12 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! JU. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME | Founded 1831 (Published evenings except Sunday by ITBB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. jtTeicgriph Building, Federal Squnre E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief pP. R. OYSTER, Business Manager hGUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor UL R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board is. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. (Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this figper and also the local news pub ished herein. Kill *Jghts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. k— . I Member American lation and Penn sylvania Associa- Avenue Building. I Chicago, 111. B 'Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919 . —■- Idleness ta only the refuge of u-eak |*mtn' va : nia requires to pay the large bulk of State taxes. - A POPULAR BILL HOUSE BILL NO. mo. which would permit hunting and fishing on wild, unimproved, ■unenclosed mountain lands, whether publicly or privately owned, s a popular measure. More than 10 . 000 hunters pay license fees to shoot in Pennsylvania and large numbers of them are barred from the best hunting grounds under the -present law. There is no large in iltial investment in wild lands. .Most of these are covered by second (growth and are used for no pur ipose. They are lying idle while the timber on them is slowly being re stored. There is no reason why 'the should not be used for recrea tional purposes, especially fishing. Otherwise men of means could buy •up large tracts for small sums, tack "No Trespass" signs on the trees .and take anybody into court who .crossed the line. Thus immense .oections of land and water, stocked •by the Game and Fisheries Uom ' -missions, could be blocked off from the public for the benefit of those -who can afford to maintain such (places. , Bill No. 1060, of course, does not prevent the establishment of pri -vate reserves. It simply opens to the public wild land that is un enclosed and unimproved, of which there are thousands of acres in Pennsylvania. It is a good bill, is .supported by people generally and idoußtless will be passed. CLEANING UP THE U. S. ALMOST before anyone realized just what was happening, one of the most remarkable j .achievements in preventive health measures in America's history was weil on the way to realization. The goal for which the United I State public health service has been .striving—legislation and public sen timent sufficient to support a finish iflght for the eradication of social diseases- —has been attained. Forty-five States, including Penn .sylvania under the guidance of Colonel Martin, are enforcing new, or old laws for the control and 'treatment of these diseases. Thirty one States within the last six months ' have appropriated large sums of (money to be used in this work ex clusively. Twenty-three States with in this period have abandoned old laws, to adopt new and uniform ones suggested by the public health ser vice with the idea of making the fight more effective. This la one of the really great of the World War which the WEDNESDAY EVENING, people are Just beginning to appre ciate, because they have not yet fully grasped the magnitude or merit of the undertaking. It is ploasing to note, however, that opposition ex isting is rapidly dwindling to insig nificance as the facts are being placed before the public, and the time is not far distant when the people will be solidly united in this great health fight. Nothing short of an alarming sit uation could have worked such won ders in so short a while. And it might be well stated again that any disea.qp affecting as high as twenty per cent, of the young men of a community is alarming. It was the presentation of these facts to Con gress and the law-making bodies of the States that determined them to take drastic and quick action. Old laws governing preventable diseases were revived or extended to include the highly communicable diseases of the kind. Millions of dol lars were appropriated. New and more effective measures were con sidered urgent in many States. Some of the more progressive common wealths have even made such dis eases a bar to handling food. Medical certificates are required as a quali fication to secure a marriage license. Public houses of bad repute hnvc been closed in many parts of the United States. Free clinics for the treatment of the diseases are meet ing with an almost unprecedented support. Anyone who can read the signs, of the times must realize now that] any community which calls itself! | progressive cannot longer permit j [this menace to public health to stalk; unbridled through society. It is not : a reform movement, as we under