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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-02
Frederick A. Macmonnies.

The city of New York has insured
The life of Frederick A. Macmonnies,
the famous sculptor, in order that it
may not lose financially if he should
die before he completes the great
municipal fountain recently ordered.
IIacmonnies' work is to be found in
many American cities, including
Boston, Washington and New York.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-02
Condensed Classics of Famous Authors
DOYLE

Conan Doyle born May 1852 Edinburgh. His
les Doyle, artist OF fantastic imagination. The boy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.

"HE American people are end
ing a tragic year with their
minds set upon making the
coming twelve months the most con-
structive period in the history of
American finance. They are deport-
ing undesirable aliens, they are
formulating legislation to increase
the efficiency of their railroads and
to provide for the stability of rail-
road investments, they are pureing
their loan account to make the coun-
try's bank position stand the acid
test of commercial banking, they
are visualizing, as never before. the
extraordinary opportunity which the
war has given them to work up a
phenomenal foreign trade, and they
are trying to make every nation on
earth, Mexico included, realize that
Uncle Sam is a gentleman not to be
trified with. These are among the
achievements of a year character
lied by social unrest, labor disturb
ances, class prejudice, high prices,
high living, warning unionism, for
eign complications, transplanted Boil
shevism, money tension, unbridled
speculation and reduced industrial
output. The difference between iron
and steel is white heat. And it is
worth the difference!
The situation is eminently one
in which the hard common sense
of the American people will show
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
The Wise Rulers Return

Greet the Goddess of Reason,
Who, resplendent in season,
Is lifting our faces and burdens
again.
DO we sense the transition
Do we rise to our mission
BY gripping her hand as we must
to be men?
If wrong was committed
'Gainst your group and befitted
A shylock demanding for profit,
his pound;
Is your cause or your gaining
BY a desperate refraining
From needing the Goddess, who
hoverS around?
If the owners of plenty
Swelled each ten to a twenty,
Exploiting, while crying their loss
to the world;
Can they blindly persistent
Think the day to be distant
When reasons will crumble them ?
Watch for the herald!
There is wisdom in feeling
That inaction was stealing
Her throne from its base on our
mental estate.
All our laXness for swearing,
Let us work and be sharing
In pride of u land where the
humblest is great.
AS we enter the season
OF which He is the reason
Commingling our aims in q
spirit of gift.
May we think, Oh. how fleeting
Is our imperfect greeting
And train mind and heart in its
uplook and lift.
j. A. Bell, Steelton, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

up to great advantage in solving the
problems that are ahead.
Christmas buying is absorbing an
unprecedented quantity of high
grade merchandise. A record de-
mand for jewelry and precious
stones speaks eloquently for the
luxury margin" in the wage earn
er's pay envelope. The country is
going ahead quietly, but it is going
ahead. Our productive machinery
is being strengthened by degrees,
but it could stand several hundred
million dollars worth of new i'm
provements If corporation managers
had ready access to the investment
markets. But capital is timid and
will not loosen up until the horizon
is clearer. The situation is on the
mend, however, and in this country
of record resources and uneXampled
initiative, it takes very little to make
whining pessimist into a shouting
optimist. The greatest fool in all
world is the man who bets against
the prosperity of the United States.
Washington is still headquarters
for much of the most interesting
news affecting investment sentiment
Much important legislation is likely
to be passed at this session of Con-
gress and although it is too early
to tell what the effect of this will be,
the indications are that it will fol-
low constructive lines.-William A.
| Law, President of First National
Bank of Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Oregon and Wood

GFrom the Portland Oregonian1
Dow V. Walker has been desig-
mated as the manager of the General
Leonard Wood campaign in Oregon,
and will get into action as quickly as
possible. Mr.. Walker, who is per-
sonally acquainted with General
Wood, was asked to take the direc-
torship in Oregon by ]. L. King, di-
rector general of the Wood fight,
when Mr.. King was in Portland re-
Gently.
There is considerable sentiment
for Wood in Oregon and it is the
purpose of Mr.. Walker to bring this
more prominently to the surface and
solidify it. He will organize for
Wood in every village and town in
Oregon.
Oregon will have ten votes in the
convention and these votes will go
to the candidate who receives the
popular vote of the Republican party
in the presidential preferential pri-
maries held in May. There Will be
keen contest for these delegates
and it is expected that at least hve
different aspirants for the presiden-
tial nomination will be on the Re
publican ballot and each one will
maintain an organization in the
state. General Wood is the first to
announce a manager.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Sonnet

