8 '"RRISBURG TELEGRAPH RWSPAPER FOR THE HOUR Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKFOLE President and Editor-in-CMef F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager jGIJS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. MoCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GDa M. STEINMETZ. Jfembers of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American Newspaper Pub § llshers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- As socia.- Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & __ G a Buthfing! -< Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office fn Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ' week; by mail. 13.00 a year In advance. MONDAY, MARCH SI, 1919 Oh that men would praise Jehovah ■for his loving kindness, for his won derful works to the children of ment —Pa. 107:8. LET US PLANT TREES Governor sproui/s Arbor Day proclamation ought to bo read in every school, church and place of public meeting in Penn sylvania. It is both practical and sentimental in its recommendations. Why buy our lumber, the Gover nor asks, when Pennsylvania hills are capable of producing trees enough for our own timber needs land to spare? Why permit our for mer forest lands to be denuded of their soil in yearly floods that destroy tbousands of dollars worth of prop erty in the lowlands when the plant ing of trees w&uld correct these evils? Reforestation, of course, is i the answer, and Go crnor Sproul Is Wn earnest advocate of State expen ditures for this puJjQOse. ' S And tho . has a thought, A>, for the the community . jpat can .riant only one tree, or a score of trees, rather than the great forests which he would have the Commonwealth and the big land H owners create. ffo believes, with A many good people, that long-lived W trees would make very suitable * memorials to our soldiers. He rec ommends the planting of such. His word is the official sanction for a custom already popular. Let us get together and plant trees April 11 or April 25, the two spring Arbor Days. Ij€t us do it in the name of the soldiers who sleep in France as well as in honor of those who are returning victoriously to their homes. "Poles vote to throw in lot with entente," says a news dispatch. Well, Paderewskl always was strong for harmony. . FOXEY COXEY \ O "GENERAL" COXET Is to have another "army!" The last was made up of bums, hoboes, "knights of the road" and embryonic Bolshevists. It ptarted for Washington to beg for work and ended somewhere along the rood begging for beer and cold "handouts." The new "army" Is to besiege the national capital to demand the beer that the old "army" nsed to beg. It's purpose is to protest against na tional prohibition. There a'ways was some suspicion to the sincerity of the "General" and it has been reported that his former "campaign" was not exactly a financial failure so far as Coxey himself was concerned- With these things in mind, may we be forgiven the thought that perhaps the "Gen eral's" latest Inspiration may not be entirely disinterested and that he has a weather eye turned toward that $50,000,000 campaign fund of the brevvera Foxey Coxey! "Germany must pay Indemnity in twelve figures," says a news dis patch. Tea, and in great agony. ANOTHER ABSURDITY' HOW absurd it is that the Clark act should provide no means whereby the city of Harrisburg can appropriate money with which to celebrate the return of Its sons from the war. Very properly, of oourse, ,Council is permitted to set aside funds for playgrounds, parks, swimming pools, golf links, tennis courts, baseball diamonds and the like. It may even build a bandstand, but, having the etand, It Is not per mitted to so much as hire a band to occupy it. And as for a celebration, - • horrors, nol Sorely the men who framed the dark act "knew a lot," dldnt they, > nowT" Mayor Keister suggests an amend ment permitting the appropriation of money for patriotic observances. What he ought to recommend is the repeal of the whole act TTnfortu ppately. there are some then sands of feb holders having a powerful pollt- MONDAY EVENING, leal swing with the Legislature who are interested in maintaining the farcical statute by which third class cities in Pennsylvania are governed, so perhaps, after all, tho Mayor is wise in asking only for permission to oelebrate properly tho home coming of the boys. But we certainly are entitled to such an amendment and no doubt the powers that be on Capitol Hill would grant it. It would do no harm to ask. This anti-tobacco talk probably will bo followed by a crusade against cornstlk and cabbage. HONOR THE MOTHERS Mayor keister is right. The mothers of the men of the 28th Division are entitled to , grandstand seats at the great review [in Philadelphia, if anybody is. Nobody is so much interested In the