10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Saare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QVS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, • GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rj Newspaper Pub tV SherB th A '5 l oc^ fiSft Bureau of Circu iffW lation and Fenn sylvania fli M Eastern office. 88 Ktory. Brooks Si SMJm Building. -3§!ll Fi°i y ' Brool< '' 4 1 Chicago, B l u l UdinBr ' Entered at the Peat Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a n year in advance. TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. Gal. 5:15. MAKE THE ESTIMATES NOW that there is every indica tion that the Philadelphia charter bills will pass the Leg islature with a minimum of trouble, considering such highly combustible legislative material, it is to be hoped that no time will be lost in ascer taining the amount of money that can be appropriated and appropriat ing it as the law directs. Valuable time has gone beyond recall this session, it must be admit ted, and once more it seems likely that the end of the appropria tion period will be here before the money bills are approved. But that can be gotten around if the esti mates are promptly made and the appropriation program outlined. The State will have a large sum available, but the demands for cash are out of all reason and there must be some pruning. This can be handled by the Legislature and the Governor not only relieved from the job of cutting, but the State government and persons having business with it can know in advance what they are going to get and make arrangements accordingly. A HOPELESS TASK THE Democrats of Dauphin county have invited Congress man-elect Wilson here to tell them how he beat the Republican candidate in his county, with the purpose of getting some ideas from him whereby they might repeat the Wilson performance in this county. It's a grand thought, but it won't work. Not only is the Democratic machine all shot to pieces here, but the Republican organization never was in better shape for a battle. Next Fall's election will be the usual walkover for the Republicans. But those who go to hear Mr. Wilson will, no doubt, be entertained by a gifted speaker and will get a good dinner, and the function, doubtless, will be altogether worth the price of admission. STATE COLLEGE IN WAR THE important and honorable part which was played by State College in the great war will not be appreciated by thousands of Pennsylvanians until the record of the institution shall have been made up and given the intelligent public ity which it merits. From Presi dent Sparks to the most humble student the great college met every expectation and performed a serv ice which cannot be realized by the average person save as it is com pared with other institutions. On Memorial Day, this year, there will be a special service at the col lege in honor of the students and the alumni who gave up their lives in the great war. This service has been authorized by the general fac ulty and a special committee is in charge of the arrangements for the event. There were sixty-two deaths in the war among the students and alumni of State College. Over two thousand members of the faculty, alumni and student body entered the military and naval service dur ing the war, seventy-one members of the faculty being included in this number. Six or seven of the Senior class died in the military service during ■the war and these were registered or entitled to register for the bachelor degree with the class of 1919. Re cently the faculty decided that these should be listed as graduates, both in the commencement program and the alumni registers and that the usual diploma should be prepared for each of these men and eent to their parents. As a further recognition of the college in the war, it has been de cided that all of the 2,000 or more members of the faculty, alumni and the students who entered the mill- TUESDAY EVENING, HAXIIUSBUHO Wißl TELEGRXPS MAY 6, 1919. tary or naval service should be granted an honorary certificate over the signature of the President bear ing testimony to the enduring grati tude with which the college cher ishes the patriotic devotion of the teachers and students. Military instruction is required at State College by act of Congress and has been given since 1867. As one of the result sof this training thirty five per cent, of the students gained commissions, while in the organiza tion of the army the ratio is less than three per cent. There was a fine patriotism in all the activities of the institution during the war and President Sparks himself not only led in all these activities, but suffered serious impairment of health through his zeal in aiding the Government at Washington in important war work. There are registered at the col lege this year 3,195 students (2,- 294 men and 901 women) and there are in the