8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telesraph Building, Fcd-ral Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief JP. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STSINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board it P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication Of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub- Assocla- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Avenui Building, Western office', Story, Brooks & Flnley, I Chicago, 111. B ' 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. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1919 Every step of progress the world has taken has been from scaffold to scaf fold and from stake to stake.—Wendel Phillips. COLD COMFORT CERTAIN Democrats who man age now and then to get into political power and place through the division of the Republi can forces are greatly tickled over what they profess to believe is Re publican dissatisfaction in this and Other counties of Central Pennsyl vania. They have managed in other years to encourage party disaffection among Republicans and aro count ing on the same game this year to pave the way for their own ambi tions. Unless we greatly mistake the spirit of the great political party with which the names of Lincoln and Grant and McKinley and Roose velt and others are gloriously link ed, the Wllsonian group are going to find it a hard job to drive a wedge between the Republican forces any where. Looking forward to 1920 and the return of the-Government of the United States to sane and safe hands there is no disposition among Republicans to open the way for the entrance of the wolf of in efficiency and discontent into the fold. Ordinary intelligence ought to make it possible for the rank out sider to realize that he is counting on conditions which do not exist and which cannot be created by the transparent machinations of those who have benefitted in the past through a disruption of the Re publican household. That sort of thing might work out once in a gen eration, but not frequently. The best evidence of the construc tive type of Republican statesman ship at Washington is the fact that at the present time the ratification of the peace treaty and the covenant thereto is being made possible by the able intervention of great Re publican leaders, who have sub mitted reservations that will safe guard the sovereignty of the repub lic and prevent a serious deadlock on the international agreement. The people in all sections of the country are looking to the Republi can party for a return to safety and sanity in administration and the re adjustment of the upset conditions of the war. Tomtit leadership here and there among Democrats who are striving for power rather than the promo tion of the good of the country will be repudiated overwhelmingly this year as a step in the election of a Republican President in 1920. Here and elsewhere posts of the American Legion, the natural suc cessor of the Grand Army of the Re public. are being rapidly organized and there will be drawn into this as sociation of veterans of the great war hundreds of thousands of the most promising men of the country, who will in the future wield a tremendous power for good. SPROUL'S LEADERSHIP GOVERNOR SPROUL win doubt less tell with great pleasure and justifiable pride on his visit to Salt Lake City the story 'of Pennsylvania's awakening as a mod ern road-building Commonwealth. Time was when he could not have boasted much of the State from the good roads standpoint, but as the patron saint of better highways the Governor has a right to tell the story at every opportunity. He will also have much else to tell of the sub stantial achievements of Pennsyl vania and its proud position of lead ership in humanitarian projects and education. Governor Sproul has earned a vacation and the western trip will afford him an opportunity to com pare notes with other leaders of the country, and through this inter change of ideas gain a knowledge of what is being dono elsewhere which might bo adopted for our own Com- WEDNESDAY EVENING, monwealth. In short, hobnobbing with the other Governors who will assemble at Salt Lake City will en able our own progressive head of the State Government to correct many false impressions of Pennsylvania and spread abroad its splendid rec ord as a patriotic and constructive Commonwealth. Ex-President Taft and other big men of the country are justified in their vigorous protest against the negro lynching in the South and out rageous race antipathies which have developed in Washington, Chicago and elsewhere. The splendid services of the negro soldier on the fighting front in France have not been for gotten by thousands of their country men who appreciate devotion to the llag. Justice must finally prevail and the patience of the negro citizen Is one of his finest attributes. He is setting an inspiring example for his white brother In many instances. EVERYBODY MUST HELP MERE passage of an anti-fore stalling ordinance will not clear the city markets of the forestalled The fact that such a law is on the books will discourage those who have been practicing the evil, but the measure must bo strictly enforced if it is to amount to anything. A few striking examples at the very outset would help a lot. To be sure, the duty of