II l had ridden horses in the lists,
Fought wars, gone pilgrimage to
tabled lands,
Seen Pharaoh's drinking cups of
amethysts,
Held dead queens secret jewels in
my hands
/ would have laid my triumphs at
your feet,
And worn with no ignoble pride
my scars.
But / can only offer you, my sweet,
The songs | made on many u
night of stars.
Yet have 1 worshiped honor, loving
you;
Your graciousness and gentle
courtesy,
With ringing and romantic trum-
pets blew
A mighty music through the
heart of me
a JOY as cleansing as the wind that
fills
The open spaces on the sunny
hills.
Theodore Maynard in the Living
Age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Arizona and Other Poems" is the
title of a book of verse which the
buttons will publish the middle of
December 1t is by Elise Pumpelly
Cabot, daughter of Rafael Pun
pelly, traveller author, mineral eX-
pert, and Americas first mining en-
gineer.
THE Martyrdom of Man" by
Winwood Reade, nephew of Charles
Reade, is not so well known in the
United States as it is in England,
where in the forty or more years
since it was first published it has
become a famous work, necessary to
be read by those who wish to pos
sess general cultivation, and has
gone through twenty-one editions.
E. u. Dutton & Co. are bringing it
out in this country. where it will be
welcomed by readers of history be-
cause of the swift and lively pano-
rama it unfolds of the development
of civilization. The work is, in eff
feet, an introduction to universal
history. Sir Harry Johnston, who
like the author, is famous as an cX-
plorer, author and student of primi-
tive races. says of the work that "it
ollOulu DG given DN lue SldIe 10
every young man and woman in the
United Kingdom and the United
States when they reach twenty-one
years Old
For the middle of December the
buttons announce a new book by
Katharine Lee Bates, professor of
English at Wellesley College Sig
urd Our Golden Collie, and Other
Comrades of the Road" is it's title,
and it is said to tell the story of a
remarkable dog personality that is
remembered with interest and af-
fection by thousands of Wellesley
graduates.
No book of memoirs has come out
of England in q long time so inter
esting, so lively and so charming as
''The Life and Letters of Lady Doro-
thy Ncvill," by her son, Ralph Ne
will, which the buttons are publish
ing this week. Lady Dorothy's long
life of almost ninety years was one
of wide-awake interest in all the
world about her and of friendships
with all the people worth knowing
who made the England of politics,
literature, art and society through
three generations. She knew well,
| among dozens .of other, Golden,
Beaconsfield, Morley, Balfour, Whist
Ter, George Moore. and this Life
and Letters" is full )f incidents and
anecdotes, "reminiscences, letters
| that make n pageant of the famous
men and women of England for
three quarters OF u century or more
Lady Dorothy died in 1913, at the
age of eighty seven, but still pos
sessing all her physical and mental
| faculties and her abounding inter-
est in the world around her.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. ]. A. w. Haas, president O
NIuhlenburg College, is out after I;
half million dollar fund to advano
the college.
Emil Albrecht, president of th
Philadelphia Bourse, says that city,
future depends on better waterways
General II. C. TreXler went dee
hunting in Clinton county and got
large buck.
George T. Sale, who is goini
after District Attorney F. +. Kane II
Philadelphia, is secretary of the cit
market commission.
DR.. Jesse C. Greene, of Yves
Chester, celebrated his 102nd birth
day by visiting James McElree, VIII
is so.
Elk Congressman ]. d. Hicks ha
been elected head of the BlaL
County Republican Club.
-Talcott williams, the forme
editor, is delivering a series of leo
lures on the League of Nations am
what it means.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
NO COMPROMISE

rR. WILSON announces that he
MI has no compromise" to offer
AL for the adoption of the Peace
Treaty and that he will hold the
Republicans of the Senate wholly
responsible" for the failure to put
the world back on n peace basis.
Mr.. Wilson may hold the Repub-
licans responsible, but few others
will. Here is the situation briefly:
Utterly ignoring the treaty powers
of the Senate and the representation
that body was entitled to on the
American Peace Commission, Presi-
den Wilson, against the repeated
warnings of leaders OF the Senate
and prominent laymen, insisted
upon making the League OF Nations
a part of the Peace Treaty, and en-
deavored to force his finished prod
uct down the throats of the Senate,
willy nilly.
And now he would hold the Sem
ate responsible for declining to
swallow the dose without the sugar
coating it needs to make it agree
able to American tastes.
II the Treaty fails the Senate will
be no more responsible than the
President. The Senate is willing to
compromise. lie is not. lie is the
same stiff-necked autocrat he always
has been and what he happens to
think along the lines of the Treaty
is not by any manner of means
what the people think. The Senate
need lose no sleep over this latest
declaration. The only embarrass-
ment the President has caused is
to the Democratic Senators who
have been trying to get him out Of
his Treaty difficulties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Practical Patriotism
[Pittsburgh Chronicle -TelegrapI

