16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TH* TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegrragh Building. Fed-rat Sarn B. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, . F. R. OYSTER. ■Cumbers of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub- Ished herein, ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American ,rl Newspaper Pub ' flishers'h Associa- Bureau of Circu- ESIBkSSjSW lation and Penn lT s yl^ania_ i Associa- Eastern office ! Wffilil CT fhnlev B i'. ook3 & jfljHjfr VB Avenue Building office' — : Chicago, n'l! ld ' nS ; Sintered at the Post Office in Harrts burg. Pa., as second class matter. , By crrler, ten cents a week; by mail, is.oo a year In advance. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1919 Be echo mill sever do anything that he is uof paid for trill soon reach the place where no one iclll pay for any thing that he does.—Christian Register. FALSE FEARS THE President evidently fears j the rise of Bolshevism in the United States, or he is wilfully playing upon the nerves of timid people in order to gain supporters for the Peace Treaty. If the first, he simply marks him self as silly; if the latter, he is guilty of reprehensible political methods, j "Do you honestly think that none of that poison has got into the veins j of this free people?" he asked in Des Moines the other day. And "do you honestly believe there is any danger of Bolshevism in America?" | If you do, or do not, support the Peace Treaty aaid, presto, we sup pose, your fears or your hopes will be dispelled. You pay your money and you take your choice. But the question persists does Mr. Wilson really believe what he apparently intends to imply? And 1 either way one answers a bad taste remains. We, as good Americans, know that the country is not going to turn 80l- I shevist. We have no foolish notion of trying in this country an experi ment that has brought ruin, murder, robbery, outrage and starvation up on Russia, and which is on the wane even in that benighted country. The President ought to know that, too, and knowing it shuld not in ject false arguments into his Treaty talks; but if he does not know it he is wholly ignorant of the spirit and temper of the American peo ple. GENERAL PERSHING WHILE Americans have ap- ! plauded wholeheartedly and I with all the enthusiasm tha i occasion demands the homecoming of General Pershing, they have not been above watching the nation's 1 newest hero with critical eye and ' listening to what he has had to say ! with judicial ear. So many of our 1 soldiers and sailors, great in the ' hour of conflict, have proved them- I selves such ordinary clay in other ! circumstances that we have come I to take our hero worship with a ' grain of salt. But Pershing has d:s- I appointed nobody. He has neither ! thrown aside his dignity to he Moo- j Bonlxed by silly, sentimental womei., J nor has he done any posing lor Ihe benefit of an adoring multitude. I' Is the same Pershing who, as ne ' said, "went away quietly, and in a ' fog," who comes back to us mm ' the blare of trumpets and the roll of drums— unaffected, unassuming and ' modestly placing the credit for his ; great achievements on the bravery! and skill of the American dough- j boy. "The American doughboy is tt.e finest soldier in the world," he sat 1 to those who would have congratu lated him, "and to him as the dom inant force In the American armies the credit must go." Pershing is a man of the type of Schley, whose saying a t the battle of Santiago- "There is glory enough for all"—covers the present situa tion very well. And Americans, pleased with the General's modest- | will acclaim him the louder for his generosity. TWO SIDES TO IT IT IS well that the farmers of llie district are to pass on the ad visability of a wholesale market for Harrisburg. If it meets their approval it will be established, if It does not, then there is no use go ing farther with the project, lor Without the support of the groweis such a market would be without re •ulta Several farmers have expressed doubts as to the utility of a whole sale market for Harrisburg, on the ground that tli y have not time to come to market , .ur times a week and that they would sooner meet the oonsumer over the retail counter r FRIDAY EVENING, SutßißßrrßO TELEGRXPS SEPTEMBER 12, 1919.. than to sell their wares to com mission men who would- resell them In the markets as fresh vegetables, whereas they would be in reality two days old, at least. There is unquestionably some truth In this, but against these arguments must be placed the fact that wholesale markets are operated to the benefit of the consumer in many other cities—especially during the canning season, when he is able ito