10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEL EG It API! PRINTING CO. Telegraph IlulldlnK, Ccd-ral Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Businesj Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLSSBY, 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 t.his fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ▲ Member American ri Newspaper Pub- Mk-i-nyiW Ushers' Associa csgKP-r I. tion, the Audit T—-£a Bureau of Circu- HflEfeif'ESl® latlon and Penn sylvania Associa- IHSI S BBS fcf ated Dailies. ! 6? J S fIBB H Eastern office I Amm fm, ■•■■■ (KM Story, Brooks & Iff SH" 9 Finley, Fifth jfiUg Bfcß BE Avenue Building. Western office' ~ Chicago, 111. S Entered at the Post Office in Itnrrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST . 1!>1!> i We must work the works of him j that sent me, white it is day; the 'light j night cometh when no man can work j John 9:4. | CUTTING COSTS CONGRESS should act at once on J the proposal to reduce living i costs by purchasing wheat | front, the farmers at the guaranteed | price of $3.26 and selling it in the open market at $1.50, or less. It ' is right that the farmer should have i the price which the Government of- I fered to encourage the growth of j a bumper crop of grain. It was j right that the Government should ! offer this extraordinary price to in- | duce production, for the whole } world was on the verge of starva- i tion and wheat was the basic com- I modity in demand. Wheat we had ! to have if the war was to be won, ! and nobody at the time when prices j for this year's crops were fixed could foresee that Germany would go to pieces so soon. But the emer gency being past it is right, also, that there should be a return to normal conditions as soon as pos sible. The Yarmer would receive his subsidy under the plan of Govern ment purchase and sale and the con sumer would get back in lower prices for bread some of the money he put up in Liberty Bonds and taxes for the purpose of creating the billion dollar wheat fund. But there are other benefits beside those apparent on the surface from the working out of the plan pro posed. Lower prices for wheat would bring at once a break in the corn market, outs would take a sharp tumble and'all other grains would follow. Wheut is a basic food. All other food values to some degree depend upon it. Feed which goes into the making of cattle af fects the price of meats and leath ers. If feedstuff's come down meats and leathers will follow, lard and lard substitutes, milk and almost every other form of food ;rili feel tile downward pressure. However, the wheat price reduc- I tion would have to be accompanied by radical action against the prof iteers, else we would see greedy pro ducers and dealers trying to absorb the benefits of the new price levels, leaving the consumer, who is the man to be benefited, no better oft' than lie is at present. We must start with wheat, but we must, through Congress, go on down entirely through the list of causes that have added artificially to the inflation of food prices. Even so, we shall not get living costs down to a pre-war level unless we are to take away the wage increases that have come about through the war conditions, and nobody wants to do that. Wages must remain up. We are all agreed to that, unless unexpectedly large reductions are made in living costs, in which case natural readjustments are to be expected ulbng some lines. But the public is less concerned with wages than with high prices. Give the country relief in bread costs through the sale of wheat at reasonable prices, together with reg ulation of food barons and profiteers, and we shall be well on the road toward the smoothing out of much of the discontent so manifest throughout the country. After regulating prices to suit themselves since the war began, Dem ocrats are now blaming Republicans for the high cost of living. THE HUN SPIRIT THE gentle Germans in charge of twenty-four Zeppelins near Berlin have threatened to burn them rather than deliver them to I the Allies, as required by the Peace Treaty, These Zeppelins are each of twenty-flve tons capacity and can fly from Berlin to San Francisco. Several can carry forty persons. The German custodians of these tine machines are said to be seeking permission to fly them to the United States, hoping to find buyers here It is further stated, in a cable from Uoblenz, that unless this permission WEDNESDAY EVENING, ' is given or some other satisfactory , solution is offered, the Germans will ( destroy the airships rather than al- j low the French and British to take , s possession of them. ' r Having sent to the bottom of the j • sea the interned German warships , ! | at Scapa Flow, it would not surprise ] 1 j the world to hear that the Zeppelins • ! had been burned by their German ] ! custodians. But notwithstanding all • ; the evidences of their treachery and ! • | inherent dishonesty we are con- . ' i stantly being advised to go easy | with the