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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-12

GRAND-S. Warburton. Pocatello;
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Fl. He'll, Centerville:
Mr.. and Mrs. d. S. Howell, Kuna; r. ].
Mcdonald, Boise; c.. J. Turner. Cas-
cade Charles Il. Jensen and wife;
Harry T. Knowlton, Sweet: Pearl Jen-
sen. Sweet; William Moorhead, Cald :
well; Carl e. Brown, Mccall; c. J.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-12

fident that with the readjustment pc
Rod over with. prices will come down
again somewhat, If not to where they
were before"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08

In Sygne's poignant drama of the
west coast of Ireland, "Riders to
the Sea-" the old woman, Maurya,
comes at last to the time when the
sea has robbed her of all her sons,
and she says, There isn't anything
more the sea can do to me now. It's
a great rest I'll be having now"
In the same way hundreds of
thousands of men have come, in the
last four and a half years, to the
point where they could say, There's
nothing more that war can do to me
now, nothing worse that life can do
to me And I have found peace be-
yond fear"
Nothing to shake the laughing
hearts long peace there,
But only agony and that has end
ing
And the worst friend and enemy
is but death.
If the discipline in courage has
been brought to this point, the SOL
dier's habit of facing life unafraid
will be something more than a ply
steal recklessness; it will have be-
come stuff O. the very stuff and
life of life"
The soldier unconsciously will ex-
pect from the civilian world q Simi-
lar habit of facing life unafraid. He
will not understand the timidity and
apprehension with which so many
civilians look upon their time. And
the one intellectual and moral pol
icy which will awaken no response
in his spirit will be policy of
"Hush!" We live in world which,
for religion and statecraft. is still
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
Facing Life Again Unafraid
MIIInrd L. Sperry In the Atlantic Monthly.

filled with stubborn, hostile, and un-
conquered facts. We know today
what Paul meant when he set his
face toward Western Europe and
said, "a great door and effectual is
opened unto me and there are many
adversaries." In the very mood of
that finely chosen land" there is
something of the spirit of the SOL
dier. The civilian would have writ
ten "but."
Is there hostile fact in our
world. Let us not suppress the
knowledge of this fact. Let us not
evade the fact. Is there a skeleton
in the ecclesiastical or political
closet? Have the custodians in panic
locked the door and thrown away
the key? Let us break the door
and drag the brute out and have
a fair look at him. Are we tremb-
ling at the spread of Bolshevism ?
Let us look the thing into the face.
Let us drag out the unlovely facts
which breed anarchy the world over;
let us look into our mills and mines
and counting houses and see why ii
is that men see red" and turn
red" The civilian policy of over
coming obstacles by the incarnation
of a timid "Hush" will awaken nc
echo in the character of the soldier
who has faced the shock troops
of Prussia and faced them unafraid
The tangled problems of civilian life
will have for him no terror for his
experience has cast out fear. So
the soldier waits and watches to see
in us the signs of a spiritual cour-
age kindred to his own.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
JOYCE KILMER

Dear Joyce. beloved of saints and
men,
AS always. cheer and comfort
bringing.
How good to know your warmth
again,
Your kindly talk, your manly sing
ing
No transport bears you up the Bay
But all your best is ours forever,
Your bugle note of Rouge Bou-
quet,"
Your songs of faith and high en-
deavor.
OF little homes, of village streets,
OF Trees" of STARS" in mystic
splendor;
And every heart that loves, repeats
Your valentine" so true and ten
der.
What wealth of soul was his to
spend
On fotsam, jetsam, waif and
lagan,
Friend"
No matter if he called them PA
gan!"
And other pens shall praise his art;
But let them know who write
hereafter
That love was golden in his heart,
While on his lips was valiant
laughter.
Arthur Guiterman in Poems. Es-
says and Letters" George II.
Doran Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
WEST VIRGINIA PAYS UP

