16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. TelegTaph Building, Federal Square ■ E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief E. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 1 a. P. McCULLOUGII, 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 ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, i Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bureau of Circu m*m lation and Penn sylvania Assocla -108 N Eastern office 111 jw Story, Brooks & §B|j Avenue Building. —I Chicago, 111!' ' nS ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *I? -1*).' r-j-i. week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, MAY 9. 1919 j He who quells an angry thought is 1 greater than a king.—Eliza Cook. A REAL SERVICE THE Boy Scouts of Harrisburg performed a real service Wed-! nesday evening when they kept! i back the crowds along Market street j i and prevented the impatient spec- i tators from breaking into the space v in the street reserved for the pa raders and the returning soldiers, i Had it not been for the Scouts, an- j • other such scene would have been I enacted as was staged when too en- i thusiastic men and women marred for a time, the parade in honor of the returning colored troops some weeks ago. With linked arms the Scouts] formed a living chain that had the strength of combined young muscles, as well as the nerve to stand up J against the pushing, hustling throng of spectators desirous only of ob taining first glimpse of the soldiers and regardless of the rights of any but themselves. The Scouts showed themselves to be equal to the situ ation at all times. Incidentally, Mayor Keistcr is to be commended for fining an unruly youth who started a fight when the Scouts attempted to keep him from breaking up the line of march. A few more such wholesome lessons and when the Scouts ar egiven a "job to do by the police there will be no ' attempt to violate the traffic rules! they are expected to enforce. MAKE IT PERMANENT THE Homes Registration Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce has performed an excellent ser vice for tho city. It has told us just where we stand with respect to housing and has given us a clear understanding as to our needs. It could be continued as a per manent branch of the Chamber's activities and as such do very good work. A careful record of all the vacant houses and rooms in the city, with, their location, .rentals and other particulars, would be of vast use to persons coming to tho city to reside or desiring to remove from one part of town to another. It would leave us, also, with a very clear understanding of the whole housing situation and builders would find tho information on file helpful both in deciding the typo of house most needed and the number in demand. If the bureau can be financed, it ought to bo made a permanent part of the Chamber of Commerce or ganization. IN THE OPEN EVERY true American will agree with Senator Penrose in his 'demand that the United States Senate's discussion of the peace treaty be open to the public. There is a provision that tho Senate shall consider treaties in executive session, but there is no need for secrecy in this instance. Indeed, there has been entirely too much secrecy concern ing the treaty and the American public is entitled to fullest enlight enment concerning it and its pos sible effects on this country. We have had from the peace con ference the commissioners' own privately made, personally approved summary of the document. How much did not appear in that sum mary that should have appeared wo do not know. But wo are certain that the framers of the summary sang very low on some points that are apt to create a lot of noise in the Senate. Senator Penrose is not merely a captious, partisan critic of the ad ministration. He knows full well that the next elections do not. hinge on what has happened in Paris re cently, but upon the constructive |Program which the Republican aparty is now framing. But be be lieves, as all good Americans should believe, that the public is entitled to know fully what the contents of the treaty are, what the Senate thinks of it and how it iB believed FRIDAY EVENING, Satlrisbxjrg TELEGR3LPH 'MAY 9, 1919. the United States will bo affected. Only somebody with something to hide could disagree with that program. PROTECT INVESTMENT THE Stfite Highway Department has been taking great pains to see that inspectors who will pass upon work under construction are men qualified for the job, thereby as suring the best possible results, and in seeing to it that the least possible damage is done to the State's high ways. This is commendable. The department owes it to the taxpayers of the State to see to it that every possible precaution is taken to pro tect the tremendous investment Pennsylvania is making in improved