12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. yEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telearraph Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. OYSTER, Business Manager QVS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBT, 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. i Member American Bjlk Bureau of Circur syl^anlaiiAssocia- IljC Eastern M ,o e Budding* " Chfcago, n"! 1^'11 *' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a *- year in advance. Bream not of noble service elsewhere wrought; The simple duty that awaits thy hand Is Ood's voice uttering a divine com mand; Life's common deeds build all that saints have thought. —Anon. THURSDAY, MARCH E. 1919 MARKING TIME THERE is a prevalent disposition fcmong all classes of business men to mark time pending a readjustment of war conditions. But underneath this attitude Is a strong current of optimism which Is grad ually forcing the conclusion that In stead of marking time and waiting ; for something that may never turn j up the business of the country j should proceed on the new line i without a moment's hesitation. In short, the Impression Is grow ing more and more pronounced that the prosperity which has been held back by the war and its confusion is likely to overleap old bounds and to sweep away evon the abnormal conditions which now retard normal development. Roger Babson, in a talk before the Governors and ether officials at Washington this week, spoke out of his large experience as a business statistician in favor of immediate resumption of commercial and in dustrial activities. He also favored a strong advertising campaign by the government and business and manufacturing Interests, with a view to stimulating all normal activities in the same way that these same activities were checked by govern ment warnings $q stop spending money during the war. Boiled down to a word, prosperity seems fo hinge upon the decision of the individual to go ahead without waiting on the other fellow who may be too timid or too conservative to do anything but wait. Hesitation in business activities now may do serious harm to the whole fabric of the nation's prosperity. Clark E. Diehl is deserving the grateful appreciation of the entire community for his consistent effort as City Electrician to remove the overhead wires and poles which have so long disfigured the central busi ness district. Gradually these forests of poles have been eliminated in cer tain sections, but there still remain a considerable number to obstruct the highways. Mr. Diehl, however, has consistently continued' his work and we are now assured that another large area will be cleared of the poles and wires within the next few weeks through the transfer pf the wires to the conduits already installed. Most of this work would have been done months ago. but the embargoes of the war period made it necessary to postpone the work. •TRIBUTE TREES" WE read that Scranton will be enriched by approximately 4.500 trees and the county by the same number if a plan now proposed to plant one tree for every man who wore the - army or navy uniform goes through. Each tree so planted as a memorial is to be named "a tribute tree." Again we are reminded that the City Council has failed to the pres ent time to provide for Harrisburg one of its greatest needs—a Shade Tree Commission. Why the munici pal commissioners continue to ig nore this matter is beyond the com prehension of the average citizen. If there is no disposition to plant ■such trees in honor of our returning soidicrs lct'it be done for the sake of our children and the future gen erations. Wc of the present day are enjoying the shade and the comfort and the beauty of the thoughtful planting of our ancestors. Why should we be so selfish as to ignore the demands of posterity upon us? Mdy we not hope that the City * ouncil, with the approaching springtime, will mark the season with a definite movement in the right direction through the author ial lon of a Shade Tree Commission THURSDAY "EVENING, gxmtlSßCTlo TKlJAtirocpg '' ' 19TARCH 6, T9T9. and the appointment of the right kind of men who will out of civic pride and publip spirit give attention to this matter? It is all very well to appoint a City Forester, but he will be absolutely helpless without the backing and appreciation of a commission which will encourage public interest in tree planting. Commissioner of Highways Sadler is not going to stand for any ve jncered roads in Pennsylvania. He be j lieves thfe time lias come when high- I ways should be constructed which will i outlast the financial obligation en ! tailed in their building. No greater | monument to any administratidn could j be devised than the construction of a i great highway system, and