Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, February 24, 1919, Page 8, Image 8
8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 NEWSPAPER FOR, TIIE Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A.R- MICHENER, Circulation Manager Jk Executive Board 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 t.his fiaper and also the local news pub- Ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rl Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bureau of Circu ™a®SlGElM lation and Penn- HMMKSStB sylvanta Associa |fl| 8 |gg W ated Dailies. BsB S SOB M Eastern office B9i 2 SSii n ptory. Brooks & JSiejagQ Building, Western office' Story, Brook St ' " Chicago, ®n! ldlnr Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. s&SßgSj*-. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Lead life of love; that others who Behold your life, may kindle too With Love, and cast their lot with you. —Christina Bossetti. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1#1 VOTE TOMORROW DAUPHIN county citizens sh'ould be sure to cast their votes at the special senatorial election to-morrow. The senatorship of Dauphin coun ty is an important office. It is sec ond to none in the Legislature. From it as a stepping stone have come presidents pro tem. of the Senate, one Lieutenant Governor and at least one judge of the court*. The filling of the vacancy should command the attention of the peo ple. The certainty of the election of Frank A. Smith, the Republican can didate, does not relieve the Repub lican voter of any responsibility. The time is here when every Republican should make his party sentiments felt at the polls on every possible occasion. Every to that at which the next President of the United States is chosen will have some bearing on that contest. It is important that we in Dauphin coun ty renew our allegiance to the prin ciples of Republicanism and regis ter our protest ugainst the high handed conduct of federal affairs at Washington by the present adminis tration. By all means go to the polls to morrow. Mr. Smith is a candidate whom any voter can support with good conscience. He should have a big majority both for his own sake and because of the reflection of pub lic sentiment which it is so import ant the Democratic machine man agers should have at this time. A New York businessman has of fered $50,000 to act as mechanician on the first 'cross-the-Atlantic aero plane trip, and if he is as good a me chanic as he is a sport, he's the man for the job. Go to the polls to-morrow and vote for Frank A. Smith, for State Senator. The bigger the Republican majority now, the Demo crats will be discouraged when It comes to tho election of a President. JUSTICE AND BUSINESS ONE can hardly read the facts set out in the annual report of the State Police by Captain Lumb, the acting superintendent, in regard to the work and pay of the troopers and consider conditions in various parts of the world without coming to the conclusion that Penn sylvania has something worth having, and that it would be simple Justice for the services rendered and good as well to overhaul the salary and living provisions for the men and put them on a basis more in accord with other police organiza tions. Every city In this State has given Its guardians advances in pay and while there are some municipali ties whose police forces have enviable reputations It is generally admitted. Inside and outside Pennsylvania, that the State Police are In a class by themselves. In ordinary times a record of 10,- 000 arrests, double the figures of the year before, with a force short of authorized strength and lacking many of the earlier trained men, would be sufficient for commenda tion, but in two other particulars the State Police, in the language of the hour, "were there." When this State, with its diverse population, was agi tated by rumors of dangerous talk among foreigners the State Police took over investigations and af fected results of a beneficial nature by methods vastly different from -those of loud-sounding deputy fed eral marshals, for instance. When in fluenza prostrated its thousands and death stalked in rregions where the people were dazed by calamity and disturbed by health orders which they did not grasp It was the State Policeman who straightened them out, kept lawlessness down, took sick to the hospitals established by the State and even looked after mother- MONDAY EVENING, 1 i lefcs children, sacrificing sleep and rent hours to do it. ' The tinio has come to consider' the services of the State Poliefe fairly and squarely. A "parlor Bolshevik" is an anar chist without the courage of his con- i victions. * HOME RULE