10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4 NEWSPAPER FOR VHE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sfiare "* E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief, W. R. OYSTER, Business Manager Gra M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor 'i. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager ha Executive Bear* Z. P. IfeCULLOOair. '~ ~ 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 in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are-also reserved. t Member Amwican Eastern • Building, office', I Chicago, 111? IDS ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1910 'Tis virtue, and not birth, fhat makes us noble; Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. —Fletcher. ANOTHER STEP DEVELOPMENTS in connection with the Capitol Park improve ments took another long step forward yesterday with the introduc tion by Senator Frank A. Smith of hills for the erection of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Bridge at State street, the construction of an office building and the grading and terracing of the grounds in tlv. ex tension zone. . Senator Smith is deeply interested in both park and bridge and he may be relied upon to get early action on the measures, especially since they have the backing of Governor Sproul, and Lieutenant-Governor Beidleman and are without apparent opposition anywhere. The quicker the better, however, for with these two big im provements under way Harrisburg anil be well able to take care of any runemployment that may develop in rttMbnilding trades for the next couple ■off-years. WHICH KIND? you a fair weather or a rainy day patriot? Are you one of those who -follow the hand when the flags are flying, cheering yourself hoarse for Old Glory and the Land of the Free, or are you one of those who respond to every call of the government to duty? The Victory Loan committee re ports that former willing workers in previous loans are "slacking" in the campaign just opening. It was easy to serve when tho war was on and to wear a Liberty I-oan workers' badge was a decoration that all men covet ed. But now. with the lighting over and the excitement gone, with the ruck and muck of the wreck of war to be cleaned up, the job is not so attractive, but it is just as necessary. Are you a fair weather or a rainy day patriot? ALWAYS PATERNALISTIC IN a recent address at Boston, Secretary of Commerce Redfield entered a long series of com plaints because appropriations are not made in amounts such as he <)eems adequate for development of certain industries and public inter ests such as dye manufacturing, non ferrous metals, potash, forest pre servation, saving of waste timber, development of water power, use of fis}i skins for leather, chemical- pro duction, food fish, inland waterways. etc. Alter reading over the long list one cannot help but feel that Mr. " Redfield has lost all confidence in (he initiative, intelligence and cour age of the American individual. He can see going to waste millions of wealth, because American ingenuity neglects opportunities so plainly ap parent to his eyes. In making lum ber, he says, we waste half the value known to exist in the tree. Accepting his assertions at their face value, •here are literally billions of wealth lying around loose for any wide awake American to pick up like Kpld nuggets on the dump of an El dorado. Hut Americans neglect their opportunities and the only way Red lield can see to make use of the wealth is to make huge government rppropriations and send government "experts" out-to gather in the sheck els. Mr. Redfield's pessimistic haran gue may mislead some people, but it will not deceive anyone who stops to think. If the Government has ex perts who are able to make a profit jtjt of that alleged waste of one-half it the timber those experts can find pldnty of private capitalists who are to employ their services. There isn't a lumberman in the coun :ry but will pay the "experts" a bet ter salary than the Government will otter, if the "expert" can demon WEOfr'ESD*AY EVENING, strate his ability to save that waste 'lumbir and make a profit on it. It was private enterprise, not Govern ment appropriations, that establish ed the meat packing business, on a basis that saved all the hog except the squeal. Whenever there is oppor tunity to make money tanning shark skins there won't be need of a Gov ernment expert to direct the work. American industry has made enor mous-strides in the past. The Ameri can Government has made enoumous appropriations to aid development. Whenever Mr. Hedfield can point to achievements of Government experts that make anything like a favorable comparison with