10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH kI&BWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 {Published eveningj except Sunday by FTHE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, elegraph Ilulldlns, Federal Sqaure \ -> E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief it. OYSTER, Business Manager £US. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor . R.MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board CEfP." McCULLOUGH, > BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, Gua M. STETNMETZ. f of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein, tail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. b 1 Member American Eastern M c e. Avenue_ lUiihling, I Chicago, 111. S ' Sintered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. I By carrier, ten cents a tsjiA week; by mail, 13.00 a ' year in advwnce. ! MOTTO AY, DECEMBER 8. 1919 I Yes, every sin is a mistake, and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fooI."— ALEXANDER M.vcr.ARKS. REVISION SYSTEMATIC study of the con stitution of Pennsylvania, to which amendments have been ■proposed by the dozen in the last decade, will be inaugurated to-inor . row at the State' Capitol by the Constitutional Revision Commission •of twenty -five recently named by Covernor William G. Sproul. Few ■documents have . been as much bused and criticised and even villi fied in the press and on the ros trum, in court rooms and legislative Balls, ss the present organic law, and altl ough generally believed to j be in certain features not In ac- ; cord with "modern thought" it has , not wanted for defenders who have * steadfastly demanded to be shown t.he faults. Six times the constitution has been amended and a dozen tlmas unsuccessful attempts have been - made to change it Many of the propositions were outcropplngs of the desire of the peoplo for changes, , some were purely political and eome were of individual origin. - Since the legislative session of 1913 there have been expressions favor ing everything from certain speci fied amendments to a new conslitu, tion. In the last Legislature over a score of proposed amendments ap peared. Wisely, Governor Sproul de termined to have the constitution , studied and in response the Legis lature provided for a commission to prepare for its consideration in 1921 amendments deemed essential for the welfare of the Commonwealth. It is this commission, occupying a ■unique position in matters pertain ing to preparation of law and close ly, watched by students of govern ment all over the country, that will meet hero to-morrow. The Gov ernor selected its members from his ripe experience in State affairs 'and wide knowledge of its people, plac- ins at its head ope of the ablest lawyers of the State, a student of the constitution and thoroughly in touch with the needs of the hour. Few bodies have been given a more splendid opportunity to be of service to the Commonwealth and. the recommendations when they • come next year will represent best 1. in effort. Skirts are to be shorter next year, •the dressmakers say. Why not trim the waists with a ruffe and be done with it? THE WHY OF IT rpHKRK is a reason for the victor- I ious field, track and football teams turned out by the Tech nical High School the past few years, and it lies primarily In the recreational facilities offered by the . park department of the city to Har rlsburg boys and girls. Back of the splendid physiques, > unusual strength, agility and endur ance of the Technical High School students are years of activity and careful training in the parks and (Playgrounds of the city. It Is not' generally known, but Harrlsburg is far ahead of most cities of its size; In this respect and leads many larger ' cities. For years the municipal play ground, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, track and football fields have given to the boys of liarrisburg op portunity for physical development " and training In outdoor sports, and they have taken full advantage of the opportunities offered. This means that Harrlsburg boys and girls who have bad like chance to Improve their bodies, even though they do not rank as athletes, are bigger and better able to fight life's battiee because of their truining on the playgrounds. The money spent • has been well worth while. Borne times there are those in pub lie places who do 'not gee the Wis dom Of making large expenditures MONDAY EVENING, for park and playground purposes. For such as these the foregoing facts should be interesting and help ful. Do you remember the good old days when we used to have an egg every morning for breakfast and complain if the cook didn't prepare two? WE MUST SOLVE IT THE City Club of Philadelphia wrestled a whole afternoon with the high cost of living problem not long since and while many interesting lights were cast on the situation the whole thing finally resolved itself down to the indi vidual. If we were more careful about what wc put on our backs