6 IHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH [d.. yEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 [Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. iTtlccnyk BilMlnc, Federal Sqaar* E. J. STACKPOLE ' President and Editor-in-Chief sp7r. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIN'METZ, Managing Editor [A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Doard 'JJP. McCULLOUGH, " " BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en- j titled to the use for republication , of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this fi&per and also the local news pub- i lshed herein. All rights of republication of special ' dispatches herein are also reserved, i ; t Member American j Aasocla- i Bureau of Circu- ' latlon and Penn- Associa- EaMern o_f ce. ! Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Hsrris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a cmpSMSmtfe week; by mail. SO.OOa year In advance. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, IAI9 Profits are legitimate only u-hcii they come from service. —Woomiow W lI.SON. RIGHT, MR. FRAYNE HUGH FRAYNE, New York labor leader, hit the nail 1 squarely on the head when he told the State Education Conference, Thursday night, that much of the j discontent of the masses can be dis- [ sipated by proper education in the . public schools. Mr. Frayne's remarks were by far j the most important of the whole con- j ference. What he said goes to the ! root of the whole matter. W'e have j neglected shamefully neglected— j cvery-day business economics in our public schools. The fundamentals j upon which business is founded are ; strangers in the classroom. Business as it is conducted in the United States is a matter the pupil is sup posed to learn about after he leaves school, If ever. So, to the man ignorant of the methods of business, the flannel mouthed agitators have come with their half-truths and have set class ■against class in a manner that never j [would have been possible if the man j [on the job had understood all the i factq in the case. Only a compar- | 'atively few Americans are good . businessmen, but every American j should have at least the'rudiments, | tho fundamentals, of trade. He ought j to know how hard one dollar must j work, twenty-four hour 3 to the day, I to earn five cents during a whole j year. 'He ought to be able to base I his judgment on facts. He ought to } know the equities and the justice of j every complaint or disagreement. But he won't know those things j vntil the school of the State teaches j them. Mr. Frayne is right. Properly i taught school courses in economics, j social justice and fair play would | do a lot toward quelling public dis- I content. Now if Mr. Lodge can ue content with his victory, and Mr. Wilson with his, we may be able to get some rea sonable action soon en the Peace Treaty. AGENTS OF THE DEVIL THE "reds" of the United States are planning to send infernal machines through the mails disguised as Christmas packages. These are the men who want to "reform" the country and give us j a "model" government, and they I choose the season of "peace on earth I and good will toward men," when j the whole world pauses to do honor j to the Babe in the Manger, for their I nefarious schemes. They would do murder in the name of Jesus Christ. Beside such beasts Judius Iscariot stands out as a saint. Come on with these army provi sions. Mr. Mayor, our hrnn bag Is get ting low and our bacon supply short. WHY IT COSTS MORE PERRY county people—at least those outside the larger towns —are enjoying forty-flve-cent butter and sixty-five-cent eggs, with other country produce prices equal ly reasonable. But that does not mean we in the city can hope to enjoy such advan tages. It would cpst us time and money to go out into the country to take advantage of t' esp bargains. Indeed, the cost wouh lie so exces sive It would not pay us to make the trip. So It is only reasonable that when others go out and bring the atuff to town for us and sell it to a grocer who sells It to us, the price of the trip, plus a profit each for the buyer and the grocer, must be added and thus we get high prices. That Is our one great trouble to day—distribution. Get that down to the least number of transactions and the smallest amount of handling between producer and consumer and prices would fall at once. Very often the cost of transportation and selllas are by far the largest ele- SATURDAY EVENING, ments In the price of foods. Tho State Bureau of Markets is paying more attention to this phase of the food question than to all others to gether. The Thanksgiving turkey qfems perfectly gaffe; nobody has the money to buy and the bird is too valuable for the farmer to kill. . ML ST SETTLE THE coal operators and the soft coal miners must settle theth differences. MUSI" is the word. The public will listen to nothing else. We must have conl and the