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• 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
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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.