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SATURDAY, XOVEMBER 29, 1919
I
Steep it the way and toilsome,
Ijong and hard and slow,
Yet a wider view and a purer air
Are' ours, each step that icc go.
—PBISCII.LA I.EOXABD.
SHOULD HAVE MORE
THE policemen of Harrisburg,
through their friends, are ask
ing City Council for slls a
month salary. There should be no
hesitation on the part of Council In
granting this Increase. If good men
are to be attracted to the force and
If faithful officers are to be retained
the pay must be at least as good as
tho average patrolman would be j
able to earn in some other line of j
endeavor. Indeed, it has been shown j
in the very recent past that the sal
ary of the police officer in Harris
burg Is not now sufficient to. attract
men who can pass the Civil Service
examinations. It used to be that ap
pointments to the police force were
eagerly sought because the pay wus
slightly above that which the aver
age workman received. But in the
past year it has been difficult to find
men to fill vacancies, largely due to
the fact that the pay was not suffi
cient.
When it is considered that the
policemen must buy their own equip
ment and that they must always look
well, it is not surprising that the
officers are seeking an increase. In
deed, the wonder is that it has been j
possible to keep the force up to any- {
thing like its full numerical strength
under the circumstances.
Europe appears to be less excited
over the Senate's treaty failure than
America and we observe no indica
tion of "broken hearts" over there.
THE LAST RESORT
INABILITY of the coal miners and
the operators to get together on
a schedule of wages that seemed
reasonable to the President and his
Cabinet has resulted in the seizure
of the bituminous coal mines in
cases where ownerq do not show a
disposition to co-operate for the in
crease of production, which is the
last resort of the Government in an
efTort to make good its promise that
the country's coal supply should not i
be allowed to lag because of the 1
disagreement now under discussion. !
Undesirable as we have found
public administration of private busi
ness to be and unprofitable as all
of these ventures have been since
the war began, there was nothing
left for the Government to do under
the circumstances. The Cabinet was
driven to this- action by the condi
tions existing in the far West, where
scarcity of coal at the very begin
ning of winter has not only closed
many Industries upon which thou
sands and thousands of people de
pend for support, but has left count
less others on the verge of freezing
to death.
It is altogether right and proper
that this step having been taken,
the Government should provide the
use of troops to protect all miners
who express a desire to work.
The truth is that the mine work
ers have not played fair with the
Government in the efTort that has
been made to settle the dispute.
Ordered by their officials to go back
to work with the promise tjiat all
difficulties should have a common
hearing and be threshed out until
all the facts had been disclosed, thou
sands of the miners declined to go
back to work. Instead of keeping
up the Nation's coal suppy while
representatives of the Nation were
endeavoring to reach a fair wage
And hour adjustment for them, the
miners, in many cases, declined to
"work and have been idling awuy
their time while thousands of other
helpless people suffered.
Popular sentiment, which was with
the coal miners on every occasion
previous to the present, is rapidly
swinging in the other direction. Peo
ple are tired of being thrown out
of work and left without a domestic
fuel supply simply because others
SATURDAY EVENING,
persist in striking' for hours and
wages tijut a great majority of Amer
icans do not believe are justified.
On the other hand, the people are
Just as impatient with operators and
owners who have not shown a
position to get their mines back to
full production. They are just as
bad, if not worse, as the men who
won't work when the opportunity is
offered'. Endeavoring to place all
the blame upon the mine workers
will not be accepted by tlie Ameri
can public. It requires two to make
a quarrel any day and operators who
have been holding back production
hoping that this position would force
the Government to some radical ac
tion or bring the miners into utter
disrepute with the public will find
their position has had just the op
posite effect from that desired.
What we must have' is coal, and
the Government will be justified In
almolt any measure that will in
creasa production in the bituminous
districts and insure a constant flow
of fuel from mine .to consumer. Much
as Government control of anjt line !
of industry is to be deplored, it'must
be conceded that the Government in
this instance had no other course to
pursue under the circumstances, but
having taken over the mines the
American people will expect results, j
The whole idea in this latest move
in the coal strike has been to in
crease production, and If the admin
istration hopes to hold the approval
of the people in its mine venture
this must be accomplished, and
quickly.
