16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE nOME Founded 1831 Published eveningu except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH Pit I NT! \G CO. Telegraph BaUdlnc, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE , President and Editor-in-Chief IF.YR. OYSTER, Business 31 onager OUS. M. STEIN'METZ. Managing Editor [A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive llonrd ®3fP."McCULLOUGH, " M. OGLESBY, . F.. R. OYSTER, V . GUS. M. STEINMETZ. ptembers of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en ) titled to the use for republication [ of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this j paper and also the local news pub- L lished herein. rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ~ A Member American i fific w Chicago, ilk Wittered at the Post Office in Harris ' burg. Pa., as second class matter. f . By carrier, ten cents a tdrtan-rs*;> week; bv mail, 13.09 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 17. 1919 If you tell the truth, you have tn- Bn ite power supporting you; but if ■lot, you have Infinite power Against you.—Charles George Gor- Bon. AN ASSET OF THE CITY THE Harrisburg Hotel Company, owner of the Penn-Harrls, hav ing declared a dividend of four per cent, for the first eleven months ®f its operation, those who put their money into the enterprise may fee! that they not only performed a duty to the community, but made a good investment as well. , Few people this time last year Would have believed it possible to have made such a splendid showing in so short a time. The first few months in the li.'e of any hotel are subject to all manner of expenses and unusual outlays. Many of the best hotels in the country failed to Bhow a profit at first. But tbe Penn- Harris made itioney from the very start and gives every promise of be coming one of the best investments in the city. This must be most gratifying to the men who gave so much of their time, energy and money to the new enterprise, especially in view of the fact that the Penn-Harris was erected and opened to the public during the trying circumstances of the great war, when material em bargoes, labor shortage and all man ner of difficulties entered into the situation. They went into the hotel proposition primarily to provide a new hotel for the city and only sec ondarily to make money. That they have accomplished both to a really remarkable degree is a rare tribute to their patriotism and business sa gacity. That the hotel is constantly over-crowded is proof also that the traveling public appreciates what has been done here. Considering the Supreme Court de cision and the high price of eggs, it Is likely that Christmas eggnogs will be made this year without liquor or eggs. WILSON RESPONSIBLE THE responsibility for t lie sugar | shortage ,pnd for the high prices that will accompany any i increase in the supply is chargeable i directly to the President personally and to him alone. In the course of hi* investigations into the sugar sit- : nation. Senator McXary, of Oregon, chairman of the sugar subcommit- ! tee, has become convinced that there was no need whatever for the sugar famine to which the country has been subjected. So long ago as 1 August 14 the president of the ; Sugar Equalization Board. Mr. Zu.- ; hriskie, addressed a letter to Mr. \\ 11- j eon, in which he urged the inune- j diate purchase of the Cuban crop. Accompanying that letter was a ! written communication from repre- i eentatives of the Cuban planters ten- j dering to this country "the entire j wealth of their production under : nach terms as may be agreed upon ; by the contracting parlies at a I price moderate, but compensating to ! She producer and well witllin the I economic reach of the consumer." i Seven of the eight members of the j hoard recommended the acceptance f>f that offer. The letter reached the President And its receipt was acknowledged. Wo move having been made liy the executive, the Equalization Board ••nt him another letter, under date of September 20, referring to their for •aer communication and calling at tention to the "imperative necessity" pf early action if the United Slates Wf to acquire the Cuban crop be fore its acquisition by foreign buy •*"•. That letter also was acknowl edged. this time by the President s •ecretary, but still nothing was done •or has anything been done by Mr. iWtlson to give the American people the benefit of the huge supply of •agar lying at our very doors. The consumption of sugar in the Halted States la about 4,000,000 tons fa annum. An increase of one cent WEDNESDAY EVENING, u pound moans an additional ex penditure ly the public of $80,000,- 000 mid an added cost ot ten cents a pound means a tux on the people of SBO >,000,000. Senator McXary be lieves that had the President seen tit to adopt the recommendations, of the seven members of the Equaliza tlon Board, instead of following the advice