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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

But It was Issued before the Abbey
paintings, the Barnard statuary and
the Oakley series were In place and
is out OF print and off the stalls now.
Haphazard attempts have been
made to overcome the deficiency.
but every time anything has been
started. rival literary ambitions
have appeared. Everything con-
nected with the Capitol seems to
have made men cautious and we
have heard many an unpleasant and
unfair comment in the last few years
by visitors from far and near.
The Barnard statuary needs eluci-
dation, it is generally admitted, and
Miss ORkley's series in the Senate is
enhancing when the theme is un-
derstood: Similarly, the Van Inghen
paintings in the south corridor tell
their messages. but IL you do not get
a guide the significance OF Gloria
Del is lost. Steuben trying to drill
the Pennsylvania Militia at Valley
Forge and John Nixon reading the
Declaration to the people of Phila-
delphia do not even have a title be-
meath the carvasses. The, allegor-
ical painting of Pennsylvania in the
Hall of the House is one of the most
wonderful conceptions of Edwin A.
Abbey when you have page of
typewriting to identify the figures
and tell the part they played in the
upbuilding of Commonwealth that
is the keystone of a world power.
There are other art works that carry
their message and which would
make Pennsylvania spirits rise and
there are some which will be in
stalled within a few years in the
superb chamber of the supreme
| court and in the north corridor
where the industrial rise of the
state is to be portrayed as a COM
panion series TO the lunettes which
show the religious influences that
entered into the making of our
home.
These art works are something to
be proud Of They are better known
in New York than in Harrisburg;
more appreciated by art lovers of
Boston than the Pennsylvanians
who tread the halls on visits to the
Capitol. And it is all because the
men and women who come here to
rejoice in their splendid Capitol
have nothing to take away but the
fieeting impressions of an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. D. George, prominent IL
Pittsburgh affairs, has accepted the
place of receiver of the Pittsburgh
Railways
Game Commissioners John M
Phillips has been presented with the
gold medal of the association fol
protection of game.
&C. Willing Hare. new assistant
director of munitions, has been ac.
lively connected with gas interest,"
in Philadelphia.
Sheriff w. s. Haddock, of ALE,
gheny, has been nominated fol-
president of the National Baseball
Federation.
John r. Laedlein, Williamspor
man well known here, was present
ed with roses by the Templars OF
the fiftieth anniversary of his be
ing q Mason
!, john 7. Dempsey, leader amonI
Lackawanna miners, will havl
charge of the organization in thu
anthracite field.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
Cruina Need For Budget
[Will Payne in the Saturday Even
ing PoRt1


LWill Payne in the Saturday Even
: ing Postl
Every other civilized nation, as far
as l know, has a budget. Certainly
every government to which we should
look for any sbrt of good example
has one. The form and character OF
| the government have nothing to do
with 1t. Extremely democratic Switz-
erland has budget. The autocratic
German Empire had budget; Japan
with its curious graft of very limited
constitutionalism on q trunk of
medieval absoluiism. has a budget.
NonnnGlly monarchical England and
republican France have budgets.
The form and character of the
government have nothing to do with
1t. Every intelligent government has
q budget as a matter of course-just
as every intelligent businessman,
whether he is an American or a
Chinaman, has q set of books. Uni
vcrsal experience and plain common
sense dictate 1t. Only the United
States among important and ad-
Vanced nations goes without a
budget-to its great and undisputed
loss.
There must be some organ of the
government which Is in intimate and
constant touch with all the execu-
tive departments that spend tho pub
lies money. In England and Ger
many this organ is called the Treas
ury Department, but the name Is I'M
material. This supervising agency
must have general knowledge of the
needs of ah- departments and ou-
reaus and understanding of their
purposes, so as to be in q position to
pass intelligent judgment on their
claims for public money. 1t is i'm
portunt that this agency be in con-
stant touch with the departments
and not just step in once a year
to look over their claims in a lump.
Say the Forest Service wants new
roads or any other work that re-
qtjres an appropriation. 1t should
take the matter up with the super
/, vis'ny agency at the limo 1t sees the
need, talk it over, arrive at an un-
Outstanding.
Every spending department bu-
rGau, and so on, should submit all its
claims upon the public purse to this
/ supcrvisor-by whatever name il
might be called-and the supervis-
ing agency s veto should have pretty
much the same effect as the Preci-
dents veto of n bill passed by Con-
gress. That is to say. an appeal could
| be taken to some higher authority
such as the cabinet or joint fiscal
committee or whatever body the gov.
! ernment agreed upon for that pur.
pose. But the arrangement must bt
such that only in some plain case
could an appeal from the super.
| vlsing agency's veto be successful.
Congress must bind itself not tC
| consider any claim upon the public
: purse that does. not come to it with
the o. X. of the final authority which
has been agreed upon and set up tC
consider such Gle inns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

