16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THK TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager 'GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, , BOYD M. OGLESBY', F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in t.his paper and also the Jocai news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r) Newspaper Pub §lishers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation Penn- Story, Brooks & Finley, F i ft h Avenuo Building, Western office', Gas' BuilcFing -1 Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, SIt.OO a year in advance. "Cowards die many times before llicir deaths; Tlic valiant never taste of death but once." — SHAKESPEARE. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919 J FINANCING RAILROADS FHE marvelous courage and re sourcefulness of the railroad leaders of the country is shown in Iheir .determination to finance their lines now in Government cqn trol and being operated at tremen dous loss, even after Congress has left them penniless and the Presi dent has turned a deaf car to their needs, declining to call together a Congress that would enact the legis lation necessary to keep them going until they are turned back to their owners. The railroad managers are optim istic as to the future; that goes without saying or they would be Hesitant about extending the indebt edness of the roads by enormous sums. What the Government has failed to do for them, the railroads propose to do for themselves and their example should be heartening to the business world in general. That those who are supporting the railroad loans are on the right track is indicated by the latest bulletin of the American Exchange National Bank of New York, expressing the thought of conservative authorities as holding that our biggest problem very soon is likely to be that of dis tribution involving intense activity on the part of the railroads. Says the bulletin: The war destroyed a vast amount of capital, but the pro ductive capacity of America is greater than before. This is also I rue 01 England. Canada and Ja pan, but continental Europe is sadly handicapped by the ravages of wai and loss of man-power, it is probable that France is in bet ter shape than is commonly be lieved, but she cannot resume production to the best advantage until she has settled with Ger many what the latter shall pay. Belgium is in a similar position. The recuperative power of civil ized countries is astonishing. Two good crop years, accompanied by a general resumption of industrial liio. will restore the prosperity of the plain people by providing I nod and employment for ail < 'apita 1 cannot be so quickly re placed or restored, but America is so rich that .there will be no lack el money and credit for produc- ' live enterprises. Up to the end of last January, the latest date for which returns are available at this writing, our foreign trade re mained undiminished, January being the best month in our his tory. How much more business we could have done had we been able to secure enough ships is con jectural. but it would have added vastly to the total of our foreign trade. It is said that merchan dise valued at $100,000,00u is lying in the port of New York awaiting transportation to other lands Enterprising manufacturers claim that improved shop prac tices nnd facilities will offset high wages and enable America to compete successfully with Europe in open markets. As far as the world is concerned, no burden some surplus of raw materials or manufactures exists. Other coun tries require all that we can spare for export, and the Federal Gov ernment and our business men must address themselves to the task of distribution. French and Belgium buyers arc in our mar kets for machinery, machine tools, railroad equipment and raw materials, boreign business men are not as inclined to hold off for lower prices as are Americans This is no time for us to quarrel with our bread and butter by talking of embargoes on export's of anything that we have to sell • 'anada does not compare with the United States in wealth, resources and productive capacity, but she is reaching out for foreign trade and is offering credits to Eu ropean customers. The Federal Administration has expressed willingness to help exporters in a similar way. The banks of this country are in a position to finance such trade to a practi cally unlimited extent. The Fed eral Reserve Banks are stronge tlian ever before, and money is likely to remain in abundant sup ply for ordinary business pur poses. though rates of interest will tend to maintain them' for some months to come. America will not be ruined by surplus wealth, either in the form of money or of manufactures nnd raw materials, while the rest of the world so badly needs what we can spare. What wo all need is the courage of the railroad managers. Retail stocks are at lower ebb now than when the armistice was signed. Everybody has been holding off for lower prices, but meantime the con FRIDAY EVENING, sumer has kept right on buying, and while extravagance has given j pluce to more sensible manner of I living in many households, the de mand for necessities has not fallen off. much, if any, for to take the place of the man who is out of work by reason of the cessation of war industries there has come into the market the family that for pure ly