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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919
Eothing is achieved icithout soli
tude.—Lacordaire.
PRESIDENT GOES WEST
PRESIDENT WILSON has gone
west to make a series of ad
dresses on the importance of
the League of Nations to the United
States. If he is no more specific
in his speeches than he has been
in his public statements since re
turning from abroad he will re
turn to Washington with the people
no wiser than they are at present
concerning the President's views as
to the effects of the league plan
upon the nation. It is to be hoped
he will speak freely and set his
case fully before the people in or
der that the league's opponents who
follow him may have concrete facts
and statements upon which to base
their arguments, and the public be
fully informed.
But whether Mr. Wilson talks in
metaphor or plain language,
whether he deals with theories or
practical applications of the league
principles, the public is bound to
get some new light on the treaty
and its attendant proposals, and it
is likely that a sharp division of
opinion will follow, with the result
that we shall shortly know more
about the country's feeling with re
spect to the treaty than we do now.
But if the President wants to heip
his own cause, he will have to say
much more than he has yet said in
defense of it. The American people
are "from Missouri" and they want
to be shown.
A WINTER KIPONA
THE idea of a Winter Kipona.
advanced by the Rotary C]ub,
sounds good indeed. Here, it
would seem, is a plan which, prop
erly worked out, ought to give to
HaTisburg a most enjoyable mid
st ason entertainment, at the same
time arousing interest in the cele
bration of 1920 and providing a fund
that would go a long way toward
financing the Labor Day celebration.
A Winter Kipona, properly staged,
would be well worth while as a
community- effort, would be educa
tional from a historical standpoint,
would take into the show people
from every wall: of life and thus
become a very democratic influence.
We have much talent in Harrisburg
that never comes to fhe surface. We
have hundreds of young men and
women who ought to be given an
opportunity to exercise their abili
ties in community work. It would
be an easy thing to make the Winter
Kipona as popular and as enjoy
able as the summer event.
WILLIAM B. MEETCH
WILLIAM B. MEETCH com
bined some unusual elements
in his personality and his
passing Is sincerely regretted by
those who knew him best. He was
a student, a philosopher, \ keen
business man, one of the most en
thusiastic of the big game hunters
of America. As school teacher,
county official, lumber operator, sol
dier and political leader, he com
bined many different traits of char
acter. No one who knew Mr. Meetch
could doubt the quality of his cour
age and while he had bitter political
opponents, he never betrayed the
slightest fear, but always treated
with scorn suggestions of his friends
that this or that course of action
might involve personal loss, political
prestige or physical encounter.
His frequent encounters with the
American grizzly, the Alaskan bear
of enormous size and his thrilling
and hazardous trips In the wilds of
this country and Mexico c.alled for
great physical endurance, and while
always a slight man he was like tem
pered steel In overcoming the perils
and the strain of many a hazardous
trail In the wilds of the Rocky
Mountains and the hunting areas of
' Canada.
He was not only a student of
books and of history; ho was a
reader of men and because he un
derstood human nature he was more
THURSDAY EVENING, HAnmsBTTRQ TELEGTtXPrr SEPTEMBER 4, 1919.
than usually successful as a political
leader.
While he had retired from the
political arena and was living the
life of the open as much as possible,
he was still interested in the doings
of politicians and statesmen, fre
quently analyzing in the most inter
esting way the motives and purposes
of those now in the limelight of
political and official activity.
During the recent war he gave
most of his time to those things
which concerned all patriotic citi
zens and was greatly interested in
the young men of Dauphin county
who had bared their breasts to the
German bullets and maintained the
traditions of the American soldier
on foreign fields. A brave man
himself, he understood bravery in
its best sense and those who in years
that are gone have followed the
trails with him and hunted the big
game of the country will miss a
good comrade.
France has purchased at a bargain
price of M 00.000.000 all the property
of the American Expeditionary Force
in that country. This purchase covers
docks. wharves. railroads. ware
houses. refrigeration plants, barracks,
surplus clothing, motor equipment and
munitions. France is entitled to any
advantage in such a transaction and
the American people will approve the
sale without question.
TUB SOCIALISTS MEET
THE Socialist convention in
Chicago very fittingly began
with a free-for-all fight. That
has been its history ever since it
was organized in the United States.
