6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telesraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Buaineaa Manager OUS. M. STKINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, OUS, M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press — The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein ere also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ted Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office, Story, Brooks <& Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post OfTice in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. -rfSJES? By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, 53.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER fi, 1019 The devil ncrlcr tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed. —Spur ycon. CITY AND STATE ONE of the gratifying features of tho co-operation of the city authorities and State officials in the development of the Capitol Park plans is the fact that while the big problems are being worked out by the experts engaged by the Board of Public Grounds and Build ings, the proper officials of the city have been on the Job and ready to proceed with the undertaking inso far as it relates to the city's part of the improvement. City Commis sioner Lynch, the superintendent of Public Works, personally Introduc ed in the City Coneil the ordinances which were passed months ago au thorizing tho widening of both Wal nut and Third streets along the park. These streets are going to add materially to the general setting of the State grounds and the extension of the width of each street to forty-eight feet in tho clear will greatly relieve the Increasing con gestion of the central business dis trict. A sidewalk on the west side of Third street between Locust and North of sixteen feet and a side walk of similar width on the south side of Walnut street between Third and Fourth will provide for the pedestrian traffio that is bound to increase with the important de velopments In the neighborhood of the Capitol. Governor Sproul and his asso ciates on the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings are more than pleased with the promptness of the city authorities, in providing for the improvements that have been outlined by the State and city jointly. As a matter of fact, Hur- j risburg has manifested a consist ent desire to do everything possible In harmonious co-operation with the officials of the State to make of this city an attractive seat for the government of the Commonwealth. The enterprise and vision of the authorities on Capitol Hill have been met at every turn with a for ward-looking program on the part of the city. This is as it should be and all our citizens are back of their ofHcials in the constructive at titude toward the State. Harrisburg is being gradually hedged about with farm expositions through community co-operation. These small affairs are indicative of the desire of the farming interests to develop the most modern and scientific fairs for the upbuilding of that important industry. One such exposition held near Hummelstown this week is an example for other communities, and eventually these must result in a great combination State fair in Harrisburg, which will still further educate those who till the soil in tho most up-to-date methods. , NOT TO RE FOOLED SO THE radical wing of the Socialist party hesitated to call itself the Communist party and declined, for the present, to add a torch to its insignia because "it didn't want to alienate the sym pathies of the working men of America, without which it could not hope to succeed." This is interest ing information indeed. After it had safely corralled the "labor rote" of the country and was pre pared to overturn the Government, then it would be ready to take on the uniform of the terrorist, fly tho red flag and put the torch on Its standard, but not before. The working people were to be fooled Into supporting a party designed to destroy the United States. What a pack of ignorant fools these Communists are. This is not Europe. The working people of tho "United States are tho back-bone of the country and there is no such thing as a "labor vote" here, nor a "capitalist vote" either, for that matter. Men in this county are educated. The little red school house has attended to that. And they vote according to their in- SATURDAY EVENING, HXRPasßtmo oSP&L TELEGRXPH SEPTEMBER 6, 1919. dividual views. They are the most difficult people to fool in all the world and they will laugh In their sleeves at this nonsensical talk from Chicago about making Communists of them all and then leading them forth to destroy tho country that affords them the best home and the greatest opportunities of any on earth. ONE PHASE OF IT MAJOR GENERAL ATTER BURY talked vigorously and without reserve at a "welcome home" celebration the other day. This railroad leader of vision