6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH .1 NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THIS. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief P*. R. OYSTER, Business Manager ■ JUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor -V. R. MICIIEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. i .Members of the Associated Press—The i 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. • Member American Newspaper Pub- Assoc^a- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Bropks & Building, Western office' Story, Brooks & Gas' Building, —i Chicago, 111. intered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. In' you've got to get up airly If you tcant to take in Ood. —LOWELL. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1919 THE COMING ISSUE T IS gratifying to every citizen of I Dauphin county that the pro gressive people of the Millersburg iistrict are in touch with the State j Highway Department on the good I oads program. Dauphin county! annot afford to lag behind other progressive communities and our ieople generally will watch with in lerest the conferences held from day :o day on Capitol Hill with Com uissioner Sadler to see what is being j tone by Dauphin county in the mat- : ;er of co-operation with the Com monwealth in road building. No ounty in the State is more in need >f better highways and there is no onger any lack of revenue to justify i waiting attitude in this matter. We believe, with Commissioner Sad ler, that the campaign for eleption of county commissioners all over Pennsylvania this year should rest largely upon the good roads pro gram. For years counties in Florida and in other states not nearly so pros perous as Pennsylvania have ' been voting loans of millions for the con struction of permanent highways. These are necessary to the pros perous development of the county and the people, and unless and until Dauphin county takes its place up front it will suffer by comparison with other communities less favored and less able to bear tlieir share of the cost of building permanent roads. We believe that the present Board of County Commissioners is ready to line up with the progressive officials of the State and we shall hope to see announced in the near future a comprehensive road build ing program for this section. Next Tuesday's Chamber of Com merce luncheon will be of interest to every man who has at heart the im provement of Harrisburg. It should be well attended. OUR APOLOGIES OUR apologies to the vigorous young defender of the Central High School who takes the Tele graph smartly to task for what he considers a reflection upon the in stitution of which he is a student and whose letter is published in full on another part of this page to-day. The editor of the Argus, which by the way -is one of the oldest school papers in the State, takes ex ception to the Telegraphs criti cism of high school conditions in Harrisburg on the ground that they reflect upon the Central school, its faculty, its students and its alumni. This was fartherest from the pur pose. The writer of this is himself a graduate of Central, and proud of it; and a one-time member of the Argus staff; and equally proud of that. The Central school has done a great work in Harrisburg. its graduates have won high places for themselves in college and in after life. It was not with the thought of detracting one lota from the record and achievements of the institution that the Telegraph's offending re marks were made. Far from it. The circumstances are these. When the men who built the For ster street school house designed It they thought they had made a good job of it. For the time perhaps they had. But they ftrred grievously; everybody admits that now. They provided quarters for the school that cannot be enlarged. The school has long since outgrown its home. Stu dents there are not being treated fairly. The city owes them more than they are getting. The Tech nical High School boys have more advantages than it is possible to extend to the students of the Central school under present conditions, and it was for the purpose of pre venting a repetition of this Forster street error and with the thought that Central High School students should have the very best the land SATURDAY EVENING. ' affords that thd editorial in question was written. Our young friend may always count the Telegraph a champion of the schools of Harrisburg. TJhis newspaper believes in its boys and girls and in the men and women who are their instructors. It is de voted to their interests. It believes that no sum is too great to spend for their educational advantage, but it takes issue with anybody who of fers them something less than what it regards as the very best procur able under the circumstances. The Telegraph is convinced that the Technical High School is doing superior work. It believes that the School Board should be slow to aban don it for an experiment. It may be that in the end both the Central and the Technical schools will have to be abandoned in favor of a joint high school built on the university plan. There are arguments in favor of that. But. whether it is the popular course or not, the Telegraph will continue to use its voice in the community for what it believes to be the best interests of the school boys and girls of Harrisburg. As to the merits