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MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1919 1
REPUBLICAN PROGRAM
THE preliminary Republican pro- |
gram as developed at the Chi
cago meetings is one upon
which the party may go before the
people next year with every hope of
. success. It is true blue American
from start to finish. It stands for the
right of the individual as against :
class privilege and for private own
ership with government regulation
rather than public owiershlp with
all its attendant evils qf political in
fluence and constant change of of
ficials with every overturn of an ad
ministration.
It advocates universal suffrage for 1
women, who have won the right to
that consideration by their heroic
efforts during the war and In this
respect is in strong contrast with :
the backing and filling of the Demo
cratic majority now at Washington
on this Important subject.
It is not a complete program, but
It is good so far as it goes and it
Is remarkably free from mere fault
finding. This Is Its best feature. Re
publican members of Congress may
be expected to develop the errors of :
the present administration —and
heaven knows they require no Sher
lock Holmes for the job—but to rest
the Republican party's future upon
a platform of mere negation would
have been suicidal.
The voters aro convinced of the
shortcomings and of the Wilson ad
ministration. They may depend
upon to voice their displeasure at
the polls, as they did last November,
I, but In casting about for a remedy
they will look for a party that not
only promises to do better in a gen
eral way, but which has very con
crete and progressive ideas as to
just what it stands for and means
to do if placed in power.
The Republican leaders are on the j
right track. They have started well I
and the skeleton platform outlined
last week at Chicago will bring to its
Standards hundreds of thousands of
voters who are either wavering in
their support of the President or dis- i
justed with conditions at Washing
ton. The Democrats have no plat
form and nobody knows where they
Atand on public ownership or any
)pther of the big topics of the day. It
doubtful if they themselves know. (
' Proceedings In Europe to put the
former Kaiser behind the bars are in-
Wresting, of course, but what would
appeal to Americans more Is some
definite move to punish tho dastard
Bernstorff, who plotted as the Amhas-
sador of Germany on our own soil to
\tle our hands as a nation in the im
pending drive of the Hun. President
Wilson will never satisfy his country
man until he shall have brought
about ihe punishment of the shifty
and treacherous diplomat who abused
the confidence and outraged the hos- '
pitality of the American people.
THAT BILLION DOLLARS
HOPELESS of winning their fight
before the people, the liquor
Interests have determined to
■peftd their billion dollar fund in an
endeavor to swing the Supreme Court
of the. United States around to their
•way of thinking. The biggest lawyers
In the country are to be hired to
Xght the battle. What cannot be pre
ented by appeal to the popular will
tfce liquor people hope to accomplish
through legal technicality,
They should know better. The
decision of the Supreme 1 Court in
the Webb-Kenyon law is a straw in
the wind. More and more the Su
preme Court is basing its decisions
on the accomplished fact. The will of
the people is the fundamental upon
which the government of the Unit-
Ed States is based, and it is ex
tremely unlikely that the Supreme
Court would trifle with an amend-
ment that beyond all questions bears
the stamp of approval of a vast
• majority of the voters of the United
States placed thereon in good faith,
to say nothing of the thousands of
MONDAY EVENING. HAJtRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 11, T9V*.
women who have no voice In pub
lic matters. A billion dollars flung
In thd face of the highest tribunal
In the world Is apt to prove more an
aggravation than a favoring Influ
ence.
BACK TO NORMAL
THE automobile business IS get
ting back to normal very rap
idly. One of the first lines of
trade In the country to feel the ef
fects of the conflict, It has been also
one of the first to resume operations
on a peace basis.
While many other industrial heads
have been hesitating, trying to feel
out popular sentiment and getting
the pulse of supply and demand, the
automobile manufacturers to a man
have turned their attention to prep
arations for the biggest year In their
history. There has been no doubt In
their minds as to the future of the
country. With the same high cour
age and concentration of energy that
have developed the infant automo
bile business from a doubtful child
hood to the healthiest young giant in
the world of trade, the makers of
cars have started to manufacture on
a scale that is on a par with pre
war years and that will be reflected
in many other lines of activity.
