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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1019
God does not reason nor remem
ber, but he lives.—F. IV. Robertson.
CAPITOL PARK PLANS
IT IS expected that definite action
will be taken this week by the
Legislature on the Capitol Park
improvements. Governor Sproul has j
been giving much personal study j
to the problems involved in making ,
the environment of the Capitol what
it should be and in this study he
has had the earnest co-operation of
the other two members of the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings—
Auditor General Snyder and State
Treasurer Kephart.
There has been general approval
of the memorial features of the
viaduct at State street and the land
scaping designs have met public ex
pectation in their dignity of treat
ment and the provision for future j
development.
Final steps are likely to be taken ,
without delay, to the end that the
rather unsightly conditions cast of
the Capitol may be overcome before
the next session of the Legislature.
There appears to be nothing in the
way of immediate action in the i
matter of reterracing the old park I
section along Walnut and Third |
streets so as to make possible the co- !
operation of the city in increasing j
the width of both those highways.
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman j
and Senator Frank Smith are in close ;
touch with what is contemplated by t
the Legislature and are giving their
colleagues on Capitol Hill the bene
fit of first-hand information regard
ing the city's part in this laudable,
undertaking. Harrisburg has been
doing its full share in improving ;
the setting of the Capitol and will
not falter in any further steps that
may L>e taken in the working out of
the comprehensive plans which have
evoked such universal praise.
HOUSING PROSPECTS
THROUGHOUT the country the
housing problem is being given
the earnest consideration of
public-spirited communities. Here
in Harrisburg the building campaign
is already under way and statistics
now available show that there is
everywhere a disposition to increase
building credits and make more sub
stantial the building industry.
At the special session of the Legis
lature in New York, which opened
yesterday. Mayor Hylan's special
committee on the housing question
will submit an interesting report as
a result of its investigations. This
committee has called upon Governor
Smith to issue a supplemental proc
lamation on the housing problem.
One proposition in New York City
is to permit single-family houses to
be altered so that they can accom
modate three or four families. It is
pointed out that this would mean at
least 20,000 more families would be
taken care of. The committee also
urges that the big insurance con
cerns Invest their surplus funds in
buildin-g loans.
Still another proposition is that
legislative action be taken looking
to the exemption of Federal tax on
interest mortgages of $40,000 or less.
These are significant developments
in the housing situation as it affects
the whole of the country and they
encourage the hope that definite re
lief may be expected as a result of
the study that is now being given
most unusual conditions.
BAND CONCERTS
THE Chamber of Commerce hav
ing turned its thoughts from a
Fourth of July parade very
properly has decided in favor of
public band concerts.
The Fourth of July should not be
permitted to pass without some
form of recognition. We have had
a surfeit of public celebrations. No
city in Pennsylvania did better than
Harrisburg during the war period
in displaying and arousing patriotic
fervor by means of mass meetings
and parades. Most of us have had
so much of this that for the moment
we would prefer to celebrate In our
1 vxv. But there are far
TUESDAY EVENING,
whom some form of public enter
tainment must be provided, and
there is nothing so easily arranged
nor more generally satisfying than
a band concert.
Not everybody can journey to the
parks for their mueic. It is to be
hoped that for all such concerts
can be carried to them. It ought
to be possible to have three or four
concerts in as many parts of the
city.
WATCH CHESTER
THE city of Chester. Governor
Sproul's home town, is carry
ing out a comprehensive pro
gram of community service that
merits the attention of other muni
cipalities. Chester, during the war
j period, found itself doubled in popu
lation almost over night and con
fronted with problems of the grav
est kind, due in large measure to
its inability to absorb in a moment
all the varied and diverse elements
that had flocked to it in response
to the urgent call of the swollen
pay-envelope of the war indus
tries. The signing of the armistice
took some of these away, but many
remained and Chester can never go
back to its pre-war way of doing
things, nor does it so desire. Its
people have caught the vision of a
new day and are striving to make
their dream of a better community
come true.
