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It builds it creates nothing. It is a Hlest rover and a consumer. It takes Hiway from the wealth of the coun- Hry but it puts nothing back, for it ( Mloos not believe in wealth, and vhere there is no wealth there is >overty, and idleness, and misery, md starvation. Bolshevism's power in Russia 'ame from tho looted treasuries of he empire, from tile banks that -.enine systematically robbed, from he wheat bins of the peasants vhose grain was stolen. This wealth md food kept the country going in laphazard fashion for a time. But tarvation is ixjw rampant in Russia, housands of peoplo are dying; here is no more gobl to steal and he Bolsheviki regime will fall of ts own weight. We may expect big lappenings in Russia shortly. WE'VE GOT 'EM np HE Kansas City Star hopes the new Governor of Missouri will urge the Legislature of that (tato to pass a workmen's componsa lon law and provide for a $40,000,- 100 road loan. Governor Sproul needs no such irging s Both are written on the itatute books of Pennsylvania and le was instrumental in the passage >f both. We merely mention these facts in jassing for the benefit of those who ry to make the public believe that Pennsylvania is not abreast with he times. FRANCE A COMPETITOR ppHAT France will supersede Ger- I nian Y as tho chief competitor of our steel manufacturers in the American market is the belief of rpany who are studying the situa tion. Tho capitulation of Germany wi November 10 found its armies in occupation of an important part of tho Department *of Meurthe-et- Moselle in which is located tho cele brated Briey basin. This territory having been evacuated by the Ger- ' mans restores to France one of the richest and most extensive iron de posits in the world, which extends into the Alsace-Lorraine provinces wrested from France in the Franco- Prussian War and to be restored by the peace treaty now in process of framing. Of the 22.000,000 tons of icon ore produced by France in 1913 the Department of Meurthe-et-Mo selle supplied 20,000,000 tons. It also supplied nearly 70 per ocnt. of the 5,300,000 tons of pig-iron pro duced by France that year, 50 per cent, of the 4.428,000 tons of steel ingots produced in 1912, and 37 per cent, of the 3,250,000 tons of rolled Bteel products of 1912. There has been considerable damage done to the furnaces and mines on the part of the Huns, but no permanent dc etruciion appears to have been wrought, and it is merely a matter pf 'a few months when the output of these miqes will be subjected to the intensive application of the French factories, which have or ganized not only to supply to the ex tent of their power the requirements of France for economic rehabilita tion, but to expand the export trade in steel manufactures of that coun try. | One of tho first objectives of the German armies, with the outbreak ff the war, It will, bo remembered was possession of these vast ore s % R " ' '• • ■ •' " ' " * *■ V WEDNESDAY EVENING Telegraph: x JANUARY 22 1919 v r fields, and to the fact that Germany was successful in achieving this ob jective was due much of her mili tary success thereafter. Germany well knew the value of iron in the winning of the war, and it was not until the vast resources of the Unit ed States were thrown into the bal ance against her that she acknowl edged the loss of her evil cause. Nevertheless, shorn as she was of the rich deposits of the Brtey, France produced 100 per cent, more pig iron and steel manufactures in 1916 than she did the year before, a fact which moved The Iron Age, perhaps the most authoritative periodical on the steel trade in this country, to declare in 1916: "Thus there bids fair to be a greater French steel out put after the war, to be added to the increases in Germany and Great Britain." I A man who has for years studied I the iron and steel trade in conncc ! tion with the tariff, remarked at that time that "in normal times, the I big steel business of Germany, Eng- I land and France is in export markets. Of course a large propor tion of their iron and steel,indus tries recently has been devoted to the manufacture of war material. But their mills can and will imme-' diately return to the business of ex port when the war ceases, while the American industries must inevitably experience a severe cutting down of their export trade." That his fore cast was sound is indicated by the figures showing our export trade of manufactures of iron and steel for the nine months of the current year ended September, the most recent available, which show that, despite the increase in the value of these goods, we exported for that period $791,000,000 worth, compared with | $908,000,000 worth for the corre sponding period of 1917, while im ports, notwithstanding European embargoes, show a tendency to get back to the pre-war, low duty nor mal. More than any other industry, perhaps, the steel industry is de pendent for low production cost on capacity operation of the mills. To achieve