buy fruits and vegetables ! reasonably In basket and bushel lots —and that a wholesale market j would tend to increase production I by putting on sale larger quantities lof farm stuffs at the local grocery i stores. There are two sides to this matter I and both should be thoroughly con | sidered before a final decision is i reached. Certain it is that a num | ber of farmers now do a wholesale j business in Harrisburg and they should be recognized by piovision of | a place where they may stand lo dis j pose of their much to be desired i products. THE SAME HERE I A HAI.F-IkiZKN paragraphs of j Lloyd George's recent speech in tiio Ilouse of Commons are of especial interest at ttiis time, in ! view of a similarity of conditions | here and in England. In his re marks with respect to high living costs, business and labor difficulties and public ownership, he said:. The production of coal this yen™ j wilt oe only 200,000,it00 ions, I against l'n;.. i.ikh. t, n .s before the j war. although the numbe™ of miners has increased by 30,000. A i ton of coal now costs 2t> shil lings. against only 10 shillings four yea is ago. The English people are con- , I stinting more and producing less. | Private expenditure in the aggrv ; gate is more formidable than pub- ; lie expenditure, it cannot last. We shall never improve mat- j ters until we increase production, or wo will be driven later on to , reduce even low- i tin standard ->I li\ing in England. There Is no other alternative except quitting the country for which we fought fo* four years. It Is a dangerous and fatal fal- j lacy that the less some men work the more work there Will be for i others to do. We cannot prosper, eve cannot even exist, without bringing ip j the foreign trade butane. adding ; to our exports and lessening our imports. State ownership of the British coal mines wi'l not prevent i strikes, because the recent miners' strike in Yorkshire and the rail way labor troubles under Govern ment control are evidence that , harmony could not pro*, til with the w< rkers tinder state owner- i ship any better than under pri vate ownership. The British Gov- j eminent, therefore, refuses to tie- j cept the proposal tlt a - the Gov- i ernmt r should buy out the own- j ers of the coal lands although a | plan is under consideration to re- • organize the mining industry lo areas and permit the workers to I have directors representing th--m | on the boards of control In the , different areas. These are the observations of a man whose rise to power was based on his labor sympathies, but who never permits his sense of propor tion or his personal leanings lo prejudice his good judgment. The need of the United States® at this moment is for a leader of the Lloyd George stamp, hut failing that we I may at least take a few lessons from ' his leadership' in a country beset by j many of the prob'ems with which ! the United States is now confronted, j "POETIC LICENSE" WE MUST not take too seriously ! what President Wilson says j of dire results to America I following n possible rejection of the German peace treaty. It will lie recalled that he at vari ous times has said— That we are "too proud to fight:" That we would "not send troops . into Mexico;" That the adoption of woman suf- i frage "was necessary to the win- j ning of the war;" That the "election of a Republi- j can Congress would add two years j to the war." The President would have made a j great poet. He has such a wonder- ' ful imagination, uses so many fig- ! ures of speech and never hesitates to j employ what versifiers politely term "poetic license." York Is looking this way. Mayor| Hugentupler intends to see that danc-| ing on the Codorus this winter will i be done without a squirm. The first' syllable of his name was no enconr- j agement for the "shlmmle" dancers. ; STRANGER THAN FICTION THAT truth really is stranger I than fiction is revealed by the J story of Captain Fritz Du- j quesne, a notorious criminal, who | disappeared from the prison ward j of the Bellevue Hospital in New j York. May 26, made a sensational j escape in an automobile and later l flew across the border to Mexico. | The information regarding the man- j ner of the escape is said to have I been transmitted by Duquesne in a ! letter to a friend. Duquesne, who was convicted on ' a charge of filing a false claim for j insurance, is also wanted by the | British authorities in connection with ! the sinking of the steamship Tenny- ! son off the coast of Bahia, Brazil, j in February, 1916. He had been a! captain in the Boer army. In 1901 I he was convicted of high treason ' by the British authorities in Cape ; Colony and deported to Bermuda, j from where he escaped. lie sub- '■ sequently figured in