6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH /iJfEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor JL R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board ST.* P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. t—aa——— ii .1 ■ - Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub . fished herein. lAU rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ted Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Flnley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; "Western office, Story, Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Ilarris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1911) Of all thoughts of God that arc Home inward into souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, ft'ow tell me if there any is, For gift or grace surpassing this, — "He givcth His beloved sleep." —MßS. BROWNING. FREE FROM COAL YJRK, getting most of its indus trial power from the Susque hanna river, is free to a large extent from the restrictions of the governfnent coak orders. That means it can laugh at the coal miners and the operators when they allow their differences to go to the point of lockout or strike. It means that whether the mines are operated or idle, York people will not be seriously inconvenienced. They are independent of the troubles that beset communities less favorably situated with respect to their source of power. The Susquehanna river has no wage agreement to break. It never goes on strike. It works twenty four hours out of the day and has no foolish ideas about profits or wages. It is ready for the harness; ready to serve the people who live along its banks for all time to come. There are countless other streams in Pennsylvania spending themselves uselessly that might be made to drive many power plants. We must make ourselves inde pendent of coal. That is clear. The streams offer one way out. CHO-CHO GOES CHO-CHO, the heulth clown, after a five-day visit in Harrisburg, Steelton and Mtddletown, has gone. But his work here with the . thousands of children who will in a few years become the men and women of the community, has made a lasting impression on the minds of these boys and girls. The Telegraph has watched with much interest the public health talks by this scientific gentleman of the cap and bells, and knows of no bet ter way to present to children things they should do to be healthy. Cho- Cho told them what to eat and what to do to take care of their bodies. He told it to them as a circus clown and between bits of comic antics that held the attention of his little hearers. AVhen a youngster will climb out of bed at 3 o'clock in the morning to see the circus come to town with its clowns, performers and caged animals, there is something there that the child will always remember. Then, when a real circus clown comes to the city and on the stage talks to the children, entertains them and tells them what is good for them, you may be sure that what he said will not be forgotten. The Anti-Tuherculosis Society of Dauphin County deserves much credit for bringing Cho-Cho here. By doing so the children have been given some helpful service of such immense value to them that it could not be estimated in dollars and cents. If you don't believe it did some good, note this: Cho-Cho in his talks said that anything made in a frying pun is not fit for chil dren to eat. One reader of the Tele graph, two days after his twelve year-old son saw and heard Cho- Cho, said that at evening meal the boy would eat nothing but corn- Bread and drank milk. The other j foods on the table had been fried, and the youngster would not touch them. That, we think, is proof of Cho-Cho's effectiveness. TIME TO START ALLENTOWN has solved in most satisfactory manner, its public comfort station prob lem. Plans for its large and mod ern underground plant, as outlined in the Telegraph yesterday, show how thoroughly and scientifically those in charge have undertaken the work. They had no dizzy SATURDAY EVENING, ideas of monumental structures cluttering up already crowded thoroughfares. They understood that the mose obscure and conven ient such a building is, the better from every standpoint, and so put the entire structure under the sur face of the street, where it is out of the way and enfiily reached from the very heart of the city's heav iest traffic. That's what should be done in Harrisburg. City council could not do better than spend the public comfort station loan along lines de veloped in Allentown. The need is great and now is the time to start. Fifty-two degrees below zero in Wyoming. Thank heaven for Pennsyl vania's climate, with all its vagaries. CREATING A SURPLUS ONE of the great reasons for the present high cost of liv ing is that there are no sur pluses of any of the necessities of life anywhere in the world; in other words, no big reserves of foods and supplies of other kinds upon which we can draw. The war took -mil lions of men out of industry