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TUESDAY. APR IT J 1, 19i9
The man who never alters his
opinion is like standing water, and
■breeds reptiles of the mind.—WIL
LIAM P.LAKF.
THE STANDARD LOAF
[F there is any good reason why j
the Legislature should not pass
the McConnell bill establishing
a standard for loaves of bread it
has not been heard of. Even the
master bakers arc in favor of It.
The idea of the bill Is to have loaves
baked in various weights, starting
at three quarters of a pound and
going on up as far as needed in the
trade. Any baker or retailer sell
ing a loaf off the standard as repre
sented would lie liable to a fine of
$25 for first offense.
The bill would enact into Penn
sylvania statutes one of the wisest
of the Federal food regulations. It
would also mako legal what is now
the rule in many places, because, as
a result of the war, people have be
come accustomed to ask for a pound
loaf or some other weight instead of
the five cent, six cent or ten cent
loaf.
Just what it would mean to have
the loaves standardized can be
grasped by the more statement that
if prices vary, people will know how
much they are buying, something
which they seldom realized before
the war regulation became opera
tive.
TAKE NO CHANCES
THE Public Service Commission
reports that 10G automobiles
were struck on grade crossings
the past year. It is safe to say that
nt least nine-tenths of these, many
of them fatal, could have been avoid
ed if reasonable care had been taken.
To lio. sure, grade crossings should l)e
abolished, but so long as they exist
the burden of responsibility for
avoiding accidents lies with the
drivers of automobiles or other ve
hicles using them. The consolation
that one may sue tho railroad for
damages is poor substitute for
'Broken limbs or crushed bodies.
The old sign—"Stop, look, listen"
—is still applicable. Take no
rhances at a grade crossing.
A HOUSING EXPERIMENT
WELLINGTON, Kansas, is about
to try an experiment in hous
ing that, in view of develop
ments locally, is not without interest
for Harrlsburg and the Chamber of
Commerce committee now trying to
work out of a solution of this city's
difficulties along this line.
Business men of the town have
formed "The Wellington Home
Inundation," something new in the
line of home building associations
The purpose is "to encourage habits
of saving and thrift, to obtain more
home owners, to give employment
to Wellington workmen, to improve
and beautify the physical appear
ance of the city and thereby to pro
mote the general welfare."
So far as known the Wellington
plan for a home foundation is not
in operation anywhere. It provides
for a fund, to consist of direct dona
tions of money and loans from these
who, actuated by civic pride, are
willing to let their money work for
a time without interest. Gifts of
residence property will be received,
should any person prefer to donate
in ( that way. For the first year the
foundation will be administered by
seven directors.
The foundation is not a charity
fund. In most cases the usual in
terest charge will be made when any
money is loaned from it, but that
is left to the directors, who will use
their Judgment. Probably its larg
est function will be that of a liberal
building and loan association.
"While the activities of the founda
tion 'may be various, its principal
eervice will ran something like this;
"When sufficient money has come
TUESDAY EVENING,
the directors will purchase a resi
dence property, preferably a h&use
which is run down, ramshackly, in
need of paint, and in appearance a
dirty spot on the face of the city.
Plans will bo made to clean up the
property and put in the place of the
outcast a neat, modern cottage of
four or five rooms. The directors
are restricted to the employment of
Wellington workmen and the pur
chase of materials in Wellington.
Presently, in the place of a blemish,
it is hoped, will be found a beauty
spot.
When the new building is ready
the directors would give the first
chance for ownership to a man with
the cash to buy it, if such person ap
peared. This would place It in the
hands of a home owner, and the
original expenditure would return
at once to the foundation and be im
mediately available to go out and
remove another blemish. But if no
one was at hand with the cash, any
applicants to own the home on pay
ments would be considered.
The deed to the property would
remain with the trustees for the
foundation, and the applicant would
be considered only as a tenant until
his payments had reached an amouij
equal to one-third of the value of
the property. Then a local build
ing and loan association would ac
cept him on their plan, the deed
would bo made to him and the bal
ance of tho value of the property
would be paid in to the foundation.
