16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 —: Published evenings except Sunday by ; THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. i Telegraph Building, Federal Square | I E. J. STACKFOLE President and Editor-in-Chief i F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager i GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor \ A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executlre Board I 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 this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. J- t Member American syi vanta Associa i Chicago, lib' I ! Entered at the Post Office in Harris- I burg, Pa., as second cldss matter. ' By carrier, ten cents a week ; by mall, $3.00 a ! %snfifcsA-" year in advance. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 11 j r 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the j drinking, that is to be blamed, but i the excess. — JOHN SELDON. j = LABOR AND REWARD SAID a western I. W. W. agi tator recently, during his trial for the burning of a farmer's wheat field: All capital and all interest come from labor. Eabor has a right to everything. Capital to nothing. We would destroy the "boss" in American industry, pull down capital, destroy the value of prop erty and make all men equal. What a nonsensical doctrine! To this I. W. W. anarchist the farmer represented the "boss;" his field of wheat represented capital; the ; profits he would have earned had I he sold the wheat would have repre sented something wrested wrongfully . from labor. This man's views are in general so ; palpably false that it would be silly . to discuss them seriously. But there is a mistaken notion in the minds of ; many that "all capital and interest" ido "come from labor," meaning thereby from the toil of those who work With their hands and that, 1 therefore, anything held from the manual workers is something which is kept wrongfully from them. For example, the farmer who planted the wheat which was burned put into his field both capital and labor. He bought his seed and he planted the grain. Perhaps he paid some man to assist him in the , planting. The farmer knew that the people of the world wanted and needed wheat for food. He also knew that they were unable to plant for themselves; first, because they did not know how and, secondly, be cause they had neither time nor op portunity. So he risked his labor and the money he had saved from his labor—first, that he might earn a living and something on his in vestment; secondly, that the world might have something it wanted and needed. Had all the wheat fields been burned starvation would have ensued; or if the farmer had not realized a profit on the sale of wheat he had grown he would not have planted wheat again. So it is through the whole field of industry. The working man strikes when his profits (wages) are not high enough and the farmer deserts his fields, the merchant closes his store and the factory owner his industry when there are no profits to be earned. Profit has been back of every in vention, every comfort, every luxury we have; take away chance for profit and every inventor will stop work, every industry will close. There is a close relationship be tween capital and labor. They are not independent. They are partners in business. We may argue that labor is not getting its full share of the profits in the partnership, but we cannot say that labor is en titled to all the profits any more than we can that capital is entitled to everything. The two must live together so long as the world stands, if we are to have peace, prosperity and an orderly civiliza tion, and the sooner both come to that understanding the better for all concerned. HERE IS THE PLACE MOVING picture magnates com plained against Governor Sprout's intention to bring the State censorship headquarters from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, on the ground that it will cause them incon venience. Philadelphia, they say, is the great distributing point for Pennsylvania for the film companies. That being the case, why not trans fer the distributing offices with the censorship headquarters? Harris burg is infinitely better situated for quick deliveries than is Philadel phia, and we are not much farther away from New York than Phila delphia, considered from the stand point of railroad travel. Governor Sproul and Auditor Gen eral Snyder were right in saying that the moving picture makers are responsible for the censorship. No- FRIDAY EVENING, harrisburg TELEGKAPH ' *"• MARCH 21, 1919. body wants to injure the moving pic ture industry. Properly conducted, it is an up-lifting, educational in fluence in any community, but de spite the fact that a great majority of the larger promoters are making an honest effort to keep their pic tures pure and clean, unscrupulous companies still continue to force the State