It has preached international peace
and fought tooth and nail whenever
the opportunity offered.
Just now the party is meeting
behind closed doors. That, in on©
respect, is a good tiling, since So
cialism has nothing to offer that
may be feared except pernicious
propaganda and would soon die
without its own widely circulated
half-truths.
But, the Department of Justice,
at least, ought to know what is hap
pening in those secret s. ssions, and
probably does. A political party
that cannot hold its meetings in
public has something to hidq, and
we have no need for an influence of
that sort in the United States.
A VETERAN RETIRES
WITH the retirement of William
H. Henderson, veteran ticket
agent at the Union Station,
another of the men who did much
to develop the Pennsylvania Rail
road from a one-track, wood-burn
ing road into the standard railroad
of the world, leaves active service.
No official order was ever necessary
to induce Mr. Henderson or the men
who worked with him to be kind
and courteous to the patrons of tVe
line, and they not only made friends
for the company but for themselves.
Mr. Henderson is a fine type of the
old school railroadman and hun
dreds of those who have been happy
to call him friend will regret his
retirement, while they join in Wish
ing him a long enjoyment of ilie
rest he has earned by more thai
a half century of faithful service.
FOOLISH TALK
WHETHER or not the United
States shall adopt the pro
posed League of Nations plan
is unquestionably an important
question, but when Senator Hitch
cock says its "rejection would bo
suicidal to the country" he talks
foolishness.
The United States is going to con
tinue right along doing business at
the old stand, whether or not the
treaty and the league are accepted
or declined. We are the dominant
nation of the world and we shall
continue to be so long as we main
tain our high ideals, work hard and
exercise the common sense which
has been our best trait. We are not
going to commit suicide whatever
we may do about the treaty;
neither are we going to have any
body argue us into accepting it by
such idle chatter, and Senator
Hitchcock ought to be wise enough
to knoij' it.
STANDS FOR KIPONA
IF THE Kipona is to be a yearly
event—and that is a foregone
conclusion—we must have a
greater seating capacity than even
the "front steps" afford. It has
been suggested that the city buy
moveable stands to be erected along
the river, at any given point, above
the steps to accommodate the peo
ple who desire to see the events on
the river. Five or ten thousand
more seats could be provided in this
way. If the Harrisburg Navy owns
the stands a small charge for re
serve seats might be made in order
to cover the cost of purchase. But,
at all events, some means of accom
modating the sightseers must be
found. As the years roll by thou
sands of people from other towns
will come to Harrisburg for the big
celebration and a way must be
found to take care of them, not to
mention our own homefolks who
must be first considered.
OUR ORPHAN SCHOOLS
WE HAD begun to wonder what
would become of the State's
schools for soldier's orphans.
Now we know. The children of
Civil War veterans will not be out
of them before the boys and girls
of soldiers who served in the war
with Germany begin to arrive. Scot
land, one of the best of these schools,
already has enrolled one pupil.
Doubtless there is long usefulness
ahead of these industrial schools
which through a half century have
turned out thousands upon thou
sands of men and women who are
the backbone of the Commonwealth
to-day. It would have been a dis
junct loss if the schools had been
forced to close.
. IK
I^i.KK^Uaiua>
By the Ex-Oommlttccnuu
Prom all accounts the second
day's registration in Philadelphia
not only broke records, but in most
of the third class cities, the number
of voters turning out on the second
day was larger than anticipated and
marked by much display of Re
publican strength. Nothing like
the more than 98,000 men who put
down their names Tuesday has ever
been known in the State's metro
polis on a second day. while in
Reading, Erie, Wilkes-Barre, Al
lentown and other third class cities
the enrollment was also large with
Republic's predominating. In fact,
in some cities. Just as in Harrisburg,
the registration of Republicans was
almost as remarkable as the large
number.
To-day Pittsburgh, which is in a
political turmoil second only to
Philadelphia, is having its first
registration day and there will also
be a lively registration at Scranton.
On Saturday, Philadelphia and
the third class cities will have their
final registration days, and a rush
is looked for.