UNQUESTIONAfeLY the reso tion to our problems of city ! government lies in "home rule," as City Solicitor Hare, of Al toona, said in an address before the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce on municipal law last week. But , "home rule" Is not To be accom- 1 ! plished in a- single session of the | Legislature and it will not be brought to ptfss in many years un less the Third Class City League, which persists in holding to the poor old Clarlt Act as the ne plus, uttra of all municipal legislation, sees a light. The league, of course, hesitates to endorse any plan that might seriously disturb present W rangements, because most of its members are job holders whose in terests lie primarily along the lines of salaries, much as they would have, us believe otherwise. So, being unable to get "home rule" for Harrisburg at this time, we may turn our attention as to how otherwise we escape from the strangling regulations of the Clark law. Most of us are convinced that we in Harrisburg are not getting the best results possible for the money we are spending. This is no reflection upon any one of the com missioners. Some of them at least are doing as well as possible under the circumstances, but the method is wrong. There is no concentration of power anywhere. There is no cen tralization of executive authority, and administration therefore becomes ne cessarily more or less haphazard, and a business run in a haphazard man ner never can be efficient. There is just one way eut of the difficulty Aoona', way. Altoona has four councilmen who contribute the bulk of their salaries to the em ployment of a city manager. The j city manager is responsible to the | four commissioners sitting in session ; once or twice a week. He, through I them gs a board of directors, runs the city government. If there is a fail ure there is no difficulty in ascer taining where the blame lies. If too much money is spent, the voter knows who is doing it, and the city councilmen, with no salary to hang to and no job to perpetuate, is in terested only in seeing to it that the best possible results are obtained for the city. The experiment is certainly worth while. The question then is, are we big enough and broad enough to pick out four men who will pledge them selves to such an administration and after they are in the field elect them to office? It is a question that must be answered soon or it will be too late to do any good during the com ing two-year period. — y A BIG PROBLEM HATSOEVER shall be the out- Wcome of the present high school discussion, the solving of that difficulty will by no means let us out of the woods with respect to our school problem as a whole. We have been building many flne new school hemses to take- care of the growth of* the city. Most of them are up to the minute with re- Bpect to modern thought in school construction. They have auditoriums, gymnasiums and all those features in the way of light, heat, ventilation, etc., which progressive school offi cials have insisted upon. Generally speaking, with regard to our newer buildings, we are on a par with most cities of our size and ahead of many. The public does not fully understand just how excellently Dr. Downes and the school board have done In this respect But there remain to be considered frightful relics of antiquity in the very heart of the city, such as the Beily building, tor example, which long since outlived their usefulness. It is not fair to the boys and girls who are required to attend them that their opportunities should not be as many and as' great as those of the pupils who are housed in modern structures. Nor is it fa(r to the tax payer who is assessed that the new buildings may be ereoted to put his child into an undesirable school house. Every pupil is entitled to fresh air, sunlight and wholesome surroundings. The financial burden entailed by a wholesale demolition of these older buildings and their replacement by modern structures would be heavy; very. -Jlkely, than the school district would bs able to stand at this time. But the topic is timely and should be considered. Let us not fool ourselves into the belief that all our | troubles will be at an end with the j erection of a new school or high schools. 'petitcc* Ck By the Kx-Committeeman Signs that Governor William C. iSproul will soon ask the Legislature to enact the bills orutlined by him in his irmugural Address as needed lo promote efficiency and better business methods in the state gov ernment are appearing at the Capi tol and the bulk of the measures will appear early in March. They will mark the commencement of the real activities of the Legislature and probably cause a speeding up of action on the bills now in hand. 