to be watchful, and since the pictures must be viewed by State representatives, the Capitol is the place where the showing should be made. OPTIMISM PREVAILS THERE is a spirit of optimism prevailing among the leaders of industry and commerce in the United States, which is based upon substantial realities. The war de stroyed a vast amount of capital, observes one of the great banking institutions of the country, but the productive capacity of America is greater than ever before. This is true of England, Canada and Japan, but continental Europe is sadly handicapped by the ravages of war and the loss of manpower. This authority on world conditions be lieves it is probable that France is in better shape than is commonly believed, but cannot resume produc tion to the best advantage until she has settled with Germany what the latter shall pay. Belgium is in a similar position. Emphasizing this view of the situation the authority in Question says: The recuperative power of civ , illzod countries is astonishing. Two good crop years, accompanied by a general resumption of industrial life, will restore the prosperity of the plain peo ple by providing food and em ployment for all. Capital cannot be so quickly replaced or restored, blit America is so rich that there will be no lack of money and credit for productive enterprises. Up to the end of last January, the latest date for which returns are available at this writing, otir for eign trade remained undiminish ed, January being the best month in our history. 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 trnde. It is said that merchandise valued at $100,000,000 is lying in che port of New York awaiting transportation to other, lands. Enterprising manufacturers elaim that improved shop prac tices and facilities will offset high wages and enable America to compete successfully with Eu rope in open markets. As far as the world is concerned, no bur densome surplus of raw materials or manufactures exists. Other countries require all that we can spare for export, and the Fed eral Government and our business men must address themselves to the task of distribution. French and Belgian buyers are in our markets for machinery, machine tools, railroad equipment and raw materials. Foreign business men are not ns 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 exports of anything that we have to sell. Canada does not compare with the United States in wealth, re sources and productive eapucity, but she is reaching out for for eign trade and is offering credits to F.uropean customers. The Fed eral Administration has expressed willftlgness to help exporters in a similar way. The banks of this country are in a position to fi nance such trade to a practically unlimited extent. The Federal Reserve Banks are stronger than ever before, and money Is likely to remain in abundant supply for ordinary business purposes, though rates of interest will he. intluer.eed by Government financ ing. which 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 and raw materials, while the rest of the world so badly needs what we can spare. These optimistic statements are confirmed t>y the far-seeing ob servers of the trend of the times, who have their views on the enor mous resources and recuperative powers of tho United States. It re mains for the individual to so har monize his own activities with the country's progress that all communi ties may be in step with the pros perity which is believed to be at our thresholds. A NEW RESIDENT HARRISBURG welcomes as a permanent resident William Elmer, who cunie here to fill temporarily the office of superinten dent of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania Ruilroad and made such an excellent record that it has | been decided to have him remain. The office is one of the most im portant on the main line of the Pennsylvania and the duties require the highest type of executive abil ity as well as years of railroad train ing. The division extends from Marysville to Philadelphia, and takes in not only the main line but the Enola yards and low grade as well, making practically two divisions, that must be managed from one of fice and made to co-ordinate. Some times we are inclined to think, if we think of the matter at all, that a railroad division is a sort of automatic machine that runs itself, but the truth is it is a most delicately adjusted organization and must have always the closest atten tion of able men whose whole lives have been devoted to railroad man agement. Mr. Elmer succeeds many distin guished railroaders in tho superin tendent's office at Harrisburg, among them several presidents of the com pany, and he has a big job on his hands. But he will find here as loyal and as able a force of rail road men as there is anywhere along the main line of the Pennsylvania. He will have their best wishes for a successful administration. A NOTABLE VICTORY THE victories won by the debat ing teams of the Central High School 'over teams of Reading and Hazleton jn the Tri-City De bating League give the school a proud place among the institutions of the State. They are g.