16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. VEWBPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TBg TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tthgrapk Building, Federal Igure E. J. STACK POLE Preeident and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Butineat Manager OUB. M. STEIN METZ, Managing Kiitor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board I. P. MeCULLOUGH, ' 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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 1111 rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American PI Newspaper Pub- A nimfil lishers' Assocla ju tion, the Audit Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn sylvanla Aasocia jMpTt H jJP ated Dallies. |tit S| SBB Ws Eastern office BBC Qia Ai Story, Brooks A SSS S3 sss rM Flnley, Fifth CBl rf aSd iff Avenue Building, E23gg*iiß-W New York City; (Mnemf Western office JSSIPHrtP Story, Brooks & ,/ — Flnley, People's ——- Gas Building ■I Chicago, 111. sintered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. iC-TT By carrier, ten cents a week: by mall, 13.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, SKITEMBER 5, 1919 Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be, for that thyself also hast many fail ings which must be borne with by others. —THOMAS U-KEMPIS. WHAT ABOUT IT? WHAT has become of the new high school project? The school board having done ex cellently in the purchase of the Hoff man's Woods site should be hasten ing along with the work of prepara tion. Next spring should find the contracts let and the ground broken. We are in a hurry for that high school. We need it badly. Not only are the high schools proper overcrowded, but we are told that some hundreds of pupils ready for the new Junior high schools cannot be accommodated until the Technical high school building can be vacated and transformed. That means two or three years at least. Too much time has been lost in delay. Now is the time for action. Of course, the board has had its hands full, and still is very busy, but even so the high school prob lem is pressing for a "solution and the public is impatient. If the di rectors can do as well with the new university system they are discuss ing as they have done in the matter of the two Junior high schools the city will be able to boast of one of the most complete plants in the world, ideally situated. AS TO PRICE-FIXING WILLIAM A. GLASGOW, chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Food Administration in Phila delphia, is opposed to Government price-fixing as a means of bringing down the high cost of living. And he is right. All the price-fixing the Government can do will not bring down the high cost of living. Price-fixing is a purely artificial means of regulating the cost to the consumer in times of emergency, but almost always Government meddling with the immutable law of supply and demand is fraught with peril and usually is followed by a recoil that Is hurtful to everybody con cerned. Our own Governmental trifling with price standards is a sad reflec tion upon price-fixing as a panacea for the high cost of living evil. Take coal for example, or wheat; house hold fuel went up by leaps and bounds and a famine followed Gar field's anthracite manifesto, and anybody knows that bread is selling for more now than at any time in the history of America. Then there is also the incident of the canned pineapple, for which the Government made a market price by selling a large quantity not needed for army use to foreign buy ers at a wholesale far above what the American consumer was at the time paying for it retail. That was Government price-fixing. So, also, was it price-fixing when the War De partment sold fabrics in New York to large dealers for a million dollars more than it paid for them. Not only was in price-fixing, but it was profiteering as well. That million dollars must come out of the pockets of the buyers, and the Governmept to all intents and purposes has plac ed a new value on this product, al ready very high. The Dry Goods Economist of recent date gives an interesting account of this trans action and its relation to prices of similar commodities in the trade. "It was one of the stAingest things that ever happened," says a writer In that publication. "Over 13,000,000 yards of cotton goods— mostly ducks, drills, silesias, bobbin ettes and sheetings—costing the Government originally about $4,000,- 000, were disposed of in a few hours for about $5,000,000. They were lit erally swallowed up at approximate ly current market prices in most cases and at more than current mar ket prices in some cases." It developed that the biggest single buyer at the auction and the FRIDAY EVENING, most potent influence in bidding up prices was the Siberian Union of Co-operative Unions. This is a purely economic and strictly nonpartisan organization of 3,000,000 consumers. The buying of the Siberian organ ization has been taken