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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and I
in the strength of his might.—Eph. 6:10. :
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CITY PARK PLANTING
IN these Springtime days, the Har
risburger, who is not thrilled with
pride over the "many attractive
features of this city, is deficient in
the love of the beautiful in nature-
Especially is this true when one
walks along the Susquehanna basin 1
and observes the picturesque gran- I
dcur of the river and mountain
scenery at our doors.
A walk along the "Front Steps of
Harrisburg" impresses the stranger
with the tine character of treatment
of the river front and suggests the
possibilities of the future planting
of the terrace and also the perma
nent care of the west-shore embank
ment.
At this period of the year, the
islands and the green fields beyond,
impress the visitor with the beauty
of the city's environment and con
stantly suggest the need for some
tixed policy for the Department of
Parks regarding future development.
Hundreds of people now enjoy the
walk along the "Front Steps," but
there is general comment respecting
the failure to properly plant with
permanent shrubbery, the terrace of
the embankment. Soil pots were
placed in the riprapping from Mac
lay Street southward and yet few of
these pots have been utilized in the
planting of the slope—probably not
ten per cent of them.
With the great quantity of shrub
bciy available for planting at the
City Nursery, it ought to be an easy
matter to cover the embankment
with the most attractive planting
and now that the war is over and
the shortage of labor Is no longer
a fact to be considered, it is not
unreasonable to expect that the post
poned planting will be proceeded
with this Spring.
Gradually the various trades and in
dustries are recovering their equilib
rium and proceeding somewhat along
normal lines. It will be some time, of
course, before the war reaction ceases
to be felt, but the fact that trade and
commerce are beginning to recover is
an assurance of a stabilization of labor
and industry.
NATURAL RESULT
SAYS a writer in the Philadelphia
Press: "It is a ten to one shot
that Russian Bolshevism will
blow out as suddenly as the Frencli
■ ' terrorism vanished a century and a
quarter ugo."
In other words, history may re
peat itself. Indeed there are very
distinct signs that this is happening.
Bolshevism is like a conflagration.
It must burn itself out and our part
is to prevent its spread. In the old
French Revolution, Mirabeau corre
sponds somewhat with Kerensky and
the men who overthrew the Czar,
and went the same way as Keren
sky. Following him came Murat.
Robespierre and their kind, the
Renines and Trotzkys of that day,
and the crimes they committed and
the outrages of which they were
guilty, in the name of government,
correspond very closely with the
frightfulness of the present autocrats
in control of Russia. Then appeared
Napoleon and France was restored
to order and prosperity. Perhaps,
as the writer quoted suggests, there
may be lingering in Russia to-day
some one who will arise to over
throw the terrorists.
That is the only hope of Russia.
Bolshevism feeds only on the reserve
wealth of the country. It is a de
structive, not a constructive force.
It believes in the rule of brawn ani
not of brain. It has no place in its
tenets for individual intitative, with
out which the world would still be
a jungle and civilization unknown.
Bye and bye Bolshevism will bur.i
low. and then we may expect to ice
some powerful figure loom up in
Russia, kick the ashes and the
smouldering embers in all directions
end tturt to build on the site of th"
cuiuod structure, a government fur
TUESDAY EVENING,
more substantial and desirable than
'anything that Russia has ever known.
Meanwhile, men, women and chil
dren. helpless and blameless, must
die by the hundreds of thousands,
victims of the greatest governmental
crime the world has ever seen.
Short term Victory bonds at 4%
per cent, interest have an attractive
sound.
HERE ALSO
WHAT the New York World says
of housing conditions in cer
tain parts of that great met
ropolitan center applies to Harris
burg so well that it is worth quoting.
According to that newspaper:
A Brooklyn clergyman is living
in his church because he cannot
find an apartment. Men offer
premiums to agents to get them
rooms. A Bronx landlord raises
one rental within a few months
from $lB to SSO. A woman who
cannot pay $36 for rooms formerly
costing sl6 begs Mayor Hylan to
let her pitch a tent in the park;
and this course may yet be neces
sary.