From war service Chester has
turned to the cultivation of com
munity music, in the form of great
choruses under capable leadership;
.the organization of a "League of
'Nations," in which the foreign-born
residents are made to feel that
they are welcome and their presence
desired and are given work to do
in the community; the formation
of a colored contingent for the bet
terment of the colored residents
especially, with the co-operation
and assistance of their white neigh
bors wherever necessary; the use
of the schoolhouses as neighborhood
centers for evening gatherings; the
creation of a "Hospitality" Depart
ment, the purpose of which is to
bring people together on an inti
mate and friendly basis; the en
couragement of outdoor games,
especially during the evening hours;
the forming of community clubs,
and the bringing of all these activ
ities through one directing office are
some of the things Chester is doing
at an expense of some $40,000 a
year.
Will the movement succeed?
Charles Frederick Welter, executive
secretary in charge, believes it will.
In the course of an address recently
he defined its purpose and pros
pects in these words:
To put "Unity" into "Com
munity" is the slogan of community
service for Chester and vicinity.
To some conservatives it seems
impossible that about forty thou
sand dollars annually shall be
secured in such a town as Chester,
from State, municipal, educational
and industrial authorities and
private organizations and tali
viduals. for the permanent loca
maintenance of such recreational
social service. To many radical re
i formers, on the other hand, com
munity service mtist appear super
ficial and unimportant. But mil
lions of average Americans are
hoping that reconstruction and in
dustrial advance may he accom
plished without revolution ; that es
tablished powers will not resist
progress until desperation and dis
order are enkindled; that steady
rapid social evolution miry realize
those larger measures of democ
racy and brotherhood for which
human folks are longing.
More significant than the pres
ent size and very modest powers
of community service in Chester,
is the fact that it has proven to
be responsive in liew ways, ac-,
ceptablv, to fundamental impulses
in the" hearts of common people.
There is a democratic and fraternal
significance in all the depart
ments simi- r to that new- spirit
of better Americanism which many
observers felt in Chester's League
of Nations. . , ,
"Social Salvage is a phrase
which has been applied. A truer
summary is this; that commv.riUy.
service is uncovering rich hidden
streams of human power : discover
ing and co-ordinating great groups
of worthwhile people who have
previously been unregarded and
uri^nlisted: organizing into joyous
helpful community relationships
lar-e- numbers of men and women
whom their neighbors are surprised
but glad to recognize as richly
! individual, public-spirited, worthy
j comrades.
Chester's experiment is young.
Perhaps its sponsor is over enthu
siastic. Maybe it will have to be
changed to meet conditions not now
apparent. But this much stands ,
proved—that there lies in the heart (
of the true American the willing- j
ness if not the actual desire, for pub-;
lie service if the way is but shown,
and 'it is also beyond question that
there is in this country a vast urban
population that requires help and
guidance, if help and guidance can
be given after the manner of one
equal to another, and without the
patronizing attitude that goes too
often with what we have came to
call "welfare" work. It is here
that Chester's program commands
attention and gives promise of suc
cess, for it.is intended to help the
individual to help himself, and so
make of him a happier stronger
man and a better citizen.
It will pay us to keep our eyes on
Chester.
CARLISLE'S FOURTH
CARLISLE is going to stage a
Fourth of July celebration
that will make the rest of the
State sit up and take notice. Car
lisle never does anything by halves.
Witness its accomplishments during
the war, in which it more than met
its quota in every drive, and which
is a counterpart of its record in
'every war since the days when the
town was an outpost of chdlization
standing between hostile tribes of
Indians and hundreds of settlers
who looked to its sturdy riflemen
for protection in times of peril. So
now it arranges the greatest pa
triotic demonstration in the history
of Cumberland county, and invites
its neighbors in .to enjoy the feast.
No town in Pennsylvania has a
more picturesque history. No county
during the present war. at least,
has won a better reputation for ef
fective patriotic effort than Cum
jb or land, and Carlisle. Its capital.
was the center of all Its war activ
ities. Many of the movements origi
nating In Cumberland spread all
over the country and were quoted
by the Commission of National De
fense as models of their kind. The
town and the county both are en
titled to celebrate and Harrisburg
not only wishes them well in the
undertaking, but yill send over a
big delegation to take part in the
"doings" of the day.