Germans and show a kindly ] and benevolent spirit toward them. | There are still some people alive | _ j who refuse to forget the unspeak , able brutality and destruction of ( towns and hamlets in the invaded • | sections of Europe. And until the 1 Hun manifests a change of heart i and a real purpose to become a ' j member of civilized society it is [ foolish to accept his word or even ■ his written promise as anything ! binding in the way of a contract. ' i It is denied in official quarters that. ' a million dollars wortli of airplanes • | were burned in France to avoid con | gestlori in the transportation of sur plus equipment. It is admitted, how ever. that there was considerable de struction of airplane materials after certain parts were salvaged. By and by the people will learn the truth of the wasteful and extravagant handling of war materials. IN KENTUCKY A STRAW" in the political wind I is the election of a Republican I candidate to • <'ongress in the j Eighth district of Kentucky this ) week over his Democratic opponent i by a majority of 1,500. j The circumstances surrounding | this special election are interesting j from whatever angle they may be I viewed. In the first place the in j cumbent whose death caused the ! vacancy was a Democrat and had ' i been elected and re-elected for many ; i years by majorities that averaged i ! about 3,000 votes, notwithstanding 1 I vigorous contests against hint by j | strong Republican candidates. The j district is normally Democratic by | , about the same figures. The campaign just waged, in which the Republican was elected, . was devoid of personalities. Each ; of the nominees agreed to make his j i tight on strictly party lines. The ' Democrat canto out for everything j President Wilson advocates or has j supported, including hearty endorse- j ment of the proposed League of Nations and the peace treaty. The J j Republican candidate made no at- ! | tacks on his Democratic opponent i j or his policies, but confined his ef- 1 j forts to setting himself before the | voters as an ardent advocate of I everything lor which the Republican , | party stands. It was tacitly admit- ; ; ted on both sides that this should | be a test of strength on National j issues, the Democrat starting away j with a handicap of about 3,000 j votes. The result, a sweeping Republican j victory, can be viewed in no other i light than that many Democrats throughout the country view with concern and doubt, if not actual dis- 1 approval, the attitude of the Demo- ! cratic administration at Washington, ! and it should give President Wilson pause for thought providing he has ; 1 any regard for his party's prospects at the next National election. The | verdict of the voters in this instance ' ' is strongly in favor of Republican j policies and confirms the belief en- j • gendered by last Fall's Republican : victories in the Congressional elec- . I tions that the country is heartily I' tired of Democratic mismanage- | 1 ment and desirous of giving the Re- ]' publicans an opportunity to place ' the combination of Socialism and j autocracy at present in control of ! | the executive branch of the Govern- I | ment forever on the shelf at Wash- !. j ington. This entails a Responsibility ! - |on the Republican leadership as I weighty as it is gratifying to the | loyal rank and file of the party, j ' The American people expect great things of the Republican party. They I ' must not be disappointed. it's too bad that the State authori- ! : ties are not prepared to go ahead 1 w Ith the changes in the Capitol Park terraces along Walnut and Third streets at once so that the city can , proceed with the widening of the two!' streets along the park stretches. In- ! ' as-much as this feature of the work 1 , was discussed and agreed upon ; months ago it would seem that there ' ' lias been unnecessary delay in begin- ! : ning operations. FACING THE PROBLEMS DR. FINEGAN, as head of the \ school system of Pennsylvania, /is going to have at his elbow : in Dr. Becht one of the most prac- 1 tical and level-headed of the educa tors of the State. With two such men. recognizing the grave prob lems which confront our people we may confidently look forward to such changes in our educational program as will overcome in large '■ measure the serious conditions i which threaten the prosperity and even the liberties of the people. Dr. Finegan and his associates j in all the school districts have not failed to realize the importance of ! definite and practical methods for ! solving the so-called race problems i and seeking the Americanization 1 needs of the alien population. School ! training from the very entrance of \ the girls and boys is necessary to i overcome the false theories of Gov- 1 ernment and the tenets of rabid socialism and anarchy which are being taught in the ghettos and con gested centers of our herded com munities. / Surveys of the population of Penn sylvania have demonstrated that there is real need of practical