12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 ■' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telccraph Building, Federal Sgnare E. J. STACKPOLE Pretident and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard J. P, McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub lsned herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub- AssocU- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvwrda^Associa- of c e Avenue Building, Western office'. I Chicago, Ilk K Entered at the Post OfTlce In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. . mfTTgjr-. carrier, ten cents a rrfamfi.' I '' ■..&.> week: by mail, 13.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1919 It is always safe to learn even from our enemies— seldom safe to instruct; even our friends. —Col ton. COMMUNITY SERVICE THE WAR Camp Community Service is doing a quiet but ef fective work in this city, arous ing the interest of citizens and groups of citizens in each other and in the activities of the municipality. Foi illustration, there is the colored chorus of 1,000 voices which will sing at Island Park Thursday even ing for the benefit of the public. The negro voice lends itself to chorus work in a most effective way. It is far richer in tone than the singing voice of any other race and in the rendition of the classic airs and songs of the old South, as the pro gram for the "community sing" pro vides. it will be heard to rare ad vantage Thursday evening. But, merit aside, it is well worth while to bring a thousand people together at any time to act in unison. Many new acquaintances are thus formed, acquaintanceship begets friendship and friendship promotes trust in one's fellows and happiness, and these twain in turn make for better citizenship. Community spirit thus aroused is back of every local Improvement in living conditions. Community spirit is only another name for patriotism. We have not given the War Camp Community Service the credit it deserves. At great effort and expense it is de veloping in Harrisburg an intangible something that in years to come will be of inestimable vajue in the growth and development of the city. MANY SUCH THE bequest of $4,300 lo the Church of God by Miss Jane Long is only another illustra tion of the manner in which the moneys of private estates may be di verted to public and semi-public or ganizations and projects if only the Interest of the individual can be aroused. There are many persons who would like to remember the community in which they made their money with bequests in their wills if they only knew how to go about it. A foundation such as the Tele graph has suggested for Harrisburg would provide the connecting link. THE SUFFRAGE VICTORY WHAT Mr. Dooley forecasted for the United States has happened in Pennsylvania. Said he, "Whin a sufficient number of wimin whant to vote, why they'll find a way to vote, and the divil himsHf won't stop thim." A sufficient number of women in Pennsylvania demonstrated lo the Legislature that they desired the voting privilege, and they have re ceived it; or rather, they will, when it becomes apparent that a majority of the women of other States also desire the privilege, through the ratification of the suffrage amend ment by two-thirds of the Legisla tures. The suffrago sentiment lias been developing in Pennsylvania for a long period. With the excoption of pro hibition it has been discussed more thoroughly and has been the subject of more controversy than any other reform in, the history of the Com monwealth. Its enactment is the re sult, therefore, of the sober judgment of the voters of the State through their accredited representatives. Gov ernor Sproul saw clearly the trend of opinion when in declarations pre vious to his election, and afterward in his inaugural address, he pledged the movement his support. The ac tion of the Legislature yesterday was not unexpected, but nevertheless the suffragists were justly entitled to the celebration in which they in dulged. The factional split in the suffrage ranks is an indication as to what may follow an attempt to organize a a Woman's Party in Pennsylvania. There is no excuse for such an or ganization in this or any other State. As well organize a Man's WEDNESDAY EVENING, Party and expect all men or even a majority of men to Join It The place of women voters In the political life of the State or nation Is on the side of right and justice, wherever that may be found, and not within the narrow confines of a "Woman's Party," which will get nowhere and will serve no good purpose. Nor will the voting privilege ex tended to women work any imme diate great reforms. It has not in the States that have given women the right of suffrage and it is not likely to do so in Pennsylvania. It is right and proper that women should vote, if they so desire, and it appears that they do, but the influence of their participation in elections will be felt more as the years go