12 IHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 iPublishcd evenings except Sunday by THE TELECItAPH PRINTING CO. Building, Federal Sqoure E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief R. OYSTER. Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor IA. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board McCULLOUCH, *" BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. It. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled .to the use for republication of all neivs dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American pj Newspaper Pub- Ax, --v rj Ushers' Associa ttion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Herni ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Kinley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building. Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Ilarris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a 4nuKvillAi> week; by mail. iil.OOa year in advance. TUESDAY. DECEMBER HI. MILL ! , i 1 asked the New Year for some mes sage sweet. Some rule of life with which to I i guide my feet; j I asked, and passed; lie answered! soft and low, "God's will to know." —Anon. J THE "DRY" DECISION HE United States Supreme I I Court in declaring war-time prohibition legal did precisely j what every man knew it would do. j Had it cast a doubt on the ability i of the government to take such ex- j traordinary measures as are in- j A'olved in this act, it would have j been evident that the control of the j railroads and other laws much more | important to the well-being of the 1 people as a whole than the prohi bition law could be attacked. This decision removes the last i hope of the "wets" for another sea- ' son of open bar-rooms, breweries and distilleries. It is unlikely that j the Peace Treaty will have been ap- ) proved and the war brought to an j end before the date upon which j the national prohibition amendment | will go into effect In January. This J means that the war-time prohibition will overlap constitutional prohi bition and there will be no wet period intervening. Justice Brandeis does not accept the contention of the brewers and j distillers, who hold that the act 1 constitutes confiscation of property, for he points out not only that the way is open for the export of the stores on hand, but that the law pro vided a period of sale extending over seven months for the clearing out of all stocks on hand. It is a noticeable fact that all the protests that have arisen against prohibition, either war-time or con stitutional, have been front those who are financially interested in the sale of liquor. All the suits, all the propaganda, all the objections have come from those who make or sell booze. The people have accept ed prohibition and a great majority heartily approve of it. It is here to stay. Allentown having solved the public comfort station problem in a practical way, it would seem that this city should have no serious difficulty in bringing an end to the controversy over such facilities here. Wheth < r the station be located under ground, along the sidewalk in Maiket Square or Market street or in the available space in the northern side of the Courthouse is a matter for practical study nnd determination, hut there is no occasion to continue a fruitless discussion of the subject. A GOOD INVESTMENT RED CROSS Christmas Seals and Health Bonds are on sale now in Harrisburg and the country districts to raise funds to continue the light against tubercu losis next year. There is at pres ent no more worthy public health cause which we arc called to support than this one. Each year the little Christmas Seal is sold, and the penny paid for It goes to the fund to combat the white plague, one of humanity's worst enemies, lie who buys and uses Christmas Seals has the real Christmas spirit—a Christmas spirit that proves him willing to help oth ers and to protect himself, his fam ily and his friends from the dis ease. A Christmas Seal rnsts only one cent; Health Bonds from $5 to SIOO. Why not include one or the other on jour Christmas list? Join in the light to wipe out tuberculosis. It can be done In ten years, physicians TUESDAY EVENING, 1 J assure us, if we will only keep up the struggle against it. There is j Ino Christmas investment which could do more good or cause more happiness and end more suffering than the purchase of the little Seals or the Health Bonds. Buy and use the Seals. Invest In j the Bonds and have for all of 1920 j ! a certificate and series of coupons i | showing the great public good being' I accomplished with the money you ] gave. j Now that tlie final legal steps have ] ] been taken in the matter of the im- ; i movement of the Italian Park district i {and the changes involved in taking, | over the McKee-Graham tract