'Once the highway bills are enacted the administration measures will go to the front and after them the long list of appropriations for charities and the general appropriation bill. Men conversant with the situa ;'°™ *5 th e Capitol are predicting tnat the Legislature will close about 11 Is*' -MaJ' and that a very well flefined program for the state is being shaped up. One or the matters which is causing de lay is the constitutional revision problem. The Governor will have to decide whether he wants to have the question of a new document voted on in his administration and ir he does this extremely important subject must be dealt with in a pre liminary way by the present session. I'ew governors in recent years have been so overwhelmed by vis itors as Governor Sproul. People have been thronging his offices and it lias become necessary for him to refuse engagements to callers on days when the Legislature is here as such times are given to the law makers. It is not uncommon for people without appointments to ap pear at the Governor's office as early as nine in the morning and the long waits they have had to endure has taught the importance of making engagements. People have also been calling on the Governor for speeches at a rate never known "before and he has been compelled to refuse many of them in order to find time to work. Hbtween visitors and demands for his appearance to discuss his legislative program the Governor has to work until late at night to catch up with his correspondence and to tit In conferences with State officials between times. —With the bills reorganizing the Executive. State and Highway De partments well on the way toward the Governors desk attention will be given immediately to the com pletion of the measures to place the State Departments of Agriculture and Banking on a modern basis and then bills will be drawn to promote more efficiency in the inspection systems and to relieve the Governor from the duties of auditing many accounts and settlements in pay ment for state supplies. Construc tion of state buildings, starting with the Capitol annexes will go into the hands of a bureau of construction in the Department of Public Grounds and Buildings, as already outlined. The latter proposition grows out of the extensive program for the im provement of Capitol park and the laying out of the extension as planned by Arnold W. Brunner. Erection of the Delaware river and memorial bridges would also be put in the hands of this bureau. Its staff would include a State archi tect, a State engineer and a State superintendent of construction. In all probability steps to take over all future construction of State build ings will be taken when the Capitol work is well advanced. This would systematize ail State hospital and other buildings and place control in the State administration instead of in various boards. —For years Governors have sought to be relieved of the neces sity of passing on all bills and ac counts of the Forestry, Health, Labor and Industry and other departments. They are now handled by the execu tive controller. One of the schemes suggested is for a disbursing bureau in the Department of Public Grounds and Buildings and a special auditing bureau in the auditor general's de partment to look after such mat ters, allowing the Governor tp de vote himself to State business with a freer hand, which would facilitate matters. The Governor under the constitution would have to sign con tracts, but the requirement of his signature to settlements is the re sult of statutes which could be re pealed. —Governor Sproul, Lieutenant Governor Betdleman and Secretary Baker, of the Senate, wilt leave Thursday morning for Pittsburgh to attend ithe. ceremonial session at Syria Temple, Shriners., They will be escorted to Pittsburgh by a com mittee o£ members of the Shriners. They will be escorted to Pittsburgh by a committee of the Shriners. Joseph N. Mackreli will preside at the session. —The Governor will splnd the weekend at Philadelphia where he is to speak. —Nobody from Delaware ccounty waa about the Capitol today. Gov ernor Sproul and Attorney General SchaKer and the Delaware legisla tors and officials and attaches were all in the "home county" because of the special election to elevate Ex-Speaker "Dick" Baldwin to the Senate as the Sproul successor to morrow. From all information at hand the Republican organization in Delaware was working well. —Ratification of the prohibition amendment to-morrow will be flashed all over the country. The attitude of Pennsylvania has been hard for many people in the nation at large to understand and the "drys" in tend to