12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published eveningj except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E.' J. STACKPOLE Pretident and Editor-in-Chief R*rl OYSTER, Business Manager QUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager Executive Board JEJPXMCCULLOUGH, ' M. OOLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. SEembars 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 herein are also reserved. A Member American 3 P] Newspaper Fub sylvania Assocla j ggj j| iS| 8® Eastern o^tfUe, I ven "^- Story. Brooks & Chicago, I l! l,lin ®' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Fa., aa second class matter. 1 _ carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance, i'—— WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1919 l No prayer takes hold of God until it first takes hold of man.— Horace Bashnell ELECTION RESULTS THE election results in Dauphin county are precisely what had been anticipated. The Repub lican victory is sweeping and de cisive. The big vote polled in many districts in the face of wretched weather is an indication of the inter est of the voters and their deter mination to register their wills this year as an indication of what they mean to do in the Presidential con test next year. Personally, many of the Demo cratic candidates compared very fa vorably with their Republican oppo nents, but this is a Republican county and all things being equal and the party leadership being sat isfactory to the voters, a Republican victory was to be expected. That it was overwhelming indicates the temper of voters not only in the party but on the Democratic side as well, for It is doubtful if the official returns will show that any thing like a normal minority vote was cast for the bulk of the ticket. The Republicans elected yesterday go into office with the confidence of the people and with the responsi bility on their shoulders of seeing to it that official duties are as satis factorily performed under the new administration as they were under that just coming to a close. The results of the election are a tribute to the leadership of Lieu tenant Governor Beidleman, W. Harry Baker and those with them who are standard bearers of Re publicanism in this city and county. Never has the local government been better administered. Never has the party been more harmonious or more closely united. The Republi cans of Harrisburg and Dauphin county at large are in splendid po sition to wage a successful contest In the crucial election of 1920. By the absence of furs and the number of thin dresses to be seen on the streets, it is fair to assume that we are going to have cold weather. BOOST HARRISRURG THE curriculum of every public and private school in Harris burg without regard to grade, should provide for the teaching of a proper attitude toward the city. By this we mean that the girls and boys should be taught to know its virtues and sing its praise on all occasions end everywhere. Civic loyalty ought to be the first consideration of the good citizen and we cannot hope to have good citizens unless we teach the children the good things we know of Harrisburg. Already many of our wideawake teachers are do in* this; all should be doing it. The school children should be j made familiar with all the great public Improvements, their purpose and their results. They should be well Informed as to all that makes for civic loyalty so that as they grow older and take their places in the ranks of our citizenry they may be able to achieve still greater things for the city which stands out as a beacon light for hundreds of mu nicipalities throughout the country. Dr. Flnegan, Dr. Becht and other edncational leaders are urging the school authorities to push this form of Instruction and we have no doubt whatever that under the new order in the school activities of Pennsyl vania civic loyalty and civic interest and civic activities will have proper and intelligent consideration. But here In Harrisburg we must lad the way, and all of our people moat have been impressed during the last few years with the splendid eo-operatton of the school authori ties and the school children in every public demonstration. Their record during the war was most creditable sad their activities in peace ought to be no less so. It ought to be possible here in Harrisburg to prepare such leaflets as vil| admit of examinations, per is*. •* -4. i WEDNESDAY EVENING, haps, Jf these be wise or desirable, on the advantages and of Harrlsburg, to the end that the school children may be prepared to talk intelligently of their home city and to boost It among youn£ and old at every opportunity. And now. that the $40,000 loan Ib passed, Harrlsburg can begin to take in the airs of a real summer resort. The only thing Atlantic City will have on us are a few breakers and a lot of high prices. Has anybody seen anything lately of that old-time. ever-blooming, perennial Democratic majority In Kentucky? LOOKING AHEAD MAYOR-ELECT GEORGE A. HOVERTER, who was chosen i yesterday by n vote that I must have been very satisfactory to i him and his friends, will go into office under the most auspicious of circumstances and with opportunity for service such as has been ac- j i corded few mayors in the history lof the city. Backed by a friendly : city council, assuming h s duties just as the city is about to take another great step forward, on the eve of ! vast municipal improvements and with the confidence of the people in his good intentions, he has but to support to the limit of his ability the planks