correspondent course 6,- 500 students. Pennsylvania is bound to feel the great benefit of -the training of its girls and boys at State College, and the practical results are con stantly being manifested in a higher appreciation of scientific agricul ture, the vital interests of forestry and the development of our mineral resources. BUSINESS PICKING UP BUSINESS in the United States shows distinct signs of improve ment. Summer is ordinarily the dullest season of the year. But trade along nearly all lines is better now than it was a month ago and the outlook is extremely encourag ing. Particularly noticeable is the absence in the news of pessimistic forecasts and the gradual easing up of the unemployment problem, which is remarkable considering the number of men who are being re turned to private life from the army every day. Strikes are scattered and of little importance. May Day brought much less trouble than was anticipated. Unrest appears to be gradually quieting down and this in all likelihood will become more pro nounced as business picks up and idle men go back into employment at good wages. Even building has taken a spurt, despite high costs and the uncertain ty of the material market, and Har risburg is sharing in this increased prosperity. One of the best indications for the coming months is the record-break ing wheat harvest which nothing can now affect short of a disaster the like of which the country has never known. It is early for Middle West and Western farmers to be worry ing over their harvest forces, but a great cry has gone up for men to help get in the wheat and this is a good sign, for it gives ample time for the gathering of such laboring units ds will be necessary for the big job. The farmer faces a stabil ized wheat market, thanks to the Government war subsidy, and will have plenty of money to spend next winter. A big wheat yield at good prices means also that the railroads will be busy for months handling the grain and that business in gen eral will share in the basic prosperi ty of the men whose wealth comes direct from the soil. The steel industry unquestionably will feel the stimulus of other lines shortly, although at the present mo ment it is the most unfavorable fac tor in a market that is rapidly re covering from the sudden plunge from war to peace. There are many snarls and tangles in the steel busi ness that must be straightened out before there can be a return to any thing like normal, but every im provement in the general situation will reflect favorably on steel. It is a unique situation to have steel wavering with other branches of in dustry showing very distinct signs of substantial prosperity. Usually steel is the national trade barometer; just now it is not playing that role. But there is little indication of price reductions anywhere or a low ering of the present high cost of living. Responding to foreign de mands, raw cotton has shot up five cents a pound and the fact that America will have to continue for another year at least to feed Europe, gives small encouragement to those who have been hoping for cheaper foodstuffs. However, wages keep right up to war-time levels in most industries, and with a restoration of full working time there will be less cause for complaint if prices do con tinue high. All told, the outlook is good and the country may congratulate itself upon having weathered the worst of the transitional period with so little suffering. BOMB OUTRAGES | T OYAL citizens everywhere will 1 j hope that the dastards who placed the bombs in the mails at New York recently will be caught and punished to the extent of the law. So far the only victims have been a poor negro maid who lost both hands opening one of the infernal machines, and the wife of a United States Senator who was injured while standing nearby. The United States Department of Justice has been entirely too lax in its treatment of foreign radicals. Repeatedly, It is said, its agents have declined to investigate condi tions that have been reported to them. On more than one occasion men could have been caught red handed had the government con sented to act. There has been en tirely too much leniency, perhaps for political reasons, in the depart ment's attitude toward these das tards and the public has reached a stage where it is demanding that stringent measures be taken to break up the outrages. T > IK "P<-KKOijt<ya>ua Bjr the Ex-Commltteeman Ex-Congressman Bruce F. Sterling, of Uniontown, who is to be one of the pathfinders for the boom for Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for the Democratic nomination for President until it is advisable to switch to some one else, will start out within a short time to line up the Democrats for the Monroe coun tian. The partisans of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of Philadelphia, will start out scouts to scout on