highways. Senate bill No. 796 contains pro visions which will jyive pavements. This bill'regulates the use of tractors and would bar from highways those huge mechanisms the flanges of which cut and tear the surface. The Highway Department has suggested, and the suggestion doubtless will be heeded, that agricultural imple ments, such as grass mowers, bind ers, manure spreaders, hay loaders, hay rakes, grain drills, potato plant ers and similar mechanisms be ex cluded from the provisions of the act, which, incidentally, supplements the original traction engine law of June 8, 1915. All agricultural trail ers, such as farm machinery, water or coal wagons, are excluded from the provisions of the act, insofar as license charges are concerned. The Highway Department also suggests that caterpillar tractors be permitted to operate "with such modifications as the Highway Commissioner may prescribe." The department is urging certain I restrictions because it wishes to pro tect the people's investment. It is all very well to suggest that "roads be built that will stand up under all sorts of traffic, under all condi tions," but the common sense slant at this proposition shows its abso lute impossiblity. A castirop high way might do it. were it of sufficient thickness. Or concrete, if blocks could be laid without expansion joints and of very great thickness. The Appian Way, to which reference is so often made, went to pieces as originally put down by Appius Claudius; and as rebuilt consisted of giant blocks two or three feet in thickness, bound together with a natural cement. The cost was so prodigious that it is not possible to attempt such construction in these days. Governor Sproul and Highway Commissioner Sadler havo a two way job—first, to see that Pennsyl vania gets roads; second, to see that these roads stay with us. Pennsyl vania has had too many miles of fly-by-night construction. It is re freshing to note that we are not only to watch the roads as they go down, so that we will know wo are getting what we pay for, but that we arc going to keep watching them after they aro down, so that they will stay here. AN EMPIRE NINETY millions of dollars to meet the growing needs of Pennsylvania in a govern mental way during the next two years is Governor Sproul's estimate for those who will make up the appropriation measures, and lie says there is* revenue enough in sight to meet the demands. Ninety millions of dollars! And there were some who had been won dering whore Governor Sproul ex pected to get money enough for the memorial bridge and, Capitol Park improvements, which he has assufod us will he pushed to early com pletion. It is, to smile. Truly, Pennsylvania is more than a mere unit in a collection of States; it is an empire of itself. PRACTICAL DECISION LI EUTENANT GOVERNOR BEIDLEMAN publicly com mended Governor Sproul be fore the gathering of Pennsylvania publishers in Harrisburg Wednesday evening for his veto of the bill to forbid the teaching of German in tho public schools of Pennsylvania, and the delegates ga\'e voice to their approval in prolonged applause. Mr. Bcidlcman said (he Governor had shown courage in taking his stand for tho reason that there was a mistaken popular sentiment in favor of tho bill, based upon war feeling and public hysteria, and that is true. It did require courage to veto this measure. But the Gover nor never hesilated for a moment and he has come out of what might havo proved an awkward situation with flying colors and the approval of all thinking people. It would be foolish, indeed, to deny ourselves knowledge of German simply because wc do not like tho German people. Tho more wc dislike them the more we should know about them, that we may counteract any plans they make for our undoing. Let us learn all about tho Germans we can, in order that, if necessary, wc may meet success fully their wiles in peace or their barbarities in war. COPY-CATS THE recent visit of five Japanese textile engineers to the New England textile industries, for tho purpose of comparing American made textile machinery with that of Great Britain, with a view to pur chases of such machinery in this country, recalls a story told by a for mer Republican representative in Congress, Duncan McKinley, of Cal ifornia, in 1910. McKinley at lhat time declared on the floor of the House that the Japanese had purchased from a thoroughly modern textile machin ery factory in North Carolina a few machines to be installed In Japan. It was the hope of the company making the sale that they would enjoy a larger business with the Japs in this line so soon as these machines had been tested out, and in order to retain the good will of tho purchasers they offered to send some American mechanics abroad to put tho machines in, an offer which was courteously refused by the Japanese, who