12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH IA NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published eveningo except Sunday by (BE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Mecnpk Building, Federal Sgaarc E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P.'IL OYSTER, Business Manager 3US. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board MP." McCULLOUGH, M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. 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 fished herein, ill rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa lation and Penn- Assoc ia- flee. Avenue_ Building. Story, Brooks & I Chicago, 111. ' n *' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. xgSgSK By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 1919 From the lowest depths, there is i path to the loftiest height. —Car- LYLE. THE COAL STRIKE THE Government has won its point in the coal strike. The majesty and authority of con stituted law have been upheld. The loft coal strike has been called off. Out the causes lying back of it and the grievances of the miners, whether real or imagined, remain to be set tled. The union chiefs have bowed to the law. They have declared them selves to be law-abiding citizens. That places them upon a new plane and in a position where they must be given every consideration to which their rights as Americans en title them. They have differences with the op trators. The operators say the de mands are unjust. The miners say the operators are unreasonable and arbitrary. Doubtless there is some thing to be said on both sides. Neither would listen to argument or to reason before the strike, much as both sides tried to make it appear that they desired a peaceful settle- j ment. Now we have reached a place | where both sides must listen to rea- j ion. It must be conceded that the work f the miner is of such a character' is to warrant considerations thatj would not be admissible in other i tines of labor. But the six-hour day and the five-day week do not meet with popular approval. Indeed, that was the rock which split public senti ment away from the coal miners' cause, which heretofore almost in variably has had popular support. The operators, however, must not I read into the outcome of the strike and the apparent displeasure of the public with the course the mine workers have taken as a wholesale approval of everything the operators have contended. The public is in no mood to stand anything like arro . gance from either side, but it will lis ten to reason and it will base its final Judgment as to the rights in the dis pute on the facts in the case as they are developed. It behooves both sides to approach the coming arbitration with clean hands, with nothing but the facts on the table and each ready to abide by whatever decision shall 'be reached. The verdict in this case is going to be rendered by public opin ion, and neither side is going to be permitted to "put anything over" 011 the people. Those folks who are defying the authority of the United States might take a lesson from the biograph of one Jefferson Davis. A LOSS TO THE CITY HUNDREDS of friends of George S. Reinoehl, who will rejoice in his promotion to an impor tant post in the service of the Bell Telephone Company, will regret that his advancement will necessitate his removal from Harrisburg. Mr. Reinoehl has been a good citizen. He has been a leader in many move ments for civic betterment and has worked energetically and effectively ■wherever he has been asked to serve. He has been a constructive force in the community and his go ing will be a loss to the city. We used to think that the United States government was ail powerful; BOW we know it. ONE COMMON ISSUE WE ARE fast approaching the Presidential year. in a month or two plans will be well under way for the spring pri maries, when delegates to the Na tional conventions will be chosen. Here and there an early bird has announced his candidacy, but in neither party is there evidence of concerted movement in any direc tion. This much alone is certain— that President Wilson will not be a WEDNESDAY EVENING, candidate for a third term. Even though he had the inclination, which does not seem likely, his physical condition would not permit. Nor is there anything more definite on the Republican side. The recent elections have shown a distinctive trend toward Republican ism, but even more pronounced is the verdict of a great majority of the voters for straight-from-the-shoul der, true-blue Americanism. No can didate before either convention will stand any show of nomination whose record is not as clean as a hound's tooth on that issue. The Republi cans in. Massachusetts went into their fight on that score, made pa triotism their platform