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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919
He echo offends against heaven
has none to whom he can pray.—
CONFUCIUS.
TREES FOR THE CITY
ARNOLD W. BRUNNER'R elabo
ration of the Telegraph's 1
plans for the planting of trees j
throughout the city deserves the j
full consideration of those to whom
this Important duty will fall. Mr.
Brunner Is a lover of trees. He
would have Harrisburg streets
beautified with them wherever it Is [
possible for a tree to grow, but he j
realizes that there are planting j
limitations; that there are thorough
fares too narrow for trees to thrive
and In this the City Forester, who i
is displaying such a marked interest
in the movement, no doubt will
concur.
Mc. Brunner's proposal for the
planting of elm trees throughout
the business districts is a matter I
that business men should look upon j
in the broad light of experience
elsewhere. Many merchants huve
contended that trees have no place
in front of stores, but the experi
ence of Paris and other great
European cities is quite to llie eon- ;
trary. There it has been found J
that the elm, with its slim trunk j
and branches starting far from the j
ground does not detract from show |
'windows or signs and at the same j
time makes a shady thoroughfare. j
which attracts pedestrians in sum
mertime away from slreeis where
the sun has full play. Certainly a
border of green along Market
Square In a very few years would
add greatly to that now barren j
waste of asphalt which invites the j
sweltering heat of summer to broil
those who must use its liery side
walks and leaves unbroken space
for a full sweep of wintry blasts
during the cold season.
Tree planting in Harrisburg ought
to come to a climax for this year
on one of the Fall Arbor days. The i
City Forester, the Park Depart
ment and others interested should
get together at once and formulate
a definite program for a great cam
paign to that end.
MUST C.ET BUSY
LOANS for the construction of
sewers, for street paving and
bathing beaches and a proposal
to transfer 1300,000 from the Wal
nut street bridge fund lo the State
Memorial Bridge fund will come bo
fore the voters In November. All of
them are important to the growth
and progress of the city and. ap
parently, all are popular. But let
us take nothing for gianted. It
would be unfortunate if any of them
should fail, but it would lie little less
than calamitous should I tie bridge
item go down. The good faith of the
city is bound up in this proposal. The
State must have the support of the
city In the bridge building scheme
If it is to go ahead. The bigger
the majority the bridge iiem lias ilie
better the State will feel concerning
Harrlsburg's part in (he Capitol ox
tension development.
But none of the loans should be
endangered through lack of atten
tion. We, as good citizens, must get
behind them, talk in favor of them. 1 ,
explain them, arouse iulere.sl in I
them and see to it that, tliey are
approved by big majorities.
IN MEXICO
THE Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee investigating re
lations between this country
and Mexico is revealing a startling
situation. The outrages of Mexican
bandits along the Rio Grande have
been a matter of common news
paper roport. The murder of Ameri
can ranchmen, the looting of their
properties and even the holding for
ransom of American aviators in
Mextoo have been more or less
quietly received In the United States.
But when It is brought out
that American girls have been
dragged away from their homes in
United States and held at the
FRIDAY EVENING.
whlnj of lawless Mexican* In tliej
mountains of that benighted coun
try the blood of every true Ameri
can runs hot with Indignation.
It becomes more and more evi
dent that the Carrunza government
lis a farce and that the whole situa
tion is fast drifting to a condition
bordering on anarchy, If It has not
already reached that stage. Inter
ference In Mexlcun a flairs Is beyond
question; a subject fraught with all
manner of dire possibilities, but
much as the average American'
wants to live and let live he Is fust
approaching the place where he feels
that Mexico must be taught to be-!
have herself. Just how we are to'
Igo about improving conditions there
is not c'eur, but something must he
done and that soon.
We have stood 'and are standing
as champions of the Monroe Doc
trine. We will not permit any En-
I ropean power to come into Mexico.
; We cannot play the dog in the man •
jger. It is up to the United States
|to find a way at least of preventing;
i Mexican bandits from perpetrating!
j their outrages in this country. To;
|do so, it would appear, we will
I eventually have to cross the border|
| with armed forces and remain there
I until Mexicans are ready to listen,
j to reasoning.
I' 11 is to be hoped that the Foreign!
I Relations Committee will find some!
vigorous way of dealing with these!
