12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR TEE SOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph . Building, Federal Snare E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief ' F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board I. P. McCULLOUGH, 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 ii), this Fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office Story, Brooks &. Kinley, Fifth Avenue Building "Western office', Story. Brooks & Gas Building ' Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * mm'.-.'. week: by mail. $3.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1919 j Consecration is not wrapping one's self in a holy l ceb in the sanctuary; it is going into the world and using every poxcer for God's glory. Henry Ward Beechcr. OLD FRIEND ALFARATA WE NOTICE that our old friend Alfarata, the Indian maiden, and her birch-bark—that is to say. copper—canoe are back on their old job at the Rummage Sale. ' Often and often we have wondered ; who would buy Alfarata and what the purchaser would do with her once she became his property. Alfarata is one of those sculptural monstrosities which Governor Sproul would banish from the Common wealth of Pennsylvania through the kindly intervention of the proposed IState Art Commission. Who the artist was who "sculped'' the an cient Indian maid from virgin metal, that otherwise might have made perfectly good material for an elec trical feed wire, say, we do not know, and our respect for the dead admonishes us to refrain from re marks upon the type of mentality that wculd produce such a "work of art" and think of it as an orna ment. Far be it from us to pose as an art critic, but how is it that men who would make perfectly admir able pile-drivers will spoil their promising careers by going in for sculpture or painting? Alfarata and her canoe turned up at the first Rummage Sale ever held in this city. We suspect her origi nal owner rejoiced in the opportuni ty of giving her away. Each year she has had a place of honor at the sale. Each year thousands of old hats, cast-off garments, second hand suits and the like have been sold to eager buyers. But each time at the close of the sale Alfara ta, in all her metal glory, has stood alone upon the shelf. If the origi nal Alfarata was snubbed as often as her copper counterpart, we do not wonder she committed suicide. But she should cheer up. Things might be worse. There is the Donato statuary, for instance. Count Von Bernstorff adds his voice of praise to the fourteen points of President Wilson's peace terms. Thus arc Editor VMerick, of the Fatherland, and Senator James Hamilton Lewis fortified. SHORTAGE OF HOMES THE HOUSING COMMITTEE of the Chamber of Commerce, which is inspecting housing de velopments in Philadelphia, Chester and Camden to-day, will return, no doubt, with a better understanding of the whole situation and broader views with respect to what should be done in Harrisburg. The mem bers, by reason of their observations, will be in position to discuss intelli gently the various problems that will arise here, for practically every dif ficulty that may be encountered lo cally has been met in the big devel opments in the three communities to be visited. The Bache Review, summing up the situation in the country at large, observes buying and selling of real estate is most active, which is prob ably due in great part to the fact that building construction has been delayed for four years, and during the last two years it has been almost at a standstill. The result of this has been to congest the present housings more and more until the crowding in dwellings,- apartments and offices has become excessive. Notwithstand ing this, building operations are flat, and the prospect of construction ap parently as poor as ever—due, of course, to high prices of material and labor. A curious situation of activity in the real estate market is resulting. Real estate is being bought and sold ut a rate said to be unequalled since the rush in real estate in 1905 and 1906. This activity is based on the short age of space, said to be unprecedent ed, and this demand for space has WEDNESDAY E\< ENING, gradually developed higher and higher rentals. The natural cure for this condi tion in ordinary times would be greater supply of space furnished by new construction, but, as has been said, the high cost of materials and labor, with possibilties of reduction in one or both, holds building back. Space is difficult to obtain, and the result is that the home and office seekers turn about and buy proper ties as the only means of finding a resting place. The rise in real es tate, confined of course, to improved properties, and not including vacant lots, has attracted speculators, and so a one-si'ded boom is developing. This condition prevails all over the country. The Department of Labor has sent out questionnaires to leading cities in the United States to find out the need of new building construction, and the replies thus far indicate in nearly every part of the country, a shortage of dwellings, tenement houses, flats