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