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THURSDAY, JULY Ift, 1919
What eonrernrfb every man ts nof
trbefJter he fail or succeed, but tbaf he
da fcis duty.—lan Mac-Laren.
COAL SHORTAGE
LAST February we were Informed
that the demand for anthracite
had fallen off to such extent
that the mines could not be op
erated to capacity. Now we are
told that the country is face to face
with another coal famine. Millions
of tons are being shipped abroad, it
is explained. Coal selling, like char
ity, begins at home, or should. We
who are near the mines should
never be lacking a supply.
But why a shortage, in any event?
The operators must have know-n that
prospects were bright for European
orders, even as early as February
last. Were they merely juggling
prices? It doesn't have a good
sound.
SHIKELLIMY
SHIKELLIM Y is an excellent
choice as a name for the Y. M.
C. A. boys' camp, if it does noth
ing more than rouse the boys of
Harrisburg to a course of reading
regarding the life and character of
this most famous of Indian chiefs
with whom the white settlers here
abouts had to deal in the early days.
ShikelMmy was a perfect type of
Indian, as pictured by Cooper In his
Leather Stocking tales. He was all
that was good, brave and true. No
boy will be hurt by a study of
shikellimy. We know all too little of
our local history and the heroic
figures it produced.
NEW LAW PAVES WAY
APPROVAL by Governor Sproul
of a bill permitting second
and third class cities, bor
oughs and counties to acquire
and operate playgrounds, gym
nasiums, public baths, swimming
pools and indoor tcrreation centers
Is another step tbward general rec
ognition of a growing conviction
that the government which regu
lates a man's working environment
must also provide some means of
healthful recreation for his leisure
hours. -We In Harrisburg are seri
ously lacking in this respect, espe
cially with regard to the winter sea
son and its activities. We must find
a substitute for the park in the
winter. The situation is urgent.
THE BUILDING PROBLEM
HARRISBURG'S housing prob
blem, insofar as it is related
to mere supply. Is slowly be
ginning to solve itself. Numerous
building permits testify to the de
cision of private builders to attempt
to meet the situation by going ex
tensively Into the erection of dwell
ings. Doubtless there would be more
building if contractors could procure!
deliveries of material. Those who
bought early, realizing that prices
were going up rather than down,
were fortunate. Builders only re
cently waked up to the fact that
lumber stocks are low and have be
gun buying agutnst their future
needs. The result has been a general
scramble on the part of consuming
buyers and a consequent freukisli
ness in the market, with no fixed
values.
The warnings of the past few
months from manufacturers us to
the threatened shortage of lumber
have been regarded by many us prop
aganda to force up the prices, where
as, as a matter of fact, the condi
tions of stocks were ruther under
stated. Not only upper grade stock
is very low, hut the low grades have
been drawn upon heavily. The de
mand for building materials hus
been prodigious und muny oiders
are now being returned unfilled. Pro
duction and shipments have both
been running below orders for some
time und the recent slight decreuse
In orders hus been simply the result
• f low stocks. In ionic sections there
nave been two buyers for every
THURSDAY EVENING, BABRISBURQ WV TELEGKXFH JULY 10, 1919.
board and the situation has been ag
gravated In the south the past few
weeks by the heavy rains which
have made logging operations very
difficult and even Impossible In
some places. Labor shortage Is also
an Important factor In some sec
tions.
Although building operations have
started at an enormous rate, with
two or three times the volume of a
year ago. the situation Is In general
far from satisfactory. In the first
place, the buyer finds prices high
jand uncertain and feels that advan
tage is being taken of him! the deal
er himself does not know what the
market is, and the wholesaler Is not
able to fill orders and does not feel
Justified In sending out his men to
get new ones. If the buyer realizes
| that the present topsy-turvy condi
; tlon is out of control of the producer
land manufacturer, he will not feel
thut he is being victimized, but will
I know that the fault Is partly his l>e
j cause he did not buy earlier, when
I he was urged to do so, because he
j believed that prices would go down.
