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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Founded 1831
Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.
Telegraph Building. I'cd-rul Square
E. J. STACK POLE
President and Editor-in-Chief
P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS. M. STF.INMETZ, Managing Editor
A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager
Executive Board
3. P. McCULLOUGH,
BOYD M. OGLESBY,
F. R. OYSTER.
GUS. M. STEINMETZ.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26. 1919
There arc nettles everywhere,
Rut smooth yreen grasses arc more
common still:
The blue of heaven is larger than
the cloud. —E. B. BROWNING.
COUNCIL SIZES UP
CITY COUNCIL has sized up to
the needs and desires of the
community with respect to pub
lic improvements and there will be
small objection to the adoption of
any of the items of the $490,000
loan, the ordinances for which were
passed yesterday.
Everybody in the city is convinced
of the importance of transfer
ring the Walnut street bridge fund
to State street. That is evident
from the support the movement has
received in every quarter. The
great memorial viaduct will be one
of the landmarks of Central Penn
sylvania for centuries to come, and
the people will most heartily ap
prove the transfer of the fund set
aside for the smaller project to this
newer and far greater develop
ment.
So, also, with sewers and street
paving. These are matters that
must be attended to at once and no
one part of the city will be cared
for at the expense of another. Part
of the money will go to the east end
and part to the upper part of
town, so far as new drainage is
concerned while the paving appro
priation will be used wherever
there is need for it.
Harrisburg is one of the best
paved cities in the country and it
must continue to uphold that dis
tinction. Indeed, since the first pav
ing loan passed there never has
been any trouble about getting
money for highways. The ad
vantages of paved thoroughfares
are so obvious that everybody
wants them.
For years Harrisburg people
have favored the establishment of
municipal bathing beaches. They
have only awaited opportunity to
endorse such a loan as will come
before them this fall. Their vote
for the $40,000 proposed will be
nearly unanimous, unless all signs
fail. And aside from providing for
the needs of our own people, these
beaches will bring hundreds of ex
cursionists and visitors to Harris
burg every year. We can make
Harrisburg a great watering place
if we are so minded, and at present
both city authorities and the people
appear to be agreed that we should
go ahead with the development of
the Susquehanna basin at this point
us a recreation place.
Some years ago an intensive
campaign would have been neces
sary to carry a half million loan to
success at the polls. But little urg
ing tyill be necessary at this time.
Our people are thoroughly convert
ed to the need of keeping their city
apace with the times—or a little
ahead—and are willing to spend
their money in any reasonable pub
lic improvement that may have the
recommendation of council.
Welfare and community effort is
taking form in many interesting in
novations under the spur of the War
Camp Community Service. In New
York, for instance, blocks are being
organized by the people and fre
quently the organized service is called
upon only for supervision of the
community activities. When those
most to be helped—men, women and
children—in a given locality band
themselves together for the good of
all there is certain to be great bene
fit and for that reason encourage
ment ought to be given every com
munity center.
EXIT THE HAPSBURGS
HERBERT HOOVER'S protest
to Allied authorities against
the re-establishment of the
Hapsburgs in the affairs of Austria
and Hungary has had the effect de
sired. This family of marplots has
had a baneful influence on South
ern Europe especially and the
TUESDAY EVENING,
world in general for a century or
more and it is high time that they
be relegated to the limbo of deposed
rulers.
Had they succeeded in their at-
I tempt to step back into power the
I Holienzolierns would have been
i next to set up a claim. The Allied
counsel has done well in settling
I for all time the ambitions of the
I Hapsburgs to revive their kingship
! in Hungary, and its action in ihis
instance will have an excellent ef
fect upon others of their ilk who
1 have been watching with interest
j every move of their play for a re
turn to power.
I Postmaster General Burleson is
! coming to Harrisburg for the State
i convention of postmasters next week
i and will receive on behalf of his de-
I partment a portrait in oil of Benja
' mill Franklin, the first Postmaster
i General of the United States. It will
j be the gift of the Pennsylvania post
masters. The postal clerks, it is in
timated, would be greatly interested
in a picture of Franklin on a voucher
for increased pay with Mr. Burleson's
autograph.
