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TUESDAY, MAY 87, 1919 1 do not know but that, if toe were fully the Lord.'*, the greater part of the good we did would he that of which we were not cognizant. Serv ice would overflow from us. A. J. Cordon. TWO SIDES TO IT MUCH is expected of the present Republican Congress in the way for relief for the busi -1 ness interests of the United States. These interests are not protesting so much against the heavy increased taxation in every direction as they are against the uncertainty caused by the indifferent and wobbling atti tude of Government departments. Once Congress removes this handi cap, through proper legislation, there will be greater stability In industrial and commercial undertakings. President Wilson in appealing that the laborers be "given their rjght advantage as citizens and hu man beings" should at the same time have urged those in authority at Washington to improve the con ditions of labor by striving in every way to Improve the conditions of business by making it more prosper ous and successful. Let us hope that the Department of Parks will lose no time in re moving the silt and other flood de posits on the granolithic walk and steps at the foot of the river em bankment. SAME OLD GANG SO LONG as Count von Bernstorff remains the power he appears 'to be in German affairs we are justified in looking with suspicion upon developments In the affairs of Germany having any relation to for eign policy. Bernstorffs cronies in the United States were the disrepu table von Papen and the brutal Boy- Ed, who plotted against the peace of the United States, the safety of our property and the lives of our people while enjoying our hospitality and the protection of our flag. They are the count's boon companions and doubtless, also, there are many other sweet-souled German patriots of the same stamp listed under the Bernstorff banner. Bernstorff never was a republican and never can be. If Germany ever drifts back to imperial form of gov ernment, It will be the von Bern storffs who engineer the coup. These are the men who behind the screen are guiding German pol icies at the peace conference. They are the same men who planned an "enfeebled France" for the aggran dizement of Germany; "the under takings" and "landed properties of the conquered districts" to be "given into German hands," and who urged that "no mercy should be shown." in the light of what they would have done as conquerors, their waitings over the peace terms are laugh pro voking and their tehrs are those of the crocodile they strongly resemble In other attributes of character. Let them rave. They are fooling no body. By and by they will sign and go home and turn their plotting and scheming against their own people, who are more easily deceived by clumsy diplomacy. There are signs everywhere of aa Impending building boom in the United States. Having waited in vain for the promised drop in prices of building materials and labor, those who are contemplating building en terprise have about made np their Blinds that there is no reason for far ther postponement. HAWKER AND GRIEVE THE whole world rejoices that Hawker and Grieve have es caped the sad, fate that it ap peared certain had overtaken them. 1 I They took their lives in their hands i when they started across the At ; lan tic and death was at their backs j aa their aeroplane plunged helpless , Into the sea. Bnt their good angel t attended them and they came | through their hair-raising axpar _ ■; \ " • TUESDAY EVENING, Barrisbttrg 1&S&& TELEGRAPH MAY 27/ft9t9. ience to greet their friends as men returned from beyond the grave. They failed in their effort, It is true, but they displayed the qualities of courake and virile manhood that turns their defeat into victory and gives them a high place for all time among the heroes of history. Their disappearance and unex pected rescue after all hope for them had been abandoned recalls how the world watched and waited in vain for news of the ill-fated Salomon August Andree and his two companions. Nils Strindberg and Ferdinand Frakel, who endeavored to sail over the North Pole by means of a big balloon. Twenty-two years ago this summer they cast loose their moorings and floated away on a brisk northerly breeze over the snow-capped peaks of Spitzbergen to world-fame or to death. Like I Hawker and Grieve they banked their all on the forlorn hope of accomplishing a miracle. A balloonist of unnsual skill and experience and a scientist of note, Andree knew full well the risks involved. From the hour he sailed away until this, except for one message sent back shortly after the start by carrier pigeon, not one word has come back from the 111-starred expedition, although the buoy which the balloon was to have dropped over tho North Pole was picked up at sea by a Norwegian ship near King Charles Land, empty. Now and then there have eome back from the far north tales of this or that tribe of Eskimos having seen the explorers land and one story goes that all three were killed by natives, but no real trace of the party ever has been found and it is believed they fell Into the sea and perished before