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THURSDVY. JUI.Y 24, 1919
NO one is useless in fkis icorld who
lightens the burden of it to anyone
else.—Charles Dickens.
THAT MOTORCYCLE FUND
MAYOR KRISTER has been
given permission by City
Council to transfer from the
motorcycle fund SIOO, which was
appropriated for the purchase of
additional machines, to the Bertil
lon system for apprehending crimi
nals. There is no doubt about the
wisdom of maintaining in efficient
form the Bertillon system at police
headquarters—it should never have
been abandoned hut Instead of
withdrawing any part of the motor
cycle fund for any purpose an ap
propriation large enough to pur
chase at least six more motorcycles
for the mounting of policemen ought
to be promptly made, to the end
that the safeguarding of the com
munity and the apprehension of of
fenders against the cut-out ordinance
and criminals generally may be ac
complished.
Many progressive and practical
measures have been recently taken
by the City Council for the placing
of Harrisburg in its proper position
as a leader of the State's munici
palities. including the installation of
semaphores at street intersections,
and it is creditable to the commis
s.oners that they have been re
sponsive to public sentiment in
these matters. As intelligent ser
vants of the people they are justi
fied In doing everything that will
increase the efficiency of adminis
tration and meet public expectation
with respect to the enforcement of
ordinances and regulations.
We have no doubt that a request
from Mayor Keister for a sufficient
fund to mount at least four or six
more officers on motorcycles would
he approved by his colleagues with
out question. Experienced motor
cycle officers have explained to the
Telegraph that it is impossible for
two or three mounted officers in
a city the size of Harrisburg to
make much headway against of
fenders—motorcycle and automo
bile—under present conditions.
It is regrettable trfht- N race pre
judice has resulted in violence and
bloodshed at Washington, but it must
not be forgotten that much of the
trouble comes from intolerant whites
■who seem to think that the black
Iran is naturally a criminal and act
accordingly. A man may be a crimi
nal whether he be black or white and
the color of the skin ought to have
nothing whatever to do with his case
l.et us hope that this recent unfor
tunate clash will not serve as an ex
cuse for the usual avalanche of hot
air concerning the race problem.
AIR FORCE NEGLECT
AT AX expenditure running into
millions and billions of dol
lars the United States was
about ready at the date of the arm
: istice to bombard the German hordes
from the sky. An American
aviation legion had been developed
of an efficient type and the chapter
cf the war dealing with the Ameri
cans in the air will not be the least
brilliant page of that history. But
dropping back into the old supine
attitude of non-preparedness, the
pacifist Secretary of War, the self
satisfied and egotistical Baker, con
cluded that the millennium had at
last arrived ar.d there would be no
further occasion for maintaining an
adequate aeroplane department.
But the dropping out of scores
and hundreds of trained airmen,
the utterly inconceivable indiffer
ence of the administration to this
Important branch of the national
defense, has so aroused the country
that Secretary Baker seems at last
to have come to the conclusion that
■with serious trouble impending on
the Mexican border and with the
countries overseas developing their
air forces In a large way, it may
ho well for the United States to
continue Its air activities along
rational and adequate lines.
Just the same, the American peo
iple are beginning to understand the
' folly of continuing in these respon-
#
THURSDAY EVENING.
sible places little men who bob
around on a sea of uncertainty and
inefficiency like corks on a troubled
stream. Those who were going to
keep us out of war and who spurned
the suggestion of preparation for
the national defense until we were
on the threshold of the fighting are
hardly the sort of men to safe
guard the country against the dan
gers that are inevitable in the pres
ent restless condition of the world.
Next year the people will have an
opportunity to again speak in no un
certain way at the polls as they did
when President Wilson appealed to
them to give him a Democratic
Congress that he might go to Paris
as the unembarrassed spokesman of
a united people. And we suspect
the protest which will be voiced
in 1920 will be loud enough to be
heard. "over there." and we opine
that before that time the leaders
and the peoples overseas will have
learned that Americans are perfect
ly competent to make up their own
minds and declare their own will
without dictation or camouflage.
I Halifax Is not going to permit Ly
--j kens and Wiconisco to put anything
over on that patriotic, community.