The Harrisburg dealers, reflecting
this general sentiment in the trade,
have arranged for a show to open
March 15 that will be a revelation
of what motor-driven vehicle makers
are doing to promote the purchase
of cars in 1919. It should be worth
a visit. All of the old-time compe
tition for style and stability has been
restored by the return of peace and
the improvements and changes of de
sign will make the coming show a
very attractive event.
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT
CITY SOLICITOR JOHN E. FOX
is vitally interested in the sat-
isfactory and final treatment
of the Capitol Parle zone. It is for
tunate, as we have heretofore\sug
gested, that he is in the positiim of
legal adviser of the city at this time.
With Lieutenant Governor-elect
Beidleman in the Senate and the
officials of the State generally in
harmony with the proposed treat
ment of the park territory much
should be accomplished during the
present year. >
CIVIL WAR IN BERLIN
PERHAPS it was too much to
expect that even orderly Ger-
many could get through with
a revolution without serious blood
shed, but there was a time when it
looked possible. However, what is
happening there is no indication
that the old empire will not turn
itself into' a new republic with less
trouble than Russia is experiencing
in the interval. For. one thing,
Germany has the Russian example
staring it in the face. For an
other, German troops are still to
gether in sufficient numbers to be
used against tho Reds of Berlin If
It becomes necessary, for the Bol
shevik element Is not so numerous
In many parts of the country as It
is In the big centers and most of the
troops are loyal to the new govern
ment.
The Reds are able to make the
showing they have largely because
they are ready to go to any length
of bloodshed and injustice to at
tain their ends. Arm every thug
in New Y'ork with a gun and a pock
etful of bombs and unite them un
der one leader and they might be
able to make life very unpleasant
for a time. Increase the numbers
of such by the addition of sincere
but mistaken citizens and you have
conditions as they are now in Ger
many.
We may regret this outburst of
radicalism because of its possible
effects on other countries, but on ®
cannot help but feel that Germany
it getting just a little taste of the
frlghtfulness she inflicted upon oth
ers, and that the medicine may have
a good effect.
AN UNJUST ORDER
WHO was it issued the order
stopping all promotions of
men and officers on the day
the armistice was signed?
The country ought to know this
Individual, so that he could be
marked for proper attention when
the opportunity arrives.
No more unjust or ungrateful or
der was ever issued. Here were
men who had faced death in a hun
dred forms for weeks and who, had
the war continued, would have been
advanced in rank for distinguished
service. Many of them already had
been recommended for promotion.
They had worked hard for their re
ward, which was just in sight. And
then, some stupid chair-warmer at
Washington knocked their fond
hopes into a cocked hat and robbed
them of that to which they were en
titled..
The Qerman autocracy in its mad
dest moment never did anything
more grossly unjust. Wo can
Imagine how the soldiers feel about
it. They can do nothing now, but
one of these days they will lay aside
their uniforms and resume their
places as private citizens with votes
at their disposal.
One of the fighters abroad writ
ing home this week said: "There
came from somewhere in Washing
ton that most undemocratic order
just the moment the armistice was
signed 'No More Promotions!'
The autocracy we warred against
could not have been worse." One
young. Harrisbu-g soldier who had
been constantlj at the front and
whose promotion "was recommended
three months bswe the armistice
was signed was denied his advance
ment, the door being closed upon
him at the eleventh hour on the
eleventh of November by the
astounding Washington order.
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By the Ex-Oommlttccman
More than half of the members of
the House of Representatives have
asked Speaker Robert S. Spangler
to appoint them as members of the
on Appropriations. The
~P™ Ker It accordance with custom,
sent out letters immediately after
nis election, requesting the mcm
,®L express their desires in re
n'h'i u l ° corr "Ptttee assignments,
inis has been done by speakers for
years so that they may know the
preferences of the lawmakers.
Mr. Spangler hns found the mem
bers of the lower house very prompt
R * n their replies. There
are 207 members in the House and
more than half are trilling to serve
| the Appropriation Committee,
which contains something like forty
seats.
