14 MRRISBURG TELEGRAPH .V NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Tublished evenings except Sunday by THE TELEG It APII PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-CMet F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard 2". 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. A Member American f\ Newspaper Pub- I Ushers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenua Building, Western office', Story, Brooks n Finley, People's Gas Building I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post OfTlce in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a 4tldfi• week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1919 Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all f —Sydney Smith. THEY ARE WATCHING US THE Yanks are coming home: 1 thousands of them, but not all of them. There sleeps in France and Belgium and Italy a mighty host who laid down their lives in the cause of freedom. They gave up all they had that we may live in I peace and happiness. They died be cause they had faith in their coun try as the best nation on the face of the earth, and the hope of man kind everywhere. They went for ward to death because they be lieved that we at home were just as loyal, self-sacrificing and willing us they. And now, from some far distant height in the happy land where the faithful warrior rests, it requires no great strain of the imagination to picture them watching us, to see how we carry on the great task they so well began. For the work they started is only begun. True, the fighting is over, but the war after the war —the struggle to make this country the best place possible for the development of the ideal democracy, is only in its preliminary stages. And before we can go for ward we must clear up the ruck and muck of the war, get rid of its wreckage and pay its debts. Then we shall bo able to start afresh with fine hope for a better day about to dawn and with power to concentrate fully on the great work we have to do. But we must have money to pay debts, and just now the Government must sell bonds to get money. So, if we are true to our country, and faithful to those ghostly sentinels of freedom who are watching us from their places in the stars, we must buy bonds. It is not only a duty, but a privilege that is offered and there is something the matter with our Americanism if we do not respond to the extent of our ability. WORSE THAN NONSENSE A MEMBER of Congress from Texas, most likely a relative of Postmaster General Burleson, solemnly repeats his assertion of last week that the labor union lead ers of the United States are hand in-glovc with Bolshevism. This is sheerest nonsense. The labor unions as a whole are as much opposed to Bolshevism as is the biggest capital ist in the land, for they know that labor suffers under Bolshevism even more than capital, if that were pos sible. Men like this Texan are not only liars but they are trouble makers. We have quite enough prob lems to solve and differences to ad just without adding to them false conditions that only make the work of reconstruction the more difficult. GENERAL STEWART ERECTION" of a statue of Gen eral Thomas J. Stewart in the Capitol is a mark of respect that the officers of the old National Guard of Pennsylvania do well to pay. The Guard went into the war, one of the best drilled units of the great army mobilized by America, to beat the Hun, largely because of Genaral Stewart's years of devoted effort to build it on firm foundations. The General was a soldier of the old school. He believed thoroughly in the infantryman as the dominat ing factor in war—a faith, by the way, that was put to the test severely, without discredit to those who held to it in the closing days of the great struggle, when the added man power of the United States thrown into the balance overcame the German forces by sheer numbers. He laid great stress upon individual initiative among his officers and on discipline among the troops. "The School of the soldier" meant more to him than the mere technical definition of the phrase and he encouraged marks manship. Consequently, men of the old Guard went National ser- FRIDAY EVENING, Harrisburg TELEGRTAPff APRIL 25, TW. vice well prepared, and the record they made in France reflected glory upon the sturdy old general who had drilled them, and grilled them, and made real soldiers of them. Now that a City Forester has been appointed by the head of the Park Department, it is reasonable to ex pect that some definite plans will be formulated for the protection of the trees of the city. Too much cannot be looked for in the way of planting and treatment, but something will have been gained if the trees we have, are saved from further butchering and mallreatment by those who know nothing of trees and care less. Mean while, the Boy Scouts arc going to co-operate in this important work and they will be of real service. MAKING PROGRESS IF THE white folks of Harrisburg are not careful, their colored