10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1851 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, JUcd-rnl Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. ST.EINMETZ, Managing Editor A- R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members ol 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 lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office'. Story, Brooks & Gas Building Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ii'*y L * week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, AUGUST I, 11119 Die when wc mag I want if said of mc, by those who knew mc best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when 1 thought a flower would grow.—Lincoln. THK PLACE TO BEGIN IT IS to be hoped that the return to Hurrisburg of Arnold W. Brunner, the architect of the State in the Capitol park improve ments, with the revised plans for the street changes and the terracing and coping of the Third and Walnut street sides of the park, will not be long delayed. This is the work wherein Harrisburg first pledged itself before all of the State to co operate and it is ready to begin. In fact, from what some of the city fathers say, it has been ready for weeks. It would like to start to make dirt fly so that when the time comes for it to do its share in the wonderful bridge to he built as a memorial to the Keystone State's soldier and sailor sons, it will have the habit of co-operating well de veloped. In no place in the State is ttiere greater interest in Governor Sprout's plan to make the Capitol the civic center of the Commonwealth than in Harrisburg. It has been the ex perience that many state capitals regard state improvements as wholly state matters. Not so in Harris burg. This city wants to bear a part and it wants to start right in on the Capitol park, so that it can show to the f3tate that it is and at the same time better the traffic conditions for the hundreds of tourists who come to Harrisburg to see the State House, and who say things about the way to get in and out of the park every hour of the day. This is a place where some ' thing should be done and where it can be done this fall. And we repeat, Harrisburg is ready to make the dirt fly. Wc wonder if there is anything sig nificant between the prohibition law and the sudden increase in coffee prices? CAUSE FOR INDIGNATION THE Telegrapti on Saturday pub lished an exclusive pictilre made by Underwood and Un derwood, the noted photographers, showing the burning of a million dollars worth of airplanes ,n France by order of the War Depart ment as a means of ridding itself of an incumbrance after the signing of the armistice. And yet Democrats complain be- cause Republicans in Congress are "grumbling constantly" over "war" expenses. • Not a Republican single ob jection to raise against a single item of necessary war expenditure. They voted for the appropriations which Mr. Baker said were necessary with out debate and gave into the hands of the administration without a murmur such power as even the German General Staff did not possess —all with the object of winning the wur with the least cost of American life. And insofar as this money was spent to that end and the autocratic authority vested in the Government exercised purely for the purposes in tended Republicans the country over, in Congress and out, are in hearty accord. But when the War Department burns up a million dol lars' worth of airplanes, built at tn iinite cost of money, labor and the % sclf-sacrillce of a devoted people, especially when the machines might have been held in reserve for war emergency or used in the develop ment of air traffic commercially, then \ Republicans and Democrats too are Justified in entering vigorous protest. This airplane incident is waste raised to the nth power, but it does not stand alone as an example of gross extravagance. There come from France well authenticated stories of so-called "salvage dumps," where millions of dollars worth of blankets, boots, clothing and equip ment of all kinds was put to the MONDAY EVENING. torch in order to lessen the baggage of returning divisions. Nobody would have objected if this stuff had been turned over to needy French, Belgian or Italian people, but to de liberately burn it is a crime that should be punished. It is too late, unfortunately, to get back any of wasted material or the money loss involved, but it is not too late to find out who was responsible and make an example of him. The efficient Mr. Baker apparently has some explaining on his hands that will require the limit ot even his well known abilities along that line. Uncle Sam is going m into the grocery business for a little while, but. there will be no book accounts. NEW NATIONAL GUARD WHILE it is most gratifying to learn that Pennsylvania may be the first of the States to