the pres ent Governor is sticking to the text ! in the most encouraging fashion. THE FRENCH REPLY L' EIPSIO and lleidleberg were not long in receiving from the French universities their an | swer to the nervy suggestion that i pre-war relations be renewed be- I tween the Universities of France and j Germany. What could be more di rect than the reply of the University | of Bordeaux: Please make a short visit to the | devastated regions of Northern I France and then inform us upon your return how long it would be before you would renew rela tions with a people committing similar deeds in your country. The generation perpetuating such abominations has severed all con nection with humanity. Perhaps we shall renew relations with the next generation. It would be well for many pacific individuals on this side of th& ocean to realize that the unspeakable *Hun has brought down upon himself the wrath of generations unborn and that any mushy attitude in these days of peace negotiations ought to be frowned upon by those who have saved the world from the insatiate greed of the Berlin autocracy. We should not forget the outrages, the incineratory torch, the killing of wo men and children and the devasta tion of Europe by the beasts who were unleashed in the summer of 1914. The filling out of th? river front with ashes or any other proper ma terial will be generally approved pro viding reasonable care is exercised in the handling of the materials so that the refuse is not scattered all over the contiguous territory, as has been the case at Front and Woodbine stieets. It would seem, also, that when a section of the river front has been filled to the necessary width that sec tion should be immediately treated for park uses and not permitted to become a subject of reproach and un favorable comment by the passing stranger. BUSINESS PROSPECTS GEORGE E. ROBERTS, of the National City Bank of New York, sums up the business situation of the country for the cor respondent of the Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger as follows: There' are certain influences against the immediate return to the pre-war price level. One .of these is the inflated state of money and credit all over the world. Prices are an expression of the relationship between money and commodities. To whatever ex tent the war inflation is made permanent it is bound to make itself felt in prices to keep prices up. The price of commodities may be high because money is cheap. If it is true that money stays cheaper than it was at the begin ning of the war, prices will tend to remain higher. I believe that foodstuffs will be the first products to get back to normal prices and that, as they do, wages and all prices will tend naturally and properly to read just on that basis. The domestic outlook is good and foreign trade will be whatever we have the vis lon to make it. We have come out of the war in a stronger world position than we entered it. We have changed over from a debtor to a creditor nation. It is a new position to us and a desirable position, but it involves certain responsibilities and obligations and policies. If we want to trade with other nations it must be real trade. We must take from them the raw materials and, natural products which are their only means of payment. Any other policy will tend to confine us within our own borders. I learned years ago that there is an intangible factor in the busi ness world which is quite as im portant and far more difficult to measure than those that are tan gible. You must take account not only of economic conditions as they are but as people think they are. In this country business is in a transitory state, hesitating naturally, waiting for the domi nant forces to make themselves felt. What is the proper level of ptices under the new conditions? That is the problem upon which a resumption of business waits. There is sound sense in this. Noth ing is so timid as capital in an uncer tain market: nobody is bolder than the investor when prospects are rosy, and prospects become rosy when our state of mind is optimistic. Just now business is bargain-hunt ing. Rather, business is waiting on bargains to be offered. Prices are high; wait, then, until they are lower, seems to be the general view of merchants, manufacturers and men with big development projects in their minds. The "intangible factor" Just now is the universal hope of holding off for lower prices, but the danger is that we may hold too long; that we may slack up trade to the danger point past which it will be difficult to steer it back to normal channels without serious losses and disturbances. Prices are going to recede, but not so rupidly that the average man is not justified in buying at least con servatively, while the