TUESDAY EVENING, c HAJEtRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 20, 1919. 12 i HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE- TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board S. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. _____. Members of the Associated Press—The j Associated Press is exclusively en- I titled to the use for republication i of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this i paper and also the local news pub lished herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special i dispatches herein are also reserved, j ~ \ 1 Member American j j—jjf Ushers' Associa- I SB Bureau of Circu fin lation and Penn- a j fig H Eastern of f I c e j B| Avenuc Building. ■ 1" Gas' RuikPing i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a rrftßfitlatyjejfc week; by mail. 93.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1019 One on God's side is a majority— Wendell Phillips. DOLLARS FOR DOUGHNUTS / / T""v OLLARS to doughnuts" is an II old bet; the new wager is "dollars for doughnuts," and it's a sure thing. To-morrow, pretty girls, returned soldiers and members of the Rotary Kiwanis Clubs will sell dough nuts on the street corners. That's where the doughnuts come in. Those who pass the booths are ex pected to buy doughnuts at prices that would make a food profiteer die of envy- That's where YOU come in. Of course, you know that these doughnut sales are to raise money for the Salvation Army. No use making a point of that. But the point to be emphasized is this—■ That if these young women, these returned boys who enjoyed the boun tiful blessings of Salvation Army ministrations in France and these very busy business and professional men think enough of the Salvation Army to give their time to help it raise funds with which to carry on its work, you can do no less than buy the doughnuts they will offer for sale. It's perfectly clear, isn't it, that you are going to buy doughnuts at record breaking prices to-morrow? It is? Thank you. VERY UNREASONABLE SAMUEL D. SCHWARTZ, a Phila delphia real estate dealer, writes the Philadelphia Public Ledger that— "The postal service is rotten. The good old days of the stage coach put the present service in the shade." Mr. Schwartz's grievance is that it required a letter he mailed in Phila delphia five days to get from a box at Twenty-Ninth and Lehigh avenue to Broad and Chestnut streets. Mr. Schwartz is an' unreasonable fault-finder. Why right here in Har risburg we have evidence to prove that a letter—Special delivery and registered required nearly nine days to go from Harrisburg to Wal ter Reed hospital, just outside of Washington, and yet the sender raised no objection. Ho knew it wouldn't help any. What does Mr. Schwartz expect? Does he imagine Mr. Burleson has time to fool away getting a pesky little two-cent letter from one part of a city to another, especially when the sender might have carried it to its destination and thus saved the postal department unnecessary ef fort, not to mention two cents for himself in postage? Mr, Schwartz should know that the postal depart ment is a very busy institution. It is still trying to get out from under the Christmas rush. - TRANS-ATLANTIC FLYING -OT even Columbus, sailing out f\J upon an uncharted sea, dared more or faced so many un known perils as did the trans- Atlantic fliers who so bravely steered their frail barks out the air route over the treacherous waters of the At lantic, risking everything in an ef fort to prove the possibility of flying from America to Europe. But their effort marks a tremen dous step in the progress of trans portation since the discoverer of America set out in his three tiny caravels to find a new world, and a no less important development in aeroplaning since Bleriot surprised the world by performing the hair raising feat of planing across the English channel from France to England. The whole world went wild over the Frenchman's exploit, but nobody at the time was hardy enough to suggest a trans-Atlantic flight and indeed it would have been foolhardy to undertake such a Jour ney In the flimsy machines of that period. There have been few sensational tMevalonments in the science of flying since, in October, 1902, the "Wright brothers came into prominence by gliding 622 feet at Kitty Hawk, their flight being of fifty-nine seconds, duration. From that time on it has been merely a matter of experi mentation and trial. Careful scien tific investigation has brought the art of flying step by step to its present development, and we have made only a beginning. But great feats have been accom plished in the air since Wilbur Wright in 1908 broke all records by remaining in the air two hours, twenty minutes and twenty-three seconds, and the trans-Atlantic