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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
Dragons Eye Shook Earth
[From the Buffalo Newsl

TOUl lHG 4NGWSI
The imperial dragon has vanished
from the Chinese flag, but China S
favorite monster continues to adorn
her temples. homes and fabrics. The
dragon is essentially Chinese
creation-a fascinating, mythologic-
al being, without which no Chinese
fairy tale or legend is complete.
One of the mightiest of the
Chinese dragons lives, according to
tradition, in a gorgeous palace with
in the sea. From this stronghold he
rules the water and favors the earth
with rain or DEGREES a drought, ac-
cording to his whim. Another drag
on, apparently less powerful, lives in
the ground beneath Tungchow. This
dragon at one time troubled the
people greatly by winking his eye
and thus causing earthquakes. But
the dragon experts of Tungchow To-
Gated the dragons eye, and ordered
pagoda built directly over it. That
put a stop at once to the winking.
Another monster causes whirlwinds.
He is less easily tanned, and must
often be petitioned to keep him
from losing his temper and tearing
up a few cities.
In the days of the empire the
dragon was ii u Dc nanQIe0
and spoken of with care. The en-
peror's private dragon, for instance,
boasted five claws, whereas the less
distinguished members of the dragon
family could show but four. For an
ordinary citizens to wear a robe en-
broidered with a ive-clawed dragon.
or to possess a vase or other piece
of property bearing the royal in
sigma. was lese majesty, and the of
fender would pay a heavy penalty.
The emperor regarded himself as a
dragon, and spoke of himself ac-
cordingly in proclamations and
speeches.
China still displays her favorite
design, but the dragon itself is al
most as much out of power as the
emperor Dragons do not seem to
ft into the scheme of a republic
even a high strung Oriental republic
with its faith in spirits. good and
evil, unabated-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER ELEVEN

Yes! Incredible as it may seem
the Boche did occasionally capture
some Americans" said Major Frank
c. Mahin. of the Army Recruiting
station, 325 Market street, Harris
burg. From June 2, when we went
up front, until November IL, my
division lost ninety men captured
and took about twenty-seven hun
dred Boche. Somewhat out of pro-
portion you will say, but remember
our boys were harder to catch and
when you had cornered them they
very frequently died fighting. And
even after you had captured them
alive 1T was some job to hold them,
as our cultured friends (D' the
Boche discovered. ] shall never for
get how disgraced the division felt
when the Boche caught their first
prisoners from us. An officer and
five men were ambushed, the officer
was severely wounded and captured,
three of the men were killed, and
the other two slightly wounded and
captured. IL we had known where
they were 1 think the whole division
would have gone straight over the
top after them, but perhaps for
tunately, we didn't know anything
about it until too late, so had to
grin and bear it. For days it was
the sole topic of conversation, and
everyone that went on patrol did his
level best to get back at the Boche
About five days after they were
captured who should show up one
dark night but the two men who
had been captured. They each had
Boche rife. bayonet, and belt of
ammunition, the identification tag of
a German soldier and a few other
souvenirs in the form of Boche
grenades. pistols, etc.
1T seems that when they were
captured the officer was sent to a
hospital and the two men sent to a
prison camp only about twenty
miles away. AS soon as they ar
rived at the camp they found that
the Boche regulations were that at
work, there should be a sentry for
every American prisoner, one for
every five English. one for every
twelve Frenchmen, one for every
twenty Italians, and an overseer for
every couple hundred Russians
Those figures were afterward veri-
fed and found correct. The first day
our two boys worked on a road and
made no trouble, the second day
with their picks and shovels they
killed their two sentries, took their
arms and escaped. 1t took them two
days to cover the twenty intervening
miles and they shot up several more
Boche on the way, but eventually
they got back into our lines after
being prisoners for just five days"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
Books and Magazines