as an indi cation of the way in which foreign buyers generally are likely to ope rate. Obviously, it is nothing of the sort. The regular foreign trader who buys in this market must sell his purchases at a profit to distributors who must resell them at a- profit. The Zakoopsbyt can distribute the goods directly to its members at cost, or even below cost, if for ay reason this were considered to be desirable or necessary. I It is possible that the bidding would have been Just as wild if the Zakoopsbyt had stayed out of it. There were some other foreign buy ers and a number of speculators. But it looks as if the Siberian buy ing was the chief factor in causing the stampede. "However, one thing certain is that the Government made a profit of $1,000,000 on goods which it paid for with public money at a substan tial profit to the manufacturers," concludes the economist. "Taken in conjunction with the Govern ment's prospective campaign against profiteers the thing has a certain flavor of Gilbertian humor." JUST AS WELL, PERHAPS MAY BE it is just as well that the urbiters of fashion have set their feet down hard on the flamboyant vest, waistcoat they call it, which had begun to make its appearance on Fifth avenue. The garments probably would have cost a lot, however decorative they might have been, and it would have been hard to resist the splendor of such colorful habilaments as some of the tailors ha(J, begun to turn out. Likewise it would have been diffi cult to explain to friend wife why it was that the high cost of living precluded satin gowns for her while permitting velvet vests for husbands. It's an 111-wind that blows no good, much as we always have hankered for one of those beflowered waistcoats such as we used to note in the English fashion prints and around the bookies' stands at the racetracks. Mankind is surely miss ing a lot by confining itself to the somber colors the tailors declare the must wear. But we are glad the white vest also has been forbidden, else many of us might have been mistaken for bar-tenders out of a job. City Commissioner Lynch is being generally commended for introduc ing an ordinance to provide bathing facilities for Harrisburg and it is now up to Commissioner of Parks Gross to engage an expert to report on the kind of facilities best suited for the city. SLOW RUT SURE THE WORLD was not made in a day, nor is our progress from the Dark Ages to the present enlightened period a matter of years. That is one of the greatest difficul ties of the reconstruction period. We seem to think that the whole fabric and structure of civilization can be made over in a month or two. Human nature is not con structed on that principle and the millennium is not just around the corner, much as we might like to think so. Speaking of the Peace Treaty, of which he is a far more ardent ad vocate than are many Americans, Samuel Gompers, who knows a thing or two about world conditions, the other day said: The Treaty looks to raising labor conditions to their highest present level in all lands and ending the competition of unfair conditions in the future, so that j there shall be international con ditions as well as international cards. This cannot come in a day,-- in a year, or in a decade; but it is possible to turn the world of nations in this direction, to give the command of "forward march!" to keep the world mov ing until this great end is won. Gompers is right. We must work out our salvation. Nobody can give it to us on a silver platter. No matter how much we want the mil lennium of industry, civilization is still a long way from it. We can make progress toward it, but, like the Israelites of old, we must spend our period in the desert before the Promised Land is opened to us. The end can be attained only by steady, persistent effort and not at a jump, flannel-mouthed orators to the con trary notwithstanding. THE MONROE DOCTRINE WE ARE reaping the fruits of Mr. Wilson's willingness in Paris deliberations to permit the Monroe Doctrine to be defined as a more "regional understanding." Carranza has seized upon this weak ness on the President's part to de clare that Mexico does not recognize the Monroe Doctrine and will have nothing to do with it. Of course, it does not matter to the Ur\ited States whether or not Mexico approves, for we shall go right along enforcing it regardless of the opinion of the revolutionary republic to the South. The hurt that is done is to the prestige of this country aanong the ignorant Mexican people, who imagine that Carranza has issued some new kind of a defl to the United States and that we are afraid to resent it. This has been the way the Mexican leaders have held their people in time past and it is a tricl that works any time in Mexico. So long as Carranza can make the people believe that the President of the United States is afraid of him, so long he will be able to make them believe thatr he is really pow erful enough to control the fate of his own