18 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Belldlas, Federal Sgeare E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. BTEIXMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board i. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. B. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication <Jf all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r] Newspaper Pub- I Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Tenn •ylvanja Associa- Eastern office Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. I Chicago, Bl Udin<: ' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * T Vweek; by mail, J3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919 Never think it tcaated fitne to sub mit yourself to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feel ing.—Rusfcin. KEEP OUR RECORD FAIR HARRISBURG people have been proud of their record in the war, and very properly so. When the first draft came along, so many of our young men had vol unteered that this city was exempt In every Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus and Liberty Loan drive Harrisburg gave its full quota—and more. We never shirked for a moment. We supported the boys in France with every means at our disposal. And now, with the war won and our soldiers coming home, we are spoiling our whole splendid record by failing to take our share of Vic tory Bonds. It will be a shameful thing to say at the end of the campaign: "Yes, Perry county went over the top, and Juniata county went over the top, and Steelton went over the top, and Dauphin county outside of the city went over the top, but Harrisburg, richest and most populous commun ity of the whole district, wouldn't do its share." If we let ourselves be placed in that class we shall deserve the yel low streak that our neighbors al ways will see in us. We shall de serve the name of quitter. We shall have no excuse to make when the folks of other towns call us slackers. It's a nice prospect, isn't it? But there is one way out. Buy bonds; buy until you can buy no more, and in sufficient amounts to wipe out the blot on Harisburg's good name and send the city glori ously over the top when the bond salesmen get together to make their final reports Tuesday. MUST WAIT AND SEE NO PACT between nations, big or or little, has ever been sub ject to the variance in criti cism that has characterized the doc ument upon which is based the League of Nations. Divergent views of diplomats of large experience and radical differences between the fore most statesmen of the world regard ing the various provisions of this re markable scheme to safeguard future peace, have marked the dis cussion and threatened the very har mony that the agreement was de signed to promote. Now that the peoples most concerned have been taken into the secret, it remains to be seen whether the apprehension and honest criticism of a multitude of befuddled freemen and the late subjects of former autocracies will be arrested. David Jayne Hill, this country's most distinguished publicist and dip lomat, a former Ambassador to Ber lin, manifestly does not concur in the optimistic views just expressed by ex-President Taft regarding the revised scheme for establishing world peace, worked out at the Paris Con ference. Indeed, he concludes in a •remarkable analysis of the whole matter that "if Germany and other nations were really penitent, really virtuous, really minded to submit to international law, to respect it and to maintain it, the League would be .* superfluity. But if Germany and FRIDAY EVENING, \ Itahrjsbttrg HfjjfriflH. TELEGRAPH MAY 2, 1919. [other nations are not so minded then they have no place In it; and ff such a place should not be prepared for them." s Our former Ambassador to Ger r many, who evidently agrees with '• many of his countrymen as to the B folly of providing for a peace here a after while neglecting the immedi ate duty of transfusing an armistice into an actual peace without delay, declares the League "is in its essence r nothing but a written form of an r understanding for mutual defense against an enemy not wholly over come." "If the enemy," he continues, "had been made to acknowledge de feat at the moment when he really was defeated, all this circumlocu tion would have been avoided. The Entente would have obtained la vic toire integrale, and a chastened Ger many would now be rehabilitating I | her national life, as it is her right • and duty to do, in order to suppress ' Bolshevism, instead of allying'herself i with it, and preparing to take a \ normal and useful part in the so ; ciety of States." I In the dispassionate judgment of . many thoughtful opponents of the peace scheme just promulgated overseas, Germany and her asso ciates in the crime of the ages must : show fruits meet for repentance be ' fore she and they shall be given any ; place in the family of nations. Dr. j Hill says "the problem now is not | i reconciliation and it never was. The j ' real problem was and is to show the | , Central. Powers, and particularly j Germany, that ruthless aggression and violation of the Law of Nations cannot be tolerated, and cannot es cape a just punishment. * • There must be a peace of victory and