neighbors are going to "beat them to it" in the matter of a Community House. The effort now on foot is fathered by the People's Forum, an organization of years' standing and of tested worth, and the executive committee in charge of the project is made up of men and women well known in the community for their devotion to public welfare and the development of community spirit in their race. The plan is deserving of the public support it no doubt will have. | The need of a Community House 1 is going to be felt more keenly even than at present once the saloons are closed. Men will seek places where they may congregate for amusement, recreation and discussion. They will find such places, no doubt of that, but what kind of places will they be? Will they be club rooms on the third floor, rear, or the Com munity House where good influences prevail? It remains for the right thinking people of the city to say. In particular is it important that some such place be established for the colored people of the city. They never had the opportunity for self improvement to which they are en titled. The men and women of the Forum have done much in the past few years, but they have reached a place where they must go forward or go back, and they have very wisely decided to throw everything into the balance and make a bold play for the establishment of such a Community House as will give them the opportunity for the up lift work they desire to do. Their determination to co-operate with Colonel Martin in the making of Harrisburg a model city front the standpoint of public health and sani tation. is an earnest of their inten tion to work for the betterment of the whole community as well as for the poorer families of their own race. THE ITALIAN SITUATION PRESIDENT WILSON has taken an entirely praiseworthy atti tude in the Italian situation which has arisen to disturb the Peace Conference. Italy in the first instance demanded Fiume in order to protect herself from Aus tria-Hungary, but the menace of the dual monarchy no longer exists. Never again will German aggression rear its head along the Adriatic. On the other hand, there is the new State of the Jugo-Slavs between, and Italy's only reason for desiring this extension of territory is that she wants more land, and the Peace Conference, if it is true to itself, must continue to frown upon mere land grabbing. Premier Orlando has accused the President of being unfriendly to Italy. The truth is that Mr. Wilson is playing the part of a very good friend to the Italian people. In denying them Fiume he is standing between them and another war, for it is certain that the Jugo-Slavs would demand an unrestricted gate way to the sea and Italy would either have to fight or give up the territory which now she seeks. We cannot make a permanent peace on the basis of giving the victor all the spoils he can carry home. The country as a whole will support Mr. Wilson in the stand he has taken with respect to Italy. It is in full accord with American spirit and traditions. SKINS OF TIMES PASSAGE by the House of Rep resentatives yesterday of the Ramsey equal suffrage resolu tion comes with little surprise to those who have been studying the drift of the times. It would have been strange, indeed, if a House that adopted national prohibition would have declined to approve votes for women. The suffrage resolution has a long, hard road to travel before it be comes a law in Pennsylvania. It goes now to the Senate, which, if it approves, will pass it along to the next Legislature, two years hence, where it must be approved by both branches a second time and then go before the voters direct as an amendment to the State Constitu tion. Suffrage was defeated in Penn sylvania once before when it had gotten up to the voters; but, given the approval of the Legislature now and in 1921, it will face the public under new conditions which make its outlook anything but gloomy. The removal of the rum element from politics will take away from suffrage one of its principal oppo nents, and the most unscrupulous of nil of them, ltightfully or other wise. the liquor crowd has always looked upon suffrage with sus picion. The saloon vote, which is to a very large degree influenced in whatsoever way the breweries want, could be swung in against votes for women at any time. But with the barroom gone and the brewery closed, the suffrage workers will bo faced next time by less relentless and less ruthless opyonents than heretofore. The whole trend of America is for equal privileges for men and women along all lines. T>MUc* Ck By the Ex-Committeeman | Close of the Victory Loan cam paign will be the signal for the start of another campaign in Pennsyl vania. It will be one of those cam paigns for which the Democracy of Pennsylvania is noted and will prob ably be the start of one of the most entertaining twelve month periods in a political way in a long, long tiriie. And that is saving a good bit when reference is made to the disjointed, disorganized, discredited