The tremendous registration in
the cities is believed to have its
counterpart in the enrollment in
boroughs and townships and to in
dicate that this is going to be a
strenuous year in Pennsylvania poli
tics. even more so than that which
ordinarily precedes a Presidential
election.
—The heavy second day's regis
tration in Philadelphia has been
hailed by both the Moore and Pat
terson partisans as indicating vic
tory, but the general impression is
that it gives the Moore people more
ground to stand on. The Philadel
phia newspapers' generally take the
view that the big registration is un
favorable to the Vares, but the Sen
ator and his chieftains are claiming
that such calculations are erron
eous.
—Governor William "C. Sproul is
back in Harrisburg. after an ab
sence of over three weeks, during
which he attended the Governors'
conference at Salt Lake City, and
visited Washington with a com
mittee of State executives in Na
tional problems. The Governor
came here late last night from Dan
ville, accompanied by Auditor Gen
eral! Chaales A. Snyder, and will
remain a day or so, attending to
State affairs. The intimation is giv
en, however, that he does not. in
tend to make any changes in de
partments until after the primary
election, although men have tried
to interest him in the primary con
tests in the big counties have found
that he continues to "sit on the
fence." While here the Governor
will occupy himself with State de
partmental affairs.
—Gifford Pinchot is due here to
morrow for his second meeting as
a member of the State Forest Com
mission. and there is considerable
interest in whether he will attempt
to inaugurate some new policies.
At his first meeting. Mr. Pinchot
made a few suggestions and has
occupied himself by making a
pretty thorough study of the State
forest system. It is probable that
he will take a hand in the State
policy of leases of tracts where the
State owns valuable natural re
sources and in the operation of the
laws and the fire prevention service.
—lt fell to the lot of a delega
tion of Cambria countians to-day to
learn that the State Highway De
partment is not interested in county
politics, but instead, much concern-
Ed aho.ut road building. The Cam
bria delegation consisted of County
Commissioners T. Stanton Davis, E.
W. Raumgardner and H. B. Heffiey.
P. N. Shettig, C. R. Myers. B. W.
Harding and J. L. Berkebile. and
came to inquire why some bids had
been rejected for construction be
tween Cresson and Gallitzin. As
sistant Commissioner George H.
Biles stated that the bids were too
high and that it had been decided
to readvertise. The county com
missioners are said to have inti
mated that there was some politics
in the matter. "This department is
not at all interested in Cambria
county politics." retorted Mr. Biles.
"We are interested only in building
roads and building them at the low
est possible figure. For that reason
we rejected bids for the work and
they will stay rejected. Political
expediences have no place In th'e
work of this department."
—George J. Brcnnan. who is the
architect of the "Who's Who" col
umn of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
makes this comment: "William
Flinn, erstwhile leader of the Bull
Moose, is back again in the saddle
in Allegheny county polities. He
has assumed command of the op
position to the Republican city and
county organization leaders who
have been co-operating with Sen
ator Penrose and boasts that he
named the candidates on the county
ticket which his faction is support
ing, and that he is going to put
them "over." Flinn cannot forget
the prominence he suddenly obtain
ed in National politics when in the
Roosevelt landslide, he found him
self in control of the Republican
State Convention at Harrisburg,
when he had with him a majority
of the Pennsylvania delegates to
the Republican National Conven
tion."
—Arthur H. James and Joseph P.
Lord are the candidates for the Re
publican nomination for Luzerne's
District Attorney. Though James
claims he will win. which claim ap
pears well supported by conditions,
Lord, too, thinks he will be the vic
tor. No Democrat filed papers
against the present incumbent,
Frank P. Slattery. Says the Wilkes-
Barre Record: "There is a merry
scramble for recorder of deeds.
Republicans running include Dr.
Samuel S. Hess, of Freeland; Rem
mel IiP>ar, of Wilkes-Barre; and S.
C. Hartman. of Plymouth. I.
Charles Berger, of Hanover Town
ship, who one-time was a Repub
lican, then a Democrat and now a
Republican once more, has filed for
the two nominations. But Berger
is not alone in this. All candidates
for Recorder are on all ballots."
—B. B. McGinnts, of Pittsburgh,
assistant to the United States At
torney for the Western District of
Pennsylvania, has received notice
of his appointment as special as
sistant to the Attorney General. Mr.