at tempt comes at a time when the dare-devil adventures of our airmen j along the French front have led us , to believe that the aeroplane is as a toy in the hands of the skilled avia | tor and that almost any accomplish j incnt is possible. GO TO IT T 1 HE Pottsville Republican, dis cussing a bond issue for public j improvements in that city, says: Pottsville voters are going to I be called upon soon to express I their opinion as to the advisabil- I ity of using the borrowing capac-. ity of the municipality for the purpose of carrying out a pro- I gram of public improvements and | the question is one of such vital I importance to the city and every j resident and property owner in it, I that the matter must be given | calm and careful consideration, | with a mind open to be convinced of the merits of the proposition. Advice is cheap and most people let it go in one ear and out the other. In this instance we haven't even been asked for an opinion, but having in mind certain periods in our own municipal history, we ven ture a few remarks that may be, in a general way, helpful to Pottsville. Harrisburg in the past fifteen years has spent millions of dollars on public improvements. It has floated numerous loans. It has no regrets. It is happy in all that it has done. The money Harrisburg has put into public improvements has been the best investment the city ever made. It means to go right along as it has been going. It is even now developing another im provement campaign. That popular bugaboo, the "tax rate," has not advanced to an un reasonable degree. On the other hand it can be shown very clearly that Ilarrisburg's investments in improvement enterprises have actu ally, in many instances, increased the revenues of the city by making pos sible real estate developments that brought about increased assessed valuations and consequently turned thousands of dollars into the city treasury that otherwise would not have been realized. But the biggest dividend is in the satisfaction of a public service well rendered and in having made Harrisburg a better place in which to live. Harrisburg's advice to Pottsville, or any other city hesitating as to the wisdom of spending money upon public improvements, is: "Be sure you are right; then go ahead." COMFORT IN MISERY IT'S a sad world. Anybody can prove that by five minutes' study of his living expenses of the present as compared with those of four years back. But there is some comfort, even in our present misery, if we only carry our studies back a half century or more, and put Civil War prices side by side with those we arc paying to-day. We have it from the United States Department of Labor that the prices of 1919 are lower than those of the war period of the early 'Sixties. Says a bulletin just issued by that branch of the Government: A comparison of the course of prices during the Civil War and the present war shows many points of similarity during the two war periods. The course of prices during the present period Of readjustment and the corre sponding period following the Civil War show more points of difference than of similarity. During both wars the whole sale prices of commodities in general rose steadily through the war period. The rise during the Civil War period, taking the year 1860 as the base, runs up to a somewhat higher level than the rise during the present war. In both wars building materials rose in price, but they did not at either time reach levels as high as the price of other commodities. But the most encouraging feature of this price report is that, while prices reacted more quickly after the war than they have in the present instance, the currency of the country was on an unsound basis, con ditions were panicky and there was not such rock-ribbed confidence in the future of the Nation's business as there is to-day. In short, while prices are high now, and likely to remain high, we are on a much surer footing than we were after the Civil War and headed toward much quieter waters. There are no indi cations that the panic which fol lowed the Civil War is to have any repetition in the next eight or ten years. Indications rather are for a prolonged period of prosperity. So we may as well cheer up and, instead of having the blues over heavy expenses, throw aside the family ledger and go out determined to make more money to meet the new standards the war has set for us. ECONOMICAL MEASURES THE complaint of a Philadelphia newspaper against the perma nent location of the State Su preme and Superior Courts tn Har risburg, on the ground that it would be more expensive than the present arrangement, is so clearly a mis taken notion that it is scarcely worthy of attention. To be sure, the holding of the court sessions in Philadelphia would be cheaper for Philadelphia