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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
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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.
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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,
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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. .
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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 .