14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH \a_kewspaper for the home Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph llutldlnK, Federal Saure E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F.~R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor JL R. MICIIENER, Circulation Manager Execatlre Beard 'J.*P. McCULLOUGH, w BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. I 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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. . . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. — v ■■ t Member American Associa lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern M c Avenue Building, I Chicago, 111. i —————————— ————— Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. i - By carrier, ten cents a crsflKSgp® week; by mall. $3.00 a v year in advance. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, IB 19 I And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. to tlie which also ye I 1 were called in one hotly; and he ye j thankful. —Cor- 3:15. GETTING THE EXPERTS NOTWITHSTANDING an that was said in the last half dozen years there has been some | thing wrong with the rural educa tional system in Pennsylvania. Too many complaints have come to Har risburg about inadequate facilities, * poorly-paid teachers, lack of this and that and tax burdened commun ities. Some people believe that the system of apportioning State assist ance is inclined to operate to ad vantage of urban districts and oth- j ers that the attitude of country peo- ! pie toward consolidation of schools, I which is a transportation problem,! has held back development. Whatever may be the cause, it is to the credit of Governor William C. Sproul and his superintendent of public instruction. Dr. Thomas E. ' Finegan, that they have started out to flqd what is the matter. Instead of making speeches about the pre- eminence of Pennsylvania in eduea * tional matters. The selection of Dr. - Lee L. Driver, who has made a con spicuous success in rural school ad- j ; ministration in Indiana, is a step in ] the right direction. He knows the . problem. He comes from an agri * cultural state which has some Sndus > trial features that are possessed in ' this Commonwealth and he is not afraid to tackle what is admittedly j ' > h 'g proposition. From what the j •• >educators say he is an expert in the i .rural end of their profession. And; '" Pennsylvania wants the experts. It [ jjj'fcan pay for them and it is good! business to get them, even if they • do not vote in Philadelphia or some ! * other county. * I OFF FOR RUSSIA " ANT HUNDRED red radicals of! <* Russian birth are being sent [ back to that heaven of Bolshe- | - vism, Russia, the doctrines of which j ■ they tried to preach with bomb and | 1 pistol in the United States. In the 2 solitude of their cabins they will £ spend the nterry Christmas season * "on the high seas, with ample oppor tunity for reflection upon the pe- of the American people, - who prefer an orderly, democratic - form of government to no govern- Z ment, or to one in which a few * lawless, self-appointed dictators * boss everybody else. Also, and Z more to tlie point, they will have * time to think about their own 1 reception by the Bolshevists. In this ■*' country these radicals have been „ leaders of their crew of lesser erim -2 lnais. In Russia they will bow the - knee, and join the ranks or take the .. consequences—and when Trotzky 2 !and Lenincsend n disturber on a J journey it Is opt to lie far more - 'lengthy than from the United States 2 to Russia. Z Poor, misguided wretches, they are being given the only medicine ■ at hand for such desperate cases. J They will learn the difference be ' tween the preaching and the prae ■ ticing of Bolshevism right quickly, and to their sorrow. It is to be hoped the prescription will be ef " fectivc. There are those who think such cases are not entirely hopeless. Of 2 these is none other than Marshal * Foch. "Bolshevism," he says, "is -on state of mind under which the ■ peoples of the defeated countries jj J}re laboring. The gilded promises JS made to the people in these coun '•> tries by tlie autocratic powers which ruled them, that out of the war they would annex riches, and the failure - of these powers to lead the people ..* to the wealth and luxury which they * crave, have placed these poor people 2-.in a state of demoniacal disillusion s'* ment and frenzy, resulting in their Z killing and destroying everything in jj their paths in their abject hopeless- Pi Hess. K "This condition," continues the ; * Marshal, "is a natural result .of tho MONDAY EVENING, chagrin and disappointment of van quished militaristic nations. But It is certain this condition will pass. "When these people realize that the victors In the war were lighting for a noble and just cause, the sal vation of civilization threatened by their seltish masters, they will rec ognize that the war ended in the only possile way it could have ended, and in the best way for them as well as for the peoples of the other nations of the world. It is just as it is in life. A patient