6 HARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH FRUITING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENEH, Circui'alion Manager Execntlxe Board S. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Prese— The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this faper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American PI Newspaper Pub- Associg lation and Penn- Associa |N East rnf office. —— Chicago, Hi. 8 Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week; by mail; $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1919 Where you see no good, silence is best. — Anon. i LABOR PARTY TALK IT IS doubtful if the talk of a Labor Party for Pennsylvania will ever amount to much. It is just as practical an idea, and no more so, than a capital party, or a - church party, and in all likelihood ' would get just as far. Doubtless those back of the movement are ; prompted by sincercst motives, but they have not fully sized up tAe sit ;. nation. The interests of the government lire no more solely those of labor than they are those of capital. Each has its place in the scheme of things . and each should have fair play. Some times labor does not get that to which it is entitled, and again it is capital that is injured. No party that sees only one side can win. • This is shown in the long and pain ful career of the Prohibition party, which saw only one issue. The re sult has been that though the prin- L |>le for wfflgfc the Prohibition party stood has come through triumph ' i-.nt, the party itself is a hopeless ' minority. So it will be with labor. The things for which labor stands will - be enacted into law or worked out in practice, at least to a very large degree and insofar as they are fair [ other interests. But a Labor party as such will not be the instrument that will work them out. IS KOLSHAK THE MAN? IS Admiral Kolshak the coming man in Russia; the great figure that is to step forward to stamp out Bolshevism and give the people i decent form of government? There are indications that per haps he is. At all events, he is surrounded by strong forces that have shown abili ty not only to withstand the on slaughts of the troops of Trotzky and Eenine, but to >. make material headway- against them. Kolshak does not believe the Russian people are ready for a democratic form of government. Pres(dent Wilson, thousands of miles from* the sceno and advised as to conditions only by the radical Social ists he sent to investigate conditions in Russia, judges they are. So Kol shak is to be opposed by the United States Government; or at least not given any more recognition than is Lenine, although he is a friend of law and order and is bent upon re storing Russia to the Russian peo ple. But great men have a habit of declining to be stopped by ob stacles and if Kolshak is the man his friends think he is, he may be in power in Russia long after our own President has resumed the routine of his literary pursuits. A. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FRANK J. GREEN, manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Janesville, Wis., writes in an interesting manner for "The Ameri ran City" magazine how the people ►f that town are preparing to ab lorb an increase in population of from 300 to 400 per cent, in a period of only a few years. The Janesville Chamber of Commerce saw the need and led the way to the organization of the Janesville Housing Plan. Study of the subject revealed thff fact that local contractors and pri vate builders could be depended upon to supply houses for those desiring to pay 13,500 or more for them. The greatest demand would be for houses costing less than SI,OOO, particularly of the type of dwelling required by the laboring class. The study embraced a com prehensive investigation of the econ omics of the community, and the Problem was to create an organiza tion that would fully conserve the interests of the workingman and his family and give him the utmost in house value. The outcome was a decision to form the Janesville Housing Cor poration, to be capitalized at $300,- SATURDAY EVENING, : 000. The plan was submitted to the president of the General Motors Corporation, W. C. Durant, who agreed to subscribe for J 100,000 worth of the stock. Janesville im mediately bestirred itself to raise the balance. Through a committee of the Chamber, a quiet campaign was put on to secure the funds. This was followed by an intensive drive conducted for three days by ,a committee of forty-six men, who ! secured subscriptions for the neces i sary amount. Forthwith came a | check from Mr. Durant for SIOO,OOO. | The stock of the corporation was taken by 346 of Janesville's citizens, so that the enterprise is a purely local one. The educational part of the cam paign included talks before all the organized bodies of the city, such as the civic, fraternal and church organisations. The reaction from these was very noticeable when the intensive campaign was put on. The facts in the case were frankly stated, i and an understanding was had with | the owners of the real estate that 1 they would sell their holdings at fair