16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 Published evenings except Sunday by TBB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph BalMlag, Federal Saare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. K. OYSTER. Business Manager OUB. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard J. P. McCUULOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESB X, 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 iti this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. Alt rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. IMeniber American I fefl Eastern fU e Chicago, HI. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $::.00 a year in advance. The great obstacle to progress is pre j ml ice. —BOVEE. FRIDAY. MARCH 7. lIU9 WELCOME HOME THE colored men of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Eighth In fantry and the Three Hundred and Fifty-First Artillery, who were welcomed home front France so vociferously last evening, deserve well at the hands of their fellow citizens. They made a record in the Argonne and elsewhere in France second to none. They smashed the best German divisions that the Kat ser could send against them. They broke up the German counterat tacks and dashed forward through a very hell of fire for as much as eight miles in a single day. Nothing could stop them.. With their white comrades they were in at the death of Prussian militarism in France. They did their part to the full. Nothing was too hard or too dangerous for ihem. They left many of their com rades sleeping the long sleep under the poppies in France. They saw, too, the best that the old world had to give its victorious warriors, but for all that they were right glad to be home. ■ The proud place of the negro race in the annals of the country is too well known to require repetition here. Its representatives have been lo>al and devoted always in times of national peril. Not one negro ever has been accused of treason. Many of them have died the deaths of patriots. They can stand with heads high when the flag passes, for they have never shamed it. And now that these latest repre sentatives of Harrisburg colored men to display their valor in the face of the enemy and to uphold the princi ples of democracy on a foreign shore are home, what are we going to do for them? They will desire a little holiday, of course, to which they are, indeed, entitled; but shortly they will desire to go back to work. So far as possible they ought to have their old jobs back. But in all cases special efforts ought to be made to find employment for them. They stood between us and the Hun when the shells were flying and we owe them opportunity to earn a livelihood, just as we do the white soldiers who are returning. MIGHT BE INCLUDED SENTIMENT in favor of a com munity house for Harrisburg is growing apace. Large num- j hers of people in print and in public ■ and semi-public meetings during the past few months have urged the erection of at least one building of the kind. There is a growing need for such a neighborhood structure in keeping with our democratic form of government and the growing in- ' ciinatiou of peopie of all walks of life to mingle for the discussion of public questions and for social en joyment. The cost of a suitable building would be considerable and its upkeep is also a subject for seri ous consideration. Perhaps a so lution of the problem and an answer to the questions of original cost and maintenance may be found in the proposed 'joint court house and city hail. May be it would be desirable to include rooms for community house purposes in the new building the city and county are übout to join in constructing. Certainly, a community house pould be provided in that way at a much lower cost than otherwise, and It would be of value to the county M we to the city. Rest rooms for women and children here from the country districts and towns roundabout are badly needed. There are few, if any, such accommoda tions In the present court house and It would be little less than criminal hot to provide them in the new build ing. The operation could be In cluded in the general upkeep ar rangements of the building proper and would not add greatly to the expense. All of the advantages of a -community house might thus be procured at only a traction of the FRIDAY EVENING, 1 cost of a separate building. It Is worth thinking about. THE CHAMBER'S PROGRAM THE platform for the year an nounced yesterday by the di rectors of the Chamber of Com merce embraces a program com ! prehensive enough to keep the or ganization Intensely busy and in i elusive enough to satisfy even the I most ambitious. It is an admirable 'summing up of Harrlsburg's needs ' and desires. It shows that those ' who are directing the affairs of the Chamber have both vision and a purpose to serve Already there are I signs that the directors mean to put i as many of their planks into practice |as is possible this year, and to go ! seriously- into those problems of ! deeper import that, by their nature, l cannot be solved in n month, or even a year. The Chamber of Commerce has • done much in the nature of war work. It has been the center of all , war fund activities, the headquar . ters of the I.iberty Loan commtt | tees, the Dauphin County Kami Bu- I loan and war garden work, and