8 IHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J, STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P~R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor !x R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive lloard McCULLOUGH, * " BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members 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 fiaper and also the local news pub lished herein. 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American pi Newspaper Pub -rrrSTi Ushers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- MCNHVfffI sylvania Associa mmy _ oted Dailies. 55 JSC P 1 Eastern office. uui H Ilia rvi Story, Brooks & |SgS 199 K F Finlcy, Fif th 9DB ffl H f Avenue Building, • iiTnir " W New York City; ISnnHMr Western office, jit Story, Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, ~ : Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a rrfacTV fjfct week; by mall, J3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 20, 1919 Hoice'er it be, it seems to me t 'Tis only noble to be good: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple frith than Xorman bIood. — TENNYSON. GOOD LEADERSHIP THE Harrisburg Council, Boy Scouts of America, will start the year under extremely fa vorable circumstances. It was for tunate in having J. William Bow man as president and William H. German as Scout Commissioner, and it is to be congratulated upon the selection of Arthur D. Bacon as president and John S. Musser as commissioner for the succeeding twelve months. Three years ago, nearly, the Ro tary Club led the movement to place the Boy Scout movement in Harris burg on a permanent basis, since which time the Scouts have earned their right to a place among the civic institutions of the city deserv ing the hearty support of the pub lic. A glance at the makeup of the council chosen last evening will as sure friends of the Scout organiza tion it is in good hands and that its Interests will be effectively safe guarded and promoted during the year. Harrisburg has been given ample reason to admire the Scouts and to wish them well. We would not know how to get on without them. They will come before the people for support next spring, and there will be no question that they will get what they ask. PROF. CI IAS. S. DAVIS ELECTION of Prof. Charles s. j Davis to be superintendent of Steelton public schools, filling the place made vacant by the death of Prof. L. E. McGinnes, will meet with the hearty approval, not only of educators familiar with his abil ity, but with the people as well. As principal of the Steelton High School Professor Davis has made a reputation for himself throughout the State. Not only is he an able executive and teacher, but he is a man of affairs as wetl. As a leader of civic activities Professor Davis has done much for Steelton and as a lover of clean sport he has been one of those who put high school athletics on a high plane in Penn sylvania. He goes to his new work thoroughly equipped and with the support of the public. TIME TO DO SOMETHING MR. FARMER tells us that the coal strike has ended in a vic tory for the Government. The miners went back when they pleased after they had been granted a big raise in wages and were given the promise of a satisfactory read justment of their other differences. If that was a Government victory, why certainly the Government is to be congratulated, but the popular conception of the outcome of the bituminous trouble does not corre spond to the view taken by Mr. Palmer. Mr. Palmer is a strong talker, but not a very great doer. Take, for example, his suit against the big packers. We read that it has been "compromised" by the packers unscrambling their various industries, which will leave them as powerful as the Standard Oil re mained after the famous dissolution decree against it. The form differs, that is all. This is another of the Palmer "triumphs," of which the At torney General is boa&ting so loudly. And now we are told that to cut the high cost of living little more will bo necessary than to have the retailer mark his gpods with the wholesaler's price. All very good so far as it goes, but why doesn't Mr. Palmor go back to the producer? Why not have the producer's price, the wholesaler's price, the Jobber's price, as well as the retailer's and the wholesaler's, and what is to pre vent the wholesaler from letting his SATURDAY EVENING, 'goods pass through the hands of a .personally controlled agency, buying I from the wholesaler and letting them j slip through this third party so j priced as to give the public the idea ! that but a small profit is being | realized, whereas big profits aro I being taken? Then, too, would it not be helpful and enlightening to have the overhead costs of the vari ous firms set out in the proposed price tables, so that net profits could be more clearly shown? Mr. Pal mer's plan may have the germ of a good idea in it, but it needs a lot of revision before it can be made helpfully applicable to the present situation. I The trouble with the Attorney ! General is that he has been talking too much and thinking not enough. LANE IS POLITE SECRETARY LANE is a polite and kindly man. He is .going to resign, he admits, oh, yes, but j not because of any disagreement j with the President and he won't quit ; until the President is on his feet i again. But he will get out of the Cabinet, of that he leaves