8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TEE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE; TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqmare E. J. STACKPOLE ' President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager ExecmtlTe Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLKSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern of flo e. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley. People's Gas Building, i Chicago, lIL Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a STtJftll?.;* week; by mail, 13.00 a year in advance. Human improvement is from tcithin outuard.—Froude. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919 SOLDIER INSURANCE THE life Insurance underwriters of Harrisburg are to be com mended for their prompt action In defense of soldiers' insurance. This protection is the cheapest In the world and the discharged soldier who permits it to lapse will live to see the day he will regret his failure to hold on to the best bargain In life insurance ever offered. It is a small trick for any insur ance agent to get men to part with these policies in exchange for others. The Harrisburg underwriters may miss a few dollars by their liberal action, but they will make it up, and more, by the confidence young men whose government policies they have saved will place In them. In the long run they will be gredtly the gainers. TRACKWORKERS TRACKWORKERS of the Penn sylvania railroad threaten to ■ strike unless certain demands ore met by the railroad administra tion. With respect to the merits of these demands the Telegraph knows nothing. But this much may be said for the track men —they are the hardest worked and poorest paid employes in the service of the rail roads. It has always been so. They have been classed as unskilled labor and paid accordingly. But in reality a competent track hand must possess an unusual degree of train ing with pick, sledge and bar. A brakeman may be trained in a third the time it requires to produce a competent trackworker. Yet the brakeman always has commanded much higher wages. At last, how ever. the track hand apparently has set out to "get his." ONLY ONE LANGUAGE THE Legislature should pass without delay the four b[lls presented In the House Mon day night by Mr. Bolard, of Craw ford, providing for the repeal of the law requiring the publication of cer tain state and legal advertising in the foreign language press. The bills are aimed primarily at Ger man newspapers, but they will hit all newspapers printed in languages other than English. Mr. Bolard's intention is to withdraw public patronage from Journals that do not use the common language of the country and in this he will have the support of all good Americans. Why ehould the State support newspapers, for example, whose publishers were arrested on charges of treason dur ing the war. This Is an English preaching country and to encourage the use of other language is but to create confusion and give oppor tunity for the spread of foreign pro paganda. STANDARD RAILROADS IT should not have required the testimony of an expert to have convinced the railroad adminis tration of the folly of attempting the standardization of railroad rolling stock the country over. It ought to have been evident to even the most Inexperienced that equipment, par ticularly locomotives, suitable for one part of the country would be en tirely unfit for similar service In dif ferent fuel altitudes, on different grades, using different fuel and oper ating under different circumstances in other localities. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which for many years has been acknowl edged to be the standard railroad of the world, uses many types of loco motives In Its various departments, and on Its several divisions. For ex ample, the big engines that carry the excursionists at ninety miles an hour across the flat, low country of New Jersey would be entirely un suitable for use on the mountain grades of the' Alleghenys, and the WEDNESDAY EVENING. light passenger locomotive which satisfactorily hauls the Binglevllle accommodation would be entirely out of place attempting to pull one of the suburban expresses out of Philadelphia or New York. What we need in railroad admin istration is a little more common sense and not so much theoretical standardization. A SHAKEUP NEEDED JUST what is. back of the tempest in a teapot that Is at present stirring the police department Is not apparent. Certainly It does ap pear as though the acceptance of thirty cents reward nearly a year ago by a patrolman for a service rendered would appear to be small ground for dismissal In the light of other offenses of both omission and commission that even & surface In vestigation of the department would bring to light. Not that policemen ought to be permitted to accept money, but that where such petty graft Is punished more serious mis demeanors ought not to be over looked. The recent vice raid Is an exam ple. It is a suspicious circumstance, to say the least, that the Federal agents were able to fill a whole courtroom with offenders