of the Central High School, the qualifications of its teachers, the scholarship of its stud ents and the standing of its gradu ates, we have nothing but praise, and we rejoice that there is in the student body so ready and vigorous a defender of the school as the able young editor of the Argus. When a man takes typhoid fever in Russia, the Bolshevists kill him to pre \ent the disease from spreading, but they give no thougli toward prevent ing the disease by cleaning up the water and milk supplies. Which is another reason why Bolshevism may be good for Russia, but not at all de sirable for America. WHAT DO WE CARE? BERMUDA onions have been seriously damaged by recent rains, press dispatches an nounce. Of course, we feel sorry for the sundry gentlemen whose income tax is based largely upon the size of the Bermuda onion crop, but as for us, why Bermuda onions mean noth ing, absolutely nothing in our fair young life; especially at this season of the year. Of course, there is a time, say along about October or November, wh£h a Bermuda onion sandwich —the onion being properly chilled and the bread a rich rye—is a tasty bite, indeed. But not in March, with the spring onion waft ing its sweet aroma front every green goods stand. First the spring onion, and then dandelion greens, and then Susque hanna shad, and after that all three of them together. But just spring onion with bread and butter are gopd enough for anybody. The spring onion is really a fall onion. That is, it is planted in the fall and sticks its green sprouts out of the ground long enough before the first hepatica blooms beside the prover bial snowdrift in that secluded cor ner of the Rockville mountains known only to our good friend and eminent ( naturalist, Dr. Fager. As a harbinger of spring it takes its place with the robin, the bluebird and the shadfly. But it is more than that. It is a household institution in the land. No American home is complete in Slarch and April without a bunch or two. It is eaten plain, used as the chief ingredient in sundry sauces) and until July 1, at least, will con tinue to be popular with those who lind it advisable to disguise their breath with something strong and pungent enough to induce friend wife to keep at a respectful distance until the effects wear off. It some times affords the lazy man an excuse for remaining home from church Sunday evenings and in other in stances it has been known to drive others from church. It is at once a delicious delight of spring time diet and an abomination in the land, depending entirely upon who has eaten it. It has made men love the thoughtful women who serve them at dinner and has turned love's fond young dream to hate and blasted the romance of more than one guileless swain who ate thereof before paying his weekly call upon his ladylove. It is a modest little thing, the spring onion, but terribly dynamic in its possibilities. Nevertheless, being safely married and more or less hardened to the opinions of those with whom we associate, we love It, and so long as they are on the mar- we care not one whit what happens to the Bermuda onion crop. "Pay your income tax with a smile,'' is Washington's advice. But Uncle Sam wants something more substan tial than a smile. SCRANTON'S "INCUBATOR" SOME years ago the Telegraph was responsible for a movement which resulted in the organiza tion of a company to build an in cubator building the general auspices of the old Board of Trade. This movement was designed to pro mote infant industries and the idea immediately met with popular ap proval. A great meeting was held and committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions to the stock of the proposed building. After the corporation was organized and everything appeared to be as good as settled those commissioned -to purchase a site and erect a building decided that the time was not propi tious for the enterprise and it was allowed to languish. Scranton is now considering a similar building and.it is being pro moted by the Board of Trade of that city. Plans have been prepared for a large modern structure 320 x 110 feet, with abundant light and air, and room for 4,000 operatives. This building will be provided with move able metallic partitions so that all majnner of industries may be ac commodated. It Is esttmated that the cost will run from seven thousand to nine thousand dollars, depending upon materials used and the character of construction. Scranton is having the same ex perience that Harrisburg went through in its incubator movement —many industries knocking at the door of the city and finding no proper place to start business. We hope that Scranton will not suffer the same disappointment that came to Harrisburg in the abandonment of the most constructive industrial movement of our improvement era. This newspaper still believes that had an incubator for this city be come a fact after the funds were subscribed in 1911 many industries would have been launched. The time is now ripe for giving encour agement to every form of indus trial expansion and commercial ac tivity. Co-operation is the keynote and we shall watch with interest the progress of the incubator idea in the metropolis of the anthracite re gion. Certainly Scranton is on the right road and nothing will do more to encourage infant industries than the providing of suitable floor space and convenience for the conduct of the baby undertakings. I "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," but it's just about as cheap these days to have the doctor. fMUce In Tffrivt | By the Ex-Committeeman j Pennsylvania's Legislature will en ter tomorrow upon its eighth week of sessions with fewer bills than usual on hand at this stage of the biennial meetings. in the House the number Is not much over 800, including Senate bills passed on to the lower branch. The Senate list is not long. „„™?