of the one dissenting mem ber, the people would not only have received . sufficient supply of sugar, but would have been saved hundreds of millions of dollars on the price. Attorney General Palmer, true to his partisan promptings, undertakes to put the blame for the shortage upon the Republican Congress, claiming that he had been denied "both the power and the facilities for obtaining tangible results." Mr. McXary contends that that charge is far front the truth. The facts are that the President, through the Equalization Board, was possessed of ample authority to acquire the Cu ban sugar crop. He also commanded the funds with which to make the purchase, consisting of an original appropriation from the President's emergency fund of $3,000,000, plus about $30,000,900 prottt made on tbe purchase ami sale of last year's crop. The hoard, however, could go no further than make its recommenda tions. it is an incorporated body, with the stock ail hold in trust the President, and it is the vote of that stock that controls the policy of the board of directors. The question of whether the people were to have the benefit of the huge reservoir ot sugar in Cuba was put up to Mr. t\ ilson squarely and without reser vation. He chose to take no action. The result has been the acquisition of the Cuban crop by other nations, and a sugar famine in this country. —• — Judging from the sib-nee reigning from the front office at the White- House these days somebody must have taken the tumult out of Tumulty. "DAYLIGHT SAVING" CITY COCNCIL, acting at the re quest of thousands of Harris burg people, has granted the popu lar petition for a continuation local- ' l.v of the "daylight saving" plan ruled out hy Congress last session. Doubtless this will be a signal for many towns roundabout to adopt similar regulations. Signed by working nteii ar.-d women, salespeople, clerks, lawyers, \ bankers, merchants, managers of big steel mills and industries of all sorts, the petitions presented to Council unquestionably represent the sincere sentiments and wishes of the great mass of the people of Hurrisburg. Indeed, it is difficult to find anybody in the city who does not desire the extra hour of daylight that has come to mean so much to all of us since its inauguration as a Federal statute. The question has been luised as to whether or not Hurrisburg alone can successfully enforce "daylight sav ing." The answer is that any com munity can do anything in t! way of public convenience that its people wish. Anything that is good for t.le entire population is good for the whole city, and can he successfully carried out, for the very reason- that it is in accord with the wishes of the people and will meet with their ready compliance. A popular regu lation is always easily operated. Beside, we in Harrishurg will be working along the same lines -s New York, Philadelphia and other large j cities and on the same time sehed i ules, so that any difficulties that ' may have arisen in the way of bank ing hours, etc., will easily be over ; conie. However, it 's likely that this matter has been carefully con sidered by the local bank officials. for many of them were signers of | the petitions, as were railroad ofii . ials. including the c-iperintei'.-dent of the Pennsylvania lines here, and the heads of the Bet hljliera and Central iron and Steel Companies. The proposed change will not affect the rural population, bann ers may run their farms by the -am oi any other way. as they see lit. As for liarrisburg, it Is now in a fair way to add an hour of daylight for its people during the season when more light is most desirable and to save thousands of dollurs in ftiei now used in the making of electric light, gas, etc. Councilman may rest assured that the people are grateful 'to them for their action. They would have been grievously disappointed if the move for "day light saving" in Harrisburg bad re sulted otherwise. "Get after the profiteering devils," shouts Alitch fainter. That's right, Mr. fainter, get after 'em; we've been I Waiting guile a time now for you to ' get busy. It is entirely proper that the vet eran of two wars and a border ex pedition should head the- Ainc-rican Legion chapter here. Congratulations, Colonel ycheli. "The war is still on." says the Su preme Court, and Judging front re ports of doings in Europe we are in clined to believe I*o UtlcQ Ot I*t>tK44j£tfa>tta By the Ex-Committeeman A recommendation for a complete ! revision of the Constitution of Penn ! sylvania, which would mean that the I next Legislature would be asked to jcall a constitutional convention, is likely to be made by the Revision ! Commission, which resumes its ses sions to-day after a recess since ! Thursday. Some of the members who opposed such a course are now understood to feel that there .will he so many amendments, without in cluding what may possibly be sug ! gested by the committees on taxa tion and