exploits in Cen- i tral and South America. Duquesne pretended to be a para- j lytfe while lie was confined following his conviction in New York and de ceived the prison physicians so suc cessfully that he was transfered to the prison ward of the Bellevue Hospital. Attendants in that in stitution also were convinced Du quesne was unable to use his limbs, but after he disappeared they found the bars in his cell sawed and a blanket dangling from u window to u shed below. Here is a tale not so far removed from that of the prisoner in Dumas' novel, "The Count of Monte-Cristo," I who concealed himself in a bag, tak ] ing the place of a dead companion, j and armed only with .a knife per- I mitted himself to be cast into the sea, where he escaped by cutting I himself out of his canvas coffin. There is something alluring in [the adventures of even the most t disreputable scoundrels, providing •they are sufficiently hair-raising, and I Captain Duquesne is entitled to whatever publicity he has achieved. I whether or not he will make proper j use of the liberty that has accom i panied his wide advertisement as a j man of courage and resource. i j °K i UA. By the Ex-Committccnian j To-morrow will be final registra ! t ' on day in Pittsburgh, Soranton and , l ' lp 'hirty-four or five third class [ cities in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia registration commis sion will rule with regard to chal lenged voters for the primary. II will be one of the most important days in a political sense of the whole campaign as it will show just how many thousands of voters are going to be qualified to vote next Tuesday,in a series of historic con tests. Philadelphia newspapers • are coming more and more to the be lief that the large registration imans that Congressman J. Hamp ton Moore will win, while others notably, the Press, are going after Senator E H. Vare with vigor. The Philadelphia figures ate close to 3:15,000, which breaks all records, although Senator Vare declares i: is only "normal." The Senator also says that Moore men have been misrepresenting the figures. The of ficial registration on the last day ; in Philadelphia was 66,753. The Philadelphia content is at- i trading attention all over the State j and many newspapers are com- ; Hu nting upon t ne big registration ' and speculating as to what it means to men who have 1 een State figures. The Pittsburgh newspapers arc giving colli!.;ca to the battle against j t.ie Leslie-Cubcock combination, : which is generally admitted by men who follow politics is up against i tremendous light. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Tinus points to the lug registration as evidence of the vot- | ers in that city being -aroused ar | much as they are in Philadelphia. It estimates the registration for th - ' primary at 90,090 in yesterday's is sue. —The Soranton Times says that ! 6.3(i0 men ieg stored on the second day and looks for a big registra- i tion in that city on Saturday. The | first day there were 7,623 men regis- ; tered. The Scranton Republican j appears to be well satisfied with the i Republican strength in the regis tration. and urges that it lie made stronger than ever to-morrow. —The Philadelphia Record says of the progress of the' Philadelphia campaign: "After an Interchange j of yesterday between the : Moore and Patterson forces, the de- j cision was awarded to the anti-' contractor fraction because of a j protest filed by members o? the Washington Party Pity Committee and delegates to the Republican State and National Convention, who supported Roosevelt, protesting against the efforts of the Vare ma chine to use the name of the Bull Moose idol in the present campaign. The protest was signed by many prominent citizens, who in days gone by were enthusiastic Bull Moose rs." —Williamsport is having some real politics these days. The can didates are on all the tickets pretty much. Mayor A. W. Hoagland be ing opposed for Republican nomi nation by W. Heintz. They have ap position for the Democratic nomi nation from S. Herman Alter, a long-time Democrat, who for several years has been in the employ of the American Federation of Labor as an organizer. The Socialists have nominated P. A. McGowan. another local labor leader. —Dr. Theodore Campbell, Phila delphia legislator, has withdrawn | as a candidate for council in his district. —Representative Jacob Hamilton seems to have the inside track for the Republican nomination for sheriff in Montgomery county. —William S. Tompkins, who figured considerably in the Rrum baugh administration, is out as a candidate for recorder in Luzerne. —Bethlehem claims a population of 65,000. Mayor Reiehenbach has refused to discharge Chief of Police Berk hard of