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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1919
For Jehovah will not east off his
people, niethcr will he forsake his
inheritance. —l's. 94 :14.
A REAL POLICE STATION
At LAST, thanks to Mayor Keis
ter and members of City Coun
cil, Harrisburg has a police
headquarters of which it need not
be ashamed. The transformed
Fager school building is well located,
dignified, conveniently designed and
generally what it should be.
The suggestion has been made
that the city buy the structure and
use it permanently for police sta
tions purposes. This, It is argued,
would nowise conflict with the pro
posal to erect a joint courthouse and
city hall, but rather would tend to
simplify that problem by removing j
for all time, the police headquarters
from the municipal building. It will
be a short time. Indications are
until the Legislature relieves the
mayors of third-class cities from
police hearing duties, in which case
it would be no longer necessary to
have the Mayor and the police
quartered together. In addition,
there is a growing feeling against
police stations being located in city
halls.
At all events, the proposal is
■worth thinking about. Certainly. |
Councilmen are to be congratulated
on giving the Mayor and the police
the kind of offices to which they
are entitled.
If yo haven't ordered that tree j
yet for the Arbor Day planting, may I
we not suggest that now is the time !
to look into the matter and provide ,
for your personal participation in'
tho Arbor Day program. Dcafl:
trees, it any. should be removed and '
replaced by others of the proper |
species. Speak to your neighbor and I
encourage him also to join in the j
shade tree movement.
BOROUGH STREETS
STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS
SIONER SADLER and the bor
ough authorities of Duncannon
have reached an agreement on the I
Improvement of the principal streets
of the up-river town. More and ■
more the boroughs are understand-:
ing that the State wants to help puli j
them out of the mud if they will
only co-operate.
Dauphin county towns should size j
up the situation and co-operate with |
Commissioner Sadler in every pos ,
sible way. A great highway system |
cannot be constructed with jolting I
links represented by the streets ot -
indifferent boroughs.
The Dauphin County Historical!
Society will have its regular meeting
this evening, and the importance of!
the work of this association is be-1
coming better understood and ajipre- [
dated as the necessity for gathering
the data for the history of the county!
tn the great war is emphasized, j
This society should have in its mem-j
bership all who are concerned in i
preserving the records whieli mean!
so much to the community. It is
all a labor of love, of course, but
bf mini': It is a disinterested and un
selfish proposition is all the more
reason why citizens who are inter
eated in perpetuating the worth
whfls things of the county should
take part in the work of the asso
ciation.
COMBINING ACTIVITIES ,
IK IT be true, as generally re- ]
ported, that the Ohev Sliolom ,
synagogue on North Second
street is to be converted into a head -
quarters for the Red Cross and the
associated benevolent institutions of
Harrisburg. it is a step in the right
direction. Harrisburg has learned
through its war activities that much
effort and considerable overhead ex
pense can be conserved through n
combination of these associations co
operating under the same roof.
There has been considerable criti
cism ef lost motion in the past and
of waste in overhead expense by du
plication of effort, and as the same
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THURSDAY EVEJO,
community must provide the funds
for yhe worthy charities of the city
J and the welfare activities, it Is only
proper that these funds should be
safeguarded in every possible wn>\
Placing the various activities in
one building, where there can be an
' Interlocking of heads and aSHiatanta
i for routine work, seems eminently
j practical and desirable,
Mueh religious activity has fol-
I lowed the various movements having
for their purpose the reviving of
I church efforts a'oug practical
: lines. The power of organiza
tion. as demonstrated in the eo-opcra
] tlon of the war period, lias impressed
the religious community and must
result In great achievement.
A FINE EXAMPLE
TIIK EXAMPI.E of Herculean
lodge, Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen, in appropriat
ing sllO each for the forty members
who served their country In the war,
toward the City Memorial fund,
should be followed by every lodge
in the city.
It is not always easy to reach
down into the treasury of an organ
ization and take out SBOO. however
worthy the purpose, but Herculean
lodge did it voluntarily and by
unanimous vote.
That is patriotic spirit worth
recording.
Every organization and business,
fraternal or otherwise, in Harrisburg
ought to take as much pride in see
ing to it that its members are in
i eluded in this memorial as it did in ,
I . •>
putting their stars on the service
flags which were so prominently dis
played during the war.