and experience is entitled to speak on such an occasion. At an age when many men are thinking of retiring, he volunteered for service in France, and was sent abroad to undertake the herculean task of organizing a railroad system capable of handling 3,000,000 men, supplies and equip ment, with a prospect of doubling those numbers if the war had kept up. So he earned his right to speak on the war and its effects, for few men have had such opportunities for observation. General Atterbury deals not in theories but in cold facts. Read what ho says about the reduced pro duction of labor on the Pennsylvania system: I have figures as it affects shops like Renovo, on the Penn sylvania lines. Prior to our en r trance into the war you were oh a piece work basis, as well as working on a ten-hour day. When the government took over our railroad piece work was stopped. The output per man per hour fell from 100 per cent, to seventy-five per cent. The shops were put on aii eight-hour basis. This cut tho output an additional fifteen per cent., so the output per man per day in our shops is but sixty per cent, of what it was before we , entered the war. In other words, | it takes ten men to-day to do what six men did before the war. Now, tho Pennsylvania Railroad to-day has in its employ 168,893 persons, as against 147,718 before we went into the war, or an in crease of over fourteen per cent. At the same time the traffic units fell from 16,800.000.000 to 16,000,000.000 —or a reduction of eleven pep cent, in the business: fourteen per cent, more men did eleven per cent, less work. Or, expressing it in a little way, it took vj 27 men in 1919 to do the work of 100 men in 1917. What we manufacture is ton nage, and tonnage per man em ployed has fallen off, notwith standing the continued introduc tion of heavy locomotives and other instruments of increased efficiency. In the periods corresponding to tlip number of employes I have just given you, the average num ber of traffic units per employe has fallen from 113,932 to 89,308. In the early part of 1917 we were on a ten-hour basis. During 1919 we have been on an eight hour basis. A twenty per cent, reduction in time alone, had we worked with exactly the same effort that we did in 1917. would have moved in an eight-hour day 91.146 units. As a matter of fact, ns I have already shown you, there was moved only 89.308 units. The advocates of the eight-hour day claimed an increase in efficiency. In reality the results proved Just the opposite—that there has been a reduction in efficiency. At the same time, the condition of the power is getting worse and worse, had order oars are increas ing and the roadbed all over the system is suffering from lack of the ordinary maintenance and the introduction of sufficient new rails and ties. _ e t' Po far as transportation affects the high cost of living, therefore, we have this situation: An in creased number of employes, who produce not only less transporta tion per man. hut also per man hour, of n. relatively low charac ter, reacting on the general situa tion. These additional men ne cessarily have reduced the number of men who otherwise would he available for the production of essentials other than transporta tion—consuming more and pro ducing less. Thin would he alarming enough If it applied to railroads alone, but de creased production has entered into even- branch of industry. No rea sonable man expects workmen to go hack to a pre-war wage basis, and it would make no difference if he did. Wages are high and will re main high, but production is far be-' low the normal output and it must bo increased If prices are to come down. It Is impossible to manu facture goods cheaply or to operate a train economically if workmen do not do a full day's work for a full day's pay. This is only one phase of the high cost of living problem, but it is of vital importance. FARM TO MARKET UNQUESTIONABLY one of the biggest factors In the high cost of living is our defective method of distribution. Every ounce of farm produce that goes to waste because, for one reason or another, it cannot find Its way to market adds just that much to the high cost of living. We condemn the farmer for letting his goods perish rather than bring them to the city and sell them for low prices, but some times he has no remedy. Often he cannot bring them to market and sell them at a profit, so he lets them rot. He must have a profit if he is to live. Therefore, It is apparent that if we solve the difficult problem of trans portation from farm to consumer, we have gone a long way toward re storing prices by using up all the crops produced, thereby keeping the supply and the demand more nearly equal. A big step will have been taken in this direction if Governor Sproul is able to work out the system of motor truck transportation from the producer to the consumer which he has proposed. The railroads