said they could do tho installing themselves. Not only did they do so, but Jap anese experts made a study of these machines and in a short while a very large number of machines Identical In character had been manufactured in Japan and have since been oper aiing to compete with American tex tiles in the Orient. If tho machine manufacturers in New England look for sales of their products to the Japs, some agree ment should lie reached which will prohibit tlio latter from pirating the designs. At any rate, hero is an i indication of future competition with ! Japan in textiles, more drastic than that which we have been experienc ing during the past few years. I>t>utoi{£ca>vta1 > t>ut0i{£ca>vta By the Ex-Committee man Governor William C. Sproul's re marks yesterday that Philadelphia would get a good workable charter in duo season is taken to mean that ,tlie Governor does not intend to be hurried into approving any revision that does not meet the approval of his Attorney General and his dec laration that it will not be fantastic and at the same time will not suit everyone is accepted as meaning that he intends to insist upon some thing that will not arouse animosi ties in addition to those which are being constantly paraded. Tho interview with the Governor yesterday developed the fact that the Governor considers the Phila delphia bills as "monumental" and that he wanted them to last for some time and not to be brought back again next session as unsuitable in opinion of some people in the Quaker City. ■ —The matter of State-wide inter est which came out in the interview was that the Governor believes that important work in regard to revenue legislation lies ahead of the Legisla ture. This if! in line with similar statements by Senators Penrose and Crow and the Philadelphia bills will engage the attention of the members of the House while the legislative leaders and the Governor consider problems of revenue. It is possible that this Legislature may go on rec ord as the first $100,000,000 revenue session, although there are some men who will hold up their hands in horror at that statement. —The Governor's "irreducible minimum" of $90,000,000 is a record breaker and it would not be improb able if the grand total of the ap propriations, including measures specifically appropriating certain designated revenues would run close to the century mark. —The interview indicated that tho Governor sinco his return from his enforced absence had been working hard on a legislative program and that action in many lines could bo anticipated. —Considerable interest has been aroused by the action of the su preme court in deciding to issue a writ to the Westmoreland county judges that unless tho Westmore land judges agiee on a policy in re gard to retail and distillers' licenses for that county by May 15 the su picme court will issue a rule to show cause. The Westmoreland judges made the county dry, hut have been deadlocked on the other licenses and the supreme, court has taken a hand. —Governor Sproul has given no indication of his intentions in re gard to tho appointment for the va cancy on the Philadelphia bench. He is being strongly urged to name some well-known Democrats. -—The bill to create an orphans' court for Washintgon county is now in the hands of the Governor. The Cambria county orphans' court bill is before the House. —Governor Sproul yesterday de clined to make some speeches which he was urged to make. The Gov ernor holds that he must conserve his strength for the strenuous days ahead of him between now and the close of the Legislature. —lt is said about the Capitol that a determination in regard to the liquor Hills will he reached by the liquor interests between now and Monday. They are willing to have the Vickerman and Fox prohibition regulators made special orders in the House next week, but want some consideration for the two and three fourths per cent, drink bill. Our Fiqhtinq Families [Bassctt Blackley, in Leslie's] "The Smiths will win the war" never appeared on a poster during the conflict. Food, airplanes, propa ganda and other agencies all were offered at some time as the balance of power, but the claims of the Smith family were overlooked. They were ready for the fight, however, 51,000 strong. An army by themselves were the Smiths who joined the colors. They outdistanced all competitors for first honors, for the Johnson family only sent 29.000 members to tho conflict. The Jones boys num bered a mere 22,500, running even with their rivals the Greens. Amer ica's other prolific family, the Browns, sent 9,000 men to fight for Uncle Sam. The American melting pot also turned out 4,500 Cohens to help chase the Hun back to the llindcnburg line. In addition to these armies, there were enough bearers of military names to frighten an enemy that had studied American