10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE BOMB Founded 1831 i Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGIIAPH MINTING CO. Ttlscrapk Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GL*S. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLKSBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press— The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rl Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern of M c e Avenue Building, Western office' Story, Brooks & Gas' Building, ■ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa-, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a "■-satifcSr-' year in advance. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1919 | * Take short views, hope for the best, | and trust i God.—Sydney Smith. t 1 SHEER WASTE OF EFFORT THE Philadelphia Record, uot always very friendly to prohibi tion, is not so blindly partisan that it cannot see the futility of attempting tx> set aside the force of i the "dry" amendment to the Federal | constitution. "If the Association | Opposed to National Prohibition has t any hope of preventing enforcement [ of the eighteenth amendment, it ' must move public opinion to such an extent that persons opposed to prohibition will be elected to Con gress and the Legislatures," says the Record and points out that "as forty-five Legislatures ratified the J amendment and thirteen can defeat , the repeal, the prospect of undoing ' the amendment is not bright." This is precisely the view of this newspaper, expressed months ago, I when it was reported that the liquor men based their hope on an appeal , ~v to the Supreme Court of the United States ori the ground that the laws of fourteen States, the Legislatures of which ' adopted the national amendment, require the submission 1 of constitutional changes to popular vote. They forget that the Federal i~ constitution requires action by the Legislatures only and that the Supreme Court pays no attention to State statutes, being guided soleiy by national law. It is. therefore, evident that, notwithstanding the growing tendency of the Supreme Court to disregard technical points of law in favor of popular opinion, the court will act only in conformity with Federal provisions, regardless of State laws. Money spent to halt prohibition now is money wasted. The brewers, the distillers and others in the liquor trade would do well to keep their dollars against the time they will have to change their line of trade. WHY THE PUSSYFOOTING? A STORM of indignation is sweeping the country as a re sult of the recent bomb out rages and the activities of the De partment of Justice at Washington are being watched with increasing interest. What many intelligent persons cannot understand is why after every such outrage statements are made by those in authority, se cret service officials and others, to the effect that this or that head quarters of anarchists and anti- American agents is being more closely watched than ever before. If these places were known and there was defir.-ite knowledge of the sort of activities being carried on in the particular locations referred to why in the name of all that is reasonable were the criminals or ganized for murder permitted to con tinue their operations unhindered. Until the American govern-fhent assumes an attitude of vigorous prosecution in the treatment of these alien propagandists of every thing un-American we may expect the sporadic outbursts to continue with the inevitable loss of life and property. Spineless temporizir.-g with this dangerous element will only en courage "further activities and result ant indifference to what the govern ment may attempt to achieve in suppression of the menace. There is a ray of hope that some thing in the way of san-tty in the policy of our government respecting the deportation of the anarchists who have been operating in this country may develop through the tecision this week at Boston by Judge Aldrich in the United States District Court refusing the petltlor.-s Of certain anarchists fighting against deportation for writs of habeas corpus. Reading the list of names of these petitioners one finds the source of the trouble. Everyone was a foreigner who had come to this country to pursue his blood-fhirsty trade among a people who had thrown open- its doors to the op -pressed of the world, but why are the processes of the law jpermltted WEDNESDAY EV ENING, to interfere with the prompt re moval of these undesirables from the sell of the United mateof As noxious weeds they should be Uprooted, to the end that wo may have the sense of security and comfort to which a nation of free men is entitled. If our national altruistic ideals are destroying our judgment as to what constitutes Justice in dealing with these dangerous immigrants, then it would seem to be