10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE JTELGGIUPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUUH, BOYD M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTE* GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha 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. J Member American rj Newspaper Pub t Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa- Aven'je Bui Ming". i Chicago, 111. K Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa„ aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. 13.00 a year in advance. Courage, brother! do not stumble. Though thy path be dark at night; There's a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. —Norma Maclcod. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1919 MR. BAILEY'S PLAN EDWARD BAILEY laid before the Rotary Club yesterday a concrete and practical plan ] designed to solve at least one phase of the housing situation 'n Hirrie burg—that having to do with imme diate shortage of houses. There are other and very important sides to the problem, but first and foremost we must provide homes for those desir ing to make this city their place of residence. Mr. Bariley says the best way to finance the plan, under pres ent conditions, is through the opera 'ions of a co-operative company of 1230,000 capital stock. Mr. Bailey is ■ conservative banker, accustomed to lealing with large financial prob oms and not given to discussing igures in public until he has studied hem and made sure as to the ac uracy of his conclusions. If Mr. '•alley says the thing can be done, 1 here is no question about it. But first it will be necessary for ie Chamber of Commerce commu te on housing to find out precisely hat is needed, it is important that ■ e start right. Mr. Bailey has sug ested a survey. In one way or an ther it should be made. That wlil e the work of the committee, and nder the leadership of Mr. McFar und, its chairman, tnero is every ndication that no time will be lost n preliminaries. Thanks to the en ouragement of Governor Sproul and licit men as Mr. Bailey, our housing roblem is much nearer solution than appeared only a few weeks back. THE DEEPER RIVER j !■ THE residentsof theSusquehanna valley region from the head wat ers to the Chesapeake Bay could ave heard the constructive and in armutive speeches made before the enerul committee having to do with he movement for making the Sus quehanna river navigable, at the "enn-Harris yesterday, there would e no longer any disposition to treat his proposition as something far in he distant. Facts were presented and argu lents adduced leaving no ground >r the pessimist to insist that the ••roposal is not feasible from an conomic or an engineering stand point. It was demonstrated that the undertaking is not only practical in ts character but very desirable from • very standpoint. Already the Fed ral government has appropriated •250,000 for a survey of the river torn the Chesapeake Bay to Har • isburg and the matter has also been aken up in a small way in the -egislature. But Pennsylvania must !o more than talk. It is estimated hat the saving to consumers on nthracite coal alone in a single ear should cover almost the entire ost of the canalization of the river from the head waters to the ocean. It has been shown over and over gain that the abandonment of the anal system of this State years ago as an economic crime, and now hat the railroad svstems cannot be vin to handle the enormous traffic •resented to them it is necessary 'or the people to provide some other icans of transportation which will ssurc cheaper commodities and re 'eve the railroads of the conges- M on which is impossible of relief y any plan of railroad extensioh i sight. President Eli N. Hcrshey, of the Rotary Club of Harrisburg. which ■ rganization was responsible for giv ng start and effect to this move lent, was properly chosen as head . f the working committee which vill represent all the towns and ommunities along the Susquehanna l iver and its tributaries. It is pro posed to mako this a real movement ad anybody that has an idea that .t Is to b edropped aa a nine-day TUESDAY EVENING. wonder will have reason to change hia mind before many months. Eminent engineers have expressed the opinion that the proposed canal ization of the river is practical from every standpoint. Indeed, so attrac tive is the proposition that some men of big vision in New York city have been investigating it with a view to making some proposition looking to utilizing the river as a corporate enterprise with a promise of big financial returns. Of course, it is desirable to give the people of Pennsylvania the bene fit of any economies which may be effected through an improvement of public transportation facilities. The Susquehanna River will be made navigable and just as the skeptic laughed at the aeroplane, the tele phone and other great Inventions of recent years, so they will laugh at the making of the most import ant river on the Atlantic seaboard navigable until it is done. THE FIRST SHADFLY WE flicked a shadfly from