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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.
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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
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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 "