16 hArrisburg telegraph lA.jJfEWSPA.PER ;FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published eveningn except Sunday by THfc TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLH President and Editor-in-Chief PTR. OYSTER, Business Manager GUB. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Bditor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard J.IP.' McCULLOUGII. " > BOYD M. OGLKSBY, F,_ R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub tshed herein. )All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 1 Member American IL Associa | ■ Eastern ffJ ce^ —l Chicago, IIL S Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. , g"""'"'tr _ By carrier, ten cents a ChESkSsSBC* week; by mail, IJ.M year in advance. TUESDAY DECEMBER 2, 119 Not in the clamor of the crowded street. Not in the shouts mid plaudits of the thri/ng, But in ourselves arc triumph and defeat.— -Axox. "OTHER PEOPLE" GRADUALLY the people of Hat-- j risburg are learning to appre ciate the real value of the As lociated Aids of Harrisburg in the welfare work of the community. Only those intimately in touch with this organization have a full realiza tion of its work in the relief of the poor and needy of the city. At the annual meeting this eve ning at the Civic Club, the public will be given first-hand informa tion regarding the operations of the toeiety for the last year and will also have the pleasure of hearing Karl de Bchweinitz, who has long been prominent in organized charity work ind is regarded as an expert hi get ting the best results in activities f this character. His subject will he "Other People" and all interest- Hi in effective distribution of be nevolent funds should hear him. This is community service of the highest order and it is due those prho are giving of their time and ef fort for the promotion of welfare work to hear from them the story f the Associated Aids and the de riands which are made upon the irganization in the performance of its important duty to the commun ity. There are many human in terest stories which illustrate the (ffective character of what is being lone and these stories should have i wide hearing through those who will be present at the meeting at die Civic Club to-night. Certain I. W. W. strikers at Ta suna. are in jail and as a measure if protest are refusing to eat or adk. We can imagine self-imposed itarvation, but an T. W\ W. who will lot talk, is inconceivable. Must be an irror in transmission. IN HOOD HANDS DIBECTON of school board af fairs will be in good hands the coming year, the re-election of Robert A. Enders as president and Dr. C. E. I-i. Keen, as vice president it the annual meeting yesterday, ruaranteeing that. Mr. Enders* administration the yast year has been eminently satis-, lactory to the public. The school >oard has taken several long steps ihead and the new junior high ichools are proving all and more Sian was promised for them. In addition, botli Mr. Enders and Dr. Keen are strong believers in '.he creation of a central high ichool on the university plan and were among those' of Ihe direc tors who were behind the move nent to purchase the Hoffman's H'oods site for such a school. The !act that they will be at the head if school hoard affairs the coni ng year is guarantee that this noject will be pushed forward as lupidly as possible. High school ionditions ar£ not what they should e in this city. The solution lies in the direction of a university plan rlionl to properly take up the work so well begun by the junior K-hools. AH this will cost a lot of money, lut Harrlsburg people are not ifraid to assess themselves for icliool purposes. Good schools ire an essential to any progres- Sve cltv and every good-thinking litizen will rejoice that we are at nst in the way of getting them, torn primary to the highest grade. Isive may he blind, but only tompo wrily so. NOT NEW HALK-RAKED theories and flat misstatements of fact are the stock in trade of self-apnoint kl agitators and theirJtfKwhonal> leen going about the country stic ks .... . \ TUESDAY EVENING, ' ring up trouble by the preaching of false doctrines. Take, for Illustra tion, this gem from a western publi cation which pretends to "hold aloft tlib torch of truth and freedom for the down-trodden of the-earth": This injunction (that by which the Government called off the mine strike order) is a new I'angled device of the law by which the masters hope to hold us in subjection. It was Invented In "democratic?" America as a weapon to strike down the labor ing man's liberties, but new as it i*. and powerful as it Is, It will not .succeed. This would be startling enough, j if true. Unfortunately for friend j editor of the up-lift, the injunction j is as old as the Roman law, and I there is a suspicion that the formu- j | lators of