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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1918 When you can't remove an obsta cle plow around it.— Lincoln - BY LAW, OR OTHERWISE ATTORNEY GENERAL PAL MER makes the amazing state ment that the Department of Justice has no means of stopping the flood of I. W. W. propaganda with which he hears the northwest is to be inundated, and adds that some "overt act" must be committed before he can act. In the name of all that is pa triotic, if the circulation of seditious literature designed to stir men to ] such acts of lawlessness as that at Centralia, where defenseless men j were shot down in cold blood by I. W. W. revolutonaries, is not an 1 "overt act," what is? But if it be true that our Federal 1 laws are so weak, then it behooves ' Congress to put into the hands of the Attorney General, and that quickly, such' an instrument as will enable him to stop these mission aries of frightfulness in their war fare against the United States gov ernment and society in general. We do not want a renewal in the northwest of the old Ku Klux (|kn •f the South following the Civil where men, goaded to the point of desperation by outrages of carpet baggers and other lawless elements which the government would not or could not reach, took the law into their own hands and meted out jus tice according to their own convic tions and prejudices. Many an inno cent man suffered at the hands of these self-constituted regulators of the community or of those who covered their crimes with the Ku Klux mask. But something like that is bound to occur where government is supine or law is lacking. When Americans cannot reach by legal means those who would destroy their government It has Invariably happened that they found a less de sirable, even if more forceful, way of dealing with them. Even now a secret society is form ing among members of the American Legion in the northwest to deal vio lently with the I. W. W.. and it may be depended upon to take the law Into its own hands if those who should be active in suppressing the plotters and assassins do not re spond vigorously and promptly to the challenge. However much we may desire to see I. W. W. mem bers punished or driven from the country, no good American wants to see it done outside the law. The American Legion is waving the red lantern on the Red radicals. • TAKE YOUR PICK NCLE JIMMIE" LATHAM. I J of Chestnut Ridge, Lancas ter county, who has been recognized as the official weather forecaster of that district since he t returned from General Sherman's march to the sea, now predicts an open winter, giving his reasons as the following: The squirrels have stored up only small quantities of nuts. The wishbone of the goose is thin. The fur of the fox is light. The woolly worm has no stripes. Far be it from us to cast discredit upon so venerable a weather prophet as "Uncle Jimmie," but we arise to ask what peculiar qualifica tion of weather prognosticating at tach to Sherman's famous march, and how does the woolly worm ex pect to ward oft the snow by neglect ing to put on his winter stripes? Also, we thought it was the color of the goosebone, not its weight, that counts with the weatherwise, and anybody knows that the squirrels liaven't laid many chestnuts be cause the blight has killed most of the trees. Beside, our good friend Grant Forrer tells us that in Wildwood Park the — Thornapple trees are unusually full of the fruit that the birds eat when the snows are heavy. The weeds are unusually tali, as they ordinarily grow when the 1 V' ; THURSDAY EVENING, snow Is deep, in order that their seed pods may stand clear of the drifts. And the muskrats have built their homes very high this year. All of which is respectfully sub mitted in rebuttal, but. viewing the matter from the standpoint of our diminishing coal pile, we sincerely hope "Uncle Jimmie" has the right end of the argument. Girl Scouts are opposed to the use of face powder and paint, and some of the young women who use both might take lessons from these good-looking, wholesome looking girls. THE SHIP OF DEATH ON SUNDAY, November 9, a com- i mittee composed of six sen ators and six representatives arrived in New York City to meet the steamer Lake Daraga, a ship which might better have been chris tened the Ship of Death. Upon this ship arrived the bodies of 111 American soldiers who were killed or who died in the ice-bound regions of northern Russia. American soldiers sacrificed upon the altar of internationalism! What argument beneath the heavens can be expounded to justify the untimely and unnecessary death of these men? Were we at war with Russia or any faction of that ka leidoscopic so-called government? Was the Congress of the United States consulted when these men were sent to their doom? Secretary Baker has never given a satisfactory explanation of the authority which prompted him to dispatch these troops. More than a year ago he promised they would all be returned to this country by June. 1919. They were not returned by that date, as is well evidenced by the trip of The Ship of Death. These 111 men, protectors of thej American flag, can never be restored to their places in the ranks of the American Army. Their death has | marked a crimson page in the his- I tory of this country. There is only one hope in the sacrifice they made. That is the indelible record, the "handwriting on the wall" which speaks against internationalism with all its attendant evils. What a story these men could have told if they could have spoken to the committee of men representing the people of the United States who met their last earthy remains! But their dead bodies spoke louder than words. Their bodies must have stood as if in a struggle to form a stone wall between this country and the danger of entangling alliances. Need the advocates of inter nationalism, those who would throw this country into the everlasting cauldron of European controversy, any greater lesson than this? What representative of the people could look upon the bodies of these sol diers and then turn about and vote for the similar sacrifice of thousands more? "Let the dead past bury its dead," hut let it be heralded from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to Canada that these "shall not have died in vain." WRONG, GOVERNOR BLACK GOVERNOR BLACK, of Ken tucky, blames President Wil son's coal strike letter for his defeat. "The miners voted for a Re publican," he says. Governor Black is right in placing responsibility for his defeat on President Wilson, but the coal strike letter had little bearing on the elec tion. Normally, Kentucky chooses Democratic Governors and doubtless had President Wilson been a popular President that would have had an important bearing on the Kentucky election. The President's stand on the coal strike has been more favor ably received than anything he has done since the declaration of war on Germany, but it could not overcome the general antagonism of the coun try against the administration. Mr. Wilson's determination not to per mit the soft coal workers to wreck the industrial fabric of the country for their own selfish purposes made more votes for the Kentucky Demo crats than it cost them. Make no mistake about that. Governor Black. A COMMANDMENT NOT long ago a noted economist, asked to give his remedy for the condition of unrest throughout the world, wrote out on a sheet of paper as his solution simply the Ten Commandments. He might have gone further and reduced his rules to one, which reads: "Honor thy father and thy mother." This is the most sweeping of all the Commandments, for if a man carry out that injunction to its final analysis he will have obeyed all the others, and when the whole world bows in obedience to this divine command the millennium will have arrived. "Rainbow sugar" casts its effulgent glow over a grateful city. WHY 18 CENTS? THE present crop of Louisiana sugar will be offered to the re tail trade at about eighteen and one-half cents a pound, officials of the Department of Justice inform the people through the newspapers. Why eighteen and one-hulf cents a pound? If cane sugar was worth only ten cents a pound several weeks ago, why is it worth eighteen and one half cents now? Are not the Southern producers being favored In the same way cot ton growers were during the war, when they were left to fix their own prices while Northern wheat grow ers were restricted as to what they could charge for their products? The Department of Justice will have to do some explaining to satisfy the public that the great increase in price is justified. ""Po&tCco LK "Hp IVCLHUL By the Kx-Committeeman Attorney General William I. 1 Schaffer's declaration that prohibi tion enforcement is a federal matter and that it is not a subject for State ! enactment coming so counter to the j assertions of Judge Eugene C. j Bonnlwell that the States must pre pare for such legislation establishes the situation as regards liquor for' the next general assembly, in opinion of many people. The attitude of the Sproul ad ministration during the 1919 legis lature was that prohibitory legisla tion was a federal matter and this was the reason why the Governor vetoed the Itamsey 2.75 bill which agitated the session for months be fore it was put over. The effects of that veto were felt in the primary and general elections and apparently the liquor forces are planning to in ject, it again. —The active gossip that Gover nor William C. Sproul is likely to recognize Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore as the Republican leader of Philadelphia in the matter of ap pointments caused no surprise here. Consultation with Mr. Moore, under the circumstances of his election, would be the most natural thing in the world. —The most cordial relations be tween the Governor and the mayor are anticipated, especially as the Governor was as keenly interested in the charter framing as the people who will live >and work under it. Some of the Philadelphia newspa pers, the Press, for instance, ex press the Idea that the leaders of the charter committee have some wakeful nights coming if they think they can run the new