The Memorial will be the city's |
service flag for all time. It will !
never be demobilized. It will stand
'
for all time as a testimonial to the '
love and esteem in which Harrisburg i
people hold the men and women !
who donned the uniform and went
out at the call of country.
What lodge will be the next to
follow this splendid example of the
Railroad Trainmen?
EDUCATIONAL GROWTH
SO THE Harrisburg Academy is to }
have another new dormitory. |
When the big preparatory i
school was located on the northern
outskirts of the city, amidst pictur-1
esque and delightful surroundings, j
its development was as certain as j
that day follows night. It is not •
going to be a question in the future j
of obtaining students for the !
Academy; it will be a problem of:
providing accomodations for those ;
who seek admission. Already at the |
opening of the present term scores
have been turned away daily and;
only additional dormitory accommo-;
dntions will make possible further j
expansion of the industry.
Headmaster Uiown and the trus- ,
tees have outlined a comprehensive J
plan of further development and j
the city is doing its part by provid- I
ing its own great educational build- j
ing on the bluff immediately east of;
j the Academy property. it doesn't!
require much of a vision to see the j
■ future of the Academy as one of the •
great preparatory schools of the
United States, attracting hither not
only our own boys but the youth ol '
South America and the islands of
| the sea.
I Things are coming our way in the!
educational line ami soon Harris- !
burg will be known far and wide as '
j;t leader in progressive educational j
methods as it is already famous for
its municipal progress and develop- j
i ment.
Harrisburgers have not forgotten I
in these cool October days the ciis- (
| comfort of last summer's heat and.
the constant desire for bathing fa-:
, cilitic-s in the river. They are going
! to put over that loan for bath houses
- and bathing beaches with a jump. (
THE RENTING PROBLEM
E\ -LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
FRANK 11. McCI.A IN is looking
carefully into the alleged rent
j profiteering in Philadelphia as the
j operating, head of the Public Welfare
Commission. The unfortunate part
jof inexcusable rent profiteering is
the effect upon reputable real estate
| operators. The indefensible tactics
lof those who are selfishly filling
j their own pockets at the expense
of the renting section of the com
munity too often bring upon the
heads of perfectly honest house
owners and landlords unreasonable
and unjustifiable criticism.
We believe the associated real es
tate men of this city are accomplish
ing much in iheir determination to
(stamp out this sort of thing so far
las it relates to Harrisburg.
There is reason to believe that the
(housing conditions will be son.e-
I what relieved during the next few
months, but no considerable relief
may be expected until there shall he
a large increase in the number of
dwellings to supply the constantly
increasing demand.
Clcotti is a name that can tie pro
no>;need variously. Thank heaven it
not be necessary to wot-ry with it
very long.
Some times we think the roast
chestnut venders ought to be arrested
fcr cruelty to animals.
I Fond of hacon? Join a Pauphin
County pig club and laugh at the high
Wives.
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By tlw Bx-OommlttoeaMß
| iiuibilit> of election boards In j
i half a dozen of the counties In Penn- j
sylvaniu to complete the count of;
the primary elections and certify !
- the official figures to the seeretaiy j
11 of the Commonwealth has prevent
ed tlie State from certifying the ju-j
; dicial nominees as the law requires.
For the first time in years the law
has to lie disregarded and State law
officers who were consulted about i 1
say that there Is nothing else to do
las the figures have not been re
reived.
Telephone and telegraphic mes
sages have been sent to county seat?
1 urging that the returns be rushed.
Dauphin county is one of the coun
|tles which was late, the othcis being
located in distant parts of the State.
: Much interest is being shown here
in reports of various independent,
i movements in t lie State. Some at
tempts to pre-empt'names for local
use hate heeu made at the Capitol
but as tile elections this year or,
, purely* county or municipal the
papers were returned.