those so-called fttnda i mental tenets reached back even to, j times then remote for the principle, i |The term itself shows its 1-utin ori gin and indicates its source In Kng lish law, where it dates as far back, almost, as trial by jury. The pur pose of the injunction was from the | lirst, as it is now, to prevent, the perpetration of irreparable wrong. Instead of calling in the law to re store the stolen horse or to punish the th'lef, the injunction is intended merely to prevent the crime, which, it would appear, is not only good law, but hard common sense. And as for being an instrument devised by the rich for the exploita tion of the poor, that is equally as false as that the principle of the thing is new, for it was especially intended for the protection of the helpless against the as far as 138 2 we find the com mon people of England using the Injunction as a means of saving themselves from the barons who were overriding lite processes of the lower courts. The injunction is almost as old as law itself. It is an instrument which the employe may use as well as the employer. And it is also a holy terror to the man or group of men who would use force to over power right, whether they be rich or poor. A little more fact and a Utile loss fancy in the writings and teach ings of radical editors and speakers would be extremely helpful in this critical period. Conditions have reached a pretty pass when Paris priests complain against American dances. BETTER SERVICE IN AN effort to improve its services and to bring about a better un derstanding between llie public and the corporation, the Harrlsburg Railways Company some time ago selected C. P. Crane, an experienced street railway man, as assistant to President Frank B. Musser, in charge of traffic, and now has named Captain J. G. Gredler also as an assistant to look after details of the company's, accounting business and public affairs. All over the country street car | companies have had difficulties since the beginning of the war in 1914, and especially during the trying period in which llie United States participated in the conflict. As President Mitten, of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, has put it, "increased fares where necessary should be followed by improvements in service." There is no gainsaying that the local traction company needed more revenue than had been forthcoming under the 5-cent rate, land having added 1 cent for each passenger carried it now proposes to better its service ii\ every way pos- I sible. No street car company is getting rich these days, but lliost of the managers believe that better limes are ahead, that t lie most trying period is at hand and" that, having been compelled to ask more money of the traveling public, they should be in position to give something in addition in return. President Musser lias been fortu nate in procuring men of the type just appointed and no doubt their efforts will begin to make them selves felt as soon as they have be come familiar with their new duties. | Pome of Ihe Senators have gotten Uo used to talking they can't stop even in recess. 'WHAT SHALL WE THINK? THE coal miners have declined to accept a fourteen per cent, advance in wages. Most of us would he only .too happy to accept such an increase, i Not often in the history of indus try has such a raise of wages been granted, either voluntarily or under pressure. v To many Americans fourteen per! cent, advance in pay looks large, os- | pecially since the public, must pay j ' Ihe bill. But the miners want more. I And they are willing that railroad i men shall he thrown into idleness J because of lack of coal; that millions iof Workers in factories shall tempo r I jiarily lose their jobs, with winter I [staring them in the face, because ofj 11: ek of fuel; tliat thousands of men,; I women and children shall suffer, | from cold and some actually shall | I freeze, io enforce their demands. If the operators deliberately closed j Ihe mines and created such direful conditions would wo sympathize wilh them? Not much; you know what you would want to do with them. Very well, then; what shall we think of a group of workmen —most. lof them foreigners—who 'throw us out of jobs and leave us to freeze or starve because they decline to accept a raise of wages that most of us would regard as a rare stroke of good fortune? What shall we think of such a group, we ask? The place for "parlor Bolshevists," we think, is in the kitchen. Plumb hill has none in it for anybody, politico CK By tlie Ex-Committeeman Appearance of Governor William : C. Sproul til the proposed "open ses- 1 sion" of the Republican National j Committee in Washington next week as one of (lie representative Repttb- , lieans of the Eastern states is going to make the Governor very much i talked about as