Palmer's scout so that when the issue joins next May there will be a repetition of Democratic history. Mr. Sterling, who is regarded as one of the ablest of Democrats aligned with the Attorney General, will have Parke H. Davis, of Easton, as his coadjutor, and the two are expected to be able to report at an early day that things are in good shape for the boom. The Bonniwell people are just as sanguine that these two scouts will find things in a tangle and that they will be able to prevent the election of Sterling or anyone else that Palmer and his pals may put up for Democratic national committeeman. They also hope to be able to have a number of national delegates elected on an anti-Palmer basis so that the Attor ney General will not have a solid delegation from his native State. —Friends of Governor William C. Sproul were declaring to-day that they had not started the boom for the Governor for the Republican nomination for President and recall ing that it was not so long ago that the Governor was insisting that ho was too busy with his job to listen to the buzzing of any Presidential bee. They declare that the launch of a boom for the Governor was a volunteer movement. Republican State leaders have been insisting right along on the delegation being uninstructed and when the boom was sprung by persons known to bo friendly with the Governor and his entourage and often speaking for them, there was considerable sur prise on the Hill. —Politics and lawmaking is to be passed up to-morrow on Capitol Hill. People may demand hearings on bills and the roll call may be sounded, but there will be nothing doing. The greatest biennial base ball game known in years on the Hill is to be played at the Island for the benefit of the Sylvan Heights, Nursery Home and Childrens' Indus trial Home institutions. The teams will be selected from the House and will be made up of former colloge and league players. Representative Harold C. Pike, of Montgomery, is boss of one, and Representative Robert MacCallum, of Luzerne, of the other. The MacCallum team is known as the "Ayes" and includes; Dawson, shortstop: Balbridge, third; James A. Walker, right field; Alex ander, center; Patterson, second; Toohey, representing the newspaper correspondents, catchers; Brislin, first; Edgar Smith, left, and Brady, late of Penn, pitcher. The Pike team is to bo known as the "Noes" and will include: Glass, center field; Me- Intyre. catcher; Pike, second; Will son. of third-class city repealer fame, first; Neary, right: Benny Golder, aviator, third; Baldi, left; Harar, short, and Quigley, pitcher. The managers have arranged to have Governor Sproul throw the first ball and have secured Lieutenant Gover nor Edward E. Boidleman and Rep resentative W. T. Ramsey, House floor leader, for umpires with power of the initiative, referundum and recall. —Govenor Sprout's veto of the bill forbidding the teaching of German in the public schools has brought some editorial criticism. In the main the views expressed by the Governor are regarded as sound. The Pitts burgh Post, the Democratic beacon of Western Pennsylvania, however. Hashes forth a warning that there is politics somewhere in the Gover nor's action and proceeds to say things. The Philadelphia Public Ledger commends the courage of the Governor in his veto, but plain ly does not like it. The Ledger makes the suggestion that the situa tion complained of may be met by providing that only English may be taught in the schools of the State and foreign languages made elective in the higher grades. Other news papers think that some legislation on the subject should be enacted. The Philadelphia Inquirer cleverly sums up its view with these words: "Governor Sproul to the contrary notwithstanding, if the Hun wants to do business with us in some fu ture time, let him learn English." —Reapportionment of the State fol lowing the next census is regarded now as a foregone conclusion and already some of the map strategists are getting busy. The Philadelphia Press remarks in this connection: "Governor Sproul regards it as a scandal, and says so. that a reappor tionment of the State Senatorial dis tricts was not made long ago. He is right, but that is a kind of scan dal we are accustomed to. When the present apportionment was made at the extra session of the Legisla ture in 1906, it was the first in the thirty-four years, and the second since the existing Constitution was adopted, which commands the Leg islature to reapportion the State immediately after each decennial census, here also bad been no re apportionment of Representative dis tricts for nearly twenty years. There is no probability that the present Legislature, with all the other things it has on hand, will find time to give any attention to this matter, and it will now naturally go over until the census of next year is reported. And then, perhaps, it will be neglected some more." TOMORROW All men have bidden in their hearts A promise laid aside. To sometime tread the wanderways With earless chance for g'lldj. Bookkeeper, clerk ami business n an Will nod their heads and say: "I'll surely try a roving trip— When I get t mc—some day." A gleam will light thei." work dulleld eyes. And absently they gaze On half forgotten hopes of youth, And dreams of yesterdays. But this comes up and that prevents; Thus always runs the tale. The man who waits on circumstance Will never know the trail. —lra South, in the Saturday Evening Post. Evidence Is Sufficient If the Kaiser's neck is saved, it will be due to the fact that the law is not sufficient —the evidence is in tact all right.