Pittsburgh Telegraph
The stirring speech of Gov. Will
liam c. SprouI before the Republi-
can National Committee at Wash
ington has created a deep impress
sion throughout the country because
of its forcible presentation of the
issues upon which next years pre-
sidential campaign must be fought.
Perhaps the most amusing criti-
cism of his address from Demo-
cratic sources is that which finds
fault with it's "partisanship." A
sterling Republican Governors
speech to the Republican National
Committee is blamed for being par
tisan." The comment, had it been
Intentionally instead of uncon-
sciously humorous, would have been
regarded as worthy to rank with the
whimsies of the late w. S. Gilbert.
The criticism is dignified with
mention here because of the light
it sheds on the mental pocesses of
the Democrats who, on account of
the extra ordinary leniency that has
been shown the administration at
Washington by loyal Republicans
during the emergency of the war
and troubles that have followed in
its train, have become as spoiled
children. Let us put aside parti-
san considerations was their cry
when the country was confronted
by the war. Let all join hands
for the defense of America from the
foe" And then the administration
proceeded to put down the Demo-
cratic clamps tighter than ever.
When President Wilson took office
he instituted the most narrowly par
tisan administration this country
has ever known, smashing tradi-
tons of civil service reform right
and left and raiding the diplomatic
service in order to install ''deserv-
ing Democrats" whose only qualifi-
cations was the political influence
they could exert in his behalf. And
when our country entered the war
the same policy of partisanship with
regard to important appointme
was pursued so far as it was possible
to do so. Time and again positions
of vital influence on the winning of
the war were to be filed and the
only question at Washington was
which Democrats would get them.
This policy, it is scarcely necessary
to say, was in striking contrast TO
| that of our Allies, with their coali-
ton cabinets and other effective in
struments for securing the best tai
ents of the country regardless oil
political affiliations. Republicans,
| as has been said, bore this discrimi-
nation against them with loyal for
titude and patience, giving their
whole-hearted support in Congress
and elsewhere to the supreme task
before the Nation. AS result some
Democrats seem to have gained the
impression that this anomalous
condition is to continue indefinitely
that the administration is sacro-
| sanct and above criticism. Such
Democratic Rip Van Wrinkles are
| due for n rude awakening. Next
year comes the quadrennial reck-
oning. Ours is a government of the
people through parties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Automobile Code

[From 'the Philadelphia Press.l
Old style glaring lights are no
longer to be tolerated in Pennsyl-
vania. Their use in the well lighted
streets of the city was always an
outrage on pedestrians. Many OF
these lamps with powerful refiec-
tors, which dazzle a person coming
in an opposite direction. remain, in
use. The police should discourage
them, according to our Philadelphia
method. Here the offending motor
ist is warned, and prosecution ordi-
narily comes only when he persists
in wrongdoing, or is brazen and
contemptuous offender.
Reckless drivers hereafter will be
barred from licenses, or may have
their licenses revoked. This means
further safeguard for the public.
The speed maniac was more prom
inent a few years ago, than he is
to-day, but there are still some per-
sons who should not be trusted to
drive a car.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

assure us, if we will only keep up
the struggle against it. There is
no Christmas investment which
could do more good or cause more
happiness and end more suffering
than the purchase of the little Seals
or the Health Bonds.
Buy and use the Seals. Invest in
the Bonds and have for all of 1920
certificate and series of coupons
showing the great public good being
accomplished with the money you
gave.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
REFUSING The State Constitution

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer. I
Governor Sprouts Constitutional
Commission got down to work last
week and divided itself into various
subcommittee. each assigned to
special branch.
The Commission is instructed to
make "a report to the next Legisla-
ture. 1t will suggest wherein the
Constitution needs to be changed. 1t
may decide that the best way to
achieve results is through amend
ments to the existing instrument, or
it may advise that constitutional
convention be called for the making
of an entirely new document. In
that event, the convention would
have before 1t the finding of this
Commission.
AS a matter of fact, the Commits
sion owes its appointment to a de-
sire on the part of the Governor
and a great many thinking, men to
avoid a Constitutional Convention
while the Nation is in its present un-
settled condition. Into such u con-
vention many a radical might have
found his way. 1t was deemed
wise to postpone such gathering
and put in the hands of a Commits
sion the study of the entire subject.
And so we have the commission
ers, representative of about every
public interest, going deeply into
the subject.
Their report cannot fail to be of
the highest importance. When it is
submitted, the Legislature will
know just what ought to be done
whether to offer a long list of
amendments to the people or to ar
range for general convention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
POincare Homeless
LFrom the LIVING Agel