j and equitable prices. The folly of profiteering was emphasized. An appraisement or booster committee was formed, with the city assessor as one of the members, whose object (was to inspire in the real estate ' owners a sense of civic duty which t would lead them to dispose of their 1 property at reasonable prices. The leaders of the movement did not wish to be obliged to go out of the city for land because it might be cheaper, but preferred to build within the city. The corporation will build houses only for sale, to be purchased on monthly payments based on one per cent, of the cost of the property. For instance, a house and lot costing $2,000 may be acquired by paying S2O a month until the property is paid for. A portion of each pay ment will be used to defray the cost of carrying the property, and the balance will apply on the second ] mortgage, which will be held by the corporation. This plan is equiva lent to paying rent, but enables the occupant eventually to become the owner of the property, and will re sult in Janesville's becoming largely a city of home owners. The idea has been generally approved because of the greatly increased rentals of the few dwellings that are now available there for renting purposes. The corporation expects to be able to pay at least six per cent, divi dends. The company is net organ ized on a limited dividend basis. A further development of the housing movement was the decision that Janesville should have a city plan. This was considered absolute ly necessary if the building opera tions and other city development work contemplated were to be car ried out along constructive lines, looking far into the future. The Chamber of Commerce appointed a e&Wntlttee to--Investigate the matter, later approved its report, and short ly thereafter engaged the services of Dr. John N'olen to prepare a comprehensive city plan and zoning law. The Chamber bore the ex penses%of this work. Here we have an outline of what a city can do when its people are really determined to meet a great need. Harrisburg may not have such an urgent demand for houses as Janesville, but certainly the need is apparent and it can be met if only we go about the thing in earn est. What other cities can do. Harrisburg can do. SOME PLACE FOR THEM THE New York Sun calls atten tion to signs placed about the city for the guidance of children, reading: "Don't play in the streets." All very well, for the streets are dangerous n'aces in which to play, not only in New York, but in cities like Harrisburg. But if children don't play in the streets where are they to play? To be sure, we have public play grounds open during certain sea sons, but these are not available for all at all times. Clearly, if children are not to play in the streets, we must provide some other place where they may play, for play they will. This problem of the child in the crowded section of the city is most difficult, and about the only solution appears to be removal to the out skirts of town. The street-bred child is not always a product that is a credit to society. BILLIE, RECALL 1912? IN A recent address before the United States Chamber of Com merce, Secretary Redfield said that he has always felt, as a man of business, that there are two com mon assumptions that are essentially wrong, one of them being that com petition is of itself so desirable that it should be restored if need be by force of law. "Always," eh? Then we should like to have Mr. Redfield tell us on what occasions during the campaign of 1912 he protested against the fol lowing plank in the Democratic plat form of that year: "We regret that the Sherman anti-trust law has received a Judicial interpretation depriving it of much of its efficacy, and we favor the enactment of legislation which will restore to the statute the strength of which it has been deprived by such interpretation." PLENTY OF GRAZING PENNSYLVANIA newspapers have been discussing with inter est Mr. Stefansson's suggestion that meat prices may be reduced and our supply greatly increased by utilizing the vast grazing country of Northern Canada for the pajtur age of reindeer. This land, he esti mates, could support 7,000,000 rein deer, yielding the equivalent of i 14,000,000 sheep tn hide and meat, ' beside great quantities of uiilk and i butter; and these in addition to vast 1 numbers of musk oxen, which yield I wool, as well as meat and skins. But why go away up to Canada? We have some millions of acres of land right here in Pennsylvania that might be made to fatten great flocks of cattle, sheep and goats. Why not utilize this? Some day we are going to get awake to the possibilities that lie at our doors. Pennsylvania does not produce one-fiftieth part of the stock that is possible and immense tracts are going'to waste that might be utilized, especially for sheep and goats. I "PctOu* u By the Ex-Committeeman Of more than 200 bills which have reached the desk of Governor Wil liam C. Sproul, 112 have been ap proved and are now general laws. 31 appropriation bills have been approved and 19 bills have been vetoed. Forty-five bills have been recalled from the Governor by the