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We would have misery cease
Yet toil! not cease from sin.
—Matthew Arnold.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1818
CUT THROATS
THE Peace Conference has
stooped to commerce with cut
throats. The unthinkable has
happened. As well traffic with the
Kaiser himself as with Trotzky and
Lenlne. What can be back of the
disgraceful agreement to meet wit
this pair of outlaws?
Americans who have stood aghast
at the crimes of the Bolshevikl can
not but wonder at this latest move
of the Paris delegates. What can
President Wilson mean to agree to
confer with a party of renegades
beside whose tyrannies the crimes
of the Kalesr pnle to snowy white
ness. Anything can happen in
Paris .after this and we shall not ho
surprised.
What pledges of good faith can
t heso terrorists carry to the Princess
Islands? As well trust Jesse James
at a convention of unarmed bank
ers.
No, there can be no such thing as
civilization covenanting with bar
barity. Crime and virtue cannot sit
at the same table and virtue remain
unstained. Democracy and autoc
racy are utterly foreign. We can
not fight to make democracy safe
for the world one day and the next
agree to recognize the validity of
the most outrageously autocratic
form of mlsgovernment ever foisted
upon a helpless people.
MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
THE fact that the Democrats
have put a candidate for the
State Senate into the field will
cause the friends of Frank A. Bmlth,
the Republican nominee, no anxiety.
Mr. Smith's election Is as certain as
anything political can be. Not only
is he much better known through
out the city and county than lilb op
ponent, but ho has at his back the
normally big Republican majority
of Dauphin county, and this is a
normal year. The Republicans were
never more harmonious nor better
organized than now, and Mr. Smith
has the full and unstinted backing
of both the organization and the
rank and file of the party.
The Democrats, on the other hand,
are sadly disorganized. There is no
leadership in this city or county
worth the name. The former boss
has deserted his old machine and it
has gone to pot. At least twenty
districts throughout the county are
not even represented on the county
committee and there is serious divi
sion in the remnant of a committee
as it does exist. The candidate
nominated yesterday was led to the
slaughter. He will get his name on
the ticket and in the papers, and
that is about all.
A PROPER PROTEST
THE more we see of Governor
Sproul, the more we admire
him. He is a man of action.
He has the courage of his convic
tions.
His letter to Secretary of Labor
Wilson yesterday protesting against
a general advance in freight rates
on materials that go into road con
struction at a time when the federal
government is urging the resump
tion of public work in order to pro
vide Jobs for returning soldiers and
employment for men released by
munition factories, raises a very per
tinent point.
Governor Sproul has decided (hat
Pennsylvania shall get her road
program under way at the earlidbt
possible moment and, if possible,
$25,000,000 will be put into perma
nent highways in this State the
coming year. This will materially
nid in stabilizing business and in
caring for the needs of labor.
But the Governor does not mean 1
that an undue amount of the State's i
road fund* shall be poured the i
coffers of the Ebderal Railroad Ad- I
SATURDAY EVENING,
ministration In order that it may
thereby tax the Commonwealth to
make up for some of the deficits it
has created through extravagant
management.
WHAT KIND OF A HOME?
RESPONDING to the question,
What shall we substitute for
the saloon? the Rev. B. H. Niebel,
of the United Evangelical Church,
replies unhesitatingly:
"The home."
Very good. "Homekeeping hearts
are happiest," we are told; but
what kind of a home shall we sub
stitute for the dramshop?
There Is all too much truth in the
saying that "the saloon is the poor
man's club," and thousands of men
have been attracted thither as much
by the bright lights, the warmth and
the opportunity for sociability as by
the desire to drink. Drinking for
them has been a secondary consid
eration at first, although all too fre
quently the first consideration at
last.