mayor. Hints of resentment of a "proprietary" at titude are heard. It seems to be pretty certain, however, that with Moore as mayor and the Vares in | control of some councilmen that ! things are going to be interesting, but not disturbing, and that the Sproul administration can count upon the same full support in Philadelphia as it can in Pittsburgh. —Politics in Pennsylvania are rapidly getting to the dinner stage, just as they are trending in the na tional game, and from now on there will be numerous informal affairs about the board which will settle various things in advance of the presidential primary campaign. The Republican State leaders are wait ing to see what the Democrats in tend to do before having some of their seashore conferences, while the Democrats are so busy watching each other that they are waiting word from Washington. -—The rout of the Democratic or ganizations in so many of the coun ties and the collapse of hopes to capture Fayette and other counties where "rehabilitation drives" were launched, coupled with the inroads made by the Republicans in such Democratic counties as York, North ampton, Berks, Columbia and Greene, have caused a recasting of the plans of the ringmasters. The iscouts of the Palmer presidential boom have reported things in good shape for the attorney general's presidential boom as far as the Democrats go, but there are not manyvof them left. The anti-Palmer forces failed to make much headway this fall and while they intend to make a noise next year, it looks as though Palmer will be in the lead when elections come around. —York county's Republican vote this year appears to have stunned some of the Democratic leaders in that county and they have had a hard time trying to figure out what happened. While the Lewis forces did not get the sheriff they came within a half a dozen of it and that in a Democratic stronghold like York means something pretty close to disaster. —The election of a Republican congressman from the York-Adams district next year and of the Repub lican legislators in the two counties seem to be possible more than ever. —Partisans of Senator George W. Sassaman, of Reading, do not take kindly to the plan of Representative Wilson G. Sarig to be a candidate for senator on the Democratic I ticket next year. Sarig has been bucking the Sassaman organization, which is a pretty stiff proposition •in Berk's county, and figures ont that he has a chance because of the defeat of the Democrats in the Reading election. —There is much mention of the name of Samuel S. Lewis, the York county leader, as a possible candi date for the Republican nomination for auditor general, but Mr. Lewis has never made any statement about it. He has considerable support throughout the State. Neither Philadelphia nor Allegheny county leaders have come forward with any candidates and the northeast and northwest have been busy with their own congressional and legisla tive fences. —Mayor Dan L. Hart's selection of Col. W. H. Zierdt, well known as an officer of the Keystone Division and Divisional Inspector of the new National Guard, as chief of police is attracting warm commendation in Wilkes-Barre. The new chief is praised by the Wilkes-Barre Record, the Republican organ, as "capable, energetic and upright." Represen tative Richard Powell, of Edwjirds ville, well known here, is to be chief county detective of Luzerne. —R. M. Ketser will be the next city treasurer of Wilkes-Barre. His election was conceded by the Mundy forces Tuesday afternoon after the' ballot box from the Thirteenth Ward, Fifth District, was opened and the ballots recounted. Accept ing the corrected returns from this and other districts, Mr. Keiser wins by ninety-five votes. When the ballot box was opened the evidence of fraud and juggling was so apparent that the court was asked to throw out the entire vote from that district. Republican party leaders plan to issue warrants for the members of that election board and also for the arrest of John Jay McDevitt. —District Attorney George W. Maxey, of Lackawanna, elected to the bench last Tuesday over the present incumbent, James J. O'Neill, will continue to serve as district at torney until the first Monday in January, when he takes his place on the bench. The appointment of a successor of a district attorney, who resigns during his term of office, under the State law, is made by the court. In this Instance it will mean that President Judge H. M. Ed wards, Judge E. C. Newcomb and Judge-elect Maxey will have the naming of Mr. Maxey's successor. , Although the time for the appoint ment is some two months away it is said that First Assistant Frank P. : Benjamin will be named as Mr. | Maxey's successor. Mr. Benjamin I has been first assistant since Mr. Moiv took office in 1914. HARRISBURG &&&& TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ByBRIGGS r^T-OM.ET vl uno . rT -STAY AT \ Vs/HA-T IS lT ?• JEWELRY- WhY g S( F°; 7 o £c'oe*- J oS^S" I toil'S ?y IT'S IN MY NAME/ '• if jIL C> WAHXuAHA^TJuhT-^ Yoo .SOMEBODY WITH ThimK UP THE f R / geueve ,T> mot- vm THINK f MY * I UR y J f