manufacturer with enlargement ideas in his head may as well make up his mind that he must choose prices of labor and materials higher than pre-war figures or be content to let his pro ject rest indefinitely, and so miss the prosperity that seems just around the corner. Edward Bailey has opened the way for a real housing movement which will have substance and practical re sults. More power to him, and those like him who are considering the welfare of the city and who are will ing to help solve the big problems which mean so much for the develop ment and prosperity of this com- I raunity. I *POTTTTC4 TK *ptKn^A|{Wrtux By the Ex-Committeeman Talk of a recess for further prep aration of legislation and for hear ings on such matters as the Philadel phia charter and other measures likely to provoke much discussion is being frowned upon on Capitol Hill and it is now the plan to have the Legislature go right straight on with its work and to close the session on May 8 or 15. The earlier date will be selected if possible and the presentation of bills will bo stopped pretty soon after the administration submits the measures which are now being drafted for the reorgani zation of the Department of Agri culture and the various projects which have been outlined from time to time. The highway legislation will be through in another fortnight, the bond Issue and sinking fund bills being the last and they are for House consideration next week. Many members are anxious for an early adjournment because of the cost of living, feeling in regard to which was demonstrated this week in the passage by the House of a bill to raise the pay of legislators to $2,500 instead of $1,500. The appropriations committees have started to speed up their work and appropriation 'hearings stagt next week. —The name of Col. James S. Bar nett, former State Treasurer, and a veteran- of the Philippines, now practicing in Pittsburgh, is being urged for the Public Service Com mission. —A good story is going the rounds of Capitol Hill about a lawmaker I and his bill. This member has one bill a session and harps and speaks and toots on It. His address is al ways an occasion of the first magni tude in the branch of the General Assembly to which he is re-elected biennially by an admiring constit uency. The other day Joseph N. Mackrell, who had heard that he was tuning up for his bill, met him and said that he had heard a man making a fine speech on the same subject. "It's getting to be an im portant theme," said he. "That so," remarked the member "Glad to hear it. Where was the man speaking?" "At Wernersville," replied Mr. Mackrell, gravely. "Well, the folks are getting real interested," commented the states man. —Some Pittsburghers are hard headed. The other evening one of the Allegheny delegation picked up a bill containing the latest offering for a State song. Reading aloud he quoted "Within the shade of P,ort DOquesne in peace the farmer sows his grain." "Why," said the outraged man from the confluence of the western rivers of Pennsylvania. "You couldn't grow ragweed there. There's nothing there but railroad tracks." Some people have no sense of poetry. —A good story is going the rounds about a Democratic member of the House. There are just 2 3 Demo crats in the House and the member is intensely partisan. The other day one of his colleagues was away, sick. The member was urged to ask leave i>t absence for Jiim. "Oh, no," he replied. "We might need his vote." —John J. Casey, former legisla tor here, who is back in Congress as the member from Luzerne, was at the Capitol yesterday. He severed his connection with the Emergency Fleet Corporation on the eve of his assuming his duties in the House. —There is a nice league of nations controversy on in Scranton between J. Benjamin Dimmick, who tried for the Republican United States senatorial nomination in 1914, and Cornelius Comegys, Lackawanna lawyer and a candidate for the su perior court, some years ago. Mr. Dimmick is opposed to the league as now drafted. Mr. Comegys is with President Wilson on the propo sition. * —Dolly G. O'Dea, Lackawanna's only woman lawyer, is sitting as commissioner in the McLane-Farr congressional contest at Scranton. Farr, the contestant, has submitted his evidence. McLane, who took his seat Tuesday, has forty days to air his side. Then comes Farr's testi mony in rebuttal. i —Members of the States Senators Association of Pennsylvania will be the guests of former Senator Clarence J. Wolf, of Philadelphia, at a lun cheon and smoker in the Mercantile Club, Philadelphia, tonight. The membership of the association is comprised of Senators and former Senators. —Members of the Legislature were today devoting some atten tion to the Palmer bill? to amend the esfheat laws which