino
witli their athletes of both sexes.
WITHIN HIS RIGHTS
THE liquor dealers of England
are making a great ado over
what they term an "American
invasion of British rights" by Wil
liam E. Johnson, an organiser of
the American Anti-Saloon League,
who is in that country at the in
vitation of London temperance
leaders to give them hints on how
to make the British Isles dry.
"Meddler," "cheeky Yankee." "in
terloper" and "foreign invader" are
some of the pretty names Johnson
has been called by panicky persons
who fear their business of provid
ing the English people with strong
drink may be taken away from
thorn.
Mr. Johnson has a perfect right
In England. He went there not as
an "interloper," hut at the invitation
of good-thinking English people
who would rid the country of the
curse of alcohol. But even though
he went of his own accord, he
would still be as much within his
rights as the Scotch whisky makers
and the English ale brewers who
used to advertise their wares in
American periodicals, spreading
their sales of propaganda far and
wide. What is sauce for the goose
Is sauce for the gander.
Highway Commissioner Sadler is
talclns a fall out of old High Cost of
fjiviiur almost dally by oloaing con
tracts for the building of more miles
MONDAY EVENING,
of fine highways. Good roads will
solve the big problem quicker than
legislation, the courts or any such
things. And Sadler is on the job with
tremendous pep.
WE WANT THAT HOUR
THE people of the towns and
cities of the United States, and
many who live in the country
as well, want that extra hour of
daylight which the law, just re
pealed by Congress over the Presi
dent's veto, gave us. And we can
have it if we go about it in the
right way.
If New York and Pittsburgh un
dertake to get along on the daylight
saving plan independent of Congress
there is no reason why Harrisburg
cannot do so, and if a majority of
I the large cities go on record by or
! dinance or popular agreement to set
I
i their clocks ono hour ahead for the
I period covered by tho act now in
! force the rest of the country can
[ either worry along on a schedule an
! hour out of tunc with tae big eon
! tors of activity or adjust their clocks
j to suit.
j Take one form of recreation alone
■ that Is vitally affected oy the day
j light repealer. Unless Harrisburg
j decides to set its clocks ahead next
! April, regardless of the unpopular
decision of Congress, every twilight
baseball league in this community
will go out of business, for without
the extra hour of light not one
evening game can be played.
Smile at that if you will, but it
is a serious thing to take from thou
sands of people their one form of
healthful recreation and amuse
|
ment. From three to five thousand
"fans" see baseball games every
evening in Harrisburg and vicinity
and this includes attendance only
at the larger games. This means a
lot more than might first appear in
these days of social unrest. The
man who spends his evenings play
ing baseball or "rooting" for his fa
vorite team is not making radical !
speeches or caai.jj under the influ
ence of those whose chief aim in
life is to foment discord. It is the
idle hand and the idle mind that
get into mischief.
But there are countless other
ways in which this extra hour of
daylight is used for the good of the.
individual and the benefit of so
ciety in general. Just as we have
come to a general application of
the eight-hour working day, when
men get home in time to have a
bath and supper over by 6 o'clock,
the repealer is enacted and snatches ;
an hour of daylight right out the j
leisure part of the day. Men who !
had # been accustomed to take their i
families to the parks, young men
who spent their evenings on the
river, girls who visited the tennis
courts, men, women and children
who found recreation and profit in
their war gardens—all will be de
prived of their privileges unless we
do something to prevent.
And what can we do?
Why, sign up petitions of protest
and appeal to City Council, tho
Chamber of Commerce and other
influential bodies to join with New
York in its effort to make daylight
saving effective in the cities re
gardless of the mistaken judgment
of Congress. By so doing one of
two things will happen—eit-her we
shall have a nation-wide daylight
saving schedule for cities and towns
throughout the nation, without
Federal recognition, or Congress
will be led to see the error of its
way and will re-enact the statute
it has stricken from the books.
But we must act, and that
quickly and effectively.
The Telegraph is having prepared
a series of petitions which will be
placed in circulation throughout
Harrisburg.
If you favor daylight saving see
that your signature is attached to
one of them.
Demand your rights and make
your voice heard.
Labor Day committees are more
than tickled that the Kipona is one
of the big events of the September
first holiday. Thousands are coming
to Harrisburg for the great carnival.
