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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919
11"c bear our own burdens more
easily when wo help others to bear
theirs. — MAßY A. LIVLKMOIIK.
KEEP THEM STRAIGHT
ATTORNEY GENERAL, SCHAF
FER and State Banking Com
missioner lusher told represent
atives of the Philadelphia Tenants'
Protective Association they mean to
see to it that Pennsylvania Building
and Loan Associations comply
strictly with the provisions of the
law under which they operate. The
manner in which Mr. Fisher has got
his Inspections under way indicate
that he intends to do just what he
says, and he will have firm support
in the office of the Attorney Gen
eral.
The building and loan association
was created for the specilic purpose
of supplying the man who desires to
own his home with the means of
purchase. It was not designed to
tinance large real estate purchases,
however desirable that may be at
times even with associations doing
business on a legitimate basis. If,
ns has been charged, the associa
tions of Philadelphia or any other
county, favor the large borrower to
the exclusion of the man who wants
to purchase a home, they are beyond
their legal purposes and should be
brought to book; particularly in
cases where the officers are found
to he accepting fees for approving
loans and where the funds borrowed
are being used for profiteering pur
poses.
There are difficulties in the way
of bringing the offenders to justice,
but the very fact that the State au
thorities have announced their at
tention of going after the law
breakers or evaders will have a
beneficial effect on the situation.
SEE WHO'S HERE
WELL, well, folks, just see
who's here! No less a per
sonage than the old friend
who advises us to "do your Christ
mas shopping early," This time it is
the New York Telegraph that waves
the warning sign and bids us get i
busy. And the advice is good, at
that. Never in the history of the
country were the stores so crowded I
during September as at present. The I
prospects are that as the season ad
vances they will become more so.
We are headed for the biggest
holiday business since Christmas
buying began and December is just
around the corner. It will be on us
before we know it. So "do your
Christmas shopping early" is not out
of plaoe. It might be amended,
however, to read, "do your Christ
mas shopping a little each week."
GENERAL STRIKES
time Is inopportune for a
I general strike." the Central j
Labor "Onion of Boston an
nounces In explaining why it is not
supporting the strike of the police
men in that city. It might have
ROM further and said the time Is
never opportune for a general strike.
A general strike can not succeed irr •
the United States and no condßion j
can arise that would warrant it. !
No man who Is truly American j
would for a moment consider such !
a move, for a general strike is next •
door to revolution, and a revolution- |
ist Is a man to be shot on sight as j
a traitor to the best government
man has ever devised.
The Central Labor Union of Bos
ton simply yielded to the inevitable.
There can be no reason for a un
ionised police force. Civil sendee
takes care of police needs and any- j
thing beside can be threshed out j
between their own representatives
and those of the public, whose safe
ty they have taken oath to preserve.
Their duty Is to protect the pub
lic, regardless of rank or station,
and they cannot be subservient to
the orders of labor leaders. They
cannot sen'e two masters, and the
public comes first.
The Boston police put themselves
beyond pardon when they left the
city at the mercy of the criminal
Aiaasesk They lost public support
THURSDAY EVENING,
and sympathy, without which no ,
strike can succeed, the moment they !
left their posts. To have declared a [
general strike to enforce police de- I
mands woud have been suicidal to
union labor interests in Boston, and !
the heads of the Central Union j
were wise enough to see it.
GOOI) ADVICE
THE Labor World, of Pitts
burgh, a newspaper devoted to
the interests of labor in Amer
ica, is trying to anchor the swaying
sentiments of alien workmen and to
lead them to understanding that
there is no place like America; no
place where opportunity is greater
or where better chance to make a
decent living offers, even under
present abnormal conditions. Be
neath the flare heading—"Some
Reasons Why You Should Stay in
America," the World says:
Europe is bankrupt financially
and a wave of Bolshevism has
swept into every country there.
Food and clothing aro so ab
normally high that Europe is
having trouble in sustaining its
present population with the
bread of i'fe. Here are some
high prices and conditions in the
Czecho-Slovak Republic: Flour
is 50 cents a pound, a cow costs
$4,000, fat is $3 a pound, a horse
costs $4,000, shoes arc S4O a
pair.
