Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 02, 1919, Page 12, Image 12
12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I 4L VEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME \ Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by m TKIKGRAPH PRINTING CO. Mwnph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACK POLE , i "President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STKINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board JT. P. McCULLOUGH, D BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. _. I Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to i It or not otherwise credited in this F'aper and also the local news pub lished herein. ■All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocta ated Dallies. 7 E fS. 0 4F, s tt Avenue Building 1 . New York City; Western office, Story. Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building Chicago, 111. 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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. l!)l!) The "bravest man in one who tirrer ttverves from the path of dutji.— Calderox. DO IT PROMPTLY • THE special committee of citizens appointed to raise the volun tary fund for the erection of a ! memorial to t e soldiers and sailors of Harrisburg at the eastern ei- . trance to the great memorial viaduct j at State street is completing its , plans on the basis of twenty dollars t for each soldier. It is a fine thought to make the j gifts personal in their nature so that I each giver may feel that he lias i contributed directly to the particular soldier, sailor, marine or war worker in whose name he responds to the call of the committee. Arnold W. Brunner, the famous architect, who is designing the Capitol Park plans and the Memorial Bridge, has submitted the designs for the Harrisburg memorial which have been accepted by the com mittee and which will be mosl dignified and appropriate. This city has done so admirably ] in every other way that it will take pride in completing promptly ! the memorial which will stand for all time as the evidence ot' a city's appreciation of the self-sacrifice and devotion of the great body of young men who went out as the direct rep resentatives of our people to safe- ; guard the rights and liberties of the , American people. Y. M. c. A:S PROGRAM IT IS difficult for the average citizen to realize the comprehen sive character of the welfare and .educational work which is being ■lone in Harrisburg under the gen- K-ral direction of the Central Young ■Vfen's Christian Association. The Activities of the association are of Hnch a nature as to be sometimes Bverlooked by those who are not in touch with the program of this useful organization. Reports were submitted to the directors at Uie fall session yester day which were most gratifying, in that they gave an account of stew ardship which ought to lie in posses sion of every citizen of Harrisburg who has an interest in the practical i and helpful upbuilding of the com munity. I Thousands of men who responded fo the colors on the entrance of the united States into the war have been aided in many ways by the local association and its various secre taries, but this has been only a part of the useful work which lias been tase during the period of the war. and hundreds of young men of proper assistance have the institution at Second and streets a good Samaritan. of luck" have applied for J? .securing employment or in into touch with the home for relief from dire ex ~—. • and frequently help in ill . , always there has been a • -.1;.-®! response. Many a story u 'L- told of the boy down, but - who has been started on Bfeoud with a reclaimed life. useful citizens to-day face toward decent living to the HEitlon that is now pre THURSDAY EVENING, paring in a constructive way for Us winter work. During the next few months, when j outdoor activity will necessarily j ' to a large degree lie suspended, the . indoor courses will include night ■ schools for the teaching of salesman- . ship, public speaking, mechanical drawing, bookkeeping, commercial Spanish and English correspond ence. In addition, there will be n glee club under the direction of a ■competent organist and choir direc tor. Then. too. there are the well- I managed gymnasium courses anil the activities of the department organ ized for the training of hoys. Re ligious work likewise will have the leadership ot men who are peculiarly qualified to conduct this important part of the association's activities. In short, the association bead quarters will be the assembling place of hundreds of men and boys dur ing the next few months, and the scope and purpose of the associa