Daylight saving, a war measure of
value, ministers to economy and effi
ciency in production at a time when
enlarged production is of great im
portance. Harrisburg favors its own
daylight saving regulation and what
the people want they will get.
*|hti&Uo- In
By the Ex - Commit tccman
People who follow politics
Pennsylvania will be struck with the
coincidence between the announce
ment by Democratic National Com
mittee officers in New York that
the party needs a presidential cam
paign war fund of $5,000,000 and
by the Harrisburg postmaster that
the annual convention of the post
masteVs of Pennsylvania will be held
in Harrisburg the first week in
September. The last convention of
the postmasters of Pennsylvania to
be held in Harrisburg was just be
fore another presidential election
and some Federal officials were not
at all backward in airing their
opinions of the men who engineered
the gathering and the way that the
postmasters were made to feel they
wore the backbone of the financial
end of the campaign. At the time
the postmasters' convention was
styled a clearing house for factionul
politics.
11 is only a short time ago that
the Democratic State Committee
was caught, and denounced, by the
Philadelphia Public Ledger for send
ing letters calling upon Federal em
ployes in Pennsylvania for contribu
tions. This practice, which various
Democratic newspapers called
"assessment" when Republican or
ganizations did it, was until recently
a handy subject of editorial criticism
in this city.
—The Philadelphia North Ameri
can, which has also commented upon
the vigor with which certain Demo
cratic newspapers used to denounce
various practices which have become
more or less common in the handling
of the present Democratic State ma
chine, says that Congressman W.
D. Jamieson, director of finance of
the Democratic National Committee,
wants $5,000,000 and will take as
low as $5. Incidentally, It stated
that the greatest fund the Demo
crats ever had was $2,500,000, con
tributed in 1916. This is a national
fund. The North American says
that Congressman Jamieson men
tioned as presidential candidates:
President Wilson, in case the League
of Nations is defeated; William G.
McAdoo, Attorney General A. Mitch
ell Palmer, Vice President Thomas
R. Marshall, Governor Cox, of Ohio;
Senator Davis, of West Virginia, and
others, scattering the preliminary
compliment around pretty gener
ously. Mr. Palmer is ono of those
billed to address the postmasters
here.
—ffhe Jamieson announcement
will be rather dismal reading for
the postmasters on the eve of their
convention.
—lt is also probable that there
will be some sleuthing of the post
masters by men who are studying
the feeling of the Democrats toward
the present bosses of the State ma
chine. The postmasters' convention
will afford a fine chance to get a
line on how the postmasters feel
toward a third term for Wilson and
whether they like McAdoo or Pal
mer for his successor. For months
the Palmer boom has been on ex
hibition and some trusties have been
out sounding sentiment and seeing
what inroads had been made by the
Bonniwell people. Some of the
postmasters are suspected of Bon
niwell leanings and the postmasters'
convention will thus give opportu
nity not only for the broaching of
the financial plan for the campaign,
but also to secure feeling of the
people on a third term and whether
Bonniwell has gained much since he
smashed the Palmer-McCormick-
Guffey plans at the primary of 1918.
—The Philadelphia Record is out
with a statement that Governor Wil
liam C. Sproul, who appointed Judge
Joseph P. McCullen, a prominent
Philadelphia Democrat as a judge,
has given notice that he wants Mc-
Cullen elected for the full term. The
Record says that the Vares and in
dependents have both been told of
the Governor's desire and that any
leader who does not turn in for him
"will not be a welcome visitor at
Harrisburg the remainder of the
Sproul administration." The Gov
ernor has also let it be known that
he is not mixing in the mayoralty
fight and that State officials will not
reflect the attitude of the State ad
ministration.
—Politics is warming up both in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where
the two battles of State-wide impor
tance are being waged. Congress
man J. Hampton Moore, anti-Vare
candidate for mayor, issued a state
ment Saturday in which he attack
ed the business relations of Mayor
Thomas B. Smith and Senator Ed
win H. Vare, pointing out the ex
tensive bonding business of the
Mayor and the growth of the Vare
business wish Philadelphia's city
government. It was a continuation
of what he had been saying regard
ing Vare and contracts. The Phil
adelphia Bulletin devotes an edi
torial to pointing out that Vare had
McNichol and"Porter "faded" when
it comes to contracts. The Public
Ledger prints a story that Joseph
S. MacLaughlin, the director of sup
plies of Philadelphia, says that
Senator Vare "demanded that lucra
tive fire hose contracts be awarded"
to a company headed by a Vare lieu
tenant.