\\ the more remarkable because the boys have been laboring under handicaps that might have discouraged them from the effort of putting teams into the field. The Forster street school building is not such as to encourage either school spirit or individual enter prise. It is antiquated, over-crowded and entirely unfit for high school purposes. What would not Harrisburg high school boys be able to do in com petition with other institutions of the kind if we had in Harrisburg such building accommodations as would make possible the conduct of the school along the most approved, modern lines? Ij— ' -il fstZtlct IK fzKHtifiitfCLKUl Li the Ex-Committeeman j Senator Boies Penrose has once more furnished people who follow I politics in Pennsylvania wilh the ] choicest subject for discussion. I Right in the face of predictions and j declarations that the nonpartisan feature of various election laws is doomed he is out with the state ment that he does not think it ad visable and men on Capitol Hill who had been writing off that delectable idea in choosing of officials have shown signs of agreeing with him. A month ago no one would have given anything for the chances of the nonpartisan judicial act remain ing on the books and there were predictions that it would he repealed for second class cities. Tho feeling was so strong that the third class city people who do not like that feuture of the election clause in the Clark act started out to have it re pealed. The concensus of opinion on Capi tol Hill is getting toward the point whore men are sure that the time is importune to change the election laws. —The senior Senator is just back from Washington where he has been very busy on big legislation and the currents have reach *d him from all sections of the country. The Phila delphia North American credits the Senator with this remark. —"I am sick and tired of changing the election laws. My personal opin ion is that the popular primary has come to stay and we seem to get along fairly well with the nonpar tisan election of judges. What sen timent exists in the Legislature to change the method of electing judges. I am unable to say as I have not discussed the subject with any one." —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in commenting says: "It is signifi cant that the repealer of the non partisan law presented by Repre sentative Hugh A. Dawson, of Scran ton, has been held up all week. This measure would wipe out the entire act. Mr. Dawson says it is his in tention to have the measure reported from the Municipal Corporations Committee next week, apd at the same time he will introduce a new bill which provides a method for partisan elections in second class cities and does not disturb the non partisan law in so far as the judic iary is concerned. This procedure would indicate at least that a tip is out to prevent legislative interfer ence with the judiciary. "Last week the members of the House representing third class cities conferred on the question of repealing the nonpartisan election provision of the Clark act. A large majority of these legislators favored the repeal and the Willson bill to accomplish it has been reported from a House committee. In the meantime John A. Gardner. city solicitor of New Castle and a leader in third class cii.v legislation, has been communicating with the third oalss city Representatives. He is pointing out that tinder partisan elections opportunities will be af forded for the Socialists and I. W. W. element to cause trouble in some of the cities, while a continuance of the nonpartisan provision would block this. The Gardner letter is said to be having the effect of slow ing lip some of the Legislators. —Another interesting impression which seems to be gaining ground on Capitol Hill is that there will not, he much of an effort to push the hill for an investigation of the State educational system. The idea ap pears to be. going about that it would he better to allow the Gover nor to carry out his thought of reor ganizing it from within. —The story has been revived that a hill to provide for a salary of $lO,- 000 for the superintendent and the appointment of a big educator to change things around will appear soon. The salary is now $5,000 a year. —Names of Dr. J. L. Eisenberg. head of Slippery Rock State Normal Schools and former city school sup erintendent of Chester; Dr. J. George Recht. secretary of-the State Board of Education, and Dr. Chessman A. Herricks, head of Girard College, are heard for superintendent. —The bills for the department, of conservation and the new State, Police bill are to be presented within a week. "THE LOST LEGION" To John Stavens: Tf you have fin ished with j-our wanderings over the world there is a place at home for you and a share in the estate you have not merited.