cannot handle the local business the farmer offers, but the farmer could afford to sell reasonably to the truck driver who would call at his home regu larly to relievo him of the time and cost of transporting his wares to market. Much can be exppcted if the State can be districted from border to border for the operation of motor trucks taking the place of the old-time slow going huckster who used to buy up the wares of the farmers for miles around and then peddle them out to customers in town. Modern methods can im prove that form of service, which before it went out of practice was of vast benefit to the consumer and the farmer alike. £lt r the Ex-Committeeman J Interest In the final registration In Philadelphia to-day, the opening of registration in Pittsburgh, Thurs day. and the general registration situation in the third-class cities, which all show increases, has somewhat detracted from the re markable scries of political battles being waged in judicial districts of the State. There are several which in an ordinary year would be given daily reviews, but which are now scarcely being noticed by the State at large. The Philadelphia mayoralty and first couneilmunic contest under the new charter, the struggle against the Leslic-Babcock ticket in Allegheny county and the mayoralty and councilmanic battles in Read ing, Altoona, Erie, Allentown and other cities arc winning some notice because of the ardent variety of politics being played. Hut some of the judicial battles are fully as im portant. —Philadelphia has several con tests for judge, two appointees be ing fought. Judge Eugene C. Bon niwell, Democratic candidate for Governor last year, is a candidate for judge this time. In Allegheny county it looks as though all sciven of the candidates for the Ave com mon pleas court places would gtr on the final ballot. Three nvfen ap pointed to tho bench are candidates. H. Walton Mitchell, appointed or phans' court judge, is assured of winning his place and so > K T. C. Jones, of the county court. Senator Charles H. Kline, Henry G. Wasson and Stephen Stone, common pleas benches, all have to fight. —ln Washington county there are four pretty ev.enly balanced candidates for orphans' court judge with Judge J. I. Brownson, of com mon pleas, an appointee, unopposed for election for the full term. In Westmoreland, Judge D. J. Snyder, a Brumbaugh appointee, is being pressed by his rival for the appoint-, ment. Judge C. D. Copeland. of the orphans' court bench, with the most singular line-up of old leaders known in tho county in years. Cope land is the Democratic loader of the county and men like Ex-State Treasurer James S. Beacom are hacking him. —Judges G. A. Endlish and G. W. Wagner of Berks, and Aaron I. Hassler, of Lancaster, are not op posed, and Judge John M. Garman, of Luzerne, might as well not have any opposition. —A judicial contest which is of nbsorhing interest is being waged in the Perry-Juniata district where Judge J. N. Keller, of Mifflintown, appointed by Governor Brumbaugh to succeed the late Judge W. N. Seibert, is being hard pressed by James M. Barnett, the New Bloom field attorney. The liquor issue is out of this district now and it is a case of personality and organiza tion of the friends of the candidates. Owing to the activity of various Democratic officeholders in the dis trict considerable resentment was caused and this has had the effect of strengthening Mr. Burnett. The friends of the Perry county man claim that he will be the next judge. Certainly he now has a strong com mittee behind him. —James W. Leech, former com pensation commissioner, is fighting Judge S. L. Reed, appointed to the orphans' court, with D. L. Pardons, of Johnstown, also in the field and In Somerset, where Judge F. J. Kooser, an appointee, is not a can didate for election, there are four candidates, John A. Berkey, ex banking commissioner, and Norman T. Boose, a noted "dry." being the leaders. Judge J. J. O'Neill, of Lackawanna, is being opposed by District Attorney G. W. Maxey and W. R. Lewis. For the new com mon picas place in Lehigh, for which the Governor did not have to make an appointment. Senator H. W. Sehantz, Congressman A. G. DeWalt and Ex-Senator M. A. Hen ninger are "candidating" as only men do in Lehigh. Judge Mac- Henry Wilhelm, of Schuylkill, is be ing opposed by Ex-Representative John E. Sones and M. A. Kilker. —And in addition to all this there are fourteen associate judges to be elected in the less populous counties. —Verily, this Is some political year in Pennsylvania. —Judge William H. Keller, of the Superior Court, has the field all to himself for election to the full term. At the same time committees of lawyers are working in his in terest in every county. —Next year Pennsylvania will elect an auditor general, State treas urer and a Supreme Court judge or two as well as all Its congressmen, twenty-five