Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, May 28, 1919, Page 12, Image 12
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By carrier, ten cents a rrffetysfrrfiiars week; by mail, $3.00 a Mairyear in advance. WEDNESDAY. MAY 28, 1010 There is no friend like an old friend Who has shared our morning days, No greetings like his welcome, No homage like his praise. —Oliver Wendell Homes. A YANKEE DID IT SCORE another for the American Navy. Us unsurpassed record of achievement on the sea and under the sea has been matched by Commander Reed's feat of crossing the Atlantic in the air. First to launch and use the steamboat, first to make use of the ironclad ship, first to develop the monitor and the revolving terret, first to evolve a workable submarine, the Navy comes forward with another triumph by sending a heavier than air machine hurtling through the ether from America to Europe in actual flying time of a little more than twenty four hours. Hawker's attempt was spectacular and daring. Reed's was no less dar ing, but his calculations were work ed out on a scientific basis. His chances of failure were reduced to a minimum; all the possible factors of success were taken into considera tion and carefully worked out to the advantage of the airmen. Method and system won out where mere in dividual initiative and the hope of accomplishing a miracle failed. Reed's name will go down in his tory. His fame for all time is as sured. But more important than that, it has been demonstrated that man is at last master of the air and that Europe has been reduced to a day's journey from America. The heavier than air machine is in its infancy. Shortly, it may be forecasted, trips across the ocean will be as fre quent as flights over the English channel are to-day. With that thought in mind it behooves us to be considering means of combatting a possible peril from the air some day when a hostile European coun try may decide to drop in upon us byway of the clouds. Perhaps some such idea may have been back of the Navy's elaborate experiment. Hundreds of visitors have been in Harrisburg during the last few months and have learned to appre ciate many of the attractive features of the city. They never tire in their praise of the unique treatment of the river front, nor do they restrain their commendation of the fine system of parks, the unusual paving area of Harrisburg and the municipal pro visions for public recreation. A FITTING TRIBUTE THE Harrisburg Rotary Club is doing a fine thing in dedicating to the memory of Harrisburg men who died in the nation's service during the war flower boxes that throughout all the summer season will recall the beauty of their serv ice and public appreciation of their sacrifice to the throngs that daily traverse the Mulberry street viaduct, where the boxes will be placed. Scores of these men sleep in graves In France, many of them unmarked ind all of them beyond the reach Df loving friends who would have bedecked them with flowers had it been possible to give their bodies final resting places in their native joil. Only in some such manner as the Rotary Club plans can their friends and neighbors pay their proper Memorial Day tribute. The flower boxes will be as ■acred as though they bedecked the traves of those to whose memories they are dedicated. They should be tared for and guarded from care less or thoughtless hands as jeal usly and as zealously as though they were settings in a national semetery set apart for soldier dead. Judge Gary. In his recent optimis tic speech before the steel manufac turers, did not hesitate to predict a treat era of prosperity for the United Hates. Like all other thoughtful and tompotcnt observers of the trend of ifTaLrs, he dwelt upon the factors which eater into .our cmuitry.'a ex-. WEDNESDAY, EVENING, pansion, and Intimated that there should be removal of the reetrtatlone which bind the Industrial and com mercial giant* and prevent the nativ ity which would otherwise be here, tt Is up to Tenure,e to take off the ■hackle* and allow buelneea to fto on It* way.. IN RUSSIA SLOWLY tho noose that finally will hang them Is tightening about the nooks of Trotsky and Lenlne. On the north tho antl-Bol ahovlk forces aro prosslng hard upon tho slowly yielding armies of tho Hods, from tho cast tho armloe of tho Ukrainians and Finns aro push ing on toward Petrograd, from the oast come* Admiral Kolshak's vlo torlous legions and from tho south General Deniklno miyrches evbr northward. All that Is left to the Bolshevtkl Is the heart of old Rus sia, and they aro In desperate straits there. And now comes official recog nition by the Allies of the Omsk government, which Is largely made up of Kolshak's armies and has harmonious connections with tho other antl-Bolshevik forces through out Russia. Kolshak, of all the Russians who have come to the front since the empire collapsed, appears to have qualities of leadership of high or der. He is apparently intent more upon the welfare of his country and its restoration to sanity and order than in the grinding of any personal ax. He has formed a ministry of representative Russians, recruiting his army altogether of natives of Russia and has made a fine impres sion upon the world-at-large, both as a warrior and a constructive statesman of