10 JARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by -rtR TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tslegnph Building, Federal Square : E. J. STACKPOLE Pretident and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MI CHEN ER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. JAU rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Assoc la- Avenue Building I Chicago, 111. B Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa-, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ifMpfty'-}"*■ week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY. MAY 21. 1919 Die talent of success is nothing j more than doing what you can well, and doing well whatever you do with out a thought of fame. —Longfellow. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE NOT the least surprising part of I President Wilson's altogether surprising message to Congress yesterday was his recommendation dthat the railroads be returned to rorivate ownership within the year, raot that Government operation has 9£een such an unmixed blessing thatj Jfee public favors a continuation of ■the present system, but that the i President had been generally under-1 wood to strongly favor the taking i fever of the roads by the Govern-1 jfhent. Probably he has been influ-; ■weed to change his mind by the' ktaancial returns of the railroad ad-1 Ministration, the reports of which! Shave been progressively discourag-' jShg. Each new report apparently j Sharks the limit et inefficiency, only; be exceeded by its successor. The j Mgnres for March surpass anything MaL.j)ublished in recording the utter Jfeiiibility of the Government to keep federating expenses within revenues, Mnd show that instead of tending in ■feat direction, the divergence be- Kween those vital factors is ever ■growing greater. |j. The operating expenses in March wot this year showed an increase of j 8t5,104.000 over those of March.! 918, but the opefating revenues indicated an increase of only. K10,466,000 over the same period, i ■That means a net decrease in oper-' feting revenues of $52,638,000 in ■March, 1919, over March, 1918. It Of not difficult to foresee to what M state of affairs downward progres sion at that rate will reduce the Rreasury if it is continued long wnough. ■ r There are indications, however, ■feat the President has heard from gfe* people of the country on the liubject of Federal control of rail jroads and wire lines and is merely I gfeylng to get into the storm-cellar |fcefore the wave of popular disap proval sweeps over the White House jon the form of a Congressional Kpactment with so many votes to its Kredit that a Presidential veto would ave no effect on its ultimate en jforcement as a law. The President, fet would appear, is merely dodging K licking. ft And that applies also to his pro *po?al for the passage of a limited Krotective tariff law. Either he was BL protectionist when the iniquitous ftfnderwood bill was framed, and at ■feat time he spoke frequently and wrongly on the virtues of free trade, Kr he is merely masking his real feentiments now because he knows Khat a Republican Congress, backed fey a public that believes In pro- Ifection, wilt enact into law the kind Jjpf a tariff it wants at all events. Even the South has been protesting K;ainst some of the Underwood pro slons and next year being a Pres- Jlentlal year and the President be fcig pre-eminently a politician, he J naturally playing to popular de ands. But what a disappointment £tis tariff recommendation must be f those Democrats who have been ■ inouncing from time to time that e tariff is a dead issue, never to |e heard from again in a national mmpaign. f As to President Wilson's attitude fe prohibition, it is one of ■ raddling which will make him few ■lends and willl add to the rapidly trowing hosts of his enemies. His Jjipporters will say that the war tcing over, war-time prohibition not become effective as Banned. But war-time prohibition fas based largely on the scarcity of jirain in Europe and Europe needs |ght now as badly as ever it did |e vast quantities of foodstuffs that fe-tnto the making of beer. And if Btoer may be made, why not whisky Hid the stronger liquors? The Presi jgfcnt has weakened himself and his Aferty. He has clearly labeled him- Mlf the friend of booze, while bring- WEDNESDAY "EVENING, ins down on his head the powerful opposition of the distillers who are ruled out under the dictum he lays down for Congress. It wtll be inter esting to observe the attitude of the legislative branches of the Govern ment on this matter. There will be few who will take exception to the President's views concerning capital and labor, but there is nothing new in them. With the war there has developed rapidly a sentiment in favor of the democ ratization of industry; the granting to labor of a larger share of the proceeds df business. This opinion ; has had formulating in the public mind for years, but the happenings jof the war period brought it to | maturity much earlier thun other- Iwise would have been possible. It is not co/tfined to party or to class. Employers as well as employes en | tertain it and accept it as the policy that must be followed in Ameripa. Just how it is to be worked out re mains to be seen, and the President offers no very helpful ideas on that subject. We shall not reach this I happy state all at one time. It I would be ruinous for all concerned | to attempt to work the miracle over j night. A