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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1918
An ounce of mirth tcill serve God
further than a pound of sadness.—
THOMAS FTTTXEB.
LOWER FLOUR PRICES
ANNOUNCEMENT by juiius H.
Barnes, director of the United
States Grain Corporation, that
In about three weeks the Govern
ment will put on the market a good
grade of pure wheat flour, made
from the finest wheat, at about two
cents a pound cheaper retail than Is
quoted at present in the New York
fair price committee's list of foods
and prices, will be happily received
by multitudes looking for some re
lief in the almost intolerably high
prices for all manner of food es
•entials.
This prospect of cheaper flour is
made possible by the large stocks
now on hand. Ten million barrels
more were In stock on November 1
of this year than at the same time
In 1918 and exports were just about
equal to those of a year ago.
These official figures show how
groundless were the flour shortage
rumors circulating all over the
country a few weeks ago, which
drove thousands of timid persons
to the grocery stores to stock up
lor tho winter. Just how these false
reports started it is difficult to un
derstand In the light of the state
ments of the Grain Corporation
officials. Like most rumors, they
have been proved false, which
thould be a lesson for those willing
always to believe any wild story that
comes along.
The community service of the
Chamber of Commerce is not the
least Important phase of its activities.
Co-operating with all other commu
nity effort, the Chamber hopes to
temonstrate the great value of a
•ommunity knowing itself through
the people co-operating for the wel
fare of all.
LETS KEEP THEM
THE President should not hesi
tate for a moment as to what
ahall be done with the Im
perator and other ocean liners taken
from the Germans and turned over
to the United States Government at
the time the armistice was signed.
The United States needs those
•hips. England wants them, but we
have them and we should keep
them. Great Britain now is owner
of some hundred ships built in
America during the war and sold by
the Shipping Board. With the
United States needing every ship
that can be put into the water, our
Government turned over to the
British 100 cargo carriers that
Should now be under the American
Bag. That ought to be about
enough. The German liners should
fexnaln permanently under the Stars
hnd Stripe*.
The people of Harrisburg are not
pothering much about bathing in the
Hrer Just now, but they are intensely
Interested in the plans which are
Bnder consideration for the erection
6f bath houses and provision for the
bafftdng beaches. Little old Atlantic
City will have nothing on Harrisburg
Beau year.
TWO EXTREMES
NEITHER the Esch railroad bill
passed by the House or the
Cummins bill in the Senate are
tfeslrable measures from the stand
point of their strike provisions. The
Esch bill leaves the situation pre
cisely where it is; the Cummins bill
foolishly tries to take from the
Irnuluii&n the strike privilege. Be-
Iwoou the two lies sanity in the set-
Homsnt of labor difficulties and the
for the public.
Zt Is highly desirable, indeed well
high necessary, that coal mining,
railroading and the like be continued
Without Interruption. To leave the
opportunity for strikes as open as It
Is now would be criminal; to try to
take away the right to strike would
bs to rob the working man of a
weapon which be feels he must have
M a last resort. Th^yreasonable
FRIDAY EVENING,
thing to do would be to provide for
a conciliation board, with court-lll?j
powers, and require by law that all
railroad disputes, and others of the
kind, be thoroughly threshed out be
fore a strike could be legally called.
With all the facts at hand, public
opinion would soon make Itself
effectively felt.
THE TREATY
MANY things have contributed
to the failure of the Peace
Treaty to receive the approval
of the United States Senate, and
there have been errors in many di
rections and too much politics on
both sides, but back of it all the
seeker for responsibility will run
upon this fact, from whatever angle
he may start:
That President Wilson could have
avoided nearly every difficulty and
a treaty suitable to all concerned
would now be in force if he had
taken to France with him repre
sentatives of the Senate and at least
one member of the Republican side
to consult with htm in regard to the
wishes and opinions of the body that
he knew must ultimately pass upon
the finished document.