are awaiting action in the Senate committee on finance after having passed the House. It is estimated that while they would clarify and overcome de fects in the escheat acts which are now in litigation that they would be very profitable to informants. When the bills were passing the House Mr. Palmer stated that they would bring a million dollars into the treasury, but the members are inquiring as to what fees the State woflld have to pay to get the money. —Concerning the suffrage propo sition the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says: , "The suffragists are preparing to make a drive for the passage of the presidential vote bill, as they receive quicker action by that route than through amending the Constitution. They will, however, ask also for the contltutional amendment. The suff ragists say that they have the opin ions of George Wharton Pepper, of I Philadelphia and a prominent Pitts burgh lawyer that the presidential act is constitutional. The women have endeavored to secure an opin ion from Attorney General William I. Shaffer, but he has informed them that he cannot give any advice until the measure Is in the hands of the Governor for approval. He told them the only way they could have the question determined is to enact the proposed law and have it re viewed by the courts. His advice has been accepted, and the bill will be introduced within a short time." —The Philadelphia Inquirer praises Judge John Monaghan for severity In sentences In Philadel phia and says: "It Is notice to criminals that we have on our own bench at least one judge who will show no mercy to brutal criminals. Those who terrorize helpless men and women at the point of a pistol really have murder in their hearts, and they deserve to be treated ac cordingly. It is encouraging to •know that those who invoked the technicalities of the law in order to avoid the country judge have fared even worse at the hands of Judge Monaghan. - The punishment has been made to fit the crime." WONDER WHAT PRESIDENT WILSON THINKS ABOUT? .... .;. By BRIGGS WELL- MAY U MOT | SUPPOSE .OU6WT : LOOKS 'IME SAY THAT AMOTHGR TO'.SHAVE BUT" I < ' A • J)6C£NT ID 6WE *!£?Y THI*G PAY HAS CAME- I'M GUESS I'LL WAIT ' DAY . TODAY. |P • I HADN'T TOLD * HUNGRY- OH < HOPE AND GO TO A BARBER- * MQTION OLD GEORGE CLEM-* we HAVE BUCKWHEAT t NEED 'A HAIRCUT TO Give- Tne EMCEAO I'D -Corne CAKES FOR BREAKFAST! AND A SHINE ANYWAY. OLD BACK .IN A, FEW J TOHNEZ MOI <3,ui=L<3ue I'VE got To BuY ' b _ WEEKS - ' I DqnT CHOSE A MANOER- as .SOME new razoh oosh/ COMEIO KNOW , WHAT, i wi= S AY -IN , blades TODAY surf' Os \THINK ABOUTJ-i COULD HAVE "beenj VERSAILLES / I ALWAYS FORGET <T A L 5vT _ THINKING*OE. / vjHGra IM "DOWN TOWN GOLF OUTFIT LET 'S SEE - I HAD WONOER. IP MY PON"T NCV^r' ** * f\ DATE WITH: SOME NAIME.I-S IN THE ' BAK6, I'D LIKE To SENATOR ; ToDAY- . THAT'S A UK6 SETf$ E Tf A BUNCH of | W N^ER°C^N S ,T> LLOYD HE'S . T O S6 G TH£ BUNCH AMO HAVE CHW-.U FFI'SOSRR GAM'S TONIGHT. S*Y .HE IS THAT/WAS SOME PARTY.'' WE HAD COL. BARNETT Colonel James E. Barnett is being discussed as the likely successor of Public Service Commissioner Harold M. McClure of Lewisburg, who died suddenly last week. Potential forces in the Republican State organiza tion are favorable to the appoint ment of Colonel Barnett and are hopeful that Governor William C. Sproul will consent to name him. Judge McClure was commissioned last month for a term expiring July 1, 1923. When Commissioner W. A. Magee was dropped from the commission and his successor was not named from Allegheny county, it was un derstood that later In the Sproul ad ministration an Allegheny county man would be placed on the com mission. The forces favorable to the selection of Colonel Barnett are expected to be successful in securing his appointment, if the Allegheny county leaders will waive claim to the place. Th,ere is a strong proba bility that the waivers will be given, with the thought in mind that an Allegheny man will bo put forward when the term of Commissioner James Alcorn of Philadelphia ex pires July 1. Colonel Barnett lives in Washing ton, Pa., and practices law in Pitts burgh, he has the united support of the Republican leaders of his home county, and his capability to admin ister the office is generally recog nized. His name was considered by the Governor when the successor of Mr. Magee was chosen. Colonel Barnett served the first half of the Hastings administration as the Deputy Secretary of the Com monwealth. resigning front the office when the Tenth regiment was sent to the Philippines in the Spanish- American war, he was the Lieuten ant Colonel of the organization. When Co'onel A. L. Hawkins died, he succeeded to the command of the regiment and led the troops in all of their hard