10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XmVBPAPER FOR THE BOMB Founded Ml Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH FRETTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square EL J. STACKPOLE Pretident and BditorJn-CMaf, JT. R. OYSTER, Busineee Manager TffUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager t .Executive Beard 1. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Prsss is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies, Eastern off i o e. Story, Brooks A Avenue Building, Western office' Btory, Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, ( Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. . iHTTTtr _ By carrier, ten eenta a qIKMsd week; by mail, |3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919 After your death you were better have a bad epitaph, than ill report while you lived.—Shopespeare. GERMANY WILL SIGN GERMANY will continue to pro test against the terms of the peace treaty, but Germany will sign. What else is there for her to do? Join with Russia and go Bol shevik? Not if the former prince lings and diplomats who are in con trol of the German peace delegation know it. All their interests lie in the other direction. They are men of property who would lose their holdings if Lenine and his methods are set up as models in Germany. No, they will not turn Bolshevik and they will sign—or starve, and it is against the German nature to go hungry if the wherewithal to fill the stomach may be had. Unquestionably, the treaty is a bitter dose, but as Maximillian Har den, the noted German editor, says: "What else could you expect?" Un questionably, also, the German del egates would like to get the allies into discussions that might lead to differences of opinion and an open breach that in turn would redound to Germany's advantage. But the allies are standing firm, and in the end the Germans will sign, and hav ing signed they will have to pay. The price of defeat is high, but the stipulations of the treaty are mild beside those the Kaiser planned to impose if the Central Powers won. Germany meant to rule the world with an iron hand. America and all other countries were to become Ger man colonies. A German princeling was to be regent of America. Even the name of Washington was to be Germanized. Beside these the terms of the allies are generous in the ex treme. PLENTY OF THRILLS SAYS the Kansas City Star, com menting upon the lack of at tention with which the trans- Atlantic flight has been received by the reading public: "We are coming to be a jaded world. Are there no thrills left at all?" And we reply in the negative. We are not jaded, and there are thrills aplenty. We judge our friend, the author of the Star's entertaining and entirely human editorial column, must have gone on a vacation and left one of the callous young men who prepare the police court copy for the paper to write the editorials. It is the observation of old newspapermen that the new reporter seldom sees any good in the world, and it is only by long experience that he comqs to understand that the world is a really a very good old world, that romance waits around every corner, that nine out of every ten little homes have their own pretty little love stories, that the milk of human kindness flows freely in the veins of even the meanest of us and that often it will make its presence felt under the moat unexpected circumstances. And by the same token the old and expe rienced newspaperman knows that there are thrills aplenty in the world: thrills the like of which the best efforts of a star reporter, with an exciting murder mystery as his subject, could not conjure up. But, of course, not all of them find their way into print. There is, for ex ample, the thrill of mother or sweet heart when she hears her beloved has embarked for home after help ing beat the Hun in France, the thrill of the father in the honest, level-eyed gaze of a sturdy son, the thrill of lovers when they meet in the gloaming, the thrill of patriot ism in the boyish heart when the old flag goes by, the thrill of the hunter as he heads into the wilderness, the thrill of the fisherman when the trout strikes his fly, the thrill 'of the school boy with vacation Just ahead; oh, there are thrills, and thrills; thrills aplenty; only some of us have hardened our hearts to them, and some of us are too callous to feel And, othexn TUESDAY EVENING, HXRRXSBURG mental eocktall or two before our barnacle-covered thrillers will eet under way. BUSINESS BAROMETER THE number of business failures recorded in any given period may not reflect the activity or stagnation of trade prevailing at the time, but the record of failures un questionably may be taken as an unfailing indication of business sta bility or uncertainty, as the case may be. That being true, there should be encouragement for jloubtlng souls in the financial failures last month and for the year to date as compared with those of the same intervals last year. Notwithstand ing that war prosperity was at its height in 1918, the number of fail ures the first four months of 1919 Iwere only 2,012, or 47 less than for the same months in 1918, and the to tal number of failures in the United States during April was only 462, the lowest since 1894, and 44 per cent, below the record for April of last year. NON-PARTISAN