{Conditions will right themselves
I soon, but there is no Indication that
a lower price level will be reached
In the near future. The wise build
er will put In hlB orders now for de
liveries he desires for late summer.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
THE American Exchange Bank,
in a pamphlet addressed to
"The Young Men of America,"
offers this bit of sage advice:
If the aver; ge young man de
i sires to be successful he must I
| submit to the conditions which
i success imposes. These primarily
j are honesty. Industry and econ
omy, the practice of which Is a
cardinal necessity in the forma
tion of character.
That is true. The young man who
begins early to practice honesty,
industry and economy is bound to
get ahead. The man who neglects
any or all of these is giving hostages
to fortune. He who nails these watch
words to his masthead has an ever
growing handicap over the chap
who has neglected any or all of them.
Add a kindly disposition, a willing
ness to serve and breadth of view
and you have a combination that is
an asset beyond price in the great
game of getting along in the world.
And what has all this to do with
banking, that the institution quoted
should show such a remarkable in
terest in the future of the young
manhood of the country? Oh, that
is simple. The thrifty man Is in
variably a bank depositor, the hon
est man is one to whom the bank
likes to lend money and the indus
trious man invariably increases his
deposits. It's a good thing to inter
est a young man in banking. Give
him a bankbook and he is apt to
spend his evenings in a manner that
will not cause an overdrawing of his
account. The bankbook, next to the
Bible, is the best little book in the
world. Its language Is understood
the earth around. It is a fine bit of
literature to have about tlwi house. -
Would that more banks went out
into the highways and byways in 1
search of the young depositor. Too
many of them discourage him be
cause his dealings are small, dis
regarding the fact that the small
depositor of to-day is the large de
positor of to-morrow.
NO CAUSE FOR WORRY
REPORTS from Germany to the
effect that German officers are
committing suicide in large
numbers seem almost too good to
be true. In the first place the yel
low-streaked bully seldom, if ever,
puts an end to his own career. Sec
ondly, it is strongly suspected that
former German army officers are
hoping for a return of autocracy
and militarism, with a resultant
restoration of their lost prestige. But
if the reports be true, let's not con
sider ways and means of stopping
the practice. The sooner the Prus
sian military breed runs out the
better for the world.
UP TO THE MAYOR
THE people of Harrisburg are
long sufferipg and kind in their
attitude toward their public of
ficials, but they will not much longer
overlook the indifference to their
comfort in "the public-be-damned"
front of those who appear to think
the anti-noise campaign is without
justification or reason. Police officials
can stop the cut-out and other
racket in twenty-four hours by
simply enforcing the regulations and
imposing stiff fines and imprison
ment, if necessary.
Mayor Keistcr has promised the
Rotary Club his support in that or
ganization's anti-noise campaign. All
the noise is n6t made by motor
cycles and automobiles, although
they have been a source of constant
trouble. The Mayor has shown
a disposition to go along with
the club in its effort to make the
town reasonably quiet, and if he is
really in earnest he will issue or
ders to his policemen to enforce the
rules to the letter. The urrests
that have been made have had a
salutary effect. If the mayor will
make a few examples of flagrant
violators and at the same time take
up the matter of regulation with in
dustries making more noise than
seems neceßsury much good can be
accomplished. It Is very distinctly
up to him and the police, und a
fair start hus been made.
PEACE POGROM
AN officer of the British General
staff numes twenty-three wars
that were going on coincldently
with the peace conference. Jt ought
to be known us the Peace Pogrom.
"There Is one thing we are certainly
going to find out before discussion
of the League of Nations has ended,
|and that is whether the United Slates
Is a une-mun government.
IT>oUUc* i%
'pe.n.KOi^CaanXa
By the Ex-Committeeman
j Visits of Senators Penrose and
. Vbre to the Governor to discuss the
Philadelphia legislation and the
malte-up of the board of registration
commissioners have served to attract
■ State-vrlde attention to the Phlladel
-1 phla situation. Many people are
| commencing to tit back and watch
1 for the start of the stren-ous cam- j
| palgn right awa}\
Senator Penrose intends to take
a part In the battle and It Is the bo
lief of his friends that under the
new charter and with the new j
registration commission that the
Yare strength can be clipped. The
Philadelphia mayoralty is a prelim
inary to next year's contests when
a presidential delegation Is to be
elected and Senator Penrose conies
up for re-election. The State will j
then elect a Stale Treasurer and
Auditor General.
