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By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1919 "A Utile learning is a dangerous thing;" hut the danger is not in the learning, hut in the littleness.• —Pllll.- ijr.s BROOKS. TAFT AND THE TREATY FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT IS so enthusiastically in favor of aj League of Nations that he would ; have the country adopt Mr. Wilson's plan without change or reservation, j lie talks of those who oppose the League without reservations as a . "small minority." Mr. Taft is a big man—a very big man —but indications arc not lack ing that in this he has read public sentiment through Wilsonian spec tacles. With him the wish has been father to the thought. Mow does Mr. Taft think, we won der, about proper feeling relative to the much-discussed "Article 10" of the l,eague Covenant, which pledges us to safeguard forever the boundries o_f all j Europe? Does he imagine "that the fatherSTof "American boys want to see them ordered off to Europe every time the mad-cap peo ples of the Balkans run amuck? Does he think that Americans will readily submit to a draft to raise an army to save Dalmatia from the Jugo-Slavs or Greece from the Turks? He will find, we think, that popular sentiment rests with those members of the Senate who would leave the sovereignty of the United States with Congress, rather than, place it in the hands of a delegation made up largely of Europeans, with America always sadly in the minority. Many Americans have begun to suspect that the Eeague is a greatly! overrated proposal. Will its adop-1 lion stop the wars now in progress! in Europe, or will the first duty ofj the new organization be to raise | armies to quell present disturbances? I If the latter, we may consider our- ! selves well out of it. Charity be-1 gins at home; so does wise slates- j manship, and we have quite enough [ on our hands at present to make America safe for Americans. After | that has been oecomplished we may have more time for missionary work • elsewhere. Meantime, not even the newspapers of Europe are much exercised over the Senate's action. Only the politicians are excited. All j Americans, or nearly all, favor a' league of limited powers, but fewJ want to swallow the President's plan hook, bait and sinker. Mr. Taft has not properly sensed the temper of the country when he pronounces the reservationists a "small minority." ■New York is threatened with a drug clerk strike, but it is believed that enough ex-barkeepers can be found to man the soda fountains, so that's all right. "PUNKIN" PIE When punk in pie was tirst in vented there weren't no patent rights required; the honest housewife seemed contented to build a pie we all admired. There weren't no tariff for pro tection, no trust to keep the prices high—there weren't no premium on perfection, there weren't no factory punkin pie. To-day, with patent feed sur ] minded, our systems full of tln canned dope, by doubtful fodder we're confounded—the punkin pie's our only hope. The pie that stands as mother made it defies the counterfeiter's skill. No trickster can adulterate it— they never have and never will. —Uncle Josh in the Excelsior Springs Standard. Good for Uncle Josh! "Punkin" pie it is. Yes, wo know that the receipt books (or is it recipe?) call it pumpkin custard, and that's what they term it on the restaurunt cards. Hut there is a difference between "punkin" pie and pumpkin custard; yea, verily, a difference, also a dis tinction; likewise there is no com parison between them. The "pun kin" pie is to the pumpkin custard as aristocratic mince pie is to dried apple pie; as turkey is to "canned willy"; as broiled lobster is to frlz isled beef. We admit they sometimes re aemble each other. The cunning professional baker can make the concoction he manufactures for sale at ten cents the cut <Bljc pieces to TUESDAY EVENING, the pie instead of the four five-cent pieces we used to get before the war) (pardon the interpolated thought as to quantity and price) look like the old-time original "punkin" pic that mother used to make, but that's us far as the re semblance goes. Turkey, cranberries and punkin' pie! How our mouths water in re membrance of the famous Thanks giving trio. And now that turkey has been taken from us by reason of the high cost of living and cran berries are a luxury due to the scarcity of sugar, we do not propose I' that anybody shall steal from us that last vestige of the Thanksgiving feast, "punkin" pie. Why, the very making of the J Thanksgiving dish used to be a ! ceremony of itself in thousands of American homes. The day mother put on her big apron, fired up the kitchen stove to an extra tempera ture, carved the golden pumpkin, got out the spices, the cream, the eggs and the flour was one no boy of sturdy appetite was likely to forget. "Punkin" pies make for good citi zenship, as well as good digestion. Nobody can enjoy "punkin" pie and not love the hills and valleys of the land that produces its component parts. A Bolshevist may occasion ally indulge in a piece of pumpkin custard, but nobody except a hun dred per cent, hurrah-for-the-good old-U.-S.