fighting in that cam paign. In 1899 he was elected Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Stnoe his retirement from that office in 1902, he has been practicing law in Pittsburgh. A Little Child Again "Now I lay me down to sleep" In yonder star I seem to see Myself a little child again With lisping lips, at Mother's knee. "I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep" As then I prayed, long years ago, While Mother's hands were clasping mine Her head, in reverence, bended low. "If I should die before I wake," And leave this world of blight and pain, Beyond the range of bursting shell— Beyond the sight of comrades slain— "l pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take;" That 'mid .Thy Hosts I may re main, Until my Mother comes t.6 me, And clasps my hands In hers again. —Pvt. John P. Biggs, in Stars and Stripes, France. LABOR NOTES Bricklayers In Japan receive $1 an hour. There are 80 paper and pulp mills In Canada. There Is much agitation among the labor unions in Great Britain for a uniform 44-hour week, which would mean eight hours a day on five days of the week and four hours on Saturday. The time of payment of all public employes is fixed By a California statute, which directs that all per sons employed on a daily basic by counties of the first and second class shall be paid twice monthly. During the last year 542 factories in New York have heen investigated with a view of finding out how many positions could be filled by crippled soldiers returning from the war front. Thus far 1203 kinds" of Jobs have been found possible for leg cripples and 278 kinds for arm cripples. An order Issued by the Director General of Railroads takes addi tional steps In the direction of fix ing the status of railroad employes by declaring their wages exempt from garnishment because paid from public funds, This places them on the same footing as other employes paid fl-om such funds and secures them In the enjoyment of their i earnings without Interference. "Down and Out " Congressmen [Henry Watterson in the Saturday Evening Post] Between the idiot and the man of sense, the lunatic and the man of genius, there are degrees—streaks— of idiocy and lunacy. How many expectant politicians elected to Con gress have entered Washington all hope, eager to dare and do, to come away broken In health, fame and fortune, happy to get back home — sometimes unable to get away, to linger on in obscurity and poverty to a squalid and wretched old age. I have lived long enough to have known many such; Senators who have filled the galleries when they rose to speak; House heroes living while they could on borrowed money, then hanging about the hotels begging for money to buy drink. There was a famous statesman and orator who came to this at last, of whom the typical and characteristic story was told that the holder of a claim against the government, who dared not approach so great a man with so much as the intimation of a bribfe, undertook by argument to interest him in the merit of the case. The great man listened and re plied: "I have noticed you scatter ing your means round here pretty Reason Easy to Find [From the N. Y. Times.] Why Congress even thought of repealing tVie daylight saving law ought to be mysterious, but unfor tunately it Isn't. The Senators and Representatives had heard from the farmers—from how many farmers nobody knows, but evidently from enough to arouse fears in the always timid minds of legislators threaten ed with what they think an or ganized or united vote. Anyhow, they had been persuaded that the farmers were opposed to the inno vation, and that was enough. No body else was heard,, or, If heard, was not heeded, and nothing except the vehement controversy over more important matters saved the coun try from what would have been, not, Indeed, a great calamity—to call it that would be more than an ex aggeration—but certainly a real and large diminution in the happiness of at least three-quarters of the American people. , As for the farmers, of course we have for them the high respect that comes from a clear sense of utter dependence on their exertions. If it had been thought that "daylight saving" really injured them nobody would have demanded It. But they only said they were hurt; they nev er proved it, for there is nothing in ♦he law or the plan to make them change by a single second their ac customed hours and habits of labor unless they choose. The case of tho market gardeners was a little different and better. They have to get up and go to mar ket an hour earlier than in the past, and nobody .can blame them for not liking that, but, compared with the country's whole population, they are a minute group, and their hardship, though real, is a small one, not in terfering at