Mr. Palmer ha%'ing Inherited the
food control department of the gov
ernment. must now be prepared to be
damned if he does and damned if he
does not. It's an unenviable job.
( IN STEELTON
THE election of Frank A. Rob
bins, Jr., as president of the
Municipal League of JSteelton Is
proper recognition of the energies
and efforts which the manager of
the Bethlehem plant has been de
voting to the improvement of that
town since the very first day of his
appointment.
The Steelton Municipal League
has many good things to its credit.
Inspired by the highest form of civic
enterprise and backed by the best
element of the progressive steel town,
it has fathered many public improve
ments and enterprises that have
made for a bigger and better Steel
ton. So long as it is guided by such
men as are now the leading spirits
in Its activities it will be to that
town what the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce is to this city.
Steelton has grown rapidly within
the past ten years und has been
greatly improved in many respects,
but it is just on the verge of an
other great step forward. It is
destined to become even a more
important manufacturing center than
it now is and Its people are awake
not only to these prospects, but to
their responsibilities, and If the
league leuds the way as efficiently
and patriotically as it has In the past,
Steelton's improvement program
will keep pace with its growth in
population.
LADY ASTOR WINS
LADY ASTOR, American - born
wife of Viscount Astor, has been
elected to the British Parlia
ment front the Sutton Division of 1
Plymouth by a decisive majority
over W. T. Gay, the labor candidate,
and Isaac Foote, who ran on the
Liberal ticket, having more votes
than both of her opponents put to
gether.
Lady Astor now becomes more of
an international figure than ever
and her course in Parliament will
be watched with much interest, both
in England and in this country, where
women aje just beginning to come
into public life. Lady Astor is a
woman of charmT'but it js interest
ing to note that she based her candi
dacy on a political and economic
platform, trusting her election to the
ordinary risks of politics rather than
basing it upon her sex.
The history of. the world presents
many examples of women prominent
in public life, but very few of them
have attained the positions they oc
cupied by a vote of the electorate.
There wus, for example, Helen of
Troy, whose "face thou
sand ships and burned the topics:;
towers of Ilium," who is described
as "a daughter of the gods, divinely
tall and most divinely fair." Helen's
fame rests not alone upon the fact
that she was born to the purple, but
upon her rare beauty, and all the
legends that are built about her
more or less mythical career may l
be traced back to that rather than
her popularity with the masses or
her sagacity in statesmanship.
Then there are women of the
■Cleopatra type who rose from ob
scurity, both by their beauty and
by sheer charm of personality.
Cleopatra was not only magnetic and
beautiful, but she was ambitious and
[she practiced the art of coquetry
'•until she had completely enslaved
even the mighty Caesar and thus
won for herself a high place in the
politics of her time.
Now comes the new day when we
shall expect to huve as candidates
for public office thousands of women
who will rest their candlducles, as
Lady Astor did, upon the political
issues of the day and who cast their
femininity into the background when
they enter the polttlcul lists.
DO YOUR PART
WHEN you purchase Red Cross
Christmas Seals this year you
will be doing your part to
eliminate tuberculosis in Pennsyl
vania. The white plague is a dis
tinct menace to the prosperity and
happiness of the people, und every
community must do its shure in mak
ing effective the great plans of the
Department of Hqalth in wiping out
the scourge.
ftlttico CK
"pCHrK4iflcdKUl
By the Ex-Committeeman
Although the next primary elec
tions will not be held until May, It
is an interesting commentary upon
the state of politics that men ure
being already discussed for nomina
tions and party honors. Pennsyl
vania, having two of the men most
heard of for Presidential honors. Is
going to see some of the liveliest
political maneuvering in a long time,
and owing to the situation in the
Democratic party there will be some
thing doing every week from now
until the time for filing petitions
expires.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
mer seems to have succeeded in get
ting most of the men who fought
him, and whom he has fought, in
clined toward him as the State's fa
vorite son for the Democratic nomi
nation, with the exception of Judge
Eugene C. Bonniwell and a few
others who did not fare well in the
recent political skirmishes. It is
even intimated that Allegheny coun
ty's contending factions may declare
a truce in regard to National dele
gates and that the men who have
battled for party prestige in Erie,
Fayette, Luzerne, Schuylkill and
other counties will agree upon dele
gates who will be for Palmer. It is
even possible that a working agree
ment may be reached in the turbu
lent Berks-Lehigh district. There is
only "one thing that may disturb
Democratic machine route plans in
the State, and that may occur if
Palmer insists upon playing up men
who were with him in the reorgani
zation days, mention of whose names
is enough to make some of the Old
Guard leaders swear.
