12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I FOR THE HOME. Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tflffraph HulldlnK, Federal Sqanre E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief r —I F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor JA. R. MICHENEK, Circulation Manager . Executive Board Iff.T P.' McCULLOUGH, * x BOYD M. OGLESBY,' F.. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in t.his paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American W\ Newspaper Pub ~~~~ Jhfca^, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a "Wn week; by mail, >3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1919 Charge once more then and he dumb. Let the victors, tchen they come, When the forts of folly fait, Find thy body by the wall.' ■ —MATTHEW ARNOLD. THANK YOU THE Christmas number of the Tech Tatlcr has reached this * office. It is brightly illustrated green and red and with half-tones sif the championship Tech football Jeam. Cartoons and special fea tures add .to the attractiveness of magazine. The Technical High may be proud of such a pub lication. The whole Christmas issue js well worth anybody's attention, but we were especially interested in tliis one little paragraph, on page 40, under the caption: "Who's who at Tech:" •'Best llarrisburg newspaper—Tlie ! Telegraph." We like to hear that at any time, from anybody, naturally, but it is especially pleasing to note this sen timent in the Technical High School, which is turning out the men who will be leaders in Harrisburg the •liext quarter century or more. Thank you! LOWER PRICES WITH all the efforts of the na tional government exerted in the opposite direction, the | price of foodstuffs went up "two per ! cent, in November. Mr. Palmer is! one of our most persistent and vol uminous talkers. He is almost as pro lific of speeches, interviews and proc lamations as was his illustrous chief; in his prime—to say nothing of con- ! ffrences. Always prices are just go- ' ifig to come down, according to the; Attorney General, and the next thing ' we hear is that they have taken an- i other jump. Something more than j eloquence and fancy phrases will be J necessary to bring down the cost of! living. It has become known that some 1 action has been taken toward an ! actual demonstration by the govern- ' ment to reduce costs by urging upon j retailers the holding of spe.eiul sales in January. Of course, it is a gen eral custdm for merchants to offer I bargains in broken holiday stocks! shortly after the new year in order i to get ready for the spring trade, j Mr. Palmer proposes to swing into: line on the tide of these sales, which J •he would have the merchants hold | on an extensive seale, and evidently ."hopes for reductions in living costs' /based on these bargain prices. All ' •very well, perhaps, but no good will : come of merely pouring the left- ■ overs of all kinds into the market' even at reduced prices, if Mr. Pal-' mer can persuade the merchants to i cut prices only In what we have ! come to regard as tlie "cheaper lines' of goods" and so create a demand for wares of the kind, lie will have accomplished something. In other words, if he can bring about a mar- ! ket 'for medium priced goods, instead j of the very high priced articles now; in such great demand, by putting! them before the public at attractive I figures, the trend back toward sanity! on the part of an extravagant public may carry us into something like I normal market conditions. Other wise there is small use in making the ' effort. SEEING PENNSYLVANIA ARE you looking for a charming gift for a friend this Christ > mas? Then buy him Dr. John T. Paris' new hook, "Seeing Pennsylvania." it is a charming volume, as you -niuy have gathered if you read either !of the two mentions of it made re cently on this page. Handsomely ■bound and beautifully illustrated. Its binding anil its illustrations ure the least of its delights to the lover of Pennsylvania. We ure fond of saying Pennsylva nia is a great State, but fgw of us TUESDAY EVENING, know the Commonwealth as does Dr. Faris, and none has written of It more charmingly.' The book ought to be in every library. It would serve a tine purpose as a supplementary reader in the public schools. Its de scriptions are vivid and its history is entertainingly and accurately told. It is no dry compilation of facts. There is nothing of the guidebook about it. but it should prove invalu able to the motorist. Reading it one becomes more ap preciative of his own State, a greater admirer of Pennsylvania, and so a better American. This is not an advertisenint. It is a tribute. So Mr. Bcrkman is going to "como hack and get us" That la. if Mr. I<enlne doesn't "get" Mr. Berkman. WILLIAMS QUITS US. SENATOR JOHN SHARPE WILLIAMS is