14 , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I A yEWSPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI J ■ * Published evenings except Sunday by > THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. J Telegraph Building, Federal Sqanre f ' E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief ' F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager v GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor * A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager ExecitUr Board " i. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. r 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 r lished herein. All rights of republication of special v dispatches herein are also reserved. £ A Member American pi Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu- SfiSSECSn iation and Penn * sylvanla Associa iKlSpSllu ated Dailies. ItPiWa SESBS3P ISC Eastern office, juaii m smk (n Story, Brooks & v ' SSS 3 Sa3 W Finley, Fifth 'CI R all ■ Avenue Building. At Jj*3 JS New York City: Western office. - story. Brooks & Finley, People's ' Gas Building Chicago, 111. ———-————————— J Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. 119 J j Teach mc Thy icay. O Jehovah; anil lead mc in a plain path, because of 1* mine enemies.—Ps. 27:11. * — A WORTHY MEASURE THERE is in the Legislature a bill providing that county school superintendents and their assistants shall be allowed $5OO a year for traveling expenses. This l sunt will not meet the needs of such | hurd-wroking, conscientious officials] as we have in Dauphin county, for J example, but it will be far better J than nothing. At present county su perintendents are abominably paid, poorly quartered, compelled in large part to do their own clerical work, " and with all that are expected to keep their schools up to high stand ards and maintain uniformity of ; grade and study. Less devoted men would become discouraged and quit. They are deserving of more con sideration and their expense bill ought to be passed without quib bling. If a county treasurership is : worth $5,000 a year, a county su perintendeney is worth $lO,OOO, but ( most of them get not more than $2,400, and many of them less. :%nutcr Penrose has watched with a:i appreciation more keen than some of our home folks the development of 1 lal risburg from an overgrown town to a progressive and metropolitan city. Furthermore, he never fails to say a kind word of encouragement in his v sits to Harrisburg. He realizes the Importance to the Commonwealth of a substantial working out of the plans of Governor Sproul for a co ordination t>f the improvement pro jects of the State and the city. It is fortunate, also, that the Legislature is composed of men of vision in respect to great public undertakings. FIUME JUST how seriously the Italians and the Jugo-Slavs take the Flume situation is illustrated by communications and resolutions, set ting forth both sides of the contro versy, published elsewhere in to day's issue of the Telegraph. The Italians urged that Fiume is to them what Alsace-Lorraine is to the French: that a majority of its in habitants are Italians and that these are entitled to live under the Italian flag, this hope of independence from Austria being given as one of the main reasons why Italy went into the war. Jugo-Slavs urge that the possession of Fiume is vital to their economic independence, that it is their one gateway to the sea and that Italy wants Fiume in order to restrain and control the exports and imports of Jugo-Slavia. There is reason in this latter argu ment. If Italy gets Fiume she will be at war with the Jugo-Slavs within ten years. Some way must be found whereby these people can have un restricted access to the Adriatic, and If they do not get an outlet peace ably it is to be expected they will fight for it with all the energy and persistence that has marked them for a thousand years as well able to take care of themselves against the best soldiers of Europe. If Italy knows when she is well off she will .grant these Jugo-Slavs a way to the i:ea, whether through Fiume or else where, which is all they ask. BATHING BEACHES IF MAYOR KEISTER really means to put before the people at the November elections a $40,000 loan for the establishment of mu nicipal bathing beaches, he will find many to support the plan. If It is not to be made a popular move ment then the time to drop it is now, before it gets so far under way that withdrawal would have the semblance of defeat. Bathing beaches we should have and bathing beachers we are going lo have in due time, but the project must not be allowed to become the property of any one candidate or set of candidates. We should know soon the extent of the active support that the bathing beach loan is going to have In official circles. We cannot afford to run the chance of losing 1 WEDNESDAY EVENING, ELAJRRISBURG TEIJEGRAP3 