8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH a. XEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGIIAPH PRINTING CO. Trlecraph Building, federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. It. OTSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. B.IQPHENSR. Circulation Manager Executive Board • . 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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein aro also reserved. A Member American Pi Newspaper Pub § fishers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ted Dailies. Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. Western office'. Story, Brooks & - Gas Building, -l Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post OfTice in Harris burg, Pa„ as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. [Continued on Page IS.] If you hate a task worth doing, Do it now! In delay there's danger brewing, Do it note! Don't be a "by-and-byer" And o sluggish patience-trier! If there's aught you would asquire, Do it note/ —Xixon Waterman. IF PEACE HAD NOT COME IF THE war had not ended last Fall, if peace had not come through the heroic sacrifices of our brave men in France, every one of us would be now buying Liberty bonds and mortgaging our very clothing to do so. Look back to the Liberty loan which 'preceded the signing of the armistice, when it looked as though a year or two more of war would be necessary to finish the Hun. What happened? Why, everybody bought to his last penny. And now where are we? Why, the American soldiers, sacrificing themselves in numbers exceeding for the time of their participation in the war and the units engaged, those of any other nation among the allies, brought the war to an end that no body could have foreseen And not the most optimistic would have fore casted when they entered. They smashed the, German army a year ahead of schedule. In thai they saved us much blood and treasure. They made it possible for us to clean up the war debt with one loan in stead of two, or three, or four. We are getting off lightly no mat ter how many bonds we buy. The soldiers paid unstintingly to bring this about, and they did not get interest at the rate of 4*4 per cent., either. Their expenditure was life, and blood and youth, and what they spent they will never have returned to them. It is gone forever. What pikers we would be, if we declined to buy Victory bonds to the extent of our ability! WHITE BREAD FOR US JULIUS C. , BARNES, Federal Wheat Director, speaks wisely when he says Herbert Hoover's declaration that the world will be back to a war-bread basis inside of three months does not apply to the United States. Mr. Hoover has just returned to Paris from Germany and it appar ently was what he saw there that caused him to make this prediction. Mr. Hoover must not expect Ameri cans to go back to a diet of war bread in order to share their wheat with Germany. We got along very well on the grain substitutes that were necessary in order that our allies should have enough wheat to meet their needs, but if anybody is going to eat substitutes now it will be the Germans. America is not going to sacrifice its white loaf to fill the yawning maw of a nation that starved itself for four years, while it played the role of international outlaw, with its eye on the purse of the world. We have suffered quite enough at the hands of Germany, and while we have no objection to Germans having enough to eat, it would come with poor grace for anybody to ask us to cut down -our rations in order that they might have more, and it would do little good if anybody did ask it. Mr. Barnes is in closer touch with public sentiment in America than is Mr. Hoover. COMMENCEMENT CENTRAL High School seniors want their commencement exercises held during the day, instead of in the evening, and they make out a pretty good case for themselves. They have other plans for the evening that have been ma turing for months and they do not want them disturbed There was a time, and not so many years ago, either, wheif commence ment exorcises were always held in fha evening and the stage of the old SATURDAY EVENING. i Grand Opera House never beheld j a prettier sight than when the cur- | tain went up, revealing to the eyes > of admiring friends in the full glare! of the footlights, rank after rank of young men in black and young women in white, with the faculty grouped in the rear and dear old "Uncle Henry" Ilouck smilingly oc cupying a center position as the ora tor of the evening. In those days commencement was second only in importance to the Alumni Associa tion reception the evening following, which was one of the big social af fairs of the spring season and to which invitations were eagerly sought. It will bo a fine thing, in deed, if the alumni association or ganized this week can bring back the old interest that prevailed in those days. But don't understand that com mencement has lost any of its im portance. Bless you, no. It is a big event in the career of any boy or girl, and an important mile-stone in the life of parents who see their lads and lassies take their first steps toward separation from the home nest. Commencement means much to those who are in the graduat ing class. It is the day toward which they have been