Democratic party in Pennsylvania. Some time ago, the members of the executive committee of the Democratic State committee met in Philadelphia and when the cards were put on the table, it was found that the gubernatorial campaign of 1918, when the Democratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania repudiated the choice of the major ity of the voters of his party for Governor of Pennsylvania, had well nigh wrecked what little of the ma chine was left. It was then deter mined to start out afresh and organ ize the State from top to bottom in advance of the Presidential cam paign of 1920. which means that the Palmer partisans were afraid that they were going to be beaten when the time came to elect national delegates. Meanwhile some quiet work has been under way and the reports of the men, who have been inquiring at various points, indicate that not only >s the Bonniwell faction strong, but inclined to militancv. The intimation from Washington that the Pennsyl vania delegation might be asked to endorse Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for President, seems to have accentuated the party factionalism. And now it is announced that the Attorney- General is to attend the meeting of the Democratic national committee at Chicago next month as the national committeeman from Pennsylvania. This has made the Bonniwell men more determined than ever to give Palmer and his pals the light of their lives next year. —A call of Congress in special session at the earliest possible day, without waiting for the conclusion of the treaty of peace, was advocated here to-day by Congressman B K. Focht, of Lowisburg, who was on his way to Washington. "Congress should be called at once to take up matters pertaining to the country, matters of vital interest. We have enough to take up without waiting for the pence treaty," said the Seven teenth Pennsylvania district Con gressman. "The country is in the midst of serious problems and we should be at work on them. We should enact a new tariff law as soon as we con do it. not only for revenue, hut for protection. England has been martufacturing at a great rate and we will have all kinds of things coming here and underselling our Pennsylvania products, to say noth ing of those of other Slates. I can sec no earthly use of waiting any longer. I think I am voicing the sentiment of the people of my dis trict in this matter and that a lot of Pennsylvanians in other counties think the same way." —Governor William C. Spronl will not be forced to wade through hun dreds of settlements made by various departments of the State government from bills for disinfectants to travel ing expenses of Capitol clerks, which have" weighed down the desks of his predecessors through several administrations, because of the struc ture of checks and counter checks on expenditures which has been built up by the Legislature. The Governor's office to-day announced the approval of the Crow bill, re quiring that the Governor shall be compelled to act only upon such matters as the constitution provides. —This means that the warrants, claims and vouchers of the Depart ment of Public Grounds and Build ings for all supplies for the Capi tol; expenditures of the Health, and Industry, Forestry and other Departments need no longer be acted upon by the Governor, but take the regular auditing course, which will probably be expanded to meet them. The act will eventu ally "carry with it abolition of the office of the executive controller, which will be legislated out in a bill to be presented soon. Samuel C. Todd, the executive controller, is understood to be booked for an other place in the State government. It is probable that a new system will be devised for the Public Grounds auditing either in a bureau in that Department or in the office of the Auditor General. —The bill is the outcome of years of comment upon the way the Gov ernor has been handed routine work to do, leaving little time for big ad ministration or constructive matters. —On® of the interesting signs of the times is that Reading is getting things in order to become a second class city after the next census. The Berks county seat was only a few thousand below the 100,000 mark at the last census and is believed to be well over it now. In fact, some Reading people say that the city can show close to 120,000 when the next census is taken. There will be big changes in the city govern ment when it becomes a second class city. —When Reading leaves the third class city class, the honor of being first will lie between Erie and Wil kes-Barre, both of which have been expanding rapid'y. Harrisburg will be close up. So will Johnstown, Chester could be near the top of the list if it could annex some of its adjoining towns. —The legislators from third-class cities opposed to the nonpartisan feature of the Clark act. are said to be scheming to get the Wilson bill back on the calendar. It was heavily defeated la *t Monday night. —ln all probability, there will be a fight in the House on the action of the committee on ways and means in deciding to report nega tively the Home bill to repeal the mercantile tax. This report will be made on Monday night. The com mittee will abandon some of the personal property and other legisla tion which has created some stir. Built Monuments to Himself Guzmun Blanco, late president of Venezuela, whose daughter married the Due de Morny, and who died a few years ago in Paris, not only had his portrait painted about 200 times, but erected about a dozen statues to himself, writing with his own hand their fulsome inscriptions and invar iably calling himself in gigantic cap itals "tho illustrious American, pa cilicator and regenerator of the United States of Venezuela."