and won out. i President Wilson, who knew what was at stake, but failed to face Araer j icanism before his party, neglecting I to endorse the Republican candidate ! previous to the election, promptly ! congratulated the winner on his I "victory for law and order." And so both parties will go before | the people with Americanism as the I basic plank in their platforms, which is an excellent prospect in these hec tic times. Those Democrats who went down to defeat in Pennsylvania and else where are not unmindful of the re sentment of the electorate against the impossible theories of the Wilson administration and the unnecessary upset of the country resulting from purely arbitrary action in many in stances. THAT SIX-HOUR DAY THE Telegraph is in receipt of a letter from a Harrisburg woman, who signs herself "Machinist's Wife," which contains so much of good humor and witty observation on a vital topic that we I shall overlook the usual rule of re quiring the real name of the writer to quote a paragraph or two. She writes, concerning the proposed six hour day; I'm glad my husband does not have to work twelve hours, as he used to do, but I'm not very keen about this talked-of six hours day. five days a week. I think every man ought to have a holi day once every so often, but holidays every day are bad for anybidy. I think. And beside, I have a notion of my own, that I know one husband who would want a lot more attention in the way of clean shirts, more elab orate meals and the like if he took time off for more than he is now having. And that brings me right down to hard cases on the woman's side of this argu ment. With the men working less and less. and suffrage coming along, and more work of a household nature coming along as a result of the shorter work ing day for men. how about a strike of us women for the six hour day? Oh. I know you will say, if your husband is home more he would help you more, but I ask you. folks, did you ever know a husband who didn't think his wife had an easy thing of it? So. if husbands are becoming so feeble they cannot work more than six hours a day do you suppose weak women are going to keep right on working seven days a week, from 12 to 14 hours a day. while their husky husbands are at the baseball game or bawling around . the house for their meals? And about a half column more of the same sort of observation. It's a side of the shorter day agi tation. we confess, we had not thought about. But it would be em barrassing. would it not, if the joy of our household declined absolutely to provide a meal at 6 in the evening because she had prepared breakfast at 6 in the morning; or if she re fused to feed the baby and put the infant to bed because she had washed, and dressed and fed it in the morning. Decidedly, there are limitations to this six-hour day business, for it appears that what is sauce for*the gander ought to be sauce also for the goose. Thanks, dear correspondent, you have given us, in our capacity as a faithful and dutiful husband, some thing to consider. Some of us working men apparently have start ed something we may have diffi culty in finishing. These rainy days are certainly sav ing the lives of a lot of rabbits. AT CEXTRALIA IT IS dangerous business for any party of citizens to take the law into their own hands, no matter how great the provocation, for, as Governor Sproul said the other day, "nobody can tell where tt may lead." But if ever there was excuse for a lynching it was at Centralia yester day, where members of the American Legion hanged an I. W. W. leader who had fired into an Armistice Day parade and killed a returned soldier. The assault was unprovoked. The I. W. W. assassins lay behind the barricade of their headquarters and fired without warning into the pa raders. The service men, angered beyond the point of waiting for the formality of the law, hanged one of their assailants, tore out the front of the I. W. W. hall, smashed its contents and appropriated the guns for themselves. The men who fought in France had been trained to ac tion. They had faced guns before, and the manner in which they turned upon the cowards who attacked them from places of hiding will be a lesson that will not b'e lost upon others of the I. W. W. tribe. It will be a long time before American Legion men are again assaulted in similar manner. There never has been a question as to where the veterans of France stood in the conflict between au thority and lawlessness, but last night's murderous attack will weld the ex-soldiers together as a mighty force to smash the I. W. W. and similar organizations wherever they raise their poisonous heads. Do you rememDcr the time when you used to throw your old shoos away? If Mr. Dcmain isn't a little bit more seasonable. Thanksgiving will have to