making the measure operative should lie with the city authorities. A city detective, or two if necessary, should be assigned to this work on market days. A conscientious, devoted of ficer could make himself and the. whole police department very popu lar by an active enforcement of the new law. But everybody must assist. It should be the duty of every man or woman to whom knowledge of fore stalling comes to take that testi mony to the authorities. The practice has been so profitable that those engaged in it will at tempt to evade the law and they will watch very carefully for the first sign of a break-down in the vigilance of the police department. They will not relinquish their pound of flesh without a struggle. Council has done admirably in the enactment of this ordinance. But it remains with the police authori ties and with everybody who patron izes the markets to help put it into effect. With such men as George Shoe maker. Horace Geiscl and other over seas veterans taking the leadership in reorganizing the Governor's Troop for the new National Guard, there can be no question as to the charac ter of this important cavalry unit. Several of the officers of the new Harrisburg mounted organization are men who were wounded in the fight for American ideals and they will inspire with confidence the new mem bers of the organization. POOR CONSTRUCTION. IT SHOULD not be possible for a single motor truck, no matter how heavy, to push sixteen houses out of plumb by such an ac cident as occurred in the upper part of Harrisburg the other night. Houses should not be built like a row of dominoes, to be toppled over in a heap by a little pressure at one end of the row. It speaks very poorly of the type of building we have in this city that such an acci dent could happen. For many years we have been building carelessly, even recklessly, and the result is a great many houses that will be little more than shacks in a short time. No matter how good looking or commodious the structure may be, if it is not erected along good building lines it will go to pieces in a decade or less and a city littered with run-down-at-the heel, slip-shod ruins that should be well-kept dwellings is a disgrace to itself and no more attractive than an unshaved, unkempt tramp. No matter how small our houses, they should bo substantial and city ordinances should require that they be kept in good repair. We are sorely in need of a new building code. The Chamber of Commerce housing committee if it does no more than write such a measure on the statute books will have done a very good year's work. Lieutenant Governor Beldleman was the guest of honor at a dinner of the Chamber of Commerce at Selinsgrovc and delivered an eloquent address. No man can live long in Harrlsburg without absorbing the real civic spirit and our own Lieu tenant Governor finds this city a splendid inspiration for his public addresses on community enterprise and co-operation. Who would have imagined a year ago that Americans would be lending the Germans $100,000,000, but that fact has Just been divulged in a cable from Berlin. Your Uncle Samuel Is an accommodating neighbor. As the receiver of stolen goods, Japan is having a fine time explain ing why it does not 'turn back to China the real eßtate stolen originally by the Germans. Clcmenceau Insisted that the sepa rate agreement between France and the United States should be submit tod to the Senate at the same time as the Treaty and a provision was included to this effect, but the Inspired author of "open covenants openly ar rived at" will "presently" give the Senate a peep at it. fzUUceU By the Kx-Committeeman 1 Gifford Pinchot's personally con ducted movement to organize a movement inside of the Republican j party for election of national dele- I gates in accord with the ideas he holds and styles "progressive" seems to have struck u snag as a j result of the final session of the con ference in the Penn-Harris yester day afternoon. After it had been well organized and committees named to organize the movement word was given that Senator Miles Polndexter, of Washington, an nounced as the star orator, would not be here and right after that the men at the conference got into a wrangle because some people had not put in the invitation list. If any plan to boost Pinchot as a candidate for United States Senator was intended it did not get any where and nothing was said about it. Pinchot himself declined to dis cuss it before or after the meeting and while of the men at the meeting gossiped about it among themselves everyone was waiting for some one else to start it. For days there have been rumors going the rounds that big progres sives were not in sympathy with Pinchot's movement and that they not only discouraged his plan to take the center of the stage in Pennsyl vania but did not cheer over his pro posed national conference of "pro gressives." The general opinion seems to be that Chairman Will H. Hays is running the party all right and does not need much assistance. In any event the Senator Miles Polndexter to get here added to this talk. —The close of the conference was stormy. Several of the men objected to the declaration of purpose as not containing enough peace material and it was finally ironed out, but in the course of the discussion' sev eral men took occasion to say that they