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FRIDAY, OCTOBER I#, 1019
VotMng of worth or weight can
he achieved with half a mind, with
a faint heart, and with a lame en
dca vor. —Baebow.
"SETTLED"
THE announcement is made by
Premier Lloyd George that the
British railways strike has
been "settled." That means the men
have returned to work, traffic has
been resumed, the government feels
it has won a victory and the work
men are satisfied.
But what about the public?
What have the common people
got out of the strike?
Who is going to "settle" with them
for the loss and inconvenience they
sustained?
So it is with every strike. The
disinterested public has to pay the
bill, and indications are not lacking
that it is getting mighty tired of
being made the goat.
THE SUPREME COUNCIL
THE Supreme Council at Paris
appears to be anything but su
preme. Who the representative
of the United States in that council
may be has not been officially made
known, but it is reported to be dear
old General Bliss, who apparently
submitted to the demand that an
American naval contingent should
undertake to oppose D'Annunzio's
program in Fiume.
The Supreme Council was sup
posed to have as its chief function
something of a guardianship over
the boundaries and territorial in
tegrity of the erstwhile European
belligerents until the Peace Treaty
came into effect, and it was ex-
pected to maintain a temporary
status quo as of the date of the
armistice in European international
affairs until the treaty was consum
mated. The Supreme Council has
been a howling farce since its in
ception. It has functioned like a
doddering paralytic and it has per
mitted to come to pass a series of
situations in Europe which suggest
the possibility of another great war.
Here are some instances which have
occurred under the aegis of that
supine body:
Three times has the boundary line
between Poland and Lithuania been
laid down by the Supremo Council, j
i and three times has the demarca- :
' tion been violated by Poland, with a j
fourth violation now in prospect, j
Lithuania, a small nation which has
set up housekeeping for itself un
der the principle of self-detcrmlna- \
tion, is being devoured piecemeal by
her greedy neighbor, and apparently
with the consent of the Supreme ;
Council. The very capital of Lith- ;
uanla is In the hands of the Poles, i
In addition to this the Poles have
repeatedly violated the territorial
Integrity of White Russia, Ukrainia |
and Czecko-Slovakia, to gather from j
foreign dispatches. Poland carries
on like a weasel In a chicken coop, '
without rebuke from the Supreme j
Council, and Padercwski undoubt
edly told the truth when he said the
Council would not dare to oppose
Polish aims.
The Supreme Council has stood
Idly by and witnessed the occupation
of Bucharest by Rumania, and not
a hand appears to have been lifted
to prevent it. The Supreme Council
must have had ample information,
amply In advance, of the plot to
seize Flume. Whatever the merits
of Italian contention that Fiume be
longed to Italy, the Peace Conferees
awarded It to Jugo-Slavia, and the
Supreme Council made only a be
lated motion to preserve that award
by ordering the United States Navy
to the Adriatic.
In consequence of the Fiume
seizure It Is now quite possible that
Germany may seize Danzig and jus
tify such action by the Fiume prece
dent. The Insolent reply of Von
der Goltz, commander of the Ger
man forces occupying the Baltic
provinces in violation of the armis
tice terms, to the allied military
commission to vacate. Indicates all
too plainly the frame of mind of the
FRIDAY EVENING,
German war lords whose annihila
tion was prevented by presidential
note-writing. Von der Goltz's re
ply has been followed by a blockade
of Germany, according to reports,
but there is credible information to
the effect that there are 105,000
well-equipped German troops to be
found in Lithuania, Lettland and
along the East Prussian border, a
fine nucleus for future trouble. Why
has not the Supreme Council ere
this taken measures to control or
disperse them?
Several days ago there were enum
erated twenty-three small wars rag
ing in Europe, with the Supreme
Council a palsied spectator and an
armistice supposed to be in force.
The Supreme Council, clothed with
vast war powers, seems utterly in
capable of handling the ferments of
Europe.
ARE WE TO FAIL?
FRANKLY, the finance committee
in charge of the City Memorial
Fund is alarmed.
The members are asking them
selves: "Is Harrisburg going to fall
in the last drive of the war?"
And they have very good
grounds, apparently, for their fears.