people outside the mines stand solidly back of Administrator Gar field in his demands that the mines be kept running. If either the miners or the operators, or both, are un reasonable it will go hard with them. If by reason of idleness mines millions of people are rendered idle and homes are cold in winter, the strike as an institution in the settle ment of labor dispute: will get such a black eye in America as it will not recover from in many years and the whole labor movement will come under the ban of public disapproval, whether it deserves it or not. That is the temper of the public at this moment. But it is to he expected that rea son will prevail. Bach's Review, discussing Ihe mine situation tnkes a most liberal view of the whole matter, saying: That the coal miners are not immediately returning to work is not to be wondered at. when thr pleasures of a vacation from this discomforting work are considered. The claims of the workers wi'l be reviewed under circumstances favorable to them. Their action in striking Is not laid up against them. as. under tlio tyranny of leadership which pertains in the union, they had little choice hut to strike. The [ defeat in this and the steel strike is not especially a rebuke to the | workers themselves, but a square j blow nt Bolshevist despotism en- I deavored to be put over Amerl- ; ran workingmen by revolutionary leaders. It cannot be doubted that the whole soft coal disagreement could have been adjusted had not radical leaders insisted upon demands of an impossible char.e :.ci. The people as a whole are oppo ed to six-hour days and five-dry weeks. More and more it is becoming jienerally recog nized that work and work alone, which means increased production, will bring down the high cost of liv ing, and with living costs down and wages continuing high, there will be small reason for wage disputes. The American people are slow to anger, hut mighty when aroused, and just now they have th-ir eyes on the soft coal fields, fully determined that the miners shall receive every consider ation to wlvch they are'entitled, but not one penny more They sympa thize with the workmen in their ef forts to benefit themselves and im prove their condition, but they have absolutely no time for radicalism of leadership on one side or pig headed stand-patism on the other. The fellow who advised us to do our Christmas shopping early ought to have invented a way of getting the money al the same time. LINCOLN, THE PROPHET ABRAHAM LINCOLN was a man of vision, but not-a visionary. Speaking at Springfield, 111., in 1837, he foretold the growth of law lessness so menacing in the United States to-day. In the course of his address he said: At what point shall we expect ' the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against • it? Shall we expect some trans- ! Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? ! Never! All the armies of Europe, j Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their mili- 1 tary chest, with a Bonaparte for i a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio ov ' make a track in the Blue Ridge j in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then, is tho ap proach of danger to be expected? ! I answer, if it ever reaches us it | must spring up amongst us: it | cannot come from abroad. If <!e- j si ruction tie our lot we must our- i s -Ives be Its author and finisher. I As a Nation of free men we most ' live through all time or die by ' suicide. i I hope I am over wary: hut if j lam not. there is even now some- i thing of evil omen amongst us. i 1 mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the coun try—the growing disposition to substitute tho wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober lodgment of courts, and the worse i than savage mohs for the execu tive ministers of justice. * * • I The answer simple. Let every American, every lover of j libertv. everv well-wisher to lit ; poster!'v swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate j ip Ihe least narticulr" the laws j of the country, and never to 1 tolera'e their violation by oth- j ers. * * * Let reverence for | the laws he breathed by every American mother to the lisning lialie that prattles on lier lap: let it he I a light in the schools. i seminaries r.nd in eo leges: let it j ■>e written in ciders, in spelling ' hooks and in almanacs: let It he ! preached from the piilnlts. pro eiHmcd in legislative halls and enforced in courts of justice. And. j In short, let It become the po. tjticcl rel'-ion r f the Notion: and I let the o'd and the young. th° I rich and the noor. the grave and ! the gnv of all nexes and tonguen | end colors end conditions sacrl- | fice unceasingly unon Its altars. GOING TO IT COMMISSIONER LYNCH will not need to bother about "his re-election for four years and being relieved of that I'ttle annoy ance In the life of the average of ficial he will be the better able to work