—The chances of the Vares hold
ing back registration in Philadelphia
to-morrow, which is the rir#t day for
registering, in order to trick their
opponents, is pointed out by the
Philadelphia Press. Other Philadel
phia newspapers call attention to
the importance of registration
Everyone of the Philadelphia pa
pers is against the Vare ticket
—Congressman P. G. Costello,
who lives in Northeastern Phila
delphia, is said to be threatening to
swing in for Moore because of the
refusal of the Vares to slate Rep
resentative James A. Dunn for coun
cil. Dunn is well known to many
people because of his activity in
the Legislature.
—Senator Boies Penrose was the
orator at the welcome home of the
soldiers at Reading. He was greet
ed by a committee of prominent
men, including Mayor E. H. Fil
bert and ex-Mayor Ira W. Sratton
and tvas very well received, accord
ing to all newspapers. The Sen
ator congratulated Berks co.unty on
its patriotism and the soldiers on
their fine records.
—Much interest has been aroused
by the fact that the United Sports
men at their Williamsport conven
tion endorsed Dr. B. H. Warren,
former State Zoologist, to be secre
tary of the State Game Commission
in succession to the late Dr. Joseph
Kalbfus.
—Gifford Pinchot is due to make
several speeches this week, prin
cipally at farmers' and grane meet
ings. Not much has been heard of
the Pinchot movement lately, but it
is said to be still wriggling.
—Thursday will be the first reg
istration day in the third class cities
and there will be plenty of register
ing, the repeal of the nonpartisan
law having caused a revival of in
terest in political affairs.
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No Wonder
Germany Quit
By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
It has often surprised me to find
that many people have a vague idea
of just what the late war has meant
in the number of casualties. As
reports were published from time to
time during the fighting, it was con
fusing. I thought that I, however,
giving these things the careful at
tention that professional interest in
duced, had a fairly accurate appre
ciation of them. Having given some
time to the study of latest official re
ports, I find that my ideas were not
quite right. Figures show that this
war was the bloodiest ever fought,
except for the Crimean war, which
perhaps had an equally heavy cas
ualty rate. In the Crimean losses
ranged from 22 men out of every
hundred in the British service, to 43
per hundred in Russian service
More than four-fifths of these losses
however, were from disease; while
in the present war, in which about
2 5 men out of every hundred were
killed, disease deaths were inconsid
erable compared with those of bat
tle. The total death of the recent
conflict was greater than the sum
total of all wars during the past one
hundred years. Of course the num
ber of men engaged was greater.
The total battle deaths are estimated
at around seven and one half mil
lions. In addition to this number,
were many thousands due to pri
vation and disease. Among the
nations, due to different periods of
participation in actual hostilities
and number of men engaged, losses
range from nearly two million for
Russia to two thousand for Portu-'
gal. American losses are third from
the bottom of the list. German
losses are 32 times as large as those
of the United States; French were
28 times: British were 18 times. The
fact that ours were no greater is due
to the fact that our armies were
only in heavy fighting 200 days. Be
cause we had so many men in train
ing, who never reached the front,
we lost only 2 men per hundred of
all forces. Of these, less than half
were by disease. This is the first
war in which our Nation has en
gaged, which showed a lower death
rate from disease than from battle,
in the Mexican War disease caused
110 deaths per 1,000 men; in the
Civil War, 65 per thousand; in the
Spanish War 26; in the A. E. F. the
figures show but 19 per thousand.
Had it n-ot been for the influenza
epidemic, which claimed, with pneu
monia, forty thousand victims, our
disease loss would have been re
markable. Up to September, 1918,
it was only 5 per 1,000. The great
improvement over former times is
unquestionably due to vaccinations;
prophylaxis against the typhoid;
and strict sanitation to avoid the
sources of intestinal diseases. An
other remarkable fait is that for
every man killed ir> battle, seven
were wounded; and of every six
men wounded, five were success
fully treated and returned to duty.