lawyers, but how about those from all the other widely-scattered cities arfd towns of the State who must journey i long distances and put up at expen sive hotels to attend court? And how about the litigants? The greatest good for the greatest number must be considered in this as in all other matters relating to State government, and that being the case Harrisburg is the logical loca tion for the courts. It is easily reach ed from any part of the Common wealth. It is the railroad hub of Pennsylvania. Thousands of dollars a year in railroad fares alone would be saved to lawyers and others at tending court if the upper tribunals sat permanently here. Unquestion ably, the Hess bills are economical measures and they should be passed. IFOTI&CQ. LK By the Ex-Committee men The big fight of the session failed to materialize In the House last night because the Vickerman and Fox bills to enforce the prohibition amendment were withdrawn from the stage at the request of Governor William C. Sproul and the Ramsey bill establishing what shall be the alcoholic contents of a drink was immediately after postponed. Every thing was in readiness for a battle last night and the three bills were on special order when word reach ed the "dry" leaders that the Gov ernor thought it advisable to with hold action for the present. Hurried conferences were held and an agreement reached, while the "wet" members marshaled their forces to slaughter the bills. From all accounts the "wets" had about enough strength to kill the two en forcers as some' "dry" men were absent and the death of John Mc- Kay, of Luzerne, further weakened them. When the bills came up their sponsors moved postponement, which was agreed to and then Mr. Ramsey postponed his bill. It is understood that the Governor will assist in the passage of the Vickerman and Fox bills when the time comes to fight them through and that he is against the Ramsey bill. Many Senators were in the House to see what happened and events which would have had material ef fect on State politics were pre dicted. —The bills to establish the Su preme and Superior Courts here are being attacked by Philadelphia newspapers who say some judges are against them, but name no names. The sentiment among law yers as evinced by interviews favors the bills and they are in line with the Governor's plans for concentra tion of the government here. —Chairman Harry M. Showalter, of the committee in charge, was called to court at Lewisburg to-day and no action will be taken this week. —The nomination of Secretary of Agriculture Rasmussen was sent to the Senate for a term (>f four years from May 8 and immediately con firmed. This was necessary under the reorganization bill. - —The Senators were not much in clined to agree to fix a date for adjournment to-day. They hold that it should be thought over a while, which means that nothing will be done until the Philadelphia bills, which are getting an airing to-day, are disposed of. —Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, the Deputy Superintendent of Public In struction of New York State, offer ed the supcrintendency of public in struction to succeed the late Dr. Nathan C. Sehaeffer, is a vice-presi dent of the National Educational Association, an alumnus of Hamil ton College and for ten years a New York State official. He has been ac tive in Presbyterian Church affairs and noted as an educator. His ap pointment will likely go to the Sen ate to-morrow. —Members of the House of Rep resentatives were twice reproved by Speaker Spangler for inattention during roll calls during the evening session. The members- were told I hey were endangering their own bills and told they must maintain better order. Last week with over 150 members present the roll was answered by only fifty-two and a poll of the House ordered. —The bill providing for a consti tutional revision commission to be named by the Governor will be passed by the Legislature this week. The measure was passed on second reading in the House last night. It has passed the Senate and is the plan to deal with constitutional questions this session. The Gov ernor will name the commission. —Considerable comment has been caused among legislators and State officials by a two column review of the Sproul administration by the Philadelphia North American. This newspaper has been a staunch Sproul supporter and while it criticises some of the Sproul appointments and some tendencies, it finds much to commend. However, the closing paragraph reads this way: "In our opinion, an impartial review of the Legislature's record thus far does not justify sweeping condemnation. As to the administration, it is free from corruption, it is more efficient than many of its predecessors, and there is no evidence that any malign influence