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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1919 To be good is noble but to teach others how to be good is nobler —and less trouble.—Mark Twain. HAD TO DO IT PRESIDENT WILSON has called Congress into special session not because he desired to do so, but because he had nothing else left to do. He had to issue the call, and that is all there is to it. Otherwise, the last Congress having failed to pass certain of the big appropriation bills, the Government would have been embarrassed by lack of funds. The fiscal year ends June SO, and as it is. Congress .will have to move repidly and work hard if the new appropriation measures are to go through by that time. Of course, it would be possible to continue in force the old appro priation measures by special resolu tion of Congress, but that would mean the expenditure of Govern ment funds, for the time being, on a war basis of nearly a billion dol lars a month, which would be little short of a crime. Nevertheless, if the appropriations are not made on time, the fault will lie largely with the President. He might have called Congress into ses sion in March. That he did not do so, is not because he did not know the importance of an extra session, but that he preferred to let the country drift while he played his own particular game of politics and personal ambition at Paris. The returning' soldiers are finding the warm welcome of the home folks nil that they expected, and more. There is in this community a fine patriotic fervor, which lias been dem onstrated over and over again during the war. Those who rallied to the colors have a right to the best that the city has. and it ought to be the aim of every citizen to aid these men in getting thoroughly re-established in civil life. "Back to the old job," is the slogan with most of them, and they are going to be happier when their former activities shall have been resumed. Harrisbsjrg wants them to have a con tinuing realization of the apprecia tion of the community of their ser vices, and no good citizen will fail to help hack to their places in civilian life the men who have upheld so nobly the American ideals. THE AMERICAN LEGION IT IS to be hoped that the signs of disagreement and bickering which appear in the preliminary efforts to organize, as the American Legion, the men who served under the Stars and the Stripes in the great war, will be smoothed out and that the Legion will become as powerful and as popular as the Grand Army of the Republic. Cer tainly, It has wonderful possibili ties. The young men who will compose this, or whatever organization may he formed to take in the member ship of the American army in the war, are the hope of the Nation. They risked their lives for It. They have been able to compare Its bene fits with those of governments abroad. They have a wider vision and a broader view than when they went away a year or two years ago. They may be depended upon to de fend It both in peace and in war. Prom the ranks of this new Grand Army will come the great leaders of popular thought, the spokesmen of the people, the statesmen, the pol iticians, the millionaires, the work men. the preachers, the scholars, the teachers —the officers and the rank and file which will make up the woof and warp of American life for the next fifty years and more. It Is proper that they should stand shoulder to shoulde. in civil life as in the days of battle. They will differ politically and In views on all subjects, and he who attempts to Inject party politics Into the new organization will find him self sailing In troubled waters, with breakers ahead. . But ae to politics In the larger sense, unless we greatly mistake, we shall see a great new force come out of thia new Grand SATURDAY EVENING, Army; a fore# that #hall aid ma terially in the development of the Nation and it# upbuilding along line# that will make it an even better place in which to live than it is to-day. Admiral Bowman is not overlook ing the Importance of permanent de velopment of the Susquehanna basin. During hostilities it was necessary for the Hartlsburg Navy to suspend its program to some extent, but henceforth it may be expected that the water organization will develop plans for greater use of the Susque hanna river at this point. THE WIZARD IS DEAD L FRANK BAUM is dead, and millions of children, old and * young, the country over will mourn his passing. No more will there appear on the bookstands about Christmas time a new volume of adventures in "The Wonderful Land of Oz." The door to the enchanted domain of the Wizard has been closed forever. No body but Frank Baum ever knew the way, but countless children fol lowed when he led the way, as did the babes of another century the Pied Piper of old. Only, after the journey they always came back home again with sweet memories of the wonders they had been shown and thrilling pleasantly with the strangeness of the homely adven tures through which they had passed. Yes, homely, for though grotesque and utterly impossible, the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and other figures that played prominent parts in Baum's stories were human. The