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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER SIXTEEN

"One of the things that amused
our men when they first landed in
France were the dinkey little French
engines and railroad cars" said
Major Frank c. Mahin, of the Army
Recruiting Station, 325 Market
street, Harrisburg. However, we
| hadn't been over there very long
before we began to see our own big
American locomotives and also
some American freight cars. You
see the trouble was that every
/ Frenchman was in the army so they
had to stop building engines; the
Boche captured some, and a great
many got damaged or badly worn
and they didn't have the men to re-
pair them, resulting in an awful
shortage of railroad traction. When
the Germans went through Bel
gium the Belgians succeeded in saw
ing eight hundred engines and sent
them into France, but they had no
men to take care of them and
neither did the French, so those
eight hundred engines lay around
and got rusty until our railroad men
got over there and we promptly took
over and fixed up those Belgian en-
gines. But those eight hundred
didn't begin to fill the bill, so we
had to send American engines over,
too.
Then came up two problems.
first, the shortage of shipping space,
and second, the fact that we could
not spare, men In France to set up
engines Sent over knocked down.
AS usual trust Amssicans to find a
way. What we ~ Was this: We
partially loaded u sflip with baled
hay, then ran our locomotives down
on the pier, big crane picked them
right off the rails and swung them
down into the hay, more hay was
piled all around and away the shin
went to France. When the boat got
INTO port the hay was cleared awav
from around the engine. the engine
was swung out onto the rails. a fire
was Dullt in the tirebox, the engine
hooked onto Il train of cars and
started Tor the front. Perhaps the
very hay the locomotive had been
packed IN was loaded on the train
lhe engine was pulling, taken up
mules.
In this way 59S American en-
slnes were taken to France The
whistles on them that sounded like
a penny tin whistle. The contra ST
between the French engine whistles
ana ours was simply amazing. ono
DAY was standing on the station
platform at St Afghan when a
Irelght train with an American on
Slhe pulled up and stopped with the
locomotive right alongside of me
mere was a French officer talking
with two ladies near me. SuddenI4
the engineer pulled his whistle cord
ana ana that big American whistle cut
loose. There was a wild do,,hIo
! scream, those two women clntched
ehelf skirts and just dove head
Ilrst through the station door and
disappeared. For minute we
An!erlcans could not grasp what had
thdIo tiappe3ec and then 1t dawned on rs
those French people had never heard
an honest-to-goodness engine whistIe
! III their lives" Hi''ie
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
JIMMY

TJoseph Andrew Galahad in Lifel
A ragged newsy stopped me on the
street the other morning,
And in his eyes he had the biggest
tears I've ever seen.
He spoke to me so timidly! His voice
was shy and trembling:
Amt you the man, eh mister, wot
prints a magazine?"
nodded and I answered with a
courage giving smile,
And when he saw the smile he
grew more bold.
He said: II wisht you'd print, sir, so
everybodyd know it,
That Jimmy died to save my life
an only two years old.
"Dev wuz n mad dog comm down
de street, and Jimmy seen him
He seen de dog was headed straight
for me.
wuz so scared / couldn't move
but what do you think, mis-
ter?
1t wuz de cutest thing you'd ever
see.
"He moved so quick, did jimmy
an he jumped right out be-
fore me.
I tried to run. but didn't know
which way;
An de mad do-he got Jimmy an
he bit i'm sumpin awful!
Dey shot de mad dog. mister
but Jimmy died dat day"
"Yes-sure I'll print it laddie." The
tears were in my own eyes.
But boys that dies that nobly go
to heaven. son-cheer up"
He looked at me in wonder. "Oh.
Jimmy wurn't no boy, sir
The big tears bubbled over-''why
Jimmy wur a pup!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
Tar and Feathers
LFrom the New York SUM