Cotton and woolen goods arc
not to be had. so the people are
in rags. Meat is very scarce,
and a poor quality costs $3 a
pound. Sugar, tea, coffee and
other luxuries aro not to be had.
Drugs are very liigo and in most
places not to be had at any price.
Beer and all kinds of liquors are
scarce and so high only the rich
people can buy.
The eronin is worth only 30
cents on the dollar and foreign
merchants demand the French
franc or the pound sterling.
The war taxes ire five times
higher than they are in America.
New farm implements are not
to be had at any price.
Seeds are scarce and of poor
quality.
industry is at a standstill' and
wages aro so far below the
American standard that you
would not be satisfied. Send for
your friends and relatives and
stay in America, where peace
und plenty reign, with years of
prosperity and good times ahead
of you! It will take from one
year to live years for the coun
tries of Europe to go through
tlio reconstruction period and get
back on their feet!
Stay in America!
This, of course, was written for
the benefit of the alien who may bo
tempted to leave these shores to try
his fortunes in his old home, and
very good advice it is. Wise labor
leaders want these men to remain
with us, both for their own sake*
as well as for ours. We need them
and they need us.
But the messages the Labor
World addresses to foreign work
men is excellent reading for dis
gruntled Americans, as well. We
are apt to become discouraged over
the difficulties of present day condi
tions. Prices are high and taxes
oppressive. Making ends meet is
a daily puzzle. But we are so much
better off than the people of the
rest of the world that the poorest
of us is rich by comparison. In
stead of brooding over our own
troubles, if we gave a little thought
to the rest of the world our con
ditions would seem easy and our
burdens light by comparison.
ARMENIA AGAIN
WH I> WAIt I) RAFFEItTY,
just returned from Armenia,
writes that a quarter-million
Christian people are in starving con
dition there. The need is great antl
thousands of these must die unless
America sends them food.
The cry of two hundred and
fifty thousand homeless, father
less. motherless children Is Arme
nia's great challenge to the youth
of America. Prohalily one hun
dred thousand of these do not
know their names, Kven re
cent 'y babies have been found
deseited in caves and at the
roadsides, living on grass and
cauion. Every American boy and
girl, every young man and wom
an who has a home and parents
should answer this appeal and
make possible food, clothing,
shelter and education for these
destitute thousands, many of
whom are now in orphanages in
the very land where Jesus took
the children in His arms and
blessed them. Groups of young
people in Sun.ay schools.' high
schoo's. Y. M. end Y. \V. C. A.'s
must not turn a deaf ear to this
pathetic call. I spoke one Sun
day morning to seventeen hun
dred of these orphans in one or
phanage at Aleppo and dreamed
of the new Armenia that sat in
front of me. The young of
Am-rica must go in'o partnership
with the young of Armenia to
meki possible the pernetulty of a
nation whose God is the l.ord.
In nil probability more than
sever.! y-five thousand unfortu
nate christian Armenian girls and
women are yet held as Moslem
slaves in the harems of Turks,
Kurds and Arabs. Many of these
found and photographed by the
wri' e i bore the horrible tattoo
I marks indicating Moslem owner
ship. even as a Western ranch
i man brands his cattle. Refore
ihey were rescued and brought to
Refuge Homes they suffered in
descrlbab'o ngon'es. The captives
must he set free and th rescued
ones must be nurtured back into
health and wholesorr > home life.
Their need megaphones a pitiful
challenge to American young
i people.
J America has never turned a deaf |
I ear to the suffering. \Ve must give j
I and give generously. Organized ef- !
I fort is being put forth in this direc- j
tion. it should, and no doubt will. |
j meet with prompt and generous I
I response. In the elder days Armenia '
I stood for Christ;..pity when the re- 1
1 ! ! gion was. on trial. In these days j
Christians everywhere must reeog-1
| nize their obligation
| AN INALIENABLE RIGHT
THE American colonies declared
their independence in order
that the inhabitants might be
free to enjoy their Inalienable rights
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. The Government was or
ganized in eonntitut'onal form in
order to protect those rights. In the
maintenance of life and the pursuit
of happiness, work is necessary. It
follows, therefore, that the right .to
work is Inalienable. t must be pro
tected by the Government and can
not be denied by a labor union
whose memberß decide that they will
discontinue their own employment.
fMUcstn.-
' P'-lv flea.
i By the Kz-Oominlttccmao
1L
Few questions of the many grow
ing out of the count of the votes
cast at the primary have attracted
more attention throughout Pennsyl
vania than the proposition that what
is known as a "tick" or "check"
niark has the same value in marking
of a bollot as the "X" established
by usuge, custom and statute, which
ruling has been made by Philadel
phia judges sitting in the election
count in the Quaker City.