—Pittsburgh's bond election was
attended by a. light vote but the
whole $22,000,000 Issue was approved
by a decisive majority, even the i
$6,000,000 subway Item having a |
comfortable margin. This Is the]
item which was opposed by the j
Pittsburgh Dispatch and a certain |
element. It Is not regarded as likely,
that there will be any contests In
court. The Improvements will be
started in a very short time.
—The Philadelphia Press says
regarding the mayoralty: "In trying
to poll the city on a suitable candi
date for next Mayor the City Club
I gets votes for some t'hirty more or
less prominent citizens. This is en
couraging as an evidence that we
have plenty of talent, and a good
deal to spare. But what is going
to be necessary is that the people
get together; the political leaders
won't scatter their choice."
| —The Lehigh County Democrat
Committee re-elected Jonathan E.
Frederick as county chairman;
Arthur R. Berlin, secretary, ar.-d
Arthur J. D. Koenig, treasurer. The
old crowd seems to be in control.
—People at the Capitol are
breathing more freely now that it is
announced that Governor William C.
Sproul will give immediate attention
to the general appropriation bill
which carries the payroll.
—The Senate bill providing pro
cedure for changing of polling
places, one of the bills irr the series
known as Philadelphia bills, has
been approved by the Governor. It
provides that county commissioners
may change a polling place within
three weeks of a general, municipal
or special election; on petition of
ten electors of the precinct or divi
sion and after written notice to the
owner or occupant of the place. No
change, however, can be made if
a petition signed by a majority of
the electors of the district is pre
sented. Commissioners are given
authority to submit the question of
a change to the voters of the district.
—The Governor has also approved
the bill providing that the Auditor
General may name the clerks and
other persons, other than appraisers,
to assist registers of wills to collect
jnheritqqce taxes ,in all counties
except Philadelphia. This is one of
the bills in the Auditor General's
series of revenue raising measures.
The Auditor General is also to fix
the compensation.
—Governor Sproul's bill providing
that the Governor shall have au
thority to employ consultants, ex
perts, accountants, investigators, in
spectors and clerks on various public
works to advise him has become a
law by approval of the Governor.
This is one of the measures urged
by the Governor to enable him to '
secure advice on big public works
and to study conditions affecting
public welfare. An appropriation
of $25,000 is placed at the disposal
of the Governor.
—Governor Sproul last night an
nounced appointment of H. Walton
Mitchell, of Pittsburgh, to be or
phans court judge of Allegheny,
succeeding the late Judge James W.
Over as president judge. Judge
member of the court, succeeds Judge
Over a spresident judge. Judge
Mitchell is one of the prominent
members of the Allegheny bar, a
law partner of Ex-Speaker George
E. Alter and has for years been a
trustee of State College, of which
board he is now chairman. He has
been prominent in church affairs and
active in the bar associations. Many
attorneys of Allegheny had en
dorsed him. Judge Mitchell will
qualify at once.
—District Attorney George W.
Maxey, of Lackawanna county, is the
first candidate for a common pleas
judicial nomination to enter a nom
inating petition at the State Depart
ment. He will be a candidate for the
term of ten years caused by expira
tion of the term of Judge James J.
O'Neil, of that county.
—lmportant changes are made in
the nonpartisan ballot law by the
Governor's approval of the Senate bill
making amendments to the act of
I 1913, which was designed primarily
to clarify the provisions relative to
computing the vote for determina
tion of "sole nominees." Under the
new law all votes cast for nonparti
san candidates, whether on the
party ballot in the nonpartisan group
or on the separate nonpartisan bal
lot shall be counted and added to
gether and the total certified. Any
judicial candidate who receives a
number of votes greater than one
half of the votes cast for such of
fice shall be the sole nominee. When
two or more judges are to he nom
inated all who receive more than
one-half of the total votes cast for
the office shall be the sole nominee
for one of the vacancies in such of
fice. The number of votes cast for the
respective candidates for'the office
of Judge at the primary shall de
termine the precedence of names of
such candidates on the ballot for the
election following. The candidate
receiving the highest number of
votes shall head the list. The hill
also provides for printing nonparti
san nominations on all party prlmnry
ballots bh well ns separately, the
latter to be for voters not registered
or enrolled under a party name.