MI ANY years ago a little girl
W wrote to the editor of the
New York Sun, saying that
her friends told her there wasn't any
Santa Claus, and asking him If it
were true. In reply, the Sun pub
lished the following editorial, writ1
ten by the late Frank P. Church:
Virginia. your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of n skeptical age.
They do not believe except they see
They think that nothing can be
which is not comprehensive by their
little minds. All minds. Virginia,
whether they be mems or children's,
are little. In this great universe of
ours man is mere insect, an ant, in
his intellect, as compared with the
boundless world about him, as meas
ured by the intelligence capable of
grasping the whole truth and knowl-
edge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist;
and you know that they abound and
give to our life its highest beauty
and joy. Alas how. dreary would
be the world if there were no Santa
Claus! IT would be as dreary as if
there were no Virginias. There
would be no childlike faith then, no
poetry, no romance, to make toler-
able this existence. We should have
no enjoyment, except in sense and
sight The eternal light with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
WHY SINK THEM?

A DMIRAL BOWLES objects
"A strenuously to the idea of tow
ing the surrendered German
navy out to sea and sinking it, on the
ground that there can be no rea-
son for such a wilful waste. except
sentiment, and such an act would be
carrying sentiment much too far"
The admiral is right. 1t would be
the sheerest nonsense to destroy
these ships in the manner suggest
ed. The admiral further points out
that scrap steel is at present selling
for s24 a ton and that if the Ger
man ships are to be destroyed the
thing to do would be to break them
ND and sell the material for junk.
But why do either, with Secre-
tary Daniels crying for more ships?
If we can increase our navy quickly
by the purchase of some of the Ger
man vessels, the money to be turn
ed over to Belgium or France why
not do so? But whatever is done
the ships should not be sunk. We
have wasted enough of wealth dur
ing the war without putting another
billion dollars worth beneath the
waves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
A SONG FOR HEROES
BY Edwin Markham

1.-THE New Church Messenger.l
A song for the heroes who saw the
sign
And took their place in the battle
line;
They were walls of granite and
gates of brass;
And they cried out to God, They
shall not pass!"
And they hurled them back in q
storm of cheers,
And the sound will echo on over the
years
And a song for the end, for the
glorious end,
And the soldiers marching up over
the bend
OF the broken roads in gallant
France,
The homing heroes who took the
chance,
Who looked on life, and with even
breath
Faced the winds from the CULTS of
death.
Their hearts are running on over
the graves
over the e-wrecks-over the
waves
over the Scared felds-over the
foam
On to America-on to home!
And q song for the others, the he
roes slain
In Argonne Forest-in st. Gobaln-
In the flowery meadows of Picardy-
In Belgium-in Italy,
From brave Montello to the sea.
A song for the heroes gone on ahead
To Join the hosts of the marching
dead
A song for the souls that could
lightly fling
Sweet life away as a little thing
For the sake of the mighty need OF
earth,
The need Of the ages coming to
birth.
All praise for the daring God who
gave
Heroic souls that could dare the
grave.
Praise for the power He laid on
youth
To challenge disaster and die for
truth,
Uhat greater gift can the High God
give,
Than the power to die that the truth
may live!
Glory to the Lord, the Hero OF
Heaven,
He whose wounds in His side are
seven
Glory that He gathers the heroes
y home,
out of the red fields, out of the
foam
CHthers them out of the Every
where,
Into the Camp that is over-There!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
RIGHT, MR.. MARSHALL

