14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. TelegTaph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STBINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager I Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American rj Newspaper Pub- ltshers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office', Story. Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, l Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * week; by mail, J3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919 The best prize that life offers is the chance to icork hard at work worth j doing.—Theodore Roosevelt. HE LIES COLONEL GRIMSTEAD testify ing before the commission in vestigating the irregularities of Lieutenant "Hardboiled" Smith on the charge of ill-treating military prisoners, lied out of the whole cloth yesterday when he said that j thousands of American soldiers were deserting the battle line in | France at the time the armistice was signed and that wholesale ex ecutions would have followed had not the war ended when it did. Grimstead will not get far with such barefaced falsehoods. The men who were in France know he Is a liar from first hand knowledge and Americans at home know it from the fact that deserting com rades in time of stress is not an American, characteristic. How did the Grimsteads and the "Hardboiled" Smiths get into the army anyway? An outraged Amer ican public would like to know something of their personal records, who was responsible for their ap pointments, promotions and assign ments. An officer who would malign his comrades in arms to save his own reputation is a yellow-back and doubtless if there had been many like this pair in the ranks the wholesale desertions of which Grim stead tells would have occurred. But the records show that the A. E. F. was made up largely of men of another stripe. Their records at Chatteau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne prove that they stuck to their jobs through frightful odds— and won, while the little white crosses scattered broadcast over a hundred fields of France prove that the only way the American soldier knows how to run is forward and that he dies, but never retreats. Grimstead's testimony only black ens his own name. The reputation of the American soldier in France is above reproach. FRUITAGE OF MOB LAW THE suspicion that there may be some underground movement to foment trouble between the colored citizens of the country and their white brothers is somewhat Justified by recent outbreaks in widely-separated sections. Down south, state officials and others are appealing to those colored men who left the south during the war pei lod—under the impression that they would improve their condition north of the Mason and Dixon line —to re turn to their old homes, with the assurance of better treatment and appreciation of their usefulness. It is hard to harmonize these ap peals with recent stories of the treatment of returning black sol diers in Georgia. Two stories from Blakely and Cordele in Georgia il lustrate this point. Both appeared recently in print in southern news papers. According to one dispatch, Private William Little, a returned soldier, was beaten to death by a mob near Blakely. It is stated that fie was "a prominent young man in this vicinity and from one of the 'most respectable families in the immedi ate community." Details of' his lynching are to the effect that re turning from the service he was ac cused of wearing his military uni form "too long;" that upon arriving at Blakely he was advised by a cer tain white element to remove hi 3 army uniform and that several an onymous communications were scut to him with instructions to leave town if he wanted "to sport around In his khaki." According to the narrative, Little was halted at the railroad station when he first re turned and told to strip himself of his uniform before he walked down the main thoroughfare of the city, being threatened with arrest unless he did so. Having no civilian clothes he was permitted to go home FRIDAY EVENING, in his uniform. Later, whiie receiv ing congratulations from friends, a mob attacked him and he was lynched in the uniform to which his assailants seemed to seriously ob ject. The other story from Cordele states that Bud Williamson, a travel ing representative of a picture com pany, was driven out of town by white people who objected to the selling of photographs showing Scr | geants Johnson and Roberts, the fa j mous heroes of the Fifteenth New I York Regiment, engaged in hauu | to-hand combat with Germans. Wil liamson's pictures were destroyed | when he arrived in a white settlo j ment to which he had been called |by a telephone messaee. He j badly beaten and at the myzzle of j a revolver was ordered to leave town