8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGKAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Ilulhiing, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager CUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. 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. A Mepiber American r\ Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Itlon. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; "Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. • By carrier, ten cents a ■}F" 'week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Verily, verily, 1 say tinfo you, He that hcareth my word, and believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life, and comcth not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life. John 5:24. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919 LOADING THE MAP IT IS not to the credit of any coun ty or its legislators to attempt to "horn" in on the great building program being outlined for Pennsyl vania by Governor William C. Sproul j and Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler j by representing legislation to add 1 routes to the already overloaded State highway system. The $50,000,- 000 bond issue authorized last fall will not begin to build half the roads in the system approved some years! ago and the State's people having had the system in black and white on the map for five years or more do not seem to be now demanding the routes contemplated In recently presented bills. Senate roads committee actetl very wisely the other day when It decided not to add any more routes and the House committee has given precious little satisfaction to mem bers clamoring for favorable action on new route bills. It Is to be Jioped that both committees will maintain that attitude. Amendments' to the road system are generally presented either to relieve some county or township from the expense of construction and maintenance, to gratify some land owner or to show j a constituency that a member is on the "job." The State road system has now over 10,000 miles and it lias got to be handled like a big railroad as far as construction and maintenance goes if it is going to meet the needs of the people. Why any more routes should be put on the map it is difficult to see. Henry Ford is as a candidate al most as hard to stop as one of his cars is to start. FILL THE EMPTY SEATS CLYDE MYTON, head of the Motor Club hf Harrisburg, makes the very practical sug gestion that Harrisburgers motoring ■up the Cumberland Valley stop at Carlisle and fill the empty seats of their cars with convalescent eiol diers at the old Indian school go%'- ernment hospital. There are hundreds of men there who would be glad for the outing and improved by the fresh air. They have earned our sympathy and qpnsideration on the bloody fields of France. They did our fighting for us and now we may feel honored to have them as our guests. When you drive up Carlisle way don't fail to keep in mind the sol diers who are longing for a ride, but Ao have no car and could not drive one if they did have it. Congress wants a standing army of 500,000. Hard days ahead for the re cruiting sergeants. CLEAR THEM UP \ IT IS to be hoped that Congress will lose no time in ordering in vestigation into the charge that Comptroller of the Cur rency John Skelton Williams threatened to take a federal rail-, road administration deposit away from a Trust company in Pennsyl vania unless it became a national bank. The country Is entitled to have such a serious charge cleared up. especially as it is on the verge of a new loan campaign. There has 'been a lot of talk about the attitude of high officials in Hie federal ser vice lately. Prompt and effective action now will go a long ways to ward relieving the public niind. But we in Pennsylvania h'avc more than the patriotic interest natural to a state paying $500,000 of federal tnxes and taking hundreds of mil lions ol dollars worth of federal | ; >".n<js on every call. This chargo j MONDAY EVENING. ' against the comptroller Is made by a Pennsylvania!), a banker of wide experience, jx man of care and cour age. And It wap based on a letter addressed by the State Commissioner of Banking of Pennsylvania, one of the ablest of Its men, to the chief of the Federal Reserve Bank at Phila delphia. These representative Pennsylva nlans do not speak lightly. There should be no hesitancy on the part of the National .Administration to submit to an inquiry. The climax of many complaints has come. It is not the hide of a Virginian or the interests of the Democratic party that is, involved. It is the policy of the Federal Administration in conduct of the important financial branch of the government. And it concerns j everyone. It is time to clean up J charges that arfe being made In < speech and print. ... - i Looks as though there actually might be