14 I HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ! lIigEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 published eveninga except Sunday by pHE TELEUItAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare 1 E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Cliief OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor U. K- MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard fcXF" McCULLOUGH, 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 paper and also the local news pub- Ilshed herein. £JI rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. i 1 Member American Bureau of Circu- Avenue_ Building?! i Chicago, 11l. IJ ' ne ' ] Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ' -qjSCnSB-;. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, 13.0u a year In advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1919 A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, hut depth in phil osophy bringetk men's minds about to religion.— Bacos, HOUSES AND RENTS SO LONG as the house supply is as far behind the demand for dwellings as it is now in Harris burg, there wilt be more or less sus picion of profiteering in the in crease of rental charges. Many persons have been discouruged in the matter of building because of the censorious attitude of renters. It has been demonstrated that it is out of the question to build houses to-day to rent at figures prevailing before the war. Increased labor costs and the high prices of mater ials practically bar for the present the low-priced house. It is hoped, however, that there will be enough response to the hous ing demand to relieve the pressure somewhat and eventually restore more or less normal conditions. Hundreds of people in this city are waiting the opportunity to rent homes and there are also scores of persons able to purchase modest houses. The Chamber of Commerce has the matter under serious con sideration and it is hoped by that body that something may be done to relieve an unprecedented situa tion. The Philadelphia Record makes the tniazing assertion that "four-armed ! men" robbed a bank. Why take such j i risk when the side shows pay such I large salaries to freaks? THE NEW SCHOOLS DID you see the parade of the j Camp Curtin Junior High | School after the football game l the other evening? If you did you will understand what these two new 1 schools mean for Harrlsburg. They are making men and women. The school spirit that has been awakened there in so short a time is truly re markable, and school spirit is very akin to community spirit, which is only another name for patriotism. When the postal service begins to drop its mail pouches from planes, as is promised, the service men who i brought their tin hats home will be] in luck. LAY OFF, THERE IF HUNTING stories, like the| Telegraph published yesterday, ] don't reach a limit pretty soon | we shall be tempted to cease posing: as a fisherman and buy a shotgun. | What's the use of spending a whole j summer getting together a fine coi- | lection of fish stories, with all the ] picturesque details that garb the| most glaring improbabilities in the | decent habiliments of incontrovct-1 ible fact and rehearsing them over j and over until we almost believe j them ourselves, if ail our pains are' to be set at naught by such a parcel of Arabian Nights' tales as the gun ners have been bringing to town the past few days? We ask any self-ro •pecting angler who takes pride in the artistry of his special brand of I fish lore, if these wild tales of the' woods and fields do not constitute u| flagrant invusion of the ancient eon-1 stitutional rights of anglers in the realm of unusual—we almost said on believable —personal experiences. How do you expect us to compare our favorite story of the twenty tnch trout, taken from beneath a tangle of driftwood on a five-ounce outfit, with that story of a eighteen- Jrear-old hoy who knocked off the bobbing head of a wild turkey at 800 yards with a high-power 30- 80 rifle? And how taine our tale of the four-pound bass that actual ly jumped Into the boat sounds be side that whopper about the fellow who bagged a 'coon by running over It with an automobile, or the feat of that other truthful nimrod who catches rabbits by' the ears while they are sleeping on top of brush piles! Why it's getting so that first thine we know folks will stop calling TUESUAyEVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 18, 1919. improbable tales fish stories and will dub them hunting yarns. Well, so be it. L)o your worst, you gunners, but remember that the i hunting season Is short and the fish ing season is long. We fishermen do not intend to be licked in one round and we shall go into training this whiter determined to- wind up next summer with a collection of tvild ones that will have you on the ropes and gasping for breath before you fire a single shot. As our old friend, that master narrator ot hectic experience. Baron Mnuchau jsen, might have said under similar I circumstances: There are bigger fish .stories than have ever been told, and jwe fishermen • are prepared to tell j'eni. We're desperate men and not ■to be trifled with. You gunners J better stay off our preserves. j Wrong. Mr. Mayor. Harrlsburg | would buy low priced government j wares if given the opportunity. | "SEE AMERICA FIRST" I AMERICAN hotelmen, despair ing of ever being allowed again to sell liquor, are prepar : ing lo recoup their losses bv en couraging "See Americu First" tours, and meeting in New York last week they took definite steps in that di rection. That liquor sales are not neces sary to the prosperity of hote.ls is evident from tiie success of the Penn- Harris, which will earn a dividend its first year without ever having sold a drop of booze. The secret of earning capacity is the large volume of travel through Harrisburg and the number of guesttf satisfactorily entertained. If hotels catered exclusively to the 1 raveling public and forgot their barrooms,] all of them would be enjoying greater prosperity than ever, instead of worrying about prospective losses. The American hotelmen have turned their attention in the proper direc tion. The encouragement of sight seeing tours in America will bring millions of dollars to the hotels. With the coming of good roads more and more people will travel, and j with the turning over of the rail- j roads to their owners and the res toration of excursion rates, passenger traffic will show big increases. Then will come the hotelmen's harvest: a harvest to which they will be entitled and which they never need fear tfiat legislative measures will take away. The public should support this new effort wherever possible and all advertising agencies having to do with travel should lend their aid to its success. Ex-Kaiser Biil has sawed 12.00<> logs. Just "saying nothing, but sawing wood," as the old saying has it. A PLEBIAN PRINCE AND SO King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, of Rumirtiia, are | in tears because Prince Charles j prefers his pretty young wife to the shaky old throne of his forefathers! Isn't it sad that a son should behave so badly? Doesn't Charles know that his father and mother didn't raise their son to be a decent mar ried man? Doesn't he know it is much more important that he marry somebody he doesn't love and wear a crown than to wed the girl of his heart nnd settle down to the earn ing of a real, honest-to-goodness livelihood ? AVe fear Charles' education must have been sadly neglected. May be during the hectic days of the war he met up with a parcel of those low-born American doughboys who behaved so rudely in Europe recently and became contaminated with their plebian ideas about love and mar riage. And to think he would disgrace his family by saying right out before everybody that he prefers his wife to riches and would sooner be happy than be king! What's the royalty of Europe coming to anyway? First thing we know this incorrigible youth will be actually working for a living and may be sending his chil dren to the public schools. It would seem he is really just such an im possible person. RECORDS IN DANGER THE strongest argument for a new city and county public building is furnished in the menace which threatens invaluable records stored in the temporary quarters of the City Engineer. Here are documents which could never be replaced, reposing, many of them in wooden cases and subject to al most instant destruction in the event of fire or a deluge of water. For years City Engineer Cowden has been completing his records of the sewer lines, the water mains, the street and other surveys, and his office is also the repository of registered deeds under a recent act of Assembly. These records, once destroyed, would precipitate a most serious . condition and entail a loss that could not be repaired. They should be stored in fireproof vaults in a fireproof building. So it is that, the city and county officials having practically agreed upon the erection of an adequate building for the use of. the various | officials and the courts, no time I should lo lost in perfecting Hie pre liminary plans and proceeding with the work. There is practically no opposition save in isolated quarters, where the need is not appreciated, but where immediate approval is given when conditions are explained. Not only the situation in the office of the City Engineer is serious; there are similar reasons just as urgent in otiier departments in the court house itself why this building should lie erected without unneces sary delay. The last Legislature provided a way for the city and county joining in the erection of such a structure and there would seem to be no\ nothing in ilie way of prompt action. 'Politico Ik "P.>vK4^6rahXa By the Ex-Committeeman Appointmeut of the commission of twenty-five to study and recom mend revision of the Constitution ot itHennsylvunie, provided by tlie lust Legislature, will be mude by Gover nor \\ Illiant C. Sproul before the ; close of this week. The Governor j has given the closest attention to selection of the men to handle this | task, which he regards as the most I important work of his admlnistra -1 tion, and his plan is fo ask Uie i commission to assemble at the | Capitol at an early da.v. • The Governor will select Attorney | General William I. Schaffcr as the I chief representative of the State I Administration, Mr. Schaffcr having given" much time to the. considera tion of the various plans submitted to the last Legislature for a change in the organic law of the Slate, which dates from 1873. Men tep ! resentative of various walks of life I will be chosen for the other places, j The idea is to have the meetings ! held 'here and to hold sessions tlttr | lug the winter, a report recommeud i ing such Changes as are considered | advisable to be made to the Legis [ lature of 1921. To bo submitted to the people the recommendations would have to pass two Legislative I Sessions and could be voted upon in | 191'3. —Clifford B. Connelley. of Pitts burgh, who has been acting Com missioner of Labor and Industry for several mouths, will be formally j commissioned as Commissioner by the Governor. He has been in charge of the department reorgani zation .which is under way. The Connelley appointment as acting commissioner was confirmed by the hist Senate and he will be presented for the lull term next session. —A pretty lively discussion is go ing on in Philadelphia over the di rectorship of public safety for which it is believed Colonel John C. Groomc has the inside track. Some of the labor people are opposing the Col onel, but it is to be noted that a good many people are saying that the Philadelphia police should be put on a New York basis. —Congressman Arthur G. DeWalt is successfully maintaining his si lence about future plans. While in this State n day or so ago he de clined to talk about running again, but it is to be noted that he has been carefully going over reports about his fences. More than once Lehigh has taken the plum by getting Berks Democrats into a tight, which is not hard to do. —The activity of Representative Wilson F. Sarig, of Temple, for the Democratic nomination for Senator in Berks county has caused some friends of Senator George W. Sas saman, of Reading, to become indig nant. They claim that the Reading senator should be given two terms, but Sarig represents a faction that does not care for precedents. —The affairs of Archbald borough, I always more or less turbulent in elections, are to be given some at tention at the hands of the lxicka wana courts this month. The Scran ton Republican says that things are to be well probed. —Ex-State Treasurer James S. Beacom, of Greejisburg, and Charles E. Wliltten, who was one of the men mentioned for appointment as judge last year, are being urged for the vacancy on the orphans' court bench of Westmoreland. —Washington appears to have some Republicans left. The Re publican candidate for register of wills got n majority of 11,000. Schuylkill, Lackawana. Lancaster, Dauphin anil several other counties certainly have been giving majorities, i —Death of Dr. Victor H. Wieand, long the head of tl-e Alientown fair and sheriff of Lehigh for a term, will be regretted by many men in politics. He wns noted for his; activities in behalf of the fair and. for good horses and snectacuiar politics when he got started. —A police shake-up is on in Pitts burgh again. The Pittsburgh Dis patch says: "No more will the over worked 'alibi' suffice to cover lapses in the Pittsburgh bureau of police. So declares Public Safety Director Prichnrd. First it was the 'war alibi,' then the 'striki*alibi.' Now that the force in numbers is normal, the first time since before the war, excuses won't go. Every man—-'be he super intendent. commissioner, lieutenant or patrolman—must show me." said Director Prlohard. Til tolerate no more alibis. Results is what I want.' " —The Altoona Tribune is sounding a note of warning on a subject that is disturbing Mountain C'y people: "Our city is not prospering as it should. It never will* so long as ar rant demagogues are strong enough ! to set its people by the ears. We l i should seek emancipation from all l | such; we should strive to be of one [ j mind touching the general good, j Conservative men should not allow! any rattlebrain who has nothing and! [whose state could not be worse than it is to lend tlieni iistruy. Divided , counsels will get no community any-1 where except along the downward road. We have had some past expe-1 riences that should teach thoughtful cit zens their duty." • j —The Middleburg Post is out with I a boom for Col. Henry W. Shoema- 1 Iter, the Altooiin publisher nnd au-i thor, for Congress-at-large. It praises \ the Colonel's devotion to. Pennsyl-I vania and says: "We ilo not know, whether the Colonel would rare to I Igo to Congress or not, but we are! I making the suggestion for the con-! s deration of Hie nuhl'c,-us well as I for the Colonel. The nomination will l jhe made early next spring.", —Luzerne eountv Republicans are i determined to go through with elec ition fraud probes. The Wilkes-Barre I I Record In an editorial says: "The. chairman of the Republican county! committee announces that he will not j he satisfied with the correction of' fraud-—that he will proceed to prose cute those against whom evidence of guilt lias been obtained. Mr. Dando 1 j is to be commended for go'ng to the' j limit. He will yet have to contend ! with impediments that at other times iheve been thrown across t'-e way in clear caS"s of fraud with the pos s'ble bribing of members of the l Gland Jury or the criminal jury lie fore whom the cases will be taken. The amazing things juries Iwive done in the mist leaves no oilier Inference than thai bribery was suei-ei.sfiill.v practiced." Daps and Daps i [Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph ] I Yesterday was "Father and Son" [Sunday. Why not a "Mother and i Daughter" Sundnj ? And why not a ! special Sunday for grandfathers and | grandmothers, anil one for fathers , In-law and mothers-in-law? And i then there are the brothers and sis i tera. uncles and aunts and other t relatives t'6 consider. | WONDER WHAT A QVEEN OF HEARTS THINKS ABOUT? .. . " ... .... .... ~ 1 ~ " " • - - - * - - -- r - - ■ - - - __i _j —■ ■■ VUELL HSRS. \ AM WHAT DO YOU KMO>A/| THE J)6AI.eR. OP£M3 NQ WQMCER THIS FOR THE FIRST BOOT THAT!!. HIS j CH ? I HATS THAT <SINKS A LO,SR TONIGHT IN POOR FI,SH iv.sstl). IVG TWO OIOE CARD R*S SOY'S HAND R,OOD, KLIGHTT AHEAD OR GCSM CM HRE, U . NOBODT HIM AM* H H.S RAISED I SUPPOSS TAKES. THREE : AND MS AINID MV I'M ON MY WAT vJOST GIRL ffhend VNILL THE SAME P/CSRT- ME FOR IHE BDNE YARD (TAM B£A~ IT R Pipe! WHAT SOOD VMEIt WILL You . OUCH?! NEARLY HE'D HAVE FILLBC WILL THA> DO? LOOK WHO'S FTROKE _ MY Nose His FLUSH - S'PoSE • AB - U C§M? J? H L^DY LAOY ' ,F THE WAY H6 SLAMMED He's SORE AS A WITH THAT ,HIS H^TVJD OOESN ' R ME Down. 'TWASIU'T CRAB AT ME U NEXT CARD: WISH PUT OM VELVET MY FAULT THE DEALER I SHOULD WORRY HE WOULDN'T PLCK 'EM, GOO"D NLGHT !-(.H • S HAD FOUR KINGS •!' OP owe BY owe HAND FEELS A WELL TOLD roo TRIFLE IREMULOUS HOLO I HATED HIM, The Price America Paid j [From the Kansas City Star.] I Henry Wysham Lanter, writing in 'the World's Work, records that of I thirty general officers in the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces who were asked vv hat proportion of American battle losses was due to lack of training, twenty-six estimated it at one-lialf. and the other four at one third. That is the price America paid for the unpreparedness and lack of mili tary policy with which it entered the vtar. A lieutenant general whose divi sion was attached to General Dubon net's corps, and which hail a French division on each side of it, gives this testimony: "The French commander spoke to me one day, before all his staff, at a council: "General, I wish you'd do something about your losses.' Then he showed me a tabulation he'll had made up, showing that my regiments, under exactly similar con ditions. were losing from two to four times as many men as the French on either side of us. 'lt is frightful,' said he, 'for God's sake, general, speak to your men.' " There was only one explanation, and the lieutenant general admitted it. The American Army hnd not had time to train properly. The men were not trained, the. officers were not .trained, a spirit of recklessness and daring destroyed discipline, everybody wanted to take a hand in whatever was to be done, and the result of it all was that the Ameri cans' objectives always cost more than the current price paid by the French. | The testimony of all general offi cers is of .a piece. Brigades dis ' obeyed orders in order to get into , the fighting where they were not needed, adding confusion rather than strength and weakening the line else where. One such breach of dis cipline at Montfaucon is estimated to have cost 3,000 American lives. ] Officers xlidn't know where their commands were. Artillery fire was wrongly directed. Communications were broken. Scientific war was re duced to a, melee. Such accounts are hard reading for Americans proud of their army and of its brilliant feats. But their meaning must he faced. America fought blindly, and with its hands rather than with its head. It paid the price of long neglect of the Na tional defense. Knowing that mod ern war was a highly organized science it had taken no forethought, and relied upon the personal brav ery of untrained citizens to take the place of military experience, discip ! line and technical knowledge. Has ] the costly lesson been learned? The 'action of Congress must show. Array [legislation is now pending there, and if it is to include provision for mili tary training the country cannot af iforil to leave it to chunee or the ex- I pediency of politics. An enlightened public opinion must bring its influ ence to bear and make unmistakable the demand that never again shall American lives be sacrificed to igno | ranee anil unpreparedne9s as they j were In this war. , 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"" i The $2.75 shirt is worrying more men than the 2.75 beer.— Boston Herald. Having the Senate, we have one form of air mastery.—Greenville I <B. C.) Piedmont. ' Once there was a town that had |no street railway troubles, it had j no street'railway.— Detroiit Journul. I "Capital and labor are one!" ] shouts an economist. But he fails |to designate which one. —Savannah I News. i Seems a pity there isn't some [Chinese poet who can go anil cap ture Shantung.-—New Orleans Times- I Picayune. Alight does not mala* right, but ] there are few rights established without might.—Greenville 18. I'.) Piedmont, i The chief difference between a | conservative anil a radical is that i the conservative has got his.— Foun tain Inn (8. ('.) Tribune. Postal efficiency, says Mr. Burle son. "borders on the miraculous." It border.* on the incredible at least.- —New York World. Mavis* these magazine publishers that are moving from New Yoik "lo the AHddle West are looking for a j larger English-reading public.— | Boston Herald. A lot of Reds, who spend their .time declaring war on organized so ! clety, always seem to be pained and [surprised when organized society [takes up the challenge.—New York Evening Sun. Boy. page Mr. Hoover, and show Jhlm the- sugar bowl.—-'Wall Street journal. i* DOUGHBOYS PAID THE PRICE Roosevelt's New Book Shows Sins of Unpreparedness; Swivel Cliair Statesmen May Glory ill Our Unreadiness, But Those Who Fought Know Cost, Says the Ex-Lieu tenant Colonel. ONE may gain a vivid and true conception of the trials of the American doughboys, those of the American Expeditionary Force who saw actual fighting, by reading Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt's re cent book, "Average Americans" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York). In its pages is set forth the story of hardships brought on by the Na tion's adherence to the prophets of unpreparedness, but overcome by the unconquerabl-e spirit of the lighting man and at what cost. The writing is easily distinguishable as that of a man who knew the labor of combat, the whine of shells and zip of bullets. It is not the war stuff turned out by the usual cor respondent writing front brigade headquarters or farther back, or one who took an occasional dash to the front to get material for copy. Colonel Roosevelt went overseas among the first of the American forces and in the war served the greater part of the time as a major in the 26th infantry. While his book incidents deal altogether with the operations of that unit and the Ist division, yet the story is typical of the experience of all those com bat divisions that met the enemy face to face. For a son of the first Theodore Roosevelt to write a book on the war without reference to the result ing Soldier suffering due to the long | years of an unpreparedness policy of the government would be impos sible. Early in the volume he says: | "It is all very well for someone) comfortably ensconced in his swivel chair in Washington to issue the statement that he glories in the fact that wc went into this war un prepared. It may be glorious for him. but it was not glorious for those who fought the war, for those who pay the price. The clap-trap statesmen of this type should be forced to go themselves, or at least have their sons, as guarantee of their good faith, join the fighting forces. Needless to say, none of them did." The author declares that to the average persoh at home the woes of unpreparednesis are not evident. "They read of battles, they read of courage of the men, or the casual ties, of the glory. They do not ap- j preeiate the unnecessary sacrifices ; and the unnecessary hardships on ! us by our policies." ( Not a Post-War I-anient. Roosevelt is not que of those who sings a post-war lapient in useless uncofistructive criticism of those j who managed affairs. "We had the i lesson of unpreparedness illustrated i Iso that we can all understand it," j hq says. "We must not now content j ourselves wilh admitting we were' wrong. That does not get us any I further forward. We must adopt | measures to see that it does not oc- : cur again. The policy- that I be- | lieve is necessary to this end is com- I pulsory training—from an economic | standpoint alone, compulsory train-4 ing would be of untold benefit. The j economic unit of the community is j tiie individual. By training and.de veloping the individual you develop , the economic assets. The*stnal! losi i in time from a money carping as- j | peet would be the times dampen- i j siitcjl by the increased efficiency t after training. From a moral stand- ] point the individual would be ! j broadened by contact, trained in j i fundamentals . and self discipline, | and have one of the surest founda- ■ tions of clean thought, and clean! action, u healthy body." i One phase of our unreadiness for ; I war dealt with in the book is that j lof supplies. "When I say that our ! [ troops were coming across in large ! | numbers (this was more than a! ! year after the beginning of the war) j | let it be borne in mind that, though ; [•the men did come, munitions and ! | weapons of war did i(s)t come. The ] Browning automatic rifle, for ex- ! i ample * was invented in the i United States in the summer ef < 1917.' When the war finished it hail just been placed for the first time I | in the hands of a linvted number of | our divisions: my division, the Ist. I never hail thoni until a month after ] the armlst'ce. We used the old French chauchat. a very inferior, weapon. None of our airplanes had come, und the death of many of our young men was directly traceable to this, as t'ley. 6f necessity, used in ferior machines. Our cannon was. 1 ! ard remained. French. Qur troops j j were at. times, issued British unl- I forms Aid many of the men oh- : I .trenuously to wearing them 1 on account of the buttons with the crown stamped on them. Our sup- Ply of boots, up to and including the march into Germany, was com posed in part of British boots. These boots had a low instep and caused much foot trouble. These are facts no amount of words can cover, no speeches explain away." The Spirit of The Men Contrasted against the unprepar edness of the Nation In material and knowledge of war is the f pir fighting men. Regard less of their safety the fighting forces went willingly to the battle determined that high courage p,° uld overcome ull difficulties, i ictuie then this little cross section of life on the battle field as troops march to the attack: "The infantry slogged through the mud, up roads cut to pieces bv trucks and over trails ankle deep in water. The artillery skittered and '" to Place. The tanks clanked and rattled up, breaking the columns and tearing up what was left of the road. It was so dark you could hardly see your hand before your face. • * * The troops reached the position safely by about 4 o clock. Our position lay along the edge of a rugged and steep ravine. The rain had stopped and the first faint pink of the early summer morning lighted the sky. Absolute silence hung over everything, broken only by twittering of birds. Sud denly out of the stillness, without warning of a preliminary shot, our artillery opened with a crash. All along the horizon, silhouetted against the pale pink of the early dawn, was the tufted smoke of high explosive shells, and the burst of shrapnel showed in flashes like the spitting of a broken electric wire in a hailstorm. After the bombard meat had been Koing on for two or three minutes, D company, on the right, became impatient and wanted to attack, and 1 heard the men be-' gin to call, 'Let's go, let's go!" * Another description takes up events after the men have marched and fought twenty-four hours with out stopping and orders come to move to a new sector for attack. 'All night long the men plowed like mud-caked specters, through the dark, some staggering as they walked. * * * Often we had to make detours, m the Germans had niinl the road. * • • Everyone had reached the last stages of exhaustion. * * * A corking good otfi-1 ccr fainted on the march, iay un conscious in the mud for art hour, i came to, and joined his company I before the morning attack. Major j Frazier, while riding at the head of his battalion, fell asleep on his rrorae ! and rolled off. Anxious to Meet Germans. "As I rode* up and down the { column I watched the men.' Most! of them were ao tired that they said • but little. Occasionally, however, I would run on to some of the old men laughing and joking us usual. I re member hearing • a sergeant who was closing the rear of one platoon, say, 'Oooh, lu la!" "What is it, sergeant, aren't you getting enough exercise?" I asked hiifi. " 'Exercise is it. sir? It's not the exercise I'm worried with, but 1 do] be afraid that them Germans are' better runners than we are!' "Another time I passed an old ! sergeant named Johnson. " 'Sir,' asked Johnson, 'when do! we hit 'em?' " 'l'm not sure, sergeant,' I said, I 'but I think about a kilometer anil • a half from here. " 'That's good, Johnson replied. 'lf we can once get them and do 'etn up proper they will let us have a rest.' "Johnson voiced there the senti ments of the rank and file. They had been set a task and it never en tered Into their calculations that they could not do the task. They wanted to do it. do it well, anil then have their rest." Appropriate Plants [From Cartoons Magazine] For students: Reed. For hustlers: Rush. For widows: Weeds. For cranks: Nettle. For babies: Creepers. For fortune-tellers: Palms. For masseurs: Rubber-plant. ■ For vampires: Poison-ivy. For misers: Goldenrod. For gossips: Cat-tails. For toreadors: Bull-rushes. Deport Them [Prom Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] From a half score of cities located in as many widely separated States j news has been received this week of | the rounding up of professed anar j chists and the seizure of their sedi tious literature. In most instances the persons arrested are aliens, and in some cases there was prima facie evidence that the propaganda was being directed and financed from Russia. Of the scores and hundreds arrested for crimes against the Gov ernment during the past few months, comparatively few have been tried and fewer still after con viction have been actually deported, as provided for by law. The country demands more expe dition in this connection, and this would assure not only an object les son for the criminals who have thus far eluded the legal net, but would assure greater respect for judicial procedure on the part of normally law-abiding native-born Americans. The consumption of time, after con viction, over hair-splitting techni calities, as in the Goldman case, or the tardiness of courts to take action after the original arrest of Reds, are responsible in some degree for such scenes as those witnessed' in Cen tralis, Wahington, after the cow ardly murder of four members of the American Legion parading on Armistice Day. There can be no justification for lynch law, although the provocation in this instance was almost irresistible. ■ A soldier boy overpowered by fa tigue goes to sleep on his post in the face of the enemy. His trial is swift and upon conviction his life is the promptly-exacted forfeit.. The life of the Nation is not only openly menaced and the future welfare of its citizens jeopardized, but physical as well as verbal crimes are being committed by the Reds. The coun try does not advocate military law in times of peace, but it does de mand the speeding up of the ma chinery of justice in the pursuit of the enemies of organized society. AVhen any of these enemies are con victed of murder the penalty should be promptly exacted. When they are convicted of crimes the penalty for which is deportation, they should be deported without unnec essary delay. Hcave-ings! I From Cartoons Magazine] I have viewed tense situations With all kinds of complications In the good old melodrama; I'm a judge. You may believe— But there's naught that ever thrilled me. With elastic joy so filled me. As the close-up of the hero when his chest begins to heave. I've seen frenzied, frantic love scenes. And the sweetest turtle-dove scenes; I've seen the villain hissed and foiled; I've heard his parents grieve; But no intrigue nor 'devotion Could consume me with emotion Like the close-tip of the hero when his chest begins to heave. At the great dramatic crisis ' Both my hands go cold us ice is, And my heart is pounding madly, and my nerves on the qui vive; For by all the signs I know it, That eftsoons they're going to show That rare close-up of the hero, with his chest upon the heave At Saint Botolph-town's tea-party, Painted Injuns, hale and hearty. Hove King George's tea-chest's over board, without a "by your leave"— 1 hey thought they were some chest- 1 heavers As they toiled by night like heavers; But they've nothing on our liero when his chest begins to heave! Edict Against Face Paint [From the Brooklyn Eagle.] Rouge and powder, short dresses | and openwork waists are not artistic. Neither do they show a balanced judgment. For those reasons Pafck er Collegiate Institution here has banned them. There have been violations. Sev eral pupils have appeared at the school with signs or the vanity box on their clieoks and the down of the puff on their noses. They found that the faculty was not Joking. They were asked to adjourn to a wash room and on reporting to class to show a countenance open and above paint. A second violation means a tenor* • parent or guardian hunting (Elptt The line of Pennsylvania's famous "boardwalk," the path In Capitol Park that has bean trodden by thousands of men in public life in the Keystone State in the las. ninety-oight years, is to be preserved In the laying: out of the park under the general improvement plans. It was proposed that the approach to .the Capitol should wind among the trees and along the Third street side of the park, but it has been decided to maintain tho walk, that was laid out when the Capitol was occupied almost a century ago. This walk starts from T h i r ,j and AVmlnul streets, opposite the Federal IhnJd mg. and runs straight to the south wing of the Capitol. It has Gju-cd much in (lie politioai history of the State. Originally the walk was o' urick, being laid out in 1820 the year before the Caniioi was occu pied. and the State authorities lined it with elms, some still standing, and other trees, most of which have dis appeared. Shortly after the Civil War the brick pavement was taken up and a boardwalk constructed. It was renewed a dozen times and was as well known In the talk of the day as the rotunda of the Capitol. Ihe boardwalk disappeared in favor of concrete about thirty years aco and the hard frosts and growth of roots of trees have put corrugations into its surface so that it will have to be relaid. The State authorities decided to keep the historic lines and the avenue of elms for posterity in the* new scheme of things. • * ♦ In preparation for the improve ments to be made to (he Capitol grounds and the new buildings, bor ings had to be made and they have established that Pennsylvania's State House is built upon living rock. Al most 100 borings have been made, 42 of them alone for the new office building and 20 or 30 for the section of the granite terrace which is to be constructed east of the Capitol building. Most of them went into the hardest kind of slate and others struck trap of an extremely hard variety. The whole knoll upon which the Capitol stands was found to be rock with a.very thin covering of soil, so scanty in places that the surface was virtually rock The foundations of the Capitol itself had to cut into rock when it was rebuilt late in the nineties. 'l St I ? 1 ,' J ' Sachse, the Philadelphia historian, will be re gretted by many here, as he was much interested in the historv of this section of the State and in a number of his works referred to the importance of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania affairs. He frequently visited here and was an authoritv on Masonic matters. Mention in this column of the fine collection of Indian relics at the State Museum has stirred interest in such matters and it is probable that more will be heard of the num bers of fine arrow heads and other articles that have been picked up in this city and vicinity. The Dauphin County Historical Society has one of the finest of the smaller collections, showing a specimen of almost every thing that has come down from the Indians who lived in this part of the State. Several of the schools also have collections, some of which were made by pupils. Saturday's; football game had a bad effect upon the Capitol Hill squirrels. Some of them are just recovering. The squirrels did not have anything bet on the game but they were the recipients of much attention from the Bucknell and Gettysburg students who appeared to think that their chief job was to buy peanuts for the animals. To be frank about it, some of the bushy tails got indigestion. Attaches of the State Depart ment of Health, who are required by departmental rules to relax and take exercise at stated intervals during the day, have turned regula tions into pleasure. In some of the corridors at the Capitol when the hour for opening the windows and exercising comes around, the em ployes take to the center of the rooms and after some simple calis thenics have some dances. These are popularly called "health dances" and are one of the most popular features of the day. They only last five minutes, but no one appears to miss a single chance. * • * State Treasury officials are look ing for the $50,000,000 mark in Stute revenue to be passed by the time the State fiscal year ends on November 30. The income of the State so far is over $45,000,000, with some big accounts in process of set tlement, and it is believed that, the remaining $5,000,000 can be ob tained. Generally the last fortnight of the fiscal year is marked by tre mendous payments and some large settlements will appear. As tar as the Auditor General's Department is concerned it has made up the settlements for this year and has proceeded vigorously in getting in back taxes. ♦ * * [ VELL KNCWN PEOPLE —Justice John W. Kephart has sold his interest in his Patton news paper and is stiU owner of two papers in Cambria county. —W". C. Stanton, we'll known here, has been named an engineer of the Philadelphia Zoning Commission. —W. B. Kirkcr. Allegheny pro tlionotary, who has been seriously ill, has gone to the home of A brother at Erie, to recuperute. —Aaron S. Swartx. Jr., son of the Montgomery judge, is head of one of the largest Sunday schools in that county. —Col. O. B. Mehurd, head of one of the artillery regiments of the new Guard, lias started to recruit and hopes to get all overseas men. —George 11. Orth, of the State De partment of Banking, will be a speaker at the conference of money brokers in Philadelphia. —Senator C. E. Donahoe shot a wild turkey in Clinton county before breakfast on the opening day. j DO YOU KNOW —Thai Harrisburg was repre sented in a dozen branches of the service during the war? HISTORIC HARRISBCItG —This place had a pillory, which stood in Harris park near Vine street. It went out of business be fore 1800.
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