AUentown, because of ac tions in a recent strike. —The Scranton Times prints this significant paragraph about Roland S. Morris, of Philadelphia, who is occasionally mentioned as Demo cratic gubernatorial nomination timber; "He had been prominent in Democratic politics both in the State and nation from the time of the Democratic reorganization, and was chairman of the Democratic State committee for several years. He was trusted with many important matters by President Wilson in the early years of his first administra tion. He is a man of great ability. —The Scranton Republican says: "Figures compiled at the county commissioners' office from the re turns by assessors in the boroughs and townships of the county show that there are 25,000 voters regis tered this fall and eligible to vote at the primaries September 16 and the general election November 4. These figures do not include any of the registrants in Scranton or Car bondale." Mighty Good World Mighty good world if you take it all round. Stormy or sunshiny weather, With heaven above you • And one heart to love you— Live and Love going together! Sing it that way In Ihe dark of the day; Eton wi'd Winter Keepa blossoms of May! Never a star in the heavens afar Gives out a beam that is brighter Than the world where you're living. With sweetest Thanksgiving, Where Love mukys the burden seem lighter. Sing it that way 'Neath the blue sky and gray; "Even wild Winter Makes blossoms of May!" —Frank L. Stanton In the Atlanta Constitution. A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE ... .... ByBRIGGS R" " RRRTTX \ DEAR-S' L = r~' V /EUNICE. GET. \ ( HOW YDU / J _ IKE. HAPPY ( JT I NLOR I I I'M FSLAD TO . | ( ARS LOOKI IVIGI ) /SF\\' \I• 'H T, RIDS' HO/VVG I £ I 1 .SEE YOU BACK! J > HOW ARE 1 1 VTSL 1 IF£ TC „ MY <IU ■ I -TJ^CRE T I V-V ' V. DEARIE ? IAW'" GUM POP- I AGAIN TO —/>-*—^ —TN *-IF —. _- ■_ R KT J 1 -POP- \ DADDY ?7/SAY YES| FLKNI2VA/ [\ I^S\^ H TERR6TE T F 7^°~ 1 TELL YOU I DIP /IS TMI-: FE/F\ /2% A ISWK> ■ , M COME HOME NIGHTS- HOT| YAAyY RIGHT J:V I 4%; LOOHIMG PLACE. EVJERY NIGHT- NO - BUT V syV%o. \ K'HY-IT Y OH CLAYToM " ]'; | DID SSPSMD MFTWY A NIGHT/ J PON' T T Y I F _' ; A YOU HERS I DON'T CARE I AYCZI / E^-~ ~Z*Y/A? 1 WHAT YOU THINK-HM. H YY# ALUKH / J ?'■ J NOT TO BG BAWLGD / /yY\ £*l/ IL L TLK I ' OPPOSE / RDX UFI FFF] S>, S///' C OUT ROFT 3C/M£THING >YJ yr/V;.* FEW ¥/s<&!s [*&&&> Ww swm VBR (A AJS? M*! No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MA II IN Of the Army Recruiting Station Towards the end of the war the question of how soon we could lick I the Roche was one of manpower. 1 When we first got in the Germans J didn't believe we would make good ! soldiers, or that we could build up i an appreciable aimy in less than i three or four years, and even if we ' could, we could not get that army to Europe. But till of their dope was wrong. We did make good sol diers and we built up a big army in 1 little more than a year, furthermore, ! we got two million men to France i and had more millions getting ready \ to go over. After they had tested our mettle on the .Marne and in St. ] Mihiel things looked mighty dark j for them and they started doing a ' little figuring. They found we had , registered ten million, six hundred thousand men between the ages of 21 and 31, that we had registered a further thirteen million five hun dred thousand between 18 and 45. 'Now from experience it had been found- that at the ages of 21 to 31, ' the ten million odd registrants j would yield seven million, one hun- ' dred thousand who were physically ' fit to serve; the other three and a ] half million being disqualified for \ some physical defect or other. Of the seven million oddt less than two million, seven hundred thousand had been drafted, leaving four mil lion, four hundred thousand able bodied young men still to come in without ever touching the thirteen i and a half millions of older and younger men of whom probably six I million would be fit to serve. In ] other words we still had upwards to ten million men to draw on while Germany's manpower was drained to the last dregs. But something that even the Germans did not I know, and has only recently been made public, are the facts that the men from only twelve states, and those all in the middle west, had from 70 to 80 per cent, of their young men, who were drafted, ac cepted after physical examination. In thofo states from 20 to 30 per cent, were unfit. In 13 states, main ly in tlie middle west and souUi from 65 to 69 per cent, were accept- j ed and the rest rejected. In 10 j states, including Pennsylvania, in the east and far west, from 60 to 64 per cent., were accepted, and in 13 states, including all New Eng land and New York, also