immediately. I These may be extreme cases, but j they are illuminating and illustrate j the indefensible attitude of a cer j tain class of the white population I in the south and elsewhere. For tunately for the welfare of the country, the law-abiding citizens of the white and black races are united in the determination to uphold the rights of all classes of our citi zenry and to suppress the unruly element which seeks to arouse bitter feeling and race prejudice wherevei and whenever possible. Mob law will never be sustained in this country and it is high time that the lynchings which have dis graced America are prevented by the strong arm of justice. The fail ure to enforce law is an invitation to anarchy and all the evils in its 1 train. ! THAT ICE CREAM TAX 0' F ALL the war taxes, real and so-called, the Federal tax on i ice cream about to be repealed I is perhaps the most unpopular, as |it is certainly the most unjust. Eat i ice cream on the premises of the place where purchased, unless served with a meal, and a tax is required. Eat a sandwich with it and there is no tax. Therefore, the man or woman who lunches on a plate of ice cream, keeping in mind the dic tates of the health authorities as to light eating in warm weather, is taxed because he is wise, whereas the chap who overloads his stomach and then adds ice cream gets off free of tax. Ice cream is a food and it is good for the human system under almost any circumstances, if made under proper conditions from healthful ingredients. There should be no tax upon it. Rather people should be encouraged to eat it. Ice cream is the one luxury that almost every poor family can afford. If we must tax something why not the exclu sive lobster, or the lordly lamb chop, or something already out of reach of the man whose purse is none too fat? J "Billy" Lynch has lived so long I within a stone's throw of the Susque hanna River that he realizes the need of adequate bathing facilities. He j lias started something in City Council which will make him one of the most j popular officials in the city, providing | he comes through with a real plan | for public baths. Perhaps he has i in view the "Hardscrabble" district and its inevitable improvement along j permanent lines next year. Boating j and bathing facilities could both eas ily be provided under the terrace be tween Herr and Calder streets with out affecting in the slightest degree the park treatment in that stretch of river frontage. GREAT WORK AHEAD AUDITOR general SNVDE R'S announcement that the State will be ready in a month to advertise for bids for the erection of the Memorial Bridge, ! the new office building and other ! Capitol park improvements is good ; news. All Harrisburg is impatient j to see this work started, but not more so than General Snyder, who is a man of action and has been deeply interested in the park development ever since he became acquainted with the proposal as a member of the State Senate. The Auditor General believes there is no need for any further post ponement of the changing of street lines and the resetting of the cop ing and curbing surrounding the park. Commissioner Lynch has said repeatedly that the city is ready ; to go ahead with its part, so there would seem to be no further reason why the work should not proceed. Therfe has been consid erable public inquiry as to why this part of the program should not be carried out at once, in order to re lieve traffic congestion during the building period, and there will be much satisfaction in the prompt commencement of the work. HALIFAX TO CELEBRATE HALIFAX is praying for fair weather. Only rain can niar the peace celebration of that thrtving community. The people of the upper end of Dauphin county are showing that they-can be patri otic in times of peace quite us f6rVently us in war-. That is a good sign. It is easy enough to swing along with -the procession when the whole country is march ing; It is quite another to make a show of patriotism months after peace has come, and long after the men of the community have re turned to their ordinary pursuits. But Pennsylvania people are not forgetful of the sacrifices these men have made, of their gallantry in action and of the great victory they helped win in France. Pennsylvania's patriotism has never been questioned. It is not generally kno-wn. but the War De partment's decision to place largo military depots in this immediate vicinity was based largely on tho belief that they would be safe here, and that if necessary Pennsylvania people would arise to defend them. That Is a tradition of which any State might be proud. It is the kind of love of country that such cele brations as that at Halifax help keep alive. Ik j By the Ex-Commlttccman L Records of the State government show that