senators and all the rep resentatives. —Election of a successor to Albert L. Allen as assistant manager of the State Workmen's Insurance Fund which is expected to take place in the next week or so is a very pro lific source of discussion at the State Capitol. W. W. Green, who has been connected with the New Jer sey State Fund for some time, is said to have been seriously con sidered and to have had an inter view with Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Donaldson. The names of F. E, Bcdale, who is in charge of some of the coal rating work of the State fund and located at Greensburg, and Captain F. I. De- Haven, now in the United States Army, are two men connected with the Pennsylvania fund who have been talked of. —Considerable recommendation of Seth E. Gordon, assistant secre tary of the State Game Commission for several years, to succeed the late Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of tho commission for a long time, is being heard of. Mr. Gordon lives in Paxtang and has been urged by a number of prominent men because of familiarity with the work of the commission and the plans for the new reserves and other activities. —George Baker, prominent in Republican affairs in Adams coun ty for years, is mentioned as a pos sible deputy superintendent of pub lic printing and binding in which department it is expected that there will be a number of changes .made this fall. —Jolin O'Donnell, of Pittsburgh, said to have been prominent In the polities of that city for years, is no longer connected with the State Workmen's Insurance Fund. He was employed several months ago as a claim adjuster and is said to Jiave been recommended by friends of Senator Max O. Leslie, of Pitts burgh, hut according to men at the offices of the fund he was hard to find. Occasionally O'Donnell visited the office at Pittsburgh, it is said here, but the only regularity in State service that he seems to have mani i fested was when the payroll was made up. THAT GUILTIEST FEELING By BRIGGS — T _ —J . ijmpmiriu.iiu- . . f """" *\ f GET THE LOOK YHES TRVJIOSV I HOWEST JUDSE I \ ) OF PTSAPPOTNTMEMT\TO CONVINCE I VUOULDM'T HAVJE HAJ> J FRRED ' S PAC( Y THE JUDGE I /(1 , if J T / THAT HAPPEN FOR / L^T. RI T E / tfiAfeu No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK O. MAIHN Of the Army Recruiting Station , "The tank, more than any other , •weapon born of the great war," said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Station, 32 5 Mar- j ket street, Harrisburg, "may be called the joint enterprise of the three principal powers arrayed against Germany America. France, and Great Britain. An American produced the fundamen tal invention, the caterpillar trac tion device, which enables the fort ress to move. A Frenchman took the idea from this and evolved the tank as an engine of war. The British first used the terrifying monster in actual fighting. There is a common impression through out America that the British Army invented the tank. The impression is wrong in two ways. The French government has recently awarded the ribbon on the Region of Honor to the French ordnance officer who is officially hailed as the tank's in ventor. His right to the honor, how ever, is disputed by a French civil ian who possesses an impressive exhibition of drawings to prove that he and not the officer is the invent or. As this is written a lively controversy over the point is in progress in France. Wherever the credit for the invention belongs, the French were first to build tanks, building them only experimentally, however, and not using them until after the British had demonstrated their effectiveness. In the second place, it was not the British Army which adopted them iirst in Eng land, but the British Navy. The 1 tank as an idea shared the experi ence of many other war inventions in being skeptically received by the conservative experts. The British Navy, indeed, produced the first ones in England; but to the British Army goes the glory of having first used them in actual lighting and of es tablishing them in the forefont of modern offensive weapons. Brought forth as a surprise, the tanks made an effective debut in the great Brit ish drive for Cambrai. Later tho enemy affected to scoff at their use fulness. The closing months of the tanks' brief history, however, found them in greater favor than ever. Up to the beginning of the summer of 1917 there was little accurate in formation in this country regard ing the tanks. Somewhat hazy des cription had come from Europe, but about all that was known here was that the machines should be able to cross trenches about 6 feet wide, that each should carry one heavy gun and two or three ma chine guns, and that their protec tion should consist of armor plate about five-eighths of an inch thick. In September, 1917, decision had been made to supply the American Army with two types of tanks — one