14 {HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH \L\VEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 (Published evenings except Sunday by | THfC. TKI, KG It A I'll PRINTING CO. Building, Federal Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief S\Ttl OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor U. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 'J.JP.' McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. . R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. £AII rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. tht> Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. V Eastern office. .Story, Brooks & Finley, F i ft li Avenue Building, Western office. Story, Brook* & Gas' Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Ilarris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail, f::.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER It. 1919 The same heart brats in* every hu man breast. —MATTHEW ARNOLD. I ' I THEN AND NOW A YEAR ago to-day we were re joicing immeasurably over the signing of the armistice terms. The tyar was over, the great day for which we had been working, and longing and sacrificing had <*t>me. The clouds were breaking, the sun was. shining. It was a good old j world, after all; we had fought the j good fight, and now we were about i to enter into our reward. The dark J days were over; happy tinges lay j just ahead. But our anticipations have not been realized. Industrial strife has followed the war of guns. Bolshe vism stalks red-handed through the land. Deluded men have .been listening to false doctrines. A new Nebuchadnezzar has set up a new image, and thousands have fallen down to worship. Socialism and Bolshevism on one side are offered to us as panaceas for the cure of ' all our ills; on the other, interna tionalism that would rob us of our in dependence as a nation, even as the doctrines of Marx and Lenine would rob us of our independence as indi viduals, has been urged upon us. Using a similar figure of speech and this ancient illustration of Nebuchadnezzar's graven god. Dr. Charles Wadsworth, Jr., speaking before a New England audience, not long ago, said: "The treasure of humanity is not the golden images which visionaries and autocrats de vise. History is full of image makers, egoists who work their own vagaries into erractic contrivances which they have the affrontery to call 'ideals' and which they proclaim as the panaceas for the race, the keys to peace, the doors to the mil* lennium," but, he adds, "all have failed, and the one real treasure of the universe is the independence of the individual and of the nation. Socialism would sink the interests and personality of the individual into the crowd or the mob, and in ternationalism would do the same for the nation." Many Americans have been listen •, ing to false prophets. Looking about to put into actuality' their longing for better things, for the dawning of a new era for all mankind,- they have been led away by those who have promised them most, who have been loudest of mouth and who have 1 held up to them a golden image, of little work and high pay, for them to -worship. But as the darkest hour is just before the dawn, and as the German hosts were oA the verge of defeat even when they were knocking at the very gates of Paris, so now, with all the country in a turmoil, with arrogant leaders of minorities threatening to defy the laws of the land, there are evidences of a strong trend in the other di rection. Everywhere the eotpmon sense that has been the saving grace of the American people jn many a more trying hour than thut of the present, is coming to the surface. Men are saying: "This thing has gone far enough." Intelligent public opinion, forcefully voiced, is calling the tyrants of all glasses to account. Nothing in America can stand fore aroused public opinion when it makes itself heard, and hearkening to the angry voice of the multitude,, to the lovers of individual and na tional independence who have f sprung to arms on every occusion :f when the nation was threatened, t either from within or without, those C who would force their wills upon us • are quailing., Armistice day brings us promises of better times just ahead, even as last year It heralded the end of the bloody war. The Afnertcan people are asserting themselves. They will stand no trifling with their, indi vidual nor with their national in dependence. Neither an autocracy of wealth nor an autocracy of labor shall rule this country. Both are intolerable. The American people will have none of either. They ate registering that determination k - ' TUESDAY EVENING, wherever free men discuss these things, even as they registered that as their verdict in Massachusetts lust Tuesday. We arc not jealous because the West got snow and we only rain. A YEAH AGO TODAY ONE year ago to-day . Ilarrisburg and every other community