Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 01, 1919, Page 12, Image 12
12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME i Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by , THE TELEGHAPH PRINTING CO. j Telegraph Building, Federal Square ! E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief | F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STF.INMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. AIICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive" Board | J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha j 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. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American •PI Newspaper Pub /V •J.T lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu *''"'o lation and Penn- sylvania Associa- AgiPj j* at.ed Dallies. Eastern office Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building I Chicago, 11L Entered at the Post Office In Harris- , burg, Pa., as second class matter. j By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a v bnritiF' year In advance. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1919 The time is short: then be thy heart a brother's To every heart that needs thy lore in aught; Soon thou mayest need the sympathy of others; The tiir.e, The time is short. HKZKKIAH BITTTEBWOKTH. WHAT THE CHURCHES DID IN THE summing up of the com munity activities during the war period one naturally thinks of the splendid work of the churches and religious organizations gener ally. These were back of the Gov ernment at every point. Pastors and people united wholeheartedly in all the important activities and pur poses of the war. setting aside their j own progress and giving of their I best thought and effort to the achievement of the vital things hay ing to do with the prosecution of the war. Ministers and people were actively identified with the various agencies j and all the welfare work, pulpits | and churches were thrown open to those who had charge of the several Liberty Loan and other drives in the interest of the financing of the Gov ernment, and in t lie self-sacrii.. lug devotion to tlie interests of the Na-| tion these religious bodies were found exerting tlie.ir utmost strength for the furtherance of the Govern ment's plans and purposes. Not only did pastors labor at home; they went abroad in several instances for welfare work with the fighting forces and many of them spent weeks in the camps of this country doing fine work and earning the good will of all who observed their patriotic activities. The fine morale of the American Army was due in large measure to these men of the cfoth, a number of whom served throughout tlie struggle as chaplains and welfare workers. Har risburg will not forget, in giving proper credit, tlie Yeligious organi zations which had so large a part in the important and necessary work > back of the lines at home and among ! the fighting forces abroad. GERMAN TOYS THEY are all lret up over in Eng land because they fear an in vasion of German toys which will wipe out the new industry started there, and they are plalining I a boycott of "the little tin soldier" I and other kiddie playthings made ! it. Germany. And over here Senator Hitchcock is pipping: the blue empyrean with demands that the Peace Treaty be railroaded through so we can hustle German toys to American babies, and German goods to everyone else. This is a funny world. However, sanity will win and the Treaty will receive due consideration, while the next Republican Administration will adequately protect the American toy industry by a proper tariff law. There will he general public appre ciation of the action of the Harris burg Bridge Company in throwing open the Market street bridge to the soldiers and the public during the celebration at Island Park on Sunday and Monday. No admission was charged between two and four thirty o'clock on those days. This generous action will whet the appetite of the (Ireater Harrisburg community for a free bridge over the Susquehanna river. Officials of the bridge company realise that the time must come when passage over the river will be as free as on any street of the city,'and they will probably be found joining lu such a movement when that time comes. , SHADE TREE ORDINANCE CITY COUNCIL should not hesi tate another minute in passing a shade tree ordinance in har mony with the State law. It is in onceivable that there should be any opposition to such a ineusure. Over head wires arc going underground In every direction, through the WEDNESDAY EVENING, changed policy of public utility cor- i porations, and whatever opposition formerly came from this source is ; no longer exerted against the shade tree act. The old order passeth and ! to-day the average public utility is ; helping rather than