on .one evening in a city where the local police had failed to find even one place of 111 repute. And in support of the suspicion that all of the police and city detectives could not have been ignorant of these deplorable conditions, it is recalled that the police of the city declined to make the arrests when the information was offered to them by Federal in vestigators. And then the question arises. If some of the officers were aware of conditions and did not act, and the heads of the department refused to clean up after the Government had offered Its assistance, what is back of their unwillingness to do their duty? Were they simply criminally negligent, or had they a monetary interest In the protection of the speakeasies and brothels? No reflection has been cast upon Mayor Kelster's honesty or fairness since he took office. It has been generally believed that he has been handling his office to the best of his ability. But he has reached the place where he must go deeply into the affairs of the police department or be content to accept whatever criticism the public has to offer for his laxity. There are good men In the depart ment; policemen of whom any city might be proud. But there are of ficers protected by the civil service law who ought to be dismissed. A probe of the whole department is in order. Charges that police take bribes, that they overlook crime and that they drink while on duty or come to work with liquor on their breath are not to be passed over lightly, even when made by a dis missed patrolman. Mayor Kelster, if he expects to retain the confidence of the public, should shake up the whole department, place the stamp of approval upon those who have done their duty and get rid of the incompetents and worse. MORE SURRENDER A PROMINENT Democratic newspaper publishes a long news dispatch from Buenos Aires saying that the United States is losing trade in South America. Among other things, the dispatch says that at least a score of .ships loading for Souh America are idling in United States harbors and that "month after month has passed and there have been no ships, nothing except words." America has taken a back seat and competitors are grabbing all the trade. Well, what else could you expect under an administration that has {alien down In almost every Instance where American Interests are at stake? But why didn't the Demo cratic press acknowledge the facts before the recent elections? NO PEACE FOR HANK HENRY FORD'S cohtest of the election of ffruman H. New berry to the Senate shows that Henry does not yet appreciate the fact that the people of Michigan prefer a first-class fighting man to a pacifist. Newberry as commander of a fighting ship was much prefer able to the captain of the ship that ealled for Europe In 1914 to "get the boya out of the trenches by Christmas.'* t '■' j ' fditlct- U ' ! I>e.n.K4^Wtta1 > e.n.K4^Wtta By tho Ex-Oommlttccman j One of the features of the 1919 session of the Legislature which appears to be attracting comment among the members and people "who follow general assemblies. Is that the session is so well on. While there is, naturally, a good bit of a disposition to "wait and see what Sproul is going to do'' about the average legislator, there is nev er-tho-less, much satisfaction at the progress made. The committees have all been named and the places filled and less growling than usual is heard. The presiding officers of the two houses seem to have handled that feature of their work with the advice of J omo good men and the results Jus tify the return to tho old method and people look back on the session °k ® when the House confided that work to a committee with con siderable shuddering. The decision to put the usually trouble liquor legislation to the front has a good bit to do with this situation and the calls of the Gov ernor and tho presiding officers for sessions that will be business-like appear to have fallen upon atten tive ears. The Senate has over eighty bills in hand and the House oyer 100. Committees are already at work and the deficiency bill la up to the Senate. -The Walker bill to put non partisan Judicial election law off the books was affirmatively reported by the House Judiciary General Com ,T\ u Ce yesterda y afternoon along with the Allegheny county two Judge bill, —The fact that the state depart ment has been working under a sal ary law dating from about 1879, and that men of value have gone to other departments or other occu pations because of the "poor pay seems to have Impressed legisla tors. Judging from comments heard. The plan of reorganization of the department with system in its bu reaus is generally commended. —Chief Justice J. Hay Brown was among visitors to the Capitol yesterday. Ho conferred with a number of officials. Superior Court Judge W. H. Keller was also a vis itor. —Governor Sproul is quoted by the Pittsburgh Dispatch as spying in Washington that he would not be displeased if a bill reducing the Public Servieo Commission came to him. —James H. Yeager, former mem ber from Mifflin and later United States marshal, visited Represen tative C. G. Corbin