8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Iloard i. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A ' Member American F] Newspaper Pub § Associa- Rur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoc la- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, —— Gas Building -I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *week; by mail, 53.00 a year in advance. . SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1919 The method of the enterprising is to sketch out a map of possibilities, then to treat them ns probabilities.— Bovee. A HAPPY EASTER 0 THIS will be a happy Easter for the men of the Twenty-Eighth Division. Good Friday brought j them word to leave for the point of! embarkation, Brest, and to-morrow will find them in that city. Last year all was doubt and un certainty. The Twenty-Eighth, made up largely of the old National Guard regiments of Pcnnasylvania, was an untried unit in the then rapidly gathering United Stales army. The year which looked so gloomy at Eastertide, blossomed into bright hopefulness in June and came into the full glory of an assured victory in November. And it was tlie Twen ty-Eighth Division at Chateau Thier ry which made the other victories possible. So the Twenty-Eighth starts back to-day flushed with victory and covered with glory, but not more anxious to be home than the folks are to have it home. PEACE PUBLICITY PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE gave a real reason to the House of Commons for keeping secret the terms of the peace treaty until after the Germans had opportunity to consider what was going to hap pen to them. His explanation was that any premature publication of the terms might result in garbling the various provisions by critics and that this misinterpretation would probably be seized by the German people as evidence of lack of har mony among the Allies, making the final settlement more difficult. It is probable that there would have been less criticism of the Peace Conference If reasonable explana tions of what has been transpiring had been made from time to time. Lloyd George has won a parliament ary victory in the House of Commons because of his frankness and his evi dent earnestness in explaining some of the things which have given rise to criticism during tho sessions of the peace body at Paris. There has been no real opposition to a proper alliance of the nations which combined against Germany, but the character of the alliance has been a matter of serious concern. Because President Wilson maintain ed silence when he might have cleared the atmosphere, his country men have been out of joint with his proposals and out of sympathy with his general attitude of an all-wise self-sufficiency. In the last analysis, the people of the United States will insist upon a clear understanding of just what the League of Nations means, insofar as it relates to this country. They have a right to know and they will insist on knowing be fore the final approval of any pact by tlie Senate at Washington. President Wilson may well take a leaf out of the public policy of Premier Lloyd George in the matter of plain speaking to his countrymen. "RUINING HIS PARTY" THE Telegraph does not agree with the Massachuetts Demo crats who wired President Wil son; "Remove Burleson; he is ruin ing his party," ulthough it sympa thizes with them. First place, the Democratic party is now well nigh ruined, and Mr. Burleson has not been wholly to blame, although his little hammer has never missed an opportunity to make itself felt on the WTeck of the Wilsonian machine. But as to 'getting rid of the wild man from Texas, that is, indeed, a consummation devoutly to be wished. There is no man in the Govern ment service" so cordially detested as Burleson. Even the most radi cal of Democratic newspapers con demn him and his foolish policies. However, there is little chance that : T SATURDAY EVENING, HAPRISBURG TELEGRAPH • ~ r APRIL" 19, 1919. he Will not serve out his term. Pre sident Wilson is not given to taking good advice. WHAT THEY WANT WANT the Soviet," cried yy two women in the gallery of the British House of Commons the other day. We wonder if these women know what the Soviet has done for Russia? The Soviet has made the women of Russia public playthings. No woman may resist any man. Women under Soviet rule are taken from their husbands and given to all comers. Girls are turned over to the tender mercies of every drunken beast they chance to meet. Is this what these foolish English women want? We thiqjc not. 1 TO PREVENT LYNCHING i FROM the headquarters of the committee in charge, 70 Fifth I Avenue, New York, announce- I mcnt is made of the call for a Na- I tional Conference on Lynching "to J take concerted action against lynch ing and lawlessness wherever found," jto be held in New York city May 5 and 6, by a group of 120 leading j men and women of the country. | The call for the conference, which is being sent out extensively, is wide- Ily representative of the country, j twenty-eight States and the District jof Columbia being represented by j signers. A remarkable fact Is that 28 signers are from eight Southern States. Among the signers are At- Jtorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, i for mer Attorney Generals