12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telesravh Building, Federal Sqaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENEU, Circulation Manager Executive Bonrd Id P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, . F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, . J Member American Newspaper Fub jjjflljj(3 jifiQ M Eastern E|3.g| at Building, ""I Chicago, 111. S Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class Shatter. By carrier, ten cents a twA.week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919 The youth of the soul is everlasting, . and eternity is youth.—Richter. THAT RECEIVERSHIP BILL CRITICS of Senator Frank A. Smith's receiver of taxes bill either are grossly ignorant of 1 its purposes and intent when they . attack it on the score of increasing I the expenses of the county, or they .are maliciously determined to mis state the facts for political purposes. The Smith bill provides for the ( appointment of a' county tax collec tor, or receiver, and two assistants, to be paid fixed salaries. These men would take the places of the vast number of tax collectors who now reoeivc commissions for the collec tion of county taxes, and the money saved by the Smith plan would amount to many thousands of dol lars each year and the work would be done more promptly and effec tively. The bill is not new. Senator Beidleman tried repeatedly to get it through the Legislature, but each time it was killed by legislators more intent upon keeping ward politi cians at home in good humor than . in taking care of the interests of the taxpayers. It is a worthy meas ure and should have the support of the Legislature. Senator Smith will do a great service to the county and save it many times his salary as a Sqpator each year if he succeeds in having the proposed statute enacted this term. A THRIFTY PEOPLE IT HAS been necessary for Harris burg and Dauphin county in pre vious loans to help Perry county and Juniata county go over the top, although the individual subscriptions in both counties always compared favorably with those of this county and in some cases exceeded those of the city district. But this time the shoe is on the other foot. The bunks of Perry and Juniata have subscribed the entire quota. It is up to Harrisburg and Dauphin coun ty td show what we are made of. It is now for us to go over the top. And we should do it easily. Bonds that are looked upon as highly de sirable by the thrifty and successful (bankers of Perry and Juniata coun ties ought to be good enough for us. DON'T BLAME THE BANKS DON'T blame the banks if in a few weeks the Victory bonds go above par and it is found most of the securities have been bought up by them. These Victory bonds arc the best securities ever offered and will be come very valuable in a short time. Bankers know this and are keen to put them in their strong boxes. But they cannot do this if the people at large subscribe for the bonds as they should. Uncle Sam has said to the banks that the private investor shall have first choice; shall be allowed to buy as many bonds as ho' wants. So the banks have arranged to take care of investments on the easy payment plan, but in many dis tricts they do not care whether the people subscribe or not. So, if you wake up in a few weeks, or months, and And that the bank has the best bonds the Government has ever issued and you have none, don't blame the banks. If they take advantage of a bargain you decline, that will be your fault. "JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN" A CONSISTENT and practical effort is being made by the United States Chamber of Com merce, through its bureau organized tor the employment or returning sol fliers, to place the men discharged [rom the service in their former po sitions or places equally as good. Commercial organizations through out the country are awake to the importance of this question and are generously co-operat ' lug In its solution. One feature sf the program, however, is giving the various business organizations ieriouB difficulty. Many of the soldiers ire not returning to their home sta tions and, as a result, there is a con THURSDAY EVENING, BJOmisamiG TELEGKXPH J! APRIL' 24, 1919..'HP gestion in some quarters where under normal conditions there would be no unemployment. AVhat is necessary to overcome is this disposition to locate elsewhere than at his old home where the old job may be waiting. It has been suggested that in order to meet this situation it might be better to urge upon soldiers to report back to their former places of employment and there determine their future course. Until such adjustment has been made, there is bound to be more or less unemployment in widely separ ated localities. It is realized that, the returning soldier has had the benefit of dis cipline and a broadened point of view as a result of monlhs of military ser vice, making