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WEDNESDAY DECEIitRKR 8 ,1919
The most I can do for nig friend
is simply to he his friend. — Thokeau.
PRESIDENT S MESSAGE
PRESIDENT WILSON, in his
message to Congress, saddling
upon "the government" respon
sibility for much of the unrest now
prevalent in the country, should not j
forget that the government includes :
the President himself as well as the j
Sen&te, and that if it is the duty of ,
the Senate to get quickly down to j
a peace-making basis, it is the duty
of the executive to meet that body j
half-way. There can be no ques- <
tion that the final settlement of the 1
war, so far as we are concerned, and
the resumption of peace-time rela
tions abroad will liolp considerably
in the return to normal conditions,
but it is evident that there qnust be ,
concessions on both sides before that
desirable end can be reached.
The President's message deals
generally with labor legislation, the
tariff, assistance for soldiers and the
protection of the dye and related
chemical industries from German
aggression, and his remarks on this
last-named subject indicate that he I
is not so certain as some of his other j
utterances might seem to indicate, •
about the effectiveness of his League 1
of Nations in keeping the peace of j
the world. Indeed, he makes it very
clear that he would have the coun- {
try well prepared for eventualities j
of a world-wide character.
Most of the President's address ;
Is, as usual, of an academic nature. ;
He writes well and in a manner to
win the approval of his readers until >
they begin to analyze the document
for practical suggestions. Then they I
find that he has few to offer. He is I
a past master in the gentle art of
essay writing and as an author ol
glittering generalities he is the su- j
perior even of Lloyd George in the j
politics of to-day. But he has made !
a practical recommendation of more
than passing importance when he j
advocates the creation of a perma- 1
nent government body for the arbi- j
tration of all disputes between cap- ;
ital and labor, and he certainly has ,
the support of a great majority of [
the people of America when he as- ]
jerts that the government always .
must be superior to any class and is
justified in stepping in at any time j
to protect the paramount rights of
the public. And he is in full accord
with public opinion when lie says ,
that privilege in America can never \
be permitted to transcend the rights
of the people as a whole.
The President's advocacy of the
budget system for the government ;
goes back to the time of President j
Taft, and smacks strongly of the
recommendations urged upon Con- j
press by Senator Penrose in a vigor
ous address last Spring. It is timely j
and ought to have the early con- j
rideration of the legislative bodies.
Mr. "Wilson speaks also In the lan- i
guage of Senator Penrose, as chair- i
man of the finance committee of the i
Senate, when he pleads for the re- I
vision and simplification of the in
rotne and excess profits tax laws, |
*nd urges Congress to give earl j '
thought to the changes that must i
t>e made for the safeguarding of I
business in peace times against the >
rigors of wartime legal regulation, j
That is Republican doctrine, pure I
sod simple. Evidently Mr. Wilson, j
while shut up in his room, has kep' ;
bis ears open to the sentiment of the 1
sountry and has gone to consider
able pains to prepare his message
accordingly.
j
Communities consist not simply of 1
• uildings and parks and utilities: i
ihey are people and friendliness and j
inselfiahness. Middletown has lost in ,
he death of a good woman an im
portant factor in its community life.
fir*. Arthur King in her long years
f usefulness contributed much more
than can now be realized by her
•elghbors and friends to the com
munity we.fare. For years she was
ictite in good works. Xcver narrow
r selfish or lacking in vision she
fare of her hest efforts to furthering
Ihose activities which make for the.
lontentment and happiness and well
i'lng of al) the peepte. She wan
ibaarfui and sympathetic sad kind la
y .
I* ,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' DECEMBER 3, 1919.
her attitude to those with whom she
rame In contact and her passing: Is
mourned as a community loss. S-lie
has left her own best memorial in the
good works which will keep her
memory fragrant in the community
which she served.
GOOD BUSINESS
THE Dauphin County Prlsuu
Board's decision not to fill the
place of a resigned store
keeper, whose duties it was found
could be performed by another em
ploye, indicates that its members
interested more in the business man
agement of prison affairs than they
are in giving salaried places to po
litical friends.
Also, the falling off in prisoners
by more than 100 a day and the
consequent savings to the taxpayers
are proof positive that prohibition
does pay from the money stand
point, because jail-keep is only a
small item in the cost of arresting
and trying of prisoners, and the
economies effected by having 100
less men in jail every day in the
year with prohibition in force is an
argument in its favor that oppon
ents of the new constitutional
amendment will have some difficulty
in meeting, we imagine.
