8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare i E. J. STACKPOLB ; President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GU3. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUQH, 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. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks A Avenue Building, New York City; Western office, Story. Brooks A Flnley, People's Gas Building, ' Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *l' j-y * week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. God help up all to kindly vieso The world that ire are passing throughl —Lydia Jfarlo Child. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 191 WHY NOT COMMUTE? PRESIDENT WILSON is coming home from France for the end of Congress, but he is going back again. If necessary he will come home a second time and go back immediately for another ses sion. In the interest of economy would it not be well for the Presi dent to buy a commuter's ticket? GOOD SELECTIONS OVERNOR Sproul gave recog f y nition to merit and hard work when he re-appointed Adju tant General Beary and Fish Com missioner Buller yesterday. Both have demonstrated their fitness for the work of their departments. General Beary did a particularly good job In tho organization of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia to take the place of the National Guard when it went into Federal service and in a few months placed In the field a well equipped, soldierly or ganization that to all appearances might have been years in develop ing. His motorizing of the trans port branch of the service and re plenishment of the Stat? arsenal's depleted stocks during a period when industry was working at capacity for the national government was a feat of which any man might have been proud, especially since the pur chases were made for the most part at figures far below the market prise to ordinary trade. Mr. Buller lcnpws .more about the fisheries of the State than any one other man. He has had long ex perience as commissioner, but pre vious to that spent years in the study of fish culture and its prac tical application, getting his first ex perience as early as 1871 in the old Donegal fish hatchery on Gen eral Cameron's farm. He has the confidence of the fishermen of the State and with a freer hand than he ever has had before may be ex pected to do big things for the streams of Pennsylvania during the next four years. Changes in the Public Service Commission wpre to have been ex pected. It had been repeatedly charged that the appointment of Magee and Ryan were largely politi cal and it is'but natural, when the opportunity offered, that Governor Sproul should surround himself with men not only well fitted for the du ties of the commission but friendly to himself and his administration as welL A BIG PROBLEM THE housing luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce Friday should be largely attended. Housing is one of the biggest of Harrisburg's problems, just as it is that .of most other growing cities. Last year we found that housing was a great war need; now we know that it is just as great a peace need. The day is past when the specula tive builder rushes into large opera tions. The return on real estate de velopment was not in the years just preceding the war what it once was, due to the fact that people would not accept as homes the shacks they once were-content to rent or buy. They wanted something " for their money. As a result of this demand for better houses the profits on building gradually decreased a year , or two ago and caused a diminuation of tho How of capital into building enterprises. This has been largely responsible for "the shortage of dwellings that the city is experienc ing, and the consequent advance in rentals for houses available. Per haps tho fictitious values recently placed upon much Harrisburg real B estate by sharp advances of rents in -the ftast year may again turn I speculative builders toward big de f vtlopments ol . the kind that once f marked the growth of the city, but if so new last's regulating the erec tion of houses should be engcted in TUESDAY EVENING, order to prevent a repetition of the evils that now exist to a degree abso lutely disgraceful. Uncontrolled speculation would be so closely akin to exploitation that It is to be hoped that it will not be permitted here, much as we need dwellings at this moment. The community must have a hand in its own development, even though the money for that development comes from the pockets of those who are operating for profit. We cannot per mit a renewal of the old-time shack building. The houses of the fu ture must be good to look upon and scientifically correct from the stand point of tight, room and fresh air. They must be substantial, but not so elaborate as to demand rentals I beyond the power of the average : renter to pay. There should be provision for the purchase