6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TEE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square B. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager (BUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor JL. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager i Executive Board tf. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GU.S. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Presa— 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. Kll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Avenue Building, I New York City; Western office, j i Chicago, 111.' B ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1919 Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. —Pr.u- TARCII. NO TIME TO TINKER MOST members of the Legisla ture,-it is to be imagined, will agree with Senator Penrose in his views as to the inadvisability of tampering with the election laws at this particular time. It is true that there is much dissatisfaction with tho nonpartisan judiciary law ajnl nobody who- knows anything of conditions will contend that the non partisan municipal act has removed city government from politics. But those facts aside, there is little to be gained by tinkering with election regulations during the present legis lative session. To begin with, the nonpartisan and uniform laws were enacted in response to popular demand and there are thousands of voters who would oppose their repeal. Indeed, there is no wide-spread sentiment for any radical election changes at this time, and however worthy tho ami ndments or revisions might be, they would only excite discussion and create differences at a time when every man's effort ought to be to create confidence and to calm the more or less disturbed mind. Later we may go more deeply into election law chafiges, but not now. 1 A BOLSHEVIST {{tttTlAT is a Bolshevist, any- Yv way?" asks a puzzled writer, commenting on the contradictory testimony recently brought out at the Washington hear ing. For a time we, too, were puzzled, but after much consideration wo have reached the conclusion that a Bolshevist is a man with his head in the clouds, his feet in the mud, and his hands in other folks' pockets. STOP "BOOHING" WHILE Auditor General Snyder was speaking on the mercan tile tax bill the other day a number of Chamber of Commerce 'delegates from cities other than Harrisburg showed their disap proval by "boohing." The same thing occurred at another legislative hear ing. The practice of interrupting speakers is un-American. Speakers shonld have a fair opportunity to present their views. "Boohing" is wide, boorish and calculated to in- Sure any cause more than to help. NO W~IS"TIIE~TIME NOW is the time to beautify your lawns and backyards. Anybody realizes the difference between an attractive home and a bare house. The difference is always noticed, even though comparatively tow people stop to analyze what It to that makes the attractive home attractive. Of course, the most important fac tor in making the home attractive Is Che use of plants. No amount of ex pensive material and fine workman ship can make the home which has no planting around It really attrac tive. The most modest house, how ever, where plants have been used with good taste, becomes attractive. Many people have the mistaken Mea that success in beautifying the tome place with plants varies in proportion to the amount of money ■pent. Nothing could be further from Ihc truth. Any one contemplating planting shonld keep In mind from Die beginning that the object is to nttaln a certain end—that of mak-j pie the home more beautiful—and pet the setting oat of a big collec {Pon of plants. The most charming Sesnlts are often obtained with the Mfenpiest arrangements. The way lu jpjiich the plants are used will make bach difference In determining the Jtogre© of satisfaction to be bad from Bie planting than the amount of taoney spent. A very few dollars in- Dented In plants, where good taste pr-Gaed in arranging them, will. SATURDAY EVENING. fiJLRRISBTJRG TELEGRXPH "" MARCH 22. 1919. transform the whole appearance and general effect. Another commonly accepted mis take is that much more skill and time are required to succeed with perennials than with the bedding plants and annuals which are so universally grown. There are dozens of perennials so hardy that they will succeed in the struggle for existence year after year without any atten tion on the part of the gardner. Given as much time and as much fertilizer every spring as would be required to prepare and set out a bed of tender plants or annuals, these perennials always add an at mosphere of permanence to the' place which annual plants can never give. They are one of the attractive features of the place from the first days of Spring, weeks before any an nuals make a showing, until the last j thing in the Fall, weeks after most of the annuals are killed and black ened by early frosts. No permanent home is complete without at least enough perennials to give a fair as sortment of flowers through the Spring, Summer and Fall. Add a few permanent plantings to your porch and window box adorn ments this spring. A few dollars will do wonders. Help make Harrisburg a garden city. TRUCKS AND TRACTORS ND now for a glimpse of the lastest things in trucks and tractors. Time was when one reasonably small hail would accommodate