Frequenters of saloons have come,
many of them, from dirty, insani
tary, overcrowded homes —places so
drab and drear that they offer no
inducement to the cultivation of
family life. We must improve our
housing conditions if we want folks
to stay at home evenings. But,
unfortunately, while we are talking
housing improvements, such changes
for the better are slow in developing,
while prohibition is just around the
corner. So we must look elsewhere
than to the small and ofttimes
tumble-down home to replace the
saloon, at least until every family
shall have been provided with a
decent place in which to live. Many
agencies will be utilized —the
churches, church clubs, the T. M.
C. A., the T. W. C. A., social cen
ters, community clubs —what not?—
and all of these, working together,
will tend toward betterment of
housing conditions by lifting the
people to new desires and prompting
them to demand the kind of homes
to which they are entitled.
Dr. Niebel is right. The home Is
the ultimate substitute for the
saloon, but there are intermediate
steps that must be taken for the
benefit of those people whose homes
now are mere mockeries of the
word.
GADSOOKS, SIR JOHN!
THE announcement that General
Pershing appears in the British
"Who's Who" as "Sir" causes
somo curiosity as to how it will be
received by certain "original Per
shing" men who have hustled to pre
sent the name of the commander of
the A E. F. as a candidate for the
presidential nomination in 1920.
It is the custom of most of the
newspapers, when the presidential
campaign is on, to carry at the head
of the editorial colimn the names
of the presidential and vice-presi
dential nominees of the party* to
which the particular paper acknowl
edges allegiance.
It might be astonishing—but what
other feeling would it create?—to a
people who hove subjected titles to
a constitutional inhibition to read at
the head of the editorial column of
their favorite morning paper:
For President: General SIR John
Joseph Pershing, G. C. B.
DELIVERED YOUNG
THE American Livestock Associa
tion has gone on record in op
position to government owner
ship or operation of railroads. The
livestock growers want to know that
when they put their stock on cars
the cars will go to their destination
with the least possible delay.
The People's Forum, made up of
leading colored people of Harrlsburg,
will pay tribute to-morrow to the
memory of Colonel Roosevelt. The
Forum keeps Itself abreast of the
times. Itjs 100 per cent. American,
and is doing a good work In this com
munity. The presence of the talented
Mrs. Nelson, who was the wife of the
late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the dis
tinguished poet, should draw a large
audience to the services to-morrow.
RE-EMPLOYING SOLDIERS
THE problem of employment for
returning soldiers, sailors and
marines is very properly re
ceiving the attention of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce. These
young men went Out at the call of
their country and they are deserving
of consideration when they return.
Many of them are anxious to get
back. Thousands of them have de
pendents. Employers should take
thought now of the men in the ser
vice who may come back to them,
singly or in groups, within the next
few months. Now is the time to make
plana.
The co-operative employment of
flee conducted by the State and
federal authorities nt Third and
North streets will help solve the
problem, but In so far as possible
returning soldiers should not bo per
mitted to reach that extremity.
Katurally, all men cannot go back to
their old places. There /ire many
reasons for this. Many of them will
not desire to do so. Others were not
Itted for the work they were doing!
I when they wont away. Still others
are looking for opportunity to better
themselves. Working conditions, ton,
have changed and hundreds of Jobs
have been abolished since the men
went away, while hundreds more
have been created.
The question is a big one, with
angles, but in the last analysis the
employer who sent men to war must
consider himself the biggest and
most important element in their re
employment.
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By the Ex-Ooinm It teems* j
Many Interesting: little stories are
going the rounds of Capitol Hill and
among men who follow politics
about the events leading up to the
passage by the House of Represen
tatives of the resolution to ratify
the prohibition amendment. Among
them are reports that the liquor
people, resentful of their defeat
where they had been able to dom
inate, propose to take the sdalps of
Republican State leaders and to do
all sorts of dreadful things the rest
of the session and at the primary
and general elections. Time is a
great test of threats.
Senator William E. Crow, of Fay
ette, the Republican State chair
mun, who was one of the men who
bluntly told the liquor leaders that
he meant to support the amend
ment and to urge its ratification,
wns one of the men visited by some
men high in "wet" councils and
when he refused to change his po
sition because he felt that the time
had come to act favorably he was
given some impressions of feeling
toward him. In reply the Fayette
senator was vigorous.
