12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 *■ ■ - Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. . Telccnph Bonding, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board i. P. McCULLOUGH, " BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. Member* 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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Assoc ia- f i c e Avenue Building, I Chfcago, ni! 1(^nSr ' Entered at the Poet Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter, I ■' i _ carrier, ten cents a opfe?l<w<n week; by mail, 13.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919 The great mind knows the power of gentleness. ■ Onlg tries force because persuasion fails. —Browning. THE RED MEN THE Red Men of Pennsylvania are with us again—thanks, it! is to be imagined, to the in fluence and persuasive oratory of Prothonotary Charles E. Pass, who is as popular in the order abroad as he is with the folks here at home. The Red Men are a purely Amer ican patriotic society, and just at this time Americans give thanks be yond measure to those who consti tute the membership of lodges and associations which stand for the United States, first, last and all the time, and which pledge themselves to oppose to the death any encroach ment on our independence or inter ference with our institutions. They are a mighty power for good in the land. Bolshevism Is impossible where fidelity to Constitution and country is the sworn pledge of mil lions. Harrisburg welcomes the Red, Men. It hopes they will like the, new hotel that is their headquar ters, and it hopes, also, they will think well enough of the city to return at no far distant date. THE "Y" NEEDS HELP THE T. M. C. A. of Harrisburg is doing a big work—much big ger than many suppose. But its field is wider than the present scope of its activities. In the past few years it has grown in member ship, influence and service. But It has only scratched the surface. It has a progTam that will tax sorely the capacity of its present home. It needs support and it ought to have it Once a year, like all live asso ciations. it comes before the peo ple for help. It shonld have what it needs without stint The amount is small. We who have given by the hundred thousand can not afford to hesitate over a paltry ten thou sand. Captain George F. Lumb and his' committeemen are giving both their I time and their money. What are you going to give? Speak quick, for the hat will be passed only once, i The campaign ends to-morrow even-1 lng. JUDGES, MEET LAWYERS | EX-JUDGE A. M. BEITLER I S out in a Statement bewailing! the pro-concentration of the! activities of the Supreme and Su-' perior Courts in Harrisburg. He joins with certain objectors of Pitts burgh in a vigorous protest against the Hess bills and declares that if enacted they would create a "spe \ cial class of appeal lawyers." This is awful, if true, and we can almost see the tears streaming down the faces of those disinterested and pa triotic lawyers of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh who believe that the in terests of litigants will best pre * served by continuing the peripatetic activities of the higher courts in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, ot course, it can be assumed that "a .special class of appeal lawyers" might be created in either of those two cities. Nor should those who favor the concentration of the im portant legal activities of the Com monwealth at the State Capitol as sume to deprive the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh lawyers of the op portunity to transact their own busi ness in one city or the other at the expense of the litigants whose inter ests they so zealously pretend to safeguard in their opposition to the Hess bills. Too long the legal fraternity has assun ed to speak for the people of the State in the framing of legisla tion. Our lawyer friends in Phila delphia and Pittsburgh, who are so concerned over the proposition to have the Supreme and Superior! Court sesslohs held here instead of' TUESDAY EVENING, flitting up and down the State, have! been so accustomed to directing the enactment of laws in their own in terests and for their own convenl ' ence that they should naturally as sume that what Is for their Interest must be for the interest of all the i people. Harrisburg is the natural and prhper place, foo th P sitting of the high Courts and it is the duty of the j Legislature to give the same consld-J eration.to the pending measures for the concentration of the two courts here as has been given the other bills providing for the concentration of other activities of the Common wealth on Capitol Hill. As individ ual State employes schemed to re move certain departments of the State government