the large size, typical of that used by the British and capable of containing a dozen men, and the other a smaller one patterned after the French two-man model and known as the Renault. The deci sion to equip the American forces in Europe with tanks of two sizes was made only after thorough confer ences. The large British tank had been successful, but its limitations, recognized by British authorities, caused our officers to think it best to redesign in preference to copy ing. In the manufacture of the armor built for the Renault type of tank, the French made no at tempt to adhere to simple shapes, and a new source of supply for this armor had to be developed. Dur ing the summer and fall'of 1918 our tank program had beerv aug mented by the. development of two entirely new types of tanks. One was a two-man tank weighing 3 tons, built by the Ford Motor Co., costing about 84,000. This tank, mounting one machine gun, has a speed of about 8 miles an hour, and was to have been turned out at the rate of 100 a day. Tho other tank developed was a successor to the Renault, designed for production in great volume. This tank was to carry three men, instead of two; and mount two guns, one a machine gun, and the other a 37 mm. gun. Cost of production of this machine would have been much less than the Renault; its weight would be about, the same; and its fighting power greater. Altogether an outlay of about $17tt,000,000 was proposed In the tank program. We had ordered 23,405 tanks of several different types; and a large majority of these would have been ready for use by March of 1920. The Boche had I' had unpleasant acquaintance with Allied tanks; and these -jvero rela tively few in number us compared with the number expected. The V Cardinal Mertier's Visit to America By J. Olin Howe In Boston Transcript. The Rev. Dr. Peter Joseph de Strycker is here as the personal representative of Cardinal Mer cier, arranging for the visit of the latter to the United States this month. While the King and Queen of Belgium are coming to this country soon, Cardinal Mercicr will be the first Belgian of pro minence in the war to visit America. The Cardinal comes first to New York and will then visit other American cities, go ing through to the Pacific coast if he can arrange his affairs at home so as to be away for a long enough time to make this feas ible. His first thought will be to visit his colleagues in the Col lege of Cardinals, and inasmuch as Cardinal Gibbons is the senior American Cardinal, Car dinal Mercier may go first to Baltimore. If that be the case, he will next visit Cardinal O'Donnell, and Boston will have its opportunity to see the simple, kindly, quiet man who became a world llgure over night by carrying out his pastoral duty without regard to what might come of it. I FOUND Doctor de Strycker at the office of the Belgian Bureau, far over towurd the Hudson ] river in Forty-seventh street, and the humidity of a sticky August forenoon seemed not to have af fected him, despite the climatic dif ferences between Louvuin and New York. As he told me of the plans for Cardinal Mercier's stay in this country Doctor de Strycker's eyes lightened and he had a word to say about the pleasure of his task be cause of the almost affectionate interest Americans have in the Bel gian Cardinal. "You may not have realized how Cardinal Mercier's stand fired the imagination of Americans," I said. "This is the land of liberty and no thing takes hold of us more quick ly or wins sympathy and appreci ation more readily than action such ] as his." No Thought of Acclaim But he didn't do it for that," re plied the Belgian. "There was no ] thought of popular approval in Car dinal Mercier's mind when ho issued those pastorial letters. Nor, pri- j marily, was he intent on defying! the Germans. It was with him simply a matter of duty. It is a part > of his daily task to aid his people i in an hour of need with any words] that may be helpful to them. Suf- i ferlng and affiiction lay heavy on all ] Belgium and his was the duly to] lighten it if he could. He did his! best to do it, and I need hardly tell ' you of the comfort and fresh cour-1 age Belgians took from what ho i wrote. "He is a philosopher, one of the I great philosophers of his age. His ] is a wonderful mind and he has de-i veloped his intellect so that it has' many sides. No subject under the i sun but he has some familiarity j with. He has made it a point to! gain tho widest possible range cfj information nnd store it awayi against occasion when he might re-1 quire it. "His conception of the science of i sound and that fact is well known in Belgium. "Even King Albert has been known to discuss public affairs with the Cardinn'—unofficially, of course, for tho latter holds no official po prospect of a collossnl drive hordes of Americans, countless automatic weapons, and a veritable tide of | tanks, was