edu- i cation to the end that the children of the Immigrant may learn- the meaning of our system of Govern ment and the American ideals. We have been too selfish in our attitude toward the men and women who i have come to our shores to escape from intolerable oppression in tother i lands and to-day much of the un rest which rises as a menace to I our own contentment and peace is i due to the indifference of the aver ! age citizen to his personal obliga ! tion with respect to aiding the alien | in his desire to become one of us. Governor Sprout and the recent ■ Legislature have increased the j school appropriations and these j grants will doubtless encourage Dr. Finegan and his army of educators j to take advanced positions in meet ( ing the problems which now con | front Pennsylvania particularly and ! the Nation as a whole. Ik By the Ex-Committeeman | I Contests over nominations for judges are commencing to liven up politics in many a county where things have been lagging the last week or so and bid fair to rival in interest the battles for mayoralty and councilmanic nominations now that such elections are to be held once more along party lines in third class cities. The State will elect eighteen common pleas, five orphans' court and fourteen associate judges, together with Philadelphia and Allegheny county local courts places. The indications are that hopes for no contests in the two big counties have gone glimmering and that I there will be contests for almost every one. In Philadelphia Judge George Henderson will have to fight for his orphans' court scat and so may Judge Joseph I'. McCullen, re cently named for common pleas. Lackawanna, Luzerne, Somerset, Le high. Cambria and Washington have battles that will be of interest to the State while the ambition of Judge James B. Drew, of the Alle gheny county court, to be a common • pleas judge has upset some calcula , tions in the western end of the State. The thirteen counties which will elect associate judges have some fights that will be historic, although the liquor issue lias disappeared from such campaigns. The old • lashioned local buttles will be re newed. Huntingdon, Fulton, Bed ford, Snyder. Sullivan and Mifflin 'are points of political attention on 1 this score. The time for filing petitions will end to-morrow at 4 p. m. Most of the candidates have already filed their papers. _ —District Attorney and County Commissioner nomination contests will add to the interest and the fact that the third class cities will have a score of mayors to elect and cotin cilmen in the rest of them will add to the general political stir. ( —lt is estimated that something like 650 boroughs in Pennsylvania and over 1,500 townships will elect officers this fall, so that it can be seen that Pennsylvania is going to furnish plenty to interest the stu dent of things political. —People here have been much in terested by the filing of papers for Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt for judge of Lehigh county. The Con gressman will oppose his successor in the Senate. Horace W. Schantz, the first Republican elected to the Senate in a century. This place is a new one, created by the last Legis lature and no appointment was made. Congressman Dewalt has trounced ihe old reorganization Democratic ring in that county and there will be a beautiful contest this year. —Appearance of Joseph G. Ma goc in the Philadelphia orphans' court contest in Philadelphia means a battle on behalf of Judge George Henderson, a Brumbaugh appointee. -—The Philadelphia Press in an editorial says the mayoraltv is not the whole thing. The Press Says: "Without the aiil of men of charac ter and ability in the responsible positions of the municipal govern ment the new charter will fail to accomplish all that is intended and desired. This depends upon the action of the people themselves, and depends upon their wisdom and judgment in selecting councilmen no less than upon their wisdom and judgment in the selection of a mayor." —lndications are that reorgani zation of some of the departments oT the State government may not wait for the coming of September, but if Governor William C. Sproul approves when he returns from his trip to the Northwest they mav lie made effective without delay. One I of the reasons for this change of plart which is to be put up to the Governor is the desire of State of ficials to launch new work and to i reorganize certain activities. It is said that the Labor and Industry and Agricultural Departments may be the first to be changed around. Plans I have been worked out by their i chiefs which would make material changes in personnel and if oppor- ! tunity is offered while the Governor is in this part of the State before ! he leaves for the conference of the ' governors at Salt Lake City he will : be asked to authorize the reorgani- ' zation*. —The Governor intends not only ! to present what Pennsylvania is | doing in the matter of highwavs and ; National Guard reorganizations