now | with a record of having gone over j the top in every one of these ef | forts, it is turning its attention seri -1 ously to reconstruction, readjust j ment and the ways of peace. It is ! soiling a good example for the rest lof us. it has not only outlined a 1 program, but it is going right ahead I t<* put it into effect. The Chamber is | doing what every businessman i should do —move forward confident ly, instead of halting and letting ! business stagnate while waiting for ! somebody else to lead the was. TRAIN* OCR YOUTH NOTWITHSTANDING the wide spread interest in military training during ihe war period tliere is a disposition apparently in the Legislature to reject all bills providing for military instruction in the schools in Pennsylvania. can hardly credit this to any paciiistic attitude on the part of legislators, but rather to indifference of those | who ought to be manifesting an in terest in this important matter. I Military drill has been demon-1 ! strated as one of the best promoters j (of discipline ever devised and now ts j i the time to put it into force and, ! effect in our educational institutions, j 'lt ought not to be necessary to ex- j i pend a lot of money for drill mas- j ters, inasmuch as many of the re- . [turning soldiers will be glad to vol-] | unteer their services for this sort of! ! work. Already the military instruction at the Harrisburg Academy is showing important results in self reliance, obedience and mental discipline among the students, not to mention the physical benefits to the boys who are undergoing the regular drills. It may be hoped that the Legisla ture will yet put into force and effect some sort of law providing for mili tary training ni the schools, so that the which are so manifest in those institutions which have al ready inaugurated military instruc tion will be widespread and univer sal. bully for Commissioner Lyncn. He says Harrisburg is ready to proceed with its part of the Capitol Park extension work and the public will be glad of this assurance from the boss of the municipal highways, bet the dirt fly at the earliest possible moment. WE MUST MAKE GOOD EX-LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR McCLAIN is certain to inject into his activities as the manag ing head of the State Committee of National Defense, so far as provisions for the employment of our people are concerned, all the ginger and energy of his personality. There is no more important public function at the present time than co-ordinat ing public activities in such way as to provide ample employment for all who desire work, especially the re turning soldiers and those thrown out of employment by the sudden cessation of the war. Mr. McClain has been in touch with the Federal authorities and may be depended on to aid in every proper way the plan for providing employment for the citizens of Pennsylvania. Congress must do its part in pro viding fo'r the national employment service so that the work may be carried on during the present year. With thousands of our soldiers re i turning home daily it is going to be absolutely necessary to utilize every agency for the employment of | those who in many cases gave up | good obs to respond to the call to the colors. They were promised that they would be taken care of in the way of employment on their re turn and these promises must be made good. FARIAH OF NATIONS WHATEVER the immediate re sults of the differences be tween the President and the United Stales Senate concerning the League of Nations, it Is certain that the open discussion of this import ant question will lead to a more careful consideration of all the points at issue at Paris and the elimination, perhaps, of the features of the proposed alliance not in ac cord with American Interests. Publicity of every phase of the proposition is desirable and there is no occasion for hectic contro versy or bitterness. President Wilson has sailed away to Franco after a week of strenuous conferences at home and he should go back to the peace-making with a much clearer Idea of the real at titude of the statesmen of his own country and of the American peo ple as a whole. We suspect that the people of the United States are going to insist upon a peace settlement which will ! conserve the interests of this coun-1 try first, that will safeguard In a' large way the rights of all the na tions which have striven to sup-1 press the menace of Ge.rmany and, the imposition of penalties upon the' ' main offender that will act as a deterrent upon any nation ever again disposed to play the highway men of the world. The particular form of the pro posed alliance is not troubling the average American citizen so much as the imposition of terms i which will sufficiently punlsii the ' criminal nation responsible for jill I ttie suffering and loss which has 'overtaken the world during the last ■four years. Germany gate free reign to her own greed and lust over a long ' period of years and these vices"burst into bloody fury and accomplished her downfall and ruin. To-day she is the pariah of nations, hated by [ all men, a criminal awaiting com . ing punishment." NO TIME TO LOSE THERE must be no more unem ployment in Harrisburg and the I county of Dauphin than is ab j solutely necessary and it is the duty of State, county and municipal offi j ciuls. in