a reasonable excuse for an "ice-famine" next summer. WILL SOON FIND OUT TIIE Secretary of the Interior is putting himself in the way of answering his own question: "Do large numbers of men in the military service desire to go on farms after their discharge?" Ho has prepared a little booklet which will be placed in the hands of each soldier, sailor and marine subject to discharge from the army, request ing them to state their views as to their attitude toward his plan for providing them with work and homes on reclaimed land. The Secretary has asked Congress for $150,000.000, a hundred million being the minimum sum for almost any projected government enter prise, with which to begin construc tion of meritorious reclamation pro jects throughout the United States. But nobody knows whether a mil lion or only a handful of returned soldiers and sailors will desire such' a government stake. Each man in terested will be asked to state his name, homo address, age, occupa tion, whether he ever worked on a farm, whether lie is interested in the Lane plan, what kind of farming he would like to follow, or whether he would be willing to take a job in his own State or anywhere in the United States if a job on one of these proposed projects is offered to him. Secretary Lane has the courage of his convictions, whether his rec lamation idea is adopted or not. His questionnaire should at least provide a lot of enlightenment on a subject that has been very much debated in recent months, and which may or may not have an important bear ing on our readjustment program, if not on the life of the nation.-- When |he new president of Ger many used to make harness he little thought he would one day hold the government reins. CALAMITY TO AVOID THE Federal Government hav ing appointed representatives to attempt a settlement of dif ferences between building trades employes and employers, it is to be hoped that a nation-wide strike will be avoided. Such a disturbance the coming spring would be a death blow to building for this year. The uncertainties of prices are holding back many big operations, and inability of employer and employe to get together on a mutually agree able scale of wages and working conditions would sidetrack most of these undertakings for the present year at least. The building trades are far more important now as a factor of na tional prosperity than when we went into the war. Thousands of men hold union cards as carpenters, Jointers, painters, plumbers, elec tricians, etc., now who were un skilled laborers before the war came along to give them the opportunity for Advancement. There should be work for all of these. They should not have to slip back into the ranks of common labor. This country needs them as much as they need the better pay they receive for their new work. Some way out should be found to prevent the calamity of a nation wide strike or lockout, with the suf fering of working people and the setback to business it would entail. What does Mexico want in a League to Bnforce Peace? MILK PRICES THERE is more than the mere question of supply and demand involved in the prospective re duction of milk prices by reason of a glutted market. The open win ter and war-time prices have been largely responsible for the tre mendous increase of production noted in dairy reports of the past month or more. Milk at twelve and fourteen cents a quart retail is still a compara tively cheap food and dairy products of all kinds are finding greater fa vor than ever with the consuming public. We have been used so long to six and eight-cent milk that pres ent-day prices seem needlessly high, and they are. considering the bulk of feed in the country. Cattle feed prices depend upon the wheat mar ket, and wheat at $2.25 a bushel, the government fixed price, means high milk. There may be oversupply, and milk can be produced profitably, no doubt, at less than farmers are now getting for it, but any material reductions unless accompanied by corresponding decreases in prices of feed stuffs, will bo followed by a rapid diminution of milk produc tion. This would be unfortunate, for wo want more milk, not less. The government must give early consideration to the wheat price problem unless the dairy interests arc to be seriously affected. r ■- 'Jtauietjttfuua. By the Ex-Committeeman The Democratic jmrty in Pennsyl vania seems to have been destined for trouble from the days of Porter Certainly, it has furnished more in teresting political history than any other party in Pennsylvania and it is punctuated with brawls. The home of the National chair man, it fell down in 1918 when the president called for more Democratic congressmen and may lose one on its list after all. its titular chief tains repudiated the choice of the party voters for the Democratic nom ination for governor and the people of the state promptly defeated the