make a "splash" in send ing out the word, having been forced to stand by and note "splashes" by the other side for many a year. —Governor Sproul's addresses in Philadelphia are a theme at the Cap itol and his firmness in dealing with law and order problems is generally commended among the legislators. It is an Interesting thing that the average legislator regards the Gov ernor's utterances differently from what has been the case with any of the last five Governors at least. The lawmakers consider that owing to his long senatorial experience he speaks from the standpoint of a legislator as well as an executive and that fact is going to give unusual weight to what he desires asido from his pres tige and personality. SAJUUSBURG 4Ml'TEaXiltXl>a f WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRICCS yr fno v>se S tH x / Tw*,armv Gamb k/\ X 111 ' //' T>oe:> Bult> ome by// X / s Mu 1 • //• v** • G t c 17-r- V// \ / I f y SE6NAS (sOOt> To A/ . \ / '.l l . // GET, INTP OMB/J \ i\ * m IK \iWJ\ IKS*: I Increase in Railway Expenses ! [From the Willlamsport Gazette and Bulletin.] In its current issus the Railway Age, which is admitted to be one of the best authorities with regard to transportation matters in this' country, says that statistics for De cember disclose that the downward trend of railway earnings continued thru that month. As a matter of fact, the net op erating income of the railroads per month, under government control, , steadily declined from $128,000,000 j in August to $57,000,000 in Novem- | ber. In December it wag $23,000,- | 000. The poor showing of this latter month was almost entirely due to an increase in operating expenses. : The weather was favorable, yet the j expenses were much greater than j in the corresponding month of the previous year, when the weather conditions were as bad as ever were , known in the history of railroading. The Age fears that when , all the j necessary adjustments are made it | will be found that for handling a corresponding amount of traffic, op- ] erating expenses are running at the , rate of one million five hundred mil- ; lion dollars a year more than they ] were in 1917. Made in the face of efforts econo- | mies, this enormous increase in ex penses constitutes a very poor show- 1 ing for government control. Certainly it is far more expensive i than private operating, and there is bound to be a revolt on the part, i especially of people who, making little use of the railroads, receive no benefits from the increase in tax ation necessary to meet appropria tions required to make up the de ficits. To Explore British Guiana [From the New York World] Eighteen men apd women, na turalists, scientists and artists, will sail for British Guiana soon for ex ploration work in the jungles out-, lying Kalacoon, .the station estab lished by the New York Zoological Society in 19X5, to enable William Beebe. curitor of birds in the Bronx Zoo, to obtain a complete collec tion from the American tropics. Beebe will lead the new party, and his associate for several years, John Tee Van, will accompany him. Oth ers in the party will include Miss Mabel Satterlee, grand-daughter of the late J. P. Morgan, assisted by Miss Sarah Bturges, who will study bird life; Prof. William H. Wheeler of Harvard, who will study ants; Prof. Ulrlc Dahlgren of Princeton, and Prof. Albert Reese of the Uni versity of West Virginia, whose spe cialties will be eels and crocodiles, and Miss Carita Spencer, who won decorations for Belgian war work, and Mrs. Gussle Garvin, students of jungle birds. LABOR NOTES A member om organized labor has been appointed on a permanent com mission to administer New Bruns wick's compensation act. Nearly all the stores and busi ness houses in the principal cities in Texas have replaced their men em ployees with women. Over 30,000 motion picture studio workers In Dos Angeles. Cal., were thrown out of work during the "flu" epidemic in that city. The failure to grant St. John (N. B.) longshoremen an increase In wages has caused a cmplete tie-up in all harbor work. In many- of the Industrial truck and tractor factories in this country women are successfully em ployed to operate them. Many of the women workers em ployed to take the places of hotel workers on strike In New York city earn-from $2OO to $3OO per month. Inverness, the largest town In Scotland, north of Aberdeen, is tak ing a forward step In connection with the development of shipbuild ing. A "Free Love" Delegate Doctor ller roll's Qualifications SIIUHIII Please Itulslirviki [From Col. Harvey's War Weekly] LENINE and Trotzky, or whoever shall appear for those advanced anarchists at the Marmora con ference, will meet a