not a peace of compromise, or there will never be any sure peace in the world." Ex-President Taft and the former Ambassador differ radically as to Article X, constituting the new na tionalities and fixing their frontiers. Dr. Hill believes this provision, so much discussed, must endanger fu ture peace; that under its operation self-determination, so far as national allegiance is concerned, would be finally repressed. He makes the significant point that "it is for the peoples by choice and agreement to make the map and not the ethno graphers," and further observes that "the most pernicious vice in the sys tem of ideas upon which this League is founded, is that peace can be se cured without the existence of im mense armed forces by artificial lines drawn on a map. • • The secret of peace does not lie in geog- , raphy, but in institutions, political and economic. The one great lesson that constitutional self-government has brought, is that peace and con tentment are not created by geo graphic boundaries, but by just laws and the economic opportunities af- f forded under a good government." , More than two hundred years ago the learned Abbe de St. Pierre, dur ing the Congress of Utrecht, in 1713, proposed a peace league which was practically the same in its substan tial provisions as the one just for mulated at Paris as something abso lutely new and original, but it was 1 rejected as impracticable, "because it ignored two persistent tendencies of human nature—the ambition of i rulers on the one hand and national : aspiration for freedom and equality on the other." We shall have to wait and see i whether human nature has so changed in these two hundred years 1 as to justify the hopes of the found- ] ers of the latest plan for universal peace. IN THE OLD DAYS THE barbers are complaining 1 that tho so-called luxury taxes, which went into effect May 1, j are aimed injuriously at the man ; whose hair is falling out and has to, depend upon the soothing and odoriferous lotions of the tonsorial artist to save him from the bald head class, in that the new law prescribes heavily increased taxation on hair tonics and the like. Back in the good old days, before the shelf in front of the barber shop mirror became so cluttered up with fancy bottles of various colored liquids that it might easily be mis taken for the supply depot of one of those white-aproned artists who : manufacture mixed drinks for thirsty ' and adventurous patrons, the luxury tax wouldn't have hit either the i barber or his victim very hard. In ' those times there was the bottle of bayrum and the tall bottle of hair oil for the customers who weren't particular, but who were entitled to something on the side with their shaves and hair cuts, and a box of "bear grease," a jar of pomade and a bottle of "sweet verbena" for par ticular folks who wanted to look slick and smell sweet. The barbers of that period knew" little about sanitation and cared less. One brush, one comb, one mug and one towel answered for many cus tomers, and he was a mighty pros perous citizen indeed who had his own individual mug, with initials or a picture of his wife, or his sweet heart, or his favorite horse, or his home on the front, set back in a nitch on a special shelf for his own particular use. But if attentions were scant, prices were low. The only kind of a massage known to the trade at the time was the kind the heavy handed extra barber, who helped out Saturday nights in the shop after acting as blacksmith's helper al! day, inadvertently gave the poor souls who entrusted their tender faces to the mercy of his iron-muscled fist. And the man who asked for a "hot towel" would have got a cold one right across the face, for in those days there was only enough hot water to mix the lather and it was brewed in a copper pot that sizzled continually on top of a little stove that kept the shop warm both winter and summer. But you could get a shave for a dime and a hair cut for fifteen cents, with bay rum and hair-oil thrown in. Ordi narily these two were considered sufficient, but before going to a party or a wedding one was prone to indulge in the smoothing down qualities of "bear grease" and the perfumery that went with the favor ite "sweet verbena." Those appli cations were the last word in toilet making and if anybody cast asper sions as to the appearance of a man who had paid for those luxuries, why there just naturally followed an apology or a fight. Everything's changed in the bar ber shop, except the line of conver sation. That's about the same. But now, thank goodness, we are to have some variation even in that, byway of a discussion of luxury taxes and their effect on the profits of ton sorial artists and the fates of cus tomers who are trying to dodge the bald-headed class. Shakespeare was right. "Sweet are the uses of adversity." fotxtL C4 "7* tKfVQ IftcClJUXl By the Ex-Committee man With the Philadelphia bills cer tain to pass In much the form de sired by Senator Boies Penrose and his friends in the Quaker City and the administration forces suddenly aroused to the importance of get ting their bills through the Legisla ture, it commences to look as though the next month would be one of tho busiest known in recent .years on Capitol Hill. Republican State leaders who have been waiting for the return of Gov ernor William C. Sproul and the settlement of the controversy over the Philadelphia legislation have re newed their calls for the Legisla ture to speed up and enact the laws expected of it. The Philadelphia measures have occupied too much attention, say some of these leaders, and they are very much inclined to fall in with the suggestion of Sena tor Penrose that the time has como to think about the revenue legisla tion and the urgings of Governor Sproul that things be "speeded up." —The trouble has been that every thing has had to wait until the Philadelphia bills could get their sailing chart and now it means that a financial policy must be evolved to take care of appropriations run ning over $80,000,000 and many other things settled. —The workmen's compensation bill will have serious consideration in the next week or so and there are intimations that the Adminis tration is inclined to agree to some thing in the way of changes al though much opposition has been manifested by employers because of the industrial situation. —The State Administration is also getting busy in an effort to put through the State Police reorgar.iser and the antisedition bill. The for mer measure will be reconsidered Monday night and likely be passed with a safe majority. Many up State legislators who voted against it because of the ruction over the third class city repealer have changed their minds. —Governor Sproul is much in terested in the antisedition bill and Attorney General Sehaffer in an analysis which appears elsewhere to night urges that it be enacted as a matter of precaution against the ter rorists, anarchists and others who preach change of government by violence. Mr. Sehaffer says that the section known as the "discontent" clause and that dealing with "peace and tranquility" excepted to as too broad will be eliminated. —The effort to abolish the Pub lic Service Commission will not get anywhere and neither will any of the bills to change its basic law. —The Scranton Republican is of opinion that road bonds will be is sued soon. It says editorially: "It is understood that some of the bonds will be issued at an early date as the Governor is very firmly of the opinion that a good cause will be served by having much of the road work completed before next fall. That will be a wise thing to do be cause of the fact that so many men are out of work and plenty of labor will be available for any highway plan contemplated." —A new liquor bill to define when a drink is a drink is predicted in Philadelphia. —Friends of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell have renewed their efforts to have him appointed common pleas court judge of Philadelphia. Kill That Fh/ Now "Under no circumstances patron ize a restaurant, grocery store, ba kery or butcher shop if flies are per mitted to walk about on the food. Watch the fly when you wait the service of your meal It will be an interesting and instructive experi ence." This and other advice on the erad ication of the fly is contained in a warning issued by the Merchants' Association of New York. Here are some additional interesting points: "The extremely mild weather this season was favorable to the active life of the insect, and promoted the breeding of the dangerous pest last •winter "Fewer flies have perished. "Many have deposited eggs which have been hatched and will re-en force the 'hold overs' that have hibernated in the more sheltered places. "The mother fly lays 150 eggs at one lime, and deposits six batches in a life time of five weeks. The appalling possibilities of spreading disease germs are evident. "Kill at once every fly you can find and burn it. "The killing of just one fly now mears that there will be billions and trillions fewer next summer. "Clean up your premises. "Eradicate all substances likely to aftord breeding grounds for the prolific insect. Every crack and crevice should be explored for eggs and dusted with fiy destroyer. "Garbage is a favorite rendezvous for the fly. See that the garbage container has a tight fitting lid, and keep that lid on. "T> clear the house of flies, burn pvrethrum powder. This stupifies the flies, but they must then be swept up and burned." IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ... .... By BRIGGS | I === HT ' 'HUHKHIIII ' I M X IZR) / fJXdn.) , I L _• I ! I / / T OP•/ BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Don Marquis has written a new book which is full of whimsical, serious, ironical, pleasant and satir ical comment upon anything and everything in the universe and upon some tilings that are not in the universe, but should be—delightful nonsense, all of it. This newest bit of l'un by the editor of the "Sun Dial" is called, "Prefaces." It con tains about twenty-live imaginary prefaces, such as the "Preface to a Book of Cigarette Papers," the "Preface to a Censor's Diary," and a particularly delightful "Preface to a Cook-Book." The whole world seems suddenly to be turning to business methods as employed in America. D. Apple ton and Company state that within the past few months they have re ceived orders for their Practical Business Library from