Charles J. Bonaparte and Judson Harmon and tivc Governors: Hugh M. Horsey, of Georgia; D. W. Davis, of Idaho; James P. Goodrich, of Indiana; Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, and I Emerson C. Harrington, of Maryland. In announcing the call, the com mittee representing the signers says that 3.21U lyncliings, exclusive of the East St. Louis and other mob riots, have occurred in the United States in the last thirty years, 702 of which have been lynehlngs of white people and 2,514 lynchings of negroes; that 63 negroes and 4 white persons were lynched in 191S; that some of the recent lynchings have been particu larly atrocious, involving burning at the stake and torture of the victims. The prevalence in many States of the spirit which tolerates lynching, accompanied too often with inhuman cruelty, and the inability or unwil lingness of the public authorities to punish the persons who are guilty of this crime, threaten the future peace of the Nation. Not only is lynching a denial of the right se cured by law to every man of a fair trial before an established court in case he is charged with crime, not only docs it brutalize the communi ties which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in the young people who see barbarities unpunished and uneondemned, not only does it terrorize important bodies of our citizens, but it inevit ably lcad3 tho people whose rights are thus trampled upon to leave the regions where their lives, their fam ilies and their property are in dan ger, and move to others where they can find peace and protection, thus disturbing the labor situation all over the country. It also blots our fair fame as a Nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples. SOLDIER AND THE JOB EVERY day groups of Harris burg soldiers are returning home quietly and without os tentation. Outside the family circle and their immediate friends and ac quaintances no special reception is being tendered these warriors. But they must not feel that the com munity lacks in appreciation of what they have done. When the time comes for the official welcome, there is bound to be such a reception and demonstration in their honor as will satisfy them of the real sentiment of our patriotic people. Aside from the personal side of it, however, we must not lose sight of the fact that these returning sol diers are entitled to every considera tion in the matter of employment. Most employers are earnestly try ing to install their former employes back from the war in their old posi tions or others equally as good. This is the proper course and the only one that can be justified under the circumstances. Our boys went out in response to the call to the colors bravely, un selfishly and with a determination to do their part in suppressing the menace of Germany. They went away without demonstrations to their honor owing to the military regula tions of the war period, but they are coming back with the consciousness of a job well done and the job that they left ought to be open- for them that they may not feel that the Na tion is ungrateful. It is for this reason that the Tele graph has consistently and earnestly urged the undertaking of public work wherever possible and without delay. Pennsylvania has set a fine example in this respect in its great highway program and Governor Sproul has sounded tho keynote of patriotic public service in his elo quent appeals to all communities and private as well as public or ganizations', to engage in all manner of public enterprises as a means of employment for the returning sol diers and those who have been made idle through the sudden ces sation of war work. Harrisburg is showing a commend able interest in this program of public activity for the benefit of those who need employment, and with the co-operation of the State and the city in the memorial viaduct at State street, the street improve ments around the Capitol grounds and the transformation of the Capi tol Park there ought to be employ ment for many during the next few months. 'Td title*. Ik By tho Ex-Committeeman ■ —No time is to be lost in push ing through State departmental leg islation. The presence of Senator Boies Penrose and the activity in behalf of the Philadelphia charter bills, is going to occupy consider able of the attention of the mem bers of the two Houses, but there is plenty else to do. More hearings are scheduled for this coming week than in any similar period and in view of the imminence of the time for stopping presentation of new bills, there will probably be a rush of new measures. The light against, the anti-sedition. State police and volunteer police bills will crystallize during the week and there will be some debates over third-class city bills, Including the nonpartisan elec tion repealer and the bill to stave off all elections of councilman until 1921. —The administration will com plete drafting of the Capitol park office building, bridge and landscape, bills and several other measures which the Governor has outlined and the proposed bill relative to sys tematization of the State printing will likely appear. The latter meas ure will abolish the antiquated schedule, provide a new system, de fine certain classes of work and adapt the needs of the State to the printing capacity and