12 (HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evening!! except Sunday by . THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief SCR. OYSTER, Business Manager , OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor ■A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board JJ P. McCULLOUGH. > BOYD M. OGLESBY. P. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of tho Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. , JAII rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvanla^Associa- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue_ Building, Western office'. Story. I Chicago, l u l ndlnK ' ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Fa., as second class matter. - By carrier, ten cents a I sjfcSiSSjUiaßk) week; by mail. $3.00 a year In advance. . MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1910 -i In business be c*aet, 'tis better thus; i /* friendship you may then be gen erous.—ANON. GET THE BASIC IDEA AX OPPORTUNITY of unusual scope will be afforded by the Educational Congress to be held at the Capitol this week, under au spices of the State Department of Public Instruction, for the assembling of ideas of the leaders of thought In Pennsylvania on one of the greatest problems that has confronted this Commonwealth In a century. Ow ing to its Industrial prominence, Pennsylvania has a population that represents almost every nationality except some of the Asiatic terri tories. Its guarantee of religious and civil liberty has been abused by some aliens, and the methods pur sued by some coal and other com panies In seeking the dollar have drawn the people from other lands closer together. Instead of colonies becoming parts of the community, there are many instances known where aliens remain aliens in thought, speech and custom, and dis turbers find them fertile for the Vorking out of their ideas. A couple of generations ago "agin the Government" was a joke. Now it Is a grim reality. There are too many foreigners who are "agin" the governmental system of America •without knowing why. The jocular decision of the Immigrant in regard to political party affiliations of the fifties and sixties has given way to a prejudice born of ignorance and fostered by the Fosters and their'ilk until it has become a hatred. The only way to Americanize is to get down among the foreigners. Get the names and locations, get Ihe •viewpoint, get the confidence of the alien by sympathy for his loneliness . and by exemplification of the square deal, lead him to see that he does not have to carry a gun to protect his savings. Get the basic idea that's in his head and then work to get it out. THE RIGHT TO STRIKE THE House has rejected the clause in the railroad bill de claring strikes to be unlawful. It has substituted a provision for voluntary arbitration. ; The effort to stop strikes by statute ' was both futile and un-American. It would be unconstitutional to com pel an Individual to remain at his work if he chose to quit, and it is difficult to understand how a group could be required to do what an Individual could not be compelled to do. But beyond that is the moral •spect of the thing and the danger Chat lies in the direction of auto cratic laws, no matter how benefi cent the intent. Strikes are becoming mighty un popular in this country, but the way fto stop them is not by law. ! LET IT HAVE TEETH YTTE PROBABLY shall hear a yy great hue and cry go up against Attorney General Pal mer's anti-sedition bill. But Congress most give him either that instrument or one as strong if he is to rid the country of the "reds" and radicals who are trying to upset the Govern ment. Pennsylvania, under the leadership of Governor Sproul, courageously set the example for the entire United States In legislation with teeth cov ering this subject. The Maurera and others of that stripe got very much excited at the time and led many good thinking labor leaders to the belief that the proposed law was directed against free speech and their guarantees of personal liberty under the constitution. These have aince learned their mistake. The antl-sedltlon law has teeth, sharp teeth, but it will not bite those who conduct themselves after the man ner of true Americans. So'lt will be with the law which proposes. Possibly It mm I may be wise to change It here and there, but all amendments should be In the way of making It more vigor ous In Its provisions and easier to convict under It. The time has come when party politics must be laid aside and all' Join hands In the fight the Govern ment has started on the anarchists. Too long have they been permitted to go their wuys unmolested. They ! must bo smushed as Germany's blood-thirsty