8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager UL'S. M. STELYMETZ, Managing Editor A-. It. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Byard I. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press is exclusively en- Utld 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. A Member American Newspaper Rub- Gas Building Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa„ as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a 'i -■ * week: by mail. $3.00 a "WsMwr- year in advance. WEDNESDAY MARCH I#, 1919 .4)id the wolf shall dwell with the lamb. and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the j young lion and the fatting together; j and a little child shall lead them.— 1 Is A. 11 :G. NO TIME TO BE BLUE THIS is no time for the blues. ; There may be some disturbing j factors and some uncertain- j ties in business and industry for the j moment, but with it all are we not j coming through the readjustment period in much better condition than we had any right to expect? The situation has been badly handled from Washington, it is true.- Indeed, the absence of the President and the unwillingness of his subordinates, without It is O. K., to do much to re lieve the strain has been worse than an administration that was trying to do something, although failing here and there. But despite failure at the national capital and timidness on the part of many buyers, the country is in a fair way to make an early recovery from ills into which the armistice suddenly plunged it, I and we ought to rejoice rather than complain. GETTING UNDER WAY THE housing committee of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce is getting along with its program. The addition cf Ed ward Bailey to the committee indi cates a desire on the part of the members to get somewhere with the work at hand. Mr. Bailey is a practical man, and the father of the only workable plan so far sug-1 gesled for the betterment of the! housing conditions in this city. He i will be a "very helpful influence on the committee, his presence insur ing the success of whatever financial details may have to be worked out to meet the emergency. The stabilizing of steel prices, which may be accomplished at a meeting of the steel managers and tha War Industries Board in Wash ington this week, will have a steady ing effect on all other lines of build ing materials. By mid-summer we should know pretty much about building piospects for the coming year, and at all events the plans for housing could not be completed here much before that time, even if the committee devoted ail its time to organization and preparation. Now is the time for the preliminaries, for •working up popular interest and for making such a survey of con ditions as will enable those back of the movement to act with full knowl edge of all the facts, and so get as much for the money that is to be spent as is possible. PEACE INSURANCE WHILE the employment service! of the national government I has been seriously .crippled I through the failure of Congress make an appropriation,' Pennsylvania! will not fail of its duty in this im- ! portant matter. It is highly import-1 ant that steps be Lain ii to enlarge! tlte employment service of the State I to meet the deficiency created by the unfortunate breakdown at Washing ton with the adjournment of Con gress. Already many of the govern ment employment bureaus have been abandoned, and in the absence of funds for this service there will naturally be still further reductions of agencies throughout the country. In Pennsylvania this service will come under the State Commission of Public Safety and Defense, and already there has been active co operation with the Federal govern ment with a view to expanding the service wherever possible to meet the need. The factor of unemploy ment enters into much of the un rest which prevails throughout' Europe, and the great Industrial corporations of the United States WEDNESDAY EVENING • HAimiSBURG *£&&&& TELEGRAPH:' • MARCH 19, 1919 realizing the fact, are doing what they can to provide work for all in need of employment. In his practical way former Lieu tenant Governor Frank B. McClain. as head of the State welfare organi zation, has gone deeply into the problems which confront his depart ment, and he has also been in con ference with the Federal employ ment officials with a view .to co ordinating the work of the'govern- I nient at Washington and the State, !so that there may be no ©verlap j ping and no waste of public funds; I also, that the State may undertake to j carry on what Congress has failed to | provide for. It is also a reassuring ! sign that the great industrial cor j porations are manifesting a willing- Iness to hid in this service to the end that unemployment may be reduced .to the lowest possible point. ! Empty stomachs mean discontent, | and discontent breeds all the violent