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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919
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Idleness ta only the refuge of u-eak
|*mtn<fa, the holiday of fools. Lord
| Chesterfield.
GOOD NEWS, INDEED
people of Pennsylvania will
: I hail as good news, indeed, that
'Governor Sproul and Auditor
General Snyder have been able to i
work out a plan whereby much ,
needed revenues for the coming two
years can be raised without adding
new tax-ralstng statutes to the laws j
of Pennsylvania.
This will require the closest kind
of tax collections, but that has been
the policy of Mr. Snyder ever since
he entered office, as the records will
show, and much of the present ex
cellent condition of the State s fi
nances is due to his energetic efforts.
Good. housekeeping in every depart
ment will be necessary, but that Is
one of Governor Sprout's require
ments for everybody under him.
The fact that Pennsylvania is able
to go ahead with a great construc
tive program along all lines, from
roads to increased salaries for
teachers, while the federal govern
ment and many State administra
tions are compelled to ask for in
creased levies. Is a splendid testi
monial both to the statesmanlike
qualities of those in charge of pub
lic affairs and the prosperity of the
great corporations which P^" s >' 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 <lent of the factorv
Blind w V ° rk Association for the
ii n an a ? rap " lI >' 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.