return of these soldiers as their mothers. Nobody is more anxious for a first look at their stalwart forms. They bred these boys and raised them, and put into their bodies and their hearts the stuff that made | them the most wonderful soldiers the world has ever seen. All honor to these women who suffered and died a thousand deaths while their sons faced the grim spectre on the bloody fields of France. They are deserving the best that a grateful nation can give them. By all means let us see to it that they have seats on the great review ing stands that are to bo erected In Philadelphia. If necessary tho State should provide money for this pur-1 I pose. We now appear to be getting to the ! Root of this peaco league discussion. | REATING TIME TURN backward, turn backward, Oh, time in thy flight— Sang the poet In the old Fifth Reader, and then ho proceeded to tell how impossible it was to real ize that fond desire. But wo of the present day know | a lot more than did the folks of ! yester year. Instead of singing a ! plaintive song, we ail get together, | turn ahead the hands of the clock I and call it daylight saving. It's not | often we get anything on the homely but wholesome philosophy of M'Guf fy's Fifth Reader, but we did this time. Perhaps April will fool us, and come In warm and balmy. ARMENIA'S NEEDS AMERICA is called upon to save Armenia from death by star vation. All of us—and this means the people of Harrisburg and Central Pennsylvania as well as those of other communities through out the length and breadth of the land —are asked to give something. That the call is well founded Is indicated by tho following extract from correspondence on the subject published in the current issue of the World Outlook: Armenia is a country rich in in its soil and in its mineral de posits. But like most of the Or ient it has not had the most atP vanced methods or machinery to develop its natural resources; and during the occupancy of the Turks, a deliberate effort was made to keep the people poor and as nearly In the class of slaves as possible. A less sturdy race would have become truly subject; but tho Armenian in spirit has never been anything but a free man. however poverty-stricken or persecuted. Some who escaped into Mesopotamia and Palestine have been within the British lines and have been taught, or at least have had the opportunity of see ing new methods of agriculture and Industry in operation. The American relief committee has supported about 5,000 refugees In Egypt and the boys have been given manual training and in struction in various trades which will help them to develop their country when they return to it. In view of what should have been done, the accomplishment lias been small. This statement does not reflect in any way on any I of the relief organizations. It simply means that they have had barely enough, when they have had that to keep the exiles alive. With the death rate, be tauso of exposure and malnutri tion, exceeding the birth rate br almost 300 per cent, the societies have been hard pressed to save any part of the population. A careful survey has convinced them that the $30,000,000 which they are raising will restore the country—give all those who have survived a chance to live until they can become self-supporting onco more. THE DEEPER RIVER WE SHALL soon know how much it will cost to make the Susquehanna navigable. The War Department is displaying com mendable energy in getting the pro ject under way, thanks to the inter est of Congressmen Grlest and Krelder, as the selection of an officer to make the necessary surveys and studies indicates. But what a pity Major Gray was not assigned to the work. No man has given the matter such close attention as he and none knows the vagaries and possibilities of tho Susquehanna so well. By long years of close association and ex perience he has become thoroughly acquainted with the stream In Its every phase and he Is an earnest advocate of the canalization plan. His thought It was that brought the present development, through the Instrumentality of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, and he ought to be as sociated with the project in some way that would give it the benefit of his knowledge, ability and en thusiasm. But whatever may be done to that enrl, our responsibility in Harrisburg dees not end with the beginning of the survey. We must show those as signed to the task that we are really in earnest. We must gather and present to the government rep resentatives every scrap of evldense available to show the desirability and feasibility of the enterprise. These men will be "from Missouri." They will have to "be shown." They will hold no brief for the deeper river. Perhaps they will be skep tical. We must do our part to con vert them to our way of thinking. Our