going to quit • public life. He is out of joint with the way things are done at Washington and believes there may be more peace and content ment in old Mississippi. Senator Williams has some definite views on the transportation problem of the United States which must be solved unless we are to continue stumbling along in the dark. On this ques tion and discussing the Cummins bill, he says: Transportation in modern civi lization is at the root and bottom of everything. You can not even get fuel without it: you can not get food without it: you can not get clothes without it; you can not do anything without satis factory transportation. We have passed beyond the period when one little neighborhood could supply the next little neighbor hood with its food and with its garments. We have come to the period where a great interstate and international transport sys tem must feed and clothe the -world, and we ought to settle that • • • So it seems to me that the pres ent duty of the Senate is very plain, and that is to carry the railroad bill to a finish one way or tlia other, getting a final vote upon it and sending it to con ference, and in conference make the House conferees and the Senate conferees agree to some thing and bring that something back before the two Houses with a view to having it dealt with. | When the people shall have learned the lesson that it is neces sary to learn in order to overcome reconstruction difficulties, we can hope for a more reasonable atti tude toward business questions and a more normal life among all classes. Santa Claus has nothing on Did .lack Frost as a Christmas tree trim-, mer, 1 UN-AMERICAN THE re-election of Victor Berger to Congress is not a rebuke to the lawmakers who refused to I give him a seat, but it is a serious reflection upon the Americanism of the people of the district he calls home. P.erger was disloyal during the j war and his radical tendencies ought to make him subject to deport ation. If tlie people of the Ber ger district have no more patriotism, no more love for the flag, no more regard for the republic, no more respect for our American institutions than to elect a pro-German radical to Congress, then they deserve to go without representation, as they probably will, for Congress cannot be expected to backtrack on Berger. There is certainly something seri ously wrong with a community that will give a man of this type 4,000 majority over a hundred per cent. American candidate, the while 9,000 voters sit supinely at home not suffi ciently interested to vote. We have a very distinct idea what would hap pen in Pennsylvania if a fellow like! Berger tried to run for Congress; here. Itic.omes high but we must have it living. SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS A WASHINGTON dispatch to the New York Times quotes a member of the Republican National Committee as saving that j former Postmaster General Frank i H. Hitchcock "is commonly credited with having the votes of Southern I Republicans sewed up in his pocket. ! Find out whom Frank Hitchcock is j for and you will know tlie Republi can nominee." This is the sort of propaganda that might be expected in tlie col umns of a Democratic newspaper, but not in a paper of as high standing as tlie New York Times. And yet, it must be confessed, there lias sometimes been evidence that the votes of Southern Republicans can be sewed up in the vest pocket of a man diligent enough to conduct the work of organization. It should not lie lost sight of, however, thai two Republican nominees for 'tlie Presidency whose nominations were aided by the vest pocket votes, were defeated at tlie polls. Southern Re publicans are entitled to a voice in the selection of candidates in pro portion to the strength they bring to tlie Republican party. The voice should be theirs and not that of some organizer who makes yi busi ness of polities. Tlie voice should be heard in such a manner as to leave no room for 'doubt that it is a real voice and not (lie voice of a ven triloquist. It is the right anil duty of any candidate for the Presidential nom ination to seek the support of South ern Republicans in the National Convention, even though no South ern State can be expected to cast a vote for a Repuljlican in the elec toral college. But tlie man who gets the support of the Southern delega tions through tlie vest pocket method has a support of very doubt ful value when the ultimate test comes ut the November election. I ""PotttCco Ik ' ftKruiflcccKuc By the Ex-Committeemaa Steps aro to be taken immediately hy the Attorney General's Depart ment to prepare drafts of a Consti tutional Amendment to provide for a budget system in Pennsylvania in accordance with ideas of members of the State Constitutional Revision Commission, it was learned to-day. The