this capacity operation our manufacturers must be able to rely on a commanding position in the home market. If that is denied them to an extent which slows down tho mills and decreases the demand for labor, the unit cost of production in creases, and the ability to compete with European producers in foreign markets is lessened. We can not hope to retain such markets as we have built up in South and Central America, for instance, maintain a wage scale which has been doubled during the war, and at the same time leave the home market open to French and English competition. Knowledge of this fact is what in duces manufacturers to urge the Re publicans to clear the decks for a tariff revision upward. PROPER PROTECTION SENATOR PENROSE is very properly (\isturbed over the proposed expenditures of the emergency food fund for which Congress is providing at President Wilson's request. One hundred mil lions of dollars constitute a lot of money and the utmost care be exercised to see that it is neither wasted nor misappropriated. He asks that it be spent by a commis sion of three men under the direc tion of the President. The amend ments to the bill should be enacted without delay. We want to help the starving people of Europe, but we want to know also that they get a dollar's worth for every dollar ex pended and careful supervision is essential to a proper administration great charity fund. A WINTER RESORT HX.RRISBURG gave visitors yes terday a very favorable im pression of the brand of mid winter weather Forecaster Demuin doles out for local consumption. "Just like a winter resort," was the smiling comment of dozens of folks from up-state, where the snow falls in November and gener ally remains until late March. All of which made us feel mighty goo'd until we reliected upon the disreputable conduct of the ele ments only twelve months since. Dear up-state admirers, you ought to have been with us then. The in augural parade would have re sembled a band of arctic explorers on U ten days' hike across the eternal snowdrifts and Governor Sproul would have been forced to the ne cessity of taking the oath on top of a snowdrift. It's a line thing to acquire such a weather reputation as wus handed out to us yesterday by a generous forecaster, and we trust he does nothing in the future to take the wind out of our sails, as it were. • • OUTLAWED LORD CECIL expresses tho pre vailing thought in America when he says that the Uerinun people are as yet not to be trusted and should not be admitted to the proposed league of nations until they have proved their worthiness. The Germans are outlawed by their own acts. one of us would receive a German soldier into our homes? None of us, wo feel sure. There is the test. Why ask us to associate as a people nationally with those Npith whom wo would have absolutely nothing to do indi vidually? Tho English view is the correct view. Whcn Germany has repented in sackcloth and nshes and shows by her good deeds that she has really reformed, then and then only may she be considered as a candi date for the congress of nations. °|hiHtLcQ. IK By the Ex-Committeeman x One.of the things which impressed almost everyone on the inaugural stand and In the great crowds about it yesterday during the impressive procession was the wide acquaintance of Governor William C. Sproul. He seemed to know people without num ber. The military part of the proces sion had barely passed before it be gan to be apparent how extensive was his acquaintance. Men in the Philadelphia and Chester clubs waved lings to him or culled and he was continually doffing •his hat, waving his hand and even calling greetings. From the marchers came shouts and acclamations for the new governor, ranging all the way from "Hnrray for Sproul" to "Hello Bill." When the Pittsburgh contingent came along the marchers seemed to be desirous of greeting Secretary of Internal Affuirs-elect James F. Woodward, who got many a greet ing, while the popularity of Llcuten ant-Governor Edward K. Beidleman wus attested by tho greetings for him from the men x>f Dauphin, York and Schuylkill. The Harrlsburg peoplo seemed particularly joyous over the Beidleman inauguration and cheered the Dauphin countian. —The new governor had to break his way through crowds when he moved about yesterday. It was a great greeting that was given him when he reached the Capitol after the ceremony and in the evening. —Harry S. McDevitt's appoint ment was applauded when an nounced in the House. The work of Mr. McDevitt on the Economy and Efficiency Commission was well re membered, it seemed. —Francis Shunk Brown, the retir ing attorney general, was presented with a loving cup at a dinner ten dered him at the Harrlsburg club by his deputies. Horace IV. Davis, now of New York, came here for the dinner. —People who liavo followed poli tics in Pennsylvania for the last twenty years were commenting last n ight upon the fact that three of the four men who swung the des tinies of the Senate back in 1905 and 