progressing through years of school life, and the Tele graph is happy to note that the board has granted the request which will be the last they will make as a class. GIVE THEM THEIR JOBS AS THE situation becomes bet ter understood among employ ers of all classes, there is an increasing disposition to provide places for the returning soldiers and those employed in the national serv ice and war work suddenly thrown out 04 employment by the ending of the war. There are still many de serving cases, however, which ap peal to those who understand the circumstances. We have in mind several worthy young soldiers who served with distinction overseas and who are now without employment. They find that the jobs which they hoped to get have already been tilled or the positions tendererd to them arc not of the character to in terest any ambitious soldier. Industrial uncertainty is respon sible for much of the difficulty that is encountered by the men seeking employment, but there should be a real effort on the part of patriotic employers to provide places for those who served in any branch of tl.r- service and who now want to take their places in the usual civil activities. National and State employment agencies are doing much to over come the conditions which confront the soldier without a job, but they must have the co-operation of the business community and the manu facturing and industrial leaders. As has been pointed out by several of the busine • organizations, it will be better, until the demobilization of our men in the service shall have been completed, for all the return ing soldiers to report at their home stations and to their former em ployers. Otherwise, there is bound to be congestion in some parts of the country, while other sections are without sufficient men for the jobs that are open. This is already shown to be the fact in Detft>it and other industrial centers. But notwithstanding the shifting of the surplus labor it will still be necessary for employers generally to establish as a fixed policy, the keep ing open of jobs for the men who are coming back from the biggest job thai was ever undertaken in the history of the world. THE SALVATION ARMY THE Rotary Clubs of America have done a worthy thing in pledging to the Salvation Army their support in the coming cam paign. As in so many other in stances, war has recast the Salva tion Army in the public eye. We had seen its little squads marching through the streets, singing shrilly to the accompaniment of a bass drum, and we tossed pennies into the tambourines, vaguely conscious that the organization in some way served a very good purpose some where. We now see those squads searching the soldier's mind to dis cover what he wants, and then get ting it for them. We picture the Salvation Army girl no longer sell ing papers which none of us reads, but serving hot doughnuts to our lighters in the trenches and at the camps. ' The judgment of the re turned soldiers is expressed in a chorus of praise more nearly unani mous than opinion concerning any other activity of its character. For the present, the army will devote Its energies chiefly to wel fare work among soldiers and sailors. Abandonment of the work that has been carried on for more than fifty years in the slums is not indicated by an announcement from New York headquarters, but atten tion to the immediate problems created by the demobilization of thousands of -fighting men is evi dently rated the first duty. The pre cedence given its service in the trenches will be applied to the army's present work. Tambourine collections will be made no more, it is announced, because the officers of the Salvation Army cannot spare the time from their enlarged duties. In stead, an annual "drive" for funds will be instituted. Next month the American public will be asked to contribute $12,000,000. It would be difficult to exagger ate the very great good the Salva tion Army has done and can yet do for the soldiers alid sailors. Its workers dig for the root of discon tent and unhappiness and apply the remedy' there. Their success has been so remarkable and it is so emi nently well worth carrying on that the public cannot afford to be in different. Generous response is due the purpose of the campaign for funds faUUcz CK "~P e-KKO if £ co-hXa By the Ex-Commltteeman Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal mer's announcement that he lias no intention of resigning as Democratic national committeeman from Penn sylvania has been received with considerable gratification by the partisans of Judge Eugene C. Bon niwell, late Democratic candidate for Governor and sincere enemy of the Attorney General, because it in dicates to them that the reorgani zation machine is in worse shape than generally believed. The Bonni well people have taken heart and propose to do a little reorganizing on their own account when the State committee meets next year. When Mr. Palmer was elevated to the attorney generalship it was generally believed that he would resign the titular political dictator ship of the Democracy of Pennsyl vania and the Bonniwell faction immediately began to prepare to contest the seat. They progressed so far that Mr. Palmer let it be known that ho was considering the matter. On Thursday, in Philadel phia. according to the Philadelphia Record he "denied that he will re sign as a member of the Democratic national committee from Pennsyl vania." The Bonniwell people in terpret this to mean that Palmer is afraid to go to the mat in a eonX test for the seat this year and that he will hold on until the May pri mary next year when his successor will be elected at the polls by the Democrats. 