Men reentered or enrolled are not
to receive nonpartisan ballots. Pro
vision Is nlso made for determining
position in event of tie votes.
Esther Becomes the Queen
Esther was brought also unto the
king's house, to the custody of Hc
gai, keeper of the women. And the
maiden pleased him: and he pre
ferred her and her maids unto the
best place of the house of the wo
men. And the king loved Esther
above all the women, und he set
the royal crown upon her head.—
Esther 11, I to 17.
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A Big Day at Quarryville
The first airplane to condescend to i
visit Quarryville touched the suburbs |
one day recently. Its arrival over :
the town was not unexpected. In j
fact, Its coming had been heralded, i
but only those on the inside had !
know ledge of the flier's intention to j
alight. It was a busy day In Quarry- ;
ville and tho morning time, when j
the metropolis of the lower end is.
alive with people from the sur- j
rounding country, but when the !
machine descended upon John Mc- .
Guigan's field of timothy, which is
on the outskirts of tho town, the
population w - transferred in the j
twinkling of an eye to the scene of |
the landing. From every neighbor- j
ing township, nook and corner, fac- j
tory and field, they came in ma- |
chines, on horsebeck, on foot and on .
the run to see the monster. A fly-j
ing machine in repose was a sight j
the natives had long been hoping j
to see and it was, indeed, a sight.
The pilot was accustomed to meet- j
ing with the common people, but it i
remained for Quarryville to open the i
flier's eyes, to contemplate a cool
1,000 gazers of all ages, from elder- |
ly ladies, who had suffered with j
rheumatism for years, to babes too ;
young to have their pictures taken. |
That timothy of John McGuigan's j
covered twenty-five acres, and it
stood four feet high. Substantial
fences encircles the field, and a
babbling brook did little babbling,
hidden beneath the grass and under
brush: comparatively few people were
acquainted with its existence until
they plunged into it. The fences
went down with the crowd piling on
them. Horses were hitched to
everything, from a bean pole to a
barbed-wire fence, automobiles in
mud puddles congested all travel
from Camargo to Tanktown, tres
passing was the disorder of the day.
Altogether it was one of the great
est affairs Quarryville had ever seen,
and the show was continuous. 1- or
hours the pilot tried in vain to raise
his plane from the timothy, and
finally he found it necessary to deal
with Farmer McGuigan to make hay
hurriedly. A path of sufficient
width was mowed, and about 3 p. m.
the machine arose, to soar north
ward. Nothing but the arrival of
the devil on the back of the Kaiser j
could have occasioned greater ex
citement in Quarryville than the ini- |
tlal descent of an airplane front the ,
clouds. —George \V. Hensel in Phil- i
adelphia North American.
Theaters Behind the Times
England is no less weary of the
bedroom comedy" of the present
day stage than is America, if one
may accept the word of G. R. Mal
loch, writing in the Evening Stand
ard of I>ondon. Mr. Malloch, in an
article in appreciation of John
Drinkwater's play, "Abraham Lin
coln," which is having great success
in London, says:
"The. life of the crowd is, as
Tehekov said, higher and more in
telligent than the theater of today.
People do not want the vapid stuff
that is fed to them in many theaters
they accept It simply because It is
there and nothing else offers. Thea
ter going is a habit strongly rooted
in the population of a great, city,
an integral part of their social life,
and It takes a great deal to drive
them out of the theater. They will
accept the inferior because the bet
ter sort Is not available, but when
worthy fare is set before them they
crowd to it. What attracts them In
'Abraham Lincoln' Is that they find
the highest kind of drama in it
spiritual drama.
"In this seemingly tame chronicle ,
lies the conflict of spirit with spirit,
of the great soul with the myriad
little souls, the soul of the one with
the soul of the mob. The protag
onists are tendencies, causes, striv
ings of the world spirit. It is on the
plane of the elemental: there Is an
Inescapable fascination for men in
the workings of these great causes,
dimly felt and seen darkly. We
come away from the spectacle digni
fied. Who ever left a revue or a
bedroom comedy of today in that
frame of mind?"
A Book and a Sermon
"Books in the running brooks!"
"Sermons in stoneH!"
Thus sang the poet In his most ap
pealing tones.