As a result of the Fayette sena
tor's position and because Senator
E. H. Vare and Lieutenant-Gover
nor Beidleman and others were
telling men the amendment resolu
tion should be voted for it is said
that an attempt was made to get
Senator Boles Penrose to interfere.
Gossip says that it waa Hans Rldall,
a Pittsburgh brewer, who sought
the intervention of the senior sena
tor. It is a pity that a stenographic
record of the reported conversation
can never be read. Ridall, if re
ports are correct, picked the wrong
time, lie called the senator on the
long distance about 1 A. M. when
the senator was sleeping.
The conversation is said to have
been in the nature of a call for
succor by Ridall. The world was
tumbling down and he wanted the
senator to intervene, interfere or
anything to avert the cataclysm.
The senator is reported to have ex
postulated with his early morning
telephonic caller and to have rep
resented that he should not be
dragged out of bed at that time.
Further urgent pleas from the
Plttsburgher for aid to head off the
wreck are said to have been ans
wered by the statement that the
senator had been working hard all
day on such matters of national
importance as the revenue bill and
that he should not in the interest of
his health be hauled from bed on
such situations as had developed in
the banks of the Susquehanna. Mr.
Ridall Is said to have made ono
more effort to secure some assur
ance of help or even a word to the
men who were backing the amend
ment resolution to slow up, but the
senator is reported to have said
that the work he was doing in the
national capital was something of
concern to the whole American peo
ple and that in order to handle it
properly he needed sleep and should
not be subjected to Interruptions
of essential repose.
The story has been much related,
but the main features seem to ad
here to each recital.
REGENERATION
Before I went to war I lived with my
life
In luxury and softness, seeing
naught
Of the despair and sad, unceasing
strife
Of thousands with whose lives my
ease was bought.
Before I went to war I took no
thought,
But heedless, careless, dallied on
with sin;
Saw not the price at which a soul
Is bought;
Nor knew the souls men buy as
mine own kin.
I went to war—tore out my dying
roots
From the stagnant soil the flesh
was heeded in.
I'd thought to find my comrades
uncouth brutes—
Instead, found men, and learned
that sin is sin!
And Liberty—l learned to know thy
call
Is God's own call to help the
world in pain.
So, God, I pray thee not to pardon
all.
But do not let me close my eyes
again!
Lieut. John H. Binns in the New
York Times.
LABOR NOTES
Reports from virtually every pro
during field in tlie nation to the Na
tional Coal Association- indicate that
not less than 100,000 mine employes
entered the military and naval ser
vice during the last year. Of this
number at least 80,000 were taken
in under the draft law.
The Worthlngton Pump and Ma
chinery Company of Hassleton, Pa.,
in suspending many hands following
the completion of its shellmaking
contracts for the Government, hand
ed each of the dismissed employes
an extra week's pay and refunded
money hold for Liberty bond sub
scription instalments.
The great scarcity of labor in ag
riculture and essential industries
and of clerical help in Government
offices, banks, etc., has caused the
issuance of a vice-regal decree in
Italy requesting civilians to register
for voluntary labor.
The United States Shipping Board
has fixed wages to be paid wireless
operators on American vessels oper
ated from Atlantic and .Gulf ports
at 1110 a month for all chief oper
ators, and SBS a month for all assist
ants, without bonuses or sliding
scale.
Recent investigations show that
the net hours of labor in nearly all
industry groups >in Germany were
between 9 and 10 hours. Tliey were
less thaß 9 hours in the chocolate
and confectionary' trade, the cloth
ing And lingerie industry and in in-*
due tries working up fin* metals.
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The.House's "Dry" Vote
(From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.)