yesterday. —Another House visitor was ex- Representative William Conner, now register of wills of Allegheny. —Senator Penrose remarked that the Pinchot letter was hardly dig nified enough to merit answer, and what lie did say in comment was hot. The impression is that Pin chot has a senatorial boom for 1920 buzzing around. —The recommendations of the State Board of Public charities are being awaited with interest in view of the investigations made as to the service actually rendered and the disposition of the Governor to make its recommendations as his guide in appropriation approvals. The board is getting the position to which it is entitled and which it was promised In 1915. —The House roads committee got started yesterday. "We are going to work with the Governor and highway commissioner in road mat ter," said Chairman George W. Williams. —"Tuesday must be a black day In Dr. Brumbaugh's life. He lost two Jobs in one week, both on Tues day," remarked a man at the Cap itol last night. "He went out of of fice on Tuesday and yesterday the war service place was revoked." This caused the remark that he lost both in the places where he had gotten them. | —The Legislation for physical education in all schools to be a part of the required work with optional military training is being drawn up by Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of education for early submission. THE WAIL OF THE LOST J [From the New York Sun.] hese ringing words are from a speech delivered by the attorney for a brewers association: "The Anti-Saloon League may rant and kick up the dust, but they cannot make the people deaf or blind to the obvious and unanswer able arguments against ratification of the national prohibition amend ment." The arguments that are "obvious and unanswerable" appear to have little weight with the State Legisla tures. Yesterday six states, Alabama, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina and Arkansas, ratified the bone dry amendment to the Con stitution, bringing the total number of State Legislatures that have thrust the spear into the Demon thirty. Six more states in Jine will make the whole country dry- No ranting and kicking up of dust has been responsible for all his. The evil effect of the corner ginmill on the peace and prosperity of the American home has been the cause of the sweep of sentiment against liquor. No matter* how Innocent the drinks of small alcoholic content may be, the Legislatures are not stopping to protest that the tall must not go with the hide. The brewers aided the distillers by back ing the saloons where whisky and gin, as wel las beer, were sold. If the brewers had fought the distillers as hard as they fought the anti-sa loon people there might not now be a prohibition amendment to be vot ed on. But that opportunity is past. Lincoln's Spirit Hardened 'Gene Debs throws out the hint that he Is another Lincoln. But It does not matter. The great liberator is probably so accustomed to such things by this time that he has quit turning over in his grave.—From the Toledo Blade. . Filipinos Show Capacity The Filipinos arise to remark that they,'- too, would like full freedom, but are willing to wait our conven ience. That spirit alone, shows a capacity for self-determination that many others might emulate.—From the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Washington's Mysteries How are the successors to Mc- Adoo and Gregory going to live In Washington on those insufficient salaries? —From the Nashville Ten nesseean. HAJRJUSBURG TELEGRAPH: WONDER WHAT A TEN MONTHS OLD BABY THINKS ABOUT By BRIGGS HERE* "THAT SILLY " <SHAKE <T AMO " I'AA ALWAYS GT_M> ../J ES FRF OLO RATTLE I GOT MAKE. A NOISE VUITM \AJHCRJ SUM.DAY LIUTOO -U R>R CHRISTMAS ' T JLIST TO PLEASE COMES SO I CAM <SO SOMEPLACE^ I S'FTIS'E IVE GOT HUM. WHY MOT HAWE A LOT IA FUIO To PLAY WTH •**" HUMOR HIM -WE WITH DAD \A/HlLs= IR II L OFFEND DOES N'T GET MUCH MOTHER KJ SISTER MY DAD -HE SAUG ° UT OF LIFE - „ GO TO A CHORCH" FFR .ETM*" WORKS N^"TS 1-I.MCA C-JH F OH- B V-TE-W " T„£ S H JT- T !?R £ ,R LEARUEO To CREEP \AJH6M DO IA/E EAT!; , DIDN'T. I JUST IT SEE A LOT OF "&■ WAMT6D To HT THS , THTT "WORLD, IT MAKES X ° LO BO OI U 5 • P^ E IJ.R ONE MORE INDEPENDFLUT | Governor's Brave Undertaking [From the Philadelphia Ledger] If Governor Sproul shall succeed in the undertaking to which he is said to have thus early applied him self, namely, the placing of State appropriations to public institutions and charities upon a definite basis of service rendered, he will have performed a service to the State of | incalculable importance, morally, financially and politically. He will have put an end to the gross scan dals attending the log-rolling and intimidation which have for years attended the allotment of public funds to the support of public, semi publio- and, private institutions, be sides which he will stop a waste that runs into millions, and he will trans fer a burden of support for many institutions to where it properly be longs, that is, to the resources of private benevolence. How the Governor is going to bring about this great and