by than at once. In the long run universal suffrago is bound to be beneficial, because in the first place it is a matter of justice and secondly it is sound democracy. THE GOVERNOR IS RIGHT G' OVERNOR SPROUT, has taken an unassailable position with respect to the Ramsey bill, the provisions of which are to permit the marketing of beers in Pennsyl vania that in alcohol content would defeat the purpose of the national prohibition amendment. In the first place, such a bill, if en forced, would render inoperative to a considerable degree the "bone-dry" provisions which were in the minds of the people when prohibition was enacted. It would break both the spirit and the letter of the Federal mandate. But there are other reasons why there should be no more liquor leg islation at this session. The prohibi tion decree is national in its scope and no State should attempt to set up laws until it is known what Con gress will do with respect to the limitation of alcoholic content, pen alties for violation, etc. After that the Federal laws may bo supplement ed by State statutes framed in ac cord with national provisions and carefully constructed so as to avoid technical disputes as to jurisdiction, legal requirements and the like. State laws should be designed merely to strengthen the hand of the Federal authorities and any attempt to regu late the sale of drinks containing al cohol, in advance of Congressional action, would be not only futile, but confusing, and that is precisely the intent of the Ramsey bill which the Governor has determined to veto. In this respect it is gratifying to note that Senator Frank A. Smith, of this county, was among those who cast their votes against the measi.re. COLD STORAGE HOLDINGS IN 1912, when our quack Demo crats were howling about the high ccst of living, next to the tariff, they blamed the cold storage plants for food aviation, and they assured the public that this was go ing to be properly regulated. A recent survey of the United States Bureau of Markets shows that on June 1 of this year cold storage holdings included nearly 111,000,000 pounds of poultry; 22,164,000 pounds of cheese of various kinds, over half of it American; 30,156,000 pounds of butter; nearly 6,000,000 cases of eggs and 11,310,000 pounds of frozen eggs. This does not include the enor mous holdings of canned meats, bacon, vegetables, soups, fruits, etc., held on account of the Federal Gov ernment, the sale of which to the public, from whose pockehs came the money to purchase them, is now being urged by Republicans in Con gress. A chicken to-day costs more in the market than a bird of para dise would bring on a lady's hat, cheese is more regal than amber gris ami the nuggets of to-day are the eggs of yesteryear. No gold leaf was ever spread thin ner than is the small boy's slice of bread so faintly dabbed with butter. The high cost of food is reducing the American people to a peasantry, and "praties and point" are not far off. And this under an administra tion pledged to lower living costs. But the quack Democrats see no way out, so the Republicans must solve the problem. The man who does most to solve it should have a statue erected to his memory and it might appropriately be called "Liver and Bacon Enlivening the World." FALSE PREMISES THE recent speech of Senator Walsh, of Montana, in support of the League of Nations, de votes considerable space to the fact that the United States guarantees to protect Panama, and thereby the Canal Zone, and that is cited as a precedent for the guarantee of this country, under the League of Na tions, to protect all other countries; while Senator Williams, of Missis sippi, who is opposed to woman suf frage being extended to colored wemeni, but who champions the league covenant, which would permit colored and backward nations to vote on international questions af fecting our sovereignty, calls atten tion to our guarantee of Cuban in dependence, and cites that as a precedent. But these two Senators reason from false premises. There is a wide distinction between these two in stances and the league proposal. The United States delegated neither to Panama nor to Cuba the right to decide what action we should take in protecting them, nor the right to declare war for the United States. We adhered to the right to decide those matters for ourselves. Under the League of Nations an at tempt is made to wrest from us that right by inducing us to delegate to the league all power of decisions with respect to territorial guaran tees and our actions thereunder. i The guarantees to Panama and Cuba were the logical outgrowths of the Monroe Doctrine. There Is a vast difference between them and the league proposals, however viewed. J—— ———| folcttca- Lk "PtiiKOiftoaiua By the Kx-Committeeman P Governors are always big figures in the political talk when a legisla tive session is drawing to a closo, but Governor William C. Sproul oc cupied a larger place in the eyes