—From the Savannah . News. WONDER WHAT THE EARLY WORM THINKS ABOUT .... ... IT EE.Mfi Now A .OH- ISjO T TMIS TOO Thsrc. Me* GOT, -TM MTTIW_ Nice &pirsf<3 DAY* PRovoKW4.. neßc s R|C ' -by Tne Tmtoi-Y STReTCeDj ' TH I 3.U: , - OWERSO RBALIY >TH,S.,S^M ,,AT V LOOK'IIVJ<S RIGHT / FLEFNT? I HOPE J OUTRAGE # > 00F,.,..? THC ,SKY AIUO THINKSS WE,' He's : / I?OCJ'T' )OREAK I I'LL ; OM ,7B THAT ARE OUTST-DE. PROBABLY ABOUT | I /N , T>J ja \THE' BTRE END rLt_.BsT, Tne-suiu starved l'e iw lb I Shall G/i/e WILL BE SURPRISED A 11, JJUI 17HIS* "BIRD A I J (LO JEE .FYIB *' CHAPJCC I W/W M I'M COMUVA; MY'F/CCTR WILC BE T THOUGHT 6OJ HA-HA-HA, MTBP THO GROOM©: , BGHOUBL M OT. C.U F HA-HA-HV HE'S ALMOST BIT YOU-U-U-U 1 . IKI -THC JA HFLL AH* HEAD'OFPIU'IIH HAUIMFI. J 7HIMK HE'S GETTIMC( I?LSHT DACK M HE HAI A SLAFELT OUTIU<I--£>H "TLREP OUT Hoi-E- GOODY-' I WHY 3) I'D LCAUE JJ IS/IY HFTPPV HOMU S Ui Teach Arabs Arts of Peace [From the London Times.] Under General Marshall's benevo lent rule something of its ancient prosperity is returning to the Eu phrates Valley. But as one stands on the Kasr Mound at Babylon, gaz ing over a dreary expanse of crumb ling red brick, a feeling of utter desolation is evoked. The silence is broken only by the swish of the vultures as they glide lazily to earth, landing with the awkward appearance of a crashed monoplane, and by the shrill cries of the green jays as they flit about the ruins; in all the cavities of the excavations are beautifully clear pools, teeming with insect life; tiny lizards and great horny iguanodons dart hither and thither; a few camels browse languidly beneath the palms; above all there Is the sickly scent of dates and scorched earth; one is alone with the past. It is fascinating to climb among the ruins; one unexpectedly stumbles across a wall covered with exquisite brick bas reliefs, generally repre senting alternately lions and "sirri;" over half buried doorways are in scribed tablets, in the depths of the pools strange figures appear and vanish among the shadows, till the stillness of the water is suddenly dis turbed by the splash of a frog. The credit for the major part of the work of excavation is due to Professor Roldeway, a German arch aeologist, who spent many years among the ruins. He lived In a de lightful bungalow on the banks of the old bed of the Euphrates; his museum was looted, but the author ities were able to recover most of the relics; an Arab custodian has now been placed in charge, and the houso is used as a hostel for visit ing officers. Passing through a nullah on to the Baghbad-Hillah road, on this famous highway, which has seen the march of the armies of forgotten empires, there is a strange mixture of the old and new: a endless convoy of Fords, carrying rations to the Eu phrates garrison, raises an impene trable cloud of dust; a herd of weary camels, bearing merchandise from the mountains of Persia to the shares of the Red Sea, wanders by, apparently without aim; a diminutive donkey, almost invisible beneath a gigantic load of straw, is pushed along by a villainous looking Arab, clad only in a grimy brown burnous; overhead drones an airplane prob ably taking a senior political officer to the holy cities of Nejef or Kerbela to settle some religious dispute. What, it may be asked, are the British doihg in this strange, roman tic country? The answer is appar ent when one approaches Hindiah. Here, as if by magic, acres of waving corn relieve the monotony of the desert landscape; companies of Arab laborers toil languidly under the blasphemous tongues of British N. C. O.s; a train is being loaded with rations and forage. The irrigation scheme of Sir James Willcocks is being completed and perfected, and the army of occupation has become almost self-supporting. Tt seems fit ting that those who have begun this splendid work will be allowed to continue it—for that is the wish of the people of this country. Present Business Situation A comprehensive and graphic re port on the present business situa tion has been prepared by the Unit ed States Chamber of Commerce. The conclusion as to conditions is encouraging and the outlook hape