For the time being this question
lias overshadowed in the minds of
men who follow politics In this Stato
the interesting situation which has
developed through the demand of
John it. K. Scott for the opening of
numerous ballot boxes, the discov
ery of blunders and what are classed
by some individuals and newspapers
as worse in certain wards and the
closeness of the vote.
Newspapers and lawyers do not
believe that enough can be devel
oped in Philadelphia to overturn the
majority of Congressman J. Hampton
Moore, but the delay of the count
and the cropping out of political
animosities will not be without ef
fect. The Philadelphia judges have
determined to complete the count in
time for ballots to be printed and
it may be that some of the mooted
questions may come up later.
I —The Philadeliihie Record says
concerning the ruling: "The judges
I yesterday handed down a decision
which is considered revolutionary, as
far as the compilation of primary
I votes is concerned. They ruled that
' a pencil marking, commonly referred
I to as 'a tick,' has the same weight
I and effect as a cross in the marking
lof a ballot. The question came up
[ when it was found that 23 ballots in
the Nineteenth division of the Sec
ond ward bore the "tick" marks in
stead of the ordinary crosses. Judges
Audenricd and Ferguson decided
that the marking of crosses opposite J
the name of candidates is imperii - :
tive only at general elections, and j
that the rule did not hold for the
primaries."
When Judge Audenried ruled that !
the "tick" mark had the same weight 1
and effect as a cross, ex-Judge James j
Guy Gordon pointed out that in the ■
event a cross was marked opposite ,
the name of Congressman Moore and 1
a "lick" beside the name of Judge i
Patterson the second would invali- j
date the first and make both void.
Decisions were even read to show I
that in the past the law has recog- |
nized only a well-defined cross as a j
metnod of ballot marking.
—The Evening Ledger joins the
Philadelphia Inquirer and Bulletin
In demanding a clean up on elec
tions in that city. It says: "Good
daylight let in upon the methods
employed in some of the wards at
the recen' balloting will reveal sonio
amazing tliinys. Judges Audenried
and Fcrgusoi. isr to be commended
for their appuent determination to
see the tiling thiough, to take the.
lid off and let the people see what
has been under it, 10, these many
years. The effect of such an rxai •-
ination as the court lias ordered is
sure to be felt at future elections.
The day of the personally conducted
election is almost past.
—Not only In Scranton,' but in j
various other cities results have !
been changed by the official count j
and there has been much dismay
among some candidates. In Union- j
town the school director candidates j
I are not those thought nominated. I
—Cumbria county judges have rc- j
fused to order ballot boxes rc-opened,
i although it was contended that the i
j election was illegal because county
' commissioners numbered both ballots ,
land stubbs. Johnstown papers inti- !
I mate that there may be formal con- j
I tests filed.
I —The general attitude of judges |
! is that ballot boxes can not be open- l
!ed on imaginary errors, but that |
: there must be real cause shown. ,
—By 26 votes Councilman I>. J. I
! Campbell has been declared the i
fourth nominee for council in I
I Scranton. There were 24 candidates i
1 in the field and four were noml- j
; nated. The opening of ballot boxes j
• from borough districts in Mayficld |
! and Olyphant brought a switch in •
j the votes of four candidates for the I
' Republican nomination for school j
| directors. The two men shown to .
j have been nominated by the sealed |
I returns lost out on the recount in
j court.
—ln Bucks county the official |
count showed thut not enough otll
| clal ballots were provided for some j
'districts, and upon using up their i
I supply borrowed from others. West j
Bristol township, for instance, ex- j
I haustod its supply of eight ballots!
i and borrowed from Bristol borough. I
I Several up-county districts which ran |
i short of official ballots used sample •
j ballots instead. This procedure has i
| raised the question whether other I
I than official ballots cast are legal
and can be counted and may be a j
question for the courts to decide.