Commission is not scheduled to meet until January 6, but before ] leaving the city, members interested | in the budget proposition outlined ! some thoughts in regard to atnend } ments which will be-put into shape. One series of amendments will re j quire that the State government be i put upon a budget basis, while references will be made to such a I plan in other amendments so that it i will be a part of State finance. An i other series of amendments will ! make it optional, it is understood. Some of the members of the Com mission are of the opinion that the budget should be left to th"e Legis lature's desires, holding that when amendments regarding appropria tions to departments, charitable and educational institutions and other objects are completed there will be opportunity for trying out the bud get plan. There are rumors of a proposed amendment to broaden the borrow ing power of the State, which is now limited to one million dollars. One idea is to permit bond issues for roads at stated Intervals with rigid sinking fund requirements. Copies of the recent decision of First Deputy Attorney General Robert S. Gawthrop in regard to the marking of the ballot where there is a group of candidates, such as Congressmen-at-large, to be elected, are to be printed and included in the election guide for next year's cam paigns. —The Philadelphia Press is going •after the Department of Internal Affairs. Taking the remarks in the recent meeting of the Constitutional Itevision Commission as a basis, it asks why it should be an elective of fice. If the remarks in Republican organization circles are anything to go by it is going to remain as a con- j stitutional and elective office. —When the Auditor General com pletes naming the mercantile ap praisers this week he will have ap pointed something over 2 50. prob ably 300, men. The Auditor General, through legislation adopted last spring, is after only the Governor and Commissioner of Health in the number of appointees and power, in fact, in authority, he is greater than the Governor and only the. Supreme Court can stop him. However, when the new Department of Public In struction is in running order it will be one of the largest in the State Govt rnment. —Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, the State Superintendent of Public In struction, who goes to Atlantic City to-dav,* hopes to be back in the har ness the middle of January. Dr. Finegan is very anxious to get back on the job, as visitors to his home testify. —Just as an illustration of the way the Democrats are farming things it may be stated that Orrln E. Boyle, of Allentown, was ap pointed to a Federal place a few days ago. It had been vacant eight years and must have been forgotten or have become shopworn in display for politicul trading purposes. —Hoy D. Duily. the new assistant to l.eo Crosson as Eastern Pennsyl vania and New Jersey district en forcer of the "dry" laws, comes from California, but has been living in Philadelphia lately. He is an. expert on revenue laws. v\ hieli some people are unkind enotigi: to say is needed in this State. in any event the number of deserving ones being named to "dry" law enforcement positions is a fine tiling for the i Democrats, although from appear-! ancps they will not have very long j to enjoy the emoluments after 1921. • —S. O. Wynne, the new chief of! 1 detectives to the Philadelphia dis- I triet attorney, comes from Phoenix ville and has been in the Army and ' in Federal work. He ranks away up, says District Attorney S. I*. Hotan. —Some idea of changed condi- i tions can be gained from the state ment that the new treasurer of Montgomery county gives bond for $530,00(1. It used to be around $400,000. Montgomery lias advanced wonderfully in wealth in recent years. —The editor of the Seranton Times, who writes under the name of Roderick Random, has much to say about one of those maneuvers that make the political affairs of Lackawanna county so entertaining to the rest of tlie State. One time Governor Sproul remarked that he had identified seven or eight sepa rate factions of the Republicans and dear knows how many in the Demo crats in that county. Anyway, this is what Mr. Lynett writes oil one proposition: "During tlie past two weeks reports have kept coming to me of a new combination in politics seeking to control the election of members of the Legislature from Lackawanna and to impress Gover nor Sproul with the idea that they are the powers that be in Legisla tive affairs in Lackawanna county. Distribution of State patronage by them would naturally follow. 