having accomplished half of the 617 j miles they hoped to traverse, the finding of the buoy at sea indicating that they had tried to lighten their j balloon to keep it afloat. Only tho chance presence of a tramp steamer in mid-ocean, cross ing the path of the fallen aeroplane, saved Hawker and Grieve from add ing another chapter to the mystery of the sea and providing a counter story to the epic of Andree and his gallant comrades. It's going to be very difficult for the Washington administration to ex plain its sudden flop on Government ownership as the only panacea for all the ills of the great transportation and wire systems of the country. If Government ownership and control was a good thing a year or two ago, It is a good thing now, and yet the President is more than anxious to get the railroads, the telegraph and telephone and cable lines back into the hands of the owners at the earliest possible moment. It is quite significant that the head of one of the largest telegraph corporations Jn a public statement declares that im mediately upon receiving back its property, the 20 per cent, increase in rates which was ordered by Post master General Burleson will be can celed. , WELL QUALIFIED SENATOR PENROSE has been accorded the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee because he is eminently qualified for the place. The facts that there were but five votes against him and that even the Democratic leaders were not adverse to his selection show which way the wind blows. Senator Penrose voiced views dur ing the framing of the tax bills now in force that would have netted the country the money in taxes it required, but without all the com plications and expense for tax ex perts necessary under the fool law now in force. He is well acquainted with what should be undone, has distinct ideas as to what should be done and Is in full sympathy with the policy of restricted expenditure and reduced Federal appropria tions, which is a part of the Repub lican program. He is unquestionably the man for the place and the oppo sition to him was due largely to per sonal enmity. PIE THANKS to the canteen service of the Harrisburg Red Cross, through the thoughtful arrange ments of Mrs. Francis J. Hall and Mrs. Walter H. Galther, we are now In position to deny once for all time the foolish twaddle about our soldiers returning from France "changed men." Magazine theorists have evolved the notion that somehow or other mid the shot and shell of French battlefields, to say nothing o fthe bladnishements of French girls and the lure of French cookery, tho young men who licked the Hun lost something from their natures and gained something else; In short that they are not the same lads who went away, that their tastes and views are different. But we are pre pared to rise in our place and give this fool idea the merry ha, ha. It's like this. Every normal Amer ican man loves pie. You never heard of an anarchist or a Bolshevist who doted on pie, did you? You never heard of a long-haired parlor states man from Switzerland or a revolu tionist from mid-Europe, who raved over pie. Of course not. Pie and wild-eyed political theories are utter strangers. Only the man with the love of country in his heart, a sound mind, a good digestion (and these two latter are boon companions), not to mention fond and odiferous memories of, baking day in his mother's kitchen, loves pie. So that being demonstrated along comes the canteen service to try out the experi ment of pie on our returning sol diers. They baked up a batch of some 600 or 700 and handed them out, warm, sweet, flakey and brown to 1,600 home-coming soldiers at the Union Station. And what happened? Why those pies faded away like the proverbial snowball in the future home of the] Hun, "Pie," yelled the homo-comers and went to it with a huge wedge in each hand. Not only did they prove their simon-pure Americanism in unmistakable fashion, but they ate their pie in good old-fashioned American style, from hand to mouth, without even the aid of a knife. And so we know that the lads are coming home the same honest-to goodness American boys they went away, and by the same token it was fully demonstrated that the quality of American pie, at least so far as the pie bakers of Harrisburg are concerned, has not deteriorated in their absence. ~~ i "Pe)ut6i{6ttuua 87 the Kr-flaanitteuM> -. • | Third-class city legislation went to Ifhe front in the Legislature last night about the time the Philadel phia people began to get agreed on a plan of allowing the House munic ipal corporations committee look over some of the proposed changes to the charter bill. The interest was aroused because of the recall from the Governor of the Willson bill repealing the nonpartisan elec tive feature of the Clark, which, it has been generally expected, the Governor would approve. The time for the Governor to act would have expired to-morrow and the opponents of the bill were busy declaring the Governor pledged to veto it, with the advocates Just as insistent the other way. It is said some of the arguments nsed as to effect in industrial cities, appealed to the Governor and it carno about that the Willson