be postponed a week or two. ~Po6ttCco £k By the Kx-Committeeman The decidedly energetic manner in which the Republicans of Luzerne, Lackawanna and other counties of the hard coal field are moving to end the ballot frauds which have been the subject of so much dis • cussion the last few years and which | have resulted in contest after con : test in the courts is attracting atten- I tion. The Luzerne movement, which , was forecast when John H. Dando j became the Republican county chair : man, will go right to the root of the j trouble. It is said that long be i fore the primary the Republicans I of Luzerne prepared for a clean up. Chairman Dando. whom the | Wilkes-Barre Record called "the i fighting chairman," , declared dur ing the campaign that he proposed to end the talk about frauds. In Scranton and Pottsville similar moves are under way on the part of men tired of seeing charges of crookedness brought up continual ly. —David B. Oliver, who served as a member of the School Code Com mission and as a member of the State Board of Education, has been elected president of the Pittsburgh Board of Education for the ninth time. Taylor Allerdice, prominent businessman, was elected vice-pres ident. Mr. Oliver and Mr. Allerdice serve as unsalaried officers. The salaries of Secretary Gerwig and So licitor McCreery were continued at $5,000 a year each. The board re ceived from Common Pleas Court notice of reappointment, for the usual terms of six years each, of all five members of the board of 15 members whose terms expired. These are C. j C. Connelley, Mrs. Mary J. Cowley. Frank E. Frees, John H. Mcllroy and Philip Murray. _ —Mayor-elect Dan L. Hart, of Wilkes-Barre, who is well known to men in politics throughout the State, was guest of honor at a dinner of the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, which pledged ljim their support in every thing he might want for the better ment of the Luzerne city. —Congressman Edgar R. Kiess, of the Williamsport district, who was here yesterday for a time, was just as keen about the availability of Governor William C. Sproul for the presidential nomination as he was when he gave his interview to the Williamsport Gazette and Bulle tin which was widely printed in the State and outside. The Congress man is very strong for the Governor and says he has been telling his friends at Washington that he is the very man that the Republican party needs. Incidentally, folks here are tha opinion that Congressman Kiess is in good shape for a return battle in his district. —Auditor General Charles A. Snyder is being complimented at the Capitol upon the splendid show ing of the Republicans of Schuyl kill. This county, like Dauphin. Cumberland. Lackawanna and some others, just rose up and put the Democrats where they belonged. The Republicans of Schuylkill polled nearly 20,000 votes. Representative "Cy" Palmer got 19,503 votes for district attorney and F. C. Ball 19,- 931 for register of wills. Schuylkill has become one of the towers of the Pennsylvania Republican organiza tion and the way its vote came out shows that its electors are tired of Democratic thunder. —John Lupport. former member of the House from Lycoming county, has been elected head of the Lycom ing county Manufacturers' Associa tion. —The rout of Bruce Sterling's army in the Twenty-third congres sional district at the election last! week continues to furnish the Re publican newspapers of Fayette county tvith much material for com ment. Sterling was aided by every thing that the Federal government! and the Palmer machine could give • him and made a desperate effort to retrieve his fortunes in his congres sional district, as did a certain other Democrat now in political shadow in a district talong the Susque hanna. He used all the old cam paign schemes, just as was done here, and he got out a big vote. And Sterling not only lost his own coun ty but suffered losses in other coun ties of the district. This is what i the Connellsville Courier has to say about it: "The loss of its entire county ticket and the wrecking of its carefully repaired machine in Fa yette is not the only distress New Freedom Democracy of the Twenty third Congressional district suffer ed at the recent election. Heart breaking as was the tragedy of crushed hopes in failing to divide the Republicans of Fayette into two hostile factions and the failure to j capture enough of the offices to give I the Barefoot organization some sent- | blance of standing with the Palmer j State outfit, the blow dealt over in ! the State of Greene was the one that almost killed father." —Somerset county's official re turns present an interesting . study. The statement as made by the court says: Nonpartisan election: Judge of the Superior Court, William H. Keller, 