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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1019
The Worldly Hope men set their
hearts upon
Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and
anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty
Face,
Lighting a little hour or two. is gone.
FITZGERALD.
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE
THE public school is the place In
which to counteract the false
teachings that are being taught
by the forces of disorder through
out the country. A little less at
tention to nonessential studies and a
little more concentration on the ele
mental principles of political econ
omy and the United States govern
ment would help greatly. No voter
can exercise the functions of the
ballot intelligently unless he knows
the fundamentals of government and
any man who does not have this
knowledge is at the mercy of the
first disciple of revolution who
crosses his path.
TWELVE YEARS \
TWELVE years ago the Legisla- I
tuiife passed a State shade tree i
law. Up to this time the city j
of Harrisburg has shown no disposi- s
fion to take advantage of it. "Tree c
butchering" is still our most popular (
outdoor amusement every spring and ,
all. Men who have the price of (
saw and a pruning hook go out i
■ nd clear ten to twelve dollars a t
day for "tree trimming," notwith
standing that they know absolutely t
nothing about pruning and care less. c
Trees that should lend beauty to j
awns and streets are shorn of their a
graceful limbs and mangled almost c
beyond semblance of their more c
ortunate brethren of field and for
st. ,
Park Commissioner Gross is the
• ffieial to whom the city must look
or tree protection, but .Mr. Gross
has done nothing. Not even an ef
ort is being made to stop the reck- '
v nss conduct of the pruners now c
"ioing the rounds. They may- go as '
ir as they like toward ruining the 1
• ity's trees and nobody will say 1
■ hem nay. dAdis a shameful con- r
.ition. • e
JASE PAY FOR TEACHERS *
rO THE Republicans of the Sen
ate belongs the credit of pro- *
curing for the public school
•oachers of the District of Colurn-
Ma substantial increases in salary j
irr the next fiscal year. Enlight
• ned thought and experience
'troughout the country has dem- t
nstrated the fact that no agency s
has a greater effect on the future t
U-osperity of our pountry than our b
>ublic schools. In the past few t
1 . ears the States have recognized a
he prime importance of furnish- s
ing compensation for school teach- 0
rs that will attract individuals of r
.• bility, personality and tact to take J
• harge of the education of the t
ounger generation. But in the Dis
;ict of Columbia, where appropria- g
ions for the public schools, as for t
II other municipal matters, are v
• iade by Congress with little re- d
ard for the wishes or needs of the ii
ommunity, educational subjects h
ave lagged. Six years of Con- P
ressional control by the Democratic e
arty has brought little change in '
be old scales of teachers' pay. a
Recently, when the annual Dis
'i'let of Columbia Appropriation bill
as up for consideration. Senator
enrose proposed an amendment V
i taking the basic salary of public
:hool teachers $l,OOO, to which will
i e added other amounts, according
i > longevity in the service, etc. Alt
lough opposed by the Georgia a
'emocrat having the bill in charge, tj
. le proposition was pressed vigor- j,
isly by Mr. Penrose and other Re- y
i üblicans and finally adopted by g
. ie Senate!
a
A comparatively inconsequential e
Cling in itself, nevertheless the de- t<
ite on teachers' sanities accurately JJ
lowed the fundamental differences ti
etween the two political parties, p
'.epublican legislation in the past, as c
. will be in the future, is disting- fi
FRIDAY EVENING, Hakrisburg TELEGRAPH MARCH 28, 1919.
uished by the broad motives that
have prompted it. Progressive de
velopment along all lines tending
to increased national prosperity has
characterized the laws the Repub
licans have placed on the statute
books.
The Democrats, on the other hand,
while looking after their cotton
crop and the dredging of some of
their Southern sloughs and bayous,
have let the country as a whole drift
along, with little attention to its
future welfare. When confronted
with a real catastrophe, as the pres
ent war, the country pays the price
of the shiftlessness of its national
administration. Hysteria seizes those
In power and they try to accom
plish in a moment what they should
have been prepared for long be
fore. Enormous extravagances,
costly delays and general ineffi
ciency is the result.