presidential timber, and already the backers of General Leonard Wood have started observ ing the trend of affairs in the Key stone State. It was taken for granted by some of tile Wood boomers that I'ennsylvania would be for the Gen eral because of the strong Roosevelt sentiment and the feeling that he received a raw deal from the Wilson administration. Should Sprout announce his candi dacy there Would be no doubt of a solid delegation for him, but many people beitevc that there will be an unpledged delegation and that I'enn sylvania will cut a considerable figure in the convention, with all kinds of possibilities. The Democratic situation is quite the reverse. ' The candidacy of A. Mitchell Palmer for the presidential nomination is the big thing among the Democrats and the machine leaders are already striving to set up delegates who can win as out and out Palmer men. They have encountered some trouble in the Berks-Lehigh district and may not have easy sailing in other districts where the arrogance which marked (he early days of the reorganisation machine has not been forgotten and tite Old Guard .influence is strong. But Palmer has been busy on the men who do things and it is even possible that he may turn up with old opponents in his camp just as he won Charles P. Donnelley and others to his side in Philadelphia. —News from Senator Penrose's residence in Philadelphia is reas suring and (he Senator now hopes to be able to get back to Washing ton in January. His brother and other physicians will insist that lie take a complete rest this month and will probably induce him to go IO one of the southern states. —News of the Senator's illness has caused a rush of telegrams to Phila delphia, and- even inen who have opposed him, but who recognize his importance to State interests at Washington have expressed "hopes for an early return of his former vigor. —From wliut some up-State peo ple say, it is by no means certain that ex-Senator W. IV. Hindman, of the Clarion district, will accept the place of prohibition enforcer for the State. Hindman is a young l)emo T crat who has ambitions and means and his ideas are not said to run in the direction of such a thorny path as the man who would see that Pennsylvania stays "dry." —Hind man's selection is inter esting from the fact that he was not always a Palmer man. There are some stories from Washington that "dry" forces looked for the selection of some other man. —There has been a recurrence of the' talk that the nomination for Auditor General may go west. Names t of Samuel C. Jamison, of Allegheny, 'and Joseph 11. Thompson, of Beaver, are still being heard. The western leaders were not inclined to favor such a move for a while, owing to gubernatorial possibilities, but cer tain of them are said to have be come impressed with Susquehanna valley timber. . —Judging from what is printed in newspapers, some people have been harking back, to the tiles of papers printed in the strenuous days of the legislature of 1919, especially when c ompenaatio n amendments were under discussion. —Auditor General Charles A. Snyder is being complimented by many people for the showing made in his department's collection of the revenues. The record is one which \ is striking when the figures of for mer years are reviewed and when one considers the misgivings attend ing lite approval of appropriations last summer. —The Allegheny county treasurer is about to receive a commission from tiie Governor in pursuance of an old act. lie is the only treasurer in the State who receives- such u parchment. —From indications llic State Democrats will have t'o figure on a new Kutz-Croll situation in Berks county next spring. Botli of the leaders have definite ambitions and I hey are not in accord. —There is another tiling about Berks politics that should*prove in teresting. The election of Walter A. liingler as a county commissioner means that there will be a new Democratic member from the city, assuming that the Democrats will get one of the Beading men. and there is a possibility that Bepre sentat.ive James E. X'orton may be a Bepubltcun candidate for Senator with a look-in due to the Sassaman- Surig fight. Surig will not run for Ilie House again, and as D. A. Itotti enberger died recently, O. K. Brendle is the only man likely to run again. F. B. Brown, of West Eeesport; 11. G. McGowan. a former member; I. P. Kessler, of West Beading, and O. A. 11. Jacobs, of Boyortown, are said lo have ambitions buzzing around. Brown is a newspaperman with a wide' acquaintance. —The , Cumberland situation is rapidly taking shnfle that looks like T. J. Ferguson as the county's candi date for Ihe senatorial honor#!, with Perry and Juniata likely to accord Cumberland the preference. Boss 1,. Berkley will run uguin and George 11. Stewart, Jr.. of