, conditions without the necessity of i
armed intervention, but how that is'
Jto be brought about nobody has as'
yet been nble to see. The prospects'
;are that one of these days we shall
| have to send an army into Mexico, j
! POOR MR. BRANDON I
ONE OF the reasons why we '
have so many active radicals |
in the United States is because j
we are too lenient with them. There i
is, for example, Joseph Brandon, j
"red" lender of the "conscientious" ]
objectors at Camp Funston. Bran- j
don did all in his power to turn the '
country over to the Hun.
Brandon was sentenced by court |
marshal "to lie shot to death with '
musketry," after conviction October 1
1, 1918, on a charge of willful dis
obedience of military orders vio- i
lation of the 64th Article of War.
This was commuted to twenty-five !
years' imprisonment. On June 30. J
1919, the President ordered the sen-j
tence cut to five years.
And now what happens? Why.
Brandon is released by order of
Secretary Baker, provided with a
new suit of clothes something Mr.
Baker did not purchase for the men
Who fought the nation's battles ill
Franco escorted to the station
under guard to protect his precious
skin from possible harm at the hands
ol indignant soldiers, given u ticket
and sent home. The news dis
patches do not say that Air. Baker
Was on hand lo ki.-s Mr. Brandon
good by, tint it is to lie supposed Hint
lie sent his benedict ton.
llere was a man who, bad it been
possible, would have turned the
whole American Army over, lo Ger
many and who admittedly' *is an'
enemy of the Government, being
treated Willi more consideration than
is accorded our own loyal soldiers.
Thank heaven next year a way is
open to procure a ticket-of-leave for
Baker and those oilier sickly senti
mentalists of tlx' type that can't
bear to sec poor, suffering anarchists
behind the bars.
TEA CI lIN (i US NEW WAYS
HIGH prices are leaching us
many things. For example,
there is the chap who used to
have four pairs of shoes. Now he
gets along with two. There is the
other fellow who would have
scorned a few years back to he seen j
on the streets with a patched or)
mended suit, who now fares forth;
to business boasting that lie has on '
a lust year's outfit repaired and
pressed for another winter of hard
service, and there is the man who !
now takes his old hal lo a cleaner I
anil wears his straw until the man !
with the iron hack of the stand can
get through with the pile of head
gear that lias almost swamped him.
We are learning new ways, which,
while they may lie very profitable
to us, will not help trade when things
get back to norniul. The thrifty
practices of necessity, in all likeli
hood, will become habit with us.
There is such a thing as killing the
goose that lays the golden egg, and
any man who adds a penny need- J
I ess I y to present prices is doing so
to the hurt of his trade later.
MORE HOUSES
FIFTY -TWO families desire lo
rent or liny houses in Harris
liurg for whom there are no
houses.
Seventy-seven families want
apartments in I larrlsburg for whom
there are no apartments.
These are the Chamber of Com
merce housing bureau's figures.
Doubtless these represent only a
fraction of the total, but llie figures
are large enough lo tie alarming.
We call ours a progressive city.
We talk glibly about getting more
industries. Wo are gratified be- i
| -aiise Governor Sprotil expresses hisj
I intention of concentrating State of
fices here. We are ambitious to
have the next census report give us
a population of 100,000. Hut we
are not building houses rapidly
enough lo accommodate tlie people j
who want to come to Harrisburg to |
live. I
A speaker before the Realty j
Board the other evening expressed
the belief that Harrisburg should
have 4,000 new houses in the next
three years. Our builders have done,
very well tills summer. Our housing
campaign is yielding gratifying re
sults. We lead the cities of our size
in the United States tn the matter
of new buildings for the past sum
mer. But we are not doing enough.
We must make up our minds to
build rapidly or see muny oppor
tunities to increase both the city's
i business and its population slip
•! away to other communities better
■ prepared to take advantage of them.
fatxtf-c* CK
I' | By the Kx-Committeeman
L j Just now some very interesting
| political speculation is going on in
" | Philadelphia us to what the official
count is going to show in the Re
: publican mayoralty and councilmanic
' nominations and whnt will be the
iVffect of disclosures in the investiga
tion the independent element behind
Congressman J. Hampton Moore
proposes to set on foot. in some
of the Vure wards the Patterson
majority went away below the ex
pectations, the North American
( saying that "absence of cops" had
a good bit to do with it, 'while the
; Inquirer says it shows the strength
js of the movement for Moore. Mr.
