12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Bulldlag, Federal Sqaare E. J. STACKPOLE Preeident and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 411 lights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 1 Member American Newspaper Pub a-988 Bureau of Circu lation and Penn gjES*M a-181 IK Eastern office. gg|| pti Story, Brooks & ■Sis Vrn Avenue Ruilding, B8 Western office' ~ Chicago, 111. K Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ®Y carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $3.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919 Never be afraid of giving up your beet, and God will give you hie bet ter.—Jamee Hinton. GOOD JOB WELL DONE THE Harrisburg School Board is to be commended for the promptness with which it acted upon the proposal to purchase the Hoffman's Woods plot as a High School site. Nothing could have been gained by delay and a postponement might have resulted in a withdrawal by the owners of the very generous sale price now available. Doubtless there will be a few who will find fault with the choice, but it Is impossible to please everybody and no one plot of ground could have been found upon which public opinion would have been more nearly unanimous. Not one word can be said against the price, the healthfulness of the site, the wis dom of providing for future growth or the economy of the university or semi-detached building plan contem plated, and much might be pre sented In their favor. In all fairness to the School Board it should be said that the directors had their eyes on the uptown site long before the City Planning Com mission suggested Its purchase, but St remained for the commission, act ing independently along the same ; lines, to work out the plans, obtain an advantageous price and offer a , concrete suggestion to the board, which the directors, having already I made themselves familiar with the situation, were in position to grasp without much discussion. The de cision to purchase was based, there fore, upon the mature consideration of the School Board amplified by the Planning Commission's concrete recommendations. And now that the site is assured, it is to be hoped that no time will bo lost in getting ready for its develop ment at the earliest possible mo ment. The School Board having decided to do its part, City Council may be expected to accept the fifteen acres offered free in the Italian Park sec tion. These two improvements should go forward hand-in-hand. THE TITLE IS OURS GOVERNOR SPROUT., and Ad jutant General Reary will have the support of all Pennsyl vania in protesting against the appli cation of the 28th Division numeral to any but the new National Guard division of Pennsylvania, which, hy the way, will be made up largely of former members of the 28th who served with the red Keystone on ' their shoulders in France. Pennsylvania has earned title to both the Keystone and the division numeral. No State has a finer record in the war and few so good. It would be both stupid and unjust for the War Department to do such an obviously unpopular thing. THUMBS DOWN FOR BILL LONDON hears that the Kaiser is to escape the death penalty through "the special influence | of the United States." London's hearing is faulty. Lon don may have heard the voice of Woodrow Wilson, but It never heard any other American plead for mercy * tor the arch fiend of German fright fulness. No, indeed; they might string Wilhelm up to the first tele graph pole outside his Dutch palace and nobody in the United States worthy the name of citizen would raise his voice in protest, but a lot of folks, doubtless, would be heard to observe, that "hanging was too good for him." | Our own particular form of pun ishment, providing It was found in convenient to exhibit him In side shows at ten cents a throw —pro- ceeds to go to the war orphans— would be to make him spend the rest of his days helping by work of : hand and sweat of brow to rebuild the ruined towns and villages of Belgium. But be the sentence what It may the American people will • • ' ■ "• r ■ _ . .v.i, ■ . ——. .. . . ... j . TUESDAY EVENING, RARRISBUKG TEEEGPapg JULY 8, 1919. ask themselves only if It Is severe enough. There Is no leniency for Bill the Brute In the heart of Amer icans, and If President Wilson has been begging mercy for the inter national criminal who plunged the world into four years of misery and bloodshed, he has grossly misrepre sented public sentiment at home. We cannot believe that the report is true. It's thumbs down in the United States for Bill, and the President must know it. THE SUSQUEHANNA BASIN ITH the coining of hot W weather and the greater use of the noble river which washes our front steps there is wider interest in the proper devel opment of the Susquehanna Basin, ft is not generally known that hun dreds of canoes, row boats and mo tor boats are in daily use on this broad expanse of water, and, with the improvement of the basin as contemplated through the opening of channels in the reefs at Maclay street and the raising of the level of the river through a higher breast on the dam in South Harrisburg, hundreds more will make use of the river for pleasure and comfort dur ing several months of the year. The association known as the "Greater Harrisburg Navy" has within its membership men of vis ion