12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief f. H. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STSINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Prsss —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. A Member American rij 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, New York City; Westarn office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a -*r> week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, AN GUST 27, 1919 In quietness mid in confidence shall he your strength. —lsa. o0:15. HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI NNOUNCEMENT is made that A the Harrisburg High School Alumni have revived their as sociation and will get together to morrow at Ilershey for an outing that is intended to be the first of a series of meetings to urouse enthus iasm In the organization. There was a time when the Alumni Association was a powerful Influence l^e school affairs of Harrisburg, but a few years ago its members began to lose interest and for some time It has been little more than a memory. Those back of the new movement, who embrace such prominent men as Lieutenant Governor E. E. Beidle man, himself an honor graduate of the old Chestnut street school, pro pose not only to restore it to its former place of prestige in the com munity, but to make it useful and helpful in the development of school spirit and the improvement of the public school system in Harrisburg. The association makes a new start with a new platform and it will have the good wishes of a host of men and women who look back with pleasure to their days in one or an other of the city's high schools. "My candidacy is for the people to decide." observed Secretary of the Navy Daniels, at Honolulu, anent the Presidency. Right. Josephus. they will decide! BAKER, THE EXEMPTOR AT THE request of a number of his constituents who had sons in the American Expeditionary Forces. Representative Walter H. Newton, of Minnesota, recently made a personal investigation of the responsibility for favoritism to "conscientious objectors" in the Army. Stating his conclusions to the House, he showed that in the se lective draft law Congress provided for the exemption of only those who have "religious convictions" against participation in war and who were members of any well-recognized religious sect or organization ex isting May 18, 1917, and "whose then existing creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form." Mr. Newton then quoted an order issued secretly by Secretary of War Baker, extending the exemption to any person having "personal scruples against war." "Here was a deliberate change and enlargement of the exemption proviso in palpable violation of law." declared Mr. Newton. "Un der the term 'personal scruples' the I. W. W., pro-German political so cialist and cowardly slacker sought and obtained exemption." Mr. Newton also submitted an order of the Secretary of War, granting exemption to soldiers upon a mere written and unverified per sonal statement that they had per sonal scruples against military ser vice. When the speaker fixed re sponsibility upon the Secretary of War and the President he was greeted with prolonged applause. Government ownership would set back the hands of the dial of progress and cause widespread demoralization of transportation and industry. DEMOCRATIC DISCORD THE NEW YORK EVENING SUN'S Washington correspond ent predicts a break in the Democratic party that will split it wide open on the eve of the next National convention. He makes note of many evidences of discon tent and radical differences of opin ion. The Wilson policy of one man power in party and Nation is, he says, slowly having its effect on the men who should be consulted as to party policies, but who are asked to participate only to the extent of dragging the President's chestnuts out of the fire. The wonder is that the men who made Woodrow Wilson President y * WEDNESDAY EVENING, have stood quiet under his lash so i long. They have received nothing at his hands but orders and re buffs. He has run the country with a high hand and has driven his party with a whip. What is happening in Washing ton is only an example of the feel ing of Democrats throughout the Nation. Take Dauphin county for example. With all the opportunity available to create an efficient ! part£ organization here, nothing j has been done in that direction, i Those whose duty it was to attend I to that work let the whole party I machine go to pot until now it is I almost impossible to find candi j dates to fill the vacancies on the ! primary ticket. The workers are ! disgusted and are ready to follow I the leadership of almost any vigor ! ous, progressive young man who i runs up his standard and promises j a return to the principles of the . old Democracy. Of course, those nominally in ' charge will not yield the reins easily. They will strive to hold on, I if possible, but in the row that is ! bound to ensue the Democratic ; party will have to go through the j lire of regeneration if it wants ever |to get away from the autocratic I rule of one man administration of ' its policies and its destinies. I | Chaplain Harry Nelson Bassler | takes with him to his new charge the : good will and best wishes of this com ! munity. IA GREAT TOURING STATE PENNSYLVANIA bids fair to become the "greatest automo bile touring State of the Union. Not only are thousands of automobiles owned by Pennsylva nians, but we are well situated geographically. People from the west touring to New York or New England must pass our way, and the sam.e applies to northbound, westbound and southbound tourists. Better than all that we have scenery that rivals any that the auto mobilist will find in any part of the j country. Bad roads have held us back, j Already the news has gone abroad j that Commissioner Sadler is trans- j forming the highways and tourists ; are coming by the thousand. The j other day a Gettysburg guide count- | ed machines from twenty-four | States on the field at one time. We j have neglected our opportunities < shamefully in this matter of auto- | mobile touring, but slowly we are | coming into our own and it will be but a short time until Pennsyl vania will be quite as popular as New York. New England or any of J the other States. With a picturesque country club [ house near the city and overlooking j Wild wood Lake, the West End Repub-| licans will be in fine fettle for the Fall campaign. WHAT HE FOUGHT FOR RETURNING soldiers from over seas are giving their own in terpretation of their service and, soldier-like, they are not minc ing words. For instance, in a news paper letter Sergeant Arthur D. Muddell, of the 106 th Infantry. 27th Division, says:— "As to the assertion that our soldiers fought for the Fourteen Points and for humanity and all that stuff there is but one an swer. The American soldier fought because America and everything dear to American hearts had been assailed, be cause he felt that his own Yan kee land was in danger. True, we were glad to help France and England, but it does not alter the fact that we fought for the U. S. A. and nothing else. This stuff that we fought as in a dream is another pro duct of our "dream talking" President. The only dreams I can recall were of a good dish of ham and eggs 1 hoped I'd get some day. Outside of those dreams of home and good things the only dream I had was af ter I had inhaled a quantity of ether so that the surgeon could sneak a carload of shrapnel out of my system without my know ing it. "Your American doughboy is ready to hop over the bags and tackle anything when it comes down to a case of some one sticking daggers into the Stars and Stripes, but you can bet your last franc, shilling or dol lar that we'll be damned fussy whom we fight for. How many of your gold stripe men will volunteer for active or any other kind of service "guaran teeing the territorial integrity" • of Turkey, Armenia or points east or south?" That's precisely what some of us have been thinking since the inven tion of the pacifist theory that we had entered the war to "make the world safe for democracy." Ser geant Muddell has emphasized the real soldier view and when the home-coming fighters have a chance to be heard amid the chatter of high-sounding phrases they will correct a lot of misapprehension. dr.~ka.rl muck WHAT a fool Dr. Karl Muck has made of himself. Lead er of a great orchestra, hon ored and feted wherever musicians of note were gathered, recognized for his talent and admired for his ability, he was one of the outstand ing figures in the musical circles of the United States. Then one day he forgot that all he had, all he could hope for in the future he owed to the United States and the opportunities for ad vancement and wealth i(s free in stitutions had opened to him. He insulted the hospitality of people whose dollars had been freely con tributed in recognition of his gen ius, and he refused to play in public the National anthem. The spell of the Hun was upon him; he turned traitor to the Nation of his adop tion, and that Nation spurned him as a Benedict Arnold. was cast Into prison and last week deported as an undesirable alien to his be loved Germany. And up to this time there is'noth ing In the news to Indicate that the Berlin band has been hired to give him a welcome home or that anybody over there is very much excited over his coming. in, By the Kx-Oommlttcenmn ] With the Philadelphia registra tion formally under way and people trying to figure out to-day what it means in this year's momentous pri mary in the Quaker City interest is commencing to be manifested in what effect the repeal of the non