him in many instances a more valuable employe than he was before he received this training. AA'ith respect fo authority and a clear conception of team-work, his worth in almost any position should be greatly increased. Everywhere the various welfare organizations are aiding in the re employment services which have been instituted in most of the cities and tovyns of the country. It is credit able for these organizations, which have done so much for the soldiers during the period of hostilities, that they are now performing the import ant work of restoring the men to their proper places in civil life. Harrisburg is not falling down in this work, as it has not fallen down in any other war activity. HAS COMPANY THE NEW YORK WORLD, chief defender of the Wilson adminis tration, having been denied the use of the Government-controlled telegraph lines for news items it desired to transmit to its clients, has (his criticism to offer regarding Postmaster General Burleson's gen eral unfitness for his job, with which the Telegraph agrees in every partic ular: Taking the record of the last six years, the Burleson appoint ment, on the whole, has proved the most, unfortunate that the President ever made —unfortu- nate for Mr. AVilson himself, un fortunate for his administration, unfortunate for the Democratic party and unfortunate for the country. Mr. Bryan was a sorry mislit as Secretary of State, but Mr. Bryan's selection was inevit able, and in naming him Mr. AVil son followed the political tradi tions of the country. Moreover, Mr. Bryan's opportunities for mischief were narrowly circum scribed, because Mr. AVilson, in reality, was his own Secretary of State and decided all questions of policy. There have been no such restraints upon Mr. Burleson. He has roamed at large, been allowed to administer his office 'n his own amazing way, and the con sequences are appalling. Instead of being a link between the President and Congress, he has been a source of continuing contention. Disliked and distrust ed at the Capitol, he has made the President's relations with Con gress more difficult. As a politic cal adviser to the President he has been a Democratic tragedy. If there has been any instance in whifh Mr. AVilson has not in volved himself in trouble by tak ing counsel of Albert Sidney Bur leson, we should )ik<y to know when it happened. ' These are minor matters, how ever. It is with Mr. Burleson as Postmaster General that the eountry is chiefly concerned, and as Postmaster General. Mr. Bur leson is a national liability. The Post Office Department was had enough wjien he took hold; under his management it has steadily deteriorated. The war gave the telegraph and telephone service into his hands, and the blight of Burlesonism has now fallen upon all the agoncios of communica tion. We doubt if there is a sin gle business, a single industry, a single activity, that is not a vic tim of the Burleson system of ad ministration. Had the Postmaster General set out deliberately to discredit Gov ernment ownership and operation of public utilities, he could not have been more successful in lils undertaking. But. in the meantime the American people have to pay for all this blundering incompetency, and the longer that President AVilson keeps Mr. Burleson in of fice the more difficult he makes his own great task. Probably two-thirds of the popular opposi tion to the President, disregard ing tha.t which is the convention al antagonism of blind, unreason ing partisanship, is the direct Product of Burlesonism, and Mr. AVilson could render no groater service to himself than to get rid cf his Postmaster General. * All of which is justified by facts with which the public is well ac quainted. But why lay the whole responsibilities for tho President's growing unpopularity upon Burle son? To he sure he is a misfit, but who put him where he is, and who has permitted him to go his way unhampered? Who is it that could have halted Mr. Burleson in his mad career had he so desired? Why, Mr. Wilson, of course. And since he has not disapproved Mr. Burleson, it must be concluded that he ap proves him. No, Burleson cannot be made the scapegoat of the ad ministration, no matter how much he is open to criticism. JOB FOR KAISER BISHOP THEODORE HENDER SON, of Detroit, thinks a proper punishment for the Kaiser would be to have him spend the remainder of his life breaking' stone. Now it happens that we have a lot of stone breaking to do in Pennsylvania, and we re spectfully make application for Wil helm, in the name of State Highway Commissioner Sadler* and promise him a life job on the roads of Penn sylvania, if the high tribunal of Paris will let us have him for this State. And from what we know of the hustling abilities of Mr. Sadler we feel qualified to guarantee that the' former War Lord would earn his keep. JAMES N. MOORE THE re-appointment of James N. Moore as chief of