I HARDING’S VICTORYlmanifold jobs successfully.“The price of victory :s rood ser-11vice.* f1New York Fimfi.“The Republican majorities, colossal, unparalleled, will (five that party occasion for present frenzied rejoicing, later foi much • ••■ • r thought There is no precedent for the figures which the returns brought in. Citiesand towns gave Mr. Harding majorities that m an ordinary election would be ample for gieat States.“When Dem like Boston and New York city give Republican majorities such as the1 'lt; mocruts themselves have rarely achieved, it is plain that extraordinary forces have been loosed to produce these astonishing results. It was of predestination that the Republican! should win—they knewlong ago. It is eighty yea; , since the country has had two Demo-ittempt of July Plt; y. a negro, to vote, a ('ter he had ticen i( f» sed theprivilege by election judges on the ground that he had nlt; r paid his poll tax. He returned later armed with a shot pun, hut it was taken from him and he was driven away.After lt;larklt; according to reports from the scene, Parry J.gain approached the polls accompanied by a number of other negroes. The white citizens at once formed a posse and dispersed the negroes who fled to the negro settlement. The posse followed and witnesses said the negroes opened fire from the building® A memhei of th» • wat^ wounded,hut teinforoemeids arrived and it pi eded when t lt;fil ing became gene ral.The attackers lt;ntered on Perry's hou intent on arrest. Two of♦ he whites, Leo Borgard and Elmer McDaniels, both former soldiers, weie killed in tlv ack yard of the house, their bodies being found hours later. A negro woman said seven or ight armed negroes were in thecratic administrations in succession, i Jjouse, vinch ultimately was“The Amciican lt;i« ■lt; torate pro- t on fm, t ,j,.__^ M A ■ Iverbially fond of a Vhangs’* Without the League of Nations issue to stir their prophets to warnings of certain war under Article X, the Republicans would have carried this election by a heavy majority. The taxes, the unrest, the multitudinous harassment* that were the progency of the war would have roused a very general desire to put the Democratic party out of power.”New York World“The American people wanted a change and they have voted for aslodge them, the flames spreading to other buildings.Perry himself apparently was cap-tfnred and later taken by a mob andlynched.PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES(ft! Mrs j!aUH C. Wolcott. Librarian)“They did not know what kind of change thlt; y wanted, and they do not know today what kind of change they have voted for. All the restlessness and discontent bred of the war has finally found expression in the bal-lot-box, and the result is Warrtn (. Harding.“As to the League of Nations, noneof its true supp ters will falter on iccount of Mr. Harding’s majorities.As Armistice Day, Novel er 11th. s being observed as a general hoii -d iy, the library will be closed all day. Books due on that day may be returned on Friday. tJ 12th.What is “Childr, ’» Book We. k?” A joint, annual effort to encourage the love-of books among childr* r and the discussion of children’s reading in our communities. A co-operative effort to get the widest public attention to the need of “M »re Books in the H me.“Children** Book Week as a na tfonal campaign a organized in 1919 on the initiative of the American Booksellers’ Association and associated publishers, and has the co-\ppealing fiom Philip drunk to Philip operation of the American Librarysober, they will keep their faith steadfast and unswerving. Every reason♦hat existed yesterday in favor of the ratification of the Covenant exist.’ to-day. None of theAssociation, the Boy Scouts of America, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The success of the IH^^HI^Weck in 1.■ 19 has caused a demandelementary for ^ repetition, and the Week willfacts have been changed by the bal-) je an annual affair lots that were cast for Mr. Harding.**Nrw York American.“There is no uncertainty as to theChildren’s reading as a great influence upon their later life. Their | interest in the right sort of historical juveniles will lead them into his-meanmg of the result of the solemn tory, into biography; their acquaintreferendum. It makes perfectly clear anc(, wj^ ^e doings of real boyr inperfectlythat the people were not fooled by the League of Nations, or deceived by its backing among international bankers, and ill-informed weepy sen- ] timcntalists.“Victory for the Wilson system of government at this election, and victory for the Wilson League of Na- i tions would have meant for this coun-t try a calamity not easy to estimate. 