out the important highway problems which confront his de partment. His program for 1920 Is construc tive in character and will continue the good work which has made this city an example for other munici palities. Only the other day a prominent citizen tcld how ho had mentioned Harrlsburg In a company of persons at New York and was immediately met with a most complimentary reference to the paved highways of this city. So it goes everywhere; our good name is a prime asset which we are all beginning to appreciate. ""PoCtttcc In By the Ex-Committeeman Not only will Dauphin county elect a Senator next year, but most of the districts adjacent to this county will have the same elections, and most of the Senators, it may be said, are candidates for renomina tion. The year 1920 will have elec tions for Senator in odd-numbered districts, and over half of the Sen ate will be elected, as one or two vacancies will have to be filled. In this county Senator Frank A. Smith is expected to be a candidate again on the Republican ticket and will be re-elected. He was chosen last winter to fill the unexpired term of Lieutenant Governor Edward E. Beidleman. In the Cumberland-Perry-Juninta- Mifliln district names of ex-Itepie sontntives Thomas J.Ferguson, James H. Millhouse and Caleb B. Brinton, of Cumberland; Harry E. Ritter and John S. Eby, of Perry, and Repre sentative C. O. Corbin, of Mifflin, are mentioned for Republican Senator ial honors, with chances that it will go to Cumberland. Senator S. S. Leiby will be a candidate to succeed himself. In the lower Lancaster dis trict. Senator John G. Homslicr will run again and it is p'obnble that Col. Hotare L. Haldcman will again he a candidate in the upper Lancas ter and Lebanon distr'et. In Schuyl kill county. Senator Robert D. Hea ton. elected to fill the vacancy when Auditor General Charles A. Snyder went into State office, will be a can didate again. Up the river Senator W. O. Mc- Connell aspires to run again in (tie Northunibertand -Un'on -Snyder dis trict and will likely have some oppo sition for the nomination. Terms of the York-Adams and Blair-Huntingdon Senators will not expire. j —lllness of Attorney General A. [Mitchell Palmer will probably not [interfere with the work of his parti sans among the Democrats in pre paring for his campaign. The At torney General lias been keeping his weather eye on things in the home State, and, being in sole control of the organization, he will be in a position to take the center of the State when the December Demo cratic conference is held. Governor William C. Pp'onl goes away with his appointments putty [ well made to fill in the vacancies in the State government and with 1 the selections for the commission of j25 to study and recommend revision l of th> Constitution made up. The i commission will he announced within ia few days and it will be lefl largely Ito the Attorney General. William I. Sehaffer, to call the meeting. Mr. 'Schaffer's illness has kept him awav from Har ishurg tho last ten days, hot it is expected that he will he ■ i hie to resume his work by Thauhs- ;giving Day. j —Reorganization of the Depart ment of Labor ami Industry has been I under way lately with vigor, and [while thete has not been much said j about the changes they hnve been coming pretty regularly and in im portant places. Benjamin Jarrett. [Jr., the new member of the Com jpensation Board, will assume his work next week. He is an attorney and has been a student of compen sation laws and cases. —lt is possible that before long Some changes in tho" p foi , fcs of the I Banking Commissioner will he made, las well as that of the Commissioner |of Labor and Industry. The exam ! in;ng force of the Banking Depart [ment has been undergoing some 'changes, and additions will be made. —Col. Edward Martin, the State Commissioner of Health, is making rpp'd progress with the organization of his health committees in various countes und municipalities. In a number of the districts some of the most prominent men have agreed to serve. j —AuditoiM3cneral Charles A. Sn.v- I dor, who is charged with the tre j mendous task of organizing the mer ' cantile nnd other tax collections under the new acts, intends to name 'his appraisers early in December. I The Auditor General has cln.se to 10a such selections to make and has been j surprised at the number of near and dear friends that he has developed. ; This organization is going to he a I special favorite of the Auditor Cen jeral and he is giving close thought to building it up. | —People at the Capitol are dis cussing with interest an address 1 niade before this week's State Edu cational Congress here by Dr. Edgar j Dawson, Hunter College. New V'orK. i "Machine men are bette • citizens ] than the average reformer," Dr. I i i'.vson said to ihe civics group. I "Me takes an interest in the' affairs jot his community while the average i reformer is content with sitl : rg ' round