period of years, of con scientious, painstaking thought and i experiment will be necessary. Mean -1 while, as the President says, Con | gress must aid wisely with legisla ' tion tending in the general direction (toward which we are headed. This i is Republican as well as Democratic, i doctrine and Congress would have assumed that attitude toward the labor problem whether the Presi dent spoke or not. These, with his advocacy of wo- I man's suffrage, are the high points | of the President's message, and here I again he is simply going along with | the mass instead of pointing the way, I for both Democratic and Republican Congressmen are pledged in large numbers to the extension of the vot ing privilege to women and it is not a party issue. Study of the message leaves one with the impression that the President runs with the pack and hunts with the hounds, and the ques tion unconsciously arises as to just what form of wavering the Presi dent's changeful mind will display next. Some of the ardent Democrats of New York predict that the next slate of their party will have the names of "Wilson and Smith" at the head of the ticket. Smith, it will be remem bered. Is the harmony Governor of New York, who saw himself beaten until a week before the elecyon, last fall, when a horrible accident took place in a tunnel of a traction line in Brooklyn, resulting in the death of almost a hundred passengers. In stantly Smith made political capital of the tragic occurrence, and posted placards all over the city and throughout the State denouncing the Republican regime as responsible for the wreck, and promising count less reforms in the event of his own election. He, with his Tamraa.iv hacking and methods of waging po- litical warfare, will make a fit run ning-mate for Wilson, whose politi cal lieutenants endeavor to make votes by handing money bonuses and large increases of wages out of the Federal Treasury to the millions of employes of the various utilities now under Government control. AN "OBSERVER'S" VIEW THERE comes from the Wash ington Observer, one of the strong newspapers of Western Pennsylvania, a vigorous protest against any tampering with the election laws. This newspaper dwells vipon the recent statement of Senator Penrose that it would be better to leave the present statutes alone until the people become thor oughly familiar with them. In the opinion of the Observer this is no time for electoral experimentation, owing to the unrest and the spirit of change which are so widespread. Our Washington county contem porary declares that "under the leadership of Governor Sproui the Republicans of Pennsylvania are better united to-day than they have been for a generation and that for some time there has been a general disposition on the part of all fac tions of the Republican party to give and take in order to keep up a solid front against the common enemy in 1920." It is the hope of the Observer that with the responsibility resting upon those in positions of leadership nothing will be done "to antagonize the great body of independent voters who care nothing for the political jobs or the emoluments of office, but who are interested in good government and believe that the Republican party is the medium through which this can be accom i plished." If the Hurley plan for the cancella tion of shipbuilding contracts is car ried out 70,000 men will be thrown out of employment in California alone, and the yards wtll lose contracts for eighty-seven steel ships. California would have something to think about in connection with its 19i vote if the Hurley policy were adopted. UNPOPULAR TAX WHEN the Legislature comes to serious consideration of the revenue problem, it might give attention to the direct inherit ance tax, which is about as unpopular in Pennsylvania as the luxury taxes imposed by Congress. Governor Brumbaugh approved the inheritance tax under protest as an unfair im position upon small estates and a penalty upon thrift. In distributing the burden of taxation, care mu3t be exercised that nothing be done to impair thosa.vings of the wage earner who has labored for those whom he leaves behind. Harrisburg ts certain to co-operate with State Health Commissioner Mar tin in every reasonable way to the end that his effort to make this city a model, for other municipalities may be crowned with success. At no time has the city failed to act in harmony gtoMtiiitrttiht-iiir I 111 fTifi 'ft*-' with the Commonwealth, and the record of achievement here in the making of an attractive environment for the Capitol is creditable to the public spirit of the community. Ifo&Ec* CK "l > tjtci|£4ytwua By the Ex-Committee-man Enough changes to the Philadel phia charter revision bills, which have been holding up the work of the I-egislature of 1919, were agreed upon as a result of yesterday after noon's prolonged hearing on the measures to permit the bills to be finally disposed of in the House of Representatives by the end of the first week in June. The effect of this will probably be to cause the date of adjournment to be set for a week later than June 19, unless stienuous efforts are made to clear up toe revenue and other problems and advance the business of the ses sion. And even if the June 26 date is fixed, it will mean the death of many measures. The hearing yesterday afternoon wilt have a big effect upon Penn sylvania politics. Governor Sproui and Attorney General Schaffer at tended it and at the conclusion it