-A. type of American can get the full enjoyment out of "pun kin" pie. We believe a course in the making and eating of this deli cacy of the season ought to be a part of every community's Ameri canization program. That, we guess, would set a lot of red-flaggers to waving their napkins instead. Give to the liqspital "as the Lord has prospered thee." ZONES FOR CITY SUPERINTENDENT GROSS and Fire Chief Kindler very proper ly are taking up with the State Are prevention authorities means of ex tending the city's powers of safety regulation. But they should not be content with that. The ordinance governing such matters in Harris burg needs to be thoroughly revised, if not replaced entirely by a new measure. Fire prevention, zones for brick, frame and fireproof structures, regulation and limitation of altera tions and restriction of certain types of buildings to certain parts of the city should be dictated by carefully thought out and maturely consid ered municipal ordinances. That this is a live subject is shown by the fact that there is now in the committee on public affairs of the Harrisburg Rotary Club a series of resolutions asking for information on the subject and recommending radical changes. The subject of fire regulation and zoning is closely related to that of housing, now engrossing the atten tion of the Chamber of Commerce, which has also a committee at work on building regulations. Every pro gressive city either already has a zoning system or is working one out. As the laws of the city now stand, anybody may build almost any kind of a building, anywhere. To be sure, wc do have regulations of a sort, but they are both inadequate and obsolete. For example, only a few weeks ago the people of a resi dence street narrowly escaped the location of a big garage and service station in the' midst, of expensive houses. In another section, a year ago, a big bottling works would have been built hud not a resident j rushed in and bought up the de- I sired land. In both these instances property values would have been hurt by the proposed developments. Public sentiment and individual en terprise prevented, but many other sections have not been so fortunate. Zoning would prevent the erection of dangerous or objectionable build ings in parts of town' reserved for homes. When the new Capitol* ex tension and the memorial bridge are completed we shall need a zon ing system to protect them from en croachments that would mar their beauty. The time to begin is now. Superintendent Gross has opened the way. Mechanicsburg is keeping step with the ether Cumberland Valley towns in pushing forward the interests of that community. Harrisburg Is fortunate in having in its zone of activity so many progressive towns contributing to the welfare of the whole of Cen tral Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg has a creditable record of substantial achievement. Production is the watch word and the. inspiration for every constructive movement throughout the world. And seme folks profess to pity the hard lot of the early settler who had only to go into the woods hack of the house and with his trusty rifle knock the head off a big Thanksgiving gobbler. A young spring turkey, roasting in the pan. a dish of cranberries, cooling on the ice; a pumpkin pie, all brown, and thou, singing In the kitchen; oh, Omar, we know a song worth ten of yours. We have often wondereiVwhat the soapjiox orator does with tHB soap. fetltico IK "~Pcft.H4iff47a.lua- By the Ex-Committecman "1 appreciate deeply 1 the compli ment paid me and the friendly at titude of good roads enthusiasts who in Scrunton lust Friday night, suggested me as a candidate lor Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922, but I am not a candidate; and 1 am sorry the suggestion was made," said Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler, wlym asked about the boom to-day. "I became State Highway Com missioner at the personal request of Governor Sproul," continued Mr. Sadler. "The Governor has planned a primary highway system to be completed during his term of oltice. My job for the next three years and two months is to put through that construction program. That is my ambition. My plans for the future do not include further political position. The suggestion of my friends in Scranton is a great com pliment, but it contains an element of harm, because indirectly it might be assumed that the great activities of the State Highway Department arc for a politically amhitious pur pose. The State Highway Depart ment lias been divorced from poli tics. It is engaged in building roads. No attache of this Depart ment is a candidate for office. The only reward we seek is the satisfac tion of knowing that our efforts have given Pennsylvania a real road system." Air. Sadler's remarks end what some people In the State thought was the start of something for 1922. —Among visitors to the city yes terday were three of the men who helped put McKean county very much on the map as one of the ban ner good roads districts of the State and who were responsible for rais ing the money in the city of Brad ford for the construction of a road in Now York state so that James town folks could come over and call at Bradford. They were Col. A. D. Burns, one of the chief road boost ers in the northwestern section; County Commissioner-elect A. J. Bond and A. B. Kerry. They visited the State Highway Department and called at the State Treasury to see Assistant Cashier "Joe" LeCompte. —Appearance of Charles R. Oon- Hell, son of the late W. L. Connell, as a candidate for the Republican nom ination for Congress