14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Build ins, Fcd-rnl Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STBINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager 1 Executive Board i. 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 ail 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. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Avenue, Building New York City; ■Western office, Story, Brooks <fc Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1919 I think we all know well what cour age is; Not thews, not blood, not bulk, not bravery Its highest title, patience. —John Davidson. CAN'T HAVE HIM ST. HELENA puts in a bid for the Kaiser, anticipating that the sentence of the interna tional court to try him will be banishment for life. St. Helena is a thrifty little isle and knows the money value of distinguished exiles, having profited heavily during the confinement there of Napoleon and later, to a lesser degree, by the pres ence of the notorious Dinizulu, the Zulu chieftain who for many years practiced Hunnish tricks against British colonists in South Africa. The merchants of St. Helena grew rich at the expense of the British government, the fifty retainers of Napoleon and the international "ob servers" stationed there to keep tabs on the man who had set all Europe by the ears and who it was feared 5 might escape to do it again. They had profiteering down to a fine art and they mourned right sincerely when the great Frenchman passed away. Those "were the happy days" on St. Helena and naturally the natives, familiar with history, would like to recall them through the presence of the latest royal can didate for exile. St. Helena is a poor place in which to live. Even the natives think so, the population in recent years hav ing shrunk to 3,500, but it is too good for Wilhelm. To exile the ex- war lord to the island prison of ' Napoleon would be to raise Wil helm in his own estimation. The ex-Kaiser has been aping Napoleon all his life. To be placed in the lit tle corporal's shoes, even in prison, would be to gratify his vanity. Wilhelm is not fit to dust Na- I poleon's shoes. If Napoleon made j war he also lifted France from the dust and made a nation of it. He gave his people a great code of laws - and where he found choas he left order. And he was a great and vic torious soldier, which the Kaiser is • not. He was a killer of men in open fight, but he did not murder chil dren or ravish women, nor did he stoop to the use of poison gas to win battles. No, St. Helena can't have the Kaiser. St. Helena is too good • for him. s Austria probably realizes now the danger of evil associations. DEEDS BACK WORDS THERE is probably no truth to to the report that Secretary Baker said he would make the war so costly the American people would never want another one. But he came pretty near doing it, •whether he threatened to or not. But the people will always prefer even a costly war to surrender. FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT SPEAKING before the Senate Committee on Interstate Com merce, some time ago, a Chi cago lawyer advocated the Govern ment ownership but private opera tion of the roads. He would have the Government sell bonds bearing 4 per cent, to raise money to buy the roads, by which method, he argued, the bondholders, being assured of , return on their investment, would feel no interest in legislation, privi • leges or political action. They would have no speculative interest. Their return would be the same, re gardless of the manner in which the roads were operated. For operating purposes he would organize a corporation "where oper ating capacity would be its sole capi tal.' The affairs of the corporation would be administered by a board of directors, of whom one-third would be selected by the classified employes below the grade of ap pointees, one-third by the appointed •fflcers and employes and one-third FRIDAY EVENING, by the President of the United States, with confirmation by the Senate. No method was suggested for the selection of any of the di rectors by the people who are to be served by the roads. The employes would select two-thirds of the direc tors and the administration, chang ing with the political views of the i people of the country, would select | the other third. The operating cor j poration would be "required to meet ; all costs of operation and fixed | charges upon the capital employed | and would get a certain percentage j of the net profits, the balance of the profits to go to the employes as a i dividend." The line of argument upon which | the attorney based his scheme is : somewhat as follows: "Under the ; old system of private ownership ; and operation the hope of increased , returns actuated only those indi : viduals employed in the service who I might reasonably be expected to ! share in those returns. All other employes were merely actuated by fear that they might lose their jobs, or might face an actual or relative decrease