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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1919
Be pitiful for every man who is fight
ing a hard battle. — lan McClaren.
LOOKING AHEAD
IN A practical talk before the
Rotary Club supporting the pro
posed landing Held for the Gov
ernment air service in Harrisburg
the president of the City Planning
Commission, E. S. Herman, illus
trated the unfortunate tendency to
procrastinate in such matters by
citing the fact that the Commission
more than five years ago had
stricken from its first annual report
a recommendation of Warren H.
Manning, the park expert of the city,
that in acquiring additional park
property there should be provision
made for an aviation field. The Com
mission feared such a recommenda
tion might be regarded by many
citizens as visionary and injure the
work of the planners in other di
rections. Mr. Herman pointed out
just how we fail as individuals and
corporations and cities to grasp the
developments in modern science, and,
as a result, fall short in preparing
for inevitable changes.
Many who heard the head of the
Planning Commission were impress
ed by his suggestion -of the great
importance of looking ahead and
there was also "a feeling of confi
dence in the official body which is
preparing the way, as in the Italian
park district and even here, for the
certain expansion of Harrisburg by
street and park suggestions and
building regulations.
The point of the whole discussion
was the necessity for providing a
landing field for the air service,
which is soon to develop great possi
bilities in commercial, passenger and
other activities. Harrisburg must be
on the aeriel map and City Council
is worthy of commendation for
promptly acting on the request of
the Washington authorities.
In view of the fact that the field
at Maclay and Cameron is regarded
as most available for the landing
station, and as this field would be
utilized only during the developing
stage of the air service, the trustees
of the State Hospital might well co
operate in so important a matter.
A NATIONAL PROBLEM
GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM,
of Massachusetts, has intro
in the House at Washington
a bill to establish a Bureau of Hous
ing and Living Conditions in the
Department of Labor. The purpose
of the bill is to make available to
the American public the important
data gathered by the Federal Gov
ernment in the course of its housing
activities during the war, to study
methods to reduce the cost of house
construction and to stimulate the
building of homes to meet the
serious shortage which now faces
our country.
Harrisburg and all other cities
are greatly interested in any proper
movement for the stimulation of
building activities,' especially homes
for the people. Like every other
city, Harrisburg is suffering from a
lack of dwellings and is bound to
suffer in its development until these
are provided. If the Tinkham bill
will supply any need incidental to
the encouragement of building
throughout the country it should be
promptly passed. Of bourse, if it
is to be simply a job-making bu
reau, then the committee in charge
should give it a prompt quietus.
It would be regrettable, however,
should all the data rathered during
the war by the Government Hous
ing Corporation be Junked when it
might be utilized in creating more
modern housing conditions and en
couraging greater building activity
all over the country. The proposed
measure would charge the bureau
as outlined with the duty of investi
/ gating the housing and living condi
tions of the industrial population
and the conducting of research and
experimentation looking toward the
provision and publication of such
information as would make econom
ically practicable the elimination of
. uns, the improvement of living
TUESDAY EVENING,
conditions, the reduction of con
struction cost of dwellings and the
financing of extended home building
operations without Federal appro
priation. It would also assist com
munities during the present hous
ing shortage in making available to
the utmost extent all existing hous
ing facilities and serve as a claar
ing house of information on hous
ing and living conditions.
The author of the bill addressed
Congress on tho subject the other
day and explained that, as a result
of its war-housing program, tho
Government had accumulated a vast
fund of information and experience
on industrial housing which should
be made available to every com
munity in the United States. Out
of the large experience of the Gov
ernmental activities in developing
the great housing programs made
necessary by the war, and for which
over $100,000,000 was expended,
there should be available much
practical information that could be
utilized for the benetlt of the entire
country. In the course of his speech
Mr. Tinkham said:
Notwithstanding the high cost
of part of this work, due to the
war and the modification of plans
because of shortage of certain
materials, the bulk of tiiis exper
ience is of a character to be of
direct, practical benefit to indi
vidual workers building their
own homes, to employers con
structing low-jJiSced dwellings
for the market, and to communi
ties seeking to provide adequate
living conditions for their citi
zens.