addition to employers, to see | to it thav every returning soldier is [ given the best possible job that can ! lie provided for him. But it is also j the duty of the same officials to take : such action as will furnish work for I every man who desires employment Through the public undertakings ; outlined by Governor Sproul and the j various heads of his administration nnd which are contemplated by the city and county there should be ample opportunity for industrial and general activity, but it is necessary now to prepare the preliminaries of these big public improvement projects. I ThUttct IK | By the Ex-Committeeman j Legislators from the third class cities who arex behind the Wallace j bill making a series of amendments : to the third class city code do not intend to take any chances in the course of their bill through the Legislature, being especially desirous that it shall not be complicated with any of the Philadelphia city bills or the second class city repealers. It became known here today that the Wallace bill is to have a clear track in the House next week and that the Senate committee in charge will give it the same consideration. An agreement has also been reached whereby no attempt is to be made to inject any repealer of the nonpartisan election feature in the Wallace bill, but that such legisla tion, which is understood to be in process of drafting, will stand on its own oottom. This was a prolific cause of dissension last session ancl while there has been a marked in crease of sentiment in favor of re peal of the law since 1917 some of the third class municipalities want it retained. —Governor Sproul's enforced ab sence from the city because of his illness at Washington has prevented final action upon several drafts of bills, including that reorganizing the Department of Agriculture and the constitutional revision proposition. Chances are that they will be pass ed upon together with some of the measures to relieve the Governor of the burden of auditing bills and to give him authority to engage experts and consultants on public works. —Scranton newspapers speak in high terms of the address made at the Welsh .society dinner by Lieu tenant-Governor Edward E. Deidle man. The Lieutenant-Governor re ceived a great reception. In his speech he* said: "We are in the re adjustment period now. Pennsyl vania does not stand in fear of Bol shevism. Business men have not been called upon in vain. I was glad when I read the other day of a Chicago judge who imposed a sen tence of twenty years upon Mr. Berger. The reason I have no fear for Pennsylvania is because the peo ple of the Commonwealth have the foremost citizen within our borders as Governor. He believes in mak ing the State greater in every way than it has been before. He pro poses to do something to relieve the people of Scranton from the mine cave evil. When I was taken over the Hyde Park section I was ap palled at conditions. I believe that the people of every part of the dis trict will use their efforts to have this evil corrected. It is not an easy question to solve. I understand that the people who accepted these con tracts were not Welshmen." —Women suffragists are coming here jn force next week and will plan for their legislation. They hope to present the presidential bill soon. —The Scranton Republican says of the bill of Representative Daw son to allow people to enter election booths and ask the count at any time that Mr. Dawson declared that he is not fully satisfied with the measure as presented. It also says: "He declared that it is only a tental ttve draft and that in all probability there would be amendment to it be fore it is reported out of committee The Lackawanna county represen tative does .not believe that there are enough teeth in the measure. It is understood that one of the amendments will provide for the particular election clerk giving out any information as to the number of votes cast, to make an affidavit to this effect is requested." —The Philadelphia Evening Led ger says: "Legislative leaders are beginning to send out sentiment among the members for an early adjournment. Republican leaders are said to have definitely agreed upon Thursday. May 15. as the date of adjournment if the committees can finish up their work by that time. The important committees considered relative to adjournment are appropriations and ways and means. Some of the members of the appropriations committees of the two houses have expressed the belief that they would be unable to finish up their work by May 15. Many members of the Legislature had been reconciled to a session which would run over into June, but the leaders ard said to be determined to speed up the whole of the legis lative maeffinery and get away as soon as possible. Prior to the open ing of the Legislature a number of leaders advocated a short •.