1907 und in the special session ot 1906 were in high office as a re sult of the inauguration. They are Governor Sproul, Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods and Banking Commissioner John S. Fisher. Mr. Woods was president pro tem in those days, Senator Sproul having held that honor earlier. Together with the iate Senator A. B. Roberts, ot Montgomery, these men used to sit up late at night working on legis on and planning the day's work. Together with other capable men t/iey are on the way to make the new administration as fine for Penn sylvania as was the day upon which it beganx oa th of office signed yes terday by Governor Sproul and at tested by Chief Justice Brown was filed late in the afternoon in the of fice of Secretary of the Common wealth Cyrus E. Woods. It was written on parchment and is one of the finest specimens of penmanship seen at the Capitol. Wilmer John son, of Secretary Woods' depart ment, wrote it. The outh is given in full with an ornamental heading —Much comment was caused by Lieutenant Governor Heldleman's graceful tribute to Judge S. J M McCarrell, his preceptor in the 'law' who administered the oath to him yesterday. It happened that Judge McCarrell was a senator years ago and president pro tem, an office which the lieutenant governor filled a few years ago. —The inauguration day, as far ns weather is concerned, was some thing unequalled in State history. There has never been a day like it in recent history of inaugurations. The crowds in the citv and the weatheryise and politically wise gieeted it as a happy omen. —One of the incidents which at tracted comment yesterday was that when the new .governor and the in augural party walked out of the building to tho stand the Capitol pigeorfs flew about in a great circle. What happened was that a salute fired far away startled them, Just as any noise does and sends them whirring about the trees, it made ti pretty coincidence, however. —Harrlsburg saw the first of the seven Sproul cars, all licensed in the seven series, yesterday. The new governor has licenses Nos 7 77, 777, 7777 and 77777. Officially he also has No. 1, the governor's car. Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods and Banking Commissioner I* *'Si\er, two former senators, were given a hearty greeting in tho sen ate chamber yesterday. —lt seems to be generally ac cepted that the session will adjourn the middle of April. Everything seems to he tending toward gettinir the business going so that commit tees can start reporting out bills next week The bills for codes and matters of state-wide importance are due in a few days. —Lieutenant Governor Beidleman received more gifts that have ever fallen to the lot of a governor Frank 15. McClain, who retired yes! terday, said that he felt that Har rlsburg was mighty proU d of his successor. 3 COMFORT BAGS What's in 'a comfort bag' T know. It is the generous heart of St. Louis, Brooklyn, Chicago, Bos ton, Rochester and Nushua, N H that has revealed Itself to me in one little thoughtfulness after another A scrapbook inscribed in n schooi child s hand to "My Soldier Boy" a cake of soap tied* with red rib on, nnd labeled "Liet's soap it's good for somebody;" a piecq of wed ding-cake with an autograph ac count of tho event! You are very painstaking and rather wonderful— you women of America! From "What's in a Comfort Bag," by Shir ley Putnam, in the January Red Cross Magazine. It Seems Appropriate Postmaster fteneral Burleson has asked Congress to provide him with a horse-drawn vehicle for personal use, in preference to a motor car Mr. Burleson's sense of proportions will not allow him to travel any fast er than his official department runs —From the Kansas City Star. NEW LIFE The war is done, Peace has begun. There's endless reconstruction Let all arise And organize, To save waste, loss and ruction. Less levity, More brevity, More harmony, less strife; Clean house and city An end to pity, Peace calls for a NEW LIFE. Joseph Meinrath. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OPT OF LIFE ... ... "Byßrigg, 's <JOLMT, N /" ' \ To Be The ResoLT? / WHAT RiCmT* HAve "E\JEF*Y HOCAE WILL / THEY Got T* T<LC HAV/C FNE APPARATUS J /US VUG SMALL TO MAKE IT AT ( / HAVJIS TMG| liCMg - (—A.I 0.,1 1 I AIA/A.Y iSOME I \ ,M. E WH.T-U l r rO \ Be LIK-e—? AWFUL/ /MERC'S) IHH \ THAT-LL MGAM . 