10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PIUXTIXG CO. Telegraph Building, Fcd-ral Square ■- E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief ' v P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board • . 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. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; Western office^ Gas Building Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. J3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, JULY 17. 11119 No human ore that docs not hold A precious element of gold; No heart so blackened and blessed But has for him some treasure chaste. | —Thomas Curtis Clark. j 1 GOOD FOR DUNCANNON I DUXCANNOX has gone autoino- j filling to-day. The town is shut up tight as a drum. All ear | owners, and many who went along j as guests, are advertising the merits 1 cf their home town throughout Cen- [ tral Pennsylvania to-day and are having a pleasurable outing at the same time. Duncannon shows a fine com- | munity spirit. No town with a large i "hold-back" element can do such things, and as proof that the resi dents have their minds on more than mere jollification, it is an nounced that the borough is about to acquire a very desirable park. More power to the live-wires who are putting Duncannon on the map. Patriotism begins at home. The country is made up of small com munities and those who are striving to make their own home towns better places in which to live and who are cultivating community spirit among the people are helping make the | whole nation better and stronger. Burieson says he will not resign. Nobody expected he would, but many have hoped he would be fired. CUT THE BONDS WHEN Vance C. McCormick de clared in his address before three of the city's leading : business organizations at a union noonday luncheon yesterday that the time had come when business men should be freed of the restrictions of Government ownership and con trol, from price-fixing and all the rest, he stated the position of prac tically every intelligent citizen who is interested in the welfare and pros perity of the United States. The _ governmental bonds have restricted the initiative of the American busi ness man and have been responsible in large measure for the present more or less demoralized situation, and whether Mr. McCormick gave expression to the Washington view or not, he stated a fact which is generally recognized in this trying period of readjustment. Paternalism was never popular in the United States and while many things were done under the stress of war which would never have been attempted under norqjal conditions the time is here when free and unre stricted play must be given the natural activities of the American people. Ours is a resourceful Nation and cannot long endure the restrain ing hand of a central government, especially when such restraint means a retarding of the development of the country and the prosperity of the people. Fresh from the peace conference, Mr. McCormick was in position to interpret the purposes of that body and to give his fellow townsmen a I clear view of the difficulties which ! hedged about the important Paris j gathering. He admitted that he was not in harmony, from time to time, with certain of the proposals that were later incorporated in the com pleted document, but candidly stated that when these points were finally presented he was compelled to ac cept as wise and just the views of the experienced statesmen who worked out the final agreement that is now before the United States Sen ate and the parliaments of the al lied countries. There were many problems to be considered and many differences to compose from day to day, but as the conference proceeded he learned to appreciate the com plex character of the negotiations and to understand how difficult It was to bring into agreement peoples of different nationalities and racial characteristics upon a matter so mo mentous as a treaty of peace. His fellow townsmen appreciated the frank discussion of various phases of the conference by the chairman of the War Trade Board, THURSDAY EVENING, | who hud unusual opportunities for I observing the interchanges at Paris, | and his address following v'l°sely j upon the recent interesting narrative I of Lewis Heck, another Harrisburger, | who gave distinguished service to his ! country during the war at Constan ! tinople, again emphasized the fact S that the civic bodies of Harrisburg j never overlook an opportunity to en i lighten the business community upon | the important questions engaging the 1 thought of the people. MR. HAYS SUMS UP WILL H. HAYS, chairman of the Republican National Com mittee, has a happy faculty j of reducing complexities to terms so ; clear that even the simplest mind may grasp them. Thus with the Republican reservations to the pro posed League of Nations