10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEWSPA.PER FOR THE ROME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and, Editor-in-Chief y. R. OYSTER, Business Manager CDS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor ,A. R- MICHENEU, Circulation Manager Executive Board p. P. McCULLOL'GH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members 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. 9111 rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rj Newspaper Pub- Blishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finlcy, F i ft h Avenue Building, New York City; Western office, Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building ! Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a Cfeß-::.\-;i§3SE week: by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919 Reform those things in yourself which you hlatne in others. — OLD PROVE nr.. JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN HT OCAL J° bs tor local men" is I j the slogan which is being tised in many communities In the effort to find employment for returning soldiers. It appears that there lias been a tendency on the part of many of tlio men coming back from overseas to locate in com munities distant from their own homes and this has caused a con gestion in some sections which would not have resulted had the men returned to their home towns. The attitude of many soldiers is to find a wider sphere than that | offered in their former jobs and a J broader life than that furnished by the home community. It is suggested, however, as an argument against this, that the re turning soldier in stopping in a com munity other than his own, may ex clude a job from some soldier who is still abroad, but who belongs to that particular town and who will shortly return. A committee of tho United States Chamber of Commerce, which has had this matter tinder considera tion with a view to finding employ ment for men leaving the service, suggests that all men should return to their own homes so far as pos sible and watt for the period of re adjustment to pass in order to pre vent a complication of unemploy ment which might follow conges tion in communities other than their own. Most business men are trying to place their former' employes who served with the colors and this pa triotic attitude has had the approval of the people everywhere. The gen eral disposition Is to find a job for every returning soldier and ho is entitled to all possible consideration. But unless the soldier himself real izes the necessity of redistributing the men who have been withdrawn through military purposes In the s*me ratio in which they entered .the sendee, there is bound to be more or less difficulty in solving the problem. POOR OLD CLARK ACT WHY* all this excitement about changes in the Clark act? What does a little amend ment or two count anyway? The poor old statute is beyond the feeing hurt, isn't it? TWO KINDS OF MONEY IF THERE were two kinds of United States money—one just ordinary money and the other money that Increases in value every month you have it —you'd naturally want the growing kind all you oonld get hold of. You'd change as much of your money as you could for the growing kind of money that got bigger right along. You'd hold en to the growing kind and let it grow for you. But there are two kinds of money —ordinary dollars and quarters and bents that don't grow and War Sav ings Stamps that do grow. You buy a War Savings Stamp this month for $4-15, next month tt is worth $4.16, the month after $4.17, and on January 1, 1984, It has grown to $6. "But," yon say. a "War Savings Sump is not ready money? It grows ml right, is a good Investment, helps me save, but I can't spend it." You're wrong—the War Savings Stamp is ready money that is, seady enough money. It you need the money you have owed in War Savings Stamps—that 4powtng money—yon can get it from bqr postoffioe on ten days' notice. QEfea eon get all you paid in and U the Interest it has earned while ■ K |s growing for you, and the ten notice is one of the great fea • imres. You can't just rush out to WEDNESDAY EVENING, spend your $4.12 or $4.25, or what ever It may be, in your War Savings Stamp. You have got time to think before you can spend it, and if you think before you spend you prob ably will not spend that W. S. S. money foolishly, but will spend it for something worth while. In other words, it is not merely growing | money—it is also money with tlio magic power of helping you to get your money's worth—money tied up just enough to keep it from flying out of your pocketbook. And, re member, the wise-spending string on your money in War Savings Stamps is your own string—the strirtg that keeps your own