Not all landlords are grasping:
1 many have advanced rents only
the small percentage justified by
higher costs. The fact that living
quarters often cannot be found at
all, which plays into the hands of
the comparatively few cormorants,
is the more widely serious element
in the case.
In spite of crushing debt and
| heavy war losses Great Britain has
resulted upon a national rehousing
campaign. The Government bill for
the purpose begins. "It shall he the
duty of every local authority" in
England and Wales to provide
housing, and sets forth how this
may be done by public credit, com
pulsory purchase of land and other
means that seem radical until the
cvershadowlng greatness of the
emergency is considered. The need
is even keener in our fast-growing
I cities, yet we simply drift.
The housing of the people is the
I concern of the people, who are the
| Government. The rent problem is
bigger than the deserts of land
lords. It concerns public health
and morals, the growth or decay
I of entire communities. It is a prob
lem that must be faced.
Fortunately, consideration of our
problem is in good hands. We know
that there is a shortage of houses. |
We know the condition exists, but '
to precisely what extent and how to ;
meet it we must rely upon informa- j
tion now being collected and upon i
the study of those charged with the j
work. That other cities recognize
the same need and are facing the
same problems should give us cour
age to go forward carefully with the ;
task before us to the end that the •
results shall compare favorably with l
the best attainments of other com- j
munities.
A CONSTRI CTIVE SPEECH
SENATOR PENROSE, in his i
speech before the Manufactur- j
ers' Club in Philadelphia Fri
day night, took the ground that the j
part the Republican party must play j
in the affairs of the nation in the
next few years is that of a con- !
striictive fore, cd he very properly j
laid small stress upon the policy of I
mere adverse criticism of the Demo
cratic administration, which natur
ally has cropped out in the ad
dresses of less thoughtful men fa
miliar with war history in Wash
ington. Said he:
1 do not intend to criticise at
this time the wastefulness, the
ill-advised projects and the bad
economic methods practiced dur- |
ing tin- war. For the present we ;
can pass them by, realizing that
in war waste is inevitable and
men lose their balance. Let these
things, however, pass for the
moment. Let us now look for
ward and. as a preliminary reso
lution. let us solemnly declare
that our slogan shall be
"Economy ami Retrenchment."
IVonomy and retrenchment have
t.rrcmc more than ever prime es
sentials in the conduct of govern
ctital activities. Wo cannot continue
to float big bond issues. Wc must
begin to think seriously about wip
ing out the indebtedness we already
have contracted. < >f course, it will be ;
necessary for the Democratic ad
ministration to give full- and com
plete account of its stewardship, and
doubtless considerable dirty linen
will be washed before the new Con
gress completes its work, hut Sen
ator Penrose is right in his opinion
thai the people are far more inter
ested iu what the Republican Con
gressmen intend to do than in v/hac
the 'Democrats have done. Mere
criticism will not meet thd demands
of the voters. The incoming Re
publicans must have a great con
structive program of their own.
They must restore the country ,u
normal conditions. They must get
away as rapidly as possible from the
war and the evils that have followed
in its wake. As Senator Penrose
lias mid:
Tf I were to urge another reso
lution for our future course I
should say: Bet the government
abolish its autocratic bureaus and
paternal interference. J,et ns re
store business, including ttie
railroads and telephone and tele
graph lines, to its owners. Ret us
abolish and forget methods which
verge on socialism and which are
unutterably demoralizing. Ret in
dustry resume in its normal
channels. Ret us re-establish and
liberate that individual initiative
and enterprise which pre-emi
nently have made the Fnited
State- the greatest and most pro
pressive nation in the world.
If the next Congress can accom
plish those ends there will be no
question as to the election of a Re
publican President next year. One
of the matters to be considered is
tliat of the tariff. Democrats have
been quoted as saying that they
"would not oppose a tariff advance
to care for certain necessary rev
enues," which means that they see,
but will not admit, the need of meet
ing the tariff walls being raised by
England and some other countries,
ar.d Republicans always have been
for the protection of home indus
tries.
There are big things on the book 3
for the Republican Congress. To
be sure, it will have to contend with
an opposition President, but at least
it must set itself right before the
voters, and having done that there
will be small doubt that they, in
due time, will remove the disturb
ing factor.