Id
7>oUUc*u
By the Ex-Committeeman
'
The Philadelphia bills gave way
last night to woman suffrage and
the compensation amendments as
the big features of the session, with
liquor legislation also holding some
share of the stage at the start of
the final fortnight of the session of
1919.
The Philadelphia charter was
found to contain some typographical
errors and was sent to the same
committee of conference that has
the segimation bills in charge. It
will ecor bo disposed of.
Second ciass city legislation fared
ill last night, one bill being vetoed
by the Governor and the Simpson
bill for additional members of the
Allegheny Board of Revision being
postponed.
The bnl to repeal the nonpartisan
clause of the third class city code
goes back to the Governor as it left
him.
—The compensation bill passed
the Senate finally without any dis
senting votes and went to the House,
being destined to be reported out
late to-day by the Ways and Means
Committee with amendments. The
Administration is very insistent on
tho bill with as few amendments as
possible.
—The woman suffrage resolution
is tc be pushed. The Republican
organization will get behind the res
olution as a result of a conference
at the Executive Mansion between
Governor Sproul, Senators Penrose
and Crow, while Attorney General
Palmer has telegraphed the Demo
cratic members to line up Senator
Yare has said his people will be for
the suffrage resolution. Mrs. Oif
ford Pinehot and Mrs. J. O. Miller
saw the Governor about the reso
lution, too. and Mrs. Lawrence Mil
ler saw Senator Penrose. La6t night
Senator Eyre presented the resolu
tion. Things are moving toward
rat ftcation.
—The Woodward bill relative to
marking of ballots when there are
several candidates for a group of
offices, which was on final passage
and e special order, was put back
to second reading for amendment in
tho House. Mr. Ramsey. Delaware,
said several amendments were being
prepared, as the bill needed clari
fying.
—The Daix Senate bill providing
that one group of pre-empters can
take a party name for a ward in
stead of a separate set being re
quired for each division passed in
the House. 132 to 39. after objec
tions bv Mr. Alexander, Delaware.
—Speaker Spangler's famous dog
bill, which would compel police and
constables to hold unlicensed dogs
three days before shooting them,
received a severe handling in the
Senate last night, when it went
down in defeat with the small end
of a 36-5 talley. Senators voting
in iavor of the bill were; Beales,
Mallow, Sassaman, Sones and Tomp
kins.
on the way the people of Harris
burg and the folks who happen to
be visltirfg in this city thought about
the action of the army in making
the Mexicans move their battle away
from dangerous proximity to El
Paso, all he had to do was to stand
about the bulletin boards. The com
ments heard were all one way, the
chief one being "Its about time that
we went in to clean up that mess," |
while a number of people were heard ,
to say "Hope Washington won't ,
bring them back this time, but let j
them go ahead," Some illuminating
public sentiment could have been j
obtained from the folks at a certain
bulletin board on Market Square,
had Washington been- listening in.
—lt may be interesting to recall
that ten years ago yesterday, the
Republican State convention was
held, at which Senator William E.
Crow was elected chairman and got
into line for State chairman and at
which John K. Tener made his ap
pearance before a State gathering.
Tener was chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions and read the
platform from the stage of the
Majestic. A year later he was nomi
nated for Governor in the same
theater. Twenty years ago yesterday
the Democratic State convention held
here nominated "Rarmer" W. T.
Creasy for State Treasurer, and the
late Justine S. L. Mestrezat for the
Supreme bench.
—The fact that the longest days
of the year, as far as daylight is
concerned, come this weekend, is
being commented upon by experi
enced legislators. If thqre is any
thing they do not like, it is to hold
a session in the cold gray dawn, such
as they did in 1913, for instance.
• —Mayor E. V. Babcock is to speak
before the Pittsburgh Chamber of
Commerce to-morrow on "Bonds and
Business," an address relative to the
big bond issue Pittsburgh people
will vote upon before long.
—The Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce is out with a charge that
the water supply of that city is in
adequate and a move to better it is
under way.
—Reading council finally filled the
place of city chemist which has been
vacant for a time. I. C. Regar was
chosen for the place.