The action of the Prison Board in
doing away with an unnecessary
office is proof positive that county
offices are in good hands, for there
is nothing more tempting for the
man in public place than the con
tinuation of conditions as he finds
them, especially when to do so per
mits him to favor a friend who has
favored hini politically. it is a
good sign when officials find it in
their hearts to reduce working
forces.
J Chester and many other cities are
I giving serious attention to the houa
jing problem, which confronts most
J cities ajni towns, and llarrisburg is
ia'so being given careful study by an
able Chamber of Commerce commit
[tee. Composed of careful and compe
tent business men, this committee is
investigating every angle of the mat- !
ter with a view to making - some
recommendations and taking such fic
tion as seems justified under the cir
cumstances.
PROFIT-SHARING
GEORGE W. PERKINS writes
an interesting article in the
current issue of Rotarian
j Magazine, entitled "The Workers'
l-'air Share," in which he devotes
| considerable attention to profit
• sharing.
At first thought profit-sharing
• would seem to lie a ready solu
tion to the industrial unrest now
prevailing, inducing the worker to
produce as much as possible in the
j hope of sharing in the profits, the
same as stockholders.
But there are two sides to pro
fit-sharing. as there are to every
other proposal.
The stockholders of a company
share in the profits only when there
are profits to share. There are lean
j years even Wi.h prosperous
( panics, when there are not only no
[earnings, but where losses actu
j ally are shouldered either by
J necessity or for the future good of
ithe concern.
In sueli cases, what would the
i worker do who depended upon pro
[ fit-sharing for a part of his yearly
| income ?
i Say lie worked hard and really
i produced much more than he
i would under the present wage sys
: tent. Say he hud no responsibil
j ity for the failure of the company
!to earn a dividend, would it be
fair to him to tell him there were
no profits in which lie could share?
And if this situation were to oe
i cur, as it is bound to do wher
i ever profit-sharing is attempted,
I how is it going to be adjusted?
rrolit-sharing is a very fine thing
t when business is booming, but it
j doesn't look so good from the
! other angle.
Harrisburg and Dauphin county are
| going to take their places on the fir
jing line in the Red Cross Christmas
seal campaign next week. The lines
[of strategy have been discussed by
( the committees and all is in readiness
! for the sale of the seal which wili
.provide the ammunition for fighting
the White Plague.
A NEW JOURNAL
WE RECOMMEND to our read
ers a new publication, Tlio
New American Citizen, the
j first number of which lias just come
from the press. It is published in six
[languages, the first page in English
and the oilier live each a duplicate
| of the first, except jn a different
i language, it is sane, sensible and
[patriotic, its objects tire summed
[up in its own editorial introduction:
The founders of the New Anter-
J iean Citizen recognizing the inc-f
--i fcctuul labors of well meaning,
i although illy-equipped, persons
who are trying to solve indus
trial problems, have stepped into
i the breach fully equipped by edu
j cation and long experience in
dealing with workingmen and
I foreigners determined to secure
| for llie workingmen. botn Amer
) iean and foreign their rights,
i while at the same time recogniz
| ing and safeguarding the rights
of the employing interests,
i Only by intelligent co-operation
between employe and employer,
j can America's most important
' industrial problems l.e solved.
Foreign-born workingmen who
can not read ICnglisli fire t<> be
furnished with news and given
the true facts regarding Govern
ment legislation and activities of
labor. The foreign-born can use
! iiis own mind us well as any
I American if he but knows wiiut
!1s going on and it is the purpose
of llie New American Citizen to
keep the foreigner informed and
I to impress hint witli the iin -
j portance of learning ttie English
language and having his children
properly educated, as <II as re
maining steadily at work.
The publishers set themselves
to the task witli eonscietice and
vigor, feeling confident• that sub
stantial benefits will be derived
by both the employer and the em
ploye.
if "The New American Citizen"
continues ast well as it has begun
It will deserve the attention it no
doubt will receive: It has iTi it great
possibilities ns an Amertcunisutloa
agent-
folitUo U
"~PIH.H44{6KUU<I
Bjr the Ex-Committeeman
tlltiiough the Constitutional Re
vision Commission is to be a strictly
nonpartisan affair, the work which it
will undertake is looming very large
in the political discussions of the
day and there have been suggestions
without number as to the alterations
which should be made in the docu
ment. None of these, however, is
likely to assume a partisan form and
the general expectation is that there
wilt he no attempts to inject political
discussions.