plan as it stands. From the reams of dis- J cussion, opinion and debate he j • summarizes the Republican view- | point in the following brief, but very clear, language: The situation respecting the I League covenant is simply this: 1 There must be effective reserva- I tinns. These reservations must safeguard the sovereignty of the ! United States in every particular; must guarantee the Monroe Doc | trine beyond the shadow of a I doubt: must either eliminate < Article X entirely or so modify it that our own Congress shall be morally, as well as legally, free after a specified period to decide when and where and to what ex tent our soldiers shall be employ ed; must retain our full control of immigration, tariff and all other purel\ domestic policies, and must provide full right to withdraw from the League at any time with out hindrance or conditions of i anv kind, upon giving suitable notice. It is up to the Administra- I ' tion to decide whether it will or will not accept these essential guarantees of American indepen dence. which would unquestion ably be promptly accepted by the I other nations. J Mr. Hays' conclusions and the j points he raises are reasonable. Even ; those who helped frame the League I admit that it is far from perfect, ! that it will not preserve the peace I forever, that it has grave faults and that it "will not herald the ntillen iurn." Rut they hold it to be the best they could get and therefore ask us to swallow it, hook, bait and sinker, without so much as pausing to look it over. However, Mr. Hays has presented his case most force fully and it is difficult to see how Democrats, unless they prefer the President's order to the dictates of their own consciences, can do other wise than support the Republicans in their effort to safeguard the coun try by means of reservations and interpretations that would in wise weaken the League, but would ; save this Nation from unnecessary j meddling and prevent our armies from being called needlessly into foreign disputes. Mr. Hays cites a platform for Re publicans in respect to the party's position on the peace treaty that merits the respectful attention of men of all parties. HELP THE CHILDREN HARRISBURG win not withhdid the necessary money to es tablish health stations for the benefit of children in the crowded districts of the city. Every American child is entitled to a fair chance to grow to healthful, wholesome manhood or womanhood. Every boy and girl should have sur roundings conducive to health- —sun- shine, fresh air, clean homes, free dom from contagious disease and good food. Unfortunately misfor tune, carelessness, lack of ambition or unavoidable poverty deprive many little ones of the care and attention they should have and send them forth into the world, if perchance they survive, poorly fitted for suc cess in the battle of life. It is to remedy these faulty con ditions insofar as possible and to give every youngster in Harrisburg a fair start that the child welfare, work has been undertaken at the suggestion of Colonel Martini"Sta,te Health Commissioner. Those who have been making the survey—volunteer Harrisburg women, assisted by experts from the State Health Department—pro nounce conditions very bad. They have asked for money with which to give unfortunate children a chance. Of course, we will give the amount necessary. The sum is small and the cause us worthy as any that has come before the people of Harris burg in many years. Save the children. They will be | the men and women of to-morrow and as they develop so will the coun try. If they are good, pure, whole some, healthy and strong, the coun try will be also. . But if they are weaklings, physically, mentally and morally, the future of the Nation will be dark, indeed. STOP IT IF REPUBLICAN members of Con gress want to make friends for President Wilson in quarters where he does not now have them they will persist in their efforts to overcome his veto of the daylight saving law. Having failed to pass the agricultural bill with the day light rider over presidential opposi tion, the agricultural committee is now reported as attempting to get a new bill into Congress for the re peal of the law. As President Wilson has said, day light saving is an economical meas ure of vast importance. It saves millions of dollars that otherwise would be spent by the consumer for oil, gas and electric light, and mil lions of tons of coal that would go into the making of gas and current. In addition, it affords millions of people opportunity for evening recreation they otherwise would not have, and adds greatly to the pro ductivity of countless home gardens. President Wilson's veto is popular. ' He is being praised for his action | by newspapers all over the country, j regardless of party, and any at**-ipt ■ to override the wishes of a great ma jority of people by shortening the summer days, will have no other ! | effect than to make Democratic votes. ,| ! | j T>e title* IK "fe.KKOntauua | By the Kx-Commltteeinaji^ j A question which will probably j affect every city in the State at the , coming primary and which has an I added significance because of the re ! peal of the nonpartisan act as ap- I plied to mayoralty and councilmanic ' elections in third-class cities has ; arisen in Philadelphia over w hat J constitutes personal registration. 