3,631; JVidge of the Court of Common Pleas, John A. Berkey, 4,- 582; high sheriff. Republican and Democrat. John W. Griffith, 6,043; Ben Marks, Socialist, 3 47. —Republicans of Reading are planning for a parade and various other celehrat'ons next month when | Mayor John Keim Stouflfer is inaug- j urated. It will mean the clearing j out of Democratic administration in the Berks county capital for the first time in years. —The Altoona Tribune says that Dan Brumbaugh appears to have "hopes" in starting his contest of the election of mayor In Altoona. —The Shuman-Gennaria contest in Columbia county is attracting the whole State. Charges that the Re publican candidate was counted out by desperate Democrats are being made very freely. The fight will go into court. —The Johnstown Tribune in a lengthy editorial urges the people of that community to give their best effort to the planning of improve ments in the Conemaugh metropolis. The city has Just gone through a strenuous election and is near the end of its strikes, it is hoped. The Tribune says: "The overwhelming vote of approval for the proposed school bond issue, following within two years of the citizens' approval of a sewer bond issue. Indicates a growth of --public sentiment in the city for a comprehensive plan of public improvements." Wheeltcss Immigrants i [From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.] If immigrants are to come to this ] from other countries it should be I understood we want no more of I them who have wheels in their heads. KARRISBURG TELEGRAPH WONDER WHAT A PRINCE THINKS ABOUT? By BRIGGS IHS IS A GREAT OH-H-H Those J. 15 U * E XO 1 HAVE T 0 LAUGH LIFE- I WONDER SPEECHES - EVERY" THAT LMA REGULAR QPESH JS^L -"".TZS 7 H U S \ E ' N TO'W M E OON ; T GTV! M! . ;°v® K - I OPPOSE ,ve GOT KEYS TO A Chance, THEY'RE * SCREAM! 'o? YUM'akd* r ££" ' M.'SWmsT THIS PRINCE SO THIS IS AMERICA? 1 Lt- .SAY Tue GLRLS WHOO! I'M SLEEPY BUSINESS IS A WELL - VA/ET-L VAJEIL - ARE PF *^ T T*' Q'ZRE WONDER HOW I FUMHV BUS I MESS To THEV TELL ME THE , F , WASN'T A PRINCE WONPER H°VN I Rl= IN WONDER GIRLS ARE PRETTIER . DON'T SUPPOSE! ID HAPPENED To BE HOW PA AND MA HERE THAN IN ANY HAVE ANY BETTER A PRINCE - THAT'S HOW PA ANH MA OTHec? COUNTR y_ XAjeLL THAN ANYBODY WHAT I'D Ll<E ARE TONIGHT, IM SHOW ME !! TERRIBLY ELSE To KnIOW KINDA HOWES ICK HANDICAPPED THiS BEING A PRIMCE When You Mention—"Car" You cannot live in peace, for jour troubles will increase. If an auto salesman hears you mention—"car." He will haunt you like a hound, and he's sure to run you down If he has the least idea where you are. In a day or two more, salesmen haunt you by the score. For they come from near and many from afar. They bring cars, with one accord, you don't want or can't afford If they hear that you have merely | mentioned—"car.'* When you rise in early morn and have tasks you must per form, Down the road there comes a guy behind the wheel. To interest you he'll try for he's heard you "wish to buy," And you hesitate to say the things you feel. When you've plainly told him, "No," he still hesitates to go. And he'll hand you out a nice big fat cigar. Hd persuades you to get in and he takes you for a spin "Cause he's heard you've got the money for a car. He shows yoif how it works, how it pulls and never jerks, How for using "juice" it certainly is a star. He explains to you the gears shows how easily "she steers," And tells you why a gallon goes so far. He pushes in the clutch, shows you just what things to touch, And explains just why she starts without a jar. Then he takes you down a grade,, shows you how the brakes are made For he's sure he's going to sell to you a car. He takes you through the sand at a rate to beat the band, And soon from home you And you're very far. Then he turns the auto 'round and you're glad you're homeward bound For you're thinking of your work and not the car. Now you're spinning through the breeze, but the auto has to sneeze And begins to act as though it had catarrh. It is plainly to be seen, that she's out of gasoline And you're going to stay awhile just where you are. After purchasing some gas, and leading foolish horses past, Once again upon the homeward stretch you are; Now he shows a little speed, for it's almost time to "feed," And anyway he's sure you'll buy the car. When home at last you reach, he exclaims, "Isn't she a peach? And just see she made the trip without a mar: Now what say you to a deal? You; will never have cause 10 squeal, } And b'lleve me! among machinies this is THE car." | When he's driven off at last, and you scarcely have passed To your work which you've neglected all day long; Then you cuss because you've got to; down the road there comes an auto. And another salesman comes to sing bis song. —Joseph A. Bell. Steelton, Pa. Life