LFrom the New York SUM
Most persons think of tar and
feathers as a punishment limited to
mobs i'm wild America, so it is a shock
to read that it was the form of von-
geance recently applied by an Eng
lish army officer to an English naval
officer who had committed an un-
pardonable social offence against
him.
The aggrieved husband and his
brother tied the culprit to a tree with
chains and applied tar and feathers
as thoroughly as a band of White
Cans would have done it,
Curicusly. tho first known use Of
tar and feathers was in the English
navy. il being tho legal punishment
formulated by Richard of the Lion
Heat for thieves in 1880.
The king was about to set out on
the Third Crusade and. fearing that
all Of his sailors were not as pious
as himself he laid the penalty of a
shower of "heyling pitch" upon those
who stole. feathers or down to he
strewed upon the victim.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
COMPENSATION RATES

TIVE new workmen's compensa-
ton bill increasing benefits to
injured workmen in a distinct
advance over the old act and places
Pennsylvania we'll up to the front
among commonwealths that have
provided generously for workers
who have been incapacitated while
in the performance Of their duties,
The measure is now in the hands of
Governor Sproul, who. beyond doubt.
will sign it, for it is distinctly an
administration bill.
The provisions of the new hin
while not all that the most radical
of the labor leaders asked. is re-
garded as being generally satisfac-
tory to them and is certainly a stem
in the right direction. PennsyI-
Nania employers. as a whole have
come TO look upon compensation of
injured workers with different views
than many of them expressed when
the law was first proposed. Some
little hardship may have been
worked here and there among them.
but no company has failed to de-
clare a dividend because of the law.
and its benefits have greatly onset
whatever additional expenses have
been entailed. Nine-tenths of the
employers of Pennsylvania would
not go back to the old order OF
things if they could and the new act
will work out the same way.
To Governor sproul and the Re
publican majority in the Legislature
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27

must go the credit for the new pro-
visions, all of which are advanta-
geous to working people. They
stood out against those who be-
lieved the old law good enough and
were instrumental in the enactment
of the measure to which the Cover
nor in a few days will give his ap-
proval. Its passage is proof sutIi-
.cient of the falsity OF charges that
the Legislature was unfriendly to
labor and that workmen have to
look to a party of their own for
Justice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
Is the "Mdid of Anzio"
Really q "Ldurel Bearer

[From the Kansas City starl

head from forehead to the nape OF
! the neck, and then combed forward
and rolled softly across the front
/ OF the head. Artists are fond of
I comparing the head of the Fan
{ ciulla to that of Eros stringing his
: bow for points to prove the mas
! culinity of the head
/ The way the drapery is caught up
I In front as if to give greater free
| dom in walking, and the pose of the
] legs wide apart are other sugges-
tlons that the statue is that of boy.
An Authority's Opinion
/ OF the face Arturo Calza, once
! minister OF instruction in Rome,
says: The oval of the face, pure
[ nut not too long, the forehead
I smooth but powerful, the chin
strong, and the eyelids accentuated,
give TO this face a something not
masculine but still scarcely femi-
nine; something which, preserving
the llneaments of the feminine fig
ure, render it firm and strong taking
away all delicacy and softness.
In the whole figure the beauty of
the composition is equaled by the
perfection of the material execu-
lloh. The sculptor knew how to get
from marble every shade of differ
ehce between the hair and flesh he
tween the flesh and the drapery. and
knew now TO gain effect, cleverly
concentrating the greatest care and
uHlsehce on the dominant parts,
leaving the others in the shadow
Which reveals the sure and mature
artist who has executed this original
piece OF work"
Inc opinion of this authority can
hardly be said to clear up the mvs-
terry OF the sex of the figure. but il
uoeS suggest the difficulty that ar
! tistS nave in deciding. Some point
! out the "necklet of Venus" in the
! INES and contour of the neck as the
marx OF maiden; the boy defend =
ers bring up other statues to prove
that this Is youthful but not nee
essarily faminine mark.
All is mystery, the sculptor, the Of
nee the hgure must have represented
IN real life, and the sex of the
statue
Historians have been called into
the discussion and it is their re-
port that gives theory that the name
Maid of Anzio' is a misnomer. In
describing the worship of Apollo
they tell us of the offerings made to
the god, among them the laurel
wreath. The lion was sacred to
Apollo, hence the lions paw that is
on the tray. The sacrificial roll in
dicates that the figure was an at
tendant at sacrifice. The process
sion IN the worship of Apollo was
led by boy chosen from the noble
iamilles of Thebes for his youth and
beauty and splendid bearing. 1t was
ms duty to carry a tray bearing sig
nlhcant gifts to the shrine of Apollo.
/ Hence the name given to the youth
leading the procession-T Laurel
Bearer
/ This is the name that has been
suggested for the statue, but we
have yet to know whether the cata-
losuers of Art will take kindly to
1t. After all, since it expresses the
! ioVeliness of youth in "A faultless
piece of art why bother about
Whether ~ is boy or a girl. Would
II be more valuable, more beauti-
ful If we knew?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
What Of Our Children?