1 The Record also says that Mr. i Palmer would not say whether he | would be a candidate for national | committeeman next year, although there are lots of Democrats who wish that he would either harbor that ambition or desire to pose as a • candidate for the votes of the Democratic national delegates for the presidential nomination. It is becoming'apparent that the history of 1907 is going to repeat itself and i that the Democrats will furnish one! of their interesting squabbles forj control of the delegation to the na tional convention with the aceom-! plished and able Attorney General j as the storm center. —ln regard to his plans for safe guarding what is left of the ma chine in Pennsylvania by sending out men to reorganize the Demo crats, the Attorney General is quoted as saving that Ex-Congressman Bruce F. Sterling would lead a cam paign to organize the State for the Congressional and Presidential cam paigns of 1920. Parke H. Davis, of Easton, he said. Vould have charge of the financial end of the campaign. In remaining as a mem ber of the Democratic National Committee Palmer is following a precedent, his friends say, establish ed by Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass, of Virginia. Secre tary Glass did not resign as Nation al Committeeman when he suc ceeded Secretary McAdoo. —Representative Hugh A. Daw son, chairman of the House Com mittee on Ways and Means has in formed the members of the Joint Legislative Committee of Philadel phia City Councils that the bills'in troduced by him providing for a return of one-half of the personal property tax to the State and desig nating the tax a State and not a county revenue would not be re ported from tho committee. Mr. Dawson said the committee had gen erally agreed to kill the bills. He added that they were prepared and introduced at the request of the At torney General, but that Philadel phia's status in connection with the personal property tax act had been overlooked when the bills were pre pared. He informed the committee members they need have no uneasi ness in connection with the legisla tion. Should these bills be enacted Philadelphia's borrowing capacity would be reduced by approximately $70,000,000 and would leave about $43,000,000 of outstanding loans in excess of the borrowing capacity. Under such legislation, councils would be unable to authorize loans for public improvements for the next five years. , —While Governor William C. Sproul is favorable to an increase in the salaries of the legislators, there may be some before the bill becomes a law. The West bill lixing $2,500 has been recalled and is back in the House. The present members will not have the advan tage of it. It will apply to their successors, but will meet something which has been complained of for years. The present salary was set in the late seventies or early eighties and several times bills were passed to increase it because of what were regarded as justifiable complaints of legislators that the cost of living in Harrlsburg during the prolonged sessions was high and that legisla te e service caused them to lose money. These bills were vetoed, the last one eight years ago. Since then similar bills have been pre sented, but not pressed because of reluctance of members to bring the matter to an issue again. This year, the living costs brought about so much complaint that a bill was presented by a Democratic member and passed. It is understood that the bill was recalled because the Governor felt that it was inoppor tune to dispose of it until the finan cial program for the session had been worked out. THREE MEN O' MERRI There were three men o' Merri, That lies along the sea: Thev sworfrthe oath of salt and wind That they would hold them free From woman's charms and woman's arms And woman's witchery. Ard F.ric met a fisher lass A-walkin on the sands: "The sea is loneliness." she said, And touched him with her hand. And smiled into his blinded e:.*es And wed him to the land. And Petri watched a*hold girl dance. With paint upon her lips: The light fell front the tavern lamp And touched her linger tips Like marriage gold! Another man Hails out in Petri's ships. And Barrac, of the heart of brass. Red maned and huge of arms, lie laughed and. kissed a woman's lips And found them fresh and warm— And wont across the little hills And squatted on a farm. The moral of this simple tale Ts plain enough to see; There is no oath to biiid a man From woman's witchery— At least T know that it Is so In Merri. by the sea. —lra South in the Saturday. Evening 1 Post. HAKRISBURG iSSSM TELEGRAPH WHY MEN ARE LEAVING HOME / ' C " \ / —~ \ ( Joe- IP IT'S TMS? \ COME CN JCE-1 LISTCN TO ME LAST ACT OF MY / PLAY (jolF- /No I DON't YOE:- YOU TAKE .