—Father. t What story lies hidden within these lines of an advertisement in the "Personal" column of the Lon don Times? Ts John Stavens one of the wayfarers on "The Long Trail:" Where the blindest bluffs hold good, dear lass. And the wildest tales are true, And the men bulk big on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail— And life runs large on the Long Trail —the trail that is always new. Or is John Stavens of the Lost Legion, which Kipling, too, immor talized when he wrote: The ends of the earth were our portion. The ocean at. large was our share. There was never a skirmish to wind warn But the Leaderless Legion was there; Yes, somehow and somewhere and always We were first when trouble be gan, From a lottery-row in Manila To an I. D. B. race on the Pan. Yes, one of those wandering Eng lishmen whose estate is the earth and the fullness thereof, must John Stavens be. His like rode the cow ponies of the western ranges, thirst ed and died along the weary vAus trr.lian gold trails, taught the Indian of the Canadian Northland the devious learning of the White Man and the grievous mockery of his sins, trekked beyond the last Hin terland of South Africa, dared the wastes of the Obi and the Sahara. True members of the Lost Legion who, as Kipling says: We preach ahead of the Army, We skirmish ahead of the Church, With never a gunboat to help us When we're skuppered and left in ihe lurch. MOVIE OF A MAN WHO HAS QUIT SMOKING [^(p "We, the American People" [From the Villager, Katonah, N. Y.] Mr. Wilson defiantly announces that the first thing he is going to tell them "on the other side of the water" is that an overwhelming ma jority of Americans favor the league as proposed, the implication sug gests that a revolution has indeed taken place in the United States. For if Mr. Wilson carries out his ex pressed intention, he will be saying to the Peace Conference that it need make no matter of what the Senate of the United States thinks of the league of Nations for what it thinks is misleading and anyway imma terial. We have no wish to join those who are forever crying out against dictators, but it must be conceded that these alarmists are recently on stronger than rhetorical grounds. Mr. Wilson proclaims, "1 have inti mations of it from all parts of the country." The Senators, in lan guage somewhat old-fashioned per haps, insist that they have their instructions. Whence come Mr. Wil son's intimations? From the crowds granted holiday to cheer him as he passes in a motor, from picked au diences, from flattering visitors anx ious to bring such report as they feel will warm their welcome and enrich their reward. Whence come the instructions of the Senators? From the ballot boxes. The latter is the way of orderly representative government, the for mer the method of the monarch who would like to make himself be lieve that he follows what the pea pie want, or perchance of a ruler such, as Dante's whose business it is to command men to be free. We can no longer permit ourselves to discuss with an academic detach ment the growth of presidential gov ernment and the decline of Congres sional power: the problem is be come too real. Then Let It He Rejected [Front the Kansas City Times] "On his arrival here President Wilson soon made it plain that those in America who <U<l not like the league legislation in its present form would have to accept or reject it as a whole with the possible eception of slight verbal revisions for all the aid they would get from him in their demands that important amend ments be conceded."—Paris Dis patch. Fine! The best thing that could happen would be for the league in its present form to be rejected. It is too impractical, too artificial, too lacking in reality, too dangerous in the obligations it imposes on Amer ica. Let it be rejected and the way would be cleared for the only sort of a league that is really practical— an informal association of nations with a common purpose. Then the Peace Conference could adjourn to meet at a fixed date, and there would be the beginning of a real Dengue of Nations, clastic enough to meet any situation. It would have no fixed membership. It would exact no sweeping promises in advance, easy to make and easy to break. It would not pledge America to take a hand in every boundary dispute in the world. It would not invite Kurope to break the Monroe Doctrine. It would be merely an entente, an understanding, a gentlemen's agreement, through which the na tions by discussion and co-opera tion would become accustomed to working together. It would gain power onlv as rapidly as it should be able to justify its existence to the moral sense of mankind. LABOR NOTES In nearly all the railroad