McGinnis for the last two years has
handled all cases arising in this dis
trict under the income tax laws.
As special assistant to the Attorney
General, he will assist in the same
line of income tax cases in the
United States Courts of Appeals.
—Reading's mayoralty contest
has attracted much attention be
cause of its vigor. The Republicans
claim the party spirit aroused is the
best thing for them and that they
will carry the city at the November
election.
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No Wonder Germany Quit
By MAJOR FRANK C. MAH3N
Of the Army Recruiting Station.
"Tables of statistics are apt to be
tiresome affairs," said Major Frank
C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting
Station, 325 Market street, Harris
burg, "but in the annals of the War
Department, as part of the record
of the American Army in the Great
War, there is a table of statistics
that is replete with human inter
est. This is the table which de
picts the activities of the salvage
operations of the Army, both at homo
and abroad. Until the war came to
.America and brought to us the ne
cessity of being provident, thrift
and economy could not be called
characteristic American qualities.
As virtues in the individual we were
apt to despise them. Paris can live
on what New York throws away,
runs the old saying. For the pru
dent man we invented opprobrious
names. Such names and phrases
were but the surface outcroppings
of a national tendency to be waste
ful. But the war came along to put
a stop to waste and to raise thrift
high in the esteem of America.
Partly because of the mounting
prices of food and clothing and
partly because of well-organized
and well-conducted propaganda on
the part of various agencies of the
government, America began to prac
tice economy in the use of materials.
Ho wmueh of the credit for this
change can be claimed by the gov-
ernment Itself we may never know; j
hut this may be said —in Urging the j
people to save materials in their !
own homes, the government did no<, 1
as it had done in previous wars, ul- ]
low the traditional wastes of mill- '
tary campaigns. The government <
practiced what it preached. 11 j
cleaned up its own back yard and i
utilized every scrap of useful ma- ;
terial. It mended the shoes and j
clothing of the Army; it darned the j
socks, it tinkered the tin cans; it
starved the garbage pails by econ
omy in the mess kitchens and re
covered the valuable components of
garbage at rendering plants; it col- |
lected the Junk; it swept the stables j
and put the manure on the land, |
and then produced crops from the ;
increased fertility. All of these ad- }
ventures in conservation and reclo- I
mation were known to the Army
simply as salvage; which, after all, !
was but the scientific attention i
which the Army paid to the "p's" j
and "q's" of military housekeeping— I
it was household economy on the
scale of a family of 3,500,000 mem- j
hers. The figures of the Army's 1
thrift are most impressive. A con
solidation of these figures shows j
that the total amount returned to |
the government in money value by j
the savings of the salvage service of j
the Armv for the single calendar I
year of 1018 was $101,180,151. With j
this figure som% interesting com- j
parisons may be made. In 1912, to j
meet every expense of the American j
standing Army, Congress appropri- |
ated $99,676.43; in 1913 the appro-j
priations were $100,292,855.04. Sal
vage, reclaiming the materials ince
wasted and using them over again,
saved enough in 1918 to have main
tained the entire military establish
ment in 1912 or 1913. But there is
even a more striking comparison.
During the fiscal year of 1898—tlie
Spanish-American war year—the
entire appropriations for the sup
port of the Army amounted to $70,-
394,739.96. Salvage in 1918 saved
$30,000,000 more than was appro
priated to fight the Spanish-Ameri
can War up to July 1, 1898, at
which date the fighting was nearly
over. Germany did wonderful things
in the way of salvage, substitutes,
etc. Yet it was reduced to the point
where it had to feed its soldieis I
food substitutes; filled their aching
voids but did not give them nour- I
ishment required. Our men, at all
times, ate of the best and had
plenty, and had the war continued,
our salvage methods would have
beaten Germany on that score alone,
if we had been unable to win a de
cision by fighting."
Franklin Had Peace Troubles
Our own philosopher and diplo
mat, Benjamin Franklin, having
concluded with the English dele
gates the peace which ended the
Revolutionary War with England,
remarked that "the blessing prom
ised to the peacemakers, I fancy, re
lates to the next world; for in this
they seem to have a greater chance
of being cursed." The somewhat
extraordinary series of incidents at
Washington, which in the past three
months repeated much of what
must have happened in the Ameri
can Congress during 1783, has made
up part of the history of the present
period. It might have affected the
SUPPOSE PEOPLE STRUCK?