history. No less than 7 4 George Washingtons were in tho ranks, 2 Ulysses S. Grants, and 9 more with out the middle initial, and 79 Robert E. Lees. * LAV Gil Build for yourself a strong box, Fashion each part with care; Fit it with hasp and pedlock, Put all your troubles there. Hide therein all your failures And each bitter cup you quaff; Lock all heartaches within it, Then—SlT ON THE LID AND LAUGH. Tell no one of its* contents, Never its secrets share; Drop in your cares and your worries, Keep them forever there. Hide them from sight so completely The world well never dream half. Fasten the top down securely, Then—SlT ON THE LID AND LAUGH. I MOVIE OF A MAN WITH HIS FIRST WRIST WATCH By BRIGGS LooKS UP THE LOOKJ POWM THE MAKES HURRIED AUD HOT SURE WHETHER. STREET To -SEE STREET. (JW SATIS FACTORY" LOOK NUMERAL 12. WAS" IF AMY FRIENDS AT WRIST WATCH * WHERE HE THOUGHT ARE M EAR." 1 ,f W * S ANXIOUS To KMOW x-i THE TIME, •• WOULD CWUE AMY7"H/WG DECIDES TO BRAVE IM A FEW DAYS TISLLS IM THE WORLD FOR DeßlSloM OF PuBLIC So FAR AS TO I (It FRIENJDS WHAT A REALLY HIS OLD VEST POCKET AMD TA TAKE ONE HOLD TO STRAP /// K/AJJ CoMv/erJiEMT AND SENSIBLE TURMIP BOLD LOOK AT WATCH ' W STREET- ill \ TJJ INMOV/ATIOM <HE WRIST CAR WITH WATCH- IS . LEFT ARM c Ti SjA THUS EXPOSING ' LL SJ WATCH WILSON'S DEFEATS ! [From the New York Sun.] President Wilson's political stip- j porters can find no more comfort i in the result of Die Baltimore city: election on Tuesday, when the Rb publicans elected their candidate for! mayor, than they can in the crush- j ing: defeat administered to his party j in the Michigan election in April j or in the Republican victory in St. Routs a few weeks ago. Only twice before since the Civil > war have the electors of Baltimore' chosen a Republican for mayor.! This year the election was of un- > usual importance because Greater Baltimore is to be set up in business, by the Incoming administration. Rut] neither the importance to the Demo- j crats of the city of success in the j election, nor the fact President Wii- • adherents have loudly pro claimed that he was so popular his party was sure to win, could heal; the breach created in the Demo-' cratic ranks by a factional quarrel. The Maryland Democrats were not 1 able to burry the hatchet to give an : indorsement to the President for his I proposed League of Nations, or even! to save their own skins. Demo-1 cratic harmony and Democratic! solidarity were thrown out of the! window. The official count of the ballots cast in Michigan shows that in the} State elnction the Republicans polled 506,342 votes, against 231,831 for the Democrats. Mr. Huntsman, whose letter recording this ava lanche against tho Democratic party| we printed yesterday, says in it that I never before have the Republicans! of Michigan "scored anything ap-: proximating such a complete and; overwhelming victory." in tho j election of a United States Senator I in November, 1918, Henry .Ford, j running as a Democrat, was able to} get enough votes to lead h<m to i contest tho election of Truman H.I Newberry. Mr. Ford was Mr. IVi 1- | son's candidate and polled a tre-! mendous vote in and near Detroit, I but even the President's backing' could not elect him. That was be- j fore the League of Nations consti- j tution was first put forward, and; before Mr. Wilson, about to leave j for France on his second trip to the. | Pence Conference, said on March 4 j in this city: "The first thing I am going to tell the people on the other side of thel water is that an overwhelming ma-, jority of the American people is in favor of the League of Nations." To Hi is the voters of Michigan j made answer in a way that cannot; lie misinterpreted. The Democratic; candidates in Michigan were Mr. | Wilson's fellow partisans. They; represented him and his policies. In 191(5 the Democrats of Michigan | polled 283,993 votes for President,) tho Republicans 337,932. In 19181 tlie Republican vote for Governor; was 266,738, the Democratic vote! 158,1 42. The increase in the Re publican vote compared with that in j tho Democratic vote may he accept-; ed as recording with reasonable ae-j curacy the sentiment of the Michl-j gan electorate toward Mr. Wilson; and his policies. These specific instances of Demo-; cratic disunion and defeat are sus-! tained and confirmed by the obser- ; cation of competent students of pol-I itical affairs in all : actions of the; country. Their findings arc all to the same effect. The voters of the; Northwest, of the Southwest, of the] Middle West are impatient to oust| tlie Democratic party from the Gov ernment. Mr. Wilson's excursions] into foreign policies, his conception of a League of Nations, his appeals to Democrats have not stayed and cannot stay the progress of party dissolution. The co-operation be tween the South and the West about, which