° rts ui " be during the coming week to have the bulk of the remaining appropriation bills for charities presented so that the offi cers may know how to figure on tionf PP T? P f 8 for such Institu ' Il 0 is understood that some of the State administration bills will also be ready for presentation next week. Monday evening j Ust before the session f of the House begins the members of the Senate will present a grand piano to Frank B. Mc < lain, former Lieutenant Governor. Lieutenant Governor Edward E lion ll6 " 1 "" WiU makC the P resenta " State Capitol departments are a—.Plu* to walt for th * first of April, the traditional "flitting day" in this part of the State, but two or them will begin moving during the coming week with another about iifl o T T he ® tate has leased the old Star-Independent building, just remodeled, and it will house the Department of Labor and Industry and the engineering force of the State Department of Health. The State Industrial Board and Compen sation Bureau will "flit" alonsr with the Labor and Industry Depart- Tlle state Department of Public Instruction is to be mobilized in the Boyd building at Third and Locust streets, used as a temporary post office during the completion of the Federal building annex and re modeling of the Post Office* The quarters of the engineers are wanted for legislative purposes. Speaker Robert S. Spangler having served notice that his committees want more room right away. The Labor and Industry and Engineers will move in a week. There was a plan to move the State Fire Marshal's 1 office, too, but Marshal Howard E Butz dug up a law which provides that his office must be in the Capi tol and he stays. —Concerning the overthrow of the Republicans in the Westmore land-Butler congressional district the Philadelphia Press says: "At the recent caucus of the Republican conferees from the two counties much feeling was aroused because Westmoreland would not listen to the demands of the Butler people and now the friends of Mr. Jamison are charging that the adherents of Levi M. Wise, of Butler, who sought the nomination on the Republican ticket, laid down and allowed Wil son to get such a lead in his county that they could not offset it. Jami son adherents claim the majority'of nearly 1000 votes for the Democratic candidate in Butler does not show as if the Republicans in that county had worked very hard for the party nominee. In the Twentv-seeond District, in 1916. Robbins "received 19,978 votes to 16,165 by his oppo nent, Silas A. Kane. About s'xty per cent, of the normal vote was cast on Tuesday, and Wilson, Democrat, received 10,150 votes and Jamison 95 70. It is only the second time since the two counties were con solidated that a Democrat has been sent to Congress." —Mayor E. V. Babcoi>k, of Pitts burgh, is home from the .Washing ton conference determined to hasten an election on the proposed bond is sue, and to get the work on public improvements begun this summer. The mayor wants public works to aid the reconstruction of industry and commerce and provide work for the unemployed. "Delay is crimi nal," said the mayor. "We can easily get started on public works in the summer. If we hasten the bond election. We ought to have the elec tion within 60 days." WEST VIRGINIA PAYS UP Students of state relations will be much interested in the report that West Virginia has finally decided to pay the claim of \the parent state, Virginia, for its share of the state debt which was in existence at the time of the secession in 1861. West Virginia resisted the payment of this claim for a long period on the theory that it was sovereign. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that Virginia had a just claim against its departed daughter, byt did not at once indicate how the judgment would bo executed. The court with much suavity merely confirmed the righteousness of the judgment and left the collection, for the time being, to the honer of West Vir ginia. States do not have the best reputation in the world for paying their debts. It is, therefore, a pleas ure to hear that West Virginia has decided to clear up this obligation without further controversy.—Ne braska State Journal. v ~ \ v HARRISBT7RG TELEGRAPH THE GUILTIEST FEELING—AFTER JULY 1 By BRIGGS WHAT DID Vbul % —E.T Ui I DRAG US OUT) / >Jk./ IF I'DA SOMU THING- I HBR£ FOR J I - I *5?