and office space the latter mainly in the large cities, the other condition prevailing as well in the interior. Information was asked as to the influence of wages, price of materials, interest rates and available investment capital. Re plies showed high wages and high cost of materials as the main ob stacles, but there was much com plaint about interest rates, and in many cities great difficulty reported in borrowing capital for building work. The opinion of experts in the de partment, headed by Professor Ir ving Fisher, of Yale, was that no i decrease in labor wages may be ex i pected for some time to come. Pro fessor Fisher states: "We are on a permanently higher price-level, and the sooner the business men of the country take this view and adapt themselves to it, the sooner will they save themselves and the Nation from the misfortune which will come if we persist in our present false hope. Business men should find the facts. To talk reverently about 1913-1911 prices is to speak a dead language to-day." If we had rushed into house build ing last year, we might have gotten Government aid as a war measure and found it suddenly withdrawn with the work half completed, as in Bethlehem: so it was wise, probably, to wait. But whether or not we can wait much longer with safety to our prospects as a growing city must be decided very shortly. It is the judgment of those at Washington that there is little to be gained In J the way of money saved by further : delay. Another massacre of Armenians by Moslem gendarmes is reported by cable. Now, if our mandatory for the Armenians were in force we would have the duty before us of sending our boys to Turkey to fight the sol diefs of the Crescent. It's all in the league. THE VETERANS PASS THE death of John Deming, veteran Pennsylvania railroad conductor, removes another of that long line of vigorous, up-stand ing, aggressive men who helped make the Pennsy "the standard rail road of the world." They were railroaders in the very best sense of the word. They established the cus toms and traditions which younger employes have inherited. They went into the service of the road during the days of the old wood-burning locomotives that werd mostly smoke stack and brass trimmings. It took a crew of real men to get a train over the road in those times. The traction engines of to-day are as powerful as the freight engines of those times and a big twelve cylin der car of 1919 model could have pulled the largest freight hauler of that period off the tracks as easily as it can yank a Ford out of a wayside ditch. These men made up trains in the yards before the advent of the elec tric light and the automatic coupler. They were brakemen before West inghouse devised his airbrake and instead of four tracks, or six, along I the main line, they operated on single-track road with sidings here and there. When there was a switch to be turned they did it themselves. They were pioneers in their line of work and they got the freight across country under circumstances that would drive a modern dispatcher stark, staring crazy. They were a hard-working, lovable race of men, proud of their calling, and it is sad to observe how their ranks are dwindling. They leave a wonderful heritage to the younger generation of railroaders, who recognize in them men whom they can set up as examples and to whom they may turn for inspiration and guidance when the way seems dark and the going hard. "Get out of the way" is the first re quest American industry has to make of American bureaucracy. NEED HELP ACCORDING to the Atlanta Con stitution, the real estate men of that city, bombarded with requests for houses, have adopted the slogan: "Buy a lot and build your own home." Good advice, to be sure, but what about the man who wants to own his home but has not the money? Such a one is not in position to buy a lot and build, for that requires ready money. But the very fact that he desires a home of his own labels him as a good citizen and one worthy of assistance. He needs help and some means must be found to give it to him. It will not do to pass him along with the advice to "buy a lot and build." He must be put in the way of buying a house on the easy payment plan. Atlanta real estate men have a lot to learn if they think that slogan is going to lead them ouf of the wilderness. FOTTTTCA IK ftKKOlfitKUlZa I By the Kx-Commit tee man The Legislature of Pennsylvania goes away to-day for an ante-Easter vacation which will end on Monday night, April 21. The opposition to the plan, which was loudly voiced for a time, was not aggressive yes terday and some lawmakers lost little time in going away. It is expected that during the re cess many things will, be adjusted that will be conductive to closing up the work of the session in May. The Philadelphia bills will likely be the subject of some conferences and from all accounts, some of the rival leaders in the Quaker City are not so far apart. The effort to make it appear that the Governor was interested in the recess failed mire-ably and it is generally recog nized that he had nothing to do with it. Similarly