8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 ! Published evenings except Sunday by 1 TUB TELEGRAPH PRINTINO CO. Telegraph BulMlmc, Federal Square HL J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager ' GT7S. M. STETNMETZ. Managing Editor • AR. MTCHKNER, Circulation Manager JExecaUic Board J. P- McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTER. GUa M. STEENMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Aseociated Preea is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoc la ated Dailies. Eastern office. Stop-, Brooks A Building, Western office'. Story, Brooks & Flnley, People's Gas Building, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Poet Office in Harris burg, Pa- as second class matter. _ By carrier, ten cents s week; by mail, 13.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1I He's tree to God who's tree to man; wherever wrong is done, (To the humblest and the weakest 'ncath the all-beholding Sun. —Lowell. A SCHOOL PROGRAM • T MIGHT be well In the prepara- I tion of a school program for Harrisburg urjder the new condi tions to provide for daily instruction In our own municipal aflairs. Girls and boys should learn to know their own home town,and to realize what tls necessary for the proper develop ment of the community. Each suc ceeding generation must realize this and practical instruc tion. from the grammar grades up, in •all that pertains to the improvement nf the city ought to be provided. 'Essays by pupils on these subjects ►and open discussion in the older 'classes would be a help in this di rection. Unless the people are in thorough -accoi d with the policies of public • expansion and improvement, there must be a breakdown that In the end will destroy what has been so ■carefully built up over a consider able period of years. The yonth of Harrisburg are the -beneficiaries of the municipal activi ties of the last generation and they .should now be given to understand ;in some intelligent way the part which they are expected to play in the future growth of Harrisburg. ■Civic duty ought to be taught at the earliest possible time in the school Jife of the pupil, to the end that the •community may be as one in the de velopment that will come with the years. Progress depends upon an Intelligent conception of the respon sibility of the individual and the girls and boys of to-day will be the men and women of to-morrow. Community service is a great dhing and it is being promoted con stantly and successfully by the vari ous civic organizations of Harris "bnrg. We believe that still more may be accomplished by these or ganizations In the enlistment of the school children through proper training by the teachers. Much of the malicious mischief which finds an outlet In the destruction of Hovers ami the damage of ornamen tal street lamp* and park property. Is the direct result of failure to prop erly instruct the boys in the home •nd the school as to their personal responsibility to the community. It Is interesting to observe that the Chamber of Commerce of Eliza beth. is sending speakers to the vari ous schools to tell the pupils about the relation of the organizations to the commnnlty and their relation to the business body and the commun ity. An Elizabeth contemporary ■ay* "the boys and girls should be set to rooting for their community with the same enthusiasm and per sistence that they root for their in dividual schools." Conrmrmtty sptrtt is a great thing and it ought to he encouraged and developed among the school chil dren of Harrisburg in some consis tent and practical way. SOLDIERS RELIEVED THREE days after convening, the House of Representatives passed the deficiency bill carrying ap propriations of over $45,000,000, about S 40.000,00 ft being for the pay ment of overdue allowances from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. This is a concrete instance of what the country has been forced to endure because of the perversity of the Prerfdent in not calling Congress together at an earlier date. For fear that his precious League of Hatlons would be criticized in the Senate, with results disastrous to his negotiations at Paris, he has been content to see the families of 700,000 soldiers, sailors and marines suffer for want of the money due them from the Government The money appropriated 'is to cover EVENING, oat on May first, and also those that will be mailed on June first, for which no funds have been or will be available until the deficiency bill makes the trip to Paris and receives the signature of our absent Execu tive. Included in the bill also is an item of $3,000,900 for overdue Civil War pensions that have been allow ed to lapse because of the Presi dent's refusal to put our legislative machinery in operation. It is safe to say that nearly all of the old soldiers on the Federal pension roll depend on their quarterly pension checks for their very existence, and there is no doubt that much real suffering has been caused by the delay in receiving them when due. The alacrity with which the matter was taken up by the new Republican Congress, and efforts made to pro vide funds to meet the situation, is testimony to the efficiency with which the Nation's needs will be met henceforth. THEY HAVE CHANGED HOW our Democratic friends have changed since the ram pant, rearing, tearing days of dear old "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman. Why