the achievements of private enterprise he will have no trouble in getting Increased ap propriations. Sut, for the present, the American people prefer to en courage individual initiative, believ ing that "there is room at the top," and that the Kdisons, the Burbanks, the Schwabs, the Garys, the Harrl mans, etc., achieved success through the hope of success and its rather than through the incentive of a monthly check from the Govern ment. GRIM HUMOR THE man who runs the funny column of the magazine. Oral Hygiene, has a grim idea of humor. For illustration, he prints the following under the caption of "Jokes:" The father of a largo family as serts that he gets more comfort and rest out of an old arithmetic, pub lished in 1898, than in any other, volume. This is particularly so after checking up the household bills for the month. Just listen to this: "If twenty-one pounds of sugar can be bought for a dollar, what is the price per pound?" An other choice bit: "John goes to the grocery store with a dollar bill; he buys two pounds of butter at twenty cents a pound, and a dozen eggs for eighteen cents —how much change should he receive?" "Mrs. Smith pays five cents a quart for milk—how much is her milk bill for four weeks if she uses two quarts a day?" Now that may he side-splitting stuff for a rich, plutocratic editor like our friend who gets out Oral Hygiene, but it's anything but funny to a poor newspaperman to hesitate each market day between a pound of roundsteak and a soup bone. Xcs, fellow craftsmen, we remem ber the good old days when mother went down to market Saturday morning, armed only with a big bas ket and a dollar and a quarter in silver, and returned with enough stuff to keep the family from hol lering about the quality or the quan tity of the grub until the Wednesday. Wc recall the day whon one could eat two fried eggs at* a sitting and not blush to add a gener ous piece of fried ham to the feast. And there was a time when bread and milk were spuriied by boys and girls as too cheap to tie really good. Yes, indeed, these are all easily proven facts, beyond dispute,. but why harrow up our memories with thoughts of them ? It's all very well to have to stave the sheriff off each Saturday in order to grease the skil let with enough fat meat to make the gravy taste like the real thing, but we want nobody intruding their alleged humor on our grief. And when we are piling up dentist hills in vain efforts to Fletcherize a piece of roundsteak that has cost us the price of a spring suit, we want to he left to the sad duty In the sack cloth and ashes the sorrowful nature of the occasion demands. We want no ribald laughter in our anguish. We want to be alone with our grief; but xve suspect we are having a lot of company. A RECORD YEAR MEMBERS of the Harrisburg Civic Club may well take pride in the annual report of that organization as presented by Mrs. William Henderson, who has just been honored by re-election as pres ident. The past twelve months have formed a record year in the history of the organization. No more un selfish service has been rendered by any Harrisburg organization dur ing the war than by the Civic Club, The sacrifice it ma*e in turning over its own clubhouse to the use of the soldiers, sailors and marines quar tered in this district or passing through Harrisburg is an illustra tion of the character of the club's work. But the members did more than merely throw open the doors of their home —they opened their hearts, as well, and gave of their time, their energy and their money to make as happy as possiblq the lot of the soldier far from home, amid surroundings that were not always conducive to his welfare. The as sociations the men enjoyed at the clubhouse were elevating as well as entertaining and many a lad has gone home the better for them. But while the club gave most of its attention to war work, it did not neglect the primary purposes for which it was formed and has kept alive a number of worthy projects to the accomplishment of which it is devoted and will push them through to completion now that the war work has slowed down. The fact that 593 women of Har risburg, of all walks of life, are mem bers of the club shows the popular interest maintained in it and the power it is in the affairs of the community. THAT BATHING BEACH IT IS a little late to be talking of a municipal bathing beach for Harrisburg this year. The time for discussion was last fall when the budget was under consideration. It is understood that at that time, Co mmissioner Gross had the item in his departmental estimates, but permit ted it to.be stricken, out without much protest. Five thousand dollars a year for three years would