throughout the 'United States and the world was rejoicing over the declaration of the armistice which ended the great war. Thou sands of Central Pennsylvania boys were in the fighting line, giving the last hammer blows to the Hun horde which had started out in 1914 to conquer the world , It is a great day and the first anniversary ought to be an occasion for the rededlcation of the Ameri can people to the ideals for which this country stands and a reaffirma tion of the principles which arc the foundations of our system of Gov ernments and the mainstay of our institutions. Herbert Bailey, an English writer, has been closely analyzing the part which the American 'soldier played in the suppression of the German menace, more especially the Ar gonne Forest drive and he gives the American troops their proper place in history. lie says: When the order came for fight ing lo cease on November 11 all the positions had been main tained and tlie Fifth revision was knee-deep in mud in the wilderness of the Woevre I'oVest. The Thirty-second moved up to the right of the Fifth Division on November 10, and advanced several kilometers west of Brandeville that day in a fog and was ready for a new attack when the armistice was signed. The signing of the armistice and the cessation of hostilities came as u great surprise to the American troops, despite all the rumors of approaching peace. The men in the line in mtmy places were more inclined to think that the order to cease firing at 11 in the morning of November was a new form of strategy. Succeed they did after a mighty struggle, reflecting nothing but credit and glory on American arms, that lasted 47 days at a total cost to the Americans alone of 115.529, of whom 15.589 were killed. They had fought 697.212 Germans with a force of 631.405 Americans and 138,000 French: killed, wounded or taken prisoners, 126.500 of the enemy, penetrated forty-seven kilometers into the German lines and liberated 1550 square kilo meters of territory for the French, with 150 villages and towns. In prisoners they took 316 officers and 15,743 men, while 468 guns. 2864 machine : guns and 177 trench mortars fell | into their hands. Discussing the positions of the Americans when hostilities ceased, Mr. Bailey points out that the Ger mans were in for a terrific wallop ing, which they evidently appre ciated, when the curtain dropped one year ago to-day. He concludes with this statement: November 14 was the day se lected when the cream of the American forces, in what would have been tjie greatest drive of the war, were to shatter the Germans in an attack through Lorraine and Alsace, and that day would indeed have been a great dav in American history. Fighting with a freshness that none could equal, with an ardor that only troops new to warfare know, with an intelligence that is given to few. the Americans although their artillery. air planes and tanks were almost all French and only the transport, equipment, ammunition and rifles were American, were the great hopes of the Allies, the force that was to swing the bal l ance against Germany. In say ing that that hope was more than fulfilled, that the weight in the balance was indeed heavy and decisive, we have expressed what every impartial English man associated with the Amer ican forces in battle can em phatically afflrni. America did justice to her greatness. Her sons were the sons of a virile and fruitful Nation, and those sons fought with a spirit, a nerve and a power that saw the end of the war and the defeat of Ger many. So it is that Americans applaud their splendid boys who rallied to the colors in the cause of tion and pay tribute to them to-day while giving thanks to the God of battle for showing America the way and directing the ivarrjors of this country in their final assault upon the entrenched foe of fiberty, righteousness and justice. A. Carson Stamm, always on the watchtower for civic betterment, in troduced a resolution at the session of the School Board a day or two ago instructing City Superintendent Downes and Secretary Hammelbaugh to prepare plans for planting the school grounds in some proper way. While Stnne of the grounds are in good shape, there are others which seem sadly neglected. Mr. Stamm believes, with many of bis fellow citizens, that school children should have the benefit of artistic surround ings through which there may be cultivated in their minds and heat's the love of the beautiful. Cities all over the country are or-1 ganizing homebulldtng corporations | t- relievo the housing situation which is becoming a menace to the prosperity of many communities. At Camden, for instance, subscribers to the housing plan are contributing their Liberty Bonds in payment for stock. We cannot imagine a more Worthy .use for such bonds at this time. These Government 'securities represent patriotic response to the call ot ('nolo Sam for funds during the "War period