enough to make Ger | many quit." Bargains in Islands ; [From the Cleve'and Plain Dealer.] Not for their intrinsic value did the United States buy the Danish West Indies. Not because Denmark was tired of bothering with them and wished to unload did America come to her relief. We paid $25,000,000 for St. Thomaß, St. John and Santa Cruz because we desired and needed an outer protection for the Panama Canal. Having bought the three is lands the United States is less than ! luke warm about acquiring any more. West Indian islands are not] sition in relation to our government, j But the King is so well aware of the I thoroughness of his knowledge and I the keen perception he brings to [ bear on matters of current secular interest that he finds it very pleas ant to spend a quiet hour going over many things with hi 3 elder friend. I do not mean that he seeks advice. That would hardly be' expected. Nor that Cardinal Mercicr ever offers it. "So when the Germans came to Belgium Cardinal Mercier was well prepared. He knew international law l'ully as well as they did and was as familiar with tho rules of warfare among civilized nations. He knew his rights and was determined that they should not disregard thein. There was nothing in the law of no tions which forbid his issuing the pastoral letters which he desired his people to read and was not bound to regard and regulations which the German governing authority might make on that point. Tho Cardinal Defied the Germans ; "The first letter on patriotism and j endurance was issued without pre-] liminary announcement and by the' time the Germans saw it much ofl Belgium was familiar with it, so that' the situation was clear to everybody. I The German officers soon came toj see the Cardinal and expressed sur- < prise that he had issued any such] letter without informing them, but! were willing to assume that he did not know how offensive was his action. They felt that they could perhaps afford to let the offense go for the time, but of course he would not transgress again, i "'I agree to nothing of the kind,' rep'ied Cardinal Mercier. 'I am fully familiar with international law [and my rights under it and just , how far you can go in governing I territory which you claim to have j conquered and where you must stop, i You have no authority under which you may interfere with me in this. Your jurisdiction does not cover the pastoral advices of the church. Do not understand that I have sent out this letter because of any misap prehension on my part. I am under no misapprehension. I have the most perfect right to do what I have done. More, it is my duty, and I shall do it again if I find occasion. ; " 'lf there is unfamlliarity with ! the lnw, it is on your part,' said tho Cardinal, 'not on mine. You can not interfere between a pastor and j his flock. Do not take it that I ! have erred at all. It is you who arc ;in error. I make you no pledges ins to the future, and shall do my ! duty as I see it, having due respeet| ;for constitutional authority, but giv i ing no uttention to any assumption of power which you do not possess." 1 Doctor de Strycker discussed the j Cardinal'* second letter, the suffer ,ings of Belgium and the outcome of the war. Then the conversation I took a new turn. j He concluded: "Germany of to iday feels differently townrd the rest 'of the world than before 1914. "Her people know they failed in i their effort to dominate the world land they are not sure this could j ever be accomplished. For the pre- I sent, anyway, It is not so much in I their thoughts as Is getting hack into | the good graces of tho rest of Ihnmnnity. The Germans are a proud nnd sensitive people and it cuts them terribly to feel that they are despised and even hated by the other peoples of tho earth. They will. I think, do everything in their 'power to change that." as a rule, profltab'e Investments. The report from London that Great Britain would gladly give tho United States some or all of her West Indies as part payment of the British debt is neither preposterous nor incredible. It 'osts money for Britain to own and administer the islands. They are of no strategic vulue now that the United States has the Panama Canal and the Virgin Is lands. If Great Britain could trade in a batch of Indies for a hundred dollars or so it would be a good stroke of business. It is not likely that the islanders would object to the transfer of nl 'egiance. There Is. indeed, a fac tion on some of the islands that openly favors American annexation. The only interested party likeiv to make objection is the ' United States. The American republic has negligible Imperial ambitions, and acquiring islands does not appeal to the American fancy. Halt the Profiteering [From the Scranton Republican.! First in the program of recon struction which demands the earn est attention of the American peo ple, is the reduction of the neces