country, and in some meas ure they will be loyal to him and defiant of United States rights and threats. By the Ex-Committeeman No one in Philadelphia seems to have any doubt now that the voters of the State's metropolis are aroused by this year's contest for the mayor alty to an extent not known for a long time. Newspapers and men who follow politics are displaying considerable unanimity of opinion that Philadelphia's so-called stay at home voter and the independent who growls but does not take the trouble to qualitt'y to vote have got some thing in their heads and that they mean to tuke a part in the coming primary and in the general election which was not anticipated some weeks ago. The coincidence of the great popular interest and the first election of the officials to serve under the new charter is impress ing editors all over the State and the Ciuaker City's political situation is now a matter of National import ance. The estimates made by the news papers are that over 280,000 votery registered in Philadelphia on two days and that there will be over 100,000 maybe 150,000 more regis tered to-morrow. in any event a registration exceeding anything ever known before in Philadelphia is an ticipated. The Philadelphia Press says the voters are manifesting "a disposition to do their full duty this year while the Public .Ledger says that they are no longer going to ' al low Vare to do it." The Inquirer says that "public sentiment is re sponding to the call to duty" while the Democratic Philadelphia Rec ord says: lor weeks tho anti-Vare men have been fighting under a slogan that an enrollment of at least 300,- 000 was necessary to win, and yes terday these dopestcrs were jubilant over the totals for the two days. Vare leaders attempted to explain away the figures, but it is apparent that they are still dazed over the outpouring of citizens to enroll." The Philadelphia Press ' prints these interesting facts regarding the registration. "The second day brought out a force of voters as remarkable in its way as the first day. It made a total for the two days of registration of this year t?nn e nr the com P' et e registra tion of either of the two preceding years. it came within a few thou thn , ♦ th A, COmplete restoration of 1915 It w V m a ! ty cam Paign of it inovf. i i K en o u Kli to make , ,\ e that when the thud days figures are added next Satur day, we will have a complete regis tration, tar in advance of anything in recent years. It might be int er - Hcrfthey^are:- 6 COmplete "^ures. 191fi < Ma yoralty) .... 259.72G Presidential) ... 305,584 lots In Y n Meeting) 275,159 10T0 >pubematorial) . 241,075 1919 (to days only) .. 286,555 el 8 be added that these two day figures come within about 135,- 000 of exhausting the list of as sltu e rdnv° terß '. , Thcre is still next Saturday s registration and then the two days the Registration Commis ca°scs r " t0 <lispose of special r,i,7~ in ' nte rest to the Philadel phia registration is the first dav of the Pittsburgh and ScrantoVreVs ' which fell yesterday-. i n Pittsburgh it has been claimed by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and other newspapers that the Leslie- Babcock people were not making an fit ti People registered and that the general policy of that com bination was much like that of the l ares The newspaper campaign in Allegheny county is as full of gin ger as that in Philadelphia and it is very plain that Senator Max G Leslie has ahead one of the biggest fights of his strenuous career. Some of the third class cities have had big registrations, too l-'or i", S^n Ce Rea(lin & already reports Li.aOO or more than 5,000 on the second day. York has had a large registration and as .for Johnstown the humming politics of Cambria county has been reflected in the registration. Chester city, where Governor Sproul and his fliends are backing Mayor W. S. McDowell against the McClures, has a rr t ration of 7,300 with another day to go The Philadelphia North American considers this Chester contest one of the most interesting in the State and says that Governor Sproul has entered it to down the McClures for good and all. —Here is some good news for Lu cerne Democrats from the Wilkes- Barre Record. -Attorney James P Gorman of Hazelton, recently ap pointed as census supervisor of Lu zerne county, gives notice that the iVoo W a L started on January 2, 1920 Three hundred enumerators are to be appointed for various sec tions, all of whom must undergo a civil service test before they are ac cepted. It is estimated that each enumerator will be able to earn from $75 to SIOO for work per formed. In cities of over 20 000 population the enumeration must be finished in two weeks, and in smaller districts one month is al lowed." -—The Altoona Tribune wants more interest in registration in that city It says: "According to the most recent statement only about one half of the assessed citizens of Al toona have registered thus far A single registration day