—Col. Cleon N. BernWieizel, a
former legislator, just home from
overseas service as judge advocate
of the Keystone Division, has re
sumed his work as district attorney
of Lancaster county.
—The teachers' salary increase
bill is strongly urged editorially by
the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and
other newspapers. The Philadelphia
Record says editorially: "It is to be
hoped that the report from Harris
burg that the bill providing for an
increase In teachers' salaries is now
reasonably sure of becoming a law
is well founded. The situation
which it aims to correct is not pe
culiar to Pennsylvania, but is re.
ported from nearly all the States.
Teachers are leaving the schools be
cause of the low compensation, and
the usual crop of new pedagogues
is net appearing. Unless steps are
taken at once to raise the pay of
teacr ere, the schools will soon be
seriously crippled."
—Republican County Chairman
Thomas C. Seidel has stirred up the
party workers all over Berks county
and has formed them into a thor
ough organization. This has been
accomplished by a long series of get
together meetings or "campfires," as
the leaders have chosen to call them.
Theie meetings are being held in
every section of the county in an
swer to the call from headquarters.
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The Industrial Titan of America
A Great Story of Pennsylvania's Wonderful Resources, by John Oliver La Gorce
Reprinted From National Geographic Mngrnzlne With Speelal Perm I union
(Continued)
TO say that civilization's advance
ment is based on glass seems
a gross exaggeration at tirst
blush; and yet, when one reflects
how many sciences and how much
human knowledge came to the race
through that commodity, the ac
curacy of the statement is apparent.
The science of preventive medicine
was born of the microscope. But
for the telescope and the spoctro
scope the world would know about
as much of astronomy as was known
by the shepherds on the plains of
Persia. One may read the whole
list of technological industries with
out discovering lines of of hot,
putty-thick glass. A big mechanical
rolling pin spreads it out, after
which it hardens. Then it is sent
to the annealing furnace, heated,
and allowed to cool gradually, for
cooling either too fast or too slow
would be runinous. Finally it is
ground down and polished and is j
ready for shipment.
Prom Soup to Window Glass
The process of making blown win
dow glass is entirely different. In
hand-blowing, after the batch has
been melted, the "gatherer" takes
a pipe about live feet long, with a
| bell-shaped head at one end and a
i mouthpiece at the other, and dips
| the bell-shaped end into the molten
j glass. A small ball of the glass
| adheres. He blows through the pipe
and transforms this ball into a
thick-skinned bubble. When this
cools sufficiently it is dipped into !
the molten glass again, and more
adheres. The process is usually
repeated five times, the bubble
growing thicker of skin each suc
cessive time.
The pipe, with its adhering plastic
bubble, is then given to a "snapper,"
or helper, who carries it to the
"blower's block," where the "blow
er" takes it. The latter workman I
is the king bee of the glass indus- j
try —big of body, powerful of lung. I
and deft of hand. He places the I
bubble in the "block," which is an
iron mold set in water to prevent
its becoming too hot, and lined with
charcoal to keep the iron from dis
coloring the glass.
By turning the bubble in the
block, blowing air into it as he does
so, and gradually drawing the pipe '
German Lust Not Crushed Out,
[Manufacturers Record.]
"Airy thought that the German
people have definitely abandoned the
idea of world conquests would in
dicate a complete lack of knowledge
of the German frame of mind. If
the Germans felt to-day that they
had a reasonable chance of success
they would not for one moment
hesitate to bring another war with
all of its horrors upon the world.
To conquer and to loot the world
has been the thought of the whole
German race for the last two gen
erations. It has been born into the
baby's life from its birth, yea, even
before its birth. It has been bred
into the very bone and blood of the
German race. The recent defeat is
not yet accepted by the Germans as
any real defeat. All the camouflage
which is being put forth as to in
ability to pay indemnities and to
meet the peace terms is hypocritical
and is put out for the express pur
pose of creating a neurotic sympa
"lt is safe to count upon the fact
that German chemists will for the
next few years put forth their ut
most power to devise more ways of
murdering men and destroying their
opponents than Germany ever gave
to such a task before. The spirit of
the German people will live and
thrive in the thougnt of revenge
and of world conquest. In every
laboratory chemists will be at work
in devising new gases and new
forms of destructiveness, and any
man who thinks that Germany does
not expect some day suddenly to
return to the struggle shows little
understanding of the German peo
ple."