at i the conference, but also to point out its importance in agriculture and its plans for introducing modern busi ness methods into the State govern ment. Wise Cardinal Gibbons [Harvey's Weekly.] Cardinal Gibbons, on his 85th birthday, said: "We are now afflicted with a war of races in the national capital, I where much blood has been shed i and lives sacrificed. Alas, it is a proof that legislative suppression of intoxicating drinks is not, as it was said it would be, a panacea against all social and moral evils. There are many other kinds of intemperance intemperance by eating, by gluttony; intempe-ance in speech, by slander and defamation of character, in temperance of liberty itself, by' law less license; intemperance in our in satiable search for wealth, which 1 dries up in many hearts the founda- I tions of benevolence and stifles the gentler feelings of sympathy for suf fering humanity." True as gospel. May His Emi-* nenee live forever! As He Hears Washington [From the Indianapolis News.] The British army aviator who Is "resting" by touring America on a motorcycle, must love the nois e of battle. A Georgia Political Note [From Greensboro Herald-Journal.] Some candidates would feel as much out of place in office as a slack- i er would feel at a military ball. HABHFFIBURG®|STO^GRA^! 8 | -t [ A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE By BRIGGS 3 —________ —_—_ (OH LL | ////, VWOW-R ROO PLCASE\ FS 11//// Q /VA N GER THAT FOLDIMC, (A V/' A\ STEAMER CHAIR JW.I "VRTHM-H AMD 56T IT UP OA) FT |£L<> T M TW " /L|\V\ TH6 RORCH P O* •> I [\LW\X\ RNG IFIHT | ;T . "OM VI- PJOTHIROF. N ! DOIMG- IT > J BUSTED *' L l -. '! I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR i * I ITALY'S ECONOMICAL CONDI TION ' To the Editor of the Telegraph ; I As the political system allows the 1 ■ ' Italian government the power to j take in its hands the matter of j prices of life's necessities, Italian people looked to Orlando the last j days ol' his ministry for the settle- | ment of economical couditions fa- | vorable to the needs of the people. I \ j Failure to settle rightly that mat- j ter was the principal cause of the i overthrow of Orlando's ministry at I |so short a distance from that day ! I when he, quitting the Peace Con- , ference on account of Wilson man- ; | ifesto, returned to Colome. The ! present cabinet, headed by Nitti, i j found the way to arrest opposition ! j from political foes by handling the j matter of foodstuffs. In accord with Chambers of Labor, { which are institutions similar to ! American Federation of Labor, the i J Italian government stopped at once' the profiteering of producers. As Italians in America, and locally Mr. i Orsini, the barber of 703 North Third street, are hearing from the letters of their relatives, all condi- ; tions are highly improved. Mr. I Orsini's father, who lives in the 1 Abruzzi district, writes that their j prices of foodstuff are regulated by ! the calmiere (which Italian word! in Knglish means government's price j list); the shoe prices are reduced 1 50 per cent, and so is everything I necessary lor personal apparel. So \ that the people are gratified after so | many sufferings caused by the war. I i It is hoped that with elimination : |of those who seem to be interested ; ,in maintaining the misunderstand- i I ings between Italy and America, the I ! question of the coal will be settled I j according to the necessities of Italy, ' j and so the many industries will! flourish again, bringing full prosper- | j ity to the Italian nation, which so | gallantly stood by the common cause j jof liberty. A READER. AN ENGINEER'S DREAM I To the Editor of the Telegraph: I The Eighteen Hour Train from j Chicago was speeding through the i j I •■e wis town Narrows on its way to! | the great city, where life teems with ■ j every known* vice and virtue; noth- . I ing unusual from many other trips, j ■ other than that the engineer was in J the land of nod. Although a dream j jis of short duration in minutes, | I nevertheless it covered the trip to j I the greatest stor.*e arch bridge in the ! I world, where it suddenly ended—| ; over fifty miles of rails; "As the train came j the rails, the iron horse emitting | j great volumes of fire and smoke, i i Port Royal and Newport was passed, j i Duncannon was fast asleep as the j | train went through and later came j ! into Marysville or? schedule. One! I minute and the train was on the | ! western end of the great Rockville | ! bridge. "Suddenly from out the mountain ] ; side appeared an apparition two hun- I i dred feet in height, with great arms [ ! hangir.