of homes | by those who desire to do so, and I large savings ought not to be re- Quired for first payments. A housing company, based on rea sonable profits and organized for the purpose of giving the city a building development, would bo use ful in setting an example for other builders, but it would not meet the needs of the community fully for the reason that, by the very nature of things, its capital would be too small and ,its opportunities too limited. The community itself, if not the Federal government, soon must go more seriously into the matter of' housing than is now anticipated. The matter of regulation must be supplemented by that of land values, land control and very likely of financing as well. We have a prob lem here that is not only serious, but which has so many angles that it deserves the earnest individual and collective thought of all our people. We cannot hear too much about it. The luncheon should be well at tended. , OLXwrrfi them THE best news that the press dispatches have carried In many a long day is that the Government has arranged for the deportation of fifty-four aliens who have beqn stirring up trouble in this country. It Is to be hoped that this is merely a beginning. A vigorous effort should be made to send all such back whence they came. What labor and business both need is a period of quiet in which to read just themselves to the ways of peace. The more agitation, worse fo'r both. It is all very well for native-born Americans to strike as a last resort in dispute with em ployers, but for a foreigner to come into the United States anfl delib erately set about to stir up disorder and foment disagreements between workers and employers Is injurious to both sides and ought not to be permitted. Level-headed labor leaders and practical businessmen both under stand that this is no time for strikes. When men are being laid off in many lines of industry is not the moment to ask for increased scales of pay or shorter hours. The time for that sort of thing is when busi ness is booming and labor is at a premium. Just now we are facing a time when businessmen are sore ly burdened and when the whole industrial situation is chaotic. The businessman who is looking for or ders and trying to make ends meet under very trying circumstances is not in position to meet labor de mands and the natural tendency Is to close the mill rather than operate at a loss. The big men in the labor world are shrewd and far-seeing. They know this quite as well as do busi nessmen and they are guiding themselves accordingly. They are interested in quieting the unrest that exists, rather than in promot ing it. They know that these aliens are merely troublemakers and that they are quite as much the enemies of the workingman as they are of the manufacturer. The I. W. W. agitator and the Russian Bolshevik are as much alike as twin brothers usually are, and we want neither in this coun try. The foreigner who comes to the United States to work and to become a good citizen is welcome. But the alien who comes to stir up strife and to teach un-American ideas should be deported. The time is here when business and labor should sit down quietly together and talk things over for their mu tual benefit, but they need no ad vice from the anarchists of Europe. RESTORE CONFIDENCE PRESIDENT WILSON used to be a strong advocate of what he has termed "pitiless publicity," but in view of what has transpired during the last year or two in the conduct of public affairs the aver age intelligent citizen is forced to the conclusion that "pitiless pub licity" in the President's mind must mean the absence of publicity of any sort. The United States is vitally inter ested in everything that is now oc curring in Paris at the Paris con ference, but the people are per mitted to know mighty little of what is actually taking place, and that in most cases not until after the fact. It woulS seem in the very na ture of the case there must be tre mendous protest before long from the body of the people against the autocratic tendencies of the pres ent administration at Washington and Paris. Men of all parties and of no par ticular party are stepping out of their to say what they think regarding the unusual spectacle of the American people submitting to a one-man interpretation of their wills ahd dictation of the country's poli cies. As has been declared in Con gress over and over during the last few weeks we are in an impossible situation. Out of it all must come some reasonable conclusion that will restore American confidence in Atnerican Institutions. IK By the Ex-Commlllecman" j| Replacement of William A. Ma gee and Michael J. Ryan as mem bers of the Public Service Commis sion by Sidney Ray Shelby, of Union town, and Samuel M. Clement, Jr., of Philadelphia, by the Governor yesterday afternoon and the prompt action of the Senate in confirming the appointments is held about the