of his platform to at tain a splendid reputation for civic service in the four years of his term. Unless all signs fail or unex pected business depression interferes, this city is in for a period of growth such as it has not enjoyed since the years immediately following the ap proval of the first public improve ment loans. The Capitol is about to be enlarged, the grounds are to be developed, a great bridge ts to be built at a cost of more than three million dollars, bathing beaches and bath houses are to be constructed, ! SIOO,OOO worth of sewers are to be 1 laid, nearly a million dollars' worth ! of paving will be put down, a great j housing program is now under con- 1 siderntion and other vast Improve- ! ments of a private or semi-public character are in prospect. Every j indication is for boom times ' ahead. And that moans opportunity ; for civic betterment, which can be accomplished easily when the city is growing and money is plentiful. The new mayor and city council ■ go into office familiar with the de- j talis of city government and will ; need to waste no time in picking up loose ends laid down y predecessors, i They will be able at once to begin J the great work the voters have en- , trusted to them. The people have j shown themselves ready to do their full part. They have provided the money. They have elected experi- j enced men to office. They will ex- j pect much of the city government i in the next four years. Seems to us we see looming up ahead a 1920 Republican majority that! is growing like the proverbial snow- : ball. RED CROSS IN PEACE TTTHAT the Red Cross meant in yV the war need not be impressed upon the mind of any intelli gent person. That chapter will illumine the pages of history until time shall be no more. But what the great organization built up in a world crisis is to mean In peace depends largely upon the response of the American people to the present appeal. Dr. Stockton Axson, the national secretary of the Red Cross, gave a Harrisburg audience an inspiring picture of the work accomplished and a companion word etching of [ the opportunities for still greater service in healing the world wounds and safeguarding the health of the American people by removing the menace of preventable disease. He impressively described the desolation of homes by the invasion of tuber culosis, the awful mortality of babies, the unnecessary deaths from diseases that may be wiped out and the unsanitary conditions which threaten whole communities. To this task the Red Cross will now devote its energies, making effective the ef ficient forces and instrumentalities built tip during the war activities and duplicating in peace its unsur passed record in the war." It's a call to service which will be answered wherever men and women and children understand the meaning of the word, and in this good old town we shall be greatly surprised to see anything less than a hundred per cent, response in the campaign for 4 8,000 members and $30,000 cash to finish the job and carry on. Those Massachusetts figures show very plainly that the American people are not going to stand any nonsense Irom the small radical minority which has been making such a lot of noise of late. PATRIOTIC PENXA. IMPRESSIVE figures supplied by the War History Commission of the State show that Pennsyl vania raised more than ten per cent, of the total amount of money sub scribed by the entire Nation for the various war loans —four Liberty and one Victory. Pennsylvania's per capita subscription to each loan was far greater than the per capita sub scription of the Nation. According to these authoritative figures the individual Pennsylvanlan averaped about eighty dollars worth of bonds more than the average American on all five loans. This re markable showlflg is a further argu ment in favor of the State closing up every demand growing out of the war In the same patriotic Way, that our record may be complete in every respect. This means that we ought to provide quickly the balance neces sary for the Harrisburg memorial to the soldiers, sailors and marines, to take care of the balance necessary for the Red Cross in the war and for the several other Incidental matters that ought to be wiped out through the co-operation of all the people. Same old 'coon, and mighty fat and sassy at that. politico Ov By the E\-Committeeman 1 ' i.I i ■ ■ " Experience in the campuign that ; ended yesterday is going to have a i good bit of effect upon the elections 1 five years hence. For several years or more there has been d'scussion about changing the offices to be l sent before the people and the last two or three years have developed pronounced dissatisfaction with the 1 nonpartisan election law. It is probable that when the State commission to study and recom- ! mend changes to the Constitution of Pennsylvania is assembled, as it will ' be within the next month in Harris- | burg, that some suggestions for i changes in elections will be present- ! ed. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh | there have been movements made to take certain county offices out of 1 the domain of popular election and I to make them appointive. The Con- ! stitution of 1873 specified various such offices as elective, but things j have moved so fast in the scheme ; of government since those days that j I many believe it would be better not I to put such officers before the vot ! eis, while the fact that many offices ; have been created by legislative en ; nctment since and made appointive is also having its effect. Thanks to the activities of the i last four or five Legislatures the laws pertaining to cities, boroughs, | townships and school districts .have ] : been reduced to codified form, but ' j those relating to county offices j j would fill books. Some officers are ; j still elected by virtue of provincial | ! enactment and while in some coun- j , l ies one man holds one office, in others he may hold four or five. —ln the course of an interesting I discussion ot' the future of the non- j partisan law George J. Brennan says < in the Philadelphia Inquirer that j men "potential in State politics" op- i pose the repeal. Mr. Brennan writes: "Former Governor Wm. A. Stone. ' who is Prothonotary of the Supreme I and Superior Courts, is strongly of I the opinion that the nonpartisan J ballot law for the nomination and | election of judges in Pennsylvania I should be repealed. He believes that in expressing this opinion he ' voices the sentiment of the judiciary ' and a large majority of the members j of the bar. Experience has demon- ! stratcd that a candidate for judge j is frequently called upon to make : a strenuous canvass for votes in or- | der to secure a nomination and that ' in many instances the expense inci- j dent to such a campaign is much | more than the average lawyer can : afford to bear. Moreover, tactics J have been resorted to by many can- j didates which a member of the bar j with judicial temperament and re- j spect for the ethics of the profession j would not countenance. Protho- j notary Stone gave as an explanation of the unwillingness of judges sit- | ting upon the common pleas bench I to accept appointment from the Governor to a vacancy on the Su perior Court or the Supreme Court, for that matter, the fact that such appointment would be for but a short tenure and that the appointee would be called upon to submit his name to a vote of the citizens of the State not only for the nomination, but possibly also for election, for the full term of the office to which he was honored and then be subjected to the harassments and annoyances which a free-for-all contest might involve." —lt is sa'd that E. A. Van Val kenburg was one of the big factors i.i keeping the nonpartisan judicial act on the books last session. In all probability a drive to repeal the second class city nonpartisan act ! will be due In 1921. —Before very long Governor I Sproul will have to fill the vacancy I on the Superior Court bench result- | ing from the death of Judge J. • Henry Williams, of Philadelphia. I and the successor to his appointee will be elected next November for the full term of ten years, the nom- I ination to be made at the primary 1 election next April. At the same primary the voters will be called I upon to make nomination for suc cessor to Chief Justice J. Hay Brown, of Lancaster, whose term on the Supreme Court bench expires next year. —There were two very interest ing and significant things connected with the Philadelphia election. One was that Congressman J. Hampton Moore said that he was very well pleased with the good feeling mani fested toward him all over Phila delphia and the other was ine sug gestion of Murdoch Kenrick, the Moore campaign manager, that peo ple should display the American flag on election day. The Kenrick idea came pretty late, but at the same time it appeared to be very popular. —Judge William H. Keller is Hie first Lancaster countian to be elected to the superior court bench. He was appoint-, d last winter and his nomination was made at a. primary at which he polled over half a mil lion votes, with only 156 scattering against him. This is a remarkable showing and the voting yesterday was probably as notable. —The State Bureau of Municipali ties will compile a list of all bond elections which were approved by the voters yesterday. It is believed that when all of the boroughs and school districts are heard from the aggregate of the loans authorized will run high in the millions. —Sharon will become a third class city in January and in all probability Norristown and Greens burg will soon begin to think the same way. —Election of Judge C. D. Cope land, of the Westmoreland orphans' court, as common please Judge means that Governor William C. Sproul will have an appointment to make. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore is getting complimentary in his column In the Evening Public Ledger. He has this to say: "Two interesting figures in the political world who never fail to keep posted on State conditions are Harry S. McDevitt, the Governor's secretary, and W. Harry Baker, the secretary of the Republican Slate Committee. Both of these live wires are as fa miliar with men and things in Har risburg as they are in Philadelphia, and neither of them slights the rest of the State. McDevitt, who holds on to his Philadelphia law office, keeps close tab on the Governor here and at the Capitol, and is an encyclopedia of official life. Harry Baker has his ear to the ground from one end of the year to the other, and not infrequently keeps the wires busy between Harrisburg. Philadelphia and Washington. Baker, moreover, is the proud dlrec- I tor of the only institution of its kind In this section of the country, a Re- I publican State headquarters actually owned by the State Committee." HARRISBURGId9@b TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A MAN MAKING A SELECTION OF FRENCH PASTRY By BRIGGS WAITER BRIMSS COs/FV3£D BY lisi DEC? TMOU6HT .ST!LL trM /* TRAY OF paltry ARRAV OF COLOR (^.UAMOARY AND i>64(6NJS POI NT S AT an FCELS A "BtT DECIDES To AWO WISHES HE ESPECI ALLY PRETTy EMBARRASSED ANJD /AT" IT* HAD