APRIL 30, 1919. these proposed beaches by the injcc- , tion of either personal or party I politics. It will be interesting for the return ing soldiers to hear when they get back to the old home town that the "Hardscrabble" sector has finally been taken by the city and that an un rivaled river front is to be still further improved. Nothing is too good for the boys who are coming : back frcm over there. PUNISH HIM JUSTICE loving people even where will rejoice that the former Kaiser is to be brought to trial, i The allied council has not done a | more commendable thing since it ! convened. Of course, it was anticipated that ! some such course as has been out | lined would be devised. The world ! expected the Peace Conference to j bring Wilhelm and his copartners in ! crime before an international tri | bunal and it would have been sorely I disappointed if these arch-criminals ; had been permitted to escape. The only surprising development i of the proceedings is that Secretary ■ l.ansing should have opposed the I trial from the first. Certainly, he i acted without regard for public sen | timent in the United States. He must i have known that the people of this | country believe the ex-Kaiser's am. : bition for world power to have been : responsible for the war, and that all the deviltry of the submarines and | poison gas; the ravaging; the wan | ton destruction of property and the j torture of women and children, 1 which were Germany's contribution I of shame to the conflict, were con ! doned by the then emperor, if not actually devised, and executed under ! his express orders. Believing this Americans almost to a man have been and are insistent that Wilhelm be brought before the bar of justice to answer for his offenses as any other criminal would be when caught. We in this country are no respecters of persons. We have the same punishments for the high as for the low, and Wilhelm is no ex ception. , Therefore, it comes as somewhat of a shock to find Mr. Lansing ( standing between the former war] lord and the grim hand of stern justice. It is well the other delegates overruled him. The world will never] rest easy nor be content until Wil helm has paid the penalty of his crimes. Incidentally, such an example will have a steadying influence on j ambitious lordlings of the future; who may have hankerings toward world dominion. FOOL LEGISLATION IT IS one thing to protect front con tamination streams from which j water supplies for human con-; sumption are taken and quite an-! other to enact legislation that would bar fishing in practically every] stream in Pennsylvania. We have in j mind a "joker" that has been stuck; into one of the bills now before the! Legislature, which provides that j there shall be no hunting or fishing! within a half mile of any stream the ! waters of which are used for drink- I ing purposes. That would close the Susquehanna i river from mouth to source, for many towns, Harrisburg and Steel-] ton. for example, take their water from that river. So it is with prac-i tically every stream in the State. ] If this bill is enacted into law as it stands, the Fisheries Department' may as well go out of business and! every fishing rod in the State broken' to kindling wood, for there would] be no more fishing. It is this class of fool legislation that makes for general dissatisfac tion and gives the man who is chronically "against the government" ammunition for his soap-box argu ments. Other cities and towns are plant ing memorial trees for their soldiers —living and dead —but any sugges tion as to the planting of a tree in Harrisburg seems to fall upon deaf tars. There is hope, however, in the fact that the Boy Scouts are becom ing interested in this important civic duty. By the way, have you planted a tree this spring? OUR SAVING GRACE a LOT of cures and preventives for Bolshevism have been sug gested in recent months, some of them worthless, others good, but it remained for a Camp Hill preacher in a sermon the other day to note the only real and dependable barrier that stands between this country and the Red Terror—the Church of Jesus Christ. The myriad of little church spires scattered over the land flaunt defi ance in the faces of the Godless hosts of Russia. America will retain her liberties and her independence just so long as she remains a God fearing nation. The best evidence of our stability and progress as a people is that ev ery religious denomination is moving fo. ward with prodigious strides and that all religious movements are growing. The true Christian can never be come a Bolshevist. A BUGABOO NO MORE OUT Greensburg way Judge Sny der is being opposed for re election by the "wet" element. There was a time when that may have meant something, but we guess the Judge isn't lying awake nights worrying over what the saloon keepers are going to do to him in the next campaign. The only people in