6 ' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE BOMB Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by - THE TKLKOHAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph BalMlaf, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F.'r. OYSTER, Business Manager GUB. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor JL. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard 'J.I P." McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUa M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Prir—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. Member American Eastern office. Building^, 1 Chfca'go, I f | " l il^>ing " Entered at the Post OfTice in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a i GMnEMESSD week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1919 The way to heaven—furn to the right and keep straight on.— SPI'B- j GEOX. A GOOD PRISON ROARD THE Dauphin County Prison j Board again demonstrated its j efficiency and public spirit yes- | terday by putting into effect at the! county jail economies that will save the taxpayers hundreds of dollars a | year. This board is made up of Republi- j cans —organization Republicans, our | Democratic friends like to term them i —and it would be well if the offices ! at Washington, now occupied by or- | ganization Democrats, were tilled by I men with the same high regard for t their public duties. Within two months they have abolished three ; offices at the prison,- put into opera- ( tion a means of saving much money j on bread and henceforth will re- j quire all prison attaches to provide ; their own meals. Part of this economy, of course, ■ has been made possible by the re- L duction of prisoners at the jail since wont Into effect, but tbe part is the result of careful on the part of the j prison Inspectors, who. in 1919, j saved the taxpayers $5,000 or more ; and who promise to do much better j next year. It would have been easy for the | board to have played politics at the jail by keeping the prison staff up ! to tbe old standard. There was no ' public demand for a reduction. In- j deed, it has been a matter of com- i ment for the past six or eight years, ' at least, that, the prison has been j most efficiently managed and the i taxpayers were very well satisfied. ] Also, it could have been heid, with- j out niTSch chance* of contradiction, j that the prison could not be operated : successfully with fewer than the old force of employes, and thus jobs could have been made for political workers. But the prison inspectors are not that kind of men. They are looking after the interests of the' taxpayers above all else, and so the j savings have been effected. This is good polities as well as good business. The people care lit tle for party affiliations in local office, hut they do demand honesty and efficiency, and so long as the Republican organization of Dauphin county puts Into places of responsi bility such men as compose the Dau phin County Prison Board elections may come and elections may go, but Republican majorities will continue as regularly and uninterruptedly as the flow of the brook, which, as our old friend Tennyson assures us, goes on forever. What will the Democratic party do when Mr. Bryan is finally called to that realm whence no one ere returns to be a presidential candidate? A HOUSE NOT IN ORDER NOT only the members of the President's formal cabinet are seeking a more congenial at mosphere, but those who have figured In his "kitchen cabinet" are likewise deserting the ship. Colonel House, the mysterious con fidant of tho President, who was wont to take the place of regular department heads In crucial situa tions, and was the chief advisor or thp President at Paris, is the latest cabinet heud without portfolio to fall outside the breastworks. He has not been at the White House since his return from Europe, nor does it seem likely that he is wanted there. There are also Intimations that other gentlemen who were suppofied to be in the confidence of the auto crat of the present administration are not longer persona grata. Of course, these snubbed individuals will pretend to languish still i n the favor of the Imperial occupant of the White House to save their own" faces and avoid public humiliation, but the advices now filtering out of Washington rather confirm the sus picion that the Wilson oligarchy is 1 WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' DECEMBER 31, 1919. crumbling to pieces as the time ap proaches for another National elec tion. The people are not so much in terested In who's who in the present administration as they are in the working out of great domestic prob lems which have been permitted to become more and more difficult ow ing to the administration's drifting attitude. It "may be safely predicted that the next Democratic National convention will witness a large num ber of former Wilson kowtowers among the President's most active opponents. Colonel House is likely to be among this number. !DIVIDEND WORTH WHILE ] RECEIVED two fine dividends : I to-day," said one of Harris burg's most successful busi : nessmen to a friend the other day, and his friend, knowing him to be a man of many investments, naturally asked: "What per cent.?'