Right on the heels of the joint By ■
| kens-Wiconisco celebration the patri
j otic Halifaxians will stage a great
j homecoming celebration for their re
j turning heroes. Saturday, August 2, Is
• tc. be a red-letter day and competent
| committees are already preparing the
j paint.
RACE RIOTS
THE race riots at Washington
should have the thoughtful
I consideration of the country.
This form of lawlessness —otf at
tempting to substitute the mob for
the law never did and never will
correct existing evils. Lynching
parties are never justifiable, be the
victim ever so guilty. The lyncher
is only one step removed from the
anarchist.
The New York World publishes a
most thorough and thoughtful edi
torial relative to the Washington
riots, in which it observes:
What we see now in Washing
ton is more properly to be thus
classified (race riots) than any
other disturbance that we have
had and there is a reason for it
worthy of serious consideration.
Negroes are taking part in the
hostilities. If they are assaulted
or shot, they are assaulting and
shooting in return. In defense
of life, limb and liberty they are
meeting mobs with mobs.
Deplorable as all this lawless
ness is. the response of the black
man to the white man was bound
to come some time. The negro
has long been free. He has ac
quired some education and prop
erty. He has made a place for
himself in industry. The laws
under which he lives guarantee
him equality. He escapes no re
sponsibility that rests upon the
white man. Yet in large sections
of the Union when riot Is afoot
he is stripped of every right and
driven either into hiding or
violence.
Is there anybody at the South |
or elsewhere who imagine? that
the compulsory service of 360,000
negroes in the United States
Army, In many instances so
creditably as to win high com
mendation, has had no influence
j upon them or the mass of their
I people at home? Who is foolish
! enough to assume that with 239.-
000 colored men in uniform from j
! the Southern states alone, as ,
against 370.000 white men, the I
blacks whose manhood and pa
triotism were thus recognized j
and tested are forever to he
flogged, lynched, burned at the
' Stake or chased into concealment
whenever Caucasian desperadoes
are moved to engage in these In
famous pastimes?
We grieve over the hardships i
of many subject* peoples a long j
way oft* and on occasion manifest
something resembling indigna
tion, but in ail the world there is
hardlv a population so God-for
saken and law-forsaken as our
own blacks. Whether it is agree
able or not. therefore, the Wash
ington outbreak.is a warning to
all Amerieans that their race
wars hereafter are going to be
race wars. The negro citizen is
going to have his day in court.
And he ought to have It. rffe
must have it. if our vaunted demo
cracy Is to be worth a row of pins.
Who are we in America that we
should go to war with Germany for :
inhuman conduct and then condone i
the lawless attacks of our fellow 1
countrymen upon the representatives
of the minority race that shares the
country with us?
PUNISHING SOLDIERS
COMPLETE amnesty for all sol
dier prisoners is proposed in a
hill just introduced in Con
gress. the only exceptions being
those whose offenses would be fel- j
onies under the Federal statutes. ,
The country" has been aroused by |
the stories of brutality coming out I
of the prison camps in France and '
the treatment of these same prison
ers sent through on trains on their j
arrival in this country to Fort
venworth and elsewhere.
"We are not criminals," said a !
good-looking young soldier hand- '
cuffed to a colored prisoner on a !
train recently passing through Har- j
risburg. These unfortunate fight- j
ers for the flag seem to have been j
the victims of the extreme court \
martial severities regarding which ,
Colonel Ansell .and others have been i
protesting.
Alany of the stories of ill-treat
ment of men who were absent with
out leave and offenders against the
strictest army discipline are of such
character as to make one see red.
An amnesty measure ought to free
thousands of these young soldiers
who have already, perhaps, suffered
more than they deserved for in
fractions of military discipline.
Bully for City Electrician Diehl!
He assures a delighted public that
some hundreds of poles In the central
part of the city; upon which swing
thousands of overhead wires of the
various utilities, will come down be
fore the snow flies. Mr. Diehl has
earned the approbation of all' pro
gressive citizens for his persistent
and efficient efforts in ridding the
highways of the unsightly pole lines.
The going of these poles means an
other long step forward for this good
old town.
Southern Democrats in Congress
moved to make Woodrow Wilson the
permanent President. How do they
'get that way?