''All the Brothers Were Valiant,
by Ben Ames Williams; a story OF
the sea, suggestive in its strength
and ruggedness of some of the work
of Jack London-this is what MIR
Williams has given us in this book
A voyage is made in search of a
brother who is thought to have been
shipwrecked on his last trip. The
scene shifts to a mid-sea island
where the brother, pagan, pirate
pearl hunter, is found. Here there
is high adventure in an unusual set
ting; hidden treasure, mutinies
tropic love, all these are present
The story thrills with its incident
and arouses admiration for its splen-
did character portrayal. (The Mac
MILAN Company, publishers.)
The Houghton Mifflin Company
have just issued ($1.50(, Ian Hays
latest book The Last Million; How
They Invaded France and Eng
land" It's a fine companion vol
ume of The First Hundred Thous-
and" and tells graphically the story
of Americas entrance and partici-
patton in the war. Major Beth
dedicates this book ito that born
fighter and modern crusader, the
American doughboy."
The Last Million" begins with
the crossing of the Atlantic, and
ends with the signing of the arm
istice, following American fighters
all the way. Major Beth, be it re-
marked, spent some months with
our troops, and was with them dur
ing several offensives; and he sue
ceeds remarkably in showing up
some of the doughboys' experiences
through the doughboys' own eyes.
Here is what a reviewer says OF
the book in part: Major Beth
has cast his book in readable form,
partly narrative, wherein three
American doughboys wander about
London and have their first taste
of the trenches and the front line,
and a group of officers experience
something of England as we'll as
som ething of war. He has even in
troduced a charming American nurse
two, in fact-and a bit of love-
story. But all this is to make
simpler and more pleasant the pre-
sentation of facts, impressions, pic
lures. For the most part the book
is bright, breezy, humorous. Ma
ior Beth makes use of a good deal
of American slang, and hsss it bet
ter than many a writer we know!
His tale of three doughboys and
the Scotchman in London is delight
| full. as is the young officers meeting
with Lady Wyvern-Grypbon, whom
they have dubbed. in private, Lady
whisky-Syphon. There are several
CAV little anecdotes, too.
Yet there is drama in this book
of "The Last Million" There is
pain and sacrifice, TOO. And at the
end there is q stirring picture OF
that day of glory" in Paris. when
the armistice was signed. THE wal
is won.' was the triumphant word oi
that triumphant day. Now that the
war is won. "The Last Million is
n good book for us to read.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
CITY PLANNING

FFORTS of the City Planning
n, Commission to set Alright the
blunders of those who laid out
the extreme northern section of the
city are responsible for the opinion
expressed in Council that the Com
mission should have been created a
half century ago. That is true
enough, for what the Commission
is at present doing may not be ap-
parent for forty or fifty years to
come.
Sometimes the Commission runs
into private interest that the pos
SCISSOR regards as sacred, or at least
so productive of immediate personal
profits that he fails to see the bene-
fits of a release of his own plans, or
their modification for the benefit of
a future generation. A study of the
city map would soon convince the
most short-sighted of the error of
laying out streets on lots for the
profit of the present owner and at
the expense of the convenience of
thousands of men and women who
will use them in the years to come.
The interests of the city as whole
should come always before those
of the individual, and to the credit
of the property owners of Harris
burg it may be said that with few
exceptions they view the work of
the Planning Commission in that
light
What the Commission does now
shows only on paper. The work is
largely thankless, for it's fruItage
cannot possibly come until the pres
ent commissioners have long since
gone to their reward. But Harrisburg
people of the coming century will
rise up to call them blessed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
An American Question
pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. ]
ir.,n n N VIII IL HaXs of the RI

pittsburgh Chronicle-T telegraph
chairman Will H. Hays OF the Re-
publican national committee has the
faculty of saying something when he
talks. He has the gift of straight
forward speech and there is rever
any doubt of his meaning. His clear
cut definition of the attitude of the
Republican party toward the treaty
of peace with Germany is typical. He
declares it is in no sense partisan
question. "It is an American ques-
ton" Democratic attempts to make
II appear that the issue is one of
partisan politics are repelled by Mr..
Havs. who pledges the Republican
nartv to the same spirit of patriotism
which it displayed during the great
war and without which that war
could not have been won.
AS the discussion of the peace
treaty in the Senate takes definite
form the patriotic purpose OF those
members, whether Republican or
Democratic, who insist on the closest
scrutiny and correction of doubtful
or dangerous provisions, will become
increasingly clear to the country. AL
ready there are signs that the people
are beginning to think for them
selves and to ask questions concern
ing this or that section of the treaty.
The campaign of education is bear
ing fruit No more than the Senate
will the country stand for having the
treaty. with its League of Nations
supplement-, rushed through at the
crack of the whip. 1t is indeed IAN
American question" in the righteous
determination of which Republicans
will play their customary patriotic
part
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
The KnOr Resolution