all with life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. Roosevelt as a Reader With homage to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt, tho great Pres ident, the moral awakener, tho impassioned patriot, the* Authors' League of America would here pay its tribute of respectful affection and gratitude to a fellow member who since the inception of the or ganization honored and aided It hy acting as its vice-president. A vig orous writer, a catholic reader, he continued to write and to read books even during the most exact ing years of a most strenuous life. Vividly Interested and expertly en gaged In a greater variety of activi ties than any man of modern times," big interest In authors and author ship, his faith in the social efficacy of good literature, abided to the end and will remain an aid and an in spiration to the future of American life and letters.— (Frotn the Au thors* League Bulletin.) Like Unto the Chaff Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that Is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.—Hosea xlii, 3. freely, but you haven't said 'turkey' to me." Surprised, but glad and unabash ed, the claimant said "I was coming to that," produced a thousand-dollar bank roll and entered into an un derstanding what was to be done next day, when the bill was due on the calendar. The great man took the money, repaired to a gambling house, had an extraordinary run. of luck, won heavily, and playing all- night, for getting about his engagement, went to bed at daylight, not appearing in the House at all. The bill was called, and there being nobody to represent it, under the rule of the calendar, killing it for that session, of course. The day after the claimant met his recalcitrant attorney on the ave- I nue face to face and took him to task for his delinquency. "Ah, yes," said the great man, "you are the little rascal who tried to bribe me the other day. Here is your dirty money. Take it and be off with you. I was just seeing how far you would go." The comment made by those who best know the great man was that if instead of winning in the gambling house he had lost he would have been up betimes at his place in the House and doing his utmost to pass the claimant's bill and get another fee. DAD AND MOTHER [By Frank L. Stanton] They went to meet him: The -little place Where he first smiled sweet in the Morning's face, — Where he waved good-by as he marched away— It just "kept house" by itself that day! For Dad and Mother alone it knew, — And the boy whose heurt to his home true, Coming home from the war scenes dim Where they kept the home fires bright for him— Dad and Mother. Going to meet him —first glance to win! Their hearts were there 'ere the ship sailed in! On the cheering decks —gone wild for joy, j We\ild even a Mother know her boy? But he, far-tossing on ocean foam, Had but one dream —of the folks at home! For him two faces alone shone bright: One of loveliness—both of light,— Dad and Mother's. First to greet them! * * * The old homo ground, Dad and Mother, and —arms around! I.oyal to country and hofne —at last With the arms of home,to hold him fast! For the Love that fought for his country so Only the glory of Love can know! That Love to hold like the heart's pure gold, And true, till his life's last story's told, To Dad and Mother. PHILLIPS ON PRUSSIA What does Prussia represent? She represents the reorganized fuedal system of the Nineteenth Century. She is a power marshaled into form by the one purpose of court and soldiers. She is not a nation; she is an army. Her great public schools and all her civil life have a great, if not primary, purpose in the design to make men soldiers. Every man of the population—■ banker, mechanic, tradesman or scholar, everything but the pulpit— goes for the three appointed years into camp to be disciplined to arms, and Prussia's policy is an effort to drag the world back three hundred years. She- is the great military out growth, the abnormal monstrosity of the Nineteenth Century.—Wendell Phillips in 1873. Much Work to Be Done "There was never so much work to be done in the world as at the present time. The only thing lack ing is an organization of our indus tries to produce and to supply the market and a conviction that prices •and conditions are on a natural and not an artificial masls." —Governor Coolege to Governors. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TRIBUTE TO CHARLES E. LANDIS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Soon after tho 'writer had re signed the princlpalship of the Har risburg High School, he published a book entitled: "Annals of the Boys' High School" which traced minutely the activities of that school first In the Lancasterian building on Walnut street, and then in the Stevens building on Chestnut street, during the twenty years that he had been associated with it. It gave the name of every graduate of the school during all that period, as well as the names of all non-grad uates who had been associated with the school for any length of time. S.ince that publication a quarter of a century has rolled around, with all its wondrous changes. Many of the bright young men whose names were there recorded have risen to positions of commanding promi nence, one of them having recently been elected Lieutenant Governor of our great State. And many after fighting well life's battle, have fallen before the grim reaper. But a year has elapsed since the writer found tributes In the Telegraph to two who had fallen after carving their names high in the Hall of Fame;— Wi lliam F. Darby and Lieutenant Col onel Frank E. Ziegler. Now another noble member of that High School has passed away, Charles E. Landis. Of him as a pupil it can be said most emphatically that thoroughness and honesty were the cardinal prin ciples of his school life; and by that same thoroughness and uprightness he carved his way to success and to the esteem of all who were asso ciated with him in the busy fields of business life. He fought life's battle bravely and honorably; he commanded the es teem and confidence of the com munity; and his former principal desires to place on his grave this tribute as a garland to tho memory of a noble man whose every action was dictated by rectitude of purpose. May He Rest In IVarc "There seems a darkness on the day His smile no longer cheers; A sadness in the stars of night Like eyes that look through tears. "Fold him, O Father, in thy arms, And m.ly he henceforth be i A messenger of hope between Our human hearts and Thee." —J. HOWARD WERT. Harrisburg, March 5, 1919. GET DOWN TO BEDROCK [Publlo Ledger] Ex-Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain is quite right in suggesting that the proposed .welfare commis sion of the State must get down to bedrock In attacking the radical propoganda that is now going on here and all over the country. While special Americanization ex perts who are to be employed are doubtless men who can do much good in counteracting the wide spread campaign In favor of ex treme and antl-Ameriean and anti social doctrines, the schools, after all, must be the chief agencies of attack. Above all, whatever be said by word or by writing should be of the simplest character, since the difficulty with so much that has been done In the past to Americanize the aliens and to artswer irrespon sible radicals has been that it was entirely above the heads of those whom It was supposed to reach. On the other hand, those who are en gaged In handing out "Red" litera ture make no such mistake. Their primers are like the kindergarten j booklets for simplicity. And the i very danger of the casuistry and | sophistry of their most adroit at- I tacks on existing governmental I methods lies in tho seeming candor with which half-truths and lies aro paraded as "admitted facts." There fore what is sorely needed is that the welfare board shall get right down 'to tho argument ad homi nem, the direct appeal to the aver age Individual, and the more prac tical, the more simple, the appeal the more effective will be the cam paign. Huge pamphlets containing worthy addresses, reports of meet ings that are forbiddingly volumin ous, are of no value at all. The sooner those who realize the grav ity of the situation adopt another line of strategy the better for tho State and the citizens In general. P Just Suppose— Just suppose that the Rajah of Sarawak or the Akhoond of Swat should decline to furnish his quota of men and ships for the coercion of the United States Into permitting un limited immigration of Chinese coollea! —George Harvey's Weekly. Ibemttg (Eljat First steps were taken today t< assemble the flags of Pennsylvania units in the war with Germany ami Austria in this city by Adjutant General Frank D. Beary when hl wrote to commanders of camps in this country to furnish him with names and numbers of organiza tions which had been assigned td those camps , and which had con sisted mainly of men from Pennsyl vania. Colors of some of these or ganizations which have been mus tered out have been sent here and others are understood to be in tha possession of regimental command ers. The colors of the' National Guard regiments carried until they; entered Federal service have been located and it is expected that they] will bo in the custody of the General! before very long. It is the expecta tion that the flags brought back) from Franco by Pennsylvania or ganizations will also come here ad they did after the Civil and Spanisll wars. It is the intention to ask