Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, July 28, 1919, Page 8, Image 8
8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tsli(rtfl> Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Execatlve Board i. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GU& 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. 1 Member American Newspaper Pub- Assocja- S3m Bureau of Circu- WswA lation and Penn sy]\^anla^Assocla- -2! Eastern office, SSjtf Avenue Building, ■mt Western office' ■KBff Story, Brooks & Finley, ~ i Chicago, 111. nK ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. 13.00 a year In advance. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1019 I am not bound to make the world | go right, but, only to discover and to do with cheerful heart the work that God appoints.—Jean Ingclow. EXTRAVAGANT BUYING REFLECTING the Telegraph's views on the folly of ex travagance in dress, the Kan sas City Times goes farther and blames much of the profiteering on the tendency of the public to buy, not only clothing, but anything else it may want at any price asked. The Times observes: Perhaps the feeling that money counts for so little and that it might as well go anyway, and for one thing as well as anoth er, explains in part this peculiar situation. Centainly, the buying powei of the American dollar has been decreased about forty per cent, and some estimates make it decline in value still more. What ever its exact value relative to the pre-war period, money "talks" more quietly to-day than for many a year. Yet the enormous amount of money in circulation means that more people are in possession of fairly large sums than in normal times. This, of course, is readily explained by high wages during the war and to the present time, and bv the economy, largely forced while hostilities were in progress While the big fortunes of the war have gone into the bands of the few, wage increases and enforced economy for a year and a half affected large Portions of the people, many of whom had not been accustomed to the pos session of more than actual ex pense money before. These peorle take high prices as a matter of course. They ask few questions, but they get what their desire happens to be. That is not good either for them or for the coun try. The skies are bright over head, they say, so why worry about the possibility of a rainy day? But rainy days are ahead, be sure of that; they always are, whether in the way of personal misfortune or countrywide panic, and the man who has lived up to his means is the first to suffer when the clouds begin to gather. He has provided for himself neither a roof for his head nor the wherewith to supply himself during the season of ad versity. It is one thing to go about clad In fine raiment and eating costly foods and another thing to have no clothing or food whatsoever, and the man who is extravagant in his day of plenty is apt to be in sorest straits when the harvest time is over. WANT THE TRUTH THOSE Democratic newspaper organs of the Washington ad ministration which insist, with hysterical emphasis, that the distin guished members of the United States Senate who are out of agree ment with the President on Ohe League of Nations provisions are lit tle short of traitors to their coun try fail to discern any reason for of the course of President Wilson in ignoring the Senate throughout the reaco negotiations. Because these now refuse to accept without discussion, amendment or reservation all the provisions of the remarkable document which is now under review they are pilloried as pygmy-minded and unpatriotic. It matters little to this class of news paper kowtowers that some of the most able men in the country are questioning the surrender of the Na tion's sovereignty to an experimental body that may prove of benefit or develop as a grave menace to the future peace of the United States. When men of the great public experience of W. H. Taft, Charles E. Hughes, Elihu Root, Philander C. Knox and scores of others declare In favor of modification or reservations , there must be some reason for a thorough discussion of the whole matter, with a view of maintaining the inalienable rights of the Ameri can people. Because our soldiers made pos sible the winning of the war when MONDAY EVENING. the Allies had about reached the point of exhaustion does not Impose upon this country any obligation to become involved or entangled In an alliance that may disastrously affect our future position as a free and in dependent Nation. President Wilson may have his swing around the country and in dulge in those beautiful glittering generalties which he is so capable of evolving, but he is going to en counter a different atmosphere from that which he manifestly anticipates when he comes into close touch with the