i —Howard W. Douglas, city so
| licitor of MoKeesport. was recom
-1 mended for Republican county
chairman of Allegheny to succeed
Judge Chailes H. Kline of common
i pleas court, who resigned when he
was appointed to the bench, at a
meeting of ward and eitv cha'rmen
in the office of Mayor E. V. HnU
i cock. Attorney George Weil, of
Braddock, vice cha'rman of the
county committee, who acted fol
i lowing the appointment of Chair
' man Kline to the bench, was asked
I to cull a meeting of the county com
mittee for Tuesday w wen the chair
i man will be chosen The Pittsburgh
I Dispatch says: "Several names
: were suggested but agreement was
reached that Citv Solicitor Doug
las' selection would reunite all ele
' ments of the party in the county." 1
—-Joseph F. Guffev. the western
j Pennsylvania end of the Palmer or- j
! sanitation of the Keystone Stale;
Democracy, is getting busy at Wash- j
; ington again. Following his vis't
i there it wns announced that Attor- -
j ney General A. Mitchell Palmer had }
i made these apnointments:
i Edward F. Duffy, of Pittsburgh, i
j as special assistant district attorney |
j vice B. H. McGtnniss. of Pittsburgh
recently appointed speciul assistant
j attorney general.
' Major Augustus P. Rurgwin, of.
, Pittsburgh, as sn"c'ai assi-t-int dis
trict attorney, vice ('. H. King, re-I
j signed.
The Pittsburgh Post says:
I "Roth appointments were made on j
recommendation of Mr. Guffey as j
divis'onn! chairman of the Demo- i
| cratic State committee for Western I
Pennsylvania. It is understood the
j appointees will lake office as soon i
as they can he sworn in. Mr. Duffy
one of tlie new appointees, is now .
; I'liiled States commissioner at '
i Pittslmigh and bag been active in!
j Democratic politics in Pennsylvania!
j for many years, serving as a dele- i
j gate to state and national conven- |
j tions."
—Tlie Philadelphia Public Ledger !
says there is need for the Committee
lof tine Hundred to show in the;
I field. It remarks: "It is impossible j
i to look for frank and loyal co-opera- i
j tion from a council the majority of !
• the members of which owe their j
I allegiance to the leaders of a de
j feated and discredited faction. For
(these and many other reasons that [
I could be given the light at t te No-!
: vember election will center around |
! the candidates for tlie council.'
j Hence the necessity for untiring;
I vigilance on the part of every good i
j citizen against a return to power of!
the politicians whom they repudi-I
j ated at the primary."
I —The independent movement has!
: Mown up in Montgomery county.
! but seems to lie tinder way in Read- j
, ing, Lancaster and Altoonn. The
: Altoonn. Tribune says: "The non- !
partisan league executive committee |
will announce the labor ticket to lie!
j placed in the field in the course or:
the next day or two. Numerous r\i
ntois have been Hying around as to!
} whom tlie candidates for.the various!
I city ami county offices would lie. but '■
j this will not be determined until tlie ;
ticket has been announced.''
; —There are 151 candidates for,
county surveyor of Lehigh county
; according to the official tabulation !
; of the vote, and the county comm's
j sioners are in a quandary as to the !
j printing of tlie ballots. The sittta- j
jtion came about primarily through !
i the fact that there were neither Re- !
! publican nor Democratic candidates I
| for this office at the primary elec-'
I tion last month, and secondarily he- j
i cause the office, although on the
j official roster ever since the eountv!
i was created 10? years ago. has al-'
I ways been a dead letter, so. names'
I were written in.
j —James M. Breslin. Democratic,
i candidate for district attorney in '
Gar lion county, has withdrawn be
; cause be says be was named with
:! out his consent. Former Rttrgess
Thomas Gallagher, of Iginsford. at 1
j the solicitat'on of his friends, has
: consented to become a candidate for
| chairman of the Democratic com-,
. mittee of the county to succeed At-1
■ torney F'-ank P. Sharkey, of Muuch
. Chunk, : ltd for th's position he has :
no opnosit'on as yet.
—Elwood Citv voters will vote on !
-ft bond issue for $200,000 for 'the'
, | erection of a new school, at the No- j
I vember election.
'j —The official count of the Read
ying primary vote shows that J. \V.
■ ;1L Glass, comparatively a neweom
; er in the city and ioeal polities
.jcante near getting a nomination on
! the Republican ticket for city eoun
-1 j ell. There were four nominations
!to be made and Gins- ran fifth. He
, J came in ahead of the veteran. P
J Frank Ruth, now serving his third
" I consecutive term in council, bv
1 nenrlv 400 votes. Ruth losing for tlw
( first time in a long political career.
Glass is a brother of Glass
'of Philadelphia, a Vare leafier in
' ' the Legislature. He wenl to live in
M Rending about two years ago.