tion's policy have been fully out lined by the officers and the various committees are prepared to take care of all comers, whatever their needs or desires. With the wide ex perience of the mobilization and demobilization period of the war. tlie Young Men's Christian Association of Harrisburg is splendidly equipped for the still more important work to be. done in the period of readjust ment and the city is to lie'congratu lated upon the large vision which characterizes the preparations for ; the winter work. The new police station is such a j 'pleasant place it will he rflmost worth | while to be arrested just to Vie taken there. *% THE AMERICAN I EGIOX THE gathering here of l.OOt) or more veterans of the War with j Germany to attend the first I annual cantonment of the American j T.egion in Pennsylvania., is an his-j toric occasion. In years to come ! | this organization will take the place | of the Grand Army of the Republic, j when time shall have had its way with the brave and venerable men < who make up that wonderful body j of American heroes. The formation ! of 350 posts of nearly "8.000 mem- ! hers in this State in the brief. period | since the war ended, is, as the State ! chairman says, a wonderful prom ise of the future strength anil popu larity of the T.egion. "Policies, not politics," is the key note of the convention which will form the laws under which the Legion will operate, and lite young men charged with this work have an important and far-reaching duty | to perform. The Legion 'must be i safeguarded from selfish interests. I It must be as pure in purpose as I was the Army of which its members were units when the Americun forces in, France dealt Germany the death ' Mow. and judging front all indica- ! tions its future is in good and trust- j worthy hands. We heed in America to-day just ! such a sturdy, patriotic organization as the American Legion promises' to be. These young men must, as the years go by, receive the" flag from the failing hands of the vet- I erans who have held it aloft so long. J Theirs will he the duty of preserv- j ing the form of Government and per- ! petuating the Institutions that have ; made us a great nation. From their j ranks will come the men who, for j ! the next half-century, will guide the business, industrial and political af- ' fairs of the country, just as the men ' I of the Grand Army were the domi nating force in the republic for fifty years following the Civil War. It i j is only natural that this should be | so, for the men who served with the colors are the flower of our young American manhood and the I qualities which carried them to vic tory in France will win for them j honorable places In the peaceful life j of the country. j All Pennsylvania doffs its hat to j the delegates gathered here to-day. ; They are "carrying on" in peace as I they did in the war. The future of ithe nation is safe in the hands of ! those who risked their lives to | save it. A "DOPE" CI HE - W FRANCIS AHERN. chief ad vocate in Australia of the • "one Big Union" idea, j says that "it seems Australia will | have lo wait a while for the realiza j tion of the plan." and adds that "it i: being wrecked ou the rocks of per sonality." Mr. Ahern might have foreseen this difficulty. . "That Is one of the troubles bred by the idea itself," says | the American Alliance for Igibor and 1 Democracy, commenting on Ahern's | wail, and adds, "the other is that the 'idea is all wrong and won't work." I That is absolutely true. The "One I Big Union" notion is mere "dope" I for the agitators who would cure jail the ills of the world through the means of the labor union. Like all I nostrums, it is both bad to the ! taste and evil In its consequences. j • Fortunately nobody in the United ' Statps worth considering has become ! an addict. I f stlktce- IK J ""PTKK44J&RAIUAR ' By the Ex-Committeeman J Not only Democrats, but Repub- j licuns who are interested •in State; ; polities, have been made to sit up | all over Pennsylvania by remarks at j Washington from James I. Blaks | lee. Fourth Assistant Postmaster' ( General, one of the most versatile' iof t lie Democratic ringmasters in | the Keystone State. They are re garded as indicating not only that j I tlie genial "Jim" has been at work j trying to get into concerted action j I tlie flapping wings of the Democrat-,-| jof Pennsylvania, but that some very) | practical, hard-headed Democrats are going to run the Pennsylvania 'machine with Mr. Hlakslee as tlie ] driver. i Mr. Blakslee's remark that At torney General A. Mitchell Palmer I would be candidate for President i and would resign from the Demo j crntie National t'ommittee in the ' event that the