Hints Tliat if Consumer Went on Half Rations Profiteers Would
Resign
[From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.]
5
r tN these latter days, with the cost
I of food high and higher, strikes
! are growing in number. A strike
| reduces production, a reduction of
< production is a reduction of supply,
j with demand greater than supply
| comes additional cost, it costs more
j to live, and so it goes on, ad finitum.
What are the people to do It
is assumed that the masses are at
| the mercy of the classes. The classes
| may be temporarily benefited. They
; are not troubled in consequence of
| less production. They assume that
1 the less they have the more they
j will get for it, the bulk will be less,
I it will be easier handled and stored.
| Children crying for bread would be
I music to their ears.
[ The professional profiteer, with a
. I heart and soul steeped in avarice,
I he smiles at the act of any class that
will reduce supply. The only out
' standing feature of his unprofitable
| life is that of inhumanity. He cares
I nothing about empty stomachs or
j scantily clothed bodies so long as
; he has a fat purse.
ideas and expectations even of ft-
nancial markets if the markets had
taken the demonstration altogether
seriously; indeed, it was poss.blo to
show that, if attacks on the treaty
were likely to defeat the peace, it
was being roughly handled by other
belligerents than the United States.
But even this did not appear to im
press either the people or the mar
kets. —Alexander Dana Noyes in Tiio
Financial Situation in the Septem
bei Scribner.
Women as Toilers
[Front the New York Sun]
According to the Department of
Labor 12,000,000 women are now
engaged in gainful occupations in
the United States, a number esti
mated by the department officials to
be "about normal." The number of
individuals thus employed may be
taken roughly as something ntoic
than ten per cent, of the popula
tion.
The great extension of opportuni
ties for women workers caused by
the war drew many of them to new
tasks, and at present there is com
plaint' from large employers that
they cannot hire women in sucn
numbers as they wish.
The lot of the working woman
has been greatly improved in recent
years. Legislative enactments for
their protection have reached a
stage of comprehensiveness in
which some of them feel they are
too much restricted. Laws regulat
ing hours and conditions of labor
are constantly subject to revision,
and such revision practically alwa>s
results in the application of new
rules to prevent the exploitation of
women by greedy, ignorant or care
less employers.
The theory that women workers
are commonly anxious to escape
from the necessity of employment is
not borne out by the experience of
most employers.
Thanks For Peace
By Frances Marian Mitchell
[The Presbyterian.J
Most gracious Lord, we give Thee
thanks
For all that Thou hast done.
We knelt to Thee in peace appeal,
And vic'try has been won.
It was Thy will, dear Lord, to still
The Huns' dread cannonade;
It was Thy will to break their ranks
And blunt each gleaming blade.
On Flanders fields our loved ones
lie-
Where blood-red poppies bloom —
They like the Christ have paid the
price
To save the world from gloom;
They like the Christ were crucified
For hate and lust and greed.
But * now hate's metal throats are
still
And all the world is freed.
Most gracious Lord, we give Thee
thanks,
Through Thee our peace was won;
'Twas Thee, who at the battle's
height.
Smote with defeat the Hun.
And by Thy grace on Flanders fields,
Where blood-red poppies grow.
We shall see lilies white and fair
After the winter's snow. •
But might not the people he drives
to a point where they might organ
ize and go on a strike? Soldiers in
the American Civil War sometimes
found themselves in a situation
I where it became necessary for a
j time to live on half rations. They
| did it. They didn't mutiny, throw
I down their guns and "go on a strike."
| They remained in ranks and did
, their duty as soldiers. While they
were led less, on half what they had 1
| been allowed, but they didn't starve. ,
If the people should go on "a I
| strike," if they should agree they
; would live on half rations for a
season, the hoarders and profiteers!
| would be bereft of profits, what they j
• have hidden would suffer loss and j
j they would come down from their
! lofty perch.
The people have not come to that |
| yet, although many of us are now j
finding a whole ration on our tables, i
we are not agreed upon an organ- j
lzed strike. But we do demand laws :
j with teeth in them concerning the j
offending profiteers. If they will not j
listen to reason, if they are blind to
| humanity, teach them a lesson by
| housing them behind bars in prison
1 cells.