California, Washington and Colorado, from 50 to 59 per cent, were accepted. In other words, right in Pennsylvania, of every hundred young men draft ed 36 or 37 would be rejected for purely physical disqualifications. It was found that of every 100,000 country boys. 4,790 more would be accepted for service than in an equal number of city boys. Similar ly 100,000 whites would furnish 1,240 more soldiers than would an equal number of colored. And final ly, 100,000 native-born would yield 3.500 more soldiers than would a like number of foreign-born. Now since an infantry regiment at war strength has 3,700 men, it is appar ent how vital was this difference. The country boys furnished a regi ment and a battalion more for every 100,000 drafted than did the city boys, which makes one think that perhaps there is something af ter all in the "back to the country" movement. And that the native born furnished, a regiment more per 100.000 than, the foreign born makes one rather pleased at being able to live in the U. S. A. When one considers this last set of figures it gives an insight into the reasons Germany was drafting consumptives, young hoys and old men into her army Their men were three and a half per cent, less able bodied than ours, and when you are dealing in millions that is an enormous differ ence. But, that even we lost the services of hundreds of thousands of young men because they had been without systematic exercise and phy sical training in their boyhoods is without question. The German boys got the exercise and training but thev did not get the food or the in herited strength and stamina of our own people, so that from these prem ises one may trace their downfall to cause possibly ce \turies old as well as to the qualities of courage, skill, initiative and determination that licked them on the battlefield. Pershing's New Rank [From the New York World.] With a eulogy well deserved and fittingly supplemented by the Presi dent's written inedbage, Secretary of War Baker presented to General Pershing on his landing a commis sion carrying the highest rank known to the American Army. Vote, But-Can't Have Pockets OURS is an ill-used sex, says a woman in the Continental edi tion of the London Mail. In the newest frocks once more there are no pockets. We have gained freedom and recognition and the vote, for which we had long been clamoring. In aU respects save this we ara man a equal. We have earned the right to live as man lives. We can fight our own battles, strap-hang, smoke —there is no end to the wild de lights wherein we can revel. But still this privilege, peculiarly man's, in all probability, will be denied us forever. Just look at a man. A man can carry the whole of his portable property on his person without in convenience, if he likes. It is easy for him. He has the means of trans port. Watch any man, and sooner or later he is certain to give you an ; unconscious demonstration. It is : his to feel in one pocket and pro- I duce some money; to feel in an- i other and produce some more. He extracts a pipe and a pouch and a box of matches from somewhe. e else, and a pocketbook from yet an other receptacle. Then he has a place for his fountain pen, and a cozy nest fpr his season ticket, and normally a compartment where a handkerchief reposes, solitary. These are the obvious ones; the Lord knows how many more mis cellaneous holdalls are distributed about his garments. All this he manages without dif ficulty; nor does it affect his ap pearance in the slightest. I have en- European states confer higher mil itary titles than that of general, but not one of them carries honor more distinguished. Literary Notes A half dozen very beautiful and interesting books for children of varied ages are promised for publi cation during September and Oc tober by E. P. Dutton & Co. Of particular interest and charm be cause of its remarkable illustrations will he "A Chinese Wonder Book," by Norman Hinsdale Pitman, who has made English versions of fasnous Chinese stories for children, the stories to which hundreds of thou sands of little boys and girls in silk pantaloons and tunics with pigtails hanging down their backs have lis tened with wide-eyed wonder. Among them are such fascinating tales as "Why the Dog Hated the Cat," "The Talking Fish," "The Nodding Tiger." The illustrations are to be twelve very beautiful plates iei color made from paintings by a Chinese artist named Li Chu-t'ang. There will be an addition to the "Little Schoolmates" series, which grows rapidly in the favor of young readers. There have been published already ten titles, each illuminating for' young American readers the life of some other nation by means of an interesting story of children in that country. The