10 HARRISBVRG TELEGRAPH A VSWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Ttbgnfk Building, Federal lun EL J. STACK POLE President and Editordn-CXlef T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager ' OCS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board I. P. McCULLOUQH, BOYD M. OGLESBT, P. R. OYSTER, GUa M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Presa la 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. A Member American rj Newspaper Pub lation and Penn eyhvAnta^Associu- Eastern office. Story, Brooks £ Building. Western office' Story. A l Chicago, .^ll! 1 ln *' Entered at the Port Office in Harris / burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail, $3.00 u Wufiw year in advance. THURSDAY, JUYE 2, 11 He's true to God mho's true to many wherever wrong is done To the humblest and weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun. That t prong is also done to us; and they are slaves most base Whose love of right is for themselves and nof for all their race. •—Lowell. LYKENS POINTS THE WAY LYKEXS has loet none of the admirable solidarity of pur pose that took the town "over the top" in all of the war service drives. Some other communities' i may have permitted themselves to J elnk back Into pre-war lethargy, : , but not so with the Dauphin county ! anthracite folks. The town needed a swimming pool. It wanted the pool right away. There was no thought of "paEStng the buck" to borough council. No. indeed; Lykens peo ple are not built way. They organized themselves into an asso ciation, declared a half holiday for all forms of business, shouldered picks and shovels, went down to the creek and put a fine, large swim ming pool on the map as one of Lykens' c-hief attractions. Here is a fine example of com munity pride and spirit. It is "direct action" of the right sort. Other Central Pennsylvania towns with problems, desires or needs that affect the entire neighborhood might send delegations to Lykens to find how it Is done. It having been shown that war service enthusiasm can be carried over into what the poets call "piping times of peace," there is no reason why every city and town in the State should not be made to benefit thereby. Sinking interned German ships and burning captured French flags Is the Hun idea of honor. Little wonder the French people forecast treatment of the peace t"-eaty by the Prussian barbarians as a scrap of paper. A LABOR PARTY PRESIDENT MAURER, of the State Federation of Labor, for merly Socialist legislator from Berks county until defeated for re election, predicts that a labor party will be put Into the field in 'Penn sylvania. Certainly, there is no rea son why the attempt should not be made if organized labor feels that It can best attain its ends by that means. Unfortunately for those who so believe, no greater disaster could befall the onions than that they should go into politics OT partisan lines. Labor is now in the saddle. All great parties recognize the justice of Its claims for improved working conditions and a larger share of earnings. Labor can have at the hands of the lawmakers anything it demands, within reason. It has friends in both the Republican and Democratic ranks well able to cham pion its cause, and it has the polls at which to elect men favorable to Its ideals and aspirations on both sides of the political fence. It is in a most enviable position from the stand point of procuring such legislation as it desires. But if labor sets out to flock by itself, if it establishes a party of its own, antagonistic to other parties, then it Invites all those not identified with labor nnlons to join some other party, and as organized labor is not in a majority in the United States the result, in all likelihood, would be the defeat of those very objects for which labor is now striving and which it seems in a fair way to get through existing political agencies. Employers and employes are closer together to-day than ever, and they are rapidly approaching a middle • ground of mutual understanding and respect. A labor party would at once create an impasa "le gulf be tween them. If union labor Is wise -and its leaders rsally devoted to; THURSDAY EVENING, Its best interests they will fight shy of the mistaken idea of winning advancement for the laboring mar* through the instrumentality of a la i bor party. It can't be done, and the results of attempting it might prove disastrous in the extreme. "Wilson decides to use his own ring to seal Peace Treaty."