Democrats boasted in 1916; was an unnatural union, produced I by abnormal conditions. The Bom-) ocrats are beaten in the West, and] Mr. Wilson is beaten with them. Safely For Traitors We have revoked the citizenship of lust two men in all the list of, overt traitors to America. We have deported very, very few. Of the few thousands whom we interned for the period of the war, very many were long ago out on parole. They ought, of course, everyone one of them be deported; but as a matter of fact they will not be. They will be handed over again to the benevo lent assimilation of America, the land of the free, while the smile of] our benevolent Goddess of Liberty still will welcome more of their ilk thronging to our shores.—Emerson Hough In Saturday Evening Post. Home of Benedict Arnold Is Still a Place of Beauty Robert Shackleton in "The Book of Philadelphia" (Penn Publishing Company). WHEN ons thinks of the homes of the Schuylkill region, the I Fairmount Park region, the! mind goes at once to Mount Picas- ] ant, noblest and most beautiful of all, and far most important, even though the importance was mostly I a somber importance, from the] character and late of some who lived here. < >ne never forgets that i ihe superb Mount Pleasant was tlie home of Benedict Arnold. It is interesting' to note the esti- i rnation in whil'li iiis wife is still ' held in this city. She was of one of the finest Philadelphia families; she seems to have been bright and good looking; d'ao was a Slllppen; she was a social entity; so her name is still held in Pigh estimation. A hotel has her name and her picture on its daily menu cards, in the expectation that this will win popularity; and the most widely known woman newspaper writer of tho city uses the, name of "Peggy Sliippen" as a ncn de plume, know ing that it will attract. Now, such things could haiipcn only in this city. ] All that Peggy Shippen did was to marry Benedict Arnold and to con tinue to lie his tjrifc, and to accept money, personally, from tho British government, aftqr her husband's treason became known; not extra, ordinarily good reasons for honored remembrance. Arnold an Extravagant Liver The continued and widespread honoring of Mrs! Arnold makes it worth while to mention that when the general married her, he was twice her age. a widower- —his wife having died so recently as since tho opening of the Revolution—and that lie had three children, the old est being 17. He was living ex travagantly at the time he married her and was rj\ on then under charges which affected his integrity and on account bf which, shortly after the marriage, he was officially censured. That the youn wife not only over looked licr husband's traitorous schemes, but that, she actively aided them, was the belief of many, among them being Aaron Burr, a contemporary. Washington himself probably felt doubts of Peggy's loy alty, but when tho crash came, at West Point, her position was so painful that he gave orders to let her. with her infant child, go hack 1o Philadelphia, courteously refrain ing from criticism. How General 'Arnold retained rank and place as long as he did is surprising. Tor it must have been known that ho was living far he- NORTHERS FRANCE \ [Elizabeth Frazerin the Saturday Evening "Post.] Most of the villages of Northern France arc as dead and cold as the ruins of the Roman Forum —and not half so beautiful. Here were no great architectural splendors. No pricelrs art collections. They were nothing hut plain humble little hamlets of plain hard-toiling peas ants. The housds were destroyed and the simple, brave, hardy folks who owned them were also destroy ed. The graveyards of the men I had seen at Sois.vons, Champagne, Verdun, row upon silent row. Here were the graveyards of their houses,] village after village, as dead as the men. The only difference was that] the soldiers had been hurled under-1 ground, while these ghastly muti-1 lated wrecks still remained exposed I to view. There was more of this kind of scenery. And more. And more and more. And at last—so soon does the: mind become sated by mere flat ex-J ternal spectacles of horror—l began j to feel we'ling up inside of me a vague irritation against all these graveyard of gaping mutilated ] specters of what had once been hu- ] man habitations for being so monot-i onous, so rcpotitional, so drably,] blankly, impassively the same. I wanted tbem, to get better or I wanted them to get worse —or I wanted them to be blotted clean off; the map. Those mutilated corpses] of towns, with their stark immobili-; ty, their contorted postures, their, shuttered members lying rigidly out- I stretched on the pavement, began j to get on my nerves. They had the' same stiff fixity, the same grotesque; sqrawl that one notes in a human; corpse frightfully mangled by a shell. I had heard of men blown to, pieces in battle and unrecognisable,' I yond his means', and borrowing | money right and left. Rut we may | suppose that it seemed incredible j that a man in whom great trust was i placed, and who had shown him ! self personally heroic, could really I do anything very wrong. House Stands Unchanged j At Mount Pleasant, vividly full as j it is of stirring recollections, one , feels, in an exceptional degree, the I very life and movement of history; | almost startling'are the impressions j of the past in their intensity. The I place seems still alive with sinister j influences. It stands unchanged in an unchanged environment. | The great show place was for sale ; when Arnold came to high com | mand here, and the general, fond of show and deeming show as in itself a means of retaining power, j coveted and obtained the place, in j the same spirit jn which some Ro j man general would have seized upon some mighty mansign in an ancient ' town. I Mount Pleasant stands in a finely wooded portion of tho great park, j one tree in particular being of enor mous size. The house is near Ihc I edge of a high hank, which rises ! from the level of the Schuylkill, j and there are fine views of (he ! bending stream. There are still I remains of a terraced garden along j the bank, giving evidence that not only Ihc bouse, but the grounds ' were liberally planned. It is a noble mansion, a beautiful mansion, a dis tinguished, debonair. delightful mansion. It is of stuccoed stone, darkened to a tawny or almost yel lowish buff. House Kxqusitcly Finished The inside of the house carries j out well the impressivencss of the , exterior. There is a richness of I cornicing. There is paneling of rich ! design. The carved and paneled over mantels are of unusual beauty. There aro pilastered and pedimontod doors. Finest of all Is an upstairs room, overlooking the river, with exquisite beauty of carving over the doors, over the twin cupboards, over the fireplace. This room must surely havo been ! especially the room of Airs. Arnold j but the entire house —rooms and halls and stairs —seems still filled l with the gay society folk and uni ] formed soldiers of so long ago. And j how soon it was all to vanish. Hero in this house the essentials ol 1 ] Arnold's plot were agreed upon, j Here Arnold urgently asked to he transferred to West Point. The tragedy of it all seems so very vivid, ! so very recent, here in this beautiful | house, where Iho general lived so J haughtily, entertained so lavishly, plotted so infamously. i even their identification plates gone. Here were their counterparts in [hamlets. The lieutenant, searching [ his map, murmured doubtfully: "It I might be A —or it might be B—• .jit's hard to say." j These nameless ones 1 put into a list all by themselves and called 'jthem X. But presently I gave it up. , It was too much like trying to count .! t he volume of water in a reservoir ] by means of an eye dropper. LABOR NOTES The state railways of Sweden have . agreed upon an eight-hour day for I shop and store employes, who have ; been formerly working nine hours a day. The wage scale for the cm- j •i ployes affected by the new regula-1 I tion has been increased a fraction] | over 1 cent an hour. It is estimated that there arc now] ] 1,000,000 unemployed in Germany, 1 one-fourth of whom are in Berlin. j Cotton operatives in England are] I now working 55 % hours a week, the machinery in both the spinning i mills and weaving sheds running 10] ] hours a day from Monday to Frl- j day, and 5V4 hours on Saturday. • Two-thirds of the women who re- j I placed men in various positions in ; New York state receive less than $l5 ] a week. ; l Electrical workers in Glen Falls, ; N. Y., have been granted a reduction ; in working hours. j Missouri is one state above the I Mason and Dixon line that has re ; fused, so far, to accept the principle ! of workmen's compensation. The Melbourne Trade Hall Coun -1 ell has started a movement for the .establishment of a 40-hour week in fall industries in Australia. THE LAWLESS MAN [From a sermon by the Rev. Newell Hilhs reported in Brooklyn Eagle], Consider man's misconceptions as to law. Four murders in New York j in one day, fifteen thousand mur j dors in one year, innumerable burg j laries, thefts, bombs, brawls, riots and overflowing jails, represent events that stir fear and alarm in patriots and lovers of the republic. These tens of thousands of criminals are men who believe that every law is a fetter and that lawlessness is the road to liberty. Our population includes several millions of people who are ignorant of the laws of our country as cattle in the stock yards I or cannibals in a South Sea island. Perhaps the industrial outlook for our country would gain if. for one week, every wheel should stop and every engine be still, while parents, teachers and editors turned our land into one vast schoolroom and drilled all children and adults in obedience to those laws that are the paths to national prosperity. Who shall esti mate the economic, gain to our coun try if all the people could be made to realize that laws are not weights, but wings for the soul? Disobey the law of lire—it burns man. Disobey the law of steam—it scalds man. Refuse the law of acids—and it eats man; the law of weight—and the stone crushes him. Qbey the law of steam and Watt has an engine. Obey the law of electricitv and Marconi litis his wire less. Obey the law of color, and you have Turner's "Temerack." Obey the laws of writing and you have a Hamlet, a speech at Gettysburg, or a "Prineipia." Each new law discov ered and obeyed yields a new tool. This great city with its airy bridges, flashing towers, its vast tem ples dedicated to art. literature, fi nance and trade represents a point where builders obeyed the laws of wood, stone and steel, until this obedience to architectural law made this city rise like an emanation from the sea. But take your stand on the broken marble steps covered with seaweed, where once more the pal aces of Carthage, or go to the fallen towers of Baalbec, and the little I temples tilled with sand in the val leys of the Jordan, and 10, every ruin represents a race that disobeyed the laws of God. Should Macaulay's prophecy ever be fulfilled, and the New Zca'lander find this harbor deserted, and study the streaks of iron rust amidst the grass, and the meanings of the broken towers, standing by ruins where a bridge once was, and seek ing an explanation, he will have the inswer in these words, "Here dwelt men who bated the laws of God, where each man did that, which seemed good in his own eyes! There fore, this city is become a heap, and this bridge a ruin!" There is not room enough in this vast universe at the same time for two beings, one named "A God of Daw," and the other named "A Lawless Man." Aot Merely a (load Soldier Leonard Wood unquestionably is sincere in his depreciation of politi cal discussion of himself. He is too tine a soldier to countenance such a departure from army tradition. And yet wo venture the opinion that General Wood, whether he will have it so or not, is a political factor of some importance in the United States. He is and has been for a good many years, something more than merely a good soldier. He is a big aggressive personality with a rare and happy faculty of speaking the language as well as the belief of common humanity. To a re markable extent he is the personifi cation of his own counsel to "keep your eyes on Heaven, hut your feet firmly planted on earth." Ho is able, as few of his contem poraries, lo brush aside sophistry with a phrase and go straight <o the root of the matter— a faculty pos sessed in a remarkable degree by his lifelong friend, Theodore Roosevelt. Wholesomeness is the word which best sums him up. Clean living, straight thinking, fearlessness, hu man sympathy and a patriotism which practices what it preaches are all attributes so rare in public life that the American people could not he blamed for refusing to take Gen eral Wood at his word. Whether he approves it or not, they will he likely to regard him as an interest ing future of the Nation, of which he has been so faithful and efficient a servant.—From the St. Paul Pio neeb Telegraph. Ways of Preaching Christ Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good wil'; the one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely;• but the other of love, knowing that I ant set for the defense of the gospel.— Philippians i, 15 to IZ, ( tEbentng (Eljal The flowers that bloom In the spring are making Harrisburg de lightful these days and there Is no part of the city where gardens are not glowing with the colors that bring joy to everyone. To be sure 1 the dandelions are putting forth their best efforts and many a lawn is sadly dotted, but even they are add ing to the color scheme of nature. Many gardens and plots are now re paying the care given to them last spring and if a city flower show was to be held, many rare and choice blooms would be displayed. Some of the gardens out in the newer res idential sections on the Hill have some flowers in bloom which are well worth taking an automobile trip around town to see, while sev eral Front street homes are racing with Second and up Third street street gardens for honors. Harris burg goes in for spring flowers. The tulips have had their day and now the second division of the floral pa rade is going by with the roses and the peonies in the distance. ♦ • 0 Preparations are going forward for the holding of a rose show in Harrisburg next month, the dates to he fixed according to the weather, which somewhat governs the rose season in this locality. Hast season