14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 •Published eveninga except Sunday by JTHK TELHCIIAPH PRINTING CO. Bnlldlng, Federal Sqaure E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief }E*r. OYSTER, Business Manager &US. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor U- R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Kxecatlve Board tr.: P. MeCULLOUCH, " BOYD M. OGLESBY.' F.. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Lfembers 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. I/UI rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. |k A Member American | i—l Associa i HIS By j| Eastern of f U>. f Avenue Building. Gas' Building, -l Chicago, 11L at tho Post Office in Harrls burg. Fa., aa second class matter. b I . rj*4 "TTr . By carrier, ten cents a Vsymweek; by mail, $3.00 a ' year in advance. • MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1919 your things a man mux! learn to do, If he would make his record true; JV) think without confusion, clearly; fif'o lone his fellow men sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; {Z'O trust in Cod and lit*; ren securely. 4 —Vax Dyke. L. E. McGIXNES THE public schools of Pennsyl vania. lose a groat champion in the death of Prof. 1h E. Mc- Cinnes. While his success in con ducting the schools of Steelton marked him as a superintendnt of more than ordinary ability, his re putation as an educator was not fined to his home town. As member of the Board of State Educa tion he was a great factor in the de velopment of the educational system of the State along modern and effi cient lines and as president of the Pennsylvania State Educational As sociation he became known the country over as a deep thinker and tireless worker in the great work of lifting thei jMblie schools of the Na tion to new and higher planes of use fulness. A lover of children, an executive of high type, an able teacher and a sta.uncli believer in the principles of Americanism and the future of the country, lie was a mighty force for good not only in his home com munity but wherever his powerful personality made itself felt. His place will not be easily filled. City Commissioner Lynch lias ati Important program of improvement work for 1930. The more important Items will be the construction of an extension to the Spring Creek sani tary sewer, the construction of the Asylum Run sewer and the Storm Water sewer In the northern part of the city which will eliminate much of vibe swampy land in that section. Through the extension of proper sew er facilities the city will grow in every direction and with the inevi table building activities of next year the drainage system must be provided In ample time to meet all demands. A UNITED PARTY EVERY indication, following the meeting of the Republican National Committee at Wash ington last week, points to a united party. One of the biggest things ac complished was the appointment of a committee to draw up a platform for the next campaign. Every fac tor in the life of the Nation will have consideration in the formulation of the Republican program—business, labor and agriculture. All of tliem will be, invited to express their views With the assurance that they will be fairly treated by the very represena ■ five committee in charge of the im ' portant function of platform build ing. Next campaign's success will de pend more upon principles than up on personality. The candidate, who ever he may be, will he the servant of the party. The platform will he greater than he, for Republicans must go before the country with the solemn pledge to carry out every declaration of their convention, in sofar as is humanly possible. There can be no repetition of the false pretenses by which Wilson was re elected on the catch phrase "he kept us out of war." The voters are look ing more deeply into national af fairs than ever before. They are reading and thinking and' they will not stund for any candidate, or any party that does not embody their Ideas as to what the United States Government should be and do in the next four years. The Republican party leaders Tealize this and when the platform goes before the Chicago convention next June it will be the voice of the American people speaking their convictions as to the issue before |Abe country and the best means of meeting them. No better way could have been devised to bring Zander the banners of the Republi can party a majority of the voters MONDAY EVENING. of the United States. But It is more than that—lt Is a guarantee that the Republican party Is to be as It always has been, the most rep resentative political organization in the history of the country; not the party of section or class, but of all the people devoted to the best in terests of the vast majority of peo ple in every walk and condition of Itfc. In the consideration of the budget for the coming year the gentlemen of City Council might with propriety give attention to the appointment of u Shade Tree Commission. This matter has been more or less discussed for