—Col. George Knox McCain says
in the Evening Ledger this about a !
man well known to many here: j
| "Henry K. Moyer was one man who •
I did not hesitate to tell Quay just
I what he thought. And his expres
| sions were not always to Quay's lik-
I ing. Boyer's fearlessness in this re
; spect was due to his unswerving loy
| alty as a member of the organization
i Quay was aware that no matter what
I happened in the course of events at
i Harrlsburg. or elsewhere ' over the
I State. Boyer would stand by the raa
i ehinc. And his faithfulness to "the
j old man," as the Senator was known
' among his intimates, was rewarded
• with high offices. I once heard Sen
! ator Quay say that Harry,Boyer was
I the ablest parliamentarian that ever
' sat in the speaker's chair, and that
| A 1 Crawford came next."
—The Public Hedge r speculates
about whut the Governor will think
about the returns from Vare wards
in the Philadelphia judgeship elec
tion, the Governor having said that
he would regard any organized ef
fort against sitting judges as an un
friendly act and some figures now
showing that Vare men in certa'n
wards voted heavily for Eugene C.
Bonniwell, who was most emphati
cally not favored by the Governor.
The Governor has said nothing, but
has been interested In the returns.
The Ledger remarks: "Vare knif
ing" of the judicial candidates sup
ported by Governor Rproul failed to
do them any injury in Tuesday's
primary. Judge Joseph P. McCul
len. in the Common Pleas Court:
Judge George Henderson, in the Or
phans' Court, and Judges Thomas
F. McN'ichol. and Charles E. Bart
lett. i the Municipal Court, wqre
nominated —and virtually elected—
despite tho opposition of tho Or
ganization. Under a recent decision
of the Supreme Court candidates
for Judgeships go on the ticket In
tho general elections upopposed if
they receive 51 per cent of the total
vote cast in the primaries. All four
received the necessary 51 per cent
and consequently will go into office
without further contest."
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No Wonder Germany Quit
By MAJOR FRANK C. MARIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
"Most people seem to think that
the multi-colored devices you see on
the left shoulders of our returned
oversees men are something new."
"As a matter of fact the particular
patterns used are new, but the idea
is so old that it goes back before the
days of history. In the days of the
barbarians the men from a certain
village, clan, or district would each
wear the tail of a raccoon, a boar's
tusk, or some similar device that
marked them as belonging to a par
ticular group, in the days of the
early Egyptians the men of a corps
each wore the sign of Isis, Osiris, or
some other God. Each Roman le
gionary wore a geometrical device
of the same design as the standard
borne by the legion's standard bear
er. The standard of the legion cor
responded to a present day flag.
During the middle ages, as heraldry
came into being each family or lead
er adopted some sort of device
which his followers wore. For many
centuries these devices depended
solely on the fancy of the individual
leader, but about the time of the
.second crusade in 1147, an agree
ment was reached that each family
of noble birth would adopt a fam
ily crest or coat-of-arms. Before
these crests could be used they must
be approved by the feudal sovereign
and entered in the records of the
School of Heralds. Thus all mem
bers of a noble family and their re-1
talners were authorized to wear a
certain insignia and as there were
thousands of these approved in the
course of centuries it became a
matter for profound study and in
terest to trace out and co-ordinate
the heraldic devices. As modern
armies came into existence in the
latter part of the seventeenth cen
turv. troops were organized unt-
Iformlv into brigades and squadrons
each uf whom was fora dis- (
: trict or a member of the Royal fam
! iiv. On the collar or sleeve each
man would wear the crest of colors |
of the person or district for which
; his brigade or squadron was named.
To this day in the English army that
approximate condition is carried out.
