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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26. 1919
Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Tiro things stand like stone:
Kindness in another's trouble
Courage in our own.
— ADAM LINDSAY GORDON*.
HARMONY AT CAPITOL
IT MUST be extremely gratifying
to Governor Sproul to feel that
he has the confidence of the Leg
islature in both branches and that
there is a general disposition among
the lawmakers to co-operate with
him in all constructive legislation.
There may be differences of opinion
regarding details, but these differ
ences do not affect in any way the
cordial and helpful attitude of the
legislators toward the present oc
cupant of the gubernatorial chair.
Governor Sproul has striven from
the outset to achieve practical and
substantial results for the Common
wealth. He has indulged in no rhap
sodies over visionary or impractical
things, but with his eve steadily
lived upon the welfare of the people
whose servant he is the constant ef
fort of the Governor litis been to
overcome the difficulties hedging the
head of a great Commonwealth in
this reconstruction period. His vi
sion is clear and in every public
utterance he has manifested consist
ent sanity of view and a realization
of the responsibility resting upon
one in an important station.
We do not recall any administra
tion which has so thoroughly in
vited the confidence of the lawmak
ing branch, am! this means that
the results of the session are likely
to be acceptable to the large ma
jority of the people. Carefully
avoiding the usual pitfalls Governor
Sproul has already achieved much,
and with a continuation of the har-
monious relations now existing be
tween himself and the Legislature
the record of substantial progress
in matters affecting the welfare of
the Commonwealth cannot be-other
wise than creditable to all con
cerned.
NOT "SENTIMENTAL"
A WRITER who does not sign
his name sends a letter to the
Telegraph complaining against
this newspaper's defense of the day
light saving law, in which he takes
the ground that this newspaper must
necessarily be an enemy of the
farmer if it is a friend of this law,
and dismisses the whole thing as
the ravings of a "selfish sentimen
talist."
The Telegraph does not need to
tell its readers that it is at all times
an ardent supporter of the farm and
a true friend of the farmer. This
newspaper realizes the dependence
of the nation upon the men who till
the soil. Rut it docs not believe
the farmer to be seriously, if at all,
injured by daylight saving. Xot
a single farmer need change his
clock next Sunday night if he does
not care to do so. He can go
along on his old schedule of get
ting up and going to bed if he so
desi res.
It is not the Telegraph, but our
correspondent, who is selfish. This is
a nation of majorities, and a ma
jority of the people of the nation
reside in cities and towns. The
farmer may work according to his
own schedtle, but the town resident
must go to work to the sound of the
whistle. He must act not independ
ently but in unison. Therefore, his
clock must be turned ahead if he
is to have any time for garden work
or recreation in the evening. Towns
people being in the majority and
vitally interested, and the farmer
being in minority and interested only
in a secondary manner, must give
way to the townspeople in this mat
ter of daylight saving.
We who live in towns are not
mere "sentimentalists" in this. Our
farmer friends recently voted in fa
WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRBSBURQ TELEOKXPH! r MARCH 26, 1919.
vor of continuing: the homo garden.
We as practical folks accept his re
commendation and prepare to do our
part toward feeding the world, but,
being practical we must ask for time
in the evening to do our cultivating.
Therefore, we must have daylight
saving.
The Red Cross is asking for cloth
ing for war sufferers. They should
have it in abundance. Every family
. in Harrisburg has at least one gar
, mcnt that has been outgrown, worn to
the point of being no longer present
able for the uses to which it was in
tended, but still good enough for gen
eral wear. We must remember that
while the war is over for us, millions
in Europe will be war-sufferers for
years.
SHACKLE THE HEN
i yp UCH time has been wasted,"
IVI said Senator Lodge in a
recent address. "The de
lays have bred restlessness and con
fusion everywhere. Germany is lift
ing licr head again. The whimper
ing after defeat is changing to
threats. She is seeking to annex
9,000,000 of Germans in German-
Austria. She is reaching out in
Russia and reviving her financial
and commercial penetration every
where. Germany is again threaten
ing, and the only source of a great
war is to be found for the future as
for the past in Germany. She
should be chained and fettered now
and this menace to world peace
removed."