"let's kiss and make up," says
Murder to the aPies. Let's see isn't
there n particularly appropriate story
about one Judas and his kiss?
Tollttct Lk
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By the Ei-Committeeman
F. R. Hendersliop, candidate for
controller of Luzerne county for the
third term, is a strong believer in
the popularity of good roads. He is
one of a half dozen or more candi
dates already in the field who think
that the voters want good roads and
are willing to spend their money in
assisting the State to carry out its
program in the various counties,
where it is proposed to erect sec
ondary road systems, joining State
highways partly at county and part
ly at State expense.
This is the way he sets forth his
views in the Hazelton Plain Dealer
"With the aid of the County Com
missioners I will finance $300,000.00,
or more if necessary, for the building
and upkeep of the roads. That will
take from your corners, men who
are looking for work, and that is the
poison that kills anarchism, and idle
ness is that which creates it. Good
roads are the forerunner of the pro
duets of the farms to the consumer.
"The above are my sentiments and
convictions as to what is necessary
to be done and upon them I herewith
submit my candidacy for County
Controller of I.uzerne county for the
third term. I ask the careful consid
eration of you, the taxpayers of Lu
zerne county. If you think T am
right. I ask your vote. If you think
my position is wrong, I cannot ex
pect your vote, but I am willing to
abide by your judgment."
-—The idea of making roads a
campaign is not original with Mr.
llendershop. Fully u half dceien
candidates for County Commissioner,
most of them in the western part
of the State, have already announced
their platforms and highways occupy
a main place in all of them.
"We,wonder what is going to be
tlie attitude in Dauphin. Perry, Cum
berland. Lebanon and other nearby
counties." said a State Highway of
ficial in calling attention lo these
good roads planks. Up to this time
Dauphin county has boon so intent
upon its tax revisions and the dis
putes incidental to re-valuation of
coal lands, that neither Mr. Cumbler
nor Dr. Stine has had much oppor
tunity to go into the road question.
Roth will be candidates for re-elec-1
tion.
A special drive to secure a great
er Democratic representation from
Pennsylvania in Congress was the
chief topic of discussion at the din
ner given last night hv former Rep
resentative A. R. Rrodbock. of Tonk
in Washington. The defeat which
the Keystone Democrats encountered
at tlie polls last November was a se
vere one. hut the recent victorv in
the special election in the West
moreland- Butler district has hear
tened the Democratic politicians and
the\ will start an aggressive cam
paign lo swing tlie western part of
I enns> Ivania into tlie Democratic
column at the next election.
I nitcd States Senator Boies Pen
rose yesterday deplored the "veil of
secrecy" overhanding the peace
negotiations at Paris.
Published accounts are vague,"
said lie, "and 1 am loatli to comment
freely. But it was understood the
covenant should be openly arrived
at. 1 his policy lias been abandoned.
It is even said Germany will receive
the news of the peace terms before
the United States and the Allies.
"The censorship rules and the
illegal control of the cables by the
American Government, which took
them without justification, solely to
suppress information, makes it diffi
cult to know what is going on. The
secrecy will stop, happily, when the
United states Senate meets. it is
well known the Senate considers
treaties in secret session. In this in
stance the American people will de
mand publicity, and I think there
will be similar demands in England
and France. The self-constituted
diplomats representing us at Paris
will have to come out of their seclu
sion and face an awakened constitu
ency."
Senator Penrose added, for Phil
adelphia. that the charter hill would
not tie permitted to languish. He de
clared he would come to Harrisburg
personally if occasion demanded
and take charge of the proponents'
right to have adequate charter legis
lation passed.
—Lieutenant Governor Beidleman
has made more addresses since his
inauguration than any other official
in the State service in a similar per
iod. He had has so many invitations
that he has been compelled to de
cline many of them in order to give
atlention to his legislative duties.
—While they have nothing to an
nounce for publication. City Com
missioners William 11. Lynch, Dr. S.
F. Hassler and Charles W. Burtnett
are quietly arranging their fences
for re-election. Their friends say
they ■will have the support of men
prominent in the Republican organi
zation.
Cornering Mr. Burleson
[From the New York World.]