ful. It is pointed out that in this country new construction and de velopment enterprises are necessary to keep fully employed all the pro ductive possibilities of the country. In other words, replacement and re pair in our domestic business .upon which we seem now to be depend ing, if not added to by progressive enterprise in expanding fields, would ordinarily bring about a period of recession. We lack in the present situation the stimulus of building which creates a widening demand through many other trades. The re port sees, however, greater activity in the near future in construction enterprises. But the wonder which is amphaslzed is that the present volume of business continues so long. Some manufacturing lines are reducing the number of em ployes because of falling orders, while others are out seeking busi ness, as they have been doing for several years. "Confidence in the future," says the report, "Is grow ing. Two factors dominate in the outlook—one, the crops, with the prospects of the very best; the oth er, the European situation, which puzzles the perplexes from day to day." But throughout this perti nent and intelligent investigation of business conditions, there is no note i of pessimism.—The Bache Review. In Memory of Roosevelt Rudolph Altrocchi, A. 8., M. A., Ph. D., Harvard University, the writer of this ode, lived in Kansas City a short while before entering Harvard, and has since visited hero several times. He was born in Florence, Italy, and spent his boy hood there, but he is an American citizen. Shortly after the Italian disaster in the winter of 1917, Mr. Altrocchi left the University of Chi cago, where he was an assistant professor in the romance language department, and undertook a gov ernment mission to Italy. He spoke to large audiences in all the large Italian cities. Then he went to Paris and entered the American Army as a lieutenant and liaison officer. Since the armistice Mr. Altrocchi has been stationed at Ly ons, France. He wrote the ode and I read it, by request, at the Roosevelt memorial service: A man has died. We pause to meet this hour Of reverent grieving. And see the empty road where once he led— This comrade of our youth, this man of power, Upon whose sudden leaving A something in each one of us seems dead. He lived the wonder spirit of our land, He breathed the fevered zeal Of our own cities with their tower ing dreams Of brick and steel; He breathed the glow of Arizona's sand. Barren, but glistening where the desert teems With burning life. He heard the crying call Of cattle ranches far in Idaho, And in Dakota's summer grazing plains He sought the hoof-prints of the buffalo. Within his very veins He felt the message of our soil, and all Our craving for the forest and the might Of giant-shouldered Rocky Moun tain peaks Rising to touch the beckoning stars of night. He breathed from sea to sea The fragrance of things Infinitely free, And heard the endless miracle that speaks From every corner of our Mother land. Thus could he fling with tempered soul His life upon the world, and press his hand Up to the high fruition of his goal, His days in their torrential zeal of living Were but a flow of ever candid giving, Until at last this ageing man of fire. Whom sixty years made young with young desire Has died. We pause before his shrouded bed And something in each one of us is dead. —Lieut. Rudolph Altrocchi. Simplicity May Be Overdone [From the Kansas City Star.] Europe has found it difficult to believe that war can be prevented ■ in the future. Will Irwin, writing from Paris to the Saturday Evening Post, attributes this to the complex ities of the European mind. In con trast, he regards the American mind as simple and all-daring. These com plexities prevent the European from seeing how perfectly simple a mat ter it is to abolish war. But the American mind, not being handi capped in this way, is going to turn the trick and save Europe. This sounds alluring—and familiar. The last time we heard it was when Henry Ford started out with the peace ship to get the boys out of the trenches before Christmas— Christmas, 1914. Nobody wanted to fight, said Mr. Ford. So why not stop the fighting? The idea that it was necessary for the war to continue was simply a bit of complexity of the European mind. The direct acting and simple American mind saw the futility of it and said: "Why not stop it?" So he sailed with his peace ship, put it proved that ending the war wasn't so simple a matter after all. The European view was complex be cause the problem was complex. And the simple American idea got no where. There is such a thing as being too simple. Christ's Fullness He is before all things, and by him all things consist, for It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.