12 IHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 Published eveningu except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph DulltlinK, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. It.* OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor R. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard 'J.'P. McCULLOUGH, - BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rj Newspaper Pub ® Associa- Bur'cau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Story, Brooks & Finley, F i ft h Avenue Building, "Western office'. Story, Brooks & Gas' Bulkfing, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *wajefog". week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 191!) "O Master, let mc wallc with thee In lowly paths of service free; Tell me thy secret; help me hear The strain of toil, the fret of care." SPEAKING OF POLITICS LOCAL Democratic newspapers raving over dismissals of at taches from the State service, attributing them solely to politics, and complaining bitterly against the officials in public service contribut ing to Republican campaign funds, remind one of the proverbial little pot that got all "het up" calling the kettle black. So long as the game of politics is politics, so long will politics play a part in public life. So long as men desire to see a political organ ization successful, so long will they give to campaign funds. But why limit the criticism, if there is to be criticism? Why not include the Democratic party as well ? No administration in the history of the country has played politics with such a high hand as has that mow in power, and its supporters and machine workers throughout the nation have needed no urging to follow the example. Not even at so important a conference as that at Paris did President Wilson recog nize anybody but Democrats, ex cept when he took notice of a. few Socialists and radicals. Not a rep resentative Republican was asked to attend the meeting. Everything has been done that is possible to do to keep the Democratic party in power, regardless of the merits of men of other political faiths, and even post masters have been forced to con tribute to Democratic campaign funds. The Telegraph has information, withheld during the war, that it may find advisable to publish one of these days. It relates to the side tracking of Harrisburg men chosen by the government for special war work because they did not happen to have the approval of local Demo cratic bosses, and of interference in < army matters that reflects anything but credit upon those responsible. If the local Democratic newspa pers want full information concern ing dismissals and removals for po litical reasons, of enforced political contributions and even worse, the Telegraph can oblige them. President Wilson disposes of the foolish report that he is mentally un- JJr fit by writing a six-hundred word .•, letter. LABOR MUST TAKE CARE ORGANIZED labor must take great care not to permit itself to be led away by radicals who mean to use it for their own purposes and then to ruin it, along with the Government of the United States, and turn both over to Rus sian societies who would like to in augurate such a reign of terror here as they have instituted in Russia. The testimony of an attorney for the I. W. W. in Pittsburgh this week was to the effect that this disreput able organization has been at work forming soviet branches throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio, particularly ' In the steel districts, and that, he has been working hand in glove with Foster, leader of the steel - strikes. There can he no gainsaying the li fact that organized labor has done much to improve working conditions .1 in this country, but it can undo all it has done and work damage to ZZ itself and the country at large if it shall permit men of this type to -* use the power of the unions to their *' own ends. The attempt has failed in Seattle and in Canada, and it in evitably would fail in Pennsylvania, but nobody wants happenings there to be repeated here. That the work —- lngmen of this State are not so easily fooled is evident from the manner in which they have sized up the I. W. W. efforts in the-Pitts burgh district. The steel strike has not been a success there nor here, the men aa a whole did not WEDNESDAY EVENING, trust the leadership. Pennsylvania working people have shown that they will go as far as anybody in support of leaders such as John Mitchell, for example, but when it comes down to a choice between radicals and allegiance to the prin ciples of their country, they are under the flag every time. But they I must be everlastingly watchful so long as there are men in the coun try of the type of this I. W. W. at torney who would rob them of all I they have won and turn their unions into Soviets. "Tlte peach season Just closed has been successful in this section," ob serves a New York state exchange. Same for the lemon season in Har-j risburg and it's going right along nicely, thank you. THE KING COMES HAHKISBUItG has had many j distinguished visitors, but it has received none more en- ] thusiastically than it will the King j and Queen of Belgium \yhen they honor the city with their presence. | The war robbed most crowned heads J of their glory, and many more of | their thrones, but it only added lus- | ter to the fame of King Albert and his royal consort. We, in America, j hold no briefs for monarchial forms of government, but by the same token we recognize a man whatever his garb or station, and no more manly man has ever stepped upon our shores