and Death Sentences [From the Review] I The American people may as well [ make up their minds now to prepare I for an emergency. It must learn to ! shift for itself in a pinch. It must |be ready to mine its own coal, to transport its own materials, and above all to get along without those things which the stress of an emer gency will render impossible of sup ply. It will be an arduous and costly business, but it offers the only means of persuading those who do not yet know of the existence of a public, or who under bad leadership have defied it, to resume with full con sciousness their place in it. The | Issues are not less than those of life : and death, and life is worth having (at the cost of a little sharp discipline endured with perfect confidence of ultimate success. When the public | stands ready to strike it strikes once land strikes no more—at least for a very long time. RATTLESNAKE AND BOLSHEVIST. [Manufacturers Record, Baltimore, Md.] WHEN a rattlesnake bed is found every wise man recog nizes the necessity of imme diately killing the reptiles in order that they may not continue to breed an increasing supply of these deadly enemies to mankind. The rattlesnake as its worst, how ever, is harmless as compared with the alien Bolshevists who are seek ing to strike at the very life of this Government. The rattlesnake gives warning and then strikes at the in dividual man. The Bolshevist strikes at the life of a nation of 110,000,000 people; and the Bolshevist, per mitted to breed malice and with his infernal activity keep on breeding it,'is ever putting forth a new brood of poisoners of the Nation's life. Why should America permit the rattlesnake Bolshevists to remain in this country, ever breeding more Bolshevist rattlesnakes, whose fangs are sinking deep into the life of the country? PiVy or sympathy for such people would be akin to pity for Satan himself. They no more deserve the sympathy of men than does Satan. And yet we permit them to roam our country unmolested, to pour their poison into the foun tains of national life and to strike wherever it is possible; and that, too, without the warning of the rat tlesnake, and with a venom sur passing that of the deadly rattler. And the Nation goes on its way ap parently ignoring the fact that ev ery rattlesnake Bolshevist menaces the life of our Government, and in menacing our Government menaces all human liberty. These Bolshevists should be sent back to the country from which they came or be imprisoned for life. Never again should they be permit ted to put their foot on American soil. This country is not a home for anarchists and Bolshevists, and all of that accursed breed. This is a land dedicated to human freedom, After the Sugar Profiteers [From The Philadelphia Inquirer.] From New York comes the cheer ing news that two men charged with profiteering in sugar in that city have been indicted by the Federal grand jury. Under the amendment to the Lever act recently signed by the President it is now possible to go after the food pirates just the same as during the war. Many deal ers have had the feeling that as long as the war was over they were justified in gouging the consumer to the limit. Many of them have done so, and the worst punishment met/3 out to them heretofore has been a little unwelcome publicity. But now under the enlarged power given to the authorities it is possible to ar rest and punish those who would profit by the misfortunes of their fellow citizens. It may have been noticed that the Federal District Attorney in New York moved with great vigor and dispatch in disposing of the two I oases under consideration, and that ;he stands prepared to prosecute j whenever there is evidence to Justify I him in going before the grand Jury, j The law in itself could easily become a dead letter if it were not enforced | with intelligence and strength. In I a word, everything depends upon the energy and the disposition of the Federal attorney. New York is for tunate enough to have the right kind of a man in that office, and there is every reason for believing that the indictments which have been found agninst the profiteering sugar dealers will serve as a warning to all of those who may be tempted to make money in such a questionable way. What has been done in New York should be repeated in every city where it is possible to get evidence against sugar gougers, and all of | those who profiteer in the neces j saries of life. i Highest Village on Earth I [From Scientific American Supple ment.] A writer in a recent isue of L'As tronomie calls attention to a tiny village in Kashmir, which holds the lofty distinction of being the high est on earth. This village, which bears the name Karzok, is located at latitude 32 degrees 58 minutes 0.90 seconds