! lice Wilson Dodd in Yale Review ]
For better or for worse we are
struggling through years of accel-
| Grated change, and our brains grow
fatigued, and easily added by the
| inSistent confusion. Many of us,
perhaps most of us, who now have
young children are living ourselves
| in state of intellectual muddle
without parallel in the history of
civilization. From one hour to the
next we know not what we think
or do. nor whittier our uncertain
ties are driving us. We are radical;
we should go to the root of the mat
ter-but having gone there we find
no roots. Worshippers of reason, a
sort of insanity has seized us.
And now, in the midst of this hum
ming madness. il becomes our first
plain duty to act as guides for the
impreSsionable young. There would
be high comedy here-if the issues
were either less personal or less
vast. But the modern parent is in
no mood for laughter. Shuddering
is not unknown to him, as he feels
on his cheek a cold breath caught
from tragedy's lowering wing.
Our children, let us hope. are not
going to be weaklings or fools. What
is about them they will hear and
see, as they should, and will try
to understand. We shall accomp-
lish nothing but disaster if we try
to stop their ears or bandage their
eyes
We must not seek to run our chill
dren's minds as if they were mol
ten metal, into pre-arranged molds:
for. in the first place. if we succeed
(Which is improbable) we shall
leave them rigid and inert, dead
shapes that were meant to be quick
silver currents; and in the second,
if we do not. we shall rightly lose
their confidence, their respect, their
love.
No: having brought them win
ningly naturally, into the presence
of their friends-those true friends
and aiders of all who would live in
the spirit-we must bid them God
speed, and be willing to stand aside.
For the life of the spirit takes many
forms. works through many tenn
poral combinations, and we must
trust our children to find or create
the forms most congruous to their
individual hearts, the forms that
best satisfy them, please them best.
l am not saying that they (things
as they are1 cannot be bettered;
that a far better approach to social
Justice cannot be made; that there
can never be more liberty, frater-
nity, leisure, and beauty, and JOY
in human life. But these inestlma-
BILE things will not be borne to us
overnight on the iron wings of a
class revolution. Through what ma
tional or international forms the
evolution of society may lead us |
cannot guess; but if they are to be
nobler, juster, and happier forms
than we have known, it will only
be because nobility and justice and
happiness have become the natural
fruits of the tree of life-and its
next fruiting, remember, will be the
hearts of our children.
1t is little enough we can do for
them. when alIs said. They must
live their own lives. But we can at
least help them betimes to get in
touch with their true friends, who
will companion them simply and
wisely and hopefully, but never fiat
ter false hopes which can lead only
to real despair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
THE SESSION ENDS