stand reforms to-day, but a better health crusade, being worked out j intelligently along the same scien- J titic lines as the work in making! yellow fever, smallpox and the j ! plague extremely remote. Those who are ignorant and can't comprehend the crying necessity for j cleaning up the situation must be' taught. Those who are capable of j comprehension, but still hide behind j an antiquated modesty and prudery,; must get out of the way and let the ; work go on. JAIL LOCATION THERE is little difference of opinion among thoughtful citi-j zens regarding the desirability of relocating the county prison out-1 side the city limits. Most intelli- j gent persons believe the present 10-! cation of the jail is unfortunate and; out of harmony with the progressive; development of Harrisburg. With I respect to the location of the pro- i posed combination city hall and j court house opinion is divided as: between the present site and a loea tion on the Capitol Park frontage. It is well that the whole matter j be given careful and earnest con-1 sideration to the end that when the j building is erected there shall be I no mistake that will be serious from ! the standpoint of the future growth 1 of the city. Conceding that the jail j will be removed, it might be possible to erect such a joint building on the present site of the jail and court house as would be commensurate with the requirements of the city i and county governments. The prob- ! lem ought to be studied in every] aspect and it is encouraging to ob-1 serve the practical way in which the city and county commissioners arc! going about the matter. i YOUR UNCLE SAM ALL. the world must largely de pend for some years for its rehabilitation upon the United States. We are already shipping enormous quantities of food and must soon send abroad stupendous quantities of raw materials to aid in the upbuilding of the devastated sections of Europe. America is go ing to meet the demands in the big way that has characterized all of our activities in the past, and, through generous credits to the crippled countries overseas, Uncle Sam will be in a still more favorable position to develop our own re sources. As an illustration of our wonder ful expansion in exports, we shipped alone In April meat and dairy pro ducts in amount equal to the whole of these products exported during! all of 1914. Bread stuffs and meat shipped in the ten months to May Hrot amounted in value to $1,640,- 000,000 —as much as the total ship ments during five and a half years previous to the war. FAITH IN THE interesting publication of the National City Bank of New York, The Americas, there is an encouraging and optimistic editorial based on the capitalization of faith as essential to the world's rehabili tation. We quote the opening para graph: We know enough, now, about the real situation of industries and general credit conditions in Europe and in the rest of the world to warrant the statement that if the world Is to accomplish rehabilitation through a return to normal conditions of work and living by a steady process of re construction. with all of us busv and reasonably happy, and not through a period of great trial in which everybody will participate, we must do It by a solid and prac tical business organization of faith. As the readjustment of the war. conditions proceeds here and else where throughout the world, it is becoming more evident that no fac tor 13 more important in the re turn of a normal situation than the development, of faith among all classes of the business community. We .iave had enough of doubt a.i.i unci rtainty and the time is ho"ti for the building upon confidence in the future and faith in our fellow men. j ....... I ITollUcc- Lk "^plKKOlftrfUlta By the Ex-Committeeman Predictions that the big fight of j the legislative, session would come when the House got the Philadel- I phia charter bill, which has pro j tracted the session into warm weather, seem about to be verified, i The proceedings last night when the I Vare forces started to contest every j move have attracted State-wide at tention and will have an interest for I every county. Presence of Senator Boies Pen | rose here during the final stage will make things of unsual interest, as the Senator is determined to put ! through the charter bill and the | registration bill. The Vare peoplo have been industriously making j combinations among up-State mem- I hers, but the vote on the Powell motion to suspend rules last night showed them to be rather weuk. I The session will end on June 26. i declare members who predict that ! the appropriation bills will hold the j center of the stage for a fortnight | and then will come the wind up. Aspirants for appointment under | this administration have got to come j without shadows. This was made j apparent yesterday when a candi date for a Pittsburgh aldei manic appointment was given dhilis. Al ! derman Ixiuis Alpern resigned re j cently. Yesterday Sumer Sumer ! man, a former legislator, appeared with Senators Max Leslie and W. I W. Mearkle at the Governor's office | to secure the appointment. Secretary I Harry S. McDevitt inquired whether ' Sumerman had not gotten tangled [up with the State pure food laws land whether some matters weie ..ot j pending. As a result of the inquiry, jthe papers were handed back with j the information that there was j nothing doing in such cases. —The legislative Correspondents' | Association, which will have its ] biennial dinner to-night, dates from ! 