and into our stomachs, experts in econo my told the club, prices could be considerably reduced without injur ing the general prosperity. There can be no doubt that the general plcntitude of money has been in a way responsible for pres ent high living costs. Instead of saving our increases in pay, most of us have put the additional money into expensive clothes and costly dishes for the' table. Regardless of our purses we have bought the clothing that lias appealed to us, even though it has been beyond our means, and we have indulged in our fondness for rich foods to the exclusion of cheaper articles of diet. This has caused prices to go higher than otherwise they would, even with the war and the resulting scarcity of food and clothing. The City Club is tight. If prices are to go down the remedy must come from us. 'We must use less and pro duce more. j "BREEDING BOLSHEVISTS" UJs'DER the caption, "Breed ing Bolshevists," the current issue of the magazine. "In The Open," official organ of the Wild Life League, protests against the closing of streams and wild land to the fisherman and the hunter. "In the Open" would widen the privilege of angling and gunning, but at the same time would have the Legisla ture enact a new trespass law, which, while protecting the rights of the people to iish and hunt, would at the same time absolutely protect tho rights of land owners by providing proper punishment of those who damage property. Con tinuing the editorial quoted says: The land-owner who, for his own private pleasure or that of his friends, thus confiscates the property of ail the people -is as dangerous an enemy to these I'nited States as the Bolshevist, who preaches on the street cor ner the doctrine that the work ingmen should control the indus tries to the-exclusion of the real owners of the plants. In fact HE IS A BOLSHEVIST in princi ple and in action, for lie him self is participating actively in a wholesale confiscation of other people's property, which Is neither lawful nor American. In misusing a mere statute to violate the constitution of the great Commonwealth of Henn vania, to steal from the people their rights, to set aside for himself and his associates the sole light to take the game, for the protection and increase of which all the sportsmen of the state have been paying a special tax. he has made of himself an inciter of Bolshevism. . The statute, which is being used as a cloak to these thefts of public rights and liberties. Is to-day the most unpopular law on tile hooks and IT MLbl BE MODIFIED AT ONCE. The writer makes a good point. The constitution of the State of i Pennsylvania says that the fish and | game belong to the people, and that I being so they should have every op j portunity to hunt and fish. We had | an example of the selfishness of eer | tain owners in Dauphin county last j Spring when an effort was made to close the best piece of bunting and fishing land in Central Pennsylvania on the flimsy pretext of protecting a water supply. The effort failed, but it illustrates the constant vigil ance the people must use to prevent invasion of their constitutional rights. In Pennsylvania we have much wild land and many streams that are'fit only to provide a day's sport for the lover of trout fishing. In addition, we spend of dol lars each year for the propagation of fish and game and tho stocking of the streams and the woods. This must be for the benefit of all the people, and no such methods as those used in " Europe, where im mense "preserves are maintained for the use of the rich to the exclusion of the poor, will ever prevail here. The Wild Life league, is right. The fishing and hunting privilege must lie widened rather than narrowed and if the present trespass law stands in the way then it must give way and be replaced by another that will protect the rights of all concerned. Restrictions of the rights of fishing and hunting would breed discon tent as few other forms of repres sion, selfishness and greed would be likely to do, if the people would I stand for a of that kind, , which they won't. JIK WROTE IT THE Scran ton Times, defender of J the Democratic faith in its sec- ! I tion of Pennsylvania, begins a 'long editorial designed to prove tliat President Wilson really wrote the j latest message to Congress with this | paragraph: That testy old dame. -Gossipy Slander, la busy once more. JCow she asks, chiefly through Grand Old Party organs, whether Wil son wrote his message or whether | somebody did it for him. Dear Times, the Telegraph,for one, j never for a mbment doubted that I Mr. Wilson wrote the message which I wait sent to Congress over his name. ' As a ready letter writer the present j occupant of the White House has no: equal among his contemporaries. If some really constructive ideas had been mixed with the oodles of ver biage that constituted the document In question our suspicions might have been aroused. Put since the whole message was made up of glit- ' tering generalities, couched in terms to