12 EBARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE. HOME founded 1831 [Published evenli go except Sunday by XHK TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief s\*R. OYSTER, Business Manager QUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor UL It. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board STJP. McCULLOUGH, N BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS.' M. STEINMETZ. r {Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. [All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. r Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa latlon and I'enn " t'd* p a iii Assoc ' a " Eastern Avenue Building I Chicago, d"l' inß: ' Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg. Pa., aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1919 Live pure, speak truth, right wrong, Else wherefore hornt —Tennyson. VICTORY FOR PEOPLE THE Government of the United States has proved that it is the most powerful agency in America. That was shown on Saturday when It ordered the leaders of the coal strike to call off the walk-out, pend ing a settlement of grievances in a . peaceful manner, and the union ; leaders agreed to obey. There was - nothing else left for them to do. Two weeks ago these leaders were defiant of all authority. They placed above the President, • above the courts and above all law. - To-day they are in more chastened £ mood. They have heard'the voice - of the people applauding the Gov ernment in its determination to pre- X vept an appallingly disastrous fuel 1 famine. They have looked into the eyes of undaunted, loyal America, and they have seen men of all sta tions of life, by the million, standing firmly back of the Government on y the side of law and order. They • were helpless before the overwhelm " ing display of public opinion. The next step is to thresh out the grievances the unions claim they have, before a fair tribunal. After . that both operators and miners 2" must be prepared to accept the ver dict as rendered. The public is in no mood to stand any further trifling with Its bread and butter, either on the part of labor or capital. The court order of Saturday was a great victory for the common peo ple, whose rights have been too often Invaded without restraint or hindrance. General Wood is getting the recog nition denied him by a partisan Washington administration in its characteristic fashion when real fighters were anxious to get to the front, A straw vote in Congress Saturday showed Wood a prime favor ite for President DON'T MISS FRANCIES JOHN FRANCIES, the famous warden of the State's great penal Institution near Belle fonte, will be the speaker at the Penn-Harris luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday noon. Warden Francies is working out an experiment in the big out door penitentiary which is being watched with much interest through out the country. He believes there Is good in all men, and his system of training the prisoners under his care appeals to their better side and the results already justify the Francies methods. His presence here to-morrow will doubtless mean a large luncheon at tendance of the Chamber of Com merce members and their friends, and the address promises to be an unusual and unique presentation of an Interesting subject. And to think that Just one year ago to-day we thAight our troubles were all over. WHAT THIS WEEK MEANS THIS is War History Week. It has been proclaimed by the Gov ernor and the Mayor. It Is the time when an effort must be made to assemble the data on which the story of Pennsylvania in the war Is to be written. If the people who took part in . the war, either as soldiers in France Or in this country, as sailors, as marines, as nurses, as draft board officers or attaches or as members Of various committees do not start now to get together the facts they ■ Will be sorry some day. Every week people are to be seen at the State Library or at a depart ment 1q the Capitol laboriously seek ing facts about an ancestor who was In the Revolution, the War of 1812 or the Civil War. They come to Pennsylvania from other States and meet making the ' samt search. Occasionally they find the wune and facte of service. And MONDAY EVENING, often they do not. This Is because no organized effort was ever made to get the Information. Thanks to the Initiative of Gov ernor Sproul, the State has the funds and the system to get the Informa tion so that authentic history can be written. Men have been named In every county to oversee it. But It will not be obtained unless the peo ple who were In the midst of things write or tell their story. There is a distinction between boasting and proper setting down of service. It is better to overcome a natural re luctance to tell of war or other serv ice than have grandchildren spend ing days and dollars trying