No existing agency of the Gov
ernment is now authorized to col
lect, analyze, correlate and in
terpret this experience and to
make it available to the country.
It offers the greatest opportunity
before the Federal Government
for salvaging permanent values
from our enormous war expendi
tures.
Harrisburg was mentioned in the
course of the Massachusetts repre
sentative's remarks as among the
American cities in which there was
an acute housing shortage.
The plans for aiding in the solu
tion of the housing problem under
the proposed act of Congress are
comprehensive and no situation to
day is more serious than that which
this measure is designed to relieve.
Nothing should be left undone to
provide homes for the people. Con
tentment and peace depend upon
the right solution of this after-war
problem.
A WHOLESALE MARKET
DONAL.D M'CORMICK, food ad
ministrator, is on the right
track in his proposal to increase the
amount of farm produce brought to
Harrisburg by establishing a whole
sale market here, where retailer and
consumer alike may buy fruits and 1
vegetables in quantity lots at prices
naturally somewhat lower than are
charged for the same articles sold
in small amounts.
The more produce brought to
town, the better. Farmery cojP
plain that under the forestalling or
dinance they cannot retail ail of
their goods—that the larger grow
ers cannot sell over the counter all
the stuff they bring to town and
that some goes to waste. This is
no time either for waste or to dis
courage production. We need
every mouthful of food that can be
produced, and the more there is on
sale here and elsewhere, the lower
the price—the never-failing law of
supply and demand will attend to
that.
So we may very well consider
ways and means of increasing the
supply, and the wholesale market
would seem to be a step in the
right direction. It has proved help
ful in other cities. In Buffalo and
Philadelphia, for example, the
wholesale market offers the thrifty
housewife opportunity to buy beans,
apples, tomatoes, etc., by the. bas
ketful in season for canning at
prices she can afford.
It may be that we shall have to
apply the rule of home supply first
in the development of such a mar
ket here—that is, to forbid sales be
ing made there to buyers for ship
ment abroad. Another rule that
might be helpful would be that any
person, consumer or retailer, might
buy at wholesale prices in quantity
lots without discrimination.
Mr. McCormick's experiment is
well trying. Anything that
promises an increased supply of
food, with a possibility of more rea
sonable prices, is worthy of closest
consideration.
A KIPONA FEATURE
0 l NE of the most attractive fea
tures of the coming Kipona
celebration should be the sink
ing by a colored choir of the songs
and choruses of the noted composers
of their own race. The colored
singer is ordinarily possessed of a
voice far richer and much more ap
pealing than that of his white
brother. It has a sweetness superior,
even in an untrained state, to that
of any other race and in recent
years colored composers have won
high favor in the musical world.
Many of these modern composi
tions will be heard for the first time
in Harrisburg during the Kipona
and no doubt will attract wide at
tention. But it is to be hoped that
the Community Service workers who
are helping to arrange the program
will Include at least a few of the
charming folk songs that originated
with the negro of the South and
| which are so suited to the colored
voice. It must be remembered that
the colored race has given to
America its only folk songs and they
are so beautiful that they ought to
be part of any such concert as is
proposed.
in.
By the Kx-Committeeman
"I will not resign."
That was the retort delivered yes
terday by Judge John M. Patterson,
candidate for mayor of Philadel
phia, to the demand that ho quit
! the bench while engaged in. a politi
cal campaign.
In his private chambers in City
Hall, the judge announced his in
tention of remaining on the bench,
while bidding for the highest office
of the municipal government. lie
was emphatic in his statement —he
not only declared his attitude, but
readly gave live reasons for that
policy.
"I will not resign," said the
judge. "I will not resign until lam
elected mayor. I have no apologies
to offer for being a candidate for
that office."
—Nine candidates are in the con
test for the Republican nominations
for county commissioner in Fayette
county, two to be nominated. Three
and possibly four candidates will
fight it out for the Republican noml
| nation for sheriff, these two offices
constituting what promises to be the
bitterest tight waged in a primary
campaign in many years.
i The commlssionership candidates
| are: George W. Hibbs and George
1 Orval Rush, who are understood to
have the support of the county or
ganization; John Langley, a former
commissioner; J. J. Curry, Alex R.
