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SATURDAY, APRIL 5. 1919
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of
truth set up and stuffed. —HENBY
WABD BEZCHEB.
THE HOSTESS HOUSE
ONE of the best pieces of war
work conducted in Harrisburg
was the hostess house activi
ties of the Civic Club which came
to an end a week ago with the clos
ing of the house after six months
of most excellent service. It was
operated along the lines of the Red
Cross and cared for thousands of
uniformed men, from the visiting
French Blue Devils to the private
soldiers of the local camps.
Much of the work was under the
direction of Mrs. Edward F. Dunlap.
chairman of the Hostess House com
mittee, and Mrs. William Hender
son, president of the club, assisted
by scores of volunteers who gave
liberally of their time and money.
Everything was free, entertainment
being provided by the talented peo
ple of the city and every Saturday
evening a dance was held, carefully
chaperoned, at which the young wo.
men of Harrisburg were asked to
meet the men in uniform. The Sun
day evening meetings, with supper
served by the canteen committee
under the chairmanship of Mrs. J.
Meily Jones, were another pleasant
feature much enjoyed by the sol
diers.
The hostess house had a far
reaching influence for good. Men
away from home were brought into
wholesome surroundings and made
to understand that the people of the
city had an interest in them. Friend
ships that will last through the years
were made there and a spirit of
service developed in those who
worked to make it a success that
will not die with the passing of the
hostess house.
Who started this fool talk about a
Jap invasion of the Philippines?. The
Japs are a canny lot, and if they con
templated a war it would not be at
a time when the United States has a
couple million soldiers handy.
BOLSHEVIKISM
THE average American citizen
cannot know too much of the
development of the movement
against law and order under the
name of Bolshevism. It would be
quite as much of a menace under
any other name and it is for the
people of the United States to take
a firm grip on themselves In order
to prevent being swept off their
feet by the impossible doctrines of
these prophets of unrest and dis
order. It is because of the great
interest in the world conditions that
the address of D. O. Armstrong, at
the luncheon meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce Friday, was of spe
cial interest to a large represen
tation of the membership of the
central business body. Dr. Arm
strong is a Canadian traveler and
explorer of international fame and
has made a study of the Bolsheviki
movement.
It is too often the case that groups
of otherwise intelligent people in
this country are led far afield
through what they are pleased to
regard as their sympathy for the
"under dog." Recently at Boston
some women of high social connec
tion condemned the deportation of
alien anarchists and evoked cheers
for the I. W. W. and the Bolshevists.
This, in spite of the fact that anar
chists in Russia, according to testi
mony before a committee of United
States Senate, have taken over the
government in cities and towns of
that, unhappy country and among
other decrees have placed women on
a par with beasts. While these edicts
may not be observed in all their
details, they serve to demonstrate
the degeneracy of the men who are
responsible for the present Intolera
ble conditions in a large part of Eu
rope.
Nationalizing of women and
breaking down all the barriers of
civilization In the name of liberty,
confiscating property and utterly de-
SATURDAY EVENING,
stroying the things which most men
and women hold dear, the Bolshevik
element threatens to overspread the
world unless the inherent decency
of all nations is mobilized behind
law and order wherever there is a
threat of this after-war plague.
Bolshevism, with which some of
the alleged intellectuals of this coun
try are said to be flirting, is char
acterized by a forceful writer as
organized hatred, plunder, savagery
and lust. Plain speaking is going
to be necessary to overcome this
menace to the world and the intelli
gence of the American people may
be trusted to safeguard the insti
tutions which we of the United
States have cherished and to which
the oppressed peoples of other lauds
have looked with hope through a
long period of years.