CHOSENJ ONE. WATER AUSO INSPECTS CQMFECT/ON I SOMfE. OTHER ONE POINTS ANO SEEN\S * LI " .SURPRISED AT SELECTION The Community Center [From Kansas City Times] The little town of Basehor in Leavenworth County is planning for a community center house, accord ing to a news item in The Star yes terday. It is proposed to build a community house including a high school, an auditorium and an ex position building in one. Basehor has started on the right road to the-community center idea. The movement in that community should be watched by every Kansas neighborhood. A community house should fill every need of the com munity, educational, religious, agri cultural and social. In addition to the plan of haviflg a school, audi- j torium and exposition building in one, it still would be belter if Hnse hor could induce the different churches of the community to enter into the movement for a building which would be adequate for all church purposes as well. Every community has one or two churches, usually one or two more than is actually necessary to meet the re quirements of the community. One part of the community attends one church, another part of the com munity travels a mile or two further to attend another church. One church may be a blessing to a com munity and two churches become a burden. The community center spirit will inspire unity of community action. It will give organization and direc tion to a united community effort in all things. A few years ago when Dekalb county, 111., built a com munity high school by uniting two ! school districts, the farmers who were leaders of the movement, were I roundly abused for their efforts to "destroy the neighborhood spirit" . i because they desired to unite in a I larger community circle. But after ' the high school was erected, and |an auditorium provided for all ! neighborhood meetings, a center for all community gatherings, the De kalb county neighborhood found I itself holding agricultural exhibits, community stock sales and conduct ing community theatricals and moving picture shows. It was forced to add baseball grounds and tennis courts and football fields in order to provide athletic sports for the voung people of the community. And the results showed first, an awakened community spirit that worked wonders in the way of neighborhood improvement, and second, that the young people of the neighborhood lost their keen ness for visits to the neighboring cities. They found amusement and entertainment at home. It was not difficult to keep the young men and voung women on the farms. for several times the $30,000 which it cost the Dekalb county neighbor hood to build its community school and community house would the neighborhood now part with It and go back to the old conditions. , A Strike of People Edwin C. Atkinson, of Philadel phia, writing in the New York Times, says: "It would seem to me that at this time when capital and labor are having such a conflict, and when labor has become so autocratic, the great mass of the people, who are really the greatest sufferers from the conflict, should form a union similar to the labor unions in order to protect themselves. If the com mon people were properly organ ized, it seems to me they could exert an immense influence and prevent to a great extent the troubles brought about by the labor strikes. "It has been stated that the great strike at Winnipeg last summer was broken by a counterstrike of the common people. They got tired of the sufferings caused them by the strike and got together. They took a census and found that out of each fifteen persons of the population only one was a striker, so that the other fourteen were suffering for the strike of one man. So they organ ized, and then counterstruck. They told the strikers that if they or their families got sick, the doctors would not attend them and the druggists would not sell them drugs: the law yers said they would not take their cases; the butcher would not sell them meat, and the grocer would not sell them groceries. And the strike was broken almost immedi ately. The idea was taken up in other cities in Western Canada, with the same quick results. Why can not we do the same here?" When Wicked Are Destroyed And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall con sume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the bright ness of his coming.—II Thoasalonianß U. . THE SUSQUEHANNA NAVIGABLE Report by Wm. B. Gray, Major of Engineers, United States Army. Xo. 2—Reasons nml Justification for a Navigable Susquehanna. THE tranportation demands of the United States are increas ing daily, outstripping the (transportation facilities!. Nowhere is this so evident as In Pennsylvania and in the Atlantic Coast States, from Maine to Florida. We are prac tically dependent on one system of transportation, the railroad is only one string to our transportation bow. P.ccently the auto truck has been largely used, but its tonnage is limit ed, its operation cost is excessive, very few commodities can bear high trucking charges. The consuming public should not be compelled to pay excessive freight charges, when a cheap, reliable means can be sub stituted. The railroads have reach ed their limit of carrying and deliv ering capacity, without great expen diture for additional facilities. It is absolutely necessary for the con tinuous growth and prosperity of this nation that its transportation fa cilities be increased, and without de lay. Pennsylvania, supplying all the anthracite coal and almost fifty per cent, of the bituminous, requires a one hundred per cent, increase