to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and elsewhere until. Gov ernor Sproul determined to restore efficiency and economy in the legis lative and executive branches by re turning the wandering public ser vants to their proper home, so pro testing lawyers here and there are striving to create the impression that the interests of litigants would be best promoted by continuing the present undignified and unnecessary touring of the State by the higher judicial tribunals. Mr. Beitler's most touching appeal is to the effect "that the judges should have the opportunity of meet ing members of the bar from differ ent sections of the State," because, as he suggests, "such contact probably tends to make them broader men than they would be if residing per manently at Harrisburg." This final 'crushing argument against the pro posed change is in harmony with the recent- Pittsburgh protest that the rights of life and property would be endangered by the permanent sittings of the two courts in this city. There may be some real objections to the Hess bills, but up to the pres ent time the protests have been of such a puerile character as to make the advantages in favor of the change stand out strongly in con trast. Mr. Hess should insist upon his bills being promptly reported from the committee in which they are now reposing and let the people of the State say through their proper representatives on Capitol Hill whether their interests or the con venience and pleasure of a few pro vincial lawyers should have first con sideration. A POPULAR SENTIMENT HERBERT HOOVER, just re turned from abroad, voices public sentiment in this coun try when he says: 1 do not take it we will finance any more wars in Europe, di rectly or indirectly, nor that we will provide money to enable the people of Europe to live with out work or to work part time, as at present all over Europe. This sort of economic delirium tremens will end with peace. This is precisely the opinion and the hope of the average American. We want to cut loose from Euro pean affairs just as quickly as pos sible and to the utmost extent pos sible. But are we going to be able to do it? Are we sure that President Wilson's League of Nations has not saddled upon us permanently a vast number of incumbrances that will sit upon our shoulders like the Old Man of the Sea on Sinbad? We are by no means clear of our European entanglements, but there is no doubt that a vast majority agree most heartily with Mr. Hoover in what he has to say on the subject, j We have enough troubles of our own without playing wet nurse to a demoralized Europe. Work, and plenty of it, will not only provide Europe with enough to eat, but it will keep many now idle hands from mischief. Uncle Sam has a bread box of uncommon size, but he is get ting tired making the folks at home pay ten cents a loaf in order that a lot of others abroad may eat for nothing in idleness. LET'S HELP "BOB" LYON LET'S help "Bob" Lyon put the Boy Scout campaign over In Harrisburg this week. All the Scouts ask is 1,00.0 associate mem bers at a dollar each, and the money will go to help bring Scouting to the I boys who most need it. A dollar is not much to invest in the boyhood of the country, and there are few fathers of boys in Harrisburg who cannot afford that small sum. The Boy Scout is a real boy, but not a bad boy. The Boy Scouts take so-called "bad" boys and make good boys of them. No Boy Scout ever was convicted of a crime. They are too busy with the activities of scouting to get into serious trouble. "Bob" Lyon himself —with his co workers —is taking a week out of his own business to head the cam paign here. He ought to have our co-operation. give it to him. The price of co-operation is one dollar. REASONABLE SUGGESTION. A WRITER in the American Farm Journal suggests that the way to settle the differ ences of opinion between the farm and the town dweller on the subject of daylight saving, is to have city time and country time legalized by Congress. This offers a reasonable solution to the controversy with satisfaction for both sides and little difficulty in • adjustment. The farmer complains that the milk trains are thrown out of proper schedule by the daylight saving plan and that if he governs himself by the clock he gets into difficulties with his hired help, for the reason that he must do his work by sun time if it is to be done well and profitably. The city man, and he is far more numerous than his country brother, I insists on having the additional hour / ■ ' of daylight, for the reason that thereby he is enabled to have a home garden and work It after hours, and that he has time for rec reation with his family by daylight when he does not wish to work his garden. He accuses the farmer of trying to grab the additional