From that time on he would deal
with the building and loan asso
ciation and the amount expended
on the property would bo back in
the foundation, ready to go out and
do its work over again.
Thus tho foundation is intended
rather as an auxiliary, or a "booster,"
for regular building and loan asso
ciations than such an association it
self. It is an experiment which
those who have founded it believe
will work out well in practice.
The plan is being watched with
interest by the Federal authorities
and by communities such as Harris
burg, with similar problems of house
shortage and reconstruction. Some
such plan would do much to save
some of the districts of this city
that are showing a distinctly hack
ward tendency.
HEROIC SYMROLS
THE men of the famous combat
divisions of the American army,
who had the good fortune* to
be assigned the task of smashing
the German armies in FVance, won
reputations for their units which the
War Department is wise in perpet
uating. General March does well to
retain in the new regular army the
divisional numerals and appellations
of those organizations which won
for themselves glorious names in
the campaign which crushed the
Hun. ,
Take the 28th—the Iron Division
—for example. 'What traditions it
has to cherish! What a name for
high courage and achievements it
has to maintainl It would have
been a shame, indeed, if the wonder
ful organization that performed the
herculean task of stopping the flower
of the victorious German army at
Chateau Thierry and sent it back
reeling and beaten on its long re
treat to final disaster should pass
out of existence when the means of
making it a permanent branch of
of United States army were at hand.
The very name will have a magic
that will recall to the service many
a soldier who will have a longing for
the old division after he has become
"fed up" on civilian life and the old
charm of the army begins to re
assert itself. Not only from a senti
mental but from a very practical
standpoint it is highly desirable that
these tokens of our military prowess
as a Nation be kept alive and con
stantly before us.
WORK WELL DONE
THE change in the public mind
regarding the manner in which
the draft was administered is
perhaps the best tribute to the
loyalty of the boards identified with
the operation of the selective ser
vice law in Pennsylvania, > whose
official existence ends to-day. The
men who served on the various
boards are deserving of all the
praise that can be given them. Not
only did they stick to business in
most trying times and fulfill orders
which wore hard to understand, but
they cVlneed their patriotism by
giving the American Square Deal.
When it is considered with what
suspicion and apprehension the ad
vent of the draft was greeted; how
rumors and reports of favoritism
filled the air in the first few months
of its operation and how aliens and
soft heads, to say nothing of the
traitorously inclined, tried to ham
per its operation, the popular attitude
in support of the boards at the close
of the war tells its own story. Even
in parts of Philadelphia, where dis
satisfaction had been most rife dur
ing the first half of the draft period,
the belief was general at the close
of the time of fighting that the draft
had been honestly administered by
men who realized their responsibili
ties to the Nation. In other sec
tions of the State where the call to
service also fell heavily the boards
were publicly commended by leaders
of their communities for impartial
ity. In this part of Pennsylvania
the general feeling swung around to
the support of the draft officials as
men who were striving to do their
best in work not always pleasant.
As Major W. G. Murdock, the
chief draft officer, says in his fare
well letter, the draft was made a
success by patriotic effort and hon
esty on the part of the men who
came in contact with the great army
of registrants and often with mem
bers of their families.
Watch your step. This is April X.
i Calm yourself, April, calm yourself.
"pottttc* LK
By the Ex-Commit tee man
. . —I
Tt commences to look as though
bills to repeal tho nonpartisan elec
tive feature of second and third
class city laws were commencing
the long, long sleep. Tho hearing on
tho third class repealer scheduled
for to-day was cancelled and the
second class city bill went back to
committee in the House.
Evei since Senator Penrose made
his declaration against the proposed
changes in the election laws stock of
the repealers has been going down
and tho hearing scheduled for to
day on the third class bill was ab
ruptly called off last night by Chair
man Stadtlander, who said ho had
not been consulted about it. Rep
resentative Dawson, sponsor for the
seebnd class city bill, sent it back
to committee himself.