the country who do not realize that the liquor crowd in politics is as harmless as an aged bulldog without teeth are the 'iquor men themselves. Every body else knows they are down and out for all time. The liquor, crowd never spent money in politics for .revengo, unless there was a dollar to be mado incl-' dentally, and it hns less incentive to squander its funds now than ever. Indeed, its funds are at low ebb and it needs them for other purposes. The perennial fountain of booze is about to go "dry." "Pottttca. LK By the Ex-Committeeman j The question of what the Legis- j lature of Pennsylvania will do and ; when it will adjourn and how it will ; handle the Philadelphia bills, Willi be settled in the next twenty-four i hours, possibly to-day. The general, assembly, which is now the upper-! most thing in State po'itics, being: greater even than the coming fight in the Democratic party, marked j time yesterday as far as the big i things were concerned, while Gov-( ernor Sproul, Senator Penrose and; State Chairman Crow discussed the situation. Nothing more will be done about; the Philadelphia bills until Senator Edwin H. Wore returns to Harris- j burg. He is ill at his home near Philadelphia. —The first sign of restlessness in the House over adjournment canie 'ast night when a resolution to fix May 29 for adjournment, was pre sented, signed by Messrs Willert, Erie: Phillips, Clearfield: Benchiff. Franklin, and Home, Cambria. It vat sent to the rules committee, but created some talk. The session will likely end June 5. The House will shut off new bills May 5. —The Department of Conserva- ] tion bill was attacked before the; Senate appropriations committee and 1 opponents of the bill hope to amend it and were threatening defeat to- j day. Representatives of sportsmen's | associations attacked the bill hotly, i but were told that it was not so j sweeping as supposed. Only live of the Senators on the committee ap- • peared at the hearing. —Front all accounts much of the! Legislative League opposition to the ! ftate Police bill is abating and some ! of the members from up-State who] voted against it. are inclined to vote I for reconsideration. They are not very keen about the Wilson bill re pealing the third-class city nonpar tisan elective feature, however. —lt was Representative Reber. of Lehigh, and not Representative Reber. of Schuylkill, who introduced the Public Service Commission re pealer. Such bills bloom biennially, but are soon cut off and wither. —A. Merritt Taylor, the noted transit engineer, has been visiting the Capitcl this week as a spectator. —The editor of the Clearfield I Progress is impressed with the availability of Governor William C. | Sproul as a candidate for president j next year. He quotes extensively 4ont William Jennings Bryan's re-j i utrk at East Liverpool. Ohio, when bo remarked "1 should say Gover nor Sproul would be the next Re pub'ican presidential candidate. Governor Sproul favors prohibition and woman suffrage and he is pro gressive enough to please the wes tern Progressives." The Progress then says: "Mr. Bryan is not the first man who has attempted to place the mantle of presidential honors on the shoulders of our beloved I Governor nor is he the first big man of our nation to recognize the caliber | of William C. Sproul, hut he may safely be said to be the first big | man to openly speak his unreserved opinion. Mr. Bryan is schooled in j national politics. • • Sproul is | presidential timber. Aside from our personal, regional or state pref erence, Governor Sproul should be the Republican nominee for the rea son that he represents safe and sane progress, business administra tion of affairs and would command the support of all Republicans re gardless of faction. Those states i which have been in the so-called! doubtful column and those in which there is a slight preponderance of Democratic strength, now thorough ly tired of academic and altruistic methods, would rally to the support of a practical business man for president. It is only a year until we select our presidential nominee." • —Ambler, where Senator Edwin H. Vare lives, has declined to pass a curfew law on the ground that it is not needed. —Woman suffragists are getting mobilized for a drive on the Senate and will ask that their bill be re ported out promptly. -—At a special election the citizens of Radnor township, Delaware coun ty, voted nearly three to one against allowing the Radnor Township Bftard of Education to borrow $300,000 for a new high school and other improvements. The total vote of all districts showed 486 against the loan and 172 for it. Even the towns of Wayne and St. Davids, which would have obtained the chief benefits from the loan, voted against it. —Gifford Pinchot is now out gtv ing heart to heart talks to the farm boys. He spoke at York Saturday. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that A. F. Snyder, who aspires to a Republican nomination in Carbon county, has offered to give half his salary to the V. M. C. A., Salvatioh Army and other we'fare agencies. —Senator C. J. Buckman has been busy in Philadelphia conferring with motor truck people about the pro posed bill, which does not suit many people. —James T. Cortelyou. the postal inspector who was well banqueted Wednesday by prominent Philadel phians, has many friends here and they would tike to see him become connected with the State government in some capacity or other. —J. O. Strayer. who ran for Con gress at large on the Democratic ticket last year, is now being boomed for mayor of Y'ork. He is well known to many here. New Bells to Ring in Peace Westminster Abbey is to have a new chime of bells to ring in the peace. They are being cast in Messrs. Mears and Steinbank's foun dry in the Whitechapel Road, where London bells have been cast since the sixteenth century—one of the oldest in the line of London indus tries. The king and oueen went down to Whitecbape' a few days ago to see the casting of one of the new Abbey bells —the third in the octave— weighing nine and a half hundred rounds. A l'ttle bell was cast from the same metal to be given to the king and queen as a memento. Some interesting historical bells were shown. Among these was the belt of Staplehurst. fnrish Church, which was cast in Whiteehane' in 1 504, end has now been sent' to the f1...., f 0 " rec-sfln r*. three centur'es later. Rig Ben was born in this foundry about half a cen'urv ago.— I From the Manchester Guardian. I WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS P* _ VSS \ / f uk THIS <36RMAO J . X s 1 WSL-DAST VA/HAT T) / \ "P* 'B*" o6 ] f NUTHIM -\ X / \ J ( H6 AIM-T | \ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DEFENDS JUGO-SLAVS j To the Editor of the Telegraph: We love our Jugo-Slavia, cur] geographical name for the country, of the Croatians, Slovnes and Serbs,; as much as the Italians love their; Italy. We have the right to life and] liberty, as the Italians. At the mo-] ment, when we thought that our calvary was over and the stone of oppression was roiled back and our; national resurrection was in siglit, • Italy is in our road, denying us the i liberty and self determination. Italy, j the Europe's boot, with shameful | and arrogant synism with the same boot is trying to step on our neck, j taking from us our best cities, ourj coast, our islands. Italy, the country which fought so ! long for her own liberty and unity.: Is denying the same right to the I others. But the time of oppression is past, j The small nations cannot be any ] more slaves of the big ones. The | might shell be replaced by right. The Jugo-Slavs have fought for] centuples against the Venice Repub-; lie: especially the Croatian® on tlie I Dalmatian sea coast and the islands, of Austria. The life of this people j was a real martyrdom. The Judgo-Slavs in the same time ! have fought against the Turks from j the early fourteenth century to the; last Balkans wars. Croatia was' never under the Mos'emans rule, and | for their able defense of their own, country and Christianity, Pope Leo j X called them —Antemurale Chris- j tianitatis. , The Jugo-Slavs have suffered for; centuries under the despotic. Austro-: Hungarian government, and now; when Austria-Hungary went to; piece®, crumbling down under the j weight of her sins and injustices, I the liberated nations thought tliati the time came for their liberty, so long expected and deserved. Now Italy, by force, won't take, our life, our liberty again, and start; the Austrian rule of force and per- ; secution; or to play the role of the; pirate of the Adriatic, like the Ven-: ice Republic did in the time past.. Between the two evils we would prefer a hundred and hundred times! the old Austrian rule to the new; Italian. Under Austria we were suf- , fering; under Italy we would die. There is no word which could even , approximately express the felling of i hatred and contempt, against this; unjust aspirations of the Italian gov erning class for our country. The Italian Irredenta is. nothing else than the shield to the most aggressive militarism. Since the Ital- | ian unity, all the wars waged by j Italy were for conquest. The war] against Abyssinia, where the Ital- j ian army was defeated by Menelick; | the war against the Turks for Trip-) oli and for the Greek Islands In the j Aegean, then under Turk dominion, j but inhabited by Greek people; and j espeeia'ly the present war was en-; tered by Italy not for the noble prin- ] ciples of democracy and for the lib-, erty of the small oppressed nation. I but for the lust of conquest and land grabbing. .For almost a year Italy was on the market for a highest bidder. All the explanations to the contrary were excuses. Now it is clear to everybody. Da'matta and Fiume (Rtjeka) are not Italian: all the Italians there are colonists, fleeing from Italv in search for bread. Rijeka (Fiume) is the natural out let of Croatia. The beautiful port of Rijeka. with its solid piers *ind wharves of massive stones and con crete* are built with the money of the Croatians taxpayers and other subject® of Aus'tria-Hungary, and not with Italian money. Delmatia and Riieka (Fiume) are Croatian, and wo have to be un'ted with our mother countrv with Croatia. Our canital c'tv sha'l be Xagreh-Bijeli. Zagreb—the white city—the jewel of the Jugo-F'av". as was styled hv the American Red, Cross now in that countT. Zagreb (Aernm) Is our historical, cultural and po'itfcal center. With its ronowned university, the first in the Balkans: with its great academv (Jugo-Slavenska Akademija): with its snlendldly deve'oped and fre ouented ela-stcnl. technical and com mercial high schools: with Us col- . leces and normal schools for tho| education cf the teachers, males and : femalos: with lis beautiful opera .house and government bui'ding andj hospitals, is the model city, where] tall our national and cultural neces sities can be fully satisfied. ! We do not need Italy: we do not want Italy. Italy can be our good ] neighbor, or the worst enemy. No ) guardian, no tutor. If we everhieed : any, only the American people will j be our guardian. We have to be all killed, or starved, before we give our sea coast jund our islands. Italy, surrounded from three sides by the sea, like no | other country, except England or (Japan, with many ports on both ] sides, is still not satisfied: she wants to close all the outlets to the seas to all the nations on the eastern side of the Adriatic, to keep tlieifi under her economical and commercial slavery: to control their resources] land their development, i On the rein of the Italian govern ment are many war lords. Their (blunders will be dear'y paid for by j the poor Italian people. | The Jugo-Slavs will prefer death j to slavery. I | Our only hope is the support of the great democratic American I ocople and their noble President. (Our cry from the deep of our heart is: Long life to AmeHca. —The Rev. A. Zuvicli. Rector ] of St. Mary'® Croatian Church. Stee'tcn. Defends Undertakers : To the Editor of the Telegraph : [ Some time ago our country, as (well as other countries, suffered a (great loss of life due to an almost (overwhelming epidemic. This gave j rise to an unfair dig at a profession j second only to one. Some people, i through a lack of understanding and ! viewing the situation with a partial ] eye, called it the "Undertakers' I Harvest." But let us consider this matter fairly and give this profes sion, and the followers of the same, the place and standing they rightly I deserve The public well knows and will (long remember the advance in the ; cost of everything necessary to a i livelihood. Some articles of food and (wearing apparel advanced as high as one and two hundred per cent '(on pre-war prices. Consider with ;this also labor and the cost of pro ! duction of nearly everything and (then judge whether the undertaker . made a "harvest." i Lumber, 'abor, silk, hardware and (living expenses advanced on the undertaker to the extent mentioned above. Include likewise his over head expenses and small incidentals not mentioned which have also ad jvanced in like measure and then ask | yourself: Did the undertaker take advantage when his account figured to an advance of some twenty-five j per cent higher than a few years I ago? I Let us look at the situation from another angle. Several newspaper lart'ele® mentioned the startling fact j flint wlio'e families were smitten by the disease and wore for the most nart bedfast and could get no ono |to come near to render assistance. War Time Circulation October, 1918, next to the peak month of the war 38,040 Peace Time Circulation March, 1919, the fourth month after tin war ended 29,314 Growth, 1,174 A tribute to the strength and power of the Har risburg Telegraph—a record of stability but few newspapers in the country can match. Does it mean anything to you when you realize that after the "Reaper," | "Grim Death" had called at this home, that, the undertaker and his j assistants took their lives into their | own hands and, never hesitating, l'aeed the terrible disease and put I forth every effort to make the sur | roundings sanitary and safe for the I remainder of the family as well as ! the community at large. With this thought foremost in ] your mind you cannot help but real j ize that the undertaker is a neces isity to a community and not a blot |of black to be feared and avoided. "G'eanliness is next lo godliness." ! Sanitation is cleanliness and is the j dim of every good undertaker, so (any intelligent person can see that I the men in this profession helped ; guard and protect you instead of reaping a harvest unjustly off you. ] Give these men credit