PANHANDLING FOR ADS
THE Southern press, nearly all
Democratic, stands by the ad
ministration until its own in
terests are injured. Here is one il
lustration of its refusing to acquiesce
in the administration's plans.
When the railroads were taken
over by the administration practical
ly all railroad advertising was dis
continued as a needless expense.
Now the Southern District Traffic
Committee has circularized the
Southern press with an inquiry as to
its willingness to print, gratis, certain
announcements the Railroad-Admin
istration proposes to make from
time to time concerning rates, rules
and regulations.
A Mississippi paper indicates the
attitude of its contemporaries by
saying that now that the war is
over there is no reason why the
Government should be asking for
free space.
"If we should ask the Railroad
Administration for passes from here
to New Orleans, it would laugh with
scorn." And again, "if the govern
ment pays for rails and cross ties,
why not for advertising?"
In order to make a good showing
in the operation of the railroads, thfe
Government managers strive to get
advertising free. There is no more
reason why the government should
get railroad advertising free than I
there was for the private operators I
getting it without paying the usual | '
rates. .
THOSE WHO DID NOT GO
IN HIS last editorial, published in
the March Metropolitan, Colonel
Roosevelt said:
There are in this country, how
ever, ninny regulars and many
•volunteers who did not get over
into the fighting, who bitterly re
gret this fact and who would
welcome the chanre to see some
service overseas under the Ameri
can flag no matter what form it
might take.
| This statement made before the
resumption of recruiting by the
Regular Army has been proven true
by the recent influx of recruits who
have been accepted at the local
Army Recruiting Station to go over
seas and sec what really happened
over there. There are many sol
diers overseas who, due to business
reasons, must come home; conse
quently, it is the policy of the War
Department to replace these men
by volunteers.
The recent success obtained
throughout the country by army re
cruiting has demonstrated that
Americans are still eager to travel
and take advantage of the many
other opportunities that the army
offers.
KEEPING TROUBLE AWAY
EVERYONE in Pennsylvania
manifested hearty accord with
Governor William C. Sproul's
inaugural declaration that the State
does not need so many new laws as
it does codifications and tightening
up or replacement of some that have
been on the books. The announce
ment that less than a score of gen
eral bills passing the Legislature
have become acts in a legal sense
will be hailed with pleasure.
And with this in mind everyone
will rejoice to see that Governor
Sproul is disposed to indicate what
he thinks about legislation. The
Governor is an experienced Legis
lator and a strong administrator.
His words will be listened to and
will be applauded. His declaration
that the question of what shall con
stitute intoxicating liquor is some
thing for Congress will chase some
bills designed to make trouble to
the waste basket, where they belong,
and his remarks that the State
should not have to learn a new set
of election laws will be hailed with
relief. Similarly, word that he wants
Philadelphians to agree on a char
ter is glad tidings up State.
At the same time everyone will be
glad to learn that he has sized up
the State revenue system as one
which needs laws to corral tax
dodgers. The Federal Government's
income tax reports have furnished
ideas which can be profitably ap
plied to Pennsylvania personal prop
erty owners. It has to come even
tually and it may as well come now
and keep trouble away.
WORKING SEASON HERE
SPRING is here and the season for
outdoor work is at hand. The
need for employment is greater
now than it will be later. Labor is
more plentiful than it will be after
the building trades get under way
again as a result of the stabiliza
tion of steel and other prices. Now
is the time to prepare plans for" the
year's construction work, as the
State is doing in the capltol park
area. As soon as the Legislature
enacts the appropriation bills about
to be submitted the Board of Public
Buildings and Grobnds will be ready
to proceed with the work, which
promises to be very beneficial the
coming summer in providing work
for all who desire it in this city.
IK
By the Ex-Committeeman i
Eighteen general acts of the Legis
lature and ten appropriation bills
have been approved by Governor
William C. Sproul thus far. This
is the smallest number signed in
years up to this period of a session
of a General Assembly. The Gov
ernor also has several vetoes to his
credit.
The appropriation measures are
virtually all measures to meet de
ficiencies, a number of them for hos
pitals which had run into deficits
because of the advance in costs of
maintenance and provisions during
the war. Two measures provided
for reorganization of the State Gov
ernment.