—No date will be fixed for ad
journment this week. The talk Is
still heard of May 15. This is fa
vored by many rural members who
are anxious to get home and a
movement to fix a date about the
middle of this month to shut off in
troduction -A* Ifilis is likely to as
sume shape this week.
—An interesting bill appeared in
the House last night from Repre
sentative W. W. Jennings, of Brad
ford. It looks like a kick from the
State Board of Agriculture against
the abolition of that body. The Jen
nings bill proposes to re-establish
the board, which it is intended in
the administration agricultural re
organized to abolish, and to give It
power to run tho Department of
Agriculture. The secretary of the
board's executive committee is to be
Secretary of Agriculture and to be
paid $6,000 a year. The Jones bill
makes the salary $lO,OOO. The bill
has no chance and is cither a pro
test or presented as a vehicle for
compromise. The fact that it ap
peared at all is interesting.
—The Brady bills proposing
amendments to the primary law and
changing the Philadelphia registra
tion law were granted an extension
of two weeks on motion of their
sponsor in the House last night.
—Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods informed the House that he
had sent to the War Department
the legislative resolution asking that
soldiers he allowed to keep uni
forms and had been informed that
Congress had already taken such
action.
—All liquor legislation pending
before the House will come up for
consideration at a public hearing
before the House law and order
committee next Tuesday. The de
cision to hold the hearing is the
result of an agreement between the
"wets" and "drys." Among the bills
pending in the House is the Ram
sey bill to permit the sale of beer
containing not more than two and
three-fourth per cent, alcohol and
the Fox enforcement bill. Governor
Sproul has gone on record as fa
voring no action by the State on de
fining what constitutes an intoxi
cant. Ho took the stand that Con
gress would decide that question.
"Wet" leaders plan to defy the Gov
ernor by trying to put the Ramsey
bill through the legislature, argu
ing that its passage would force the
Governor to veto the measure. He
certainly would use an ax. Repre
sentative John W. Vickerman, lead
er of the "dry" forces in the House,
introduced his enforcement bill last
night. It is expected to supplement
the Fox bill.
—Among legislative visitors last
evening was United States District
Attorney E. Dowry Humes, of
Meadvillc, who stopped off to see old
friends and was congratulated on
looking so fit. He found time to
confer with Representative W. G.
Sarig and other remnants of the
fighting Democrats of former years.
—Representative W. Heber Dith
rich, of Pittsburgh, called to the
chair in the House by Speaker Rob
ert S. Spangler, last night, made a
fine presiding officer and was con
gratulated by friends.
—Appointment of a superintend
ent of public instruction will de
pend upon the passage of the bill
for increase of the Balary of the
superintendent to 10,000, legislators
have been informed.
—William H. French, Associated
Press correspondent at Pittsburgh,
visited the Legislature. He used to
cover the legislature of Connecti
cut.
—The interesting comment ap
pearing on this page last week rela
tive to Senator Penrose and the non
pa! tisan law, from which credit was
inadvertently omitted was from the
Washington, Pa., Observer. It
shows what Western Pennsylvanians
are thinking.
—A State-wide protest against the
Heyburn bill which proposes to
place the Administration of the
Mothers Assistance Fund in the
hands of the courts in twenty-seven
counties as yet unorganized is being
made by the club women of Pennsyl
vania. They are acting in response
to a request issued by Mrs. Franklin
P. lams, chairman of the Legislative
Committee of the State Federation
of Pensylvania Women's Clubs. In
her circular to the 10,000 women in
the organization, Mrs. lams requests
the club members to "write at once,
strongly opposing this bill to Gover
nor Sproul. to the various county
representatives."
Another Problem to Solve.
"Each Nation is entitled to the
souvereignty of the air above it."
Does this mean that if one of us
cooks onions and the aroma blows
over into the other fellow's sky, lie
can make a fuss about it? —From
the Boston Transcript.
LABOR NOTES
To keep the workingmen in the
Allied and neutral Europeun coun
tries informed as to the true atti
tude of America toward the war, the
Socialist Democratic League is to es
tablish commissions at Milan, Paris
and other cities.