in the Scranton district means a fight for ex-Con gressman John It. Farr, who wants vindication after his defeat last fall by the "wet" forces. Mr. Connell is 11 wealthy coal operator and one of tlie most influential men in Scran ton. ' —Scranton Democrats are con siderably perturbed over the action of the city committee in recom mending two men for registration commissioners when the Governor comes to appoint them. Tt seems that some other men who hoped to land did not have notice of the in tention to endorse. The Lackawanna Democrats got a bad trimming at the recent election and like their brethren in Berks, they appear to be as interested in factional fighting as the men in the Balkans. —According to Uniontown news papers, the Fayette county courts will have an opportunity to decide an election under the new election law, by which it is possible to mark a straight ticket and at the same time vote for an individual candidate. A contest has just been instituted by Ray L. Sparks, Democratic candi date for Justice of the Peace of Redstone township, who declares that George Santo, Jr., was elected over him by the failure of the three election boards to count votes on ballots so marked. The final vote as returned to the Court was: Santo, 557, and Sparks, 541. —Personnel of Governor Sproul's Constitutional Revision Commission appears to have met with general newspaper commendation as well balanced and representative, and the suggestion of Attorney General Shaffer that it proceed to work at once and'keep at it seems to have also been generally acceptable. The Attorney General is anxious for the commission to get to work and keep at work, holding that six months should be time to finish the task. -—The Governor expects to be back in Harrisburg in time to greet the Commission at its start. The Attorney General, as chairman, will call the meeting to order and it will proceed with organization of Its staff and the appointment of committees. —Governor Sproul is off to Vir ginia for ten days of rest and has declined to say anything about the suggestions from various parts of the country that he become a can didate for presidential honors. His friends, however, are becoming ac tive in other states and in Pennsyl vunia some arc inclined to proceed without consulting the Governor. —Mention of ex-Senator Bayard Henry and Clinton Rogers Woodruff as possible directors of tlie new partment of Public Welfare in Phila delphia is interesting the State. Governor Sproul will have to name an alderman for the city of York, owiner to the death of Magis trate C. F. Keech, who had held that place in the city by the Codorus since 188 4. —Representative James 13. Nor ton. one of the Republican legis lators from Berks, is being discussed | as a possible candidate for senator in that county. His ambition has been to return to the House. Reappointment of Seward T3. Button, of Luzerne county, as chief of the St.ate Department of Mines is expected to be announced within a short time. Mr. Button's term ex pired some time ago, but the Gov ernor has been waiting for" some agreement among 'Luzerne coun tians. It is now believed that he will proceed with the reappointment and that the chief will be commissioned for the full term. —John A. Scott, one of the origi nal members of the State Compen sation Board, will retire at the end of this week after serving since 1913. I Mr. Scott has sent a number of opinions to the board for action and next week will take up his duties as chief counsel for one of the railroad companies in western Pennsylvania. Ex-Senator Benjamin Jarrett, of Far rell, will succeed him. Quaint Form of Oath (From Continental Edition of the London Mail.] Reginald Farrant, who has been appointed stipendiary of Douglass and Castletown, Ise of Man, was re cently sworn in the quaint form which has prevailed in the island for centuries. He swore to do jus tice between party and party "as indifferently as the herring's back bone doth lie in the midst of the fish." t The Lord Is Good The Lord Is good, u stronß hold In the day of trouble; and he know eth them that ]*ust In htm.—Nahum I. 7. JL aaiuusburg telegraph: THAT GUILTIEST FEELING A (Turkey EH./ / THe ei6 \ \ JOE - CjJ- SAY/ WJI-THOCIT turkey j I TURKEY PINNER I l __ —it vajooloio t vSeeiH s \eh Joe 7 , /L 7 ","t jep) ( \ —, y f< e ) B UT_ GOT R* / ""-v /7v7V~, t~A fweLk.- I CAfVT) —* te/sTm,^ 6 M e r// i ?OTTA\ 46 V/,THOaTi _ V Vou SUCH AM - 1^ H/ SET I / WHCU eJrvthik/6 is y YoU BACK_y Why Consult Europe? [From Kansas City Times.] The President, it was said at the White House, probably would take up with the other powers "what compromise reservations would be acceptable to them." Just why should we ask the pow ers of Europe to what extent we may refuse to entangle ourselves in European affairs in the future? The United States went into the war wholeheartedly and without stint. It spent 30 billion dollars, it conscripted its young men, it sent more than two millions of them overseas, it left its thousands of dead in France, it furnished the balance of force that saved Europe. in return it asked nothing for itself except freedom to live its own life. Other nations got extensions of territory and vast colonies as well as indemnities. The United States took nothing. It was satisfied that its allies that had suffered terribly should reap whatever material ad vantage was to be had. If