-g on a headless body, legs i thirty feet in length, dressed in a: robe of red. and with bare feet. "It picked up the train and carried j it safely across the river. "Thunder arose and a voice shout ed: 'Harrisburg next stop.' The en- j gineer rubbed his eyes and looked ! at the fireman, exclaiming; 'Altoona sells the best stuff between Chicago and New York.' "Giddap! The train is through the Narrows now and the engineer is awake." B. F. N. ! Would Use Mail Tubes Again [From the Philadelphia Public Led ger.] Action has been taken by the Philadelphia Bourse, the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations to obtain a ! hearing before the House postofßce | committee in pursuance of their I fight to have pneumatic mail tubes again placed in operation in this ' city. The Postoffice Department is said j to be anxious to construct a tunnel to facilitate mail service between the central postoffice and big rail ' road terminals in New York. Local business men take this as an in dication that the department will listen with favor to arguments for ■ the restoration of the tubes, which were abandoned in this city on June 30, 1918. Alabama Takes the Plunge [From the Birmingham Age-Heraid] For the first time in its history, Alabama has* convicted white men. who took part in a lynching. We may eventually reach the high state i of civilization where murderers of that sort are hanged. THINKING AMONG THE GUNS A Clergyman's Conversion to Universal Military Training By The Rev. Thomas Travis, P!. D. The man who carried the first American* Flag under tire in Flanders No. 3 I lived to see the Canadian boy I who thus flew and signalled, load | his plane with all the bombs it would I carry, tiy back through clouds of | bursting shrapnel, to do what he could, pitifully little to help the ] boys in that ghastly trench. Splen did young, fearless lives sacrificed, i splendid young, strong bodies blown ! to bloody bits, because that states i man and that audience and their I k.nd didn't even know enough of ! military education to see the blind j folly of expecting a trained and j equipped army to grow up in a i month, or in six months. Had we even an inkling of mili | tary knowledge we would have laughed that statesman off the stage and out of the State. I took another look at that Front. Here an airplane attack; a flotilla iof planes coming over to bomb; ! some speeding low, two or three hundred feet from the ground, spitting a fire of death from their ! machine guns, some higher up bomb j dropping, some soaring aloft for i observation, others going back of the lines to drop huge bombs on the i villages and towns to crush help * less civilians, women and children. | I watched the shrapnel puffk, and I did some thinking. The sky was ! literally dotted with planes; the sol i ernn "plop" far up in the clouds the ! insistent bang and crash right over | your head; the sinister hiss and ' bone-shattering dotonations of the I bombs going right on despite the | anti aircraft tire. I watched the j thousands of shells shot at these j sky raiders. I suppose 1 have seen | twenty thousand shrapnel tired at airplanes at all angles and heights and in all lights, from midnight when the sky was cross-grilled by flaming swords of search-lights, | while little children crouched in j cellars and holes to avoid the Hun— | to broad daylight where eager gun i ners manned their pieces and shot ;as fast as they could load, salvo j after salvo, hundreds, thousands of | shots. And out of that mass of | shots perhaps half a dozen hit their | target, and less than that number I brought down their plane. It takes an expert shot to come j even reasonably near them; and it I takes genius to hit them once out of ' fifty times. And we didn't have ! military education enough even to | sense that simple fact, otherwise i we would have had some air-gun | ners trained, some military educa- I tion somewhere, that would have ; shown the grim humor of anti-pre ! paredness speeches. | Just figure it out; a plane com | ing a hundred and twenty miles an | hour sweeping, swerving, dipping, i curving, like a swallow; a heavy | cannon manned by a crew. They I must get direction, height, range accurately on that moving target | by means of machinery moving a ! heavy cunnon. They must set the i clockwork on the shrapnel to burst |at the right moment. One second's ! difference in bursting time makes | a difference of dver fifty yards on | the target even if it were stationary. And one second in the shell itself, the velocity of the shell as it sweeps up makes a difference of over five hundred yards in the place where it bursts and this complicated and rapid shooting must be done, not with a light gun in the hands of one man, but with a cannon, handled by a crew. If you want a fair example, try a gun heavy enough to need two men to fire it, and try to shoot ducks on the wing with it. You will soon realize how much training nnd practice it needs. And when you have tried that, load your gun with a shell that must be timed right to ! burst nnd you have the problems of j the anti-aircraft gun; also the rea son why so few planes are hit by them. I Doesn't that throw some light on the necessity for a little military education? A trained army in a month or in six months? You who doubt the necessity of military education, turn this over in your