Legislature for amendment. The bills approved- cover a wide range, although there are an unusual num ber of amendatory acts. The ap propriations approved are nearly all for deficiencies, including the act for the general State government. A number of bills are now on the desk of the Governor awaiting ac tion, which will be announced next week when the time expires on some of them. I Both branches of the Legislature will reconvene Monday night with bills regulating liquor special orders for the House. The Philadelphia bills will attract some attention, as a general hearing on the charter revision measures is scheduled for Tuesday before the House municipal corporations committee. The same day the compensation bills are to! have a hearing in the Senate com mittee in charge. Several administration measures will be up for tinul passage in both Houses next week. There is much interest in the third-class city nonpartisan repealer, which is before the Governor for action. —James F. Woodward, the new secretary of internal affairs, will take his seat as a member of the State Board of Pardons on Wednes day. when the May meeting will be held. He succeeds Paul W. Houck. The Board now contains three at torneys. The list for the May meet ing has five applications for com mutation of death sentences, an un usually large number. There are about a score of new cases to be heard. —People at the State Capitol have j started out to make their calling and ] selection sure now that it has been told about the corridors that no reorganizations of (fepartments will be undertaken until after the Legis lature adjourns and the terms of the hil's, yliich are expected to pass, will end the jobs of scores of per sons. The Governor has let it be known that he expects heads of de partments that will be affected by reorganization bills, to have their plans ready when he finishes work on the appropriation and other bills which will be left behind and set ting up of fences has started. —The administration is expected to push the bill to amalgamate the Game, Fishery, Forestry and Water Supply Departments into the De partment of Conservation through the House. It has passed the Senate and much of the opposition to it has abated. It is said that not many changes in personnel will be made and that the schemes to change around the whole plan of forestry management will be studied for two years more. —Overhauling of the Department of Agriculture is to be done with assistance of such experts as may be drafted from the national ser vice. Secretary Rasmusscn is now in Washington taking up a plan for working with the Federal authori ties and men from other States in regard to the bureau of markets, which is to be reorganized from the ground up. —lt is probable that action will be taken within the next week or ten days on the bills providing that the Supreme and Superior Courts shall meet in Harrisburg. These meas ures have caused much talk among the lawyer members of the legisla ture and are gaining many sup porters. Xo Clumsies in the Bunch It was an orderly, well behaved, gloom dispersing collection of ladies and young men that graced the en chancing loveliness of Kleineider's hall last Saturday evening and par ticipated in the first dance staged by the popular new social club known as the Big Eleven. It was a beautiful night, the stars in the heavens were twinkling merrily and the air seemed to be charged with vibrating reactions of unreserved Joy and happiness that seemed to pre dominate in the hearts of all those present. It was a sight too beauti ful to describe, as the feet of the dancers glided, and their lithe bodies swayed like thistledown before a gentle autumn breeze, to the strains of the latest fox trot or waltz. Cudahy (Wis.) Enterprise. In Russia Russia is slowly but surely emerg ing from her distress. The Bolshe vists are taking to the woods. It has been found there is nothing in Bolshevism but anarchy and murder and Russia is getting tired of that. Lentne and Trotzky are becoming back numbers and are now anxious about saving what they can of their personal fortunes from the wreck. It will be a fine promise for the whole world if Russia should stamp Bolshevism out of existence. There are signs that she will. This coun try might help her in her grand re action, but it would be better if she conducted it without our aid. There are reports that they are addressing themselves to the task over in Rus sia.—Ohio State Journal. Sufferings and Consolations Our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, thai as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also iof the consolation. —ll Corinthians, 1, HJVJRRISBURG TELEGRAPH GOLF GOING AND COMING By BRIGGS / —\ ®\ h c^r^r; ) \ \ v V ill say J \ AIW ' T aoo ° FoR / 1 GoiNJd. ouT ' ' i l^ 1 lih-rw... A 1 W" Two . , gp If # OF/ [UP at Te \ all. fught IL( _ haFTa LeAV/e J 1 1 J The Bone of Contention Before the bar Von Rantzau stands ! And trembles at Allied demands That he deliver to their hands The skull of the Sultan Okwawa. i I, "You stole the skull! Y'ou know you , did! You must, you shall do as you're] bid! Tell us at once where you have hid j The skull of the Sultan Okwawa." I A score of nations sit in state Allied and those Associate And fourteen tedious weeks debate l The skull of the Sultan Okwawa. Serbia to Serbs they can't refuse, i Danzig to Poles. Jerusalem to Jews, ' But Britain's ruler can but choose The skull of the Sultan Okwawa. Whence come these cries that rend the air? What mean these mutters of de spair? 