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Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa„ as second class matter. 1 By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY JI NK 27. 191!) Kttotr ho'C sublime a thing it Is To sitter and be stronger —Longfclloir. j THE SESSION ENDS I THE end of the first legislative session of the new administra tion finds Governor Sproul stronger and more popular than when he was inaugurated las; win- , ter, which is saying much when it j is considered that he was-at that time by far the most popular Gov-* ► ernor-elect in the memory of livfng - Pennsylvanians. That he has been" . able not only to maintain- his ] prestige unimpaired, but to increase j . hie influence for good in the Com- ; i mCßwealth. is all the more remark able when the m„<tr regrettable fail- j. Hres of other executives who went , Into office with all the political winds blowing favorably for them are re- , called. , Never for a moment did the Gov- , ernor permit the situation to get . away from his control, although , there were times when men not fa miliar with the innermost workings j : of Capitol Hill may have feared that j, his grasp of affairs was slipping, j Always he came forward at the j, right moment to assert himself and i no Governor has come to the close . of his first legislative session with , an inaugural program so nearly worked out. Prohibition, suffrage, , highways, teachers' salaries and the , other great reforms he advocated , have all been enacted into law, and ! ] at the very last moment, breaking!, all custom and establishing a new i. precedent, he went before both.!, House and Senate with a farewell , message of thanks and good will', that will do much to remove any j • feelings that may have been j aroused by some of the decisions that the Governor was forced to I make during the session. I I And what the Governor said ofj the responsiveness of the Legisla- j ture to public demands is true. Xo 1 body of Pennsylvania lawmakers ever performed more constructive work than that which adjourned sine die yes. ,-rday and the beneficial re sults of the vast volume of legisla tion enacted will not be fully appar- ' ent until the new laws have been put j wholly into operation. The results 1 justify the length of the session. The All-Highest at Amerongen j saws wood and says nothing. But j his thinktank must be overheated as! he harks back to the summer of 131 i and realizes how the best-laid plans of mice and men aft gong agley. COMPENSATION HATES THE new workmen's compensa-- "on bill increasing benefits to' injured workmen in a distinct j advance over the old act and places' Pennsylvania well up to the front! among commonwealths that have i provided generously for workers who have been incapacitated while | in the performance of their duties. I The measure is now in the hands of I Governor Sproul, who. beyond doubt.! will sign it, for it is distinctly an administration bill. The provisions of the new bill, 1 while not all that the most radical;, of the labor leaders asked, is re-j garded as being generally satisfuc-' t°ry to them and is certainly a step! in the. right direction. Pcnnsyl- ! vania employers, as a whole, have j come to look upon compensation of injured workers with different views than many of them expressed when ' the law was first proposed. Some 1 little hardship may have been worked here and there among them, 1 but no company has failed to de- i clare a dividend because of the law, ▲nd its benefits have greatly offset whatever additional expenses have been entailed. Xine-tenths of the 1 employers of Pennsylvania would I not go back to the old order of things if they could and the new act 1 ■will work out the same way. To Governor Sproul and the Re- i publican majority in the Legislature I FRIDAY EVENING, HAKRIBBURG I&§£obfl. TELEGRAPH JUNE 27, fcrr9. - must go the credit for the new pro , visions, all of which are advanta i gcous to working people. They stood out against those who be . lieved the old law good enough anil • were instrumental in the enactment . i of the measure to which the Gover ■ ! nor in a few days will give his ap i j proval. Its passage is proof sutll jcicnt of the falsity of charges that l the Legislature was unfriendly to jlabor and that workmen have to J look to a party of their own for ' | justice. TRIBUTE TO WOOD P' RACTICALLY all soldiers re turning from France, who speak on the subject, pay as ■great a tribute to General Leonard : Wood as a factor in American suc cesses as they do to any other one |man, not excepting even General Pershing. The latest is General W. INN". Atterbury, the noted Fenusyl-1 vania railroad man, who did so much to make possible the transportation iin France quickly and efficiently of 1 American men and supplies, Says he: 1 Thanks to the effort of one man, | and despite opposition and preju- ! I dice, the country had been arous ed: out men, young and old. had ! | tiocked to the training camps: ! 