Postmaster General Burleson is
not helping his grand public-owner
ship enterprise by making state
ments as to his operation of tele
graphs and telephones which are in
stantly challenged by men familiar
with the facts.
For example, he says that the re
cent jncrease in rates was made nec
essary by higher wages and that the
added revenue will hardly cover the
extra expense; but officials of the
employes' organization deny that
there has been any gctual increase
in wages, holding that the extraor
dinary outlays now* cited are mostly
due to costly and wasteful methods
introduced since the lines passed
under the control of Government.
As a further illustration, in de
fending the 20 per cent increase on
rates on these grounds, Mr. Burleson
says that it would have been un
avoidable and probably greater i'
private management of the lines had
been continued. In reply to this we
have the statement of President
Mackay of the Postal Company, in
which he guarantees restoration and
maintenance of the old rates when
public control of his lines shall have
been relinquished.
Departmental views on these sub
jects are twisted by the preconceived
notions of Government ownership
pers. These gentlemen, with Mr.
Burleson at their head, started out
with promises of efficiency and econ
omy and the belief that their system
could he made permanent. They
have failed, as everybody knows,
and. instead of admitting the truth,
they arc offering explanations that
do not explain.
They Return From France
Two soldiers kissed each other
when they met at the Union station.
[From the Leavenworth Times.]
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FFt ASK W. WOOLWORTH \
[From the Philadelphia Ledger.] 1
His rapid rise from a small "pig-!
eonhole" store to the palatial Wool- j
worth building in this city—with
more than 800 branch stores in the \
United States and mote than sixty I
in Canada and England—forms one j
of the most interesting business ro- j
niances in the history of the world.!
The business was incorporated se\ - j
eral years ago for, $05,000,000.
In addition to being president oi"|
the firm of F. W. Woolworth and >
Company, he was the director of a |
number of banks and business enter
prises here. He maintained a resi
dence on Fifth Avenue noted for its!
rare paintings, and a country home
at Glen Cove.
borne one characterized Frank W. j
Woolworth as "the man who made j
little things big." He gave a won-j
dorful illustration of the importance
of a cent. He was the sublimated
small merchant.
Mr. Woolworth wasn't a man of
particularly fine sensibilities, and he i
was asked one day how it happened j
(hat he got the ambition to build
such a structure, and particularly
such a beautiful structure.
"I built that magnificent affair!
when I was a boy," he said. "My (
folks were poor and we lived in a j
very small house. Back of our house 1
there were stone piles, and I started i
to build a house of my own. After!
I was making a lot of money as a !
merchant, I wanted to build some- 1
thing bigger than any other mer- j
chant had. The Woolworth build-1
ing is the result."
A story that is little known about '
Woolworth has to do with his first!
day as a merchant in Pennsylvania.
He put every dollar he had' in the |
world, and Vie didn't liave many, j
into his stock, his fixtures and h'ls!
rent. His opening day was circus
day. The streets were crowded, but
nobody came into his store. The-'
parade was a bigger attraction. But j
along in the late afternoon there was
a sudden change. After the ..circus
the people seemed to find partieula
attraction in the new store that had
just opened. When he counted his
cash that night, he found his total
sales exceeded his early forecast.
Later in life he said that first day
was the most trying of his life.
One thing the death of Mr. Wool
worth may clear up is the mystery
of the City Park at Watertown. N.
Y. The park was built and year
after year the bills for its mainten
ance have gone to a banking house
in New York. There always has been
more than a suspicion that Frank
Woolworth was the man who paid.
Mr. Woolworth had one great pas
sion aside from business. That was
music. In his home at Glen Cove
he had one of the most remarkable
organs in the world. It was fitted
up with all sorts of mechanical ap
pliances for reproducing storm ef
fects —lightning, thunder and such.
He did not play particularly well and
appreciated this fact. When he got
a talented organist to visit his home,
he was delighted. He was rather
senstive about his own limitations
as a player, and when he had guests
he could not be induced to go to the
organ. But he would, if he was
pressed, play the piano, on which he
was a fair sort of performer.