The Manitoba (Canada) Minimum
Wage Board has set its first wage
for working women in the province
in the case of laundry workers. The
board has figured that $9.48 a week
is necessary for a girl to live de
cently, and for good measure an ad
ditional 2 cents a week is added.
Portland (Ore.) Federation of
Theatrical Workers has secured a
new agreement. The six-day week
is granted to musicians, moving
picture operators and stage em
ployees. These workers and the bill
posters have been given substantial
wage increases.
Three meathods of training work
ers for war jobs in England are
financed exclusively or in part by the
Ministry of Munitions—training in
technical schools, training in in
structional factories and training in
instructional bays of industrial fac
tories. The last two methods are
used inteaching women mechanical
processes. i
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050 Fliers at the Front
[Fhom the Cent Soixante Six (166 th
Squadron, Army of Occupation),
Trier, Germany.]
When Tennyson immortalized
Balalclava's "noble Six Hundred" in
his "Charge of the Light Brigade"
it's a pity he couldn't have fixed the
meter for the substitution of "Six
Hundred and Fifty" so that the stir
ring lines could have done duty in
paraphrase a few decades later to
commemorate America's aerial con
tribution to the great war. For, to
the best of our belief the number of
our "flght brigades" came to about
that total, possibly a little bit more,
most likely less.
In the first place, it should be ex
plained that these figures refer ex
clusively to the men who got into
action —who saw enough service
across the lines to put them in the
combatant class. They were'nt de
duced, you may be sure, from news
paper reports of "official state
ments" in regard to air service per
sonnel. The latter might be made
the theme for a sequel to Baron
Munchausen's widely known narra
tives, but as data for a serious es
timate of air service forces they re
quire some editing.
, "But," somebody exclaims, "the
brunt of the fighting borne by less
than seven hundred flyers—surely
there's some mistake. Why the
press reports put the American air
forces in France at something like
fifty-eight thousand, of whom near
ly seven thousand were officers."
Perhaps, but that isn't saying they
were all at the front.
"No," you may rejoin, "but the
same report says that two thousand
of them were—2,l6l officers and 22,-
351 men, to quote exactly."
Admittedly, it looks as if some
body had made a mistake. But be
fore throwing out anybody's figures
let's examine the data a little fur
ther. The same reports quoto the
number of squadrons at the front as
thirty-nine, twenty of which were
pursuit and the rest reconnaissance
or bombardment. That might not
be so far off, if you count in the
eleven squadrons that the French
supplied, and the three more for
which we must thank our Italian
allies. And then, too, there may
have been some new American
squadrons formed just about the
time of the armistice; but suppos
ing there were, they never did any
work and ought not to be included
in an estimate of effectives during
the hostilities. Even then, two
thousand or more officers would bo
a pretty full complement for thirty
nine squadrons, wouldn't they?
But just suppose, for the sake of
the argument, that two thousands
flyers did get into the zone of ad
vance, is it safe to conclude, from
this bare supposition, that anywhere
near that number of men ever flit
ted through an Archie burst, bomb
ed an enemy dump, executed a re
connaissance or strafed a trench?
Most decidedly not. Knowing what
we do about air service squadrons
in the line it seems a practical cer
tainty that no more than half that
total could have seen action over
Ilun territory, while, in the opinion
of many who are able to speak from
the standpoint of participants in air
service operations at the front, a
bare two-thirds would be nearer the
correct proportion.
And what of the 650? Well, just
to avoid a flamboyant peroration
let's stick to the crisp text of the
war office report as quoted:
The total casualties of the air serv
ice in action were 442, including 109
killed, 103 wounded, 200 missing, 27
prisoners of war and 3 interne*!.
SLUMBER SONUS
[By Lieut.Col. John McCrae]
.Sleep, little eyes
That brim with childish tears
amid thy play,
Be comforted! No grief of night
can weigh
Against the poys that throng thy
coming day.
Sleep, little heart!