bi'l provision for election of the city treasurer by the people was found in conflict with the Wallace bill amending the Clark act, now before the Governor. Therefore, a plan to recall for amendment was evolved and Mr. Willson secured consent of the House to recall for amendment, the Sen ate promptly concurring. The bill will be held in the House a while. The recall made oponenls of the bill jubilant and they claimed the bill would not pass. -—Shortly after the Willson re pealer was recalled from the Gov ernor, the House defeated by a heavy vote the bill extending terms of third class city counctlmen until 1921. The effect of this bill would be to have no elections this year in third class cities. Men from the smaller municipalities generally voted against it. Mr. Wallace. Law rence, spoke against the bill, declar ing it unconstitutional. —Soon after this action, fhe House passed without a on opposition the Dawson bill repealing the nonpartisan law for second class clues. ■—The Senate action on woman suffrage attracted many visitors, in cluding House members. —The Philadelphia charter peo ple agreed on a council of twenty one. That is about as far as they have gone except to decide to have certain amendments printed. Then the Vare men will put in amend ments. Prospects are that the legislation which has held up the session will not be completed until well In June. —The Senate bill providing for a commission of twenty-five to be named by the Governor to make a study of the constitution and report on revision to the legislature of 1921 was passed in the House by 138 to 6 and now goes to the Gov ernor. This is the administration plan in regard to constitutional questions. —Governor Sproul last night sent to the Senate for confirmation the names of ex-Mayor Edmund B. Jermyn, of Scranton; Charles Kline, of Allentown, and Charles H. Dor flinger, of White Mills, Wayne county, as members of the board of trustees of the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Farview. Thomas E. Price, Scranton; Fred T. Gelder, Forest City, and J. H. Graves, Stro-udsburg, holdover ap pointees of Governor Brumbaugh, are permitted to serve out their terms. Mayor Jermyn succeeds ex- Senator Walter McNichols, of Scranton, trustee at Farview for a number of years; Mr. Kline fills the vacancy created by Governor Sproul's retirement from the board and Mr. Dorflinger takes the place vacant since the death of Senator Sterling R. Catlin, of Luezrne. Mr. Dorflinger, one of the original trus tees at Farview, was dropped from the board by Governor Brumbaugh. Hon. Henry F. Walton, Philadel phia; Senator Wallace Barnes, Wayne, and ex-Judge H. A. Denny, of Montrose, are other members of the board. —The Senate has arranged to hold a special session to-night to hear Col. Joseph H. Thompson, of the 110 th Infantry, a former Senator, tell of the army in France. —Col. Cleon Bemtheizel, judge advocate of the Keystone Division, a former member of the House, vis ited the Legislature last night. —Commissioner of Banking John S. Fisher is the eighth man to hold that post in the State Government. The office was created in 1891 as superintendent of banking, but four years later was changed to commis sioner of banking and B. F. Gilke son was named as commissioner. Charles H. K rum bar was the first superintendent. Robert McAfee, who succeeded Frank Reeder be came secretary of the Common wealth, a post which General Reeder had held once before. —lt is not generally known that Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, the new superintendent of Public Instruction, was a warm personal friend of the late Dr. Nathan C. Schaelter, who died this year and who held the of fice longer than any one in the State Government. Dr. Finegan got to know Mr. Schaeffer during meetings of National educational organiza tions and had much correspondence with him. —Bills affecting the Public Ser vice Commission are not going to get very far this session. The usual movement to abolish the Public Service Commission has appeared, but the usual fate awaits it. —The meeting of the people in- terested in revision of the constitu tion which starts here to-day is at tracting much attention among leg islators. The convention's action will likely be certified to the State Gov ernment and will be sent to the com mission on revision of the constitu tion which will be named by the Governor during the summer. This commission which will soon he au thorized is to prepare drafts of revi sions for submission to the next Leg. Ulature. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... BY BRIGGS TRADE BRIEFS American manufactured shirts should find an excellent market In Siberia. This season's Dutch bulb crop is reported to be 25 per cent, below 1918 and 50 per cent, below 1914. The quality, however, is considered better than In 1918. This seems to be a very oppor tune time to introduce American varnishes in Italy, as there is a decidedly small stock of such goods on hand and as varnishes were for merly supplied to this market by Germany. Sample lots of piece goods, sheet ings and cotton prints which illus trate the class of textiles in demand in Columbia may be examined at the Bureau of Foreign and Domes tic Commerce and its district offices by reference to File No. 40207. The British Felt Makers Com pany proposes to establish a labor atory at Stockholm (the original center of the felt hat industry in the United Kingdom) for experi ment and research, particularly with regard to the manufacture of the velour hats. In the Amur and maritime pro vinces of Sibera there are only two mining companies, one near Niko lalevsk on the Amur River the other near Olga Bay, reports Con sul D. B. MacGowan at Vladivostok. Neither concern issues any reports of its operations. Argentina's foreign trade for the year 1918 amounted to $1,261,633,- 349, United States currency. Of this total $464,064,709 represents the value of the imports, while the ex ports were valued at $797,568,640. This gives a trade balance in favor of the country of $333,503,931. The total value of exports from Changsha, .China, to the United States amounted to $895,442 and $445,726 in 1918. Shipments of antimony (crude, regulus and white oxide) declined from 3,632 tons, valued at $706,483, In 1917, to 0,400 tons, valued at $270,571, during the past year. The Banks of Brussels in Bel gium is Increasing its capital from 51,500,000 francs. ($9,939,500) to 103,000,000 francs ($19,879,000) by the issue of 103,000 new shares of 800 francs each. Present holders will be allowed to subscribe for as many shares of the. new issue as they now hold of the old. The rate will be 520. * Fire clay bricks and jars for holding acids made of fire clay are produced at Port Arthur, China, by the Fire Brick Kiln. The clay comes from Fuchow, Just outside the Leased Territory, and is deliv ered at Port Arthur at a cost of about $3.50 United States Vurrency per short ton; siliceous stone is plentiful at Port Arthur. The Song of the Sleepers Now we are names that once were young. And had our will of living weather, Loved dark pines and the thin moon's feather. Fought and endured our souls and flung Our laughter to the ends of earth. And challenged Heaven with our spacious mirth. Now we are names, and men shall come To drone their memorable words; How we went out with shouting swords And high, devoted hearts; the drum Shall trouble us with stuttered roll. And stony Latin laud the hero soul; And generation unfulfilled, The heirs of all we struggled for, Shall here recall the mythic war. And marvel how we stabbed and killed. And name us savages, brave, austere. And none shall think how very young we were. —Archibald Macleish la the Lyric. Returning Soldiers Advised On Unrest [From the New York Times.] FROWN on labor which asks too much; do not listen to capital who would take too much, and then take the Bolshevist and kick him into oblivion" is tho terse ad vice given to returning American soldiers in an editorial in the latest issue to reach this country of The Watch on the Rhine, the newspaper published by the enlisted men of the Third Division in the Army of Occu pation in Adernach,. Germany. The editorial Is entitled "Your Task." It reads: "We want to say just a few words to you soldiers who will soon go home and be soldiers no more, at least not soldiers of war, but of industry. "There is a certain amount of un rest at home in the States and vari ous organizations here and there are beginning to strike. Under the cover of these strikes, the Bolshevists and I. W. W.'s are coming forth from their holes where they have cring ingly skulked during the war, and in the name of labor are committing excesses. "Certain sections of labor are making demands and rejecting the Government's mediation. Certain sections of capital are sitting pat and when the moment presents it self lowering wages. This union is demanding and conferring. That union is conferring and demanding. Hawker Highest Paid Airman Harry G. Hawker went to Eng land from Australia several years ago and, as a mechanic, entered the employ of the Sopwith Company. On October 4, 1912,, flying with a Sop with biplane, designed after the pat tern of the American Wright bi plane, he flew continuously for eight hours and forty-three minutes, establishing a new duration record, and won the British Mlcheltn trophy for that year. A year later, flying with a Sopwith with a Gnome motor, he established a new British altitude record of 12,900 feet. On the same day he carried aloft two passengers to a height of 10,600 feet. In 1913 and 1914 he made attempts in a Sopwith to win the Daily Mail prize of $25,- 000 for a flight around Great Britain. The first time he had to descend near Yarmouth because of illness, and in 1914 he met with an accident near Dublin. During the war he was an experimental flyer assisting in the development of the Sopwith plane. As a test pilot it was his duty to take up battle planes for their final tryout before they were received by the government. He received $125 for each flight, and it was not un usual for him to put twelve planes through their paces in one day. For the last three years he Is said to have been the highest paid airman in the world, his fees being said to pass SIOO,OOO a year. Hawker is 31 years old. He has a country home at