several years, but has always struck the rocks before reaching final ac tion. There would seem now to he no good reason for further postponement of this real Safeguard of the shade trees of Har'risburg. Unless we have some such authority over the trees we may be certain that the loss to which the City Forester recently called attention will increase from year to year. TREE MORTALITY LOUIS G. BAT.TIMORE, city for ester, has worked out several very interesting comparisons I with respect to the shade trees of Harrisburg and the care they are i given. He finds that while Springfield, 1 Mass., has one tree to every five peo ple, Hartford, Conn., has one to every ten people and Philadelphia one to every twenty; while Harris burg stands up in the front ranks with Detroit, Mich.; Syracuse, N. Y., and Washington, with one tree for every three people. That sounds all very fine, and it would be but for the other side of the ledger, whereon Mr. Baltimore shows that where Washington spends $43,000 a year on 101,000 trees, Syracuse SI,OOO on 45,000 trees, Philadephiu $30,000 on 137,000 trees and Detroit $33,000 on 230,000 trees, Harrisburg spends only $350 for the care and upkeep of 15,000 trees. In other words, we like trees so well that we plant many ot them, hut we are supremely indifferent to their fate onee they arc in tho ground. A shade tree should be pruned at least once every five years, and if possible once every three years. Mr. Baltimore • figures that under the present annual appropriation, Harris burg's shade trees cannot be pruned once in fifty years. The average life of a. city tree is forty years,wind, ac cording to our annual appropriation, our trees could not be pruned once in their whole period of lite. < Harrisburg's citizens plant only one tree to every ten that die, and about sixty out of every one hun dred planted by Harrisburg's citi zens die. Five trees out of every hundred planted by the Department of Parks die. It costs the citizen who plants a tree purchased from an agent and planted by him twice as much as it would if purchased and planted by Ihe Department of Parks. A tree planted by, the department Is eight times more apt to live than one planted by the average planter. Improvement of the paved streets and repairs that are necessary will go right along until the winter becomes too severe for outdoor operations. This might be a good time for City Council to consider restrictions on the weight of trucks, especially on the driveway of the city. The boulevard along the river is Harrisburg's most famous drive and it is entirely proper that it should be treated as a park street and not as a truck highway, which it has become during the' last year or two. As this driveway is part of the William Penn Highway, it is important and necessary that it be given some protection from ruinously heavy traffic. WHEN KREISLER COMES IT IS to be hoped that Harrisburg will witness no such disorderly outbreaks as have marked tho appearance of Fritz Kreisler irt some cities, when the great violinist ap pears here. It is time we distinguish between the good and the bad in our alien population. It. is just as patriotic lo encourage the good men of for eign birth as it is to set the foot down hard on the red radicals. Kreisler is not a man of the Dr. Muck type. Muck was deported. and deservedly so, because of his pro-German sympathies. Kreisler, on the other hand, while for a few weeks in 1914, long before America got into the war, fought in the Austrian army, never was accused of a disloyal act and devoted thousands of dollars of his own money foi the relief of musicians and their families made destitute uy the lavages of the German armies. Kreisler is a type of foreigner, who should he encouraged. Those who have been objecting to his appear ance before American audiences would better turn their attention to the plottings of those alien's Who would destroy the United States Government by plot and bomb. Soundings and surveys are being mude for the buttling beaches and bathhouses at Island Purk in the Susquehanna basin. Commissioner Gross is in touch witli Warren H. Manning, the city's park expert, and it is confidently expected that all the preliminaries will have been disposed of and a contract awarded with the opening of Spring. The overwhelming vote in favor of the bathing facilities indicate the public favor regarding tills undertaking. Of course, the Department of Public Works will be ready to march along with the Slate as soon as the llnal plans are consummated for the Capitol Park projects. Harrisburg lias been marking time for several months and will be ready for its part in the great improvements when the curtain goes up next spring. When the Christmas trees appear in Market Square we always begin to get our lata Christmas shopping under way. By the Ex-Committeeman Meeting of the Republican Na tional committee at Washington last week is taken by New York and Chi cago newspapers, as well as those of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, as