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