legisla tive authority for a formal ceremony) when the flags are placed in thl rotunda of the Capitol, where the) flags of other wars are grouped- The flags of the Civil War weri taken from the State Library to the) rotunda by survivors of the regi ments in formal procession in 1914* it being one of the most impressive ceremonies ever seen at the Capitol* • • • Literally thousands of men oif their way home from France are passing through Harrisburg every week now and the sights and scenes about Union Station are a repeti tion of those of last year, only the men are homeward bound instead of being on their way to war. Of course, there are not the same crowds out to see the men, but the long lines of cars filled with khakt clad men are an object of interest and the cheering and singing finds a responsive echo in every heart just as it did last year when some of the very boys now going westward and southwestward from Harrisbura passed along prepared for war. • • • Harrisburg has seen many sights in connection with the wars of the country and it is to the credit of the city that men who were hero in the Civil War or who passed through speak as highly of the city, as do the men of the Spanish war. This was rather strikingly illus trated yesterday when a man ad vanced in years recalled how he had been given pie and coffee at a "re freshment saloon" near the old sta tion in the summer of 1865 when ha was on his way home to be mus tered out. He lived up the State and says that the troop train from Washington got here about eight in the morning. "We had the regular rations, but that pie was the best breakfast I ever had," said he. The Jadies of the canteon section of the Harrisburg Red Cross have fnade many a young soldier happy here the last year and a half by giving him post cards and letter paper and mailing letters. And some of those who went through here so blithely last spring and summer and who walked around town in columns for exercise carried with tHem to Europe memories of Harrisburg which their comrades now on the * way home will gratefully recall. "The rest of the counties in the hard coal fields are going to watch the way lhjidffiin county handles the coalHtfnd valuation problem," said a from Lackawanna county here yesterday. "We have gone through with it and your county's course will be watched. Your commissioners are right in in sisting on a fair valuation. • "Harrisburg is going to be some place when the Commonwealth's civic center is completed in accord ance with the Brunner plans," said ex-Representative F. W. Fletcher, of Montgomery county, while on a visit to his old stamping ground on Capi tol Hill yesterday. "I'm glad to see that the city is going to take part in the program, too, because Harris burg has the spirit and with its River Front and the Capitol Park and the new hotel it will be right on the line of travel." * * * Song sparrows have been singiryc in trees along the River Front for more than two weeks according to Professor C. A. Ellenbcrger. There have been a number of them heard in Reservoir Park and one man says that he observed their notes as early as Valentine day. Another man de clares that blackbirds have been around. As for the "first" robin, he seems to have stayed here from last fall. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Mayor E. V. Babeock, of Pitts burgh, who was here yesterday prides himself on his farms. —Commissioner of Banking John R. Fisher is another farm owneif. He was born on one in Tndiaria county and likes to talk agriculture. —Henry C. Frick, the steel mag nate, occasionally takes flying trips to his old home in Western vania. —Leon R. Cole, the United States army officer detailed as instructor at Pittsburgh, is a veteran of artil lery battles in France. •—A. R. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, has been elected president of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association. [ DO YOU KNOW ") —That Harrisburg got its first city offices In tho courthouse by a special nction of the legis lature? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first fence was built about Capitol park in tho thirties. The Greetings of Nations Arabs: "Peace be with you." Turks: "If it be the will cf| Allah." Egyptians: "How is your pers piration?" Chinese: "Have you eaten you* rice? Is your stomach in good or der?" Greeks: "What art thou doing?"* Neapolitans: "May you increase in health." Italians. "How goes ltr* Spaniards: "How goes it?" and "X kiss your hand." French: "How do you cajry your self?" Dutch: "How do you drive?" Danes: "Live well." • Scotch: "How's all with youT" Russians: "Bo well." English: "Are you there?" American: "Hello, hel-lol"—Bos ton Post.
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