work has Just begun. "potttutt tK By the Ex-Coramitteemon Sentiment for closing up the ses sions of the Pennsylvania Legisla ture the middle of May has in creased materially among the mem bers of the general assembly, al though some of the men influential in State affairs appear reluctant to finally determine upon the day. In dications are that unless the rules committee appears with a resolution soon, that some of the rural mem bers will submit one of their own. The May 15 date for closing has general approval among men not only in the Legislature, but in Repub lican and Democratic parties alike. From what has been heard the time for presenting legislation will end about the middle of April There are almost 1500 bills in the two houses, it being remembered that when bills go from one house to the other they are given new numbers. A couple hundred more may be expected, but unless they are important they will only be souve nirs. Many of the rural members are advocating more days in session each week and ojbecting to the cost of living in Harrisburg. Men living on main railway lines and in the cities, say all the wot*k can be crowd ed into two days and that it costs less to live at home than in Harris burg. Considerable interest is being displayed by deserving Democratic attorneys in the selections for the assistant attorney generalships to bo made by Attorney General Pal mer. Mr. Palmer has shown an in terest in Pennsylvania legislation and this is taken by some hopefuls to mean that he may recognize his own ,'tate still more. Palmer has issued a call to the Democrats, it is said, to vote for charter revision. Anti-Pal mer Democrats have also been show ing a disposition to do as they please and to be inclined to support meas ures not having the countenance of Palmer and his pals. Peusylvania's official Democracy has made a sorry showing this Legislature. Ihe Philadelphia Inquirer in commenting on the legislative situa tion says: "There has been abso lute harmony on all of the State administrations measures and it is anticipated that all of the bills spon sored by Governor Sproul now on the calendar or being drafted will go through virtually as they are presented. Vnre hostility to the charter bills and the Brady regis tration and election measures will call tor a lineup of the Penrose forces and when those bills come up on final passages the word will bo passed through the State that all friends must be on hand to vote The announcement from Kepresen tative John M. Flynn, of Elk county, that he favors the charter revision and the Brady bills will mean a practically solid Democratic vote for these measures. The Brady regis tration bill applies only to Philadel phia and the members from interior counties, it is argued, can have no excuse for depriving the independent \oters of the remedy demanded against existing abuses." People familiar with legislative processes often wonder whv bear ®rf J skod on bills. Now the Philadelphia Press conies along with this observation: An impressive revisionists came up from Philadelphia and they had excellent speakers. It was a good hearing, as such things go ,and those who came up to the State capital doubt less departed in the belief they had accomplished something for their cause. \et every one around the Legislature knows that nothing done it the hearing* will have anv effect on the final result. The cafds will be played out as tliey are dealt and the dealer lias not yet even taken up the pack." v ~^ he Public Ledger Is doing Its best to start something in the way or a political row. Yrsterdav it rose to say: "Governor Sproul and Sena tor Penrose, to both of whom ad vocates of charter revision are look ing for support for the charter-re vision bill, appear to be entertaining widely divergent views as to amend ments which may be offered to the bill and the source from which these amendments are proposed." Other newspapers do not think the Senator and Oovernor are very far apart. —The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, at a largely attended meeting on Priday, declared in favor of the retention upon the statute books of Pennsylvania of the present law for the nonpartisan election of Judges and of municipal officers in cities of the second and third classes. The action, although not unani fous, was decisive, and no demand for a count was made by the friends of repeal present," says the Gazette- Times. Powell Evans, who seems to have been hurt by some Vare ob servations at a recent charter hear ing, says the Senator will soon learn public sentiment. ■ Stephen J. Toole, former Alle gheny county commissioner and Democratic leader of the old school is dead at Pittsburgh. He was well known here, having attended num erous conventions and State com mittee meetings. ith the Bolard bill requiring