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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.
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By the Ex-Commltteenwn
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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,
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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!
[From Cartoons Magazine]
I long to punch that
Fellow's nose
■Who talks all through tie
Picture-shows!