Senator Lodge boasts that the
Senate has killed the treaty, but
whether it is dead or not, the blow
that laid it low was delivered by the
President himself when he decided
to make it a one-man agreement.
One-man government never did
have the approval of the people of
America and it never will. One
man's opinion as to what is good
for the Nation with respect to its
international relations and obliga
tions cannot be forced upon the
country. If the President is really
desirous of saving any portion of
the treaty he will have to make con
cessions. If he can satisfy a ma
jority of the Republicans of the
Senate and continue to hold the
whip over the usual number of
Democrats, he may bo able to get
the treaty through in some form at
the regular session of Congress
opening in December. If he will
not yield on any points he certainly
cannot complain if others are
equally hard-headed.
The fate of the treaty lies in the
President's hands now, just as It
has from the very beginning and as
it will continue to do until it is
finally disposed of one way or
another.
INTEREST WIDESPREAD
WIDESPREAD interest and co
operation is characterizing
the cam
paign now being conducted by a
State committee, with its head
quarters in Harrisburg. This move
ment is so vital to the future of
Pennsylvania that many of the most
active business men are giving their
time and effort to making the
Christmas Seal campaign a great
success. Here is a statement which
has appeared in a Philadelphia
newspaper and which at once rivets
the attention of the citizen inter
ested in the welfare of his or her
community.
Only 2 per cent, of those strick
en with tuberculosis can get
money enough or spare the time
to take proper measures to be
cured, according to statistics
cited in a statement from the
Chamber of Commerce calling to
the attention of its members the
loss of commerce and industry as
the result of the ravages of this
dis ase.
Tuberculosis is a foe to indus
trial progress which attacks
those in every walk of life, said
the statement. A country-wide
loss of life each year, and a
startling decrease annually in
the revenues affecting the com
merce and industry in the United
States from this cause, which is
preventable, confronts the busi
ness men of the country in gen
era! and Philadelphia in par
ticular.
What affects Philadelphia affects
every other part of Pennsylvania,
and it is by reason of this great
menace that every effort must be
exerted to suppressing the disease.
Colonel-Edward Martin, through the
State Department of Health, is do
ing everything possible to safeguard
the people and it is stated as a fact
that tuberculosis could be eradicated
within ten years should all the
forces of the Commonwealth be co
ordinated in a fight that will know
no let-up until the disease is con
quered for all time.
Yellow fever and other epidemics,
which have claimed millions of lives,
have been suppressed and tuber
culosis is a preventable disease
which should not be permitted to
continue its ravages far and wide.
In every community the sale of
Red Cross Christmas Seals will con
tinue with unabated activity until
the mark set for Pennsylvania this
year shall have been reached. All
classes of people are showing inter
est in the movement and it has been
observed that the training of thou
sands of men, women and children
during the war period is proving a
valuable asset in the present cam
paign. Men of the American Legion
and all other after-war organiza
tions are joining with the Red Cross
and like associations in distributing
the little seals which Indicate the
purpose of the people to down the
insidious disease which killed thou
sands of soldiers and prevented
thousands more from taking part in
the world struggle.
Harrisburg will have the privi
lege of showing its interest through
the purchase of the Red Cross Seals
and when the local workers com
plete their canvass, this city and
county will undoubtedly make a
worthy showing in this great cause.
GETTYSBURG AWAKE
GETTYSBURG, the battlefield
town visited by thousands of
people every year, is wide
awake to its duties as a progressive
municipality. It will pave a 'num
ber of streets next year and borrow
money for the establishment of its
own electric light plant High costs
of everything that goes into public
Improvements have not discouraged
Gettysburg folks. They have pride
in their town, they know their needs
and they are going about meeting
them.
PROSPERITY, IF—
THE] steel Industry, a basic busi
ness by which the barometer of
trade may be fairly well read,
is booking many orders for 1920 de
livery and the outlook is extremely
bright.
Next year will be one of wonderful
prosperity for the United States,
If—
Capital and labor can settle their
differences and get down to work,
or even if they can only declare an
armistice.
