12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager DUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Monager Executive Board 3. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, 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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. • Member American Pub- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania^Assocla- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Building, Western office' Story, Brooks & ~ Gas' BuMing* i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Offlee in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a crttip-.'-CrCTißi> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Wherever a process of life com municates an eagerness to him who Jives it, there the life becomes genu inily significant.—William James. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1910 OUT WITH THEM TESTIMONY of Archibald E. Stevenson, of New York, repre senting the Military Intelli gence Bureau of the United States Government before a congressional committee at Washington to the effect that there is in America today an organized plan to bring about a violent revolution may be received without much fear that such notions will get beyond the talking stage, for there is no public demand for overturn of government here and if there were the people have in the ballot an opportunity to change their government as they see fit. But when Mr. Stevenson declares that in the universities of this country there has been a festering mass of atheism and the grossest kind of materialism and of teachings destructive of our forms of government and of the civi lization which we as a Christian na tion recognize, then it is time for us to sit up and take notice. This is not the first intimation that we have had of conditions in certain of our institutions of higher learn ing that are alarming to those who • fear the influence of tainted minds upon the young men whose current of thought is constantly under this baneful influence. We are old-fash ioned enough to believe that divin ity schools for example, might con fine themselves to teaching the simple theology of Christ the Saviour of the world and forget en tirely a lot of the tommyrot that originated in the distorted minds of European theologians, many of whom were the paid creatures of the German Kaiser. If some of these universities do not wish to find themselves without the pale of popular approval they would do well to get rid of the Scott Xearings who have been preaching parlor Bolshevism to young men and women whose minds are in the formative stage, and who are en tirely unfitted for the profession of teaching by the very fact that they are in entire disagreement with Am erican ideals and principles of gov ernment. The sooner the universi ties purge themselves of these leeches the better for all con cerned. GEORGE TENER OLIVER THE death of former United States Senator George Tener Oliver, removes from the circle of influential Pennsylvanians one of those dominant figures whose activi ties in the past quarter-century have done so much to make the State noted for its industrial enterprises and whose powerful personality im pressed itself upon the affairs of the Commonwealth In a very positive manner. Senator Oliver began his career as a lawyer, but forsook the bar for what he regarded as the larger opportunity of business. Prominent for years us a manufac turer and afterward turning his great talents to the promotion of good government through his pow erful Pittsburgh newspapers, it is little wonder that he early in life became a leading figure in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Oliver was a man of mag netic personality, but of a retiring disposition. The friends he made were his friends for life, but he paid small attention to cultivating the favor of the crowd, although his in terests lay always on the side of social improvement. He was, for example, a leading exponent of tem perance and his newspapers stood openly for the abolition of the liquor traffic long before that issue reached % degree of popularity that promised for it early success. Mr. Oliver went to the Senate of ■ Pennsylvania at a time when the legislature filled senatorial vacan cies. It might have been that he would have declined to have entered ■ " ' vx ' • ' ' -W ■ FRIDAY EVENING. TELEGRXPH JANUARY 24, 1919. the lists if his candidacy had re quired a statewide campaign, for he had small liking for the spot light of personal prominence. But Pennsylvania is fortunate in that the law for the election of United States by the people went into effect after his election for the Oliver influence at Washington was always for the good of the State and