was announced that a committee of the Attorney General. Thomas Rae burn White, City Solicitor John P. Connelly and Chairman Joseph Gaffney. of Philadelphia city coun cils. The amendments will be made in the committee on munici pal corporations next week and the following week they will be acted upon. —While Vare men were jubilant to-day over the result of the hear ing and pointed out that the reform element was so hostile to the Vares that some reformers did not care who cleaned streets as long as the Vares did not. the charter revision ists were saying that the Vares were not going to get everything. The re visionists expect Senator Boies Pen rose to be here week after next to prevent too many amendments from being made. —Governor Sproui did not say anything at the hearing yesterday. He just listened. Attorney General Schaffer took part and finally at the close practically became the arbi trator. Senator Vare said last night that "practical men" had shown what he termed absurdities in the ideas of the revisionists and that Mr. White had failed to demonstrate that the bill as he wanted it was a practical measure. —The only differences to be ad justed are control of contracts and the size of council. The Vares want a big council. The Governor is said to be midway between what the Vares want and what the revision ists are demanding. The fight over the proposition to repeal the nonpartisan elective feature of the second class city law. which involves Pittsburgh and Scranton. started in the House last night when Representatives Hugh A. Dawson, of Scranton, reported favorably from the House municipal corporations committee his bill to repeal the nonpartisan clause. The bill would leave the city government just where it is as to system and personnel but discard the nonparti san feature. The reporting out of the bill was expected as soon as the Wilison bill to repeal the third class eitv nonpartisan law was sent to the Governor and a battle royal im pends. It is believed the Governor will sign the Wilison bill, hut he is regarded as against the Dawson bill. Influential Pittsburgh people are against the repeal of the second class city bill and the fight will be gin without delay. -—There is little doubt about the Capitol that there will be a fight against the administration bill to change the compensation law. Big employers want the basis and not the percentages changed and have started lining up their friends. This means a test of strength with the administration forces, with which the labor element has aligned itself. —From all accounts it will he two weeks before the liquor bills are taken up in the House. There will not be anything doing Monday night from all accounts. - —The Senate agriculture commit tee yesterday again decided not to act on Speaker Robert S. Spangler's dog bill. There have been no de velopments and the Speaker seems to have been waiting. —Representative Robert 1,. Wal lace. of New Castle, president of the legislative league, was boss of the House last night having been called to the chair. He was given a gener ous greeting. —Chairman William J. McCaig of the House appropriation committee, got two more bills through last night. In four sessions he has lost hut one bill. —Should the Supreme Court up hold the decision of the court of common pleas of Eackawanna, sus taining the ouster of Louis Vesneski as burge3s of the borough of Dick son City, by the Padden faction on the town council, some say there would be nothing to prevent the ousting of the chief executive of any borough in the State if a majority of council so willed it. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Ves neski's appeal *to be reinstated. D. J. Reedy. Harry Needle and James Wilson. Dickson City, were for the ex-burgess. Mr. Reedy made the chief argument. M. J. Martin and Ralph W. Rymer pleaded that Judge Edwards was correct when he took the view that a majority of council had power to remove Ves neski from office after hearing charges that the burgess was a heavy drinker and that he had ac cepted bribes. Because the decision is of such far reaching importance, members of the bench expressed a keen interest in the arguments. It is the first time such a question has been brought to the appellate court. The Magic of the Lamp A room in which the colors of the furnishings have been chosen with the utmost care to harmonize the colors can be transformed to a look of heavy dullness by the mere switching on of a lamp. And, like wise, a rosy glow that suffuses every thing and vies with the open tire for the warmth of its welcome can also come from a lamp. It all de pends on the color of the shade. Oftentimes blue turns to green when lights are turned on. and rose color looks brown. Dull shades are sometimes made bright and the love liest colors turned drab. And it is all the fault of the lamp shade! Sometimes by using a dull-colored shade the glow that is cast over the room makes little change in the tone of the furnishings. Qften, however, since the darkness of the night makes brightness and cheer desir able, it is best to sacrifice some of the beauty of the colors in the fur nishings for the sake of having a brilliant lampshade. The ideal, how ever, is to experiment until you find just the color that will look , warm and inviting when the lights are turned on and yet will not seem to dull the tones of your furnishings From the New York Sun. la. # KUOUBBUKG MOVIE OF A MAN AND AN EARLY STRAW By