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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.
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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.