I tried to read a running brook and
what it said, I think,
Was "Little drops of water will be
I all you'll get to drink."
I I scarce believe In poets, so 1 wanted
Ito be shown
How It Is possible to find a sermon
In a stone.
I had an altercation with a friend,
j It was a shock
I When he silenced all objections as
J he hit me with a rock.
' —Washington Star.
"White Church of Paris"
Is Shrine of All France
Prophecy of a Seventeenth Century Nun, Long Ignored,
Was Fulfilled With the Building of Sacre Coeur, Ac
cording to Believers, Who Give Thanks in the
Basilique For Victory Over the Huns
SACRE COEUR, "the white
church of Paris," is the shrine
of all France now, the place to
which millions turn their thoughts
if not their feet when they give
thanks for the victory for world
democracy. This is why:
Back in the Seventeenth Century
Marguerfte-Marie, a nun in the
monastery of Paray-le-Monial, said
that Christ had appeared to her in
a vision and told her he wished a
church consecrated to his heart
erected in Paris, from which it
would radiate his love over all
France.
It also was revealed in the vision,
the nun said, that France could not
be happy and peaceful until that
wish was complied with.
King Who Laughed Fell
The story spread and finally
reached the king, but he laughed at
it. Then came the revolution, in
which the ruler, Louis XVI, was
killed. In those days of turmoil all
who had faith in the prophecies of
Marguerite-Marie revived her story,
but the revolutionists were not
much interested in things religious.
In every time of trouble which
followed, the effort to have the
church erected was revived, but not
till the German conquest in 1871
did the nation turn to it, as a last
desperate hope. Immediately after
that disaster the raising of money
for the proposed church began all
"CANCELITIS"
[Harvey's Weekly]
"Cancelitis" in its most improvi
dent and virulent form has been
running riot in the War Depart
ment, according to a number of
business men who are in a position
to know whereof they speak. They
charge, further, that Secretary
Baker was directly responsible for
inoculating the Army bureaus with
this malady, which is defined as "a
hysteria of cancellation."
It is contended that improvidence
and a complete lack of business
sense characterized the sweeping or
ders of the Secretary of War to
cancel all orders, once the armis
tice was signed; with the result that
business has been unnecessarily dis
organized, labor thrown out of em
ployment, and great loss occasioned
the government. This loss has re
sulted from the reduction of ex
cess profit taxes us well as from
the consequent necessity of going
into the market to buy staples at
higher prices than those of goods
previously contracted for, and from
purchasing, in haste, spot goods al
ready made up, instead of those
manufactured according to govern
ment specifications under strict mili
tary inspection.
It is pointed out, for Instance,
that in the case of a manufacturer
of staples whose profits hud
amounted to $1,000,000, and who
had invested that sum in plunt,
equipment und raw material, his
tuxes would have amounted to SBOO,-
000 had not his contract been can
celled. Cancellation, however, re
sulted in his writing off a fifty per
cent loss, which reduced his taxes to
$320,000, involving a loss of revenue
to the government of $480,000 —to
which must be added the allowance
made for partially manufacturer!
material, und the further loss be
cause of Increased prices which it
bec.uue necessary to pay for the
same goods only a short time later.
It is asserted that in the case of
shoes, clothing and other staples,
losses of this character have been
extensive.
There were, of course, contracts
lor purely war materials —ordnance,
ammunition, etc.—which had to be
cancelled, but so violent was the
hysteria of cancellation nnn HO
sweep'ng were the orders of Secre
tary Baker thut officers Were not
permitted to limit cancellations to
goods of thut character, and as a
result, much less favorable ' rush or
ders" have had to he placed since
the armistice was s gned.
Judge Not
Judge not, and ye, shall not he
Judged; condemn not, and ye shall
not be condemned; foigve, nnd >'•
shall be forgiven.—Luke vl, 37,
over France, and its construction
began at once.
Now it stands on the crest of the
highest and most historic point in
Paris, Montmartre (Mount of the
Martyrs), on which St. Denis and
two others who brought Christianity
to France were put to death in the
days of the Roman occupation. Be
cause its towers gleam white in the
sunshine it can be seen farther than
even the Eiffel Tower. The Germans
came close enough to Paris to see it
through glasses, in the great war.