reorganize its National Guard after the war, it is exactly what we should expect to hear. It is the Pennsylvania way. Pennsylvania has a history of citizen soldiery ready to fight, in fact some times accused of spoiling for a fight, from the days when its farmers dropped hoes and took up flint locks to help Bouquet and Forbes redeem the western half of the State, clear down to the Argonnc and the Lys, with Monmouth, Lundy's Lane, Chapultepec, Gettys burg and Manila as bright spots of intervening years. Its National Guard was ready for the last war before the War Department was ready for the Guard. Men of the 28th, the 42nd, the 79th and all the other divisions in which Pcnnsylvanians fought in France and Belgium will gather with the Reserve Militiamen at the mustering places when the word goes out to give the Nation and j the State a body of men ready for any emergency, trained, experi enced, vigorous and spirited. So j now it is to be hoped that the au thorities at Washington will have arms and equipment from '.be vast stores at hand ready to issue to the State of Pennsylvania when it calls for them to keep alive its I tradition of preparedness for any call that Columbia may make. Halifax wrote her name in large letters on the upper epd map Satur day, linking up with Lykens, Wlcon isco ana the other communities that have been celebrating the return of their young heroes. EUROPE'S NEED OURS TOO THOMAS W. LAMONT, just re turned from Europe where he had exceptional advantages for observation, gives it as his opinion that the greatest need abroad is trained young, men. No doubt of it—and it is Amer ica's greatest need, too, not only from the standpoint of the Nation but from that of the individual as well. J We seem to have remtlmljered vecy ' clearly. Indeed, that "the laborer is worthy of his hire," but we have forgotten that he is rtot worth more than his hire; in other words, that there is a limitation to his earn ing capacity. But there is, and no law, decree or decision by any man or body of men can make it other wise. The man who sells a pound of coffee gets more for it than the man who sells only a half pound, Right, you say, he delivered twice as much. The farmer who cultivates twen ty acres earns more than his neighbor who works only half as much. Altogether proper, you say, for he has worked twice as hard. But the untrained or the lazy man cannot quite understand why he should not be paid as much as his comrade who has trained his mind or who works twice as hard. Always and ever, so long as the world stands, the trained man, the industrious man, will be paid more than his untrained or his lazy fellow workman. Once suspend that law and the whole of civilization would go to ruin. Why? For the reason that if men are not paid according to their earning capacity and if all men are placed on an equality of wage, the result would be to en courage the lazy man and discour age the industrious man to the point that shortly nobody would be work ing more than an hour or so a day and their production would not keep the world alive. Yes, the greatest need of the day is trained young mdn—not trained in technical and professional lines alone, but trained in the gospel of hard work, trained to believe lhat production should govern pay. that one should give an honest day's toil for an honest day's pay, trained in the rudiments of busi ness, in honesty, fair play and an intense desire to succeed by indi vidual worth alone. Some of the Cumberland Valley I cornstalks better look out or they will be mistaken for telegraph poles. BEWARE BAD WATER BEWARE of bad water. Every summer Harrisburg has from one to a dozen cases of ty phoid fever brought in from the out side; "vacation typhoid" or "picnic typhoid" the physicians call it, be cause for the most part it is ac quired on outing Jaunts or camping trips. Campers, fishermen, 'swimmers and hikers are most apt to pick up the germs. Often they are care less and in many, cases reckless, willing to "take a chance" wheie the chances are all against them. Water is not always good because it chances to be clear and cold. Don't drink water unless you KNOW it is pure. The fellow who "stands on his dignity" seldom adds much to his stature. By the Ex-Committeeman —Chief Forest Fire Warden George H. Wirt, of the State Forestry department appears to have stirred up some District Attorneys in various parts of the State and have interest ed'some judges by remarks in his annual report about enforcement of forest fire laws judging from letters and inquiries coming to Capitol Hlil. The Chief Warden said bluntly that it was hard to get judges and attor neys interested enough to convict men who set woods on fire and that considering the loss due to -forest fires, the prosecution policy was lax. He also dealt a rap at county at torneys to push violations