the back of our editorial neck and it fluttered down Into a plate of soup at luncheon yesterday. Did we rave and call down male dictions on the head of the unfortu ; nate intruding insect? No. indeed, by no means. We fished him from his precarious footing on a half submerged noodle, placed him on n napkin, tenderly divested him of such particles of consomme as* was possible, addressed him In kindl> fashion, apologized for unintentional rough treatment and sent him limp ingly on his way with a benediction and best wishes for a pleasant jour ney. And why, you ask, all this con sideration for a humble shadfly?! Well, maybe it was a bit overdone and perhaps we shall not be so beneficently inclined another time. But that shadfly meant a lot to us. You see, he was the first we had seen this season. He wasn't just a plain shadfly. He was a harbinger of spring. He brought with him such a prospectus of outdoor de lights and diversions as would put the most gorgeous seed catalog or summer resort circular to shame. First the shadfly, and after him the robins and the bluebirds and the blackbirds. And then it will | be time to rake the lawn and spade j the garden, turning up the seedbed t and wrecking the peace of mind of countless fishing worms. Ha! Now you're talking! Fishing worms! You said a mouthful that timd, boy. i Chuck the rake back of the porch, leave the spade in the furrow, grab your rod and line and run. Make for the nearest creek, for the suck- j ers are running and nothing else on j earth matters. Down by the big eddy and up stream a little farther, where the bro.ok comes tumbling in, big, fat, black suckers are lined up in rows like soldiers at drill await ing your tempting red worm. The sun is warm overhead, the grass has a "springy" smell, the swamp cabbage is beginning to show signs of life, a baby garter snake pauses to study with beady eyes the white, fleecy clouds in the sunny blue sky overhead, and you and your soul are at peace again in the great outdoors. There! That's Vhat one shadfly will do for a fellow. Do you won der now why we fished him out of the soup? FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE CONGRESSMAN Edgar R. Keiss, who is a businessman of large experience and practical in every way, has recently returned from a visit to the battlefields of Europe. He made a close investiga tion of conditions as he found them and joins in protest against the em barkation facilities and the lack of sanitary conditions of the ports in Europe from which our troops are being sent home. Congressman Keis3 returns to his duties at Washington with first hand information and will not need to de pend upon military or other sources for his facts in the discussion which | must inevitably ensue respecting the care and treatment of our soldiers overseas. Since President Wilson has set an example of personal investi gation of things transpiring abroad the administration cannot object to representatives in Congress likewise informing themselves regarding the vital things with which they must deal in legislation during the next few months. Congressman Keiss pays high tri bute to the American soldier and es pecially the Pennsylvania troops with which he was in close touch during his tour on the other side of the ocean. He says: As a Pennsylvanian I feel proud of the record made by the 28th and 79th divisions, which were made up almost entirely of Penn sylvania troops. These divisions were engaged in some of the hardest fighting of the war and made a most enviable record. It is to be regretted that so many of these brave boys lost their lives in the awful struggle. Na turally I was particularly inter ested in visiting the battlefields where our American troops were actively engaged, and it was our good fortune to be able to pass over the areas over which they fought. Their advances were made against strongly entrenched forces and well fortified positions. In overcoming what seemed like insurmountable defenses the Am erican 'doughboy' demonstrated the wonderful fighting spirit wl.lch ir. the final analysis was re sponsible for the early ending of the war in favor of the allies. We heard both the allied soldiers and the enemy soldiers testify as to the ability of our American sol dier on the field of battle. Thus we hear constantly of the fine work of our men and the gallantry of their conduct throughout the struggle which eventuated yi a vict ory for the forces of righteousness and Justice. Congressman Keiss has seen with the eyes of intelligence just what transpired ahd will be able from time to time to throw the light where it is needed in a further consideration of military and war measures. ' falltlci Ck 1 By the Ex-Committeeman ) A stormy time for the Philadel phia charter bill drawn up by the Charter Revision committee was forecast last night almost as soon as it was introduced in the Senate by Senator George Woodward, of the Germantown district. Senator Edwin H. Vare promptly issued a statement breathing defiance and John R. K. Scott, the Vare leader of the House, announced that