■■inn HARRISBUR.G TEUEX3RAPH MOVIE OF A MAN PRETENDING TO BE BUSY WHEN THE BOSS ARRIVES By BRIGGS r —"— —l —; ~\ : " ~ Boss NOT HCAM DOOR PREREU'DS BA\WLS_ FOR -BOY EXPECTCD - OPEN AMD - AND TELLS HIM FCXKECT TO WRVTFC TD.STEP*LIV/£LY AK, 7, ENTER , OUTS\D£ SOMETHIMS. . - EASR ROOM STOMPS TO OTHER STOMPS BACK S pAPe, ? i Boss LJIAV/'ES-I END OF ROOM O*J A DESK FOR TH< = DAY MAKIM£> NO*SF I , WITH FEET A—7 I X/ / I but when the sessions started it! moved in the usual way. Members ; of the House particularly are anxious; for a speedy adjournment. The cost of living is higher in Harris burg than at any preceding session and there has been little of interest ! developed so far this session to j keep the members enthused." ' A SECRET OF LIFE [By Garrett P. Serviss] Professor Ludwig Sylow, "the N'es-j tor cf Norwegian mathematicians," as; Professor G. A. Miller calls him, died! ltcently in Christiania at the age ofj eighty-live. A very memorable fact) about hint is that he had reached the! age of sixty-five years when he was appointed professor of mathematics in the Christiana University. The thing that makes this fact piquant is that sixty-live years is precisely the age at which, in, the judgment of the governing boards ot most schools and j universities, professors instead of ■ being appointed should be shelved or| dismissed. Moreover, Sylow was not appointed to be a mere tigurehead, but to per-' form the active duties of his post, and that he did, with no indication of fail ing powers, "until the last yeur of nis life, when, says Professor Miller, "he frequently remarked that lie felt tired." He was then, remember, 'eighty-five. The case of this remarkable inathe-J matician, who has given his name to a fundamental theorem of the mathe matics of "groups," which may still be taught when the Pyramids are dust, conies just at a time when the world's attention is forcibly called, in a field of more violent activity, to the en during vigor of old age. As every reader knows, it was under the lead ership of gray-haired men, like Jotfre and Foeh, of about the same age as that of Sylow when he was appointed piofessor, that the armies of the Al lies were led to victory, while their enemies also found that the "old heads" were the best they could get. These things come as u triumphant vindication of' human nature against the detraction ascribed to Dr. Oslei, who, it is now said on his behalf, in tended to be humorous when he prac tically told people hovering around sixty that the world had no use for them. There is something here of supreme interest for every thoughtful person. The body is the instrument, as well as the temporary home, of the soul. The soul, whatever its real nature or future destiny may be, is limited to its activities here below by the ca pacity of tlie brain cells to receive its impressions and give them outward form or material expression. The limbs obey the brain as the brain obeys the soul. But the limbs, and other parts of the body which are not directly controlled by the soul, wear out, or deteriorate, faster I than do the brain cells. This is prov j ed by the fact that the intelligence of, aged persons who have lived temper ate and reasonable lives remains bright after their bodily powers have failed. Decay of the-body does not | necessarily imply a corresponding I decay of the central organ, the brsln. i The sudden mental illumination, or i clearing up, often noticed at the point of death, indicates that the soul is not dimmed as the body decays, and ' that it is capable of stimulating the i brain cells to renewed co-ordination 'and activity even when they are about I to fall into dissolution. I That secret consists in giving ae | tivity to the mind. Moderate bodily exercise, diminishing in strenuous ness as age progresses, is desirable, particularly for the fresh air that usually goes along with it, and inci dentally for the mental stimulus which it affords. But don't imagine that a gymnasium will give you the kind of exercise you need; a gym nasium gives muscle, which is one of the most perishable constituents of the body. The prize-fighter and the athlete I have not the secret of prolonged life. I If such prolongation were their object they would be putting the emphasis in the wrong place. The Fountain of Youth is in the brain; the best bodily exercise to stimulate the brain is vvalkirig. If your occupation consumes your I bodily energies, and at the same time 1 your brain cells get no exercise, or I the least possible exercise, your chances for long life are not very i good. It will be found in cases of re ' rr.crkable longevity that the subjects were mentally active to a noticeable , degree, even when their occupations , end their status of education did not j demand what is called intellectual la hor. A rpan can get a great deal of thought out of his daily occupation, whatever that may be and the more he thinks the steadier the current of his life will become, provided that he | steers clear of worry. My Hero | I'm just six, but Arch, he's ten— ! You onghter see him, gentlemen! ! There ain't nothin' he can't do; I Cross my heart, and honest true! ! Fish and swim and die and float; ' Box and wrestle, row a boat, I Umpire, catch, or pitch or bat, i Kick a football high as that! ! Skate? If ho just had the chance. ; He could skate from here to France! I Y'oughter see him make us drill! I It's things like that scared Kaiser Bill. ! Whv, I guess if General Foch i Had known our. Archie, he's said, I "Gosh! I Marshal Archie, here's my hand. I'll be second. You command." I —Florence Hart Rutledge In Life. "Lest We Forget" Army Paper Printed In Germany Condemns llun Friendship THE BARRAGE, the weekly i paper of the 18th Field Artll- ' lery of the 3d Division of Reg- [ ulars, which is published in Polch, i Germany, in