isms of which the world has knowl ! edge, and because this is true the I best guarantee of public safety and contentment lies in providing em ! ployment for all who want to work. Nothing should be left undone by | the State or the national government | to bring the worker and the job to- I gether. Thousands of men have al i ready been provided with employ | ment through these agencies, and j thousands more will be helped in [the same way. But these instrumen talities must have back of them all of the energy and financial support | needed to provide thorough organi j zation and efffciehcy in extending the helping hand to those seeking i employment. j. Already many agencies of an tin- I official character are co-operating, with the Federal and State govern ! ments. and Pennsylvania will not | fall short in a service which is in the j nature of peace insurance. Satan ] always find works for idle hands to j do, and the best illustration of the j | truth of this old saying is the un-] j rest and discontent in large ] jof war-torn Europe. We can best j j guarantee peace and prosperity and j order in the United States by pro viding. so far as possible, employ ment for our working forces. What has become of the fellow who i Vsed to drive around town with aj i nagot and a barrel calling "Shad-oh*'' ( AX EIGHT-HOUR DAY * j NOBODY will quarrel with the J eight-hour day. It has been j in successful operation in the j printing trades for many years.. The! Telegraph's composing room and printing department were among the! first eight-hour pioneers in Harris-1 burg, and there never has been any! difficulty about getting out the work ! or keeping business going with the i short working day the rule. But j when workmen begin to talk cf a! six-hour day they are heading forj trouble. Eight hours are not too [ long for the average man to work. I The man who would work only six I hours a day, with a half-day Satur day, ought to pause for a moment and consider. Business is operated for a profit. If there is no profit! there is no business, and a six-hour i day doesn't offer much chance either; to earn a living wage or to earn a j profit on investment. The man who! would kill business would kill labor,! too, for each is dependent upon the other. Wives are having trouble choosing spring hats. A little later husbands I will have trouble paying for them.' j CAN T HERD THE ARMY ! JUDGING from soldier interviews published conspicuously by met- i tropolitan newspapers of liquor I leanings, the American Army is made ' up of "rummies" whose one thought: is to get out of their uniforms and r into a bar-room. We are solemnly! informed that the "boys are coming home to overturn national prohibl- j tion," and that "the army is oppos-' ed to a dry nation." The truth is that the returning soldiers are di vided on the subject, just as they are on every other topic of public dis cussion. The army demobilized be comes so many individuals, each with his own opinion. Rum is making a last desperate effort to rally the discharged sol diers to its support, but they are not to be herded together like so many cattle behind any issue. The "soldier vote" will be felt in elections for years to come, but it will not be cast en bloc or as a unit at the behest of any individual or any interest. It will be the freest force in American politics. , 4 . i The way to make business good is ! to go ahead and make it good, KEEP THE ROADS OPEN IT IS easy to understand the in dignation of hunters and fisher men over the proposal to close the Clark-Powell Valley region to travel —which would have the effect of cutting it off from the use of tl;e p'ublic* as a recreation ground. Eventually this territory, lying as it does very close to the State game preserve, will become one of the best pieces of hunting land in Central Pennsylvania, and its creeks have recently come back into their own as trout streams. The country has been cut over and the land is of small value, ex cept as it is used as a water shed by impounding companies, and hunt ers and fishermen can do little harm there. Viewers should be slow to close roads in these valleys which have been in existence * ever since the early settler days. The public is in no mood to have great tracts of land of this kind fenced off, especially r where the tract adjoins a State game preserve which the hunters of the Commonwealth support with their license fees. IK • J By the Ex-Oommlttccman Announcement of the appointment of A. Mitchell Palmer, of Strotids burg, AttornW General of the United States and Democratic national com mitteeman from Pennsylvania as a member of the Democratic national executive committee, as the inside council of the party machine is official styled, js taken by Demo crats in the Keystone State to mean that he does not intend to resign as national committeeman. The Democracy of Pennsylvania will therefore be spared the scenic con test that woukl resutt if the Demo cratic state committee would be called to till the place of the national committeeman. The fact that Carter Glass, the secretary of the treasury, is also named as a member of the commit tee is taken to mean that cabinet office is no bar to service on the De mocracy's highest council. Member ship on the committee is probably a qualification for cabinet place. The Palqter appointment will end, for a time, the ambitions of Joseph F. Guffey, some tint*? Democratic State chairman, to be national committee man and also the chance for Judge Eugene C. BonniweM. candidate of the Democratic voters, but not of the Democratic bosses for Governor of Pennsylvania last fall, to get even with Palmer for the "reading out of the party" which he staged here last summer. It spoils a nice chance for a Dem ocratic reorganization because Pal mer and liis pals will never consent to the State committee being called. —Senator Edwin H. Vare yester-' day presented to the Senate the new budget bill for the Quaker City. This measure, which is a comprehensive bill of 4OO words, is regarded as a detractor from the charter re vision bill. It is claimed to be pat terned oti the financial features of the Bullitt law. In any event, it is going to be a new factor in State politics because the measure will surely hold much attention for a, while. The Woodward charter bill will have its inning next Tuesday in the Senate committee presided over by Senator Vare and in the House the Vare men will make an effort to send the Brady bills back to com mittee until the Scott bills can be gotten started. —Things are being lined up for a reconsideration of the defeat of the Bolard bill requiring all legal advertisements to be printed in plain United States newspapers.. Members who Voted against the bill are hav ing .some troubles of their own to explain why they did so and men wtio were absent will be in their seats when the move to reconsider is made. It is generally admitted that the Sterling bill to rip out the present school boards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and to provide elective boards in their places is in bad shape as the result of the hearing held yesterday afternoon in the House. Th'e speeches of A. Leo YVeil, who spoke of corruption in Pitts burgh under the old system: Mar cus Rauh and John R. K. Scott are conceded to have made the ways dif ficult for the measure. —Senator E. E. Jones iq taking a hand in amendments to the borough and township codes as he presented bills late yesterday providing for fees of only two per cent, for treas urers of smaller school districts and boroughs and relative to appoint ment of borough auditors. —Robert C. Miller, Republican county chairman of Adams and mentioned for the next superintend ent of public printing, was here yes terday with an Adams county dele gation and met a number of his friends. —The resolutions adopted by Lo cal Union No. 1036, United Mine Workers of America, thanking the State Highway Department for the promise of construction of the road between Gallitzin and South Fork. Cambria county, have been received by the department. "Whereas, Bids have been asked for the work on the west end of the road, and a number of our people are without employ ment at this time, lie it resolved that a vote of thanks be tendered the Stale Highway Commissioner and ihf Commissioners of Cambria county for their efforts in our be half, and we pray them to take steps to start the work at once," said the resolutions. This local has head quarters at Gallitzin. What Ireland Seeks [From the Kansas City Star] Americans, outside of those of Irish affiliations, have hardly com prehended what happened in Ire land in the last general election. Nothing happened in Ulster. Its policy showed no change. ltis ap parently us determined as ever to maintain the present relationship with Great Britain, and to reject any sort of home rule. Eut the rest of Ireland abandoned the old Nationalist party, that was working for home rule, and went Sinn Fein —that is, for an independ ent Irish republic. This outcome seems to have resulted from two causes. Most important of these is the f;Ulure ol' the British government to arrive at any solution of the home rule problem during the war. For five years the government has been wrestling with the matter, of fering compromises, but getting nothing settled. Apparently the Irish people got tired and- respond ed to the invitation of the Sinn Fein 1 aders to kick the table over. The second cause is the sudden wave of little notionalism that has swept over Europe with the wreck of the Central Powers and the ap peal (largely for war purposes) to the principle of self-determination for small peoples. Sentimentally this wave has everything in its fa vor. Practically it. is bound to re cede. For modern industrial civili zation has made the old separation impossible. The nation with scant natural resources is condemned to economic dependence,.which involves. political dependence. It is at the mercy of the tariff and other indus trial arrangements of the amply en dowed powers. This is not popular doctrine just now, but it is true, i Recognizing this fact one of the ■wisest of the Irish leaders. Sir Hor ace Plunkett. makes a constructive suggestion in the Manchester Guar dian. A policy of repression, he says, will simply aggravate the sit | nation. The reasonable thing to do is for Britain to make at once a "firm offer of a reasonable measure of self-government." Were such a measure put forward seriously and "with clear Intent to carry it through in the face of all opposi tion"- —Sir Horace evidently refers here to TTlster—ln his opinion the common sense of Ireland would force an acceptance. For antonomy within the British Empire, such as Canada has. would enable Ireland to govern herself and to "give voice to her aspirations and genius before the world." which, after all, is the essential thing.' OH, MAN! By BRIGGS (Smohc ?) ( hav.ng I fveT PvoeLL T secT^ V ')' Fecr-tv WON--, I / 5 D : t ?. / ash Tray 1 / wilsoaj is ho —dcrful wintcr? j ( Yrs wpetsj WHEM Yo vj / ( EußoPe again S /§§P A ' ~. — <sg?„ ' - -S V wAmT" \T / .Jl \ WHAT Do You ' r \ V /no i i)ow T —> /vjHf Pnovy This IS / UEVE HS'LL TAKLS THOUGHT / (i ie ? TrtAT- ASH TWE WAY I LOOK A "THIRD TGRH- ( TRAY'I* / (AT THIS IPROBIT.ON You CAio T Tg LL ■ (-.ouftHr^. tfossNT. HP--? I f IhawK^ /'"oH" J S P- I Tmosc A3HPS j WORRY eoUT THAT'i ooCft- / L / / MY ASMES" / V ARE CSOKM& To / | (Ser-iNG IT V Que...t f <; V Cm SoRRY / \Pall ' kIT >T < A Doubtful Reform, [From the Philadelphia Press] There is much rood for thought in the comments that are being made in regard to the selection of the Re publican members of the committees of the next House. What is hap pening seems to be the inevitable re sult of a system of selection which is of comparatively recent creation. It is a method that was adopted in response to the cry that the former process of choosing committees Was wrong and that there should be a radical change. Under the old method, the speaker made up the committees and was the sole judge of how the members should be dis tributed. It was charged that this made for autocracy and gave too much power to a single individual. So a change was made that the committees should be selected by the members themselves, each political party doing its own choosing at a party caucus. The Inevitable result of this method was to make up a committee on committees which should parcel out the jlosts, and then report the result of its labors to the party caucus for ratification, or for whatever change the caucus desired to make. That is the method in use at this time. It is easy to see how this system works out. The com mittees must be made up primarily so as to receive the sanction of the party caucus. To do this requires that a majority of the Republicans in the House must be satisfied with their own assignments, so that they will vote to support the report and to ratify it. The case thus becomes one wholly of mathematics. One hundred and twenty men are a majority of the Republican caucus. That number must be pleased with the committee places given lo them. As there are over five hundred places to give out, it does not require an especially as tute committee on committees to parcel out these positions so as to satisfy one hundred and twenty Re publican members. Their satisfac tions means the adoption of the re port by the caucus. When the speak er made up the committees. lie could use his own judgment. Upon him was the whole responsibility, and lie was held accountable for all mistakes and misplacements. Un der such responsibility. A mess of men cannot be held to personal ac countability, nor be indicted for bad Judgment. It will be a great Ques tion in the mind of the country whether the method adopted as a reform measure is as good as its predecessor in the securing of ef fective results, and there will he many people who will wish that the naming of committees was in the hands of one responsible individual, who could place the members where, in his experienced opinion, they could do the best work. Airplane Stations There is nothing funtnstic tr fanci ful in the plea, made before the Legis lature. for a bill asking the Highway Commission to "designate, sfet aside and maintain at convenient points suitable sites o'r places for landing" and regulating the us a of aircraft. Our skies are not yet dotted wltlj aerial taxis, nor does the city truck ing threaten immediately to solve Washington street congestion by keeping above it, but the airplane is a reality and it is going to be used with increasing effectiveness. On this page a few days ago we called attention to the new ae"ial police of New