in wages." This statement, even if it were true, would not serve as a support for the plan of turning the manage ment of the roads over to the em ployes. That the great majority of the railroad employes of th& country have been actuated by fear of loss of their jobs is so preposter ous as to discredit the man making the assertion. The records show that the openings for promotion are available to every man who enters the railway service. A perusal of the records of the men who have been at the head of the manage ment of the railroads will show that a vast majority of them are men who worked their way up from the bottom. And most of the men in minor positions of supervision are men who began in the lower ranks and fitted themselves for higher re sponsibilities by faithful and effi- j cient service. Promotion on the basis of merit has been the almost universal rule among the railroad systems of the country. ' It is true that only a small pro portion of the total number of em ployes can ever get to the top in the railway service, but that will be true under any plan of operation that can be devised. It there are only fifty supervisory positions to which 500 men can aspire, it is mathematically certain that only fifty can succeed in securing the coveted places, though all of the 500 may hope to do so. Turning the management over to the em ployes will not alter the situation, unless it is proposed to increase the number of higher positions for the express purpeja of increasing the opportunities. The fact is that in every line of work farming, merchandising, manufacturing, railroading, bank ing, publishing and what not—the large rewards are relatively few. Except in the Government sendee, most of the_ promotions in any line of endeavor are attained by merit. The man who is now at the head of the Railway Administration began as a lawyer, not as a practical rail road >vorkn?an. Paderewski finds the job of premier in rejuvenated Poland so strenuous that he has given up music complete ly. His sensitive ear must often suf fer from inharmonious notes and how he used to scowl over the rus tling of a program. THOUGHTLESS OF HIM MARSHAL, FOCH is a good sol dier, but a poor diplomat. In the midst of much im passioned oratory from the Demo cratic side of the Senate in behalf of the League of Nations as an in strument for the perpetuation of world peace, the Marshal, address ing a victory celebration in London, has this to say: "The next time England will be in the same position as the last time—it will not be 'ready and we will have to wait for it. "'The military history of the world contains no parallel to the production of such an army in such a way. In every respect the British army has been superb. "Look at the out-of-date equip ment with which we started this war. The next war will be more than ever one of machinery. You should have laboratories with in ventors always at work keeping you abreast of the mechanical side of war." The next war? Doesn't the Mar shal' know that we are about to have a League of Nations? Or is it possible he doesn't take much stock in its efficacy as a peace promoting institution? The next war? We bet a dime President Wilson wouldn't let an American general talk like that —at least not until the Senate has voted on the League plan. It was thought less on the part of the Marshal to talk like that, oh, very thoughtless, just at this time. Major General Clarence H. Ed wards, according to Boston advices, has asked the War Department that soldiers stationed at the coast de fense be allowed to wear civilian clothes while on pass or furlough. This fcr the reason that pre-war pre judice against the army uniform is apparent. General Edwards explains that during a tour of the coast de fense he heard many complaints that enlisted men were sneered at and in vestigation substantiated the stories. Sneers for our soldier boys before the war were enough to arouse the in dignation of a patriotic people when they learned the truth, but such an attitude since the war is almost In conceivable. Instead of civilian clothes why not give the enlisted man more freedom of action and al low him to drive real respect for the uniform into the sneering loafers. City Commissioner Lynch is show ing a lot of energy in repairing worn out sections of the asphalt. Harrisburg has a reputation to maintain in the matter of good streets and the Com missioner of Public Works is mani | testing a proper appreciation of this fact.. IK | By the Kx-Committeeman Plans for. reorganization of a , number of departments of the State | government which have been hang ing fire for weeks owing to the close 'of the legislative session and the : desire of Governor William C. Sproul to clear up the legislative bills before taking hold of such j matters will be made effective be- I tween now and September 1. Dur- I ing the remainder of this month the | final touches will be put to plans , for at least two departments—Ag- I riculture and Public Printing