things they said and did were the things one would expect of people in the same circumstances. All their experiences and adventures were based on the common, everyday ex periences of life transferred to the realm of the white magic with which the Wizard of Oz surrounded his | kingdom. The Wogglebug, Jack pumpkinhead, the Cowardly Lion, Margery and the rest of them were all real personages, always amusing and mostly charming. Baum had a genius all his own. Nobody will be able to take his place. But his work will live long in the memories of those who saw Mont gomery and Stone personify the characters of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, or who followed the adventures of his grostesque crew through the cleverly illustrated pages of his books. Countless others will enjoy the volumes he has left, but | for those who have followed each | new excursion into Oz, with fresh | wonder afid delight, the end has come. The door to the road to the Wonderful Land of Oz is closed for all time. Frank Baum has passed through, and locked it on the other side and has wandered away to an eternity of days as light and airy and carefree as the hours his follow ers spent with him in years agone, following Margery down the sunlit paths and through the shady bow ers of the delightful country at make-believe, where the impossible happened and miracles were the commonplaces of everyday life. DASHEEN VS. POTATO OUT "West they are trying to introduce the dasheen as a rival to the potato. Indeed, Desheen vs. Potato is a case before the court of public of opinion in almost all of the. Western news papers and in every one of the Western agricultural journals. The Kansas Agricultural College has given special study and care to the cultivation of and experimentation on the uses of the dasheen, and j recently has conducted*what might be called research work for the United States Department of Agri culture if applied to something more dignified or commercially im portant than a mere vegetable. But as the case standi, no one in the western half of the United States may claim standing as a vegetarian who has not a thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of the dasheen. In general characteristics it is said to be similar to the potato. You can eat a dasheen just as. grown, or you can turn it into flour for the baking of almost anything for which wheat flour is ordinarily used. But who wants to eat potato flour with a billion bushel wheat crop at hand, and who wants to eat daslicens (we suppose that is the plural of the word) when potatoes can be grown just as well? As for us, we defy the dasheen enthusiasts to prepare anything from that vege table approaching a dash of mashed potatoes made as the farmers' wives of Pennsylvania can make them— mashed first, then beaten with a fork, the while large quantities of rich milk and fresh butter are added, until they are as smooth as silk and as light as a feather. Liberally deluged with chicken gravy, Penn sylvania mashed potatoes offer a dish that would make the most daintly prepared dasheen blush for shame. No, thank you; send the dish 6f dasheens down to the guest from Kansas. Pass us the mashed pota toes, please, and if you haven't any mashed, why hashed brown, or home-fried, or French-fried will do. Dash the dasheen when there are potatoes to be had. "ROUGH ON REDS" THERE comes a wall from cer tain pacifist circles against the "Rough on Reds" treatment which returned soldiers and sailors are giving some of the radicals who have been trying to overthrow the government for which these young warriors have been fighting. They are the same humanitarian souls who would object to the use of "Rough on Rats" to rid the country of the rodent pest that carries about with it cholera and other disagree able germs. And by the same token, there Is entail difference between the "rede" and the rats. They are both dan gerous. both live off the efforts of others, both do their dirty work in the dark, both are destructive, both are carriers of contagion, both breed disease and death. Our soldier friends are giving the "reds" the only kind of medicine that will do them any good; the only kind of punishment they can understand. A few more such wholesome lessons as were adminis tered in New York the other day, and there will be fewer preachers of Bolshevism in this country. It may be a bit irregular, but it is Justi fied and effective. "PtKKQlfCctUua By the Bi.riaiiiii)iiMinm Requests have been made for a hearing to be given on the Smith bill amending the State Compensa tion code which was presented to the Senate Just before it adjourned for the week on Wednesday and it is probable that it will be arranged for some day during next week. Few bills presented to the Legislature this session have been in greater de mand and legislators who have re mained here for the week-end have received numerous letters from con stituents asking information as to the provisions of the measure and the chances for its adoption. The plan is to have the hearings in the Senate committee on judiciary special to which the bills were re ferred and which reported them out for first reading Wednesday. The various other bills relating to compensation which have been in troduced in the House and Senate will be held pending action on the Smith bills, which embody many of the features suggested in other measures. Final hearings will likely be held by the House appropriations com mittee during the coming week. The members of the State Armory Board will be here during the week to ex plain the plans of the Board for construction of armories. It is the hope to provide a number of new buildings for the new National Guard, for which appropriations will be made on a basis of a division of peace strength. —The question whether a com mittee of the House of Representa tives can strike from a bill an amendment made by the House be fore the bill is re-referred to com mittee will be threshed out on Mon day night in the lower branch of the Legislature when the Fox pro hibition enforcement bill backed by the Anti-Saloon League is reached on third reading. The printed copies of the bill, purporting to show the bill as amended in the Law and Or der committee on Wednesday, were distributed to-day and show that the amendment incorporating the right of "search and seizure" in serted by Representative W. C. Alex ander, of Delaware county, on the floor Tuesday morning, is in the bill. The Law and Order committee ordered it stricken out. Members of the committee will attack the ac tion of the printer and demand to know by what authority the amend ment was left in the bill. Liquor in terests were behind insertion of the tfcWendment and are said to have been contending that they have par liamentary practice on their side. They have been having men look up decisions of the House and will resist the effort of the "drys" to throw out the amendment as con trary to action of the committee and a scheme to make the bill un popular. —Members of the Legislature are trying to dispose of something like 2.000 bills at a time when the Gen eral Assemblies of Pennsylvania in some of the years of the last three decades have been getting ready to adjourn finally. There were over 1,400 bills listed in the House when the time for presentation of bills ex pired on Wednesday and five-sixths of them are in committee. The Senate has over 600 bills of its own on its lists and quite a number of measures passed on by the House which will hardly ever see the light of day. The flood of legislation this year was not as great as in the ses sions of 1909, 1913 and 1917, but has exceeded other years, and the variety of subjects is greater than in any session .since 1913. Another distinctive feature about the bills in hand is that so many are proposed amendments to codes, which shows that, even with the statutes in codi fied form, there are many alterations desired. During the coming week there will be numerous sessions of committees to clear up the lists, as Speaker Spangler has called upon the chairmen to expedite matters, and warned that in a short time the appropriation bills will commence to come out and that special calen dars will require days to c-lear and that measures not acted upon soon will have to take their chances. —Senator T. Larry Eyre, Repub lican leader of Chester county, serves notice in his West Chester Record upon Gilford Pinchot that he is not going to be permitted to boss the Republican party in Pennsyl vania, says the Philadelphia Inquir er. Pinchot's announcement that he is a candidate to go as a delegate to the National Convention and his elimination for the Presidency prompts a tart reply. "The threat to defeat any candidate who docs not bear the brand of Mr. Pinchot and his followers is an insult to the intelligence of the Republican vot ers of the United States," says the editor of the West Chester Record; "it is an Insult to the men who may have political aspirations toward the Presidency, and it is an open af front to those Republicans who have been true to Republican principles and all circumstances. Mr. Pinchot rails at President Wilson and says he must be defeated if he shall again become a candidate for the Presidency. We agree with him. ' Or any other Democrat who is nom inated must also be defeated. Rut, if Mr. Pinchot 4s truly desirous of bringing about this result, he must throw down his club, draw iu his horns, turn face about and make amends for his past actions." At the End—Youth If I had created men and women, I should have framed them on a type widely different from that which has actually prevailed—that of the higher mammifers. I should have made men and women, not to resemble the great apes as they do, but on the models of Insects which, after a life as caterpillars, change into butterflies, and for the brief final term of their existence have no thought but to love and be lovely. I should have set youth at the end of the human span.—From "The Garden of Epicurus," by Ana toli France. w\C f"V T.^T* T & C ' •'/*-• * HAJRJEUSBURG o{££A& TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS fOH bTITv- T/~C - IT'S /^"MAmK I LoST A~"\ / ->") I OH BILLY Vve LOST \ X- - A A <SOO£> JoKe OM Mf WWMX.RBD OOLLAft ) / Yen .I 1 My beautiful purse / WCLL-vubil I— i MM) MV CAP VICTORY bond- BUT It 1 ="// \— IT HAD ouep. Pi FT Y 1/ Don T l-VAKe \ ,Vr fJ Ths oTupo 1 C * M PH'LOSOPHICAI/ BOLLMIS IM IT. BUT I // 51/ch \ S r^Y -BPSIOPS ILL BUY / ' I But- "BILL DRoP AMOTHER / FOURSomES Go ThRouGH- l'fV\ [AI. ©AIL - THAT rouRSoME ©ACtf I I / ft lkiA To PlwD TIIAT Bftl l' ! Mi# io "\ wamta throush -'. \ ,T°S R 6 ight ,M here { T*°LUC*°M"HC\ X^S^^PLACg -^w/4^ Simple Man's Simple Creed [John D. Wells in the Buffalo Eve* ning News.] Elisher—he's our hired man — Allows there ain't no better plan Of circumventin' woes an' cares Than smilin' when y* come down stairs: An' lives up to it, square an' blunt. Dike general run of preachers won't! Elisher smiles an' fore you know The rest of us is smilin' so Ketchin'-like! My law, It flits from him to me an' maw, An' then across to Uncle Dri Or Mairy Ellen mebbe! why, I've seen it set the pup A-waggin' fore the sun was up! Then bimeby, as like as not, Some man will pass that's mebbe got A mortgage that his crops can't fetch, But like enough the man will ketch Elisher's smile an' drop his frown An' tote the smile away to town, An' peddle it where, bein' wuss, The people need it more than us! The feller at the griss mill gits The spirit of the smile—it flits Across an' through the blacksmith's door, An' breezes through the general store. Then out again, an' wreaths, dog gone, Whatever face it fastens on— Because Elisher's smile is jis' As ketchin' as the pink eye is! An' then the feller brings it back At night along the back'urds track, An' scatters it on either side The County road, both far an' wide, Until, by time when we get in From work, the smile is back agin! Back home agin! an' seems t' bless Elisher for his cheerfulness. "Because you smiled," it seems to say! "The world has had a holiday!" Old Friend Coming Back [From the Kansas City Times] The locusts are coming. The sev enteen-year locust. Scientists have given us the advanced warning t Pit the singing bugs are to be with us again this year. There was a time when we feared thent. They frightened the children, menaced the crops, stung the horses, stampeded the cattle and drove the dogt mad, according to the tia.'i tions and superstitions surrounding the seventeen-year locust. Once they were regarded as a "gig!.," a sign of anything that hap pened out of the usual after the j ar uf tin ir visitation. Immediately t'Ol lowirg the Civil War they were re garded as a sure token of wai, be cause they appeared just before the outbreak of the Rebellion. If dry weather happened one year when they appeared, their next apperance on the scene was regarded as the forerunner of a drought. But we have lost faith in them as a "sign." War did not follow in their wake, and it rained the next time they came after the drought, so we quit betting on them as "signs." We believed at one time that they carried about with them a "stinger" beside which the business depart ment of the bumble bee was a sooth ing portion, and our childhood days were replete with stories about what happened to bad boys who tried to catch them and put them in the teacher's desk at school. We have become suspicious that the story was started by an old maid school teach er who hated insects of all kinds, in cluding had boys. Now, the scientists tell us that the only damage they do is to sting small fruit, and drill holes into the limbs of trees in order to lay their eggs. Therefore we are told to screen our cherry trees and cover up the cher ries. The once proud locust that put the mighty Pharaoh "on the blink" has become only a pestiferous insect, a maker of noise and a disturber of (he peace of Sunday school picnics. OLD LADY Why is life "all right?" Well, take your case; You're seventy now and almost through with it: You've borne eight children, outlived all but two: Those two are poor and you're still "strong" at your age, And do the housework: wash, bake, iron clothes In a hot kitchen when the heat's ap palling: Your husband's dead: your friends don't come to see you: You sit alone at night to read your Book And your head nods, you dream of days gone by: After a while you creak to bed and darkness — Is life "worth while?" I, knowing all your story. Am sure of It, now I have seen your smile. —Samuel McCoy In Scribner's Mag- Mine. 4 COLLEGE BOY NO MOLLYCODDLE FOR example, the idea of using the bayonet was praeticulary distasteful to most of the young college men with whom 1 talked in America before they came to Prance. I believe that some natural repug nance existed among our troops as a mass. Yet every officer with whom 1 talked spoke of the readiness and eagerness of his men to charge with the bayonet. Scores of officers have told me that the only difficulty they ever had with a platoon, company, battalion, or regiment was to hold them back and stop them from try ing to make too long advances. I have it from officer after officer out of his actual experience that the Germans would not stand up to our men with the bayonet, and one older man, with the habit of careful ob servation, told me he had seen num bers of German dead, killed by the bayonet, but had never been able to find on the tield of battle a single American killed by the bayonet. This seems to me a prerogative in stance of the triumph of will, rea son, and the sense of duty over the repugnance of natural instincts which must have been, from what I saw before I left America, par- Peace Term Remit' l ers [Girard in the Press.] Things that came to mind when the peace terms were announced: — Germany knows it isn't true. There was no peace without victory —for the Allies. America was not "too proud to fight" nor too weak to dictate terms of surrender. Jupan did nothing to win the war, but takes a big piece of the booty. She holds that part of China which she captured from Germany. On the same terms, England, which spent 1,000,000 lives and forty bil lions of money, would be entitled to all of Belgium which she captured front the Hun. The Crown Prince of Germany insists he is not an idiot. That can be set down as a minority report. Germany loses territory twenty one times us big as Pennsylvania. Over nearly all of this the English language will prevail. The troupe front Berlin spoke its piece in German, but must submit its reply to the peace terms in English and French. Little Jack Horner stuck in his thumb and got out a plttnt. Uncle Sam put in the war 60,000 human lives and thirty billions of cash and pulls out nary a plunt, but does ex tract enough glory to last forever. The old German complaint was that "every man must carry a sol dier on his back." With the German army cut to 100,000 troops that will give the Teuton tnxpayer a rest for which he may thank his enemy and friend, the Allies and America. When asked to buy a V bond, please remember that if Germany sat at the head of the peace table in stead of Clemenceau, you would not be asked, but ordered to buy at least five times as many bonds to give the Kaiser. "I will pay no indemnity," says the Hun. Very well, if a thirty bi'- lion-dollar rose smells sweeter when called a "reparation," so be it. All German ' money looks alike to France and Belgium. Impudence of Germain/ If, as is alleged. Germany intends to present a counter claim against that of the Entente Allies for deaths of civilians, fall in birth rate and losses directly and indirectly due to the blockade set up by the British fleet and carried on with the assist ance of other belligerents up to the close of the war, it is clear that not only is she totally Impenitent, but as impudent and arrogant as ever. A blockade or state of siege in which the object is to cut off supplies from an enemy, is one of the most ac cepted and at the same time humane forms of warfare, for it can be brought to an end whenever the subject of the siege chooses to yield. —From the New York Herald. Booming Bread Prices Bread prices In Chicago have gone up twenty per cent, and a good thing like that may be expected to spread over the country In time. Retailers charge that bakers have formed a c mblne to boost prices, nnd an investigation is threatened. If it is the kind of Investigation the public has usually been treMed to, it will be the turn of the price boosters to smile out. loud.i—From the Philadelphia Pies*. J ticularly great among college men. I remember one of my students, a young man of the utmost refine ment of spirit, whom I asked: "What branch of the service will you choose?" He said: "The in fantry." "Why?" "Because I be lieve this war must be settled by dirty work with the bayonet. I hate the thought of it, but I want to take my share of the dirty work." The gallant lad who insisted on going in to the ranks, and was commissioned almost in spite of himself, died heroically in the south bank of the Marne helping to stem the German rush across the river. The official report said that in the immediate vicinity of his dead body and that of the eilisted man who fell beside hi*", there were XI dead Germans. Those people who feared that war would breed among any class of our American young men, college men or others, a military spirit or a love for war, may lay aside their fears. If you want to meet people who hate war with a deadly hate, talk now with officers and men of our army who have been in France.— From "The College Man in Action," by Paul van Dyke, in the May Scrib ner. Expediting Justice A bill before the legislature fix ing the time within which any per son arrested shall be conveyed be fore a magistrate and providing penalty for violation, will surprise most persons unfamiliar with the methods of minor courts and offi cials. It has been the general be lief that the law already prescribed that elmenthy precautions for the protection of accused, not always however regarded. One evil it may help to check is the "third degree" practice. Usually this is resorted to at the point of physical exhaustion which would not be reached if the accused were guaranteed an appearance before a magistrate and opportunity for pro tection within 24 hours. It might also operate to reduce the "suspicious character" abuse which is emp'oyed to cover so many cflXcial derelictions. Above all it. should help to assure the law-abid ing citizen security against wrong ful detention at the mere pleasure of the arresting officer. The re markable thing is that it should be necessary to enact such a law at this day.