courage and vision. For six months or more Kolshak has been attracting the attention of the Allies, who withheld recognition of his government only because it was thought he meant to set up an imperialistic forth of government. It is easy to believe that Kolshak may view with apprehension an effort at representative government at this time in shattered Russia, but he has yielded to the degree of coming out in favor of a constituent assem bly and this, together with favor able reports from Allied representa tives with the Kolshak armies, has led the Allies to give him their sup port. Thig recognition will be of great encouragement to all the anti-Bol shevik forces in Russia and will be of material assistance in the restora tion of law and order. Bolshevism is nearing the end of its dizzy career. Its head is in the gallows noose and the rope is slowly being -tightened. A great responsibility rests upon the Republican party now in control of both branches of Congress and in proporition as it proves constructive in its policies will the party grow in the confidence of the people. Mere criticism of what has or has not been done by the Democratic administra tion u ill not satisfy the people who are looking for relief from intoler able mismanagement and inefficiency. It is generally accepted as a fact that there has been failure in many quar ters during the present administra tion and it would be well for the new Congress to subordinate the ex posure of shortcomings and ineffi ciency to the more important work of devising measures of permanent betterment. WHY HANG ON? WHY is it necessary for the Legislature to drag along un til July? Can't the loaders devise a plan that will enable the law-makers to go home the latter part of June? What are the grave issues and the points impossible to decide except by long deliberations that are delaying the session and making mid-summer meetings nec essary ? The country members want to quit, as do many city members. The prolonged sessions are costing the taxpayers large sums. Everything before the Legislature could be closed up in four weeks if that body only got down to real work. Why hang on? A JOINT HOSPITAL NOW that Senator Smith's bill giving Dauphin county and the city of Harrisburg authority to erect a joint hospital for contagious diseases has been approved by the Governor, the first step toward Colonel Martin's plans for Harris burg as a model city from the stand point of health and sanitation lias been taken. The Chamber of Com merce, following repeated recom mendations by Dr. Raunick to city council, undertook the promotion of this much-needed improvement fol lowing the influenza epidemic last fall and has made it the leading item in its lately formulated public health program. But the work has been no more than started. Great care must be exercised in the selec tion of a site, in the architecture of the building and in the formulation of plans for Its joint construction and maintenance, in order that the interests of both city and county may be conserved. The new hospital mubt be a model. Nothing but the best will suffice. Better a few more thousands of dollars expended at this time than the rebuilding of the hospital ten years from now. A WELCOME FOR THEM THE men of the Seventy-Ninth Division, made up of \xjlunteers and selected men, many of them from this part of Pennsylvania and hundreds from Harrisburg and Dauphin county, are coming home. Philadelphia is making prepara tions for a big parade, but what is this city , going to do byway of a welcome? They arc just as much "our boys" as the veterans of the gallant Twenty-Eighth. They rendered val iant service on many hard fought fields and they never suffered a de feat, They, come bach to us aa vlfi torsi men who have written a won derful chapter In the war history of the country. They are deserving of the best we have to offer. The time Is shqrt in which to pre pare. Homebody must assume the duty. These returning soldiers must be made to feet that we are happy to have them back with us again, and proud of what they did as our representatives abroad. Let their welcome home be as enthuslasllo as their performance In the face of the enemy was brilliant. ""PotlfcTc* tK 'PauvOiftauiZa By the ICx-OasnmltteeuiMi Philadelphia reform legislation Is still the storm center of tho Legis lature and of State politics. With the charter bills practically disposed of through an agreement between the rival factions, tho fight has shift ed once more to the Datx-Brady registration bills and the Rotan measures. United States Senator Penrose is coming here Sunday to help tho fight for reform. 