all the passenger cars, trucks and trac tors sold in Harrisburg, and leave plenty of room for broad aisles, mo torcyles, accessories and the like. But not so this year. Even the big Ov<erland rooms proved too small for the joint exhibit, and the close of the passenger car show to-day marks the opening of the truck and tractor exhibition. There ought to be more popular interest in the new show than in that drawing to a close. There Is more romance In the history of the hoiiiely motortruck or the caterpil lar tractor than in the development of the first locomotives, concerning which so much has been written. When the American boys swung into the breach at Chateau Thierry and smashed up the Hun advance on Paris they rode singing into the fray on great gasoline-driven trucks. When they went "over the top" to start the German on his last, long retreat they were preceded by those lumbering, bullet-spitting monsters, the tanks, which are nothing more nor less than armor-protected caterpillars. Trucks and tractors hauled the ammunition up and took the wounded and prisoners back. It used to be said that "an army travels on its belly," but the army of to day travels aboard a motor truck train. Wherever there are loads to be hauled or land to be plowed, there are the truck and the tractor. They saved tho crops last summer and kept distracted farmers from giving up in despair. They helped materi ally In winning the war. The possibilities of these wonder ful machines are beyond calculation. They are just coming into their own. The exhibit is large and well worth a visit. SELF-SUFFICIENT THE Literary Digest calls atten tion to the fact that it is not a religious organ, but one of those journals that might be supposed to devote Itself entirely to material in terests —a "trade paper"—which points out "a very serious omission in the platform of the League of Nations as cabled from Paris." "Nowhere in the platform, nor, so far as reported, In the proceed ings that led up to its promulga tion," says The American Lumber man, Chicago, "is to be found any hint of official or public recognition of the fact, generally accepted by civilized humanity, of the existence of a Supreme Being who rules the destinies'of nations, nor any peti tion for divine guidance in the most momentous crisis in the history of the world." The American Lum berman asks if this is a "trifling omission," and If "it is mere bigotry to refer to it?" It ventures to af firm that Americans who are fa miliar with their country's history will not so regard it and Is aston ished that the Peace Conference has been so neglectful. But the American Lumberman need not be surprised. Surely it must understand, that the gentlemen who are bossing the job at Paris need neither advice nor guidance. Even the Kaiser felt the necessity of a "Gott mit uns" sign on his sol diers' helmets, but the supermen now in charge of European affairs know no such limitations. They are quite sufficient unto themselves. We are astounded that anybody should even for a moment question their need of guidance, divine or merely human. fdltici Ik 'Ps.ivn^^aiUa By the Ex-Oommittecman Pennsylvania's Legislature will enter upon its tenth week of actual sessions on Monday night with the largjest calendars of any Monday this yearr. Sixty bills, the majority of tbreni on second reading are listed tor the House, while over fifty are on the Senate calendar. I It is probable that this week some determination may be reached re garding the date for final adjourn ment which it is generally believed will be within sixty days, probably on May 5. If this' date is agreed upon introduction of bills will prob ably stop in the House the middle of April. Speaker Spangler plans to call upon the chairman of the House committees to prepare for the wind- ? n a short time appropriation bills will commence to appear on the calendars. The list of charities ask- State funds is being made up. Considerable attention will be given in both branches during the coming week to bills of a political character as hearings are scheduled. m ith tke drafting of the propos ed anti-sedition law practically all of the bproul administration's big leg islation will be in share for pres entation to the Legislature. Four or five of the bills are now on their way through the houses and it is the plan to have the bills for en largement of the State Police and broadening of their activities, creat ing the department of conservation and authorising the Governor to employ consulting experts for the planning of public works and for advicn and information as to their progress and the way contracts are being carried out sent to the Legis lature in the next fortnight. Re quests have been made of New York •-tate authorities for copies of the ; anti-sedition law so that it can be studied and the features of the ' Van 'V ,tat,,te made uniform with those of the Keystone State as S ble *, 11 is P° ss 'ble that totnert r Rate may be ob m.irod' °. me of them hav in quired as to what Pennsylvania contemplates in this line. The ex asr'it wm' S bP Kr S carefully studied h f! th " Governor to work i for the constructive H ™ 11 i ? Proposes to launch. ;. W P b f P ar "oularly applicable for i ♦??