BRIGGS DECIDES HE LOOKS WAS NOTICES? THAT BUT OOSSN T SEA - PCSL S MOST ? L> ~\ MANY STRAW HATS A SIW4LE STRAW COWS Pi C UOU 3 , wew " \ I 1 . HAV/6 THEIR HAT MOW - PAIN DPOPS / STRAW \ ' / / APPEARAMCe.. - SALLIES / •9 no Public conveyance wishes he was wpuera pblt So RELiCv/eD To Conspicuoustuess to secwsiom of SELP -Conscious Apßwe at (Ph 6W) IWCP6ASES WIS office ,JKJ HIS LI FG ofpi c e HIGHLY UNCOMFORTABLE We Must Keep German Ships [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] When the Kuropean war broke out, there were numerous German ships scattered in ports all over the world. England took over what she could lay her hands on. So did France. So did Italy when she de clared hostilities, while here in the United States' we seized every enemy vessel. What is to become of these ships? England proposes that all of them should be pooled and then distribut ed among the Allied countries in proportion to the loss of tonnage that each suffered through submarine activities. Since Great Britain was hardest hit, she would get the bulk of the German craft, whereas the United States would be given a very small allowance. Apparently Great Britain stands alone at the Peace Conference in this respect. And she should stand alone. These ships are prizes of war and should be treated as such. Does England propose to pool all the proceeds of German property that she has seized in her cities? Then why draw a distinction between property on land and prop erty afloat in port? Everything that has been going on in Paris is not known, but it is re ported that the American delegation will decline to yield the German ships now in our possession. It is to be hoped that the report is true, for an abandonment of our claims wotild be suicidal. We are depend ing on some of these German ships for passenger liners. We have not one single up-to-date American-built vessel fit for first-class passenger service across the ocean—not one. The Shipping Board has been con structing numerous freighters and a few vessels designed for South American mixed cargo and passen ger trade are in prospect, we believe, but nothing has been built or de signed to compete with England, France or even Italy in passenger carrying across the Atlantic. Of the German ships now flying our flag there are three that are of high-class type —the George Wash ington, the Kronprinzessin Oeeilie (renamed the Mount Vernon) and the Vaterland (now called the Levi athan). These came from the North German Lloyd Line. The same line furnished the Kaiser Wilhelm 11, rechristened Agamemnon, a hit old, but still speedy, as is the America, taken from the Hamburg-American line. To give these up would be to leave us with no passenger ships of any account, while England would add to her already great passenger fleet. It cannot he done. Study Up the Statute Before the so-called luxury tax had been in effect more than a day, complaints were received by the in ternal revenue bureau that it was being abused. In some instances customers of retail stores reported that they were charged far higher prices than fhe old prices plus thq new tax. Much of this over-charg ing it is true, was accounted for by misinterpretations of the law by salespeople. In other cases, how ever, advantage was taken of the tax deliberately to increase profits. .... The public should not submit to the practice. Redress is obtain able under the law that imposes the luxury tax. Dealers and salespeople are liable to a severe penalty for adding an excess charge to the re quired 10 per cent. Customers, as well as those who sell commodities subject to this tax. should acquaint themselves with the terms of the law and should see that the meas ure is not made a convenient instru ment for swelling profits on sales.— Chicago News. LOVE ABOVE US When the night falls o'er our dwell ings And the time has come for rest, Thoughts will turn to God in Heaven And to those we love the best. Then comes heart—light in the dark ness, Peace all understanding past. Love and joy for sweet reposing Everlasting arms hold fast. From God's Word we gain His pleasure Through our prayer His power to keep; For His service on the morrow. We may thus prepare for sleep. Heavenlv friendship, earthly friend ship, Thus combine—all needs supply; Love above us, love around us. From all trials lift us high. —Rev. Charles L. Page, In Boston Transcript. Divorce and Children Seventy-Five Per Cent, of lTocecdlngs Are Started by Women OX the issue of preserving the family, ai> aim alike of the church, the lawgiver, and the courts, each front its own angle, it is significant that 75 per cent, of proceedings for divorce, and all for separate mantenance, are initiated by women. Modern divorce at its inception, though open to men, was designed primarily for the protec tion of Wives front masculine tyran ny, and the dire statistics which of fend so many people have been in large measure a register of relief front intolerable conditions more or less sanctified by prior generations of patient Griseldas. Yet when we turn front the immediate past and look ahead, does not the established policy of modern courts (at least those in the United States to vouch safe complete protection to the wife, both as concerns herself and custody of her children, unless her conduct has been outrageous, prompt the question whether responsibility for the preservation of the family* will not rest henceforth largely on the attitude of woman? To develop