* ! Whereupon the businessman re- I plied: "One hundred per cent.," and j seeing the look of astonishment on his companion's face, added: "They were not cash dividends; they were expressions of appreciation for little kindnesses I had been able to do. One came in the form of a letter; the other the simple thanks of one I scarcely knew, but whom I had been able to favor. Cash dividends are soon forgotten. I don't know what percentage I received last year on some of my holdings, but divi dends such as these I shall carry with me to my grave, and perhaps beyond." If more of us tried to earn divi dends of that kind, the world would Ibe a happier and better place in which to live. The dollar is soon spent; the good deed never dies. The cash dividend is forgotten; the kindly act is written in the record of a man's life by which hereafter he will be judged. Wealth may make for happiness, but wealth and happiness do not al ways go together. The dollar is an essential to business. Accumulation of money, honestly, is the mark of success in business and therefore to be desired. But beyond that, in busi ness and in private life, is the desire to serve, and while service may be in itself its own reward, yet it yields dividends; dividends of satisfaction in a good deed well done, in the fair reputation they win for those who extend the hand of help in time of need; in the content that comes in the summing up of one's lifework, when gold is counted as dross and money means nothing. All of us know these things, but few are wise enough to practice 1 them, more's the pity. THE ARMY, TOO THE courage of Admiral Sims in openly rebuking Secretary Daniels for trifling with awards of naval medals as recom mended b> the commander of the fleet under whose close observation the mei. served, is to yield fruits of justice for the men discriminated against. Admiral Sims has been joined in his protest by Admirals Mayo and Benson, and Mr. Daniels, while loudly protesting his inno cence, lets it be known that the lists are to be revised. It would be interesting to have similar light on the methods of the War Department in the awards of medals and promotions. Ever since the soldiers began to come back from France there have been per sistent rumors and reports of rank discrimination and favoritism; of incompetents pushed up and com petent men kept down. Southern Democrats had line pickings. Hard lighting men with no political pull stood small chance. Unfortunately for the soldiers, there was no Ad miral Sims in the Army. MURDER i THE man who puts wood alcohol into intoxicating beverages is a murderer, nothing more nor less; just as much so as though he had placed arsenic in the drink, for one is as deadly as the other. Of course, he who buys contrajjpnd whisky is at heart a lawbreaker and so is deserving of little consideration. But, on the other hand, the habitual drinker, denied of his alcohol by law, must be protected by law against unscrupulous persons who are prey ing upon his weakness. The public will expect the police authorities of the country to lose no time in rounding up these poisoners and the courts in putttng them where they belong. A FOOLISH CONCLUSION ATTORNEY GENERAL PAL MER reaches the conclusion that because prices have not arisen since August they are going to drop very soon. Wonder if he has reckoned with the report of the Coal Commission, which the President says should bo made within sixty days. There' Is not a doubt In the world that when the recommendations for increased wages and coal prices be come effective the price of every manufactured commodity will take a big jump. STEALING AL'S THUNDER THE New York Sun kicks be cause Lieutenant-Commander Read, of NC-4 airplane fume, was supplied with a map which showed the existence of a town ex isting twenty-six years ago, but which was blotted out by a tidal wave In 1893. Possibly the Navy Department was trying to even up for the towns in the United States which have been I wiped out by Al. Burleson's stumped notice on returned letters, "no such i address," of which Sioux Falls, s. j D., was an example. To escape being poisoned by "bad" i whisky, don't drink any whisky. T>ot£Kco U ftKKttflva.Kia By the Ex-Committeeman From all indications the Pennsyl vania Democrats are going to make some demonstration in behalf of At torney General A. Mitchell Palmer at Washington when the Jackson day dinner is held. In fact, the present plans are for the Democrats of Pennsylvania to go in bunches. They are going to be massed and presumably the bellows will