By the Ex-Committeeman
I "Prom all accounts quite a formid
able movement is being started by
| the Bonniwell faction of the Penn
sylvania Democracy to take from
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
mer his peacock feathers of leader
ship in the party and the prelimi
nary bouts in the big contest will
be staged in a number of the coun
ties this fall. Already candidates
for county nominations which the
machine element thought that they
had all arranged have appeared and
there will be struggles Sor control
of most of the county committees
and the ci|y -committee of the Dem
ocracy in the State.
| Bonniwell's partisans, with whom
tare allied a number of men who fell
out with Palmer, MeCormick, Joe
Guffey and other leaders of the re
organization faction, disappointed
office-seekers and others who have
no love for the men who are in
power, have the advantage of a good
organization built up in the primary
campaign last year when Guffey
was defeated for the nomination for
Governor. The fifst move was the
can by Bonniwell for all Federal
officeholders and Democrats gener
ally to refuse to contribute to the
Democratic State Committee.
—Another situation which bids fair
to make trouble in the Democracy
is abolition of the Lancaster revenue
district and the retention of the
bcranton district which was put
back on earth a few years after
inning been suspended because it
was not needed. The Lancaster
abolition has resulted in a storm of
protests from almost every county
in the affected district, some of
them being sent to Palmer. AlcCor
mick and other leaders asking them
to use their influence to restore the
district and in other instances con
demning them for letting it be
abolished.
—Revenue Collector Ben Davis, a
faithful bat carrier for the Palmer-
AlcCormick element in years gone
by, is indignant at the summary
abolition of the office and in a state
ment confirms the story printed in
this column some months ago that
there was an effort under way to
move the headquarters to York. At
that time the machine organs and
the Lancaster Democrats said that
such a thing could not be possible.
Davis says that it was attempted,
but that he blocked it.
~ The Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin is viewing the Democratic row
with much amusement. It says
editorially: "As there is no State
campaign in Pennsylvania this year,
it does look as if the 'organization'
end of the Democratic party is ex
hibiting much more than an ordi
nary amount of nerve in passing
around the hat, although its most
influential managers are usually dis
posed to insist that 'assessments' are
vices of which they mean to rid
politics in these days of the uplift
and thfe 'new freedom.' But how
ever that may ,be, it is plain enough
that the Democratic partv No. 1, un
der Palmer and McCormick, and
Democratic party No. 2, under Bon
niwell, are still as many miles apart
from each other as they were last
year, and that Bonniwell, at least,
has lost none of his skill with the
brick-bat."
—The editorial from the South
Bend newspaper quoted elsewhere
shows that the nonpartisanfetish has
waned even in the Aliddlg West
where it was hailed as the great
remedy for all ills. Experience in
Indiana seems to have been much
the same as in Pennsylvania.
—The Philadelphia mayoralty is
commanding much attention in'the
newspapers of that city. The Eve
ning Bulletin says editorially: "No
heroes or geniuses are needed —only
a level-headed rtlan of experience
and character, who will have a fee
simple in the ownership of himself."
The Ledger and the Press devotes
space to much of the same kind of
thought, using the refusal of Frank
lin Spencer Edmunds to be a can
didate and his statement of qualifi
cations a mayor should have as a
text. The Inquirer says that there
is a possibility of Congressman J.
Hampton Moore being a candidate
and that -David Alartin and David
H. Lane will likely swing in for him
it he does decide to run. The In
quirer says that the Yare people
are split between W. Frceland Kend
rick and Judge John AI. Patterson.
Indiana, Latrobe and Greenville
are now first class post offices.
The Scranton Times says: "Two
up-the-valley physicians brs. Wil
liam Nealon, of Archbald, and
George Edmunds, with offices in
Mayfield. and in this city, are to
make the run for the Democratic
nomination for Coroner. Dr. Nealon,
who is blind, took out his petition
> estei day. He made a great fight
for the Democratic nomination for
representative in the Fifth district
several years ago, losing by but a
few votes."
—Two contestants with Mayor
Kitts for the Democratic nomina
tion were mentioned yesterday.
Frank D. Sehultz, ex-assemblyman,
was reported to have been offered
the support of an anti-Kitts faction.