corporation and ou cities, that the list will be longer than could be bandied with any degree of safety I by the amendment methods followed |in 1909 and other years. However, • there are some who oppose even con sidering a convention until the work I of the Commission is in hand. I The committees on taxation and | cities have arranged to secure much I data and will also have hearings of State officials. The committee in charge of militia matters has asked Adjutant General Frank D. Beary to appear hel'ore it to outline his ideas in regard to military matters and Auditor General Charles A. Snyder j intends to appear before the taxa tion committee early in January. The | Investigation to he set afoot by the ■ cities committee into municipal in , debtedness. expenses, budgets and ' other matters will probably be ex tensive. | —lt is not probable that the sug gestion for a single chambered Lcgis | luture bused upon the council plan in the cities, with members paid j 300 u year for sitting in practically I continuous session as is done by ! councils, will get very far. The dis position of tlie (Commission is not to materially change the scheme of Stale government and in any event I the legislature, which will consider ; all recommendations, would liardlv | regard the suggestion favorably. This ; suggestion contemplates one mem ber for each 100.000 of population, every county to have at least one ; representative. Vnder the census of J 1910 it would mean almost 100 mem bers and three-quarters of a million , salary roll, without counting in at | tactics. —Members of the Pennsylvania congressional, delegation will bo in j vited to he guests of Governor \Vil ■ liatn Sproul at dinner at the ex l ecutive mansion in January. Tilts will be the first dinner of the kind given by a Governor in years. The Governor, was recently the guest of i the delegation at dinner in Washing j ton. Governor Sproul will also give j a dinner to the members of the Con stitutional Revision Commission in ; January. I —Changes in the membership of ; the State Water Supply Commission Jure imminent and Thomas J. I.ynch. J of Bethlehem, the .secretary, will he ! the only member to stay. The itieni j hers who are booked to retire are : It. A. Zentmycr, of Tyrone, and <>. S. lvelcey, of Lock Haven, both Bruni | baugh appointees. i —Auditor General Charles A. Sny | der will probably not announce the {appointments of the mercantile ap i praisers for several days. He bad ! hoped to complete the list to-momnv. j but will net be able tc do so. "I did ! not know so many people hud eyes on i the places," remarked tiie Auditor j General. There will be about 100 i appointments, first and last. | —John L. Gutsliall has been selected county solicitor of Lehigh. : He succeeds a Republican. 1 —R. L. Scliroycr will remain as i burgess of Selinsgrove. There was 1 an election held this year and when i it was all over there was a contest. {Then came doubts as to whether an election should have beta held. It ! has been decided that the present in ! cumbent shall hold over, a method jof settling the dispute which was jannounced by Judge A. W. Johnson j and seems to have given consider ' able satisfaction. | —Judge-elect G. \V. Maxc.v and Mayor A. T. Council will be candi ! dates for Republican National dele | gates in I.itckawanna, j —Lehigh's lliree representatives in ! the General Assembly tire eandi | dates for renominution. —Congressman 1!. K. I-'oeht writes in the la vishing News about Gov ernor Sprout's visit to Washington: "In the absence of Senator Penrose as National committeeman from Pennsylvania, on account of sickness, our own great - Governor represented Pennsylvania, and to say that ho took the meeting off-its feet in a ringing ilepublican speech is but modestly expressing the enthusiasm of Repub licans about the streets, hotels and tile' Capitol over the jingle Governor Sproul injected into his deliverance. There was no pussyfooting about his declarations, and nothing recently spoken has been quite so truly Amer ican and Republican, which sent a thrill of confidence and revived party spirit all down along the Republican line.' —The Washington Star, which fol- ' lows National politics closely , says: j "Persistently recurring reports that Secretary of Labor Wilson is about to resign were stopped yesterday by announcement from the Secretary, through Hugh AlcGraw. Ins private secretary, thut Mr. Wilson 'ill re tain his cabinet post. These reports have been inspired. Mr. McGraw said, by rumors of I'rlctton between l>r. llarry A. Garfield, fuel adminis trator. and Secretary Wilson, overt the wage scale to he offered the | striking soft coal miners, and have , become so widespread thut the See- I rotary yesterday received a telephone] call "front a man in Pennsylvania, ■ urging him for the good of the coun- ] try not to resign at this time." j I'p Go the Paper Stocks f From the New York