Greed or stupid stubbornness on
either side may make of the now
promising 1920 a nightmare on the
calendar of years.
Next year will be prosperous,
if—
"po&t£co
By the Kx-Committeeman
Governor William C. Sproul left
Harrisburg early to-day for Phila
delphia and plans to leave to-morrow
or next day for Virginia Hot Springs
to spend Thanksgiving Day and
probably several days longer. Be
fore leaving the Governor cleared up
several appointments and before he
goes to the Old Dominion will de
cide upon the members of the Com
mission of Twenty-five to Study and
Recommend Revision of the Consti
tution. He will summon the Com
mission to meet here after his re
turn and will take a deep interest
in its deliberations.
The Governor said before leaving
that ha considered that he had se
lected a good man in ex-Senator
Benjamin Jarrett, Jr., of Mercer
county, to be a member of the State
Compensation Board and that he had
cleared his desk of many pending
matters.
Just before leaving, the Governor
received from Governor Calvin
Coolidgc, of Massachusetts, an auto
graph copy of the Bay State Execu
tive's book, "Have Faith in Massa
chusetts," a collection of his ad
dresses and messages, which the Gov
ernor sent with this message on the
fly leaf, "For services rendered the
cause of Americanism by Hon. Wil
liam C. Sproul with the best regards
of Calvin Coolidge." The Governor
was one of the speakers in the
Coolidge campaign.
During the last few days the Gov
ernor has been hearing from West
moreland county people regarding
the vacancy on the orphans' court
bench that will occur when Judge
C. D. Copeland becomes common
pleas judge in January. Ex-Senator
Chester E. Sensenich was here yes
terday. He Is understood to oppose
ex-State Treasurer James S. Beacom.
Charles E. Whitten is being boomed.
—Benjamin Jarrett, Jr., of Farrell,
appointed by Governor William C,
Sproul to succeed John A- Scott, of
Indiana, as a member of the State
Compensation Board at $7,000 a
year, is a personal friend of the
Governor as well as a prominent law
yer and staunch Republican of
Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Scott,
who was named as one of the original
board in 1916, resigned to become
general counsel for the Buffalo, Ro
chester and Pittsburgh Railway. He
took some part in the Brumbaugh
presidential pilgrimage without suc
cess, but was not disturbed when
the change of administration oc
curred. Recently he decided to re
enter the practice of law and re
signed. Governor Sproul accepted
the resignation as of December 1
with an expression of appreciation
of his services.
—Mr. Jarrett, who was elected
eight or nine years ago to the Senate
from the Mercer-Crawford district,
was Republican county chairman of
Mercer for some, time and an active
party leader. He has been a warm
friend of the Governor from the day
he met him and while serving with
him predicted that he would become
Governor. He was one of the very
first to enlist when the Sproul candi
dacy was announced.
—The appointment of Frank
Feeney, the Philadelphia labor
leader, to the place of supervisor of
referees in the compensation system,
is regarded as a recognition of the
moderate element in labor and there
are a number of favorable com
ments being made. For years the
Philadelphian has been active in
labor circles and as an Organization
Republican.
—George H. Stewart, Jr., of Ship
pensburg, who served in the railway
branch of the army under Atterbury
and Kennedy during the war, is
being boomed for one of the Repub
lican legislative nominations in Cum
berland county. Representative
Ross L. Beckley, of New Cumberland,
will be a candidate for renomination.
—East Mauch Chunk has elected
one school director too many and
Duquesne has a tie vote for direc
tors.
—The completion of the Allegheny
official vote showed few surprises.