[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch1
Senator Knox explains that all
that is intended by his resolution
introduced in the Senate yesterday
can be attained by the incorporation
at Paris of a three line addition to
the treaty peace reserving to any
nation signing the instrument the
right to further separate and full
consideration of the question of a
League of Nations.
This was his position last Decem-
ber, but 1t has been greatly strength
ened since by the secrecy and mys-
terry attending the Paris conference,
as we'll as by the revelations of the
old diplomacy at work under the
cover of the League of Nations.
There has been growing feeling
among Americans that the differ
ence between the League of Nations
they were promised or expected and
what they are now being offered
have so complicated the situation
that with the conflicting and CEN
sored news from Paris, 1t is becom-
ing almost impossible to form a
judgment. The result has been a
disposition to demand further en-
lightenment. to have more clearly
stated just what we are being COM
mitted to, what the probable and
possible obligations of our partici-
patton in such league framed un-
der such conditions will be. The
easy faith with which we hoped for
the best is being supplanted by a
fear, perhaps as unreasonable, for
the worst. But either way we want
to know more about the engage
ment into which we are to enter
and the Knox resolution will afford
the time necessary for that popular
discussion and consideration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
ADVERTISE PENNA.

"HE automobile touring season
finds Pennsylvania's main high
ways in better condition than
ever, except where detours are nee
essary for the great road building
program upon which the State has
engaged. More people are seeing
Pennsylvania this year from auto
mobile seats than ever before. Even
so. the beauties OF the State are
known to only a comparative few.
We have as beautiful scenery as
New York or New England and a
greater variety. But we have failed
to advertise the fact. other States
have spent thousands of dollars ex-
plotting their landscape attractions.
Aside from the efforts of the south
ern tours promoters and Manager
Virgins, of the Penn-Harris Hotel,
little has been done locally in this
direction.
Would it not be we'll for the
Chambers of Commerce of large
Pennsylvania cities to join in fund
for the advertising in other States
of Pennsylvania automobile tours ?
The results would certainly be profit
able and the expense would not fall
heavily upon any one. The expert
ment is worth a trial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
A GOOD SIGN

VTYE are beginning to see this
wv fool Bolshevism idea in it's
true light, so far as America
is concerned. We have come to the
place where some of our newspa-
pers and labor publications can joke
about it, which indicates that we
are no longer hysterical and can
appraise the thing at its true value.
When we can laugh at a bugaboo
the bugaboo loses it's frightfulness.
Says one editor:
I'VE know Bolshevism cannot
perpetrate itself, for who ever heard
of a female Bolshevist?
And a labor journal contributor
sends in this:
A Bolshevist by the volga's brim,
A simple Bolshevist was to him,
and nothing more;
But when he sailed across the
sea,
Coming to live near him and me,
seek,
We made him spell it BAwLshe-
vik,
And beat him sore.
Make fun of American Bolshe-
vism, Laugh it out of school. But
IL you meet a Bolshevik do as our
labor journal friends did and the
Russian terror will depart hastily
whence it came.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
PAY AND SERVICE
philadelphia Press. ]

Governor Coolidge, of Massachu-
setts, has given to the Legislature
of this State. and to it's citizens as
we'll, some real thoughts over which
to ponder on the question of the sal
aries of public officials. The Legisla-
ture passed a bill which increased
the salaries of its members from one
thousand dollars year to fifteen
hundred dollars, and bringing the
present Legislature under the provi-
sions of the measure. 1t passed by
an overwhelming vote. And it has
veto at the hands Of the Governor.
The position which he takes on the
question is very interesting, for it
is a question that is by no means
local and that is constantly coming
to the front in divers ways and
places.
The Massachusetts Governor re-
minds the Legislature that service in
that body is not obligatory. but op-
tional; that it is not to be under
taken as a profession or a means of
livelihood; that it is a voluntary
public service. He says in his veto
message that If value for services
were the criterion for payment. there
would be as many different salaries
as there are members Of the Legis-
lature. He declares that when men,
bership in the law-making body OF
the State Is sought as a means of
livelihood legislation will pass from
public function to a private en-
terprise, that men do not serve in a
Legislature for pay, but seek work
and places of responsibility. and
find in that seeking, not in their
pay their honor.
He points out that 1t is of infinite
Importance to demonstrate that leg
islation is used not for the benefit of
the legislator. but of the public. He
decries the idea that legislative seat
and a job are in the same category
and that each must be reckoned in
dollars and cents. 1t is very straight
forward speaking, especially on the
part of a Governor who comes up
for reelection this fall, and who
rebukes q body of men who are OF
political power in their different
communities. It Is a courageous
veto and raises q very important
question in regard to the pay of
public oficials that applies equally
to ell States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
Time to Build a Home
[From Rocky Mountain News