shops on the Pacific Coast and in the Mid dle West women are employed as machinists and blacksmiths. Sixty per cent of the work on a ship is in constructing the hull, and the remaining 40 per cent is install ing mechanical parts, deck furnish ings and other equipment that goes to make the finished vessel. The North Dakota State Council of Defense is solving two problems the food problem and the surplus labor problem —by putting workmen on unused farms in order to stim- 1 ulate crop production in the North west. Because of their efficiency there is an increased demand for women workers in British shipyards, and among their achievements has been the building of a temporary railway and the laying of concrete platforms to receive the keels of ships. Montreal (Canada) Trades and I>abor Council has protested against the opinion expressed by Sir Robert Borden, Dominion Premier, that strikers come within the operation of the idlers' act and can be prose cuted. . J The Little Brown Trunk in the Attic YOU may have at home a little brown trunk, squatting low un der the rafters of the attic or crowded into a corner of the store room—a faded, dingy, battered ob ject, and yet a treasure chest of precious things—of memories. 1 remember just such a trunk from childhood that used to stand at the foot of my grandmother's wal nut bed, and it seems as though the strongest recollections of that dear, dainty little lady with her white curls and lace cap are associated with the little old leather trunk. IL' she were not sitting at the big front window knitting, she was bending over the little brown trunk, finger ing carefully its contents, patting them lovingly in place, and then closing the lid and carefully turn ing the key. We were never al lowed more than peeps at the con tents which possessed such charm, because the little brown trunk was one of the few things in the house forbidden us. and there was strange fascination in the bundles of old letters in their faded ribbon ties which we sometimes saw grand mother reading, and the garments she folded and smoothed and re folded with such care. "What else is in there, Donda?" my older sister would sometimes beg. "Please let us see." But grandmother would only smile kindly and say, "There's noth ing here, dears, but a few of grand mother's treasures, that she's had a long time. .You shall see them all when you are older." And then one day I remember standing close by my mother's side, and watching with wide, curious eyes, as she unlocked the little brown trunk. Tears fell upon a roll of unfinished knitting, and its glis tening needles she placed beside the other things in the trunk, for grand mother had fallen asleep at her task with a smile on her lips that comes only to those that hear the Iluttei of angels' wings. Her dainty luce caps, the little lavender ribboned apron, the cashmere shawl, the silk slumber robe she had pieced herself, with its quaintly stitched m'ottoes and initials, had all been folded lovingly away in the little brown trunk. Another day when I had grown to girlhood, I came upon my mother at her springtime cleaning, smiling tenderly with tears in her eyes over tiie contents of the little brown trunk. And as she removed the gar ments one by one, touching them as one does sacred things, she told me the story of each. But she loved tlie little brown trunk best of all her treasures," mother explained, "for she had brought it with her when she came a bride from Virginia. And then her only son, your Ur cle Samuel, had taken It with him to college, and from there he had gone into the war. and he had never lived to come home with the little brown trunk. "Ah,.dear soul. I had forgotten she had kept these things," she add ed as she untied the faded ribbon on a flat little box. "They are just a few rose blossoms from Baby Jo's grave) Everything like this Was so precious to her. And here is her own dear writing on this little pack age. Ah. yes, 'flowers from my wedding hat,' I can scarcely make out the words. See, these faded morning glories—but she had her wedding hat trimmed- in them be cause they were your grandfather's favorite flower, and after they were married he used to bring her a bunch early each morning when he made his first trip to his garden, and here is his wedding coat and vest Isn't it quaint? And I want you al ways to remember, daughter, that your grandmother wore her wed ding dress when she was buried." When the cross-stitched tidies with their prime ribbon bows, the crocheted lambrequin, the christen ing dress of that first little baby, dead -so many years ago, had been carefully folded away and the quaint daguerreotypes and other keepsakes rewrapped in their faded wrappings, I had helped my mother roll the little brown trunk gently back to its corner under the low rafters of the attic. And that was my last sight of the little brown trunk until one day when I was a woman grown I hail sought it out in the dull half light of the attic gloom, and on my knees before it, against its dirty, battered lid. 1 had cried my heart out. "Oh, little brown trunk," I erled, "you must understand!" I had brought from my mother's room below a work basket of unfin ished work—a stocking in whose even checkered darn of tiny stitches a needle had been left, an apron with basted hem, little, neatly shap ed pieces of bright gingham that were being fashioned into a quilt. 