give Harrisburg such a/beach, or beaches, as would serve amply the needs .of the city. and at an expense that nobody would feel. There is always a lot of dis cussion of this bathing item about the time the swimming season ap proaches and entirely too little when the financial program for the year following is being framed. Lk f *Muvo*(Coa>ua By the Kx-Commttteem United States Senator Pen rose, who came here Sunday night with the announced intention of get ting action instead of talk on the various Philadelphia reform bills which have l4en storm centers this session of the Legislature, goes back to Philadelphia to-day with all the honors up to date. The Senator ex pects to return here next week and may be the week after. Last night he declared that the bills in®whieh he was interested would be ready for the Governor in three weeks time. The Vare people, who were worsted at various points yesterday, were in a bail humor and inclined to say that the Senator was too san guine. The general opinion is that the Senator won a big victoryV. in the prompt action by the Senate Appro priations committee on the districct attorney btlls and the passage of the Woodward bills, providing fdr the revision of the Philadelphia charter, on second reading helped along the impression. The Senator issued a statement in which he point ed with pride to the results of, the day and District Attorney Samuel P. Rotan's handling of Senator Edwin H. Vare and the Vare men at the hearing was the talk of Capitol Hill. —Penrose men were inquisitive | about the hearing which Senator | Vare wants to have on the charter bills next Tuesday and hailed the announcement that Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, would be here. They also expressed doubts whether Ex-Mayor's John Weaver and Edwin S. Stuart would come here for the hearing. —The fact that the Philadelphia police bills which appeared Monday night were reported out and passed first reading also enthused the Pen rose men. —Philadelphia pewspapers con tinue to say {hat the situation is now up to Governor Sproul and to say that it the Penrose people put through the bills with a good show of strength, the Governor will promptly sign them. The Vare peo ple say the Penrose program will hit some rocks in the House and that they have been preparing some tor pedoes has been apparently to any one who has watched them operate in the House for weeks, —The Governor will be here be fore next Monday night. —According to what is being heard about the State Capitol, Re publican National Chairman Will H. Hays had a good bit to do in bring ing about the passage of the Woman Suffrage Resolution by the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania yes terday. The vote was decisive be ing 12S to 66 and the question is now up to the Senate. While the anti suffragists were snowed under in the vote, they take the position that the action of Pennsylvania will he tre mendous help to them in preventing the next Congress from submitting a Federal amendment to the States. Miss Eliza 13. Armstrong of Pitts burgh, who has led the opposition to the bill, says that Pennsylvania Congressmen can now take the posi tion that their Stats is preparing to submit the question to the electors and Federal action would be an in terference with state rights. —The bulk of the votes against suffrage were cast by the Democrats and Allegheny and Philadelphia counties. The Democrats gave 17 votes to the opposition, 5 for the amendment and one member of the party was absent. Fourteen votes each against the resolution were contributed b'y Allegheny and Phila delphia counties, while the former gave it 8 and the latter 27 votes. Two Alleghenians were absent. In 1915 the electors of the State voted on an amendment to the Constitution giving the women the right 1o vote. The proposition was defeated hy a majority of 53,686 in a total vote of 826,382. —The legislative chambers did their best this week to overcome the criticism of not much work ami there is a disposition now to cut down the hearings on the ground that tltey are more causes of delay than produc ers of information. A few are sched uled for next week, but there will not be many after May 1. The two houses worked until after 6 last eve ning, it being almost 7 when the House quit. This was done to avoid night sessions. To-day both branches met. Next week there may be a Thursday session. —Dr. T. T. Mutchler, of Philadel phia, head of the Sabbath observ ance organizations, scored another victory yesterday when ho succeeded in having defeated the bill to allow training of dogs on Sunday. The doctor, say liis friends, has defeated every bill he set out to kill this ses sion and