of men who follow politics, and many who do not, than ordinarily falls to the lot of a State executive at this period of an administration. The Governor is mote potential now than he has been at any time since he lias been Governor in spite of all that was said during the considera tion of the Philadelphia charter bill and in connection with various other much discussed measures. This condition is due to two causes. The first is that he is the man given credit by every one for putting through ratification of the woman Huff rage amendment. TIV) Governor found big Republican leaders opposed to it and made pos sible ratification by insistence when some people thought he would not make much of an effort. The second is that he has defied the liquor pow ers and announced that he will not sign the Ramsey bill. This has placed him four square on his primary declaration for prohibition. He holds that it is a matter for national reg ulation, not for states. Among the every day man and woman who make up the bulk of the population these are the two subjects most talked of and they are more far more important than char ter bills, sedition biiis, borough bills, salary bills, even appropriation and revenue bills. —An analysis of the vote in the House on suffrage yesterday, the vote that ratified the amendment, is interesting. There are now owing to three deaths, 2f>4 members of the General Assembly. Of the total num ber, 234 voted on the suffrage ques tion, 184 for it and SO against. This is the largest opposition in any Skate, which has ratified. Of the Pennsylvania opponents, 30 are Re publicans and 14 are Democrats. In the House the Democrats cast 12 of the opposing votes, and the Re publicans 32. Allegheny contributed 10 of the negative Republican votes and Philadelphia seven, while Alle gheny gave t*e resolution 13 votes and Philadelphia 34. —Concerning the passage of the Ramsey bill designating anything containing over two and three fourths per cent, of alcohol an intoxicant the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, prob ably the most consistent fighter against liquor legislation in the State, says: "Liquor won an empty victory in the Senate to-day when the Ramsey 2.73 per cent, alcohol content beer bill was passed by a vote of 29 to 19. Following its pas sage Governor William C. Sproul an nounced: 'T will veto the hill.' "The action of the Senate on this legislation simply piles up trouble for a number of the Senators who voted to put it across in the face of the protest of the Governor read to the Senate. When they come before their constituents explanations will he in order. The only excuse to be made is that the liqour interests forced the carrying out of promises which were made in secret along about the time some of these states men were endeavoring to get enough votes to entitle them to sit in the Senate. The liquor interests knew the bill would be vetoed, hut they insisted upon the Republican organ ization forces passing the measure." —lt is very evident that notwith standing the fart that nothing about Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal mer's presidential ambitions was said at the Seranton dinner the Ron niwell faction does not Intend to abate one particle in its effort to de stroy his influence in the next Demo cratic delegation from the Keystone State. The star! was made at the time Bonniwell was being honored and the sleuths of the national com mitteeman and Attorney General are being followed about by Democrats experienced in factional warfare who are trying lo upset everything that has been set up. Indications are that there will be a beautiful Democratic row about the time the time the Legislature breaks up and that it will last one year from date. —Two members of the Senate, Senator Heaton, of Schuylkill, and Senator Beales, of Adams, were happy last night when given the op portunity of voting for the confirma tion of Former Congressman Tem pleton as superintendent of grounds and buildings. Both served with Templeton at Washington and they belonged lo the same "set" at the National Capitol. —Amid much-confusion caused by members throwing paper and "guy ing" those who wished to speak, the House passed finally the Senate bill regulating marking of ballots when there are more than one candidates to be chosen such as Congress at Large. The bill was amended by providing that when a voter goes out of the party square he must mark each candidate in the group. Mr. Glass, Philadelphia, objected to it, but the House became so disorderly that he had trouble being heard and Speaker Pro Tern Cox was forced to appeal to members to be quiet. Fi nally the session was suspended un til the paper battles ended. Mr. Glass gave it up and the roll was called in the midst of much noise. The bill passed 124 to 47. It went to the Senate for concurrence. —Two bills providing for changes in the laws governing filing of nomi nation papers were passed without