1 had gathered up other little scat tered things from that silent room, and in the bottom of the basket I had found the key to the little brown trunk. In the dim attic I had raised its lid as one would lift the veil from a holy of holies, and then—l had cried aloud in pain for the memories the sight of those treas ures in the little brown trunk, with their lingering, musty perfume, was bringing me—remembrance of that last day 1 had gazed at them, that springtime cleaning day, when a soft voice had told me their story, as loving mother hands folded each into place. "Oh, little brown trunk," I cried, you do understand! You do un derstand, I know." And then I added to the treasure chest the little things my mother's gentle touch had lingered on last. C. S. P. The Returned Soldiers ' What manner of men came hack to New j ork on the Leviathan and the Mauretania? Not hoastful. braggart men. telling tales of their own prowess Those who told us that our boys would come back brutalized by their work of war forgot that "the bravest are the tenderest." •■"Not in all the journey." wrote a correspondent who made the trip with the men of the Twenty-Seventh Divi sion on the Leviathan, "did I hear one of them say that he had killed a Ger man. They had olher things to talk about." It may puzzle the folks at home to know just how their boys are changed, but changed they are assuredly. They do not talk about their idoiism; few American boys are so constituted; but the idoiism is there. Only to an occa sional man is given the gift. In express ing what remains unuttered in most hearts. One of the living voices is Con ingsby Dawson of the Canadian Army and author of "Carry On." Writing in McClure's Magazine of the returning soldiers and the thoughts and ideals he is bringing hack. Lieutenant Dawson says: '"Presently we shall take of our khaki, but we shall not cease to be soldiers. We shall not be soldiers in the sense that you dread—swag gerers. people banded against the civilian by the pride of military caste. You see we never wanted to be soldiers—the thought filled us with horror. It was your need, the heroic fact that some one had to die in your defense that made us fightnig men. Nevertheless, though we don civilian dress, we have not done with fighting. We are com ing back to man the trenches of a kinder social order and to follow the barrage across No Man's Land in pursuit of a new heaven and a new earth. Our souls will still be clad in khaki: we shall be a broth erhood for righteousness." More briefly, that is the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, jr., himself of the Twenty-Seventh Division, who predicted that every man who went through the war would he so uplifted that the whole Nation would feel their upward urge. The Undelivered Out of the night an angry woman c> y ing, , „ . A typist clicking on, the clink of glass, Laughter, a tenuous music, all deny ing ' The whole dark silence of the sky; these pass, j The lighted windows blacken, one by one; > The stealthy noises of the late hour cease: Anger and business, mirth and love . are done. Safe in sleep's umber envelope of peace. Safe, as in death, they lie; but with day's breaking They stir uneasy limbs once more, and know I The dull familiar trouble of awak ing. And all night's soft forgettings swift to go. They have had release; but the un sleeping, these ' Are prisoners who have thrown away the keys. —Babette Deutsch, in the Lyric. Tasteful An actor-manager of continental experience had taken down to din ner a lady, a stranger to him, and indeed a nouveau rlche, who had re cently returned from France. "And what did you most enjoy in France, madame?" he inquired. "Well, I think it was the French pheasants singing the 'Mayon naise.' " —From Tit-Bits, London. Joy of Saving Don't save for a "rainy day." That isn't the forward-looking, empire-building spirit of America. Save so that there won't be any "rainy days." That is the philosophy of opti mism, the kind of thinking that is going to make you happy and make your old age a period of fullest en joyment. Don't save as a dull, hateful duty. Save because, by saving, you can win the delights of competence. Don't save because you can't af ford to spend. Save so that you can afford, a lit tle later, to buy something you want very much, for example—the auto mobile you are walking for