mind; our anti-aircraft guns have killed and wounded more of our own men than they have of the enemy, and when I speak of our, I mean the Allied aircraft guns. "What goes up must come down," we used to say when I was a boy. And this rapid fire of shrapnel back of the lines, at speeding air-crafts necessary as it is to keep the raid ers high up, is rather hard on the boys at best and when you have half educated gunners, it is some thing more than a joke. I'd like to put our "great statesman" who thought we could get a million | fighters in the field in a month, and ,* | his applauding audience under fire 1 iof his own anti-aircraft guns, not 1 i out of malice but just for a lesson f j in the difference between theory and > | fact. Raw soldiers firing rapid salvos > | of shrapnel after one month's train . j ing, while you sit under the drop , ping fragments and the raider sails . j quickly and thoroughly when put in - | that sort of a school. f i (To lie Continued) 1 i (Copyright by "National Service 1 with the International Military t Digest.") Theodore Roosevelt ; [By Charles Hanson Towne.] Charles Hanson Townc's poem, . published in the New York Tribune, i gives the last word of Cecil Rhodes ; —that there was still so much for > him to do—as typKying the tireless , ness and eagerness of Roosevelt. - That he must pass on to some "di > vine adventure," the poet is certain. C I s On what divine adventure has he • I gone? . j Beyond what peaks of dawn Ijls he now faring? On what errand • j blest . j Has his impulsive heart now turn ; I ed ? No rest • j Could be the portion of his tireless I ! soul. i He seeks some frenzied goal Where he can labor on till Time is not. And earth is nothing but a thing i forgot. t j i II t Pilot and Prophet! as the years in- i r crease , The sorrow of your passing will not i cease. - 1 We love to think of you still moving . I on t | From sun to blazing sun, > 1 From planet to far planet, to some f I height f I Of clear perfection in the Infinite, - | Where with the wise Immortals you ! • j . can find I Tne Peace you fought for with your > | heart and mind. t : Yet from that bourne where you are Journeying < j Sometimes wo think we hear you ; > j whispering, : "I went away, O world, so false and i true, . i I went away—with still so much to ! I do: " ; lA'o Mereg For Human Brutes i j [Wilkes-Barre Record.] ■ | Evidence of amazing brutality to- j wards American soldiers in prison I camps in France is only too au ! Ithentic. It brings to light acts even ' t I more discreditable than instances of : 1 | excessive severity in courts-martial, j ! j The treatment of prisoners is char- | t aeterized as passing beyond the limit ! ! of ordinary cruelty—amounting in ! ' many cases to torture. The prison- I i crs were guilty of violating discipline j ■ and some of them of crime, but the I . military statutes provide for noth- ! ' ing more than imprisonment and ! ! | work and disgrace. Any other form ! l of punishment is the result of I j brutality on the part of officers in | authority, and the honor of the army | '■ demands that those who ordered it and those who committed it be made to bear the consequences, j The congressional sub-committee 1 I now engaged in an investigation of 1 j the reports will be expected to un -1 cover one of the foulest of blots j upon the army in connection with I its service abroad. ; Stifling Missouri Industries i [From the Morley Banner.] A rather prolific crop of black- j , berries is reported in this section j which sell for 50 a gallon. But - ' it looks as if most of the crop was I doomed to go to waste since our able ! and proficient berry pickers simply I • refuse to venture out with their j , stock of snake bite remedy exhaust ed and no way to replenish it. It is | ' now predicted, also, that farmers j living along water courses will have i to resort to the use of dynamite to keep the fisji from overrunning their ; farms since fishing has about lost all its popularity. Making It Handy [From the Dallas News.] Another thing—why not put the divorce courts on wheels so that they could be rushed to any part of the residential district where a quarrel breaks out? AUGUST 6, 191 V. I I j Where Will the Germans Go? , [Herbert Adams Gibbons in Every body's Magazine.] ; The parliaments of Great Britain j and the British Dominions are as j keenly alive as we are to the neces ! sity of being ready for a strong i migratory current from continental j Europe. , Dondon has gone farther than Washington, and seems in clined to follow a path that will lead to tremendous consequences for Europe. It is proposed at West minster to forbid enemy aliens to 1 enter British territory for an in definite period und to deport Ger- I mans, Austrians and Hungarians 1 who are settled in the British Em pire. If this proposal is carried out, j other nations, notably Brazil, may j follow the precedent set by the j British. Deportation of Germans | from British territory would create a forced