Organizations are known not as the
| 110 th Infantry, but as the Argyle
I Highlanders, the Dublin l-usileers,
the Coldstream Ouards, or what not,
i still wearing the insignia adopted
centuries ago. Our early American
• units were distinguished by piping
'of a particular color on the seams
iof their uniforms and by patches
of the same color on their cuffs and
! collars. Then in the Regular Army
' thoy oddod about the time of tne
War of 1812 the numerals of the
1 regiment and permanently assigned
certain colors as the distinctive col
' or of each branch. For example, the,
: infantry was and Is blqe, the cavalry I
! yellow, the artillery red. Since then,
i the maroon has been added -or the
medical corps, buff for quartermas
| ter corps, green for air service, pur
plo for motor transport, etc. In
our Civil War special marks were
adopted for each corps and division
and these were worn on hats and
caps. In this war each rtivjs on
commander submitted a drawing
for his divisional Insignia to the
War Department, which, U P°" her
ir.g approved became the official
mark for all officers and men of
that division. The reason for these
markings is that it is always inter
esting and f'equently of vital im
portunce to know without, hav'.ngr to j
.-top and ask to what organization
iiion belong For instancj a man
becomes separate from his or
ganization and meets another sol
dier. He asks 'have you seen the
2 Bth Division.' 'Sure, I saw a bunch
of Red Keystones in a woods about
two miles up this road.' In France
the military police controlling trar
lie at a crossroad would simply
glance at the shoulder insignia of
Jl pproachinvr troops and point pißht,
I 'e'U or straight ahead as his orders
! required. Some of the insignia have
i a ,special significance such as a big
I red "1" for the First, a "Keystone"
for the Pennsylvania Division, a
"YD" (Yankee Division) for the
New Englnnders. a "Statue of Lib
erty" for the 77th of New York
city, while others were chosen arbi
trarily." 4
A Suggestion to De Valera
(From Punch, London.)
According to an American report
China raises 100 million pigs an
nually. An expert statistician cal
culates that, if the whole 100 mil
lion were gathered together in a
flock and their tails pulled, very
little would be heard of the Irish
question.
END TO NOTED OLD SHIP
The Richmond, in Fur caput's Fleet at New Orleans, to Be Scrapped.
From the New York Sun.
IN a few days the U. S. S. Rich
mond, once a part of Admiral
David G. Farragut's fleet, will
be consigned to the scrap heap.
After long service as a training
ship the vessel has been sold by
the Government to a Philadelphia
firm of metal dealers. The Rich
mond, once the flower of the Ameri
can Navy, on her last voyage will
depart from Norfolk and sail up the
Delaware to Bridesburg, Pa., where
the dismantling will begin.
The Richmond made a proud war
record in Admiral Farragut's fleet.
In his attempt to open up the Mis
sissippi river from its mouth, the
Admiral first employed camouflage
in smearing the sides of his ships
with mud to conceal them from the
enemy. So successful was this
shrewd practice that when the fleet
was later ordered in 1862 to the
Southwest the mud bath was again
repeated.
The old Civil War "battle wagon"
No "Innocent Bystanders"
[From the Philadelphia Ledger]
Efforts to represent the State con
stabulary of Pennsylvania as hire
lings, eager and ready to interfere
with the liberty of the people, are
wholly unwarranted by their pres
ent activities and their past history.
Nothing is more dastardly than the
way in which a certain class of
radical labor agitators apply such
epithets as "Cossacks" to the troops
of the constabulary. These leaders
know better; but they assume that
they can stampede the more ignor
ant by their shrill denunciation of
a splendid group of State employes
who merely obey the constituted au
thorities and only act to preserve
law and order and the common
rights of every citizen.
In every strike, when the irre
sponsibles wish to do as they please
and the innocent citizen goes where
he has no business to go, tragedies
occur which these same labor
leaders, the direct and indirect cause
of them, blame on the supposed class
hostility of the constabulary. The
facts, however, will not bear this
construction. The public should re
member that in the clash at North
Clairton the State Police were prop
erly in town at the call of the bur
gess and were engaged in preserv
ing law and order under his direc
tion. Moreover, the State Police De
partment has done a public service
in calling the attention of all citizens
to the fact that In times of riot the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
1 decided that there are no "innocent
| bystanders."
If "innocent bystanders" come to
grief during a riotous outbreak it
is through their own fault, and no
amount of misrepresentation should
he allowed to obscure the fact that
the State Constabulary of Pennsyl
vania has never been the Instrument
of oppression of any citizen's rights,
but instead has been a bulwark
against the disorder which respects
no one's right, least of all the rights
of the "average citizens" who make
up that helpless thing "the public,"
which is not a party to the industrial
disputes from which it is so apt to
suffer without redress.
THE BLUE JAY
[By Louise Driscoll.]