to estab lish it. i The Dauphin County Historical So ciety, the Chamber of Commerce, the pastors, the postmasters, the teachers will all help. The Important thing is to put It into writing this week and send it to the Historical Society, where a record will be made for all time and the facts forwarded to the State commission. Modesty now may mean names missing from honored lists years hence. The Pence Conference Is preparing to adjourn. May be now we may ex pect the folks of Europe to get to gether and settle their differences without the necessity of so much fighting. RESERVATION NO. 1 ADOPTION of the first reserva tion to the Peace Treaty by the Senate on Saturday leaves no doubt as to the strength of Presi dent Wilson's opponents. The ma jority is decisive. All the Republi cans stood together and five Demo crats are aligned with them. The President must accept the treaty with the reservations attached, or reject it in its entirety. It is scarcely likely that he will dare throw the whole document overboard. Thus is one-man government re pudiated in America. Thus does Mr. Wilson suffer a humiliation he might easily have avoided had he ac cepted Republican or even Demo cratic senatorial advice in the fram ing of his peace and League of Na tion terms. Those who voted for the first res ervation have nothing in their minds save the protection of America from foreign domination. It is left to the Congress ol' the United States to de cide our own responsibilities and our own destinies in case of interna tional misunderstandings. And It is distinctly up to the other parties to the covenant to say whether or not they want us as a member on our own terms. If so, we shall be amply protected. It not, we shall stand on our own feet, as many statesmen of experience believe would be best for us at all events. Reservation No. 1 is wise in its provisions. Now let's hurry along with the rest of them and get back to a real peace basis as soon as pos sible. Why is it most folks choose the quiet of Sunday to harrow up our feelings with their automobile acci dents? ALIEN "REFORMERS" POWELL JAVINOFF. Peter Urkevitch. Mike Seschuk Yasile Vasglour. Nikito Ehimoshkf Fred Yarovoy. Wikita Evanenko, John Kozy. These are names taken from the top of the list of the "reds" arrested by the Department of Justice in the raids of Friday night. They are not specially selected for their oddity or foreign sound. They are simply the rank and file of the radical leaders "caught with the goods." Not one is an American. Not'one has even sought citizenship papers. They are just what they appear to be—aliens, and enemy aliens, at that. Read that list again, and then de cide whether you want such as they to help you create an ideal govern ment in America. PHILADELPHIA MAYOR-ELECT MOORE is in harmony with the attitude of the Telegraph'in the matter of a closer relationship between the metropolis of the Commonwealth 'at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill and the rest of the State. He is in entire accord with the oft expressed view of this' newspaper, that the natural desire of the mu nicipal and private interests of Penn sylvania is to aid in the development of Philadelphia as the only seaport of a great State and incidentally its typical American city. But in order that Philadelphia may grow, the hindrances which are largely within the city itself must be removed. These include political tomfoolery, abuse of a fine heritage, indifference to outside opinion and indefensible criticism of those en gaged in a real effort to place the city in its proper position as the leader among the cities of the Slate. There is a community of interest be tween Philadelphia and the other municipalities, and this fact must bo recognized. Tbls talk of Wood for President must give certain gold-lace gentle men of the War Department the shivers. BONDS AS A GIFT HUNDREDS of dollars in Ltb erty bonds have just been given to the Home for the Friendless as a substantial expres sion of appreciation of the unselfish and helpful service of one of the city's oldest and most useful charita ble institutions. This gift comes from an undisclosed friend and one who is not a resident of llarrisburg. It's a fine bit of testimony in sup port of a worthy work which is being carried on In a modest way, but with i results that commend the Institution as one which deserves more consider ation from the public at large. When the city gets Its Foundation for the handling of bequests for the welfare of the community—the con tributions of the living and the dead —the Home for the Friendless and | other like institutions will doubtless 1 come Into their own. Meanwhile, those making provision for the dis tribution of their estates would .do well to give thought to charitable and other causes in need of niore generous support. Those who are asking us to "sup port the coal strike" in order that some thousands of workmen may tight for a six-hour day while we run the risk of freezing to death, have a tine sense of humor, or none what ever, we are at a loss to decide which. 