As it is conceded that the Pennsyl
vania Senate will ratify the prohib
ition amendment, passage of the res
olution by the House yesterday may
be accepted as definitely establishing
this states attitude on the liquor
question. No charge that some of
tho 110 affirmative votes are to be
attributed to an admitted human de
sire to bo on the popular side can
have any merit. Ratification at Har
risburg reflects the demonstrated
will of the people of this common
wealth that the liquor traffiic shall be
abolished. The fact that action now
really count for nothing in accom
plishing nation-wide prohibition, rat
ification having been completed on
January 16 when the thirty-sixth
state gave its approval to the amend
ment, has no sinister significance.
Had it been possible to call up the
resolution and dispose of it early last
month there is every reason for con
fidence that the result would not
have been different from that record
ed yesterday. So, while we are dis
appointed that Pennsylvania was not
among the first states to ratify, we
are proud that the representatives of
the people have so positively signi
fied this state's adherence to the
great reform.
The practical value of ratification
even as the forty-fifth state to so act,
is that the Legislature positively
commits Itself to the duty of enact
ing laws to make constitutional pro
hibition effective. Having approved
the amendment, it cannot do any
thing that would tend toward nulllfV
catlon that would not be stultifica
tion. The law makers unquestion
ably will proceed with further legis
lation on this subject In good faith.
Spending Ihe Drink Money
(From the New York Evening Post)
Amateur economists are amusing
themselves In guessing how will be
spent the millions heretofore paid
out for drink. On candy, some be
lieve. Others predict an outbreak of
unaccustomed dandyism; still others
a mania for grnphophones. The pes
simists suggest that increased taxes
will take carc of the surplus. The
South has experienced prohibition
and begins to contribute data that
serve hs a basis for less imaginative
forecasts. At the conclusion of
Georgia's first dry year her Governor
pointed to the immense reduction in
the cost of maintaining courts, pris
ons and police. Moreover, he cjted
reports from department stores and
banks showing an astonishing in
crease In the volume of business and
the number of depositors. These
cheerful facts ho embodied in an
epistle to, the Virginians, who had
just put prohibition into effect. Other
states that have tried prohibition are
similarly calling out, "Come on in,
the water's fine!"
A Diary of Eight Words
(From the Cincinnati Times-Star)
Tucked away In Theodore Roose
velt's diary, written a number of
years ago, but just come to light,
were four entries, covering four
days. Theso entries comprised in
all but eight words. But these
eight epitomized the tremendous
will power and grit of the man as
fully as might have done pages
from the pens of great writers.
While in the wilds of Africa, Col
onel Roosevelt .was stricken with a
tropical disease. It came upon him
at a time and at place of peril. But
this is all we find recorded:
July 16—Fever. Wrote.
July 17—Fever. Wrote.
July I&—Feeling better.
July IS—Five hippos.
A story In eight words, cortiplete
In itself, and i.eeding nothing to
drive home its point.
QUEER LETTERS
Here are some extracts from au
thentic letters received at the War
Risk Insurance Bureau, Washing
ton, from the wives of soldiers
claiming support. A reader of the
register vouches for them.
"Please let me know if John has
put in his application for a wife
and child."
"I am writing to ask why I
haven't received my elopement."
"You have taken away my man
to fight and he was the best fighter
I ever had."
"My boy has been in charge of a
spittoon: do I get more money?"
: "Dnte of birth? Answer, 'Not yet,
( but soon.' "
"Dear Mr. McAdoo, I have a wife
and nine children. I should have
more or less."
"By boy is In France, where he
Hf liable to be sent into maternity
any minute." —From the Christian
.Register. ,
THE TEXAS RANGER, LONE
SURVIVOR OF ANOTHER AGE
For More Than Half a Century tlic Picturesque Body qf Gun Fighters
Has Guurthsl the Frontier of the JXHIC Star State and Has Made It
self Feared Alike by Bandits of America and Mexico.
LAST" survivors of the pictur
esque age of the open trail and
the 2-gun man, the Texas
Rangers are fighting to keep from
being crowded into the yesterdays.
The third attempt in ten years is
heing made in the Texas Legislature
to disband this little body of hard
riding, straight shooting frontiers
men. For while their shaggy "chaps'*
and flapping sombreros have been
discarded for plain blue serge suits
and soft black Stetsons, in them
still lives the spirit of the frontier.