schemes to make capital out of the recess "blew up." During the recess a number of committees will meet and the hear ing on the compensation , amend ment suggestions will be held here as scheduled next Tuesday. —The stage is being cleared for a fine old fight over the bill to "rip out" the Philadelphia and Pitts burgh school boards which was re ported late yesterday. This is go ing to be an interesting proposition and some political animosities kept under cover during the charter ne gotiations will probably bob up. —From all accounts the people opposing the proposed compensation amendments will come here with ideas of their own. They do not take kindly to the Mackev pro gram. This matter and the various ponce bills will make interesting situations after the recess. —The House law and order com mittee will rid itself of liquor bills in the week following the reconven ing of the Legislature. There will be no more hearings. Yesterday's hearing developed into a one man discussion by Wayne Wheeler, at torney for the Anti-Saloon League, who crossed swords with Repre sentative W. T. Ramsey. The Vick erman and Fox bills will be reported out and the "alcoholic content'' measure will have troubles alt its own. —The State system of making ap propriations to charitable institu tions not wholly under State control much discussed in campaigns, was attacked at a hearing held by the judlciaiy special committee ot' the House on the Allan D. Miller bill for distribution of State grants on a basis of service rendered, but at the same time it was pointed out by other speakers that the plan pro posed does not provide a method which could be handled easily. The speakers for the bill were K. L. M. Pra>. Senator George Woodward, Philadelphia: Mrs. F. J. lams. John Yates and D. J. Terry, Pittsburgh, who refeired to the fact that legis lative committees did not always follow recommendations of the State Board of Publlcn Charities: IS". T. Creasy and John A. Mc- Spattan, ot the State Grange, who opposed the system in vogue for j cars, and others. The bill was criticised by F. E. Shapperkotter, E. C. Bovie. Philadelphia; J. E. Rotn and Sherwood Conrad, of Pittsburgh, while Judge Isaac John son. president of the State Board of Public Charities, also discussed some ieatures of the bill. The bill is similar to others before the legis latures of recent years. The com mittee did not indicate any action, although there is unquestionably a sentiment growing for some change in the method of making appropria tions owing to the demands for r.ior.ey for public works and govern mental expenses. The subject is one with considerable political pos sibilities. —The woman suffrage amend ment was reported to the House last evening from the judiciary general committee and the fight is on. —The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the West bill increasing salary of legislators to 32500 a year from 31500. It now goes :o the Governor and if ap proved will become effective in 1921. There were few votes against it in either house. The present members can not share in it but they are suffering from an allowance set thirty-five years or more ago. —The Philadelphia Inquirer say 3 in its "Who's Who" column: "The incoming: Secretary of In ternal Affairs, James Fleming Wood waid, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, February 19, 1868. In 187 2 he moved with his parents to Pittsburgh and later to Allegheny. He was educated in the public schools and in the Western Penn sylvania University. He has for years held the position of superintendent of the McKeesport hospital. He served in the House of Representa tives from 1905 until he ran for the office of Secretary of Internal Affairs last year. He is best known for his work as chairman of the Appropria tion Committee of the House in which capacity he had to do with the allotment of many millions of dollars of State funds which he dis bursed with honor to the State and credit to himself. He ran many thousand votes ahead of his ticket in his home county and an addition al evidence of popularity among his neighbors was shown at a big testi monial banquet given him in Mc- Keesport last week. —Considerable interest has been shown at the Capitol in the decision of the Chester County Court, declaring that County Treasurer George E. Wilson does not owe the county S3OO to S4OO, as alleged by former County Controller Robert G. Kay, who had surcharged the treas urer with the amount while he was in office. Kay is well recalled here and this was a suit by Kay to re cover the money for the county. The matter was tried before the court some time ago, but decision reserved. Kay alleged that Wilson had an account in a local bank and the balance averaged SIB,OOO a day, but that no interest ever had been received by the county. Other treas urers never collected this interest for the county and the court decides in an opinion that Mr. Wilson is not liable the case therefore being dismissed. THE UN RETURNING For us, the dead, tho young. For us, who fought and bled Let a last song be sung. And a last word be said. Dreams, hopes, and high desires, That leaven and uplift. On sacrificial fires . We offered as a gift. We gave, and gave our all. In gladness, tho in pain; Let not a whisper fall That we have died in vain! I •"'-By Clinton Scollard. HAJUUSBUBG tSSk TELEGRXPH | WONDER WHAT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY THINKS ABOUT ~ By BRIGCS until. ,JuiT. tacewTLV still-*This LiFe has -They always wave and Those Aviators* | i Gex AWFULLY Tired its compcmsaxioms. T o m 6 AKJI) smsim Glad they are <3eTTiucTjuAT STANDING HBRC YEAR I'LL 06T I've FLIRTED To SEE ME. TH6Y EueiO AWFUL BolD. .1 GAVE AFTeR year. MY arm with more Throw ktss.es ax me one a nasty look the ±S FfIEARLY KILL.MS Mf. ... AMFPICA BUT 7>ARNI ,T 1 CANT OTHER DAY. HC CAME ' 'WPMA - A - RETURN '6H- BECAUSE- A LITTLE Too MEAR -WHAT ARe THE WOMEAJ -LOTS CONE HERE' coixtS AWOT HER •, _. i^'l ' LfFe 1 WEARING THIS>YEAR? TO SEE ME SO I NEUER C.OAD OF SOLDiGRI THEY X DO<YOU KNOU/ I XJeveß £ £T LONESOME. AND \ STARTED SHOUTING AMD Yethaue felt out ok have A wonderful view sinGinG To me miles •STYLE ? THAMK GOOD"" . PRESIDENT WILSON AND MILES OUT AT SEA N/rSS I DON'T HAVE .AJWEIU HP "SOP*. RACK AND MANY A WOMAN WOULD DRESS - • - 1 Forth. isn t he the Turned if so mauv _ regular little Afins looking „ GADAjBOUT THO' ? FELLOWS MADE BOOKS AND MAGAZINES "Mildred Carver, U. S. A.," by j Martha Bensley Bruere, The Mac- [ millan Company, New York, pub- | lishers. Price J 1.50. Here is a novel which has as its j foundation an interesting and im portant idea—universal service for men and women. Mrs. Bruere is not writing about a Utopia; rather she tells a fascinating story of two young people as well as a good many others—in the not far distant fu- . ture, who are drafted for a year of j service to their country. It would I be unfair to give the plot away more j than to say that Mildred Carver, the lovely daughter of an old New Yotk family, runs a tractor in Min nesota with Mamie Epstein from the East Side and Ellen Forsyth from Greenwich Village. Naturally things happen. The book abounds in incident and good humor—and in stimulating ideas, too. Emerson Hough's latest novel. 'The Sagebrusher," will be published by D. Appleton and Company this week. It is said to be the story of a young woman who goes West to marry a ranchman in answer to his advertisement for a wife. We hear that the plot is most unusual. Americans have heard practically nothing about the operation of American sub-seacraft in' the war, because the operations in which they were engaged were of a character that could not be made known with out detriment to the Allied cause. Nevertheless, they were on the job and future history will record their work as one of the most important contributions toward the defeat of Germany. Now that the war is over and the censorship which was nec essary during the conflict is ended, the full facts may be told. This has been done very effectively by 'Mr. H. B. Beeston in his book, "Full Speed Ahead," announced by Doubleday, Page and Company, for publication about the middle of April. The Capitol Statuary [From the Philadelphia Ledger] A thoughtful Philadelphia legisla tor is disconsolate—"desolated," the French would say. He nas gazed at the statuary that garnishes the entrance to the Cap itol at Harrisburg, and he cannot fathom its meaning. Wherefore he is moved to the musings that follow. "The tincture of time cures many ills. "The marble ladies and gentle men who now adorn the main en trance will probably be removed from their pedestals and led within the dcors of some museum. They have shivered and per spireu long enough in their present exposed position and will doubtless rejoice to find themselves safely within doors. "In their new home an unsym pathetic public may leisurely read the meaning of their allegory and may either rejoice or regret their cost of JIBO.OOO. "I once discovered an artist look ing at them and asked his opinon. "He explained that lie was a painter, not a sculptor; but he didn't understand where the sculptor, Mr. Barnard, had found so many knock kneed women. "I then inquired the meaning of the two groups. He said that they were allegorical. One group meant something and the other group meant something else. "That is about as far as the pub lic ever gets. "This inability to interpret their meaning is enough to condemn them. "No good work of art requires an explanation. "A painting, a piece of statuary, a building, a poem, a musical com position that is unintelligible is bad art. "Simplicity is the hallmark of genius. The greatest man and the greatest art is the simplest. Good taste may find variety of expres sion, but it fails fundamentally if the expression is unintelligent. "The passing show at Harrisburg —prohibitionists, suffragists, charter revisionists, salary boosters, osteo pathics and stateaidists—will be relieved of this added burden of trying to interpret these huge hu man figures. "The passing show does not fre quent museums. "When the allegories have been translated to some silent, dusty cor ridor, let the curator of the museurp write the legend; 'We fooled some of the people some of the time, but we could not fool all the people all of the time.' " THE SPICE OF LIFE [From the Literary Digest.] Explaining a Phenomenon. "This report that Germans are hissing soldiers is something aston ishing." "It is," replied Miss Cayenne. '\Evidently the goose-step has gone tip their heads." —Washington Star. Road This to Him. Mrs. A. —"Does your husband con sider you a necessity or a luxury?" Mrs. B.