Democratic ticket more decisively than even in 1914. * —A"? tho distinguished soldier selected by the Democratic state Executive committtee for the Demo cratic congressional nomination in the Westmoreland district hands , nop and the committtee s in the humiliating position of hav ing advertised too soon. Aspirants for the Democratic congressional nomination in the 22nd district seem to be as shy as they were in the ISth last autumn when the leaves began to fall. The Philadelphia Record furnishes further entertainment by consider able yardage to demonstrate a theory that the refusal of Senator T. L. Eyre, of Chester, to vote for im mediate confirmation of a commis sioner of fisheries heralds dislocation of Republican harmony. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says one of the most important mat ters for Governor Sproul to decide is whether the constitution is to be revised in his term. The governor will have considerable to "say about the proposed changes in the third class city law, on which the Wilkes- Barre Record has decided opinions, holding that the present system should remain. —° n th ® subject of proposed elec tion law changes the Philadelphia Inquirer say editorially: "There is no doubt but that the nonpartisan judiciary feature of the direct primaries is open to abuse. The intention is good enough, but it has been demonstrated that the can didate with the biggest bankroll has an advantage over those who are not so fortunately situated with Ihe goods of this world. But the fear of impairing the principle back of the direct primary laws may prevent any changes, however desirable." The Philadelphia Press seems to scent a possible disturbance of the serenity of the session in the course of a review of politics published yesterday and gives considerable! space to Larry Eyre's objections to Commissioner Buller as one possible source of trouble. In regard to the public service changes last week the Press says: "There is _a tendency to see a slap at the \ ares in the Governor's action. It is not probable that he had any such intention, but the fact remains- that in Ryan and Magee the Vares do not lose active allies, while the men who replace them cannot be considered by any stretch of the imagination as friendlv to the Vares. However, on the other hand, they cannot be called active Penrose men, although their sympathies are closer to men associated with that wing of the party. The Governor's answer would probably be that in the new appointments he has removed the commission further from politics let the ax fall where it may." Representative W. G. "Sarig, of Berks, is distressed. He says that the corrupt practices act is "a farce and that he has one with whole sets of teeth in it. Mr. Sarig has pre sented several bills this session and most of them recall E. Lowry Humes' ambitious program of legislation. To the best of recollections that was post marked 1913. The educator from the village of Temple was quite an ac tive member last session, but the reduction of the Democratic strength in the House to the significant figure of 23 has probably made him cautious about (lashing into the aisles. Some interesting news about Phila delphia board of viewers of vacancies is being printed. Among the can didates for places are Col. E. Beitler and William H. Ball, who was private secretary to the governor from 1915 to 1919. Over in I.,ehigh county the Demo cratic Treasurer who was made a target by the county commissioners over bank deposits has turned and is demanding Uiat the commissioners be probed. | A WOLF HOWL Ol' "Hardpan Jake," from the head of the lake. With hair on his breast—that's me. I've pawed this earth since my day of birth With a spirit wild an' free. I've seen the West at Its worst an' best, I've rolled 'em wide an' high, But I lose my sand and I lav my hand When Cal-i-for-ny's dry. What would they do—that roarin* crew— Them wolves what I used to know. If they'd hear the news, that we can't have booze In this land where th' jag-vines grow! I reckon they'd shoot anv dam' galoot Who threatened to stop their rye— But they won't be here, my soul to cheer. When Cal-i-forny's dry. Ol' Bob McGill, "Toulumne Bill," Jim Peets an' ol' "Hardtack" Brown, We was sure some crowd—if you speak it loud— , When we hit the trail for town. It was fun, or bust, while we spent our dust. With th' limit th' star-specked sky— There'll be no plays like we had them days When Cal-Xforny's dry. They're the other side of the Great Divide— My pards of th' days of yore An' I'm left forlorn to weep an' mourn With a heart that's sad an' sore. I'm ol' an' broke, my gun's in soak So what can I do but cry. As I sit an' think, "what can I drink" When Cal-i-forny's dry? Dig me a grave where th' willers wave, At th' rim of th' lonesome swamp Where th' lizards creep an' the tree toads cheep An' th' tuneful