—Colossians i, 17 and 19. Combine Oil and Coal [From the Scientific American] Thanks to the combined efforts of the Submarine Defense Association and its engineer, Lindon W. Bates, during the war to produce a smoke less fuel and to safeguard our Al lies from a shortage of vitally nec essary fuel oil, they have evolved a combination of oil and pulverized coal, etc., which is termed colloidal fuel. This source of energy can be fed to the burners of any existing oil burning equipment and does not call for change of installation of any sort. In just that measure in which powdered coal, tar, ground coke, etc, is added to each gallon of the liquid fuel a like quantity of oil is dispensed with, and yet the total value in heat units is actually augmented. To make this practicable many months of laboratory research were required to discover a medium which would neutralize gravitation and keep the introduced heavier particles of carbon from settling and calling for some special appa ratus to stir up the mixture just before drawing it frcm the tanks for burning. The new agent is a pastelike greasy substance, called "fixateur." Twenty pounds of this stuff in a ton of liquid fuel keeps the powdered coal and tar suspend ed In the oil and evenly distributed throughout its volume. As a result of this seeming annul ment of one or Nature's laws, it is possible to combine in a stable liquid fuel 45 per cent, of oil, 20 per cent, of tar and 35 per cent, of pulverized coal, thereby replacing more than one-half of the oil, se curing equal or greater heat values per barrel, and saving considerable in cost. In fact, grades of colloidal fuel can be prepared which, upon a given tank capacity, .will give warships or merchant vessels a 20 per cent, increased steaming radius over that possible with the usual fuel oils. All the fuel pastes are mobile to sustained and easily ap plied pressure, and may be thus pumped, fed and atomized in the combustion chamber. This achievement makes it prac ticable to commingle the waste products of the mine, the gas house and the oil refinery and thus to cut down to a large extent the present consumption of fuel oil. As one re sult of our effort to neutralize the grim activities of Teuton U-boats, we now have offered us a potential economic boon of enormous value. IF GEORGE V DID TIIIS Correspondent of the New York Sun, writing to the paper, says: I was reading an editorial article in The Sun the other day entitled "Suppose." Here are some more "supposes." Suppose the King of England should order one of his ships (they are all "His British Majesty's Ships" on paper) to be at the dock at 9 o'clock on a morning named. Suppose at this hour the King, accompanied by some score of per sons selected by him, went on board and proceeded to the Peace Con ference. Suppose that before starting the King ordered all the cables to be seized and placed in the hands of some person chosen by him. Suppose that the King announced at the conference that he appeared on behalf of humanity and that he had conceived a plan for settling the affairs of the world which he had come to put into effect. Suppose that this were done by the King without consulting with any or. in England but Alfred Harmsworvh, who was under a strict pledge of secrecy. Suppose the King, in the profoun dest secrecy, l)egan to negotiate treaties to bind the British Empire for all time, and which, so far as could be surmised, subverted the fundamental policies of the empire, including the surrender of naval supremacy." Suppose Parliament, in alarm, an nounced that it would refuse to sanc tion any treaty surrendering sea power and the King thereupon came home in a towering rage and notified England that his fighting blood was up and that he would so interweave the surrender of sea power with the treaty that it would be impossible to make peace without it. Suppose that the Klntf should or der his ship again and go back to Paris more determined than ever to do what he said. What would happen? Simply nothing. It would at once be assumed that the King had lost his mind. —Knothead, Doby Walls, Okla., April 19. Minority Report "I am not an idiot" —the former Crown Prince.—Detroit Free Press. /I WITCHES' CALDRON [From the New York Heralld.] The Paris conference, instead of being an alembic, distilling the po tion of perpetual peace, is proving a veritable witches' caldron, in which nothing but toil and trouble has so far been brewed. Following the Fiume episode and the depart ure of Orlando, the Poles are threat ening to quit unless their claim to Danzig and a corridor is allowed, while the Japanese are also intimat ing that if they are defeated on the Kiaouchou question they too will cut the conference and quit for Tokyo. The worst of it is that Italians, Poles and Japanese are all blaming America, and that from being hailed as saviours of humanity six months ago, we are now regarded as the chief obstacle to international good will as well as a