new story will be about the children of Italy and will be called "The Cart of Many Colors." Nannlna Laville Meiklejohn is the author and Miss Florence Con verse, of the staff of the Atlantic Monthly, the general editor, of the series, has written for it another of the understanding and sympathetic letters with which she prefaces each volume. "Jewish Fairy Tales and Stories" contain a collection of stories from various Jewish writings animated by the old spirit of the race. The translator and editor, Gerald Fried lander, has retold* these stories in a modern setting. Eleanor Forjeon's "Singing >es for Children" will be a book of* dramatic games with music, de signed for acting by young children, and is likely to prove popular not only in homes where there are a number of young people but especi ally in schools, settlements, churches and the like. For the little tots Carine Cadby's "Puppies and Kittens, and Other Stories" will afford the greatest pleasure with its tales about small animals and small children and its thirty-nine illustrations from photo graphs by Will Cadby. War Making [From the New York Herald. 1 Several simple questions are raised by the MeCormick resolution. First, lln sending troops to Russia would iwe be entering on a new war or countered men far prouder of their figures than a woman of hers —ob- noxious men, capable not only of corsets, but of pretty corsets —who yet carried sufficient unheeded odd ments around with them to form the nucleus of a happy little home. This is what we resent most of all. For let a woman try to do the same and she bulges all over. She de velops indiscriminate knobs in un expected and impossible places. For this reason we are not allow ed to have pockets worthy of the name. Dressmakers won't let us. If we put a firm foot down and in sist, they yield with the air of those who sacrifice art to necessity • and give us what we ask for. Then comes the reckoning. I once knew a brave woman, who dared Fate's worst, demanded pockets, and hav ing got them, proceeded to use them. The result was tjiat she looked like a Christmas stocking. So. woman is driven to making shift with a handbag, and man, the unreasonable, laughs at her. When, some years ago, we developed the handbag until it reached sensible and comprehensive proportions, it amused him because it was largo. Now that we have reduced its size and beautified it with beads, he looks upon it with contempt because it is small. In Eden's name, what does he want? As for the girl who wears a. dainty miniature mirror and pow der box swinging at the end of a long silver chain, let no man judge her hastily. The chances are tha;, far from parading her vanity for all the world to see, the poor soul has nowhere else to carry the things. cleaning up an old one. Second, if the former is the case, when did Congress cease to have authority to declare war." Third, when did we go to war with Russia? There is no way t <t dodge these queries un less on the assumption that the executive can do no wrong. Seven Sentence Sermons Chance never helps the men who do not work. —Sophocles. Good order is the foundation of all good things.—Burke. • • • I bow before the noble mind That freely some great wrong for gives, Yet nobler is the one forgiven Who bears the burden well and lives. —A. A. Proctor. • • * The infallible receipt for happiness is to do good; and the infallible receipt for doing good is to abide in Christ. Henry Drummond. * • * For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of my words in this adul* terous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels. —Mark 8:38. > * • Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with a dome most vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! —Oliver Wendell Holmes. To J>e what we are, and to become what we arc capable of becoming, is the only end of life. —Robert Louis Stevenson. LABOR NOTES Ninety per cent, of the consumers in Great Britain are workers. Men farm laborers in Japan average 19 cents a day and the women 11 1-2 cents. In 25 days 22 charters were issued by the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association. Wages of structural Iron workers In Dallas. Teaxs, have been increased to $7 a day Contract shops at Peoria. 