congenial spirit in the ex-Rev. George D. Herron, whom President Wilson has appoint ed to represent the United States, along with William Allen White, of Emporia, Kas. George was born in Montezuma, Ind., in ISU2, attended a college at Ripon, Wis., received a D. D. degree from Tabor College, began to preach in Rake City, Minn., continued as pastor of the First Congregational church in Burlington, and served late as professor of applied Christianity in lowa College. "Who's Who's," rec ord. prepared by himself, informs us that he resigned owing to opposition of trustees to his teachings." As a matter of fact, he was expelled by both the college and the Congiega tional Church of lowa. The "teachings-which produced this untoward effect conform pre cisely to the edicts respecting the martial relationship recently imposed by Lenine and Trotzky upon the Rus sian people. George wears no shack les in love. A few sentences from his published works will indicate his viewß, to-wit: "People who love each other and j who therefore ought to live with each j other need 110 laws to bind them to-! gether. The coercive family will pass away with the coercive economic | system. Even when love on; the part of one and not on the parti of the other there can be no possible good in the two being kept together! by external law. "Love must be set free and liberty j trusted if noble and beautiful homes | are to spring up to make the earth a| garden of truth and gladness. There | is a new world coming whose wayj can be made ready only by those who will throw away their good names and accept, perhaps, everlasting dis grace as the*price of their protest. "Lives that are essentially one, co operative in love and truth that make oneness, need no law of state or church to bind or to keep them to gether. Upon such the imposition of force is a destruction •>nd a blas phemy. On the other hand, no law in the universe has a right to keep together those vitally and essentially one. It is only in ,freedom that love can find Its own, or' truth blossom in the soul or other than a slave Individually unfold." • It must be said for "George that he practiced what he preached. In 1883 he courted Miss Mary Everhard of Ripon, married her in the regular way and lived with her seventeen years. Then he fell In with Mrs. E. D. Rand, a Wisconsin widow, who had both faith and money. The •omblnation attracted George, but the impressionable widow was get ting along in years too rapidly to suit his fancy. Fortunately she had a daughter of about the right age named Carrie and George's heart went out to Carrie. How Carrie felt about it nobody could tell, but the old lady was enchanted and started in fortwlth to clear the way for an ideal relationship. < For some reason or other George regarded his legalized wife as <an ob stacle and for some other reason or other he did not care personally to undertake the tdsk of removing it. Dhereupon the widow approach ed the wife in a businesslike way and offered to buy George for Carrie. There was home haggling over the! price, no two being able to agree! as to what he was really worth, but finally the widow fixed the upset at sr>o,ooo and his wife accepted. She was sick and tired of George anyway. So she got a divorce and the widow took George and Carrie away somewhere and hired a minis ter to "announce" that they were man and wife. It was not according to Hoyle, but neither was George nor the widow for that matter, and George said he felt just the same as if he had gone through a regular ceremony. Poor Carrie didn't say a word. She stood it as long as she could and then up and died. Meanwhile, the widow bought some land down in Metuchen, N. J., and George started a free for all love colony for those who had money, but recruits had barely begun to arrive' when the neighboring farmers' wives | hiyided pitchforks to the hired men | and told them to get busy. George saw them coming and didn't stop running till he got to Italy, where, having left the widow at home, he could develop his socialistic theories in peace and quiet. A Full Blown Internationalist He is now a full blown interna tionalist and a budding Bolshevik. We quote from his more recent pub lished utterances. I am myself but a humble and un important follower of "the interna-! tional Socialist movement for the j overthrow of the system which at j present dooms the peoples of all na tions to slavery, misery and hypocrisy The church has wrought mainly by brutal authority. That which was atheism to Jesus has through the centuries been the orthodoxy of the church. The historic form of Chris- I tianity has done its work and now; ought to disappear from the service. of