—Prom I the Detroit News. A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE ..... By BRIGGS (HENRY!) J HEN-"RYT \ ft i /• fojtLL Wr f YoO <3eT I HAT IHe MDV ' [ / V ) (Do ttxj WAwT I Trunk Doujw J |tnl\T . • J ( (ES . / l| Didn't The AT-ncy . J \ hear VA - ' Bond Principal Free of Tax Victory Loan headquarters has tyeen asked for information from ev ery angle in the last few days as to the taxation features of the present bonds. There has been much con fusion, even the salesmen had no clear idea about it. Chairman Don. aid McCormick to-day dictated the following important statement: TAXATION FEATURES OF LIB- ERTY AND VICTORY' LIB ERTY BONDS I—Liberty1—Liberty Bonds of all issues and the Victory Liberty Loan Bonds can be held in any amount and the principal, is free from all local county and State taxes. - —The income from Liberty Bonds and the Victory Liberty Loan is free from all income tax unless your income is more than $5,000 a year. This means that unless your income is over $5,000 a year vou can buy Victory Liberty Bonds, knowing the bonds and the income from the bonds arc free from all tax. To those'with larger incomes, the following will be of interest: I—The income on the first 3 1-2 per cent, bonds is permanently ex empt from income tax. 2 —Under previous Liberty Loan laws a possible aggregate of $llO,- 000 of Liberty bonds, in addition to your 3 1-2 per cent, bonds can be held free from inome surtaxes and excess profit taxes until two years after the termination of the war. 3—Under the Victory Liberty loan legislation, in addition to the foregoing exemptions (and for a period of live years after the termi nation of the war) the income on an additional $30,000 of First Lib erty loan converted. Second Liberty loan converted and unconverted. Third and Fourth Liberty loan is exempt as to income tax. 4—An additional speciiic income tax exemption to purchasers of Vic tory Liberty loan is as follows: An additional amount of $20,000 of the bonds mentioned in para graph 3 may be held free from all income tax for a period of Ave years after the termination of the war, if you become an original subscriber to the Victory Liberty loan. Claim for exemption, however, can be made only to an amount equaling three times the amount of your original subscription. For example, to par ticipate to the extent of $20,000 ad ditional exemption, you must sub scribe for $6,700 of the Victory bonds. Thus it is possible for a sub scriber to the new Victory Liberty bonds to hold exempt from income surtaxes, excess and war profit taxes, an aggregate amount of $160,000 of bonds in addition to his 3 1-2 per cent. Liberty bonds. s—As all property is subject to State and inheritance taxes, no spe cial reference to this has been made in the above statement. TIIE PRICE OF BREAD [From the Philadelphia Press] Though anticipating a wheat yield for 1919 which will tax to the ut most the country's storage, railroad and shipping facilities, Federal Wheat Director Barnes predicts that there will be no deerease in the price of bread though Hour prices may be expected to decrease slight ly by June. Millers, on the other hand, are predicting an increase of about four dollars In the cost of flour per barrel. Probably it is safer to rely on the Wheat Director's prediction. He has at his disposal the stores of govern ment-owned wheat, a billion-dollar fund which Congress appropriated to guarantee the $2.26 a bushel price until 1920, and large powers and discretion over the nation's supply. He should certainly be able to an ticipate a justifiable increase in price and to check an unjustifiable increase. Knowing that our bumper crop is offset by the scant crops in Europe and that we shall hav,e to share our plenty with the less fortunate peo ples abroad, the public is recon ciled to the fact that the five-cent loaf of bread is gone, perhaps never to return. But a further increase of price in the midst of plenty is another thing. Now, if ever, is the time for the Federal authorities to be on the alert to curb profiteering. With the second largest wheat crop in the history of the Nation the American people are at least entitled to expect their bread to come no higher than the price it brought in war time. Proper Spelling When it comes to buying