and if they can be made to-supply homes for the people as collateral for building loans these bonds will be. doing a still greater service. After reading the newk from Ohio we are convinced that the correspond-! ent gets his information one day! from the "wet" headquarters and the] ne*f day from the "drys." The fellow who reports all the' peach buds frozen in the spring, turns his attention about this time of year! to writing Items about the scarcity 1 and high price of turkeys. V Victor Berger learned yesterday thut the Congress of the United States is no place for an enemy of the gov ernment. . If we could make practical use of fiery speeches we might not mind the coal strike so muck. fotlticc iK By the Ex-Commltteeman ; Intimations that the recent elec tion in Philadelphia, in which a minority city commisslonership was a bone of contention, may be one cause of a determined eWort to abolish minority representation are being given in Philadelphia news papers The nonpartisan judicial act did away with minority repre sentation on the bench, although the superior court has one Democrat. l>r. Brumbaugh named a Democrat for a vacancy on the bench toward the end of his term, but the voters did not elect him. It is likely that the minority rep | resentation proposition will loom up ) much in the political discussions of | the next few months and may also 1 get into the constitutional revision commission's meetings. The Legis latures have always fought shy of making such a change. r In discussing tho matter the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin says: "At the election last Tuesday, 'minority representation' was a cause, as it so often has been in the past, of a lot of petty trades and dickers, after the manner of the cheapest hucksters of the streets. How absurdly the thing works- may be judged when we note the size of the vote. For example, the can ] didutes of tho successful or majority party for City Commisslonersliips polled in one instance more than two hundred thousand and in the other more than one hundred and ninety thousand. But the success ful candidate for the third place, whicl) Is exactly on the same footing as the others, was elected by only forty-nine thousand votes'. But when the provision for it was adopted in the present organic law of the State, it had been seldom that the majority party had more i than twenty-five thousand votes in Pennsylvania in excess of the minority party in Philadelphia. Iq- J deed, majorities would often be | much smaller than these figures. The Democratic party was contem plated as the beneficiary of minority representation, but it was not com mon to suppose that the minority party would have much less than nearly one-half of the entire vote. But to get only one vote in six as the successful candidate for Com missioner did on Tuesday is reduc ing thtj principle to a sort of fantas tic process of election. Doubtless when the time shall come to frame a new Constitution for Pennsylvania one of the first things that will be ( dropped in toto is 'minority repre- i mentation.' " —The Wilkes-Barre Record says, that Representative "Dick" Powell, | of EdwardsviTle, one of tlie active j members of the last House, is to .be | one of the new Luzerne county de- i tectives. The record also says that | he has a busy time ahead of him, remarking. "As a climax to an ( inquiry ipto election fraud charges j before the court on Saturday, j Richard Powell, went' before Alder man Ricketts and swore out war rants against certain election offi cers of the Eighth ward. Second district of Wilkes-Barre, and the Third ward of Larks?ville, charging conspiracy to violate the election laws. Warrunts will be sworn out against election officers in other districts to-day, as Republican party leaders say they propose to clean up the crooked election boards of Luzerne County us the first work of the new district attorney." —-Controller F. R- Henderstat, of Luzerne, may have a contest of election in his hands soon. —Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, writes in the Eve ning Ledger: "Congressman Butler, the Chester-Delaware representative who used to be regarded as a Quaker, coming from an agricul tural section, is now about as much involved in big industrial and com- , mercial problems as any other man j in Congress. The river front in Delaware county has brought its liig industrial and protective questions! to the notice of the West Chester j member, but that is not all. Over, in Chester county they are mining for graphite and operators like T. D. Just, of Byers, are contending that unless they have a duty it will be difficult to proceed with this business which really originated in the vicinity of Chester Springs. It is said by the. American producers that a great deal of British money is invested in the crucible ihdustry in this country and that, therefore, efforts to obtain production here