did not propose to have the "progressive" movement used. —Robert C. Bair, of York, de clared that the "progressive move ment" must not be "hamstrung by a factional fight in Philadelphia which may extend to other counties and Magistrate Robert Carson charged that the men who engi neered the conference left off the list tried and true "progressives" and intimated that factional influences were behind this action. Chairman A. Nevin Detrich denied any such intentions, but Carson roturned to the charge so vigorously that the meeting was hurriedly adjourned. —The general impression in Har risburg is that the small showing made by Pinchot among the Bull Moosers and the absence of the com manding figures of the movement was disappointing to the former for ester. It is believed, however, that the group around him will insist upon keeping him in the llmelgiht and that there will be considerable noise between now and the delegate election next year, that is if any thing will be heard above the din and crash of the contending Democratic factions which have al ready started to tomahawk each other. —Capitol Hill is awaiting with considerable interest the appearance of Gifford Pinchot as a member of the State Forestry Commission. Mr. Pinchot qualified a short time ago, but has not yet attended any meet* ing. The Commission is scheduled for its monthly meeting to-morrow and Mr. Pinchot intends to be pres ent. It is probable that he will start an extensive inquiry into the methods of the department, which by the way, have been gone into very thor oughly by Governor "William C. Sproul lately during his considera tion of the appropriations for that branch of the State government. What is interesting people is how far Mr. Pinchot will want to go in changing the system in the depart ment and what will be done. The Forestry Department has a number of plans for expansion this year and will locate some reserves in west ern counties. Candidates for associate judge filing nominating petitions are be coming numerous at the Capitol. Among those filing are William f! Roche, McVeytown, Mifflin; Kiah C. Mott, Meshoppen, and Dexter W. gtark, Tunkhannock, Wyoming! Randall Bisbing, East Stroudsburg, Monroe, and W. Harry Rhodes, Bloomsburg, Columbia. Washington's Warning [From the Kansas City Star.] President Washington, in his fare well address, warned the American people of the danger of depostism involved in abuses of power by ad ministrators of the Government. He pointed out that if the Constitution be changed by any method except that provided for Its amendment the act is one of usurpation and a step in the direction of the destruction of free government. The warning ought to be read, in this hour, by every American. It follows: "Thc spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of gov ernment, a real depotism. A Just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which pre dominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and dis tributing it 'into different deposi tories and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our coun try and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If in the opin ion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one Instance may be the in strument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in per manent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield." It Is Impossible to read these words of Washington without the convic tion that he would call the attempt to substitute the covenant of he League of Nations for the Constitu tion a usurpation, and the attempt to embark the United States upon a policy of foreign alliances, with out previous consultation with the Senate, an abuse of power tending to the creation of a despotism. HJLRRBSBURG TSBBL TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A COMMUTER WHO HAS LOST HIS COMMUTATION TICKET BRIGGS seTXt.es OOVAJW IN seeS CONDUCTOR Does NOT LOCATE 'TAKSJ OUT OLD CE'W c Mnl<6R To £r ojoV COMING ANQ AS USUAL. AMD MAKES A MORE AND Goes TVII9OU6M MXIS PAPCJ AMO REACHES POR TICKST TMOOOCH SCARCH BV EACH POCKET. S.MPUV I W TIUSIOR- COAT POCKE T VSIKJS BOTH HANDS CANT BEL'ENE • T CIGAR. ."EL'NG - - TMOROUGMLV ACARMICD IS LOST LNUSUALL.V GooT> PANIC STRiCKC^ ! 1 NCOEU HAD SUCH A TRIEA TO F"UD REECS DOWNCAST ,SRPNDS REST OP THING HAPPEN BEFORE INTERCUT IN PAPER AS WALK T. ERNES TILLING EUENR RGLOCTANTUT PATS , BUT KE6PS UOON DRING 80DV 'N OPPICC OP CASH FARS TO VUHSRG IN - '- ?? Loss OF COMMUTATION CONDUCTOR TICKET { American Independence [From Harvey's Weekly.] "There must bo effective reserva tions." Those are the words of Chairman ; Will H. Hays of the Republican Na tional Committee. They embody the unalterable determination of a ma jority of the United States Senate of ' the Republican party and of the I American people. There need be no further concern respecting the pre servation of the independence of this Republic. The light has been won. Those who are unwisely conveying the contrary impression to the Presi dent are either ignorant or deluded or vainly bluffing. We are telling him the truth. Sooner or later he will realize that fact. The sooner the better for the country and for himself. What precisely are those reser vations? Mr. Hays sets them forth succinctly and accurately in these words: These erservations must safe guard the sovereignty