10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH XEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH " PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare . E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business MANAGER • GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. 11ICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. 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 this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r\ Newspaper Pub § Ushers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Iveniij Building'', . Gas' Builifing -i Chicago, 111. [ IK Entered at the Post Office in Harris £ burg. Pa., as second class matter, i By carrier, ten cents a >- week: by mail. $2.00 a year in advance. ' THURSDAY. MARCH 20. 1010 ji The heights by great men reached (£. and kept m !' ll'erc not attained by sudden flight. Hut they tchile their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. I,ONGFEI.I.OW. !;■ I t; THOSE SUNDAY LAWS i ' HE best way of settling the con- \ I troversy over Sunday closing i laws is to let the statute stand] i as it is. There is no real pub- j Ej lie demand for a change. Those I | . who are back of Hie Rorke I. bill have selfish interests at f -take. They want the nickels and Li, the dimes of the "dear people" in | whom they profess so great an in terest and that is all there is to it. Not one of them would be interested 1, if it were not for the profits they hope to make from an "open Sun- Iday." Labor should stand firmly j , against any effort to make the Sab- Vj bath a working day. If the bill | goes through the working people of f Pennsylvania will have to fight a x seven-day week. £ Who is Judge Bonniwell that he . iioiild constitute himself the judge i Of any churchman's right to declare . himself in favor of a Sabbath ob l wed as "the Lord's Day?" Why r' ,-hould his word be accepted as set- F tuig forth the attitude of any re | ligious body? isn't this the same Bonniwell who less than a year ago u - became the self-appointed champion K of the barroom in Pennsylvania? I THE END OF IT jE -j- IST us hope that tHe postpone f' I . ment of the report of the view- j cis ott the Clark and Powell ! ft- Valley road closing means an iXj end of the whole incident. Xo ®i. good can come of the clos- ing of this road to the public ■ and much harm would result. If it l§ should happen that the viewers should recommend and the court approve the closing of this thor 't oughfaie, then the next move would tie to ask the State to remove the ;• game preserve front the upper end > and to leave off stocking the trout j:, streams of the region, for it would s be wrong from every standpoint to L spend the money of the sportsmen ' of the Commonwealth for the benefit of what would amount to a private jf hunting and fishing tract. | WHY CREEL LOSES FAVOR jf -*-v Al'K of George Creel's retire- Jjfc |~v ment from the committee on t. public information, certain E' newspapers believe lies a situa- SUtion amounting almost to es- M trangernent with President Wil- V son. So far, so good; we have j no doubt of the correctness of this ' surmise. But when these newspa- V pers go farther and suggest that the 1 misunderstanding is due to the fact that the facilities for transmitting E news to America are inferior to R those afforded French, English and T Italian correspondents, we must dif fer. Our own idea is that Mr. Creel did not handicap the Arneri >V:can press enough. Else why the Government-imposed censorship out of Paris? if GENERATION PASSES K yEARLY every week, almost F] every day, brings with it Si the announcement of the death of some man or womun ml long prominent in the affairs jji of the community or the State, jl: More men of note have passed away B* in the past six months than in any like period within easy memory. BK.This unquestionably lias been due in W large part to the ravages of in- B fluenza, with some blame to be K placed on the pressure of war work and the anxieties due to the con- Vf. fiiet. Dr. Schaeffer, State Superin >l tendent of Public I nslruction, is a jj notable example. Age, a eonstitu- Jion weakened by war work and the L exertions of a very difficult year, and ■ fnally pneumonia, led up to his' I THURSDAY I£V EN IN>J. death. We are witnessing the pass ing of a generation of remarkable men. such a change in public and private life as comes with every de cade inevitably, but which has taken front us more than the usual num ber of pillars of State and commun ity at a time when the best thought and most mature judgment are so vitally necessary. It is for those who remain to address themselves to the problems with which we are confronted more earnestly and with thought solely for the preservation of the institutions which are our heritage. The President is more interested ! n forcing the peace conference to do