—1 Llt=E- I'M Gonv/4 -To" / /ZI IRTV UP GOLF AND C \ \ DRA G Tbu OUT To A / se A GOOD ( % YOU'LL GO DipPV j ' TCLL I J £ oU - Coußsl2 AND / TyUY J \ fiAMC I ovyeß IT You 'BILL \ (\\AKe You VLA V p-" V Y i X_ J v I'PON'T \"\R NO USE ] V_— - r ) ) WAWT V - J IT ISN'T/ ( ) / To PLftV/ ! (MY LINE ' y vut Ti. 1 .f.TVs -r * 'Hef?,- WAIT PINNUR ON ME- IM inJ \ ZCJ CLUB NOW YOU R —<3/\NC AND 1 CAN'T RUN OUT CAN'T 3>RA<S H'N/ /" — 1 ——— \" ON TH^ni — 1 Told '(Bia \ OCKSHTA A \ OUT OF IT 1—- JRU I , ,_ "~X - ROT L —% /y—^L-~ — fiajf? > ( -,7-5-® MC \ * yf//// _ know YOU'LL UNDER- )\ * v r\2?'"d" y IAT6R | 4 . Washington a Music Lover j [Rupert Hughes in Saturday: Evening Post.] Speaking of Washington and of music, the father of this country wrote to a composer regretfully: "1 1 can neither sing one of the songs nor raise a single note on an instru ment." He loved music, however, and bought for his wife's grand daughter Nelly, a "forte piano," then a very new instrument, as fvell as an imported harpsichord for which he paid a thousand dollars. He loved to hear Nelly Custis sing and play. The letter quoted above was writ ten to Francis Hopkinson, who, in spite of being the first important American composer, an inventor of musical instruments and a perform er, was also a member of the Con tinental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, who stands fairly high as a statesman, was a good singer and an expert violinist and spent much time playing to the accompaniments of his wife. Jeffer son while in Paris corresponded with tlopkinson on musical topics and took an interest in placing there Hopkinson's improvement on harp ischord jacks. He discussed it with Dr. Benjamin Franklin, who was not only a writer of very witty musical criticisms, but also a performer on the "s'.iccado" and the inventor of an instrument which he called the "armonica." The ingenious adaption of the then popular "musical glass es" made a sensation, and at least one woman toured Europe giving concerts on it. Both Mozart and Beethoven wrote special composi tions for Poor Richard's invention. The founder of the late and unla mented Prussian power was Freder ick the Great, who played the flute like a profe.ssional and left a hun dred and twenty compositions for it. He practiced four hours a day on his 1 flute and later took up the piano clavier. And then of course, there was King David, who won his first pre ferment on the piano of his day, the harp, and might properly be styled a court musician. According to 1 Chronicles 15. David, when he came to the throne, organized a large or chestra with three leaders, each of whom founded a school of music. DEATHS SOLILOQUY I wreck ar.d ruin wher'er I go. I bring down both the high and low Strong armed men my will obey. When I my scepter give full sway. The mansion, with its marble halls. Resounds with terror as my voice calls. When at the cottage door I appear It, too. becomes o'erwhelmed with lear. The lover apd the maid I part. T hold dominion o'er the heart. When hoary heads give up the ghost I consign them with my numbered host. In pomp and power the land I tread, With ghoulish glqp grim fear I - epread. Of all earth's rulers I stand alone. The mightiest Monarch that 'ere sate on throne. —From "Battle Ballads and Verse"— t.y Percy Vinton Ritter, Harrisburg. Pa. Newspapers and Ihe Loan "On tlie eve of another IJberty Roan campaign I am glad to express the appreciation of the Treasury De partment. of the patriotic eo-operp lion rendered by publishers in .mil the loan campaigns. The newspa pers, the press associations and the magazines carried the message of the Government into every home. Their assistance was invaluable and without it the loans could not have been the great triumphs they were. "The work which remains to be done is fully as important as that which has already been done. Qiir fighting men have finished their task, but it is essential that the war bills be paid and that the honor of Amer ica be kept unsullied. I have no doubt that the publishers of America wili give to the Victory Loan the same patriotic support that marked their effective assistance ir. the past." —Secretary of tlie Treasury Glass in Fourth Estate. Hold Fast to Sound Words Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and lbve which is in Christ Jesus.—ll Timothy I, 13. How America Would Punish Wilhelm [From the Literary Digest.] THIRTY varieties cf monstrous crimes are laid at the ex-Kai ser's door by the subcommittee of the Commission on War Respon sibility in Paris, but, while the Brit ish, French and Italian members arc reported to have prescribed capital punishment, the Japanese and Amer ican members cannot agree to it. Japan still holds that emperors rule by divine right. To hang even an ex-emperor would bo a sacrilege. The American members seem ready to content themselves with a "moral indictment," not through any chick en-hearted reluctance to deal square ly with "the world's greatest crim inal," but because the machinery for bringing him to trial and execution appears to them inadequate if not altogether lacking. As the New York Tribune puts it. "Mr. Lansing is a lawyer, with a lawyer's concern for legalities and precedents. He could not find what express statute the Hohenzollern violated or discover in ternational machinery for conducting his trial on joint account." To the Tribune, Mr. Lansing's position looks legitimate enough in principle, but nevertheless conducive of huge injustice: "The whitening bones cf the Lusi tania children .still strew the sea. The body of Edith Cavell is in the grave. Across a continent rise the crosses of the unidentified dead. In couptless homes there is a vacant place. But, the arch' criminal, with a retinue, lives in a luxurious castle, and to his credit stands a great sum of wealth while Germany pleads in ability to make a reparation. 