his club doing nothing but criticise. Hs'.Tf the time the alleged 'good citizen' fails to cast his ballot. There is no self-government in com j munition where no one ran uiider j stand the machinery of control." he I said. "States a"" too hardened with I commissions nnd hoards and special j committees for rel democracy to j function. What's the use of talking ihovtt democracy when we don't I have it " t! e vision of S't'e consfit"- ft'ons n r o ans to check the growth | Bolshevism was. asked by D\ | Dawson, who is heading n committee I to draw tip model charters for cities and states. —Mayor-Heot Moore, of Phila-. delphta, declared yesterday that the j Department "of Public Welfare pro- j vtded for tinder the City Charter, l and through which he Intended to I solve the groat problem of unrest, ts i in jeopardy. It cannot he organ "zed.[ next year unless the prercnt council - I men busy themselves at once with I providing money for its creation, he said. At the same time, Mr. Moore took a (ling at the system of book keeping which had seemed to per meate the new 1320 budget, and said that he would not permit h's admin istration to he held responsible for any of the shortcomings of the Smith regime. As a sample of the manner in which he said the budget for next year had bean compiled h" pointed to the fa"t that the appropHa'ion asked bv the Department of Public I Works for street repairs and rcsur ' facing was only < $430,(100. Mr. \ Moore Intimated that a man with , only half an eye could see that at , least ten times that sum was tm i peratlvely needed, and that at least I $15,000,000 could he expended for Isnch purposes. lie said that an im mediate inc-ense in the tax rate and an I * crease in the budget annroprla j tions were urgent, and should not. be ■ passed along to his administration j when it was the duty of the present j councils to face the issue squarely j now and boost the levy. "If the prs -j ent councils." he said, "do not pro vide sufficient revenue for next year | as the law provides It may be nec j essary to reduce overhead expenses. I The present councils have the power Ito fix the tax rate that will permit the business of the city to go on In I full for next year." FIAKRISBURG ?*£IJ|SSFCL TELEGRAPH THAT GUILTIEST FEELING ByBRIGGS VOU SLIC6 YOUR DRWE INTO~~| RS~A> A YARD ADJOIMIMG THE GOLF COUR.SE JFV^W^ YOU FIND YOUR BALL. UNDER AN | <Z APPLE TREE, YOU JUGGLE THE BALL J;' W / ; IN YOUR HAND O"UST TO SHOW YOU WERE Too Dangerous [From Kansas. City Times.] "Why not try the league?" is an ! argument sometimes heard. "It ! may not do much, but at leust it i is a beginning." The argument might be sound If* trying the league did not involve dangers. But the dangers outweigh any advantages that are reasonably to be expected. The chief advantage claimed for 1 the league is that it will prevent war j bj inducing nnt ons to submit their differences to arbitration through fear of arraying the entire world against them should they undertake j to tight. For the present [he world is weary of lighting and physically exhausted. There is no immediate danger of any great war. But If a future Germany, bent on world domination, were to arise, would any treaty restrain It? Before it entered on a war it would take care to have allies. The league of na tions would be split in two. Na tions do not tight under the com pulsion of outgrown treaties. They light when and where their own interests dictate. Italy ignored the .U-.euty.pf the triple alliance in 1915 because its interests were on the side of the entente, while England fought without treaty compulsion because Its interests dictated that course. If the will to war is present, ar bitration will not save the situation. No nation was ever willing to ar bitrate a question that it considered vital enough to light over. There is no reason to suppose that the league of nations would have any more practical effect on world peace than the good resolutions adopted at a mass meeting have on abolishing vice. The advantage of a league is il lusory.. Its dangers are real. For it would involve this country in evitably in the intrigues of Euro pean and Asiat'c politics We would find ourselves being used to serve the ends of other nations. As Senator Jobmon said, we would bo sitting in the other fellow's game, with all the consequences that come to such an adventurer. We would be in constant turmoil, for every act necessary for policing the Americas could be dragged before the league. A f'anad'an univers'ty professor al ready is urging that the league, con rider rectifying the Maine boundary —ln other words, bestowing the up ™r half of Maine on Canada. Moreover, the obligations of Article in. even under the reservation, would be an overlast'ng source Of contention and d'scord. We would be called on to take sides in every Old World quarrel, to participate in economic boycotts, to send troops for police duty over sens. Balancing