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SATURDAY, DECEMBER C, 1919 People icho live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. — HANNAH MOBE. A GREAT TEAM WHATEVER be the outcome of the contest at Island Park this afternoon, the fact will remain that this year's Technical High School team will stand as the greatest football machine to date ever developed in Harrisburg. Not only that, but it ranks among the best high school elevens in the whole country and is stronger than many college teams. This speaks well for the spirit of the school, for the qual ity of the young manhood of Harris burg and for the ability of the coach. All have combined to make an eleven of championship form. The Technical school has stood high for years in athletic circles, and while it will lose many of its best men by graduation the coming year, the outlook for the future is bright. In another year or two the junior high schools will begin to contribute to the high school boys with one or two years' football train ing and this will be a big factor in the development of future teams. The Rotary Club proposes to have the members of the Technical High School eleven at luncheon on Mon day. This is an honor well deserved. The boys have done much to adver tise Harrisburg over the country and ought to have recognition at the hands of the people of the city. The more we read the message the more we think he nust have been perusing recently some of the Republican party's presidential platforms. MELLIFLUOUS PALAVER PRESIDENT WILSON'S mes sage to Congress is notable only as to those portions which recommend recognized Republican policies for the safeguarding and upbuilding of the United States, es pecially the protective tariff and the budget system. It isn't the first time that the present occupant of the White House has adopted as his own constructive suggestions of statesmen affiliated with the great party which he has shown no dispo sition whatever to trust during the recent crucial years. It is generally conceded that a different attitude on his part on the entrance of this country into the war and during the peace negotiations would have saved the United States much of unrest and controversy. The President's suggestions and views regarding business and the things which must be done to stim ulate and safeguard our economic life make little impression upon the able and thoughtful leaders wno have been patiently waiting for some sign of real understanding at Washington of the stupendous prob lems which confront the industrial and commercial interests of the Na tion. So, also, with reference to his criticism of the noisy apostles of dis ruption and discontent. Speaking of the "passionate and malevolent agitators" for wide-spread unrest and result ant evil, he placidly observes: "It aeems to me that in dealing with this situation Congress should not be impatien^or drastic, but should seek rather to remove the cause." Congress long ago provided a prac tical and effective method for the deportation of the "passionate and malevolent agitators," but the agen cies of the Wilson -administration have been strangely derelict in get ting rid of the undesirables who have openly plotted to overthrow our Gov ernment. Indeed, these conspirators have been treated as persons worthy Of kindly consideration and -their precious lives have been safeguard ed, even when our brave men were being blown up in munition plants ov on the fighting front in SATURDAY JLvemiNO, HAJWIHBTTRG TEtEGHXPrf DECEMBER 6, 1919. J Europe. As a matter of fact, the ■ administration has been pussyfoot- I ing continually. Instead of bringing the big stick down upon the heads i of the dapgerous mischief makers who have menaced law and order • on every side. 1 Again, the President urges the 1 value of publicity as an aid to the I .Government's campaign for the re duction of living costs. In view of ; the hundreds of thousands of dol- ] lars squandered by the personally-' conducted publicity bureau of the administration, the President's bro ken promise of "pitiless publicity" and his arbitrary suppression of facts which the people are entitled | to know all about, this latest appeal for still more authority in the ex- J penditures of funds "for the purpose! of making the public fully informed ! about the efforts of the Government" J is likely to fall upon deaf ears. | With respect to the industrial sit- I uation, he talks of "constructive in- | strumentulitles" to "stem the tide of unrest," but as usual fails to indi cate for the guidance of the distract ed employer and his equally dis tracted employe any plan that might realize the "deep yearnings) and desires" of the men and breth- j ren, the human machine which he | portrays as the great dynamic force back of all industry and progress. | President Wilson's high-sounding phrases and eloquently-turned peri- • ods no longer impress