Next in demand appear to be
places, on the committee on public
roads, which has been for several
years a popular committee. There
have also been made requests for
places on the committee on educa
tion, while the lawyers of the
House are asking to be named to
the Judiciary general committee.
Many members from cities are de
sirous of places on the municipal
corporations committee, while there
are many requests for assignment on
judiciary special, manufactures, la
bor and Industry, mines and mining,
agriculture, public health and insur
ance, while law and order also seems
to be a popular committee In the
minds of some legislators.
The committees will be announced
next week.
—Philadelphia newspapers are
commencing to print what has
been long wafted about the Capitol
corridors to the effect that Public
Service Commissioners Michael J.
Ryan and William A. Mageo will not
be retained under the new adminis
tration. Mr. Ryan's term will ex
pire before long, and for a year It
hns been believed that he would not
stay. The prediction was made
when Sproul's candidacy was an
nounced that the former Philadel
phia solicitor would leave. The re
ports that Commissioners Harold
M. McCluro, John S. Killing "and
James Alcorn would remain, current
for some time, are now commencing
to get into print. It is also of inter
est to note that Philadelphia news
papers are announcing tho retention
of Commissioner of Fisheries Na
than R. Buller, which was printed
here weeks ago.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger
says that George A. Schreiner, su
perintendent of public grounds and
buildings, will be replaced, but that
a Dauphin countian will not get the
office. There has been talk of Sam
uel S. ftjwis, of Y'ork, in connection
with the place, but no ono in author
ity has said anything.
—According to the Philadelphia
Press the project referred to in this
column weeks ago for tho consoli
dation of all state police activities,
game, forestry and fishery, under
the state police department is "being
actively considered" by tho new gov
ernor. This carries out the old de
partment of conservation idea as far
as the outdoor forces are concerned.
However, there may be some com
plications as under the act estab
lishing hunters' licenses the state
game commission has solo disposal
of the funds and has authority over
the game protectors. It is proposed
to enlarge the game force until there
is one man for each county at least.
The Press says that the scheme has
not been worked out, but that it is
being studied and that if it comes to
anything Col. John C. Groome will
have charge of all police activities,
which will be co-ordinated.
—ln announcing the retirement
of C. T. O'NeJl as a major general
of the National Guard, Allentown
newspapers and dispatches say blunt
ly that the general did not get a
square deal in army matters and
that he should not have been mus
out of service, but given a com
mand which his record ' justifies.
Tho colonel was formerly superin
tendent of the State Arsenal under
Pattison, and a well known Demo
crat. Therfe is a disposition among
Lehigh Democrats to ask questions.
—Delaware county political lights
say that Ex-Speaker Richard J.
Baldwin will succeed Governor
Sproul in the upper house. While
here last week Mr. Baldwin told
friends he did not think there would
be much opposition to' him and the
Philadelphia Inquirer makes the
very definite statement in a Chester
dispatch that the versatile ex-speak
er "has been selected" by the lead
ers. Another dispatch says that ex
\Sheriff Everitt Sproul, a brother of
the new governor, is talked of for
senator.
—Media dispatches say that Del
aware county will have over 1,000
men in the inaugural parade.
—Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, who will have a good bit of a
say about the next commissioner of
labor and industry when the term
of Col. John Price Jackson expires,
saw tho new Governor at Philadel
phia Saturday.
—Altoona newspapers say that Ex-
Representative James E. Rininger
and and Edwin M. Aimes aspire to
succeed Compensation Referee Ja
cob Snyder, who wants the job
again. Snyder was a personal se
lection of Governor Brumbaugh and
once remarked when some of his
decisions were criticised that the law
needed the gospel every now and
then.
—Wilkes-Barre is going to give a
great welcome to Col. Asher Miner,
commander of tlie 109 th artillery,
the old Ninth Pennsylvania, tomor
row. The colonel served In the leg
islature a couple of yeras ago.
