6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH L NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18SI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. It. OTSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board . P. McCULLOUGH, BO I'D M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r] Newspaper Pub flishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, F i t th Building. Western office". Story, Brooks & Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a CSSSBSSuShD week; by mail, J3.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919 Do that which im assigned you anil yon cannot hope too much or dare too m u ch. — E m crso n. I THEY'RE COMING HOME THEY are coming home—those boys of ours—as fast as the red tape of military life will free them from the service. Of course, it would have been a fine thing to have had the entire | Twenty-eighth Division parade as a unit in Philadelphia. The people had their hearts set on that be. eauso they wanted to pay special tribute to the men who went out with the old National Guard of Pennsylvania to represent this Com monwealth on the battlefields of Europe. They have brought honor untold to the standards of the Key stone State and it was but natural I that their friends and neighbors should have desired to let them know how the home-folks feel about it. But the war-weary veterans want to come home more than they want to parade, and so there will be no final review of the famous Twenty eighth. We can understand that. Vor more than two years their thoughts have been constantly go ing forward to that glad day when they should lay aside their rifles and uniforms and come back to the old home town. A thousand times they have dreamed of being back again with their families and friends: of renewing the old ties, of getting back to the old job. Oh, it has been a weary while for them since they marched so gallantly down Market street in answer to the call to arms, and they have had their fill of parading. What they want is to get home, and who can blame them? But if there is to be no divisional paradg, there will be a great dem onstration when the Harrisburg companies of the One Hundred and Twelfth arrive in Harrisburg on their way back from camp. Every man, woman and child in the city will want to help make the cele bration a rousing success. "The bands will play, the children shout, the ladies they will all turn out," as the old song has it, "and we'll give him a rousing welcome then, when Johnny comes marching home." Xo matter what the hour of ar rival, no matter what the day, we shall bo at the station, or as near to it as the police lines will per mit and we shall cheer ourselves hoarse and be really, truly carefree and happy for the first time since the men of the old National Guard companies marched away and left so many Harrisburg hearthstones defcolatc and so many hearts sad and pining. It's been a long time com ing, this day of the return, but it will be well worth the waiting. Judge Kunkel's opinion on the Burleson invasion of State control of its public utilities must have made its way to the White House in Paris. In any event, the 'coon came down. PROTECT THE CHILDREN THE meeting called for the Board of Trade hall this evening, un der the auspices of the Visiting Nurses and the Civic Club, at which Stanley G. Jean will be chairman and Health Commissioner Martin will preside, should be largely at tended. The Visiting Nurses' Association has done more for the health of the children of llarrisburg than most people realize, and its members have had the hearty support and co operation of the Civic Club. Now it is proposed to widen the work, to interest more parents in it and to make Harrisburg a model city frqm the standpoint of child welfare and health. The announcement that Dr. Dor othy Child, superintendent of the Children's Division of the State Health Department, and Miss Sallte Ducas Jean, of the Child Health Or ganization, will speak, make it cer tain that those who attend will hear something worth while. Bifth are ex- SATURDAY EVENING, perts with broad experience in this line of work and they will bring a message to Harrisburg that will be in full harmony with the energetic campaign the State Health Commis sioner is waging here for a cleaner, more healthful.capital city. The Political Master General's urgent recommendation to the Presi dent for a prompt return of the cables and telegraph and telephone j lines to their efficient owners, sug gests the chap who had no use for the hot end of the poker, or the affrighted hunter who yelled to his comrades, as he rushed for cover, that ho was bringing the bear to camp, llurlcson has at last heard from the people and mayhap the voices in the lair have reached him. For arbitrary | indifference to public sentiment he i has bad no equal. WHAT ABOUT IT? NEXT Tuesday the Victory Loan campaigners will gather to make their final reports. By that time we shall know whether or not Harrisburg has failed to meet ifs quota. By that time, also, Harrisburg isoldiers of the famous old Eighth j regiment will be home again, j What shall we tell them? j That we have remained loyal to | the trust? That we have placed our dollars back of their courage, or that we let them do it all while we remained at home and hung onto j our pocketbooks while Uncle Sam I cried in vain for aid? j Which shall it be? I It must be one or the other. | Either we can face these returning ' veterans with firm handshake and 'clear conscience, knowing that we j have done our part in full, or we jmust admit that while they fought we shirked. Buying bonds at 4 % per cent, that in less than a year will be above par is an easy way to be patriotic. There is something wrong with the man who has money and won't invest it with his government on these terms. But you don't need to have money to buy these bonds. The banks will sell them to you any way you see fit, and will carry the loan at four and three-fourths per cent, interest for a year, which lets you out whole. llow about it? Are you going to greet those hoys with a bond button on your coat and the knowledge in your heart that you have bought your limit, or are you going to make excuses that will make you the laughing stock of every man in uniform? WORTH A TRIAL PUBLTC SERVICE COMMIS SIONER AINEY gave an in teresting turn to the discussion of street railway troubles in his Si. Loui.s speech when ho urged tlie five-cent fare as the best solution of the revenue problem of the most popular public utility. Chairman Ainey, in his official position, has had opportunity to make an intelligent study of the whole matter and in h's conclusion as to a practical icm edy he will have the concurrence of many who believe an important public service is being menaced by existing conditions. If increasing fares fails to provide the necessary revenue, then Mr. Ainey's plan would seem to invite a trial in the interest of public favor and a laiger income. The returning Harrisburg soldiers will have something to say about the proposed bathing facilities in the Susquehanna Basin. They have not l forgotten the inadequate shower baths end the infrequent spigot over seas. ft will be a solid soldier vote on this question in the affirmative, but they will want to know in ample time what they are voting for and have a glimpse of the designs. THE DIFFERENCE WE venture the guess that if the Pennsylvania State Po lice had been in charge of the situation in Cleveland on May Day there would have been no blood shed and little disorder. At Yankeetown and Watertown, Indiana county, the State police broke up the red flag parades of foreign-born radicals before they got fairly under way and while there were few marchers in line. The ring leaders were afrested and. Of course, that stopped the demon stration, for the rank and file of the foreign population follows leader), ship or it does nothing. It would be a great thing If the federal gov ernment, playing on this fact, sent out foreign-speaking agents to in struct these foreigners in the prin ciples of American government and the meaning of our democracy. The trouble is that these people need education of the right sort and, In stead of getting it, they are having their heads filled with nonsense by the agitators who are the only teachers to address them. Conse quently, they go wrong. The State Police, knowing these facts full well, have been able to break up red-flag gatherings In Penn sylvania by getting rid of the ring leaders and letting the others know they have nothing to fear so long as they conduct themselves properly. If somo of Captain Lumb's men had been on tho Job in Cleveland] that parade would never have got- ten under way, and so tlio rioting, chances are, would have been avoid ed. This is the chief difference be tween the Pennsylvania State Po lice and less efficient officers else where. It's too bad that on the Fiume and other subjects of disagreement at the Paris Conference this country has been placed in the position of holding the bag. President Wilson's arbi trary methods have been responsible in large measure for much of the re sentment of former friends of the United States abroad, and to his cocksure attitude on grave points of difference as to the real sentiment of his countrymen has been directly due tlie unfortunate revulsion in popular feeling among our allies. Sentiment in this country is rapidly crystallis ing, and when the President permits Congress to meet the lawmakers will net need to investigate public opinion. | English girls are concerned over j the shortage of available husbands lover there, and Harrisburg girls are | wondering how many French war j brides are likely to reduce the j matrimonial supply when our own boys come back. It's a throbbing question. folCUcc- Ck IKKQUlcclkui By the Ex-Committee man —====================J The last of the inaugurations of officials chosen at the State election of 1918, will take place next Tues day, at the State Capitol, when James F. Woodward, of McKecsport, will be sworn in as Secretary of Internal Affairs. Mr. Woodward, who is a Republican, served in the House of Representatives for several i terms and was three times. Chairman jof the House Appropriations Com mittee. i Under the Constitution, the Sec retary of Internal Affairs takes of fice on the first Tuesday of May, fol lowing his election. Mr. Woodward has not yet announced any appoint ments or his plans for the new bu reaus, either created by acts recently approved or pending in the Legis lature, and designed to enlarge the scope of the branch of government of which he will bo the chief for four years. Mr. Woodward will succeed Paul W. Houek, of Shenandoah, appointed June 28, 1917, to fill the unexpired term of his father. Dr. llenry Ilouck, who died in office while serving his third term, lie will lie the ninth man to be secretary of the depart ment under the Constitution of 1873, which gave it the present title and the duties and authority of one of the oldest branches of the govern ment of Pennsylvania. Originally, the department was known as that of the Surveyor General, the first man commissioned to that place, being Silas Crispen, in 1681. The various titles under which the mcp. in charge of the lands and other interior matters of the Province and Commonwealth, have been Com missioner of Property, Survey Gen eral, Secretary of the Land Office, Keeper of the Great Seal, Master of Rolls, Register General of Wills, Re ceiver General, Comptroller General, ICscheator General and then Survey or General, as the official was known when the Constitution changed the title to Secretary of Internal Affairs. —Capitol Hill is getting ready for the windup of the Legislature and speculating on two very important points for the average man on the "Hill." One is, what will lie the ef fect of the administration bills pre sented to reorganize about a third of the apartments of the State Gov ernment, and the other is how many people will be here next year. The State authorities have let it be known that there will be no changes in the departments until after the Legis lature has gone and its work has been digested. The opinion prevails that there will bo many changes then. More applications have been filed for places in the departments than exist, and it will be some task to figure them out. —The Departments of Agriculture, Insurance, Banking, Public Grounds and IJuildings and several others are covered by bills for reorganizations, and there is scarcely a branch of any consequence that is not affected by pending although some of them will be unscathed when the bills cease grinding. —The Department of Dabor and Industry is now in a building by it self, having three floors of the Key stone building. The Departments of instruction and Mines are getting ready to move. —The fourth or fifth bill for the* increasing of salaries of teachers of the schools of Pennsylvania is scheduled to make its appearance in the. Legislature in the next ten days and will likely be made a substitute for measures now before the two Houses. The Woodruff bill, which passed the House a few days ago, after being much amended, is likely to either be dropped or have some of the features of the Catlin Dill ap plied to it, while a considerable seg ment of lawmakers will endeavor to have the new bills adopted on tho ground that it makes definite pro visions and is more workable than others. The new bill is not an ad ministration measure, but it is said to have been tacitly approved in some places. —The plan of the bill would be to give an increase of twenty per cent to the teachers and various per sons in school service, including in struction, special subjects and ad ministration. Where districts can afford it, the State would guarantee an advance of at least SIOO a year, per teacher. The increase would be divided between the State and tho [district, and $0,000,000 is to ho ex pressly appropriated for tho State's share for two years. This would do away with a scale of pay mentioned in the various bills and put it on a definite basis for all. There is also talk of a provision that if the $6,000,000 will not reach, the general school appropriation can be drawn upon. —One of the provisions would be a requirement for a detailed state ment of sularies to be filed by August 1, annually with the Department of Public Instruction, which would dis burse the funds. lowa Farm Tenant Problem About fifty-one per cent, of the farm land in lowa is now operated by tenants, according to the annual report of the Agricultural Experi ment Station, Ames, la. Increased price of farm land is given as the cause. Most of the tenants desire to become owners. State and national aid is being sought by the station to aid returning soldiers to gain a foothold -on the land. lIARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH! SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE Byßriggs - N THIS HOLE AJ / j MAO p IT] MOD look WHI;RE| mashie APPROACH (/ | HOLCD \ FOUR- WHAT / / J***- I AIM!! PRSTTy / JACK 7 I>A OWLV 1/ ouT ONJ I D'VA **<>* 7-A TR EH? TVMO FCET FROM J/ APPROACH I "BouT THAT , y V *— / I THE COP I HERE ONE/ \ \ / I A/V OSUALLYV / 1 pay / rr ~ \ r^\_ •RAD FM M e / I KAV/S AN \ otvJLy seeio / PLAreD owe 4^V \ i-? it jifK 7 / V et&HTY Tujo/ ) PlaYiiog Less /1 year i was n. 1u IT JACK ./ \ 7 \ TAK A TEAK / playing UMOEA Z' " -X. ttl -, —C 1 <■ ,r The Housing of Our People j [From the New York Sun.] j The war has brought to the! United States a problem of home i building which offers to constructive i statesmanship such an opportunity! as few generations of men in pub- j lie life and responsible private sta- I lion have ever known. If the Xa-j tional, State and murficipal govern-1 tnonts, co-operating with capital and j the multitude of home seekers, im-1 prove this opportunity wisely ines-i timablc benefits will be conferred on ! the country for all time ,to come.! if through shortsightedness or stup-| id selfishness it is ignored or neg-j leeted the consequences to our instl- I tutions and our people may easily be i grave even to the edge of disaster.; In the words of Secretary Wilson, of the Department of I.abor, "own- j ing a home gives a man an added! sense of responsibility to the nation-| al and local government that makes for the best type of citizenship." The desire to own a home, to possess a piece of land, is one of the common- i est of human ambitions. The oppor-I tunity now before us is to make | possible the gratification of this uni- j versal longing for practically every | industrious family, to the immediate I profit of the country as a whole and I to its people as individuals. A X'a-| tion of home owners will be a Nation | of straight thinking, progressive! men and "women, undisturbed by j the apostles of wild radicalism and j intelligently devoted to the improve ment of social and political condi-1 tions. In 1 lie past, the housing problem lias been treated piecemeal. Indus trial corporations, railroad com panies and employers in otlier fields! sought to make their employes eon tented by building homes for them to rent or buy. A city or a. village tackled the problem to rid itself of ■ L plague spot. Individuals united in building and loan societies, usually restricted to local activities. Real estate promoters, some of them dis- I honest, have developed certain sec-1 tions, often in large operations. But these activities have been the result I of private enterprise, occasionally! philanthropic in its origin, and in no case based on a Nation-wide concep- | lion of the needs and possibilities of| home ownership throughout the | whole country. To-day the call for homes is far] greater than ever, the chance to fitj the house to the man is presented in a form never known before, and public sentiment is prepared for co operation on a scale such as never has been attempted. The reason for this is that homes are now required in every section of the country. The population in Pasa dena, California, wants 500; the people of Pittstield, Mass, want 150; the residents of Chicago call for 12.000;' the city of Dallas, Taxas, needs 400. In every section of the. United States, urban and rural, the cry is for dwelling houses. To build these dwelling houses money is needed, and the men who control money can do no more patri otic or profitable thing than to sup ply it to home builders. By furnish ing the money, they would provide I the means to employ labor, and em- | ployed labor would seek to invest its surplus earnings in more dwelling houses. The menace of non-employ ment would quickly disappear, the capital would return a good profit, the owners of those dwelling houses would contribute by their contented industry to tho further and continu ing material, political and social prosperity of the Nation. The great machine by which the capital for this tremendous enter prise should be distributed can be erected by the capitalists of tho United States in accordance with the sound" principles of business. What is required is a corporation, or num ber of corporations, financed from the great money centers, and oper ating in accordance with a general policy modified to meet the needs and practices of various sections. It is likely that the laws of most States as they stand now would protect borrowers and lenders equally; if in any State this was not the case, the necessary legislation could he enact ed. The terms of loans should he as liberal as sound business practice would permit; the e'emcnt of char ity should not enter the transactions of the corporation, but Its directors should he animated in their conduct by the highest ideals and prudence. It is not necessarv to point out the beneficial effect which would he pro duced on business by the adoption of n broad gauge, enlightened pollev of liberal assistance to home builders. Contractors would promptly get to work. A hea'tbv .l-miand for buPd 'ng materials would correct the ab normal conditions that now exist. Capital and labor would profit mu tually from every cottage erected,. Real " Melting " Here Will Be Found in Universal Training For Nation's Service, Wood Says MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD, in the May issue of the Metropolitan Magazine, says in an article on "Universal Trai ning for National Service" that at present this is "of vital importance" to the United