1 un derstand that Senator Albert Davis, County Commissioner Morgan Thomas and County Treasurer David John have hooked up in a triumvir ate to dictate Legislative nomina tions in live of the six Lackawanna districts. They propose to try and unhorse the Dawson-Fowler-Jones cabal,, which just now seems to stand in very well with tlie Repub lican powers that be in Ilarrisbufg and Philadelphia, and it is planned to put up candidates ill the First, Second, Fourth,. Fifth and Sixth dis tricts". —While the Ledgers are more or less inclined to say things about Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore, most of the other papers praise him. Tlie Evening Bulletin says, regard ing his appointments: "In every in stance the appointee is a man who is under no superior obligations to si mebody in politics outside of tlie City Hall; nor is there any likelihood that among the Directors thus far i.ami (i there will be any disposition to establish such relations. ft is evident that tlie new Mayor is going t > have a Moore administration from stem to stern ami that there will bo no occasion for hyphenating its name with that of any partner, ally, guardian or custodian on the out side." Ruth, the Forbear of David So Boaz took Ruth and she was his wife; and she bare a son. And they called his name Obed; he is the father of Jesse, the father of David—Ruth iv, 13 to 17 Seems to Have Disappeared [From tlie Albany Journal.] What has become of the official reports that we used to got from time to time of amounts of food sup plies in cold storage? HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS [ / IT DOESN'T 1 TTFTLL I THINK YOU'LL I c'PrtSF IT WOULD BP SAMOUUI To _ S UKt I T-- You I c-r IX \ajGa. -ew J I MUCH ANYWAY yQp. / CAN Give Mf CO, y JuST AS JVI=LL J _ ( WHAT YoUVfi To Give You A_-G©T FOR. ' J Te'>^cVT^'A *#ol f&loefl fl. SEE HERE. THAT") ——s- THE POPULATteivj OF I tfTs T""* % CvpyrlfWt H. Y. TrlkiM lii Fair Price Lists , i [Men's wool suits should sell at $24.50, men's shoes at $0.75, and j other necessities in proportion, ac-1 cording to a fair price list an- j nouneed after an investigation in i Chicago.] When first I saw a fair price list r thought that soon I could , exist • Within my means and save some; beans for illness and pleas-1 ures. Though prices had seemed out of sight I chortled: "Now it's, shown what's right All dealers smart will have al heart, or soon we'll take; their measures. ' i For twenty years I've nursed aj meek resolve to start to save i 'next week,' But always found 'next week*, came round as often as 'to-1 morrow,' I But now within a week I think I'll! feel as "(lush" as any pink— | For clothes and feed I shall not need, nor shall I have to borrow." T took my fair price list along so I'd he surh to not go wrong j And one by one I called upou a: dozen princely dealers. But when I asked for food or clothes at prices anything like thos" Upon the list they fairly hissed * ! scorn past that for stealers. Or loudly said, in manner bland: "Oh, we don't deal in second hand—" And showed so plain their high disdain, while other patrons tittered. That I felt "flush," all right, all! right, and quickly faded out! of sight, A sadder but not richer mutt, and J very much embittered. , I So nowadays when I am told the j suit I'm wearing should be 1 sold At twenty-five I'm thankful T've' bought it while it was fifty; j If fair lists price my shoes at six, T look with joy upon my kicks,' •Glad T bought when they cost but i ten —next week a pair as nifty j May sell for twice that modest pries. | And though I hate to give ( advice, I-o, I have tried and darn near: died of deep humiliation, ! And, having saved no money yet that; way, concluded with regret ; A fair priee saw unbacked by laufl is just an aggravation. —I-ce Shipppy. More Than Unman Strength j Out of the complex, bewildering j world situation of to-day, we must 1 turn to the Almighty for power to j see things through; 'we must eon- i nect up with that unlimited resource ! declares John Timothy Stone, writ- | ing in "God's Niagara Hushes Past" in Association Men for December. | lie continues: "Is the test of to-day what we ! can do with God? Immense tasks' ahead, with all kinds of sin inter-j twining and interweaving itself into j the very fabric of life. God's power , is possible for it all. We can do the j impossible for Him, not with God, j but God with us. God is not afraid j to undertake anything, no matter j how immense, 110 matter how | minute, if the soul is His; if the life | transmits His power. "We talk about the almighty dol- ' lar. I'tter nonensc. It is nothing as I compared to the Almighty l'ower of' God. He controls the cuttle on a' thousand hills. He controls the. j power of all nature. The Creator is i greater than the creature. What we need is the power of God and then• the resources of the world are ours ; because they are His. "Let us stand beneath the shadow j of the Cross and realize that it is ; not added human strength, nor j added