There is nothing about these soft
spoken, somberly clad men of gentle
mien to distinguish them from their
Innumerable fellows of the present
it is their swarthy cheeks
and steady eyes. At home they are
plain citizen of the Lone Star State.
There is no braggadocio In their
speech—no swagger in their man
ner.
But in the saddle, their carbines
swung beneath the skirts of their
saddle, the rangers are the incarna
tion of the chase/ Silently, untiring
ly they follow the trail of the law
evader as relentlessly as ever did
the wolf of the old plains days fol
low its quarry. Their only one
thought is "to get their man," and
the ranger is proud of his organiza
tion's record of unvarying success.
Their story is woven inseparably
into the history of their state. Even
before secession of Texas from Mex
ico, the rangers had been organized
as a vigilance committee to protect
the whites from the depredations of
Mexicans. In the Mexican War
they made themselves so feared that
ever since It has been their humor
ous boast that the Mexicans declare
they could whip the entire Untied
States If It were not for Texas. And
after that war, the rangers were re
tained by the state as a frontter pa
trol.
Gave No Quarter
tn keeping the border cleared of
bandits they have permitted nothing
7*l International boundary
T' , t ?„i ßte * f ® re w,th their work,
as in 1875, when Captain L. H. Mc-
Isally was ordered to make a gon
eral cleanup of the foraging bands
from across tho border who were
terrorizing the frontier. He adopted
a policy of no quarter and fought
Indiscriminately in both Texas and
Mexico. Chgsing a bnnd of fifty
thieves across tho border, McNsllv
and his rangers killed twenty-nine
of them without losing a man.
His official reports were short and
to the point, as when he sent word
to the Governor of Texas:
"Just spent three dovs on Mex
ican soil after cattle thieves and a
herd of two hundred nnd fifty stolen
cattle. Killed five Mexicans, wound
ed one." '
Thrilling in all it fetalis. the his
tory of the rangers, sometimes, he.
comes grewsome. ns when McNallv
returning from another chase into
Mexico. J>rou*ht back the bodies of
thirteen Mexicans nnd exhibited
tlietn in the plaza nt lirownHVillo as
an object lesson to their compatriots
But it hasn't been the Mexican
alone who has feared the ranirer
Train robbers, cattle rustlers and ab!
scondlng bank clerks have found life
unhealthy in the Lone Star State
John R. Hughe*. another captain'
was chasing a band of cattle thieves
up in the 818 Bend country, when
late one afternoon a messenger
broußht him word of a train holdup
near Dryden, one hundred and fifty
miles away.
In ten minutes llußhes and his
rangers were in the saddle, headed
for Dryden. They covered lxty
miles before daybreak. Twenty
miles out of Dryden they picked up
the trail of the train robbers, de
toured around a body of United
States deputy mnrshals. nnd on the
fourth day, after a 300-mile chase,
caught up with the two bandits.
A Picked Body of Men
Tn tlio ensuing revolver duel one
robber was killed, nnd the other,
.lumping on the rock behind which
he had sought shelter, shot himself.
Three days later Hughes and his
band were following the cold trail
of the rustlers back in the Big Bend
district.
The rangers, for, the moat part are
.recruited from former cattle men.
But more than a quick finger on the
trigger a steady hand and the ability
to stay in the saddle twenty-four
hours at a stretch is required of a
ranger. He must have proven his
stamina, sobriety and courage be
fore he is admitted to the organiza
tion.
"I can look in a man's eyes and
tell whether he has the right stuff
in him to make a good ranger," de
clared Captain W. J. Mac Donald a
few years ago, but Captain Mac Do
nald, with all other lcadeis, demanded
some more tangible proof of the fit
ness of candidates who came before
him. The man who aspired to wear
the ranger's badge must have proven
by past exploits that he could keep
a cool head under fire.
While the rangers have been valu
able on the border in recent years,
thero are those in Texas who declare
their days of usefulness are over.