• t —The' Philadelphia Record oli
| serves: "The primary ma jority fo>-
Mr. Moore is apparently less than
' 2.000. More than 2"i.000 Philadel
phia Democrats registered as Re
r publicans and voted for him at the
. recent primaries. They so regis
tered and so voted because tbv fet'
• that as c'Hreps of Rhl'ndnlnhia thp'
r was (he thing 'o dc If *i>e- "-nn*"d
to strike a" cfTec' lc-> Mow nt the
| corrupt machine t-hV-h opnoswl th
se'ection for mn'-ir e' nnv man t*
eftutd not Tbo'tannila o r
holiest re—iste-'ert nn."
t voted frr Mr. Moo-e for the sam
t reason."
—John S. Fstertv. of Moil"' Penn
next to the suer-essftil ennd'date fe*
t the Democratic nomination fo r
, sheriff in Berks county Is thankful
for the vote given him. and says:
"I will return tn 19?S, when t hope
♦ o win." Samuel S flehmebl. of
1 fending, defeated ° for director of
1 \the poor, announces his candidacy
lor the nim office in 1921.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT: I
11} MAJOR FRANK C. MAIIIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
The average American soldier who
fought in France had six months of
training here, two months overseas
before entering the line, and one
month in a quiet sector before going
into battle.
Most soldiers received their train- j
ing in infantry divisions which arcj
our typical combat units and con- j
sist of about 1,000 officers and 2 7,000
men.
Forty-two divisions were sent to'
France.
More than two-thirds of our line,
officers were graduates of the officers'
training camps.
France and Eng'and sent to the
I'nited States nearly 800 specially;
skilled officers and noncommissioned
officers who rendered most important j
aid as instructors in our training
cam ps.
Petrograd and Tolstoi/
i
In a remarkable sketch, depicting
the crimes of a Bolshevik soldier
named Petrov, Count Ilya Tolstoy,
son of the great novelist, in Every
body's, for October, gives a dreary
picture of the Russian soldier as he
roamed the streets of Petrograd aft
er the first days of the revolution.
The opening paragraphs contains
the following: "It was a beautiful,
; clear, frosty morning in Petrograd. |
Russia's former capital had awaken
ed front sleep. The sidewalks, which
had not been cleaned since summer,
were covered with dirty ice and
snow.
"The people, shivering with cold,
1 were hastening to and fro; women
with empty bags in hand, seeking
food: some of them mothers, follow
ed by hungry children; men in tat
tered, wornout clothing; workers and
I so diets, soldiers and sailors.
"Soldiers on the sidewalks; so!-j
1 diers on the crowded street cars;
'soldiers in the long, waiting lines
.before the stores, where goods are I
| sold at prohibitive' prices: soldiers j
| hurrying no one knew where, in
and in trucks; here and
I there and everywhere soldiers, sol
i diers, soldiers!
i "Russian soldiers of to-day are
i not what they once were, not the
i superb troops of the past, the pride
'of Petrograd, the amazement of all
I the crowned guests of the Czar. The
Petrograd soldier is only semi-mili-
I Inry, often roaming through the
streets of the city, unarmed, beltless,
! his coat unbuttoned; half of his
j costume wore according to his own
: individual taste or caprice. Only
soldiers may be seen; never on
' officer.
"From the first days of the revo
> tion. officers were permitted to i
;wear the clothing of civilians, which
| they preferred for self-protection, I
not wishing to incite the class feel- j
1 ing or violence of the soldiers by J
I,wearing epaulets, bright metal but
j tons or other conspicuous marks of |
i distinction."
Poetic Fragments
A flutter of falling leaves,
A clinging of hearts together;
A whisper of wind that grieves,
Bright sun, nnd it's autumn
weather!
Nothing to me shall eonie
i am not worthy of—
Neither the power of wealth.
Neither the crown of love;
Nothing that life holds high
To me shall be a part
Unless 1 have earned it hy
The pure dreams of my heart.
No life gets life at best
Thai has not of its own
Given at Its holiest erest
Service of highest tone.
The way you feel at morning's start
Is partly what you know
And partly what falls on your heart
Prom Naure's wonder glow.