long needed reform remains to be devel oped; but ho is proceeding along logHJafrjines when ho proposes to strengthen the hands of the State Board of Charities and to make it what It was originally Intended to be, an investigating and advisory body, with broad powers and with a standing which will compel atten tion to its recommendations on the part of the Legislature. For many years the reports of this board have been a sorry joke. Its members and employes went through the motions of investigating the needs of insti tutions asking State aid, made their recommendations of the amounts to be allotted and then the Legislature j calmly ignored its findings and al lotted the funds by the usual method of favoritism, political chicanery, intimidation, bargaining and graft. The appropriations were held as a club over the heids of managers and directors, preventing them from too great activity in the direction of clean politics or municipal, reform; they were used openly to'keep in line members of the Legislature dis playing too rash a tendency to in dependence of judgment on pending measures, and they have invariably been allotted without regard to the available resources of the treasury. There are so many ramifications of this ugly business that only the high lights can bo touched here. But there is one aspect which ought to recevp more attention than has been given it. One baleful result of the Pennsylvania system of aid for charities has been the multiplication of unnecessary institutions; but worse still, it has had the effect of drying up to a large extent the springs of private benevolence. Many worthy homes, asylums and hos pitals are in dire need today, ip part because of the falling off of their contributors and in part because of the increaso in the costs of admin istration. There are self-respecting Institutions, like the Pennsylvania Hospital, which refuse to go under the yoke of political patronage and ask for and receive no State aid whatsoever; but these suffer with the others through the pernicious influences growing out of the lavish and indiscrlminating use of public moneys ought to be made in definite which ought to look solely to private funds. It is true that many of these institutions perform a service which would otherwise become a tax on public funds; but In that case the apportionment of the taxpayers' moneys ought to b made in definite proportion to the service performed. The Governor will have the hearty support of all right-minded people in his effort to abolish the evils of the present system, and he is prob ably well aware that he'will have at the same time the active opposition of those politicians who have looked upon these appropriations as one of their most useful instruments for the coercion and oppression of the spirit of independent thinking. LABOR NOTES American shipyards built 1882 vessels of 2,721,281 gross tons during 1918. The engineers' trades, which In clude mr chinists in England has de clared for a 46-hour week. Lancashire (Eng.) cotton worker® have been granted a wage increase amounting to practically 50 per cent. Over 25,000 people'are'employed in the salmon canning Industry In the State' of Washington. The salaries pf women school teacher® In Pennsylvania. Increased 29 per cent." d unrig the last year. The "Pocketbook Theory" Made the Nation Dry THIRTY years ago a young pro fessor from out of the West went to the University of Kan sas as a member of the teaching staff. He waited long -enough to get his bearings and then made his bow to a Kansas City audience as a lecturer. His subject was booze, although it was more fitly phrased as "The Eco nomic Phase of the Liquor Prob lem." In that lecture the young profes sor said: "The settlement of the temperance question rests not alone in morals, nor alone in politics, but in eco nomics." * It was a new idea and the tem perance workers were all but scan dalized, while the temperance lec turers shook their heads in doubt. But the young professor was not discouraged. He was full of confi dence in his theory and full of en thusiasm over it. He continued to lecture and write about it, and twen ty years ago this month he stood be. fore the State Temperance Union in Topeka, and amplified his first state ment by the prophecy: "Once convince people that the liquor traffic destroys the power of labor, wastes their property, con sumes the result- of their years of toil and degenerates sociul life, and the control of this gigantic evil, by legislation will be certain." The young professor, Frank Wil son Blackmar, saw his prophecy ful filled when the thirty-sixth state to [ adopt the Federal constitutional amendment against booze assured a dry nation a few days ago. Pointing to the Pocketlxiok. The temperance lecturers had pic tured the horrors of drink and the temperance workers had appealed to the morals of their communities, but still the selling of booze had gone on. When a drunken brute beat his wife so badly that she could not go out washing the next day to earn money to buy him more booze, the good people of that day sighed and said: "It's too bad; he's such