But instead of following such an
obviously practical plan, the peace
conferees have wasted much preci
ous time in the discussion of a
league of nations, designed more to
stir up resentments among liberty
loving people who have never had
any thought of warring upon their
neighbors than to curb further ag
gressions on the part of the Ger
mans. Not only does the prolonged
delay in dealing with present con
ditions tend to till the Germans with
renewed arrogance, but it also has
the effect of dulling the popular in
dignation and horror at the Teuton
methods of war. Germany should
be removed once and for ail as a
menace to the future peace of the
world, and in doing so the allied
conference will take a far more ef
fectual step in the prevention of
war than in urging the adoption of
any league of nations that can be
conceived.
POLICE DO GOOD JOB
FOLLOWING the recent revela
tions of Warden Hargest, of
the Dauphin county jail, who
drew the public's attention, through
I the columns of the Telegraph, to the
| prevalence of the "dope" habit here,
the Harrisburg police department
has displayed most commendable
energy in searching out the local
dealers in habit-forming drugs. The
raids of Monday night are most
refreshing evidence that the police
are in real earnest about this work
and mean to break up the practice
of "dope" selling in this city.
More wholesale arrests, where
conditions are found to warrant,
will do much to drive the "agents"
out of business here. They are a
bad lot, catering to the denizens of
the "underworld" and caring only
for the rich pickings they are able
to get from the poor wretches who
would sell their very souls for "a
shot" or two of morphine or a "pill"
of opium. They are criminals beside
whom a safe-robber is a gentleman
and a scholar. Very often they
themselves are "dope fiends" and
they are in business only for the
sake of the immense profits for
small effort. The police will have
full and hearty public support in
this or any other campaign for a
cleaner, better city they may under
take.
MEMORIAL SHADE TREES
IX A letter to the Governors of
the States, Secretary Houston at
Washington has recommended a
nationwide observance of Arbor
Day through the planting of trees
dedicated to soldiers who died dur
ing the war. He does not believe
there is a better way to keep alive
the memory of those who have
fallen.
This is a splendid suggestion in
line with previous recommenda
tions of the National Forestry As
sociation, but it should go further.
We should not only perpetuate the
memory of those who have made
the supreme sacrifice by the plant
ing of trees; it should be the effort
of every community to also plant
tree 6 in memory of those soldiers
who have served their country and
survived the great war and Arbor ■
Day is the proper day for this ob
servance.
Again we are reminded that no ;
Shade Tree Commission has yet been
provided for Harrisburg and may 1
we not hope that the City Council
will immediately authorize such a
commission before Arbor Day this
year. t
FOCH PLAYS THE GAME
WHILE rainbow chasers and
idealogues are playing cross
tag with each other, with
Europe and America the playground,
one Marshal Foch is plodding along
in a way that makes Germany sick
to her stomach.
Recently Foch demanded that
Germany turn over all her merchant
marine for the use of the allies,
food or no food. Every little while
he demands that the Germans va
cate a particular piece of territory,
and if they quibble about it French
troops move up and take it.
It is a darned shame that Foch
isn't at the head of the peace table.
The debate respecting a league of
nations, and pretty songs about five
little nations in Arcady would come
to a speedy halt, and Germany
would get hers where it belongs. The
i more Foch the less boche. I;
foOOctU
fumWWifa.
By the Ex-OommltteemaS
The legislative program for the
remainder of the session of 1919
will be made up at Philadelphia in
the next three days. Republican
leaders will present views to Senator
Penrose and late in the week Gov
ernor Sproul plans to visit that city
to listen to suggestions. By next
Monday everything will be outlined
and the House rules committee will
likely report in favor of May 15 for
adjournment and April 20 as the
last day for presentation of bills.
Senator Penrose has not changed
his attitude in opposition to changes
in the election laws and there will
be few, if any. The third class city
non partisan repeal bill will likely
be forgotten. The second class city
legislation will not be extensive.