personality, nor added contact j with men. nor added organization. What we need is the life of the Di vine One quickening the wire of our ! lives with His power that He may j use us. "The great Niagara of God is rush- t ing past. Unless 011 the standard of j Jesus Christ ulone we base our faith we cannot have power, though we ' have all else. We must possess the } Power of God. "They waited in ' Jerusalem until He cume' und the j world was amazed because 'they J spake with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.' '•' Best Cure For Hell Raising [From the Houston Post] The Lord made Adam and Eve full grown and put them In a beau- I tiful place where they didn't need 1 to work, and at the very outset they began to ru'se hell. Then He made them go to work. If you feel like you are about to breuk loose, go to work. - TREATMENT OF SENATORS AGAINST LEAGUE REGARDED -4S UNDIGNIFIED & COERCIVE Hisliop Xecly Denies Thai Opponents of League Are "Playing Party Politics" and Assorts That Tlicy Arc Americans Who Arc Only Voting as Tlicir Study and Conscience Dictate By BISHOP THOMAS B. NEELY ONE thing in connection with the discussion of the I-eague of Na tions is far from commend able, and that is the undignified treatment of the Senate and the senators of the United States by speakers, general writers and a por tion of the public press. Indeed, it has been most humiliating. Senators have been verbally at tacked. ridiculed, caricatured and threatened simply becuuse they did not favor and immediately approve the treaty of peace with the League of Nations entangled in it and cause they did not view the question us did the other side, and all this in what was free and fair America, where authority is still supposed to be respected and untrammeled and where the chosen representatives ol the states and ttieir people are pre sumed to have freedom of action. It is true that people and papers have not advised resort to physical violence, but the tendency oi' the inflammatory appeals was such that it would not iiave been surprising if the result showed itself in such an extreme. Back of all this, though the innocent public may not have suspected it, lias been a persistent, influential and stronglv financed propaganda which has been pub licly and privately sttrring up the masses to make attacks by letter and otherwise on individual senators until the victims consider and have a right to consider them to be down right. insults. in this way moneyed interests and persons of influence, with varied motives and ambitions! have appealed to the rlasses and the masses to "foiyre" the senators to vote for the league and the treaty, and have assured them that they can "force" the Senate to do as'tliey will. This is simply mobocracy which has no place in American Government, and the attempt to thus coerce the Senate is bolshe vistic anil should have no encourage ment in this land. Those who want bolsbevism should go to Russia, and go right soon. The whole thing Is like a mob attack upon dulv constituted au thority. while hack of the mob are some conspicuous individuals and financial corporations, who. stand ing some time in the shadow, hiss on the crowd and incite unsuspect ing peorde to force senators, against their judgment and their "onsclence, to violate their oath of office by ap proving a league and treaty, the an nrovnl of which they believe would be against the interests of their country and against the principles tooth of good morals and of inter national equity. The movement is like tampering with u judge and a jury for tile pur pose of securing a decision anil ver dict wanted by tlie outside parties, but contrary to the law and evi denced which the court and jury are sworn to follow. Such interference in any court would be a criminal aci; and it is not less criminal when the attempt is to coerce tlie Sen ale. which iti such n case is a high court. Tlie Senate, like a Jury, is to con sider the evidence and to act ac cordingly, each Senator acting ac cording to the unbiased dictates of bis intellect and conscience, and must or should be left free to de cide nceordine to his conseienlious convictions. To bring undue pres sure from the onts'de and to make open or covert threats, of political unpopularity or other political pun ishment Is improper, un-American and. in spirit, criminal. Senators whose study and Ameri canism lead them to decide against this proposed League have a right to stand for their convictions with out being penalized, and undue in terference by unfair pressure or practical threat is not only morally Wrong but perilous to American po litical institutions But It may be said, ami lias been said, that the senators who do not favor the League and tlie treaty are "playing politics." That., however, is not a proved fact; but a