hindering the esthetic movements in Harrisburg and other cities. t A Harrisburg firm Is to build the j great State Memorial Bridge, which is a compliment to the city, for the I job is one to make even the big-j gest contractors pause and consider. I THE LAST WAR DRIVE HE LAST War Drive will start J 1 next Monday. All of the money we gave j during the year, and we may say | without boasting that we gave gen erously, although often not as much as we might have given, went for the support of the men with the colors, and for their safety and com fort. Now we are asked to give in ; I order that we as a city may erect | a memorial testifying to our .appre ciation of their services and marking tin epoch in the life of the com munity. To buy a Liberty Bond just one little bond required an expendi ture of $5O. To meet the demands lof the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Salva tion Army and those other war serv ice agencies we gave in fifties and hundreds. And now the Chamber of j Commerce Memorial Committee comes with a request for only, $2O for each soldier, sailor or marine who served during the war. Surely, this is a modest request, and as a \ thinksgiving offering for the close of the war the least we can do is to meet it promptly. Our men acquitted themselves wonderfully well at the front. All of them were brave, some of them were promoted for courage, others were decorated with war crosses for gallantry on the field of action, many were wounded or killed. We lit home went "over the top" in every campaign. We can do no less now. Our patriotism and loyalty are challenged. We owe these men a fitting memorial. The way has been found whereby each of us may have his part without hardship on any body. Let us go into this last War Drive with all the vim and energy we put into the many that have gone before, and show our boys by our prompt response what we think of them and their effort abroad. This is our last war job. la-t us do it as well as they did theirs. It is a compliment to all concerned that the strikes in Harrisburg and vicinity have been without disorder of any kind. WHY NOT HERE? WHY should not Harrisburg have the pleasure of enter taining the King and Queen of Belgium? Here is an opportunity for the Chamber of Commerce, which has done such excellent service in the j past year, to increase its popularity. 1 Other cities have extended invita- I lions to King Albert and his con sort and Harrisburg. as the capital city of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, should extend the I same courtesy. ! The Belgian rulers are of the type ! Americans delight to honor. They ; are more democratic than royal, i They are rulers by popular approval. They stood between the Hun and civilization. They stood to save the world or to sacrifice their all. They are 'the kind of folks Harrisburg ! would like to entertain. One thing was well demonstrated during the welcome home celebration —that Harrisburg is a city of mighty cake-bakers. YES, WHY DID HE? IK THE six votes of Great Britain in the League assembly really amount to only one, as Mr. Wil son would have his audience believe, J why did Lloyd George seek them? The answer to that question is suffi cient reply to the President's ridicu lous statement. This, we suppose, is what the poet meant when he called 'em "melan choly days." THE SCOUTS WHAT would Harrisburg do without its Boy Scouts? They again demonstrated during the welcome home celebra tion that they are even more effi cient in keeping order than the po lice themselves. Their conduct at Island Park on Sunday, when they formed a hollow square and held it against the unrushing crowds is an example of what they can do in emergency. They are without au thority, save their own sturdy de termination to obey orders and the respect the people have for their uniform. The city is proud of them. Yet they perform like veterans and get better results than real officers. Would that they were twice as numerous. They have in them the [ making of the leaders of the com ing generation. "potitZc* Ik r f > &KK4Xjt&CL'iUQ, By the Kx-Oonimltteemao With the election of the only State officer to be voted for at the com ing election assured through, the general endorsement of Superior Court Judge William H. Keller, of Lancaster, men In politics are com mencing to turn their attention to the State nominations for 19 20. There will then be elected a United States Senator, for which Senator Boies Penrose does not appear at this time to have any contender and it does not matter much if he had; an auditor general and a state treas urer, one supreme court justice and all of the congressmen, half of the State Senators and 207 members of the House of Representatives. There is much talk of candidacies for the State offices and Auditor Gen eral Charles A. Snyder is widely mentioned for treasurer with the au ditor generalship talk divided among half a dozen men, some of them aij)e and well qualified. Chief Justice J. Hay Brown's term expires in January, 1921, and his successor will be elected next year. A Supreme Court Justice cannot suc ceed himself. Justice John Stewart, of Franklin, will succeed to the chief Justiceship when the Lancas ter jurist retires. Tlie Brown succession is caus ing much discussion. There will be numerous candidates but public sentiment is getting toward the point where scrambles for the appellate court places, such as have occurred in recent years when obscure men attained prominence because of the "rat letter of their names, are being frowned upon. —Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Who's Who" column George J. Brennan says: Judge Kunkel, of Dauphin county, stands out conspicuously as one who has been in the minds of many mem bers of the bar for some time as an ideal candidate for the Supreme bench. The people have not forgot ten the masterly manner in which he handled himself in the great State capital graft cases and the judicial bearing which lie maintained throughout those sensational prose cutions. When Justice Robert S. Frazier, of Allegheny county, was nominated for the Supreme bench, his next competitor was Judge Kun kel, who, without the backing of the powerful political organizations of Philadelphia and Allegheny coun ties. polled over 93,000 votes at the popular primaries. Judge Sadler, along with his local personal strength and the record on the bench of his distinguished father and with the prestige which his brother, the State Highway Commis sioner, is making In the vigorous prosecution of the good roads cam paign of the State administration, is much talked about as a possible win ner for the Supreme Court nomina tion. Attorney General William I, Seliaffer, of Delaware county, Is without doubt the most talked about man for the Supreme Court of those who are not now wearing the judi cial robes. Jlr. SchalTer's experience as official reporter of the Supreme and Superior Courts, his years of active practice before the courts and his work in the office of Attorney General specially equip him for a place on the highest tribunal of the State, and unless he shall decide to defer being a candidate at this time he will unquestionably make a for midable contender in the canvass for the Supreme bench. —Bucks county Democrats have re-elected County Chairman A. R. Atkinson and Treasurer Warren S. Toons'. When the county committeo met the Democratic nominee for clerk of the Orphans' Court, Irvin M. James tendered his formal decli nation of the nomination, and the committee by a unanimous vote sub stituted the name of Harrison B. Thatcher, the Republican nominee, and the only soldier in the world war on the Republican ticket. This nomination will give the Deinocruts four soldier candidates. —E. S. Hugentugler's chances for re-eletion as mayor of York will he considerably brightened as a re sult of the withdrawal from the Pro hibition party ballot of Alderman Noah C. May as a candidate for the same office. Mr. May and Mayor Hugentugler were candidates for the cent primary, and Hugentugler won Republican nomination at the re cent primary, and Hugentugler won with a majority of 145. May, how ever, was nominated by the Prohibi tionists and had he remained in the field would have made things inter esting for Hugentugler. Regarding the charter party in Philadelphia the Inquirer says: "The aim of McLaughlin and his co-work ers it would seem, does not go far beyond an effort to elect the minor ity member of the Board of County Commissioners and the three minor ity magistrates. To give appearance of a real contest they plan to put up a complete ticket." —Some interesting facts about the life of a State official considerably in the lime light because of the fight against the mounting cost of living are contained in the bulletin of the bureau of foods of the State Depart ment of Agriculture. The secretary is a new type on Capitol Hill. He is an educator and not a politician and many of the politicians need to be educated to understand him. The bulletin says: "The present Secretary of Agri culture, Hon. Fred Rasmussen, came to America in his young man hood and was employed by the Chi cago & Northwestern railroad. As a growing boy and youth he had been engaged in the business of farming, a Wholly congenial occupa tion. His thoughts naturally turned toward the soil and after a year's experience on the railroad he again turned his attention to farming, and for a year was em plowed on a dairy farm, taking care of twenty cows and directing a milk route. For two winters he attended a country school. In the winter of 1902 Mr. Rasmussen entered lowa State College. After completing the four years' course in agricul ture. he accepted a position at Pur due University, having charge of the university creamery during the ensuing twelve months. He likewise acted as instructor in creamery butter making. In the autumn of 1906 he joined the staff of lowa Slate College, and for the next year was assistant professor of dairying at that institution. In the fall of 1907 he accepted the professorship of dairying at New Hampshire Col lege. He remained for nine years, taking up. his work as professor of dairy husbandry at State College in 1916. where he remained until his acceptance of the post of secretary." HARRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A CINCINNATI FAN By BRICGSI UCAPS FRO*A BED VNITW CV/TS iei_F WITH DAILY REMINDER FOR O,MC£ DOESN'T JOYOUS SHOUT. RAZOR BUT STILL FRON\ FRIEND wife GRUMBLE OVER. —JoYoUS A. OfJ (S£NJ£RAL / , -BREAKFAST AMD . OFCH °" F. W. BY BOLTS HOUSE RUM OnjER BY AUTO GIUES MERCHANT HEART A GOCIDBY HOG AND o BUT APOLOGIZES. DISEASE BY PAYING KLSS ~~ first IN YEARS ' B LL LOM6 • s " rA,s<D,hjG 5haK%S UANDS O/ To OFFICE LOM6 TAKES STREET CAR ThREe 1 FfJOUGH To RESIGN- Te> ,B B. Pafsk RooRS <""> oeroe —.l No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAIIIN Of the Army Recruiting Station The other evening I was perfectly delighted to get a copy of the Ger man official reports of the first 24 hours of the St. Mihiel offensive. Since I had commanded an assault battalion that broke through them the first morning I have always won dered what the Boche were doing that morning to stop us and what their estimate of the situation really was. As. I have always maintained, the attack came as a surprise to the Boche. The reasons for my belief were based on the statements of prisoner officers with whom I talked, and on the army intelligence report we captured the first morning. The Intelligence report dated at Metz, 5 p. m., September 11, stated that we were preparing an attack which would probably develope September 26, but could not come before Sep tember 24. We took this report at 7 a. m., September 12, so we were 12 days ahead of their earliest ex pectations. If that doesn't consti tute a surprise, I don't know what does. A number of war correspond ents have written lengthy articles proving that the St. Mihiel was not a surprise, as the Boche knew it was coming and were preparing to evacuate, in fact were actually evacuating the Salient when we at tacked. 1 now know that they did know the attack was coming, but that they had not started to evacu ate. In their report they state that "when the first information of an intended hostile attack on the. St. Mihiel Salient reached the ariny de tachment, seven divisions were hold ing the 84 kilometer front in the Salient. We at once asked for a reinforcement of air forces, four as sault divisions, two field artillery regiments and 10 battalions of heavy artillery, in order to prevent a deep penetration before the evacuation of the Salient was completed." They also ordered the 107 th Division to relieve the 77th Division, as the lat ter contained about 800 Alsace-Lor> rainers who were deserting to the i enemy. That agrees with our pre vious knowledge, as we hit the 77th Division and truly found hundreds of Alsace-Ixjrrainers in it. All of this took place the 27th of August, and yet even the "efficient" German military machine had done nothing when the attack came on September 12. Not one thing had been evacu ated, although orders had been is sued from time to time covering this | subject. But on September 5 all uvailable reserve artillery, consisting I of nine battalions of heavy guns and I three batteries of field guns were ordered.up to the Michel Stellurig behipd the left shoulder of the salient on a line from Pont-a-Mous sen to Thiaucourt. As they looked at the map the left shoulder was what we culled the right or eastern That those guns got into position we well knew. I can as sure you from personal knowledge that they were in position and had an unlimited supply of ammunition. On September 7 a plan was worked out to scatter our offensive prepara tions by an attack, with limited ob jectives, upon the southern front of the Salient, but on September 9 this plan was abandoned, as in the mean time it had become apparent that we were going to attack on both j sides of the Salient. On September 10 the order was issued to commence the removal and destruction, of all material in the Salient. Unfortu nately for the Boche, they thought they had plenty of time, so on the 11th they started to prepare such material as they thought could not be removed, for destruction. Some of" the unmounted batteries from near the town of St. Mihiel were started back to their second posi tions, and other batteries were to start that night, but didn't, as the bombardment was in full swing be fore they got started. Now it so happened that our attack was only to be a piifcers movement at the shoulders of the Salient and not a drivo in from the point. As a mat ter of fact there was no attack at all around the town of St. Alihiel, so the withdrawal of a couple of batteries had no effect on the engagement. To quote again the re port of Lieutenant General Fuchs, "this was the situation when the enemy's attack struck the army de tachment by surprise on the night of September 11-12.", To-morrow I .will toll you what we did to them 'on the morning of the 12th. ROADS AS A PUBLIC INVESTMENT To the Editor of the Telegraph: I In the Telegraph for September j 23, was published a news item from Sharon, Pa., telling what thepeo ple of Mercer county are doing to wards road improvement. They have appropriated 31,500,000 to be spent on a road system. It is sure- | ly gratifying to see a community awake to the serious economic loss of bad roads. Bad roads effect every phase of our national life, city and country both reflecting the affect is more noticable in the rural districts where the actual condi tions exist, where the travel is by road entirely. The affect in the cities is just as noticable if we only knew where to look for It. Bad road conditions affect bank clear ances, affect produce costs, affect wholesale and retail business. Good roads bring people to town to pur chase goods and deposit savings. They bring crops to railroad ship ping points quicker and cheaper. Good roads encourage the use of modern hauling equipment and its accompanied economies, bad roads foster the slow old-fashioned method of hauling heavy loads on horse-drawn vehicles and its in herent loss In time and money. Dauphin county can well pattern after our friends in Mercer county in their method of raising funds for this enterprise. Their cam paign is worthy of praise. But should we not give pause when spending vast sums of public money to consider that we do not just spend it but invest it? Should we we not see that a road financed by bonds should at least have a life equal to that of the bonds? It does not require a financial genius to see that if we construct roads which must be rebuilt several times before they are paid for once, that such a policy will inevitably lead to finanqial embarrassment. Yet Mer cer county is putting her monew in macadam, cinder and slag roads. Let us look at our neighbor state ' to the north. New York State haj | paid dearly for her experience in | building macadarti and light di- j tuminous roads, financed by 50-year bonds. Commissioner F, S. Greene, i of New York State Highway De-! partment, published a very inter- j esting article in the Engineering i News Record for August 21 on just; this subject. All those truly inter- i ested in roads as a public invest-1 ment should not fail to read Com-1 missioner Greene's conclusions. He quotes from the official ! records of the Highway Department which show that 80.48 miles of j water-bound macadam roads cost j 8955,872.76 to build in 1912, and that between that time and Janu ary 1, 1919, 8702,244.99 has been spent on maintenance. This means that in less than seven years 88,725.71 per mile has been spent on roads which cost 811.877.14 per mile to build. He states: "I have discovered enough to convince me that the life of water-bound ma cadam or light bituminous macadam pavement averages about seven years, and cannot be reckoned be yond ten years." Could anyone con sider a road a good investment which cost 80 per cent, of its pur chase price to maintain during its life, and whose life is only a frac tion of the time covered by the period of the loan financing It? We quote further: "The cheap est reconstruction that we now do our macadam roads is to lay a new two-course bituminous macadam pavement over the old road. At present prices this costs an average of 816,700 per mile for a 16-foot pavement. In Wayne county, Michigan, an old concrete road has been successfully resurfaced by placing a new reinforced concrete top of three-inch thickness. Let us suppose that we would wish to resurface by placing a naw rein forced concrete top, four inches in thickness. Then a mile of 16-foot pavement requiring 1,043 cubic yards of concrete for such resur facing at 816 per cubic yard, (which is not a low price) would cost 816,688. If these figures are cor rect, they show that the resurfacing of a concrete road at the end of fourteen or fifteen years is half the cost of double the resurfacing of a macadam road, apparently neces sary during the same period." Again: "We have concrete roads which have cost us less than 850 per mile per year to maintain. We j have concrete roods In main travel ed routesin this Stute that have been down five years and show so little | "wear that the broom marks, left as a finish to the surface, are still on ; that surface. Our concrete roads : so far as wear is concerned, are as 1 good as the day after their accept ance by the State, and we believe i that we can now build reinforced concrete roads which will certainly last ewenty-five years, and all indi cations point to a larger life." In closing he states: "From all available data, there is no doubt that at the end of eight or ten years of service, depending upon the amount of traffic, the concrete pavement is the most economical one that can be constructed." "These are but some of the reasons why 1 advocate a more per manent road than we have been building in the past, and it is now my belief that, considering the new problems of traffic that we have to solve, the most practical pavement for a highway to-day is the one built of concrete." • There are the conclusions of the New York State Highway Commis sioner. Our own commissioner has given Dapuhin county a start in the right direction. We have the Dauphin-Clarks Ferry road and the Mtllersburg-Elizabethvtlle roads both fine 18-foot, reinforced con crete pavements as good, if not bet ter, than those which Commissioner Greene states cost $5O a mile per year to maintain, and last at least twenty-five years. There is the Linglestown road, a 16-foot rein forced concrete road, equal to the above in every respect, but narrow er because of the lighter traffic it is expected to carry. This means that Dauphin county has 14.85 miles of road now under construc tion which represent a real invest ment, one that is sound from every angle. Let us gft behind a road cam | paign that will make Dauphin second to none in the State for good roads! Let us do it by building twenty-five-year concrete roads and not seven-year macadam roads. D. C. M. McClain Recollections In the Philadelphia Evening Led ger Col. George Nox McCain is writ ; ing an interesting series of reminis j cences, some of which cluster about ! Ilarrisburg. In a recent issue this I appears: "Robert M. Sturgeon, of York, was in town last week. He was "Bob" Sturgeon in the old days at Harris burg. That was thirty-five years ago, when he was legislative reporter for the Harrisburg Call. Bob Stur geon has been everything from cub reporter to editor-in-chief, and for years past has been identified in an editorial capacity with York news papers. Mr. Sturgeon is one of the three living survivors of the corps of legislative correspondents of the session of 1885. "Joseph Gilbert then represented the Associated Press and Thomas M. Coleman, who sometimes tried to mask his identity under the signa ture of "Nameloc," which was simply his proper name spelt backward, was the Public Ledger corres pondent "Edward C. Howland was corres pondent for the Philadelphia Press. He was one of a brilliant family whose last survivor, a brother, Harry Howland, of New York, died within the last couple of years. Howland left Philadelphia and was afterward political writer on several of the New York newspapers. "William Rodearmel gerwral cor respondent, was known to newspaper people everywhere as "the man with a hundred newspaipers." He was an indefatigable worker, who grew wealthy supplying newspapers in the State and over the country with Harrisburg news. He was afterward postmaster of Harrisburg under | Cleveland. I "A. E. Watrous, of the Philadel phia News and George Welshons, of the Pittsburgh Times, were also in Harrisburg and during that session. They were two of the most brilliant writers I have ever known. Strangely enough, fate decreed them the same regrettable end. Both committed suicide Watrous in New York and ! Welshons in Harrisburg. | "Thomas M. Jones, of Harrisburg, .who died within the last two years, j was the dean of that exceptionally ab'e body of men. "E. J. Stackpole was Just then ' entering upon a career that was des [ tlned to give him a State-wide repu ! tation as newspaper man and capi l talist. Like Rodearmel, he was a [general newspaper correspondent. I As years went by he established per jmanent newspaper connections and j uitimatelv purchased the Harrisburg [Telegraph, which is to-day the most l ably edited influential evening news paper In central Pennsvivania. "In those days the Lochiel Hotel was the rallying point for the cor respondents. Here the legislators met and newspaper men fore-gath ered nightly." OCTOBER 1, 1919. Psychological Tests Following in the footsteps of Col umbia University the University of Pennsylvania is trying the intelli gence tests advocated as substitutes for the regular collegiate entrance examinations. According to Dr. ' George Gaily Chambers, director of admissions at the university, 134 applicants for ad mission have been subjected to the intelligence test's. All had served in the army and navy for at least a year and many of them had been overseas. Their service interfered with the completion of their usual preparatory work and for that rea son the university allowed them to take the intelligence tests in place of the usual examinations. At least ninety of these men have successfully passed the examina tions and will be registered as freshmen as soon as they present certificates of discharge from the army or navy. Ten other cases were held in abeyance, to ' be decided upon within the next day or two. Dr. Lightner Witmer, professor of psychology, and a corps of assistants have been recording the result of the examinations, and they are to be compared with the regular en trance examinations. Their ulti mate success will be determined by the midyear examinations as com pared to those students who have taken the usual tests for admis sion. This comparison will be the basis for determining whether the. psy chological tests will be adopted gen erally or not. Although Columbia I and several other universities intro duced the intelligence tests as part of their entrance requirements last year this is the first experiment of its kind by the University of Penn sylvania. Later in the year it is planned to give the entire freshmen class the tests and compare the re sults with the grades in regular monthly quizzes. I, Who Laughed My Youth Away I who laughed my youth away And blew bubbles to the sky, Thin as air and frail as fire, Opals, pearls of such desire As a saint could but admire; Now as azure as a sigh, Then with passion all aglow—- Golden, crimson, purple, gray Moods and moments of a day Have been gay, Yea, As they, Sailing high, Sinking low; Even so I, Pierrot, Walking Paris in a trance, With my weary feet in France And my heart in Bergamo, Loved—and lost my laughing way. I, of course, have never had Any great amount of gold Other than my bubbles hold. Love? I have no loving plan As a guide to beast or roan, Being neither good nor bad, Just a sort of sorry lad. —William Griffith in Ainslee's Mag azine. LABOR NOTES . Ordinary factory hands in the paper mills in Sweden receive from 34 to 36 cents an hour, including a war allow ance of 4 cents, In addition each mar ried workman receives a' wartime al lowance of 8 cents for his wife and 6 [ cents for each of his children each week. These hands, therefore, receive , approximately $75 a month in all for an eight hour day. Machine operators | are better paid, and receive $BO a | month. They also enjoy the eight hour day, and their extra allowances include a wartime bonus of $2 for themselves, 80 cents for their wives and 67 cents for each child, per week. Delegates of workmen and employers in the textile industry of the north of France, representing about 500 fac tories and 100,000 workers, have signed an agreement respecting wages and hours of work. By the terms of this agreement the employes are granted a 48-hour week, with Saturday afternoon off; that is, they will prob ably work eight hours Monday and nine hours every other working day except Saturday, which will be a day of four hours' work. A few varia tions in the application of this agree ment with respect to certain dates are provided in order to make up for lost time during holidays and tl\e Ist of May. For all the establishments where salaries arc paid by the day or hour the average salary of 1914, including premiums, is doubled and further in creased 40 centimes per hour for men, 30 centimes for women and boys from 13 to 16 years and girls from 13 to 18 years. Wages for piece-work are in creased In the same proportions, Euening <M|at j Harrisburg has gone over the again. It got the habit during they war when it was having Liberty' Loan drives and various other things calling for sacrifice on the part of its people and effort and patriotism and it has not slowed down a bit now that peace has come and tha boys are home and we are trying to readjust things, including our pay ments on the aforesaid tLiberty Loans. The latest success In going beyond obligations is in cake. Har risburg, to use the slang term, has taken the cake with cake. When the plans for the supper to the sol diers and sailors and marines of Harrisburg were made, the supper that took place along the river front | and will be talked about around fire sides all winter, there were esti mates made that 500 cakes werd the minimum needed. We did not know that wo were going to have 3,500 lusty young lighters to feed and the committee thought that 500 cakes would allow a fair propor tion of cake after the neckless chicken and other things, and Mrs. William Jennings figured out that the slices should be generous and that there be enough for second and third and emergency calls. So the word wbnt out for 500 cakes. And the cakes came. They arrived in automobiles, in wagons, on motor cycles and on foot, in arms and in boxes. The Civic Club looked like a bake house storage place on the afternoon of the big day. There were cakes of every size and every, hue, cakes iced in pink and choco late, although cakes of brown and cakes of white, cake enough for I half a town for half a night. There were cakes left over, some that got away, some that were only halt I eaten and some that speedily became memories. But the point is that Harrisburg, accustomed to going over t the top, exceeded the speed limit and destroyed the minimum of cake, all home-made and the kind that mother really made. Investigation into the marketing conditions in Pennsylvania cities anil boroughs by the State Bureau ol Markets have developed the fact that Harrisburg has some of the oldest markets in the country, several hav ing been discovered in reading re ports that have been in continuous operation since colonial times. Oth ers have more than a century of activity to their credit and many of them have excellent records as divi dend payers as well as rendering public service. Guy C. Smith, direc tor of the Bureau of Markets, found that 58 markets have been reported as in operation and looks for still more to be listed. The history of the concerns is being assembled. Thirty-two of those reported upon are curb or open markets and 26 in buildings and of the enclosed type. Fourteen do a wholesale and retail business, but the bulk are for farmers to display and sell their pro duce to the housewife. • • • , Pennsylvania is shy on its buck wheat honey crop. This State is producing a honey crop that is worth consi<Vrably more than ia million dollars a year and the studies have shown that there are various kinds of honey, some farmers specializing in varieties that have proved to be profitable in their localities. The buckwheat honey crop is declared to be short this year because at the time buckwheat bloomed the weather was unfavor able for the flow of nectar, accord ing to the experts at the State De partment of Agriculture. In the last decade Pennsylvania has gone to the front as a buckwheat raising State and has a big acreage being cut now. v • • If, one could only get to see some of the letters that people are writ ing to friends and relatives in other cities about the monumental suc cess of the welcome home staged by ■ grateful Harrisburg it would bo worth while and the archives of the Dauphin County Historical Society would be enriched. But probably the best, the tersest and the most complete was on a post-card picked up in the Federal building, evident -Ily dropped by some one going to | mail it. This was the line: YOU MISSED IT. Some of the people of Harrlsburg have been rather prompt about tak ing up the questions relative to the markets and some discussions have occurred which indicate that the State authorities have taken the proper way to get an idea as to what is wrong. One woman com plained to-day right out loud that farmers took her for the wife of a railroader and put up the prices; another said that the boys who hauled market baskets charged too much; another that the city should own the markets because then farm ers would not have to charge in stall rent for customers, while a fourth said that people ought to stop buy ing eggs at market because over 60 cents in August meant a dollar in December. Director Guy C. Smith, ought to get some first-hand infor mation of a valuable character, and that right early, if people put on paper what they say. • • A good story is being told oil Dean C. B. Connelly, Commissioner of Labor and Industry. He has a. phonograph in his rooms. He docs not get much chance to play it, but; somebody did. Some newspapermen living at the same place did not like the music and they filed oomplainjj with the dean. The dean denied musical tendencies at the time thaS the night worker wanted to sleeps To make things sure he put a towel into the horn of the music machina. It has been played, they say, bul} the "mute" is on and the dean tj not to blame. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE } —Dr. Leo S. Rowe, former Univer sity of Pennsylvania professor, may succeed John Barrett as director of the I'an-American Union. —Alba B. Johnson, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, confesses to having been born in Pittsburgh. —Ex-Senator E. W. Blewitt, of Scranton, was in Harrisburg to-day. —Ex-Judge W. K. Stevens, of Reading, was one of the lawyers in court yesterday in the "sectarian suit." —C. Victor Johnson, former legis lator from Meadville, was here on legal business. Ex-Judge A. A. Vosbury, prom inent Scranton attorney, was a Capi tol visitor. 1 DO YOU KNOW ( —That llorrisburg no longer depends on Reading; it bakes j Its own pretzels? HISTORIC HAItRISBURG | —A century ago one of burg's chief products was loathed