insure prompt publication and deliveries. —Considerable interest is being showft in the hearing on the pro posed Department of Conservation bill, scheduled for a Senate commit tee on Tuesday, and the bill is go ing to encounter opposition. The perennial fight between municipali ties and the Public Service Commis sion will be given another airing i Tuesday. Military training will have] a hearing Tuesday, as well on the | House side. —Big calendars will confront both branches of the Legislature when | they reconvene on Monday night after the Easter recess, the Senate list of second and third reading bills being unusually large and containing several of tho administration bills, as well as some of the game bills. The House calendar contains over 100 bills, there being seventy-three on second reading alone. The Brady bills, relative to changes in primary and registration laws, are at the top of tlie second reading calendar. —Several important bills are on the postponed third reading calen dar of the House, including: Fisher men's license, Goehring osteopathic. State Art Commission, Washington i Orphans' Court, Department of Agri culture, reorganization and third class city nonpartisan repealer bills. —State officials are of the opinion that no additional legislation is re quired for the reorganization of tho National Guard when the Keystone Division returns from France, and that the Reserve Militia act of 1917 provides all authority needed. Pro vision will be made in the appropri ation bill for the reorganization of tho Guard. —No one here seems to be exact ly sure just why the Wallace bill provides for numerous amendments to the third class city code, was with drawn from the Legislature for amendment on the final day of the session. The measure was the work of a number of city solicitors and others experienced in third-class municipal laws and had the general support of members from those cities. By an agreement made early in the session, no effort was made to hitch the nonpartisan repealer to the measure and it went through with few amendments and on its own merits. Much to the surprise of every one, the bill was recalled from the Governor. Since the bill passed, a number of third-class city officials have been studying the effect of the various amendments and thus far no adverse reports have been re ceived. The general opinion is that the bill was so voluminous that everyone wanted to be sure about what it did and /o wait until the Governor returned before passing It finally. —Control of the State Library will be vested entirely with the State li brarian under the terms of the Smith bill about to pass the State Senate. The Board of Trustees, dating from 1889, would be abolished and all ap pointments, which are now subject to review, would be made with ap proval of the Governor. The bill would concentrate all authority,abol ishing the division of public records creatod in 1903 and the Free Library created in 1899. but give increased powers to the Library extension di vision. enabling aid to be given to libraries in the State. The librarian would be the director, subject only to the Governor, appointed and re moved at his pleasure. The salary is raised to $6,000. The bill is in line with the administration plan to centralize authority and look to chiefs for results. LABOR NOTES j During the past year 20 unions , were organized in Los Angeles, Cal. t Federal employes, stenographers, i- mattress makers, messengers and other unskilled employes in Fort Worth, Texas, are uniting with trade B unionism. Bricklayers and plasterers in Sweden receive 28.14 cents an hour with an additional 6.7 cents an hour as a war allowance. In the 38 States where there are compensation- laws training is of special importance because It has been found that a great majority of injuries to working people arc caused by ignorance. The number of women wage earn ers in Germany is greater than that of any other European country. It is estimated that at present a full third of the economic labor of the Empire is performed by women. Their average in nine important in dustries ranges from 41 to 67 cents a day. Statistics compiled by the Penn sylvania Health Insurance Commis sion show that 385,000 employes in that State are constantly ill, 140,- 000 of them likely to be confined for a long time and the 245,000 others suffering temporary illness. Industrial accidents in Pennsyl rj vania are responsible for the loss of 3.205,371 days, while the total e number of days lost througb 111- :t|aeos is 16,800,000. I THE SUPREME SACRIFICE By BRIGGS fIF UUE MUST CUT DOUJW A r, lL Do) AMD SO HE MAKES - . ~" e T H sr.c —\ ( %?o e S\%- £Tr V ! V H?s 5ACW,r,£ * • fSW f^\ vwjxx: v _ F, " eNO w,Fe _ I>. I 77 /S. <SouF I 1 ■ / Of -AMD THE SU-ODAV ~.