urmtes were smashed, j and by much the same means. They are like mad dogs running wild In j the community. Theirs Is the doc j trine of teur and rend. All they j can understand is force, so In rid ding the country of them we must fight fire with lire. We must seize them and cast them forcibly out. They must go back whence they come, or to prison, or the gallows when the crime of murder can be traced to them. To that end the Attorney General must be given an instrument of the kind he asks. Either that or we must rest content with the present supine attitude of the Federal agen cies toward the radicals. The pity is that such a law was not enacted years ago. GOVERNOR POINTS WAY GOVERNOR SPROUL, who has been coming to Harrisburg at intervals as State Senator and cxecutlvo for the past twenty-five years, thinks so well of the city, he told the newspapermen with whom he dined the other evening, that he proposes to leave here a substantial memorial. Does not this suggest something to Harrisburg men and women of means? Does not this appreciation of Governor Sproul offer a hint as to their own duties? Harrisburg is growing so fast, Its prospects are so bright, its com munity needs are so many that those who made their fortunes in Harris burg or who inherited them from forefathers who made their money here must give serious thought to their stewardship. ltiches are of small value to any body if they are used merely for self-gratification, foolish display or :is a meafis for increasing them. Only as they are used In the promotion of industry, the improvement of living conditions or for the betterment of the community a whole are they really worth while. This Is not Socialism; it is Ameri canism at its very best. Nobody remembers for very long the man who piles up his dollars merely to leave them to his sons, t>ut the public benefactor writes his name in large letters upon the com munity in which he lived or which lie remembered. Curnegie and Rus sell Sage would have been only bloated millionaires had they used their fortunes as some men and women less wise have Stephen Girard would have been put down as a hard-fisted old man and soon, forgotten had he not put his money into a college for orphans. So with those of lesser fortunes, but with equal opportunities for good. The time is here for the establish ment of a Harrisburg Foundation for the receipt of public bequests, sums large or small, to be devoted to all manner of purposes for pub lic use and benefit. The Governor lias set the example and pointed the way. MONETARY ONLY HAVE you noticed that the only forces being brought to bear against National prohibition are those of the distillers, the brew ers and liquor sellers in general? All the weeping and wailing over "the invaded rights of American citizenship" is being done -by paid agents of those who profit by the sale of "booze." Every suit that has been brought and every qbestion that has been raised have been the work of men who hope to make easy money from the public by the sale of cheap liquor at high prices. ' . The worst profiteer in the country has been the dispenser of booze and he is actuated in his anti-prohibition views merely because he knows that he will not make money so easily in some legitimate line of trade. As for the private citizen, with no monetary interest in the perpetua tion of the liquor traffic, he is going serenely 011 his way, by no means ex cited over the prospects of an ut terly "dry" country after Janu ary 18. HIE NORTHWEST AWAKE THE Northwest is at last aroused to the perils of I. W. W.ism. It lias felt the fangs of the serpent t has so long nurtured in its bosom. The "reds" for a long time have conducted themselves much us they pleased in the West. Good, easy going folks have permitted them a latitude that was bound to bring dis aster. But at last the West is awake and It is a fair guess that the sons of the men who conquered that vast domain from the wild beast and the red man, who redeemed It from the wilderness, will know how to deal effectively with the criminals who would undo their great work and turn the country over to the wolves and the jackals that are snapping at Its flanks. Great work is being done out there by members of the American Legion, who are back of the arrests of I. W. W. members on the charge of fomenting treasonable plots. All over the country the young men who whipped the German are banding to gether to defend their homes and their women folks against the mur derous "reds" who fired into the ranks of their comrades on Armistice Day. The shots fired at CentraUa are echoing In .every town and ham let In the land. fiCUcc Ik 'j*iH.K4yha.HMX By the Ex-Commltteenwn =^^=====^=rrr One of the most striking fact: about the returns of Judicial elec tions held in Pennsylvania on No vember 4 and Hied at the Capitol ii the falling oft of the vote as com pared with thut polled at the pri many election for judicial offices. 