| The Republican situation is less
I interesting, and the only stir is
| brought about by mention of cundl-
I dates for Auditor General and bon
der ns to the identity of the Supreme
Court candidates.
—There will be many nominations
and party selections to make in May.
United States Senator Boies Penrose
will be renominated to succeed him
self.
In the same primaries in which the
Auditor General and the State Treas
urer are to be nominated, partisan
nominations must be made for the
Senator, 38 Presidential electors, 4
Congressmen-at-Large, 32 district
Congressmen, one-half of the mem
bership of the State Senate and 207
State representatives. In the non
partisan primaries the successor of
Justice J. Hay Brown, of the Su
preme Court, will be nominated.
In the partisan primaries 76 dele
gates and like number of alternates
to sit in the Republican and Demo
cratic nationnl conventions will be
elected. State, county, city and dis
trict political committees will le
chosen. In the Democratic primaries
the successor of National Committee
man A. Mitchell Palmer will be
elected.
—When Governor William C.
Sproul returns to Harrisburg next
month from his vacation in Virginia
he will 'have to sign scores of com
missions for officers chosen at the
November election and which the
law requires that the Commonwealth
shall authorize to transact business.
In the number will be Superior Court
Judge W. H. Keller for ten years, 17
common pleas judges, five orphans'
court, two municipal court and one
county court judge, as well as 14
associate judges. This is the largest
nujnber to be commissioned in recent
years. The Governor will also have
to sign commissions for 45 prothono
taries, 44 sheriffs, 57 registers of
wills, 56 recorders of deeds and 53
coroners, one county treasurer and
these clerks of courts: Orphans'
court, 56; quarter sessions, 51, and
oyer and terminer, 50.
—James W. Holman,' the new
county treasurer of Lehigh, has
named Paul Laross, an Allentown
newspaperman, as his deputy.
—Oliver M. Wolf and Charles Wil
liam Mattin have been named as
assistant district attorneys for Berks
county. Thomas E. Haak, well
known among Democrats in that sec
tion, will be his chief clerk.
—Announcement of the candidacy
of two wealthy Democrats for na
tional delegate in the Berks-Lehigh
district has been received with much
pleasure in both counties.
—The Philadelphia Press is prais
ing Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore
upon his stands in regard to his ad
ministration. It says editorially:
"Mayor-elect Moore's talk about
what he expects of contractors 011
city work is good sort of talk. There
is a prevalent notion thnt a good
many such contractors don't earn
the money they get, and a change is
expected. If contractors on public
work are required to do what con
tractors on private work are, there
will be little to complain of. The
specifications will be complied with,
the inspection will be impartially
made and the city will get the worth
of its money. The Mayor-elect
seems properly determined to end
the scandul thnt has attached to the
contracting business, and as no con
tracting interest will boss the ad
ministration he will doubtless be
able to succeed."
—Elections for mayors were held
in 24 of the 34 third-class cities in
Pennsylvania this month and roun
cilmanic elections in all of them.
One boroTigh, Sunbury, voted to be
come a third-class city, but witl not
lie able to assume that form of gov
ernment until 1921, when it is prob
able that several other large bor
oughs will vote on the same propo
sition. The reports coming hero
indicate that Republicans were gen
erally successful in municipal elec
tions, the first the third-class cities
huve held in years under the parti
san system. Shuron held its first
city election. Of the 25 mayors
elected, 16 are classed as Republi
cans, five as Democrats, two as Inde
pendents and one as a Labor can
didate. The latter is in Altoone,
which election is being contested.