X oMETIMES we suspect that
Vice-President Marshall knows
~ lot more than the jokesmiths
who occasionally inject alleged hu-
NOR into newspaper reports of his
speeches would have US to believe.
Take his speech before the Carlisle
Chamber of Commerce, for example.
The dream of universal peace
has turned out each time to be a
nightmare" said Mr.. Marshall, who
went on to add that until all men
are of good will, wars will not
cease"
Right you are. Mr.. Marshall.
Peace on earth" and good will to-
ward men" are inseparably linked.
There can be no peace between ma
tions that do not thoroughly under
stand each other. Mutual respect
and trust are essential to harmon
ious relations. and when disagree
ment and suspicion step in, all the
treaties in the world viii not nrA-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
Europe's Richest Ruler
rFrnm the Detroit News. ]

FROM lne lCohiOib NN"S'I
Wilhelmina, queen of the Neither
lands. is the only woman In the
world who is q reigning sovereign In
her own right, position she has held
since 1890, when, at the age OF ten
she ascended the throne at the
death of her father.
Tie dominating female figure OF
Europe today is a large, heavily
built woman, who is Indifferent to
the arts of her dressmakers and hnds
thorough pleasure in personal charge
of the affairs of her country.
She displayed her will on the oc-
casion of her marriage when she re-
fused . number of princes of royal
blood and made her own selection OF
a husband, choosing for her consort
the German duke. Henry Mecklen-
burg -Schwerin. who was soon after
created the prince of the Netherlands
by, the qdeen herself.
Her majesty is the richest sover-
elgn in Europe In her own right, her
income being enormous from the
crown lands and from her vast col
nies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
A CAPITOL GUIDE BOOK

HTow that comprehensive plan
N by one of the foremost archi-
- tects has been adopted for the
embellishment of Capitol Park and
the creation of State civic center.
in conjunction with a memorial to
the Army and Navy, would it not be
worth while for the State of Penn
sylvania to provide some means
whereby the thousands of visitors
who annually go through the State
House may be informed as to the
art works which ornament the build
ing2 The Capitol guides have en-
deavored to remedy this deficiency
and some of them have given time
and study to the paintings, but the
effect of the spoken word on q
sightseeing tour is soon lost.
The last Capitol guide book was
An interesting pamphlet written by
q brother of it's architect, and gave
= valuable article on the building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
'Poeit;cs ;s
Pe~~4tGso~A
BY the Ex- Committeeman

Capitol Hill is discussing with in
terest a story which comes from
Washington and is regarded as in
dicating that when it comes to max
ing appointments or removals,
Governor elect William C. Sproul in
tends to act in concert with county
leaders. and not to select people for
important places without even
knowledge OF men of prominence in
the Republican party.
The story comes from Washing
ton that at a recent dinner the new
Governor was approached by a
friend of an Off cial holding a we'll
paid Office in one of the depart
ments and asked to keep him there.
The new Governor instantly and
emphatically said that in the mat
ter of appointments or changes 1t
would be wise for the man in ques-
ton to secure the approval of the
party leaders of his own county.
Senator Boies Penrose is said to
have given the same advice.
This situation will make an inter-
esting one for people from Dau-
phin county, especially. This coun-
ty has a number of appointees who
were named to places on the Hill
without the knowledge of the men
at the head of the militant organi-
zation here or of the legislators or
Senator Edward E. Beidelman, who
has since become Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