Building Giant Dirigible
[From the Seattle Intelligencer.]
A dirigible, with a carrying ca
pacity of more than two hundred
tons, and having a cruising radius
of twenty thousand miles at a speed
of eighty miles an hour, is being
built by the British, according to a
statement made by Professor J. W.
Miller, of the department of aero-,
nautics at the University of Wash
upward, he slowly transforms it into '
a pear-shaped affair. The lower
part gradually becomes solid and
too hard to be workable even with
his powerful lungs. The snapper
puts it into the blow furnace, and
| when it is properly heated he gives
it back to the blower. Standing
over the "swing hole," the blower
allows the weight of the plastic glass
to elongate the pear into a cylinder,
which he gives the desired di
ameter by blowing into it inter
mittently.
But. although it has reached the
desired diameter, the cylinder is
not yet long enough to suit his pur
pose. Se he reheats it and blows
it over and over again until it at
tains the prescribed length.
At this stage the cylinder is com
pleted, but the free end is closed
and the other end still adheres to
the blowpipe. It is put back into
the blow furnace and the free end
heated until it is soft enough to
permit the blowing of a hole
I through it. The resulting imper
fect end is cut aWay by wrapping
a hot glass thread around the cylin
der above the imperfection, at the
point of severance. Touched with
a piece of cold iron, the imperfect
section breaks asunder. The cylin
der is freed from the blowpipe in
a similar manner.
We how have a perfect hollow
cylinder of regulation window glass.
But before it can be used in a win
dow it must be flattened. To ac
complish this it must tirst be split
open. A hot iron or a charged elee
{trie wire, passed up and down the
'line of cleavage, plays the role of
a pair of shears. It causes a strain
line to form from one end of the
cylinder to the other, and when
this is touched with a piece of cold
iron the big roll breaks open as
perfectly as though it were cut open
with a diamond cutter and straight
edge.
I After this the roll of glass is sent
!to the annealing furnace. Heated
Ito a proper degree, the glass be
j comes soft enough to permit the
I roll to be flattened. It is then care
fully cooled and stored, ready for
market.
Mechanical Genius n Uo.volut ionizer
Bv the hand-blowing process
cylinders up to as much as six feet
long and nineteen inches in di
' ameter can be blown. Machine
ington, in his address the other
night before the American Society
of Civil Engineers, at the Engineers'
Club.
Professor Miller gave the history
of flying from the early attempts of
the French in the '7os down to the
latest developments in aircraft dur
ing the war. He stated that the
best authenticated speed attained by
a biplane is 178 miles an hour.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Mr. Editor: I understand from an
article in one of Saturday night's
papers, that the Health Commis
sioner of the State was annoyed
when he found his office full of
flics. Also, that he hopes to make
Harrisburg a model city. How can
Harrisburg be a model city or
escape the fly plague when the
garbage is collected only oficc a
week. My garbage cans are ejnptfed
on Monday, afteV- which they are
thoroughly cleaned with hot soapy
water. But by the next Monday
they are alive with vermin. I often
wonder how the collector can
handle the cans. The ashes in this
neighborhood were collected last
Thursday, the first time in three
weeks. The yards in this block run
down to a small street in which a
class of very clean people live. I
do pity them that when they sit-out
front they must face overflowing
ash boxes and foul smelling garbage
cans. Harrisburg boasts of her
miles of paved streets. Strangers
admire the streets, but what would
they say were they to go into the
back yards and see the result of
the miserable garbage collecting
system! Would it not be wiser to
pave less miles of street and collect
more garbage? Also some of the
city's money could be better spent
by putting it under the surface (in
stead of on top) by putting in
sewers sufficiently large to carry off
the water instead of allowing it to
flood the cellars every time there
is a rain a little heavier than usual
as is the case in this district.
Respectfully.