—Associ ate Press dispatch. Woodrow, Rex. FINE A FEW MORE AYOR KEISTER, responding M o the efforts of the Rotary Club to break up the noise nuisance in Harrleburg, has fined two motorcyclists sls each for mak j ing more noise than necessary in j the operation of their machines. A few more such fines and the open cut-cut will be heard no more In Harrisburg. The Mayor has the backing of the public in this movement and the stiffer the fine the more the people in general will be pleased. The noise-maker has no consider ation for the feelings of his fellows. The Mayor need have no compunc tions tn piling on every cent the law will permit for violations of the reg ulations. When Clemenceau recently stated in his elucidation of the case against Germany that the "war was the greatest crime against humanity and freedom of the people that any na tion. calling itself civilized, has ever consciously committed" he put the whole matter in a nutshell. It is be cause of this universal attitude to ward Germany that the Hun can ex pect no consideration beyond that which justice demands. POOR RESULTS, INDEED CONGRESSMAN KREIDER is one of those who believe in getting a hundred cents' worth for every dollar expended. Recent ly In debating before Congress the appropriation sought by Attorney General Palmer for the running down of anarchists guilty of bomb outrages of the past month or two, he called attention of Congress to the fact that while millions of dol lars have been expended by Mr. Palmer's predecessor in office for the suppression of I. W. W. and similar activities, few convictions have been obtained. Congressman Kreider is earnest in his support of legislation looking to the conviction of the bomb plotters, but he wants some assurance that the money ex pended will bring results. Said he in his address to the House: But I want to direct your at tention to this fact: That we are reaping the crop the seed of which we lia\e sown. I want to direct your attention to the fact that certain organizations, one of them known as the I. W. \\\, and other anaichistic societies, during the progress of the Great War, now ended, not only threatened to de stroy, but actually attempted to destroy the food products of this country, and the food that was needed to feed our boys when they were in the trenches abroad, the boys who, through our legis lation. were drafted from their homes. Those same people threat ened and attempted to destroy our mines, the product of which was used in the manufacture of the things absolutely needed for the prosecution of the war. They at tempted also to destroy the lum ber that was needed for the build ing of ships and the manufacture of airplanes. And they did ail that at a time when we were in w Sr and at a time when none of us knew exactly what the outcome would be. Yet. I have not heard that any of these people were convicted as traitors to this country, which their acts proved them to be. Is it possible that the millions of dollars that we have given to the Attorney General's Department for the prosecution of crime have been expended without results and that the Department of Jus tice has winked at these things and allowed them to go on. there by encouraging this anarchism? And is it possible that only when an nttempt is made upon their own lives do they rise up now and say that this evil thing has got to be stamped out. although when the activities of these criminals were directed against the boys in the trenches and were a factor, and intended to be a factor! against our winning the war these crimes against the country were winked at? T do not make the charge that there was am- winking at them but In rnv <ude-—everv one o' --osa men were traitor* and should have heen lined tin before a firing souad next morning and disposed of summarily. But I have heard of no gueh action being taken. AH of which Is true. We have been all too lenient with the vipers who would poison to death our whole democratic form of govern ment. We have tried the ways of reason with them. We have track ed them to their lairs and left them off with admonitions to be good. In stead of meting out to them the vig orous treatment they should have had. Freedom is one thing, license Is another; but the policy of the ■Department of Justice has been to confuse the two. We hare been so Jealous of omr Individual liberties that we have tolerated excesses that no other government on earth for a moment would have permit ted. Now we have come down to the place where the radical must abide by the law of the land or get out of It, either byway of the firing squad or the departing steamship. Americanization will reach thous ands of the tools of these mistaken or criminal leaders, but they them selves are beyond education. They must comply with the law, get out or be put away by force. Attorney- General Palmer has & big opportun ity to demonstrate that the long arm of the law is capable of reaching into even the most carefully hidden plotter's den. He has the money and the men apparently the deter inatlon. The country will watch de velopments with keen lnterat. Of course the live-wire Klw&nla Club, the Civic Club and all other at th-front organizations will unite with the Rotary Club and the Motor Club in the commendable campaign to suppress unnecessary noises through enforcement of laws and ordinances. CK By the Ex-Committeeman The Legislature of 1919 which has attracted more attention than any