the same emergency should arise in the future undoubtedly the course of this coun try would be the same. But it in sists on being the sole judge as to its duty. Why should it have to consult any other nation as to how far it will guarantee its help in advance? The other powers have agreed on an alliance which they call a league. Well and good. It is for their pro tection, not ours. It is for the United States, not Europe, to say to what extent it will pledge its resources to this league's support. .4 Frosty Morning [From the Columbus Dispatch.] After gloomy days, the frosty morning comes as a benediction. It seems to put new life and new hope and' new aspirations into the souls of men and women. Not long ago there was a nasty week. Clouds and moisture —and depression. The sun was all but for gotten, for if it showed itself at all, it was with a sickly, fleeting glow. The muscles became flabby from the warm temperature; dispositions took on the nature of the weather. There was no elasticity in the step, no mirth in the voice, a slow, dull, list less tiredness took hold of people. And then came the frosty morning. One did not have to have eyes to know that the sun was shining, nor ears to hear the music of attuned Nature. A hundred years were saved right here in the city in the quickened pace of the people. A thousand horsepower was added to the strength of the laborers. The good resolutions that were made would fill a library—and the inspirations that came to those who breathed deeply of the frost-ladened air will keep "the world a-going for another season. Great are the blessings of the frosty morning—the goodness of God scintillating from every crystal; divine music borne upon the wings of the health-giving air. Useless Knowledge [Herbert Spencer.] Old schemes of education, incar nated in public schools and colleges continue filling the heads of new generations with what has become relatively useless knowledge, and, by consequence, excluding knowl edge which is useful. Not an or ganization of any kind—political, religious, literary, philanthropic but what, by its ever-multiplying regulations, its accumulating wealth its yearly addition of officers, and the creeping into it of patronage and party feeling, eventually loses its original spirit and sinks into a mere lifeless mechanism, worked with a view to private ends—a mechanism which not merely fails of its first purpose, but is a positive hindrance to it. An Artful Dodger [From American Legion Weekly.] "Hey you!" yelled a lieutenant to a negro doughboy who, at the screech of an approaching shell, had jumped from his shell hole and run over to another. "What do you mean by moving without orders? Do you want to give away our posi tion ?" "Position?" replied the doughboy scornfully, "when dat shell come ovjir dere, mail position am ovuh hero, 'an' if a shell come here, mah position am somewhah else. All ain't got no regular position." Cost of a Clip of Coffee What is the cost of a cup of cof fee?"* The Joint coffee trade commit tee of the United States says: "Even at present prices a cup of coffee With sugar "and a dash of cream costs only one und one-half cents." Revision of Pennsylvania's Constitution Long Discussed THE Philadelphia Evening Bul letin, in an extended discus sion of the Constitutional He vision by Penn, says; For many years the need of a new or revised 'Constitution of Pennsylvania has been discussed by thoughtful public men. On sev eral occasions proposals to that end have been made in the Legis lature, and one of them was acted on favorably by the House three years ago. It has come to be pretty generally acknowledged, even among conservative citizens, that the Constitution, as it now exists, is largely defective and that in highly important particulars it is plainly outgrown by latter-day changes and necessities. Frequently, however, the objection has been raised in vari ous influential quarters, some po litical and others corporate, that while a new Constitution may be de sirable, the times are not propitious for so momentous a step; that it might lead to ultra-radical measures and precipitate dangerous agita tions, and that, therefore, it ought to be put off until the public temper shall become normal. But while there has been a good deal of point in these objections, it also finally became evident that the policy of postponement could not go on indefinitely and that the longer it was kept up the more trouble some it might be to shape fhe or ganic law along modern li'nes of thought and with a minimum of clamor and commotion. Last winter, when Governor Sproul went into ofTlee, he was dis posed to favor the early celling: of a Constitutional convention, but finally he concluded that it would be wiser to defer to the objectors for the time being:. He took the ground, how ever, that the way could be. and should be, opened for the perform ance of that duty. Accordingly he proposed that the Legislature should authorize him to create a commis sion which might inquire intelli gently and carefully into the whole subject and which might, in laying the groundwork for the action of a convention, go far to simplify and facilitate the proceedings of that body. The Legislature accepted this recommendation, and it is thus that the Governor has just an nounced the appointment of the twenty-five citizens through the Commonwealth who are to under