Finding the Normal Level
[From the Lancaster Examiner.]
America is "blessed" to-day with
| a "fifty cent dollar." Back in 181)0,
j under the leadership of the "boy
! orator" with the eternal grape juice
|smile, over six million volVjrs wanted
! a titty cent dollar. This plan was
| a great panacea for all the ills of
i the world. To-day those same six
j million voters can look about them
and think about the millennium that
| they almost created at that, time,
I their millenium come true.
| But even the fifty cent dollar of
I to-day does not have all the evils
j that would have attended it in 189 G.
, For the change came more slowly
land the people had greater oppor
' tunities to become accustomed to it.
i But as it is to-day it works great
land unfair hardships on many
j classes of people. The persons witn
; fixed incomes, the salaried men and
i women, and the thrifty people suf-
I fer. The profiteers, gamblers and
speculators win. Indeed the stand
of the goldmen of twenty-three
I years ago is vindicated. A fifty cent
! dollar is a curse, and the world is
i striving blindly, wildly, vainly to get
I back to the old basis.
For business men the times are
' "good." But they arc not nor
| mally good times. We are still go
| ing on an exalted war basis. Every
thing wage scales, taxation rates,
i material and merchandise prices,
! operating costs, credit, tendency to
| ward lavish expenditures, reckless
' ness all these factors are still
high. They have not left the war
I level, and so while business takes
lon -new activity it finds war condi
j lions still to be met conditions
i which will ultimately mean a crash
i somewhere.
j We must abandon this level of
I war prosperity not suddenly, but
carefully, consistently, cautiously
i and inte'ligently. We want good
5 times to continue. We do not want
a panic, with a sudden crash, fol-
I lowed by quick drops and slow rises.
We want a gradual relinquishment
jof the old war level, and an even
more gradual finding of the new
j peace level, the level of peace and
i prosperity. This is bound to bo
I somewhat above the Old one of 1914
"but it will be far below that which
j exists to-day. It will be one on
] which business can thrive and the
! world find an equitable readjust
, I ment.
I|
j Knox Indicts the Treaty
[Philadelphia Press.]
Senator Knox's speeches on the
1 Peace Treaty have 'been marked by
signal ability and great logical force.
■ His first two speeches attacked the
! Covenant with the keen insight and
clear analysis of a great lawyer. Yes
terday's speech examines the treaty
1 from the standpoint of the states
( man and unfolds the difficulties that
it creates and the entanglements
which it involves in a way and with
a completeness that has not been
- done before. The thtck-and-thin
supporters of the engagements which
; the United States undertakes in this
! treaty will find their zeal slacken
and their affection for the treaty
grow cool a 8 they read Senator
, Knox's damaging examination of the
treaty and the grave obligations that
it imposes on the United States if it
becomes a party to it.
Seek Kruger's Treasure
To recover more than $3,000,000
in gold, part of the fortune of the
late Oom Paul Kruger, once Presi
dent of the Transvaal, which is be
lieved to be cemented in the hold
of the bark Dorothea, sunk on
Tenedos Reef, off the coast of Zulu
land, is one of the projects which
may be revived as a result of im
provement in the science of salvag
ing sunken ships.
The Dorothea is named among the
list of wrecks of eight treasure ships
located off the African coast which
are regarded by one leading expert
as most likely for salvage. It is be
lieved that Kruger's fortune still lies
|in the bottom of the Dorothea
among the jagged rocks of Tenedos
Reef.
I The gold is reported to have been
i shipped some time prior to 1904 by
, Kruger, who was once credited with
a fortune of $3,750,000. Some years
i ago a syndicate was organized to at
! tempt its recovery and a Govern
j ment steamer, the Alfred Noble, was
1 sent to do the work of salvage, but
! failed.
| Now that the war is over, men
i not content with lhe ordinary it
| wards of peace time industry are
, planning to renew the great adven
j ture of seeking to salvage golu from
: the wrecks of treasure ships long
; since lost. The science of salvag
j ing sunken vessels has reached the
I point where some experts believe
! the next few years will see much of
j the fabled wealth of the ocean's bed
i brought to the surface. Wrecks of
| treasure ships lost more than 100
years ago are being located and
preparations are being made to
I bring ingots of precious metal to
I the surface.