he had a bill to take policemen and firemen out of politics and that he had a penal bill to go with it. Even some of the Penrose men did not seem to be very enthusiastic about the woodward bill. Both factions seem to be down on the clause forbidding office holders to make political contributions and us lnpst of the legislators are of a practical turn of mind that section is going to have some rough rid ing. The opposition will commence to form very soon, it was predicted, today. The chief point of opposition picked out by Senator Vare were appointment of city solicitor, now an elective officer; the abolition of the tax receivership and the proposi tion that the city must do all its own contracting work. There will be the usual hear ings, then the fight will start. The rest of the State, it was declared today, would be involved and if Philadelphia gets any new charter will have to come through in tervention by Governor William C. Sproul. —Harry S. McDevitt was last night reappointed secretary to the Governor, the first man to be so named twice in six weeks. His re appointment came so that he would be under the new salary act. James C. Deininger will become the new chief clerk. —The Senate now has two Bald wins—Frank E., of Potter, and Kiehard J., of Delaware. —Capitol Hill has been hearing reports that there is a probability that Governor William C. Sproul may name Charles H. Kline and County Judge James E. Drew as the two new Common Pleas court judges for Allegheny. As the Governor is in Washington, there is no way of learning whether there is any foundation for the story. It has been generally accepted here that ex-Senator Kline would be sure to receive one of the appointments. The men most discussed for the second place are Stephen Stone, William Challiner and A. T. Morgan, and generally in the order in which their names are printed. Mayor E. V. Babcock has been active in urging the selection of Mr. Stone, who is the solicitor of Pittsburgh. The Mayor and Governor were in Wash ington at the conference of gover nors and mayors and it is possible that when Governor Sproul returns there may be some action in the judgeships. —Judge Drew has made several attempts to secure a seat on the Common Pleas court bench, and his friends are letting it be known that whether or not he is appointed, he will be a candidate this fall for one of the five Common Pleas court judgeships. The reason given for' the likelihood of the Drew appoint ment is that his selection would pro duce harmony in the judgeship elec tion in Allegheny county this fall. —Three hundred Philadelphia politicians who followed.the political standard of the late Senator James P. McNichol will come here next Tuesday in a special train to attend the memorial service which will be held in the Senate chamber at 3 o'clock in memory of the late Sen ator. John A. Voorhees. secretary of the Republican Alliance came here last night to make the final arrangements. Thomas W. Cunning ham. clerk of the court of quarter sessions and for many years the first lieutenant of Senator McNichol in conducting the political affairs of the Tenth Ward, is chairman of the committee on arrangements. —Speaker Spangler is down on having bills put through first read ing as soon as reported unless of importance. He 'so warned the House. —Results of the special congres sional election to be held in the Westmoreland-Butler district today win be closely watched.. This elec tion is the first special congressional election this year and while there is little interest within the district and only one place to fill some peo ple declare that the result will show something of national value. No campaigning effort of any conse quence has been made and Repub licans claim that they will win easily in the old district which was so firmly Democratic that it used to be called the star of the West. —Here is a Philadelphia newspa per view of the Democratic national committee place situation: "It is reported here that Judge Bonniwell is already cognizant both BROWNS BECAUSB You CAM GARCOIU GETS YOU PERFECTLY SUITED TO You ft LIMITED use YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF FRENJCH \JOCABULAY FRENCH THERE AMD YOU HNOUO The proprietor Paul * f ' \ /NOUS AUOMS. DO A I /QUEST CE QUE \ BOEUF / DU UEAU ' HM-M- OUI- N MONSIEUR - vous Auei a I I DES coTeuerres J donngz-nDus V — nouTA FHjy TBORD PE-m^J - AMD You TFFLL HIM IAJ - AMD HE ASKS You A Q.UESTFOM " AND when You NAME PUT it FRENCH TO HURRY YOO ARE ,W AMD You GIVE- oueß V)U- H .U. BOVJJ? HUNGRY YOU HAVE ThE F?