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LAUDS SERVICE
OF Y. M. C. A. TO
YANKSOVERSEA
tWas Money Well Spent, Says
\ Moderator of Presbyter
ian Assembly
Pittsburgh, June 20. The service
Tendered by the Young Men's Chris
tian Association to American soldiers
overseas is characterized as "one of
the most wonderful things of the
war" by Dr. Maitland Alexander,
formerly moderator of the Presby
terian General Assembly. Dr. Alex
ander recently returned from Prance
after serving one year as director
of religious work both in American
cantonments and with the Army of
Occupation.
"In my opinion the money given to
the Y. M. C. A., to carry on the war
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work of the association was money
w ell spent," Dr. Alexander said.
Dr. Alexander, in his review of "Y"
war work,, says that the organisa
tion provided enough baseball equip
ment for American soldiers overseas
to supply both tne National and
American Leagues for 100 years, one
item alone being 2,250,000 baseballs.
Foch Has Big Army
Ready to Advance if
Germans Do Not Sign
Coblenz, Wednesday, June 18.—
The concentration of American, Brit
ish, French and Belgian troops be
gun by order of Marshal Koch, pre
paratory to advancing further into
Germany, will be completed Saturday
when several hundred thousand
Alied soldiers will stand ready to
march toward Berlin if the Germans
do not sign the Peace Treaty.
Berlin, June 20, Via Copenhagen.
—The German National Assembly
will make its final decision on the
Peace Treaty Saturday, according to
private advices received here from
Weimar. In all probability, it is
said, the assembly will decide to or
der that a plebiscite be taken.
DECLARES MOST
DOCTORS OVERSEA
MEDICALLY UNFIT
Army Surgeon Makes Plea
For Higher Plane in
Medical Colleges
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, June 20.—The b'ulk
of the young doctors who went over
seas with the American Army were
medically and surgically inefficient.
Colonel Pearce Bailey, of New York,
an army surgeon, declared in an ad
dress before the American Medico-
Psychological Association here to
day.
"It is a fact," said Colonel
Bailey, "that not six out of a hun- i
dred doctors sent to France could
perform a decent surgical operation.
This is surely an argument for the
better education of our physicians :
and the raising of standards in our
medical colleges." '
Criticism was made of the over
crowded conditions on the transports
bringing home troops by Colonel
Thomas W. S. Salmon, U. S. M. C.,
who said that many shell-shocked
men, apparently recovered, suffered
relapses because of the overcrowd
ing.
Treatment of nervous and mental
diseases, so prevalent among the sol
diers of the American armies in the
form of shellshock or nervous break
down, must not stop now that the
war is over, said Dr. Tom A. Wil
liams, of Washington. "Valuable
lessons, which we have learned in
the treatment of cases among the
soldiers must be advanced and ap
plied to the still greater army at
home —the army of industry," he
declared. "Psychiatrists must work
among the men and women of the
country, who are engaged in indus
try, whether it be manual or intel
lectual. The need here Is just as
great as it was during the war, and
there is nothing else which will so
help to build up the national
morale."
Dr. Henry C. Eyman, of Massilon,
Ohio, was elected president, and Dr.
H. W. Mitchell, Warren, Pa., secre
tary-treasurer.
GROWTH OF CITY IS
TOLD OF BY FRIEND
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turn decorated with an occasional
bowknot of tfh cans and other rub
bish.
"The main thoroughfare—Market
street—on that unforgetable Fourth
of July was deserted except for a
few groups of young fellows and
girls, the latter dressed in white,
carrying baskets containing ma
terials for a picnic. The busy square
was a market place, empty and de
serted.
"The courthouse, with its colonial
suggestion, was the most Imposing
building in the town next to the
squat brown structure on the hill
with Karnak-like columns known as
the Capitol.
"Some kindly soul informed me
that the only amusement was a pic
nic 'on the island.' I was rowed
over in a skiff, stayed an hour or
two watching some girls and young
fellows dancing, returned to the
town and spent the remainder of
that disconsolate and disappointing
day around the Pennsylvania station
down in the hollow waiting for a
train home.
<(T 'VE often wondered eince
I where the Harrisburg of 1873
kept its fire horses! Possibly
it hadn't gotten beyond the man
power and the buck brigado'etage!
"Twelve years later when I made
my first entry into Harrisburg as a
legislative correspondent, I discov
ered that they then kept the fire
horses at pasture somewhere out on
Third street, now a populous region
of pretty homes. In those days fires
were infrequent and the volunteer
department was email..
"There was one engine company,
down on Chestnut street, I think,
that pastured its horses between
fires. It was cheaper to pasture
them than to pen them up and feed
them in the firehouee.
"When an alarm was sounded
two volunteers would leap on a spare
horse, bareback, and go clattering
and smashing out to the pasture.
"Ten minutes later they would
return on a dead gallop, one on each
horse, with an escort of yapping
dogs and shouting urchins in the
rear, while crowds lined the street
and hung from the windows watch
ing the fire conquering heroes come.
"It was a great day in Israel for
the Harrisburg populace when the
fire tocsin called the horses home
from pasture.
( iTT ARRISBURG had the finest
J - 1 farmers' market in central
Pennsylvania thirty years
ago. Two or three times a week
Market square, now the throbbing
heart of this wonder city, was
abloom with masses of old-fashion
"ed flowers and redolent of the earthy
fragrance of early fruits and vege
tables beyond compare.
"Rolls of butter in white cloths;
smear case—it's cottage cheese now,
smear case is vulgar—Dutch cheese
in little 'pats,' and saucer cheese
flanked by gallon crocks of apple
butter; split baskets of dried apples
—apple snits—with now and then a
jar of golden honey strained, or it
might be honey in the comb, were
set out in lavish array.
"The market opened at daylight
with the dew still on the flowers.
The odor of it all, suggestive of the
wide river-fields and glorious sun
shine of old Dauphin, is in my nos.
trils yet Never was there such a
market.
"As for the farmers, they were
mostly Pennsylvania Dutch; Men
nonites, men in their broad-brimmed
hats, and their women in queer lit
tle black poke bonnets; River
Brethren, Amish and Dunkards
were mixed up with a liberal sprink
ling of the desc3ndants of the
Scotch-Irish of the post-revolution
ary period.
6(T> UT the farmers' market of
|~| Market square disappeared
long years ago. Its existence
is a legend to the present genera
tion.
"In its stead downtown Harris
burg finds a substitute within the
walls of a huge double brick struc
ture on Chestnut street. At 6 o'clock
one morning last week I found the
plain, thrifty, early-rising citizens,
converging toward it as a matutinal
center of attraction, basket on arm,
I followed th'e crowd.
"It was an interesting and busy
scene at that hour. There was the
same questioning as to prices and
the character of the fruit. It was a
bigger market than the old alfresco
affair in Market square; there was
greater variety in the display of food
and a vastly wider difference in the
sellers thereof.
"There were products on sale that
were never heard of in the old mar
ket. Spaghetti and Camembert
cheese; Florida oranges and Canta
loupes from Texas; Spanish mack
erel and California lettuce, and all
the other exotic luxuries of sea and
soil.
"Instead of the quaint caps of the
Mennonite women were bare-headed
Greek and Italian goddesses in cal
ico. One looked in vain for the
square cut- whiskers and* clean
shaven upppr lip of the River Breth
ren, the butter bowl hair cut of the
Amish. Now and then I overheard a
bit of conversation in Pennsylvania
Dutch, but modern English, with
now and then the accent and grace
ful gesture of the Italian, prevailed.
"By these tokens I knew the old
Harrisburg had passed away.
years since the ma
il gician of twentieth-century
progress touched the mu
nicipal pride of the capital city and
wakened it to a new and radiant ex
istence. The transformation has
been proceeding each year with ac
celerated impulse.
"The cobble-stream water's edge
and the clayey banks of the Susque
hanna have disappeared. In their
stead is a magnificent revetment, or
river wall, that holds suggestions of
Venice near the Arsenal. Above and
behind it is a boulevard whose
stately trees, minus the bordering
residences, recalls the ancient Toltee
Highway of Tula in the heart of old
Mexico.
"This Riverside Drive, with its
gray retaining wall, is the most
beautiful and imposing work of its
kind in the United States.
"A few blocks in the center of the
city hold the only memories that
now remain of Harrisburg as a
three-story-red-brick country town.
"Up and down the river and back
over the hills are stately homes and
well-kept avenues, while the trolley's
fingers of steel reach out in all di
rections to fetch and carry their tens
of thousands.
"Everywhere one stands in the
presence of great municipal enter
prises; schools, bridges, viaducts,
parks and boulevards. They are the
hall-mark of the intelligent discrim
inating, art-loving spirit of the peo
ple.
"But to appreciate this wonder
ful advancement one- must have
known the city and watched it grow
as I have run the gamut of progres
sive change, and the graceful pro
cess of its transformation.
"Great j* Harriaburg, the City
Beautiful!!"
GYPSY SEER _
GETS WEALTHY
BANKER'S PURSE
Chambersburg, Pa., June 20.
A woman with a band of auto
mobile gypsies entered the of
fice of Col. George H. Stewart,
Shippensburg, president of the
Valley National Bank, this
place, and owner of more than
100 farms, and importuned him
to peer into the future.
He got rid of her, but found
his empty purse in his hip pock
et, which had contained over
$lOO. Police and Col. Stewart
followed the banu.
The woman gave up $55 and
was allowed to go.
NEW YORK GUARD
ANSWERS CALL TO
PROTECTTHECITY
Ten Regiments Out in Test;
Must Not Leave City Until
After Fourth of July
New York, June 20. —Ten regi
ments of the New York State Guard
demonstrated last night what they
could do to protect the city. They
answered a test mobilization call and
.quickly threw cordons of armed
guards about public buildings, power
houses, car barns, public utilities and
the homes of prominent citizens.
Automobile trucks filled with
armed men, dashed from armories
to spots theoretically held to be in
danger, and the Guardsmen carried
out the practice drill grimly. Am
munition was issued to the men, and
newspaper reporters were barred !
from all armories.
mobjUzed. 10 000 in aU were j
V hen the soldiers returned to
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their armories it was reported amonS
them that no man was to leave the
city until after July 4 unless by spe
cial permission of his commanding
officer.
Band at-Camp Dix Gives
Concert From Airplanes
Camp Dix, N. J., June 20.
Distinction of being the first Army
band to attempt an aerial concert
went to the musicians of Colonel
blmonds' Fiftieth Infantry, the
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permanent garrison of Camp Dlx,
yesterday, when through arrange
ment with Army aviators recruiting
here for the air service, first num
bers were rendered in a novel pro
gram.
The program will be given in solo,
duet and trio parts, but Band Leader
Coe, after the success of the first
performance, said the bandsmen
would never be satisfied until suffi
cient planes were available to carry
them all up for a full sixty-piece
i?oncert in the clouds.
The camp got its first inkling of
this unique entertainment plan
when it heard cornet notes coming
from the sky. Bandman Chester
: Baldwin, of lowa, flying a thou
sand feet above the camp, played
"There Is Music in the Air." Other
numbers followed.
"The only way to get the real
dope on Jess Willard is to read
his "Own Story," in "The Phila
delphia Press,"