On his way back to Holland from
Russia, Dr. Oudendijk, the Dutch
minister in Petrograd, was inter
viewed by the London Times and
made this impassioned plea for
civilization:
I wish to give a solemn warn
ing to the working classes of all
nations. Bolshevism, I say with
out exaggeration, is the end of
civilization. I have known Rus
sia intimately for twenty years
and never have the working
classes of Russia suffered as they
are at the present moment. I
have never seen or dreamed of
the possibility of such corruption,
tyranny, and the absence of all
semblance of freedom as there
arc in Russia at the present mo
ment. Translated into practice,
the five points of Bolshevism
really come to this: (1) high
wages; til don't work; tJI take
other people's property; (41 no
punishment: (3) no taxation; and
1 suppose there will always be a
certain number of people who
will adopt a program which in
practice amounts to this. That is
why. having soon the disastrous
effects of this policy on all classes
of society. I take the first op
portunity on my arrival in Eng
land to warn the public. The
bulk of the workmen in Russia
are to-day far and away worse
off than they ever have been, and
the state of unemployment is
simply terrible. When I left Pet
rograd the situation was one of
utle'r starvation and most people
hardly knew how they would ex
ist through the following day.
The future to me seems hopeless.
One thing is certain, that, left as
she now is. Russia will be in a
state of utter and complete ruin.
Whenever Bolshevism rules, the
ration has been beaten to a pulp,
and is utterly helpless.
This appeal from one who has
just come out of Russia would seem
to indicate that instead of bene
fiting those for whom they pretend
to speak the Bolshevik leaders are
leading the masses astray and bring
ing upon them the* most colossal
calamity of the ages. Working men
of the United States are not likely
to follow such leadership or to be
influenced by the false theories of
ignorant and brutal men.
Lenine. having ordered out the
Russian N'avy against the Allies, we
arise to offer the services of the Har
risburg sand fleet to meet the emer
gency. with full confidence that It will
fill the bill.
PULLING TOGETHER
IN. dealing with after-war prob
lems, the hfisineStr "interests of
the United States are manifest
ing a sanity which is encouraging
and reassuring as to the future.
It must be realized by even the most
casual student of the signs of the
times that the business man has
been subjected to tremendous pres
sure during the last few years, es
pecially since our entrance into the
war. That he has kept his head
and has managed to maintain a rea
sonable amount of American opti
mism illustrates the character of the
men who are back of the industry
and commerce of the Nation. They
have had enough to upset ordinary
confidence, but with persistent faith
in the country and its future the
business interests have continued to
meet the'problems which have been
arising at every turn with a courage
and intelligence worthy the Nation
which determined the world strug
gle.
In all communities there are ques
tions popping up at every turn which
are likely to disturb local conditions,
but with sanity of attitude and a
constant disposition to overthrow the
spirit of unrest and disorder which
comes from the other side of the
ocean there is reason to believe that
the readjustment of the after-war
conditions will proceed toward the
normal without serious disruption
of our ordinary activities. It is the
duty of every man—employer and
employe—to co-operate in solving
the big problems which are inevit
able as the aftermath of war. All
alike are interested in bringing
about normal conditions as quickly
as possible and with the establish
ing of peace at Paris there must be
also the maintenance of content
ment in the United States.
Every effort is now being made to
provide for any unemployment that
may follow the demobilizing of the
armed forces of the country and
the plunging into idleness of those
who had been regularly employed
during the war. This is an import
ant phase of the restoration of peace
conditions and it is creditable to the
employers of the country that for
the most part they are doing their
utmost to act with the same spirit
of patriotism which actuated them
in the midst of the war.
But there must be a constant pull
ing together of all classes of our
population if we are to have the
sort of peace that will assure tran
quility and prosperity to all the
people.
In deciding what the Hun shall pay
for the war the peace commissioners
ought to consider what the Hun in
tended to collect if he won.
"War risk bureau has caught up
with its business," says a news dis
patch. But have the soldiers caught
up with some of their allowances?
"Another revolution in Mexico."
Another, or Just a continuation?
It will now be up to the retail coal
man to show that he, too, has Just
'cause for increasing prices.
! >T
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By the Kz - Committeeman I
■ i -i 1
—Exclusive of any action by the
Governor on bills which may be an
nounced to-day, Governor William
C. Sproul has approved forty bills
and vetoed eleven. This is an un
usual small number for the com
mencement of the fourth month of
a legislative session. During the ab
sence of the Governor not many bills
wilj be passed finally in either
branch of the Legislature, but they
will be held until his return, meas
ures being advanced to third reading.