along ( i Division street and northward, the j City Planning Commission feels that { lllie fine co-operation of the City Conn- j icil and the school authorities will re-j suit in a wonderful change for the j better in that whole important sec tion of the city. Incidentally, the; trustees of the McKee-Graham estate j have shown fine spirit in meeting the I necessities of the situation from the! standpoint of the city at every turn. j NO COMPROMISE MR. Wll ..SON announces that he "has no compromise" to offer : for the adoption of the Peace ; Treaty and that he "will hold the j Republicans of the Senate wholly I responsible" for the failure to put j the world hack on a peace basts. , Mr. Wilson may hold the Repub- j licans responsible, hut few others i will. Here is the situation briefly: i Utterly ignoring the treaty powers ( of the Senate'and the representation that body was entitled to on the American Peace Commission, Presi den Wilson, against the repeated warnings of leaders of the Senate and prominent laymen, insisted upon making the League of Nations a part of the Peace Treaty, and en- I deavored to force his finished prod uct down the throats of the Senate, | willy nilly. And now he would hold the Sen ate responsible for declining to swallow the dose without the sugar- j coating it needs to make it agree able to American tastes. If the Treaty fails the Senate will he no more responsible than the President. The Senate is willing to compromise. He is not. lie is the same stiff-necked autocrat he always has been and what he happens to think along the lines of the Treaty is not by any manner of means what the people think. The Senate need lose no sleep over this latest j declaration. The only embarrass ment the President has caused is to the Democratic Senators who have been trying to get him out of , li is Treaty difficulties. So Dr. Garfield lias quit as Federal Fuel Administrator. He doesn't be • lievo the administration at Washing ton has played fair with the people, lie sees the public in n minority. Sec- ! retarj- of Labor Wilson also wants to! quit and there appears a general dis position to leave the ship to drift. All j is far from quiet on the Potomac. | GOOD FOR MAYOR MOORE j MAYOR-ELECT MOORE was! presented with a handsome watch by his colleagues in Congress and in a speech | of acceptance declared that he i intended to nationalise Phila delphia; "to promote it in such j a way that the world and the j country would know of its wonderful j advantages, commercial and indus- j trial. His plan will be to bring I members of Congress and men of J affairs as distinguished visitors to Philadelphia, and show them in an adequate way just what Philadel phia stands for and what it is do ing." Bully for the Mayor-elect! Phil adelphia needs just that sort of treatment. Too long the metropolis of the State has been treated as a football for all manner of political and other factions and the Common wealth at large would be glad to see the great American city shake off the things which have retarded its development and given it a hazy reputation beyond our borders. It is high time for Philadelphia and all other cities of Pennsylvania to get into line for the promotion of the best interests of this imperial Commonwealth. Municipalities can help or hinder the State at large just in proportion, as they conduct themselves in harmony with the principles of good government. Eggs are Hearing the dollar mark for the easy mark. GARFIELD'S RESIGNATION THE resignation of Dr. Gar field as fuel administrator may have been a bit hasty, but it is evident that it was not entirely unprovoked. Dr. Garfield made certain recom mendations, apparently with the sanction of the administration, only : to have the President overturn the | most important of them without consulting him. He should have ex pected as much. It has been the custom of the President to over ride his subordinates without thought of their feelings or their personal efficiency. The wonder is that Garfield es caped so long. The whole situation at Washington is honeycombed by this feeling of antugonisni against the arbitrary actions of the Presi dent within his own party. Dr. Garfield happens to be a little more independent, a little more fearless than his fellows, that is all. State Banking Commissioner Fisher doesn't hesitate to speak out in dealing with the peculiar tactics of the Federal Banking authorities. He calls a spade a spade and stands up for the lights of the State institutions as against the encroachments of the authorities at Washington, who seem to regard their temporary power us a personal asset. ir prices continue to go tip it will not he long before fruit cake will be sold in Jewelry stores. ! i fMtlco U ""PeH.KSif&Kiiua. By the Ex-Committee Inan Advance of some