and agriculture. Many of them were killed; others are still under arms, while millions more are laboring under the disadvantages of a world of business trying to readjust itself from a war to a peace basis. The labor supply of the world, statisticians say, has been reduced by 7,000,000 able-bodied men, plus seven millions more whose injuries have made them unavailable for industry. What affects the world at large affects America, and espe cially so in this instance, since the war has prevented immigration, resulting in a shortage of 5,000,000 laborers and the loss of others who are now taking their savings and going back home. This, added to the determination of many men to reduce the number of their work ing hours, a falling off in produc tion and a greatly increased con sumption has been responsible for most of our price troubles. And the remedy? It lies In reversing the present order of things. We cannot re store the 7,000,000 lost by death, or make the cripples whole again; we cannot bring immigrants to these shores by a mere wave ot a wand; but we can all produce more and use less. We can, many of us, add an hour or two to our work, and all of us can reduce our consumption. R. D. Ilatton, a well" known St. Louis observer, instead of address ing working men on this subject, speaks in this wise to the employ ers of the country: First, we can all work harder and work longer, thus setting an example for those in our employ. We can preach the gospel of in creased production to our work ers—not by cramming the idea down their throats—but by put ting the whole matter up to them clearly and sincerely, by means of weekly talks to them, by means of bulletins and house organs, by means of letters and circulars en closed in their pay envelopes— by means of local newspaper ad vertising. In brief, there is need right now for a nation-wide cam paign to sell contentment to American labor. Show your men how in Germany labor is responding to the de mand for production by working twelve and fourteen hours daily— how even the German Socialists are preaching that production must be forced for the workman's own good. Tell them that our own Socialist. John Spargo, says; "The first great task of any So cialist society must be to increase the productivity of labor," and that the American Federation of Labor says: "The higli cost of liv ing can be reduced only through intensified, increased production." Second, we can improve the quality of production. P. L. Burkhard, an industrial < ngineer, estimates that the average indus try to-day is susceptible to in creased production with propor tionate decreased costs of from 30 to 300 per cent. In other words, while production increased during the war, efficiency act ually decreased, because efficiency can be calculated only in re lation to cost, and the present high cost of living is ample proof that the minimum unit cost of production has not been attained. The solution of all our price difficulties lies in piling up de pleted reserves; in creating sur pluses; in growing, producing and making more than we need for im mediate purposes; in getting the world away from its present-day hand-to-mouth policy of existence. Then we shall return to sanity in living, to lower costs, to a stabili zation of industry, employment and wages, and to a price level that will be a real level and not a series of sharply drawn wave crests ever tending toward the top of the sheet. Another cold wave on Its way east, western observers report, and we hope it will like the Rocky Mountain scenery so well It will stop there. SHADE TREES W'E BELIEVE that the time has come in Harrisburg for the founding of a Shade Tree Commission, and there ought not be any longer necessity for argu ment on that proposition. The re cent report of the City Forester em phasizes still more the actual need for such a commission, as provided by the Legislature several years ago, but which was never accepted by Harrisburg. This newspaper has had occasion to commend the pres ent City Council for its progressive spirit and would be more than de lighted to see the Commissioners cAme to the rescue of our shade trees while it is yet time. May we not urge that Commissioner Gross have prepared a proper ordinance and submit it to the council at an early date. The world does progress. Just see how far we have gone from the days of "Jo-Jo, the Dog Face Boy," to Cho-Cho, the Health Clown. The basic idea of. the Industrial Workers of the World is never to work themselves, but to work every body else. We wonder what Dr. Garfield thinks of the "world's greatest statesman'' now. T>oC£tic<> By the Ex - Com mi tteem an Members of the State Constitu tional Revision Commission, which held its first sessions in the State Capitol this week, will go into com mittee of the whole for. the first dis cussion of proposed amendments to the Constitution on Wednesday afternoon. This procedure must be gone through before any changes come up for