have been discouraged." —lt looks as though Representa tive A. E. Ittnn, of Lehigh, was get ting ready to run for re-election. liinn is noted for his bill tfa make railroads abolish so many grade crossings each year and the Allen town Call notes that Lehigh's Legis lator has been active in this line and that grade crossing accidents are still going on. The York- Gazette says that there is a possibility of a tie vote being discovered on the sheriff elec tion Think of a Republican candi date for sheriff tying a Democratic nominee in that erstwhile bastion of Jacksonian Democracy. —Bloomsburg newspapers say that there will he Aome interesting contests made in the Columbia county election. This is another Democratic county where, the Re publicans have made elections most debuteuble. , The Philadelphia Evening Ledger in an editorial discussion of Senator Edwin H. Vare's latest speeeh about reformers, rises to re mark: "The professional reformers arc uiinor Incidents in any election. The real reformer is the independ ent voter who gets no notoriety and blows no bugles, and simply makes up his mind that the time has come for a new deal. He Jias long patience, yet he never fails to ! dtminnd a reckoning when the time 'i (or a reckoning seems to be at hand. I He is even more admirable than any of the political figures favored or disliked by Mr. Vare. He turns elections —and goes about his busi nesa He is without selfish interests. 1 ! He too, might have said as the '! senator did: "We ask and desire i j nothing but a clean ndmjnlstra ■ i tion.' " —Considerable interest is being taken in the mayoralty contest at i Altoonu whore I). 8. Brumbuugh has I asked for a recount of the vote. . Mayor C. H. Rhodes was re-cleeted j by a narrow margin, defeating Mr. Brumbaugh and John W. Blake, j —Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore j Is said to want a former soldier fog : director of safety and this is taken 'to mean that Col. John C. .Groom® ' may be selected. The Colonel says he has not been asked. Sorry Now ! There has been some display of pusslon, some ill-considered utter ances. . . . The President, In isome of his earlier speeches, re . ferrcd to the opposing Senators In itermh that when he rccnlled them he must have regretted as sincerely i as his countrymen did. —The New York Times. ' " S fiM •: ! ■ ill HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By BRIGGS ,.•\' r , • . . . r -~- 1 \ . r~~ ' "A fJo MO6RI S* \AjPt L XoF I THERE S "BEeM \ OLD TURKEY //GOOD -OLD J VJEII Joe I \ Yep QUITE A. LOTTa j '^ CCIF , THEY \days SEE. THANKJSNINfi SooN CHANGES \ POL J J /WH GONE ANP CHRISTMASJHERE U < llQpr u ,<. usei> Tb P ° \ HARRY J WILL iooN BE n AGA/M , vSINCE; Last . OURt HAS OFF— I ALWAYS H J AGAIN r (^HARRY jJ >S ~*TT I "} umder MY ARM- Y ) /HARRY * USED / Joe Do You) X^~~ Go Rountp To Bill. / remember. M 0„ h ( 6oweßody is \ And <3EOR6E'S big Bowl / ■ / / AL-V/AYS TAKIN<S J Place AND THEY'D OF TOH AND )\ So ,? / I•< T ne JOY OUT / fill OP a basket v LlF£ ' j&wtti \ FULL of <3OOD CM Tre bar \ ( > s /Sn!**9. YOO KN6U) -_\^ s When Poets Mix in Polities j [From L'lllustration, Paris] Certainly there are points that i ought tb be considered in this zeal j of a poet and novelist (d'Annunzio) j to concern himself with affairs of , state. It is obvious that govern- j ments would be very much embar- j rossed if all artists were to follow | the example of Gabriele d'Annunzio and take it into their heads to regu late the most .delicate military and diplomatic problems. To-day, doubt less, Italian ministers are realizing that Plato was not wrong in refusing to poets the right to mix in the af fairs of the republic. But the case of d'Annunzio is ex ceptional. It is the adventurous sol dier, the mutilated aviator, the en- | flamed patriot, much more than the subtle author of the "Martyre de saint Sebastien" whom the Fiume grenadiers have followed. If the glory of this intellectual, who does not make war in slippers, were pure ly literary, his appeal would not have aroused the warriors. That is why this foolish demonstration of irridentism lias provoked among us only a rather indulgent brand of cen sure. The enfant terrible has been scolded with gentleness. France is hot an ingrate. She has not forgotten the generous artist | whose earnest adjurations in her be- | half brought the sword of Italy j flashing from its scabbard. F(ir the second, time we are present at a tri umph of lyricism. And to-day we j can hardly remain insensible to j words which transform themselves into action, to a voice which be comes living flesh. The imprudent prank of d'Annunzio preserves the nobility of an ideal called to life by the lyre of Amphion. And we must reflect an instant- to appreciate how inconvenient such miracles are to [ statesmen who are trying to decide , what moves to make. While we have the deepest com- I passion for the vexed diplomatists I