be working so that tho man from Stroudsburg will be given what may be termed "an ovation" and the country notified all about it. Latest information is that William G. McAdoo will not be able to at tend and that is taken to mean that he will not figure in the prelimi nary running, but William Jennings Bryan is going to be there. That is probably one reason why the Palmer cohorts intend to boost the Pennsyl vania man. The Bryan boom, which is taken so seriously at Washington and in the southern and western states, is very disturbing to some of the Penn sylvania Democratic leaders. They have been banking on being able to awe the opposition by presidential countenance of the Palmer boom and the activity of Joseph Tumulty. And now here comes the man from Ne braska with a pronounced disinclina tion to scare a bit. Auditor General Charles A. Sny der, who finished up his appoint ments of the first mercantile apprais ?o S i n " amed under the act of 1919, which took the appointments from county commissioners and gave !v! e P\. ,110 Auditor General, admits that he accumulated a rare lot of ex perience. even for him. in the com pilation of the list. He found a number of county leaders who were at odds and some leaders who did not agree with senators and various other conditions calculated to cause more or less annoyance even to such a well versed official as the man from Schuylkill. The appraisers will be summoned to go to work at once. that these appointments are out of the way and most of county appointments made there are indications that the campaigns for delegate and various nominations will start without delay. Early Jan uary ivi 11 see many booms launched. .. "TV 10 Pittsburgh Dispatch says that there will be no contest against State Chairman William E. Crow for election as Republican State Chair man in June. J a *C nyers suU 18 bc,n * threat ened at Chester as a result of sonjc Of the municipal financing". The out going and incoming administrations bid fair to make it interesting for each other. Palmer Democrats will run E. J Lynett and Joseph O'Brien as the Lackawanna Democratic National delegates. ~, a X r G , °,V Or" o r E(, win S. Stuart has added his commendation and en dorsement of J. Hampton Moore to what Governor Sproul has said. —Gettysburg's special bond Is sue election on February 3 is attract ing much attention, as taxpayers and "r" . rt ° not a S rce °n some details of benefits of former ex penditures. The ward issue is for $35,000 for highway improvements kVm, n n". nCtl °" wi,h ,ho State and *-0,000 lor an electric plant. Owing to disagreements in the Chester city council the 1920 budget is not ready. Council has a week before the new administration comes in. —Col. George Roth, who is a Uni versity of Pennsylvania professor and saw service in France, has been appointed assistant to Welfare Di rector E. L. Tustin in Philadelphia. —Ailentown is facing a $700,000 budget and a tax increase. —Seranton people see a drive at Ex-Congressman John R. Farr In the dropping of Ellsworth Kelly from the city-clerkship. Kelly is a brother-in-law of County Commis sioner John von Bergen, a Farr mnn. —One of the interesting facts about tho preparations of the Democrats for the 1920 delegate eanipaign is tho effort to get dyed-in-the-wool Wilson men to run for delegate. Some be lieve this is either as a third term precaution or, what is more likely, to make stire of support for Palmer! who is said to have the President's secretary right with him. —ln the midst of the trumpeting from Washington as to the manner in which the Federal crusades on living and other costs are being con ducted the Pittsburgh Dispatch in dulges in this jab at the way Demo crats are running things: "The most effective aid the Government could give would be to reduce the cost of Government and cut taxes. The Na tion cannot pay five or six billions of dollars in National taxation where it used to pay but one billion without that increase being reflected in tho cost of every item we eat, drink, wear or use. There is something practi cal to aim at, but it will require more than promises and prophecy to bring it down.'' —The Lincoln Association of Bethlehem, of which Harry Meyers is president, and which is noted throughout the State for its dinners on Lincoln Day, has Invited Mayor J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, to be one of its speakers. —General George C. Rickards, of Oil City, will resign in a few days as a member of the State Armory Board and then be named Water Supply Commissioner. —lt is said that Walter J. Me- Ntchols, of Scranton, has resigned as a supervising inspector of the De partment of Labor and Industry. —George J. Brennan savs in his column in the Philadelphia In quirer: "Four members of the last State House of Representatives who were chosen by the people for im portant ofllces at the last election will be sworn