—-Folger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun
A Slow Job
[Prom Kansas Pity. Starl
"The cost of living is coming
down, and "
"So was the water coming down
at Lodore, in McGuffey's Third
Reader of forty or flfly years ago
rapidly and w'th a rush and a roar."
interrupted Festus Pester. "And if
you will examine a late edition of
that fine old book you will find that
whtle the water is still In the act of
coming down at Lodore It hasn't
got down yet."
This country will not he a good
place for any of us to live in unless
we make it a good place for all of
us to live in.
•-Theodore Roosevelt.
' 1
AMIABLE BUT ILL-SMELLING
BOLSHEVIKI AT BUDAPEST
1
There Was a Decidedly Humorous Side to Bela Kun's Short ;
Lived Revolution
; I
—■ 1 —
THE humorous side of Bolshev
ism as it manifested itself In
Budapest under the short lived
regime of Bela Kun is engagingly
revealed by a correspondent of Lon
don Truth who was in the Hungar
ian capital at that time. He tells
how he was awakened in the dead
of night to find a lot of Red Guards
wandering aimlessly about his hotel
room, examining his shaving soap
and things. He continues:
"I think it was the smell that
woke me up, because it was a good
deal louder than the noise they
made. Besides the dirt, they were 1
: dressed in the remains of field gray
uniforms, and they had cherry col
ored ribbons round their caps and
in their buttonholes, and rifles and
bayonets in their hands, and I ex
pect they thought they looked very
impressive.
"I was annoyed, and I told them
so, and they ' came and stood all
around the bed like a 4 o'clock in
the morning conscience, and we I
talked a great deal. I couldn't un- j
I derstand what they said, and they ;
could only understand one word of
what I said—but it was a very good j
word. It was 'Angol,' and I had
been told in Vienna to use it freely. I
It means 'English,' by the way, in
Hungary. When I had said it a few |
times they got the hang of it, and
went away to wake somebody else |
up. One of them stayed behind — ■
one of the dirtiest, who correspond
ed to an officer. He had a sense !
of duty, and stood upright by the j
1 side of the bed all night, feeling the i
I point of his bayonet on his thumb, j
I Or he may have been cleaning his
| finger nails on it. I am "not quite
[ sure, because I switched the light
' off and tried to get to sleep again.
, But he had an unpleasant habit of
J sniffing, and it took me some time."
j The writer met Bela Kun—or Al
bert Cohen, as his real name ap
pears to be —the following day. "He
wore a bowler with a flat brim set
far down on the back of his shiny
hair so that his ears spread out like
young palmtrees. He had a very
tasty brown overcoat with an amber
colored velvet collar and very large
The Laundry Strike
And now It seems the laundry strike,
the laundry strike, the laun
dry strike,
Approaeheth swiftly down tlje pike.
The shirt, in Scotland called a
"sark,"
Deserts your torso, leaves you stark;
The collar too will be taboo;
You will not get it in the neck—
Xo, that your beard must deck.
Each bachelor above a tub, above a
tub, above a tub,
Must soap and rinse and squeeze
and rub.
Unless he finds him tout de sweet
A Phyllis handy, swift and neat,
A kindly scout who'll help him
out,
And fake for pay a wedding ring—
The Benedict's the thing.
But who knows what the end will ]
be, the end will be, the end i
will be,
For you, dear reader, and for me?
A charitable mantle weaves,
So Adam found, from certain leaves, j
While collars trig? For them a,
fig-
That trouble's easy to avoid
With snowy celluloid.
—Maurice Morris.
A Step at a Time
[From the New York Sun!
Mr. William Allen White, of
Kansas and fame, who is reporting
the Industrial Conference, sends this
.item to the Evening Post:
"Mr. Lane's speech was a liberal
speech; it advocated the 'step at a
time,' which is the slogan of the
evolutionary Socialist."
Perhaps the evolutionary Social
ist has copyrighted "the step at a
time" as a slogan, but the process
itsejf is too old to be patented. It
has been used by the infants of pre
historic caves, by cats on fences, by
the Israelites of the Exodus, by Na-
I poleon and Edward Payson Weston,
by big business and little business
I by ait and science, by commerce
| and trade, by war and peace, by
I banks and delicatessen stores. Thb
■ Soctatsts adopted it when they dts
: covered that any other form of
, economic advance would breuk 'be
| experimenter's neck.