11c sent word to that effect to his lieutenants here last evening. Senator Edwin H. Vare threw a monkey-wrench into the harmony machinery by renewing his opposi tion to the Rotan bills. An agree ment had been reached to pass the bills through the House without op position. Senator Vare ahnounced af ter looking over the bills that they provided bigger salaries for the new detectives to be added to the Dis trict Attorney's staff than is paid city detectives. He handed an ulti matum that unless the salaries were decreased he would oppose the bills. The decision to put the bills through the House yesterday was rescinded and it was announced the measures would be held up until Monday night. Late yesterday several up-State members, who have become dis gusted with dilatory tactics, took a hand in the game. They forwarded an ultimatum to the legislative leaders that unless the Philadelphia bills were disposed of quickly and final adjournment hastened, they would oppose the program. The effect of the up-State men's ulti matum was a quick report by the House rules committee in the shape of a resolution calling for three ses sions daily on Tuesdays and Wednes days and one session on the Thurs days. It passed the House unani mously after Speaker Spangler took drastic action. He ordered a poll of the House and 128 of the 207 mem bers responded when their names were called. —Plans to get action on the Phil adelphia charter bills began to be made as soon as the bill as amended was reported to the House by the House municipal corporations com mittee. Several members asked the Speaker to advance it as rapidly as possible and will seek early action by the committee on any additional amendments. It was announced that Senator Boies Penrose would be here Sunday to urge the passage of the bill. Governor Sproul has also been importuned to ask the Legislature to expedite the bill, which members claim is holding up the fixing of a date for final adjournment. —Dr. Thomas T. Finegan put in about as an eventful day yesterday as ordinarily conies to the average man in Penrtsylvania public life in a life time. He arrived from New York in the morning and spent an hour in converse with the Governor and the men who handle the mil lions for the Keystone State about what could be set aside for educa tion; then he was assigned a legal residence in Harrisburg; appointed superintendent of public instruction and his nomination promptly con firmed by the Senate. About the same time the bill establishing the salary of the superintendent at $12,- 000, the same salary as the Attorney General and only a little lower than the Supreme Court justices, was ap proved and he was named to receive that figure. Dr. Finegan was wel comed to Harrisburg by some peo ple living here and complimented on the speed with which he had become domiciled enough to bo ap pointed from the State Capital. —There are four cities in the United States which pay their super intendents of education more than the new superintendent receives, while several States also pay salaries away up. The county of Allegheny pays its head of schools as much as the Governor receives. —Many members of the legisla ture last evening commended the in troduction of the Eyre resolution to investigate the treatment of National Guard officers. The case of Captain Samuel A. Whitaker, one of the members of the House from Chester who served with distinction in the Guard for years and made a fine record in Europe, has aroused much indignation among the legislators who knew him and there is generat support for the probe which is pro posed and which seems to worry the Demofcratic Senator from Perry exceedingly. —The action of Speaker Spangler last night in calling a roll for a quorum and the prompt move of the rules committee to establish time of sessions, as was done in 1913, brought members of the House up standing. Tf they go away hereafter they must have leave. —The House committee in charge of the Hess bills to move the appel late courts here took no action yes terday, but members are commenc ing to hear from lawyers in Phila delphia and Pittsburgh. No action will be taken this week. • —Revenue measures were much discussed on the Hill to-day. The talk of a manufacturing capital tax is being revived as the appropria tions continue to pile up. This prop osition will be vigorously fought. —Mayor E. V. Babcock. of Pitts burgh. was here last evening looking into legislative matters connected with Pittsburgh. —Some of the legislators were smiling to-day over the action of Messrs. Alexander and Glass in op posing the Dawson bill relative to appointment of mercantile apprais ers yesterday at the very time when the conference in the Governor's of fice was deciding to urge that it be passed. The bill came up in the ab sence of Chairman Dawson, of the ways and means committee, and was defeated. —The third-class city bill went behind the scenes yesterday. It was not much heard of on the Hill to day, but many men believe it will eventually become a law. Foch's Watch [.Philadelphia Record.] The watch on the Rhine at this writing is held by Foch, and It's a stop watch. UARRIFIBURO TELEGRAPH! WONDER WHAT A FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD BABY THINKS ABOUT? By BRIGGS I've GOT 50 II CAM ILL SHFLW'YOU FIRST I GET I PUSH TNE ■ \ PLAY GAMES NOLO. 