final action, and it is probable that many of \he matters disposed of in committee of the whole may be placed on the post poned calendar so that in event that further study is needed or hearings likely that they will be at a stage which can be reached. The first session on Wednesday will be more or less for committee reports and in the afternoon the Commission will spend several hours in discussion of proposed changes in the articles relative to the executive and legislative departments. The plans of the committee oh corpora tions and taxation call for extended studies which will take many weeks and the committee on cities and charters is arranging a series of con ferences with State and may later call in municipal officials. The Commission is commencing to attract a number of suggestions, some of them anonymous and all more or less advisory in character. —Auditor General Charles A. Sny der will probably be the first of the State officials to appear before a committee of the State Constitutional Revision as th head of a depart ment to give information on the big problems of revision. In response to a request from the committee in charge of taxation and corporations, the Auditor General is preparing ) data relative to the revenues of the j State and will present his ideas as I well as his experience as a fiscal of ficer and legislator. During Mr. Snyder's service as Auditor General the State's records for revenue have been broken and new problems have arisen. This committee plans an ex haustive inquiry into taxation and is collating the experience and pro posals in other states. Its work will require several months. Banking Commissioner John S. Fisher will also appear to present the situation in regard to banking matters, especi ally State banks and trust compa nies and their powers. Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods and Chairman W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commission, will likely be asked to give information on corporations. Secretary of In ternal Affairs James F. Woodward is preparing considerable data on county and city assessments and bu reaus will present information on their surveys. —The bulk of the amendments which are to come up in committee of the whole Commission on Wednes day afternoon relate to the legisla tive and executive departments, in cluding some matters which have i been classed as self-evident, being the result of decisions, practice or sit uations, like senatorial confirmation of appointees and the State printing which have arisen. A change in the method of letting contracts whereby the lowest and best bid, instead of a big below a scheduled figure, will be recommended. —lnquiry has been made at the State Department by officials and men interested in political affairs in various states for copies of laws of Pennsylvania governing the primar ies and for various rulings. The number of such requests coming to Harrisburg at this time is unusual and some of them come from the far western states. A ruling upon the act of 1919 relative to marking bal lots where there are a group of candidates to be elected, such as Congressman-at-large, will soon be given by the Attorney General's De partment, it is understood. —The Philadelphia Press is of the opinion that the Constitution Re vision Commission should not take the limit off bonded debt of munici palities and that there should be some State steps taken to regulate the manner in which they conduct sinking funds. It refers to the statements made before the com mittee on city affairs and says: "If the restriction has failed it is prob ably because the Constitution, while making the prohibition, imposes on no particular officer the duty of see ing that the restriction is observed. The fault at any rate is not without the restriction. The demand for home rule is sound in the main, but if the Constitution did not tie up to some extent our home rulers and place limitations en their power to borrow money, they would pile up municipal debt inordinately. Phila delphia councils have always been willing to borrow to the limit and if unfettered by the Constitution they would long ago have bankrupted the city." —Reading folks are all stirred up over the demand of the police force of that city for an eight-hour day. The Reading policemen have been getting restive over the situation and do not like the suggestion of the two-platoon system. It is reported that Wilkes-Barre is considering some stiffening up of its police force materially and that a State police officer is being looked over us a possible chief. —From all accounts Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore is not inclined to dodge the chance of a fight with the Vares over organization of council, but to rather welcome it as a means to get a show-down ;is to whether he is to be leader or not. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore gives an interesting bit of political history in the Evening Ledger 6 . He says: "It is not generally known, but it is true nevertheless, that ex- Governor Edwin S. Stuart, former mayor of Philadelphia, was directly approached on the subject of the mayoralty and that he asked some questions. The Governor, of course, would have made a good mayor. He knew the ropes, having been through them, but the ex-Governor has large business interests, is president.of the Union League, which is a hlgnly de sirable position, and gets almjost as frequent opportunity for pleasure and speech-making as if he were mayor." —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin has this to say on inheritance taxes: "Although Pennsylvania was the first State in the Union to im pose an inheritance tax, and more over, with the exception of a tax on bank dividends and on the recording of certain papers, the collateral in heritance tax was the first State levy which was authorized, it would ap pear by the estimates which have been made on the State's share from the Frick millions, that this State has been modest and unselfish in de veloping this field of revenue." —Governor Sproul has received many congratulatory messages on his speech at Washington. Some of them are from New York and Washing ton. New York newspapers printed his speech extensively. —The Philadelphia Record to-day quotes Governor Sproul as saying: "I am not chasing rainbows. The reception to me in Washington was very gratifying, but I regard it more HARRISBURG W&B&Q TELEGRAPH THATLONESOMEST FEELING ... .... ByBR/GCS 1 1 ~ ~ fh£- Tbort~HiS SPoo/^ / WHY I THOU 6HT j \ / AMu .SHOT TH£ BALC ah. MEM KNGvd VOU\ GOL<= CLUB- I'M ) OYER. IMTO THE HO\aJ To PLAY <T / HAue A §o glad BECAUSE/y —RoOSk amow6 ALL I GOLF I WAF er.? / ne CAM SPEMD I/ Yr H - THAT M "THOSC. rocks - \AJGU — K / V HIS SUNDAYS H Houe | VH£ MEveR SAYS A \ - —vT \r R ?oa u „ T ,/ AU ' nk wißL,cy ) r i&J WSfifc- U as an honor to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania than a compliment to me." This the Governor said on his retnrn from the national capital, where ho was boomed for the Re put hcan nomination for the presi dency. Governor Sproul addressed the Republican national committee while in Washington. 'Referring to the contest between Mayor-elect Moore and the Vares for supremacy in Philadelphia, the Governor said he would welcome a test of strength at the spring pri maries," continues the Record. "He declared that until there was such a test it would be hard for the State Administration to align itself with either side. He took occasion to praise the cabinet appointments already announced by Mr. Moore, following a conference with the Mayor-elect in the Union League." Literary Notes Lord Leverhulme, who is now trav eling and observing extensively in this country, has become as famous for his progressive ideas concerning the relations between capital and labor and for his experiments along that line —the six-hour working day which he says he has found suc cessful being one of them—as for the bigness, Importance and suc cess of his operations as a captain of industry. And therefore when he praises a purpose and an achieve ment as warmly as he does Henry J. Spooner's work on "Wealth From Waste," in his preface to that vol ume, it can be taken for granted that the book is well worth while, not only in its material aspects but also as a message of advice and hope and good prospects for human be ings. For Lord Leverhulme is just as much a lover of his kind as he is a man of business. "We wel come," he says, "Professor Spoon er's clear statement of our present day wastes and accept this book as a stimulus to careful thought and study of this great question." ' E. P. Dutton & Co. will have ready for publication at the end of this week, after a long delay due to the strikes in the printing trades, a new volume in their "Little Schoolmates" series. It is called "The Cart of Many Colors," and is a lively little story by Nannine LaVilla Meiklejohn about childhood in Italy. There is no more popular series of books for young people, boys and girls alike, than this of the "Little School mates," edited by Florence Con verse, which by means of these inter esting, colorful stories, pictures for the children of melting-pot Amer ica the life of children in other coun tries, and the ideals they bring to our shores. Offered as a contribution to the Study of Psychical Research, "Light on the Future," which comes this week from the house of E. P. Dutton & Co., Is a series of classified ex tracts from the notebook of a mem ber of the Dublin Society for Psychi cal Research. The notes are all of messages from the dead and deal largely with occupations and sur roundings on the other side. Newspaper in Typewriting When the newspaper printers in Paris struck a few weeks ago the effect was not exactly what the printers expected. Instead of ad mitting defeat and bowing to the demand of the unions, the publish ers found enough workers in the various trades involved in