/ IHI*S I COULD MAYBe. SOME V ANYWAY ? I HOM6ST I'M SORRY- 1 \ ( HAU£ BROUGHT * \ OP YOUR PRiewWS I PION'T THINK ABOUT IT v O \lAm-C DWD6- / J I A S , SELDOM INDULGED'' \ WITH M£- / [ I fVI „■. I , -wf/ / ( / .SOFT DRINKS AT Ths \> ' I ThUG' 6 H 7 ? A U HAD^O ** C "" To D o y LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |! TAKES EXCEPTION To the Editor of the Telegraph: It has always been the policy of the Central High School "Argus" to j refrain from entering into any news- j paper controversies and to refrain from criticising newspaper articles at any time. However in your edi torial "Don't Do It," which appeared in your paper Saturday, February 22, you made such abusive state ments about Central High school that on behalf of the students, the faculty, the alumni and the admirers of Central we must take exception to such a pernicious attack. It hardly seems conceivable that any newspaper would make such malig nant attacks on an educational in stitution as you have made on a high school of your own dity when you said: "It is unquestionably true that the Technical High school is a better school than the co-educational Central High school ever was. Its spirit is better and the results at tained there are superior. This is so apparent even to the casual observer that it requires no demonstration, but if proof is needed it can be found in the records, we have no doubt • ♦ * Let us not blot out of ex istence the only real high school the city has for the doubtful experi ment of co-education." We can hardly believe that such an article is the work of an editor of an up-to date city newspaper. By such a statement you attack the students, the faculty and the alumni. "Of course, "Tech is a far better school than Central." Do you know that Central High school has put Harrisburg on the .map of the school world? Do you know that Central graduates have done the almost im possible by taking the four year course at Columbia in three years? Do you know that scholarships have been given to Central by colleges and universities all o"r the country on account of the ixcellence of her students' work in the higher insti tutions? You speak of the records which will back your statements. Perhaps yon ought to look up the records and compare the percentage of "flunks" and "Quitters" at Tech with those at Central. You might also compare the scholarship rec ords of the two schools and face the facts. Perhaps you remember Cen tral's debating team of a few years ago which beat Tech's team so de cisively that she has not since been able to get a team out of nine hun-j dred boys. Of course this counts for! nothing! Of course her faculty is nothing ! although it is as fine as any in the I State. Most of them, have been teach ! ing for years, one of them for twenty-five years in the same room. ! Many of them are alumnj of the ! school and these are all honor stu- I dents. Do you know that two Cen tral teachers are the only teachers who have passed the teachers' ex aminations with 100 per cent? Of course "the results obtained at Tech are far superior to those ob tained at Central." Our alumni amount to nothing although they fill important positions the country over. Gaze about at the positions held by Central men throughout the city. Look at your own newspaper. Look at the teachers of the city, the| Dauphin County Bar and the busi-i ness world as a whole. Everywhere: Central graduates have reflected' hoffor upon their school. They have distinguished themselves in the army, in the navy, and in the scien tific world. They have surpassed "Tech" graduates even in purely technical fields. In fact it would be hard to find the name of one Tech graduate in a "Who's Who" of Har risburg. You say Tech has a great school spirit. Winning athletic teams al ways bring this about. Until two or three years ago Tech's school spirit was dead but Central's has never even been asleep. We admit that they have great athletic teams but it does not take a scholar to play 1 football or basketball and many that play are far from being such. Even Central constantly defeated Tech un til Tcch becume so superior in num bers, a few years ago. Column after column of facts could bo given but they undoubtedly would have no effect. However, after this you should' become acquainted with the facts before you become responsible for such an abusive editorial as the one referred to. This letter expresses the thoughtj of student body as a whole. Hoping that you by tills time r'eal -1 lze that you have made statements Facing Life Again Unafraid \Villurl li. Sperry in the Atlantic Monthly. In Sygne's poignant drama of the i west coast of Ireland, "Riders to i the Sea," the old woman, Maurya, comes at last to the time when thej sea has robbed her of all her sons, j and she says, "There isn't anything more the sea can do to me now. It'sj a great rest I'll be having now." , In the same way hundreds of | thousands of men have come, in the | last four and a half years, to the ; point where they could say, "There's! nothing more that war can do to me now, nothing worse that life can do to me And I have found peace be yond fear." Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there. But only agony and that has end ings And the worst friend and enemy is but death. If the discipline in courage has been brought to this point, the sol dier's habit of facing life unafraid will be something more than a phy sical recklessness: it will have be come "stuff o' the very stuff and life of life." The soldier unconsciously will ex pect from the civilian world a simi lar habit of facing life unafraid. He will not understand the timidity and apprehension with which so many civilians look upon their time. And the one intellectual and moral pol icy which will awaken no response in his spirit will be policy of "Hush!" We live in a world which, for religion and statecraft, is still which are grounds for righteous in indignation, I remain Very truly yours, CARL B. STONER, Editor of the "Argus." RUSSIAN CANAL PROJECT [Prom the Pittsburgh Dispatch] What is described as the greatest development project since the con struction of the Panama Canal Is re ported undEr consideration by London and New York capitalists for southern Russia. It is a linking of tho Black and Caspian Seas by connecting the Volga and Don Riv ers at their nearest points, with a canal approximately sixty-three miles in length. International com plications have apparently not dis couraged the investors from prepar ing preliminary plans for their en terprise to facilitate the distribution of the coal and iron in which south ern Russia is rich. Investigation has resulted in tho preparation of estimates which give sixty-three miles as the approximate length of the connecting waterway, which engineers say will require thirteen locks, cost about $21,320,000 and need probably three years to complete. This preliminary survey of costs and method of construction seems to intimate that the investors have either been feeling their way toward permission to introduce an economical element of transporta tion into that section of Russia or believe thp.t the restoration of com plete peace will open tho way ami cably for their enterprise. The re lations between Russia and the rest of the world are not of a character to justify an unqualified confidence in the consent of the existing gov- I ernment for canal building privileges ! to British and American capital, but ! an alternative view is that possib'y ; the investors have in mind a *t>ew ; situation in which Bolshevik consent may not be indispensable to one of the world's biggest development pro jects. The commercial importance of the proposed canal is less In tho dimension or the cash investment than in the facility with which it will permit coal and iron to be di verted to one sea or the other and subsequent distribution in any di rection. The Wit of Douglas Jerrold Douglas Jerrold's wit has a dis creet malice of its own. Asked at a party who It was that was dancing with Mrs. Jerrold, ho replied, laugh -1 ingly: "A member of the Humano Society, I think." At another func tion he saw a very tall man dancing with a very short lady. "Hullo," he rapped out, "there's a mile dancing with a milestone." Once he was disturbed in his editorial room' by a young poet rushing in and asking: "Have you seen my 'Descent into Hell,' Mr. Jerrold?" "No, sir, I have not," was the reply, "but I .should i very much like to." Some of Jer -1 rold's epigrams are brilliant. Here jis a choice one: "The man who takes the gooso from the common, goes to the House of Correction: the man who takes the common from the goose goes to the House of Lords."—Literary Guide. filled with stubborn, hostile, and un conquered facts. We know today what Paul meant when he set his face toward Western Europe and said, "A great door and effectual is opened unto me and there are many adversaries." In the very mood of that finely chosen "and" there is something of the spirit of the sol dier. The civilian would have writ ten "but." Is there a hostile fact in our world. Let us not suppress the knowledge of this fact. Let us not evade the fact. Is there a skeleton in the ecclesiastical or political closet? Have the custodians in panic locked the door and thrown away the key? Let us break the door and drag the brute out and have a fair look at him. Are we tremb ling at the spread of Bolshevism? Let us look the thing into the face. Let us drag out the unlovely facts which breed anarchy the world over; let us look into our mills and mines and counting houses and see why it is that men see "red" and turn "red." The civilian policy of over coming obstacles by the incantation of a timid "Hush!" will awaken no echo in the character of the soldier who has faced the shock troops of Prussia and faced them unafraid. The tangled problems of civilian life will have for him no terror for his experience has cast out fear. So the soldier waits and watches to see in us the signs of a spiritual cour age kindred to his own. Getting That S6O Bonus [From the New York Sun] A number of The Sun's readers have asked us how men discharged frdm the army should tackle the job of getting the S6O Uncle Sam wants to pay to each of his fight ing men. Up to this time we have not been able to answer their ques tions, because the Government had not adopted a method of procedure. This has just been done. In the first place, persons en titled to retired pay are nut en titled to the bonus, nor are those who were inducted into the military service but did not report bofore November 10; and the bonus is not to be paid to the heirs of any man who, though he would ' tx-io been entitled to it, neglected to draw it himself. Men entitled to the S6O should proceed thus: "To obtain the money, make claim upon the Zone Finance Office, the address of which Is - the Lemon Building, Washing ton. "Applications must contain the discharge certificate, or or der for discharge or relief if no certificate was issued. "If the applicant received both, then both must be sent. "Accompanying the discharge "papers must be a statement of all military aewice airee April 6, 1917. "The address to which ihe chock is to Me sent