few men available .at the time of his election would have made such a good record for the Common wealth at the National Capitol. * It has cost the Government $75,165 in the last six months to run the air mall route between Washington and New York. And the revenues totalled 160,653. As this for an apparent ba sis the Second Assistant Postmaster General urges the appropriation of $3,000,000 for the maintenance and development of the service. Rather an expensive experiment. LARGER STATE COLLEGE AT the annual meeting of the board of trustees of Penn sylvania State College a new and enlarged field of activity for the institution in its relation to the in dustrial interests of the State was outlined. It was suggested that the State College Engineering Experi ment Station be placed at the dis posal of the State Highway Depart ment in developing better methods of road construction and operation, offering of short courses of practical study for county road supervisors, mine inspectors, tractor operators, boiler inspectors and other State ap pointed officials, and co-operation was advocated with the State For estry Department in devising and putting into operation methods of lire protection in the State reserva tions as well as harvesting trees right for cutting and thus obtaining some income for the State. Another project proposed by Pres ident Sparks was the enlargement of the present night schools and ap prentice schools in the various in dustrial plants in order to produce more efficient workmen as well as better informed American citizens, and an extensive co-operation with all rural agencies of the State, in cluding the country churches and country schools, and a systematic survey of rural life, with a view of enlarging the production, the mar keting facilities, the conveniences and advantages of country people. President Sparks has wide vision and his recommendations should have not only the earnest considera tion of the college trustees, but they should be drawn to the attention of the Legislature that adequate ap propriation may be made to cover the necessary expenses. State Col lege used to be known as "The Farm ers' High School," but it is far more than that to-day. It is the State's own university, offering educational advantages to hundreds of boys who could not afford the more expensive schools. It should be considered as an integral part of the State's public school system and treated as such when the State's educational budget is being made up. As Dr. Sparks sug gests, the opportunities of State Col lege are not bounded by the school campus, but are as wide as the State Itself. Where the aspiring lad cannot go to college proper consideration for his rights and the welfare of so ciety demand that the college shall be brought to him. We have all recently come to an understanding of the advantages of the continuation school as it applies to boy and girl workers within the school age, and State College already has demonstrated the benefit of the extension of this system to the young man of college age who for one rea son or another must work while studying. This branch of the institution's ac tivities can be indefinitely enlarged to meet the growing demands for training and education on the part of boys and girls who must earn their living. OUR LOSS, JAPAN'S GAIN THE Seaboard Trading Company in its review of 1918 trade tu canned and salt fish, pauses to digress a moment and pays its re spects to the shrewdness of the Japanese traders, aided by the ad ministration, with regard to coffee, as follows: Do to the restrictions of the Food Administration and the re fusal of the Shipping Board to permit tonnage to be allotted for the coffee trade, an artificial and unnecessary scarcity has re sulted in this country, creating a situation which our Jap friends were not slow to accept and make their own and develop to their advantage to the fullest extent. They turned a very clever trick on the American people by spec ulating, and to an extent now control so foreign a thing to Ja pan and the Japanese as the cof fee of Brazil Intended to supply the United States, the largest cof fee consuming country in the world. So there is where the trouble lies which accounts for the increased price of coffee! Our own qdmin istration went to sleep on the job and let the slick Jap put one over on us. Can we blame him? Not much! Business is business. Didn't Senator Hoke Smith and the Demo cratic cotton barons raise a howl because their raw ceftton consigned to Germany during the war was blockaded by Great Britain? But every time Mr. Householder plunges an additional five or ten cents a pound for big" coffee he should call to mind that an ossified administra tion is responsible