the real opening ot' the Republican cam paign. The New York Sun and the Chicago Tribune predict that there will be some strenuous hunting for delegates and Intimate that the Wood and Harding boomers will come into Pennsylvania. The World regards Senator P. C. Knox as a Pennsylvania candidate. In Phila delphia the newspapers give consid* eruble attention to Governor William C. Sproul, who has also been fa vorably mentioned by Baltimore and Wilmington newspapers. The Wash ington Star, which makes a specialty of political news from every State, contained complimentary references to the impression made by Governor Sproul's speech at the National Capi tal. The Philadelphia Inquirer, In the course of a Washington letter, has this to say: "Jn Pennsylvania there has been considerable talk of Sena tor Knox for the. Republican Presi dential nomination, and a week ago there was a report of a movement to have the delegation instructed for Senator Penrose, merely for the pur pose of preventing it from being committed to one of the early con tenders. But now comes word from Harrisburg of a real crystallization of sentiment in favor of presenting the name of Governor Sproul to the National convention and of making a sincere effort to bring about his nom ination. Senator Penrose, it is inti mated, would be favorable to Sproul, at least to the extent of having the delegation instructed for him." -—Several of the newspapers in Philadelphia and elsewhere are de voting much attention to the dis agreement between State Chairman William K. (.'row and Joseph Jt. Grundy. The Public Ledger prints on the first page certain prognostica tions, but thus far has not published any statement from either of the parties it mentions. —Between jobs in the revenue and prohibition enforcement services the Democrats of Pennsylvania have no time for such places as the census affords. Incidentally, it is very in teresting to note the careful manner in which men are being selected for the worthwhile places and it is not hard to foreshadow where work will he done for A. Mitchell Palmer be tween now and the May primary. So many applicants turned up in Phila delphia, say the newspapers, that Robert K. Hall was sent on from Washington to help out. The Phila delphia Press says: "Mr. Hall was sent on to the city from Washington by National Prohibition Commis sioner Jolin F. Kramer to assist Leo A. t'rossen. supervising agent for the Eastern district, which includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela ware, in selecting applicants for the various sections in the Eastern dis t rift. Supervisor Crossen returned yesterday from a four-day trip through the western part of the Stute. He was in Pittsburgh on Thursday and Scranton, his home town. 011 Friday, where he practically settled upon the men who will watch these two important cities." —Pennsylvanians as presidential possibilities were considerably dis cussed at the "coming of age" din ner of the Pennsylvania Society in New York on Saturday night. Al though he was not present. Governor AVilliam C. Sproul came in for favor able. mention. Col. George Harvey, I who made an analysis of Pennsyl vania, industrially, politically and financially, said that he felt the im- j pulse while sitting in the seat of the Governor, and also remarked that j the Pennsylvania Quaker who de clined the proffer of the portfolio of the Secretary of War when the Wil son cabinet was formed is now the most active candidate for the place of commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, a reference to A. Mitchell Palmer that caused much laughter. Senator Warren G. Harding, an out and out candidate for the presidency, was also much in the mention, especially by Job E. Hedges, the closing speaker. —-The New York World, which printed yesterday composite pictures of the possibilities for both the Re publican and Democratic nomina tions, does not include either Gov ernor Sproul or Attorney General Palmer among the possibilities in either party. This, of course, is an east of the Hudson view. —lt is believed probable that some developments in regard to the Republican nomination for Auditor [ General will appear before very long. Numerous names are being men- I tinned and in years gone by when | such a condition arose a crystalliza | lion of sentiment generally occurred | about Christmas time. It is not im ! possible that two men on the State | ticket next year may reside on al- I most the same degree of longitude. • I —Two appointments to vacancies | on the benches of western counties I are expected about Christmas week. I One will he lor the Westmoreland orphans' court and the other to the I Allegheny county court. —The Philadelphia Press, in the j course of a review of State Republi can politics, says that the next light will be over election of members of the State committee. Jpst what is going to happen in the Democratic party in Pennsylvania in regard to the same elections is not going to be a strawberry shortcake festival, either. —A battle against the