this it is to-day prac tically possible for a wife to allow BURLESON—THE "GOAT" , [From the Johnstown Tribune.] Jt is not strange that organizations of civil service reformers have joined in the attack on Postmaster General Burleson. The Postmaster General is a regular Democrat, of the Wilson i school, when'it comes to a question! of the civil service, which term, byj the way, means the list of employes, of the United States Government.; Mr. Wilson does not practice civil : service reform in any direction ] which will lessen the number of! Democrats holding Government; places or, it is proper to say, which ; will prevent substituting a Democrat i for a Republican when the chance l offers. Mr. Burleson has been' strengthening the Democratic party; by giving Democrats jobs. Nothing I wrong with that, except the hypo critical part played by certain Demo crats, who profess to believe their! party rises superior and far above! political patronage. The fact is that Mr. Burleson has been chosen as the "goat." Upon him will be lodged, if possible, all the! sins of omission and commission ! properly chargeable to the Wilson i Administration. We miss our guess if "Al" will bo good enough Demo crat to permit himself to be ousted and consent to bear the brunt of public indignation. The more servilo of the Democratic press has been! whipped into line to demand that! Burleson's political scalp be taken, j There are men—Democrats who fawned on Burleson, when they held public office, who are now abusing' him. The whole scheme is a mis erable. unjust, hypocritical plan to j discredit a man in order to help aj worse than discredited party. The civil service reformers will. help the Democratic pack which is after the Burleson scalp. They should know that if the scalping is done, i the successor will he a real, regular, I Wilson Democrat, no more consider ate of the civil service laws, or the: spirit of civil service reforms, than has been Mr. Burleson. They will merely be helping Democratic party-! savers pull some badly scorched political chestnuts out of the fire of public condemnation. Poor Kicking The fact that there is included in the revised covenant of the League of Nations a clause provid ing that all positions under or in connection with the league, includ- ; ing the secretarot, shall be open equally to men and women, is a con- I spicuous sign of the times. In the face of such recognition it would ' seem to be kicking against the ! pricks for members of the United States Senate to refuse to acknow- I ledge that women is the equal of | man In all the departments of life. I —Christian Science Monitor. Newspaper Ads Pay Big j W. H. Shoemaker, proprietor ofj a grocery and meat market in thej residence district of Kansas City. I Mo., gives newspaper advertising credit for building up his business. Although not in the downtown dis trict, Mr. Shoemaker since opening his store several years ago, has ad vertised In the papers. "Newspaper advertising," he said. "Is the cheap est and best method of building up trade. Every dollar spent for such advertising has brought results ten fold." J mere caprice or unsubstantial griev ances to deprive her children of their father, and thus sacrifice their true welfare to her own egotism. No woman can be compelled to live under the same roof with her hus band, and, if she leaves him. even "liking some one else better," will not prevent her from retaining the custody of her young children, if all that appears on the surface is in compatibility. It would be Incorrect to allege that the consciousness of the courts recognizes more than a drift in this direction; yet oppor tunity runs hand in glove with the temptation, one extenuated by the apostles of freedom who hold that marriage is "up" to a man, and that if he cannot retain his wife's affec tion she is justified in leaving him. This postulate of liberty. If not set forth, in much of current fiction, is to be read between its lines. Years ago. when a woman in whose favor I had decided, whispered to the court officer as she went out, "Tell the judge he's a darling," I thought it not unlikely that T had been cajoled. —From "Domestic Relations and the Child." by Robert Grant, in the May Scribner. THE ARMY'S DRIVE [From the Philadelphia Ledger.] The Salvation is out for $13,000,- 000. The particular amount is not so important as the fact that the Sal vation Army is entitled to get what ever it wants. The verdict of the men of the army is unanimously in favor of the Army and what it has done for the doughboy in France. It now means to diversify and in tensify that work here at home, where there is always plenty of war to be made upon vice, ignorance and squalor. Swifter than a seaplane, the smile of a Salvation Army lass bridged the distnnce from the mud of the trench to the evening lamp at home. It wasn't so much the miraculous doughbonut or the pie—it wasn't just the cocoa or the coffee—it was the woman behind the frying pan to the man behind the gun. They went into battle those women. The supply trains lumbered through the night till the drivers were ready to fall from the seats from weariness. The men plodded on miry or dusty roadways till they seemed to be walking in their sleep. Men came out of the shell swept inferno of No Man's Land in every phase of anguish, physical or men tal. often bereft of reason. However and whenever they came they found the remembered voices and the remembered hands of all women waiting for them in the presence of one woman or at most a tiny group. They were thus brought back from darkness to light, from death to life by those who stood for all America- America must stand for them. Farmers' Union of Maine [Christian Science Monitor.] .Many people, It is safe to sny, are in the attitude of observing with in terest how the Farmers' Union, of Maine, markets its members' pro ducts. The farmers, of course, are interested; but so, also, are consum ers; and no doubt, in far greater numbers than the farmers. One phase of the matter, at the present stage, is the interest of the con sumer in the question of whether or not the member of the Farmer's Union cares about his interest. The consumers' concern with this pro ducers' enterprise will be still larger when the enterprise is fully devel oped and embraces, besides its chain of retail stores in the State, a dis tributing depot in a large city, in tended to bo Boston, Massachusetts. The duration of this Interest on the part of consumers, however, of wbom it will be worth while for the Maine farmers to remember there are a great many within marketing distance of Boston, will depend on whether or not the Farmers' Union shall offer any particular inducement for people to buy of its proposed store. The Union will be justified In believing that consumers without number are, notwithstanding disap pointments, still seeking markets where they ran feel that products are for sale at prices that have not been inflated somewhere between the producer and the ultimate purchas- "MAY 21, 1919. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | Lcllcr of Appreciation To the Editor of the Telegraph'. Please print a copy of the follow ing letter in your publication and oblige: To the Publicof Penbrook: The R. T. S. Literary Club of Penbrook lias lately received from an un known citizen a letter expressing the public's appreciation of the program which the club presented on May 7th, Bth and th. A copy of the same letter was published in the issue of the Harrisburg Telegraph on May 15th. We, now in return, extend our thank to both the unknown writer and the general public for these written testimonies of their appre ciation of the production. The Club was very anxious to serve the public of Penbrook and now are greatly encouraged upon learning that their efforts have been noticed and approved by the citizens of our borough. And we assure the unknown citizen, that this token of thanks and guarantee of public sup port, which we have receiverf, will in the future be an inspiration to every member, to improve and in crease the social activities of our borough. Yours, with thanks. Pres. R. T. S. Literary Club. Penbrook, Pa. Family Doctor Missed [From the Rochester Post-Express.] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer declares that there is in the West a wide call for the release from mil itary service of the family doctors. People want the old practitioner and the old practice back again; the hurried attention of the hard worked physician who must see the majority of his patients in his office for lack of time to visit homes is not found a liked substitute. That the rural communities of the com paratively sparsely settled states of the northwestern border miss their home-visiting physicians is quite understandable. Here in the East we have suffered somewhat from the drain by the war upon our medical and nursing forces. But we have few communities, even in our far flung rural districts where the reg ular round of the family physician remains a routine of practice as it does in the West. There is more missed than mere medical attention in the loss of the family doctor. He had in the East and still has a social function. He served as an adviser in many mat ters. In the rural districts he has been a great encyclopedic agent of general information. Probably if the history of the Nation in its pure ly social aspects were truly written, the family doctor would come in for prominent place in its annals. We are seeing the coming in of protec tive medical practice: of the phy sician who is the public's adviser as to means of retaining and upbuild ing health more than a dealer in medicaments to combat specific ail ments. It is a higher function and a better ideal of practice. But the old family doctor did superb service. It is no wonder he is missed. Cats and Birds [From the Boston Transcript.] If cats in Massachusetts really kill as many as 700,000 birds in a season, as the State commissioners of fisher ies and game estimate in their an nual appeal, to cat owners, there is surely justice and point in their ap peal for the protection of birds from cats, for each insectivorous bird de vours many thousands of insects and the removal of so many birds means an increase of the insect population by untold millions. Never in the history of New England was the in sect pest so burdensome and so menacing as it is now, and any agen cy which tends to make the pest still greater constitutes a public danger. The account of the State with the harmless cat is not, however, sum marily closed by the statement of the commissioners. If cats catch wild Insectivorous birds, they also catch a good many birds that are not in sectivorous, or but sparingly so. Cats prey heavily, and probably chiefly, so far as birds are concerned, on the English sparrow, which does more harm than It. does good by driving away native birds; and, incidentally, cats prey on rats, mice and moles, thereby establishing an Item of credit for themselves in the account. If we exterminate the cats altogether, we might lose at one end of the line more than we gained at the other. Same Thinq Here The man who used to make his !I\> ing selling "To Rent" signs must be starving to death now.—From the Detroit Nej J Bmttng (ityat ** '^B s&t*K wm mr b s| |MBwL| bb DR. THOMAS E. FINEGAN. That familiar jingle which has gone down in railroad history as the classic in wreck reports: Off agin, on agin, Finegan docs not apply to Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, the supei intendent to be after June 1 of public instruction for the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania. Dr. Finegan is mostly on any proposition and stays there nntil it is finished, lie has all the charac teristics of the folks with whose ways his name is associated. They say at Albany that he has stayed on moro propositions than any man who has been at the Capitol and has a dozen big school laws and a large quanti ty of scalps to his credit. The scalps he accumulated in acquiring the var ious laws. Dr. Finegan is in Harris burg to-day with his six feet of brawn and muscle. He intends to come here and stay on the job after June 1 and the school system of Pennsylvania, predict the educators who know hint, will be aware that this Finegan is on and seldom takes B day off. Dr. Finegan has lectured in Pennsylvania many times, Harris burg having been one of the places where ho has talked to the teachers. He has been in demand in various States, but of late has been staying on the ground at Albany getting his laws on the hooks. They say up .the Hudson that it was a toss up whether Smith or Finegan would be I selected for the gubernatorial nom ination and except that Finegan had some things on, he would have been picked out to make the run. Dr. Finegan is an affable man. accused of knowing something about politics and the way to make it an adjunct to education. T.ikewise he is some thing of a scrapper, as his name and appearance would imply. And from indications, he will have abundant opportunity to exercise the tradition al talents of men of Irish ancestry in remaking the school system of Pennsylvania. As they say In sum ming up biographies at State capitals —he is fifty-two and worked on a farm: is married: is a Presbyterian and has been accorded many de grees. The golf playing and walking brotherhoods of the State Capitol are "matching" to-day to see which clan ho is going to join. "For getting the men of a com munity together on a common foot ing, where each understands the other better and all become better friends, there is nothing better than an automobile sociability run." said Carl K. Deen, of Camp Hill, the other day. And he ought to know, for he has been chairman of the |Camp Hill run ever since the first, was held. The Camp Hillers Ret together once a year and spend two days touring attractive parts of this or other States. They have gone as far as Baltimore and Harper's Ferry, making their headquarters at Fred crick both times, and another time took in the Delaware Water Gap and scenie sections to the north and east. This year they propose to go to Bedford, Hollidaysburg and Lew istown, testing out sections of both the Lincoln Highway and* William Fcnn Highway. They will he gone two days, starting next Saturday morning and returning Sunday even ing. The Camp Hill men got to gether for the run in years agone when there was not so much socia bility in the town as there is now. They did not know each other so well, but they knew their neighbors were good fellows and the trip was devised to bring them to a place where they would know each other by their tirst names. And the plan succeeded wonderfully well. No community anywhere did better war service than Camp Hill, and it was largely because the men were used to each other, kpew each other and were ready to work together in all sorts of campaigns. Spending two days roughing it over the roads to gether and chumming in the even ings and at meal times at the same hotel does a lot to improve acquaint anceship, as Chairman Deen says. • * * The fact that it is no longer the penny or even the nickel and that it is the dime that the youngster has to spend, was rather strikingly em phasized yesterday when a brigade of York boys visited the Capitol to see the sights, the legislators, the squir rels and Speaker Spangler. Each boy broke for a candy and soda store soon nfter going through the build ing and most of them bought at a regular Saturday night rate. Th 3 Speaker said that he was glad to sec the hoys, hut that he was also glad he had seen them before re freshment time. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Representative Harry Heyburn, who figured in the cold storage de bate in the House "-yesterday, is a farmer and says he can still plow. —Representative C. G. Jordan, of Lawrence county,- is the last Work in the* House on cattle raising and says Pennsylvania is losing great oppor tunities. —Senator Dnvid Martin, who was secretary of the Commonwealth and insurance commissioner, says that Harrisburg is like a second home to him, hut that he needs his farm to feel thoroughly easy. DO YQU KNOV —That Harrisburg sells tin plate for Government work of many kinds? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Fifty years ago Harrisburg dedi, cated its Civil War memorial. Sesonfl and Sta&* istweSv V 2