debate at the afternoon session of the House and sent to the Governor. One provides that nominating peti tions must be tiled with the Secre tary of the Commonwealth sixty days before the primary and objec tions fifty days before and that those filed with county commissioners must he filed twenty-eight days be fore the primary and objections twenty-five days before. The other bill is a repealer of conflicting pro visions. Supremacy Here [Krom the New York Sun] Tt may be that the glory of a gen eral merchant marine on the Seven Seas must be for this country a dream which never can return. But between this Republic of North America and the republics of South America we can and must maintain a supremacy over all other sea pow ers. Chairman Hurley has his mind fixed on this great and necessary project. There is no question that with the proper government backing he can put our Scuth American fleet ahead of all the other fleets that sail the sea. There is no question that the American people who still thrill the memories of our maritime glories of the past will gladly foot the bills. HAHRBBURO TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUIPt T- ~ s By BRIGGS 1 AN JANUARY) AFTER YOOVE - /FEBRL>ARY) - AND HAV/E HAD (MARCH) —AMD YOU'RE HAD PLOVUED THROUGH .SFUOUJ AMD L To SPEAW PIECES AT T H E To WRESICE OVCR TERRIBLS COLD LUEAT-HSR PAY AFTeq FRIDAY AFTERNOON "EXERCISES eXAMPLES INI ARITHMETIC DAY TO GO TO <SC*OOL. AT HOME ||| l f APRIL) -AND STAY AFTER (MAV-)-AMD T O U GET OWE (JUNC) -AND THEN THE LAST DAY SCHOOL AN.D TAHE HARD ATTACK OF SPR-NG H M —H• BOY• OLD EXAMS 'NEUERTHIMG P E^ EFT 0 J)O AIN'T IT The Eclipse of the Sun [Prom the Erie Dispatch] Captain Goode in "King Solo mon's Mines" is the only man on record who got any immediate gain out of an eclipse of the sun. His pocket diary reminded him that it was due, and enabled him very con veniently to pose as a magician in the eyes of the savages who threat ened tha lives of his party. Most of us, seeing no way to turn eclipses to present advantage, leave them to the care of the physicist and the astrologer. The total eclipse pre dicted for this week in certain parts of the tropics may, however, have a practical bearing on our everyday affairs. It is well known that wireless messages can be sent farther by night than by day, and that the effective range of wireless is least in the tropics, where the power of the sun is greatest. To ex plain this the theory is put -for ward that sunlight disarranges the positive and negative particles in the gaseous molecules of the air, so that they offer an increased resist ance to the passage of wireless waves. The theory will now be test ed, for British and American wire less stations, have agreed to send messages across the area'over which the moon's shadow will pass. By noting the varying strengths with which these signals are received at different periods of the eclipse it is hoped to obtain definite data as to the effect of sunlight on the waves, a result that would be of the first value to further progress in this branch of science. A matter much more profund will also be investi gated in the course of the eclipse— nothing less than the existence of the ether, that tremendous assump tion on which the whole of our progress in the study of light has been built up. The older scientists postulated ethers by the score, and Clerk Maxwell complained that "all space had been filled three or four times over" with them. Thdre was an ether for the planets to swim in, another to afford electrical atmos pheres, another to convey sensations between different parts of the body, and so on. The sober-minded spec ulators of the eighteenth century re volted agninst this convenient and demoralizing habit of ether-making, and the only ether that survived to the time of Faraday, Kelvin, and Clerk Maxwell was that invented to explain the propagation of light. In recent years American investigation has sought to deny even this, and to maintain that light is acted upon bv gravitation, which is more than Newton ever claimed. No More Flowers For Heine PFrom the Continental Edition of the London Mail] One wonders who were the per sons who before the war daily left their visiting cards on the tomb of the poet Heinrich Heine? And what can have become of them? Are they perhaps in concentration camps? At all events, the tomb knows them no more. No sign of friendly visits is to-day to be seen on the beautiful white marble mon ument in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. It is noticeable that no word of French appears on this tomb, though the stone Is covered with deep cut quotations from the poet's works in their original German. Neglected, too, Imt not wholly for gotten, is the tomb of "La Dame anx Camelias," whose real name was Al phonsine Plessis. A few sprays of lilies of the valley are dying in a jar beneath the wreath of porcelain camellias that marks the stone. Formerly a woman went