all parts of the earth. On one day recently they received orders from the South Sea Islands, Siam, Arabia, Australia and China. This is an interesting devel opment. because before the war the business methods of the United States were not in high favor in these countries, the methods of Great Britain and Germany being given preference. The New Jersey State Librarv Commission, through its secretary. Miss Askew, recently appealed to Mr. William Heyliger, the writer of boys' book, to organize a campaign by which Boy Scouts would collect magazines for the wounded soldiers at St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken. Mr. Heyliger accepted the commis sion, and, within ten days, his organ ization of Boy Scouts had sent to the hospital more than 5,000 maga zines. Co-incident with the great success with which Emerson Hough's new novel, "The Sugebrusher," is meet ing, particularly in New York where a vigorous sales campaign is in pro gress, D. Appleton and Company an nounce that they have been obligod to print the nineteenth edition of Mr. Hough's first book, "The Story of the Cowboy." Dr. G. Stanley Hall's monumental work on "Adolsoence" Is being printed by the Appletons for the sixteenth time. The Appletons are also printing this week the fifty eight edition of Dr. Holt's "Care and * Feeding of Children," a book which! is said to sell in greater quantities i each year than most of the popu lar novels. THE TOCSIN [By Edward S. Van Zile.] Never since man first preyed on man, And battlefields turned red. And guns were forged and metal ran Hot for its feast of dead. Rang Tocsin louder on the air, More menacing, more wild. Than rouses races everywhere That they be not defiled. It echoes over mounds of slain, And weary Europe weeps; It's hoarse above the moaning main, From sea to sea It leaps. It's raucous where the valleys are, It shakes the hills with dread — Who raised their eyes and saw a star Now fear that star is fled. The Tocsin! The Tocsin! 'Tis harsh to human ears; Our graves have grown too many, we are tired of our tears; But the foe is arming, arming, And the Tocsin, giving cry. Is a watch-dog's tongue, alarming Them that sleep to wake or die. Far afield the war-god ranges. Peace? Ah, where is it to-day? Age on age how slight the changes, In the price their victims pay! To the Robespierres, red-handed, Who have slain, and slay again— Now behold new millions banded For the massacre of men! The Tocsin! The Tocsin! The winds of all the earth Are carrying the warning of a mon strous evil birth, Of the coming of a Frankenstein, insatiate for blood. Of cavemen with machine guns, and of murder at the flood. Nay, tarry n °t. ye heedless, for the foe draws nigh the gate. And woe to ye, ye laggards, if ye gird your loins too late: Ye have fought a splendid battle, ye have won a fight for God, But there's lightning In the firma ment, and blood upon the sod. The Tocsin! The Tocsin! It's thun der groweth loud! Ye saved the goddess, Eiberty—they would wrap her in a shroud: A new crusade awaits ye, ye must face the foe again. For brutes break loose to make their kill —and Freedom calls for men! Saving 13,000 Workers' Lives Yearly [From the Literary Digest.] SAFETY PAYS" is the con clusion of Lew R. Palmer, former chief factory inspec tor for Pennsylvania, who writes in The Scientific Monthly (New 1 ork, April). According to Mr. Palmer the result of the "safety first" movement during the past ten years has been to reduce our annual toll of fatal industrial accidents from 35,000 to 22,000, with a correspond ing prevention also of maiming and disabling accidents. In other words, the movement is saving 13,000 Amer ican lives yearly—or one-sixth of the number of American lives lost in the war—and presumably will steadily increase this rate of saving until the loss becomes negligible. Further, Mr. Palmer tells us that the safety movement has been the entering wedge whereby a better understanding is coming about be tween employer and employe it self a measure of economy. In con clusion, the writer suggests closer co-operation among all accident prevention agencies and between the States and the casualty companies. He urges us to "educate our chil dren to live through carefulness rather than die by carelessness," and finally reminds us that universal peace and universal safety go hand in hand. He says; "While it can not be claimed that accident prevention has always been recognized as essential to good busi ness, it can not be denied that to day it is a generally accepted fact that safety pays. "A striking example of the effec tiveness of a well-organized and ac tive safety department is illustrated in a chart recently published by the United States Steel Corporation. From it we learn that in the past twelve years there have been saved from death .and serious injury with in the plants of this organization, approximately, 23,000 workmen. "Surely, when you take account of the productive value of these workers thus saved to their tasks in the 'trenches of labor,' bearing in mind what that increased product has actually meant to our Allied armies, fighting our fight for univer sal safety in the trenches 'over there,' all must agree that the money and