'Tie George the Fifth who won't forswear The skull of the Sultan Okwawa. j Is it to be his drinking cup That he may sit and vengeance sup? Why can't he, won't he give it up, The skull of the Sultan Okwawa? j Though Wilson's peace terms were fourteen. Among them this was never seen; Yet now we learn our aim has been The skull of the Sultan Okwawa. i Italians, French, Czeeho-Slovaks, Bengalis, Negroes, Yanks, Anzacs, All fought and bled, both white and blacks For the skull of the Sultan Okwawa. —EDWIN E. SLOSSON, New York Sun. "Most Frightful Bore!" Stanley's laconic remark, "Dr. Liv ingston, I presume, "made when the two men met in the African jungle, has a rival. During the early days of the war, Brand Whitlock was busy catching legations that were being tossed in his direction by the dip lomats of various warring nations as they made their exits. In his book, "Belgium," which has recently been published by D. Appleton & Co., he tells the following anecdote: "Sir Francis Willicrs came, form ally to turn over his legation. He wore the British calm — this dis tinguished gentleman, whose hair was grown white in his King's ser vice. •• 'A most frightful bore!' was his only comment on the impending de menagement." Humanitarian Work- [From the "New York Herald.] Henry D. Davidson, whose genius for organization on a large scale con tributed so much to the wonderful success of the Red Cross in the war, is at work on a scheme to co-ordi nate world-wide relief work under the League of Red Cross Societies of the world, that all possible ma terials and agencies may be ready for immediate call to prevent or alle viate sufferings due to great disas ters This is one humanitarian ef fort that is developing as a result of the war, and one item on the credit side for those who continue to ask, Did the war pay? A Good Start [From the Philadelphia Press.] The American Legion has started out well. It has succeeded in dodg ing many pitfalls that were in its path at the first meeting. It had focussed upon it at St. Louis the eyes of the country, and it had to submit all of > ts action and plans to close and critical scrutiny. There was on every hand the temptation to make mistakes. It emerged from its first test with flying colors. Noth ing that it did was in any way irreconcilable with its professions of strict nonpartisanship. although in the list of delegates were many strong partisans who were looking for a chance to turn the meeting to political advantage on one side or the other. Records of the Iron Division [From the Philadelphia Record.] It Is a part of the distinguished record of the 28th Division that it sustained heavier casualties than any other in the American Expeditionary Force except three divisions of regu lars Those got into action earlier and bore practically all the losses previous to Foch's great counter offensive. When that got going the Pennsylvania soldiers were in the thick of the combat from the Marne to the Vesle and again in the Ar lonna where they suffered severely. MR. PENROSE [From the. New York Times] IN itself the desire and pursuit of i ists would like to say, if dlvi- j virtue is wholly admirable. Moral- j sions were so surely sharp, that the ] Hon. Boies Penrose is always wrong. ; a wicked and a hunker personage devoted to ideas rejected of the people, and assuredly, objectionable to the Progressive. As a matter of fact, Mr. Penrose, a gentleman of great ability and experience and a sufficient sense of humor, has ac cepted all the ulterior signs of pro gressiveness. He stands for prim ary reform, for every reform that doesn't change the essential notion that he has of national policy. Ab straction made, as the French would say, of his natural Pennsylvania theories and practices of high pro tection, Mr. Penrose is one of lh< ablest and the most useful members cl the Senate. That he has alarmed the extra virtuous, that he has been used as a symbol among the Pro gressive catechumens of the Middle West as a Manichean "capitalist," doesn't alter the essential fact. The beautiful, extreme, William D. Kel ly theory of exports and imports has disappeared with the rising of the new world. Mr. Penrose, in spite of all the ha tred stored against him by the Pro gressives. most of whom are inheri tors of lowa Grangerism. retains a certain sense of actuality. He has not to mention others, two policies that are of cardinal importance. The capital and supreme reform is a budget system. The United States especially under the new relations and adjustments that it has accepted and that will come to it under its new and responsible relations to t' world, must know what its money is spent for. The talk about a bud I get has seemed, for a cn'" to be merely