'Po&tXco IK "PMUUIF&RAKTA By the Ex-Committeeman ■ 1 ■ Now that the election is over and men who follow politics are com mencing to think about the big year ahead it is probable that there will an early announcing season and in* nuni erous aspirants for office will be heard of. Already several men prominent in congressional and legislative affairs have been sending out word that they intend to get into contests, some of these notices being warnings to keep off premises and others challenges. In the next few months Republi can State leaders will get together und discuss candidates for Judicial and State offices. It seems to be taken for granted that Auditor Gen eral Charles A. Snyder will get very influential support for State Treas urer, but the Auditor General nomi nation is in the air so to speak, with Samuel S. Lewis and Col. Joseph H. Thompson talked of. Present indi cations are that the State adminis tration may not have a candidate. Superior Court Judge William B. Linn, just appointed to fill the Wil liams vacancy, will be nominated for the full term, but there is lots of speculation as to who will run for supreme court to succeed Chief Jus tice J. Hay Brown. The distin guished Lancaster jurist will com plete twenty-one years on the high est appellate court bench in 1921 and is not eligible for re-election under the constitution. —Much mention of Governor Wil liam C. Sproul as a presidential fa vorite is likely. Pottsville is to the front with a story that Auditor Gen eral Snyder is being urged to be a candidate for Republican national delegate with the express purpose of presenting the name of the Governor for President. The Governor recent ly remarked that presidential bees were not buzzing around him. But his friends and increasing number of admirers are busy. —The lining up of the Democrats of the State for Attorney General A. Mitchell Painter for presidential honors by the Democrats is already under way in northeastern counties. The Palmer forces have succeeded in pacifying some of the old oppo nents of the Attorney General in Lackawanna and are hopeful that as a result of the virtually unopposed re-election of Judge John M. Gar niim in Luzerne that the third larg est county's Democrats will see some good in Palmer. It is likely that the State will see much of James I. Blakslee in the next few months. —With the election out of the way newspapers are looking for the Gov ernor to name the new Constitu tional Revision Commission very soon. The Governor has been at work on this list for weeks and weeks and has given his best thought to the personnel. The Philadelphia Press, in an article by Odell Hauser, says that the Governor intends to make this revision one of the big things of his administration and that Attorney General William I. Schaffer will be chairman. He says: "It would not be at all surprising If the report of the Commission should take the form of an almost complete draft of a new constitution. If it does not go so far, it will at least make its recommendation so strong and pointed as to afford definite lines which the constitutional convention called by the Legislature cannot af ford to ignore. The Governor has strong views on the need for revi sion of the constitution. As a mem ber of the Senate and now as Gov ernor, he has been up against this constitution for more than a score of years and he knows it well. He is upon intimate enough terms with it to call each fault and each excel lence by its first name. The view of the Governor and of other critics of the present constitution is that it is a document of limitations. It tells more about what you shall not do than what you may do, stating the problem in a broad way. It does not establish a general prirtciple of government and leave its working out to the spirit of the times, but it attempts in many instances to de fine the details. And when 1919 finds itself bound down to the point of view of 1873 there is room for an aggrieved feeling." —Just as illustrations of the way Republicans won all along the line last Tuesday in the State which some ambitious men declared In 191 A and in 1916 they were going to make Republican, these dispatches in Phil adelphia newspapers may be quoted: Williamport—With the elec tion by large majorities of the entire Republican county ticket v and all but one candidate on the city ticket, Lycoming county, which last year gave a big ma- ' jority for Governor Sproul, ceased to be kncr.vn longer as "nominally Democratic," and took rank with the full-fledged Re publican counties of the State. Thomas M. Gray, who was elect ed sheriff, was given the highest vote ever accorded a candidate for the office in Lycoming county. He polled 8,064 votes, close to 3,800 more than his op- , ponent. Scranton —The decisive vic tory achieved at the polls on Tuesday has placed the Repub lican party in stronger control of affairs in Scranton and Lack awanna counties than has been the case in the past quarter of a century. 