Eight mayors were re-elected. The
mayors of the ten cities which will
have elections in 1921 and who are
elapsed as holdovers ure seven Ile
publlcans-and three Democrats.
—Now that the members of the.
State Constitutional Revision Com
mission have been mimed, it is likely
that they will be urged to go right to
work as soon as they meet. Attorney
General William I. Schaffer, who is
largely responsible for the original
plan for the changing of the Key-v
stone State Constitution without the
holding of n convention and on the
basis of u referendum, will call upon
the commission to organize without
delay and to set an example by
promptly disposing of such portions
of the Constitution which will not
require amendment, such as the Bill
of Rights. The officers of the com
mission will be chosen at the first
meeting on Tuesday, December 9.
Preparations for the meetings have
been practically completed.
The Day of the Lord's Wrath
Neither their silver their gold
shall be able to deliver them In tho
day of the Lord's wrath.—Zep
haniah 1, 18.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
PAPA'S RETURN .... .... .... .... .... ByBRICCS
Industry Not Modernized
[From Kansas City Star]
Amerlcuns like to think of them
selves as a progressive people, es
pecially In business and Industry.
They like to read about the restless
energy and bold innovation of the
great captains of Industry who are
always scrapping expensive machin
ery to put in something better and
newer. They have come to believe
America achieved and holds its lead
ership because of this unwillingness
to he bound by past methods.
But the national vanity will come
down a little perhaps when the
revelations of the coal strike are j
fully grasped. That great industry
seems to have be*,n conducted in an
amazingly haphazard manner, the
evils of which appear to have been
communicated to the great coal
users also,, to the railroads, public
utilities and large industrial plants.
Neither the coal operators nor large
consumers have made any effort to
provide a coal supply beyond the
demand of the passing day. As
pointed out by The Star's Washing
ton correspondent who looked care
fully into the questions of produc
tion and distribution, there/is sys
tem in neither. No coal is stacked
at the mines, there is none, or little,
stacked anywhere.
Consumers have been accustomed
to buying their coal as they want it.
Consequently there is a big demand
in cold weather and a light demand
in the summer. In order to have
enough men available to produce the
coal" in sensor/a of heavy demand, so
large a force is required that it must
be idle a good share of the time in
summer.
The situation is like that of a
club that maintains a staff of wait
ers large enough to serve a heavy
dinner demand, and then keeps the
same staff for breakfast and lunch
eon when very few persons wish to
be served. It is convenient to club
members to—have such service, but
"it is a luxury they expect to pay for.
The conclusion 1 must be that
American enterprise has failed to
breathe its spirit into the coal in
dustry. It is not up with the times.
Production and distribution ha.ve not
been modernized. It seems time to
do a little junking, both as to ma
chinery and ideas, and put this in
dustrv where it car? serve, even if it
takes a little educating all around.
It has been suggested by Mr. H.
N. Taylor, of Kansas City, president
of the National Coal Association,
that this condition might be reme
died by joirrt action on the part of
operators and tho railroads. If the
operators should reduce the price in
summer .and the railroads should
• reduce the freight rate at the same
time, then the reduction, he believes,
would be sufficient to induce large
consumers, like the public utilities
and factories, to prepare large stor
age accommodations.
Tho Star doesn't pretend to say
whether this plan is the right one.
But some plan should be devised to
regularize the industry for the sn\te
1 of both the miners and the public.
It would be for the bencf.t of the
miners to have regular employment
all the year, so thev need not loaf
a good share of the time in the
summer. It would for the bene
fit of the public to nave the labor
force of the Nntion used economic
ally. It is certainly highly wasteful
to conduct an industry on such a
basis that hundreds of thousands of
men are idle for months In the year.
The Airman's Patron Saint
[From the New York Evening Post ]
It was the wings of St. Michael,
chief of the archangels and head of
the celestial milit'a, which Jeunne
d'Arc heard, they say, whirring
übout her in the litt[e garden of
Dotnremy when she had her softly
spoken hut insistent call to arms.
And now, as if it were, not enough
to be the one who called Jeanne
d'Arc from Domremy to Koulen, St.