to-day. Savings isn't a "I mustn't do that grind." It is a "I will do that Joy." Saving leads to temperance in all' things, to constructive thinking, to clean living, to building for the fu ture. Start your mind going along sav ihg lines and then watch it travel. It will take your fattening pocket book along with it. Our War Loan Organization an nounces that it is going to carry on a widespread and intensive cam paign of thrift education. It has begun by asking the people to: Think in interest, save ami invest. If this organization can induce us all to think in interest, save and invest, it will have done a splendid thing for us and for our country. The campaign for AA'ar Savings so cieties and for the buying of gov ernment Savings Stamps, based upon the foundation of thrift, has a dou ble appeal. It urges each individual to benefit himself and in doing so to help his government finish the world war job. Let's pull together to produce more, to eliminate waste, to save apd to invest in W. S. S. Don't be quitters. He savers and learn the joy of saving.—War Sav ing Association. FASTER THAN WINGS [From the Scientific American] It was only a short time ago that we co.uld scarcely believe our eyes when we read that a motor car had made a speed of 120 miles per hour, or a mile in half a minute. Since | then, mile records have been suc cessively smashed. With the advent of the airplane we grew quite ac -1 customed to think of travel at speeds of 125 to 150 miles per hour; and so whdn we learned that Ralph do Palma, racing at Ormond Reach, on Lincoln's birthday, had made a mile in 24.04 seconds, we were not half I as astonished as we really should have been. This figures out to nearly 150 miles per hour, orA 149.8, to be ex act. Few airplanes have made as | high a speed as this against the air. "o be sure, with a following wind to help them, they have exceeded this speed as measured over ground, but 150 miles per hour without the aid of drift is an exceedingly high ve locity and it is truly remarkable that we should be able to make as high a speed on wheels as on wings. The car with, which the record was smashed has a twin-six aviation engine power plant. The former rec ord for the mile was 25.4 seconds. Following the Lincoln's birthday performance, Ralph de Palma made some other interesting records. The mile from a standing start was made in 3 8.83 seconds as against h previous record of 40 seconds, and two miles were made in 4 9.54 sec onds as against 51.28 seconds. The records with flying start for 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles and 20 miles, were 49.54 seconds; 2 minutes, 4.58 sec onds; 4 minutes, 9.3 seconds, and 8 minutes, 54.2 seconds respectively. Has a Sinecure With all the secretaries abroad the Vice-President won't even have to pre side at the cabinet meeting.—From the Indianapolis News. Tiventy-Ninlli Division . National Guard f of Maryland, New / Jersey, Delaware, I Virginia and Djs trict of Columbia; \ Arrived in France \ June 27, 1918. Ac tivitles: Center sep tor. Haute Alsace, July 25 to Septem ber 22; Grand Montagne sector, north of Verdun, October 7 to 30. Prisoners captured: 2,187 officers and men. Guns captured: 21 pieces of artillery and 250 machine guns. Total advance on front line: Seven kilometers. Insignia: Rlue' and gray: design copied from the Korean symbol of good luck. Colors represent union in arms of North and.South, lEbrnittg <£bal According to what people In the hig contracting business say there is not going to be any doubt about Pennsylvania's great road construc tion program getting some of the largest, most resourceful and ex perienced highway building firms td* bid on the contracts which will he kept to make the Keystone State system the best in the land. The appearance hern yesterday of some of the top notch highway building firms and men who have handled largo railroad contracts is taken to mean that they intend to pay at tention to the Pennsylvania pro gram. For a time there were some misgivings on the subject, but they have disappeared. The men who came here yesterday settled that, the great trouble with much of the road construction work in the past in this State was that firms tackled jobs which were too big for them. There were a number of instances wherein the State had to take over jobs when the contractors gave them up and delay and loss occurred, one of the most notable instances being was inconvenienced for a long time last year. It is predicted that when the extensive road building gets fairly started that there will be con cerns working in this State which have national reputations and that the work will be of the very highest character. • • * The Philadelphia Inquirer prints some interesting things about the project to make the Susquehanna navigable in Congress saying Con gressman j. Hampton Moore, one of the great inland waterway authori