must ba given." Having complied with these re quirements the object of Uncle Sam's solicitude will get his money; and we hope all our friends who have sought The Sun's advice con cerning this matter wfll be early recipients of their just duos. LABOR NOTES Carpenters in the Dominican Re publican receive from $1.60 to $2 per day. The Carnegie Steel Company of Youngstown, Ohio, encourages its employes to attend night schools and offers promotion in tho plant in order to stimulate this attendance. The extensive Krupp gun works, located in Essen, Germany, which have been manufacturing practically all the guns used by the German Army, will now be utilized as a textile factory. In Connecticut conditions of un employment are steadily growing worse. In New Haven and Bridge port the surplus of labor has been increasing at the rate of from 600 to 1,000 a week. According to estimates made by the Department of Labor, only about six or Beven per cent, of the war workers In this country have boen thrown out of Jobs by the BUS pension of hostilities, MARCH 8, 1919. News in South America [From the Phila. Inquirer] Under the caption, "A Lesson for the British," the London Times prints a column dispatch from Buenos Ayres telling of the manner in which the United States Govern ment has been furnishing news und films in every part of South America to all of the newspapers,' great and small. Thousands of words come by cable nearly every day to each | large city in the Continent, where an agent of the government mani folds them hurriedly and sends by hand to all local newopapcrs and by telegraph to the rest. It is not asked that any credit be given. Furthermore, when any news paper wants special news from the United States on any topic it is at once cabled for and a prompt answer is sent. One result is that the small provincial newspapers have been publishing columns of news daily from the United States, and much of it originally from Eu rope. These have put on metropoli tan airs and are in high glee over their sudden ability to publish news. The readers are delighted. Appar ently every newspaper in South America which desires has had a service equal to the average of what is published here. A further part of the service is sending films of "Pershing's Answer," "My Four Years in Germany," and many others, which have been dis played everywhere with Spanish or Portuguese captions, and have had immense vogue. The Times corres pondent says that no such propa ganda ever has been known in the world, and that it has been so free from any taint of partiality that it has accomplished in a few short months more than could have been done in any other way in years. He thinks that Great Britain made a mistake in not do'ng something of the same sort, since South Amer icans now believe .that the United States was the greatest factor, both in winning victory and in making peace, and will be the leader of the world in the future. All jealousy of this country seems to have disappeared and there is left a desire to enter Into the closest relations with us, politically and financially. It is evident that thfs part of the money expended by the Creel organization has been spent to good advantage. With perfect co-operation between the two con tinents of the Western World t.iere ought to be development of enter prises which will take from Mother Earth enough value to pay tiie cost of the war. JOYCE KILMER Dear Joyce, beloved of saints and men. As always, cheer and comfort bringing. How good to know your warmth again. Your kindly talk, your manly sing ing! No transport bears you up the Bay— But all your best is ours forever. Your bugle note of "Rouge Bou quet," Your songs of faith and high en deavor. Of little homes, of village streets. Of "Trees," of "Stars" in mystic splendor; And every heart that loves, repeats Your "Valentine" so true and ten der. What wealth of soul was his to spend On flotsam, jetsam, waif and lagan. That all who knew him called him "Friend-," No matter if he called them "Pa gan!" x And other pens shall praise his art: But let them know who write hereafter That love was golden in his heart, While on his lips was valiant laughter. —Arthur Guiterman in "Poems, Es says and Letters." (George H. Doran Company). Took His Straight A judge was trying a case in whicii there was a dispute about a water supply. As he had Just par taken of a hearty luncheon, and counsel's argument was decidedly long winded, he began to nod sus piciously, All at once the barrister thundoi ed out! "What we want, your honor, is waterl" "Very little in mine, please; very little in mine," said his honor, sud denly starting pp. =TT Pittsburgh ChrontpJerTelegraph, lElrorotg Gtyat Numerous inquiries made about so-called "Rolls of Honor" of Penn sylvania soldiers who were killed or died during the war which been sold about the State have caused ofllcials at the Capitol to de clare that the Commonwealth has issued no oillcial publication of that kind and neither the State Council of National Defense or any of its units or the State War History Com mission has published such lists. Prom all accounts the lists being sold are purely commercial ventures and not put out with the sanction of any agency of the State govern ment. Steps are now being taken by the War History Commission, which has its headquarters in Phil adelphia to co-ordinate