Duncan, P. A. John, a former
sheriff; Logan Rush, present Com
missioner Lewis Clemmer; Frank R.
Moore and Owen Stewart. Hibbs is
serving as commissioner to till the
unexpired term of a former com
missioner who died while in office.
—Coatesville, the smallest city In
the third-class clique in this State,
is looking forward to a municipal
election from a point of enthusiasm
this fall that will eclipse any former
selection of candidates. Real inter
est will center on the nomination
for mayor on the Republican ticket.
Three candidates have already reg
istered, including Albert H. Swing,
incumbent, who the conservative
citizens, including the Rev. T. W.
McKinney, the militant pastor of
the M. E. Church, say has proven
A No. 1 as a mayor. W. L. W.
Jones has thrown his hat in the
ring again and seeks the Republi
can nomination for mayor. There
is also another candidate for chief
executive in the person of Jesse L.
Bryson, an engineer on the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway.
Ex-Kaiser Weak and Vain
Julian Grande in a Berne dis
patch says:—"Admiral Foss, in his
book "Revelations Concerning Our
Collapse," devotes a long chapter to
the fallen German Emperor. He is
very anxious to explain that he is
not kicking a man who is down, be
cause in 1902 he held and has since
expressed, both verbally and m
writing, views about the ex-Kaiser
precisely similar to those which he
now sets forth. In many respects
Admiral Foss merely confirms the
opinion already formed by most im
partial persons about William II. —
that he is an abnormal and very
mixed character, quick in the up.
take and fascinating when he
chooses so to be, but morbidly vain,
very superficial, and very ungrate
ful, with an inordinate idea of his
own importance, and convinced that
he is capable of a great deal of
which he is wholly and constitu
tionally incapable. Always highly
nervous, not to say neurotic, so
much so, indeed, that more and
more persons competent to judge
consider him as having long been
not quite in his right mind, he has
suffered greatly during the latter
part of the war from convulsive at
tacks.
After reading Admiral Foss's
chapter on William ll.—a chapter,
which it is impossible not to reflect
embittered it is impossible not
to reflect that pomp, publicity and
ceremony were as his very life
blood to the ex-Kaiser, and that no
one could less easily endure the
quiet life of a private person,
whether at Amerongen or else
where. He has not, according to
the Admiral, perseverance and dili
gence enough to master any study,
not to speak of so delicate a mat
ter as statecraft. He has always
been profoundly interested in some
thing for a time, but only for a
short time; then he must needs fly
off to something else. Such a man
could hardly console himself by
absorpt'on in any subject.
Finds Use For Potato Bugs
[From the New York Eyening Mail]
Three Rivers, Mich. —ln tho
molten days of midsummer, when
angleworms are scarce and the
perch and bluegill may be ensnared
if the proper bait is used, Eldon
Ulrich, 10 years old, scores his
financial successes. And, incident
ally, he contributes a good tip to all
fishermen.
Young Ulrich conceived the idea
that the soft-shelled potato bug
would make an excellent lure for
fish, particularly when good angle
worms were hard to obtain. He
picked a canful of the bugs and
experimented. The result was a
handsome string. And from the be
ginning of his experiment his suc
cess began. The neighbors and
truck gardeners welcomed him when
he appeared to gather a supply, and
the business and professional men,
unable to solve the bait question,
were ready customers. At fifty cents
for a good sized supply of the bugs
Ulrich has already accumulated a
good bank account. His aim is to
make enough to get a university
education.
He digs angleworms in the low,
marshy places for customers who
will not accept his proved theory
regarding the bugs, but his trade
in that commodity grows less every
day as the reports of his bug users
are received. His idea for next
year is to cultivate a patch of po
tatoes primarily for the bug crop.
Historic Gun Given to Society
[From the Detroit News]
A shotgun used in the Battle of
Bunker Hill, in 1775, and the Battle
of New Orleans, in 1815, has been
presented to the State Historical
Society at Columbia by p. j.