news paper making to man two plants. Then the papers of the two main political parties pooled their efforts, one in plant, and proceeded to pub lish abridged editions embodying editorials from all and general news matter that all would carry ordin arily. The composite sheet, even carried some of the advertisements that had been running in all the papers. Three foreign newspapers with Paris editions printed in English were represented in the combina tion. In addition to its fraction of a column in the printed "strike" edi tion, the London Daily Mail put out a separate daily issue of its own, typed on regulation typewriter paper. These were distributed to subscribers in the regular way. The editions consisted of three to eight pages and contained almost as much news as the regular editions, but boiled down to the essence and di vested absolutely of all literary "trimmings." Domestic and foreign news and gossip of society, sports, church and the scientific world, all were covered. But there were no advertisements except one line of four words on the first page calling attention to the duplicating process by which the paper was published. SAVED DAY AT GETTYSBURG THE death of Captain William E. Miller, at Carlisle, this week, recalls the story of his achievement at Gettysburg where he won undying fame and a Con gressional medal by disobeying or ders. Opportunity came his way, he seized it and became famous. Many a less decisive man would have stuck to his orders and remained blameless and obscure. Captain Mil ler risked his life and a court martial and came out a hero. He lived to be a member of the fiftieth anniversary committee to arrange for the celebration of the victory he did so much to win. Indeed he is said to have been responsible for the Union triumph at Gettysburg. This fact has been recognized by Congress, but few historians have apparently remembered it. The Na tional House of Representatives pre sented Captain Miller with a medal for "exceeding his orders," as the certificate states. This is the first time in American history that a soldier has been rewarded for dis obedience, and the tactics Captain Miller pursued on that critical third day of the battle have been compli mented by Wagner, the famous tac tician. He contrasts it with Cardi gan's policy at Balaklava, during the charge of the Light Brigade and Captain Miller's action changed rules in European textbooks on tac tics. In the battle of Gettysburg, the task of defending the right of Meade's army fell to General D. McM. Gregg, who had about 4,000 men. Among these was the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, who were de ployed along the barb of the fish hook and ordered to hold their po sitions in the woods at all hazards. In command of one of these squadrons was Captain William E. Miller, then a boyish cavalry olllcer. His command consisted of four nominal companies, but did not number more than eighty effective men. Captain Miller's orders, like those of other officers on that barb, were not to leave his position, for it was highly important that no part of the Confederate cavalry be permitted to break through and get at the wagon trains and the rear of the center, which was defending Cemetery Ridge. Opposite to General Gregg was General J. E. B. Stuart, who, after shelling Carlisle, had hurried to join the main body of Lee's army about Gettysburg. A happy chance brought Custer from the extreme left of the line to the extreme right, and he was placed by Gregg on the battle front. The great artillery duel with which the third day's battle opened on the center and left had its echo on the right. Ammunition of some of the regi ments giving out, the whole line was driven back to some extent. Fitzhugh Lee, seeing his oppor tunity, ordered a charge by his cavalry. The Seventh Michigan, which had been somewhat out of the fight, moved forward to meet the attack of Lee's Virginians. The regiments met face to face, only a fence separating them. The usefulness of the squadrons deployed in the woods now became evident. They opened a flank fire on the Virginians. These were halted for a time, but the First North Carolina Cavalry and the Jeff Davis Legion coming up, they swept the Seventh Michigan back. However, the enfilading fire from the woods, in which Miller's men were very active, was too much for the gallant Virginians, and, after a desperate effort to hold their ground, they were driven back on their original position. And now it was that the supreme moment came to Gettysburg, the crisis which balanced not only the issue of that battle, but the fate of the Nation. The grand charge of Pickett's di vision on the center of the Union line was but part of the plan to cut Meade's army in two and annihilate it in sections The spectacular as sault on Cemetery Ridge has al ways engaged the imagination. The charge of Pickett was launch ed at a preconcerted signal, which was also an order for Stuart to charge on the extreme