attempt of the Varcs to nominate Harry C. Ransley to succeed Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore in Congress is pre dicted in Philadelphia. Senator David Martin will be a factor in determining who shall be named. E. ,T. Cattell, the city statistician, is being groomed, hut says be is not a candidate. Ex-Representative" Isa dore Stern, however, says that he will be, whether Mr. Cattell runs or not. —Considerable attention is being given by newspapers to the criticism of the Comptroller of the Currency in Commissioner of Banking John S. Fisher's report. The general opinion is that the Commissioner was tem perate and even reserved in his com ments upon the conduct of the Fed eral official considering the situation as it developed. The report is the first to be made by the Commissioner and shows an exceedingly business like tone, with a broad grasp of the problems of to-day. —Some of the Penrose men do not like the selection of Watson for mercantile appraiser in Philadelphia, but the 'Philadelphia Inquirer re marks that men active in Republi can affuirs think it was the best under the circumstances. —L. H. Rupp, of Allentown. Dem ocratic State chairmun, according to reports, is to become a candidate for Democratic delegate-at-lnrge. Mr. Rupp will be a Palmer delegate and may find some time to get to the State headquarters occasionally. —Judge John P. KeTley, Scranton member of the Constitutional Revis ion Commission, has caused rejoicing in that city by saying that as a result of amendments proposed the chances are bright for Scranton being placed HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS 1 ' go difv OUT Dooß^ WITH HIS "t*-. SLED ArsiD *' ** J\ "HITCH ON" i —* -C■>!<>*>< N. Y Trli— J in a different class from Pittsburgh. Scrunton expects to be put into the same class with Heading. —Chester city dispatches are that the Kepublican i.easue is making a clean sweep of McClure men in county offices and that Everett Sprout is routing the old organiza tion. Reclassification of CAlies [From the Scranton Kepublican. J Former Judge Kelly's statement, printed in yesterday's Republican, discloses that the Commission, ap pointed by the Governor to revise the state constitution, will give care ful consideration to the reclassifica tion ol' cities desired by Scranton, so as to separate it from the group ing with Pitssburgh, which hafl proved a handicap for this munici pality. Judge Kelly says that the com mittee named by the Commission to consider legislation, the Legis lature and executive has, in a partial report, recommended an enlarge ment of the classification of cities from three groups to live. If this recommendation meets with the approval of the Commis sion. as we believe it will, and be comes a part of the fundamental law of the state, which it will, if properly presented to the people, it will permit, of placing Scranton in a group that will allow it a larger measure of home rule, which will harmonize with its needs and still look to essentiul economies in administration. The subject lias been so fully dis cussed locally that everyone realizes that Scranton has been embarrassed and injured, frequently, by the fact that it is classified with the big city of Pittsburgh. This arrangement has led to unavoidable extrava gances that have increased taxes and added to public burdens. What excuse is there, in law or reason, for clothing a city in a municipal garment too large for it. which Is an obstacle to legitimate progress. The people have been very patient in permitting this inequitable classi fication to continue for such a long term of years. The present oppor tunity to secure better results should not he permitted to pass. Government at Washington [From a Bulletin of National City Bank, New York] If organized labor is conceded tlie right to tie up all the Industry and c.ommerpe of the country at its own will our form of government will have been changed. Authority over tlie community life will have passed from the regularly elected representatives of tlie people to the labor organizations. The public wants labor to have a fair show in struggles . with capital, but not su preme power, Mr. Gompers is quoted as saying upon the pending bill proposing to forbid strikes on the railroads, that he would not hpsitute to enter a just strike despite such a law. This attitude is clearly a mistaken one, because it is claim ing a supremacy over the law which Mr. Gompers never would concede to his antagonists. It Is the first principle of organized society thut everybody shall be equal before the law. and that no individual shall put his personal judgment above the law. The overthrow of this prin ciple would mean the destruction of order and government. The rule of reason and of tlie ballot box would be overthrown and society would lapse hack to the rule of force. Fuel Shortage [From the Boston Transcript] An English schoolboy wrote: "England has much coal beds when it is finished we shall have to use our brains for fuel, and it will be scarce." Where