take a work which he looks upon as exceptionally useful and impor tant. In fact he has said to some of them that he does not know of any higher honor that he could con fer upon a private citizen. The body is to be known as the Commission on Constitutional Amendment and Revision,' and it will be expected, according to the terms of the enactment, to study the present Constitution in " "the light of modern thought and con diti ms" and to determine the changes in it which may be neces sary to the purpose of giving the people of Pennsylvania sucli a form of government as is best adapted to their wants and most conducive to their welfare. Much inquiry und examination will be needed, and the Governor has earnestly asked the prospective Commissioners to sacri fice enough of their tune to make their investigations a source of real and lasting benefit to their State. Their attention will be occupied from time to time during the greater part of the year 1920: and under the law thev will then decide what will be the host way of effect ing the changes which they may rec ommend— whether by proposing amendments of particular sections or articles, or by subjecting the en tire Constitution to revision through a general convention. If the latter course shall be agreed upon and ac cepted by the Legislature, it is as sumed that the experience which they will have gained in the course ! of the year will especially qualif> , them to sit as delegates-at-iarge in ! the. convention itself, and it is eon ' templated that provision shall ulti | mately be made to that end. As for the'r report, they are di rected to have it ready for submis sion to the legislature not later than February, 1921, and this document will probably be elaborate and far reaching in its scope, inasmuch as the law provides that the recom mendations shall he "in detail." The report may contain not merely the drafts of amendments or u series of amendments, but it may go so far. according to the functions prescribed for the Commission, as to contain "the draft of a generul re vision." If the shall perform its duties with entire fidelity to the task, it will need to get un der way early in the coming winter, and Attorney General Schaffer, who will be its chairman, is a man of both the energetic temperament and the steady balance that will be likely to put the right sort of im petus and continuity into whatever method and schedule may be agreed upon for the proceedings. It is be lieved that much of the inquiry will be divided among the Commission — that is, that to groups of members will he assigned ifhe subjects in which they are especially well in formed and on which they will re port to the Commission as a whole the data, information, testimony and pleas which will be luid before them by the public or which they may obtain in their own studies. Forty-six years will have passed next month since the people of Pennsylvania accepted the Constitu tion which the convention sitting in this city—their hall, the edifice of the old Sixth Presbyterian Church, which had been internally recon structed for them—drafted after several months of sessions; and this Constitution we still live under, save the changes which have been made every now and then by amendments voted into it at the polls This pro cess of amending is slow, uncertain and sometimes clumsy or worthless when the text has been carelessly or ignorantly prepared. Of course, it may be fnade to produce large re sults when many proposed amend ments are submitted to the people at one time, as was the case in Massachusetts last year, where not fewer than twenty-one were laid be fore the people to past? upon at the polls, although all but two, I think, were rejected. But when a Consti tution as an organic law is framed, it is usually as nearly exhaustive of the subject-matter as such a pact can be made in tho harmonizing of a great variety of conflict'ng ideas and ideals. It is likely to be up to-date: it is in a form which invites the respect that a well-ordered dignity receives; it has something of majesty in it us one of those acts which happen only once in a gen eration. Even then, however, it may be turned down by the people, as the product of the New York Constitutional convention was, not very long ago, although if it had been preceded by a plan of opera tions such as that which the new Commission in Pennsylvania is now to enter upon, it would probably have been put into better shape for popular approval. Since the present Constitution was adopted, there have been more changes in the life of the Common wealth and its people than prob ably have ever taken place in a like interval. Nowhere else In the State liavd tliey been more numerous and notable than in Philadelphia. How far we have come to lie from the period in which the last Convention sat may be inferred from the fact that Governor Geary, under whose administration that project began, is almost totally unknown to most Pennsylvantans to-day, conspicuous as he was in his time as a soldier and a politician. In the one hun dred and twenty-nine years since Pennsylvania became a State of the Union, she has had but three Con stitutions. Korty-eiglit years passed between the first and the second; thirty-five between the second and the third, and if the next legis lature shall call a convention to frame another, about forty-eight years will have elapsed between