win public approval, but without any well thought out plan ,to solve the problem of State and • society now confronting the govern- j ment, we know it for Mr. Wilson's and in his very best style, at that. T>ezCco uv By the Ex-Committeeman Municipal politics is back in its Playground after something like a month's vacation, and judging from what is being printed in the news papers of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and Heading considerably more thought is being given to local affairs than to the approach of the u" e for c ' rc 'ulating petitions for the May primary or the meetings of the Nationul councils of the two big par ties. Changes of administration oc cur in Philadelphia and two-thirds of the third-class cities next month, and in Scranton there will be new councilmen. Furthermore, the changes in county offices will be pro ductive of some feelings in various counties. Defeat of the Babcock-Leslie com bination by the election of Augustus K. Oliver to the vacancy in the Pitts burgh council may have far-reaching effect, it was noticeable that M. M. Garland, who seconded the Barbour nomination favored by the Pitts burgh mayor, was careful to say that he considered both Messrs. Oliver and Barbour good men and further more the councilmen made it unani mous. From ail accounts, the ele ment of surprise entered into the selection of Mr. Oliver. Mayor Bab cock has been talked of as" possible gubernatorial timber. In the other second-class city cer tain of the new councilmen have launched a move to take away some plums from Mayor W. T. Connell. but the mayor is rather used to that pastime and the chances are that he will not suffer. Much attention is being gi vert in Scranton to the candi dacy of C. 1.. Council for congres sional honors on the part of the Republicans. —Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore went to the center of the political stage on Saturday night at Philadel phia when he made what some of the newspapers style a reply to the "defiance" of Senator Edwin 11. Yare, holding that the Moore refer ences of intention to do things for Philadelphia and determination to hit "and hit hard" if attempts were made to block him meant that he would not tolerate a fight op his aspirations to the political leadership of his city for four years. —The Philadelphia Record and North American say that the mayor elect served notice that he would not tolerate Interference and that the Vares are in for a fight if they try to block him. The Press also takes a fighting view and in another article says the new mayor denies making up a slate of officers for council and then adds thatv Burch, an independent and a friend or the mayor, is likely to win. In discuss ing Mr. Moore's speech, the In quirer says lie "apparently deter mined to make his position regarding the leadership and control of the Republican party liere for. the next four years clearly understood by friend and foe alike. The dramatic qualities of the Moore speech were sensed rather than asserted. The utterances were spectacular, and their portent was neither misunder stood by the political foemen of the mayor-elect nor misinterpreted by the guests from without the city. Re garding local conditiorts and the work of the administration during the next four years, he wus equally emphatic. He said that factional politics and interna! fighting, which he declared he .would seek to avoid, had destroyed the prestige of tlie city throughout the country and had brought the birthplace of the Nation into disrepute." —Reading is just now one of the most interesting political centers in the State and botli the Eagle and the Herald devote much space to the situation. Mayor John K. Stauf fer. Republican, seems disposed to paddle his own canoe and some tests of civil service tliird-class city laws are expected. The Democratic fac tions are at odds on city and county matters and have fights looming up for legislative nominations. Reading fins also to yvorli to keep Socialists down and to be. ready to swing into the second-class city list in 1921. On top of it all one member of the b-.id- I get bourd says he will not meet with another because he is an officer of a gas company. —Democratic State machine lead ers working to avoid tights over se lection of National delegates have been given a jolt by the lights loom ing up in the Lackawanna and Schuylkill districts. They have de termined to fight Congressman Ar thur O. Dewait. of Allontown, who has started to fight them ami now face a delegate row. In Schuylkill Judge H. O. Beehtel will be opposed for delegate, while there will be a fight on the Lynett-O'Brien ticket in Lackawanna. —The Philadelphia Ledger says regarding the Republican National Committee meeting: "Politicians here expect that the address of Gov ernor Sproul. of Pennsylvania, to be made at the opening session, will be one of the most important declara tions to be made before that body. It is said that Governor Sproul has been in close touch with Mr