Legislature since 1913 and whoso re sults will have a wide political ef fect in the next two years, has been closing up in a manner rather dif ferent front what was expected. In stead of lighting there has been much hilarity in the last forty-eight hours and parades, speeches, horse play and general interchange of compliments have marked the wind up, the contrast to the turbulent closing days of the sessions of 1915 and 1917 and the tense situation which forced prolongation of the session of 1913 being very marked. Men active in political circles consider that the Legislature has done pretty well and that acts which it passed to enable Governor William C. Sproul to carry into effect his plans for reorganization of the greater part of the State govern ment will enable the record to be made still better. The Governor comes through the session with added prestige, stronger with the people than ever and much in the eyes of the men of his party. —Senator! Prank E. Baldwin, of Potter, one of the men made a tar get during the last administration, succeds Senator Clarence J. Buck man, of Bucks, as president pro tern of the' Senate. He was unanimously nominated at the Republican cau cus of last night over which Senator William E. Crow presided and which was a fine family gathering. The Democratic caucus, in which the reorganization element played a very minor part, named Senator W. Sassaman, of Berks, as its nom inee. —Giftord Pinchot, former United States Forester, to-night realized one of his ambitions when he was named as a member of the State Forestry Reserve Commission by Governor William C. Sproul. He takes the place of J. M. Hoffman, of Johnstown. d Braumbaugh ap pointee, who had some adventures of his own with the fomer Governor in regard to the appointment. Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, the Altoona publisher and historian, was also named for a full term, as was Dr. J. T. Roth rock, of West Chester, the father of Pennsylvania forestry. —Governor Sproul also replaced a Brumbaugh appointee on the State, Game Commission with a man whom Brumbaugh had taken off during the days when he was essay ing political control of the State. John S. Speer, manufacturer, of St. Mary's, was appointed in place of Wilson McGrew, Pittsfield, named by Brumbaugh. Air. Speer was a Tener appointee originally. Dr. Charles B. Penrose, of Philadelphia, chairman of the commission; John M. Phillips, the Pittsburgh man who has been so active in behalf of wild life in the State, and Henry J. Don aldson, Williamsport, were all reap pointed. —The Governor's appointments of trustees contained few changes. —At a dinner given by Represen tative Carl C. Baldrige, of Wilkins burg. Judge Charles H. Kline, of Pittsburgh, launched a boom for the host for the Republican nomination for Congressman in the Thritieth district to succeed Congressman M. Clyde Kelly. Judge Kline said he would let the diners in on a little secret and announced that it was Mr. Baldrige would be a candidate for Congress. Judge Kline. said a real Republican is wanted in Con gress from that industrial center. The dinner was held at the Penns Harris hotel and Mr. Baldrige had as his guests the Allegheny county delegation, the members of the House Game Committee, of which he is chairman and some others. For mer Lieutenant. Governor Frank B. McClain was toastmaster. —Signing of the Philadelphia charter bill yesterday afternoon was staged as one of the great events of the session and even a moving pic ture operator was there to take the scene, but there was so much doing in the two Houses that not many men outside of those directly inter ested were on hand. The Lieutenant Governor's office was selected as the place to sign instead of the Gover nor's office because of the better lighting arrangements. The Phila delphia charter revisionists were present and Senator George Wood ward received the pen with which the Governor signed the bill, turn ing it over to John C. Winston, chairman of the charter committee. And that ended the career of the charter bill in the Legislature of 1919. John R. K. Scott's skill in get ting things down on the record was never better shown than in yester day's fuss over the compensation bill. When boiled down there was not much to the matter, but Mr. Scott made it a great occasion and had the House stepping pretty fast. Speaker Spangler at one time threat ened to make him sit down and re peatedly called him to order for re marks, but the Philadelphian clever ly got the thoughts in another form down on the record. —The compensation outbreak oc rurred right after Representative Bennett, of Philadelphia, had 'made an extended speech on the good will in the session and the excellent feel ing with which everyone approach ed the end of the long, long scries of meetings and when the air was surcharged with surcease from care and animosities. —The House concurred without any discussion at the late afternoon session in the conference