Bonds of Victory, Let the whole wide Nation Spell It with a We. , FARMERS BIG BOND BUYERS NO MAN has a greater apprecia tion of the practical value of good collateral than the far mer. Tlie Dauphin County Victory Loan Committee is authority for this statement which is based on obser vation and experience covering all of the Liberty Loan drives. Fanners as a class have been ready buyers of the various loans and one incentive in their buying has been tlie collateral value of the bonds. The farmer more than almost any other producer feels the need of a security which is speedily convert ible into cash with the least trouble and with the highest loan value. Spring financing of the season's harvest is always one of the farm problems that gives great concern. The securing of accommodation on notes of vurious kinds is very often no easy matter. The security of fered, though of great worth to the farmer, may have very little "get ting" power when used to guarantee loans. Machinery is subject to con stant depreciation and its capacity as a borrowing medium yearly grows TRADE BRIEFS Transmission of electric power to the city of Stockholm, Sweden, from the new power station at Untran, is just beginning. It will deliver about 14,000 kilowatts, which is only about half of what the power station can produce: but this alone will save the city coal to the value of 54,000,000. Travelers' samples are carried at half third-class rates on the rail ways in the British East Africa Protectorate. The South African railway admin istration holds a coal area of sixteen miles square west of Komatl Port, and it is believed that it will shortly be opened up and the coal used for railways. Jupanese have undertaken a num ber of commercial and industrial enterprises in China, either by them selves or in co-operation with Chin ese. The principal companies thus established are the Sino-Japanese Oil Company, the Oriental Industrial Company, Sino-Japanese Spinning Company and the Shanghai Oil Company. Declared exports from Sagua la Grande, Cuba, to the United States, worth $17,816,184 in 1918, showed a loss in value compared with the ex ports of 1917,. worth $18,863,958, caused by a reduction in the value of sugar shipments, which fell from $18,464,352 in 1917 to $17,561,419 in 1918. White lead is reported to be arriv ing in South Africa from the United States in fairly large shipments. Three members of a Japanese company have offered to sell to the Mexican government, such steamers as it may require. It is stated that before considering the proposition, President Carranza desires to ascer tain the status of the proposed Latin American Navigation Company, the purpose of whtch is to establish reg ular service between Mexican and South American ports, and he will therefore communicate first with the Argentine, Chilean, Peruvian, Boliv ian and Venezuelan governments. There is a great shortage of scales of all kinds in South Africa, partic €J The daily average net paid circulation of the Harrisburg Telegraph for the month of March, 1919, was 29,214 No other Harrisburg newspaper can any where near approach these figures. less. Even real estate can become more or less undesirable as security to those with money to lend. But Government bonds and the new Victory Loan notes in particular, afford the most convenient and the most desirable form of security. The farmer who makes a wise in vestment in these securities has in his possession a form of collateral that has the very highest borrow ing power and that is instantly ac cepted as a pledge for a loan. That is why so many farmers are taking so largely of the loans. In emergencies, the wise investor doesn't have to mortgage his house or ask a neighbor to go his security. He walks into his bank, puts up his Government securities and gets his money. When ho can, he pays off the loan and his collateral is return ed to him. And it has been earning interest all the time and thereby re ducing the amount he pays for the accommodation. Liberty Loan hold ings have a ninety per cent borrow ing capacity and are the best and most acceptable collateral in the world. ulurly counter and outside platform scales. A co-operative weaving mill is be ing built in southwestern Jutland, Denmark, for the purpose of making cloth from the wool in the surround ing district, which the people them selves can send to the factory and have woven. TOYS TO PALESTINE [From the Boston Globe ] Ever since the outbreak of the war, the children of Palestine have been without toys, and a whole gen eration is growing up that has not even "mothered" a doll. The mis eries that have all but overwhelmed the city of Jerusalem have robeed even the boys of any inclination to play, except now and then a pathetic imitation of football is indulged in by the British "Tommies" of General Allenby's liberating army. So writes Miss Libby Oppenheim, a New York girl, who is secretary of the Ameri can Zionist Medical Unit which is now operating in Palestine. Miss Oppenheim was