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It was stated on behalf of the admin istration that there would be no hampering of the freedom of cor respondents. Now exactly what was feared has come true! The correspondents have finally united in a solemn protest to the President on the secrecy which has clothed all the negotiations and on their inability to get the news. The Associated Press carries this signif icant statement. "The President himself has rarely seen any ot the American corres pondents, and tho newspaper men who have expressed themselves at a meeting of the organization they have formed as considering them selves trustees obligated to inform public opinion at home of the moves which are being made here in Paris, have been chuflng at what ( they have characterized as bcHng kept out of touch with the fountain • f official Information, having been confined to lniorniation dis scmlyated. by an official publicity agent. "Confined to information dissem inated by an official publicity agent." The President was pledged to open diplomacy and to freedom of news. Instead we have secret di plomacy and an administration press agent handing out publicity of administration diplomatic victories. ROOSEVELT Through the great hush that marks . his funeral Still runs the current of his fiery zeal Which, like a storm, to prove its august power. Curbs its own force and for the time is still, Then rocks, ugain plain, mountain, forest sea —■ So when this moment's holy hush is done. His mighty spirit, like to John of old, I Will cry again in this vast wilder ness Of man's bewilderment: "Make straight the path Between your duty and tho end you seek." Still like a river, deep and strong and 'wide, His life will flow through lives of other men, While hearts shall thrill at thoughts of noble deeds, For he has made all future good his own. —Charles Eugene Banks, Author of "Roosevelt, a Typical American," in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Maybe the Light Is Dawning The mental depression which is said to exist in Germany is probably due to the fact that the German peo ple are beginning to understand that peace is not to arranged for their exclusive benefit. —From the Now Orleans States. LABOR NOTES The output of coal in Sheffield, Eng., has been seriously restricted owing to the ravages of influenza, which attacked the workers in large numbers. The increase in war bonuses to all day workers in the British woolen textile trade is from 81 3-4 to 104 3-4 per cent., or an -advance of $7.64 a week. Owing to the strike of employes of tile builders, hotels, printing of fices and coachmakers, nearly 19,- 000 workers were idle recently in Dublin, Ireland. A French company has been form ed for the manufacture In Algeria of paper pulp from alfalfa, of which there is an almost unlimited sut ply. Larger automobile manufacturers throughout the country plan to add to thela forces instead of laying off men on account of war contract can cellations. Policemen and firemen in Quebec, Canada, have been granted an in crease of $3 a week, and a commis sion will revise salaries of other city employes. HOW. GEN. BELL CONVERTED A "CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR" I WHEN the lute Maj. Gen. Frank- JO PUBIUUIOO U] BUM UOH UFF Camp Upton he did not con tent himself with talking to C. O.'s In groujw. One of the stories his friends have been recalling with most satisfaction since his recent death tells of his treatment of a young Russian Jew from the East Side, who was in the guardhouse at Upton refusal to obey orders. General Bell had him brought to his office. "What's the matter, son?" ho asked. "Nothing, 1 ' was the somewhat sul len response. "Oh, yes there is, or you wouldn't be In the guard, house. Why won't you obey orders?" "X left Russia," burst out tho boy, "because the army was everything, because it was everywhere. I came to America to be free from mili tarism, and I'm no more than set tled here before I find, militarism being forced on me. 1 won't have anything to do with it." "You are wrong," said General Rell. "You haven't been called into the army to bring militarism about In America, but to prevent it. Can't you see that if Germany wins there will be her kind of militarism in Russia and everywhere else in the world? Can't you see that it is to keep that kind of militarism out of America that we have gone to war, and that we have called you to do your share?-'' The boy thought it over. Under standing at length spread over his face and he said: "I see." "Now," said the general, "what is wrong with you?" "Nothing," was the reply, but it was plain that there was. "Oh, yeß there is," the general in sisted. "Out with it." "Tomorrow's Yom Kippur," an swered the boy doubtfully. "All the others are going home, but I can't because I'm in the guardhouse." "But you can." cried General Bell. "Get up to your barracks and gqt your things." He looked at his watch. THE REAR-END COLLISION [From the Providence Journal.] Too frequently comes a distressing reminder that all the safeguarding resources of railroad science are as yet unable to abolish the rear-end collision, though they are largely concentrated on that objective and no form of accident Is so inexcusa ble In any circumstances. ' Not in recent years have appalling examples in quick succession been afford ed as has now happened on the New York Central, Sunday night, and-or the Reading Monday night. It is a question in both these cases whether the mechanical agency of protection failed, or the human ele ment, and that has always been the question. The former works auto matically, and the utmost care