The administration bills are rapid
ly getting into form and will all be
in hand by April 1, it is expected.
The investigation into the school sys
tem, while reported out in the Sen
ate, is not expected to make as much
of a stir as it might have done a
month ago. •
With Sunday law legislation out of
the way, liquor bills will get to the
front. The Fox prohibition enforcer
does not please every one and a new
bill to arrange for enforcement, but
leaving matters like alcoholic con
tent severely alone will be put in.
There will likely be a hearing on
the liquor bills, including the "near
beer" bill Tuesday. Woman suifra
gists and borough people who back
the Shunk bill to authorize the Pub
lic Service Commission to suspend
increased rates when in litigation will
have hearings Tuesday, also. These
measures are likely to be disturbing
factors.
—Tqhe hearing on the Philadelphia
charter revision bill yesterday which
developed into a cross fire between
Senator Edwin H. Vare and John
O. Winston, developed that the bill
as it stands now may have rough
sledding. Senator Vare said that he
had heard no sentiment for the bill,
while Mr. Winston said they people
all wanted it.
—President pro tern C. J. Buck
man is giving the senators some
short outs these days. A bill with
a title a page and a half long came
up yesterday. "All in favor of the
bill with a long, long name say
'aye' " was the way he put It. Nat
urally the bill passed.
—Members of the House paid a
graceful tribute to Representative
Samuel Hutchinson, of Northampton
yesterday. It was his seventy-fifth
birthday and on motion of Mr. Zan
ders, of Carbon, a resolution of con
gratulation was adopted. The North
ampton man was called upon for a
speech and after some hesitation
said: "I am not a speech maker,
but, boys, I appreciate this."
—When the Aron bill requiring I
newspapers and magazines to print
the time of issue on the front games
was reached in the committee on
judiciary special John R. K. Scott,
the chairman, sent it to a sub com
mittee with a remark that sounded
suspiciously like "entombment."
Scott, by the way, is one of the
members who is attracting-attention
this session. He insists on .open
meetings, open discussions and
everything being done so that every
one knows about it.
—The Senate Mines and Mining
committee is going to get started
next week when it will wiestle with
the "mine cave" bill. It is the plan
to take out teference to bituminous
mines.
—Erie county legislators and leg
islative attaches were guests of Com
missioner John S. Rilling at the
Penn-Harris last night. It is bi
ennial custom of the Commissioner
to entertain them and it was a de
lightful affair.
—Senator George Woodward, of
Philadelphia, gave a dinner to the
Senators at the Harrisburg Club last
night. It was for an interchange of
views on charter revision.
—The Sterling bill to "rip" out
the school boards in Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh is to be put into
storage a while and a new bill
drafted to t provide that while judges
may name' they can not appoint any
one over sixty years of age.
—Ex-Judge W. E. Rice, of War
ren. mentioned for public service
commissioner, is said to have told
people that he would not accept.
Ex-Judge Max Mitcheell, of Lycom
ing, is being boomed now and so is
James E. Barnett, of Pittsburgh.
—The State service bill, which
appeared in the House yesterday,
has been a legislative visitor since
1889.
—Thomas J. Lynch, secretary of
the Water Supply Commission, is
being boomed as an official in the
new department of Conservation. It
is said that the present heads of
the departments to be embraced in
the new bill will be retained.
Literary Notes
D. Appleton & Company have just
announced publication of the new
volume of "The American Year
Book," covering events of 1918. "The
American Year Book" is published
annually by the Appletons, being
edited by Francis G. Wickware and
prepared under the supervision of
a board comprised of members of
forty-three learned and scientific
societies. "The American Year
Book" has always proven an invalu
able help to students, editors and
other people requiring a ready refer
ence of current American events,
and it appeals to the general reader
as a series of interesting and ex
ceptional articles contained in one
volume.