In the transportation of these products. This is equally true of steel and iron, clay, stone, cement, agricul tural and other products, the bulk of which are disposed of in the At lantic Coast States, particularly in. I Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, all of which are easily accessible by wa ter—they contain a large population and extensive industries located on tide water, navigable rivers or barge canals. The railroad freight rate to these points on coal and bulky com modities is from SI.BO to $3.00 per ton; by water the rate would be 50 cents to SI.OO per ton. How can Pennsylvania secure additional wa ter transportation and the eastern states so great a reduction on freight rates on the necessities of life? Ans wer: By making the Susquehanna river navigable. The Susquehanna river and its branches transverse the central part of the State, from north to south and from the central section westward, almost the entire length of the State. The Juniata on the The Dead Soldier to America I was young, and, O God! how I wanted to live! The whole of my life lay ahead. But my country was calling me— needed my strength. I went. Seek me now with the dead! I was young. All the world was a wine to be quaffed. Fair love led me on with a smile; But I died, and you, living, who stand in my place, Battle on!—make my dying worth while! My dreams I laid down on the Altar of Right. The blood of my youth stains the clay. Joyousness, music, hope, memory, love, In an instant I cast them away— Ay, cast them away with a song on my lips, Away with a jest and a smile, But the Goddess I fought for is lost in the gloom, Struggle on! —make my dying worth while! I followed no Laws, save the Laws of my Land. My Country I took as my bride. My leader, my lover, the all of my all. I wedded her, kissed her, and died. To you who go forward from where I left off, Though dark be the pathway each mile, The Torch I have lit will yet flame to the sky, Carry on!—make my dying worth while! —Earle T. Crooker. Modem Sunken Treasure [From the Youth's Companion.] The treasure that modern salvage ships are raising from the sea might well make those old adventurers who used to search for sunken gal leons turn in their graves with envy. In one day the salvage ship Racer got $350,000 worth of gold from the White Star uner Laurentic, which was sunk in 1917 off one of the northern headlands of Ireland. south and the west branch on the north enter the soft coal region miles apart, paralleling each other. The main river and west branch bi sect the anthracite region from north to south and from the center north east. The Conestoga branch is a considerable stream as far as Lan caster, a prosperous, industrial city, using large quantities of coal, iron and steel products, the center of the richest farming country in the United States. Penetrating into New York state, where Binghamton, El mira, Oswego, and other prosperous cities are located on the river or Its branches, within fifty miles of the New York state barge canal. The I old canal along the Chemung river, ' years ago, connected the Pennsyl vania system and the New York system of canals. About 600 miles of navigable waterways, suitable for barges up to 3,000 tons can be de veloped in the Susquehanna river system, at a reasonable cost, thor oughly practical and justifiable— thus utilizing the most considerable ' river on the Atlantic coast for navi gation, controlling its flood stages, conserving the water-flow, harness ing its energies to produce power, thereby saving fuel; developing present industries and establishing new ones, linking up the northwest and the Great Lake region with the Atlantic coast, through the proper natural route. Barges carrying iron and copper ore to the industries of Pennsylvania would return to the Great Lakes loaded with coal and manufactured products. The navi gation of the Susquehanna river is necessary to the further develop ment of the nation and of Pennsyl vania, the greatest producing State In the Union, not only the keystone of the political arch but the key stone of the industrial arch as well. The national benefits to be derived by* opening this great arteria to navigation cannot be measured in dollars and cents. It is so self evident that further talk and in vestigation is waste of valuable time. There should be an actual survey to locate dams, locks, chan nels, wharves, power plants, basins and facilities—complete the plans and start work. (To Be Continued) Industrial Villages Needed [From Architecture.] What is to become of those numerous settlements, the "Indus trial Villages" and "Garden Cities," constructed during the war by the United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, and the Department of Labor? They are better planned communities than we ever dreamed of having before the war. How are we going to keep them so? Are they to be permitted to revert to the old haphazard standards of our older cities and towns? Are not the reasons advanced in Congress for spending millions on housing industrial workers Just as pertinent now as at the time of the war? If mbre and better housing was needed then to increase produc tion, to make labor more contented and more efficient, and to stabilize both industry and labor, thereby re ducing the labor turnover and is it not now needed more than ever to accomplish these same purposes? If the war was fought for the rights of humanity, is not the Un alienable right to live in a sanitary home, where health and content ment prevail, one of the greatest of these? Upon it must