Villon among the birds is he,
A bold, bright rover, bad and
free;
Yet not without such loveliness
As makes the curse upon him
less,
If larkspur blossoms were a-wing,
If Iris went adventuring.
Or, on some morning, we should
see
Heaven bright-blue chicory
Come rifting by, we would for
give
Some little sins, and let them
live!
Verlalne among the birds is he,
A creature of inquiry;
And yet, what joy for one who
sees
An orchid drifting through the
trees!
The bluebell said a naughty
word
In mischief, and there was a
bird.
The blue sky laughed aloud, and
we
Saw wings of lapis lazuli.
So fair a sinner surely wins
* A little mercy for his sins.
shows upon it scars received in the
battle of New Orleans and of Mobile
Bay, where it covered itself with
glory. In the Spanish-American
war the Richmond was stationed at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard to
serve as the receiving ship there.
During the last war she afforded
quarters for the training school for
firemen at Berkly, Va.
The Richmond first splashed
water in 1860, her hull having been
built by the Richmond Navy Yard
and her engine constructed in Wash
ington. In October, 1861, the Rich
mond fought the ram Manassas in
the Southwest Pass. Somewhat
damaged in the battle, she emerged
from convalescence with sufficient
strength to join Admiral Farragut's
fleet for the attack on New Orleans.
Disabled in this battle by the ter
rific Confederate fire, she underwent
further repairs and fought her last
battle of the war on Mobile Bay
under the command of Capt. Thorn
ton A. Jenkins.
Dooley Sees the World
[From the Kansas Cily Star.]
In his latest volume our old
friend, Mr. Dooley, discussing vari
ous matters, comes upon Mr.
Bryan's peace proposals of several
years ago. They Included an inter
national police force. The philoso
pher of Archie Road comes to this
conclusion:
"An" there ye ar-re. I don't
know whether 'twill succeed or
not I hope so. But there's wan
thing I am afraid iv, Hinnissy.
Ye see, me boy, the wurruld is
a pretty old hunk of mud an*
wickedness, an' I've been here
a long time an' I've observed
this sad thruth. Ye don't have
to lend a man money. Ye don't
have to amuse him; ye don't
have to take care iv him if he's
sick; ye don't have to do anny
thing f'r him but wan thing."
"An' what's thtft?" asked Mr.
Hennessy.
"It he wants to fight ye, ye-ve
got to accommodate him," said
Mr. Dooley.
The world is a pretty old hunk
of mud and wickedness, and the
man who fails to take this into the
account isn't going to get very far
as a peacemaker.
Wages and Production
[From the New York Sun]
Wages are not money. Wages are
the commodities into which a day's
work will exchange. If, to live the
American people need 110,000,000
loaves of bread and 110,000,000
pounds of provisions a day, and the
production, through whatever cause,
fell to 55,000,000 loaves of bread
and 55,000,000 pounds of other food
you might raise average money
wages to SSO a day, but that would
not add a single ounce to the provis
ions. The American people, on
whatever money wage, would have
to go hungry. To increase its re
ward—which means to reduce its
cost of living—mankind must in
crease its production. Under the
laws of nature there is no escape
by a people from that economic
compulsion. When labor increases
its productiqsi it has the right to
insist upon getting that increased
production as its reward if labor
alone achieved the increase. It
ought to exerc'se that right. In the
possession of Its faculties it will ex
ercise it. But it will demand till
doomsday what is not produced,
what does not exist, and never get
it.
The Story of Midas
[McLandburgh Wilson In the New
York Sun]
Midas, favored of his god.
Walking on the autumn sod
Touched the field of goldenrod.
Bright it gleamed on every side,
Glimmered far and shimmered wide
Over all the land to bide.
Oold he sniffed with every breeze,
Midns started in to wheeze.
Snuffle, snort and weep and sneeze.
Keener still his anguish grew
Till he cried in sorrow true:
' "Gods, take bag your gift! Achoo!"
SEPTEMEER 25, 1919.
The Boston Outbreak
[Front the New York World]
What is happening in Boston can
happen in any other large American
city in like circumstances. The great
majority of the people there as else
where are predisposed to law and
order and never need the restraints
of law translated into terms of
physical force. But it is equally true
that a numerous minority are held
in respect for the personal and
property rights of others only by
compulsion, and when that is with
drawn they revert at once to the
control of primitive instincts.