of the United States in every particular; must guarantee the Monroe Doc trine beyond the shadow of a doubt; must either eliminate Article X. entirely os so modify it that our own Congress shall be morally as well as legally free after a specified period to decide when and where and to what ex tent our soldiers shall be employ ed; must retain our full control of immigration, tariff and all other purely domestic policies, and must provide full rights to with draw from the league at any time without hindrance or conditions of any kipd, upon giving suitable otlce. Mr. Hays does not say in so many words that he would advocate ratifi cation of the treaty if these reserva tions were incorporated, but the in | ference is plain and unmistakable. He would. So would Senator Lodge. So would practically all of the .Re publican Senators. Consequently Mr. Hays is fully warranted in adding: It is up to the Admiistration to decide whether it will or will not accept these essential guarantees of American independence, which would uhuestionably be promptly accepted by the other ations. The correctness of the last state ment is beyond question. Both Franco and England have made it clear that they attach slight im portance to the proposed League or what the Covenant contains. They will accept readily whatever the United States may offer. Indubit ably, then, it is "up to the Admin istration to decide" whether it will join in conserving the interests of the country, or get no ratification of the Treaty which the President per sonally negotiated. There is no other alternative. Paying For Freedom [From the Johnstown Tribune.] Judge Bonniwell, leader of the "wet" Democrats of Pennsylvania, vigorously denounces an attempt of the Palmer-Wilson Democratic State Committee to levy political assess ments on the Democratic postmas ters and other Federal officeholders in Pennsylvania. The Judge asserts the hold-up is an "Impudent viola tion of law" and that the money is not intended to be used to promote the success of the Democratic party, but is to be spent in the mainten ance of the rule of the Wilson-Pal mer faction, now proprietors through control of the Democratic State Committee. • We are not at all horrified be cause of tho levy- Confessedly, we are cynical when we read loud professions from Democratic poli ticians —from the President down. We did not look for a poli tical millennium when the Demo cratic hosts started in on the era of the "new freedom." Back of every rhetorical rounding and scholarly scolding has been an autocratic rule of one. Money is just as necessary as ever —in the promulgation of Democratic doctrine, although we do confess that we are In agreement with a local contemporary, which suggests there is no longer any such thing as "Democratic doctrine." Democratic postmasters must pay, just as they paid in the Nineteenth | Congress District campaigns on 1914 and 1916. We cited tlje fact that a minion of the Democratic State Committee once hiked to this town and ordered tho postmasters to pay him, rather than any local politi cian. The Bonniwell stuff is old. ' and will have no effect. The money must be forthcoming or the "new freedom" will lapse. No Longer Important if True [From the Slater Rustler.] "Pack my box with five dozen liquor Jugs" is the shortest sentence that contains all the letters of the £nglish alphabet. Palaces That Have No Tenants HJT\ HOUGH Turkey will be dis- I membered and pushed out of Europe, the Ottman em pire probably will continue in con trol of some of the sacred shrines and most precious history spots of Asia," says a bulletin from the Na tional Geographical Society. "For example there is the Rocky City of Pctra, known as the "safe deposit of caravans en route with precious ware to Eyre and Sidon, which also contains "Pharaoh's treasury.' " The bulletin quotes from a commu nication by Franklin E. Hoskins de scribing Petra as follows: "The Highlands east of the Jordan river aro strewn with ruins marking the rise and fall of successive civili zations—Semitic, Greek, Roman, Christian, Mohammedan and Crusad er. These ruins have been preserved for the modern explorer by the tides of nomadic life which have swept up from the Arabian desert; but at all southern end of no-man's land, deep in the mountains of Edom, lies one of the strangest, most beautiful and most enchanting spots upon this earth—the Rock City of Petra. Its story carries us back to the dawn of human history. "In the days of Nebatheans, Petra became the central point to which the caravans from the interior of Arabia, Persia and India came laden with all the precious commodities of the East, and from which these com modities were distributed through Egypt, Palestine, Syria and all the countries bordering on the Mediter ranean for even Tyre and Sidon de rived many of their precious wares and dyes from Petra. "The Rock City was always to these regions and peoples what Rome was to the Romans and Jeru salem to the Jews. Horites, Edo mites, Nabatheans and Romans, have all rejoiced and boasted in the pos session of this unique stronghold and most remarkable city of antiquity. "The entrance to the Rocky City Is the most striking gateway to any city, on our planet. It is a narrow rift or defile, bisecting a mountain of many- Democrats Looking to 1920 In an illuminating political horo