there every day in the year to brush and tend this tomb. It is many months now since she was last seen to pass through the gate, and the monument to the heroine of the younger Dumas will soon be covered with moss and mold. Wilson Made Mistake—Bryan Before a large audience at Wash ington, D. C., William J. Bryan, former Secretary of State, expressed the belief that President Wilson's recommendation for the repeal of the wartime prohibition act so far as it related to beer and wines was a mistake. He opined the Presi dent would not have taken this step had he been in this country and in closer touch with conditions. Mr. Bryan has evidently not read what President Wilson said before his first departure for Europe six months ago. The President said: "I shall be in close touch with you and with affairs on this side of the water and you will know all that I do. I shall not be inaccessible. The cables and the wireless will render me available for any counsel or ser vice you may desireaof me, and I shall be happy in the thought that I am constantly in touch with the ■ weighty matters of domestic policy with which we have to deal." NOW FOR THE IMMORTALS [From the Washington Star.] WHAT great figures of the war with Germany will be found qualified for a place in the group of military immortals whose triangles, squares and circles of the national capital and shall we at tempt to perpetuate their memory in the same manner as we have that of Washington, Lafayette, John Paul Jones, Barry, Dupont, Jackson, Rochambeau, Pulaski, Von Steuben, Kosciuszko, or the Civil War com manders, such as Grant, Sherman, Farragut, McPlierson, Thomas, Han cock, Meade and MeClellan? These questions already are oc cupying the serious attention of ar tists and architects, and with the return of the victorious troops war memorials are being prepared on a scale not approached within the last fifty years. The national commis sion of line arts has now undertaken to direct this movement, so that the result may be a credit to American taste and skill, especially in this city, where the wave of patriotic feeling naturally will be manifested. Fifty-three Memorials in I). C. Washington now has forty-four memorials, in one form or another, outside of Statuary Hall, and nine more are in process of erection. Heroes of every war except the Spanish-American conflict, are scat tered about the city, and this omis sion will be remedied in the pro posed monument to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Pennsylvania avenue, from tbe Capitol to Washington Circle, is al ready occupied, five groups fill La fayette Square to overflowing, and the question of new monuments suggests itself. The most promis ing site is Potomac Park, now oc cupied only by the Washington Monument, the Lincoln memorial and the statue of John Paul Jones. So long ago as tbe summer of 1917 Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, foresaw the situation and in addressing the annual convention of the American Federation of Arts at that time he said : "The magnitude of the present struggle and the large part which the United States will necessarily play in the world-wide ordeal of battle makes it certain that there will come from it hero-leaders to be commemorated by a grateful people. Let us save some good places for them and let us trust that they may find artists worthy to keep alive the memory of their deeds." Would Wait Fifteen Years Discussing this! same topic re cently, Mr. Moore said he did not took for a rush to erect monuments to military heroes, such as that which Civil War, as modern warfare Northcliffe and Ilis Mother [Mac F. Marcosson in the Satur day Evening Post.] If you want to get a real glimpse into the character of a man, be. he famous or otherwise, find out his relations with his mother. Between Northcliffe and Sir James M. Barrie exists a peculiar kinship. It is not based entirely on mutual admira tion. The historian of Thrums never did anything finer in all his writing career than the life of his mother, Margaret Ogilvy. It is perhaps the only time that a mother's biography has been written by h?r son. Northcliffe has written no life of his mother, but his adoration for this splendid old woman, Mrs. Harms worth, who at 84, ift as much inter ested in her son's activities as when he started, is a beautiful thing. Every day that he is in England he calls her up on the telephone. When he is out of England he sends her a telegram. The daily message from her first born—he is the oldest of fourteen children—is as much a part of her life is food. Mrs. Harmsworth lives at Totter edge, which is not far front London. Northcliffe makes it a point to spend one night every week with her. She has so many sons that she can have one with- her every day. Why Not Greece? [From the New York Times] There is likely to be quite general agreement with Mr. Penfleld's view that America has no call to take over the Straits. He fears that