Hays for several weeks and that what he has to say will very largely repre sent the opinions of the National chairman. Among the declarations that the committee is expected to make will be one for economy on (lie part of the Government, a position I already forecast by attacks that have I been made 011 this yeur's estimates j in both houses of Congress." I —The Philadelphia Press prints I this comment upon State polities i possibilities, written by Odell Mauser; "Traces of a tendency toward a new I lineup in State politics, which in i volvcs Senator Penrose, Governor I Sproul, Senator Crow, the Vares, and j the Grundy Interests as the prin | c.ipal figures, were noticeable in the last session of the Legislature, j though they never crystallized into anything definite. If the Grundy fight on Senator Crow is carried through i I it may have the effect of forcing a show-down on this alignment, In which ease the Vares would be one ot the important elements and would re-enter into the position of Impor | tance in State polities they lost when i I Governor Brumbaugh went out of I j office." i —Col. E. M. Young, the Allen i town banker, will be a candidate for , Itepubllcan N'utiorial delegnte in the I district. He was a : delegate to the Chicago convention . . In 11)16 and Is likely to stand as an ' unpledged candidate. | —Bellefonte d>sputches says men 1 elected at the recent election man aged to pull through with less ex penditure of money than known for many years and that It is quite > in contrast with what used to be the HARRISBURG TELEGIOPS WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRWGS • • | I KITTLE BOYS- V y...!,■ m t ■!>■■ w rule. The candidates for sheriff scarcely spent $5O between them. —The Sproul victory in the Ches ter school board has been followed by men who were on the fence de- , daring that they will support the j Republican League. The Governor's | brother, Everett Sproul, is the leader J of the League. Literary Notes Further publications of the Penn I Publication Company's Juveniles are: 1 "Don Hale With the Flying i Squadron," by W. Crispin Sheppard, being the third volume in the ex periences of that intrepid young American. This deals with the late war. "Kent of Malvern" is Truxton Hare's newest book and will be eagerly read by his many admirers. | This is the fourth book about Philip Kent, a student who makes, good in classroom and on the sporting field. "Red Ben the Fox of Oak Ridge," is the second book of animal stories by Joseph Whaton Lippin cott, whose "Bun —A Wild Rabbit" was so successful last year. This book is readable by boys and girls of all ages and by parents also. It is a veracious account of the fox who seems to enjoy being hunted. "The Little Red Soldier," by Anna Franclii, is a book for thq smaller ones, those who enjoy pic tures and prefer to have the stories read to them. It is the charming account of a lead soldier—French —and the tale of his apocryphal experiences is really symbolic of the poilu of France who saved civiliza tion from disaster. "Fighting With the I*. S. Army," by Captain Charles A. Botsford, C. H. F., is the story of two brave boys who went from an academy to the front and had exciting experiences. The story is told by one who was there and may be considered au thentic. "The Story of .Porcelain," by Sara Ware Bassett, is another in the series, which, when complete, will tell young folks about all of the principal industries. These books are written by experts, but in sim ple fashion and are as instructive as they are entertaining. Publications by Lolhrop, Lee and Shepard Company are: "The Boy With the U. S. Trap pers," by Francis Rolt-Wheeler, which is an exciting account of hunting wild game under the proper auspices This lad goes with members of the Government Biological Survey, who are out not to destroy wild animals, but to help them grow in numbers. "The Good Cheer Book," by Blanche E. Herbert, is just what its name implies. It contains nearly 400 pages of poems and prose ex tracts from the best authors and all arranged under various headings. The idea is to bring to children and older persons some, of the finest messages of literature. There is humor and gaiety and many an other good thought to be found in a book which mothers and teachers will find especially helpful. Ilrr Son Is there shop where he comes not to buy? Or any book he stoops not down to read? Or song he sings not? Or a golden weed In a field's corner.that he draws not nigh if Each word stirs up a hundred echoes dim Of one he said. Like scene of dusk on Htair. Each day spills some new memory down the air. And each night ioofs another dream of him. What of a road where he has never come ? All ways have him. for house and host at last I If they be bare, I think of his white spring If they be not, then am I stricken dumb, Their ache of fairness makes his presence fast, More certain of my old remember ing. —Ltzette Woodworth Reese in Con temporary Vers* SEES PANIC UNLESS BUYING ORGIE ENDS IT