Michael is also the patron saint of
aviators, because he heads celestial
warriors and battles in the air.
In a London church on Spanish
Place—the church to which King
Alfonso went when he was there
there is a new'stained window with
an airplane mosaicked into its de
sign. and that window is dedicated
to St. Michael, patron saint of air
men.
St. George met his dragon on the
earth, but St. Michael battled with
the devil and his angels in the ce
lestial spaces and threw them out
of heaven. With his wings and his
spear he was the great prototype of
the armored airplane, and It may
be that even the inspiring of Jeanne
d'Arc did not satisfy him and that
he has always kept In his mind this
time when men should fly and light
as he did.
The Three Feats of a Moorish Magician
(From the Diary of Wilfred Blunt, Seeker, London).
I FOUND at Kelmscott, where I
stayed a couple of nights, my
friend John Henry Middleton, the
Cambridge professor, an old ally of
the poet Morris and intimate in for
mer days with Itosetti. Middleton
had been a considerable traveler in
out of the way places and he related
to me in detail his experience in
Morocco with a Moorish magician.
This is his account of the incident:
He was traveling in 1879 about
half way between Tetuan and Mo
rocco, and one evening an old man
came to his'camp mounted on an ass,
with a boy as a servant. The man
said he was a magician and pro
posed to perform three wonders; the
first to throw a ball of twine into
the air, the second to make a plant
grow und the third to show the face
of a person thought of in a globe
of ink. It was already late and the
performance was put off until the
following morning—the magician re
maining the night in the camp, and
in tho morning when the tents were
struck he was invited to give his
performance. It was an open place,
uninhabited, and without trees
or bushes. Middleton chose the
ground at some little distance from
where the camp had been.
The magician first took from his
wallet a large ball of string, large
enough to need both hands to lift
it, and having made a long incanta
tion he tied the end of the string
to one finger of his left hand, and
then with great exertion throw the
ball upwards, which unraveled as it
wont, and growing less and less, dis
appeared in the air. He then let go
of the string's end which continued
to hang from the sky. The magi
cian and his boy sat at a little dis
tance and Middleton went to the
string and pulled it downward, as
you would pull a bell rope. It
stretched to within two feet of the
ground, but he felt the resistance
strongly from above, so much so
that he cut his fingers with the
string, the mark remaining for sev
eral days afterward. The five men
The 28th Lives Again
[Philadelphia Press]
The formal authorization to reor
ganize the Pennsylvania National
Guard, issued by the War Depart
ment on Wednesday, completes the
preliminaries necessary for the per
petuation of the Keystone Division.
Adjutunt General Beary and Major
General Price can now proceed, co
operating with the War Department,
to restore the organization under
Federal auspices.
Nothing of importance is added to
the details of the infantry and artil
lery units already outlined, but the
changes in military tactics rendered
necessary by the World War include
provisions for the conversion of
three infantry battalions into "ma
chine gun battalions or other tactical
units when such organizations are
authorized by the Regular Army."
That the machine gun will be im
measurably more important in future
wars than in the fields of France
and Flanders is the universal opinion
of military observers. Many au
thorities go as far as to predict that
the rifle will be discarded alto
gether in favor of an equipment of
light machine guns, each with a
crew of perhaps three men, and
employing the whole fighting forces
to man them.
Another noticeable feature of the
pluns is the charucter of the auxiliary
units, their practical functions and
the enlarged use of motors for draw
ing artillery as well as in the ambu
lance and hospital service. In all
respects, the Keystone Division, with
its glorious insignia, will live again
as an efficient modern army, equip
ped and organized to repeat its im
mortal work in the greatest -war of
record history. Where America and
the Allies needed men, there the 28th
Division was found. Of its per
sonnel, 2,531 brave soldiers were left
dead on the field or succumbed to
their wounds, and were
wounded. The memory of this great
fighting machine is a sacred heritage
which will Inspire the new 28th Di
vision with the loftiest ideals in
stilled by proud patriotism.
The Doughboy Knew
[From the Houston Post.]