—From the Pittsburgh Dis patch. End of German Militarism The great German General Staff is abolished by the Treaty of Peace, and the army is reduced to 100,000 men, including 4,000 officers. These two requirements, to which Germany must submit, would alone suffice to tell the story of the limitation of military strength imposed by the victors in the great war. Germany will not be able to disturb the peace of Europe in our time, and perhaps never again. With her people re leased from the burden of taxation to keep up a great army and navy, her military system shattered, her military caste deprived of its arro gant power and dispersed, German statesmen can Indulge no more in dreams of empire. The old order has passed: the new order will be devoted to peace and industry, for great reparation costs have to be paid, and Germany must qualify by good works and self-discipline to re enter the family of nations and enjoy their respect again.—From the New York Times. Casket 120 Years in Making The casket used in the recent funeral of Grand Prince Yt of Corea was fashioned 120 years ago, and was coated with black lacquer two and one-half inches thick. In Corea it has been a custom from olden times to keep VRrious sizes of coffins In the Chosei (Bong Life) Palace, and to apply a new coat of lacquer twice each year, in spring and au tumn. Thus the lacquer gains In thickness with each generation.— From the Seoul Press. Breaking News in Missouri During the coming summer, when some Pilot Grove boy reads in "Forty Buckets of Blood" or "Two Gun Dave" that the hero's trusty rifle spoke thrice and three more blood thirsty redskins bit the dust, he will not be able to fully appreciate the sufferings of the prostrate Injuns, for the city fathers have decided to oil the streets and there will be no dust for Pilot Grove folks to bite. —From the Pilot Grove Record. MAY 10, 1919. The Baltimore Election [From the Philadelphia Press.] The Republican victory in the Bal timore city election is of great politi cial significance. The feat was ac complished of electing a Republican Mayor in one of the strongholds of Democracy, and in a Southern city which possesses most of the old party traditions of that section of the country. Moreover, it was the first municipal contest to take place in the new Greater Baltimore, with all of the additional territory that has been taken within the city limits. Together with the Republican vic tory in the Louisville election of last year, it shows that a part of the South can no longer be considered the sure property of the Democratic party. The Republicans of Baltimore well deserve their success. They present ed a united front, and they nomi nated for Mayor a man who meas ured up to the office and who had long been a leader in city affairs. They conducted a campaign that was planned with skill and executed with vigor. They presented a platform that appealed to the voters. They were helped by the attempt of the Democratic State machine to get control of the city, and they made the most of that issue. Senator John Walter Smith dictated the nomina tion of his party, and he wtll have to face the results next year when he comes up for re-election. The victory of Tuesday gives to the Re publicans an excellent opportunity to gain another Senator in Mary land in 192 0. | The Democrats of Baltimore will suffer a heavy loss in patronage. There are five thousand offices that will be lost to them. When the new ] city charter ivas passed by the Legis lature, the Democrats refused to put | them under civil service. Conse j quently, they will pass into the pos session of the Republicans. The re sult is that the Republicans can look forward to next year with great confidence. With both the prestige and the practical effect of the Balti more triumph, Maryland is at least a doubtful state for the Presidential contest of 1920. There is signlfiance, too, in the result as showing the strong Republican drift in the country to-day. It is an omen that may well cause anxious nights to the Democracy. The Constantinople Mandate This Constantinople mandate will, as a matter of fact, require a lot of consideration before we accept it. It wi'l be a heavy, a costly and possibly a perilous responsibility. We must not delude ourselves with (he pleasing fiction that the moment Old Glory goes up over the minarets of the picturesque city on the Bos porus, the European peoples, who have coveted, intrigued and fought for Constantinople for centuries, will automatically cease to desiro It. Very easily can we imagine a num ber of nations as coming to regard it again as a literal necessity of nntional life and being quite pre pared to go to war for it.-—From the Philadelphia Ledger. The Metric System The World Trade Club, of Ran Francisco, urging that England and America join the metric league and make it unanimous, points out that even now these countries are metric measures in world postage, electri cal industry, science and medicine, airplane engines: that they used and accustomed to the system during the war: that world war news was generally printed with metric terms because there was no time to trans late: that forty million American school children have been taught the system and that nearly every body has had to buy, sell, quote, use and talk in metric terms. —From the New York Sun. Hunger in Germany In characteristic fashion, a Ger man scientist has figured out that hunger resulting from the Allied blockade caused the people of the empire to lose weight to the aggre gate to the extent of 520,000 metric tons. They lost some other things while that blockade was In full pro gress. e.id we trust that the Herren Profesoren will tabulate them under their proper clas-lflcatlon with equal precision. The Teutonic gift for analysis can never he better exercised In revealing to the war makers the exact cost of their ad venture.—From the New York World. Etottfttg Qtyat Members of the Telegraph fa ..il ly have welcomed home half a* dozen of the soldier sons the last few days, but none of the return ing warriors who have upheld th® traditions of the Harrlsburg Tele graph's people in war after war,' was extended a heartier greeting than Charles W. Thomas, first lieu tenant of Company I, of the One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry. Lieutenant Thomas will take up his work as assistant foreman of the news composing room when he is' mustered out, as Telegraph policy Is to give its members their jobs when they return from fighting for pif I LIEUT. CHARLES W. THOMAS their country. Lieutenant Thomas has been in military training most of his life. He started in at Scotland Soldiers' Orphan School and when just of the required age, entered Company I of the old Eighth. He served some time and when the Na tional Guardsmen were called for | Mexican border service, he re-entered and became first sergeant of the [company, serving throughout the El , Paso tour of duty, coming home with • the rank of lieutenant. He was train jed at Camp Hancock and Fort Sill jand went over with the One Hun -1 dred and Twelfth, going through everything that it went up against in France. Lieutenant Thomas has a fine record in which every member of the Telegraph family takes pride. With the close of the Victory Loan campaign to-day, Mercer B. Tata goes buck to his "regular job" for the first time since the war started. Many Harrisburg people have been called upon for war service duties, but few have been so steadily at work or so often drafted for ardu ous work as Mr. Tate, and few, it may be said, could have acquitted themselves so well. Tate has been an active member of every commit tee on every war drive that has been staged since the war began and in addition has been employed con stantly by the lted Cross. His ser vice has been modest and unosten tatious. He has seldom appeared in the lime-light. But he has worked as much as twenty hours a day and a lot harder than he would have had it been his own duties. And now, the war being over and the last drive staged, he breathes a sign of relief and is beginning to think about the necessity of making a little money for himself. Those who know what he did in a patriotic way, say that when the medals are being passed round a large bright one should be presented to Tate. • * • "I am going home to tell the folks in Altoona what I saw the Boy Scouts of Harrisburg do toward pre serving order during the parade on Wednesday," said Harry K. Price, an Altoona man, to a Telegraph re porter yesterday. "1 would like Al toona Scouts to know what your boys do. It was certainly an inspir ing sight. And those boys know when they are within their rights, [too, as was shown by the spirited manner in which they resented the efforts of a lad in civilian clothes who struck one of them while the Scout was keeping the crowd back. The fault was entirely the boy's. The Scout did only his duty, but it certainly did my heart good to see that the youngster who started the disturbance was fined by the Mayor." • • • Congressman L. T. McFadden, of the northern tier, who was hero yesterday in the action against Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams, is well known to many residents of this city, as for years he came here to attend legis lative sessions as an officer of the State Grange. He is a banker, a farmer and also a fighter, as the Federal officials have found out lately. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Attorney General Schaffer has been much complimented for the action of the State in the telephone rate cases by many of the legislators. —James M. Yeager, former Unit ed States mnrshnl, was here yester day visiting friends on the Hiil. He used to be in the Legislature. —Michael J. Martin, here yester day for the Federal Court, is one of the prominent lawyers of the Lackawanna bar. —Ex-Senator John W. Hoke,, editor nnd lawyer, spent yesterday In the city visiting his brother, Howard M. Hoke. Mr. Hoke is an authority on the Cumberland Valley history nnd of a family that lias been active in the literary line. —.Judge John W. Reed sat for bis first hearings as a public service commissioner at Pittsburgh this week. DO YOU KNOW —That Hnrrisburg has been making parts for some of the Navy's smaller craft? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —This city has operated under five different laws relating to munic ipal government, the first dating from 1791.
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