prattle. Mr. Gillett. the Speaker of the next House, de clared himself, a month and a half The Irish Outlook The Limerick strike, which some construed as the forerunner of a new eruption of the extreme rebel lionists of Easter, 1916, has been declared off, and that danger ap pears now to be past. There is every indication that the promise given by Lloyd George that he would re ceive the American delegates has served to placate the Sinn Fein leaders. They will await the result of that impending interview; and in the meantime there are rumors of activities in other quarters looking to a compromise on the basis of home rule like that of Canada and Australia. One thing is sure—the American delegates are '.ikley to ac complish more good for Ireland than the Sinn Felners could by an appeal to battle. —Philadelphia itecord. Rights For the Negro [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] A meeting of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People will be held in Cleveland next month, and in the meantime an effort is being made to enroll 100,- 000 to assist in the movement. Al though colored officers und soldiers fought well in France, they do not feel that in all instances they have received the treatment they deserv ed. This is not made the basis of any complaint by the association, but the fact that the colored people in every way have discharged their en tire duties seems to call for grant ing them their rights. When Congress Is Needed Advice and consent from the elected representatives of the peo ple may not be needed, when a peace treaty is to be negotiated, but when funds begin to run low that is some thing different again. The last con gress failed to pass appropriation bills aggregating nearly $3,500,- 000,000. . . . Hence the date for the extra session was fixed at May 19. —Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Senator Lewis'. Trained View [From the New York Sun.] Colonel James Hamilton Lewis confesses that he is "surprised" at the public sentiment he encountered in the far West "against the Admin istration at Washington." How much more frank about this subject is Colonel James Hamilton Lewis than was Senator James Hamilton Lewis! ago, in favor of the budget system. Mr. Penrose, the next chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, re gards that budget system as the capital essence of an intelligent poli cy of national expenditure. Whatever be thought of the cssen-1 tial political wickedness of Mr. Pen- : rose, as compared with the essential ' goodness of those illustrious states- i men, of whom, apparently, only Mr. ! Borah, so much nearer to the Town- i ley League, is the most theoretically logical, he has committed the Repub lican Party to two great policies of construction. For the moment he represents the intelligent thought of the American people. A co-ordinated, intelligent plan of national expendi ture is absolutely necessary. In the heat of national patriotism we are not looking closely at expenditures, but for years and years to come we shall be taxed, and taxed, according to the ideas of thirty years ago, to the utmost limit of reason and of profit. If Mr. Penrose, scarecrow though he be of the Progressives, can introduce an ordered system of ap propriation and expenditures, it is not for the descendants of the Gran gers of the '7os to raise their voices in holy horror. Another thing. Senator Penrose is one with a majority of Americans in objecting to certain "luxury" taxes. For instance, one may happen to be complcxedly in need of lenses to correct his sight. He pays for the ordinary privilege of seeing a "luxury" tax. Is it necessary for the Government, looking for persons whom it may mulct, to be as foolish as that? In his desire for a budget ard in hie desire to introduce, if possible, a certain faint intelligence among the Kitchin taxes, the Hon. Boies Penrose, whatever his past wickednesses, front the Progressive noint of view, will hove approval of everybody who has to pay taxes. Whene'er a Noble Deed Is Wrought Whene'er a noble deed is wrought. Whene'er ! s spoken a noble thought. Our hearts, in glad surprise. To higher levels rise. Honor to those whose words or deeds Thus help us in our daily needs, And by their overflow Raise us from what Is now. —Longfellow. League in the Balance It is apparent that so long as the ■ Orlando government is upheld by j the people on the issue of Flume it cannot for a moment consider an offer of compromise. It is not too much to say that the fate of the peace conference and of the League of Nations both are in the balance. France and Great Britain would have no trouble in reaching an agreement with Italy if the United States were to withdraw, but if the United States withdraws, President | Wilson must come home with the j League of Nations still an unrealized j dream. There is only one solution,] so far as can be seen now, and that I is a retreat by President Wilson from the rash position that it was in his power to hand Flume over to the Jugo-Slavs.