his country- ! men as the outgivings of a construe- J tive and practical leader. They are ! regarded morfc as the mellifluous palaver of the opportunist trimming his sails for all winds. UP WILL GO PRICES ATTORNEY GENERAL PAL MER, having decided that he has neither the powers nor the facilities for the control of sugar by the Government, we may expect a boost in prices. This, we take it, is equivalent to saying that the Attorney General, having no power to. control sugar, is equally helpless in other direc tions and that the food controller ship entrusted to his hands by Presi dent Wilson will be a duty in name only. If Mr. Palmer can't control sugar, how can he hope to control other foodstuffs? We hope we have misunderstood and that Mr. Palmer will be able to offer more encourage ment than would appear. CIIO-CHO COMING CHO-CHO, the great "health clown," is coming to Harrisburg to plead for the sale of Red Cross seals. Making a joke of keeping well is a fine way to impress the little folks to whom life itself is one great joke. Teaching the lessons of sanitation and good habits by laughter, may be new thought, but It surely should prove effective. Cho-Cho has won the hearts of children wherever he has gone and Harrisburg parents should not lose opportunity of having their boys and girls enjoy thd witticisms and wis doms of this scientific funny man. CUT IT DOWN NOT the least of the tasks con fronting the new Congress will be to cut down the esti mate of five billion dollars wanted j by the administration to run the Government the next two years. Granted that the war debt does re quire interest to the amount of a billion and more, that several branches of the Government outside the Army and the Navy do need more money and should have It, there is still a big difference be tween the billion dollar Congress of a few years ago.and the five billion Congress of to-day. The sum is larger than is actually needed and larger than the people of the country ought to be asked to pay. A wholesale dismissal of clerks and officials whose most important duty is to draw their salaries ought o take plafie. The way to get rid of them is to cut off their pay. The Congressman with a salary ax in his hand ought to be a popular figure in Washington this winter. If you don't hurry it will be too late to do your Christmas shopping early. A MINIMUM OF $1,500 THE proposal of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States to make the minimum salary of its ministers $1,500 a year is a movement that might well be inaugurated by eve.ry denomination in the country. The ministry is not a money-making profession, but the "servant is worthy of his hire" and it would be a pretty poor preacher these days who would not deserve $1,500 a year. If he is not worth that he ought not' to be in the ministry, but being worth it, he ought to have it. It is an old story, this one of the underpaid ministers of the gospel, but In these times of rising prices and increased costs must be given the consideration it deserves. In the first place, no man is at his best when grocery bills and household expenses In general are so close to his salary limit that It is anybody's race. Secondly, to use a term the old-time sermonizcr was fond of in his day, the calls upon a minister are many and he must be given the 1 means of meeting them. But last of all, many worthy and able young man are kept out of the ministry by the fear that they will not be able to earn enough to decently rear a family. If for no other reason than this, the plan of the Protestant Episcopal Church to raise a very large sum of money In a one-ilnj campaign to morrow should succeed. "po&tico Ik r f > cKK4i(tca.Kui i By the Kx-Committeemwn Election of Augustus K. Oliver, son of the former Senator and brother of' George S. Oliver, presi- 1 j dent of tho Pittsburgh Chamber of I Commerce, as a member of the ' Pittsburgh city council yesterday, in ■ : the lace of opposition of Mayor E. j V. Babcock and friends of Senator Max G. Leslie, is quite the most in- i teresting features of the week-end in ! Pennsylvania politics. It has possi b!"t es which are as broad as the defiance of Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moure us .Republican leader of Philadelphia by Senator Edwin H. Vare at the meeting of the Repub lican city committee, which was dis counted to a certain extent. There has been plenty doing in Keystone State politics this week which started off with Senator Boies Penrose In a serious state of health, but he is now out of danger and get ting ready to go away for a rest until after Chrißtmas. The Senator is under orders to leave State and National matters severely alone. An nouncement that Governor William C. Sproul was to be one of tho twp Governors invited to address the Re publican National Committee at its open session in Washington next week was something which caused much discussion of the Pennsylvania Governor in othey states. The Gov ernor has been given the Penrose proxy for the committee meeting. Then came the split In the Wilson cabinet and reports that some of the President's advisors were not in clined to recognize A. Mitchell Pal mer's leadership. This caused tho rear guard of the anti-Palmer forces to perk up and talk about next May's Democratic delegate cieclions. —The Vare speech at the Repub lican city committee meeting in Philadelphia has been looked for lately. Congressman Moore lias' not been paying much more attention to the Vares than to the independents in selection of his cabinet and there have been mutterlngs from both sides. Incidentally, it may be noted that, in spite of the Vare objections, the Philadelphia city charter does not hurt so much. The city office holders are legislated out of politics, but Vare has most of the county of tices and there is nothing to prevent them continuing to function as a very strong machine. At any time there is the chance that the new mayor may recognize a Vare man. Moore is a capable politician, who served as city treasurer of Philadel phia and knows the game, having ambitions withal. —Relative to the Moore-Vare tilt i" Philadelphia the Record of to day says: "Senator Vare's address before his Republican City Committee, on Thursday was discussed at great length yesterday in political circles. The speech was interpreted by many leaders us a challenge to the new Mayor to a show-down light for con trol of the city organization. Dur ing the day Mr. Moore made the fol lowing statement: " 'The headlines made it appear that Senator Vare and Mr. Lafie have issued a challenge to the Mayor-elect. I do not so interpret what was said at the City Commit tee meeting yesterday. The sugges tion that there should be a reor ganization of the Republican City Committee is not new. It was made by me during the campaign and is now being seconded by Senator Vare.t I am in favor of a reorgani zation of the committee so that it shall be thoroughly representative 01 the Republican party, but I am not worrying about any challenge. The Mayor has a duty to perform as the representative of all the peo ple and he will perform it fearless ly and without dictation. He is now selecting directors who are in sym pathy with him and his purpose to give the city a clean administration, i--fi I n wil' cont'nue on that line until the task is complete.' "This interpretation of Senator Vare's speech was later indorsed by Senator Vare. " 'Mr. Moore's understanding of vlint took place yesterday at the Republican City Committee,' said Senator Vare, 'is entirely correct. There wasn't any challenge to him or anybody else. " 'My reference to the city em ployes was for the purpose of keep ing a lot of good men out of trou ble by warning them to comply with the new charter law.' " —The Philadelphia Press Wash ington dispatch to the effect that Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt will be a candidate for Democratic Na tional committeeman against James I. Blakslee, ' assistant Postmaster General, who is seeking the mantle of A. Mitchell Palmer, has created some stir in Democratic circles. It comes right after the reports of cabinet dissensions and may be the start of an anti-Palmer faction move. There have also been stories that Joseph P. Guffey, who fell in between in the recent gubernatorial primaries, would like consolation in the shape of the National committee seat. —Governor Sproul will leave Hot Springs within a few days on his way home, lie will spend the mid dle of the week at Washington and will not get here in time for the opening of the Constitutional Com mission, as he will address the Na tional committee. —The Governor will have to name two juices and two water supply commissioners soon. —Federal announcement of the candidacy of A. W. Duy, the Colum bia county Republican leader for Congress in the Sixteenth district, has heartened the Republicans in that section and he jvlli start an en ergetic canvass. Duy came within 160 of defeating Congressman John V. Lesher, and even Democrats now ad mit that Lesher is pretty close to the line. —Col. George Nox McCain is re suming his up-State surveys in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger after much writing about 'possibilities of dire conflicts growing out of the last Legislature. He suys that State Chairman William E. Crow is a "political pacifist" and that the State chairman may meet the fate of peacemakers before he termi nates his career. The Colonel also throws a large bouquet ut Commis sioner of Labor and Industry C. B. Connelley as "competent," but is likely to hit it hard if he attempts to try to solve the domestic service employment problem. —The Philadelphia E/ening Bul letin is inclined to declare an end to Republican factionalism in Phila delphia. Speaking in regard to the Vare "defiance" of Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore as political loader, the big Philadelphia paper says: "The great majority of the Republi cans throughout Philadelphia are sick and tired of factional ism, and they will set their faces against the sort of tactics which Senator Vare seems to contemplate, especially in his use of the 'county offices' over I which he still exercises boss Juris -1 diction. This sort of politics is a petty and intolerable nib'-ance the town, and every Republlc&n, big or little, who has an intelligent regard AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'? By BRIGGS ✓ WHF rj YOuft Boss STftRTS THGM GETS UP FROIK THE - AINO TH6N TH6 CIGAR. OFP DiCTA-rifsiG BY c H ai<=> AND WALKS TO TM£ GO6S OUT AINO H£ WALKS UGHTINC A CI<SAC( OTME £N D OF The office BACK TO HIS DE.SK AND LooaS OUT THE SITS Down - PUUING ON '' — x The CiOAR anU Dictating his CIGAR and Dictating f . , 4j. x ' vA '• -■ ' LIGHTS Ci€>/\R AGAIN- walks iTENO FINALLY HEARS ThC Let Tisrs ALU Back and forth froik one enD "Twa'Sall" — Am- worn out Corvve without a mark of the office To The other FRoaa anxiety and doubt - Except Thc BoSS S still Dictating WITH CigAR SITS Down AT machine ILLEGIBLE SIGNATURE - ROLHIN.G AROU'CNTD UN His WITHOUT AM ATOM OF" OH~H"M GIRLS AIN'T T mouth Confidence in A C!R- R- R-RAinD and \ SCARED To death GLQR- R RiouS FEELirN* r / J FCARINO CORRECTIONS for the public welfare should take pains to help in putting an end to it." Real Americans [From Kansas City Times.] Looking around on a December world with strike attachments it is easy enough to feel blue, even if one doesn't happen at the moment to be actually blue with cold. Yet if we look in the right direction we con get the finest kind of a glow and feel faith and hope renewed in all the things we hail been tempted to despair of. The thing to look at right npw is the splendid manifestation of patri otic spirit displayed by the thou sands of wholesome, cheerful, sound thinking and right acting Amer icans who have responded to Gov ernor Allen's call and are now min ing coal in Kansas to relieve the sufferings of the people of that state. This is the sort of thing that puts to rout all doubt and forebodings as to the stability of the foundations on which American democracy builded. That foundation is the citizenship of this country. While it remains sound its institutions are safe, and there could be no more convincing proof that it is sound than that now being established by the action of these volunteer coal workers. Here is a rallying that makes America's heart expand with pride and gratitude. It is a time like this that brings out what is in us of pa triotism and responsibility to the ob ligations of citizenship. The Ra tion, shaken like a sieve in the crisis, has sifted out the littleness and selfishness and brought to the top the big and the fine of its man hood. Let's take a good look at It I and indulge the rejoicings thej sight brings us Something in it brings to mind the lines of Lowell, This shows niethinks God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, and makes us believe the Nation can never be in real danger while this spirit lives, if sometimes it seems to sfumber, in the national life. The Pleasant Way A pleasant way is the Christmas way, With youngsters dancing upon it. And the lilt and lift of a music gay, And the joy of the world to sun ' it. A pleasant way, as it keeps its faith, In the old dreams and the fine. With childhood brimmed and the rosy wraith Of the love that grows divine. A pleasant way, where the plodding throngs Go by with hop and skip. And always breathing the song of songs And whistling with puckered lip. A fairytway for the hosts of strife To find when the time draws near, So beautiful with the dreams of life And sweet with the Christmas cheer. A pleasant way, where the people pass With light hearts and bright eyes. The old and the young, the lad and lass. And above them the bright blue skies. A way that is rich with the hopes of things, And stored with the dreams of men, And a voice of life's beautiful lovo that sings • Of a King that shall come again. —B. B. in the Baltimore Sun. Not Enough Duttinskys [From Osborne Village Deacon.] What we need in most every com munity is more fellows who will attend to other people's business. The other people are too careless of their business and overlook too many points. Besides, they don't know anything about their own busi ness affairs anyway. The fellows who devote most of their time to other people's business are more efficient and can handle the other man's business better than he can himself. They admit that fact them selves, so it must be so. Tho fellows who never had a bank account can give the bank president all kinds of pointers on how to Improve his business. Then there is the man who can tell a minister just how fo preach and how to manage, his flock. Very few editors know how to run their papers, but the fellow who has been In a printing office three times In his life knows all about it. All towns would be better If they had more buttinskys on the Job. Just because a man is successful Is no sign he knows how to run his business. It is a paying job, too— this running of other people's busi ness. BEST MAN FOR THE JOB. W. Y. Morgan in tlic Hutchinson News, THERE is general agreement when the subject is being con sidered that Gen. Leonard Wood is best qualified of all the men suggested for 'the next President of the United States. He has the abil ity, the character, the temperament, and the experience which the chief executive of our country will re quire during the four years follow ing the 4th of March, 1921. The only objection raised to him, ind that is not usually put forward in an unfriendly way, is that he is a "military man," and the people would not want a military man for President. Let us see about that. General Wood cannot be called a 'profes sional soldier. He graduated from Harvard, and as a young physician, volunteered in the medical service. He is not the kind of a man who jusP-does what is barely required in order to come up to the require ments of a position he holds. When his regiment was engaged in the Indian warfare out West the medi cal officer, Leonard Wood, dis tinguished himself by personal bravery and efficient service in tak ing of his wounded men. He also learned the duties of a line of ficer. When Theodore Roosevelt was given authority to organize a regiment of Rough Riders in the ] Spanish-American War, he knew his own lack of experience, and asked the courageous and competent young medical officer to be made colonel of the regiment. I have always thought that while Colonel Roose velt very properly received much glory in that war, It was doubtless Colonel Wood's ability that made the incongruous collection of cow boys and football players intd a fighting force that thrilled the country. When the Spanish-American War was ended. President McKinley put Wood in charge of the cleaning up of the island of Cuba, and the con struction of the government there. Wood and Funston, two volunteer soldiers, neither of them graduates of West Point, were especially hon ored by President McKinley, and I can say nothing more in the shape of praise. McKinley, and then Roosevelt, promoted Wood and Funston over the heads of profes sional army officers and every time those two men made good. For twenty years General Wood's experience has been in an executive capacity. When he finished his work regenerating Cuba, he was sent to the Philippines, where he did similar service. This did not require "military" ability, but civil executive strength. When the United States entered the world war, General Wood was sent to Camp Funston, and his ability made those fine young men from Kansas- and Mis souri, who constituted the 89th di vision, the greatest of all national army divisions. The administration did not care for Wood to 'go to France, but kept him on the job of training men. And when the armis tice came he had another division ready to go across the seas. The military record of General Wood is such as to show that he is a man of real leadership and power to govern men and communities. Could there be a better training for a President of the United States? It is not only this experience which he has had, but the tempera ment and character * which he has always shown which point to him as the best fitted man. He is absolutely on the square. When he was as signed to command that portion of the army which went to Gary, the strikers, the employers and the pub lic knew that he wowld not play favorites. His orders were to pre serve ' peace and law. He did so without the firing of a gun, or the injury to an individual. If he were President of the United States, and an industrial dispute threatened, there would bo po disposition on the part of either side to use violence and destroy property, or to take life. They would know that such a course would lead to disaster. Another man in the President's chair might per haps do as well. But other man would not have the advance reputa tion, and might be compelled to show his decision. Everybody knows what Wood would do, and there would be no tests made to sat isfy curiosity. The suggestion made that because a man has worn the uniform of his country, he will not be the popular candidate, and that is the only ar gument against Wood, is not borne ! out by history or by human nature. If it were a fact, that our country's uniform disqualifies a man from public office, the United States of America might as well prepare to take' down its. sign. The selection of a man just be cause he was a soldier, would not be good patriotism; but to oppose a man because he had been would be as un-American as it would be un reasonable. If a time should come in our country's history when men who have proven their patriotism are not given preferment rather than considered disqualified by their patriotism, then there would be cause for real alarm and genuine despair for our Nation's future. . General Wood is not only a pa triotic and efficient executive," but he has the human qualities of kind liness a'nd friendliness. He can or ganize a division, enforce the hard discipline required for rapid train ing, and not forget that his soldiers are American citizens. He can deal with a strike situation In such a way as to command the respect and con fidence of both sides, as after all, men believe in a square deal. He has no associations or entanglements which would justify a suspicion of partisanship in industrial troubles or in times of strife. He believes the United States is the biggest and greatest power of the world, and he would allow no policy to weaken its position. He is opposed to a large standing army and to uny militaristic spirit that would take from the people the force which must be behind the government**of men. He will not be supported because he is a soldier, but because in and out of the army, and in and out of public service, he has proven himself the best man for the big job that awaits the next President of the United States. Arkright Estate Is Sold [From the London Telegraph.] Extraordinary interest was taken in thb sale at Chesterfield of the trust estate belonging to William Arkwright. a descendant of Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the cot ton spinning jenny. The largest building in the town, the Market Hall, was paeked. Most of the ten ants bid for their farms, and many became purchasers, it being the special wish of Mr. Arkwright that they should become their own land lords. Indeed, Mr. Arkwright ar ranged that 60 per cent, of the pur chase money could be left upon mortgage at 6 per cent. Mr. Afk wright's own residence, Sutton Scarsdale Hall, a stately, historical mansion, built in the 17th century, and standing in delightful grounds, comprising nearly 600 acres, was withdrawn from sale at $63,000. Sutton Rock, until recently the coun try residence of C. E. Cockburn, a member of the London county counail, was purchased for the Duke of Devonshire for $19,750. A fully licensed public house, the Arkwright Anns hotel, with an acre of land, was purchased by the , Brampton Brewery company for SIB,OOO. Extra Dividends [From the N. Y. Times.] Every now and then some new in dustrial concern adds its name to the list of those declaring extra divi dends, all of which is very pleasing no doubt to the stockholders, but there cannot help but be a raising of the eyebrows by the hard hit con sumers, especially where the prod uct of the company concerned en ters directly into living costs. Extra dividends in most instances spoil ab normal profits and abnormal profits are being frowned upon from official to-lay circles. The most recent en trant into the -extra-disbursement clnss of companies is the Endicott- Jolinson Corporation, one of the large manufacturers of shoes. The quarterly dividend was announced yesterday as $1.25 a share on the common stock and a $2 extra dlvi 'end for the year up to $5, or at the rate of 10 per cent, on the com mon stock Which is SSO par. Cars Carry Two Billion [From the New York Times.] Less impressive, somehow, than tho statement that New York's var ious interurban transportation lines carried more than two billion passen gers in their last fiscal year is tho other statement that in that year the fares paid on these lines, instead of being 43 per capita, as they were in 1860, now number 470. Of course, not every man, woman and child in the city takes more than one ride a day throughout the year in surface, elevated or subway cars, but those of us who take more such rides than that make up for those who do not. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Taft and the Treaty To the Editor o/ the Telegraph; In your issue of even date, in an editorial on "Taft and the Treaty," you say: "Former President Taft Is so enthusiastically in favor of a League of Nations that he would have the country adopt Mr. Wil son's plan without change or reser vation. He talks of those who op pose the League without reserva tions as a 'small minority.' " These two words are all that you quote from Mr. Taft's address in editorial. Nor do you state when, or where, Mr. Taft made this statement. I have carefully read Mr. Taft's edi torials in the Philadelphia Ledger, and I have failed to find such a statement as you seem to attribute to him- Mr. Taft is, as you justly say, "a big man—a \'ery big man," and one of the elements of his great ness is, not his inerrancy, for he sometimes shows that he is mortal in that he errs, but his reliability, his judicial temperament. He has spoken and written with calm delib eration, and in a spirit of eminent fairness, even a spirit of compro mise. He is not one of the "bitter enders," and if Wilson had been as conciliatory as Taft the record on the 19th of November made by the United States Senate would not have been what it is. Mr. Taft has recog nized the fact for some time tho.t the Treaty could not be ratified with out reservations. He has specifi cally stated that the "Treaty and the League are both experiments;" that "they are both defective, and the League is capable of much improve ment in a good deal of its machin ery. The necessity and wisdom, of amendments will demonstrate them selves when the League goes into practical operation." And while, with a number of Senators, he would have agreed to ratification, he was also "willing to sacrifice something— to save so much of benefit to tho world as will be saved if the Treaty can be ratified with all the reserva tions except the fourteenth." -r v f Now as to Mr. Taft's quoted state ment, that those who oppofee the League without reservations are a "small minority," to what does he refer? In his edUorial In the Led ger of November 21 he speaks of the "overwhelming demand that some thing be done of a definite char acter." Senators "will find but little patience with a deadlock when 80 Senators are for a Treaty and a League and only 64 are needed to ratify." And in another paragraph of this same editorial he says: "Now the' Treaty is defeated, but by a vote which shows that the 'bitter enders' on the Republican side num ber but 14, and on the Democratic side but one, leaving at least 80, or 16 more than are needed, for rati fication. "Here is the "small mi nority" of which Mr. Taft is speak ing. In this statepient he is abso lutely correct. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations adopted and reported four "amendments" to the Treaty. These were all defeated by the Senate by majorities ranging from 11 to 50. The committee then adopted aftd reported them as "res ervations," together with ten others. These were all adopted by the : Senate. But when the resolution of ratifi cation come up for final action, in cluding the "reservations," it was defeated, the vote being 39 in favor and 55 .in opposition. Then came the vote for unconditional ratification, and on this question 53 voted in the affirmative and 38 in the negative. These votes indicate that there is a strong sentiment in the Senate in favor of the Treaty. And while it Is not n "small minority" opposing unconditional ratification, neverthe less it is a "small minority" which is opposed to the Treaty in anv fnun. This It may be reasonably assumed •s true of the people of the Unitpd States. The Seiate probably doos not so clearly represent the elec torate as does the House of Repre sentatives. but on this question of the Treaty and the League of Na tions it is reasonable to believe It docs. This may not be true of any particular state. The two Senators representing Pennsylvania voted for ratification with reservations, and against ratification without reserva tions. They doubtless represented the people of the State quite weil, although ■ ncrt the entire electorate. And this is doubtless true of most of-the other states. But it is only a "small minority" which would fol low Mr. Knox, and vote to reject the Treaty with or without amendments or reservations. EITDIA. May Smoke in Other Ways [From BlJghty, London] You can always tell a profiteer— > lie will smoke a cigar with a band on. lEwttttng Glljat The State of Pennsylvania will have its own daylight-saving ar rangement next summer, regardless of what Congress may do in the mut ter, as heads of departments, who have handled such matters to suit themselves for several years, Intend to establish special hours for sum mer next April and continue them until late in the fall. It is probable that the hours will be from, eight to four or Ave, according to the amount of work in the department. Tho people at the Capitol have gotten to gether and are in favor of advancing the time of business. The ilrst day light-saving plan put into effect at the Capitol was by the late Dr. Sam uel G. Dixon, Commissioner ol Health ,ten years ago. Dr. Dixos advanced the hour for starting busi ness and when the people connected with his department were found playing golf and Enjoying themselves in the late afternoon the idea soon became popular and since then de partments have arranged hours every year or so. Next year there will be a general daylight saving plan. It is probable that the city ol Harrisburg will bo in line with Phlla delphia and other cities in passing ordinances for daylight saving. Success of the State plan of clos ing counties to deer hunting, during certain years and placing animals in the woods of such districts to propagate has been demonstrated in reports coming to the State Game Commission this week. Deer have been shot in counties where