effort expended in developing that safety organization had its re turn, and that many fold. "This highly specialized and im portant branch of plant manage ment has not been the growth of a day; it has been a gradual evolu tion, with many elements involved, including the patient development of methods of education in order to combat that arch-enemy of safety— carelessness—by opposing it with a united front, the man co-operat ing with the management. "Important as have been the in stallation of mechanical safeguards —many of which are monuments to some fallen pioneer—and the re modeling of plant arrangement and plant equipment, the human factor —the personal equation—still holds a bridge-head in the bloody arena of accident causation. "How to reach the man' is a liard-fought problem of long stand ing, against which we have repeat edly directed our major offensives, on which we have trained our big guns, and, I fear, wasted not a few highbrow speeches. "Mass-meetings, or safety rallies, to be of permanent value, should be re-enforced with the rapid and con tinuous fire of education that comes from well-directed foremen's meet ings, interspersed with the hand-to hand personal contact of the work men's committees. This should, in a large measure, insure that develop ment of plant morale necessary, to put safety 'over the top.' "In a recent bulletin published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics on 'The Safety Movement in the Iron and Steel Industry' ap pears an interesting chart showing the variation in accident frequency as compared with the coincident variation of employment. "It will be noted that, following the period of minimum employment (at which time there was a parallel depression in the accident curve), with the introduction of new men came an increased accident fre quency. This was to be expected, as it is in accordance with past ex perience. "However, ' the accident fre quency was soon checked and the curve eventually brought down, even at a time of maximum employment, to a point as low as the best record at any period of minimum employ ment "To those who have had experi ence In dealing with the new-man problem as related to accident fre- qucncy, this will appeal as a really remarkable achievement, and to my mind proves without a doubt that safety organization, even in the face of unprecedented stress of war work, has 'made good.' "It might be added that, when these figures have been brought up to date for the year 1918, they will indicate that there has been a fur ther reduction as compared with the already good showing for 1917." Many agencies have been active, Mr. Palmer reminds us, in the de velopment of the safety movement. In the Pittsburgh district, where "mules were once held of more value than mortals," a group of en gineers, in co-operation with insur ance officials, sowed the seed of the National Safety Council, to-day one of the foremost accident-prevention organizations. Allied with this is the American Museum of safety, a pioneer in promoting the 'safety spirit' throughout the industries by holding exhibitions of safety and sanitation, distributing publications, and making investigations that have exerted marked educational Influ ence. To quote again; "Focusing the industrial thought and purpose upon this special branch of plant management soon revealed the fact that, as we had been sadly negligent in conserving our minerals, forests, and other natural sources, so had we been woefully wasteful of the lives and limbs of our industrial workers; and we were awakened to the realization that this annual toil of life and limb was not the sad necessity we had believed it to be, but that, by the proper application of organized ef fort —purpose plus money—amaz ing reductions in accident frequency could be effected. "From such records as were available ten years ago, we were shown that in the neighborhood of 35,000 fatal industrial accidents oc curred each year, carrying with them approximately 2,000,000 disabling accidents for a like period. "In the light of the new day, with its avowed purpose to eliminate waste, the safety movement has played its part, and to-day it is es timated that the annual rate of fa tal industrial accidents has been re duced to approximately 2 2,000, with a corresponding reduction in the dis abling accidents." Show Window Philanthropy [Front the New York Sun] It was in one of the lunch rooms where one gathers up one's viands at a counter and eats off the en larged arm of a chair. The Woman Who Sees lunching there with a frien" whose time was limited, found herself more interested in the old man who sat nearby than in her food or her friend's conversation. He was very shabby but very neat, and the Woman, watching the zest with which he ate every crumb of his sandwich, and the satisfaction with which he drank his tea, wondered when he had eaten last —and when he would eat again. "The man who runs this chain of restaurants is quite a philanthropist; I saw an article in one of the news papers about him," commented the Woman's friend. "He does no end of good." And she went on to give details. Cut the Woman wasn't lis tening. She was watching the old man, who had gone over to the food counter. "This tea's so strong—could I have some hot water in it, please?" he asked the white aproned clerk. "Say, what ye giving us?" and the clerk snatched off the lid of the teapot. "Drank nearly all the tea and now you want the pot filled up with hot water! Grand scheme! Tryin' to get a pot o' tea for nothln'! Say, we ain't giving food away here —not to-day!" The old man's wrinkled face flushed painfully, but without a word he drew his torn cap from his pocket and turned toward the door. And the Woman couldn't help won dering just where philanthropy be gins. Thoughts on the Fifth The fifth Loan comes in season, A patriotic time; It has a lot of reason / But hasn't any rhyme. —New York Sun. Burlesoned Mary had a little mail, A letter white as snow, And everywhere she posted it The blamed thing wouldn't go. —New York Sun. EDITORIAL COMMENT Chicago packers tell us tlie re moval of profit restrictions will re sult in no change in the prices of meat. That is the way it is now: No change.—Detroit News. Germany simply would dance, but she is startled at the size of the fiddler's bill, which she thought was going to be paid by the guests she forced to attend.—Dearborn Inde pendent. If the good ship George Washing ton ever gets a chance to make a farewell address, it may have some thing to say about foreign entangle ments.—New York Sun. Jobs For Ex-Soldiers [From Philadelphia Public Ledger.] The question raised by the release of the soldier from military service to civilian occupation are not new. They have been raised at the end of every war in which the United States has been engaged. Finding a job for the demobilized, keeping the wounded from becom ing "hospitalized," helping the man newly from the front, back to a self respecting status of industrial inde pendence, these big and burning issues that confront us in the pres ent hour engaged the attention of the public-spirited folk who at the close of the Civil War were doing for the returning warriors just what we are trying to do to-day. The words that follow were written at Washington May 6, 1865. They might have been written yesterday. "Now that the excitement of ac tual war is over, people are turning their attention to the question of how best to provide permanently for those soldiers who have \>een disabled in the service. "There is a feeling in the com munity that too much cannot, by any possibility, be done for the men who have become disabled in the war: that do all we may for their comfort, we shall never half repay them for the sacrifices they have made or half hnlance our debt of personal gratitude. "All this is true, provided what we do for them is done in the right way. "But on the other hand, if we make these soldiers the recipients of an indiscriminate charity; if we seize upon them as the objects upon which we may work off this nervous philanthropic excitability and count the benefit rendered by the number we get into asylums, where they can live without care or labor on their part, then we shall do more harm than good. "To keep ten men who naturally, almost necessarily, drift that way out of an asylum of ease and com fort, by teaching them how to use for self-support what muscle they have left, is a far better work than to provide, year by year, food and shelter and liberal care for ten other men equally disabled. "Yet this is Just the point which the community in its generous earn estness is in danger of overlooking. "We want to lose sight entirely of the questions of whether marble towers look better than pine bar racks. while we keep our eye on the larger thought of how we can best and soonest restore these disabled men, so far as Is possible, to their homes and into working commun ities." A SILVER THREAD [By L. H.] Across a tapestry that Fate wove ill Years ago, A Bh tm nB sllver threa< l 'a running To and fro, As up and down the picture's April hill Shadows go. And in my heart it makes for me a road, Night and day, That leads me to a half-seen far abode Green and gay. Past starry hedges laughing at my load All the way. I know not if the road will last the years Falling fast. Or If the pitfalls and the raining tears Win at last; There may be some new sunshine for my fears God will cast. But up and down the wall the sil ver shows Stubbornly: Now bright and strong—now dead— now, living flows Wide and free Toward nightfall for my homing aoul that goes Out to sea. I Hbmttg dljat Governor William C. Sproul will soon have the task of acting as art director thrust upon him. One of the problems which has come up in the completion of the Capitol, is the program for mural decorations, some of them originally contem plated never having been finished, the project of changing the east front of tho building and of build ing additional office buildings may have tho effect of requiring an al teration of the plans for the mural decorations of the supreme court chamber which have been given to Miss Violet Oakley to complete. The other problem is regarding the char acter of the paintings to go in the lunettes of the north corridor. The plan when the building was deco rated was to have this corridor il lustrate the industries which have made Pennsylvania great. The south corridor represents the relig ious