Herald.] Canadian newsprint manufacturers! are expecting an exceedingly profit- j able year at the expense of the news-; paper publishers of t lie United States, j That fact became apparent yesterday ! on the Montreal Stock Exchange | when the securities of various t'an-j Indian paper mills enjoyed abnormal] increases in value under ttie impetus of heavy buy ing. Buying of paper mill stocks fol- j lowed the receipt of advices from New York that newspuffer publisher*! were being compelled to Sign eon-| tracts for their supplies of newsprint | lor next y ear at prices ranging much j higher than those lor the current year. Because of the constantly increas ing cost of newsprint paper tin newspaper publishers of the United States have real zed that radical' steps must be taken. Already many of the sniuller - newspapers, ear n valuable in its own territory in the dissemination of news and the form ling of public opinion, have been |forced to suspend because of inub.l jity to obtain paper. I The larger and more powerful pa pers are feeling the pinch and musl find relief. Congress may be asked to limit the size of newspapers. Other forms of relief suggested in clude art increase in the price of the printed newspaper and an Increase iu advertising rates. HARRISBURG &&&!$? TELEGRAPH THAT GUILTIEST FEELING By BRIGGS ~\ 'l2B for Ycu-li HeHHeiA- |HJ; J Jr ,na V'/rU/s I. \ BETTER N / i |fl rou^OR E -R=- • FimiSh op The .8 holes, #NM|M'' V'// '' Bavmls out your awful ' vVv!'lll'VI I ,'/ 1 ,) 1,1 ! ' ; ' ■ SC ORE SO LOUD THAT FFL ™ 0 / OTHERS CAM HEAR IT, ; —' - "Then 'JA'I the World Kml" 1 [Hazel Benjamin in the Seattle j l'ost-Intelligencer I In an envelope marked "urgent" the following letter to Santa Clans i found its way to the l'ost-Intelli- ; gencor Christmas editor. The writer! apparently is a boy with original idea*, which include spelling. He j signs himself "Chuck." The letter: j "Hear Santa Clous—Gentlemen: ! Do you think it would be possible, | sence this may be the last one, to i have Xnias December 1.1 because the) end of the world is coming from sun | spots on December 17 my father! says, who is a lire insurance seller, 1 of no IIHV.II abiliaty. I don't know ' exactly what a sun spot is but our i teacher, who is ih the fifth grade, says it is very something j like a boil on the sun.. If a boil on j the sun is like the one on the neck 1 from which 1 sufferend intents last summer so I couldn't go in swim-! miiig don't you think it would be ! better to have Xmas say a week j earlier? Having it on the 15 will ; make it possible for everybody to j get over their candy and Xmas din ers before the end of the world, i which my father says is going to be j something we ci'ji't afford to miss, ana cJm all toli our children about. : It does seam kind of too bad to ' waste Xmas because of the end of i the world. "This is only a suggestion, but if j you should see lit to act favorably , i'm il 1 might tell you. senoe 1 may | not have time to write any more, I that I would like," etc., etc. So Mandate l or Armenia [From the New York Herald.] In an address in honor of the civil and military missions from 'Armenia James W. Gerard, former Ambassat dor to Germany. declared himself unalterably opposed to the United States accepting a mandate for Ar menia. "Sonic queer Amerleans. lie said, "advocate that America ac cept sueh a mandate, yet. I do not know what is their purpose in advo cating a thing that is almolutely im possible for America to accept. if there is any such possibility 1 should esteem it a duty to do all I could to prevent it." In the opinion of Mr. Gerard, America will not accept a mandate for any country. Members of the Ameritan I'ommittee for the Inde pendence of Armenia are absolutely opposed to America accepting man dates. This is the view of all Americana who look far enough into the future to se- the difficulties and dangers of foreign entanglements," whether m Turkey or any other part,of Europe. The safe course fc America to pur sue is to hack up Armenian independ ence and give tne Armenians an op portunity to help themselves and protect themselves against the Turks and Turkish designs. It is hinted that Great Britain wishes the United States to accept a mandate over Armenia. Why should America assume the responsi bility of "political" sovereignty while [Great Britain reaps the rewards of ["economic" sovere'gnty Object to Trousers fFrom tiie Philade'phia Inquirer] It seems from the testimony of Bernardino Jardelezu. a Filipino who hus come to the United Ktutes to study for liis chosen profession, that the untutored inhabitants of the Philippine Archipelago do not appreciate the blessings of the civili zation to which they are, being in troduced and that they resent the ministrations of the paternal gov ernment which is guiding them for their own good in the way they should go. They do not recognize the necessity or the advantage of (lie uplifting