he has done it by attending strictly to business and avoiding en tangling alliances. Ex-Judge John W. Reed, shortly to be named as a public service com missioner, was in Harrisburg to-day. —The Hojuse Judiciary Special Committee staged a nieo little row among the Berks county Democrats yesterday over tho bill to "rip" out the Berks poor directors. The bill will not get very far. but it afforded a chance for the Berks delegation to exhibit some of the factional feeling that prevails among the Democrats in that district. Good Roads Cordagion The demand for permanent high ways has resulted in what the Telfair (Ga.) Enterprise calls "the good roads fever," and "it's contagious!" It is a county—practically a state wide—rivalry to go in line for a last ing home prosperity, which is exactly what modern, improved highways will accomplish. That's the meaning of good roads to every town and cqunty! The Albany, (C}a.) Herald puts It in this way: • "The county without good roads, but whose county lines are touched by the good roads of adjoining coun ties, will not tolerate for long the situation in which she finds herself. She will get good roads, too, and share in the prosperity that good highways never fail to be instru mental in producing." Thus it is that good roads do "missionary work" wherever they run; lliey preach the prosperity of one section to another, and make the unprogressive places that have been sleeping over their rights "fall in line." —From the Constitu tion. £QAMIGBTTI&} TELEGKXPB? AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIfPT By BRIGGS r • ■ WHCN YOU EMJOY A BUT- THE FELLOUJ \AJHO AMD H<=' AMD THE BOSJ GOOD EASY JOO HAD THE JOB vERv LITTLE WORi< r To*IT, He EMCiSTfO • COM£S IIVJ WEXT PAV ~ AMD TWO PAYS . •• ' - AWD THEM R O J MEAR HIM YOUR JOB - Vou E>IS<ROUE *(L BID THE- BOSS GOOD "BY OH~H-H- BOY 1 ! AIKJ'T HE'S STILL Iji AMD SAY GOIIOT . GR-TR-R AtsiD AND HERE - AMD You li - HOME To VMON?V< , 9 JPoM'.T KMOVAJ 111 , GLORR- RiouS. FGELIfO T • UTH6THER To OUT ! j - fl Or% f\ OR WMT To T(LJ. /L YOO'P*IS> FLREO JJ^ TA TRADE BRIEFS In 1917 the number of vehicles registered in the Mexico Federal dis trict was 9,0fi8; in 1918 the number had increased to 15,200. Motor cars of all sorts, including private auto mobiles, automobiles for hire and trucks, numbered 3,32 4. According to the Taiwan Nichi Niclii Shimpo it was decided at a meeting of interested parties here in Tolcio, Japan, to Amalgamate all the crude calnphor manufacturing plants of Taiwan into a single com pany with* a capital of 10,000,000 yen, equivalent to $4,980,000. Preliminary plans for the forma tion of two new shipping companies in Helsingborg, Sweden, have been formed. Each company fixes its foundation capital at SIOO,BOO. The Bradford City Council, Eng land, liaß organized a joint consulta tive board to consider at regular in tervals questions of wages, hours and worlifng conditions, and to take nec essary steps to prevent differences and misunderstandings between the corporations and its employes. The 1919 rice crop is a failure in Cochin-China and will probably not exceed 00 to 70 per cent, of a nor ma! year on account of an exces sively dry season. A Swedish line to Morocco will be in operation in the spring. It will have one sailing a month to the African coast. Sweden expects to export to Morocco manufactures of woodenware, iron, steel and copper. Imports expected ara skins, maize, linseed, linseed oil, peas, fruits and wax. Exports certified for shipment to the United States from San Pedro de Macoris, Domincan Republic, amounted to $8,067,881 in 1918, as against $8,026,455 in 1917. Goods destined for inland moun tainous districts in the vicinity of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, should be packed in bundles of a size enabling a mule or burro to carry two of such bundles, advises Vice-Consul Stephen E. Aguirro. A strong mule can carry two bundles weighing 225 to 250 pounds, while burros can carry two bundles about 80 pounds each. Bur roe are being used to facilitate packing to mining districts in north western Chihuahua. Their substi tution for mules is due to political conditions, which lu\ve rendered the latter very scarce. Such goods as cables should be packed lengthwise for transportation with several ani mals. The Australian Commonwealth government has purchased 4 0,000 tons of sugar to make good the Aus tralian production shortage of * last season. During 1918 the declared exports from Christehurch, New Zealand, to the United States were valued at $8,829,867. as against $5,126,655 in the preceding year. • A Sheffield, England, firm has con verted its war airplane factory into a plant for the manufacture