1895, and every correspondent who ; has been engaged in reporting the I sessions since then for newspapers jor the big press associations, has I bad to pass his credentials before j the members. Many of the promi i nent newspapermen of the Stale I have been members of the organiza , tion, which reorganizes at the start jof every session and requires every I correspondent to submit his papers. —The Vickerman and Fox prohi bition enforcement bills were made special orders of the House for next Tuesday morning by the House at the night session. The first will come up at 10:45 and the other, ten minutes later. This arrange-) ment was made at the conclusion of a day filled with rumors that action . ■would be asked on various liquor bills. The fight over such bills will . be staged next week. —Chairman W. J. McCaig, of the| House appropriation committee, is I planning to get some of the char-1 itable institution appropriation bills' before the House finishes its work for this week. There is talk of a Thursday morning session to receive the bills. This would bring them up for final action next week, when they will probably be made special orders. The following week, the House will begin to receive appro priation bills from the Senate and the rush preparatory to adjourn ment will begin. Amendments to the compensa tion code proposed in the adminis tration "hjll may be changed as the. 1 result of a series of conferences of; employers with the Governor and Attorney General. The employers have asked for a change in the] basis of computation, but the ad-! ministration officials wish to retain' the increased percentages. Tt is I possible that the matter will be de termined before the legislature re convenes next week. The Vtungard bill, increasing salaries of assistant district attor neys in Westmoreland ami other counties of similar population, has been recalled from the Governor. Tt is said that the Governor found objections to it. (? , ove ™ or Soroul's statement hat ho does not see any occasion to enact any new taxation lejrisln tion, in view of the estimates by the Auditor General that with legis lation asked he ran raise $95,000,000 in two years, is taken to mean that the tax on manufacturing- capital will be abandoned. Whether the proposed tax on self insurers under the compensation law will be given up, has not been determined. It was opposed to-day by John P. Winston, chairman of' the Philadelphia charter revision] committee, issued a statement that] he did not doubt that the bill In its present form would be passed and he Signed by the Governor. —Governor Sproul last night an nounced approval of the three much discussed Philadelphia district at torney bills, which passed the House Monday night and which were the occasion of a lively hearing by a Senate committee. The dhief bill provides that the Philadelphia dis trict attorney shall have his own force of detectives and not be de pendent upon the city authorities for such service. He Is to name a chief county detective at $4,000, assistant at $3,000 and fourteen de tectives at $175 per month. The second bill provides for four assist ant district attorneys, making four teen in all. The chief assistant is to receive $7,500 per year, the sal aries of others being graded. The third bill fixes the fees of the dis trict attorney. —Owing to rush of matters. Gov ernor Sproul has been compelled to decline a number of invitations to speak this week. The Governor plans to be here until to-morrow evening and most of next week. Romance of Business Tl'-rom the Poplar Mechanics Magazine.] Platinum worth $2,415,000 and weighln-g 2 3,000 ounces was recent ly brought into this country. It traveled from Russia as the person al baggage of a Massachusetts busi ness man, who had undertaken on his own responsibility to secure it for the Government. To this task he gave over a year of his time without remuneration, advanced his own funds, overcame an uncounted number of dangers, obstacles and hardships, nnd sacrificed his health. A tragic ending to the story of com mercial romance is supplied by his death, four hours