of the forest laws as a better measure of "fairness" would be obtained. The critic'sms were the most severe that have come off Capitol Hill in a long time and the interest evinced seems to be in counties where there are forest reserves. This is the first time an official publica tion of the" Forestry Department has taken county authorities to task. —This is the final week for filing petitions for judicial nominations. The time will expire on Thursday night and the last week has been marked by a rush of requests for blank petitions which have been sent out from the State Department by the dozens. The records thus far show that in some counties where there are judges to be filed no petitions have been filed and that in others where contests loom up only one or two have been put in. The usual eleventh hour rush is ex pected with all its attendant possi bilities that petitions may go down because not in form. Last year over ten petitions were rejected because defects that could not be cured in time were discovered. Three peti tions fell for this reason in the last half hour of the filing period. —While most observers in politics in Pennsylvania are of the opinion that the Pinchot movement was 4 personally conducted one and that it will not amount to much in the long run, Odell Hauser writing m the Philadelphia Press says that it is going to he a factor in 1920. He says: "The Vare strength will prob bl.v be behind it. Anyone would think that Vare crowd had enough of a fight on its hands in Philadel phia during the next few weeks to keep it from going way up to Har risburg to look for another fight. But apparently they don't think so. It looks as though their hiolto might be a reversal of Washington's famous maxim which would run something like "In time of war pre pare for another one." It is emin ently fitting that the Vare organiza tion should align itself with the Progressives. They have one purpose in common very strongly, namely to whack Penrose. There may be others, but they are not conspicu ous. —The opposing, candidates for the Republican Mayoralty nomina tion in Philadelphia will be uu blanketed this week. The Evening Bulletin says that many petitions are out asking A. Lincoln Acker to run and that John T. Windrim will not be a candidate. The Inquirer says: "Notwithstanding Senator Vare's statement that he is not com mitted to any candidate for Mayor and his linking of the names of John T. Windrim, former Mayor Edwip S, Stuart, City Solicitor John P. Connelly and George ' Wharton Pepper, with those of Receiver of Taxes W. Freeland Kendriclc and Judge John M. Patterson as avail ables, the opinion prevails among potential Vare lieutenants thai Judge Patterson will ultimately bo picked as the Vare candidate. Friends of Judge Patterson stated yesterday that they look for Re ceiver Kendrick to formally with draw from the race this week and come out for the nomination of Patterson and to ask his friends to do likewise." The Public Ledger presents this thought: "It is believ ed that with the expected an nouncement from Mr. Kendrick, urging support for Judge John M. Patterson, the Vares will end then dilatory tactics and that Judge Pat terson will at once make a public statement declaring himself a can didate for the mayoralty." -—This is from the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times: "If the action or the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company In reducing rates as soon as the wires were turned over by the Govern ment may be taken as a criterion, the way to reduce the cost of liv ing is to remove Government con trol. —Various candidates for District Attorney of Lycoming county have withdrawn in favor of Lieutenant Carl A. Schug, who abandoned his law practice to enlist in the U. S Army, served with distinction in France and came home with a wound, which laid him up for some time. —Cambria county now has three candidates for Judge and Somerset four. —Many Democrats heard with sorrow of the death of Ex-Repre sentative Fred T. Ikeler, of Blooma burg, for several years one of the fighting Democrats in the Legisla ture. He was quite a figure in Staty politics when some present Demo cratic leaders were field mice. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore writing in the Evening Pub lic Ledger on the way Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer has big business with him remarks: "The secret of Mr. Palmer's popularity with the big financiers and business men, who had very little interest in him when he was boosting Wilson for President, is due to the manner in which the alien property custo dian office has been managed." —City Treasurer George N. Burk halter has the inside track for post master of Butler by a civil service examination. The place has been kept vacant since November, when W. T. Mechling died. Mechllng was well known here. —Reading Republicans have de cided to try to put over a slate for Berks county. Robert E. Harvey, of Reading, will head it for Sheriff! —New Castle newspapers say pro hibition decreased arrests 350 per cent, in July in the Lawrence county capital. —Announcement of the booms of Col. J. P. Kerr and Capt. S. D. Fos ter for County Commissioners of Allegheny is said to be disturbing Senator Max G. Leslie. The align ment ugainst Leslie's domination is one of the strongest ever known in the county. What's to Follow the Ukulele? [From the Philadelphia Record.] The time is ripe for some hither to unknown, musical instrument to leap into popularity. That sort of thing goes by waves, and we are now in the trough of the sea of melody. We need something to cheer us, and it is only necessary for somebody to start something to make the crowd fall in line hilari ously. HABBISBURG TGGK£&. TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND -f. BY BRIGGS m 1 I I ||\ m Wllrfrl L A \mk % iJJiillilf lfߥT l\ #< ff AA pn 1 p ft? <#> J £R SNO RFL ' BV BODY OUT ON THE FROKIT PORCH GETTINQ r NE A\R. /^'X I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ! THi: MOSQUITO NUISANCE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir. If it be true that the city of Harrisburg hasj failed to take advantage of the expert assistance placed at its disposal by the State Commissioner of Health to make Harrisburg more than 'ever a model city, some one should be called to account for it. The big men of Harrisburg,' the leading civic organizations, went to a meeting at the Capitol and pledged the support of the city to the plan of the State. From what I know the State authorities have been try ing to get action. The city authori ties seem to have been trying to avoid action just as they have been sidestepping that city bathing beach and more bath houses until the sum mer is nearly ended. This year because of the weather conditions Harrisburg has been plagued by mosquitoes. There have been more than ever and they have been more ferocious than ever. And in the Telegraph we read that a State official says that he has been trying to get the city authorities' stirred up so that they will eradi cate the mosquitoes by going to the places the State has marked out and following the plan which the State used with such conspicuous success last year in ridding Hog Island of mosquitoes. It looks to me as if some one in the Harrisburg city government was just a bit too strong for his job to pass by such an opportunity to bring relief to hundreds of his fellow citizens who have to sit and 'slap and scratch evpry night when they could spared the annoyance and pain. The doc tors say that mosquitoes carry ma laria. The city has a department tp keep us healthy. Won't the city officials please take their own doc tor's advice, and use the good sound business sense to accept what the State offers free, especially when it has been proved to work in the most "skecter" ridden district in Penn sylvania? VOTER. WHO HAS "RIGHT?" To the Editor of the Telegraph: Sir: Please explain the regula tion of the new automobile act which reads as follows: "When two vehicles approach the intersection of two public highways at the same time, the vehicle ap proaching from the right shall have the right of way." It is understood that both ve hicles are on the right-hand side of the street. Yours truly, ODD SUBSCRIBER. • Feeding Damaged Wheat [From Pennsylvania Farmer.] Many farmers in this section will be confronted with the problem of disposing of wheat damaged by sprouting and exposure. When mar kets are normal is a questionable policy to attempt to sell damaged wheat. Under present conditions, and with other grains high, it will certainly pay many to feed such wheat if they have any fattening animals on the farm. . Badly sprout ed wheat is a total loss, but there ' will be much that has feeding value that cannot be put into condition for marketing. This wheat may be fed to hogs at a considerable saving over the present cost of corn. The Missouri Station has but recently I concluded feeding tests indicating that slightly damaged wheat is a close second to corn as a hog feed. In pounds of grain required to pro duce 100 pounds of pork, damaged wheat was ahead of corn. It ri quired 483 pounds of damaged wheat to produce 100 pounds of gain in the hogs, as compared with 582 pounds of corn in the same test. Where hogs are available it would seem advisable for farmers to use the damaged wheat to replace the corn in the fattening ration. For younger hogs, the addition of tank age to the damaged wheat# ration will insure good growth and a con siderable saving over the cost of other feeds at present prices. Where hogs are not kept, . considerable quantities can be disposed of to ad- I vantage in feeding poultry