sixty-one of the 175 bills dealing with educational matters presented to the Legislature of 1919 became laws. The number of such bills introduced at the session of the General Assembly was the largest of the kind known in years, but in spite of the number, 101 failed on final passage. The Gov ernor vetoed thirteen. The bills which became laws af fect every one of the bar classes into which the 2,500 school districts of the Keystone State are divided, while the bill increasing the salaries of teachers affects about 45,000 in structors in various grades. The program of the State Board of Edu cation was practically carried out in the enactment of the teachers' salary, physical education, consoli dation of schools, elimination of small one room schools, increase of appropriations for normal school work and for the establishment of the school employes retirement fund, according to men at the Capitol who have studied the legislation. Other school bills which have be come laws and will affect many of the almost 1,500,000 pupils in Penn ' sylvania provide for special classes i for deficient children, necessary food ! and clothing supply for tubercular children, payment of $f per day to teachers attending teachers in stitutes, payment of teachers when schools are closed by epidemics, expenses of county superintendents and their assistant;,, safety first in struction, granting of $lOO college scholarships for four years'to worthy graduates of elementary schools, forbidding children of school age from attending moving picture theaters during certain hours unless accompanied by parents or guard ians 'for co-operation of cities and towns with school districts in main- | tenance of recreation centers and | establishment of a bureau of re- I habilitation for wounded service men with the co-operation of the Department of Public Instruction. —The Pinchot conference appears to be still a subject of editorial com ment in newspapers of the State. Here is a typical one from the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Natural gas has caused more than one explosion in Pennsylvania, but none sadder that the unfortunate affair in Har risburg on Tuesday which resulted in the bursting of the Pinchot boom for United States Senator or President or any other old thing. To the uninitiated it may be said that Mr. Gifford Pinchot is a gen tleman who was once commended by President Roosevelt for some thing he did while in the forestry service, and who has since lived in the world with the belief that he has a mission. This mission, we gather from his statements, is to reform politics, and especially the politics of the Republican Party. Envious ones intimate that his real mission is to have himself appointed or elected to some public office, and it w r as assumed in some quarters that his purpose in calling a meet ing of former Progressives was quietly and unostentatiously to in augurate a Gifford Pinchot boom for something or other." —The general belief is that some of the Pinchot men will en deavor to get into county or city nominations t'"'s fall in their home communities and to stir up the con troversies which are never hard to find. —The appointment of the regis trars is causing much comment in Philadelphia. The examinations , are under way and the Philadelphia ! Press calls attention to the fact that a man under indictment regis tered as an eligible. i * —Sheriff H. C. Ransley has open ed the Vare tight against the Com mittee of 100 by a diatribe against the personnel of that body. He con tends that some of the people nam ed do not live in Philadelphia. It has provoked some tart remarks ; from newspapers. —Major Fletcher Lutz, of Glen Rock, York county, will enter the lists as candidate for the Republican nomination for county treasurer against Captain Stuart Lafean. Both are veterans of overseas ser vice and the major has not yet been mustered out. —Dr. N. E. Newbury has been named as the new director of health of Scranton to succeed Dr. S. P. Longstreet. whom Mayor Connell asked to resign. —District Attorney Frank P. Slattery, of Luzerne county, well known to many here, is going to he opposed by Martin J. Mulhall, of Wilkes-Barre, who tried conclu sions with Ex District Attorney Salsburg some years ago. —John Ferguson who has been district attorney of Susquehanna county for two terms, has announced that he would again seek re-election. Ferguson's entry into the district attorney race adds spirit to the fight and F. A. Davies and Garritt Gardner out after the nomination too, the coming fall primaries prom ise to be very interesting upon the northern tier. —things are interesting in Wilkes- Barre now that the nonpartisan municipal election is a thing of the past. R. M. Keiser, says the Wilkes- Barre Record, filed petitions