saries of life. The high cost of liv ing is the main cause of the pre valent anxiety and unrest, and the solution of this problem must pre cede the settlement of the many other questions that are agitating the public mind. The men in control of supplies must realize that war prices for the essential commodities cannot con tinue in a time of peace. They should address themselves to a com mon sense readjustment of values on a pie-war plan, so that industry and commerce may be relieved and the. purchasing power of the dollar restored to something like what it was before this country entered the world conflict. The increased cost of living makes for other increased demands, and those in turn add to the price of pro duction, and the addition of a fur ther price increase for supplies, making a circle which shows no limit. It is evident, therefore, that prices must come down in order to restore normal conditions and sta bilize industrial enterprise. In an address delivered a flaw days ago at Niagara Fails by Isaac Newton Stevens, president of the Commonwealth Casualty Company, he reviewed the prevailing economic unrest in broad terms, tine of his practical suggestions was that prof iteering should be dealt with in the same manner as usury. He says, "there is no reason why the man who loans you money, at usurious rates, should go to jail, while the man who takes it away from you at four times usurious rates for the necessaries of life should be regard ed as a social or moral or political leader and go unpunished." After discussing the subject from various angles Mr. Stevens says: "If we are to expect the conquest of the world, commercially and spiritually, we must conquer greed and extrava gance and lack of system in our own transactions." The first duty is to cut out profiteering and reduce the cost of living to a reasonable basis. Shall Prices Be Pushed Up? [From Kansas City Star.] It is self evident, as the President said, that to meet the wage demands of the railroad shopworkers would entail an increase in the price cf transportation that would at once be added to the cost of livlhg. In the same way a 6-hour day for the anthracite miners with an advance of 60 per cent, in wages would in crease the price of coal which would increase the cost of transportation and of manufacturing. Sometime, of course, the race be tween wages and the cost of living has got to stop. There are just two ways for such an outcome to be brought about. It will come as the i I resui t of that sober thinking to ' which the President hus appealed. Or else it will come with a jolt. People will bo unable to puy the high prices, the demand will fall off and factories will be obliged to close, throwing men out of work. Such an outcome is to be avoided at ail hazards, if possible. But it can be avoided only if the Nation as a whole is willing to ac cept the alternative and meet the high cost of living by increasing pro duction. Europe's Pie Uncle Sam, don't linger, Hear the warning cry; Do not poke your finger Into Europe's pie. It will make you tremble, Cause you pain and aches; It does not resemble Those that mother makes. Strongly upper crusted, Bottom sad to see, It cannot be trusted Not to disagree. Stop the fuss and fidget, .Bide at home for aye; Keep your trigger digit Out of Europe's pie. —McLandburgh Wilson. Old Missouri Houn' Dawg ! [From the De Ivulb County Herald.] Rex, the Bunton greyhound, is j dead at about 18 years of age. ile lias been a rare, bony, historic, long, lean, lank and hungry looking fig ure around tills town a long time. E. A. Bunton, owner of the dog, brought him here years ago and he is the last survivor of the mighty string of hounds Mr. Bunton once owned in this community. When :Mr Bunton was asked about the i outstanding qualities of the departed I Ilex he said: "Oh, by grab, lie was 1 just a friend to everybody." 1 iaiming Cljat j "From I have learned the fishermen of Eastern Pennsylvania have not wanted for good bass list ing this summer and in some locali ties it has been exceptionally fine," said Commissioner of Fisheries Na than R. Buller to-day. The Com missioner has returned from a tour of northern counties and along tlio Delaware river. "We have been placing bass in a number of streams the last few years and 1 wanted to see how the fishing developed," said the Commissioner, "and everywhere 1 received gratifying reports. The fishing oh the Delaware has been good and the whole Susquehanna, basin has had pretty fair bass fish ing. Of course, there are some places where there has been poor fishing, but as a general proposition the bass have been found and have —' furnished excellent sport. The plans of the department contemplate a distribution of bass from the hatch erics this fall and we intend to make the supply go as far as pos sible, although the demands have been very great." Secretary of Agriculture Frederik