people. They have not forgot ten the "kept us out of war" fiction, the "peace without victory" slogan and the "too proud to fight" fallacy, nor will they be satisfied with beauti ful phrase-making on the forthcom ing tour. They want facts and they want above all else the truth. I All tho Central Pennsylvania towns, in harmony with their traditions and the patriotism of the people, are giv ing the returning soldiers such recep tions as these brave homecoming boys deserve. #lt will be necessary fcr Harrisburg. at the proper time in autumn, to honor the men who have returned after gallant service for Uncle Sam, and who are now resum ing their places in their accustom ed occupations. STATE AND CITY LEST we forget, there is an obli gation resting upon the people of Harrisburg to co-operate with the Commonwealth in every possible way in its plans for the de velopment of the Capitol Park civic center which must mot be over looked. Already we have deter mined that the new high school shall be located elsewhere than on this beautiful park frontage, but there are other buildings of a public character in contemplation—the big auditorium of Zembo Temple and the combined city hall and court house—and it ought to be the pleas ure and the ambition of all concern ed to work out, with the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, such plans as will enable the city to do its part in creating this dignified civic development. Our City Planning Commission has done many admirable things and nothing more important than the recently submitted scheme for the changing of streets and the creation of a small lake at Division and Third streets, (Italian Park), but there is still much more to do and we believe the City Council and all others in authority arc more than willing to aid the oommission in its unselfish and constructive program. Officials of the Commonwealth, in cluding the members of theßoard of Public Grounds and Buildings, are in thorough accord with the Harris burg plans for betterment, and they will expect the city to do its full share in making the environment of the Capitol all that is contemplated in the comprehensive scheme design ed by Arnold W. Brunner in con sultation with Sproul and those associated with him. SAME OLD GAME THE McSparrens, the Creaseys and others who misrepresent the State Grange are raving over the increased cost of roads, just as though good roads could be built at low cost when prices of labor, ma terial and everything else entering into them are the highest in the his tory of thq country. The McSparrens and the Creaseys are the same men who a year or two ago were telling us that the farmers did not want good roads by means of a State loan and would turn down the proposition at the fall elections. The majority by which the loan car ried shows how little they know of the real sentiments of the farmers, who appreciate what the State is do ing for them and are going calmly on their way regardless of the chat tering of this little band of self- Beekers. FIGHTERS AND WORKERS FRENCHMEN are working as they fought and the rehabilita tion of the country is marvel ous. Reliable reports Indicate that 90 per cent, of the French destroyed railroads are reconstructed and that canal communications in the north and the east of France are 80 per cent, restored. It is further stated that all the French automobile fac tories, which had been turning out shells, artillery, tractors, Itc., are once more in full swing building cars, with plenty of purchasers in sight, and deliveries have already begun. French spinning and woolen indus tries are ahead of the supply of raw materials, and many factories in the devastated regions have already re opened; some have oil-paper ceilings and canvas walls, and old machinery, but they work. The French Government has es tablished a large, new institution to make loans to the people of the de vastated regions and discount the in demnities allotted by the French Government. The capital is sub scribed, and any day, upon ratifica tion of the charter by the Parlia ment, the "Credit National" will start its activities. The investment mar ket is good, industrial bonds and notes are eagerly absorbed; the City of Paris has just issued a loan of 1,500.000,000 francs, which is quot ed at 3 per cent, premium. The gist of this matter is that the wonderful French nation is already on its feet and working out its salva tion, as It did so marvelously In 1870. Pennsylvania is pushing: Congress hard for honors along the line of public appropriations. A billion dol lar Congress is scarcely more impos ing than a hundred-million Common wealth. Such a total a few years ago would have staggered the average citizen. mv By the Kx-Committeeman In acting upon the appropriation bills for hospitals, homes and other charities