Hospitals were of such number and
capacity that there was available one
bed to every 9 men in the army. At
all times during the war, hospital
facilities in the A. E. F. were in ex
cess of needs. Among our forces,
the deaths per thousand in the dir.
ferent branches of service, is of in
terest in showing which branch is
the most dangerous. In moot
branches, the casualty rate for offi
cers is greater than for enlisted
men. Contrary to general impres
sions, the life of the aviator is not
the most hazardous. Nearly twice
as dangerous as the air service—it's
: nearest competitor, is the infant:y
'As old Fritz could tell at length—
American Goods and Foreign Markets
[From Guaranty Trust's Bulletin.]
ACCUMULATED evidence gath
ered by competent observers
leaves now little room for
doubt that the lowest point in the
economic state of the world was
passed some time back and that
whatever may be the temper of the
present moment, from this -time
forth progress must be ever more
rapid toward stability and prosper
ity.
To support this view there is, in
the tirst place, this obvious fact:
that while production may not have
increased at a rate sufficient to
make the entire satisfaction of the
world's needs a matter of less than
years, yet the great waste of staple
commodities, which the continued
prosecution of the war involved, has
been almost entirely stopped. The
destruction of life, too, has ended
and the men engaged .directly or in
directly in such destruction are now,
each of them, an asset for construc
tive effort. During the years that
the war lasted, the world was able
to feed itself and clothe itself, despite
the great proportion of its resources
that were being consumed in the
struggle. That toll is no longer being
exacted, and has not been exacted
since November 11. The world is,
therefore, richer by the amount it
has saved by merely ceasing to fight.
The transition from peace to war
was a slow and wasteful operation
even in the countries best prepared
for the struggle. The transition
from war to peace, with all the re
adjustment of industry that it im
plies, is but little less difficult. It
has, however, this advantage. That
whatever progress is made is so
much positive progress, each painful
step being an actual gain, each fac
tory restored to production taking
the world that much further from
the edge of the precipice to which
it had so nearly approached, each
individual who undertakes again the
task which was his during pre-war
days assisting, by the extent of his
effort, in the general revival.
That such progress is being made
cannot be doubted. To the most
pessimistic observer the strides that
Belgium has made must be appar
ent. France lias passed the crisis,
infantry is, for this and other rca
sons, known as the "Queen of the
Battle."
Roads and Shade Trees
[From the New York Times.]
Signs multiply that the returning
soldier is to be the strongest of all
apostles of good roads. He "knows
that except for the network of high
ways leading to Verdun not even the
heroic poilu could have kept the
Germans from passing. Day and
night, as long as the p.eril lasted, an
unending line of motor trucks rolled
into the threatei*d region and back
again. On a seme only slightly less
impressive, it was always so when
there was a "show" on.
In the minds of our soldiers, how
ever, the military need of stone
roads seems less important than the
commercial need; and ahvayp a deep
sense seems present of the beauty
of the smooth and shaded highway.
The Amaroc News, official organ of
the army on the Rhine, points out
that of the 2,750,000 miles of high
way in the United States less than
275,000 miles, or one in ten, has any
form of surfacing whatever. But it
becomes lyric when it notes that in
France "each road, it matters not
how small or how seldom used, has
its quota of beautiful shade trees,
whose limbs form an arch to pro
tect the traveler from the sun."
The American Legion will have
posts throughout the land, and
wherever there is a post there will
be a band of men who know the
va[,ue of easy communication and
who-know how to have their way.
and is once again attacking her tre
mendous burdens with her old spirit.
Italy, faced for a time with grave
disorders, is now presenting a much
more hopeful face to the world.
The civilization which the world
had built up before the war was
a solvent civilization. With all its
shortcomings it had nevertheless
sufficient surplus to extend its power
each year, to wrest a little more ter
ritory from darkness and to give its
benefits to more inilfions of weaker
races. For four years this surplus
has been utilized elsewhere, and it
may even be true that some of the
stored-up energy has been expended.
But, generally speaking, the produc
tive power of the world has not been
impaired. If work were to start to
morrow in every factory where it
was carried on previous to the war,
the surplus would again be pro
duced.
The minds of ordinary men were
so occupied during the war with the
daily problems which the war
brought with it that they had little
time for taking stock of the general
world situation. The state of the
ledger was of little interest. The
main thing was to fuliill the con
tract. During the let-down which
followed the armistice, men began
to figure up their status. The
knowledge of the extent to which
the surplus had been exhausted
spread in gradually widening circles
through the world, bringing aston
ishment and panic to the unthinking,
and causing grave concern even to
wiser men.