education Fails [From the Dallas News.] Furthermore, college education never in this world made a young man anxious to milk a cow in a muddy lot. A he Martin Says— I From the Indlanupolis Newsl We never hear a Kansas Gov ernor kickin' ffer shorter hours. YANKS IN TOULOUSE SCHOOL LEARNED FRENCH IDEALS Fifteen Hundred American Students I'ioni tlie A. 10. F„ Who Spent Four Mouths at the University in Beautiful t'itj of Southern France. Bring to America an Intelligent Idea of French Education and Culture. [From Quest-ee (jue c'est.J IN the spring of this year the Uni versity of Toulouse, in Southern France, welcomed fifteen ltun- ] dred American students who had j come to spend four months In i study while waiting for return to j the United States. They were forj the most part graduates of Amer- j ican colleges and univetwiiies, or j men whose collegiate studies had | been interrupted in 1917 by the call) to arms. They caine from all over, the American expeditionary force, i from stations with the army of oc cupation on the Rhine, from the de- 1 vastuted regions of the Oise, the! .Maine and the Mouse, over which | they had just ceased to tight, and j from the all-important service of! supply, inland or at base ports—j Brest, St. Xazaire or Bordeaux, the latter not far from Toulouse on the j Garonne,- They were of all ranks. ; Privates and majors, lieutenants : and lieutenant colonels were to • share the same benches in the lee- ) ture halls. They were of all branches of the service wearing! on their shoulders the •insigniu of' more divisions than even one of) themselves could easily identify—j insignia hopelessly bewildering to the French, who were apt to seek ' among the stars and Indian heads! crosses, arrows and bolts of light-) liing the ancient totems of the In dian tribes from which some of us are reputed to be descended. | The placing of men from the A. I IE.IE. F. In universities of Groat Brit-' juin and France—for Toulouse was) by no means the only university J j to have an American school detach- t I ment—served a. number of pur- ; i poses. It was one of the ways the! i government found to keep our men j occupied during a period of waiting' ' more tiresome than months of-i i campaigning. It was partly a re ) suit of (he government's determl-1 j nation that the men of the A. E. F.' ; should return from their foreign ), f campaign vastly the better forj ; their months or years abroad. It was) j the intention to make them at once j ' better educated men and better citi- I i zens of the United States. : To that end post schools were or- , | ganized wherevjpr bodies of Amer-! i ican troops were sUUioned. In them j ' the instruction was partly that given j jin our elementary and secondary) ! schools, and partly business courses. ! 'The instructors were usually not wel- j fare workers, but officers and men ; [from the ranks detailed as instruc j tors to the post schools in the areas! ! in which their organizations were I ! stationed. Learning French Ideals. It was expected that school de- i | lachments such as the one at the j | University of Toulouse would ac-! complish something further, some-j i thing different. By placing so many ' | soldier students In the closest pos-' i sible contact with French education) | and culture, the system aided them, lo understand French ideas and' ideals as most of them had not un derstood them before. The trenches,, | the devastated regions, and the , miserable little towns of the Gon-' drecourt area, where some of our j boys spent the winter of 1917-181 were not the places to learn to I know the real Frunce. In Toulouse [the student soldiers had their first I opportunity to become acquainted with what Is best in Frunce not only [from books and lectures, but by' meeting other Frenchmen than the ) peasant among whom they had lived at the front. I Here was the biggest thing ac-1 [ complished by the four months at | Toulouse. It served to bring the] i American soldier and the French citizen together in a new and more ] | intimate relation. It served to | make them understand each other better and to them friends. It pre pared for return to the United States s body of educated men who would be scattered throughout the coun try, each of whom in his own com munity. would be an interpreter of | the ideals of France., Served Threefold Ihirpose. I Thus the object of the school do | tachment at Toulouse was three ! fold: Military, in preserving the , morale of the troops during a dilti- I cult period of waiting: civil, in pre j paring them to be broader and more ) intelligent American citizens: and I political, in strengthening the I friendship between this Nation and ! France. 