Captain A. P. Gardinier, a salvage
I expert, has located thirty-eight hulls
jof sunken vessels off the coast of
| South Africa and believes that one
j quarter of them may be redeemed.
. Eight of the ships selected as sus-
I ceptible of salvage, with their loea
jtion and value of contents, are given
'as follows:
; The Grosvenor, on the Pendoland
Coast, $8,750,000; Ariston, Marcus
| Bay, $4,000,000; Birkenhead, Birk
enhead Reef. $3,900,000; Atlas. East
j Coast, $3,500,000; Dorothea, Tene
jdos Reef, $3,250,000; Thunderbolt,
Thunderbolt Reef, $2,750,000; Aber-
I orombie. Black Rock. $900,000, and
Merestein. Jutton Island, $700,000.
A second list of ships still luring
the treasure hunters to the African
Coast includes seven wrecked in
1802, among them being H. M. S.
iCandos with $200,000 in gold coin
land the troopship Addison with
I SIOO,OOO. Others carried copper, a
i bold full of ivory or silver' ing<#s.
|Tcn other vessels lost between 173 7
[and 1893 have been definitely lo
| cated a'ong the African sands,'with
j the following wealth:
Five thousand bars of silver and
copper; thirty boxes of gold and sil
ver; 3,700 bars of silver; 200 tons
of copper; 4,500 bars of copper; 4,-!
500 bars of tin: 1,100 silver and
copper bars; 1,250 bars of silver:
250 bars of tin, and another ship
with still another big tin cargo.
The Great, Gaunt Tragedy
Instead of joining the Eeague of
Nations, the United States, Knox
contends, should carry out the spirit
of the act of 1916, which authorized
j the President to convene the na
j tions of the world to establish a code
jof international law, reduce arma
[ ments, establish an international
tribunal, "and go as far as possible
in the direction of securing peace
through justice, through a league to
which all the world ar e parties to its
formation. This would be a fitting,
generous, and dignified exit from a
| situation in which primarily we had
I no direct concern."
1 The Pennsylvania Senator said
there was danger the treaty might
prove to be so harsh it would "kill
the goose that lays the golden egg,"
by which he meant, he said, that
Germany by all accounts would not
be able to pay the bill tendered her,
and the question would arise how
far her conquerors could afford to
go in enforcing the peace terms.
He criticised President Wilson for
what he termed withholding from
the Senate information asked eon
cerning the Peace Conference and
other treaties now being completed.
He argued that this secrecy appeared
to indicate that there were things
that must be concealed from the
American people. What those things
were he said he would like to know.
Mr. Knox expressed gratification
that the Senate debates had de
veloped many facts regarding the
treaty of which the public, which
I had not read or digested the whole
vast document, would otherwise
have been kept in ignorance. "The
people now may finally hope," he
said, "to see the whole of the great,
gaunt tragedy into which those
whom they had charged with pro-
Itecting them were about to betray
them,"
lEwnittg (Eljat |
One of the pleasant things about
the Kipona is that everyone seems
to have been delighted with it and
that there are more ideas being ad
vanced for the event next year than
one would have imagined, which all
goes to show that it struck a popu
lar chord and that it is going* to
be an affair of the early autumn
to which all persons in Harrisburg
land vicinity will look forward for
I months to come. There have
! all sorts of suggestions made as to
| next year's celebration, and every-
I one of them deals with the Susque
j hannn. There have been proposals
I for more races, more swimming con
tests and more parades on the water
and even of a great community sin'*
on the surface of the river. Tn<
plan of presenting scenes from the
early days of Harrisburg won great
favor and thero have been some
ideas for certain incidents in the
life of the State Capital in its in
fant days. In event that the "Story
of Harrisburg" should be made a
i part of next year's celebration the
I suggestion has been advanced that
I the floats should be paraded along
the river front, say from Maclay
street to the railroad bridges which,
if the state of the water permitted,
would enable more people to seo
them in comfort.