For this situation of general mob
rule and riot and looting and mur
der the Boston police, organized as
a labor union and acting as such in
affiliation with other labor unions,
stand forth as wholly responsible.
They knew exactly what would re
sult from their action. They delib
erately invited such a result. They
made the certain conseqtiences all
the more immediate and widespread
by the very publicity and concert
of their action so carefully and
showily calculated. They not only
deserted their sworn duties in the
face of the enemy, but they did
their best to inform the enemy of
the precise time when the city was
to be disarmed and delivered over
to the mob.
The developments in Boston a.re
the Immediate concern of every city
in the country. The fire there start
ed demands precautionary measures
everywhere against its spread. And
what started the flre there will start
it wherever tolerated.
Soon or late the Boston police
union as a militant strike organiza
tion will have to give way and dis
solve. Tt is incumbent upon other
cities to see that such unions are
not allowed ' i start.
Dr. Finegan's Congress
[From the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger. ]
Doctor Finegan, the new State
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, is reported as expressing the
opinion that there should be an ad
justment of the work of the schools
to meet the new conditions that
have arisen as a result of the war.
He has called a conference of men
and women interested in education
to meet in Harrisburg i ■ November
and to discuss the question for a
week. Prominent college professors,
high school teachers and city and
county superintendent will be in
vited. It has not yet been announced
whether any one save persons pro
fessionally interested in education
will be asked to be present.
The fact that the conference has
been called should be encouraging
to those who are hoping that Doc
tor Finegan will make the public
schools of the State equal to those
in any other commonwealth. He
has come here with the hearty in
dorsement of educational experts as
a man who knows how to get re
sults. His appointment of Dr. Wil
liam D. Lewis, of the William Penn
High School, as one of his deputies
indicates that he knows how to
choose men to assist him. Doctor
Lewis is a man who is not content
to follow the methods that have been
in vogue for a generation merely be
cause they have been followed by
his predecessors. He has been more
intent on results than on method and
has shown himself willing to discard
everything that does not produce the
results he is seeking. Doctor Fine
gan is understood to be the same
kind of a man.
Why the Prices Are Up
[Knoxville Journal and Times]
With the men wearing silk shirts
and getting tired of working, with
women forgetting cooking and the
family demanding the services of a
chauffeur, with everybody studying
how they can pass the buck to
everybody else—why shouldn't a
fellow have to have more money to
keep up the paces? A young man,
or the older one, who works four
days in the week, then oft two days,
to spend what he has made, will
probably complain the longest and
the loudest of hard times and the
high cost of living. He spends much
of his time in spending what he has
earned and has received. He puts
none of his earnings In the bank,
carries it in his pocket, gets rid of
it, fearful that it might burn holes
in his pockets.
Not That One
[From the New York World]
The kaiser's late war-kitchen is
to be added to the trophies at the
Smithsonian institution. It is a field
affair, of course, and not to be con
founded with the culinary depart
ment In which Wllhelm and his gen
erals cooked the goose of Imperial
t Germany.
lEumutg (Eljat p
Bernard Brady, who is now a
resident of the United States Sol
diers' Home at Washington, has sent
official papers from the War Depart
ment for record in the Pennsylvania
State Capitol which officials of the
State government believe make him
the youngest soldier of the Civil
War in the Union armies. The doc --
ments, which have been passed
upon by the Adjutant General of
the United States Army, give the
age of Brady when enlisting as a
drummer boy in the Fifty-Eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteers as eight
years and eleven months, although
his enlistment papers gave his ago
as fifteen. Brady's claim nuvkA-t
him younger than were several otuer
men who became notable as youth
ful soldiers in the army of the
Union, among them the late Captain
John C. Delaney, long State factory
inspector; John Clemm, the western
veteran who figured at the fiftieth
anniversary of the Battle of Get
tysburg, and Daniel A. Clemmons, a
Lancaster countian, who enlisted in
the Seventy-Ninth Pennsylvania
Volunteers July 13, 1863, after fol
lowing the regiment for some time
because his father was one of the
soldiers. The Brady papers which
are supported by the War Depart
ment notation and a certificate of his
baptism at a Catholic church in
Newark, show that he enlisted at
Suffolk. Va., October 17, 1862, giving
his age as fifteen; but that he was
born in New Jersey, October 29, 1853,
and baptised the following November
30. After the war Brady went to
Wyoming county, but soon entered
the regular army, serving in the
Fourth and other infantry regiments.
