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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.
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""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-
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Practical Patriotism
[Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph]
The stirring speech of Gov. Wil
liam C. 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.