patriotic reasons refrained from purchasing more than was barely sufficient to meet actual needs dur ! ing the war. And now the vanish ing point of the retail supply is fast approaching. Merchants of all classes must soon go on the market | extensively and when that time comes industry will swing back to normal activity and the dawn of a | new era will be at hand. It can j not be long delayed. With opportunity for work at good wages what labor discontent there j is in the country will subside, giv j ing place to a wholesome desire for self-betterment rather than radical | dissatisfaction with the existing or | der. Unrest in labor circles appears | to be a temporary reaction from ! the war period and a desire for j a greater share in profits rather than ! a tendency toward socialism. This | is evidenced by the fact that all strikes have been but for a day or I j two and have been settled without I trouble. This is still a country of I J great opportunity. The poor boy of to-day is the rich man of to-mor row. Nobody knows this better than the laboring man. They are ambi tious to win fortunes and high place in the nation. They strike for more pay and shorter hours but they do not wish to destroy the Government that has made possible living con-, ditions here on a higher plane than anywhere else in the world. Social changes and readjustments we will ! have, but not social upheavat. Just how soon turmoil and uncertainty shall give place to peace and sub stantial prosperity depends upon the courage and vision of our business | men. THE PRICE OF COAL GOVERNOR SPROUT, has struck a popular chord in his inquiry into the price of anthracite to the constimer. The Governor is a busi ness man and knows that fluctua tions of price, are, or ought to be, governed largely by supply and de mand. But at the close of a very mild winter, with many-of the mipes working short time because of the large supply on hand and lack of demand, he is naturally surprised that a number of the coal companies are contemplating substantial in*- creases, when the opposite might have been expected. There appears to be neither rhyme nor reason to the demands of the coal companies. They have forced up prices until hard coal is a lux ury that the poor can scarcely af ford. If they keep on a great ma jority of people must look elsewhere for their fuel. But anthracite is the natural fuel for Pennsylvania people. We have it in great abundance and it is the clearest of all coal. We, of all the people of the country, should have the benefit of the coal beds at ♦ reasonable prices, fcr they are part and parcel of the natural resources of this Commonwealth. Governor Sproul is voicing the sentiment of everybody who uses coal when he proposes an inquiry into the necessity for advanced prices. The time has come when the public should know something of the inside workings of the coal com panies and the basis on which they fix prices. Nobody has any objection to the companies realizing a reason able profit on their investment, but the public is out of temper with profiteering wherever it may be found and if the coal operators know what is good for them they will be content with a return that will en able the consumer to buy fuel at reasonable prices. The Governor is displaying an interest in the welfare of the people that will be heartily appreciated. ■ While anany of our volunteers are being retained in the service, the President continues to liberate the conscientious objectors and send them home with his blessing and their back pay. , The administration, by censoring the news between Paris and America over the Government-controlled cables, is like the ostrich which sticks its head in the sand to avoid the ap proaching storm. The Spartacans are showing the peo ple of Berlin how the regular German troops behaved in Belgium, but we hear no popular cheers for the Sparta cans. I.udendorf blames everybody but himself for Germany's defeat, but it will be remembered that LudendOrf never denied in the days of victory that he was the "brains of the army." The President, berating Congress men who held up important legisla tion, puts himself in their class by refusing to call an extra session. Pay your income tax with a smile —and a check. f dltiw U By the Ex-Committeeman j —Holders of State jobs who have) not been reporting for work were sending word today to the chiefs of their branches of the State Govern ment that they were coming in and men who had been taking trips also manifested an earnest desire to get back to the State Capitol to report results of their journeys as a result of the order that went out from Governor Sproul's office last eve ning to certain chiefs to either make people on their pay rolls work or quit. —The Governor's order was only made in a few cases, but the ex ample seems to have been catching for last night men who have been irregular were using telephones. It will put an end to the practice of some attaches of the State Gov erment who owed places to men of wide influence in State politics com ing and going as they pleased with out regard to department rules ob served by others. —"Everyone is on the same basis now. It is a case of work or quit" was the comment heard. —The Governor's latest move to put the business of the State's qf fices on a business basis started when a couple of chiefs dropped in late