Moore says that lie was surprised
at the poor showing of the so-called
independent wards. However, it is
the old story. Germantown and
other independent sections of the
i city often forget to vote. The
, | Evening Public Ledger says that it
, j is one of the reasons why political
' control gets into the hands of a
, ! personally conducted organization
|land that the independent voters
, I have no one to blame but them
selves.
The fact is that out of over 350,-
i 000 persons registered to vote not
more than 310,000 at the very out
side voted on the Republican side,
' while less than 16,000 Democrats
I voted in the whole city. This Demo
] cratio slump is one of the notable
i things in the Philadelphia election
; and shows that the party is in as
; wretched shape in that city as it is
lin Allegheny county, where less
| than 12,000 Democrats voted; Dau
i phin and some other countie.s which
! have loud sounding Democratic or
! gans. It is possible that Lacka-
I wanna Democrats polled more votes
| than those in Philadelphia.
—Congressman Moore Is going to
! run his own campaign and since
| Senator Edwin H. Vare, David H.
j Dane and other leaders have issued
statements that if nominated in the j
show down they will support it is
i expected that the Philadelphia Re- j
i publican city committee, which
I broke precedents and formally en- j
I dorse Judge John M. Patterson.!
| will meet and pledge support. Judge
I Patterson has declared that he will
support the ticket, of course, and!
I seems to have taken his defeat |
I serenely. Some of his friends say ;
lie wili lie just as happy oil the
! bench, probably more so. Joseph
' rf. MoUaoghrn. Mayor Smith's dl-
I red or of supplies, whose attacks |
jon Senator Vare attracl"d state J
wide attention, says lie intends to
' llle nomination papers as an inde
pendent candidate because when lie
withdrew from the primary lie
planned that line and will hew to
it. The real led -pendents will form
an organization and support Moore,
investigate frauds and keep the
home 'ires burning brightly so that
some of their people who forgot to
vote at the primary may not over
look it in November. Some of the
men Identified with the Patterson
campaign arc said by the Philadel
phia Press to lie planning to run
an Independent candidate, 100. The
i Democratic entid'dale is 11. D. VVes-
I cntt, said lo have been backed by
Judge Eugene ('. lionniwell. The
Donnelley element, which is sup
posed to he part of the Palnicr-Mc-
Ciiriuick machine, just now in such
bad repair, ami repute, backed Ev-
Congrcssinaii Michael Donahoe.
The victor gof less than 9.000 votes.
I There used to he that many Demo
jcratu- vot< sin Dauphin county Mayor
• Thomas B. Smith lost his own ward
land it looks as though the Vares
j have lost the sheriff and will have
trouble lo hold council. The North
' American claims that the council
' will lie nliti-Vure.
- The official count will tie started
in every county seat in Pennsylvania
to-day and judges will sit for the
first time in many places, owing to
the fact that county commissioners
are candidates.
—one of the interesting tilings
about the election was that Scranton
nominated three women candidates
for school director. "Tom" (ton
ne rs, a returned soldier and noted
as a boxer, is one of ttie candidates
for council.
Representatives Edwin R. Cox
and S. J. Gans, two of the members
who sat in the last House anil voted
on ttie city charter, were elected to
council in Philadelphia. Cox was a
former candidate for speaker and
one of the leaders in the House.
—Dr. J. N. Jacobs, who is 81 and
was formerly controller of Mont
gomery county, was elected to coun
cil in Lapsdole.
—Samuel S. Lewis, the York
county leader, has gone to the sea
shore for a rest. He won every
thing in his fights except one place.
Among his opponents were the vet
erans. I). F. Lafean and James A.
Dale.
District Attorney G. W. Maxey
led Judge J. J. O'Neil in the Uicku
wanna Judgeship battle. W. Jt. Lewis
ran third. There were over 35,000
votes polled.
—Robert Thomas, the Bryn Mawr
justice of the peace, who aroused ire
of automobile people, was fifth in a
race for re-election.
—George T. Weingnrtner, former
Senator, was nominated for county
commissioner of Lawrence.
Two former soldiers, Charles
Phillips, Northumberland, and
Charles ITngst, Northampton, were
nominated for county treasurer in
their counties. Phillips was seri
ously wound (Hi in France.
There will be a new Democratic
low in Ajleghetiy over the county
commissioner nominations.