after his return, from exhaustion. Women For Priesthood? [From the Manchester Guardian.] The Church of England's custom of confining the priesthood to men is about to be "challenged defi nitely" by the organisation calling itself now the General Council of the League of the Church Militant. In the old suffrage days this society, then known as the Church Leagxie for Women's Suffrage, did effective work, and it will be interesting to see what form this "definite chal lenge" is to take. HARRISBTTRG ESBIFT TELEGHXPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND | I A Repudiated Spokesman [From Harvey's Weekly.] It does not require a long mem-; ory to remind us how little founda-1 tion in fact or reason there is for] the President's vainglorious pretcn- j sions of speaking the mind of the! American people, and of being the j voice of the American soirit. On two occasions, shortly before' starting on his self-chosen excur sion across the seas, the President; solicited a vote of confidence, which i would serve as foundation for and' confirmation of the claim which he | has since been making and which i doubtless he then already was in-] tending to put forth. He asked the American people to; elect a Democratic Congress which] would be subservient to his will; be-| cause, he explained, otherwise ltj would be difficult for the people of: France and Great Britain to believe that this Nation was supporting its] President—in other words, he would] find it difficult to persuade those! people, when he went over there,' that he represented the sentiment, j spirit and desires of the American j j people. Well, the Nation very em-] phatically refused his request. Itj declined to give him the proof which j he wanted to offer to the people of | Europe, that they approve his for-1 eign policy. According to his own logic, it indicated by negation that it was not supporting him in his] policy. Again, the President asked the| Senate —for of course we must assume that Jim Ham acted through inspiration from the White House —I to declare that it had "complete j and full confidence" in his "discre-; tion, judgment and patriotism." and | 'that it approved in advance "what-] | ever course" might be taken by him; | at the Peace Conference and "what-j ever methods" he might employ.] Never before in the history of this, I if of any other, country was so pre- j sumptuous a request made for an j unlimited charter. Never was an j envoy vested with such authority as j he would have had it his request; had been granted—practically a! pledge in advance to ratify any j treaty which he might negotiate. I Never was a presumptuous request more summarily denied than that, for it was contemptuously tabled ; and never taken up for a vote. 1 Thus on these two occasions the j Nation and its Senate directly and; specifically refused to authorize the President to be their spokesman.! They were the only two occasions [ on which he solicited such author-1 ization. They were within a few j weeks of the ending of the war and j of his departure for the other side; of the ocean. Yet with the echoes; of those two rebuking and humili ating refusals ringing in his ears, j the President went abroad and pro-] claimed himself the spokesman of; the American people and the author-i itative interpreter and exponent of; the American spirit. Tt is .a pretense the effrontery of j which is relieved only by its mani- ] fest absurdity. / Thought of Roosevelt j [Richard Washburn Child in Collier's Weekly.] President Wilson has been a great, 1 and a truly great, apostle of tlio rights of mankind —of the benefits the individual deserves from the state, of the benefits one nation de serves from all. But the world is needing badly a man for a much more difficult and unpopular and useful task. The Peace Conference knows it. The world needs on apostle of the obliga tions of mankind —of the service the individual must render the state, and the requirement that each state must so conduct itself, by example rather than by preaching, that it serves the cause of all states. I thought then of Roosevelt. A New Non-Essential [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] Though there isn't any govern mental regulation concerning it now, yet we wish to remark that the ulti mate ideal of a non-essential occu pation Is in listening to Senator Polndexter poindextertng the pro posed Beague of Peace. UNDESIRABLE ALIENS, THEIR RESTRAINT OR DEPORTATION [By Boyd S. Fowler, of Harrisburg, in the Railroad Trainman, the organ of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men. ] CONCEDED by society and a[l| right-minded people through out the country, and a propo-j sition in which they find theniselve3' in heartiest accord, is the proposal i of the United States Government loj deport to the lands from