1\ hile in most cases r.eard of, the aggregate of the vote at the general election for municipal or county ofii ,cera ran well along with the total of the votes at the primary In coun ties the Judicial vote declines. In some instances the loss Is 2,000 votes ' n a single county which polled from S,ooo to 10,000 votes for the same offices at the primary. This decline applies to the district Judicial re turns us well as the returns of tht county on the superior court. At the primary. Judge William H Keller received an aggregate of 6 81,- 000 votes, with the remarkably small number <_l 156 votes scattering ■Many of the county returns show such declines that State official: think that the total at the Novem ber election may run cons'.Uerabi) below that of the pnmarv. Tht number of scattering votes will alsc be much smaller. ~ T ''® dr °P 'a attributed to the fncl that Judge Kelle r had no opposition and also to the increasing indiffer ence of voters to judicial election spaces on the,,ballot. Returns irom the last primary were the latest compiled or record and the delays, seriously in terfered with the certification of tht ballot. There have also beeh.marked delays in the saine counties in filing primary returns. —Governor William C. Sprou plans to spend Thanksgiving time nl \ trglnla Hot Springs. He will ieavt ar y next week and be away ter c. a £' S "~ Attornev General William C Schaffer, who Is ill at his home ir 1 hester, may not be able to get her: this week -Speculation about President;,! booms is commencing' to occupy- con siderable space in New York, Chi cago and Philadelphia newspapers some ol which refer to the com manding position of Pennsylvania ii both parties and to the skillful way In which the keystone State's Re publican leaders are keeping theii counsel to themselves. It is genor ally admitted that Attorney Genera' A. Mitchell Palmer will have the bulk of the Democratic delegutes if he does not have them all. as he is now recognised as the sole leader of one faction, and the other faction is very respectful to him. at least. —The Republican attitude is summed up by Richard J. Beamish in an article sent from Washington to the Philadelphia Press, In which he remarks: "Gen. Leonard Wood's Presidential boom is about to receive Its first test in Pennsylvania. The lest will come in the first instance when United States Senator Boies Penrose will be asked to define his position toward the candidacy of the Jeneial. in the meantime, although Ihe Wood boom leads all others in the race for the Republican nomi nation, It is encountering unexpect* edly strong opposition from those who argue against the nomination at any military man." —Governor Sproul, whom it has been the effort of some writers to draw into a discussion of the'dele gate elections, has been declining to talk on the subject, but his friends have been suggesting him. —There is a funny situation in Berks county. Representative Wal ter A. Ringler, a member of the last House, got elected county commis sioner. His democracy is not the brand of Calvin Miller, the other Democrat. Eaches, the Republican commissioner, is an enterprising citizen, and in order to make sure that the Democrats got the patron age. Ringlet and Miller decided to bury differences long enough to toss a penny for determination of ap pointments. —Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, will resume his work In Congress this week and serve until he takes his new place. Mean while, says the Philadelphia In quirer, the cabinet mukers will guess In the Public Ledger the present city adm nistration is charged by the municipal rosearchers with making "a scrap of paper" of the charter in budget making. —Philadelphia's official count ha; been finished, showing Moore's ma jority is 172,359 in 227,751 vote: cast for mayor. MacLuughlin gel only 1 8,000 votes. —The Philadelphia Inquirer, in :i Harrisburg dispatch, says Senatoi Frank A. Smith and Representative; Albert Millar and David I. Millet will be candidates for renomination William Ward, Jr., former mem ber of tie House from Chester, wil be director of safety in the cuhinel of Mayor William T. Ramsey. Reading newspapers say Nicho las llapp will lie a candidate foi Democratic National delegate on a nationally "wet" platform. —Mortimer Fuller. Ihe Scranto'i salt manufacturer, will likely he a candidate for Republican Congres sional nomination in Lackawanna, where John R. Farr, former Con