the mandate for Constantinople will be unduly involved with the collection of the Turkish debt, and that is a matter in which America has no concern. Britain, France, Italy and Greece are the four nations most in terested, and Mr. Venizelos and his colleagues have sufficient resources of statesmanship to shoulder what is peculiarly a European responsi bility- did not give opportunity for individ ual distinction. "It would be better if no memo rials were erected until fifteen years after the close of the war," said Mr. Moore. "By that time the Na tion will have begun to get a per j spective of the war and history will I have passed unbiased judgment on i the men who took part in it. "The Washington Monument, I most impressive of all our memorial | structures, was not completed until I the first President had been dead I more than seventy-five years. The [ great Lincoln memorial is not yet finished and Lincoln has been in his grave more than half a century. The ! same is true in the case of John I Paul Jones, Admiral Barry and I others. "No statue or other memorial should be erected in Washington unless it is a distinct contribution to the adornment of the city. Memo rials on public grounds should be erected confined to persons who have rendered conspicuous service to the Nation, and a permanent board of historians should pass up on qualifications for sculptural im mortality." Fountains. Bridges. Gates. Better Not only the Fine Arts Commis sion, hut other organizations of ar j lists in Now York Chicago and else- i ! where are using their best efforts | I to dissuade public commissions and | I patriotic individuals from putting up | I bronze or marble statues and to j | erect instead, memorial fountain, i buildings, bridges, flagstaffs, gate ways or tablets. Because of tbe temperate climate i artists agree that fountains make j | particularly appropriate memorials | in Washington, and several notable | examples of this are already in evi dence. Tbe chief drawback is that \ scarcity of water results in their I being turned off much of the time, ; but Ibis may be remedied by install ! ing motor driven pumps to keep ! the water circulating, as has been j done in front of the TTn'on Station. The cost of th's according to Mr. Moore, is negligible. "Let us hope that whatever Is done, the distressing circumstances attending the erection of the Wash ington Monument may not be re peated." concluded Mr. Moore. "For years the half completed monument was an eyesore and a reproach and the name of the father of his coun try became a jest. "To ghide those looking for the best in historical art an exhibit of the great monuments, from the days of ancient Creece until the present, has been arranged in the Congres sional Library, and suggestions for memorials fitting for the expendi ture and site available may be had from the most competent artists in America." Condemning Useless Noises [From the Scranton Republican.] Harrisburg has begun a campaign similar to those conducted in Scran tcn from time to time, aimed at j unnecessary and annoying noises which become common in all cities where systematic effort is not made to suppress them. Whistles and gongs sometimes awake the echoes when it is not necessary to blow them at all. Street venders cry their wares in sten torian tones. Small boys make the day and the early evening hideous with boisterous shouting while at play. Screaming sirens, shrieking locomotives and the open cut-outs of automobiles also come in for condemnation. All leading cities now have regu lations covering such matters, but difficulty is experienced in enforcing them. In particular, the violation of the anti cut-out ordinance is al most universal. Citizens will bear patiently with noises that are necessary and un avoidable. Other kinds of noises can be minimized by determined ac tion by the authorities. In the case of Harrisburg it is the Rotary Club which has decreed that the useless noises must go. A Wonderful Thing [From the New York WorldJ The shipbuilding capacity of the United States has been expanded from an unimportant position among the maritime nations to first place. The overseas merchant fleet of the United States has been expanded from a negligible quantity to second place, or from 1,000.000 tons before the war to 13,836,000 already built or building. So quick and so vast a transformation in a nation's ocean carrying trade capacity never was known before in the world, and that it has been effected at so small a loss to the public treasury is hardly less wonderful JUNE 25, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER FOURTKEN "The Boche sure did hate to serve opposite American troops in the trenches," said Major Frank C. Ma hin, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Market street, Harrisburg, "for the reasons that the Yanks were for ever trying to pull off some mean, low down stunt—at least the Boche said they were mean and low down. As