in those times for a Republican to have introduced an appropriation bill that smacked of pork or con tained a thousand dollars more than Democratic estimators figured it i should, would have been to invite upon the head of the guilty Con gressman or Senator the awful wrath of southern statesmen who boasted as much of the notches on their guns as they did of their capacity for Kentucky whisky. Thafs how indignant Democratic members of Congress used to be when anybody suggested the expend itures of public funds above absolute needs of the country, unless said ex penditure happened to relate to some government development be low the Mason and Dixon line. But now, how changed; what a transformation do we witness! Here comes a bin from President Wilson for a million dollars for the remodel ing of the Hotel Crillon—the Paris White House. And not a single Democrat so much as peeps. The Democratic orator appears suddenly to have contracted a bad case of laryngitis and there is rust on the trusty fork, erstwhile the trusty weapon of the late, lamented "Pitchfork Ben." Alas and alack, that there should not be one of the old school Demo crats left to protest over the waste of this million dollars. HOW IT WORKS A RECENT writer in Leslie's tells of the logical results of Bolshevism In Yucatan, where within four years it has destroyed morality, church and industry. As in Russia, the women are classed' as property and the social system which made Yucatan five years ago the most quiet and orderly spot In Mexico has been utterly destroyed. The doctrines of the I. W. W. were planted in Mexico several years ago and these principles, or lack of prin ciples, were the basis of exploitation of the unhappy country, now suffer ing the consequences of theories of government at variance with every known tenet of civilisation and de cency. Anarchistic fanatics, many of whom were illiterate, dominated the country and, terrorizing the peo ple, they have accomplished the ruin of Yucatan. Russia seems about to emerge from the clouds and darkness which have enveloped that unhappy land under the Bolshevik regime and the awful results of terrorism in the for mer realm of the Czar will undoubt edly l ave a tendency to stop the e a tendency to stop the spread of the menace to other coun tries. Even Germany seems to have been aroused to the danger of Bol shevism and intelligent Socialists of the better order are uniting to over throw the impossible doctrine of the Trotzkys and Lenines everywhere in Europe. It has never been seriously belleved In this country that the Russian propaganda would find fer tile soil here, owing to the wide spread Intelligence of the working man and the refusal of the great labor organizations to be drawn in to the net of anarchy and violence. But the sad story of Yucatan is Im pressive in the fact that within so short a time as four years a reason ably prosperous and contented peo ple could be made to suffer through the development of government ideas at variance with everything necessary to the development and welfare of a nation. Wherever Bolshevism or I. W. W. theories prevail It will be found that religion is constantly attacked and that church buildings are the object of the frenzy of men returned to barbarism. In Yucatan churches and cathedrals were destroyed and the clergy persecuted, exiled and abused, the industrial life of the state was practically wiped out and those who disagreed with the dictators were brutally executed. These victims were principally among the educated classes. As always happens where the Bol shevist theories prevail, people in the unhappy Mexican province are starving and the resources of the country are being consumed without relief for the hapless people. PAXTON CREEK WHEN the former Board of Public Works completed the Paxton Creek concrete chan nel it was understood that this out let of an obstreperous stream should he kept free of debris along the em bankments. This has not been done and there is now considerable com plaint of the conditions which exist In some sections of the channel. It would seem that a definite plan might be adopted for the cleaning " "" to the end that damage may not be caused by stoppage of the water flow and inundation of the business district which has been freed of the menace of flood through the build ing of the channel. By th* People connected with the State government and many of the news papers are inclined to take seriously the remarks made in the House of Representatives yesterday in protest against the way the session is drag ging along. Very little disposition to regard it as the biennial ebullu tion against being compelled to stay here in hot weather is manifested and some folks hark back to Sena tor Boles Penrose's remark here weeks ago that people of the State had better become accustomed to long sessions owing to the extensive variety of legislation that has to be considered. However, there has been a grow ing restiveness in the House against the lack of a program and members have freely voiced their disappoint ment that there was nothing worked out in advance, such as some said they had been led to expect. Ou the other hand, men familiar with the legislature said that the attack on the Senate was not Justified, as that body was up with its work and had been giving most of its atten tion to House bills lately. —The primary cause