Students of state relations will be
much interested in the report that
West Virginia has finally decided to
pay the claim of Vthe parent state.
Virginia, for it's share of the state
debt which was in existence at the
time of the secession in 1861. West
Virginia resisted the payment of this
claim for long period on the theory
that it was sovereign. The Supreme
Court of the United States decided
thatYirginia had just claim against
it's departed daughter, but did not at
once indicate how the judgment
would be executed. The court with
much suavity merely confirmed the
righteousness of the judgment and
left the collection, for the time
being. TO the homer of West Vir-
ginia. States do not have the best
reputation in the world for paying
their debts. 1t is, therefore, a pleas
ure to hear that West Virginia has
decided to clear up this obligation
without further controversy.-Ne-
braska State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
which are grounds for righteous in
Indignation, 1 remain
Very truly yours,
CARL B. STONER,
Editor of the ARGUS"
RUSSIAN CANAL PROJECT

[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch1
What is described as the greatest
development project since the con-
struction of the Panama Canal is re-
ported under consideration by
London and New York capitalists
for southern Russia. 1t is linking
of the Black and Caspian Seas by
connecting the Volga and Don Riv-
erS at their nearest points, with a
canal approximately siXty-three
miles in length. International COM
plications have apparently not dis
couraged the investors from prepar-
ing preliminary plans for their en-
terprse to facilitate the distribution
of the coal and iron in which south
ern Russia is rich.
Investigation has resulted in the
preparation of estimates which give
sixty-three miles as the approximate
length of the connecting waterway,
which engineers say will require
thirteen locks, cost about $21, 800, 600
and need probably three years to
complete. This preliminary survey
of costs and method of construction
seems to intimate that the investors
have either been feeling their way
toward permission to introduce an
economical element of transporta-
tion into that section of Russia or
believe that the restoration of COM
plete peace will open the way ami
cably for their enterprise. The re-
lations between Russia and the rest
of the world are not of a character
to justify an unqualified confidence
in the consent of the existing gov
ernment for canal building privileges
to British and American capital, but
an alternative view is that possibly
the investors have in mind a new
situation in which Bolshevik consent
may not be indispensable to one of
the worlds biggest development pro-
jects. The commercial Importance
of the proposed canal is less in the
dimension or the cash investment
than in the facility with which 1T
will permit coal and iron to be di-
verted to ono sea or the other and
subsequent distribution in any di-
reCtiOn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1919
THE COMING ISSUE

II Is gratifying to every citizen of
Dauphin county that the pro-
l gressive people of the Millersburg
.listrict are in touch with the State
Highway Department on the good
,oads program. Dauphin county
annot afford to lag behind other
progressive communities and our
people generally will watch with in
'erest the conferences held from day
20 day on Capitol Hill with Com
missioner Sadler to see what is being
lone by Dauphin county in the mat
.er Of cooperation with the Com
monwealth in road building. No
.ounty in the State is more in need
IF better highways and there is no
,onger any lack of revenue to justify
I waiting attitude in this matter.
We believe, with Commissioner Sad
ler, that the campaign for election
Of county commissioners all over
Pennsylvania this year should rest
largely upon the good roads pro-
gram.
For years counties in Florida and
in other states not nearly so pros
porous as Pennsylvania have been
voting loans of millions for the con-
struction of permanent highways.
These are necessary to the pros
porous development of the county
and the people, and unless and until
Dauphin county takes its place up
front it will suffer by comparison
with other communities less favored
and less able to bear their share of
the cost of building permanent
roads. We believe that the present
Board of County Commissioners is
ready to line up with the progressive
officials of the State and We shall
hope to see announced in the near
future a comprehensive road build
ing program for this section.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
SCRANTON'S INCUBATOR"