Sec tlic Prophecy Fulfilled
It has been building only fifty
yeurs, which is very young for a
church in France, so it is not yet
complete, but it is nearly finished,
and is a place of wonderful and
beautiful workmanship. Every day
now it is crowded with French sol
diers and the- families of French
soldiers, who come there to give de
vout thanks.
"The prophecy has been fulfilled,"
they say. "We were building it—
und this time we were victorious.
France never again will be humili
ated or unhappy."
Many khaki-clad American sol
diers mingle in the crowds of blue
clad French soldiers and black clad
French women. Every day several
hundred American soldiers take the
Y. M. C. A. s'ghtseeing trip through
historic Montmartre, and the
Basilique au Sacre Coeur is the
place in which every party lingers
longest and most reverently.
Senator Penrose Aids Reform
I From Philu. North American]
lf The North American needed
any Justification for having expressed
approval of Senator Penrose's work
in Harrisburg, it would be found
in the co-operation he had from the
independent legislators. Those men
have surrendered none of their prin
cples; they are today, as they have
always been, implacably against
Pen rose ism. But above the require
ments of factional opposition they
put the serving of the public inter
est, and they welcomed, as did this
newspaper, the assistance in a good
cause of the man whom they had
consistently fought and will" fight
again if need be.
It is quite possible that, as our
friend warned us. Senator Penrose
at some time in the future will at
tempt to use for his own purposes
the cap'tal of good repute, he has
recently accumulated. If he does so,
then The North American and all
good independents will stand against
him as they did in the past. But it
is our deliberate judgment, and has
been for twenty years, that the most
effective way to get sound, progres
sive legislat'on is to make those
who attain power understand that
it is more profitable to serve the
public welfare than to Herve special,
sinister, anti-social interests.
Louisiana Oil Output Grows
[From the New Orleans Item.]
According to late information, the
daily production In the North Louisl
<s,ooo burrels, that of
the Hunger field in Texas approxi
mately 50,000 barrels, and that of
the famous Rurkburnett. Texas, field
38,000 barrels. This figure will give
Home idea of tho importance of tho
North Louisiana territory from an
oil producing standpoint.
Practically every field in the
United States has been widely adver
tised and exploited all over (ho
country and largely developed by
small, independent operators. This
condition has not been true of North
l-ouisiuna fields, due to the fact that
In tho early days of its development,
the production was developed al
most entirely by the three lurgo
companies: The Gulf, Texas and
Standard Oil Compuntcs.
From the standpoint of cost of
operating und' cost of development,
tho North Louisiana Meld Is the
cheapest proposition In the United
States to-duy. Production is found
ut depths ranging from 1,400 to 2,-
700 feet, with drilling costs rang
ing from SB,OOO to $17,000, us com
pared with drilling costs of $40,000
to $50,000 In the Banger Field, and
$15,000 to $20,000 In the Uurkbur
nett Field.
I
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER TWENTV-KOl'H
j "The European consider the
! American soldier a queer kind of
jan animal," said Major Frank C.
I Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Sta
j tion, 325 Market street, Harrisburg.
i "In the first place the European
| buys himself a glass of wine and
j then sees how much time he can
spend in drinking it, while the Amer
j icun tries to find out how maYiy
glasses he can drink in a given time.
! The European asks the price before
he buys anything, but the American
; buys it if he wants it and then asks
the price. Even the methods of
i fighting are entirely different; the
j European in close fighting are cn
! tirely different; the European in
close fighting gets into a hole and
hurls grenades blindly in the gen
eral direction of the enemy, while
the American, if he uses grenades at
all, will run in until he can see his
enemy, wind up and proceed to try
and bean him with the grenade. In
an attack the European will try his
! hardest to acquire an automatic
j ride with which he can scatter bul-
I lets all over the landscape, whereas
the American will throw his auto
i matic rifle because it doesn't shoot
I close enough to satisfy him and will
j pick up a Springfield with which he
j knows he can hit an individual
I lloche at 500 or 600 yards. But the
I American weapon par excellence is
the 4 5 caliber automatic pistol or
I revolver. What other nation ever
I produced anything to correspond to
jour old Western Gun Man? None!