of small scale model' locomotives and steam engines, which were formerly im ported into Great Britain from Ger many to the extent of over $4,000,000 annually. Tfie Department of State liaa ad vised the Bureau of Foreign and Do mestic Commerce that Consul-Gen eral Leo J. Keena has been assigned as consul-general at Zurich, Switzer land, and will leave for his post in the near future. Hiding With the Cattle We rode hard, and brought the cattle from brushy springs, From heavy dying thickets, leaves wet as snow; From high places, white grassed, and dry in the wind; Draws where the quaken asps were yellow and white, And the leaves spun and spun like moriey spinning, We poured then onto the trail, and rode for town. Men in the fields leaned forward in the wind, Stood in the stubble and watched the Cattle passing. The wind bowed all, the stubble shook like a shirt. We threw the reins by the yellow and black fields, and rode. And came, riding together, into the town, Which is by the gray bridge, where the alders are. The white barked alder trees drop ping big leaves Yellow and black, into the cold black water. Children, little cold boys, watched after us— The freezing winds flapped their ' clothes like windmill paddles, Down the flat frosty road we crowded the herd; High stepped the horses for us, proud riders in autumn. r~, H. la. Davis In Poetry. ' In the School of War [John Jay in the Continental Edi tion of the London Mail.] t I recently met a young man whose university course was interrupted by the war. He doubted if the threads could be picked up again or if his brain were in condition to stand a course of hard study. "Three years wasted!" he exclaim ed bitterly—and in haste. Many young men feel the same to day. They cannot get down to the hard grind of pre-war times, and there is a temptation to think their education has suffered from the in terruption caused by the war. But the years have not been wasted. We have gained a knowledge of human nature which could scarce ly have been ours under other cir cumstances. Through days and nights we have lived with all sorts and conditions of men; they have not attempted to hide their thoughts and feelings from us. Wo have seen them In all moods and under soul revealing influences until we know them through and through. Here is an education in itself. Whatever trade or calling a man may follow knowledge of his fellows Is essential. We have had time to think. Books aVe well enough in their way, but they are a mighty poor substitute for life. Generation after generation of students have been content to copy until original thought is a thing quite rare. In our enforced leisure at the BOOKS AND MAGAZINES "The Jervaise Comedy"; By J. D. Beresford, the Macmillian Company, publishers, $1.50. A young drama tist, making a weekend visit with people he barely knew, suddenly involved, first as an onlooker and later as a participant, in a planned, but only half-executed elopement. The incidents leading up to the elopement and following it are nar rated with spirit, and the love story of the dramatist and the sister of the male eloper is handled with skill. Air. Beresford's book is just what its title implies—a comedy that will interest and rimuse readers through its situations and that will delight them because of the charm with which it is told. Arthur Stanwood Pier, author of "Dormitory Days," just published by Houghton Mifflin Company, is re covering from an operation for ap pendicitis in the Massachusetts General Hospital. Houghton Mifflin Company takes pleasure in announcing a fourth printing of Mrs. Eleanor H. Porter's new novel, "Dawn." Farms Under Glass [Arthur Brisbane in the Chicago Herald and Examiner.] On the Twentieth Century Limit ed the other night W. W. Marsh, National Democratic Committeeman from lowa, was talking to Roger Sullivan, who is the Democratic com mitteeman in Illinois. Mr. Marsh, who is in politics for sport, in the cream separator busi ness for a living and in the raising of Guernsey cows for pleasure, made this statement, which, taken to heart by about live million Americans, would solve food problems: "This country knows nothing about getting wealth from the soil. The island of Guernsey is about half the size of a township in Illinois, Wis consin or lowa. That island of fifteen thousand acres supports forty thousand people well. "Here a farmer is proud if lie takes S6O from an acre in one year. Guernsey exports in agricultural and in horticultural products S4OO a year for every acre. "They have on the island one thousand miles of glass houses in which they raise four crops a year without artificial heat. The houses are forty-eight feet wide, fourteen feet high to the ridge of the roof. ".Their first crop is early potatoes. The second string beans. The third tomatoes. The fourth grapes, that sell here and abroad for $1 a pound and up. In the early season they strip the leaves from the grapevines to let the sun in to the other crops. This holds the grapes back to just the time when they want fliem. That is real Intensive farming." What Profit Hath He? What profit hath he that workoth in that wherein he laboreth?