that all legal advertisements be printed only in German over in the Senate and the measure prohibiting the teaching of German in the State's public or normal schools hauled off the Senate calendar and sent to committee the fight for Americanization has now been com pletely centered in the upper cham ber of the Legislature. Everyone is wondering what Senator Edwin H. Vare is going to do about the bill. Senator Horace W. Schantz of Lehigh, had the "no German in the schools" measure sen to the Senate committee on education, because some one desired a hearing. Sena tor Schantz has not as yet made it evident that he is hostile to any movement to keep German out of the schools. —The Republican dinner at Read ing on April 9 is expected to bring together many prominent Eastern Pennsylvania Republicans. Govern or Sproul and Lieutenant Governor Beidleman will attend. —Senator Penrose is on record as favoring the Woodruff bill to in crease minimum salaries of teachers —A funny situation has arisen in Schuylkill county where there is a vacancy on the poor board and both Judges and county commissioners are shy about making any appoint ment. —An Altoona dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer says many Al toona people now regard the city manager plan as a failure. There seems to be widely differing ideas on the subject in Blai*- county. —Magistrate George K. Hogg, of Philadelphia, well known in State politics and a Vare leader, la dead. BAR.RISBURG4DLBSL TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS ' * SL'^ : - ME& America Safe From Bolshevism [From the Literary Digest] REVOLUTION, with the estab lishment of a Soviet form of Government in the United State, was the common motive be- ! hind the recent strikes in Seattle, ' Butte, Paterson, and Lawrence, Sec- ! rotary of Labor Wilson assured the i country's assembled Governors dur- | ing their White House conference in : the early days of this month; and ; a little later Solicitor-General La- j mar, of the Post-office Department, j announced the discovery that var- j ious radical movements in this Na- | tion had at least found in Bolshe- j visrn a common cause, and that "the Industrial Workers of the World, 1 anarchists, Socialists —in fact, all dissatisfied elements, particularly the foreign elements—are perfecting an amalgamation with one object only, in view, namely, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by means of a bloody revolution and the establishment of a Bolshevik Re public." "The I. W. W..," he said, "is perhaps most actively engaged in ( spreading this propaganda, and has at its command a large field force known as recruiting agents, sub scription agents, etc., who work un ceasingly in the futherance of the cause." Mr. Lamar re-enforced his statement with hundreds of excerpts from alleged revolutionary propa ganda sent through the mails. He cited such slogans and declarations as: "the war is over, now for the revolution;" "every strike is a small revolution and a dress-rehearsal for the big one;" and "deportation will not stop the storm from reaching these shores; the storm is within and very soon will leap and crash and annihilate you in blood and fire." Yet, despite these remarkable warnings from high official sources, the public mind, as reflected in the daily press, refuses to be greatly perturbed over the situation. "The whispers and rumors of Bolshevism in America belong with the odd phenomena of a time of general ner vous tension —a time when mild hysteria is as fashionable as ping pong used to be," remarks the Phila delphia Evening Ledger, which adds: "The industrial and social sys tems of America are not perfect. But they represent the best starting point available to any one who can visualize or plan better things. The American system is flexible. The peo ple themselves have it always within their power to make Improvements. We have achieved a system of Gov ernment which has been the only medium so far found adequate for human betterment and human prog ress. To suppose that a few men driven half-mad by ill-digested theories can ever Impose upon any considerable number of Americans the Insane delusions that carried the credulous and illiterate Russians to starvation, pestilence, and general ruin is to reveal an incredible lack of ordinary common sense." "There is no more danger of any thing in the shape of Bolshevism on this side of the Atlantic than there is that a majority of the American people will go insane," insists the Brooklyn Citizen, which is convinced the "the proverbial three tailors of Tooley Street were quite as formid able opponents of the British Em pire as these so-called Bolsheviki are of the Government of the United States." The real reason that Bol shevism is not formidable when pre sented to a common-sense people, remarks