States, and that adop tion of the principle will mean "a slronger national spirit and a better understanding between the groups and classes of our people, between labor and capital, Jew and Gentile, immigrant and native born, Catholic and Protestant." Universal training, he thinks, "will do more than any thing that has ever been attempted to iron out those shallow differences which so often come from lack of understanding, appreciation and sympathy between the different groups and classes of our population —differences little in the beginning, but often loading to misunderstand ing and friction and finally to open hostility." "Bring our people together should er to shoulder. I.abor and Capital, the newcomer and the native born, Fast and West. North and South, and let them know each other." is General Wood's advice. "Let them become acquainted one with another while they are preparing for service with a purpose single to the nation's welfare. Once men are thrown to getlier under these conditions you will find that these little differences will disappear like snow before the south wind. There are no influences which are stronger than contact un der favorable conditions, than men and the United States and all its people would reap enduring gains from the national encouragement of home building. THIS is THE DAY! [From Kansas City Star, April 30] Oh-o-o Skinnay! Hurry up! The day is here. The train will soon be in. Run like everything! i The boys are coming home. It's [the day we've all been waiting for. The First division of Kansas City soldiers to arrive from the front— actually from t lie front—the One Hundred and Tenth Engineers and the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Field Artillery—are due to arrive this morning. We can hardly be lieve it, it is such bully good news. There'll be nothing much done to day but welcome. I.et business go hang. The boys are coming home. The breakfast, dishes will not bo washed this morning, you can bet on that. Maybe the tables will not be "cleared." The cat will be put out, the canaries will be fed early; the | house will be locked up. It will be i an off day for agents and bill col- I lectors. There will be a note left on the rear door for the laundry I driver to leave the bundle on the back steps, for the neighbor on the south and the neighbor on the north, also will be away from home to day. Kansas City is going down to the x i ♦> * 4> I Gaining in Favor | ♦ ' 1 #> * x •> 1 1 •> ❖ 4 *£ During the first three months of last year, £ ❖ the Harrisburg Telegraph led Its near- ❖ * est competitor In local advertising by.. 138,000 lines ♦ ❖ <S #> ❖ During the first three months of this year, ❖ Its leadership in local advertising soared !£ * to 225,000 lines * ❖ ... 4 ' <5 ♦ ♦ A One by one merchants are realising the completeness & Y with which the Telegraph blankets the field with its * *> ♦> * City Suburban and Total '£ % Circulation Country Circulation Circulation Y V > * Over 12,000 Over 17.000 Over 20,000 $ * 4 I T | becoming acquainted—knowing each j other, talking things over. "If there is anything good in them' —and there is much more of good | than of bad in all classes of ourj population—it will come out. Men! as they work on in fair weather and i storm, on the march and in the watches of the night, discussing many of life's problems, come grad ually to know and understand each other as men going to a common destination, and on the whole and at heart, actuated very largely by the same purposes and ambitions, the same hopes and fears. Standing in the ranks, stripped of all artificial dis tinctions, indeed, of all distinctions other than those which are given by character, courage, physique, and education, they learn to judge each other by truer standards and to meas ure each other not by wealth or an-! eestry, but hv character and by the | manner in which each does the day's] work and by the way in which each! lives up to the American standards and ideals, flv this I mean those high . standards which we who love Ameri ca establish as indicative of the best Americanism." In conclusion General Wood says that in universal training he be lieves "will be found a flame hot! enough to make America what she is not arid never has been, to the ex ten we would have her—a real melting pot. in which all the divers elemento which come into our pop ulation will be fused into one homo geneous mass of Americanism." depot this morning, bright and early. Never mind about dressing up. To night we expect to look "all mussed" anyway. For we are going to shout and yell—and cry. The boys are coming in—and j among them, the boy. We are going to lay eyes upon ] him, and hands. We have hoped for | this hour, and we've prayed for thisj hour, and we've paid for this hour. I We have given -our hearts to the cause, along with the boy, and we've I contributed to the Red Cross and we've bought Diberty bonds —all be cause our hearts were centered in the day of his return from the bat tlefield, victorious, well accounted for, brave, courageous, manly. It is not a day for oratory; not a day for eulogy; not