and Binding, while the various Labor and Industry changes will be de- I ferred until later in the fall. Carry - | ing out Governor Sproul's desire I Commissioner of Banking, John S. , Fisher, will push reorganization of ! his department as rapidly as he can 1 get the kind of men experienced in banking matters that he wants. Before leaving Harrisburg last night Governor Sproul consulted with a number of heads of depart ments on their plans and some of them are said to be about to under go revision. The Governor is in Washington to-day attending the meeting of the Meade Memorial Statue Commission, of which he is one of the original members, and will spend the weekend at home, going to the Pacific coast next week for a brief vacation and business trip. He will be back in Harrisburg the middle of August or earlier. Be fore leaving, the Governor got the latest information on the North Penn bank affairs, but declined to I express any opinions in the matter. , .The most significant thing con ' nected with the Governor's approval i of appropriations to the extent of $103,237,456.80 or more than $21,- 000,000 more than the record figure of 1917, is the warning to be given to heads of departments of the State government and State institu tions to be economical and that the large appropriations granted this year were to meet more than $2,- 886,000 of deficiency appropriations caused by the war conditions and emergencies. They are not going to reoccur, says the Governor. Auditor General Charles A. Snyd er, who is to raise the unprecedent ed revenue to meet the appropria tions says he is ready to undertake it. He has given the Governor that assurance. —Between the row kicked up by Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell and his friends in Philadelphia, against the Democratic State committee's effort to have the office holders pay the cost of running the reorganization machine and the disturbance creat ed over abolition of the Lancaster revenue district while Scranton dis trict remains, there are some lively discussions among Democratic lead ers. The Bonniwell factionists are getting ready to make things in teresting and are holding some long distance conversations while the reorganization bosses, most of whom hold Federal jobs, are trying to keep the home fires burning and help out at Washington at the same time. —Democratic State committee officials are not disturbed over the attacks made upon them by the Philadelphia Public Ledger for ask ing contributions or making "assess ments," as the matter may be called, any more than they have been, when caught doing other things which various Democratic news papers have denounced when car ried out by Republicans. —The Vare organization in Phila delphia 'is going right to it in the matter of getting names on the reg istration lists in Philadelphia and there is an interesting series of hearing ahead for the Governor's new commissioners. Incidentally there is trouble over some of the slating for council. John H. Baizely, a picturesque figure in council for years and the head and front of the New Year's pageants, is mad because he is not to run, says the Philadelphia Press. —The Inquirer says that "Fox Hunting Bill" Wilson, an assistant city solicitor, is a candidate for or phans court judge, against George C. Henderson, a Brumbaugh ap pointee. It also says that Municipal Court Judges Thomas F. McNichOl and Charles F. Bartlett are candi dates for nomination for the full term. —Daniel Brumbaugh, city trea- ' surer of Altoona, has decided to run for mayor of the Mountain City on the Republican ticket. —The judgeship contests in var ious sections of the Stat,e are com mencing to warm up and there will be an avalanche of nominating pe titions tiled here in the next three weeks, if the inquiries being made are anything to go by. —Some interesting facts about I the way to run boroughs, comes I from Westmoreland county where j New Kensington, Arnold and Par- I nassus will not consolidate, for a ' time at least. This was the decision 1 of voters of Arnold and Parnassus ' at a special election held this week j Although New Kensington favored ! consolidation by a big majority, it ' was necessary to have the question i approved by each of the towns. An exceptionally light vote was cast in both New Kensington and Arnold, while citizens of Parnassus turned out strong, nearly two-thirds of the voters exercising their citizenship rights. Concerning the election, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says: "Burgess Howard Rieder of Arnold favored consolidation. Had the proposition been approved Burgess S. R. McCormick of Parnassus, which is the oldest of the three bor oughs, would have been the first mayor of New Kensington, but he opposed consolidation." —Scranton is all stirred up be cause Mayor Alex Conniell has dsked for the resignation of Dr. S. P. Longstreet, Director of Public Health, and a member of the Scran ton School Board. The resignation jis to take