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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
The Argosy of Our First Delegates to
Cross the Water After We
Got Into the Fight
By Charles Belmont Davis

Great Britain would ever dream of start
ing Stuart is very young man, Cana
dian, and talks and acts like the best type
of American with keen sense of humor.
He lives in solitary grandeur at Crewe
House, where he has tiny bedroom at one
end of the house, and at the other extremity
uses one Of the drawing rooms as his office.
At the door of the Crewe House Campbell
Stuart has racing car and a chauffeur
who at rush hours crosses Piccadlly Circus
at the rate of sixty miles an hour. When
this surprising youth is not endangerng
the limbs and life of the Londop pedestrian,
he sits in his drawing room Office and I'M
tangles knots for the Ministry of Informa-
ton. One of the knots they handed him to
unloose was to manage the American mis-
sion, get the best work out of its members
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

sistance of our hosts, the lady at last
recovered and we started on our way to
the Grand Hotel.
Here we found the big lobby filled with
reporters, labor leaders, Socialists, bomb
throwers, mere lookers-on, and friends and
committees which l am convinced repre-
sented every benevolent and malevolent So
ciety in Paris. Confusion and chaos reigncd
and the fact that few of the mission spoke
French at all didn't help matters very
much.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
I'm the Verdun
Scrap Heap

The following morning we were taken
toward the front as far as Fort Souville,
and after being allowed to search the she'll
holes for steel helmets, cartridges and any
tlSng but hand grenades, many OF which
had not exploded, we were led through the
fort itself. Every one who has been to the
battlefield of Verdun has written about the
pock-marked, deserted land and the striking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
N0b0dy's
M iSSiOn

Strange as it may seem, after having
spent two months with this mission, and
many months have elapsed since that time,
I am still quite ignorant of its parentage.
Like Topsy. it seems to have lust
prowed" The labor members were chosen
by Gompers; one of the independents had
letters from a member of our Cabinet ask
ing him to join the party; several men,
hers rather imagined their names had been
suppested by our Committee on Public
information at Washington; and at least
one member had no idea at all who mad
thought of her in connection with the
mission, or why she had been asked. The
invitations had been issued by the British
Pictorial Service, which is the New YORK
branch of the Ministry of information IN
London, and, with the exception of small
fund raised by private subscription IN TINS
country, it was they who were our hos's
and paid our very heavy expenses just
prior to our sailing, our Committee on IN
formation publicly washed its hands OF US,
and the message which President wilson
cabled Ambassador Page previous to our
arrival in England might be described as
kindly, but stepping any responsibility
for the extraordinarily efficient work OF
the Ministry of Information, both in New
York and London, and the intrinsic work OF
several members Of the mission, our fate
might have been not wholly unsimilar to
that of Mr.. Ford's peace ark. However,
six weeks after our departure, when Eng
land and France and Ireland and Italy and
Pershing were entreating us for some of
our time, then even Washington, although
too late, offered to pay the expenses of
half of the mission TO Italy.
We arrived in England at what was I'M
auestionably one of the most difficult
periods in her career. The great German
offensive that began in March at its
height and the news from the Western
front was extremely bad news. Only few
days before arrival the army of the
Kaiser had very nearly pierced the British
line, and not only did such danger still
exist, but for days, even weeks, after our
arrival the news from the front was not
only discouraging, but might have been
caIamitous. But of this certainly learned
nothing from our hosts. AS we saw it their
only object interest in life was to COM
mandeer all the available taxcabs, engage
private cars, the best suites in hotels and
in every conceivable way to make our
travels not only as comfortable, but as
luxurious as was ct all possible in war
stricken, hard-pressed country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
81 Want NV
Trousers"

keep 'em away! Throw 'em out!"
shrieked my friend "Send for the valet.
l want my trousers"
During our stay in France we were in
the hands of the army, and, as Marshal
Joffre is the head of the Ecoe Militaire,
our visit to him was therefore entirely
conducted by officers. The room in which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