*?. and onfl of tile thoughts is that the subject of bridges on State highways which have been much discussed for years will he considered together With build ings for State institutions. The five administration meas uresi presented by Senator William oV t r £ w ,ast week win Pass the state Senate next Tuesday as they are on the second reading calendar for Monday night and the plan is to pass them finally the following day and send them to the house where no opposition is expected. The bills include those for the commission to study revision of the State consti tution, for a State salary board, for a State art commission, to relieve the Governor from acting on audits and for biennial State reports. While they are going through the House the remainder of the administration bills will be submitted to the Sen ate. —Members here over the week end were speculating as to how the Huntingdon bill will abolish the so called "blind man's parade" This measure provides that when constables have nothing to re port to the court at the time for quarterly returns they shall not make a report instead of solemnly marching in and handing up blank reports attesting that they know of no violations of law. The bill originally applied to all counties, but the amendments limit it to counties between 20,000 and 10,000 popula tion. When the bill came up a few days ago the sponsor scented trouble and had it postponed. —Governor Sproul has received many letters and messages in re gard to the coal situation, many of them related instances of imposition and a large number complained of the very poor quality of the coal which is being furnished. Yester day a letter from an aged widow in Chester reached him; it reads as follows: "T am glad to see that thee is considering the coal question and I do trust that the Lord will give [thoe power to win it for it is dread ful that we poor people have to pay so much for a ton of coal. I got a ton about three weeks ago and the bill came In yesterday of $11.90 for it and besides that I paid the driver for putting it in my cellar. It is so soft that it burns like wood and I will have to get another ton this week. I have been very saving of it. and T know none has been wasted for I am fireman myself as I have been doing my own work since last spring. I have gotten along very well but get very tired sometimes and have to be very careful of ex penses and the cost of coal Is a real hardship and keeps mo pretty well stranded." /. w. w. On the letter head of the Agricul tural Workers' Organization and Oil Workers' Union No. 400, which Is the branch of the order to which the members belong, who are now In court at Wichita, there is the picture of a shock of wheat. Up through the center of the shock there extends the body of a man and standing on the shock In front of the man is the picture of a black cat. What does it mean? It means that the mission of the I. W. W. in the harvest fields is sabotage. The harvest wheat shock is doomed by the "sab-cat." The reader must hear in mind this almost unbelievable thing about the I. W. W.—of the literature which they carry with them means any thing at all —that "work" to the member of that order does not mean work in any ordinary sense of the term. To him "a job" does not bear any likeness to the word as it ap plies to the average laboring man. When an I. W. W. gets "on the job" he gets on to destroy and not to produce. His "work" is to lay waste and not to conserve. "Employer an Enemy to Be Destroyed." So amazing is the revelation of the aims and purposes of the order, as one gets it from the literature of the members, that the average citi zen can hardly believe what he reads; can hardly credit the thing that is printed before him. To get the proper conception of It the read er must get the viewpoint of the I. W. W. That viewpoint is that the em ployer of labor of any kind is the one enemy of labor who must be destroyed. It matters not whether that employer Is a farmer or a man ufacturer. DAYS OF REAL SPORT .... .... ..... ..... ByTRIGGS y// /' • SUICIDE Wilson's Tactless Zeal [From the Chicago Evening Post.] The President displays a tactless zeal in his advocacy of the League of Nations. A great cause suffers from a championship that is not sufficiently considerate qf opponents and the unconvinced. Men are pre vented giving to the issue the un biased study it merits by the in jection of a personality that of fends. President Wilson is not wise in assuming that the Senate is going to ratify the peace treaty and the League of Nations pact merely be cause in his belief it should. The Senate is not obliged to accept the views of the President. It was not created by the constitution to be a White House echo. It is a body representative of the sovereign states, whose delegated sovereignty resides in the national government. It was charged with the responsi bility for making treaties in order that the sovereign states might have the final word in matters affecting the foreign relations of the Nation. It is right that it should be con sulted, that it should be informed and that it should be heard in dis cussion, enlightened by all the facts. The President counts upon popular sentiment. We believe popular sen timent. if rightly led and educated, will approve overwhelmingly of a League of Nations, but by chal lenging the Senate to a fight the President makes such leadership and education immensely more dif ficult HJe handicaps greatly the efforts of men like Mr. Taft, who have laid aside all partisan con