'lt means that after January 1 the Republicans will hnve two of the three places . on the bench, nnd that the only holding office In the court house will be one jury commissioner, and the minority county commissioned, places due one party under the law. In the city the Republican party will nlso be in complete control for the next few years. Mayor j Connell. though named as a nonpartisan candidate, is recog ' nlzed as a Republican leudcr j here. I —Senator Edwin H. Vare has stirred up a hornet's nest by his ttARRISBURG Q|£|Aft TELEGRAPIf WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRItiGS -f- E. L . [ Washington speech. He says he did not reflect on any mayor, but did want to emphasize the excellent ad ministration of Edwin S. Stuart. Mayor Thomas M. Smith hit back at him by saying he had not been Vare's mayor, and the Senator re plied: "That's right. We disagreed on several matters." —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the inauguration of Congress man J. Hampton Moore as mayor of Philadelphia will be made a national event and many Congressmen will attend. In absence of the Mayor, the Inquirer says "gossip qontinues to link names of many well known Philadelphians with different offices under the new administration," and then remarks that some Re publican who helped get results will displace Smith men. —B lair county's Republican league has started out to organize the county and frequent meetings will be held this winter. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times is out in an editorial criticising the course of District Attorney H. H. Rowand in not suspending detectives charged with killing a man. It says he should "get busy and remove this reproach on Allegheny county." —A. J. McKean, of Mercer, has voted at 72 elections, 21 of them presidential, and hopes to vote next November. —The Altoona Tribune says the mountain city is to be congratulated on continuing the commission form of government. —Sharon and Sunbury become third class cities in January. Sun bury is one of the oldest boroughs in Eastern Pennsylvania. —Jacob Hoffman, who was a candidate for something on the Charter party ticket in Philadelphia, is asking a recount. He will hardly get it. The Charter party has joined various other parties in Philadelphia political annals. —State Chairman William E. Crow's ticket won every office in Fayette, county that the law allowed, notwithstanding the manner in which Field Marshal Bruce Sterling brought up all the forces that the Federal Government and the Palmer ma chine could afford. There was much bitterness, and the Democratic tactics were much the same is they werf* in Dauphin and Cumberland counties. Over 21,000 votes, a rec ord, were cast. —Philadelphia newspapers in their election reviews say people of Dau phin, Montgomery, Chester, Lan caster and other Republican counties gave substantial "votes of confi dence" last week to leaders and men in office. , —Congressman B. K. Focht, of Lewlsburg, E. R. Kiess, of Hughes ville, and Henry W. Watson, of Langhorne, are expected to run again. Mr. Focht has already an nounced himself and has been en dorsed by the Union County Re publican Committee, which has also commended Senator W. C. McCon nelt and Representative H. M. Sho walter. —With four new city councilmen, people at Bethlehem are looking for a shake-up. There will also be a number of changes in city officials in Wilkes-Barre, Easton, Reading and Johnstown. —Carbon county, the home of James I. Blakslee and Warren Van Dyke, Democratic ringmasters, is now over in the Republican column and Republicans are in good shape in such Democratic counties as Northampton and Greene. . Victor Bcrger [From Philadelphia Press] It is voted by the'special com mittee of the House of Representa tives by eight to one to exclude Victor llerger from a seat in Con gress. This is done on the ground that Bereer was disloyal to the United States during the war. and gave aid and comfort to its enemies. In all probability an election in the Milwaukee district, from which he comes, will be held for a successor, and Borger will be a candidate for vindication* As he is under a Jail sentence of twenty years for ds loyalty, it may be difficult for him to find time to serve in Congress if ho should be elected again and ad mitted. WHY? Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?