This week the Appletons will issue
two new juvenile books, one by
Ralph Henry Barbour entitled, "Un
der the Y'ankee Ensign" and the
other by Joseph A. Altsheler called,
"The Lords of the Wild." Boys,
young and old, will be interested
in these new volumes by two big
favorites, for Mr. Barbour's tales
of sport and school life and Mr. Alt
sheler's Indian and historical stor
ies have probably been, more widely
read than any other books ever writ
ten for boys.
A most timely volume to be pub
lished by D. Appleton & Company
this week is a popular account of
how to successfully cultivate and
maintain a home garden. The book,
entitled "The Book of the Homq
Garden," has been written by Edith
Loring Fullerton, the well-known
garden expert, and it is said to be so
clearly and simply written that a
child can follow its instruction and
advice. ..,
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A Belated Admission
[From the Philadelphia Pressl
At last even the Post Office De
partment seems to appreciate the
fact that the country is up in arms
against the quality of the postnl ser
vice that is being given to the people.
A meeting of postmasters and postal
officials and representatives of busi
ness organizations has been called
for next month at Washington to
devise methods to improve the ser
vice. Why this has not been done
before, only Mr. Burleson can an
swer. That there was dire need of
improvement has long been the ver
dict of the whole nation. That there
has been general impairment of the
postal service is the unanimous
voice. That the trouble is not with
the employes, but with the men who
are managing the department, is the
universal opinion.
There is delay in the mail which
the country has not known before.
It is delay that in many respects
•is without justification. Even the
local mails have not been handled
expeditiously. MAtters of import
ance ' have been delayed, and the
whole service has reached a con
dition which needs a radical change.
It was found necessary to take from
the Post Office Department the de
livery of mail on the other side, and
turn it over to the War Department.
In the first part of the war, very
frequently mails were six weeks
reaching those to whom they were
directed in Europe. It probably is
the first time in the history of the
Government that a service has been
taken away from the department
which has it in control under the
law and turned over to another de
partment of the Government which
heretofore had nothing whatever to
do with it, because of failure to per
form suitable service.
Having proven its inability to take
care of its own business, the Post
Office Department reached out to
take upon itself new and unneces
sary responsibilities. It took over
services with which it had never had
any experience in deuling. It seized
hold of the telegraph and the tele
phone. Then it acquired possession
of the cables. The result has been
the natural and inevitable one. The
wire service of the country is fall
ing to the standard of the Burleson
postal service. Up to this time, com
plaints in regard to the mismanage
ment of the Post Office Department
have fallen upon deaf ears at Wash
ington. It is to be hoped that the
calling of this meeting means a
realization of conditions and facts,
and a genuine desire to bring about
improvement, late, it is true, but
better than never.
League Not Essential
It is a gross and palpable fallacy
to assert that unless a machinery
of universal peace be established —
or a simulacrum thereof —the war
was a failure and its sacrifices a
waste. Nothing can be further from
the truth. In the destruction of the
Teuton plan of world domination,
the war was a success. In the es
tablishment of national liberty on
a new rock foundation, it was a
triumph. The power which threat
ened the peace and liberty of Europe
for forty years is broken. Practical
proof has been given with eternal
energy, that vaulting ambition and
all embracing greed do not and can
not pay in the modern world, that
they mean only desolation and sor
row to the people guilty of them.
Is this outcome a failure? Is any
thing wasted that went toward win
ning these results? Is not the cause
of general and lasting peace more
advanced by such moral lessons than
by any mechanical device the human
intellect can contrive?— From the
New York Evening Sun.
Thirty-Third Division
National Guard
of Illinois, West
Virginia: Arrived in BEk
France May 2 4 AHH Hh
1918. Activities: ■ Ij
Amiens sector
(with Australians) HH#
July 21 to August
18; Verdun sector;
September 9 to Oc
tober 17; St. Mihiel sector, Novem
ber 7 to 11.
Prisoners captured: 65 officers,
3,922 men. Guns captured: 93
pieces of artillery, 414 machine
guns. Total advance on front line,
36 kilometers (made by units of one
regiment or less.)