for it in closing oft tonnage to the coffee trade and permitting Japan to rig up a corner in Brazil. It is this sort of thing— to learu that the officials of our own government are as stupid as War den's'fat boy—that hurt the shrewd Yankee worse than the increased, coffee price j "pofctttC4- IK '^IKKQAftoCcKUI _ ♦ By the Ex-Committeeman 1L , 11 With the departure of Governor Willihm C. Sproul and moßt of the state officials and the legislative leaders from Harrisburg yesterday the State Capitol settled down to the new administration and Philadel phia will be unofficially the center of the state government until next week. Governor Sproul accompanied his mother to Chester and the Sproul family will not return here for some time, it is understood, hut the Governor will spend next week here attending various meetings. The new Governor and most of the state officials will attend the dinner of the Pennsylvania State Society in New York on Saturday night. The committees in charge of the appointment of clerks and attaches of the two houses are discussing the places which will be announced when the two houses resume sessions Monday night. Most of the commit tees named Wednesday will organize next week. —Newspapers and observers of politics say that no faction or seg ment of a faction of either party Represented in the House of Repre sentatives appears to have gone un recognized by 'Spoaker Robert S. Spangler in the distribution of com mittee places and the "slate" com mittee will have to be remarkably expert to apportion the patronage of the lower branch of the Legislature in the same manner. The task ap pears to have been so well done that there are some who assume that Governor .William C. Sproul, who has a knowledge of legislators and their alignments second to no one in Pennsylvania, looked things over. The committees of the Sen ate are not different as far as chair men and make-up go from what they have been for several sessions. The places are more or less appor tioned 'by descent and Penrose men predominate. In the House, where the of tilling over 1,000 com mittee seats,' face a speaker every two years, such a pleasant arrange ment as that in the Senate is not possible. Very few- men in' recent sessions have held the chairmanship of a committee more than two or three times in succession, and ex cept for appropriations, municipal corporations and a few other com mittees of importance the member ship changes materially every two years. And even on these commit tees the men seldom stay long un less they wield unusual influence. There are a couple of committees, manufactures for instance, where the chairman is a Griest man, but the bulk of the members are Pen rose men. John R. K. Scott, a Vare man, heads ♦udiciary special, but there are a pretty fair sprinkling of Penrose and near-Penrose men, viewed from a Vare standpoint, on the committee. The municipal cor porations committee looks very much as though the friends of Senator Penrose in virions sections of the state constitute a safe work ing majority and the same is true of elections. J. A. Walker, a Vare man, heads the banking committte*. but there are a pretty fair lot of Penrose men who are members. •—People at the Capitol to-day said they thought that the much buffeted members of the State Commission of Agriculture saw the handwriting on the wall and placed their resigna tions in the hands of Governor Wil liam C. Sproul yesterday. The Gov ernor placed the resignations upon his capacious table and will act later on when his plans for a comprehen sive reorganization of the depart ment are ready. The indications are that the Commission will be abol ished and whether there will be any advisory body is problematical. The action of the Commission in resign ing was taken by all but one who could not be present and ' the ex press statement was made that it was done so as not to tie the hands of the new Governor in working out nis plans. Half an hour after he had re ceived the resignation Governor Sproul was in conference with Prof. Frederic Rasmussen, the new secre tary, for whom the Governor in con versations with callers evinces a very high regard. There were reports that Prof. Rasmussen was about to ask for seven resignations in his depart-' ment. From what was learned last night, in the event that the Fire Marshal's department disappears in the march of reorganization, Howard E. Butz, the marshal, is sure of stay ing until it does and then may go to another 'office not disclosed. Simi larly, no matter what happens, Com missioner of Fisheries Nathan R. BulJer will retain connection with the piscatorial end of the state gov ernment. The Looter Looted "The footer Looted" is the latest comedy of the Huns. The