bullfrogs romp. Throw me an' my jug that I used to lug In th' hole an' say "Goodby" It's no place here for a pioneer When Cal-i-forny's dry. —. W. McKenzie, in the San Francisco Bulletin. HAMUSBUKG TELBORiPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... * FTe * MONTHS IN V* /--Vf' FRAMC6 "To STUCK IM THE „ A HARBOR B6CAUVSE OF FOG. NORMAN B. CRITCHFIEID CARVED HIS OWN CAREER Few better examples of the way in which a man may rise to promi nence in Pennsylvania by ttsing the talents given him are to be found than in the career of Norman B. Critchfield, for a dozen of years State Secretary of Agriculture, who was buried here today. Dr. Critchfield died Thursday beyond the patriar chial age of eighty and his body will be taken in the spring to his native town of Mount Pleasant. In timately connected with the State government for many years and the representative of Somerset county in the Senate, Dr. Critchfield was one of the men who liked Harrisburg so well that he made it his winter home in his declining years. He was a great admirer of this city, its lo cation, its progresslvenesirand in spite of his age had walked over most of it- It is fiot generally known that it was Dr. Critchfleld who helped wako up people to the fact that Pennsyl vania with its coal and iron and oil production was in reality a great agricultural state and that it could do more, which was demonstrated during the war just ending. He was a great student of figures and was impressed with the possibilities of Pennsylvania. Years ago after ho had made speeches about it, he found some Washington figures one day which did not seem right. He conducted his own inquiry and then put out a statement that jolted fed eral complacency and advanced the Keystone State several pegs in the agricultural line.! And it has gone up since. While he was secretary he was always working on ideas to make the department of better service or as he put it, to have it "at the call of the farmer." He injected ginger into the farmers institutes by going to some unannounced and joining in the discussions to the confusion of the lecturers, occasionally, but to the edification of the farmers. "Get them telling their troubles, maybe we have a prescription around," was his advice. With his deputy. A. L. Martin, he worked out the plan for farm advisors, or traveling experts, who have been of such vast benefit and a couple of times ho jurned up at farms along with experts. Perhaps the most notable innova tion Mr. Critchfleld made in his de partment was In the use of pfctures. "I'm going to grow corn with a camera," he said to some callers one day and when they had settled down again he announced that he was going to have photographs of (lie tallest and best corn taken and sent around to institutes in a mov ing picture machine. He started several Controversies about big corn, but as he remarked later, "I got them growing and watching I what they were growing." Governor Samuel W. Penny- | packer, who first appointed Dr. Critchfleld, was a great walker, but met his match in the man from Somerset. They did not agree about agrictulaural propositions sometimes and incidentally, Mr. Critchfleld made some experiments and-demon strated that the Sage of Schwenks ville was wrong. But that is an other matter. When the first Sur-, face controversy raged Judge Penny packer sent for Dr. Critchfleld one day and suggested that they make . a personal inquiry. And he walked I the secretary clear over to Camp Hill or beyond. The result of the investigation was that there was I nothing more doing about Surface. But the walking was rough. Not I long after Dr. Critchfleld asked the Governor if he would like to take a walk. There was nothing that the executive liked better, as his strolls through Wetzel's swamp and other places are recalled. Dr. Critch fleld took him out Chambers Hill road and over around back of Rutherford. It was a' warn! day and the pair trudged along until they struck a lane which led to the Hummelstown trolley line and the Governor suggested that they ride home. The secretary said after wards that they were never very far away froWtrolley cars at any time, but the Governor never knew it and took his medicine. Dr. Critchfleld was born on July 120, 1838, and his life is a unique record. He was early identified with various activities. Starting on a farm he became a merchant, a school teacher and then a minister. Few knew that he was a clergyman until they got into some religious discussion and then he was found to be fortified. He was long identified with the Jersey Baptist church near Confluence, one of the oldest religious organizations in Southwestern Pennsylvania. After he had taught school a time he displayed so much energy that he was put in charge of inspections and was eventually elected superin tendent of the schools of Somerset county, it