who has been ill when he passes the crisis is not yet recovered. He must iirst pass through a long period of conva lescence before ho fully recovers his strength and can again fill his proper place in the world." TIJE BUDGET MAKERS SITTING as a budget, commis sion the members of City Coun cil have been strenuously en deavoring to keep tho expenditures of the coming year within the pos sible revenues. They regard as practically certain an increase of two mills in the tax rate owing to the largely increased labor and ma terial costs in the several depart ments of the city government. Two mills more on the present valua tion would mean two dollars pet thousand per year. For example, a property assessed for purposes of taxation at $3,000 would pay on the increased rate 50 cents a month more than last year. It is well that our people under stand just what the proposed in creased rate would involve and tho municipal authorities, when they shall have finished consideration of the budget, ought to make very clear to the public just what the condi tions are and the occasion for aug mented revenues. Of course, it is obvious that the additional compensation of the po licemen and various other employes jis a large item. It must also be kept jin mind 'that what is true of the man in private business under pres ■ ent conditions is also true of the | city in the conduct of its affairs. The tendency of the times is to ward higher costs in every direction and no business man or average consumer will bo surprised at the gradually climbing expenses of Har risburg. All that the people have a right to expect is that the expendi tures shall be carefully made and without extravagance. Wherever j a dollar can be saved without injury to the proper maintenance of city j property, it should be saved. If there [ is inefficiency anywhere it should be remedied and if there is unreas onable advunces in any quarter these should lie denied. In short, the interests of the taxpayers ought 'to he safeguarded at every turn. It is their city and they should be fully informed as to every expenditure, j its reasonableness and necessity. j Mayor Keister and his associates in these closing days of the year are manifestly endeavoring to prepare a budget which will meet Uie situa tion and not be out of proportion to the needs of a growing and up-to date city. Wherever increased ex penditures are necessary to main tain the efficiency of any department the taxpayer will have no objection. He will have a right to protest, how ever, it any ill-advised action is ta ken which would add without justi fication to the total expenditure and incidentally to the mill rate. Careful pruning of the various items may result in a reduction of i the estimates and the Commission ! ers ought to carve wherever earv • ing will save without injury to the ! city, anil its best interests. We are assured that this is the purpose of ! the budget-makers, and so long as I they proceed on these lines they j will please the people. It is a seri > ous problem in the present day to { keep down expenses, but it is the ; duty of individuals and corpora ! tions and city officials to exercise I the best judgment and the strictest i economy. In this way only can we I get back to solid ground in our per- I sonal, corporate and municipal ac tivities. Among business* men generally there is the h jpo that certain con structive legislation in Congress may reach final enactment early in tho new year. Until the railroads pliall have been returned to their owners and put on a business basis, we can hardly hope for any material im provement. Paternalism has about run its course in the United States under the present administration and sanity is beginning to manifest itself in many directions. WHO WON THE STRIKE? won tlie coal strike?" Yv asks a writer in a current weekly. Mr. Palmer says the Government won it, Mr. Lewis says the miners won it and the operators say they won It. We don't know who won it, but we know who lost it. With a loss in production of 40,000,000 tons of coal, a loss in wages to miners of $00,000,000 a loss j to the operators of $12,000,000, large loss to manufacturers through fuel shortage, thousands of men out of work and an inestimable loss to the people in general, it scents fairly clear to us that the public lost tlie strike. Sometimes, indeed, we are tempted to believe that nobody really won it and that everybody lost it. At all events, the public is more than ever out of humor with strikes and strikers, and if you doubt that ask the first man you happen to meet, or the next hundred. "CAST YOURTBREAD" AST your bread upon the I . waters," is an old proverb the truth of which is dem onstrated in the life of every man. Good deeds und kind acts, like chickens, come home to roost. Tlie other day the sheriff of Franklin county gave a home for life to an aged and helpless man. ' When the sheriff of to-day was a poor, friendless lad, this man gave him a job and started him up tho I ladder of success. After all these years the bread he cust upon the waters is returned to him many fold. If for no other than selfish rea sons, it pays to be kind and gener ous. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," and very often tlie harvest is of sur prising volume. Ck By the EA-Committeeman Women have been formally ap pointed deputies in the oitices of) men elected to important posts in government of half a dozen counties in the State and there tire items appearing in various newspapers which indicate that more are likely to be named. This rather signitl cant series of appointments will probably lie much heard of in the next few months and when women get lite vote.it will be interesting lo J sec how many obtain places which have hitherto been politically sacred to men. Women began to appear in county and municipal offices throughout the State during the war, when they were named to clerkships and even more important places instead of be ing merely stenographers. Since the return of the soldiers it is notice able that women have continued to hold the places and announcements in various counties have indicated that they are permanent appointees. —Announcement of the candi dacy of A. S. McDade, former dis trict attorney of Delaware county, for Republican National delegate in the Delaware-Chester district re calls the effort he made to defeat Judge Isaac Johnson us judge a few years ago and is believed lo be the signal of a new fight. The Mc- Clure element will probably put a candidate in the field against Mc- Dade. Two other announcements of candidacy for Republican dele gate have been made. G. M. Davies, ot" Muuch Chunk, who says lie is for Sproul for President without any reservations whatsoever, and A. F. [Jones, of Coudersport. The latter will be the running mate of A. P. Perley, of Wllliamsport, Philadel phia newspapers say that Senator C. W. Sones, of Lycoming, and Sedg wick Kisller, of Clinton, the lattyr keeper of wampum for the Demo cratic State Committee, will be can didates for Democratic National del egate in the 15th district. —Reading dispatches confirm some thoughts expressed a few days ago that Congressman Ar thur G. Dewalt can be presumed to have something for his own advan tage lurking about in his course in I the 13th Congressional District. Berks County Democratic leaders say they are, waiting to hear wheth er Dewalt intends to run for Na tional Committeeman or to make another try for Congress. Five can didates are now in the field from Berks County. They are: Attorney Harry J. Dunn, Attorney Ira G Kutz and Harry G. Seltzer, all of Reading- Charles li. Spatz, publisher, of Boy eitown, and Howard B. Thompson, a W.vomissing business man. With a five-cornered fight in Berks County, politics will be interesting in the .Democratic ranks during the Com ing primary. —The Philadelphia Press devotes two columns to a discussion of the State Constitutional Revision Com mission and its work, by Udell Hau ser, in the course of which the body is praised for its attention to busi ness. The article says in part: "It should be kept in mind that the I commission has not. yet committed I itself to a revision of the Con stitution. The present tendency is i against any unnecessary change in the present Constitution, for each change means an amendment to be i submitted separately jo the voters. ; When the commission makes* up its I mind that it will have to revise the | entire Constitution and get down to | the work of drafting a new one, a | good deal of this tendency to hold I down will lie swept away. We shall | then find all the members in a more liberal frame of mind. That a clash between the liberal and the conserv ative \ iewpoint will come sooner or later on the commission, is inevit able. It will probably occur when i the body gets down to considering I what new material not contained in the present Constitution should be included in its recommendations. There is no use attempting to spec ulate now how the line-up in the commission will be when that ques tion arises. lam inclined to think that there are, in spite of tho criti cisms, very few members of the com mission who will object to a change just, because it is a change, though ; there are many who will decidedly ) object to making changes merely 'tor the sake of making changes As la matter of fact, to sec this commis- I sion at work is to respect it, especi ally to one who has seen other commissions and other agencies of inquiry marking time on their jobs. Everyone at Harrisburg lias been im pressed by the way tho commission has buckled down to the task." —The Philadelphia Inquirer says Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore has served notice on Senator Martin and David li. Lane that he expects them to help him and that opposition, by their councilmenwill mean reprisals Editorial comment is generally fa vorable to appointment of John C Winston as director of public tvorlt Senator Edwin 11. Vare was first to tender him congratulations. —Appointment of tho mercantile appraisers for the various counties ol' the State will lie announced before Christmas by Auditor General Chas. A. Snyder, who has been at work upon the list for weeks. The Audi tor General has had a cloud of ap plicants who have kept him busy by mail and wire and when he left this city to go to New York to sign the State's road bonds, he hud the list il most completed. "The mercantile appraisers will bo named in good time to prepare for the work which the State will expect tlioni to do un der the new act," said ho. "1 real ize that this is a most Important work and I am confident that the men I name will co-operate with me to the fullest extent and meet the hopes expressed." 1 Mr. Snyder is preparing some data on taxation which he will sub mit to the Constitutional Revision Commission's committee on taxation when jt reassembles after the holi day recess. He will submit the ex perience of his term and outline the changes in the taxation laws which bring under the Auditor General's Deportment various lines whicli have i hitherto been administered by coun- I ties. Pennsylvania now collects prac tically all of its taxes for the first • time in many years and Mr. Snyder j will outline the prospects. I —Cnpltol Hill people are observ ing with considerable interest the HARRISBURCT XET "GRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS 6E. RGASN6LE \ / ///// /7/A - 513 " I)ON ' T Yooß \ / /// //// \ HEART .3ET OM G&TTINT \ \ / V/A / //// THAT DOLL CAUSE N\EBBE/ \ / / 7 • '/// / v3oMETwirO' MUaHT HAPPEfO \ / A /// To SAUTA CLAUS HE / \ / /\Q\ 7 \ CAroT 6e tueT \ CWRTFK. X. R. TTIKM |. FC discussion of the budget system for the State government and while! some are inclined to believe that it is I a legislative and not a constitutional j matter the developments and debates : before the commission will be closely | followed. With State expenditures! running about $50,000,000 a year the j budget will be a pretty big proposi- I tion and experience of departments ! will be submitted, as well as that of j other states and their various gov ernmental branches. ■ —Two departments of the State government are now occupying much attention from those who follow af fairs at the Capitol. They are For estry and Water Supply. Reappoint ment of Seward E. Button as chief of mines and the return of Col. John C. Groome, as superintendent of StatS police have settled for a time, at least in regard to the hitter, two! points of speculation. It is under- | stood that two new water supply commissioners are to succeed O. S. Kelsey, of Bock Haven and B. A. Zentmyer, of Tyrone, both Brum baugh appointees. Whether a change will come in the State Forestry De partment with the new year is much discussed. The developments in the controversy over the way the depart ment should bo run, may bring about a reorganization. McKinleij Set an Example [From the American Review of Reviews. ] If President Wilson had followed j Mr. Mclvinley's method, lie would \ have appointed Mr. Dansing and i Colonel House as members of the ! commission, with Prof. John Has- I sett Moore, who is still young and I vigorous and more than ever cmi-j nent as an authority, to the position of chief secretary and legal expert. I He would then have chosen three members of the Senute, for example, ' Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. Dodge and Mr. I Knox. Or else, in lieu of one of | the Republican senators, he would ! have appointed Mr. Root or Mr. j Taft.' it was not necessary, of | course, for Mr. Wilson to follow the McKinley precedent in that partic ular way. He preferred to nego tiate nt close range; and the condi tions were unprecedented. It is permissible, however, to express the opinion that the more usual methods would have obtained better results than those that Mr. Wilson chose to pursue. lie could probably have gained essential points better if he had di rected the commissioners from tliej White House by cable. Mr. Wil- J son's personal triumph had already , been gained when the armistice was | negotiated successfully upon the j basis of his fourteen points. As re gards everything that follows, it would seem to us that he could have done his work more powerfully and efficiently if he had remained at the helm of affairs In Washington, lie could have viewed the work of the conference in better perspective from Washington than when in the thick of things at Paris. He could have directed the Ameri can commissioners by using the j cable as McKinley did and could | have avoided the peril of securing nt one time undue approbation and influence, while nt nnothet- time arousing undue antagonism. A Plaintive Ditty [From American Ix-gion Weekly.] Among the passengers on the ship was a man who stuttered badly, tine day lie hurried up to the Captain and started: "Th-th-the — "I'm very busy now," Interrupted the Captain. "Tell the mate here." But the mate was also busy, and the stutterer tried everyone else in sight without success. Finally he came back to the Captain. "Book here, man, sing it! That's the only way," urged the officer. Whereat the man chanted in a tragic voice: "Should auld acquaintance lie for got .and never brought to mind? The blooming cook fell overboard and is twenty miles behind." I An Advocate For the Sinners My little children, thosp tilings write 1 unto you. that ye sin not. And if any man sin. we have an ad vocate with tjie Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he is the propi tiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whdle world —I John li. 1 and 2. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (From the Dallas News). THE seven wonders of the world prior to the great inventions the last forty-live years were the Pyramids of Egypt, Hanging Gardens of Semi ram is at Baylon, Phidias' Statue of Jupiter at Ath ens, Temple of Diana at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Haliearnassus, Colos sus of Rhodes and the Pharos or lighthouse at Alexandria. The seven wonders of the ancient world never amounted to much ex cept in the way of scenery. And as scenery they wouldn't be much of a sight to-day. Nevertheless, in their time they were truly wonders, and as such had an incalculable effect upon the lives of the ancients. The hanging gardens of Babylon doubtless represented a rather medi ocre quality of landscape garde.n- Rather Sleep Than Fight [Harry 1.. Foster in the Brooklyn Eagle.] I once rode through a whole Car- j ranza camp in hostile territory with out being challenged. It was in the; Y'aqui country in Northern Sonora, when 1 was with a party of Ameri can miners escaping by night lrotn the I'rogroso Silver mine in serious danger of an Indian uttnek. Sud denly we discovered that our mules were picking their way cautiously over human bodies. There must have been a hundred men sleeping there, with their rifles piled in a heap beside the trail. One of the sleepers yawned, stretched and raised himself on his elbow to look at us. "Who are you?" we asked. "Federal soldiers." he said. Then he yawned again, rolled over and went back to slcjp. Those Carranzistas had been sent out to catch tlie Y'aquls, and they were sleeping in the heart of tlie mountains, eighty miles from civili zation, in the center of the Indian country, without guard or sentry of any kind. It explained in one example why Mexico Is overrun with bandits to day, why no train can run at night in tlie Mexican republic, why those that go out in the daytime are ac companied by escorts with machine guns, why men are seized by bandits within two miles of the big cities and carried away to lie held for ransom, why 14-year-old girls are kidnaped and carried out. of their own homes in rural Mexico, and wliv whole states arc under the rule of leaders like Villa, Polaoz, or Felix Diaz. The Fiumr Situation [From Harvey's Weekly.] Tlie Poet has beaten the Peda gogue. That is the gist of the Fiunio settlement. That is tlie net outcome of months of controversy and strife. President Wilson set himself arbi trarily and as lie doubtless thought invincibly against Italian possession of Fiumo. Captain d'Annunzto sot himself absolutely for Italian posses sion at that place. So long as he was at Paris, und could keep up even a remnant of his sclf-concoeterl Action of a mandate of the American nation backing him in all his vagarious policies, tlie President was able to hold his ground, and to bur Italy out of that Italian city, against the will of the other Powers. But lie could not suppress tlie during of the mili tant poet. At the end of tlie dance comes tlie unmasking. It was not. Indeed, un ; til ids return to this country, and come time thereafter, that the Presl j dent was revealed lo those upon | whom he had practiced camouflage. But the disclosure came. The states | man and tlie people of Europe ; learned the hollownoss of his pre sences. and with that revelation : came the collapse of the strange ob i session which lie had exercised over ! them. So when the authoritative i statesmen of Great Britain, France land Italy got together to talk tniri i noss. they ignored his former iin , pertous dictation, and In the twink ling of an eye settled tlie Fiumo con troversy. To-day. in spite of the nu- I tocrat of the White House, Italy j holds that essential part of what she long lamented an Italia Irredenta, 1 now become Italia Dlberata. DECEMBER 22, 1919. ing, but they were wonderful to the Babylonians and as much a matter of pride to them as a 24-story build ing is to a Texas city to-day. The. Colossus of Rhodes was a massive bronze joke, but it stirred beholders to awe. Those who came to see it did not laugh; they only rubbered. The sight of an immense image of ti man straddling a harbor did not strike the tourists of those days as comical, but only as great. And the end of that mighty ef figy—what a change it was from heroic pose to lowly dispossession, from climax to anti-climax! The Colossus of Rhodes was dethroned by earthquake and sold by the thrifty townspeople to a junk dealer. All man's wonders perish in time. Only the things of God endure. Radical Measures Seeded [From Kansas City Star. | The scarcity of print paper, says Commerce and Finance,' a New York tinanciul publication, js caus ing many publisheis to walk tlie floor. Ultimately it may guuse them to walk the plunk. And it points out that paper which before the war was delivered to the publisher for less than 2 cents a pound may go to 7V4 cents. At that rate the raw material in a paper of 32 