—Judge Copeland's defeat of
Judge D. J. Snyder In Westmoreland
is one of the interesting things. It
means that Copeland will be judge.
The two men were candidates for
appointment by Dr. Brumbaugh and
I Snyder won. There will be an or
j phans' court vacancy for the Gov
' ernor to fill after November.
—Mayor A. D. Newell has been
i renominated by Democrats and Sam
uel A. Barnes will lie Ills Republican
opponent..
Karl Solbern, who was here last
winter during the session, was nomi
nated for county treasurer in Jef
ferson in a hot fight.
Kx-Uepresentativc D. 1,. Clau
conib is Democratic candidate for
district attorney in Blair.
• —ln Beaver county the "soldiers'
ticket" was beaten with one excep
tion. in Huntingdon the soldiers
won, but lost in Carbon and Ve
nango.
—The new orphans' court place
made a battle in Washington county.
The nominees are Haldain B.
Hughes and George Plummer Baker,
the defeated candidates being Nor
man E. Clark and Andrew M. Linn
in the order named.
HAEHI3STTRO sil "KXEOKSPH
WONDER WHAT THIS KIND THINKS ABOUT ByBRIGGS
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No Wonder Germany Quit
By MAJOR. FRANK C. MAIUN
or the Army Recruiting Station
"The day we came out of the St.
Mihiel offensive I discovered that I
everybody in the battalion had one j
or two brand new German five mark t
notes except me. 1 started inquir- j
ing where the 'souvenirs' came from |
and found that a sergeant in one of i
my companies had been passing I
them out. I sent for him and asked |
hint where lie got all the Roche
money, lie told nie that when his |
platoon took the Boehe artillery
headquarters in the Hois Gerard,
after a nifty scrap with the artil
lerymen, they were policing up dug
out and shacks when he noticed a
small safe. Of course, with the in
evitable American curiosity, they
had to see what was in the safe.
The sergeant got it open and found
it to contain one hundred envelopes,
eacli envelope enclosing two hun
dred of the five-mark bank notes.
These envelopes lie put in his shirt
for future reference ami during the
succeeding duys had been passing
then} out indiscriminately through
out the division. When 1 talked
with him lie had only about a hun
dred und tifty of the bank notes
left, of which 1 acquired two. 1 did
a little calculating and informed
him that lie had one hundred thou
sand marks in his possession, worth
'at the then existing rate of ex
change about seventeen thousand
dollars. You ought to have seen
his face when he found that lie had |
I given away n yOung fortune. The
shuck in which this money was
found was a German paymaster's
office, as I had seen it and gone over
a lot of the accounts and documents
looking for information, which were
found there. Of all the people lie
had talked' with and given Boehe
money to, no one had even sug
gested to Itini that these pieces of
green paper were money and worth
something in real honest-to-good
noss American coin. That sergeant
was quite a character, a tine light
ing man and a good leader, so good
a leader, in fact, that 1 recom
mended liiin for a. commission, lie
had another curious experience dur
ing tlie St. Miliiel drive and one
i which came mighty near being
fatal to the American arms. The
second day of the offensive we were
dug in waiting orders to push on
again us soon as the troops on our
left were up on the line. At live
o'clock, when the attack was at its
height, a man in the uniform of an
American first lieutenant came into
the trenches we had dug for a main
line of resistance. He entered at
the extreme left of the battalion,
coming from the direction of the
adjoining regiment. The left unit
j of the battalion was one platoon of
I company D, whose lieutenant had
been wounded, and was then under
command of a sergeant. The other
platoons of that company were on
the south side of the Bois Gerard—
our main line being on the edge—
in battalion support. This supposed
officer ordered the sergeant to im
mediately fall back through the
woods with his platoon and take up
a position 011 the south side. Though
the sergeant did not know the of
ticer he obeyed the order, leaving a
gap of nearly two hundred yards in
our line at a most critical moment.
The pseudo officer then went on und
run into a platoon of company (',
commanded by my friend of the
Boehe money fame. When he re
ceived the 'order' ho just reached
for his trusty old .45 automatic and
one Boehe spy was no more. lie
took part of his platoon and moved
lover into the gap just in time to
meet the Bodies as they poured
into our trench. The Bodies left
eight dead and four machine guns
in our trench and then deciding that
discretion was the better part of
valor they beat it. A mighty few
moments later all ot If company
arrived on the scene from the.south
side of the woods, as I had already
heard of the spy and sent them
through as fast as ever they could
go. So even with all their clever
ness. a sergeant spotted the trick
i stiintlv and being an American did
not liase to wuit for any orders, but
acted instantly and'vigoronsly to the
utter confusion of our tricky
enemies."