—Reading is commencing to take
the place of Erie and Meadvllle as
a place where suggestions for
changes in the third class city Taw
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
praises the selection of Ex-Senator
John S. Fisher, of Indiana, as bank
ing commissioner and says that he
has been connected with successful
banking enterprises.
TELL ME, "JUG"
Lieut. Lloyd ("Jug") Beaton,
formerly of The Star and the Asso
ciated Press, on his way to France
with his battery, met Quinn L. Mar
tin, a former associate on The Star,
in New York City. "I'd like to trade
places with you," Martin said. "I'm
sorry, but I can't trade," was Bea
ton's answer. A few months later
Beaton was killed in action in
France. This verse, based on that
meeting, was written by Martin, also
a soldier, for the New York I-ferald:
Now that It's all over, "Jug,"
And Flanders Fields are still;
Just the birds and flowers with you
There beside the hill.
Now that shrieking shells are gone
Oer your wee, white cross at dawn.
Tell me, "Jug," would you return?
Would you your good fortune spurn?
Would you trade your place with
me?
Cquld you ever happy be
If you took my place and I
Took your place where heroes lie?
Tell me, "Jug."
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS
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"THE FLU"
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Warning to Republicans
(From the Kansas City Times)
The Republicans have opened na
tional headquarters in Chicago,
and, it is said, the fight for Repub
licanism will be made from there
instead of New York, as In the past.
Will 11. Hayes, the new chairman
and official party leader, realizes the
fact that the politics of the nation
Will be controlled hereafter by the
growing states of the Middle West,
and the opening of the Chicago head
quarters means that ho will attempt
to build the party upon the founda
tion of Western sentiment, rather
than upon the Kew England Idea.
Comparing the election returns
last fall with the gains made by lie
publicans in Congress, the opinion
of Mr. Hayes appears to be con
firmed by the facts. For it was the
Middle West which revolted from
the Democratic administration and
overthrew tfie Democratic party in
Congress.
The leaders in Washington will do
well if they follow the example of
Chairman Hayes and give heed to
the sentiment of the states upon
which they must rely for party suc
cess. They cannot hold these pro
gressive states upon a reactionary
platform, neither can they fool them
with a progessive platform and a re
actionary organization.
The leaders in Washington might
well learn this lesson from tho thing
that has happened in Ohio, not once,
but twice. There the party organi
zation has Insisted upon nominating
former Governor F. B. Willis as the
candidate for governor in two cam
paigns. Willis was elected gover
nor in 1914. He was defeated In
1916 and again in 1918, because the
voters of the state regarded him as
the representative of the old idea
in Ohio politics.
Ohio Is only typical of the other
states from • the territory which is
the hope of the Republican party.
Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
Indiana frequently have rebuked
Republican leadership which was
against the sentiment of the voters.
If not on governor, the revolt has
taken place on somo other impor
tant officer who stood in the way
of public sentiment.
Washington leaders who are pre
paring to organize the next Con
gress should catch the vision from
Chairman Hayes. They will not win
•the Middle West by the leadership
of Penrose in the Senate or of Mann
and Fordney in the House.
It'is time for the Republicans in
Congress to accept the warning
which the Middle West has given
them.
LABOR NOTES
Each British soldier will bo pro
vided with employment after the
great armies in the field have been
demobilized, acording to compre
hensive plans which are now being
worked out by the government.
Extra pay for work done beyond
the regular working hours, whether
in port or at,sea, when not neces
sary for safety, has been recognized
in Norwegian and other vessels for
more than 20 years.
Another commision is to go to
Siberia to lend u helping hand in
stabilizing conditions. They will uid
in supplying Russia with the neces
sary tools and implements and saw
materials.
Increased benefits under the work
men's compensation law and state
administered health Insurance are
Included in the legislative measures
Indorsed by the Kansas Federation
of Labor, v
EX-YANKS HURRY BACK
INTO CIVILIAN CLOTHES
Renouncing the Right to Wear Their Uniforms Threo Months, the
Former Soldiers Cannot Get Into "Cltlxens'" Outfits
Too Soon—Like Toothpick Pointed Shoes, Too
THE stores are full of 'cm. They
come romping In with grins
stretching north,east, south and
west, into shoe stores and hat stores
and necktie stores and suit stores.