strong peace with Germany. There is now little doubt that the policy of placing the League of Na tions in the forefront of the pro ceedings at the conference was a grave error. Mr. George W. Per kins, who has been in Paris since last December engaged in Y. M. C. A. work, amply confirms the opinion so frequently expressed in these col umns that the President's League of Nations plan, involving as it did lengthy discussions and a special trip to Washington by its sponsor, has greatly delayed the making a peace with Germany. In consequence feeling in Europe toward Mr. Wilson has greatly changed since December, when he was the idol of the conti nent. "The President," says Mr. Perkins, "is regarded more and more every day as the one man responsi ble above all others for delay and inaction in effecting peace." As Mr. Perkins contends, the time to have made peace with Germany, was as soon as possible after the armistice, when she felt that she was beaten. Since then she has had time to recover some of her self-esteem and resume her attitude of arro gance. The absurd myth of an un beaten army has been repeated until it is believed in, and German dele gates, if ever they are summoned to Paris by the present conference, which seems almost doubtful in pres ent chaotic conditions, will go there j not to sign and submit, but to haggle and possibly refuse. Most annoying of all to sensible Americans is that the United States should be held to blame for the ex isting situation, which is likely to develop into an impasse, as Poland, and, above all, Japan has yet to be dealt with. We have found our selves opposing France, our tradi tional friend, in respect to the claims of that country both as to indemnifi cation and protection; we are op posed to Italy over its claims to ter- I ritory torn from her by Austria; and, apparently, we are similarly opposed to Poland with respect to the return of its ancient port of Danzig and a corridor thereto. Finally, having de nied the Japanese racial equality in the West, we are understood to be opposing their territorial claims in the East. The devil's own broth is brewing, and it appears as if the caldron must soon boil over. Who is to blame? Most people are fain to ad mit that it is Mr. Wilson. Tie has taken Princeton methods to Paris and has treated delegates as if they were in statu pupilarii. lie has in sisted on secrecy so long as it suited him and when it did not, he has violated diplomatic usage and inter national practice by addressing him self to a nation behind the back of its prime minister and chief dele gate. History is likely to agree that the greatest mistake of President Wilson's career was his selection of his country's peace delegation. A WOUNDED PIGEON I stepped into the yard one morn, The sun was shining bright, I beheld a something fluttering, Fluttering, something white. It seemed to be coming downward, It came down, down, down; Until at my feet It rested on the ground. It was a little pigeon, An almost helpless thing, For somehow in its travels, It had cruelly hurt Its wing. I took it up sp gently, And gave it tender care; And lo! upon a morning It sudden took to air. It flapped its wings;—"goodby," It seemed to say, "I'm off to Pigeon Haven, And on this very day I'll tell to all the pigeons there How you did mend my injured wing And let me take to air, Instead of caging me, A poor unhappy thing." MARY RHOADES, Camp Hill. IrtottUtg (Eijat' One only gets an idea of how many fruit trees there are in Har risburg at this time of the year when the peach trees are just about losing their pink leaves and the pear and apple blossoms are showing and some of the cherry trees are in flower. The trees, like great bou quets, can be seen peeping over fences and showing behind houses and the number one sees in the course of a ride about town is no table. But go to one of the knobs af Reservoir fark and look out ovfer the Hill section. Every block has a couple of trees in flower and stretch ing along some streets there are to be seen rows of backyards wherein there are fruit trees all of the same variety. Judging from the flowers the cherry seems to have the call as the city fruit, but there are many peach trees. Out in East End sec tions and up in the Tenth and Four teenth wards the number of apple and pear trees in bloom suggest the times when those sections of the city were farms and the trees survive as reminders of nature's reluctance to allow a useful tree to disappear. The march of the housebuilder has wrought havoc with some very fine orchards and splendid trees have disappeared in recent years and it is a pity that some of the trees cannot be saved and moved. • • • Speaking of trees it is the inten tion of George A. Shreiner, the Su perintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, to move the superb spec imen of the copper beech in front of the