than this same King of Belgium. traced with the alternative of sav ins' his own'people at the expense of his honor, he led them boldly to the sacrifice and then fell back after he had stayed the onrush of the German war machine, until he linked forces with the English and the French and held his part of the line in France during the awful years until American armies, sweeping in by hundreds of thousands, started Ihe Huns on their last great retreat. Never once during all that time [lid he falter. With his country laid waste, his people dead or in slavery ind risking his own life daily in :he lighting front, he kept his eour lge always to the lighting point, and now that the tide has turned and -ight has won, he has come to pay i friendly visit to those who helped he Belgian people in the days of heir extremity. Americans are hero lovers. Their iwn history is so full of heroic sae •ifice and of victory over great odds hat they can very well appreciate he greatness of the Belgian ruler. SVe are happy that he has chosen to spend a few hours with us. Wp shall try to make him feel that he s welcome. Why wus it necessary for the Gov •inmor.t In grant the beet sugar mak >rs an additional cent a pound to tn luee them to sell their holdings? If .hey could sell a month ago at nine ;ents a pound, why not now? ON ITS LAST LEGS BOLSHEVISM is on its last legs in Russia which mea it s throughout the world, for, with Lenine, Trotzky and the lesser scoundrels of Russia dead or behind the bars, it is scarcely conceivable that Bolshevism will be able to sur vive the awful failure of its great experiment. . N From the very first it has been merely a question as to how long the thing would last in Russia. Bol shevism is not a producing force. It has lived simply upon the fat vf the land, like a leach on the belly of a fish, or a vampire bat at the throat of its sleeping victim. It tried to run the country by mere muscle ami brawn. Brains it did not recognize us an essential. In dividual initiative it frowned upon as "capitalistic in its tendencies." The rights of men and women it submerged always in order that it and its leaders might keep their own heads above the rising tide of pop ular disapproval. System it had none. Virtue was a joke. God was not recognized. The ,whole thing was from the start at once grotesque and tragic. The world hus never known such a gigantic carnival of crime. Nero, with his puny crimes in Rome, was a piker beside the perpetrators of the wholesale horrors that have been part and parcel of dally life in Rus sia. Property was for the taking. Human life, the most precious of all possessions, was held so cheap that there was no penalty for him who took tt. Womunhood was besmirched and motherhood disgraced. The whole wretched business was as cer tain to reach a bloody end from its very outstart as that kalserism could not win control of the world. And now we "are coming to the end of it. The forces of right are slowly closing in upon Petrograd. Shortly that city will • fall. Then will come the evacuation of Moscow and the killing or the capture of the two arch conspirators who must an swer for their crimes. Ten years hence Bolshevism will be a term used only by historians and we shall look back and wonder what madness beset the world in this decade that it should ever have tolerated the monstrosity for a moment. A KING ALBERT TREE THAT is a good suggestion the Chamber of Commerce makes in proposing that King Albert plant a tree here on Arbor Day in memory of the Harrlsburg soldiers who died in the war with Germany. And the place to plant it is in Reservoir Park, where on Friday the Park Department will cause to be set out a grove of evergreens as a memorial to our soldier dead. It would be exceedingly appro priate to have King Albert, whose country these brave lads of ours died to save, set out the first tree. The idea is excellent It pos sible, It should be worked out. "Jfbtltl C4- MW By the- Sz-Oommittccmas Governor William C. Sproul will begin his active participation in the campaign of this fall next week ami will speak in New Jersey and Massa chusetts gubernatorial contests and then go to his home for the week end and possibly spend some time in Philadelphia. Except for the statements he is sued in the Delaware county pri mary contests, the Governor has re frained from taking any part in the campaigns of this year, and when he accepted invitations of the ltepubli can national committee to make speeches he was assigned to the two eastern states where important contests are being waged. Before he leaves on his eastern tour the Governor is expected to name the members of the commis sion of 25 to study and recommend revision of the State Constitution, which he expects to be one or the monumental achievements of his ad ministration. It is not considered likely that many more changes will be made in State Capitol departments for a time. The Public Service and Labor and Industry changes take effect on No vember 1. Notwithstanding some specula tion now going 011 as to the nomi nation for Auditor General to be made by the Kepublicans next year, nothing has been decided upon. The name of Charles A. Snyder is gen era'ly mentioned and approved for State Treasurer honors among many influential men in party affairs. While names of some Philadelphia!!