Governor -William C. Sproul followed the recommenda tions of the State Board of Public Charities closer than any Governor has ever done and dozens of bills were approved in the sums that the board had listed after its in quiry last winter into the "free hospital service" that institutions were giving. In the cases where the Governor departed from the recom mendations to make reductions he did so after considering some spe cial reports. Before leaving the city the Gov ernor remarked upon this following of the recommendations. "As far as possible I took the recommenda tions of the board which had gone into the question of free service and where I made cuts I discussed them with Judge Isaac Johnson, the chairman of the board." said he. "Throughout the consideration of the bills for tlte charities Judge Johnson was here and I also had the assistance of Chairman W. J. McCaig, of the House Appropria tions Committee. T?he reductions are not numerous because I kept in pretty close touch with the legisla tion." As a result of the Governor's ex tensive use of the State Board of Charities data it is believed about the Capitol that the board will begin a number of inquiries into the free service for use a year and a half from now, this being a subject to which the Governor has directed special attention. Governor Sproul in his discussion of appropriations with heads of de partments has let it be known that he does not want the appropriations used up because authorized. "In some cases," said he, "the money will be available it needed for cer tain propositions. That does not mean that it is to be spent. I think this is wise because if for any rea son there should be a slump in rev enue from any source we would have money unexpended." The Governor's plan of having money "available" is a new one for Capitol Hill. —A pew brand of trouble has turned up for the Democratic ma chine already burdened with the Bonniweil insurgency, the fuss over the abolition of the Lancaster rev enue office and the refusal of Fed eral officeholders to help pay run ning expenses. The new row is over census supervisorships, with a view to strengthening the lines for next year. In the Chester-Delaware dis trict Lewis B. King, accused of fail ing to be regular in certain fights, has been slated and some Democrats are gunning for him. —The impression is gaining rap idly that the conference of the Bull Moose leaders here to-morrow is designed with the idea of getting the I'inchot boom started for United States Senator. The former fores ter is said to be quite modest about it and to be leaving it in the hands of his friends. What the friends will do depends upon what kind of a showing is made. —With State legislation all cleared up through the Governor's disposal of the last of the bills left on his desk by the General Assembly there is a marked tendency among the news papers to give attention to their own affairs and columns are devoted to Philadelphia's history-making cam paign under the new charter, which the Philadelphia Press expects to be a matter of national interest; to the coming clash of the factions in Alle gheny over county nominations and in the third-class cities to absorbing battles for local nominations now that the deadening effect of non partisanism in municipal affairs has been overdone by the Willson bill. —Lehigh Republicans are getting busy already. With Senator Horace W. Schantz, county chairman, pre siding, the Republican couny com mittee held one of the most enthu siastic sessions of recent years at Allentown on Saturday, fixing Dor ney Park as the place and Saturday, August 30, as the date for the an nual county meeting. The county committee session was attended by more than seventy of the committee men out of a total membership of eighty-five. Senator Schantz is a candidate for the additional judge ship of Lehigh county. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that things are going to boom soon in the mayoralty campaign and the Evening Bulletin looks for the may oralty candidates to be slated this week. The Evening Ledger thinks the Vare people will turn to Judge John M. Patterson. The Philadel phia Record says that Governor Sproul went away to avoid getting taqgled in the fight and that he re fused to "enforce harmony." It also comments upon the meeting be tween Senator Penrose and the Gov ernor and the Senator's great cheer fulness over the situation in his native city. —John McCluskie, a returned sol dier, is the only Republican in the field for the Luzerne nomination for sheriff. —Harry Bechtel, well known here, has been chosen Pottstown Republi can chairman. —Chester county politics are in the usual boiling stage and it is said that Register of Wills L. H. Miller is going to have trouble getting re noinated. —William Boyd Smith, one of tho Workmen's Compensation Bureau adjusters, has been brought out as a candidate for council in Philadel phia. So has Andrew J. Roggen berger, who took a prominent part in Senator George Woodward's cam paign last year. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger, which has been canvassing various eastern counties for a lineup on their county nominations, has this to say in a review: "Republican victories in Delaware, Chester, Montgomery, Lebanon, Franklin, Berks and Lan caster counties at the fall primaries are indicated in latest reports and in almost every one of these the campaigns promise to be close. Third-term candidates are being op posed strongly in Delaware county, while in Montgomery the indica tions are the office of recorder of deeds will be filled again by the in cumbent who has already had two terms. In Chester county the Re publican organization has set up a new slate, eliminating every incum bent in the courthouse. The office i holders have organized a new or ■ ganizatlon. The contest for mayor in Lebanon overshadows all other fights. There ar e five candidates op osing Mayor George T. Sparg, who seeks another term. In Lancaster county the Republican slate is still i unfinished, while the Democrats have their candidates in the field," HJIimiSBURO TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND -f BY BRIGGS (Robert! VOO TAKE] That DiRTY "Dog \ J>owro im THE ©ASE-^ MEot!! I WON'T \ HAVE t on my LETTERS TO THE EDITOR QUOTATION WANTED To the Editor of the Telei/raph: Can any one locate the following] paragraph and tell where the article j frcm which at is taken may be. found and who the author is? "But now we come to the last, and : perhaps the greatest debt which no't only America but every civilized and honorable nation owes to France. A barbaric and deluded people, lecj, by an insane and criminal monarch, threatened to conquer the Nations of the world, and in place of their more democratic governments, to substi tute one based upon the principle that Might makes Right. But when j their countless hordes, having swept I all resistance before them, came to the Marne, and were on the e\ e of victory, France arose and said 'Thou slialt not pass!' and they did not pass. For, just as many hundred! years ago she checked Attila and his! Huns at Chalons and stopped the I Saracen armies at Tours, so on that! memorable day in September, 1914,1 she stood like adamant, and sent the invader recoiling almost to his own borders; and in that battle of the! Marne, were modem civilization and ideals saved fir the world." INTERESTED READER. Commends Telegraph To the Editor of the Telegraph: I have been a reader of the Tele graph for but a short time, and therefore am not in position to judge, BUT when a paper draws away from the "hurly-burly" of this "fast" day and prints things of worth such as "Learns Golden Rule" which appeared on the editorial page of your paper this day, it should be highly commended for its unestima ble worth. At this moment I wish to thank you most heartily for your unltant ing editorials. Yours very truly, A CONSTANT READER. Washington Riots To the Editor of the Telegraph: Congratulations to the Harrisburg Telegraph on its important editor ial on the recent Race-Riots in Washington, D. C. Shooting down the black man on every flimsy pre tense in these last days by blood thirsty folks must stop. O. LUTHER CUNNINGHAM. Willows Guard Grand Pre [From the Detroit News] The Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the country of which Wolfville is the center, is the land of Evangeline, made immortal in Longfellow's poem. Grand Pre, the little village which was the scene of the deportation of the Acadians in 1775, is only a short distance from Wolfville, but little is left of the village where the tragedy told of by the poet was enacted. The chief objects of interest in what was once Grand Pre, are the mammoth, gnarled ancient willows, which stand, a conspicuous group, amid the fertile green meadows and serve as a windbreak. They show their age. these ancient trees, and were undoubtedly planted by the French Canadians, for the Acadians invariably planted willows wherever they settled and these trees are per petual memorials of them. Besides the willows there may be seen at the site of Grand Pre the old well, portions of the foundations of the Church of St. Charles and some stones that mark the site of the priest's house. These willow trees are always visited by tourists, and although his tory does not exactly tally with the poet's account of the deportations of the Acadians, and though there may be a division of opinion as to the justice of the act by the English in the deportation of the Acadians, the old willows tell no tales, but stand, sturdy and strong, and are sightly