about time to revise our Ideals and give greater consideration to commonsonse in our treatment of the criminals who would break down our institutions and menace our welfare. When you stroll about Harrisburg aren't you glad that you are priv ileged to live in this good old town which is going to be still more at tractive in the days to come? Let's get together for another forward shove! NO WASTE OF WAISTS THE United Waist League is puzzled. It has a question that might have given old man Sol omon pause for thought. "When is a waist not a waist, and when is a waist a blouse?" asks the League. We confess we do not know at just what point a waist becomes a blouse, but we think we know when a waist is not a waist. May be a very young waist may be a blouse, or vice versa, just as a young frog is a tadpole. Or perhaps a waist becomes a blouse after the artists who create feminine confections of this variety hang about nine dollars' I worth of trimmings on a dollar i waist and then tag it up at the I especially reduced price of $17.99. But be that as it may, we feel fully competent to judge when a waist is no longer a waist. There are many such in Harrisburg; hun dreds of 'em in fact. A waist, in our opinion, ceases to be a waist when it degenerates into a mere whisp of mosquito netting designed to keep the flies away from the highly ornamental silk lingerie so many of the girls have on display these days. Then, too, there is the waist that loses its identity when its owner snips the whole front or buck away and leaves one forgetful of the dress that should have been there in embarrassment over the charms of another kind so lavishly displayed. Yes, we think we know when a waist is not a waist. It is when its presence is conspicuous by its absence, so to speak. CHANGING VALUES f-f-. HE saying has come up from I the dark ages that the way to make money is to buy cheap and sell dear. As the Governments of Canada and Great Britain are pointing out to their citizens, one way to do this is to buy standard securities when general prices are high and hold them for redemption when prices are lower. Canadian W. S. 8. posters urge investors to use the present "low power" dollar to buy government securities and to receive in redemption at a later period "high power" dollars. Here is how it works. Before the war you earned, say, | for purposes of illustration, $3 a day. Now you earn, say, $3 for doing the same work. But you can't buy any more with your five dollars than you could with your three dollars—other j prices have gone up in proportion j to the price of your labor. To-day you pay about SB3 for 20 | War Savings Stamps with a par j value of SIOO at maturity. What l you actually give for this security is about sixteen and one-half days' labor. If, some years after the war is over, prices and wages decrease somewhat you may, for example, be earning and spending $4 per day. Your War Savings Stamps become due and the Government gives you back your SB3, or the then value | of nearly 21 days' labor, plus sl7 | interest. In terms of days' labor the Government is giving back over four days more than it received i from you, besides your sl7 interest. | This changing value of the dollar i ha.) .nade many persons richer and | others poorer without their knowing exactly how it happened. Now is the chance to join the class of those who are going to be made richer, and cue safe way to join is by buy ing the convenienc security—the War Savings Stamp. SIX LITTLE KNIGHTS THUS far six officers of the United State Army, beginning with Sir John J. Pershing, have been knighted by the King of England, and it is reported that the stroke of the accolade awaits that old salt Bos'n Jo Daniels. Recently the first carload of gifts from Euro the first carload of gifts from Euro pean royalty to the Wilsons arrived at the White House. Is it possible that Section Nine of Article One of the United States Constitution is to be utterly disre garded and thrown into the Wilson waste basket? The language of the last para graph of that section is plain and conclusive, to wit: "No title of nobil ity shall be granted by the United States: And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Con gress, accept any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state." These titles and presents have been accepted without the slightest refer ence to Congress to obtain the con sent of that body. If the Constitu tion of the United States is a hollow mockery, by all means have it scrapped at once. If it is not, then it remains for the incoming Republi can Congress to support It. ~potctcC4 CK *ptiui6i{6ttMv£a By the Ex-Oommlttecuiaa The Philadelphia bills, storm cen ter of the General Assembly of 1919, are as good as In the Governor's hands and the ways are now cleared for the winding up of the session. The