the possible good against the inevitable , evil of the league, we s'mply cannot afford this dangerous experiment In the hope it may prove a beginning in a better International organisation. Labrador Superstitions | [From ".V Labrador Doctor," by Wil- ! ('red 'l homnson Grenfell. Hough- I ton-Mifflin Company.] The superstitions still found I among the people of Labrador are i attributable to the remoteness of j I the country from the current of the j I world's thought, the natural ten dency of seafaring people, and the | fact that the days when the forbears j jol these fishermen left "Merrie j ! England" to sock a living by the j [ harvest of the sea, and finally set* ! tling on these rocky shores, were I those when Witches and hobgoblins and charms and* amulets were ac cept bellefe. Nevertheless, to-day, as a medical man, one is startled to see -a fox's or a wolf's head suspended by a cord from the center and to learn that it will always twist the way from which the wind is going to ! blow. One man hud a barometer of j this kind hanging from his roof and ! explained that the peculiar fact was | due to the nature of the animals, ] which in life always went to the j windward of others; but if you had | a seal's head similarly suspended, it; | would turn from the wind, owing to tlie timid character of that creature. Moreover, it surprises one to be as sured. on the irrefutable and quite unquestioned authority of "old Aunt Anne Swoetapple," that aged cats always become playful before a gale of wind comes on. There is a great belief in fairies on the coust. A man came to mc once to cure what he was deter mined to believe was a balsam on his baby's nose. The birthmark to him resembled that tree. More than j one had given currency if not cred ence to the belief that, the reason I why the bull's-eye was so hard to hit in one of our running deer rifle matches was that we had previously , charmed it. If a woman sees a hare 1 without cutting out and keeping u portion of the dress she Is then Kaiser's Estate Won By an American Girl Seeing Her Name on the Death IJst of the Turks Inspired Miss Graf fum to Greater Service for Armenia—Her fearlessness Put Pear In Heart of WlUielm's Caretaker. A BRIGHT, vivacious American girl, with heart bubbling over with fun and the joy of living, and a soul that is crying to serve, followed a little trail through a de vastated region 150 miles into the mountainous interior of Armenia. At the charming little city of Sivas, which has never heard the shriek of a train w*histle or even a motor klaxon. Miss Mary L. Graffam want ed to hang up her hat. The balmy sunshine, the glorious sports of win ter, the opportunity to bring to the girls of the city the realization of the better things in life- —took a firm grip on her. But she had to find a place to hang her hat. With her youthful vigor she threw herself into the work and soon be- j came one of the principal figures of the town. A mission school support ed by the Congregational Church in America was immediately founded. The young girls of the city took such a great interest in the school that within a short time the number of teachers in the institution had to be Increased to' seventeen —all Ar menians. From this educational oasis in the torrid Armenian intel lectual wastes there flowed a cur rent of life that transformed the young womanhood of Armenia. Her Teachers Murdered Then came the war. Armenia's trouble commenced. Leaders in the sturdy little country were the object of attack by the bloodthirsty, persecuting Turks. Educated peo ple held priority on the death list- Seven of the eight men on Miss Oraftam's teaching staff were mur dered in cold blood by the invaders. The nine women on the staff were driven with the girls of the school on the "march of death" toward the desert. On the bridge leading to the trackless waste Miss Graffam saw 2,000 Armenians fleeing before the savage Turks. The red-blooded American could j not sit by and see her schpol, her i friends, her eirls, the very ambi tion of her life, the whole soul of ! Armenia driven before the criminnls. : Powerless, she decided to give her | all by sharing the fate of her stu dents. She followed. Turkish sol i diers threatened. Miss Graffam's : name was plainly written on the or i der of execution of the Kurdish ma- wearing her child will be born with a hare lip. A little farther south along the coast is a baby suffering from ophthalmia. The doctor had been culled in only because blowing sugar in its eyes has failed to cure it. Protestant and Catholic alike often sew up bits of paper, with prayers written on them, in little sacks that are worn around the neck as an amulet, and green worsted tied around the wrist is reported to be the never failing cure for hem orrhage. When stripping a patient for ex amination I noticed that he removed from his neck what appeared to be a very large scapular. I asked him what it