of the cities of j Pennsylvania in population in the j last few years, duo to industrial do- 1 vvlopment, has brought about an en- j tirely new proposition in regard to , classification of the cities and may j make easier the way of the proposed j new constitutional amendment cstab- { fishing a system of classification ; | more in accord with needs than the : three classes fixed by tlie Supreme | Court. It is interesting to note that the act on which the Supreme Court fixed its decision made seven classes and the now amendment follows the thought of the Wallace amendments submitted to flic last Legislature at request of the Third Class City League. Philadelphia! and Pittsburgh have asked to he placed in different classes and Scranton to he separated from Pittsburgh. Scranton expects to have around 200,000 population and its people would like to head the third class. Reading will be over 100,000 and Erie expects to he, while Allentown, now moving to lake in Kittersville and Fullerton as well as territory up to Bethlehem city gates, is aiming in the same direction. This would make it a simple mat ter with Philadelphia for the first class. Pittsburgh lor the second and 250,000 to 100,000 made the third, with from 100,000 down to 75,000 tor the fourth and those below for the fifth. Reclassification so that what suits one large city shall not he lorced on others of lesser size will do much toward solving "Home rule." —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and Philadelphia Press both predict Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell will he an active candidate for Democratic National committeeman from Penn sylvania. regardless of opposition, on the ground that the party in the Key stone State needs u change. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says Bonniwell believes Arthur G. DeWalt will with draw. The Philadelphia Press in a Washington dispatch says: "The weakness of the Palmer-McCormick machine is that these leaders have kept all the honors and emoluments for themselves and even their ad herents have obtained very little as their reward for opposing the Old Guard-Jim Guffey machine. Oil is again gushing in Pennsylvania politics and it may again flow through the State to the benefit of the opponents of the Palmer faction. This faction has nothing to offer. All the postmasterships are filled and the Democrats in Pennsylvania, as well as the Nation, recognizes that there will be no Federal Democratic adminis tration to dole out patronage after March, 1921. Therefore, the oil bar rel which kept up interest in minor ity politics in Pennsylvania for many years looks interesting to Democrats in the Keystone State, which presents the most debatable situation respect ing control of the party machinery since the days when, following the Allentown convention, the present leaders overthrew Guffey and his satellites." —The Philadelphia North Ameri can has made its lirst editorial com ment on the Republican National sit uation and says: "The Washington conference was of peculiar interest lo Pennsylvania because the Gover nor of the State was selected to make the keynote address. This is admit tedly a difficult and dangerous task; hut Governor Sproul fully measured up to the occasion, milking a speech which has been highly commended on all sides. This is the first time in a generation that a Pennsylvanian has been asked to chart a course for the party. Indeed, it is almost a unique experience for the Common wealth to have in the Governor's chair a man whose record and whose status before the Nation justify the party in seeking counsel from him. ! Governor Sproul's address was courageous in tone, timely in substance and genuinely constructive in its suggestions. It made so pro nounced an impression that there was quite a boom for the speaker as an available man for the presi dential nomination. These favorable expressions will please all Pennsyl vanians. Still more gratifying, how ever, was the evidence that the flat tering testimonial did not turn the Governor's head; he is too well versed in political affairs to put un due value upon the discussion of his name in this connection." —The Philadelphia Evening Led ger continues to criticise the State Constitutional Revision Commission. Its latest is as follows: "When the Commission was appointed it was un derstood that it was to clear the ground for a convention by doing some of the preliminary work. It was expected to point out the in consistencies in the present docu ment and to show how they could ho removed and how the Constitution could bo simplified by the omission of all the present complicated restric tions upon the Legislature and by providing for a grant of power with wide discretion in its exercise." —ln regard to the value of un pledged