-& DfiklD LEARNED THAT PHRASE) OFF TM6 BAT- A N IT A laK R-n/SNU ' , AND GLOR-R-R*Oos / ou* monsieur - iKi ** \ MONSIgUR j' ~ \ I Quei VIN DEiIRSZ/ /p: V* \MONSiguy pePei:HEZ vous , j "T^r. I voui, NOUS / S FOH-PQL \ ( y .. _ V Post-Bellum Patriotism [From the Iron Age.] No feature of the recent banquet of the Pennsylvania Society in New York was so signitlcant or encour aging as the appearance of the new Governor of Pennsylvania, the Hon. William C. Sproul, a manufacturer of iron and steel, a builder of ships, a man of large affairs of a type too seldom seen in legislative halls or in executive positions in State or Nation. The Governor, in a strraight forward, earnest speech summoned the people of his great Common wealth to perform the duties and meet the problems which now con front them. He said the exaltation of patriotism makes all tasks easy, and the severe test comes after war ends, when extravagance and ineffi ciency must be abandoned and things must be gotten dowp to a workaday basis. He expressed his conviction that the people would do this, in spite of any unwise legis lation that might delay but could not stop their progress. Will there be any dollar a year patriots now? It is announced at Washington, in phrases that are really funny, that a movement is under way to get the ablest busi ness men to contribute a year wholly to the service of the government, and this effort may take practical form, but whether it docs or not, there is everywhere an urgent de mand for unselfish, enlightened and untiring service from every man who served his country in any way during the war. Men'like Governor Sproul are entitled to loyal and enthusiastic support in all worthy efforts, and more men of that type must be elevated to high official positions. Certainly it does seem that our various war boards could have been made to function for the period of readjustment, but plans to operate in the large war time way were apparently not considered feasible and many of the personnel felt they were sorely needed at their accustomed places in finance, busi ness and industry. Tt is to be hoped that those remaining will not allow themselves to be demobilized from public service when there is urgent demand for their help. LABOR NOTES During the last two months ap proximately 10,000 Forto Rican la borers were brought into continental United States by the United States Employment Service. Since the armstice signing the recruiting has been discontinued. Approximately 2..">00.000 workers were directed to jobs by the United States Labor Depaitment Service from the time of its organization last January to October 30. Nearly 1,000 offices have already been established at various points thioughout the United States. Work in three coal mines at O'- Farrell. 111., employing 430 men. was stopped recently following the re ceipt of a telegram by one miner from his mother-in-law, a spiritual ist, who gave warning she declared she received from her dead husband to the effect that an accident would befall the miners if they went to work. A half-and-half profit-sharing plan with employes in all branches has been announced by the Willys- Overland Automobile Company. Over 100.000 employes are affected by the order, and some will receive as high as S4OO as their share of the division. Nearly 500,000 railway employes or one-fourth of the entire number of railroud men in this country, have effected some sort of organiza tion. A large proportion of the recently organized employes are clerks, maintenance-of-way men. shopmen and dining-car employes. The Federation of Union Workers, the'most powerful labor organiza tion in Mexico, has appointed a committee to take up with other workers' organizations throughout ♦ be'republic the question of uniting a'l the labor organizations of Mex ico into one confederation. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which employs 25.000 women as agenjs. telegraph and telephone operators, information clerks, station and car cleaners, draftswomen. janitresses. messengers, maids and matrons in stations, ticket sellers and collectors upholsterers and watchmen, as well us clerical assistants, is making no definite provision for them when the | company's regular employes return to their duties. A Word to Heroes FROM I.IFE. [From Life] STILL be heroes when you come home. Even in these states, far from shell holes and trenches, there are heroic times and more coming. We need persons who can sit tight; gentlemen not too much con cerned about what is going to hap pen to them and the rest*of the com munity, but duly concerned for their own conduct and the maintenance of the spirit and the discipline that helped them to end the war. Observe, heroes, that this is your country. Do what you can to take care of your property. The country owes you a great deal, and part of it will doubtless attempt to pay, and it is important that it should. But it is much more important that you should pay what you still owe to the country. Think what she has done for you! Could you have been heroes unless she had got you into the war? Do you think you were born heroes? Not a bit of it. Heroism was handed out to you. You are heroes because you had to be. Nothing less than heroism could meet the sit AN ARTIST'S APOLOGY The New York Times is respon sible for the following; Dear Teacher: My mother says I haffto appollogize for droren your pickchure on the bored as if you was an oiled made with curls and a long wissker, on your ehim witch you could not hellp or me neether. It was a meen thing to doo and I am sorry I didd it but 1 