the Kansas City Star, is that "it won't work; it will produce less well-being in the world, and not more." Mr. Lamar's quotations, says the New York "World, "prove only what we have known for many years—that we have taken some vipers to our bosom and that they are making a sorry living by their appeals to passion nnd ignorance." "But they can not get past the ordi nary forces of the Government in this country, behind which stands the great determination of the people to preserve order," affirms the Utica Observer. And in the New York Times we read: "In spite of* the researches of the Post-office Department, we find it difficult to believe that this general overturn is any nearer now than it was thirty years ago. "Revolutionary germs are like tuberculosis germs—tbey are always present in the system, but they do no damage until some condition a lises which opens the way for their ravages. Nobody who contrasts the present materiul and moral situa tion of America with that of Russia is likely to be very badly scared by this plot which the Post-office De partment has brought to light." Moreover, as the San Francisco Bulletin reminds us, "genuine Ameri can labor has no use whatever for Bolshevism, or for political parties organized to promote it, and this fact has been recently emphasized by labor journals all over the country." Of the advocates of Bol shevism the San Francisco Labor Clarion says: "These blusterers have never gained control of anything anywhere without wrecking it. They are purely destructionists. Their ranks are filled with individuals who never made a success at anything, who have failed in everything, who are the rankest kind of incompetents. The fools have had their fling in Seattle and their months of schem ing have brought the labor move ment in that great city to the verge of ruin." That Russian Bolshevism at first hand has aroused similar feelings of disgust in a British labor leader is evidenced by the following dis patch from John Ward, a labor member of the British Parliament, who is now serving with his regi ment in Siberia: "For the love of Allah, never more talk of the glories of revolution —I am in it here. Friend strikes down him he thinks his foe and finds the dead man his brother. Princes, peasants, plutocrats, workmen, rich and poor, go down together in one welter of blood and dirt. "The Bolshevik thinks nothing of standing five hundred social revo lutionists against the wall and shoot ing them down before breakfast be cause of some small, petty difference of opinion as to whether the rail ways should be national or com munal. How the gods must cry with rage that men can bo so mad. How ever any of our leaders failed to grasp the Bolshevik creed of blood and presumed to condone the hor rors committed by this mob of fanatical maniacs I can not imagine. Rather pray Heaven defend our old country from such a calamity." But while agreeing that America is not a fertile field for Bolshevism the Richmond Times-Dispatch re marks that "the American people will do well to be warned of the significance of these revelations," and the New York Evening Post thinks that the evidence submitted by Mr. Lamar "can not be whistled down the wind." For, says The Post— "There is, unquestionably, an ele ment of mainly foreign-born revo lutionary agitation in this country which may prove dangerous and have to be dealt .with. Italians of the Left and Russians and Spaniards bring their formulas of social up heaval and anarchy with them and take to printing them in the United States. Whether they are sincere in their fanatic preachments does not greatly matter, so far as the effect is concerned. They are sadly ignorant of this country; wholly un acquainted with the main currents of the public opinion which, as Bryce said, is the real ruler of America. Tbey do not know the slow processes by which needed re forms are achieved in the United States. Because they feel them selves in a hopeless minority among a people whom they do not under stand, they are led to rail at 'politi cal Government.' to give up faith in democratic methods of voting and legislating, and to advocate blindly what they call 'direct action.' This, 1 of course, may readily be translated ] into seizing the property of em ployers, and into riot and looting. It we are to see any real attempts at violent revolution at all, the be ginnings will doubtless be marked! by a spirit of plunder. But in the 1 United States that would be a peril easy to deal with. Here more prop- ! erty is more widely owned, no doubt, : than anywhere else in the world; I and there would be small need of police or military to put down a revolution that aimed at the destruc tion of private property. Such an uprising would perish before it got fairly started." AMERICAS IJMOTIOSS Coming as a stranger to America and making flying visits to different i cities between New York and Chi cago. it seems to me as an observorj of life, in a smalt way of business, that the American people are in a state of emotion not usual to their character and habits. That may | be an illusion of mine due to my own emotions as an explorer of American j civilization and as a lecturer, new j to the game, facing great friendly j audiences with a constant sense of I surprise at finding myself in such a j position. I go from emotion to eino- j tion in expectation of meeting the! unexpected, which always happens.' I have not yet recovered from the i sensation of my first night journey, when I utterly failed to take off my , trousers in an upper berth and near ly strangled myself in my braces, and lay listening all night to the stertorous breathing of unknown. people behind green curtains below, who slept, marvelously, in spite of appalling jolts caused, I imagine, by an over-emotional engine driver. It is naturally an emotional thing to me to enter another American city for the first time, and to find, as in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, immense hotels, wonderfully luxurious, and great populations all seething with intel lectual activities and industrial en ergy. To some small extent I am able from a lonely space on a plat form to get into touch with the psy chology of the peoples in these cities, and to note differences between them. Some of them are more responsive than others, as I can tell by their quick laughter, or by sudden fright ening silences, or by unexpected ap plause. lam invited to dinner part ies and luncheons with people I have never met before, and as at the Cliff Dwellers in Chicago, and other clubs elsewhere, find groups of men whom I would like to meet again in the world because of their comrade ly way of greeting and their knowl edge of things worth while in life. So it is all a great adventure to me. —Philip Gibbs in .New York Times. LABOR NOTES In many of the Japanese cities and towns women are acting as members of the fire departments. Japan has a glycerine manufac turing plant which has a capacity of about 300 tons a month. Many women have found employ ment in the boatbuilding yards re cently established in Cape Breton. Four thousand French girls have been engaged to work in salvage de pots to supplant the fighting men. The only occupations open to wo men a century ago were teaching school, dressmaking and keeping house. Fire Fighters' International Union is composed of 91 locals and has a total membership of 8297. The National City Bank in Wall street has employed 800 women since the United States entered the war. Women in England do from 60 to 70 per cent of all the machine work on shells, fuses and trench warfare supplies. i m MARCH 31. 19T9. French Feeding the Boche [Gregory Mason. in Uio Outlook] The French have ttnd rtaken to feed that entire part of tie loft bank of the Rhino which is tinder their control. Motoring front ,-arrebruck to Koiserslautem we saw again and again the French army wagon trains which were carrying food to the ci vilian population. AVe got into Kaisersluu cm about dusk. There was more of the atmos phere of suffering and of ocial revo lution about tills town ihan about any town 1 have yet seen in tho part of Germany occupied by Allied troops. The streets looked like the streets of Puterson, N. J., during the great textile strike. The people were in the preliminary hungry I wolf stage. In paiter shirts and | paper shoes, tlioy stood about in groups, talking sullenly. The one j tiling that has thus far raved many i German towns outside of the oc i ettpied zone is lite fact that, although [ the people have been hungry, they j have been warm, if coal had been as scarce as meat and flour have been in Germany the propaganda of the rtolslieviki would have gono much further. General Fayolle commands the French forces at .Kaiserslautern. He is a diplomat. l'.y going to a German church every Sunday and by otherwise preserving a regard for the susceptibilities of the in habitants he has made the work of his administration much easier Fayolle has one of the keenest minds among the men of the FrensJ? command. lie is not a spectacular leader of men, like General Mangin, but he is a thinker, a strategist. Frenchmen who know say that he is one of the three greatest gen orals of France produced by this war, tho ether two being Foch and Petain. As a proof of his conten tion that the Germans started tho war with the deliberate purpose of | destroying the economic power of France. General Fayolle (old us that at the German end of a bridge across the Rhine lie had found French furniture to the value of 5 million marks, stolen and stored there by the Germans. ItOOSE VHI/r MEMORIA LS [Front .The Kansas City