Insignia: Yellow cross on black
circle, a combination of the division
al colors, yellow chosen because it
was the only color paint available
in Texas when the division was as
sembling its equipment. The cross,
long used to mark Government
property, had a terrifying effect on
the Philippine natives.
America in France
LIEUT, CONINGSBY DAWSONS
"Living Bayonets" is composed
of letters written by Lieuten
ant Dawson to hie immediate fam
ily, and these letters pick up his
story at just about the point where
"Carry On" left it, and take it as
far as those days of last October,
when Germany began her whining
and hypocritical plea for peace.
Brief and broken, some of them,
written in all sorts of places and
under all sorts of conditions, from
the luxurious comfort of a London
hotel to a dugout half full of mud
and water, the letters reflect all
sorts of changing phases and chang
ing moods—all sorts, save those
which have to do with despair or
any, even the very faintest, appre
hension of eventual defeat.
The letters begin with one dated
in April, 1917, and give a brief
glimpse of the English advance, but
in June, Lieutenant Dawson was
wounded at Vimy, and that in the
right arm; gas-gangrene set in, and
for some months he was necessarily
out of the fighting. In September
came a visit to Canada and the Unit
ed States, and when in November lie
returned to England it was to dis
cover that he had been detailed for
duty under the High Commissioner,
instead of to France and the fight
ing line. Against this order he
chafed sorely. In June they are
looking forward to at least one and
probably four more years of war.
By that time they may all'be dead
who now stand facing the guns.
But no matter; behind stands Amer
ica "with her high courage, her
sacrifice, and her millions of men."
And to an American, this expecta
tion of the coming of the Americans,
and the description of what happen
ed when at last they did come, are
no less than absorbing. At the first,
the men at the front scarcely realize
what that coming is going to mean;
then London goes on scant rations,
that the United States may be sup
plied with tonnage, and then —then
thropgh camp and hospital, among
the wounded and along the weary
shell-torn roads, one song is sung
by every poilu and by every Tommy;
and that song is "Over There." For
now the Yanks are indeed coming.
"We could have won without the
Yanks —we're sure of that; but *
we walk jauntily. The Yanks are
coming. They will reap the peace
for the world which our blood has
sown." And that last phrase ex
presses something which we of the
United States should never forget;
that for nearly four years before
we entered the conflict, England and
Controlling Enemy After War
[From the Bache Review.]
It is to be expected that the peace
conferees have in their possession a
copy of this commercial-military
tactical book of Germany. After the
peace terms are accepted and the
armies demobilized unless this com
mercial war has not been provided
against in the ,peace terms, there
is nothing to prevent Germany, con
quered, from carrying on some such
a campaign as she had planned as
the master of the world, except pos
sibly lack of funds, the burden of
paying the indemnities, or the power
of an alliance of nations to enforce
an economic boycott.
In view of what the Germans
would have done to a conquered
world, would it not be fair for a
conquering world, through the peace
terms, to impose upon German In
dustrtes some such system of Allied
overseeing superintendents and resi
dent agents for Information pur
poses, attached to every German in
dustry, as are outlined in the Her
zog book, and as would have been
placed in charge all over the world
by Germany if she had won?
Undoubtedly, control of Germany
must continue for many years, until
(and it would be perfectly proper)
she has paid up her indemnities to
the last cent. This would be simply
following out Germany's own course
of procedure in 1871, when she in
sisted upon keeping her troops on
French soil until the (at the time)
enormous assessment which she
made upon France, was paid Then,
Germany retained control only to
humiliate France, whom she had un
justly attacked and robbed.
Under the Allies' terms, however,
the industrial control would con
tinue as against a criminal, dan
gerous to the world and safe only
under confinement. Such control,
with the army disbanded, would
have to be exercised by some alli
ance of great nations, whether the
league of nations or a simplified and
amended form of it.
France and Belgium sowed with
their blood the peace which is now
being reaped. Magnificently did the
"Yanks" set about their task, when,
on that wonderful Fourth of July'
"suddenly, hurled through the dawn,
comes the cry 'Lusitania!' * * *
I can think that somewhere beneath
the Atlantic the bodies of murdered
children sat up at that crv. * *
'Lusitania!' the white-hot" anger of
chivalry was in it."