1 our colleges had been turned into ' i military schools, and all so sue- ' cesstuUy that later, when the j I actual need oi officers aro.-e, they J were mailable. j Whatever measure of prepar- j I edtiess we had made prior to our | entry into the war is attributable to no other person, and to him belongs great credit, and of hint , I the nation may well be proud— i i Gent ral I .eon aid Wood. Without the training camps which j General Wood inaugurated and the | spirit which was imbued in the! j young men who attended them, I j America would have been delayed i another six months in getting into j the war. and six months might have t been fatal to the Allied hopes. Slowly, but certainly. Wood, the sol dier, who was dented a place in the j lighting line because a petty Fed j oral administration thought he might come home a hero with po- ■ ! litical potentialities, is looming up 'as the most conspicuoas figure in | !the war on the American side. The. very thing his enemies feared most j is happening. MORE LAWRENCE GUFF DAVID LAWREXCE, official press agent for the Wilson ad i ministration, sends out of, (Washington a dtspa'ch in which he says that the United States is no ; belter prepared now than it was: Wh n General Pershing was ordered into Mexico to put an adequate air service on the border, and tries to place the blame on the Republican Congress. What nonsense! In the first place we know that the statement is not j - true. We have numerous aviators ; flying for practice over the United j States at this moment. Harrisburg j enjoys exhibitions of their skill al-, most daily. Those who have vis- j' ited the aviation depot at Middle- j town know that hundreds of com-J pleted planes are stored there, rack I upon rack of them, packed, boxed j. and ready for instant shipment, in•: addition to thousands of planes else- j' where. But if what Lawrence says were , true, whose fault would it be? Did i not the Democratic War Department ' spend hundreds of millions of dol- j■ lars on an air program? Were not thousands of young men trained as': flieis? Mr. Lawrenre will have some difficulty making the average Aider*- , - can believe that the newly-elected] i Congress had anything to do with!' •i faulty air re-vice, K such exists. ] NO FAITH IN HUNS THE English announce that they j 1 "have no faith in the Huns,"!) and the French say they "must ', renew their vigil along the Rhine," ; which leads one to the conclusion ]' that universal peace is a long. long j 1 way in th£ future and that the j League of Nations will be little ]. more than an insurance policy for 1 Europe against the aggression of a powerful enemy without assistance from America. I. The powers are about to resume ! their former relative positions, with Germany and Russia alone occupy- |, ing subordinate places, and if this i country enters the I.eague it may ' expect to be called upon to maintain the old-time "balance of power" iri limes of international dispute rather j than to act with the nations of the ] world the role of keeper of the ! peace. J 1 "Balance of power" in the past i meant simply preponderance of the ; force of arms, and that it failed to [ work the.whole world knovyjl. Amer icans naturally want to be convinced that in accepting the League they . are not at the same time donning ' the uniform of an international po- j liceman, with all the disagreeable | consequences, the expenses and tl j that may impose. The' forthcoming debate on the; League proposals between the Pres- i ident and his opponents ought to j be highly instructive from the public ' standpoint. A LAWLESS LOT MUCH is appearing in the news- , papers concerning the inten- j tion of the saloon keepers of i this or that city to continue to sell j intoxicants next week despite Fed- j eral restrictions. This is a plain de- I tiance of the law of the land by a j body of men who, as a whole, have for many years acted as though they regarded themselves as above the law. Indeed, it is this very lawless at titude on the part of liquor dealers in general that has brought the sa loon into disrepute and the more I the liquor men attempt to override | the legal restrictions which all law | abiding peoplb respect, the more I nearly they align themselves with the I. NY. NY., the Bolshevikl and others to whom law is a joke and government a farce. The saloon men will find that the will of the peoplo will bo Imposed and that whether they like it or not they will be forced to abide by the decision of the majority and the statutes of the States and of ! Congress. V. A business that has no regard for law has no place in American life. ' | T > oCtttC4 CK | By the Ex-Committeeman Close of the session of the General Assembly of 1919 has been marked by so many incidents out of the ordl i nary that it will take a long time for tlie real story of the Legislature to be told. The record of achieve ments is in itself a notable one, but there was much outside of the routine of passing laws and much j that will have political effect. The Republican majority, which was at times unwieldy because it was so ! great, wins t lie credit for many | things which owing to the fuss over | the Philadelphia charter, the Gov ernor's brilliant campaign in behalf] 'of the woman suffrage amendment,! the compensation battle, and ttie in-; jtere.