— Jeremiah 1i,36. STRIKES, WORK AND GERMANY f 4"\T°W what in the world is the matter with Jack this time? You look as if you'd lost your last friend. Come on. Brace up and tell me all about it." It was Uncle Ted, who, seeing his nephew with a face clouded with gloom was trying to bring back the sunshine. "Ah, there's nothing so terribly wrong, Uncle Ted," answered Jack. "But I've had another fuss with Hermann Schwartz. He's always making me sore the way he talks about our country and thinks Ger many is about right. He doesn't seem to know that Germany was licked to a frazzle and I'm tired tell ing him. You see this morning be ing Saturday I went to buy some things to eat, for mother. I don't like to go into Schwartz's butcher shop but they have such good meat. So I watched until I thought Her mann was gone and then went in. But like he always does, he had just gone in the back of the store and when I got up to the counter he came running in. 'Your country is a fine mess,' he said. 'After you beat Germany then you start fight ing among yourselves. If you don't watch out Germany will be doing more business than the United States. Her workmen are working long hours each day and with lots of goods stored away she will very soon be ready to do business with the world. If all the workmen keep striking in this country there won't be anything to sell. Well, of course Uncle Ted. I couldn't think of any thing mean enough to say and I didn't want to fight because you told me not to, so I just told him to mind his own business and walked out. Now what I'm worrying about is, was what he said true?" "Of course, Jack," began his Uncle, as he drew up a chair, "Her mann should not talk that way, no matter how much of what he says may be true. He and his father are making their living in this country and they should forget Germany and be loyal Americans. But it so hap pens again, that some of what he says is true. I will explain the mat ter as best I can. For a long time the various labor unions in this country hate been going on strike. That is, if they want more money, or shorter working hours or both, and their employers feel that what they are getting is enough, they quit work. We have had strikes in this country for years and years, but as a rule they have been conducted quietly and after a time the troubles were settled and the men went back to work as before. But during the past year, especially since the end of the war, the various unions have been striking and some of their members who act like the bolsheviks of Rus sia or the "Reds", as they are some times called, have used bombs to blow up houses: have fought on the streets and destroyed property in general. They are not all that way but many of them go so far as to threaten to destroy our government. Right now there are some 300 strikes going on in the United States. A great many of the men who work in the steel mills are striking and rioting. Troops had to be called out in Gary, Indiana, a big steel town, to protect property and the lives of the people. The soldiers found many of these "Reds" there who were trying to overthrow the gov ernment. The men who 1 work on the piers in New York City where I the ships are unloaded and loaded are on strike. That means tying up I the food that is coming and going. . And so it is the country over. The | laboring men are getting bigger i wages and shorter hours than ever , before, yet they want more and more I money and want to work less and [ less hours.' "What happens to the things these i men make or do when they are striking?'.' asked Ruth, who had I Just returned from play. I "That is the worst part of it, 1 Ruth," answered her Uncle. "While all of these men are away from their work they are not producing. They go on eating and living, but they are not giving anything to their country In return. Now right here is where the things Hermann Schwartz said come in. Men who know more about the condition of things in Europe and especially in Germany than myself, say that with in ten years Germany will be on the same business basis she was before the war. That means she is work ing very hard because the country was torn to pieces after the years of fighting. She has great quanti ties of manufactured goods stored away and the plants where things to sell are made were planned so that they could start them going just as soon as peace came. All of the German workers, the laborers and mechanics are, without being told, working at least ten hours every day when most of ours are not working more than eight hours and many of them less. Our men are striking for shorter hours and more money right at a time when the only thing that will save this country is for everybody to forget their selfish interests and work hard and produce in large quanti ties." "But, Uncle Ted, what has Ger many got to do with us even if she is working harder?" asked Jack. "Just this. The