committee report on the Daix-Brady bill rel ative to registration matters in Philadelphia. It was the last of the election bills to go through, and had been withdrawn from the Governor. —An unusual event in the House late in the day was the reference to the appropriations committee of the Senate bill establishing civil war pensions. The action was taken with the end of the session less than twenty hours away and no hope of passage. -—Members of the Legislature elected on "dry" platforms at a conference with people active in various organizations placed Repre sentative John W. Vickerraan, of Allegheny, in charge of the prelim inaries to the next legislative cam paign. the idea being to secure enough to enact a State enforce ment measure in 1921. Mr. Vicker man, who was the floor leader for the "drys" in the House, was pre sented with a diamond pin and ring. Resolutions praising lr. Vicker man's leadership in this session and outlining the campaign were sub mitted by a committee composed of Representatives Whitentan, West moreland; Cox, Philadelphia; Har vey, Centre; Miller. Susquehanna, and McCurdy, Blair. H*RRIBBURO I TELEGRXPS OH, MANL ... ByBRIGGS rJOdsom?W.tu YouVe^ C -rb?rHAT° II fno \ /•TAKO, TMC CHILDRcJ STAG • AT- ( ABOUT TOMORROUj// ODD I WTVRe J/ N, 'IV,® /( AOD Me To THE (,VIObHM I N6HT. ? >jj IS <SIV/IN& A jl N , 6H -r ? Jh? JKIT*TT&'S I ' '" " r"G^r _ TV<AT'S THC A /weiL WHAT f-AFTet? "HHAT^) ( Saturday/ m >6ht at / Dom'T You HAug J/ UwTiu.JbLY / ak/YaMuSHT / Wtat7 l*^ 6 . BSU&/. / YoufsAV— / e STA6. PARTY ;!y y. *V ——. e v -,. T "' | Plain Talk From Mr. Hays [Harvey's Weekly] The almost incredibly unpatriotic and foolish challenge of the Demo cratic National Chairman to the Re publicans, to make the League of Nations a party issue, receives a scathing rebuke at the hands of the Republican National Chairman, as it i richly deserves. As partisanship in the war would have been detest able, so, Mr. Hays rightly conceives, there should be no partisanship in the making of peace. "It is an Amer ican question", and it is to be solved "without sacrificing our own su preme nationalism, the preservation of which in its integrity is the great est safeguard for the future." We don't suppose that Mr. Cummings wants to make the sacrificing of American nationalism a party issue, does he? In the same spirit Mr. Hays de mands that "We shall bring this Government back to the limitations of the Constitution in times of peace." Any criminal element, or ganized or lyiorganized, called I. V.". W. or anything else, that goes about the country seeking what it can de stroy, he would treat as a traitor, and nothing else. He is for Fed eral control of national utilities, but against Federal ownership. He is against what he most aptly calls pedagogic paternalism, and against any "zone of twilight" in politics or public affairs, holding that "right is right and wrong is wrong." "We will not forget that while we fight to make certain the rights of free government in the world, we have a Republic to preserve in this coun try: that we are a representative government, not a Bolshevist synco pation." That, we apprehend, is a platform of principles upon which any loyal American could and every loyal American should stand. Its prin ciples are too broad to be the ex clusive property of any one party. Mr. Hays claims no monopoly of them for his party. It is perhaps within the power of any party or any politician to fefuse to stand upon such a platform, and to re gard such principles as partisan is sues; but we should doubt the wis dom of so doing. The Democratic party suffers the disadvantage, the embarrassment, the misfortune, of having had its supreme head en deavor last October to identify loy alty to America with loyalty to himself, but, seeing the whole heartedness with which the nation> rejected that intolerable pretension, we should think that it might now rid itself of that unmerited odium. There ought to be enough patricrt ism and wisdom and plain horse sense in the Democratic party to day to reject the detestable notion that peacemaking and the mainte nance of American national inde- j pendence are partisan issues, and to place and to keep that party on a platform as broad and as enlight ened as that indicated by Mr. Hays in his plain talk. The Inevitable Surrender [New Tork Times.] The Germans will sign. They have acquisced, as it was plain they must aquiesce, in the terms dictated by the twenty-odd nations that one after another were forced to take up arms to defend themselves against German aggression. Truthful for once they sav that they are yielding to force to escape a worse fate; and this is exactly what they are doing. So long as the Germans bad the su perior force, the world had no chance of getting a peace that would have suited the elementary demands of Justice. That such a peace is now written down, that the Germans sign it, we owe to the utilization of force without stint or limit. But nobody