Shippeusburg, will probably be the upper end candidate. The Democrats are so split because of this year's primary rumpus that they have not Indicated any standard-bearers. -—Congressman J. i lampion Moore appears to have a good many cabinet makers dizzy in Philadelphia. lie I has been making appointments lo j suit himself and sending applicants I for the various places io tlie Civil | Service Commission. I —Philadelphia people are men tioning Stale Treasurer 11. M. Kep liart for Congress at large, lie lias not expressed any desires as yet. —People interested In •avoiding; u new Legislative row over the schools are urging that plans where by lessons from the intensive train ing developed during the war In pi any Pennsylvania industries and in the war camps and schools can tie applied to the vocational educa tion courses of the State's schools be taken up immediately at the Stale Department of Public Instruction. Special attention was given to voca tional and similar specialized educa tion at the recent educational con gress in tliis city and conclusions formally adopted and submitted to Dr. Thomas E. Ftnegnn, the State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, call for a reorganization of the Bureau of Vocational Education "bringing ull phaes of this field of the work under one administrative officer." The most important of the ! recommendations is that the experi ence during the war indicutcs the desirability of extending the part HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH WONDER WHAT A TWENTY MONTHS OLD BABY THINKS ABOUT? by BRIGGS ' TH Art- VA/ATeR"tSNT Cu'RY NNORNIMG THG , ThE MORSE HAS (HAT" WAT K CSN , HAO6. To TAKE SLIMV THtMG-tTS GONE OUT 0 P THE r M fact ?tS Sent A bath and it awfully SLIPPY ROOM <_ll HOT -IT fAAKPS REALLY ISN'T SUCH STUFF "BUT T Do A . LITTLE MY Ve&T ALL RED. A BAD IDGA at SEEMS To BtZ V/6RV 6PLASHLN<3 SHE fv/£ PRi- >1- ir —L FO(-D A 'Fi7 __ I time training plan for wage employ ments and that school authorities should got into closer co-operation with employers and find out what is needed, while the employers should see the capacities of the; schools. It. is possible that the t school authorities may arrange for a series of studies so that cost can , he definitely ascertained, complete data be obtained about the intensive j training courses established during the war with means to fit them into j the curricula and advancement of occupational efficiency. Several of j the conferences urged that the con tinuation school problem should not be considered as solved, but that it i he further studied by'school author ities and employers. especially i whether vocational training cannot j he given better in regular schools J than in industrial plants. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore | writes this way in the Philadelphia j Kvening Ledger of a man connected with the State Treasury: "Major! Robert. Griffith, of East Cambria ] street, who lives in llarrisburg part. ; of the time, is the head of an or- j ganization known as the Pennsyl- j vania League of Patriotic Workers. ' The league lines up 011 the Republi- 1 Can side of every political eontro- 1 versy and is Inspired very largely ! by the poetic utterances of its chair- j man. The major is strong on Phila- ; delphia and Pennsylvania patriotism \ and likes to •hold fast to the prin- j ciples true' and stand proudly by the 1 •old Red. White and Blue.'" Germany American Colony [lsaac P. Marcosson iti the Saturday j Kvening Post] I had some astonishing reveln-j tions of the now German attitude, especially toward America. At Frankfort I dined one night with a group of eight business men. They represented a half do/en large in terests and as many important com - 1 inanities. One member of the party, who! happens to be the head of a pdwer-' fill iron and steel group, made this; remark: "Economic conditions in Germany could not be worse. In deed they are so bad that, speaking j for myself and my associates, .1 should ho perfectly willing to see j Germany become an American col ony, provided that we were guar anteed protection against French revenge and rapacity." Of course, it was conversation for my particular benefit and to create, a good will for Germany. But it did have the germ of truth in it, cer tainly as illustrating the German , feeling about France. These two nations will do business together be cause they must, but so long as time lusts there will he bitter hatred be tween litem. And France has good reason to hate. American Fool-Binding rFront the St. .Paul Dispatch 1 Women's foot dress in slylisli cir cles—-and, of course, nil America Is stylish—has progressed backward to a point where ilie font-binding fash ion is being compared with the foot binding of the "heathen Chinee." and where it ha* aroused a move ment for reform