and enthusiasm who are con ducting a constructive campaign of education as to the advantages of our water front and the basin to the end that permanent improve ment may be achieved at the earliest possible date. The annual Kipona, a river carnival which has already become popular, has attracted at tention to the possibilities of the Susquehanna Basin and during the next year or two substantial prog rcs. will be made in the plans for bathing and boating facilities which are .io generally demanded by the people. No feature of our scenic attrac tions is more commended by the visitor than the river basin and the unique treatment of the embank ment along the city front, and when the Hardscrabble district is con verted into an additional park strip definite consideration ought to be given some adequate plan for boat ing and bathing facilities at that point. It is not a difficult problem and several suggestions of a prac tical nature have already been made by competent engineers. One of these plans contemplates a large concrete boat house, so constructed as to interfere in no way with the park treatment from the top of the terrace to the walk along the shore line, inasmuch as the Hardscrabble improvement will probably come within the year the Greater Harris burg Navy officials should give seri ous study to the boating and bath ing features of that section of the River Front. There is no longer any criticism of the improvement of the river frontage; on the contrary, there is universal approval of what has been done for the health and comfort and pleasure of the people. The Sus quehanna Basin is a part of the people's recreation area and it is quite as important to give atten tion to its development as it is to further improve our park system and playgrounds. NOT THE POINT THE Kansas City Times offers excellent advice to those who would avoid a summer-weather knockout due to too much flesh across the equatorial region, a la Jess Willard, by restricting the amount of rich food we eat. What a happy place Kansas City must be, where a man can afford to eat more rich food than is good for him. We didn't think there was any such place left on earth, hut if there is why not advertise the fact instead of deprecating the enviable possibilities? If there is opportunity to buy in Kansas City for a dollar, say, more steak than an ordinary man ought to eat at a restaurant meal, (bread, butter, potatoes and coffee not In cluded in the price) the American public ought to know . about it. Kansas City has a duty to perform to suffering humanity if it has any opportunities for over-eating at a time when other cities are trying to find ways and means of keeping the pay envelope and the cost of living from getting so far apart the envel ope will never be able to catch up with the grocery bill. We need no such advice in Harris burg. When a man goes into an eating place in this city or a woman goes to market he, or she, as the case may be, soliloquizes somewhat after this manner: "Let's see; I've so much to spend, now what can I get for the money that will go the farthest for the cash? There's cabbage; that ought to bo cheap. And soup—or the material thereof — a lot of that will. help. And . steak, ah, how we would like to have a steak, but that's only for million aires. May be we better compromise 011 a little beef (boiled or for boil ing) and a couple of loaves of bread." Over-eating? Yes, thero was a time when wo of Harrisburg got fat for that reason, but thut was in the "dear, dim days beyond recall" when a man could acquire rotundity without the suspicion of having been too familiar with 2.75 beer or being in the profiteer class. Any on# who get* around Harris burg with hi* eye* open must be im pressed with the gradual development of the porch ar.d window-box decora tion of the homes of the city. It is pleasing to note that the floral dis play on the front of the Telegraph building has been greatly admixed. and other buildings are likely to be simUpxly adorned next year. Ik ""P tKKO\jtcCLKUI By the Kx-Committeeman Pittsburgh'c big bond issue elec tion, in which a loan of $22,000,000 is involved ,is the high point of in terest in Pennsylvania politics to day and it is estimated by the Pitts hurgh-Gazette-Times that about 54,- 000 persons will be entitled to vote at the polls to-day. The campaign has been strenuously waged, quite in keeping with Pittsburgh's way of doing things and meetings, pa rades and the like have taken place. Mayor E. V. Babcock has been a prominent tigure on the stump in behalf of the loan. The Gazette-Times says the Mayor is confident that the $6,000,000 sub way item, which the Pittsburgh Dis patch has been fighting, will carry two to one. The Dispatch says that the defeat of the item is "probable," and urges voters to vote as they talk. The Pittsburgh Post strongly urges the people to send every item "over the top, as we did everyone of our war quotas." There are seven Items and the program is the most extensive ever lyjown in the State outside of Phila delphia. —People who follow politics are commencing to discuss what an in teresting situation will be presented at the judicial primaries and general elections in many counties of Penn sylvania this fall when there will be no liquor issue in the land. For years every judicial election