delegations to National con ventions, the Evening Ledger says: "The delegations from many states will go to Chicago committed to cer tain candidacies, while every candi date will he anxious to get the sup port of the large delegations from Pennsylvania and New York. Ah these two states could combine and bring about the nomination of any candidate on which thoj* could agree, the matter of instructions can be al lowed to take care'of itself." —The Clearfield Progress has this to say about the candidacies for Na tional delegate of H. B. Scott and A. H. Gaffney in the Twenty-first dis trict: "Both of these men have the endorsement and full support of the party leaders in Clearfield, Centre, Cameron and McKean counties and their candidacies should meet with universal favor." —Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore writes at Philadelphia: "George W. Coles, who led the Town Meeting party to victory in the recent mayor alty campaign, is a native, of Ly kens, the coal town which nestles in the mountains of Dauphin county; and Lykens is a town where tho Coles name is familiar to most everybody in it. The father of George W., now past 70, is superintendent of one of the mines. He came from Welsh stock and is popular with the old settlers. One of the customs which holds in the Coles homestead is the killing of the steer at Christmas. The Col4s hoys, and there are half a dozen of them besides George, get together with the home folks and after tho shooting match, which is I a part of the day's festivities, sepa | rate the edible part of the steer from I the hide and hoof, and distribute it ! among the neighbors. The Town I Meeting party leader is generally in at the killing." I William 11. Ball, who was secre tary tp Dr. Brumbaugh when Gov ernor, is chairman of a Owh-Your- Own-Hotne committee in Philadel phia- HAKRISBtTRG §£TELEGRAPH WONDER WHAT A MAN WINDOW SHOPPING THINKS ABOVT? I W 1.5 H I HAD 50ME t HATS TO <3O RU A I HERE'S A a MgCKLAC£.! 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Sproul before the Republi can National Committee at Wash ington has created a deep impres sion throughout the country because of its forcible presentation of the issues upon which next year's pre sidential campaign must be fought. Perhaps the most amusing criti cism of his address front Demo cratic sources is that which finds fault with its "partisanship." A sterling Republican Governor's speech to the Republican National Committee is blamed for being "par tisan." The comment, had it been intentionally instead of uncon sciously' humorous, would have been regarded as worthy to rank with the whimsies of the late W. S. Gilbert. The criticism is dignified with mention here because of the light it sheds on the mental pocesses of the Democrats who, on account of the extraordinary leniency that has been shown the administration at Washington by loyal Republicans during the emergency of the war and troubles that have followed in its train, have become as spoiled children. "Ret us put aside parti san considerations" was their cry when the country was confronted by the war. "Let all join hands for the defense of America from the foe." And then the administration proceeded to put down the Demo cratic clamps tighter than ever. When President Wilson took office he instituted the most narrowly par tisan administration this country has ever known, smashing tradi tions of civil service reform right and left and raiding the diplomatic service in order to install "deserv ing Democrats" whose only qualifi cations was the political intluence they could exert in his behalf. And when our country entered the war the same policy of partisanship with regard to important appointments was pursued so far as it was possible to do so. Time and again positions of vital influence on the winning of the war were to be filled and the only question at Washington was which Democrats would get them. This policy, it is scarcely necessary to say. was in striking contrast to | that of our Allies, with their coali tion cabinets and other effective in struments for securing the best tal ents of the country regardless of political affiliations. Republicans, as has been said, bore this discrimi nation against them with loyal for titude and patience, giving their whole-hearted support in Congress and elsewhere to the supreme task before the Nation. As a result some Democrats seem to have gained the impression that this anomalous condition is to continue indefinitely,; that the administration is sacro sanct and above criticism. Such Democratic Kip Van Winkles are! due for a rude awakening. Next ] year comes the quadrennial reck oning. Ours is a government of the people through parties. Automobile Code [From • the Philadelphia Press.] Old style glaring lights are 110 longer to be tolerated in Pennsyl vania. Their use in the well lighted streets of the city was always an outrage on pedestrians. Many of these lamps with powerful reflec tors, which dazzle a person coming in an opposite direction, remain in use. The police should discourage them, according to our Philadelphia method. Here the offending motor ist is warned, and prosecution ordi narily comes only when he persists in wrongdoing, or is a brazen and contemptuous offender. Reckless drivers hereafter will be barred from licenses, or may have their licenses revoked. This means a further safeguard for the public. The speed maniac was more prom inent a few years ago than ho is to-day, but there are still some per sons who should not be trusted to drive a car. Resignation of Dr. Car fie Id [From Philadelphia Press] Dr. Garfield's resignation from the post of Fuel Administrator is said to be in protest against the govern ineiit's coal strike compromise, which was adopted against his ad vice. He had insisted that conces sions granted the coal miners should not be so large as to entail art in crease in the price of coal to the public. Fourteen per cent, was the maximum he held out for. But the government, while adopting the fourteen per cent, increase us an immediate concession, provided for the creation of a wage-scale com mission which has the authority to grant further increases irrespective of tho effect such increases may have ou the consumer's price of cool. BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. THE American people are end ing a tragic year with their minds set upon making the coming twelve months the most con structive period in the history of American finance. They are deport ing undesirable aliens, they are formulating legislation to increase the efficiency of their railroads and to provide for the stability of rail road investments, they are purging their loan account to make the coun try's bank position stand the acid test of commercial banking, they are visualizing, as never before, the extraordinary opportunity which life war has given them to work up a phenomenal foreign trade, and they are trying to make every nation on earth, Mexico included, realize that Uncle Sam is a gentleman not to be trifled with. These are among the achievements of a year character ized by social unrest, labor disturb ances, class prejudice, high prices, high living, warring unionism, for eign complications, transplanted Bol shevism. money tension, unbridled speculation and reduced industrial output. The difference between iron and steel is white heat. And it is worth the difference! The situation is eminently one in which the hard common sense of the American people will show The Wise Ruler's Return i Greet the Goddess of Reason, Who, resplendent in season, Is lifting our faces and burdens | again. Do we sense the transition ? Do we rise to our mission By gripping her hand as we must j to be men? 1 If a wrong was committed "Gainst your group and befitted A shylock demanding for profit, his pound; Is your cause or your gaining By a desperate refraining From heeding the Goddess, who j hovers around? ITf the owners of plenty Swelled each ten to a twenty. Exploiting, while crying their lossl to the world: Can tlicy blindly borsistent Think the day to be distant When reasons will crumble litem? I —Watch for the herald! There is wisdom in feeling That inaction was stealing Her throne front its base on our' mental estate. | All our laxness for swearing. I Let us work and be sharing I It pride of a land where the] humblest is great. j As we enter the season j Of which He is the reason ] Commingling our aims in a j spirit of gift. .May we think. Oh! how fleeting j is our imperfect greoting j And train mind and heart in its j ' uplook and lift. —J. A. Bell, Steelton, Pa. Revising the Slate Constitution I [Front the Philadelphia Inquirer.] j Governor Sprout's Constitutional | Commission got down to work lrtst j week and divided itself into various j sub-committees, each assigned to , a special branch. The Commission is instructed to , make a report to the next I.egisla- Iture. it will suggest wherein the I Constitution needs to be changed, it ' may decide that the best way to • achieve results is through amend-' I ments to the existing instrument, or it may advise that a constitutional I convention be called for the making of an entirely new document. In I that event, the convention would ! have before it the finding of this | Commission. i As a matter of fact, the Commis -1 sion owes its appointment to a de ; sire on the part of the Governor land a great many thinking men to j avoid a Constitutional Convention j while tho Nation Is in its present un settled condition. Into such a con i vention many a radical might have j found his way. It was