is taken to see that it is always in wording order—a matter of no great difficulty. * The dependability of the liuniun element is less easily guaran teed, and unfortunately for the se curity of the combined system, hu man and mechanician, it will fail unless the locomotive engineer or fireman, or the men who may have the duly of supplementing the auto matic signals with lings, torpedoes or lights, ure fully efficient wlient the emergency urlses. Tills individual efficiency Is subject to conditions over which the higher command of a railroad can exercise no control. They may be beyond the control of the man himself. SUCCESS Not the fruit of experience but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated dramatic • life. How may we see In them all j that there is to be seen in them by ! the finest senses? How shall wej pass most swiftly from point to point and be present always at the focus where the greutcst number of vital forces unite in their V purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame to maintain this ecstacy is success in life.—Wal ten Pater. No, Let's Let 'Em Resign Shall we have to take up a popu lar subscription for impecunious cabinet officers?— From the Toledo Blade. "You can't make it if you walk," he added. "You go out and get in my car; it will take you to your barracks and then down to the train. Goodby. Remember, you're coming back to me as \ell as the army." And the boy rode away in the general's car to the festival that he had thought he would miss entirely and to come back to the army that he had sworn he would never serve In. , • Glossary of the Movies. (From Film Fun. Pie —Something with which to swat a mun in the face. See Com edy. . Peril—Any situation which has a Chinaman in it or a man with a bandanna and earrings. llreeze—Something which bltiws the heroine's hair in the garden scenes. Shawl Garment worn by a stfange woman earning back for a glimpse of her "chee-ild." Chee-ild—Anything under 30 that skips when it walks. Goatee Facial adornment for "fathers" and "colonels." Fishing Village— A place where men make love in hlpboots. Tree —Something to climb mod estly. See Stockings. See Breeze. See Ingenue. Boxing Gloves — Apparel for the hands, usually stuffed with scrap iron. See comedy. Policeman—A person who, on be ing kicked in the stomach, falls down humorously. Pipe—That which heroes smoke. See Exile. Clergyman A masculine person in bjack clothes, who raises his hand, palm outward, and looks up in tho air. Comedian—A man without a col lar. See Pie. See Boxing Gloves. Business Man Something with white side whiskers. Wedding—(l) An unhappy be ginning. (2) A happy ending. See Goatee. Gout —Something to step on. See Comedy. Society Man—Any person with a tennis racquet. See Breeze. "A DAM OF DOLLARS" [From the Omaha Bee.] Appropriation of $100,000,000 as an emergency fund to provide food for starving Europeans will meet popular approval because Americans are generously and sympathetically inclined towards the suffering at any time. When we think of thousands of millions of money so lavishly ex pended in pursuit of the enterprise of war, out of which the famine has grown, the present sum looks small enough for the work of rescue. But is it not a mistake to view it from the angle that has been thrifst for ward, that of relieving the world from the threat of Bolshevism? Mr. Wilson says tfie social malady cannot be remedied by force; it must be treated by other means. In this he is much nearer the mark than many may realize, yet it js a serious mistake to conclude that the up heaval is due to hunger alone. Bol shevism broke out in Russia when plenty to eat was on hand. It lias spread in lands where no famine is felt. Argentina, for example, where food is more plentiful than anywhere on earth for the moment, is undergoing a social disturbance almost equal to that of any of the anarchy-infested / countries where the disorder is complicated by star vation. This trhght to indicate that the cause is deeper than mere hun ger. AMIABLE SUBTERFUGE (From the Philadelphia Ledger) Prohibitionists celebrating the stampede of the brewer's big horses have not failed to observe ex . Governor Stuart's amusing little ■ private camouflage at public ban ) quets where the wine was red. Mr. j Stuart is the very antithesis of a toper, and he does not. care who knows it—but neither does he care to parade his abstemiousness by turning down the wine glass con spicuously. So he has had, recourse to an amiable little subterfuge. When the bottle came his way it was wrapped in a napkin, and the contents were poured Into, a glass just like the other glasses. But the waiter's napkin concealed the label of ginger ale, and the sparkling fluid outpoured was that innocuous beverage and not cham pagne, as it seemed. # The New Administration (From the Philadelphia Evening! Ledger) Astonishing revisions in political philosophy and great changes in the relation of economics and industry to government are inevitable. Penn