in the day to sound out. how the Governor felt about increases in their forces. Then it developed that the study of the State Government made with a view of eliminating lost motion and injecting the serum of efficiency into the system which has prevailed in some departments for years and reached its height in the last four years had also produced considerable information about men who considered that, their job con sisted of either calling up on the telephone, coming around one day a week or being present, when some commission or board was in session or a chief of the department here for his regular days. —ln one case the Governor in formed a department head that he ought to overhaul his department force. No statements as to what departments would be affected was made, but it is believed that some of the "ornaments" in the Public Service, Public Grounds, Tabor and Industry and ether departments will be brought to and. probably find the atmosphere of Harrisburg more congenial than heretofore. State time will no longer be con sidered as elastic when it comes down to working. —ln spite of a lot of political talk about legislative talks an agree ment will likely be reached on a program of motor legislation. Gov ernor Sproul and Senator Buckraan, president pro tern, of the Senate have conferred on probable motor legislation. The Governor is desir ous of having a definite program arranged so that he can use his influence in behalf of the measure. Senator Buckman now has a bill in revising the motor laws and an other measure has been introduced by Representative Dithrich, Pitts burgh. A compromise likely will be reached by which the best features in the two bills will be embodied in one. Merchants from Pittsburgh and western cities of the State will be .here in force next Wednesday to add to what eastern Pennsylvania business men said in favor of the repeal of the mercantile license tax act at the hearing held here in the middle of Ihe week and it is possi ble that some suggestions of substi tute legislation will be made. One of the ideas advanced is that the State follow the lines of a New York bill which provides for a State in come tax on certain lines of busi ness. The hearifig held here Wed nesday developed the fact that many organizations of business men are behind the repealer for the first time instead of only one or two and that a concerted movement to effect a change will be made. However, the plan of the State Government is to make the mercantile tax a distinctly State affair and have it collected just as are the inheritance taxes, the appraisers and men in charge of collections to be named by the Auditor General. The effect of this system, it is claimed by advocates of the change, would be to svstem atize the tax, the lack of uniformi ty being one of the chief causes of complaint. —Pittsburgh people are looking forward to a rare time Monday when the hearing on the Rorke bill to permit Sunday concerts and "movies" will have an airing. There will be opposition to it, but the men in charge say that the scenes in Philadelphia will not be repeated. The hearing for Central Pennsyl vania is to be held here Wednesday when the Philadelphia orchestra will give a concert. —Third class city legislators are home sounding out sentiment in regard to repeal of the non partisan this week end. The repealer will go in very soon and it is expected that there will be some hearings. —As a matter of fact the whole non partisan election plan is getting more and more into deep water. The repeal of the judicial act is cer tain and the second class city act will come out of committee' next week. THE DOUGHBOY'S LILT I'm just' 's happy's I kin be; I gotta Lieut—ee workin' fer me Over in Prance in' the Great Big War Up ther" in Front mid th' cannons' roar— 'Twas diff'rent ther'. This Lieut come in an* says to me, "I need a job, Buck, an' you see—" Now ther* in France when this Lieut —ee spoke Things moved right soon or some thin' broke. 'Twas diff'rent ther'. I spoke right up, an' says, "M' man, t'm boss 'round here, y' under derstand—" Oh, boyl.C'n you imagine me Sayin' that t' th' same Lieut ee 'n France? 'Twas diff'rent • ther". He says, "All right; don't rub it sore." .' So I took 'im on in my groc'ry store. Wow! Over here since th' Great Big War, Far from the Front an' th' can nons' roar— It's difßrent here., charges are being granted, but for • I'm jus' 's happy 's I kin be: I gotta Lieut—ee workin' fer me. —Sergt. Maj. Lewis L. Curyea, In the Stars and Stripes, France. BARRISBUEG TELEGRAPH Movie of a Man, a Scrap of Paper and a Windy Day By BRIGGS H wmD "BLOvw* STRAT J R ' e | Fo l)iseM6Ae6 NO '.SOCCeefc Kffi * * A NewipAPeßt/sCAiNST. PAPPR ueC feBTS £• CR. c r R.O OR !.T F ' KCe I \ Whose Deliberate Choice? | [From Ihe National Republican.] ! Upon the adjournment of Con-J gress President Wilson issued a statement to the effect that "a group of men in the Senate have delib erately chosen to embarrass the ad ministration of the Government and to imperil the financial interests of the railway system of the country and to make arbitrary use of pow ers intended to be employed in the interests of the people. It is plainly my present duty to attend the peace conference at Paris, it is also nty duty to be in close contact with the public business during a session of the Congress. 