—"lt depends, my dear, on whether I am cooking his dinner or asking for a new dress."—Boston Transcript. A Spring llomanrc. "Dearest, I ordered to be sent home to-day a most beautiful hat for only ten guineas. It's a per fect love!" "My darling, your love will be re turned."—London Saturday Journal. Floating Stock. Smithson —"Do you know that Noah was the greatest financier that ever lived?" Dibbs—"How do you make that out?" Smithson—"Well, he was able to float a company when the whole world was in liquidation."—London Tit-Bits. Try. Try Again. "Has your wife a sense of humor?" "I don't think so." replied Mr. Pynhed. "I have told her the same joke over find over and I don't be lieve she has laughed at it more than twice in her whole life."— Washington Star. Giving Her a Tip. "Bridget, I don't want you to have so much company. Why, you have more callers in a day than I have in a week." "Well, mum, perhaps if you'd try to be a little more agreeab'.e, you'd have as many friends as I have." —Boston Transcript. Tlie Lesser Evil. "Why didn't you stop when T sig naled you?" inquired the officer. "Well," replied Mr. Chuggins, "it had taken me two hours to get this old flivver started, and it seemed a shame to stop her merely to avoid a little thing like being arrested."— Washington Star. Tlie Important Point. Dissatisfied Householder—"Do you mean to say that this meter meas ures the amount of gas we burn?" Gas Collector —"I will enter into no controversy, sir; but I may say that the meter measures the amount of gas you will have to pay for." —London Tit-Bits. Black and Green. An old colored man was burning dead grass when a "wise guy" THEODORE ROOSEVELT [By Edith Evans] "Put out the light, please." These last words he said On whom now light eternal shines. For him No burden of the slow and fading years, With consciousness of an impending blow, The sword of Damocles above his head, About to fall and bring oblivion. No, it were best to go while still the strength Of his great manhood unabated stood. And matched his mighty spirit, which, untamed By strain and travail of the passing days, Still sprang toward longed-for action when it seemed The time was ripe to serve his country best. Now he rests, His work on earth was done—else he had stayed To finish it. No life goes incomplete Back to its maker, tho our earthly eyes Not always read the story to its end. The end? For him it's but the beginning, A sure presage of immortality. Such souls were never made to be destroyed. But to go on and on, to wider fields And new achievements, fitted to the powers Which here on earth were, as a sacred trust, Held blameless, stainless, and in i violate. stopped and said: "You're foolish to do that. Uncle Eb, it will make the meadow as black as you are." "Don't worry 'bout dat, sah," re sponded Uncle Eb. "Dat grass will grow out an' be as green as you is." —Boston Transcript. An Instrument of Precision. Dibbs—"Do you believe that there is really something which can in variably tell when a man is lying?" Higgs—"l know it." Dibbs—"Ah! Perhaps you have seen one of the instruments?" Higgs—"Seen one? I married one!" —London Tit-Bits. Like the Preacher. "You say your laundry woman re minds you of a good preacher?" "Yes: she's always bringing things home to me that I never saw be fore."—Boston Transcript. He Would Prefer It Stayed. Suitor—"Sir, I ask for your daughter's Imogen's hand." Her Father—"Certainly, my boy, certainly—take the one that's al ways in my pocket'"—The Pass ing Show. Breaking tlie Noose. The Warder—"You'rs in luck, Scrippen! There's a reprieve for you come along from the Home Office." The Convicted One (rising to the occasion) —"Ha! No noose is good noose!"— London Mail. A Mere Detail. Ma —"No, Gladys will not become engaged until she is twenty." Pa—"But, my dear woman, she may not get the chance when she is twenty." Ma—"Well, then, she will remain twentjr until she does."—London Mail. A Brilliant Thought. A thrifty old lady of Hull, ■Whose intellect seemed rather dull. When reading at night, To economize light, Put luminous paint on her skull. —Punch. Logical Wish On the outskirts of Philadelphia is an admirable stock farm. One day last summer some poor chil dren were permitted to go over this farm, and when their inspection was done, to eaclr of them was given a glass of milk. The milk was ex cellent. "Well. boys, how do you like it?" the farmer said, when they had drained their glasses. "Fine." said one little fellow. Then after a pause, he added, "I wish our milkman kept a cow."— Journal of the American Medical Association. EDITORIAL COMMENT Far be it from us to say that the government run's smoother every time a cabinet officer goes away.