~ IFTY years ago Americans who had
- gone abroad and returned to their
home towns not only felt it their
privilege to write and talk of their
adventures, but were even listened to with
mild attention. Then the Atlantic became
a mere ferry and all America made the
grand tour and returned happy but silent.
But when the great war began, and especl-
ally after the United States entered it, the
Americans who were fortunate enough to
visit England and France have once more
come into their own and feel entitled to
be as garrulous as they please. To those
who during these crowded times tried to
pry passport from the State Department
at Washington this tale of my experience
needs no excuse. To those who did not
undertake this herculean task I will claim
as an apology the distinction of having been
attached as secretary to the first labor
delegation that visited Great Britain and
France after our country became a belllg
erent.
Nv instructions were to be ready to sail
in few days, and my duties were, SO far as
l could ascertain, to keep the various mem
bers of the party cheerful and to make them
believe that they having good time
whether they thought they were or not. To
this worthy end a roll of yellowbacks was
pressed into my hand and was hidden god
speed As a matter of fact, this so-called
labor mission was a mission of which the
labor delegation was only part, but it was
the labor group who understood the value
of publicity, knew how to get it, and did
hot o1th 011Ch fhpU
were outnumbered by the independent mem
bers, the party was known both here and
abroad as mission Of labor delegates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
SOVEREIGNTY
IFrom the NeW York Sn1

[From the New York SUM
Out of all expressions of those
Senators and Representatives, how
ever. as conveyed to the newspapers
through the correspondents, there
do appear to be two things which
clearly and explicitly defined. The
first is that entering the League of
Nations this country unquestionably
would surrender some of it's SOW
ereignty.
The second is that. in spite of that
surrender of sovereignty, no member
nation could be compelled to do any
thing unless such nation by its own
vote agreed that it should be thus
! compelled. to do it; that. in fact,
such nation could at any time with
draw from the League, presumably
| thereby recovering its lost SOW
ereignty, although defaulting on it's
| implied moral obligations.
If, in realty, the League never can
do a simple thing in regard to single
member unless that member itself
concurs, it is in fact a toothless
League, a spineless League, a jelly
| fish League. 1t is, then, perhaps a
mere sham devised to impose upon
the credulity of lesser and irrespon-
sible tribal nations led to see in it
! heavenly visions.
Wherefore the American people,
any frank, Straightforward, fair
| dealing people, must be entitled to
demand of President Wilson and his
! fellow fabricators of the League of
Nations:
Why a surrender of our priceless
sovereignty for nothing?
| Why a surrender of our SOW
ereignty for thing which will not,
cannot prevent war?
Why a compromise of our moral
responsibilities for the mock privi-
llege of contributing, in Mr.. Wilson's s
passionately emotional words, to a
promise to do all for all the peoples
of all the corners of the earth some
thing which will give them comfort
and happiness if we do it. which will
dissappoint and sadden them to the
depths of despair if we do not do
| it?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
Celebrated TdUernS
[From Answers, London1

At the famous Burford Bridge
Hotel at Box Hill. near Dorking. in
lovely Surrey, many a visitor has
the honor of sleeping in the room,
a snug and quiet chamber overlook
ing a lovely garden, where Keats
composed the greater part of "Endy-
mion." Next to the poets room is
the one occupied by Nelson before
the cruise which ended at Trafal-
gar.
Washington Irving is said to have
taken his ease and unused for hours
together in Il tiny parlor at the Red
Horse at Stratford- on-Avon; Doc
tor Johnson favored the lonely
hostel curiously called Chapel
House." and the Red Lion, at Hen
ley-on-Thames, is inseparably asso-
ciated with the poet, Shenstone.
The George at Sanford, an inn of
one that boasts that Charles l slept
there on his way to Newark, is still
prouder of the fact thai it was the
tavorite resting place of Sir Walter
Scott during his frequent journeys
between Edinburgh and London.
His room is still shown.
The Cock Tavern in Fleet street is
inseparably associated with the late
poet laudeate, Lord Tennyson, who
in his Bohemian days in London
used to get his chop and chips there.
The head waiter. was great friend
of his, and to him was addressed
will Waterproof's Lyrical Mono
logue, beginning:
oh, plump head waiter at the Cock,
To which l must resort,
How goes the time? 'Tis 8 o'clock.
Go fetch a pint of port.
Whether or not Ben Jonson ever
drank sack and made merry at the
Shoe Lane inn which has so long
been known by. his name, it is quite
certain rare Ben had a >very fa-
vorite haunt at the DEVILS Tavern,
close by in Fleet street. Another of
his haunts was the Mermaid Tav-
ern in Cheapsde, where he and
Shakespeare used to meet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
SIMS DIDN'T SAY IT

TT is characteristic of Vice Ad-
miral William S. Sims that he
should refuse to permit historic
epiSrammatic statement credited to
MIN, and which he never uttered. to
go laundering down the ages with
out correction. 1t has been printed
over and over again that when the
first division of American destroyers.
arrived on the other side the Amer
lean commander was asked by Ad-
miral Beatty how soon they could be
ready for service after. their three
thousand mile voyage, the reply
was, according to the story, we can
start at once; we made preparations
on the way.
This was a mighty fine thing IN
say and something very like it was
said, but not by Vice Admiral Sims.
He himself explains, in the interest
of Commander Joseph K. Taussig.
who was in command of the DESTROY
ers on their arrival at Queenstown
and was asked by the English Ad-
miral when he would be ready for
service, that he replied he would
be ready as soon as his vessels were
refueled.
1t was a characteristic American
answer, just the same, and Vice Ad-
miral Sims is quite as proud of Taus-
sig as any of his countrymen and
wants the Commander to have full
credit for the excellent condition in
which he brought his division of de-
stroyers into the war zone. But
nevertheless the outstanding fact in
the whole statement of Vice Admiral
Sims is his absolute fairness and his
manly refuse to accept for himself.
even by silence, the glory of what
might easily have proved a historic
epigram.
He is coming home soon from his
distinguished service in European
waters and it is again a real pleas
ure for The Telegraph to call at
stention to the fact that Vice Admiral
Sims is Central Pennsylvania boy,
. Huntington county product, and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
"K-k-k-EdtV"

If man has been a good soldier,
he has carried on" without the
buttress of any system. He has not
even troubled to investigate the re-
moter implications of his own act,
either for himself or for his world.
A Camel or a "F'atima" has been
worth ten volumes of sociology.
His Egeria in his celibate world has
not been a highly idealized Colum-
bia. But for him certain
"K-k-k-katy" has been the blessed
damozel" who has leaned out from
the golden bar of heaven and waved
him her heartening cheer. Not that
the soldier Is wanting in a fine re-
ligious and political idealism, but
that, for the moment, "K-k-k-katy"
at the kitchen door has been a more
concrete and plausible incarnation
of democracy than a highly system
atized Goddess of Liberty. The
civilians with their systems are born
PIatonists. The soldier is an Aris-
totelian. For better or worse. he
has had to live with concrete facts.
Willard L. Sperry in the Atlantic
Monthly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
Telegraph's Window Boxes Commended