process to which they are being subjected, and they par ticularly resent the edict which has gone forth thut they shall abandon the kind of costume, or the absence of costume, to which they arc ac customed and that they shall clothe at least the lower sections of their hoilles in tlie garments of t lie West ern World. C.ulliiui Europe Adrift I From the New York Herald] The American peace delegation lias loft Paris finally. The Tutted Slates lo all Intents and purposes officially has severed its connection with llie post-bellum management of Europe. The Supreme Council of Five is reduced to the Supreme I'ounc I of Four, and so far as the Americans arc concerned the Su preme Council will cense to exist after the signing of the Ilunguriun Peace Treaty. It has been a long, me morable struggle fraught with bit terness, temper and national as well us International anger. It is safe to say that never before has the cause of "peuce" been so fractured and i violuted in the making thereof. OUR WONDERFUL STATE By Grace C. Rutter. CLOSELY linked with the roll ing liilis and mountains of the Keystone State is a wealth of history and tradition which Doctor John T. Far is has drawn upon to en r rich and illuminate his new guide for tourists, "Seeing Pennsylvania," published by J. B. hippineott Com pany, Philadelphia. Residents of all the important towns will find herein some interesting allusions to their home sections, whether of his tory, legend, or a manufacturing item. The wonderful riches of scen ery in which the State abounds, from the romantic bends of the Wissa liickcn, but a few miles distant from the bustling heart of Philadelphia, to the stately Pocono plateau and the dense and virgin wilderness ot" the Black Forest, are painted with ati appreciative pen that brings these beauties alluringly before the read er's eye. Calling attention to the attractive and suggestive map of the State, the reader is asked to revel in its "sym metrical. compound and complicat ed curves." It develops that, the boundaries are not mere lines. There is the Circle Line at the south cast corner, which forms the north west boundary of Delaware. There is a story behind that circle! Then, note the' triangle in the northwest corner —another story. And be cause there was not another depart ure from the rectilinear in the south west boundary so as to reach out to the Ohio River and include West Vir ginia's famous Panhandle, which would seem natural, behold, story number three. A guide book proves a stable | structure on which to pile the ; wisely culled historical incidents, in teresting Indian legends and literary | quotations which illustrate the eightl distinct routes outlined to cover ev ery county. For instance. Route 1. leading along the Eincoln Highway! from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, j passes through I.uneaster and A oik, ' both of which ca a pre d bit in | their history—the distinction of hav ing been, though for brief periods— j the seat of Congress. Later, when j Congress had long beep quietly j seated in Philadelphia, the citizens i of Lancaster, learning that a per manent capital was to be chosen, j forwarded an appeal "humbly pre-, sinning to offer" their city as a can didate, arguing thus: "As an Inland Town we do not | perceive ourselves inferior to any i within the Dominion of the United , States, * We venture to as sert that there is not a part of the | United States which can boast i within the compass of 10 miles the ' same number of wagons and good | teams * * * We are thoroughfare! to the four cardinal points of the j compass • • • Labor is to be had j at the rate of two shillings per j Wrights Ferry was within one vote j of licltig tlie Capital. Harrisburg was mentioned as a possibility, as . was also Peach Bottom. Route II is along the National ; Road from Philadelphia to Wheel- : , ing and Pittsburgh. Route 111 de- j I scribes the country traversed byway j ■ of Reading. Harrisburg and William i i Penn Highway. Route IV is '.through the Pennsylvania Highlands) I from Harrisburg to Glean and 151-| ! mlra, N. Y. nnd return to Harris burg via Wilkes-Barre. Route V ! lends along Hie eastern waterways ami through the anthracite country and the Pocono plateau. Route VI travels from Pittsburgh to Ijike Eric and back. Route VII is a I round trip from Pittsburgh through the oil region and skirting the forest : country. Route VIII takes us j through the heart of the Black For j est in a round trip to the north of I Altoona. i Several of the trips properly begin i with an ascent to the foot of William I'enn Statue surmounting Philadei phia's City Hall. This is but six , feet lower than the Washington I Monument. With the memory of I (he wonderful panorama visible ' from tills height, comes a pllgrim ' age to the shrines of this city that ! belongs in a peculiar sense to all 1 Americans —shrines so Identified I with those heroic days from