REPEALER JUST why anybody in Pennsylva nia should get all "het up" the way certain members of the Third Class City League appear to be over the passage by the Legislature of the bill to repeal the non-partisan clause of the Clark small council act is not clear. Certainly, the law has not eliminated politics from city council in Harrisburg, and we do not believe it has in any city in the Com monwealth. By the very nature of conditions it could not. The only effect the non-partisan clause did have was to take into the field a vast number of candidates in the pri mary elections, many of whom were utterly unfit and who got but a handful of the result that those who were nominated were in few cases the choice of a majority of the voters participating in the elections. And in Harrisburg, at least, party politics has not stopped at the gen eral elections. Always there has been a sharp division along party lines, except when it happened that all five members were Republicans, as is at present the case. Senator Smith acted in accord with local public opinion when he voted for the repealer. Harrisburg people know that the non-partisan elections under the Clark act have always been violently partisan and they would like to have a spade called a spade. They would prefer that a Republican run as a Repub lican and a Democrat as a Democrat, rather than each masquerade as a non-partisan, ready to throw oft the mask at the first propitious mo ment. WORTHY MEASURES THERE are several bills pending in the Legislature having for their purpose the control and suppression of vice in Pennsylvania and it is almost certain that some of these measures will be enacted into law before the end of the session. During the war activities much was done to create public sentiment on this subject and in many of the cities and towns active committees were organized for co-operation with the authorities in overcoming the conditions. It is urged that under existing laws there are certain forms of vice which cannot be properly reached and the pending bills are intended to overcome the situation. Commissione rof Health Martin is taking vigorous measures to suppress prostitution in this State, with a view to making cleaner cities and com munities generally. Many civic or ganizations are taking part in this work and co-operating with the De partment of Justice and the local au thorities. Any legislation that will strengthen the hands of those en gaged in this laudable work will have the approval of the people in every part of the State. "SILLY," INDEED THE New York World reprints the following editorial from the columns of the Harrisburg Patriot and Union, November 24, 1863, characterizing President Lin coln's famous Gettysburg speech as "silly remarks": The President succeeded on this occasion because he acted without sense and without con straint in a panorama that was gotten up more for the benefit of his party than for the glory of the nation and the honor of the dead. * * • We pass over the silly remarks of the Presi dent; for the credit of the na tion we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall no more be repeated or thought of. Says the World, byway of com ment: This is not an extract from an editorial in the Netv York Sun or the New York Tribune. Nor were the sentiments quoted above taken from any of the public ut terances of Senator Foindexter or Senator Sherman or Senator McCormlck. They are from an editorial that was printed in the Harrisburg Patriot and Union on November 24, 1863, and have no reference to Woodrow Wilson. The President in question was Abraham Lincoln. The "silly re marks" were the Gettysburg speech. Of, course, the purpose of the World Is to compare President Wil son with Lincoln and to discourage criticism of his actions in France. But President Wilson never uttered a Gettysburg speech. When he had the opportunity to do so, upon the occasion of the great reunion of the Blue and Gray on the battle field a few years ago, he failled so miserably that nobody now remem bers what he said. But the real point to the remarks on Lincoln's address which the Harrisburg Patriot and Union felt called upon to make and to which the World so properly takes exception, is that for the past fifty years and more Demo cratic newspapers of this stamp have, anything emanating from the Re publican party. To their jaundiced vision everything Republican was in bad, most Republicans are crooks and even Lincoln was "silly." IfoCilSe* £*> 'Puiot(to<uik By As Ti OsimiMlM na— While the movement for an unin structed delegation from Pennsyl vania to the next Republican na tional convention Is growing very strong in the State, some of the Western Pennsylvania people are very much disposed not to allow the name of Senator Philander C. Knox to be overlooked when Presi dential possibilities are mentioned. Similarlly, Philadelphia people are inclined to boost the qualifications of Governor William C. Sproul. The Governor some time ago said that he did not Intend to allow the buzzing of any Presidential bee to , distract his attention from his work as the business head of a business State and possibly he had,, the ex perience of some Governors in years gone by in mind. To callers lately, the Governor has expressed a very set determination to make his ad ministration of State affairs notable for efficiency