to be candidate for city treasurer on the Republican, Democratic and Social ist tickets. —District Attorney James C. Fui-Bt, of Center county, is out for Republican renomination. —Snyder county candidates for associate judge include C. M. In gram, John H. Lloyd, N. B. Stetler and C. D. Bogar. ' —Many people in this city and vicinity will be interested to know that Col. Samuel D. Foster, former chief engineer of the State Highway Department and the holder of a fine ar ny record, is a candidate for Republican nomination for county commissioner in Allegheny county. Col. Foster is a son-in-law of Col. Walter T. Bradley, owner of the Swatara quarries who has a sum mer home in this county. —Speaking of the Colonel's an nouncement the Pittsburgh Gazette- Times says: "Capt. Samuel D. Foster of McKeesport and Lieut. Col. James P. Kerr will be running mates in the September primaries for the two Republican nominations for county commissioner. They will be supported by thousands of citi zens who are opposed to the politi cal domination of the county by Max G. Leslie. The announcement of Col. Kerr a few days ago and the decision reached yesterday by Capt. Foster to entpr the primaries is the result of a widespread senti ment in the county favorable to the placing of public offices in the hands of efficient and unfettered men." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPTI IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST.REGULATED FAMILIES .... ' T H"S RZ*s^7T~l^rr\ A<2J£ OT\ f /'WEU.O JOE- GLAD "SOA f LIK6 IO GO OV7SR TO ]\AMY LFTW ) O£6LM Jo SHAW 6 MUP /CAME OUOR- HAVJ= A I ( R IU S , TWE. JOHKSOMS IS, OE ' THAT COM-/ ISR COCKTAH * \UTTLE CAUSE BILL IMSISTS OMI FSLS TOO I V FOFT COCKTAILS- \ ME HRIMKM_TWO£.E / VRBDRIMW/ " "J } AWFUL LALLS Y VTH6 M J -D ) AU-H -VN ILL A --/ \ (WETT Joe , (BILL THEY'RE Joe 'YOZT OLD /OH I HEARD^N \ /.. - 1 I H^E- S / <,KVLY VNQM'FUL ' SCOUT - HOLO VJE /( J> ~ / VQO PRAISES \ (g) feHr i tegs?k < \ M'NK \ SEE VOH , UOME , W* EJIR \TY Beyond the Purple Hills [Senior Class Poem at the Unlver- ! sity of Kansas.] Our world was bounded by the purple hills, We laughed and danced, and in our careless way We faced our petty problems, fan-j cied ills. And called it life —but it was only I play. The world beyond we heeded not, nor knew Its earnestness, its pain, its bitter fight; For us, care fled before soft winds that blew Through perfumed lilacs on an April! night. Then suddenly our painted world was,' crushed, Shattered by the ruthless blow of j war. And we, facing rea'ity, stood hushed, At last knew 1 life and saw things | as they are. No more we lose ourselves n dreams when blow The April winds —we've felt the ] blast that chills, But stronger, keener for the fight we go To meet the world beyond the pur ple hills. MARGARET MITCHELL. Human Conservation [From the Philadelphia Bulletin.] | The State Bureau of Rahabilita- i tion, the authorization of which was j included in the last group of bills j receiving the signature of Governor I Sproul, has possibilities which may | make it one of the most important j of the State's charities. At that it ' is no more a charity than is the [Workmen's Compensation fund, and it might well be classed as a public economy. Its purpose is to have unneces sarily industrial wastage of pro ducing and earning power. The necessity for it has been pointed by the observation of the Compensa tion Board, and war gave it an ef- j fective boost in the Government's j ! successful work in rehabilitating its maimed fighters. A good workman who loses a | hand, an arm, a foot, a leg, or an j eye, or is crippled in the use of either, is not economically to be thrown into the discard and become a dependent. A measure of his ef ficiency is lost, but not all of it, and there have been wonders worked in the development of remnants. To some extent the compensation sys tem, with its increased liability for industrial accident, has worked to the disadvantage of the maimed workman, the employer being prejudiced by the belief that the lack of full equipment of members increases the risk of accident, and at best the victim of misfortune has become a pensioner in some auxiliary berth, with the result that generally he has lost his spirit as a produc tive agent and has felt that he was only a hanger-on. Yet there is something he can do or that he can learn to do, and the man can be saved from the wreck. Why Pay All War Bills? [From Los Angeles Times.] War taxes in time of peace are no more necessary than is war bread. It is for ourselves to decide how | rapidly the war debt shall be paid, j Would it not be well for the present | Congress to reduce the income tax j and other war taxes to something near the rate in effect before the war and let us work on that basis for a