It was only a few weeks ago that
this knowledge reached its widest
diffusion und affected the equanimity
of the greatest number of people.
It so happened, therefore, that the
most competent observers hud dis
counted the dangers of the situation
by the time that a comprehension
of it had become widely spread. As
these trained observers reckoned up
the world's resources, they invariably
reached the conclusions that the
productive power of the world had
not been impaired; as their
authoritative view became more
widely known and their judgment
was accepted by men in positions of
leadership, pessimism gradually sub
sided.
Why Not a Russian Policy?
[New York Times.]
Despite war and revolution, there
is still a Russian people, the largest
people of the white, race. It still
occupies a larger part of the earth's
surface than any other people. It
is a race and it holds a wealth
of resources. Its future is of con
siderable interest to the other Na
tions; it will have a considerable ef
fect on the other Nations, whatever
that future may be.
The Russian civil war is more vio
lent than ever. Kolchak has given
ground, but Yudenitch and Denikin
are gaining. The Baltic army, of
Russian troops supported by the
British fleet which has just won an
important victory off Kronstadt, is
now threatening Petrograd. The
British and French are furnishing
support in war materials to the
armies of Yudenitch and Denikin
and Kolchak, and British troops are
still on the Archangel front. Our
allies are standing by the Russian
parties who stood by them and who
held the eastern front for three
years of war.
We are supporting neither our
friends nor our enemies. American
support could do a great deal for
Kolchak, materially and morally.
Certain influences which are now op
erating to disturb the Siberian situ
ation, and operating unhampered,
would be materially restricted in
their influence if American support
were given to the Omsk Government.
But as yet we have held aloof from
i Kolchak.
AUGUST 25, 1919.
Morality East and West
[Newark News]
"Is America more moral than Ja
pan ?" asks an American church
publication, and then goes on to
prove, by implication at any rate,
that she isn't, chiefly because Japa
nese moving pictures are kissless—
and ours aren't.
The publication quotes this from
the Japanese Society Bulletin: "The
police of Japan do not like to see |
kissing in public, and therefore fllin j
stars are not permitted to osculate
on the screen. From November 1
last to March 1 the police censor re
moved 2,350 kisses front films. Only s
one kiss was allowed to remain. Itj
was a kiss granted to Columbus by.
Queen Isabella, and was shown in
Tokio only. Then the censors wiped
it out before permitting the photo- I
play to be exhibited in the Japanese I
i provinces."
j Mind you, there is no suggestion
in the Japanese Society Bulletin that
I the police do not like to see kissing
in public because they have any
fault to And with a kiss as a kiss.
The American church publication is
i esponsible for that inference. For
all we know, the conduct of the
Japanese police may be due to an
unconquerable envy, or to the atti
tude that a kiss is too enjoyable to
be shared with the public. As a
matter of fact, however, to be quite
serious, the Japanese do not kiss at
all, whether in public or private. It
isn't because they consider it im
moral—or unsanitary, either —but
because it jsn't the custom, that's
all.
If a lover's kiss is prima facie evi
dence of immorality, America is rot
ten to the core, for it is to be
doubted whether there is any other
place on the face of the broad green
earth where a kiss is so much en
joyed as it is in these good old
United States. And, recalling the un
surpassed beauty of American girl
hood and womanhood, with such
sufficient reason. What with the go
ings to and comings from war, an
incalculably larger number of per
sons than in a normal period have
qualified to speak with authority on
the subject—and no great wave of
crime lias so far swept the country.
Instead there has been merely an
abnormal increase in the activities
of clergymen and an unprecedented
rush of business on the part of
household furnishing stores.
All of which is very good for
America—now and hereafter.
Seeking Haven Evermore
(With genuflections to Edgar Allen
Poe, by Sergeant Francis P. Mc-
Ginnis, Recruiting Service, U. S.
A., of Harrisburg Recruiting Dis
trict.)
Once upon a midnight dreary, came
a traveler weak and weary.
To a Sergeant who was standing
at an Army station dodr.
He said: "Pardner, I am tired of
the work where I've been
hired,
Do not think that I've been
'fired';
But I'm coming back once more."