* and Pittsburghers have been men tioned. there are grounds for belief that the candidate for Auditor Gen eral will not come from either of those cities. Neither will any one connected with the Sproul admini stration enter the race unless some radical changes occur In present prospects. Potential leaders in the two big cities want to keep the nomi nation away because of aspirations held in those places for 1920 and 1922. An up-State candidate seems to be favored as far as geography is concerned. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore opened his real campaign for Mayor of Philadelphia with a solid and sub stantial meeting last night, his meth ods being decidedly different from the ring-around-a-rosy performances of Joseph MaeLauglilin. The Demo- 1 cratie candidate for Mayor is giving evidences of a determined state of I mind in regard to his party affairs. Mr. Moore will have meetings from now until election, and Congressman Mure wi I preside at one of the gath erings and ex-Governor Edwin S. Stifart at another. —The Philadelphia campaign is toeing enlivened toy some ward scraps. Marry A. Mat-key, chairman of tin compensation hoard, being one of the latest to get into a controversy. There are also reports of some deals j between Vnre candidates and Mac- Lauglilin men, and the councilman!? battles are interesting from a stand point of speculation or betting. —William H. Kelton, the veteran couneilinnnic clerk, is said to have opposition looming up for election as clerk of the new council. —George J. Brennan, writing in ! the Philadelphia Inquirer, has this to say on Philadelphia and State politics: "Congressman J. Hampton Moore's announcement that by rea son of the fact of his being the party nominee for Mayor he is the 'titular leader' of the Republican party in Philadelphia, is being comment* d upon by up-State Republicans who are already speculating as to the possibi'ities of the future {should he extcnfl his activities beyond tic- Philadelphia county line. Out in Pittsburgh. Mayor E. V. B'abcock has had the title of leader thrust > upon him by Senator Max G. Leslie,! Leslie, modestly claiming to be 'onl> j a follower' of Mayor Babcock, when | his factional enemies trained their guns upon him and made him their l special target in the recent enm-i paign primary e'ection contest. Ilab cock, while insisting that he is not the leader, is performing all the functions of leadership." —it may be added that the Mayor of Pittsburgh is thought to have a welt-developed boom for Governor in 1922 somewhere about his house. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin says: "Friends of George S I Graham, Congressman from the Sec lond district, have been working in j his behalf since he wrote them that he will be a candidate for re-elec tion. Isadore Stern, formerly mem ber of the State legislature, has an nounced he will run against Graham at the next primaries." —Lebanon city and county are just now affording some entertaining fights, as the Democratic cliques have an idea that they can take ad vantage of the primary election aftermath and fish up something worth whi'e. It would seem, how ever, that the Republicans of the county have gotten next to the scheme and that the usual comfort able Republican majority may be rolled up. —Stuart partisans in Cumberland county say that there is little doubt of his victory over Rippey T. Shearer at the coming election for clerk of the courts. The qjld Shearer organi zation is attempting to stage a come back, but the weather conditions are unfavorable. —Lieutenant Governor Edward E. Beidleman is to make the address at the opening of the Chambersburg Republican house on October 28. —They are canny in Swarthmore town. When the Philadelphia county authorities sought to make Chief of Police E. J. Sweeney a county detec tive the folks just went together and beat the raise in salary. And Sweeney stays. —Tliere is plenty of life to the Ruzerne county cnmpaiftn even if the judicial contest wns decided at the primnries when Judrre John M fJar ninn received more than 75 per cent, of the total vote cast. His is the only name on the ballot. The bis prize now in T.uzorne is the control of the county eommissi oners' office. The two present Democrntie commis sioners. M. J. McT.nuphlin and C. J. OntlasUei no relative of the Sen ate's chief e'e'-k, W. P. Gallasher— are opposed by Ambrose T'cst. n manufacture'-, and Pete- A. Mctxell, a lawyer and rood roads advocate' The tssue seems to be rood roads, tbr Pepnblienns charcinpr the foe with cress extravagance and ste in the expenditure o" the public's' monev on a porr hrapd of hichWRVS. On the other hand, the Democrats lore "nointlnc with r-ide" at the con struction work on the htchwnvs. hv ways and hrtdeos of old Duzerne. The Rep'iblieans have the Democrats on the defensive and the new chair man. John H. DanRAG YOUR CRTES AT J! AM. SELF OUT OF BED INJTO "BED AND SHE SELF OUT O F 'BET AND GLUE HER A C R,E AS/SIHO - AMD YBO PAT HER ON DRINK HER SHOULDER OROTI I_ SHE IS APPARENTLY > ASLIEEP H X „ -AND THEM SHE -AND YBU WEARILY -AND YOU CRAUUL FN7B THEN You REALIZE YOVWLS -AS Sools ting that Highway Commissioner Sadler is strongly in favor of concrete as the best ma terial for important highways. This Is beyond doubt the wisest policy to follow, even though it is expensive. The experience of all the states has shown that macadam cannot stand up under the tremendous pounding of the modern motor truck, and that] [t is necessary to have a strong and | rigid foundation to sustain the cnor-1 mous loads now carried in both local and interstate commerce. The State I wants the best there is, and it seems to be getting it. When it is remembered that New York spent $150,000,000 in road building, the Pennsylvania program seems modest, even though the $50,- 