—Ec j&lesiaatefl f. , front we have been compelled to co gitate. Much of our thinking has been upon the elemental things— love, religion, war—and each of us has, in his own small way, formu lated a philosophy of his own. The future will reap the harvest. If our thought is clearer our judg ment is riper. AVe have aged beyond our years. In a way it is a loss, but it is also a gain. Boys, unused to command or responsibility, have had both thrust upon them. They have been made to use their judgment and to think for themselves. "You youngsters are old men in business," said a city man to me the other day, and of many youngsters it is true. Contact with so many differing nationalities has taught us much. It is no mean thing to have studied the psychology and liajiits of the enemy, the French and other Allies, and ourselves. It has been more than the Grand Tour which went so far to form the education of the English gentleman of the past, and we shall value our broader European outlook more and more as the years go by. The young man of whom I spoke is wrong. The years have not been wasted, even from his selfish point of view. On the contrary, they have been crammed full with vital edu cation. We have missed a little book learning, ' but what of that? Our study has been in the University of Experience and of Life. How France Is Safeguarded [From the Kansas City Sttir.] Nobody can blame France for desiring more certain protection against future German aggression than the good resolutions in the covenant of the League of Nations. But she has the assurance already in something far stronger than any treaty engagement. It exists in the situation itself. The United States does not make alliances. It will not formally guar antee* French territory with any specific provision of what it will do in case France is attacked. Never theless, events of the last five years have made the French frontier our frontier. The same thing is essen tially true of England. The pro tection of; France is vital to the in terests of the United Stiftcs and Bri tain. She stands as our bulwark. We cannot permit her to be over whelmed. It is an entente from which we could not escape if we would. No party can disavow it. France need nbt worry over the lack of a writ ten agreement. She will automatic ally command help from her allies of this war because she Is part of that civilization which they must pro tect or they perish.—From the Kan sas City Star. Greatest of Little Flags [From the Youth's Companion.] Midway of last year the word be gan to steal through northern France and Belgium that American soldiers were fighting their way into the Ger man-held country. Now and then the women saw an American prison er or an American soldier who had been wounded: and frequently they heard the Germans speak of the "American swine."' Hidden away in secret places those women had French or Belgian flags, and now they began to make Ameri can flags against the day that they knew was coming. They searched in school books for the designs, took what poor finery the Germans had left to them and began to sow. When our boys marched in to take the place of the retiring Germans, their eyes beheld on every side those poor, pathetic homemade flags. Scarcely one was authoritative. Some had too many stripes, some not enough. Scarcely one had the right number of stars, but in spite of that no more eloquent bits of bunting ever flew. They told of something bigger than a military victory; of an international unselfishness, of rescue, of foo<i and every material help given in sym pathy and love. Those are the flags we should most like to see. They belong in the Capi tol at Washington, where, by looking at them, our children can learn what was the greatest thing their lathers . * 'APRIL 1 23,1919> New Editor For Thunderer Wickham Steed's appointment as editor in the place of Goeftrey Daw son means a greater change in the London Times tradition than would appear. He is the lirst editor of the Times who was not an English public school and Oxford man. Wick ham Steed has had most of his edu cation on the Continent, his univer sities being Jena, .Berlin and Paris. He was strongly Kussopliile be fore tlte war and worked hard for an understanding with Russia. He lias written much on the Balkan prob lems, and is claimed by the Jugo slavs as one of their chief supports. He has been Times correspondent at Berlin, Rome and Vienna., He is said to be a man of liberal views. The cynical comment on the ap pointment is that, as Mr. Steed's interests are mainly concerned with foreign affairs. Lord Northcliffe will bo able to exercise his .complete con trol over home politics in a way that was apparently impossible during Mr. Dawson's editorship.