"Thece was a sound of revelry by
night," the reciter began, but he
was quickly interrupted.
"Where did you get that stuff,"
usked a slangy doughboy. "If you
knew anything about camp life you
would know that rovelry sounds In
I the morning, not at night."
whom he had with him also touched
the string; three of these were
Moors, one a Berber and the other
an interpreter. It-was clear day
light at the time, about half an hour
after sunrise. When they had all
satisfied themselves the string was
suspended as it appeared to be, the
magician came forward and in his
turn pulled it, when it fell down
from the sky in coils on the ground;
he then rolled it up again in a ball
and put it back in his wallet.
The magician next took from his
wallet a seed, and when Middleton
had chosen a bare place, planted it
in the ground; he then asked for
&ome palm branches they had with
them, and which had been cut the
day before, and he made an arched
covering with them over the seed and
heaped horse rugs upon the hoops,
and then sat apart and made in
cantations. At the end of a few min
utes he invited them to undo the
covering, and there, in tho ground,
a plant was workinfe, set firmly in
the earth, the first time a few inches,
but when he had covered it up again
and built the hoops higher, it at
last became three feet eight inches
high. Middleton measured the
plant, found it firmly rooted, and
cut off and kept some of the .eaves;
the nature of the plant seemed to
resemble that of "the India rubber
tree, and it had some fifty leaves.
It was fresh and healthy, though the
weather was hot, It being the month
of October.
In the third incantation Middle
ton was made to look into a globe
of ink. He desired to see the face
of a friend, but instead saw per
sistently and very vividly a certain
landscape he knew well on the river
Severn, near Tewksbury.
The magician, when asked whether
he could climb the string and dis
appear in the air (like the magician
Marco Polo tells of), stated that his
grandfather had had the power, but
that he himself was unable. Mid
dleton believes that the manifesta
tions produced were mesmeric, cer
tainly no trick.
Contrast
I have left the perilous days behind
me
And stand again on the pine-clad
hills.
I have cooled my face in the green
of the meadows.
And cleansed my hands ,in the
rush of the rills.
Virginal blue is the sky above me
And pure the breeze as a maiden's
sigh.
And a lark's song falters, and falls,
and rises.
And bids me forget the days gone
by.
But ever and ever the heart re
members
The desolate winds on an empty
plain.
The dying trees with their leafless
branches,
The clamor and cursing, the blood
and the rain;
The clean, clear tones of the silent
voices.
The laughing lights in the empty
eyes
Ever and ever the heart remembers
And finds no peace for its mem
ories.
—GeofTrey F. Fyson, in the Ob
server (London).
Seen in Columbus, Ohio
[From the Columbus Dispatch.]
A school girl sitting astride r
fence, studying from a book which
she had tied to a tree.
A small child, imprisoned between
the front door and screen, kicking
and calling lustily for his mother.
A young man in nn owl car, smil
ing blandly, although sound asleep.
A man lighting a ciguret' on
coming out of a doctor's office,
where he had just been told to stop
smoking for a month.
A largo man treading on the toes
of straphangers who had failed to
move up to the front of the car.
Possible Calling For Infants
[From Punch, London.]
A father gives it as his opinion
that if the voice of a year-old child
grew in the same proportion as its
owner the telephone would no long
er be necessary In this country.
Put Not Your Trust in Pictures
[From Kansas City Times.]
There is no significance in those
photographs of Gompers talking to
John D„ Jr. The king of England
used to be photographed with the
; kaiser, you remember.
NOVEMBER 29, 1919.
He Did Not Know
He did not know that he was dead;
He walked along the crowded
street,
Smiled, tipped his hat, nodded his
head
To his friends he chanced to
meet.
And yet they passed him quietly by
With an unknowing, level stare;
They met him with an abstract eye
As if he were the air.
"Some sorry thing has come to pass"
Tho dad man thought; .he hur
rfed home,
And foun-d his wife before her glass
Dallying With a comb.
He found his wife all dressed in
black;
He kissed her mouth, he stroked
her head.
"Men act so strange since I've come
back
Prom over, there," he said.
She spoke no w.ord, she only smiled.