And they all yell:
"Give me civics! Bring on the
cits!"
Peek into the stores. Standing be
fore mirrors is a soldier seeing how
fine he loAks in a blue serge sack
coat —but the rest of the auit Is olive
drab trousers and leggings!
Side by side, before another mir
ror, stand a captain and a private,
each In all his Army regalia—except
for the headpiece. They are seeing
how they look in black lcelleys. Ana
grinning over It.
"Give mo a stiff white collar that
will reach up to my ears and a sporty
green tie. It ain't 'regulation'—but
I'm out again! I'm going to wear
all this respectable stuff! Bring on
the cits!"
In one big men's clothing store the
other day there were sixty customers
trying on suits, and forty of them
were soldiers of yesterday and civil
ians of to-day.
They're playing the great American
indoor game of dressing up.
Hut Mother Likes the Uniform
The War Department deciied and
announced Its decision In a dignified
order: "Soldiers may wear their uni
forms for three months after being
discharged."
"Three months, huh!" grunts the
homecoming hero, "Give me three
days and I'll be out of 'em!"
For a year and more they have
been looking with envious eyes on
men strolling about in stylish suits.
"O, for a white collar!" they would
yell. "How do ybu get that way!"
And now they are getting that way
themselves.
"Only mother—and the girl—raise
a protesting voice. Mother wants to
walk downtown a few times with
Johnny in the natty uniform that he
came marching home In. The girl
wants to go to a dance or two with
her particular buddy before he climbs
back into his old-time courting
clothes. ,
But the first thing John does—aft
er he has tried out the home brand
'"slum" and tested the soft mattress,
pounding the old pillow long after
reveille one %nornlng—is to rummage
through the clothes press.
"Where's that la3t winter' suit of
mine? No, not tho one 1 wore to
camp—l threw that away. Gave it to
tho Belgians!" And mother digs a
suit out of the mothball guardhouse.
"Hdrrors! It don't fit! The old
suit ain't what it used to bei Was
that ever big enough for me?" He
ÜBed to be round shouldered when h
wore that to work, back In 1917.
And he touches up the old pitcher
where mother stores her savings and
romps into town tot a wild day of
buying cits.
\t lints 3,04)0 Job Suit
"It is surprising how many of them
ask for "a quiet, good-looking suit,' "
said the manager of a big retail store
In Boston. "I guess they want a con
servative suit -that Will make them
look good when they're going around
seeking a job. In fact, one smiling
soldier came in saying, 'Give mo a
suit that will get me a $5,000 Job!'"
They are low on money, most of
them. But also they are low on
clothes. And they seem to find the
money for a new outfit,
They want to be "individual" again.
They've been in a "set" where every
member had to dress exactly alike.
Uncle Sam was retting the style for
them, and he had about as much in
dividuality and varity in his styles
as tho designer of cobblestones.
If a man In the Army wore a uni
form cut according to his own idea
of nattiness he was "called" for it,
and more than lilcely told to throw it
away.
But now they can dress as they
please. And privates are buying out
fits that will make the street dress
of the major look like a plugged
centime.
They're buying dress suits, too.
"O boy, watch us! The open-face
uniform is 'regulation' now. The
olive drab is interned."
Sailors are through with loose,
flapping trousers. Soldiers are
through with close-fitting leggings.
One wants a pair of breeches tighter
around the shins; the other wants
something looser around the shins.
Wants a IJfeer He Can Doff
"They don't know just what they
do want for hats," said a Boston hat
ter. "They take our advice or ask
it, at any rate."
"Give me a lid I can take off with
a swell sweep when I meet a lady,"
announced one ex-Army shopper.
"I'm tired of saluting my girl."