1 The Vare element undertook to get i names of thousands of men reg.s- I tered as soon as the newly-appointed board could get down to business and the question promptly assumed proportions that became surprising. Representative Leopold Glass, counsel for the Republican city com mittee, contended that a properly signed request with such legal at testations as are required constituted enough to register a maul. The opposition immediately set up the claim that actual personal appear ance was needed to get men regis tered. . There are lively times ahead for the new registration commissioners in Philadelphia, and the contending forces are starting right out to make things interesting. —Judicial aspirants in many sec tions of the State have opened the ■ battles for places on the bench and I the nonpartisan act will give some new displays. In Westmoreland coun ty Orphans' Court Judge C. D. Cope land, who sought to be named judge of common pleas when Governor Brumbaugh named Judge D. J. Snyder, has filed papers as has Judge Snyder. George Plummer Baker, a former legislator, has filed papers for Orphans' Court judge in Washington, and Representative Wil liam Davis has up a lightning rod in Cambria for Orphans' Court. The Allegheny judges are hoping to get by with onlv one contest, that made by James B. Drew. The Philadel phia people have not commenced to tile papers as yet. George J. Brcnnan, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, hints that Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts burgh, has aspirations. He says: "Whether it shall be a seat in the United States Senate to succeed Phil ander Chase Knox when his term ex pires, or the succession to William Cameron Sproul in the Governor ship, Mayor Babcock's friends are not ready to say at this time what his aspirations are likely to be." —The Mayor may get involved in the fight what is being organized .against Senator Max G. Leslie in i Allegheny. This battle bids fair to | be historic and the Mayor has been told by some of the big men of the community that he may have to make a choice when the time comes. The Mayor and the Senator have been very close. Another thing that has turned up is the Babcock veto of the ordinance which requires con tractors on city work financed by the $22,000,000 bond issue to pay their employes the same wages that are paid for like work by private em ployers and to work them the num ber" of hours stipulated by organized labor. —New Castle, the strorighold of the nonpartisan election people, is stirred up. A dispatch from the Lawrence capital says: "With the return of third-class city elections to partisan politics, the list of candi dates for the offices of mayor, county commissioner and city treasurer has begun to assume large proportions. There will be candidates in the field representing all parties. Interest is centered on the mayoralty fight, in asmuch as at the last partisan elec tion helcd here, Walter V. Taylor was elected by the Socialists over his Republican and Independent opponents." —Here is an interesting item from the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times: "Since the war-time prohibition law went into effect the policemen of Rankin, Braddock. North Braddock, East Pittsburgh. Turtle Creek and Wilmerding are having such an easy time that there is talk among the coupeilmen of the boroughs of re ducing the forces. The only arrest made for drunkenness in the six boroughs, which have a combined population of about 65,000, was in Braddock on the morning of July 1, rtnd this was called a 'hangover' from the night of June 30." —This is a view of the results of the repeal of the nonpartisan third class city law from the Bethlehem Globe. "The repeal of the non partisan provision for the election of officials in cities of the third class has resulted in a quickening of poli tical 'interest in the election to be held on November 4th next. The Bethlehem electors have revived old and new party issues and the cam paign here promises to be the most interesting and exciting in years." It i may be said that Altoona, Wilkes- Barre, Allentown and Connellsville papers say the same thing in sub stance. —Proposals for a fusion of parties, in a combine against the radical element in the city, has been re ceived throughout the city with great interest, says the Evening Dis patch: "There will always be party strife and it is difficult to convince leaders that this is a critical time and one in which all true Americans should be on the alert," said a promi nent official to the Dispatch. —Easton, which has been prepar ing for partisan elections again was jolted by an announcement that the Central Labor Union has decided on ' a ticket. This ticket is as follows: City Commissioners, J. Russell White, of the Electrical Workers; Ralph B. Burwell, Machinists' Union; F. P. Horn, Carpenters' Union, and Willard Strickland, International As sociation of Fire Fighters. Mr. Strickland is a commissioner now, a Republican and may be nominated by Republicans also. —Altoona faces a possibility of four tickets at the city election. Ad vocates of the city manager plan want a popular vote on it and may name their own ticket. —Thomas E. Gronan, of Bethle hem, is out as a candidate for North ampton county treasurer. —Chester county's district at torney, Truman D. Wade, who had announced himself as a candidate for j'enomination, has withdrawn from the race in accord with a state ment he made last spring that if any soldier became a candidate he would not be in the race. Raymond B. Ifeid, of Spring City, a member of the Chester county bar, who served sev -tal months in France, has an l.tounced his candidacy and comes from the same locality as Mr. Wade. 53JLRRISBTTRO TELEGHXPFL SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OVT OF LIFE .... Byßriggt F~T U " L E <2Z FRIZE - SAY ThiS IS MV \ /^ RATULAT((SW S. DOESNT WAMT ME T 0 U YOU'RE J -JJ- 3AME THIMG IOTM WEPDNOG J / AWE / SPEWO A CUINJT BUT MAIM6 UR THCV PEEL ANNIVERSARY- W YOU GIVIW6 / I'LL TAKe HEN. TO WAN AWFUL I IF YOU DORO'T How CO 1 (( THG WIFE ? I THE THEATER OR 1/ MISTAKE 1 Q UY A DIAMOND OR LOOK HARRY :J \ / 1 SOMBTHIWS AIUVWAY- J\ CI_L TELL / SOMETHING- THSY V ■ . \ YOU . \ ARE. AU/FUL SBPJSITIUS " i - NOVAJ I 6AUE FHYI F WOMEW ARE ALL ALIKE " \ 1 vuiFe A CIAMOND \ I ABOUT THE SAME /SOME BODY \ -AO BROOCH OU OU* 1 \ THIWSS-- TAKE MY /TS ALWAYS N y/A AIUAJIYERSARY AME> 1 ADVICE AWD SPCMO A R COMING ALOW 6/ GEORGF GAUE HIS / Y" TLE R>OU<3H , I AUD TAKING V//, i A PPAR, WECKLACE/ You ß WIFE-SHE HOPES THC J- OY OUT />%/ \ Y VFCAWU Y Y OU WILL UT TALKS Y OF LIFC- / //// JUST THE OPPOSITE No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE "The Boche had an idea when the ; Americans first got into the trenches j that we did not know anything about soldiering," said Major Frank L. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting feta tion 32 5 Market street, Harnsburg. "But they had failed, as usual, to take into consideration the fact that the American Regular Army, small as it was, knew a thing or two about military affairs and had passed out their knowledge under high pressure to all the newly raised troops. The result of the Boche opinion of the Americans was that we had a beauti ful chance to put something over on thfcm and maybe we didn't take full advantage of such opportunities. For example, the latter part of July I got word that our own divisional artillery had finished their training and were coming in behind us in a few days. That was a chance that | couldn't be lost so I began to pre pare my little stunt. As soon as our boys came in behind us they started tire of registration on different places in the Boche lines. I figured that within four days of their arrival the Boche would feel certain the American artillery was in and would start looking for them and strafing them on the slightest provocation. The fourth night I went out explor ing and found the exact direction one battery was tiring and also found that about 600 yards in front of this i battery was a meadow which would just suit my purpose. We got busy at once and by daylight, directly un der where the shells had been flying we had a dummy battery set up. It was in the middle of the meadow — a rotten poor place for a battery and consisted of a piece of chicken wire camouflaged, with the ends of four old, rusty, broken pieces of stove pipe sticking out. Then a number of men had spent half an hour or so walking back and forth from a patch to the dummy battery in order to wear a plainly defined trail through the grass. Other men had taken tree boughs and beaten down the grass in front of each 'gun.' You know when a cannon is fired the rush of hot gasses follow the shell out of the barrel and on strik ing the air spread out with great force to the front forming what is known as the 'blast.' The blast of two or three shots will lay the grass in front of the gun absolutely flat and this shows plainly on an aerial photograph. Now the Boche, dur ing the night, had undoubtedly got ten the exact direction from which our fire was coming and also had gotten the approximate distance, so when they found the dummy battery, its location would be practically cor rect for the battery that had really been firing. About half past five in the morning a Boche plane came over, flying low and looking for the Yank battery. Pretty soon he saw it, dipped, shot down very low, circled a couple of times and then started back for Germany as fast as he could go. We lay there in the woods and laughd at him for we knew he was thinking to himself that there is where the stupid Ameri can pigs get what is coming to them. Some thought the Boche would open up inside of twenty minutes but the majority thought it would take long er as they would want to first verify the reported location by the firing of the night before. Sure enough it took them about forty minutes, but when they did open up they did one beautiful job. When they decided to call it a day there was nothing but a huge hole in the meadow where the dummy battery had been and we figured the Boche had expended about $20,000 in ammunition to de stroy four worthless old sections of stove pipe, and I presume their re ports for the day showed a great victory and the destruction, total and complete, of a battery of American artillery." The President's Address [From the New York Sun.] From the beginning to end there was no discussion, no Interpretation in the sense required by the grave and reasonable objections raised against the unreserved acceptance of the covenant. Where there should have been, explanation there is naught but exhortation. Where there should have been convincing argu ment there is fine rhetoric. Where the address should have been analy tic it is broadly apocalyptic. It is an emotional, idealistic harangue, not a specific reply to the questions that are in the minds of so many of us. From beginning to end the •eader will meet nothing but disap pointment in his search for some thing new and specific and more satisfactory to patriotic intelligence than ure the generalities to which we have become accustomed. i Great Work in France [From the Philadelphia Public Ledger] THROUGH the courtesy of Wil- | liam J. Latta I received a trun-| script of the remarks of Mr. I Desnoyess, director of the General j Supply Division, to the departing i "Y" secretaries in Paris. He pointed out that the "Y" had | to serve not where it chose but! where it was sent, and that, unlike j the Quartermaster's Department, it I had to meet the cost of freight and ' insurance. | The charge to take a ton of freight • across the ocean ran as high as I S2OO and insurance rose to 25 per cent. Here are figures compiled from 6 000 shipping orders, showing the stuff distributed from base ware houses by the "Y" for the ten months from June, 1, 1918, to April 1, 1919. These are not all the ship ping orders, nor do they include purchases made front the Quarter master during January, February and March, 1919: Letter heads, 304,717,000; envelopes, 225,221,700; postcards, 10,000,000; candy, 4,747,- 455 pounds; candy, 10,158,305 pack ages; cocoa, 1,122,467 pounds; milk, 2,365,963 cans; chewing gum, 13,- 220,060 packages; jam, 6,401,944 cans; biscuits, 50,365,040 packages; cigars, 41,560,093; smoking tobacco | 18,184,926 tins; cigarets, 1,452,- 356,158; chocolate, 32,885,163 pack ages. As an instance of the trouble the Y took to satisfy its enormous clientele, take the three items head ing the above list the stationery. Mr. Desnoyess says: . , ha ? enormous quantities bought in the United States, but we could not get them. "We could not buy them in r ranee. land Ve CoUlfi not set them in Eng ,. "Apparently we could not get them anywhere, but the men who were running the 'Y' during ihe combat period and the men who 11 to * f iny have never felt ..t. any ng was impossible. "We went to Spain, the only near y..£u Untry not ' nv °l v ed in war. There w e arranged for gangs of men to go into the forest to chop down trees, from which wood pulp was made. "Other gangs of men converted this wood pulp into paper. Other groups cut and printed the paper and made envelopes. "Whole villages have been em ployed and still are employed in Kansas Whalers [From the Popular Mechanics Ma gazine.] A couple of market fishermen of southeastern Kansas are catching big ! river "cats" with tackle that re sembles an old whale fisher's equip ment. Enormous barbed hooks take the place of harpoons. Each hook has a socket instead of the usual eye, and is held by friction on the end of a long pole, to which it is al so fastened by two feet of stout cord. Familiar with the habits of the giant catfish, the men have no difficulty in locating the holes where they lie. When a fish is "snagged" the jerk detaches the hook from the pole, and the captive is played until it gives up. The First Ratification [From the New York Times.] "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quick ly." This observation by an author whom the Germans are pleased to consider their own may have been in ihe mind of the National As sembly as it proceeded on Wednes day to the passage of the act rati fying the treaty of peace—an act which has now received the signa ture of President Ebert, so that the formalities of German ratification j are complete. It was hard, but the Germans apparently concluded that they might as well get it over with. Keep Presidents at Home [Prom the New York Herald.] It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the Campbell proposal implies cril; cism ol the President of the United Bintes. It should be considered, however, solely as a measure ap plying to the future—which it is. There can be no questiop that the principle involved in it Ts one that bat the approval of the great ma- | Jority of Americans. Whether Mr. Wilson was wise or otherwise in go ing abioad, future Presidents should i stay at home. making paper for the 'Y,' so that the doughboy can write home to his, mother and his sweetheart. "The getting of this paper from Spain to Paris over roads congested with war material is another story." The "Y" was taken to task be cause its jam cost more than the jam the Quartermaster sold. "Here is the reason: We could not buy jam in the United States. That is to say, we could not get it delivered. We tried to buy it here, but that was impossible. "It was a good deal like the pap er. It seemed as though we would have to give it up, but we went once again to Spain. "We bought the fruit and had it manufactured into fruit pulp, and by infinite labor and ingenuity we had that pulp conveyed to Paris. "We went to England and bought tin, had that brought to Paris and manufactured into cans. "Then, having the fruit pulp and the cans, we went to the Quarter master and said, 'For Heaven's sake, give us some sugar and we will make the jam that the boys are needing.' "Sugar being a concentrated form of food we were allowed to bring it across the water, and then with fruit brought from Spain, with sugar brought from America and with tincans brought from England, we manufactured in France 6,000,- 000 cans of jam. "Of course, it cost us a little more than it would have cost had we been able to ship directly from the United States." As for the 50,000,000 packages of biscuits before these could be turned out the' control of French factories was taken over by an ex pert from an American biscuit com pany, who cleaned them from top to bottom. In all, the "Y" secretaries ran forty-two factories—even house fac tories, with saw-mills and planing mills contributory. The French authorities felt they couldn't spare the cocoa, so the Americans bought shiploads still at sea. Ice-cream machinery was brought from New York and twenty five automatic ice-cream cone ma chines were built in France, equal to an output of half a million cones a day. That was the American spirit, which never said die and knew not the meaning of fail, and showed itself in little things as well as in large. The Fore toper The gull shall whistle in hie wake, the blind wave break in fire, He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing his desire, And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise, And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies. Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand. To wring his food trom a desert nude, his foothold from the sand. His neighbors' smoke shall vex his eyes, their voices break his rest; lla shall go forth till south is north, sullen and dispossessed, lie shall desire loneliness, and his desire shall bring. Hard on his heels a thousand wheels a people and a King. He shall come back on his own track, and by his scarce cool camp There shall he meet the roaring street, the derrick and the stamp. For he must blaze a nation's ways with hatchet and with brand. Till on his last won wilderness an empire's bulwarks stand. —RUDYARD KIPLING. President's Opportunity [From the Springfield Republican ] As for the President, he has an excellent opportunity to regain much of the popular favor which he is believed to have lost in the past six or seven months. He could now pursue no wiser course than to show a harmonizing and concila tory temper in all directions and to all sides. If he must tight let no effort be omitted to muke the necessity for blows clear to the peo ple. If he must tour the states in order to win the backing of the country as against the Senate in the mutter of the League of Nations, let him go forth only after having made sincere and friendly advances to the opposition for an accommoda tion of outstanding differences , 7ULY 17,1919. Names of Ocean Ships j(A ship launched in America is named Quistconck). | The sea winds whisper, soft and low, names beautiful and sweet, Of white-towered ships whose love liness the Dawn God rushed to greet— Tall ships with beauty burning high, sea queens with pride atire. j Their names are borne upon the winds to the islands of desire: Queen of the Seas, white Wings, Sea Foam, Heartsease, and Hal cyon. | Their music and their beauty now with Helen's lure are one, j And through the old, sweet cadences the roaring hammers sing: "Way there, way there, O futile ghosts, for Quistconck's clat tering." The rainbow dreams of old Romance still drift upon the seas, j And names of old endeavor float in whisp'ring symphonies: I Rose, Pelican and Golden Hind, Mayflower and Morning Star Hermione and Waterwitch, Day Dream and Castlebar. Snow-white were Ariadne's wings, a cloud upon the blue. Adventure shone upon the flag the Lady Jocelyn flew. Their names are perfumes in the dusk that lead in memories. Sweet bfells that slowly, softly chime the charm of all the seas; But through the twilight's magic breaks the racking siren's cal 1— "Quistconck! Quistconck! Conck- Conck - Conck - Conck!" in Beauty's funeral! —A. E. Mulgan, Auckland, New Zea land, in the New York Times. The Top Hat Is Back [From the Manchester Guardian.] The reappearance of the tall hat in London has already been commented upon, but no one was quite pre pared for the completeness of its reconquest of Ascot. It was not only the royal enclosure, where noth ing else was seen except the turbans of the rajahs, but in the grandstand nearly half the men wore tall hats. Just before the war things had be come less conventional even at As cot, and it was the bookmakers rather than the grandstand that wore | tall hats. This week the bookmak ! ers nearly all had straw hats—not | Panamas but ordinary boaters. Another point was the vast num ber of tall gray hats, many of them worn by young men, generally along with check trousers. The short black coat, by the way, was hardly to be seen, and frock coats were com mon. There were a few stock ties. A Piccadilly hatter, consulted on the question, said that the young demobilized man of the West End seems anxious to get a silk hat as soon as he has put off his steel helmet. Probably the weight and stiffness of a tall hat, which used to bother him, seem nothing at all now after steel headgear. During the war, he said, men at home liked to seem as inconspicuous as possible, and that as well as other reasons led to the internment of the tall hat. However, like many things now, the supply is not equal to the demand, and many young men were disap pointed this week, and had to wear their old hats or go without a topper. This hatter did not think that tall drab hats, although they had many obvious advantages, would become generally popular, because they sug gested race meetings to most people. The one class who will not go back to the tall hat and rejoices in the emancipation is the city clerk. His employer, however, is beginning to go into the city again in his old glory. To a Postoffice Inkwell How many humble hearts have dip ped In you, and scrawled their manu script! Have shared their secrets, told their cares. Their curious and quaint affairs! Your pool of ink, your scratchy pen. Have moved the lives of unborn men. And watched young people, breath ing hard, Put Heaven on a postal card. —Christopher Morley: "The Rock ing Horse" (Doran). Profiteers Unmolested . [From the New York World.] , The universal cry is against peace profiteering, of which there is abun. dant proof in all these countries, a3 there is to-day in the United States. , Against that abuse it should not o> impossible to udopt measures that will check if not stop it. Vet tr.e food extortioners and profiteers are permitted to go unmolested while lawmakers and official bodies sol ernn'y discuss why nothing can be i dene. 1 lEbettittg (Eljat Harrisburg Is getting pretty good milk, cream and ice cream these days, as compared with other cities roundabout, despite the occasional discouraging reports received by Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, the City Health Officer, from the chemists who ex amine the samples the agents take. But not all the dealers like the com- parative statements the Health De partment publishes. | "Why do you report the number of bacteria they find in milk?" asked one of these men of a Telegraph man the other day. "The presence of bacteria does not always mean the presence of disease germs; some bacteria are actually good for the health." This question and the appended remarks were repeated to Dr. Rau- . nick. "All very true." said the Health Officer smiling. "Some bacteria are good for the human body, but not many of the kind ordinarily re ported in milk by this department. The presence of large numbers of bacteria in fresh milk indicates careless handling, liability to sour ing in a short time and leads tho experienced chemist to look closely for colon bacilli, and where these