dominates it. If Governor Sprout's popularity shows signs of waning, that is a phenomenon not rare at this stage of an executive's experience. That criticism is be coming more widespread and in sistent does not prove that there is any serious wrongdoing, or that the Governor has lost all claim upon the confidence of his fellow-citizens. It is still within his power to write the verdict upon his administration, to emerge from the trying ordeals ahead of him with credit to himself and with notable accomplishments in the service of the State." Our Itinerant Government Dr. W. Biddle Gilman. of Lake View, N. C., a descendant of colonial stock wants to "know: "With the President most of bis cabinet, many of the Congressmen, an army of minor officials, expert advisers, press agents and numerous interested American delegations having taken up more or less per manent residences in Europe will I have to remove to the other side of the Atlantic in order to live and eventually die under the jurisdiction of the United States Government?" FREE TRIPS ABROAD The war should not be permitted to end officially until every Demo cratic politician who wants a Cook's tour of Europe has had his.—Na tional Republican. Suggestion to Conference. Cutting Germany down to a Navy of that size may lead to criticism. It does seem as though the confer ence might have thrown in a pair of oare.—From the Detroit News. 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(M Ti RED ANYV/JAY WAR A BLOW TO ISLAM [From the Dallas News.] One of the most striking results of the world war is the new prestige with which Christianity, as a world religion, emerges. It is true, as Judge "Wesley O. Howard of Troy, N. Y., points out in an article In the New York Herald, that the gi gantic conflict was In no sense a religious war. Christians and Mo hammedans. on one side, fought against Christians and Hindoos on the other. The struggle was pri marily between Christian nations. In the aggregate, however, and as an incident of the war, Christianity has made immense inroads into the ranks of Mohammedanism. The three great centers of Islam ism, Jerusalem, Bagdad and Con stantinople, have fallen into Christ ian hands. Judge Howard tries to envisage for us the significance of this one fact: "There will, of course, he absolute freedom of religious worship in all the conquered lands of the Turkish territories, and the Mussulman will be as much at liberty to cry out to Allah as ever he was; neverthe less, the dethronement of Moslem rulers and the exaltation of Christ tian governors will exert a deep in fluence upon the m nds of the Mo hammedan peoples. And the ad vantages and security of the Christ ian civilization will ultimately ap peal to the Islamites and will have a tendency at least to incline them toward the superior civilization. Moreover, their communities will be invaded by groups of Christian col onists. secure now against Turkish outrages and oppression, and there will be intermingling of family and business interests. "Industrial enterprises, stimulated by Western zeal and money, wilt spring up in Jerusalem. Tarsus, Damascus, Bagdad and other Mo hammedan cities and revolutionize the customs of the people. Commer cial houses and manufacturing es tablishments will be built, railroads will be stretched, mines developed and wells bored, and all 'these en terprises will he directed and fi nanced by people of Christian na tions." Rut most destructive of all to the power of Mohammedanism is the defeat of the Sultan of Turkey. This Ottoman monarch was head of the Moslem Church. His person sacred in the eyes of every Mussulman, and his debasement and impotence must convulse Mohammedanism to the foundation and shake even the fa natic faith of the Islamites. "Don't Make Wilson Tin God" "Don't make a little tin god of Wilson; God can finish His work i without Wilson, Clcmenccau or any one else," said the Rev. Dr. Cort land Myers in addressing delegates at a Christian Endeavor convention in the First Baptist Church in Bing hampton, N. Y. "Suppose we have destroyed au tocracy forever," Dr. Myers contin ued, "I think temporarily we have destroyed its companion militarism, but only temporarily. But when I read of the Peace Conference over in Paris, I think we are in an insane asylum. The Peace Conference is a tragedy, almost a blasphemy. They have never had a prayer and have never mentioned God. They would not dare to mention the name of Christ. "Do you suppose we are going to get peace on earth by ignoring the Prince of Peace? We shall never hove justice or peace in America until there is a better distribution of the good things of America. There are too many millionaires and too many poor people. Your Godless Socialism will sweep over the entire land and tear your flag into shreds, unless you rise up and fight it and conquer it." PICKING LEMONS The diplomacy of this administra tion began with William J. Bryan an dconcludes with Link Steffens and George Herron. Those who thought ufter Mr. Bryan was picked for Secretary of State that nothing worse could happen did not fully comprehend the resourcefulness of this administration in the lemon picking line.—National Republican. THESECRET It was the House of Quietness To which I came at dusk; The garth was lit with roses And heavy with their musk. The tremulous toll poplar trees Stood whispering around, The gentler flicker of their plumes More quiet than no sound. And as T wondered at the door What magic might he there, TbeiLady of Sweet Silences Came soft'v down the stair. —"The Rocking Horse" (Doran), Christopher Morley. When " Old Folks at Home"Was Written [Henry Watterson in the Saturday i Evening Post.] STEPHEN FOSTER, (author of I "Old Folks at Home") was the | ne'er-do-well of a good Penn sylvania family. A sister of his I had married a brother of James j Buchanan. There were two daugh- ; ters of this marriage, nieces of the | President, and when they were | visiting the White House we had : —shall I dare write it?—high jinks j with our nigger minstrel concerts on the sly. Will S. Hays, the rival of Foster as a song writer and one of my re porters on the Courier-Journal, told me this story: "Foster," said he, "was a good dca.l of what you might call a barroom loafer. He possessed a sweet tenor voice before it was spoiled by drink, and was fond of music, though technically ho knew nothing about it. He had a German friend who, when ho died, left him a musical scrapbook of all sorts of odds and ends of original text. There is where Foster got his melo- I dies. When the scrapbook gave out j he gave out." I took it as merely the spleen of a rival composer. But many years | after in Vienna I heard a concert given over exclusively to the per formance of certain posthumous manuscripts of Schubert. Among , the rest were selections an unfinished opera—"Rosamonde," I ' SHORTENING THE TON I [Philadelphia Rulletin] Philadelphia consumers of an-j thrncite have long purchased their j supply by the long ton, or 2,240 j pounds, and naturally they look with; a degree of doubt on legislation | which proposes to establish the short J ton of 2000 pounds as the legal j standard for retail as well as whole-j sale sales. Law is sufficient to re-j duce the measure of the ton, but it ( has been demonstrated that it is not equal to the task of reducing, or regulating the price. The plea in behalf of the law is a] desire for uniformity in the trade j and the acceptance of a standard; iof weight which is recognized j [throughout the United States, except | in Pennsylvania, Maryland and the j 'District of Columbia, and in these | jurisdictions is fixed as to all com- i modities sold by weight other than i coal. Particular force is given to! the plea at this time in the fact that] the National Fuel Administration, during its period of control of an thracite, dealt in short tons, rather than in the long standard, and there by aggravated the confusion in bookkeeping. The important consideration for the consumer, of course, is that if the measure of a ton of coal is to he reduced, there shall bo a pro portionate decrease in the price. It would be an injustice to charge him the same price for 2,000 pounds which he has been paying for 2,2 40, and although it may not be possible to write into the bill now pending in tbe Legislature an amendment embodying this obvious principle of justice and fair-dealing, it ought to be so clearly understood as an un written section of tbe law that no coal dealer would dare o ignore it. A reduction of ten per cent. — which would fail by a fraction of being proportionate in the reduction of weight—ls to be expected in the I retail ton price of anthracite when ] over legislation shortening the ton ■ becomes of effect. Labor in the Peace. Treaty The summary of the peace treaty goes more into details as to the labor plan than any other authoritative report from Paris, although there are still sections which will not be clarified until the full text is made public. It is not the design to bring high class labor in the United States and a few other unusually favored countries down to the general level of the world. Its ultimate purpose is rather to lift the level of world labor. There are some prohibitions of working conditions deleterious to health of workers and some con structive provisions which most en lightened states .have already in force. Adjustments will be difficult owing to differences of climate, cus toms and economic development, but great good should come from the moral effect of the annual interna tional conference and the frequent reports of the international labor office.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, think it was called—in which the ! whole rhythm and movement and j parts of the score of "Old Folks at Home" were the feature. It was something to have grown | up contemporary, as it were, with j these songs. Many of them were i written in the old Roman home- I stead just outside of Bardstown. ] Ky„ where Louis Philippe lived and i taught, and for a season Talleyrand ] made his abode. The Rowans were \ notable people. John Rowan, the j elder, head of the house, was a fa- ! mous lawyer, who divided oratorical ! honors with Henry Clay, and like ! Clay, was a senator in Congress; his 1 son. "young John." as he was called, j Stephen Foster's pal, went as min- i ister to Naples, and fought duels, and was, as Bob Acres wanted to be. "a devil of a fellow." He once told me ho had been intimate with Thackeray when they were wild young men in Paris, and that they had both of (hem known the wo man whom Thackeray had taken for the original of Becky Sharp. The Foster songs quite captivated my boyhood. 1 could sing a little, I as well as play, and learned each | ! of them —especially "Old Folks at j Home" and "Old Kentucky Home" | —as they appeared. Their contem porary vogue was tremendous. I Nothing has since rivaled the popu- Ilar impression they made, except perhaps the Arthur Sullivan melo- | dies. I Salvation Army's Record The United States Army demobi lizes, but the Salvation Army goes on forever; as long as there are suf fering and want and woe in the world, orphans to be sheltered, the fallen to be raised, and manhood to be made over. The Salvation Army is local, and yet not local, for it lights the battle of life for the poor, the helpless, and the unfortunate "in sixty-three countries and colonies in all parts of the earth," and in forty tongues it preaches the gospel of humanity. The Salvation Army is back from the war, and yet it never left the country. It is better known for going to the war, because every American soldier who was cheered and supported by the unobtrusive, but ever sympathetic ministrations of the men and women who wore the Salvation Army uniform is tell ing the story of their unselfish cour age and devotion. From General Pershing to the private in the Amer ican Expeditionary Forces has come the tribute of gratitude and respect. The only difficulty has been to put it in the plainest and most feeling language. Having done its bit in France and turning with all its members, vol unteers every one of them, to the war from which, there is no dis cbarge and in which no military glory can be won, the Salvation [Army is making an appeal this week I in every city and town in the United [States in behalf of a Home Service Fund.—From the New York Times. FOOLISII ROA D-MA KING [From the Pennsylvania Farmer.] The writer recently saw a gang of men with teams and road ma chines working out their road tax. These men were farmers and the road master was a farmer. The road was an average country dirt road of a somewhat clayey nature, and had not been touched since this time last year. Some of these men I know to be good farmers. They are anxious to maintain the fertility of the soil and to have it in a loose, friable condition. To do this they plow down sod, cover-crops, ma. nure, etc. They know that such management will keep (he soil from becoming hard and dry. Now, from their work on the road, it is evident that these men left ail their knowl edge of soil nature and its man agement at home. Or, it may be that their minds were not supplied with a reverse lever so that they could be worked backwards. They, of course, wish roads to be hard and dry as much of the year as possible, hut they were doing Just what they do to their fields to make them loose and mellow. They were scraping out into the middle of the road great quantities of sod. leaves and field wash—material which grow good corn and potatoes but which will never become hard and imper vious to water. The basic play of that locality, properly rounded and packed by dragging, would make solid roads; but mixed with humus maklng material—never. Why do men so often leave their good sense I at home when they go out to work on the roads-2 The Yanks on the Maine "Here is a ditty," George Pattullo in the Saturday Evening Post, "which has grown popular among the men of the A. E. F.. The author is anonymous; title, "The Yanks on j the Marne:' " j Oh, the English and the Irish and the 'owlin' Scotties, too, i The Canucks and Austrilee-uns, and the 'airy French poilu; The only things that bothered us, a year before we knew, j Was 'ow in 'ell the Yanks'd look, an' wot in 'ell they'd do. | They 'adn't 'ad no trynin'; they didn't know the gime; | They 'adn't never marched it much; their shootin' was the sime; ' An' the only th'ng that bothered us that day in lawst July, ! Was 'ow in 'ell the line'd 'old if they should run aw'y. | The leggy, nosy new *uns, just come acrosst the sea! Wo couldn't 'clp but wonder 'ow in 'ell their gtits'd be; An" the only thing that bothered us in all our staggerin' ranks Was wot in 'ell would 'nppen w'en the 'Uns 'ad 'it the Yanks. My word, it 'appened sudden w'en the drive 'ad first begun; jWe seen the Yanks a-runnin'—Gaw Rlimy, how they run! But the only thing that bothered us that seen the chase begin Was 'ow in 'ell 1o stop 'em 'fore they got into Berlin. They didn't 'ave no tactics but the bloody manual; They 'adn't learned no orders but "Ooray" and "Give 'em 'ell!" But the only thing that bothered us about them leggy lads, Was 'ow in 'ell to get the chow to feed their Kamerads. Oh, the English and the Irish, and ' the 'owlin' Scotties, too. The Canucks and Austrilee-uns, and the 'airy French poilu; The only thing that bothered us don't bother us no more, It's only why in 'ell we didn't know the Yanks before. Ready For the Budget [From the Erie Dispatch] Now that Congress is going into action once more, there is a little matter which wise taxpayers will develop a sincere interest in if they I make the most of their opportunity. | The psychological moment for the | working out and putting across of j a budget system for government fi | nances seems to have arrived. Practically everybody seems in j favor of the plan. President Wilson ! has declared for it. Former Presi- I dent Taft favors it. The last two I chairmen of the appropriations committee favored it. Leaders of the new Senate are said to be urg ing a national budget system, and the prospective speaker of the House is on that side of the argu | ment. Students of finance and govern ment have demanded something of the kind for years. It is a theory which has been tested practically. Even a poor budget system would work so much better than the pres ent hit-and-miss method that one wonders why we have neglected it so long. The answer is found in the indif ference of voters and taxpayers. These worthies have remained "stu pidly unconcerned while govern ment expenditures have soared. | Taxes are necessarily higher than ever, and still the old wasteful sys tem runs its extravangant course through the public funds. There is no general opposition to the budget system—only this large public indifference. Now is the time for the people who reallv are the government to brace tip and take an interest in their business. Just as soon as they do, they can and will have the budget system. Germany's Attitude Germany may or may not accept the drastic terms of peace pre scribed by the victors in the war. The likelihood is that finally, the treaty will be signed, simply be cause the country is helpless, in capable of effective military resist ance against the forces of the asso ciated powers, and mere rejection would bring on a worse domestic situation that now exists. If the utmost sincerity of purpose were to be credited to the present Ger- I man governhient and its represen ! tatives at Paris, it is to be recogniz ed that the continuing threat of the . Bolshevist element may warrant it in playing its hand strongly, even though ultimate capitulation is ac -1 knowledged. It is not necessary to j paint the scene in darkest gloom, , or to discount the victory which has ■ been won because of passing ap pearances.—Philadelphia Bulletin, Hbentttg (Eljat Plans of the Dauphin County Council of National Defense and of the Dauphin County Historical So ciety for the collation of the data relative to the part this county play ed in the war have been getting very hearty support from men who' have returned from Army and Navy serv ice to civil life. In fact, some jneias who have been overseas have upon? a number of occasions expressed people connected with the Harris burg Telegraph the desire that the [writing of the history of the war should be in not only competent but official hands. Six-tenths of history, especially when local mat ters are concerned, comes from vol unteer sources. Hence, the import ance of having some body, like the joint organization of the council and the society, to receive such informa tion, digest it and where necessary verify it. The history of Dauphin county in the great war will not only be of the men in the service and their doings, but the folks at home, the mills, the railroads, the mines and other contributing factors well worthy of commemoration. The military end should now be under taken so that the events will be se cured first hand and meanwhile the other data can be prepared. The efforts of William Jennings, presi dent of the council; B. N. Nead, president of the society, and those working with them should be given general support in the community. • In this connection some very "in teresting discussions are going on about the name which the Pennsyl vania Guardsmen won in France. The following is from Penn's col umn in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: "The term, "The Irpn Di vision," has given occasion for much discussion this week as to how it had its origin and as to the distinc tion between it and the Keystone Division. Of course, it should be clearly understood at once that each of these terms applies to the same division, and a correspondent has expressed the opinion that Keystono is the more appropriate of the two and should alone be used. The fact is that most of the public and the newspapers prefer to speak of the troops in question as the Iron Divi sion and it is altogether likely that they will continue to •jo so. It is suggestive of Cromwell's Ironside regiment in the days of the war between the Round heads and the Cavaliers, and is ,em l ployed now in the same sense as descriptive of the unflinching en . durance of trusty and fearless sol diers. It has been suggested, how -1 ever, that it originated in the fact that Pennsylvania is industrially the great iron State, and that the in formal title of the Twenty-eighth Division as exclusively a Pennsyl- I vania body was intended as a com pliment to the State. 5 "It really had its start, however, as a compliment to the men them selves and the actual reason for it is happily described by Harry G. Proctor in the book in which he has ! written the history of the Twenty eighth. Mr. Proctor's explanation is 1 as follows: " 'You arc not only soldiers! You ' are men of iron!'" • • • 1 One thing that the policy of Com missioner William H. Lynch in fill ing out the River Front has developed 1 and that is the solidity of asphalt. , The Susquehanna gave the river front some pretty hard grinding this spring and where asphalt blocks and scraps from pavements were used it r seems to have stood the wash and looked for more. • • Soldiers returning from the great ' review of the 28th Division at Phila t delphia are full of enthusiasm over , the many incidents of that remark able pageant. Wounded officers and men declared they saw a new and hitherto unrevealed side of Major General Charles 11. Muir. After the banquet held in his honor at the I Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, ho was greeted by a host of officers who had I served under him at Camp Hancock or France. The General was in a 3 genial mood and asked solicitously after each man, calling him by name f in a great many cases. The hardy old fighter, whom his men call "Uncle Charlie," seemed to be thin ner and the lines in his face deeper as a result of his experiences on the fighting front, but the curt voice was > as kindly and powerful as ever. Dur > ing the-parade he sat on his horse at I the head of his men like a bronze r statue, and as his boys passed in . review for the last time at Broad and > Diamond streets the stern face soft l" encd and General Muir gazed with ■ affection at those whom he had com manded for so many months. 1 A long line of wounded in auto -1 mobiles followed the marching " troops and it was General Muir's ' turn to salute which he did. When * the flower-covered artillery caisson with the gold-stared service flag roll j ed slowly by,.with the emblem show , ing 4,023 battle deaths in the divi sion, a thoughtful and reverent sil ence fell upon the masses of watch ers. General Muir followed by his f mounted staff, removed his overseas: f cap and clenched it tightly in his right hand as his eyes filled with i tears. \ [ WELL KNQWty PEOPLE^ i. —John B. Townsend, whqt ?ras - been director of the lied Cross-in - Pennsylvania, has been elected a I. manager of the University o£ Penn -1 syl\ania hospital. —Adjutant General Frank D. e Beary has been a member of the National Guard since 1888. ° —Major Frank A. Warner, who p served in the 110 th, addressed the e Philadelphia Business Men's club on ~ the work of the regiment in France. „ —E. J. Cattell, the Philadelphia 1 city statistician, is urging union museum activities in Philadelphia.'! —The Rev. Dr. J. Gray Bolton, Philadelphia minister well known here, is celebrating forty-four years 't as pastor of Hope Presbyterian - church. \l~ DO YQU KNOW —That Hnrrisburg pipe Is In use n c in Mexico? e e HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Car shop were established here " j soon after the war. e Wisdom of a Korisas Editor n The other day a fellow was laugh o ing because the News said something i, that wasn't so. Since it was compli s inentary to a lady the News is not i- going to get in bad by ratifying Aha * mistake. —From the Qnenemo KMC*
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