charged with the task of distributing a contribu tion of toys which accompanied one of the clothes shipments sent re cently to the Holy Land by the Pal estine supplies department of the Zionist Organization of America. The toys were distributed to the kin dergartens, the schools, the orphan ages and to the two children's hos pitals in Jerusalem and Jaffa. Miss Oppenheim personally took some of the toys to the girl's orphan age, and she describes the scene that transpired. "We first explained the toys to Mrs. S , the head of the orphanage, and to her assistant, Mrs. S then assembled the children in one room and told them to cover their eyes as she had a surprise for them. "Then she and her assistant brought in a few toys at a time and placed them on the table. The children's patience could not last until all the toys were brought in, but when, through the corner of their eyes, they saw a few of the toys, they were almost beside them selves with joy." Compliment and Warning [From the Wilkes-Barre Record] From the far-off sanctum of the Commoner—mouthpiece of William Jennings Bryan—comes a voluntary compliment for the esteemed Gov ernor of Pennsylvania. "Keep your eye on him," says Mr. Bryan. "A strong, brave, clear-minded .states man has appeared of whom we may hear more, unless the recationaries who control the national organiza tion are able to suppress him." Doubtless the once influential apos tle of Democracy is particularly at tracted toward Governor Sproul be cause the latter clung so steadfast ly to his prohibition promises made during the campaign, but other Democrats than Mr. Bryan have found in the brief oflicial experi ence of Pennsylvania's Executive, the character that makes good Pres idents. Nothing could be more com plimentary than this extract from The Commoner: "Governor Sproul marches for ward manfully, meeting the issues as they arise. The Commoner wel comes him to the political arena and hopes that he may be the beginning of a new area in Republican politics. We need such political opponents to spur the Democrats up to doing their best." For all this Governor Sproul and his friends will feel duly apprecia tive. Taken in connection with an other article in The Commoner it holds out a distinct warning to the Democratic party. In the other ar ticle Mr. Bryan says: "If the Democratic party is to re main the champion of the masses and secure for them their rights, it must be looking around for a Presi dential candidate for 1920—a young man, old enough to have won the people's confidence and yet young enough to organize and lead the tight against private monopoly. He may not win in 1920 —it may take as long as it did to win the tight com menced in 1896, but we must begin now. "The mobilization of the Demo cratic hosts and the organization of a patient and persistent fight against the cohorts of privilege and favortism will require one who is of the people and accustomed to work with the people. He needs the sol diers' willingness to die, if his death will advance the cause." Evidently Mr. Bryan is opposed to the nomination of the present in cumbent for a third term, and evi dently he hits serious doubts about the success of the Democratic party next year with any candidate that might be named. This is. indeed, a thunderclap: but to many Demo crats it comes from too far off to have an ominous sound. Though Mr. Bryan is discounted and discredited, he is yet in full possession of his powers of observation and reasoning and what he says may hurt, after all. LEONARD WOOD When only Pacifists were Good, And Woodrow wouldn't, Leonard would. He urged a Moderate Petition For Soldiers, Guns and Ammunition, Because if War should be Declared, It might not Hurt to be Prepared. Such Ardor, wholly Out of Season, Was, patently, Constructive Treason, As Wicked Preparation for Emergenqies produces War. So, when the Arms for which he Pleaded And First Class Fighting Men were needed. They wouldn't let him Go Across For Being Right before his Boss, lie didn't Cry and spoil his Beauty, But Held his Tongue and Did his Duly As oft before through Lively Times Of Peace and War in Tropic Climes. And when we want a Man who's Steady, Clear-minded, Fearless, Trained and Ready, Should Auld Acquaintance Be For got?