Twp important • hearings sched
uled for the coming month are on
the proposed banking code, objec
tions having been made to some
features by building and loan asso
ciations, and the bill to authorize
the Public Service Commission to
suspend increases in rates when
complaints have been brought be
fore the Commission. Both meas
ures are in the hands of Senate Com
mittees.
—Several Legislative Committee
chairmen who have been staying in
Harrisburg for a few days after the
adjournment of the Legislature for
the week say that the time for clear
ing out the pigeon holes is at hand
and predict that the next two weeks
will see either negative recommen
dations or references to sub com
mittees of dozens of bills which have
been roosting in committee rooms
for weeks.
I —James A. Walker, chairman of
the House Committee on Banking,
was here in conference with Com
missioner of Banking, John S. Fish
er, regarding some of the legislation
in the hands of his committee and
will likely dispose of it very soon,
—William J. McCaig, chairman of
the House Appropriations Commit
tee, has informed some members
who have not sent in all of their
appropriation bills that the time for
the "last call" is at hand and that
the committee is going to start work
without them. The general appro
priation bill is about to undergo its
final revision. It has passed second
reading in the House and when it
goes out the next time it will he on
third reading. It will probably be
sent out late in April, the interven
ing time taken up in estimating what
will be required by ending legis
lation. Meanwhile calendars will
he combed to ascertain whether any
bills carrying appropriations have
not been before the committee.
—Labor leaders and employers all
over the State will be here Tuesday
to attend the hearing by Attorney
General William X. Sehaffer and
Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of the
State Compensation Board, on the
proposed compensation amendment
bills. The Idea is to obtain the views
of various people on the proposed
increases in rates and the new sched
ules proposed by Mr. Mackey's draft.
—Women suffragists are also pre
paring to descend on the Legislature
next Tuesday when the House Judi
ciary General Committee will con
sider the bill. The antis will also
be here.
—Unless plans are changed a
special election for Senator in Lu
zerne county to succeed the late
Sterling It, Catlin will be ordered
before long. The Wilkes-Barre dis
trict is such an important one that
people from that section have been
urging that the subject be consider
ed. Under the law the Lieutenant
Governor, who is the President of
the Senate, would issue the call for
the special election. It would be
the third special election this ses
sion and thirty days' notice would
be required. One death, that of
Senator Charles J. Magee, occured
during the last session.
—Arrangements for a memorial
I service for Senator Catlin will be
made shortly. This service will be
held in the Senate Chamber.
-—Senator Yare has agreed to give
another hearing on the Philadelphia
charter bill. The chances are that
an agreement will be reached on
most of the provisions soon.
—The mayors of Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh are both sick. They have
been transacting business from sick
rooms.
—The Carbon County Commission
ers, through their solicitor, William
G. Thomas, in answer to a request
by State Highway Commissioner
Sadler that counties go 50-50 with
the State in the repair of county
roads, as the State will repair State
highway routes, say that they are
unable to do so as long as the
Warner Road Act, which asks coun
ties to give financial aid to the
poorer townships in the repair and
construction of roads remains a law.
The statement sets forth that the to
tal assessed valuation of Carbon
county is $35,000,000, on which a
three-mill county tax is levied, and
that the bonded indebtedness of the
county is $50,000,000.
Song of the Shingle Splitters
In dark wild woods, where the lone
owl broods
And the dingoes nightly yell—
Where the curlew's cry goes floating
by.
We splitters of shingle dwell.
And all day through, from the time
of the dew
To the hour when the mopoke calls,
Our mallets ring where the wood
birds sing
Sweet hymns by the waterfalls.
And all night long we are lulled by
the song
Of gales in the grand old trees:
And in the breaks we can hear the
lakes
And the moan of the distant seas.
For afar from heat and dust of
street,
And hall and turret, and dome,
in forest deep, where the tor
rents leap.
Is the shingle splitter's
home. . . .
What though our work be heavy, we
shirk
From nothing beneath the sun:
And toil is sweet to those who can
eat
And rest when the day is done.