which they ; came, the leaders of the 1. W. W. j movement and all others who are; by anarchistic teachings and deeds; of violence stirring up strife and! discord in our social and industrial j life. Already more than one hun-j dred of these are in detention at; Ellis Island, pending the making of j necessary arrangements for their go-| ing back, and it is reported that thoj number judged by Government ofli-| cials as subject to the same action j reaches about ten thousand. These; will be apprehended as soon as pos- | sible, and sent back overseas. This is a course entirely in accord; with justice and fair dealing. These | people came to the United States ofj their own accord, and for their own interests. They were not invited, | but after they came they were wel comed, and all that we have was freely placed before them for their sharing with us. They had a right to whatever opinion they had form ed, and that right was denied them, nor was the right to express that opinion in all proper ways and at all proper times ever withheld. But when these people claim the addi tional right to disturb the peace by outbreaks against life and property, and all manner of violence, they are going too far, and we, the United States, would be foolish to >tand for it any longer than it takes our au ;thorities to corral the whole outfit, | and send them back whence they i came. Uncle Sam has some rights | that these "squatters" on his farm I on these western shores must recog-j I nize and repsect—or go home. | We as citizens of this country may I not be able to determine that our| j neighbors shall have no domestic j | difficulties which seem to demaqd j j vigorous and violent means of settle-] iment, but we certainly can say that they shall not come over in our back j yard and muss up everything with ] their fighting, and that is just what, ! this country is now rousing itself j |to say. We do not curtail their priv ileges when we say, "Gentlemen, by i ] all means have your fight out. I ; Burn mills, flood mines, hold up in- j dustries, practice sabotage, threaten lives and paralyze business, if you I ! must and will, but please go home | ;to do it. You cannot and shall not j Ido it here. So long as you ,-tay on i j this side of the water you must be-. I have yourselves. As soon as you j prove that you cannot do this, out, l you will go. Your kind and the j world must learn that the liberty i !we have to offer to all who come] to us, is not license to do as they please; you must learn that the law abiding people of this country have rights that must not and shall not I be interfered with, and that violence i will never .be tolerated. The only | difficulty is that the action on the part of our Government comes so, I late, and after so much damage husl j been done. Decisive action ought, ! to have been tuken years ago, and Iwe would have been saved much | | trouble had it been. To-day we are I ] considering the question of restrict- j [ing immigration, and that is doubt jless necessary, but the matter of I facilitating emigration is scarcely I less important, While we are care ! ful to keep the front door open to |welcome the coming guest in proper form, le} us keep the hinges of the back door well oiled, so we may be able to speed the going of any of our guests who presume upon their welcome to oppose our institutions, resist our laws and make themselves a menace to our Government. A deputy commissioner of naturaliza tion reports that more than ten mil lions of unnaturalized a'iens are now residing within our borders, which is one in every ten of our popula tion. The immediate danger of this is seen in the possible spread of i ' "Bolshevism," or similar social lun acy. What kind of a short-sighted policy have our px>ple been follow ing that is permitting the scum of the earth to land here in America and live on its wits, to preach in free America the horrible doctrines that would sweep away all freedom of the individual and put in its place an unlimited license to rob, steal, mutilate, kill, ravish and de stroy, under the name of "Terror ism?" What kind of mid-summer madness are we suffering from any how. that the sane, sensible people of these United States permit law and order to be set aside and at de fiance* in the way that they do? What kind of poison gas has spread over our country to stupefy the in tellects of our great mass of native people that they cannot see how utterly whimsical, dangerous and impossible are the ravings of these misguided fanatics. No matter how plausible their theories, their prac tice is to tear down all Government which guarantees law and order and put in its place anarchy. Bet us think long and hard before we align ourselves with any movement which wi'l substitute any form of govern ment other than what we now