could be. It was a haddock's fine bone —a charm against rheuma tism. Who Slay and Run Away [From the Philadelphia Record.] In all the laws on the statute books there isn't one sufllclently drastic to measure out full punish ment to the motorist who floured in the distressing trugedy of Sunday night in Cottman street, Bustleton. Here, in brief, is the picture: A young couple, pushing their infant in a baby conch along the side of the dark road, are run down by a motor car going at such speed that the coach and baby are tossed through the air 200 yards or more. The baby is killed; the father is so badly injured that he may die. and the mother is bruised and so shaken that no (ine may yet estimate the extent of her injuries. A cripple 'walking a little distance ahead of 'the couple narrowly escaped a lilts I fate. Another man, stepping out of the way just in time, tried to dis tinguish th" license number on the i flying car. but it was going too fast, i Besides, the lights of the machine !hnd been suddenly turned off, and ' thp car was soon out of sight. The offense upon which the lav.' should be visited most heavily Is this cowardly avoidance of the annoyance and possible punishment acknowl rauders. The sight of the order 1 only spurred her to greater heroism j in the attempt to serve her people. ' Saving the Armenian Remnant But in following the fleeing vic tims she saw she could be of no great service. She then returned to Sivas to look after the school prop erty and help as she could the rem nant of the heroic natives who chose to hold to their beautiful city. Soon she was heading the relief work of the entire district. She opened hospitals. She gathered uncared-for children into an orphanage. Knowing the fate that might be fall her she kept an eye on the j leader of the persecutions and the' inventor of cruelty. This deviser of I torture was the caretaker of a large ] and attractive estate owned, it was said, "by a man abroad." On the estate were several houses, three large mills and unlimited water power. The pasturage was sufficient for vast herds. But the caretaker was never too busy to keep an eye on the American —nor the American on him. Accepted the Estate The caretaker had his day. Miss Graffam's day started November 11. The hate he had for Miss Graffam changed to fear. He sought safety. Without a single qualifying clause he offered to turn over the entire estate, which conservatively was esti mated at $150,000. He convinced her he had the power to turn the estate over to her. Seeing here an opportunity to serve to put her school back into the posi tion It deserved, a greater service to Armenia, she accepted. The persecutor disappeared. From the farm, the wool, the flocks, the mills, the herds, she ex acted a profit that gave her money to enlarge her school and her re lief work. She soon had 700 chil dren in her orphanage. But business matters must be look ed after in a business way. Miss Graffam went to Constantinople, where she found there was no flaw in her claim. Her title was clear. It was hers to do with as she pleased. ( To learn where the property came from she examined the records. To : her amazement she found that the i estate hud been the property of Wil 111am Hohenzollern, Emperor of i Germany. edgment of the first offense would i have entailed. There might bo some 1 excuso for the first fault, though in \ this case there appears to be none; j but for the inhumanity and selfish-1 ness of the second there can be no : palliation. It was contemptible in j the highest degree. The one witness! who was in a position to make any-i thing like a calm observation says there were throe men and three j women in the car. Out of so many.; especially since there three were i women, it may be expected that one, j at least, may have a conscience so; troubled as to lead eventually to the j identification of the guilty driver. \ Whoever this may be, an example should be made of him. And it. should not be too much to hope that out of this pitiful case a movement might grow to bring about some leg islation which shall visit extreme punishment upon all who are guilty of running away after figuring in any accident of this character. Liberal [From the Home Sector.] Lights and noise wore tabu, but there was some verbal expression of thought in undertones. The column was slogging forward the night be fore the attack on the St. Mihlel salient. "Wonder where we're bound for now?" spoke one doughboy during a momentary check. "I dunno," replied a voice in the dark, "but I heard an officer say it was Metz." "Huh! Metz?" "Sure—and he said the general meant to take it if it cost a hundred thousand lives." Silence for about five seconds; then: "Liberal son of a gun, ain't he?" Criticism [From the Blighty, London.] A critic is one who knows how— but doesn't NOVEMBER 221 LYIY. Peace Often Long Delayed When the armistice was signed more than a year ago, there was a (few