Kingston-on- Thames. He has a wife and daugh ter. • Commander Mackenzie Grieve is 28 years old. He is a wireless ex-, pert and meteorologist as well as' an experienced flyer. At one period during the war he commended the Campania, which was the mother ship of the air squadron with the Grand Fleet. tdL, ■ ." T" 4 ' They finally threatened drastic ac tion and strikes. "Therefore a committee from Con gress—a committee from the Cham ber of Commerce—in fact commit tees until you can't rest, appeal to all labor and capital for 'order' and 'calm.' One wants a four-hour day and triple pay, the other a sixteen hour day and a cut in wages. Be tween the two, what are we—you to do? "This! When you get home line up with the law and order crowd. Remember that you have served your country as a soldier and pre served it from harm. Then get busy and preserve it again. Frown on the labor which asks too much— do not listen to capital who would take too much. And then take the Bolshevist and kick him into an oblivion from which he cannot arise. After you have put yourself in this position start to thinking out a safe and sane policy by which these dis orders may be restrained and of a Supreme Court of Mediation as well as a Supreme Court of Justice be fore which both unreasonable, cap ital and recalcitrant labor must bow the knee and receive their fair verdict. 0 I "But in the meantime while you are striving for these ends, men of the A. E. F., constitute yourselves the guardians of your Nation's in ternal peace as faithfully as you have constituted yourself her guard ians abroad. Do these things and you have indeed served your coun try." i Dollar a Mile For Speeders [From the Houston Post.] If putting up the cost of speeding will stop the practice, Dallas will soon be rid of the speed hounds, for one of the judges of that city has adopted a plan of assessing fines of "dollar a mile" against motorists convicted of exceeding the limit. At the rate some of the Houston speed ers drive, it would require only a few fines like that to confiscate their cars, and it ought not to require many confiscations to result in making the street safe for pedestrians. The motor cars that kill and maim people on the streets are always going very slowly, according to the stories told by the drivers, but the record in Dallas shows that for the first week after the dollar-a-mile fine scheme was put into effect not a single person was admitted to the Emergency Hospital, suffering from injuries received in motor car acci dents, and the absence of accidents might be attributed to the high fines for speeding and the consequent more careful driving. The truth is, of course, that most accidents in which pedestrians or occupants of cars are injured, are the result of excessive speed. Know ing this, judges are justified in tak ing drastic means to stop speeding of cars. The people are entitled to pro tection from the speed fiends who make race courses of our best streets and highways, and heavy fines for those who violate the laws have been found to afford the best protection. "A dollar a milo" Is a good slogan for any court which punishes speed ers. An Unsought Tenement Perhaps the loneliest place on earth is that Peace Temple at The Hague. States can be saved without it, as Richelieu might have said with epigrammatic expressiveness.—Pitts- Our Journalists in Paris [Will Irwin in the Saturday Eve ning Post.] "I will match the American news paper man against any of his con temporaries across the water, and give odds. The more I see of the foreign press the more on the whole, I admire tho American. But Just let me hint that some of them, though wonders on a big fire, marvels on a national election and world-beaters on the tariff, wobbled a bit at first on French atmosphere and world politics. "In our splendid isolation our newspapers and newspaper men have never much regarded Europe as anything but a place where the rich traveled and broke the bank at Monte Carlo and got their jewels stolen, whereas the most mediocre little Fleet Street reporter discoursed on the Balkan problem and the Ger- 1 man plot against Persia and France's future in Morocco. In five or ten years of world contact we shall change all that, but I am speaking of now. "The American reporter walked into Europe and read or had trans lated to him a hot leader of Pertl nax from the Echo de Paris and felt all his sense of nationally injured. The popular Matin and Petit Pari sien—this last has ten times the cir culation of the Echo de Paris— might be most kind anrt compliment ary on that day. Humanly, he did Mot notice them. He noticed the Echo de Paris. Then he misread the French he met in Paris, as almost every Ameri can does in the beginning. I know; for I've been through it myself. The true Frenchman has a pessimistic pose. He is, I think always playing a little game with himself. If one thinks things are coming out well he'll be so horribly disappointed it they come out badly! If one thinks things are coming out. badly how happily surprised he'll he if they come out well! Let us therefore work for the bebt and expect the worst. From 1914 clear through to 1918 Americans over only