—Rochester Dem ocrat and Chronicle. Missourian Helps Late Bird W. F. Norton has a pet robin at his home which follows him into the garden and hops on his hoe and keeps pecking at it until Mr. Norton digs it a lot of worms. At first Will thought it just did it Inadvertently, but after the bird had repeated the performance several days in succes sion he found out what was wanted and now it is one of his tasks to dig worms for the robin twice daily.— From the Liberty Advance. Love of Virtue First Wc are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.—William Penn. When It Began The Indians sold Manhattan for ♦ 24. "Rent profiteering!" cried the set tlers. —New York Sun. f § .-...'Nff , MAY 17, 1919. TRADE BRIEFS American plows, states tlie Brit ish and South African Export Ga zette, have certain excellent features, but It is beginning to be recognized that they are not usually strong enough for the severe soil condi tions met with in South Africa. Katanga (Belgian Congo) copper is henceforth to be shipped direct to Antwerp instead of to England. Goods invoiced at Roatan, Hon duras, to be shipped to the United | States during 1918 totaled SIBI,OOB, a decline in value"compared with tlie 1017 exports, $287,704, owing to the smaller shipment of cocoanuts, $277,550 in 1917 and $169,236 in 1918. The total value of the articles in voiced at Copenhagen, Denmark, for shipment to the United States in 1918 $905,251, as compared with $765,829 in 1917, an increase of $139,422. Laying Off Press in Arkansas Nearly every one in Arkinda is making a garden this week and news items are scarce.—Arkinda Corre spondence Foreman Sun. LABOR NOTES The total domestic production of woolen and cotton goods in Argen tina, carried on in some 81 factories, is stated to have a value of $10,722,- 594, and to employ about 8,384 op eratives. | A new law makes the minimum pay of all married men in the em ploy of the city of Calgary, Can., 8100 a month. Thirty thousand Belfast (Ireland) shipyard workers threaten to quit I work unless they are granted the 44-hour week. In New York city there were more furniture workers in 1917 getting between 30 and 34 cents an hour than any other wage. Motion picture operators have been given a six-hour day and a 40 per cent increase in wages. Stove molders in Indianapolis, Ind., have been granted an eight hour day and a 22 per cent increase lin wages. The Sioux City (Iowa) Butchers' Union, with 3,000 members, has vot ed to aeqept the award of a 10 per cent increase in wages. Both in the offices and factories in Italy, women have taken the place of men not only in the lighter occu pations, but in every branch of the industrial field, and they have found a ready place in certain of the newer industries for which their skill and temperament make them peculiarly Practically 33 per cent of the employes in Italian automobile fac tories are women. Birmingham, England, is to have an industrial fair in 1920. Practically 50 per cent of the total number of vessels launched in 1918 were built in the United States. employed in the tobacco industry in lllfi throughout Germany, there are now only 80.000. Over 6.000 cigar ac tories in that country have been closed owing to the lack of materials! The biggest undertaking that the British government will try in order to give employment to men liberated from the army forces will be the channel tunnel from Dover Eng land, to Calais, France. Firemen employed on Swedish steamships recently received an in crease of 150 per cent in wages. # Unemployment in the British cot. ton trade is on the increase. At present many thousands of opera tives are out of emp'oyment. The British government pays unemployed adults with no children. $7.04; those with three children. $9.97, and others proportionately, each week, as out of-work pay. On local steamers and those in the coastwise trade between the Malayan Straits and Tnd'n. the steve doring Is done by special gangs of jrhlnese and Tndian coolies, who j form part of the steamer's crew. j Tn Boston the evils of private eni i nloyment agencies were recounted [by trade unionists at a legislative hearing on a bill that would create [free employment agencies. Bmtittg (jtyat r ., ,°y r that the men of the Keystone Dnision are being demobilized and gradually going back to their old lines of employment and the States are studying means of reforming their militia much is being heard about tile National Guard of Penn sylvania, especially in this city, which was one of the big centers of such af fairs, not only because it is the State Capital, but owing to the in terest of its men in the guard. The National Guard of this State is to be reconstituted. Pennsylvania is one of the few States which arrang ed for such action. While there was some effort put forth at Washington to get rid of the Guard, the act creat ing the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia explicitly stated that it should act only as a replacement for the Na tional Guard during the war. The Guard was thus kept going as an organization, although, of course, the connection of the personnel with it censed when they went into federal service. But the State has authority to reconstruct its Guard when it is ready and it is expected that