gressman"; -and C. L. Connell, son of the late ex-Congressman W. J,. Con nell. also aspire to, run against Con sressmun "Pat" MoDane, Democrat. Bonus Bills [From The American Legion Weekly.! v Thirty-six bonus bills have been introduced in Congress. They are, nearly as different in their provi sions as they are numerous. No doubt others will be added. Many nf them may have originated in a sincere desire to aid the man who was in service. There are evidences thlit others were designed for no finer purpose than to distribute among constituents for political effect, without any thought that they would be enacted into law. otherwise how explain Ihe existence of several bonus bills that would bankrupt the country. * Committee hearings are not mov ing swiftly in the matter. Sincere congressmen are anxious to learn the crystahzed sentiment of the men who were in service. Do the majority of them wunt a cash bonus? Or do they favor a con structive bonus such as aid in build ing homes, in gaining education, in securing farms, in learning a trade oi- profession'.' Or does a combination offer a solution? The issue is a large one. As a problem in equity it is without pre cedent. It is one upon which le gion members must give careful thought, for their attitude, when ex pressed at the Minneapolis conven tion. will prove one of the determin ing factors In final legislation on the subject. The Source of the Gospels But I certify you, brethren, thut the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught itv but* by the - revelation of Teaus Christ, —Oalatlans i, 11 and It, 1 HAhRISBURG TELEGRAPH | WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS ) IT Ain't colT> ( IAA " Reo %S7*'6*¥. FLftNNEL-S ' re/ tHeten Hovmpu. £A<JC 75 Stand Fast, Americans! And who now dares to say that peace has come When, in this aftermath of war we find Nowhere a peaceful spirit in our land, But, in its stead, class hatred, racial mobs. Unnumbered violent crimes and fevered hosts. Busy aligning for industrial strife? What matters peace abroad with none at home! There are too many voices boasting here Of lawless creeds and sinister de signs; Too many hands that beckon us to tread Strange paths that lead nowither or, more like. To dire catastrophe. And most of these Are foreign voices—aye, and alien hands. Whose owners found full welcome in the past With safe asylum—yes, and such a chance For betterment as th'ey had never dreamed. These, like the nourished viper in the tale, Would now requite us with their poisoned fang. There was a man among us—such a man! Not oft has time, we deem, beheld his like. Would that his clarion voice might now be heard In rallying patriot call —the voice That never summoned to unworthy cause. Nor ever called in vain. No more, alas, Will it be heard! But by Long Island's shore There is a grave that to our souls will be Forever eloquent—to which, hence forth. In times of public stress, as to a shrine. Men's thoughts will pilgrimage, to seek and gain Fresh inspiration and a new resolve. Stand fast, Americans, upon the rock Of this man's sturdy faith and loyalty. Resolved against too easy bartering Of that high place we fought two wars to hold; Against all patience with red anarchy— Aye, and those subtle doctrines that would seek To change our purpose and to sap our force; Against the dominance of any class, Whether it be of labor, wealth or creed; Against all privilege to selfisb greed. —Frederick B. Bard in the New York Times. Collaritis [From Cartoons Magazine] The collar salesman leaned his linen-like face over the counter at me and whispered, "I'm getting eoraritis." "What's that?" I asked, twisting a number 15 choker around my 10 neck. "A disease peculiar to collar sales men only. After one has sold these linen and flannel circles for any length of time he begins to think, walk and dream in circles and' spirals. "Mentally. I can never arrive at any conclusion. I start to think from a thought which always seems Jto me to be a bone collar button j and I invariably arrive at the point ' where I began. | "When I take a walk I catch my i self describing circles which seem !to be made of collars. The streets, i the houses, the stars seem, at times, I to be a merry-go-round made up of ! linen objects. "At night I dream of mounting i vast circles up the sky made up of | millions of collars, at the top of I which is a giant collar-box." '•young man," I said, "your brain needs laundering." Let's Go [From Chicago lierald and Examiner.] PUT one hundred men on an island where fish is a staple article of sustenance. Twenty five of the men catch fish. Twenty five clean the fish, twenty-five cook the fish. Twenty-five hunt fruit and vegetables. The entire company eats what thus is gathered and prepared. So long as everybody works there is plenty. All hands are happy. Ten of the allotted fish catchers stop catching fish. Ten more dry and hide part of the fish they catch. Five continue to catch fish, but work only part of the day at it. Fewer fish go into the com munity kitchen. But the same number of men in sist upon having the same amount of fish to eat as they had before. The fifty men who formerly cleaned and cooked the fish have less to do owing to the undersupply of fish. But they continue to de mand food. Gradually greater burdens are laid Obey Law—Arbitrate! [From Kansas City Star] The appeal of the leaders of the American Federation of Labor against the government's action in the coal strike is based on two prop ositions. The leaders hold in the iirst place that the government is op pressing the miners who seek a rea sonable betterment of their condi tion, and in the second place that the court has misinterpreted the law. As to the first contention the pub lic can see no oppression in the gov ernment's offer of arbitration. The miners are assured that if they go back to work their grievances and demands will be investigated by a fair commission and the award ac cepted by the operators. There is no proposal to force the miners to stay at work on the old terms to which they objected. There is nothing in the proposal i for increased wages and more ac- j ceptable working conditions that is not susceptible to arbitration. Since when has arbitration become op pression? As to the second contention, the public holds that no group of men can be allowed to put its own inter pretation on the law. A recognition of that doctrine would lead to anarchy. The courts may be wrong. But they are the best instrument we have for justice. No minority can be permitted to set up its own opin ion against- the decision of the courts. If the operators had decided the' price of coal was too low and had closed the mines to force it up, the government would have proceeded against them in court and they would have bowed to the decision. The country expects the same re spect for the law from the miners that it would exact from the opera tors. There is no sense in getting off on false issues. The country has no intention of oppressing the miners. They are going to have a square deal. The common sense of the proposition is to keep tempers, obey the law and arbitrate the miners' demands. The President's Veto [From the Tortland Oregonian.] President Wilson assumed a heavy responsibility in his veto of the prohibition act. Clearly he un dertook to restore in the "wet" states a short "wet" period before constitu tional prohibition could become ef fective. The reopening of the sa loon, once wisely and effectively closed, means an .orgy of drunken ness, dissipation, waste Idleness and crime in metropolitan centers and a demoralizing and wretched experience wherever the saloon is tolerated. The President sought to render a service to the makers and owners of stores of liquor. But in doing it he served the country illy. upon the fruit and vegetable hunt ers. These insist upon a larger share of fish in return for their larger efforts in gathering fruit and vegetables. It is denied them and soon twenty of the twenty-five quit gathering fruit and vegetables. But the entire one hundred men continue to insist upon their right to eat. The daily food supply gradually shrinks. The man with two fish de mands three bananas in exchange for one of them. The man with two bananas refuses to part with one for fewer than three fish. Finally the ten men remaining at work quit in disgust. Everybody continues to eat. The hidden fish are brought to light and consumed. Comes a day when there is no food of any kind. Everybody on the island blames everybody else. What would seem to be the solu tion? Exactly! We thought you would guess it. For we repeat that you can't eat, buy, sell, steal, give away, hoard, wear, use. play with or gamble with WHAT ISN'T. Our Navy [From the Washington Post.] "Is the United States Navy to be maintained or is it to be allowed to disintegrate? This question would have been absurd a year ago when the navy was adding fresh laurels to a glorious record, but it is perti nent now when gallant officers are resigning and the brand new ships are unable to keep the sea. Fifty officers, all graduates of the Naval Academy, have just resigned. About one thousand officers would like to resign. The enlisted men are almost invariably quitting the Navy as their terms of enlistment expire. While the Navy's personnel is thus disinte grating the ships are necessarily be coming ineffective. The back channel at the Philadelphia Navy Yard is a forest of masts of vessels laid up be cause there are no crews. The bat tleships Virginia and New Jersey, now at Boston, are supposed to be attached to the Pacific fleet, but how can they go to the Pacific when they have only 200 men each when there should be 2,000 men? In the meantime other governments are in creasing their naval strength and im proving their naval efficiency. Great Britain does not permit her navy to lag for lack of men. Japan is going ahead rapidly in naval power and efficiency. The vacillation *of the present Secretary of the Navy is a notorious factor in our naval de generation. Ho began by demanding from Congress a grotesquely exces sive construction plan and then, without rhyme or reason, repudiated those plans and refused to favor even moderate and necessary increases. From the date of the signing of the armistice he has interfered with and nullified the efforts of the general board and the flag officers, all of them intent on keeping the Navy up to a proper standard." Blessing in Disguise The following report has been made by an observer for the Iron Age in a recent visit to the steel strike areas: "In my first-hand study at Pitts burgh, McKecsport, Wheeling and Weirton, I talked with many people regarding the part prohibition is playing In tbe recent steel strike. Steel mill officials, mayors, sheriffs, State, city and town police, soldiers recently returned from the other side, Americans employed in and on strike at the mills, railroad employes, Chamber of Commerce members, clothing, furniture, boot and shoe and other tradesmep, restaurant proprietors, as well as priests and ministers, all agreed that prohibition Is a blessing. Not all of them believe in prohibition. In fact, most of them do not believe in it. But they nevertheless feel that at this parti cular time it is fortunate that pro i hibition is la force." NOVEMBER 17, 1919. SPROUL AND PALMER [Penn in Philadelphia Bulletin.] A few days afro I read an address of Governor Cornwell of West Vir -1 giniu which, us a piece of reason on 'the duty of defending our institu tions and living up to the American ideas of simplicity, of opportunity for all and of healthy advancement, not only rang true but was master ful in both its cogency and poise. But no other State executive has been more far-seeing and more vigi lant since the peculiar troubles of 1919 began than the Governor of Pennsylvania. His thorough Ameri can policy in dealing with every sign or symptom of dangerous sedition m the State has been accompanied by abundant exposition, in his speeches, of the princples which should hold capital and labor together in hai rnony. As far back as January last, at the time of his inauguration, he led off his address with the first ad monition from any man of import ance as to the dangers which were coming and the way in which they should be mat, and at the time much more courage, as well as fore sight, was required than there is now to act upon and see the ultimate course of such events. Another Pennsylvanian, A. Mitchell Palmer, has been conspicuous in the I reaction. A few months ago he was' doomed by an assassion to meet, in j his own home, the horrible form of; death which accidentally tore tho assassin himself to bits and shreds. But it has since been clear that this extraordinary experience has had none of that unsettling effect on the nerves which even the bravest men have sometimes acknowledged as an inscapable fear long after they had been attacked or threatened. Per haps no man that has ever occupied the office of Attorney General has been an object of more threats than Palmer has been in the course of the past few months. Nevertheless, his course as the law officer and a spokesman of the Administration — the illness of the President having evidently obliged the Attorney-Gen eral to act much on iris own initia tive—has been as fearless as it has been vigorous. He pushed the case of the Government against the coal strike not only with all ihe fcrceful ness of one who was prepared to take full advantage of statutory law, but to fall back, if necessary, on that law of self-preservation to which nations, as well as individuals, must have recourse in moments of ex treme peril, to save themselves from enemies. The American public was relieved of an uncommon danger, and the supremacy of the Govern-1 ment as against a defiant combina tion was established. H. C. L. Hits Poor Relation In the threatened extermination of the middle class the poor relation will be the first to go. He—em bracing she —will probably go this winter, finally frozen out after hav ing survived the chill determination of centuries to snow him