"America is in Prance to act as
tiio re\enge of God." For nearly
four years England had remained
tolerant, refraining from hate; but
when "hospitals had been bombed,
and the women who came to nurse
us slaughtered," the old tolerance
died. Germany then entered a new
phase of the war—the phase which
sealed her doom. It had been ere
ated by "her own persistent brutal
ity. * * We are hot her com
rades; we never shall be again, so
long as race-memory lasts." And
now the note of triumph changes
from expectancy to realization, as
the allied armfes sweep on after the
retreating Hun. Then, on September
1, the great day when the Canad
inns broke the Hindenburg line,
Lieutenant Dawson was again
wounded. Very vividly does he de
scribe the superb attack—but 110
more vividly than ho does his jour
ney from the front to the hospital,
a journey made in company with
captured German officers, and which
served to demonstrate again for him
the fact that "the German is incor
rigible. He was born a boor and he
can never respond to courtesy.
Kindness and mercy are wasted on
him; he accepts them us his right,
and becomes domineering." And
this, which epitomizes the testimony
of practically all of those who have
come in contact with the Bocho,
should not be forgotten now.
It is to be wished that at this mo
ment, when "camouflaged pacifists"
and pro-Germans are using fine
phrases about generous treatment of
a fallen foe, the last few pages
of this book could be thrust upon
the attention of every American
citizen. For magnanimity is indeed
an alluring word; it flatters our na
tional vanity to regard ourselves as
acting generously to the conquered.
But it is impossible to act generous
ly with "an enemy who flies the flag
of true that he may stab you in tho
back." It is not against a nation
or against any individual, but
against "a fortified vileness" that
the civilized world has been strug
gling; and this vileness is not les
sened one whit by an ostentatiously
changed form of government.
1919
Not now, the new Atlantis of our
dream,
But soon—dear, tired people every
where!
The sun has pierced the smoke: tho
plow will gleam,
The grain will climb again upon
the air.
The honest days will bring the
work that heals
Back to the village and the streets
of stone.
There will be sweeter music from
the wheels.
For hands that make will ho the
hands that own.
Lead on, brave spirits! Not until
we fight
The battle of the mind will life be
wise.
Until we are no more afraid of
light,
We can not bring our Heaven front
the skies.
O I have heard the clear, new
bugles blow
Over the English lanes and Russian
snow!
From "The New Day," by Scud
der Middleton.
LABOR NOTES
Striking hotel workers at Dublin,
Ireland, have returned to work, both
sides having agreed on arbitration.
Many laborers from Puerta Rico
are being imported into the South
ern States to relieve labor shortage
on the farms.
Men employed in the steel works
of Sydney, Nova Scotia, have receiv
ed an increase of 2% cents an hour
in wages.
Trade unionism has finally been
officially established in the Winni
peg (Canada) police system. The
Council, by a vote of 8 to 9, sanc
tioned tho union force. ~
Union Labor's Opportunity
[Wall Street Journal.]
It is to the abiding credit of the
New Jersey Federation of Labor
that it has laid down two proposi
tions which the rest of us can read
ily endorse. It says that general
strikes are always injurious to the
workmen; and laws must be obeyed,
however obnoxious they may be. This
is speaking good sense in a clear
x °ice, and union labor now has a
chance of making itself solid with
public opinion. It has seen the re
sult of I. W. W. teaching, and every
thing decent in the ranks of union
ized labor is opposed to Bolshevism
in any form.
What were, the best workmen's
, combinations the world ever saw?
They were the trade guilds, having
their origin for the most part in
the thirteenth century and operat
ing successfully for several hun
dred years. Every "master" or
employer, was responsible to the
guild and had himself been succes
sively an apprentice, a journeyman
and a master workman. But the
principle which gave vitality to these
powerful, successful, wealthy and
competent guilds was that they
guaranteed the high quality of work.
