14 I HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ! lIigEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 published eveninga except Sunday by pHE TELEUItAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare 1 E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Cliief OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor U. K- MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard fcXF" McCULLOUGH, M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the 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- Ilshed herein. £JI rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. i 1 Member American Bureau of Circu- Avenue_ Building?! i Chicago, 11l. IJ ' ne ' ] Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ' -qjSCnSB-;. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, 13.0u a year In advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1919 A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, hut depth in phil osophy bringetk men's minds about to religion.— Bacos, HOUSES AND RENTS SO LONG as the house supply is as far behind the demand for dwellings as it is now in Harris burg, there wilt be more or less sus picion of profiteering in the in crease of rental charges. Many persons have been discouruged in the matter of building because of the censorious attitude of renters. It has been demonstrated that it is out of the question to build houses to-day to rent at figures prevailing before the war. Increased labor costs and the high prices of mater ials practically bar for the present the low-priced house. It is hoped, however, that there will be enough response to the hous ing demand to relieve the pressure somewhat and eventually restore more or less normal conditions. Hundreds of people in this city are waiting the opportunity to rent homes and there are also scores of persons able to purchase modest houses. The Chamber of Commerce has the matter under serious con sideration and it is hoped by that body that something may be done to relieve an unprecedented situa tion. The Philadelphia Record makes the tniazing assertion that "four-armed ! men" robbed a bank. Why take such j i risk when the side shows pay such I large salaries to freaks? THE NEW SCHOOLS DID you see the parade of the j Camp Curtin Junior High | School after the football game l the other evening? If you did you will understand what these two new 1 schools mean for Harrlsburg. They are making men and women. The school spirit that has been awakened there in so short a time is truly re markable, and school spirit is very akin to community spirit, which is only another name for patriotism. When the postal service begins to drop its mail pouches from planes, as is promised, the service men who i brought their tin hats home will be] in luck. LAY OFF, THERE IF HUNTING stories, like the| Telegraph published yesterday, ] don't reach a limit pretty soon | we shall be tempted to cease posing: as a fisherman and buy a shotgun. | What's the use of spending a whole j summer getting together a fine coi- | lection of fish stories, with all the ] picturesque details that garb the| most glaring improbabilities in the | decent habiliments of incontrovct-1 ible fact and rehearsing them over j and over until we almost believe j them ourselves, if ail our pains are' to be set at naught by such a parcel of Arabian Nights' tales as the gun ners have been bringing to town the past few days? We ask any self-ro •pecting angler who takes pride in the artistry of his special brand of I fish lore, if these wild tales of the' woods and fields do not constitute u| flagrant invusion of the ancient eon-1 stitutional rights of anglers in the realm of unusual—we almost said on believable —personal experiences. How do you expect us to compare our favorite story of the twenty tnch trout, taken from beneath a tangle of driftwood on a five-ounce outfit, with that story of a eighteen- Jrear-old hoy who knocked off the bobbing head of a wild turkey at 800 yards with a high-power 30- 80 rifle? And how taine our tale of the four-pound bass that actual ly jumped Into the boat sounds be side that whopper about the fellow who bagged a 'coon by running over It with an automobile, or the feat of that other truthful nimrod who catches rabbits by' the ears while they are sleeping on top of brush piles! Why it's getting so that first thine we know folks will stop calling TUESUAyEVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 18, 1919. improbable tales fish stories and will dub them hunting yarns. Well, so be it. L)o your worst, you gunners, but remember that the i hunting season Is short and the fish ing season is long. We fishermen do not intend to be licked in one round and we shall go into training this whiter determined to- wind up next summer with a collection of tvild ones that will have you on the ropes and gasping for breath before you fire a single shot. As our old friend, that master narrator ot hectic experience. Baron Mnuchau