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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*