'A strange world, my masters!' " The Springfield Republican, a pa per net commonly given to advocat ing rash measures, thinks it is time we broke with legality in such mat ters and created outright a basis for the future prosecution of rulers who may lay the foundation of wars; "If there could be a grand inquest after every war, in order to iix the moral guilt of every one concerned ,in causing it, the world might be the gainer. A trial of. the Kaiser, however far removed it might be from an impartial or legal proce dure, might be an excellent depart iure from previous international pi actice if it should establish a prec edent that in later times could be broadened and applied en a com prehensive scale." Desirable though this radical pro- I eedure might bo in certain respects, it appears to the New York World 1 a pronouncedly un-American, not to 'say un-Anglo-Saxon, way of hand ling the ca r e. and at the same time anything but irood policy, for— \ "All of the traditions of lh"e Eiwlish -1 speaking peoples are square!* op nosed to the -principle of ex-post facto laws, whatever the offense iriav be and however just the demand 1 for punishment. A trial of the for !mer German Emperor without due process of law would not be an im pressive proceeding, and might do far more harm than good. It would enable his supporters in Germany to picture him as a martyr, and in the | end the Wilhelm legend might be come a prolific a Source of mischief |as the Napoleon legend." r This, however, is not necessarily an argument for giving him his 11b The Signing of the Armistice wrought havoc with many newspaper circulations. Feverish buying ceased—stability was put to the supreme test. For the month of March, 1919, the circulation of the Harrisburg Telegraph WAS GREATER N than for the month of October, 1918, —next to the peak month of the war. 4 A remarkable tribute to its stability and influence. Daily Average, March—29,2l4 erty, and the New York Times would cage him up and claims to see ways 01 doing it legally, and believes that, on the whole, it would eonte nearest to punishing him as hu deserves, since "capital punishment seems miserably inadequate in his case." "That would end his sufferings at once. Remorse, the tortures and torments that will prey upon his mind and soul, woulu seem to be a penalty more nearly commensurate with his crimes; so long as he holds his former greatness in memory he must be the most miserable man on earth. That he must be under re straint, a prisoner, that ho must never be a tree man, is indicated by common prudence. There the Con ference will be upon solid ground, .with a multitude of precedents to justify the process against the ex- Kaiser, with the whole body of in ternational law for llie guidance of tire court. There will bo 110 diffi culty in drawing up the indictment against him for many and flagrant \iolations of international law; and the supreme law of self-defense and safety gives abundant sanction, after conviction, for a sentence imposing restraint or imprisonment. The de cision of the Council that he must he placed on trial, may be expected to lead to that end." Under the head-line, "Naughty, j Naughty Willielm!" the Pittsburgh I Gazette-Times ridicules the plan to i let him off with a mere reprimand land declares, "Keen disappointment I will be felt over the decision re- I ported to have been made at Paris j that the former Kaiser cannot be j legally executed for starting the j world war and ordoring or approv | ing the atrocities which character ized the German operations." As for the objection that it is bad ! policy to make a mar'.yr of him, the I Baltimore Manufacturers' Record asks: "When a vile criminal has been hanged, dees he become a martyr?" and the Asheville (N. C.) i Citizen emphatically objects to "Cheating the gallows." * I Ihe Lesson of Sacrifice I | Ca.nada knows the meaning of j sacrifice for service as never before, j for sixty thousand Canadian lads ! paid the supreme sacrifice. All over | the land are Abrahams who offered j up their sons, Rachacls who weep for i their boys, Naomis who lament their I husbands. | I Canada now has her Westminster j Abbey. It is not the vaulted nave ! and dimly-lit aisle in Old London, jit is the vaulted sky and where pop | pies grow in Flanders and little j crosses raise their heads in France, j Thither multitudes shall wend ; their way as all now visit it in spirit. ! And the light that shines above it is I the radiance of the Cross. The boys who come back hold it in precious memory. They were com rades and their heads burn within them as they hold communion with the immortal dead. In the soul of the returned soldiers is a sense of renlity. He was not fighting sham battles over there. * * * The returned soldier understands the meaning cf the Cross. —The Rov. S. F. Dixon, of