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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, IUI9
Bear your otcn burdens first; after
that try to help carry those of other
people.—Oeorge Washington.
THE BIGGEST VICTORY
WHILE the general trend of the
country back to Republican
principles is highly gratify
ing to the millions who desire a
change of administration in national
affairs, the victory of Governor Cool
idge in Massachusetts over Richard
H. Long, the Democratic candidate
for the gubernatorial chair, is a tri
umph not only for the party but for
lovers of good government every
where.
Not all the votes cast for Gover
nor Coolidge were those of Repub
licans, although, of course, the great
bulk of his support came from his
own party, the issue being law and
order against the right of an organ
ized minority to terrorize the com
munity.
Governor Coolidge took a cour
ageous stand at the time of the
police strike in Boston. Nobody ques
tioned for a moment that he would
use the utmost force of constituted
authority to break up the illegal
walkout of men who have no busi
ness to owe allegiance to any but
their own duly chosen superiors and
the law they are sworn to uphold.
Richard H. Long, the Democrat,
took the opposite side. He cham
pioned those who believe in the right
of organization against the Govern
ment and his position was supported
not only by well-meaning but mis
taken Democrats too supinely at
tached to their own party to de
sert it in the cause of righteousness,
but of all those who would over
throw the Government and of those
others who wanted a renewal of the
lawlessness which enabled thugs and
burglars in Boston to loot the prop
erty of others without interference.
The re-election of Governor Cool
idge is, as President Wilson very
properly said, a great victory for
law and order. It could not have
been otherwise. The American peo
ple love their Government and have
confidence in their institutions. The
small minority of aliens and others
who have been striving to destroy
them for their own selfish purposes
will read a lesson from the Massa
chusetts elections that will gR e them
pause for thought.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was elect
ed to the Legislature in New York
and greeted a new boy baby in his
household on the same day. He de
feated his opponent in the latter s
home district. Quentin will be the
name of the newest son. in honor of
the young aviator uncle killed in
France.
A DEEPER RIVER
MAJOR WILLIAM B.GRAY'S of
ficial report as a United States
Army engineer on making the
Susquehanna river navigable, a re
port that is being printed from day
to-day on this page of the Telegraph,
Is a most interesting showing of the
possibilities of the Susquehanna
river as a transportation agency.
Major Gray has evidently probed
deeply into the subject and his facts j
and figures are so comprehensive
that even the doubter must be con
vinced of the feasibility of the
proposition. Mayor-elect Moore, of
Philadelphia, has also been a stu
dent of the Susquehanna river's
possibilities as part of the inland
waterways system and he has on
more than one occasion in Congress
advanced arguments of a practical
nature concerning the use of our
own noble river as a relief for the
congested railroad system of the
Atlantic seaboard,
"We are rapidly coming to the day
when the proposition to make the
Susquehanna navigable is going be
yond the purely academic stage and
■hall become a real problem for the
serious consideration of the Na
tional and State authorities. Har
risburg will occupy always a promi
nent place on the rail and water
systems and the investigation of
Major Gray, at the direction of the
Department, is certain to
THURSDAY EVENING*
crystallize sentiment rapidly In sup
port of this great project.
The canalization of the river is
quite a different proposition from
the original plan of great dams for
full-width levels. The plan pro
posed is quite feasible from an en
gineering Standpoint and will un
doubtedly interest those who are
familiar with such undertakings.
Samuel Gompers has been a force
ful leader of labor in the United
States, but in recent months he has
manifested symptoms of weakness in
fundamentals. These lapses suggest
fear of the radical clement at a time
when his very position demands
courage and outspoken refusal to be
stampeded into the doing of things es
sentially injurious to the cause which
ihe represents. For instance, he per
j sists in aiding the liquor interest
J when he must know that labor has no
■ worse l'oe. When he declares that
j labor unrest and discontent are due
Ito the cutting out of booze by the
j prohibition enactments he overlooks
entirely the empty jails, the sober
and industrious workingmen and the
contented apd happy families of
these same riien all over the United
States. Gompers has no excuse for
assuming that labor is first and last
a liquor bulwark.