In the Sabbath-time we hear no
chime,
No sound of the Sunday bells:
But yet heaven smiles on the forest
aisles.
And God in the woodland dwells.
We listen to notes from the million
th roats
Of chorister birds on high.
Our psalm is the breeze in the lordly
trees.
And our dome is the broad blue
sky.
Oh! a brave frank life, unsmit
ten by strife,
We live wherever we roam.
And our hearts are free as the
great strong sea.
The Writing on the Wall
In the same hour came forth
Angers of a man's hand, and wrote
over against the candlestick upon
the plaster of the wall of the king's
palace; and the king saw the part of
the hand that wrote.—Daniel v, 5.
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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
"In the minds of many American
readers, Russians and Bolshevik! are
fast becoming synonymous terms.
This book shows the fallacy of this
habit of thought," writes Captain J.
E. Cutler of the United States Army
of Ernest Poole's most recent volume
"The Village."
"Mr. Poole," he adds, "draws the
contrast between the old and the new
in the lives of these country folk
in word sketches which make a hu
man-interest appeal to the American
reader. The waning influence of the
old sorcerer, the growing power of
the school teacher and the new type
of village priest are convincingly
portrayed."
Dr. John B. Hibben, President of
Princeton University, is equally
hearty in his endorsement of Mr.
Poole's work.
"The Village," he says, "gives a
strong, vivid picture of the real peo
ple of Russia in whom our hope for
the future of Russia must rest. It
is an intensely interesting story, and
every American today, who is inter
ested in Russia of the present and
of the future should read it."
The fallacy of the argument for
the existence of a fundamental an
tagonism between socialism and in
dividualism, between altruism and
egitism, is demonstrated in untouch
nical and convincing fashion in "Al
truism: Its Nature and Varieties." by
George Herbert Palmer, of Harvard,
published by the Scribners. Profes
sor Palmer traces the development
of the altruistic impulse from its
first stage, which he calls Manners,
in which the individual submits to
restrictions for the sake of others,
through the second stage, which he
calls Gifts, in which the individual
seeks to promote another's welfare
at the seeming expense of his own,
to the highest stage of Mutuality,
in which the individual recognizes
the inseparability of himself and an
other as elements of one another.
E. P. Button & Co., have ready
for immediate publication a new is
sue of Max Beerbohm's collection of
clever parodies, "A Christmas Gar
land." Although his international rep
utation as a characturist was orig
inally made with pen and pencil he
shows himself in this series of bur
lesques to be just as skillful and en
tertaining at hitting off literary foi
bles with words as he has long been
known to be with personalities by
strokes of the pen. There are in the
book seventeen stories and essays
and bits of drama that burlesque
with searching skill, and robust hu
mor, but always with good nature,
the work and style of as many fa
mous authors. Among those whom
Mr. Beerbohm takes off with unblush
ing impudence and a constant smile
are Henry lames, George Meredith,
Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, G. K.
Chesterton, Arnold Bennett, George
Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Con
rad, John Galsworthy, and others.
"Opportunities in Farming," by
Edward Owen Bean, is the first book
to be published by Harper & Brothers
in their new Opportunity Books
Series. Each book will take up one
business or trade, tell about It in
general terms, indicating the sort
of education and skill required for
its successful pursuit. "Opportuni
ties in Farming" answers the first
questions of a man who thinks he
wants to be a farmer, but isn't quite
sur'fe. It tells him, in the simplest,
most straightforward way, what
farming is, why it is fundamental in
the life of the world and what a man
has to be and do to make a success
of it. It is not a technical book,
though it opens the way to the field
of technical farm books. "Oppor
tunities in Farming" answers the
question, "What is a Farmer and
Why?"
The story of the army that did not
"get across" is told by E. Alexander j
Powell, author of "Fighting in Flan- I
ders" and other books, is a volume I
to be published this spring by the
Scribners. Major Powell was spe
cially detailed by the War Depart
ment to write the book with full
official co-operation. He depicts with
the help of many ancedotes and in
cidents the, human as well as the
business side of the various general
departmemts; the Judge Advocate-
General's Department, including the
story of the draft; the Adjutant-Gen
eral's Department, which had the Job
of putting the right man in the right I
place; Intelligence; Ordnance; Chem
ical Warfare, including,the secrets of
the Edgewood Arsenal; Aviation;
Engineers; Signal Corps; Quarter
master's Corps; Medical Corps; and
the Salvage Division, which has the
job of cleaning up the remains.