rest the foun dation of that social structure which is to safeguard our democracy for posterity. Young Love Came By Young Love came by my little house, Beside the country road And lingered long without the gate To lure me to his side; Too busy I for love or vows To leave my small abode — "Some other day, another day, Come later, Love," I cried. Wide open stands my cottage door, And I beside the gate, To watch the green and lovely path That winds —away from me; For Love comes never any more, Though long and long I wait— "l've found a maid, a fairer maid, A younger matd," cries he. —Jeanne Oldfleld Pattar, in the i, New York Herald. " NOVEMBER 5, 1919. The Highest Testimony [From Kansas City Times] General Pershing's strong recom mendation of universal training as a foundation for a permanent mili tary policy for the United States is based on his patriotism, knowledge and professional experience. When he told the Joint Senate and House Military Committee that if America had not been unprepared Germany would not have ventured upon a course of aggression toward us, he revealed the whole secret of America's lack of weight in the in ternational scales throughout the period preceding the declaration of war in April, 1917. Subsequent events no doubt have taught Ger many her mistake, but there never must be a chance for any similaily inclined power to make a mistake like it. Nor must America run a like risk again. As General Per shing said, the united determination of the American people, rather than any forethought of the Government, carried our arms to success. But it was at tremendous cost and after a delay that under less favorable cir cumstances might have been fatal. Only a trained citizenship immedi ately available for emergency service can provide a national defense in the future, at the moment when it may be needed. Such a reserve is the most effective warning the country can give to foreign aggression. On the other hand, the greatest en couragement an aggressive power could receive would be the knowl edge that America would require two years to put its strength into a battle line. The civic advantages of training, as dwelt on by General Pershing, are equally beyond question. The development of physical vigor is a gain hardly to be measured, but when we remember the uncertainty of the country's mental attitude at the coming of the war we can bet ter understand the immense gain that will come with a truly national mind and a national feeing such as are bound to be the results of this school of patriotism and prepared ness. The committees that are fram ing the new army legislation can have no better guide than the com mander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force. Others may have theories. He saw military training of mind and body work out in practice. The Red Cross Call [Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph] Again the procious privilege is offered the people of our Nation— the privilege of membership in the American Red Cross, whose third roll call will begin to-morrow and end on November 11. The glorious work of this organization during the World War has endeared it to households throughout the land, for where there was suffering in body, where there was anguish In mind, there was the Red Cross with its ministering angels. It was a Red Cross nurse who eased the pain of the wounds of the soldier boy far from home and mother; it was a Red Cross nurse who whispered words of comfort in the ears of the boy whose eyes would soon close forever; it was a Red Cross nurse who penned the farewell message to the loved ones back home. And by day and by night, from the stricken thousands, went up prayers invoking the blessing of God on the Red Cross. The war is over, but not the work of the Red Cross, which now enters on a campaign of help for the suf- I fering and needy in the United States. Its activities will bo direct ed into such channels as public health and welfare, disaster, relief, home nursing and service, neigh borhood welfare, first aid instruc tion, Junior Red Cross, etc. Here, indeed, is a program of helpfulness that appeals to every true Ameri can, man, woman and child, and everyone can join in this nation wide labor of love by answering "Here!" to the roll call of the Red Cross. Next to a miniature flag of our country, the most sacred emblem an American can wear is the sign of the Red Cross! Wear it! Why the Objection? [From the Paterson (N. J.) Morning Call] One of the questions propounded to President Wilson at San Fran cisco on Wednesday, was as follows: "Is it true that under the league of nations foreign countries can order the sending of American troops to foreign countries?" To this President Wilson replied: "It is not. The right of Congress to determine such questions is in no wise impaired." If this is so why should there be any strenuous objection to having the Senate state this in specific terms la a reservation to the .treatirt Harottng (Eljat It used to be a common saying at Steelton some years ago that when a man in a certain branch or the great steel works yelled "let go" in his native language it meant "hold on In the tongue of men near him und was unintelligible to others. Modern mill management does not stand for uny such conditions and there are few parts of the Bethle hem plant down the river where warning signs and words are not understood. The men have either to learn the language of the works or get other jobs, to sum up the I policy rather bluntly. Now the | point is that if the head of 'a mill can unscramble a labor force so that the men can be made to under stand enough plain English to work and save their necks and not wreck the machinery the problem can also bo solved in Harrisburg. It means work, getting down among the foreigners, finding out their nation ality, why they oante here, why they stay and what they think is wrong. Every foreigner has a grievance, say newspaper reporters who have worked among them. Most of the troubles are more or less imaginary, but they stick. And precious few cf the aliens understand our scheme of government except as it occasion ally relates to a squire or a con stable and too often have they been exploited by minions of the law. Americanization is going to bo a good bit of a problem in Harrisburg and Steelton in the next few years. More than once the waters were troubled during the war and cnly effort that is unknown kept the steel strike from spreading here. So that to-day opportunities for Americanization really abound in Harrisburg and its daughter borough. Just as an instance of what the problem really means it may be mentioned that one day E. Allen Drawbaugh, principal of the Fothergill school in the lower end of Steelton, wrote a story for the Harrisburg Telegraph in which ho counted children of thirty-two or three nationalities in one school. Bringing it nearer home there have been compiled in the last few years some figures on Harrisburg's own schools that are enough to make people think. Austin Miller, the at tendance officer of the Harrisburg School Board, who has made a study of the pupils, says that his last count shows that there are in the schools of the State Capital, children whose parents represent twenty-two na tions, while the foreign born chil dren actually in our schools come from fourteen nations. In one room in a Harrisburg school it is said there are eight or nine nationalities represented. Mr. Miller figured out that the foreign-born children come from these stocks: Russian, Hungarian, Italian, German, Polish, English, Austrian, Greek, Rou manian, Bulgarian, Welsh,' Scotch, Porto Rican and Canadian. No at tempt was made to divide up the Russian branches, but it is safe to say that throe or four were repre sented. In addition to all these, Steelton has Syrians, Swedes, Ser bians, Turks and Macedonians rep resented in schools now. The old German, French, Swiss and Scanda navian families have been largely assimilated, but there is enough to make watching the melting pot a problem. The Harrisburg Public Library, which has just arranged a table for members of the American Legion to contain books relative to the war and the literature of the organiza tion to the men in khaki, has been specializing in books on citizenship as a means of helping men to be come naturalized. The Library several years ago became a partici pant in the Americanization move ment and many of the readers who thronged the place were given ad vice in study and also furnished with the very books that they need ed to get a good grasp on what con stitutes a citizen of a common wealth and a republic. Miss Alice R. Eaton, the librarian, in selecting books for the children's school li braries, has chosen many which deal with early American history, the founding of the republic, its de velopment and the men who made it, all told in easily understandable stories. These school libraries have been a groat work toward inculcat ing the right kind of ideas in the minds of the juvenile readers, many of whom are of foreign birth, but who are already as intensely patrio tic as the descendants of men who fought in the Pennsylvania Line. One of the activities of the Dauphin County Historical Society has been the assembling of data relative to local history and a plan is now being considered whereby the basic facts of lower Susque hanna valley history can be brought to the notice of students in the more advanced schools of the city. There never has been printed a history of Dauphin or its neighbor counties along the wide branching river that could be put in the so-called "popu lar class." The histories are all more or less ponderous and filled with detail. The dates, the events, the economic reason, Harrisburg's relation to the State government, the part of the county and its neigh bors in building up the State and in defense of its liberties could he gathered and made available for study .at comparatively little effort. In some western States' counties, whose history is hardly more in point of time than that of Steelton, the beginnings and the share of the county in affairs of its State are taught in schools through local en terprise. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Homos A. Flint, chairman of the Allegheny Red Cross, is urging display of more posters to arouse people to their duty. ... —George M. Henderson, Phila delphia banker, has been made foreman of the November grand "'"'il'George W. Maxey. whose judi cial campaign in Lackawanna at tracted so much attention, has been district attorney for some time and is well known here. —Congressman J • Hampton Moore, new mayor of Philadelphia, used to be a real estate reporter. C. G. Garner, prominent Hazel ton mining man, is arranging a series of mining lectures for his district during the winter so that people will better understand the business. _ . - —Judge H. W. Cummings, of Northumberland, has been assisting the Luzerne judges this week. t DO YOU KNOW 1 That llarrtsburg steel is used in buildings in Japan? HISTORIC HARRISMJRO ■—The first newspape* in Harris burg is generally believed to have been printed on Second street near Walnut.