There are a lot of stories illustra
tive of Woolworth's business meth
ods. Once he went to Germany to
visit a man from whom he had been
buying penknives for years. Going
into this man's office one day, he
said: "Here's a knife that you make.
It's a pretty good knife. It's higher
priced than the goods I handle. How
much does it cost you to manufac
tuie it?"
The German told him. "If T gave
you a big order," and Mr. Wool
worth named a considerable total,
"at what price would you sell it to
me "
"Sixteen cents," said the knife
man.
"If I gave you an order sufficient
to keep your factory busy night and
day, twenty-four hours, for a year,
what then "
The German figured for a long
time. Then he said, "Eight cents."
"Done," said Woolworth.
There was no pretense to Wool
worth: he was big, bluff and hearty.
He didn't pay his employes particu
larly large wages, and he held them
to a strict accountability. He insisted
upon courtesy. "The customer is
always right," was one of his doc
trines. "Never forget that. He or
she is right whether she i 3 or not."
Once or twice or thrice a year he
would shoot a telegram to every one
in his hundred or more stores in
America and have the same thing
done in his fifty or sixty or more
stores in Canada, England .or else-
SOULLESS HUN RULE IN AFRICA
Colonics Acquired "For Us Whites," Was Frankly Brutal
Policy
[Evans Lewin in the Atlantic Monthly.]
THE natives of Africa, whether
they are regarded as economic
assets or as human beings, are
in reality children, with certain
vices of their own, but in their raw
state uncontaminated by a corrupt
and material civilization. They may
be molded like clay in the hands
of the potter, and it is the duty of
those higher in the scale of civili
zation, as it is understood in Wes
tern Europe and America, to see
that these children of Nature are
not crushed lower and lower, until
they become mere helots and slaves
of a soulless domination.
This is the essential justification
of European control. Yet from the
first it was announced in the Kolo
niale Zeitschrift, that self-interest
was to be the mainspring of Ger
man policy in Africa. "We have
acquired this colony," it was writ
ten, "not for the evangelization of
the blacks, not primarily for their
well being, but for us whites. Who
soever hinders our objects we must
put out of the way." Avoiding the
charge of hypocrisy, so freely leveled
at those who have adopted other
views, the Germans have laid them
selves open to another, and per
haps more sinister, impeachment,
clared Bebel, "is conceived only
from the point of view of material
profit."
In the early days of German
colonisation, from 1884 up to 1900,
it was fondly hoped that the Ger-
where, and this is about the way the
messages would read:
"Good morning. Did you say 'good
morning' to each customer this morn
ing? Frank W. Woolworth."
TRADE BRIEFS
A concession has been granted io
Antonio Amorin do Amaral for the
building of a railroad from Amapa
to Oyapock, both in the State of
Para, Brazil, the latter town being
located on the boundaries of the
French Guianas and called San
Antonio.
In the first eight months of 1918
Japan imported ?180,092 worth of
rivets, chiefly for use in shipbuilding.
The 1918 crop of olives in Seville,
Spain, is only about 40 per cent of
that gathered in 1917. Not only is
the crop short, but the quality of the
fruit is poor, tho olives being very
wormy.
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, fur
nishes a market for about 400 metric
tons of calcium carbide a month,
which is approximately 80 per cent
of the entire importation of this
product into Argentina.
Reports from Quebec. Canada,
show that a new chocolate and can
dy factory has been added to the
industries of that city. It is antici
pated by the management that 159
varieties of chocolates, when the
project is fully developed, will be
produced.
The motion picture market is now
very well developed in Greece, most
of the films shown coming at pres
ent from Italian and French produe.
ing companies. Highly melodramatic
plots are popular.
LABOR NOTES
The meat packing plants in Can
nada employ over 1200 women in
various capacities.
Drug clerks in Greater New York
have formed themselves into a Drug
Clerks' Union with a view to secur
ing shorter hours and increased
wages.
The tetile industry in Brazil sup
plies 75 per cent, of that country's
cloth consumption.
A vast portion of the working
class of Chile's less than 4,000,000
population is engaged in the ex
ploitation of the nitre fields in that
country.
Mexico is to have a national
workmen's compensation law which
will include many of the important
features of similar laws enacted by
States in this country.