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Let's Keep the Daylight HouA [From the New York Sun.] Anti-daylight saving legislation, I which was avoided in the closing t hours of the Sixty-Fifth Congress only by the failure of the agricul tural appropriation bill, hus been proposed again in Congress, and it is asserted in Washington that it has a good chance of success be cause the farmers favor it. When the repeal of the daylight saving law was proposed lust win ter, The Sun said that if setting the \ clocks ahead in the springtime worked a real hardship to the far mers, their complaints were entitled to respectful consideration. We re ceived a number of letters on the subject from farmers, some of whom wanted to have the law erased from the books, while others were indif ferent toward the proposal. None of the contentions put forward by dissatisfied farmers seemed of suffi cient weight to out-balance the great benefits derived from the operation of the law by millions of citizens, and some were of a trivial or farc ical nature. The principal objection of the far mers to daylight saving as our cor respondents set it forth, was that farmers, who got up at daybreak under the old standard time, were compelled to rise an hour ealier when the clocks were set ahead in order to be in time with train de partures, shop openings and the like, but that they could not begin field work an hour earlier than before because conditions were not right for it. In answer to this it should be pointed out that daylight saving is not an enterprise of the United States alone, but a world-wide re form which has never been aban doned by any country which adopted it. It was introduced in Germany in 1916, to take effect on May 1, and within three months twelve other countries had adopted the practice. "Summer time" was put in effect in Germany, Holland, Austria, Turkey, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. Nova Scotia intro duced the practice on this continent. At that time the production of food was of prime importance in Europe, and the experience of these coun tries was so satisfactory that in the following yeaj the new time was again adopted, France going so far as to change the clocks on March 24 in order to reap the full benefit of its adjustment. In 1917 Australia and Iceland conformed to the new practice. We thus have the experience of a number of countries, widely separ ated and affected by utterly differ ent local conditions, to guide us, and we have not heard from any of them that farmers found it impossible, or even difficult, to arrange their work in a way to relieve them from real hardships under daylight saving. It would be strange indeed if in the United States a different situation should arise and the farmers should find themselves seriously handicap ped by which do not put a burden on farmers in other countries. ~ . The benefits derived from daylight saving by persons not engaged In farming are positive and numerous. Great sums of money are saved in lighting bills, the coal saving being estimated at $40,000,000 a year. Office and factory workers are en abled to get an evening hour for outdoor exercise, garden making sport, they would not otherwise en joy'. Opportunities for wholesome recreation are increased, and no loss or inconvenience is occasioned to anybody. Under all the circumstances it ap pears to be the duty of Congress to retain daylight saving on the na tiohal statute books. Certainly the reports of the agricultural authori ties of the States and the Nation do not indicate that the change in the position of the hands on the dials of the clocks injured the farmers fin ancially. and it is not suggesting too much to say that they should co-op erate with the rest of us. in perpetu ating what has proved to be a great boon. A Wise Kansas Editor [Quenemo News.] The other day a fellow was laugh ing because the News said some thing that wasn't so. Since it was complimentary to a lady, the News Is not going to get in bad by ratify ing the mistake. An Arkansas Weather Report [Port Smith (Ark.) Times-Recorder] Blackberry winter is lingering in the lap of the strawberry shortcake season, darn. it, Espionage Is Worse Under Bolshevism Than It Was in the Days of the Czars IF RUSSIA under the Czars suffer- . ed from espionage and threw off the hateful yoke of the secret police, it is not to be wondered. What did surprise, the investigator was that the Bolsheviks should have restored the system of espionage with twice its terror. When I say twice its terror 1 ask to be taken literally. In the old days the suspect was visited, his house searched, a docu ment (possibly planted there by the police) found, and the poor wretch dragged off never to be seen again by his wife and children. That was sometimes the fate of the rich man or even occasionally of the bour geois; almost any public servant of the upper classes was liable to it. But it never happened in the house of the peasant. Under Bolshevik rule the peasant is as likely to suffer as any one else. He too is dragged off without much ceremony, but he is more often' shot than imprisoned—not that it makes much difference. Not only does he suffer, but his wife and his eldest daughter are outraged by the officers German Critics of Germany [From Harvey's Weekly.] No hostile critic of Germany has ever been more severe than some of the Germans themselves. The dis ingenuous and preposterous preten sions of Count von Brockdorff-Rant zau, that the German people were innocent of the crime of the war, were authoritatively denied in ad vance by Dr. Muelhon and others, who declared that the rank and file of the German people were just as hot for the war as were the Kaiser and liis military entourage. They wanted warl an unprovoked and ag gressive war, for the sake of the loot which they expected to get out of it; and they made other profes sions only when they found that they were