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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
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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*