German money is so low that it is to the advantage of other countries to buy the material she has ready for the market. If she has goods ready because she is working night and day with all her energy then she can sell to the world while we are not only going to sleep but having a labor war right in our own country. You see that is what Germany is doing while in this country the chief labor leader says, 'I will tie up every industry in the United States by ordering all work men who belong to the unions to quit unless you give us what we want.' To surrender to them would mean that about 3,000,000 people in the United States would tell nearly 100,000,000 people what they would or would not do. The great lesson to all of this is that neither Con gress in Washington nor the State law making bodies can solve the situation. The real, true Americans, men who think and act like the great Roosevelt, must meet the situation and get rid of the bad foreign group of men and women who at present seem to have control of labor. When we saw we had to go to war with Germany practically every man, wo man and child was loyal. The men went to fight, the money was given for guns, bullets and shells, and we beat Germany. The same danger from Germany is with us again. Only this time it is simply of an other kind. We must meet it with the same spirit or we are lost as a country. It is not money, not lives this time, but work that will count." "Well I guess we will show Herr mann a few things," said Jack. "We just must work and produce and I for one will help by telling every body I can." In Certain Little Illinois Town [From the New York Tribune, apro pos of "Abraham Lincoln," just published by Houghton Mifflin Company.] "One perhaps should know Springfield to appreciate the full dramatic quality of the events of the last week in this quiet old Illinois town. A king and queen there ar rived to pay thejr respects to a cer tain small clapboard home and the man it housed some sixty years ago. A visiting English poet and drama tist, John Drinkwater, followed on the same errand. There were ■ luncheons and formalities, and Gov ernor Lowden spoke ably for his state and of her greatest citizen." • • "Lincoln's home is a low, inconspicuous house oft the main street, left quite unchanged, with out tablet or monument to adver tise it. It is the same within as without" • • • "Tho play is strong in the universal quality of Lincoln, that simple, unerring great ness which touched all that he did, whether he was writing a letter to | his brother on thrift or dedicating I a great battlefield." If Farmers Had Short Day [From the Dallas News] And if farmers worked only six hours a day and thirty hours a week, bread would sell for a dollar a loaf. NOVEMBER 10, 1919: Rugged Americanism [From the Manufacturers' Record.] Gerr. Leonard Wood Is supposed to be a candidate for the Republican presidental nomination. That nom ination is a long way off, uinl we are not concerned with the political fortunes of any individual. But when a man, particularly one seek ing votes, comes right out before the whole country and says what he thinks, without equivocation, and tears himself loose from the snivel ing, ballot-hunting, pussy-footing coterie of statesmen who have been nurturing Bolshevism and anarchy and unrest and economic disease in this country by flirting with ex ponents of such calamitous doctrines, it is worth while for decerrt citizens and decent publications to give him the encouragement that is his right. Speaking in New York at the re quest of the Woman's Memorial Association, General Wood said: "There is no room in this country for the red flag. It is against every thing which this government stands for, the home, the. town, the nation. Kill it as you would a rattlesnake, and smash those who follow it, speak for it or support it. They are enemies of the Suite and dangeroiis enemies." Perhaps General Wood's denuncia tion of revolution will be translated into a dozen different languages and distributed among the fat aliens who know nothing of our tongue and so little of our institutions that they imagine they can submerge them overnight. But the general will hardly care. Probably he knows, as so many other Americans have learned in the last five weeks, that the only kind of American who is going to bo permitted to guide the American ship of State is the Amer ican who has no hyphen for a waist line and whose vision is so clear that there is never any danger of his j mistaking the red emblem of des truction for the Stars and Stripes. The New National Guard [From the Philadelphia, Bulletin.] The success of the plan for the re establishment of the National Guard on a permanent basis as an efficient reserve for the Regular Army de pends very much on the character of public support which is given to the enterprise. The