Only a few of the industries, lodges
and clubs have sent in their quotas.
Only a small number of citizens
have come forward with their S2O
I bills.
| Unless the response is far more
I generous during the coming week,
|we shall have to admit that the
plan devised does not meet with the
approval of the people of Harris
burg; that they are not interested
in giving small sums toward Har
risburg's memorial to its sons and
daughters who served during the
war.
The Telegraph docs not be'ieve
that Harrisburg people are indiffer
ent or ungrateful. If the appeal
has not been met with quick re
sponse, it is because of carelessness
—postponing until to-morrow what
should be done to-day. That is
bad, but it is not hopeless.
Every Harrisburger who has
pride in his city will see to it that
his industry, his lodge and he, him- |
self, is represented in this memor
ial. The man or woman who can
not contribute S2O can take out a
card and collect the amount from
his or her friends—thereby render
ing just as worthy a service as
though the money were given per
sonally.
But, however we raise the money,
%
it must be raised.
Harrisburg simply cannot fail at
this time.
THE BRIDGE LOAN
THE Telegraph is in receipt of a
letter from a well-known resi
dent of the Allison Hill district,
who does not desire to have his name
published, which we hope sets forth
fairly well the sentiments of a great
majority of the people of that lo
cality with regard to the transfer
of $300,000 from the Walnut street
to the State street bridge fund. In
part he says:
I am pleased to note that the
Rotary Club is stirring up in
terest in the passage of the $300,-
OUO bridge loan. I was one of
those who worked hardest for a
bridge at Walnut street, and I
would still like to see the bridge
there, but as the experts have de
termined that it must go at State
street 1 am not so bigoted as to
put up mv opinion against theirs.
Besides, the State will give us a
much better bridge at State than
our small sum would build at
Walnut, and so I am out working
this time for the transfer of the
fund. I think that is the way
, many of my neighbors look at
the matter and I hope that they
will do as I have done—pass up
the idea of a bridge at Walnut
street and get down to work for
the transfer of the fund, for the
good of the city and to convince
the Commonwealth that we ap
preciate what the State is doing
! for us in Harrisburg.
Our Allison Hill friend has sum
med up the situation most admir- j
ably. The Walnut street proposal ,
has been made impossible by the .
splendid developments which the ,
State authorities have outlined. |
The Commonwealth is to spend -
millions of dollars in Harrisburg for |
park, buildings and a great bridge
alone costing more than three mil
lions, and all we as a city are asked
to do is to contribute $300,000 from
the fund set aside for the erection
of a bridge that never will be built
under any circumstances.
It would be most discouraging to
Governor Sproul and the other pub
lic spirited State officials who are
planning so generously for this city
if the people did not think enough
of their efforts to contribute the
comparatively small sum requested,
i It is a matter for congratulation,
! indeed, that the Rotary club has
[ seen the wisdom of public education
in this respect and is leading an
agitation in favor of the transfer
and it is most encouraging to note
the attitude of Allison Hill people
toward the project. They carried
the loan last time and they will do
it again this year, backed up by
people in all parts of the city.
GARBLED REPORTS
YESTERDAY the Harrisburg
Telegraph published an Asso
ciated Press dispatch telling
how two workmen had shot two
steel strikers who attacked them
while on their way to work. An
other newspaper in this city printed
a story sent out by another press
association under the headlines.
"State Police Kill Two Strikers."
Now the truth is that the State
Police did not arrive on the scene
until after the shooting had ended
and had nothing to do with it. The
Telegraph's account was accurate in
every detail; the other was garbled.
There are two levsons in this.
First, if you read the Associated
Press newspapers you get the plain,
unvarnished truth. Second, that for
the sake of low and order the State
Police should not be charged with
things they do not do. It is just
such falsehoods that arouse labor
union members to antagonism
against the rolice, who are really the
very good friends of every law
abiding cit'zen in the land, working
men or others.
f'stlttG# IK
By the Ex-Committeeman
Attorney General A. Mitchell
Pulmer's activities against the high
cost of living are considered politi
cally "significant" by the Philadel
phia Public Ledger and much atten
tion is given to the plan for holding
a series of conferences in the States
on the subject. The Ledger's Wash
ington correspondent professes to
see in these meetings, to be com
posed of mayors and district attor
neys and to be called by the govern
ors, a plan of Palmer to "swing
around the circle."