an example—but wait, I must first explain what a 'Very' pistol is. No one who hasn't been up front can imagine tlie amount of pyrotech nics, sky rockets, signal flares and light flares that were used in tho trenches. We had rockets for pretty nearly anything you would want. The flares were sky rockets that made a brilliant white light that lasted thirty or forty seconds and lighted up everything over a couple of city squares. We also had a sort of Roman candle that was shot out of a rifle grenade discharger and burst high tip in the air throwing out colored balls of Are. Then we had Very pistols, like a big brass breech-loading horse pistol, which tired great big cartridges about twice the size of a shot gun cartridge. These cartridges contained a fireball of some color and we had all sorts of colors issued. The Very pistol [and its cartridges were of such a con , venient size that they were great fuvorites. One day somebody had an inspiration, so we went out and tried | out a Very pistol. We found that ft I shot straight for about fifty yards I and then the ball of glowing fire would hit the ground and start I bouncing. Tt might bounce straight ' and it might bounce off at an angle the first bounce and then off at an other angle the next bounce, remind ing one of a great big 'nigger chaser* such as we used to have on the Fourth of July. It looked so beautiful during the daylight we decided to try it out, so that night a patrol went over into the German trenches armed with Very pistols. Pretty soon they heard a'Boche patrol; cautious ly our men got their pistols ready and at a low word of command, cut loose. Half a dozen glowing balls of fire flew towards that Boche patrol, hit the ground and started bouncing. You could hear a sort of gasp of sheer terror, then wild screams and the thud of running feet: running, they weren's running, they were fly ing. Rifles, helmets, grenades, gas masks, every article that could im pede the very utmost speed were thrown broadcast. Our patrol just lay down right there and howled with laughter. T have always been curious to know what the official German report was on that example of American barbarism." Wars Now Raging [From the New York Tribune.! In far-off Afghanistan turbaned [ tribesmen hurl themselves against men with different turbans. In Bohemia Huns of the Red variety are making home-staying Czecho slovaks understand what their kin endured in Siberia. In Southern Russia Poles and Ukrainians have a sulphurous canopy every other day. The White Finns are in trenches not far from Petrograd, and T,ivon ians and Esthonlans are giving the Rolshevik some of their own medi cine. Over an 800-mile front Kol chak keeps pecking away, and in front of Archangel and behind the Murmansk coast our men at last accounts were fighting alongside the British and French. Bulgaria threatens another inva sion of Serbia. China is angry at Japan and little Fiume has voted $30,000,000 to make herself ready to ftght. the whole world should President Wilson lead it to attack her liberties. Finally, Mexico-way there is a smell of smoke and bury ing parties are disposing of dead Villlstas. If the war correspondents were not out of breath this would be their busy year. We tg,lk peace, but a large percentage of the human family Is acting war. Human na ture is not suspended. The old game has many devotees. The thought of Paris runs not to putting fires out, but to preventing their spread. We elect to say little about disagreeable facts, but there they are. Big wars, declared Othello, made ambition virtue: but how about the little wars? They at least prove something to those who do not allow visions to get in front of their vision. Second Choice [From the Washington Herald] Germany has submitted "'her plan for a League of Nations. Her first choice of plans was submitted In Itettittg <P|at. While strictly speaking the State of Pennsylvania might be said to have issued its last bonds back In 1881, they were refunding bonds and if any one wants to make a compari son with the bond Issue sold yester day to a New York syndicate with a handsome premium for a four and a quarter per cent, security, he must go to the days of the Civil War. The $12,000,000 road bond Is sue stands unique and as far as any premiums are concerned nothing like what was paid for the new se curities has ever been known here. The State's public loans are Inter esting. And it is also interesting to noto that at one time this State was $40,000,000 in debt and that only a generation or 'more of careful financ ing enabled it to wipe out the last of its bonds in the last decade. The bonds which were redeemed a few years ago, excepting a few for which the cash has been long on deposit and which the State fiscal officers would be glad to charge off if the owners would only come around, were part of the issue of 1881. This was a thirty-year loan amounting to $9,450,000 and was issued to refund bonds dating from