— Washington Post. If there's one thing that hurts more than having to pay an income tax, it's not having to pay an in come tax.—Elmira Star-Gazette. Nothing but war could have taught us that the Kaiser didn't raise hta boy to be a soldier. —Greenville tP. C.) Piedmont. Cutics of Piesident Wilson ap pear to objtct to the I in his Ideais. —Brooklyn Eagle. Polygamy is proposed for Europe, hut it is contrary to Scripture. No man can serve two masters.—Grene vll'e (S. 0.) Piedmont. If the I-dsheviki and Germans get to real fighting the world will be neutral to toe extent of hoping bocil ■s.des lose.— Wall Street Journal. LABOR NOTES Coalville, Englandn, Trades and Labor Council passed a resolution urging the abolition of workhouses. With a membership of over 300, the Toronto Policemen's Union is now fairly well setabllshed. When dock laborers at Cork, Ire land, were refused an Increase In pay and shorter hours they went on strike. The Domlnlnon and the Province of Ontario are to co-operate. In the mat ter of settling Canadian soldiers on the land. APRIL 9, 1919. The Song of the Derelict [By Lieut.-Col. John McCrae] Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rhymes. (I scorn your beguiling, O sea!) Ye fondle me now, but to strike me betimes, (A treacherous lover, the sea!) Once 1 saw as 1 lay, half-awash in the night, A hull in the gloom—a quick hail— and a light And I lurched o'er to leeward and saved her for spite From the doom that ye meted to me. I was sister to Terrible, seventy* four, (Yo ho! for the swing of the sea!) And ye sank her in fathoms a thou sands or more (Alas! for the might of the sea!) Ye taunt me and sing me her fate for a sign! What harm can ye wreak more on me or on mine? Ho, braggart! T care not for boast ing of fhine— A fig for the wrath of the sea! Some night to the lee of the land T shall steal, (Heigh-ho to be home from the sea!) No pilot but Death at the rudderless wheel, (None knoweth the harbor as he!) To lie where the slow tide creeps hither and fro And the shifting sand laps me around, for I know That my gallant old crew are in Port long ago— For ever at peace with the sea! "Girard" Interviews McClain "We haved reduced the expenses of the Labor Bureau of this State 80 per cent," said ex-Lieutenant Gover nor Frank B. McClain, as he stopped on Broad Street to chat for a few minutes. "Will wages remain up?" I in quired. "If employers are wise, they will remain up," he replied. Then he added this significant thought: "High wages during the period of reconstruction will be the best in surance possible against all kind 3 I of trouble. 1 "You can't reduce income of the people while those two basic neces sities—meat and grain—remain in the clouds." Governor McClain. who, as you know, is head of our State Welfare Council said that we have a bigger supply of hogs and cattle than we ever had and yet pork and beef arc higher than at any other time dur ing the war or at any time before the war. "Why 20-ecnt beef and 20* cent pork." I inquired, "if our country is producing record quantities of them'!" "Europe is producing far less than its regular amount of meats," an swered the Governor, "anil also grains, and we are feeding Europe. Buying of our food by Europe is what keeps prices at world-record figures." There's a pretty kettle of fish, eh, what? You and I must pay far more money for meats because half of Europe is loafing on the job and refusing-to produce enough to keep itself alive. Pity we cannot apply that three century-old rule of Captain John flmith to the Bolshevists:—- "Those who will not work shall not eat." RECOMPENSE [By Lieut.Col. John McCrae) I saw two sowers in Life's field at morn, To whom came one in angel guise and said, "Is it for labor that a man is born? "Lo: T am Ease. Come ye and eat my bread!" Then gladly one forsook his task undone And with the Tempter went his slothful way. The other toiled until the setting sun With stealing shadows blurred the dusty day. Ere harvest time, upon earth's peaceful breast Each laid him down among the unreaping dead. "Labor hath other recompense than rest, Else were the toiler like the fool," I said:' "God n.cte'.h him not less, but rather more Because he sowed and others reaped his store." —By Lieut. Col. John McCrae. Stoning (gfrrijj 'The housing committee Of th 4 Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce! which spent to-day in Philadelphia and Camden, under the leadership ol Chairman J. Horace going over the housing in those cities, Is very much In earn, est. Mr. McFarland, who has been engaged in similar work for thfl United States Government, jwltlf* headquarters at Washington, say* that the shortage of homes Is noj merely local. It exists in almost all large centers of population. Mr. McFarland believes it is essentia] to the immediate return to norma] conditions that building and con. structlon work be stimulated. Som< authorities estimate the house short, age in the country as a whole at d niillion. Five hundred thousand ij thought to be a conservative estl* mate. Federal supervision and di rection, necessary during