who certainly are perfectly right in defending the of the world against the . patriotic exaltation- of one I.atin, at the same time the na | tional co-operation of poet should I not be underestimated. Among our j peoples poets keep the flickering j flame of idealism aliwe. Plato was deficient in prudence in condemn- I ing them to exile. Education [He.vwood Broun in the New York Tribune.] • When the managing- editor gave us the book reviewing job he said that it would be an education for us. In a sense he was correct, but look ing back over the many books we have read since we lind it a little difficult to arrange the various facta which have swept past us. We re member much, but as yet it is largely unrelated. It suggests no theory of life to us, no plan of general culture, no scheme of human conduct. Per haps if we outlined the things which we have learned someone else" can help us to discover the interpreta tion: History—"Mr. Mantell first played 'Louis Xl' in St. Louis the night of November 6, 1908." Economics—"A girl may start at about $5 a week in a florist's shop to gain experience." Etymology—"The beetle feeds on the leaves of solanaceous planjs and prefers the potato above all others." World Politics—"As never before the Irish are united." Mathemat'cs —"Black, on the other hand, as people still remember .at Monte Carlo, one day came up twenty-nine xtimes in succession and the second dozen twenty-eight times without a break." Natural History—"Alcohol, even in minute quantities, is invariably fatal to "guinea pigs." Thalassogruphy—"Waves are un dulations of the water surface, us ually caused by winds and extend ing down Into the water sometimes for hundreds of feet." Physics—"Th'e two defensive half backs balance their own line." Esthetics—"With eleven working ycurs ahead, John McCormack will ieave a .name likely to be untouched by any other who has gone before and, in all reasonable likelihood, al most unattainable by any singer who may come after." Physiology—"White ' flour delays digestion." Sociology—"Each drink served wns 25 cents, and we managed to get six glasses of beer . from one bottle." Hope for Patients [From Puqcli, liondon.] "Surgical Instruments," says a news item, "are to be brought within the scope of the Profiteering Act." The exorbitant prices charged by eminent surgeons for forceps, clini cal thermometers and other instru ments 'assimilated by patients in the course of an operation have always been one Of the scandals of the pro <>■■l—l A Son's Letter To Dead Father Published to promote a better understanding between living fathers and their sons. EAR Dad: DI am waiting this to you, though you have been dead thirty years. From your seat in the Place Be yond I hope you can see these lines. I feel X must say some things to you, things I didn't know when I was a boy in your house, and things f was too stupid to saA'- It's only now, after passing through the long, hard school of years, only now, when my own hair is gray, that I understand how you felt. I must have been a bitter trial to you. 1 was such an ass. I be lieved my own petty wisdom, and I know now how ridiculous it was, compared to that calm, ripe whole some wisdom of yours. Most of all, I want to confess my worst sin. against you. It was the feeling I had that yoi* "did not un derstand." v ' When I look back over it now, I know that you did understand. You understood me better than I did my self. Your' wisdom flowed around mine like the ocean around an is land. And how patient you were with me! How full of long-suffering and kindness! And how pathetic, it now comes home to me, were your efforts to get close to me, to win my confi dence, to be my pal! I wouldn't let you. I couldn't. Impunity of Bolshevism [From the New York Times] In this city and a .number of others on Friday and Saturday nights agents of the Federal Gov ernment, assisted by the police, in vaded certain centers of revolution ary prffbaganda. Some hundreds of persons were arrested. The second anniversary of the Bolshevist revo lution dn Russia was thus remem bered. Bong accounts of the vigis lanoe and vigor of the officials were . printed in the newspapers. Rightly or wrongly, the public is - becoming cynical, suspicious of nil these spo radic incursions of the Federal au thorities into Bolshevikia. Is the public-.to be contented with "the in ference that it is the Government's purpose to deport as many of those taken as eon be proved to be crim inal anarchists?" Always there is talk about future deportations. It hasn't .been noticed that any great amount Of ship room has yet been required for the actu ally deported. "The inference" about the Government's intentions in last week's "raids" is drawn from the fact that the warrants upon which 149 persons were held were signed by the United States Com missioner of Immigration. Of those 149 deportables, how many will be deported? And what