Where Guns No Longer Roar.
(Horace W. Scandlin in World Outlook For March)
GENTLY here, precipitously
there the hills come down and
j drink of the water of the River
j Marne. Clear water now it is and
j good to look upon. No longer is it
| red with the blood of man and
j beast, no longer is its mirror-like
| surface dotted with swollen things
J that once answered to the name of
j man. Smoothly it pursues its course,
I beautifully it cuts a winding lane
i through the green and brown of its
' banks.
| Quaint clusters of little stone
I houses burst upon me and thrill me
J and then disappear. Their bodies
i are a creamish hue. their tiled roofs
| red, but both colors have been so
i beautifully mellowed by time and
| weather as to baffle clearer descrip-
I tion. Towns come and go, likewise
| cities and the pull at my imagina-
I tion is always the same. If ever
| God blessed a land with charm and
beauty He did this valley of the
I Marne.
Have you caught the picture, my
I far off American friends? America's
beet, so far as quaintness and love
liness are concerned, does not meas
ure up to the valley of the Marne.
But listen and then think!
Let your hearts fill up with thank
fulness.
Let your eyes fill up with tears.
Go to your babies and your wives,
to your brothers and your sisters, to
your mothers and your fathers and
on bended knees thank God that you
do not live in the valley of the
Marne!
Only dead men live there!
The ground is pock-marked with
FURTHER DELAY
[From the New York Times.]
The censure which has been visit
ed upon the Peace Conference for
its unconscionable delay in ending
I the war will be redoubled in volume
| and severity if the signing of the
j Treaty is put off until May 1 mere
| ly for the sake of making a com
prehensive treaty to be signed by
all the parties to the conflict. There
may be good reasons for putting the
( terms of peace into one treaty in
j stead of four, for preparing an in
strument to be signed by Germany,
Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey as
parties of the one part, and all the
! nations associated in the war against
j them as parties of the other part,
j But it is preposterous to assume
that the necessary changes in the
! plan would consume a month of
I time; it may be declared' without \
hesitation that if a month were re- |
quired, the change in the plan would
j not be worth while.
The world's quarrel was with Ger
! many. She was the instigator and
first cause of the outbreak. She is
still the head and front of the enemy
forces. When we make an end of the
war with her it will be ended with
her allies, for they are minor quan
tites. The world is very little con- '
cerned about them. Austria is shorn |
and parceled; Bulgaria will have to
do what is required of her, and Tur
key is practically non-existent. And
with Bulgaria irfnd Turkey the United
States was not even at war. The
conference would arouse the world's
indignation, it would give freer play
to dangerous forces that have al
ready made trouble enough, should it
disappoint expectation by such an
unreasonable and unjustified post
ponement of peace.
We fear that the conference is in
sore need of better information as to
the present attitude of the peoples of
the allied nations and of the United
States toward it and its deliberations.
Impatience with the slowness of the
progress made in Paris is already
everywhere manifested; it is grow
ing. It is to be feared, moreover,
that the conference lacks clear un
derstanding of the political situation
of the enemy powers. The conference
ought to have knowledge of what is
going on in Germany, it ought to see
that every day and week of delay will
enable the Germans to put them
selves in a position where it will he
more difficult to enforce the condi
tions of the treaty. The Hungarian
episode ought to open its eyes to
what is going on. And all the time
the Bolsheviki are profiting by the
indulgence and great consideration
for their wishes and feelings ex
hibited by the representatives of
some of the nations at Paris. The
world cannot with safety put up
with any further postponement of
peace-
shallow graves, singly, in two and
threes, and in clusters. Not a chim
ney anywhere gave forth sntoke.
Not a school was in session. Not
one house on all that journey was
occupied. Not one building but
what was smashed beyond repair.