his will than he is in making peace. SIZING I P SITUATION SAID a Regular Army officer re cently who has had much ex perience with men of the Na tional Army: When the men who enlisted for the war come home, get settled in civilian life and find them selves again, 1 look for a great turn-over in the matter of con ducting governmental affairs at Washington or a great turn-out and 1 am inclined toward the latter, for old-line politicians arc notoriously blind to any gather ing storm and may not get awake to tin- new spirit before it sweeps them into the discard. I have talked with hundreds of soldiers. Those young men laid down their work and went out to save their country. Theirs has been unsel lish service for the Government and they are nearly unanimous in expressing the belief that Con gressmen and others at Washing ton have not been paying as much attention to public welfare as they have to their own personal and political welfare. The sol diers are in no mood to stand for trifling with the Government they feel they have saved and unless public service is the motto of the public servant he won't last long onder the new order. 1 put the limit of the present old-time methods at Washington at four years in the House and six in the Senate. That is strong talk, but it lias in it the experience of a trained handler or men and one accus tomed to dealing with hard, cold facts. Politicians would do well to consider this view carefully, es pecially since from many sources come indications that it is fairly representative of the rank and file of the American army in the war, regardless of politics; which is to say j that it is representative of the young j manhood of the nation, a powerful ] force to l>e reckoned with in the I coming quarter century. REFUSED EVERY PARDON THE new State Board of Pardons evidently is of the opinion that judges are not generally given to the imposition of sentences more severe than the offenses warrant. The Board yesterday refused every application before it. and that with out any long debates over the merits of the several pleas presented. If it becomes generally understood that there is little chance for clemency for the criminal convicted and sen tenced under the laws of Penn sylvania there will be less crime. There should be no royal road from the penitentiary. The Pardon Board evidently means to discourage those who would escape the penalties of their crimes through the mistaken sympathy of men who must get their knowledge largely from the lips of interested attorneys paid to put a good face on the prisoner's case. CASE OF FIRST INSTANCE THE China-Japan dispute looms as one of the first practical questions that the League of Nutions, if formed, will be called upon to settle. Japan is seeking to retain control of the territory of Kiaochow, formerly leased by Ger many, and from which the Japa nese drove the Germans in the early days of the war. It is alleged that this is but the initial step in a campaign by Japan to gain control of the whole Shantung Peninsula, of which Kiaochow forms a prominent part. The Chinese emissaries to the peace conference at Paris, we are told by the press, openly denounce what they term the "aggressive im perialism" of Japan, and declare that they will fight to the last against permitting the Japanese to impose their will upon China. If both China and Japan stead fastly adhere in their purposes the result can be nothing else than war, unless the league interferes. Inas much as Japan is one of the "big five" at the peace table it is fair to assume that the new league, dom inated as it will be by those same five nations, will espouse the cause of Japan and insist that China give way. If China rebels at the decision of the league and undertakes by force to protect her territory from Japanese encroachment it will be the duty of the members of the league, under the terms of its con stitution, to put an international army in the field to fight for the right of Japan to acquire a terri torial foothold in China. The United ; States, if a member of the league, will be forced to contribute her quota of the polyglot army. Our troops would embark on their mis sion from the ports of California, and doubtless the citizens of that State would be largely represented in our regiments. It would certainly be a new experience for them to lay down their lives in the furtherance of Japanese ambitions for expansion, against which the Californians have fought for years. Tet all this presents a very prac tical situation, and one which will very naturally develop according to all the signs of the times. Although the first, it is but one of the count less international quarrels that will be brought before the league for settlement, in very few of which will the United States have any interest I whatever, but in all of which Ameri ca will have to become involved to the-extent of supplying armies and money in enforcing the determina tions of the league. Are the Ameri can people ready to embark on such 'a venture? 