THE LABOR PARADE
IN SETTING forth the attractions
of the Labor Day program we
ought not lose sight of the labor
j parade scheduled for the morning
!of that day. The committee in
charge is striving to make it the
; largest and most attractive of its
kind ever held in Pennsylvania. No
; expense is being spared either for
I music or costumes and a big turn-
I out of representatives of the vari
j ous trades. With the parade in the
morning and the Kipona in the af
j ternoon and evening, Harrisburg
may look forward to a busy and
colorful day.
The planting of trees as soldier
memorials while contributing at the
same time to the attractiveness of
highway has been well started in
Lancaster county, where fifty Amer
ican elms and sycamores, from eight
to ten feet high, have been set out
along the Lincoln Highway between
Lancaster and Columbia. This is the
beginning of the beautifying of the
popular Susquehanna drive. The
elms were selected by direction of
the State Forestry Department, which
recommends the employment of long
lived, hardy trees for Lincoln High
way beautiflcation. Beautiful trees
will eventually hedge all main high- j
ways in Pennsylvania, else we miss '
our guess.
STRAWS SHOW TREND j
NOTHING more significant of I
the shifting opinion of the j
great working population of 1
the United States has come to the i
surface than the declaration by I
representatives of the various plants
of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance
Company, operating under a col
lective bargaining plan, that "the
persistent and unceasing demand of
workmen employed in all classes
and kinds of industries for a short
er day's work and an increased
wage in order to meet the present
high cost of living is uneconomic
and unwise and should not be en
couraged."
These men believe that private j
monopolies should be controlled,
profits restricted to a rate that shall 1
be fair to the consumer, that un
necessary exports of food and cloth- !
ing be restricted and that all stores i
of hoarded supplies be uncovered
and placed in the open market.
All of which, as the definite ex
pression of 30,000 men of a single
corporation, suggests sanity of view
and a hopeful trend toward real
Americanism.
;
Ambassador Fletcher is generally
understood to be qualified as no other
diplomatic representative in Ameri
can service to handle the mixed and
increasingly difficult situation in
Mexico. He knows the Latin peoples
and should it happen that in the pro
posed commission to arbitrate differ
ences between this country and Mex
ico he is chosen to represent the
United States we may feel assurance
of intelligent treatment of the whole
matter. The Mexican question can
not be allowed to vex our people
endlessly, and Fletcher may be trust
ed to point the way out.
JAPANESE DIFFERENCES
THERE is significance in the
Associated Press dispatch
from Tokio giving account of
the differences of opinion that have
arisen in Japanese circles over Ja
pan's policy toward China. The
very fact that this dissension has
found its way into the public prints
is indication of its seriousness, for
the Japanese government is very
reticent and very little of its inside
workings or disagreements reach
the outside world. Perhaps, upon
the outcome will hinge the extent to
which the United States will have
to go immediately into Far Eastern
affairs. Maybe the Shantung inci
dent will be settled by the Japanese
themselves. At all events the Lodge
| policy of guarantees for the protec-
I tion of China is greatly strength
ened by this new development.
WANT TO TAKE PART?
THE KIPONA celebration is
YOUR celebration, Mr., Mrs.
and Miss Harrisburger, and if
you would like to have a part in
it call up the War Camp Commun
ity Service, and communicate your
desire. Those in charge of the
pageant will be happy to assign you
to a place in the big show.
There will a lot of fun for the
spectators at the celebration, no
doubt, but to have a place in the
biggest event of its kind in the city's
history will be an honor to which
anybody may well aspire.
It is YOUR Kipona and here is
your opportunity to help make it
a great success.
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By the Ex-Commlttceman
State-wide interest has been
aroused by tho opening of the regis
tration period in Philadelphia to
day because of the great importance
of the contest over the Republican
mayoralty and councilmanic nomi
nations to be decided at the Sep
tember primary. These nomina
tions are preliminary for the tirst
election of officials to serve under
the new charter which occupied so
much of the attention of the recent
Legislature.