1 must make my choice between the two duties, and 1 confidently hope that the people of the country will think that 1 am making the right choice. What has happened to invalidate! the arguments made by the Presi- 1 dent and his press agents a few I weeks ago, when question was raised as to the propriety of the l'resident's absence during a session of Congress to the effect that the President's ab sence would not interfere with his maintaining sufficient contact with Congress? Did not President Wil son himself say in his message de livered to Congress on the eve of his departure that he wOul\l keep in touch with the legislative Uranch of the Government from Paris? And if Congress could function then, with the President in Paris, why could it not function now, if called into extra session, as required by the exigencies of public business? Who is to blame if the President fails to perform the plain duty of calling Congress into session? The truth is that the administra tion leaders desired to jam through Congress in its closing hours, with out time for deliberate consideration a great mass of legislation, carry ing vast appropriations. And the truth is that for partisan reasons President Wilson does not wish to call into session a Republican Con gress, although its election repre sents the deliberately expressed de sire for a new deal in legislative affairs at Washington. In his de sire to discredit Congress he is en tirely willing to misrepresent the situation. The people, however, have a pretty fair idea of the facts in the case. "Politics Blind Man's Buff" [Henry Watterson in the Saturday Evening Post.] The men who between 1850 and 1851 might- have saved the Union and averted the war of sections were on either side professional poli ticians, with her 6 and there an un selfish, far seeing, patriotic man, wltose admonitions were not heed ed by the people ranging on op posing sides of party lines. The two most potential party leaders were Mr. Davis and Mr. Seward. The South might have seen and known that the one hope of the institution of slavery lay in the Union. How ever it ended, disunion led to aboli tion. The world —the whole trend of modern thought—was set against slavery. But politics, based on party feeling, is a game of blindman's buff. And then —here I show my self a son of Scotland —there is a destiny. "What is to be," says the predestinarian Mother Goose, "will be, though it neVer come to pass." That was surely the logic of the irrepressible conflict—only it did come to pass—and for four years millions of people, the most homo geneous, practical and intelligent, fought to a finish a fight over a quiddity; both devoted to liberty, order and law, neither seeking any real change in the character of its organic conract. Human nature remains ever the same These'days are very like those days ' We have had fifty years of a restored Union. The sectional fires have quite gone out. Yet behold the schemes of revolution claim ing to be regenerative. Most of them call themselves the "uplift." LABOR NOTES The women's Trade Union League comprises over 60,000 working wo men. The automobile industry is the third largest in size in the country. It's estimated that there are 1,- 000,000 people out of work in .the United States. There are over 17,000 women en gaged in the building industry in England. The organization of an Iron Trades Federation is now well under way in Toronto, Can. Several thousand textile workers In Philadelphia are demanding that they be granted an eight-hour wo'k I day. Russia's Holy of Holies Defiled by Bolsheviki T' HE holy Kremlin of Moscow has ] become a Bolshevist fortess. | From the 9th to the 16th of No , vember, 1917, for more than seven I days under a hurricane of lire, the 1 city was stormed and finally carried I by the Bolsheviki in terrible fratri j cidal war. Since then the sacred citadel has been playing a new and ignominious role in \he history of Russia. From the time of the building of the Church of the Beheading of St. John Baptist and of the Little Church of Our Savior in the Forest, bespeak ing- the days when the acropolis was still a wooded hill, a multitude of churches and palaces, witnesses of Russia's glory, have written here a national doOumenCin stone. The his tory of Russia is the history of the monuments of the Kremlin. During the bombardment a Chinese workman, looking on, was heard to say, "The Russian is not good; bad man; he shoots on his God." A 111..0il Stalnrd Snnetuary Once within the walls of the Krem lin one faces piles of ammunition, barbed wire and ugly miscellaneous heaps of rubbish. Austrian, German and Lettish soldiers, some frankly in their enemy uniforms, are loung ing about or standing guard. Army j I motor lorries and cars carrying dark, ! sallow, un-Russian faced government officials tear up through the gates, shrieking a curse, so it seems, as they enter upon all hated Christian Russia. The farther one walks about and sees the outraged fabric on all aides, i the stronger becomes the feeling of grief. With indescribable emotion. | one enters the resounding stone in closure near the Cathedral of the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God. Here are still to be traced the stains of enormous pools of blood in which floated human fragments, tracked about by daring feet. Window glass is everywhere smash ed or shot through. Within the cathedral there are strewn about splinters of a 6-inch shell, which ex ploded there, and fragments of white stone, brick and rubble. The gold I and silver candelabra those constel lations among which all within the church seems to float through space, ] are bent as by storm; the altar and the sanctuary are strewn with brok !en glass, brick and dirt; the shrine lof the holy martyr. Patriarch Her mogen, is covered with fragments of stone and rubbish. Hook of the Gospels Torn This is the church built by Fiora venti of Bologna, .in which the Czars were crowned and in which the earl ier patriarchs were laid to rest. It is the precious reliquary of Russia's rich inheritance of the treasure of I the ancient Eastern Church. In the Church of St. Nicholas, in the belfry of the Tower of Ivan the Great, a shell crashed through a window and destroyed the east wall of the interior of the sanctuary. The large, magniflcent old Book of the Gospels, which was placed against th e ruined wall, was thrown to the j floor near the altar. The front cover j was torn off, and the precious ikons I of the Resurrection of Christ and the i evangelists adorning the book were j broken and thrown about; many leaves were torn and crushed. | The altar of oblation was broken I and the service books torn. All over the sanctuary bricks were scattered about, with splinters of shells and various ecclesiastical objects, heaped up between the altar and the Royal Gates, but the altar itself, in spite of its nearness to the ruin, wag un injured. Theft nnd Sacrilege In the Church of St. Nicholas lies a part of the holy relics of the Prelate Nicholas, a saint honored by all Christians and even by the heathen. Th e walls of the entrans to this church are written over with the most filthy and sacrilegious inscrip i tions and ipvectives, not only in Rus ! sian, but (more significant of the i leadership In all this despoliation) in | German. The entrance of the church where the relics lie, was used as an j outhouse. I After the Bolsheviks had assumed I protection of the treasury and locked ! themselves into the Kremlin, the | roOms of the Patriarchal Sacristy ! were broken open and ruthlessly I looted by some of their own company. In their haste to rifle the cases and In their indifference to the na tional significance of the treasury, these robbers wantonly ruined ec clesiastical ornaments by brutally gouging out the gems or ripping off! their golden mountings, and by cut ting out the jewel studded medallions i from the vestments made of ancient i stuffs, in which weaver and gold smith wrought with a mutual hand. Some of the treasure has been recov ered, but most of it is either destroy ed or irrevocably lost. What hope is there for the safety of the Hermitage treasure brought from Petrograd in wooden boxes; now lying in the Kremlin? On a large crucifix, standing by the j north wall of the Church of the Twelve Apostles, the outstretched hands of our Savior were broken off.! The figure was gashed with sharp! bits of brick, and oil from Ihe hang ing lamps had poured over the whole| Red spots made a startling likeness of a living body covered with blood. Some pilgrims who had succeeded in getting into the Kremlin, on ap proaching this sacred object, were unable to look at it and gave way to their grief, passionately embracing the feet of Christ crucified afresh. "Trail That Is Always New" For fourteen and a half years from the day I met him, there was never one small moment of mis understanding, one day that was not happiness—except when we were parted.. Perhaps there are people who would consider it stupid, bore some, to live in such peace as that. All I can answer is that it was not stupid, it was not boresome—oh, how far from it! In fact, in those early days we took our vow that the one thing we would never do was to let the world get commonplace for us; that the time should never come when we would not be eager for the start of each new day. The Kipling poem we loved the most, for it was the spirit of both of us, was "The Long Trail." You know the last of it: The Lord knows what we may find, dear lass, And the deuce knows what we may do— But we're back once nrore on the old trail, our own trail, the out-trail, We're down, hull down, on the Long • • Trail-—the frail that is always new! •—-Cornelia Stratton -Parker in the Atlantic Monthly. The Brides The silver fog above the sea Has thinned to wedding lace Through which the sun comes peep ing like A round and ruddy face, As flinging wreathes of pearly foam Upon the shinning tides, The ship of hearts comes streaming in With all the happy brides. The Irish Noras, raven tressed. With eyes of rougish blue, The English Marys, rosy cheeked, And fresh as morning dew. And shy French Madelons, who crowd Along the rail to see This new and wonderous land of love And, hope, and liberty . . The whistle toot a wedding march AH up ami -down- the bay. And starry flags and pennants wave The, girls a greeting gay, They loved 'our heroes well enough To leave all else besides And make America their own, So welcome home the brides. —Minna Irving. A Columbus of tlie Soul Braving vast seas that held the world apart. To find a hemisphere Columbus went; But how much braver he who, with high heart, Daring n sea of dark discourage ment, Sailed, and, with faith and courage for his chart, Found the true soul of a great continent! —Virginia Jeffrey Morgan.- | The Lord Is His Name It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth \ for the waters of the sea, and pour- I eth them out upon the face of the ! earth. The Lord is his name.— ! Amos ix, 6. MARCH 14, 1919. •' BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Robert Wilton gives a full expla nation of what Bolshevism is and what it has clone in Russia in his new book, "Russia's Agony," just pub lished in an American edition by E. P. Button & Qo. Sir. Wilton, who is an Englishman, has lived almost all his life in Russia and was for years the Russian correspondent of the London Times. He was in Rus sia all through the Revolution, wit nessed the seizure of the govern ment by the Bolshevik! and remain ed in lite country for months after ward, 1 Is narrative covering events j down to last autumn. The preface, in which lie surveys still later de velopments. is dated at San Fran cisco, on the fourth of last Jan uary, on his way to European Russia again, byway of Siberia. In tills preface he gives a succinct explana tion of what Bolshevism is in a short paragraph that condenses a more detailed account in the later pages of the book. In this paragraph he says: "Bolshevism demands an immedi ate application of Socialistic ideals. Its protagonists care not by what methods or with whose lieip they carry out their experiment. Bolshe vism recognizes no nationality, no society, no family,—nothing but a conglomeration of manual workers governed by 'idealists' with the help of a Red Army. It is essentially un democratic: it involves the forcible subversion of all the laws and co venants upon which human society has been established." I The troubles which Canada has | had during recent years with her two races and two languages, cul minating in the rioting in French Canada against the Military Service i Act, have never been very clearly understood by the people of the : United States, many of whom would like to know much more than they | have yet been able to learn about the causes and nature of the diflicul- | ties. The publication in an Ameri- I can in an American edition by E. P. j Button &■ Co., of William H. Moore's I "The Clash: A Study in Xational | ities" will give them just the clear | exposition of the subject which they want. Mr. Moore is a Canadian anil has made a. very sympathetic and | comprehensive study of the com plicated problem, as he has also of I Canadian history and of the radical j characteristic involved, and his ibook shows thorough knowledge and a broad and tolerant viewpoint. In [Canada, where it was first published [last September, it has already gone | into its seventh edition. For the j people of the United States it will . have a, double interest, not only that ! jof dealing with an important prob lem in a neighboring state but also that its relation to our own land of many racial stocks. I'rom \ ienna the other dav came I a dispatch to a Xew York' news |PaP P , r . sayin -T ,hnt - the prices of al coholic beverages had mounted to | such heights that drinking had great- I ly declined and that in consequence uflf.u a^ been ' accordi ng to the j Health Office, an astonishing: tie.- crease in the number of new cases |of insanity. The inebriates' ward In | the \ ienna Lunatic Asylum had been .dosed owing to the lack of patients I and there were no more graduates ®! n in *° ~lc asylum. The item 'Will remind those who are familiar with \ ance Thompson's brilliant book. Brink" (E. p. Button A- Co ) of the chapter in which, after pre senting many statistics showing the direct connection between alcohol and crime and insanity he sums up the result of the study In this way: And so enough of'statistics if this truth has been driven home: In sanity is the mad son of aieohol. IS ~ a. ' ,a driveling daughter. Suicide is its despairing child. Upon my word, that men who called drink a racial curse—even he who called it a pan-demic plague—spoke with out exaggeration and with measur able reserve." Chemical Warfare Service A shield, the up- Per which is blue lower * ias been adopted \ by the Chemical \ y Warfare Service as \ / Its official shoulder badge. As the duty or the C. W. S. was to provide defens?, in the way! , of masks and otherwise, against gas I attacks ,as well as to manipulate the projection of gas attacks of the A. E. F.'s own, the shield has its [ significance. Ebetttng (Sljat "I believe X know more people in Harrisburg than I do in any other city in the State except Chester" said Governor William C. Sproul in chatting about this city the other day. "And I like this city. Its litf a second home to me. I have been coming here so long that I feel at home on its streets. I first came here as a Senator, well, some years ago, and 1 have seen Harrisburg develop. It does not seem so long ago that it was somewhat conserva tive in the matter of public works. And now look at it." These remarks by t.he Governor are in line with what he has said in some speeche* and it is not generally known thai since he has been Governor Mr. Sproul has been quietly at work to enhance the prestige of the city as well as to carry out the plans to make the Capitol Park the civic center of a Commonwealth. While he has not talked about it he has not only given directions that the State Government is to be central ized here, but he has urged that the appellate courts of the State and other bodies which should make the State Capitol their headquarters, just as similar tribunals of New York and Ohio and other States dc in regard to their own State. The I Governor has noted the condition of the roads in the vicinity of Har ! risburg and even railroad schedules, j which are not any too favorable tc I the State's capital have even come | under his ken. It is not much tc j say that Harrisburg will have reason ; to be thankful for Sproul some day. George J. Brennan, the legisla tive correspondent of the Philadel phia Inquirer, has a very important side linn these days. He is the peace maker lor the legislative minstrels a body organized to make a success ol the biennial dinner of the Legisla tive Sons of St. Patrick. Mr. Bren nan helped inaugurate that series ol dinners some years ago and he i? going to make this musical features of next Tuesday's gathering some thing to remember. He has movec a piano into the Capitol and with assistance of Quay Hewitt, Hous< reading clerk is training a choir that will be worth hearing. Xaturally. Pennsylvania will be the big song of the Keystone State legislators. • a * Blackbirds have come back tc Pennsylvania in numbers tljat have surprised many observers of the wild life of the State, according to re ports that have reached this city In some sections of the State the birds appeared over a week ago ir large numbers and have been mak ing themselves at home in such a manner as to cause weather wise tc believe that there will be little more severe weather. There have beer earlier appearances of blackbird" than noted this year and they have turned up in areas greater than re ported thus far, but the belief is that there have been few times wher the birds have come in such large numbers. Xew flocks are repotted as arriving almost daily from the southern states and they all appeat to be fat and active. Reappearance of the birds has caused a revival ot the movement to have the season for killing blackbirds advanced tc August 1 at least. Birds were s<* numerous and annoying last year that many farmers have asked tc permit hunting in August, while ir. oats raising districts, which have* been increasing lately, the damage done by flocks of birds has been extensive. I Some of the members of the Ijeg isl.'Mnre have been making inquiry as t(* the blackbird kill and have found that it has furnished much sport every year. • * • Razing of the lower walls ot the Matterhorn, the building erected some years pgo on North Fourth street near the State Library, has been a tribute to the solidity of the consruction of the house. Men have declared that picks and shovels have made little impression on the con crete and that as they can not use explosives they have to show over the walls and prepare to dog out the foundations. The Matterhorn is al most level with the ground and nc one seems to want to take what is left away. WELL KNOWN. PEOPLE [ —R. S. Gawthrop, first deputy at torney general, used to play baseball when at college. —Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler was an advocate of good roads in his home county of Cum berland over a dozen years ago. —B. Edward Long, superintend ent of Public Printing, has a birth day tomorrow. He was born in 1572. Representative Hugh A. Bawson of Scvanton. chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, worked in the mines when a boy. Senator T. ,L. Eyre used to he deputy secretary of Internal Affairs. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg automobiles have doubled in number in the last three years? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first industry here afteif the ferry was established was a re pair shop for Conestoga wagons. ! A Telephone Deficit Also 1 From the Xew Yoric SunJ For years the Anicitcsn TelcplHjaie Company, ably managed, wisely fin anced and intelligently mindful of the people's interest, performed ad mirably a work of prime national Im portance. It was not an infrequent thing, it became habitual, for tele phone rates to be lowered. Yet all the while the service constantly im proved. And the company was a steady and prolific earner for Its stockholders. The Government took over the op oration of the telephones as tt took over th e operation of the railroads. Then, exactly as had happened In the case of the railroads, the Old Nick got into the wires. More of the earn ings were eaten up. but there was nothing to show for it. Important tolls were increased, but the service grew worse. In the first five months cf Government operation there was a deficit of close to $4,000,000 for a company hitherto accustomed -to nothing but fat surpluses. And now a general increase of rates amounting to 12 per cent, will be nec essary to wipe out tho deficit and provide a thin surplus—a surplus, perhaps; then again, perhaps not. For, as Government operation can wipe out any surplus V\at exists in arty thtng, Government operation, when there Is no surplus, is an insurmount- I able barrier against the creation of one. A surplus. Indeed, however high the charges to the public are jacked up, seems as abhorrent t6 Govern ment operation as good service. The touch of the Government in bualneas la the touch of death.
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