"HE end OF the first legislative
session of the new administra-
ton finds Governor SproTl
stronger and more popular than
when he was inaugurated last win
ter, which is saying much when it
is considered that he was at that
time by far the most popular Gov
ernor-elect in the memory of living
Pennsylvanians. That he has been
able not only TO maintain his
prestige unimpaired. hut to increase
his influence for good in the Com
niuSwealth, is all the more remark
able when the maty regrettable fail
ures of other executives who went
into office with all the political winds
blowing favorably for them are re-
called.
Never for a moment did the Gov
ernor permit the situation to get
away from his control, although
there were times when men not IA
nliliar with the innermost workings
of Capitol Hill may have feared that
his grasp of affairs was slipping.
Always he came forward at the
right moment TO assert himself and
no Governor has come TO the close
of his first legislative session with
an inaugural program so nearly
worked out. Prohibition. suffrage.
highways, teachers salaries and the
other great reforms he advocated
have all been enacted into law. and
at the very last moment, breaking
all custom and establishing a new
precedent, he went before both
House and Senate with a farewell
message of thanks and good will
that will do much to remove any
feelings that may have been
aroused by some of the decisions
that the Governor was forced to
make during the session.
And what the Governor said of
the responsiveness of the Legisla-
ture to public demands is true. No
body of Pennsylvania lawmakers
ever performed more constructive
work than that which adjourned sine
die yes srday and the beneficial re-
suits of the vast volume of legisla-
ton enacted will not be fully appar-
ent until the new laws. have been put
wholly into operation. The results
justify the length of the session.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
MORE LAWRENCE CUFF

AVID LAWRENCE, official
press agent for the Wilson ad-
- ministration, sends out of
Washington a dispatch in which he
says that the United States is no
better prepared now than it was
when General Pershing was ordered
into Mexico to put an adequate air
service on the border, and tries 10
place the blame on the Republican
Congress.
What nonsense. In the first place
we know that the statement is not
true. We have numerous aviators
flying for practice over the United
States at this moment. Harrisburg
enjoys exhibitions of their skill al
most daily. Those who have Wis
tied the aviation depot at Middle
town know that hundreds of COM
pleted planes are stored there. rack
upon rack of them, packed, boxed
and ready for instant shipment, in
addition to thousands of planes else
where.
But if what Lawrence says We're
true. whose fault would it be? Did
not the Democratic War Department
spend hundreds of millions of dol
lars on an air program? Were not
thousands of young men trained As
1isls? Mr.. LawrCn-e will have some
difficulty making the average Aiher.-
can believe that the newly-clccted
Congress had anything to do WIN
I faulty air se'vicc. il such exists
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
NO FAITH IN HUNS
m HE English announce that they
"have no faith in the Huns, 81
and the French say thev "must

IT HE English announce that they
have no faith in the Huns"
and the French say they must
renew their vigil along the Rhine"
which leads one TO the conclusion
that universal peace is a long. long
way in the future and that the
League of Nations will be little
more than an insurance policy for
Europe against the aggression of a
powerful enemy without assistance
from America.
The powers are about to resume
their former relative positions, with
Germany and Russia alone occupy
ing subordinate places, and if this
country enters the League it may
expect to be called upon TO maintain
the old-time balance of power" in
times of international dispute rather
than to act with the nations of the
world the role of keeper of the
peace.
Balance of power in the past
meant simply preponderance of the
force OF arms. and that it failed to
work the whole world knows. Amer
leans naturally want to be convinced
that in accepting the League they
are not at the same time donning
the uniform of an International po-
liceman, with all the disagreeabIe
consequences, the expenses and q
sacrihccs that may impose.
The forthcoming debate on the
League proposals between the Pres
ident and his opponents ought to
be highly instructive from the public
standpoint.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
Judge Gdry'S Labor Views
New York Times1

lNew York Times
>, Ihere would be no labor ques-
tlon II labor and capital practicod
what Mr.. Gary breaches T5e
pIacldity with which he discusses
the subject is equally admirable and
amlable. Nobody would imapine
that he is the administrator of u1hat
lapors leading organization has
called It's worst enemy" and with
whlch there is now pending a diff
terence of opinion on contentio,1s
subjects. In the hands of another
than MIR. Gary, or in another man
ner than his, there might result n
repetition of regrettabie incidents
But there is no reason why the Fed
Grafton and the Steel Corporation
should not reach an understanding
or even an agreement, if both
should show the spirit of accomnoo-
dat.on, and neither seek to domi-
nate the other, or to exploit the pub-
lie by cooperation in the nature of
conspiracy to sacrifice other inter-
ests to theirs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
Classics Lose French FaD0r