Attorney General W ilium I. Schaf
fer's hope is that tile sessions of the
Commission will be marked by ex
peditious but dignified handling of
the important subjects which will be
considered. The opening next Tues
day will be attended by a short cere
mony and Mr. Sehuffer will outline
the desire of the Governor, who will
not be able to get here in time fo
attend the inauguration of the work,
but who will probably visit the Com
mission later on in the week.
First lubors will be in studying the
constitution and deciding upon what
sections should be changed. This
will take several weeks of hard work
by the committees.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer gives
considerable attention to the plans
j for the new Commission and says
that one of the big subjects will be
taxation of natural resources, in
cluding a tax on coal. It also pre
dicts that there will be important
changes relative to the appropria
tions for hospitals and other sub
jects which will enable charitable
grants to be put into general bills
instead of having a separate list.
Most important, the Inquirer says,
will be the municipal features. It
remarks: "Philadelphia, and in fact
every other city in the State, will
demand that the Constitution lie
changed so as to grant a greater
degree of home rule. It is pointed
out that the mayor of New York has
a veto power over all legislation en
| acted by the General Assembly of
j the Empire State at Albany, which
directly affects that municipality.
I The recent experience at llarrisburg
in the enactment of the new charter
for the Quaker City, with the mem
bers from other counties than Phila
delphia, who controlled the situation,
' being dragged and hauled about by
I ihe runners of rival political fac
tions from this city, was such as to
demand, relief from these objection
able conditions. The classification
of cities as at present has been found
to lie unsatisfactory and a proposi
tion has been advanced for the
specification by name of the city to
be directly affected by any proposed
legislation. While Philadelphia is
[the only "first class" city in the
! 1 'ommonwealth, there are two second
j class cities. Pittsburgh and Scranton.
[ These municipalities, so widely
■separated and located at the extreme
western and eastern portions of the
State, respectively, under the exist
ing constitutional restrictions are ob
liged to work upon the same charter
and other legislative conditions.
What has been deemed desirable in
Pittsburgh has not always been ac
ceptable or workable in Scranton,
and each of these cities will seek to
provide for a sepuwuie legislative
program of its own. The third class
cities have an organization which
| will no doubt appoint a committee
jto make such recommendations to
j the Constitutional Revision Commit)-:
i sion as may be desirable."
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der will begin his strenuous task of
selecting the mercantile appraisers
litis month. There have been many
rumors about men to be named, hut
the Auditor General has kept his
counsel. There will be something
like 100 appointments made.
—Col. George Xox McCain, writ
ing in the Evening Public Ledger,
makes some sharp criticism of State
departmental report publication
methods. He says: "The lack of
ready-to-hand information in all de
partments at llarrisburg lias been
notorious for a quarter of a century.
'Hie State's publications are never up
to date. Department reports find
their way into the hands of the pub
lic years after they have been com
piled. with one exception—Smull's
Legislative Handbook. It is usually
ready for distribution a few months
after the close of the legislative ses
sion, which is due to the untiring ef
forts of Senate Librarian Miller. The
new Commissioner of Labor and In
dustry, Doctor Connelly, I have no
doubt, so far us his department is
concerned, will speed up in this re
spect. for he has come lo tbe work
with a great record for efficiency."
—This year it does not look a-s
though the proofs for Smull's hand
book would be ready much before
Christmas and the 1919 book, for
which copy was prepared long ago,
will appear in 1920. The last re
port of the Adjutant General is
dated around 1914. There are other
departmental reports, copy for which
was ready promptly, which are away
late.
—Mifflin county Republicans are
likely to have a legislative contest
on their hands. Representative C.
G. Corbin wants to run for the Sen
ate and some people in Lewistown
district want to run for the House.
—Representative William J. 11c-
C'aig, chairman of the House Ap
propriations Committee, will be a
candidate for re-election next year
in Pittsburgh.
—Ex-Representative Ellsworth G.
M. Kulins, one of the orators a few
sessions ago. is lo be clerk to the
Lehigh county comtnissioers.
—School boards reorganizations
took place pretty generally through
out the State on Monday and for
once there are no reports of lie
votes and controversies over the con
trol of hoards. Comparatively few
changes In officers were made.