could not help it becaws you stood thare look ing so acherl with the curls and the wissker and all and Jenny Ames dared me to doo it at recess. I doo not blame you for wippen be becaws it looked so mutch like you you had a purfeck rite to be mad. If 1 was you I would be mad too. My mother says nobody is so senn sitive about her looks as a lady teacher espeshuly if she is a lettle oiled but this was not to go in the letter. If you only understood what is in side of boys heads maken them be mischefuss you would be sorry for them for it is not exackly their fault. I know you feel worse about it than I do becaws my wippen does not hurt now but a pickchure goes on forever. Teachers have a hard ernuf time goodness knows without bcin shode hoy they look for a whoal school to laff at. Sometime if you do not care I will drore you on the bored looken swete and yung and put your name under so everybody will know who it is and so no more for the present froum your troo friend and skoller, TOMMY. Save Shipbuilding Industry [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] "Whatever else Congress neglects, it should see to it that the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill gets through, for this measure contains an item of something over six hundred mil lion dollars for the continuation of ship-buiiding under the auspices of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which is the Federal board. Does Congress realize what would happen if this bill should fail and the President should refuse—and he has refused —to cull an extra ses sion? Thousands, tens of thou sands, scores of thousunds of workers in the shipyards of the country would soon find themselves out of employment, and at a time when the munition plants have dis gorged their multitudes and our troops tare coming home from übroad seeking employment. The ships scheduled for construc tion in the Emergency Fleet pro gram are badly needed and just as badly there is need to provide work, for the army of the unemployed Is growing. That army must be re duced. not increased, and failure to pass the bill referred to would in a few weeks add enormously to it. The banks of the Delaware, to give only one instance, now hives of in dustry, would become almost desert places. Congress cannot take the re sponsibility of depleting the great yards of their tens of thousands and turning these men adrift. Surely it must recognize the Importance of pushing the Sundry Civil bill to the , front. uation you had to meet, and you reached for it and put it on like a garment. It is a good garment. Keep it on! It is becoming. You know the war is not yet over. Peace is not signed yet, but even when peace is signed the war will not be over. It will hardly be over in your lifetime. The war has shaken all the habits and all the okl arrangements of this world. There is ahead an immense readjustment. All you heroes feel, one hears, that your old jobs are not good enough for you. Probably they are not. If you got out of the war what there was in it for you, you are much bigger men than when you went in, and would probably find your old jobs a tight fit. But when a man's job becomes a tight fit it cracks down the back and he usually gets one that is more com modious. You are not the same as you were before the war, neither are jobs the same. They have changed as much as the heroes have changed who used to fill them. Finding a job that will fit will be to many heroes a good deal like going over the top, but the spirit that went over the top will find the job and stretch it to hero size. Republicans Applauded [New York Times] For once a great party has put its best foot forward in the nomination of a candidate for one of the nation's highest offices. Frederick H. Gil lett, who will be the next Speuker, is not only a good man or the right man to elect, but he is conspicu ously fitted for the place above all his competitors. That seldom hap pens, in a country where comprom ises so often rule elections and nom inations. Usually, as between the best and the worst, the parties com promise by choosing somebody neither very good nor very bad. But Gillett, able, experienced, broad minded, and yet no mugwump, but a vigorous honest partisan stood out over all the others, and even, it may be said, over those who might have been put forward but were not. The Republican party, in its first effort toward 1920, has acted with a wisdom surprising and unexpected; for although it had been evident .that Mr. Mann's candidacy was doomed and that Mr. Campbell's appearance as a stalking-horse at the eleventh hour was not likely to be successful, still the pronounced majority for Gillett over all candi dates had not been looked for in the country at large. The Speakership result in all its brilliancy, was largely brought about by Chairman Hays of the National Committee and Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. THINGS TO THINK ABOUT According to the reports of offi cials of the War Trade Board, 5,000,- 000 immigrants wish to return to Europe as soon as they can