'fditlct U | By the Ex-Commlttccman The Rorke bill proposing an amendment to tlie blue laws so that Sunday concerts and entertain ments can be given bids fair to be one of the big issues of the present legislative session. It was not in tended to be. Originally the plan was to permit orchestral concerts, a result of the agitation on the sub ject in Philadelphia, but the moving picture people got in and must bear the brunt of the fighting. The sub committee in charge of the bill will have a meeting on Tuesday when it is expected that the bill will be recommended to the judiciary special committee, which in all probability, will report it out to the House. This will mean a fight on the floor of the House with the church people and religious or ganizations solid!> arrayed against I it. The bill will have rough sled | ding. The hearing yesterday was mark { ed by some interesting speeches. | Several of the opponents of the b.ll I strongly attacked it as an opening j wedge, while the Rev. Dr. J. 11. I .Markward and Dr. Arthur 15. Brown, I headmaster of the Harrisburg Acad j emy, made impressions by tlretr j earnest remarks. Judge Eugene t\ | Bonniwell, who attempted a defence of the bill, was fortunate in that no remarks were allowed in,rebuttal |as some people thought that Ids statements that divine and civil law would not be interfered with were not well founded. William A. Brady the best showing in the closing series by his suggestion that the Massachusetts plan for a commission to pass upon what films are proper to show on Sunday be adopted. -—Tito prohibition enforcement code is going to have a strenuous j hearing, probably next Tuesday or Wednesday as some opponents of I the measure have been tuning tip | and have intimated to Chairman H. ! F. Bungard, of the House law and order committee that they want to be heard. It is probable that other legislation on the subject will ap pear. The liquor people have some bills in storage, it is said. —Tuesday will be a big day for I Philadelphia bills in the political slants as the charter revision will I be given an airing by the Senate municipal committee and the House will act on the Brady bills which are being fought by the Vare ele ment. The Vare people have been industriously cultivating rural mem bers in an effort to have thfe bills sent back to committee and hope to have them taken up with the Scott bills to take policemen and firemen out of politics. The Tuesday morn *ing meeting of the Legislative Leag ue will have considerable bearing on what may happen. —Suffragists and anti-suffragists will avail themselves of the oppor tunity extended by Chairman W. 11. j Dlthrich's arrangement for a hear ing on the suffrage resolution to j amend the constitution on April 1. j The suffrage people are coming ltere in and the antis will have con- i ciderable to say. —Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, ' while here yesterday, did not seent ] to have abated any of his inten tion to make a clean tip of the Dem ocratic bosses who tried to read him out of the party at the meeting of the Democratic State committee af ter he had been nominated for Gov ernor by the voters of the party. The Judge announced recently 'in Philadelphia that his task was now to get after A. -Mijchel Palmer and his pals. The fact that Palmer is now Attorney General of the United States seems only to have whetted the appetite of Bonniwell for the game. The vigor with which the judge is pursuing his course may account for Palmer's retention of the Democratic national committee seat front this State and the conse quent lack of necessity for the Dem- ' ocratic State committee to meet. —P. E. Joyce, of Pittston, owner j of some of the fastest horses in tHe i country, including the champion fil ly "Penrose." "Judge Wingfield." "Subandar," "Gex," "Senator Crow." and many steeplechase runners known to turf followers, is here for a few days. To Mr. Joyce "hoss racin" is merely a hobby, as he is a florist, ice cream maker, raiser of prize stock and brewer. He is turning his brewery into an ice cream factory. He never took a drink in his life . —Action on the Woodruff hill to provide a general increase in teach ers' salaries in Pennsylvania is ex pected in the Legislature next week. This is one of the big subjects of the session. Representatives of school teachers and school officials from all over the State approved the bill at a conference here Mon day night. According to the pro gram agreed upon by legislative leaders the bill will be reported out by the House Education committee Monday night and will he given first reading Tuesday. Then it will be recommitted to the House appro priations committee. —The only