What other nation has the Ameri-
I can tendency to 'pack a gun'." None!
j If a foreigner carries a weapon it is
I a knife. What American can help
j from handling a revolver or pistol
if he gets a chance? None! It it in
stinctive with us to love a pistol. For
sixty years we have specialized on
revolvers and pistols. Years ago we
found out that a small caliber pistol
would not 'stop' a man so we built
[huge accurate 455. When this war
; started the European countries con
| sidered the pistol as an ornament
| to be carried by officers, and consc
| quently built them as small and as
light as they could. Their favorite
was .25 caliber, which looks like and
is a toy in comparison' with our
,455. I have seen a man hit square
on the cheek bone by a Roche .25
bullet and all it did was make him
mad. Of course it left a small scar
like a deep dimple. If it had been a
.45 it would have blown the whole
side of his head off. Relying on
European experience our tirst troops
to go to France were armed with
only a few pistols per company. No
sooner had they gotten Into the
trenches than a frantic cry went up
for pistols and lots of them. The
cables were busy sending rush or
ders of pistols and yet more pistols.
Now we had about 75,000 of them
on hand when we went into the war
but that wasn't a drop in the bucket.
The good old .45 automatic couldn't
possibly be turned out fast enough
so we had to order a lot of Colt and
Smith and Wesson .45 caliber re
volvers to cover the shortage. The
automatic had been built exclusively
by the folt Co. on a Rrownlng pat
ent (the same Browning of machine
gun fame), but they couldn't pro
duce more than a counle of thou
sand a month. Several firms took up
the manufacture of both the pistols
and revolvers so that by October,
1018, we were providing 46,000 pisl
I tols and 30,000 revolvers a month,
land had produced more than seven
j hundred thousand since we got into
i the war.
Even thin tremendous production
wus no more than enoufrh to keep
tin to the demand. Time after time
I hiivp seen n Itotißhhoy decline with
thanks the nffpr of some grenades
when hp was nhont to go out on
petrol or to r'oiin op n machine gun
net. He would smile and pnt his .4R
and sure enough thut would do the
business. When you consider that a
t-alned jrtan onn fl-e 21 shots w'th
the po-fnniiitle pistol In 12 seconds,
cod thet coo n 'tenderfoot' enn lilt
what Ifo wants to with It, you pun
not wonder that our hoys preferred
to prco-t on to tho edge n' n trench
cr i-hetl hele nn d nine- fj, 0 Hopf,,,
n/ttv ~ .%t. tol rather than to tin |p
n shel' hole and ohnet. irrenades at
c" lin'PCo encniV untn one or the
r<h- ret tilowo r> erneetel| v .chen
•he rioohn nere- dream'no the Amec.
• enn •••>* closin- In op him would
"•ere. his eren"des WUV beyond the
er n e.lln~ doU'hlwV Who WHS tickled
to death at the s"ceer, „f ])| a own
American way of fighting." •
Abetting (Wfal "
Over 100 Iron washers and aboul
fifty pieces of cardboard carefully
cut to the size of a cent have been
discovered in the penny in the slot
paper cup vending machines in the
State Capitol at the end of the
monthly roundup. In addition two
persons contributed a nickel each
and one person gave a dime for a
.cup. A large collection of pennies
was found but indications are that
Father Penn is out a certain amount
of money and some one haa more
paper cups than the law allows.
I The washers were found all over the
| building, every machine having been
| worked." The use of the paper
pennies" is a new one. The paper
cup machines are an accommodation
more than anything else. They I
realize a couple of hundreds of dol
lars a year, but they cost the State,
including supplies and maintenance *
of the machines considerably more.
• • *
"Roasting ears at fifty cents a
dozen do not appeal to me," said a
Harrisburg man in the Chestnut
street market yesterday, as he turn
ed away from a stall whereon sev
eral dozen ears that looked to be
about the size of popcorn were dis
played at the price named.
"Well," said the farmer, "if you
strl 'Sgled the way I did to get
that corn through the spring wet
spell when the thermometer was
near freezing and right afterward
when the weather turned hot and
dry, I think may be you would want *
a dollar a dozen for corn. Relieve
me it was some job."
Corn, he forecasted, will fall in
price very rapidly: Much has been
planted and the victory gardens are
also full of it. The season for later
corn has been generally favorable
and the quantity will bring the fig
ures asked yesterday rapidly down
to something like reasonable. The
first home-grown corn is always
high In price.
• •
tiio'wrm lteiT V, about the beauty of
Au,if l. Vi 11 enn b'Shway between
Andty Hall and Newport, is all true,
and then- Some," said a Harrisburg ►
haS J a cabin along that
stretch of road, "but believe me I'll
be sorry to soe the link rebuilt. For t*
years we have had our hut in a se
cluded district not far from the
rixer opposite I.osh's Run. but when
road £° es through we will be
i right out on the public road, and
cntin bave to ,ind a ncw lf >-
hriw lj ' ebuilt highway also will
,„ "f tbe B °yd camp for boys which
is now in a faraway corner off from
the road, right down to the State
highway within easy reach of Har-
SK ? oyd cam P is built in
kt.L r ; haS a b ig fireplace,
rs fnr K u° om * looping quar
ters for many boys, board porches
and good water. It is an ideal camp- ,
the rn i* Wha t will be its fate when
it inf nf° es . ÜBh ' bringing with
known. ° autoni °bHe traffic, is not
• • *
A recently returned Harrisburg
at a war U 'l ed "i'" °" e the ° ther '" v
strong! The^old^r
,it is worth' ' S PaSSed a, ° ng for what
It seems that said soldier was in
Paris en route to rejoin his regiment
but having met a Red Cross can
teen worker of his acquaintance he
desired to stay over a bit longer' So
together he and the canteener walk
ed down to the office of the M P
on . ?* ue s t- Anne. The girl waited
outs.de while the soldier wenMn to
talk >t over with the M. P. officer on
duty- After waiting in line for about
a "n a Ur ' reached the desk and
pulled a weak story about expecting
° rd ® rH in Pari " but not get*
ting them, could lie wait," and all
that sort of thing. Rut the M. P was
ring" 1 ' rh ° re WaS no,hi "P "tlr-
So . the Yank, with a ]onf - face
went back to the girl. He found he%
talking to another M. P. officer. Aft
th/hln nß t h j W he had niisKp fi out,
tho \r p ll® }° leave. Suddenly
i ?' ca lcd bim back. "Say
buddy, he whispered, "come back "
in about half an hour and I'll fix
for,y :f lKht bonrs more
That girl is worth staying a week
in Paris. And that is exactly what
happened, yet people say the Red
Cross aren't doing so much in
ranee.
• • •
' ♦„ < i apit ° l . Pa, ! k extension seems
1 If) Rrowln g in favor as a p.ace for
parking automobiles. Almost every
day a dozen or more cars are stood
along Fourth or Walnut street and
until the work of landscaping starts
there will probably be more. The.
State set an example by parkin*- the '
Army trucks which Uncle Sam'sent '
here to be distributed for highway
milking and maintenance purftnses
These trucks are commencing to
move out to various places in this
section of the State They have been
loaned for road work.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Sheriff H. C. Ransley, of Phila
delphia. who was here yesterday, Is
one of the active men in politics in
that city. He has been in the game
since he was twenty-one.
—Dr. Thomas E. Flnegan, the
new Superintendent of Public In
struction, is being compelled to de
cline many invitations to speak this
summer because of the pressure of
the work of reorganizing the school
system.
—Samuel C. Todd, chief clerk of
the State Department, has returned
from a visit to his old home town of
Rrownsvillc with a sido trip to
Charleroi. ,
—Prof. Smith Burnham, of the
West Chester Stato Normnl school
was guest of honor nt a dinner ten
dered him by the Chester County
Histortal Society In honor of his
work.
[ DO YOU KNOW '
—That Ilarrlshurg steel is to
he used in rehabilitating French
cities?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Early courts were held In John
Harris' mansion when this waa a part
of I-ancaster county.
A Michigan Lesson in Law
fFrom the Houghton Mining Ga
zette.]
A man running a blind pig in
Montculm county heard one of his
> customers boast that he was a pa
role violator from Marquette and
had him promptly arrested and re
turned. We thus see how Impor
tant it Is that the proprietors of owy „
I "blind pigs" should be men of char
acter. with n due regard for the
, sanctity of the law.