Union right, the point of the fish hook. By breaking through or turning the Union right, Stuart would have had the ammunition trains at his mercy, and would have been di rectly in the rear of the defenders of Cemetery Ridge. Miller's squadron was still de ployed in the woods, with orders not to move out of the position. Cap tain Miller had a full view of the advancing enemy. Stuart's men outnumbered any force that Gregg could bring to op- pose him by two to one. If the line had been forced, the way would be open to Hancock's rear and the Army of the Potomac would have been cut in two. The head of the attacking column had long since passed the spot where Miller and his eighty men were hiding in the woods. Miller grasped the situation. Turning to his lieutenant, William Brook Rawle, of Philadelphia, Captain Miller said: "I have been ordered to hold this position, but if you will back me up in case I am courtmartialed Tor disobedience, I will order a charge." The lieutenant replied that he was "always ready to pitch in." The captain gave orders to rally his men, and as soon as the line was formed the little squadron fired their carbines, dashed out of the woods and hit the enemy's column about two-thirds down from the head. Miller's charge struck the Con federates at full right angles, so unexpected was it,' and so impetu ous, that it went right through the gray column, throwing it into con fusion and cutting off, for a time, one-third of the strength of the supporting force. The shock was so great that the Confederate column wavered. Cus ter rallied his men in front; Hart, of the First New Jersey, who had been In the woods at Miller's lert, ordered a charge similar to that which he had just seen, and Treichal and Rogers, on the other side of the Confederate column, with squadrons of the Third Penn sylvania, attacked the enemy's right flank. In a short time the gray squad rons, broken and discomiited, were streaming back to their old position, and Wade Hampton was wounded Miller's squadron, which had cut off the rear of the attacking column was carried by its own force through the enemy's line to Rum mers lane. Here a hand-to-hand encounter occurred between some of Miller's men and Confederates who were slow about leaving. After the bat tle Mr. Rummel, the owner of the farm, dragged thirty dead horses out of the lane, which was only a lew hundred feet in length. Exciting and interesting incidents occurred within the next half hour, but the real battle was row over' The head of the Confederate column, losing the support of the rear Third, was soon drifting back in disorder. The attack had failed, and when Pickett's charge struck the Union center the men in the cemetery had nothing to fear from the rear, and after one of the most desperate fights ir. history, repulsed the Con ftd'Tate attack. As showing the sacrifice at whieh Captain Miller made this heroic charge, when he had pierced the enemy's column, he turned toward Breathead's batteries. These, the very guns which only two days be fore had shelled Captain Miller's own town of Carlisle, were on an eminence above Rummel's lane. The guns were silenced, because the receding wave of Confederates made it impossible to operate the battery without sweeping the South ern lines themselves. Miller didn't see any of his own men around him, but thought that if he charged up the hill toward the battery, his men would see him and follow. In that case it would have Veen an easy task to take the guisA But so great had been the havoc in his squadron while cutting through Hampton's column and in the fight in the lane, that only four of his men were left to support him In the charge of the battery. Crazed I know a pool where nightshade preens Her poisonous fruitage In the moon; Where the frail aspen her shadow leans In midnight cold aswoon. I know a meadow flat with gold— A million million burning flowers In noon sun's thirst their buds un fold Beneath his blazing showers. I saw a crazed face, did I, Stare from the lattice of a mill, While the lank sails clacked idly by, High on a windy hill. —Walter de la Mare in the Westminister Gazette. Day of Percentages [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] Everything is on a percentage 14 per cent., 31 per cent, or 100 per cent. DECEMBER 13, 1919. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I Wants More Darkness To the Editor of the Telegraph; I have, read many of your past editorial items in favor of the day light saving system. December 10, 1919, I read the one headed: "City Petitions Council to Save Daylight." Of course, the intelligence of Mr. Elmer, Mayor Keister and all these signers is too superior to listen to the plea of a common mother. Why can you not just rush these enthu siasts out just one hour earlier in stead of changing the clocks all over the land ? Certainly would like to see these signers be mothers of from six to ten children. No doubt after while the country will not need true mothers as a means of multiplying the population. True mothers' and children's wel fare are not considered at all these days. Suppose a mother wants to arise about 4 a, m. by new time. That poor mother, who needs rest as well as all the others, is just one hour ahead of suntime. Then comes the children's school hour, they too are rushed out just one good hour ahead of suntime. The seed of the soil needs darkness for growth and development as well as sunshine, just so do the children of the land. It would be splendid if the Anti tuberculosis Society, which is doing such active work at the present time, would tell the people why we have tuberculosis as well as asking them to help fight it. I think one of the main things would be lack of rest. Although a great many of your leaders are only children grown taller you are so far away from child hood that you do not realize the re quirements necessary for children. The greatest lesson of all would he to visit the different homes whllo mothers are preparing their little flocks for school, say with about two or three at home under six years of age. ONLY A MOTHER. Sparc That Nut Tree! [From Kansas City Times.] The American Legion is perform ing great service in keeping an eye on Reds and other agitators with gregarious tendencies, and is making their attempts to assemble and act otherwise after their kind exceed ingly difficult. As a constabulary force, working all hours and without pay, the legion's energy and effective ness furnish an example the Govern ment itself might imitate with con siderable advantage it is believed. But we wish the legion wouldn't go and break up the great nut con ference at St. Louis this week, which we read it would like to do. This gathering calls itself the committee of forty-eight, and includes some of our favorite nuts. Even taking them singly they are, if not things of beauty, a joy forever, and what they would be if they all got together is a speculation wo have been pleasing our fancy with ever since we heard they had called a meeting. But seriously, so long as these radi cals confine themselves to urging changes in the Government by con stitutional means, and do not advo cate violence, they have a right to get together and talk and organize new parties as much as they please. Our American way is to let every body present any plan of government he likes so long as his appeal is to the ballotbox and not to the bomb. Fruit of Feeble Kindness [Fr.om Kansas City Star.] The documents presented hy Senator Fall show President Car ranza supporting a plot of radicals to instigate a revolution in the United States and seize the border states for Mexico. The absurdity of the scheme does not affect the motive behind it. The man who is president of Mexico by grace of this government, who has maintained himself through its long forbearance is revealed in correspondence whose meaning cannot be mistaken. And yet, . such an outcome can eftn hardly be surprising. It has been invited by the policy of feeble kindness which has been interpreted In Mexico as cowardice. The ad ministration has totally missed the psychology of the Mexican people. It hns dealt with them as it might have expected to deal with a highly civilized nation like England. The result has been to aggravate the conditions we were trying to correct. Does anyone suppose that if this Government had adoptedV a firm stand at the outset, if it had shown It would tolerate no foolishness from Mexico, things would have come' to a pass where the Mexican president would write letters of approval to "reds" who were trying to cause a revolution in the United States? SuMttng Cttlyat , Pennsylvania will be provided in the next half year or so with as a re f ord of ita more than 050,000 sons in the army, navy or marine corps as the National author u!nt £ Un f urnlsh . according to word ' hu : B hcen received by Adjutant General b rank D. Beary from tho Mar and Navy Departments. The ps Htal 'ted sending in the names of men who served in its or ? Pennsylvania during the hMn' hundrods reference cards sent ,Z W h" . 111e an(l the Navy has sent the first consignment. The Army list will include men in all that the 3 ."?'' " 'f B f ee 'foally stated inininvo , ntormat, °n cards are to be statist! i Purely historical or statistical purposes and that they ords"in l°i bU USC<J tOV °'ttcial rec ords in claims, courts or similar for mal proceedings. The men who were killed or died will be specially ZrZd 3 W , id th ° B " whose Arnfv will ? estimated that the th.