sylvania cannot remain an island isolated in a world of aspiration and change. We are facing a creative era and minds that are not creative will soon be overwhelmed and dis credited. / The times are fluid. People are restless, dissatisfied, eager for new leadership. Their minds are inquir ing and receptive. They are in a mood to recognize theii; man when ever he happens along. And in Pennsylvania their lives are closely bound up with immense ' opposing forces that will have to be co-oper ative in the approaching period of readjustment and settling down. Governor Sproul, facing this situ ation, will be hedged about with the usual difficulties. To the east of him will be the ivied minds in politics and journalism consecrated to the belief that whatever is is right. To the west will be unstable radicalism, energetic and uniformed. Upon the north will be a backward minded Legislature and on the south will lie tho bosses moved, as usual, by ferocious greed. Rarely will there he any one with a wise realization of the great good that may come with wisdom or tho confusion that may follow upon mis takes or a lack of constructive vision. It is an axiom of Pennsylvania politics, for instance, that a Gover nor can never rise above the Legis lature unless he happens to have qualities of rnhid that approximate genius. For tne people who expect great things from the state's execu tive uf-ually begin, with characteris tic perversity, by tying his hands through tho election of Representa tives und Senators committed to the selfish creed of hosHism. But in the present case the Governor will have unusual advantages. Ho is free from entangling alliances. He was selected without a surrender to any of the factions. He is courageous. And if he will follow a method re cently tried out with brilliant suc cess in the larger field of national politics he will realize that when he ?nounts to his new office he ascends o one of the great forums of the world. From this on he will al ways be able to get an audience. He will always be listened to. The peo ple will believe him. And he can go to them whenever he wishes to make war for what is right with the assurance the people are always upon the side of fairqess and de cency when they are given the op portunity to judge squarely between right and wrong. Lord Fisher and Shipbuilding (From the Boston Herald) Build a navy a ship at a time. Tlyit's in essence,the advice of the one man in England whom the Kaiser used to say he feared. The man was Lord Fisher, the first sea lord of the Admiralty, who ( revolu tionized naval warfare. He said to Harold Begbic: "Tho secret of ship building is, never lay down a lot; lay down one nt a time. One im provement leads to another. When the- improvements come then a whole squadron is not made obso lete." Lord Fisher let foreign nations lay down four, six, eight ships at once and secretly made his plans for a bigger ship to bent them. He amazed the world by the creation of the dreadnought, but when the first dreadnought came Into dock after her first trip abroad no one outside the inner circle knew she had come back a failure. The great ship would not steer. Ali tho brains of the Admiralty were focussed upon the resulting problem. Thoy solved it, but the world thought they were making some improvements in the gun mountings Lord Fisher held that one big fellow was worth a fleet of little fellows: "You won't leave your house, will you," ho uped to ask. you know Jack Johnson Is waiting, on your doorstep to slug you?" .A SHELTERED LIVE *A crystal of ice "Where dry reeds in music shiver, Gray gulls and white On the blue, blue river • * And across there in the city Where the smoke Hags ure flying. Each hour sees a baby's birtli And man's dying. —Amelia Josephine Burr in Con temporary Verse, Owning (Efyat While parades have come to be as much a part of inaugurations as the gathering of the legislators and state officials about the new Governor when he takes the oath of office that of yesterday, both as to make up of the organizations participating and route, was something greater* than ever known in Harrisburg be fore. The development of the in augural parade of Pennsylvania gov ernors is un interesting study. For I years following the Civil War they were largely military In character with comparatively few political or ganizations, but always with the Harrisburg lire department, whose members have a traditional right : going back into the forties or fifties, | to parade in honor or the "big chief" lof the state. The inaugurations of j Hartranft are remembered by some of the older citizens as notable mili | tary affairs, as was natural, because I the Montgomery countian was a dis tinguished soldier and the tremen- I dous impulse given to the martial I spirit of the Keystone State by the I Civil War was then in strength. Sim ilarly when Beaver was inaugurated, his association with the military forces of the state and nation caused! him to be honored by a great gath ering of