scope, Charles W. Duke discusses prominent Democrats available for the Presidency. He says: An American businessman for President in 1920? In New York and Washington, in Chicago and the Middle West, out on the Pacific slope and down in the near South, as you touch in suc cession the mainsprings of Ameri can enterprise, you hear men and women in all walks of life and rep resenting every phase of American life talking along this line_ In this connection they point to various leaders from the business world who in a spirit of common patriotism blended their eftprts in the common cause. They mark out "Charlie" Schwab and Edward Hut lay, who directed the shipbuilding program: Herbert Hoover, the food generalissimo: George W. Goethals, who was first shipbuilder and then army quartermaster; Henry P. Da vison, who left Wall street to guide the destinies of the Red Cross; Ber nard M. Baruch, of the war indus tries board; John D. Ryan, the cop per king who directed the aircraft board after the departure of How ard Coffin, the automobile man; Julius H. Barnes, head of the gram corporation; George M. Rolph, sugar administrator; J. Leonard Replogle, steel director; Thomas A. Edison and his associates on the naval con sulting board; Julius Rosenwald, tie Ghicligo business chieftain; Dr. Harry A. Garfield, who gave up a college presidency to be coal admin istrator; Edward R. Stettinius, who left the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. to become the Allies' chief purchas ing agent in th's country; Guy E. Tripp, of the Westinghouse Com pany; Paul Warburg, the New York bander. These and a host of other capable American business men were as instrumental in victory as the Pershings, Fochs and Haigs of the battlefields. A Kansan Musical Note [From the Topeka Capital.] A dog which belongs to one of the members of Marshall's band does not howl when the band is playing real music, but when the band starts a jazz tune the dog bursts forth loudly and dolorously, which is a distinct addition to any jazs selec tion. :hued rand-stone, winding through ' the rock as though it was the most plastic of clay. This sik, or defile, is nearly two miles long. Its gen eral contour is a wido semi-circular swing from the right to the left with innumcraole short bends, having sharp curves and corners in its gen eral course. "The width of the Sik varies from twelve feet at its narrowest point to thirty-five or forty feet at other places. Where the gloomy walls actually overhang the roadway and almost shut out the blue ribbon of ' sky, it seems narrowerer, and per i haps at many points above the j stream the walls do come closer than ' twelve feet. The heights of the per- I pendicular side cliffs have been esti ! mated at from 200 to 1,000 feet, i Heights like distances, in this clear ! desert air are deceptive, but after | many tests and observations we are j prepared to say that at places they are almost sheer for 300 to 400 feet. "Seen at morning, at midday, or at midnight, the Sik, this matchless entrance to a hidden city, is un questionably one of the great glories of ancient Petra. Along its cool, gloomy gorge file the caravans of i antiquity—from Damascus and the East, from the desert, from Egypt and the heart of Africa. Kings, queens, and conquerors have all marveled at its beauties and its strangeness. Wealth untold went in and out of it for centuries, and now for over thirteen hundred years it has been silent and deserted. "Carved in the face of the cliff half revealed, half concealed in the growing shadows, is one of the larg est, most perfect and most beauti ful monuments of antiquity— Pharaoh's treasury. Almost as per fect as the day it came from beneath the sculptor's chisel, fifteen hundred or two thousand years ago; colored with the natural hues of the bril liafit sandstone, which added an in describable element to the architec tural beauty; flanked and surmount ed by the cliffs which had been carved and tinted in turn by the powers of nature; approached by the most mysterious defile—it is al most overpowering in its effect." Penrose on Economy "I am glad to note that Secretary Glass states that the most rigid economy will be necessary if the revenues that are in sight for the present fiscal year are to be ade quate," said Senator Penrose in an interview. "I agree with him on the necessity for economy. Unless the wanton waste and extravaga'nee of recent years shall cease and there shall follow a policy of economy with an adequate budget system, no revenues, however vast, will be sufficient to meet our needs." Speaking the repeal of the luxury taxes, the Senator said: "These taxes are based on a vicious principle, being levied on articles sold for over a certain amount, and are easily evaded and difficult to admin ister. The Treasury Department of ficials were unanimous in urging the Financo Committee to remove them from the bill, and the Finance Com mittee was unanimous in recom mending that they be stricken out. , But they were put back in the bill on the floor of the Senate under a misapprehension in the closing hours on the discussion of the bill. "A new revenue bill, whenever it becomes practicable to consider such a measure, will doubtless change very radically the basic pglnciples of the present law." The Butterfly On the brilliant wings you pass tho hours, Lightly