The cotton mills in India employ
nearly 300,000 persons and the cot
ton ginning, cleaning and pressing
mills more than a third as many
additional workers.
man colonies would become the
homes of contented and prosperous
German settlers. It was believed
that German Southwest Africa and
considerable portions of East Af
rica might become "white men's
countries." In the first of these
colonies the pursuit of this policy
led to the practical extermination
of the only native race capable of
affording a labor supply for the
white colonists.
The Hereros, badly administered,
robbed of their lands and cattle,
and treated with great severity,
were driven into the frightful Kala
hari Desert —old men, women and
children —and left to die of thirst,
or else killed in one of the most
terrible and bloody wars that has
ever disgraced African soil. Out of
a total of little more than eighty
thousand, less than twenty thousand
survived, and the bloody hand may
be inscribed with justice on the
escutcheon of Southwest Africa.
This campaign is graphically de
scribed in all its horrors by a pas
tor of Hamburg who, in one of the
most moving books ever written,
sketches in broad and vivid outline
the sinister record of this inhuman
war. ("Peter Moor," by Gustav
Frennson.)
In fact, within a few years, as was
admitted by the great German nat
uralist, Doctor Schillings, Germany
slaughtered some two hundred thou
sand natives in her colonies.
THE VICTORY LOAN
[From the New York Times.]
On the eve of the Fifth Liberty
Loan campaign let us take counsel
together. There is more or less
loose thinking about this last call to
help Uncle Sam pay his war bills.
His honor is'involved, and may it.
not be raid that it should be a point
of honor with every American who
can buy a bond to stand by him and
help to carry his burden? The war
was won because the United States
found the money not only, to raise
armies, expand the navy, and make
munitions, but to "stake" our allies
and feed their people.
It was a short war for the United
Stales, and a merciful war, since our
losses in fighting men were a few
scores of thousands, while those of
France were far more than a million
and of the British Empire nearly a
million. Economically the United
States comes out of the war with few
scars, while France is grievously
spent and Great Britain wi'l suffer
from her sacrifice for a generation.
Prosperity will soon be knocking
at the door of America again and she
will quickly recover from the ordeal,
but for her allies it will be "a long,
long trail" to better times. They
will have to undergo many hard
ships, to endure many privations, to
faint and falter on the way. to ex
perience dark days, before they can
compete with us again on even terms
and know success. With the war
over, their people are living on
shorter rations than Americans
knew at anv time during the strug
gle. Should we complain of a bur
den of taxation that is light and
easily borne compared with the
crushing load they stagger under'.'
The price we pay for victory seems
high only when we do not contrast
our condition and our obligation
with theirs. And it must never be
forgotten that we entered the wnr
on our own account as much as on
theirs. Any other view is sophistry
or self-delusion. Moreover, t was
because they fought so hard for
thiee years that the end came so
soon after our armies took the field.
Their debt to us is great, but so is
ours to them. So let us pay our war
bills cheerfully.
Bolshevism Means This
' I am strongly convinced that in
all main essentials, the aims of the
Bolsheviki and of the I. W. W. are
identical Minister of Ports and
Telegraphs Zorin, who lived eight
years on the east side, to'd me once
that they expected to get Germany
after Russia, and after Germany
they would tackle the I'nited States."
—Excerpts from the testimony before
the Senate Committee investigating
Bo'rhevism by the Rev. Dr. George
S. Simons, superintendent from 1907
until last October of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Russia.
APRIL 15, 1919.
' Proverbs of Modern Japan
i [Saito-Man in the Continental Edi
tion of the Eondon Mail.]
j Many foreigners have been please.!
| to call my country, Japan, the land
■of proverbs. A large percentage of
our proverbs, it is needless to say,
j concern women.
Most of the old widely known
! ones have been freely translated, or
| stolen, by foreign writers. But we
are not worried. New and clever
proverbs are fast being created by
the new generation of men and wo
: men.
1 translate helow some of the gems
which have recently come under my
notice. They do not necessarily rep
j resent the opinion of the present day
. Japa-nese people, but they are at
any rate a contribution to the abun
idant world wisdom of the immortal
problem:
" 'New' women are created to rc-
I place good women."
I "If you want to love women, be
gin by loving money."
"Women who remember shop
| signs and trade marks make good
wives."
j "Very jealous women are easy to
I control."
i "Pride goes before a fall, espeoial
jly in beautiful women."
' Women and mountains should be
I looked on at a distance."
| "Women fall in love with their
protectors: men with women."
! "Men who can neither brag nor
flatter need not fear being loved by
! women."
"Rather than make love in clumsy
language, bite your tongue out."
I "Plain women bewail their ntisfor
itune in proportion to their learning."
"When marriage agents praise any
woman for her virtues, you may be
fcertain that it is another way of
'saying that she is tig'y."
"Women who seek liberty too of
ten lose it."
"A wife who does not know bow
to please her husband makes him
commit no fnd of blunders."
I "Men who like, to take photos with
! their wives are henpecked."
j "Thin lipped women tell lies: thick
lipped women are lazy and jealous."
" 'Tis women who know they aro
ugly that powder their faces."
"Women admire women of their
own type."
"The secret of winning the woman
who jilts you is—perseverance."
' "Women understand men: those
who understand women are also
women."
"Poisonous flies carry shiny wings:
bad women pretty faces."
"Men laugh with their hearts:
women only with their mouths."
"Women who habitually bite their
lips are jealous."
"War makes men strong and wo
men lovely."
First Division
Regular Army: Division Headquar
ters arrived in France June 27, 1917.
Activities: Sommervillc sector, ten
[kilometers southeast of Nancy. Oc
jtober 21 to November 20. 1917; An
jsauville sector, January 15 to April
j 3, 1918; Cantigny sector, April 25 to
'July 7 (battle of Cantigny, May 28
|to 30); Soissons operation, Marne
i counter-offensive, July 18 to 21;
jSazerais sector, August 7 to 24; St
Mihiel operation, September 12 and
j 13; Argonne Mouse offensive, Oeto-
I ber 1 to 12; operations against Mou
| zon, November a and 6; operation
| south and southwest of Sedan. No
vember 7 and 8; march on Coblenz
I bridgehead, November 17 to Decem
ber 15, 1918.
Prisoners captured: 165 officers,
6304 men. Total advance against
resistance, 51 ki'ometers.
j Divisional insignia: Crimson figure
"1" on khaki background. Chosen
because the numeral "1" represents
j the number of the division and many
j of its subsidiary organizations. Also,
as proudly claimed, because it was
j the "first Division in France; first
j in sector: first to fire a shot at the
Germans; first to attack; first to con-
I duct a raid; first to be raided; first
Ito capture prisoners; first to inflict
j casualties; first to suffer casualties:
first to be cited singly in General
Orders: first in the number of Di
vision Corps and Army Commanders
and General Staff officers produced
from Its personnel."
Seen at times represented by a
star and crescent of white, mounted
upon a khaki circle.
lEbPttittg CUjalj
Members of the Harristr£
Rotary club and others interested tn
the Susquehanna river development
should cheer up. Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., has just won its fight for water
way facilities after 4 0 years of In
termittent effort and seven year* of
constant, untiring campaigning, ac
cording to the Poughkecpsie Even
ing Star of recent issue.
New York City, Pouglik eepato,
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buff
alo are the main points of the big
barge canal leading from the ocean
to the lakes and Poughkecpsie has
been given $950,000 with which to
build docks, wharves and a big ter
minal canal basin.
* * •
"When the oldest of Poughkeop
sic's present day business men were
young." says the Evening Star, "and
actively engaged in the struggle for
a greater Poughkecpsie, the propo
sition of a Marine Terminal for their
city was one of the things which
loomed large in their thoughts.
"The idea of Poughkeepsie as a
station on a great waterway, one
half transcontinental in its scope,
perhaps had not occurred to them at
that time. That was something which
giew into being year by year, ajid
which to-day stands complete In
theory and more titan half com
pleted in practice.
"Our fathers journeyed to Wash
ington. to Albany and elsewhere with
the thought in mind that Pough
kecpsie was a seaport, just as we do
to-day. The records handed down
to the Poughkeepsie Chamber of
Commerce, shows that they had the.
same abiding faith in the destinies
of their city as we have. While the
reason they sought to establish a
Marine Terminal may not have been
identical with those of the present
generation of so-called boosters, yet
the pioneers know what they wanted,
worked for it determinedly and it
naturally follows that wo have it.
Their efforts were a legacy to the
present generation and the Barge
Canal Terminal appropriation, which
was voted by the taxpayers yester
day, also may he regarded as a leg
acy left to the next succeeding gen
eration to be enhanced in value by
development of the resulting project
in the coming years."
"it will be seen because we reach
back some forty years in our efforts
to got a Marine Terminal, that
Poughkeepsie is the lower Hudson
pioneer in this movement and that
other cities—Kingston, Newhurgh,
■ Ynnkcrs —whose fate was to be join
ied with ours by the passage of an
lact on February 14, 1917, providing
I for the construction of barge canal
I terminals at certain places on the
| Hudson river and incidental work
Connected therewith, including tho
acquistion of property therefor, with
ja view of improving the commerce
lof Hie State and making an appro
j priation therefor, really brought
about a great good for her neigh
bors." continues the Star.
"Even as a further step toward
the accomplishment of this main
purpose. Poughkeepsiana, after tire
less efforts, secured the- formation
of a Hudson Valley Federated Cham*"
her of Commerce and enlisted the
active support of every Hudson river
city behind the movement."
Thus it will hp seen that Pough
kecpsie proceeded somewhat aftor
the manner of Harrteburg, with the
Federated Chamber of Commerce
acting there in place of the Rotary
club here. The proposed canaliza
tion of the Susquehanna would link
up Pougbkeepsie with 1 Inrrisburg,
if desired, byway of the Great Lakes,
for it is the thought of those back
of the movement that eventually a
canal shall extend from the head
waters of the Susquehanna to the
Lakes. The Susquehanna committee
is in receipt of the news from
Poughkeepsie and is greatly encour
aged thereby.
Eli X. Hershoy, Chairman of the
Navigation Committee, will call a
meeting of all i; terested to be held
some time during I he early summer,
so that the army officers engaged in
making the survey may bo given all
the assistance and information pos
sible and the whole Susquehanna
Valley enthused over the project.
The meeting will be held in Harris
burg.
The black sucker is coming into
his own again. After years when the
fish was not much taken, reports aro
being received by Commissioner Pul
ler that many are being taken with
rod, hook and line than for a long
time. Some catching of suckers with
the hands has been reported, but
fish and game wardens have broken
up the practice. From all accounts
the opening of the trout season to
morrow is going to attract many
more fishermen than for years, ow
ing to the mild weather and the fact
that many trout have been distribut
ed. The State has adopted a policy
of putting brown trout into streams
which are not much shaded, reserv
ing the brook trout for streams
which have many trees along their
banks.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, has improved enough to sign
city bonds in bed.
—Charles A. Ambler, former In
surance commissioner, will head the
Salvation Army drive in Montgomery
county.
—Henry A. Wise Wood, prominent
New York lawyer, has arranged to
address the Philadelphia home de
fense organization.
—Professor James W. Crowell,
cited for Y. M. C. A. work in France,
is a State College professor.
■ —General W. G. Price, of Chester,
generally believed in line for com
mand of the new National Guard,
expects to sail for home in the next
month. He has been decorated by
the French government.
FISH AND BY-PRODUCTS
The fishing industry of Alaska has
made many millionaires during the
past score of years, but the majority
of the Napoleons of finance have
been content with canning, salting
and packing. Few have paid any
attention to the by-products which
offer a broad field for exploitation.
Thousands of tons of offal Is annual
ly thrown back into the sea that
could be utilized and with profit
Fertilizer and oil are among the
most valuable products that are be
ing practically overlooked, while
the opportunities for the cod fiver
oil industry all along the chain of
Islands forming the Aleutten group,
is acknow'edged by those conversant
with conditions to be the most prom
ising in the world. This item and
the erection nnd maintenance of eold
storage plants at advantageous
points on the Aleutian Islands offers
inducements, to capital.