—From all accounts the census
supervisors are not going to have
the easy time anticipated in getting
enumerators for the decennial job.
At first it was thought that there
would lie many places for deserving
Democrats, but Ihe Democrats did
not seem lo like lite prospects of
pay or work in many districts and
even in such rock-ribbed sections as
Berks and Lehigh the Democratic
bosses are wondering why the faith
ful will not take Hie jobs which Ihey
say can he had.
—From all accounts the changes
In lite Scranton city and Lackawanna
county government ate tfoing to he
pretty thorough. Sotne of the news
papers say that changes will be gen
eral.
—Pittsburgh Is Just now discussing
a municipal organ and free recitals
on Sunday. Experience of other cit
ies is being sought. _
—A. Lincoln Acker, the new pur
chasing agent of the city of Phila
delphia. is an out-and-out Penrose
man and a former sheriff. He was
talked of for mayor, for a time.
Fuel Plentiful There,
I Front the Washington Star.l
"Anyhow." remarked Shadrach as
jhe stepped into Hie fiery furnace,
'"there is uocoai shortage in these
parts."
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Turn on the. Light
[From the Fourth Estate.]
Under the heading "Nursing a
Reptile Press," the. New York
World recently published an editor
ial tiiat certainly should stir all law
abiding persons to the point of de
manding a show down of these
sleek, well-fed individuals who deal
in slime qnd filth, and who hope,
under the cover of anauymity, to
use the anarchistic press io aid in
dragging the Government of the
United States down into the mire
of Bolshevism.
We have laws especially intended
to prevent persons from remaining
unknown while doing suclt things.
I/et us enforce these laws to the last
letter, to the end that the printing
press shall not be used in this coun
try against Hie forces of law and
order.
The World says on this matter:
"Of the anarchistic publications in
this city, most of them in foreign
languages, the state authorities
claim to have proof that about
twenty-live are kept alive by the
subsidies* of 'one hundred or more
men and women of the parlor Bol
shevik type and a few wealthy men
and women against •whom there
previously had heen no suspicion of
radical tendencies." it is promised
that the list will lie made public
soon.
Accepting the truth of this state
ment, the guilt of the conductors of
such organs of violence and plunder
may not be confined to their preach
ments.
A few enacted by Congress in
191"2 and fully sustained by the Su
preme Court in 1913 requires semi
annual sworn statements front the
publishers of all newspapers and
periodicals, giving the names of edi
tors. own'ers, stockholders and bond
holders.
Possibly these patrons of anarchy
think they do not figure in any of
the capacities mentioned, being
only contributing editors, so to
speak, but failure to name them
constitutes at least a violation of
the spioit of the act. If their money
does in fact keep the lawless press
alive, they are more accurately to
be described as its owners than
tlie agitators who thrive on their
bounty.
On puin or fine and imprison
ment. Government forbids secrey
as to the ownership and financial
obligations of newspapers. A policy
to which no honest journal or peri
odical can object certainly ought to
be serviceable In the cases of pub
lications blatantly devoted to revo
lution by force and pillage.
We should have the names of all
such benefactors of Bolshevism—
first, for wholesome publicity, and
secondly, for such responsibility
under violated law as the courts
shall determine.
Judges Rule on Prohibition
[Front Ilie New York Herald.]
Judge Julius M. Mayer, of New
York, holds that 2.75 beer is not
prohibited, nor intoxicating.
Judge Rose, of Baltimore, holds
that the prohibition act has nothing
to do with any benerage that is not,
in fact, intoxicating.
Judge Pollock, of St. T-ouis. held
2.75 per cent, beer to be nonintoxi
caiing.
Judge Anderson, of Boston, and
ihroe jlidges of the United States
court of appeals. Second District,
decide Hint the prohibition net pro
hibits nothing but aetifally intoxieat
ing drinks.
The United States district judge in
Now Orleans agrees with the four
above.
Judge Arthur T>. Brown, of Provi
dence, R. T., orders that lite Vol
stead act be not enforced "in view
of llie probability Hint Hie net in
question will ultimately be held un
constitutional."
Judge Walter Evans. T.ouisville,
Ky., holds that the Volstead net is
unconstitutional and that Hie sale
of tax paid whisky is legal.
Judge T/earned Hand, of New
York, decides that the wartime pro
hibition net is constitutional.
Judge John C. Knox, of Now York,
agrees with Judge Hand.