under. The old clothes clubs that are under con sideration by our best dressers will prove the inspired weapon to deal him the final blow. These old clothes clubs always fol low, like plague and famine, in the wake of war. It was really John Hay who originated their vogue when, during the Civil War, ho start ed a Shabby Club in Washington, and if it had no influence on the high cost of materials it at least affected the ryhmasters and journalists of the times. Poor relations seem to have weathered it. Wars superinduce hoarding both in the pantry and in the horsehair trunk, and it is only the persistent presence of the poor relation that induces the thrifty hoarder to unlock it and dole out a plush purdessus for Cousin Hattie to come to tea in. Giving your old clothes to your impecunious cousins either is a pure ly American custom, or else it can only survive a certain number of wars. In England everybody sells his old clothes because the second hand men give such good prices for them. It is part of their salvage sys tem and here in America we are learning how. Which means that the poor relation must go without clothes. Blind The blind old man with crooked staff Saw everything with inner eye: He tottered down the cobbled street, And saw the sun and sky. Ahead of me the sunset flared, With livid and with lurid gleams, As burning treasure-argosies, Sank in a sea of dreams. Or then the West, a crimson Rose, With a crystal Jar of air, Was dropping all its petals down And slowly wilting there. But as I passed the blind old man, Although the beauty flamed for me, I hurried on with staring eyes, And did not even see! Bonis Ginsberg. A Revised Blessing [From the Boston Transcript.] Marjorie had been frequently rep rimanded by her parents for her too great eagerness to begin her dinner before grace had been askod. On one such occasion her brother, upon whom devolved the duty of asking a blessing, thought he would add a line to cover his little sister's of fense. So. closing his eyes, he said solemnly, "For what we are about to receive, and for what Marjorie has already eaten, O I.#ord, make us truly thankful." [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —William Draper Dewis has been making a study of Philadelphia transit matters. —Ex-Mayor Ira W. Stratton, of Reading, aspires to be a national delegate. —Mayor H. W. Heldenrelch, of Hazleton, wants to equip firemen of his city with gas masks. —Charles L. Salyards is In charge of the Boy Scout movement at Al toona. —Frank D'Olier, new head of the American Legion, says the vet erans will take care of the Reds. —Marcus Aaron, who presides at the educational congress here, to night, is an authority on school finances. —The Rev. Clarence H. Ress, a chaplain in the 90th division, has beer? called to the rectorate of St. Matthew's Episcopal church in Philadelphia. —Sheriff Harry C. Ranslcy, of Philadelphia, who is much discussed for office in Philadelphia, has long been prominent in politics. [ DO YOU KNOW Harrisburg made steel fur gun mounts during tlie war? ■HISTORIC HARRISBURG French traders tided to locate hero la lVOft lEimtiruj (Efjat Over 25,000 specimens of Indian relics, most of them war imple ments, have been assembled in the Mate Museum us the result of some attention given to the acquisition of objects showing the life of the Jn dian tribes that formerly roamed tnrough Pennsylvania and steps are being taken to increase the number and variety through donations or such purchases as the funds permit, in the last few years there has been of intei- est in the Indian relics and a number of valuable col r., 1 ! 0 "* mud , e Pennsylvania and containing objects distinctive of the. tribes that once inhabited this Statii were sold to residents and institu -3 ° f °ther states. Offers were made to the State Museum, but "7°"' p y was not available and few gins or any consequence have been m.'™ 3 ' lost of the collection has i,® assembled through purchases „„ n ' collectors who have given 1 gathering. It is now the a PI. assemble in the Museum In nf iv,! , S from ever y county. Most p hand come from central There are few speci- P l ®"®. d lfU nctlv, e of the Allegheny thi w . southwestern counties. , . Erie region or the northeastern Pi.ii rregion. egion of Pennsylvania. The vPimP° nS . a . re , rirh in Susquehanna valley mateiial especially. ' r ' l ® State Historical Commission recently purchased for the Museum P®°' I®ct'°n 1 ® ct '°n which has been declared the SttP PP'P® Lynch Montgomery, iP , Librarian, and Boyd P. Rothroek, the curator, to be one of the most complete of any from the ' W ,W 11 was gathered. It hPPi,P lg from Harry E. Hoke, of fi finn ' e i' PPP consists of