While in the army he lost a leg and
for years has lived at the Soldiers'
Home. Jacob Stauffcr, of the Ad
jutant General's Department, who
has looked up many records of sol
diers, believes that Brady can safely
lay claim to being the youngest sol
dier He is familiar with records
of many Pennsylvanians and has fol
lowed up the Brady and other
claims. Officers of the Adjutant
General's Department have also
studied the papers and Adjutant
General Frank D. Beary intends to
see the veteran when in Washing
ton.
According to reports coming hero
from western counties, a law passed
to prevent unnaturalized foreigners
from hunting in Pennsylvania, which
was passed because of flagrant viola
tions of the laws protecting game,
has been found of value in curbing
the foreigners in various industrial
districts. In Mercer county the
homes of foreigners were searched
under the law forbidding aliens to
own dr possess firearms and a car
load of weapons seized. During the
war this law was invoked in this
city by the late Dr. Joseph Kalbfus,
Secretary of the State Game Com
mission, on general principles and
he took dozens of guns and revolvers
from foreigners in Sibletown and
other parts of the city. Similar steps
were taken in nests of bad foreigners
in Bedford and other counties dur
ing the war and now it is coming
in handy in "pulling the teeth" of
the foreign element which has armed
itself and is making the trouble in
the steel districts.
It is not everyone who can pay
out a two and a half-dollar gold
piece for a penny in street car fart;
and can get it back in ten minutes.
Here is the story and it comes from
a West Shore town, illustrating how
street car conductors can win and
hold the affections of the people who
ride on lines. One of the Valley
Railway cars was speeding up to
ward Camp Hill the other evening
when the conductor suddenly called
out to know who had given him a
two and a half-dollar gold piece in
mistake for a penny. The conduc
tor was counting up his cash and
spotted the gold coin. The passen
gers looked at each other and
grinned, but no one said anything
until a young woman made a con
vulsive grab at her pockotbook,
glanced through It and declared she
was "out." Identification of the
gold piece was promptly made and
the conductor was given a bouquet
of remarks for being just right.
A number of the men who enlisted
or were drafted in Harrisburg draft
board districts and who have taken
up homes elsewhere since returning
from France have been writing to
friends here asking all about the
welcome home next week. A num
ber of them will come here for the
Sunday exercises and some may re
main over for the Monday parade.
The parade is going to be a most
interesting one, as the second divi
sion will be entirely composed of
veterans of the World War, who
will be guests of the city and they
will all have the same rank as far
as that goes.
State laws and city ordinances do
not seem to have any terrors for
some automobile drivers and motor
cycle operators wlieij it comes down
to operating with cutouts open. They
do it every day, and night, Front,
Derry, Cameron and some times on
Sixth streets. The way some of the
cars arc driven is enough to make
people nervous, but when & cutout
is open it is worse. The motor
cycles that dash along the river
drive with cutouts open seem to
have things their own way and seem
to need a few policemen in plain
clothes to bring home a lesson.
j[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Senator C. J. Buckman. of
Bucks county, who was president
pro tern, last Senate, was here on
legal business.
—Mayor A. M. Hoagland, of Wil
liamsport, who Is a candidate for
re-election, has been a prominent
figure in Third-Class City League af
fairs.
Representative Leopold Glass,
of Philadelphia, is taking part in
the election count controversy.
H. I. Koch, New Allentown
councilman, has been secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce of that
place.
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell will
preside at the meeting of the State
Firemen at Lancaster next week.
[ DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg'* war gar
dens were among the most pro
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ductivc of any city of its size in
the country?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Canal boat service began here
Just about 90 years ago.
Rewards For Mercy and Trulji
Let not mercy and truth forsuko
thee: bind them about thy neck;
write them upon the table of thine
heart: So shalt thou And favpr and
good understanding in the sight of
God and man.—Proverbs ill, S a ltd
4.