continental Edition London MaiI1
Changes in the system of exami-
nation for the French degroo of IL
centiate of letters are under con-
sideration at the Ministry of pub
lic Instruction. Some faculties con-
slider that Latin or Greek should be
obligatory for all candidates. while
others think that classics might he
omitted in the case of candidates
who do not undertake to use the
degree for obtaining pest as
teacher.
Such degree would meet the
requirements of American students.
who are now very numerous in
France
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Attorney General William I.
Schaffer is receiving many kilograms
of congratulation on his address to
the State Bar Association.
Representative John NJ. FLYNN.
the oldest member OF the House in
point of service, has sat in every ses-
sion since January /, 1908.
Senator T. l.. Eyre says the
Legislature went away with more
good feeling than he noted in 1915
and 1917.
Speaker Robert S. Spangler SAYS
he is going to play tennis for a time
to forget rollcalls and point of
order.
Governor Sproul will take n
rest at his home near Chester.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
A LAWLESS LOT

~UCH is appearing in the news
M papers concerning the inten-
A'A ton OF the saloon keepers of
this or that city to continue to sell
intoxicants next week despite Fed
eral restrictions. This is plain de-
fance of the law of the land by a
body of men who. as a whole, have
for many years acted as though they
regarded themselves as above the
law.
Indeed. it is this very lawless at
titude on the part of liquor dealers
in general that has brought the sa-
loon into disrepute and the more
the liquor men attempt to override
the legal restrictions which all law
abiding people respect the more
nearly they align themselves with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
Elisha Hedleth the Water

And the men of the city said unto
Elisha, Behold, l pray thee, the sit
uation of this city is. pleasant. as
my lord seeth: but the water is
naught, and the ground barren. And
he said, Bring me a new cruise, and
put salt therein. And they brought
1t to him. And he went forth unto
the spring, and cast the salt in
there. So the waters were healed.
III Kings IL. 19 to %.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
Dedcon'S Going Home

From the Kansas City Star1
The new Korean republic has an
piled for "a place in the League of
Nations. Perhaps some country
that already has a place will seize
this opportunity to follow the ex-
ample of the deacon who had lis
tened with growing WEAKNESS to the
minister's long category in which he
assigned the prophets in the order
of their importance and services.
At last he came to Isaiah. Where" +"
he asked, shall we place Isaiah %
The deacon rose. You can give
Isaiah my place." he said. st am
going home"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27

the I. W. W.. the Bolsheviki and
others to whom law is joke and
government a farce.
The saloon men will find that the
Will of the people will be imposed
and that whether they like it or
not they will be forced to abide by
the decision of the majority and
the statutes of the States and of
Congress.
a business that has no regard for
law has no place in American life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27

The Au-Highest at Amerongen
saws wood and says nothing. But
his thinktank must be overheated rs
he harks back to the summer of 1914
and realizes how the best-Iaid pIans
Of mice and men aft gang agley.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
A Suggestion

tFrom the Los Angeles Times1
A good deal of talk is going the
rounds lust now as to what should
be substituted for the saloon. No
body has thought about suggesting
the home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
K. ]. STACKPOLE
President aud Edit0r-in-Chfet

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
lished herein.
All rights of republication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
TRIBUTE TO WOOD

DRACTICALLY all soldiers re-
r turning from France, who
speak on the subject, pay as
great a tribute to General Leonard
Wood as a factor in American sue
cesses as they do to any other one
man, not excepting even General
Pershing. The latest is General w.
W. Atterbury, the noted Fennsyl-
vania railroad man, who did so much
to make possible the transportation
in France quickly and efficiently Of
American men and supplies. Says
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27

Thanks to the effort OF one man,
and despite opposition and preW-
dice. the country had been urouS-
ed. our men. young and old. had
uoCktd TO the training camps,
our colleges had been turned into
military schools. and all so sue
CcSStUlly that later. when the
actual need OF officers arose, they
We're available.
Whatever measure of prepar-
edness We had made prior to our
entry into the war is attributable
to no other person. and TO him
belongs great credit, and OF him
the nation may well be proud
Genera Leonard Wood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg pretzeIs are
being sent to army camps?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first Legislature to sit here
convened in 1913