deemed I wise to postpone such a gathering land put in the hands of a Commis sion the study of the entire subject. I And so we have the commission l ers. representative of about every public interest, going deeply into I the subject. Their report cannot fall to be of the highest importance. When it is submitted, the Legislature will know just what ought to be done— whether to offer a long list of amendments to the people or to ar range for a general convention. up to great advantage in solving the piobiems that are ahead. Christmas buying is absorbing an unprecedented quantity of high grade merchandise. A record de | mand for jewelry and pVecious i stones speaks' eloquently for the "luxury margin" in the wage earn j er's pay envelope. The country is i going ahead quietly, but it is going I ahead. Our productive machinery jis being strengthened by degrees, i but it could stand several hundred | million dollars worth of new im j provements if corporation managers j had ready access to the investment ! markets. But capital is timid and I will not loosen up until the horizon |is clearer. The situation is on the I mend, however, and in this country ' of record resources and unexampled | initiative, it takes very little to make j a whining pessimist into a shouting optimist. The greatest fool in all world, is the man who bets against I the prosperity of the United States. Washington is still headquarters for much of the most interesting news affecting investment sentiment. Much important legislation is likely to be passed at this session of Con gress and although it is too early to tell what the effect of this will be, the indications are that it will fol low constructive lines.—William A. | Law, President of First National I Bank of Philadelphia. Oregon and Wood [From the Portland Oregonian] I Dow V. Walker has been desig- I nated as the manager of the General j Leonard Wood campaign in Ordgon, and will get into action as quickly as j possible, Mr. Walker, who is per- i sonally acquainted with General Wood, was asked to take the direc torship in Oregon by J. L. King, di rector general of the Wood fight, when Mr. King was in Portland re cently. There is considerable sentiment for Wood in Oregon and it is the purpose of Mr. Walker to bring this more prominently to the surface and solidify it. lie will organize tor Wood in every village afcd town in Oregon. Oregon will have ten votes in the convention and these votes will go to the candidate who receives the popular vote of the Republican party in the presidential preferential pri maries held in May. There will be a keen contest for these delegates and it is expected that at least live different aspirants for the presiden tial nomination will be on the Re publican ballot and each one will maintain an organization in the state. General Wood is the first to announce a manager. Poincare Homeless LFrom the Living Age] The Liberie, recalling M. Poin- I care's intention not to renew his j candidature for the presidency ! when his term of office expires live ! months hence, mentions that the | President of the Republic will have I to look about him for a future rosi i donee, as all the houses possessed i by him have been rendered unin- I habitable by the Germans. His villa, at Sampigny, which stands in the midst of a beautiful park, received fifty shells. Another i house, a few hundred yards away, which the President had purchased | for tho officials of his household, • will also have to be almost entirely reconstructed. M. Poincare's fam- I ily house at Nubecourt was entirely | wrecked by the explosion of a j French motor lorry carrying petrol. | Finally, the President's little house lat Bar-le-Duc was bombarded by i aircraft. It is estimated that the pleasure ' which tho Germans tdolc in destroy | ing presidential property cost them about -10,000 pounds. Little Chief ' The wind is wearing moccasins, 1 The wind is. wearing moccasins, It slides along the desert : With stealthy feet at noon. I TXpon the ditch it lightly treads. I And scarcely stirs the cottonwoods, i The nervous, listening cottonwoods. i On tiptoe in the sun. The wind is wearing moccasins, i The wind is wearing moccasins. It runs with crouching shoulders, ( Its fingers sweep the ground With a sigh It makes a pathway j Through the purple-flowered alfalfa. As it whispers dreams hulf-mock v ingly To workers in the sun. —Louise Aycrs Harnett in Poetry. DECEMBER 16, 1919. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES "Arizona and Other Poems" is the title of a book of verse which the Duttons will publish the middle of December. It is by Eiise Pumpelly Cabot, daughter of Raffacl Pum pelly, traveler, author, mineral ex pert, and America's first mining en gineer. "The Martyrdom of Man," by Winwood lteude, nephew of Charles Heade, is not so well known in Un united States as it is in England, where in the forty or more years since it was first published it has become a famous work, necessary to be read by those who wish to pos sess general cultivation, and lias gone through* twenty-one editions. E. P. Dutton & Co. tire bringing H out in this country, where it will be welcomed by readers of history be cause of the swift and lively pano rama it unfolds of the development of civilization. The work is, in ef fect, an introduction to universal history. Sir Harry Johnston, who, like the author, .is famous as an ex plorer, author and student of primi tive races, says of the work that "it should be given by the state to every young man and woman in the United Kingdom and the United States when they reach twenty-one years old." For the middle ot' December the Duttons announce a new book by Katharine Dee Bates, professor of English at Welles]ey College. "Sig urd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the lioad" is its title, and it is said to tell the story of a remarkable dog personality that is remembered with interest and af fection by thousands of Wellesley graduates. No book of memoirs has come out of England in a long time so inter esting, so lively and so charming as "The Life and Letters of Lady Doro thy Ncvill," by her son, Italph Ne vill, which the Duttons are publish ing this week. Lady Dorothy's long life of almost ninety years was one of wide-awake interest in all the world about her and of friendships with all the people worth knowing who made the England of politics, literature, art and society through three generations. She knew well, among dozens -of other, Cobden, Beaconsfleld, Morley, Balfour, Whist ler, George Moore, and Ibis "Life and Letters" is full JC incidents and anecdotes, reminiscences, letters that make a pageant of the famous men and women of England for three quarters of a century or more. Lady Dorothy died in 1913, ut the age of eighty-seven, but still pos sessing all her physical and mental faculties and her abounding inter est in the world around her. Sunnct If 1 had ridden horses in the lists, Fought wars, gone pilgrimage to fabled lands. Seen Pharaoh's drinking cups of amethysts, Held dead queens' secret jewels in my hands — I would have laid my triumphs at your feet, And worn with no ignoble pride my scars. But I can only offer you, my sweet, The songs I made on many a night of stars. Yet have I worshiped honor, loving you; Your graciousness and gentle courtesy, With ringing and romantic trum pets blew A mighty music through the heart of me— , A Joy as cleansing us the wind that tills The open spaces on the sunny hills. —Theodore Maynard in the Living Age. Lrnine's Discovery I From the New York Sun ] Premier Lenine has transmitted to the Soviet his bitter discovery: "The peasants have become land owners and now side with capitalism against Bolshevism." It has been known for more years than Lenine has huirs in his beard that once a man gets a piece of land, scratches it, plants it and eats the fruit of it he becomes int oned with a reluctance to let the lazy loafer next door share the i product. In the Htone Age, we im agine, this feeling led to many compound fractures of the skull. II was echoed In Magna Charta and In the French Uevolntion. Mr. Lenine is beginning to learn that his communism was born with an Incurable disease. Sawing (Eljat Literature available for study in the Harrlsburg Public Library has been extended to a period some time before Abraham had business deal ings with the Chaldees. The ilarris burg institution is well equipped with books dealing with various epochs of history, but the latest addition to its material consists of four stones, loan ed to the library by Jlobert 1". Bliss, of the State Ltorary and Museum. •Mr. Bliss has been a student of liter ature of every strge and his interest *'" s been shown in the llarrisburg Library in many ways. The exhibits are four specimens of the writing of the people wiio lived in what we. know best as Babylonia. None is as large as a Bartlett pear and ono is small enough to be put inside of an ordinary watch, but they stretch out hands across the ages to tho Harris burger who wants to see how men wrote when the deluge was probably a thing terribly recent, as human minds go. our forefathers were probably living in eaves when a mes senger carried around with him a credential" in the shape of a 1 small stone that is hardly the size of a ball dollar and which commands people to give him food and accom modations. This tablet is the oldest ol the four loans. It dates, conser vatively, from 2350 B. C., and ,is said to have been employed ! hy governmental or royal couriers. Near il is another end larger tablet i which bears the name of a king who •was a contemporary of the man i whose life is such a fascinating j theme for Bible students, the man j who began a nation. The third loan i is a cone, covered with inscriptions, | which was used by priests to place \ 'n a building when it was erected, a j sort of Mesopotamia 11 cornerstone | ceremony, probably. The last Is a bus- I iness contract which dates from only till B. C., but, however, some time before lloratius kept the bridge and when Egypt was a very potential factor in world affairs. They are all good specimens of the cuneiform method of writing and probably the latter is as keen in its stipulations as some contracts that we hear of these days, for delivery of wheat, making steel or building a bridge. Men who came out of the woods yesterday at the close of the deer season recalled a meteorological co incidence with the close of the deer season in 1917. The last three days lof that season, which was pretty I stormy itself, were marked by high winds, intense cold and snow just as we have had the last few days. There are some who recall the suffering they had to get their equipment and game to shipping points in the driv ing storm that ushered in the worst winter in recent years. Last night men who came down Ihe Cumber land valley said that they had felt the colli of tho last few clays intensely and that game had almost disap peared. A good bit of favorable comment is living heard about the Crane method of attracting public attention iu the street cars these days, because Mr. and Mrs. General Public are re minded of various tilings in a rather striking way. The latest admonition about shopping early, not only as days go, but as hours go, so as to relieve flic crowds that mark the rush hour, is certainly timely. It makes the suggestion of morning shopping or early in the afternoon when travel is lightest. Everyone who lias gotten into a car with a lot of bundles knows what that means. • • • Some interesting news is coming to Harrisburg these days from the other cities of the State. In Lan caster at the annual bidding for stubs in market the other day some stalls were run up as high as S3OO and there was as much interest in the curb stands as in the market houses. Harrisburg has been unable to establish a curb market. Betlilc liem plans to enforce daylight saving of its own regardless of what is pro posed by the farmers roundabout. Lackawanna school teachers de clared at their annual meeting against teaching anything but Eng lish in the schools of the county. * The manner in which Harrisburg nnd Steelton received the word thai Christmas holidays were going to b "dry," because that was the way everyone appeared to regard the Su premo Court decision on war-time prohibition, was interesting, it not always convincing. Some men said right off the reel that they looked for that decision and that it did nol affect them. "I will not mind it in the least," remarked others. The j fact is that there was hardly a mar who expressed emotions ranging from disappointment to wrath, griel or speechless indignation, although many must have felt it. Similarly, the number of advocates of prohibi tion for reasons of "business efli ciency" has increased rapidly lately Announcement in Chambersburg the other day of the retirement o: John G. Orr from the presidency 01 the Chambersburg Hospital board will interest many people, as Mr. On was for a number of years a resi dent of Harrisburg, being treasurel of the Patriot company. Air. Orr wai for a long time president of thii board and keenly interested in thi hospital and the Children's Aid So ciety of Franklin county. Althougl advanced in years, ' he maintain! close touch with the charities of thai county. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Dr. J. A. W. Haas, president a Muhlenburg College, is out after 1 half million dollar fund to advancs I lie college. —-Entil Albrecht, president of thi Philadelphia Bourse, says that cityl future depends on better waterways —General 11. C. Trcxler went dea bunting in Clinton county and got I largo buck. —George T. Sale, who is goini after District Attorney F. F. Kane ii Philadelphia, is secretary of the cih market commission. Dr. Jesse C. Greene, of WcS Chester, celebrated his 102 nd birth dnv by visiting James McElree, whs is 99. Ex-Congressman J. D. Hicks hai been elected head of the County Republican Club. —Taleott Williams, the forma editor, is delivering a series of leo tures on the l.eaguc of Nations am what it meuns. y DO YOU KNOW | —T Ii a t Jlnrrisbnrg's new school plans arc attracting at tention throughout the State? HISTORIC HARRISBURG -—The King of France onee do na|ed money for a Catholic Churd In this city, hut for some reason th ' money* was never secured for th object.
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