all history researches and when the war is end ed and the official information is in hand, and verified through the War Department, publish the names of those whose lives were given on behalf of the nation and who resided in Pennsylvania when they enlisted or were summoned under the se lective service act. Until that is done any "Rolls of Honor" or lists of those who made the great sac rifice will be either private enter prises or local affairs. As the branches of the State Council of Na tional Defense, county historical societies, chambers of commerce and others interested in the perpetuation of the names and deeds of those in the war in a manner that can be depended upon and a source of com fort to those who lost loved ones and a matter of pride to the men who wore the national uniform are now organizing their work. The sug gestion has been made that publica tion of lists wait until all names are in hand. A rather striking illustra tion of the way these premature publications operate can bo had from a so-called \ Harrisburg "Roll of Honor." It contains the names of forty-nine residents of this city who were killed in action, died of wounds or disease. The latest list which has been compiled from official sources and with the greatest care by persons greatly interested shows that there have been at least ninety two Harrisburg young men who have gone. As the casualty lists are still being published there is some force in the suggestion that people wait before buying such lists. While the lines and features of the model of the Memorial bridge to Pennsylvania's soldier and sailor sons in the great war shown in the State Capitol have attracted much attention and the highest praise, there appears to have been a very popplqr chord struck by the plan to make the two great pylons contain chambers where the names of every Pennsylvanian in the war will be shown. The details of the plans for the interior have not been work ed out as yet, but tablets showing each man and his unit, as is done on the State Memorial at Gettys burg, will be installed. The pylons will be sixty feet high. They will follow classic lines with some dapta tions by Arnold W. Brunner to present plan On the west front, facing the State Capitol, each will have a group of scripture, one rep resenting the army and the other the navy. The studies show the prow of a ship for the navy and artillery for the army as characteristics with central allegorical of victory. The interfor of each pylon will be eighteeh feet square, the chambers being about twenty-five feet in height. The details of the interior chambers have to be worked out. The pylons will be approached by broad flights of steps. • Captain Frederic A. Godcharles, deputy secretary of the Common wealth and one of the authorities in the State on stamps, has received the first copy of the new "Victory" stamp to come to Harrisburg. It is a three-center printed in violet and represents an embattled figure standi ing in front of the flags of the Allies. The stamp is square, smaller than any issued in recent years and about the size of the issue of 1869. The only stamp put out so far is the three-cent variety and the captain is showing it with considerable inter est. The stamps will be on sale be fore very long. • * The Departments of the Attorney 1 General and Commissioner of Fish eries have declined to rule oh an inquiry from Pittsburgh as to whether the head of halibut should be cut off as soon as such a fish is caught because as the writer stated the head of the fish has a resem blance to a human head. The writer did not state whether the rule should apply to inland fishing. Another inquiry that Krose this week to in terest state officials came from the town of Girty where a man desired to know whether sawdust thrown into a stream is injurious or not, the writer having an idea that it might be reclaimed as a valuable state asset after being washed. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. William Russell Owen, Philadelphia minister, has re signed his charge and gone to France to engage in Y. M C. A, work among the soldiers. —Senator Edwin H. Vare, of Phil adelphia, who conducted the sena torial party to Hog Island yesterday, said it was the first time he had seen the plant. —Dr. W. D. Scott, of Carnegie In stitute, Pittsburgh, has been made a colonel for his services in the army. —L. R. Palmer, former acting commissioner of labor and industry, now holding an important insurance position in New York, is visiting in this State. —James G. White, of New York, one of the State College trustees** graduated from that institution. ■ 1 DO YOU KNOW " —That Ilarrisburg is becoming an Important car repair center again? HISTORIC HARRIS BURG A century ago Harrisburg was * center of boat building for river traffic. Casualty List Delayed We haven't heard frem the dance given by Charles Short Friday night, therefore can't say whether Jt was an old time dance or not, For the benefit of those that do no| knew the usual customs of an old time dance at Mountain Valley, say that a person may go off with a black eye or two and maybe an ear knocked down or his neck chewed or some other slight casualty. But a lot of the good old time has passed with Johq Barleycorn. Jdpuntain Valley correspondence Hot Springs New Era.
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