was then that he became active in politics and was chosen prothonotary. Next came election as senator from the Somerset-Bed ford-Fulton district, which has pro duced many able men for Pennsyl vania Legislatures and has played an influential part in legislation. Dr. Critchfield was a Republican from early years of the party and he had some battles with the men who later became famous as the "Frosty Sons of Thunder" before he reached the Senate. Then they let his alone. Dr. Critchfield speedily demon strated that he knew the posibili ties of agriculture in the state when he got to the Senate. He wanted on the committee on agriculture and they did not know why he should be. But he got there and started out to get the state government inter i on.? w * armin £- In the session of 1890 he introduced a. bill for a de partment of agriculture and while he did not get it through he had things so lively that next session it passed. Not only did he sponser the create the department, but ' n, L ,our y ear s ago he had a hand in every piece of legislation which enlarged its activities. He drew a number of bills which should have been enacted and which will prob ably appear on the books later on you gentlemen go out and drive if 1 * 18 state and-you will see what it can do. This is a great farming state, but it needs some expert attention from the state," he would tell legislators and visitors. And incidentally, Dr. Critchfield was in every county in the state in the course of his career and personally he knew possibilities. When he told Gbvernor Martin G. Brumbaugh in the fall of 1915 that ho desired to retire many per sons were astonished at his age. Few -knew that the energetic secretary was beyond seventy-five years and that he was closing a good half cen tury of public service. In addition to his various activi ties, Mr. Critchfleld was a member of a number of boards of educa tional and other institutions, had substantial business interests, made it a point to look after his farm, was prominent in the Masonic and | other fraternities, wrote extensively | and was given a couple of degrees. | One of the things or which he was proudest was that he had been in . the Civil war. His first service being with the 171 st Pennsylvania Militia, a nine months' regiment. At the close of his first term of service he entered the 28th Pennsylvania Vol unteers, with which regiment he served until the close of the war. He was attached to General Sher man's contingent in the famous march from Chattanooga to Atlanta, serving as chaplain with the rank of captain. He was also prominently identified with the Grand Army df the Republic and a member of R. P. Cummings Post of Somerset, Pa. He was one of the survivors of his regiment having the honor to carry the flag of his regiment when the flags were removed from the State Library building to the Capitol ro tunda five years ago, one of the most notable ceremonies ever seen on Capitol Hill. Ho is survived by his wife, who was Eliza Jane Burnworth, and the following children: Elmer E.. of Critchfieid and company, Chicago: Mrs. B. M. Stileler, Philadelphia: Miss Madie at home: Mrs. \V. John Stiteler, .Danville, and Lieutenant John B. Critchfleld, Medical Corps. U. S. A., who just returned from foreign service, arriving at Hoboken February y 7. He is also survived by thirteen grandchildren und five gient-grendchlldren. Two of his grandchildren are in the U. S. A. j service irf France. NO LEAGUE WITH KINGS? Prof. Kenneth Colegrove, of Syra cuse University, declares that world democracy is the of world peace. Writing in the World's Work for February, he says: n the year 1713, when the ambas sadors of the European Powers were engaged at the Congress of Utrecht in bringing to a close the war of the Spanish Succession, the Abbe de Saint-Pierre was writing the final pages of his little treatise called the "Project for Perpetual Peace." He proposed confederation of the kings and princes of Europe, with a Con gress or Diet of ambassadors where all disputes between the different) states should be settled by arbitra tion,- and where general rules should be adopted from time to time for the purpose of promoting the peace and welfare of each and every realm. Rousseau criticised the Abbe's plan, declaring it contained one flaw, a flaw which vitiated the otherwise noble plan. He believed that a federation of European states could never be formed so long as kings and princes ruled. For the essence of kingship was nothing else than the passion to extend its dominion without and its absolutism within; and no plan of confederation, Rousseau was con vinced, would ever be able to quench the old fires of rivalry and despotism. But even if a general alliance of European monarchs were possible, it was manifestly impossible to guaran tee princes against the revolt of their people unless at the same