or even dairy cowa THINKING AMONG THE GUNS A Clergyman's Conversion to Universal Military Training By The Rev. Thomas Travis, Ph. D. The man who carried the lirst American- Flag under tire in Flanders NUMBER 1. • There were four of us, resting in the shelter of ah "arbi," at the tir ing line in Flanders. Shell were bursting around us' just near enough to give point and penetra tion to our thinking. From where we lay, we could look over all the Lys Valley from Ypres to Armen tiers and beyond. We could see the planes fighting over Ypres, wheel ing, spitting spangles of tire from their machine guns, dodging shell tire, attacking, looping the loop, tail diving amidst little puffs of cotton where the anti-craft guns were sending gruff messages to the clouds. We could see the great "Wooly bears" bursting over the roads, and the flash of our big guns behind us, as they answered. Even could we see the signals flashed from plane to battery where the limbers and lorries crowded the roads. We could see mile after mile of No Mian's Land, a desolation so utter that the very color and form of the earth were changed so as to be easily dis cernable at a distance of ten miles. A wreck-littered seaboach under a howling gale. We had walked ten miles through mutilated towns and villages. The little town on whose site we lay was a sample,—one square, brick pillar some twisted iron and a red smudge on the mud—all that was left of a onceNsmiling and happy little town. All its men-folk were either killed or maimed and most of its women were broken and scattered with the strain and horror of the war. Just to our right lay a black ruin where the enemy had centered his guns on a thread fac tory full of working girls, and blown them and it to a gruesome frag ments. And we four were watching, thinking. We were an Australian private in the ranks, a British offi cer, an officer in the marines and an American Clergyman with a long string of degrees representing four teen years of steady "education." And here was what that clergyman was thinking that day at the front: Those airmen, mere boys, were play ing an active part. They knew all the complex code of war signalling, they knew in a definite and thor ough way, the actual use of the compass in the sky, the aerostat, map-making from planes—all the complex science of flying under war conditions. The private knew the signals, wig-wags, the science and practice of trench warfare. The captain knew all the multitudinous things that have to do with guns, big and little, their trajectories, powers, range, the ways of laying them, elevations, practical ballistics, knew geography and topography with a sureness and detail amaz ing to a mere scholar like tho clergyman. The marine officer knew the complex science of the sea fighter, seaplanes, submarines and the rest. These men whose total "education" amounted to less than one half that of the "scholar" were able to carry on a great task, with certitude, amazing ability and effect. They could handle regi ments, drill men, plan out at least a local campaign, understand at once the meaning of every move. And they were in it doing things, mak ing history, while the clergyman, who had a classical and scientific education as the ordinary colleges teach, was able to do what in this great crisis? Wash pots and mugs in a Y. M. hut; amuse the boys, and do the scorp of little things all of which any one of these men could also have done. At their work the clergman was helpless, at his, even on his specialty, preach ing, there were at least two of these laymen who could stand in his boots and do good service. Here was a great world crisis, here were literally millions of lives at stake: here were anguish and heroism, seething human action reaching over half a world, and the clergyman was helpless to do any one of their jobs even at a pinch—while every man of these I "half-educated" warriors could not only do a big man's work in this crisis, but could have done also if necessary, the clergyman's work too. While the clergyman the "best educated" man of the lot was ab solutely at sea as to the basic prin cipals of the big job in front of us and able to comprehend barely enough of the practical tactics to make the plan of action intelligible —these men could follow the whole scheme, know the w ; hy and where fore of every position and move of the great game. Even the great moral and religious issues were grasped as clearly and firmly by these as by him. in other words, the "scholar" of the group, though just as eager to do his bit as any of the others, could fill only rela tively unimportant gaps in this big job, while the "half-educated" lads could do the important tasks, and, if nee'd be, do even when partly dis abled, all that the clergyman was doing—and do it as a side issue. (To be Continued.) (Copyright by National