obstacle in the way of the bill is the increased appro priation which will be required to put in effect the increased salaries. State financiers say they will be forced to do some tall rustling to provide the additional funds that must be appropriated to meet the proposed increases. It was at first estimated that the State's share of the proposed increases would be about $4,000,000 annually. Now it is thought the amount may reach $7,000,000 or more. Sentiment among the legislators is almost un animous in favor of the measure and if a way can he found to provide the money it will be put through the Legislature as quickly as possible. Many of the school teachers who came here to discuss the bill re mained over in Harrisburg and con ferred with legislative leaders on the bill. LABOR NOTES In France women are working 12 hours a day, with two hours' recess at noon. Consideration is being given in Boston to a proposal to close stores for an hour at noon. Miners in Arizona have organized in an effort to have reforms in the compensation laws made. Glasgow, Scotland, was the first city to introduce women conductors and motOrmen on its street railways system. Negro women of Williamsport. Pa., decided at a meeting that they would not work for less than $2 a day. The Alloa branch of the Scottish National Farmers' Union has de cided to boycott the Irish harves ters. More than 600 French and Eng lish girls are now acting as chauf ' feurs in the Red Cross service. i TELEGRAPH WONDER WHAT A NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPHER THINKS ABOUT By BRIGGS ' 1 ' WELL HERE AM ' A SOOU " A POEM ALWAYS , ~.--EX To T>C MV ©AILV COLUMN THIS LOOKS GOOD IF OM 1 _ A J? LFT ~~ CHORE . CERTAWLY MORNING IF I T>o IT HAS SOM£? CF> 1° w f,p L I EHJOV MY WORK- SAY ,T MYSELF" T „ E TYPC |W *£ IT JUIT COME, S- DASH OF/A ' O UCS "/ DIFFERENT- STYLeS 1 WATURAL.WITH Me "ASH OFF A, BRACH£TS AND OF Type* LITTLE POEM JO TYPE ORMAMCWTS ' V * S HEAP THE. AJOD AYCH • COLOMIO ILL HAVE TO FIMO THEN I'LL RUN CAR TOONS Ae HCRe'S A £OOD A CLIPPING, FROM AMOTHER "WHOM ALL RI€HT *J "DIETR UUHEEZ.E.VMONDER OM£ COUWTRY AAE You SAID AY ~ 1 L,^ E TM WHAT A CARTBOMT ST PAPER AND PUT C YRIL" - ,T\S 1 XLLJ >0 *" T THINKS ABOUT WHEO A PUNNV 'HEAD ON FILLER ANYWAY. AL KFVS TM.NKIIU& up L T - |T ALWAYS GOT PRETTY -RJJO Al> A CARTOON ON TAKES FA(R ST UFF ,N MY WHAT OTHERS MAIL FROM CONTR.BS GRAMMAR- POOR '"TMIL/K ABOUT' TODAY I CAN use. U)R6TCHES <JOOD LAST; \. ' ' U^ e Confessions of a War Mother "Over there" she -was the daugh ter of the regiment. Over here she fell heir, by reason of her natural charm, to all those appellations or "sweet nothing.-." any child acquires who is received into this world by a large reception committee of fond aunts, uncles and grandparents. Her visiting cards will read. -Miss Sally Lou. Last August she embarked on this sea of life and lias since been dock ing high and dry in a snug port on the Missouri—making an indetl nite stay at thi.s tilling station. Her daddy lias never seen her so f write daily communiques. Were Creel or Hurleson to shut down right now on all means of communication, Captain Daddy would know enough. In fact, the whole, regiment is sure Sally Ig)u is a blue ribbon baby. Her beauty destines her for the screen world. Her wisdom would place her high chair at the peace table, if she felt inclined to go. As for her strength, she might have been born of an Amazon. A new and better baby food on the market can only explain such health, red cheeks and round contours. And that leaves me only her disposition to talk about. Sometimes I write: "Quiet on this sector:,little to report." That's when ; she's good. But of her night revels he known nothing, of which I must confess, she puts all other night revels in a class with Quaker meet ings. To daddy, the uninitiated, her preliminary cries would sound like "minnenwerfers." Then will follow the whole range of guns. And when he thinks the "Big Berthas" are going strong and Ills remonstrances have fallen on her ears like "duds." he, too, will resort to that whole repertoire or rocking, walking and "hush-a-bying." The proverbial night vigil! Of course howitzers, "big Ber thas," etc., are all right over there, for war is what Sherman said it is. But this is home, sweet home, that daddy writes about where he can sleep on clean sheets. Well, the sheets are clean, but one can't ex pect too much for the price of a clean sheet. And I didn't stop there. I have only sent fair weather reports to Uncle Bob, for we want him to come home, too. It is my sin of omission. And as for me, who has stood double sen try duty—well, I'll be quite ready to indulge in an "A. W. O. L." (ah-, sent without leave) when daddy, cotnes back, while he gets acquaint ed with hi 3 little Bertha. E. M. K. MOTHER GOOSE LAND [L. M. Thornton in the People's Home Journal] There's