jsen, might have said under similar I circumstances: There are bigger fish .stories than have ever been told, and jwe fishermen • are prepared to tell j'eni. We're desperate men and not ■to be trifled with. You gunners J better stay off our preserves. j Wrong. Mr. Mayor. Harrlsburg | would buy low priced government j wares if given the opportunity. | "SEE AMERICA FIRST" I AMERICAN hotelmen, despair ing of ever being allowed again to sell liquor, are prepar : ing lo recoup their losses bv en couraging "See Americu First" tours, and meeting in New York last week they took definite steps in that di rection. That liquor sales are not neces sary to the prosperity of hote.ls is evident from tiie success of the Penn- Harris, which will earn a dividend its first year without ever having sold a drop of booze. The secret of earning capacity is the large volume of travel through Harrisburg and the number of guesttf satisfactorily entertained. If hotels catered exclusively to the 1 raveling public and forgot their barrooms,] all of them would be enjoying greater prosperity than ever, instead of worrying about prospective losses. The American hotelmen have turned their attention in the proper direc tion. The encouragement of sight seeing tours in America will bring millions of dollars to the hotels. With the coming of good roads more and more people will travel, and j with the turning over of the rail- j roads to their owners and the res toration of excursion rates, passenger traffic will show big increases. Then will come the hotelmen's harvest: a harvest to which they will be entitled and which they never need fear tfiat legislative measures will take away. The public should support this new effort wherever possible and all advertising agencies having to do with travel should lend their aid to its success. Ex-Kaiser Biil has sawed 12.00<> logs. Just "saying nothing, but sawing wood," as the old saying has it. A PLEBIAN PRINCE AND SO King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, of Rumirtiia, are | in tears because Prince Charles j prefers his pretty young wife to the shaky old throne of his forefathers! Isn't it sad that a son should behave so badly? Doesn't Charles know that his father and mother didn't raise their son to be a decent mar ried man? Doesn't he know it is much more important that he marry somebody he doesn't love and wear a crown than to wed the girl of his heart nnd settle down to the earn ing of a real, honest-to-goodness livelihood ? AVe fear Charles' education must have been sadly neglected. May be during the hectic days of the war he met up with a parcel of those low-born American doughboys who behaved so rudely in Europe recently and became contaminated with their plebian ideas about love and mar riage. And to think he would disgrace his family by saying right out before everybody that he prefers his wife to riches and would sooner be happy than be king! What's the royalty of Europe coming to anyway? First thing we know this incorrigible youth will be actually working for a living and may be sending his chil dren to the public schools. It would seem he is really just such an im possible person. RECORDS IN DANGER THE strongest argument for a new city and county public building is furnished in the menace which threatens invaluable records stored in the temporary quarters of the City Engineer. Here are documents which could never be replaced, reposing, many of them in wooden cases and subject to al most instant destruction in the event of fire or a deluge of water. For years City Engineer Cowden has been completing his records of the sewer lines, the water mains, the street and other surveys, and his office is also the repository of registered deeds under a recent act of Assembly. These records, once destroyed, would precipitate a most serious . condition and entail a loss that could not be repaired. They should be stored in fireproof vaults in a fireproof building. So it is that, the city and county officials having practically agreed upon the erection of an adequate building for the use of. the various | officials and the courts, no time I should lo lost in perfecting Hie pre liminary plans and proceeding with the work. There is practically no opposition save in isolated quarters, where the need is not appreciated, but where immediate approval is given when conditions are explained. Not only the situation in the office of the City Engineer is serious; there are similar reasons just as urgent in otiier departments in the court house itself why this building should lie erected without unneces sary delay. The last Legislature provided a way for the city and county joining in the erection of such a structure and there would seem to be no\ nothing in ilie way of prompt action. 'Politico Ik "P.