pages will cost twice' as much as the pub lisher receives for the paper. Rut the problem presented by the growing scarcity of paper is not merely one of finance. The big problem is to get paper at any price In order to continue publication. With the cutting of the more ac cessible timber from which paper is manufactured and with tire grow ing demand for paper Caused by the enormous expansion of busiuessn since the armistice there simply is not enough to go around. Some way must lie found to cut the consump tion. Most of the important newspapers withiu the last few months have i been unable to obtain tire paper ne cessary to take care of their- needs. They have been forced to decline nd\ ertising in order to conserve their supplies. The Star, for in stance, has refused more than four hundred columns of advertising in last three months. i J bore arc just two courses open ; if tire consumption is to lie cut to | equal the supply. The price must bo raised to the subscriber or the rates f must, lie raised to tire advertiser j Which course is to he taken will de- I pond on the situation of the indi ' vfdunl newspaper. Tn some cases I tire newspaper probably will ln ! crease the subscription price to 3 cents for the daily and 10 cents for the Sunday paper. Other newspapers may put up the advertising rates, j But when this is done it cannot he i done in the old way by which the increase was limited with the idea iof getting more revenue without shutting out advertising. The ad | vnnce must be sufficient actually lo j reduce the volume of advertising i and so conserve paper, j The publishers would much pre fer to avoid either method of cur , tailnient if they could. But it is a . condition and not a theory that ron [ fronts them, and something radical I must be done. Tire publication ol I newspapers cannot continue unlesi j ira per is conserved. Raskin's Birthplace. For Sale [From the Dondon Telegraph.] ! No. 54 Hunter street, Brunswick | square, Dondon, the birthplace ot | John Buskin, is for sale by private treuty. In the early days of the I Nineteenth Century John James Buskin came to Dondon from Edtn- I burgh to enter the wine trade. In 1813 he married Ills cousin, Mar garet Cox, and February 8, IXI9, the author of "Scsnnte and Dill.es" ! was born. The house tn Hnntei ' street, which is now distinguished by a commemorative tablet, is ol ; tlie substantial Georgian type so well known in Flloomsbury, and was ! erected nt a time when the district | was particularly in favor among ; city merchants. The accommoda ■ tion is ample, and all modern con veniences have been installed. i ,Vo President From Navy ! [Willis J, Abbott in Collier's Weekly.] • It is a curious fact that while the record of the United States Navy lias , been one of practically unblemished | glory, no navy officer has ever been . seriously urged for the presidency. | The tragic and utterly unjustifiable j shattering of tho popularity of A<l- | miral Dewey put an abrupt and plti- j ful end to the nearest approach to a , "presidential boom" that naval cir cles have ever harbored. Admiral Furragut, despite a mag nificent record of achievement, a no ble and elevated personal character, ond wide-spread popularity, was over-shadowed by Grunt, and was never even mentioned for tho presi dency. Perhaps this year might have broken this long precedent. On ev ery hand one hears praise of the ehaiucter and public services of Ad mital William S. Sims, who com manded our naval forces in Euro pean waters during the late war. As sailor and diplomat he won his pro motion through steady and efficient work, without the adventitious aid of j "pull." And Ido not think his pop | ulority or availability lias been ad versely affected by the fact that the • Secretary of War reprimanded him : for having long ago publicly pledged j to England, American aid with ships, men and money should the mother j country everlbe in need. The repri mand' was forgotten when the time ! for fulfilling the pledge came around. At first glance persons who may | lie interested in the Sims candi | ducy will receive a rude shock when ! they look him up in the biographical j complications of the time. For it is ; set down that lie was born at Port j Hope, Canada —a fact which if it rtood alone would disbar him from the Presidency. But his father was a citizen of tlie United States, tem porarily sojourning across the Canad ian line, and the youthful Sims thus entered the world a citizen of tho Nation in whose service he has grown gray and won laurels so glorious thai there are many in this country who would add to them tho very high est gift at the command of the American people. ,4 Christmas Message [From Dayton NewsJ rtichard C. Fowler, assistant sales manager of the Domestic En gineering Company, is sending out some unusually clever Christmas messages, combining the spirit of the holidays with the thought of greater Americanism. The idea, besides being most Ingenious, also is very helpful. The message, written beneath the American Flag, says: "This good old flag seems to ex press most fitly my Christmas thought this year—it stands so truly for the things that Christ lived and died for. It speaks so poignantly of sacrifices and struggle and 'Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.' "I would like to see the flag at the top of every Christmas tree in America, and the gospel of Good Americanism enter more and into our Christmas joy. "With our best wishes and good resolutions for the coming year, may we all pledge ourselves more than ever before to the support of American Institutions and American ideals." There is something very solemn about this kind of a Christmas mes sage. It seer ato lift us up and be yond sordid enjoyments of this cele bration. It offers a way to teach little children the added joy of lov ing American, with ttie pleasures of the gaily-lighted Christmas tree. The News feels that Mr. Fowler's suggestion is worth following. It is not too late to top your tree with Old Glory. The American legion in Dayton has endorsed the idea and has asked national officials of the I organization to give their approval to the suggestion. Let's join efforts in Dayton this year to make Christ ! mas a real American holiday. Life To talk with God before I talk with man. To do my daily work with sunshine in my face. To be : strong in the presence of tempta tion; alert in the presence of oppor tunity; open-eared to the call of ; conscience lor service or sacrifice; j open-minded to views of truth which | differ from mine. To make duty a joy, and joy a duty. To work and not worrv; to lie energetic and not fussy. To be true to myself, and false to no man; diligent to make a I living, and earnest to make a lile. iTo cherish friendships and guard confidences. To lie loyal to princi ple at the cost of popularity. To I make' 110 promises 1 cannot keep, and to keep no foolish promises. To | bo faithful to every honest obliga tion. To be sweet-tempered under I criticism, charitable in my judg ' ments, discriminating in my adjep ! tires To honor no one. simply be ' cause he is rich. To despise no one, sintpiv because he is poor. To be respectful, not cringing, to the great; sympathetic with the sorrowing, gentle to the weak; helpful to the ! foilen; courteous to all. To be sim j pie in my tastes; quiet in my dress; (pure in my speech; temperate in my ! pastimes. To companion with great : books; cherish inspiring thoughts; ; and to keep my body on friendly terms With water and fresh air. To I fear nothing but sin; hate nothing | hut hypocrisy; envy nothing but a j clean life; covet nothing but ehar -1 acter And at hist to leave the ' world a little better for my stay; to i face death without a tremor, with faith in Christ who tunneled the grave that I might walk into the larger and perfect life.—Daniel '•Hoffman Martin. Eleyy Written in a Foal Bin The furnace (ire. tolls the knell of falling steam. The cpal supply Is virtually done, And at this price, indeed, it does not seem As though we could afford unother ton. Now fades the glossy, cherished an thracite, The radiators lose their temper ature, How ill avail, on such a frosty night The short and simple flannels of the poor. —American Legion Weekly. Reindeer Speed Records (Carl J. Lomen In the National Geo graphic. Magazine.] Surprising records have been made by Alaskan reindeer in long distance travel, and also in speed tests. Indeed, for short distances, the deer can outrun the dog or horse. At an annual reindeer fair In Alaska two deer, pulling a sled and driver, made live miles in four teen minutes thirty-two seconds, and ten miles In twenty-seven min utes twenty seconds. Easily Fixed [from Louisville Courier-Journal] "Yes. auntie, it is rather sudden, but 1 am to be married next week." "I-tut you know nothing about housekeeping." "Well, there are plenty of maga zines on the subject. I shall im mediately subscribe to one of them," Setting (Etjat Enter, the $5 Christmas tree. The high cost of living which has sot materially affected the cost of tomb stones and baby coaches the last year is now giving a real and sub stantial evidence that in spite of Federal fulminations and municipal, manilestoes, it is still on tlte Job. A. live dollar bill was demanded and. in cases paid for trees in llarrisburg- Saturday and to-day. And this, too, when there are line evergreens and spruce and other trees suitable for the great display of the day of dayai in the Christian world growing with in sight of the Capitol dome and owners of the land willing to sell on short notice. There are not a few of us who can recall the days when we used to go to Market Square and select a fine tree for from thirty five to seventy-five cents among the lots that were stacked against the old market sheds and there were leal bargains to be had for thirty, cents at \ erbeke street market. A man who would have had asked •i- lor a tree in the piles that years ago used to be on sale on Third street just below Market and around Salem Iteformed and Market Square •'resl.yterian Church pavements would have been snowballed. And ~"ct, on Saturday, there were trees which some years ago could have been had for a dollar for which $5 was asked and paid. Dealers dc i ended the charge and one mail figured out that his profit on a tree that was priced at J5 would be ■i round 33 cents. iio went baclc ■'long the line. The tree came from another state, and it does seen it range tliat the farmers and others awning land on the mountains near iiarrisburg do not go into the tre® msiness as a sideline to make some ihing extra lor Christmas. Tho dealer said that the o\*ner of tho irec demanded more this year and •o did the man who chopped it lown. The owner of tho team that arried the tree to the place of pack nig and shipping was paid more than i. year ago. Freight rates, of course, an be blamed for almost anything with more or less justification. Then came the delivery charges and last, hut not least, the overhead of the tree dealer. It was a most impressive • bowing and while he did leave out any charges for inspection or car demurrage, he did not miss much else, it is not hard to understand in advance in the price of holly wreaths and mistletoe, but $5 for a Christmas tree at the foothills of the Blue ltidge does rather jar upon the feelings and cause reflections upon how wedded to tradition is the aver age Harrisburg resident. The number of people who went out yesterday for automobile rides and brought home a Christmas tree was rather indicative of the spirit that the prices asked for the ever greens had aroused. As pointed out, it is not difficult to get a tree near Harrisburg and some fine ones are to be found within a dozen miles. Yesterday there were quite a few automobiles that went up the river road or over the bridges, their oc cupants defying the sharp air, and came home at nightfall with fine trees. One party told of going to a farmer's house, bundling him up into their car and going to a piece of woodland he owned and of buying a tree "on the stump." The farmer even helped cut it down and told them to call around and see him next year. • * • Shortage of sugar is going to have a serious effect upon a branch of farming thut has been producing a honey crop valued at over a million dollars a year in Pennsylvania's agricultural counties, according to statements which are being made to officials of the Department of Agri culture. Outbreak of the war and the rise in the price of sugar stimu lated the bee-keeping industry in every part of the State and the severely cold winter of 1917-1918, which killed many colonies of bees, caused the price obtainable for honey to make it attractive to many farmers. This year the price of sugar made conditions even more favorable and considerable money has been invested in bees. Unfor tunately in some sections of the Slate, the sugilr scarcity has pre vented farmers from securing sugar needed for the winter store for their bees. Hundreds of applications for au tomotiile licenses liave had to be re turned to the senders in the last ten days by the Automobile Division of the State Highway Department, which has charge of the issuance of the tugs because of failure of the applicants to put down their ad dresses. A number of tags have come in with simply the name of the ap plicant. Jn other instances the data required is not complete and some instances have been heard of where tho information was all carefully set out and the application sworn to, but no check enclosed to pay for tho registration and license. Incident ally, the State has to use trucks to handle its incoming and outgoing "mall" for the automobile division. Dr. Thomas K. Finegan, the State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. who was stricken down with pneumonia on the eve of tho State Educational Congress which ha had worked so hard to prepare, will leave Harrlsburg In a few days for Atlantic. City to regain his health. Dr. Finegan's doctor, Col. Edward Martin, tho State Commissioner of Health, has had his own troubles in keeping his patient under rule. Dr. Finegan hopes to get back to Harris burg late In January to complete tho organization of his department, which was interrupted by the illness which prostrated him so untimely. Inci dentally, he says that ho wants to get into trim to beat his doctor at golf on the Fort Hunter links of tho Country Club of Harrlsburg next spring. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —County Controller John P. Moore, of Allegheny, was one of those who drove the first, blow for the new South Hills tunnel in Pitts burgh. —Mayor M. K. Kitts, of Erie, plans to inaugurate a new system of street paving in his city as a result of his visit here. —\V. C. MeFarlane. municipal or ganist of Portlund, well known here, is giving concerts In Western Penn sylvania cities. —John C. Winston, new director of public works in Philadelphia, spent considerable time here last winter during the charter battles. —W. B. Kurtz, mentioned for di rector of transit in Philadelphia, has been a prominent banker. r DO YOU KNOW ] —That Harrlsburg lias handled Immense quantities of agricul tural machinery from Its dis tribution places tills year? HISTORIC lIARRTSBtRG —Residents of this elty contributed 1 some of the hrst trees for planting Capitol Park.
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