Judge George A. Carpenter, of
Chicago, upholds the wartime pro
hibition act and the Volstead amend
ment.
Judge T.ouls Fitzhenry, of Peoria,
111., concurs With Judge Carpenter.
Reassuring
[From Blighty. Londohl
"The doctor says he'll let me
know in a week whether I'm going
to live or not."
"And what are you lo do In the
men ntime?"
"He told me to take complete rest
and, above all, not to worry about
anything."
"AND HE GO EI H"
[By Bruce Barton.J
SEVERAL years ago when I had
just been promoted to nt\ first
real job, 1 called on a business
friend of mine. He is a wise and
experienced handler of men! I asked
hint what suggestions lie could make
about executive responsibility.
"You are about to make the great
discovery." lie said. "Within a week
or two you will know why it is that
executive* grow gray and die hefofe
their time. You will have learned
the bitter truth that there are no el
iicient people in the world.'
1 am still very far front admitting
that he was right, hut I ]ino\v well
enough what lie meant. Every man
knows who lias ever been respons
ible for a piece of work, or had lo
meet a payroll.
Recently' another friend of mine
built a house. The money to build
it represented a difficult period of
saving on the part of himself and
his wife; it meant overtime work
and self-denial, and extra effort in
behalf of a long-cherished dream.
One day when the work was well
along, he visited it, and saw a work
man climbing a Jadder to the roof
with a little bunch of shingles in his
hands.
"Look here," the foreman cried,
"can't you carry a whole bundle of
shingles?"
The workman regarded limt sul
lenly.
"1 sup poke I could." he answered,
"if 1 wanted to bull the job."
By "hull the job" lie meunt "do
an honest day's work."
At ten o'clock one morning I met
still another man in his office in
New York. IJe was munching a
sandwich and gulping a cup of col
fee which his secretary had, brought
in to him.
"X had io work late last night."
he said, "and meet a very early ap
pointment this morning. My wile
asked our maid to iiuve breakfast
a iialfjiour early so that I might
have, a iiito and still be here in lime."
"When 1 cuitie down to breakfast,
111 is i ness Opiiin is in
I From New York Telegram]
That there is nothing in the in
dustrial situation to worry about in
£pite of the strikes and disturbJn -es
is the opinion of a man who de
scribes himself as "a square-toed
American who believes that America
W the best country in the world-lo
live in."
Samuel M. Vauelain, vice presi
dent of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, is the man who said it while
addressing the Bond flub.
"Many people think this country
is disturbed on account of labor.
Forget it, and labor will forget it,
100. • •
"There was. first, the Boston po
lice strike. A strong man demon
strated that we have a government
here and that law and order must
prevail. Then the steel strike <;uine
and demonstrated Hie weakness of
the 'few. It was settled without a
blow being struck.
'"Then came the Peace Treaty
matter. 1 know many of Hie long
haired and no-haired orators :nd
agitators tried to get their views
written into that document, but the
Senate, the representative of the
people, did its duty, and did it. I
think,- wisely."
Touching resumption of business.
Mr. Vauelain recommends that, we
send goods rather than cash abroad,
using the money to finance inere ujed
production in 'America instead of
hacking competitive concerns In
Europe.
"tlow Long. Oh Lord'.'"
| Harvey's Weekly.]
Congress, we are told, is planning
to enact an •anti-Bed" law during
its next session.
Evidence lias long heen before it
that the great strikes wMlch have
disturbed industry and menaced the
prosperity and welfare of the Nation
were largely due to the machina
tions of alien, conspirators and Ihejr
American allies, who aimed through
such means ultimately to overthrow
the Governnten' of the United States.
A fortnight ago, four former soldiers
of the United States army, returned
from the great war, were publicly
assassinated as ttie result of a con
spiracy promoted by alien revolution
ists seeking to provoke a revolution
here. Twice within the year, plots
have been discovered for precipitat
ing a reign of terror by .widespread
and simultaneous bomb outrages
and murders.
And Congress, we are told, is
thinking of enacting an "anti-Red"
law sometime next session!
9
i (he maid was still in bed."