As u matter of fact, men promi
nent in Pennsylvania Kepublican
party affairs and folks on Capitol
Hill do not see anything politically
significant in the proposed meet
ings. The plan for the conferences
developed at the meeting of repre
sentatives of attorneys general of
various states, few of whom they
say could lie regarded as likely to do
much to advance Palmer's chances.
Among politicians who come here
there is a great interest as to how
Palmer will make out as a crusade
against the high cost of living is a
perilous undertaking unless it does
cut prices and the belief here is that
Palmer was drafted rather than "se
lected" to head the drive.
The Ledger makes much of the
visit Joseph Guftey paid to Palmer
to see about appointments in West
ern Pennsylvania and then says:
"Mr. Painter at present is chairman
of the State Democratic committee,
but he has let it be known that he I
does not intend to be a candidate for
the chairmanship next spring. There
has been a general feeling in Wash- |
ington for the last two months that
Mr. Palmer might be looked upon
as a possibility for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency. It
has been even said that he had
President Wilson's direct backing, j
despite the prominence of the boom
for William G. McAdoo, which is be-1
ing conducted by Bernard M. Ba-!
ruch and Thomas L. Chadbourne, of
New York."
—Mr. Palmer is not Democratic
state chairman and never has been
and there is a belief Lawrence
H. Rupp, of Allentown, the present
state chairman, will not remain in
office very long as a more progress
ive leader is wanted to steer the
state machine next winter and
spring when Palmer sets out after
national delegates.
—ln this connection it is inter- ]
esting to read what E. J. Synett, |
editor of the Scranton Times, has to
say in Roderick Random's column.
He is a close personal friend of
Palmer and writes: "The declara- |
tion of Assistant Postmaster General
Jim Biakeslee that Attorney Gen- '
oral A. Mitchell Palmer will be a
candidate for the Democratic nom- j
inat'on for president in the event
that President Wilson doe'des not to
seek re-election, is really no news to ;
Roderick Random readers. Should j
President Wilson decide to retire at
the end of his term, there is every
reason to believe that Mr. Palmer j
will be given the support of a great
body of Democratic leaders from all
parts of the Nation. Mr. Palmer
stands big with these men. They
know his capacity and ability. He
is a big man in the Nation, a man
who did his work so well during the
war that his life has been constant
ly jeopardized since. I like the ex
pression, "President A. Mitchell
Palmer." Incidentally should Mr.
Palmer be elected to the highest
office in the gift of the people he
will have been only the second
Pennsylvanian thus honored. James
Buchanan was also a Pennsylvanian.
In 1880 another distinguished native
of the Keystone State, General Win
field S. Hancock, was a candidate
for the presidency, but was defeat
ed by General Garfield. Mr. Palmer
was born in Luzerne county, near
i White Haven, but has lived practi
| eally all his life in Stroudsburg.
I When a young man he studied sten
ography in the old Woods' Business
College here, so is very much of a
Scruntonian."
—On the other hand there is
much disposition on the part of I
friends of Judge Eugene C. Bonni- j
well, the arch foe of Palmer in
Democratic State affairs and the
only man who is inclined to dispute
the title of State leader with him, to
make a great deal of Bonntwell's
re-election as president of the State
Firemen's Association. The judge
is after Palmer's leadership plumes
and inclined to fight in every county.
Whether he will <yit as much ice as
formerly because of the defeat of
his, efforts in the Philadelphia and
Allegheny primaries and the cool
ness of some Lackawanna and Lu
zerne leaders toward him is an in
teresting problem.
—The Evening Ledger says re
garding developments In Philadel
phia politics: "Interesting in the
light of the conferences Mr. Moore
is holding with leaders of all ele
ments in the party was this com
ment of the congressman: "A new
1 condition of affairs exists in the Re
publican party In Philadelphia to
j day, although some people do not
1 seem to realize It."