IS predicted by William A. Day, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, that unless tho American people check their pres ent habits of extravagance and sub stitute therefor reasonable thrift and economy, some such catastrophe as the panic which followed the Civil War is certain to overtake them. Mr. Day Issued his warning at the annual convention of the Associa tion of Life Insurance Presidents at the Hotel Astor. His address was devoted principally to a discussion , of the significance of the increasing volume of life insurance, but while he explained that prosperity as a result of the war has increased the amount of life, insurance to $7,712,- 000,000, or $"3,010,000,000 more in 1019 than was written in 1918, he said "the other side of the shield" showed that general extravagance is out of all proportion to the thrift indicated by the purchase of new insurance policies. "It is true," he said, "that our National wealth has increased as measured in dollars, but this is largely due to the fact that the evi dence of wealth has Increased at a greater rate than the wealth it rep resents. "The war thrust upon us an un natural and unbalanced prosperity and left us a legacy of inflation, speculation and improvidence. A large volume of easy money has found its way into the National Treasury and into the pockets of many people to whom a substantial cash surplus was a new and tempt ing possession. There has followed among those of improvident and self-indulgent tendencies a passion l'or expenditure, the pursuit of pleas ure and the purchase of costly non essentials, without parallel in history. I Production Drops Behind "As a result of the labor shortage and other war conditions, our prod ucts have been consumed faster than we could produce them. Stocks on hand were reduced or exhausted. The high prices which inevitably fol lowed but served to whet the appe tite of the spendthrift. He protests as vigorously as the provident man against the high cost of the necessi ties of life, but he eagerly pays high prices for luxuries and other non essentials, and for early service he is often willing to pay a premium above the market price. - "There has, as every one knows, been an extraordinary increase in the price of musical instruments, au tomobiles, precious stones, furs, silks and other costly articles of adorn-j ment, and in the cost of travel and j amusement, and of fancy foods, candy, j etc. There are so many people with i surplus cash who are buying these j and other expensive luxuries that the figures of the aggregate sales Since the armistice would—if they were available—stagger belief. "The war almost stopped the con struction of homes, and prosperity has caused many people to seek more expensive quarters. Thus we find rents reaching exorbitant fig ures, but many people who cunnot afford it prefer to pay them rather than to live in more modest quarters. "Many thousands of good men who I have been hoping for years for a chance to lay by a snug sum each j month now have that chance, but Ithey have been seized with the spend jing mania. They have the illusion that this golden flow will continue I permanently and that they will live j forever to enjoy it. Spending Craze Spreads I "Our wasteful spending is not looming alone from current earnings, i Many who under ordinary circum stances would not thipk of indulg ing in extravagance tre joining In | this craze to spend, i "Why wait for adversity to teach us this' lesson ns we did after our great civil war? A period of infla tion, of speculation and of high ' prices followed that war. The ex traordinary demand for labor had ■ Increased wages abnormally. A frenzy of extravagance seized people • in all walks of life. Nearly every ono seemed willing to spend and but DECEMBER 8. 1919. a few were willing: to save their sur plus earnings. "Our people were Anally brought to their senses by the great panic of 1873, which resulted in immense losses, the prostration of business and an enormous army of unem ployed people, all of which finally led to the great railroad strike and the acts of pillage and destruction fo 187 7. "Our battle -with Improvidence, at least for the Immediate future, must be planned with due regard for all these extraordinary conditions. With so many people abandoning the sav ing habit and spending what they have for pleasure and luxury, with production far behind the heavily increasing demand, with a labor shortage and no sign of alleviating It —with these and other factors still operating to maintain the high cost of living, the imperative need of the hour is an extraordinary effort to spread the gospel of thrift and sav ing among the people." The convention of life insurance officials at which Mr. Day spoke dis cussed the housing problem, the agri cultural situation, the state of rail roads and street railways and the I relation of the funds of insurance policyholders to all of them. ' Kindness If only all of us were kind. In thought and action, we would find