1 Toulouse is situated upon the , Garonne River, too shallow itself )to be navigable, but supplying the i water for a lateral canal whose j banks are lined with warehouses ' jand broad quais, parts of which are) ; always covered with huge wine I j casks. Toulouse has a population of L million, and numbers among ) its important industries a tobacco ) factory and a large national pow - j der plant. It has none of the bus • tling, busy air. nothing of the clti | lied appearance which marks Bor ( deaux, however. It is a town of picturesque country markets and fairs, of gay cafes and gardens that ; are green the year round. The uni j forms of soldiers from Us two large ] military barracks are to be seen at jail times on the broad boulevards or ill the parks and public gardens. The Rosy City. Toulouse lias been called the "Ville Rose," a name it takes from the i rosy color of the bricks from which i practically all the buildings in the | city are constructed, stone being ] scarce in the region and wood liav- I ing been for a long time too pre ' cious to be used except In conjunc tion with oilier materials. Tou- I louse is also 'being called Tou : louse of the Saints, from the many j churches, each dedicated to some ' patron saint. A number of these churches have disappeared, leaving j only their names as the names of : streets where they used to stand, so jtliat this second name is not so com - I tnonly used as it was at one time, i There is still the cathedral, St. Et j iennes, built during a transition [ period of architecture in France so i that the nave, the more ancient I part of the church, is Romanesque jand the choir is Gothic: there is ; still St. Sernin, too. the finest speci ) men of Romanesque'in all the world, ,wilh, its octagonal tower rising ! story on story above the city. The buildings of the university : are scattered, the faculties of j science and medicine being on the I Alice St. Michel among the public [ gardens at one end of town, and the faculties of law and letters being in : the heart of the business district j just three blocks from the Placo du i Capitole, the center of the town, a | broad cement-paved market square, j faced on two sides by cafes and on ; a third by the capitole or city hall, j one of tlio show buildings of the i town. There is also a school of j beans arts and a conservatory of music in the city itself, one not far from the capitole and the other on i the bank of the Garonne. Tn all , these faculties and schools, as well as in the theological seminary in a Utile (own nearby, there were Amer- ' • lean students during the months of March, April, May and June of this yen r. Conserving Paper The European professor who pre dicts that the world will come to an j end December 17 greatly cheers the Polo News-Herald. "That date falls 'on Wednesday," it says, "and as our ,regular publication day Is Thursday we will be nble to give all the detutls | without issuing an extra." Speaking of Domes r From the Columbia Record.] The marble dome over the national eapitol Is not the only marble dome intimately connected with that build ing. DECEMBER 15, 1919. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES K. P. Dutton & Co. are publishing this week Pushkin's famous drama, "Boris Oodunov," in a translation Into English verse by Alfred llayes, with a prefaeo by C. Nabokoff, for merly minister plenipotentiary to Englund. "Most Itussluns," Mr. Nabokoff says, "believe that Alex ander Pushkin is (he greatest poet that ever lived. We not only ad mire him, we worship him; he stands apart." And "Boris Oodunov," lie adds, is thought to be one of his two greatest works. He points out the resemblance between this drama and the dramas of Shakespeare and adds that the resemblance is even more striking in Mr.' Hayes' translation, which lie considers "in itself a work of the loftiest kind." In his opinion, Mr. Hayes "has achieved the impos sible" by his rendering of certain scenes which Hussions have always heretofore considered impossible of adequate translation. Two little hooks published by E. P. Dutton & Co. will interest stu dents of the Russian language. In their Modern Language series is an "Easy Russian Reader," complied by Evelyn C. 'While, with a vocabu lary tilling nearly fifty pages and fourteen illustrations picturing typi cal scenes of Russian life. The other, "Russian I-.vi'icul l'oetry," is an an thology of the best nineteenth cen tury lyrics selected, accepted and arranged, with notes, by A. E. Teh butt. Both books are wholly in Russian. Earl Grey, British Ambassador to tlie United States, is better known to Americans us statesman and dip lomat than us sportsman, and so liis book 011 "Fly Fishing," which the Buttons bring out in the United States, will introduce him in a new guise. The work, which is well known io his British fellow-enthu siasts of the reel and fly, was first published in-England twenty years ago, and since, then has seen many new editions. The latest was last August, and from that edition the Dutton. "iuve made tills importation. Tlie book, which is a volume in the Huddon Hull Library Series, devot ed to out-door sports, and edited by tlie Marquess of Granb.v and George A. B. Dewar, covers dry and wet fly fishing, trout, sea trout and sal mon fishing, tackle and some experi ments the author has made in stocking streams with fish. There are in it some line