time sub jects were given a guarantee against the tyranny qf their rulers. Tn launching this latter criticism against the Abbe's project, the author of the "Social Contract" foresaw the contin gency of the Holy Alliance of 1815, when the autocrats of Europe called the Indivisible Trinity to witness that, as brothers of the same family, they would defend the doctrine of the divine right of kings against 'the contradiction of revolution wherever it should appear. Yet more trenchant was the crit icism of "Voltaire. "The peace imag ined by the Abbe do Saint-Pierre," said the philosopher of Fernay "Is a chimera which could no more sub sist between princes than between elephants and rhinoceroses, or •jo tween wolves and dogs. Carnivorous S'" a ' 8 rush to attack each other on nitli n Thc "Project for Per petual Peace, according to Voltaire manne o rof b ?t Urd i,SC,f ' h,,t '" the £lwnvt to 1 S pr °P° aI - There would alwajs be wars of ambition and con quest, until people learned that it was ""'"'r and ministeis who profited thereby. - LOCUST DUE TIIIS YEAR (From the Albany Evening Journal ) Entomologists of the United States ° f „ make nnt pr . e^i . Lt,on th at this year will be t ' l ® worst "locust years" on record, but at once temner *, prophecy with the assurance that prospect no ' hlng Qlarming m the The substance of a long article on the "Seventeen-Year Locusts' is summarized in the following- The periodical cicada, the real name of the insect commonly called locust, will appear this year in Alabama, District of Columbia. Del rC, Tr ? rg L a> ll,inoif - Indiana. lowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massa chusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn sylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee We,t vire ""* The injury done by the periodical cicada consists almost wholly in the chiseling of grooves In the branches of trees for the depositing of eggs. This injury always appears to be greater than it actually is. Popular alarm is usually out of proportion to general damage. Young fruit trees are sometimes killed by thc cicada. The precau tionary measures are: Defer put ting out young fruit trees till next year; postpone budding operations; do no pruning this winter or spring. When the Insects' begin coming out, hand pick them from young fruit trees or spray them with pyrethrum powder, kerosene emul sions or a solution of carbolic acid or acetic acid. Later, when the inftects are ready to begin-laying. spray young fruit j trees with whitewash. FEBRUARY 17, 1919. i LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COMPLAINS OF POLICE To the Editor of iho Telegraph -. I have been a daily reader of your esteemed newspaper for tho past llfteen years and I And as much en joyment in reading it as I do in eat ing my evening, meal. X appreciate your fairness at ail times given to letters on all leading subjects that arise from time to time, whether they be of National or City import ance involving either Republican Democrat or any other party politics, and for this reason X take this liberty of writing and expressing my opinion and I llrmly believe the expressed opinion of ninety per cent of the residents of the city of Harrisburg with relations to the assumed de plorable conditions of our Police De partment. There have been several charges preferred against one or more of tho members of the depart ment but the gravest of the charges to my mind seems to have gone Unnoticed. It was a rumored charge and without any hesitation that a certain City Detective had takeif a State Official into camp to the extent of $295., in addition to $4O. automo bile hire, for hush money, as it is known in police terms. IXarrlsburg has been heralded from coast to coast as a city of vice, crime and immoral freedom, and why? Simply because such acts as these allowed to go unnoticed and with out the proper investigation. Why should one who has been fortunate enough in Jiimself and unfortunate enough for the people he represents to be elected, privileged to pick out Harrisburg when he wishes to go on one of his frolics and capers and then return to his own native Innd and say is the worst town on tlie map: you can go. there and do as you please and in the end you will get it shaken down." The Mayor knows this he has re peated it to some of his friends that he knows it. But he says "it did not happen during my administra tion." Give tlie voters of this city the just satisfaction they deserve when they place confidence in a man by electing him the head of a prominent and re sponsible department and you will retain in that voter a friendship ever lasting. As a railroader I frequently go to Xew York City and I quite often in my travels come in contact with traveling men, representing some of the largest concerns of America and it is a frequent remark that I hear: "Yes, T hear