—The Congressman has an
nounced that ho would probably re
main as a member of Congress until
the time comes to tuke offleo the
first of the year. The suggestions of
Mr. Moore, as mayor of Philadel
phia, will be persuasive in the set
tling of the question as to his suc
cessor from the Third congressional
district.
—The votes were drawn off yes
terday in over forty counties.
—County Commissioner Addison
C. Gumbert, whose large vote was
one of the surprises of the recent
Republican primary election, had a
total of 62,620 votes, according to
the official count of the returns, says
the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. He
distanced Robert S. Cain, his col-'
league on the Leslie ticket, by 8,846,
Cain's vote being 56,774.
—Philadelphia's November ballot
will contain the tickets of four par
ities —Republican, Democrat, Char-
HAHRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH
WELL, IT COULD HAPPEN-:- By BRIGGS j
TWE OTHER MEMBERS OP THE J
FoOfiSO ME WERE CURIOIAS TO /
1 FLHX> OUT WHY 'MAJE" WAS SO /
FREGIUENTLY VSNEAKIMG BACK. /
OF THE BUSH6S ANO APPARENTLY /
TRYIH<£ TO BALANCE A CLUB ON I
HIS CH/RO. A CLOSER IMSPECTIONJ J
REVEALED THE MAJOR'S IAJGENJIOUS
DSV/LCE OF CARRYING A HOCLOOU F
ter and Single Tax. Pre-emptipns
were made for the People's and
Tenants' Protection parties, but as
no nominations were made, the
names of these two parties will not
appear on the ballot. The Single
Taxers Hied a complete ticket with
Oliver McKnight.as their candidate
for mayor.
—The independent movement in
Lancaster has been switched again.
Several men have withdrawn.
—Well known Democrats yester
day pre-empted "The Good Roads
Party" for the county on which
ticket it is expected will appear the
Democratic candidates for county
office, says the Scranton Republican.
Victor Burschel, fornmr Democratic
commissioner, heads the list of pre
emptors. Following his name is
that of Thomas F. Harrison, who
was defeated for State senator two
years ago and who is now in charge
of making the 1920 census In this
end of the State.
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
By MAJOR FRANK O. MAHIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
During our 19 months of war
more than 2,000,000 American sol
diers were carried to France. Half
a million of those went over in .the
first 13 months and a million and a
half in the last six months.
The highest troop-carrying records
are those of July, 1919, when 330,-
000 were brought home to America.
Most of the troops who sailed for
France left from New York. Half
of them landed in England and the
other half landed in France.
Among every 100 Americans who
went over 49 went in British ships,
45 in American ships, 3 in Italian,
2 in French, and 1 in Russian ship
ping under English control.
Our cargo ships averaged one
complete trip every 70 days and our
troop ships one complete trip every
35 days.
The cargo fleet was almost ex
clusively American. It reached the
size of 2,600.000 tons
and carried to Europe about 7,500,-
000 tons of cargo.
The greatest troop-carrier among
all the ships has been the Leviathan,
which landed 12,000 men, or the
equivalent of a German division, in
France every month.
The fastest transports been
the Great Northern and the North
ern Pacilic, which have made com
plete turnarounds, taken on new
troops, and started back again in 19
days.
The Army Doctor
[Berton Braley, in Everybody's
Magazine]
He gives us pills for many ills
An' all the pills the same;
No matter what a guy has got
The matter with his frame.
When wo get well from calomel
He's slipped us by the ton,
He thinks for sure our rapid cure
Is something he had done.
Oh, the Army Doc is a bird that's
fine.
He paints us over with iodine; j
But for all we jeer an' for all we
knock,
He's a regular fellow, the Army
Doc!
For when a "show" is planned, we
know
The Doc is on our track
Where H. E's rain, to soothe the
pain
Of wounded, crawling back.
He take 3 his chance in our advance
With surgeon's knife in hand;
Whore vas clouds lurk he does his
work
—A job I couldn't stand.
For though I've kind of a flghtin'
nerve.
It's another sort of thing to serve
In a bloody station where wounded
flock.
An' that is the job of the Army Doc!
With probe an' splint he does his
■stint
Without no pest or sleep,
Until he drops or something stops
The wounded lines that creep
To get his aid. An' when he's made
His final dressin'. then
The nap he takes, an' when he wakes
He's on the job again.