—The Philadelphia Press is in
clined to resent the attempts to rush
Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore's ap
pointments and says: "Nothing will
be gained by any attempt to force
Mayor-elect Moore to hasty action
respecting the important appoint
ments he is roquired to make in or
ganizing his administration. He Is
not a man to be rushed. The re
sponsibility resting upon him is a
great one, and he alone is compelled
to bear it. He has not been elected
to subserve this, that or some other
political interest, but to administer
the government In the public wel
fare. All his expressions since elec
tion have indicated that he fully ap
preciates this, and that he wants to
make cabinet selections that will be
helpful, and not obstructive of the
policy he is expected to pursue. It
is better that a few individuals
should be disappointed and no
doubt that is inevitable—than that
the whole public should be. We can
afford to be patient, and give the
new Mayor reasonable time. His ad
ministration doesn't take hold until
the beginning of the new year."
Holland and the Kaiser
[From the Philadelphia Tress]
One day Holland is repoited as
ready to give up the ex-Kaiser, and
the next day it isn't, and this has
been the news for some time. Of
course. Holland isn't daily changing
its mind on this subject, but there's
someone over there who seems to he
afraid it will be. forgotten that the
man who used to be Kaiser is still
aro-dnd somewhere.
Suit and Pursuit
[From Punch, London]
"What is the result of wearing a
i new suit?" asks a fashion writer.
Our experience is that it is generally
followed by a loud knock at the
: door and an intimation that a settle
. ment will oblige
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Helium Gas For Balloons
The Navy Department is building j
at Fort Worth, Tex., a huge plant
for the manufacture of helium gas.
The output will be for the use of
the army and navy to fill balloons.
It takes about forty thousand
cubic feet of gas to fill an ordinary
observation balloon, such as is em
ployed for directing gunfire. For a
big military dirigible the require
ment is from two million to three
million cubic feet.
Hence the obvious importance of
making the product cheap. A year
and a hall' ago it cost $1,700 a cubic
foot to manufacture. Later, it de
creased to SBO. Today, it is very
much cheaper; but nobody will say
how much it costs, because of rapid
change as processes are developed.
Natural gas in the region about
Fort Worth contains per cent,
helium. Thus, there is plenty of it,
but the problem is to separate it
without too much expense. Experi
ments have hardly more than begun
and experts think that possibly
helium gas may yet be made avail
able at 25 cents per one thousand
cubic feet.
If this can be broiight about
within the next few years we shall
live to see regular air lines of di
rigible balloons operating, for freight
and passenger service, between New
York and Chicago and other im
portant points, even across the con
tinent.
The all important point is that
helium is perfectly safe. It will not
burn and cannot explode. Dirigible
balloons in the war were rendered
of small account by incendiary pro
jectiles, which set them on fire.
One spark, to ignite the hydrogen,
and the biggest airship became al
most instantly a mass of flame.
In the next war military and naval
balloons will be relatively invulner
able. because they cannot be set
afire. They will play, therefore, a
vastly greater part than in the recent
conflict. But in the meantime
helium gas may revolutionize trans
portation, rendering commercial air
ships fireproof.
Make Class Rule Impossible
[From Philadelphia Inquirer]
Charles E. Hughes, with his usual
clearness and foresight, points out
the importance of providing suitable
legal machinery for industrial jus
tice. He is sure that this must be
done, at least in the case of those
vital enterprises upon which our life
depends. He hus no doubt that the
apostles of violence will be silenced;
inciters to disorder and revolution
frustrated; law and order preserved
and an Inflexible demand for loyalty
on the part of officials voiced by the
people. All of these things are
needed, but with them there should
also be some legal form of meeting
and adjusting labor disputes, or at
least labor disputes in which all of
the people have an intimate and
living concern.
This same thought was voiced in
a slightly different manner tjie other
day by Franklin Roosevelt, Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy. Being a
Roosevelt, he was bound to put vigor
and punch into his views, but he did
not halt at mere boards of arbitra
tion. He insisted that we should
have courts —industrial courts, if
you will —in which both sides to a
dispute might get a hearing, and a
decision that would be binding on
both sides.
Here, therefore, we have two re
spected public men, belonging on
different sides of the political fence,
but both advocating a measure in
tended for the general good. It
stands to reason that the proposi
tion which comes from men of this
character must be both fair and
practical. It is a big step forward,
to be sure, but it is the natural out
come of the chaotic conditions
which have prevailed since the war.