000,000 bond issue shall be repeated" before long. The essential thing is that changed economic conditions now demand fine highways in every part of the State, and that no time must be lost in providing them If this Commonwealth is to stand on an equality with its neighbors. Thanks to Governor Sproul and Com missioner Sadler, the prospect is that the long-existing blight of bad roads will soon be wiped out. Where Profiteering Leads [From Birmingham Age-Herald] "I see where a tenant was arrest ed for beating his landlord with a club." "Well?" •*He must be a smart fello-wr' "Why so?" "He demands a trial by jury— seems pretty sure no twelve men good and true would decide a c-tse against a tenant and in favor of a I lundlord nowadays." OCTOBER 22, 1919. Don Marquis' Grouch Don Marquis, who writes the usu i ally cheery "Sun Dial" column for . the New York Sun, must have got out on the wrong side of the bed the other morning. That he went to work with a grouch and nursed it may be inferred from the install ment of paragraphs which appeared the next day. His outlook on life shows in this one: "We get so tired of being cheer ful at times, that we swear if we j took a vacation we'd go somewhere and cry and cry for three or four weeks, and not work at anything else. But we never intend to take another vacation; there is nothing in vacations." And here is an epigrammatic bit of philosophy permeated with pessi rrfism: "The three Rs run all through life —at twenty-five you think of Ro mance, at forty-five of the Rent, and at sixty-five of your Rheumatism." When he dropped into verse it was to lament: "Gloom and the world glooms with you; Smile and you smile alone. For the sad old earth will leave its j mirth To hold its head and moan." A glance at the marriage 'license column probably suggested this comment: "The world is full of almshouses populated by the offspring of per sons who went lightheartedly ahead and married on account of ro mance." But Mr. Marquis was determined to apply his point of view to a wide range of subjects, as for instance: "The man who refuses to worry Is a shirk. There is a certain amount of worrying that must be done in this world, and you are dishonorable unless you cheerfully do your share of it." And again: ' Sparrows don't chirp because they ar.e happy. These are cries of hunger and despair." That he knew the fit was on him is revealed in this admonition: "If you feel a little grouchy it is always a mistake to suppress Ihe feeling. Express it, and pass your grouch on to somebody else, and be done with it." Then, to show that he practiced what he preached, the one-time op timist wound up with this finishing touch: "Only a few weeks until tho fourth installment on your income tax will be due, and it will probably be snowing on that day." Labor's Opportunity [From the Philadelphia Press.] One of the demands of organized labor at the present Industrial Con ference is that Congress permit no immigration for two years of for eigners who would take the bread from the mouths of American work men by cheap labor. If labor was wise it would couple with that de mand one for proper tariff pro tection. It is equally important that the tariff bar out the products of foreigners themselves which should not come to this country. If labor really wishes its own interests cared for it should protest against the loading of cheap products upon this market which causes the closing of factories and the reduction of em ployment. One of the first, things that It should urge, if it has proper consideration for its own future, Is the adoption of a genuine protective I tariff law. When the Democratic party came into power, in 1913, it inaugurated | its near-free-trade policy. Is it I possible that labor has forgotten the consequence of that action? Ts there no memory of the added imports that poured into the United States at the rate of a million dollars a day in value more than came under the preceding tariff law? Is there no recollection of how industry de creased. how lnhor was denied em ployment, and how hard times were, only averted by the war in Europe and the demands that the conflict made for products of the United Stntes? Does lnhor not realize that this demand from overseas will rapidly decrease and that the stagna tion will come to the industries of thlscountry if imports made bv the cheap labor of Europe and the Orient begin to flood America again as they were doing before the war under the tariff law which the Democrats put upon the statute books? Douqhmit Wins Over Pretzel [From the Cincinnati Times-Star] A Boston doughnut has been found to have 286 calories in it, thus beating the pretiel. which has only IS9, according to Dr. F. O. Benedict of the nutrition laboratory of the Carnegie Institute in Boston. Sttwtiitg Cfjat '■Ths interesting tact that pupils of the Harrisburg schools, notably tho J 7. schools, are making special studies not only of Pennsylvania history, but of Harrisburg and Dau phin county history as well, has been learned by inquiries made of teach ers and at the State and Harrisburg w libraries. Some years ago when the various essay contests for the Liim berton, D. A. R. and other prizes were arranged, it was suggested that at tention be given to history of this part of the State, particularly of the lower Susquehanna valley, and a number of the essays presented dealt with the settling, development and incidents of early life in this part of the State. Recently, there have been more essays devoted to local history than before and it has been a subject of comment that