ing, every window having a box of
red Geraniums and Ninca vines, a
good advertisement for these two
plants. You will likely ask, Why
are boxes so popular in Harrisburg
1t started in this way: The Berry
hill Nursery Company of Harrisburg
several years ago offered prizes for
the best looking porch box con-
tanning plants purchased from them
or any other florist. This stimulated
competition and rushed in the buy
ing of the best plants to begin with
then, after the people got accus-
toned to having the porch boxes
they would never think of neglecting
to fill them.
The town of Hershey (in Dau-
phin county, is an example of the
b town beautiful. The lawns, trees.
shrubbery and the hundred or more
flower beds scattered over the
grounds have, perhaps. done more
for advertising Hershey's chocolate
than all the bill board advertising
that could have been done. They
have also been the means of stim-
ulating the florists and nursery
mems trade in Dauphin and Leb-
anon counties. Hundreds of visitors
to this town each summer have gone
home resolving that they were going
to have around their homes some
of the same kind of plant or flower
that they saw growing there. (This
was the result of years of hard work
by the author of this paper.-Ed.)
The City Beautiful, The Country
Beautiful, The Home Beautiful go
hand in hand. To help any one OF
these means to help the Others"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
Secretary and Soldier
[From the New York World !

tFrom the New York World
What Representative Gould of New
York predicted in his recent letter
to Secretary of War Baker has come
to pass. Samuel 7, Ansell, holding
the war rank of Brigadier General,
who as Acting Judge Advocate Cen
eral of the Army exposed and de-
nounced the injustice of courts mar
tial, has been denoted by the clever
process of bringing from France a
superior officer, and the outspoken
soldier who last week was Brig. Gen
Ansell is to-day Lieut.. Col Ansell
of the regular establishment, as he
was at the beginning of the war.
There is something worse than con-
temptible in this exhibition of de-
partmental vengeance. 1t is a de-
fiance of Congress, to whose question
ings Brig. Gen. Ansell responded
honestly, as in duty bound. 1t is
an insolent notice to representatives
of the people and to humape officers
alike that they inquire into or dis
close the facts concerning discipline
in the army at their peril 1t furn-
ishes unmistakable evidence of the
growth in the United States of that
rampant militarism against which the
whole world has risen in revolt.
Nothing in the career of Secretary
OF War Baker justifies the belief that
this judgment is his own. He has
followed the martinets and has been
Influenced by men in the service who
sought not to be needed in matters
like this. One reason why we have
civilian Secretaries of War is that
they are expected to resist these ten
denotes. Mr.. Baker will never have
the reputation of great warrior
He should be reluctant to sacrifice
what in his case would be the lofty
distinction of being a great citizen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
The RiUerS of France

The rivers of France are ten score
and twain,
But five are the names we know.
The Marne, the Vesle, the OurcS
and the Aisne
And the Somme of the swampN>
flow.
The rivers Of France from soS
to the sea,
Are nourished by many a rill,
But these five, If ever a drouEAs,
there be,
: The fountains of sorrow would mr.
The rivers of France shine silvery
white,
But the waters of five are read
With the richest blood in the fiercest
fight
For freedom, that ever was shed.
Five rivers of France, see their
names are writ
On a banner of crimson and gold.
And the glory of those who fashion =
ed it -.
Shall nevermore cease to be told.
III. j. M, in the Congressional
Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
Need of Ertrd Session
BRIGGS
[From the Scranton Republican