And shqes. Aji, there's the funny
thing. These soldiers have been
■wearing for montfhs shoes made to fit
their feet, instead of making their
feet fit the shoes. They have-.been
lectured at, hollered at and told a
million times to "Get shoes big
enough." Supply sergeants have re
fused to givx; them shoes that weren't
so big that you could shove your
thumb between the end of the big
toe and the end of the shoe. After
months in the trenches or in camp,
hiking with heavy packs, they have
learned the wisdom of it. Their feet
have achieved freedom for the first
time since they wore the shoes of
babyhood.
And yet—"Us humans will never
learn!" The soldiers c6me seeking
narrow, pointed shoes. "Something
stylish." They are going to wear silk
socks now, instead of those warm
woolen ones that uuntie knit.
How well they looked in uniform.
They never wore clothes so well be
fore. Yes. But how swell they feel
in "cits." They wear their .iew
clothes better, too. Their shoulders
are back. They swing along with a
stride and bearing they learned
through months of: "One—two—
three—four—swing your arms, there!
One J —tyo—three—four!"
The world Is saved for democracy.
Bring on the cits!
Something For Everybody
Foch and Joffre have been made
marshals of France, Haig and
Beatty may become English earls
and Pershing is talked about for
president.—From the Boston Globe,'
A Cottage by the Sea
Be mine a home beside the waves—
A hillside flaged with clover white '
That answers to the foam that
laves
Tho sand and scents the sea wind's
flight;
Yos, there I'd bide and never roam
By water, land and sky made
free,
Thero on a cliff I'd build my home,
A cottage by the songful soa.
The great deep's charm of change- '
fulness
The seasons through my moods j
would meet;
In joy or grief ne'er cease to bless,
Echoing every pulse's beat;
And, oh, tho harmonies that ring
By day and night in every key
Across my dreams their balm would
fling
Within my cottage by the sea. j
When darkness fled and came the 1
morn.
And blossom bubbles lit the surge,
What glorious fancies would be •
born
While gazing from the high cliff's
verge!
Ay, visions of the East would
throng—
What tales the wind would tell
to mo
While listening to Its wondrous
song
Anear my cottage by the sea!
I'd watch betimes the sea bird's
flight
Past bar of sand and rocky Isle,
Their wings would gleam like petals
white —
Dawn's shattered rose In morn
ing's smile.
A myrJd beauties day by day
Woifld lift to me their glamorie
Mid shifting mist and fairy spray
There at my cottage by the sea.
The land. alas, grim Time derides.
On even rocks he works his will;
'Neath quake and flood there s
naught abides.
Ocean alone defies him still; #
And sometimes fast the soul e'er
craves,
Some symbol of eternity,
And 'twould be mine beside the
wUvos
Within my cottage by the sea.
—Samuel Minturn Peck in the Bos
ton Transcript.
Fifty Hours to 'Frisco
[Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
Crossing the continent from San
Diego to Hazlehurst Field, at Mi
neola, in fifty hours of actual flying
time, the four army airplanes are
to be credited with an achievement
which is to be but slightly discount
ed by tho fact that delays due to
weather and to their duty of map
ping an air route and locating land
ing places, involved a much greater
elapsod time. The fact that the four
planes came through without change
of engines or important repairs of
any kind is evidence of tho quality
of nn American Army plane.
Other equally creditable perform
ances were recorded yesterday. The
map-making Bquadron of threo
planes, coming north from Ellington
Field, at Hotiston, Texas, reachejJ
Detroit, a distance of 1,476 miles,
in aboqt fourteen and a half hours
flying time, making the last lap of
200 miles in ninety-five minutes. An
other bombing plane Is reported to
have been driven between Dayton
and Cleveland at the rate of 172
miles an hour.
All this is proof that quality pro
duction is being achieved by the
American airplane manufacturers,
and that there is no reason why tho
United States should lag behind for
eign countries in the development
of this American invention. In the
last analysis it is likely to be foynd
that the deficiency in the national
effort for war aviation equipment
was chiefly in quantity, or in prece
dence unwisely given to quantity
over quality, and the actual result
of the war effort will be measured
by advanced character of the planes
which will now be produced in
America for civil and semicivil serv
ice.