north and longitude 78 degrees 18 minutes 13.95 seconds ! east from Greenwich. Its altitude is 4,556 meters or 14,946 feet. The village contains a few wretched stone houses and a small Buddhist monastery. but not to the wild license of those who would destroy this freedom. The rattlesnake is a lover of hu man kind as compared with the Bolshevist. The rattlesnake in its deadliest anger is a friend of the man at whom it strikes its poisoned fangs as compared with the Bolshevist's hatred for all government, and es pecially for this Government; for if the Bolshevists could destroy the American Government they would then largely dominate the world, and bring to all the world that reign of terror ,of blood and of unspeak able crimes under which Russia has suffered. We might as well undertake to deny the existence of the rattlesnake when we were looking at a bed of rattlesnakes, as to undertake to deny the danger of the Bolshevists, permitted freely, as they are, to carry on their campaign for the dis ruption of our country. No man who seeks the overthrow of this Government should be al lowed to remain in America unless closely guarded in a prison. No sentimental idea that this is a great meltingpot should be permitted to prevail when dealing with a Bol shevist, or with any other man who would overturn and destroy our re public. Wherever Bolshevism raises its poisoned fangs it should be utter ly destroyed, Just as we would seek to destroy a bed of rattlesnakes; and the men responsible for the breeding of Bolshevism should be hunted down until the last o.ne is in prison, or in the land from which he came. We want none of them, either dead or alive; but if they are to remain here, infinitely better would it be for our country and for all the world's civilization for them to be aead than alive. Aggressive action on the part of the Government, the hunting down with unceasing vigilance every an archist and Bolshevist, and deport ing or imprisoning them, should be the universal demand of all right thinking people. Tucked In When the long, long day is over, And the stars shine overhead, When the weary little rover Is at last put into bed, When the sweet goodnight is murmured While the drozy eyelids steep, "Tis the time to "tuck in" baby Just before he falls to sleep. Oh, the love thoughts mother whispers. And the tender things she'll think As she hovers over baby While his sleepy eyelids blink; For her love is then more heartfelt. And her sympathy more deep, ! When she stoops to tuck in baby E'er he tumbles off to sleep. When our long, long day is over, And our life work all is done, When we turn our weary eyelids Toward the setting of the sun; Oh, we only ask Thee, Father, E'er we tumble off to sleep, That you tuck your love around us When the darkness starts to creep. —Edna Groft Diehl, for the Tele graph. Wild Cats and Liberty Bonds A fellow I read about in a story once said to another fellow: "Can a wildcat hatch eggs? No. He'll make a yallery mess of 'em!" I think of that every time I read the literature of one of those get rich-quick outfits that want to take the nest-egg saving from an Ameri can on the promise to make it mul tiply. The get-rich-quick promoter is the wildcat of finance. He has no more ability to make a small sum of money grow into a big sum than the wildcat of the woods has to raise a rooster from a hen's egg. Hong You are my sky: beneath your cir cling kindness My meadows all take in the light and grow, Laugh with the Joy you've given, The joy you've given And open in a thousand buds, and blow. But when you are somber, sad, averse, forgetful. Heavily veiled in clouds that brood with rain, Dumbly I lie all shadowed, I lie nil shadowed. And dumbly wait for you to shine again. J. C, Squire, in the Owl. NOVEMBER 12, 1919. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hunters Threaten Farmer To the Editor of the Telegraph: On November 6, 1919, about 4.39 o'clock, I was busy husking corn in my corn field. I saw four hunters dressed in hunting suits, with four hunting dogs, coming right through the farm, past a trespass notice. 