LEGION SUNDAY v
IT IS entirely fitting, as pointed
out by . National Headquarters
| of the American Legion, that
J Sunday, November 9, be designated
as .American Legion Sunday and
that clergymen throughout the
United States be requested to de
vote part or the whole of their ser
mons on that day to the ideals for
which the American Legion stands.
With the anniversary of the ces
sation of hostilities on the western
front but a week off, our minds
outwardly revert to that glorious
day when the guns ceased to roar
and death no longer stared millions
in the face.
Much has been written of the
American Legion and its purposes
and right to existence are pretty
generally understood. Such an as
sociation of men commands the re
spect of all Americans, without re
gard to party, creed or sect, and
the ministers of Harrisburg could
choose no better text for next Sun
day than 100 per cent. Americanism,
for which this body of ex-soldiers
and sailors stand.
Harrisburg is about due for a real
exposition of local manufactures. We
represent in this community the
ideals of the most progressive Ameri
can city, but we also are proud of
our industrial and manufacturing in
terests. Let's show them.
SHAME UPON ALL SUCH
SHAME upon all who harshly re
buff those who approach them
for Red Cross memberships!
There may be those in Harrisburg
who cannot afford to give to the
Red Cross, but they are few and the
c&mpaigners will respect all such
if they plainly state their case. Nor
can there be any offense if those who
mistakenly decline to give for other
reasons politely refuse.
But there is absolutely no excuse
for boorishness.
The women who are soliciting are
giving their time in a good cause.
The least that those who are ap
proached can do is to treat them
politely and with all the consider
ation the beneficent character of
their mission demands.
Needless to say, the vast majority
of the good people of Harrisburg
feel that way about it and are most
gracious in their reception of the
lied Cross women.
The small minority who treat them
roughly deserve all the publicity
they are receiving.
Republicans of Harrisburg and the
county of Dauphin have arranged for
a stiff party alignment in 19:20. Back
to sanity and the solid ground of real
Americanism.
A LOCAL ARMORY
AS CERTAIN as day follows
night is the coming of a real
armory for the military units
which will be established here on
the reorganization of the National
Guard. Co-operating with the State
the city will do its part in properly
housing its military forces.
But it may be Able to do more.
Through the erection of a proper
armory building, such appointments
might be provided as would take
carb of the men of the several ex
service organizations, which are now
without proper quarters in the city.
In short, it is believed an armory
structure of the right sort could be
made a great military and social
center and with this end in view
consideration is now being given to
the project, so that the State Armory-
Board may have submitted to it
within reasonable time some propo
sition that will appeal to that official
body and get action on the Harris
burg armory that is now obviously
needed.
No longer is argument necessary to
enlist the interest of the people in
the Red Cross drives. A remarkable
record of achievement in the war has
drawn the attention of the people to
peace-time achievements of this
great organization of mercy and
helpfulness so that the membership
campaign now under way ought to
be concluded without any great effort
and meet in every way the expecta
tions of th'ose charge.
And one William Cameron Sproul
has reason to feci good over the sub
stantial and significant vindication of
law and order in Massachusetts. His
speeches for Governor Coolidge were
utterances worthy a courageous of
ficial and red-blooded American.
Kentucky has Joined the growing
phalanx of sturdy supporters of the
fundamental principles of the
America handed down to us by tha
fathers. And still they come.
"■po&ttco LK
By the Ex-Committe -man
Official count of the vote cast at
Tuesday's election in Pennsylvania
begins to-day at noon in the courts
of the sixty-seven counties and from
what State officials say they do not
anticipate as prolonged counting as
occurred in the primary contests
this year. The count will be under
supervision of the courts, whereas,
except where county commissioners
were candidates, the primary count
was in charge of commissioners.
The only returns which will have
to be certified to the Secretary of
the Commonwealth this year are
those for superior court judge and
the various judicial results. The
Stute will commission various
county officers.
A number of inquiries as to the
regulations for th£ primary of 19:10
which will take place May 18, have
already been made at the bureau of
elections in the State Department.
-—General impressions of the re
sults of the election in Pennsyl
vania on Tuesday are that the Re
publicans won where it counted.