There is no place in Slumberland for
tears:
Life soon enough will bring its chill
ing fears
And sorrows that will dim the after
years.
Sleep, little heart!
Ah, little eyes,
Dead blossoms of a springtime long
ago.
That life's storm crusht and left to
lie below
The benediction of thfc fulling snow!
Sleep, little heart.
That ceased so long ago its frantic
beat!
The years that come and go with
silent feet
Have naught to tell save this —that
rest is sweet.
Dear little heart.
1
To Open The Door For Prosperity
[From the Literary Digest]
PROSPERITY —perhaps the great
est we have ever known "Is
knocking at the door," declares
an editor in Wisconsin. Another
in his office beside the New
York Stock Exchange looks up
from the ticker to tell a cheer
ful "tale of the tape," a story
of a four-months' rise in industrial
stocks showing "that recovery of
normal temperatures, pulses, habits,
and worries has been rapid; the worst
is over." The man on the street,
whom a Boston daily holds to be "a
better prophet than the closeted ex
pert," sees "the greatest purchasing
population of any country in the
world on the keen edge for a great
many things it has been deprived of
for the last two years;" he sees fac
tories returning from munitions
making "to their former specialties
with great arrears of orders, which
they must fill." The Postmaster-Gen
eral judges from the remarkable
inciease in postal revenues during
the last four months that the coun
try "is on the threshold of a period
of pronounced industrial prosperity."
But while prosperity is knocking
at the door, the door does not open.
Buying, we are reminded in a Gov
ernment report, is limited, money is
timid and remains in banks; some
mills and factories are .idle and few
are running full; construction of pub
lic and private works has not began,
and unemployment is spreading. The
difficulty seems to be a matter of
prices. As several editors explain,
buyers are waiting for the expected
drop in prices; sellers hesitate to
cut prices for fear of losses; mean
while the wheels of business can
move but slowly. Now "the one
large missing clement" in the busi-'
THEY MUST BE MEMORIAL
[ From the New York Times]
Characteristic of every such pro
posal as those that are stirring the
little pity is a fatal fault that it Is
based on the delusion that anything
to which the name of war memo
rial can be ascribed will be one. Of
course this is not carried to its log
ical conclusions, even by those who
hold It most sincerely.
They do not advise the purchase
of a new motor fire engine, or the
repavement of Main street, or the
payment of the mayor's or city
clerks' salary, as a war memorial,
but to do any of these things would
be just as sensible as it would be
similarly to designate any of the
schemes that are so naively advo
cated. None of the schemes Is in
trinsically bad, in the sense that its
execution would be detrimental to
anybody.
But the plea that such "memo
rials" as these would be "useful" is
the perfectly adequate reason for re
jecting them all, as the one purposo
of a memorial is to be a memorial,
and the effort to make it serve two
purposes will always be a failure
land an absurdity. A private per
son, of course, can erect a hospital
or a library, or give the land for a
public park, and as long as it lasts
and bears his name it will be a me
morial to his generosity; but just as
he could not attain the same end
'through something designed for ids
own personal use and benefit, so a
city cannot provide for its own mu
nicipal needs or necessities and at
the same time pay lienor to some
thing entirely different.
Reminded Him of Home
The burglar had entered the house
as quietly as possible, but his shoes
were not padded and they made
some noiso. lie had just reached the
door of the bedroom when he heard
someone moving in the bed, as if
about to get up, and he paused. The
sound of a woman's voice lloated
to his cars.
"If you don't take off your boots
when you come into this house,"
she said, "there's going to be trouble,
and a lot of it. Here it's been rain
ing for three hours, and you dare
to tramp over carpets with your
muddy boots on. Go downstairs and
take them off this minute."
He went downstairs without a
word. but. he didn't take off his
boots. Instead he went straight out
into the night again, and the pa!
who was waiting for him saw a tear
glisten in his eye. "I Just can't bear
to rob that house," he said, "it re
minds nie so of home." —From the
London Opinion.
ness situation, the Boston News Bu
reau concludes, "is a meeting of
minds, as between buyers and sellers
of the great staples, on something
like an equilibrium in prices." It is
Just such a meeting that is furnished
by the "Redfteld plan," which the Sec
retary of Commerce and many ap
proving editors believe will open the
door for the waiting business boom.