for what they have done and will do in the future anil when tempted to say I anything detrimental—stop—think —consider. R. B. O'Hara, 2617 Agate St. ( Tragedy of English Girl ' [From Soldiers. Sailors, Marines, Washington] English women and girls appear repressed to an American. They lack the ebullient and outspoken frankness of the Yankee girl. But once i;, a while one of them speaks her feelings freely and such a one was the little munitions worker at Ipswicli. Of her escort, an American sailor, she asked: "Do you thing many of the Amcri- I cans and Canadians will stay over i here?" He thought they would not and ' said so. "We English girls wish that they ! would," she said, and there was ; something rather plaintive in the ! way she spoke. "You see, even be ■ fore the war there were so many ; more women than men in England j and now there must be three women ] to eve ry man. "We're just like other girls every where: we want to marry and to i have homes of our own. So many ]of us never will, though. And not : to marry means that nearly all of ] us will have to work for our living. I We'* e worked gladly these last four 'years because we were doing it t.o . help win the war, but it will be 1 harder when peace comes. We will have to compete with the men then and •wo-thirds of us will face tiie upending future of work in shops or 'offices or factories." I She spoke the tragedy of the Er g | Hah gin, the brave hearted g'rl, who ; for moe than four years unfalter- I ingly has worked on the farms, 1 driven trucks and motor buses, made 'guns, and shel's and gasses. acted as policewomen, hotel clerk and 'coll girl, nursed the sick and wound jod and even built cantonments in ! France. It is a tragedy for her. but ] she will hear it with the same h'gh courage she bore the other countless sacrifices the war has demanded of | her. Behold My Sorrow The Lord is righteous; for T have 1 rebelled his commandment: hear, 1 pray you. all people, and behold my sorrow.—Lamentations i, IS. Leads in Road Improvement [Wilkes-Barre Record] No other State In the Union has as elaborate plans for road im provement as Pennsylvania. Ap proval by the Governor of the bill authorizing the issuing of bonds on the strength of the $50,000,000 loan was a mere formality, but it marks the beginning of an enterprise that places upon the Sproul government a very serious responsibility. In authorizing an indebtedness of that size in a State that was free from dobt the citizens did so in the ex pectation that the money would be expended in a way to give satisfac tory return. It is fortunate that the work is to be done under the watch ful eye of a Governor who lias the confidence of the people, and it is to bo hoped that the State Highway Department will be equally anxious to avoid the dishonesty and the in competency that have made similar projects in other States a farce and a failure. In addition to as much as the pro ceeds of the loan as can be used this year, probably $20,000,000, the department will have available the appropriation by the legislature out of current income, amounting to probably $8,000,000 for the year, and in addition it will have Pennsyl vania's share of a Federal appro priation. This allotment will be $Ol 1,407. With this large sum of money on hand, Pennsylvania can p'unge into road making on a scale never be fore equaled. But that will not be the full extent of the work. A num ber of the counties have made and are making independent appropria tions. It is proposed to spend $250,- 000 in Luzerne out of the county treasury for the repair of old high ways and for the improvement of others. The whole plan of operations will be of stupendous proportions. Not much has been said about detailed methods, and there may be some ap prehension on that score. 11l tho past, road improvement lias not been of a kind to stand up under the strain of heavy automobile traffic, with tlie result that in a few years the cost of repairs has equaled tlie original cost of construction. Under such conditions road making is a luxury that no State or county could afford. The Legislature will be ex pected to regulate the weight of loads and the speed of motor vehi cles. and the Highway Department must be depended upon to build with a view to permanency rather than with the purpose of making the money reach over as many miles of highway as possible. The people who voted the money will expect businesslike results. lIIOH TRIBUTE TO SIMS (From the Independent, New York) Admiral Sims came to be looked upon in foreign navies not only as the "American admiral," but as a brother officer. One of the many demonstrations of this fact is that in conservative old England, which still steadfastly adheres to many formalities of past ages, they actu ally proposed to make Admiral Sims an active member of the board of the admiralty. This is what that meant: The British Navy is controlled differently from our own—first, by a civilian secretary sailed "first lord," and, second, by the so-called board of the admiralty. This board is bound up in ancient laws which still exist to-day. Its members arc the principal naval officers of the British admiralty which corresponds to our Navy Department. The mem bers of the board of admiralty arc legally known as "commissioners for executing the ofliee of the lord high admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, etc.," and important official correspondence of the admiralty starts off with the phrase, "The lords commissioners of the admiralty have this day, etc." Furthermore, the office of Hie first lord, corresponding to our Secretary of the Navy, is bound down with many restrictions. There are many important questions concerning the British Navy and its direction which are not legal if issued and signed alone by the first lord. They must have the concurrence of at least a certain number of admirals on the board, who are known as "sea lords." The respect and the feeling held by the heads of the British Navy for Admiral Sims was shown by the un precedented proposal to submit the admiral's name to the king to serve as an honorary member of the board of the admiralty. Tho French fol lowed with the same proposal. Blase Americans Abroad Why a young man, subsisting on the profits of trade, should, when he comes to Europe, begin to look down on tlie bourgeoisie, is inexplicable: and why he should disregard the! patent fact that the foundation of our whole diplomatic system in monarchical countries we do not dare to say it out loud—is commer cial. passes all understanding. The neophyte who says to you: "I am writing homo that I met my first real countess to-day, and d feel very much like the men who was given his first view of a lion in a menag erie, and said: 'That ain't no lion, " —is respectable. He came out to "ee persons of rank, but the blase young man who declares that he is bored by princesses and really can not endure court functions is not at a'l respectable. The first is frank; tlie second is absolutely insincere and artificial. The American girl invited to din ner who says: "I do hope you will, have a princess," is worth the trouble of trying to get a princess for her; but the young lady who tolls you that her presentation at St. James' was such a frigh'ful bore, and she does hope she will not have to go through thnt thing again, is evldent 'y a poseuse. Maurice Francis Egan, lately American Minister to Denmark, in Collier's Weekly. BUY LIBERTY BONDS Pennsylvania, justly recognized as it is as the Keystone of the Union, with the proud distinction of being foremost in responding to every ap peal or movement made for the sup port of the National Government, has again the opportunity to uphold the reputation of being in the ad vance column of States whose quota in the Victory Loan will be far over the top. Pennsylvanians can not, or will not, permit of its being other wise, the history of the activities throughout the State during the war being such that at this time, to re fuse or neglect in responding to the call with that liberality for which the State is noted throughout the whole world, would be a disgrace and stigma on tho Americanism of Pennsylvanians. Let us go to it with might and main, heart and soul!— Howard E. Butz, State Fire Marshal. Japan's Telephone Service The Japan Times satirizes the bad telephone service of Japan by telling this incident: "A lady in Karuiwaza ca'led up her house in Tokyo, left by the next train, got the call and talked to herself In Knriuwaza six hours after she arrived in Tokyo. That's not a joke. It's the solemn truth."—From the Outlook. fEimtittg (Eljal There may be something to tho tradition that every other year is a big dandelion year. In fact, some people say that it is a fact, not a legend or a belief. In any event, there is abundant proof in and about Harrisburg, that the dandelion is attempting to get into its own here abouts. Not for years has there been a plague of the yellow dots to be seen on the lawns and in tho gardens and the parks of this city as at present. The flowers are lit erally blooming everywhere and even the border grass plots along the streets are tilled with the blooms. Hoys are making all kinds of money picking them out and if a circus was , to come to town soon, there would |be kids with so much cupital that | they would have coin to see tho i main and the side shows and to buy everything offered. The dandelions I teemed to have profited by the | weather of last year. There are many j which survived tho hard winter and | those which bloomed had usually large blossoms and the seeds were scattered everywhere about the city | by the winds. Then, too. the weather conditions have been favorable for the growth of the plants and they have spread rapidly. The weather conditions have likewise been just right for the wild flowers and the. fields and woods arc bright with them. People who have gone on Sunday walks or hikes have been amply repaid and have found much to enjoy. Many rare blooms have been found and even if the dande lion has run riot in tho cities, the country is benefitting by mild weather as far as flowers go. Most trout fishermen are waiting for May weather to clear up the streams for Ashing. Some good catches have been made hereabouts since the season opened, indicating the presence of trout in goodly num bers in tho streams, but conditions for tishing have been very unfavor able and it has been by mere chance that men have brought home well tilled creels. "What is needed is I warm weather and absence of rain to bring the streams up to their best. When the bugs begin to fly and the water gets warm, tho trout take the flies most readily. Also, there are many who believe that the larger of the young trout then begin to come down from the smaller brooks into the larger creeks where the fishermen have better chance of reaching them. Most or the big catches have been iiiade on worms this spring, the water being too cold for flies, although Robert 11. Lyon, one oi the best fishermen in the city, caught seven in tifteen minutes between showers the morning tho season opened, a'l on a fly. • * <t The indications are bright for a good ba-s year, unless the rains are so frequent that the streams are kept muddy. A well known angler who spent considerable time along tho creeks in llarrisburg this spring, observing conditions while Ashing for suckers, says he saw more big bass jump than he has noted ill many a year. The bass had an easy winter plenty of warm weather and no heavy ice floods to kill thou sands of them and sweep thousands more out of the creeks into tho rivers. Bass fishing in the streams near Harrisburg has been steadily improving the past three or four years and if the laws are as strictly enforced as they have been, there is no reason why in a year or two more fishing should not he as good as it was twenty-five or thirty years ago. Commissioner Butler, who has placed many young fish in these creeks, is in no small measure re ponsiblc for the improved condi tions. • • • It is not often that a legislative hearing is interrupted by airplanes, but that Is what happened yesterday. The aerial squadron came over tlie Capitol about the time tilings were busiest and tlie members simply went out and watched them. Sneakers on bills found themselves without audiences and went out, too * • * A general plan in regard to Arm ory building on behalf of the State will be outlined at next month's meeting of the State Armory Board. Tlie Board has bills pending for big appropriations and it is the hope to get projects sturted for an armorv in every place where a unit of the i National Guard is located. In a ' number of instances cities and coun ties have united and offered lots at county seats on condition that the ! State erects tlie building. At least ' half a dozen of third class cities of i the State have taken steps to offer ; properties to tho State. Nothing has . yet been done in Harrisburg although the suggestion that a site fronting on Capitol park be offered to tho State if it will build, lias been made. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 1 : 1 —Ex-Representative C. V. John- J son, of Crawford county, has been here the last, few days in regard to legislation and is much interested in the road problems. , —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran ton, came to Harrisburg yesterday to visit, tho Legislature. I —John A. McSparran, master of the State Grange, has been hero tho last few days on legislation and says | that reports indicate big production > of grain in Pennsylvania. , —Mayor M. B. Kitts, of Erie, who , has been here for a couple of days, is greatly interested in the plans to , make Harrisburg a model for the > rest of the State In regard to legis lation. —Ex-Mayor Ira W. Stratton, of Reading, is urging funds to be voted by the Legislature to complete tlie , Gregg statue. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg's permanent memorial to its men in the war seems to have liocn lost sight of? niSTORIC HARRISBURG —Men who volunteered for Indian wars used to camp on the river be • low Mulberry. PATRIOTIC PALM The dead are dead, yet we are all here living: ' To-day our country asks not for the giving Of all that we possess, as they. But simply that we help to pay Our debt to them in lending way. No argument is needed to ensure I That which you lend; it is secure, r For all our glorious eouutry is be i hind it. ■ Now and forever more: hiese bonds I do bind it. c Hence lend again and once more win the prize, l The patriotic palm; be dutiful, b* safe, be wiaot —J, M,
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