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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.
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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.
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"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."
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"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.