'#• k-. ... .
yellow bone buttons. His trousers
were of very bright and broad stripes
and spread out bellwise over his
bright yellow button boots. He had
a yellow glove on one hand and a
very nice yellow diamond —though,
perhaps, it can hardly have been a
real diamond because he would have
had to surrender it to the govern
ment if it was real—on the other.
His favorite scent was, I think, wood
violet, and he was very fond of it.
"The rest of the government were
all very like Mr. Cohen, though
Borne preferred Patchouli or Ess
Bouquet, and some wore rather
more pomatum than others. If you
happened to see them all at once,
discussing some knotty point about
the division of the swag or some
thing like that, with all the sixty
six hands going at once like so many
seals' flippers, the sight was very
impressive. But I cannot honestly
say that they struck me at all alarm
ing. An to me that is the most cur
ious part of Bolshevism, in Hun
gary and elsewhere.
"To hear ordinary people in Eng
land talk about what is happening
jin Bolshevist countries you would
! imagine that they are entirely in
' habited by murderous monsters,
j twelve feet high or thereabouts,
' who go about armed with huge axes,
| lopping off the outlying limbs of
anyone who doesn't happen to agree
| with them, and lapping up the blood.
. When I was on my way to Hungary
' I had to give up mentioning my des
! tination to respectable friends be
cause they always fainted first and
I burst into tears afterward. And
[ when you got there you found these
bloody minded monsters were poor
little East Enders from London who
were just as frightened as they could
be about what was going to happen
to them, and only kept in power be
cause everybody else was too fright
ened to turn them out. It is a
solemn fact that the only reason the
soviet government came into power
in Hungary was the terror of the
middle classes, who had been re
duced to lumps of Jelly by the
stories of what was happening in
Russia —nine-tenths of which were
not true."
H. P. Miller, Encyclopedia
[George Nox McCain, in the Phila
delphia Evening Ledger]
One of the best things Don Cam
eron ever did for the Senate of
Pennsylvania was when he appoint
ed Herman P. Miller to be a page
In that body. That was away back
in 1876.
The boy was barely old enough to
qualify for the position.
During the succeeding decade
Herman P. Miller rose through all
the gradations of service on Capitol
Hill. To-day he holds the responsi
ble position of librarian of the
Senate. He has held it for twenty
eight years, succeeding the late Cap
tain John C. Delaney.
For years before Captain Delaney
retired in 1891 Herman Miller had
been his assistant. He stepped into
the place fully equipped for the
work. He was the youngest man
| ever appointed to the position.
I think that I have solved the
J secret of his long and honorable
. service; it is his perfect self-efface
ment. lie is never in the limelight.
In that respect he is distinctly dif
ferent from some other Harrisburg
officials. Senators may come and
senators may go, but Herman Miller
remains, for his services are essen
tial to the perfect organization of
the upper body.
He knows every senator who has
served during the last forty years.
He possesses a kodak memory as to
names and faces.
He has an encyclopedlac knowl
edge of legislation.
He has legal, legislative and ref
erence information at his finger
ends. During a session if a senator
requires data of a biographical na
i ture concerning some one who has
been dead for a quarter of a cen
tury. the name and the information
required are handed on a slip of
paper to a senate page. In ten
, minutes he is back from the librar
ian's office with the documents.
He is editor of Smull's Hand Book
' and the custodian of all reports
' bills and documents of the Senate,
•j Modest, retiring and the possessor
f! of unfailing oouHcsv, lie 1- the nnr
1 J indispensable official to the Stall
4 Senate.
OCTOBER 9, 1919.
The Spirit of the Law
i [From the Scranton Times]
Nothing will so much help to re
establish confidence in communities
i that have felt that property rights
are too frequently emphasized at the
I expense of the humanitarian side of
existence than to have courts take
strong stands favoring humanitarian
j principles when property rights clash
! therewith. Such a decision has been
! made by the Supreme Court of New
| York State in the case of certain
i tenants against landlords who
! sought to evict them,
i It was contended by the pleader
| for the tenant that tenants should
I not be thrown into the streets
i through the .arbitrary action of a
landlord. The life, health and wel
fare of the citizen as against the
value of property, was stressed. It so
happened that the case involved the
disposession of a man, his wife and
seven children and that on the day
the writ was to be executed it rained.
The officer refused to serve the writ.