President did not j want to run again surprised no one. j But it interested people to hear I Blakslee say it. The authoritative j way he spoke and his positive stute j incut that the Democrats would stop I lighting 'and get behind Palmer prove up stories that something was I under way this summer. Equally interesting, but not so unexpected | as his prediction of harmony among the Democrats, was liis blunt re mark that Vance <\ MoCorniiek had "had enough" and would not he made national committeeman. That | is taken to mean that Blakslee and I the practical hoys are going to boss j the party in this State and that thej former national chairman will tie an i j advisor who will be listened to ae- I cording to the size cf bis eontribu-J Dion, an no; unknown situation in | Pennsylvania Democratic affairs in I [the last 120 years. j Blakslee h;.s always been cons',il- j jireil by Republican lenders ns the, [ablest of the Democratic State lead-| I I rs. lie was tlie brains and push of; !tho 1911 reorganization movement 'and had much to do with making [ I tlie Pennsylvania delegation to the llialtimore convention the keystone! [of the Wilson movement. With 11 It'nkslee as national committeeman' i.rbm Pennsylvania, his hand on all; [tlie post offices and Federal places! land his card-index brain and on-1 j bounded energy at the disposal of, | a party organization, i; will mean j ia strenuous time for one Judge En-I ■ gene Bonniwell and the fragment! lof the t lid Guard. j -—The Philadelphia Inquirer soys! I part. \ loyalty is at slake in the j Philadelphia mayoralty campaign > because of the Mclaiiighlin-Clark i party fiav. After referring to the defeat of George 11. Earle, Jr.. for mayor a few days ago the Inquirer | savs: "The Vare-eontrolled city I roganization is under suspicion be- [ cause of Hie fact that at least two) of Hie Vare men who submitted j their names to the Republican! voters for nomination have permit- i ted it lo lie proclaimed that they | are to lie parties to a rump ticket, | 'which aims to defeat the choice of j [the Republican voters for mayor.) t'ongressman J. Hampton Moore.) i Coroner William R. Knight and Re-! I eorder of Deeds, James M. Mazlett, j I have been announced as candidates! of the Charter Party. If they shall; 1 permit their names to remain on the ] ! ticket to the possible disadvantage) of the Republican nominee fori mayor or any of his loyal jFepubli- ' can associates, they may meet with! ! opposition which will imperil their] I re-election. -—The North American adds this! , interesting incident to tlie Philn- [ , delphia situation: "John R. K. j ] Scott took the trouble to tell the i , election court that the Vares won't' run an independent ticket. Of | j course, nobody ever thought that j i they woulti. But so low is the in- j Merest In the counting of the primary j ballots, that "Scotty's" assertion of! !an undisputed fact was easily the! I high light of the day's work. Seott j : made his great renunciation byway j ]of a declaration that the Repuhii- ■ ] can city committee will support the ] regular Republican nominee. This j | statement was thrown out in thp' course of a long argument over new j j petitions, in an attempt to prevent ; 1 Moore attorneys from opposing | I Scott's demands. Like several othei ] i Vare plans, it fell on stony ground [ | and Scott will he required to show j | cause for every new petition grant-I | ed." —lndependent tickets appear to; ■ be popular means of getting men to I spend money in the chance of fish-1 j ing up something from the troubled ■ workers. In, John F. ) Smith, defeated for a mayoralty! nomination, will run on a rump! ticket and in Reading W. Harry Orr. a banker, is being urged to head a new party for the mayoralty I honor. —Assurance has been given that all ballotlioxes in the city of Chester and other precincts in Delaware county where fraud or error is charged and can be shown by affi davits will be opened was given at Media by Judge William B. Broom all. who is presiding over the return hoa rd. —The Philadelphia Press com pliments Judges Audenreid and Ferguson for the manner in which they have handled the election count in Philadelphia and especial ly their notice to stop talking of contests and of bringing up all sorts of excuses for delaying the count. The Press says: "These Judges are pioneers in executing a new law. They have discovered difficulties which were not contcm- I plated in framing it. By their in dependent decisions they have cut several Oordian knots which threat ened serious complications. One of these —probably the most important —is tlie sitting of two separate courts each of which is presided over by one of the Judges regularly assign ed in conformity with the law. Clearly it is a decision in accordance with practical common sense and tha public is interested. —The count of the vote at tlie ie cent primaries shows that in Ly coming county there are 239 ties to be settled by drawing lots for the nomination. In every instance the ties are for minor offices. • The Re publican primaries developed seventy-six ties, the Democratic primary seventy-eight ties and the , Prohibition party which cast a total of about eighty votes in Lycoming county, has seventy-five ties to settle. The Socialist party has ten . ties. Tlie Prohibitionist party made no effort to place a ticket in the field, deciding that it was best to 1 allow its members to take their pick i of the candidates of the old parties. BXRRISBURG QFTJFRFIG TEU3GROTPET IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ~ By BRIGGS I i HE /TVLH-SOK I% \ F~WH AT I 1 V " \ YWHAT'S MINOAKIPHE HEAR. WOUT YOU!? ) TRTERER-F-ET V TOMIRLP TALKS- BACK JUST/ HERE , I Y OU R. MOTHER:IIOFORMS .THIS TCACH / \ TROOBLE \ AV4FUL MOWTOUVF \ ' J ME THAT You . ARE I' I™* 1 ™* ' - C V F (VIOLO . / \ GOT TO PTLMLSH.HLM-1 VV FJOTN, A <SOOD"BOY .7 \ /OU F —' )< T WIA P ° U H ' N CNDI , S AWB I 3HALC'HAVE )' / C," e r, , U t ?ySt, S T^T"°T,U 6 !. ' ■—-- H,M _" U 3HAIHE OK) ROU I \ COMPLETE OFE ADJN€ JOE: FOR SUCH A BRUTAL I\\ £*LLE I ATTACK OKI YOUR OUJM \\ Z_~- / FC A 2*. SOTO— A " POOR HELPLESS -\ \\ YSC"" No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN of the Army Recruiting station According to the official report of Lieutenant General Fuchs, of the German Army on tne first phase of the St. Mihiel attack," we started very heavy artillery fire along; the entire army front at 1 a. in. of September 12th. lie was right about its being heavy artillery fire, for our guns fired 1,095,000 shells in four hours. He ttien stated that al though the reserves or the llighef Command had not yet been made available—in spite of several re guests—the 31st and 123 rd Divis ions tin reserve) were alerted at 1.30 a. m. and the 88th Division (also reserve) at 1.50 a. in. As it became more and more certain that the expected large scale attack had begun and as tne situation, there fore, did not permit waiting for the approval of the . Higher Command but demanded an immediate and in dependent decision, the 31sl and 123 rd Divisions were assembled at two towns." There is a typical Ger man statement. Note carefully that a Lieutenant General commanding an army of the Lord knows how many divisions actually had the unadul terated nerve and gall to assemble two of his divisions without 'waiting for the approval of the Higher Com mand". and this when he was cer tain a general attack was on. In any army except the German the two- division commanders would have come mighty near being court martialed if they had failed, instant ly, and on their own initiative, to assemble their divisions as soon as the roar of the bombardment assured them that it was a general attack which was on. And here a Lieuten ant General was evidently quite ptoud of himself for having dared to do such a thing. It is evident that, as we have long thought, the German Army was so dependent on their General Staff or High Com mand, that their failures were due to all initiative having been utterly squelched and destroyed. At 4.45 a. m. they started these two divisions forward to meet our attack, but i their orders were to proceed to cer tain places and stop there. At 7.15 j permission was granted to send one regiment of the 123hd division for ! ward to a cross-roads about a mile j south-west of the village of Preny. j Now at that time this regiment was about a mile and a half north of | I'reny and my battalion was about ' three miles south-west of Preny, but j fortunately for us they did not ! know it. The General goes on to j state that he inquired at 3.20 a. m. iof the troops in the trenches if thefe was any reason for ordering an immediate evacuation of the ad i vunce zone and was told there was I nc compelling reason at that time, i That statement was quite correct as I our attack did not start until 5 a. i m. and after the attack started the ] troops in the trenches couldn't have j withdrawn if they had wanted to, jwe were coming on so fast. After I that 3.20 a. m. conversation our I friend Fuchs could get no further i information until an observer re ported at 9.25 that he could see a 'rearward' movement south of Thiau court. This 'rearward movement was actually the forward movement of our 2nd division. At 10.15 a. m. it was reported that we had broken through the 77th Division and ap peared to have taken Vieville"—in asmuch as it could not be communl ! cnted with by telephone." Again our friend Fuchs' assumptions were cor- I I eel, IhuUgil latin. 1..1C, for I sent a message dated "7.10 a. in. north | wall of north house, Vieville" sta ! ting that we had taken the town. I The reason I was on the north side j of the house was that our own bar ! rage was still hitting the roofs of I the houses and that was the safest place I could find. And the reason they could not get Vieville by phone was that there was a V'ank Tele phone operator at the switch-board who could not speak German. I tried, myself, to get the German op erator at the other end of the wire wherever that was. to tell me some thing. but he was so excited he couldn't talk coherently and I left him to the lender mercies of one of my men. At 9.45 a. in. the 31st and 123 rd Divisions were ordered to counter-attack south of Thiai/court and in the direction of Vieville. But here is the Joke; the 31st never did attack and the 12" d not until 5.00 p. m. the following day. Meantime, General Fuchs reported at 10.50 a. m. that "the enemy Is southeast of Thiaucourt and at Tautecourt Farm. The 77th Division appears to be an nihilated. No information concern ing the counter-attack of the 31st and 123 rd Divisions." AH of his in formation was correct, except that we reached Tautecourt Farm at 9.00 a. m. and at once started dig - ging in as we were on our Army ob jective. And well knew that the 77th was annihilated, as we took the An Empress of Sorrows Comes Home to Die Evading the Red Fnry of the Bolsheviki, the Slain Czar's Mother Returns to Denmark to End Her Days With Her Royal Relntlves. LAST month the dowager empress of Russia, Marie Feodorovna, widow of Czar Alexander 111, and mother of the unfortunate Czar Nicholas 11, arrived in Copenhagen accompanied by her brother. Prince Valdemar of Denmark. Her nephew King Christian X of Denmark, the queen and other members of the Danish royal family, were wait ing for her, and scarcely had her boat anchored when they rushed on board and embraced her. It was a touching greeting between a fugitive who had escaped death by miracle, and relatives who for a long time feared she had perished. Instead of sharing the fate of her imperial son, she had been sent to the Grand Duke .Nicholas's estate in Crimea by the revolutionists, whence she was al lowed to sail for Denmark some weeks ago byway of Constantinopel, Malta and England. Henceforth Denmark will be her home. And thus the royal refugee re turned to her old home, whence her father, the venerable Christian IX, who gave a sovereign to nearly every throne in Europe, long since was callfed by death. She returns again to the peaceful shores where seventy two years ago she first saw the light, but through what errors and miseries she has passed in her pil [grimage! What memories .will fill j her mind in her last years! In 1866 she left her father's court last two of them just before nine o'clock. .Up to this time his reports had been hurried but truthful. To morrow I will summarize his later reports in which he began to tell naughty lies in order to camouflage his losses. Waning Moon The dawn is down behind the shore. Four stars of gold against blue And in their midst the waning moon That once so proudly rode on high! The silent trees are breathing soft Susurrus to the river's breast; The world still sleeps amid the croft Of dreams that fall on eyes of rest. A gallant ship with mist-damp sails Makes up the stream with melons piled High on her decks; the old night pales; The dawn still hesitates, beguiled. In mystic glory all her own The dear moon drifts in that great sea That has more space than all the Can ever sail, however free. The gnomes have turned their lan terns down, The fairy dancers fold their | wings: Far off the murmur of the town, Near by a comic night bird sings, One soft red finger of the morn Lifts o'er the tide —the four stars wait: The moon seems weary, tired and worn, • Like men's hearts, heavy with old fate. ' —B. H., In the Baltimore Sun. V. W. at Vladivostok [From the Ohio State Journal.] Gasoline at $1.50 a gallon, Chinese servants who speak only a "queer sort of Russian," and streets utter ly without regulations are among things which Miss Mildred Corbett, Adams, Mich., discovered in her first I four days with the American Y. W. [ C. A. at Vladivostok. ! The Y. W. succeeded in requisi j tioning a Russian barracks at the American base camp in Vladivos tok, Miss Corbett writes, which they have made over into a hostess house. With this as center they are arrang ing all sorts of activities to add in terest to the hours when soldiers, sailors and Red Cross workers, quar tered in the city, are oft duty. Recreation work has also been begun among Russian women and girls living in the city, and a big I recreation program has been com menced for Red Cross nurses at I militarv hospitals, similar to that jin the Y. W. C. A. nurses' huts in I France during the war such as ar | ranging picnics, teas, swimming | parties, hikes, •$. in Copenhagen to become the bride at St. Petersburg of the Grand Duke Alexander Alevandrovitch, heir to the throne of all the Russias. What ecstasy! What epithalames! Even the poets of France lent their in praise of Princess Dagmar, a bru nette with sparkling black eyes. Rater I" saw her with her daughter in-law, the Empress Alexander Feo dorovna, with the pure, sweet face of a Raphael Madonna, riding in an open carriage behind eight splendid horses on her way to the service at Krasnoye Selo, in honor of Presi dent Faure, of France. And still again one snowy day, returning to her children at the winter from a visit to her own Palace Marie, I saw her flJlsh through the deep snow of the Neusky Prospect, her sleigh whirled along by three marvelous, plunging stallions, from the crup pers of which floated 4 curtain of blue silk to keep the snow, pulver ized by their glittering hoofs, from flying into the imperial sleigh— vanished splendors, distinct, for gotten! To-day, after having known trag edy and distress, this aged Niobe, the snow of years and sorrow powdering her jet hair, her face grave and shriveled, forever sad and inconsol able, all her children dead, seeks quiet on the shores of her beloved Baltic in a modest little chateau, where, in the days of her childhood, she loved to play. Living in a Bathtub [From Answers, London! A fortnight in a bath! Night and day, sleeping and waking. Most people think five minutes a long time, or, in the sea, ten or fifteen minutes. In England there are about twen ty baths fitted up so that they can be really lived in, and quite com fortable the*patients find them. The flow of water into the bath and the waste are regulated so that the tem perature remains the saine at all times. The patient rests on a sort of hammock hanging under water, and, with the exception of head and arms, is entirely immersed. A com fortable pillow is provided for the head, and a board across the bath forms a table for the tray for meals or on which to rest a book while reading, rather similar to what Is used for patients in an ordinary bed. The entire bath is covered over with a quilt, so that to outward ap pearances the bath might be Just a bed .and nothing more. Sometimes the water is ordinary tapwater, and others it has various things added to it. so that the pa tient is Immersed in a special solu tion. It depends on what treatment is required as to what the doctor adds to the water. The water treatment has been found most successful in the treat ment of severe cases of burning, and it was used abroad long before the war. Some patients need to re main in the bath only two or three days, while others have to remain as many weeks. "Liberty" Is Registered TFrom Popular Mechanics] For the first time in its history the government of the United States has registered a trademark under its own patent office laws. The word so distinguished is the familiar "Liberty" applied to airplane en gines and parts. In connection with this unusual action it will be re called that the engine was known as the "United States Standard Air craft Engine" back in the experi mental days of 1917. Workers in the bureau of aircraft production, then the equipment di vision of the signal corps, were hu man. however, and so cast about for a nickname. "Liberty" was hap pily the word suggested, and adopt ed by general consent. But the name was later applied to a dozen differ ent articles, Including soft drinks and hamburger steaks, as well as commercial airplane commodities, with the result that the government has been forced to take this action to prevent confusion. His Little Joke The kaiser said, as up he sawed His 'leven thousandth tree, "Dey gannot call me guilty of Dot lazy majes-tee!" Tennyson J. Daft. R "OCTOBER 2, IVT9. ADELINA PATTI [From the Kansas City Times.] What a wonderful career is that recalled by the death of Mme. Ade lina Patti! For a full quarter of a century this brilliant singer was the brightest of operatic stars. Her rounded successes were not numer ous for she achieved them in com paratively few roles; but her con quest was sweeping. She sang in nearly every musical center of the world. She mastered more than forty operas. She sang in four lan guages. No other singer of her time —and perhaps no singer of any time —received such homage and adula tion. And by exercising the most exacting care of her voice and of herself, Patti retained her power and her beauty far beyond the aver age time of retirement from the stage. The sway of Adeline Patti was not due entirely to her natural gifts and acquired art; she was favored by circumstances and conditions. There have been other "queens of opera," but Patti's reign was longer by far than that of any other singer. If she had been born a quarter of a century later her position would have been less secure and her su premacy of shorter duration. Patti's voice was precisely suited to the operas that had leading vo gue in the long period of her great ness. Her voice was light, measured by current standards, but it was most beautiful in quality and so flexible as to respond fully to the requirements of the florid Italian and French operas of a period pre ceding the advent of this singer. Also, the public of Patti's time was more sentimental, more emo tional than that of later years, and it was especially susceptible to this artist's charming personality and gracious manner. No other favorite of the stage knew better how to win an audience. But no one can say that Patti was not fully entitled to the popularity she achieved and the crown she won. Patti's successor undoubtedly was Mme. Melba? who remained supreme among lyric sopranos for a shorter period, but against much more try ing odds than Patti encountered. For Melba was obliged to meet not only the exacting standards in the florid style, but also had to adapt herself to the requirements of the music drama and its modifications, as rep resented in the most modern opera. And because of the radical change from old standards to the interpre tative school of opera, requiring casts of great singers, not merely great individual stars, it is doubt ful whether any singer will soon achieve the supremacy of Mme. Patti, much less hold a reigning po sition for so many years. Barbarism of Mobs [From Kansas City Star.] A mob is a strange and sinister thing. Its members may be oidi narily decent citizens. But under the influence of the mob spirit they lose all self-control and the basest passions get the upper hand. So different is* the conduct of the crowd from the normal conduct of the individuals composing it that it has been made the subject of nu merous studies by psychologists. The United States has had sevetal object lessons recently in mob be havior. The rioting in Washington, Chicago and Boston, and now this latest outbreak in Omaha, are ex ceedingly disquieting. They show the danger of a relapse into bar barism that exists in every com munity. In the long run education and dis cipline must be the correctives. But in the meantime the country must look to its constituted authorities to maintain order with a firm hand. The mob spirit must be curbed be fore it sweeps over whole cities. Waters of Jordan Pile Up And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant be fore the people, that the waters which came down from above, stood and rose up upon an heap, and the people passed over right against Jericho. —Joshua 111, 14 to 16. To Ship Oil to Germany [From the Brooklyn Eagle] The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey soon will resume busi ness with Germany. The first fleet of tank steamers from Germany since 1914 is expected to arrive within a short time to take back a diversified cargo of petroleum products! ; ?Et*Mttng €Jjat i Just as soon as the hundreds >1 books which the trustees of the Hur risburg Public Library have secuicd Harrisburg, preparations 101 immediate establishment of twenty* one branch libraries fn the pub.n schools of the city will be mui.-i, This is the information which setius to be desired by 999 school children In Harrisburg Just now. It is of more importance than the world s series or whether there will be a chestnut crop. That is. at leant, from the tenor of the inquiries tli.il are being made over the telephone at the library. The boys and girls want the libraries opened, especially the eleven new ones which liii.e been arranged, and they are keep..ig right on the job with inquiries, t fortunately, book shipments are . >c rapid these days and cannot alwa r be depended upon to arrive just . t the right time. The library is a. - ranging for its story hours, and Sat urday the new student class will meet for the first time. inciden tally, during September, of books circulated there were 1,4 <i taken out by school children, who formed a large portion of the read ers at the institution. The library is hitting a pretty lively gait >ii work for school children these days. That the Penn-Harris is making a reputation for itself far and above anything that Harrisburg ever dreamed