joy killers who tried to take the edge off the celebration by say ing: "Ah! but do not celebrate too soon. This is only the armistice, and peace itself will not come until the treaty is signed, which may not be until next April. April, indeed! We laughed as we had laughed at those who, in Au gust, 1914, had prophesied that the war would last three years. And we think to-day our patience has been tried beyond all limits and we have been kept waiting beyond all precedent for real peace. But wo haven't. The treuty of Utrecht, for in stance, which ended the long series of "Queen Anne" wars, was signed in April, 1713, at the conclusion of sessions of a congress which con vened in January, 1712. In the Na poleonic wars a preliminary treaty was signed in May, 1814, and a con gress to rearrange the map of Eur ope and make a final settlement was in session at Vienna from September until June. 1815. In the American Revolution al most two years elapsed between the surrender of Cornwallls. which vir tually ended the fighting, and the signing of the peace treaty in Paris. Cornwallis _surrenderd October 19, 1781. The' army was finally de mobilized in October. 1783. But the treaty negotiations that hold the record for wearisome dawdling and red tape were those between Louis NIV of France and the Grand Alliance in 1K97 at Rys wick, Holland. So tiresome did the proceedings become, indeed, that King Louisa and King William 111 of England, the chief parties to Ufa t conference, took matters into their own hands, cast to the winds all established notions of diplomatic etiquette and forced a conclusion. Months had been devoted to a dis pute about the place where the con ference should be held. Then other months were wasted on petty for malities of dress and precedence. At last William determined to bring the mummery to a speedy close. He had one of his officers get in touch with the French marshal got permission from Louis and the two officers met in an or chard near Brussels. They walked up and down together for two hours and in that time did more business than the diplomats at Ryswick had done in as many months. That was then the latter part of June and by the end of July every thing wnSi settled, so far as Eng land and France were concerned. The other nations concerned quickly | fell into line and peace was con cluded almost before the plentipo ■ tentiaries intrusted with the treaty J bad decided where each should sit I at the council table. A Song [Eden Phillpotts, in the London Spectator.] The red's in the heather, the gold's on the fern— Heigho! Helgho! A nip to the wind and the year at the turn — Heigho, Johnny! 1 The aglet and rowan shine bright on the bough— Heigho! Heigho! But seedtime or harbest be one to him now— Heigho. Johnny! All one the wild weather, the wind and the rain— Heigho! Heigho! For that made summer will not come again— Heigho. Johnny! Was left in the lurch at a young woman's whim— Heigho! Heigho! I Who cared not a cuss for the ruin 1 of him i Heigho, Johnny! Oh little we mind what the seasons may bring— Heigho! Heigho! , When hearts are a winter without anv spring— Hejgho, Johnny! My God, Lafayette The famous speech at the tomb of Lafayette attributed to General Per j shing and others is still In the minds of Americans. Last week a crowd of homesick doughboys visited the same spot. After a moment of si lent awe, one spoke up: "My God, Lafayette, we're still here."—Amer ican Legion Weekly. Devisers of Iniquity Woe to them that devise iniquity. —-Micah, H, 1. lEowtUtg (Eljat Owners of automobiles who have been rejoicing in low numbers of automobile tags will probably not get them during the distribution of the license plates for 1920, which will be started by the automobile divi sion of the State Highway Depart ment within a few weeks, owing tc a change in State policy in regard to cars' owned by the Common wealth. For years there have been issues of numbers under 100 and some under 200 to individuals, some of whom have had them for years, two cases being known where the same number has been held by per sons for more than half a dozen years. It is now the plan to give the State the low numbers. The Governor has had No. 1 ever since 1911 and the State Highway Com missioner No. 2, but although the cars owned by the State, especially the State Highway Department, have increased in number, there has been no classification of them to speak of. State cars arc now numbered as the applications came in and no attempt at continuity has been made. All State cars are now being listed and the licenses will be issued to them first. Then the other applicants will be taken care of. Present indica tions are that there will be a marked increase in the number of applica tions for licenses filed during De cember. Penhsylvania has more cars now than ever before in its his tory and the receipts from the li censes have gone fur beyond expec tations. A regular rush is looked for next month. Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, who was the speaker at the Epis copal meeting last night, is in charge of the diooese of Kyoto, Japan. His address, according to those who know him well, is Karasumaruderi. • • Hunting ways have certainly changed when dogs' go hunting in "bath-tub" motorcycles and men chase wild turkeys over country roads in automobiles. Bearing iii mind the way hunters from Har risburg used to get up to take "Pa cific" for the Juniata valley about 2.30 a. m. in the old days and how they often went up to "Lykens" or "Bewistown" the night before to be in the woods or the mountains by daybreak, these sights of men start ing out to hunt in touring cars with hampers filled with food and bottles that keep coffee hot; dogs comfort ably seated in the cars and gazing out at the passing show are enough to make folks wonder what the game thinks of it all. The auto mobile can get huntgrs from place to place with a-rapidity that rattles a deer and makes wild turkeys take to the rocks on top of ridges, but the motorcycle is the greatest of all for the hunter, it seems. The convivial drinker is taking the dry period like a good sport and accepting the siiuation without much complaint, but the "down and outer" is proving the most trouble some to the State olflciuls charged with the drug control and the over seeing ol' the Federal and State acts governing the sale of opiates and similar preparations. A large num ber of reports have come to the State Capitol lately giving experi ence of officers in enforcing the new regulations and it has been discov ered that more trouble is caused in the smaller communities than in the cities by the men who insist upon some sort of stimulant. Half a dozen of the smaller boroughs of the State have had to be inspected because of extraordinarily large sales of pare goric and in each case it was found that a small group was buying the medicine because of the opium de rivatives it contains. Various patent medicines with "kicks" and other properties making them attractive to men who were addicted to drink have also been brought in demand and tracing reasons for sales has been keeping State officials busy. Indications are that Harrisburg is not going to suffer from lack of coal even if the bituminous strike does become serious and the anthracite supply coming to this city is cur tailed. The city is taking its coal for boilers of its power und heating plants and other establishments right out of the Susquehanna river. The river coal industry, always an ac tive one here, has been revived vig orously and there are more dredges in the river now than known for many years. The coal is not even un loaded on the wharves or the river bank, but is shoveled directly into trucks and hauled to the coal re serves of the State Capitol and the different plants. "It will take a month or more to digest the conclusions that we have received from the various sectional meetings of the State Educational Congress, but I think that much that will be highly useful to us in work ing out plans for improvement of Pennsylvania's educational system will be found," said Dr. W. D. Lewis, deputy State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction. "The congress brought together the men who do things in education in our State and the freedom und earnestness with which they discussed the subject was marked. Americanization will be given a great impetus in every section as a result of the congress and so will rural education be helped." Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, the State Superintendent of Public Education, is improving. He was reported as very seriously ill yesterday, but ral lied during the afternoon. Before leaving, Governor William C. Sproul sent him a message of sympathy and hope for his recovery. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Commissioner C. B. Connellov, of the Department of L.abor and In dustry, was right at home among the teachers to-day, as he has been in that profession since young man hood, —Harlan Updegraff, who took n prominent part in the Educational Congress this week, is a member ol the faculty of the University oi Pennsylvania. —Col. Edward Martin, Commis sioner of Health, has been visiting in eastern counties. —Dr. William McAndrew, who was one of the high school speakeri at the Educational" Congress, is as sistant superintendent of New Yoih city. —President G. L. Omwake, ol Urstnus College, was among visltori here this week. —Col. Alfred H. Brooks, of tht United Slates Geological Survey, wai among Harrisburg visitors. [ DO YOU KNOW "j —That Harrisburg dressed many tons of meat which was sent abroad to the army last year? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Th e Harrisburg conference, which gave rise to the anti-Federal ist party, was the ilrst convention ever held here.
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