Edward J. Davy, former resident of
Cleveland, obtained petitions which
he will tile for the Democratic sup
port. Davy, says the Erie Dispatch
lives in Erie, and is employed iri
Cleveland. It also says: "J c
Williams, clerk to the county com
missioners and former city treasurer
and candidate for mayor," was men
tioned as a Republican candidate
This suggestion was not taken ser
iously."
—Tarentum council has voted for
consolidation of Tarentum and
Brackenridge. If Brackenridge
council assents to the same ordinance
a special election on the proposed
merger will be held September 16
New Kensington, Arnold and Par
nassus will vote upon the question
of consolidation at an election next
Tuesday.
Consciences Need Jolting
In the Politico-Economic Review
of Chandler Brothers and Company
of a recent date occurs the follow
ing. ■>
"Let us have a little clearer con
ception of honesty than prevails in
many communities about the pro
tection of property that exists in
strfeet railway systems in this coun
try. THINK THIS OVER, gentle
men. You who hhve some predatory
selfish instinct towards these great
widespreading activities the dif
fused conveniences of the daily life
of communities that they are help
ing and enriching. GOD HIMSELF
CONDEMNS THE MAN WHO
DOES NOT GIVE GOOD MEAS
URE OR AN HONORABLE RE
TURN FOR WHAT HE RECEIVES.
! "There are consciences in the
community that need a Jolting."
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A REFORM FAILURE !
[From the South Bend Tribune] I
.Nonpartisan municipal elections j
have been weighed in the balance !
in Pennsylvania and found wanting, j
Governor Sproul has signed the act
repealing the nonpartisan ballot law
as it affects third-class cities— j
which include all except Philadel- j
phia, Pittsburgh and Scranton —and |
in many places candidates for the
mayoralty, council and other offices j
will run on party tickets in the old- :
fashioned way next fall. The major- |
ity of citizens probably are sighing !
with relief at the passing of the !
"reform."
Nonpartisan elections are all right
on paper and in parlor political ar
gument; they promise to bring the
best citizens to run for public office
and to eliminate some of the evils
of bitter local partisanship. In prac
tice they do nothing of the sort. For
the benefit of those who are unfa
miliar with the scheme it may be
said that in nonpartisan elections
no party names appear on the bal
lots. The men who receive the most
votes at the primary become the
candidates at the election; no party
nominations and no party platforms
are concerned. The idea is to nom
inate two good men for every office
and have the best one win regard
less of party.
The principal defect in the prac
tical application of the idea is that
under it the majority party can till
all offices. Minority representation
is almost impossible if the majority
desires to prevent it. Every one of
the councilmen of the city of Pitts
burgh have been and were until re
cently Republicans, although they
were elected on nonpartisan tickets.
Under the par.ty system minority
representation and the healthful
presence of an opposition was al
ways felt. The political leaders find
elections under the reform much
easier to control than the old ones
and machine building is twice as
simple as before.
Failure in actual demonstration of
vaunted panaceas is invigorating.
We are on the crest of a reform
wave; anything that has age is jeer
ed at by the davenport diplomats.
People seem to think that all our
ills are amenable to new and strange
laws, often the products of warped
minds. They decline to face the fact
that the old laws and customs arc
serviceable enough; that it is human
nature which needs improvement.
And so strange statutes appear on
the books. Pennsylvania tried to
improve city politics by adopting the
nonpartisan ballot. Finding her lat
ter state worse than the first she
goes back to the tried method of
party elections.
Men have said that judges should
be elected on nonpartisan ballots;
that for the dignity and honor of
the bench they should not be re
quired to participate in party poli
tics. But how does it work out?
Does it bring the desired relief? Not
at all. Nonpartisan election ot
judges sifnply means that a candi
date has to make two campaigns in
stead of one because nomination
does not assure election; and all
the members of an elective bench
will in a few years be, if profes
sional politicians desire, members of
the majority party, which is against
the spirit of State constitutions gen
erally. To find out how good tested
methods are try some new ones.
A Base Attack
[From the New York Sun]
The gentleman who a few days
ago remonstrated at paying ten
cents for a bottle of pop at the ball
games has an added cause of griev
ance; pop has gone up to fifteen
cents and the size of the bottle is
one-third of what it was in the good
old days of "Here ye are, a nickel
a shot."