Ninety fights, either in cities or in
counties, were out of the ordinary
and victory in them meant import
ant political advantage. The Repub
licans appear to have won most of
those which really amounted to
something. They recovered control
of some county offices which Demo
crats had taken from them and
won offices in Columbia, Carbon,
Centre and the like, which used to
be regarded as in the same class as
Berks, Pike and York. It may be
remarked in passing that the show
ing made by the Republicans in the
drive for county offices in York
county was one of the most spirited
in the State and attracted wide at
tention. The Democrats were
thoroughly alarmed and appear to
have won in some sections by ap
pealing to ancestral sentiments' of
voters whose forefathers used to
fight for Jackson.
-—The victory won by A. W. Duy
and his organization in Columbia
countv is going to be talked about.
Taking up Lieutenant Abe Genearia
the Republican organization elected
him as recorder and register in
spite of all the orchard militia and
hedgerow corps that the old Demo
cratic clans in that county could i
muster. Congressman Lesher, or j
who ever happens to be the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress in the
Sixteenth District next year, will
have the battle of his life.
—lt may be remarked in passing
that Cumberland county will here
after be as staunch a Republican
bastion as Dauphin. The Cumber
land county election was one in
which the Democrats of every fac
tion seemed to get together in an
effort to retrieve their prestige, as
did certain Democratic leaders in
Dauphin county. They were de
cisively defeuted and sent to the
realm of history.
—The Democracy of Pennsyl
vania does not present a very invit
ing machine upon which to enter a
presidential race. For the last two
or three years the machine has been
showing 1 signs of wear and tear and
last year was shaken so that it
jingled and rattled in every joint.
Lately it has been disturbed by in
ternal combustion strongly sugges
tive of the quadrennial indigestion
that it used to suffer In past de
cades. And now it is standing on
flat tires with a lot of dents and
cracks which developed Tuesday.
In Philadelphia the factional fight
ing kept down the hoped for
Democratic vote, while in Alle
gheny county the Houlahan and
Myer forces are still saying tilings
about each other.' The organiza
tions in Northampton. Berks and
Luzerne counties are on an armed
peace basis and in Cambria county
there is open warfare. In Erie one
dominant faction will have none of
the Palmer leadership, while the
rout of the Democratic forces which
endeavored to stage a comeback in
Harrisburg has attracted State
wide attention. Chester, North
umberland, Schuylkill, Lackawanna
and other counties where Democrats
used to stand a chance have gone
Republican almost bodily, while the
story of Cumberland in this decade
is that of Westmoreland in years
gone by. Westmoreland used to be
called the "Star ( of the West" by
Democrats when Cumberland was
called "Old Mother" and the
Juniata valley was as likely to go
Democratic as Dauphin was Repub
lican.
—ln a short time the Democrats
will have to convene a board of
survey to see what the old machine
will cost to rehabilitate for the
1920 contest, especially when there
is a real live aspirant for the honor
very much in the limelight and
eager to emulate James Buchanan's
efforts for the White House.
—The sticker campaign launched
in behalf of Judge D. J. Snyder in
Westmoreland county seems to have
been hit by the frost. There were
not many used and Judge Copelund
was an easy winner, thanks to the
vote he got at the primary.
—ln Allegheny county thousands
of votes were cast on the Prohibition
ticket for Col. S. D. Foster for county
commissioner, although he had been
nominated on that ticket without hi?
knowledge and issued a statement a
few days uel'ors the election that
having bean a candidate for Re
publican nomination and having
been defeated. lie would support the
Republican ticket.
—Some sticker and handwriting
votes were cast for Judge H. G.
Wasson in Allegheny ounty, but not
enough to make any difference.
—Scranton has two women school
directors. One of those elected a
few years ago was re-elected.
—Congressman J. Hampton Moore
is beng industriously interviewed on
almost every municipal subiect un
der the sun just now and much
speculation is being indulged in re
garding his cabinet. He says he is
much interested now in the prepara
tion of plans for real waterways and
for Republican Congressmen next
year.
—Appointment of William B.