And there have been rumors of ac
tivities that would not bear the light
of publicity. With no trouble ready
made for them, the rangers have
been tempted to create a. little ex
citement of their own, these oppo
nents say.
"The rangers have committed
more outrages In tho border counties
thnn the Germans perpetrated in
Belgium," declared Representative
J. P. Canales of Brownsville in the
Texas Legislature the other day.
And so it is that the ranger may
follow the 2-gun man, the Indian
and the buffalo into the happy hunt
ing ground of the yesteryear.
Task of Americanization
(From the New York Globe)
In this state are nearly 600,000
persons who are unable to speak
English, more than half a million
of whom are above tho age of twen
ty-one. Of these, 360,000 are—un
able to read or write any language.
No wonder Governor Smith should
receive with favor the suggestion for
a comprehensive campaign against
this illiteracy!
There is no more Important ques
tion than the one of Americaniza
tion, and it is time this state took It
up seriously. I 1 literacy is, as Gov
ernor Smith says, a standing menace
to the proper development of the
economic and social intorests of the
state. Our compulsory education
law is gradually meeting tho problem
so far as the rising generation Is
concerned, but there is immediate
need of doing something to correct
thef situation as it concerns the adult
population. The national govern
ment should co-operate, but with
the states chiefly is educational re
sponsibility.
One stumbling block in the past
has been the foreign-language news
paper. Many foreigners who other
wise would have learned our lan
guage have not felt the necessity of
doing so on account of the ease with
which thoy have been able to obtain
a newspaper printed in their native
tongue.. They are willing to adopt'
this country as their own but not to
accept its customs or its language,
the foreign-language newspapers
could be made an Important factor
in the scheme of Americanization by
compelling them, for instance, to
print lessons in English and to pub
lish part of their cotitents in the ver
nacular. Americanization of foreign
ers in this country never will be
completed as long as we foster the
existence of national groups.
Publishing New Guide Books
I [From the New York Evening Post]
Convinced that "no one will here
after want a German guide book,"
English publishers are feverishly
preparing to supplant Baedeker..
With their hearts in their months
they read the daily goaslp from
Parla, wondering what town be
longs on which may, what country
will devour which others and what
galley of text should go where In
each particular volume. The Job
roqulres haste. It must be com
pleted in time to catch the impend
ing rush of tourists. Dry. wordy and
too encyclopedic, Baedeker not only
rulned-your eyes with its fine print,
but tormented you with its needless
bulk and weight. English publish
ers should improve on the German
guide book or American publishers
will; and if they perish in the at
tempt they will have deserved well
of their country.
FEBRUARY 8, 1919.
SHORT STORIES
(From the New York Sun.)
Danny I-yon went away from far
East Sixteenth street twenty years
ago,- because a successful business
man In the West, recently returned
to visit his fioyhood haunts, met an
old friend, Mrs. Murphy, reintro
duced himself, and ufter a long
gossip about old acquaintances
asked:
"And Paddy Sweeney? What be
came of my old pal Paddy?"
"He was a conthractor. Made a
millyon dollars and was drowned."
"Paddy made a million! Why, he
couldn't read nor write!"
"Nor swim."
Anyway, the makings of this
kind of stbry will disappear Jan
uary 16, 1920. Two rounders were
seated at a table in their club cafe,
and after a long, silent and very
wet session one asked:
"Shay, you kncAv Brown?"
"Wha' Brown?"
"Cecil Van Rensselaer Dykemart
Brown."
"Huh, Cecil Van Rensselaer Dyke
man Brown? Know 'im well. Splen
did fel', ol' Cecil Van Rensselaer
Dykenian Brown What's his
name?"
A British Cabinet officer who
toured the Western States during
the war on propaganda work is said
to be telling his colleagues in Lon
doh that this incident actually hrp
pencd:
"On one of our trains we had no
dining car and stopped at Oreen
River in Wyoming, I think it was,
for lunch in the station restaurant.