of its methods and to achieve legislative results that will be constructive and lasting. —Members of the State Senate are getting ready to give a great greeting to Colonel Joseph H. Thompson, of the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, at the review in Philadelphia 'on Thursday. The Colonel was Senator from the Lawr ence-Beaver district for a term and is one of the best known men in legislative circles. It would not bei surprising if he would return to! politics and, perhaps, figure in a State way. —Another man who was in the war who will likely be heard of is Colonel Asher Miner, of Wilkes- Barre, who commanded the artillery regiment formed of the old Ninth Pennsylvania, and who lost a foot in action. Colonel Miner served in the Legislature and is well known to many men in public life. —From all accounts it is the ad ministration plan to pass the com pensation bills, although the reor ganization measure will be amended so as to increase authority of the commissioner of Labor and Industry. There is no disposition to make a separate department of the Com pensation Bureau and as far as the abridgment of the appointing power of the commissioner of labor, there will be -nothing doing. Opposition to the increase of rates in the com pensation act will be manifested strongly in the next few weeks. —Much interest has been aroused in the "Farmer's Dinner" to be held to-night by the members of the Leg islature who own or operate farms. The dinner will be attended by Gov ernor Sproul and Secretary of Agri culture Rasmussen. The Secretary is expected to make some statement of his aims. Representative C. G. Jordan, of Lawrence county, will preside. —Men active in the Philadelphia charter revision announced early this morning that this was going to be a quiet week. The Philadelphia bills will rest in committee until the Governor gets a chance to go over them and meanwhile the vari ous accompanying measures will be permitted to rest. So will the Dis trict Attorney bills. —The fact that Senator Wood ward, one of the charter revisors, voted to repeal the third-class city nonpartisan election law last night was much commented upon. The neagtives were: Baldwin, F. E. and R. J.; Barr, Craig, Dewitt, Herron, Leiby, Phipps, Sassaman, Snyder, Tompkins and Turner. • —The Mclntyre bill passed last night for equalization of teachers' salaries was the first put through by the Teachers' Union, a new organi zation. —Many members of the State Federation of Labor visited the leg islative halls last night. —Representative E. R. Cox, of Philadelphia, presided in the House for a time last night, —The legislative baseball game for the benefit of Harrisburg char ities is to take place to-morrow af ternoon at 3:30 at the Island. The battery for the Ayes will be Brady and Willson, the former an old Penn player: and for the Noes. Quigiey, of Penn State, and Mcln tyre. Some of the best known leg islative batters and aviators will play. —The Public Ledger in an edi torial accepts the anti-sedition bill. After reviewing the amendments it says: "No one supposes that it was the intention to stifle freedom of speech and writing, but that would have been the effect of the bill as originally drawn. But by omitting two of the objectional definitions,, that which would have penalized the inciting of 'discontent' with gov ernment and that describing dis turbance of 'peace and tranquillity as sedition,' and by the addition of a phrase making it clear that the penalties for sedition are to be im posed only when seditious intent is proved, the bills becomes no longer open to the objections tliat have been urged against its enactment." —An interesting situation in in ternal revenue service is contained in a dispatch from Reading, which says Jerome J. Leahy, of Philadelr phia, has been appointed depuw' collector of internall revenue, with headquarters in Reading, to succeed Jacob Scheifele, who resigned on April 1. The appointment of Leahy, who is a former newspaper man, was recommended by Ephrlam Led erer, internal revenue collector at Philadelphia, and approved by the department at Washington. Leahy wns certified from the civil service list. Scheifele resigned on account of the new tax laws Increasing the duties of the office, which pays SI,BOO a year. Happy Orchards Happy orchards now we see. Apricot and Damson tree, Peach and pear and golden plum, And soon the apple bloom will come. How they happen, only they Who have hearts the proper way Can quite tell you truly-true— But I've guessed a lot, like you. And I think I'm wise to this— That the blossoms, with that scent Of some magic firmament, Happen when the fairies miss Lips that unto them are bent And give the trees a sudden kiss! e—JL the Eattlmot& Bun, AWT IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELUP? ..... By BRIGGS TVte M/M_ MAN ""* ND You utoi-oea movn pr PAYING brings rna long You arc <&oin<s To , \ ~ ' exPecreo invotatiom aaamag? Thc purchase Your INCOM6 FAvSTC ° C * ■SU'TABI.e. GIF? -AMD ThC VICTORY - You SCEK To LCaRM ~ AND You i ThiS loan <serj TVte "Ths fatal datc to announcement (WStDe . „ RE-st Send ALON6 The OMiss/arf QF Gifts IS Desißeo G ' F ~ r r— -x OH-'H-HBOV!!- ( Svweaß AU. Y&A I ITS SIMPLV J AIN T /IT A *•- 4T S /, AWFUL To BB J AND GLOR*R~R-*'OUS A $>|3JL AO OCCASIOM —/' I Poo ft sXoS / ' . 