remains. If there is to be anything like a rep resentative vote at the primaries and, later on, at the election in No vember, the registrars will be kept pretty busy on the next and final registration day." —Commenting upon the Philadel phia councllmanic contest Odell Hauser says in the Philadelphia Press: "There are several members of the Legislature front Philadelphia who have suddenly become much warmer exponents of the small Council than they were at Harris burg when it was being enacted into law. They now see the light. Rep resentative James A. Dunn who is putting up an argument to get Sen ator Vare to see things as he does about his going into the new Council summed up the viewpoint of these State legislators when he advanced as his claim to a seat in the new Council the following: 'I have been working for the organization for thirty years and the only thing Pve gotten was to be sent to Harrisburg, where the expense is more than the salary.' " —Numerous complaints coming from business men in the city and county interested in good govern ment and clean politics, regarding the violation of a city ordinance passed in 1914 prohibiting the use of political advertisements in police stations, resulted yesterday in an investigation by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, which showed post ers in court and Dollce rooms. HAmUSDTTRG TEXEGICXFH! IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST.REGULATED FAMILIES ' •| MAD rJO IDEA IT /A " Daßm ThESE SQUEAKY "I LL N6U6R •STAY OUT THIS SotSw T wftrt eup - | 1l - 1 * sK '' |- HAD -NO /"A <£■ P? W IDEA T /K*\ DARPJ TH I S I S °.. -IU LiS-reiO ' ? !' ? FRiSMD vnTFET ~ " 605H - I HAD hi©' IDEA SH£ S> SLEEPINC. B WWMUJWW/J7 VJA " HEAVCNS I HEftR ♦ IT WAS SO LATE - D u P<C> N"T No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK O. MARIN Of the Army Recruiting Station "One of the things everyone j learned very, very quickly in the, Zone of the advance in France was not to make any light during the | night. We soon found that e\enj striking a match on a road miles | behind the lines might bring down j aerial bombs on our heads, and af- j ter a couple of those had exploded i close by, no one cared to take a j chance on drawing any more. Ofj course in the villages and towns! within the Zone of aerial activity, ; there were guards who inspected all j night long to see that not a ray of light shown from any house. No! matter how cold it might be the j old-fashioned camp fires passed out! of existence and we all lay around j and shivered, and no one growled, ] because it was somewhat better to i be chilly for a few hours than dead j through eternity. I actually believe ; we all got cats eyes for going with- | out light for it wasn't many months; before we got so we could find our! w.fiy. through, dense woods, even in j the very blackest of nights. And J the chauffeurs! Well! a chauffeur j who couldn't see in the dark didn't live long enough to realize his dil- j ficiency. imagine driving a car j along a rough road on a rainy night, j a road you had never been over be- j lore, a road on which troops were | marching, trucks, wagons, carts, j motorcycles, passenger cars, every conceivable kind of a vehicle wasj moving and not a sign of a light j anywhere. It would be bad enough if you could just crawl along, but probably you had thirty minutes ini which to go fifteen miles so you had to move right along. Furthermore, every vehicle was either canto.*-, tlaged or painted oli\e drab and of, course all the troops were in uni form, all of which added most ap-1 preciably to their invisibility. If' the j chauffeur couldn't see in the dark he i would either pile into the rear end j of a column of infantry and kill a, bunch of men or he would run j head on into a truck or tank and. kill himself. Nevertheless, risk or; no risk, everything had to move ana j it had to move without lights, ktif-j there was one time when we really j put one over on the "smart" Boche., As everyone who participated in the | Meuse-Argonne offensive knows it got bitterly cold the latter part of; September and never did warm up till the Armistice. The es pecially were simply arctic. Early I In October when we were held up a ( couple of miles north of Montfaucon j while fresh troops were coming up; to hit the Boche another wallop, j our artillery, together-with a couple, of thousand French guns moved up as far as they dared in order to be i ready for the next push. Just south 1 , of Montfaucon was a long valley winding nearly east and west, and j in this valley we had massed all the heavy guns, thousands of them, j with only a few feet between guns. ) \s they wanted a great concentra tion of artillery the guns were in three rows, one close to the north; edge of the valley, one along the | center, and a third row In the south edge. Bivouaced In the valley were : the tens of thousands of artillery men, right out in the open without, dugouts or other protection against | the