Hainey of Barnard, Mo. It is an
old model muzzle loader, fifty-nine
inches long, with a 4 3-inch barrel.
It has the same lock, stock and bar
rel used at Bunker Hill, and though
much worn can still shoot. On the
stock is attached a tallow and patch
box which was used to grease the
balls when loaded in the gun
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
It might profit the profiteers to
put their ears to the ground.—Buf
falo Commercial.
If they didn't mean to get rid of
Burleson, why did they raise our
hopes?— New Tork Call.
Incidentally we would like to
know what the other 97% per cent,
of 2% beer is. Columbus Dis
patch.
Peru is building a new war-ship,
the inference being that the othei
one is worn out.—Rochester Post- |
Express.
A big crop of anything these days
appears to be the necessary pro- i
lude to a price increase.—lndian- j
apolis News.
"We must maintain a fair level '
of prices," says meat-man Armour. !
Why not a level of fair prices?—-
Rochester Post-Express.
I happen to be Secretary of War. \
—Newton D. Baker. That is the :
best explanation so far made on the !
subject.—Detroit Journal.
Missionaries laboring to educate
China are probably having their
troubles in trying to explain tho
Shantung incident. Washington
Star.
What is harder than to keep a
secret? To keep a treaty. And
what is harder than to keep a
treaty? To keep a secret treaty
secret. New York Evening Sun.
We had an idea that Henry
Ford's definition of a mobile army
would be one that went about in
Fords, but it seems he didn't think
of that. New York Evening
Mail.
The wholesale price of beef has
dropt a few cents a pound, but we
don't believe the retailers are j
charging any more now than they I
did before the drop.—Columbia
Record.
Untimely Visionaries
[From the Rochester Post-Express.]
What we need now is close scru
tiny of our immediate present. The
vision of the future, of means to
make it better, and ways to over
come evils by slow moving mechanics
which must be set up after long
consideration and debate, is untime
ly. It will have its place, just as
it has always had its place. But
it is no time to survey the land
scape with a telescope when the
boat is in the rapids and a water
fall is just ahead. The reply of
the old railroad foreman in response
to a worker's announcement as he
surveyed the job, "I think—," which
reply was "Who the devil pays you
for thinking? Push," might apply
to a lot of people who seem to be
thinking and doing nothing else. For
six months eminent representatives
of great nations surveyed the world
in the interest of keeping its na
tions from future conflict. At the
last these representatives returned
to their homes to find the incipient
causes of internal disorders ram
pant. Certain inquiries into immed
iate causes of trouble rightly form
a part of deliberations on what must
be done. But the principal thing
to be done is to deal promptly with
the troubles themselves. An after
math in which causes are under
stood when their effects are facts
will be poor consolation.
Summer Rain
The flowing garment of the glowing
cloud.
Sweeping the rolling green with
fringe sun bright,
Showerc all the romping meads
witn diamonds white;
Like frolic girls with happy faces
bowed
Against the wind, the gay flowers
laugh! How proud
The singing birds, their high, de
lirious flight
Like children's play; and, dizzy
with delight.
Dances the gipsying grove, and
shouts aloud!
Oh, quickened all the heart of life,
sweet, keen
As balm the wet winds wake
when fluting through
| Old gardens! Sings the sap in
every plant;
Glad, glad, how glad the land, re
freshed and clean!
How flames the rainbow in the
luminous blue,
God's signet ring that seals
love's covenant!
STOKELY S. FISHER.
Horrors of War
[From Blighty, London.]
The melancholy youth was lying
in bed entertaining his visitors with
tales of the battle field.
"Yes," he said, and his voice was
almost tearful, "I have had a rough
time. I was once so riddled with
I bullets that tho fellows behind me
complained of the draught!"
AMERICAN LEADERS CARRY
"DRY" FIGHT TO ENGLAND
"Pussyfoot" Johnson Already Is in London, Co-Ordinnting and
Hnancing the British Temperance Forces For a Great Drive to
Put Proliibition Over With "One Big Punch"
(London Correspondence of the Continental Edition of the London
Mail, Paris.)
I SPENT a considerable portion
of yesterday with William E.