hour of daylight in order to deprive him of the opportunity of raising his own garden truck, but that is hardly fair. More likely the farmers have been unduly aroused by the clever agents of certain big corporations whose receipts are hard hit by the hour of daylight in the late evening. At all events, both sides could be satisfied by an arrangement of city time and country time, which would give both what they want and in jure nobody, for all the readjustment | j that would be necessary to meet the | new condition would be changing the | schedules of a few railroad trains ( used by farmers for transport of milk and produce. ""PottiZca. tx. By the Ex-Committeeman Abrupt ending of the fighting over the Philadelphia charter bill is one of the most interesting developments in politics in the State in many months and the way is now cleared for the Legislature to finish up its work and go home. The fighting over the Philadelphia registration bills will not have very much effect on the State at large, not nearly as much as a continuation of the con troversy over the charter would have had if an agreement had not been reached last night. The way the charter bill now stands, the charter revisionists set a new law for Philadelphia and a single chamber council; the Penrose : element receives some things which it has wanted and the V'are people 1 obtain several things for which they ! have contended in season and out J and .Governor Sproul and Attorneyj General come out of the discussion as the men who prevented a break | and forced compromise when it | looked as though the close of the session would be disturbed and the seeds sown for a bitter quarrel in many parts of the State. —Few more amazing incidents have occurred in the Legislature this session than the defeat of the Ram sey bill, establishing any liquor con taining more than two and three- j fourths per cent, of alcohol as a real drink and the reconsideration i of the defeat of the measure at the i instance of the men who defeated it and who attempted reconsideration as a means of slaughtering the bill. The men who engineered the move played into the hands of the "wet" element, which demoralized by the defeat of the bill, were rounding up members favorable to their cause in a move to try the very same thing. It is understood that the men who essayed it were three times warned | by Representative John W. Vicker-1 man, of Allegheny, the leader of' the "drys," not to attempt it and I that his words were ignored. The! result was that the attempt to kill the bill revived it with votes to spare. The "wets" are now schem ing to get the bill through. The Daix-Brady bills, changing the State registration commission laws so that Philadelphia shall have its own board and making numerous amendments to the statutes, were amended and passed on second read ing in the House without the ex pected contest. When the bills came up, Mr. Brady. Philadelphia, pre sented amendments, including one increasing the. membership from four to five. Mr. Ramsey. Delaware, expressed the hope that there would he no opposition at this stage and when Mr. Cox, Philadelphia, had asked if he would not oppose going into committee of the whole and been informed that he would not. the amendments were adopted. The hills are to be a storm center to-day. —The hill increasing the Alle gheny county hoard of tax revision from four to seven was passed in the House last night after having been defeated two weeks ago and reconsidered. The hill secured 116 votes, or 12 more than needed. The hill was the cause of a lively inter change of remarks among Allegheny county members. Mr. Simpson urg ing it. while Messrs. Marcus and McVicar declared there was no need of the legislation except "to create jobs. j —Members of the woman suffrage | organization were jubilant to-day' | over the attitude of Governor Wil liam C. Sproul in favor of the suf j frage amendment and confident that | his message to the Legislature urg ing immediate ratification of the | amendment would be taken up by Republican leaders and lead to ratifl ! cation by the Legislature. How ever, there were signs that the oppo | sitlon was making some combina | tions the other way. I —Considerable interest is being manifested in regard to the appro priations for the colleges which are due to appear to-morrow .Some big cuts are reported. Chancellor S. B. McCorm'ck, of the Unh-erslty of Pittsburgh, was among men here for the meetings last night. —Representative Rottenberger, of Berks, is reported seriously ill at his h6me. —Ex-Speaker Charles A. Amb'er looked in on the House last night and remarked thaj things were in clined to be strenuous. —The Scranton Republican wants action on the mine cave nroposition. Tn an editorial it savs: "There have been many propositions for the so lution of the mine cave problem. Some of them have failed because they were so drastic that their en actment would cripple the great in dustry which forms the basis of in dustrial nrosperity in the mining valleys. But there is a reasonable remedy, and we he'ieve it is to he found in the passage of a just and common sense law placing a tax on coal such as will provide a fund suf ficient to pav the cost of its pro duction. including an adequate com pensation for famnges to all sur face property. Such a law can and should he passed before the present session of the Legislature adjourns." •I—Tra McNeal. formerly of this citv. and a brother-in-law of Dr. Harvev F. Smith, will he a candi date for District Attorney of Mercer county. Honor Among Thieves He stole a kiss, but gave It back. And now that girl believes That there is still some honor left Among some sort of thieves, i —Tonkers Statesman. J BXIUUBBURAMAL TEEEGKXPH WONDER WHAT A BASS THINKS ABOUT? ByBRIGGS 6EE I'VE, HAD A - I'VE LOST A LITTLE GOSH THATS OWG PF - WELL NOW! IF DULL DAY—. I'M AS WEIGHT AT THAT THOSE FUNNJY THINGS HERE AWT A WORM, HUNGRY AS A WOLF * COULD POT *JP A MEN 'DRAG AROUWD KINDA• 'SPICIOUS I TORT _ I UJPIRHED MY- GOOD BATTLE N THE LAKE ALL OKI ACCOOHT OT= THC O P MN • HOLLO WHAT'S THAT.? M JTTV RC VE (?Y SOWETHIFOG I SELP TODAY AND IM. VERY PRETTY— . TELLS M& TO LAY JUST THREE POUNDS WONDER WHAT / OFF - MY SISTER THE IDEA, IS, / GOT HOOKED ON / ONE ONICG - I ."THESE WORMS ARE ~ . _ I TREACHEROUS LITTLE WOULD A JF YOU AH-WAH- I HEAR A NOT —FOR—ME* BEASTS I'VE A WERE, ME ? V/OICE. ITS A MAN NO"?IOL TRT A ANSD H6 ' S CURSING ISSTE " , %°R TH.NG AW-W --** ijlfe LITERARY NOTES The limited edition of "Cynthia,"! the third volume in the uniform edi-i tion of the novels of Leonard Mer- j rick which is being brought out by E. P. Dutton & Co., was practically | all sold out in advance of its publi-j cation last week. The popular edi-i tion at a lower price will be ready j the middle of this month. The in-; troduction to "Cynthia" is by Mau-i ricet Hewlett. The next volume will j be "The Position of Peggy Harper," with an introduction by Sir Arthur' Pinero. The limited edition will he' ready late in June, with the popular j edition following about two weeks later. Paul Goodman's "History of the Jews," which E. P. Dutton & Co. > first published eight or "nine years, ago in the Temple Primer Series, is! being prepared by them for early, publication in a separate volume. There has been so much demand for the work that the American issue became necessary. It will be ready in two or three weeks. The centenary of Julia Ward. Howe, which occurred on May 27th,' was celebrated in several cities, the most important and interesting of, the meetings being those held in Boston, in which she made her home, for many years. At the Church of the Disciples Governor Coolidge madej the principal address and among the; other speakers were Mrs. Margaret; Deland and Mrs. Howe's daughter, j Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott. Several dinners and luncheons with speeches, by prominent people were given by, organizations with which she was connected. The Boston Authors Club, of which Mrs. Howe was pres ident for many years, celebrated the; centenary with a special meeting at which Robert Grant, Samuel Croth-; ers and Richard Henry Dana made! addresses. Ip New York City the occasions was observed, by order or the Board of Education, in the pub-| lie schools by the singing of her fa mous "Battle Hymn of the Republic"! In honor of the centenary also was the issue a few weeks ago by E. P., Dutton & Co. of a volume of extracts; from Mrs. Howe's private journals! which had not been previously pub-| lished. It bears the title "The Walk with God" and was edited by Mrs. Howe's daughter. Mrs. Laura E. j Richards. The brief cullings from the records of daily living which] make this little volume set forth phases of the inner life of this re markable woman which will surprise many of a later generation because of the simple faith, the devotion, and the humbleness of heart which are revealed. The entries, short though most of them are, breathe a spirit of service, a love of righteousness and a trust of God that will make the book a real comfort to many readers. There could have been no celebration of the hundredth anni versary of Mrs. Howe's birth more fitting than the publication of this picture of her inmost soul. >"- visioned and austere, but loving and humble and full of longing to serve humanfty. Young Heroes at Oxford [From the Nation, London.] The returning hero, fresh from battle fields, will no longer rush to the cricket field and the river at Oxford with the zest of young bar barians at their play. To one who may wear the ribbon of the Military I Cross or the D. S. 0.. the position of his college boat in the eights can no longer seem the one matter of life and death, and even the halo of \ goal shines with diminished glory. So. too, in lesser pursuits. How shall the distinguished young major fix his mind upon the squabbles of compartments in ancient Greece, when he himself has motored from Saloniki to Athens in a day and on to Sparta in the next? O'" what will hp feel when questioned on his fad ing memories of the iryeguler verbs? Probablv most public school beys are haunted to old age by a dream a terrible nightmare—of being "put on" by the old hcadrnastor when they have not taken the trouble to prepate a line of the passage. If makes no difference that they are more than fifty and the headmaster has long been dead. The horror of the situation remains appalling, and the dream is far more frequent than any of Freud's imaginary perversions. The feelings of the soldier return ing to the class and lecture room will be much the same, with a sense of futi'lty added. For. indeed. It is impossible to go back In life, and a second childhood is not like the first. Little victims play regardless of their doom, hut not men who have known what doom can da Seven Seas and Your Day's Work [The Nation's Business] ONCE more American business! possesses a great merchant ma- ( rine. Our market-place be comes—the world; and we share the romance and adventure that hedge about distant peoples and far-off lands. The uttermost ends of the earth come to our breakfast tables and our desks. For your table felt, you pay a high price because bandits in Western China have held up the sup ply of sun-dried wool. The varnish on your desk bears a toll to pay the cost of labor troubles with the na tive New Zealanders who dig the kauri gum from the earth. In Boston, there is a businessman contesting with the jungle for a banana plantation and by foreign Human Kindness in Business [From the Transmitter.] Risking the danger of being classed with the sentimental sisters and oily-voiced brothers who talk tiringly of sunshine and joy, and pat you on the back while doing it, we are going to use our back cover space this month to remind you again that there is human kindness in business and warm, red, human blood in the veins of corporation people. A case in point. A charity worker appealed for aid in behalf of the family of a former employe who died several years ago. Although the company had already done its full share, several officials contributed to a fund and allowed a notice of the facts in the case to be given to the employes in the department and division in which the deceased work ed. There was no demand or ap peal, merely a statement of the facts and a paragraph to the effect that if anybody felt like contributing ten cents or a quarter it would be re ceived and forwarded. Did they respond? They did— and right onbly. Is there human kindness in business? It's our guess that there is. at least, in the busi ness conducted by the C. and P. Again: An employe's child had to be taken to the hospital at once. The man's boss was in an important I conference at the time, but as soon as he heard of it he said: "Let me run over there in my car and get him." And he did. Here's another case of which we just heard. Somewhere in a nearby state is a former telephone man, qrippled and bedridden, who was in jured several years ago. Some where in another state is a high-up telephone official who calls on that cripple and has a pleasant chat with him every time he gets any where near the city in which the ex telephone man resides. A heart? Most assuredly. And doesn't it make you feel just a bit proud, as well as hafe, to know that the telephone business produces this kind of men? As long as this happy state continues in the telephone bus iness and other large industries, the Bolsheviki and other red flag dis turbers will find little encourage ment in America. Pride of Home Owner [From the Atlanta Constitution.] "That little place yonder, in the blossoms, where trees wave welcome —that's my home." It is the true home maker tne real home lover —who says that, coming from the day's tasks, with all the pride of home ownership. And that is the pride that's felt by the thousand owners of the homes of city streets, or the little j home places that help to brighten ! city borders, where a greener world ! begins. . It's the pride of proprietorship — 1 life's happiness summed up in a I brief sentence: "That's my home!" Business enterprise builds cities, but it builds them around homes. "A city of homes" is the plirase that awakens interest everywhere, j And the age of ownership is coming I to be the wonder of the time, with 1 youth looking providently to the future —planning for it, working for it, with all youth's hope and strength! The humblest shelter may hold i happiness enough if the one who I walks the way that leads to it can I say, in the heart's pride: "That's j my home!" A Croak [From the Chicago Daily Nlews.] It is true that the dove of peace is cooing, but it cooes as if it had adenoids, L j rail and private ship, timing the rip ening of the fruit in his refrigerator! cars in order to bring us the cheap-| est food that we eat. Another, in Cleveland, is advancing, by ■dege and j parallel on the forests of Yucatan, with his plot of teaching a nation! to chew gum, by capitalizing an American idiosyncrasy he had ob-] servqd, of chewing tooth picks. The businessman sits at his desk and dreams and because he has the courage of his imagination, 10, the thing is done! His day by day interests outdo the romance of Cervantes and surpass the adventures of Marco Polo. Once again. America thrills to watch a new clipper ride the waves. Her . ourse steers close to your busi ness —have you considered how close? The Hoodoo That Won [From the Erie Dispatch.] In the general chorus of praise for the famous seaplane NC-4, first air craft to cross the Atlantic, most people have overlooked or forgotten the fact that the NC-4 was a "hoo doo ship." The New York recalls the strik ing series of mishaps that gave her that evil reputation. She had so much difficulty in getting her full complement of machinery that she had no time for the desired test flights. She was nearly destroyed by fire before leaving Rockaway on the first lap of her journey. At the very start, her engineer had his right hand cut off by a propeller. On the first "leg" she was forced down by engine trouble oft Cape Cod. Trailing after her sister planes, she i was held up by bad weather at Chatham, Mass., and at Halifax. She was so slow in arriving at Trepassey that the NC-1 and NC-3 had already started, though they were obliged that time to turn back. And yet the "hoodoo ship" was the only one that reached the Azores in good condition, and went on to Portugal and England, finishing her i pioneer trip in a blaze of glory. It is often so with reputed hoo doos, whether in aviation or naviga tion or business life or anywhere else. Many a man who has been, ! known as a veritable hoodoo has made good at length—precisely be- I cause he refused to believe himself ! dogged by inevitable bad luck. Such cases are little noticed because when j the failure becomes a success it is so easily forgotten that he was ever 1 considered a failure. I The logical conclusion seems to be I that "hoodoos" are generally psycho logical. They exist only when the people most concerned think they I exist. Lieutenant Read and his crew flatly refused to consider their craft ! a hoodoo, and therefore she turned out a winner. — The Suffrage Amendment [From the Kansas City Star.] The triumph of the suffrage amendment in the Senate yesterday does not give the women of the United States the ballot. The states must ratify the action before the victory is complete. But tho adop tion of the amendment in the Sen ate, following its adoption in the House, is the prize for which the women yf the country have fought for fifty years. It places the seal of national approval upon the move ment. It brings the goal of final victory in sight and hastens the day of universal suffrage in America. Twenty-eight states already have granted women the right of suffrage, either in full or in a limited meas ure. It is practically certain that no state in which the women exer cise any degree of suffrage will re fuse to ratify the amendment. With the women voting either for state or national tickets the politicians will be Blow to refuse further recognition |to them. For the ratification of the amendment only eight states are needed in addition to the twenty eight now granting suffrage, and the action of Congress in adopting the amendment will add great weight in swinging the other states into line for its ratification. The opponents of women suffrage had as well hang their harps upon the willows. It requires no pro phetic vision to understand the meaning of the vote In the Senate yesterday. One Reason [From the Indiana Times.] One reason Germany lost the wkr was because hdT government was so Krnpped. JUNE 10, TTRR9. No Wonder Germany Quit ! NUMBER TWO MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN, of the Army Recruiting Office, 325 Market street, among r ther yarns, told the following story: "On the third day of the Saint Mihiel offensive we were cleaning up machine gun nests and 'exploit ing' our success. One of the 'clean ing up' groups consisted of a man from Pennsylvania, a Corporal Mc- Caslin, and two privates, an Italian and a Greek, neither one of whom spoke much English. These three were working into a woods and knew they were right on top of a nest.' McCaslin was leading the way, cau tiously, with his .45 automatic thrust out in front of him, when a Boche hidden not fifteen feet in front of him shot him squarely between the eyes. When McCaslin fell he had emptied his pistol, seven shots, and had actually killed two and wound ed three Boche. Just as we have always known, a man of sufficient determination, even though shot through the head, will still empty his pistol. Well! that Italian and that Greek Just proceeded to go crazy. About half an hour later, they came back into our lines with twenty-nine prisoners and sixteen machine guns. They were a sight: torn, wounded, covered with blbod -—their own and Boche—bayonets dripping:, and still wild-eyed and nghting: mad. I asked them what they had been doing: and the Italian spoke up: 'They killed our Corp.. Giey shoota McCaslin. them damna Boche no good.' I asked them how many they had killed to get so bloody and the answer was - 'T killa twenty he killa twenty.fort'v Boche for our Corp come back, wc take few pris, maka damn Boche carrv guns " E\° yOU ponder that Germany quit With such men as that against her? Angles of Modem England [Tom Clarke in the Contiental Edi tion of the London Mail.] On a golden shore in Lincolnshire many miles from railway or town a farm g.rl talked to me. She was not more than 19 or 20 tali anri falr i? 1 ) Wlth b,uc cypf ' White skli? fair hair, and thin lips, making a firm, but not cruel, mouth 1 SlTe-Vo y °V,. fin K ,hla place sl °w? Sh"e° h An Ut tbere ' B life in thp towns. nolse and nerves and foreigners and dressing up. • * • Look at those wild duck. There will be a storm to-night. Oh. yes I have been to London. Like a cage No fields, or sea, or birds— and so crowded and foreign-like. I was glad t oget back here where mv r e hin i VP a,wavs lived . and where I shall always live. I—Foreigners! But thev are most y like you. English. You are English, aren't you? Mr? h etH° h ' y **' lam real Knglish. My father said so—a real, English girl. People with black hair and The^ a a ?.K 0t , Eng " sh ' We hava h* d them at the farm. Afraid of a mouse or noises in the night, and so help less. Don t be offended (with a shv glance at my dark hair). To my memory came the remark of a scholarly friend when he heard of my proposal to make holiday in the low marshland of Lincolnshire: ou will find there the nearest ap proach to our Angle forefathers of any people in the country. The first of the Angle pirates who made Bri tain England settled there centuries ago, and in spite of race mergings the type appears here and there like a silver thread in a tangle of many colors." ' That night we sat before a roar ing log fire in the low roofed kitchen Outside the storm raged and the North Sea hurled itself against the sea wall that has defied it since Ro man days. The Angle girl sang a quaint folk song and then a hymn. And Angle mother and daugher read a chapter from a family Bible, and the mother offered a simple prayer for her dead "man" and son in his soldier's grave near Ypres. The eyes In the picture over the fireplace seemed alight with life The oid Angle was scowling at the foreigner in his house. Blessing the People And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Speak unto Aaron and unto Uis sons, saying, On this wise shall ye bless the children of Israel, say ing unto them, the Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gra cious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenanc upon thee and give thee [peace.—Numbers vi. 22 to 25. Ebmttg Qlljat While a good many people are getting nervous over the appearance of the seventeen-year-old locusts in this section of the State, Professor J. G. Sanders, the State zoologist, who is in charge of the investigation of the State Plant Industry Bureau, says there is no occasion to grow excited. The locust has been a per iodical visitor to the section and its depredations have been as carefully studied as the life history of the insects. When the locusts com-- mence to jazz around, as they have been doing in some sections of this county and Cumberland, the on'fy thing is to kill as many as possible and feed them to the chickens. As far as the researches of the folks at the Capitol are concerned, no one has ever experimented with them as an article of diet here, although such facts as announced by a Baltimore professor who ate some and declared that they were edible and not un pleasant, are well known. The state ment of the Baltimore man that they tasted like shrimp, however, is not corroborated here. One man who re calls having tasted some broiled or baked locust, says that it reminded him of the time that he roasted grasshoppers when a boy and tried them with salt. The locust, as hav. been pointed out, concerns itscl* with laying eggs and to do so rips open the tender bark of twigs and causes serious damage to fruit and shade trees. Much depends upon the weal her conditions and the num ber of locusts and when they start to jazz, if one has the time, the best way to do is to kill them off, burn or make chicken feed of the bodies. Some breeds of chickens are as fond of locusts as quail are of potato bugs. Many specimens of the locusts have been sent to the Capitol and all run true to form. The insects are smaller than the familiar singer of summer time and have more red about them, while their note is slightly different in tone from the strident sound made by the big green perennial visitors, commonly sum moned to predict real hot, dry weather. • • • Arnold W. Brunner, the architect for the Capitol Park extension, who is hero looking after some details, knows every slick and stone and every foot of the ground on the ex tension and the old park. He studied that first and when he plotted the building lines for the new office structure, ho went all over the site half a dozen times and studied it from every angle. Ho has done the same thing, with the Memorial bridge and the rest of the improve ments, and he worked out the de tails of the "People's Court" stand ing in the middle of Fourth street, dodging, trolley cars and automo biles. "I like to get right on the ground and stay there, but I get the view from the outside as well as the inside and if there is any spot from which I have not studied the situa tion, show me," said he. • • • There is vOry little time for the coal dredgers even on Sundays. The steamers and the barges have been on the jump the last three Sundays and one man explained it this way: "There is a demand for coal and ve have to keep up stocks. Tou never can tell this rainy weather just when the Susquehanna is not going to break loose and we are not taking any chances with it. So we are keeping right at work, even if it does require some Sunday effort." • • • The visit of the 20-mule team to Capitol Park extension over the week-end was the cause of delight for kids for blocks and blocks around all day long. The mules were turned out in approved West ern style and the men in charge I eampbd just as they do on the plains, although they said that the electric lights were not as soothing as the stars and the railroad trains and trolley cars more disturbing than coyotes. • • Prothonotary Charles E. Pass is one of the few men who have at tended every meeting of the State organization of the Ked Men in this city. Harrisburg is a favorite place for the Red Men to meet, but the first meetings were rather long ago. Mr. Pass, however, remembers them, although in some he may have been on the side lines. Of late he has been one of the prominent figures and has been instrumenteal in add ing to membership in tribes in this section and in seeing that invest ments are on a good substantial basis. • • • The three-cent postage appears to have been the cause of more than one department of the State govern ment running shy on funds the lust two years, according to what Chair man McCaig, of the House appro priations committee hears in listen ing to statements on the general ap propriation bill. It seems that no one figured on an extra cent on let ters and the redactions made in the bill made a narrow margin. A big increase of letters due to war and an extra cent created shortages where unexpected. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —Representative Willis J. Hulings, of Oil City, who was a major gen eral in the Pennsylvania National Guard, has five sons in the mljitary service. The father is proud of thefi record and says that letters coming from them show' that the spirit of the American soldier is against for eign wars and the T.eague of Nations. —Chancellor R.' B. McCormick, of the University of Pittsburgh, said in his baccalaureate sermon that jus tice will have to prevail in the peace propositions. —General C. T. Cresswell, com mander of the Reserve Militia, in command of the camp of instruction at Mt. Gretna, has attended every camp there for many years. —Dr. W. TJ. Hull, host of Attorney General Palmer at Swarthmore, is professor of history at the college and an old friend. —R. T. McSorley, a Philadelphia lawyer who has been prominent in politics, tells tenants who have be come involved in the landlords' war in Philadelphia not to move when ordered and thus bring on a test. f DO YQU KNOW —That Harrisburg sales of Iron and steel are being made for foreign delivery right novr? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —One hundred years ago Harris burg was the big cattle trading point In this section of the State*
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