Capitol to remove the last of the ardent Brumbaugh men from the Commission. The men who remain are not active politically and neither of the new commissioners has been a leader in partisan affairs in recent years. Both of the retiring commission ers were close friends of Francis Shunk Brown, the former attorney general, and were more or less "poli tically antagonistic to the friends of Governor Sproul. Judge Harold M. McClure, of Lewisburg, reappointed and confirmed, was a Brumbaugh appointee, but always regarded as a friend of Sproul as much as of the ex-Governor. He is one of the strong men of the commission and has handled a large afount of work, since he becaiHe a commissioner last summer and was influential in framing the issue with the Federal government over control of utilities whjch found expression in the ac tion of the attorney gyneral against tho new telephone rates and the Commission's opinions denying Fed eral right to fix intra-state freight rates. —Samuel Jr. Clement, Jr., is more of a personal appointment than any thing else. Mr. Shelby has been law partner of 'State Chairman Wil liam E. Crow, the Fayette County Senator, since 1907 and is a very able attorney. He will be the south western, Pennsylvania Representa tive. as far as geography is con cerrfed and is said to be well versed in the probelms which arise in the bituminous and coke sections which have been productive of much liti gation before the commission. His term runs until 1928. —The Capitol is speculating about any further changes and some peo ple believe more will be made, but the Governor has a way of keeping his own counsel. There are four members of the commission remain ing. —There is small doubt but that Mr. Magee, who has a love for poli tics. in which he is skillful, will make things interesting in Pitts burgh for some time to come and probably be a candidate for the mayoralty which he lost in 1917 af ter a sensational contest. He was one of the men named by Dr. Brumbaugh in 1915 when he reor ganized the commission and threw off most of the Tener appointees and resigned to be a candidate for mayor, being reappointed -last year. Mr. Ryan succeeded Thomas B. Smith, mayor of Philadelphia after an in terval. ■ —The objections of Senator T. 1,. Eyre, of Chester, which prevented the conformation of Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan R. Buller along with Adjutant General Frank D. ; Beary yesterday afternoon is an out break of the feeling which led to' the commissioner's rejection in 1917. The hold-up is regarded as only tem porary and it Is thought that Mr. Buller will be confirmed. If he Is not some possibilities in regard to Chester appointments may be ex pected. —Senator Max G. Leslie, of Pitts burgh, evoked some criticism yes terday when he had a committee act on the Allegheny judge bill in the morning'before the meausre reached the Senate from the House. The bill got on the calendar in due sea son. —Members of the legislature to day were discussing the finished form in which the administration Highway bills have been presented, recognized as the big thing in the Sproul program, is set forth in the bills and while the figures were rather startling to some of the rural members they were held to be a plain statement of what the (people want is going to cost. As soon as the map is completed there will be no doubt about rapid action in the Legislature. —Governor Sproul continues to he in demand for speeches. He is to speak almost every day this week and has a number of days for next week, including the Harrisburg Chamber 6f Commerce reception —-Highway Commissioner Sadler was host to the Senators last eve ning at his country home near Car lisle. During the evening Presi dent pro tern Buckman, who was recently married, was presented with a bag of gold, the gift of his fel low members. ■ —Auditor General Charles A. Snyder will make his plan for a pilnimum wage for teachers a big issue. He Intends to go right through with the proposition he says and rural members are discussing it with him. The Chevron.• J DO OA not - MI4HT lOOXlrslC Glßl. OVSR AffHR. ,1 . AS VjeiL BE -r c,, _ I A CHS -. ILL. BE GLAD AMD GO Through Se lJckv 1,,T T I WHftAl TH'S DArJCE * WITH -7- MAYOC ARC LUCKY - BUT 1 HAff Aj OUeR- I KrJOCU A.PLAC6 Thw The VJirj ■ , l S ' POS £ ,T i H,S n . VO RATHER" B.S TrtAN HERE I/UILL IST v,S OMIFORM AMD WONDER \AjHtf3 f-AAKir*a ALL THE ;'.v^:r^r £ rw.T„ j e^ ,tL H *" e to CD'J WIFE .JUST BE - GOT A AWFUL ThiSST 9, CMCORa r„„- - - £T Goiw hcw I D WARNING As long as you never marry me, and I never marry you, There's nothing on earth that we cannot say and nothing we cannot do— The flames lift up from onr blowing hair, the leaves flash under our feet When once in a year or a score of years our hands and our laughters meet! For east and west through a sorry • world we pass with our Joy to sell, And they that buy of onr song and jest, they