they have been unknown in a long time and have been seen in sections where the oldest inhabitant did not remem ber them. The plan of closing coun ties on petition of residents was worked out by the Game Commission half a dozen years ago and over half the State closed for from one to three years, according to desires of residents of the counties affected. Deer were then bought out of the hunters' license funds and placed in the woods, while additional game preserves were established. A month ago It is claimed there were mors deer in the State than in two decades. The Col. W. F. Harrell mentioned as in command of the United Statea regulars in one of the districts in West Virginia, whore there ia likely to be trouble with miners, is none other than the former com mander of the recruiting station here. Incidentally, it may be said that it is a place that suits the Colonel entirely. He came back from France lately with seven wound stripes and a record for lighting that caused his men to style hifn "Two- Gun" Harrell. He is now colonel ol the Sixteenth Infantry in which he has served since he left West Point. The Colonel and his family are well remembered by Harrisburgers. Mayor A. M. Hoagland, the chief magistrate of Williamsport, has just finished giving another demonstra tion that people will buy army food and articles when they get the chance. The Mayor had some argu ments about it and arranged to get food and blankets and other things by the car load. They told him the people would not buy. He said they would. It took policemen to keep them in line. Tho city has con ducted sales of thirty-seven cars of fool and in addition has Just finish ed selling several car loads of blank ets. Hoagland is known to a num ber of Harrisburgers as a deter mined sort of man. He got the goods, he got the cars and he gol the buyers. James W. Caldwell, one of t}ie vet erans of the Public Grounds and Buildings force at the State Capitol, calculates that he has traveled about 9,227 1-3 miles in the course of 14'/4 years as skipper of one of the ele vators in the big granite Capitol. For a long time Mr. Caldwell was master of one of the elevators in the north wing and now he is in the center where traffic is quieter and the lunch hour rush does not perplex and cause crowding like unto a herring box. Taking 14 Vi: years as a basis and 300 working days as a year, he has worked 4,350 days on the elevators. He calculates that his daily travel with a car is 11,200 feet. That is a fair amount even for walking, considering that there are 5,280 feet in a mile. That many feet multiplied by the number of days gives 48,720,000 feet, or 9,227 1-3 miles. Dennis Barriclt, one of the old-timers of the Harrtsburg rail ways lines, and Curt Chronister, an other veteran, one time figured out that they had traveled in trolley cars about as much mileage as em braced on the Reading Railroad sys tem. Just imagine $8,000,000 being paid on estates to the State government in a year-when five years ago the Commonwealth was getting possibly $2,000,000 a year. This is tlvg esti mate that C. W. Myers, the chief of the county bureau of the Auditor General's Department probable revenue of the Common wealth from the thre< v. n. ~jt Inheritance taxes. The State now has direct, collateral and transfer, ine collateral is an old affair, but the enforcement. has been stiffened up; the direct tax is a matter of a few years and produces now about three and a half million dollars, while the latter is a new tax de signed to wing estates that are held outside of Pennsylvania, or ot Pennsylyanians who get rich here and go to Florida or California to die. It is the same tax that New York employs and was devised last winter and put through in the form of a new code t(iat means millions of revenue to this State. Possibility of electric lighting being curtailed is causing some in teresting inquiries to be made at th Public Service Commission. Com panies have been asking whethel they can curtail service because ol fuel shortage without permission o< the Commission and others want to know what steps to take without getting into trouble. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Attorney General W. I. Schaffei has. warned men engaged In mar riage brokerage in Philadelphia thai the law may be invoked againsl them if they persist in evil practices —E. D. Humes, the Crawford county revenue chief, is busy getting after men who sell near beer that ia almost as strong as the old stuff. —Bishop J. F. Berry, of the Meth odist Church, has urged thai churches be kept open for persona who are unable to get coal at home. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg's Public I.ihrary lias made a record in circulation of books among school children? HISTORIC HARUISIH RG The first law erecting Harris i burg into a borough dutes from 1791
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