into their new posi tions within a few days. They are William T. Ramsey, who was elect ed mayor of Chester: Cyrus Moffet Palmer, who becomes District At torney of Schuylkill county, and Sig J. Gans and Edwin R. Cox, who on Monday next will take the oath of office as members of Philadelphia's new Charter Council of Twenty-one. Ramsey, who was the Republican floor leader of the last House, served in that body continuously since he was first elected in 1912. He had previously been in councils in, Chester, having for two terms fllleM* the office of president of Councils." Epigram (Spokane Spokesman-Review.] The feminine movement grows stronger and stronger For making clothes cheaper by wearing them longer. Will the ladies sueeeed ? Well, we think that they outer— They make their clothes higher by wearing 'em shorter SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE R OH- GCOFT&E COME"~\ TRSTEICEIEORSE( ) /TJOTOACK I DOI/T^ Mp ß p_ rue GNT f UP .SEUEJRAL WANT TO POT A' \ \ CNRVY,P: ~ N K I( =W/: / GALLONS OP STUFF DAMPER OM YO.O I \ Some <SooD Niews / FROM A RECEIPT BUT Take my / \ FOR. YOU - YOULL / <3IUEN ME BY advice AND DON'T] V. LtKG THIS —y COURTNEY HOUCK- / OPINW That STUFF/ ANO IT HAS WELL LET C BUT COURTNEY ) FS%S~ \ ME TELL. jCARE WHAT I wouldn't GIU£ ( j KNOW BUT 1 L Sqwt BODY You WHAT IT'S MADE / IME A BUM / F IT'LL TußrO / 15 ALWAYS TAI<IW6 RR:S MADE OF- IT'S A J ( E,J ( =/J 0U ~ R TO BE THE JOV OUT OF ,OF / CHEMICAL / \I AS FUSEL OIL- LI FEL V J POISON / I AND IT'LL K. . R S The War Memorial [From the New York Times.] There is plenty of time in which to decide upon the form which the permanent war memorial of New York City shall take. It is right that there should be a thorough dis cussion of the subject, and that every citizen who has ideas upon it should give them free circulation. Not merely our population of artists but essentially the whole community is interested in the lasting commem oiation of our greatest war. The soldiers and sailors and their friends \ ha\e a personal and almost pas- 1 s'oiiiite feeling, full of fervor, how- ] ever little imbued with art, in a me- ! morial whose first and hardest task ■ it will be to satisfy the generation ! that builds it, but which should be ' fair and noble beyond cavil, and equal to the centuries that lie before \ The Fine Arts Federation laid ! down last Spring the true democratic ! theory. The war memorial should j "be to the greatest possible extent i representative of the expressed | ideas, desires and sentiments of the j great body of our citizens of all j classes." It is good to see that the I American Legion is taking a refer- j endum of the form the memorial I should assume. Societies of many ! names and purposes, but all intelli- I gent and patriotic, have taken up | this hospitable notion of a general j popular expression of opinion. Thus | the Woman's Municipal League asks for "an open competition qf ideas" | and "a competent jury" of artists and architects to decide upon the form of a memorial. Meanwhile the Mayor's comittee, whose good intentions cannot be suspected and whose readiness to give full scope to the expression of popu lar and artistic opinion must be as sumed, is criticised by some of the enthusiasts. There has been discus sion in the Sculpture Society. These ; things are good signs. An art war I is begun. There will be many! dithyrambs and anathemas. .The . public will learn a good deal. The , sculptors and the architects and the : whole family of artistry will have j happy hours. At the end of the ! great debate may the most beautiful ! and worthiest conception win! Whatever is decided upon, let us not be unjust to the classic forms | that still rule the world. Col. Harveu on the I. W. W. A welcome Christmas giff to a long-suffering nation was the judg- j ment af the Federal Court at Kansas City in the case of a gang of twenty- ! seven potential traitors. These "I Won't Work" scoundrels had been conspiring to break the laws of the country and to defeat their operation, to deprive the people of food and fuel, to cause the defeat of our army and navy in the war, to promote the success of Germany and the Ger man conquest of America, and the overthrow and destruction of the United States as an independent Re public. Every one of them richly ; deserved to be stood between a blank ] wall and a firing squad, and prob- \ ably would have been thus treated in any country but this. As it was, seeing that the law did not provide for such disposition of them, the court had to be content with send- ] ing them to prison for from three to nine years apiece and, in the case of the head devil of the gang, until the costs of the prosecution are paid. It was a good day's work; entirely appropriate to the season which promises "peace on earth to men of gpod will." There can be no bet- j ter way of assuring peace to men of good will than by putting