effect August 1. The 1 action of the Mayor is said to be the result of several recent differences between the Health Director and himself. —Writing in the Philadelphia In quirer, George J. Brennan says: "Auditor General Charles A. Snyder is already being importuned by poli ticians all over the State for ap pointments of mercantile appraisers, which under the terms of the Act of Assembly just signed by Governor Sproul come under his exclusive jurisdiction in every county except ing Philadelphia and Allegheny. In this county the appraisers will con tinue to be named by joint action of the Auditor General and the City Treasurer and in Allegheny county the County Commissioners will have the power of appointed as hereto fore. Auditor General Snyder says he is convinced that with a proper organization in each county direct ed from h's office in Harrisburg he will be able to collect many hun dreds of thousand dollars in taxes which have been lost to the State through the imperfect system and inefficient methods which have been in force throughout the State for years." BAItRISBURG TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A MAN IN THE FRONT ROW A stranger iiu TouUN ME GETS A For' FEAR she. 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TO OFFSET IMPRESSION " HEH - HEH'TMHT'S RICH"* THAT HE CARf-S A- WHOOP Food and the Package [From the Portland Oregonian.] The War Department recently rejected some sixty-eight bids tor purchase of 143 million pounds of canned and cured meat which it had on hand when the armistice was signed. These bids in a ma jority of cases were for less than half of the sums the Government had paid for the goods. Many of them were made by the same pack ers who had sold the goods to the Government. There is, perhaps, an element of profiteering in these later transac tions. Evidently the War Depart ment is going to get more money for its supplies if it can. It will not, however, in ordinary expecta tion, get out all that it put into them. They were bought in a war market; when they are sold their own weight will serve to bring down the scale in some degree. There is a certain allowance to be legiti mately made between markets then and now. But there is another and an even more influential factor. One ele ment in fixing the price of these goods for civilian use is that they are packed in army packages. The army packages are durable enough, but, as the New York Commercial, speaking from authority from the trade viewpoint, observes, they "have a generally unfinished appear ance, are unattractive to the eye. and the public would expect to get them at a considerable reduced price." So the public pays for its finical taste in such matters as these. Grown accustomed to buying its food put up attractively, it will have it no other way. The eye, no less that the palate and the di gestion, figures in the purchase of necessities for the table. It is true enough. The most cas ual observer can verify the fact by examining his own mind. Given his choice between the tin with a handsome label, decorated with a rose or two, in three or four litho graphic coloj-s, and a plain, unlabel ed, square and unornamented can containing several times the quan tity of equally nutritious food, and almost any householder knows which he (or she) would choose. The fringe of the lace paper makes the prune worth several cents a pound more than his unaristocratic brother in the plebeian gunnysack. Cherries neatly faced always fetch more than those in bulk. Packing and processing institutions exist all over the land, not to add to the caloric value of common foods, but to make them prettieb and thus add to their selling price if not to their actual worth. They are justified by the requirements of good merchan dising. The business of a purveyor is to give the public what it wants. Undoubtedly it is true that "the public Would expect to get them at a considerably reduced price"—if, indeed, it bought them in competi tion with attractively packed, goods at all. The packages figures very largely in salesmanship nowadays. Buvers in the piass have themselves to "blame for the added price they pay for it. Catch the Criminals [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] It will be remembered that in her famous cookbook, Mrs. Glass pre faced h,er receipt for cooking a hare by the sage advice, first catch your hare. This remark is suggested by the news that a Turkish court-mar tial has passed a death sentence on Enver, Tallat and Djemal Pashaq for crimes committed by-them, in their conduct of the Ottoman government during the period of the war. No one who'is conversant with the facts will dispute the justice, of this sen tence. These men were notoriously responsible for the Armenian massa cres and for innumerable other atrocities. They were also traitors who betrayed their country into a suicidal conflict because the Germans made it personally profitable for them to do so. The Prince o' Dreams We dream; and the mounting vision. Freed Irom the reek and stain Of sin-bound cities, is lifted To skies that are clear Homes redeemed from the spoiler, The child at his happy day; ' But for every dream we win to fact. With blood and with tears we pay. There kindled a dream of freedom, It burned with a holy flame; When, slowly, with lips that trem bled, We spelled out that awful name, Down in the dust of the battle> Our best—our dearest lay. We dream, and the dreams come true at last, But we pay, we pay, we pay. —Alice Rollit Coe in Scribner's Magazine. Hard Work Would Help ]From the Detroit Free Press.] High prices make high wages and again high wages make high prices, and the process keeps on indefinitely in a whirling way that turns the head dizzy and provokes the verv st'iocs question: When and how is it all going to end? In some way a brake must, be adjusted and put Into operation, or we risk decidedly bad results from a financial aero planing that really brings no ben efit but creates a steadily increasing tension. There is one corrective that is relatively simple, bbt at the same time difficult from a practical view point because it can be applied only through a general exercise of in telligent patriotism. A revival among workers of good, old-fashioned, con scientious, painstaking industrious ness, and a consequent straight forward price readjustment among manufacturers and sellers of mer chandise would accomplish won ders. To-day, unfortunately, the ten dency among the mass of men and women with trades seems to be to get as much money as possible for as little work as possible, and the proficiency of some craftsmen in the art of "loafing on the job" would be humorous if it were not tragic. The lack of honest work in return for remuneration is unquestionably hav ing an appreciable effect on the eco nomic condition of the country; it is responsible for the worst features of that bugaboo known as the "high cost of living." General cultivation among the workers of the Nation of a sense of obligation to put forth a full day's effort in exchange for a full day's pay would at once result in a new standard of productivity. Greater productivity would mean a lessening of costs to the manufacturer or builder, and a consequent corre sponding decrease in the legitimate selling price of goods without any corresponding decrease in the wage scale. This is as plain as a lesson in the tirst primer. And while it is not a proposition that will appeal to a Bolshevik or an I. W. W. it ought to appeal to every real American. True the rewards of industrous ness would not be Immediately ap parent to the individual. The con scientious worker would in the main receive no more money at the end of the day or week than would the slacker. But assuming that the mer chants and manufacturers would deal honorably by their patrons, good results would come in a gen eral way almost at once through natural readjustments of the prices of merchandise in deference to the decreased cost of production. The working out of u relief plan along the lines suggested would de mand a good deal of practical un selfishness and the exercise of con siderable common sense, but the people of the United States ought to ne equal to the efforts and in a way they are on trial in the matter. Whether the present readjustment period is weathered successfully de i pends much more on the mass of the people than it does on the finan | ciers. ' Striking For Petrograd [From the New York Tribune.] ! A joint movement to envelop Pet | rograd was started last spring, some | Finnish troops participating in it. I It was halted by political rather than Iby military consideration. For last spring Kolehak had not yet come to ! terms with the Allies and had not ! given definite pledges to recognize | Finland's independence if he should : be successful in restoring a national j Russian government. Now full co j operation between the Finns and the [ anti-Bolshevists is assured. Finnish troops have penetrated | Russia to a point about thirty miles I north of Petrograd. Russian anti i Bolshevist forces from the Archangel I district have worked down into ; Olonetz province, northeast of the I city, and British units were report- I of a couple of months ago on the ' shores of Lake Onega. I The easiest way to take the capital 1 is to envelop it from the ea.;t, cut- I ting the railroad communications . with Vologda and Moscow. A sup porting attack was begun last spring from the south and southwest by Esthonian troops, but it was also checked by the lack of definite po litical agreements among the Finns, Esthonians and the Kolehak Rus i sians. The Finns have a strong, enough army to seize Petrograd, wflich Le nine and Trotzky have left to its fate. The operation must be begun promptly, however, if the city is to be taken in time to consolidate Allied control and resupply its famished inhabitants before the winter season sets in. Its capture would free most of northeastern Russia from Bol shevist rule. n ! No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER THIRTY "When we first went into the ! trenches in France there was one thing that used to make us all sore, "said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Mark et street, Harrisburg," and that was that when the men were cold, wet and exhausted, the Eng lish and French troops received | an issue of brandy, rum or wine to i brace them up and stimulate them, i while under the same circumstances j we were expected to get stimulated i on fresh air. Prohibition is all ' right, but about four o'clock of a j dark, rainy morning, when you are \ plastered with mud and have had i no sleep or dry clothes for days i your vitality is at the very lowest | ebb. The oriiy thing you really de- j sire in the world at such a time is | to die as quickly as it is possible to j do so, and I really mean that. A ; gill of brandy or rum will warm you I clear to the toes and put life and j pep in your veins. A quart of hot, I black coffee will do equally well, j but the question is how to get hun- ! dreds of gallons of hot coffee up to the front line trenches. It simply couldn't be done, consequently our men had to suffer, and suffer they did for a while. Finally we began to get soluble coffee issued for use in the trenches and as we couldn't build fires to heat water we also drew cans of solidified alcohol. Then things took on another aspect in the American sectors. When a man came in chilled to the bone and about all in, he touched a match to a can of alcohol, put his cup full of water on top and in a couple of minutes dropped in two or three spoons full of soluble coffee, stirred it up and lo! he had a cup of fine strong, black coffee. But here came in a problem; the entire output of soluble coffee in the United States was only six thousand pounds daily and the army needed forty-two thousand pounds per day in France alone. When we tried to increase the production it was found that there was only one company in the entire United States which could make the necessary bronze parts for the machinery needed and this company was already swamped with rush war orders. Also the material used was vital in the manufacture ! of other munitions. But it was even j more important that the Doughboy j at the front be given hot drinks, ! so the necessary machinery was j built and put in operation. Of j course this soluble coffee was only j an emergency drink and during the I daytime coffee was brought up ready i made in cans from the rolling kit- ; chens in rear. At the beginning of j the war coffee was purchased, ready roasted and ground, from com petitive dealers. It was then col lected in warehouses, shipped to France, held there in storage and finally after six months or so reach ed the troops up front. By that time it had deteriorated so much that I half its value as a stimulant was lost and it was often in a crumbly condition resulting in 'Muddy' coffee for the men. So we had to change that and ship all coffee to France in the green berries, build roasting and grinding plants in var ious parts of France. Then we found there was a shortage of train ed men and we had to go to work and teach men how to roast and grind coffee and send them over to operate the plants in France. Six ! teen such plants were built overseas with a capacity sufficient to take care of 2,000,000 men. Incidentally this system was very much cheaper for the Government than the old j system of purchasing already roast- i ed and ground. So finally,- instead I of getting a liter (quart) of sour, , red wine—'pinard' the French Poilu : calls it—a day as the Frenchmen j did and an emergency issue of rum j or brandy that was so strong and j fiery it made your hair stand on j end, our boys were getting all they | wanted of the American National : drink, good coffee." The X ems paper Headline [From the Philadelphia Press.] That well-known Wilsonian states man and informed publicist, Henry Ford, testifies that he never reads anything but the newspaper head lines. Has he ever counted the num ber of letters in a headline or the arrangement of the words to dis cover if some more significant word could not be used somewhere? The headliner is always a genius of the highest order; he may not have in vented any internal combustion en gines, but he has invented many things quite as difficult and does it every day. Let Mr. Ford stick to the headlines and he will be'better informed than he-seems to be on the witness stand. JULY 25, 1919. Denies Small Loaf Governor Sproul's remarks on desirability of small bread loaves caused many a sigh of relief in some households. I can't imagine any city being served with a better qual ity of bread than Harrisburg, but in families consisting of two or three members there exists the problem of what to do with ends of bread, when the large loaf is the only one to be gotten. Some people have chickens that absorb the surplus, but the major ity of us are scanning the papers to try to And some new ways to get rid of the leftovers. Of course, we have all eaten milk toast, dry toast, French toast or fried bread, also bread pudding, where in order to make it palatable you use one-half dozen eggs, 1 ,p.nt of cream, one fourth pound butter or reducing the pieces to crumbs we use them in omeletes, fried bread crumbs, or crumb griddle cakes, otherwise known as grandpa's favorites.- Then more is absorbed in breading our oysters and veal cutlets. By the way, if you haven't eaten crumb griddle cakes, you'll bless me when you taste them, so here's the recipe: Soak two cupfuls of bread crumbs in a quart of milk for an hour. Into this beat a tablespoonful of mo lasses and the same amount of melt ed butter; salt to taste, then stir in two or three well-beaten eggs. When well mixed and a cupful of flour which has been sifted with one-half teaspoonful of baking powder. Now you are ready for a hot griddle and a satisfying meal. Notwith standing all these and many other devices to keep down the stale bread, it accumulates and in a tit of des peration you empty the half-filled breadbox into the garbage pail. A small loaf of bread would re lieve many persons from a lot of worry and would avoid quite a few family high talks, whose basis is stale bread on the table three times a day. I have heard of doctors who preach that stale bread is healthier than fresh, but you don't live very long until you find out that doctors don't know everything. The baker who gives us a small loaf of bread will deserve and re ceive the thanks of many house holds. Dr. J. H. FAGER, SR. The Vanished Parlor According to the Rome (Ga.) Tribune-Herald, "the parlor was a heritage of a false aristocracy, and in its passing we have OD3 expres sion of the new democracy " add ing: "When a person entered the parlor of a man's home, he cloth - ed himself with due formality, he stacked on ceremony, sat in a bolt upright position with his hands crossed, his feet obscured, and talked in stage whispers, using only correct phraseology. Around the walls of the parlor hung the. portraits of the house holds ancestors; in the center was a large round table, on which were placed the family album and family Bible. A big horsehair sofr. sat in one corner, while a whatnot stood in another. "In this parlor the children of. the house never dared to assem ble, hut on certain state occa sions the elder daughter of the house, or a younger one if she could bent her sister to it, sat bolt upright in solemn grandeur and received the final sworn as suiances of her accepted lover. Rut the parlor is a thing of the past: it has passed in its checks, as it were. Now the guests as semble informally in the library or drawing room and attain a considerable amount of ease." But the Montgomery (Ala.) Ad vertiser observes sadly that the de cadence of the parlor indicates "the slow passing of the home as a gath ering place for friends," professing to see therein an irreparable loss to social life. It says: "The model home of a genera tion and mere ago was a, spacious object within whose ample walls week-end parties were held. and., a ballroom floor lay. while under the house was a cellar to keep things in that might be needed on pleasant occasions. But the model home is dwindling in size, along with families. The cost of maintenance, in the matter of servants, lights, fuel and furni ture. not to speak of the cost of building material, is too burden some to encourage the building of large houses. "It has become necessarv to make smaller houses. When something had to be sacrificed, everybody agreed on the parlor. With these alterations came also a change in social customs. Din ner parties are frequently given at hotels and receptions at down town clubs. Dances are usually given downtown. As a rule, the last thing people seem to desire now lb company in the house." Setting (Eljat Prohibition has not brought about any increase in the use of drugs in Harrisburg and is not likely to, in opinion of one of the men who has given close study to the proposi tion of drug control in the State and who is familiar with conditions in Harrisburg and similar industrial communities. In the estimation of this man, Harrisburg has never been what any one could call a drinking There have been many placea for the sale of drinks, but there is more tippling on the record of this community than hard drinking. The advent of prohibition interfered with some of the activities of the tipplers and reduced the number of what are termed "souses." The fact that " ai ;. r '^ Urg has been 80 Quiet under prohibition speaks for itself. As for the drug habit. Dr. Thomas S. Blair, head ot the State's Bureau for Nar cotic Control, has not noticed any increase in drug use since prohibition' came in. There are some addicts to drugs said the doctor, who have to he taken into consideration and in the course of observation of the diug traffic this class comes under observation, but the fact is that no increase in the use of habit-forming drugs has been noted since prohibi tion came in. Which, it might be said, explodes one source of appre hension of which much has been made in recent years. Along the same line a little investi gation made by a man who is fami har with the liquor trade in Harris burg and vicinity is authority for the statement that as a general rule there is not much rum stored away in cellars, garrets, closets or other places for future use. In a com munity of 100.000 persons it is not improbable that there are some people who have stacked up liquor to last a while, but the very great majority, says this man, do not have more than a gallon. There is prob ably a greater proportion of liquor held foreigners and others who th "" ow " w nee for personal use than anything else held in homes. Wine making is as regular a summer affair in households of many people in this city and Steel , ton as putting up strawberries. „.^I" one ,hc names of those who ). Prominent in the formation of enrlipv"thf merlcan Le E' on a t Paris T fc year 1S that of Colonel John Price Jackson, of the Engi neers, and Commissioner of Labor and Industry fo r Pennsylvania Colonel Jackson, who spent most-f !\!L ? 8 .u in Prance at the headquar ters ot the Service of Supplies, went staff 86 ,? ?■ U n laj ° r . on the Engineer ta at G. H. Q. He was later snen a lieutenant-colonelcy and now ranks as a full colonel. The American Legion founders are such men as Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, First Division; Colonel Luke Lea, who made a stab at catch ing the Kaiser and was only pre vented by a superfluity .of guard bayonets; "Bill" Donovan, of the Sixty-ninth; Eric Fisher Wood, and many others. Colonel Jackson has some very interesting stories to tell not the least interesting of which is the tale of his entrance into Sedan about 11.01 a. m on the day of the armistice. The Colonel was on his way to make a tup of inspection and drove right through into the German lines in spite of the efforts of a "buck private M. P." to stop him. Some one was speaking of the awful situation that exists in Rus sia at the present time. A soldier standing nearby, who has recently returned from overseas duty with the 1 9th Division, spoke up and said: "Talk about your Russian riots! When we got to La Courtine for our practice firing with the 755, we found that the barracks in which we were to live were pretty well per forated with shell holes and know ing that they were never in the bat tle era, our curiosity was naturally aroused. A French officer gave us the following explanation: It seems that the year before there were sev eral hundred Russian officers and nier. at La Courtine learning how to use machine guns under French instructors. When the revolution came about in Russia, these men naturally heard about it and im mediately took sides on the Ques tion. They got machine guns and mounting them in the second-story windows of the barracks, began peppering away at each other. The French could do nothing for several days and let them go to it, but finally they decided it was best to interfere, so a number of the little 75 millimeter field guns were ranged on the hills about the barracks and a terrific concentration laid down about the buildings. Shrapnel was tired that exploded with telling ef fect in the windows. As a result of this three days' rioting, three hun dred Russians were killed, both from their own fire and from the fire of the French guns." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. Thomas E. Fincgan. the Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, is preparing to take his vaca tion in August. He will spend most of it studying the State educational system. —Ex-Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown is spending his vaca tion at his camp in the Adirondacks. —R. A. F. Penrose, brother of Senator Penrose, was among the vis itors to the State Capitol. —Judge It. B. McCormick. whose sentences created some excitement in Philadelphia last winter, is to hold court in that city again this fall, having been assigned to it when his own courts in Clinton county end. —Dr. Wilmer Krusen, Philadel phia health official, says that pro longed rains bring damp cellars and that people should beware. DO YOU KNOW ~j —That Harrisburg shells are In the Array and Navy reserve supplies? * HISTORIC HAURISBCRG —The first arsenal here was along the river front and was in a frame warehouse, temporarily used in the Revolution. A Republican Co-op Store [From the New York Evening Post] One Republican clubhouse In Manhattan is to be turned Into a co-operative store for the sale of foodstuffs as a measure to combat radicalism and the high cost of liv ing. Robert S. Conklin, deputy at torney general, made a condition of his accepting the district leader ship that the club should attempt something constructive toward al leviating living costs which are such a burden upon the club's member ship, • i
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