The inferior workman was recog
nized as a mis lit and required to
find employment elsewhere.
The result was the most enduring
work, the most artistic work, man
has yet devised; as is manifest in
surviving evidences like the great
cathedrals,—poetry in stone; full of
magnificent wood and glass work,
and textiles which have survived
the hand of Time. The workman
was an artist as well as a laborer,
and we should not forget that there
never was a great artist yet in any
department of human effort who'
had not made himself, by ceaseless
thought and effort, a first-class
craftsman of his trade.
Here then is a standard for our
labor unions, which can make them
one of the greatest moral forces in
the country. They need only to
scrap the pernicious doctrine that
the competent workman is to be
restrained from his best efforts in
order that the unintelligent, the
incompetent, the discontented work
man shall retain his place in the
union and be protected from his em
ployer, when what he needs is to be
protected from himself. The unions
will never command public confi
dence when workers of this kind are
allowed to dictate the rate of produc
tion and the quality of the product.
The unions can enormously extend
their influence by diverting mem
bership of this kind to other and
more suitable employment. Such
workmen have mistaken their call
ing, and the attempt to force them
upon production is the most fruitful
cause of labor trouble. The old
trade guilds were not tyrannical. But
in England at least, and in the Han
seatic cities, they broke up the
feudal system forever by sheer moral
force.
Princesses Make Preserves
[World Outlook for March.]
The Gallor Exhibition has just,
closed and after it is all over it
is said to have been the largest and
most interesting on record in Cen
tral India.
Mrs> Wiser with her demonstra
tions of fruit canning and vegetable
preservation, showing the people of
India a cheap, sanitary and easy
way of saving food, was much more
popular than the nautch girl. The
Maharajah brought down the ladies
of the Palace to see and learn her
methods. As he was merely a man
ho could not go in under the canopy
which was kept strictly purdah. The
fruit and vegetables were grown in
the palace gardens, the jars were
made in the state pottery, common
Indian cooking vessels were used and
the little common Indian portable
stoves fenvc the fire for cooking and
sterilization. A few days after Mrs.
Wiser had shown the Ranis and
Princesses how to can and put up
food the Maharajah sent them back
to demonstrate to Mrs. Wiser how
well they had learned their lessons.
He wanted to be sure they had got
it right, as he will have to eat the
things they put up.
When Baseball Was Sport
Every time we hear of a baseball
player who holds out for more salary
we are carried back to the days
when the star player on the team
had to chip in his share toward the
ball—Fjom, ihX>U;olt. Nwwb <
Ebentng (ttljat
One has only to look at the ner
Legislative Directories, just issued a
the Cupitol, to Unci the relation tlft
the new Penn-llarris lias to th
members and attaches of the E'en
eral assembly. One man who ob
serves the trend of things, remarket
last night that at least one-half o
the law makers and attaches wer
quartered at the hotel. "It show
that it was needed and everyone
have talked to commends Harris
burg for rising to the needs of tin
hour," said he. Another man, <
veteran in the political game, salt
that Hurrisburg had made itsel
worthy of the new Capitol by notabl<
improvements some fifteen or eigh
teen years ago and ho thought tli
hotel came at the right time. On
can find almost any one of promin
ence in the Legislature in the nev
hotel in the evenings and at luncl
time and it shows that the city hai
a place which the rest of the Stab
recognizes as a gathering point, jus
as the Bellevue is in Philadelphia
the Jefferson at Richmond, the Tei
Eyck at Albany and similar hotel!
in political centers.
•
Members of the Harrisburg firi
department are commencing to won
der whether some of the men win
are on the rolls of the companlei
are aware of the fact that they art
supposed to be on duty when a fir<
alarm sounds. The lires and alarms
which have occurred so frequently
in the last few days have made tin
"regulars" among the liremen work
as they have not had to do for a
long time. Some of the men wh<
are members of companies hav<
come around late and the men wh<
man the machines are starting t<
say things. "Harrisburg has one o
the largest volunteer lire department;
in the State, but you would nevet
know it to see tho same fellows a
lires every time the bell rings." wai
tlie way one man put it last night.