migratory current as great as that which is already flowing out of Alsace-Dorraine and Prussian I Poland. It is unlikely that the 1 ousted Germans will find it possible to settle in their country of origin. Where will they go, and in what i direction will the migratory current from Germany flow? Will public sentiment in America bar Germans and influence Central and South American countries to adopt the same policy? Upon the answer to these ques tions depends, in a very large meas ure, the influence of the war of 1914-1918 upon Twentieth Century Europe. Nothing is more certain than that we cannot bottj£ up, un der adverse economic conditions, the 80 million Germans of Central Europe in a German state narrowed down to its ethnographical limits. Even if we gave back to Germany her colonies, they would not support a large white population. Do we | i not have to choose, then, between I I sharing with the German race the I ! development of Africa, the two Americas and Australia, and seeing the Germans overflow into Eastern I Europe and Asia? j General Edwards' View Sir: Against the flood of oratory "let loose on the American people in !the past six months about the League jof Nations and "making the world safe for democracy," the following twenty-six words by General Ed ; wards, U. S. A., arc worth some j thing: "They say the boys went over to : make the world safe for democracy. | | I don't believe it. I went over to •save my country, not democracy, j General Edwards was addressing j the boys and girls at the Good Will : Farm, an educational school located j at Hinckley, Maine, and the limited I circulation of the Good Will Record, jin which the above quotation ap- I pea red, led me to send it to you so j the readers of Harvey's Weekly | could see what a soldier thought of | the slush about "making the world ! safe for Democracy." N. NEWTON PLUMMER. New York City. Anguish [From Life.] J "She has such an interesting face, i She looks like a woman who has | lived and suffered." "X fancy she has. For years she has managed to squeeze a No. 4 j | foot into a No. 2 shoe." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Francis ' Fisher Kane, United States District Attorney for Phila delphia, is taking his vacation and meanwhile the liquor prosecutions are taking a rest. —Joseph L. Kun, former Deputy Attorney General, is acting as spe cial counsel for the State in insur ance suits in Philadelphia. —Dr. Richard H. Harte, who was a colonel in the medical department ! in France, has been given a foreign I decoration for his services. —Clarence L. Harper,- Philadel i phia banker, is in Maine 6n a vaca i tion trip. 'I —Judge E. C. Newcomb, who'will I act as umpire in count of votes in I the Scranton mine dispute, is one of 1 the Lackawanna bench, j —The Rev. A. M. Huntsberger, Bucks county minister, is heading a I movement to get after automobile I speeders. DO YOU KNOW | —That Harrisburg will have names of its soldiers iti the pylons of the Memorial Bridge? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Capitol Park was first enclosed 98 years ago. iEuemng Cljat j Pennsylvania's great Memorial Bridge to its soldier and sailor sons, upon which it is expected to start work this autumn, will stretch for half a mile from the eastern end of Capitol Park to the brow of Allison Hill, just a little to the western lino of Thirteenth and State streets. The exact length of the structure, as cal culated by Arnold W. Brunner and J. E. Qreiner, who designed it, will be 2,687.5 feet, or a little more than the length of the Susquehanna River bridges between the "front steps" |of Harrisburg and the'city's island. /"* At its highest point, Cameron street, it will be fifty feet. The lines of the bridge are familiar to readers of The Harrisburg Telegraph through the publication of photographs of the model at the Capitol and it will be a magnificent series of arches, right on the line of State street and con tinuing the scheme of the civic cen ter of the Commonwealth, as Mr. Brunner styles his Capitol plans, out the 120-feet wide thoroughfare laid down more than a century and a quarter ago by the men who planned the present city of Harrisurg. Some day, some day when we are all dead, perhaps, there will be a similar bridge stretching from the western front of the Capitol, out State street and over the Susquehanna to the Cumberland shore. It is a part of a wonderful dream that will make the Harrisburg of years to come fa mous throughout the land. • • Some idea of the immensity of the work connected with the designing and building of this bridge can be gained from the fact that the specifi cations for prospective bidders re quire 165 typewritten pages. The specifications for the construction of the State Capitol, which has a greater circumference than St. Peter's at Koine, alone are greater in volume as far as Harrisburg projects are concerned. These speci fications and plans have been checked not only by the engineers in the Department of