This world would more of joy suf fice, Than any dreamed-of paradise. No traveler would find his way A weary way; no toiler's day Would and in bitterness or pain From feeling that it was in vain. | No grief would come but it would bring iTrue sympathy to hpal the sting, ! And every sorrow would be shrined | In sweetest thoughts, if all were kind. If only you alone were kind In thought and action, you would find Full half the grievances you feel Are all unfounded and unreal, For thing? most beautiful and good, By unkind eyes misunderstood, Appear so full of base alloy The gazer misses half their joy, Full half the happiness you know From your own heart must overflow And fill with swedt your life and mind Or else your world will seem unkind. —Lee Shipley. Month of Holidays I December, taking the world over, j is a month of bank and public holi days. No less than 20 of the 31 days of the month are recognized somewhere as occasions for church fetes or cessation of business in celebration of local or national events. Christmas, of course, is more widely observed as a holiday than any other, but even it is not recog nized everywhere. Non-Christian peoples pay no attention to it and in countries where the Greek Catholic church prevails the old style Julian | calendar is used, so that, while i Christmas is observed as a church j festival, it comes about two weeks later than in countries that use the Gregorian calendar and therefore | does not occur until in January, as ] we count time. Social Duties Neglected lFrom the Boston Transcript.] A little girl had been taken to phurch for the first time, and she was somewhat surprised by the gen eral style of the building, which was quite unlike anything she had previously seen. "Wh6se house is this?" she asked. "It is God's house,' 'her mother answered. The child took another critical view of the building. "It is a very nice house," she fln i ally soliloquized. "We have never called hore before." President's Misfit Appointees [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] An esteemed contemporary, which cannot be suspected of the least in clination to be censorious where the President or his administration is concerned, plaintively remarks in a recent issue that "President Wilson has been responsible for any number of mislits in his selection of men charged with the work of enforcing the law of the country." Truer words were never spoken. Nor have his misilt appointments been strictly confined to that category. His blunders of the kind have been numerous beyond recall and egre gious beyond comparison. They begun almost coincidently with his first inauguration and they have uninterruptedly continued. Itj will hardly have been forgotten how, I when he embarked on his Mexican! policy of "watchful waiting," he sent j as his confidential agent to survey: the situation and advise him with. regard to it, a man in the person j of John Hind, ex-Goverqor of Min-; ! nesota, who knew nothing of the \ I Spanish language, who was wholly j without diplomatic experience and I whose only known qualifications for 1 the Job consisted in his being n I friend of William J. Bryan and a I "deserving Democrat." : What Hind did and reported has never been disclosed, but if the na ture of the advice he gave may be I inferred from what the President i did. it must have been bad indeed. It I seems to have occurred to Mr. Wil | son that IJnd had his limitations, I and that perhaps he had better dls j patch another emissary to look the I land ove,r and acquaint him with the lay of It; and upon whom this time, did his choice fall? Upon none other than the William Bayard Hale, who was subsequently to reappear upon the scene as a llun sympathi ser and as a publicity agent for the German Government, and whose Mexican appointment had been a mystery to those who were best ac quainted with his character and his record. During his stay in Paris the Pre sident's peculiar predilection for the employment on confidential errands of persons who in ordinary life would bo vulgarly described as cranks was repeatedly exemplified. One of the two men whom he named to attend the aborted Prlnk ipo conference was George Davis Herron, an ex-professor, who was obliged to resign from the College of lowa because the trustees disap proved of the peculiar doctrines which he was inculcating. Some months later it occurred to the President that he would like to get some private information about the situation at Petrograd; and whom did he select to secure it? William C. Bullitt and Lincoln Stef fens, two men whose known opinions were such that they might safely be trusted to picture the Bolsheviki in the most favorable light possible. Another case in point is that of Fred erick Howe, the President's selec tion for Immigration Commissioner at New York city, the exhibition of whose protective sympathy for all kinds of dangerous cranks and an archists has been a recent news sen sation. In the choice of his subordinates Mr. Wilson, to say the