If ever a region screamed Hell it is
the Valley of the Marne. And yet
we passed thousands of human be
ings. They were clad in blue— ihe
immortal blue of heroic France.
The cows we passed belonged to
j them. The grain we saw and the
gardens we saw belonged to them.
I But the people who once lived and
| loved there—who owned their little
i homes are gone—gone I know net
where —but gone. Even their fur
niture is gone. Nothing, nothing
but misery and ruin and death are
left.
And now, may I not tell you the
beautiful part of this awful story?
Out from England and Holland
and from other parts of Franco
there is heard the tramp of many
feet. Slowly but surely an army of
occupation is on the way to the de
vastated areas of France. They carry
no implements of war—neither of
peace. Yet it is a peaceful army.
In two and threes the roads are
dotted with them. They are strange
ly clad and in bundles in their
their hands they carry all their
earthly possessions. But in their
hearts they carry the most neces
sary possession—a stern determina
tion to win back all they lost and
more. They come home in tears but
they come—this army of returning
refugees.
What will you do to help them?
Penrose on Election Changes
Senator Penrose was one of the
members of the senate who opposed
j the change in the constitution which
j put the election of senators up to the
| people direct. His political enemies
| believed that the chango in the
I method of election would defeat
j hint as a candidate for the United
j States senate in 1914, the first year
I the open primary law went into ef
fect, but Senator Penrose won out
in that primary with many votes to
spare, although he was the issue and |
was re-elected in the fall after a
bitter thee-cornered fight with the
Republican party divided, the Pro
gressive supporting Gifford Pinchot.
Our senior United States senator
has no reason, from a personal
standpoint, to fear the effect of a
trial before the people at the polls
even if he had no other reasons for
j opposing the repeal of the direct
j primary system.
I There may be some defects in the
I system at present, but even it is not
|as objectionable as the old method
jof naming candidates by the dele
gate and convention system.
There are some very good reasons
I why the nonpartison judiciary act
| for the nomination and election of
| judges for our higher courts should
i be repealed because the people gen
erally vote in the dark, giving a
political machine or personal or
ganization a splendid opportunity of
raising an unknown and untried man
to the highest judicial office of the
'State. But if any change is to be
| made in the method of selecting our
higher court judges, as we have ad
vocated before, it should-be one that
I will take the selection out of the
I hands of the people and place the
responsibility with the Governor,
making the offices appointive instead
of elective.
We are glad that Senator Penrose
has thrown his influence on the side
of those who are opposing the repeal
of our present election laws.
Thirty-Second Division
National Guard
of Michigan arid
Wisconsin: Ar
rived in France,
February 2 0 ,
1918. Activities:
Alsace front. May
18 to July 21;
Fismes front,
July 39 to August
7 (advance from the Ourcq to the
Vesle); Soissons front August 28
to September 2 (battle of Juvigny);
Argonne-Meuse offensive, September
30 to October 20 (operations against |
Kriemhilde Stellung); front east of
the Meuse, Dun-sur-Meuse, Novem
ber 8 to 11; Army of Occupation
from November 17.
Prisoners captured: 40 officers,
2,113 men. Guns captured: 21
pieces of artillery, 190 machine
guns. Total advance on front line,
36 kilometers.
Insignia: Barred arrow of red,
chosen because they shot through
every line the Boche put before
them.
Tackle Industrial Relations
[Meyer Bloomfield in the Saturday
Evening Post]
To-day no man is too big or too
i busy in the industrial organization
! to give time and thought to the hu
man factors in the situation. With
the best executive brains of indus
try foremost in the present discus
| sion of Britain's economic future
! there is warrant enough for an at
titude of hopefulness, at least.
War came to an end abruptly, as
everyone knows. It might be sup-
I posed that with the four years of
agony over, business men would
make a rush upon the government,
clamor for the privileges war had
about annihilated, und proclaim the
instant resumption of "business as
usual." There is reason enough for
starting up. But business made no
such rush nor set up much of any
clamor; and as for proclamations,
the Britisher is not much of a pro
claimer. Instead of scramble, from
the morning of the armistice to this
very minute, the processes of order,
restraint and thoughful planning
have operated and characterized the
transition from war to peace. And
What is more to the point, the first
concern of every industrial leader
has been, not with recapture of
trade, but with making a fresh start,
a right start in the matter of indus
trial relations.