enemy. And furthermore, the! infantry moving to the front and , those coming back, were blvouaclngj on both sides of the valley, so that i that particular area, within easy range of the Boche guns, was sure j a fertile one for the Boche to shell. ; One night it got particularly cold i and a bunch of "fool" American Ar- j tillery men decided they would rather be dead than be so cold, so they gathered a lot of wood and made a big bonfire. Everyone net within the immediate warmth of the fire promptly beat it at least a hall a mile and then waited to see the fire and environs blown to bits. A half hour nassed and nothing hap pened. Within a few minutes more there were thousands of fb-es burning merrily throuehout the length and breadth of that valley. Thousands of Doughboys rame down from the hi'l" to join the artillery men around their fi*-ns and stiil nothing happened. For one night, at least, everyone was warm and comfortable and never a shell came into that valley all nieht 'nng. What is the exnlanation for our immun ity? We doped it out that the Boche had gotten so fed UP on Yankee tricks that he figured all these fires were s'mply another American trick 4(r> get him to waste a whole lot of va'nrble ammunition on an n in which the'e wan nothing to inec. aH no human being with an . .m of anse would hulld a fire in a place like that and then stay within a mile of it. But I con assure vou mrm never tried a fool trick like that Roosevelt's Letters in Peace-Making [New York Times] DURING the seven years and a half that he was president. Col. Roosevelt wrote, one of his secretaries estimates,* 150,000 let ters, and those which he wrote dur ing other periods of that crowded life have not been estimated at all. The instalment under consid eration deals only with his efforts to bring about peace between Russia and Japan in 1905. These efforts began as early as February, when he privately and unofficially advised the Russian government to make peace. But it is not our purpose to trace the steps by which he accomplished his desire, though the story-stands out like a monument throughout these letters. All we now concern ourselves with is the reaction on Roosevelt's mind, the humor and quaintness with which he viewed the monarchs and peoples with whom he was dealing, and above all tl*3 keen penetration. There is instruc tion for us, emerging from the great war of the world, in looking back on Roosevelt's Russians, Jap anese, Germans, Englishmen, and men of other nations, and their Kings. On March 30 he sums up for John Hay the peace situation. Cassini and Takuhira have been to see him about negotiations, but the Japanese won't stir except on the word of the Czar himself, "because it is evident that no one Minister has power to bind the government," a fact which the whole world learned in turbulent years. Cassini, the Russian Ambassador, tells him that the government is officially bent on war, but that privately he would welcome peace—a hint that when he speaks of himself he means the government. Then this delicious bit: The Kaiser has had another fit and is now convinced that France is trying to engineer a Congress of Nations, in which Germany will be left out. What a jumpy creature he is, anyhow! On April 2 he writes to Hay about his conferences with the Russian, Japanese, British, French, and Ger man Ambassadors. His conference with the last named lead to this bit of information about the Kaiser: The Kaiser has become a mo nomaniac about getting into com munication with me every time he drinks three penn'orth of conspiracy against his life and power. This irreverent comparison of. that potentate with Dickens' unhappy Mr. Dolls is followed by a depiction of the Kaiser's relief and astonish ment when he finds that Great Bri tain agrees with him in opposing that mythical Congress of Nations from which Germany is to be left out: twice, for even the square headed Boche can't be fooled all the time.'.' Muchr Fifty Years Behind the Times [From Philadelphia Public Ledger.] It is hardly necessary to say that Doctor Muck, who has left us for good and all, knows better than any one else that he was not arrested, nor is he deported, because he- re fused to play the "Star Spangled Banner." But his denial of having refused to play the national air ut Providence and his abuse of the newspapers for hounding him on that incident are quite characteristic. For whatever Doctor Muck may say as to his citizenship, he is Prussian to the core, and in nothing does he show Prussianism at its most com placent and odious level than in his j egregious utterance that the Boston i Symphony Orchestra will go to j pieces because it is short "twenty ! nine German musicians." Even if hat were the case, the interpreta- I tion of good music would survive in I America and without any need of I calling on the famous twenty-nine ; Germans or any of their confreres ; who may still be in our midst. In Tipperary ! To-day 'cross Tipperary the