Site lives in his home, and eals,
! and is clothed by means of money
I which his brain provides; hut she
j has no interest in his success, no
] care whatever except to do the mini
-1 mum of work.
j "The real trouble with the world
, to-day is a moral trouble," said a
I thoughtful man recently. "A large
proportion of its people have lost all
I conception of what it means to ren
j der an adequate service ill return for
j the wages they are paid."
j. He is a generous ntan. On almost
, any sort of question his sympathies
I are likely lo be with labor, and so
jure mine. I am glad that men work
' shorter hours than they used to,
[ and in certain instances 1 think the
: hours should be even shorter. 1 am
J glad they are paid higher wages,
j and liojie they may earn still more.
! But there are times when mj; sym
' pathy goes out to those in whoso be
i half no voice is ever raised—to the
! executives of the world, whose hours
j are limited only by the limit of their
j physical and mental endurance, who
I carry not merely the load of their
own work, but the heartbreaking
| load of carelessness and stolid lndif
: ference in so many of the folks
1 whom they employ.
Perhaps the most successful ex
| eeutlve in history was thai centurion
| of the Bible.
i "For lam a man under authority,
j having- soldiers under me." lie said,
i "And 1 say to the ntan go. anil he
goeth; and to another, come, and he
cometh; and to my servant, do this.
' and he doeth it."
.Marvelous ntan!
■ The modern executive also says
I "Go." and too often the man who
>: should have gone will appear a day
lor two later arid explained. "I didn't
! understand what you meant." lie
| says "I'oine," and at the appointed
j time liis telephone rings and a voice
[ speaks saying: "1 overslept atid will
' be there in about three-quarters of
ian hour."— Red Book .Magazine.
, Facts Ahold the Treaty
[Harvey's Weekly.l
There is noXiuestion of responsibil
i ily for the outcome. Tlfltt is fixed
Iby Hie facts. Note the sequence of
events!
1. The President submitted the
treaty which lie had negotiated to
■ the Senate for ratification arid de
manded its approval without change.
2. The Senate rejected the treaty
as submitted by a vole of 53 to 38.
j 3. The committee on foreign rela
tions reported favorably a resolution
of ratification containing reserva
tions designed to safeguard the in
dependence of Hie United States. The
Senate rejected Hie treaty as thus
| modified by a vote of 55 to 39.
4. The number of votes required
for ratification was ti4. Of the 39
required the Republican* oontribut-
I ed 35 and the Democrats 4.
5. If 25 Democrats out of lite 42
remaining had voted aye the treaty
, would have heen ratified.
8. The entire 4'2 Democrats voted
, against ratification by explicit re
j quest of the President,
i 7. If the President had expressed
la desire for ratification or if lie had
I remained "ilent. the entire 42 would
! have voted aye and the treaty would
have been ratified by a vote of 81
[to 13.
S. The President prevented ratill
! cation.
J Those aie the facts. There Is no
gelling away from them.
The Vagabond's Return
' | Front the Manchester Guardian.]
The tramp disappeared during
the war, but statistics are now pub
| fished proving that he is coining
back. Harsh critics will no doubt
> find in (his another nail to drive.
I into the coffin of our new ideals of
I reconstruction. But (he tramp is
| not wholly the result of short-eom
[ ings in our industrial organization;
! often lie is the outcome of an in
[ eradicable trait in human nature.
The tramp has always been witli
us. His vocation, or rather his lack
, of one. is in many instunces simply
j the expression of the wanderlust.
The tramp is often one whose rest-
I. less spirit would find a settled spot
and job in life impossibly irksome.
And though tiie sociologists argue
with Just'ee that the trump is a
drag on the economic fife of a com
j munity, In other ages the trump by
I nature found plenty of scope to do
! the state some service, venturing on
| nnclinrted seas, following in the
I train of crusades. He did not miss
hla chance in the war. and now
there is nothing for him but the
I road.'
Roosevelt and Japan
6
In an article written several
months \>efore his death and which
has just been published, Theodore
Roosevelt said:
"There is not time in this message
to discuss fully our proper relations
to Japan; I have set forth as i see
thorn—and as I see our proper posi
tion as regards all our international
relations —in my book, "Fear God
and Take Your Own Part." Rut
there is always time to point out (he
elemental fact that this country
should feel for Japan a peculiar i;d
miration and respect, and that one
of the cardinal principles of our for
eign policy should he to secure and
retain her friendship, respect and
good will. There is not the slightest
real or necessary conflict of interest
between the United States and
Japan in the Pacific; her interest, is
in Asia, ours in America: neither lias
any desire or excuse for acquiring
territory in the other continent.