LONE years ago the Telegraph
was responsible for a movement
~ which resulted in the organiza-
ton of a company to build an in
cubator building under the general
auspices of the old Board of Trade.
This movement was designed to pro-
mote infant industries and the idea
Immediately met with popular ap-
proval. A great meeting was held
and committees were appointed to
solicit subscriptions to the stock of
the proposed building. After the
corporation was organized and
everything appeared to be as good
as settled those commissioned to
purchase a site and erect q building
decided that the time was not propi-
tious for the enterprise and it was
allowed to languish.
Scranton is now considering a
similar building and it is being pro-
NOTED by the Board of Trade OF
that city. Plans have been prepared
for large modern structure 32OS
11O feet, with abundant light and air,
and room for 1000 operatives. This
building will be provided with move.
able metallic partitions so that al
manner of industries may be ac.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08

affords that the editorial in question
was written.
Our young friend may always
count the Telegraph champion OF
the schools of Harrisburg. This
newspaper believes in its boys and
girls and in the men and women
who are their instructors. 1t is de-
voted to their interests. 1t believes
that no sum is too great to spend
for their educational advantage. but
it takes issue with anybody who Of
fers them something less than what
it regards as the very best procur-
able under the circumstances.
The Telegraph is convinced that
the Technical High School is doing
superior work. 1t believes that the
School Board should be slow to aban-
don it for an experiment. 1t may
be that in the end both the Central
and the Technical schools will have
to be abandoned in favor of a joint
high school built on the university
plan. There are arguments in favor
of that. But. whether it is the
popular course or not, the Telegraph
will continue to use its voice in the
community for what it believes to be
the best interests of the school boys
and girls of Harrisburg.
AS to the merits of the Central
High School, the qualifications of its
teachers. the scholarship of it's stud
ents and the standing of its gradu-
ates, we have nothing but praise,
and we rejoice that there is in the
student body so ready and vigorous
a defender of the school as the able
young editor of the Argus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
The Wit of Douglas Jerrold

Douglas Jerrold's wit has a dis
Greet malice of it's own. Asked at a
party who it was that was dancing
with Mrs. Jerrold, he replied, laugh
ingly: "a member of the Humane
Society, I think" At another func-
ton he saw a very tall man dancing
with q very short lady. "Hullo," he
raped out, there's a mile dancing
with a milestone" Once he was
disturbed in his editorial room by
q young poet rushing in and asking:
"EIave you seen my Descent into
He'll Mr.. Jefrold?" mo, sir, have
not" was the reply, but 1 should
very much like to-" Some of Jer-
roles epigrams are brilliant. Here
is a choice one: "The man who
takes the goose from the common,
goes to the House of Correction; the
man who takes the common from
the goose goes to the House of
Lords."-Literary Guide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
OUR APOLOGIES

NUR apologies to the vigorous
! young defender of the Central
High School who takes the Tele-
graph smartly to task for what he
considers reflection upon the in
stitution of which he is a student
and whose letter is published in full
on another part of this page TODAY.
The editor of the Argus, which
by the way is one of the oldest
school papers in the State, takes ex-
ception to the Telegraph's criti-
cism of high school conditions in
Harrisburg on the ground that thew
reflect upon the Central school. ITS
faculty, its students and its alumni
This was fartherest from the pur-
pose. The writer of this is himself
graduate of Central, and proud Of
it; and a one-time member of the
Argus staff; and equally proud OF
that. The Central school has done
a great work in Harrisburg. Its
graduates have won high places for
themselves in college and in after
life. 1t was not with the thought OF
detracting one iota from the record
and achievements of the institution
that the Telegraph's offending re.
marks were made. Far from it
The circumstances are these.
When the men who built the For.
ster street school house designed Il
they thought they had made a good
job of it. For the time perhaps the,
had. But they erred grievously
everybody admits that now. The,
provided quarters for the school thai
cannot be enlarged. The school ha:
long since outgrown it's home. Stu.
dents there are not being treated
fairly. The city owes them NOR,
than they are getting. The Tech
nical High School boys have NOR,
advantages than it is possible I,
extend to the students of the Centra
school under present conditions
and it was for the purpose of pre-
venting a repetition of this Forste,
street error and with the though
that Central High School student
should have the very best the lane
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
Getting That 500 Bonus
[From the New York SUM