should, probably few will, attach too much importance to the German decision to accept the inevitable. This undignified yielding after repeated vows never, never to yield is only one incident in the long series which began with the French, American, and British offensives of July 18 and Aug. 8 of 1 writ year, and came to its culmination in the Ger man submission to armistice terms which took away for the time being Germany's power to do harm. The formal ceremony of signature, which will take place some time this week In the Hall of Mirrors will be an Impressive demonstration of histori cal Justice, an exhibition which can stand In history for all time as a warning to young and ambitious military empires: but It, too, will he onlv an incident in the series which began nearly a year ago, and which will not end for many years to come. The peace has been ac cepted: It will roon he signed: it remains to be enforced. Spelling Reform [From the Passing Show, London] "Wilson Peace Medal" was a re cent headin in an evening p..per. For our part we should have spelled the last word differently. Aguinaldo, Former Rebel Chief, Now Business Man AGUINALDO,' merchant, vice president of two thriving: Ma nila enterprises—that is the status to-day of the mestizo youth who overthrew the rule of Spain in the Philippines, challenged the au thority of the United States in his native islands and became a fugi tive from justice only to be finally rounded up and captured by Gen eral Funston. He lives in a mansion of adapted Greek temple style and wears clothing of a fashionable Eu ropean cut. This is the bandit chief of twenty years ago. Aguinaldo is not yet 50, but while his 20-odd years led those who knew him in the '9os to believe he was ten years older han he really was, his 40-odd years to-day seem ten years less when one looks at the wiry little fig ure, the face lined only in the fore head, hair only slightly streaked with gray eyes that glow with enthu siasm just as they did in the days when he was striving for the liberty of his people. A writer in 1899 said of the Fili pino chieftain that "a Tagalo boy has no boyhood: he springs from an infant into a man, and to the for eigner his age may yet be 16, or past 30. Such was the childhood of Aguipaldo. Having passed that try ing period, he was sent by his Spanish father, who thought he saw promise in the young man, to the university at Manila. But he made slow progress in the theoretical sub jects of the mediaeval curriculum, and soon was returned home. Not losing faith in the boy, his father sent him away again, this time to the Jesuit College at-Manila. Here he did better, but remained only a short time. Military matters inter ested him more than the dry routine of the school, and he enlisted as a petty officer in the Spanish Army. The dramatic episode which pre faced hie career as a rebel leader happend not long afterwards. Let Roman Reyes Lalo, a native Fili pino writer, tell the story: His First Rebellious Act. "It was at Silang, a village near Manila, noted for its religious pro cessions. It was the occasion of the Feast of the Twelve Apostles. A well 'dressed mestizo youth, of medium height and slender figure stood in the crowd that surged through the little plaza. thinking strange thoughts and looking on the expect ant crowd with curious eyes. "The church door swings open, and the procession, for which all have been waiting, comes out—a na tive band in front playing a lively air, while behind, with gorgeous banners and Jeweled images, walk the happy participants. A murmur of applause breaks from the crowd. The village cure is in front, his ragle eye, notwithstanding his hum ble mein, on the lookout for such delinquents among his flock as may be in the crowd. "The Image of Christ, borne on the shoulders of twelve sturdy nativee, passes by: and all onlookers fall on their knees crossing themselves with simple reverence—all but one, the mestizo youth, who remains stand ing with covered head, while a mocking smile plays around his determined lips. "The priest observes him and stands still, staring at the refractory native with flashing eyes. With an imperious gesture he motions for him to kneel: but the youth an swers him with a look of scorn. The band is still playing, and the mu sicians, unconscious of the halt in the rear, are "stepping briskly for ward. Banished Prom the Village. "The procession has been stopped, and those behind are stepping on the heels of those In front. Confu sion Is Imminent, and the priest Is In a towering rage. As he cannot make himself heard on account of the din. he motions to two of the vil lage guard that they seize the youth. These proceed to do so and a strug gle ensues; and it is not until they are re-enforced by two of their fel lows that they are able to take the struggling mestizo to the village prison. "The next day Emilo Aguinaldo is brought before the village tribunal. His accuser is a priest and the crime is blasphemy. The prisoner