York, and to the fact that Philadelphia and Chicago are interested in the New York experi ment. Locally the airships can choose between landing at Saugus or illegally and uncomfortably in a treetop And the beet response a seri ous suggestion for better facilities can get is. a cackling laugh. Without undue pessimism we can venture the guess that unless some one unexpectedly wakes up in this town, Boston will be the last big city in the country to know an airplane front a dodo. —Boston Record. Advice to Workers To Sheet Metal Workers Xo. 581; The reconstruction period, which we all have been looking for, has ar rived. Now it is our duty and our one aim to see that we get justice and save all we can for the boys "over there" when they come back after having suffered for us. We all want to show our appreciation and love for them, which is so little com pared to what they have done for we who have stayed at home. Now boys the ball is rolling in our memory. The time has come and is with us. Xow when we expect to have and enjoy the fruits of our forefathers, we must not forget and do as they did. Come across with the goods and produce the work. —IJjhe sparks of 1-abor. i The Governor on Good Roads Pennsylvania is nearing the end of the "mud age" according to Gover nor William C. Sprout who has writ ten an article on the plans for giving Pennsylvania a iirst class system of State Highways for "Community Service," the bulletin of the Johns town Chamber of Commerce. The Governor says that people should go after good roads and use them and pay for them gradually, holding that they should be built right and made to last. The Governor says; "Last fall I covered many miles of roads in northern Cambria county in an automobile. The trip was a de lightful one. The dirt roads were in splendid condition. But as wo whirled along the liigliVay I thought of conditions when winter came; my mind glimpsed the sodden rib bon of mud that must come with tlte rain and snow a mud ribbon that would throttle trade, prevent neigh borly intercourse and cause tremend ous monetary loss. I seemed to seo mired automobiles; teams of tired horses steaming from the effort* to get to market loads of produce woe fully small because of road condi tions. And as the Cambria county people with ntc in the automobile pointed out the glories of the coun tryside 1 could not help but wonder how long it would be before Penn sylvania awoke to the fact that its poor roads are a brake on the wheels of progress. "A short while afterward came the November election; and the people of Pennsylvania gave a majority of 2(12.000 votes to the proposition to bond the Commonwealth for $50,- 000,000 for purposes. 1 knew then that we in Pennsylvania were nearing the end of the Mud Age. Since that time we have completed our plans for Pennsylvania's system of primary highways—planned to give the State a network of north south and east-west thoroughfiyes which will connect every county and, meeting the highways of other Com monwealths at our boundaries, place Pennsylvania in communication with a multitude of markets and sources of supply. "In tliw work of permanentizing Pennsylvania's highways we are be ing joined by a large number of counties. We have been promised many, millions of dollars to be used in conjunction with our funds on State-aid highways, while the major ity of counties in the State are also preparing to spend they- own money on the construction of necessary lat erals or cross roads, connecting our primary highways. The adminis tration is particularly pleased with the willingness of county commis sioners to co-operate in highway construction. And we are pleased that the people themselves look at the proposition in such a broad gauged manner and are urging their county authorities not only to spend all available money possible for ]>et ter roads, hut to borrow money for construction. "It seems to ine that (he theory that we should have the use of our improved roads while paying for is a proper o*<\ We buy our homes and occupy them while pay ing for them. We borrow money for the purpose of extending our business. We bond the State to pay for roads the use of which we have while paying the bills. A county bonds itself for road purposes—anil the construction of better highways increases property values and lessens production cost 3. "But it is important to remember that borrowing money with wh'ch to build roads which will have dis appeared or are tiseless before the borrowed money has been repaid is an economic fallacy. When wo buy a home we expect—we know!