wallet closed until you really need the money. NOT SO BAI> CONSIDERING the month and the hesitancy of many builders to invest in new enterprises un der present unsettled conditions, Harrisburg's house-building record for February was not so bad. Thirty-five new houses in one month make a very good start for the season. If the record is kept up we shall go far toward meeting the shortage this year. PUNISH THE HUNS FASTENING responsibility for the war upon the Kaiser is the worst kind of sophistry, cam ouflage and hypocrisy. The Kaiser could not have started the war without the willing co-oper ation of the German people. He could not have financed the war without the willing help of German financiers. He could not have com mitted a dozen of the atrocities, however willing he might have been. The crucifixion of children, the merciless slaughter of old men, the ravishing of helpless women, the driving of whole cities into slavery, the demolition of cathedrals and art treasures—all these were the acts of the German people, undertaken with unbounded joy. President Wilson's effort to ex cuse the German people from re sponsibility is not only discreditable to himself but is a reflection upon the intelligence and the sense of jus tice of the American people. AN IDLE THREAT THE threat of Eugene V. Debs to caU a general strike throughout the country if he is made to serve the prison term he so richly deserves is idle, as he will find if he tries it. Debs Is a dangerous man. He stood out against the United States Government at a time when to op pose its policies was to line up with Germany, in effect if not in intent. He is going to jail as a result, and nobody is fool enough to go on strike to take sides with a man who would resort to force to overcome the ver dict of court and jury, unless he confess himself an enemy of law and order. The very fact that Debs would suggest such a course is proof enough that prison is the place for him. PRACTICAL UPLIFT WORK BY PAR the most constructive bit of trade union literature that has come to the Tele graph's exchange table in months, is an interview with the chairman ot the Collective Bargaining Associa tion of Johnstown, published by the Johnstown Tribune. Says he: Our association is determined not only to improve conditions in side the plant, to make working conditions better wherever pos sible, but we propose to do what we can to improve living con ditions in the homes. Those of us who have worked in the mills for years know that a man can do better work and earn higher wages when his home conditions are good. We know men who come from comfortable home con ditions when we see their faces and watch their work. Now, around Johnstown, in a number of places, many men are living under conditions and amid sur roundings which do not make good men or good workmen. We called the attention of the Cam bria management to these con ditions and received a promise of their active co-operation. Tn houses owned by the company, there are going to be improve- ments at once. We have also conferred with Dr. L. W. Jones. Health Officer, and Secretary Ed wards, of the Board of Health, and have their promise to aid to the fullest extent. We are going about this business in a thorough way and we want every civic or ganization to join us. We propose to have public meetings of the members of the "Collective Bargaining" organiza tion. We want the newspaper re porters there; we want the public there; and we especially want the Cambria employes there. Let everybody come out with their views, and troubles, too. if they want to. Let's have all the cards on the table. lam sure that If we go at this thing in the right spirit, we can accomplish a lot We don't need outside experts to tell us what our business is. If there is not enough brains and getup In the Cambria men to run their own business, it's time they took a tumble to themselves. This is mighty wholesome talk. The Collective Bargainers evidently know their own needs and we shall be greatly surprised if they do not get what they seek. They are look ing beyond even wage scales and mill disputes toward the higher things of the community. There can be no quarrel with sentiments such as they express. The bugaboo of trade unionism has been the professional agitator. He has been as great an evil in the world of labor as the "publlc be-damncd" employer has been to capital. If the day ever comes when both the professional labor agitator and the "public-be-damned" em ployer are ruled out of the dis cussions that arise between capital and labor there will be very few strikes and each will understand the other better. Most agitators are either unreasoning radicals or they are interested more in holding their jobs than they are in the best in terests of the working man. But these Johnstown Collective Bargain ors appear to have a broader grasp of the situation. They are interest ed in themselves and their own wel fare. We shall be surprised Indeed if they do not accomplish something ] for Johnstown that will set some other communities to thinking. "PoCtttC* ot By the Kx-Committeeman The fact that representatives of a dozen Pennsylvania cities opposed in vigorous terms the repeal of the nonpartisan elective features of the Clark code for third class cities was not lost on legislators here to-day and coming so soon after Senator Boies Penrose's declaration against any change in the election laws is taken to mean that the third class city bill will be lucky if it gets out of committee. Probably the most significant re mark made by a legislator inter ested in municipal legislation came from Hugh A. Dawson, the leader of the Lackawanna men. one of the most experienced men in the House and one of the most influential. He said that the statements of W. M. Bertolet, of Reading, that repeal of the nonpartisan law meant a So cialist administration in the Berks county seat, had impressed him and added in full hearing: "In view of the declarations of Senator Penrose and Governor Sproul against any changes in the election laws I think we are wasting time." This is taken to mean that there will not be much doing on second class city repealers either.. —Tf the woman suffrage resolu tion passes this Legislature it will have to pass that of 1921 before the proposition can be submitted to the voters of the State. The Ramsey resolution would therefore go to a vote the fall of that year. —Representatives Zook, of Blair: Finney, of Crawford, and Rothen berger. of Berks, were absent this week because of illness. —Representative Richard Powell is in charge of the municipal cor porations committee just now. Chairman W. F. Standtlander was called home and left Mr. Powell to boss the committee. Mr. Powell is chairman of electric railways and also handles all of the fish legisla tion that is officially countenanced. He Is able to look after it all fairly well, too. —State Chairman William E. Crow who has had charge of the administration legislation this ses sion, has about finished work. There may be more but not much. It is all going through very nicely. —Philadelphia legislators have heen trying to find the springs of the stream of stories that a proposi tion to "rip" Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, out of office has been made and turned down. There was some talk of that early in the session, hut when the leaders of the Penrose wing and the in dependents both deny knowledge of the latest stories, the legislators ad mit that they must turn to the Capi tol park soulrrels for further in spiration. One man remarked that yesterday was April 1. —Representative David Fowler, of T-aokawanna county, will present the labor amendments to the compen sation bill. He Is the leader of the labor element in the House and while as vigorous as in the 1917 session when he gets started, he does not start so much. T-ast ses sion not many people paid much at tention when he talked. It is dif ferent this session and when he rises he gets a respectful hearing. Fowler is a Philippine veteran and has been connected with the organ izing end of the miners in his dis trict of the State. —Major F. P. Sehoonmaker. of Bradford, well known to many leg islators as one of the active third class city solicitors, was here yes terday to whack the non partisan repealer. He Is Just back from Prance. —Another man recently returned from France and who is highly thought of among legislators was here yesterday. He is Major David A. Reed, chairman of tho Commission which drafted the Workmen's Com pensation code by appointment of John K. Tener and whose work is being recognized. —Chairman J. P. Gaffney, of the Philadelphia councils finance com mittee. was here yesterday arrang ing for a hearing on Philadelphia finance bills on April 23. —Reading Republicans are pre paring for a big time at the Berks county seat next Wednesday when the annual dinner of the Republi cans will take place. Governor Sproul is to be the speaker. SPRING Hark! the pulse of nature beating. List! the winter's cold is fleeting. Far away the robin sings, Hieing hither, swiftly bring Glad tokens of approaching Spring. From the silent hills of green, From the tree-top's leafy screen. Comes the note so sweet and clear, Wafting to the listening ear, Hopes reviving—Spring is here. From the brooklet's cherry throat, Floats along the sweetened note; Hill on hill, melodious strain, Reverberates the clear refrain; Spring is coming; Spring is here. Buds upon the trees are waking; Floweret bulbs are gently shaking. Bees are buzzing to and fro. Filled with honey, lightly go. Ever joyful—Spring is here. In the meadows, grazing low. Cattle feel the summer's glow; Frogs their shiny backs are sunning: Moths their colored wings are donning, Gayly flitting—Spring is here. On and on the note relaying. Children In the sunshine playing; Aged backs are straighter bent. Burrowed cheeks with laughter rent. All enjoining—Spring is here. MASON BONG. A Perambulating House Last spring, James Liller of North Berwick, Me., set his house on wheels and in three days hauled It to Bath, a distance of seventy-eight miles, while he and his wife and his son Edward enjoyed uninter rupted housekeeping. Now he has just hauled the house hack to North Berwick in the same way. Thus residents along the highways saw a moving domicile, the man seated comfortably on the piazza driving the horses, the boy and a shepherd dog running alongside the wheels, the smoke curling from the kitchen stove, and Mrs. Liller's face occa i sionally at the window to watch the scenery.—From the Boston Globe. EtAJRmftEITTRO THRT A AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELUP? By BRIGGS | wrieM YOU'VE Beerv) x - A'VJO -SHC PO'S o HUNDRED" $$ .T ---AMD 5 TIL L AMOTHFH " ■AM I) Y£T AMOTM > BV CUCCRIIWT TCHA.UOTSKT CAHED " Cflser AT rue D" 1 CALLED ' SPASIOLA" - PHPUI, H HL< r. 6R TVRIMMO ~ Glor * •Riouj FlStrLlA) i _ V" ]U THE UK CONQUERED DEAD [By Lieut-Col. John McCrae] Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame Of them that flee, of them that basely yield; Nor ours the shout of victory, the fame Of them that vanquish in a strick en Held. That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat. And we the harvest of their gar nering. Some yielded. No, not we! Not we, we swear By these our wounds; this trench upon the hill Where all the shell-strewn earth is seamed and bare. Was ours to keep; and lo! we have it still. We might have yielded, even we, but death Came for our helper; like a sud den flood The crashing darkness fell; our painful breath We drew with gasps amid the choiring blood. The roar fell faint and farther off, and soon Sank to a foolish humming in our ears. Like crickets Jn the long, hot after noon Among the wheat-flelds of the olden years. Before our eyee a boundless wall of red Shot through by sudden streaks of jagged pain! Then a slow-gathering darkness overhead And rest came on us like a quiet rain. Not we the conquered! Not to us the shame. Who hold our earthen ramparts, nor shall cease To hold them ever; victors we, who came In that fierce moment to our honored peace. What Happened to America As for America, does anyone know yet what has happened to America as a result of the war? Of one tjiing only we may be sure energy has been loosed here also, an ener gy of service and public mindedness such as may well combat and drive from our arteries the toxins of self regarding individualism long gather ing there, and the newer microbes of violence lawlessness, conceit and suspicion which the war has engend ered. For three reasons—and there may be many more—even a pacifist must be glad that we chose the way of war and responsibility in the spring of 1917. For the first, we have moved forward a whole gener ation toward national unity and homogeneity. Next the taste for public service has become common and will be gratified, until the price of loyalty from the worker becomes an opportunity to serve the com munity as well as the employer or tjie capitalist. And finally, we realize now, even though we see the future dimly, that Amer ica is irretricvab'y involved in the sate of world civilization, and must assume responsibilities in measure with her strength. Henry Seidel Canby in the Yale Review. "He Kept Us Out of Peace" "He kept us out of war" was the phrase under which the President's election was urged by his partisans. "He kept us out of peace" may be the opprobrious verdict under which that second term will pass Into history. It is no longer possible to deny that it is because of this obstinacy that we are not now at peace with Germany under a treaty satisfactory to the Allies and to justice. That testimony comes from many sources, and is writ large and unmistakable in the records of the Peace Congress. It comes from French and British and Italian sources as well as from American. From the very begin ning of that Congress the President's attention has been given almost ex clusively to other things than the peace treaty, and so far as it has been in his power to effect it—and it has been very largely in his power —the attention of the Congress it self has been thus diverted from its most urgent and most important business. —From Harvey's Weekly. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SERVICE CHEVRONS J To the Editor of the Telegraph: Barizey au Plain, France. ! February 20, 1919. Now that the war is over and sol diers from combat divisions get the opportunity to read, learn and ob serve what is going on back in the j States, is my reason for writing thi| letter. A lot of so-called interested folks are trying to abolish something in which they should not be interested, for who should be more interested in what they wear than the man who wears them? Namely, the Service Chevron. It affords me lots of per sonal amusement and room for thought. In articles I have read numerous i accounts of people who besiege in fluential persons of ouu nation, to! abolish and avoid discrimination bo- j tween the fighter and the noncom-! bat ant. I know that all fathers, mothers, ; wives, sisters and biothers of men who have fought in the war for hu manity are not the ones who be sieged these persons of influence. T most heartily criticize and de spise anyone who is so narrow minded to make a statement or try: through persons ot influence to abolish anything so insignflcant as a service chevron. My only reason for writing this is a matter of principle, for was not I (before my entry into the service) told personally by persons of high ! character and by notable and hon orable speakers who orated on cor- 1 | ners in our town that there was a difference, a discrimination between but (not between the volunteer and the draftee) the man who went to [fight and those who chose to stay at home. The man who chose to stay at home has had the opportunity and privilege to enjoy the comforts of civilian life and everything that em braces civilian life. The man who; was not a pacifist forfeited all these j to fight until the fight for humanity: has become a "victory" and turns his head to note the changes of his homeland. Men whom T have been able to judge by being a sergeant in the ' Volunteer Army of the United States [have vanity the same as other hu man beings. If he is a good fighter, is there not a discrimination between he and a poor fighter, if he belongs to a good division rather than one that he considers not so good, there is a difference and a marked differ ence, by the insignia on his arm. If he has seen service on the "lines" of the battlefield in which America's name is written in colors that shall never fade, is there not a discrimination between that fighter and the one in question? I am proud of the Keystone that I wear on my arm for that signifies one of America's foremost divisions. I am proud of the service chevron that I wear on my arm for that sig nifies six months' service in this most honorable division, and I soon hope to don another one. All Amer icans and myself included, for I am a true American, am proud of the khaki that her soldiers wear. And why are they proud? It is because there is a difference between them and any other. Are not men who fight entitled to any discrimination? In forfeiting one of the aforesaid articles, namely, the service chevron is it just not as reasonable to make it plural? More could te said upon this sub ject but I am only supported in thl3 artiole by my own opinion. I think that every man in the A. E. F. has an opinion and sometime hopes to voice it. I would like to inquire why the soldiers of the A. E. F. are never given an opportunity to say some thing on this matter before it is too late. Are they not entitled to some consideration? Will close asking your reasonable opinion and also that the readers of this paper may know how a mem ber of this division feels upon the subject. SERGEANT HARRY C. SCOTT, Co. A. 107 M. G. Ba. 28th Keystone Division. LABOR NOTES Cleveland, Ohio, policemen ask an eight-hour day. San Francisco hotels now employ Chinese bellhops. A movement is on foot to call a con vention of the labor Interests of the four Western Canadian provinces. THE MINER'S SIDE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Robertsdale, Pa. For the miners employed by the j Rockhill Iron & Coal Company, 1 will ask you to correct the enclosed I clipping published in your paper lusij Saturday afternoon. It was the om ployes of the Last Broad Top Rail- 1 road who were on strike-since Feb- | ruary 27 to March 19. It was no' sympathy strike on the part of the' railroad men for the miners. The miners were idle on account of no coal cars to load. As cars aro I ail furnished by the East Broad Top j Railroad & Coal Company whose employes were on strike. The Rock hill iron & Coal Company here who! employ all the miners In the Hunt-' ingdon-Fulton county district have) not caused the miners to strike lately. The miners here when on strike in the past never did ask any sym pathy from the railroad men. They always fought their own battles, as they expect to do in the future. Out side of April 1 when all miners will be idle, their usual holiday, the min ers in this district do not expect any trouble this spring as the pres ent scale does not expire until April 11, 1920. The miners in this district [ore as peaceful as a hornet's nest j unless disturbed with a promise oT , a reduction in wages. A MINER. NOT "SAFETY FIRST" To the Editor of the Telegraph : Here's a tip. Do you know that the Railroad Administration has closed and is continuing to abolish signal towers on the Fennsy lines? Twenty-two have been closed on the eastern lines and quite a few on the Philadelphia division. Also stations have been shut up. Now is this fair lo the public* As to closing signal towers, which safeguard patrons and our wives atu children —is a man's life worth less under Government ownership than private management? If the rail road could keep them open and still run the lines, why cannot the Demo crats? "Safety First" —has this motto of the Pennsy of the old days been relegated to the dump by a few frock-eoated Government offi cials. Are your children and fami lies going to travel with less protec tion and efficiency by Government ownership, which doesn't care, or by the "safety first" rule which was al ways in the minds of practical rail road men who make railroading a business and not a political issue as the Democrats are. RAILROAD MAN. Courtesy of the Hun The latest reports are that there is a strong disinclination on the part of the German government to send its delegates to Paris or Versailles at all, unless they are to be per mitted to talk back to the judge and diseuss the sentence in an in terminable talkfest. If they cannot do that, what's the use in sending four or five men across the conti nent? Why not ring up a telegraph messenger boy and send him to re ceive the document and fetch it to Weimar? That might not be exactly courteous to the Peace Con gress; but what have Huns to do with courtesy?— Harvey's Weekly. Thirty-Fifth D i vis ion National Guard of Missouri and Kansas: Arrived in France May IX, 1918. Activities: if^ North sector of M ■ Wesserling sector, ■ • ■ Vosges (one bri- m Mr m gade) July 1 to 27; WAt North sector of Wesserling sector. Vosges, with Garibaldi sub-sector (under division command) July 27 to August 14; Gerardmer south sub sector adde, August 14 to Septem ber 2; Argonne-Meuse offensive (Grange-le-Compte sector) Septem ber 21 to October 1; Somme-Dleue sector, October 15 to November 7. Prisoners captured: 13 officers, 788 men. Guns captured: 24 pieces I of artillery. 85 machine guns. Total ; advance on front line, 12% kilo meters. I Insignia: Santa Fe cross within ' two circles of varying colors, the ' outer one divided Into four arcs. The design was chosen because the old Sante Fe trail started westward from a point near the Missouri-Kan sas line. ~ r| APRIL 2,1919. 1 "" v EDITORIAL COMMENT The Hun insists that a punished | Germany will be- a menace to the world. Quite true. But less a men ace than an unpunished Germany. —Helena Independent. If, us a head-line says, Germany gave Bolshevism a start, the debt ! bus been more than repaid, since : Bolshevism has given Germany 'several starts.—New York Evening 1 Post. j As the eminent historian, De i mosthenes McGinnis, once remarked 'concerning the Itoman general, I Wllsonius, "A strong chin is some | times indicative of indifference to 1 chin music." —Philadelphia Eve j ning Ledger. President Wilson says the Ameri can soldiers went to war because he j ashed them to. Tut. tut, we had ! always been under the impression I that, they went to war because the Kaiser dared them to. —Manila I Bulletin. Frank Simonds says the Euro j peans can't understand American I politics: but who does? —Washing- I ton Post. How the peace-loving Russian must sigh when he thinks of the old nihilist days.—lndianapolis Star. OTHER SIGNS OF SPRING [Excerpt from the story, "It Was May," by Oscar Graeve, in the Saturday Evening: Post.] It was almost 1- o'clock when he arrived at home in the rich and ex pensive suburb. Louise was await ing him. "Henry, where in the world have you been'.'" she asked. "I stayed in town for dinner." "But you didn't oven telephone." "1 know, my dear. I—l just wandered off. Jt was the spring." Louise came up to him and put her arms round his nock. "Oh, Henry," she said, "I was so— so worried after our .little lift this morning! Though it wasn't really a tiff, was it'.' But, after the way you talked this morning about find ing someone else, J thought—Oh, I didn't know what to think!" Henry Arthur