mob of Berlin has been plundering the royal and imperial palace, making a spe cialty of the wardrobes of Mr. and Mrs. Hohenzollern; some of them, with characteristic humor, leaving their *>wn soiled and tattered gar ments in place of the resplendent uniforms which thaly "cohveyed."' Practically, it will not greatly mat ter, for Mr. and Mrs. Hohenzollern are not likely hereafter to have use for their imperial trappings. Senti mentally, the thought of it must be somewhat grilling to the unwelcome guest at AmerongOn; as a reminder of the heyday of three or four years ago when his sons and other under lings were stea'ing spoons. Jewels, dresses and all other valuables they could lay their thievish "hands upon. —N. A. Review's Weekly. Wander in Thought of Thee I wander in the thought of thee As in a cloud-of perfumed air, Sweet-burdened as a homing bee With powdered gold from field and hill, y Or happy loiterer at Love's feast, Having in breast and hands and-halr Love's tender fragrance round him still As homoward through deserted'ways He turns reluctant, when the east Pales with the dawn's first azure rays. O Love, I would 'twere mine this night To sleep and, waking, find thee near— i ' - To know once more the joys 'I knew, The whispering promptifigs that in- vite, The saft endearments that ensue. Now on the staring walls down here The firelight fades; around my room The silent throbs, so still it is. From wood and moor the winds re- cede And leave them voiceless as tho tomb. How Love revives on nights like this. When Want is magnified by Need! „ r-Alan Seeger, ,i'i' 'MLr. ■: I WONDER WHAT AJHEATER BQX OFFICf MAN THINKS ABOUT By BRl(jpS M HOVS I H6RS cAieS A "HE SHOGLD Feeu " H^vew EVERYTHING- \ LOVAJ *>EISCM TO FORTUNATe H6 HAS DEPARTeO. HAVE CI/LTIVATM) ,BUV TICKET'S- To GET , HATeO To 6VEM THAT PRAMS oT J I TRUST I MAY X , L 3 n° MIND UNTIL iL\ •Be ABb= T-o PERN'-R HIM / COMMON A PERSON ATFXPFCT SUFF.TTENTLY TO HAVE TWO OFF?C£ 1 F IMPRFSS HIM WILTN WR6TC H69 SSATJ MAN I MV PORTANJCe , x lN- THe LAiT ftqwj" | | """" j " ■■ ■ ' ' * * i \ ' /'■ ■ . <'j A ■ •' , : "HORRORA' MERE " " He HAS * " NOW I SHALL 4 COM6A ANOTHER FAWTFEHTH ROW. WAS IMGO ABSGMT MYSELF * WHY Do%££!£* - THAT'S ALL-. < HE SHOULD NOT tor A T, B MP. PERSIST- ,N COMING ' AU " HopJ WA^' HCRF- TV, e y shooup ;. w* V . •.( ' . J Unhertlded Heroes [LouisvilU Courier-Journal] One of our.magazine contributors has been ruri|ing lor some weeks now a story, of the wonderful achievements $f the "Services of Supply," withikt which our armies in Europe wotd have been impo tent. His are all near to hyperbole, butio appreciative read er is stirred tothrowing up his hat and shouting "Jurrah." One simply can't wax enthigastic qver even mi racles of forethtight and energy in handling breeehs, and bacon, and shoes and bullyjeef. In like fashiotwe pass with per functory praise' the laborers in workshop and li4oratory whose in dividual contributes to ginning the war may have an army corps. Who can'imeasure, for in stance, the world of a Pittsburgh chemist who has iust been allowed to go back to job with only a few lines Cf notice in the newspaper? By single improve ment in the gas nisk he saved un counted lives and kcreased the of fensive ability of ur soldiers im measurably. 1 Who knows the Vn'entor of the new gas, "5 plus" Vhich, probably as much as anything else, demoral ized the Germans us in the Argonne? \ jT Who can recall tt* name of the < genius who perfected trie arrange ment for telephonic bmmunication ' between airplanes and the earth ? < How long shall we rdiember Lieu- i tenant Burney, whose iWention made 1 British ships of war klmost com- : pletely invulnerable td torpedo at- i tacks and destruction bl mines? i Let Pennsylvani\ Join [Front the Philadelpfy Press] The very earnest advoutes of the Federal prohibition amenTmeht have , invaded Harrisburg in ninbers and are as eager to secure tfe ratifica tion of the amendment bithe!Penn sylvania Legislature as \ough its fate was still hanging in tls balance. Prohibition won last weekJbut since ] the necessary thirty-six raifications were obtained Missouri, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Mex ico have added their appAval for . good measure. Only seven sates are j not on the record in favoiof the • amendment and there is no A-idence that they intend to contiihe ob durate. The outlook is favorthle for the unanimous approval the amendment by the entire fortl-eight states. If there is any state refusfig to make the vote unanimous it V'raly will not be Pennsylvania. Undelcon stitutional restrictions our Legisla ture cannot be stampeded inte the passing of any measure, although there may be no real opposition p it. Even the ratification