Japan is playing a great part in the
civilized world: a good understand
ing between her and the United
1 States is essential to international
progress .and it is a grave offense
against the United States for any
man by word or deed to jeopardize
this good understanding."
The ease has been put in a nut
shell in Viscount Ishii's eloquent anil
appealing address at Fair Haven,
Mass., on July 4, which lie closed
with these words:
"We trust you. we love you, and,
if you will let us, we ' 'II walk at
your side in loyal go .-fellowship
down all tlie coming years."
All good Americans shoghl act to
ward Japan in precisely tlie spirit
shown toward America by this able
and eloquent Japanese statesman.
Regret .Vat Repentance
I From tlie Ruclie Review]
Win. I'. Hamilton, of • the Wall
Street Journal, corresponding with
that paper from Berlin, liiuls only
regret that the war was lost, but no
repentance, lie hears a German
hanker say: "The destruction of the
French coal mines was a crime," and
thought at. last that lie had found
one German who realized the
atrocious character of the war, but
the sentence was not complete. Tlie
man added: "It was >i crime'against
Germany." if ii helped Germany,
nothing was a crime against France,
but tlie German people see that tlie
destruction of the French mines at
the time it occurred, when the inili
tarv party must have seen that they
could not win and that they might
lose, with .inevitable reparation,
meant that the French would insist
on tin* surrender.of the coal mines
in tlie fjaar f'.asin, at a time when
Germany would necessarily be des
perately put to it for fuel.
Fuel in , Germany, as it is bare, is
now the crucial thing, and Mr. Ham
ilton predicts that tlie experience of
n freezing winter without fuel there
will cause another revolution ill
Germany, far worse, far more irre
sponsible than the comparatively
Tieafceful overturn which has estab
lished at least some sort of a stable
government.
Leave It lit Profiteers
[From Punch, London.]
"Something must be done." says
D. W. Fen wick in a contemporary,
'to use up the great stores of wur
material.' " The idea of arranging
| a few friendly little wars seems to
i have been overlooked.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Dr. Albert K. McKinley. the
director of tlie State War History
Commission, is making a series of
addresses in eastern counties on tlie
State records.
Judge Thomas J. Baldridge, of
Blair, is one of the men keenly in
terested 1n Central Pennsylvania his
tory.
—Col. George Nox McCain is to
write the story of tlie Pennsylvania
newspapers in tlie World War for
State records
Francis Newton Thorpe, one of
the members of the constitutional
Revision Commission, is one of tlie
most extensive writers on constitu
tional history.
j —A. E. Sisson. former Auditor
i General, is arranging for State mo
i mortals In Northwestern Pennsyl
i vaniu.
\ DO. YOU KNOW I
—That Harrishui-g's record of
men In the war is said to lie as
complete as any in the State? '
HISTORIC H.<HUISBI ItG
i —Ftre* Indian raids of conse
quence were made in this county
i before 1740.
Hamrntg (Eljat
Disputes arising: between authori
ties of East and West Hanover
townships over the dividing line of
those districts and reference of the
matter to the courts of Dauphin
eouhty a few days ago, call to mind
the fact lhat these two townships,
known colloquially as the Hanovers,
bat e had an interesting history front
the earliest settlement of what is
now the capital county. Although
rural entirely, the Hanover district,
as it was long called, was settled be
fore John Harris got his ferry grant
from the I'enns and Conrad Weiser
and* the hi shots planned to make
i>l id die tow 11 the metropolis of the
lower readies of the Susquehanna.
Named in honor of the reigning
house ol' England, which bore a dis
tinctly German name* the Hanover
section was settled almost entirely
by Scotch Irish and the early days
of its civilized life were marked by
constant Indian raids and some re
, prisals front sturdy pioneers which
; made the redskins dread the very
i name of Hanoverrnen. The legends
i <>f those early settlements have come
; down through a number of families
i which have figured in the history of
i Dauphin county, the Simontons, the
j Snodgrasses, tlie Wilsons, the Wal
laces and others who made their
homes in that section and fought
Indians or emissaries of those they
, deemed oppressers when necessity
arose. The Scotch-Irish took re-
I ligion and culture into the wilder
ness of tliis county just as they did
into Northampton, Washington and
other Pennsylvania counties, as Han
over church and McClure's Academy
attest in the annals of this commun
ity. It is unfortunate that so much
of great historic interest as the
story of tile settlement of the Han
overs has not been put into more
convenient form for reference or in
deed for general reading, because
there is nothing more inspiring than
the story of how the frontier was
held right in our own county.