This matter may appear on its
face insignificant. Pop, it is assert
ed, is not a necessity. Ask the pa
triotic bleacher fan, nobly and gal
lantly supporting the national
game on a hot summer day, if it is
not necessary to his proper defense
of a great American institution.
But the worst is not yet; inside
information is to the effect that be
fore the season is over pop will be
twenty-five cents a bottle. That
price would make it almost pro
hibitive except in the exclusive cir
cles of the grandstand.
How, we ask, how is the wicked,
refractory and stubbornly partial
ump, bought up and paid by the
opposing team, to he brought to a
realization of the enormity of his
crime in making rotten decisions
against the Giants or Yankees if
tt}e bleachers are to be deprived in
this manner of their pop bottles?
Of Growing Importance
One swallow doesn't make a
spring, but nowadays it constitutes
a dangerous offense against the
statutes in such cases made and
provided.
Learns Golden Rule
Men Who Fought in the World War Will Never Ac
cept a Narrow Creed— -Little Ostentation, but a
Great Deal of Religion on the Rat tie field
[A Croix de Guerre Man of the x Rainbow Division in the Christ
ian He raid.]
| A GREAT mrfny people, eorres
! l\ pondents, investigators and
I others trained in the observa
-1 tion of humanity in bulk, have re
j turned from Europe in the past
year with various ideas, many of
them strange and curious, as to just
what we who served on the battle
fields of France got out of the war
in the way of religion.
Personally I don't believe that the
j American soldier, as a unit, got re
| ligion as it is generally construed
! at all—that is, he did not "hit the
j sawdust trail," nor did ho publicy
| proclaim his redemption from the
! paths of sin in the good old camp
I meeting style.
I No man, however, could possibly
j have gone through that seething
caldron ."over there" without ac
j quiring something. However, to
j me it seemed that this something
j was a larger and broader Christ
| ianity—a sort of brotherhood whose
one and perhaps only law was the
golden rule. •
Creeds and doctrines were for
the most part forgotten on the field.
Protestant, Jew and Catholic lived
; or died side by side with no thought
I save of serving each as best he
1 might, not only God and country,
but also his fellow man. Under
fire at the front they were united
against one common foe. In the
I rear when danger was passed this
I same unity continued, but against
, many foes against selfishness,
blasphemy, drunkenness, social ev
ils and the like.
Men learned that to be a soldier in
the truest sense of the word it was
not necessary to be a loud swearing,
licentious braggart, the embodi
ment of all unchristian like quali
ties; and a new standard was borne
on those fields of death and suffer
ing. The man who had seen his
companions fall,, who had come
near to the supreme sacrifice him
self, was imbuded with a different
sort of spirit than that which has
usually and unfortunately been at
tributed to the soldier.
Orders and regulations for our
Government were many, their en
forcement Was necessarily strict;
and .prompt punishment awaited the
delinquent. No less prompt and
infinitely more sure was the punish
ment afforded him Who violated
the higher order—the greatest com
mand ever imposed upon man —
"Whatsoever ye would that men
should do unto you, even so do ye
unto them."
The army held men of every
nationality—of all races and ton
gues; many had probably never
even heard or read this wonderful
command, but evidences of its
power and influence were every
where. The deeds of personal
heroism which were of daily and
ofttimes almost hourly occurrence
—things such as the many rescues
of wounded comrades in the face
of deadly machine fire—all were
but the expressions of belief in the
universal doctrine proclaiming
"man's brotherhood to man": and.
being such. Were of much greater
value to the illiterate and unread
that any printed or spoken word.
For weeks at a time our only
opportunity for open worship was
at the burial service of some fallen
comrade. The chaplains could but
seldom assemble more than a score
of men together for divine services,
and, under such conditions, it
would seem but natural that when
the scattered units of a regiment
were assembled, the response to
"church call" would be but meager.
This was not the case, however.
All who were not actually on guard
or at work unfailingly attended ser
vice. Those who at home in their
comfortable, well heated homes,
with roofs over their heads and
four walls to protect them from the
elements, who on a showery Sab
bath felt no desire and no sense of i
duty to attend their church, now
stood reverently in the open shell
torn fields, more often than not in a
never ceasing, cold, drizzling rain,
and found no discomfort too great,
no hardship too difficult, to endure,
that they might give thanks to Him
who had guided them safely
through the "valley of the shadow
of death."