of a constitu tional amendment must have its Vic cesslve readings on successive dry's, so that this state could not, if it had so wanted, have participated; in the race fof instantaneous ratiflm- 1 tion. Governor Sproul is earnest In his support of the amendment aid few members will want to oppose lss lead in a matter of this kind whe there is nothing - 'hatever to by gained by such an attitude. So let Pennsylvania Join the pr6< cession of states in this movement towards national sobriety. There are still five states to hear from. May Pennsylvania not be the last of these to come in out of the wet.. LABOR NOTES Over 40,000 men from every walk of life have been trained as ship builders by the training department connected with the l Hog Island Ship building plant at - Philadelphia. Nearly all of the Silesian coal mining district is idle, owing to the refusal of the operators to grant the demand for more wages to the miners. On account of the inability to im port tanning materials overseas, sev eral Dutch tanneries have built small extracting plants at an ex pense of about $20,000 each. ; Canadian railway employes have asked the Dpmlnion Labor Appeal Board to grant them the same rates of pay as are obtained by the em ployes of the Canadian government railways. Thousands of Machinists from the' Hazleton (Pa.) shell plant of the Worthington Corporation, who made many of the projectiles which hurl ed the Boches out of France, will go abroad in February to aid the French to rebuild their ruined bltiea. li 4 I £ The Prohibition Amendment By Theo. H, Prloc, (In Commerce and Finance) THE Prohibition Amendment is part of our fundamental law. Forty States have ratitied it, and from .the way in which the leg islatures have recently been rushing to get on the water wagon a unani mous adoption of the measure before we go to press seems possible. The amendment becomes effective one year alter its adoption, and' on January 16, 1920, the United States will be "constitutionally dry." The actual drouth will, however, have commenced earlier, for 1 under the Jones Amendment to the "Food Production Bill" passed by Congress the sale, manufacture or impprta tion of intoxicating beverages is pro hibited after June 30, 1919, "until the conclusion of the present war and thp termination of demobiliza tion, the date of which shall be de termined and proclaimed by the President." f As it is hardly possible that de mobilization will have been com pleted before the amendment be comes effective there are only one hundred and fifty-nine days left in which a drink can be lawfully pur chased in the United States. There after—not the deluge—but an qtern ity of drouth! Of course, those, wha have been forehanded enough to put aside something against a drinkless' day may_ for a time continue to be bibulous," and their fortunate friends may benefit by their prevision, but we venture the prediction that their reserves will not last long, and even if they are much larger than we think, public opinion will probably discountenance their use except upon rare occasions. • For it is undoubtedly true that the power behind the prohibition movement has been a moral force, and that since we live under a dem ocracy where the will of the major ity governs, those who attempt to defy it will be censured as unworthy of the high privileges of their citi zenship. It is idle to {issert that the State legislators have misinterpreted the will of their constituents. In Maine, under the leadership of Neal Dow, seventy-three years ago prohibition first became a political issue, and in the interval the people No Bread. Line [From the Omaha Bee] Amid the clamor of tongues' re leased when war pressure was lower ed may be heard the voice of Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, who warns us against the approach of the bread lipe. Mr.- Morrison does not read aright the signs of the tlmqs. He 'bases his statement on a "survey" privately made for him, in which the number of idle men in certain great cities, guessed at by his agents, is taken as a basis for concluding that millions are out of employment. Against this may be set the fact that midwinter, is the time in this coun try when, unemployment is always greatest. January and February are i\ot a season of outdoor activity. Fur ' ther, the redistribution of labor is only begdn and far from being ac complished. While it may' be true that idle men are to be found in the titles, it is also true that in smaller (ommunlties work is waiting for the ten to come and do It. If the coun try can weather the next six weeks, aid it probably will, the call for la br to take up the spring Jobs will be heard over the voice of the thiughtless'agitator. and the lineup at the pay office Window will be Im pbsing. i forced tq Believe in It "Jp you helieve in prohibition?" "Relieve in it!" echoed Bill Bot tleti), "I've got to believe in it. At absent it is one of the most ob vioii facts in our community?"