partsan feature of the third class city code will have on registration in the thirty and more cities coming under its provisions. The repealer has unquestionably stimulated polit ical interest and revived party spirit and the first registration day com ing to-morrow will show many men registering, in opinion of observers. | —Tire third class contests are , forming an absorbing topic of dis cussion throughout the State and , some of them bid fair to be history i making, just as the Philadelphia | battles will have big effect on Re j publican affairs in the future. In 1 Aitoona the city manager issue is ! very much to the front, while in ; Johnstown the eleventh hour ap -1 pearance in the field of ex-Mayor ' Joseph Caufflel. well known to many i here, has stirred up things. Erie, Allentown and Reading are closely , watching the Socialists and have , some strenuous contests, while Eas | ton, Wilkes-Barre, McKeesport and , Wtlliamspon have considerable en tertainment in the form of eouncil | manic struggles. I —The Third Class City League I convention this week at Allentown is expected to produce some interest ing discussions in regard* to munic ! ipal matters in Pennsylvania and j what will be said about legislation will provide rare reading. The Legislature enacted the- changes sought by the League, but declined to keep hands off the nonpartisan feature. —Probably more women are be coming candidates for school direc tor this year than ever before. Some of tlieni are women who own prop erty in their own right and many are representatives of women's clubs and other organizations. One ol the sections where women are being boomed for the school boards is in the suburban section about Philadelphia and in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. —The battle against the Leslie- Bibcock ticket in Allegheny county was formally opened last evening at a mass meeting in the Belletield school in Pittsburgh. It attracted much attention and the Senator and the Mayor came in for some scoring. The Leslie people hav e also started meetings. —Out in Pittsburgh politics has Tieen rather sidetracked by the trolley strike and there is a disposi tion to attend to such essentials as registration and enrollment rather than to make statements. The Pitts burgh Gazette-Times says of the sit uation: "Entirely different stands have been taken by the anti-Leslie Republican Committee and Max G. Leslie and his followers regarding the matter of payment of taxes and registering by the voters of Alle gheny county. Leaders of the move ment to break the domination of Leslie in the affairs of Allegheny county have been urging all voters to see that they are assessed, that their taxes are paid, apd that those in Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Du quesne register on the dates named. On the other hand, Leslie and his cohorts are "soft-pedaling" on the question of registration." —lnterest in politics in York citv now centers around the Republican nomination for mayor. This was brought about by the candidacy of Alderman Noah C. May, of the 1 lfth ward. Mr. May will oppose the Latean candidate, Ephraim Hu gentugler, the incumbent. Alder man May has a large following and s the only candidate in sight who, if nominated, would be strong enough to restore peace in the Re publican ranks. He will be opposed if nominated, by J. Calvin Strayer, the only Democratic candidate —lt is estimated that the increase of teachers' salaries in Philadelphia will cost the city about $150,000. The school authorities have approved it. J- C. Coulter, the Lancaster Democratic chairman, has resigned to take up his duties as census supervisor. —The candidacy, the eleventh hour, of John K. Stauffer, now a councilman of Reading, for the Re publican nomination for mayor is worrying the other three aspirants and the Democrats likewise are per turbed by Stauffer's spectacular move, menacing their sole candidate, William W'itman, Sr. Victor L. Goodliart, of Stonersville, has with drawn from the Democratic contest for sheriff in favor of Edward R Deem, high man for the office in 1915 and a candidate this year. —People here will be interested to learn that Major E. Lowry Humes, former United States Dis trict Attorney for the Western Penn sylxania district, and who resigned office when the United States de clared hostilities against German so that he could take part in the war will assume ch.aigt of the office again on September 1. His com mission and certificate of appoint ment were received yesterday at the United States District Court in Pitts burgh. Major Humes, a former leg islator, was appointed by Attorney General Phlmer some time ago, but he was not desirous of accepting it preferring to continue his private practice. Recently he was induced to resume charge of the office and his appointment was immediately confirmed by the Senate. Major Humes was first appointed as United States District Attorney in 1913. —Congressman W. W. Griest is expected home from the Pacific Coast soon. —The manner in which men are enrolling in every county is also significant because it indicates much interest in county nominations. The newspapers are talking of an anti- Griest movement in Lancaster county, but people in that county say that the Congressman's friends will be nominated for county com missioner over the Zook-McAllister ticket. It will be recalled that the last big movement against Griest occurred just four years ago. It is also of interest to note that the Congressman has gone to California. —Huzleton, says the Philadelphia Press, has eighteen candidates for city council. —Joseph L. Kun, former deputy Attorney General, who brought the Philadelphia taxpayer suit to make a test under the new charter, says V.e suit is "not a fake." He declares that if the city is in a financial dilemma it is not the fault of his client who wants to see matters atraigteued out. HAHR3SBT7RG TELEGRSFB OH, MAN! Yoursbltl f i \ Jim. t oeueß Tov-D f Ah-"h-h- l' Hfc>Pe he A / AT q H°ME_ Sill- / , vVJ j_, A -r M 6 UN s ] Me HE HAD LAID / VWtLL HURRY UP WITH J ill BE Rvqht Back _ _ BUS - Lipvp 1 in SOMe STOCK- / it- ive <sot aw J WITH aoMeTH.K6 I r ,V f taste a SOOD \ awful TVufiaT =r vjf= QVTHIKG To JuJ><£E. A r*\Ar4 BY y i- TL ™AN -I M PROUD PL tAo SD I _ w / ("MA*e HIM HAPEY- Qh. Th& books he rea mJ heR£ U co'mes M t F^ ,ENS> ' fiw . Pß,sff -BILL | 3i 3-t \ "" " Ff/ ff Ty What of the Cat? [From the Philadelphia Record.] This sermonette is aimed at the eye of some one, possibly some two or three, who must be numbered among our best friends. It is neither kind nor polite for a newspaper to print things calculated to pain those most loyal of its readers who leave orders for their favorite pa per to follow them upon vacation, but humanity compels us to take that risk. Therefore, we ask: What did you do about the cat when you locked up. the house and went off for your own pleasuring? It isn't very likely that many who arrange for the home paper to go with them upon the summer junket would be wholly neglectful of the claims of the friendly feline: but even the kindliest and most intelli gent people are sometimes thought less. Sometimes, too, folks over estimate the ability of cats to take care of themselves. The offender always says: "Oh, you can trust that sly creature to shift for her self, but with a dog it's different? Why different? The chief difference is that a dog so treated will for get all previous covenants and alli ances and entangle himself in any new one that may present. But cats come back. George Moore, describing an evening devoted to prowling among the ruins in Henry street, Dublin, after the rebellion of 1916, tells of meeting a beautiful black Persian cat which would not be persuaded "to leave what was left >of the hearth on which he had spent so many pleasant hours." "Pondering on his faithfulness and his beauty," Moore goes on, "I continued my search among the ruins, meeting cats everywhere, all seeking their lost homes among the ashes and all unable to comprehend the misfor tune that had befallen them. It is true that cats suffer vaguely, but suffering is not less because it is vague, and it seemed to me that in the early ages of the world —shall we say twenty thousand years be fore Pompeii and Herculaneum? — men groped and suffered blindly amid incomprehensible earthquakes seeking their lost homes, just like the cats in Henry street." Cats do suffer vaguely and uncom plainingly, which, perhaps, is why they are so often sinned against: and they do come back. Few would go so far as to say that the cat is a more faithful creature than the dog, but puss will take- punishment that would discourage and alienate most dogs. What have you done, then, about your cat? Will its famished figure, on your front steps or porch, re proach you, returning from your pleasure, and knock all the joy out of your vacation? Governor and National Guard [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] At the Conference of Governors, Governor Sproul put in a proper plea for better legislation to re construct the National Guard. Just now the law provides for a force "of only 200 men for each Congres sional district, which gives this State about half the military strength it had before the war. This is a small enough number of men to be held for any emergency, but unfortunately the situation is made the worse because companies are limited to 100 men each, which calls for fewer officers that we ought to have in training. Nothing in this war has chang ed the experience of ages that any military organization depends for its value on its officers. When the full story of American fighting in France is told, there will be many glorious pages recorded and some things which may make us blush' with shame. We must have more and better officers than the law now contemplates, and the voice of the governors, delivered at Salt Lake should be heeded in Wash ington. LABOR NOTES The average yearly earnings of factory workers throughout Aus tralia average about $623. There are more female than male employes in the various establish ments in Australia. The British boot and shoe indus try in 1914 employed 56,000 female workers and in 1918 over 71,000, an increase of 28 per cent. The thousands of workers employ | ed by the Cramp Shipbuilding Com pany in Philadelphia are making a I vigorous protest against rent prof iteering in that city. Roosevelfs Estimate of Self ROOSEVELT was quite calm under it all, as he invariably was when action of his won strong approval. Writing to his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, on August 21, he said, with unjust criticism in the past clearly in mind: "Don't be misled by the fact that just at the moment men are speak ing well of me. They will speak ill soon enough. As Mr. Loeb remarked to me to-day, some time soon I shall have to spank some little bri gand of a South American Republic, and then all the well-meaning idiots will turn and shriek that this is in consistent with what I did with the Peace Conference, whereas it will be exactly in line with it in reality. Of course I am very much pleased at the outcome. I tried as far as it was humanly possible to get the chances my way, and looked the ground over very carefully before I took action. Nevertheless, I was taking big chances and I knew it, and I am very glad things came out as they did. I can honestly say, however, that my personal feelings in the matter have seemed to be of very, very small account compared to the great need of trying to do something which it seemed to me THE PEOPLE'S FORUM To the Editor of the Telegraph: When the American boys were called into service to fight for our country, our government provided insurance protection for their de pendants and for them in case of permanent and total disability, through the issuance of life insur ance policies to be carried through the War Risk Insurance Bureau. These policies gave absolute protec tion, not only to the beneficiary, but to the insured, himself, and cannot be duplicated by any corporate life insurance company in this country. At the termination of the war, when these boys were being dis charged, the War Risk Insurance Bureau endeavored to enlist every life insurance man in the United States in a campaign of conserva tion to endeavor to persuade as many of our returned soldiers as possible to continue this insurance in force, and to assist the War Risk Insurance Bureau in the conversion of the term policies to one of the six forms offered by the govern ment. I was convinced at the time the literature was sent out from Wash ington, that no corporate life insur ance company could give to our dis charged soldiers a form of insurance protection any better than that of fered by the government, which is from 15 to 20 per cent, under the rates of the corporate companies. If these soldiers will consult any good life insurance agent, or apply to the Red Cross for information, they will be properly advised, but for their protection I will suggest that they ask any insurance agent advising them, to show his card of membership in the Association of Life Underwriters, as all members of this association have pledged themselves to give proper advice to the soldiers to help convert this in surance with the government and to conserve as much of it as possible. The Association of Life Under writers is made up of men working for the improvement of conditions and the real uplift of the life in surance business. I am very sorry to say, however, that quite a few life insurance agents in Harrisburg, and other localities, who have no desire, whatever, to do anything 'for the betterment of life insurance conditions, are not members of this association, and in four or five in stances within the last month, cases have come to my attention where these men have been persuading the soldiers to drop their govern ment insurance and take out in surance with their companies, hav ing in mind only the dollars they would receive in commissions, and no idea of service to the soldier. I shall appreciate it very much if you will publish at least a part of this letter so that our returned boys may be- a bit more cautious and solicit i their information from sources where they may be properly ad | vised, and not permit any agent who cannot show a card of membership i in the Life Underwriters Associa- I tion to advise them to drop their I insurance. There are men in every ! profession whose ideal is the al i mighty dollar, which they endeavor I to secure at anybody's expense, and I I am very sorry to say that a few the interests of the whole world de manded to be done." To Senator Lodge, September 2: "1 am very much pleased to have put the thing through. I am almost ashamed to say that while physically in fine trim the last three months have left me feeling rather tired, be cause from a variety of causes I have not had at hand to advise with the Cabinet Ministers who were dealing with the subjects that were at the moment the most important, and so have had to run everything myself without any intermediaries.'! To his daughter Alice (Mrs. Nicholas Longworth), on the same date: "I have had all kinds of experi ence with the envoys and with the Governments, and to the two latter I finally had to write time after time as a very polite but also very insistent Dutch Uncle. lam arpused to see the way in which the Japanese kept silent. Whenever I wrote a letter to the Czar the Russians were sure to divulge it, almost always in twisted form, but the outside world never had so much as a hint of any letter I sent to the Japanese. From "Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters," edited by Joseph Buckiin Bishop, in the September Number of Scribner's. of our life insurance agents in Har risburg belong to this class. Very truly yours. MEMBER OF CENTRAL PENNA. ASSOCIATION OF LIFE UN DERWRITERS. O. Henry in Tune There seems to be no end to the anecdotes about O. Henry which add still more of color and interest to his stories. Who will not recog nize the O. Henry of so many of his genial stories in this picture of the author himself junketing around with a violin as a part of a boyhood serenading outfit? That is the view which his friend and former towns man John S. Michaux gave of the short story writer at the recent O. Henry exercises in Greensboro, N. C. And apparently O. Henry took this occupation quite as seriously as he later did his story writing. For, says Mr. Michaux: "Will Porter was one of the most inveterate 'tuners' I ever met. He and his brother used to exasperate me very much tuning. I can see Will now" ("Will" is what they al ways called O. Henry in Greensboro) "as, with tilted chin and twinkling eye, he used to approach one of the guitar players, put his foot upon a stump or some other elevation, and make a modest request for A; and then would follow the trink, trunk, trink of the guitar and the same of the violin until he was in tune, or thought he was; and then he would saw against my brother, who had the other second violin, to see if he was in tune, and then there would be a general sawing all around to see if everything was in readiness for assault upon the unsuspecting vic tim whom we intended to 'seren ade'." Falling Cost of Living [New York Times] The Annalist's curve of the food cost of living shows a decline in the from 309.820 to 303.703. Even the beginning of a fall is wel come as the reversal of. the longest and greatest rise on record, but it , must go twice as far to reach the level of even last year, and 1918 was more above 1917 than this year is above last year. A stern chase is a long chase, but there are rea sons why the fall may be expected to gain speed, now that it has be gun. It is true that the year's crops have been made, and we know what to hope from abundance. But, if nature forbids a greater increase of , supply than the harvest realizes, at least there is a prospect of a re duced demand from abroad, with the same effect on home prices as a larger harvest. There is no doubt that the enormous exports of food have had much to do with the high cost of living, and there is an as tonishing contrast between- the ex ports of food in June and July. In June our exports of various foods were manyfold last year's. Of breadstuffs we exported $118,330,- 211 in June, against $54,472,471 last year, and of dairy products $174,- 344,993, against $77,957,555. There are even greater increases in Juno in less important items, but in July all was altered. AUGUST 27, 1919 No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station "So much has been written, said and sung, about the soldier that he knows pretty well ho.yv he appears to the public. 'To see ourselves as others see us' Is the gift Bobble Burns prayed for. I've wondered if the public has had that gift, and has seen itself as the soldier sees it. Examples of what he has seen, rerfiind one of an adage, reputed to be of German origin, and express ing what of late they have taken as a theory, Instead of an observation on life: 'lngratitude is the world's reward.' The American soldier knows quite well that the people are not ungrateful; but he also knows they are quite thoughtless, and to any but hint they would appear in grates. Some things have happened through an ultra patriotic fervor, as in the case of an American mother with two sons in service, who made a young man in a theater very uncomfortable. The man, with a girl companion, was at an e'vening performance, before the armistice. He was a big, strong and healthy looking chap. The mother sat in back of him, and during the per formance, made many audible re marks, wondering how it happened that he was not in uniform. His companion suffered almost to the point of tears, for she knew that he, an American, had gone oyer with the early Canadians; had been wounded; and invalided home be cause the nerves in his arm were dead. To the casual observer he had two good arms; yet one hung paralyzed at his side. Then there is the case of the kind hearted lady, who brought sweets and doughnuts to a base hospital. One could imagine her thoughts of the bovs, returned as patients after creating a debt which she felt personally and yearned to repay. i n the ward hall-way she met Bowles, a hospital Sergeant, who hadn't been over. Holding an especially tempting doughnut toward him. she asked: lou are an overseas bov?" When the reply came, "No Ma'am." the doughnut went back to her basket, to be borne elsewhere. Before the armistice, a boy, limping, with a cane, got into a crowded trolley car. He hung to a strap as the car whirled around corners, first to left, then to right. Each turn was agony to him. Finally, although there were many young women, and young middle aged men, seated it was left to an old lady to offer . h . e n r . seat, which she did. insisting that the soldier take it. The other day, on Fifth Avenue, at the busiest hour, the traffic was held up while two wounded soldiers safely crossed the street. No one minded the de lay, indeed, the people in autos seemed proud and pleased that thus they could show these men how glad they were to wait while they hobbled across. These same auto mobile owners and drivers, gener ously stopped, at all times and places, during the war, to offer a soldier or sailor a ride; they had stickers on their wind shields say ing 'Men in service welcome to ride ' Did you notice, that the day after the armistice, nearly all these stirk i ers had disappeared overnight? The soldiers' actions appeared confus ingly contradictory to the public: well, the public was confusing to tho soldier. Together, however, their attitude was definite and positive, and when Germany recognized thisl she quit." Expensive Government That the Nonpartisan League comes high as a governing institu tion is indicated in an article in a Bismarck, North Dakota, publica tion. The Nonpartisan league is m full control of the government of North Dakota and the statement is made that the payroll at the State Capitol lias reached a sum three times as large as before the Non partisan league took control and Is I still on the boom. The monthly payroll at the Statu House, says the publication re ferred to. was $26,000 at the begin ning of the present regime in 1917. For the month of July just past it had mounted to $56,000 atid it is predicted that when ofllc'als, boards and commissions created by the las'. Legislature get into full swing the monthly expenditure for salaries alone will reach $78,000. In fact, 'the Btate's expenses are climbing faster than are the means of meet ing them. lamting Cljat Shirley B. Watts, who exercises a, paternal eye over the gardens culti vated about the city under tho auspices of the Chamber of Com merce's bureau to encourage tho local production of foodstuffs, did some figuring yesterday afternoon and estimated that there are 125 acres of "war gardens" being con ducted in Harrisburg, although tho war is over. "This acreage is cor*" sc-rvatively estimated and it shov that there are actually more go den-, now than last year in t*-. height of the war," said he. "W course, calculating the value of *i>— crops now is more or less gues work, but I should think that tks aggregate of the values would run anywhere from $30,000 to $35,003 Mr. Watts' estimate is impressive. trebly so when one considers ths * when the Chamber of Commerco launched the "war garden" move ment early in that first war summer of 1917 there were some people who were skeptical about 10 acres ever getting cultivated. But the inter ested folks kept right at it and tho results show for themselves with a> most every vacant piece of cultivat able ground in and about Harrisburg raising something. More corn is waving in the breeze here than ever known and potatoes, tomatoes, beana and other produce are thriving in place of burdock and noisome weeds. The school gardens came into full flower last year and have added ma terially to the total under cultiva tion. Some years ago there were attempts made at school gardens and they did very well in a small way, tho ground available being more or less limited and it remained for tho ginger put into the proposition by the Chamber of Commerce and tho financial aid extended by some mod est public spirited citizens to make Harrisburg a gardening community. Just what it is going to mean to many people with prices for food sky rocketing can be imagined, and furthermore, the impetus given to gardening by the movement launch ed in conjunction with conservation during the war is going to go for some time to come People are working at these gardens, they can be seen every evening and they do not wont the daylight saving law repealed. If they could they would add to the hours of daylight and the habits of industry in idle periods of former years can not help but nave a good effect. When one figures out just what the 125 acres estimated by Mr. Watts means an idea can be gained ol' the manner In which Harrisburg turned its attention to raising food. Tile 125 acres are about three times the size of Capitol Park, including the extension, and then some. The city's big island in the Susquehanna contained when it was truck farm something like 50 acres that could be cultivated. These 125 acres' would look well beside Reservoir Park and Wildwood, too, for that matter. The Bellevue Park section of the "war gardens" could very easily contain the Capitol Park anl its extensions, and as for the Hoff man's woods section of gardens, the largest group in Harrisbuig, it starts down around Fifth and Seneca and runs up into Riverside with Sixth street as its backbone. In addition to all these individual garden en terprises, which fill up every vacant lot, there are many acres in the Tenth and Fourteenth wards which are truck farms and not included in the. "war gardens" but which con tribute their share of the food for Harrisburg. Then there are big gardens around Nineteenth and Paxton streets, which used to bo "Poorhouse road" some years ago and very much in the country; nu merous gardens about the Shlmmel and Vernon schools; some nino acres in vicinity of the Arsenal and smaller tracts scattered here and there from Twenty-third and Green wood down into the First ward, then fringing the Hill and on up into the Tenth ward with some in the Sible town and other sections of the Sev enth. The "jurisdiction" of the Chamber of Commerce, as its benev olent supervision might be termed, is thirty-nine acres alone, with a large acreage under the school ad 'ministration. • • • Everyone of the scenes which have been arranged for the historical tableaux in the Kipona next Monday is based upon some incident in local history. The sketches which were made were drawn from descriptions ty people who had lived long ago, when Harr-sbut g was young and the events themselves were the subject not only of local tradition but of serious writing down. The stories of Mrs. John Harris' presence of mind in blowing out a handle which had been placed in a barrel of poww derby a thoughtless maid and the extinguishing of lights in the Har ris home when Indians raided it to kill English colonial officers who had come here to consult with the settler are founded upon fact, told in families and placed in Harris memoirs. The arrests of French spies in this section, which was in the English sphere of influence, and ownership, for that matter, are mat ters of record in provincial archives and as for the ambushing of people going to worship in old Paxton church, that is no tradition. Only a few years ago the gun racks were taken from the old church who o beginning was almost 200 years ago. • * * Many people have been doubtful about the time that John Harris, the settler came to make his home on the Susquehanna near where his grave is located. Some of the early records show that Harris was active ir behalf of the Penns in this neigh borhood as early as 1703, while some people insist that he came here in 1705. The fact is thai he came here many times before settling here and from 1717 to 1719 is generally be lieved to have been the time when he definitely built a home near tho ford which in due season he formally acquired under the Harris Ferry right. Hence Harrisburg this year celebrates the 200th anniversary of settlement in its Kipona. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Congressman J. Hampton Moore, candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, is one of the leaders in waterways development. —Congressman J. Clyde Kelley, of Braddock, is just at present en gaged in battling the high cost of living. —Congressman A. G. DeWalt is telling his friends that he is going to be the next judge in Lehigh. —Congressman B. K. Focht has five invitations to speak on Labor Day. DO YOU KNOW > —Tlmt Harrisburg pretzels are sold all over tlio "Dutch" belt? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first postofllce was estab lished here in 1791,
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