much of Harrisburg; some town you got there, everything goes." Can this not be eliminated 'and instead let them say, "A beauti ful city and so well managed." Another point not so interesting to most of us yet very important indeed is the fact that only a few short months ago the Federal Authorities were compelled to enter our borders and make a clean sweep of the city, ridding us of some of the vilest houses of ill-repute ever known. The Federal Marshal gave them a hearing and held some of them for court in bail as high as $2OOO. X°" day some of the very ones that were hauled in the Post-Office building in army trucks are running their dons lin defiance of the Mayor. Chief of Police or any of the members Harrisburg Police Department. In formation has been advanced to the Police Department concerning these places, also personal interviews have been held with his honor the mayor but he simply says that we will in vestigate. I think that we have I grown a wee bit careless in our per sonal concern and pride. I believe | that all these matters of great lm-i portance should be given attention and promptly cleaned up. Why should the capital city of the great est Commonwealth on earth be tar nished and branded as sinful, filthy, and immoral when we as its heads can make it otherwise. I am proud to say that I have been a resident here for over forty-five years have always upheld the morals of my town and I say with honor that I have never In my life gone into another city, town or borough and abused the morals of the govern ment and I have never been a State Senator; simply a law abiding citizen. I do hope that Mayor Keister will prove to the good people of Harris burg that be intends to do all he can to uphold the fair name of Har risburg and retain the confidence that the voters placed in him when they elected him their Chief Execu tive. Thanking you for any space given this article, I am, "A GOOD CITIZEN." OTHER SIDE OF IT To the Editor of the Telegraph: To whom it may concern: In re gard to the "near riot" story publish ed last week, supposed to have been caused by Arthur Jackson of 220 Bailey street, Steelton, over seats, I will say it was not true. Mr. Jackson entered the car at Fourth and Market streets and was paying his fare when a soldier from the aviation field struck him in the back and he was overpowered by several soldiers and dragged from the car at the P. R. R. entrance and a number of soldiers pounded him on the head. Then they boarded the car and bragged of how they "done that nigger" and if they were in the South what they would have done. They also made the* remark that "niggers had no business on the cars." Mr. Jackson had a revolver but he did not draw it. He did not have it for that pur pose. He was only bringing it home for a friend who had just boarded a train at the P. R. R. We have eye witnesses to the above statement Signed, Mrs. J. Fortune. The Fields of the Marne (From "Yanks, a Book of A. E. F. Verse.") The fields of the Marne are growing green, The river murmurs on and on; No more tho hail of mitrailleuse. The cannon from tho hills are gone. The "-.erder leads the sheep afield Where grasses grow o'er broken blade: And toil-worn women till the soil O'er human mold, in sunny glade. The splintered shell and bayonet Are lost In crumbling village wall; No sniper scans the rim of hills; No sentry hears the night bird call. / From blood-wet soil and sunken trench. The flowers bloom in summer light: And farther down the vale beyond, The peasant smiles are sad, yet bright. The wounded Marne Is growing green," The gash of Hun no longer smarts; Democracy is born again, But what about the troubled lieu rts? —Frank C'urbnugh. Ngl., Inf. (Written wh'lc lying wounded In hospital; died August, 1918.) \ Itontttg (Eljat Thanks to the intelligent and en ergetic manner in which Major Wil liam G. Murdock, the State's chief draft officer, has taken hold of tha work of compiling the history of tha draft in Pennsylvania, this state will have probably one of the most complete chronicles of a wonderful military achievement of any in tha Union. Just what it would have been worth to this State to havo secured such information in tha closing days of the Civil War can bo realised by many a veteran and members of families who have struggled to cstaoiish military re cords. The records as far as Har risburg is concerned will be splen did and when placed in the State library will be accessible for years to come. Major Murdock has taken a personal interest in the compila tion of the records of the Dauphin county boards, as their members were in almost daily touch with him and tho work done was related to headquarters in many ways. To this fortunate circumstance people living here will be able to obtain facts about service of members of their families who were in tho Na tional army without