But now he heard her say his
name,
And saw her study, grief-beguiled,
His picture in a frame.
Then he remembered that black
night
And the great shell burst, wide
and red.
The sudden plunging into light;
And he knew that he was dead.
—Harry Kemp in Century Magazine.
Dream Jostles Reality
[Uncle Dudiey in the Boston Globe.]
There must be those among us who
are wondering what people will
think, some decades or centuries
hence, when (or if) they look up the
records of to-day. Let them consult
the files of any day's newspaper
• * * Thus the historian of the
future, jotting down notes- as he
reads:
"November 14, 1919.—The United
States Senate, defying the President
on - Article 10 of the League of Na
tions Covenant. American prohibi
tionist ridden on a plank through the
streets of Lclndon. Crown Prince of
England laying a wreath on the tomb
of George Washington. Belgian
armament firms supplying munitions
to Me.'ico, presumably for use
against American intervention.
French imperialists, who spent the
whole winter deriding the League of
Nations, now displaying anxiety lest
the United States Senate reject it.,
Eminent American financiers urging
(with some show of reason) that it
is America's duty to help rehabilitate
German industry."
Go into the country where men are
working'quietly in their fields, .and
how unreal seems all this turmoil.
Yet the war seemed unreal in such
spots until it Came -and took away
the young men, and Camp Devens
sprang up, like an Aladdin city, amid
the rocky pine knolls of Ayer. There
is a great workday world of plain
folks who wash the children's faces
and send'them to school and do their
day's work and go to bed tired. Their
lives seem to go on about as usual
regardless of this "furious harle
quinade"—yet not quite regardless,
etthar, f6r all these tumultuous doings
would not be chronicled so promptly
on the front page if they did not, in
one way or another, affect the lives
of most of us sooner or later —as the
war did, remote as it once seemed.
And so the dream Jostles the
reality: the lives of quiet toil and the
chronicles of turbulence. And which
is dream and which is reality?
What Zoning Means
[From Kansas City Star]
"What do you mean by 'zoning,' "
a reader writes to this office. "It
sounds important, but I donft under
stand it."
To get down to specific cnscs,
zoning has meant this in St. Louis,
where it was adopted a year ago. It
hns prevented the erection of a dog
hospital in a residential neighbor
hood, a small Iron foundry In a dis
trict occupied by workmen's homes,
a crematory In a district of resi
dences, and a factory on one of the
city's main boulevards. In all such
ways zoning protects the average
citizen. •
Under the zoning system, districts
are set aside for certain specific
uses, so that a man can buy resi
dence property with the assurance
it will not be ruined by having an
undertaking establishment set up
next door; he can build a factory
with tlie knowledge that provision
has been made for a district where
his workers can live.
Zoning is just one of the common
sense things that are done under a
comnreherwlve city claiming scheme.-
lamtrng Qttjat
The nineteen branch libruriei
which the Harrlsburg Public Librarj
plana to establish in public schoo
buildings of the city under the ar
rangement recently announced w.C
be distributed during the coniinj
week, having been delayed by book
shipments. Two more will la
placed in the junior high schools
The funds for the location of thcst
libraries and the purchase of tin
books have come largely frorr
friends of the schools, who supple
mented, what the Harrlsburg schoo
board allows annually for librarj
work. The libraries were the sul>".
Ject of considerable comment ut tin
recent- educational congress in th
State Capitol, when Miss Alice it
baton, the librarian, reported upoc
what Harrlsburg had done in thai
line the last few years and what *
had been planned for the coming
winter. These librnries have beer
conducted without much trumpeting *
but have made a record in librarj
activities which is distinctly a Har
rlsburg proposition and which will
be*watchcd with interest by manj
persons throughout the State Tin
record of circulation of the librnries
last year, especially in the buildings
where children of foreign birth ait
taught, was such as to create as
tonishrrvmt among librarians when
they heard them. Once more a
Harrisburg Plan is heard of.
