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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
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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
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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
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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.