of the out break in the House, which is being interpreted by some members as a danger signal, is the delay because of the Philadelphia charter bill, which is not a safe subject for polite conversation in the House or its lobbies owing to the prolonged dis cussion of amendments. This bill is regarded as the cause of the hold ing up of the designation of a date for adjournment —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that members are becoming indig nant at the disposition to prolong the session and through fear of a recess, which has been rumored, but in which the Inquirer does not take much stock. The Public Ledger has editorially called for more action and so has the Philadelphia Bulletin. The Philadelphia Press has several times lately said that too much time was being wasted in quibbling. The Philadelphia Record has been de nouncing delays and hints that some members may refuse to come here until a program Is outlined. —The Pittsburgh Post says that the legislative leaders are running "round in circles" and the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times reviews the conditions in the House and says that they are not a credit, declaring the Legislature "is drifting like a ship without a rudder." —The Philadelphia Press, which yesterday said that the House was breaking up, says to-day that the in dependents are Inclined to get the session over and that they gave no tice that they did not propose to have appropriations used to hold them in line. The Press also says that the remarks of Representative Dunn, of Philadelphia, a Vare man, were a surprise. —Another thing commented upon to-day was the activity of Represen tative E. R. Cox, one of the older members from Philadelphia, in point of service, in holding the House down to proper procedure. —Some people connected with the Legislature found it rather difficult to take the convention of revisers of the constitution seriously, the fact that it took so much bickering to adopt a constitution for the associ ation aiming to revise the funda mental law of the State being a source c.f comment. Presence of some persistent reformers and ex- Washington party men among the active participants, also attracted attention. —A snarl Is threatened over the action in sending the compensation bills out in the Senate without amendment. This is paid to be an administration move and has aroused some protests which will be voiced here next week. —A fight is also certain to be made over any new revenue raising legislation. The disposition Is to give Auditor General Snyder the law he asks and look to him to produce some 392,000,000. —Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, is likely to be the man chosen by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Thomas E. Flnegan as his first dep uty. Dr. Becht was the first secre tary of the Board and is a personal friend of the new superintendent. The first deputy is to be paid 37,500 and the second. 33,000. These are substantial Increases over present salaries. —As a result of conferences with the Governor and legislative leaders. Dr. Flnegan has convinced them of the Importance of undertaking Im mediately a revision of the whole school system and a fund which may be 3250,000 will be provided for such Investigations as he may deem essen tial. Under this he will be able to appoint men to make special in quiries and to work out many of the plans for improvement of rural and other education without having to wait for the next Legislature. He is to be given a free hand and in accord with the Sproul policy, will be asked to make good in return for the support given to him. —D. Flnegan plans to spend all of his time working on the school problem and has already arranged a big series of conferences with educators. But People Have Spoken [Kansas City Star.] Both branches of Congress by a two-thirds vote submitted a prohibi tion amendment to the people. The States by more than a three-fourths vote ratified its amendment. In the face of this overwhelming expression of opinion why should the President seek to give a few months longer lease on life to beer and wines? Under the existing law prohibition will go into effect July 1. It will take an act of Congress to alter this arrangement If there had been no national expression on the sub ject it might plausibly be argued that the emergency responsible for the law had passed and that the law should be altered. But the Nation has shown that it is against booze. It has shown this in the most im pressive possible way by amending the constitution. It is inconceivable that after the will of the people has been so reg istered Congress will go counter to 11 at the request of the President. BDLRRISBTJRG (lf3s?bff TELEGRXPH f)AYS OF REAL SPORT By BRIGGS OH-H- SkikHsIAYJ I I I <d* DOWM- C / &S Trt ' WATER AIN'T )> I f ' /^ NAKED MANGLED PEACE [The following quotation from Shakespeare seems timely, although historically it dates back to the fourteenth century. The play is "Henry V." The kings of France and England are assembled to settle the peace, following a war that has been waged on French soil. The Duke of Burgundy, who has brought the royal persons together in an apartment of Charles Vl's palace, is talking.] Since then my office hath so far prevafl'd That, face to face and royal eye to eye. You have congreeted. let it not dis grace me. If I demand before this royal view. What rub or what impediment there is. Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace, Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births. Should not in this best garden of the world, Our fertile France, put np her love ly visage? Alas! she hath from France too long been chas*d. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps. Corrupting in its own fertility. Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned dies; her hedges even pleach'd. Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair. Put forth dlsorderM twigs; her fal low leas The darnel, hemlock, and rank fu mitory Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts That should deracinate such sav agery; The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover. Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank. Conceives by idleness and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing bo-th beauty and utility. And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges, Defective in their natures, grow to wildness, Even so our houses and ourselves and children Have lost, or do not learn for want of time. The sciences that should become our country; But grow like savages—as soldiers ' will. That nothing do but meditate on blood — To swearing and stern looks, dlf fus'd attire. And every thing that seems un natural. Which to reduce into our former favor You are assembled; and my speech entreats That I may know the let why gentle Peace Should not expel these inconveni ences. And bless us with her former qualities. Want Beauty, Not Plumbing [Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post.] In our anxiety to get results in France we were often tactless from a French point of view. This cause of irritation was exaggerated by our general ignorance of the language. I wonder if the American schools, after this, will teach us speaking French instead of the book French they taught in my generation. And we ran into certain FVench peculiarities which we found It hard to understand. For example, early in our war a fine old chateau near Bordeaux was leased for a head quarters. By the terms of the lease we were to leave everything exactly as we found it. The chateau in its four or five hundred years of exist ence had never known sanitary plumbing; the owners bathed in wash-basins or rubber tubs. Expect ing to stay a long time, we installed, by permission, drains, bathtubs, toilets, a water Wbating system. When, last January, we ended the lease and moved out, the officer who conducted the business offered to leave the plumbing where it was, since its removal would cost as much as it was worth. The French owner , refused. We had to take out our plumbing. What he wanted from that chateau was not sanitation, but venerable beauty, and the sense that he dwelt in the same identical home : as his ancestor of the tenth gener ation back, i The American finds it hard lo un derstand such a point of view; and i he is a bit brusque in opinion thereon. f Harvests Rule the World THE outlook for the American harvest has held a place of the very highest importance in the financial mind this spring; and for more than one reason. By a very remarkable conjuncture of events, it may be said that the promise of our wheat crop—for which the govern ment's official forecast is unques tionably the most remarkable in our history—is itself an event not only in American finance but in Euro pean politics. This statemept calls for explanation. To many readers of a season's news, the story of agricultural vicissitudes, of food production, importation, and expor tation, is technical and tedious. It can be so, however, only because of ignorance regarding the frequent and dramatic reaction of the grain trade on the course of history. The influence at various critical periods of the past, which harvest results have exerted even on the larger movement of political events, has received only grudging recogni tion from the historians; yet there have been many celebrated episodes whose history could not be written completely without taking account of euch iniluences. Few people as sociate questions of agricultural scarcity and agricultural prices with the English Revolution of 1640, for instance, and the subsequent down fall of Charles the First. Neverthe less, when patient investigators have established the fact that the con vening of the Long Parliament had been preceded by two or three de- "FAIR PLAY?" [Harvey's Weekly.] "If the American Democracy ac tually accepts the present terms of peace as its own," said the Herr President Ebert, speaking for the Hun, to the Associated Press corre spondent, "it becomes an accomplice and abettor of political blackmail ers; it surrenders the traditional American principle of fair play and sportsmanship." The Hun, this perjured violator of the most solemn pledges; this ravish er of girls and kindergarten chil dren; this wholesale murderer of aged men, of priests at the altar and of women with babies in their arms; this creature who at the point of the bayonet drove off tens of thousands of men to slavery and of women to enforced debasement; this common thief and incendiary; this dynamiter of hospitals wherein lay the sick, the maimed and the dying; this skulk ing assassin of the high seas; this international brigand who in cold blood and of calculated purpose made a shamble of the world to gratify his beastly greed for plunder and power—this unspeakable Cali ban of nations, now rendered im potent, has the unspeakable effront ery to whine about American "fair play" and American "sportsman ship!" He has not had fair play. That much may be granted. Had he had fair play, his own country would have been laid waste with fire and sword; the horrors upon horrors which he heaped upon every land which his cave-dweller barbarians swarmed over would have been vis ited upon his own country. In the very nature of things, he could not and cannot have fair play. Fair play for the Hun means another Hun I horde to see that it is administered. 