couple of years? The acts passed at the present session are .not immutable. Why not start with a burden as light as possible and in crease i't as our industries get 'niore firmly established. If the next gen eration were to be freed Jrom .the j hard necessity of daily labor it would become decadent. That is the exper- | ience of every country known to his- j tory. A parsimonious father gen- ■ erally means a profligate son. Birdless Prairies of Northwest [From the Calgary Herald.] Those of us who have lived in the East among the feathered song sters that make thoir summer homes among the leafy bowers of forest trees realize how few and far be tween are the bird notes in the West. One may travel the prairies for days and meet with less than half a dozen varieties. Especially in this part of the country is it desirable that we should conserve what we have left of the feathered tribes and seek to In duce others to visit us. A birdless country is something difficult to pic ture; it is not an impossibility should we fail to respect the laws now pro vided for the perpetuation of the migratory and other species. American Atrocities [From Our Dumb Animals.] WE hear so muah of Russian atro cities and German atrocities it may be well for us to think a moment of our own atrocities which, so far as we know, in many cases outrank in brutality and hor ror the murders of the reddest of th§ red-handed butchers of any other land. During the past 30 years in the United States 3,224 people have been murdered by lynching mobs. Of this number all but a few were colored citizens. Of the 61 women lynched 50 were colored. It would have been quite sufficient evi dence ot the barbarism of these murderous mobs had their victims simply been shot or hanged without due process of law, but to torture by cruelties too unspeakable for us to describe, as has been done in instance after. instance, is to sink below the level of savagery. That these things should be permitted in 1 "Twilight on the River" ] The little green grasses nod and sleep, i The little cool shadows come and go. The tiny fish swim safe and deep And the trees bend still and low. The water hardly a ripple makes Yet the boat that's tied, with an idle oar Floats though at rest, and the move ment wakes. Washing wavelets along the shore. Under the bridge where the cool shade lies. Darkening emerald depths are seen Showing, true as the soul in eyes, Granite bulk with the sky btween. Over the wildwood bordered edge— See! Oh, the red buds bursting through, Yellow flowers and the briar hedge— Under the arching, grayish blue. I The shadows gather in dewy rest ! The grasses lower and lower dip, [ The baby waves on the river's breast Far away in their dreaming slip. : The stillness greater and greater grows The night draws near, but it tar ries still Over my heart and mind it throws Joy, like the shadows on vale and hill. —Grace Imogen Gish. Origin of American Indian [From the Christian Science Monitor.] Whence originally came the North American Indian will perhaps always remain an unanswered question; but the latest possible explanation of certain seeming resemblances be tween the Navajoes an the Chinese is a picturesque addition to existing theories. As the tale goes, there is a passage in ancient Chinese history recording a revolt that was defeated and the leaders taken captive. Theye were prominent and popular men, so much so that the summary punishment of execution was deem led inadvisable; the alternative was j exile, and the revolutionists were provided with ships and allowed to put out on the unknown ocean for an unknown destination. The question arises whether they may not have crossed the Pacific, landed on the western coast of the unsuspected and unnamed American continent, and gradually worked inland, becoming by degrees the nomad Indians whose modern descendants are those very Navajoes who look so much like | Chinese. ! The idea is interesting, even if no j morq conclusive than was Ignatius J Donnelly's conviction that the ances | tors of the Aztecs emigrated from ] the more or less mythical Island of ' Atlantis. | ; Power of Advertising [From Newspaperdom. ] | The power of advertising is more I thoroughly appreciated when we i realize that over two million dollars j will oe spent this year in giving I publicity to "Wrigley" chewing gum j —when we realize that this enor j mous appropriation must bo gotten | back through penny and nickel sales, ! and in such volume as to leave a | substantial profit on the investment. I The Wrigley people, so far as I ] know, are the greatest of all Ameri ; can advertisers, considering the re tail price of a product advertised. The Wrigley business is not meas ured by millions of sales—but by , billions. this land and no remedy swiftly