life. The Socialist will at last' crown Jesus with a human glory i which shall spiritually transfigure man. It is not Jysiis we ought to j follow, but the highest truths of ouri i own souls. I have no expectation that the; present kind of civilization can be | amended—it can only be ended. The new system that shall give to every man at first wlmt he Is supposed to have earned and afterward what he needs, can no longer be called a party or sectional term. All kinds of socialism mean the organization of a world in which every man shall be born with an equal inheritance. What Bliall become of God and Gods, of temples, creeds and faiths In the new morning of Socialism'.' It seems to me that the effect of] the Socialistic idea possessing the | world would be to change the entire j attitude of human life regarding ihe< future. Protestantism stands though it doesn't stand very well today-—by keeping man in an attitude of fear toward the unknown. Can you find me any representa tive Protestant Christian in the city of New York today who would not, think civilization would fall Into chaos if men were to take seriously the things that they profess in their churches Protestant Christianity! believes today a thousand times more I in the devil than in goodness. There is not a bit of spiritual dif ference between the Standard Oil combination and the Presbyterian church, or, rather, take the Presby terian church in which I was born and reared, i One demands tribute in the form of cash and the other in the form of enslavement of souls and all the cash it can get besides. But when the Soctallstle-jnovement comes to something like a really de fined conflict with' the capitalistic classes it will come as a program of uncompromising Socialism without regard as to whether you or I want It or not. It is already too late to reform so ciety in America. It Is no longer a ijuestton wliether you will have a So cialistic revolution. It Is only left to yo'u to decide what kind of a revolu tion you will have. So fa> as we uninspired Americans are concerned, this leaves us about where we were, but the fact remains that an official representative of our officially deserted country, George is about to speak for U3 with the full au thorlty of our President, of hlmaelf and of whatever lady friend he has been able to pick up in Florence since or before Carrie passed away. Why the President selected George to represent himself and the United States at the international conference we can only guess. i Man For Congress If we were in Congress we would now and then remind our colleagues that many economies are 1 poaetble and the schedule of a billion and a half a month le not making any hit among the people.-— Houston Past. FEBRUARY 24, 1919. 'FRANK HALL Wh'TES PENNSYLVANIA SONG Frank Hall, deputy i ief of the Slate Department uf Hit.'-'*. author of several songs v lilr 1 attraoted 'much attention during* t''j war, hag ■ Just issued a .song' to 1* itigylvanla. It Is dedicated the khaki-clad j heroes" who added to 'i s glory of | tlie Keystone Slate hi i'Tui.ce and the i words and music were >o'.h written ' bj- the author.*. The li filled ' with patriotic spirit and the air 1 ! Inspiring. Mr. Hall also wrote "In I Olden Days," "Good bye. I'm going Over," and "Dear Old I*. S. A." which j have been published locu.ll:.. the latter | having a spirited chorus which made ; a big hit. | The words of the new ong are! I We love thee Pennsylvania, 1 Thy rocks and hills and colls, 'the smiling, verdant valUya, Where sweet contentment dwells. 'We breathe the air of I'reedom, 'And pray God it may lust, | And nothing mar the greatness j Or the glory of the past. Chora* ! Dear Pennsylvania, grand old Key. stone State, I Steadfast and loyal to all that*# truly great. When duty calls thee, thou haat lsd the way. We love thee and we'd (lis for thee, Dear Old Penn-syl-va-ni-a. IWe love the Pennsylvania, And gladly sing thy prais*. | We pledge to thee devotion | Through all the coming days. Thy fame we proudly (Sierlsh, I We'll play our part with courage, As our fathers did of old. Day of the Motor Truck When the pink primordial pride and joy Of our antediluvian hoi polloi Had ichtryosaurian steak to tote , lie dragged it along On an old stone boat; I Or when his congenial nuite and he '"Would lug their luggage along the lea Or down to a gloomy and glacial shore, They l'ound their burden consider able chore. Oh, tougli was their lot and sad their luck. For they had no Gazimplkus motor truck. When Hauntbal scampered across an Alp The rollicking Romans hollered "halp!" For they bed been told that Jt couldn't be done And Hannibal fooled thera, the son of-a-gun! Some stunt