-ting close to the teachers' sal jary and other big bills, did not at tract the attention front the people J J that they would have done in the - usual sessions. Perhaps nothing more striking in the varied occurrences of the sitting' took place than the appearance of the iGovernor to make a farewell ad-] dress to thb lawmakers in joint ses- ] sion. It was a shattering of prece- ] ;dent, Xothitig like it was ever known' ; before in the State, but like most! i everything else that Governor Sproul seems to be undertaking he turned) it into a shining success and his, j judiciously bestowed praise for what ; had been done served to remind! members of their excellent work and -ent everyone away from Harrisburg! in a good humor. —l>no of the incidents out of all j recent recall was the passage of the ; ] general appropriation bill without a ; chrip in opposition. Veterans like' •fames X. Moo?e. director of the leg- j (islative reference bureau, and the older newspaper men, sat up and! gasped when they saw the bill carrv- j mg around • 14.000,000 pass the! j House nt 2 o'clock in the morning I [without a word of comment and the Speaker actually shouting to the' members to remind them what they ! were voting on. - —Another interesting thing was that the "hot stuff" put into the journal for campaign purposes was • xpunged on the last day. The "thunder" factories were working ! overtime and yards and yards that were spoken to be used this fall in Philadelphia and elsewhere were wiped out of the printed record in three minutes just before the final fall of the gavel. —One of the humors of the close of the session was that the commit tee of teachers which had been on the job -'O faithfully all session in behalf of the teachers' salary in crease bill and won so much praise, was in bed when the conference committee report making the final draft of the bill wag reached. It was not expected that the report would bo printed until after day light yesterday and about midnight the teachers committee believing that there would he nothing doing about the bill went home. The bill was printed and reached the House it 2.30 in the morning and went through with little discussion with none of the teachers on the job. al though Joseph X. Alack roll was on the watchtower. Then Mr. Mackrell went out and telephoning to the Penn-Harris informed the teachers, whom he had gotten out of bed to answer the telephone, that their bill was on its way to the Governor. —lt is said that Representative NYilliam Davis, of Ebensburg, is thinking about being a candidate for orphans' court judge in his county. Judge Lemon Reed will be a candi date for the full term. —Joseph P. McCullen, the Phil adelphia lawyer named"to be a judge to succeed the late Judge NY. A. Carr, df court Xo. 4 yesterday immediately after the Legislature adjourned, is a well-known Democrat. He was one of the famous "five judges" of Phil adelphia whose creation was declar ed unconstitutional and has figured much in Democratic affairs. He served as a member of Democratic reorganization committees and also as chairman of several State conven tions here. --The Philadelphia Inquirer in its "NVho's NVho" column says: "A movement is under way among the active Democrats of Pennsylvania to block ihe plans of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to have a solid Pennsylvania delegation behind his leadership In the next Democratic National convention. The opening gun of th" anti-Palmer campaign has been fßed in Berks county, which with Lehigh, the other rounty in this Congressional district, is al most < ertain to send delegates that, will not he dominated hv the Talnier- McCormirk combination. Former County Commissioner Nicholas Rapp, Jr.. of Mt. Pern, a suburb of Read ing. has proclaimed himself as a ran. didate for national delegate at the nrimnries to be held next Spring. He will make his campaign upon a platform of hostility to Palmer and prohibition. Tar and Feathers [Front the New York Sunl Most persons think of tar and feathers n a punishment limited to mobs in wild America, so it is a shock to rend that it was the form of ven geance recently applied by an Eng lish army officer to an English naval officer who had committed an un pardonable social offence against him. The aggrieved husband and bis brother tied the culprit to a tree with chains and applied tar and feathers as thoroughly as a hand of NVhite Caps would have done it. Curiously, the first known use of I tar and feathers was in the English ] navy, it being the legal punishment j formulated hv Richard of the Lion ! Heart for thieves in 11 SO. The king was about to set out on the Third Crnadc and, fearing that all of his sailors were not as pious as himself, bo laid the penalty of a shower-of "hevling pitch" upon those who stole, feathers or down to be strewed upon the victim. A Suqqestion fFrom the Los Angeles Times] A good deal of talk is going the rounds just now as to what should [ be substituted for the saloon. Xo- I body has thought about suggesting i the home. j SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING TiiE JOY OUT OF LIFE ... 1 By Briggs /WHATS AKTI /" ~ rZ- TTI ' X f~I~ WOULDN'T GO ACROSS (Y D I/ I V/E GOT A \ / TAKE MY ADVICE / *\ THE STREET TO SEE IT ? \ I TICKET'TO ) KEEP AWAY / WHY ? J IT'LL- BE THE SAME OLD \ HARRV J / THE BIG SCRAP/ FROM IT-- YOU \ J PI A SCO AMD EUERYBODY X_ —Y IM * TOLEDO ON KMOVN HOUJ IT LU / W(LL BE ORE AFTCR ITS , V JOLY, FOURTH/ [UFTM OUT / OVER-- NO TRAINS" NO / ) A Y * L IT / ) > HOTELS- NO EATS-NO / THEY IJR~3PAR _AROOND FNAWULDWT GKJE\ f ~ N IT^ ,S TOU TWO B.TS ) /IF . COOUT> OF COURSE J"OST TO GET I / FOR YOUR TICKET; / £<= T RID OF IT J A LOT MORE SUCKERS j V To COUGH UP POUGH FOR j R— \ A FINISH FIGHT- J V ( V I KNOVAJ- J . I ( —~~~V y What of Our Children? _ [lx>c Wilson Podd in Yale Review] For better or tor worse we arc struggling through years of accel erated change, and our brains grow fatigued, and easily addled by the insistent confusion. Many of us. perhaps most of us, who now have young children are living ourselves in a state of intellectual muddle without parallel in the history of civilization. From one hour to the next we know not what we think or do. nor whither our uncertain ties are driving us. We are radical; we should go to the root of the mat ter—but having gone there we tind 110 roots. Worshippers of reason, a sort of insanity has seized us. And now, in the midst of this hum ming madness, it becomes our first plain duty to act as guides .for the impressionable young. There would be high comedy here—if the issues were cither less personal or less vast. Rut the modern parent is in no mood for laughter. Shuddering is not unknown to him, as he feels on his cheek a cold breath caught from tragedy's hovering wing. Our children, let us hope, are not going to be weaklings or fools. What is about them they will hear and see, as they should, and will try to understand. We shall accomp lish nothing but disaster if we try to stop their ears or bandage their eyes. , We must not seek to run our chil dren's minds as if they were mol ten metal, into pre-arranged molds; for. in the first place, if we succeed (which is improbable! we shall leave them rigid and inert, dead shapes that were meant to be quick silver currents; and in the second, if we do not. we shall rightly lose their confidence, their respect, their love. No; having brought them win ninglv naturally, into the presence of their friends—those true friends and aiders of all who would live in the spirit—we must bid them God speed. and be willing to stand aside. For the life of the spirit takes many forms, works through many tem poral combinations, and wo must trust our children to find or create the forms most congruous to their individual hearts, the forms that best satisfy them, please them best. I am not saying that they (things as they are) cannot bo bettered; that a far better approach to social justice cannot be made; that there can never be more liberty, frater nity, leisure, and beauty, and joy in human life. But these inestima ble things will not be borne to us overnight on the iron wings of a class revolution. Through what na tional or international forms the evolution of society may lead us 1 cannot guess; but if they are to be nobler, juster, and happier forms than we have known, it will only be because nobility and justice and happiness have become the natural fruits of the tree of life—and its next fruiting, remember, will be the hearts of our children. It is little enough we can do for them, when all's said. They must live their own lives. But we can at least help them betimes to get in touch with their true friends, who will companion them simply and wisely and hopefully, but never flat ter false hopes which can lead only to real despair. JIMMY [Joseph Andrew Galahad in, Life] A ragged newsy stopped me on the street the other morning. And in his eyes he had the biggest tears I've ever seen. Ho spoke to me so timidly! His voice was shy and trcmhling: 'Ain't you the man, eh mister, wot prints a magazine?" I nodded and 1 answered with a courage giving smile. And when he saw the smile he grew more bold. He said; "I wisht you'd print, sir, so everybody'd know it. That Jimmy died to save my life — an' oniy two years old! "Dey wuz a mad dog cornin' down de street, and Jimmy seen him He seen de dog was headed straight for me. I wuz so scared T couldn't move—- but what do you think, mis ter? It wuz de cutest thing you'd ever see. "He moved so quick, did Jimmy— an' he jumped right out be fore me. I tried to run. but didn't know which way; An' de mad do—he got Jimmy an' he hit 'im sutnpin awful! Dey shot de mad dog. mister— but Jimmy died dat day." "Yes—sure. I'll print it laddie!" The tears were in my own eyes. "But boys that dies that nobly go to heaven, son—cheer up!" He looked at me in wonder. "Oh. Jlmmv wurn't no boy, sir"— The big tears bubbled over—"Why Jimmy wur a pup!" -! Is ihe "Maid of Anzio" Really a "Laurel Bearer" [From t lie Kansas City Star J A SILVER model of one of Italy's 1 most famous art treasures, the Faneiulla D'Anzio, was the gift of the Roman municipality to President Wilson during his recent, visit to Rome. Artists and arch-: aeologists regard the original of this; model as one of the most important additions to the world of art made I In recent times. That a work of; Grecian art done in the Third or Fourth Century should come to light within the last fifty years is won derful in itself. Still more wonder- j ful. it is unique of its kind; no other | piece of art has been developed ex-: actly as this one has been. But that is not the subject that i has been discussed most among the artists to any great degree. After agreeing that the statute is one of; matchless beauty, agreeing that it' equals if not surpasses Praxiteles'; work in grace and beauty, the ques tion arises among the critics, "Is this the iigure of a girl or a boy?", and the discussion is still on. "Maid of Anzio" the statute was innocent- 1 ly christened some forty years ago; when the discussion ran high as to whether she was a sibyl, a poetess or a priestess. First, the finding of the statue js in itself a story of unusual interest. For it was found in the ruins of the; little village of Anzio, where in the time of Pope Julius the masterpiece} of Grecian art, Apollo Belvidere, was, found, in later years the Gladiator was found there. Extraordinary ruins these for the little city which tradition says was founded by An-! tias, son of Ulysses and Cine. A 1 - J ways a champion of liberty, the city' was an open enemy of Rome during, the Republic and was not pacified I uyiiil the time of the Emperors, when! it became a resort for large colonies of Romans during the summer' months. Caligula was born there! August 31, 13 A. I)., and Nero De cember 15, 37 A. D. The latter re turned to his native village to build ' the most splendid villa of ancient] times, overlooking the sea at Anzio. 1 In the ruins of this Neronian villa this incomparable piece of sculpture! came to light most unexpectedly. I Uncovered by a Storm The day following Christmas, 1878, j the wind rose and a great storm sent the waves dashing against the ruins! of the imperial villa. The storm car ried away quantities of the sand and stones during the night. The next morning when the sun rose it show- • cd to the astonished inhabitants of the village the walls of a large hall, : and in a niche standing upright, was the statue, since called the Maid of Anzio, in an almost unbelievable state of preservation. Art lovers 1 ront all over the world went to pay: their praises and declare it to be a wonderful example of Greek art' 1 probably done in the Third or Fourth Century. The name of the sculptor is unknown. The Italian' government purchased it from the; Prince of Bursina, on whose estate it j was found, for 450,000 lire (nearly $100,000), and played in the Muesoi del Tcrmc at Rome. The statute, in Greek marble, I white and slightly transparent, is nearly five and a half feet high, made from two pieces of marble, one in- j eluding the head and right shoulder, the other the body from the upper! part of the shoulder drapery to the ' feet. The youthful tigure one! hesitates to say bo> or girl—is hold ing tt tray on the left forearm, the head, is inclined forward, tixing the! gaze on the objects on the tray a wreath of laurel, the paw of a wild' animal, and a roll which is supposed i to be it rolled sacriticial band. These have figured prominently in the dis cussion of the sex of the figure, us I they determine largely the office that the figure may have tilled in the day! of worshipful processions. The drapery, the champions of the • maiden say, proclaims her sex, as! she weaHs both the chiffon and the' mantle, but the supposition savs this! proves nothing at all. They ask;! "Does the consummate beauty of i line and graceful drapery identify her as a woman? Is there not greater resemblance to Apollo than' to Venus?" The heavy shoulders! and the well developed muscles of the arm should belong to a boy rather than a girl. The fullness of the chest is attributed to the way' in which the drapery is caught up | and not to the fullness of the figure. ' And the head—here both sides profess to score—is clearly defined as to youthful lines. The rather long hair is parted at the center of the . & . . Has . | head from forehead to the nape of; 'the neck, and then combed forward I and rolled softly across the front! !of the head. Artists are fond of i comparing the head of the Fan-! i ciullu to that of "Kros stringing his! bow" for points to prove the mas-; culinity of the head. The way the drapery is caught up in front, as if 10 give greater free dom in walking/and the pose "of the legs wide apart, are other sugges tions that flic statue is that of a boy. ' An Authority's Opinion of the luce Arturo Calza, once' i minister of instruction in Rome, 1 jsajs: The oval of the face, pure] but not too long, the forehead smooth but powerful, the chin ' strong, and the eyelids accentuated,j give to this face a something not 1 masculine hut still scarcely fomi-1 nine; something which, preserving' the lineaments of the feminine (ig-' urc, render it firm and strong taking! : ul 1 delicacy and softness. j' in the whole iigure the beauty of!' , the composition is equaled by the!' perfection ot the material execu-! 1 lion. The sculptor knew how to get 11 om marble every shade of differ-1, once between the hair and fiesh, be-! twecn the flesh and the drapery, and 1 knew how to gain effect, cleverly! concentrating the greatest cure and;! diligence on the dominant parts, ' leaving the others in the shadow i which reveals the sure and mature ; artist who has executed this original piece ot work." The opinion of this authority can| hardly be said to clour up the mys , ter> ot tiie sex of the ligure, but it l ! does suggest the difficulty that ur-l! lists have in deciding. Home point': ,out tiie "necklet of Venus" in the i , I lines and contour of the neck as the; 1 mark ot a maiden; the boy defend-', jcrs bring up other statues to prove! I that this is a youthful but not nec-1 essarily faminine mark. All is mystery, the sculptor, the of-; , lice tiie iigure must have represented t Jin real life, and the sex of the 1 , | statue. Historians have been called into] the discussion and it is their re-! Port that gives theory that tiie name' Maid of Anzio" is a misnomer. In 1 describing the worship of Apollo they tell us of the offerings made to 1 ! tbe god, among them the laurel | wreath. The lion was saercd to: Apollo, hence the lion's paw that is' lon the tray. The sacrificial roll in-j dicates that the tigure was an at-' tendant at a sacrifice. The proces sion in the worship of Apollo was led by a boy chosen from the noble ] : lamilies of Thebes for his youth and ' beauty and splendid bearing. It was his duty to carry a tray bearing sig-! nificant gifts to the shrine of Apollo. Hence the name given to the voutli' leading the procession—The Laurel! Rearer. This is the name that has been! suggested for the statue, hut we 1 have yet to know whether the rata-' oauers of Art will take kindly to , it. Alter all, since it expresses the I .loveliness of youth in a faultless. >:r? ° f . rt w,ly bother about .whether it is a boy or a girl. Would I 1 be more valuable, more beauti-. iul if we knew? (.lassies Lose hrcneh Favor ! [Continental Edition London Mail] Changes in the system of exanii- ! 'nation for the French degr-- of 11- eentlato of letters are under con sideration at the Ministrv of Pub lic Instruction. Home faculties con .siflcr th.it Latin or Greek should be ; ol ligutor.v for all candidates, while others think that classics might be' omitted in the case of candidates! who do not undertake to use the 1 j degree for obtaining a pest as' j teacher. Such a degree would meet the 1 j requirements of American students, who are now very numerous in ; France. / Deacon's doing Home [From the Kansas City Star] The new Korean republic has ap j plied for a place in the League of I Nations. Perhaps some country .that already has a place will seize; j 'his opportunity to follow the ox-j 1 ample of the deacon who had lls . tened with growing weariness to the | I minister's long category in which he : | assigned the prophets in the. order | jof their importance and services. . j At last he came to Isaiah. "Where." 1 he asked, "shall we place Isaiah?"! The deacon rose. "You can give j Isaiah my place," he said. "I am j 1 going home." i ii ' jA™.. V , No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER SIXTEEN "tine of the things that amused our men when they first landed in i France were the dinkey little French , engines and railroad cars," said j Major Frank C. Mnhin, of the Army I Recruiting Station, 325 Market ; street, Harrisburg. "However, we ' hadn't been over there very long ! before we began to see our own big American locomotives and also some American freight cars. You sec the trouble was that every Frenchman was in the army so they j had to stop building engines; the' Roche captured some, and a great j many got damaged or badly worn i and they didn't have the men to re pair them, resulting* in an awful shortage of railroad traction. When the Germans went through Bel gium the Belgians succeeded in sav ing eight hundred engines and sent them into France, but they had no men to take care of them and neither did the French, so those eight hundred engines lay around and got rusty until our railroad men got over there and we promptly took 1 over and fixed up those Belgian en gines. But those eight hundred didn't begin to til! the bill, so we had to send American engines over,- too. "Then came up two problems, first, the shortage of shipping space, and second, the fact that we could not spare men in France to set up engines ,isent over fcnocked down. As usual, trust to find a way. What we i]| eras this: Wq partially loaded a Map with baled hay, then ran our locomotives down on the pier, a lug crane picked thorn right ofl the rails and swung them down into the hay, more hay was piled all around and away the ship went (o France. When the boat got into port (lie hay was cleared away from around the engine, the engine was swung out onto the rails, a tire was built in the firebox, the engine hooked onto a train of ears and started for ihe front. Perhaps the very hay the locomotive had been packed in was loaded on the train the engine was pulling, taken up front and fed to our horses and mules. In this way 533 American en gines were taken to France. The French engines had little bits of tov whistles on them that sounded like a penny tin whistle. The contrast between the French engine whistles and ours was simply amazing, tine day I was standing on the station platform at St. Aignan when a treight train with an American en gine pulled up and stopped with the locomotive right alongside of mc 1 here was a French officer talking with two ladies near me. Sudden I \ Inn ," e u. r P " llCd hiK whistle cord and that big American wnistle cut I , hpru was a wild double m .V , o ' e ,w ° womon hutched lr f : k,rt V and just dove hcad j! through the station door and disappeared. For a minute we h";, '™™ ro , ul ' not grasp what had hV V. i a ? ,hen 11 ( ' a wtied on us ~1 Mc?,"; Pe °P le had "ever heard 'ill ?heir ,ive^ ? ° M enßin ° Whistl ° Judge Gary's Labor Views [New York Times] There would be no labor uuos what" v£ b0 V lllrt taplta ' P"c e cd what Mi. Gary preaches. The Placidity with which he dismiss the subject is equally admirable and amiable. Nobody would imagine that he is the administrator of what ,al ?or's leading organization has .s worst enemy," and with which there is now pending a dif lercncc of opinion on contentious fh^ CC M 8 ' c? n ,hc hantis of another than Mr. Gary, or in another man ner than his, there might result a repetition of regrettable incidents.' Lut there is no reason why the Fed eration and the Steel Corporation sliouid not reach an understanding or even an agreement, if botli should show the spirit of accommo dation, and neither seek lo domi nate the other, or to exploit the pub lic by co-operation in the nature of conspiracy to sacrifice other inter ests to theirs. FAisha Healeth the Water And the men of the citv said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the sit uation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water' is naught, ami the ground barren. And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put rait therein. And they brought it to him. And he went forth unto the spring, and east the salt in j there. So the waters were healed. | —II Kings it, 19 to 22. * 1 ' J Atoning (ttljat "The West is taking to prohibi tion as though the country had al ways been dry/' said a Harrisburg man yesterday who recently made a tour of Colorado and Utah, both of which have barred John Barleycorn. "All of the big hotels still operate their bars," lie said, "but there are not shutters in front of them and men and women alike quench their thirst at them. The soda fountain is unknown in theso places, all of the carbonated water that is used coming in bottles, to bo doled out by the glass as ordered. All of the ordinary soda fountain drinks are to be had but in addition there are on the shelves many wicked looking brown and black bottlos which upon closer investigation reveal their con tents as being 'Blackberry Dew Drops,' 'Apricot Drips' and many concoctions of mint and grapejuicc, said to bo very good when mixed with carbon ted water and certainly very popular at the temperanco bars. I Kvcn the malt drinks which the big brewers are making in imitation of old time beers are to be had in the old time way, served cither from bottles like those that used to con lain beer or from a tap on the bar attached to a keg below stairs. In cidentally, it may be said, these hotel bars are just as busy as they I used to be in the wet period." lho same authority Is quoted as saying that the dry laws have had 110 effect on the number of cabarets and the roof gardens, which are just as numerous and Just as lively as ever, the only difference being that the kicks all lie in the dancers' toes with none in the drinks that aro served, even though they do look like the old-time strong stuff. But the saloons have gone. Some of them have been transformed into cafeterias, some into candy stores and many into poolrooms and cigar stores. There is some boot-legging, to he sure, but in the larger cities the number of arrests have fallen off greatly, the criminal courts arc less crowded and one seldom, if ever, sees a drunken man. "If Denver and Salt Lake can worry along without booze I guess Philadelphia and Xew York can," said a Salt Pake man to the Harris burger, "and I venture to forecast that after liquor lias been under the ban in the Hast for a year .every- | body will wonder, when he thinks about the matter at all, why there was ever any discussion about abol ishing the saloon. It certainly has | been good for Utah and Colorado and ;we wouldn't hear to a suggestion of going back to hard liquor." In Denver they store the booze confis- I cated in police raids in a big vault, ;on the door of which arc three ! locks, one key held by the Mayor, 1 a second by the chief of police and [A third by the custodian. * • • j Speaking about prohibition, there [are some funny things going on in our'midst. A number of the "stores" tire having "bargain sales" and the man who knows what to buy, for strictly medicinal use, of course, can pick up some good stock at fair prices even with the war tax. There is some other stuff that is being unloaded on the credulous buyers that should be laid away to mature or to ripen or to forget how sinful it is. From all accounts the stock of liquor on sale in Harrisburg has been much diminished of late and some of the old established places, especially the wholesalers, have been getting rid of what they had. One dealer, who is one of the best posted men in the trade and who has made a specialty of high class stuff, said that he did not have any champagne or Rhine wines left and that his domestic wines had been bought up. As for "hard" liquor, he said that discriminating buyers had been getting ready for July 1. Some of the saloons have been selling bot tles to customers without much re gard to contents and as a result have gotten rid of some of the "lightning stuff" as the police call it. A good many packages that look like shoe boxes arc being "toted home" these days. • • The close of the legislature at tracted many people to the Capitol, hut some of them got the idea that the turning back of the clock meant hours. The clock was turned back only a couple of times yesterday and the Legislature closed within an hour of noon. This was for the first time in years and those who strolled in about 1 o'clock found the halls de serted except for men saying good by. ♦ ♦ • "1 have attended camps for six teen summers," said Scout Executive Virgin to-day, "but never in all my experience have I been so fortunate in the matter of cooks as at the Rov Scouts camp just set up at Mt. Holly We have two of them and thoy are Harrisburg women who know as much about the art of home cook ery as any I have ever met. They put the real old-home flavor into every dish they prepare and I am sure everybody who attends will enioy the meals greatly." Mr. Virgin says that as soon as the camp for boys has been concluded it is his purpose, if sufficient interest can he aroused, to use the camp for the entertainment of jtien. Eighty can he accommo dated and he believes that number could be enrolled. The camp is about an hour's run over good roads from Harrisburg, and those who could not spend the week in camp could go there for the night, taking supper and breakfast in lho open. Next week Mr. Virgin will appear he fore the Rotary Club to invite the members to visit the camp. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Attorney General William I. Sehaffer is receiving many telegrams of congratulation on his address to the State Bar Association. —Representative John M. Flynn, the oldest member of the House in point of service, has sat in every ses sion since January 1, 1908. —Senator T. L. Eyre says the Legislature went away with more good feeling than he noted in 1915 and 1917. —Speaker Robert S. Spangler sav s he is going to play tennis for a time to forget rollcalls and point of order. —Governor Sproul will take a rest at his home near Chester. \ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsbug pretzels are bctng sent to army cftmps? HISTOKIC HARRISBURG The first Legislature to sit here convened in 1813.
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