a wonderful land where I like to go. When the shades are down and the lights are low. With little "My-Loved-One" upon my knee, And the pussy cat keeping us company: For then we go journeying hand in hand Through the scenes fantastic of Mother Goose Land. I tell him stories, the best known ones— Xo labored voice and no stilted puns— But Jack and Jill and the little maid Who on a tuffet sat sore afraid, And Majoric Daw, for, you under stand. These are the people of Mother Goose Land. The Three Blind Mice and the Pip er's Son, And Little 80-Peep and a Hot Cross Bun, And the Naughty Kittens who had no pie, And Jack who climbed on a bean stalk high. And Humpty Dumpty who couldn't stand, And Mistress Mary of Mother.Goose Land. Over and over we tell each tale With an interest never known to fail: Who killed Cock Kobin and Old King Cole, And the Three Brown Bears and their porridge bowl, With Little Boy Blue and his horn so grand . Under the haystack of Mother Goose Land. Oh. golden hour at the close of day AVith <he Dream-boat waiting to sail away, The wide world over. I pledge you this— 'Tis the hour no mother should ever miss With little "My-Loved-One," hand in hand — A jaunt through, the mazes of Mother Goose Land. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |' Thanks the Telegraph To the Editor of the Telegraph '. As a former resident of Upper Dauphin County and a lover of the wild (which term includes the oc casional use of gun and rod) I desire to thank and congratulate you, for informing the public, in a recent issue, of the dastardly at tempt of certain interests to close the Clarks Valley Road, in Rush Township, which, if successful, means abandoning several tine farms, and robbing the people of Upper Dauphin and Lower Schuyl kill counties of access to the best trout stream and hunting grounds in this section of the State. This stream has been repeatedly stocked by both State and National Govern ments, and the State Game Com mission realizing the wonderful nat ural' advantages for the propagation of game in this section, have within the last year created a game pre serve on an adjoining tract, and placed thereon many valuable speci mens of noble deer, wild turkey, etc. This is an un-American attempt to rob the poor people of our mining towns (who cannot afford to hunt in Maine, or take a vacation to the sea shore) of their most valued as set. and the growing reprehensible tendency of wealthy men, and some corporations to rob the people of their heritage of the wilds, must be stopped. Bolshevism is but a prod uct of oppression and unjust laws, we want it not, so let us remove, tit least, one of its causes. Our Legis lature is now in session. Our Com monwealth. fortunately, has a chief Executive of exceptional' foresight and wisdom, who. the writer be lieves. would lend his powerful intel lect to assist in the passage of legis lation, that will legalize our moral right of access to the wild, un cultivated lands in the State. What a sad commentary on our boasted justice, liberty and freedom to have the heroes of Dauphin and Schuylkill) counties return from France to discover that Kaisers and their ilk. have taken from them one of their most cherished possessions. writer of these few lines be lieves the importance of this ques tion warrants the immediate atten tion of our law makers, which will undoubtedly be given, if the sports men ajid lovers of the wild, have brains enough to demand and light for it, in an intelligent manner. Respectfully Yours. L. W. W. TRADE BIUEES An American consul in Italy has forwarded the name of a wicker and straw work dealer in his district who would like to interest an American or Philippine manufacturer in his plan of opening a school and fac tory in the Philippines for making braids and hats, the direction of which he would undertake. His name can bo obtained from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce or its district or co-oper active offices by referring to File No. 108590. The mail order business has be come a constant source of irrita tion to the merchants in the smaller towns in Canada. It is proposed by the Ontario Government at the next session of the Legislature to place a tax on the volume of mail order business. A number of Ceylonese firms have expressed interest in American shoe leathers. Imports of leather into Ceylon in 191ti were valued at 120,000. Algeria should offer a good mar ket for American footwear provided that American manufacturers and exporters make the necessary effort to secure the business, quota prices c. i. f. Algiers and grant terms comparable to those furnished by French houses. It is reported that a new method for producing motion pictures by projection through a glass film has been worked out at Jena, Germany. This new glass film has the advan tage of being only one one-hun dredth as large as the film now in use. The National City Bank of New York opened a branch in the city of Matanzas, Cuba. This is the third branch the bank has opened in Cuba, the other two being at Havana and Santiago do Cuba. The Elate Has the Flu Music for the dance Friday night may cause its postponement, owing to part of the orchestra being sick. ,—From the Eddyville Enterprise. Yanks Wed French Girls To the Editor of the Telegraph'. As a service man just home from the seat of war, and most of the time in France, and with a good chance to study the people of that country, and especially the women, let me take up a little space in your paper to teH your readers why the American boys, in so many instances are marrying French girls. In the firsl place, let me say that French femininity is delightful, and that is why probably close to 100.000 of our American boys who were sent to France decided to marry French girls. In the first place, the French girls are clever and know the art of winning a husband. They know how to dress, too, to bring out the very littlest as well as the greatest of their charms. And they know how to talk to our soldiers with their eyes and hands and shoulders better than the American girls can talk to them in their own United States. They speak a universal, lan guage—the language of appeal— and they never fail to make them selves understood. Besides all this more or less sup erficial charm, the Frenchwoman is truly a woman, and not merely a painted up doll. They make won derfuil wives and mothers. 1 was there long enough to see that. They make even better wives and mothers than they do sweethearts. The French women are wonderful housekeepers, although, except among the upper classes, they do run too much furniture in their parlors and too much garlic in their kitchens, to suit my plain tastes. But how they do understand food conservation and economy. Mr. Hoover could learn quite a few les sons from them if he would care to study them. And on top of all this femininity, they are fighters. They are the bravest women, as a class, I believe in existence, and the most consist ently patriotic. Their patriotism is so deep, so much a part of them, that they never think of saying any thing about it. If you separated a Frenchwoman from her love for France, you would have to tear her limb from limb and pick her to pieces. Patriotism goes all through the Frenchwoman, and enters, subcon sciously, into everything she has done since she has been a French woman. You know something of what they have done since the Sum mer of 1914 from the reports that have appeared in the newspapers, but their full history can never be Written. So why shouldn't our boys have them and marry them? Anyway, whether they should or should- not, they are doing it. The only way to prevent them from keeping on mar rying French women is to make an appeal to the Government to bring them all home. The French woman is emotional. She loves a man—if she loves him— because she cannot help herself. She does not pretend to love him with any thought of commercialism en tering into the situation. She con tinues to love him after they are married, in spite of the fact that she may not have gained all the fine things that the American girl hopes for when she marries, a leisure time, plenty of clothes, a nice home, and all with as little trouble to herself as possible. That is why the Ameri can boys have been so impressed with the French women —on ac count of their sincerity and relia bility. J. R. C. Call the New Congress [New York Sun] A few days before the German army cracked and the Hindenburg line vunished the American people voted the Democratic Congrees not only out of the revenue raising and the appropriating power but out of all legislative power of the United States Government. President Wil son besought the American voters not to do this. He made a personal issue of it. lie even went, so far as to declare that if they did it they would endanger the successful pros ecution of the war. But, convinced that the Democratic Congress, for which Mr. Wilson pleaded was in competent to do the nation's work, and resolved that the Democratic Congress for which Mr. Wilson pleaded should be entrusted with their affairs no longer than the date when the new Congress could legal ly come into office, the American people did that very thing just the same. That old Congress is now out. The new Congress is in existence, but not in session. The American people have set up its authority; Mr. Wil son, whom they denied at the na tional polls last November, thus far denies them their new Congress; MARCH 20, 1919. denies their will as to what legis lative work they wish done—-have wished done ever since they voted to put his Congress out and theirs in. The national finances are in need of care by the new Congress. Na tional reconstruction