—that the house with proper care will be practically as good as ever when we have finished paying for it. Under the construction method planned by the Commonwealth the life of the* roads will be much longer than the l.fe ®f the bonds issued to pay the hills. It is important that construc tion by counties be of the same dur able nature. Taxpayers are never averse to spending money when they know that the return is one hundred cents for every dollar expended. Dur ing the next four years the Common wealth of Pennsylvania will spend approximately $100,000,000 for bet ter roads. And we are going to have $100,000,000 worth of roads. Not only that, wc arc going to continue to have that $100,000,000 worth of roads for years after we have paid •the bills—which is, after all, llje most important thing to remember. Pennsylvania must not stop with that initial expenditure. Jt must continue to construct permanent liighwajs until every hamlet and every farm is either on an improved highways or within a very short distance of one. There are 10,235 miles of road in the State's highway system—the system ot' roads con trolled by the Commonwealth. There are approximately 90,000 miles of roads of all sorts in Penn sylvania. The State is bearing the entire cost of constructing the prim ary system. It asks that each county expend on secondary routes the money that it would have spent on primary routes had not the State shouldered the burden "The State of Pennsylvania has innumerable assets. And it has one liability which we hope soon to wipe from the slate—bad roads. I am pleased that Cambria county shows a disposition to co-operate with us; and I trust that during the next four years the work done by Cambria county itself will be proportionate to that accomplished by the Com monwealth." Sonys and the Law I . [From the Public Ledger] j The qfiuiity of the i>roj)ot. ;U "State I song which the Legislature has | turned down does 1101 seem to have | been high; hut even apart from lit erary or musical considerations, I there was wisdom in the lawmakers ! decision. Manufactured sentiment I makes u distressing exhibit. Patriotic I songs seif-ceuscioiisiy wrought are j usually sorry products. I itouget de t isle was unaware that in; was creating the most famous I hymn of liberty when lie penned the j "Marseillaise" nor did Francis Scott Key foresee a legislative enactment • \Wieti he composed tiie "Star spangled I JJauner ' immediately after tiie JLsrit jisii repulse at Fort Mctlenry. When i these songs were oltiuially adopted by .the I*reach and American Ooveru- I meats, respectively, the people had I accepted tliem and the legal acts of recognition were mere formalities. | „ •T>ixie'" was a minstrel ditty of the I Jim l row ' iluys and l>el£iuiu's fer i \eut "La Brabanconnc" also origi j liated unpretentiously In a theater | For all its royal sanction, .Spain's | Marcha Heal," a stiff and stodgy af j lair, enjoys no real standing as a national anthem. The air which all 1 Spaniards know best and feel to he typical of their land it Yradier's Colorful and rhythmic "La Paloma" ! and the remainder of the world con curs with their indorsement. I If any song spontaneously and pop ulary l'eiiiisylvanian were discover | able in tliis Commonwealth it would ; tie entirely fitting for the Legislature to authorize its official adoption. But no such air and text exist. Years ago. perhaps, "The Blue Juniata" j might have qualified. Today, how- I ever, many Pennsylvanians have no idea "how it goes." . ' Harrisburg has done well to re pudiate macliine-made sentiment just as it has displayed restraint in not establishing, as so many American commonwealths have done, a State characteristic as, for instance, the thistle of Scotland or the Indian ! paintbrush of Wyoming.-the public would 1 realize that without a finf. State or national songs or pmblems do not derive their vitality from the j statute liooks. I Schools and Legislature \ * [From the Pittsburgh Post] j In nothing else that this Legislature ; may accomplish can it deserve more praise than it will earn by providing j substantial increase in the pay of school I teachers, including proportionate ad -1 vance with increased ability. The Post I lias long urged this in justice to the J men and women whose work is of first I Importance because it lays the founda tion of American citizenship. If the lawmakers at Harrisburg neglect this obligation to the teachers of Pennsyl vania, more than reproach will be heaped on those responsible. On them will fall the public indignation when our schools lose their value because good teacher*"Viuit to fill better-paying places in other business fields. The inducements to teach, as a spokes man for the Pittsburgh Hoard of Edu cation rightly declares, must be placed on a salary plane at least even with those offered in other fields. "If that is not done now," Mr. Cross continues, "the effect of greatly lowered stand ards will be felt In the next four or five years, because we will have ex | hausted any possible reserve supply of teachers from the rural or borough schools." Never was the. school situation In Pittsburgh and in the State more serlopß | than today. It is of more concern