™ I lluve 330,000 cards for the t?, P 1 Pen hsylvania, while i 25 000 Tt W l tn ttVC , H °mething like i Xaiei , the I>lan of the State ; the nam . cl J eck th ese cards with ous Z?,e S bolng trembled by vari i "V s . State agencies, county and mu ! nicipal organizations, community | committees and others which have ! of thT '"terested in the compilation i in the w C °n ,°,r the °onimonwe;ilth j in the W oiid War. • * * at hiah HH fZ° d 01 mo "ey is now ft is nnthZ ' Stato Capitol and for slooV,on unc I °"' n,o for checks toi SIOO,OOO and $5 to be in the same mail, m fact, much o" the money that is now going through the profff?erm nd l & ° inS throu S h is tho not keerf because the States does not k Ce p cush on hand u( . th<j U the m , Hn ! a " slzcd checks. This is the period of the year when the automobile and other licenses are is sued and the payments are made by each individual and concern and at nornt? " le S ° me ot the hig cor thZ a 'i e sendi S Father Penn theii annual dues in the shape of n X hmHi° mC i d 7 S money is handled da™ th a e Ca P itol a hd some fifled m ! V'° ? nly 11 few envelopes thf L .u checks, but at the end of the month it is pretty impressive. * ♦ * Sweeping the grass is now an ac- Pa P rk ™ ® Very week llt tho c^P'tol frtnt' i reason f °r this unusual treatment of a lawn is that the aver ? I ? the park takes along i°° lor tlle P'Keons or the squirrels and the result is that every iJ'u 01 " so the "broadwalk" is lined with peanut shells and various other nin gS ' \° !u y nothin S of the hard shell nuts that Judge Hargest gives Pvi>r'Su el f i° r dictury reasons, ft' y Friday the men in charge of I® manicuring of the lawns on the Hill take up a bushel basket or so of remains of squirrel luncheons A number of men from various parts of the State here a few days a f discussing the results of piohibition in their home towns and everyone ugreed that the decline in arrests and in prison business was remarkable. Three county prisons were mentioned which at the time did not contain a prisoner and i.t was declared by one man that he thought there were more. Court after court has closed criminal sessions after a trial or two and in some counties there were no quarter session cases at all. One man who came from a city where policemen had to 6e ac tive after pays declared that there had not been an arrest for two weeks on a drunkenness charge in his homo " The cops are getting fat," said he. The manner in which some of the monarchs of the highways of Har risburg, the old telegraph poles in the central section, are coming down, and the way they are disappearing once they are cut is worth not'dng. Some of these poles have seen many changes in Harrisburg. They have witnessed the transition of Market Third, Walnut, Locust and other other streets from muddy or dusty roads to paved streets and have noted the rise of buildings more than three stories high without outcry as to tire hazards. They have been scraped by wagons and butted by automobiles, been leaned against bv talkers and furnished resting places for the weary. They could tell the secrets of the wires thay have borne and they have beheld some ludicrous sights in the early morning hours, peccadiloes of the great and the near great and the ordinary in a State Capital and have seen the stately march of families to church on Sab baths. And now they are going down. After all these years the average time for a pole to bo pros trate in the street after the axes start is three and a half minutes and five minutes later they are all cut up and neatly piled against the curb which in many cases they saw installed. An Interesting fact in connection with the Harrisburg Academy is that seven lineal descendants of John Harris, the founder of the institu tion, are now enrolled as students in the Academy. The Academy owes its origin to a donation made by Har ris in 1786 of the proceeds of Harris Ferry for the establishment of a school here, the first of the kind in Harrisburg. Descendants of the first trustees are also enrolled as students, as are some of William Maclay, one of the first United States Senators from Pennsylvania and a benefactor of the Academy In its infant days. There are few records of such con tinunity of attendance of families at the same school possessed by any educational institutions in Pennsyl vania outside of Philadelphia, Ches ter and a few places near the State's metropolis, | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ Ex-Judge James Gay Gordon says that the sessions of the Constitutional Revision Commission are going to be interesting and prolonged. —Miss Violet Oakley, the artist, is engaged in studies for decoration oi the Supreme Court chamber. —Col. S. W. Jackson, of the State Department of Health, served at Camp Meade during the war. —Ex-State Senator J. G. Zern has been elected president of a bank at Lehighton. —Francis Farquhar, well known to / many here, has been chosen head of the York Red Crosii. —C. P. Dildine, re-elected to the State Grange executive committee, comes from Columbia county and haa been active in farming for years. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg was among the first to get a nearly complete record of soldiers and the Cham ber of Commerce did It 7 HISTORIC HARRISBURG —A century ago Harrisburg had a dozen churches. <*'
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