a kind husband when he's sober." And when one man shot and killed another in a drunken brawl the jury gravely decided that .having been In toxicated at the time, the s'ayer, I who was a good sort when he was "at himself," should be permitted to go free after a few months in the county jail or a year or two in the state penitentiary at the most. But when a college professor, without oratory, without appealing to their emotions, recited column af ter column of dry figures showing what the liquor evil was costing them in dollars and cents, the pub lic began to think. "Our pocketbooks are hit, and we haven't known It," they exclaimed in surprise, and the pocketbook theory sounded the knell of the liquor traffic. The young professor, whose hair now has turned gray and who has acquired added dignity with the years, today is head of the depart ment of sociology and is dean of the gruduate school at the University of Kansas. "It was the economic argument which knocked out booze," he said in his office at the K. U. administra tion building a day or two ago. "When thoj public realized the actuul waste and the expenditure for which they got no return, the dry move ment spread over the country rapid iy. "But I would be tho last to min imize the splendid work done by the churches, the W. C. T. U. and the temperance organizations. They did the pioneering, and when the time came'they turned the economic ar gument to good account. Their share in the anti r booze victory Is a large one, which must not be overlooked." Hint 20-year Old Lecture. 'Dean B'ackmar drew from an old portfolio the manuscript of the lec ture he delivered at Topeka twenty years ago. It set out the burden to the community Imposed by liquor— the maintenance of jails, prisons, re formatories, asylums, homes for the feeble minded, hospitals and the like. The old figures as figures mean nothing now, since the totals grow with every year, but they show ed that the revenues received from the liquor traffic did not begin to ofTset the tax on the community. Then he Set out the impairment of -the earning power of the man who drank. "His value to the commun ity," ho argued, "is measured by the amount he earns over his cost of liv ing extended over the period of his earning capacity, say; an average of SIO,OOO. The man who drinks short ens his working life increases his liv ing expenses, lowers lis earning pow ers and so becomes of no economic value whatever to the community." And as the drunkard's children, in heriting a weakened vitality, whi<fli made them ready victims to such diseases as epilepsy, scrofula and In sanity, they perpetuated the burden, he argued. Even more forcible was his showing that the immense capi tal and labor force employed in the distilling and brewing industry was j used to an end which not only was of no real benefit to the world, but a terrible detriment. "You might as well insist that, because a fire which destroys a business block makes business for the lumber deal er, the brick manufacturer, the plumber, the carpenter, tho plaster er and the painter, it would be a fine thing to burn down the whole town," he said. Just a plain, straightforward pre sentation of ugly facts, backed up by figures, was that old lecture, but it started a new line of attack on booze. RUSSIAN PROTESTS [From the Philadelphia Press.] For whom do they speak, these Russian leaders who object to the Peace Conference's proposal that the Bolsheviki, along with all other Russian factions, should attend the j meeting at Princes' Island. A for mer Russian premier and a former foreign minister make these objec tions, but it is not clear that they represent a considerable body of Russians or reflect a considerable faction of Russian opinion. It should be clear to every Rus sian leader from President Wilson's frank statement of jftinciples on Thursday that alien influence or power will be employed to the ad vantage of no separate faction in that unfortunate land. The Rus sians themselves must ohoose their government. The Associated Pow ers are concerned only with giving the Russian people this opportunity of free choice. Once the choice is fairly made support and encourage ment and material aid to the new government will be forthcoming. Hence any Russian leader who blocks that proposed meeting ?>r who refuses to participate in it puts himself out of court. The recent statement of the French foreign minister may have given certain Russian actions false hopes that they would bo forcibly elevated to power. But France now stands with America and England on the principle that eyery Russian party must appeal to the suffrages df the Russian people and not to the favor of alien governments. The disapproval of Sazonoff and Lvoff will not therefore constitute a setback to the Allied plan of con ciliation. If these gentlemen are well advised thep will reconsider their decision hot to participate. The meeting will go on with them or without them. IIIS DREAMS I wonder when the Kaiser rests Upon his carven bed. With quilts of silk and eiderdown About him softly spread, And night and silence round him 1 weave, A