a month or so have come to me and whispered: "These people can't last more than two or three months longer. They say to themselves!" "Paris is very gossipy; and the gossip is always pessimistic. "Many a man who had read the Echo de Paris listened to the French and got the straight of some events inside the conference or the subsid iary committees, rushed to the wire or the mail chute with a story true as to its facts but untrue—though he wrote sincerely—in the import ance he gave to those facts. The stories grapevined back to France; and that stirred up more hard feel ing." Met Roosevelt in the Mud [George MacAdam in the World's Work.] On November 24, >;903, William Loeb, Jr., secretary to President Roosevelt, wrote the Secretary of War: "The President would like to know when Captain Pershing is coming to Washington." (Pershing had just returned from the Moro campaign.) The answer was re turned: "Captain Pershing is now in Washington and has an office in the War Department." The cap tain was invited to take luncheon at the White House. "Captain Pershing," said the President, when the party was seat ed at table, "did I meet you in the J Santiago campaign ?" "Yes. Mr. President, just once." "When was that? What did I I say?" "Since there are ladles here, I can't repeat Just what you said, Mr. President." There was a general laugh in which Roosevelt joined. "Tell me the oircumstancee, then," "Why. I had gone back with a mule team to Siboney, to get sup plies for the men. The night was pitch black and it was raining tor rents. The road was a streak of muydT On the way back, to the front, I heard noise and confusion ahead. I knew it was a mired mule team. An officer in the uni -1 form of a Rough Rider was try ing to get the mules out of the mud. and his remarks, as I said a moment ago, should not be quoted before ladies. I suggested that the best thing to do was to take my mules and pull your wagon out, and then get your mules out. This was done and we saluted and parted." "Well," said Roosevelt, "if there ever was a time when a man would be justified in using bad language, it would be in the middle of a rainy night, with his mules down in the mud and his wagon loaded with things soldiers at the front needed." Insure Against Rain Now The Excess Insurance Company of London has revived a project ' which was dropped because of the 1 war, and will issue insurance poli cies against loss by rain during the summer months. The protection is intended for the benefit of man agers of open air fetes and sports and for the protection of country and seaside resorts, whose receipts are largely dependent upon the weather. Applications must be made at least seven days before the insur ance is to take effect. For a prem ium of $3.75 a week, SSO will be paid a week for each separate week in' which there occur more than two days' of rain amounting each day to two-tenth of an inch or over. Another form is issued pro viding compensation for the second and every additional rainy day in every separate week in which the rainfall amounts to .15 of an inch or over. The premium is one-fifth of the amount of the compensa tion a day and the policies can be effected for single days, specified days in each week or for any num ber of consecutive days.—Thomas E. Waddeli in the Chicago Tribune. He'll Live a Long Time I have no wish for immortality, but 1 should like to live long enough to First. Attend the funeral of the last man who thinks it is funny to call any kind of activity indoor sport. Second. Exterminate the car toonists who end their cartoons with the backward collapse of one char acter. Third. See a movie of men marching at less than ten miles an hour. Fourth. Meet some person who admits having social ambitions. Fifth. Meet some person who confesses to a comparatively blame less yguth. Sixth. Meet rome one who has the good sense, vision and intelli gence to hold the same views as I do. —G. O. A., in New York Tribune. Consolation For Worn Shoes Private Maynard (ruefully survey ing his shoes)—l never wore a pair of shoes down so thin in civilian life. , Private Jensen You should worry. You'll be on your feet again C l";— Ontario Post. . 111 jEtamittg <E(jaf! A friend who had read with con siderable interest, apparently, what was printed in this column last night about the opinions of men in the liquor business as to what is go ing to happen when rum troubleth no more, called attention last night to the fact that regulations regard ing serving liquors to soldiers arc not being well enforced in Harris burg. He said that it seemed to him as though some of the men in charge of dram shops were try ing to get all they could before the clock struck and that it did not reveal a very good spirit. No one had ever looked for a very good spirit about a bar room in Harris burg anyway, but the inquiry of this man as to what is the law on the subject and his observation on its enforcement are interesting. From the best information available sales to men in the uniform of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps were forbidden by executive order soon after the war began and this has not been re scinded. Opinions differ as to whether this applies when a man has the red chevron of honorable discharge on his sleeve, but the con sensus of opinion is that a test of the matter might result disastrously to any man who would sell a drink to a man in uniform whether dis charged or not. The point was made by one lawyer that the no drinks to soldiers order was a war measure and the war is not officially over and that being so men in uniform are presumed to be in the service of the Nation. • • * The rum selling business has been getting unpopular for years and many people in it are going to get ou t with relief was the statement made by one man who engaged in the retail end of liquor some years ago and frankly says that there is not the memory in it that he thought and which he knows there was some years ago in Harrisburg. "The soda fountain and the sundae put the crimp in the liquor business and the movie helped" was the rather aston ishing statement this man made. "The women folks began to raise a fuss when they found they could not go for an ice cream soda in the evenings just like the men went for beer and the cheap movie got to be a regular Saturday night affair. Then it got to bo twice a week. The man took his family or his girl and when they saw the reels they, went for ice cream. Men found out that they did not have headaches and were not ripped up the back by their foremen the morning after spending the evening at a movie and eating ice cream. Ain't that the answer?" *. * * One man became extremely per sonal when asked about the cause of the growth of prohibition senti ment- "You newspaper guys did it." was the blunt assertion. "And say, I'm old enough to remember when some of you wouldn't go to bed and when the bock beer season was the cause of some awful stuff being writ ten, and printed, in your papers. Little old Harrisburg remembers when some of you fellows who are so strong for milk chocolates and an hour at the movies now, used to make Market street howl around 2 a. m. And your printers were just as bad, no matter whether they worked on morning or afternoon sheets. You printed so much of this prohibition stuff that you tried it out when you had to buck, the Philly papers. And between your printing this 'white ribbon' stuff, the busi ness efficiency birds and the war you put it over. Why, say some of you remember when there were a couple dozen drinking places in the Third Ward and you did not miss many of them." • • • It is a well-known fact that licenses in Harrisburg have been de clining in number in recent years. It does not take a very old person to go back to the time when there were half a dozen more saloons on Market street than there are now and the people who back the retail dispensaries, as some of the fastidi ous in the business like to call them, have been changing their invest ments. Half a dozen instances might be found where capital which had for years been identified with the liquor trade has gone into other and more useful lines. • • • Some people on farms and truck gardens in the vicinity of Harris burg are not waiting for the Legisla ture to change the law in regard to the season for killing blackbirds which it is proposed to advance to midsummer and are getting in some fine target practice on the black coats. The birds came early and in large flocks this year, showing tendencies of a particularly destruc tive nature about gardens and truck patches. As a result there has been some shotgun work which has dem onstrated that cither birds are adroit in avoiding trouble or that people have forgotten how to shoot. How ever, the bird coroners have had some work to do. If the activity of the birds is anything to go by there will be lively times this summer keeping them away. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 * ■ 1 > —General James McAndrews, a native of Scranton, has been invited to attend the welcome home parade for soldiers of that city on June 10. —The Rev. Dr. Robert Spencer, Philadelphia Baptist clergyman, has completed fifty years service. —Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell spoke at Easton on Sunday, being the guest of Senator W. C. Hackett, Representative E. M. Sweitzer, of Clarion, who has been ill, has recov ered and is able to attend to his duties. —Emerson Collins, deputy attor ney general, is to be a Memorial day orator in Lycoming county. | DO YQU KNOW —That Harrisburg printing has been used in trans-Atlantic line shipping business? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first movement for a bridge across the Susquehanna here started about 1800. The Fishing Cure What the whole world needs now is the fishing cure. There is no other effectual for strained nerves souls. Fishing is said to falsehood, but we believe that is a slander invent ed by would-be humorists who never fish except for stale jokes. On the contrary, it encourages nearly all the virtues. It's difficult to conceive of a true fisherman who is not a philosopher and a good citizen. Let's halt the world's busi ness and go a-flshlng. It is a sure cure for that tired, worrtsd feeling, " t—From the Baltimore Stps .
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