There's many a simple wooden cross
That marks the place of a Doctor's
loss:
But many a soldier's cross ain't
there
Because of the Army Doctor's care.
He's true blue —color that will not
crock
An' I sure salutes to the Army Doo!
THE PUBLIC FIGHTING BACK
[From the New Tork Times]
PERHAPS because the rock bot- j
torn facts of the British railway
strike settlement have not even
yet come to us Americans have not
regarded the outcome as a complete
defeat for the strikers. Both David
Lloyd George and Lord Northclifte,
however, publicly speak of it in
terms which indicate that the United
Kingdom itself must think the strik
ers were beaten to a standstill.
Lord Northclifte, who is not
merely an amiable friend but a
strong advocate of organized labor,
says in so many words: "Labor was
defeated in this strike because most
of the men directing it were just
average men." Lloyd George with
the vividness in which he can paint
his language deecribes the strike as
"Prussianism," which was defeated
in its "effort to hold up the country
and strangle it into submission."
We may reasonably assume from
the blunt, almost brutal, words of
these men, undoubtedly the most
powerful pair in the British Empire
—two leaders no longer in sympathy
with each other but both still com
peting for national pre-eminence—
that the result of the railway strike
was in truth an overwhelming and
I lasting defeat for the strikers.
The Watt Centenary
[From the Philadelphia Record]
Birmingham has just finished
celebrating the centenary of the
death of James Watt, the founder of
practical steam engineering, al
though he was not the first to note
the expansive power of water under
heat exceeding 212 degrees. That
was known to the ancients and even
in Watt's time there were other ex
perimenters.
All are familiar with the story of
Watt's attention being drawn to the
subject in his youth by stopping the
mouth of his mother's kettle. It
took a long time for him to evolve
i ideas which succeeded in harnessing
this power for practical purposes.
No invention in history has had
such industrial or sociological value.
It upset the conditions of centuries,
even of millenlums, but started n
new industrial era which has not
been without its drawbacks. It
should be pointed out to those who
think that machinery is a great evil
because It chains human beings so
long to labor, that in the time of
Watt twelve to fourteen hours—and
even longer—at the hand-loom were
not unusual.
Aside from a little energy devel
oped by water power, the human
race depended almost entirely upon
its oVn muscles. That railways de
veloped soon and revolutionized
transportation is well known.
The important fact about steam
harnessing is that so little has been
developed since the days of Watt.
His fundamental principles are slill
in use although modern engines nre
monsters of efficiency and power
; which he never contemplated. Yet
| the unpleasant fact remains that the
wa' te of coal or any other fuel as
applied to steam production Is enor
mous.
The Way of Justice
[From the New York Times]
Early on Wednesday .morning
James Whitings, a New Jersey ne
gro accused of attacking a woman,
was captured by a detective. He
was immediately locked up in the
county jail in Camden.
Men were put on guard to prevent
any attempt at mob violence, should
it be made; and in the excited state
of public feeling reflected from
Omaha such an attempt might have
been expected, at least in communi
ties where Justice is not, as in New
Jersey it has long notoriously been,
swift, sure, impartial.
At 9 o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing the man was brought into court.
He waived the right of a jury trial.
At 9:30 he was found guilty and sen
tenced to from twenty to thirty
years of hard labor. By 11:30 he
had begun to serve his sentence In
the State Penitentiary at Trenton.
"There is no difference in the de
gree of this crime," the Judge told
the prisoner, "whether you are
black or white. The crime is the
same."
Thus, with no question of color,
with no infusion of race prejudice,
instant and severe punishment of a
great crime was made. The whole
community takes notice of it; the
whole community, the public sense
of Justice, is satisfied by it
More significant still is the Prime
Minister's anouncement that this
was no mere local brawl bred by
chance circumstance or precipitated
by sudden temper. It was a pitched
battle for which both sides had
made long and thorough prepara
tion. Lloyd George tells how the
civil army to meet this very strike
was organized months ago, while
the guns of Europe were still echo
ing over its battlefields. The na
tion was organized against special
interests—in this case the railway
unions—particularly organized and
singularly operating to exact tribute
from the whole public—"to hold up
the community," requoting the
frank Lloyd George, "and strangle
it Into submission."