obtain transportation. Since the war broke out such immigrants have saved $1,500,000 which they have been unable to remit to their native lands according to their local custom. Be fore the war these workers sent home about $400,000,000 a year, so the estimated total now in their hands seems to be conservative. They have been earning more than usual during the last four years. These aliens are ignortant of the English lunguage when they arrive and most of them learn little of it while here. When they try to in vest money in America they are too often exploited and swindled. They distrust the country and the peo ple from whom they gain a liv ing. It is common to find an alien laborer with several thousand dol lars on his person. Private bank ers and steamship agents do a lurge business in remitting their money to their native countries and also encourage them to go batfk. This drains America of cash and valuable labor. Something should be done to encourage such men to stay and to invest their savings here. The first step Is to inspire them with confidence and to protect them against swindlers. Appropriate With Paderewskl at the head of its government, Poland should put up that Western mining camp thea. ter sign: "Don't shoot the pianist; he's doing the best he can,"—Co lumbus (O.) Bvening Dispatch, *~fl- MARCH 4, 1919. m German Learns War Lesson [New York Times] That at least one German has learned at least one thing from the war is shown by the fact that Ernil Zimmcrmunn of the Lokal-Anzeiger has lost his confidence in a large and long-trained standing army us an implement for the enforcement of a nation's will. Both Great Britain and the United States, he writes, have proved the possibility of "creating big and efficient armies out of nothing." That the British and American ar/nies were made out of "nothing" is a statment amusingly incorrect, if it be taken literally, but it is easy enough to catch the German editor's meaning. What he has dis covered and confesses, of coirse, is that armies as good as the best can be made in a good many years less than forty, or twenty, or even five. Our own Mr. Bryun once thought or at any rate said, that it could be done in half a day, but he was not much more wrong when he talked about a million freemen leaping to arms over night than were the military experts of most countries, and especially those of Germany, when they used to tell us what a long process was the turning of a civilian into a soldier. They forgot the difference between men who go into uniform as a last and rather desperate resort, and those who do it for the attainment of ends vehemently desired and warmly ap proved. In those conditions the time required for training to high effici ency Is vastly shortened. HONORING JOYCE KILMER The first tree in honor of Joyce Kilmer, who wrote the famous poem "Trees," is to be planted at Trenton, N. J., says a report to the American Forestry Association. The tree, an oak, will be planted by the pupils of the State Normal School, under the direction of Dr. J. J. Savitz. the principal, along with one in honor of Russell Terradell, a former stu dent who was killed in action in France. Kilmer, too, was killed in France and many critics agree that his lame will rest upon this poems- I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain, Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me. But only God can make a tree. The suggestion of the American Forestry Association that memorial trees be planted in honor of the soldiers and sailors in connection with any* memorial plans is being taken up all over the country, and the association will try to register all such trees for a permanent re cord. In many states organization by counties is being effected for the planting; work. Didn't Stop Strike—Hanson The following is a letter from Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle, to the Chicago Tribune. Hanson, reputed to have broken by force the Bolshe vik strike in Seattle, is a former Chicagoan: "Many yeurs ago I sold your paper on the streets. It was always a real newspaper and I surely ap preciate your kind words. "The mayor or his deeds did not break the revolution. I helped, but the patriotic public opinion of our people was the real force back of me The aliens and that mongrel breed of citizens (?) who call them selves pacifists and internationalists were swept oft their feet by true Americans. "Some day I will write you a letter and tell you how and why the I. W. W. propaganda finds such fertile soil in the Northwest. We are in part to blame. "The cure Is n it less democracy, but more. Someone said thai tf a man was brought out from a dark mine mta full sunlight his eyes would be blinded. This man also said, 'To cure it, would you return him to his darkness or would you allow him to remain in the light until his eyes grew accustomed to light?" "The anarchist must go, but we must qurselves teach the Ignorant the truth and greatness of our gov ernment, Ninety-five per cent, of the rrimes against our government is the fruit of igneranoe," Etomttg