Another suggestion is that the
boat racing of former years lie re
vived and that racing boats be se
cured. There is already much senti
ment in that direction, and some
people would like to see "sculls"
which formed such a pleasant form
of exercise and which attracted great
attention for years, appear on tlio
river again. There are abundant
facilities, plenty of popular backing
and all the support, anyone could
wish for a revival or boating of every
kind on the Susquehanna.
There has been general endorse
ment of two suggestions thrown out
since the celebration. One is the
Rotary club idea of organizing the
pageant, the choruses and the navy
into a great Kipona comic opera
or farce comedy to be given in one
of the theaters during the winter
for the purpose of raising money
with which to finance next year's
carnival, and the other is for the
purchase of portable grandstands
to be erected along the river front
between Walnut and South streets,
in order that the spectacle may be
witnessed by large numbers of peo
ple from the best point of vantage.
The Rotary Idea would be to work
the pageant pictures into the plav.
using the scenery already painted
as a background and interesting
large numbers of people not only in
the production itself but in the
Kipona celebration of next year.
This could be made very easily a
big yearly feature of the life of the
community and would give oppor
tunity for hundreds of persons to
participate both winter and sum
mer.
• • •
In these days of eagle-sized mos
quitoes, which bump against you
with the force of a slow-moving
i freight train, strenuous efforts are
necessary if you don't want to look
like the receiving end of a ono
, sided scrap. The other evening on
the boardwalk of one of our sea
side resorts the crowd was madly
slapping and battling at the millions
of pestiferous insects, while the
odor of citroneila floated on the
air with the persistance of mustard
gas. , The approach of a young man
down the boards was the occasion
for everybody to stand still and take
: a good look. And this is what they
saw: the straw hat of the young
fellow covered with close-mashed
mosquito netting, which fell down
■ over his face and was closely
buttoned in the neck so that no
wily bug could crawl in there. And
, while everyone gave him the laugh
, as an odd looking spectacle, there
wasn't a single scratcher who didn't
, wish he had the nerve to adopt the
I same tactics.
• • •
Girard, writing in the Philadel
phia Press says: "Attorney General
| Palmer now puts his official O. K.
. upon the sentiment of that Jersey
, farmer whom I recently quoted:
"Thank God, no Act of Congress
I can stop cider from becoming
i hard." some four score years ago,
. hard cider was a large factor in a
. Presidential campaign. It may
| stage a come back in next year's
national election. In the rural sec
| tions of Pennsylvania the hard cider
I jag is no novelty, and it is a real
jag, too.
• • *
"I happened to be in Harrisburg
for your water festival, and your
Kipona was one of the finest things
of the kind I have ever seen," said
a traveling man this week. "The
setting was splendid and the tab
leaux, the singing, the procession on
the water and the fireworks all
went off in style. It showed head
work and hard work."
• * *
If any one wants to get an idea as
to how the people of Harrisburg
! feel in regard to the daylight sav
ing law all he needs to do is to
; attend one of the baseball games in
the Twilight League series. Theso
leagues were formed for after sup
per baseball, the extra hour being
the big factor. The crowds which
gather at Fifth and Seneca and on
Seventeenth street and at the small
, er diamonds about the city are unan
i intous in favor of ordinances for tho
turning back of the clocks next April
and not at all backward about saying
so.
\ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
II
| | —Judgf. S. P. Emery was th®
. j speaker at the home-coming ctAe
bration for the New Castle soldiprs.
—The Rev. Richard M. Fowl.;s,
I McKeesport minister, just home from
overseas service, has resigned to be
come connected with the Inter-
Church Federation.
—Hiram B. Schoch, former Har
risburg newspaperman, now of
Pittsburgh, is home from Y. M. C.
A. service in France.
—John 'M. Phillips, Pittsburgh
Game Commissioner, is making in
spections of tracts for game pre
serves. )
—Ex-Senator John M. Jamison,
taking an active part in the judicial
contest in Westmoreland.
—Colonel Joseph H. Thompson,,
commander of the 110 th, was speak
er at the Washington county recep
tion to the soldiers.
I ,
t DO YOU KNOW ,i
—That llarrisburg's output
of canned goods is increasing
and can be made a very profit
able industry?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Early railroad shops wer
cated near Vine street.