Johnson, field marshal of the
prohibitionist forces of North
America, who is reported to have
done more to make the United
States "dry" than any otner other
man.
Mr. Johnson, known far and
wide as "Pussyfoot," has come to
England, in his own expressive lan
guage, to "get behind your people."
He was yesterday established in
commodious Fleet Street offices.
The Anti-Saloon League has sent
its best men to England—sent them
with carte blanche in strategy, tac
tics and finance.
Others are coming in large num
bers, men, women and experts, in
cluding W. J. Bryan. Meanwhile
"Pussyfoot" Johnson is invisibly
clearing the field for action. I found
him hard at work dictating to a
girl typist. On his desk were lit
tered books and pamphlets of the
kind that will shortly flood the
country. On the walls hung post
ers that will soon gratify or offend,
as the case may be, the views and
susceptibilities of millions of people
in the country.
The one "Pussyfoot" Johnson
takes most pride in shows a giant
nutshell in the two opening shells
of which are written:
First shell: ''When booze is
inside of somebody else, is it
liable to do you any harm?"
Second shell: "When booze
is inside you, is it liable to do
somebody else any harm?"
Across both shells: "You
know it is."
Questioned with regard to his
plans, "Pussyfoot" Johnson said:
"Your British organization has been
at us for a year to come here. The
whole thing has been in response to
their asking. We are going to teach
them how to get this country dry.
I have reported to my headquar
ters that the situation here is en
tirely different from that at home,
but that it is far from being as
hopeless as it appears on the sur
face.
Campaigners, S:',o(> a Month.
"Our workers who come over are
going to be paid by us S3OO a month
and upwards. The United King
dom Alliance may, of course, pay
their expenses when they speak at
their meetings, but we will pay their
expenses as well.
"Our steady income at home is
about 1 1-2 million dollars a year,
although, of course, we have • got
other capital. Besides we have
one half million regular subscrib
ers and the same number of 'ir
regulars.' "
"Are you going to 'butt in' on
our elections?'
"Why, yes. Our intelligence ser
vice will keep us informed as to
whether a district is possible and
down there we will send our cam
paigners."
"PussJ-foot" Johnson handed mo
a list of the organizations he pro
poses "getting behind " They em
brace the entire United Kingdom,
and include legislative, general,
sectional, religious, friendly, wo
men's, juvenile, educational, phil
anthropic, county and district, the
Church, as well as branches of the
alliance. "Wo are going to co-ordi
nate the effort of all these organiza
tions," he said, "and get one big
punch out of them."
Asked if employers of labor In
the United States had quite a lot
to do with employes going "dry,"
"Pussyfoot" Johnson replied, "Oh,
yes; we got behind the big employ
ers and showed them that they
would get . greater efficiency and
greater profits from "dry" workers
than "wet." We propose doing the
same thing here. That is one of
our principal points."
Buying Newspapers.
Then we talked about the cinema.
"Pussyfoot" Johnson said the
cinema had been a great friend to
them. "We are getting films across
here, ordinary strong dramas, all
leading up to one idea."
"What about getting behind a
few newspapers?"
"Well, we have got thirty-five
newspapers over in the States. We
buy one here and there when it is
a paying policy. I suppose we may
4do the same here eventually. It's
going to be a long battle. We are
prepared to stay years."
"How about getting behind busi
ness connected with non-alcoholic
drinks, such as lemonade aj>d co
coa?"
"Well, some of our greatest help
ers were proprietors of 'soft' drinks.
Naturally they come in."
"Have you approached any 'soft'
people over here yet?"
"Really, you are asking things,"
he said with a smile.
He is anxious to point out that
everything will be done in Great
Britain via the British temperance
organizations already existing. The
Anti-Saloon League is not interfer
ing directly in British domestic in
stitutions. It is, however, going to
solve what has apparently been the
temperance organizations' greatest
difficulty till now—finance.
Is a Real Dream Dancer
[From the Toronto Globe.]