Philadelphia has different regis
tration days from other cities for
the Hist time and the lirst of the
three days is looked upon by some
people us a test of strength. News
papers in the Quaker City are
strongly urging the voters to go out
and register, calling those who fail
"slackers". The Public Ledger, for
instance, says that many independ
ents are "slackers" and that many
of them are loud complainers. It
is believed that the Yares will hold
back their registration in order to
size up the independent strength.
Meanwhile the war goes merrily on
and new attacks are made daily on
the Vare strength and inlluence.
Congressman J. Hampton Moore has
issued a series of statements show
ing how the Senator's control works
to the benefit of the Senator and the
Ledger says the issue is Mr. Vare.
Mr. Moore is pointing especially to
Philadelphia's chances and wliat a
big asset is its river.
—An Interesting illustration of the
way the Philadelphia contest is
viewed outside of the State is fur
nished in an article in the Phila
delphia Press from its Washington
correspondent. The Press says that
some of the National Republicans
fear that defeat of Congressman
Moore, who is backed by Senator
Roies Penrose, might mean the de
feat of the Senator next year and
that already there is talk of a can
didate against the Senator who will
be stronger than recent opponents.
However, Governor Sproul, ex-Gov
ernor Stuart and C. H. K. Curtis,
whom It mentions as possibilities,
have been talked of before. The
Press article says bluntly that "de
feat of the Penrose faction jn this
mayoralty tight would mean the re
tirement of Senator Penrose in
1921 at the apex of his career." It
would also end the career in Con
gress of Mr. Moore.
—The Press likewise says that the
movement to nominate Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer for
President is growing and that it is
taken seriously, so seriously that
opposition to him in the Senate and
to his course us alien property cus
todian grows out of fear of his
prowess.
—Washington does not take seri
ously the Gifford Pinehot. boom.
The conference held here last
month has been measured up and
while much has been made of it by
the various means used by the for
mer forester it is regarded as hav
ing been more or less of a frost.
Many former progressives have re
fused to line up either for Pinehot
for Senator or in an organization in
side of the Republican party in line
with his so-called "progressive"
ideas.
—Much that will be worth watch
ing in Democratic State politics will
develop at the convention of the
postmasters of Pennsylvania to be
held here next week. Virtually
every Democratic leader will be
here, the presence of cabinet offi
cers being a good excuse for them
to come to Harrisburg when the
postmasters come to town.
—ln spite of the manner in which
some Democratic newspapers used
to assail everything the Republicans
did it is noticeable that they are
not only using the organization
methods employed in years gone by
in Pennsylvania, but are improving
them. The Democratic machine in
this State is as good as the Demo
cratic machine in any southern
State when it comes to collecting
cash.
—While some Democratic leaders
have heard of the plight into which
tho Democratic organization in
Dauphin county has fallen and
know the lamentable showing made
in the 17th, 18th and 20th Congres
sional districts in 1918, it is said
that they do not intend to criticize
unless they are attacked for condi
tions in their home districts. Then
they may point to certain examples
of lack of ability to keep up party
spirit.
—Judge John M. Garman will not
be opposed for judge in Luzerne
county. The Sherwood withdrawal
is now announced as leaving the
field clear. Talk that Sherwood
would run independent for district
attorney is not believed.
—Things are growing interesting
in York county just now and this
from the Philadelphia Inquirer
shows a trend that will be worth
watching: "While a factional strug
gle in the Republican ranks between
the Lewis (Penrose) and Lafean
(anti-Penrose) followers was preci
pitated by the last-hour candidacy
of George T. Eckert for county
treasurer, and Stuart Lafean's switch
from the fight for nomination as
register of wills, Republican chances
for snatching one of the county of
fices from the Democrats at the
general election is vastly improved.
Lafean successfully evaded the ef
fort to compel him to make his fight
against a popular hero. Lewis has
the only candidate who, at the pres
ent time, seems to have any chance
of overcoming the Democratic pre
ponderance, as shown by the regis
tration in the county."