plates in color of flics of different kinds. Stuart Henry's novel, "Villa Elsa," another of tlie many books held up 011 the presses by tlie recent strikes, is promised by tlie Buttons for pub lication within a week or two. It tells tlie story of the unique alid ex citing experiences of a young Amer ican studying in Germany and liv ing in a German family w'hen the war broke out. and through its hero offers an original and interesting contribution Io the problem of how lo make Germany a safe and con genial member of the human famly. The author has lived and studied much in Germany and knows thor oughly his theme, his scenes and his people. "Rconomie Phenomena Before and After War," which 10. P. Button & Co. are this week publishing in the United States, is a treatise by Slav ko Secerov, a brilliant young Serb ian, who lias been carrying out in London the studies whose results he embodies in this volume. The aim of liis research has been to find whether or not there is a scientific, synthetic explanation of modern wars afforded by the statistics of production, consumption and nat ural growth of population in the countries concerned. ,Xriier Again! I I'Yom Kansas City Star] .. . At last the coal strike is to be settled by arbitration, it could just as well have been settled by arbitra tion six weeks ago without inter ruption to industry. The resulting loss of production, inconvenience and actual suffering were perfectly needless. They were due to fool ish leadership, first on the part of the operators, who refused at the outset of the trouble to consider re opening a contract that was morally, if not legally, terminated; second, on the part of the government, which failed in the early stages of the negotiations to realise the grav ity of the situation and to take any effective action; and finally on the part of the leaders of the mine workers' union, who refused arbi tration and sought to freeze the country into submission to their de mands. The whole country has suffered, anil as usual the brunt of the suf fering has fallen on persons of small means working in industries curtailed by the strike. line thing the nation hus deter mined 011. That is to see to it. so far as is humanly possible, that such a breakdown in industry does not occur again. Governor Allen is blazing the way in Kansas by his plan for a court of industrial rela tions. It will be to the everlasting discredit of the country if it does not exhaust every resource to sub stitute arbitration for industrial warfare in the essential industries. Lemuel li. McGinnes Mere words cannot a tribute pay. To him whose soul passed out to day; Whose spirit, freed from earthly bond, lias taken flight to heights beyond. Inverted rule, the funeral bell. And black-faced typo but feebly tell, The sorrow of those folks whose lives Were motived by his sacrifice. The loftv ideals he possessed. [The noble thoughts by him ex pressed : May they live on through' future years, A compensation for our tears. Harrisburg, Pa.. December 12, 1919. A FRIEND. Music and Bomb Making [From the New York Mail J Music and the making of bombs do not go together and the man who m .radically against his government has no music In his soul. These facts are both evident, say reports of those who have investigataed the homes of "suspects" fpr the govern ment. "No musical instrument, not so much as a harmonica, has ever been found in a home that was raided by government authorities in connec tion with Bolshevism," says M. M. Roemer, member of a music goods sales corporation. Paris League Against Jazz [From La Fresse de Paris] A league has just been formed to combat the frightful exotic mußic of the so-called "jazz band." Head quarters have been opened at the Taxerne de l'Olympia, vehere or chestral concerts are given dally. Haretttmj <&tpt Col. Henry W. Shoemaker- In the course of his studies of the wild life of the State and in inspections as a State Forest Commission member, has established the interesting fact < that in spite of the disastrous forest tires which have swept through sec tions of the Blue Ridge, there is more wild life in such districts than in those where poison lias been scat tered about to get rid of vermin and nuisances. State Game Commission officials, who have been carrying on investigations along the same line, have arranged to restrict the use of poisons by wardens and to make some kindred observations. Col. Shoemaker lias for a long time held to the conviction that the use of poisons in the woods was dangerous to domestic animals and the game which the State protects. "I think t 1 have proved that in the Blue Ridge section, where a disastrous forest Are i occurred lately, one of the kind that I we should aim to prevent by organ ized effort, there are more turkeys, pheasants and various kinds of game than in some sections whero poison has been used to kill off the enemies of game and the farmer," said he. "For a long time I have | been observing it and over in the Hamburg region I was surprised to see the game in the district where the fires had occurred." The Colonel said that he thought it high time to bring tlie use of poisons within cer tain limits. Setli E. Gordon, acting secretary of the State Game Commis sion, who has been looking up the use of poisons, is authority for the | statement that in some of the sec tions where poison has been com plained of as the cause of deaths of domestic animals and game, it has been demonstrated that it has been 'placed by private persons and not by j State wardens. 