"To the Army where I'm wanted; all
my dreams they have been
haunted
By the voices of my comrades
calling from a foreign shore.
And I've missed the bugles calling.
Do not think that I am Stall
ing
But civilian life's appalling.
And I'm coming back once more."
"I'll be right here in the morning
and you'll find my name
adorning
One of your enlistment papers as
it often has before.
For the pay is an attraction; this
high living's a distraction,
And I'm sure of satisfaction
With the Army life once more."
Now the moral of this story isn't
blood curdling or gory,
It is that the life in Olive Drab's
alluring as before.
And the boys are all returning, their
- - desire to serve is burning.
For the service they are yearn
ing,
And they're happy as of yore.
To Re-Educate Clergymen
Re-education of country clergy
men to enable them to cope with
post-war problems is planned by the
I Presbyterian Board of Home Mis
j sions, according to an announcement
made at headquarters of the Pres
byterian New Era Movement. As
I part of the program of the Presby
j terian Church to enable its minis
| ters to keep up wjth the times, the
I board plans to spend SIO,OOO for the
I re-education of ministers in 1920
and $25,000 each year for a special
| graduate course of study for the
most promising country ministers.
'/' Th- demands upon a pastor in a
small community," said the board's
| announcement, "are far beyond
what he has been prepared to meet.
He has been taught to preach, study
I the Bible, teach and visit his people
'in their homes. But he is called on
1 to lead the community in work for
I better roacft, consolidation of schools,
in reform movements, financial
'drives,' and in recreational prob
lems. He is called on to bo a pas-
I tor, not a preacher only."
|
Knox and the Treaty
"It is also further resolved that
the validity of this ratification de
pends on the affirmative act of the
principal Allied Powers named in
the treaty of peace with Germany,
approving these reservation and cer
tifying them to the United States
within sixty days after the deposit
of the resolution of ratification by
the United States."
This plain resolution drawn by
Senator Knox for submission at the
proper moment is the crux of the
whole situation. If it be beaten,
the Treaty will not be ratified. That
is all there is of it.—Harvey's
Weekly.
The Public and Strikes
[Harvey's Weekly.]
The builders of New York are dis
cussing a lock-out. So are the thea
ter managers. The word is likely to
be heard a good deal if the present
endless chain of strikes continues.
The lock-out is really a strike of em
ployers. Why shouldn't the public
learn the idea, too? If small groups
keep on outraging public comfort
and upsetting the Nation's return to
prosperity, why shouldn't the public
resolve to boycott small groups and
refuse to have anything to do with
them until sense and a reasonable
consideration for the public is re
stored?
i Full Steam Ahead
[American Magazine]
Theodore N. Vail predicts the
greatest boom in business this coun
try has ever known —and Vail is per
haps the best- business prophet of
any man in business. He bucks up
his prediction with facts, figures and
commonsense reasoning. He thinks
enough of his opinions to advise his
own company to invest $125,000,000
An improvements and extensions.
lEmtttto(Ef|at *"
It is rather an interesting fact
that notwithstanding the unexam
pled beauty of the Susquehanna
river as a setting for river fetes and
water carnivals that it has only
been within the last few years that
an organized effort was made to in- v
sure annual celebrations, resulting
in the Kiponu which is to be re
vived next Monday in elaborate ,
fashion. Kipona, which is an In
dian name for "sparkling water,"
was the suggestion of Dr. Hugh
Hamilton, of this city, president of
the State Federation of Historical
Societies, and long a student of the
river and its history. Several times
in the last quarter of a century
there have been attempts at river
celebrations, but ft was not until a
few years ago that the people got
behind the plan and made a suc
cess. The Dauphin County Centen
nial and Old Home Week, which '
was 30 years after the centennial,
by ihe way, each had some water
E>'j.-ts, but it was probably the im
petus given to boating and canoe
ing by the erection of the sanitary
dam at Dock street and the comple
tion of the "Front steps" that
brought popular idea around to the
realization that Harrisburg was
overlooking a chance to do some
thing in the way of water fete. As
told in the Harrisburg Telegraph
recently the Susquehanna had a
great vogue in boating some 30 to
40 years ago and boat races were
held. This racing with four and
eight oared shells was a revival of
a boating fever right after the Civil
War, boat parades having taken
place in the late sixties. Some of (
these parades are described as be
[ ing very tine, although no floats
! seem to have been attempted and
I nothing like the Kipona plans. An
interesting account of an early pa
| rade on the river is found in the
j Harrisburg Chronicle of late in
j 1825. It concerns the steam navi
| gation of the river which, accord
i ng to the Chronicle, the Demo
! cratic Herald, the Intelligencer
I and other papers printed here in
| that period, was a subject of much
] discussion. The Chronicle notes
i that when the steamboat Codorus
I came to Harrisburg on Sunday it
had the members of the Legislature
from -York county as passengers ,
and was met by the legislators and
State officials, the residents of the
I city going out in boats. In earlier
days when Fourth of July town pic
nics were held on the Island the
people of the young Harrisburg
boated to the island and lighted up
their boats on the return trip in the
evening.
♦ * *
Imagine shooting in a national
rifle match with a couple of yards
of mosquito netting strung around
your hat and nothing to protect
your hands .from the ravenous in
sects of Jersey breed in a year when
the mosquito is worse than ever
known. Captain Fred A. God
charles, deputy Secretary of the i
Commonwealth, historian, editor,
naturalist, philatelist and crack
shot, is at Caldwell with the Penn
sylvania Civilian Rifle team, of
which Cassius A. Dunn, of this city,
is captain. Captain Godcharles
went to matches in Ohio, Florida
and many other places and has shot
all over Pennsylvania with experi
ence at Camp Funston and other
Army posts thrown in, but he has
hit the real thing at Caldwell.
"There are mosquitos by the mil
lion," he writes to Samuel C. Todd. '
chief clerk of the State Department.
"Every cot is provided with a frame
and netting, but even they they
come through in families of eight.
We look like a bunch of Hindu sol
our heads and then get stung in the
bargain. I am a sight. My left
hand is swollen up the size of a
boxing glove and the back of my
neck looks like a topographical
survey."
* •
The State Police Department and
a box bearing the advertisement of
a well known whisky got into the
limelight a day or so ago. The box
was delivered at the Harrisburg
Telegraph Building and consigned
to the State Police Department. It
bore the whisky label in large let
ters and made some people pause
and look over it with lingering
thoughts. And when they saw it ad
dressed to the State Police, various
thought began to be expressed. Fi
nally some one called up Captain
Leon Pitcher, the deputy superin
tendent.
"Captain, there is a box of whisky
in the Harrisburg Telegraph Build
ing consigned to you," he was told.
"I don't drink and the Telegraph's
a 'dry' paper,' responded the Cap
tain.
"But its a regular whisky box and
its addressed to the State Police."
"Oh! It is, is it? Well, that box
is consigned to the State Depart
ment of Fisheries and it contains
samples of water taken by police
i men that I'll bet are deadlier than
| any whisky ever invented," replied
i the Captain.
Some policemen had been get
ting evidence of stream pollution.
* * *
From present indications Har
| risburg is going to do quite well in
the way of conventions this fall
There will be the postmasters and
the Storytellers League early i n
! September, then the State Medical
Society and later on the the Ameri
can Legion. Last winter and spring
I were record-breakers for conven-
I tions and annual meetings here and
the autumn seems to be starting off
well. And it all comes of having
sufficient hotel accommodations.
| ,
II WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—James P. Caldwell, veteran New
Castle newspaper man, is a candi
date for coronor and announced his
I ambition in verse.
—Col. Franklin Blackstone,
prominent Pittsburgh National
Guardsman, has been elected presi
dent of the National Association of
Credit Men.
—David H. Lane, the Philadel
phia sage of politics, is spending
August at the seashore and refus
ing to get excited over the situation.
—William H. Walker, prominent
Pittsburgh man, is head of the *
Chamber of Commerce committee
on daylight saving next year."
—William J. Young, of Washing
ton, has been elected president of
I the Veterans of the Eighteenth
! Pennsylvania cavalry, a Western
Pennsylvania organization.
—The Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, ,
prominent in the reform field and
a Pennsylvanian well known here,
celebrated his flfty-second anniver
sary as a minister here.
| DO YOU KNOW 1
—That Harrisburg machinery la
used in some of the country's larg
est publishing houses?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Harrisburg made horse shoef
Aong before the Revolution,