for those Carthaginian geeks , ••• Was peregrinating across the peaks. For all of their baggage rode all the way Fpott their cervical vetebrae , And into the ruck poor carthage snuck For she hud no Galumpical motor truck. ! And 'tis unfortunate, too, the fate Of Alexander, the so-called great, Of Kid Vespasian, Brain Boru, , Napoleon Bone and Stonewall, too, t Copernicus. Newton and Peter and > I Paul, 1 Solomon, Satan, Salome and Saul, i | They limped along in their feeble way , Without the aid of tile benzine shay. While you and I have superlative ' luck — We have the GazoOtlcal motor truck. Then hall to the cant and the cog and wheel. - The brass and copper,-the wood and steel! - And hull the dominant speed and style, . And super service of gas and lie! .! No more need tlie proletariat pine 1 1 That the load must lean on the sag -11 King spine. .! For now it can lope o'er the loamy y lea" y On a Rackard. Fierce, or a Moon , stone T; s Gosh a'mighty, we're all in luck; u We have the Gazzumikus motor . j truck, j. —J. P. McAvoy in the Chicago Trl - j buiie. POSITION OF FRANCE (From the Boston Transcript.) Evidence accumulates that some body in the American delegation at Paris is deliberately seeking to in timidate the French nation by threat ening it wjtli American displeasure— with an American menace of "we won't play" unless the French modify (heir attitude toward Germany. The French government and the French press are reproached with a "propa ganda" against the pure idealism of of the American delegation. But what Is this French "propaganda" Is it not merely a plain insistence upon the right of Fiance —a right which is also a necessity—to make herself secure against German ag gression or invasion" The situation of France in this mat ter is simple—menacingly and terrib ly simple. The country hag been per iodically raided and ravaged by a neighboring nation of greatly superior material strength. A nation of less than 40,000,000 people and one which does Increase in numbers, is con stantly menaced by one of 70,000,000 which even now is being reinforced by the. 8,000,000 or 8.000,000 of Ger mnn Ai'striu. Tt will take France [many years, wifh the best fortune in the world, to recover from the awful i ravage which has just been inflicted her by the last GeiAian invasion. Can any one in the American peace delegation or elsewhere wonder if France proposes measurably to equal ize the conditions between herself and Germany before she once more assumes, alone, the burden of stand ing in the gap between an unfor forgiving and insolent Germany and the rest of the world? FLOTSAAT [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Above the seas was poised a butter fly. Beguiled from shore by sheen of sunlit wave: In frantic stress, I saw it vainly try, On fragile wing, its threatened life to save; When, struggling near the foam, a floating spar— The fragment of some bark in mortal throe — Gave rest and strength for airy flight afar To safety where the honey-flowers blow. In days to come, if o'r a stormy sea Of doubt and bitter grief, I lose my -way. And, sorely pressed, I only seem to be Descending nearer to the numb ing spray, Chance flotsam from another* mor tal plight— A lesson from the wreckage of his dream — May give me courage for a buoy ~ ant flight To safety where the peaceful up lands gleam. HOWARD MARKLE HOKE. jtbimmg <BU?at Forntul demobilization of tl service Hug of the Pennsylvania ra: road containing thousands of stai hundi sis of them golden, whl< took place at New \ork the oth vus u lemony which will ' followed In many places and in t probability leuu io establishment unlqu records of the war. Son time übo tlie suggestion was mat in this column tout when the w is over una me men are home aga that i lie service tlugs which are prouuly shown in many a windo anu ti liich adorn the doors and wal of ottlces and factories and oth places snouid be carefully preservt and framed us reminders ol the tin when Pennsylvania fulfilled hi destiny in an American crisis, is notv announced in Plflladelph that several of the big manufactu Ing concerns intend to have the service tlags framed and put whet they can be seen by all visitor There are a number of flags in Ha riabuig which should be framed b they tell a story of patrlotla that wilj quicken the blood In yea to come and furnish to the seek after facts in the future evidence the part played by that eetabllel ment or institution In a crucii time which-is unfortunately lacl ing as regards earlier times. Tl service flags of tlie Harrisburg ire and steel establishments, of Pit Street church, the Bell Telephor Company, the city itself will 4 most valuable to see ill times 1 come and the Commonwealth < iwU'fu I ''' vania ,las something to sho :°F uMi pe i° ple who wn t from Cap -H'll into the war. Some < the departments have dozens of stai " aKs which are now di Ifi?' ? • e departments could 1 united in one f| ag which could star twL e' e e and luini sh an incei enrdf' r* 0 .i le r 8 to P er l> e tuate the r< cords of their young men and w men. ♦ • • The open Winter has hud the efte. of stimulating the interest of tl grey squirrels in flower beds and n< only in Capitol park, but In varioi " a '. s .