—Lancaster county Democrats are
fighting just like the Dauphin Demo
crats. A Lancaster dispatch to the
Philadelphia Public Ledger says:
"The County Commissionership is the
only court house office to ■which
the Democrats ot' this county have
representation and they hold mem
bership on the Board through virtue
of a legal provision that makes it
compulsory for the minority party
to hold such representation. In con
sequence there is invariably a heated
contest at the primaries for the se
lection of the nominee. This fall
breaks the record, with nine aspir
ants in the field, for in thin instance
a nomination is tantamount to elec
tion."
—General E. C. Shannon, who
commanded the 111 th Infantry in
France, is Republican candidate for
prothonotary in Lancaster; Major
Q. O. Retizel, former legislator and
former commander of a machine
gun battalion, is a candidate for
register of wills and Captain W. C.
ltehn, of the 109 th machine gun
battalion, for district attorney. In
Schuylkill county Captain John 13.
Scholottman, commanding Pottsville
engineers in France, • is to be Re
publican candidate for county con
troller, and Major G. O. Santee for
coroner. In Northumberland Cap
tain C. K. Morganroth, of Shamokin,
is candidate for district attorney.
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No Wonder
Germany Quit
By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIX
Of the Army Recruiting Station
"One of the most daring and sue- 1
cessful stunts pulled off during the i
entire war was the manner in which !
General Gouraud (French) broke j
up the Boche offensive east of j
Rheints on July 15,' said Major;
Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Re
cruiting Station, 325 Market street. |
"The main part of General Gou
raud's army was French, but he had |
the American 42nd Division and the !
369 th Infantry (colored) attached,
as welt as a few other American ]
units. You know on that date the i
Boche started their fifth and last j
offensive for the war and of all five
it was to be the greatest. Paris was
to fall, the French were to be
crushed and victory was to perch
on the Gerfnan eagle's shoulders,
before the despised Americans could
get their troops trained. But again
the Boche miscalculated. They at
tacked on a front of about 50 miles
on both sides of Rheims. Down
on the Marne near Chateau-Thierry
they ran into a bunch of Yanks,
known as the 3rd and 28th Divisions,
who didn't have sense enough to
beat it when they were licked and
on the east friend Gouraud fooled
them to a fare-you-well, so the at
tack between these two outfits per
force failed. Now our 'rotten poor'
espionage, system which could not
compare with the 'efficient' Boche
told us days in advance that the
attack was coming at 5 a. m., July
15, and naturally such a piece of in-;
formation is of quite some little as
sistance. If you know beforehand
that a man is going to take a swipe
at you at a certain moment his
chances of damaging you severely
with that swipe are decidedly slim.
And so it was with this fifth offen
sive. General Gouraud decided to
take a chance and do something
that had never been tried before, as
he knew just when the attack was
to come. The night of the 14th iie
moved every battery in his area so
that when the Boche bombardment
came they wouldn't know where his
batteries were and consequently they
would be fresh and untouched when
the Boche infantry came over. Fur
ther, he decided not to fire at them
until they were within our own lines
and to just shell the tar out of them
then. Before the bombardment
started all our infantry drew back
from the first and second lines into
the third lines, giving about a mile
and a half of trenches that were un
occupied. For each group of guns
a series of observation posts were
built as strongly as possible, con
nected with the batteries by tele
phones and also furnished with
rockets. One man was placed in
each post and he was to stay there
and be captured. That mile and a
half of trenches was divided into
zones which were designated as tar
gets A, B, C, and so forth. As the
Boche entered Zone A, the observer
telephoned back 'A' and kerbang,
came the most Intense barrage pos
sible. When they entered Zone B
the next observer telephoned 'B,' the
artillery shifted their range and the
Boche continued to catch—well,
something unpleasant. Now all this
time the French and American in
fantry were sitting back in the third
line trenches laughing up their
sleeves while the Boche artillery
pounded that mile and a half of
trenches in front of them to pieces,
and no one was there to get hurt
except the observers. Our boys
were simply waiting in safety until
the Boche got close enough for our
' rifles to get busy, but meantime our
machine guns, getting their firing
data in the same way as the artil
lery, were also barraging for all they
were worth. Finally a few shat
tered units approached the third line
and then our riflemen and automatic
rifles finished what the artillery and
machine guns had started. For
three days the Boche lay in front
of that third line trench and on the
ISth, when the Allied counter offen
sive started at Soissons and on the
Marne, Gouraud, too, attacked and
drove the Boche back into his orig
inal lines. What was the result?