When the Great Die
Whenever a truly great man dies
the world is wrenched around to a
fresh realization of the futility of
hasty Judgments.
No man Is perfect. None can be
altogether blamoless. Yet It is a com
mon habit of peoples everywhere to
demand of those whom they exalt
something of the Infallibility re
served for demigods and to unloose
upon every favorite tempests of de
rision in the moments of his failure.
Few of us stop to realize that it is
.very easy to stumble on the way to
the heights because that road Is
rocky and uneven and perilous with
obstacles unknown to those who livo
In the peace and comfort of the low
lands.
Roosevelt had to die before all his
own people realized how great he
was. It might be well to remember
this now when a temperate view and
just opinions are among the great
est needs of the hour.—Philadel
phia Evening Public Ledger.
French Country Hotels
A California soldier who recently
returned from France, has words of
higcst commendation for the coun
try inn-keeper of Franco. He was
connected with the engineering
corps and traveled extensively.
"The French people," he said, "do
know how to eat, drink and sleep,
and the beds at every hotel, whether
it be great or small, are marvels of
comfort. When one is excessively
tired and falls into a Freheh bed
one, rather pardoxically, just sinks
into heaven."
HOMEWARD BOUND
■ Blow softly, ye zephyrs from Isles of
the Sea,
For ships proud and stately % are
bringing to me
The loved ones from battlefields
victory-crowned,
O magical wonder-word —Home-
ward Bound.
Watch ye stars through the calm,
still nights,
While the silver moon sheds new de
lights;
Let the sun with greater effulgence
shine,
Speeding exiles home for whom
hearts still pine.
Glad hours move swiftly—ab, then
once more.
We'll greet our lads from a foreign
shore;
And though waves dash high o'er
the masts at will,
They'll hear His whisper, "Peace,
• be still." ■
Let no storm arise on thy bosom
wide
O Sea, where the ships glide side by
side;
And then with His hand to hold thee
fast.
May you enter the harbor —safe
homo at last.
■—Helen Hall Buchor. j
Emming QUjat
Newspapers of olden days In Har
risburg furnish some Interesting
sidelights upon the history of the
corner now occupied by the Penn-
Harris Hotel and indicate that a
century ago or about the time that
the first Stale Cnpltol was being
completed, the tavern at the corner
of Third and Walnut streets figured
in the life of the official center of
the commonwealth almost as much
as the new hotel did upon the occa
sion of the assembling of the legis
lature a week ago. The Pennsylva
nia Reporter, the Pennsylvania In
telligencer, Francis Wyeth's Rcpub
an<l the Harrisburg Chronlole,
which , flourished in the twenties,
contain references to meetings held
at the court house, the Globe Inn,
which occupied the site of the Penn
llarrls; the Washington Inn and
other hotels. The Globe, because of
its proximity to the State House,
seemed to be rather popular, so
n \ u KO " la t a hotel was establish
ed on Second Btreet, and called the
State Capitol. But Third and Wal
nut seemed to have had the call.
Apparently, there must have been
a/hake-up in the hotel management
of Harrisburg in April, 1831. The
newspapers of that period carried
numerous advertisements of hotels,
something which files of the Journ
als published in the state's capitol
prior to that date seldom contained.
John M. Eberman, who had con
ducted the Harrisburg Hotel, one of
the numerous names under which
the hotel at Third and Market
streets, the Bochiel of our day, had
been known, purchased the Globe
Inn. In his initial advertisement he
refers to the place as having been
a hotel. He announces the Globe
this, way: "This establishment a
situate in one of the most pleasant
and healthful parts of the town—he
has fitted it up in a manner to en
able him to accommodate those who
will give him a call in a comfortable
and respectable manner." The ad
vertisement concludes with thanks
to patrons of his other hotel and an
expression of hopes that they will
stop with him in his new place on
a well known hotel location. Thus,
the Penn-Harris corner was much
on the hotel map on April 20, 1831.