MRS. C, B,
blowers have been gradually sub- I
stituted and have revolutionized the j
art of making flat glass. All the i
larger cylinders, such as are illus- j
trated on pages 393 and 394, are !
machine blown.
In simple terms a machine blow- |
er is an apparatus which automa- I
tically dips a big pipe into a kettle |
of molten glass, and then gradually i
raises it, pulling all the molten
glass upward as the pipe rises. A
constant stream of air kept flow
ing in through the pipe causes the
glass to assume the form of a cylin
der. Dip a soda straw into a
thimbleful of molasses, and blow
through the straw as you lift it up j
from the molasses—that process j
would roughly duplicate the prin- j
ciple of the mechanical glass blower. I
It would be too long a story to |
tell in this article the processes of j
making all kinds of glass; but it
may be said that when the machine
for blowing bottles came into use
it changed the bottle industry as
much as the mechanical blower
changed the window-glass industry.
Machines have been invented for
blowing electric lamp bulbs also, i
but the hand blowers are still able
to produce a major portion of j
these.
When America went to war, there
was a dearth of opty-al glass in the |
country. Germany had a monopoly j
thereon; but Pennsylvania glass ex
perts and the United States Bureau
of Standards set to work on the
problem, and to-day this State is
making as good optical glass as is
to be found anywhere. Hereafter
America will see the world through
its own spectacles and not through
glass that comes from overseas.
One of the demands of the war
was for one-way glass.—glass that
is transparent from one side and
opaque from the other —being re
quired for range-finding and other
optical instruments. It is made by
silvering one side, so that it trans
mits exactly the same amount of ,
light that it reflects. There is a ]
possibility that such glass will ulti
mately be used in architecture.
With it the manager of a big busi
ness could have an office where he
could work in privacy and yet al
ways be able to see what was going
on'in the outer offices.
(To Be Continued)
I Fifteen Years For Recovery.
[A. R. Williams in New York Times]
Given fifteen years of peace, every
'nation now suffering from the great
j war will have recovered its money
losses and restored its material
j waste. The process of recuperation
I will be attended by enormous pros
perity and activity and intellectual
and commercial development and by
peril of moral and spiritual decad
ence. Ancient and modern history
force this prediction on attentive
students. The Salvation Army slogan
it,,* "A man may be down, but he's
never out." If we may judge from
the past, that is exactly true of
races, nations, countries, and cities.
When they have natural powers of
ptoduction or advantages of situa
tion, permanent destruction or ruin,
in the mass, is impossible. Man is
the most swiftly recuperative of ani
mals. From the beginning of his
mastery of the world he has been
smitten by flood, fire, tempest, earth
quake, war, pestilence, and famine.
As a whole and by political, racial,
and geographical divisions he has
not only thriven and increased
against them all, but has profited
from them and multiplied his power
over the forces of nature.
LABOR NOTES
The General Federation of Labor
intends to placard France with post
ers blazing forth its protest against
the League of Nations.
When the Government took over
the railroads, the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks had a membership
of only 19.000; now they have over
160,000 members.
An American egg preserving plant
with a capacity of 300,000 eggs daily
has been established in China.
Tne shoe manufacturing trade of
Germany was formerly the most im
portant in Europe. At the outbreak
of the war there were some 1500
factories In operation, employing over
50,000 skilled isorluiMiiit
TUNE 17, 1919.
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER SEVEN
AMONG the many freak things
I saw shells and bombs do in
France, said Major Frank C.
Mahirr, of tile Army Recruiting Of
fice, 325 Market street, Harrisburg,
"I think the queerest was In the
town of Dieulouard, a place of about
five thousand inhabitants, on the
Moselle river. Dieulouard, being
about five miles back from the front,
was shelled and bomed spasmodically
all through the war. The village
church was on an eminence and the
houses all aroun-d it were total
wrecks, but strange to say not a
shell had ever touched the church.
The town used to be frequently
bombed by night raiders, and what
was left by the shell fire was pretty
well smashed up by the bombs. Now
for the queer thing. The only aerial
bombs I ever saw which had failed
to explode were two in number, big
five hundred pound bombs, and both
of them had come down through the
roof of that church in Dieulouard.