A number of The Suns readers
have asked us how men discharged
from the army should tackle the
job of getting the $50 Uncle Sam
wants to pay to each of his fight
ing men. Up to this time we have
not been able to answer their ques-
tions, because the Government had
not adopted a method of procedure.
This has just been dCne.
In the first place, persons en-
titled to retired pay are not en-
titled to the bonus, nor are those
who were indicted into the military
service but did not report before
November 10; and the bonus is not
to be paid to the heirs Of any man
who, though he would ave been
entitled to it, neglected to draw ii
himself.
Men entitled to the $50 should
proceed thus:
ITO obtain the money, make
claim upon the Zone Finance
Office, the address of which is
the Lemon Building, Washing
ton.
Applications must contain
the discharge certificate, or or
der for discharge or relief il no
certificate was issued.
"If the applicant received
both, then both must be sent.
Accompanying the discharge
papers must be a statement of
all military service s:rce April
6, 1917.
"The address to which the
check is to 6e sent must be
given"
Having complied with these re-
quirements the object of Uncle
Sans solicitude will get his money;
and we hope all our friends who
have sought The Suns advice con-
cerning this matter will be early
recipients of their just cues.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
NeUS in South America
By BRIGGS
[From the Phila. Inquirer1

Under the caption, "a Lesson for
the British" the London Times
prints a column dispatch from
Buenos Ayres telling of the manner
in which the United States Govern
ment has been furnishing news and
films in every part of South America
to all of the newspapers, great and
small. Thousands of words come
by cable nearly every day to each
large city in the Continent, where
an agent of the government mani
folds them hurriedly and sends by
hand to all local newspapers and
by telegraph to the rest. II is not
asked that any credit bc given.
Furthermore, when any news
paper wants special news from the
United States on any topic it is at
once cabled for and a prompt
answer is sent. One result is that
the small provincial newspapers
have been publishing columns of
news daily from the United States,
and much of it originally from Eu-
rope. These have put on metropoli-
tan airs and are in high glee over
their sudden ability to publish news.
The readers are delighted. Appar-
emily every newspaper in South
America which desires has had a
service equal to the average of what
is published here.
A further part of the service is
sending films of "Pershing's Answer
"My Four Years in Germany" and
many others, which have been dis
played everywhere with Spanish or
Portuguese captions, and have had
immense vogue. The Times cores
pondent says that no such propa-
ganda ever has been known in the
world, and that it has been so free
has accomplished in a few short
months more than could have been
done in any other way in years
He thinks that Great Britain made
mistake in not doing something
of the same sort, since South Amer
leans now believe that the United
States was the greatest factor, Doth
in winning victory and in making
peace, and will be the leader of the
world in the future.
All jealousy of this country seems
to have disappeared and there is
left desire to enter into the closes,
relations with us, politically and
financially. 1t is evident that this
part of the money expended by the
Creel organization has been spent
to good advantage. With perfect
cooperation between the two con-
tinents of the Western World there
ought to be development of enter
prises which will take from Mother
Earth enough value to pay tie cost
of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. DIR. William Russell
owen, Philadelphia minister. has re-
signed his charge and gone to
France to engage in Y. M c, A. work
among the soldiers.
Senator Edwin H. Ware. of Phil
adelphia, who conducted the sena-
torial party to Hog Island yesterday.
said it was the first time he had
seen the plant.
DIR. w. ID. Scott, of Carnegie In
stitute, Pittsburgh, has been made a
colonel for his services in the army.
L. r. Palmer, former acting
commissioner of labor and industry.
now holding an important insurance
position in New York, is visiting in
this State.
james G. White, of New York,
one of the State College trustees
graduated from that institution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
Took His Strd:qht

A judge was trying O case in
which there was q dispute about q
water supply. AS he had Just par
taken of a hearty luncheon, and
counseis argument was decidedly
long winded, he began to nod sus-
piciously. All at once the barrister
thunde, ed outI
What we want, your honor, is
waterl"
VERY little in mine, pleasej very
little In mine," said his honor, sud-
denly starting up, III Pittsburgh
Chronlple-T Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
Casually List Delayed