from a war to a peace basis needs it. Industrial readjustment to normal conditions needs it. Business stability needs it. l.abor and capital- need it. Every American interest, at home and abroad, needs it—needs it urgently, needs it desperately. Call Congress! Parade Reluming Soldiers [Front the New York Sun] Governor Edge of New Jersey thinks he detects a recession of en thusiasm for the returning troops, and to revive it he has asked Gen eral March to have the various units parade on their arrival here in their home States. We have not seen any evidence of lack of interest in the home-coming soldiers, but without regard to this, the Governor's plan for parades is a good one. The men who went out to fight the Germans were taken front their homes with mighty Little ceremony. Their lives in camp were so crowded with work they had no chance to hear the applause of their friends. Some of them were loaded on trans ports secretly, and taken across the ocean secretly and while they were in Europe they labored ardously, without any display or popular trib utes. Now they are coming home they should be allowed to hear the cheers and see the friendly faces of their neighbors and friends, to register in their minds the formal expressions of affection and admiration all Americans long to convey to them. They should be allowed to have a day of triumph, a measure of the applause they have so richly earned and their fellow countrymen are anxious to bestow upon them. The men and women for whom these kliaki-clad heroes fought are entitled to something too. They should be allowed to see what their soldiers look like on parade, how they bear themselves, what the tide of men that swept back the German hosts was. New York has seen something of it, though not as much as it wants to see; and other com munities should not be denied the pleasure and the honor we have I known. IX "CIVVIES" ' Where are the girls who used to smile And the rides I used to get, And where is the crowd that was very proud To pass me a cigaret? Time was 1 danced with the maidens fair And captured their hearts by storm, i But I've lost my pull with the beau tiful j Since quitting the uniform. ; I've sunk my shoes into Turkish rugs That only the rich can own. At tables fine I've been asked to dine In the heart of the social zone. In the cushions deep of a limousine 1 have rested my manly form, I But I've lost my graft with the tony craft Since quitting the uniform. ' | I've been a king on the ballroom floor, An ace in the social whirl-; ; I could show my face in any old place And never a lip would curl. I could walk right up to a rich man's door And be sure of a welcome warm. But I've changed a lot and they know me not Since quitting the uniform. ; Now 1 walk downtown and the autos pass And nobody says "Get in;" And the girls are shy when I'm standing by And nobody knows and nobody cares Whether I eat or how. I must buy my chuck, for I'm out o' luck — I'm wearing the "civvies" now. —By Captain \V. A. Covert, Aviator. Colonies Within the I.eague of Nations Great Britain's strength we note, I Each colony is counted A country with a vote. ! But let us though outnumbered Retain a proper calm, Eor (here are more dominions Beyond the pine and palm. By two far lands we peopled We c-laim two votes as well. By Yanks we sent to Heaven And Huns we sent to Hell. 1 -—McEandburgh Wilson. lEbptttitg (EJjal Every legislative Session bring! many people here from all sectiom ol the State, but it is doubtful whether any six months in a long Jong time, has seen so many men from various sections of Pennsyb vania in Harrisburg as the peritk commencing with Ground Hog day, lor instance. The numerous con ferences being held at the Statt Highway Department have added to the representatives of the coun ties and in addition to the hearings which have drawn men and women from virtually every city and many ol the larger boroughs to the leg islative hails and committee rooms, while (here have been meetings ol various State boards and conferences at the Governor's office which have assembled any amazing Variety ol people of diverse occupations and residence. One observer of things at the Capitol remarked to-dav that lie had a wide acquaintance in Penn sylvania and felt sure that every county iii the State had had delega tions oi' individuals iiero, aside from legislators, in ihe last month. "I have never known so many people from so many sections to be here, and the odd part about it is that they have come on one of threa days in each week -either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday,*' said he. "And the majority of tiiem go back home saying that Harrisburg lias met expectations at last and pro vided a first class hotel" added another man, who comes from a dis tant city. It may lie added that Ihe proposed improvement of Capi tol park is not only