As Hamlet Might Have Pat It
[From the Columbus Dispatch]
To join the I.eague or not to join,
That Is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler to embroil
ourselves.
In endless foreign strife,
Or heed th' advice of our tllustrous
I fathers:
To concern ourselves with such
| ills us we have
I And not take on others
' That we know not of.
COLONEL LANGHORNE'S JOB
IN THE BIG BEND COUNTRY
William Slavens McNutt In Collier's Weekly
IN the Big Bend country In Texas,
Colonel George T. Banghorne,
with his Eighth Cavalry, keeps
watch over the largest bit of remote
wild country in the United States.
The regimental headquarters is at
Marl'a, a little town on the Southern
Pacific. The Border posts are from
fifty to ninety-five miles distant from .
a railroad in a land ot desert audi
mountains which need only the
presence and rulershlp of Bucifer to
make inferno a truthfully descriptive
title.
The Eighth Cavalry in the Big
Bend country has thirteen widely
scattered posts on the Rio Grande
and patrols a reasonably active Unc
us long as the late unlamented
western front in France.
The regiment has in figures 450
miles of line to patrol, all of it from
fifty to nfnety-five miles distaut
from a railroad.
Supplying these posts necessitates
keeping up nine hundred miles of
military road across the desert and
mountain, and 1,750 miles of mili
tary telephone and telegraph lines.
The Big Bend district, in which
there is no railroad, is larger than
Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island combined, and is 55
per cent, mountainous. It is the
roughest slag heap of a world that
I ever saw. It suggests a littered
i back attic of the universe jammed
1 with the geographical junk left over
from the creation of an ordinary
world!
The Big Bend district is a country
of isolated ranches and mines, and
has one inhabitant to every eight
square miles. Because of its remote
ness and difficulties of patrol, it has
been and is yet a favorite raiding
ground for Mexican bandits. On
the Mexican side of the river, oppo
jsite each American post, is a Car
ranza garrison: and, of course, these
Carranza troops do their best to pre
vent raiders crossing the line into
American territory.
Vail's Recipe For Success
What are the qualifications of a
$25,000 a year man? What is de
manded of him?
Well, the man who earns $lO,OOO
to $25,000 a year must first of all
know his business from the ground
up. salaries are paid be
cause of ability to so systematize
and organize that the same effort i
will produce greater results, and so i
organize operations that neither ef-1
fort or material or time is wasted. |
Mere drivers are not valuable. It I
is organization, system, ease, and j
I comfort in operation with produe- |
I tion that is valuable.
I He must be absolutely efficient;
I that is, he must have ability, judg
j ment, courage, enthusiasm, self
confidence, energy, initiative, fore-
I sight, experience, a great knowledge
lof human nature and personality
| enough to be a real leader of men.
I He must take infinite pains in
| small things as well as in large. He
j must demand of himself as well as
of others nothing but the best.
He must win and retain the con
{ fidence and the friendship of his,
[superiors,- his associates, and liis'
subordinates.
I He must always be ready to take
| responsibility, to decide quickly,
land he must be right more than
i half the time.
| With all that he must have baek-
I bone and a real desire not only to 1
excel but also to serve.
I Of course, a man has to earn a
I big salary before we can pay it;
I but we are only too anxious to pay
| it to men who can earn it.—Theo
j dore N. Vail in Forbes Magazine.
Thrift
I Thrift means intelligent Spending,
i To spend a dollar now may save
you two dollars next month.
Thrift implies a Budget. If you
i have no wise plan, it makes little
(difference how much you make.
1 What is the use of forging ahead
] when you don't know your destina
tlon. „ .. .
It is Thrift that creates Capital.
And Capital represents the differ
■ ence between civilization and bar
-1 barism. Where there is no Capital
| there is no progress. The intelli-
I gent and industrious Laborer does
not despise Capital; he becomes a
I Capitalist.
} Is not that what Labor is con
tending for? Enough wages to lay
by something?—>Dr. Frank Crane In
Forbes Magazine.