curtain shutting out The troubles of a tlironeless King, Just what he dreams about. Does slimy Seaweed bind his brow, As in the gloomy deep It twines the grewsome relics where The U-boat victims sleep? And In a super-nightmare does He writhe and sweat to hear A murdered baby's feeble moan, A woman's cry of fear? For sleep and death twin brothers are, , , • And sleep to him reveals A "movie" of his punishment In twenty-seven reels, When he will find no rest or peace Though grasses o'er him sprout; I would not like to see the things The Kaiser dreams about! —Minna Irving, in New York Herald. R. R. Situation Summarized As we view the situation, nobody wants the railroads, but nobody wants anybody else to have them. — Chicago News. JANUARY 29, 1919. I EDITORIAL COMMENT [: WASHINGTON'S POSITION "Europe has a set of primary in terests. which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent con troversies. the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by ar tificial ties, in the ordinary vicissi tudes of her politics, or the ordi nary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. "Our detached and distinct sit uation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. It we re main one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far distant when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when Wi may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupiously respected; when bellig erent nations, under the impossibil ity of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of such a peculiar situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by inter-weaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rival ship,, interest, hu mor or caprice?" The above is quoted' from Presi dent Washington's farewell address of September 17, 1796, refusing a second re-election. Was he seliish, or wus he an AMEIIICAN states man? AM EPIC AN. 1 RETURNING TO NORMAL [From the Phil'a. Inquirer] I Governor Coolidge, of Massaohu i setts, is one of those who believe i that the way to get back to normal business conditions is to go right back and stop talking aboyt it. He deplores the tendency to "mark time," while admitting that the question of the supply of raw ma terial is a serious one for the manu facturer. "Everybody," he says, vis waiting for somebody else to act fli;st, They are all ready to follow the leader." But the Bay State Governor believes the sooner we start the easier and better it will be for all concerned. Many business men are waiting either for a decline in prices or a guarantee that present | prices are to be maintained. Either | one would help to make things hum. "Why wait longer?" asks the Gover nor. If the plunge is made now, he l'cels Hint the decline will be grad ual and will not seriously affect any body. But whatever may be thought of private enterprise there is no reason why public officials who have the j power should not speed HP construc tion worx all along the line. It is ' admitted that the railroads are in need of rolling stock and that im provements must be started if they are going to give the public the sort of service to which it is entitled. Yet we hear of the abandonment of many projects that had already been started. Pennsylvania Railroad im provements in this district, involving the expenditure of many millions, have either been cast aside or halt ed by direction of the Railroad Ad ministrator. The effect is discour aging. If this necessary work—and it is admittedly necessary—should go ahead, it would mean employ ment, not only on the railroad, but In factories and workshops. In a word, the Federal government has the opportunity of taking the lead in the return to normal conditions. If the States would go ahead with construction work wherever possi ble, it would contribute to the gen eral welfare. It is gratifying to note that some of them are going ahead regardless of the Federal govern ment and private enterprises. Mas sachusetts is one of them. Penn sylvania is another. Governor Sproul in his inaugural address outlined some of the possibilities. One of these related to road building. Cities, towns and villages have the power and the means to begin construc tion work. Most of them have here tofore been tied down by war re strictions. These restrictions, for the most part, have been removed. Bet public work start and private enterprises will enthusiastically fol low. We must not mark time indefi nitely. An army of the unemployed would mean hardship. As wus once said of specie payments, "the way ! to resume is to resume," iEumttg (Eljat 'The unusually mild weather tha has prevailed during January ha been the direct means of Increas Ing Harrisburg's coal supply b many tons not only through the ship ment from slocks which have n( been hard hit by orders and tn lack of demand here, but becaus the river coul llect has been abl to operate. The strange spoctacl of coul dredges working in the char nels near the small islands and ba® and of the steamers frisking abov in the middle of January .in the Sus quehanna has beon presented an has boon much commented upo; T his mild