We haven't heard from the dance
given by Charles Short Friday night,
therefore can't say whether 1t was
an old time dance or not, For the
benefit of those that do net knew
the usual customs of an old time
dan. dance at naS.on Mountain aav Valley al VIII say
mat, shae ave pepSoH nr two ag agd 30 0 with
knocked down or his neck chewed
or some other slight casualty. But
lot of the good old time has passed
with John Barleycorn, - Mountain
Valley correspondence Hot Springs
New Era,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08

commodated. 1t is estimated that
the cost will run from seven
thousand to nine thousand dollars,
depending upon materials used and
the character of construction.
Scranton is having the same ex-
perience that Harrisburg went
through in it's incubator movement
many industries knocking at the
door of the city and finding no
proper place to start business. We
hope that Scranton will not suffer
the same disappointment that came
to Harrisburg in the abandonment
of the most constructive industrial
movement of our improvement era.
This newspaper still believes that
had an incubator for this city be-
come a fact after the funds were
subscribed in 1911 many industries
would have been launched. The
time is now ripe for giving encour-
agement to every form of indus
trial expansion and commercial ac-
tivity. Cooperation is the keynote
and we shall watch with interest the
progress of the incubator idea in
the metropolis of the anthracite re-
gion. Certainly Scranton is on the
right road and nothing will do more
to encourage infant industries than
the providing of suitable floor space
and convenience for the conduct of
the baby undertakings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
WHAT DO WE CARE?

~ ERMUDA onions have been
X seriously damaged by recent
- rains, press dispatches an
nounce. OF course, we feel sorry for
the sundry gentlemen whose income
tax is based largely upon the size of
the Bermuda onion crop, but as for
us, why Bermuda onions mean moth
ing, absolutely nothing in our fair
young life; especially at this season
of the year. OF course, there is a
time, say along about October or
November, when a Bermuda onion
sandwich-the onion being properly
chilled and the bread a rich rye-is
tasty bite, indeed. But not in
March, with the spring onion watt
ing it's sweet aroma from every
green goods stand.
First the spring onion, and then
dandelion greens, and then Susque-
hanna shad, and after that all three
of them together. But just spring
onion with bread and butter are
good enough for anybody. The
spring onion is really fall onion.
That is, it is planted in the fall and
sticks its green sprouts out of the
ground long enough before the first
hepatica blooms beside the proven
bal snowdrift in that secluded cor
ner of the Rockville mountains
known only to our good friend and
eminent naturalist, DR.. Eager. AS
harbinger of spring it takes its
place with the robin, the bluebird
and the shabby.
But it is more than that. 1t is
household institution in the land.
No American home is complete in
March and April without bunch or
two. 1t is eaten plain, used as the
chief ingredient in sundry sauces
and until July 1, at least, will con-
tinue to be popular with those who
find it advisable to disguise their
breath with something strong and
pungent enough to induce friend
wife to keep at respectful distance
until the effects wear off. 1t some
times affords the lazy man an excuse
for remaining home from church
Sunday evenings and in other in
stances it has been known to drive
others from church. 1t is at once
delicious delight of spring time
diet and an abomination in the land,
depending entirely upon who has
eaten it. It has made men love the
thoughtful women who serve them
at dinner and has turned loves fond
young dream to hate and blasted the
romance of more than one guileless
swain who ate thereof before paying
his weekly call upon his ladylove.
1t is a modest little thing, the
spring onion, but terribly dynamic in
its possibilities. Nevertheless, being
safely married and more or less
hardened to the opinions of those
with whom we associate, we love it
and so long as they are on the mar
ket we care not one whit what
happens to the Bermuda onion crop
PAY your income tax with a smile,
is Washington's advice. But Uncle
Sam wants something more substan
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08

When a man takes typhoid fever in
Russia, the Bolshevists kill him to pre-
vent the disease from spreading. but
they give no though toward prevent
ing the disease by cleaning up the
water and milk supplies. Which is
another reason why Bolshevism may
be good for Russia, but not at all de-
sirable for America.