The section now known by the
llanovers of Dauphin and Lebanon
counties was originally a part or'
Derry township in Lancaster county.
Deny township was one of three
formed in 1729 and some call it the
premier district of this county. The
other two were Paxton and Lebanon.
The three of them were all in Lan
caster county and now comprise a
great part of Dauphin and Lebanon
as known for the last century. Derry
township seems to have included
everything within the present limits
of this county which Paxton did not.
Hurrlqburg and Steolton are in what
used to be called Paxtang or Pcsh
tank, or something like that, but
which some authorities believe was
really Paxton. About ISS years ago
there arose a complaint from settlers
living north of the Swatara which
led to petitions to the court at Lan
caster for the formation of a new
township, the ancestors of a number
of Jlarrisburg l'amifies being signers
for that division. The matter dragged
along for a couple of years and there
must have been many visits paid on
horseback to the county seat before
it was arranged. There was some
rivalry between Derry and Paxton
men and the Hanover people were
occasionally accused of taking part
in it. The court order establishing
Hanover township was dated 1739,
when part of what is now in Lebanon
county's eastern end was made
Bethel township. Hanover township
lasted in this form until early in v
1785, the year Dauphin county was
erected out of Lancaster comprising
the present Dauphin and Lebanon
counties. Then the Hanover district
was divided into blast and West b.v
what was called the West Branch of
Priest's Itun, which is believed to be
Kaccoon creek. A curious fact was
that the township docs not seem to
have, had any northern boundary
and the question whether the First
or Second mountain was the line got
iijto the courts, and not until years
afterwards, in fact about 100 years
ago when Rush township was
marked out, was the northern line
definitely established.
When Lebanon county was erected
in 1813 there was also a dispute over
tile llanovers. Raccoon creek was
made a county boundary line, but it;
look an official commission, which
was named the next year, to estab
lish the line between the two coun
ties. But this did not end it either,
and liiuillv in 1821 the Legislature
passed a law that the. certain part
known as Fast Hanover should be
long to Lebanon county. it ■ also
sliced off a part of West Hanover
and some of Londonderry, inciden
tally. Henceforth, Dauphin had one
Hanover and Lebanon hml otic, as
the names of townships to-day in
dicate. Twenty .years afterwards a.
new movement for division began, in
the Dauphin Hanover, and b.v one
of those omnibus acts which Legis
latures of years gone by were so
fond of passing and which can be
found by wading through some 60
I.sections of an act of March 4, 1542,
Hanover township was divided us
we know it now. South and East
Hanover were formed out of what
was commonly known as West Han
over to distinguish it from its sister,
which had become a part of the
Lebanon family.
* * *
It is the report of the officials
named by the Dauphin county court
almost eighty years ago that .will
have to he referred to by the liti
gants in tills latest action, the sec
ond to be handled by the court in
recent years, as those familiar with
the long controversy over Lykens
Valley township lines will recall.
This report was filed in the office
of (lie prothonotary in March, 1842,
and mentions the lands of the Fox,
Grubb. Simonton, McCord, McFad
den and other families, some of
which were inherited from men who
biased a way into the wilderness and
who helped form the Hanover As
sociutors and make one of the bright
pages of Central Pennsylvania his
tory.
•
When Hanover is mentioned the
loyal Dauphin eountian should re
call June 4, 1 774. .two years before
tlie Declaration of Independence, as
the,date when the inhabitants of
Hanover township, our county, for
mally and in writing, declared the
acts of Great Britain "iniquitous
and oppressive." Although the shot
that, was heard around the world
had not been fired in New England,
these Pennsylvanians resolved "That
in the event of Great Britain at
tempt lug to force unjust laws upon
us by the strength of a,rms, our
cause we leave to Heaven and our
rifles," The men who signed that
resolution showed the way to their .
neighbors of Mlddletown and Hum
melstown, who acted within a week,
and some of them died it) Washing
ton's army, others serving until the
end of the struggle at Yorktown.
The committee which drew up the
papers of the Hanover Associators
and placed themselves in danger of
their necks were Col. Timothy Green,
James Carutliers, Josiah Kspy, Rob
ert Dixon. Thomas Oopenhelter,
William Clark, James Stewart,
Joseph Barnett and John Rogers.
They were men who feared no king
and who helped make Pennsylvania
history. , .