spell has been a groa thing for us" said the captain c one of the upper squadron who ha had long experience. "It is on of the few times in winter that w have been able to work and the re suit lias been that we ha\% gotte out many tons for the electric an oilier plants. Wo have also stocke ttp > a lot of coal against any har spell, which will probably com along when none of us expects 1 The down river boats have bee busy too. some of them going clea to Highspire. We have been goin up to Rockville falls and a fai quality of coal has been taken out. From what the river men say th high water at various times sine the season, as it is termed, close on December 1, brought down lot of coal. Some of the boats were tie up in December as the usual rc pairs were to be made, but whe the river remained open the wor on fixing up the dredges and flat and steamers was hastened an January has seen more activity tha known on the broad waters of th Susquehanna at this point tha known for years. Literally thou sands of tons of coal will be reclaim ed this winter which would ordi narily not have been taken out ur til spring, while preparations hav been made to supply sand for th building and other operations wlilc are expected to boom this summe in Ilarrisburg and vicinity. • * * The visit of William Jennlng Bryan to Harrisburg last niglit re "called the early visits of the Ne brasltan to this city. The flrst tim the Congressman, as he was the known, was in Harrisburg wus rigl after his nomination in 1896. II was here for half an hour on his wa to "the enemy's country" as he ha termed New York and he spok from the train platform and then th station portico. He attracted muc attention and .immediately uft< Free Silver Leagues were forme and a campaign of discussion tin often got into rariflod atmospliei followed in many places in Harri; burg. Next the Man from the We: came in 1900 when lie appeared I have taken on flesh and he lecture here at various times. In 1908 was a very robust, but none the lei silver tongued Bryan who was her A few yearss ago he came to Ha risburg as Secretary of State an spoke in the hall of the House . the fcapitol. a dignified and eloquci Bryan. He seemed to liavo lo none of Ills old time ginger la night. • * The boys do not seeni to be lor about taking advantage of anythir in the way of a chance to play. Win the State Policemen were here f< ♦he inauguration their horses wei cared for In tents in Capitol Pai extension. There was a lot of stra scattered about. Yesterday tl sspace was a baseball diamond ar one of the first games of the ye; was being played on the site of it old National hotel. "It's a dali field" sr.id one boy. "The stra takek up the mud and we can't g hurt." • • One of the conductors of the Ha risburg Railways Company docs ni stand any nonsense and he does n get any. He is just back from ove seas and he wears a couple of che rons on his sleeve. He is very muc on the Job and the passengers see: to like it. • Ex-Governor Frank B. Willis, Ohio, who delivered an address he last night with William Jennin Bryan on the march of prohibilio paid a notable tribute to the la Congressman Marlin 13. Olmsted a dinner given before his addre; Officers of the Anti-Saloon Leag gave a dinner to the legislative co respondents at the Penn-Harris. t: two eminent speakers being gnes of honor. In the course of a d llglitful talk on people he had m in Congress Governor Willis sa "One of the ablest men I knew Congress and one whose great ab ity was recognized by everyone w the man who represented the Ha risburg district for years. I me; Mr. Olmsted. It was my good fo tune to have a seat next to him pa of the time. When you got to kne him he was a charming man and was sorry indeed he dccid to leave Congress/' J." Horace McFarland, head of t Chamber of Commerce Hons! Committee, is compiling a report all the housing developments in I for the use of the ilarrisburg cot mittee. Ail the good points will used to provide study for the loc committee and all of the tailui and bad points will be summed in order that they may be avoid in Harrisburg. Mr. McFarland the course of the coming month w visit personally all of the plat where developments of the kind a under way and as a government rt resentative is able to get all fi hand information.' It is believ that the committee when it iina gets down to work will have mc complete data than was ever plac at' the hands of a similar commttl at the outstart. r W&L KNOWN"PEOPLE —Dr. H. D. Heller, the quarantl physician at Philadelphia and former senator, was here yesteri for a time. Ex-Representative William Wal of Philadelphia, spent a day he —Adjutant General Frank Beary, who is in Washington militia affairs, is working on so military training bills. —Senator William E. Crow, Untontown, entered the Senate J a dozen years ago. T do you" know —That Harrisburg's course Capitol Park improvements is bed watched with Interest by mi cities? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In early days church services u to be held under trees in aumi tltn
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