its issue of February 7 j last, published under the caption, j "Lest We Forget," a warning to j American soldiers to bear In mind' 1 the fact that ,"the Hun was tricky on the battlefield," and that there j is no evidence that he has under- ; gone any change in that respect j since the armistice was signed. This i issue of The Barrage, (which is No. I 2 of Volume 1., was received from I an officer of the 18th Artillery. The warning referred to is the j leading editorial, and reads as fol- i lows: "Admiral Mayo in a speech in New - York the other night deplored the ! too rapid demobilization of our land j and naval forces, reminding us that j the armistice does not necessarily j mean the end of hostilities. He set I the people back home to thinking. I It is not our business to express an I opinion, but we do know that every l single soldier hereabouts wants to ! go home as soon as possible. The fact remains, however, that for the 1 present we are quartered in a Ger- j man community and are thrown into Tom Tom Negligee Rest robes are now taking on loud Oriental unrest, and one really should wear a censor with tliem. Oh, our happy little fireside Never more the same will seem; Streets of Cairo it resembles Or a devilish dervish dream. Sultan's harem has naught on us, Save in numbers, I should say. Since Camilla's bought the latest Oriental negligee. Beat the tomtom, burn the in cense, make to sing the sweet bulbul. Then if that is not sufficient, at the ; hookah take a pull. After that in j i proper spirit, I opine you ought to j be, to put on the newest teagowns ! of barbaric oddity. Margaret j Itohe. LABOR NOTES Denmark has over 800,000 agri cultural workers. Organized building laborers in I£ansas City have raised wages to 52% cents an hour. Wool combers employed in the Tritish wool textile industry have been granted an increase of $1.46 a week in the case of men and 97 cents in the case of women. Clerical assistants employed by the Philadelphia Board of Education have formed an organization so that they can press their claim for a 25 per cent, increase. There is a movement on foot in Toronto, Canada, to establish a daily newspaper under the direction of labor, the farmers and the Great War Veterans' Association. In Alaska the employment of any person in underground coal mines, underground lode mines and in placer mines shall not exceed eight hours within any 24. Abbut 70 per cent, of the muni cipal employes in Scranton, Pa., threaten to quit their jobs unless they are granted"an increase of 30 per cent in salary. The four unions of miners affili ated with the United Mine Workers of America have dedicated their new building, known as the Miners' Institute, in Collingswood, 111. The average length of total dis ability for employes 4 5 years and ! over is greater than those under 45 years of age. Four out of every five men dis charged from the United States Army for disability will be able to go back to their former occupations. Of the over 100,000 clerks em ployed by the United States govern ment during the period of the war, 75 per cent, were women. During the first week im December the United States' Employment Ser-" vice found Jobs for 84.284 applicants who registered. I daily contact with Germans, who ! ! are still our enemies. !/ "We desire to remind the men of I j the regiment that too open friend- | I ship towards the Germans now is 1 | not at all in accordance with the I spirit in which we fought on the | Marne, at St. Jflhiel, and in the Ar- ! gonne. The Hun was tricky on the.! battlefield. There has been no evi dence of a sudden reversal in hie mental attitude. Even now he doesn't admit he was beaten. Rather, he explains the German cutastrophe of the past year as a misfortune due to lack of food and the "strategic retreat" idea has not entirely disap peared. "The American soldier has made j ! incalculable sacrifices. Home life, : business, everything worth while has j been left behind, and when the sol | dier turns into the civilian once , more he will bo confronted by in ! creased taxation, for all of which the Hun is responsible. ! "While we are. in occupied terri tory it behooves us to treat the j natives with polite mien. It isn't j necessary to assert brutal superior , ity, nor even an undue spirit of con i descension; yet at the same time they ! should be impressed by our mili -1 tary bearing and direct way of com | ing to the point when occasion de mands, that Uncle Sam is not here ; on a pleasure trip, but on business. .Handshaking with the Huns and good soldiering don't harmonize." A POINTER FROM IDAHO The repeal of the law which in troduced the direct primary election into the State of Idaho at the time when it was a general fashion to ] adopt that system, is another of the I indications of a growing reaction I against it in various states. The experience of Idaho in fail ing to make it a success has taken place so often elsewhere that its return to the delegate-convention method of nominating all candi-t dates for State office and for Con gress, is likely to facilitate other j movements in that direction. | Under the direct primary law in j Pennsylvania, for example, there i has been much of the same sort of j dissatisfaction and disappointments j ' over its results as have caused both Republicans and Democrats in Idaho, a ten