9 FEELINi,? Out Czaring the Czars We have never been an advocate of czars. We do not approve of despots, as a class, For they ride around in highly gild ed cars, While their faithful subjects walk —and buy the gas. But the czars at least were troubled in their minds Lest from out their high positions, they be hurled, While the Bolshevik —confound him! —robs whoever is around him. And he hasn't got a worry in the world! We have noticed that the maximum of spoil Was awarded by a nation to the throne, — That the ruler, for a minimum of toil Held the bulk of all the real estate-alone: But he had to work a little, now and then. Though he did it rather sketchlly, of course. While the Bolshevik—gol-durn him thinks that loafing ought to earn him Just as much as if he labored like a horse! We could never warm to monarchs as a rule, Nor believe that crowns and scepters made 'em great, We'd about as soon be chummy with a ghoul As the ordinary Russian potentate, Eut a czar would sometimes get a little soft When for clemency his people would beseech, While the Bolshevik —doggone him! —when an ugly fit is ,on him Butchers every one that comes within his reach! In the later days the czars were prone to feel That they might not be exclusively the works, They were easy with the well known iron heel When the people got to sharpen ing their dirks. And, petitioned for concessions now and then They were often times disposed to come across. But the Bolshevik —-dad-blan\e him! thinks the public should ac claim him . The sole-constituted, undisputed Boss! „ . By James J. Montague. Shell Shock Is Neurosis [From the Scientific American] The medical department of the United States Army has found that the early conclusions regarding shell Shock are not true. There.is. really no such thing as shell shock al though there are many cases of \var neurosis. War neurosis is really not different from neurosis found beyond th Neurosis, whether found in the army or among civilians, is a sub conscious desire and the condition induced thereby t0 a Y®'£ a discomfort In the ar my, it 's a subconscious desire to get to or main at the rear. However it does not necessarily follow that thei pa tient is lacking in courage, for there are many cases of war neurosis in duced by the mental attitude of the patient) concerning promotions, leave, alleged favoritism, etc. Among of ficers, neurosis is often induced by the responsibility occasioned by the demands at the front. -v-n Investigation has shown that shell shock or neurosis is unheard of among prisoners, although they may be in fearful physical or mental con dition, just as it is almost unheard of among wounded, excepting those who are about to bo returned to their commands. Emphasis should be laid on the fact that shell shock or neurosis is a subconscious attitude and a dis ease which must be cured. There are comparatively few cases of pati ents faking. Many soldiers having neurosis will remain uncured even after re turning to civil life unless the dis ease is thoroughly (understood so that proper treatment may be given. Steamships Should Carry Sails I think a good many steamships cause of complaint by failing to car ry sails. If they once get out of coal or oil, as they very well may, or if their engines break down and they have no sails, they are In a bad way at once. There cannot well be conceived a more helpless object than a big steamship with nothing more to propel her than a couple of bridge awnings and a spare tarpau lin. It teems absurd that such should be the case, but I have known quite a few such ships to be lacking in sails altogether.—Richard Mat thews Hailet in the Saturday Even ing, JBcb&f NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR [Glrard In the Philadelphia Press.] TWO famous Philadelphia mil lionaires were in London and attended a ceremony, in honor of a man who had been decorated by the King for a notable service. Whispered one Philadelphian to the other:— "Bill, what do you think they would give us in England?" to which Bill replied:— "About ten years." America has had some exception ally fine newspaper work done dur ing this war, but since "Republics are ungrateful" these journalists have had no decorations and few 1 bouquets. Not so in England, where a long list of newspaper men have been honored by the King with titles ranging from that of plain baronet to belted earl. We seldom hear of that younger Harmsworth in America, but like his famous bro -er. Lord Northcliffe, Lord Rothmere is also a big publish er. He has just been elevated to thfe peerage as was also the owner of another London newspaper, Lord Burnham. There was not a cent of profit in the war, directly or Indirectly, for the American newspaper. Whoever else was a profiteer, who- Policy on Military Training [William Slavens McNutt In Col lier's Weekly.] What, for example. Is the will of the army as to military training for Americans in the future? Do they want universal service? If so, what form of it? Four million of our best young men know the from the inside. Any policy adopted will apply to their sons. And from the American Legion, an organization of men who know, wo should certainly get the proper expression of will on the subject: the will, not of the officers only, nor the enlisted men, but of them all as a competent, represen tative body with the experience nec essary for the formation of a ripe judgment. "It is to be a strictly nonpartisan organization," Colonel Roosevelt says of it. "It will not have poll tics, but it will have policies." It will be interesting to learn what the organization's policy as to mili tary training will be. Whatever it is, it surely should be authoritative. Surely its influence should be a stiff opponent both to chin-whisk ered jingoism from within and even less barbered Bolshevism from with out. Two million two hundred thousand of the men who will be members of this organization know Europe from at least some degree of personal contact. They are not to be further impressed by ostentatious tail twisting and feather pulling. Neither are they to be dazzled by the label "Made in Europe" on any so cial theories advanced for their con sideration. Best English Love Story? (From the London Express.) What is the greatest love story in the world? Of course, if one count ed in plays the palm would go to "Romeo and Juliet." If one put in episodes, most people would go to the Bible or the classics and use the story of Ruth or Dante's poignant picture of Francesca do Rimini. But let us rule these things out and stick to books, and English ones at that. What beats "The Cloister and the Hearth?" One correspondent says "Jane Eyre;" another "Lorna Doone." We vote for "Pride and Prejudice." It is the greatest and most typical of English love stories, because it does not pall one with one of those tremendous passions which almost exceed the bounds of sanity. It is the intensely human tale of a love slowly developing through the petty and formal misunderstandings which make up life between two peo ple just as mortal as ourselves. Seaplanes For Patrols Guarding ,our forests with sea plane seems, at first tnought, an un likely procedure, but this method may be used in Canada and northern Michigan. When a map ir consulted it is revealed that hundreds of lakes dot the territories the airmen would patrol, thus furnishing ideal landing places for small flying boats. Many former forest rangers from both sides of the international boundary have become military fliers, and on discharge should furnish an excel lent nucleus for a service of this ever else through Increased orders due to war, had greatly increased profits, the newspaper owner was not one. Comptroller Williams says the 7,500 National banks of the United States earned last year twelve per cent on their combined capital and surplus—a banner year. The manufacturing industry beat all former records. The Federal Re serve banks earned forty per cent through the enormously increased business due to war. But while the newspapers gave hundreds of thousands of columns space gratis for the work of sheer war propaganda, and especially in boosting the sale of Liberty bonds, there was no profit in the war for journalism. The costs of production far outran any gains derived from a general increase in the selling price of news papers. No other one institution, either in England or America, gave any thing like the proportion of the newspapers—its newspages—to pro mote patriotism and to pay for it that the newspapers contributed. But, as "Bill" whispered to his millionaire chum In London, the re ward is more likely to be ten years than a decoration. JOYOUS GARD For thee my castle of the Spring prepares—■ On the four windows are sped my couriers; For thee the towered trees are hung with green; Once more, for thee, O queen, The banquet hall with ancient tapes try Of woven vines grow fair and still more fair. And ah! how in the minstrel gallery Again there is the sudden string and stir Of music touching the old instru ments; While on the ancient floor. The rushes as of yore Nymphs of the house of Spring plait for your feet, Ancestral ornaments. And everywhere a hurrying to and fro. And whispers saying, "She is so sweet —so sweet:" O violets, be ye not too late to blow, O daffodils, be fleet! For, when she comes, ail must be in its place, All ready for her entrance at the door, All gladness and all glory for her face, All flowers for her flower-feet a floor; And for her sleep at night, in that great bed Where her great locks are spread, O be ye ready, ye young woodland streams, To bring her back her dreams. —Richard Le Gallienne in Harper's Magazine. AMERICA'S PART In rendering homage to Marshals Foch and Petain we must not forget the others who played a vital part in the victory, Haig, Pershing, Diaz, Allenby, and the French generals who have so well represented the I traditions of France. I am not sure that we should have had the victory without the aid of the United States. There were those who thought that aid from across the Atlantic in the form of foodstuffs and war material was all we needed. But would ma terial aid from America have suf ficed? There can be no doubt that the military intervention of the Americans shortened the war and put the seal upon the moral condem nation of Germany.