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Dr. R. E. Holmes, of this city, hai
two nephews in the lighting force
in France. He has just received :
newspaper clipping showing ho\
these brothers met in France ofte
months of separation and trying t(
see each other. Both boys expec
to return home sometime this niontl
or early in April. They happenec
upon each other at Nevens in Franci
and both wrote interesting letter;
about the meeting. One brothe
tells of hunting tho other and hov
they bumped into one another ii
turning the corner of the barracks
lie says: "It sure is grent to be to
gether again, and I guess we liavi
talked about everything, as far baci
as we can remember." The othei
brother writing on the same date
says: "Saturday morning I had tin
greatest surprise of my life. It wa:
just after breakfast and I line
washed, made up my bunk and walk
ed outside the barracks to see wha
the weather was like. I heard sonu
one whistle, I looked around are
there came Harris and Roy Mingle
I was so surprised I could hardlj
talk. I must admit it took me rigli
off my feet when I saw him." Thi;
son closes his letter to the folks a
home with an expression of his joj
in meeting his brother, and with tin
statement that "you will he mights
glad to know we are together for ;
while, and I don't think it will bt
long before we are all together." The
reunion of these brothers in Franci
is typical of the meetings of manj
boys who had not seen each othei
since leaving their homes in Amer
ica. Dr. Holmes is very proud o
his nephews and believes nothim
is too good for the returning Penn
sylvania soldiers in tlie way of i
home-coming reception.
There has been issued the pas
week from the McFarlund Press
this city, a most attractive little bool
entitled "The American Rose An
nual," 1919 edition, edited by J
Horace McFarland, for the Ameri
can Rose Society. The frontispiece
is a beautiful color plate of E. G
Hill's new American-bred hybrh
tea, "Rose Premier," and the bool
itself contains many attractive pic
turcs relating to the growth of rose!
in the home garden, as well as de
scriptions of the best roses known
to gardeners and how to grow them
"It has been a difficult job to put the
book together the past winter," said
the author to a Telegraph man th(
other day, "in view of my absenci
and preoccupation," Mr. McFarlam
has been doing important war work
along recreational and housing
lines for the Federal government al
Washington, and is in tho unfortun
ate position of desiring to resign
but having his resignation continu
ally refused. "Harrisburg ought tc
have fifty instead of eight member!
of the American Rose Society," con
tinued Mr. McFarland. "If there
were as many members as that w<
would have more good roses in oui
gardens and the cause of recreation
would be served quite as well as b>
spending money in other directions
A very favorable beginning oc
curred last year when an amateui
rose show was held, yet there were
not enough members of the Ameri
can Rose Society to qualify for the
silver and bronze medals of the
Rose Society. Mr. McFarland is a
great believer in a physician taking
his own medicine, and the gardens
about his homo teem with beautiful
roses of rare varieties, some ol
which have not yet reached the com
merclat stage. The officers of the
Rose Society are scattered all ovei
the country, Benjamin Hammond,
of Beacon, N. Y., being president,
and Mr. McFarland and O. P. Beck
ey, of Harrisburg, being members
of; the executive committee. The
organization was formed in 189 9 to
increase the interest and improve
the standard of excellence of the
roses of America."
W&L KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—John C. Winston, the chlel
speaker' at the charter hearing yes
terday, is one of the veteran re
formers of Philadelphia.
—Dr. Thomas T. Mutchler, who
managed the fight against the Rorkc
bill, has been the head and front
of every fight against Sunday law
breaches for over twenty years.
Major C. C. McGovern, who com
manded the Pittsburgh cavalry at
the outbreak of the war, was here
yesterday.
—Col. L. A. Watres, former lieu
tenant governor, was among the
Governor's callers yesterday. He was
here on Armory Board business.
DO YOU KNOW ]
—That Harrisburg railroad men
made fine records for their work on
the railroads in France?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—The river front used to be
big place for shooting
century ago*