organization must be regarded as more than a plaything or an op portunity for tin-soldiering. Enlist ment in its service is to be credited to the men in a degree comparable to that which was accorded the vol unteer or the willing draftee for serv ice in the war. Every man will he subject to discipline and duty, which, whether or not they involve active service, will be as essential a part of the State and National preparedness as is enlistment in the Regular Army. The desired results in the recruit ing of, the new 28th Division, which succeeds to the name and will re place in the measure that times of peace require, the troops which the whole State honors for their service in the war, cannot be better assured than by a show of communal senti ment and pride in the new organiza tion as representative and as volun teer substitutes for the otherwise necessary burden of universal mili tary service. Watch the Dog Law [Pennsylvania Farmer] Reading between the lines in the report of the convention of the Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners one detects a senti ment in that organization that is opposed to the present dog law in I this State. This opposition is based upon an alleged Inefficiency of the law because of the difficulty of en forcing it. Careful observation will show that the law is not enforced in a great many places, but that is not the fault of the law. It is due to the laxness of spineless officials who have a keener interest in re taining their position than in the enforcement of law. It is altogether possible that the present law might be improved, but whenever the question is opened up it is a mighty hard job to put through any really protective legislation, because of the many opposing interests. We had better hold on to what we have, rather than run the risk of losing all by tinkering with it. On Sahara The sky Is riveted with white-flam ed stars, • And the moon reaches its brassy zenith; The night Is burdened with immen sity: Mystery without beginnings and without end; The only human intimacy I know is my oppressed heart. Whose intermittent beating tells me I am not terrified by the sepulchral vastness. Nor by the eternal Silence, Not even by the Infinitesimal speck My shadow makes on the fevered sands. —Le Baron Cooke In Contemporary Verse. " End of a Famous Liner [From- the London Globe.] A prime favorite of the traveling public of the last generation is shortly to disappear when the con demned United States transport Hancock is sold to the shipbreakers. For before she fioisted the Stars and Stripes in 1898 she was the Guion liner Arizona, famous both as a record breaker and from the fact that as a new ship she rammed an Iceberg at nearly full speed, tele scoped her bow for a considerable length, and yet managed to bring her passengers safely Into St. John's. The accident caused a stir at the time and very properly brought great credit to her builders, the predecessors of the present Fair field Company. In Arkansas, Too [From the Manufacturers' Record.] There has never before been such an era of Improved highway con struction in Arkansas as exists to day. It has been estimated that the regular Blxty-day session and the extraordinary ten-day session of the Arkansas legislature passed acts providing for the construction of more than 8 500 miles of hard sur face road, the cost of which will run into millions. The extra session was called by Governor Brough specifi cally for the purpose of passing good roads legislation. Hurry Call For League [From Punch, London.] Because he interfered with the lynching of a negro, the people of Omaha made a determined effort to tlon of the report that the League lynch the mayor. We await conflrma of Nations has requested Mexico to step ln and restore order. Sought Not Glory of Men For neither at any time use we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of qovetousness; God is wit ness; nor of men sought we glory. —I Tha"aliml ao 11. 5 and A f" 1 '"""■"3SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST-—| *"< Smttng (Eljat Hundreds of dollars worth of vegetables were lost to Ilqrrisburg householders because the people of he city were honest this summer and fall. Thanks to the energy of many folks last spring and in the eai y summer the earth yielded its increuse i n the autumn and all kinds of foodstuffs can be seen on " . °T of Hurrisburg going to iowed work Wlla fol gatherine' wh 6 ? to tbe GXtent of seed in ir in! nature returned for remarkable } veG ' 11 =- It is a rather this citv wl ° at tbe People of I gardena Chij' 6 80 busv wlt " so careless ah 7 'J"' 1 1!U8 sbou,d ey H WalV! ° Ut e the Hhi - i 7 bo bad charge of the Commerce, ♦*. ? r Chamber of ! stances wherein garn numbpr of iu " !ed were few and the" W€rP e yeT ei " l a ° jAs shown betforo j n a T'"' KardenT