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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
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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