111., have granted machinists an advance of from 80 to 90 1-2 cents an hour. A wage Increase of J3 a week has been secured by municipal electrical workers at Riverside, Cal. The scarcity of labor In Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity has been the means of laborers receiving an average of 14.50 , a day. LEAGUE IN SPOTLIGHT [From Kansas City Star] "Offered to tho American people. A sure preventive of war. If you fa vor perpetuating war with all its horrors you will not be Interested. If you detest war you will instruct your Senator to vote for our patent remedy, the League of Nations." The foregoing is the advertise ment put out from Washington. It is circulated by all the advocates of the League in a hundred different forms. A motion picture show pre sents a series of scenes depicting the horrors and misery of the bat tlefield. Then comes the moral flashed on the screen: "The only way to prevent further wars is to ratify the League of Nations." So it goes. The advertisements are most alluring. What rational human being would not abolish war if he could do so by simply getting his government to sign a treaty? The question is whether the goods come up to the advertising. People will be in a position to form an in telligent judgment on this point only after a careful investigation. That :s why the joint debate throughout the country between the President and Senator Johnson will be of the utmost value. It will arouse tho Nation to consider the momentous consequences involved in the rati fication of the League Covenant. The Star believes the fuller the understanding of the Covenant the less likely will the country be to ac cept it. When the Covenant is considered people will ask: "How will this prevent war?" „ "Why." w-.1l be the League reply, all the nations agree to arbitrate their differences." ."But suppose a nation should get mad and refuse to accept the find ings and should attack its neighbor. Suppose, for instance, Jugo-Slavia should attack Italy, or China should .°.J' et^ ke Shantung by force. vS hat then? "Oh, then, the other nations would m *, ; war on the attacking nation. ' Would the United States be bound to send soldiers to fight Jugo slavia or China?" "Morally bound." "Would we have to send our men to the Balkans or anywhere else that there was fighting?" "We might. But you see the othir nations would be afraid of us and wouldn't fight." "But aren't several of them fight ing now and asking what we ar go ing to do about it?" "Yes, but " ~." Not J or us - War to a serious thing. We aren t going to make any blanket pledges that might involve us in it whether we felt we ought to be in or not." Some such course of reasoning this newspaper foresees as the out come of the discussion. It will fo cus public attention on the Treaty and will arouse the Nation to the dangers of the new course it is in vited to pursue. The Big Men of Europe [George Creel, in Leslie's] Of the "Big Three," Lloyd George is easily the cleverest politician, Clemenceau has the greatest force] and Sonnino is the most subtle! There is no parallel for Lloyd George in American politics He has the dramatic gift that marked Roosevelt, the oratory of William J. Bryan, the craft of Penrose thc demagoguery of Reed, of Missouri' the vision of Woodrow Wilson, and the "gumshoe" genius of Murray- Crane. all so skillfully blended as to make him at once a hope and a despair. He rose to power by reason of his savage assaults upon England's es tablished order and the English ruling class. The House of Lords was anathema to him. and not even William D. Haywood, in his most virile days, ever inveighed so elo quently against the tyrannies and oppressions of Special Privilege and Vested Interest. I was in England in 1910 at the time when he was driving through the Parliament act that stripped the Lords of their veto power, and every true Briton, able to support a white collar and a top hat, cried out against the Welshman as an assassin who meant to murder them in their "very balds." By his passionate championship of labor and his strenuous advocacy of Home Rule for -Ireland, he was the idol of these groups, and As quith, had to make a place for him in the cabinet. Growing in radical ism, in order to effect a distinction j between himself arid Mr. Asquith's ! more conservative leadership, there 1 is no doubt that Lloyd George was j reaching out for the reins of pow ■ er. but the sudden explosion of war compelled a change in his plans as [ in everything els®. • luientttg (Eliat j shooting: said that it was hard ... fun ? average man to shoulder a or,„ 0 „ 8 ? '" to the "'""'ls or del.:., or to get him to a target T'i number"' 1 ? has alway * had a good! bunt L me " who " k °d to hum. license law r t ma L ne(l for ,llp hl "" ■< sons pa, show how many per out enou K h alj out It to pay trouble nf lr and BO ,0 the f'"'th.•. wh eh ™ > Procuring the arm l. : same ,? nf them to Kho "< ' nei-snnc • there are now 150,01 -- are between ant? COUn,y - " of tho I„u ~? and seven per . hunteJ itar }. ta who a, ' license . Game <"" t P ! lg:urpii of the fitn ■+ last tear .T 810 " ° nU ' p show lh s 3^%.