siderations in order to further a cause they believe of supreme con cern to the welfare of America and the world. The sort of fight he provokes is too likely to engender passions and develop issues that will carry the public far from the vital question. The need of this critical hour is for serious, unimpassioned and non partisan thinking. The fate of in dividuals or political organizations is as nothing compared with the issue of American policy and world destiny. Intemperate things have been said on both sides of the controversy, mi when Senator Borah portrayed the league to enforce peace as an agency making for Bolshevism or when Taft denounced the oppo nents of a League of Nations in the Senate as men who cannot be trusted. These are foolish things Sa i y ' , They contribute nothing to needs thought the Nation Nor does the President help when ho comes charging across tho ocean, with couchant lance, challenging the Senate to a joust. Let us reason about this problem. In our opinion, the objections thus iti F n , against projected league can all be met and answered in fair a /= ent K e , want a convinced American behind any action Amer 'c* takes. When the President makes a public address, and we trust he will before ho returns to France we? hope he will assume a less belligerent attitude, abandon rhetorical generalities and present the case for a League of Nations in a manner that will appeal to the reasoning faculties of the country. Favor Military Training [J?J" on L,. tho Wilkes-Barre Record] The War Department makes pub lic the results of a poll taken among a representative group of selective service men of the Twelfth division. Camp Devens, Massachusetts, just before demobilization last January Questionnaires were made out by 1,330 men, with an average service of nearly eleven months. Although about half of tho men expressed themselves as dissatisfied with mili tary service, 89.5 per cent, testified to personal benefit from army life,79 per cent, appreciated the training aside from motives of patriotisitiT and 88 per cent, favored universal military training as a national pol icy. If universal training is adopted as a national policy, it will be done pri marily as a military measure, to pro vide a great body of instructed men for emergency without maintaining a huge standing army, but its adop tion as a military measure may be aided and made more certain by the very evident benefits in a physical and moral sense that come from it as testified to by the men of Camp Devens. The great majority of the men look upon the training period as time well spent, though many of them found the routine Irksome and absence from home a distressing ex perience. . ! Bread in Time of Dearth And the seven years of dearth be gan to come, according as Joseph had said; and the dearth was in all lands; but In the land of Egypt there was bread. —Genesis xll, 64. Mr. Knox's Constructive Criticism of the Covenant. [From the New York Sun] | AX astonishing ignorance or j avoidance of the facts appeurs in a discussion by the New York World of the talk in Paris about amendments to the Wilson covenant: "Where Senator Lodge, Senator Knox and other opponents of the present draft of the league constitu tion have laid themselves open to just censure is not in their insist ence upon amendment but in their stubborn refusal to suggest changes and modifications. The Lodge reso lution declared against the consti tution of the league of Nations in the form now proposed to the Peace Conference,' but not one of the Sen ators signing it has had tho good faith to indicate the amendments that, he deems necessary." Senator Knox was one of the sign ers of the pledge to oppose tho Wil son draft of the league constitution in its present form, and if the World hud indulged in the intellectual treat of reading the speech which Mr. Knox delivered in the Senate on March 1 it would not have said in honesty the remarkable words we have quoted. Of course the most important feature of the Wilson covenant is the evils that it contains. A second ary yet very important consideration is the tilings that may be inserted in the decument after the evil things have been torn out. Senator Knox devoted his address first to the perils of the covenant: the looseness und unintelligibillty of its wording; the absence of details of procedure such as are contained, for instance, in out own Constitution; the prospect of the covenant's abrogating our treat ies; its power to force the United States into wars not affecting or con cerning us, the covenant making it certain that every future war should be a world war; its withdrawal from Congress of the constitutional power to declare war; its power to send our soldiers to any part of the earth; its power to decide how much America must contribute, in lives and treas ure, to tho league's purposes; its sterlization of the Monroe Doctrine —these are the principal objections which Americans make to the pres ent draft of the covenant, and Sen ator Knox voiced them. If Senator Knox had stopped with that his speech would still lie a most valuable contribution to the cause of America; but, not content with de structive criticism of the bad feat ures of the covenant, he went on to make the constructive suggestions which we must assume the World cannot have read. As the prime ne cessity of any international agree ment reached