Public Grounds and Buildings, but of the S'ate Highway Department and verified by the engineering expert of the Auditor General's Depart ment. The great bridge will run from about the intersection of State and Filbert streets, speaking generally, and will be eighty feet wide. The sidewalks will be twelve feet wide. This will leave a clear highway space of fifty-six feet, or eight feet more than the highway width of Market street. On either side of the driveways will be granite copings twelve inches high. They will bo continuous pieces of the hardest granite that can bo bought and suf ficient to daunt the ambitions of the wildest truck or automobile that should tuke a notion to go on the sidewalk. Two • approaches are planned. One at Royal Terrace on I the south side of State street will be about thirty feet high. The other which will give access from Cam eron street will go upon the upper side of. the bridge along the line of the old driveway into the Harris burg cemetery. There will be a very ornate stairway from Cameron street for pedestrans and means of access to the bridge will lie at other points, while comfort stations will be estab lished at certain places. • • * The memorial pylons for the bridge, which will be located at either side of the entrance to the bridge at the end of the Capitol Park and on a line with the rows of trocV that will lead from the building toward the railroad lines, will tower sixty feet into the air. They will be huge structures on classic lines rising almost as high as The Harrisburg Telegraph build ing. On their fronts and sides will be allegorical groups representing thd two grea.l arms of national de fense, the Army and the Navy, anil within will be chambers, twenty by twenty feet, which will contain the names of every Pennsylvania soldier, sailor and marine in the war. These memorials will be built of enduring j granite and will last as long as Hur . risburg, an imperishable record of the gratitude of a Commonwealth to militant sons. The pylons are Mr. I Brunner's idea of something instinc tive, something that will arrest and hold attention, something wherein to enshrine names of men from every county of Penn's State. The second great project of the Capitol improvements contemplated this year is a two fold one. It i.i separate from the Capitol Park landscaping and surrounding of the park with a coping with a circle at Third and Walnut streets and a formal entrance at State and Third streets, which form the third prop osition. The second is the office building and terrace. In days to | come the State will have four office buildings, one a great educational structure, in Capitol Park exten sion. With the present State House they will form three sides of a court dedicated to the people of Penn sylvania, the pylon and the bridge entrance making the fourth side. The office building will be 280 feet | long by 90 feet wide, six stories of granite. Along its northern side will be a granite terrace, the first section of an architectural gem. As build ings are erected this terrace will lie extended and it will be topped with a balustrade that will recall the glories of France. The office build ing will have its center on the center line of the present State Library Building and beginning about where the Fourth street plant of the Har risburg Electric Company used to stand will run toward the railroads, its end being not far from that which j used to be the corner of South and j Short streets of other days. When it lis finished it will be connected with | the level of the Capitol by the ter race and Fourth street will be wiped out, traffic being swung over to the new highway about on the line of Aberdeen and East streets. • • * The bridge over the Pennsylvania Railroad which will be replaced by the Memorial was built about 1873 and was considered one of the hand somest short bridges in this section. It took the place of a wooden bridge built many years before. The pres ent bridge bore the P. R. R. initials and for years the railroad attorneys and city authorities fought over maintenance. jk A story of how a French officer fired upon and destroyed his own home was recently told by an officer of the Harrisburg Army Recruiting Station. Just within the Allied lines there was a beautiful little chateau which the Roches were constantly using as a reference point when registering their artillery. The French decided that it must be de stroyed, so the owner of the cha teau, an artillery captain fighting at unother part of the front, was sent j for. He arrived and took command lof the battery. After a ceremonious dinner, the officers repaired to their observation post, the gun crew took Its place, and the captain gave his orders. Soon his beautiful little home was crumbling before his eyes, under the fire of his own guns. When the destruction was com pleted. the captain gravely shook hands all around, saluted, and re turned to his battery.
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