®" es there have been some uj of ,V,V lbs wh lch are ratht Irritating, fiie squirrels are n linger limited to the State domai I hey hate voting rights now in a most every ward in the city an are influential in the life of Resei voir park. Some have even bet been on the city's island where tl filter plant is located and they hat acquatntances in Wormleysburg an Camp Hill, Paxtang and the Sta Hospital. They keep the Capitt policemen busy watching the flowi beds and have more friends amon tne visitors to Harrisburg: than returned marine. • * * Susquehanna navigation matter are just now attracting attention u Washington where the significant of the stream which taps the har and soft coal fields and border great farming and fruit raising, lum berlng, munitions making and tram portation centers is commencing t be realized and contrasted wit economic value of the fords of th Yadkin and the shallows of the Ta lapoosa. As up-State business ma who had beeh at Washington an who was here for a time Saturda said while sitting in the Penn-Harr that the northern Congressmen wet taking an Interest in developmef of natural resources which augere well. "Money has been flowing int southern river and harbor improve ments in a way that is impressive while we have been fussing abor post offices and suites for revenu olfloers," said this visitor. "The re suit is that our own State which ha some streams infinitely more capabl of being of value to the nation tha rivers in the southern common wealth is being studied. The Sus quehanna has been picked out fo study and the theory held at Wash ington is that the war has furnishe make a channel In the stream whlc would have been too cosily to under take with the methods we follow ed before we had to set out in venttve genius going to master th Huns." It commences to look as thoug] the shores of Raritan river in th State of Joe Tumulty was going t get the big warehouses which th War Department had planned fo Middletown and Marsh Run arm reserve depots. The plans were mad for some notable additions to thos Important centers of stores whos value from standpoints of securit and accessibility were long ago rc cognized by the army. At first ther were schemes started to remove th establishments and to build ther closer to New Tork, but from wha has been learned this scheme wa frustrated by some urgent repre sentations after the November elee tion. Then the plans for expansioi as contemplated by long lieade< army men were taken out agalr but the latest information is tha sites closer to seaboard are desirei for the governmental storage plants This does not mean that the ware houses here will be abandoned. I is possible that in the next fou years some enlargements will b made along the Susquehanna. • * • Grier Ilersh, the Tork banker who is chairman of the district to the new Victory Ixian and who wa here Saturday, is an enthusiastic gol player. Although he came fron Princeton some years ago he make the youths hustle on the York cours and has fought many a battle 01 the Harrlsburg and Lancaster, links | WELL PEOPLE —Judge A. W. Johnson, of Lewis burg, was speaker at the P. O. 8 of A. mass meeting in Philadelphia —Ex-Speaker Richard J. Baldwin who will be elected a senator tomor. row, is a native of Delaware county —John 11. Penniman, Philadel phlan, suggests that Broad and Mar ket streets in that city be namet for Washington and Lafayette. —Charles E. Hires is on a llsh. ing trip along the Florida coast. —Marcus Aaron, Pittsburgh mem ber of the State Board of Education is taking a prominent part in th< movement for readjustment o teachers salaries. —Thomas G. Parrish, former proi bation officer of Philadelphia, sayi people are foolish to try to prevent boys from fighting. f DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsburg is becoming i center for distribution of pipe stock? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG —The first coal yard was eaUdb liehed along the river front new Market street. When the canaf-wm opened it was abandoned. The Sew Watchmaker Marshal Foch wants the watch ot the Rhine permanently equippo with Freaeh works.