Service with the International Military Digest.) MISTAKES [From the Johnstown Tribune.] We all make mistakes, humankind is not perfect. It is small wonder Secretary of War Baker makes mis takes. He was drafted from tho ranks of pacifists to his present high place. His predecessor, Lindley Gar rison, was altogether too much in favor of preparedness. The pacifist wing of the' Democracy, then close to the ear of the President, demand ed the Garrison scalp—and they were given it. Triumphantly tho pacifists sported about, gloating over the going of Garrison and the com ing of Baker* If we recall eorrect y, there was blazoned about by pacifjst newspapers that one of the Baker children—bless his or her heart—exclaimed; "Now wo will havo no war, papa will see to that." The Secretary of War says that the selection and maintenance of cer tain Southern military camps was a 'mistake," in fact, a series of mis takes, and that he is, to a certain ex tent, responsible. Mr. Baker had supervisory power. He had tho power to veto any selection. I'. will be admitted that terrific pres sure was brought to bear in locat ing the camps. Thrifty gentlemen bad friends who had lands for sale. Politicians from tlie South are adept* at getting things for their districts. 'J he war was regarded by some of these gentlemen as a party asset. In deed, the great struggle was regard ed by some gentlemen as a personal political asset. Secretary Baker generously come* forward and admits his "mistakes." Recognizing his pacifist, profession, nobody would be so.unkind as to say he should havo been able to manag tho War Department, in war timo without making "mistakes." A pa cifist supervising rough soldiers and called upon to approve strategic tac tics of armies in the field, is supposed to make mistakes. But, in simple, ordinary, real estate speculations wo might expect so astute a lawyer as Secretary Baker to avoid mistake?. A lot of persons would have ques '.zoned the establishment of camps costing millions of dollars in Georgia and Mississippi while there existed m other States fully equipped cump., prepared for emergencies. llow many "goats" arc demanded for the Administration? Is it pos sible the Secretary of War proposes to immolate himself on the altar of party and to sacrifice himself that a party leader may place all tho mume on others? What's the Use? [From the Kansas City Times.] It is idle talk of coming seven cent pieces for street car fares. It would be only another year before we would have to discontinue them and begin to coin-fourteen-cent . pieces. AUGUST 4, 1919. "Going to the Country" [From the Detroit Free Press.] A great many people profess an af fection for Nature who have never met the dame and know nothing uliout her or her ways. Most of our lives are spent in looking at the procession. N Take it away and the i zest of living is gone. The average I individual wants to see something j going on, but it must be the human i "go on"—the external and eternal j stimulation affprded by the march of events. Anything else is stagnation, j Sick people like nature —bound in i cloth. Their taste calls for formed I gardens and shaven lawns. They | call it "going to the country" to ride, muffled in veils, in a motor car on j a concrete road at thirty miles an i hour. i To those accustomed to city noise , and hustle, three days of country j quiet develops homesickness. A la- j mcntablc lack of mental resources, j when thrown upon themselves, J comes to view. A very short shelf j would hold all the books written j tlfese days by men who live what j they write. Who writes of nature > and describes country life is a, Pharisee. The real nature lover is j as rare as men like John Burroughs j and Enos Mills. Country people do j not appreciate • their environments, otherwise they would not be so ready j ! to give up the plenty and privacy of i the home acres for a 30-foot lot! and a dinky porch on a village street | and a daily trip to the store for , two quarts of potatoes and a box of I berries. j Farmers are great despoilers of | beauty. A tree is cut because its I roots exhaust the soil; they choose a I shadeless site for the new house, and : perhaps plant trees, awaiting their growth, when well grown forest trees are reasonably near. Trees along the highway are trimmed to resemble feather dusters, and all low growing bushes uprooted as un- I sightly. For a day's real country pleasure I—if you like that sort of thing— j lock the car in the garage, find if i possible that all but obsolete vehicle known as a phaeton, coerce a not too ambitious nag between the shafts and go forth to explore. Turn from main traveled roads down the first shaded, lonely way that invites, and note Nature's unstudied beauty. See how she garlands a fence with bit tersweets, festons a young tree with a wild grape vine, or fringe a marsh with rope mallows. The homely but picturesque rail fence, the squirrel's highway and haunt of bush and bird has been replaced by a more modern substitute, but the fields and hills be yond are the same. Samuel Johnson regarded one green field as like any other green field, but there is a difference to eyes that have real vision. Part of the joy of such a pilgrim age is the association recalled; one landscape calls to mind others like it or in contrast. Recollections, which Thoreau said were as "intan gible and indescribable as the tints of morning and evening," are the true harvest of life. The Victorious Dead Peace? 