The Boche had lost about 100,000
men to take a mile and a half of
shell-torn trenches and hold that
strip for three days. But think of
the nerve of General Gouraud in
abandoning two lines of trenches, in
putting all his faith in holding up
that great attack on the one third
line trench. If his scheme had fail
| ed, all the valor of the boys down
on the Marne would have been of
no avail and the fifth Boche offen
] sive would have been a success. But
it took one of the Allies to abso
' lutely break loose from all precedent
and risk everything on what he was
BERMUDAS HELPED COLONIES
TO WIN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Powder With Wliloh British Wore Driven From Boston Came From
Islands Where American History, 011 u Miniature Scale, Was Enact
ed Before It Transpired Here.
From a National Geographic Society Bulletin.
THE Bermuda Islands suggest |
the adventures of Robinson
Crusoe in their colonization
and present in their later chro
nology a curious parallel to United
States history, with the events con
sistently predated by a number of
years.
A principal group of the British
West Indies, some Englishmen sug
gest the Bermudas should be ceded
to the United States in part pay
ment of the American war loans to
Great Britain.
The Robinson Crusoe comparison
discovered and later settled, as the
direct result of shipwrecks; and the
settleis had to build themselves a
bark to set sail again. As for the
anticipation of American history,
on a miniature scale, it may be
noted that the colonizatiou took
place seven years before the Pil
grims landed at Plymouth, Mass.,
that witches were burned, Quakers
were persecuted and miscreants
were ducked, before similar occur
rences are recorded in New Eng
land; and that slavery was abolished
in 1834. The Bermudians protest
ed long before 1776 against the
mother country's rule, until the
island prisons were over full, but
relief came, in their case. not
through a declaration of freedom,
but by the accession of Cromwell.
But the essential point of contact
of the American with the Bermudian
arises the immortal Lafayette gal
lantly helped the colonies conclude
their way of independence, the Ber
mudians supplied the ammunition
to begin it.
Furnished Colonics With Powder
Sojicute was the need for powder
in 1775 that George Washington
wrote to the governor of Rhode
Island that "no quantity, however
small, is beneath notice." Learning
that there was a store in Bermuda,
and that the islanders were anxi
ous to have the embargo lifted on
food supplies from the colonies.
Washington addressed a letter to
the people of the island, who had
shown themselves sympathetic with
the American revolutionists, prom
ising them ample supply of provi
sions and "every other mark of af
fection and friendship which the
grateful citizens of a free countrv
can bestow on its brethren and
benefactors" if they would make tliis
ammunition available for the Con
tinental Army.
The powder had been procured
and with it the Continental Armv
compelled the British to evacuate
Boston.
Not only the sale of the powder
but the fact that Bermuda allowed
the colonics to have salt, so incensed
sure was a stroke of genius, a stroke
of genius that went a long way to
wards sending the Kaiser to Hol
land."
Femininity in the Fashions
[From the New York Sun]
Paris has been showing its new
fashions in clothes for women, and
in them "there is not the slightest
suggestion of masculine, tailor-made
effects." On the contrary, "soft
materials are used generally, and
flounces and panniers g ve the de-
I signs a strictly feminine appear-
I ance." The fears entertained by
! some timid souls that women's war
! time uniforms, built for convenience
! and hard wear, would leave a leg
j acy of mannish modes are not ful
! filled. Woman will decorate her
self, as she has for ages, in what
seems to her most attractive and
! best adapted to display her charms.
Beauty and Brains
I [From the Philadelphia Record]
Some one with nothing more im
portant to think of asks why pretty
! girls are brainless. Before answer
i ing the question it might be worth
i while to establish the fact. There
! are no known available statistics.
|No uplifter has deigned to gather
: any. Thus the relation between
I beauty and intellect remains a mat-
I ter of personal opinion merely. The
| burden of proof that the two quali
ties are incompatible rests upon
those who make the assertion.
Many of the pretty women of his
j tory were far from brainless.
the governor of Bermuda that he I
upbraided the citizens for treason I
and feelings ran so high that he j
was removed. His successor was a
native of Salem, Mass., whose loy- |
alty to the mother country was such i
that he gave up large estates in the
colonies rather than join the revo
lutionists. He was connected, both
by blood and by marriage, with the
Winthrop family. Under his rule
the island's full allegiance to Eng
land was restored.
He was succeeded by Henry Ham
ilton, during whose administration
the town of Hamilton was founded
and named for him. This town to
day is the seat of the island govern
ment. It has a population of less
than 3.000.
Throe Hundred Islands
Hamilton is on Main Island, or
Bermuda, while St. George, the for
mer capital, is on the island of that
name. There are more than three
hundred small islands in the Ber
mudas group, of which only a score
are inhabited. The total popula
tion of the islands in 1916 was lit
tle more than twenty thousand, of
whom about one-third were white.
Bermuda suffered during the war
by the cessation of the American
tourist patronage which had dou
bled the entire island population in
preceding seasons.
The Bermudas attracted visitors
because of their mild climate, which
knew no frosts, and by their scenic
beauty. • The evergreen islands are
clustered with exotic plants of nu
merous variety, their roadways are
"bejeweled and scented" with sweet
smelling flowers, their shores are
penetrated by crystalline coral
pools, and the waters about are
noted foi their ever changing and
vivid color.
The islands lie off the coast of
North Carolina about as far as
Cleveland is from New York, and
at about the same latitude as
Charleston, Fort Worth and San
Diego. They are 677 miles from
New York.
Juan Bermudez. sailing from
Spain to Cuba in 1515, with a cargo
of hogs, discovered the islands when
a storm blew him to their shores.
Apparently he left some of the
| hogs there, for later visitors found
the animals on the island. From
hint the islands were named and
thus originated the "hog money,"
coins stamped with a hog on one
side and a ship on the other, which
still are preserved in various collec
tions. The islands were settled
through Sir George Sonters, who be
came impressed with their fertility
>nd beauty during a sojourn en
'orced by the wrecking of the ship
• hich was carrying him to Vlr
-1 ginia.
Money vs. Brains
[From the New York Tribune]
Money is the natural result of
great business force in America, but
it is never the force itself. The
force is in the brain and will—the
money is only the tool.
Therefore, when the brain turns
from the task that it knows su
premely well to the task that it
knows imperfectly the tool loses its
power. We still feel that the pow-
I er must be there, because we have
seen its far-reaching effects in
finance.
But we are deceiving ourselves,
j Money, by itself, can buy neither
fame nor influence—ar.y more than
it can buy true enjoyment.
All these things must come from
the directing mind. And, as we are
gradually learning, the mind that
can create a vast fortune may be no
' better than any of the rest of us
when applied to politics or art or
science or good manners. It mnyj
indeed, blunder rather the more
egregiously through over-confidence
—as in the case of Henry Ford,'
Col. Harvey and W. W.
[Harvey's Weekly.]
Some day Col. George Harvey
will discover that President Wilson,
while indorsing the Ten Command
ments, has failed to submit them to
the Senate, and to Senator Lodge
the President's conduct will be
"simply inconceivable." New York
World.
AUGUST 26, 1919.
Yap
[News Item.]
The United States Navy Depart
ment wanted the Island of Yap for
vitally necessary cable landings, and
could have had it, but President
Wilson refused to make the demand
at Versailles.
What is Yap?
It sounds like pap,
Or a ginger snap.
The kind you say twice
In a trice.
I can't make out
What it's all about.
This talk
And squawk—
If I only knew
I'd squawk too.
But I don't.
So I won't.
| Yap!
Perhaps that's Jap
j Anese
| For "if you please."
I Except that the Japs
i Are not such yaps
As to ask permission
When they want an addition
Of territory—
But that's another story.
Yap!
Here it is on the map, •
One of the Isles
That lie many miles
In the Pacific.
The ocean terrific,
In the group called the Ladrones,
That's plural for "thief," who makes
no bones
In taking what some other fellow
owns—
But. of course, under the League.
That cuts out intrigue.
And all claptrap—
Hurrah for Yap!
Yap!
II know a chap
[Who's a yap;
He's a wonderful talker,
I And a chalk line walker,
I (For other folks)
j Holy smokes!
But he's some globe trotter,
And booty al'otter,
Why, he'd just as soon
Give away the moon
(In his official capacity)
To some one's rnpacity.
He's quite without canker.
He's not a Yap-hanker.
And so,
As you know,
We lost Yap—
Quel mishap!
—William Wallace Whitelock, in
New York Sun.
.4 New Sunday Law Decision
[From the Wilkes-Barre Record]
A Philadelphia common jdeas
court rules adversely against a
strict interpretation of the blue law
of 1794, and in favor of the Fair
mount Park commissioners, who
permit baseball, tennis and other
recreational activities on Sunday.
Judge Staake draws a distinction
ordy on the ground that !f the games
cause a nuisance the participants
may be proceeded against in the
criminal courts for the enforcement
of the penal part of the act.
LABOR NOTES
Strikes are still threatening among
the canneries of the West coast of
Norway.
Germany, as well as other coun
tries, is suffering from a domestic
labor shortage.
Farm laborers in Ontario, Can.,
as a class, are receiving from $4O to
I $5O a month.
Of the over 175.000 building trades
workers in Canada, 85 per cent of
them are members of international
unions.
A large steel manufacturing plant
in Conshohocken, Pa., will allow the
workers to decide upon a three
shift plan by vote.
The increase in the male member
i shop of British unions from 1914 to
! 1917 was about 25 per cent, while
j the increase in the female member
i ship for the same period amounted
to more than 117 per cent.
Retail clerks in Rock Island, 11$;
Moline, 111., and Davenport, lowa,
are organizing a tri-city local of
Retail Clerks' International Protec
tive Association.
Female labor constitutes a main
! part in the factory economy of
I Japan. In nearly 20,000 factories
j employing not less than 10 opera-
I tives each, male labor amounts to
[ 42 per cent and female labor 58 per
I cent of the total.
ianmtrto (Efjat i
Officials of the Hugh Nawn Con
struction Company, of Philadelphia,
which has the contract for building
the section of the State main high
way from Dauphin "Narrows" to
Clark's Ferry, one of the most trav
eled State roads in Central Penn
sylvania, have put up to the State
Highway Department the question
what to do about the .taking of the
stone for the improvement by the
United States government. For the
third time stone consigned to this
concern has been commandeered
right in transit, and the company
has been compelled to suspend part
of its operations and lay off its men.
The situation brought about has not
only forced continued closing of a
road which is part of the entrance
of both the William Penn Highway
and the Susquehanna Trail into Har
risburg byway of the picturesque
Susquehanna river valley, but has all
the elements of a controversy. The
Nawn Company started work some
time ago on the road and the United
States Railroad Administration com
mandeered some stone in transit for
it, cuusing a delay. A few days later
more stone coming front quarries
near Bainbridge was taken and the
latter part of last week eleven cars,
some of which had gotten to within
six miles of the place where they
were needed, were taken by the
Government. No explanation was
given and as the contractor could
not get any he complained to the
State authorities. The State High
way officials ,at once got into touch
with Washington and found that the
stone was being taken for repairing
of a washout on a railroad. As every
effort is being bent to complete the
one hundred miles of State highway
under construction as much as pos
sible before frost sets in the possi
bilities created same alarm, and
stone materials being hard to get
at any rate the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania is still feeling the ex
ercise of the war powers.