—General Malle tene in Harper's Magazine. Lioness Fought Motor Car The East African Standard de scribes a duel between a motor car and a lioness. The affair, it says, happened at night near Nairobi. The chauffeur noted a commotion in the bush near the road, then the gleam ing eyes of an enraged wild animal. He accelerated his speed at the in stant the lioness leaped. She struck the hood and was thrown far in ad vance of the car, whose wheels then passed over her. The dead lioness was finally loaded into the car and taken back to the town in triumph. —From Outlook. Moral Regeneration And you hath been quickened, who were dead in trespass and sins; wherein in time past ye walked ac cording to the course of this world. DOORMAT HISTORIANS [H. G. Wells in the Saturday Evening Post.] Take English history as it is taught in an English school. We begin with Celtic Britain. Enter Caesar and a Roman host. From where? We never learn. Who is this Caesar and why did he come? Why did he go? Why did the Ro mans not come again for the better part of a. century? Evidently some thing much more important was going on elsewhere! A little way on in the story cer tain Angles, Jutes and Saxons rush in—as inexplicably. Whence? Why? Later come the Danes. Tile history of England has the effect of some thing going on upon a doormat in a passage outside a room full of events, with several other doors. The door opens, the Norman kings rush out of the room, conquer the coun try hastily, say something about some novelty of which we have lehrned nothing hitherto, the Cru sades, and exit to room again. From which presently King Rich ard returns dejected. He has been fighting the Saracens. Who are the Saracens? We never learn. What becomes of them? We are never told. So it goes on. The broad back of history is turned to England throughout. Its face and hands are hidden and we make what we can of the wriggling of its heels. The American story is still more incomprehensible. An innocent con tinent is suddenly inundated by Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and British, who proceed at once to pick up the thread of various conflicts —initiated elsewhere. Some one called the pope is seen to be dividing the new continent among the European powers. Colonies are formed. What are colonies? These colonies, in what is apparently a strenuous attempt to simplify his tory, break off from their unknown countries of origin. A stream of immigration begins from west and efist. The American mind establishes a sort of intellectual Monroe Doc trine and declares that America has no past, only a future. From which sublime dream it is presently roused to find something of unknown origin: called European imperialism wreck ing the world. What is this imperi alism? How did it begin? i The teaching of history in most other countries Is after the same fashion. Everywhere the teachers present more or less similar histories of passages and doormats. Great events—the Crusades, the Reforma tion, the Industrial Revolution— come in with a bang and go out with a slam, leaving no chew, ieaving our poor heads spinning. Is it any won der if history falls back for a little human touch upon childish anec dotes about Alfred and the cakes, the peerless beauty of Ttfnry, Queen of Scots, and King Charles and his spaniels? JUSTICE TO PERSHING [Harper's Weekly.] It would be an excellent thing if every man and woman in America would read and memorize the trib i ute which Admiral Sims paid to ; I General Pershing the other day in ; the course of a Victory Loan ad , dress. It was as typical of Sims as i it was fair to Pershing. Here it is: "Now Just a word about John , Pershing. He has had 2,000,000 men over there. No one of those men has been able to one one thousandeth part of the operation. , They run across a great many dis agreeable things. They may have been charged five cents too much in a canteen, or they may have run ; across a Britisher or an Italian or , a Frenchman that they had a row with. They come back with all sorts of small criticisms. For the Lord's sake don't pay any attention to the people in this country that are yapping at John Pershing's heels. "No military commander since the worW began has had to do the stunt he has had to do. If he should have done that without any mis takes he would be the greatest mil -1 itary commander the world has ever heard of. He will tell you himself he has made mistakes. So have I, but I am not going to tell you about them." Of course we do not know the pre cise circumstances that caused Ad i miral Sims to digress from the sub ject of his address long enough to makes these remarks. We assume, however, that before he had been in New York an hour his ears were filled with some of the monstrous stories that are being assiduously circulated about the commander of the American forces abroad, and lie . thought it was about time that the public was warned against the scan- Bfwtittg Qllfat Few people who iwUl read to night of the Issuance of orders at Washington for the closing of the State Draft headquarters in the P oa ®' Trswie building, where Ma jor William G. Murdock has presided . opera tion of the system hi the Keystone State, realize what SJ tremendous amount of work wad ?2?V*lL hO Z eHlcientl y <t was hand-j _ led by the Major and the men ho , labored with him. The headquarters was knowq h'r ,° en l en and other folkaf Who have to be around all hours the Lhl nlKht a 8 th Place where! the lights never went (out. Thai ordinary day during the progress) of the war was twelve to fourteen! since the close of the war! reduction of force at the time thai Government called for final reports] and records made necessary days oti still greater length. When the drafrf system