at tempts no defense and smiles the same bitter smile as he hears the sentence of perpetual bnnishment from Fftlang pronounced against him." Prom that day the young rebel was a marked man. Not long after this. Dr. Jose Risal, the Filipino pa triot. organized a revolt against the Spanish masters of his race. Aguin aldo was one of hie trusted lieuten ants. But the plot, was discovered and Rizal was banished. A squad of native soldiers, headed by a Span ish officer, went to Agulnaldo's home to the youthful conspirator m under arrest. While the Spaniard was reading the warrant the Fili pino blew out the officer's brains, and then with thrilling eloquence, addressed the soldiers, inciting them to join him in revolt. His words were effective and they fled to the mountain forests, where they were soon joined by thousands of sym pathizers. His Debut as Leader This was the rebellion of 1896. It was the debut of Aguinaldo as the ieader of his people. The revolt grew, and the Spaniards, unable to quell it by force, agreed to the terms of the rebels, who demanded certain reforms in church and state. It was the so-called "pacification." Aguin aldo agreed to give up all his arms and ammunition and absent him self from the confines of the islands on payment of 1400,000 in gold. He took the money and started for Paris. He had got as far as Singapore when thd destruction of the Maine brought a crisis between the United States and Spain. In the meantime the Spanish authorities had violated all their promises of reform. The in surrection broke out anew, and Aguinaldo became its guiding genius although still absent from the islands. Aguinaldo was traveling incognito, and his presence in Singapore was known only to a few persons. Among those few was an English man who had long been a resident of the Philippines. Through him an interview was arranged between the banished chieftan and Edward Spencer Pratt, then United States consul general at Singapore. This meeting resulted in Aguinaldo's be coming an ally of the United States, and a misunderstanding that later made him a foe. An American cruis [er carried him to the Philippines, and arms, bought from Americans with the gold given him by Spain, were placed in the hands of his army of natives. Defeated the Spaniards It was largely through his smash ing victories over the land forces of the Spaniards that Dewey was en abled to take Manila. But once the Spaniards were ejected, Agunaldo, having set himself up as head of the Philippine republic, in accordance with his understanding of the plans, awaited withdrawal of the Ameri can force. But the Americans were there to stay. And so Aguinaldo re belled again, this time against his recent allies. With a remarkable genius for leadership and lpyal na tive following, he became a serious peril to our forces in the islands. At last, after many months of guer rilla warfare, his armies scattered, and he reported dead, Auinaldo was trailed to his hiding place in North ern Luzon and taken prisoner by General Funston, March 23, 1901. After a few months' confinement in Manila, the former leader, having taken an oath of allegiance to the United States, was set free. He de voted himself successfully to agri culture until recently, when he be came interested in the cocoanut in dustry. The oil from the cocoanut became valuable in the manufacture of explosives following the outbreak of the European war. The Philip pines have produced one-third of the world's output of cocoanut oil since 1911. Aguinaldo is vice-pres ident of two of the big concerns Or ganized to market it since the out break of the war, the Rizal Refin ing Company and the Philippine Re fining Company. And so the Tagalo bay, who had no childhood, has passed from a dangerous Insurrecto to a thriving and peace loving business man. Perpetual Motion [From the Evening Ledger] The Patent Office seems to be pessimistic about the possibility of the invention of perpetual motion. \ It has recently announced that it ' will consider no application for a 1 patent on a perpetual motion de vice unless it is accompanied by a working model. But it need not be discouraged. Not far from its headquarters in Washington there is a machine in constant operation. Impelled by power generated within itself, which comes as near to perpetual motion as anything yet devised. It is the | tongue of Congress. It clacks from I dawn to dewy eve. Then the brakes are put on. The next morning it ! starts again and turns out words by the hundred thousand, littering '• ord with its product. The working the pages of the Congressional Reo model is working all the time. It might be objected that this machine has no commercial value, but the Patent Office does not re fuse exclusive rights to an Inven tion for that reason. JUNE 26, Tsrr*. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER FIFTEEN "There was great excitement one day tho latter part of last August in the St. Die sector," said Major Frank C. Mahtn, of the Army Re cruiting Station, 325 Market street, Harrisburg, "for word had Just come in that we were to be relieved and in particular, relieved by the 92nd division (colored), who were coming into the trenches for the first time. We had been holding down that sector for five weeks and it was beginning to get monotonous even though we had stirred it up some. When we went into that sec tor the Boche fired an average of six shells a day into the battalion area and when we got our good news i he was presenting us with upward [of eight hundred per day. But we j were sick of trenches, sick of pa j trolling, sick of the same landscape. We wanted to get into a big show— incidentally we soon got more of the big show than we wanted. But new troops coming in to relieve us and especially new colored troops. Oh! Boy! we had to do something to see that they were started off right. I strongly suspect that some of the French peasant women immediately back of the lines donated either voluntarily or involuntarily some of their sheets because there were the most amazing number of 'ghosts, spooks and ha'nts' fixed up in the most unexpected places for the delectation of our colored com patriots when they should arrive in the middle of the night. Also our expert on explosives got particularly busy and crammed a six-inch and two three-inch shells just as .full of Cheddite (a very violent explosive) as he could get them. Then he fixed instantaneous fuses in the shells and trip wires attached to the fuses. These we took over and buried in the Boche trenches and arranged the trip wires under leaves so that the first Boche who came along would stumble over the wire and blow himself and the trench to smithereens. "For a couple of weeks this ex pert had been working on captured Boche grenades. They had a sweet habit of leaving apparently good grenades for us to capture, but these grenades had a little red thread at tached which marked them as in stantaneous fuses. Their idea was that we would experiment with these grenades and blow ourselves up, but as they had the red threads attached their own men wouldn't use them. What we did was to take perfectly good Boche grenades, open them up, cut off the fuses, put them together and then the last night we j took about four hundred over in the i Boche trenches and left them here and there wherever we found good grenades, removing all of the latter and substituting our prepared in stantaneous grenades. The first time a German started to use one of those grenades it exploded in his th£a' ,'- nd Yu ,lgljred th at about the third time that happened the Boche '.k ? Ur ' ront ™ould be so terrified of their grenades they wouldn't dare use them, and they would aJso be so peevish and suspicious of us that the new outfit relieving us would ?,?., ' strafe<1 ' and thoroughly initiated into modern warfare the way we had been." Infantry in the War o f F JOm the New Pork Times] a " ? OW ? v &llable "how that In the American forces, of the battle deaths, amounting in all to a little over 46,600, the infantry h£i I }!"!. e *tn haJl 4 . 2 '° 00 ' the comparatively small remainder being divided among t .v her branches of the sorvico. a.v a , rtlller y standing second and the engineers third In the list of total losses. These figures would be . misinter preted of course, if they were taken as revealing who it was that did the lighting and brought the war to a close, for, so far from true is it that the infantry were almost everything and the other departments next to nothing, in reality the several de partments can be called of equal importance In the sense that all of them are vitally necessary to the achievement of military success. That the infantry is the head of the spear, the edge of the sword, is also true, however, and this was al ways the case—always they went Into the greatest dangers and had the greatest number of battle losses. In this war it was the old ratios, rather than the old rules, that were changed, owing in part to the use of much larger cannon than ever be fore, and to the almost complete dis appearance of cavalry activitlaa dur ing long periods that were marked by the very hardest fighting. , k { Ibftttng (Hlprtl ] "Pennsylvania's road bunding; program is attracting attention all'! through the Middle West and be yond, at least as far as Salt Lake* City," said a Harrlsburg man re cently returned from that place yes terday. "It has long been a matter of belief In the West that Pennsyl nla roads are next to impassible," he continued, "and not a few wealthy owners of automobiles expressed the hope that in the near future they would bo able to carry out a long cherished desire to tour the East In their cars. They were sur prised to learn that Pennsylvania roads are fully up to those of west ern states and in many cases are superior. Many westerners who have; made money In cattle, grains or mines during the war will como east next year touring. They have heard of Pennsylvantas big highway con struction program and the wonders that are accomplished in road mak ing this year in the Keystone State. "Who is this man Sadler, your State Highway Commissioner?' asked a Salt Hake man. 