to the people than any other business be fore the Assembly. Prompt and favor able action by the legislators is needed to insure the best standard of school system in Pennsylvania. i LETTERS TO THE EDITOR STAMMERING To the Editor of the Telegraph: Having spent the best part of iny life in the study of stammering' and stuttering and kindred maladies, I naturally read with a great deal of interest the recent news item re garding the attempted suicide of a boy seventeen years of age who stammered. I stammered myself for nearly twenty years, and 1 know what it means. I want to register a pro test against the common habit of making fun of the boy or girl who stammers. If the average person knew what a terrible state of mind ridicule and laughter brings upon the stammerer, I am sure that no one would pormit the stammerer to see or hear any ridicule of their attempts to talk. It is not too much to say that this ridicule and laugh ter deepens the stammerer's trou ble, from day to day, brings on a highly nervous condition that may eventually result in complete men tal break-down. This practice of making fun of the stammerer is due to ignorance and thoughtlessness, and every thoughtful person who has any re gard for the' rights of other people who are unfortunate enough to stammer, will see to it that he does not laugh at the stammerer or make fun of him. The stammerer is en titled to just as much consideration in his misfortune as the niaji who is blind or t/ic man who cannot hear. We Would not think of laughing at these, and yet the stam merer is continually a subject of merriment. I also noticed that the young man who attempted suicide was con stantly reminded of his trouble by a neighbor child who insisted upon singing "Beautiful K-K-K-Katie." This song should be put on the greased chute as quickly as possi ble. How quickly wo would put the ban on a song based upon the affliction of blindness or deafness, yet how readily we lend ourselves to spreading a song bused on the af fliction of stammering. Another thing which can be, veri fied by any interested person is that mimicry or imitation is one of the most common causes of stammer ing. Alexander Melville Bell and the son who followed him —Alex- ander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone—were two of the greatest authorities on defective speech in the United States and ji reference to their works will *sho\v that imitation and mimcry are one of the most prolific causes of stam mering and stuttering. Any one can readily sec that the .singing of this song "Beautiful K-K-K-Katie" represents imitation in* its purest form and I think that all parents of small children should he warned that the singing of this song in their homes or by their children can easily. result in these children he coming stutterers—while the par ents would probably wonder what in the world brought it on. The average mother or father would probably ponder a long time before they permitted their children to play with a neighbor child who stammered or stuttered, but-they do not hesitate to play this song from morning until night, little knowing what danger it otters to the im pressionable mind of a child. Yours very truly, BENJ. N. HOGEN. Indianapolis, March 13, 1919. Comparative Values .One Hoyt was fishing from the banks of a stream when there ap proached hint an individual named Gates, who remarked with a yawn: "Time ain't very valuable to you, brother, that's plain. Here 1 been a-watohtn' you three hours, and you ain't had a bite." "Well," drawled the fisherman, "my time's too valuable, anyhow, to waste three hpuis of It watchin' a feller fish that ain't gettin' a bite." —Harpor's. Sixth Division ; Regular Army. Arrived in Franco July 23„ 1918. Ac mFJV tlvities: Gerardmer sector. September 3 to October 13; Ar gonne-Meuse offen -Bive (First Army Corps Reserve), T * Nov. 1. Insfgnia; Six pointed star of red cloth, with blue figure "6" super imposed. Abetting ffiljal Correspondence of Governor Wil liam C. Sproul's oillee lias broken all II l ords of the executive department. •Men familiar with the otlite say that nothing like it has ever been known in the lirst half year of any previous KO\ ernors. The mail accumulation is too much for the post office box allotted to the department and ir has to b e sent to the State Capitol 111 bugs, it is all of an official char acter and the whole office force is l.cpt busy in the mornings prepar ing it to be handled. The Governor is being deluged with requests for souvenirs and autographs, appoint ments to office and the numerous other matters which ordinarily go to the oliiee. One of the unusual' features of the correspondence is that many of the writers are rec ommending to his notice badges, banners, memorials and other things growing out of the elose of the war. Many suggestions are also being mado about recognition of the men in the Pennsylvania units. Washington county ranks first in Pennsylvania in puro bred bulls and tvestuioreland leads in. pure bred stallions and boars according to "f"!'