Star] The announcement of the plans of the Roosevelt permanent memorial national eoniittee, which were made public Monday after the meet ing of tlie committee in New York, will meet with universal approval. The plans provide, for: A monument a Washington. A memorial park at Oyster Bay. A Roosevelt Memorial Association, i Nation-wide organization to per petuate and propagate the teach ings and ideals of the great Ameri can. The plan as a whole provides a fitting memorial to the name of Roosevelt. The suggestion for a monument in Washington, will, of course, be accepted. The country I will demand u monument at the na tional capital that will symbolize in i some adequate way the great public service of the former President and i national leader. Oyster Bay already has been dedi cated in the minds of American citi zens. It has become inseparably connected With the Nation's life, j From all parts of Ute country and jef the world, men have traveled I there for counsel and help. I'or i many years the Republic turned to ' Oyster Bay for direction and inspira i tion. The little village overlooking I ilte placid waters of the sound has become a national shrine along with i .Mount Vernon. The third plan of toe memorial J committee, the formation of a great | national organization to perpetuate 1 his ideals, is even of more import : ance to the country at this hour. There was never a time when there vas greater need to impress on the i country those principles of high ' Americanism for wltic-h he stood— I an Americanism which emphasized ' instico and fair dealing at home, and ' courageous and noble conception l . ul dutv in all international relations; .i mi Americanism which was for , \nierica Urst because only by so developing a great, free people at . 1 homo could the Nation effectively , scTc humanity throughout the I I U< An''organization standing for the 1 Roosevelt ideals would be a mighty force fci' better citizenship, which 'alter all was what most concerned j I the living Roosevelt. Snub-For Booth Tarkington liooth Tarkington was strolling round an artistic Red Cr°ss f ™ r when two pretty •'flappers of six pn or so came up and asked him for his autograph. „ I haven't got a fountain pen, he said, much flattered. Will pen '""Yes," said the older flapper and hf took out a pencil and signed his name in the morocco-bound book that she had presented. -The flapper studied the signature with a frown. Then she looked up and said: "Aren't you Robert W. Cham "Xo," he said. "I'm liooth Tark ington." , . The flapper turned to her friend witli a shrug of disgust. "Rend nic your rublier, May, she said, according to Mr. Tarkington himself. Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph. f~ EDITORIAL COMMENT £o far, peace is almost as excit ing as war, —'Brookl.v Eagle. Even German music makes a dis conl.—New York Evening Post. Conlldence in Germany cost the world two hundred billion dollars. — Indianapolis Times. The Hun assumption that neces sity knows no law overlooked the law of retribution. —Washington Herald. Speaking of "discussion" as a sure preventive of war, how about all i those Lusitania notes? —Detroit Free Press. It will be different for the dough boy next year. If they don't give [ him a job he will run for an office. — liouston Post. The easiest way to tell what a man is lighting for is to wait and see what he demands after he wins.— Greenville Piedmont. Seventh Division Regular Army: _ Arrived in France, August 11, 1918. / \ Activities: Puven- / W \ cllc sector. Dor- I W 1 raine, October 9 to l A J 29; Puvenelie sec- V J tor extended, Oc- \ y tpber 29 to Novem ber 11. 1918. Prisoners captured: One officer, 68 men. Guns captured: 28 ma chine guns. Total advance on front line kilometer. Insignia: Two triangles in black on red base. Design supposed to have developed out nf the numeral seven, one number up and the other down and reversed making two tri tanfflw. lEbetting (iHjal Very, very few properties In rlaburg remain under the of families which held them * tnry ago. In fact, as one man versed in realty in this city, petal out u short time ago sines, tluH whose title is vested in direct Bcendants of persons who held thel at the time of the War of ISIJ ■ limited. As for residents whoß family tenure goes back to the dal when .loltn Harris sold lots from th. plan he announced In 1785 they eat be counted on the lingers. One de secendant of the founder and of th' I family name owns a property and I I there are others in that unosua | class it is not generally known. Prob ably one of the most interestlni title histories is that of No. 811 South Front street. It looks on on the site of the ferry John Har ris, the settler, established over thi ford Indians had used before Colum bus sailed and which natural faclllt; was the reason for the