Stirling, Oiit., in the Brooklyn Eagle. APRTL 25. I*l9. Bolshevism Weakens [From the Philadelphia Press ] Though experience has taught cau tion in accepting reports of military setbacks to Bolshevist forces in Rus sia, the number and persistence of such reports in the recent news may not be ignored. They Involve not only the defeat of the Russian Soviet armies on several fronts, but the practical overthrow of Hungary's Bolshevik regime through the pres sure of Rumanian and native sol diery. Quite illuminating, too, is the protest of the anti-Bolshevist Government at Archangel against the plan to feed the Russian people "when the moment of victory is near for us." What the Peace Conference thinks of th<\ situation it is impossible to discern. The rumor that Mr. Lansing has urged the recognition of the Kolchak Government is inconsistent in many ways with the plan to sell food to Bolshevist Russia through the agency of the Norwegian Com mission with Dr. Nansen at its head. Can the Allies give money, food, war materials and military advice to Kol chak for use in his campaigns against the Bolsheviki and at the same time arrange a military truce and food sales with Lenine? Or have the setbacks which Lenine is supposed to have suffered recently caused the Peace Conference to re consider its plan to deal with him. In either course there are obvious dangers, not the least of which is that Bolshevik Russia and dis gruntled Germany may effect the alliance which is already threatened. The apparent weakening of the Bol shevist hold on Russia is encourag ing only insofar as it holds out the hope that it may be entirely uproot ed in time. But for present purposes it can only be said to have compli cated a situation which has thus far baffled all the efforts of European statesmen to deal with it. Politicians Are. Worried [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] The first year of the city manager plan of municipal government in East Cleveland ended recently and citizens of the town believe they have left the experimental stage be hind in the results achieved. The city manager has sent out his re port of work done with recommen dations for future functioning and -the residents ufe so well pleased that they consider themselves through with the old methods of town ad ministration. Those of a decided po litical diathesis confess themselves suffering front ennui at times be cause of enforced inaction at. their old trade of trying to put the other gang out or trying harder to keep their own gang from being thrown out, but everybody else seems cheer fully satisfied. The town's business has been attended to better than ever before and public work has been put through with a celerity that has almost amazed the old-fashioned contractors who are unaccustomed to business habits in municipal enter prises. The town was sharply divided by political factions and the city man agership aroused- the hostility of all them, hut like good sports ail hands consented to "lay off on the lighting" until the new man had been allowed time to demonstrate that one man ager is better than a regiment or isn't, or that one man responsible for everything is better than a long string of more or less decorative em ployes at good salaries responsible only to their faction chiefs. A truce was agreed upon to give the city manager a fair opportunity. Now that the first report is before the citizens the opinion seems to be that he has done well, but that more than a single year's success is needed to convince the politicians that the old crowds might not be better after all. But —the city manager is to bo kept until ho shows signs of failure and if he never gets into administrative distress East Cleveland will never go hack to the old ways. The first report settles that. Built on Junk Driving the other day through ft largo town in Pennsylvania my guide and friend pointing to a beautiful new home in the fashionable section observed: "Built on junk." The gulf that separated the junk dealer of yesterday from the million aire of to-day looked deep and wide, but leaping such gulfs is tho Amer ican habit. Frank Roma, an Italian Immi grant, now a solid citizen of the UnitAd States, is a member of the big business club. His fortune was built on nickel shoe shines. But Philadelphia gave him equal oppor tunity. Of the 4 8,000 storekeepers in Phil delphia more than 47,500 began their careers at tinancial zero.—Oirard in Philadelphia Press. iEbftttug (Elfat Signs of spring may liavo been retarded to a certain extent by the high winds and ice forming in the water pans, in chicken yards, and people wearing overcoats, which smell as though they had been hast ily taken out of summer quarters, but they are here and the pooplo may take heart. The organ grind ers have arrived. We do not have Teutonic bands any more even when they play the Star Spangled Banner and specialize in National airs and even try to play "Abide With Me," in a manner calculated to disarm suspicion. The last German band to visit this city arrived just about two years. The capital of Pennsyl vania was getting ready for war, and the band which alighted in our midst, wore those costumes we have associated with itinerant musical groups froiji the Rhine for years. They even had those