About two dozen of the bills signed
are general acts, the remainder be
ing appropriation measures, practic
ally all of them being to de
| iiciencies caused by extraordinary
| price conditions in the various State
i institutions, the care of the insane
| and to meet expenses of the State
j Government.
! Two of the bills vetoed related
to divorce laws.
In view of the movement to
place a limit upon introduction of
bills in the House it is expected that
many will be presented on Monday
and Tuesday.
Employment of aliens in any pub
lic building in Pennsylvania, will be
forbidden, if the Legislature enacts
a bill drafted by the legislative com
mittee of the Patriotic Order of
Sons of America of which Gabriel
H. Moyer is chairman. This bill
has been drafted to require that only
citizens of the State shall be em
ployes of the Commonwealth or nny
of its governmental divisions. The
bill forbids employment of ahens
either in connection with "the main
tenance and operation of such build
ing." It provides as a penalty that
any authorities employing aliens
"shall be surcharged tli3 nmount of
money so expended, to be collected
as provided by law for the collection
of surcharges in such cases."
—An alien bill already in. is that
of Representative W. K. West, of
Danville, which is in the hands of
the House Judiciary General Com
mittee and places a tax of $5 on
every alien.
—Two bills aimed at German in
the educational institutions of the
State are on the Senate calendar.
One is the Davis bill forbidding Ger
man, and the other the Mallery bill
requiring all teaching in schools to be
in English.
—Of all the hearings scheduled
bill to establish the Department of
Conservation is attracting the most
attention and more men active in
politics are taking an interest in
the measure than imagined. As a
matter of fact sportsmen are not
united on the bill and the hearing
may develop into an interchange of
opinions that will rival the discus
sion of the bill in 1915. From what
has been heard here, there is a de
sire to know more about how the
policies of the game. Fisheries, For
estry and Water Supply bureaus are
to be determined than anything else.
The question of use of specified re
venues has been settled and there is
no objection to one head and co-ordi
nation of activities, but some men
have been sending letters here which
indicate that they want to know how
the policies of the bureaus will bo
outlined. Friends of the fishermen's
license bill say that they look for the
bill to pass Monday night in the
House. The importance of obtain
ing revenue for the department, just
as the hunters' license provides for
the game activities, is being much
emphasized in the informal sugges
tions.
—Capitol Hill is discussing the fact
that when the Sproul administration
came in. there were numerous inti
mations that much was going to be
doing in the way of changes among
the people who had been conspicu
ous Brumbaugh men. Now the pol
icy is to keep business moving and
to have it handled a little better.
After the session when plans can be
carried out with the least interrup
tion of work, the reorganizations will
begin in various departments. This
is even better than many people
hoped and they have started efforts
to make their places permanent.
—Clifford B. Connelly, the inan to
be acting commissioner of Labor and
industry, has been looking over the
tield and will work out plans. The
same will be done by Thomas B.
Donaldson, the new. insurance com
missioner. The Banking and Adjut
ant General's offices will be reor
ganized after pending bills go
through. Internal Affairs will be
materially changed as the result of
new legislation after secretary-elect
James F. Woodward goes in.
—The Philadelphia Press says
editorially: "Speaker Spangler, of the
House at Harri.sburg, has found it
necessary to read a lecture to mem
bers who are not present at sessions
to attend to business. It is not any
thing new. and if the bill to boost
the pay of members to twenty-five
hundred dollars goes through they
will get more for staying away than
they now do. The rules of the
House might be made to amend the
difficulty, but so many perfectly
useless members are elected to the
Legislature that they may not be
far wrong in supposing that they
might Just as well absent them
selves as not."
Ads Get Working Capital
"Advertising is as difficult to de
fine as love." Carlisle X. Greig. noted
expert, told the Retail Merchants'
Association in Atlanta.
"Advertising is a sort of super
salesman." said Mr. Grelg. "a mega
phone voice which appeals to a great
number of people at the same time.
Advertising is any kind of salesman
you want him to be. Advertising
will bring 'em In, money in hand,
to take away the merchandise you
wish to turn into cash—to-day for
this reason, to-morrow for that. If
is much more than a salesman—it
is the special partner that provides
working capital, that finds the funds
to pay the bills before they come due.
"When advertising fails, it is be
cause it is underworked or over
worked."
A Wisconsin Revision
She admits having stolen caps and
aprons, but denies the theft of china
ware and money. This correction is
mad for the sake of accuracy and
fair play.—Milwaukee Journal.
Them Were the Dags!
How the peace loving Russian
[must sigh when he thinks of the old
1 Nihilist days.—lndianapolis Star.
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TRADE BRIEFS
An American company about to
open up an industry in Honduras
proposes to reconstruct the present
wharf of re-enforced concrete to
reconstruct and maintain the road
bed of a railway, to build a new rail
way line, to erect one steel bridge
and to open up new lands.
Shipments of wood pulp from
Sweden to Germany, which were
stopped by the British blockade in
the Baltic, have been resumed.
Consul-General Alexander W.
Weddell of Athens has transmitted
the name of a new business recently
organized at Kalamata, Greece, for
the exportation of figs and currants,
especially those produced in that
section. The name of the firm may
be obtained from the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce or
its district and co-operative offices by
reference to File No. 111333.
The Landmandsbank. Holstebro,
which since January 1, 1917, has
worked with a capital stock of $67,-
000, is now doubling this capital.
This bank was started in 1887 with
a capital stock of $9,000.
The normal consumption of gaso
lene within the Union of South Afri
ca is said to be 50,000 cans monthly.
The consumption of coal in Brit
ish India by railways, steamers and
Indian industries and exports to for
eign countries accounted for 15,248,-
000 tons of the 15,213,000 tons pro
duced in India in 1917.
The Kunze-Knorr brake for freight
trains, which has undergone the
most severe tests successfully, is not
only going to be introduced on all
German railroads, but also on those
of Austria-llungary.
Aktieselskabet Maraker Bruk in
Norway are building a lumber raft
to be towed across the North Sea.
The raft is being built in Kommel
vik, Norway, and is considerably
larger than the Refanut, the 2,100
standard timber raft which was
towed from Finland to Copenhagen.
Mica of excellent quality is stated
to have been located close to the
Rhodesia-Portuguese Africa border.
High cost of tins has been ham
pering the new industry of con
densed milk manufacture in the
Cape and Natal, according to the
British and South African "Export
Gazette." The milk is said to be
richer in butter fat than the im
ported brands.
A. E. Forenade Kopman, a Stock
holm corporation doing a general
merchandise and agency business, is
increasing its capital stock from
$804,000 to $1,200,000. The com
pany was started in 1916 with a
capital of $174,200.
The factory at the Rand for the
treatment of crude phosphates from
Saldanha Bay is to be located next
to the Ferreira mine, says the Brit
ish and South African "Export Ga
zette," and when it starts opera
tions something like 2.000 tons of
fertiliser monthly will be produced,
with about 13 per cent, of soluble
phosphates.
The Governor of British East Afri
ca is appointing an officer to or
ganize the statistics of the protec
torate's agricultural, dairying, in
dustrial and pastoral productions.
Considerable interest is being taken
in the vegetable oil industry in the
Straits Settlements, particularly co
eoanut, rubber seed and castor oils.
What Overwhelmed the Hun
Not the actual strength of the
American Army ,in France, says a
writer in Power-Plant Engineering
(Chicago, March 1), though that
could perhaps have forced surren
der of large numbers of German
troops, but the preparation under
way which insured overwhelming
defeat of Germany in 1919 was the
cause of the sudden ending of the
war. He goes on:
"If the Germans had not known
of the great stream of shells, gas,
tanks, and other munitions that was
ready to flow forward they might
have fought on through 1919, and
the battles would have cost the lives,
of 200,000 American soldiers. But
we were making more mustard gas
than Great Britain, France, and
Germany combined. Our tank pro
gram called for one tank for every
seventy-five foot of front; artillery
and shells were under way .that
would have blown the German army
off the face of the earth. And they
knew it. So that, although we are
paying for a great mass of material
that never reached the front, it is
really a payment for the saving of
200,000 lives of our boys, and wounds
i that can not even be estimated."
HOLIDAYS TO RELIEVE "IN
TELLECTUAL INDIGESTION"
[From the Literary Digest]
THAT the holiday has its place in
medicine is editorally asserted
by The Journal of the American
Medical Association (Chicago, March
1). The "concentration of effort and
the speeding up of schedules" due to
the war, with the assertion of some
efficiency experts that such concen
tration should become, standard in
the future, lead the editor to protest
against what he terms "the new mil
itarized procedures." More than one
of those, he says, who have observed
the actual working-out of these
plans in practice have seriously
asked themselves whether in the
long run such war-time measures
can secure peace-time benefactions.
The fact that every hour of the day
is utilized does not guarantee that it
is most advantageously employed.
"There is such a thing as intellectual
indigestion resulting from inordinate
concentration." He goes on:
"The efficiency of a mechanical
or automatic performance can
doubtless be increased in large meas
ure by persistently continued prac
tise: on the other hand, there are
more distinctly intellectual process
es which become impaired unless
a reasonable period for reflection
and mental recuperation is allowed.
"Let us hesitate, therefore, lest
we adopt a machinelike scheme too
Psychology of the Flu
[A Physician Writes to the Conti
nental Edition of the London Times]
The great ones of the medical
profession have been discussing in
fluenza and have disagreed, as usual,
regarding treatment and prevention.
Not unnaturally the public is feel
ing bewildered. It is almost inclined
to wonder whether the medical pro
fession knows anything at all about
influenza. Perhaps the great ones of
the medical profession don't. But
the general practitioner does. He—
if he is any use —realizes that,
though he can not treat the disease,
.he can treat the patient.
How does he do it? His methods
are quite simple. He bucks the pa
tient up. Either he makes the pa
tient laugh or he makes him very
cross. It doesn't matter which. The
result is the same.
In either case the patient is pro
vided with something fresh to think
about. Either he talks about the
doctor's affability or he growls about
the (fetor's brutality, and threatens
to "report him." Then he goes to
sleep and wakes refreshed.
Influenza is really a most Innocu
ous affair. The percentage of per
sons affected who develop serious
Symptoms is ridiculously small; and
the percentage would be smaller
still if there were more general san
ity knocking around.
Here is a truly scientific exposition
of what happens. There are certain
germs waiting about with their tails
up. seeking victims. No. 1 germ pro
vides the headache and the pains all
over. No. 2 germ hands out the
pneumonia which kills.
Neither germ has much chance
with the person who Is not prepared
to welcome him. If you are fit, the
germ—he has a nice long name—
will drop his tail and let you pass
by unscathed; but If you are not fit—
and particularly if you let the germ
know you are afraid of him—he
will go for you.
GENERAL WOOD'S MEDAL
[From the New York Sun]
News comes from Washington
that the War Department announces
its award to Major General Leonard
Wood of the Distinguished Service
Medal. If it is permitted to put an
inscription on thiß medal, we sug
gest at least the. outlines of some
brief explanatory matter, as follows:
"Presented to Major General
Leonard Wood as a token of the
Administration's burning desire to
indicate to the people of the United
States that it really and truly loves
Wood and that it kept him from go
ing to France becaues of its solici
tude for his health and not because
it feared that General Wood, if sent
to the battlefield, might enhance his
professional reputation and the af
fection In which so many Americans
hold him."
This, as we said, is only a sugges
tion. That the head of the War De
partment, Mr. Baker, who has a lit
erary touch second to only one in
all the Administration, could do bet
ter with the inscription we are sure.
rashly as the basis for the further
development of American higher
education. The physician has a
special concern in the threatened
abolition of the institution of holi
days. To him who watches the
| mode of life of his fellow citizens
the beneficence of an occasional holi
day has not escaped notice. It need
not be debated whether there has
been inordinate waste of time in the
past: whether the life of many of
our citizens, young and old, has not
been extravagant in authorized idle
ness. The institution of suitable
holiday periods is for the most part
more than likely to make for good.
'The right use of -a holiday is one
of the sovereign secrets in the prac
tice of the noble art of keeping
alive.' Let us bear this in mind in
the discussion of the projects of re
construction, frankly admitting that
leisure is valuable in the long run
only if it improves the quality of
work. A change of work may be
come a holiday in essence. The best
holiday is not one spent in languid
idleness, but one that contains the
largest amount of new experience.
The physician needs such holidays
and in selecting their routine he will
do well to observe such holiday ex-
I perts as the naturalist, the traveler,
| and the historian, rather than the
1 golfer."
THE AMERICAN
[After seeing a "Doug" Fairbanks
film]
The last kiss faded out; the bright
ness thinned.
Hands clattered in a tempest of
applause;
(A thousand white leaves pattering
in the wind)
Glory turned garish in the fol
lowing pause.
The audience shrank with it, looked
and grinned
Sheepishly at itself, then turned to
see
What the next number on the bill
might be
A fat man sang "I hear you calling
me."
But something still persisted, some
thing crude;
Childishly boisterous, palpably ab
surd.
And yet it spelled America in rude
Large letters; told without a word
The essence of our boyhood, the
young spirit
Surer of naught than what we
may inherit;
Intrepid faith that does not stop to
pray
And strength that springs from a
child's love of play;
Reckless, spontaneous, prodigal, im
' mense,
Taking no thought of cost or con
sequence.
Again life flickered from the shining
reels —
A lady vampire posed with a pet
snake.
Six odd sized clowns, late of the
burlesque "wheels,"'
Dressed as policemen, fell into a
lake.
A lisping tenor, painted to the eyes,
Came out and squeaked "We're
going to smash the Hun" *
And still the spoil remained. Out of
the lies
And cheap hypocrisies it rose and
spun
Its kindred strands of fantasty
and fun,
Of gaiety unconquerable and wise,
Of the brash boy in us that never
dies.
But keeps us better than a text or
truth.
Bound to the bright democracy of
youth.—Louis Untermeyer in
Contemporary Verse.
God's Covenant to Solomon
And God said unto Solomon, Be
cause this was in thine heart, and
thou hast not asked riches, wealth
or honor, nor the life of thine
enemies, neither yet hast asked long
life; but hast asked wisdom and
knowledge for thyself, that thou
mayest judge my people, over whom
I have made thee king; wisdom and
knowledge is granted unto thee;
and I will give thee riches, and
wealth, and honor, such as none of
the kings have had that have been
before thee, neither shall there any
after thee have the like. —II Chron
cles 1, 11 and 12.
~ APRIL' 5,1919.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ~
The Hun always maintained thai
envy of Germany brought on the
war. If he was right, here is one
cause of war forever removed.—
Oreenvtllo tS. C.) Piedmont.
The future peace of the world do
peiiQ.s largely on the policy of the
Von nllles conference. Is it "interna
tionalize" cr "international lies?"—
Manila Bulletin.
The magnitude of the problem of
of "getting Mexico on her feet" is
tost appreciated by those who are
familiar with the spectacle of the
Mexican recumbent in the sun. You
can got him on his feet, but you
can't keen him there. We should
say iht.t the only way to "get Mex
ico on her tcet" would be to tilt the
axis of the earth.—Chicago Tribune.
CANDY IN THE ARMY
Uncle Sam likes his boys to have
plenty of candy, and hands it to
them by the car-load. The author
of a special article prepared for The
American Journal of Clinical Medi
cine (New York, March ), from ma
terial furnished by the Quarter
master-General's office, tells us that
since the Government has been hand
ling the purchase of sugar, through
the Food Administration (September
1, 1917), approximately 200,000,000
pounds has been used by the Army,
exclusive of the depots and camps
on our west coast, where they have
been using raw sugar from Manila,
having it refined locally. A con
servative statement of the total
amound of sugar consumed by the
Army is 225,000,000 pounds. It is
found that about 237 pounds of
sugar is eaten by 1,000 men at their
meals in one day. We read further:
"Lemon-drops (the candy) are sp
popular in the Army that consider
able difficulty has been experienced
by the Subsistence Division of the
Quartermaster Corps in obtaining the
quantity and quality desired. About
200,000 pounds of lemon-drops is
used each month at the present time
constituting about fifteen per cent,
of the amount of candy furnished to
the Army. Samples were secured
from practically all the candy-mak
ers in the United States and the
lemon-drop that was 'thought best
for the men was adopted as the
standard. The formula was then
secured and distributed among a
I number of candy manufacturers,
with the result that at present the
j Army is being very well supplied
I with the confection. The lemon
i drops now being supplied to the
; Army are made of pure granulated
I sugar and 'are flavored with an
I emulsion made from the rind of the
lemon. It is found that an extra
sour lemon-drop is the favorite with
the soldiers. The product made from
the formula used has the thirst
quenching quality of lemonade.
"Care is being taken to see to it
that manufacturers do not use un
developed cacao-beans in the manu
facture of chocolate and candy for
the Army. It is found that, among
the beans used in making these
products, there are many undevel
oped beans. This is caused by the
dense shade of the cacao-tree. The
taste of chocolate made from the un
developed bean bears the same re
lation to that from the developed
bean as does the crab-apple to the
winesap apple. Candy, when made
from the poorer product while pure,
! is very different in taste, being some
; what bitter and unsatisfactory.
Steps are being taker to see to it
I that this substitution is not made In
I Army products."
THEN AND NOW
Beneath her window in the fragrant
night
I half forget how truant years
have flown
Since I looked up to see her cham
ber-light,
Or, catch, perchance, her slender
shadow thrown
Upon the casement; but the nodding
leaves
Sweep lnzily across the unlit pane,
And to and fro beneath the shadowy
eaves,
Like restless birds, the breath of
coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village
street
When all is still, as If the very
trees ..
Were listening for the coming of her
feet
That come no more; yet, lest I
weep, the breeze
Sings some forgotten song of those
old years
Until my heart grows far too glad
for tears.
—By Lieut.-Col. John McCrae.
Ebettmg difat
Friends of the lat* Chauncey PJ
Rogers, Jr., for years connected with'
the Auditor General's Department!
and well known to many Harrisbur|f
people because of his conspicuous
service in the llscal departments and!
through relationships with families'
here, will be interested to learn oC\
an unusual tribute paid to his mem
ory in his home county of Erie re
jcently. Mr. Rogers died from in
juries received in an automobilai
accident in Cumberland county lasQi
fall. Ho had been a practicing at
torney in Corry and Erie for yearst
before coming to Harrlsburg as Dep
uty Auditor General under A. E*
Slsson and his death was the occa
sion of many regrets by lawyers and!
prominent citizens. A short timo
ago on Mr. Roger's birthday the
courts of Erie county convened lit
special session and addresses eulo
gistic of Mr. Rogers were delivered
by the judges. General Sisson and
others active in the afTairs of tho
county by the lake. Nothing liko
it had occured in the courts of
northwestern Pennsylvania in years
and newspapers of that section com
ment upon it as well deserved. Mr.
Rogors was a nephew of tho Messrs.
John N. Speel and A. R. Spcel, of
this city, and a descendant of one offl
the early Harrisburg families.
• • •
A good story is going the rounds*
of Capitol Hill about a policeman,
a legislator and four prominent
State officials. These four picn were
going to lunch and as they passed
the Penn-Harris corner a lawmaker
asked a policeman if he knew who
they were.
"Three Capitol millionaires,''
promptly replied the guardian.
And now the question is who wcro
they?
• • •
Robert C. Miller, the new superin
tendent of the State Department of
Public Printing and Binding, who
assumed office this week with a
characteristic avoidance of any fuss
and feathers, says he is the busiest
man on the Hill. He is studying
the laws relative to his department,
reading contracts and finding out
just whnt ails the department. "I
have been a printer most of my life,
but I'm becoming one of our lead
ing students." said the Adams county
leader, the day after he took office.
"I guess I have been around print
ing offices since I have been sixteen
and have published a newspaper and
conducted a commercial printing
establishment for years, but we all
have to learn. Now I'm sitting up
studying this proposition and until
I get it mastered and can think out
some things we are going to do the
best possible." Mr. Miller is a big
man, physically, and scents to be
exceedingly energetic in getting
after the manifold details of his
department. Many men have come
to Capitol Hill to take charge of
departments without announced pro
grams, but Mr. Miller is one of tho
first to say that he will have no pro
gram until he "learns the game" and
he is starting right at the bottom.
* •
A North Second street d§g.
whose habitat is above "Woodbine, has
developed one of the oddest of an
tipathies. This dog is out on the
street a great deal and has much
to do with policing that part of the
Tenth Ward against visits by spar
rows and other birds and in regu
lating automobile and trolley traffic.
The other afternoon he extended
his beat to the skies. One of the
Middletown aviators was soaring
around, doing stunts, when he was
spied by the dog, which promptly
challenged his right to that section.
The aviator turned and headed for
1 down town and the dog with eyes
j fixed on the speck in the sky paced
i him for blocks, barking warnings to
him never to return.
When the State Highway Depart
ment completes the work of putting
Main street. Camp Hill, into lirst
class condition, the road from Har
risburg to Pittsburgh will be pretty
nearly as smooth as a hardwood
floor. Wonders have been accom
plished the past two years in the
shaping up of this important piece
of highway, one of the main links
between the east and the west, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been expended upon it. Hut
the effort has been well worth while,
and now the job is nearly complete
and the next link In the chain be
tween Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
is that from Harrisburg east and
this is being rapidly rebuilt. One
of the happiest men in Cumberland
county over the activities of Com
missioner Sadler is H. C. Zacharias.
Chief Burgess of Camp HIM, who no
longer fears for his life at the hands
of irate automobilists desiring to
collect the price of springs smashed
on Camp Hill's main street. Which
is reminiscent of a remark made by
John fk Musser, a neighbor of Zach
arias, while driving his car over
what was at the time an extremely
rough bit of the Emmittsburg road
below Gettysburg.
"This is the highway over which
Lee's army retreated," observed
Musser between jolts.
"How do you make that out?"
asked a doubting passenger.
"By these ruts his heavy artillery
wore in the road," replied Musser,
never batting an eye.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—L. H. Kinnard, vice-president
and general manager of the Bell
Telephone, was a Harrisburg visitor
yesterday.
—Harry F. Bovard, prominent in
Westmoreland county mining af
fairs was among Harrisburg visitors.
He is interested In good roads.
—Senator Penrose will be given
a dinner in Philadelphia by friends
the middle of the month. It will
be quite an elaborate affair.
•—Ex-Judge, J. Sharp Wilson, of
Beaver county, was among men who
visited the State Capitol. He is in
terested In roads and legislation
—George P. Donehoo, secretary of
the State Historical Commission, is
a minister and authority on Indian
history of the upper counties.
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg Is selling knit
goods to the army and navy?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—A century ago there were five
breweries and three distilleries in
Harrisburg.
Seaweed Substitute For Oats
Experiments with alimentary sea
weed as a substitute for oats in
feeding horses seem to prove con
clusively the worth of the seaweed.
The tests were conducted In France
under the supervision of governmnt
veterinarians, and horses fed with
the seaweed fattened more rapidly
than those having regular rations of
oats. The seaweed, it iB said, grows
in abundance on the Brittany coast.
I —lndianapolis News.