founding o what is now the State capital. Pent got title to tiiis property from tin ! English crown and patented it U Harris, who made his own dicker to peace t wih the Indians, tho Penn sah to Harris being dated 1733. Th' executors of Settler Harris' soil John Harris, Jr., who founded thi town, sold it in 1795 to Philip Rein mute. The descendants of this earl: Harrisburger have owned and occu pied it over since, it is now ownei by members of the Yeager family two of whom Philip R. Yeager ant his sister, Margaret, live on the lot No one but a Yeager or an ancestd of a Yeager has lived on this prop l erty from the time of the purehasj front John Harris. i "This district can be relied to do its duly in regard to the loan. While the allotment has been made, I feel confident that il will go over nicely. The distrlcH has not fallen down and its intend to maintain that record, am sure," said Donald the banker, who has been very in all Federal loan movements. This is the last week to rum|H mage. In another week the sabfl will be on. The demands for clotli-H ing and other things for Belgian's and others have been heavy, bul there are lots of articles in the otti<H and about other places which som<H one will want to buy. Harrisliuriß has rummaged very effectively iiH years gone by and has a fine chancS this year. •*g I H The Uarrlsburg Country Club/firl recalls that West Shore people liavfl been discussing for some timel till thought of a community club foif thl Camp Hill neighborhood. The |onlfl place for public gatherings Inotl available is the High school audntoil ium, with the lire house hall possibility and although both are suitable for some kinds of orings. they offer no opportunity the cultivation of community or for social affairs. There is . siderable sentiment for some organization as would make the erection of a suitable : and the encouragement of associations in the vicinity, dellnite action has been taken. Is not the thought of those the movement to go into a club development on a large but to organize modestly the experiment in a small way its success is assured and a memfl ship large enough to carry a burden is assured. Speaking of Camp Hill—have ridden over -Market street of borough since Highway sioner Sadler got his men to wota| there? If not there is something iH store for you. The work is noa complete, but enough has been donel to make the thoroughfare smooth! as a hoard and motoring over it a! pleasure instead of an agony. From! one of the worst pieces of borough! highway in the State, Market street! has been transformed into one of the! very best. The residents of the bor-l ougli to a man have arisen to call! the term of Sadler blessed. He'd! get a hundred per cent vote If he ever ran for office over that way. Even the Democrats are saying kind things about him. And that recalls the fact that Camp Hill is going to have another vacancy in borough council shortlyj James Milhouse, formerly burgess of the town and weli-known mem ber of the law firm of Olmsted, Sny der and Miller, has bought a country place In Cumberland county and will become a farmer as well as an at torney. Some of Mr. Milhouse's friends have been mean enough to suggest that he bought a farm so he could have a private golf course and bo able to play the game at home, but the owner himself insists that there is positively nothing to the story. Harrisburg friends of David T. Caldwell, of Tyrone, have sent him postcards of congratulations upon his reappointment by Governor Sproul as notary public. Mr. Cald i well, who is well known in this city, has served continuously as notary at Tyrone for forty-one years. His friends believe he is the oldest in the office in Pennsylvania, both as to age and point of service. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Bishop McDowell, of the Meth odist Church, well known here, has been presiding at the Wilmington conference. —City Solicitor Malcolm W. Gross, of Allentown, has been named : as chairman of the committee to arrange for the entertainment of the Third Class City League, i —James M. Barnott. candidate . for judge in the Perry- Juniata dis trict, had charge of the census In . this district in 1910. , , —F. S. Bucher, Lancaster County • farm agent, lias undertaken a cam paign to instruct farmers In book keeping. —T. C. Palmer, prominent la the dye industry, has become active in the cause of better roads in south eastern counties. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg sales at Aran and steel last year were far tints 1 than ever known before? HISTORIC IIARRISBIJRB 1 Members of the Penn family -SMS i owned tracts of land abutting on i the Harris holding here, but il ■ them when the effort was ma#e| make Middletown ferry, ft* 16 eroselng point.
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