arc found typhoid is seldom far away. So you see, the bacteria re port is important." • • Milk contamination is largely due to carelessness, according to Dr. Raunick, who notes this instance. On a test, milk from topped buckets used in milking showed 497,653 bac teria on the average, while milk from small topped pails averaged only 129,439 bacteria per cubic cen timeter. That means that the bac teria goes into the milk can from the stable and that with proper pre cautions this danger can be greatly lessened. These and other things of the kind the careful dairyman knows and practices. * • Speaking of milk, there are those who believe that the milk bottle on the doorstep in the morning will be a rarity in a few years. Among these is Eli N. Hershey. Said he the other day: "Powdered milk is a thing of the not distant future in the retail trade. I believe the day is not far away when the powdered milk will have its place with the sugar and the flour can on the '■ kitchen shelf and then the house wife will be able to smile when tho iceman fails to turn up and she can keep six months' supply on hand at a time if she so wishes. The trend of the milk trade is in that direction." ; • * * Those who have been through Perry county recently report a big development along dairy lines there. The farmers in many localities have turned toward milk production in an extensive manner and as a result a number of creameries recently have been organized. Much of this milk reaches Harrisburg. The dairy in terests of Perry are only in their in fancy. They are capable of vast development. Dr. 0. G. Jordan, rep resentative of Lawrence county in the Legislature. is one of those who believes this and talks his views to the farmers of Central Pennsyl vania whenever he gets a chance. "Why," said he the other day, "I took our old homestead as a matter of sentiment, but I put in sense along with my sentiment and now I am getting cents out of the invest ments. I have made that old farm yield thousands of dollars where mv father got hundreds. I put on it some blooded stock and now our herds number hundreds of head. There are thousands of poor farms in Central Pennsylvania that could be developed in the same way." • * The late State Treasurer, Robert K. Young, used to say the same thing of Tioga county. "It required a party of Swiss to teach us that selling our hay crops was poor busi ness," he said shortly before his death. "But now we let our own high bid cattle eat our hay. return the residue to the soil, grow corn for ensilage and sell our milk the year around. Result —every farmer prosperous and Tioga county re deemed from apparent agriculture ruin." • • • Many stories of the cruelty with which the German guards treated their prisoners have come through and this one, told by Lieutenant Hutchins of the local recruiting of fice is about as characteristic as they make them. Once a French war prisoner was working along a river bank, when he fell in. He couldn't swim and called for help, but his guard, a big Prussian, stood on the bank and laughed at the man's help lessness. He even called another guard's attention to the poor prison er. Both guards stood and enjoyed the drowning Poilu's predicament— and did nothing to help htm. Fin ally the Frenchman, feeling that he was about gone, raised his voice and shouted "Vive la France!" Then, and then only, did the guards leap in and rescue him, that they might have a chance to punish him for his audacity and effrontery. • • • This is the latest from Frank B. McClain. It was written by Girard in the Philadelphia Press: "If you have the good luck to know Mr. McClain you know that he is a bucolic philosopher. The trouble with many farmers," he went on, "is that they spend too much time trying to find out why a black hen lays a white egg. Now our Amish and Mennonite farmers jn Lancaster don't care. All they are after is the egg and they get it." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Colonel Harry C. Trexler has added another farm to his holdings near Allentown. —F. Lammott Belin, assistant to i the American minister to China, is home in Scranton on a visit. —George S. Oliver, president of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Com merce, has been visiting in Canada. —Charles Pritchard, Pittsburgh director of safety, has started a movement to improve safety condi tions on the streets in which he has asked the public to aid. —Burgess H. H. Yont, of Greens burg, has asked the housewives of his town to Join him in a fight on high prices. [ DO YOU KNOW J'* —That Harrisburg dressed moats wore supplied to the Army and some may be sold here again? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG The first general city plan for Harrisburg made after 1785 was not until about 1860. '*
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