\ No J HeR BEAUTIfUL n 7\ SAME TH.MG - AejY> SO HE ToRuS The meat To "rSe UJS w%a A 5 W X ?0* HAPP.ER heart FR.EMO DOCTOR KOO'S SPEECH (Patrick Gallagher in Asia Magazine) Tuesday, January 28, Doctor Wang and Doctor Koo presented the case for China. The splendid unity of the Chinese delegation was illustrated by the fact that Koo was given the "star" part and delivered one of the greatest speeches, so far, of the con ference. His English, needless to say, tickled the expert ear of our President. It made a strong im pression upon the veteran author, philosopher and parliamentarian, Arthur James Balfour. It amazed Lloyd George. It charmed Sir Robert Borden. Premier Hughes, I am told deprecated his unfortunate deafness —for tho first time in his life of the conference. Business Manager Clem enceau patted China's represent ative on the back—and began to take China seriously. How did the speech affect the Japanese representatives? Baron Makino made the Japanese reply. He speaks very good English, but he answered Koo in French. While Koo spoke freely and with scarcely a note before him, the Baron read the greater part of his rejoinder from a formidable foreign office vol ume of aide memories. In order to meet the moral and legal arguments presented by Doctor Koo. showing cause why Japan should get off China's chest in Kiaochau, Makino read some notes—a few, but by no means all, of those secret notes that form,part of the unlovely Mo tono-Tuan "arrangement." "China." he said in substance, "has a secret understanding with Japan. She is bound by these notes, which are sup plementary to the notes and treaties of 1915." The extracts read by Baron Mak ino to the council of ten in Paris were from the sheaf of notes ex tracted from Motono's tool, Tuan Chi-jui. They are valueless in law, but they are cast iron proofs of the continuity of Japan's application of her Korean policy to China. Baron Makino rests his case upon them. Koo's successful argument forced the baron to read part of tho notes. Great Artillery Battles Statistics compiled by the General! Staff of the Army show the extent to which the expenditure of artillery in the war against Germany was in excess of that in great battles of the past. At the battle of Chickamauga In two, days, the Union army fired 7,325 rounds of artillery, while at Gettys burg the Union army fired 32,781 rounds. In one day at St. Privat, in .1870, the German army fired 39,000 rounds. In 1904 the Japanese in one day at Nan Shan, fired 34,047 rounds, while in the fame year, the Russians in nine days fired 134,000 rounds of artillery at Lioa Yang, and fired 274,300 rounds in the same year at Sha Ho. The high water mark in the use of artillery in offensive battles was reached In the war against Germany at the Sonime and Mes<ines Ridge before the effective use of tanks was developed. In 1915, at Neuve Cha pelle, the British fired 197,000 rounds of artillery in three days. At Souchez in 1915. the French' in four hours, fired 300.000 rounds. In 1916, at the Somme, the British in seven days of intermittent firing used 4.000,000 rounds of artillery. At Messines Ridge in 1917, the Brit ish in seven days of intermittent firing, used 2,753.000 rounds, while in 1918. at St. Mihiel. the American army in four hours of firing spread over four days fired 1,093.217 rounds. "One of the most striking devel opments of the present war has been the great increase in the use of artil lery to precede infantry action in battle.'! savs the General Staff an nouncement. "This is illustrated by a comparison Of the expenditure of artillery ammunition in characteris tic battles of recent wars with that in important battles of the present war." —Exchange. THE EASTER DREAM Do you dream the Easter dream, Crosses in the Flanders Field? By your glory do you deem Peace forever shall be sealed? Stood a Cross cn Calvary Nineteen centuries ago. Dreamed that peace should ever be And the Caesars' rule brought low. This shall be your glory too. You' shall be the guide of men. Other crosses follow you, When the hour shall come again. —McLandburgh Wilson. HIS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT THE charges against Wilhelm Hohenzollern are of a very different nature. There is no question of religion, none of trea son against his own country. His offenses transcend all written law. He broke the laws of civilization, he took up arms against peaceful sister nations, he trampled upon all the principles of justice and right; the Divine law and the laws of hu manity he defied. The difficulty of putting him on trial with a view of imposing the penalty of death must have become apparent to the jurists when they considered how the in dictment should be drawn. Statu tory forms that suffice for common transgressors fail altogether against a criminal who bears the burden of a guilt so monstrous. He had a sovereign's right to go j to war; by tho Constitution of his country he and his advisers could > judge the occasion of war. The de struction of innocent lives by sub marine attack, the murder of civi lians and of women and children, the plundering of occupied territory and the destruction of property therein, all these arc crimes de manding terrible expiation, but the jurists would see the difficulty of fastening the guilt personally upon the ex-Kaiser. All would be easy before a tribunal already convinced of his guilt, and it is not easy to see how anywhere on earth a court not morally convinced of it could be constituted. The Conference, called together to conclude a peace of righteousness, would be bound in conscience and in honor to give him a fair trial. But in a court candidly listening to evidence there would be a flood of testimony produced in the effort to show that the responsibil ity rested elsewhere and. of course, the jurisdiction of any court would be denied. It is not the former high station and great power of the ex- Kaiser that would make his convic tion on a capital charge difficult by orderly process of law; it is the na ture and magnitude of his crimes which remove them beyond the do main of formal punitive proceed ings. For that very reason capital pun- BACK HOME "Gee, ain't they grand! just wa[ch them step— There's brother Jim, I know, An' ev'ry one's so full of pep, An' kick, an' snap, an' go It makes me want to get in line, A suit is all I lack," Said little Bobby, "ain't it fine— My brother Jim is back!" "Ah, there's our boy," say ma and dad, "It seems but yesterday Since he was just a little lad And fond of so'dier play, But now there's firmness in his eye That's business all through, He helped to make the Germans fly, We're proud of him, we two." Then there's another—sh-h! a girl, Though not a sister, yet 'Tis Jim's return that sets awhirl Her heart that can't forget. She's somewhat more reserved, it's true. In what she says OF him, But don't think things she says to you Are what she says TO Jim! —T. Benjamin Faucett in Leslies. Soldiers and Bolshevists - Taken altogether it is a nasty mess, but the sooner we roll up our sleeves and get busy, the better it will be for us, and the sooner will the country resume its normal status. Bolshevists are not only those who stand on soap-boxes waving red flags and spreading sedition —that kind are really not so dangerous be cause they work in the open and the Government can take care of them: they can be jailed or deported. It is the Bolshevist who mixes with you, sympathizes with you in your trouble, who poses as your friend and then, under this guise of friend ship, sows seeds of discontent in your heart. Ho asks you why your troubles should exist and tells you that you are being unjustly treated by your Government, that capital is persecuting you—that if the masses took the law in their own hands, every man would have an equal share of the blessings of the land. When everything seems black the seeds of his propaganda will, unless you use strong will-power, take root in fertile soil.—From "Treat 'Em Rough" Magazine. [New York Times] ishment, which is the beet that men have been able to deviso for the greater crimes of common experi ence, seems miserably inadequate in his case. That would end his suf ferings at once. Remorse, the tor tures and torments that will prey upon his mind and soul, would seem to be a penalty more nearly cotn mensurute with his crimes; so long as he holds his former greatness in memory he must be the most miser able an on earth. That he must be tinder restraint, a prisoner, that he must never be a free man, is indi cated by common prudence. There the Conference will lie upon solid ground, with a multitude of prece dents to justify the process against the ex-Kaiser, with the whole bodv of international law for the guid ance of the court. There will be no difficulty in drawing up the indict ment against him for many and flagrant violations of international law; and the supreme law of self defense and safety gives abundant sanction, after conviction, for a sen tence imposing restraint or impris onment. Tho decision of the Coun cil that he must be placed on trial may be expected to lead to that end. Wilhelm Hohenzollern is no Napo leon. Since his flight to Holland he has been a pitiful figure, less an ob ject of fear than of contempt. But he should not go at large. While his execution, through some strange perversion of popular feeling, might make him something like a martyr in the land he formerly ruled, the Germans can never complain of his being put in safe keeping. If they have the good fortune and good sense to deliver them>lves from the counsels and practice of socialism and worse delusions, they will be well content that during all of the life that remains to him he shall be made powerless to do further harm. They share with him the responsi bility for the war, for its ravages and its inhumanity. Their share in the reparation of that part which is reparable will be assessed against them. They must and will be made to pay in money and goods to the full limit of their ability and during a long perftKi of years for the ruin they have wrought in other lands. Where Will Armenia Be? [lsaac Don Levine in Adia Magazine] The Armenians realize that with out outside help they cannot expect to set up a durable government, but they wish it to come from interna tional authority. However, even with aid of the Allies and the United States it would be a most difficult tusk to define Armenia's exact boun daries, ethnographically. If Armenia should be reconstituted on historic lines, then against three million Ar menians it would comprise at least five millions of Kurds, Turks, Greeks, Persians and other races. It is possible to carve out an eth nographic Armenia In which the Ar menians would be in the majority, but in order to do so successfully the Armenians would have to for get their historical claims and con sent to the creation of an autonomous Kurdish state In Kurdistan. As the Kurds in Armenia are still largely nomudic, the erection of an auto nomous Kurdistan would reabsorb the Kurds who migrated from there to settle on the Armenian plateau. An ethnographic Armenia would include those parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan, where the Armenians predominate, although historically these parts are not Armenian: it would necessarily fail to include cer tain historical sections of Armenia where the Kurds now predominate. HOLLOW, HOLLOW I stood beneath a hollow tree, The blast it hollow blew I thought upon the hollow world, And all Its hollow crew. Ambition and its hollow schemes, The hollow hopes we follow; Imagination's hollow dreams, All hollow, hollow, hollow! A crown, 'it is a hollow thing. And hollow heads oft wear it; The hollow title of a. king. What hollow hearts oft bear it? No hollow wiles, nor honey'd sweet, Of ladies fair I follow; For beauty sweet, still hides deceit 'Tis hollow, hollow, hollow! 1 The hollow leader but betrays The hollow dupes who heed him; The hollow critic vends his praise To hollow fools who feed him; The hollow friend who takes your hand Is but a summer swallow; Whate'er I see is like this tree, Ail hollow, hollow, hollow! —Anonymous. Seek-Ko-Furlher /Ainct Prince and pauper and lord and lout, must travel asunder far; For each must fellow his journey out through the Land of Things That Are; And one shall follow a beaten track ] and one shall follow a star. But each must follow his Journey back, however so far he roam, F6r no read leads to a journey's end, but the road that reaches home. So prince and pauper and lord and lout turn back at the set of sun, And the song X ting, and the songs that ring in each of their hearts, arc one. "O, whether the night be bright with stars or black with the rack of cloud, Something there is in my soul that leaps and quickens and sings aloud; For whether I travel a moonlit road or pavements that gleam with rain, There at the end are the _lamps aglow, and faces against the j pane. And the smell of wood from an open I fire, and the welcoming lips and hand; The Queen of ultimate heart's desire, the ones who will understand; And walls that bar the Things That Are from the Seek-Xo-Furllier Land." —John French Wilson.— The Worm Turneth There are two interesting societies represented in Columbus, as the Woodmen of tho World and the Modern Woodmen of America. Of course, an innocent barbarian like ourself cannot be supposed to know the distinction between them, and so in a short editorial concerning the flu, we stated that it had made such ravages in the Woodmen of the World that their surplus of $lO,- 000,000 had been reduced to $600,- 000. We hud simply mistaken the society. We should have said it was the Modern Woodmen of America that suffered. Of course, we will be excused for making the mis take, since we will make another just like it, as long as they maintain the similarity of names. Either should change its name, so as to maintain an unbroken identity before the world, for if we make a similar mistake again, we sure will not correct It, but permit the error to float down the stagnant river of time. —Ohio State Journal. New Light on the Race [Harry Leon Wilson in Saturday Evening Post] Really the vast languid majority of us care too little for drink to go to tho trouble of making it. There are scared tipplers who think to whistle past the graveyard, but they can't whistle forever, and this par ticular graveyard is endless. I guess that within so few as ten years any one suggesting our return to the open sale of alcoholic drink will merely be studied, amid suitable surroundings, by one or more alien ists. Probably more. Lots of them will be intrigued by the case, as wo novelists like to put it. It may seem hard, old scouts; unbelievable and outrageous; but in a way of speak ing you are up against it. And per sonally I am delighted. As a* stu dent of human beings I like to ob serve them under novel stresses. We are in a way to have new light on the race. Fifth Division Regular Army: Arrived in France May 1, 1918. Activities: Anould sec tor, June 15 to July 16; St. Die sec tor, July 16 to August 23; St. Mlhie: operation, September It to 17; Ar gonne-Mcuse offensive, October 12 to 29; Argonne-Meuse offensive (sec ond time in), October 27 to Novem ber 14. Prisoners captured: 48 officers, 2,357 men. Guns captured: 98 pieces of artillery, 802 machine guns. Total advance on front lino, 29 kilometers. Insignia: Red diamond. Selected at suggestion of Colonel Charles A. Meals —"the ace of diamonds." Sometimes seen represented by a red figure "5" on a white diamond, the whole superimposed upon a diamond of red, libmttg (Etjal Two of the three cannon prese£~ ed to the Continental Congress tti* Lafayette when he came to the aid of the colonies in the Revolution are to be mounted at the entrance to the State Capitol building, carriages cor responding to the period In which they were used having been bought by the State. These cannon were part of a quintet that were placed on trestles in front of the Mexican War monument in Cupitol Park and which were removed to the State Arsenal, where they were ordered overhauled recently by Adjutant General Bear*. A third cannon, which bears the La fayette arms, is to be mounted in the Cupitol Park extension when the landscaping work is finished. Near it will be placed cannon captured from the Mexicans. One of these which bears the name of Cerro Cordo is a fortification piece and will be mounted on one of the old style car riages used on ramparts. A number of Civil War cannon which are at the State Arsenal and some which were used In the Spanish war will also be placed in the park. The cap tured Spanish cannon brought from Cuba, has been remounted and plac ed at the entrance of the State Li brary. In all probability some of the German cannon captured by j Pennsylvania troops will be display led in the park. Except for the War of 1812 and the war with Ger many, every war in which troops from this State participated is repre sented here by ordnance. • * • Officials of the Adjutant General's Department have high hopes of ob taining the colors of the 110 th In fantry, the old "Fighting Tenth" of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, as the first of the colors of Keystone Division organizations carried in France for the rotunda of the Capi tol. These colors are reported to have reached this country and to he in custody of Major Gerard Bryce, of Mt. Pleasant. When the officers of the Tenth return the Adju tant General will get into touch with them and arrange for the reception of the colors here. Under an order of the War Depart ment colors of units from Pennsyl vania or containing a majority of Pennsylvanians are to be placed in custody of the Governor and it is planned to have them formally de posited in the rotunda with the flags of the Civil and Spanish wars. The flags of the First Cavalry, which was abolished and its men distributed though various organizations, have I already been received here. This or ganization, however, was disbanded ! before leaving Camp Hancock. Flags I of one of the signal battalions have I been received here from Camp Lee. The rectangular stone In Capitol park, near the Mexican monument, has a new use 'and it is taking the laurels away from the Spanish war cannon as the official place to take pictures of babies in the State demesne. The stone was placed there during a geological survey. Very few people know when and not many care to know the significance, but it is interesting to students. The stone, however, is more interesting to fond parents and there have been more youngsters "snapshotted" standing on the stone with Capitol park squirrels cavorting in the back ground llian the average man imag ines. Some women have an idea that the stone was placed there for that very purpose and are disposed to explain the fact. m m The si(e of the old conservatory In Capitol park lias been turned into a peony bed. Where the State used to raise geraniums and carnations and hyacinths and keep waxing fat the banana trees and the palms, there are now clumps of native shrubbery and a collection of peonies that will rival the tulips In front of the building. • • • There is a triple flock of chickens on the Butler place near Penbrook, which presents an interesting study on the subject of whether hens think. Three families own chickens in the flock. The fowls have an ideal community spirit, occupying the same house,' drinking from the fame basin and otherwise having things in common. But their main tenance presents an engrossing study. When the owner of one flock de sires to feed his fowls, he makes a noise between a cluck and a whoop. Then the owner of another segment of the flock wishes to scatter corn, she sings a bar or two of a song, while the third owner only needs to whistle and her chickens hasten to her. Now it is claimed on excellent authority that each flock responds only to the master or mistress as the case may be and no matter how varied or abundant the food dis pensed may be. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE -—Richard J. Beamish and Gordon Mackay, Philadelphia newspaper men, debated newspaper ethics re cently before the New Century club. —Dr. Beigliton Witmer, of the University of Pennsylvania, says the place for mental defectives among children is the street, where they can learn to fight and take care of themselves as their native wit allows. —Admiral W. S. Sims has been in vited to attend the class reunion at Airy View Academy at Port Royal, Where he was a classmate of Con gressman B. K. Focht and ex-Sena tor William Hertzlcr. —Major General O. S. Farnsworth. recently returned from France formerly stationed here, will mand the United States post at CanaA Denning, Ga. DO YOU KNOW It —That llarrlsburg sold steel for ordnance for Army and Navy as well as tlircc allied countries during the war? HISTORIC HAURISBURG —Harrisburg plants made muni tions for Grant's army during the Civil War. Carry Scrum to Far North Word has recently been received of the heroic efforts made during re cent months to check the influenza epidemic in Yukon territory, where remote communities faced grave danger because of limited medical and nursing supplies. To meet the emergency, Indian runners with dog teams were dispatched from Dawsou | with anti-influenza serum and sent I across the snow as far north as Fort I MePherson, near the mouth of the I Mackenzie River, making the round trip of one thousand miles in a little less than two months, which is a fair performance, in mid-winter. The journey included crossing the Rocky Mountains. —From the De troit News.
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