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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
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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.
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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.
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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.