>vK4^6rahXa By the Ex-Committeeman Appointmeut of the commission of twenty-five to study and recom mend revision of the Constitution ot itHennsylvunie, provided by tlie lust Legislature, will be mude by Gover nor \\ Illiant C. Sproul before the ; close of this week. The Governor j has given the closest attention to selection of the men to handle this | task, which he regards as the most I important work of his admlnistra -1 tion, and his plan is fo ask Uie i commission to assemble at the | Capitol at an early da.v. • The Governor will select Attorney | General William I. Schaffcr as the I chief representative of the State I Administration, Mr. Schaffcr having given" much time to the. considera tion of the various plans submitted to the last Legislature for a change in the organic law of the Slate, which dates from 1873. Men tep ! resentative of various walks of life I will be chosen for the other places, j The idea is to have the meetings ! held 'here and to hold sessions tlttr | lug the winter, a report recommeud i ing such Changes as are considered | advisable to be made to the Legis [ lature of 1921. To bo submitted to the people the recommendations would have to pass two Legislative I Sessions and could be voted upon in | 191'3. —Clifford B. Connelley. of Pitts burgh, who has been acting Com missioner of Labor and Industry for several mouths, will be formally j commissioned as Commissioner by the Governor. He has been in charge of the department reorgani zation .which is under way. The Connelley appointment as acting commissioner was confirmed by the hist Senate and he will be presented for the lull term next session. —A pretty lively discussion is go ing on in Philadelphia over the di rectorship of public safety for which it is believed Colonel John C. Groomc has the inside track. Some of the labor people are opposing the Col onel, but it is to be noted that a good many people are saying that the Philadelphia police should be put on a New York basis. —Congressman Arthur G. DeWalt is successfully maintaining his si lence about future plans. While in this State n day or so ago he de clined to talk about running again, but it is to be noted that he has been carefully going over reports about his fences. More than once Lehigh has taken the plum by getting Berks Democrats into a tight, which is not hard to do. —The activity of Representative Wilson F. Sarig, of Temple, for the Democratic nomination for Senator in Berks county has caused some friends of Senator George W. Sas saman, of Reading, to become indig nant. They claim that the Reading senator should be given two terms, but Sarig represents a faction that does not care for precedents. —The affairs of Archbald borough, I always more or less turbulent in elections, are to be given some at tention at the hands of the lxicka wana courts this month. The Scran ton Republican says that things are to be well probed. —Ex-State Treasurer James S. Beacom, of Greejisburg, and Charles E. Wliltten, who was one of the men mentioned for appointment as judge last year, are being urged for the vacancy on the orphans' court bench of Westmoreland. —Washington appears to have some Republicans left. The Re publican candidate for register of wills got n majority of 11,000. Schuylkill, Lackawana. Lancaster, Dauphin anil several other counties certainly have been giving majorities, i —Death of Dr. Victor H. Wieand, long the head of tl-e Alientown fair and sheriff of Lehigh for a term, will be regretted by many men in politics. He wns noted for his; activities in behalf of the fair and. for good horses and snectacuiar politics when he got started. —A police shake-up is on in Pitts burgh again. The Pittsburgh Dis patch says: "No more will the over worked 'alibi' suffice to cover lapses in the Pittsburgh bureau of police. So declares Public Safety Director Prichnrd. First it was the 'war alibi,' then the 'striki*alibi.' Now that the force in numbers is normal, the first time since before the war, excuses won't go. Every man—-'be he super intendent. commissioner, lieutenant or patrolman—must show me." said Director Prlohard. Til tolerate no more alibis. Results is what I want.' " —The Altoona Tribune is sounding a note of warning on a subject that is disturbing Mountain C'y people: "Our city is not prospering as it should. It never will* so long as ar rant demagogues are strong enough ! to set its people by the ears. We l i should seek emancipation from all l | such; we should strive to be of one [ j mind touching the general good, j Conservative men should not allow! any rattlebrain who has nothing and! [whose state could not be worse than it is to lend tlieni iistruy. Divided , counsels will get no community any-1 where except along the downward road. We have had some past expe-1 riences that should teach thoughtful cit zens their duty." • j —The Middleburg Post is out with I a boom for Col. Henry W. Shoema- 1 Iter, the Altooiin publisher nnd au-i thor, for Congress-at-large. It praises \ the Colonel's devotion to. Pennsyl-I vania and says: "We ilo not know, whether the Colonel would rare to I Igo to Congress or not, but we are! I making the suggestion for the con-! s