— Why, no, I fancy Rather Not! —Arthur Guiterman in Life. LABOR NOTES About one-fifth of the manufac turers of machine tools in Germany are organized as limited companies or as companies with limited liabil ities. The largest factories employ under normal conditions from 2000 to 3000 workmen. The combined organization has over 100,000 men on its payrolls. Of the 28,500,000 persons gainfully employed in the 40 states having compensation laws, 86,000,000, or 30.2 per cent, belong to the employer or independent class, while 13.700,000, or 48.1 per cent, represent employes cov ered by compensation acts and 6,200,- 000, or 21.8 per cent, are employes not covered. Approximately 80 to 86 per cent, of the employing class are farm , era or home farm laborera Ebwtttuj (El] This is tulip timo in Har Hundreds of gardens are abla the blooms of the great flower and the variety of th soms is perhaps greater, th< known here. The raising o has been a favorite form of ing here for many years a letters mention the urrlval bulbs from Holland and the papers of bygone days present the local news which is so their columns, compared to ou day standards, notes of the f pea ranee of somebody's , Like the growing of roses th raising in this city has been a opment. There have always b voters of the Mower, hut it that in the last twenty-five yea there have been more of them ed than ever. Perhaps, the favor of lawns has had son to do with it. There was when the only displays of were made in Front street i or at the outlying homes e stantial citizens, but the trade ods of people who deal in hull not only extended their sal mensely, but brought about terest that occasionally ri neighborhood rivalry just as in roses, dahlias, iris and g Now tulips are to be found a Harrisburg. They nre in park where the shades shov year are delicate and ext pretty, notably in the bed n< State Museum; out in Reservo and in many a garden. Homo bulbs have been planted in c and show a bewildering asso of color, while in other garde colors have been segregated a flowers bloom each in their It is a pretty custom and Har is showing an interest in tuli ing that bids fair to be wort) in a few more years to com Bid schedules received in tl by road builders, showing: tl submitted to the" New York Highway Department, on Aj reveal the fact that on a thi projects the New York Depa received no bids at all. Thi startling contrast to the situa Pennsylvania, where, on the "lettings" held so far this covering three score projec average of contractors bidd each job was five. No proje less than two bidders and son a dozen. Pennsylvania's roa struction program has attract* tractors of the largest calibc only from the State itself, bu far distant points. The State'! embrace more construction of mar.ent nature than has ye undertaken by any common' At the peak construction poi summer a total of 35,000 mt be at work on the highways of sylvania, employed both by thi and the successful bidders, "lettings" are scheduled for date; and it is an evidence interest these "lettings" are a ing that advertisements callil bids no longer specify that th( be opened in the Highway' E ment, but in the Capitol at f burg. The department is capi but when 125 representatives c tractors gather to hear bids e and read the congestion is a too great. Henceforth when <] gather, the "lettings" will b< in large committee or causus I Among visitors to llarri yesterday, was M. Hampton attorney general under Edv Stuart. The general, as he fectionately termed by his I here, does not seem a day olde is as vigorous as ever. Incide the general complimented I burg for its new signs of ente Just to show just exactly hov risburg has been on tho map as news is concerned this especially in regard to legi news and the Penrose visit, i he said that Tuesday the W Union carried over 4 5,000 wo news matter and the Postal 25,000. Just figure out the n of dots and dashes in the "Harrisburg," for instance, an will get an idea of how man to be sounded to handle that mous amount of words. The age newspaper column containi 1,200 to 1,400 words. We are hearing a good bit building of dirt paths or "sho roads with earth surfaces to cs horses in these days of asphalt ment and smooth surfaced hig where a horse has trouble K his feet, but that condition do seem to have affected cattle into Harrisburg. These catt! generally brought In early in th not long after daylight And well. Most of them travel c grass plots that line the pave just inside of the curbs. WELL KNOWN PEOPI —C. B. Connelley, the new j Commissioner of Labor ant dustry, is a member of a learned societies. —Chairman W. D. B. Aim the Public Service Commissioi been holding hearings in Sen —George W. Coles, counsel Philadelphia charter bills, has the active man in a number < form fights in Philadelphia. Judge A. L. Searle, of Wayne this week on highway matters, to be United States district att —Mayor Thomas B. Smit Philadelphia, is at the seashoi a rest. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg is furn ing considerable material building operations in nea towns ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —General Anthony Wayne ui visit John Harris here aftei Revolution. NEWS INDEED Senator Penrose was spe about a young reporter fron West who made his mark as a I ington correspondent. "I remember the first po banquet he attended after he here," remarked the Senator, call that the Senator from hi trict got particularly tight. " 'Joe,' he said, lurching ov the reporter, 'jush write down or two shaying I'm tight and it to the home paper. That news for the boysh back theft " 'No, Senators that wouldr news,' protested 4he reporter. If you were sober—' " —Los At
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers