20 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH djIfEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I [Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGnAPU PRINTING CO, | Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLJ3 President and Editor-in-Chief STr. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor U. R. MICHENEU, Circulation Manager Executive Board srlP.' McCULLOUG H. n BOYD M. OGLESBY, F.. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub lshed herein. [All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Avenue Building. New York City; "Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ftajr v.* ?*s.> week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, OCTOBER I#, 1019 VotMng of worth or weight can he achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame en dca vor. —Baebow. "SETTLED" THE announcement is made by Premier Lloyd George that the British railways strike has been "settled." That means the men have returned to work, traffic has been resumed, the government feels it has won a victory and the work men are satisfied. But what about the public? What have the common people got out of the strike? Who is going to "settle" with them for the loss and inconvenience they sustained? So it is with every strike. The disinterested public has to pay the bill, and indications are not lacking that it is getting mighty tired of being made the goat. THE SUPREME COUNCIL THE Supreme Council at Paris appears to be anything but su preme. Who the representative of the United States in that council may be has not been officially made known, but it is reported to be dear old General Bliss, who apparently submitted to the demand that an American naval contingent should undertake to oppose D'Annunzio's program in Fiume. The Supreme Council was sup posed to have as its chief function something of a guardianship over the boundaries and territorial in tegrity of the erstwhile European belligerents until the Peace Treaty came into effect, and it was ex- pected to maintain a temporary status quo as of the date of the armistice in European international affairs until the treaty was consum mated. The Supreme Council has been a howling farce since its in ception. It has functioned like a doddering paralytic and it has per mitted to come to pass a series of situations in Europe which suggest the possibility of another great war. Here are some instances which have occurred under the aegis of that supine body: Three times has the boundary line between Poland and Lithuania been laid down by the Supremo Council, j i and three times has the demarca- : ' tion been violated by Poland, with a j fourth violation now in prospect, j Lithuania, a small nation which has set up housekeeping for itself un der the principle of self-detcrmlna- \ tion, is being devoured piecemeal by her greedy neighbor, and apparently with the consent of the Supreme ; Council. The very capital of Lith- ; uanla is In the hands of the Poles, i In addition to this the Poles have repeatedly violated the territorial Integrity of White Russia, Ukrainia | and Czecko-Slovakia, to gather from j foreign dispatches. Poland carries on like a weasel In a chicken coop, ' without rebuke from the Supreme j Council, and Padercwski undoubt edly told the truth when he said the Council would not dare to oppose Polish aims. The Supreme Council has stood Idly by and witnessed the occupation of Bucharest by Rumania, and not a hand appears to have been lifted to prevent it. The Supreme Council must have had ample information, amply In advance, of the plot to seize Flume. Whatever the merits of Italian contention that Fiume be longed to Italy, the Peace Conferees awarded It to Jugo-Slavia, and the Supreme Council made only a be lated motion to preserve that award by ordering the United States Navy to the Adriatic. In consequence of the Fiume seizure It Is now quite possible that Germany may seize Danzig and jus tify such action by the Fiume prece dent. The Insolent reply of Von der Goltz, commander of the Ger man forces occupying the Baltic provinces in violation of the armis tice terms, to the allied military commission to vacate. Indicates all too plainly the frame of mind of the FRIDAY EVENING, German war lords whose annihila tion was prevented by presidential note-writing. Von der Goltz's re ply has been followed by a blockade of Germany, according to reports, but there is credible information to the effect that there are 105,000 well-equipped German troops to be found in Lithuania, Lettland and along the East Prussian border, a fine nucleus for future trouble. Why has not the Supreme Council ere this taken measures to control or disperse them? Several days ago there were enum erated twenty-three small wars rag ing in Europe, with the Supreme Council a palsied spectator and an armistice supposed to be in force. The Supreme Council, clothed with vast war powers, seems utterly in capable of handling the ferments of Europe. ARE WE TO FAIL? FRANKLY, the finance committee in charge of the City Memorial Fund is alarmed. The members are asking them selves: "Is Harrisburg going to fall in the last drive of the war?" And they have very good grounds, apparently, for their fears. Only a few of the industries, lodges and clubs have sent in their quotas. Only a small number of citizens have come forward with their S2O I bills. | Unless the response is far more I generous during the coming week, |we shall have to admit that the plan devised does not meet with the approval of the people of Harris burg; that they are not interested in giving small sums toward Har risburg's memorial to its sons and daughters who served during the war. The Telegraph docs not be'ieve that Harrisburg people are indiffer ent or ungrateful. If the appeal has not been met with quick re sponse, it is because of carelessness —postponing until to-morrow what should be done to-day. That is bad, but it is not hopeless. Every Harrisburger who has pride in his city will see to it that his industry, his lodge and he, him- | self, is represented in this memor ial. The man or woman who can not contribute S2O can take out a card and collect the amount from his or her friends—thereby render ing just as worthy a service as though the money were given per sonally. But, however we raise the money, % it must be raised. Harrisburg simply cannot fail at this time. THE BRIDGE LOAN THE Telegraph is in receipt of a letter from a well-known resi dent of the Allison Hill district, who does not desire to have his name published, which we hope sets forth fairly well the sentiments of a great majority of the people of that lo cality with regard to the transfer of $300,000 from the Walnut street to the State street bridge fund. In part he says: I am pleased to note that the Rotary Club is stirring up in terest in the passage of the $300,- OUO bridge loan. I was one of those who worked hardest for a bridge at Walnut street, and I would still like to see the bridge there, but as the experts have de termined that it must go at State street 1 am not so bigoted as to put up mv opinion against theirs. Besides, the State will give us a much better bridge at State than our small sum would build at Walnut, and so I am out working this time for the transfer of the fund. I think that is the way , many of my neighbors look at the matter and I hope that they will do as I have done—pass up the idea of a bridge at Walnut street and get down to work for the transfer of the fund, for the good of the city and to convince the Commonwealth that we ap preciate what the State is doing ! for us in Harrisburg. Our Allison Hill friend has sum med up the situation most admir- j ably. The Walnut street proposal , has been made impossible by the . splendid developments which the , State authorities have outlined. | The Commonwealth is to spend - millions of dollars in Harrisburg for | park, buildings and a great bridge alone costing more than three mil lions, and all we as a city are asked to do is to contribute $300,000 from the fund set aside for the erection of a bridge that never will be built under any circumstances. It would be most discouraging to Governor Sproul and the other pub lic spirited State officials who are planning so generously for this city if the people did not think enough of their efforts to contribute the comparatively small sum requested, i It is a matter for congratulation, ! indeed, that the Rotary club has [ seen the wisdom of public education in this respect and is leading an agitation in favor of the transfer and it is most encouraging to note the attitude of Allison Hill people toward the project. They carried the loan last time and they will do it again this year, backed up by people in all parts of the city. GARBLED REPORTS YESTERDAY the Harrisburg Telegraph published an Asso ciated Press dispatch telling how two workmen had shot two steel strikers who attacked them while on their way to work. An other newspaper in this city printed a story sent out by another press association under the headlines. "State Police Kill Two Strikers." Now the truth is that the State Police did not arrive on the scene until after the shooting had ended and had nothing to do with it. The Telegraph's account was accurate in every detail; the other was garbled. There are two levsons in this. First, if you read the Associated Press newspapers you get the plain, unvarnished truth. Second, that for the sake of low and order the State Police should not be charged with things they do not do. It is just such falsehoods that arouse labor union members to antagonism against the rolice, who are really the very good friends of every law abiding cit'zen in the land, working men or others. f'stlttG# IK By the Ex-Committeeman Attorney General A. Mitchell Pulmer's activities against the high cost of living are considered politi cally "significant" by the Philadel phia Public Ledger and much atten tion is given to the plan for holding a series of conferences in the States on the subject. The Ledger's Wash ington correspondent professes to see in these meetings, to be com posed of mayors and district attor neys and to be called by the govern ors, a plan of Palmer to "swing around the circle." As u matter of fact, men promi nent in Pennsylvania Kepublican party affairs and folks on Capitol Hill do not see anything politically significant in the proposed meet ings. The plan for the conferences developed at the meeting of repre sentatives of attorneys general of various states, few of whom they say could lie regarded as likely to do much to advance Palmer's chances. Among politicians who come here there is a great interest as to how Palmer will make out as a crusade against the high cost of living is a perilous undertaking unless it does cut prices and the belief here is that Palmer was drafted rather than "se lected" to head the drive. The Ledger makes much of the visit Joseph Guftey paid to Palmer to see about appointments in West ern Pennsylvania and then says: "Mr. Painter at present is chairman of the State Democratic committee, but he has let it be known that he I does not intend to be a candidate for the chairmanship next spring. There has been a general feeling in Wash- | ington for the last two months that Mr. Palmer might be looked upon as a possibility for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It has been even said that he had President Wilson's direct backing, j despite the prominence of the boom for William G. McAdoo, which is be-1 ing conducted by Bernard M. Ba-! ruch and Thomas L. Chadbourne, of New York." —Mr. Palmer is not Democratic state chairman and never has been and there is a belief Lawrence H. Rupp, of Allentown, the present state chairman, will not remain in office very long as a more progress ive leader is wanted to steer the state machine next winter and spring when Palmer sets out after national delegates. —ln this connection it is inter- ] esting to read what E. J. Synett, | editor of the Scranton Times, has to say in Roderick Random's column. He is a close personal friend of Palmer and writes: "The declara- | tion of Assistant Postmaster General Jim Biakeslee that Attorney Gen- ' oral A. Mitchell Palmer will be a candidate for the Democratic nom- j inat'on for president in the event that President Wilson doe'des not to seek re-election, is really no news to ; Roderick Random readers. Should j President Wilson decide to retire at the end of his term, there is every reason to believe that Mr. Palmer j will be given the support of a great body of Democratic leaders from all parts of the Nation. Mr. Palmer stands big with these men. They know his capacity and ability. He is a big man in the Nation, a man who did his work so well during the war that his life has been constant ly jeopardized since. I like the ex pression, "President A. Mitchell Palmer." Incidentally should Mr. Palmer be elected to the highest office in the gift of the people he will have been only the second Pennsylvanian thus honored. James Buchanan was also a Pennsylvanian. In 1880 another distinguished native of the Keystone State, General Win field S. Hancock, was a candidate for the presidency, but was defeat ed by General Garfield. Mr. Palmer was born in Luzerne county, near i White Haven, but has lived practi | eally all his life in Stroudsburg. I When a young man he studied sten ography in the old Woods' Business College here, so is very much of a Scruntonian." —On the other hand there is much disposition on the part of I friends of Judge Eugene C. Bonni- j well, the arch foe of Palmer in Democratic State affairs and the only man who is inclined to dispute the title of State leader with him, to make a great deal of Bonntwell's re-election as president of the State Firemen's Association. The judge is after Palmer's leadership plumes and inclined to fight in every county. Whether he will OUT WHY 'MAJE" WAS SO / FREGIUENTLY VSNEAKIMG BACK. / OF THE BUSH6S ANO APPARENTLY / TRYIH<£ TO BALANCE A CLUB ON I HIS CH/RO. A CLOSER IMSPECTIONJ J REVEALED THE MAJOR'S IAJGENJIOUS DSV/LCE OF CARRYING A HOCLOOU F ter and Single Tax. Pre-emptipns were made for the People's and Tenants' Protection parties, but as no nominations were made, the names of these two parties will not appear on the ballot. The Single Taxers Hied a complete ticket with Oliver McKnight.as their candidate for mayor. —The independent movement in Lancaster has been switched again. Several men have withdrawn. —Well known Democrats yester day pre-empted "The Good Roads Party" for the county on which ticket it is expected will appear the Democratic candidates for county office, says the Scranton Republican. Victor Burschel, fornmr Democratic commissioner, heads the list of pre emptors. Following his name is that of Thomas F. Harrison, who was defeated for State senator two years ago and who is now in charge of making the 1920 census In this end of the State. DID YOU KNOW THAT: By MAJOR FRANK O. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station During our 19 months of war more than 2,000,000 American sol diers were carried to France. Half a million of those went over in .the first 13 months and a million and a half in the last six months. The highest troop-carrying records are those of July, 1919, when 330,- 000 were brought home to America. Most of the troops who sailed for France left from New York. Half of them landed in England and the other half landed in France. Among every 100 Americans who went over 49 went in British ships, 45 in American ships, 3 in Italian, 2 in French, and 1 in Russian ship ping under English control. Our cargo ships averaged one complete trip every 70 days and our troop ships one complete trip every 35 days. The cargo fleet was almost ex clusively American. It reached the size of 2,600.000 tons and carried to Europe about 7,500,- 000 tons of cargo. The greatest troop-carrier among all the ships has been the Leviathan, which landed 12,000 men, or the equivalent of a German division, in France every month. The fastest transports been the Great Northern and the North ern Pacilic, which have made com plete turnarounds, taken on new troops, and started back again in 19 days. The Army Doctor [Berton Braley, in Everybody's Magazine] He gives us pills for many ills An' all the pills the same; No matter what a guy has got The matter with his frame. When wo get well from calomel He's slipped us by the ton, He thinks for sure our rapid cure Is something he had done. Oh, the Army Doc is a bird that's fine. He paints us over with iodine; j But for all we jeer an' for all we knock, He's a regular fellow, the Army Doc! For when a "show" is planned, we know The Doc is on our track Where H. E's rain, to soothe the pain Of wounded, crawling back. He take 3 his chance in our advance With surgeon's knife in hand; Whore vas clouds lurk he does his work —A job I couldn't stand. For though I've kind of a flghtin' nerve. It's another sort of thing to serve In a bloody station where wounded flock. An' that is the job of the Army Doc! With probe an' splint he does his ■stint Without no pest or sleep, Until he drops or something stops The wounded lines that creep To get his aid. An' when he's made His final dressin'. then The nap he takes, an' when he wakes He's on the job again. There's many a simple wooden cross That marks the place of a Doctor's loss: But many a soldier's cross ain't there Because of the Army Doctor's care. He's true blue —color that will not crock An' I sure salutes to the Army Doo! THE PUBLIC FIGHTING BACK [From the New Tork Times] PERHAPS because the rock bot- j torn facts of the British railway strike settlement have not even yet come to us Americans have not regarded the outcome as a complete defeat for the strikers. Both David Lloyd George and Lord Northclifte, however, publicly speak of it in terms which indicate that the United Kingdom itself must think the strik ers were beaten to a standstill. Lord Northclifte, who is not merely an amiable friend but a strong advocate of organized labor, says in so many words: "Labor was defeated in this strike because most of the men directing it were just average men." Lloyd George with the vividness in which he can paint his language deecribes the strike as "Prussianism," which was defeated in its "effort to hold up the country and strangle it into submission." We may reasonably assume from the blunt, almost brutal, words of these men, undoubtedly the most powerful pair in the British Empire —two leaders no longer in sympathy with each other but both still com peting for national pre-eminence— that the result of the railway strike was in truth an overwhelming and I lasting defeat for the strikers. The Watt Centenary [From the Philadelphia Record] Birmingham has just finished celebrating the centenary of the death of James Watt, the founder of practical steam engineering, al though he was not the first to note the expansive power of water under heat exceeding 212 degrees. That was known to the ancients and even in Watt's time there were other ex perimenters. All are familiar with the story of Watt's attention being drawn to the subject in his youth by stopping the mouth of his mother's kettle. It took a long time for him to evolve i ideas which succeeded in harnessing this power for practical purposes. No invention in history has had such industrial or sociological value. It upset the conditions of centuries, even of millenlums, but started n new industrial era which has not been without its drawbacks. It should be pointed out to those who think that machinery is a great evil because It chains human beings so long to labor, that in the time of Watt twelve to fourteen hours—and even longer—at the hand-loom were not unusual. Aside from a little energy devel oped by water power, the human race depended almost entirely upon its oVn muscles. That railways de veloped soon and revolutionized transportation is well known. The important fact about steam harnessing is that so little has been developed since the days of Watt. His fundamental principles are slill in use although modern engines nre monsters of efficiency and power ; which he never contemplated. Yet | the unpleasant fact remains that the wa' te of coal or any other fuel as applied to steam production Is enor mous. The Way of Justice [From the New York Times] Early on Wednesday .morning James Whitings, a New Jersey ne gro accused of attacking a woman, was captured by a detective. He was immediately locked up in the county jail in Camden. Men were put on guard to prevent any attempt at mob violence, should it be made; and in the excited state of public feeling reflected from Omaha such an attempt might have been expected, at least in communi ties where Justice is not, as in New Jersey it has long notoriously been, swift, sure, impartial. At 9 o'clock on Wednesday morn ing the man was brought into court. He waived the right of a jury trial. At 9:30 he was found guilty and sen tenced to from twenty to thirty years of hard labor. By 11:30 he had begun to serve his sentence In the State Penitentiary at Trenton. "There is no difference in the de gree of this crime," the Judge told the prisoner, "whether you are black or white. The crime is the same." Thus, with no question of color, with no infusion of race prejudice, instant and severe punishment of a great crime was made. The whole community takes notice of it; the whole community, the public sense of Justice, is satisfied by it More significant still is the Prime Minister's anouncement that this was no mere local brawl bred by chance circumstance or precipitated by sudden temper. It was a pitched battle for which both sides had made long and thorough prepara tion. Lloyd George tells how the civil army to meet this very strike was organized months ago, while the guns of Europe were still echo ing over its battlefields. The na tion was organized against special interests—in this case the railway unions—particularly organized and singularly operating to exact tribute from the whole public—"to hold up the community," requoting the frank Lloyd George, "and strangle it Into submission." The British nation, then, having entered into an Industrial war of self-defense and having won its first victory, is not likely to avoid a sec ond challenge, if there be any other organized special interest soon em boldened to offer suuch challonge. And the example of the triumphant British public is not likely to be lost upon other publics hard pressed in the same way—particularly the American public. When the public fights back it goes hard with the i aggressor. Coddling Enemies [From Kansas City Star.] It appears from the action of the Department of Justice in postpon ing proceedings against Emma Gold unan that the Government fails to recognize any particular necessity for suppressing anarchistic teaching in the country. Together with the attitude of the War Department to ward the various kinds of slackers generally grouped as conscientious objectors, this laxity in dealing with known enemies within our gates is difficult to understand. When the country was at war and millions of homes were making every sacrifice asked by the Gov ernment to insure the victory all Americans stood together to achieve, Emma Goldman and her kind were doing all in their power to cause America's effort to fail. By propa ganda and violence they sought to make real a threatened danger to our Government and institutions greater and more to be feared than the enemy at the front. While America's young manhood was fight ing and dying In France for a prin ciple upon whose preservation the safety of civilization Itself depend ed, these domestic allies of the enemy were directing a treacherous and treasonable attack in the rear. There is no reason to suppose the ending of the war will end the sedi tious activities of these conspirators. They are still and will always re main America's enemies, dangerous in proportion as they are allowed opportunity to agitate and plot. The Government recognized this when it rounded them up and confined them during the war. But now they are being released. Severity is,relaxed and the cases against them allowed to drift There seems a tacit un derstanding that if they do not ob trude themselves too conspicuously upon the Government's notice they will not be molested. This is a dangerous policy. No rea son can be found for it that does not reflect upon the courage or states manship of the public officials re sponsible for it. If these domestic enemies were dangerous at large last year they are dangerous now. They have not changed. The penal ties against them should be exacted to the last letter of the law. If they are not, the country will ha\ > to take its choice of believing either that the Government raised a false cry when it roused the patriotic feeling of America against them, or is now pandering to their kind on motives that will not bear examina tion. It is needless to say that in neither case can the Department of Justice, the War Department or the administration as a whole derive any credit from the record. Knew the Call [From Bllghtly, London.] Friendly Constable —Come, come, sir, pull yourself together; your wife's calling you. Convivial Gent—Wha' she call calling me; Billy or William? Constable —William, sir. Convivial Gent—Then I'm not goin' home. More Commercial Candor [From Sydney Morning Herald.] "2-Dome American Silk Gloves. Usually 4-9 pnir. Sale price 3-9 uatr. I They won't last long." OCTOBER 10, 1919. LITERARY NOTES E. P. Dutton & Co. have Just brought out a new and revised edi tion, with some important additions, of A. D. McLaren's "Germanism From Within," first published three years ago. The author is an Eng lishman who had spent eight years before the breaking out of the war in Germany', in intimate study of German life, people, customs and character. Previous to that time he had for 30 years been keenly interested in German history, lan guage, literature and modern prog ress. Over a million copies of "The Be loved Captain," which the publica tion committee of the Y. M. C. A. reprinted in pamphlet form by per mission of E. P. Dutton Co., from Donald Hankey's "Student in Arms," were distributed free by that organ ization among soldiers and sailors during the war. Winifred Stephens' "The France I Know," which E. P. Dutton & Co. will publish at the end of this month, will be the account by a thoroughly well informed and sympathetic Eng lishwoman of the France of war time. It will tell about the spirit of the country after the first battle of the Marne, of the work of the French Red Cross, of how the prov inces organized for victory, about political parties and religious opin ion, about the position of women and their war work, and there will be especially interesting chapters on the new France and the new French woman that have emerged from the furnace of war. Miss Stephens, who is the author of "The Life of Madame Adam," which E. P. Dut ton & Co. published last year, has lived much in France, knows all the country and its people and not merely Paris, and has devoted her life to the study of French history and literature and the interpreta tion of French character and to writing and lecturing upon them. On the day when General Persh ing led the hosts of the First Divi sion in the Victory parade down Fifth avenue between thousands of his cheering countrymep he re ceived, as a tribute from the car toonists of America, the first copy oft the press of "The War in Car toons." It was sent to him by Mr. Edwin Marcus;, cartoonist of ;the New York Times, and carried on its fly-leaf the autographs of nearly a dozen of the most prominent car toonists in the United States. Ac companying the book, which pre sents a history of the war in 100 cartoons by 27 American cartoon ists compiled and edited by George J. Hecht, was a letter in which Mr. Marcus, "on behalf of the cartoon ists of America," presented the vol ume "as a humble token of our sin cere appreciation of the splendid service you rendered the United States and the world at large," and added that "The letter which you wrote to the cartoonists, which was published by the Bureau of Car toons in their 'Bulletin for Cartoon ists,' was a great source of inspir ation to us. We are very much flattered that you think our work was one of the most important fac tors in forming that resolute public opinion which was so essential to the winning of the war. The Gov ernment can always count on our cartoons to aid any patriotic move ment." General Pershing expressed through a member of his stafT his thanks and appreciation. The in cident was chronicled on the first pages of the evening papers of New York on the day of the parade and by the morning papers of the next day. Mr. Hecht, editor and compiler of the volume, which has just been published by E. P. Dutton & Co., originated and was the head of the Bureau of Cartoons, of the com | mlttee on public information. Mark Twain's Imagination [William W. Ellsworth, "A Golden Age of Authors," Harper's.] Mark Twain had such a vivid Imagination, such a brain for em broidery, that It was a difficult task for him to tell a straight tetory just as It happened—he could make up one that was so much better. We a'l know that Albert Btgelow Paine, working on the Mark Twain "Life," found It necessary to discard much of th? autobiographic material that Mark Twain had written. Investiga tion. talks with men still living who knew the facts, simply proved that the tales were not so. And Mark Twain was no liar. He had a glori ous, an almost superhuman, imagi nation. As he approached three score and ten he said, as quoted In the "Life," "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether It happened or not; but I am getting eld, nnd soon I shall remember only the latter." Itttftitng CCljat j It is probable that the example of Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scruntoa, and of the executives of some of the smaller municipalities of the State in proclaiming Armistice Hay as a holiday will be followed in a num ber of places as a tribute to the men who fought in the greatest ot wars. Action of the State cantonment ot , the American Legion here last Sat urday in endorsing the movmeent to I make the day a holiday has been < much commended in the newspapers , and while State authorities can not : designate the day as a holiduy with- ; out legislative enactment the idea is ! so popular on Capitol Hill that No vember's second Tuesday is pretty > sure to have some recognition. In I Beveral cities the posts ot the Ameri can Legion have made preparations i to observe the day and the proposi tion will be strongly approved gen erally. There are many people in Harrisburg who recall how joyouslv Harrisburg got out of bed about 2 o'clock in the morning and started a celebration that was still going on i at dewy eve with meetings of Cap itol Hill folks in the Hall of Repre sentatives, impromptu prayer serv ices in the churchos and parades ot 1 school children with lire apparatus i from Marysville, Annville and other 1 places bringing firemen here to join in the celebration. It was some day here and the men who are now home remember It as some day Over There. • • • Prank B. McClain, former lieu tenant governor, is wearing patched shoes, says a Philadelphia news paper. "I won't pay sl6 for shoes. It's exorbitant," he exclaimed. "I'm wearing 'em patched tor the tirst time in my life. It isn't because I can't afford to buy new ones. I am wearing the .pld ones as a protest." McClain Is here conducting the in vestigation of alleged rent profiteer ing. • • • Allison Hill appears to be giving uptown a chase as regards the build ing of new homes. The highways which a few years ago were stretch ing out like the antenae of a city with a house here and there are now lined for blocks with solid rows of dwellings, most of them of brick because inability to get mill work of good lumber at satisfactory prices now is one of the handicaps of the builders. Derry, Market, Walnut, I-tegina, State, North, Liberty, Briggs, Forster, Boas, Herr and intermedi ate streets are pushing right out with every chance that there will be further development when the Har rlsburg Railways company builds out Herr street. • • • > Attorney Genernl William I. Schafter, who shares with Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods and Banking Commissioner John S. Fisher the long-distance walking honors of the State admin istration, does not believe in Gov ernor Sproul's plan of a late break fast and working straight through without any lunch. So the other day he told the Governor he would bring him some lunch. He did. It was a large round doughnut, one of the kind we call fasnachts around here. • • • Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler Is keenly interested in get ting as much work accomplished on Improvement of the roads as pos sible before the snow flies and he is bending every effort of his depart ment to get action and spurring on contracts. The other day the Com missioner was talking with some friends and all were having a "wish ing match." When the "wish" got around to Mr. Sadler ho out quick as a flash: "One hundred days of fine weather." • • • Members of the American Legion are discussing the situation brought about by the action of the Legion at the first cantonment here last Sat urday in denouncing de Valera. In Philadelphia some admirers of the so-called "Irish president" demand ed that the action be set aside, with the alternative that some soldiers of Irish blood would resign from the Legion. As the action could not be overturned because the cantonment adjourned Saturday, a demand was made that -Bryn Mawr post, one of whose delegates presented the reso lution, disavow it. That also met a refusal. Capitol Hill's orange crop is run ning a race with Jack Frost. There used to be half a dozen orange trees which some one with an idea of ornament rather than anything else, provided for Capitol Park. The trees are small and show the ef fects of northern windows. They are at the south side of the State Museum and such fruit as survives the eagerness of the squirrels to get the seeds is about the size of a crab apple at this time in October. The skin is hard and dark green and the oranges sway in the winds in a way that tempts the squirrels and woos the sunlight that never seems strong enough to give them the ripening touch. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Col. R. M. Brookflcld, formerly active in the National Guard, has been selected for military instructor at Girard College. p. M. Kirby, Luzerne county financier, is active in the new busi ness movements in that county. Col. W. J. Crookston, formerly sanitary officer of the Keystone Di vision and now with the State De partment of Health, has been giving a series of talks on practical health measures. Dr. A. A. Hammerschlag, Pitts burgh educator, was honored at Le high University Founders' Day exer \ Daly, the Philadelphia poet, is one of the speakers at many banquets these days. Daly is rapid ly getting to the place where he shouWr be. Q hn H Oibboni Philadel phia surgeon, has gone to attend tho international surgeons' meeting in Belgium. . C. S. Wengard, director of Pittsburgh's community sings, says 200,000 attended them. The Rev. J. F. Watson, of Johnstown, is presiding at the an nual conference of the Pennsylvania district of the Brethren church. —Louis Lukes, well known in tho State hotel business and now at Lan caster, has been elected president of the State Hotelmen's Association. \ DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg Is head quarters for big shipments of apple butter? HISTORIC HARRJSBURG —When the line for the Pennsyl vania Railroad to enter Harrisburg was surveyed farmers objected be cause it would cut up their lands.