Madame Caro-Campbell, who is to
appear at a series of matinees in
London, is a "dream dancer." It is
claimed she has no technical knowl
edge of dancing, but that it was dis
covered in 1910, when she was treat
ed for insomnia, that she had a pe
culiar subconscious faculty for re
acting to music. This faculty has
been developed, and under—so we
are told —hynotic influences she
gives interpretation to any music
which is played or sung in her hear
ing.
At a private performance at the
theater medical men were invited to
go on the stage ana examine the
dancer while she was in a state of
trance. No doctor accepted the in
vitation and the hypnotic condition
had therefore to be taken "on trust."
What the audience saw was a fair
haired girl in a short apple green
gown and dancing sandals who col
lapsed on the stage after her hus
band had held her hands and stared
into her eyes for about thirty sec
onds. She remained inanimate until
a pianist and a 'cellist began to play.
Then she rose and gave a rather at
tractive exhibition of eurythmics.
When the music stopped Madame
Caro-Campbell assumed, a rigid
pose, and held it until the orchestra
' played the lust sad chord of the
i "Valse Triste," by Sibelius,
j Interpretations of Dvorak's "Hu
moresque," a twilight song. Rach
i manioy's most familiar prelude, and
! Mendelssohn's "Spring Song," fo'-
; lowed, with variety in the form of
; the dancer's response to a dramatic
| recitation by Mr. Hubert Carter. At
| the end of each item there was a
; new tensely held pose until melody
restored movement to madame's
limbs and facial muscles. After the
performance had gone on for about
forty minutes the dancer was "awak
ened."
The Sundowner
[Will H. Oglivie in the King's High
way.]
And there, a lone pathetic figure
on the river road of the Australian
bush, is the swagman, the sundowner
—thus picturesquely named because
of his habit of arriving at a home
stead exactly as the sun goes down,
and so insuring that he will be of
fered rations and a place to camp
should he desire it. There he stum
bles in the crossing wheel tracks,
Australia's tramp and wanderer,
with an individuality of his own
which marks him out from all the
wayfarers of the world.
The gray dust of the plains is on
his bronzed and bearded face, on his
simple dress of Crimean shirt and
moleskin trousers, on his rough un
blackened boots, on his blanket bun
dle strapped across his shoulders,
on his swinging billy can and dang
ling ration bags. He carries no staff
or stick, but instead a light switch,
broken from a wilga tree or buddah
bush, with which to brush away the
myriad persistent flies which follow
him in a dancing cloud.
At his heels is a dog which may
be the veriest mongrel, or may be
a champion sheep dog of purest
pedigree and worth anything up to
50 pounds. His day's march may
be two miles or twenty, according
to the goal which he has set him
self to reach as the sun goes down.
Sometimes he will camp for a day
or a week or a month in a bend
of the river. Time is of no account
to the sundowner on the river road.
AUGUST 19, 1919,
No Wonder Germany Quit
XUMBER FORTY SEVEN.
"One day shortly after we went
in the trenches 1 got a report that
a Boche sniper was making life mis
erable for one of my combat
groups," said Major Frank C.
Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Sta
tion, 32 5 Market St., Harrisburg.
"1 promptly went down to see what
was happening. The entrance to
this particular combat group was
through a tunnel which led into an
old mine crater. The mine crater
had been 'consolidated' and during
the day had a garrison of three
men which was increased at night.
As sniping has a tendency to get
men's goats I stopped in the mouth
of the tunnel for a minute to see
how my three men were taking
things. I found one man sleeping
peacefully in the bottom of the
crater, a young kid barely eighteen
was sitting on the tiring step smok
ing a cigaret quite calmly. But
the third man was the character.
He was a big, lanky Tennessee
mountaineer about six feet live
inches tall. He was sitting on top
of the parapet with his back against
a sand bag, intently studying the
Boche lines. Crack! went a bullet
right past him: he never moved.
Half a minute passed and crack
went another bullet. About that
time the young boy got up and
peeped over the top of the parapet.
The big man looked down at the
boy, squirted a stream of tobacco
juice out of one corner.of his mouth
and remarked 'kid! you better git
down from thar or you'll git hurted
in a minute.' I then and there de
j cided that it would take more than
a Boche to get these men's goats, so
I asked my friend on the parapet
if he had spotted the sniper yet.