at Paris is the preven tion of future wars. Senator Knox suggested three methods, two of which are available for considera tion In framing a league constitution that would be acceptable to-Ameri cans. The first of these was this: 'One way is to provide for the compulsory arbitration of all disputes under some such plan as that provided for in the In ternational Prize Court, or the unratified American-British and American - French arbitration treaties of 1911, or the Olney- Pauncefote Treaty of 1897, or a union of the best In all of them." i In his comment on this first plan Senator Knox said that he could re call no case "between great powers in which an award made has not either been 'carried out as given or has not let to an adjustment mu tually satisfactory to both parties." New Decoration For Yanks By a change in the Army regulations two new decoration come within tho the reach of United States soldiers. Hereafter, an officer or a man who is cited from the headquarters of any force commanded by a general officer and who does not receive the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross or the Distinguished Service Medal, will be entitled to wear a silver star one-fifth of an inch in diameter; and for every subsequent citation that does not bring other recognition he may wear a bronze cluster of oak leaves. The plan follows the French system of awarding a palm leaf branch for each additional citation for the croix d guer re. But what a diminutive star. Cer tainly of not more than the fifth mag nitude. Does the Government think we all have Lick telescopes.—From the Youth's Companion. "Worst Is Yet to Come" A man who says the railroad is in the worst possible condition and therefore should be taken over by the state means, of course, only the worst possible con ditions so far, —From tho Boston Herald. lie then announced a second possi- I ble .plan: "If we feel that world inter ests and power are reshaping in such a way that we need to be protected and that we need I to protect others, then let us ! form an alliance with 1 lie strongest other Power or two Powers of the. world for mutual I protection. That we he not ! thrown into quarrels in which we would have no sympathy wo j must choose as our allies those i Powers whose traditions in stitutions, ideals and people are I most like our own." The third plan suggested by Mr. I Knox is one which he said might he 1 adopted "if the people of the United j States (not a clamorous part of I hem. lint .a great majority) desire to establish a true league of nations" anil r.re willing to make sacrifices for that purpose. The plan would provide for an international court, with a code which would define war and would discriminate between ag gressive and defensive war: "This code would also provide that one Nation could not sum mon another before the inter national court except in respect to a matter of international and common concern to the con tending Nations, and that the jurisdiction of the courl would not extend lo matters of govern mental poliey, which would lie excluded from arbitration un less one of the disputing par ties hud by treaty or otherwise given another country a claim that might involve these sub jects. Under such a code we would not be called upon to ar bitrate the policy involved in our Monroe Doctrine; our con servation policy; our imtnigra gration policy; our right to ex pel aliens; our right to repel ♦ Invasion; our right to maintain military and naval establish-' meats, or coaling stations with in our own borders or else where, as the protection and development of this country might demand; our right to make neoessary fortification of the Panama Canal, or on our frontiers; our right to discrim inate between natives and for eigners in respect to right of property and citizenship; and other matters of like charac ter." The constitution proposed by Sen ator Knox would take in, not a few of the civilized Nations, hut all of them, and yet it would not involve America in the wars of Europe and Asia, for it would put upon the Na tions of each hemisphere the duty ot enforcing any decree against an of fending Power of that hemisphere. It would make America the police man only of the western world. And yet, as Mr. Knox remarked in closing, "these are not the prob lems which now press urgently upon us." Peace, immediate peace, is the thing first to be obtained, for it is the desire of the whole earth. Deal ing with the possibilities of the future can wait. Dealing with the facts of to-day is an instant duty. Until that duty Is accomplished the more deliberate job of providing for the continuance of peace cannot be approached in tlie right spirit. But let no blind follower of Mr. Wilson delude himself into thinking that the opposition to the Wilson eoven and is merely destructive. That doc ' ument Is not assailed because it is Mr. Wilson's, but because it is wrong and needs to be made right. Twenty-Eighth Division National Guard of Pennsylvania; Arrived In France May 18,1918. Ac of Cha teau -Thierry BRP to July 31 (battle opera- VHHHP tions July 15 to 18 and July 28 to 30); Vesle sector August 7 to September 8 (almost con tinuous heavy fighting); Argonne- Meuse offensive, September 2li to October 9; Thiaucourt sector, Oc tober 16 to November 11. Prisoners captured: Ten officers, 911 men. Guns captured: 16 pieces of artillery, 63 