1 And in all the world, where, outside ! of the Hun's own borders, could such ja horde of gorillas he recruited? No, ! there can not be fair play for the Ilun. Mankind has not sunk low t ! enough to inflict tt. i And this welcher, this snivelling! i loser in the game of butchery and I I arson to which he challenged the j | world, has now the stupefying in ! solence to swagger and bluster about j I "sportsmanship!" Far be it from us! j to say that this is the limit of Hun | blackguardism. Tt probably isn't. Hun blackguardism has no limit. The only limit reached in this last specimen is the limit of the imagina tion to conceive a higher flight of in solence or a lower depth of barbar ian infamy. Thoroughly Prepared [From Tit-Bits, London.] | Mr. Tomkins was obliged to stop ! overnight at a small country hotel. ] He was shown to his room by the j one boy the place afTorded. "I'm glad there's an escape here in case of fire," commented Mr. Tomkins as he surveyed the room, "but what's the idea of putting a prayer book in the room in such a prominent place?" "That," replied the boy, "Is in tended for use in case the fire is j [uj cades of recurrent famine, with wheat up 209 per cent, above Eliza bethan prices and wages of labor only thirty-two per cent higher, we of to-day know very well that such conditions could not possibly have failed to lend important impetus to the political uprising. Originally promoted, like the Rus sian Revolution of 128 years later, by political idealists, the French Revolution passed quickly into the hands of reckless fanatics, and one of the reasons now admitted for that unhappy circumstance lay in the harvests of the period. The win ter which introduced 1789, the se verest in forty years, had ruined the French crops and confronted a while population with famine. In a single province 40,000 laborers were thrown out of work; the same con ditions existed elsewhere In agri cultural FYance; with the result that desperate peasants flocked from all quarters of the country to Paris, where they could at least live on the scanty rations doled out by the gov ernment. On the eve of July 14, the anniversary of which France still celebrates, the contemporary his torians tell us that every bakery in the city was surrounded by a crowd clamoring for its meager allotment of black and bitter bread. We are able to judge, from present-day ex periences, just what effect such a situation had and must have had in turning over control of the Rev olution from the philosophers to the anarchists. —Alexander Dana Noyes in "The Financial Situation" in the June Scribner. NEVER AGAIN [From New York Tribune] One hundred years before Christ 300,000 Germans invaded France,' murdering, burning, pillaging as they went. At Aix-en-Provence they were stopped and defeated. They sued for peace and swore they would! never do it again. Sixty years after ward 240,000 Germans invaded the Jura district of France. Six years later 400,000 Germans invaded the territory between the Meuse and the Oise. They were beaten. They swore they would never do it again. Sixty years before Christ the Ger mans invaded the left bank of the Rhine. Two hundred and thirty years after Christ the Germans in vaded F*rance. They were beaten. They swore they would never do it again. Twenty years later In another invasion, another defeat, another sol emn pledge "never again." In 274 A. D. the Rhone basin was Invaded by the Germans; in 275 Northeast ern France. In 301 Langres was pil laged. The invaders were beaten and they swore "never again." In 351 they reconquered the left bank of the Rhine. In 35 4 they devas tated Lyons, in 360 Besacon. In 364 they invaded and plundered Bel gium. Were is the chronology of the sub sequent invasions: 372, 382, 400, 410, 413, 800, 858, 978, 1124, 1214, 1513, 1521, 1523, 1536, 1544, 1552, 1553, 1567, 1569, 1576, 1587, 1636, 1674, 1675, 1707, 1708, 1744, 1792, 1793, 1814, 1815, 1870, 1914. Thirty three invasions in a little over fif teen hundred years, an average of one Invasion every fifty years. \Yhen they were successful, the Germans celebrated with unspeak able atrocities. Whenever they were beaten they swore they would never do it again. "Le Matin," which prints the above j statistics, recalls thßt three days be j fore the outbreak of the world war, | Herr Haase, the German Socialist j leader, solemnly declared at Brus ! sels that the German proletariat j would oppose war to the utmost. | Three days later Herr Haase voted I for the war budget. Four and a half years ago, the Germans again invaded France. Again they were beaten. And now they swear they will never, do it again. Referred to Mr. Baker, et al I [From the St. Paul Pioneer-Press.] j "To our general unpreparedness J must be attributed the loss of many | thousands of brave men." I No, this is not a quotation from an j American "militarist." It is taken | from the final report of Sir Doug | las Halg. One Bond of Sympathy [From the Topeka State Journal.] President Ebert declares that the German people were hypnotized by President JJjilaon. Well, they have nothing on he American voters who I were subje\ pd to a similar Influence }in 1916. ] MAY\_i 1919. MADOO'S CHEAP TALK [Prom the Albany (N. Y.) Journal.] William O. McAdoo, former secre tary of the treasury, former director of railroads, and at present reputed to be the occupant of a lucrative position in the movie business, in jected cheap ar.