51 r. Gordon says I that in some sections dogs havo given much trouble as well as ver min. In any event, the practice of [ killing off nuisances by strychnine is jto lie brought within control. There lias been some difference of ..opinion j whether corn dosed with the poison i will kill game birds, as chickens I seem to have been only exhilarated by some treated for crows. Quail j are said not to have minded it. |• * • Dauphin county is so accustomed j io cosmopolitan labor because of its iron and steel works, mines, quarries and other industries that it doc# not J always realize what interesting ! groups it has within its borders. The | Serbian and Bulgarian folks at j Steelton are a real study, while this ! city lias within a few blocks settle ! ments of Rumanians, j and Bohemians. The Irish and Ger | man groups which sixty years ago ' were important industrial factors ! are now assimilated and the j folks from Italy are rapidly I going the some way. But the j men from the near eastern coun i tries do not seem to be so inclined. I Activity at the postal savings windows ] shows how they regard this cora ; munity and from all accounts quite j a few have left here recently for j home, where they will probably fare j badly if they have ready money. An -1 other interesting fact is that ron i tractors on road work in this county I have had gangs of slexieans and Greeks working for them at various periods in the last year. Certain people in this city and vicinity are glad the coal strike is over and from what a few of them say Harrisburg and Steelton were in danger of more curtailment of gas supply than generally believed. The greal works at Steelton, which fur nishes a considerable share of the gas I'or lighting ami cooking, had a supply of coal that would not. have run much more than a fortnight, if that, and it would have meant de pending upon the gas plants here if the strike had gone on. Another in teresting fact is that some important experiments with oil as fuel have been under way in Harrisburg's basic industries lately and no one has known much about it. News of the death of Arthur J. Anderson, editor of the Pennsyl vania Farmer and well known to Harrisburg newspapermen, has como here. Mr. Anderson was speaker at. a number of agricultural gatherings here in recent years and combined the training of a good Detroit news paperman with an inside knowledge of farming gained in the fields and enriched by special study in college. The school libraries of the Harris liurg Public Library have been in over a dozen and a half of the schools of the lower grades for just, about one week and in some of the buildings it commences to look as though the youngsters would read all through the books in short order. Some have been seeking a book a day. The success of the school libraries of former years is appar ently going to be outdone this year. The" school authorities, who have been co-operating in every way, have had the cases for the new libra ries made by students in the high schools and there is just a bit of a rivalry there to turn out the best and most finished looking piece of work. More December plowina has been done within twenty miles of Harris burg this year than thought possible. Probably it was because last De cember was such a mild month. Th farmers in several districts not far from Harrisburg have been in the fields every suitable day and on Sat urday furrows were turned not far from Humnilestown and also in the vicinity of Goldsboro. The present freeze-up may end work in that di rection, however. VELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer savs he has not had much chance to see football games this L. Tustin, former State Senator and director of welfare in Philadelphia, plans to play Santa Clans to many children officially. IX. a. Hayward, well known to manv here as' a speaker at Hoges town cattle show, has left Delaware College. - Judge P. A. O'Boyle, of Luxeme county, was injured in an automo bile collision recently. —J. H. Zerby, the Pottsville tor, has been chosen chairman of the Schuylkill valley water ways committee. „ G. F. Sproule. the new director of wharves in used to be shipping editor of the Philadel phia Press. He served for over twenty years. r DO YOU KNOW ' —That Harrisburg silk is rap idly becoming one of the otty specialties? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Seventy years ago Harrifbnrg had seven iron establishments, sev eral furnaces being along Pltxton creek.
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