Capitol when the Brunner im provements are made. The plan is to extend the plaza some eight to fourteen feet and this would take away the old mulbberry trees near the State Treasury and the copper beech just above the main entrance to the Capitol. If possible the mul berry trees will be moved back. The beech can be moved without diffi cult and be as good as ever, says Mr. Shreiner. ♦ ♦ "A ride through the applebelt of Adams county is well worth any man's time these days," said a Har risburg automobilist who motored through that region yesterday. "Tho trees for the most part are in full bloom and if they were damaged by the recent cold snap they do not show it. Near Flora Dale we drove through mile after mile of blossom ladden trees. The air was heavy with the perfume and I have never beheld a more charming picture than those bouquet-like trees, row upon row of them, as far as the eye could see. 'Apple Blossom Time in Normandy' never had anything on appleblossom time in Adams coun ty. If you want a delightful trip drive over there before the blossoms fall, anytime within the next week." • ♦ "What time is it?" a passenger ot a Reservoir Park car asked the con ductor. "I don't know." was the answer. "We're due at the Square at 1.24 this afternoon, but I don't carry a watch. Don't need one, we use a calendar on this line." .* "I have always admired the way Harrisburg has undertaken its prob lems of improvement of the river front and other municipal enter prises which have made Si notable," said A. E. Sisson, of Erie, former Auditor General, who has been here for the last few days on a visit. The general says that Harrisburg's treat ment of its river front has been much admired everywhere. M • • IV A couple of men were talking about the narrow guage railroads that flourish in the Juniata valley. "Remember 'Tom' Zeil?" asked one of them. "Well, he was up in Perry county one time on business and when he departed from New Bloomfield one day he found he, had left his samples on the station platform. He was greatly worried as the train was on its only trip of the day and worthwith consulted the conductor. The conductor told hint not to mind and ran the train back again." The other man said he could beat that story and told how one time a woman on the way from New Bloomfield to the river complained that the train was go ing too slow. The conductor jocosely told her she might walk. The wom an took it seriously and replied. "But I'm not due there before train gettin' in time." These two stories aroused a man who knows the Tus carora valley and he told how once in the neighborhood of classic Academia a party of campers once shot a cow. "Of course, they promptly packed up and started away," said he. "The owner of tho cow was a wise one and when he heard they had left he drove to the station and saw the train pulling away. Now he knew that some miles up the line there was a water : tank and he figured that the cngino i would be thlrßty. So he whipped up and when the train slowed down for i a drink he was there waiting for the cars and arrested the whole I camping party." t 1 I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j —W. J. Richards, the Pottsvillo coal official, is retiring from some of 1 his activities. —Judge W. Rush Gillan, of the Franklin county courts, has been ill • for several days. —Judge J. J. O'Neil, of Scranlon, whose term expires next year. i one of the oldest judges in the State. —Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler has declined to accept any invitations to make addresses owing i to pressure of work, i —State Commissioner of Fisheries . N. R. Buller is on a tour of the i State fish hatcheries. i DO YQU KNOW [ —That Harrisburg is selling ; quantities of shoes for export to the West Indies? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Admiral Farragut came here after the Civil "War and spent two days driving about the country near Harrisburg. Girl Followed 35th Division Miss Violet Redpath, T. M. C. A., is happy. Tho 3 6th Division is hap py. Because, after many vicissi tudes together, they were allowed to go home together. A short time ago unfeeling officials ordered Miss Redpath homo, a form of tyranny not usually resented. But MISB Red path resented it and made herself famous in army circles by asking permission to stay over until the division sailed. The aforesaid un feeling officials were so dazed by this peculiar request that they granted it. Miss Redpath accom panied the 35th Division through its fighting in Alsace, at St. Mlhlel, Verdun and the Argonne. The gas mask and steel helmet are nothing new to her, and at Verdun she shat tered a few regulations beyond hope of repair by visiting the 110 th En gineers in the front line trenches, carrying to them refreshments. From the Stars and Stripes, France.
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