many of the men who saw service in France or in camps in this country or in the Reserve Militia will enter the State service. Reorganization of the National Guard will probably not be effected until lato In the summer or early in the autumn as it will be neces sary for congressional action to pro vide the funds under the national defence act. Meanwhile plans will be worked out for the formation of the division on a peace footing as constituted before the entry into Federal service in 1917. It is prob able that the States will not have much to do with the air service, al though in other lines the organized militia will be armed and equipped as hre the regulars. The present plans call for the formation of nine regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, one of engineers, throe of artillery and the signal and other auxiliary troops together with the trains. There will be three brigades of in fantry and one of artillery. The old designations will be given to the regiments. In all likelihood the Re serve Militia will constitute the base for many of the new organizations. The Reserve Militia will go through the program of summer camps and other work as planned. The 3,500 Springfield rifles ordered for these troops arc on the way and they will take them to camp at Mt. Gretna. Machine gun detachments will bo part of regimental organizations in stead of separate battalions it is be lieved. Steps will also be taken after Congress acts to reorganize the naval militia. In a short time it is ex pected that the reorganization of the Adjutant General's Department on the bureau system will bo worked 1 out, the legislation being about i through the General Assembly. The Philadelphia Evening Bulle tin in the course of an article on the future of the Guard says: "In the past few years the Pennsylvania Guard has undergone many reor ganizations, beginning with the adop tion of the comprehensive "Military Code" in 1911, and supplemented by the reorganization measure adopted at the sessions of the 1915 and 1917 legislatures. Under the 1917 law, passed for the purpose of carrying into effect the "National Defense Act," which Congress had adopted in the previous year, the quota of troops in the State was to consist of nine regiments of infantry, one regi men of engineers, one regiment of cavalry, three regiments of field ar tillery, and the various special corps and auxiliaries needed to complete the military establishment. But, under the terms of the Federal laws, the President is now the controller of the National Guard, and it is left to him to determine the particular quotas, units or branches of the ser vice which each State is to maintain in order that the various State or ganizations may be welded together, in time of war, as effective tactical units. According to the Federal regulations, if the Guard should be re-established, Philadelphia would have sixteen hundred militiamen in place of probably double that num ber who served in the war, while the State, at the beginning, would have less than eight thousand militiamen in place of the ten thousand main tained in the days of the old guard. Eventually, the quotas of both Phila delphia and of the State would be larger than they were in 1916, or at the beginning of 1917. Meanwhile the Militia Bureau complains that lack of funds prevents it from carry ing out the provisions of the Hay act, and that, until Congress de termines the future status of the armed forces of the nation, little can be done toward reorganizing the guardsmen." It is very probable that when the new Guard is organized that Harris burg will be as important a center of military activity as it was when the war began. This city was the headquarters of the Eighth Infantry and the headquarters and supply and two letter companies were located here with the machine gun company on the West Shore. It has not been determined as yet where the units will be located, but Harrisburg stands a good show of having as many companies as heretofore. Be vond all question the Governor s Troop will be restablished and may be the proposition to make it the headquarters troop can be put through. f WELL KNOWPEOPLE i Col. G. C. Richards, of the 112 th, is being talked of as one of the likely brigadiers for the new Guard. Col. D. J. Davis, chief of staff, of the keystone Division, will resume his duties as city solicitor of Scran ton as soon as mustered out. Col C. N. Berntheizel, Judge ad vocate of the Keystone Division, wasgg formerly a member of the Legtsla tU —Admiral W. P. Plms Is In de mand for speeches at many places in Pennsylvania, his native State. Attorney General Palmer spoke at the Philadelphia Friends meet ing on after the war problems. [ DO YQU KNOW That Harrisburg steel Is being used in some of the new government work? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Paxton creek was the big source of power for mills in Harrisburg 100 years ago. A Sunflower Social Note Here's the fix Bert Varney was in last week. Last Sunday was his wedding day and Bert had the mumps.—From the Jewell Republi can./ J
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