least, lias been singularly unhappy. Man, Not Town [From tho Pittsburgh Dispatch.] The idea that nearly all the "big" men come from the small towns has been Industriously disseminated for many years, but a census of a rep resentative group of 100 well known men In the New York financial dis trict, reported in the National Bank of Commerce monthly, does not bear it out. It was true that 60 per cent, came from outside New York, but, taken by towns, it was found that just, as many came from cities with a million or more population as came from towns with less than 6,000 peo ple. Fifty-one came from towns under 100,000 population, another remarkable breaking even. If this analysis proves anything, it shows that the man has much more to do with "getting there" than the town he came from, which, of course, everyone who gave any thought to the matter expected. The "big men from the small towns" was simply one of those superficial notions that get by because nobody stops to an alyze them. It was flattering to the bulk of the population who live out !side New York that the metropolis | had no monopoly of opportunity. But who supposed it had? Bill White Is Suspicious [W. A. White In the Emporia Gazette.] Henry Allen, governor of Kansas, is about to get his. In about four days or less the Democratic admin istration at Washington will see in him a formidable candidate for the ticket, and then the Democratic ad ministration will suddenly wake up. To get coal? Not at all .but to | spike Henry Allen. Some sort of a tangle will be developed between I the state government and the Fed eral Government, probably through I the railroads, which will stop the dis- I tribution of coal in Kansas. The , Federal administration will have the last say, and Allen will be stopped. This will be a great Democratic victory . Watch 'cm spike him . Jesus Becomes a Nazarene When Herod the king was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord ap peareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying. Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets. He shall l>e called a Nazarine. Matthew ii, 19 to 23. r WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~\ —Hampton IJ.' Carson, one of the members of the Constitutional Ue vlsion Commission, is a student of Washington and Napoleon and author of books on the Federal Con stitution. —Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson was born in Scotland, but brought to this State before he knew the difference. —John S. Fisher, State Banking Commissioner, served eight years as | State Senator and was chairman of the Capitol Investigation Commis sion. . William Perrine, a member of the Revision Commission, is an authority on Philadelphia history. Charles 11. English, of Erie, has served as city solicitor and is especi ally well versed in municipal law. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has been having about one meeting a week of a State-Wide organiza tion lately? HSTORIO HAItUISIUUG Tho first constitutional conven ■ tlon to be held in liarrisburg met here In May, 1837. lamttng The Pennsylvania Constitutional Revision Commission, which will begin its deliberations preliminary , l< i '^"""mending*to the legislature of 19-1 its ideas for changes to the basic law of the Htate, will be thu fust important body in the State gov to havo women in its mem- • bership. This is the first recognition in an official way of the fact that women will have the same voting powe' as men in the governmental affairs of the Commonwealth. Mrs Barclay H. Warburton, of Philadel- PiVt Jm v, rS> John °- Miller, of Pittsburgh .appointed by Governor ' ' , ( '* Sproul as the representa tives of the coming voters, will rank the it"?*® 5"„ th ®' Attorne y General of - States when it conies to ' passing formally upon propositions lor changes in the constitution. Both C are women of unusually extended ex perience in public affairs and fami liar with the state governmental ( - on sidering the fact that ° „ ncver been any women members of the legislature or of h?Lve .tf n ? V' dt , only in recent years have the ladies been given represen tation on State boards and commis sions. this is all the more striking to people at the Cupitol. As far as known, there never was even a sug gestion of a woman for delegate to any of the constitutional conventions nL P ',°?s Sl l for wh '°b the peo ple of the State declined to authorize early in the nineties. Owing to the presence of women on the Commis sion, which was not expected bv '" an y men in Polities, the work of the Pennsylvania board will lo watched with as much interest out- 9 *5 t !