1 have ten trespass notices put up on the farm. I asked them why they did not respect those notices and they said nothing. I told them I did not allow hunting on this farm and that they must get off at once. Tlicy said they would not do as I said, but would go the way they pleased. I told them to get their dogs to gether and get off at once, as they were breaking the law, and that 1 did not go to their places and tres pass without permission. One big fellow, wearing glasses, said to me: "Yes, you bring your damn old junk to Carlisle and sell it at double price." I told him, "if you don't get your dogs together now and get off this farm at once, I can by law, shoot these dogs." He said, "If you shoot one of those dogs, I will shoot you." I said, "What did you say. sir," and he said, "I will shoot you if you shoot any of those dogs." I could not get their hunting license numbers as they kept their shoulders having their license numbers away from me so I could not get the numbers. I want the people to know how these hunters from Carlisle act when they come out here in Middle sex township, and what they will do. J. HOLMES WILSON. p a. and Liberty Bonds [Prom The Philadelphia Inquirer.] According to official estimates there are in this State somewhat over eight and one-half millions of people, or about 8 per cent, of the total population of the Country. As against this the people of Pennsyl vania subscribed to more than 10 per cent, of the total issues of Fed eral bonds during the war. The average is figured out at something more than $312 for each man, Woman or child, or substantially $1,500 for each family. The average for the whole Country is $232 and $1,160, respectively. This shows that Pennsylvania did more than its share, but probably not more than its wealth should have produced. All statistics as to National wealth are mere estimates and generally are incorrect. About the only basis for real estate Is to take the taxable figures and give a guess as to what the real amount should be. Thus in the South, where cotton lands are highly productive, in a good crop the farm values are low on any estimate ever vet at tempted. In this State our "wealth is a little more obvious and more easily determined. Pennsylvania has done its share and probably a little more, but in securing investments of $2,709,947,- 800 it was only enriching itself, it is a matter of self-congratulation rather than of pride. If all those bonds had been retained by pur chasers the country over, results would have been happier. Unfor tunately abort $10,000,000 worth of these bonds are being sold every day In the open markets and many more at private sale. The Govern ment has been the heaviest pur chaser for the Sinking Fund, but prices refuse to go up. They will not increase until this flood of sell ing ceases, and it is unfortunate that so many strikers walk out cheerfully just because (hey have bonds enough to keep them going for some time, c\ en if they sell them at a heavy discount. The man who sells his bonds unnecessarily does himself a great injustice and the Nation a real injury. General Wood's Service [From Harpers Weekly.] The splendid efficient work of the federal army at Gary, as formerly at Omaha, is a reminder of the value of that branch of the government in domestic as well as in foreign af fairs, and in time of peace as well as in war. General Wood wag not permitted to serve his country abroad; but not only in spite of but actually because of that unjust and odious discrimination against him, he has had an opportunity in his own land to render military service not less essential and vital than that which his comrades In arms ren dered at Chateau-Thierry and in the Argonne; indeed, a service requiring if possible the exercise of even greater discretion and fortitude. It Is a great thing to win a victory by "straight fighting" over a foreign soil. It is certainly no less great to win a victory over equally malignant foes on home soil and to do so not merely by force of arms, but still more by the discreet exercise of the highest faculties of civil as well as of military administration. looting dtjat Now that the filling In of the Cap itol Park Extension has advanced so that people can observe the grades that will be established one can got un Idea of what a hole the extension of the State domain, which is to bo the civic center of a Commonwealth, has made in Harrisburg. Prof J Howard Wert in a series of articles printed some years ago gave tho salient facts of the history of the thoroughfares wiped out when tho State bought the blocks and began to demolish the houses, while in this column tit ere have been told the stor ies of Lafayette Hall, Alderman Simpson s oltice, the way Tanner's alley was named, how Eighth street disappeared and Canal street was overlooked, how the neighborhood ' lhesm ron ).fhe h °me of Irish fam- ® ettlen ent of the colored lolks and how the people from Po land and other nations of -the near East came in and built synagogues and put Jewish characters on store windo\vs that used to advertise weiss beer. These highways had interest ing municipal history, poliee reputa tion and political significance. Bat they and their denizens have gone and the old wooden houses that every firemen used to expect to make a conflagration some windy night dis appeared under the hands of the wreckers without a fire alarm. What park extension means to tho city is that a section of State street