As The Nation's Business (Washing
tion) quotes Secretary Redfleld's de
scription of the situation:
"Our industries are presented with
an unpleasant pill to swallow. Prices
must come down. Industry can not
make it easier to swallow the pill
by licking oft the candy. The sooner
the pill is swallowed and cheerfully
accepted, the sooner will production
spring back to normal. The sense of
the whole thing is to bring about a
reduction of prices by voluntary
agreement. Everybody expects prices
to fall sooner or later, and the best
thing to do is to bring them down at
once."
So Mr. R'edfield has arranged to
bring Government, capital and labor
together in a joint "endeavor to bring
about a level of prices at which
Government itself will be glad to
make its own purchases, prices such
that the Government can turn and
say to the general public, 'This is a
fair basis of prices'." The Secretary
calls this a process of "accelerating
industrial equilibrium." The official
title of the accelerators is the In
dustrial Board of the Department of
Commerce. The chairman is Mr.
George N. Peck, a manufacturer, for
merly of the War Industries Board;
the other members are Commissioner
of Immigration Camtnetti, T. C. Pow
ell, of the United States Railroad
Administration, and four heads of
large business concerns.
Arbor Day's New Meaning
[Philadelphia Public Ledger]
Despite the efforts of the forestry
associations and the support of the
State and Federal governments. Ar
bor Day has been celebrated too
often in a perfunctory manner. No
one denied the value of tree plant-,
ing, or of encuoraging scientific for-|
estry, or of conserving the natural
resources of the State, but the an
nual proclamations of necessity be
came somewhat stereotyped and
only the enthusiasts whose minds
were made up anyhow reacted to the
yearly stimulus. This year, how
ever, Governor Sproul has been able
to strike a new note, and his elo
quent appeal that the two Arbor
Days of 1919, April 11 and April 25,
be given over to tree planting In
the interest of the soldier dead
should accomplish two praiseworthy
purposes. In the first place, the
tree-memorial Idea is given official
recognition and a very beautiful
form of memorial vigorously in
dorsed by the Governor himself.
Then, secondly, by reason of this
memorial idea being associated with
the problem of conservation an im
petus Is given to the general prob
lem of reforestration that should
prove of the greatest value to the
State. So in a sense Arbor Day is
remade for Pennsylvania and re
made under inspiring conditions
that associates the primal natural
resources of the State with the un
dying memories of those who from
a love rf country made (lie great
sacrifice for their fellow citizens anil
their own here in this great and
patriotic Commonwealth. From this
time on Arbor Day in Pennsylvania
and 'throughout the Union cannot
but have a now and deeper meaning
as is forecast in the proclamation of
the Governor.
Thirty-Sixth Division
National Guard
j of Texas and Okla- '"■ v.
homa. Divisional f \
headquarters ar- / flsA \
rived in France / Wmd \
July 31. 1918. Ac- I V-V I
tivities: Blanc \ ™ W J
Mont sector, north \ ym J
of Somme-Py, Oc- N. Y S
tober 6-28 (French
Champagne offensive).
Prisoners captured: IS officers,
531 enlisted men. Guns captured:
9 pieces of artillery, 294 machine
guns. Total advance on front line
21 kilometers.
Insignia; Cobalt blue arrowh£k> i
with a khaki "T" superimposed
upon a khaki disc. The arrow
head represents Oklahoma and the
"T" Texus.
APRIL* 1, 1919.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Bolsheviki have turned a
church into a theater. In their set
it was probably the only way to till
it.—-Columbia State.
Leniency in dealing with Germany
may indicate a soft heart, but it
certainly indicates a soft head.—
Washington Herald.
The cutting down of Germany's
army to 100,000 men leaves mighty
little excuse for a League of Nations.
—Washington Post.