^ O^TS:r an increase from 8,378 having pil-vi IT InT. , r-7; ,h " in 1914, 7 394 'ai7'"' tt "' l This goes to show what .a ren ?r)•' Merest i C n e ou e tH ther ° ~n" I>epn in Daunhln lifu an '' huntir • in u.iuphin county. Kven wh. . away nTtl 3 ' ; '°° of ' "ten trn' y.7 B fa n .n tho or%^ ,ere ot i vas a r ?n Um i9l3 a t n , d .° OUnts ' Shows a 'lerhm . hunters ftST! drop from 3 304 jn j9J7 Jn VU , this county has 3,095. Pcrrv . 19?8 h haT S a h dePllne . 'he figures for the nrevi against 1.01.7 the pre\ious year, 2,105 i n inl and 2,172 in iota t i ,J1 ', 8 888 In r" 0 " 11:1,1 2 ' SST in If 13 and 8.888 last year. ]., hk . ' had 2.782 hunters the next T,"" 3.518, With 3,833 in 1917 V °rk which has about the .. than Dauphin; "l n °l!, y i3 a ami from 5 8.37Y in 'iVi't. '"in'mi" To®!' ' since been going up.' a?-e correct. Dauphin and Tork w n have another race this year " catflsh belonging To °haa ■fe pretty thoroughly. The catflsh were on their way from a Govern ment hatchery to a distant point Railroad 6 of /, hP , pPPUllarities of th " Railroad Administration caused them to alight here. As long "tons are not conducive to good hlalth ™° n -f "catties, 1 ' the man in charge lephoned to Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan R. Buller. Mr BuHer got; j n to touch' with local authorities, loaded the cans into an ItflTk and ,n an ,10Mr had the catflsh becoming acquainted with oal ht rm 'V f Harrishurg's munlci- P a ' ' ake - So '"c of them were line big fellows, too. * ♦ ♦ John Mitchell, the famous labor leader, was well known to quite a number of Harrisburg pooplp Mhen be was eliief of the miners he came to Harrisl.urg upon a his settle ".he 1 'V 902 - a " effort to settle the anthracite strike, and it was his first visit here. He camo at 11 P. m„ and left at 4 a. m. eitv bv" a ° r ada chance to see the cit> by daylight, and spoke at a number of meetings at the Cnpitnl. Governor Sproul yesterday sent v? ? el ,? pram of condolence to Mrs Mitchell: -The untimely death of your husband was a shock to the eerelv and T m '' a <hize sin" cerely in your hour of beroave mpnt:_. "c was a public benefactor and bis work on behalf of the an thracite miners particularlv w W ever remain an imperishable monu ment to his memory. His nobie votlon T" rP i soun,lpss5 oun,lpss ""d his de votion to duty unswerving. Penn sylvanians in every walk of life how dolencea" a " d ° XtPn '' hcar,feU con- Aviators who have been floating around in the skies over Harri "bur eau get some lessons from AMison' ed tbe Un s e - tPrS ' W, '° havo develop ed the science of aviation— from a pavement standpoint—to a re markable degree. Incidentally many copybooks have suffered Tt seems that the youngsters discover ed that an excellent airplane could be made from stiff paper and thev have evolved all kinds of sltanes They start them by an outward movement of the hands and the trick Is to make them "loop." The w hol ii eVpn,n f , a >' oll "gster said he "as the Capitol, and bv some -idroit twisting made his "go round him twice. When Rob Gor man, of the Internal Affairs De. partment tried to beat him at it be almost dislocated his wrist * Governor Sproul's office has been ornamented by a photograph o himself and Attorney General a Mitchell Palmer, clad in ft,ll act demic robes, at the Swarthmor* commencement at which they were the principal speakers. They wort class mates of the college. These are the days when th. scarlet sage is in all it< glory in Harrisburg gardens and parks and with the cannas, dahlias and giadi oil, there are some very fine floral displays, just as there are always before the coming of Jack Frost Scarlet sage is more than ever a favorite in Harrisburg gardens and quantities of it are to be seen in drives along the river front and 1 State street. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Major Stanley A. Coar, one of the young Scranton lawyers, has been given a personal letter of com pliment* from Secretary of War Baker. —Frank M. Ritter, well known to many here as a legislator, is taking an active part in the Phila- I delphia campaign. —Major General G. W. Goethals I has been appealed to in the Pitts- I burgh tunnel situation. —J. K. Stauffor, prominent Read- . ing city oflicial, was here yesterday and visited the Capitol. • —Judge C. B. Witmer is prepar ing to take his annual September fishing trip to Sullivan county. —Judge W. W. McKeen, of East on, was hurt in getting out his automobile. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg will re gain Its laurels as lending third class city in street paving this year? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Tile first tire house in Harris burg was located 011 tho river Iron sear Mulberry street.
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