a day for words. We are going to show them what we think of them. So, come along. Rot's be going down town. We rather expect the train to be a little late—trains usu- ( ally ore late, but we wouldn't have j one of those trains come in before we get there for anything. We want to shout for the first one to arrive, and we want to shout for the last one to arrive. We will not even read this wel come word in the paper. We will put it aside and read to-night, to morrow, or some day next week. What's the use of reading about the soldier boys coming home, when we're.going down to see them. Oh, joy. They're coming In to day! MAY 3, 1919. EDITORIAL COMMENT K u genes Sue's "Mysteries of Paris" cannot compare in contem poraneous human interest with the daily correspondence from that city nowadays.—New York Sun. There are moments when we won der if, perhaps, the money that the war cost could not have been spent to better advantage in some other way.—New York Call. The Botsheviki are weakening at home and growing stronger away from home. The liome-folk know the llolsheviki best.—Charleston News and Courier. Easy to Wiee Out Paris LAA'ill Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post.] In a new war between France and Germany the sudden destruction of Paris at the beginning of hostili ties would just about win the war for Germany, The entire confus ion of the greatest national rail way center; the destruction of the seat of government, linn nee and com merce; the general panic—would so delay and confuse mobilization that the French Army would be easy prey. Mobilizing aircraft fleets and tor pedoes behind the Ithine would be no very ditticult task as compared with that of mobilizing an army. From there the fleets could be above Paris, at present speeds, within two or three hours. An advanced squad ron of skirmishers would drop upon the roofs of Paris a multitude of small, nonextinguishable phosphor ous bombs to set the roofs on tire and give the main fleets sight of their target. In fact, the Germans, when the armistice came, were planning to use this method in their next raids on Paris. It is not at all un likely that, by the time lor the next war, aircraft attack will be so per fected that a week of such raiding would finished off a city like Paris —or New York. Of course, the old, hampering, chivalrous rule that a city about to be bombarded must be notified in order that noncombalants may be removed, went by the hoard long ago. Such notice would ruin the e'ement of surprise, which is half the battle in such an attack. He -1 sides, in modern warfare, there are practically no noncombutants. In a new general European war the destruction of nearly all the great European cities, with the wealth and beauty which they have been accumulating for two thousand years, stands well within the limits of possibility. In case of an armed peace, such as Europe had for forty years before this war, men might have to rebuild their cities with the va'uable, the "living" part, under ground. Only recently an authority on bacteriology expounded to nie the horrible possibility of ravaging a whole nopulation. military and civil ian alike, with swiftly killing incur able diseases, while guarding your own army and your own population. I believe that with a little patient research it could he done. Anil given the perpetuation of war as an insti tution some race of Bernhardis is certain to arise which will justify this method—and use it. Top o' the Morning! Smell of the woods in the morning; The sun shines sold through the trees, And the heavens are filled with mu sic From the lips of the wide-eved breeze. And who's for a plunge in the water A swim in the laughing lake? Bo quick! There is breakfast to follow And there still is the fire to make. I'm in! What a splash! Are you ready? Who, who would lie lazy asleep When all of the wide world is call ing With the lure of the lake blue and deep? So come, that's the stuff, all to gether, Swim, swim with a stroke true and straight To the boat and the first back, the winner— Great ginger! But swimming is great! The first back, the first one to break fast! Then the trail once again and the fun— The day lies alluring before ua, And the morning is only begun! —lidmund Beamy in Boys' JUfe for Ma i Stoning (Eljat A ? 2 bill received in what is probably the oddest manner known at the State Treasury in years has just been added to the "conscience fund" by State Treasurer Harmon v M. Kephart. it is nothing unusual to receive sums ranging from $1 to SSO from people who feel that they have not been fair in paying taxes or have "held out" on reports of things taxable and the like and generally they are anonymous. The $2 receipt was unique. It came in a letter postmarked South Fork and was in disguised handwriting, addressed to the State Game Commissioner. The Commissioner sent it to the Treas urer. In the letter, the writer stated that seven years ago he had received $2 as the bounty on a weasel. "Now," he wrote, "I did not kill that weasel, but I knew I was not entitled to it. I won't give my name because I may get sued. But I'm sending you the $2. The bronze statue of the late Ad jutant General Thomas J. Stewart, presented to the State by the officers and men of the National Guard and the Keystone Division by subscrip tions made at Camp Hancock, has been covered with the national flag in its niche in the rotunda of the State Capitol until the day when it is formally unveiled. Adjutant Gen eral Frank D. Beary will take up the arrangement of the ceremony of unveiling as soon as the officers of the division are demobilized and it may take place while the legislature is in session. Some very loCty calculating is be ing done in Harrisburg stores where the soda fountain ministers to the palates of the people because of the new war tax. Several establishments have cash registers with separate contrivances for the war tax, appli ances which cost much money and for which the merchants get no credit from T'nrle Sam and not even kind words from the customers. In other stores the attending sprite of the fountain docs the figuring in his head and in others checks are made out and the tax itemized. Mistakes are bound to happen, but the war has to ho paid for and if you get too hot you can always buy another glass of soda. It's odd how men from a small town somewhere, men when their lines of activity in after years are far apart. It so happened that the head of the committee in charge of railroad matters at the convention of the National Chamber of Com merce meeting was George A. Post, the noted New York authority on transportation. The chief speaker on street railways at the same great gathering was Chairman AV. D. it. Ainey, of the Public? Service Com mission of Pennsylvania. These two men met after one of the sessions and the warmth of their greeting im pressed some one who asked why. "Well, they were both born in country towns in Susquehanna county when railroads were not well developed," said a man who knew both. "They both went to Mon trose and hung out their shingles as lawyers and Post edited a news paper. Post went to Congress and so did Ainey from the same north ern tier district." "And while you're about It," put in another man, "that citizen talk ing to them is another authority on government and transportation, tic's United States Senator A. V. Cum mins, of lowa, born in Greene coun ty when it didn't have even a nar row gauge railroad. Pennsylvania is some state." Capitol park extension has been turned into baseball diamonds un til such time as the builders and landscapers want to commence business. Three diamonds have been laid out on the lots where churches and saloons and houses used to stand, the fact that no one was asked for permission to play ball not being noticed. Every afternoon there are games and since daylight saving came along the players arc numer ous and "flies" from one diamond much used by' boys occasionally bounce against the granite sides of the Capitol. Pavements on some of the smaller streets in the extension have been ripped up and some of the poles and wires have been taken down which adds to availability of the State property for outdoor games. The State is using the extension for a big coal pile and storage space while three buildings are standing to house departments for which no other quarters have been provided. This lack of office room has resulted in holding up some of the plans and meanwhile the filling in of the two proposed highways is going on, tons of cinder being sumped in great ridges across the twenty-nine acres. One of the odd sights in the new State domain is furnished by fruit trees which used to stand in back yards and which are now in bloom. WELL KNOWPEOPLE j —Congressman B. F. Focht has five engagements to speak in his district this month. —N. M. Edwards presided at tho Williamsport Victory Loan meeting. He is city solicitor and well known here. —W. D. Mahon, head of the trol leymen's union, is in Pittsburgh in connection with the controversy over the increase in wages. —A. Leo Weil, the Pittsburgh lawyer figuring in the West Virginia gas suit, started his career as a lawyer in Bradford. —Colonel F. A. Snyder, who is coming home as head of the Key stone Division engineers, spent years in Canada and Northern States. He lives now in Philadelphia. —George W. King, a Pittsburgh Fire Department captain and in ser vice since 18G6, has retired. DO YOU KNOW —Hnrrlsburg was one of the first cities in the State to motorize its lire apparatus? HISTORIC 11ARRISBURG —The first fire company was formed In this city soon after the town was laid out in 1785. Its equipment was buckets. He Knew To Mudville-on-the-Soup war news comes slowly. All the talk is still of the great German retreat. The news of ther armistice will not arrive till the week after next. Hence the following: "How do you reckon them soldiers kept tho dugouts from cavin' in?" asked the oldest inhabitant. "Why," said the landlord of tlin Pink pig. "I certainly ani surprised at your Ignorance o' military affairs! They cemented 'em with this here' trench mortar." —From Answers,, London.
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