He answered that he had gotten
him approximately located and felt
fairly sure he was in a certain spot
and that as soon as he was certain
of the spot he would up and drill
the blankety blank fool: and fur
ther that he ought to be shot for
trying to shoot an American with
out tirst learning how to shoot a
rifle properly. Eventually we got
the sniper, and that before any of
our men were hit. I made that big
mountaineer, whose name I found
i was Marzy Smith, a corporal, and
i put him on the scout platoon.
Marzy was well suited for patrol
ing as his legs were so long he could
step over quite a fair sized barb
wire entanglement and if it were
too big to step over he was so thin
he could crawl through. As I ex
pected, Marzy rapidly became one
of my crack scouts. He was utterly
devoid of nerves and his one am
bition in life was to 'get' Boche.
! Week after week Marzy led his pa
! trols over into the Boche trenches
| every night, and the Boche suffered.
: Pistols, grenades, buckshot from
I sawed-off shotguns, accounted for
many a Hun. Then Marzy de
veloped a new ambition and that
! was to see what one of the triangu
| lar bladed trench knives would ac
complish when jabbed up to the
hilt in a Boche body. And it was
then our valiant scout began to
have his troubles. It seemed as
though every Boche knew what he
was trying to do and had decided
that his was not the carcass upon
which the 'crazy American' was to
be allowed to experiment. Marzy
didn't want to shoot because it
would not be a fair experiment on
a dead on wounded man, so he tore
uniform after uniform into an un
recognizable mass of rags crawling
through the wire to get close
enough to stick a Boehe. There was
a Boche listening post, in particu
lar, that Marzy tried to get into
night after night, but invariably the
Boche would hear him and beat it
befdre he got through the wire.
Finally Marzy explained his failure
briefly but hopefully. He said,'
'you knew them damn Boches knew
every bend and turn in their
trenches. When I takes out after
one of them in his own trench he
knows the turns and gets around
them, but in the dark I rams head
on into every damn traverse, which
slows me down and them Boches
gets away. Some night I am going
to take out after a fat one instead
of the skinny ones I have chased
before, and that fat fellow ain't go
ing to be able to turn so quick like
I and then I can put in a report as
to how well the old knife really
works.' Do you wonder the Hun
disliked the Yanks?"
Bless 4 is 'Hart
While the Prince of Wales is over
here ull true patriots will have tea
and Jam at 5 o'clock every after
noon. just as a sort of silent tribute
to vt J£U.
f
Emtng (Eljat
While paying- homage to the
memory of those who fought and
bled and suffered for America dur
ing its early history, and more es
pecially those who settled this
section of Pennsylvania, Colonel
Henry W. Shoemaker, of McElhat
tan. Clinton county, Prof. Nevin '
Moyer, a local historian, residing
near Linglestown, Dauphin county,
Oliver D. Schock, of Hamburg,
Berks county, and several others,
visited many of the old forts and
quaint and interesting colonial and
revolutionary day homes quite re
cently.
Incidentally, the grave of one of
the last surviving Indians who now
lies buried within the shadow of
the largest and tallest rock forma
tion known on the mountains north
of Dauphin, near the Susquehanna
River, was visited after much ardu
ous climbing through and among
entangled brush and rocks.
After climbing to the highest
pinnacle of the mountain, a scene
of indescribable grandeur greeted
those who braved the dangerous
ascent of the massive boulders, as
a rich reward. Near the base of
one of the largest rock's several al
most fully developed, creamy-white,
silky-fleeced, young turkey buz
zards stood guard to an entrance
leading to a cave behind the rocks.
When approached too closely, their
bills clattered noisily and the birds
hissed defiance, but they finally re
treated inside of the opening lead
ing into a large chamber.
One of the more courageous and
more lightly built members of the
party squeezed through the narrow
opening when he was attacked by
the young buzzards. Upon being
handed a club and making a search,
five young buzzards were to be
seen, but they sought safety under
the rocks many feet distant from
the opening, and could not be cap
tured.