[From the Scranton Republican,
Leaving out of the question all
political considerations it is evident
that an immediate session of Con-
gress is necessary for the substantial
good of the country at this crucial
period in the nations history.
If there were no other reason than
the failure of the last Congress to
pass the great appropriation bills
that are absolutely necessary to
carry on the work of the govern
ment an extra session, called at the
earliest possible moment, would be
justified; but there are other prob
lens which plead powerfully at this
time for attention at the hands of
the National Legislature as we'll as
the Nations Executive.
The postponement of an extra ses-
sion until after the Presidents re-
turn from the Peace Conference in
June, would, in the opinion of many
persons. be disastrous to the great
interests of the United States and
detrim to the welfare of the
people in whose behalf constructive
legislation is urgently needed to en-
courage enterprise and open up ave-
nues of employment for the thou
osiilIS VI lClul iliIl6 SoIulSlo wiz ISN Z
right to expect that the country
they have served so nobly at vast
sacrifices to themselves will not fail
to assist in their rehabilitation along
self-supporting lines.
While the work of the Paris Peace
/ Conference is most important and
no effort should be spared to safe
guard the rights of this country in
any covenant for league of nations
that may be adopted there, we must
not become, so completely absorbed
in it as to neglect those internal af-
fairs that are vital to the well-being
of the people of the United States.
The fact that the next Congress
will have a Republican majority
should not deter the Executive from
calling it into the service of the
country at once.
The industrial and commercial
life of the nation. which plead
powerfully for the early restoration
| of normal conditions and the healthy
resumption of business activity,
argue convincingly in behalf of an
extra session TO pass those measures
which are essential in carrying on
the work of the government.
Unless an extra session of Con-
! gress is called Immediately to
encourage constructive enterprise
| throughout this country, the Difficult
| ties in the way of making the great
/ Victory Loan a success will be
greatly increased. These considera-
! tions, as well as the failure of the
SiXty-fifth Congress, to complete its
work, make it imperative that an
extra session of the new Congress be
called at once for the Nations well
fare. .... ....
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
NY compliment regarding floral

A ny compliment regarding Moral
~ decoration from the New
York Florist Exchange" the
leading medium of the florist indus
try in the United States is a compli-
ment indeed. A writer in this mag
azine, who has recently been in
. Harrisburg with his eyes open,
makes a pleasant reference to the
famous window boxes of The Tele-
graph Building in the following ex-
tract and also describes the beauti-
full lawns and shrubbery at Hershey.
Now 1 want to say a word to the
Horlst, not only in our city and
county, but in other localities as we'll.
In the first place encourage all
kinds of planting around the home.
BY doing so you will encourage the
sale of all kinds of cut flowers and
plants grown under glass. People
who are accustomed to having
plenty of blooms around their homes
in summer will want some in the
winter as well; the same can be
said about towering and foliage
plants. Boost the planting of porch
and window boxes, for many people
could have these who do not have
any room for flower beds. Take q
walk over the streets of our city,
how many will you see, Harrisburg
is far ahead of Lancaster in the
planting of porch boxes, and you
will find in city squares there al
most every porch with its box filled
with foliage or Towering plants. The
Harrisburg Telegraph building is a
fine example of window box garden
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919
WORK FOR SOLDIERS

TT Is good news that comes from
the Middletown aviation plant
where the men in the service of
Uncle Sam are to be released to give
place to civilian workers. 1t is un-
fair to keep these young men who
enlisted to fight the battles of their
country employed as laborers at pay
far less than they would get for the
same work if they were not in uni
form. They did not go into the
army with the thought of taking the
places of civilians in the ordinary
work of the nation and it is proper
that they should be permitted to re-
turn to private life.
There are in Harrisburg many dis
charged soldiers looking for employ
ment. These men should he given
first chance at the Middletown Gov
ernment depots. The Nation owes
the returned soldier, sailor or marine
work They should be given pref
erence when it comes to putting on
men at Middletown and they should
be paid fair living wage. We have
done much sentimentalizing over the
men who risked their lives in France
or were ready to go over when the
armistice was signed and not much
to prove the sincerity of our ex-
pressions. What the returned SOL
dier wants is less sympathy and more
work at decent wages. In Harrisburg
the Government has opportunity to
do him service along this line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Representative William Ben
ninger, of Northampton. is one of
the boomers of the State as a great
cattle raising Commonwealth.
Senator George NARROW, of
York, is a strong hacker of the Gov
ernor's plan to make the State Capt.
tai the civic center of the State.
Provost Edgar f. Smith, of the
University of pennsylvania, was here
yesterday to attend the McNichol
memorial.
-Ex-Lieutenant Governor Frank
p. McClain says that the activities
of the State Defence Commission
will attract national attention be-
fore very long.
Public Service Commissioner
John s. Killing is an authority on
school law. t.r