years' trial, to aban- j don the system in their state affairs. | The average of lltness and ?char- j acter in nominees has not been , raised by it here; the power of j politicians over their party organize- i tions is pretty much the same, and the expenditure of money has come to be greater than it ever was. I As it is now the bosses carry on ; business under it quite as effectively as they did at the stand, and prob- I ably nowhere more to their sattsfac- i toin than in the primary election In I Philadelphia. INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE In Holland a useful gum or paste is being made from garlic. The bulbs are pressed and the Juice or fluid matter so obtathed is thlck ened. , , . A good substitute for cork Is ob tained from certain flingi, which are dried and ground, mixed with ce ment and consolidated by pressure. In Norway a process has been patented to enable carbide to be used for driving motors. In Denmark a company has been floated to make briquettes from heather. These have a higher heat value than peat. _ , . Experiments are being made to use chalk marl, especially that which comes from the I.lmburg mines, as a fertilizer. —From the Boston Globe. Mexico Today an'd Tomorrow This is a comprehensive statement of the general situation in Mexico —political, social, I financial and economic—with ancient Mexico and ! the Spanish conquest as the back ground. The events leading up to the recent revolution, and the social and economic troubles following the political upheaval, are clearly set forth. A graphic picture Is painted of life in Mexico during the chaos following the fall pf the Diaz regime. ! Mexico's new constitution and her international relations and attitude toward foreign capital are reviewed, and the financial, agrarian and edu cational problems which face her government are dealt with at length. The wo*k Is of timely,tnter eßt as tin up-to-date study of Mex ican affairs.—By E. W. Trowbridge, MacMUlan, publisher. J '"\ ' 1 N * ' ■ 'i ' ' • MARCH 7, 1919. Just Around the Corner At the beginning of March, four years ugo, Rupert Brooks was aboard the British transport Grantully Castle, near the coast of Spain, on that voyuge which was his last. To a friend in England he wrote: "AH day we've been just out of sight of land, thirty or forty miles away—out of sight, but in smell There was something earthy in the air, and warm—like the conscious ness of a presence in the .dark. It wasn't that • \yall of scent and In visible blossom and essential spring that knocks you flat, quit? suddenly, as you've come round s6me unseen corner in the atmosphere, fifty miles out from a South Sea Island; but it was the good smell of land." { We doubt if the mystic sudden realization of near spring was ever better expressed than by that vivid phrase "some unseen corner in the atmosphere." About this time of year—and generally it happens at night, when smells are keenest— one knows 1 that the corner has been turned. The unmistakable new tang and softness creeps through the dark. Often it comes with a night of melting snow, when downhill gut ters tinkle daintily under lids of rot ting ice, and a\3trange metalic flavor steeps upward from the sodden ground. We need no ground hog or equinox to tell us when the world has wheeled her huge shoulder into that sunward slant. The nose is the true astrologer! We are still out j of sight of Spring—but "In smell." —Collier's Weekly. ON RETURN OF A BOOK ? (Lent to a Friend.) X give humble and hearty thanks for the sufe return of this book which, having endured the perils of my friend's bookcase and the book ! of my. friends' friends, now re | turns to mo in reasonably good con | dition. I give humble and hearty thanks [ that my friend did not see tit to give this book to his infant as a play thing, nor use it as an ash tray for his burning cigar, nor as a teeth ing ring for his mastiff. When I lent this book I deemed it as lost; I was resigned to the bit terness of the long parting; I never thought to look upon its puges again. But now that my book is come back to me, 1 rejoice and am exceed ing glad! Bring hither the fatted | morocco and let us reblnd the vol . ume and set it on the shelf of honor; for this my book was lent, and is returned again. Presently, therefore, I may return some of the books that I myself | have borrowed—Christopher Morley I in the Bookman. Mr. Wilson's Invocation , It is an extraordinary fact that President Wilson could deliver and j did deliver in the Metropolitan Opera House last evening a long address on the League of Nations without a single word of the league, without a solitary hint as to what it is or what it can become. It was not an argument, it was not an analysis, it was not an explana tion of the thing itself. It was an invocation. frothing of how it was expected to fulfil his hopes for humanity. Noth ing of how it could be made to oper ate. Nothing of what it would do or could be made to do. Only an appeal to ud—always well phrased, | frequently eloquent and sometimes I beautiful—to hearken to the cry of 1 the World's unhappy and miserable; I that we should devote our all pf the present and consecrate our all of the 1 future to keeping settled their affairs to'their welfare and happiness forever more. And so with that farewell message to the American people on his League of Nations Mr. Wilson goes back to Pari/ —From the New York Sun. . ( HIS GRIEF Well, Pal, the game's near over, and wo need but one more run; The Doughboy started batting and made second on the Hun; A single from the gay Marines and Doughboy went to third To rest there while the Big Guns hit a bunt that was a bird — The bags are full, we're on our toes and rooting haid as hell For Wilson and his clean-up hit, the blow that soon will'tell The dizzy world we've Won the game, and played it bully well. • ••••• But when I leave the grand stand, it's toot sweet home fpr me, For I can't share the.gate reaeiptrf—- I'm in the Q. M. C. 4—Joseph G. Daly, Sgt. Ist CI., Q. M. C., In the Stars and Stripes. I 8*"" "8 """"I No recommendations for such< things us State songs or State flow ers or State mottoes are going to "be* made by the present State admin istration. Ninety-live songs which were sent to the Cap)tol In response to a call by Dr. Martin G. Brum baugh-when Governbr for the musS 1 of the Keystone State to awake apd present a song of songs of Pennsyl vania will be allowed to remain baled' Up In one of the storerooms of the" basement of the Capitol. Song* whiqh are still coining to the office* of the Governor will go with them. They will bo preserved out of re spect to the efforts which wero> ! given; to the project, but the stand-f 1 point, of the State administration i 4 I that such things as songs and flowers of a State should be the result ©1 i what might be called, to use j anciept expression, crystalization oi [ sentiment among the people, just( ! as the Star-Spangled Banner rose be the national anthem after years of trial of various songs. Just h©4 fore he retired Dr. Brumbaugh said} one day when he had received four-* teen songs dedicated to' 'Pennsyl-i vania that he had n6 intention .oS umpiring a song writing contest and! that his pall to the slumbering museii was simply to stimulate ' interest.* However, (lie got more so'hgs whiclA were written in honor-.and; love off the Statothan ever expected and the office was kept busy acknowledging?, their receipt and informing the senders, authors, publishers and ad mirers,©f the works of ,his thought in the matter. The variety of songs* which reposes in the 'vaults of the- Capitol is remarkable. They range* from stately hymns to Rhymes andj the airs of some of them' verge on' "rag time." Ultimately thq collect tion will be placed in the State. Library for the edification of future! generations. The bill designating a- State song which is now in the? House will probably never get to thef Governor's desk. Suggestions for. flowers and mottoes are frequently! made and beyond acknowledging them nothing will be done. ?. . Among visitors to the State Cap* itol yesterday was John B. G. Mack, the State engineer of Wisconsin, who stopped off here on his way homo from Washington to Madison. Hot called upon Superintendent George A. Shreiner, who escorted hlmi through the building. "It Is magnificent building and I am de lighted to learn that you have such' a fine plan for improvement of its Surroundings," said he. * * * ! From all accounts reaching the office of State Fisheries Commission er Nathan It. Builer, the coming, season is going to find more fisher . men along the streams than ever be-; fore. "Fishing is becoming more an makes his home in the park has de - clined to take up -winter quarters in I a nearby farmyard, where he usually • spends tho cold months, preferring : to gather his own food from the lake 5 and to spend his nights in the open. "It was a sure sign," said Mr. Forrer, 1 "never knew it to fail." t• • • ' That State song which refers to farmers sowing grain in the shade of Fort Duquesne which is in the heart of the Pittsburgh railroad is' still being roasted. The latest from a rampant Pittsburgher by brevet [ is as follows: Within the shade of Fort Duquesne i There rips the roaring railroad train, • t Everyone reads car ads when . through reading newspapers in the cars and some of those displayed . the last year have bden striking. W. " P. Starkey, who is just home from ' Europe, gives an interesting stde -1 light on the war and the car ad as he found it in England. One ndver ' tisement which was much displayed ' ' read this way: LESS COAL ' Less coal for trains at home means ' more ships to bring Americans. f | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]\ i t ! —Dr. D. J. McCarthy, who is home I from France where he served as a 1 lieutenant colonel in the medical. corps, is one of the leading neurolo- t ! gists of Philadelphia. 1 —Dr. Henry S. Drinker, ' of Lehigh University, has been t : chosen a director of the Lehigh Val- . ley railroad. , > —H. L. Mason, the head of the State organization of humane socie- - ties, has been active In such bodies i j in western Pennsylvania. He lives in Pittsburgh, j —Attorney General William I. Schaffer will be the orator of the • j evening at the Philadelphia Lafay ette dinner tonight. t —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran- • ton, is an ardent advocate of better • s roads about his city. 2 1 DO YOU KNOW I ' —That Harrlsburg is sending ma. 1 terial for government work at navat : stations? I HJSTOHIC HARRISBURG Two hundred years ago French . traders were contesting rights with John Harris in this locality,