— Frog the Washington Star. . V '' —* | TO A JANUARY Howcome you to be here Aid pipe your cheery tuns? Pray did you dream too late, Or have you dreamed too so8n? I -"-From the New York Sun. . J NeviPeril of Liquor Interests Thl liquor interests had better hurrjfcor the country will go dry and leave!some of that million dollar fund pn their hands. —From the KanCitjr Times, of the country have had abundant time to consider the question in all its aspects. The ratification of the amendment means that they have finally come to the conclusion that liquor does more harm than good, ahd that whatever abridgement of the rights and pleasure of the temperate pro hibition may involve will be more than offset by its benefits. In this view nearly all but the extremists will concur, and although lawyers may for a time attempt to thwart the enforcement of the law by a re sort to technicalities they can not long thwart the will of the people. If there are any defects of phrase ology or procedure in the means that have been 'used to suppress the liquor traffic in the United States we may be sure they will speedily be cured and most right-minded men and women will meantime re spect the spirit as well as the letter of the eighteenth amendment and the statutes that will be passed in pursuance therpof. The economic consequences of prohibition will be far reaching and difficult to discern. America's liquor bill is about two billion dollars a year. This will be saved, but against it may be iftit whatever depreciation will be caused in the value of breweries .distilleries, ate., estimated to have been worth Many of them will be converted to other uses, but putting the cost or loss of the conversion At. half their value the net gain to the comunity during the first year of prohibition will be about $1,500,- 000.000, or nearly twice the interest on a national debt of $20,000,000,000. But we are inclined to think that this saving, large as it may seem. Will prove to be the smallest portion, ofl the gain that will accrue, to so-t ciety when the men can no longer "put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains." To it' must be added the value of ths lives lengthened, the homes made happier, the> better educated children. the ereater thriftiness and the increased efficiency that sobriety will 1 bring. Who shall measure what these things Are worth in dollars? It is a realiza tion! of their immeasurable value that, has made prohibition a fact. t Material For Waste Basket 1 [Binghamton Press] There are clever politicians at Ber lin. They have ijust be&n building a paper model of the new German republic. It is An interesting' little structure. Following the American plan, they have provided for fifteen states; and New Yorkers will envy the provi sion thAt makes "Greater Berlin and its suburbs" one of the fifteen. But they dpn't stop there. Vienna and its suburbs constitute another state, "German Austria)' an other, and the "German" ' parts of Northwest Bohemia are Joined to Bavaria to make another statP. Leaving aside the fact that this United States of Germany also In cludes Schleswig,' part of which is claimed by Denmark, as well ap East Prussia, a considerable portion of which already has been occupied by the Poles, Western Europe will look twice at this cheerful proposul to take the heart out of Abstrla and sew it into the anatomy of the neW German federation. As a national unit, according,' to that plan, Germany - Itself would be actually larger and stronger than be fore the war. . This, however, is only a' paper statib, and there are clever poAtlctans at Paris as well as at Berlin. The Allied scrap basket is large enough to hold this paper model of a Ger man "republic." Judged by Home Prices According to Mr. Hoover's esti mate, it will take $400,000,000 worth of food to feed Europe's hungry un til summer comes. 'Eilther' there aren't so very many hungry in Europe or they can be carried through with very little food. —From the Boston Globe. Injustice to Average Madhouse Whoever coined the fcurrent a rase "Berlin the MadhoUse," is (lty qf-f flagrant injustice! to the average well-conducted madhouse. — From the Orleans Times-Pic- Thyself, the King The curtain falls—the play is done; And down a stormy sky of gold,/ In clouded glory pinks the sun That tp rebirth goes as of old. \ Farewell, ; great lover! Till the night Shall melt into the morning light! • As Phoenix bflllds his funeral pyre And from its ashes soars anew,- So, in thy passionate desire For life, reborn thou shalt be too. O, bird of .God, how fierce the flantte That needis must burn away the shame! As comes the one sun back to earth, And as the same bird soars again, From birth to death, from death to birth, , Still journey on the souls of men. It is for life that lovers strive And love shall keep the soul alive. Grieve not that thou must greet thy new Bright scion on its way so soon-;. in that prophetic view t Thou hast been granted thy rich boon; The king is dead—long live the king! 