was established in the Stats) It ran up against a prejudice dating l from the sixties magnified rather! than diminished by the war andP aggravated by the discussion attend-' ing the adoption of the law in Con gress. And the early days of Its! administration were in the Real! instate building at Locust and Court! streets which proved too small. Be-i tween lack of room and lack of un-| derstanding, general unfqmiliarity! with the methods on the part of* the people and the overturn of the normal due to entrance into war the men in charge of the draft had 1 anything but an easy job. When! Major Murdock took charge and,! started out to get in personal touch with everyone of the 382 boards he faced a task that would have ap palled most men. But before the war had gone a year the Draft head quarters was recognized as trying to honestly administer a great work! and on the Fourth of July last year everyone was taking pride in th way Pennsylvania was responding. ; First and last more than 200 persons were employed at State draft head quarters, records running into the millions were compiled, questions answered by the thousands every week and a system that touched every home and every man between 18 and 45 was being run from the Board of Trade building without fuss or feathers. The record speaks for itself. • • • Just as an illustration of the man ner in which the people of Harris burp are regarding the homecoming of the men who fought in France it may bo stated that almost every school teacher in this city has re ceived petitions from pupils asking that they be allowed to join with parents in greeting the returning soldiers. One te i her received a petition yesterday called up some of the signers f her information, ask ing whe welcome parade waa to be. . „ Just had a parade the other day. When is the next one and what is it for?" she asked. "There's a truck company coming home," said one boy. "And some of our men who used to be in the Governor's Troop are coming home," piped another. "That's two. Are they coming here the same day?" asked the teacher. "No indeed, they're coming on dif ferent days ard after that some more are coming," was the ready reply of the pupil in charge. "Well, we'll wait until the whistles blow," ruled the teacher. • • • More people are going to Phila delphia Thursday to see the parade of the Twenty-eighth than the aver age man imagines. This cropped out to-day in amazing ways. Numer ous men and women asked for the day in business houses and when a group of men compared notes, they found that dressmakers, dentists, in surance men and even arranged to be "out of town" on Thursday. It looks as though all trains would lead to Philadelphia that day. . , , Harrisburg children are getting broken into the sound of airplane motors. Nowadays when they hear the drumming of a motor they look up toward the sky. Occasionally, it is only a big truck, but often it is an airplane and if the youngsters can get a hand wave fro mthe man in the machine they are happy the rest of the day. • • The Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania will probably be called upon to regulate its own memorials as the first acts of the new State Art Commission, created by the Gover nor's approval of the Crow bill a few days ago. This commission is to be named very shortly in an ef fort to secure the best there is in the, way of public structures and to do away with "mail order" me morials and the very first business to come before it will be to act upon the model and plans for the new memorial bridge to the soldiers, sailors and marines of Pennsylvania in the great war which is to be constructed as a part of the Capi tol Park extension plan. The next will likely be the Camp Curtin me morial on the site of the great mob ilization camp of the Civil war in this city, for which the State bought a plot two years ago, and then the Gregg memorial will follow. In all probability, the designs for tho l. 3W State office building in Capitol Park will be considered as they have been finished by Arnold W■ Brunner, the distinguished architect, and will be submitted to the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings next Wed nesday. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Adjutant General Frank D. Beary says that the review of the Twenty-eighth is going to be the greatest military spectacle in the State in a generation. —Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler has made it a rule not to make speeches. —Commissioner of Labor C. B. Connelley is an authority on applied sciences and author of several text books. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, has declared in fa vor of an inquiry into the postal system. —Major L. A. Watres, of the Key stone division, is a son of the former Lieutenant Governor. 1 DO YQU KNOW —Tlint Harrisburg is a center of distribution for motorcycles and that hundreds are sold here every month? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Sixth street was Ridge Road for more than seventy years. Stale of Megalomania . Professor Delbruck says Germany never will be a great power again. Somebody ought to tell the professor that Germany never was a great power. What she thought was greatness was an overplus of wick edness and egotism.—Kansas City. 'lOmrnm
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