The Liberte, recalling NJ. Poin-
cares intention not to renew his
candidature for the presidency
when his term of office expires five
months hence, mentions that the
President of the Republic will have
to look about him for a future resi-
dence, as all the houses possessed
by him have been rendered unin-
habitable by the Germans.
His villa at Sampigny, which
stands in the midst of Il beautiful
park, received fifty shells. Another
house, few hundred yards away,
which the President had purchased
for the officials of his household,
will also have to be almost entirely
reconstructed. NJ. Poincare's fam
lily house at Nubecourt was entirely
wrecked by the explosion of u
French motor lorry carrying petrol.
Finally, the Presidents little house
at Barbecue was bombarded by
aircraft.
1t is estimated that the pleasure
which the Germans took in Destroy
ing presidential property cost them
about 10000 pounds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Lenine'S Discovery
TFrom the New York sunl

tFrom the New York SunJ
Premier Lenine has transmitted
to the Soviet his bitter discovery:
THE peasants have become land
owners and now side with capitalism
against Bolshevism."
1t has been known for more years
than Lenine has hairs in his beard
that once a man gets a piece of
land, scratches il, plants it and
eats the fruit of 1t he becomes i'm
DI;cd with a reluctance TO let the
lazy loafer next door share the
product. In the Stone Age, we inn
agine. this feeling led to many
compound fractures of the skull. 1t
was echoed in Magma Charta and in
the French Revolution.
MIR. Lenine is beginning to learn
that his communism was born with
an incurable disease.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

n ED CROSS Christmas Seals
n, and Health Bonds are on sale
now in Harrisburg and the
country districts to raise funds to
continue the fight against tubercu-
losis next year. There is at pres
ent no more worthy public health
cause which we are called to support
than this one.
Each year the little Christmas
Seal is sold, and the penny paid for
it goes to the fund to combat the
white plague, one of humanity's
worst enemies. lie who buys and
uses Christmas Seals has the real
Christmas spirit-a Christmas spirit
that proves him willing to help 9TH
ers and TO protect himself. his FAM
lily and his friends from the dis
ease.
Christmas Seal costs only one
cent; Health Bonds from So to 800.
Why not include one or the other
on your Christmas list? Join in the
light TO wipe out tuberculosis. 1t
can be done in ten years, physicians
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

Now that the final legal steps have
been taken in the matter of the inn
provement of the Italian Park district
and the changes involved in taking
over the McKee-Graham tract along
Division street and northward. the
City Planning Commission feels that
the fine cooperation of the City Coun-
ell and the school authorities Will re-
suit in a wonderful change for the
better in that whole important sec
tion of the city. Incidentally, the
trustees of the e-Graham estate
have shown fine spirit in meeting the
necessities of the situation from the
standpoint of the city at every turn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
GOOD FOR MAYOR MOORE

KAYOR- ELECT MOORE was
NI presented with a handsome
watch by his colleagues
in Congress and in a speech
of acceptance declared that he
intended to nationaliZe Phila-
delphia; ito promote it in such
a way that the world and the
country would know of its wonderful
advantages, commercial and indus
trial. His plan will be to bring
members of Congress and men of
affairs as distinguished visitors to
Philadelphia. and show them in an
adequate way just what Philadel-
phia stands for and what it is do
ing"
Bully for the Mayor-elect. Phil
adelphia needs just that sort of
treatment. Too long the metropolis
of the State has been treated as a
football for all manner of political
and other factions and the Common
wealth at large would be glad to
see the great American city shake
off the things which have retarded
its development and given it n hazy
reputation beyond our borders.
1t is high time for Philadelphia
and all other cities of Pennsylvania
to get into line for the promotion oi
the best interests of this imperial
Commonwealth. Municipalities car
help or hinder the State at large
just in proportion as they conduct
themselves in harmony with the
principles of good government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Little Chief

The wind is wearing moccasins,
The wind is. wearing moccasins,
II slides along the desert
With stealthy feet at noon.
Upon the ditch 1t lightly treads.
And scarcely stirs the cottonwoods.
The nervous. listening cottonwoods,
On tiptoe in the sun.
The wind is wearing moccasins,
The wind is wearing moccasins,
II runs with crouching shoulders,
Its fingers sweep the ground
With sigh IT makes Il pathway
Through the purple -fiowered alfalfa,
As it whispers dreams half-mock-
ingly
To workers i'm the sun.
Louise Ayers Garnett in Poetry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
Resignation of DR.. Garfield
[From Philadelphia Pressl

DR.. Garfield's s resignation from the
post of Fuel Administrator is said to
be in protest against the govern
ment's coal strike compromise,
which was adopted against his ad-
vice. He had insisted that conces-
sions granted the coal miners should
not be so large as to entail an in
crease in the price of coal to the
public. Fourteen per cent. was the
maximum he held out for. But the
government, while adopting the
fourteen per cent. increase as an
immediate concession, provided for
the creation of a ge-scale COM
mission which has the authority to
grant further increases irrespective
of the effect such increases may
have on the consumers price of
coal,