ties is backing it up. The Inquirer says: "Kepresentatives Aaron S. Kreider, of the Daupliin-Lebanon- Cumberland district, and W. W. Griest, of Lancaster county, were mainly responsible for the passage lof the appropriation providing for tnis survey find since the hill was signed by the President they have with Mr. Moore been busy with the department in Washington to speed up the work. Brigadier General Harvey Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Kngineers of the War Depart ment. has assigned Colonel J. P. Garvcy to direct the survey and it is expected that he will begin immedi ately upon the undertaking. There I has been keen interest in this pro jject since. Major Will'am D. Gray i opened up the possibilities of the I Susquehanna in an address before j the Rotary Club of Harrisburg and I there has been no more enthusiastic I champion of the movement than Eli I X. Hershey, president of the Harris burg Rotary Club, and chairman of the Deeper Susquehanna Committee, representing every community in the Susquehanna Valley. The splendid improvements made on Harrtsburg's river front present an object lesson for serious consideration." The Inquirer goes on to say j "There has been a wonderful devel opment. of the Susquehanna Valley since back in William Fisher Pack er's time, when that energetic and I resourceful legislator, who after- I wards became chief executive of the I Commonwealth, made a successful fight against great odds to break down traditions and inaugurate a I new regime in Pennsylvania. It had been the policy of the State leaders to discourage the building of roads leading across the lines of its improvements and directly to cities of the other States. Packer was then a member of the State Senate from the district at that time com posed of Lycoming, Clinton, Centre and Sullivan counties. He was elec ted by a large majority over Andrew Gregg Curtin, who, by-thc-way, suc ceeded him in the executive's chair in 1861. Before Packer's elections/ to the Senate, no railroads had been authorized along the Susquehanna I Valley by which a close north and I south connection could be made be tween Washington and Baltimore | and the Great Lakes. Travel was | forced to leave the route destined I by nature for a great public high j way and to pass over mountain 1 chains, or by circuitous routes through other cities. In the session lof 1851. Senator Packer introduced a bill which opened up this whole subject. It called for the incor poration of the Susquehanna rail road, with authority to construct a road connecting with the York and Cumberland roail at Bridgeport, op posite Harrisburg, or with the Penn sylvania railroad, on either side of the Susquehanna, or on the Juniata, and with the right to connect with both or cither of these roads and running through Halifax and Mil lersburg, in Dauphin county to Sun i bury. Ex-Governor John K. Toner, who j was here yesterday in connection with the State highway contracts | and who called on Governor Sprout, spent yesterday afternoon playing ] golf on the now links of the Country I Club of Harrisburg. The former I Governor showed that he was in I good form and that he could drive las long and as hard as ever. He was j warmly greeted by many friends I while here. ' | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I —M. R. Hoffman, one of the State I representatives from Lancaster county, is an authority otj tobacco and owns some fine farms. —Dr. C. A. Herriek, mentioned as a possible Superintendent of Instruction, lias been head of Tlirard College for years and was president of the State Educational Associa tion several years ago. —Representative W. T. Ramsey served as president of Common Council in Chester city for several years. —James B. Neale, one of the coal operators here yesterday, served on Federal government fuel advisory boards. —J. S. W. Holton, prominent in Philadelphia maritime affairs, was here yesterday to see the Governor. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg steel is used in steamers in the Pacific lines? HISTOIDS HARRISBURG —Early Governors had their of. fices in the parlors of their resi dences here. Burden on the Engine The automotive industry can no longer afford to ignore the engine fuel problem. The supply will posi tively decline, and the price will pos itively soar. The burden falls upon the engine. It must adapt itself to less volatile fuel, and it must bo made to burn fuel with less waste. To accomplish these results is the task before the automobile engineers who must turn their thoughts aw&y from questions of speed and weight per horsepower and comfort and endurance, to avert wjiat in the ab sence of effective attack will turn out to be a calamity seriously dis organizing an indispensable system of transportation.—From the Scien tific American.
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