little dicky bird caps that cartoonists have tied to the German for ever more. This band stayed a day. It essayed to play at Fourth and Market about the time the steel workers were com ing home in special cars. But the organ grinder, barring any feelings over Fiume is a different proposition. He has been a part of Harrisburg life for a quarter of a century, and as essential to spring, as the violets from Hoffman's woods or Br. Fager's hypatlca. The first organ grinder arrived here Wednesday, lie was a wise one. He went to the Capitol and played several airs, lie reaped a collection from Legislators, and exhausted his repertorio and his arm. The answer wns that he had an old hand organ and it was loaded with such old favorites as "Sweet ltosie O'Grady," "Two Little Girls in Blue" and "Tramp, tramp, tramp." Another organ that was holding foVth near the Reading station, was so strictly up-to-date that no one paid any attention to it. even when it splashed a medley of pat riotic airs. Speaking of organ-grinders, re calls the misfortune that befell a thrifty old grocer who used to have a store on North Seventh street. In an effort to escape the tribute of a penny or two to the begging monkey which entered the front door of his store, at the end of a long rope, the grocer slipped into a back room, hoping the monkey would take the hint and go out. But the monkey smelt food and ho was hungry. The spicy odors of apple-butter reached him from a crock on a nearby shelf, and nimbly climbing to it ho thrust an arm, shoulder deep, into the sticky consents. Then he proceeded to lick the arm clean and repeat the satisfactory performance, in the. pro cess of which he managed to decor ate his little red uniform and hat with what looked like a coat of tar. In the midst of the feast the grocer came upon the scene, let out a yell of rage and threw a potato at the monkey, which iled in terror to the shoulder of his master outside, lib erally decorating him with applebut ter as he did so. Then ensued an argument between the grocer and the organ-grinder in which each claimed damages, the grocer for a crock of ruined apple-butter, and the organ-grinder for two damaged suits of clothes—his own and the monkey's. Neither collected. In the same neighborhood, occured another monkey experience, that was tlie classic community story for many a month. One fine summer morning an organ-grinder came along, accompanied by a monkey at tached to a long, light rope. A wo man sewing, in a second story room, enticed the monkey up a spout and gave him a popcorn ball. Encour aged by the kindness the monkey went into the window next door. There he found a night-working railroad man enjoying his morning sleep, and caressingly the monkey placed his. cold, clammy little hand on the man's face. In the half darkened room, the shutters being half-drawn, the railroad man took no chances with the strange visitor, and in less time than it takes to tell it, the monkey described a wide are through a window and landed in the middle of the dusty street. "You devil," shrieked the organ-grinder, as he gathered up his injured pet, and shook a fist at the railroad man, who had poked his head out to see what manner of creature had dis turbed his slumbers. "Devil your self," replied ttie railroader, "and an ' imp into the bargain," as he grinned at his laughing neighbors, and went back to bed. Speaking or organ-grinders re calls one of the funniest incidents of one of the parades held during the war. A parade was starting to come along Second street, and the head of the line, which was made up largely of a band with excellent powers, reached a corner where an organ-grinder was closing up a se lection for the entertainment of tho waiting crowds. There was a monk ey, and when the brasses came abreast of him he was taken with the big horn. He made one leap and landed on the stalwart man, Mowing the horn. For one minute there was tho grandest mix-up In weeks. Horn, monkey, cord attach ed to the organ at one end and the monkey at the other, horn blower and organ grinder and about four bandsmen and sixteen kids were all tangled. The parade had to stop to unravel the snarl. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Alba B. Johnson has been nam ed as the head of the National Trade Council. —Senator C. M. Barr, the military member of the Senate, spent over a year in the army. —Dr. R. Tait Phila delphia educator, finds time to make addresses to students in his city and to do some sculptoring on the side. —Attorney Gerteral Palmer was speaker at the Jefferson banquet, in Philadelphia. —E. C. Dixon, Philadelphia busi ness man, has retired from the War Trade Board, after eighteen months of service. DO YCU KNOW That Hurrisburg has a l>ig representation in the marines, who will be coming home soon? HISTORIC IIAKRISBUItG —Men from this section accom panied Sullivan and Wayne on their expeditions against the Indians. THE USUAL THING In spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, ♦ Of Rachel, Prue and Nancy, like wise the turtle dove. Each has such strong attraction, and seemingly no faults, That his brain in wild distraction goes to turning,somersaults. —Tennyson J. Daft in Kansas City Star.
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