8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Snndsy by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Bnlldlar. Federal Sgaare EL J. STACK POLB President and Editor-in-Chief R- OYSTER, Business Manager GITS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor JL. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Execative Board 4, P. McCULLOUGH. BO YD M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTER, GC& M. STEIXMETZ. 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 f>aper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' k Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern o e. Avenue Building, Story. Brook s^°& i Chicago. ®i U i Udlnsr ' Sintered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. BY carrier, ten cents a svfaan- week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1919. Hay 1 reach That purest heaven; he to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor; feed pure love; Beget the smiles that have io cruelty— Be the sweet presence of a good dif fused, And in diffusion ever more intense. —Anon. CITY' IMPROVEMENTS CITY COMMISSIONER LYNCH, as head of the Department of Streets and Public Improve-1 ments, has just issued an interest- 1 ing little pamphlet showing the 1 highways and ward lines of the city. This booklet will serve a useful pur pose in giving important informa tion regarding the highways, their names and locations. City Engineer Cowden is respon sible for the compilation, and one of the conspicuous features is the \ ward and precinct map arrange ment. Harrisburg people cannot know too much about their own city, and | when tho Telegraph suggested a | year or two ago a series of autorao-1 bile tours for the purpose of learn ing what had been going on in the city for a period of years, it did so for the purpose of awakening our people to a realisation of the pro gressive development of the com munity in which we are all inter ested. During the war many improve ment projects were sidetracked owing to the high cost of materials and labor, but now that we are resuming the normal in our munici pal life, it is reasonable to expect that there will be much activity in the completion of the improvemeent undertakings which have been so long under consideration. City So licitor Fox is losing no time in bringing to a focus the final pro ceedings in the Hardscrahble mat ter and the City Council has taken final action In the various ordi nances affecting the city's co-opera tion with the Commonwealth in the development of the Capitol Park area. Altogether, there is a spirit of co-operation among officials and citizens generally in developing the important phases of our city's essen- Hal growth. While we are passing t through a period of readjustment as a result of the war, there is, not withstanding, a general appreciation of the local conditions which Justify the undertaking of the projects neld in suspension during hostilities, nils public work means employ ment for hundreds of men, and from this standpoint must be re garded as of vital importance to the welfare of the community. Employment means contentment, and every effort must be made to provide work for those who hon- BStly desire to keep busy. It is not too early to inquire as to the revival of the Harrlsbtrrg Navy Ibis year. While the war was on the Kipona and other river sports were postponed, but with the coming of Mace we have no doubt the organiza tion responsible for the carnival will get busy. THE GOLF COURSE IF ANOTHER site for the landing of the "Victory Loan dirigible airship can be fonnd, which would seem easily possible, the Res irvolr park golf links should not be need. No doubt the committee entered Into the arrangements thoughtless tt the care and expense that have seen lavished on the Reservoir links to bring them up to their present . i .. _ . J MONDAY EVENING. high standard. If the airship lands on them, with the crowds that will flock to see the arrival, that part of the course will be ruined for the year, for the grass planting is not yet in shape to stand trampling and the rain-soaked turf would be crushed into thousands of holes. These links belong to the public. Xo charge is made for them. They are kept up at public expense and the money spent upon them should not be thrown away. It will not do to offer to repair damage, for dam age done a grass lawn at this sea son cannot be repaired short of next spring. OUT BY JUNE AMERICAN troops in the Arch angel district are in no great danger and are expected to be out of Russia in June, according to the statements of "War Depart ment officials. They ought never to have gone into Russia as they did. What was needed at the time was strong inter vention with thousands of troops to back up demands of America for a free representative government in Russia or no intervention whatso ever. The few hundred men we have thrown into the Archangel district have been battling constantly against terrible odds. They not only have made no impression upon the great masses of Bolsheviki in their path, but their inability to make headway against superior armies have irre parably injured the prestige of America in Bolshevik circles. TOO EARLY Enthusiastic business men at the N. W. Ayer dinner in Philadelphia, Friday night, hailed William Howard Taft as the next occupant of the White House. They were premature. It is not now apparent who will be the candidate of the Repub lican party for the presidency next year. It is too early now to venture a guess as to the result of the national convention. But it is true that Taft has been growing in the public estimation ever since he was defeated in the three-cornered fight in 1912. He is a bigger man to-day in every way than when he was President. Perhaps his friends may decide to push him forward next time. Cer tainly, they would be justified if the peace league is to be an issue, for Mr. Taft was the originator of the idea and he preached it long before President Wilson had begun to think of such an organization. And it will be generally agreed, at least among Republicans, that Mr. Taft's ideas on the subject are much more lucid and practical than those of the, President. It might be pointed out that Taft's defeat would be an indication of weakness, but Grover Cleveland was beaten in a much less strenuous fight than the three-cornered contest which resulted in the first election of President Wilson and was after ward a successful candidate for the office and made a wonderful record himself as a wise and far-seeing statesman. Stranger things have happened than the re-election of Taft, but the time is scarcely ripe for seriously discussing candidates. | SENSIBLE VETOES Governor william c. SPROUL is to be commended for establishing two lines of veto activity divorce laws and measures tending to increase finan cial burdens on counties. He has shown tendencies to be vigorous in his use of the veto power and his comments are interesting. Some years ago the State passed back to the counties the cost of primary elections and the trend of legislation for a long time has been to add to expenses of administration of county affairs. It is now planned to return half of the personal prop erty tax to the State, giving to the counties, which enjoy it all at pres ent, the benefit of the State system of stiffening up returns of owner ship, which worked well when ad ministered by the Auditors General of recent years. Other bills are pending which would call for rigid attention to details of county ex penditures. The Governor is right when he submits that the cost of elections, for instance, should not be put up and that service on election boards should be a matter of patri otic duty instead of a chance to get money out of a county treasury'. There is no field wherein lawyers who specialize in divorce have been busier irf recent years than in the Legislature. Every session bills to provide for particular cases have appeared and while some have been meritorious there have been many, particularly in the last half dozen years, which should never, have reached the Governor. In the dozen or so bills vetoed this year, two have been efforts to complicate the di vorce laws still further. MAKE WHEELS GO ROUND WITHOUT discussing the cause or causes of the failure of the Peace Conference to come to a conclusion in Paris, It Is obvious that until a satisfactory settlement shall have been reached there will be more or less unrest and uncertainty here In America. Most Americans feel that peace should have been declared long ago and because no agreement has been reached there is an Indefinable un rest which extends to the individual and prevents the resumption of normal activities. In short, the Paris conference Is the main spring of the world at the present time and until the machin ery is properly adjusted the wheels of Industry and commerce and indi vidual activity in every direction I will not go roun#- in. TiKKCulcanui By the Bx-Conuuittecmaii | People who follow politics are' | awaiting with considerable interest | j the effect of Governor Sproul's an nouncement that after study of the anthracite situation he is convinced that if miners' wages are to be maintained and the trade prevented from demoralization the advance in j prices is justified, but at the same time railroad rates must be revised and put back under State control | and something done to get local dealers to realize their duty to the public. The Governor's decision seems to have been a shock to many people and to the coal companies as well. The sharp criticism of ! Feneral railroad rates met with gen-1 eral approval as did the demand for local distributors, coal dealers and those who handle the part of the business coming into direct contact with the consumer to revise their charges. The Philadelphia Inquirer gives [ space to warm commendation of the 1 Governor from Thomas Kennedy, | president of the United Mine Work- i ers of the Seventh District at Hazle ton. "The statement of Governor ; Sproul," he said, "shows a broad and intelligent understanding of the i anthracite situation. I am more than pleased when he says that we are all anxious that the present | wage scale in the anthracite be, maintained. That, coming from the Chief Executive of the State, will, in my opinion, silence those who had j hoped to reduce wages and will do , much to stabilize the anthracite in- ] dustry." —The North American in its fi nancial page says that the increase will affect seventy per cent of op erations and indicates that there will be activity in production, while It gives spape to a statement from Pottsville which says that "constant increases in prices is a menace" to the industry. The Anthrncite Con sumers' League, a Schuylkill con cern, criticises the Governor's find ing. The Philadelphia Press prints ail editorial calling for defeat of the North bill taxing all coal as some thing which would injure the con sumer. The North bill is not being taken seriously just now. —The action of Westmoreland county judges in making that county "dry" was much discussed among legislators and "wets" made little effort to conceal their disgust. The "drys" were correspondingly jubil ant. This week will be an important one in regard to liquor legislation in the House and a few more jabs like that at Greensburg will add to the dismay of the "wets." —lt was an odd coincidence that E. B. Hardenbergh and P. Gray Meek, rivals for election as Auditor General more than fifteen years ago and colleagues in the State Senate, should die within a month or so of each other. The Wayne county auditor general was a close person al friend of the Senator from Belle fonte and while he was no match for Senator Meek when he started to say things about the Republican party he used to lose no opportunity to point out to Meek where he could have made them sharper. —Opinions appear to differ whether there will be much inter ference with the legislative program because of the absence of the Gov ernor. At the Capitol plans have been made to advance legislation and send it to the Governor in bales the day before he gets home. Be lief the close of the session on May 15 has not been abandoned by some well posted men in the general assembly. The Philadelphia Press looks for the next month to be one of the most active and interesting in legislation as it relates to State politics. —Attorney General William I. SchalTer is to speak as representa tive of the Governor at the Reading functions on Wednesday. Mr. Schaffer has been much compli mented throughout the State for his activity in attacking Government post-Bellum control of intra-State business and his prompt demand that telephone and telegraph rates be charged as authorized by the Public Service Commission. —Death of Judge W. W. Carr, a Democrat, has made the Philadel phia Record and various Democrats eager to establish a precedent that the successor of a Democratic judge should be a Democrat. The Gover nor will have to appoint and he will be kept dodging Democratic applicants and their friends. Just why a party whose representation in a general assemblv of 257 has shrunk to 29. should be heard from is hard for some legislators to un derstand, especially in view of the federal service in this State. -—The Philadelphia Press savs that if Judge Eugene C. Bonniwe'll, whom it mentions as a possible ap pointee. should be named It would be a slap at Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, which is probably why some Democrats of Record leanings would like to see him hon ored. There is also talk of City Chairman Edgar W. Lank, Joseph P. McCullen, one of the ablest law yers in Philadelphia, and Frank B. Bracken. LABOR NOTES Thirty trades are represented In our shipbuilding plants. Berlin, Germany, has 1,000,000 mu nition workers. Toronto, Canada, telephone girls secured a sll weekly minimum wage. Some London, England taxi drivers were earning $45 a week. An American federation of manu facturers is being planned. Cleveland is said to be short 12,000 men for war work. Barbers at Lardar, Ontario, have received an increase in pay. Cranberry pickers in Massachusetts are earning sls a day. Toronto, Canada, ship carpenters are 100 per cent, organized. Northampton, Mass., finds the com munity market plan a money saver. When the war began the Krupp Gun Works were the largest of their kind in the world, employing96,ooo people. Over 400 printers are idle in Dub lin, Ireland, in consequence of a lock out in the book and job printing houses. Miners from the Pennsylvania an thracite fields are to be used to re i open the coal mines in the lens, France, district. H-VRRISBDRG 9SSMIB TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... BY BRICGS Where the American Sawed-off Shotgun Stopt the Hun (From the Literary Digest.) THE sawed-off repeating shotgun, loaded with buckshot, which was pictured and described in our pages a few weeks ago, appeared in the critical fighting around Chateau-Thierry, and more than won its right to be considered a real American addition to the horrors of war—at least from the German standpoint. The gun worked to such good effect that, to quote Cap tain J. H. Hoskins, who used one, "the Kaiser would have won him self a war on June 6 had he only pressed his advantage, and had it not been for those shotguns." Cap tain Hoskins was in commartd of a company of engineers ,n those ter rific days; but. Nad as the Ameri cans needed engineers, they needed combat troops worse, so the rap-, tain's company was thrown in to assist the marines. By the time I the company, reduced from 246 men to 72, was ordered to fall back to a trench where the shotguns awaited them, the Germans seemed to be having things much their own way: in that section of the battlefront. : In a recent issue of the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, Captain Hoskins tells the story of the turn of the: battle: "On June C, though we were en- j gineers, we got orders to go into the! fighting in support of the marines in Belleau Woods as combat troops. | We hiked twenty-seven miles in nine ( hours without stopping to eat. We j got into the scrap between two regi- j ments of marines and fought! against overwhelming odds, our op-1 ponents being the Prussian Guards.: The 256 men in our company had J been reduced to seventy-two and And the Cat Came Back [From an Army Report.] Statement of Sophie GuiUame —I had a beautiful cat which I loved very much. It was very beautiful. I needed it. It was filled with mice and rats. Besides that he was my companion. >, I loved him very much, because he was very beautiful. An American soldier said in that house Theveny that they had eaten a cat on Christmas day. I had not seen him for fifteen days. He never stayed out more than a week before. I, therefore ask for an indemnity of Fes 20.00 for my cat. It was a beau tiful beast. „ (Signed) SOPHIE GILLAME, Place du Marche. From: C. 0., 29th Military Police Company. To: Commanding General, 29th Division. Subject: Alleged eating of cat. I. January 7, 1919, Mme Guil lame reported that American sol diers had killed and eaten her cat for their Christmas dinner. 11. Upon investigation the follow ing facts were ascertained: (a) Cat missing January 7. (b) Statement of Mme. Guillame attached. (c) Statement of Mme. Lucy Theveny and her mother that Mme. Guillame was "queer" and that they advised paving n'o attention to her. (d) Gendarme officially reported this morning, (January 14, 1919) that the cat came back. 111. In view of above, case has been closed. (Signed) CAPTAIN, Military Police Com pany. Man Formerly in Our Town There was a man in our town. And he was wondrous wise. He jumped into a "Covenant," And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out With all his might and main. He jumped into drastic modifica tions and changes in his pro posed league of Nations, im pelled thereto by the indignant protests of the Senate, and American public, And scratched them in again. With apologies to Mother Goose, (feorge W. Hills, in the New York I Sua ammunition was nearly exhausted when orders came to fall back to the first line of trenches nearby. When we rolled into these we fought with those automatic shot guns stacked up in bunches of eight, with extra ones lying on the first parapet in the rear wall of the trenches and plenty of she'ls handy. Each gun had a shell in the cham ber and five in the magazine. Each shell was loaded with twelve big buckshot and twenty-eight grains of ixillistite powder. It neaily kicked us down every time we fired, but we didn't mind that when we saw the execution done to the Germans. The way those squirt ei-hunting Amer icans used the weapons was thor oughly effective. Our colonel had ordered that no one should fire un til he gave the command, and it looked to me that he waited until they were almost on top of us. But when the word came tnosa guns opened up in earnest. The Germans were advancing very confidently, for they knew we were in desperate straits. That shotgun volley was new to them. They were advancing well bunched, and every time a gun fired three or four Grmar.s would go down. The m. re the urprise gripped them, the closer iliev would huddle, and the deadlier was the fire. When thev could stand it no longer they began to fall back, bunched in closer than ever, with corresponding destruction from the guns. Not a German reached our lines after we began using these si.o:tuns, and I'll to'l the world that on Juno 6 the Kaiser bad won him self a war ha.l he only pressed the advantage and had it not been for those shotguns." Enemies of Peace How can we expect peace— Whep there are men and women in the world and they fall in love? When motor car tires are made of rubber and there is glass in the road ? When telephone operators refuse to talk English? When it costs $2 to put on the old nosebag in a decent restaurant? When Congress insists upon send ing out garden seeds that will not come up? When strike-on-the-box matches refuse to strike? When the kids leave tin trains of cars for the old man to stumble over? When the women are all trying to win 10-cent bridge prizes? When the butcher weighs his hand in with the steak? When married couples will insist upon picking the wallpaper to gether? When everybody has relatives? —From the Pittsburgh Post. KITCHENER'S LAST DAYS Several pages of "The Grand Fleet 1914-16" (Doran), by Admiral Vis count Jellicoe, are occupied with an account of Lord Kitchener's clos ing hours on the Iron Duke. The question has sometimes been asked, "Could not Viscount Jellicoe have advised the Hampshire to wait till the weather improved?" The Ad miral tells us that Lord Kitchener would never have consented to de lay. "He impressed me strongly with the Idea that he was working to a time-table, and that he felt that he had not a day to lose. He men tioned three weeks as the limit of his absence, and I expressed aston ishment at the program which he had planned to carry out during that period. He was most anxious not to lose a moment on the sea trip, and asked me more than once what I thought was the shortest time In which the passage could be made." It was on June 5, 1916, that Kitchener reached Scapa enroute to Archangel. He confessed at lunch eon that the strain of the last two years had been very great, and he felt that he could not have gone on without this break, which he heart ily welcomed. He was impatient tp be gone, and bis heart was already In Russia. ' | EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ It is hard *o tell whethei a Ger ! man government has been set up or | framed up.—Brooklyn Eagle. Too many bathtubs, safety razors \ and cukes of soup in this country to ! Make possible a big crop of red an | archv. —L'tica Observer. Former Kaiser Bill wants to go to a warmer climate. For once we feel i like accomodating him. —Wash- ,l ingtou Pest. What we need is a law that will ' make an unjust strike impossible and a ;uot strike unnecessary.— ; Greenville