difficulty. The work of the Dauphin boards at tracted considerable attention as tho gathering of the men of draft age at Klizabethville last summer under auspices of Dauphin board No. 3 was one of the first moves of the kind and was most beneficial in its results. It was soon followed by by Steelton board No. 1 and the Paxtang board No. 2, members of the reserve organizations tendering men for instruction, wliilo doctors, lawyers and insurance men helped. The joint efforts of tho Dauphin County Historical Society and the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce will collate the history of the vari ous activities of the county in the war and the story of the draft operation will be one of the great features because of the patriotism and efficiency which characterized it. Owing to requests of a number of draft boards the time for filing the histories of the operation of the selective service law in this State will be extended a short time longer by Major Murdock. In some instances, members of boards have asked for a little more time to pre pare their data, while others have been adding to what has already been filed. "We wish to close up the histories of the draft in the State as soon as possible and to have a complete record," said Major Mur dock. "The information which has been sent in will be of inestimable value in the future and there is data in the chronicles which have come here that can not be found anywhere. Thanks to the interest taken Pennsylvania will be able to furnish to people in years to come not only the names and records of the men in the great system, but to show contemporary activities, the patriotic support given to the draft and the men who helped make it so valuable a branch of the national defense." Major Murdock said that it was desirable that as much "local color" be put into the histories as possible, especially unusual and humorous incidents. Somo of the sketches have been too brief. "A number of boards have forwarded complete files of newspaper clip pings, which tell the .story of the day and will be of immense value: photographs of the contingents and the names of the volunteers in their districts for army and navy service," said the major. "This information is what we want. The history of each board will be a part of its record and it will not be complete without it. An interesting history earne from Forest county which told the Vtory of the Forestry Regiment in France, a number of whose men were recruited in that county. We want individual cases coming under observation of members of boards, because valuable information for the future can be thus obtained." I-listory of Market Square Pres byterian church which yesterday ob served the 125 th of its establishment has been marked by several long pastorates, notably those of the Revs. Drs. William R. DeWitt, Thomas H. Robinson and George B. Stewart. Dr. Dewitt, who was closely related to Harrlsburg by his marriage with a granddaughter of William Maclay, was one of the big figures in Pennsylvania Presbyte rian affairs and the ministers who succeeded him have been men of un usual force and ability, who have attained prominence not only in de nominational. but educational affairs of more than state-wide impor tance. There are few churches in this section whose spiritual guides have won greater recognition for themselves and their charge. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. Russell H. Con well, noted Philadelphian, is cele brating his seventy-sixth birthday. —Mayor A. M. Iloagland, of Wil liamsport, is making a tour of some Pennsylvania cities to see how things are handled. —Judge H. M, Edwards, of the Lackawanna courts, is just seventy five. —Charles M. Smith has been chosen as head of the Mifflin county supervisors and is taking an advanced position on road mainte nance. —A. E. Burk, well known Phil adelphia!}, is wachting along the Florida coast, -x. —Congressman L. T. McFadden, who seems to be going after Con troller Williams, comes from the northern tier and is a banker. ■—Lieutenant-Governor Edward E. Beldlcman is to be the speaker at the St. David's day dinner at Scranton. DO YOU KNOW That Ilorrisburg is a distribut ing point for postal supplies for a large district? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris was one of the first men from the banks of the Susque hanna to put money at the disposal of Congress when independence was declared. THE HEART'S SONG There is no night in the wide world If your love shine, if your love shine; Nor can age come, nor the chill sky. Driving youth far, making Spring die, If your love's mine. There is no end to the heart's life If vour love stay, if your love stay. I Care not if the Spring last Till the world's end shall all be past. If your love stay. —Clement Wood in Smith's Maga zine
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