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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."
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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
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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.