Rasntussen intends to ask the Statu Welfare Commission at its coming conference on various lines of spe cial activity brought about by the effort to reduce living costs to have a survey made of the marketing fa cilities in every city. "There aro * various cities and boroughs where there are market houses and some places where there are none; other towns where curb markets are flour ishing and some where such mar kets could be located advantageous ly," said he. "My idea is to find out just what facilities exist for market ing. As far as I know this infoi mation has never heen gathered for the whole State and it may show us something worth knowing. At the same time we could seo just how proximity to farming -and truck gardening districts affects market ing. I have Harrisburg, Lancaster and some other cities in mind tv*. ideal places for the survey." Who is boss of the Capitol Park extension territory embraced in-tiio streets, lanes and alleys of the. twen ty or thirty blocks bought by the Commonwealth is a question which is agitating the Capitol. The Stain has torn down all the houses and ripped up some of the paving anil sidewalks from streets and also taken a couple of blocks for a park for trucks for the State Highway Department. It has also roped off what used to be Cowden street, from State to North. The other day a policeman, representing the fr.e City of Harisburg, undertook to pass through the roped section. A State watchman "fliArged" him. The po liceman was indignant, but the Stale officer said that no one was to go near the parked cars. The polio. - man went up the old highway, any way. The State man complained. Who wins? The nature lover has asked if we know that the big oak trees at his toric Paxton Church are the largest and oldest living things in this sec tion? Their diameter and girth prove their age to exceed a round century possibly two centuries. Their very presence to-day com mands the silence due to war ships! And what interesting and quaint tales they could tell, if blessed with the power of human tongues! The tombs of our ancestors under the shadows of the monster trees speak louder than words. Truly, it is emblematic of the Great King and His Kingdom. This locality must have been a tree elysium. East of old Linglestown, near the public highway, stands a sturdy, massive sycamore tree which measures 30 feet in circumference, or nearly 10 feet in diameter. Although self planted. at least 100 years ago, it selected a most favorable spot. Its branches are 3 feet in diameter, and reach outwards nearly 100 feet. Within 300 feet of the ancient mon arch, repose tye remains of an In dian. The owner of the farm dis covered the grave while digging postholes, but would not disturb the body. The tree stands alone in a cornfield, as a silent monitor. • • "Do you know that some people never have really good eating po tatoes?" was an interrogation pro pounded to me by a former well known ex-official of the Pennsyl vania Department of Agriculture. "Let me tell you the reason: Pota toes handled by large commission firms are usually shipped in carload lots, in bulk. Tt requires from 10 to 20 loads to till a car. In many instances potatoes from at least four to a dozen kinds of soil, and of as many different varities are load ed and mixed in one car. How do such potatoes cook? Some will cook in 20 minutes: some, in thirty; some in forty; and some never so you can eat them with a relish. The good, old-style, dry, floury and pal atable potato too often is missing from our table. Even though you pav your grocer a fancy price, it w'll not Insure a fancy flavor. While the average housewife may know the wonderful difference in the oualitv and flavor of various varieties of apples, she is slow to discriminate in the selection of a table necessity that is used daily. Excellence of quality has given the Berks-Lehigh potato growing belt, a Notional reputation. At the great Allentown fair, the growers usually enter over 500 baskets for competi tion." [ WaL KNOWN PEOPLE Colonel J. P. Kerr, one of the candidates for County Commissioner in Allegheny county, is making speeches nightly in his old-time —Congressman E. R. Kiess, of the Williamsport district, is making a tour of the farmers' picnics in his section. —Colonel W. D. Uhler. chief en gineer of the Stato Highway De partment, has been covering over 200 miles a day inspecting roads. —Senator William E. Crow, who has been ill. is recuperating at his farm near Uniontown. —General W. G. Price, the new commander of the National Guard, has been visiting western counties to view the situation. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlshurg building regulations have been copied by a number of cities? HISTORIC lIARRISBURG —Eor over seventy-five years stage coaches hud headquarters at the north end of Market Square.
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