the adoption of the present one and the submission of a new one. It will not be the fault of the Governor and the Attorney General if. whatever may be the findings at which the Commission shall arrive, there shall be any unreasonable de lay in putting them into effect. The members have been appointed with the understanding and expec tation that they will take hold of their duty in the broad spirit of a lr'gh, practical' service in clearing the path for the genuine constitu tional reform which their examina tion find intelligent public opinion may indicate as necessary or desir able. In a way it wll be in the nature of a general Inquest into the workings of the Constitution of Pennsylvania to-day. and the sixty thousand dollars which have been appropriated for Its expenses will be a trilling outlay in comnarlson w'th the value which should come from this special undertaking. The av erage of the characte- and ability In thelConimission Is both high and representative, and the Governor so goodly a company of NOVEMBER 25, 1919. trusty and loyal Pennsylvanians lias seldom been brought together for such a purpose. At any rate it should be a long step forward in the direction of mod ernizing the law and civil life of Pennsylvania. New History <>( the War Persons who desire an under standing of the great war, the things that led up to it, its developments from beginning to end. and its re sults that changed the whole face of the world, will find "The History of the World War," which has just come from the presses of the Liter ary Digest, a fascinating and en lightening work. This 10-volume history, which has been live years in preparing, was edited by Francis W. Halsey. Un like some histories, which are able to give the reader only the second hand knowledge of the historian, this work gives the first hand knowl edge of statesmen, war correspon dents, lighting men, who lived through the many phases of the con flict. The result is that this new work gives the reader the personal stories, explanations and reports of such men as Marshal Foch, Sir Douglas Haig, General Pershing, Admiral Rodman, Viscount Bryce, Cardinal Mercier, Prince Lichnow sk.v and many more who watched the war at close range. All these stories have been carefully welded together into a rupidly moving and graphic description of the whole struggle in all its phases. Nearly a thousand maps and photographs, including several which reveal what were conditions behind enemy lines, add interest to the set. "Devil's Dyke" at Auction The Devil's Dyke, the world famous spot with a traditionary legend, five miles from Brighton, the noted sea bathing beach of En-gland, has been sold at auction for $30,000. The Dyke estate includes 190 acres of land, with a hotel and many pretty bungalow sites. Here is where old Satan kicked up a muss in the misty past. This historic dyke is un abrupt declivity in the Sussex Downs, and has all the appearance of a trench cut by giant excavators. According to the Boti doti Telegraph, local tradition credits the Devil with the execution of the work, the object being to cut through the Downs in order to drown llie churches on the Weald with the inrush of the sea. The devil, however, was frightened, so the story goes, by an old woman, awakened by the noise he was mak ing. Her candle at the window, shaded by a sieve, he mistook for sunrise, un-d bolted, leaving his foot prints burnt into the turf on the edge of the dyke. The estate stands about seven hundred feet above sea level and commands line views of the channel, the Isle of Wight, Weald of Sussex, I.eith Hill, Box Hill, and even so far distant a place as Windsor Castle. During ttie war the military au thorities utilized the dyke as a train ing ground for bombir.-g operations. November There is a smell of Egypt in the air. A death-waft from cold dust of lotus blooms, A weight of secrets from lone, cryptic glooms Of ruined sepulchers; and every where Wails immemorial sorrow. Wan and bare. The earth to-day remembers all her tombs As a pale mother dreams of empty rooms. Blind to all Joy, of all her loss aware! And I, death-conscious! knowing my self so small. Have I not warrant with the world to weep? What of the hopes 1 gave to Time to keep Hong, long ago? My days like dead leaves full, Heaving the scars—l smile in spite of all. And stretch my hands to God across the deep. —Stockley S. Fisher. Memory [George Duhumel in Century Maga zine. ] For him who descends with true fervor into his own depths, memory always preserves some corner pure from ull baseness. Do we not know, moreover, that in order to console us, memory consents to work in eon- I cert even with its enemy, forgctful | ness? lEutttmg (Etjat State (Janie Commission officials ' are looking- for more men to be out j limiting deer this yeur than ever fore, mainly because there are more men familiar -with rifles in Pennsylvania than ever, through war service, and because of the great boom in hunting which has been reflected by the issuance of about 350,000 hunters' licenses. There are more deer than known for a long time, say the game authorities, but the animals are like the wild turkeys, which are numerous and mighty shy. To meet the changes in the deer hunting conditions the State will have more men in the field 1 * 1 to prevent the killing of does and deer without horns, and it is the intention to prosecute persons who