poised, now here, now there; Taking sweetness from each flower, Living on a magic fare. i A# I watch you softly swinging Through the drowsy summer day; Watch you lightly, lightly winging, While I sign my heart away. Would that I possessed your power, Never troubled, gay and free; Give me of your fairy dower. And my heart shall be your fee. If I held some flowery treasure. That would make you rest with me; In my garden find your pleasure. Butterfly—could that ever be? —M..P. in the Seattle Post-Intelli gencer. JULY 30, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER THIRTY-THItEE. "You never could tell what kind of a man was going to turn cut to be a hero," said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Market street, Hafrisburg. "Before | we went over to France I frequently heard men of aggressive, pugnacious types talking about what they were going to do to the Boche when they got into action. I had often wonder ed what type of man, if any, was the true fighting man, so I watched my men very closely when we got into action. The results of my ob servations have been frequently com pared with those of other officers and they agree absolutely. The big, square jawed aggressive man of the type the novelists use for their heroes are, of all types, the poorest fighters. Such men may be good fist fighters, but as a general rule they cannot or will not stand the gaff of a real battle. Instead of gallantly leading a charge, as pel the novels, they are really back in some nice deep dugout carefully keeping out of sight and danger. The true fighting man is a most inoffen sive, quiet sort, the kind that you 1 scarsely realize is around, mild mannered, avoiding trouble when ever he decently can, but with very steady, quiet eyes. Frequently your hero is a man of slight physique, quick and well-ballanced physically, whose face in a great fight appears to be suffused with ecstacy, with a sort of glorification, that you can feel as well as see. Such a man does not fight from any love of fighting, hut he fights for a principal that to him is far more sacred than life and that calls for the last ounce of his strength and the last drop of his blood. Further, there is no differ ence in valor shown by the different races or by the different sections of the country. About 99 per cent, of men are brave, one per cent, are cowards. The men whose ancestor came over on the Mayflower is not a bit braver than the Italian who landed in this country in July, 1914, or the Mexican who came over the border last year. The percentage of cowards from Oregan is just the same as that from Florida. The German is as brave as the French man, and the Frenchman no braver than tho American. In all the novels I have read there are not more than'three or four heroes who are of the true fighting type. I wi'l never forget two boys in my battal ion who came from around Lan caster. They were both small, very quiet fellows, one the cook for the officers' mess and the other the as sistant cook and table waiter. During the St. Mihicl pfTenslve the Boche got peevish and put over a big counter attack, also taking out their spite by an Intensive flve-hour bombard ment of the small village in which my battalion headquarters were lo cated. The headquarters were in a concrete cellar under a large house and the kitchen was on t/ho ground floor. During tho height of the bombardment when the house was being hit somewhere every few seconds, a particularly big sheli burst upstairs on dl went up to see what was left. I opened the door of the kitchen and found the room filled with dust. As the dust settled T saw that an eleht inch shell had nassed thorough the room and burs! in the next room, blowing down most of the intervening wall: over in one corner stood the waiter calmly washing dishes, and at the stove was the cook stirring some thing in a not. I asked him why he didn't go down In the dugout and his reason was that runners were coming in every few minutes, tired and very hungry and re was keeping some hot stew ready for them. The waiters excuse was that he just wanted to clean up the dishes after the men who bad -aren. There are your true fighting men. men who had a duty to perform for their fellow-men and nothing but death would keep the mfro mpcrforming that duty. Missouri Hard Money [From the Springfield Leader.] A man walked into a bank in West Plains recently carrying an innocent looking bucket covered lightly with a white cloth. He announced to the cashier that he wished to make a deposit, but instead of digging in to his pockets he dumped five hun dred silver dollars out of the bucket onto the counter. He had been hoarding the money on his farm un til convinced that a bank vault was a safer place [Emting (Elfat | Major William O. Murdock, ex ecutive officer of the draft In this State during the war and who is now winding up odds and ends of the selective service system, is puz zling over a letter sent to a Phila delphian who was certified to him as a deserter away back in the la* summer of 1917 and which turned up in his mail bag the other day along with some correspondence re-' lative to men whom Uncle Sam is seeking for evasion of draft duty The letter was sent to a man wn was reported by a Quaker City draft board for failing to comply with the regulations two years ago. The let ter