deration of Hie nuhl'c,-us well as I for the Colonel. The nomination will l jhe made early next spring.", —Luzerne eountv Republicans are i determined to go through with elec ition fraud probes. The Wilkes-Barre I I Record In an editorial says: "The. chairman of the Republican county! committee announces that he will not j he satisfied with the correction of' fraud-—that he will proceed to prose cute those against whom evidence of guilt lias been obtained. Mr. Dando 1 j is to be commended for go'ng to the' j limit. He will yet have to contend ! with impediments that at other times iheve been thrown across t'-e way in clear caS"s of fraud with the pos s'ble bribing of members of the l Gland Jury or the criminal jury lie fore whom the cases will be taken. The amazing things juries Iwive done in the mist leaves no oilier Inference than thai bribery was suei-ei.sfiill.v practiced." Daps and Daps i [Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph ] I Yesterday was "Father and Son" [Sunday. Why not a "Mother and i Daughter" Sundnj ? And why not a ! special Sunday for grandfathers and | grandmothers, anil one for fathers , In-law and mothers-in-law? And i then there are the brothers and sis i tera. uncles and aunts and other t relatives t'6 consider. | WONDER WHAT A QVEEN OF HEARTS THINKS ABOUT? .. . " ... .... .... ~ 1 ~ " " • - - - * - - -- r - - ■ - - - __i _j —■ ■■ VUELL HSRS. \ AM WHAT DO YOU KMO>A/| THE J)6AI.eR. OP£M3 NQ WQMCER THIS FOR THE FIRST BOOT THAT!!. HIS j CH ? I HATS THAT DO? LOOK WHO'S FTROKE _ MY Nose His FLUSH - S'PoSE • AB - U C§M? J? H L^DY LAOY ' ,F THE WAY H6 SLAMMED He's SORE AS A WITH THAT ,HIS H^TVJD OOESN ' R ME Down. 'TWASIU'T CRAB AT ME U NEXT CARD: WISH PUT OM VELVET MY FAULT THE DEALER I SHOULD WORRY HE WOULDN'T PLCK 'EM, GOO"D NLGHT !-(.H • S HAD FOUR KINGS •!' OP owe BY owe HAND FEELS A WELL TOLD roo TRIFLE IREMULOUS HOLO I HATED HIM, The Price America Paid j [From the Kansas City Star.] I Henry Wysham Lanter, writing in 'the World's Work, records that of I thirty general officers in the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces who were asked vv hat proportion of American battle losses was due to lack of training, twenty-six estimated it at one-lialf. and the other four at one third. That is the price America paid for the unpreparedness and lack of mili tary policy with which it entered the vtar. A lieutenant general whose divi sion was attached to General Dubon net's corps, and which hail a French division on each side of it, gives this testimony: "The French commander spoke to me one day, before all his staff, at a council: "General, I wish you'd do something about your losses.' Then he showed me a tabulation he'll had made up, showing that my regiments, under exactly similar con ditions. were losing from two to four times as many men as the French on either side of us. 'lt is frightful,' said he, 'for God's sake, general, speak to your men.' " There was only one explanation, and the lieutenant general admitted it. The American Army hnd not had time to train properly. The men were not trained, the. officers were not .trained, a spirit of recklessness and daring destroyed discipline, everybody wanted to take a hand in whatever was to be done, and the result of it all was that the Ameri cans' objectives always cost more than the current price paid by the French. | The testimony of all general offi cers is of .a piece. Brigades dis ' obeyed orders in order to get into , the fighting where they were not needed, adding confusion rather than strength and weakening the line else where. One such breach of dis cipline at Montfaucon is estimated to have cost 3,000 American lives. ] Officers xlidn't know where their commands were. Artillery fire was wrongly directed. Communications were broken. Scientific war was re duced to a, melee. Such accounts are hard reading for Americans proud of their army and of its brilliant feats. But their meaning must he faced. America fought blindly, and with its hands rather than with its head. It paid the price of long neglect of the Na tional defense. Knowing that mod ern war was a highly organized science it had taken no forethought, and relied upon the personal brav ery of untrained citizens to take the place of military experience, discip ! line and technical knowledge. Has ] the costly lesson been learned? The 'action of Congress must show. Array [legislation is now pending there, and if it is to include provision for mili tary training the country cannot af iforil to leave it to chunee or the ex- I pediency of politics. An enlightened public opinion must bring its influ ence to bear and make unmistakable the demand that never again shall American lives be sacrificed to igno | ranee anil unpreparedne9s as they j were In this war. , 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"" i The $2.75 shirt is worrying more men than the 2.75 beer.— Boston Herald. Having the Senate, we have one form of air mastery.—Greenville I