proportion are the caught to the uncaught? On October 16 a Federal official at | Washington told The Times corres pondent that "he estimated that there were at least 50,000 aliens in the United States who were openly or secretly working for a Bolshevist form of government' for this country." Even when one of these undesir ables is convicted in the courts, he I or she seems able to roam at liberty, i on bail, or stay, making incendiary I speeches. The evidence of far t reaching Bolshevist-unarchist actlv j ity has been spread before the I country for months. Something is | always going to be done about it. Not much has been done about it. "Over the Teacups" in , Germany The publishers of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Houghton Mifflin Com pany) are in receipt of an interest ing communication from n German publisher. Just as If nothing had happened. "I beg to hand you the enclosed statement- etc.* • * The definite accounts will follow as soon as international regulations con cerning rate of exchange and pay ments permit us to send them." American literature, unlike Ameri can popularity, appears to have thrived in Germany during the past five years, if the sale of "Over the Teacups" by Holmes is at all typi cal. This book, which 'did not sell very largely In that country before the war has Increased Its sale since 1913. reaching the highest point in ' 1918. What was it held me aloof? I don't know. But it is tragic—that wall that rises between a boy and his father, and their frantic attempts to see through it and climb over it. I wish you were here now, across the table from me, just for an hour, so that I could tell you how there's no wall any more; I understand you now, Dad, and, God! how I love you, and wish I could go. back and be your boy again. I know now how I could make you happy every day. I know how you felt. Well, it won't be till I am over, and I believe you'll be the first one to take me by the hand and help me up the further slope. And I'll put in the first thousand years or so making you realize that not one pang or yearning you spent on me was wasted. It took a good many years for this prodigal son— and all sons are in a measure prodi gal—to come to himself, but I've come, I see it all now. 1 know that the richest, most priceless thing on earth and the thing least understood, is that mighty love and tenderness and craving to help which a father feels toward his boy. For I have a boy of my own. And it is he that makes me want to go back to you, and get down on my knees to you. Up there somewhere in the Si lence, hear me, Dad, and believe me. • Why They Did It [Ry Stoddard King.] "The gallant men of our forces have accepted my statements as the substance of their own thought and purpose."—President Wilson. Joe Jimsonweed, a corporal from out in Kankakee, Went forth to meet a German squad and chased them up a tree. And as he did so, loud he cried above the battle's roar: "Hurrah for our dear President, and Peace Point No. 4." Pat Murphy of the horse marines, a leatherneck of old, Met up one day with seven Huns and laid the muckers cold, And murmured as he put an end to all their evil tricks: "My only motive was my love for Peace Point No. 6." Upon the battlefield was found right at the point of death, A gallant lad who said these words with scant and failing breath: " 'Tis sad to think that in this War I should have, met my fate: But never mind, I've done my bit for Peace Point No. 8." Oh, many times in bloodstained! France the standersby could hear ■ Our Yankees charge into the fray with this resounding cheer: "Hussah, hussah! We'll win the day and never shall we cease, Till we have forced upon the foe our fourteen points of peace." German Opera [The American Legion Weekly] German opera in the German language is not going to be a profit able enterprise in the United States this year. The American Legion, in sections where German opera has been attempted, has elected to fight this nuisance to the limit. Without going into a lot of detail it might be said simply that we do not like the sound of the German gutturals. The trouble with German opera in Ger man is that our minds hear not the theme so much as the shrieks of the Lusitaftla's dying. Its measured cadences picture not tender human emotions but a firing squad march ing qt the goose step upon defense less women and children. If it con jures up sequestered sylvan glades, we see lying thereon the moaning victims of poison gas. The last German opera In German we heard or want to hear was the Imperial Germqn Swan Song as rendered by Herr Hohenzollern, November 11, 1918, . Makes Known a Mystery Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from gen erations, but now is made manifest to the saints; to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; wtilch Is Christ in you, the I hope of glory.