Oh, yes! Ask any officer of the
Eighth Cavalry, and he will tell you
that if it were not for Carranza
troops on the river there would be
no trouble.
Sniping across the line at Ameri
can patrols is a favorite and almost
daily pastime of Carranza's soldiers.
Booking over my notes, I find that
according to officers of the Eighth
Cavalry, five of the eight serious
raids on American ranches in the
Big Bend district in the last two
years have been made by Carranza's
soldiers.
In one case one hundred and fifty
of Carranza's men crossed the line
and attempted to steal a bunch of
cattle. Five American soldiers, led
by a lieutenant drove them off.
A note of another raid by Car
ranzistas tells of the thefts of cattle
from the Brite ranch:
Bast Christmas Day Carranza sol
diers, led by a Carranza officer, raid
ed Brite's ranch, ran off cattle, loot
ed the store, killed an American
mail driver and two Mexican ranch
hands. American soldiers of the
Eighth Cavalry trailed the Mexican
raiders into Mexico and killed thirtv
f'ive of them.
The next day Carranza forces fired
across the river at American sol
diers, who crossed and killed twelve.
In March, 1918, a band of Mexi
cans raided Neville's ranch in the Big
Bend district, killed an 18-year-old
American boy and a Mexican wom
an. Two days later American troops
of the Eighth Cavalry overtook th"?
raiders in Mexico and killed thirty
eight of them.
I have lists of other raids in the |
district, but they are no diffrt-eut
from those already cited, and repe-1
tition wearies.
The fact is that practically all the
trouble in the Big Bend district is
made by Carranza troops who are
supposed to co-operate with the
American forces in preventing the
very raids in which- these Carranzis
tas themselves indulge.
Why Coffee Is High
(Forbes Magazine.)
during the war imports of coffee
were so severely restricted that the
Brazilian farmers, who are the
world's chief producers, could not
find a market. To protect them the
Brazilian government bought more
than 3,000,000 bags of coffee—
which one can see from the above
j figures is just about equivalent to
the world's excess supply—rand iH
| sued paper money against it. Ow
j ing to these war restrictions Brazil's
I total exports of coffee for the cal
endar year 1918 were only 7,433,000
bags, against 10,000,000 in 1917,
and 13,268,000 in 1913.
Incidentally, the restriction policy
had the effect of making coffee ex
tremely scarce in the United States
and other consuming countries, and
of transferring the bulk of the
world's supply from the hands of
the consumer to those of the pro
ducer. The producer, too, has
learned that through monopolistic
control it is just as easy 1o sell one
pound of coffee for 20 cents as it
used to be to sell two pounds for
20 cents. In 1914, on January 1,
only about 3,071,000 bags out of
the world's visible supply of 1 3,544,-
000 bags was in Brazil; but on
January 1, 1919, the Brazilian hold
ings Were about 9,290,000 bags.
Meantime the supply here in the
United States was cut in half.
We have virtually taught Brazil
how to charge double for her coffee,
and it Is doubtful whether she is
going to forget it soon.
One Great Difficulty
Recently, while waiting for a
train. I happened to notice a little
old man who stood near by. He
had been unsuccessful all his life,
this poor little old man, as any one
with eyes could easily see. He was
talking to a friend in a weak, cack
ling voice. His eyes looked at noth
ing. His hands hung limp. He had
i a general look of dejection and
I what's-the-use ? While I was ob
i serving him, T heard him say—"The
' one great difficulty." The one great
| difficulty! It was the secret of his
j failure—that phrase. All his life,
that poor little old man had been
I cackling—"The one great diffl-
I culty." That phrase had been the
j keynote of his life. I wish we knew
j how many men and how many firms
; have been ruined by this phrase of
I failure. Herbert N, Casson in
'Forbes Muguz'ne.
SEPTEMBER 19,1919.
Out of 'Politics' but in Politics
[From the Phila. Public Ledger.]
General Pershing is too good an
American and too practical a citi
zen to have his address to the mem
bers of the American Legion in New
York misunderstood when he was
quoted as having told the Legion to
keep out of politics. Of course, what
the Commander meant was that
they should keep out of factional
politics, since, of course, he knows
that their participation as citizens
in the government of the country is
a primary political duty which none
should shirk, and shirking which the
civic slacker is more of a menace
to his country than the military
slacker. Indeed, the remarks of
Pershing were admirable, and the
full context shows exactly what was
in his mipd. For this is what he
said:
"Ours is a country of laws, not
of men, and it should be the purpose
of this organization to stand for laws
based upon the sound principles of
the constitution. I should deplore
it if I felt there was any chance of
the American Legion becoming a
political tool in the hands of politi
cal aspirants. I believe the organi
zation has an opportunity to do a
great good in the country by be
coming a school of patriotism—if
yon will—by fostering these things
which are dear and near to us as
having come down to us by our fore
fathers."