A man who has done as much as
any one individual to build up the
industries of Western England Is
giving practically all his time to this
work. He is for doing away with
delay and procrastination. He
maintains that there is information
enough at hand for a start in set
tling the relation of employer and
employed.
"We have had investigations
enough," he said; "let us do some
thing now. There is sense enough
on both sides to put behind us some
of the problems that have been har
assing industry. Our insularity, so
often a stumbling block, may in this
instance he our safeguard. As for
immediate measures that can be
taken to deal with the situation, it
is clear that they must he progres
sive to an extent hitherto unparal
leled, and that the grievances of
labor must bo met in the most gen
erous spirit. There is litt'e doubt
that they have, many of them, a
substantial foundation in fact. Be
lief is more important than truth,
and labor's consdction that it has
not had a square deal will not be
shaken by any evidence which it is
likely can be adduced before a royal
commission.
I "If the sense of injury can be re
| moved by a generous pledges bill
land bv setting up machinery for the
investigation of profiteering and un
due profits: if. further, labor's de
sire for increased control of its in
dustrial life is generously met by
rap'd extension on he tines fore
shadowed bv the Whitley report
(joint industrial councils): and if.
on the one hand, on all occasions
labor is honestly and fairly met and
not left with a sense of having been
used for a purpose, and, on the
i other, is not treated like a trouble
jsome and unrnlv schoolboy who has
Ito be bomo-ed h<- his elders; if. in
j fact, labor is understood as having
come to manhood—there Is every
bone that the difficulties of the t-an
, sition period will be successfully
| met."
SUPPLICATION
j Give me the hills and a stout ash
stick
And the turf beneath my feet.
And a leafy tree to rest beneath
In the height of the noontide heat.
Give me the road, the long gray
road.
As it wanders o'er the hill.
Past the ivied church and the
lcrchwood copse
And the mumbling stone-tooth'd
mill.
Give me the moors that stretch
around
T.ike a gray and purple wreath.
And the toppling clouds, and the
setting sun.
And the wind across the heath.
Give me the dew on the meadow
grass
As it glints in the light of morn;
And the glassy tarn, and the gemmy
pools
At the hour when the night is
born.
■
Give me but these—and the wink
ing stars—
When the long glad day Is done.
Then give me a friend to share it
all,
A friend —and only one!
—T. W. N. Forster in the Poetry
I Review.
©mtttuj (ttffat
Daylight saving struck Harris
i"l? 01 "ty-eight hours or so ahead
?, IP 1 ? - , T^e new time appeared on
Capitol Hill and for a time there
was a scurrying around the Legis
lature here for the weekend and by
attaches of the State Government
wondering whether they had been
asleep or their watches had become
erratic. The first changes to be
made were in the big clocks in the
legislative halls and then the com
mittee room clocks, which have
fairly good -reputations for accuracy,
began to show advanced conditions.
The answer was that Joseph Pyne,
who has been in charge of the clocks
at the Capitol for years, took time
by the forelock and as he has some
thing like 750 to regulate began
early. The clocks in the rest of the
t apitol will be changed around to
morrow. Hast year when daylight
saving went into effect for the first
time Pyne worked eighteen hours
to get all of the timepieces in order
and this year decided to distribute
his labors.
• * •
The heavy rains of yesterday have
saved many promising fields in vari
ous agricultural sections of the State
according to some telephone reports
received at the Department of Agri
culture. From what has been re
ported roads in western counties and
in some of the northern tier were ac
tually dusty last Sunday and Mondav
and the wheat fields and field's
which had been plowed for corn
planting and other crops were show
ing signs of dryness that disturbed
farmers and caused inquiries at the
department. The rains have ma
te iiall y benefitted conditions says
Deputy Secretary C. E. Carothers.