Some one should explain to
Europe's diplomats that we were not
fighting for the spoils of war, but
to spoil war.—Greenville Piedmont.
There is a rumor in well-informed
circles that Great Britain will be
forced to accept a mandate for the
governing of Ireland.—Chicago Trib
une.
Bolsheviki may reason that if
they can make all other nations as
rotten as Russia, then Russia will
be as good as any other nation.—
Toledo Blade.
"Victory an Inclined Plane"
[From the Manchester Guardian.]
Marshal Foch spoke very simply,
very colloquially, very much a sol
dier talking to his friends. He stood
chest out, head well back, with one
leg well forward, suggestng the
elastic, posture of a fence as he
moved slightly and regularly at
the knee as though about to lunge.
His main point was that he had
done nothing. "The Boches attack.
1 said I would stop them. When
they were stopped I attacked them.
Well everyone did what he could,
and after some time we were all at
tacking along tlie live hundred miles
of front—the French, the English,
the Americans, the Belgians, and we
all went for t) em." At that point
the marshal raised both his hands
and pushed forward with his hands
slightly downward and body in one
movement.
"Victory," he said, "is an included
plan. We pushed them, all of us,
and they simply had to retreat and
retreat." 1-le continued to make the !
slightly downward movement with I
his hands, moving elastically at the I
knee in unison. "And after that we
simply kept pushing and pushing,
and they went back and we were
simply on the point of getting
he waved his hands.
"Then they asked for an armis
tice. They accepted all our condi
tions," his shoulders, hands and eye
brows went up. "Well !"
The impression everyone got was
of the great shock it had been to
the marshal when the enemy sur
rendered.
Maine to War on Dogfish
A bill has been introduced Into
the Maine Legislature which has for
its purpose war upon the dogfish.
If the bill passes, the state will start
a drive for assistance from the Fed
eral government.
The dogfish is very destructive to
the fishing industry. Its elimination
is important not to Maine people
alone, for our Maine fish go far to
ward supplying the nation. The Fed
eral government has every reason to
respond favorably to a call for aid.
It Is spending huge sums annually
in the propagation of fish ind cer
tainly their preservation is as im
portant as the propagation. -Bangor
Commercial.
THE STRETCHER REARER
By Private Wm. J. Bun, 304 th
Field Signal Battalion Medical Det.,
after u buttle Somewjiere in France.
(Winner of French War Cuss).
r see him yet. plodding tin Fland
ers i„ud—
A field of carnage, a field >f blood;
Where the Maxims whine, and the
big guns roar,
In man's modern improvement on
Hell, called War.
Not much of a Hero to vark at, I
guess
Muddy and bloody, and weapon
less;
But where shots fly thickest, he
. doggedly goes,
Exposed to the lire of both friends
and foes.
For he gleans there where the mudr
rows lie
By DEATH the reaper, pHed high.
And plucks from the outstreched
hand of DEATH
Some stricken Mortal, who still
holds bteatli.
Sing ye of heroes, whose lutive deeds
shine,
On many u crimson battle line,
But for liini the bearir of the
stretcher cot.
Who ,is daily a hero and knows it
not.] .
iEbmng CMprt
Major William G. Murdock, the
executive officer of the draft iu
Pennsylvania, in a letter issued to
members of the boards in praise
of their efforts to make the selec
tive service law a success in Penn
sylvania, to-day expresses the hope
that "whatever military organiza
tions are formed by the soldiers
upon their return will welcome you
as honorary members." The ma
jor's letter regrets that the law does
not provide for recognition of tlui
services of the members of the drafc.
boards and he takes occasion to ex
tend to the hundreds of men who
administered the draft commenda
tion of their services. Major Mur
dock was busy to-day receiving re
ports from the boards of the State,
as to tho manner in which they hail
closed up their official existence yes
terday and a complete report will
be made up for the State. It is
probable that some steps will be
taken by members of the Legislature
to bring about recognition of the
services of the men who served a
members of draft, appeal, medicaf
and legal advisory and instruction
boards. A record of the service at
these men, many of whom served
throughout the whole war is being
made up by Major Murdock for the
archives of his office.