went to the address given id once and came back two days agfk The major is now trying to find od| where it has been all this time. It bears only the Philadelphia marfc? and is in good condition. ♦ • • Another mail problem which Is puzzling people here is the corres pondence reaching the Governor's office addressed to Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh as Governor. In spite of the fact that the Phlladelphian's term as Governor ceased in January letters are reaching the office every few days addressed to him, some, of them coming from counties near Harrisburg. These letters are for warded to the former Governor and in ninety-nine cases out of ten turn out to be official matters relating to the office of the Governor and not personal at all. Dr. Brumbaugh has been sending them back to Har risburg as fast as he gets them and ascertains their purport. The clerks at the Governor's office are now wondering what they can do to make sure about the letters so as to save the former Governor's time and delays in the business. • • • of a fire on a dump in the north end of Harrisburg is carried for many blocks by the winds these days There are dumps up around Third street and Reel's Lane which are always in more or less violent erup tion and the smoke filters into the air even though there does not seem to be much fire and it is carried for long distances down town. As far South as Verbeke street people were hunting a rubbish fire last night and then discovered that it was all due to the dumps. The Philadelphia Record prints | this interesting item about the Gov ! ernor: I "Historical facts are being un earthed by Architect Clarence Wil son Brazer, who is restoring the old courthouse in Chester, the old est in the United States, to its orig inal condition, for Governor William C. Sproul, who is paying for the work. It has been found tbat Gov ernor Sprout's fifth great-grandfather Nathaniel Newlin, was a member of the provincial assembly for Chester county that appropriated the money for building the old courthouse. Newlin was also a member of tho Chester County Commissioners, and had charge of the erection of tho original building. Other members of the board were Robert Pyle and Samuel Hollingsworth. The clerk of the court was Richard Marsden who was succeeded in 1723 by Joseph Parker." • • • Who among us can recall the days when you could go to the mar et house in Market Square and buy corn for "boiling" at one cent an ear and when there were some special fine ears that commanded two and three cents? Now corn sells at Ave cents an ear. This is the story of one dozen ears. They came to town with a farmer Saturday morning and when the 6.30 marketers wero around they sold around 35 cents a dozen. When the 8 o'clock brigade reached the scene, corn was 50 cents ft A .l 1 n ° place in a ma rket it is said that a straight price of five cents an ear was asked, but that L aS tK 0 V. bS L a farmer - working on the high cost of living it is al ways well to remember the human equation. • • • The Matterhora continues to defy the efforts of successive crews of wreckers The house that Homer Matter built in Fourth street and which required dynamite and crow bars to level almost to the street has been discovered to have been founded on rocks in truth. The last week another crew of men started work on it and gave it up because of the weather—they alleged. The foundations have been found to have been of the same solid concrete as the walls and removal of the bases of the unique dwelling is going to be as big a Job as tho foundations of the old Paxton flour and feed warehouse. j WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —R. P. Stewart. United States District Attorney for South Dakota, & former Harrisburger, has resigned his office. —The Rev. John Van Horn, chap lain of the 11th Infantry, mentioned for his services, comes from Scott dale. —Lieutenant Governor Edward F. Beidleman made the address at Mil ton's welcome home ceremonies. —Samuel B. Crowell, the new president of the State Retail Coal Dealers, is well known to Harrisburg people. —Dudley T. Mervine, general manager of transportation of the American Railway Express, is a Northumberland countian and raised in Milton. m,lT T , h ? I}™' Dr " Patri <* McHale, Philadelphia priest, has gone to Paria to' attend the convention of the So ciety of St. Vincent de Paul, held every twelve years. —Major Isaac B. Brown, of Corry, who was here yesterday to attend the progressive meeting, is devoting considerable time to study of State history of his section of the State. —Senator Wallace Barnes, of Honesdale, was among visitors to the city this week. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg's plan for municipal hatlihouscs has at tracted attention of magazine Illustrators? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Harrisburg's first lock up was located along the river front near Mulberry street. Fares Better Than Jonah [From the Providence Journal.] Persistent rumors of the resig nation of Postmaster General Burle son naturally suggast comparison wit hthe case of Jonah —but with the added reflection that the skipper of (the good Bhip in the biblical story had sence enough to cast Jonah over iboard while there was still time to 1 sue the ship.
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