has been torn up by the liquor license issue and more than one judge of prominence has gone down to de feat because of it. There is no sign of the issue being raised in any of the counties as yet. hut it will possi bly arise and there may be contests waged in November over enforce ment, although if it is made a con gressional matters the voters will not have much to say about it. —Pennsylvania Congressmen are commencing to hear from people throughout the State about the way the prohibition situation has been handled and it is reported that some have received letters urging action. —Capitol Hill is commencing to display nervousness over the possi bility that there may be a pay day on July 15 without pay, such as occurred a 'couple of times during the Brumbaugh administration. The emergency appropriation, designed to take care of the pay of people connected with the State Govern ment and to meet the expenses of the various departments until the general appropriation bill was ap proved, did not provide for anything beyond the first of July, it being hoped that the general appropria tion bill could be signed before the fifteenth. However, there are all sorts of possibilities in generai bills, especially when they carry over $44,- 000,000 "such as that now on the desk of the Governor takes with it, and there may be some close con nections. The heads of the various departments who gave the appro priation chairmen figures on the "very least" they could get along on have been asked to send to the Governor statements of their real minimum estimates and also what positions they consider essential." —The Governor is expected to take up the general and the chari table appropriation bills with Au ditor General Charles A. Snyder and Chairman William J. McCaig, of the House appropriations committee, this evening and will probably commence to announce his action on the bills. There are over 650 in his hands and the time is up on July 26. an old-fashioned fight for the may oralty of Lebanon, as Mayor George T Spang has announced that he will be a candidate succeed himself and City Commissioner George C. j Krause, well known to many Har risburgers, has let it be known that he intends to seek the mayoralty, too. These two men have been rivals in Lebanon politics for years. Spang is a Republican, and Krause a Dem ocrat, and whether the election is nonpartisan or not, it will be worth watching. —Dr. Homer W. Tope, superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League ,at Philadelphia, who is active in the movement for election of "dry" men to the next Legislature, says that he believes world-wide prohibition is coming. —Joseph S. McLaughlin, director of supplies of Philadelphia, is said to have a mayorality idea, but it is not meeting with favor in the Vare camp where Kendrick stock is quot ed at high figures. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore has written in his column in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger this interesting story about a State of official: Dr. Francis D. Patterson, of the Department of Labor and In dustry at Harrishurg, rnshed to Washington at the Instance of Gov ernor Sproul the other day In an ef fort to destroy a rider giving addi tional powers to the Federal Bureau of Mines, which had been sneaked | in on the Senate side without notice to the House. The doctor was hot I under the cellar, as were a number of other State officials, who eom p'ained they had been taken hy sur prise. The purpose of the rider was to give the bureau of mines fifteen new inspectors at fat salaries, and the State's representatives contend ed that they would onlv interfere with efficient State regulations and harass business men. A quickfight was made against the rider and It went out. the House for once stand ing unanimous against the invasion of the Senate. TIME I ask'd an Aged Man, a man of cares. Wrinkled, and curved, and white with hoary hairs: "Time is the warp of life," he satd. "Oh tell The young, the fair, the gay, to weave it well!" T ask'd the aged Venerable Dead, Sages who wrote, and warriors who bled: Front the cold grave a hollow mur mur flow'd, "Time sowed the seed we reap In this abode." I asked a Dying Sinner, ere the tide Of life had left his veins: "Time," he replied—■ "I've lost itl Ah, the treasure!"— and he died. • T asked the Golden Sun and Silver Spheres. Those bright Chronometers of days and years: They answer'd. "Time is but a meteor glare, And bids us for Eternltr prepare." —The Rev, Benjamin Marsden in <be Journal. WONDER WHAT A MOSQUITO THINKS ABOUT .... ByBRICCS HE LLO - HERC'I A ILL START R>RLU*J& 1 JuST BELIFIME ILL S<7MG PROBOSCLS! FIMD I .THIS IS A AT OK,CE - THIS OLD \ START ON HIS BELIEVIE ME-E-E-EE BRANO MEVAI HEAD PARTY ASLEEP JNE 816 BC) y ARe GOIN& ,C To Me- AMD t POM T GReATLY FAC.LtTATe FIMISH- Gee-e-ee IT Bsueve Tneßtf S OPERATIONS -°"THIS IS A DISCOMERY- £ 0 Bgen ANOTHBR oh BA-BeE-ee BuT 1 * FEE-e-eeLiio^ MOSQUITO oto iv- ME . E -E Q BLOOD THIRSTY^ /TV* ou- - - A we ' e '' z- "%77-ec-e Deuieue Me e-o j ( L(= ec 6 Ms-.ee-ee VMOUJ! HE Ga ve ME well I ouess ILL S hoping, ne [ Kioew IT ! <3<?e AM 'AWFUL FRIGHT, TA*£ TH<= iO? FYRS , POESN'T VUAW6 uP- UJHiZ j MIIARLY GOT S I T TSMOR J.