My waiter seemed to be quite a
typical cowboy, recruited for tho
emergency, and when he asked me
what kind of pie I'd have for des
sert I asked what kind of pie he
had.
" 'Mince and apple,' he replied.
"After some hesitancy, which
seemed to arouse his ill will, I
asked for apple pie.
" 'Say, stranger,' he responded
with unmistakable menace, 'what's
the matter with the mince pie?' "
Typical Roosevelt Letter
The following typical letterr was
received from Colonel Roosevelt by
Major General Haan of the 32d
Division (Michigan and Wisconsin),
in France, In reply to a letter Gen
eral Haan sent Colonel Roosevelt,
with a mup showing the location of
the grave of Quentin Roosevelt after
the enemy had been defeated on the
ground by the Thirty-se.'ond Divi
sion.
"My Dear General Haan: I am
very much touched, indeed, by the
trouble you have taken in the mid
dle of your absorbing work. I ap
preciate your letter. I appreciate
the sketch of Quentin's grave. It
was dreadful to have Quentin kill
ed, but I would not for anything in
the world have had him not face
death and take his chanoe.
"I most heartily congratulate you,
my dear sir, on the work of your
division. By George, you men have
hit hard. Will you thank the divi
sion for mo? Will look forward to
seeing you at Sagamore Hill when
you return, my dear General, I ad
mire and, I fear, I envy your rec
ord. Faithfully yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Our Anthem in Italian
(From the Red Cross Bulletin.)
The strains of "The Star Spangled
Banner," sung In an excellent Italian
translation, can now be heard
throughout Italy. A year ago, the,
song was a little known foreign
anthem. To-day, it is part of the
traditional music of the people. The
visitor hears it sung by peasants in
remote parts of Calabria. It is
part of the exercises in the schools.
It is proverbial that Italians,
young and old, are born singers.
The nation of beautiful songs has
now made "The Star Spangled
Banner" its own. The translation,
made by Prof. Frank 0.. Perret,
finds a ready sale in all the princi
ple cities. Sometimes it can be
found In the smallest country stores.
Here are the first few lines of the
I anthem in Italian, along with the
literal English translation:
O dlte se ognor
Oh, say it ever
Nel rosslgno albor
In the rosy dawn
II Slmbolo flero dl nostra speranza
The first symbol of our hope
Con stellato splendor
With the splendor of the stars
Ormal vlncltor
Now and for ever victorious.
A New Product
The distillers might turn some of
their plants into orphans' homes.
Thflr are responsible for ' lots at
them.—From the Philadelphia In
quirer.
iEmting (Elfat
Capitol park improvements will
D under way | n three separaio and
stinct phases within a month un
der the stimulus of Governor Wil
liam C. Sproul's announced inten
tion to get things started so that
the oltlcial center of the state shall
not only have an unequalled set
vutL'* '"i 1 BUtHclen t room be pro
.. for the ofilcee scuttered
cltiea^Bn 11 .' lla,rlabu 'K and other
°K n!"" ch ul costing the
State J/5,000 a year In rent. The
ot governor Is to
ina rent"® 8 S"" 1 " anU " Bto P W'
rb " 1 ' Ahe governor htta given
h tf" ♦"S the P' elllnl nary work to
and f e t "J 1 th ° Mt ' niorta l bridge
and the borings to ascertlng what
™,Vi\ i . ntiaUona wiil be required
will begin Monday or Tuesday The
engineers have been ordered' here,
Arnold W, Brunner, the architect,
was directed to make the plans for
the twin olflce buildings and ar
rangements will bo made by Super
intendent George A, Shrelner to
th ar^a Contr ? ctß for the changes In
the old park and the formal en
trance at Third and State streets.
Propositions will mark real
worn on Improvements for which
Plans have been In preparation for
over two years, awaiting the time
when the State can go ahead. The
governor does not think that there
will be any better time and that it
will give men work and also start
Ji? 1 "® B ,' The Brunner plans call for
L l , "* 8 ln the Parlt extn
sion but they are ln the future.