\ e state a!i will the ].lan of riav ing: the proposed amendments thought out for the Bcgislature to discuss. • * Under the provisions of the act creating the Commission, it may rec ommend addtion to, alteration or omission of any section, being charged with the duty of consider ing the document in the "light of modern thought." There lias been 110 general plan outlined except that work will be started promptly to morrow*. The idea of Attorney Gen - • eral William T. Schaffer,- designated . by the Governor as the chairman, is to have the. Commission organize after a formal opening, at which sur vivors of the constitutional conven tion of 1873 and State officials will be guests, the public being invited and thrt-e being no cards of admis sion. All sessions of the Commis sion will be open and all will bo stenographically reported just as a legislative session. The dignity of a session of the General Assembly will surround the open meetings anil at the inauguration of the session the Secretary of the Commonwealth will formally present the appoint ments. It is probable that Mr. Schaffer, as the representative of the Governor, will outline some of the work to be done, although tut ffir as k the subject matter of the constitu tion Is concerned that, will be left to the committees to disc uss. While word has come here of one or two drafts of a whole new constitution and of very exhaustive amendments, they are the work of individuals not connected with the Commission. No general program has been prepared by the State. The Legislature did not provide for one, although when the bill creating the Commission passed it was generally understood k that the amendments proposed in ' the score or more of resolutions ap pearing each session lately should be referred to the body. Organization of the Commission will be effected through committees. When the of ficers are selected and rules outlined, and there will be as few as possible of the latter, the Commission will provide for committees on related subjects and begin work. Addresses, presentation of the necessary docu ments and such other ceremonies as may take place, will not occupy much over an hour and it is the hope of the Attorney General to have such sections as should he al lowed to stand to be reported upon. The opening declaration, or "Bill of Rights," will probably be the first matter to be considered in open ses sion. The recommendations of the Com mission cannot reach the people be fore 1924, so it Is held here that there is ample time for considera tion of them and that the plan of al lowing years to pass between pre sentation and action will be thor oughly safeguarded. The legisla ture of 1919 gave, in effect, author ity to this Commission to make up a report for the session of 1921 upon j the necessity of changes to the or- I ganic law. The Commission must report to the Begisaturo that will bo . elected in November of 1920, which will bo a presidential election as well, and when the sentiment of 1 the people will be thoroughly mani fested. Any recommendation that ' 1 fails to pass Ihc Hegislature of 1921 ; will fall, as the amendment, clause ' of the constitution provides that • proposals for amendment, must pass > two successive Hegislaturcs in identi ■ cal form before going to the people, • The action of the session of 192^will ■ also have a very definite influence on the amendments. It may reject any thing that was passed by that of 1921. Furthermore, this Legislature will be charged with the duty of providing for the submission of the , amendments to the people. This sys . them of checks and provision for i study in the most deliberate way is added to by the ruling of the At j torney General's Department twice j within a year that, constitutional ; amendments may be submitted only , at general elections. This means , only In even-numbered years. The _ elections in odd-numbered years, un der the provisions of the constitu tional amendments of 1919, concern only county and municipal officials and questions, unless when a judge of the appellate courts is to bo ' chosen. Among the first steps will be io I recommend changes to accord with , the Federal Constitution, including woman suffrage. One of the most ( important subjects for consideration will be taxation, and it SViil be given i to a committee which will likely con sider the. graded tax and other amendments dealing with this vital r matter. Local government, classt lication of counties und munlcipall ties and] similar topics will likely* _ have much attention. Under a plnn discussed, the Commission will meet f this and next week and then adjourn over the holidays, reconvening in January and remaining at work until it completes its study and outlines a program when its members can listen | to suggestions. This will have th effect of keeping the Commission un disturbed during its preliminary I work and enabling persons desiring to submit ideas to appear and speak some time during the winter. , In the matter of cost, the revision of the State Constitution will prol* nbly take unusual rank. Only s<;<>,# 000 has been appropriated for all ex penses. The members will receive what they outlav for actual expenses ] and no more. New York Bta|c spent - a million dollars on its constitution- j II making convention recently and thes it fell by the wayside.
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