forthcoming would be incredible were it not true. We have always maintained that a Government which can compel its citizens white and black to enlist under its flag and defend it in peril owes to each of these citizens the guarantee of every right assured him under the constitution. Where the State fails the Government is under as sacred an obligation to defend and protect its humblest citizens from such out rages as it is its representatives at the courts of Europe. Mr. Hughes has well said: "To the black man, who in this crisis has proved his bravery, his honor and his loyalty to our institutions, we certainly owe the performance of this duty (of justice), and we should let it be known from this time on in recognition of that supreme serv ice, that the black man shall have the rights guaranted to him by the Constitution of the United States." Dry Food in Vacuum [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] Although the preservation of food by drying is an old art, it was not until recently that problem of food dchj dration received any serious scientific study. As a result of many experiments, here and abroad, we are now in possession of enough facts to enable the development of the food drying art into an industry large proportions. The task of evolving a process and developing a product suitable for use in the field was assigned to Drs. K. G. Falk and E. M. Frankel by the surgeon general of the army. In this they were successful, and there is now available for public use a method by which foodstuffs of any kind may be dehydrated and reduced to a condition in which they can be kept indefinitely without the use of refrigeration or preserva tives, the latter term including smoke, salt, saltpeter and sulphur dioxide. Briefly, the process originated at the Harriman Research Labora tory, in New York City, and in dustrially worked out at Columbia University—is a vacuum method, in which the foodstuffs, without any previous preparation except ordi j nary cleaning, are heated in an air tight chamber, from which the air and other gases or vapors are ex hausted. Under these conditions the water in the food product, which ordinarily boils at 212 de grees Fahrenheit, can, by proper adjustment of the vacuum, be made to boil at 100 degrees Fehrenheit. Thus the foodstuff is never over heated, and no coagulation of pro tein materials or other changes in duced by high heat are brought about. As a result of the low tem perature employed, the volatile aro matic oils which give most vege tables and fruits their characteristic tastes, are retained. Drying in vacuum takes place from within the mass rather than from the surface, so that the outside of the food is not made tough and sometimes im permeable to water, as is the case with airdried products. Care For Disabled Soldiers Physical reconstruction work, which amounts to salvaging human material, has become a matter ot greater importance now, than after any other war. Formerly crippled soldiers were sent out into the world handicapped. They were physically incapacitated to earn a i good living and were forced, by cir cumstances, to become an economic burden to either their friends and relatives, or to the community in which they lived. Now, however, systemaic efforts are being made to reclaim this human material. It is the purpose of the Army authori ties to make every effort to re construct those men who in the wreck of the battle front became disabled. Colonel J. B. Kemper, the Army recruiting officer for this dis trict, to-day authorized the follow ing pertinent statement. "Because of the importance of physical reconstruction and the ne | cessity of co-ordinating that work j with other hospital activities, par ticularly those of the medical and i surgical service, the surgeon general j has directed the appointment of I chiefs of sections of physical recon i struction at various Army hospitals, j This officer will have chargo of all hospital activities pertaining to phy sical reconstruction of disabled sol diers and will maintain liaison un der the commanding officer with the medical and surgical service. AUGUST 1,1919. f No Wonder Germany Quit •> Number Thirty-eight "We always thought we were a great commercial nation and many millions of our people tirmly be lieved we could lick all Creation," said Colonel J. B. Kemper, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Mar ket street, Harrisburg. "But these were a lot of things we found we were not quite so great in as we thought. Take for instance the question of powder. You have all seen the advertisements of the big powder companies for years and no one dreamed before 1914 that with our supposedly great powdei production we would be so woefully unprepared in that line for a war. Before we got into the war