He was mandamused by the land
lord. The supreme court sustained
the action of the officer, who acted
on the advice of an assistant dlr
trict attorney.
The point is not that the officer
used common sense in holding in
abeyance the writ. That should al
ways be done in the administration
of law. What Is of importance is that
that the highest court in the state
confirmed the principle that human
rights were superior to property
rights. It is when individual. court 3
■ and corporations stand rigidly upon
the letter of the law that guarantees
property rights, that law is often
, brought into disrepute.
The law is at the most a guide.
, Its letter is intended to be fulfilled,
but since law cannot fully define its
spirit in letters there is left to the
administers of law the exercise of
the Judgmeftt of common sense.
This Judgment is not sufficiently
exercised.
PEACE!
The war Is over—yet. it's not.
It's only just begun;
There's silence of the shell and
shot—
But that was minor fun!
The war is over—paltry row—
First feud was, who'd begun it;
Just hark the bitter babel now
That rages o'er who won it!
The war is over; bless our souls.
Just watch those wild Ukrainians
Finns, Bolsheviki. Serbs and Poles.
Letts, Magyars and Rumanians!
The war is over—swift there comes
A loud and lyric No!
To rolling rhymes of guns and
drums
Deploys d'Annunzio!
The war is over—from its strain
Our ears no more are deaf?
Forget you over there Sinn Fein?
And here the F. I. F. ?
The war is over, waged and won,
And all its horrors cease—
Just list that scrap in Washington,
That strife of making peace!
The war is over; 'twas the last—
No more its red intrigue.
Hark Wilson's whoop and Borah's
blast
To crown or crush the league!
The war is over, now you'd like
To chant its requiem?
Hub's cops, the steel crews lured to
strike.
The Senate—go ask them!
The war is over—hail the joys
Of concord, peace and love!
Now, 'mong the blows and 'mid the
noise.
Anyone seen that dove?
—B. F. Griffin in Wall Street Journal
Objects to Private
[American legion Weekly.]
It is all wrong to call a soldier a
"private," says a correspondent of
the West's Recall. "There is noth
ing private about me," he asserts.
"I have been examined by fifty doc
tors. and they haven't missed a
blemish. I have confessed to being
married and having no children. I
have told my previous occupations
and my salary. I have nothing in my
past that has not been revealed. I
am the only living thing that has
less privacy than a goldfish. I sleep
in a room with countless other men
and eat with about nine hundred. I
take my baths with the enUre de
tachment. I wear a suit of the
same material and cut as 5,000,000
other men. I have to tell a phvsi
cian whenever I kiss a pretty girl.
I never have a single minute to
myself. And yet they call me 'Pri
vate.' "
A Kansas Musical Note
[From the Atchison Globe]
P. Percy Johnson has come back
to the old home town on a vacation.
P. Percy has made progress. When
he was a hoy in Atchison he played
' the guitur, but now he plays the
| calliope.
Haientng Cfjat jj
J udging from the manner m
which the Kutlonul und Stale
authorities studying the possibilities
of deepening the Susquehanna River
from Harrlsburg to tidewater from
a business standpoint are going about
I things, there will be a report madj
| one of these days that will be ...
I surprise to the folks who have been
j of the opinion that the scheme is
impracticable. From what army en
j gineers iay, the use of modern ex
plosives can provide a channel m
| the bed of the river which will pei
mlt of navigation the greater pa. t
of the year and as far as the techni
cal side of the proposition goes n .s
! believed that a method which wnl
■be within means available can lie
devised to cut a way in the roc U.i
which form the base of the river
and make the Susquehanna a sue
! cession of shallow pools. While thai
has been going on there huve been
studies made of the business that
arises in the way of products and
produce and of the share which
water transportation may reason
ably be considered as likely to
I get in competition with rail
roads in the present state of
equipment. This is what is engag
ing the thoughts of the experts. Tilts
Susquehanna navigation possibilities,
as has been pointed out in this col
umn, have been studied three times.
1790, 1824-1835 and at present. The
survey now under way is the most
serious since that of the eighteenth
century, although the Harrisbutg
Chronicle and other newspapers of
1828 und 1829 gave much space to
l legislative discussions of the subject.