congress or Amer
can Industries in Atlantic City Il
particularly timely:
The purpose of industry is
quite as much. to advance social
weIl-oelng as material well-be-
Ing and in the pursuit of that
purpose the interests of the COM
munlty should be carefully con-
sidered, the well-being Of the
employees as respects living and
working conditions SHOULD be
fully guarded, management
should be adequately recognized
and capital should be Justly COM
pensated; and failure in any of
these particulars means loss to
all.
Every man is entitled to an
opportunity to earn a living, to
reasonable hours of work and
proper working conditions, to a
decent home, TO the opportunity
to play, to learn, to worship, and
to love, as well as TO toll, and the
responsibility rests as heavily
upon industry as upon govern
ment or society to see that these
conditions and opportunities pre-
vail.
Industry, efficiency, and initia-
tive, wherever found, should be
encouraged and adequately re-
warded, and incidence, indiffer-
ence and restriction of produce
tion should be discountenanced.
The provision OF adequate
means for uncovering grievances,
and promptly adjusting them, Is
OF fundamental Importance to the
successful conduct of industry.
The most potent measure in
bringing about Industrial har-
mony and prosperity is adequate
representation of the parties in
interest; existing forms of rep
resentation should be carefully
studied and availed of in so far
as they may be found to have
merit and are adaptable to the
peculiar conditions in the various
industries.
The application of right prin-
ciples never fails to effect right
relations; the letter killeth and
the spirit maketh alive; forms
are wholly secondary, while atti-
tude and spirit are all important,
and only as the parties in indus
try are animated by the spirit of
fair play, justice to all, and
brotherhood, will any plans
(which they may mutually work
out succeed.
That man renders the greatest
social service who so co-operates
in the organization Of industry
as 10 afford to the largest num-
Der of men the greatest oppor-
tunity for self-development and
the enjoyment by every man of
those benefits which his own
work adds TO the wealth of civili-
zation.
And whom do you think is tn
author? None other than John I
Rockefeller, Jr., sometimes locke
upon as a hard-fisted millionair
and sometimes as a mere dreamer
But this resolution marks him as
man of practical ideas and a yer
clear vision of the new relation
that must exist between employe
and employe, if the country is t
prosper. Labor as we'll as industr
might well adopt them as creed.
Senator Lodge would have tn
United States move slowly in Europe
in other words. he doesn't want
rush in where angels fear to tread.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

So. according to a Harrisburg news
paper. the plan to canalize the Sus-
quehanna river is a fantastic scheme"
So. were the Pennsylvania Railroad
and she Panama Canal. in the eyes of
little men one time. but men OF vision
and courage built them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
An AHbi For the Doctor

Monday, November IS, 1918, a
Mexie%n by the name of Braulic
Hernandez. aged 20 years, died in a
little carhouse down by the depot.
The man never had doctor and so
no one knows what killed him.
San Miguel (Cal.l Examiner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

vent them from flying at each
others throats when tho provoca-
tion becomes too great.
It is for these reasons that wise
statesmen would postpone the for
nation of a League of Nations unv
I'll after they see the results of the
peace conference, which of neces-
sity must be the basis for all future
relations between the nations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
Our National Anthem

1.-THE Philadelphia Public Ledger
The doughboys at Brest who targh
the childfen to sing HALL HailIs th
Gangs All Herel" as the Americas
national anthem prepared a surpria
for the President which must at leaa
have appealed to his sense Of hume
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

The Ukrainians want the richest part
of European Russia. and after the
way they took up with the Germans
a year ago the peace delegates will be
warranted in giving their representa-
tives a good swift kick whore a kick
Is likely to be most effective.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
LABOR NOTES

Several of the larger elevators To-
Gated in the Northwest employ women
as grain shoyelers.
The International Fire Fighters
Union, with its 132 locals, has total
membership OF over 10000.
Organised women laundry workers
In Tacoma, Wash. receive a minimum
wage of $14 per week.
The service flag of the United
Nine Workers of America Is the
largest service flag in the country.
A new shipyard has been opened a:
Beaumont, Texas, paying a minimum
wage of 80 cents an hour.
From January /, 1916. to July 1,
1918. there were 15S.659 industrial
workers injured in Pennsylvania.
OF the total number of workers on
January l. 1918, in the mines in
France. 1873 per cent were women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication or
all news dispatches credited to II or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local neSvs published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
VIII Haze to Be Born Again