have. Don't let the Benines and Trotzkys of the world fool us in this matter. Bet us not forget that they are tak ing care of themselves, and let us see that we take care of ourselves and our loved ones. While whole sale deportation of the undesirables is and would be a costly proposi tion, make it plain to the world that the agitator and the fire-eating "red" must leave, and the sooder we get him east of the Statue of Biherty, and gotnc. the cleare- the atmos phere will become. Boyd Fowler Bodge No. 383. THE NAVAL PROGRAM [From the New York Times 1 The chairman- of the House Com- | mittee on Naval Affairs announces I that the naval appropriation bill i which failed at the last session will be completely rewritten. That mea sure was prepared before the Peace Conference met. It carried out a i program based on war conditions. ! It involves a huge expansion of the fleet. In- 1918 such an expansion i seemed highly desirable. Since last, fall, however, the sit- ! nation has become confused. We do | not now know whether or not the i League of Nations, if it is establish- / ed, will succeed in enforcing gradual disarmament. Our navy needs to hp rounded out. j But the 1916 building program is r.-ot I yet completed. It will furnish in 1919-'2O three major battleships and many smaller vessels. Another disturbing factor ha* ap peared in the rapid evolution of air craft and the development of the tor pedo 'plane. There are many naval authorities who think that battle ships will be obsolete in another de cade. The Naval Affairs Committee, therefore, is justified In going slow at this session. Secretary Daniels | may wait to recast his plans before 'December, when the naval appro priation bill for 1920-'2l will be .prepared. It then- will be time enough to consider a new long-term j building program. _________ Lloyd George Is Lenient [From the Philadelphia Record.] Lloyd George is willing to make one concession to the Germans; they can have the option of where they will sign the treaty. If they do not like to sign it on the spot where the triumphant German Empire was de clared, they can sign it in the more appropriate place of Potsdam, where the Emperor had a conference on July 5, 1914, at which Austria was authorized to go ahead a..d precipi tate war; Germany would back Austria in anything it did. And then the. German Foreign Office urged Vienna nbt to yield anything or make a^^tfay. JUNE 4, 1919. TRADE BRIEFS There is only one cream separator in use in Foochow, China. This is owned by the Foochow Datiy and is a small hand operated machine in stalled by the local British physi cian, who started the dairy. The concern is now owned by Chinese and has about 100 cows and 300 customers. A co-operative factory for milk products is to bo established ut Diemen, near Amsterdam, by an organization of twenty-seven dairy men. In that vicinity 30,000 quarts of milk are delivered daily, so that the supply for the new dairy will apparently be abundant. The importation of chemicals into Taiwan during 1918 amounted in value to 1,774,435 yen, equal to about $887,217. Ail but 52,703 yen ($26,351) worth of these came from other parts of Japan. Sodas of var ious kinds formed the largest item. Gas water heaters of American manufacture are being sold by the gas companies of Kobe and Asaka, Japan, says Consul Robert Frazer, Jr. These are chiefly in two sizes and retail at ssl and $57. There is also an automatic boiler and heater selling for about SIOO. Norway's timber export the first ten months of 1918 compared with the corresponding period of 19 17 de creased from 827,000 to 604,000 cu bic meters. The reduction was mainly due to lack of tonnage. Supplies of grindery for boot and shoe making are very short in South Africa, and new importations are urgently needed, says the British and South African Export Gazette. A trade journal reports that lab oratory equipment and scientific in struments, especially for chemical and bacteriological research, to a value of $250,000 are to be pur chased shortly for. the Union of South African Gove'Jiment. Railway construction is being pressed forward in the districts of Mozambique, Quilimane and Biera, Portuguese East Africa. From 100,000 to 400,000 pounds of pig intestines are exported from China annually for use as sausage casings. Considerable importance is at tached to the recent purchase of twenty-five German submarines by Messrs. G. Cohen Sons and Company, of London and Swansea, who will undertake to break up these vessels and dispose of the scrap metal. Previous to the war matches were imported into Egypt principally from Sweden. Austria-Hungary and Italy. In 1918 Japan unloaded enough matches in Egypt to supply the trade for several years. The Colombian coffee harvest is the heaviest in the history of the country, being