-d foolish partisan talk into an address which he de livered at a conference of collectors and appraisers of customs in the New tork custom house. After he had devoted some time to defense of his administration of the railroads, he exclaimed: "1 say to you Democrats—and if there are any Republicans here, to them also—that there is no cause to become indignant because a Demo cratic administration waged a suc cessful war." Doubtless those words in print brought a crooked smile to the faces of many Americans, because they know the fact to be that the people of the United States waged success ful warfare, in spite of a Democratic administration which "kept us out of the war" and left us unprepared during a period in which clear visioned Americans saw that we must enter the war ar.-d therefore ought to be very busy with tlons; an administration whose ap pointed pi)&lic informant, George Creel, expressed gratification over our unpreparedness at the time when | at last the existence of a state of war ' was recognized by the Congress, j Contir.-uing in the strain of a soap box stump speaker, Mr. McAdoo 1 asked, preposterously: "Did the Re- I publicans want Germany to win be cause the administration was Demo cratic?" Such a question reveals the pica yune mind of Mr. McAdoo. It can not be a reflection upon the patriot ism of the Republicans. Republi cans, ar.d doubtless many patriotic Democrats, feared that Germany might win, or at least that the war might be greatly prolonged, because the administration is in such ways Democratic us Mr. Wilson and his associates have made it. And Mr. McAdoo declared that 'Just where the people stand will be seen when 1920 comes around." It will be seen again. It was seer.- last November when the people in response to the demand made by Mr. MeAdoo's father-in-law, that only Democrats be elected to the Congress, a Republican Congress was elected to take the place of the Democratic one. Mr. McAdoo has been suspected of harboring designs upon the Demo cratic presidential nomination- in 1920. He is placing on exhibition his unfitness. Commissioner Sadler's Task [Philadelphia Bulletin.] Lewis S. Sadler, State Highway Commissioner, has held that office for only four months, but within that short time he has been giving a good account of himself as a pusher and administrator. Already he has done much to for mulate an intelligent policy of high way construction in Pennsylvania, and he is steadily and even rapidly producing an effective spirit of co operation in the initial steps for its consummation. No such task as has been commit ted to his hands in the prospective expenditure of the fifty million dol lars for State roads to the end that, if possible, the entire purpose may be accomplished in the course of the next four years, has ever before been projected in this Common wealth. Commissioner Sadler has succeed ed at the start in gaining public confidence in it, as an undertaking intelligently planned, and if it shall be carried out in the spirit in which it has been begun. Pennsylvania will have the best State highway system ] in the Union by 1923. Soldiers Want to Come Home [Forbes Magazine.] Discontent is seething among American soldiers held in Europe. They went over to lick Germany; they have licked Germany; now i they demand that they be returned 1 home. They're through. They don't I give a snap of their fingers whether | Poland gets Danzig, whether Italy ; gets Fiume, whether Japan stays in \ K'ao-Chau a month or a year, or | whether the Jugo-Slavs get all they | want or nothing they want. These : strong, upstanding, energetic, am l bltious full-of-action young Amer i leans threw themselves with glow -1 tng fervor into the task of taming 1 Germany. That was a mission worthy of their manhood, worthy, I if need be, of their lives. But now ; that their object has been attained, : they feel that, so far us concerns ; them it is about time, as one of i them expressed it. that "the Watch on the Rhine was wound up." In viewing critically some of the com promises acceded to by President Wilson it will be well for us -tp take into consideration the attitude t " > ™ ==========—=;_-__- 3S3SBM Stoning (ttfjat: pr courts were held in Har risburg last week although theaver ?