The British nation, then, having
entered into an Industrial war of
self-defense and having won its first
victory, is not likely to avoid a sec
ond challenge, if there be any other
organized special interest soon em
boldened to offer suuch challonge.
And the example of the triumphant
British public is not likely to be
lost upon other publics hard pressed
in the same way—particularly the
American public. When the public
fights back it goes hard with the
i aggressor.
Coddling Enemies
[From Kansas City Star.]
It appears from the action of the
Department of Justice in postpon
ing proceedings against Emma Gold
unan that the Government fails to
recognize any particular necessity
for suppressing anarchistic teaching
in the country. Together with the
attitude of the War Department to
ward the various kinds of slackers
generally grouped as conscientious
objectors, this laxity in dealing with
known enemies within our gates is
difficult to understand.
When the country was at war
and millions of homes were making
every sacrifice asked by the Gov
ernment to insure the victory all
Americans stood together to achieve,
Emma Goldman and her kind were
doing all in their power to cause
America's effort to fail. By propa
ganda and violence they sought to
make real a threatened danger to
our Government and institutions
greater and more to be feared than
the enemy at the front. While
America's young manhood was fight
ing and dying In France for a prin
ciple upon whose preservation the
safety of civilization Itself depend
ed, these domestic allies of the
enemy were directing a treacherous
and treasonable attack in the rear.
There is no reason to suppose the
ending of the war will end the sedi
tious activities of these conspirators.
They are still and will always re
main America's enemies, dangerous
in proportion as they are allowed
opportunity to agitate and plot. The
Government recognized this when it
rounded them up and confined them
during the war. But now they are
being released. Severity is,relaxed
and the cases against them allowed
to drift There seems a tacit un
derstanding that if they do not ob
trude themselves too conspicuously
upon the Government's notice they
will not be molested.
This is a dangerous policy. No rea
son can be found for it that does not
reflect upon the courage or states
manship of the public officials re
sponsible for it. If these domestic
enemies were dangerous at large
last year they are dangerous now.
They have not changed. The penal
ties against them should be exacted
to the last letter of the law. If
they are not, the country will ha\ >
to take its choice of believing either
that the Government raised a false
cry when it roused the patriotic
feeling of America against them, or
is now pandering to their kind on
motives that will not bear examina
tion. It is needless to say that in
neither case can the Department of
Justice, the War Department or the
administration as a whole derive any
credit from the record.
Knew the Call
[From Bllghtly, London.]
Friendly Constable —Come, come,
sir, pull yourself together; your
wife's calling you.
Convivial Gent—Wha' she call
calling me; Billy or William?
Constable —William, sir.
Convivial Gent—Then I'm not
goin' home.
More Commercial Candor
[From Sydney Morning Herald.]
"2-Dome American Silk Gloves.
Usually 4-9 pnir. Sale price 3-9 uatr.
I They won't last long."
OCTOBER 10, 1919.
LITERARY NOTES
E. P. Dutton & Co. have Just
brought out a new and revised edi
tion, with some important additions,
of A. D. McLaren's "Germanism
From Within," first published three
years ago. The author is an Eng
lishman who had spent eight years
before the breaking out of the war
in Germany', in intimate study of
German life, people, customs and
character. Previous to that time
he had for 30 years been keenly
interested in German history, lan
guage, literature and modern prog
ress.
Over a million copies of "The Be
loved Captain," which the publica
tion committee of the Y. M. C. A.
reprinted in pamphlet form by per
mission of E. P. Dutton Co., from
Donald Hankey's "Student in Arms,"
were distributed free by that organ
ization among soldiers and sailors
during the war.