influences which came into the life of the Keystone State. These paintings were by W. B. Van Inghen. Itecently the State authorities de cided to consider the north corri dor and some artists have sub mitted sketches. Most of them fol low tho industrial idea, but there have been several others submitted, which vary a great deal. One oven contemplated commemoration of the Panama canal. It is possible that tho industrial theme may be adopt ed. but no details regarding the ar tist or his commission have yet been presented (o tlie Governor for his consideration. Some bulky packages sent to State Draft Headquarters underwent the "acid test" which has been ordered for all mail and express parcels coming into Harrisburg and con signed to State officials or depart ments since the discovery of some bombs in New York addressed to officials hero and elsewhere. The Draft headquarters uses the old post office building across the street from the Federal building and when several big bundles, rather indiffer ently wrapped and bearing addresses that did not look well to the two men in charge of the establishment's storage room they telephoned in haste for Major W. G. Murdock, the chief draft officer, that suspicious bundles had arrived. The Major responded with some of his staff and after a careful examination found the missing chronicles of the draft from live local draft boards of Penn sylvania. • • • William 11. German, the new Boy Scout commissioner for this district, is making a great record although he has been in office less than a month. He has established a record for getting around among the troops and the boys have responded won derfully to his suggestions. He is stirring up such an interest among the scouts that the scout masters have difficulty in finding occupa tions sufficient to keep the lads busy. "Harrisburg Boy Scouts are as man ly a lot of lads as I ever saw," said Mr. German recently. "The more I see of them the more deeply I am impressed with their possibilities. A country with such a young man hood, ied into proper lines of thought and action, need have no fear for the future, either from within or with out." • • • Adjutant General Beary has ac cepted the invitation of J. William Bowman, president of Harrisburg council, to be the speaker at the Boy Scout Liberty Fire which is to mark the signing of the peace treaty. This fir© will be a gigantic affair and will be built in the center of tho big open plaza east of the Capitol where there will be no danger to buildings nearby, and will be a fitt ing climax to a demonstration of the strength and caliber of Scout ing in this community. The demon stration will take the form of a pa rade on the evening of the day on which peace terms are signed. This procession will be headed by a band, already engaged, tho Musicians' Union of the city having voted to turn out free on that occasion. Tho musicians feel that they should bo a part of this celebration and they know the Scouts have very 1 ittlo money with which to hire bands. "This parade will form at Third and State streets," said J. Fredrik Vir gin, scout executive, describing tho celebration, "and the fire will be lighted with great ceremony. Tho only instructions that will go out will be to assemble at the given place when tho whistles and bells an nounce the end of the war." "If you find a Boy Scout hanging around your backyard making notes of what he sees don't treat him harshly," said Health Officer Rau nick to-day. "He will bo simply carrying out the orders of Mayor Keister. You know the Scouts are going to help out wonderfully on our clean-up and fix-up week pro gram. They have been particular ly instructed to look after certain back yard nuisances that constitute perils to health and comfort espe cially in summer and the city health department and the city police de partment are going to co-operate to correct the conditions they find. Treat the Scouts well. They are going to do a real service and they may rid your neighborhood of a bad spot against which you have been raging in vain for years." [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ) —Col. D. J. Davis, adjutant of the Keystone Division, is city solici tor of Scranton. —Mayor Arch Johnston, of Beth lehem, was among the Governor's visitors. —Dr. George Woodward, sponsor of the Philadelphia charter bills, is one of the wealthy men in the Leg islature. -vCol. W. E. Astor, Philadelphia medical man, is home from France. —Governor Sproul is spending the weekend at his Chester home. DO YOU KNOW —Harrisburg was a center of brick making for seventy-five years? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Cut nails were made here in huge quantities during the seventies. No Possible Mistake "These profiteers," said Represen tative Esch, of Wisconsin, "accuse themselves with their excuses. They remind me of little Willie. "Little Willie came home the other day with a nice new golf ball. " 'Look at the lost ball I found this afternoon, father,' he said. " 'Are you sure, my boy,' the father asked, 'that it was a lost ball?' " 'Oh, yes, sir," said little Willie, 'I saw the owner and his caddie looking for It.' "—Los Angeles Times.
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