men of evil will where "the wicked cease from troubling." Now, if only there could be a few more such days' work, including some such summary dis position of the infernal fools who will presently be weeping and howl ing for the release of these "polit ical prisoners!" Where Credit is Due [From Philadelphia Press.] The rejoicin-g that is in the heart of the Nation at the final deporta tion of two hundred or more Reds was not caused by any rigorous ac tivity on the part of the Adminis tration. The fact that these un- Americans are now on their way to soviet Russia is not the fault of cer tain Government officials in whose hands was the administration- of the special laws which declared these persons beyond the pale. To the Committee on Immigration of the House of Representatives is due the credit for this emburkutlon. The sending away of these persons had been delayed time and time again. There was no certainty that It would ever have taken place if certain Fed eral officers had been permitted to have their way- KILLED FOUR BEARS IN FIVE MINUTES : j DR. CHARLES S. MILLS, of Riverton, New Jersey, whose exploit in killing four grizzly | bears in live minutes while hunting ! in British Columbia, has stirred the j interest of New Jersey sportsmen, ! related tit his home the details of ! the thrilling experience. The physi j cian and his Indian guide, cornered Iby the charging bears, pumped | thirty-five shots from their repeat ; ing rifles at the ferocious brutes and i twenty-six of the bullets took ef- I feet. "It happened so quickly that we j had no chance to think of the dun j ger until it was all over," said the j doctor, in speaking of-what he ad j mits was the most, strenuous five ; minutes of his life. "We were in a j small canyon when- I sighted a big ] she-bear in a copse about forty feet | above us. As I shot, three other | !>ears charged out of the brush. The i first shot was at seventy yards. One J of the trio got within forty yards ' before he went down and the other 1 two were actually within twenty j feet and coming strong when our I last shots finished them. We were i in a pocket, with no chance to get | away if those finul shots had failed." I The female bear was 7 feet 11 | inches official measurement, from nose to tail; the big male, 6 feet 10 y s inches, and the smaller bears, 6 feet 3 inches. They were all fine speci mens of grizzlies. It was on the evening of September 15 that Dr. Mills shot tliQ four bears, the late twilight in northern Canada giving plenty of light. "We had been traveling all day ! and the nearest members of our No Patriotic Sermon Needed [Elizabeth Frnzer, in the Saturday Evening Post.] Almost the first question which i met me on my return from Europe ' was: "Didn't you just hate to come i back to America?" At first I was astonished by the I sheer foolishness of the query, j Didn't America, then, know what j Europe was like? And for reply I I gave a laugh. Properly speaking it j was not a real laugh. It was what is • popularly termed a horse laugh— though I never saw a horse give one. i It is a vulgar, unrefined, hybrid sort !of laugh ranging between a snort j and a hee-haw, and is employed to ! convey scorn, derision, contempt. I I realized at the time that as a com ; plete reply my rejoinder was not al ! together adequate. It was like those I futurist pictures —it left too much I to the imagination. It needed an explanatory title. Later a western man, a demob | ilized captain whom I met out in the Rockies in that wild, ragged big i game country round Jackson's Hoie, | Wyoming, expressed my laugh in ! words. An eastern lady tourist, a romantic, sentimental creature sum | mering on a dude ranch, asked him | the same question which had been ! put to me: Did he not like Europe i better than America ? Wasn't it more I picturesque, refined —more livable, don't you know? All those darling old peasant women out in a field of I poppies garnering the grain? It I made the landscape so romantic— ; like What's-his-name's picture of I the Angelas! And had he seen the ; little girls and boys of Belgium liar | nessed to carts with those big furry | dogs, their sabots clattering on the I cobbles, their cheeks rosy with cold, ! and running with all their might to keep up with the dog? So quaint! Did he now really and truly prefer to live in grubby, prosaic America? Thus the tourist lady of the dude j ranch. ! The man. seventy-four inches of western sunburned brawn, laconic, [ humorous, stood looking down on ! her much as a big benevolent Saint j Bernard looks down on a lady's tiny, yapping wrist watch pet. After the i armistice he had helped to convey 1 the Polish troops in France Across ' Prussia to Poland, and he had con ! fided to me some of the sights he had seen in that gaunt, famine- I smitten hinterland. They were not 1 pretty —those tales. I He stood looking down on the lady with a puzzled frown; then he looked oIT at the encircling mountains, stark j granite shafts and peaks and pin nacles. painted with the lirst snow of l the season; then he looked at me, ■ got no help, and suddenly he gave the whole proposition up, Jerked out a brief "Oh —hell!' and walked away. 1 j party were fifteen miles away irr a] 1 deep canyon," the doctor explained, j "so that we had to shoot straight, i j We skinned the bears and reached j I camp about 1.30 o'clock the next i ! morning." Dr. Mills says that an experience | i of F. 8. Groves, also of Riverton, a| j member of the hunting party, was j i equally thrilling. Groves and his. ! guide, at 9 o'clock one evening, came : | upon- a huge sow-bear, digging out j and devouring groundhogs, i Their first shot only slightly: j wounded the animal, which charged I ' down a sharp incline. The guide, j | seeking a better shot, ran to the edge | I of the slope; his moccasins slipped j and he rolled down directly in the j bear's tracks. Groves was compelled i to shoot between his guide and the j bear ar.il had just sent home a fatal | bullet when the guide landed on top ; of the animal. i The region in which the party did ! j most of the hunting was along the I i headwaters of the Klappan River,! ! in the Cassiar district of British co- j : lumbia, territory practically un-1 I known to white men. | Dr. Mills describes it as the great- | jest game country in the world, j I Within four days their party saw j i herds of 20,000 caribou, while moun- I : j tain goats were so thick that the I hunters describe them as a nuisance, j Dr. Mills and Mr. Groves brought; home the heads and pelts of two j mountain goats, two mountain rams, j j two caribou and one moose, the sea- j | son's game bag limit permitted by I the Canadian Government, while the J physician also had his four bears i i und his friend brought out two. j Secretary Lane and Wilson j [From Harvey's Weekly.] I The origin of the President's cold- I ness toward him was doubtless in, | Mr. Wilson's characteristic dislike I to be associated with any one whom he cannot completely dominate and ! overshadow. But the feeling came j to an irremediable climax when Mr. I Lane committed the doubly unpar- ! donnblo sin first of adopting a policy ' at variance with the President's—i | or with that of the President's fav- j i orites —and second of having the | logic of events prove that he was! i right and the President, or his fav- j ! orites, wrong. I That occurred, of course, in the coal controversy, at the beginning 1 of the war. Mr. Lane, as Secretary! i of the Interior, made an agreement' j with the operators, to run their mines j !at full capacity, at a stipulated I | price, which he and pretty much , I everybody else regarded as fair. But I Mr. Baker, Secretary of War, and one i I of the ablest public officials the Pre- j | sident has ever known, butted in' with a public denunciation of the, I price as exorbitant, and refus- j ! ed, as Chief Cook of the war-wag- ; j ing combination, to approve the j gareement. Of course, the Presi- j I dent backed up one of the ablest j public officials he has ever known, 1 | Mr. Lane's agreement was abrogat- ; | ed, and there was a general shut-1 I ting down of 01*11103. The result was j such a coal famine as the country 1 ' had never known, with heatless days I and liglitless nights and an appal-1 ling Increase in the death-rate; and | incidentally the public had to pay 1 higher prices for the little coal it got j j than it would lipve had to pay urv- j j der Mr. Lane's arrangement. The Shadows 'Fraid o' de shadders?— Tell 'em howdy'do! An' lissen, li'P chillun. What de Fire say ter you: "It's me makes de shadders What dance on- de wall. Go ter sleep, my chillun. Whilst 1 singin' tor you all!" 'Fraid o' de Night Win'?— 1 Hldln' o' yo' head? I He can't fin' de chillun W'en dey kivered up in bed! / I De Win' is a-sayin , 1 1 Whar de dark Night creep: "Lissen. liT chillun, An' I'll sing you to sleep!" . —Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta j I Constitution. No Triumphal Tour in 11. S. . j [From Seattle Post-Intelllgencer.l • '| However, if Pupa Curranza is at j ■ all sensitive and sensible, he will not 1 j attempt to make a triumphal tour of ! . : the United States after the close of 1 his term as Mexican president. World Recovers Quickly [From the Kansas City Star] Forty • thousand persons, a dis patch from Lille. France, said the other day, are at work in the I' reach textile mills that only a few months ago were in ruins. Within g year it is believed production of textiles will reach half the pre-war totals, while within two years the 1914 production will have been sur passed. Such recovery seems astonishing. It really is not. Years ago John Stuart Mill analyzed the conditions of the reproduction of capital and forecast exactly the sort of thing that is happening in France to-day. Mill pointed out that people hard ly realized the extent to which the capital of a country was constantly being destroyed and renewed. They talked of "ancient wealth," whereas "the greater part, in value, of the wealth now existing in England," he said, "has been produced by hu man hands within the last twelve months. A very small proportion in deed of the productive capital of the country was in existence ten years ago—scarcely any part, axcept farmhouses and manufactories and a few ships and machines;*and even these would not in most cases have survived so long if fresh labor had not been employed within that period in putting them in repair." The truth of this is everywhere apparent. In Kansas Citv a mer cantile building or an office build ing thirty years old is out of date and needs remodeling. Railroads are constantly renewed. Machinery becomes obsolete and is scrapped. The great heritage from the past is not in material things, but in knowledge. We are far richer than our ancestors, not because of things they have handed down to us, but because of the knowledge that lias been accumulated which enables us to produce the necessaries and the luxuries of lire in forms and in quantities undreamed of. The ap plication of this principle to the re covery of peoples from the devasta tio" °f war is P ut thus by Mill: "This perpetual consumption and reproduction of capital affords the explanation of what has so often excited wonder, the great rapidity with which countries recover from a state of devastation: the disap pearance in a short time of all traces of the mischief done by earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and the ravages of war. An enemv lays waste to a country bv fire and sword and destroys or carries away tiearlv all the movable wealth exist ing in it. AH the inhabitants are ruined, and vet, in a few vears after everything is much as it was before. There is nothln" wonderful at ali in the matter. What the enemy has destroyed would have been destroy ed in a little time by the inhabit ant" themselves: the wealth which they so ranldly reproduce would have needed to be reproduced and would have bean reproduced in any case and probably in as short a time." Furone isn't ruined so long as the people are there with their knowl edge skid and Ipdugtrv. The war alreadv hps been bought and paid for. although the evidences of debt and the Inflation of currency are Still to he dealt with. Mow all the enormous store of energies of hun dreds of millions of persons will he devoted to the production of goods that shortly will entirely replace the destruction of war. Patch t'p Optic Nerves Now [From the Toledo Blade.] In the field of medicine and sur gery there were wonderful advances during the war. F.ones from ani mals have been used successfully to replace human shin and arm bones splintered by high explosives. Skin grafting and facial reconstruction have become commonplace. New noses and ears have been created of thumbs and fingers. | The latest and most startling bit rff surgery that has grown out of I the war was performed at Fort Mo [ Henry hospital. Raltlmore. Through it four soldiers, blinded by explo [ sives and gas. have recovered their i sight. The operation In each case j was to repair shattered optic nerves. Skin, tissue, bone, muscle, veins and arteries have been patched and splle jed successfully, but the delicate i fabric of nerves hns mostly defied | the skill of surgery heretofore, and [the mark of success upon four op- I erutlons of such novelty and delicacy ; promises large things for human l"" 'Putting Pep in Mexican Army [From St. Louis Olobe-Demoornt.] Carransa gave every soldier In the Mexicun army Ills photograph for Christmas, and that Is supposed to | make them fighting mad. Sowtimj (Jljat haf°Li , ® arß and years Harrlsburg f be . en "ccustomed to "ring out midn?ih f an P d r. rlnß ln the new " at the mJlit December 31 and lately inumm„, 'V of Xcw Year's Eve that ln2. a' aS . come lnto voirue, so ami tho watch night services volvirL i2 n^° f bells - racket o* hil-iritv n"r illing of whiB Oes the snickle i„ Christmas Eve bells- But the much to the front ' hecn th pandemonium has bra on reat feature of the cele dutes nr. hOW l0n& back th,s new,' ° one Beems t0 k aow. Old "ran} ~ ;" ana °"nce in a para comed wir£ £ e new year waa WBl " the rinedt, Bb< ? otin S of firearms and came int ° and when steam o h™ i"" c ' J the whistles appear When ih P ypd a Prominent part. ered In .a CCntCnnial yenr was ush " rade in'w . e , was a midnl ST b t pa varfn.w "" rrlsl)ur K and firemen and fanlastie ai } atlons turned out in advent '/.r umo t0 eelebrate the midnUh. that * reat year ' Another morning P / rade was hel <l on the the commencement of the twentieth century, this being In thenf wm h"® R, ' d Mcn ' Thls year ceiVbrnT . some d 'fference in the hibition r? 16 days * owin K to pro of