getting beaten. Now comes Maximilian Harden, the fore most journalist of Germany, and de clares that Germany is to-day un repentant and incorrigible. Here are his assertions; "The Germans have not given very convincing mental "uarantees dur ing the six months since the revolu tion that they have changed their system. On the contrary, the pres ent Government and the press have used the same methods of incite ment, the same tricks of bluff as under the old rule of the petty no bility. "The Government's proclamations and speeches are only bad copies of the Kaiser's time. * * * The only way to rescue the country is by openness and honesty. The revolu tion has been a great disappoint ment." We commend Herr Harden's very plain talk to those maudlin senti mentalists who are pleading that we ought to bo kind to poor dear Germany now that she has seen the error of her ways and become truly good. Senate'sTreaty-Making Power Anyone who cares to examine into the history ot the matter and into precedents will find that the power of the Senate to amend a treaty while ratifying it is not only unquestioned but that it has been frequently exercised. The Senate in 1890 ratified the African slave trade convention and made certain reservations which it set forth. It did likewise in 1906 when it ratified the Algeciras con vention. The treaties went into ef fect and the United States was bound by them up to the points where it made reservations. In one case, the other nations formally assented and in the other assented by implication to the reservations. Nothing could be more absurd than to suppose that if the United States made reservations to protect its own sovereignty, as the Senate has the full right to do, the peace treaty, as a whole, would be jeop ardized. • The Child Jesus' Acumen And it came to pass, that after three days they found in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard htm were astonished at his understand ing and answers.—Luke 1L 16 and I". f of justice, who lead off the cow and drive the pigs down the lane, and fill with bullet-holes the objects which are not worth stealing. Next day the neighbor who has lodged the complaint feels justified in taking charge of what is left, and in tilling the' abandoned fields, if indeed he belongs to the class which tills. Thus it came about that the peas ants could not be called sincere Bol sheviks once they had tasted the bitterness. I saw many who dared not protest and who would not say a word against the Soviets, but even the Russian peasant does not always succeed in hiding his terror. Back in the country districts one got bread that was white, and sometimes good honey in place of sugar. But money could not buy that wheat or that honey because the shops of the town had no cloth to make Ivan's coat and no needles and no thread and no nails and no farm tools for the money which was plenty or the loVe that was scarce.—From "The Way of the Bolshevik," by Langdon Warn- I er, in June Scribner. THE BUILDING MOVEMENT [The Bache Review] There is no question that the building industry is awakening— even that activity is increasing daily, and certainly the deficiency of hous ings throughout the whole country is such that under given conditions a steady growth in building con struction, both for houses and df fices, is liable to set in and become a boom. A recent estimate of the United States Department of Labor, for in stance, shows that in the North Central States there is a building deficiency of $1,611,000,000, and a recent survey of building conditions in the North Atlantic States, made by the same department, places the deficiency in that district at $1,200,- 000,000. This estimate was arrived at by a survey of the building per mits issued in the principal cities in each state in pre-war years and during the war. The Department of Labor states that the current year is likely to prove one of unprecedented building activity, and that their reports on building permits and contracts let, Indicate that building construction work the country over is rapidly getting back to pre-war figures. They also estimate that the new normal will be far ahead of pre-war figures. The borough superintendents of Greater New York report that building in the last four months has been on a larger scale than for the corresponding period of the last five or six years. In the Borough of Brooklyn it is 100 per cent, greater than in 1918. According to these reports, building is speedily reach ling pre-war proportions. The effect of a building boom, upon all markets, would be electrical. Read and Suffer Here is the favorite wheeze of Ward 22 in a nearby hospital: Two Yanks went into a restau rant in Prance. "Give us Turkey with Greece," said the Yank. Wait er: "I'm sorry, but I can't Servia." Yank: "Call the Bosphorus." The Boss: "I don't like to Russia, but you can't Rumania." The two Yanks went out Hungary. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ] PENNA. STATE MUSEUM To the Editor of the Telegraph: There are possibly some citizens of Harrisburg who have never real ized what a vast field of instruction is at their very door in the Penn sylvania State Museum in the Capi tol buildings. Under the efficient management of the curator, Dr. Boyd P. Rothrock, with ,the co operation of his able staff of assist ants, it ha.4 been made a collection that is a just cause of pride to our State, and of vast educational in fluence. If there are any citizens of Harrisburg who have hitherto ne glected to give this museum a care ful examination in its various parts, let them no longer delay a visit to it. It has been a matter of admira tion to many visitors from distant places. J. HOWARD WERT, 912 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. MAY 28, 1919. Ludendorff's Explanation [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.l There can hardly be any intelli gent dissent from the opinion which General Ludendorff m a recent in terview is reported to have express ed, that "America proved to be the decisive military factor of the war." He even went so far as to say that but for America, England and France would have been beaten 111 1918. That, however, is a mere matter of opinion upon which neither he nor any one is qualified to speak with an absolute assur ance. There is no doubt that each of those countries was approaching the point of exhaustion, nor can it be denied that there were some days and weeks in the spring of last year when their military position was extremely critical. Yet their morale had not been broken, even when General Haig was constrained to ad mit that they had their backs to tho wall, and although, had the great German drive been successful, France might have succumbed to the pressure which the enemy would have been enabled to exert, England could not have been con quered so long as it ruled the seas. But Ludendorff states no more than the truth when he says that the American reserves swung the decision by making it possible to withdraw the worn-out French and British divisions from the line and to reorganize ever fresh offensive armies. In a military sense the day was saved by the American troops who hurried across the Atlantic with such unimagined expedition and in such unexepected numbers and who arrived where they were so sorely needed just in the nick of time. They helped most mater ially to repel the German invasion, alike by the fighting ability and by the moral effects which their pres i ence on the field produced, for while our friends were inspirited and en couraged, the enemy was corre spondingly depressed. It was claimed by some of tho German militarists after the sur render had been made that the army had not been beaten, but that the will to win of the German peo ple had been destroyed by the hard ships they were experiencing and by the Wilson propaganda. That is a view to which Luden dorff does not subscribe. The request for an armistice was not enforced, according to him, by the pressure of a public opinion which had been brought to the point of demanding a peace at any price. It was promp ted by the circumstance that the German leaders had become con vinced of the futility of continuing the struggles with armies which had ' lost their fighting edge. They were , led to that conclusion by the suc | cess which the Franco-British forces , achieved at Amiens on August 8, . when they first assumed the offens ive. Upon that occasion they broke the German line, and although the breach they made was neither very wide nor extraordinarily deep, the case with which it was accomplish ed, as Ludendorff observes the situ ation, was full of sinister signifi cance. It meant that as a fighting machine the army could no longer • be trusted and therefore that the war was lost. HE IS COMING [From the Kansas City Star] "But a few short years ago, lay dees and gen-tle-men," said the side show lecturer, in tones admirably adapted for declamatory purposes. "We had here, as our greatest liv ing cu-ri-os-l-tee, that hideous hu man horror the Wild Man of the Everglades, who three times a day leaped upon gur-reat hunks of r-r-r-raw and re-e-e-eking flesh and devoured them with terrible ferocity and blood curdling yells. He was in due coulee succeeded by the repul sive freak of natu're you now see be fore you—the Bestial and Bristly Bolshevik. He will not work, he never bathes, but day and night kicks incessantly, and in the unintelligible three-cornered language of his na jtive land screams denunciations of I everything in existence. Probably [year after next he will be super | seded by the East Pedestrian, a white-eyed, shuddering wretch who I will leap eighteen feet stdewise if I you make a noise like a Ford horn." Banker and Advertising ' What a great banker says about advertising: "A business that pays due regard to the proper use of advertising is a safer investment (all other factors considered) than ;a.Jmlncrrfhatr. !&?"