machine guns. Total advance of front line: Ten kilo meters. Insignia: Keystone of red cloth. /I New Map of Europe. Wljen the new map of Europe is fin ished it will be Interesting for many ot the people to get a copy of It and find out the size and shape of the spots rep resenting their respective countries— From the Boston Transcript, | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CAPITOL PAINTINGS Edwin A, Abbey's inspirational paintings that complete the capital dome scorn to he the result of a prophetic vision of coming events. Placed high above the cherished, shell-turn, powder blackened battle flags—Revolutionary, 1812, Mexican, Civil War flags—how many? While peculiarly fitting to Penn sylvania—the Keystone State —these paintings, to-day, take on a breadth* an application, that is almost na tional in character. An illustration or two: President Wilson, in his Boston speech said. "We put all our men and all our means at the disposal of those who were fighting, not only for their homes, hut for the cause, the cause of human right and just ice." Now we all remember the letter ing on Abbey's medallion represent ing Religion: "For religion, pure religion, I say, consistcth not in the wearing of a monk's cowl, hut in righteousness, justice, and well-doing. Another reminder of the meaning of the same painting is carried in a local soldier's published letter from France, an extract from which follows: "If wc have done well It was for the love of America. Dimly we understood that we had been sent forth to slay something which, if it thrived unchecked, would one day reach out across the seas and destroy America, and believe mo j there was not one of us who did not walk a little straigliter, live a little j cleaner, work a little harder, fight | a little harder on that gecount, and above all become better citizens, be cause America means more to us than ever before. For one thing we have had to learn what it was to do without America. Some for a little while, others, for interminable months, others forever. To be frank brother, We have tried to hide it in our letters of being as abysmally homesick, but surely that was no bad thing." . Who can doubt that "something" to lie slain was the same hideous, writhing dragon. "The Spirit of Evil, that Abbey's appealing figure of Re ligion tramples, conquered, under her feci. The flaming altar and lighted torch on either side at once suggest and recall to many some of the fin est lines Inspired by the war: "To i you, with failing hands we throw the 'torch. He yours to lift it high." and | who can count the millions of hands that have reached forth, lifted and held it high—the torch of progress of civilization and of religion? "An inevitableness in the sudden golden-haired, ivory-tinted god desses, swathed in diaphanous blue upward flight of the spirits of light, and coming like exhaltations of the deeps"—Royal Cortissoz's descrip tion of that "torch -bearing" band with upreaching, flame-tipped hands, going forth to curry light— who cannot find an application of his own? One word more for this group of paintings. We see the fleet of oncoming ships irrcsistubly drawn to our shores by the Spirits of Freedom and Liberty. Now, millions of our own have been irresistably drawn back across that same eastern sea, guided Dy the same spirits, to guard and save our dearly-won liberty, and to help es tablish freedom In many lands. Blindfolded fortune balances upon her wheel between peace and war, seeking the treasures of the earth to prove their strength and Vulcan's mighty works to both. Flower decked peace on one side, hovering on the other stern war, classic Greek helmet on her head, avenging sword in hand —War —whose ways we have but lately come to know so well. While mysterious science, serpent coiled about her feet, snowy owiof wisdom and knowledge perched upon her left hand, the forked light ning in her right—Science, the mys tic, the veiled, the beautiful —stands sphinx-like by. Abbey's lettering of science is this; „ . "I am what is, what shall be, what hath been. My veil hath been disclosed by none. The fruit which I have brought forth is this. The Sun is born." And I might add this— "Life said to the artist, 'show my dream, That men may know me loftier than I seem. Not only kin and servitor of the clod, But the veiled Image and the thought of God'." ▲PFRBCIAXXVS. ||lbmng (gforit Six eaily imprints of Harrlsburg have been added to the State Li brary collection by State Librarijl| Thomas Lynch Montgomery, show ing that book publishing flourished in this city before 1800. Two V them have been purchased with** the hat week. Dr. Montgomery has given special attention to the pur chase of imprints and is working on a bibliography of Dauphin county, where a number of printers from Philadelphia appear to have at an early date. The latest pur chases have attracted much atten- I tion. The earliest of the imprints is by Allen and AVyeth and is dated 1793, being Benjamin Franklin's "Reflections on courtship." John Wyeth, the junior member of the firm, who was also the publisher of Harri.sburg's lirst newspaper "The Oracle of Dauphin," appears as a book publisher 011 his own hook in 1.79ti issuing John McGowan's "Death, a vision" and next year he issued "The Merry Fellow's Com panion." In 1 799 Benjamin Mayer camt into the Held with a German testament and followed it