landmarks still hale and vig orous. THE SECOND BRAVEST YANK Frank Gaffney Says His Bullheadedness Made Him a Hero; Lock port, N. Y. Youth Acclaimed by Persh ing to Be Next to Sergeant York ]From the Buffalo News.] FRANK GAFFNEY, acclaimed by General Pershing the second bravest American soldier of the war, told Buffalo friends the other day that his heroic exploits resulted from his bullheadedness, desire to take a chance, love of fight and eagerness to save his company from annihilation. His rewards for saving Company G, 108 th Infantry, at Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918, at the peril of his life, and his later bril liant performance along the Saint Souplet front October 19, when he lost his arm, are a Congressional medal, a Distinguished Service Medal and a pension of s2l a month. His home is in Lockport, N. Y. Dr. C. Frank Bruso, who accompa nied Gaffney about Buffalo, de clared: "Gaffney is not the second bravest soldier; he is actually the bravest American of the war, not even excepting the remarkable Ser geant Alvin C. York. "The distinct difference between York and Gaffney is that York was a noncommissioned officer and car ried authority to do things which Gaffney was supposed to execute only when ordered. But Gaffney went beyond his line of duty when he smashed the resistance of the ma chine gunners at Ronssoy. Single handed, he too, accomplished the surrender of the German machine ! gunners after he had killed some | ind crippled the remainder by ' dashing the body of a German over their parapet." ' Until Doctor Bruso convinced him that his many friends and every American would be greatly pleased to hear more of his wonderful ex ploits, Gaffney stolidly refused to discuss his heroics in France. Kept Himself Ilappy "I always was very optimistic," said Gaffney. "Seldom did I worry when things went wrong 'over there!" Somehow I always saw the bright side of everything. Home to me was wherever I hung myjfiat. Sure, I thought of Lockport, my real home, with a desire to be there. But I kept myself happy by pretending my home was back of the lines and my work was up in the trenches. "Many times I thought of the great differences in jobs. How differ ent the battle lines were to paper making in the International Paper Company in Niagara Falls. I al ways thought things could have been worse; those Germans, you know, would have come to America if we didn't go there. "Homesickness was worse with more of our boys than bullets or real disease. In the thick of every fight 1 always told the boys that the work was like a pink tea party com pared to our bottle parties back in Lockport. "Whenever I saw a chance for real action 1 ached to take a long chance. I must have the gambling spirit, all right. All along I thought I was born under a lucky star because I was never wounded or captured. "I guess I wasn't born under that star, though. The last day my company was in action I got struck with shrapnel in the side beneath the shoulder. That later caused me to lose my left arm." Major General John F. O'Ryan wrote to FYivate Gaffney July 1 as follows: "I read in the press the fact that you had been presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor, as a result of your extraordinary gal lantry September 29 last. In the same article I learned of your sub sequent wound and was very sorry, indeed, to know you suffered the loss of an arm. "After the Hindenburg line battle I carefully examined the yecom- mendations made by commanding officers for the award of honors and at that time it seemed to me that no man had performed more daring exploits and had exercised a big ger influence upon those about him by the gallantry of his conduct than you had. "I think you are entitled to know this. It was therefore a matter of particular gratification to me to learn that you finally received this most honored of all awards, the Congressional Medal. "I hope you will live long to en joy it. If you are at any time in New York city or you learn that I am in the vicinity of your home town and you are there, please be sure to look me up as I would like to see you." Gaffney said he considered army training good for every boy and man. He said he would try and induce the two young brothers to get' a "little army life, anyway." "Unprovoked Aggression" [From the New Republic.] How do we get around the fact that the proposed Anglo-Franco- American alliance violates the ad dress of September 27, the terms of the armistice, the address of Decem ber 30th, and the spirit of the cove nant itself? By the invention of one of the most extraordinary phrases in the ingenious language of diplomacy, "Unprovoked aggres sion." The New Republic is pre pared to offer anyone, including Mr. Wilson, a handsomely bound set of |Mr. Wilson's speeches for a