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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 (
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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.