Penn to I Washington thut their history mcuus ! more than their architecture. | After a survey of the important ! manufacturing life, it is restful to | enjoy a ride through Falrmount ' Park and the reaches of the Schuyl kill. Even William Penn once lost his j way among the hills along the river. Real estate values have changed j since those days! The original site | of Mercersburg, settled In 1 730. was; purchased for a gun anil a string of beads! Two hundred and twenty eight acres of a "certain tiuct called Braddock's Field" changed title in 1701 l'or less than half a dollar an acre. A farm of four hundred acres near Gettysburg was sold for a pair of shoes! But we read of other methods of acquiring possessions. Selinsgrove, in Snyd°r County, lias a sightly location opposite a number of islands in the river. One of them, lite Isle of Que, lured Con rad Wei Her, according to an old story of his dealings with the In dian Chief, Shikelllmy. One day— so the story goes—Shikellimy said to Weiser, "I dreamed that Tura chawagon had presented me with a title." Weiser had no choice, and the coveted rifle became the prop erty of the wily Indian. But a few days later, Taruchawagon said to Shikellimy, "1 dreamed that Shi kellimy presented me witli a large and beautiful island situated in the Susquehanna River." The island was a favorite possession of the chief's; yet he gave it to his friend, though as lie did so, he said; "Bet us never dream again." Pittsburgh's smoke is excused: it is the city's badge of honor, her proof of a worthy existence. We are reminded of her natural beauty. A Kuropean artist who visited here in 1834 selected a view of the city which impressed hint remarkably as being a duplicate of a scene front 11lie hills of Pera, opposite Constan tinople. "The distances are on a i smaller scale," lie wrote, "but the [heights are not dissimilar." i Along the old National Road from [Philadelphia to Pittsburgh used 1 10 travel the picturesque Conestoga 'wagon—with its curved bottom that | prevented freight from slipping out ■of place on mountain roads, its I bright blue paint and its four to eight horses. For the drivers who liked to smoke, a Washington man ufacturer rolled a long cigar which he could sell four for a cent. They became so popular with the men, jtliey were named "Conestogus," I soon shortened to "stogies." The railroad from Washington in ! Greene County to Waynesburg was 'described in J 874 by a wag: "It wriggles in and it wriggles out, And leaves the matter still in doubt. Whether the man who made the track —- Was going out or coming back." ' Since then the line has been eon j siderably straightened, but is still | picturesque. There is a bit of Lewistown liis | tory which might have been a help- | ful grading suggestion before Amer- ! | ica's dry days. In its pioneer days j i Htumps in the streets were so plenti j ful that the line for drunkenness! J was the digging up of a stump, and | 'a ravine near the center of the town i was filled thus. ■ But the drunkenness was not oon i fined to the whites. In 17.">0 a chief i Buhl to the white traders: "You now ! bring us scarcely anything but rum land flour. The rum ruins us. We [ beg you would prevent its coming : in such quantities." • Pottsvllle is the metropolis of the i south anthracite fields. Here, *in I 1812, coal was loaded into nine wa : gons and taken to Philadelphia. The i effort to introduce it. was in vain; I the man who made the attempt was called an impostor because lie tried Ito sell stone for coal. Most of it was given away. Not until 1824 did sn j tliraeite give Pottsville a nunre. [Then a boom started, and vulues in- I creased accordingly. The story of | the influx of foreign seekers from | Philadelphia and Beading sounds i like a bit of California description i in the days of the gold excitement. Great herds or huffulo used to roam from Harrisburg to Sunbury j and on up the west branch of the i Susquehanna River. As late as 1778 : there were probably 12,000 bison in [ the herds that came to this part of | the country. ! Thp terminus of Route VIII. Is I Altoona and the historic Eogan I House, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1 855, six yours after the founding of the town in the almost unbroken wilderness of the moun i tains. i As each route is enjoyed, either by actual travel or in the seclusion of one's library following Doctor Faris i through the book, the reader is im ; pressed thut that must be the finest scenery in the State—until the next i route is reached. The truth Is, the. . whole region is so satisfying it Is I difficult to compare counties and DECEMBER 17, mv. Let i's Remember When welcome's cheers have died; j when these brave men Are silted through our common daily life. When khaki garb is doffed for work again, And as a distant dream, becomes the strife, Shall we allow the tlame that Ores and thrills Our grateful souls to-day with • fervent praise Die out of sheer neglect or ease | tliat frills The fat, plethoric hours of peace- i ful days? When No Man's i.and is every man's I once more And underneath the flower-dotted I sod The dust of those who died long | years ago Has mingled with the earth i their souls with God; When children, yet unborn, piay on ; the grass, And from the mounds Hie gold eyed daisies pull, Shall we, absorbed in other things that puss, Forget the men who paid our debts—in full? If we forget them and our hearts grow cold. As Time marks out a length of years between. What shame for us if wliwt they thought pure gold Of love he tinsel that the years turn green! Let us remember faithful each day. Each passing hour, the cross of ours they bore. And teach our children when they kneel and pray To say, "God bless and keep them evermore." ' —Harry Varley, in New York Her ald. Railing a Historic Penalty \ [From the Wilkes-Barre Record] I Commenting on the publication j of documents and papers found in German archives, giving information as to responsibility for the war, Ihe German newspaper Vorwacrts says, referring to the former Kaiser: "It will be quite clear that with this man at the head of affairs Ger many was bound some day to get into a war and lose il The German nation is now paying the world a historic penalty for its offense, which consisted in this, that they allowed him to rule." The newspaper Vorwaerts has al- I ways been on the outs with llohen solium government, but what it | says in this instance Is confirmed by j plain admissions from Germans of | prominence who formerly were glad enough to lick the hand of the Kais- I or. In the light of evidence that can not he contradicted and of docu ! jnents that cannot be denied, tlie; j truth stands out in the glare of the | limelight despite the former Kaiser's (desperate attempt to absolve hini- I self from responsibility. Any per ! .ion who is capable of thinking might know without any evidence at all that a ruler having the power of the : Kaiser would not permit his country ! to be plunged into war without his ! knowledge and consent or without liis planning. The documents niere , ly add confirmation to what was pre j viousiy known. Red Revolutionists (From Philadelphia Inquirer.] i Counsel for Berkman and Emma j Goldman, appearing before the Su- I premo Court in an effort to save his i clients from deportation, said of | them that they had been "harried, i bullied and jailed." Poor, abused ! mai'tyrs! Think of bullying crca j tures of tliis sort! They are both | red revolutionists. Berkman actu i ally did try to murder Ilenry C. I Prick and nearly succeeded. The I hands of the man and the woman j have been against all government i save that of their own—n govern | ment of plunder and of bloody au ■ toe racy. And now after years and i years of liberty, during which time i they have plotted and planned de struction, comes a lawyer to enm i plain that they arc "harried, bullied ! and jailed." Germans Offer Potash i [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] I The statement, on uuthority of the North German Gazette, tliut the German Potash Syndicate is aguln negotiating with America with ex cellent prospects of reuching an i agreement profitable to both sides, will be especially pleasing news for farmers in the United States. Ac cording to an account of industrial conditions in Germany the arrange ment cannot fail to be eminently saitsfactory to German interests, as the proposal under consideration contemplates extensive exchange of | German potash for American coal. lEuwtf ng (Etjat What is getting the matter with Dauphin county hunters? The State Game Commission has received word from C. B. Lightner, the special pro tector, who spent considerable lime in the upper end of the county, that only two bucks were shot during the season which ended on Monday. This HI e resu,t 01 11 careful survey and will probably make some hunters ex plain. because this county licensed | thousands of men and there were any number of ambitious nimrods i combing the county above the First i Mountain. The State liberated 51! i deer in the lluldeman forest reserve ;in the Klizabthville-Bykens region j ' ils t year, t'o of them being bucks, and they have been seen in many sections, some straying down into t lark's valley ami others being noted ,in I lie vicinity of Halifax, while they j have been seen in the woods which I line t lie ridges north of l'eters Moun tain. Must it be said that the Duu- I pliin county li miters can't shoot? j There were many of them out witli j avowed purpose of showing that I Dauphin county had regained its old time prestige as a good deer hunting . county and either they must not have been experienced deer hunters or else tlie animals were 100 licet for them, in any event, it is estimated that there were about too deer hunt ers out for each buck known to be iti the county and only two