'Tie tor ' thyself th 4 new cheers ring —M. 13. Buhler in New York Times. Bad Telephone Beginning [From the New York Sun] It is not the conflict between state authority, and federal authority which will impair the country's wire service. With the. telegraph and tele phono sstslems in the hands of the Post Office Department, there can be little doubt that in a test the national power would override local claims to jurisdiction and regulation. iWhat is going to injure the wipe service is the same thing which has made such a poor postal service and which is demoralizing the rail serv ice. This is the incapacity of govera nicnts, national,' state or municipal, to conduct business on business lines; the impossibility of getting political managers to loqk upon a public de partment as a business institution tb be administered .only in the interest of the business performed by it and of the general public served by thut •business; the hopelessness of getting ' men in public jobs to do a day's work for a day's pay, as men in near ly all other jobs do. The low efficiency which has long disgraced the postal service is al ready showing in the railways, after only a year of go'vernmfent operation. At the very beginning <&' its manage ment under Postmasterteurleson the telephone repeats thatAlstory. The new rates, which were ti> be cheaper, are for, much of the Ring distance traffic actually dearer. The users of the service are subjected to -an In convenience which they were not compelled to undergo when the old toll system urider private ffianage ntent was constantly improved, with decreased charges from time to time, rather than increased. If before the war the*;lAmerlcan people were in favor of gtjyernment operation of the railroads ks a glow ing'theory, theix experience with it as a cold fact, if we know anything about public opinion, hii,v turned them strongly against government operation. If the telephone service makes as bad a continuation as it has made a start with the new tolls, new difficulties and new co&s, gov ernment operation of the wire busi ness will, have even less popular fa vor. The Sentinel others slept, he paced the parapet, 1 Heeding the signs and signals in the sky, Each ugly omen marked, lest "wfe . forget Our solemn duty to humanity. I Drugged by, no subtle phrase or vdly word, Of deadly makeshift studiously dty,' Ripe for the-tight when Right tnd Justlc stirred. Eager when Freedom called to an swer "Aye." Ready! The very word was madi for him, Ordained for action, thougfc the world should pause, Obstinate?'' Yes, If will and purpose! grim Seem stubborn in a fight for Tighte ous cause. Enter his name upon the muster roll, , Vitally charged with Jove'sblymplc ire, 7* < Enter his name! For his urharnessed soul Loaves with his sons th> saber of their sire Tempered in seal and patriotic fire. C, 6XLI3ERT. lEuening Cfllyat Now that folks are commencing to talk of ways to greet the boys in kahkl when they come home, it is Interesting to note the way that Har rlsburg welcomed its soldiers sons In years gone by and the interest the people of the place took in the celebrations. During the long strug gle for the Independence of the col- ' onies, Harris Ferry was a depot and* we have nothing to tell of the way the men were mudc to feel at home., Philadelphia newspapers mention in brief paragraphs that some of the", old organizations returned after the surrender of Cornwallls and prob ably some of our people were among them, altholigh nrost of those who went from /here woie militia. The return of men from later wars, how- Over, was marked by noisy demon strations, some of which we re member , from Spanish-American War days, and others dating from 1865, are fresh in the minds of those who have heard veterans tell of them. Harrisburg has always been most generous of its weloome to its soldiers and there will be nothing lacking when the organizations come back from service abroad. The expression of feelings will be as •spontaneous as when they marched to the station to take trains for camps. ♦ • The earliest record of return of soldiers is of men who volunteered for the defense of Baltimore and the ejection of the British from .Wash ington in the War of 1813. The Chronicle of December 12 1814 says: "On Thursday* (four days before), the volunteer com panies of Captain Walter and. Cap ,a,\ e**n. of this place, returned j homes after having perform ed a tour of three months and up wards at Baltimore. They marched through the town and were dismiss ed in the diamond." |V The "diamond" referred to was probably Market Square. It was the ,piace where the companies Used to [hold muster day and where various demonstrations were held. The cap tains were ancestors of some well known residents of Harrisburg and in the companies, whose names have wll!'