All we see left for the high school
seniors is to come back next year and
join the third-grade geography class.
Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
wilhelm is Lucky

Instead of plotting to regain his
crown, Bill ought to be glad to -e-
tain the place where the crown used
to Washington Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
HDeScribeS 1t Exactly

Perhaps nothing better expresses
the melancholia of Mr.. Hohenzollern
than to say he is as happy as king.
st. Louis Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

Bat for a line, be that sublime
Greatly begin! though thou haze time
Time is endIeSSly long, and every
ddy is a UeSSeI into tohich much may
be poured, if one tcill readily fH 1t
Rp.-Goethe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

An airplane trip to the North Pole
is planned. but DR.. Cook will not be
in the party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
DO YOU KNOW

-That Harrisburg can get
many new small industries in
the rcadjustment which is
bound to occur in the next few
years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

the remarkable report he made on
the conduct of business at the Capt.
tol was slashed and rewritten before
1t got to the Legislature of 1917,
because Mr.. McDevitt was too cam
did. Both sketches are as different
from the ordinary run of newspaper
articles as the subjects are from
men in active politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELAGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
Reformed ling Note

It's soon to be McAdieu.--Arkansas
Gazatta
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
A SEASONABLE TENET

VIZ 1TH the world going back to
wv a peace basis and the sea-
son of Peace on Earth,
Good Will Toward Men" at hand, a
recently enacted resolution by the
Reconstruction Congress of Amer
lean Industries in Atlantic City is
particularly timely:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

The belief is growing that April
21 will be selected as the date for
adjournment of the session of the
Legislature which will begin two
weeks from tomorrow. The prece-
dent of 1900 when the House fixed
a date of adjournment when it met is
being discussed. 1t is certain say
many men that there will be ad-
Journment in time for Legislators
TO enjoy the first fortnight of the
trout season
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

One by one the roses fade. Even
lauFels grow irksome. Representa-
tive Wilson B. Sarig, who was the
minority nominee for Speaker of the
last Legislature, has decided, says a
Reading dispatch, that he does not
care to have that empty honor re-
peated at the organization of the
House next month. Statesman Sa-
rig is of a generous and open-heart-
ed disposition and believes the NOM
ination ought to be passed around
so that the several other Democratic
Legislators may have a chance at
1t. Besides, he believes the occa-
sion is not as momentous as it was
two years ago and hence his SER
vices as minority leader are not as
badly needed as they were then.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

E. ]. STACKPOLB
President aud Editor-fn-Chfef
r. r. OYSTER, Business Nand0er
Gus NJ. STEINMETz. Managing Editor
4. r. MICHENER, Circulation Manager
Executive Board
]. p. MCCULLOUGH.
BOYD NJ. OGELSBY.
L. r. OYSTER,
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Limits of Camp Curtin will bl
marked after the new memorial d
erected in the upper end of the city
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

Bishop Philip r. McDevitt was In
Philadelphia yesterday to preach al
the services in st. Patrick's in honor
of the completion of fifty years In
the priesthood of Mgr. William p
Kieran, one of the noted clergymeE
of Eastern Pennsylvania. The TIVE
are friends of many years standing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-23

Philadelphia newspapers have
cen giving much attention lately
to speculation aUout the heads of
departments, and it is notable that
as in the case of some other news
papers, they are now of the opinion
that there will be changes in the
Departments of Agriculture. Bank
ing, Insurance and Labor and Indus
try When the prediction of such
changes was made in this column,
the organization of the Department
of Agriculture outlined and an
nouncement made that Commissioner
of Fisheries Butler weuld be reap
pointed. they were disregarded, be-
cause not made along the Della
ware.