♦ *
Over a score of governors havs
sent Governor William C. Sproui
their Thanksgiving day proclama
tions in complimentary exchange
and the copies range widely in style,
as well as in phraseology. Years
ago the governors of Pennsylvania
established the custom of sending
copies of their proclamations for thf
great autumnal day of thanks tc
brother governors. Keystone State
executives have always made theii
proclamations very formal and there
have been some handsomely printed
and bound copies sent out from the
Capitol. In time the custom w:w
extended to include Pennsylvania's
members in Congress, the principal
officials of the national government
at Washington and within Pennsyl
vania, the members of the genera!
assembly and the heads of the de
partments of the State government
Personal friends have added to the
number, but approximately 500
official copies bearing the great seal
of the Commonwealth have gone out
from Capitol Hill. Hundreds of
other copies have been sent to
clergymen, heads of schools and col
leges and others who desired to read
the document upon formal occa
sions. The proclamations coming
here in exchange range, from the
single rolled up sheet of heavy
parchment paper to folders, some
resembling elaborate banquet menus
in arrangement. Every State ap
parently makes it a practice to issue i
this proclamation in a formal man
ner. For years these exchanges
have been made by (lie governors
and the proclamations are an in
teresting study.
• *
Just as a sign of the times it may
be mentioned that this month the
"equipment" of two well known
hotels which were more noted for
their bars than their food have been
sold. Glasses which cost a dollar
or so went for ten cents and vari
ous other things connected with the
serving of drinks were sacrificed ac
cordingly, while former habitues of
some of the places stood around and
commented upon the awful loss, but
did not offer to buy even mementoes.
But worst of all was when the small
whisky glasses that are good for
taking medicine or to drink orange
juice from, brought as much as ex
pensive champagne glasses which
used to bubble with the wine or
sparkle with burgundy. Prohibition
and the Penn-Harris have had an
qwful effect.
Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moora
tells this story about a man well
known to Ha'rrisburg people: "Ed
ward Bok, who has quit drawing a
salary to be of service to the com
munity, was one of the big leaders
>in the $1,000,000 drive to 'save the
orchestra.' Mr. Bok's activities in
behalf of this popular Philadelphia
institution did not stop at the pluck
ing point. He knew how to pick up
checks in large amounts, buthe also
understood the publicity game.
There were those banners across
Broad street and down Chestnut.
Folks wondered why the Moore cam
paign banner was not swung across
Broad street during the last weeks
of the campaign. That's a story
which Murdoch Kendrick, the Moora
manager, can best explain. He
yielded to Mr. Bok. The orchestra
exhorter claimed that the election <
was a dead sure thing, but there wns
still some doubt whether the $1,000,-
000 desired would be forthcoming for
the orchestra. Kendrick yielded and
the Bok banner went across Brond
street where the mayoralty cam
paign banner was expected to go.
That's Bok's way of doing things.
It helped 'save the orchestra.' "
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
W. W. Hindman, the new pro
hibition enforcer, is a Princeton
man and was trained as a banker.
—Herbert DuPuy, the steel man,
has undergone another operation in
a New York hospital.
—Judge J. A. McLaughrey, of
Mercer, has just sentenced some
fifty-two violators of the liquor laws
and turned in over $20,000 to the
county treasury.
—Bert Bell, the famous University
of Pennsylvania football chief, is a
son of John C. Bell, the captain of
thirty years ago.
—R. E. Lamberton, the sheriff
elect of Philadelphia, says that the
patriotic societies will help take care
of the reds.
—Frank W. Short, of the Phila
delphia Record, is an enthusiast on
deep sea fishing around Barnegat.
—W. E. Barnard, prominent In
Philadelphia affairs, is said to be
slated for a cabinet position con
nected with the docks and ferries.
| DO YOU KNOW |
/That Harrisburg has dou
bled its output of bread In four
years?
HISTOHIC HARRISBURG.
■—Where the Harrisburg cemetery
is located used to be a picnic ground
many years ago. The old cemetery
was near where Union station stands.
7 A Bad Break
[From the Boston Transcript.]
A woman writes that her most
embarrassed moment was when, be
ing one of four guests at dinner,
she was urged by her hostess to
have a little more of a certain dish, *
and replied, unthinkingly: "No.
thank you, I'll do well If I get rid
,of what I have here."