the wan must give way to local and private initiative. Twenty cities are already getting under way drives for build ing and home-owning. * The United States Government had worked out a plan which could be changed, it is believed, to meet local conditions. "The entire campaign," Mr. McFarland says, "is pitched on a civic betterment plane rather than on a purely commercial basis and the appeal is more on the line of what each business group can pui in rather than what it can get out of the movement. It is a 100 per cent greater city movement, having in mind only the incalculable perma nent benefits to the community and the immediate helpfulness to the nation during the transition from war mobilization to peace produc tion. It will provide better living condi tions, increase efficiency, encourage thrift, give greater comfort and hap piness and create individual reserves for misfortune and old age. Every house owner with his family, wheth er rich, poor, or well-to-do, becomes thereby a better citizen, with in creased self-respect, independence and responsibility to the city and Nation and are more vitally inter ested in the welfare and prosperity I of both. During the readjustment period such a movement hastens the return of normal conditions; results in such needed construction for home and industrial purposes; provides work for returning soldiers and sailors and for labor changing from war to peace industries; stimulates all lines of business in each community, creates general prosperity. The fact that all these are patri otic in purpose does not eliminate the certainty of their being: mate rially to the local communities and, in the ions run, the community which makes it easiest and cheapest to build, will reap the greatest material benefits, those back of the movement believe. The "Own Your Own Home" movement was one of the proposi tions submitted to the recent con ference of Governors and Mayors in Washington where it met with en thusiastic encouragement and sup port of Mayor Keister, of HarTis bui g, and other Mayors, many of them expressing the determination lo return to their districts and in terest themselves in getting such * campaigns under way. Among the national organizations which have pledged support and co operation for the "Own Your Own Home" work are the General Fed eration of Women's Clubs, through its president, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles of Los Angeles, California, the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the National Fed eration fo Construction Industries. Members of the Legislature are taking a keen interest in the plan of Col. Edward Martin to make Har. risburg the model in regard to sani tation and health and some of those from nearby towns will attend the meeting Monday to discuss the pro ject. • • • The manager of a theater In an interior Pennsylvania town, which for obvious reasons must remain un named, tells this story of the con struction of a mczzinine floor in his playhouse. He was naturally proud of his improvement, the first of its kind in the place. Politely approach ing two women who had purchased tickets for the evening performance and were just about to leave the lobby, he bowed and said: "Ladies, won't you allow me the pleasure ot showing you Our new mezzinine floor " The pair looked startled for a moment and then the elder, portly dame of apparent prosperity but evidently of small education, said: Don't get fresh, young man, you are addressing two perfect ladies. If you have anything of that kind to show us, send us a female at tendant. Hut not with you, sir, not with you." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ernest T. Trigg, prominent Philadelphian, is in charge ot the Temple University plan to obtain a million dollar endowment. —General W. J. Nicholson, cited for the distinguished service cross, commanded the 79th Division, com posed of Eastern Pennsylvania drafted men. —A. A. Corey, the new head of Cambria Steel, used to be president of the Carnegie Steel Company. —Dr. R. M. Gummer, Just chosen president of the Classic Society, la headmaster of Penn Charter school. —J. S. Oursler, new president of the Carnegie Steel Company, was in charge of the Government plant at Neville Island and has frequently appeared at meetings at the CapitoL DO YOU KNOW | —That Harrisburg woke up to*the Importance of improving whensghe Legislature of 1901 declined tojnova* the Capitol from this city? HISTORIC HARRISBURa —lt is now 107 years since th bill to make Harrisburg the Capitol was passed. Would Stop Camouflage Reversal of the camouflage prin ciple, greatly increasing the visiblity of its subjects, Instead of concealing them by blending them with the background, is declared a possible peace development by the naval of ficer who developed that particnlai nature faking system. Since every positive has its negative, color ap plications opposite to those used fot confusing the eye are being studie4 for a possible standardized systenj of making distant objects cunspi<> |uous. —From the IndianapoliaCAMn
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