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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
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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.