Philadelphia charter bill Bwept through the House last hlght and the registration bills went to u con ference committee. The Senate will concur In the charter bill and It Is expected that not many changes will be put Into the registration meas ures. When the bills left the House there was a general sigh of relief and members turned to postponed calendars and began to call up measures In a way that Indicated that they wished to be safe before the closing fortnight opened. The Philadelphia bills have been hold ing Interest week In and week out to exclusion even of revenue and ap propriation problems. Just as an indication of the way the House felt about the Philadel phia bills it may be said that not withstanding a plea by John R. Scott for up-State members to take a hand in settlement of Philadel phia registration problems the vote was less than 54 in favor of Scott's side. In other words, many of the rural members did not care who ran the politics of Philadelphia. —Senator Boies Penrose, who has been here a couple of days this week to help along legislation, ex pressed pleasure at the passage of the Philadelphia bills, which, he says, are now up to the people of the city to use for their advan tage. The Senator will remain here a couple of days more and meet with friends from up State. —With the charter and registra tion bills out of the way the dif ferences in regard to workmen's compensation and the chances of woman suffrage began to attract at tention among legislators and the many people here for the meetings this week. The compensation con troversy showed signs early to-day of getting to an acute stage with the State administration standing pat and the coal operators calling for changes. The suffragists were urging ratification this session and there was talk today that they might win because of the attitude of the Governor in favor of prompt acceptance of the federal amend ment. —Defeat of the prohibition en forcement bills yesterday was the cause of considerable talk among "dry" legislators to-day. Some were of the opinion that if they had "gone to the mat" two weeks ago and not been postponed they could have been passed on to the Senate for action. • —The committee in charge of the Hess bills to establish the head quarters of the appellate courts in this city did not act on the meas ures yesterday. Numerous protests have been received and people who urged the bills have not bestirred themselves very much. —According to what folks from the hard coal regions say the mine cave bills are dead for this ses sion, but will be around next time. —The bill reorganizing the State Compensation Bureau is in the hands of the House manufactures committee. —Commissioner I.ewis S. Sadler will give a dinner for the legisla tive correspondents at his country home near Carlisle to-night. —William Flinn. former Senator and leader of the Bull Moose, was a conspicuous figure about the Cap itol yesterday. He came here to look over the session and to urge woman suffrage. Gifford Pinchot and other Bull Moosers were also here. An interesting thing about it was that Senator Penrose was at the same hotel. —A second unsuccessful attempt to present to the House a resolution ratifying the suffrage amendment was made at the afternoon session of the House by Mr. Phillips, Clear field. Mr. Phillips asked for unan imous consent and when the title of the resolution was read, several members objected to its presenta tion. Mr. Phillips said he thought the House should receive it in view of the Governor's statement, which had just been read. He predicted its approval in the Senate saying, "It will soon be over here anyhow." Delegations of suffragists were in 'the House when Mr. Phillips spoke. —Dr. C. F. Swift, State superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, has issued a statement regarding the defeat of the prohibition en forcement bill in which he says the action "was practically an annull ment of the eighteenth amendment which was ratified by the Legisla ture earlier in the session." He says the defeat places the matter of en forcement in the hands of the court and charges that "the State admin istration in connection with the Legislature has failed to provide the needed measures to carry into effect the amendment to the constitution which they ratified." It is declared that the failure to pass the bills is a failure to keep faith with the temperance forces, which will carry on the fight. —The Philadelphia Inquirer in the course of a discussion of the Su preme Court, says "There is con siderable speculation- as to the pos sible successor to Chief Justice Brown. Attorney General William I. Schaffer, who has been styled "The Man of Wisdom" by that prac tical and far-seeking politician, Sen ator Max G. Leslie, of Allegheny county, is looked upon by many as likely to be a serious contender for this honor. If Philadelphia did not have two members sitting on the present court, Judges J. Willis Mar tin and Charles Y. Audenried, of the local Common Pleas Courts, would be seriously considered for deserved promotion. In the notheren tier of counties. Judge Jcseph W. Routon. of McKean, whose friends started him in the race last year, but who quit when sentiment crystallized up on Judge Kephart, of Cambria, is still a prime favorite and he may |be a factor in the coming contest for the Supreme bench. Judge George Kunkle, of Dauphin county, who presided with rare ability and impartiality in the Capitol graft cases, is generally regarded as pos sessing all the qualifications for the higher court, and his admirers are looking forward to embrace the first opportunity to see that his claims shall be recognized. Judge Sylvester B. Sadler, of Cumberland county, whose brother \w State Highway Commissioner under the Sproul ad ministration-, is among others men tioned as available for the Supreme Court election next year." Baker's Estimates [From the Philadelphia Press.] Republicans in the House are cut ting four hundred millions out of Secretary Baker's estimate for the army, it looks as if we were going to remember that the war has been won and that the League of Nations 'will aee to ih that we don't have HARRISBURO TETEGRXPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE Byßriggt T X I'D" LLKG. TO HAVE/\\ -"~AOD OF THAT J PO YOU K(V/OVAJ MC6-COLD MIRAT / JUICE OM THE LM>SI DE I WHAT AMDRCW.Y JULEP - YOU KV- \ I OLD BILL SADLEB / ._ —— WITH A COAT O* 3 / SELLS - A LITTLC SUGAR I V WHITE. FROSTY ICE I - ORAWGE PCCL- V ] L™,,? O~ THE ' I MTV I Y I FNE GL V 1 MH,V I * "I ( V ' ~Z~~ \ SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS •~TH(1 MINT LEAVES I AMO AFTER TH£ PLRST ) _ _ _ ISJ THE GLASS - CRUSHED ] OF JULY- IT WILL (AKIMG THE JOY OUT AAI"D SOME <SPRLGS ADORMIMGJ OIOLY BE A MEMORY- I LLF£ ! THE "Top ALL SHOOK UP I WO -T- ARJ AI G T i C i PATIOM J , \ AMD I SERVED AT SAY F I AMDREUO ■— . ) \ F~J7Q~, !)[) F) \5" MLNUTEIMTERUALSY |^ another. These facts ought to put us in the way of saving quite a lot of money, if the department /spend ing habit can be curbed. LITERARY NOTES "Silver and Gold," a love story of a western- mining region, full of ac tion, romance and adventure, is an nounced for mid-June publication bv E. P. Dutton & Co. It is by Dane Coolidge, whose "Fighting Fool," also a western story, was published by the Duttons last year. Prof. W. J. Crawford's new work on "Experimer.-ts in Psychical Science" will be published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in a fortnight. Prof. Crawford's previous volume, "The Reality of Psychic Phenomena," which the Duttons published two years ago, attracted wide attention in both the United States and Eng land because of the new methods by which the author, a scientist famous for his investigations into the physi cal properties of matter, carried on his study of psychical manifestations. Fqr he used exactly the same kind of j investigation and study that he was j accustomed to apply in the physical | sciences, and brought laboratory processes and appliances to bear upon all the doings of the spiritist medium and seance. His previous I book described his methods and re sults up to the time of its writing and indicated his conclusion that he was on the verge of the discovery of a new form of matter. The forth coming volume will recount his fur ther experiments and investigations since that time and show whether or not they have furnished further proof of the conclusions he had pre viously formed. Lieut. Camillo de Carlo is an Ital ian aviator who during the war un dertook a very hazardous task and carried it through to triumphant suc cess, although every minute of the time was full of perils aqd thrills and threat of death. Because of the dangers of the work and the courage and success with which he did it the Italian? government gave him its most coveted decoration. He tells the whole story in "The Flying Spy," which E. P. Dutton & Co. will pub lish the middle of June. E. P. Dutton & Co. announce for June 18 a new book by Arthur Sym ons "Studies in Elizebethan Drama, a series of critical and interpretative essays nearly all of which have not had previous publication in book form. Edward Jenks's "The State and the Nation," which E. D. Dutton & Co have just published, was written especially for the use of those men and women who feel the need of more knowledge of how society has developed and of a clearer concep tion ot the fundamentals of' govern ment It is based upon his little book, "A Short History of Politics," published twenty or more yea" in the Temple Primer Series, "hich met with immediate success and of which many thousands of copies have been read as text-books in the colleges. To meet the demand for a similar work in the disturbed and uncertain presen-t day conditions Mr. Jenks has rewritten and very much enlarged the former work. A Proper Refusal [From the Philadelphia Record.] Our Government has very proper ly refused the application of the Mexican government for leave to move troops for use against Vina from Agua Prteta to Juarez over American territory. Three years ago, in a spirit of neighborliness, we allowed Mexican troops to be moved between the same points and for the same purposes, and all the re turn we got for it was the bitter hostiltty of Carranza to every effort of ours to punish the Mexican-ban dits who raided our border. If Mr. Carranza cannot be civil, he can move his troops over Mexican soil. We do not care what Villa does in Mexico and we will take very good care that he shall not do much in the United States. Keep the Council Small [Philadelphia Ledger] One of the most reassuring devel opments in the struggle of a reform of the Philadelphia city council, as part of the charter-revision move ment, is the emphatic and unquali fied con-demnation by the Governor of the lapse of the revisionists them selves in agreeing to an increase in the membership of the new council. Governor Sproul should make a firm stand against any change in the pending bill design-ed to give Phila delphia a larger council than twenty one. and he would do better could he bring it about that an even smal ler number were written into the bill. ... THE GRA Y MAN OF CHRIST [From the Ladies' Home Journal.] THE story which illustrates the beautiful painting on page nine of-this issue of The Home Jour nal is lold by a California boy serv ing in the American Army in France, and was published in the Los An geles Times. This American boy—Evans by name—had gone into an old church in France to have a look at it; and as he stood there with bared head, satisfying his respectful curiosity, a gray man with the insignia of a general on his shabby uniform also entered the church. Only one or derly accompanied the quiet, gray man. No glittering staff ot officers, no entourage of gold-laced aids, were with him; nobody but just the orderly. Evans paid small attention at first to the gray man, but was curious to see him kneel in the church, pray ing. The minutes passed until full three-quarters of an hour had gone by before the gray man arose from his knees. Evans went out of the church at the same time with the French gen eral and was surprised to see sol diers salute this man in great ex citement, and women and children stop in their tracks with awe-struck faces as he passed. It was Foch. And now Evans counts the experience as the great est of his life. Commenting editorially on the in cident the Los Angeles Times says: As the tide of battle in the great war turned more and more from doubt and anxiety to the certainty of victory, there loomed with start ling vividness in the world's imagia ation the figure of one man whose genuis has exceeded that of any other soldier of whom time has made record. This man is General Ferdinand Foch —the Gray Man of Christ. This has been Christ's war Christ on one side, and all that stood opposed to Christ on the other side. Asd the generalissimo, in su preme command of all the armies that fought on the side of Christ, is Christ's man. The fact is, that the deeper we question as to who Foch is, the clearer is the answer that in every act of his life and in every thought of . his brain he is Christ's man. If you were to ask him, "Are you Christ's man?" he would answer: "Yes." It seems to be beyond all shadow of doubt that when the hour came in which all that Christ stood for was either to stand or fall, Christ raised up a man to lead the hosts that battled for Him. When that hour came in which truth and right, charity, brotherly love, justice and liberty were either to triumph or be blotted out of the world, Christ came again upon the road to Damascus. Whoever does not realize this and see it clearly as a fact does but blunder stupidly. There will be a crowding com pany of critics when the war is ended, and they will all be filled with the ego of their own conclu sions. They will attempt to explain the genius of Foch with maps and diagrams. But, while they are doing so, if you will look for Foch In some quiet church, it is there that he will be found humbly giving God the glory and absolutely declining to attribute it to himself. Can that klpd of a man win a war? Can a man who is a practical soldier be also a practical Chris tian? And is Foch that kind of a man? Let us see: During the three-quarters of an hour that the generalissimo of all the Allied armies was on his knees in humble supplication in that quiet church, 10,000 guns were roaring at his word on a hundred hills that rocked with death. Millions of armed men crouched In trenches or rushed across blood - drenched terrains at his command; generals, artillery, cavalry, engi neers, tanks, fought and wrought across the map of Europe absolutely as he commanded them to do, and in no other manner, as he went into that little church to pray. Nor was it an unusual thing for General Foch to do. There Is no day that he did not do the same thing if there was a church that he could reach. He never failed during the war to spend an hour on his knees every morning; and every night it was the same. Moreover, it was not a new thing with him. He has done it his whole life long. If young Evans could have fol lowed the General on to headquar ter* where reports were-%.waiting, him and news of victory upon vie- 1 tory was piled high before him, he j would doubtless have seen a great I gladness on the General's face, butl he would have seen no look of sur prise there. Men who do that which Foch does have no doubts. When Premier Clemenceau, the| old "Tiger" of France, stood on the battle front with anxious heart, one look at the face of Foch stilled all his fears. He returned to Paris with the vision of sure and certain vic tory. The great statesman doubted, but the Gray Man of Christ did not doubt. The facts in the case, then, are that when the freedom of the world hung in the balance, the world turned to Foch as the one great genuis who could save it against the Hun; and that Foch, who is perhaps the gieatest soldier the world has produced, is, first of all, a Christian. Poung Evans spent nearly on hour with Foch in an old Fiench church, and not even one bayonet was there to keep them apart They repre sented the two great democracies of the world, but there in that old church they repieaentid. jointly, a far greater thing the democracy of Christ. OPPORTUNITY [By Walter Malone] They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. Wail not for the precious chan-ccs passed away, Weep not for golden ages on the wane; Each night I burn the record of the day— At sunrise every soul is born again! Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be deaf, and blind and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But n-ever bind a moment yet to come. Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say "I can." No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep, But yet might rise and be again a man. Labor Shortage Forecast [Manufacturers' Record] We venture the prediction that before next year the labor shortage will be so great that buslr/essmen and farmers wtll be scrambling for I men. To meet this condition labor saving machinery should be brought ' into use everywhere and as rapidly las possible. Household work can | be lessened greatly by modern elec j trie equipment. Work orr the farm i and In the factory still offers an al- I most limitless field for labor-sav ing equipment to supplant or sup plement muscle power. Every manufacturer should as quickly as possible so improve his | plant, and when necessary so equip it with labor-saving devices of every kind as to be ready to meet the cer- I tainty of a great labor shortage. I With an enormous wheat crop as sured, at high prices for the farmer; with general improvement in all agricultural conditions; with high way work getting under way on a very large scale; with a marked re vival of general constructive activ ities; with a heavy emigration and but little immigration, the labor sit uation will soon become acute. The wise man will be the one who now lays out his entire campaign to utilize to the fullest extent every labor-saving machine available for his factory, his farm or his home. Still Watchfully Waiting [From the Topeka State Journal.] The United States is maintaining an army of several thousand men along the Mexican border at an esti mated expense of $1,000,000 a week. Since the people no longer have their minds distracted by the Euro pean war from matters nearer home, [ they are likely soon to ask why we keep so large a force at the doors of a country with which we are at peace. Something should be done, and that promptly, to render such a situation unnecessary. JUNE U, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER THREE THE other day I saw a descrip tion of a new aeroplane in an engineering magazine,, so I guess that absolves me from keep ing my mouth shut about it," said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Office, 325 Market street. "It seems that early last summer a man, on American, figured out a way to automatically control an aeroplane, to set the machinery so t.hut on leaving the ground the plane would automatically go to a certain place, do its business and disappear. That sounds like a tisli story, but it is the truth. Late in October it was finally perfected and contracts were let. They got the machine so perfected that before leaving the ground, they set it to go to a certain place, turned it loose without a pilot, it would travel fifty, one hundred, two hundred miles, and eventually drop its load of ex plosive within fifty yards of the in tended spot. After hundreds of tests its accuracy was absolutely estab lished, no matter what the wind or weather conditions might be. When the machine got over the in tended spot, the wings dropped oft and burst into flame, and the body containing its charge of T. N. T., dropped like shot from the blue and exploded on impact with the ground. The normal machine was to carry a load of one hundred and fifty pounds of T. N. T„ but machines to carry as much as two thousand; pounds of T. N. T. were to be built. The explosive being actually con tained in the body of the machine meant that every last fragment of the plane and its machinery would be utterly destroyed, thus preserving the secret of its construction. When the armistice was signed contracts had actually been let, construction and deliveries had started, and the contracts called for two thousand of ]the small machines per day. Think of that, two thousand bomb ing planes per day, carrying three hundred thousand pounds of T. N. T., would go over the German lines every single day, to say nothing of a couple of hundred big ones, each carrying a ton of T. X. T. When the Roche started bombing defenseless 'women and Children in 'open' towns, i they started something that had too much of a back-fire for their nerves to stand." Why Strawberries Are High [From Kansas City Times] Strawberries have been higher this year than ever before, and more than double the prices prevailing in previous years. One reason for the high prices is to be found in a report by the Bureau of Markets, Department of Agriculture, which shoyrs that in ten states the area of strawberries this year is 30 per cent, less than last year and little over half that of two years ago. Every state reporting shows a de crease, which seems to indicate that production of strawberries has not been- profitable. The estimated Missouri acreage of commercial strawberries is 4,370 acres, compared with 6,840 acres last year. Arkansas shows less decrease, with 8,960 acres this year, compared with 9,550 acres last year, though there is a big reduction since 1916, when the acreage was 13,880 acres. Arkansas has a larger acreage of strawberries than any other state, according to this report. Louisiana is second and Tennessee third. Estimated production in ten states this year is 4,332,000 crates; last year 4,332,000 crates; two years two years ago 6,9 20,000 crates. The Roosevelt Tradition [Frederick M. Davenport in the Outlook.] The Republican party can win permanently its old place in the confidence of America only by the power of the Roosevelt tradition. And the Roosevelt tradition was not simply straight Americanism, so called. It was above everything else a belief In the progressive ameliora tion of the inequalities and injus tices which under modern economic and social conditions increasingly rankle in the hearts of the mass of people. £nd it included, naturally, the protection of the property In terests and of the men of ideas and business genuis and initiative by the simple process of insisting that these Interests and these men act openly and wholeheartedly in the spirit of public service. It Is only by the power of the Roosevelt tradition j that the American people can per- 1 manehtly prawer and the Republl-| can p* ixanenUy triumph. ?Ebmtng CMjal! It is not often that a deliberate! body votes to exercise free speech I and then forgets to take advantage I of it. And yet that is exactly what l the House of Representatives did yesterday and such an experienced, parliamentarian os James N. Moore,- director of the Legislative Reference- Bureau, says that he never saw It happen before. This session of the General Assembly has been markedi by many unusual things and It has been as out of the ordinary as was 1 that of IB 13 and as that of 1821 will be. But the House yesterday' did the queerest of all. There was a debate raging on one of Philadelphia bills, as usual, when some one moved to shut oft the dis cussion. It was desired to end the flood of words and the motion was to move the main question, which means that what ever is to be de cided must be taken up then and there. But Instead of passing the motion, which would have been an official assent to the suspension of debate, the House voted not to do so. But when the announcement was made of the passage of the motion, no one wanted to say a word, and the House proceeded to the regular business. There have been several parliamentary incidents this session and Director Moore says that the record will be an interest ing study to any one who is con cerned in reading up such matters. And it has been rare that the House has moved to stop debate. Generally, when any one has moved the ques tion, the orators have run down. Among visitors to the city yester day was Colonel J. L. Kerr, formerly president of the Pittsburgh city council and in charge of base hos pital No. 77 in France. Dr. Kerr, as he is best known to many Har risburgers, has been one of the big figures in Pittsburgh affairs and gave up his practice and left munic ipal work to take charge of a hos pital in the army. Colonel Kerr was given a hearty greeting here and told some interesting stories of army medical work. • • • Any one who has an idea that the general public is not-, interested in the Peace Treaty has only to listen to the discussions in the street cars, declared a conductor this morning. This conductor, comparing notes with his motorman, said that the "leak" of the treaty, was the big theme in the car talk, being even more popular than the approach of prohibition, which has heretofore been the chief theme among home ward bound folks. The conductor said that many of the people he heard were sore that the treaty had not been made public long ago and inclined to he a bit fussy over the delays. • • • In this connection a couple of legislators wero telling stories last evening when one said that he had been to a moving picture show and there were a lot of jokes sprung. People were asked, for instance, when shaves were five cents and pretzels two for a cent. But the way the crowd carried on when some one asked: "When did the President of the United States live in this coun try?" was the real rich occasion. • • * Governor Sproul's remark that everyone should support the move ment of the Red Men to perpetuate the Indian names will find hearty support in this city. There are many streets with Indian names, such as Swatara, Kittatinny, Seneca,, Wiconisco, Mahantongo, Delaware and the like. More could be simi larly named, although the selection of names of creeks such as Conod guinet and the like wiuld be rather hard on street car conductors, for instance. * • • Approach of the end of the legis lative session and the time when people are commencing to get ex cited about bills, is being reflected I in a big increase In the mail at the Governor's office. The Sproul ad ministration has been the unfortun ate breaker of all records in receipt of mail and instead of one bag, two and three are dumped on Secretary Harry S. McDevitt's long suffering desk every day. It takes the Gov ernor three to four hours to go through what he has to and Mr. Mc- Devltt puts in five hours on tho same task, while the rest of it is handled in the office at high tension, because to-morrow is going to bring just as much. • • • Many people are regretting that the city fathers cannot find enough money to provide more bath houses, the popularity of the Seneca street establishment being the cause of the reninrk. This bath house attracts people from all over the city, many folks who could go to the big island as easy, being among those who gather for a swim away up town. "Here are all our councilmen, can didates this year and thousands of people wanting to go swimming and they say they cannot find the money for more bath houses," said one man last evening. "Some one is over looking a good bet." • • There is a new way of designat ing bills in the Legislature. It is according to dates. Yesterday some one asked for Columbus in the of fice of the Attorney General. Secre tary Howard M. Hoke handed out bill No. 1492. Similarly in anothe." office some one asked for Independ ence and drew 1776. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —General H. C. Trexler, of Al lentown, came here yesterday to look after legislative matters. —C. F. Huber, Wtlkes-Barre, coal operator, here for hearings at the Capitol, is one of the big coal pro ducers of the anthracite field. —Provost E. F. Smith, of the Unt virsity of Pennsylvania, was among people here to-day. —A. P. Moore, Pittsburgh pub lisher, was here yesterday renewing old acquaintances. [ DO YQU KNOW —That Hnrrisburg third-class city methods are being studied £ by people in various parts of the State? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —French traders are supposed to have been near here as early as 1 650. Historic Tavern Burned [From the Continental Edition of the London Mall.] An interesting bit of old Edin burgh. dating back to about 1600. has been burned. The destroyed building, which consisted of a single story and attic, was one of the land marks of the Holyrood area. It was the old Yew Tree Tavern, and stood inside the bounds of the Holyrood, Sanctuary for Debtors, within which, in days of yore, the fugitive was freej from the attentions of his creditors^
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