among physicians, girls' schools and the Y. AY. C. A. The case against the high heeled, sharp toed shoe Is that it causes a walk which puis a strain upon the spine and throws the internal or gans out of place. The danger to the foot itself is lliot the fashionable shoe cramps and paralyzes the tors, weakens muscles which normally should be exercised, and generally I unfits the foot for physical exercise which is so essential to the general 1 health. [ Efforts are being made to liave stores and chains of stores all over the country carry lines of hygienic shoes, and some progress has been made. Sad to say. however, this mode of shoes Is resorted to in inosl eases only when tlie feet have broken down through long abuse and refuse longer to function ac cording lo style. Barred a Winner | From Punch. London]. As a result of attending a spirit ualistic seance a man is reported to have picked four winners in a dream. Only tlie other day. after n supper of Welsh rarebit, a gentle man tried lo back a 9-legged green nnd-yellow elephant, but the animal was warned off the course liy Hie stewards. Who It Hurls [From the Washington Star] "hocking up an Anarchist." suitl Hill the Tturg. "is good l'or him. But j it's kind of tough on the other fel- ! lers that have to live in the same' Jail." I Has Butterfly Girl "Grown Up?" TO one who frequents the erst- 1 wliile haunts of butterflies, whether 011 Fifth Avenue or i Main .street, this query will promptly ! i occur. (Of course wc aren't talking ! ! about insects). And a persual o! | the society section of the Sunday j newspaper will have a similar ef- | j feet. For the butterflies 110 longer 1 i flit in bright-colored droves through our American life, pretty, heedless ; i and useless. Great numbers of them ! 1 are making themselves valuable, in | tlie professions, in social work, in i ! industry. Idleness, even for the 1 [ pretty girl, is no longer fashionable, j j Is the silk-stockinged, soda- j 1 drinking, empty-headed miss really j ! a thing of the past, then? Of course ! I it is impossible to reply with any ] j certainty, but it surely looks that ! ! way. In New York, at least, the j ; returns in the recent election pre- I | liminaries would seem to indicate | that the women are even more in- ; ! terested in civic affairs than are the j I men. More women are working, 1 i and especially at skilled trades, than , ! ever before in the history of the! j I'nited States, and employment ex-I 1 pens say that they are very loath I > 1o give up their jobs, even lo be I I married. Feminine America seems j 1 to have "grown up" for good. Why? Well, that iff not such an ' ' easy question to answer, it might j be. because of any one of a number | of causes such as the rapid spread of ; | Woman Suffrage, or "the spirit of ! the age," of "Ilie new industrial- | j ism" or-—But why prolong the list? j We can all think of cutcli phrases I that sound just as well as these and j don't mean a bit less—or more. I After all the whole question is I rather problematical and more ; ; likely to be solved by our grand-.' Those 5-Cenl Days 1 [From Birmingham Age-Herald] j Once upon a time a nickel was : real money—but those days are ! gone. Tll tlie days of our youth, water melons could be purchased from the ; passing farm wagon for tlie sum of 5 cents, but now not even the transparent sli( c can 'be obtained for this sum. Enough bananas could he bought for 5 cents to give three boys Indi gestion, but that was long ago. There was a time when snipll boys were wont to do chores around the home for tlie coveted nickel — hut not now. Who can forget the man who used to walk into the cigar store and say; in a loud voice, "Give me a good nickel cigar." There was a time when a nickel bought u loaf of bread, or a dish of ice cream, paid for a shoe shine and even made a sizable tip. Sonte Of the old citizens, in their more rem iniscent moods, cun .recall those days—or at least they say they can. But gradually, one by one, the uses of the "jitney" passed away. It would buy nothing to eat. nothing to drink, unless . re-en forced by the once despised penny, until only a ride on a street car remained to he secured in exchange for the nickel. And then the street railway com pany followed in tlie wake of a long and illustrious procession of profi teers. "Millionaire Troop's" Record I From tlie Stars and Stripes, Washington. I A unique organization of veter ans has just been formed in Wash ington. It is comprised of former members of A Troop, District of Co lumbia. National Guard, familiarly known to Washingtonlans us the "Millionaire Troop." All the men saw Vhe Mexican border; all but live saw service overseas. All but these live of tlie eiglity tlirec men won commissions, and a majority of them woli citations or medals for valor. Nevertheless, tlie