soldiers, although the day was bitterly cold. The Pattison in augurals were marked by presence of many Democratic clansmen, the return to power sentiment being very strong. When Hastings came in, after long service in the National Guard, the military end predomin ated in the pageant and he had a; superb day for commencing his term. Military took part in gradu ally lessening number in the inau gurals of Stone, "Pennypacker, Stuart, Tenet- and Brumbaugh. The showing at the Brumbaugh inaugu ration was more civic than anything else, there being a comparatively small representation of Guardsmen. .But the Harrisbdrg firemen, who . paraded just as they were after fighting a big fire all night and most of the morning, took the crowd far more than all the embattled Philadelphia partisans. The weather of the last three inaugurations was not unpleasant. There was not much sunshine, but there was no snow or rain and the air while cold was not wintry. But the weather of Stone and Pennypacker was winter, especially when the Sago of Schwenksvillc took the oath. It was snowy, blowy and cold and the Gov ernor remarked when he got through with the ride that he felt as though ho had been out sleigh riding and envied the men who had a chance to march instead of sitting still in a carriage as he had to do. • • * The Sproul parade route was the first Inaugural procession to go so far north. Other inaugural parades went up to Reilly or Maclny streets, but the parade of yesterday invaded the Tenth ward, which in the last two years, because of the numerous big parades, has furnished the turn ing point for the pageants. It used to be that Reily street, being a wide thoroughfare, was the highway where- parades turned, but as the city got paved more and more and the size of the parades grew Ma clay street was fixed up as the limit. Some years ago one parade went as far as Hamilton street and there was complaint because of the length of the line. Now, after the big pa triotic demonstrations of the last two pears we do not think a parade is a parade unless it goes above Maclay, Seneca preferred. • * • A couple of men were talking the other day about parades in Harris burg in the future and while it may be years before anything like what we have had under stimulus of war time is organized in Harrisburg, it was agreed that the construction of the Memorial Bridge in the Capitol Park Extension plans will have an effect upon processions here. It is interesting to note that Governor Sproul is in hearty sympathy with the plans for making the public domain unsurpassed by any state capital and the project conceived by Arnold W. Brunner may be ex pected to be pushed through. The firemen upon the occasion of the big state convention here some years ago gave the Hil its last big parade, essaying a nine mile route which gave the city something to think about and the Ilill a desire to see more demonstrations. With the coming of the Memorial Bridge the Hill will ha,ve a chance for witness ing parados because this bridge and Mulberry street will afford oppor tunity for processions to straighten themselves out, a rather important fnatter in these latter days of doing things on a big scale and when we are filled with the military and marching spirit. Just think of what a fine close to a procession such as an inaugural. demonstration a march over the great wide Mem orial Bridge will be, especially when it can countermarch about the Cap itol Park Extension boundaries and disband in State street in front of the Capitol. • • • By the time the next inauguration comes around the state will have at the west front of the Capitol a for mul entrance which will not only be in architectural harmony with the splendid building and the terraced park, but which will bo specially adapted for just such ceremonies •as that of yesterday. This is one of the Brunner plans and everyone who has seen his study is keenly inter ested in it. Every time there is a big event a stand has to be erected and inspected and criticised. The formal entrance will be the stand and yet fit right in with the Capitol. f PEOPLE | —Senator Sterling R. Catlin, the nestor of the Senutors, likes to tell of old days in the Far West, which he visited when a young man. —State Treasurer H. M. Kephart yesterday attended his fifth inaugu ration. —W. Harry Baker, secretary of the State Senate, has taken part In tho organization of fourteen sessions, not counting a special session, either, —Thomas 11. Gurvin, chief clerk of the House for years, served for a while as a member and knows that end too, he says. —Speaker Robert S. Spangler is a tennis devotee when it come to exercise and plays a very active game. i —President pro tern Clarpnfe J. Buckman, of the Senate, is a Quaker, but also a Plattsburger. T DO YOU KNOW | —That Harrisburg is ninMng shoes that go to the West Indies? HISTORIC lIAKRISBJJRG —One hundred years ago North street was about the limit of lip*., ' town.
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