the Legisla tive Reference Bureau is a trib ute to his personal ability and the efficiency of his administration. Mr. Moore has a most complete and com prehensive system of recording, and his Bureau has turned out many models of legislative acts. Few, ex cept those who come into direct .con tact with affairs on Capitol Hill; realize just how important a place lie holds or how well he fills it. r f > C)lUlc4. Mw "PtKKOifkrcuua I By the Ki-Commltt<*m&n United States Senator Boies Pen rose, the central figure in the politi cal situation in Pennsylvania, went away from Hr Usburg late yester day afternoon breathing defiance at his opponents and predicting that the Philadelphia charter revision bills would be passed in good sea son. The Senator is coming back here Monday night and means to return the next week. The test of the Senator's strength will come in the House. There are many who think that there will not be any trouble at all in getting the bills through the Senate in spite of the Vare plan to hold a hearing Tuesday, but who believe that there will be a strenuous fight in the House. The Senator does not seem to be disturbed. —ln his statement issued just be fore his departure the Senator said "It is übsurd to talk about compro mising with garbage collectors and scavengers who naturally prefer the contract system, particularly when a large element of the overhead ex pense of contracts consists of the amount paid as subsidies to city in spectors and supervisors." This re mark was in answer to some ques tions about the provisions of the AVoodward bill that the city of Phil adelphia could either do Its own work or award contracts. Ho said that no one would have "the ef frontery to go before the people of Philadelphia" and argue against that provision.' —"lf the interested motives of contractors constitute the basic ele ment in the opposition to these bills, as some suspect, the sooner the Leg islature and the people of the State know it the better," he added, and said that the members of the House are "rapidly arriving at an intelli gent conception of conditions in Philadelphia." —The Senator said that he was urging the passage of the Brady bills to effect reforms in the Phila delphia registration system, saying | "It is certainly a parody upon world conditions, when, after the great war for liberty, fraudulent voting and the suppression of honest vot ing are promoted by the sworn of ficials entrusted with the election machinery." -—Senator Penrose, Lieutenant Governor Beidleman and Senator Frank A. Smith will be among the speakers at the banquet of the Na tional Textile Association in New York to-mori-ww. -—Governor Sproul is expected to reach Philadelphia the end of the week and to be back in Harrisburg on Monday. Beyond stating that he would stand for no rippers, the Governor has not discussed the Philadelphia situation. —Bill No. 1400 appeared in the house yesterday afternoon. The committees will start to clean house pretty soon. —Opinions are now that the leg islative session may run on to May 29 if not into June. The majority of the members want to close be before Memorial Day. —A good story is being told of a member from a southern county who is somewhat strong on nega tives. He sent a list of bills to the desks of the cierks of the House with the information that he wanted to be recorded "No" on everyone of them. —George D. Porter, former direc tor of safety and candidate Iror mayor in Philadelphia, was among visitors to the city yesterday after noon and discussed legislation at the Capitol. —The committee in charge of <lie banking code is rapidly getting the measure into shape. Meetings were held by the Senate committee with Commissioner John S'. Fisher and the members of the State Banking Code Commission. —Every indication is that there is going to be a lively conference on compensation next Monday. The plan is to have the bill containing amendments sent in on Monday night. —A committee of rural legislators with'hay on their horns is looking for Senator T. L. Eyre. They are mostly up Statg men and they want bills in which they ire interested reported to the Senate with any kind of a recommendation so that they get out. The committee made a visit to the Senate yesterday and told views to State Chairman Crow. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "Colonel John F. Short, the mili tant editor of the Democratic Clear field Republican, in the current is sue of his progressive weekly says: " 'Watch the Roosevelt followers all over Pennsylvania line up, for Pen rose next year when he announces his candidacy for re-election to the United States Senate. Watch the Bull Moosers and Washington Party voters get into the procession and yell their heads off for the man they damned and denounced so vig orously ai*l so valiantly all through the period when the late Teddy was •after their scalp. Penrose will be a candidate and he will be nom inated by the G. O. P. next year as sure as the year arrives and he lives. What a great opportunity will then be at hand all over Pennsylvania for publication of the deadly parallel columns. And there will be some of the opportunity in this good old county, too.' " OLD BARRIERS REMOVED [From the Milwaukee Journal.] A news item announced that Bishop David t H. Greer, of the Prot estant Episcopal Diocese of New York, asked a Catholic priest to con duct one of the Holy Week services in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine* Only a relatively short time ago, the bishop would not have done that, and, if he had, he would have been subjected to a storm of criticism. Men have drawn closer together. They have discovered that the things of the spirit that make for their one ness are of infinitely greater moment than the things of earth that differ entiate them from one another. ' The battlefield knew no creed or denomination. The Catholic priest and the Jewish rabbi held their ser vices in Y. M. C. A. huts. The Catho lic and the Jew buried the Protes tant dead. The Jew and the Protes tant held the cross before the eyes of the expiring soldier. In the face of things like these, how can men find the heart to set up the old bar riers? Why not leave them down and let the same exalted spirit of service have free sway among men on the hattlefields of life, even as. on the battlefields .which ran with the blood ,of our heroic soldiers' WONDER WHAT A CHICKEN CROSSING THE ROAD THINKS ABOUT By BRIGGS 4 _ Prcttv' Pooß PickAmS - Guess I D Better - vaJomDER iP t CAW _ WWAT Shall I DO.'? HSRe. IVe A HUWCH 3TART BEFORE ONE OF MAKE IT !? * T IT'S <aO T HE RE I A?a*V*iGHT The OTher .side op 7hos£ aviful , AVNFuL So a Boj>Y ( ain't. Safe Smack ho the middle j The Road lis better- automobiles'— HELLO any more-' ♦ 0= MY Road AMD a * HERE COMES OM6 OF ot<3 CAR ComikiG RIGHT j The FiewnisH.7hia/6S Wouj me I'v/e • • 66EW so CONFUSED , IN ALL MY LiPE \\ -vv Better <so MERCV GOODNESS YAU/-w-W-v/j K!' Yoo-'u-u ' right..JACK WHERB THAT DRIVER is YOK- Yuk -YOU I FROMI-IT TRYING to KILL.ME- c-ro MP'" WAS SAP** THERE tu T^ K 3AFE VHAMK amyhouu-.oh I DO , \ A owm - OWK Hope I>CAM MAWEiIT\ *' 1 WAITING Flawless bodies, strong and straight. Smooth as ivory, white as snow, You have watched them long and late, Loved them, fed them, helped them grow. Tumbled hair on boyish brow. Little curls not long ago— (Some are hid in Bible now) As all loving mothers know, Mother! Mother! You and I Watched to see the boys go by! Open minds, right frank, and clean, Their own epics scarce begun, All the centuries have seen Pages fair to write upon; Steady nerve, unfaltering heart, Fortified by love and fun Answering to the man's full part— So seems every mothers don! Mother! Mother! Did we try To smile, as they went marching by? Fearless souls, so brave and gay, Sought your sympathizing eyes, Tramping manfully away To what hopeless sacrifice? They would build a world anew, 'Stablish truth in place of lies— This your 'baby boy would do! To Ihis end a soldier dies. Mother! T( r as your flag held high To wave that man a brave good-by? As you knelt through anxious nights, Love has followed all his ways. He has borne through bitter fights Knowledge that his mother pravs, God's best gift. "Noblesse oblige," Ts inherent in his blood; Fiercest Are or longest siege Found him ready, proved him good Mother! Mother! You and T Shall give him welcome, bye and bye, —Marietta JM. Andrews in the Washington Star. GERMAN PHILOSOPHY As we approach the acceptance or rejection by Germany of generous peatce terms, it seems worth while to quote their requiem by that beloved octogenarian philosopher, John Bur roughs; "The Germans are without sentiment or imagination. They can understand no psychology , but their own, and on every important occa sion misread the feelings and pur poses of the other peoples. The chivalrous and heroic are unknown to them. As soon as the tide of battle turned against them, they lost their morale. They had nothing to fall back upon, ndthing of which tlje souls of heroes are made. Their sudden collapse before their territory was invaded, and while they still had millions of veteran soldiers at tho battle front, the cowardly flight of the Kaiser, the ignominious terms they hastened to accept, tho surren der of their fleet without firing a shot, the mutiny of their crews when required to face the fleet of the enemy are all typical 6f an unheroic people. Is it possible to conceive jof the British fleet, or the French fleet, or the American fleet, or the -fleets of any of the Allies, surrendering in this cowardly way? Had the Ger mans been capable of reading cor rectly the psychology of any nation that differed from their' own, they never would have forced this coun try into the war. But how shall a machine interpret a living force? How could the obtuse, pigheaded, sauerkraut-eating and beer-guzzling Prussian be expected to understand an American?" A 100-Passenyer Airplane One of the greatest aerial experi ments of the century will be made in England shortly, when a super triplane, made by W. G. Tarrant* will be launched. Mr. Tarrant says the machine is nearly completed, and the first flight will take place soon. The triplane is built to carry ahout one hundred passengers, or six tons o(* merchan dise. It has a wing span of 150 feet, and six engines, which, it is estimat ed, will carry the machine Ave hun dred miles without refueling. These engines together are equivalent to three thousand horse power, and will attain a speed of about ninety miles an hour.