* ADOR£ TH.S ' p A L^ L eIsLY At T Tos\- cfTSHED - 111 Btf 'jtrsswrn? AFTeg- ° IN sne Goes- A Air Policy 'Unthinkable' [Richard Washburn Child in Col lier's Weekly.] Upon one thing the British are firm. They saw the inefficiency re sulting from scattering the control of aviation among various depart ments of government. They saw the unsatisfactory muddle when the royal (lying corps of the army and the royal navy aviation section were trying separately and sometimes at cross purposes to develop power in the air. The British have seen the efficiency of centralized control in the air ministry. They want it to continue in peace. They think the development of civil flying depends on it. So it does. The good sense, the proved experi ence, the wisdom and foresight of this fact are so plain that it gives an American in London a shudder when he reads a dispatch from Washington which, instead of con veying the news that Congress or the executive under the extraordinary war powers had taken a step to ward contralized control of army, navy and civil flying, conveyed the news that the only semblance of centralized control built up in the United States has been kicked to pieces. The army air service, which only saw growth under Major Gen eral Kenly as director of military aeronautics, has been taken back and given over to the general staff! I have before me an editorial com ment from one of the foremost European newspapers: "It is unthinkable that a great country like the United States will allow this state of affairs (the de centralization of control, the lack of government assistance to the de velopment of flying, and the reduc tion of permanent air stations to three!) to continue. The various phases through which the service has passed during the war may serve as an example of the evils of Indecision and the lack of definite and continuous policy." i No less vital to the development of flying for peace is a definite and continuous government policy, with government support and supervision of flying under one central author ity. The British know It! Does America? 1 Secretary Baker's Prodigality Washington, July S.—"l state de liberately that in normal times, in 1 time of peace, such a violation mor ally upon the part of an official of the government would come very close to leading to his impeach ment." This was the language of Senator ■ T.enroot of Wisconsin in a speech in : the Senate in connection with the Army appropriation bill. He, with others, severely condemned the ac . tlon of the War Department, ap i proved, of course, by Secretary i Baker in purchasing real estate for I camps against the will of Congress. The purchase most condemned , was one for large tracts at Camp I Benning, Georgia, for a school of arms, a purchase consummated long after the armistice, and in spite of the fact it is contended there were i ample facilities elsewhere, especial ly at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, This, however, was by no means the only purchase which was criticised, and it was made clear that the Secretary of War hnd done a thing which Con gress might have sanctioned had the war continued but which the coming on of pence made very different. They "Sneaked It Through" [Harper's Weekly.] Good things are sometimes done in a bad way, an orderly and legiti mate way. But here Is an attempt to do a bad thing in a bad way; which means that it should he doubly damned. It would ho a bad thing to abolish the so-called "day." light saving" arrangement, no mat ter how It might be done. Tt is a had thing to pass any measure as a "rider." no matter what the meas ure 'may he. But to pass this "day light repeal" proposal as a rider Is. as we have said, doubly evil, if the short-sighted advooates of If want to try Issues upon It. let them nut It up as an Independent meas ure; to take Its ehances according i to Its own deserts. In that form It would nrohahlv he overwhelming! v reiected. which Is whv thev do not dare to try it. hut Instead "sneok it In" as a rider. Tn Its present ferwi it ought to he atl the more surely and strongly beaten. Wood on Preparedness [From the Washington Star] AVERY interesting address was delivered by Gen. Leon ard Wood in Washingto,. the other night to the graduating class of George Washington University. This is taken from it: "This war has shown us that a great commercial nation cannot be come a great military nation with out a considerable period of pre paredness. We should do in the time of peace what cannot be done without great sacrifice in time of war." General Wood, as all are aware, was an advocate of preparedness at a time when all the advocates of that policy were regarded and char acterized as mere alarmists—as men speaking without warrant—and by some as spreaders of alarm for sel fish purposes. The war, as all now know, vindicated him and all who held with him. Great sacrifice was required and made as the result of unpreparedness when war came. At the heaviest expense, w had to hurry with an order which all but paralyzed us. What we should have been ready with in a few weeks taxed our utmost endeavors for months. Naturally and logically General Wood advises against slipping back into the old and discredited condi tion. Now that we have discovered the value of preparedness, and are prepared, he wants us to remain pre pared, and to take steps to make the future secure. On that point, he says: "No greater aid in fitting the men of the country to take up arms in time of war can be found than a Takes up Billboard Fight [From the New York Herald.] Opening a fight on billboards in city streets and avenues, the Na tional Association of Real Estate Boards, in convention at Atlantic City, places its interested strength behind a public sentiment which has been able already in a number of cities to effect wholesome reforms in the indicated direction. Wash ington has abolished billboards, Chicago regulates them by a prin ciple of majority consent. In Bos ton a charter provision is directed against them. New York has experienced sev eral anti-billboard agitations with out visible effect. Broadway still suffers visl'ations of ugly boardings. Along Riverside Drive choice beauty spots of sloping lawn are spread be fore backgrounds of unsightly ad vertising rising to levels of second story window tops. Such obtrusive structures offend the intelligent eye. The men at Atlantic City find that they also can affect seriously the values of real estate and of bonds Issued to cover investments in parks, parkways and boulevards. For the billboards there is no plea of public necessity. They are in stitutions purely of private profit. No ranking for general convenience is to be accorded to them. They lack the qualities of fantastic display and the virtue of assisting materially in the illumination of a great city which has disarmed esthetic critics of the electric night advertising signs nlong shopping fronts and skylines. Billboards in cities are indeed the unbecoming products of a special indulgence. When that indulgence is withdrawn by urban authority, it may be found practicable to clean up the landscape along rural drives and crosscountry railway lines. Omar Expurgated When Omar penned his famous screed He little thought his lines Would find admirers in a land Destined to taboo wines; But since, behold! the cards are stacked In favor of the drys. The bibulous old Persian we Must certainly revise. So when we take our Omar up Bv mountain stream or sea We'll change his celebrated verse To run quite harmlessly: "A loaf of bread, a pitcher full Of lemonade, and thou," Will foe the way we'll have to read The Persian poet now. . —-MINNA IRVING. sound course of physical training in the schools. Only one-half of the men of military age were physically fit for full military duty. This great number of ' physically, poorly equipped men will he bad for in dustry. Most of these defects could have been cured if we had better physical training in the schools. We should also have a better and more thorough public education system. It is surprising the great number of illiterates who were found by the draft." This also is very persuasive. The proper physical training makes for efficiency in civil as well as in mili tary life. The man thoroughly fit physically for civil duties, no matter their character, is the fitter for mili tary duties when called to perform the latter. His health and strength are an asset in both fields of activ ity. Let us have the upstanding citizen as well as the upstanding soldier. If we have the former, we are certain of the latter. As General Wood made good as an advisor in the matter of war, he is entitled to a most respectful hearing as an advisor in the matter of peace. His advice, as to preparedness for war was not taken, to the regret now probably of many who rejected it. That as to peace, and preparing men for peace duties, is before us, and should be considered on its merits. Now that thd war is over the work of rehabitation calls for good men and the best that is in them. Blood tells. So docs training. The train ed man is, as a rule, a dependable man, ready for his assignment, and quick and capable in performing whatever is intrusted to him. THE ENEMIES OF ORDER [From the Scranton Republican.] The anti-sedition law, recently passed by the Pennsylvania Legis lature and approved by Governor Sproul for the purpose of curbing the enemies of order in their in sidious efforts to undermine the Government of State and Nation, by their advocacy of the vicious tenets of Bolshevism and anarchy, has promptly been invoked in this city by the commendable action of Superintendent of Police Day in ap prehending certain persons on the charge of violating its provisions. While great care should he taken not to deprive any man of his lib erty unjustly, or condemn hiru with out fair trial, conditions are such as to justify the guardians of the law in keeping a close watch upon the agents of mis rule who are now active sowing the seeds of sedition in this Republic. It is certainly a piece of brazen assurance on the part of Bolshevist emissaries to come to this country where the people rule, for the pur pose of advocating the body and soul-destroying doctrines prevalent In Russia where neither rule nor reason prevails. The agents of anarchy must be taught that America is not fertile soil for their pernicious and poison ous propaganda. If the common sense rule of the people, exercised at the polls and subordinated to the verdict of the majority, does not suit the Bolshevist breeders of dis content let them go to Russia or wherever else the atmosphere may be congenial to their wild-eyed theories. This is a land of liberty regulated by law, not by