Winifred Stephens' "The France I
Know," which E. P. Dutton & Co.
will publish at the end of this month,
will be the account by a thoroughly
well informed and sympathetic Eng
lishwoman of the France of war
time. It will tell about the spirit of
the country after the first battle of
the Marne, of the work of the
French Red Cross, of how the prov
inces organized for victory, about
political parties and religious opin
ion, about the position of women
and their war work, and there will
be especially interesting chapters on
the new France and the new French
woman that have emerged from the
furnace of war. Miss Stephens, who
is the author of "The Life of
Madame Adam," which E. P. Dut
ton & Co. published last year, has
lived much in France, knows all
the country and its people and not
merely Paris, and has devoted her
life to the study of French history
and literature and the interpreta
tion of French character and to
writing and lecturing upon them.
On the day when General Persh
ing led the hosts of the First Divi
sion in the Victory parade down
Fifth avenue between thousands of
his cheering countrymep he re
ceived, as a tribute from the car
toonists of America, the first copy
oft the press of "The War in Car
toons." It was sent to him by Mr.
Edwin Marcus;, cartoonist of ;the
New York Times, and carried on its
fly-leaf the autographs of nearly a
dozen of the most prominent car
toonists in the United States. Ac
companying the book, which pre
sents a history of the war in 100
cartoons by 27 American cartoon
ists compiled and edited by George
J. Hecht, was a letter in which Mr.
Marcus, "on behalf of the cartoon
ists of America," presented the vol
ume "as a humble token of our sin
cere appreciation of the splendid
service you rendered the United
States and the world at large," and
added that "The letter which you
wrote to the cartoonists, which was
published by the Bureau of Car
toons in their 'Bulletin for Cartoon
ists,' was a great source of inspir
ation to us. We are very much
flattered that you think our work
was one of the most important fac
tors in forming that resolute public
opinion which was so essential to
the winning of the war. The Gov
ernment can always count on our
cartoons to aid any patriotic move
ment." General Pershing expressed
through a member of his stafT his
thanks and appreciation. The in
cident was chronicled on the first
pages of the evening papers of New
York on the day of the parade and
by the morning papers of the next
day. Mr. Hecht, editor and compiler
of the volume, which has just been
published by E. P. Dutton & Co.,
originated and was the head of the
Bureau of Cartoons, of the com
| mlttee on public information.
Mark Twain's Imagination
[William W. Ellsworth, "A Golden
Age of Authors," Harper's.]
Mark Twain had such a vivid
Imagination, such a brain for em
broidery, that It was a difficult task
for him to tell a straight tetory just
as It happened—he could make up
one that was so much better. We
a'l know that Albert Btgelow Paine,
working on the Mark Twain "Life,"
found It necessary to discard much
of th? autobiographic material that
Mark Twain had written. Investiga
tion. talks with men still living who
knew the facts, simply proved that
the tales were not so. And Mark
Twain was no liar. He had a glori
ous, an almost superhuman, imagi
nation. As he approached three
score and ten he said, as quoted In
the "Life," "When I was younger I
could remember anything, whether
It happened or not; but I am getting
eld, nnd soon I shall remember only
the latter."
Itttftitng CCljat j
It is probable that the example of
Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scruntoa,
and of the executives of some of the
smaller municipalities of the State
in proclaiming Armistice Hay as a
holiday will be followed in a num
ber of places as a tribute to the men
who fought in the greatest ot wars.
Action of the State cantonment ot ,
the American Legion here last Sat
urday in endorsing the movmeent to I
make the day a holiday has been <
much commended in the newspapers ,
and while State authorities can not :
designate the day as a holiduy with- ;
out legislative enactment the idea is !
so popular on Capitol Hill that No
vember's second Tuesday is pretty >
sure to have some recognition. In I
Beveral cities the posts ot the Ameri
can Legion have made preparations i
to observe the day and the proposi
tion will be strongly approved gen
erally. There are many people in
Harrisburg who recall how joyouslv
Harrisburg got out of bed about 2
o'clock in the morning and started
a celebration that was still going on i
at dewy eve with meetings of Cap
itol Hill folks in the Hall of Repre
sentatives, impromptu prayer serv
ices in the churchos and parades ot 1
school children with lire apparatus i
from Marysville, Annville and other 1
places bringing firemen here to join
in the celebration. It was some day
here and the men who are now
home remember It as some day Over
There.
• • •
Prank B. McClain, former lieu
tenant governor, is wearing patched
shoes, says a Philadelphia news
paper. "I won't pay sl6 for shoes.
