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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1919
I _
We may build more splendid hab
itations, fill our rooms with paint
inffs and with sculptures, but rrr
cannot buy icith gold the old uso
nations. —LONGFELLOW.
A PROPER MOVE
THE Rotary Club plan for a
Joint meeting of the various
civic organisations of the city
to hear Warren H. Manning, the en
gineering expert, discuss the munici
pal loans to be passed upon in No
vember, is a proper move. We have
heard all too little of these loans,
their purposes and benefits. Beyond
question all of them should be pass
ed. Those who have made a study |
of the proposals pronounce them ab- j
solutely necessary to the progress'
of tba city along tha lines that have
made this an up-to-date town.
Tha Rotary Club has undertaken |
to educate the community as to Just!
what these improvements mean. It!
is to be hoped the meeting will be j
largely attended.
Fashion journals say American
women will wear fewer clothes next
summer, which gives rise to the
thought that, such being the case.
America will be no place for a re
spectable married man.
THE GOVERNOR'S VISION
GOVERNOR SPROUL has a wide
vision of the greatness of
Pennsylvania and its relation
to the welfare and prosperity of the
United States. He misses no oppor
tunity to magnify in a proper way
the splendid resources of the Com
monwealth and he at the same time
gives utterance to the most sane
views regarding the relationship of
the alien citizen to our institutions
and the promotion of our American
ideals. He intimates very clearly
and forcefully that the alien who
cotnes here without any apprecia
tion of our liberty and the oppor
tunities presented and who indulges
in propaganda contrary to these in
stitutions should find room else
where.
Americanization efforts cannot
poostbly be successful so long as
tboee of foreign birth refuse to be
come part of our citizenry and give
of their beat co-operation in the de
velopment of the country's pros
perity and resources.
rne Middle West town that served
baked beans on its "Welcome Home'
menu is of the same type as the
Blather who wanted to make her sol
dier son feel at home by giving him
far his first meal at home a plate of
corned beef.
• ARE YOU DOING IT?
ARBOR DAY is coming on
apace and it will be necessary
for every citizen who pro
poses to give expression to his in
terest In the shade tree situation by
planting one or more trees to im
mediately get into touch with a re
liable nursery with a view to plant
ing the right kind in the proper
places before the end of October,
preferably on Arbor Day.
Look over your sidewalk space
and see. after consulting with the
City Forester, whether you cannot
plant to advantage a fine tree or
two In this campaign. Under the
supervision of the Department of
Parks, a surveyvpf tho whole city
has been made and the City Fores
ter will be glad to assist in making
the tree planting program this year
a great success.
Of conrse, every tree which Com
missioner Gross can find place for
will be removed from the nursery
at Island Park and started on its
wider life of usefulness in the city's
parks or elsewhere. But it must
not be left to the park authorities
to do what the individual property
owner himself or herself should un
dertake. Harrisburg should be made
a more attractive city through an
Increase of its shade tree area. There
jAra many treeless streets and un
MONDAY EVENING,
less attention Is given to these un
sightly stretches, the generation
which Is to come will have little
reason to remember with respect
or appreciation those of us who
have been indifferent or careless in
the performance of a civic duty.
j Out North Dakota way another
( visionary scheme for aiding the prole
tariat hn* fluked and In the fluking
| caused a Fargo bank to be declared
insolvent. The bank's association
with the National Nonpartisan lieagXio.
| for which It has acted In a financial
I capacity for two years. Is largely re
j sponsible for the smash. When will
I fsrmers and worktngmen and the
; people generally learn that there are
|certain immutable principle* which
■ cannot be flouted in a vain effort to
overturn the fixed order and estab
lish an arcadian era?
ALL OF THEM
THE campaign for the raising
of money with which to erect
a memorial to Harrlshurg sol
diers, sailors, marines and service
men and women in general opens
to-day.
Twenty dollars per capita Is the
sum named to care for each In
dividual.
We must see to It that each of the
names listed at the Chamber of
Commerce is taken up.
No matter how humble the sol
jdler, his name must he among those
j for whom subscriptions arc taken.
His name must be removed from the
list before the close of the cam
paign.
There must be no favorites, no j
left-overs. Every Harrlsburg sol
dier is as worthy of the honor of the
community as any other.
Step up, ladies and gentlemen,
and take out the names of those in
whom you are most interested, and j
then go over to the list of those
who may have no friend or relative
to think of them, and subscribe for
one of those.
Every Harrisburg service man and
woman MUST be remembered in j
this memorial.
CITY BOATHOUSE
WITH the removal of the "Hard
scrabble" buildings and the
conversion of the strip along
the river between Hcrr and Calder
streets into a park the question of
a municipal boat house will have to
be determined. One of the most
practical suggestions provides fo
the placing of a concrete boat
house on a level with the extension
of the river steps and extending
back into the terrace, the whole to
be covered over and hidden from
view by the parking and shrubbery.
Bulkhead doors, opening on the
granolithic walk, would make such
a boat house available and provide
boating facilities in the very heart
of the city.
This and other matters will prob
ably be taken up immediately on
the final settlement of the "Hard
scrabble" appeals by the court. It
is expected that a decision will be
handed down not later than next
month and the long-deferred perma
nent treatment of that particular
section of the River Front can then
proceed.
Harrisburg has been delighted to
have as its guests this week the men
who demonstrated to the world that
this country is not too proud to tight.
THE STATE POLICE
WE SHALI- want more proof,
than the mere "say-so" of
unfriendly individuals before
we shall believe that the State I'olice
have been guilty of beating up
women and children and mistreat
ing men. Anybody who knows the
State Police knows they are not that
kind of men.
It must not be forgotten that the
officers were thrown into the midst
of unruly mobs of foreigners in
western Pennsylvania, that they were
few and the rioters were many, and
that they had to act quickly and
vigorously. When bullets nre flying
about a policeman's head it ts only
natural that he reply in kind. In
deed. it is all he can do or admit
defeat. And those who are associat
ing themselves with mobs are not
"innocent bystanders."
If women or .children have been
hurt in the strike disturbances it is
too bad, but it must be remembered
that they should have been at home
at a time like that.
Prepare to plant a tree either on
your sidewalk or on your premises, |
but first And out the best kind of tree
to plant and the proper size from one
who knows. Call up the Department
of Parks or the State Forestry Com
missioner at the Capitol.
BUSINESS CLASSES
THE business classes at the
Harrisburg Y. M. C. A. are to
be large'y attended, Secretary
Robert Reeves announces, which is
a good indication. Particularly is
he interested in the large number
of former soldiers who have applied
for admission, indicating to his mind
that many men who wore the uni
form have come home determined
i to get on in life and willing to make
sacrifices *o that end.
The salesmanship course, with
Walter Spahr, salesmanager of the
Elliott-Fisher Company, at its head,
is particularly attractive, in view of
the practical nature of the work
proposed. Experts of national repu
tation will address the men and the
instruction will be far in advance of
the small sum required for tuition.
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By the Ex-Commit iceman
Official forms of the ballot to be
used for the November election In
Pennsylvania are being prepared at
the bureau of elections In the de
partment of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth and will specify the
manner In which party squares, the
'first column," shall appear on the
ballot; the position and form of the
nonpartisan column and the spaces
for county and municipal elections.
Owing to the delay In completing
the count in two or three counties
the State bureau will be unable to
certify the nominees for Judicial of
fices thirty days before the general
election. The general election falls
on November 4.
The official ballot will show the
Republican, Democratic, Socialist
and Prohibition party squares,
which will be enlarged by such
parties as may pre-empt names for
local elections this year. The su
perior court election, for which
Judge William H. Keller is the only
candidate, heads the nonpartisan
column, spaces for judges of other
courts fol owing. The nonpartisan
column is surrounded by a heavy
black border. The other columns
are not so surrounded. Sheriff
heads the county lists.
For the first time there appears :
in the directions as to marking the !
following; "For an office where :
more than one candidate is to be '
elected the voter, after marking in
the party square, may divide his
vote by marking a cross (x) to the J
right of each candidate for whom
he desires to vote. For such offi~e
votes shall not be counted for can- ;
didates not individually marked."
Notice Is also given that a cross
in a party square does not carry a i
vote for any judge. To vote for
judicial candidates names of cnndi- |
dates must be marked, says the no- i
tice. i
—No one seems to know when
| the Philadelphia count will be com-,
- pleted and the remarks of judges
designed to end the various attempts
to delay are commencing to meet 1
popular approval. The newspapers ;
charge the Vare lawyers with at
tempt to retard results and a story >
Is printed by the Press that a man
who was aligned with the Vares
wont to the court and declared his
petition made on false premises,
which drew warning from the bench j
that any more such performances
would mean arrests. The Public '■
I-edger says the Vares have been on
a "fishing expedition" for fraud in I
the primary and the Inquirer as- '
serts that it must be plain to sens!- I
hie men that Congressman J. Hamp- j
ton Moore has been nominated for •
mayor and predicts that he will be !
formally endorsed by Vare leaders j
and elected. The Inquirer says the
results have demonstrated "a fair ;
election" and that District Attorney
Botan's warning was "heeded." The |
Evening Bulletin expresses the gen- '
oral inipa'ience with the policy of 1
delay in the count.
—ln most of the other counties
judges put a quick stop to any at
tempt to delay and in spite of
charges appear to have avoided pro
tracted sittings. The Delaware situ
ation is one that has attrncted much
attention because of the charges
made in connection with the elec
tion in Chester City. Pittsburgh
did not have more than the usual
flare-up. but a movement for better
elections is likely.
—Of much greater interest than
the wrangles over Philadelphia di
vision primary tables is a statement
by Mr. Moore that he intends to end
the factional fighting in the Quaker
City which has distuibed the Re
publican patty in the whole State;
bothered Legislatures and ruined
reputations. The Public Ledger
says regarding it:
"Representative J. Hampton
Moore, Republican nominee for
mayor, is determined to end fac
tional warfare in the Republican
party in Philadelphia and to assume
the party leadership himself. "It
will be necessary," he says, "to
knock some of the older political
bead 3 toeether." He is prepared to
do so. He is not going to deal par
t'ally with the lenders of any fac
tion, but is going to conduct his own
campaign from a new headquarters,
where he says all Republicans,
whether they be Vare men. Penrose
men or independents, will be re
ceived with n ready welcome. Dur
ing the pr'mnry campaign Mr.
Moore' asserted that if elected
mayor there would be a new leader
of the Republican party in Phila
delphia. He is now preparing to
set the stage for his own leadership.
To that end he has conferred with
leaders of all camps and he will
meet other lenders to-morrow."
—The Kvenlng Ledger rises to re
mark: "That Rucks county voter
who all bv his little lonesome pvit a
complete Prohibitionist ticket in the
field has a dry humor."
—Charles Seger. the Philadelphia
councilman, left an estate of $200,-
000.
—Schuylkill and Rlair Repub
licans are confident of electing thpir i
tickets this fall. Carbon and Centre
are also classed as surely Repub
lican.
—Harry L. Hackett. former legls- '
lator and son of the late ex-senator, |
has been appointed register of the
Philadelphia Water Bureau at
$2,500. He succeeds Frank J.
Gorman.
—Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt
made a harmony speech at the
Rending Democratic rally on Sat
urday. However, most of the men
there were old guard adherents and
the Palmer boom was not on ex
hibition.
—Reading is preparing to submit
a million-dollar public improvement
loan to voters in November.
Food Profiteering in Germang
"You see that farm over there?"
nsked n food-convaaser with whom
I walked an hour or more one Sun
day. "I stopped there and tried to
buy butter. 'We haven't an ounce
of butter to our names.' said the
woman. 'Ah,' said I, Just to see if
I could not catch her In a lie, 'but
1 1 pay as high as twenty marks a
; pound.' 'ln that case,' said the
I Unverschamte. 'I enn let you have
lany amount you wont, up to thirty
j pounds.' I could not really pay that
' price, of course, being a poor man,
working hard for nine marks a day,
l ot when I told her I would report
her to the police, she laughed in
my face and slammed the door."
It was easy to understand no.v
why 10 mnny of those I had inter
viewed in my official capacity at
r ohlenz had expressed the opinion
tl.ar rooner or later the poor of the
cities would. descend upon the
peasants In bonds and robs them of
their hoardings. The countrymen
themselves showed that fear of this
new and then gnaweel at their souls,
not so much by their speech as by
their circumspect actions.—Harry A.
in Harper's Magazine for
October. " .
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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Henri Barbusse's "Light," the
new story in which the author of
"t'nder Fire" portrays the enlight- !
enmcnt and new vision which come
to a French soldier while he fights
in the great war, which E. P. Dut- j
ton & Co. will publish at the end j
of this week, will have a very strik
ing paper Jacket designed by A. Dun- j
can Carse, who made the imagina
tive and artistic cover for Blasco ,
Ibanez's "Mare Nostrum," published
by the Duttons six week ago. Mr. j
t'arse is an English artist whose
work is much admired in London. |
During the war he served with the !
camouflage division of the Royal
Engineers. He is now in the United
States and is having more requests
for work than he can fill. At pres- ,
cnt he is decorating Otto H. Kahn's ,
palatial new residence, near the Car- j
ncgie home, on upper Fifth Avenue, !
New York City.
E. P. Dutton & Co. will publish |
later in the season a volume by i
Elisha M. Friedman on "Interna- !
tional Commerce and Reconstruc- |
tion" which will complete the trilogy j
of books in which he deals with the |
problems civilization must face, now
that the war is over. The first,
which the Duttons published last
winter, "American Problems of Re- I
construction, their Economic and
Financial Aspects," presented a sym
pos'um of views in which a score
or more of well known Americans
discussed urgent problems of the
reconstruction period and made sug
gestions concerning how they should
be solved. It is now in its third
edition. The second, which the
Duttons brought out last spring,
deals with "Labor and Reconstruc
tion in Europe" and gives a concise
but comprehensive view of the pro
grams of reconstruction mapped
out by European countries. Thus,
having covered in the two former
volumes the problems of the United
States and of Europe, the new work
dealing with reconstruction in inter
national relations will round out the
series.
The sub-title calls Wilfred Row
land Childe's "Dream English,"
i just published by E. P. Dutton &
Co., "A Fantastical Romance." It
: might also he called "a lovely ro
mance of love," for it is exquisitely
i beautiful in setting, in language, in
every feature. The story it tells of
love and beauty is without flaw in
; the loveliness of scenes and souls
1 and is as simple and as dignified
as it is beautiful. It takes place in
! some age-old time in England, Just
when or where does not matter in
the least. There are beautiful wo
men, as good as they are beautiful,
1 fields and woods and hills of en
trancing loveliness, noble old cities
and alluring ancient little
men fine to look upon and good to
j know. and. finally, growing out of
1 all the beauty, a love romance that
in its simplicity and goodness and
I faith is the symbol of all bridals. It
i is a story to read when one wearies
lof the ugliness, the dust and the
' uproar of life, for in its pages of
I beautiful magic are rest and re
freshment.
Early in October E. P. Dutton A
Co. will bring out an Author's Edi
tion of Blanco Ibanez's two war
novels, "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse" and "Mare Nostrum."
which so remarkably complement
each other. The former, as every
body knows, has swept the coun
try since its publication a little over
a vear ago and has been brought
and read far beyond the sales of
any other recent book in the United
States. It is selling now, its publish
ers say, in larger numbers than at
anv previous time since Its publica
tion. "Mare Nostrum," pubished
six weeks ago, is now in its fortieth
edition.
E. P. Dutton & Co. are preparing
an American edition of J. K. Huys
man's "En Route," which they
brought out last winter in an im
ported edition.
The sixth edition of "Balt,"
Charles Norris's epic story of the
mis-education of an American boy
and his final regeneration of him
self bv his own efforts, is reported
|by E. P. Dutton A Co. Many critics
have found in it evidence that
Charles Norris is only a little less
gifted in the sweep and strength
and visualizing power of his imag
ination than was his older brother,
Frank Norris.
A Possibility
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Perhaps the farmers, the Anti-
Saloon league and the labor unions
will have to tops up to determine
which of them is going to run the
Government.
AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE WAR
IN the section on "The Work of
Women for the War," one of the
thirty-five chapters in Florence
I Finch Kelly's "What America Did,"-
| recently published by E. P. Dutton
| & Co., the author summarizes and
describes all the various ways in
which the women of this country
aided the prosecution of war. It
| makes an Impressive total and the
i author says of it:
! "From the mother who sent her
| sons across the ocean to tbe little
i Girl Scout who ran errands for a
t Red Cross chapter, the women were
ready for any sacrifice it should be
! necessary for them to make and
i any service they could render. Their
■ spirit was as high, their patriotism
!as ardent and their wish to serve
| as keen as that of their husbands,
| fathers and brothers, and their
; spirit and their service were essen
, tial factors in the war achievement
|of America. Their spirit was al
! ways the same, but their services
j were of the greatest variety, being,
; for the greater part, such as they
| could render without leaving their
i homes. Being undertaken in ad
j dition to their usual duties in the
i care of homes and families, their
| war labors were less out-standing
i and much less likely to impress the
superficial observer than if they had
been detached from woman's usual
I environment. But they were none
Who Shall Make Our Budgets?
The Prodigal Son was a liberal
spender and the fatted calf was
killed to make a feast when he re
turned to his father's house, but
he was not put" In charge of the
family purse. That was left in con
trol of the elder son, who continued
to work in the field and create in
come. Modern civilization has fol
lowed that rule in family and in
government budgets, because In
come is the first item in every budg
et and the one item which we can
not do without. We cannot be
spenders until we have become pro
ducers. My wife and I tried budget
making when we began housekeep
ing, regulating family expenditures
by my small income. She spent the
money, but I had to first get the
money to be spent. We got along
fairly well, but made one mistake.
We raised a pig to increase our as
sets, but I took so much interest in
that pig, feeding it, scratching its
back to hear It grunt Its satisfaction,
and conversing with it, until by the
time it was grown big and fat I
could not turn it into our winter's
meal. That pig became a liability
instead of an asset. There are a lot
of people who make the same mis
take in government budgets and for
get the real purpose in raising a pig.
They become so much absorbed in
their ambitions and efTorts that they
forget the purpose behind their ef
forts; and the liabilities they cre
ate are the liabilities of the people
who pay the taxes. It is not sur
prising that the people sometimes
get an idea that a government pig is
not very different from the golden
I calf which the Children of Israel
i worshiped, Instead of a source of
food-supply.
! The Federal government was not
! established as a money-making en
i terprise, but the expenditures must
;be regulated by the income, and
; the income comes out of the pockets
of the people in the form of taxes.
! The only part of the Federal gov
' ernment that has the power to tax
i the people is Congress, and all rev
i enue bills must originate in the
j House of Representatives. The
makers of the Constitution were
I somewhat explicit about that and
insisted that Congress should con-
I trol the national purse or national
| budget, which covers both taxation
and expenditure. Franklin thought
I that the purse should be controlled
I by the House because the ltepresen
i tatlves were to be elected by direct
' vote of the people and for short
'terms; but Madison suggested that
i the power of amendment should be
1 given to the Senate so that it might
j "diminish" an extravagant budget by
j the House. Senator Smoot recently
I said in debate that once during his
I eighteen years' service the Senate
j had reduced an appropriation passed
| by the House and only once.—Hon.
I Joseph Q. Cannon in Harper's Mag
azine for October.
Altitudinous
[From the Washington Star]
"We have never known a time
when the cost of living was so high."
"No." replied the man who re
fuses to be cheerless; "l-.or a time
when wages were so high that most
.people could keep up with the cost."
the less essential." The authot
then goes on to tell what the women
of America did—their work in es
sential industries; what they did in
the Railroad Administration, in
which 100,000 women were em
ployed; their zeal in the production
and conservation of food; what the
Woman's Land Army did; the re
markable efforts of the woman's
committee which aided in the
financing of the war, which in state
after state raised from one-third to
one-half Its quota in the Liberty
Loans; the varied and vast labors
of the women for the Red Cross;
the work of trained nurses in war
service and of yeowomen in the
navy; the part that women took in
the organizations for the welfare
of the fighting forces; the service
of their several motor corps; and,
finally, the nation-wide and most im
portant services of the Woman's
Committee of the Counsel of Na
tional Defence, which was organized
in every state and had 16,000 sub
ordinate units at work by mid-sum
mer of 1918.
The story which this chapter tells
is one of which all women who
shared in the work can well be
proud, just as all Americans, who
were members of the fighting
forces or were sustaining those
forces at home, can be proud of the
wonderful story the whole book re
lates of this country's war-time
achievements.
Sproul on Americanism
[Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph]
Governor Sproul could not
chosen a more appropriate theme
for his address in Harrisburg yes
terday than "Americanism," for he
was speaking to the American
Legion of Pennsylvania, every one
of whose members has proved his
practical patriotism by bearing arms
in the defense of his country. The
Governor's auditors require no ad
monition to stand by America in
whatever emergency may arise in
the future. That was not the pur
pose of his address. But he fitting
ly took advantage of the occasion
to deliver a message to the people
of the entire State, to sound a ring
ing call to all good citizens to unite
now in defense of sterling American
institutions, even as the former sol
diers to whom he spoke enlisted for
the battle of righteousness when
our Nation was threatened by Ger
man autocracy.
"One of the things we have to do
in this country is to separate the
Americans from those who are not
Americans or do not wish to become
Americans. We have been too tol
erant here of those who are enemies
of our country and its institutions.
In our easy-going way we have al
lowed colonies of traitors to exist
in our land. Surely there is suf
ficient variety in the forms of gov
ernment in the world now to en
able every restless spirit to find
somew-here, a state which will suit
him." This is an expression of ro
bust Americanism, straight from the
shoulder. It may be said that some
"restless spirits" will never be sat
isfied with any form of government.
What they want is to have
no government at all; that is
to say, they are anarchists. To
deal with such we have Fed
eral laws, long on the statute
books, providing for their exclusion
or, if they have happened to slip in
as so many evidently have done in
the last few years, for their deporta
tion. Some against whom proceed
ings have been brought for this pur
pose are now being defended by
American citizens who should know
better. Any person who goes
around making speeches against
our government and all government
Is as much an enemy of our Nation
as a captain of a hostile submarine
who sought to sink our ships and
kill our people. A German propa
gandist has recently' declared that
■the "Americanization" movement 1r
merely a scheme of the British to
Increase their "grip" on our coun
try. That statement sufficiently In
dicates the kind of foes we have
yet to deal with and should strength
en the loyal stand taken by the
American Legion and all who are in
sympathy with its patriotic prln
[ ciples.
Thinks in Big Figures
[From Punch, London]
Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri,
who told the United States Senate
foreign relations committee that 1
million Egyptian soldiers fought un
der the British flag, is only about
1 million out. We gather that 1
million isn't much of anything in
Missouri.
OCTOBER 6, 1919.
How Foch Redeemed. His Vow
In January, 1871, was signed the
shameful peace that marked the tri
umph of Prussia. Twilight was fall
ing upon the somber study-hall
where all the hearts were somber
also. Around Metz the voice of the
cannon began to thunder forth the
triumph of Germany. The ground
trembled, the windows shook. No
one dared say a word. Then a Jesuit
father, who had been a naval officer,
said, slowly, scanning his words:
"My children, pray God for the
future of France. Alsace and Lor
raine are no longer ours."
"We prayed," said the marshal;
"no, we did more than that. We
made our vows. And now that we
are at the evening of our life, our
prayers are heard and our vows are
fulfilled."
Bavarian troops occupied the city
and went out of their way to be in
solent. They allowed, however, the
future polytechniciens to finish their
studies. But the troops, multiply
ing demands and stipulation, occu
pied a part of the college. The
students had to meet continually in
the corridors and on the playground
and at the door the German sol
diers, who bullied them and made
them submit to humiliations without
number. Foch was beside himself
with rage. He passed his examina
tion successfully at Nancy to the
sound of the German bands that
General Manteuffel, with his habi
tual lack of tact, ordered to play,
Foch never forgot these musical
notes which rent his ear and his
soul. Forty-two years later, when
he was named commander of the
superb Twentieth Corps of Lor
raine, he ordered for the day of
his entry at Nancy, August 23, 1913,
a great parade in which participated
the bands of the Sixth Regiment of
the city. It was an unforgetable
night, for it marked his entry into
service when the hour came to wipe
the post that found him ready for
out the blot of 1871.
I have dwelt on these facts be
cause they form an important detail
of which no biographer of Foch
has spoken. During the occupation
he studied the German soul, which
he knows intimately. The depths of
its baseness, he says, we must keep
constantly in mind. He was In one
of the great cities of France when
that city was annexed to Germany.
It was on that day, at the College
Saint-Clement, that the thought of
a life-task was engraved upon his
heart. From that moment he swore
to concentrate all the efforts of his
lite toward a single end—the Just
.revenge. It was at the time of his
first contact with the enemy that
the impressionable youth, smarting
under the humiliation of his coun
try, said to himself:
"We must retake Alsace and Lor
raine. France must not remain a
conquered nation. I must be the
liberator."—Baron Andre de Mari
court in Harper's Magazine for Oc
; tober.
Silk Shirts
[From the Wall Street Journal]
A New York silk buyer contracted
for silk shirts at S4O a dozen by
the thousand dozen. When ready
for delivery the manufacturer of
fered the buyer SSO a dozen to sell
;them back to him. Satisfied with
.the profit he made, the buyer was
surprised when the manufacturer
telephoned a dry goods seller in
Lawrence, Mass., and sold the lot to
him at S7O a dozen, by the thousand
dozen.
When the transaction was com
pleted the mill owner informed the
New York buyer that the man in
;Lawrence could sell the product at
S9O a' dozen, so great was the de
fniand for luxuries in the factory and
mill districts, where frugality is be
'ing looked upon as an oddity instead
'.of a virtue.
Where?
Where, oh, where, has he gone to,
pray?
We miss, and have missed him
long.
The landlord fat, who used to whang
on the resonant hotel gong.
And, ah, the tune he played each
noon, with loud, inviting din.
To warn the boarders dinner was
served and bid them welcome
In.
•Twas rude and crude, no doubt, his
tune, but, oh, how sweet its
greet;
For that portly host with his roaring
gong announced such things
to eat
.as chicken fry and fat mince pie
and eggs (It seems a dream)
And frosted cake eight inches high,
and coffee with golden cream.
When I 'pass o'er to the other shore,
to burble my sanctified song,
I I know I shall carp if he's there
with a harp instead of that
resonant gong.
J —Tennyson J. Daft.
Euntmg Glifat j
"It seems strange thilt the we -
derful scenic features of Pennsy .-
vania, like its remarkable histo..u
Interests, have receiv tl so little , •
tentlon from those who write of to
beauUful world and the thinks that
happen in It," says John T. Fa. .a
In his introduction to "Seeing Pen.i
sylvania," one of the new books just
placed in the Harrisburg Pubi o
Library. And it does seem strain,
that Pennsylvania, whose everlast
ing hills and fruitful valleys hn\ j
made it leader in production of
natural resources and given it tlu
garden country of America, should
be so little known to its own people.
I erhaps, because wnrs closed tlio
Atlantic steamship lanes and tl.o
Sproul laws gnve Pennsylvania a
start toward decent highways, more
people with means to travel saw the
beauties of this State in the last four
years than before in any similar
period since New Kngland enter
prise, seashore attractions and south
, ?? ate combined with the
palatial liners to take Pennsylvanlans
away from their own splendid do
main at vacation lime. Mr. Paris,
who has already become known on
library shelves and among lovers of
history of the Keystone State by his
books on °W roads out of
Philadelphia and the romance of the
has done a marked
m by assembling in a book that
will for the "gasoline rest
less tours garnished with bits of
history and tradition and filled with
appeals to pause and view the beau-
°™. P, enns ylvanla. Like Col.