new organization wanted lo call themselves "Tlie men who never wanted to he soldiers." The troop boasts a remarkable personnel. One of its members is the son of a member of tlie cabinet, one was tlie son of a United States senator, two the sons of congress men. another lite son of the minister ; of tlie capital's most fashionable church, and a majority of the rest 1 young men about town of means. All are university men. .4 Sure Knock Out to //. C. L. | [From the Watch on the Rhine.] A few moro boosts to prices will ! knock "L." ut of the H. C. of I>. In ; other words, there won't ho any liv 4ins with these high costs. children than by us. But a good many authorities are inclined to ac cept Josephine Daskuin Bacon's idea that the war had a good bit to do with it. As she delightfully puts it in the rhymed preface to "Square i Peggy" a new book, written around ; the same thought: Before the Flag hail floated free, \ Before the Bugle blew. Your elders rubbed their eyes, my dear, _ (But much to their surprise, my; dears). You were our Veterans —You!' You trotted up. you trotted down, 'Jn your Khaki and your Blue, . It taught a lot to us, my dears, I (Though we smiled at ull the fuss, ] tny dears), But it taught lots more to You! j You cut your bread and met your train. And poured your coffee, too; { It did a lot for Him, my dears, (It insde his grey eyes swim, my d ears), But it did lots more for You! They think you'll start to drift again— it's a thing you'll never do! War's done a lot for the World, tny j dears, (The old Globe knew, as she 1 whirled, tny dears), But it's done the Woi'l(j for You! So when we biihince tlie dreadful books, Let's give the Devil iiis due! The War made different things, my dears, . (Of Cabbages and Kings, my dears) But it made a Woman of You! 1 lialh All They Xceded [From tlie New York Tribune] Bathtubs, an anti-beard cam paign, and good meals have done ' j more to make 82 radicals, now held at Ellis Island, look like American ! citizens than any- other experience they have had in this country, ac i cording to Officials at the island. The radicals, some of whom were taken ;in recent Federal raids, are being held pending charges that they are undesirable aliens subject to depor tation. Officials at the island, in reply to | charges that the aliens were not be , ing properly treated, invited an in i spection of their quarters. it was said that the tlrst thing that • was done to the men held was to subject ; them to a liberal lopping off of beards and long hair. Then they were inducted into tlie ceremony of !a daily bath. The result has been, ae'eording to ' tlfe officials, that in many instances tlie prisoners have experienced a I sivift and wonderful change of views | on economic subjects. "There is not so much social un ! rest since the daily visits lo tlie {bathtub were inaugurated," said an {official. What lias impressed the immigra tion officials most of nil is that some jof the prisoners have expressed a desire to go to work. The Ceiling of Ihe Earth [From the Columbus Dispatch I Air experts say the next war will lie fought on "Ihe celling of Wie I earth/' and in the saying they give ;us a new expression. They flx the : limit of altitude at 25,000 feet, ; thereby establishing the height of the ceiling above the ground. There is no reason to doubt tlie ; statement of the aviators. Indeed, {military men generally express the .belief that tlie next war will lie. I fought largely in tlie air. The nation [that dominat.es the njr in the begin -1 ning of the struggle will lie the vlc- I lor. they say, jnsl as it used to be [the case that tlie nation which domi nated the sea was the victor. But, this coiling of the earth! What a picturesque expression! These airmen crawling over, the ceil ing of the earth as flies used to crawl upon the ceiling of the home before the advent of screens. That ! is exactly what they are like—tiny i insects far above their abode on tlie | earth, twisting and turning in the i air, swooping through and sweeping [above the clouds. Up there, out of sight from below, | where all is eternal, blue, there is j where the next war will be fought. I But let us believe that the genera i tion now anchored to the ground will have passed away, and its im mediate successors succumbed to old age, before the "celling of the earth" is splattered up with human wreck age. R DECEMBER 2. 