every one had heard of the great fortunes the powder people were making, of the new powder plants and c.ties being built, but when we got in and began to really investigate we found a sad condition of affairs. Now powder is divided into two classes, propellants and high explosives. The propellants, smokeless powder, are used in rifle cartridges and in big guns behind the bullet or pro jectile to send it off merrily on its way, while the second class, high explosives, are loaded into shells, grenades, bombs, and so forth as the explosive charge that scatters the death dealing fragments far and wide. The propellant powder burns more slowly and with less sudden creation of gas than the high explosive. If high explosive j were used as a propellant charge it would blow the gun all to pieces. . If smokeless powder is used as an explosive charge in a shell it does not give nearly as violent an ex plosion as the H. E. (high explo i sive), and is consequently not as effective. When the war started ' we were producing about eighteen million pounds of smokeless powder a year. When the Foreign War Missions got over here in May, 1917, we soon found that we wouid need | about a million pounds in the year 1919 if the war lasted that iong and it then seemed that it would. From 9,000 tons of smokeless pow der to 500,000 tons is some little jump for an annual production. | Well! we got busy. We built a ninety - million - dollar Government plant down in Tennessee that was producing 423,000 pounds a day when the armistice was signed anil was to reach one million pounds per day within a couple of monlhs. • Another plant was built in West Virginia to have a capacity of 625,- 000 pounds per day but it was only producing 109,000 when 'lie armis tice was signed. .Those two new Government plants would have pro duced more than half of the 500.- 000 tons for 1319, and th.i rest would have come from increased commercial plants. The Tennessee plant would produce in 18 days what the whole country had made in a year, before the war started. The most famous H. E. is com monly known as T. N. T. It became particularly famous when a ship load of it wrecked Halifax. When the war started we were making 600,000 pounds a month and by November, 1918, we were making 16,000,000 pounds a month, and had just gotten fairly started. T. N. T. is made by treating a chemical called toluol which is a by-product from coke ovens. Of course there wasn't nearly enough toluol so all sorts of devices were worked on to produce it. A way was found to strip it out of coal gas, so during the latter part of 1918 the people of thirteen of our largest cities were unconsciously contributing to the T. N. T. program by using gas from which the toluol had been re moved, thus reducing appreciably the heating and lighting qualities of the gas. A number of brand new high explosives were developed dur ing the war, to help out in the con stantly growing cry for explosives. But a curious thing about it all is that due to the enormously in creased production, In spite of in creased wages and increase in the cost of most materials, the price of T. N. T. dropped from one dollar a pound to 26% cents a pound; smokeless powder for cannons drop ped from 53 cents a pound to 41%, and the powder for rifle cartridges dropped from 80 cents a pound to 62 cents. Improved manufacturing processes developed during the war made this enormous saving to the people. He Kept Us Out! [Chester Times. ] They say Lord Balfour got us in the war. We knew who it was who kept us out of war, but we didn't know the Britisher got us in. | Humting GKjat It is interesting to note in these days when legal measures are being restored to in order to curb the ac tivities of those who try to take unfair advantages of the housewife and the man who provides for a y family table that forestalling has beeu one of the offences which havo given the fathers trouble in Har risburg for a century. Early in the history of the State the were bothered by forestalling com plaints and various statutes giving local authorities power to deal with it were enacted. In the borough ordinance books of Harrisburg which come down to us for a period of from about 1812 to 1860 there are ordinances aimed at the fore-A staller, the wording of the mea sures indicating that there was considerable antipathy toward those who engaged in the practice. Justf before the Spanish war there werA complaints without number about the forestallers who greeted the farmers when they came into the city on Wednesday and Saturday mornings and saved thein the trouble of retailing their produce by buying the whole wagon load and carting it off to their own stalls to sell, while the farmer with an empty wagon and a well filled pocket book visited friends in the market