Henry W. Shoemaker, J. Horace Mc-
If?. a* 1 ]! I and "thers who have
studied, written and photographed
the glory of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fails
I™=? f ° r ., a revival of Popular in-
J™ ! ln t m scenic attractions, the
f nature, the lore and the
iw ° °. ur Commonwealth, so
'v-'t those who are living in its pul
?t P re f e nt may realize the part it
dlnr?v th cn,rial times and how
„ th °r tiave gone loved
♦w' ? Ce , or State> Such books
tho. i Faris are what
Pennsylvania publisher should
specialize In. Few states are so rich
lo„rl ~ni nnd storigi of Pennsyl
\ania will make young folks proud
and incidentally create their own
market.
The late Samuel W. Pennypacker
!° dPlipht to tell friends and
acquaintances of Stirling events and
then dumbfound his hearers by re
marking that they occurred either
close to where he was speaking or
.I t v.w He °' their own ancestors or
neighbors had been a participant.
Andrew Carnegie once assembled a
I?/ , P hoto ßraPhs of bits of beau
tiful country taken within a score of
miles of Homestead mills and
,2 l * ( ' for da >' s ov er the inquiries
of Pittsburghers as to what state to
to SPe them. Members of the
Legislature four years ago thought
that some pictures of big trees came
from California, wben as a matter
of ftict they were taken in Clarion
county, and more than one man
associates the Black Forest, of which
Col. Shoemaker has written so en
tertainingly, with German taverns
and bee hives instead of with our
own northern tier. I have heard
men standing up in an automobile
on Scenery Hill in Washington
county wonder if they were still in
Pennsylvania, and laughed when
Maine devotees come here from Sus
quehanna county lakes and talked
half the night over how few Phlla
delphians know of them.
Mr. Faris gives a splendid picture
in his book of what one bpcs from
the dome of Pennsylvania's Capitol
and his references to John Harris'
foresight and appreciation of Harris
burg's river front and natural park
' so far from the center of the
city" link past and present in such
a fascinating way that one seems
sorry that he must hurry on up to-
Iward the Rockville yap and the
Blue Juniata.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Harry T. Stoddart, new member
of the Philadelphia Board of Edu
cation, is 43, and the baby member.
—James Ryan, of Danville, who
won a county commissioner nomina
tion in Montour county on a tie. is
well known here.
! —Col. Joseph H. Thompson, who
commanded the 110 th Infantry and
is a former Senator, was a Harris
burg visitor.
—Senator A. F. Daix, of Phila
delphia, has just celebrated his
fifty-third birthday.
—Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, was among the Governor's
visitors at the weekend.
—Charles L. Taylor, who was
made a doctor of engineering at
Dehigh's Founders' Day, is a Pitts
burgh business man.
—J. Borton Weeks, active in the
election crusade in Delaware county,
is law partner of Attorney General
William I. Schaflfer.
——Clarence Dolan, prominent Phil
adelphian, is at White Sulphur.
( DO YOU KNOW
—Harrisburg stool was used in
ships built at Hog Island?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The Bolton House corner has
been a hotel for more than 80 years.
Educational Congress
[From Pennsylvania Farmer]
Superintendent of Public Instrun
tion Thomas E. Finegan is plan
ning for an educational congress to
be held in Harrisburg the week of
November 10. Leading educators
from all parts of the country will
be present to confer and advise in
the many problems of modern edu
cation. The opinion is general
among educators as well as with
the public in general that there
should be an adjustment of the
work of the schools to meet the new
conditions growing out of the war.
No place is the need of revision
greater than in the system of rural
education and it is to be hoped that
Congress will be able to formu
late a plan in which the essential
differences between city and country
needs is recognized and provided
for. Not only are the questions of
curriculum, grading and buildings
important, but the problem of rais
ing sufficient money to run the rural
schools as they should be is a most
pressing one—one that the Legisla
ture has so far failed to solve.
Still Winding
[From Punch, London]
A government department has
been discovered which L still wind
ing up the. affairs of the Great Ex
hibition of 1851. One of the junior
officials ndmits that he mev have
heard the Great War whizz by