Every one will agree with this and
will also see at once that to become
a practical "school of patriotism"
and to "hand down those things that
have corne down to us from the
fathers" it will be necessary for the
American Legion to go into public
affairs i n the manner prescribed for
all Americans. But by all means let
the Legion keep out of "politics as
is politics," but let them get into the
polities represented by an intelli-
I gent interest in public questions and
| a hearty concern that the best men
| shall be elected to public office,
i This is the kind of politics that be
| comes the Legion and will give it
i an opportunity to do just what its
[ former Commander-in-Chief would
like to see it accomplish.
Rev. H. C. Pardoe, D. D.
[From the Altoona Mirror.]
After a life full of years and
honors, the Rev. Dr. H. C. Pardoe
has passed to his reward. A minis
ter of the Gospel whose labors in
the Master's vineyard had been
confined to the Central Pennsylva
nia conference, he held a high place
in the hearts of the Methodist clergy
and laity in Pennsylvania.
Altogether ho had devoted fifty of
his best years' to the active minis
try, and they were fifty fruitful,
blessed years. He carried the mes
sage of light and life to many be
nighted souls, and served the nu
merous charges with a zeal entirely
worthy of the great cause he repre
sented. He retired in 1910 and af
ter living a while in Harrisburg
came to Altoon.t, where he had pre
viously been pastor of one of the
churches during his .active career,
and made this city his home until he
was called on high.
Notwithstanding the fact that he
led ' a necessarily busy life as a
clergyman, he was such an effec
tive and sympathetic worker that he
managed to find time to exercise his
literary bent. He gave to the world
a number of books that are worth
reading, some of which have been
translated into several languages. He
also wrote much for magazines, reli
gious periodicals and the newspa
pers.
Dr. Pardoe was a true ambassador
of God, a sterling citizen and a fine
friend.
Si/earnore Shade Trees
fFrom the Columbus Dispatch]
The American Forestry Magazine
is urging the planting of sycamores
for shade trees. It shows that they
are of rapid growth and attain large
size. It also calls attention to the
beauty of the tree—a thing which
many people do not really appreci
ate. In the interest of more beauti
ful cities, it is desirable that syca
mores be encouraged, the magazine
urges.
The largest shade tree in this
country is a sycamore at Warthing
ton, Tnd. It is forty-six feet In cir
cumference and 150 feet In height
the most beautiful specimen of a
tree to be found, at least in the
Middle West. But it isn't the only
"grand old sycamore" to be found;
there are thousands and thousands
of them in this country.
The sycamore requires plenty of
moisture, but moisure is easily sup
plied in a modern city. Besides, the
tree has n habit of reaching out af
ter moisture, its roots extending for
long distances nnd going deep Into
I the earth.
2aromtg CUtyat i|
Experience of Harrisburg In re
gard to moisqultoes this yeur hiu not
been materially different from that
of other cities situated along Iho
Susquehanna valley, although some
of them by promptly clearing out
°Yiii?i laceB and improving drainage
racuitles escaped much of the an
noyance which has swept over this
city since early in the summer. It is
generally agreed that the unusuallv
rainy weather that followed a mi'.d
winter caused the mosquitoes to
m V !? ' an( * wet summer ;<■
in b much stagnant water
that the insects Increased in num. cr
like locusts in plague year. In any
event there were more mosquitoes
than ever known before and tin y
appeared to be vicious and persist -
ent. Three separate kinds have
been Identified in Harrisburg, ul
;!! OU , B £. ° n ® clt y official insists that
tnc biting hw all been done by tho
garden variety, the native singer
who has been here a long time and
scouts the statement that the ma
laria carrier was to be found In the
swampy land near Hoffman's Woods.