• •
Walter McNichols, acting Com
missioner of Labor and Industry, has
offered the services of the State to
enable industries and physicians and
surgeons to get together because of
numerous requests for information
as to oportunities for industrial ser
vice in Pennsylvania from physi
cians and surgeons leaving the army
after service during tho war. Heads
of industrial establishments have
been informed in a circular that Dr.
I' rancis I). Patterson, chief of tho
bureau of hygiene, will look after
this feature of State work.
Dr. "Dan" Poling, who will ad
dress the big Christian Endeavor
convention in this city to-night, dur
ing his student days was reckoned
the finest specimen of physical man
hood in tlie Pacific coast colleges.
Ho held a dozen championships for
events requiring extraordinary
strength and endurance and is still
an ardent devotee of college sports.
Early in his life, and he is still a,
yottng man, lie was elected to lead
the young people's work in the
United Evangelical Church in Amer
ica and his headquarters would
have been Harrlsburg had he ac
cepted, but he felt called to the
wider field of young people's work
in general and has become one of
the leading Christian Endeavor and
temperance workers in America. Ho
was a member of tlie famous Flying
Squadron which did such valiant
work in the promotion of national
prohibition: at the outset of the war
he threw up his work and went to
France in the "T" service and
served clown in the front line
trenches until he was gassed and
shell-shocked to the extent of being
forbidden further work in the war
zone and was invalided home. His
book, "Huts in Hell." is one of the
war classics and anybody who doubts
the service the T. M. C. A. rendered
the men in France would do well to
read It.
• • •
If matters can be arranged. Major
Henry M. Stine, the officer in com
mand of the Harrlsburg Reserves,
will have the first of a series of talks
by returned officers at the court
house on Saturday night. Captain
John T. Brctz, who helped train the
Reserves in their early days, will
be the speaker and will tell of the
work of the 112 th.
• • •
Thomas D. Beidloman, who has
resumed charge of things about tlie
State Capitol Park, has his force
on the daylight saving plan. Things
start early in the park maintenance
department and the park is com
mencing to show the results of hl3
painstaking supervision.
"I do not know why it is, but we
have had more flittings this first
of April than I have known for a
long time. For a while there was a
disposition to get away from the
April 1 flittings and to take up May.
but this year calculations are off/'
said a van man yesterday.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Clarence D. Coughlin, who had
charge of the Catlin will at Wilkes-
Barre, is a lawyer and was long a
political rival of the dead Senator.
■ —James A. Gardner, the New
Castle official, hero to-day for the
third class city hearing, comes by
virtue of action of city council in
his community. He is one of the
leaders in such legislation.
—Judge A. D. McConnell, of
Greensburg, has decided not to an
nounce decisions on liquor licenses
until late in the week and has causeife
much speculation.
—Dr. W. T. Ellis, the traveler, is
now in Turkey watching the devel
opment of reforms.
—Sinton Miller, elected head of
the Jewish Publication Society, is u
prominent Philadelphian.
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsburg used to lie
one of the loading sausage mak
ing places in tlie State?
HISTORIC lIAHRISBURG
—This community contributed
company of men to Wayne's cxpedv,
tion against the Indians in Ohio.
THE ANXIOVS DEAD
O guns, fall silent till the dead men
hear
Above I heir heads the legions
pressing on:
(These fought their light in time
of bitter fear.
And died not knowing how the
day had gone.)
O flashing muzzles, "pause, and let
them see
The coming dawn that streaks th*<
sky afar;
Then let your mighty chorus wit
ness he
To them, and Caesar, that we still
make war.
Tell them, O guns that we have
heard their cull,
That we have sworn, and will not
turn aside,
That wo will onward till we win
or fall,
That \Vo will keep faith for which
they died.
Bid them be patient, and some day,
anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt In
silence deep;
Sl(all grec, in wonderment, the
quiet dawn.
Ana in content may turn them to
their sleep.
-By LIEUT.-COL. JOHN McCRAE.