The public assemblage for wor
ship with its attendant ritual was
not so necessary for us: for each
man day by day was living a
Christian life in the finest sense of
the word, in that he was heedless
|of any danger, indifferent to any
hardship or risk in the service of
| his fellow man. Even as we had
| a unity of command, so had we'a
, unity of creed and race, each merg
i ed into the one, and that one pledg
! Ed to God, country and true Christ
-1 ian brotherhood.
As our most famous chaplain
once remarked, "There Was scarcely
! any time for praying, what with
dodging shells and reading one's
I shirt." But such time as there was
i for prayer was utilized by a far
j larger number of men than the
| casual observer realized; nor was
there any self-consciousness such as
we are all familiar with at home.
! Contrary to many of our popular
j novelists, men did not drop down
on their knees under fire and in
j times of great danger and pray to
j their Maker for relief and guidance;
| but a vast majority did sincerely,
; though silently, commune with God
, each night of their lives, commend
ing themselves to Him and asking
protection and strength.
Somehow the church will reach
these men—they have returned as
earnest seekers for truth—they
have a real need—a real desire to
learn—to know. . But they will not
! accept a more narrow doctrine —a
i more conventional dogmatic relig
| ion, than they learned "Over There"
i —whose creed is the Golden Rule.
Senatorial Records
I [Odell House in Philadelphia Press.]
' FRANK A. SMITH, R., Dauphin
i County—First term; organization
man; came late into the session
to take the seat vacated by Lieu
tenant Governor Boidelman and
sq did not get recorded on pro
hibition ratification; but voted
I against wet Ramsey bill; for suf
; frage, owing to the district rep
j resented he had prominence
i thrust upon him from the start
I and was made sponsor for some
j of the important measures of the
administration; agreeable person
ally and active within the bounds
of his legislative experience;
strict organization type.
Introduced thirty-sijf bills, of
j which twenty-one passed Senate and
| House and eleven did not come out
|of committee.
| HORACE L. HALDEMAN, R., Leb
| anon and part of Lancaster
! Counties First term; organlza
j tion man through the Griest Lan
caster county organization; voted
against prohibition ratification and
for the wet Ramsey bill; 'for suf
frage; type of the wealthy man
of good family in politics; as a
Civil War veteran interested in
matters of military legislation;
conservative viewpoint and does
not step outside the bounds of or
ganization policies; individually
able and respected among the
membership of the Senate.
[SCOTT S. LEIBV, D.. Mifflin, Juni
ata, Perry and Cumberland Coun
— First term; Independent
Democrat, the only one in the Sen
ate who sat at the feet of the
McCormick Palme:* leadership
through thick and thin; the great
objector in the Senate, probably
voting "no" more than any other
member; in general a good voting
record on important matters; not
free from the lawyer members'
tendency to practice law in the
General Assembly; effectiveness
interfered with by too great a
desire to constitute an opposition
party in the Senate all by himself.
Introduced twenty-one bills, of
which ten passed Senate and House
and six did not come out of com
mittee.
LABOR NOTES
There 'are now nearly 1,500
leather manufacturing establish
ments in the United States.
Colorado with i 6 per cent, work
ing women is receiving 52 per cent,
of the State quota for women's
work.
Belgian miners will have an eight
and one-half-hour working day un
til December, after which they will
work only eight hours a day.
Sheetmetal workers In Knoxville,
Tenn., have been given an Increase
in pay of f2 per day.
JULY 24, 1919.
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER TWENTY-NINE
"Probably the greatest surprise of
the whole war was tHe rapidity with
j which the United States built up a
j great army and transported it to
France," said Colonel J. B. Kemper,
of the Army Recruiting Station,
! 325 Market street, Harrisburg. "It
j certainly amazed Germany and up
, set all their plans. In tne sum-
I mer of ISM 7 the Interallied Supreme
■ Council believed that America's
greatest part in the war would be
| the furnishing of supplies but with
j the collapse of Russia we were
j called on to participate in four
| ways; first, to keep the Allies from
| starvation by shipping food; sec
-1 ond, to assist the Atlied armies by
keeping up the flow of material al-
I ready in production in the United
: States; third, to send as many men
;as could be transported with the
; shipping facilities then at America's
j command; fourth, to bend energies
| toward a big American army in
] 1319, equipped with American "sup
! plies. Following that decision a
| program of troop shipments was
drawn up. This program called for
a progressively increased schedule
| of sailings reaching a maximum in
; the spring of 1919. But how we all
i did fail in our calculations. On
1 March 21, 1918, -the Boche started
in with their big offensives and kept
j them up one night after the other.
: The British War Cabinet implored
| us to send all available infantry and
machine gunners and loaned us a
large number of transports. We
; packed troops tightly in the ships
| and left guns, horses, transport, la
; bor units, flying service, rolling
j stock, and so forth to a later occa
| sion. The French and British fur
nished us with such equipment as
was vitally necessary and the rest
, we did without, difficult though it
was. What was the result of this
change in program? The original
| schedules called for the sailing of
about 650,000 men by July 1, 1918,
| but we had actually sent over a
million. We were to send up to
November 11, 1,157,000 men but we
actually sent 2,087,000 or 930,000
more men than the program called
for. Now when you consider that
when we entered the war we had
less than 250,000 men in the Regu
lar Army and National Guard com
bined, that 930,000 extra men looks
like some little army. There are
only three cities in the whole coun
try that contains more men, women
and children than that army we
landed over and above the program.
And consider that we transported
those two millions of soldiers from
three to seven thousand miles, kept
them supplied with food, clothing,
ammunition and so forth, despite the
distance and the submarines. Do
you realize that it took Great Bri
tain until March 1917 to reach the
two million mark in France—two
years and eight months of war—and
that they then dropped below two j
million and stayed there until the
armistice. And it is only twenty-one
miles across the Straits of Dover.
Early in October, 1918, the Amer
ican Expeditionary Force (A. E. F.)
exceeded the British (B. E. F.) in i
size and we had Just started our ef- i
forts. In nineteen months we ex- I
ceeded Great Britain's highest point
in numbers and we had two mil- i
lions more in training ready to send I
as fast as ships became available.
And furthermore, the great mass of !
our troops in the A. E. F. were I
combatants, infantry, machine gun- I
ners, artillery, divisional engineers, |
pioneer infantry, and so forth. In
the final great Meuse-Argonne bat
tle over 1,200,000 American troops
took part, twenty times the
number in the Union Army at Get
tysburg, and this only a year and a
half after we got into the war."
Haig Explains His Remarks
Speaking in London on the accom
plishments of the British Empire in
the war. Field Marshal Haig said.
"Nothing could be further from
my thoughts and desires than to at
tempt to minimize the efforts of our
Allies. I have so often expressed
admiration for their deeds that I
trust I can say a word or two in
praise of my own people without
giving offense to others, for whose
many successful actions in the field
I have nothing but admiration.
"I admit that I am very jealous
of the reputation of our own
armies."
Field Marshal Haig, in a speech
at Newcastle, July 9, was quoted as
saying: <
"It Is right to speak of our Al
lies, but It was the British Army
that won the war.- It was Britain
that bore the brunt of the fighting
in the last two years,"
lEumttg (Eljat
July rains have cost residents of
Harrisburg thousands of dollars, ac
cording to an observer of things In
the city. This man does not count
in the loss in wages due to inability
of men to work on outdoor jobs,
but what would have been spent by
the people generally. There have
I been hundreds of dollars lost by
contractors who had to hold their
I people together on building opera-
I tions or on construction of various
! kinds and dwellings that are sorely
j needed have been held back for
i days and even weeks. In some in-
I stances foundations that were newly
i laid will have to be gone over, add
j ing still more to the expense. But
I where the observer says that money
] was lost by people not riding in
| cars because they stayed at home.
| For the same reason the store, the
| movies, the railroads and various
l other lines of activity suffered
through people being prevented
I from enjoying themselves. There
j has unquestionably been food loss
! through inability to get to markets
|or when it did arrive not finding
j buyers. Even the ice cream men
I say that they lost money, and as for
the peanut men they are in despair.
The people who would naturally be
expected to make money, the um
brella and overshoe merchants, say
that the rain actually spoiled their
business because folks did not come
around like they do when there is
an occasional rain and they get
caught without protection against
the elements.
• • •
Harrisburg mothers would have
gotten the shock of their lives if
' they could have seen their young
j sters stowing away a man's sized
j meal at the "Y" 'camp the other eve
-1 ning. In spite of the fact that rain
! had drenched the camp rather eom
| plctely, the boys had managed to
i acquire a pretty successful appetite
| and they proved it when the food
j was set before them in the mess
tent. Many cf them were gathered
'with mess equipment some time be
fore chow call was sounded and
looked with longing eyes and snif
fing noses at the hard-working
cooks. And tho next morning al
most before daylight had arrived a
loud and insistent demand for more
! food arose from many young throats.
! The food was forthcoming and
I youth once more was satisfied.
I Mothers who have sons in the "Y"
camp need spend no anxious mo
ments wondering if their sons are
getting their tummies full at camp;
they're getting them overfull!
• ♦
Although Steelton is only fifteen
minutes from Pennsylvania's State
Capitol and Governor William C.
Sproul has been the State's Chief
Executive for almost seven months,
at least one person in the thriving
steel town is not yet acquainted with
the fact that Martin G. Brumbaugh
is no longer Governor. A letter
reaching the Department of Internal
Affairs to-day, dated July 19, and
containing a complaint from one of
the borough's residents was ad
dressed originally to "Marfan G.
Baumbauht, Harrisburge, Dauphin
county, Capitol, City, State, Pa."
When the plans of the State High
way Department for the improve
ment of main highways in this sec
tion are completed there will be
marked betterment on five of tho
big arteries of travel into this city.
The stretch from the lower end of
Dauphin clear into Perry (county
over Clark's ferry bridge will be a
modern road; the Cumberland Val
ley, Lancaster pike and Reading
pike highways will be right up to
date and the road to Pottsville ma
terially improved.
Oliver D. Schock. veteran news
paperman and attache of the State
Government, ic quite an observer of
nature, especially bird life in tljis
1 part of the Susquehanna Valley.
The other day he referred to the
time when many varieties of song
birds were regular visitors to Cap
itol Park, where they built their
nests and reared interesting broods;
but, with the advent of gray squir
rels, it is now a rare instance to find
a bird's nest on any of the trees in
the park, because of the well-known
instinct of squirrels to destroy nests,
eggs and young birds. It is because of
this fact ho says, that there has
been such a marked decrease of birds
within the park's precincts. The
strong pugnacious, purple grackle,
| however reared a few broods this
season regardless of the squirrels'
I claim to supremacy and a pair of
I flickers also triumphed in success
i fully evading the squirrels' destruc
tive attacks. The frequent and loud
calls of these flickers have attracted
attention of many families living
adjacent to the park for weeks past,
and recently visits to the park were
rewarded by seeing the parent birds
feeding an interesting progeny and
also teaching them how to fly. These
j flickers are members of the wood
j pecker faintly. Although robins visit
the park daily and regale us with
their rich song, it is doubtful if a
single pair nested there this sum
mer; but, op the other side" re
marked Mr. Schock, "the children
derive a world of pleasure in feeding
| the squirrels and watching their
| playful antics."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
——— -A
—J. L. Replogle, for years big
man in Cambria steeT, is '■no of the
I directors of the new sh ; p corpora
i tion.
—R. T. Corson, of Philadelphia,
will represent most of tho. building
and loan associations of that city at
the national convention of associa
tions.
1 —M. C. Henninger, candidate for
judge in Lehigh, is a former State
Senator. .
—Dr. B. H. Warren, former State
Zoologist, is taking a prominent
part in arrangements for the meet
ing of State Sportsmen at Scranton.
—w. F. Kendrick, prominent
Philadelphian, says he thinks that
there is something to the claim that
handshaking is dangerous.
DO YOU KNOW ~
—That Harrisburg is becom
ing an important center for dis
tribution of building materials?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Right after the Revolution
Harrisburg had five militia com
panies.
Heroism
Of all the battles won
The greatest is to hold
A squalling b iby in your arms
And laugh instead of scold.
—Ruthele Novak in Contemporary
Versa