<£ amusing story Is told about t nis
official who did not take much slock
in the reports that the white eg,:
masses found in some runs would
I roduce mosquitoes. Me bottled
some good and tight. Naturally, they
i ii although watched
j doHy at his office. Eater on he vis
j iled the neighborhood where lite
mosquitoes were found and was well
bitten up. The city authorities woke
up to the fact that sewer ink:-
were about as dangerous breeders o!
mosquitoes as swamps and hav •
of o'l Into them, li
is likely that the practical results
of the clearing out of drains and
streams in the upper end of Harrio
burg will show other people the war
and by •eliminating the greatest
breeding ground demonstrate the
value of such work. What the cny
needs is to undertake the matter i f
mosquito control early in the spring,
btate experts say they are anxious
to help make plans and to asoisi
where possible. All that is needed
is a realization of the annoyance
caused this year and a determina
tion to prevent it next summer.
Word has reached this city of the
death in California ofGeneral James
M. Bell, United States Army, rt
a native of Williamsburg,
Blair county, and well known to i
number of Harrisburgers General
Bell organized the Twenty-seven-h
Infantry, one of the Philippine war
regiments organized at Camp Meade
near Middletown, in 1899. and wnile
here met a number of "Harrisburg
families. He was a brother of the
late, the Rev. Dr. P. B. Bell, who
formerly resided here and an
uncle of Prank Bell, formerly man
aging editor of the Harrisburg Tcle
'General Bell served In the
Civil War and was an officer pres
ent when Joe Johnston surrendered
to Sherman. After the Civil War, in
which he had also served in border
counties and helped defend McCon
nellsburg, he was an officer in the
Army and in Indian campaigns and
helped guard the Pacific railroads
when being* T)uilt. He served in the
Spanish War and when in the Phil
ippines was military governor of
Luzon.
• • •
"This Is one month for taxes," re
marked a businessman yesterday.
"Here we have just finished up paj -
ing the income tax instalment and
now we are close to the edge on the
school tax. There may be a lot of
money going around, but between
Federal and local taxes there Is
some check writing necessarv now
adays."
• • •
The 'City of Harrisburg has a fine
crop of golden rod on some of the
highways in its outlying section.
Golden rod always means the corn
ing of the end of summer and there
are very fine specimens of the flower,
which many people consider as
Pennsylvania's State blossom, to lie
found blooming in out-of-the-way
places. Some of the stalks to be
found by chance are long and fine
ly colored, making a very effective
bouse bouquet. It may be added
that there are also quite a few latC'
dandelions blooming and it is the
part of wisdom to get rid of them
whenever they appear.
• * *
From what one of the men who
handles produce says there will be
no lack of a market for all of the
grapes that are grown in this section
of the State. "It's prohibition," said
he, when asked the reason. "More
people are going to try their hands
at making homemade wines this
year than you ever heard of* and
there will be more fancy results,
too, I'm thinking. The foreigners
in South Harrisburg and Steelton
who make a specialty of their own
wine and who make it for home
use, have been buying about as
usual. I have not heard that they
have increased their purchases al
though they are large buyers. It's
the man who has been hit by pro
hibition who is bulling the market
and he is going to have some great
concoctions."
• • •
Although the city's official bath
ing season closed a couple of days
ago the announcement does not
seem to have penetrated to some
parts of the city because there h.avo
been youngsters in the Susque
hanna most of the warm afternooiv-s.
The popularity of the swimming
along the river front is going to go
along way toward putting through
that bond issue in November.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Berkley H. Boyd, f" Tier legis
lator, lias been renominated for
county commissioner in Westmore
land.
—John K. Stauffer, Republican
candidate for mayor of Reading,
has been a member of the council
in that city for some time.
—Robert E. T>amberton, candi
date for sheriff in Philadelphia is
active in business affairs in tljat
city.
—Harry H. Huston, new presi
dent of the Pennsylvania veterans,
lives in Washington county anil
served in the Philippines.
—Marion Patterson, District At
torney of Blair county and well
known here, was renominated Tues
day.
—The Rev. Dr. G. E. Wilbur,
just home from Armenia, will speak
in Western Pennsylvania on the
situation he found.
—John M. Walton and E. S. Mor
row, city controllers of Philadelph'a
and Pittsburgh respectively, were
renominated without opposition.
] DO YOU KNOW
—Tlrnt Harrisburg's plan for
river front battling is attracting
attention of other cities?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG.
—The first sanitary crusade took
place in Harrlsburg three years af
ter the city was founded and also
I created the place's first debt