consistent interpretation of this phrase. If there is such a thing as an unpro voked aggression there must also be such a thing, as provoked aggres sion. Who under this treaty de cides which it is? And having de cided, what do we do in the case of a provoked aggression. Do we not come to the aid of the victim? In other words do we tolerate some kinds of aggression? Does the League have anything to say as to whether the aggression is provoked or unprovoked ? Do we go to war under the treaty if it is unprovoked, and under the covenant if it is pro voked? The words are sound, not mean ing. They are put together not to signify a diplomatic reality but as propaganda for the alliance. They are a phrase like black black or noisy noise. Their purpose is to neutralize Americ'an objection by seeming to obligate us only to the very quintessence of sterilized inno cence. They betray a lamentable confusion of mind and a gross ex ploitation of the gullibility of the American Nation. Tarred With the Same Old Brush (From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) "Germany lives on though wound ed sorely. We must do all in our power to bring the German spirit, German education and German Kul tur to the American people." This was not said in Berlin, but New York. The occasion was a meeting of German-Americans for starting a relief fund to be expend ed in Germany. And the six hun dred present cheered to the echo these and similar other utterances. No one will quarrel with the pur pose of the 'meeting. It Is natural and proper that those of German blood in America should seek to les sen the sufferings of their brethren across the sea. But the spirit here manifested is not compatible with loyalty. It Is the spirit which was ao offensive before America entered the war and so dangerous after. Its recrudescence cannot be tolerated now. JULY 28, 1919. China and Bolshevism The following is a Chinese stu dent's views on Bolshevism as it ap peared in a letter to the editor of a Canton newspaper recently:, "The Foreigners Powers is for eight years troubles responsible. Their hand cannot make clean. It , is one painful thought when we con- j sider to think they support so many ( bad men who suppress our democ- • racy. Many things can proof the < wrongs done by the Foreigners 1 in China. Yuan Shih-kai was the 1 foreigners powers pet. Tuan Chi- I jui had foreigners helps. Hsu Shih- 1 chang is president of foreigners -< helps. What for that way? What 1 do the Chinese peoples thinks on 1 that way? Is it not too much in- . i terference on our insides? May be : perhaps this is called foreigners l friendships. Who wants these kinds of friendships. They make one i secret treaty by Japan and give ] present territory what was belongs ; China. What rights is for them to , do by this way. Thtr peoples shows respect for foreigners. Is foreign ers shows respects for Chinese? Japan only is one power. He can not do somethings by his alone. Un less makes secret with Japan other powers give him Klaoehow too. The Chinese make angry with Japan. They make not angry with others powers, also too bad. Why for that way? China wants one good govern ment but foreigners powers help pekings bad men. What for is that? Students and merchants wants good government. All peoples knows Pekings government too much rot ten. The peoples must stop foreign ers is helping Pekings. If not they stops helpngs then what is to do. The peoples must make some tcle grames to the Europe and to the America, tell them stop. If not the second then what is to do? The peo ples must only united by each them selves. It is not one hard thing. Sometimes some countries like China is in a dangerous. Who cares for it? The peoples can salvation it hut must have not interference with its insides. If too much foreigners interference it will be make the peo ple gets crazy and like Bolshevisms. They our country be gone away too far. Nothing can its salva tion. Bolshevisms very much like crazy peoples. It is no good, what for? Because anybody be Bolshe visms must no laws. Then peoples do everything no laws. Does foreign ers powers want China be no laws country? Then China is Bolshevisms. It would make me a great sorry by that. We must salvation our coun try so not have no laws Bolshevisms. Foreigners powers must listen for it or students must dead for our sal vation the country from Japan. Stu dents is to be brave peoples. Not weak in the front or back. Small or large, old or young, mens or girls students, must salvation our country." The Republican Attitude [From the St. Louis Globe Demo crat.] The statement of Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National Committee, in regard to the League of Nations should serve to clear the air. Mr. Hays has spent much time in Washington of late, conferring with Republican Senators, and what he says is undoubtedly in accord with the convictions of the great majority of the Republican members of that body. It expresses, we may assume, the attitude of the official leaders of the Republican Party. For emphasis, as well as for the purpose of discussion, we repeat Mr. Hays statement here: "The situation respecting the League covenant is simply this: There must be effective reservations. These reservations must safeguard the sovereignty of the United States in every particular; must guarantee the Monroe doctrine beyond the shadow of a 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 de cide when and whore and to what extent our soldiers shall be em ployed; must retain our full control of immigration, tariff and all other purely domestic policies, and must provide full right to withdraw from the League at any time without hin drance or conditions of ahy kind, upon giving suitable notice. It is up to the administration to decide whether it will or will not accept these essential guarantees of Ameri can independence, which would un questionably be promptly accepted bv the other nation." Let it be noted, in the first placo, that there is here no question of a League or no League. That ques tion is already settled, and all the talk against a League of Nations, or, if you please, against the League of Nations as a whole, is altogether ir relevant. The League of Nations is. It was before President Wilson went to France. It was not created by him or by any other man. It was created by the war. The covenant of the League is but the flesh for an entity that already existed in spirit, and which the great majority of thinking and forward-looking • men all over the world realize must be nourished and sustained. Nor is ( this statement of Mr. Hays in any sense antagonistic to the League or to the covenant of the League. It in sists, it is true, upon certain reserva ■ tions, but by the mere statement of these reservations it is plainly im ' plied that if they are made the cove i nant iB acceptable. Not one of these , reservations would alter a single line i of the provisions of the covenant [ creating the essential machinery of • the League. Store Visits Customers [From Popular Mechanics.] \ A man in Dallas, Tex., has a whole , grocery store mounted on a motor . truck and takes a complete stock of , household supplies to the very doors . of his customers. The traveling em , porium is of the self help variety; , the proprietor driver remains at the \ wheel of his craft, his patrons mak ing their own selections and deliver | ies. A fixed time schedule is ob served, and the customer whose pur chases are not completed when time Is up, gets a short ride to the next [ stop. The pecuniary arrangement is "pay as you leave." Books and Magazines ' The Story of the American Legion— By George Seay Wheat, with illus [ trations by G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, publishers. 11.50 net. t This is the first volume of a scriC3 i which will form a complete and r lasting record of the story of the ■ American Legion. Successive vol ■ umes will be issued following each > annual convention containing a full account of that convention, and of ■ the Legion's activities and growth I throughout the coutry for the cur i rent year. The American Legion is the most i far-reaching influence in America s to-day. Potentially its membership i Is four million. It stands for "poli i cies, not politics." It is nonpartisan I and nopsectlonal. Above everything, i it is American. Every American I should read "The Story of the Amer ican Legion." laimttg (EJjat Secretary of Internal Affairs James F. Woodward's announce ment the other day that United States authorities had informed him of intention to start upon the survey of the lower Susquehanna called for by the Griest resolution in Con giess has not only aroused the in terest of many people among the 2,- -000,000 living in the Suquehanna basin, but attracted attention to the historic character of the work. It ,is almost a century and a quarter since this project was first brought to the attention of Congress. In fact, it was one of the very first matters to be laid before the newly-estab lished legislative authority of the infant federation. The value of the stream as a means of communica tion was recognized 200 years ago by John Harris and the writings of Weiser, Maclay and other men who figure in the splendid history of the ousquehanna valley are filled with references to traffic borne on it and what developments were possible. 