kill the female animals. In some of the deer districts bodies of does' 4 have already been found. The plan is to caution hunters through war dens and special deputies in the vicinity of the camps, many of which I will be on Slate lands through per : mission of the State Forestry De | partment. Many inquiries have come to the offices of the Game. I Commission from men who served I in the army as to the provisions of the game code in regard to deer and no trouble is anticipated in enforc ing the law as many have offered to aid. There have been big kills of wild turkeys in some sections and V poor reports from others, much be ing due to the experience of the hunters, while there have been bet ter bags of rabbits than for two years. Over a score of arrests have been made, lately, mostly for killing beyond the bag limits. The deer season wil open on Monday and the South Mountain, Juniata Valley and upper Susquehanna will have many cam ps. * ♦ * The last of the blackbirds has left Hurrisburg and persons familiar with the habits of these visitors say that they have been here longer than known in a long time. Owing to the mild winter many blackbirds & appeared very early and made themselves at home, while the open autumn caused them to remain. The Capitol Hill flocks were among the i last to go and some of them only ' departed last week. The warmtii of the oily and the parks have kept the birds around. • • • Col. John Price Jackson, former Commissioner of Labor and Industry, who was here yesterday, plans to make a number of addresses on be half of the Near Eastern Kelief when he leaves the United States service, in which he has been in the j Engineer Corps for two years. Col. 1 I Jackson was a member of the Har- ' I bord Commission that investigated Armenia, serving with such men as I Generals Frank K. McCoy and G. V. H. Mosely, the latter Chief of Staff of the Pennsylvania troops at the border and well known to many men in the State Guard. Col. Jackson cannot speak now of what he saw in Armenia, hut when he begins his addresses some interesting statements* can he expected, as he was very thorough in his investigations anil surveyed the situation from the/ standpoint of ail unbiased and scientific man to boot. He may make one of his addresses in this city during the winter. • • * —A new use for half pint flasks and, incidentally, an unexpected col lection of such vessels for the State Department of Internal Affairs has I been noticed on Capitol Hill the last ! few weeks. They are being em ployed to send samples supposed to be oil to the State Geologist for analysis find expert opinion. The rusli of flasks started several weeks ago, but did not. commence to as sume embarrassing proportions until last week, when every mail seemed to bring in an assortment. Most of the samples were not oil. They were mainly water with some traces of iron ore or other substances which had appearance and occasion ally the ordor of petroleum. Dr. George H. Ashley, the new geologist, found that the great majority of the specimens sent to him wore value less, while some were put aside for further tests. Quite a few of the samples have come from eastern counties where prospecting has been going on, while a number were from districts in the West where strikes have been made. A number of the valueless samples were of amber color. * • • —There appears no lack of appli cations front men of overseas army | experience for enlistment in the State Police. A number of vacancies have occurred by expiration of terms and other causes and from present indications there will not be i much difficulty in obtaining service men. Some of the applicants re ceived decorations. The pay is the chief objection made by many f the men who say that they can do better j us members of police forces of cities or corporations. So many ruffed grouse have been shot by hunters in central Pennsyl vania counties this year that an agi tation is already starting to close some of the counties to the hunting of the great game bird. The shoot ing of grouse was halted last year and steps taken to propagate the birds, but there has been such a re- .1 markable increase in the number of hunters this year and they have gone to the good hunting counties in such bands that docks of grouse have been almost exterminated. Quail have also been killed in large numbers in several counties where State propagation had caused a big increase. The fact that so many men are hunting, is given as the rea son for the large slaughter. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE J —Dr. ('. E. Forhusli, decorated by the Prince of Wales, is an authority on camp sanitation. —E. Sullivan, of the state College alumni, is hunting up war records of State men. —ftalph B. Strassburger, promi nent fox hunter, was hurt by a fall near Philadelphia. —Dr. H. W. Wiley, the food ex pert, lias been making a series of addresses In Philadelphia. —R. D. Munce, named on the Constitutional Revision Commission, was one. of the first good roads ad vocates. | —-Senator Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, who was here yesterday, highly praised the new State Capi tol. T DO YOU KNOW —That the State will spend about $1,500,000 in buildings liorc in the next few years? HISTORIC HA It HIS BURG —The first pig iron was mad* Harrisburg in tbe thirties.
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