bleak I winds blow, j And over Galtee Mountains the gray j mists longer low; And the tang of sea and smoldering peat across the moorlands sweep, And the pain within a mother's heart is dark and deep. To-day in Tipperary a colleen's leav ing home For a land that's rich in promise away beyond the foam; With beckoning hands they're call ing her to honors, wealth and fame, But there's one In Tipperary who's crying out her name. —Katherine Edelman. He sincerely believes that the English are planning to attack him and smash his fleet, and perhaps join with France in a war to the death against him. As a matter of fact, the English harbor no such intentions, but are themselves in a condition of panic-terror lest the Kaiser secretly intend to form an alliance against them with France or Russia, or both, to destroy their fleet and blot out the British Empire from the map! It is as funny a case as 1 have ever seen of mutual distrust and fear bringing two peo ples to the verge of war. As for Russia, he says in the same letter: Did you ever know anything more pitiable than the Russian despotism in this year of grace? The Czar is a preposterous little creature as the absolute autocrat of 150,000,000 peo ple. He has been unable to make war, and he is now unable to make peace. On the next day, he tells Hay, he is to start on a "week's horrid anguish in touring through Ken tucky, Indian Territory, and Texas; then five weeks' genuine pleasure in Oklahoma and Colorado on a hunt; to be followed in its turn by three ; or four cindery, sweaty, and drear ily vociferous days on the way home." Evidently he did not enjoy a triumphal tour with its accom panying adulation as much as he was thought to do. And again, in a letter to Senator Lodge after the negotiations had ac tually begun, he called the Russian ruling class "hopeless creatures \\ .th whom to deal," adding: They are utterly insincere and treacherous; they have no concep tion of truth, no willingness to look facts in the face, no regard for others of any sort or kind, no knowl edge of their own strength or weak ness; and they are helplessly unable to meet emergencies. To his daughter Alice he wrote, referring to the two embattled gov ernments, after the negotiations had ended triumphantly for him, "I finally had to write "time after time (to them) as a very polite but also very insistent Dutch uncle." He added: It is enough to give any one a sense of sardonic amusement to see the way in which the people gen erally, not only in my own country but elsewhere. £uuge the work by the fact that it succeeded. If I had not brought about 'peace I should have been laughed at and con demned. Now I am overpraised. The story itself, as unfolded in the letters, is a fascinating one. T'-ipse few quotations are enough to justify Mr. Bishop's assertion that the letters are not merely like lioose \ elt's talk, but are in fact his talk. To Observe Constitution Day [From Scranton Republican.] In times like these when so many have shown a tendency to forget that splendid document which blaz ed the way to a larger measure of human liberty, the Constitution of the United States, it is cheering to note that preparations are about complete to approximately observe, on September 17 next, the one hun dred and thirty-second birthday of the fundamental law of this repub lic. This contemplated celebration should impress on the people of this countiy the need of a closer study of the Constitution which has brought the Nation such marvelous prosperity and moral and material assets such as are presented no where else on earth. A study of this American "Magna Charta" will prove profitable to all who would rush this Nation into hastily signing away some of the independence that was won in the Revolution, confirmed in the Great Rebellion and finally sealed in the gigantic struggle against the auto cratic and ruthless Central Powers of Europe. These liberties, that independ ence. consecrated by the blood of patriots and made sacred by the tears of the survivors of those who fought that this Nation should be free from entanglements as well as from a foreign yoke, must not be compromised by the delusions of foolish idealists, by the caprices of internationalists nor by the weak ness of some seemingly well-mean ing persons whose Americanism is so feeble and flabby that they are mere visionaries and sentimental ists. Let every city and town in this great land observe Constitution Day by evidence of a more vigorous American patriotism and by a show of greater respect for the revered instrument that has pointed for us the way to happiness, contentment, honor and glory. SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. Crusoe and Friday [From the Kansas City Star.] Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday had reached a point in their life on their desert island where they were doing well. They had accumulated enough breadfruit and cocoanuts and other provisions so they could spare the time to build themselves a comfortable house and make themselves some clothing. They had to work hard, it is true, to keep ahead of the game. But they were industrious and thrifty, so they began to accumulate some of the comforts of life. Then one day Crusoe said to Fri day: "What's the use of working so. hard and saving up yams and cocoa nuts? Thrift is out of date. Let's work short hours and not accumu late anything. We might as well consume all we produce. Let's spend our money and get the good of it right now." The plan sounded good to Friday. If it was possible to be better off by loaling a good share of the time, and by not denying one's self any thing, why naturally it would be foolish to work. So the new plan was put into effect. At first it worked beautifully. They had accumulated enough food so there was plenty to fall back on, and the dwelling was in good shape. But after a while the roof ! began to leak and their clothing to 1 wear out and the reserve supply of food had been exhausted. They de cided finally they must mend the roof and make some more clothing. But then they found they hadn't enough food for dinner. So they I had to stop work on the roof while they went after food. In the time they had allotted for | working,' however, they discovered ! they couldn't get the dwelling re paired, keep up on clothing, and obtain all the food they needed. Life became more and more un comfortable for them. Their house j became almost impossible to live in. they were ragged, and they began to feel the effects of hunger. "Mr. Crusoe," Friday one day re marked after several months' trial of the new light work plan, "your scheme sounds good. But it some how does not produce the results. For some reason we don't have as ! many comforts now we are working four hours a day as we had when Iwe were working eight or nine. It | seems to me if we are going to have Ps comfortable a home as we used to have, and as good clothing and as much to eat, we have got to work as we used to under the old plan." Crusoe had had the same ideas borne in on him by the experience of the previous months. So they went back to the old plan and grad ually produced enough surplus to enable them to live as comfortably as they did before. Thus, the chronicler reports, did the desert island realize through painful experience the two great factß of political economy which the race regards as so disagreeable, that in the long run a good living is to be had only by work and I thrift. The League of Nations Dreamers come, who follow war with Vision overdue. Dreamers come, the thoughtless laugh; but often dreams come true. Greatest Teacher of Mankind, the one who preached Good Will; Greatest Dreamer of Mankind, the one who healed with skill; Cast aside the evil lie that there is east and west. Science, the cause of love must serve by divine behest. Ocean does not separate, nor do the hills divide, Engines in the sea and air bind nations side by side. Tears of sad and stricken souls flow toward a common sea, Force makes the sun of justice draw them thence up to Thee; Help us to know prevention is worth much more than cure, Bind the strong together to make sure that peace endure. Force, indeed, must rule the world; but there is Power above. Dreams come true. All rule is Force. Let Force be ruled by Love. SAMUEL HAMILL WOOD. Called Trotzky a Bourgeois [From the Living Age.l Bolshevism is a many headed monster. At a fete recently givrti by Leone and Anatolia Trotzky, there was food in abundance, wine sparkled in the glasses and mudc was provided by a gypsy orchestra. Sudde.nly the sound of the instru ments ceased, and the musicians shouted to the merry guests: "Why should you be the only ones to dance? You are behaving iike bourgeois. It is our turn now!" Smtfttg (Efyat It's odd the way a locality which has become noted as a place for an industry or establishment of one kind or another will decline an' then in the course of yeait3 , again employed for much the same purpose. For years when Harris burg was young the Paxton cre"" valley, owing to- the waterpower to be had from the more or less erratic stream, was the seat a* most of the industries of the to*' There were a couple of blast tp naces, some rolling mills. 