the first show ever held, staged in the V. jr. C. A. building, brought out a very large number of exhibi tors and it is believed that these can be greatly increased. J. Horace McFarland, who has some of the rarest roses grown, has a big and famous garden at his home in Relle vue Park and this city i s the home of The American Rose Annual, which is the official oignn of the American Rose Society. So there is no reason why Harrisburg should not have one of the finest rose shows in the State. • * Mr. McFarland is one of (lie most enthusiastic rose breeders in the country. "The rose future is bright with rose promise," said he the oilier day. "Wo are breeding roses better adapted to tho variable ctrm ates of this land, of undoubted hard iness and vigor; roses bloomiir more finely and more freelv; roses good to look at for habit and foliage when flowers are few. So it may be. as our friendship for tho Old World becomes less dependent and more brotherly, forcing upon us ef forts and results here. Wo should have men in America making roses as well as Paul and Dickinson and McGreedv. as finely as Guillot and Pernet-Duclier and Barbier, to tho end that America may feed new rose blood into the gardens of Kur ■ ope from which she has long drawn in careless ease." . . ( A number of people in the vicin jity of Harrisburg have started to | grow the loganberry," said F. F. Rockwell, the small fruit expert to la Telegraph man yesterday. "The | loganberry is practically a new fruit, obtained by hybridizing and red raspberries. Tt possesses the dark red color, texture ami flavor or tho ■ raspberry and the size of tho big gest blackberry. Quite a few peo ple in flic Fast are growing them, although it was once thought tliey wonld flourish only in certain of tho Pacific Toast States." Mr. Rockwell reports the planting in home gar dens of large numbers of raspberry and strawberry plants this spring and last fall. Strawberries in par ticular arc coming into favor with homo gardeners because of their liardy nature and ability to with stand winters of the most severe character. Very few pests disturb the strawberry. • • "Clean-up week should he more than a mere formality." said Mayor Keister yesterday. "The city can clean only the public places and it has difficulty in going beyond that, to reach the individual who permits his own premises to become a men ace to the health of himself and his neighbors. T wish T could impress on everybody the importance of mining with the movement now un der way. There arc large numbers who are co-operating heartily, but there are others who do not pay any attention to tho clean-up cam paign." • * F P. Dickinson, the monument man. has just returned from Frie. where be attended a convention of the Woodmen of the World. The other evening, talking with Charles Stevens, following a meeting of the 'notary Club, pp noticed thai Mr. Stevens bad almost lost his voire, dt'e to a severe cold. "Reminds mn of a man T met in Brie." said Dickinson. "One of the delegates had lost bis voire from too much cheering and singing." An other Woodman approached him and snid: "I'm awfully sorry for von; in deed T am. T know how you must feel. T can sympathize with you from tho bottom of mv heart. We have the same trouble in our family. My wife often loses her voice— thank the good Ford!" Among visitors to the city yester day was Fred Newell, the Canlon editor, who has spent much time delving into the history of the north ern counties. Mr. Newell is eager to have the old Indian trail incor porated into the Susquehanna trail. "The real Susquehanna Trail." sa'd he. "was that used by Shikilemv. It. went up the valley of Fyooming creek and is well defined. Tt is a beautiful country and should lie the line of a great highway some time." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j —John T. Windrim. the Philadel phia architect, was hero yesterday to see the Governor and was much interested in plans for the Memorial bridge. —C. Fred Wright ,of Susquehan na, former State Treasurer, was in Harrisburg renewing old acquaint ances yesterday. He is devoting him self lo his business enterprises and one of the busiest of up-State men. —The Rev. Duke V. McCuhe, Phil adelphia clergyman woll known here, is celebrating his fiftieth year as a priest. —Governor Sproul plans to review the Twenty-eighth Divisiin at I Philadelphia next Thursday with State officials and legislators. —General A. J. Logan, chairman of the eonimitlee on arrangements for the home-coming of Pittsburgh sol diers, commanded the old Eight eenth Infantry, which became tho One Hundred and Eleventh. | DO YCU KNOW —That Harrisburg will have a series of welcomes for remaining units? HISTORIC HARR^SIH'RG —Right after the War of 1812 this i city had Ave companies of M
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