1 recall an acre of the dead Marked with the only sign on earth that saves. The wings of death were hurrying overhead, The loose, earth shook on those unquiet graves. For the deep gunpits, with quick stabs of .flame, Made their own thunders of the sunlit air; Yet as I read the crosses, name by name. Rank after rank seemed that peace was there. Sunlight and peace—a peace too deep for thought, The peace of tides that underlie our strife, The peace with which the moving heavens are fraught. The peace that is our everlasting life. The loose earth shook. The very hills were stirred. The silence of the dead was all I heard. * * A little while we may not see their eyes. Or touch their hands, for thcy are far too near; But, soul to soul, the life that never dies Speaks to the life that waits it 3 freedom here. They have made their land one liv ing shrine. Their words Are breathed in dew and white ness from the bough; And, where the May tree shakes with song of birds, Their young unwhispered joys are singing now. I By meadow and mountain, river and hawthorn brake, In sacramental peace, from sea to sea, •The land they loved grows lovelier for their sake. Shines with their hope, enshrines their memory, Communes with heaven again, and makes us whole, Through man's new faith in man's immortal soul. —Alfred Noyes in the Golden Peace Number of the London Mail. —; Chuzzlewit's Eden Today [From the Christian Science Monitor.] Eden has changed since Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley tried to develop the spot which Dickens is believed to have given that name in the 'American State of Missouri. The swamp was too much for them. But now comes the report that this identical tract has lately produced I 56,000 bushels of corn and has 350 acres successfully planted to oats and 125 acres profitably raising alfalfa. In 1910 the land which Dickens is held to have named Eden was still as Chuzzlewit and Tapley found it and were defeated by it; the soil was good, but the river annually overflowed it, and except for a while in spring, made permanent an un profitable swamp. Then came a farmer from Indiana who said "no land is low land if properly drained," and had the initiative and eloquence necessary to organize a drainage pro ject. The cost of the scheme was S3O an acre, and the objection was raised and overcome that the land was worth no more than S2O. Today the reclaimed land is worth upward SIOO an acre, and that part of the once hopeless Eden which the or ganizer improvied for himself is con sidered perhaps the most valuable farm in the State. Introducng the New Pastor in Kansas [Ogden correspondence Manhattan Mercury,] The Rev. Snare gave two good ser mons Sunday which if some of the people of Ogden and community who have not attended a church service for fifteen or twenty years had been present to hear they might I not have slept quite as peacefully Sunday night. Earning (SUjat | " One does not ordinarily look for individuality in an electric arc street light, but there are some which have marked characteristics and furnish interesting ground for speculation In Hurrisburg. On Front street there u are three lights which have unusual t traits. One at Forster street has a habit of going off the job at 11 o'clock, while that at Maclay street gets absent-minded about midnight, - while further up there is a light that is hiding ulmost every night between 1 and 2 o'clock. In fact, it has a record of failing to give service that is impressive. 