r conti ndr ' > H dS ° f much caw> i 1 n fed this year and until late <j " S cn to them up some reason "I,"' o ''- , An " then tor Parts nf 'tu 8 cun 130 seen in many let go The " ,0 Sa'tlens were taking' wTli iiro good days for ohj 'f and nioro than one noting The C 'T, 1,0 obtained by and other ways thsf H ' T,''" s,!,lks food th-.t v. . that earth returns are even ™ c°" "Elected. There not been h i°l celery whlc, i have . green n£tb , Up and whlch ore all about fh WCe wllich Iw ve been an about them. The owners of weTJ Jar . r , dens nnd the people Who T onrne T " ot To The trouble of harvesting and the gen eral public, trained, let us sa/ to And Th'"* Kardena - passed them bv. nttilude ~ Uable thl'iK about this Who etl he part of the persons who started and worked the gar thev' eolid tb h 1 by some attention their I I T'® PUt nionG V into their pockets. Probably, l n the notf Ua f C .v° f a business man who which waste in the gardens of !hi w'l SO Promising, "it's part or the let clown." * * fcT nd h he . ro , is another interesting fact about harvesting. Within five I'm 8 °t "arrishurg there are corn fields which have not been gone over. The corn is still on the stalk. Corn is now selling for the highest price known in a. generation. There is a hig demand for it. And yet labor to tear off the ears and load them into a wagon is so hard to ob tain that instances are known where owners of farms have been letting their own work go so that thev could help get in the corn. The county is said by the Farm Bureau folks to have a banner crop. And maybe some of it will be going to waste. ♦ ♦ • W. Kent Gilbert, of Camp Hill, has harvested a wonderful crop of chrysanthemums this year—most of them of the pink and yellow va rieties. The flowers on which Mr. Gilbert specializes are all grown outdoors, but they are as large and exquisite in form and color as the hothouse grown blossoms and much hardier. Some that he brought to the city this year were eight to ten inches in diameter and had stems five to six feet in length. He found an easy market for his surplus at good prices. Mr. Gilbert is an in door worker and finds his recreation and exercise in his flower beds. "Some of my friends go fishing, oth ers play golf—l raise flowers," he says. , * * * Another flower specialist is Giles H. Bower, of 1617 Derry street, who grows the handsomest dahlias ever seen in Harrisburg. Mr Bower, like Mr. Gilbert, takes his ex ercise In his flower beds, and some of the dahlias he raises are not only as big as the largest of chrys anthemums, but they closely re semble those flowers in general ap pearance. Others look like roses, poppies or peonies in form, size and color. Mr. Bower has some of the rarest varieties grown in the United States and his lawn is a riot of color and beauty when they are in bloom. Hundreds of people go to see this display, which is rapidly approach ing the best seen in any Central Pennsylvania garden. ** * . President B. M. Nead's plan to stimulate interest in the life of Har risburg in the days gone by and the influence of this city upon State af fairs by a series of addresses by prominent residents at the monthly meetings of the Dauphin County Historical Society will be launched on Thursday evening, when Spencer C. Gilbert and A. Carson Stamm will speak. They are men known to every one in Harrisburg and by con senting to speak they have given an Impetus to the work of the society. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Director A. E. MeKinley, of the State War History Commission, is making a series of visits to counties to stir up interest in collection of data. —W. C. Westfall, well known here, is a candidate for director of the Altoona Chamber of Commerce. Dr. H. A. Hare, prominent Philadelphia physician, is mentioned as a possible director of health in Philadelphia. J. L. Berkhous, director of the State Fish Hatchery at Torresdale, savs that the Delaware river is so polluted that it is almost Impossible to raise shad. —Dr. Jesse Cope Green, West Chester's "grand old man," is just 102. —Harry E. Paisely, treasurer of the Reading system, Was a speaker at the meeting of 200 Philadelphia Sunday school superintendents. | DO YOU KNOW —'That Harrisburg has one of the largest Sunday school en rollments of any city in the country? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Residents of this section met here in 1764 to demand protection against the Indians. London Chophouse Revival [From the London Mail] The London chophouse, which languished during the war. has come into its own again. Clients have re turned to the little old places round the Stock Exchange noted variously for their succulent chops, their steak and kidney puddings, their very mixed grills, and the solemn rite of satin ut.
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