• •
People connected with the State
Highway Department would like to
know what is a "rabbitry."
A day or so ago M. H. James, head
of the bureau of information of the
department turned up with a col
lection of signs which he had con
fiscated because they overhung
State highways and were in danger
of scraping off tops of cars as well
as being against the law, anyway.
One sign announced that a famous
hotel was half a mile away, another
gave information as to a garage, and
the third read Spangdoodle's Rab
bitry mi."
"What's a 'rabbitry?' " asked
Chief Clerk Howard Fry.
"Guess its some kind of a hutch,
place where they raise and keep
rabbits," responded the ready Mr.
James.
"Mightn't it be a place for refresh
ments?" was then shot at Mr.
James.
"How?"
"Well, place where you got either
Welsh or fried rabbits."

There are a couple of fellows who
man wagons for removal of ashes
from the State Capitol who have to
do a lot of extra work because they
wander off to talk while their wag
ons are being filled by the labor
saving conveyor. The conveyor con
veys and if the horses get restless
or move around the machine takes
no notice, but goes on delivering.
Almost every day when a driver has
his wagon nicely adjusted and the
ashes start to flow and he happens
to go away a short distance there
is some fly or other disturbance and
the team moves just enough to have
the ashes delivered on the concrete
flooring. Then its a case of fill the
wagon by man power. It may be
said that Capitol clerks give much
assistance from the windows when
they discover a teamster in a plight.
♦ •
1 Capitol Park gardners are von
i dering whether the big elms that line
' the old "Boardwalk" are now shed
ding their leaves a bit earlier than
usual this year. For the last week
or so the leaves have been raining
down on the lawns and the rakes
have been in use over time. There
are numerous signs of the approach
of fall on the big trees on the Hill,
and some of the men who take
charge of them say that the old
trees are showing their age. The
oaks planted in the "row of tho
governors" which is to girdle the
park are being given careful atten
tion as some of them did not thrive
very well last year.
* * *
While many people are prejudiced
against the blackbird because of the
damage it does to the nests of other
birds, its destruction of fruit and
harming of crops to say nothing of
its untidiness there is a good bit
to say for the bird's services in rid
ding us of pests. Of late years
there have been many protests
against the blackbird and it is now
legal hunting from August 1, the
season having been advanced a
month. Here is what an observer
has to say about the way the bird
clears out locusts "I have watched
i many a blackbird this year because
j I wanted to see for myself whether
j the blackbird was a terror to locusts
and this being a time of the seven-
I teen year visitation things were fa
j vorable. Blackbirds will gather
| around trees where there are locusts
j digging into young bark and they
j will bide their time and select their
prey. Then they will pounce on
the insect and crush it with a cla.v,
eating at their leisure. And tho
t number they destroy in a day is
notable. There is some good to the
noisy, troublesome bird after all."
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
General W. G. Price, Jr., the com
mander of the new National Guard
says that there are scores of highly
! qualified men of overseas service
' I anxious to enter the new Guard.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Frank
| B. McClain says that it is the busi
' ness of the people here to supply
1 food at home first of all and to
make the folks contented.
I* Thomas C. Seidle, the Berks Rc
? j publican chairman, who is figuring
jI in a controversy at Reading just
1 I now, is a referee in compensation
and well known in the State.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
-1 mer is due to make an address in
s j Allegheny county next week.
■ I Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, the
Altoona publisher, headed an ex
pedition of Central Pennsylvania
■ history lovers into the section of
> Snyder county where the last buf
i falo hunt was held.
' 1 DO YOU KNOW
. —That Harrisburg steel was
used to manufacture parts of
engines for light craft during
p Ulc war?
! HISTORIC HARRISBURG
) First excursions were run to Har
: I rlsburg by the Pennsylvania rail
road in the forties.

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