It is one of the things prompted by
the unusual Industrial situation, but
there is no reason why a remedy
which would solve existing troubles
would not be good also for normal
times.
What Pershing Did Say
In the Home Sector Hudson
Hawley writes of General Pershing:
"It is worth noting that the gen
eral never did actually utter, 'La
fayette, nous voila,' any more than
Clemenceau ever really said of the
Fourteen Points, 'And the good Lord
Himself had only ten!'
"Neither did he say, 'All that we
have is yours,' in just those words,
though he made his famous offer to
Marshall Foch right enough. But
he did say, to a representative of the
Federal Council of Churches, way
back in December, 1917: "Germany
can be beaten, Germany must be
beuten. Germany will be beaten.'
" 'And that,' he says, laughing,
•is about the only thing that I've
been credited with saying that I
ever really did soy.'"
HARRISBURG SCHOOLS
PAST AND PRESENT
By A. C. STAMM
Member Harrlsburg School Board, Writes Historical Sketch For
Dauphin County Historical Society
NO. 3
(Continued.)'
The year 1 came to Harrisburg,
1879, the entire cost o£ operating
the Harrlsburg schools was $70,-
730.79. Twenty-five years ago it had
risen to $116,976.19, and in 1918
it was $541,589.41. This year partly
because of the much greater cost of
the intermediate schools, and partly
because of the very considerable in
creases in salaries and other
charges, the cost will be over $700,-
000. The schools are costing ten
times as much now as they did forty
years ago, although the population
has not quadrupled.
The percentage of our school
population attending the high
schools is very high as compared
with other cities. Ten years ago the
percentage was about nine, now it is
about sixteen. This ia very signifi
cant as indicating the avidity with
which our young people are taking
advantage of the educational oppor
tunities afforded them.
Simply as pointing to the progress
the district is making generally, it
mav be noted that this year for the
first time in its history the district
has a budget, and last year the
board established a property depart
ment and employed a superintend
ent to manage it, and a purchasing
. department with a qualified head.
This and other innovations should
mark a distinct advancement and
result in a more economical ex
penditure of public moneys and a
better co-ordination of their expen
diture.
Our public schools are good. In
equipment and facilities we must be
far ahead of most cities of our class.
It is obvious that in this respect we
have made great strides. Indeed, I
have no particle of doubt that a larg
er proportion of the young people of
Harrlsburg are getting a better edu
cation now in our public schools
than has ever before been afforded
by any schools, public or private,
in the history of the city. If there
is any danger before us at the mo
ment that needs to be guarded
against, it is possibly that, as before
the war we were drifting fast to-
What Is a Tidal Wave? i
A tidal wave, odd as it might seem,
has nothing whatever to do with
the tides. Any great onrush of the
sea that overwhelms the land is
i called a tidal wave. In 1867 such
| a wave threw the United States
| cruiser Monongahela clear out of the
I harbor and into the town of Fried
| richstadt, on the island of Santa
I Cruz.
I Such waves may be due to various
I causes. They may represent a
I heaping up of masses of water by a
1 hurricane of wind. Or an earth -
I quake under, the sea may be the
I cause.
i Submarine volcanic eruptions are
of not very infrequent occurrence,
and earthquakes are likely to ac
company them. Or a mere slipping
of strata in the sea floor may cp.use
earthquakes. If, incidentally to the
volcanic or seismic disturbance, one
part of the sea floor sinks or another
part rises, there must be a conse
quent rush of water, which may as
sume the proportions of what is
called a tidal wave.
Suffrage Prospects For 1920
[From the New York Sun]
Favorable action by the 'Maine
Legislature on the Suffrage Amend
ment makes a total of nineteen States
which have ratified it. Ratification
by seventeen more States is neces
sary before woman will have equal
voting privileges with man through
out the United Btates. Whether the
ratifications now lacking will come
in time to bring all the benefits of
i the franchise to all American women
at the Presidential election is what
Is puzzling the man politician as well
as well as the suffragist.