pairs of antlers have been taken. Among visitors to the city yester day was Col. Samuel W. Miller, of the United States Army, who was officer in charge of t tie I iurrisbitrg recruiting district just after the Spanish War and who commanded Hie Fort Niagara training camp at which Captain "Jack" Sproul. son of the Governor, and other officers were trained in Iyl 7. Col. Miller was ad vanced to be a brigadier general, but l made sucli a record in charge of j training camps that lie was kept in command of these important estab i llslunents. Twice lie was given I brigades and then placed in charge of camps, including Fort Sill part of J the lust six months of the war. He | is now the officer in charge of militia .affairs for the eastern purt of the ] Flitted Stales and stationed at Gov- I ernor's island. The State of Pennsylvania's* own oroliestra will give a concert in tlie State Capitol complimentary to Gov ernor and Mrs. William Sproul. State officials, attaches and their wives and families next month. The orchestra is composed entirely of men connected with the various branches of the State government and is directed by Howard W. Fry, sccretury of the State Highway Ik— partment. Capitol officials have given it the use of a caucus room for rehearsals and once a week classical selections have been practiced where presiding officers of legislative houses have been nominated and where some of the biggest Public Service cases have been argued. # 0 * Announcement of the dividend earned by lite liarrlsburg Hotel Company the past eleven months shows how even the most expert of financiers can lie fooled by an invest ment. There were those who a year ago to-day would have sold their stock at fifty cents on the dollar and few banks cared to loan GT. ft. The investors went into it for the most part as a patriotic duty. But there were those at the opening dinner of the Penn-llarris who believed in the soundness of tlie Investment and who predicted that it would become "one of the best paying industrials in Ilar risburg," which it now bids fair to do. it also proves that those who used to tell us that "a dry hotel will never pay" didn't know what they were talking about, and since the Penn-llarris lias been made to pay without a bar, hotel keepers who will sell no more liquor need not despair, as one of them said a day or two ago, for what they lose in one place they will make up in another, "if the serv ice is made good enough" * * * In spile of the weather conditions, which are not any too pleasant these days, there have been a nuirtber of people coming to Harrisburg <lll automobile trips. Tliey are mostly men who have business in the cen tral section of the State and who prefer running their own cars to the vagaries of trains. December I automobile tours are something 1111- | usual for Pennsylvania. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 ]i r . \V. D. T.ewis, deputy Super- I intendent of Public Instruction, was ' one of the speakers at the Adams j county Institute. ' —Major E. P. Maokey. who won high honors in France, will become connected with the otllce of register of wills in Wlllinmsport. —James E. Collins, a. Philadelphia rector, says that he thinks the Sun day schools will have to do something to brace up attendance. —Charles McGowan, Luzerne county silk manufacturer, will make 1 a tour of the world. •—Fred J. Brenner, steel rnanu i focturer, has been elected president | of the new Farrell Chamber of Com merce. —Justice John K. Kepliart was speaker at the Allentown Masonic patriotic meeting. Harry S. Calvert, secretary of the old Railroad Commission, was here yesterday. He is now engaged in manufacturing in Ohio. Y DO YCU KNOW —That Harrisburg is handling many car repairs every day and is becoming more of a repair j center than ever? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —One of the first bridges built in Ifarrishurg was over Paxton creek 011 Market street. Knox Proposes Peace Status [From the Scranton Republican 1 i Interest in the Peace Treaty was revived in the United States Senate on Saturday, when Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, presented two resolu tions on the subject. The first of these declares in favor of "ratification of the treaty of Ver sailles, in so far only as it provides' for the creation of a status of peuce between the United States and Ger many," and the second proposed that between the United States and Ger many." Hoth resolutions require joint action by the Senate and House, ami approved by the President. Senator Underwood, Democrat, of Alabama, expressed himself in favor of direct action for a status of peace, leaving the League of Nations for later consideration. Upon an objection by Senator Hitchcock, the Knox resolutions went j over, under the rules, but it is ex pected that they will be called up | again this week. * /
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