—From the Continen tal Edition of the London Mail. Evening Thought I am the payer of large dividends; I am the lubricant that makes every transaction move smoothly; I am tho foundation rock upon which is built that great asset —good will; no man or' corporation, is big enough, or small enough to dispense with me; success and I go hand in hand; 1 am so Inexpensive, all can have mo—l am courtesy. < The People's Forum To the Editor of the Telegraph: There is a rather discouraging pro blem facing the discharged service man these days and that is in the matter of securing employment. The employers and business men in gen eral have assumed a very selfish and close-listed attitude, quite in variance with the spirit which prevailed dur ing the period of the war; and on all sides the returning soldier, sailor and marine seeking employment is encountering an attitude of utter In difference and in many cases open dislike—strange as the latter may seem. Such conditions should not obtain when one considers what those men did in order that the people of America, which naturally includes the present day business men, might live in peace and enjoy their prosperity. It is fast assuming the proportions of a hopeless propo sition for a discharged service man to find a job and yet there are still a million men in France and one dreads to think what these poor fel lows will do on their return. The United States Government on discharging its men after good and faithfful service, gives them the mil- I nificent sum of sixty dollars with I which they are supposed to com pletely outfit themselves in civilian clothes and pay for their food and lodging until such time as they are able to secure a position. But when they try to locate said position the invariable answer to their inquiries is—"Conditions arc so unsettled at present that we are afraid to lake the risk." Yet—two years ago conditions were very un settled in Europe—but that did not deter two or three million American lads from taking a risk and going "Over There" to make conditions more settled. They gave up posi tions, future, home, families—in fact everything that makes life worth living—for a principle and went (through Hell in justification of that principle and won. Without thought or desire of gain or personal aggran dizement in any shape or manner, millions cheerfully shouldered a gun and lived in mud and tilth and ■wretchedness; many of theni dying under those conditions, but never a j complaining murmur came home across the seas to shake the trust | the people here had in the boys I "Over There." In return they do not ask anyone "to give up anything for them, but just to act square. Is it quite right or in accordance with the well known American spirit of fair play that these men on returning should meet with such complete indifference and apathy from the people for whom they suffered all? Conditions may be unsettled, but these returning men must live and work must be created for them. Charity is not asked—nor would it be accepted—only a white man's chance to dig in and make good and an oportunity to repair as best as possible tho financial losses of the two years spent in the service. If employers do not awaken to the situation at present, they may be surprised at the one confronting then) later on. Before going over to France, the majority of men were promised their jobs on their return and, just before re'turnlng, glowing accounts reached them of the work being done in their behalf towards making a job for every fighter. 