interesting many of the visitors, but getting strong support from them. William A. Brady, the theatrical producer, who was here yesterday for the hearing on the Rorke bili, admired the State Capitol very much. .Mr. Brady was escorted through the building after the con cert by the Philadelphia orchestra and lemarked upon the splendor of the building. He is well known to a number of Harrisburgers as lie lias been here several times, but it was his first visit to the "Hill." <■ * Major Henry M. Stine, who com manded the Harrisburg Reserves, the home defence organization ot | this city, has arranged for officers |of llie ll2tli infantry now in this I country and who helped train tlia Reserves, to deliver a scries of Sat urday nighl talks in the courthouse | to the members of the Reserves on llicit- experiences in I-'rance and how | to aid the men in tlie army when j they return. Tile Reserve organiza | tion is being maintained. • n First examples of seventeen year old locusts have been sent to the Stale Capitol by Tenth ward resi dents who turned them up while digging garden. The locusts were I found under some Front street lawns S and in war gardens and were pro j nounccd undoubtedly seventeen year ] old locusts. As tile war is over no ! one will worry about the W on the wings this year. i. # . The time for filing income tax re turns expired on Saturday night at - midnight and l'nt-le Sam does not '< permit ,of revisions except in duo ! process of law and not often then ! when they go against the govern | ment according to what some people j found out in the Federal building | Sunday night. The income tax law apparently struck many people who did not realize it until very late ami some of them were unable to get to the experts because of the crush in the corridors of the building Satur day night and concluded to try their ' luck yesterday morning. They found ! that Sabbath observance is a very I real thing about the United States ] post office and that the time limit I had been reached. A couple of men 1 said that they had discovered some ! grounds for exemption and desired to know how to recall tlieir returns ; for amertdnient. Stamp window 1 clerks told tlieni to take their trou ! bles to Lancaster. Some anxious j citizens who wanted to change re ! turns called up men connected with ! the revenue service by telephone yes ! terday, but got scant comfort. Most | of the revenue men spent the day I in bed. ' * * David Riddle, of Ihe Philadelphia | Evening Ledger, formerly of the j Harrisburg Telegraph, is one of the | few people in the world who be i lieves that t lie "flu" probably saved ! his life, but lie has a grouch against j the disease even at that, for it kept him out of the final campaign of the Sltith regiment that helped put the Hun army out of business in I eastern France. Riddle had gone I through the Argonne lighting witli- J out having been hit and while ihe | regiment was in a quiet sector for i a few days,, resting, the young man j went down with the "flu" and was | put out of active service for the rest lof the war. During the days that I followed his regiment saw the hot , test kind of service, having 800 major casualties, including Ihe ma jor and several captains, and Riddle thinks lie might have "got his" if he had been with his comrades at that, time. Nevertheless he says he pre fers the chance of a Hun bullet to the agonies of intluzena. * * The weather lias been extremely favorable for fruit up to this time. Not a bud was winter killed and the temporal ure while above normal most of the winter was not sufficient to push the buds to too danger point. A few more weeks of the I present type of weather will bring I the golden bells and other early I bloomers into blossom. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. T. T. Mutchler, who presented opponents of the Rorke hill yesterday, has been con ducting battles against changes in Sabbath laws for many years. —Parke H. Davis, prominent Eas ton attorney, was here yesterday for a Pardon Board case. He used to play football at Princeton and is prominent among Democrats. —Congressman John H. Wilson, of Butler, is a good roads advocate. —Judge John M. Oarman, here yesterday for a hearing, says he con siders Harrisburg his second home as his family comes from about hero and some of them reside in this vicinity. —Judge Stephen Stone, of Pitts burgh, is a son of the former Gover nor and was graduated at Lafayette. —Judge Eugene C. Bonniweil, here for the hearing yesterday, takes a great pleasure in being president of the State Firemen. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg lias been making silk for government work ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This is Ihe year when Ihe .con struction of the tiret State Capitol was begun-
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