—From the Liv ing Ago. Atterlmry Coming Home [Girard in Philadelphia Press] I am told that Brigadier General W. W. Atterbury is expected home from France very shortly. What a capital book this capital railroader can write about the im mense achievements in the transpor tation department. Our army of two millions which faced the Hun on armistice day was 4,000 miles from its base of supplies. "Bring up 10,000 fresh troops a day. carry back the thousands of wounded feed and clothe and fut nish shot, shell and guns for the two millions who need them," that was the order General Atterbury bad to fill. " Thomas A. Scott, afterwards pres ident cf tm>.. Pennsylvania Railroad, cut out a fine career as transporta tion chief in the Civil War, but Vice-President Atterbury's task in France was far greater. And the Pennsy was on the job ooth times. LABOR NOTES Naples, Italy, has organized its' branch of the great co-operative Bociety for the benefit of employes of the and contemplates open ing relations with American, manu facturers of food stuffs, boots and shoes and other articles of first necessity. Thirty thousand Italian workmen are to bo sent to France to work in the devastated regions. The Government Printing Bureau at Ottawa, Canada, is badly crip pled due to the walkout of pressmen and printers. Industrial disputes in Pennsyl vania in 1918 caused an estimated wage loss of |2,212,301 and a time loss of 507,937 man days. Contract hand and machine min ers In this country have been grant ed an increase in wages amounting to 40 per cent on their gross earn ings. * The United States is now supply ing SO per cent of the shoes ifh ported into Chile, whereas before the war started the share was less than 20 per cent. Housemaids in Sydney, N. S., have formed a union with the yitimate objective of having their wages in creased from sl2 to S2O a month. The recommendation of the heads of the Works, Street Cleaning, Prop erty and Parks Departments of To ronto, Canada, in favor of an eight hour day for their employes has been sent to the city council for considera tion. Sixty dollars per month and every thing found will be the wage scale for farm help in the Canadian west this summer. The Employers' Industrial Commis sion recently sent to Europe by the Department of Labor will make a special study of the metHods employ ed by foreign governments In hand ling labor and Industrial problems during the war and general plans for reconstruction. One of the biggest individual vic tories won by a minors' local In the anthracite coal regicm is claimed by the men at the Grassy Island mine nt Olyphant, Pa., who were on strlko recently. In the terms agreed upon when settlement was made, the company agrees to pay back money from November, 1916, for work on rock work to 40 miners and 60 labor ers, while a large number of con sideration miners are to receive back Ibfntttg dlljat' If the appearance of the fruif trees in the districts about Harris burg- means anything, the crops havd not been injured by any cold weath er which has occurred this spring/ but there are going to be literally hundreds of trees added to tfK bearing list within sight of th church spires of this city. This in-, crease of the fruit trees in tirtj Harrisburg district is something i?o( generally known. Like the tre-, mendous spurt taken in the loweii Susquehanna counties in wheat rais. ir.g since the war began it has) come unnoticed, probably bec&usd people's minds were occupied with other things. But a ride through ttuj countryside will show how extent sively people have been planting! fruit trees, especially peach and ap ple, and that many of those planted survived to reach the bearing stage, Cumberland county has become one of the big fruit-raising counties in the last decade and there are or chards of large extent within a short ride of Harrisburg, while tha hills of Dauphin county, which are well adapted to fruit-raising in many sections, are at last being put to work. Just now the fruit trees are blooming everywhere and if the multitude of blossoms and the general appearances of the trees mean anything, there will be plenty of fruit, providing always that Jacic Frost does not make any May