? 8 . issu ed today by tho Bureau ot Statistics of the Department of Agriculture. The llgures are based on reports from 655 townships. The reports 5h0w.579 stallions. 4.G37 bulls, 3,4 73 boars and 1 ;974 rams which have good family connections. It is estimated that if these figures rule for the rest of the State that ennsylvania has 1,315 stallions and over 10.500 bulls. The bureau says that the reports show a decline in the number of stallions in the last year, probably due to th e demands of war for animals, but that bulls and other live stock for breeding lia\e increased, it is estimated that approximately five per cent, of the farmers ot the State are feeding ! 0 st °ok for the markets, which s a decline of two per cent, from last >ear and attributed to the high cost of feed. Lancaster countv is estimated to be the leading steer feeding county, forty-five per cent, of its farmers being engaged in this business with Adams with twenty four per cent, and York following with sixteen per cent. As a result of a survey of farm values it is es timated that the average value ot farms, including buildings, in Penn sylvania, per acre is $68.50 per acre. Highway Commissioner Sadler has iniormcd the State College of Wash ington, located at Pullman, Wash ington, that he is unable at this time, to suggest the name at a per son suitable for the position of Pro fessor of Highway Engineering at. that college. Prof. O. D. Waller head ol the Department of Civil Engineering at Washington State C ollege, wrote to the Highway Com missioner of Pennsylvania and said that the western- institution has ur gent need for an instructor who will build up a big road construc tion department in that College, "\\ o want someone who lias had education and practical experience in road construction, and who has a < apacity to 'put it over' to young men—some man who has 'pep, get up and go' about him. to- build up a big department." The Highway Commissioner has men in his De partment capable of holding down the position offered by the Wash ington State College hut, because of the 'intensive and extensive road construction program planned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania he will retain thcni. Major W. G. Murdoc-k, officer in charge of the draft, to-day notified the chief clerk of a local draft board ill an unnamed district that the gov ernment could not give him the desk and typewriter he used during tho draft as payment for "8735 hours over time, 21 pounds of flesh lost during service as chief clerk and a patch of good, hlack curly hair from the top of the head for tho loss of about 230 friends because they were sent to the army." Major Murdock remarked that he thought the man entitled to some compensation for such an exensive and unusual loss, but that government regulations gave him no discretion. c Among visitors to the city yester day was P. ,T. MeCormick, head of the firm which built the Mulberry street bridge. "So you are going to build another big bridge here," said he referring to the Memorial bridge which is projected. "I think it will be a grand one." jfr. MeCormick remarked on the way Harrisburg has expanded. "This city has cer tainly spread out and it is becoming a fine place. lam delighted to visit it again," said he. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Harry J. Trainer. Philadelphian, prominent in politics, was among visitors to the city yesterday. —Frank 13. McClain, director of the Welfare Commission that is to be. was here yesterday discussing extension of the work of the com mission with State officials. —Marcus Aaron, member of the State Hoard of Education who was here yesterday, served for years on the board ol' education in Pitts burgh. —Henry Itudd, one of the promi nent Philadelphia attorneys, and well known in Democratic affairs, was at tho Capitol yesterday. —Samuel M. Clement, Jr., tho Public Service Commissioner, says this March weather is starting him to thinking of golf again. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg steel is used in freight cars in operation on army lines in France? HISTORIC HAURISIH'RG —French traders who tried to raid. John Harris found that the Indians about here were very friend ly to the settler and soon quit. DEATH I like to know that when I'm dead Each bit of me Will live again in many different things. Not as dull dust for other feet to tread Unknowingly, But obvious life —the power of bat's wings, The eyes of squirrels and the breath of herds. t I like to think The grass that from each hidden ejeiid springs Fhal! hold the dew for powdered moths to clinch, And line a nest for little unborn birds. —Nora BiSiiford in the Living Age.
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