NewV ° n . e ° f the treat events IoUS wnu Th , Rve amon t the bibu ' , ™ the Placing of groat bowls and on !, "" the bars at midnight and on a man s first timo un he trot i own aafd , A " er that b e bought his Special dinn reqU P nt,y I,OUKht rnuc.h. year', dot P 8 haVe lon '- ba d a new citv- win KU ? at thp hotels in the great VtVrn r ?. a P' as one of the risb. r"' h? V° n , S - Rver sinco Har risourt, has had a Y. M. C A and has r beon d a K T pretty Wthere nee with PW Year ' B day observ for vonni a " entertaining program for young men and boys. Dan Ham imers'fn W S °™ °< Seethe timers in Y work could tell m,nv quaJtoTSf'a* ' t f ry ° f the days a Prof. Hoffnmns used UMjc 2? oimeis on such occasions. The Gov fa ,n e 0 r r o S rign W uT years ago, " b ° Ran about twenty • • • H I Dona a id^ n C >. omm ' ssloner Thomas "act nl an n a " 'nsnrance con' artes of L W r lebyI eby tb(! beneflcl ollvL the first man to die re ceded the proceeds and each of the nine survivors also receive? sSm e ! thing. Insurance should not he rdle UP °" I"" WiSh '" one to die. says Mr. Donaldson. "Rurn the old Christmas trees gvn,P r moth "." y intro( 'uctlon of the !fa i' n'ett l into Pennsylvania" is advice given by Secretary of Agri letinof hi!'' , Rasn ? usson in the bul letin of his department. "Manv of from >w E aV ? C °, mf> to tiSTSaS area h , f h " gland ' where a large urea nas the gypsy moth The danger of introducing the gypsv Should h n i a>8 pp f so,,t " The trees rotwltlwtn bornedj as a precaution. k-standing tho Federal inspec tion, because of chance of some e"g masses being overlooked when tre?s are covered with ice and snow The inspection of imported plants has been carried on carefully for sev eral years by the State authorities to prevent the introduction of the poVsTi.i'iiu oV u, i °, the , r p,,sts ' but u,e possibility ot introducing the de structive gipsy moth into Pennsvl \ania on Christmas trees from in fested districts is manifest, consid ering the many thousands of trees that arc shipped into the State. hor the first time in forty-six years Christmas day passed without the necessity lor ejecting an intoxicated person from the Pennsylvania Rafl bn?'J I,he elimination of booze is given as the reason savs Wcndall Fnckler, local manager for the Lnion News Company, who has been employed about the station working for the News Company for nearly hall a century. Mr. Fackler said: I was on duty all day Thurs day, from early morning until nearly 9 o clock at night. | was at once impressed with the fact that tne usual sights of men carrying bot in their pockets, grips suit cases and in packages, staggering through thy station, were not in evidence. X do not remember a day when someone did not let a bottle rail or a package slip from arms and the bottle break. I have seen drunken men ejected some ar rested for being troublesome On several occasions in years past when there was no checking room, I took care of many bundles and know thev contained liquor. Rut that is a thing ol the past. Old John Barleycorn has been eliminated. Once I remem ber when the presence of liquor In the bands of travelers caused a fight and there were shots exchanged out side of ttie station. Once I was given a demijohn filled with whisky. I was asked to take care of it. and placed it back of niy desk at the old News Agency headquarters. Two hours later that demijohn had an explosion, and whisky flowed all over my office. Things are different now." • • A man walked down one of the narrow streets of the city yesterday afternoon carrying a big bundle. It was all tied up and marked with seals and red tape. It contained just about $lOO,OOO. It was the in come from a certain place which is very husy just now and the. remark able thing about it was that no one could have cashed a single one of the checks which made up the bale. They were all stamped and listed for deposit only. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "*] —Representative Harry M. Sho wnlter, of I.ewisburg, was among the visitors to the Capitol yesterday, —Major Q. O. Reitzel, a former legislator and now register of wills of Rnncaster county, was here yes terday. Ho served in the war with .machine gun troops. —Kx-R eprcentatlve W. K. Pwet land, of Potter county, wns am(m : visitors to Harriburg yesterday. He was here on legal business. I —Pnmvol Trsvtor. shipbuilder and I engineer, has been elected president : of the Allentown Chamber of Com ! merer —W. IT. T.udln, the Reading j manufacturer, Is having a pipe ' organ built In Ms bouse. | —H. O. Wilbur, the Pbildelphla : chocolate manufacturer, wns 81 the ' other day and gave a dance In j honor of the event. I DO YOU KNOW J —Tlint liarrlsbtirg publishes thousands of byiini books a year. HISTORIC lIAKRISRCRG —The first printing office seems to huvc been located here about 1788.
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