Linn, the noted Philadelphia lawyer,
to be judge <?f the superior court,
was a personal selection with the
Governor and was a surprise. Phila
delphians had not predicted it and
the announcement created somewhat
of a flutter. Mr. Linn has high stand
ing at the bar of Philadelphia and
has frequently appeared here in
cases.
—Just exactly what some people
intended to accomplish by their cru
sading against the Republican ticket
in Lancaster county is as hard to
understand as the hopes of tbe peo
ple who undertook to buck the Re
publican ticket in Dauphin county.
The whole Republican ticket went
through In Lancaster county just us
it did here.
—The collapse of the Democratic
organization In Heading Is a theme
of much discussion and one. of the
usual reorganization moves will be
made. It is very evident that the
Democrats turned In for the Socialist
candidate in many instances.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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Hand-Made Cowboy Boots
The largest hand-made cowboy
bootshop in America is at Olathe,
Kansas. The custom of making
hand-made boots, however, is be
coming a lost art, the owner de
clares. Within another ten years he
visualizes machines taking over the
thread-needle-thimble combination.
. Forty-three years ago H. C. Hyer
came to Kansas from Illinois and
got a job as teacher in the shoe
making shop at the deaf and dumb
school at Oiathe. He conceived the
idea of setting up a shop of his own,
and hung out a shingle sign: "Cow
boy boots made here." To-day a
gold-lettered sign has taken its
place. The shop, instead of being a
one-man establishment, has eighty
employes. Close to 15,000 pairs of
boots are turned out annually.
"But aren't the days of the cow
boys passing and don't you have
trouble drumming up trade?" Mr.
Hyer was asked. The old man shook
his head.
"Plenty of cowboys," he said.
"The trouble is'labor. Young Amer
icans are not learning the shoe
making trade. We must depend on
foreigners. Few of them are com
ing our way. Our orders for cow
hoy boots are constantly increasing.
No, they are not all for cowboys.
Some are for 'cowgirls,' the kind
that ride fine horses down city
boulevards."
THE MOVIE
The movie is the poor man's friend;
It helps him many quarters spend;
It saves him nightly worry, for
He knows just where his children
are..
And evenings when he wants to see
And chat with all his family
He knows, close to his habitat.
The place where he can find them
at.
The movie may not be the show
To which Tired Business Men would
go,
But with what wide appeal it bids
Hope r'se in Tired Grade School
Kids.
Ofttimes when studies crush them
quite
The murmured words-"Bill Hart to
night"
Will make their drooping, spirits
rise, .
Their worried parents to surprise. (
How often hath the movie ta'en
From over-eager Youth the strain.
How many nervous systems rash
Has Charlie Chaplin saved from
smash!
For girls, swashbuckler matinees.
For T. B. M.'s the girlie plays,
But first place safe the movie holds
For tired, o'er-studious 10-year-olds!
—LEE SHIPPEY.
Governor's Qualifications
"Girard," in his column of the
Philadelphia Press, comments on the
availability of Governor Sproul as a;
presidential candidate thusly:
"As a businessman and legislator
the Governor has had a remarkable
record for one only fifty years old.
"He was a Pennsylvania Senator
for more than twenty years the
largest record of any man in our
State. Senate in the 130 years of its
history since tho adoption of the
Constitution.
"He is a successful businessman —
some folks call him a millionaire.
"Barring McKinlcy. no President
in half a century had as intimate a
knowledge of legis'ative procedure
as Governor Sproul.
"Cleveland, Taft, Roosevelt and
Wilson had far less training in that
line. Grant had none at all."
Lying German Photograph
[From the Youth's Companion.]
Among the postcards widely circu
lated in Germany and Belgium in
1914 to justify the killing of Bel
gian civilians there was one that
purported to show Belgiai.s not. in
uniform firing on approaching Ger
man soldiers from the windows of
Lou vain University. Aside from the
improbability that anyone took a
photograph of such an affair, ,11 is
interesting to know that there are
no windows on the side cf the uni
versity that appears in the picture;
but the caid did its lying work.
Pacific Cable Plans Progress
Arrangements for laying the new
American Pacific cable are going
forward without a hitch, according
to George Edward Ward, vice-pre
sident of Commeriaal Cable Com
panv, who arrived home from Eng
land last Thursday. He said things
would move rapidly as soon as the
Jnpanese Government provided for
the landing of the cable in Japan.
Clarence H. Mackay, president of
the company, who went-abroad re
cently, is in negotiation with the
Japanese Government relative to
landing the new line.
THE SUSQUEHANNA NAVIGABLE
Report by Wm. B. Gray, Major of Engineers, United States Army.
No. 3—Railroads Reach Limit
RAILROAD transportation is be
coming more expensive; many
products, raw and manufactur
ed, are unable to bear the increas
ing rail freight charges. The causes
are higher wages, fuel, equipment,
materials for construction and main
tenance, increased personnel, made
necessary by legislation and in
dustrial conditions. The develop
ment of existing railroads in Penn
sylvania is almost prohibited by the
high cost of labor and materials,
and the value of additional rights
of-way; farm land adjoining the rail
roads has grown in value by reason
of the proximity of the railroad.
In cities and towns, land adjoining
the railroads is usually occupied by
industries or homes, the removal or
alteration of which to make room
for additional tracks, would involve
valuable land and buildings and ex
penses that are almost prohibitive.
To leave the present locations and
circle around to avoid cities and
towns is not always practical or pos
sible and must be measured by the
rule of cost. Every additional track
means additional freight yards for
storage and classification, more
freight cars, more locomotives, larger
terminals. The experience of the
last few years has proven conclusive
ly that the railroads have reached
Foch and Bolshevism
"Bolshevism," Marshal Foch said,'
in his quick emphatic manner, "is
a state of mind under which the peo
ples of the defeated countries are
laboring. The gilded promises made
to the people in these countries by
the autocratic powers which ruled
them, that out of the war they would
annex riches, and the failure of these
powers to lead the people to the
wealth and luxury which they crave,
have placed these poor people in a
state of demoniacal disillusionment
and frenzy, resulting in their kill
ing and destroying everything in
their paths in their abject hopeless
ness.
"This condition," continued the
Marshal, "Is a natural result of the
chagrin and disappointment of van
quished militaristic nations. But it
is certain this condition will pass.
When these people realize that the
victors in the war were fighting for
a noble and just cause, the salvation
of civilization threatened by their
selfish masters, they will recognize
that the war ended in the only pos
sible way it could have ended, and
in the best way for them as well as
for the peoples of the other nations
of the world. It is Just as it is in
life. A patient who has been ill,
when he passes the crisis is not yet
recovered. He must first pass
through a long period of convales
cence before he fully recovers his
strength and can again fill his
proper place in the world."
Noah Built It Himself
[From the Dallas News.]
Noah did the biggest piece of
work in the shortest time that was
ever done by any man. But Noah
worked on the job himself. He didn't
build the ark by contract, on the
cost-plus basis. He built It himself
and boarded himself. If Noah had
asked for bids and let the job to
the lowest and best bidder, excusing
the contractor for loss of time con
sequent upon inclement weather and
labor disturbances, the flood would
have come and caught Noah and his
family without protection.
When we come to consider the
consequences of such an outcome we
can see how grateful we ought to
be to Noah that he worked as a
workman instead of standing off to
one side like a dodgasted capitalist.
Coal Strike Viewpoints
A coke producer who is visiting
in New York said yesterday that he
believed that any strike started in
the coal-producing regions would
fall at the outset if the Government
placed troops at the principal pro
duction plants. He asserted that in
many of the Pennsylvania mines the
miners are not unionized and sev
eral times have dealt harshly with
labor organizers who have been sent
into their localities. Paralleling this
view was that of a Pittsburgh manu
facturer of steel and coal mining
machinery, who gave it as his opin
ion that in this strike the men who
do go out will be defeated by the
trend of public opinion, which is
against further nationwide labor
trouble*
the limit of their ability to move
freight promptly. The remedy must
not be in curtailing production, thus
reducing freights; but in adding a
a safe cheaper, reliable and prompt
method of transportation. TJie
freight taken care of by waterways
would assist the railroads by lessen
ing freight congestion and permitting
more uniform train movements, A
navigable Susquehanna would as
sure a certain and an adequate coal
supply to the eastern coast, the
Great Lakes and the Northwest, at
a much lower freight rate. The con
struction of the larger Chesapeake
and Delaware canal and the com
pletion of the inland waterways from
Maine to the Gulf will shorten the
route to Philadelphia, New York
and the East. The production of
power will encourage manufactur
ing, cheapen trolley line operation,
furnish electric power and Rights, at
lesser rates, and in this way save
fuel. Flood control will save annual
losses in life and property.
The construction of a navigable
Susquehanna will employ a large
number of men and equipment over
a period of several years. The main
tenance and operation of the locks,
dams, power plants, dredging the
channel, building and operating
barges will give permanent employ
ment to several thousand skilled and
unskilled labor.
[To Be Continued.]
Book Notes
D. Appleton & Co. announce that
they are about to publish J. George
Frederick's "Modern Salesmanship,"
which is said to be the first book to
deal with sales problems from the
managerial poinit of view and to deal
with them systematically. The au
thor is listed as president of the
Business Bourse, former editor of
Advertising and Selling Magazine
and former managing editor of
Printers' Ink, so that he should have
a very thorough knowledge of his
subject and more than a fair amount
of skill in presenting it.
E. Temple Thurston knows a great
deal about woman. Also he is a
married man. Of course, the two
facts may not have anything to do
with each other Besides, it was
about the first that we were going
to speak. Tou can tell that Mr.
Thurston is versed in the ways and
wiles, of the "softer sex" just as
soon as you open his newest boofc,
"The World of Wonderful Reality."
On almost every page there are bits
as good as this or better: "The
quality of sacrifice in a woman, once
she comes by an understanding of
love, is something that is past analy
sis or calculation." "No woman who
is really brave ever cries unless the
situation demands it of her. She
[will make funny grimaces, or she
will take violent interests, sometimes
she will even give you the biggest
of her smiles. But tears are things
no brave or sensible woman ever
wastes. They are her only real
economy."
Slavery For All
[From the Ohio State Journal.]
This newspaper operates with
union labor, would not change con
ditions if the option were presented,
and hence can have no bias against
unionism.
A fair judgment on the conten
tions of the union leaders as devel
oped at the conference in Washing
ton brings the inevitable conclusion
that their aim is to compel every
being in the world who works to
pay tribute to an inside coterie of
union despots.
Collective bargaining sounds fair,
but pushed to its ultimate end means
that all producers of anything would
necessarily belong to a universal
union, and that a few self-perpetuat
ing leaders would be the rulers of a
new slavery in which every human
action would be by rote.
The kings, dukes and lords of
unionism would then hold a world
enslaved. \
War Risk Insurance
Though it finds as a result of its
investigation that "war risk insur
ance is a good thing gone wrong, it
has suffered much in reputation by
association with the bureau of tlic
same name," the American
Weekly, summing up the conclusions
from its inquiry, urges former serv
ice men to keep up their insurance
and to pay up and get their policies
reinstated before it is too late, if they
have allowed them to lapse.
NOVEMBER' 6, 1919.
Labor Situation Defined
[From Philadelphia Inquirer]
The present crisis in the labor sit
uation has not been more plainly
and forcibly defined than it was in
the address delivered at North
Adams, Mass., by Governor Sproul of
this State. His statement goes to
the very root of the matter and it is
so vigorous and sensible, ids so ab
solutely and cor
rect, that it cannot be too widely cir
culated or too strongly emphasized.
"Labor," the Governor said, "as rep
resented by the patriotic American
workmen, who, under sane and pro
gressive leadership, have obtained
so much for themselves and have
served the Nation so well, is engaged
in a battle to preserve its organiza
tions from the radicals who would
destroy them because they are in the
way of a class revolution. It would
suit these destructionists exactly if
they could get hold of the forces of
public safety in this country. The
municipal governments, the State
governments and finally the national
governments would then be easy
game."
That covers the whole gTound of
conflict in a few words and a brief
space. It Is the exact truth that
a few violent men, most of them of
foreign birth or extraction, are en
gaged in an attempt to capture and
control the labor organizations of
the country as a first step toward
the accomplishment of purposes
which are incompatible with the
maintenance of our republican Instl
tutions, and with the preservation of
our social and economic life.
These maleficent conspirators
against the general welfare are seek
ing to introduce into the United
States the so-called soviet type of
rulership which, as it has been ap
plied in Russia by such miscreants
and murderers as Trot2ky and Len
ine, has enslaved the Russian peo
ple and has reduced them to an in
describably shocking condition of
destitution and distress.
What Russia is to-day, terror
stricken, bankrupt and starving, the
United States would presently be
come could such revolutionists as
Foster, as Fitzpatrick and as the
unqualifiabje Lewis succeed in car
rying out the program which they
hhve in mind, and whose realiza
tion, without the least regard for
reason or for right, with an inso
lent indifference for the interests
and welfare of the American people, j
they are defiantly and unscrupulous- !
ly attempting. No one believes, nor
are there any grounds for believing,
that these malignant nad dangerous
mischief-makers are supported in
their subversive designs by a ma
jority, or by anything near a major
ity, of the union membership from
which such power as they possess
is derived and which they flagitious
ly misrepresent.
The average union worker is a
loyal citizen and a good American,
who would repudiate and revolt
against his false leaders if he clear
ly understood what they are driving
at and was fully aware of all that
the campaign in which they are en
gaged implies. But he has been
inert and passive, and by failing to
assert himself has enabled a more
radical and aggressive element to
gain control of the situation and to
use fctih machinery of the labor or
ganization for its own ends That is
the explanation of what is going on,
and the source of all the trouble
that threatens, and in the light of
this explanation the union worker
can have no doubt as to the course
which his duty to the country and
his own self-interest require him to
pursue.
Tie must protest against and make
it his business to prevent the per
version of the labor union which
occurs when it is used as an in
strument to promote the ambitions
of a few selfish schemers who from
one motive or another are enemies
of the existing order, enemies of
representative government, enemies
of the Republic, and who are em
ploying the power which goes with
the official positions in which they
have . improvidently been placed to
break down the pillars of Justice,
law and order upon which our social
structure rests. •
Are Carranza Officers Guilty?
[From the. Philadelphia Record.]
If Carranzista officers or soldiers
can be implicated in the kidnaping
of Consular Agent Jenkins the case
against the Mexican Government
will be a very strong one. The ex
cuse constantly made by that Gov
ernment is that the robbery or
murder was' committed by bandits
whom the government is making
every effort to suppress, but cannot
reach on "account of the moun
tainous character of the country.
Now it is reported that men in the
pay of the Mexican Government aid
ed in the kidnaping. Can Car
ranza control his own officers and
.soldiers? /
lEawtittg (Eljat
"To my mind there are two ways
by which Harrisburg people can
help cut the cost of foodstuffs and
also bring about fewer causes of
dissatisfaction," remarked a mail
connected with that end of the
State Government which is sitting
up at night trying to find out what
ails the cost of living, a,nd who
knows Harrisburg and the country 1
roundabout in addition to possess
ing some first-hand information on
the characteristics of the people.
"In the first place there are not
enough people going to market to 1
keep the number of farmers coming
to market with their 'garden sass*
increasing us it should," observed
this citizen. "The people here are
prone to buy from the gracers, es
pecially the smaller grocery stores,
and they have to meet their over
head ana handling costs. I( the .
people would go to market and buy
from the producer there would be
some saving and it would do every
one more good. The buyet would
have a larger variety to select from
and the farmer would be encouraged •'
at least. And, lastly, let me say that
if the good ladies of Harrisburg
would get to know the farmers bet
ter and have regular men or women
from whom to buy butter, eggs, lard,
ponhaus and qtlier things it would
contribute some. The farmers are
willing to bring in things,, but like
every other man they want to bo
sure of a market. Get to know your
butter man and your egg woman
and the place where you can get
chickens and good country lard,
just like your mother and grand
mother used to do." The remarks
of the obgsj-ver are very much to
the point, as everyone who ever
went to market in the old sheds in
.Market Square, or up at Broad
street or out at the Farmers' market
on the Hill can testify. Many people
who complain of the cost of living
are out of touch with the farmer
and blame him, while for the life
and soul of the farmer he can't
always get the slant of the house
wife, especially if her husband
happens to be on a salary.
• •
The egg chocolate is getting quite
a vogue in Harrisburg as a real and
refreshing drink even in cool
weather, and by the same token it
is getting a singular range of prices.
Yesterday afternoon a couple of
men who had been out to talk over
some matters and who had taken
egg chocolate remarked on the
variety of prices. It turned out that
in the course of a week they in
dulged in these health drinks in
stores on Third, Market, Second and
Walnut streets and they paid from
eleven to twenty-two cents. One
man said that he bought an egg
chocolate with two eggs in it for
a quarter and that the eleven-cent
one was better than that for which
he paid twenty-two. Another re
ported seventeen cents for one egg
chocolate with a pretzel on the
side. Another said that he liked
to pay more because they gave him
all that was in the shaker instead
of throwing away what was left in
the glass us they did in some
stores.
•
Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, who is here for the fair
price conference, is the ninth
Pennsylvanian to be chief law of
ficer of the United States. Among
his distinguished predecessors have
been P. C. Knox, Benjamin H.
Brewster, Wayne MacVeagh, Edwin
M. Stanton, Jeremiah S. Black,
Henry D. Gilpin, Richard Rush and
William Bradford, who was in the
first cabinet and who died after a
year's service.
• • •
Notwithstanding the singing of
the National Anthem on every oc
casion during the war and since it
is lamentably true that many have
not yet conquered the intricacies of
the score and alien citizens who are
familiar with their own national
songs must listen with amazement
to the rather uninspiring rendition
of the Star Spangled Banner on
most occasions. Of course, the
school singing masses are doing
their best to overcome this condi
tion and likewise tho community
song leaders, but they have a big
job ahead and right in Dauphin
county, too.
• • •
Much has been said and written
about observance of Armistice Day,
which comes next Tuesday, but up
to date no suggestion for any gen
eral celebration has been made.
There have been ideas about the
schools having special exercises, but
there has been no plan for a meet
ing or even city-wide note being
taken of the day. Many veterans
of overseas service would like a
chance to observe the first anniver
sary. Closing of public offices and
banks is a rather ordinary way of
commemorating such a notable
day.
• * *
Chosen president of the National
Association of Commercial Organiza
tion Secretaries, George E. Foss, sec
retary of the Pennsylvania State
Chamber of Commerce, will enter
upon his new duties at once. This
doesn't mean that ho has a new
job, but rather an added one. The
organization with the long name is
the body of chamber of commerce
secretaries from all over the country
which studies latest methods and
machinery of their organizations and
meets in annual convention to have
such things discussed. Mr. Foss was
the first vice president in charge of
the meeting this year at Indianapolis
and will preside over the destinies
for the coming year, one of his big
jobs early being to arrange a pro
gram which will draw the secretaries
to the next conclave.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Congressman J. Hampton
Moore is fairly swamped with in
vitations to make addresses.
—James B. Drew, elected com
mon pleas judge in Allegheny, serv
ed in the army. , ,
—judge Thomas F. McNichol, oi
the Philadelphia municipal court,
was formerly a legislator.
—Marshall Barron. who will
command thi Latrobe company
of the Tenth Pennsylvania, was
wounded in France.
"—Thomas H- Leddon, formerly j
connected with the State Govern
ment, has been elected a commis
sioner of Elk county. ...
j. p. McArdle, re-elected tfl
Pittsburgh council, has long been
active in municipal affairs in thai
city
judge-elect Milton A. Hen.
ninger, of Lehigh, was formerly a
State senator.
1 DO YOU KNOW 1
That Hnrrisburg railroad
men helped build the big yard
at Brest?
HISTORIC HARRISBTTRG
—Harrisburg soldiers fought ii
the Seminole and. Black Haw! ,
wara