Pluns for the improvement of Capitol park, the Memorial bridge and the making of a civic center are giving the Riverfront a chase as the topics of conversation among vis itors to the city in the lobbies o/•. the Penn-H&rris and other hotels and in the corridors of thet State Capitol and one of the remarkable things about the talk is that many ask whether the plans call for the retention of the walk from Third and Walnut to the State House. This walk which more men of influence, one way or the other, in Pennsyl vania have trod Is one of the best known footways in the State. It is one of the oldest in a public place as well, it was laid out when the Capitcl nark was first extended from the line of Cranberry street, speak ing roughly, to Walnut. That was many years ago and the steps in connection with it were manv and interesting. At first it was a brick walk. Then it was made a plank walk as lumber was cheap in those days and finally the famous "board walk" was laid. down. This was soon noted far and wide among men in politics. It was raised from a foot to two feet above the level of the park with spaces between the boards large enough to lose money and penknives and other things and many a Harrisburg boy went prospecting under it. In the eighties Ihe "boardwalk" disap peared and granolithic or some thing else took Its place. This walk has never been properly drained and has been patched and changed around a lot. but it follows the an cient line. Perhaps, in the scheme of things, it will be rclaid and better adupled for the rainy season. Inci dently, it is the plan to start this spring on the change at Third and Walnut whereby the sharp angle will be rounded and the entrance set back about thirty or forty feet. A considerable space will >e added to the street. The city is to pay for the bulk of that work and should be glad of the chance. • * * The influence of the roturned sol dier is commencing to be felt in many an establishment in and about Harrisburg was the remark of a manufacturer yesterday. According to this man the former soldiers stiffen up the morale, are on the jump to do things and have their eyes open. The effect of their pres ence and the way they go at things is commencing to show on the other men, many of whom are now eager to outdo the younger fellows. "They put in the snap and the pep," said this man. • • • This is the way the excess fare certificate worked out on a Second street car. There were ten people boarding the car between Woodbine and Herr streets. Three did not even answer the conductor when he offered the slips. Three smiled and shook their heads. One handed it back and another said he did not want to be bothered. Two took the slips, one of whom tore up the paper. * * * "Spring seems to be fairly well on the way," remarked one of the city's policemen last night. "Men . have started to bat flies over in Capitol park extension and the spin ning of tops seems to be over and gone. That means its nearly time to put the benches out in the river park. And to think that this time last year we had two feet of snow and everyone remembers the 'flare backJcTrt Taft's inauguration." * • • President George S. Reinoehl and Chairman Charles E. Covert, of the committee in charge of the Chamber of Commerce party for the Legisla ture "are still getting com pliments for the success of the en tertainment. "I had a fine time at that reception" was the remark which happened to be made both by Governor Sproul and Speaker Spangler, while several of the sen ators and legislators sent their sou venir hats home to their families. Just how it was regarded by the older legislators is demonstrated by this remark from one of the up-state counties: "I'm sorry it didn't last longer." In any event it has made Harrisburg people mighty popular at the Capitol this session. And also broken traditions that the way to entertain legislators is to make them stand around and listen to speeches and then hurry home. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George tyharton Pepper, who served as chairman of the State De fense committee, will likely remain as a member of the welfare com mission. —John M. Jamison, who will be elected to congress today from the Westmoreland - Butler district, is heavily- interested in coal operations. —Mayor W. S. McDowell, of Ches ter, is personally accompanying his chief of police in his efforts to clean up the crooks of his city. —Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, who has suggested Justice Brandels as Governor of Palestine, is a Philadel phian of wide influence. —John Hampton Barnes, who took a prominent part in the draft ing of the Philadelphia charter bill, is an active attorney. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg goods are be ing sold in Paris and other French cities? I HISTORIC HARRISBURG —John Harris used to send some of his goods up the river to Sunbury by big boats. National Highways General du Pont, who is chair man of the Board of National Coun cilors of the National Highways As soiation in a New York good roa