unrestrained license and It will not tolerate Bolshevism or any of its kindred political here sies. Freedom of speech and of the press are guaranteed by the Organic Daw of State and Nation, hut not to the extent of promulgating doc trines aimed at the destruction of our institutions. The American people who poured forth their blood and treasure so generously for the destruction of autocracy In Europe are not going to tolerate any assault on their own free and independent government by a lot of half-baked agitators whose theories would turn the world into one vast lunatic asylum. The great principle: "Order Is heaven's flrst law," is the safeguard of the American home, and of this Republic, and those who undertake to overthrow It must expect to be treated aa enemies of this country. No Wonder Germany Qu: NUMBER TWENTY-TWO One of the great problems we had to contend with in France was the Boehe spies," said Major Frank C. Mahin of the Army Recruiting sta tion, 325 Market street, Harrisburg. "Spies were gotten into France in four ways; those who were sent in before the war, those who got in by way of Switzerland, those who were brought over the lines in aeroplanes and landed at night, and the most dangerous for us were the spies the Germans got into our army in this country and sent over as soldiers. Most of this latter class were sol diers, out there were several officers, and even one chaplain; also there were M. C. A. and other civilian workers who turned out to be spies. The great difficulty we had with the men who were in our service was that we got orders from Washing ton that no man in the army should be executed for any offense what soever without special authority from the President. We would get all the evidence possible against the spy and then instead of court-mar tiailing him ourselves, we would turn him over with the evidence to the r rench. They had special courts in session all the time to try spies and justice was administered with the utmost dispatch. Within twenty four hours after they had a spy he had been tried, convicted and shot. Since we were under French high command we could turn over such spies as we caught to their gentle mercies with the certainty that once such transfer had been made we would never hear any more about the spy. We caught one spy right in our own regiment. Ho was a sergeant in the Stokes mortar platoon and a very good soldier. The Stokes were sent up to mo shortly after we got in the trenches, and they promptly started having trouble. The Roche apparently knew exactly where they were and shelled them unmercifully. We mov ed them and within a couple of hour 3 they were accurately shelled again. Then we started doing some counter espionage work. Each day we movbd the Stokes and each day they got shelled until more than twenty of the men in the platoon had been killed or wounded. Fin ally we became suspicious of this sergeant so we prepared a trap for him. lie had a had habit of wan dering around alone in the sector and in particular of going down into unoccupied parts of the front line trench which was only about fifteen yards from the German front line. 1 had the word spread all through the sector that I had moved the thirty-seven milimetcr gun platoon in the area. Actually I brought up one of the three guns and its crew. Shortly after the guns arrived this sergeant questioned the gun captain as to where his gun was hidden, but the gun captain and all his crew had been told to tell anyone who questioned them that their gun was in an entirely different place from where it was. The gun cuptain re ported his conversation with the sergeant, so we worked out the co ordinates (exact spot on the map) of a position that was a good place for a thirty-seven but was really six hundred yards from where the gun was The gun captain then hunted up the sergeant, the former being watched all the time without his knowledge to make sure he talked to no one but the sergeant, and gave the sergeant the false co-ordinates of the gun position. The sergeant at once went down into the unoccu pied front trench and within an hour the Boche blew the supposed gun position off the face of the land scape. That was all the evidence needed and we proceeded to 'pinch' Mr. Sergeunt. No Thought Lead in America [Charles Edward Russell In the Bookman.] It may be taken for certain that in these days there is no such thing in America as a leader of thought. I do not know that there is one man whose views on any subject connected with public affairs have the slightest weight because they are his. PRAISE THE LORD Praise ye the Lord. Blessed Is the man that feareth the Lord, that de llghteth greatly In his command ments.