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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.
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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