10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 ■ i ii i -i Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Ohief T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 2. P. McCULLOUQH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press— Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. IAII rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern office. Story, Brooks A Avenue Building, New York City; Western office, Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, l Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1019 A merry heart maketh■ a cheerful countenance. — PBOV. XV. 13. OUR VISITORS HARRISBURG is taking its proper place as the great con vention city of the State. It not only does well the things which are purely local ao far aa this com munity is concerned; It Is ever ready to extend the hand of good fellow ship to all who come this way to confer in an official capacity or as fraternal, industrial or business or ganizations. We have with us this Week the State Chamber of Com | merce, which has brought hither I many of the most distinguished and I Influential and useful citizens of [ Pennsylvania. They are discussing ■ problems of reconstruction and through exchange of views much is certain to be accomplished for the welfare of all our people. To-morrow we shall begin to wel come the delegates of the American Legion, who are coming to the State Capital to organize the Pennsylvania body of a great nonpartisan military association comprising the men and women who served in the recent World War at home and abroad. So it goes from day to day. Our hospitable people are ever ready to welcome these representatives of various useful associations and to make their stay with us as pleasant and profitable as possible. This is no mean city, as they will have dis covered at a brief survey, and the citizens of Harrisburg are doing all that is within their power to make it worthy a great Commonwealth. We want oiir visitors to have a pleas anMime while they are with us and to g6 away with a proper apprecia tion of what the city is and its plans for stilt further improvement along civic and material lines. Of course, a Harrisburg boy will accompany the King and Queen of Pciglum in their tour of the United States. Colonel "Charlie" Patterson is a fit representative of the Army and likewise a fit representative of the old home town in this distin guished company. GOV. SPROUL'S PLANS THE inevitable changes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany in this city are bound to come soon, but will probably be de ferred until the great transportation system is returned to its owners by the Government. Of course, the outstanding necessary improvement is the proposed Union Passenger Station which will conform in har mony of construction and access to the splendid development of the Capitol Park zone. With the erection of the impres sive memorial viaduct at State street and the landscaping of the park area there will be nothing in the way of the working out of the Union Sta tion plans which have been so long contemplated. Frequent conferences have been held between the State and railroad officials, with a view to composing differences regarding the station ■ developments and trackage space, and there ought to be little to obstruct a complete understand ing within the next few months. Governor Sproul is deeply inter ested in the composite improvement, which will include not only the buildings and the landscape treat ment in tl\e Capitol Park zone, but also the city and railroad improve ments contiguous thereto. All the State departments under the present administration are anxious to co operate with the city in working out the splendid improvement plans which will not only be comprehen sive in their character, but dignified in treatment. The Governor stated in his admir able address at Island Park on Sun day afternoon that he had been coming to Harrisburg so long that he regarded himself as a citizen, and appreciating his breadth of vision and recognition of what the city itself has been doing over a period of years, The Telegraph only voices the sentiments of the community it assures the Governor that TUESDAY EVENING, he la looked upon aa an adopted aon of whom We are all proud. He expects to see before the cloae of hla administration many of the ' plana now on foot entirely realised In completed projects. In thla am bition the city Joins, and Ife may rest content In the thought that the municipal admlnatratlon desires only to co-operate at every point with the State authorities In all that will make for the improvement of the city aa the seat of government of a great State. TOO MANY MANDATORIES AT THE hearing before the Com mittee on Foreign Relations on the status of Egypt, Joe Folk, counsel for Egypt, declared that If the Egyptians were not to get their Independence and were to be placed under a mandatory, they would like the United States as the mandatory. If all those small na tions who were promised "self-de termination" and who did not get "self-determination" should be given their next best choice—a manda tory under the United States—our hands would be so full regulating them that we could not properly at tend to our domestic problems; and we are not doing it very well now under the "too much Wilson" regime. A WORK TO RE DONE IT'S all over the home-coming reception for our soldiers and sailors—and we shall not risk disparagement of others by mention- J ing the few who were responsible for the splendid character of the com munity demonstration. So many had a part In making the thing a great success that we can only add a word of praise for those who bore the heat and burden of days' prep aration and who responded gener ously and public-spiritedly to the summons of the Chamber of Com merce in this important public func tion. There wewre many beautiful and touching incidents during the cele bration and these served to empha size the widespread appreciation of the soldiers and their families of the program that was carried out so well from start to finish. With the closing of the activities of the War Camp Community Serv ice to-morrow and the demobiliza tion, so to speak, of the official work of that organization, Harris burg is already considering an or ganization within our own citizenry which will undertake to carry on the purposes and objects of this great national community effort The people of Harrisburg have learned to know each other better through the War Camp Service and it would be a distinct loss should this effort be entirely abandoned through the cessation of the war organization's activities. Governor Sproul is said to be urging a local community organization" for Chester, his home town, and leaders of Harrisburg war service movements are also plan ning to put into some permanent shape a local organization along the lines of the War Camp Community Service. "Know thyself applies quite as well the community as to the individual, and how can we know ourselves and each other unless we are thrown frequently together in some pleasant and practical fashion that will appeal to our people, rich and poor alike. SOOTHING THE IRISH THE administration appears to be taking great pains to ap pease the wrath of the Irish. Leaders of the race have been loud in their denunciation of the League in that it does not provide a means for bringing the grievances of Ire land before the Council for a hear ing. Mr. Wilson has taken the po sition heretofore that the Irish question was one of the domestic concerns of Great Britain, and hence entirely outside the jurisdiction of the Peace Conference and of the League. Now, in an attempt to win over the support of the millions of Irish in this country, he is giving a distorted meaning to the Cove nant not at all in conformity with its plain language. "My position on the subject of self determination for Ireland," says the President, "is expressed in Article XI of the Covenant, in which I may say I was particularly interested, be cause it seemed to me necessary for the peace and freedom of the world that a forum should be created to which all peoples could bring any matter which was likely to affect the ppace and freedom of the world." In that declaration Mr. Wilson would have the Irish believe that Article XI provides the means by which they can go before.the League and secure an impartial adjudica tion of their claims. He says that under its terms "all peoples could bring any matter" before the League. If that statement were true of course the Irish would be pro tected in their rights. But, unfor tunately, the word "peoples" does not occur in Article XI at all. That article deals only with nations that are members of the League and offers no benefits whatever to races or peoples. "It is also declared," reads Article XI, "to be the fundamental right of each member of the' League to bring to the attention of the as sembly or of the Council any cir cumstance whatever," etc. Ireland is not a member of the League and never will be, but England is and always will be. It follows, then, that Ireland and the Irish have no rights whatever under Article XI, but England is given the privilege of bringing matters to the attention of the League at any time. President Wilson's attempts to I interpret the Covenant to suit the exigencies of the moment some times pass muster, but in the present Instance he falls entirely to pull the wool over the eyes of those he would cozen and makes doubters of those who really believe in the League as a principle. Article XI is not designed to protect "peoples," but by Its express language strengthens the hands of nations members of the League who include In their domains restive subject races and renders even more re mote the possibility of those peoples ever obtaining an impartial hearing before such a League. fotlUct IK AXjjLvQJMO, By the Ex-Commttteemso The new party which Joseph S. McLaughlin will have as his per sonal effort In Philadelphia politics will be known as the Charter party. McLaughlin is director of supplies in the present city government and was a candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor, his vitriolic attacks on Senator E. H. Vare mak ing him notable. Frank J..German, a former Demo cratic county commissioner, will be his campaign manager and his ticket will be made of Democrats and Vare men. What he hopes to ac complish is trouble. His papers have been made ready and will be filed soon. He will make a lively campaign and some look for the Vares to throw him support. The Vare city committee, by the way, has started to flood city hall in Philadelphia with requests for campaign contributions. —Councilman Charles Seger, of Philadelphia, who died yesterday at the age of 71, was well known to many here. He was a figure at the old State conventions and was a Penrose stalwart. He had much to do with starting the Senator in politics. —The late George Pearson, pro thonotary of the Supreme Court, whose body was found on railroad tracks near Pittsburgh, was one of the best known men in the State years ago. He was secretary of the Republican State Committee in the early eighties and one of the leaders in the Mercer section where he was born. His father was a cousin of the late Judge John J. Pearson, of this city. George Pearson' came here first as message clerk In the Senate many years ago and rose to be chief clerk in the House. He is said to have been the first man to memorize the list of the House members and to call it without look ing at a blank, an unusual feat even In this day. When Governor James A. Beaver came in Mr. Pearson be came his private secretary. He was a lawyer and man of wide reading. He was named as Western District prothonotary of the Supreme Court in 1892 and of the Superior Court when organized. —The Philadelphia Press has this to say editorially on an interesting Democratic slant: "Warren Worth Bailey, our esteemed contemporary of the Johnstown Democrat and an ex-member of Congress, who has been heretofore an Uncompromising supporter of the administration, has now turned his batteries against it and a good deal of its works. Be fore Mr. Bailey became a Wilson man he was a most enthusiastic Bryan man, and as the Presidential campaign is coming on, with Bryan understood to be watching for a chance to run for the fourth time, there are some people liable to think that Mr. Bailey has merely gone back to his earlier allegiance. This is a world of change." —The Somerset county official count is the latest to overturn a sure-thing nomination. The county ticket was changed by the result. —Lewis Helm, a saloonkeeper of Cresson, probably will be the pro hibition nominee for county com missioner in Schuylkill. He received a tie vote with W. R. Adamson, the Republican nominee for the office, and Adamson does not care to con test for the nomination. Helm was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for commissioner, but was ruled off the ballot because of irregularities in his petition. —Thomas -F. Healy, well known legislative correspondent, in a sign ed article in the Public Ledger, says that the Vare organisation was over thrown by its own arrogance and overconfidence. He gives the result of a year's close study of the organi zation, which he says was regarded i as "the strongest political machine in America," and remarks: "Now while the count proceeds and the Yare "leadership" is grasping at straws the men who traded and the men who ducked are seeking a leader. The ward politicians and the officeholders and prospective office holders who bowed to Vare are seek ing cover and the direction of some one who can feed them in the pas tures of the land of patronage." —U-eorge Roth, Allentown news paper man. has this to say about the interesting Lehigh county situa tion: "The fight for the additional judgeship of Lehigh county tops the interest in the campaign in which State Senator Horace W. Schantz will be pitted against the veteran Democratic warhorse, former Sen ator Milton C. Henninger. Both had hoped to win at the primaries, and they and their cohorts are busy an alyzing the vote and public sentiment to discover why each one of them did not get 51 per cent of the vote and win right off the reel. The fight admittedly will be close, and much will depend on how the 2,000 voters who at the primary cast their ballots for Congressman Dewalt will swing." —The only election board in Tioga county that made a perfect return according to law, was that of the Second ward, of Wellsboro. In South Delmar, Jackson and Putnam townships, the whole Republican ticket was thrown out, and in Jack son, Lawrenceville, Sullivan, West field borough and Tioga township the entire Democratic ticket was thrown out by the return board. In these cases the return sheets were either not completely filled out or not filled out properly; ballots is sued were not accounted for. Un less these local election boards can account for missing ballots before election there will be no local tick ets in the districts named. —R. A. Zimmerman, one of the best-known members of the Lack awanna county bar, has been elected chairman of the Republican com mittee for the coming campaign in Lackawanna county. He was unani mously agreed upon at a meeting of the candidates. Mr. Zimmerman has long been identified with the Re publican party and for years has been one of its most active workers. At the present time he is solicitor for County Controller Charles Sav age. HXRXUSBUR G TEXEGHXPH WONDER WHAT AN EIGHTEEN MONTHS' OLD BABY THINKS ABOUT? By BRIGGS j I 1,1 * ■ ' VIRVE GOT.COMP'NV GEE THAT ALWAYS STUEVE.ME - GOOD-NIGHT! I'M AMP SO \ S'Poae I'LL GETS A I_AO<3H OUT A UFe SAVeR FOR IVJOT-.GOLNSTO BE Vwvtn Tn DO " TMF op 'EH -> WtfwDeß. MAULED>ND, Kissed*, WHAT "TT4EV LL <SET SHE'S * HARD-B* STRANGE .WOMCU. o -rV * i cr 77\ fjpvT COIOVfiRSATIOW 6H6 tvJOUU THAT'WJOHftNi MOTHR .HAS OUST ME. <0 DO NEXT TOAS6 Ma |Ja MAKING EV6& AT ASKBD^MS'TO.STAND --- on w MY head so.- - ' fttmwnM . HERE Goes ' v^PAN* Hers SHE COME^! YDVN! L \NSH SHC'D • I'M GOIRB TO BEAT. Guess ILL BAWL A GEE WHIZ! HOW I *V (T _ _ LT MAKIT4 ,-R BAROE SNE STARTS UTTLE - THEN MAVBE KNOW -SHC S GOING ME LAUGH CAUSE IT Hsj ASAIK- I JDON'T SHE'LL LAY OFF Mt,- TO RUB THAT FACE . -NCKLB3- LISTEN TO HAUS. TB STANO FOR OF IM MV. NfiCK.' rhS W USHV TATK - THAT No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station "The prisoners the Allies took who came from Alsaace-Lorraine were put in prison camps by them selves and were given special treat ment and consideration. Of course France throughout the war expected to get back her two lost provinces and were bending every effort to reattach the loyalty and sentiment of the people of Alsaace and Lor raine. This really wasn't a difficult matter as the Hun had been trying for forty-four years to cram his own brand of 'Kultur' down the peoples throats will-nilly. They had been prohibited from even speaking French in their own homes, yet after a generation and a half of cruel ty and oppression we found that every Alsaace-Lorrainer spoke French fluently. And the German government knew they absolutely could not depend on the Alsaacians and Lorrainers to fight for them, so instead of doing as they had done with all other parts of the empire, forming units entirely composed of men from a certain district, they put the men from the Lost Provinces in Prussian regiments. There were Saxon, Bavarian, Wurttemburger, Prussian, Hanoverian divisions, but no Alsaacian. In each company of Prussians we found 8 or 10 Al saace-Lorraines and I can assure you their life in the German Army was not one of unadultered joy and bliss. The Prussians regarded them as traitors to the Vaterland and treated them accordingly. When they attacked the poor devils of Alsaacians were put in front where the Prussians could and would shoot them like dogs if they hesitated. Naturally every time they had a possible chance they deserted singly and in droves to us. But all through the German Army the word had spread that the Alsaace-Lorrainers who were prisoners of war were not guarded and had special food, special barracks, and were given every pos sible consideration in the foVm of amusements and pleasant, easy work. The natural result was that every Boche outfit that contained men from the Lost Provinces had a uniform habit. That habit was that every man in it, if captured, would at once claim to be an Al saacian. Strange to say they never 1 claimed to be Lorrainers which is another typical example of Boche stupidity. The Lorrainers speak German with a Rhenish accent and dialect which is very difficult to tell from any other man of the Rhenish provinces, whereas the . Alsaacian speaks his own dialect which is ab solutely unique. You know the old Alsaacian language which is still used to a considerable extent in the Vosges is a Celtic language, of the same type as Erse, Welsh and Gaelic. The Alsaacian in speaking German uses many Alsaacian words and always an Alsaacian accent The first prisoners we took in the St. Mihiel were three men of tJhe 351 st Prussian Infantry. I asked a cor poral where he came from and he at once answered: 'Mulhausen.' Mul hausen is the big city of Alsaace. He looked and sounded like a Prus sian to me and knowing that no Prussian can say a number with a five in it without using the Prussian dialect I asked him what regiment he belonged to as he had 351 on his shoulder:. When he told me, I in formed him he was a liar and a Prussian. I then asked the second man where he came from and he also told me with a Prussian accent that he was from Mulhausen. I told him he was a liar. The third was a young red headed boy who might have been Irish. He told me in broad that he was from Bttschwiller, a town we were hold ing in Alsaace and which I knew well. From that time on all day long every Prussinn we took claimed to come from Mulhausen while I did not question a single genuine Alsaacian who did come from Mul haussn. Invariably the Prussians used the German name for the town Mulhausen, whereas the Alsaacians invariably used the French Mul house,' and even though the square headed Boche would hear the Al saacians talking about Mirifcpuse and they were questioned wtixt they would say 'Mulhausen' without fail. Can you beat the stupidity." Back Him Up [Philadelphia Press] Bully for Governor Sproul. He talks to disturbers of law and order in a language they ought to be able to understand; and everyone who abhors riot will back him up HISTORIC LEAGUE PROPOSALS SINCE the days of ancient Greece, when various Hellenic inde pendent nations or provinces ex perimented with international unions down to this day, liberty loving and justice demanding humanitarians have dreamed of, and planned for, a League of Nations, thr.ough which peace and right might be secured and enjoyed by those constituting the unon. In modern times one of the most conspicuous of the advo cates of an attempt of the realiza tion of this world-bettering vision, was Jean Jacques Rousseau, the brilliant erratic genius of France, in the Eighteenth Century. A democrat in temperament and thought, a citi zen of the luxurious and tyrannical monarchy in the days of the later Bourbons, he boldly proposed relig ious, political, educational and social reforms that were the sensations of the day, and as propaganda became a tremendous influence in bringing about the upheaval known as the French revolution. With a wit, sar casm and caustic logic unsurpassed, he pleaded for the freedom of the individual and the democratic form of government. In his autobiography, known as the "Confessions," Rousseau alludes to the "Project for Perpetual Peace" as set forth in an unpublished man uscript by his contemporary, the Abbe de Saint-Pierre. Later with the abbe's peace project as a foun dation Rousstau extends and elab orates a full fledged proposition of a "League of Nations" as he called Governors and Backbone | [From the New York World] Above the welter of warring classes upholding false doctrines and asserting outrageous claims the voices of two American governors are lifted powerfully in behalf of law and order. To the impudent assertion of the strike bosses in Pennsylvania that because the authorities are com pelling them in some places to re spect the rights of others they are subjected to an odious tyranny, Gov ernor Sproul replies that force is being used only against those who incite the ignorant and vicious to riot and pillage. "This," he con tinues, "is the spirit of the people of Pennsylvania, and as Governor of the State I shall see to it that their laws .are faithfully executed, their rights protected and their institu tions uphel'd." , Refusing finally to treat vjith the striking Boston policemen, • who by abandoning their posts in concert sought to coerce the government and exposed the city to lawlessness. Governor Coolidge says: "No man has a right to place his own case or convenience or the opportunity of making money above his duty to the state," and adds: "This is the cause of all the people. I call on every citizen to stand by me in executing the oath of my offise by supporting the authority of the government and resisting all assaults upon It." These governors are face to face with presumptuous or disorderly minorities bent upon subjecting the majority to their will. Demagogues would have made common cause with the violent; time-servers would have dodged the issue, <and cowards would have appealed to the Federal authorities for help. By placing their sole reliance upon the dignity and power of their own com monwealths. forces too often neg lected nowadays, they reassert the basic principles of American democ racy. What Do We Get Out of Peace? , [H. N. MacCracken, in Yale Review] No money, no land, no mandates, no munitions, no ships, no stand ing army, certainly no new policy. Nothing but our old fashioned privi leges of paying as we go and living with our neighbors. Nothing but open roads to our markets and a good price for our dollar, ready pur chases, plenty of trade, (clendly and favorable relations with other peo ple. These, and a certain moral au thority, are our annexations and in demnities. In examining a contract we look for the intention of the parties that sign. What did we win by the war? What is it our inten tion to gain by peace? Not the terms of the treaty, but the pur poses that are in our people's minds will make the history of the years to coma it. It was to embrace the nineteen powers which he proposed, or at least hoped would, in his time, form the future "European republic." He drew up Ave articles as the char ter by which these natfons could be federated. A century before Rousseau, in the early years of the Seventeenth Cen tury, no less a person than Henry IV, king of France, a chivalrous and benevolently disposed monarch, pub licly proposed a plan for abolishing war by the institution of an "Euro pean Congress," or as the French authors styled it, a "Pacific Repub lic," in which delegates from the several nations, then existent, were to act as a court of arbitration in disputes that might arise between nation and nation. More significant yet, is the fact that Thomas Paine, the flery and patriotic phamptleteer of the Amer ican revolution, advanced in his later writings, after his remarkable ex periences in the French revolution, the idea of a league of nations. He maintained nothing of a reform na ture in a political world ought to be held improbable; the intrigue of courts, by which the system of war is kept up, he wrote, may provoke a federation of nations to abolish it, and an European Congress to pat ronize the progress of free govern ment and promate the civilization of nations with each other. This, he predicted, is an event nearer in probability than once were the rev olutions and alliance of France and America. Whining of the Hun [Harvey's Weekly] While Germany is clamoring for ships and credit and aid in rehabil itation, and some sentimental paci fists are favoring a world-wide "first aid to the injured" movement in her behalf, Mr. Morgenthau, formerly Ambassador at Constantinople and later head of the Commission of In vestigation in Poland, pertinently re minds us that "Germany came through the war a perfect dynamo of strength," that "her human mili tary power is practically as great as ever," and that at the end of the war "she withdrew in good order to a place of safety, where the war had not ruined her factories and where everything was ready for re sumption of the industries of peace." That is quite true. Germany is to day economically and industrially far better off than either France or Great Britain, in some respects even than America. All her whining and pulling a poor face is camouflage intended to make sentimental fools Imagine that she is unable to pay the indemnity which has been as sessed against her. The Blond Beast has been scotched, but is still for midable, and is entitled to no sym pathy. Anti-Submarine Inventions [Admiral Sims, in World's Work.] Those were the days when the American press was constantly call ing upon Edison and other great American inventors to solve this problem. In fact, inventors of part of two hemispheres were turn ing out devices by the thousands. A regular department of the Admi ralty, headed by Lord Fisher, had charge of investigating their pro duct; in a few months it had re ceived and examined not far from 40,000 inventions, none of which answered the purpose, though many of them were exceedingly ingeni ous. British naval officers were not hostile to such projects; they de clared, however, that it would be absurd to depend upon new devices for defeating the German campaign. The time element was the import ant consideration unless the U-boats were checked in two or three months the Germans would have won the war. Should Mr. Edi son or any other genius Invent an antisubmarine device it could not possibly serve their purpose, be cause long before it could be per fected and installed the shipping situation would have forced an Al lied surrender. The Bright Side [Tennyson J. Daft in Kansas City Star.] The weather of these autumn months Wins all my admiration By reason of its amplitude i And wondrous variation. SEPTEMBER 30,1919. i Man Who Saved His Soul [Harvey's Weekly] There was a cartoon in London Punch early in the war, than which none more truthful or impressive has been produced during all the great struggle. It pictured the King of the Belgians standing amid his ravished and desolated country, con fronted by the insolent and trium phant German Kaiser, who re proached him for his folly in not breaking his faith and letting the Huns use his land as a base of at tack upon France and England: "So, you see, you've lost every thing!" "BUT NOT MY SOUL!" It was only the fancy of a facile artist: but it was the very truth of everlasting history. By his refusal of the German demand, King Albert brought upon himself and upon his country such woe and tragedy as no other sovereign and nation have ever known. But he saved his integrity, his self-respect, this honor; in a word, his soul. Saving his own soul, he saved the soul of Belgium. Sav ing the soul of Belgium, he saved the soul of Europe, of the world. It is an old story, though because of its truth it must never grow outworn, that through the stubborn self sacrifice of Liege the Huns were checked just long enough to give France time to meet them; that the first levies of France and Englands' "contemptible little army" in turn checked them just long enough to give both those countries time to rally all their strength; and that finally those countries at awful cost held the line of civilization against barbarism just long enough to give slothful and dilatory America time to awake to her duty and to hurl her determining weight into the scale. But it all began with Bel gium. And it is commensurately true that the ineffable moral and spiritual uplift which roused hu manity against the Beast, had its initial impulse in King Albert's heroic decision to save his soul, though he should lose all the world We have welcomed home our own returning heroes and their gallant chief. We have welcomed the princely priest who proved to the world that the spirit of Elijah at Carmel and of Paul at Ephesus still lived and triumphed. And they were worthy of all that an appreciative people could offer them. But no warmth of welcome, no splendor of pageantry, no blaze of banners and blaring of massed bands, no noisy acclaim of multitudinous tongues nor silent tribute of grateful hearts, can be too great for the desserts of this later guest who now revisits these shores. Not only a King but also a Man, the sternest democrat will honor himself by honoring him; and the Red, White and Blue of America will win new luster through being entwined with the Brabanters' Black, Gold and Red. Poets Take to War [From the St. Louis Times] What power have the sacred Nine over their loved ones to make poets take to war? Sidney, writer of deathless lines, died a gallant soldier. Dante defended his tenets in arms. Byron contracted a mortal fever helping to free Greece from her tyranny, and Burns was a member of Scotch dragoons, with no oppor tunity arising for heroics that marked him a soldier. Ho was, how ever, valiant, and left what is prob ably the greatest war poem in all poetry, "Scots Wha Hae Wi Wallace Bled!" And now out of the great defend ers of humanity In the wjr just being straightened out comes D'Annunzto, Italy's bard, fighting the fight of a captain who wiH hold out "if it lasts all summer!' Joyce Kilmer sleeps in France. Allan Seegar is proud "a few brave drops were ours." And Robert Service was at the front bringing in the mangled and has given us a poem in his "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man," entitled "Grand Pere" that will make the bravest shudder. Oh ye, who called the land to arms, ye hypocrites that gave an outburst of fine fire with your pens, redden with shame and bow an humble head to these who, as Edwin Markham says, "fought the poetry they sang." Signs of Autumn [From the Boston Transcript] Late morning nappers, while re gretting that the caroling birds are flitting away to the Southland, And solace in the thought that the song of the lawnmower isn't heard under their windows so frequently as here tofore. letting QKfat j Building of the State Memorial Bridge will be, next to the construc tion 6f the State Capitol, probably the most extensive operation to be undertaken in Harrlsburg in years and engineers familiar with magnificent structure which It is planned to swing from the line of State and Filbert streets to the brow < of the Hill say that the proportions are not realized generally. To be gin with, the cost will be something like twice that of the Penn-Harris Hotel, six times that of the Mul berry street bridge, first and last, many thousands more than the Rockville bridge or the Cumberland Valley bridge; times the bill for one of the modern blast furnaces the Bethlehem company has put up at Steelton; an amount greater than the cost of buying the 62$ properties in Capitol Park extension and three times the amount of Harrisburg's first loan in 1902 for public im provements, the piece of municipal enterprise that put this city on the map and brought people here from Toronto, Dallas and Richmond to "Watch Harrisburg Grow." • • * It is not calculated that the bridge can be finished before Christmas in 1921. The preparation of the site, as Dr. J.E. Griner, the bridge expert in charge, terms it, will take weeks and weeks? It means taking down the old State street bridge, tearing up tracks, water mains and houses, put ting down new mains and clearing almost half a mile. A temporary foot bridge will have to be put up I and all sorts of things done. Prob- I ably this will take until the snow flies, but if the weather man is kind it may be that some of the founda tions will be dug for the pylons and the piers. So that it will be seen that it will be next summer be fore the bridge proper will com mence to assume shape. The prep aration, the pylons, the Royal Ter race and the North Side approaches are all separate operations, each bid upon separately and each fitting in with the scheme. The bridge will be built as close to things eternal as possible. The foundations will rest upon the rocks that underlie the city and the granite pylons will tower almost as high as the obelisk at Second and State streets. There will be mountains of cement and iron used. In fact, the calculations on what materials will be required read like a census report. The Central Construction corporation, which has the contract in sight at this writing, has handled some enormous Govern ment operations and is organized and equipped to tackle this gigantic Job. Time and money will be the two great items, and as soon as the con tract is signed the preparations al ready made in many details will be speeded up to meet Governor Sproul's desire to "make the dirt fly." • • • The remark that appears to have been most generally made in Har risburg as a -esult of the welcome home celebration was that no one realized how many men Harrisburg hud given. And yet there were scores of men who could have been in the parade who did not get out. It has made all estimates revisable. A few months ago we* were talking about our 2.5Q0 men in the service, but when over 3,500 men from Har risburg, not Steelton or other places In the Harrisburg district, but Har risburg register with the Chamber of Commerce, it means something. If Harrisburg has 76,000 population it is a pretty fine showing. Equally remarkable is the representation in the navy. The sailors in the parade were an eye-opener to more than one Harrisburg man who thought he "knew about it." And some of the sailors said that there were other men who had decided to stay in the navy. When the list is finally made up by the Chamber of Com merce and the Dauphin County His torical Society, Harrisburg will be able to make a roll of honor that will be still more worth while. The important thing now is to get every name. * • • The edition of The Harrisburg Telegraph yesterday is one that should be filed away. It contained more about Harrisburg in the war, in service and at home, than has been assembled in any one issue of any paper here. It was obtained from first-hand sources and while it did not go into the details of the Liberty Loan and other drives, nor give anything like what could have been said about the Red Cross, the churches, the lodges, the United States Army recruiting station and other agencies that contributed to such a splendid local showing in the war, it was a survey of a city that has ever been loyal and ready to give of its men and substance. It should be put away for future ref erence. • • • "When will the people of Harris burg learn that they can see Just as well from the sidewalk as they can from the edge of a marching line?" asked a policeman yesterday afternoon. "All along the line of the parade we had to p.ush people back, calling to them to let the parade by. The worst part of it is that people put the children in front and work out from the curb. I am al ways glad when a parade is over because the handling of people on the streets is the hardest part of it an." . . „ Here is a new story from France. It was told by an officer from this city. Two colored soldiers were on duty in a railroad yard of the Amer ican army system in France last Christmas and one said to the other "To-morrow's Christmas in de States." The other man thought a while and replied: "Yeh, but it's Jes' like any Wednesday heah." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE General A. Cronkhlte. who commanded the 80th Division In France, spoke at the memorial held in Pittsburgh. Dr. s. C. Black, the new presi dent of Washington and Jefferson, will be Installed October 22. Dr. wilmer Krusen, Philadel phia director of health, says that people should guard against dis eases due to gasoline. Edwin H. Brua, Blair county builder, has a contract for work In Brazil. . . , . . p, j, obert has been elected president' of the Carbon County Agricultural Society, Abner H. Buck, former head of Bethlehem schools, has been elected secretary of the Chamber of Com* merce. | DO YOU KNOW ■ f ■ —That Harrisburg steel was used to manufacture gun car riages? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Camp Curtin, the camp of C&vty War days, was closed about KM*
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