the Civil War. It was not a loan such as was sold yes terday. The last real bond Issue be fore this year was on May 15, 1861, when $3,000,000 of bonds were issued to arm the State for the Civil War. Some of these bonds and various other forms of debt dragged along for years and were consolidated and refunded by the 1881 issue. The Civil War bonds bore six per cent, inter est, while'the 1881 series bore three and a half. It was also worthy of note that there was an interest of al most a quarter of a century between the Civil War issue of $3,000,000 and the preceding loan. This was made on April 16, 1845 and was for $4,47.6,572 to make repairs and ex tensions to the Pennsylvania canal and railroad. At that time it was the largest loan the State had ever made and was the beginning of the end of State ownership because people Ifegan to get tired of the proposition. This loan bore five per cnet There were other loans going hack to 1821 which are of record and still others which run into the days of the revo lution and the war of 1812. The twenties, thirties and forties were apparently bond issuing times and .many of the loans were for the canal and railroad. • • • Just imagine a whole wagon load of theater tickets. A couple of boys stood in front of the Orpheum yes terday morning when they were sort of clearing out the place and they saw basket after basket of tickets thrown into the vehicle to be carted away. There were tickets in strips and tickets in bunches, single tickets and double tickets and tickets in halves and quarters and odd pieces. But they had all been good for ad mission to the show once upon a time and that was what appealed to the kids. They stood and watched the wagon start away slowly and pondered on what they had missed. • * * From all indications there will not be so much excitement at the Cap itol to-night when the Legislature closes and the men and women who have gone to the State House to see the high jinks will not have so much to witness. One of the reasons is that everyone is tired and there have been sporadic outbreaks or racket from time to time. The chances are that the Legislature will close quiet ly and that there will not be any vaudeville or playing leapfrog. • • • According to what men from other cities say there is considerable in terest in what Harrisburg is going to do about band concerts since an/ftct has been passed providing 'that councils may make appropriations for them. Harrisburg has sort of been among the leaders in third class city affairs and has been conspicuously successful in many lines. The band concert is something that has been causing much study to the average city official and hence the interest in What Harrisburg is going to do. • • • Just why the average boy and some times young men make street signs targets is not easy to under stand and there are some city em ployes who would like to know the answer. There are half a dozen signs in the upper end of the city which have been battered out of shape and now the long suffering sign at Second and Reel's Lane has a new form of punishment. Some one takes it down. The sign is placed, ordinarily, ten feet from the ground. But that makes no matter. It is taken down. • • • Construction of the new road above Dauphin "Narrows" is being awaited with considerable impa tience by people in this county who like to use the famous highway. The Nawn contracting firm which has been nwarded the work, is noted as one of the most, pushing concerns that developed the great Hog Is land shipyard. It has also been en gaged on extensivo operations about Chester. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Mayor E. V. Babeock, of Pitts burgh, was among visitors to Harris burg yesterday and spent some time with the Governor. —J. P. McCaskey, former Mayor of Lancaster, and noted educator, was here to see the Legislature at work. —Frank B. McClain, former Lieu tenant-Governor, was one of the in terested spectators at the final action of suffrage. —Andrew Hourigan, former As sistant United States Attorney, is spending a few days here. —B. J. Myers, Deputy Attorney General, attended his class reunion nt Lafayette. DO YOU KNOW | —Tliat Hnrrisburg Is one of the few plaoes in the country in tended for n State Capita! from the beginning? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first bank in Harrisburg waa a branch of the Philadelphia bank. More Light [From the New York Tribune J The veil of secrecy which shrouds the text has been lifted entirely bo far as the reading public of Ger many, Holland, Switzerland and various other countries is concerned. A large part of the world is openly arriving at an understanding of the terms offered the Germans. The precedents of the old diplomacy have, therefore, been recklessly shat tered. We are walking. In part, in the light of the new dispensation. Wljy. should we not walk in its toll noon-. £dS
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