1 On returning home, however, the men found that words were cheap, promises easily broken and llie art of camouflage as much in vogue as at the Front, but applied in different ways. During the war business houses took great pride in display ing huge service flags showing the number of their employes in uni form, but when the custom started of putting a white star on the flag for every re-employed man, flags were suddenly hauled in out of sight. Why this sudden modesty and re serve? This is not an indictment against all employers, but against those who in their narrowness of mind and spirit can see nothing out side of their own selfish selves. If the promises that were made to the men and accepted by them in good faith were kept, there would be no necessity of any sol'dter, sailor or marine worrying as to how to pro vide for himself and family. Efforts on their own part in conjunction with the noble work being done by various broad-minded people, who appreciate what the boys did, would suffice to land everyone of these dis charged men in some position that would guarantee him a living—pro viding they had the eo-opqration of the business men. But the latter m not the case, the exact opposite i being the general" rule, except in some notable exceptions. Herculean work is being done by the different bureaus in trying, to locate the jobs for the boys, but they cannot manu facture positions! They act pnly as the agent in connecting the two and if employers refuse to back them up, their efforts are of no avail. Fifty thousand jobs were promised to Mr. Jacob Lightner, of the State Service Bureau, for the boys on their return, but there was a woeful hedging and crawling when the men did return to fill the jobs and the percentage of those who did make good on their promises, was so small as to be al most negligible. Small wonder then that the boys are becoming bitter. What about the discharged sol diers who were taken back by the Pennsylvania Railroad and just re cently laid off? Does that not seem a direct slap in the face and very poor reward for what they have gone through ? Can there be any good reason for such a- move? Such con duct on the part of the officials re sponsible for this action, needs no comment jiere. for right-minded people can form their own opinions. It would be weli for those respons ible for present conditions to remem ber that there were over two million men in the American Expedi'ionnry Force and that their voices will be a power in the land at the coming elections. Something must be done and that quickly and people must realize that their ob'igations did not cease when llie armistice was signed, but that it is their bounden duty to do their utmost for every soldier, sailor and marine until the last one has reached America's shores and has been start ed along on the paths he so cheer fully left two years ago "to make the world <=afe for democracy." Edward Brouwer-Anclier. Our Financial Integrity [Ry Fred S. Kent. New York Banker.] There is no question whatever as to the financial integrity of the United States to-day, nor is there any reason to doubt that its financial equipment will keep pace with its needs as long as such integrity exists. This Nation has three great forces —physical, commercial and moral. The part played by our wonderful army and navy in the war has led the world to respect and fear our physical force. The immense pro duction of our fields and factories, and the tremendous trade developed since the August of 1914, have also induced the world's respect, and again its fear. Our moral force is the great unknown quantity, that adds, the fear of the world to the re spect which it holds for our physical and commercial forces. If our phy sical force is divided against itself by the vicious agitator, his brainless followers and their unfortunate dupes, the world will lose its respect for both our physical and commer cial forces, and we will have no moral force. But if our people pre sent a united front of integrity of purpose, our physical force will re tain the world's respect, with the fear of none except those who would de stroy principle. Our commercial force, being based on fairness, will also carry respect, and without fear except 'from the false trader, and our moral force will grow into a mighty power. In this great crisis of the world's affairs, may our country so control its physical and commercial forces that its moral force may help all nations in their fight for the real peace, internal and, external, in man and in country, which nius! come before happiness and contentment can rule the earth. Persian Volcano Active According to a Russian official tel egram received in London, the Ros toft papers report that one of (he highest peaks of the Elburz Moun tains (in northwestern Persia, to the south of the Caspian) has begun to give off clouds of smoke. An erup tion is expected. Great quantities of blocks of ice have fallen from the top of the mountain, which has never before shown any sign ,of volcanic activity.