is Just taken off the map. South ami Cranberry streets lose their eastern ends and become like Locust and c Pine. Cowden street loses a link in its vertebrae, while Fourth street will end at Walnut and resume its north ern travels at Verbeke and Seventh will never realize its ambition to get to Market, much less Walnut. Filbert, Short and Poplar streets just disap pear from the map. So do North and South alleys, which ran parallel to and on either side of State. West alley also loses part of its length and Angle alley, the only thoroughfare in Harrisburg built on a right anglod principle joins Christy's court in tho memories of old-time policemen. Ten years from now people will have to stop and study as to where these highways were located just as folks born down town have to puzzle over Meadow Lane and Mary's alley. The Muzzle Club of Harrisburg, which is composed of the "fellers that write things" on the newspapers of this city and are correspondents, will be revived to-night at the Penn- Harris where after a lapse of two years, blamed on the war, the scribes will hold a dinner in a room to be known in honor of the clubs, us is the Clover Club room in the Bellevue- Stratford. In time the room will con tain numerous newspaper souvenirs and will be an interesting place for dinners. The club was organized back in the winter of 1904 and is unique in the country as it exists only for the purpose of having dinners. When it was formed there was much perturbation among the newspapers because of the Pennypacker press muzzier law which was enacted in 1903 and the club was named for that law, due notice being given to Gover nor Samuel W. Pennypacker, who sent the club his picture and wished it success. The Governor also sent it some letters from time to time and once remarked that something beside the memory of the muzzier had sur vived. Governors Edwin S. Stuart and John K. Tener always made it a point of attending its dinners which used to be held at the Harrisburg Club and were some occasions. The only qualification is that a man must be able to write a personal that will get by a city editor and that he must earn his living "writing pieces for the papers." * * * One of Harrisburg's well-known businessmen has a son with a scien tific mind. The young man collects various specimens of the flora and fauna, live and geologic and has a fad for writing for catalogs of various things. He occasionally turns in some surprises in the way of sugges tions for buying. The other day the father announced that he had a solu- p tion for some problems of the farm and that men who complained of horses and the erratic conduct of some tractors when put to agricul tural use. "Buy an elephant," said he. "What's wrong? Has your lunch affected you?" was one of the queries shot at him. "Lions are quoted at $1,500 and a pair of silver foxes at $3,500, but the elephant trained to work can be had for $3,200. Therefore, the elephant is the best buy," was his reply with out being ruffled. Severe questioning elicited the fact that the young scientist had been in communication with a mail order house that deals in live animals for menageries. • One of the features of yesterday was the query. "Where were you a year ago?" This seemed to be the popular form of greeting among ser vice men and they seemed to take a delight in calling each other up and asking the question. Quite a few were stumped, but their memories were quickened when they heard the whistles blowing for 11 o'clock and the end of the war. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ , —Attorney General William I. Schafter is confined to his home at Chester with a severe cold. —Murdock Kendrick, much in the political talk at Philadelphia, is a lawyer and cousin of Freeland Ken drick, prominent Mason and Shriner. —Dr. Theodore L. Hazlett, new head at Mont Alto, is a Pittsburgh surgeon and served in the National Guard on the border and in the war. —Dr. Louis Nusbaum, of Philadel phia, is planning a series of cam paigns in Philadelphia to help the aliens. —Mayor-elect John Keim StaulTar, of Reading, is going to take a trip to Washington to see the newspaper- m men with whom he used to work. —John C. Bane, Pittsburgh lawyer well known in the State, is a mem ber of the committee of Allegheny lawyers named to Investigate the Margolis speeches. —Judge J. J. Bufllngton, of the United States courts, is taking af* prominent part in the campaign to have aliens become citizens. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg is furnishing steel for Government work now and making many supplies far the Navy? ■ HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg people contributed foi the first trees planted in Capital !£ Park.
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