no doubt. The truth is, that the Wilson ad ministration is "all shot to pieces." The Cabinet members are at odds with each other or out of harmony with the President and how long present conditions can continue no body knows. A break would have come sooner no doubt if Mr. Wilson had not lost his health. Serious friction has arisen over both the Mexican and coal situations which have been to the fore of late, and, not only has Administrator Gar field resigned on account of the bar gain made with the miners, but Sec retary Lansing' is reported to have nearly taken the same step on ac count of the setback received by him at the hands of the President in re fusing to bring about a show-dqwn with Carranza. Secretary Lansing and Ambassador Fletcher fully approved of the reso lution introduced by Senator Fall, of New Mexico, it is understood, which provided that recognition of the Car ranza government should be immeoi ately withdrawn by the United States and that diplomatic relations with Mexico should be severed. Com ing so close upon his lisagreement with the President upon the subject of the Shantung award, the Presi dent's repudiation of the attitude of his Secretary of State, who really de sires to pursue an aggressive and dig nified policy toward the Mexican government, it is believed that Lans ing will merely bide his time until the whole matter has subsided and then resign. THE " Y " GROWS COMPARISON of the relative strength of the Y. M. C. A. or ganization in Pennsylvania and other large states in the east makes an admirable showing in leadership lor this State. Pennsylvania is far ahead of New York in every way, notwithstanding the Empire State has more large cities and popula tion centers. There are practically 100,000 members of the "Y" in Pennsylvania, which is considerably above the high water mark in 1917 and 22,000 higher than last year's figures. It is an encouraging fact that this State has over 8,000 members more than any other state. This represents fifty years of growth and the organiza tion is advancing in every useful way. Just now the Y. M. C. A. is con ducting a nation-wide extension movement whose aim is the reach ing in some way of every man and boy of "Y" age in the Nation. WORKING TO A STANDARD IF THE manufacturers of clothing in the United States, who are to hold a meeting at Washington soon to discuss ways and means of reducing the cost of clothing to the consumer, can produce a uniform, standard cloth from which a suit can be made to sell at a reasonable figure to the wearer a big step will have been taken to cut this particu lar item of the high cost of living. Profiteering aside, and there has been and is entirely too much of it, the people themselves have been very largely responsible for high costs of garments and shoes. They have de manded all manner of fancy weaves and patterns. Oddity has been at a premium. Everything has been sac rificed for elegance of appearance. The more "exclusive" the cloth, the leather or the design the better the wearer has been pleased, regardless of price. The manufacturers propose a uni form cloth and possibly a uniform design, or series of them, and if thoy can induce the people to wear these; if they can make such garments "fashionable," the prices will drop rapidly. Styles are handed down by the "smart set," the so-called "carefut dressers," and if these can be induced to lead off, there can be no doubt of the beneficial results. It is most devoutly to be wished that the manu facturers will make the movement a success. WHO KNOWS? A TRUSTED employe of the Har risburg post office was arrested yesterday charged with the theft of money from letters. He was a man of family und had been in the postal service sixteen years. So far as known he had no bad habits. The amounts he took were small. "Serves him right," you may say, "he ought to have known he would be caught; all such are." There can be no question of his error. "He might havo known he would be caught." surely, for few men can steal from Uncle Sam and escape. But we would like to know the inside of this man's story—the causes leading up to this first breach of trust in sixteen years. ' Honesty becomes habitual, and some dire need must have prompted tho honest clerk of years standing sud denly to become a thief. Perhaps, if the truth were known, some of Mr. Burleson's boasted sur- I plus post office earnings, if given in | tho way of decent salaries to the ; men who earned it, might have been instrumental in keeping this clerk straight. Putting poorly-paid men j into positions of financial trust is a i poor way of promoting honesty. T>oOKco fa By the Ex -Committeeman Polks around the Democratic State windmill do not appear to be very much disturbed by the reports that back of the candidacy of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of Philadel phia, is a well developed boom for William G. McAdoo for President. From what they say, they look for Mr. Palmer to get all of the Key stone State delegation on a favorite son plea and they .are in a fair way, from present indications, to realize that hope. The Bonniwell candi dacy is not considered in the really dangerous class, but more in the manner of a floating mine. The boom for National committeeman that is being closely observed from every listening post until tho Sterl ing-Guffey differences on the same Question are settled is that of Arthur G. Dewalt, of Allentown. Dewalt has a faculty of coming back, as the men who sent him to the political guillotine when the Penn sylvania Democracy was reorganized in 1911 now realize, and they would just as soon live at peace with him as in war. They are not quite sure whether Dewalt is really running for National committeeman or whether he lias not something under way in his district, in which event they would like to know where he will throw the strength he has in the State. Dewalt is regarded by some of the men around the Windmill to be more likely to Jiave McAdoo be hind him than Bonniwell. He has managed to get elected to Congress three times and with two Berks county men in the field for the Dem ocratic nomination this year, he may bo able to effect some compromises which would take him out of the State-wide fight. —One of the most interesting of the bits of Democratic presidential gossip that is going the rounds is that William Jennings Bryan is being groomed by some of the men who were against him a few years ago. The Philadelphia Public Ledger prints a story that the Nebraskan, who has homes in North Carolina and Florida as well, was the guest of honor at a rather select Democratic dinner. The Philadelphia Press, which generally reflects the Palmer viewpoint in Washington dispatches, says that Palmer will wait until the President is formally not a candidate before announcing any ambitions of his own. It adds that Secretary Joe Tumulty is backing Palmer. Thus far Palmer does not appear to have gathered up many delegate signs outside of Pennsylvania, but once the President decides that he will not be a candidate he may be looked for to be a pretty busy individual. —The Philadelphia Press says edi torially regarding Democratic affairs in this State: "It has been made evident that the faction of the Dem ocratic party in this State which At torney General Palmer does not have 011 his preferred list intends to throw its support to ex-Secretary McAdoo for President, and get as many dele gates as it can for him. Ever since Judge Bonniwell shattered the Pal mer slate at the Democratic pri maries last year a fight has been in prospect. It is to be made for an anti-Palmer National committeeman not only, but on Palmer's Presiden tial boom as well. We shall have merry times for nothing, as it isn't a matter of much consequence whether Palmer or McAdoo can carry the Pennsylvania delegation; neither can carry the State election." —W. Harry Baker, secretary of the Republican State Committee, has made reservations so that Pennsyl vania's delegation to the next Re publican National convention will have the same headquarters that it had during the convention of 1916. Mr. Baker was in charge of the ar rangements for the convention three and a half years ago and is disposed to take time by the forelock and get things well in haad. —Signs of the approach of the presidential delegate campaign are already to be seen about the State Capitol. Numerous inquiries have been coming to the new bureau of elections in the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth as to the time when the blank petition will be available and apparently there is going to be no lack of candi dates among the Democrats. The State organization Democrats have already looked up the law and are now engaged in industriously pre paring to boost candidates for dele gate in the interest of Attorney Gen eral A. Mitchell Palmer. The scouts who were out to see if any men were apt to run for delegate who would not be for Palmer have to start all over again because of the National committee place row. Present inJ dications are that the Palmer men will have more trouble with those who want to be delegate at large than with anything else. Counterfeit Savings Stamp [From Greater New York.] Attention is called to a counterfeit of the 1919 War Savings Stamp in a circular letter sent out by Air. Benjamin Strong, Governot of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as follows: "We are informed by the Treasure Department. Wani-.ington, that coun terteit War Savings Stamps of "he 1.110 issue have been discovered among dealers in the East pasted on genuine certificates; that the coun terfeit is a photographic production in good color blue ink, but that the fine lines behind the portrait In the genuine appear in solid color in the counterfeit and that the perfora tions of the genuine stamps appear photographed on the counterfeit. Secret Service agents have been in structed to notify postmasters, sub stations, banks and dealers request ing the immediate arrest of any body presenting certificates bearing any of these counterfeits. "The Secret Service of the New York district has under date of Oct. 8, 1919, requested us to nsk that any person presenting a certificate bear ing any of these counterfeits should be detained and turned over to the nearest Secret Service agent or po lice officer and this (the Secret Ser vice) office notified by wire—-tele grams to be sent Government rate, collect, addressed 'Secikt Service, Custom House. New York." "The Post Office Department has also taken appropriate steps in the premises and wide publicity has been given the subject in the iiews t papers." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH THAT GUILTIEST FEELING By BRIGGS "TME.se CLues- rut. trv ) ///AA I! IIMIIII llllmmM / __ I /A. BPASSie FOR You - \'\J6 ) '"//// 'Hill 111111 IIIB&MPH / He 5 had THAT I X Alo £XT RA Ball POO / 7/ fl / L L Y i CAM TAKt- HOWS THE hat/ J I ' Mmlß > x V6ARS- VISIT AnjD IS UMPR£PAR*EO, 1 ' Cifrriilrt W - "" * Challenge to Democrats The Republican Publicity Asso ciation through its President, Jonathan Bourne, Jr., to-day gave out the following statement from its Washington Headquarters: "We should like to have Demo- ; cratic editors make a list of in-1 stances in which President Wilson | has proven to be a wise adviser or leader of the American people. We challenge them to name one in stance in which time has proven the wisdom of the President's advice. We will go further than that and issue the challenge not merely to Democratic editors but to Demo crats in general. And, just to re fresh their memories, we will cite a few instances of important sub jects upon which the President has advised the American people. "He advised and secured repeal of the law which gave free tolls to American coast-wise shipping through the Panama Canal —thus discouraging American shipping by water. "He advised and secured the en actment of a tariff-for-revenue-only law which opened our markets/ to foreign producers, closed mills and ( threw millions of men out of em- ( ployment, before the war created ab normal industrial activity. "During the early years of the war and until public opinion would hear it no longer, he advised against preparedness, declaring that advo cates of preparedness were 'nerv ous and excited.' "After the sinking of the Lusi tania, he declared that America was 'too proud to fight.' "He advised and secured enact ment of the infamous Adamson law, which was the beginning of our in dustrial troubles. "He advised against a literary test in the immigration laws, and vetoed a bill establishing such a test. "He advised executive clemency for Mooney lest enforcement of the law displease the Bolshevists of Rus sia. "He advised clemency for Hill strom, the convicted I. W. W. mur derer in Utah and expressed regret that he was unable to persuade the Governor to grant his request. "He advised interweaving the League of Nations covenant in the Peace Treaty, thus delaying peace and creating international ill-feeling. "He advised departure from Wash ington's policy of noninterference in European affairs. "He advised that the United States join in a League of Nations in which Great Britain would have six votes to our one. "He advised making the Monroe Doctrine subject) to interpretation by a League of Nations council or assembly. "He advised making what he called the 'supreme sacrifice' of American nationalism to the League of Nations.. "He advised subordination of American industry to an interna tional labor conference provided for by the Treaty of Peace. "In which of these instances will our Democratic neighbors undertake to defend the Wilson Administration through the campaign of 1920?" Favorite Books "Out of Print" [From Christian Science Monitor.] It was indeed a serious state of things which was unfolded to the Library Association in England re cently, by L. Stanley Jast, of the Manchester public libraries. It ap pears that many famous children's books are actually out of print and that the libraries are experiencing great difficulty in completing their shelves. Much of Harrison Ains worth and the whole of Jules Verne —imagine it!—the sea stories of W. 11. G. Kingston, several tales by Captain Marryatt and Ballantyne are practically unprocurable, save through the second-hand dealer. And so Mr. Jast proposes that the coun cil of the Library Association shall negotiate with publishers for the re print of these books, guaranteeing such publisher as may undertake the work a large enough sale to the public libraries to pay the expenses end provide the necessary profit. It is certainly a scheme worthy of nil consideration, for something must be done about it. Captain Marryat out of print! and Jules Verne! No Salesmanship Required [From the Louisville Courier- Journal.] "You no longer indulge in the pcr fervid style of oratory you used to affect." "Naw." yawned the real estate man, "I simply tell 'em I've got a house for sale. They don't ask any more." Alaska's Reindeer Multiply Rapidly. Carl J. Loman in the National Geographic Magazine. THE Alaskan reindeer is not j highly prolific. The female | deer usually gives birth to but j one fawn a year, and if there are! twins, one (or both) of the young! is liable to die. The rapid increase of reindeer, in | Alaska is due to two facts: One j is the remarkable hardihood of the j fawns, which only a few hours after i birth are strong and fleet of foot, j The contrast between the self re-1 liant fawn and the weak, knobby I kneed colt or calf is striking and j has much to do with the tendency ! of reindeer herds to increase rap- j idly in spite of a low birth rate. As , the social worker would say, the infant mortality is slight. The other factor in the rapid in crease, and an illustration of the fact that early fecundity is not en tirely a tropical trait, is the remark able fact that yearling reindeer fre quently reproduce. Extreme cold rarely kills off the very young. The rigors of the Arc- I tic and the forcing processes of trop ical heat both serve to protect from extermination the fauna of :he re spective zones of each. The reindeer has been aptly named. Of all ungulate, ruminant and gre garious animals it is one of the most particular in the selection of its food. It pastures during the sum mer on tender mosses, lichens, mushrooms, algae and grasses. Its j typical home is Lapland. In the ' Lapp tongue the word "reino" j means pasturage, so that the word I "reindeer" means an animal that | pastures. During the long winter I Palmer Boom Strikes a Snag [From Philadelphia Inquirer.] Friends of Attorney General Pal mer who had hoped that he might be the unopposed choice of the Pennsylvania delegation for the Democratic nomination for President have had an unexpected jolt. They have learned that Mr. Palrier will not only be opposed, but that he will have to fight for his leadership of the State. The enterprising Judge Bonniwell has cast his hat in the ring. This shy and shrinking young man does not aspire to the presi dency although Excelsior is his watchword —but his ambition is to attend the political funeral of A. Mitchell Palmer. Judge Bonniwell announces his candidacy for membership in the Democratic National Committee from Pennsylvania and "fully expects to be elected." With great amiability ho calls attention to the "increasing distrust of the traitorous Palmer leadership," and predicts his own election over the Palmer slated candi date. He assures his friends and the Democrats of the State "that not more than 28 of the 78 National delegates will be friendly to Mr. Pal mer for the Presidential nomina tion." It is not necessary to regard Judge Bonniwell us a great politician or an unerring forecaster of political events in order to understand that we are going to have an old-fash ioned Democratic rumpus in the Keystone State. Bonniwell starts with the advantage of achievement upon his side.. He won the Demo crate nomination for the governor ship against Palmer and the united administration forces, and although he never had the ghost of a chance of election he demonstrated that there was a deep-seated resentment against the Attorney General on the part of the rank and file of the party in this State. Bonniwell claims that Palmer and his friends liolted the ticket after it had been fairly nomi nated. The defeYise of the Palmer ites—and a mighty feeble one it is— is that Bonniwell was nominated by a fluke and did not represent the real sentiment of the party in Pennsyl vania. What they meant by this was that they were caught napping. Evi dently they will not be unprepared in the present contest. The Federal officeholders will bo with them to a man and we may rest assured that political postmasters throughout the State will not confine their activities to an eight-hour day for the next few months. The Oasis [From the ltochester Post-Express.] The railway administration is likely to provoke revolution if it cur tails Wain service to St. Louis. : the deer subsist entirely upon moss, j which abounds on the vast tundras | and hills of Alaska, so that the I deerman has almost unlimited ' grazing land for his herds. | The reindeer constitutes the genus j rangifer, differing from that of or dinary deer in the important par- I ticular that both sexes have antlers. ! which are shed annually. | A study of the physical character | istics and the habits of this unique j brand of live stock forms a fascin- I ating subject for the deerman, only. I some of which can be mentioned j here. He has observed that the : antlers of the female remain much j later in the spring than do those ,of the male, thus affording the mother a weapon with which to drive away the stronger male from good feeding places for her young; that the large antlers and brow tines of the deer are not used, as Stated by many writers, to scrape away the snow and uncover the moss, but that the deer use their hoofs to break the crust and paw ' their way to their feed; that while in motion a herd produces a peculiar sound, similar to that of an ap proaching hail storm, a crackling sound, which some have claimed arises from the striking together of the horny toes, but which in fact is due to the peculiar anatomy of the animal at the fetlocks, and is produced by some sinew at that point when the foot is in action. ■ Unlike most nnimals, the reindeer prefers to travel against the wind, j Heavy hair about the head and I shoulders and a growth of long, I whitish hair under the neck are spe- I cial protections against cold. America's Opportunity [From the Mnnufa ?turers Record.] What promiscuous riches Lenine and Trotzky are promising from the shambles they create America was offering to men of all the earth a hundred years ago, and has been of fering ever since. Hero the national wealth has never been walled in. Op portunity has walked naked through the streets of the towns and down the country lanes. Who wanted her could take her. There is no factory in America so great that the workingmen laboring in it cannot acquiie it. Under our system of government the way is open to them. They have but to win, by brain and energy, the money to purchase it. Is the method dif ficult? Some tens of thousands of men now living have used It suc cessfully. What there is of wealth in the United States —wealth in the form of property, wealth in the form of position at the bar, wealth at the surgeon's table, wealth in the forum, wealth in science, wealth anywhere, in any and every form —belongs to no class but to 1.11 classo3. The Who's Who of America is a list of nobodies who became somebodies. Pick up a history of the leather business, or the textile industry or the steel citadels, of any or every industry and business, and there is found the romance of acquisition as provided for under American Gov ernment. The proletariat! Why, America is the proletariat. Not the proletariat of stupidity or the proletariat of sloth, but the proletariat on the march, the pro letariat from which each day are emerging the men and women of ability who have proved their right to load, who have, won the right to ride on horseback. What, then, is it that the emissar ies of revolution want? Short cuts? Even they might be excusable in a status of society such as that in France before the Revolution. No, short cuts is not the sole answer. They do not want to play the game according to the rules. Three generations from shirt sleeves to shljt sleeves! Why, Amer ica built up a system long ago that negntlved what revolutionists mean when they cry "Capitalism." Americanizing Porto Rico [From the Columbus Dispatch.] We see by government report that in the 20 years that Potto Rico has been following Uncle Sam's le&ding strings she has accumulated a debt of $10,000,000, and we guess she Is acquiring the American way all right. DECEMBER 20, 1919. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Things to Forget To the Editor of the Telegraph; Mr. Editor of the Telegraph I am sending in this note a piece that might do some of the critics some little good if they would take time enough from tending to other peo ples business to read this truthful article, and as your Telegraph is the bestes paper that is printed in this section of Woodrows Wilsons coun try I send it in to you, with the hopes that you kin give it space in your sheet." If you see a tall fellow ahead of a crowd, A leader of men, marching fearless and proud, And you know of a tale whose mere telling aloud Would cause his proud head to in anguish be bowed, IT'S A PRETTY GOOD PLAN TO FORGET IT. If you know of a skeleton hidden away In a closet, and guarded, and kept from the day In the dark, and whose showing, whose sudden display Would cause grief and sorrow and lifelong dismay. IT'S A PRETTY GOOD PLAN TO FORGET IT. If you know of a thing that will darken the joy Of a man or a woman, a girl or a boy, That will wipe out a smile, or the least way annoy A fellow, or cause any gladness to cloy, IT'S A PRETTY GOOD PLAN TO FORGET IT. Now if youens can find space for this piece of junk I will send you some more some time in the newyear as I honestly think that if some of the readers of your most valuable sheet would cast aside their mental laziness and permit some good dope similar to the nbovo (hey sure would wake up to the fact that being a critic pays little or no celary. Here is a quotation I read in an nlmanic some years ago and it hit me as being pretty good so I'll pass it on to the editor: Advise is usually worth what people charge for it, hense the liberal amount some people are so ready to dispense for NOTHING is worth just that much and no more. If this, my first work as an author, appears, then I'll send in some more, but if you consign this to the waste basket or pass it over to the print shop devil—well, that's a Q that my attempt failed to meet with your approval. Respectfully vonrs, BY IIECK. Oxford Degrees For Women [From the Manchester Guardian.] It is officially announced that in Hilary term a statute will be pro mulgated providing that women may be matriculated and admitted to de grees in the university. It will be proposed that the gen eral control of the women students will be invested in a delegacy con sisting of the vice chancellor and proctors, the controller of lodging houses, nine men being members of Convocation, the principal of the So ciety of Oxford Home Students, and eight other women. Women mem bers of the delegacy, whether mem bers of Convocation or not, shall en joy all the powers and privileges of delegates. It will be proposed that a woman member of the university may sup plicate for the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of music, bachelor of letters, bachelor of science, bach elor of medicine, bachelor of civil laws, master of arts, doctor of mu sic, doctor of letters, doctor of science and doctor of philosophy. Pershing's Inspiring Note [Prom the Philadelphia Ledger.] Above nil, the broad conclusions of General Pershing, when he comefc to lay down the reasons for oir suc cess, are of the most inspiring char acter. For in his general "apprecia tion" decided, after mentioning the "splendid ability, loyalty and effi ciency that characterized the 'serv ice of both combatant and noncom batant individuals and organiza tions," in pointing out that thc"most striking quality of both officers and men was the resourcefulness, energy and common sense employed under all circumstances in handling their problems." Approbation from Sir Hubert is praise indeed. lEawttng dipt Counties which were closed to deer hunting by the State Game Commission for five years and which the State aided in restocking have afforded some of the first deer hunt ing in decades and there is promise of more next year, according to re ports which have reached the office of the Commission in this city. The movement to close counties to hunt ing of various kinds was launched several years ago and about half of the State was put on the list while scores of deer were bought in other states and shipped to the State's game preserves and then liberated, in addition, private enterprise brought in a number of animals. Among the counties which have re ported 301110 deer shot for the first time in several years is Wa.rren, where 52 were forest, Lacka wanna, Clarion and Butler. There were numerous deer shot in the ountics where there are game pre erves. The hear kill also ran righ, although it will not run as far as the kill the deer, which is estimated at 1 bout 3,000 bucks. The State reports ire very favorable as regards the vild turkey season. Of almost 5,800 licenses issued by lie State for the sale of oleomargar ne, and that figure establishes a rec rd, only two were issued to hotels •nd six to restaurants. Last year here were 5,477 licenses for the sale if the butter substitute, which has igured so much in legislation, is ued in the State afld all records ere broken. Thus far in 1919 there nve been 5,781 licenses issued, the avenue of the State from this source his year being over half a million lollars. There have been issued so ar almost 5.600 retail licenses and 9 for wholesale sales. In the list f licensees are 157 boarding houses. The severely cold weather of the ,ist week has been reflected at the State Capitol by a remarkable in rease in the number of fire reports. Under the law creating the State Ru eau of Fire Prevention every fire must be reported to the State gov ernment and If any suspicious cir •umslances are connected with it an investigation is made. That cold weather, especially a drop to zero temperature, brings more fires is being well established again on the State records. Perry county has put Dauphin county to shame as regards its kill of deer during the season which ended this week and the report of only two shot by the hunters of the capital county in the face of more than a score of bucks liberated looks pale beside the story from the hooppolo county. There have been 37 bucks of legal size shot this year in Perry county. A year ago there were 21 and the year before that 17. Seth E. Gordon, acting secretary of the State Game Commission, who gives the figures, says that they are offi cial. However, the reports also show that there were eight illegal deer shot in Perry county, seven of them dots and one a baby buck. The lat ter kills are often the result of in experience and excitement, but often of pure cussedness. And the law can net make any distinction. In regard to game, if the plans of Mr. Gordon are carried out, it is probable that Dauphin county will get one of the colonies of beaver which the State is buying In various sections, especally Canada, to revive the beaver in this State. Colonies have been established in several coun ties and have thrived. The beaver will be placed in the Haldeman game preserve in the Lykens valley next year and turned loose to mako themselves at home. This game pre serve, of which not many Harrisburg people know, is one of the best east of the Susquehanna, It is in a State forest reserve and is closed at all times. It is well filled with various kinds of game, including some saucy wild turkeys and a number of deer who appear to know that they are safe. The State of Pennsylvania is now the best buyer of dirt in Harrisburg. To be sure, the State is buying only clean dirt, but it is buying neverthe less and hundreds of cubic yards a week are being taken. The dirt is for the filling in of the State Capitol Park extension and immense quanti ties are being spread about, rain or shine. The indications are that the State will take all the dirt from cellar and other excavations for many months to come, to say noth ing of quantities of slag and cinder. The operation is the largest of the kind ever known in the city, as it means the filling in of something like thirty ordinary city squares. And some time there will be flowers and trees growing on top of it all. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —IT. A. Schmoll, the new health committee chairman for Luzerne county, was formerly president of the Hazleton Chamber of Commerce. —Robert Wetherill, of Chester, prominent in water company affairs, says that the senatorial criticisms of the Government aid to the Spring field consolidated Water Company are groundless. —General E. F. Glenn, who com manded at Camp Sherman and is well known to many Pennsylvanians, has retired. —Governor William C. Sproul is in Pittsburgh to-day. —George Connell, who may be the next president of Philadelphia coun cil, is well known in this city. —Col. M. D. Brown, who com mands the First Infantry, is planning to get his companies all organized next month. —The Rev. Dr. W. M. Auld, of Philadelphia, will accept a pastorate at Toronto. t DO YCU KNOW | —Thatx Ilarrtsburg manufac tures thousands of dollars worth of leather goods every month? Hisrroiuc IIARRISBURG —Troops were brought to this city by the river and train during the Civil War. Questionnaire What is the world to thee and me, my own? Just our love's childhood, very soon outgrown. What are these present, passing hours, dear heart? Only chance friends from "whom wt soon must part. And what Is Death, beloved, to thet and me? But one dark day In Life's eternity And what is Love when all time'l ways are trod? Ah, Love la all of Life and all ol (Sod. \ —Joseph Upper In Contemporaxtl Verse.
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