—From the Continental Edi tion of the London Mail. The Word to Jeremiah Then (he Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me. Behold, I have put my words into thy mouth. — Jeremiah i, 9. INSECTS IN AMBER The proverbial "fly In amber" is strikingly exemplified in a collection of red amber from Burma recently presented to the British Museum by it. C. J. Swinhoe, of Mandalay. The amber is unusually rich in insects, including, according to Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, who has examined the material, thirty-one new species, of which five are types of new genera. Most of these are found in a block of amber rather larger than a man's list. This has been cut into slices about half an inch thick. Near ly every large order of insect is rep resented with the exception of ants. —From the Scientific American. Roosevell on Self-Government You must govern yourselves. If you do not govern yourselves, you may be very sure that others will govern you;* and it they do, they will govern you in their own interest and not in yours.—From a speech delivered by Colonel Roosevelt in 1912. LABOR NOTES The Toronto (Canada) Machin ists' Union is clamoring for a six hour day, which they want put intot force in the shipbuilding yards and all public works. The number of fatal mining acci dents in Pennsylvania during the past year was 164 4, of which 549 occurred in the anthracite mines and 495 in the bituminous. Domestics employed in thp best homes in Toronto, Canada, are re ceiving wages ranging front $25 to $4O per month, while good stenog raphers can demand $25 a week. Railroad terminal workers in Can ada are asking for 52, 47, 46, and 45 cents an hour, with time and half time for holidays and Sunday work. The National Federation of Gen eral Workers in Great Britain, rep resenting nearly l,0iP),000 men and women are making a 1 strenuous fight for a 4 4-hour work week. Nearly all the shipyards in Kng land, Scotland and Ireland arp idle otving to workmen leaving (heir plages until they are granted shorter hours and improved working con ditions. A new wage scale granted to civil employes in the navy jjards on the Pacific Coast gives them a general increase of about 20 per cent, mak ing the average daily wage for the skilled trades from $5.60 to $5.80. The Divisions of Conciliation of the United States Department of Labor handled 1217 cases during 1918 and adjusted 865. The ntimber of work men directly affected in these cases was 1,041,342, and indirectly, 1,315,- 657. ' The demand made upon the Span ish government by the workers in that country asks for a minimum eight-hour day and the establish ment of minimum wages. A refusal to grant these demands will likely cause a complete tie-up of business in that country. The Brotherhood of Railroad Sig nal Men of America, representing nearly 100 per cent, of the signal men on the Williamsport, Sunbury and Elmira division of th Pennsyl vania Railroad, are strongly in favor of government ownership of the rails. •Of the 317. strikes occurring in Pennsylvania during the past year, there were 109 in the metal trades, 51 in the building trades, 50 in min. ing, 31 in textiles, 28 in public util ities, 14 in clothing trades and the remainder in various other classi fications. Of the 334 8 locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works last year, 62 per cent, were for the United States, France fcnd Great Britain for war purposes. The aver age weekly number of men employ ed during the year was 19,632 ex clusive of the subsidiary companies. A new organization to be known ad the American Dyes Institute, comprising 51 manufacturers of dyes and intermediates, has come Into bei-- as th& result of the amalga mation of the American Dye in stitute and the American Dyestuffs Manufacturers' Association. Over 150,000. men will be thrown out of work in the Yorkshire (Eng.) mining district unless the operators grant the demand of the men, who threaten to quit at once if their de mands are not met. Electrical work ers are also causing mOch unrest with demands for increased pay. IQrotttuj (Mfal Judging tfom the "kicks" antf complaints that have been registered by many American soldiers in letters sent to Harrisburg people from France, one might suppose that any body who. mentioned uniform, driH or ihilltary service to the men who helped lick the Hun would be in if a licking after he has laid away £*& khaki and rifle. The tone of some A, of these letters would indicate that the men abroad are disgusted "wit* military service and anxious only to get out. But there are indications that, while they may have had! enough of their army to meet ai". their own desires, they do realize the importance of being prepared. For example, "The Watch on the Rhine,' an oflicial daily newspaper of the men who are holding the German territory occupied by the Allies, de votes a four column article to a dis cussion of "Why universal service should be permanent." This papei has just been received by the Harris, burg Telegraph. "The short experi ence." says this newspaper, "which the United States has had in the present war has proved conclusively that a system of universal military training is the only really democratic method of distributing the burden incident thereto among the people." A little farther along, the writer says this: "In America we have fal len into the habit of assuming that the Slate owes us everything