—Psalms cxli, L Brottng (Et?al With exception of the eolors of the 110 th Infantry, the 107 th Machine Gun Battalion, which was attached to the 28th division headquarters and a few of the auxiliary organizations the flags of all of the units which made up the Keystone division in I 1 ranee have been received by Adju tant General Prank D. Beary and this month arrangements will be made by the State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings for the prop er placing of the colors in the ro tunda of the Capitol. It is expected that the colors, of the 107 th will be here in a short time, while those of the 110 th will bo turned over late this summer. All of the other infantry, machine gun and artillery flags have been received at the Capi tol. Steps are being taken to se cure the colors of the regiments made up of Pennsylvanians in tho 79th, 80th and other divisions which were in the National Army list and they will be given place with the Keystone colors close to the stand ards of thp regiments of the Civil and Spanish wars in the Capitol. * * * Recruitment of the new troop of the State Police is being made en tirely of men who have had service with the United States army in the war. There have been numerous inquiries from men who had over seas service as to the requirements for service in the State force and the fact that the new organization will be made up of men of experience will enable tho troop to bo ready for service earlier than expected. A number of men who had been in cavalry service have also applied. Until the barracks here are com pleted, which will be this fall, the troops will have its headquarters on leased property near Lancaster. • * • In these days of draught there come from tho returned ones stories of sunny France, which was not too sunny but very cheerful in spirits withal. This particular tale was told by a young colonel of the Yankee division, formerly commandant of one of the army schools of instruc tion and more lately general of a National Army artillery brigade. It seems that the tirst wave of the 26th was moving forward fairly rapidly at the left side of the salient at St. Mihiel, when a platoon of Yanks ran into a big building chock full of abandoned Bochc foodstuffs. They rummaged about looking over the tons of good canned vegetables and fruit, the meat, tobacco, every thing that the Bcclio had been re ported short of; but the big yell wont up when coming around the corner of the building they saw a big shed stacked up to tho eaves with big kegs. Immediately with true American fortitude, they made a frontal attack on the supply and found it good, old German beer. That settled it. The attack was tem porarily forgotten and tho platoon sat down to enjoy its fill qf good beer. And as they drank the word traveled far and wide that an oasis in the front had hcen discovered, and before the afternoon was over the place was surrounded hy dough hoys, artillerymen, engineers, cam ion drivers. M. P's and lieutenant colonels from headquarters. A very enjoyable time was reported by all present. The evening found tho brig ado headquarters billeted there. • • • When tho contracts for State highway construction on which bids are being opened to-day are award ed Pennsylvania will have more miles of road under contract than any other State in the Union, ac cording to the way Highway Com missioner Lewis S. Sadler figures it. The end of this month will see half a thousand being built and the Key •tone Slate will he a long ways to ward being put in (he front rank, says Co'. William D. Uhler, the chief engineer. • • • Attorney General William I. Schaffer is having his experience Willi the Baker estate. This estate, which does not exist as far as any one connected with the State Gov ernment has been able to discover, appears biennially to plague the oc cupant of the Attorney General's chair. Attorneys general have been asked to protect interest of heirs, to get after crooks, to make inquiries, to proceed in court and even to act in the interest of the Commonwealth in regard to this estate. It first ap peared twenty years ago when the "heirs" began writing to see what they should do. It has beep located in the heart of various cities and in profitable coal lands. Since then every Attorney General has been asked to take some steps, generally in interest of the writer of the let ter. Mr. Schaffer is having his turn. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~ Dr. D. A. Harman, head of Hazle ton schools, is out trotting the cir cuit hunting teachers. He says that the scarcity is serious. —Ex-Judge W. K. Stevens, of Reading, well known to many hero, was struck by an automobile ami badly hurt a few days ago. -—Dr. Wilmer Krusen, head of Philadelphia's health, says his big problem is to get the children to the playgrounds. —Col. Francis Ralson, active Jhi, American army work in France, is a brother of Judge Robert Ralston, long prqminent in Nat onal Guard* affairs. —H. DeY Dents, prominent Car bon county lawyer, has been named as head of the Carbon county Sab bath school association. T DO YOU KNOW —That ITarrlsburg's postal busi ness Is showing unothcr spurt and tluit it is far ahead of what it was ten years ngo? HISTORIC HARRISBURO —The Harrlßburg National bank corner has been occupied by' that institution longer than any site has been continuously used by any es tablishment in Harrisburg. A Self-supporting Poland [From the New York Sun.] The boundaries lixed for Poland include the mining districts of tho former Polish kingdom, thus fur nishing practically all the minerals required In modern industries; they include also the rich agricultural lands of the Polish provinces and the manufacturing centers where Polish industrial skill reached Its highest development. New Poland is thus from an economic point of view what the Polish people ha.ve ■ought, a truly self-supporting state. It
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