There were two holes in the roof
and there were two bombs in the
church. Even before the armistice
people from far and near were com
ing to that church and undoubtedly,
in years to come, it will be a very
holy shrine.
"Interesting as the town was, it
was a most unpleasant place to so
journ. From time to time, some
times a minute or two apart, and
sometimes several hours apart, 9.5
inch shells used to land in the town
and blow up a little more. One eve
ning just before dark the main street
was thronged with soldiers, when a
French soldier accompained by a
war dog came down the street. Sud
denly the dog crouched absolutely
flat in the road. There wasn't a man
around who hadn't seen war dogs
do that before, so it wasn't two sec
onds until that street for five hun
dred yards in either direction was
filled with Doughboys, every one of
them just as flat on- the ground as
they could lie. Suddenly, 'WHOOSH'
came a 9.5 and the remains of a
house right alongside of that dog
went up in smoke and dust. Hun
dreds of heads raised up, hundreds
of pairs of eyes looked at the dog.
Mister Dog got up an ambled about
his business and then some hundreds
of Doughboys did likewise."
"Won't Sign"—"Can't Pag."
[Harvey's Weekly]
Germany, we have been told again
and again, will not sign the severe
terms of peace which the Allies have
prescribed. # Therefore those terms
must be mollified.
Germany, we have been told again
and again, can never pay the enor
mous indemnity which the Allies de
mand. Therefore that demand must
be abated.
Such is the unconvincing logic of
the gentle art of encouraging oppo.
sition.
For there is not the shadow of a
doubt of Germany's chief reason for
her parrot cry of "Won't Sign" and
"Can't pay." It is because the Al
lies themselves take it in good faith
and themselves re-echo it, and with
what should be incredible and im
possible folly purpose to act upon
it in accord with the German plaint.
Of course they won't sign, and
they will pretend that they can't
pay, just so long as the Allies are
willing to listen to their whining and
to abate their demands in accord
ance with it. '
We cannot remember that when
Germany was bleeding Belgian cit
ies to the extent of millions of dol
lars, they ever took into considera
tion the question whether it would
be convenient or possible for their
victims to pay. We do not recall
that in a single place they said,
"Well, if you can't pay so much, we
will lessen our demand." On the
contrary, in every case it was "Pay;
or be shot and have your town
burned!"
We would not have the Allies fol
low that example. We would not
place civilized men on the plane of
Blond Beasts. But we do believe
that of every threat of "We won't
sign!" had been met with "Tou
shall sign!" and every lying plaint
"We can't pay!" with "Tou must and
shall pay, or take the consequences!"
there would have been mighty lit
tle such talk from the Huns. But
when the Allies yield as they have
been doing, and show such readiness
to adapt their terms to the pleasure
of the enemy, the Huns would be in
credible fools If they did not persist
In their clamor.
Etentttg (Ctjat
George Whitefleld, the colonial
evangelist to whoso memory a sta
tue was unveiled on tho campus of
the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia a day or so ago, was
the man to hold a revival here. It
can hardly be said that he was the
first man to hold services on the
ground where Harrisburg now
stands because some of the devoted
clergymen who ministered to the
congregations of Derry, Conewago
and Paxton undoubtedly came to
The Ferry" for services in the
homes of its residents. But there
is a well authenticated story of the
\isit of Whiteticld, which came
ln Harris family and was
told by the late George Washington
Harris, whoso memoirs form the
basis of much interesting local his
tory and upon which several better
known authors have builded. Mr
Harris said that George Whitefield
made a tour of the Susquehanna
valley, the Cumberland Valley and
in fact all the territory between our
ri\or and the Delaware at Easton,
including Lancaster, Heading and
other early settlements. He made
John Harris' home his headquarters
for this section and is stated to have
"repeatedly preached to the people
here and they flocked from many
quarters to hear him." These ser
mons were d&livcred along the river
front, probably in what wo know as
Harris Park which was the main
place of the settlement. Whitefield
is said to have been here about 1741
or 174 2 and one story that has been
written into local histories a couple
of times says "So great was the
fascination of his eloquence that
many of the people neglected the