*?. m ? n dld not h>w It. And the Indications are that some of the matters brought up will have a na tional effect when they are adjudi cated. The United States court was here to listen to the arguments In the McFadden-Williams litigation, which has attracted attention far beyond the State and is one of the first moves to take the policy of Federal authorities before the courts In banking matters. In the State Supreme Court, which sat here for only two days, there was started a proceeding which would subject the action of courts in the matter of liquor licenses to review far more extonsivo than ever known before. The Dauphin county court was In session at the same time. Harris burg Is an ideal location for the holding of courts, notwithstanding the argument used in Pittsburgh against the Hess bills to establish appellate courts here. This argu ment, which Is also heard in Phila delphia, is that Harrisbnrg hotel keepers are behind the bills. There is a belief here that a certain hy phenated Philadelphia hotel is more or less behind the opposftien to them. • • • Some of the returned soldiers are having a grand time with the Har risburg children these days and inci dentally the Harrisburg youngsters are throwing grenade style. Every American boy is born with an over hand throw and if he cannot pitch a curve before he puts on "long pants" he is no good. There was a time when boys who played hall in the River Front parks or at the play grounds or on some lot and threw any but the orthodox style was con sidered either "girlish" or "chuckin' on lug." And the overhand cricket or grenade style would have caused some unkind remarks. Now the boys have contests to see who Is the best 'in grenade throwing. War does have strange effects. • • • The Pennsylvania railroad fur nishes some interesting sights these days with the soldiers going through almost every hour or so in long lines of coaches bound for home and fire side. And while these trains are going by other trains of empty cars are going east to get more men. The best thing about it is the satisfied, anxious to get home air of the sol diers, also a striking contrast to the hilarious, cheering spirit manifested when they went through on the way overseas. • • • To-morrow's Memorial Day pa rade will be of unusual Interest for Harrisburg because it will be the first since that in 1899 in which the veterans of a new war will partici pate. Memorial Day came Into be ing late In the sixties and Harris burg was among the early cities in the country to establish the observ ance as an annual affair. Some of the processions of the seventies and eighties are well recalled, because Harrisburg was a center of activity of the G. A. R. and delegations from posts in other places used to journey to Harrisburg to participate in the "Decoration Day" parade, as it was then termed. The customs that have come down to us were Just com mencing to get their grip upon the affections of the people and there is many a man who remembers when a boy how he carried flowers for the delegations of veterans who went to outlying cemeteries in the morning of Memorial Day and who followed the bands and stood around In the Harrisburg cemetery to hear the ad dress and listen to the crashing of the volley fired by the soldiers over the graves of Geary and other gen erals of the Civil War. Many also used to visit the churches where the Grand Army posts went to services on the Sunday morning preceding Memorial Day. The veterans' march was always await id and many a blue coated and white vested soldier was presented with a bouquet on the way to the meeting .house. In 1899 the veterans of the Spanish War joined in the parades and the pro cessions took on additional interest. It has always been the rule for the militia companies to take part in the parade on Memorial Day and the men of the City Grays of years agone, the men who were In the Harrisburg companies of 1898, the men of the Mexican border service and the men of the war with Ger ] many will march beside the Reserve ! Militia to-morrow. • • • Under plans being made by State officials, the manufacturing end of the State Arsenal will be consider ably developed this year. Not only will the handling of uniforms and equipment be undertaken, but \notor transport and even artillery win be looked after at the establishment In this city. ! 1 WELL known people ! —Ex-Governor Edwin 8. Stuart, who participated In the Sproul re . ception at Philadelphia lajrt night, . succeeded the Governor as head of , the Union League. —George F. Holmes, former Phll ■ adelphia newspaperman and now 1 county commissioner, was here yes terday. —Brigadier General J. W. McAn ! drew, the new head of the War Col lege, Is a native of Hawley, Wayne ; county. , —Dr. William Draper Lewis, who , spoke at the convention of people . Interested in constitutional revision yvsterdny, is an author of law books . and collaborated in a digest. : —Reresentatlve H. M. Showalter, r who stirred up people on Capitol I Hill by hig remarks about the legfs -1 latlve session, Is a - t-1 torney. I 00 YQU KNOV —That Harrisburg Is a dls , tributtng point for automobtla tires and that many are shipped I from here daily? p HISTORIC HARRISBURG r —Horses used to be raced on > the river front below Market street p in the old days. r A Muddled. Moujik [Boston Transcript,] Mr. Tower, former American Am r bassador to Russia told this story of 1 a typical moujik entering a railroad ' station and Inquiring when a certain train would leave. He received the information and departed. f A little later, however, he was back i again, asking the same question, i "Why," exclaimed the agent, "I . told you that only a minute ago." t "You did truly," the moujik an- swered. "but it isn't myaelf that s want* tp know this time, it's my mate „ outside "
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