the topics were of the pupils' own selec- "" tions. Some inquiries have been made at the Public Dibrary and at the Dauphin County Historical So ciety rooms, which indicate that .greater interest than heretofore * noted is being displayed in the story of Harrisburg. At one of the schools a principal said that his pupils had been looking up the early history or Harrisburg and that some of the "compositions" submitted showed hard work. The story of John Har ris, his foresight in selecting the ford at Paxton street as the site for his ferry and the influence of the ferry upon Pennsylvania history and how Harrisburg grew up beside it, seem to have a fascination for many of the youngsters, while the attempt i to burn John Harris at the mulberry / tree and his dramatic rescue by his man Hercules and the friendly In dians from the confluence of the Susquehanna and the Conodoguinet, is a theme that is often told by the juvenile writers. Location of the Capitol here and how Harrisburg nosed out Northumberland and Wrightsville and the early Indian raids are also subjects which seem to be interesting the pupils. People who follow local history will be en lightened more than once by talk ing over with teachers the subjects of the essays of their pupils. • * * Speaking of local historical mat- . ters, it is the plan of President B. '' M. Nead, of the Dauphin County Historical Society, to have a series of addresses of more than usual local importance during the coming win ter at the meetings of the society. The first of these will be at the No vember session. The society's plaps for collecting the data of the Dau phin county soldiers in the war, in conjunction with the Hurrisburg Chamber of Commerce, are taking shape and it is hoped to secure the co-operation of churches, lodges, business and civic organizations, clubs and other bodies which have made lists of their men in the war. This will be asked, not only in Har risburg, but in Steelton and all of the towns in the county, so that the county's history may be made com plete. * * It's a rather significant sign of the way hunters feel about game regulations that a number of men have taken the precaution to write to the ottices of the State Game Com mission for copies of the new game code or to call up and ask about its provisions before they go out with their guns and dogs. In years gone by there was more or less uncer tainty about the game laws, and it must be said some defiance, not al together on the part of foreigners, either. Now the average hunter is well booked on the game laws and rather inclined to see that they are obeyed. The hunters' license has caused many men to take a greater interest in regulation and propaga flon and the Game Commission often hears from them if they get the idea that things are not being handled right or a community is, in their opinion, discriminated against in the way of distribution. * * * Operations of the drillers who are making the test holes for the new Capitol office building and the ter ; races are a good bit of delight to many of the youngsters who pass along FOurth street on their way to school. The boys gather around the drills ai)d watch the steady boring into the earth and speculate about whether they are going to hit preci '■ ous metals or oil. The borers say that they have struck some of tho hardest kind of rock in the park ex tension that they have known. One hole seems to have been bored right i into the trap dike that extends across ' the city and outcrops in the river at ' the foot of South street. When the King of tho Belgians 1 comes to Harrisburg to visit the offl ■ cial seat of government of Pennsyl t vania he will bo the first crowned head to come to the Capital of s Pennsylvania's Commonwealth and ■ the first scion of European royalty r to enter the State House. The Capi tol has been visited by ambassadors, archbishops and famous men of other lands and three men who have been presidents and several who al most became presidents have spoken within its halls. 1 . . The Presbyterian Synod of Penn- J sylvania, which met in Pine Street - church last fall and held such a 1 memorable session, is meeting this - week in Germantown. This body is one of the oldest religious organiza tions in the State and has an un - broken history of meetings for t decades. | 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE p —General W. W. Atterbury is in f demand at meetings of railroaders. . so that they can tell how the trans s portation problems were met in the war. j, —William Draper Lewis is the e head of the Roosevelt Memorial in this State. 0 —Samuel T. Cooper, of Doyles rt town, well known here, has been t elected head of the Bucks County p Motor Club. —Frederick Courtland Penfleld, „ former Ambassador to Austria, has V been motoring in New Jersey. ' —p. E. Jeffries, one of the original „ Roosevelt men in Chester county, 0 presided at the Roosevelt meeting in West Chester. —James Fornel, of Philadelphia, P long secretary of the National Hard- P ware Association, has been rcap •t pointed. _ , The Rev. C. A. Forbes, of Kane, ♦ has been chosen head of the Con , gregationallsts in Pennsylvania. " Frank Wilbur Smith, connected with the postal service at Phtladel , phia before the war, has been made lt a lieutenant colonel in the reserve. 1 j DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has at. 7 tracted State-wide attention by its new river improvement pro n gram? v HISTORIC HARRISBURG ' ,'t —The first railroad train arriving e here was received by the burgess and a committee of citizens in 183 a,