Judging from the advertisements
which followed Mr. Eberman's move
he must have made a stir because
T. Wallace, who advertises that he
has taken over the Harrisburg Hotel
is careful to say that It was "lately
occupied by Mr. Eberman." Mr.
Wallace identifies himself as the
man "who lately kept the brick tav
ern in Locust street, sign of the
Square and Compass." He says the
Harrisburg Hotel "is capacious, in
a central part of tho borough—an
old established stand. His stabling
is good and every attention will be
paid to tho accommodation and com
fort of those who may favor him
with their custom." In the same
column John Smull "respectfully in
forms his old Berks and Northamp
ton county friends and the public
in general that he has taken that old
stand, the sign of General Washing
ton on Market Square," lately occu
pied by Joseph B. Henszey. Mr.
Smull further announces "His liq
uors are good, his larder well stored,
his beds clean and his servants at
tentive —his stabling capacious and
his hostlers know their duty." His
advertisement, which is well dis
played, concludes: "In addition to
all these accommodations he prof
fers to all gentlemen who may
choose to call with him the hearty
greetings of a cheerful landlord."
Imagine Manager Wiggins or the
Uutterwortha or Monger advertising
like that!
Mr. Henszey is very careful to an
nounce in bold type his challenge to
the Globe Inn as the real hotel of
the capitol. He Informs the public
that the State Capitol Hotel, "West
end of Second Street,' is open. His
advertisement says "Joseph B. Hens
zey, thankful for past favors, in
forms his old customers and friends
that he has taken the large three
story brick house opposite the State
Capitol and public buildings, where
he will be happy to wait upon all
who may favor him with their cus
tom, either as travellers, boarders
or neighbors who call to read the
news." A footnote in Mr. Henzey's
advertisement is rather interesting.
It starts oft with a large hand point
ing to the following: "No gambling
or other improprieties connected
with it will be permitted in tho
house."
The nativity in advertising seems
to have caused Landlord Jacob Al
ter, Jr., of the Golden Lamb, to get
busy, because he lias a top of col
umn advertisement in tho Pennsyl
vania Reporter and Democratic Her
ald, published by Henry Welsh, in
which he says ho is prepared to en
tertain at his tavern at Second and
Locust streets, "in a respectable and
comfortable manner." He announc
es that "His provisions and liquors
shall be of a good quality." He calls
attention of "horse drovers" to his
extensive stables and says, "Genteel
boarders will be taken on moderate
terms." In the same issue an auc
tion of horses is announced for "Sec
ond street, opposite the Seven Stars
Tavern." This was at Chestnut
street and the horse sale lasted for
two months, the auction commenc
ing at 1 o'clock. After the horses
and carriages are all sold, says the
advertisement, household furniture,
guns, watches and a variety of other
articles will be auctioned by H.
Clark. Another advertisement
which appeared in tho Harrisburg
Chronicle announces that Jacob M.
Haldeman and John Forster, the
Harrisburg members of the commit
tee in charge of getting subscriptions
for the construction of the Cumber
land Valley railroad would sit at
George Nagle's house, tfre Union
Hotel, whero the Johnston building
now stands, for six days commenc
ing May 2, to receive
• • •
The Chronicle of May, 1831, also
contains the announcement of Hen
ry Burr that "he has opened a
house of public entertainment at
the mansion of Oak Dale Forge,
lately occupied by James Buchanan,
Esq., at the foot of the Short Moun
tain. Lvkens valley, Dauphin coun
ty, In the immediate vicinity of the
lately discovered mines of anthra
cite coal, where travellers and gen
tlemen visiting the mines can bo ac
commodated in tho best manner.
"This tavern was In the home of the
manager of the Oakdale forge, near
Ellzabethville, the pioneer Iron es
tablishment In the Lykens valley.
U was built about the time the Bay
ards established Victoria furnace In
Clark's valley. It Is one of tho few
Inns to advertiso in Harrlsburg
newspapers.
Or Censor Creel?
But what Is Mr. Wilson going to
say when he discovers that In his
ahsonce the vice-president wrote a
poem?— From The Baltimore Am
erican. •