with an other the next year. Copies of both are preserved in the Library. Mr. Wyeth also published in 1797 James Butler's "Fortune's football or the Adventures of Mercutio" in two vol umes. The open hearth steel department of the llarrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works have suspended op erations after years of activity and for the lirst time since 1902, accord ing to one of the men interested in the plant, the steel making branch is not in operation bccuuse -of lack of orders. The workers have been one of the biggest producers of sheila in central Pennsylvania and one of the earliest to take up that line of manufacture of munitions. Shells have been turned out not only for the United States army and navy, but for the Knglish, Russian and French governments, while steel and parts have been made for munitions 01' various kinds. During the war the capacity of the plant was much ex tended and the works ran contin uously on eight hour shifts. • • The coming district Rotary con ference to be held in llarrisburg, April 10 and 11 is expected to be the largest gathering of Rotarians ever held in the eastern district. Howard C. Fry, the district gover nor, wiio is just home from Chicago where the district governors of the country met lust week, predicts that fully 800 men will sit down to the dinner at the Penn-Harris on the evening of the tenth which will be the function of the conference. The convention will be attended by rep resentative business and professional men and their wives from every town of any size in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Mary land and from ttie District of Colum bia as welt us national officers. Tliere will be a luncheon for the ladies of the clubs.and another for the men on the first day and a joint luncheon on the second day. An automobile ride to the surrounding towns and other entertainments for the visiting ladies have been out lined as the Rotarians are expected to be fully occupied by the meetings. • Important public questions arc to come up. Reference will be made during the meetings to the subjects for discussion at the International Conference at Salt Lake, which in clude making the, most of the Ameri can boy to the end of that he may become a healthy, wholecome, up standing man, and the relation be tween employer and employe; the relation of the nation to the re turning soldier, policies of recon struction and the like. Down at the border when now Colonel "Jim" Kemper, now in charge of army recruiting here was acting us lieutenant colonel of the old eighth regiment, N. G. P., he and Major "Ed" Schell, quarter master of the eighth, struck up a warm friendship. Coming home on furlough, Schell confidentially in -1 formed a friend that Kemper is 1 the best lieutenant colonel in the 1 army. A few days later Kemper 1 wrote the same man that "Solicit 1 certainly is developing into tho best ; quartermaster any army could ' want." Schell, who was in the ' Spanish-American war, was Intensely ' interested in Kemper's Philippine and Cuban experiences and envied ' him his foreign duty. Now it is the , other way around, for while Colonel Kemper didn't get to France, Major ! Schell has been over for nearly a • year. The only solace Kemper has is that his baggage was packed and I awaiting shipment the day the ar . mistice was signed and tho regiment he trained was pronounced one of | the best in the service. j "There is a distinct tendency away from the city atul to the sub -1 urbs," said Herman Kiehl, the real 1 estate man. discussing land trans -5 fers the other day. According to Mr. Kiehl property transactions are 1 brisk this spring and quite a few ■ Harrisburg people have purchased > homes on the West Shore. Among , those who have gone out are Wil s liam S. Meek. Associated Press op . erator for the Telegraph; L. B. Wan l baugli. or the Telegraph's mee.han l ieal department, and A. R. Mleh . ener. Telegraph circulation manager, t all of whom have purchased band some bungalows In the newer see r tion of Camp Hill. Charles J. Stev ens, the well known International Harvester man, has bought the fine J country residence of John L. WoiA fartli, the up-town hotclman fr. • Washington Heights and will Hv ' there the year around. This Is one of the prettiest homes in lower Cum. ' berland county and commands a " view equal If not superior to any In ■ Reservoir park. Indeed it lies on the West Shore much as Reservoir park does on the city side. Tho , place was developed by Mr. Wohl -1 farth as a summer home. j ; [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE , —John M. Reynolds, former Lieu -4 tenant Governor, was here on State > Highway matters. —Surgeon General Victor Bine, f who was here to see the Governor, r has had charge of much of the in -1 ternal health service during epidem ics. —W. 11. Stevenson, chairman of ' the State Historical Commission, is planning a list of historic spot* te. be marked by the State this yes 3 —William J. Bryan plana sonrv additional speaking tours In Pew** • sylvania shortly. 1 —Auditor General Charles A. 1 Snyder intends to make an address • to legislators on teachers salaries. r 1 DO YOU KNOT 1 —That llarrisburg sell enumer able buckwheat to tho Government? > HISTORIC HARRISBURG —This place was one of the Jak son strongholds In the eart* dej*
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