—-Colosslans 1, 88 to 27. ' • ' * ■ "* ■' NOVEMBER 11, 1919. Fundamental Principals— Scottish Rite Mr. McCumber. Mr. President, in these times of social upheaval and unbridled radicalism, when old stand ards of justice and right are dis tinctly scatteced to the winds, I think the voice of any organized so ciety calling out through the din of frenzied clamor for Sobriety and sanity of both word and action is most timely. 1 therefore present and ask to have read a resolution of the Su preme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite of Free masonry for the Southern Jurisdic tion of the United States of Amer ica, which has lately been in ses sion in the city of Washington and only closed its labors yesterday. The resolution is very short and I ask that it may be read by the Sec retary. The Presiding Officer. Is there ob jection? There being no objection, the Secretary will read the resolu tion. The Secretary read as follows: "Whereas the Great War has dis turbed old conditions and relations between men, and "Whereas the transition period is fraught with danger to our coun try and its institutions through precipitate judgment and ill di gested remedial measures on the part of the few but mostly through j the indifference and apathy of. the many, and "Whereas fanatical visionaries and I criminal intelligence with baser motives have seized this oppor tunity to promulgate their doc | trines of force and direct action regardless of right; now be it "Resolved, That the Supreme Court of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, assembled in bienhial session, does now re affirm its ancient doctrine and re peat its belief in: "Tlve fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man; that justice, truth and equity should govern all human actions; and above all, the need of organized government and constituted authority to express the will of the people, for the people, by the people, as distinguished from all forms of anarchy and mob rule; "That we commend in the high est terms the efforts of the Presi dent and the Congress of the United States of America to maintain the fundamental principles as pro claimed in the Constitution. "It further calls on all its' sub ordinate bodies to read this resolu tion to their members and when next assembled and to pledge them collectively and individually to the support of its purpose to maintain sane and reasoned judgment on all public questions, that our liberties and rights as Americans may be pre served and the freedom and dignity of our country be upheld." The State's Executive and ) Food Costs [From the Scranton Republican] As a result of the meeting of may ors, burgesses and district attorneys, held in Harrisburg last week, Gov ernor Sproul is much pleased with the spirit of co-operatjon revealed and is hopeful that a return to the old habits of thrift and industry will be effected. From chats that he had with men who attended the confer ence, the Governor says, he is con fident that they were deeply im pressed with what was said and done at the gathering and that at home they will take up the principal problem of the day. Unquestionably it will require a general movement to restore the normal conditions for which every one' yearns, but a step in the right direction is action against hoarding and profiteering which constitute very grave evils. There really has been no sugar shortage yet the people have been unable to get it and prices are ris ing. Various kinds of foodstuffs are plentiful yet that fact has not af fected pric,es. Even when some wholesale prices hive dropped the retail figures have remained the same. There is nothing more certain than that there is no justification for the prices that the people are compelled to pay, but how is the wrong being done daily to be cor rected? It must come through co operation and through the influence of public sentiment. i The Feet of Clay ' And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of Iron and part of clay, so the king dom shall be partly strong and partly broken. —Daniel U, 41 and 41. Hamtftig ®t}at Dauphin county has more deer roaming about in its woods than known In half a century in opln'" of one of the city's best po sportsmen and there will be son.w reports made at the end of tb hunting season by wardens whidl will definitely restore the capiU county to the list with good hunting grounds. A.few years ago appear, ance of a deer, even in the valleys that line the county above the first ridge, was the occasion for much stir and a buck swimming the Susque hunnu from Perry county brought newspaper notices. Half a doz*. years ago. when the State game tr thoritles arranged with the Forestt" Commission for use of a part of cr< Haldenjan reserve in the Dyker.' valley as a game preserve, there wo. a lot of objection und men not only said that it would not work, but that game would raid farms. The eastern end of the county above Grantville has always had a fair amount