*** aflvccmtafc'' lEbpttittg C!Il?al It's odd the kind of Inquiries tha are made at various offices In th Capitol. And yet, when one conidd—j ers the general unfamlllarity of tlc*4 average man with official procedural and his "scaredness" when ho landw In the big Capitol and does not 4 know where or how to go, It Is not sat strange. The other morning twaj women appeared In the building anda demanded lo see the man who the State Bourd of Pardons. A dls— criminating attache headed them fog" the office of Secretary of the Conf monwoalth Cyrus E. Woods, but be fore they got that .far they wera shunted to the office where Georga D. Thorn, the chief clerk, bolda sway. And what they wanted was ta" make sure that their father was notii released from prison. A more singu lar case was presented by an old wo man from an up-State county, who persisted in visitiqg the State De partment to And out something" about an electrocution. She was a bitP hard to understand and after many" attempts the clerks found out what* she wanted and It was enough to give one the "creeps." She wanted! authentic information as to whether* her son had been electrocuted under the law. Every now and then eomiV one shows up at the Department wlthr a request for a warrant for an ar rest, getting the State government' and the minor judiciary tangled up. But the oddest of these cases wast when a detective came to the Capitol to arrange for a requisition and tho aggrieved phrty came along so as to • be in on every stage of the proceed ing. Some Harrisburg people were In terested yesterday in the announce ment that the Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville Telegraph Company had tiled a tariff of new rates with the State Public Service Commission. This company is one of the few ■—hich were not taken over by tho j United States government and has i had a Harrisburg connection through i the Reading railway system for more | than hfty years. It came to the ctty I over the present right of way of tho I Reading and for a time did businesg | in this city. Of late years, however, , it has been more or less confined to the Reading system and a good many ! people probably never sent a tele gram over it, nit hough Harrisburg has long been an agency point. Some interesting flood pictures are being shown in the windows of the Boas jewelry store. They were some of a number taken during the great flood of June, 1889, by which all floods have been gauged by the pres ent generation. These pictures show the Susquehanna in its most enraged state with remains of lumber yards Plied up in front of Cumberland valley piers and fragments of houses going down the stream. They are interesting because they tell us what we missed this year. A very irate individual called up a State Capitol office yesterday and wanted to know why a detour was being laid out along a road some miles from Harrisburg. He does not live near here, but he wanted to get here and resented the roundabout way he would have to go. Somehow or other he got the wrong telephone and poured out his woe. The man at the end of the telephone has no con nection with the State Highway Be partment. but he let the conversation flow. Finally he made some sort of a remark which the complainant took to mean that he did not care. "Say, who are you?" demanded the irate man. "Your brother," was the calm re ply. ♦ • • Quite a handsome display of rhododendrons and laurels is to he seen in Harrisburg yards just now and the number of such plants blooming is rather a surprise to many people who probably did not know what a prime favorite this native of the Blue Ridge has become in the Capital of Pennsylvania. Some of the plants are big ones and are covered with blooms of blue and pink and white. They are a most effective garden decoration and it is a pity that the blooming season is so short. A few attempts at making hedges have been tried, but have not been successful. But as a border for walks or against a porch or house, there is nothing prettier. It docs not take long for a fresh driver of a motor vehicle, preferably a truck, to tie knots in the traffic at a busy corner. There was one of those pray and carefree drivers mov ing up Second street yesterday aft ernoon when things were liveliest and he started to cross in front of a trol ley car. The policeman stopped him and the motorman felt like doing the same thing. While he backed out three cars were prevented from moving on Wa'nut street and four on Second and the congestion of mo tor traffic on both streets was as picturesque as the language heard. The policeman made the man back the whole wav and what the driver got was abundant. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Freeland ICendrick, prominent i Philadelphian, was at the Capitol ) yesterday visiting the Legislature. —D. L. Starr, Allegheny county lawyer, interested in borough af fairs, was among visitors to the I Capitol. . —Adjutant General Beary is being 1 asked to help arrangjj for the review of the 79th in Philadelphia, but he< is pretty busy with the plans for the new National Guard. —Louis Emanuel, reappointed to the State Board of Pharmacy, has been connected with that branch of the government for years. —D. R. James, assistant treasurer of Lackawanna county, was here on legislative matters. | DO YOU KNOW —That Hhrrlsburg steel bil lets have been used for many kinds of government work in many purt.s of the country? HISTORIC HARRISBUIIG —One hundred years ago there were scarcely fifty houses above State street in Harrisburg. Victory Stamp Propaganda [New York Times.,] At a meeting of the Bergen County Republican committee in Hackensack the other night, Presi dent Brennan of the State League of Republican Clubs, exhibited a new | 3-ccnt stamp showing the flag of the Allies and protested against its is- , suartce on the ground that it was j Democratic propaganda in favor of the League of Nations. He said I that no other flag but the Stars and J Stripes