cultivation of their farms and their
fields were left unsown. John
Harris remonstrated with them but
ineffectually. The consequences of
their improvidence were likely to
prove serious since not a few at the
end of the season found themselves
in want. Seeing their destitute
condition Mr. Harris sent a quantity
of grain to the nearest mill and
gave directions that meal should be
furnished to any of his poor neigh
bors who might apply for it. Thus
were the families of those who had
not listened to the prudent counsel
of Mr. Harris saved from distress
by his liberal kindness." It is well
established that Whitefleld did much
to help Harris in his efforts to make
his settlement, which was little more
than a trading hamlet, a law abid
ing community. Life was pretty
strenuous in this section in those
days with the Indians and rum
both abundant and the settler prob
ably had the evangelist more than
once as his guest on his travels
through early Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg has won an important
place in the history of Pennsylvania
as a ccntbr of political activity and
its stockade was a bulwark of the
colonists in the French and Indian
War and a center of supplies for
Washington's army in the darkest
hour of the Revolution, a recruiting
ground for the bold spirits of An
thony Wayne and a contributor of
men and money and food for Sulli
van's punitive expedition. But the
average man conversant with its
stirring early history probably does
not know that it was one of the
places tired by the zeal of the early
preacher and really possesses a re
ligious history filled with many an
incident that should be known to
the thousands of church goers of
to-day.
• • •
According to the rivermen there
have been numerous changes made
in the bed of the Susquehanna by
the freshets this spring. In some
places grass plots and bars have
been cut clean away and in more
than one locality where it was
planned to do some dredging for
profit this spring the scouts have
discovered the cross currents of the
river have cut down the sand to
the bed rock. In other places bars
have been formed, some of them
at odd angles. In one place sand
formed in a huge triangle behind a
comparatively small rock and one
place where there is a reef for
100 feet there is hardly any sand
at all, but pockets of coal were
discovered. The river has estab
lished several new grass patches be
tween Riverside and Steelton, while
some of the old islets have all but
disappeared as a result of the wash
of the stream.
• •
"It may be aggravating now but
late this summer when people are
able to ride without being lost in
dust they will appreciate what we
are doing now," said George H.
Biles, assistant state highway com
missioner, in discussing the opera
tions on the Cumberland Valley,
William Penn and Dauphin-Clark's
ferry roads.
* • •
One ca'n always tell when an air
plane is speeding oyer the city on
one of the mail trips or practicing
a few stunts on orders from the Mid
dletown army reserve depot by the
tooting of the whistles on the river
craft. The men on the steamers
and sand dredges get to see the
; planes before anyone else especially
as the cross-slate fliers follow tho
1 river and they begin shrieking with
! their whistles. Almost every morn
ing one of the fliers is to be seen
1 going up the Susquehanna with the
' whistles as a salute.
• • •
L The Legislature seems to have lost
none tif its popular interest in spite
' of its prolonged stay in our midst
• and there is scarcely a day that a
delegation of pupils from schools, a
L touring party of teachers or some
" people here on automobile trips do
1 not fill the galleries.
' [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE !
I
—The Rev. T*. W. Seit, prominent
I Allentown minister, has taken a
t charge at Groensburg.
, —F. W. Connor, long connected
I with the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Pittsburgh, has been put in charge
of the agency of the Pennsylvania
, there.
' —A. C. Troutman, of Butler, is
one of the new trustees of Wash
ington and Jefferson college.
' —Congressman M. Clyde Kelly Is
' out with a statement that the Ger
mans should'be mado to pay all its
' costs to restore France.
—Mgr. A. F. Kfiul. well known
s here, will celebrate fifty years in
5 the priesthood at Lancaster this
: week.
l —William A. Law.
banker, says that there are big
- chances for American financiers in
t the European field now.
f
f [ DO YQU KNOW [
| _Tliat Tlarrisbnrg steel Is being
used to manufacture car parts?
, HISTORIC HARRISBURG
? —Conrad Weiser once said that
; John Harris has the best ford on
- the Susquehanna. Weiser was In
t terested ln the Middletown ferry
Xord.