praise us that we do '♦veil, But few can sell ns the mirth they buy, and few be that know a song, And for all of the praise of the kindly folk, their speeches are over long! But two of a trade, one always hears, might get in each other's way. And you might be wanting to sing, God wot, when I desired to play. [(Oh, it's rather a danger with folks like us and our sparks that are flying free) But I never, never must marry you, and you never must marry me! But when we take breath from songs at last, to be what the rest call dead, I They'll sigh, "Ah, noble the songs they made, and noble the jests they said!" And they will inscribe on our monuments regret that our day is done— But wo wall be off in an excellent place, and having most ex cellent fun — Oh, very proud from a golden cloud you'll stride in your crown and wings, _ Till you hear my little earthly laugh from behind my golden harp strings; And you'll lay your gemmed theorbo down on the nearest star or moon. And carry ,me off on a comet's back for a long, wild afternoon. And while we're lashing the comet un till it misses St. Michael's Way,. And laugh to think how the seraphs blink, and what the good saints will say, We'll heave a little sigh o? con tent—or a wistful one, maybe— To know that. I never can marry you, and yon never can marry me! . Margaret Wlddemer in the Bell man. LABOR NOTES The Scottish Institute of Account ants has decided to admit women to membership on the same terms as men. Our automobile industry employs half as many people as are employ ed by all the railroads of the United States. •' There is not sufficient labor avail able in the Tee-side (Eng.) district to lift the iron from stock or to load the trucks. Special classes on labor subjects are being established throughout Northumberland, Eng., by tjie mi ners' lodges. A "keep the children in school" campaign will be launched soon by the children's bureau of the United States Labor Department. Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ire land. have "broken all records by completing a standard ship in five days after the launch. Tile British Board of Agriculture is invitirig the co-operation of the educational authorities in the estab lishment of women's institutes. Metal workers at Winnipeg, Cana. are earning $37 to $4O a week. In two years increases have been from 38 to 50 per cent. British engineering and shipbuild ing trades unions have asked for an advance in wages of 100 per cent, above pre-war rates. Aerodrome contractors from Great Britain are at present in Dub lin for the purpose of employing men for their work In England. Organized waitresses are working for an eight-hour day, one day a weelf ofT, and a wago scale of ot (least $6O per month. The Parable of the Prodigal Father By RI.AIvE YV. GODFREY A CERTAIN man had two sons and the youngest of them said to his father, "Father, give me the portion of thy time, and thy attention, and thy companionship, and thy counsels which falleth to me." And he divided unto them his living in. that he paid the boy's bills, and sent him to a select prepara tory school, and to college, and tried to believe that he was doing his full duty by the boy. And not many days after the father gathered all his interests and aspirations and ambitions, and took his journey into a far country, into a land of stocks and bonds and se curities and other things that did not interest the boy; and there he wast ed his precious opportunity of being a chum to his own son. And when he had sp'ent tho very best of his life and had gained money but had failed to find satisfaction, there arose a mighty famine in his heart; and he began to be in want of sym pathy and real companionship. And he went and joined himself to one of the clubs of that country; and they made him chairman of the house committee and president of the club, and sent him to congress. And he would 'fain have satisfied SLAVS AN ANCIENT RACE [From the Toledo Blade] 'The average American thinks of foreigners by extremes, either ful ' some overestimate or supercilious indifference due to ignorance of'the foreigners' real character. Uninformed Americans think of the Slavs as a vague, not sharply defined race occupying Eastern Europe in general. Just now public attention is fixed on the Poles and Czecho-Slavs, who are contending the territory of Silesia, in the Southeastern corner of Prussia lying between them. Before the Germans, the Slavs were. They occupied a large por tion of the territory in the heart of Europe, between the Adriatic on the south and the Baltic on the north. They were peaceable, democratic, libert>loving persons, within their separate clans or tribes, of which tradition names at least sixteen. They were agriculturists and hor ticulturists. The early German got his knowledge of agriculture from the Slavs, likewise many of the arts of peace. Many German words are derived directly from the Slavic. The German w