1 and frequent estimates of the amount
of wheat, pork, whisky, coal, hay
| and other commodities of those du>s
which could be floated to Harriu-
I burg. The ilgures run into the thou
| sands and include coal from Lu
zerne and Clearfield counties and
whisky from Columbia county. Float
ing of produce down to Harris Ferry
on boats known as "broadhorns" or
"arks" begun as soon as the rivet
was made safe from Indians, who
had been the pests of the hunters
and trappers who used to come
down with their pelts in canoes to
trade with John Harris.
It is interesting in this connection
to note that the first wheat and
anthracite coal brought to Harris
burg came down the Susquehanna in
"arks" or big boats built with con
siderable width hut very shallow to
navigate the "ripples."' This trade
| began before Harris laid out Hat—
-1 tlsburg in 1785 and for 50 years was
an important item in the business of
this place, which has always been a
transportation center. The barges
continued to be used after the Penn
sylvania canal and railroad were
i opened. There are earlier family
stories current hero of Cornwall iron
brought here on muleback from
Lebanon furnaces, taken from this
city and on up the Juniata in barges
and then sent over the mountains
on mules again to Pittsburgh,
i Wheat for Philadelphia was brought
down the two branches of the Sus
■ quehanna and the Juniata before
■ 1800 and sent overland from this
i place and Middletown and the desire
■ of the shippers for a longer water
[ haul caused the first cut around the
• Conewago "falls" to be made in 1797.
This was one of the reasons for the
, making of Columbia, which gained
. in respect of being a water terminal
at the expense of Harrisburg.
• . .
The Rev. J. W. Bobst, of Phila
delphia, is the youngest man at the
. Lutheran conference. He was here
, 57 years ago and does not look It.
Mr. Bobst's first visit here was as
, a boy when he went away from
t home to join the army. He enlisted
, at Camp Curtin. which was located
, almost where he is attending the
, sessions of the conference at St.
, Matthew'* church at Third and
! Seneca. He was 15 years of age
3 then, but recognized the camp local
-4 ity, although the building develop
ment has made many, many changes.
He recalled the old camp pump so
well known to many veterans and
• tells interesting stories of the serv
s ices of the 128 th Pennsylvania
. Volunteers, which he joined here,
and of the First Pennsylvania or
' Juniata Cavalry in which he served
a short time. When this venerable
clergyman, who is more active
than some men half his years, got
here for the conference he wanted
to go to the old camp site and was
delighted to learn that the church
was almost on the grounds where
I he learned to be a soldier. Mr.
Bobst is minister of the Lutheran
Church of the Reformation and one
of the most lovable men in the con
ference sessions. He is the oldest
active man in the Lutheran ministry
In the State who was in the Civil
War and his age kept him out
of the last one.
• • •
The Philadelphia Press says that
s ex-Senator John E. Fox. banker and
lawyer, is a farmer. This is what
1 the Press remarks: "So if Senator
John Fox, another eminent citizen
of Harrisburg, cannot raise alfalfa,
he can grow pine trees and black
walnuts. And the Senator was a
real success as an alfalfa farmer.
He tells me that on nine acres of
ground he produced for five succes
sive years about 39 tons a year. Jn
t ability to get farm labor finally In
duced this lawyer-agriculturist to
plant 27,000 pine trees. On three
acres of land he will plant black
p walnut, which eventually ought to
be worth a good deal more than the
ground cost the Senator. And these
crops of pine and walnut trees re
quire no labor."
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE \
—John Duggan, mayor of Con
nellsville. who has been ill, has re
sumed his duties.
—T. J. Underwood, well known
here, has been elected president of
the Association of County Controll
ers. He comes from Washington
county. . _ ~
—The Rev. Dr. Edwin Heyl Delk.
who speaks at the Lutheran confer
ence to-night, is one of the promi
nent clergymen of Philadelphia.
—John E. Baker, prominent in
York county affairs, has erected a
chapel for workmen at Billmyer.
—County Treasurer Edward Frei
bertshauser, of Allegheny county,
says that every license holder in his
county has paid up for license re
newal. _
—Ex-State Treasurer W. H.
Berry has attracted some attention
at Philadelphia by a statement that
Joseph was "a dreamer."
[ DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg's plan of
raising its memorial is attract
ing mnrh attention from other
cities?
HISTORIC HAIUUSIU'RG
—The first court was held hco
in May, 1785, under the name of
Dauphin county, but curl er as
branches of Lancaster county.