between .000 and i.OOO specimens, mainly vPPs Dauphin, Perry. York, Cumberland and Adams coun , J , l , represents, says Mr. Roth bnv ? types of niaterlal known to have been used hereabouts. It was ent,m°. rk of „ many years. Another complete collection and embracing w J* P' e , a was that bought from E. Deischer, of Kutztown. There twe ' ve cases filled with material gathered in York, Northampton, Lvrnmin t®^ 8, Lehl gb. Luzerne. "' Sny(, er. Lancaster, kwfl ' Mea'gomery, Schuylkill and Northumberland. It contains arrow drmP' s P ear beads, knives, axes, drills, hammerstones, paint pots. Pipes, pottery, pestles, bannerstones. ornaments and contents of graves of braves who fought and hunted in the valleys of those counties many before Penn came to found omr "°nwealth. Some caches attracted wide attention among students of the Indian were opened by Hie man who assembled the collection. It contains several thousands of specimens and like all the rpst Is open for the public to Inspect. It may be said in passing that these superb collections have been visited by so few people that it is absurd to think of the time and expense given to getting them and tnen think how many of the thou sands who daily pass by the Museum are unaware of the treasures it con tains. • • • "When the late J. A. Stober, long a Senator from Lancaster, was elected State Treasurer, an office life never filled owing to his death before he was sworn in, he donated a collec tion he had made in the west Cocal ico section of Lancaster county. It contains some unusual spearheads arrowheads and characteristic uten sils. Captain E. R. Bergstresser's collection, made at Goldsboro and vicinity, which contains Indian hoes, knives and domestic utensils, 1s also in the State Museum, while the do nation of John S. Himes, of Jersey Shore, has many arrowheads and other war articles. Other donors have been George Rupp, Shi remans town, who pave five spearheads found in Perry county; Russel Wise of Harrisburg, who gave . beads found in this county and J. Charles Boyle, who sent arrowheads discovered in Mifflin county. One of the best donations was 200 speci mens from Paul Meyers, of this city. It contains Indian axes and sinkers." as well as the familiar arrow and spear points, some of which are in fine condition. One of tho recent purchases was from the estate of the late Dr. W. C. Laverty, of Middle town, which contains 0,000 speci mens of pottery, some In fine state, Indian celts, awls, drills, weapons and ornaments. It was gathered in the vicinity of Middletown on both sides of the Susquehanna and illus trates many phases of life. It is the aim of Dr. Montgomery to gather the Indian relics so that the display may be useful in the study of the life of tile aborigines. There is no State where the Indians and the white men made more in teresting history and no section where the Indians fought more among themselves than in the val ley of our own Susquehanna. The fact that so many Indian arrow heads and axes have been found close to Harrisburg and in the city for that matter, indicates that this section was occupied. It was noted for hunting and at the same time the trails that met at John Harris' ferry of later years must have seen some dark and bloody deeds. The tribal history of this part of the Susquehanna valley has been touched upon by some writers, but owing to paucity of material will never be told. Enough is known to indicate that Duncan's and other islands up the river were objects of struggle more than once and that possession of the fords and trails of the river valley was held of the ut most consequence by sachems whose home villages were in New York and Virginia. History repeats itself to a certainty in this river valley. In dians fought each other for it before Columbus; Shawanese and Dela wares fought for it in the time of Penn; Scotch-Irish and Indians fought for it when Washington was surveyor; Ihe French tried to take It; the British kept aiming at it in two wars: Lee drove at it and Prus sian officers studied it in war plans. In this latter day connection It may be said that a Pcnns.vlvanian In the Navy, who spent some time In Germany, remarked that he found many officers of the Imperial army very well posted on Pennsylvania geography and especially on the Pennsylvania railroad system. He said It puzzled him for a time and then he remembered that the Penn sylvania tapped Philadelphia, Ches ter. Coatesvllle, Bethlehem, Allen town, Reading. Lancaster, Steelton, Lewistown, Altoona, Johnstown, Pittsburgh and other steel centers and most of the coal fields, the wheat belt and the cattle raising counties. S-sh! 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