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Boston Police Lose
[From the Syracuse Herald.]
The Boston striking police have
' lost the fight they made in the courts
i to be reinstated. This strike has
been an object lesson whose moral
i will not be lost on the country at
■ large. It will impress the fact that
: public duty cannot be subjected to
private caprice.
NOVEMBER 21, 1919
ward a materialistic educational
basis—the kind upon which the
German Empire made shipwreck—
we may now place undue emphasis
upon things that money may buy,
and unwisely and wastefully.from the
point of view of good housekeeping
and fine educational ideals, be dis
posed to discard what is a little old
and go after something that is new
and different. The war has seemed
to leave us somewhat confused and
limited in our capacity for clear
thinking, and before we get both
feet onto the ground again there
may develop a tendency to extrava
gance in, building and equipping
school houses, carrying these be
yond the real requirements of our
young people for the best education
that money and effort can supply.
We can get along very well for
two years more without begin
ning any new building construction,
except an addition to the Steele
building.
As I have said, our public schools
are good. They can be made better.
They arc what we are satisfied with.
They will be better when we want
them to be better. We will want
them to be better when we realize
their supreme importance. If they
shall develop as rapidly in quality
as they should, there must be a
greater interest among our people,
manifested by a greater willingness
to lend a hand in the development
of the schools and a more kindly
and sympathetic criticism of their
administration. Our schools are bet
ter than they were twenty-five years
ago, as they were better then than
they were twenty-five before, but
they are not nearly as good as they
ought to be. They are not finished,
for, like democracy itself, they
never can be finished. A real ex
cellence of anything that has life in
it is its augury of greater worth
and power, and this is true of our
public school system. What can be
more inspiring to the patriotic Har
risburger than a vision of the possi
bilities of our public schools from the
basis of their present achievement?
(The End.)'
EDITORIAL COMMENT
"With a rum punch gripped in
one hand and a cigaret in the other,
and a song on his lips"—that's the
way a story about the Prince of
Wales in Halifax begins. No won
der he intends to limit his stay in
the United States to ten days.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Stamps are sticking better, influ
enced perhaps by Mr. Burleson's ex
ample.—Boston Herald.
No anti-Red ordinance will com
mand popular support in Cincinnati
at this time.—New York Sun.
Nowadays even an inferior grade
of pottage costs almost your entire
birthright.—Kansas City Star.
"We fought for freedom, and now
we have so much of it that we don't
know how to handle it. —Asheville
Times.
There can't be so much unrest at
present among organized workers.
So many of them are resting.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
One big trouble with the labor
movement is the fact thai we have
too many cabooses and not enough
engines.—Railroad World.
A republic is a form of govern
ment in which the majority get at
■east two guesses as to which mi
nority .will rule them next. —New
York Evening Sun.
Senator Williams says the British
empire has "six voices but only one
vote." Sort of a parallel to Hi
Johnson's status in the Senate. —
Little Rock Arkansas Gazette.
Perhaps the relatives of the mas
sacred Armenians may find some
comfort in the report that an Ameri
can dentist has been in attendance
on the Sultan of Turkey.—New
York Morning Telegraph.
Hiram Johnson says that Article
X of the League Covenant would
place the world in a straight-Jacket.
Judging by what the world has been
doing these past five years we'll say
that a straight-Jacket is highly ad
visable. —Bt. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Rivals
O Amy, how are you? Such pleas-
ure, my dear.
To run across you while I'm shop
ping down here!
What rivals we were in the dead
"Used to Be!"
Come 'cross the street and have
luncheon with mo.
Tou're changed, of course. Amy.
Ah, thank you, dear; yes,
My fam'ly all say I'm so young in
this dress!
Yes, table for two, please. We're
lucky, I'll say,
To get a nice corner at this time of
day * *
How well I remember that night at
the dance,
When first you gave Kenneth your
languishing glance!
I hated you! Hated your pink and
white face.
And your gauzy doll dress with its
ruffles and lace.
And r wished that my eyes were a
heavenly blue.
And that I could be dainty and timid
like you.
I tried it. The next time Ken came
to the house,
I grew quite hysterical over a mouse!
Ken looked at me queerly and said,
"Good Lord, Kate,
Now what in the mischief has
changed you of late?"
Oh, Amy, I'd love you, had you now
the power
To rouse the fierce hatred of that
tragic hour!
It's quite too absurd, over salad and
tea,
To be sitting here smiling in such
callous glee,
Yes, only last Monday I saw Ken
neth King,
And, Amy, he's fat and baldheaded,
poor thing!
And Mabel is wrinkled and frowsy
and old:
As a beautiful charmer, her days
were soon told.
Oh, don't you know Mabel? "Why,
Kenneth, poor dear.
Has been married to Mabel this
many a year! E-/F. A.
Shortage of Newsprint
[From the New York Herald.]
There is no exaggeration in the as
sertions made by manufacturers and
by publishers in attendance upon the
special meeting of the American
Newspaper Publishers' Association,
held in this city, that the supply of
newsprint in sight falls far short
of the actual need as measured by
present day demands. It Is signi
ficant that representatives of the
publishers, who have conducted an
exhaustive investigation into the sit
uation. agree that the responsibility
for this shortage does not lie with
the manufacturers of newsprint.
In their resolutions, unanimously
adopted, the members of tho A. N. P.
A. urge that publishers in all parts
of the country—the publishers of
small city, town and country news
papers ds well as those of the large
cities—"materially increase advertis
ing and subscription rates and at the
same time limit the size of ther
issues."
The limitation of the size of the
newspapers is tho chief desideratum,
since that alone will contribute to
tho reduction in paper consumption
which must be brought about if hun
dreds of the smaller papers in the
country are not to find themselves
unable to publish because of lack of
the raw material for their finished
product.
The dqily newspaper at two cents
and the Sunday newspaper at five
cents are to-day the cheapest com
modities which the public can pur
chase. Taking into account not only
the high cost of newsprint but also
the very heavy Increases in tho cost
of mechanical production which pub
lishers have to meet, the price of
newspapers is ridiculously low.
Unless the radical reforms recom
mended by the A. N. P. A. are adopt
ed bv all newspapers publishers it
is only a question of time when the
public will be compelled to pay ten
cents for the large Sunday issues and
perhaps five —certainly three—cents
for the daily issues.
A Language of Grunts
An Italian missionary to Central
Africa has found a tribe which uses
a language that cannot be written
or recorded. The Bacongo tribe has
handed down all its history from
generation to generation by words
of mouth, as the language is com
posed of queer sounds which, to a
European ear, seem to be a varia
tion of grunts and guttural noises.
No one has yet discovered the
means of interpreting these sounds
into letters or signs. The codes of
morals and government are ex
pressed In proverbs. The motto of
the tribe is: "Wherever man has
passed, misery follows."
fainting (Eijat
What seems to have impressed
people who have been attending Ihe
various meetings of the State Educa
tional Congress at the State Capitol
most of all has been the earnestness
with which the school men and
women here have been discussing
the problems. The general idea
that one gains is that the educators
i ealize that the war and its period
of readjustment after girding for
the gigantic world struggle have ma
terially changed many matters per
taining to their profession and that
things which were held almost
sacrosanct some years ago are now
in the discard. Probably one of the
greatest jolts that some of the elder
teachers received was the sentiment
so widely expressed that Americani
zation and kindred subjects must
have more attention, even if some
of the time devoted to algebra and
other time-honored forms of instruc
tion is to be cut. Probably one of
the most interesting subjects dis
cussed was geography, which is com
ing back to its old importance be
cause of the tremendous changes
produced by war. From what teach
ers have said there has been in re
cent years a tendency to subordinate
geography, but it has come back
with a force that will make it a
top-notch study for a long time to
come. Returning to the opening
thought. Dr. W. D. Lewis, the deputy
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
in charge of the congress in the ab
sence of Dr. Finegan, whose tragic
illness is the cause of much sorrow
said last night that he had been
more than impressed bv the earnest
manner in which every instructor
was taking hold of the work laid out.
"\Ye expect to obtain information of
great value in working out the fu
ture educational policy of our State,"
said Ire. "We have asked the teach
ers to express themselves freely—
and they have done it."
Ono of the themes of conversation
at the Capitol is the address given
by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, the
historian. Dr. Hart, who takes pride
in the fact that he is a native of
Pennsylvania, said that the teachers
ought to make a specialty of Penn
sylvania history and Pennsylvania
scenery. He frankly told them to
'brag" of their State and to inculcate
in their pupils an abiding interest it)
their State and its great place in
history. Dr. Hart also said that
teachers should get their students in
terested in the constitution as some
thing other than a long piece to copy
as a penalty. What seems to make
tho greatest hit was his suggestion
that there be a return to the old
time way of teaching the capitals by
singing them, illustrating it by the
verse so familiar to the older folks,
"Maine, Augusta, on the Kennebec
River." It may be added that there
are quite a few people in Harrisburg
who very well remember learning
the capitals that way. And, it may
bo added, they "stuck."
Holding of the education sessions
at tho Capitol has made people on
the Hill go around a few parnsangs
in the course of a day. Most every
one take short cuts through the hall
of tho House when it is possible, but
yesterday and to-day folks ran up
against meetings in the hall nnd in
the anterooms and had to walk
around, which meant going to the
first floor.
Some of the educators here for
the congress have been taking an
opportunity of studying the munici
pal improvement of Harrisburg and
there have been a number of in
quiries as to the manner in which
the city financed its river front and
park improvements and more in
terest has been shown in the details
of municipal affairs than has been
known in a long time on the part of
educators. At the same time there
has been more or less surprise ex
pressed at the fact that Harrisburg
did not have a city hall or some
thing of a purely municipal char
acter in keeping with the State Capi
tol.
It may be added that the teachers
have been intensely interested in the
group plan for the new high schools
and the utilization of Italian Park,
and many questions have been asked
as to the comprehensive plans for
the development of an educational
center. The new Edison Junior High
School has been visited by several
of the educators from cities which
have the same problems as Harris
burg.
Quite a few residents of Dauphin
county are in a state of indignation
at the manner in which the wild
turkeys have been moving around.
Flocks which for weeks have roosted
in certain localities have been going
elsewhere and it would seem that
some of the birds miut have gotten
tips that the gunners were going to
start after them at the opening of
the season. Several men have com
plained to game wardens and have
intimated that some one beat them
to it and shot the birds or scared
them away. One man got into touch
with a State game official and ex
pressed wrath and suspicion. He
said he wanted to write to some
one about it. "Go ahead and write"
was the advice, "only send your let
ter to old Mr. T. Gobbler. He's tho
foxiest bird there is in Pennsylvania
and he is the only man who can
successfully move and not pay rent."
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Ex-Governor John K. Tener has
been speaking in behalf of the Elks
campaign in Pittsburgh and is
quoted as saying that prohibition has
helped the order as well as many
others.
—Charles M. Schwab is to speak
at the Carnegie memorial in Pitts
burgh.
—Col. George Nox McCain, the
correspondent, has been writing a
scries of character sketches of the
big labor leaders now in the lime
light.
—Herbert Hoover, the former food
administrator, has been visiting in
Philadelphia.
—M. Hampton Todd, former At
torney General, has startled Phila
delphia by some sharp criticisms of
the handling of the Johnson art be
quest.
—Dr. T. S. Arbuthnot, Pittsburgh
medical man, army surgeon and hun
ter, is home from British Columbia
with stories of splendid big game
hunting.
y DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg manufac
tures parts for more than fifty
kinds of machines?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The early schools of Harrisburg*
were all within a quarter of a mile
of each other.