visits and that the seventeen-year-old lo custs will not afflict us in any great numbers. • • • It is evident that there will be some locusts in this section becausn farmers have reported turning up the grubs close to the surface in a number of sections of the county. In thevHummelstown region some large lots were plowed up and were immediately swooped upon by birds, while they have also been heard of in the Elizabethville -section. The distribution of the 1919 brood is pretty general and there will be more or less annoyance in the coun try and in many gardens next month. The State experts say that, the only thing to do is to kill as many as possible and feed them to the chickens. The seventeen-year-old locust is a smaller nuisance than the green fellows that are with us always, but active in flight and de structive of young twiggs which it rips open to lay eggs and often ruins whole trees. • • * According to Ed. Black, the art ist, strawberries are going to be plentiful this spring. Black has a cottage at Perdix, being one of the originalsettlers there, and cjo'sel.v annexed is one of the most prom ising strawberry patches in that re gion. When they begin to ripen, the artist plans to take his brushes and other tools up there and paint landscapes at the same time he chases blackbirds and robins. "You ought to see the blossoms," said he. "If other patches are showing up half so well shortcake ought to bo | a popular dish next summer." Camp Hill is going to have a Chautauqua next August. Enough people have become interested to make the course possible and ar rangements are being made for two weeks of lectures, concerts and en tertainments that will make the dull season in that suburb unusually lively. Robert Cahill is at the head of the enterprise. The Camp Hill Presbyterian Church, which took in tifteen new members last Sunday, is seriously considering the erection of a place of worship. A building committee has been appointed and the matter of design will be looked into and es timates procured as to probable costs. The congregation is growing as rapidly as any along the West Shore and in a few years gives pramiso of being the strongest Pres byterian Church of those organized hereabouts in recent years. Dr. J. George Beeht, executive secretary of the State Board of Edu cation, who will speak at the Arbor Day exercises in Camp Hill Friday afternoon, is one of the most sought after speakers in the State sendee. He has a wonderful command of the English language, and aside from being a born orator, has the happy knack of saying highly instructive things in an entertaining way, which is a gift few possess. Dr. Becht Is particularly popular among the school people of Pennsylvahia, and has so many invitations to speak that he has to be constantly refus ing in order to attend to the bulk of work his position entails. Camp Hill was fortunate in procuring him in that it had a friend at court. Officers who were here yesterday for the hearing on the military train ing bill before one of the legislative committees expressed some surprise that training in military matters was not undertaken more extensively in Harrisburg, especially in view of the fact that the city sent so many hun dreds of men into the Army and Navy. One officer commented upon tho work undertaken at the Harris burg Academy and was rather aston ished that training once in vogue at the Central High school had been given up some years ago. They pre dicted re-establishment of training soon. "Watch your step" is the slogan at the marble stairway in the Capi tol. Yesterday this was exemplified when one of the senators from West ern Pennsylvania was hailed as he was descending the steps. "Wait a minute, my mind is right on these steps. Wait 'till I get to th 6 bricks," said he. . WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Colonel Samuel Moody, formerly a member of the Governor's staff and prominent Pittsburgher, was here visiting the Capitol. .. —R. W. Gardiner, commissioner of the Pittsburgh Coal Producers' Association, one of the largest or ganizations of the kind in the coun try, was at the compensation meet ing. DO YOU KNOW ' —That Harrisburg Is being complimented l>y many visitors for its plans to aid in Capitol Park improvement? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —One hundred years ago Harris burg had churches of Ave denomina tions. To the Point I Out In New Mexico even public I signs come direct to the point. They do not waste any time in wondering' how the render will feel about it. In a garage at Albuquerque is posted: "Don't smoke around the tank!" If your life isn't worth anything.
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