'I never heard of him as an authority on roads and I have read up pretty well on road building. But he certainly seems to be making the dirt fly." "He was told that Mr. Sadler Is a business man first, and a road build er after that, but that he has sur rounded himself with a force of en gineers and other officials fully ca pable of looking after the technical end of the program. "'Well, it's remarkable what the. road journals tell us. he Is doing, and I have even read some accounts - of it In the newspapers. It's going i to mean a lot for the East when it becomes generally know throughout the West that Pennsylvania has good roads,' he continued. 'Thous ands of us are hankering for a trip back to the old home states, and we want to drive our own cars back to the little towns and cities we as poor boys many years ago.' " • • • "The West from Denver on Is far ther along in its road building than I the Central West," said the Harris [ burg man, "but many of the Cen tral Western states are spending millions on road work this year. I saw automobiles stuck in the mud at a half dozen places along the Lincoln highway in Nebraska last week, and nobody there seemed to think the occurrence out of the ordi nary. Nebraska is backward in its road work, but Colorado, playing as it does to tourist patronage, has built many good roads through most of the picturesque portions of the State. It has utilized old trails and abandoned railroads for highways. There is, for example, the wonderful scenic highway from Pueblo through Phantom Pass to Cripple Creek, and all the way down to Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak and the adja cent country. This is built mainly upon the roadbed of an old ore carrying railroad. Of course roads are more cheaply built in the West than in the East and they last long er. In most cases the rock is ob tained along the road and when once down the roadbeds year In definitely, due largely to the small amount "of rainfall during the year. On the same authority it may bo said that the highways of Pennsyl vania match up fairly well with those of the West. Where the West ern State has one road to build and maintain the East has a dozen, rat tle attempt is made to keep the side roads in first class condition ana many of them are little better than trails, but much money is put into main highway systems and tney are kept up well. Thonsands of 1 tourists motor through the R ocky Mountain regions over these well : kept highways, camping whereeer i sunset finds them, finding heaith in the good air. sport along the trout streams and mental stimulus in the ■ wonderful scenery. They come from as far East as Ohio, and from as far West as c f ,fornl^, P r is TTiffhwav Commissioner Sadler is ?ofng much to put this State on the road map and when it becomes gen erally known throughout the West j the Mississippi, every summer. Thomas t>. Beidleman and hi* corns of farmers are racing y'th the weather and nature these days, ln rmitol Park. Owing to the nu merous rains the grass over night and requires some real harvesting by the five men who are irTcharge of the ground. The growth in some sections of the park is saul to have been unusual and it takes constant care and work to keep, th* park in proper fashion. t . the character of the mowers can not be used and It hasi all to be done by hand. • • • Taking a trip to the crest Knob at Reservoir park on a warm night to see the lights of Harrisburg sparkle is an entertainment well worth the while. Many automobilei owners make it in the evening an< the lights of cars can be eon fhcroi until late at night. The *£*■ ex tent can be marked ont by the ngnta while the flares how Mid Ijochiel steel works road vards are string after string 1 of bright lights. \ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 Exgenator P. S. Walton, of Greene 1 county, was among those here toi visit the legislature. D L Starr, Allegheny lawyer, active in borough affairs, has been| here this week. „ Representative John R. K-- Scott says he is going back to the farm, to pitch hay when the session ends. _ —ExKcpreaentattre X. R. Buvees, of Erie, has been spending a few days here renewing among legislators. Judge Charles H. Kline, a for-1 mer legislator, come here for tho I close of the session. p DO YQU KNOW j | —That Harrisburg had Its first I political convention held by a party I early in the twenties. HISTORIC HARBKBUIUS One of the first declarations of in dependence made was at a meeting held on the river front of Harris ferry. Even So [From the Boston Transcript] With how much more alacrity tho United States Senate can dispose of 1 Britain's internal troubles than the statesmen over there seem able to, adjust then! J
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