4 . - mills and other plants ioe-t alpng the creek, but except i'- ' some of the industrial units at . lower end of the stream there ai practically none of those whir, nourished fifty years ago to i found in the creek valley, althous" for a long time it was set aside it conversation as the "coming indt£- . • trial section of Harrisburg." Inf old car works, Price's furnace, V,': ter furnace and others have dlsar peared along with the flour and grist mills. Instead there have grown up the Pennsylvania rail road shops, the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending works, and the various factories which are com mencing to fill up the vacant spaces. And one of the interesting devel opments has been of the assembling of the scrap iron district along the creek and canal bed south of Hul berry street bridge. There are half a dozen establishments handling this pretty important branch of the basio industry and more will prob ably come. Large amounts of sgn-ap are gathered here and ship ped either to other places or to the nearby steel mills. And one of the coincidences to which attention was called in the opening para graph, is that almost on the site of the Wister furnace, which was close to where the Reading's line across the river passes the Har risburg Gas Company's plant, there is now located a large ironmonger's yard and all about is iron in various forms and amounts. * • Dividing attention with primary election politics and the fate of the Peace Treaty at the State Capitol just now is the question whether goldfish in the basins of the big fountains which front the State House are reducing the mosquitoes that occasionally infest parts of the Mill. The fish are a recent acqui sition of the State, having been given by Thomas W. Templeton, the superintendent of public grounds and buildings. Colonel Edward Martin and other officers of the State Department of Health, have been pretty busy telling people how to destroy the larvae of the mos quitoes and urging the filling up of places where stagnant water can gather and mosquitoes increase. There are some people wjio insist that ducks are great destroyers of , the infant pests, while others de clare that goldfish have been noted for activity in thus benefitting man kind. In any event when there were some complaints from the Capitol that the fountain basins, which are so much enjoyed by the children taken to the Capitol park for the afternoons and as bathing places for sundry squirrels robins, blackbirds and other denizens of the park, had been found to contain mosquito larvae, the new superin tendent made up his mind for a tryout of the theories. He bought the gold fish and put them into the basins. But the fish have become such favorites that they are being fed by park visitors on a scale sec ond only to the squirrels and the question is whether they are not being banqueted so much that they disdain the larvae of the mosquito. It is not generally known that the late Col. William B. Meetch, who will be buried to-morrow, was onti of the most active men in the sup port of the Harrisburg Reserves during the war. Colonel Meetch was the first of the associate mem bers to enroll and offered to go out and drill if it would stimulate the interest of the younger men. When the home defense organization got under way, the Colonel set about finding out how many men wore familiar with firearms and offered to act as an instructor. Requests by the dozen for in formation as to effect of changes in election laws authorized by the recent Legislature have been made to the office of the secretary of State and orders for special printing pf laws relative to the primary, regis tration and general election laws have been made. Owing to the length of the session the bills relative to elections were signed late and let ters received at the elections bureau indicate that hasty steps to correct, errors have had to be taken in some places. Quite a few of the inquir ies relate to the printing of ballots for the primary which is now under way in most of the counties pre paratory to this month's election. Another source of inquiry is as to whether any change in the law rela tive to filing expense accounts has been made. It took just one month to trans fer the names and records of "live" members of State commissions and boards and officers appointed by the Governor to a new set of books in the commission bureau of the de partment of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The old canvas backed record book containing the names of men appointed to various places, including numerous com missions, rinee 1893 was almost filled up and when Chief Gilbert H. Hassler ran up against the neces sity of using either the margins or separate pages he started a new set of books. Clerks engaged on the transfer worked day and night for thirty days, digging out the names of men now in office and entering them on new pages and indexing them. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Gen. W. W. Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania railroad, is expected to be one of the speakers at the American Legion convention. —Dr. H. S. Drinker, president of Lehigh, is arranging for a reserve officers' corps to be established in that institution. —Judge R. R. McCormick, of Lock Haven, is holding court at Clarion this week. —Mayor Arch Johnston was the first, passenger over Bethlehem's new bridge. | DO YOU KNOW • —That Harrisburg Js still making plates for construction of ships? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —A passenger steamer service wa* inaugurated between Harrisburg and Wrightaville in the twenties
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