1,1 far off days when Harrisburg was a trading post and Heading and Lancaster just com mencing to be hoard of men pon dered on how the river which fur nished such an ample supply of water could be cleared of rocks so that navigation could be made safe and more than one army engineer, n °„, distinguished than George Washington, thought of ap- P ying the explosives of his time to blowing out the channels in the i T his I H '°P osi tion with the potential force of TNT behind it was much heard of here this last year. n qUe^an na, as every student of its winding course knows, is a succession of shallow ponds con- The fMii T ,V v te J'. Ways due to erosion. The fall is slight, the width magnifi cent and the population to be served growing every day. • • • The earliest record, as far as Harrisburg is concerned, shows that clearing out of the rocks to make navigable was formally considered here in 1795 wmf t0 time John Harris and William Maclay had paid to remove rocks from landing and along the ° f v \ hat is now Harrisburg both being interested in the barges that brought down various materials west' i Jl , miata and the north and When w nc n Tradi °n says that when Washington was here on his rection h?, PrCSa lhe Whisky Insur rection ho discussed the clearing out the locks in the river and that army officer? studied it seriously as regions" 8 m S™ Vis ' on,ng the c °ta" Tradition is not always re ti!,un i sounds reasonable and old C m , tn °? in the legends of old families here that Anthony " y " e ' who owned land here and in the Cumberland Valley, more than m Ce the ea s r n ily d r° unced "he rocks in the Suspuehanna as spoiling a tanee Wa A ot w vust economic impor- Hnrl ' A , b Wayne was here often and was known to use explicit lan gunge this is probably true on T August C i°2 °, f 7 Vr aUPhin tells that of I aiiraai,,! v ! representatives ot Lancaster, York, Dauphin Cum- Mifflin Huntingdon and togethe" wah" 11 counties met here lugetnei with men named by the -laijland authorities to devise a rivo. nS , °! rlppiner out rocks in the Marv!and W l?ne and the or V Wlth eventual advance of the work to HarrisburgThis and aln. WaS heW in the courthouse and a subscription list opened Monov was raised and rocks blown out and after th l , lan G uish ed until wavs ° , 2 when water ways having been found valuable the legislature was spurred into action The session of 1823 passed an an propriation to improve navigation r ° m Northumberland to tidewater and named commissioners. This story, together with some facts' 4^ OII t early newspapers about the troubles of commissioners, has al ready been told in this column The State spent about $15,000 and found In 1832 the b ® the ' rOCky kind ' in the matter was revived Valentine Hummel taking a promi nent part in the affair and in Sep tember. 1833, another courthouse meeting was held and a committee named which drafted a memorial to bo hv Sß ' " enry Beuhler is said inirtnn IT lt- Geor Be Wash ington Harris wrote another and next year Henry K. Strong IV™* ft-i°in and later Prominent in the Case ?h°rr n H ment ; ' nte, "csted Lewis case, then Secretary of War and fw'toward was assigned by the army to make a survey. This project fell through but the story of its abandonment is interest- J nS 'i, j *" >r " Howard came here he had a meeting with the citizens and made an estimate of the ex -2~ The citizens started out to be , m ,° ney ; the executive com mittee being Mr. Strong, John C "Cher, Jacob M. Haldeman, Valen tine Hummel and George Mish. Be !i e a™a 0h cou,<l be done Dr. How ard died suddenly and Congress, fail e an uPPropriation to match what the citizens raised, tho army engineer officers got busy else where and the survey of the Susque- E, the might resulted in the wide branching river being of tremendous value to the Union ill The nivn w matter ot Previsions in the Civil TV ar was forgotten. Tho opening of the era of canals and tho coming of the railroad pushed tho projest further from the public mind of nXLf° r t S ° m ° revivals time °L" at i?nal stress or when a steam boat tried to get here and was held back by a lodge of rocks nothing has been done. It is a project filled with great possibilities. The Susquehanna taps coal, lumber, wheat, iron quarry, produce and other regions and its current could cut freight rates and make Harrisburg's "front y 8 °' st '" B reate r value some 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. J. Franklin McFadden, the old commander of the City Troop, is back in Philadelphia after service in France. —District Attorney W. J. Maxey, who wants to be a judge in Lack awanna, is well known here, as ho has often appeared at meetings and hearings. —John Vogt, deputy prothono tary of Allegheny county, is a can didate to succeed W. B. Kirker, prothonotary for years, who will not run again. DO YOU KNOW ■ i —Harrisburg lias over two dozen river steamers now? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Market street was used as a landing place for steamers on the Susquehanna ninety years ago.