'On Derry streets the lights at Seven teenth and Twenty-first streets are apt to play "hookey" for a time after midnight, while the light that shines at Fourth and North .takes a nap every night. Two lights on State street belond Thirteenth are given to dozing every morning and there are others which seem to be | visiting almost at the same • time * : every night. Capitol Park lights, on the contrary, are noted for their i attention to business and are gen j orally found shinning on schedule, | although neighbor lights may be j sulking. The odd thing about some | of the street lights is the compara tive regularity of their darker I moods. I* • . t The men who have been observ | ing these light traits say that there , are also street cars which have their > I fits of temper, and that they have known a trolley that has gone along most of a morning purring as though it enjoyed its job to grow cranky and rattle and clang when another hand takes the lever. There are cars which run on Third and Fourth streets which have been known to fairly shriek when , they stop at night and yet when on the same run next day are as docile and well voiced as though their nerves had never been strained, so to speak, by ] a man who threw on too much air or were hauled up short when they were rolling along on their way thinking of a nice rest in the car barn. Some cars which act in a perfectly respectiable manner in residential sections all day have been known to protest and groan when hauling the "foundry" gapg or put on the "Rutherford Special" after 12.30 in the morning. Valley Railway cars probably have the same singular lines of conduct at times. • • • State officials who have been busy enforcing the pure food laws in Pennsylvania have come to conclu sion that so-called ciders are going to furnish the most prolific source of violations of the "dry" laws of the land and from some discoveries made lately there has been marked activity in inquiry into the size of the cider crop that may be expected to various valleys of the Keystone State. In some sections agents have learned that farmers have been ap proached as to their plans for mak ing cider and that in many a section cider presses are being overhauled. The Central Pennsylvania counties which have always been noted for their cider and such products as come from it are short on apples this year and this may account for some of the interest in the crop. Experi ence of the agents of the bureau of foods of the State Department of Agriculture last month gave indica tions of in what lines there were going to be some activities when the Nation becomes good and "dry." Some apricot cider found on general sale was discovered on analysis to contain 6.5 • per cent of alcohol, while some cider sold as "Sweet Cider" contained 3.68. As there is no 3.75 per cent law in Pennsylvania In spite of all the legislative ma neuvering this merchant was ar rested and fined. In a northwestern county what was called "grape cider" was found to not only contain 6 per cent of alcohol, but to be also colored with coal tar dye. In other sections what were alleged to be ciders were found to contain any where from 6 to 10 per cent of "kick." The State officials go on the law that such things are mis branded and that if there are olco holic contents they must be put on the label. • • * Probably the most sweeping in vestigation of dams in Pennsylvania is now under way by engineers of the State Water Supply Commission to see how the structures which were gone over a few years ago, and in many cases strengthened and changed to meet the demands of the times and experience, stood the strain of the frequent periods of high water caused by June and July rains. Scores of dams will be in spected and data gathered as to ef other features of stream observation, feet of the high water on flow and Comparatively few dams went out during the recent high water and the facts will be gathered for fur ther control of streams. Five groups of counties on the Delaware. Allegheny, Lehigh and Schuylkill basine have been made out for the engineers to cover. * * * From present indications Superin , tendent George F. Lamb is not going to have any trouble filling up the new troop of State Police at Lan caster. The applicants are already greater in number than the author ized strength and all of overseas men. The troop will bo located here next year. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Max C. Wiant, of Reading, has suggested that churches establish membership de grees. —Prothonotary W. B. Kirker, of Allegheny county, is seriousjly ill. —W. A. Destine, new head of Bucks county motorists, is crusad ing against toll roads. —Chaplain Jarrifcs R. Dalling has returned to Northumberland after service in France. —Justice John K. Kephart de livered the welcome home address at Colver. —Ernest T. Trigg, head of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, is active in moves to speed up ex press claims. —Frederick Hall, of Pittsburgh, will head the anti-Bolshevik move ments of the Security League in Eastern Pennsylvania counties. —Director C. B. Pritchard, of the Pittsburgh Department of Safety, has headed a movement to halt salo of firearms. —Congressman George P. Dar row is heading a committee to have President Wilson address the Knights Templars in Philadelphia this fall. | DO YOU KNOW —Harrisburg had taverns be fore it was even a town? HISTORIC HARRISBtTjRG —Early industries of Harrisburg i were chiefly repair of wagons. J • . *
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