of game and men said that the deer would wander all around. The State authorities went ahead and put in 40 or 50 Michigan deer, apd these deer have multi plied and wandered, just as people i said they would, but they have pro vided more deer in the picturesque country north of Harrisburg, of which so few people know, than has been known since the Civil War. The deer are big, fine ones, too, and men who have seen them roaming around declare that there will be line hunting. Deer have even been seen on first mountain, while they have gotten lost along Clark's and Armstrong's creeks, it's rather an interesting thing to hear that deer are to be found and to afford good hunting within 25 miles of Harris burg. They have been closer than that in Perry and Cumberland counties, but in our own county onlv a few have been shot in recent years. State Game Commission officials who declared ten days ago, when ap plications for hunters' licenses were made in numbers never expected, that there might be 340,000 hunters licensed are revising their estimates an . o^ y , thnt thore is a possi bility of 360,000 or even 365,000 be ing reached. The number of appli far hoi! 1 ° entral counties has gono far beyond expectations or provis iosMi! n th he r Way of licenses . with the result that men are hunting with county treasurers' receipts as their licenses, in the big counties there Berks uZ man , y , ap P' lcan t8 and ♦ ill u i I and Lycoming coun llooo ™ unusual rushes for ihe licenses. The abundance of game do!!r Itf" 1 ? 1 ° f Boldiers UB cd to out door life in war campaigns or camp ?oo r n aPO ? 8 "? le for the b, "'P i'i licenses to hunt. lia !! . is not £° in " to want for wild turkeys when the season for these birds opens on Saturday November 15. This season runs ua i L.ri of the mon th and the bag limit is one for each hunter. Thanks to a closed season a few years ago ?"r t r u th ° St * te and P ro P a &ation "hronVi hi aVe been numerous bronze birds, as they are called in some counties, reported. The open ing of the turkey season will place the hunting season in full swing in •?. I J n J ylv , ania exce Pt for deer, which win be legal game from December to 15. The deer and bear seasons end on December 15. ♦ * *• The manner in which cars of hard coal are <Toming through Harris burg from points up the Northern Central railway is rather an inter esting comment in itself upon the soft coal strike. The Lykens valley shipments are commencing to mount and there is considerable coal coming from Northumberland county. Incidentally, the river coal demands have gone up remarkably and the river coal men are hopi.,g for an open winter because theirs is an industry that is onlv stopped by ice. The Stroller, writing in the Scran ton Republican, makes this interest ing comment: "The report which County Superintendent Tavlor has prepared for the State Department of Public Instruction shows that the farmers have continued the custom of keeping their elder children from the schools the first month or two of the year so that they can help in gathering the crops. While this has been a great handicap for school work the farmers have believed it necessary to use their children to gather in crops which are needed in a complicated food situation. Su perintendent Taylor does not regard the practice as a good one and re fers to it as "the old, old struggle between the present generation and the next." He declares the issue raised is "Has the father a right to rob his children of their dearest right, the right to be well educated and prepared for the struggle they must face soon." Recause of the practice In rural districts the county superintendent says that many rural pupils do not get the education from the schools that they should." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Mayor A. M. Hoagland, of Wil liamsport, has announced another sale of army foods in his city as an answer to criticisms. —Secretary of Agriculture Ras mussen is to speak itt Chicago this week. : Dr. R. F. Trainer, well known Williamsport man, is attending the American Legion convention. W. R. Nicholson, Philadelphia banker, is celebrating 25 years as president of one of the big trust companies. —F. P. O'Olier, boomed for presi dent of the American Legion, is a Phlladelphlan and was active in the movement for formation of the or ganization. —Tudor Aston, well known min ing official, has been named to a new high post with the Temple Coal Company. —E. F. Howell, well known here, is the new sheriff of Wyoming county. j DO YOU KNOW • —That Harrisburg has fur nished hundreds of tons of steel for the making of cars used for Government work In the war? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —When the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge was opened people came from many miles around to see the first train move over It
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