1 “However, the impossible, fortu-j has not“After 140 yean of self-government this country has not decided to take in half a hundred bankrupt partners to be managed by them.real books, no^ cheap “heroes”, will awaken their interest in business, in elementary science. They want to do things, to build things, and they will read solid books that point the way. The habit of reading the best juveniles will stimulate their taste for style and real character; they will begin to read the masters, and their love for them shall never die. In other words, they will become booklovers. ,We are ^iad to note that throughthe generosity of Hanover Council | No. 871, Knights of Columbus the li-“The United States has voted for brary possesses a copy of “The government of this country by this Knights of Columbus in peace and country.w“The fourteen point* are dead.”)n KlcctionOf Hi\ulHie country has spoken in the “great and solemn referendum.’ and it has spoken so clearly, soemphatically that there is little opportunity for misunderstanding or misconstruction.And now, in the victory which has come, the Star desires to make acknowledgment. It can speuk for itself, when it says that the mostgratifying thing about the result is the splendid vote of confidence and friendship given by the people of Marion county, refuting slander,rebuking the slanderer and vindicating the good name of the citj and its people—for all of these were assailed in the form of campaign which wa^ employed.Now that the election is over and the result is known, w'e will.after a little excusable jollifying, settle down, all of us, to the daily affair' of life with new energy and confidence and seek to secure from the political arbitrament all of the benefits for which we have fought and which were, at basis, the rea-«. i»n ■ ■ I.ELECTION RIOT* war.** This two-volume work by Maurice Francis Fgan and John B. Kennedy, gives an authoritative account of the activities of the orderduring peace times as well as duringCandidates ^e World Ws ' ial interestI is the roster, by states, of the j Knights who served with their country’s colors in the war. It is a striking coincidence that the first American to fall w’as also a Knight, and that the first man to win the Distinguished Service Cross was aThe twentieth annual meeting of the Keystone State'Library Association was held in Harrisburg, October 28th to 30th. Frederick G. Mel-cher of the “Publisers* Weekly,” Asa Don Dickinson, librarian of the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas E. Finegan, state superintendent of public instruction, Fred Rasmussen,state secretary of agriculture, JuliaW. Williamson, supervisor of storytelling of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Frances if. Kelly, head of the department of work with schools of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg, Anna A. MacDonald, consulting librarian of the State Library at Harrisburg, and Mrs. Helen R. Martin, author, were among the speakers. The sessions were full of help and inspiration; topics of interest to libraries large and small being discussed—co-operation of all the edu-j cational forces of a community be-the keynote. The local librarywas represented at the Fridav sessions by Misses Basehosr and Shultz , and Mrs. Wolcott.| New Books“Simole truths used by great | singers.” by Sarah Robinson-Duff.! The little book contains the talks ‘ written and delivered bv the author, during her first season in AmericaENDS IN DEATHSvo White Men Shot to Death, One Ne^ro Lynched andBurned atSeveral OthersOcoee, Fla.Orlando, Flu, Nov. 4.—The full before the Palestrina summer schoolcasualty 1st at Ocoee, twelve miles!of music. She claims Mary Garden from here, where two whites were as her first pupil and in conclusionshot to death and one negro lynched Tuesday in an election riot and several other negroes perished when thebuildings in uhieh they sought shelter were burned had not reachedh. re last night Armed white were reported patrolling the region and dosing in on negn who fled t« ’ the woods, the pursuit being accompanied by inltrmitt* nt firing.More than twenty buildings in the ! negro setth ment were burned. Re-por* .m Ocoee last night said that j• xplosion of considerable amountsof ammunition occurred as the j flames swept the buildings and U at numerous firearms were found in the ruins later. Some reports said five negroes died in the flames. One ne-1 gro woman was among those, it was.to her advise to students on the basis of “singing a« an science” she gives an interesting account of this first pupil and her sue-r**s.sful impromptu debut in Paris.The contents are: Breathing; Tone-placing; Evening up the voice; Vocalising; Resonance; My first pupil.“Cardinal Mereier's Own Story,” by His Eminence, D. J. Cardinal Mi ■Every one who reads this bookwill feel that he has come in contactwith a really great personal ty, and will be the better for the feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant figure, isas fascinating, in one aspect, as The pilgrims progress.” The cardinal’sbook, too, like Bunyan’s classic, isaaid. but no children. lt;, . - ...The battle was precipitated by the slmost a* *00lt; a s lt;)ryI as it is for the old.