• • •
Prof. Rothrock. of the Stato
museum, stated that it was unusual
to find nests of these birds in this
section. None of the members had
ever before seen them breeding. As
an ornithological study, they were
of special interest. In the mean
time, the parent birds were sailing
overhead, but did not molest tho
party who had no intention to harm
the birds.
"The day's trip was replete with
scenes of great beauty and historic
interest, and Dauphin county's
citizenship certainly lacks apprecia
tion," remarked one of the mem
bers of the party to the Telegraph
representative.
• • *
Lieut. Col. Edward Schell, head
of the committee that put Army
food on sale in Harrisburg at re
duced prices, has had ample train
ing for the work. He was for years
one of the Quartermaster experts
of the National Guard and made a
splendid reputation as Major under
Colonel James B. Kemper, with tho
old Eighth Regiment at the Mexi
can border, ' afterward being in
charge of a depot there during tho
war, and later serving in a similar
capacity in France, being promoted
to Lieutenant Colonel for general
efficiency.
• • *
Frank Davenport, Shirley B.
Watts, Norris S. Longaker, Lee
Moss and C. Floyd Hopkins, of the
Rotary Club, entertainment com
mittee, lihve announced "tall do
ings" for that organization Septem
ber 9. "It's a dark secret," said
Davenport yesterday. "We're not
going to tell a single soul what wo
are going to do, but I'll bet every
member of the Club will be on
hand to find out. Talk about curi
osity! Rotarians beat women at
that."
Unprecedented Publicity
[From the Phila. North American.]
Like every other development in
I the controversy over the Peace
1 Treaty and the League of Nations,
I the arranging of to-morrow's con
ference at the White House is hailed
by both sides as a brilliant strategic
victory.
Partisans of tho President exult
antly declare that the stiff-necked
opponents of his policy have been
brought to heel by his stern attitude.
Then Senators, say the chief ad
ministration organ, have agreed "to
stop behaving like spoiled children,"
and will discuss matters with Presi
dent Wilson, "which is what they
ought to have done five weeks ago."
Those who stand for the protec- *
tion of American rights in the Lea
gue covenant also express satisfac
tion, and with reasons somewhat
more substantial. They have never
objected to receiving enlightenment
from President Wilson upon the pro
longed, secret and momentous nego
tiations he conducted in Paris. For
nine months, on the contrary, they
have employed every resource of
argument and appeal in efforts to
draw from him a satisfactory ac
count of his mission and convincing
reasons why the United States should
make, as he recommends, "the su
preme sacrifice, without counting
the cost." Far from repelling his
confidence, they have invited, im
plored and demanded it.
What they would by no means
consent to was a repetition of the
procedure at the White House din
ner of last February, at which Mr.
Wilson gratified his guests with
some agreeable rhetoric, but gave
them no real informatics whatso
ever, and which was designated as a
social gathering held under the seal
of confidence. Their position was
that the principle of "open cove
nants openly arrived at" had had
sufficient demonstration in the secret
proceedings at Paris, and that the
processes of ratification, at least,
should be carried out in the public,
view.
The Blue Jay
In the morn.in', when the redbird's
overflowin' with delight.
And a pourin' out his praises cause
the world's so sweet an'
bright.
Master Blue Jay hops up briskly to
a seat on tho same tree,
An' he scolds: "This noisy redbird
is a gittin' more than me." r
When the sun's a little higher, an*
Jack Wren has fed his wife,
Then he sings before her door like
he was singin' fur his life;
But the Jay, he looks disgusted an'
ho jangles out of key.-
"This cock's not so big as I be, yet
he's gittin more than me.".
Through the sultry summer noon
tide, when all critturs seek the
' shade,
An' we're taeklin' in the pantry pies
an' doulghnuts ma has made.
This aspirin' fowl peeks in at us an*
clatters: "Hully Gee!
I despise these human belns, fur
they're gittin' more than me."
In the evenin' the swamp blackbird
gurgles in the settin' sun.
All the world is smilin' peaceful, like
as when 'twuz first begun.
But the Blue Jay scolds and jabbers,
independent as can be:
"Seems like everything in Natur wuz
a-gittin' more than me."
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH.