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j Teach mc Thy icay. O Jehovah; anil
lead mc in a plain path, because of
1* mine enemies.—Ps. 27:11.
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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
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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
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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,