and that we owe no particular duty to the Government which protects our interests at home and abroad," and expresses the belief that universal training would make every man rec ognize his responsibilities with re spect to the Government. And again: "We must get rid of the 'floater' in our country, of the man who feels thut. laws are made for other peoplo and that the country has no partic ular hold over or Interest in him be cause he has no special responsibility toward the country. Since joining the colors, many of our men have * come to know Uncle Sam for the first time and have felt tlife warm pressure ofhis hand and looked in to his kind, shrewd "old eyes with a new sense of relationship. They are prouder than they were ever before of the 'old man.' They have seen their comrades fight and die for the principles he stands for. It has been an experience they will never forget. 1 If 'father and the boys' coble to , gether in this fresh enterprise, they , will make new ties nothing will be . able to break." • Sergeant Fred I-uders, an Anzae, who is spending a few days with [ friends in Harrisburg, is authority for the statement that Kitchener was • at Gallipoli in 1915. This is a bit , of history which has not heretofore ! come to light. At the time the , British w&re knocking at the gates . of Constantinople, nobody knew that , Kitchener had been on the field to overlook the operations. But Ser geant I.,uders says he saw him and he has the army dispatches to prove what he says. I-uders has had a re markable record. Of the 103 men r who were in the unit of which he was a part, all hut three were killed. Two were crippled for life and I-u -ders came through without a scratch. I-uders also saw the battle in which the famous German raider, the Kmden, was knocked to pieces and her crew captured. He was at Galli- ' poli, in Egypt. France and Belgium and was not in a hospital one day of the entire period. His pay-book shows that in all but two cases, lie received his pay in the field, and those two instances were in London. He saw 4\ 2 years of the war and came out of it hale, hardy and a good looking soldier. He has a great admiration for the Yankee. "We called them 'Diggers'," he said. "In Australia we call all our best chums 'Diggers', and, believe me, the com ing of those big, strapping, hard fighting Yanks meant a lot to us.' • • * Carlisle is going to have a big Fourth of July celebration in honor of its returning soldiers. The cele bration will begin on the evening of the second of July and continue until the evening of the fourth, with some thing doing every minute. Cumber land made one of the best records of any of the counties in Pennsyl vania and her people are justly proud of their record. They are going to show Harrisburg a thing or two in the way of celebrations, they say.' * * Newspapers throughout the State are taking a big interest in the for mation of the organization of the men who served in the aimy during the war and in Philadelphia it is , one of the big themes. The Phila delphia Inquirer in the course of a discussion of the subject says: "Major William G. Murdock, of the ' Selective Service Headquarters, in Harrisburg, is urging co-operation by the members of the local and district boards in this raovo lor the organization of all men who served in the American Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the recent war, and has directed attention to the fact that the preliminary work is being done at headquarters tit this city at which Major George F. Tyler is officiating with Lieutenant Joseph B. McCall, Jr., in direct charge of the organization of the State. There is a proposition for concentration of activities so that the Pennsylvania delegation shall have suitable head quarters and work in harmony at the St. Louis convention and a defin ite program will be announced short ly." • • • Even daylight Baving does not sat isfy some of Harrlsburg's gardeners and in spite of the extra hour they have for the "patch," they are grumbling. Almost every evening) some one gets on a trolley ear on the Hill and complains that he could not "finish a row." 1 DO YOU KNOW>." —TlintHnrrisburg has been up to the mark on every loan of Uncle Sam's from 1770 to 1918. HISTORIC n\RRIsnURG —When the Revolution closed, there was not a house in Harris Ferry that did not have Continent money. \ WaL KNOWN PEOPLE S —George Wharton Pepper is in de mand now for speeches on the Lea gue of and is to speak at Indianapolis. —Harry Whycl, chairman of the Fayette county Victory Loan com mittee, lias organized a band com posed of men who were in the Marne / fighting as a part of the campaign. f •—Colonel Asher Miner, former legislator and lately returned from France, will ndminfster the Catlin estate. —-Theodore G. Walton is the new superintendent of the Bethlehem city parks.
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