of was demonstrated the other day when a well-known Ore gon gentleman stepped into tr.o manager's otfice, where Assistant Manager Worthington was giviiuf dictation. "Pardon me I'or inter rupting you," he said, "but I'm just starting off on another leg of my motor trip this morning and t wanted to say something to you be fore I left. I've covered more than 8,000 miles to date on this trip and stayed at some of the best known hotels in this country, but never have I received such uniform cour tesy, perfect service, and interested attention as I have in your hotel. I want to thank you for it, and the next time I come this way I shall make it a point to stop off at Har risburg and spend a night at the Penn-Harris. There were many amusing ineW dents during the feeding of the sol diers the other evening. Sitting at one of the tables were two old Civil War veterans, bent and tired, but entirely ready to go after the food. Having demolished half a chicken, several spuds, a small mountain of peas, and numerous other things, one of the old-timers looked at the other ena and said, '*ll tell ye, comrad, if they'd give us this here sort a food in the Army of the Po tomac, we'd a been settin' thar yet." And his busy comrade nodded his head in agreement. Another inci dent of the feeding was the appear ance of the "movie" man with his busy camera. Several "huskies" were going to the food with all the "pep" in the world, when the clicking of a machine was heard and they looked up to see the camera stand ing at their table, the crank grind ing out some very moving pictures of full faces. They were unable to talk, but expressed their pleastire by waving hands, forks, and any other implements of war-fare which came into their grasps. The Civil War veterans came in for their share of movie attention, too. The machine was set at th'e head of one table where an old fellow was work ing away, entirely oblivious to his surroundings, and when the veteran started that precarious feat of bal ancing sixteen peas on a knife, pre paratory to sliding them down, the "movie" machine clicked and it was all registered to show the public the latter part of this week. Fish baskets have been established at frequent • intervals along the course of the Juniata River, under recent legislation. For years these contrivances were prohibited as a menace to the fish with which tho Juniata River had been stocked by the State. Those who are familiar with the old days along this parti cular river will recall the quantities of eels captured in fish baskets and It is reported from Lewistown that tons of eels will be put on the mar ket this fall at 30 cents a pound, in former days they were and salted away in barrels for win ter use. Old fishermen have not forgotten how on every slight rise of the river the big eels would drcp all over the falls of the fish basket and be scooped into bags for trans fer to the pickling station of the groups of individuals who gave most of their time to eel fishing in the autuipn. Her.man L. Collins, writing in the Philadelphia Press has this to say about a man well known here: "Not very long after J. Hampton Moore ceased to be a reporter on the "Ledger," John Keim Stauffer became a reporter on "The Press." Everybody in this town knows what happened to Congressman Moore last week in the way of being nominated for Mayor. Reading Re publicans did as much for Council man Stauffer in nominating him for Mayor of Pennsylvania's fourth lar gest city. As a town. Reading with its more than 100,000 population, is a hummer and if Mr. Stauffer be comes Mayor he will in the words of the poet be a humdinger. Like his brother. Randolph, whp Is son in-law of President A. T. Dice, of the Reading. John Stauffer is a grad uate of Yale.' [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Major W. C. Farabee the eth nological expert of the Peace mission, has resumed his work at the University of Pennsylvania. Herbert DuPuy, the steel man ufacturer, is retiring from c '; a connection with big companies lo calise of health. George Wharton Pepper sa\s that he will not bother to answer back in the Sabbath play contro versy at Philadelphia. —Charles Rhoads, former gov ernor of the Reserve bank, who haw been in France in welfare work. Mill return to Philadelphia this wek —Warden R. J. McKenty says that some one is lying about the Eastern Penitentiary conditions. —Frank B. McClaln, former lie' - tenant governor, says that thiss Lancaster's big week. It is week. [ DO YOU KNOW 1 —That Harrlsburg is export ing hosiery to South America? HISTORIC HARRIS BI'RG —ln old days there used to l>3 musters of the Harrlsburg military companies in October in Market Squara