mere as sertion or a false inference. Of course. President Wilson hap pens to be the bead of a party, and his political followers, naturally, it may be said, want to support their party leader. This may be sugges tivo of political purpose; but Jt | would not be fair to say that all j of them in favoring the league were | simply playing party politics; and, j on the other hand, it does not seem | fair to accuse* those on the other | side ot the question of so doing. Indeed, it is perfectly plain that opponents of the league are not I playing party politics. Thus Hoke | t>mith, of Georgia, a stanch Demo | Vrht, was not playing Republican ; politics when he voted against the • treaty and the proposed League. I .Neither was Senator Shields, a Democrat from Tennessee; neither j was Senator Gore, a Democrat from , Oklahoma; neither was Senator j Iteed, of Missouri, who was threat j ened with the loss of Democratic support; and neither were other Democratic senators who arrayed themselves against the League as it lis. To say such men were playing i Republican politics would be utter -1 ing an absurdity. They were Arnerl j cans, and these strong men Who on j the League . issue separated from I their Democratic colleagues did it j not to help the opposite party, but because they were American patriots i and believed that the League which 1 tlie President brought across the At ■ lam ie wjis destructive of American i independence by putting the United . states under a political world gov j eminent and at the mercy of other ! nations, many of them being greatly i interior, but in the league posscss | ing a voting power equal to that ■ of the United States, so that any i one of them could defeat the United Stated by neutralizing her vote. That being the case, the fair pre sumption is that others who were [against the proposed League wore | against it because they also were good Americans, standing patrlottc j ally for the sovereignty of their i country; and even If they were mis j taken, their honest belief Is to be ; tespeeled. The problem bus been made spe ! dally difficult by the entwlstlng of j two-documents, the League Covenant . and the treaty of peace. Whoever ' 'l'd that, against the warning of the | Senate, Is responsible Tor the delay. 'lt was not the Senate that mixed i and confused the two things. That was another attempt to coerce the Senate, and who ever did the inter • lacing is responsible for the result ing consequences. ; The Senate, however, has taken action and defeated unqualified rati i llCHtion and twice defeated rattfi i cation with reservations, the latter votes being the result of the Presl j dent's indication to his followers i tliat they should so vote. On every j other subject such votes would be ! regarded as final. It should be see]} that the delay in making a formal peace does not i make peace impossible, for that re quires the ratification on the one hand by only "three of the principal •tJlicMl and associated powers," and that has been met already. It I Should also he rem em he red that dur ling all the recent world commo tions a real League has been in existence, namely, The Hague eon torence with its international tri bunal, providing a court of arbitra ; Hon. This has never been abrogated and would iiave met had it not been for the war, and to-day under it nations can come together. With a very little touching up The I login* conference would meet the desires of those who want an as sembly and a court of nations; and wliile it is a world conference, it is not a world government. What Is more, even within a few days ft has been proposed in Europe to refer a question to The Hague, and It is re ported thut the reference has been agreed to. Whether that be so or not. The Hague arrangement still exists, and the world need not serl- I ously suffer, even if the nations take I a little time to consider whether there should he constructed the | right kind of n I-eague of Nations, which must he one that will not govern the United States of America. Belief in Santa Clans [From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 Prosperity is widespread, arid many a family is hoping that Runta Ulaus will bring them an egg for Christmas, DECEMBER 23, 1919. A Christmas Plea j Prom far above Judean plains A carol echoes o'er the earth; | It bears the hope of joy again; It bids our hearts attune with mirth, ; 'Tis Christmas! and the angels sing I The story of two thousand years, Of war anil famine, suffering; A paradox: The Master's tears Were shed <n vain if from this strife Come not salvation, faith and love; ■ In vain He died, if life for life ' Remain the law. We cannot prove With selfishness the golden rule; j Nor can the avarice of man | Become an instrument so cruel I • To wreck the purpose of His plan, I Man must help man, a brotherhood j Should rise from ashes of the war; , All effort to be understood j Can soon supplant the thirst for gore, • The laborer shall make his start In deeds and tasks for common weal And capital shall faith impart With bonds of gold and actions real, | The profiteer shall see-the heed Of honest dealing, and the day j That whetted appetites ot greed j Must in this victory fade away, j So tune the Christmas bells again 1 To herald to mankind the birth j Of truth and faith, so let the reign Of peace and joy spread o'er the oa rt h. EDWIN M. ABBOTT. I Xetv Painless Surgery : [Prom the Edinburgh Scotsman.] I For many years, in fact, ever since | anaesthetics were brought into gen eral use one of the aims of surgical scientists has been the discovery of I some method of operating pain t'lessly without rendering the patient ; unconscious by inhalations of ether ■or chloroform. According to the ■ Eondon Times, this desideratum is 1 now an accomplished fact, a system I based on the use of phenol having been successfully employed by the ! surgeons at the chief military hos -1 pitals in Milan for some thousands of operations', among which were j over three hundred on the lungs, j performed by Professor Brushehi. of t'omo. The proposed line of incision lis marked with phenol (carbolic I acid) by dipping a sterilized scalpel j into this liquid, and using the back j of the point of the scalpel as a mar j ker. After the lapse of a few sec onds, the scalpel is again dipped [ into the phenol, and the tissues are cut with a slow and gentle up-anil | down movement similar to that | used In sawing. What happens is that a film of phenol is formed 011 the blade when it is immersed and this anaesthetizes the tissues as they are cut. Frequent dippings are nec essary to maintain the tilm which is rubbed off by dbntacl with the tissues or washed away by blood. He Who Serves I He has not served who gathers gold, I Nor has he served, whose life is told In selfish battles he has won Or deeds of skill that he has done. But he lias served who now and then Has helped along his fellow men. The world needs many men to-day; Red-blooded men along life's way",' With cheerful smiles and helping hands And with the faith that understands The beauty of the simple deed Which serves another's hour of need. j Strong men to stand beside the 1 weak, | Kind men to hear what others speak. True men to keep our country's laws I And guard its honor and its cause; Men who will bravely play life's game Nor ask rewards of gold or lame. Teach me to do the best 1 can To help and cheer our fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need And glory in the larger deed Which smooths the road and lights the day For all who chance to come my way. —Edgar A. Guest in Association Men for December. Absent Without Leave [From the Rocky Mountain News.] Prince l.udwig says Emperor Charles of Austria never quit, but there Is a persistent rumorr abroad that he has missed several pay days since November 11, Ik IS. A Small Haul [From Punch, Eondon.] The light fingered gentry, It ap peal's, are resuming their pre-war occupation. Only last week a so ciety lady had a new eveniDg frock j stolen from her reticule. lEcwttttg <&tjat ' digging celery out of a snow bank is not only an unusual sight at this lime of the year for Harrisburg peo ple, but illustrates extent of a branch of vegetable gardening that is con ducted right in sight of the State Capitol and of which many people know nothing. For a long time Har risburg and his family thought they were eating Kalamazoo celery when as a matter of fact it came from right here in Harrisburg. In the 'ivnff 4 ° f tlle < ' ity> especially the ci v.. 1 . Wai ', ' attention has been hn.iv i!° celery for years and some hn.i i, . Ve Produccd the best to be V,. ,11 a , S .w boen solu in stores about. tht cit.\ without a word as to it being a home product when such a cour ß j tn°th not , only have been Pleasing to the customer, but stimulating to a home business. , in truth, there is quite a quantity of garden produce raised either within the city or so close to it as ,to be Harrisburg grown that is sold in the stores with out the buyer being aware of the source of supply. Celery is only an example, \\ hen Harrisburg or his wife goes to market it is naturally expected that what is sold is home raised and much ado is made over the origin of such line provender. But when the "garden sass" that is sown and tended and raised and cut light at home is sold to a store, as a large amount of it is every month U loses its identity as a Harrisburg product. How much better it would be 11. vegetables that are raised at home would he advertised as such. 11l tills connection an interesting statement lias been made to Altoona businessmen by \V. s. Aaron, one of the merchants of the mountain citv who is well known to a number of men here and who was a delegate i ,??„ Chicago National convention in il6. Mr. Aaron is typical of the group ot men who are making Al toona talked of, as witness the projected Penn-Alto hotel, which like our Penn-Harris, is being built by home money. lir any event, Mr. Aaron was asked recently for some expression of what is needed to keep the lood supply regular and business going and surprised his friends and a number of others by saying that every man ought to make it his ob ject to cultivate at. least an acre of land. It was so unique that it caused comment, but Mr. Aaron pointed out that the war caused many people to develop war gardens and that the lesson was one which should be tv* thereafter. The suggestion of the Altoona man applies to Har rlsburg. In 1917 and 1918 m a back lot blossomed like the rose r n l !u:a " t Property was more care fully tended than a pansy bed. But this year we have seen remains of i?' 3 and other vegetables stleUH?- y . Wee l ds J aba ndoned and slicking melancholy tops above the snow as reminders of the wearing on or the war efforts. Which it may be added, is needed now' as much as when the men were battling thiough the Argonne. ? skiin F With an automobile uo • power is a new sport Harnsburg has developed along its river front and while it has some with e t n hrm da " e( T 11 ' also filled with thi ills and pleasure. Hauling sleds around on an automobile and enjoying all the excitement of 11 : °r, i* lidt ;' "''fh an occasions I spill, so that it does not hurt, has beenindulged in for quite a time but the ski stunt is a new one. A number of young folks tried it Sun wlriMn ? nd it 18 , 1 nißht anU no one went to a hospital. S ', F ! sher ' State's Bank -11 ii orn ") iaH1 °npr, comes pretty near le'sp" 1 ,? ih e i eC , ord for beinK at his !., k ' a thp . State Capitol these, davs. 1 he Commissioner, who got his ea'rlv training in Indiana county schools bv rmlmZ™ ° fflces - is industrious . , lat J" e a " d regardless of the I light of time by disposition, lie has always been noted in his home town for working in his office long after everyone else had gone home and for i©turning to his desk after sup per to advance some more work When he came to llarrisburg he not only brought the idea of being at work on Mondays and staying until todays even until Saturday, but he also continued to work in the eve mugs. This came in mighty handv this year during the strenuous davs attending the closing up of the Norm Pcftn Bank because people never needed to worry übout finding Fisher. It is not uncommon for messenger boys or bellhops lo bo on the jump trying to got State officials (o the telephones, but it was simply a case of "trying the office" to get the Banking Commissioner. Commis sioner Fisher, wiio served eight years in the State Senate and as chairman of the Capitol Investiga tion Commission, is also a member of the Constitutional Revision Com ission and in the course of prepara tion for the latter service, just read up the debates and everything else connected with State Constitutions since 1776. • • * Jumes T. Waiters, who retires as county detective next month after filling that office for almost a score of years, not only served on the po lice force, but had some military training. He was mighty active in politics and not a few times was a pillar in First Wurd battles. When the Harrisburg Reserves were formed for emergency service, after the Na tional 'Guardsmen started for Camp Hancock, "Jim" Walters was one of the very first men to enroll and he went over and pranced around in the evening drills at the Island in a way that made tlie younger men among the bankers, businessmen, railroadmen, lawyers, Capitol Hill clerks and others who made up that | organization wonder where he got all Iho energy. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —John C. Bane, who was listed for argument in a case before the Public Service Commission, is one of the big lawyers of Pittsburgh and lias appeared here ill traction mat ters. —Judge-elect M. C. Henninger, of Lehigh, hds been, a member of the Lehigh bar since 1877. —-Thomas Cadwalader, elected captain of the First City Troop, is a descendant of one of the founders of that organization. —Captain C. C. McCain, of Indi ana, appointed a captain in the new- National G\iard, comes of a family that has been in every war since tha French and Indian. —C. G. Setser, district attorney of Carbon county, will locate in Florida. [ DO YOU KNOW j —That Harrisburg used to be famed for the quality of its I sausage? HISTORIC HARRISBURG I —The first passengers traveled | over the old Camelback .Just aty>ut 102 years ago.
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