and swapped farm talk and the gossip of the country side. Aft ordinance was enacted at that time , which established some stiff penal ties, but the police found difficulty in enforcing it, largely through the failure of persons who had cried loudest to make effort to get in formation upon which to institute legal proceedings. While the world is discussing proper punishment for the former Emperor of Germany comes this suggestion for the Peace Confer ence from a young soldier now re covering from wounds in a base hospital in this country. He be lieves in the doctrine of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but otherwise is a normal, easy-going, good-natured American doughbpy who gave cheerfully one leg and ona finger for his country's cause. This ' is his suggestion: "The Kaiser is about to be tried • by a world's tribunal. Why not let i the jury be twelve amputation cases from General Hospital number three. No doubt, if it were put up to them to name the punishment he should receive, they would shout with glee—'Give him an amputa tion of both arms and legs and then immediately after recovering from the effects of ether, give him a good stiff lecture cn Kultur.'" HENRY, U. S. G. H. 3. • • Among the effects of a Harrisburg • officer which he has Just received from overseas after months of wait, ing was a bedding roll containing many pieces of wearing apparel and some interesting personal belong, ings. Among other things was a sealed letter addressed to the mother of a corporal of this officer's com pany, who had been killed in a night-bombing raid, which letter contained some trinkets that wer taken from the body of the dead soldier by the Harrisburg officer, but had never been mailed owing to regiment having been ordered lnti ' the fighting line about that time. The belated letter and the keep., sakes of the corporal were ately forwarded to his mother in the western part of the State. On of the purposes of the "American Region" now being organized is t<i aid soldiers in securing their rightg and last effects through the var ious departments of the army and keeping in touch with each other. • • * Manifestly the farmers of Central Pennsylvania are not suffering from hard times or the high cost of liv. ing. The other day a piano dealer I ir. one of the towns not far from Harrisburg drove up to a „ house in the hope of selling th mistress a piano. As he approached the broad front porch his hopeg faded because an automobile dealef was already on the ground and had made a sale, the demonstration machine having been sent around to the barn as the piano-man hova in sight. "I guess this is not my day," said the piano agent, refer, ring to the automobile deal. "Oh! I dunno" said the farmer as a slight drizzling rain began to fall. "Put your piano on the porch and let Mary see how she likes it." He did so and Mary was so well pleased that the piano was also purchased. Central Pennsylvania farmers must have all the comforts of home. r • • * Harry A. Boyer, county inspector of weights and measures, while on' an inspection tour in the upper end* of the county found an unusual platform scale at Killinger, north of Millersburg. The scale in addi tion to being provided with a beam for weighing in 5-pound quantities by using a sliding weight, had measurements on this sliding weight accurately from one pound to sev. eral hundreds pounds. Mr. Boyer tested the scale, and found it in good working order. He said that it was the first one of its kind ha has ever seen. * • • Representative James A. Walker, of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee on banks and banking in the last House and who holds the record of introducing the most bills, was here yesterday. Ho fig ured out that most of the bills ho presented had become laws and his friends claim that he put more laws on the books than any other mem ber. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE i —Attorney General W. I. Schaffer is fishing in the Arlirondacks. —Banking Commissioner Fishe# says it does not look as though h would get much vacation this year. —O. R. H. Thompson has been named as chairman of the ing county war history committed —Judge G. A. Endlich, of thef' Berks county courts, who is a candi. date for renomination, is one of the oldest Judges in service in the State. —Col. F. W. Smith, formerly connected with the post office de partment at Philadelphia, is home from France where he served as assistant chief of staff of the 28th division. | DO YOU KNOW —That Hnrrisburg will liave one of the finest roads In the State when the Dauphin-Clark's Ferry highway is finished? , HISTORIC HARRISBURG i —The road between Lancaster au*t l Harrisburg has been In use over 165 i years.
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