estimated at. 1,250,- 000 sacks, reports Trade Commis sioner P. D. Bell. The Bureau of Fisheries reporls that during the month of March a total of 405,127 eggs, 912,454,390 fry and 17,011,020 fingerlings were distributed by its stations. The German toy industry has been able to retain a hold on ihe toy trade in Switzerland as well as in | other neutral countries, although the I German prices on an average have been raised 100 per cent. The Finnish Chamber of Com merce comprises seven local organ izations. with head office in Ilclsing fors, acting as a sort of arbitration committee and as a commercial in formation bureau. The Central Chamber of Commerce gets a yearly state subsidy of 35,000 Finnish marks, equivalent to $0,755. A report from China states that an increase of 10 per cent, over the previous year in the total bean out put of Dairen for 1918 is reported by the Rean Mills Union. The in crease was due to the unusual de mand from America during the last year of the war, and is already showing sharp decline. APPREHENSION | Oh, does the daisy feel the happy wind j Of June upon her fragile, up turned cheek? And is the hardy laurel quite con tent To stay alone on some far moun tain peak? Can stolid, purple nsters know the thrill Of every sad and splendid autumn sky ? And does the ragweed love the Joy ful day As much as I? Oh, what if, some caressing day in May, There is no T to sec the Spring unfurled — To stand upon the summit of a hill And revel in the beauty of the world! Oh, what if some dny my own sun touched cheek All tingling with the joy of sum mer noon Ts but a placid daisy in the wind Unthrilled by June! —Katharine Park T.ewis in Contemporary Verse. WHY ARE THEY THERE? [From the New York Times.] Major General William S. Graves, commanding the American troops in Siberia, has made a heroic attempt to explain what to most of his fellow-countrymen will still seem inexplicable: "The United States does not intend to permit any of its agents to inter fere with the sovereign rights of the ■Russian people. * * * No action | has been taken by United States i troops which could justly be said was I taking sides (sic) in the differences |of the opinions of the faction. I • * Irr our relations with the i political life of the Uusstun people the greatest care must be exercised not to become involved, and if we have any views as to the policy of the contending factions, care should be exercised not to .express those views to Russian people, as this may become a most offensive interference in their own affairs." It would seem from the guarded lan-guage of the general's statement that numbers of our Expeditionary Forces may have expressed some dis approval of Bolshevism, or perhaps some approval—at any rate, some body said something which might be interpreted as containing an idea or opinion. Quite properly. General Graves re buked such offenders; hut it cannot be said that he accomplished very much aside from that. For the com mon man everywhere is likely to think that, if our sole purpose is not to "take sides" in the differences that disturb Russia, our army can do this a good deal better in the Philippines t\an in Siberia. It is hard to see why we have to send 7.000 soldiers to Siberia to keep them from expressing their views on Russian politics. The Drama in Tennessee [From the Humboldt Courier- Chronicle.] Some of the Indies of this com munity went to the show last week to see the "Good for NPthing Hus band" played. Others had to stfci at Jiomfr-'vith the Kmeeuthey married. Bmttag Qtyat Major Frank C. Mahin, who re cently came to Harrisburg to serve with Colonel James B. Kemper in administering- the greatest army re cruiting district in the United States, is an all around man even among the all around men who are the backbone of the active list of officers of the regular army. And incident ally, he has a knowledge of the world and its people from within, i.ikewisc, although he will not ad mit it, he wrts preparing for the great war long, long before it came, because he saw the signs in Europe and In other parts of the world. Major Ma hin comes of a family of soldiers und newspapermen, which seems to go together in many in stances. He was born in Clinton, lowa, May 27, 1887, his f ither hav ing been for years owner and editor of the Clinton Herald and likewise having served as colonel of the First lowa Infantry. When Major Mnhin was just ten years old. his world adventures began, because that year his father was appointed consul at Iteiehenburg, Austria, which post he held until 1902, when he was pro moted to Nottingham. England, where he remained until 1910, when he was again promoted, this time to Amsterdam, Holland, whero he still is. Young Mahin first went to school in Reichenburg. Austria, then stud ied in Dresden