1919. The Origin of Woman [From the Columbus Dispatch] A magazine \yriter consumes con siderable spuce in trying to prove that it is wrong to teach that woman was made from Adam's rib. lie says the proposition is ridiculous, and j while it may have beeh well enough j to teach it in Ihe dim and distant j i past, we ought to be ashamed of j | ourselves for sticking to the "super-j stition." it' our own idea or belief of the. ! origin of woman js a superstition, | then it is quite as good a superstition as 0.l her people have. For ours is j not the only theory of the origin of* ! woman. Many other people have many other theories or superstitions. The Australian natives believe | that woman was once a toad —and that isn't very nice. If it is true, •.however, it shows what a wonderful 'creature the toad was transformed j into and can rejoice thereat. Then, the Laplanders believe tliat j woman was once a rabbit, anil since jn rabbit is more likable than a toad, we prefer the Lapland superstition ! to the Australian. The Japanese believe that woman grew upon a tree —and that is get ting along still belter. The feathery I blossoms of the trees, with their 1 color and their perfume, seem more nearly approaching the realm of womanhood than, do rabbits or toads. But if we are compelled to give up our idea that woman was made from the rib of man, we are going, to accept the Persian theory. That is by all odds the prettiest one, and ttip one we could more easily believe than any other. The Persians assert that woman fell from .heaven. Our llond C.oinmon Tongue [Lathrop Stoddard in World's Work] The eminent English litterateur, John" Galsworthy, while asserting the existence of wide physical and temperamental divergences between . the English and American peoples, : believes that these are more than offset by their common possession of • the English tongue. In an address entitled "The Community of lan guage," recently delivered before an American audience in the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Gals worthy said: "I do not think that you Ameri cans and we English are any longer strikingly alike in physical type or general characteristics, no more than I think there is much resem blance between yourselves and the Australians. Our link is now but the community of language—and the in finity which this connotes. * • We, who possess in common the English language—"host, result of the confusion of tongues," Lowell called it—that most superb instru ment for the making of word music, for the telling of the truth, and the expression of ilie imagination, may well remember this: That in the use , we make of it. in the breadth, justice and humanity of our thoughts, the . vigor, restraint, clarity and beauty of tiie setting we give to them, we have our greatest chance to make , our countries lovely and beloved, to further tiie happiness of mankind, and to keep immortal (he priceless comradeship between us." The lAt tie House Ah, it's home, dearie, home, that my tieart turns'to forever — A little house, a bit o' green-upon u quiet street; White curtains at the windows, and a red bloom peering outward; And the clicking o' the kitchen tiles to my'own happy feet. I Ah, its home, dearie, borne, and the singing o' the kettle. And a table spread at the even ing time a waiting there for yon— The early lamp ail lighted, and the tire burning cheery— And a soft wind blowing inward from the sweet world wet o' dew. And listen, dearie, close beside, a baby in a cradle, A-swinging low a-swinging low -—(l'm singing for him. dear) Just a little song o' loving, like the south wind to the roses— ' "It's evening time, and home time, and ire will soon.be here." —Grace Noll Crowell in Contempor ary Verse. The Voice in the Wilderness The word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilder ness. And lie came unto all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance the remission of sins; as It is written ill the words of Esaias, the prophet, saying, Prepure ye the way of the Isrrd, make his paths straight.— Luke ill, 2 to t. lEuwttng (Etjat Proceedings by the Common wealth to close the old entrance to the Harrlsburg cemetery will end the career of 'a picturesque lane that used to furnish a line for drives or rambles for many people a generation or two ago. This old lane originally ran from State and Cameron streets diagonally toward the State arsenal. It was used mainly to reach the James Calder farm, where Simon Duey, long prominent in afTairs political and otherwise, resided. When the ceme tery association was organized, the lieirs of General John E. Forster' gave certain rights for highway" use and the lane was fenced in and planted with willows. It was known as the "Willow Jjane" and, was the main entrance to thet cemetery for a long time, serving until the entrance near the top of the State street incline was laid out* It was closed some years ago when traflic was diverted to lierr and State streets, but there are many who remember it as it wound over the top of the bluff and what a beautiful approach it. was to the burying ground where so many I larrisSurgers sleep. lake the Jonestown road, which went down the' hill to meet the city traffic near Cameron and Market and which survives numerous changes, it will soon be a memory of the days when the highland portion of Har | risbnrg was farms. •State Capitol officials are of the opinion that changes of dayight saving plans are a good thing as far. as bringing people to work earlier. The usual Change of the start ing time from 8 to 9 o'clock for the winter is now being made in various departments at the Capitol and at several of the departments clerks accustomed to appearing at 8 could not accustom themselves to the la ter .hour and showed up ahead of time. Most, of the departments now work from 9 to 5. During the summer and fall they close at 4. Father Penn's gold fish have been put into storage for the winter. The gold fish were in the basins of the big fountain in front of the Capitol and had a precarious time until they got used to cats, squirrels and chil dren with ilshing lines. They sur vived. however, and when freezing weather came and the fountains were shut off they were ready to go into winter quarters. They were taken into the Capitol in buckets and placed in a tank. Frank Davenport and Lieutenant Jacobs, of the Harrisburg Recruiting station, driving from Philadelphia to Harrisburg' with several friends the other night had an experience that led them for a short time 1o thinking that they were "seeing things." "Stop." called Jacobs to Daven port, "we just passed a tire on the road." So Davenport stopped, think ing somebody had dropped a lire, and backed his machine in tl.e vi cinity of tlie spot Jacobs indicated. When the lights were turned on the spot there was no tire. So Daven port kept on going back, believing that he must have run farther than he thought. Still no tire. So the party "joshed" Jacobs about his poor eyesigl'.t and started ahead. "By jingo, you're right, Jacobs," called Davenport, as they passed the spot where Jacobs had said he saw the tire, "there is a tire, in the road back there," and again the machine was halted and started back. Duvenport jumped out to pick up the elusive ring of rubber, and again it had disappeared. Then it was his turn to be joshed, but Daven port is nothing if not thorough, and searching in the bushes he ran across three giggling boys with an automobile tire tied to a rope. Every time a machino came along they had thrown out the tire, jerk ing it back into the bushes when the automobilists came back to re trieve the tire. Davenport, Jacobs and the boys had a good laugh together and the boys responding to a question as to how many peo ple they had fooled said they "guessed about fifty." Here's another automobile story, it seems that up along the River Drive there are a number of gangs of boys who are practical jokers and they have had all kinds of fun with drivers some of jt. along tlie line of the enjoyment qf (he Lancaster countlans. One of their pranks is to take a couple of burlap bags and sew them into some resemblance of a man. Then the bag is filled with leaves and propped against n pole so that it can be pushed over right in front of a car. Of course, tiie man run ning the car thinks he has run over some one and gets a laugh. One man wlto had been hoaxed came back next night and was given the same treatment. He just set tire to'the bag of dried leaves. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Senator Boies Penrose, who has been ill in Philadelphia, has been a mepiber of the Senate since 189". —Warren H. Manning, the land scape architect, lias been busy lay ing out new parks in New England cities which are to establish mem orials. E. liCderer, the- revenue col lector. estimates that he has over 40,000 delinquents in his district and ho is getting nfter them. —H. W. Douglass, the new Al legheny county chairman, who was here yesterday, is one of the young est men to hold that office. —ltarry E. Apgar, one of the new Scranton councilman, used to be sec retary to Congressman John R. Parr. ■—Ernest 1,. Tusttn. new director of welfare in Philadelphia, is a na tive of Hewisburg and was born not far from the home of General Tasker IT. Bliss. - William 11. Wilson, new presi dent of the Philadelphia Keal Es tate Board, helped organize that body and has spent his life in the business. —Edward Prelbertshauser, Alle gheny'county treasurer, had such a rush of people for liquor license re newals that be had to close his of fice and refuse to work, at nights. —Dr. W. P.' Lewis deputy super intendent of public instruction, was a speaker at the Pittsburgh Ameri canization meeting. —Frank P. Walsh, active in the labor board and Irish affairs, is speaking at Scranton. | DO YOU KNOW 1 —That llarrisburg furnish ed materials to manufacture trucks during the war? HISTORIC HARRISBtfRG —A hundred years ngo people used'to unite in Christmas services which included carols sung tn Mar [kct Square.