??' 611 by local historians a "' on state rolls were a number of f^nna^ 08 ™family names are to be found in Harrisburg to-day. This War m A? a rcglment into the War Of 1812 when it was called upon and the British attacking Fort McHenry brought the war home. The response was as hearty as half a thnnri? L at f r , when Lee ' B cannon thundered in the Cumberland Val e Bodes got within sight of anna and fought Couch's 8 ba >°nd Camp Hill. Other companies went as far as York and st°m e nH° Mastm ancl Dlx °n's line, still others served under Brown In navv Ca h^H U ' enB ,n u Cnnada and the ♦hi- a " uniher of men from this section in the battles which made the Stars and Stripes respect ed. References in later newspapers ar f re ' ul '" of soldiers and the interests of the men who had vol unteered were as valiantly protect- L , eglsla turo then starting to hold sessions here as ever were 0 „ 8e Pf , th ®, men of 1865 or "18. flna ' orders of General John M. i i hiS f ity ' who cpmmand ed a brigade of Pennsylvanians at. Baltimore have come down to us. J The order is addressed York De 1' * Bl , 4 ' and is to the brieadc • which included the companies of Captains Walker and Crain. It is strikingly like some of .the orders which we have heard of lately. He compliments them for discipline, for endurance and for meeting with good spirit 'the hardships and lack of supplies, while he hita, a note which must appeal to the men of 1918 when lie says that he has seen , with pleasure "The cheerfulness with which the disappointment in not being paid for the whole service performed was borne by the officers and men of his brigade." The good order of .the march from Baltimore to York is complimented in high terms, but he seems to forecast these days when he says: "On the return of the troops'to their homes an<j accustomed occupations and aghln irtixing with the pursuits and occurrences of civil life to reflect on the events of the campaign cannot but yield them pleasure and .con solatiop for the hardships and pri vations tliey endured. It will have created new associations of friend ship among the gentlemen'of all ranks in the brigade and will draw closer those previously formed. It will disseminate through a portion of opr state correct notions of the duties of an officer and a soldier and a mass of information on mili tary subjects that may be Tiigjily ftisefnl in the crfeis of public affairs that appear to be approaching." • • k The city's representation in the Mexican War was the , Cameron (guards, formed by E. C. Williams, later a general, from the Dauphin Guards and other home companies and mobilized where the building of the Harrisburg Telegraph stands TWs company left here December i 6; 184?, for Pittsburgh, Where'it was mustered in on January 2, 1848. It-returned to Harrisburg In July aifd the newspapers say that 'the men, thinned In numbers by hard ships of the campaign with Scott, "Were welcomed with every demon stration of Joy." The company was niftrched through the streotA, hav ing left tha train at Market street and while hells rang and cannon flred in Capitol Park, were led to the space just east of the Capiiol. That was close to Fourth street and where, the east wing now stands. There from the Capitol steps Edward A. Lesley formally welco.med them home apd the company and the cit izens sat down to a dinner, provided by public subscription. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Ex-iifayor Ira W. Stratton, who is taking, an active part in the third class city legislation, formerly serv ed In the Legislature. —Colonel Edward Martin, the new health commissioner, is very fond of golf. —Charles Ingham Is head of the Pittsburgh arhltects who 'desire .a registration act. —Fi H. Fassett, who , has been head of the State Horticultural As sociation, lives at Meshoppen, and lis a big fruit grower. ft ■ m: ■>.' i_ 1 DO YOU KNOW 1 ,—That Harrisburg lias been en tttsjatiilng some of the greatest crowds It ever had the last year? HARRISBURG One of the first buildings used for an artnory was in Market street nee# ... * J
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