The two authorized to be planned,
v 2,- . wlu ho started this
year, will be 215 by 70 feet and each
contain approximately 75,000 square
feet of lloor space. The first build
ing to be constructed will likely be
on the southern side of the park and
wll be In accord with the big
building. It will oost a million dol
lars in opinion of peoplo here, but
save big rental item's for offices and
also for storage for which the state
government is badly off, being
forced to rent lofts in Harrlsburg.
This building would Jut out from
the south wing with an arcade con
necting it with the main structure.
It could care for the Health De
partment, which occupies the most
space and have twice as much left
over.
• • •
German language newspapers are
going to have a very hard fow to
hoe in Pennsylvania as far as re
quirement of official advertisements
is concerned when the present leg
islature gets through with thorn
Judging from tho bills which are
making their appearance in the gen
eral assembly. Already a -Mzen to
remove all mandates of the law to
publish official notices in German
newspapers are In the hands of tho
Judiciary special committee of the
House, which will take them up
during the coming week. These
bills are an Interesting study. They
refer to acts passed anywhere from
ten to one hundred years ago. A
century ago there were numerous
German newspapers and thev were
influential and in the middle per
iods of the last century they secured
the enactment of laws for publish-
In# of ofliciul news. Harrlsburg had
several and I,ancaster, Lebanon and
Berks counties quite a few. Late
ly the number of such newspapers
has declined owing to the stoppage
. C, ®r man immi ff r ation and tho
Tact that the younger generations
grew up to speak English. Even
repeal of special acts relative to
publication of legal notices in Ger
man newspapers in Berks county
is now sought. A couple of bills
have also appeared to require every
PU i i r>ub,ic schools to be edu
cated in German language. This Is
said to be aimed at a few districts
W £ e r, e ~ he P°Pulatlon is almost
wholly German, although descended
from people who settled in Pennsyl
van la many years ago.
• * *
Somo of the returned soldiers who
are visiting in the city are of the
opinion that there will be no trou
ble about getting veterans of tho
war interested in the new National
Guard. One soldier from this city
said that Iho men in the service
would probably want at l. Ast a bat
talion located in llarrisburg.
• * #
It is not regarded as probable
that any armory construction will
he undertaken in Capitol Park ex
tension. The plans as approved by
the state authorities provide that
only buildings for purely state ad
ministrative purposes will be erect
ed in the park. It is also improb
able that the State Armory Board
will ask for any appropriation for an
armory ln Harrisburg. It Is the view
at the Capitol that such a matter
should be initiated here. In other
places county and city or borough
authorities have provided proper
ties which have been deeded to the
state which has constructed armor
ies. It goes without saying that an
armory fronting on Capitol Park
would be a very handsome thing.
...
The combining of the Garman and
Quinn complaints against the Har
risburg Railways Company means
that all of tho cases which have
arisen ln this city will be decided at
once Just as has been done in com
plc'nts from other towns and as will
be done with the Valley Railways
Company cases.
r WELL KNOWN PEOPLE |
—Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burg, is planning a bond issue of
over JV0.000.000 for Improvements.
' —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran
ton, says be • intends to run down
and see the legislators one of these
days. He used to be a member of
the House.
—Mayor G. S. Lysle, of McKees
port, took active steps in regard to
a trolley situation. He just stopped
the ears.
—Mayor John D. Carr, of Union
town, Is having some trouble to get
the city sealer ousted. The sealer
will not recognize the authority of
council under the present mayor.
—Mayor W. S. McDowell, of Ches
ter, has been asked to have his city
pay SIOO,OOO toward new houses.
| DO YOU KNOW '
—That the new Capitol park
will be a reality by the end of
autumn? ,
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The first police foree was or
ganised In this place about 1795 and
men who were in the Revolution
were members.
Militants En Tour
The women militants who liave
"done time" for breaking the law ln
connection with suffrage agitation at
Washington have named the special
train in which they are to tour the
country "Demooratlc limited/'
From the Springfield Republican
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