It's exorbitant," he exclaimed. "I'm
wearing 'em patched tor the tirst
time in my life. It isn't because I
can't afford to buy new ones. I am
wearing the .pld ones as a protest."
McClain Is here conducting the in
vestigation of alleged rent profiteer
ing.
• • •
Allison Hill appears to be giving
uptown a chase as regards the build
ing of new homes. The highways
which a few years ago were stretch
ing out like the antenae of a city
with a house here and there are
now lined for blocks with solid rows
of dwellings, most of them of brick
because inability to get mill work of
good lumber at satisfactory prices
now is one of the handicaps of the
builders. Derry, Market, Walnut,
I-tegina, State, North, Liberty, Briggs,
Forster, Boas, Herr and intermedi
ate streets are pushing right out with
every chance that there will be
further development when the Har
rlsburg Railways company builds out
Herr street.
• • •
> Attorney Genernl William I.
Schafter, who shares with Secretary
of the Commonwealth Cyrus E.
Woods and Banking Commissioner
John S. Fisher the long-distance
walking honors of the State admin
istration, does not believe in Gov
ernor Sproul's plan of a late break
fast and working straight through
without any lunch. So the other
day he told the Governor he would
bring him some lunch. He did. It
was a large round doughnut, one
of the kind we call fasnachts around
here.
• • •
Highway Commissioner Lewis S.
Sadler Is keenly interested in get
ting as much work accomplished on
Improvement of the roads as pos
sible before the snow flies and he is
bending every effort of his depart
ment to get action and spurring on
contracts. The other day the Com
missioner was talking with some
friends and all were having a "wish
ing match." When the "wish" got
around to Mr. Sadler ho out quick
as a flash: "One hundred days of
fine weather."
• • •
Members of the American Legion
are discussing the situation brought
about by the action of the Legion at
the first cantonment here last Sat
urday in denouncing de Valera. In
Philadelphia some admirers of the
so-called "Irish president" demand
ed that the action be set aside, with
the alternative that some soldiers
of Irish blood would resign from the
Legion. As the action could not be
overturned because the cantonment
adjourned Saturday, a demand was
made that -Bryn Mawr post, one of
whose delegates presented the reso
lution, disavow it. That also met a
refusal.
Capitol Hill's orange crop is run
ning a race with Jack Frost. There
used to be half a dozen orange trees
which some one with an idea of
ornament rather than anything else,
provided for Capitol Park. The
trees are small and show the ef
fects of northern windows. They
are at the south side of the State
Museum and such fruit as survives
the eagerness of the squirrels to
get the seeds is about the size of a
crab apple at this time in October.
The skin is hard and dark green
and the oranges sway in the winds
in a way that tempts the squirrels
and woos the sunlight that never
seems strong enough to give them
the ripening touch.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Col. R. M. Brookflcld, formerly
active in the National Guard, has
been selected for military instructor
at Girard College.
p. M. Kirby, Luzerne county
financier, is active in the new busi
ness movements in that county.
Col. W. J. Crookston, formerly
sanitary officer of the Keystone Di
vision and now with the State De
partment of Health, has been giving
a series of talks on practical health
measures.
Dr. A. A. Hammerschlag, Pitts
burgh educator, was honored at Le
high University Founders' Day exer
\ Daly, the Philadelphia
poet, is one of the speakers at many
banquets these days. Daly is rapid
ly getting to the place where he
shouWr be. Q hn H Oibboni Philadel
phia surgeon, has gone to attend tho
international surgeons' meeting in
Belgium. .
C. S. Wengard, director of
Pittsburgh's community sings, says
200,000 attended them.
The Rev. J. F. Watson, of
Johnstown, is presiding at the an
nual conference of the Pennsylvania
district of the Brethren church.
—Louis Lukes, well known in tho
State hotel business and now at Lan
caster, has been elected president
of the State Hotelmen's Association.
\ DO YOU KNOW
That Harrlsburg Is head
quarters for big shipments of
apple butter?
HISTORIC HARRJSBURG
—When the line for the Pennsyl
vania Railroad to enter Harrisburg
was surveyed farmers objected be
cause it would cut up their lands.