and Berlin. During his five years in Austria and Ger many, at a most impressionable and formative age, he learned much of the future plans of the Central Em pires and became firmly imbued with the danger to the rest of the world, if those ambitions were carried out- Scores of the boys with whom he was intimate and with whom ho went to school, were Prussian, Sax on. Bavarian and Austrian officers during the late war. He learned the German mind, the Junker Prus sian mind, as only a school hoy can. When he went to England in' 1902. he at once enlisted in the English Territorials In order to prepare him seir to do his share when the time came to overthrow the Central Em pires Having a soldier father, he rapidly acquired a considered theor etical knowledge of tactics, and at L ® ,°f 1 7 ; vas a sergeant in the Territorials Tn 1905 he returned M..,., a States and entered Har\ard in the class of 1909 Two years later he left college and went FW C ™ Y ' Jo,npfl ,bp Seventy- Cunld Npw Tork National , at t,le samo time was of tb B " ppH " ten ' b "t this factory up and placed it on a sound com mercial basis. T.ater he worked for Meyer nd m c° rtinK h ° USC of w illiam I " f nd Company, laces and em maker'i e v nn V hen in John Waaa " mukers New I ork store. In 1910 eeling that the time was approach ing for the World War, and keep ing closely in touch with European affairs, he decided it was up to him ? rn ."""J 0 moro about soldiering H Cuord b If,ar "<"i in the Nation h° Pn ' ls tod in the Regulra Army. In April. 1912, he was com. Eleventb a second lieutenant in the Ele\enth Infantry. In 1913 he mar ried the daughter of Colonel Pick ling of the Regular Arn.v, He has "s?' Ed \ n8 7 Ravs: ' TTom the Can adian to the Mexican border, and from Chinu to France." He was in Peking China. In June and July" 1917. when Chang Tshun overthrew the republic and soated the hov em peror on the throne, and while in Lalned th tb Repub,loan forces again gained the upper hand. While in the Orient he was all over the Phil ippine Archipelago, in Korea and Japan. In April, 1918, he went to France with the Fifth Division served for three months on the t osges front, then took part in the Saint Michiel offensive, where he was slightly wounded and gassed' and was then in the Meuse-Argonne offensive until he was severely gassed on October 15. From that time until his recent arrival in Hnr rishurg, he has been in various hos pitals in France and this country trying to regain some part of his former health. Due to his years of association with people in the con sular and diplomatic circles, and to the fact that as a hoy he frequently assisted our Secret Service men in Europe, then was engaged in phil anthropic and business ventures, and finally added a wide experience in the army. Major Mahin is a constant source of amusing and unusual stories nnd experiences that have come to his personal attention dur ing his twenty-two years of travels and adventures in official or semi official capacities. Tt is nothing uncommon for peo ple to sleep in parks during hot waves in Harrisburg, but this is the first time in the first week of June that it has been known in this city. The river front and Reservoir Park benches have been filled with sleep ers and folks sitting along the Sus quehanna watching the lights of Enola until dawn have been noticed j the last three nights. Incidentally, I some night swimming has been in dulged in. • • One of the most, perfectly formed hornets' nest seen in Harrisburg in many a day is now in the State Capitol, where hornets' nests are not. uncommon, especially in legislative times. It was taken from an ever green tree in front of the home of Captain .To'hn W. Morrison, deputy commissioner of hanking at Wayne, nnd is formed about the evergreen branches which protrude through the nest material. Tt is as 'arge as a watermelon and has been much admired for the beauty of the in sects' workmanship. Captain Mor rison, who dispossessed the tenants, is arranging to have it sent to some of the schools as a lesson in natural history. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —Representative James A. Wal ker, who leads the House in number of bills presented, is a Philadelphia lawyer. —Oenernl W. G. Price, the new head of the National Guard, is plan ning some visits to places in Eastern Pennsylvania to look after new units. —County Commissioner A. C. Gumbert, of Pittsburgh, who was here this week, is an old big league ball player. —Representative John R. K. Scott says that he misses chances to ride horseback about Harrisburg nnd he would like to see more bridge paths'. DO YQU KNOW ~ —That Harrisburg steel is used for bolts and nuts for merchant shipbuilding? HISTORIC HAKRISBCRG —Three camps for rebel prisoners were located here during the CiTil Wax.