• • •
Some very odd places are being
called on the telephone about the
time of return of the men of the
Keystone Division. Naturally many
people are interested and they are
showing an eagerness which means
that when the boys return thev will
receive a greeting in Harrisburg that
will go down in the records as un
equalled. Of course, newspaper of
fiys get the bulk of the inquiries,
but yesterday a minister, a doctor
and a grocer asked the Harrisburg
Telegraph for information, saying
that they had been appealed to by
relatives of soldiers. City and court
house offices get numerous inquiries
?, nc ' ® von the office of the guides at
the State Capitol has been asked
about it.
•
There is not going to be any lack
for war gardens in Harrisburg this
year, and from all accounts there
will be plenty of men to "advise"
the man who plans to devote his
"saved' daylight to spading and
weeding. Already quite a few men
who have time on their hands after
the war rush are engaged in hunt
ing garden work in addition to their
own plantations.
* •
Captain George F. Dumb, head of
the State Police, is in much demand
las a speaker. The other night, be
ing a past president of the Rotarv
Club and having served twelve years
in the army, he was asked to ud
dress the soldiers at Mlddletown on
the occasion of an entertainment
given by the Rotary Club and a
number of Harrisburg musicians at
the "Y" hut. Captain Dumb was
introduced by Morris S. I-ongaker,
who had the program in charge, as
the "only professional in the partv."
Rongaker was merely joking but the
soldiers took it seriously and after
the show he heard one of them
say: "Well that fellow Dumb's
speech was certainly worth what
they paid for it," and then the cap
tain had difficulty making it un
derstood that he was not a pro
fessional entertainer.
• •
The newest resident of Cumber
land county is William Hartman,
formerly of Harrisburg, late of Ar
kansas and still more recently of
Wyoming. Mr. Hartman has bought
a bungalow near Meelianicsburg and
has taken up his residence there.
Mr. Hartman was graduated from
the Central High School in 1897.
Becoming an engineer he worked
on the low grade line from Enola
cast under Kerbaugh and afterward
at South Forks. Oonnellsville and
elsewhere as mining engineer and
in charge of coke ovens. Afterward
he went to Arkansas where he man
aged mines and laid out town sites,
going from there to Wyoming when
the coal boom struck that State.
He became interested in an electric
light and power plant there several
years ago bought a farm in the
northern part of Cumberland coun
ty. Now he has come back to Penn
sylvania to live and has purchased a
home not far from his farm. "The
west is a fine place," said he the
other day, "but little old Pennsyl
vania for me, every time."
• * *
"I hope the Telegraph will re
sume its campaign for porch and
window boxes the coming spring,
now that the war is over and we
are getting back to normal ways
of living," says O. P. Beckley. "I
believe nothing could be done that
would do more to make the city
beautiful next summer at less ex
pense."
"The modist house where plants
have been used with good taste be
comes attractive," chimes in F. F.
Rockwell, another plant enthusiast
who believes in window boxes but
also in perennials. "Many believe
that success in beautifying the home
place with plants varies in propor
tion to the money spent," he writes
the Telegraph. "Nothing could be
farther from the truth. The most
charming results can be obtained of
ten by the simplest arrangements.
A few dollars properly expended
will transform a whole front or
back yard and very little skill or
care is necessary in the handling
of hardy perennials."
Seedmen interviewed to-day said
the inquiries for catalogues and ad
vance purchases of seeds are un
usually heavy.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE )
—C. B. Connelley, who will be
come Acting Commissioner of Rabor
and Industry, has spent his life In
educational work in this State.
—Harry S. McDevitt, private Sec
retary to the Governor, is a member
of the Philadelphia bar,
—Representative John A. Bolard,
of Crawford, sponsor for the legal
advertisement bill, is a relative of
a former Senator from that district.
—Congressman R. T. McFadden,
who has been active in debates at
Washington on financial matters, is
a northern tier banker and takes
pride in farming.
Senator Edwin H. Vare, of Phila
delphia, has been engaged In the
contracting business since he was
twenty-one and says that he lfites to
handle details, even down to price
of wagon repairs.
DO YOU KNOW ")
—That 'Harrisburg tins been mak
ing steel used in mining operations?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG..
—Over a dozen Philadelphlane
were among lot buyers when Harris,
burg was first laid out.