[F'rom Rocky Mountain NewsJ
Four years ago a farmer sold $50
hogs to build a home costing $4,000.
Recently a neighbor sold the same
number of hogs, built a replica of
the house and put .$5,38S in the
bank. This probably Is one OF the
most forcible illustrations of the
fact that building materials have ad-
vanced less than any other commo-
dities on the American market. Re-
cent figures of the United States
bureau of labor statistics show an
advance of 81 per cent in building
material whereas food, clothing,
house furnishings. etc, have scored
far greater advances. 1t is time now
to build the home. Delay will mean
only a higher cost
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
City'S PrOgreSSipeneSS
Praised by PenrOSe

undertakings from time to time and
observe the intelligent way in which
the city has gone ahead with its
inevitable development. Nothing
could be more attractive than the
remarkable treatment of your River
Front and the fine park system
which has been established here is
far ahead of most cities the size of
Harrisburg. The future is full of
promise and it is not difficult to
visualize the spanning of the river
with more ornate bridges, the ex-
pansion of your residential districts
and the erection of many fine pub
lic buildings. The fact that the
city and county are about to pro-
vide a modern combination build
ing for the uses of the city and
county is a further indication of the
wide-awake character of your pub
lie officials. Such a building will
stand as a monument to the enter
prise of the community and ought
TO be designed in harmony with the
other public structures in the same
neighborhood.
"Of course, the State is going
ahead with the comprehensive de-
velopment of the Capitol Park and
the city, as l am informed, is doing
it's full share in this important pub
lie undertaking. Nothing could be
finer than the proposed memorial
viaduct linking the eastern section
of the city with the Capitol grounds
and providing a dignifled approach
from the main highway to the east.
Governor, Sproul and his associates
on the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings are demonstrating
proper leadership in the compre-
hensive plans for the permanent
treatment of the Capitol buildings
and grounds. State and city work
ing together in the future as in the
past will provide the environment
for the Capitol that will comport
with the dignity and Importance of
Co,o nnwaalfh
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21

United States Senator BoieS Pen
rose, who has known Harrisburg
for generation, voiced his admira-
ton for its spirit of civic pride while
in this city during the week after
his tour of Central Pennsylvania
counties. The Senator referred to
the enterprise which gave the city
its new hotel, and, looking from the
windows of his suite in the Penn
Harris, spoke about the progress
which had been made here since he
first came to the city.
The Senator spoke some time ago
before the Rotary Club about the
comparison between the Harrisburg
and the capital city of to-day, and
this week sounded a note of re-
newed praise for its municipal
progress.
The large and increasing area
of improved streets is greatly to the
credit of your people," he said. II
understand there are now about
eighty miles of asphalt highways
and the impression made upon the
visitor is distinctly favorable.
"Well-paved streets, like good
ARE the outstanding illustrations of
community's enterprise and indi-
cate the public spirit of the people.
Harrisburg has admirably met pub
lie expectations in this regard.
AS l recall the earlier years and
the lack of many things which be-
long to a modern city and realize
how splendidly Harrisburg has
overcome old conditions l feel that
the people here merit the most sin
cere commendation. They have
rlsa tn -. L.
sponsibility of the municipality with
respect to cooperation with the
Commonwealth in providing a prop
er setting for the Capitol.
1T has been real satisfaction to
me to watch the big improvemen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21

The Legislature having practically
cleared the decks for final adjourn
ment, the lawmakers will say farewell
next Thursday. They have had a
more or less strenuous session grow
ing out of the usual Philadelphia
wrangle. but in the analysis of work
accomplished there will be some inn
portant legislation. Governor Sproul
has been able to guide the course Of
Legislation in some directions that
were helpful and the Legislature re-
posed in him unusual confidence
throughout the session.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
Air Pilots in Eye Drill
LChicago Tribune. ]

The royal air force of England has
instituted an eye drill that has made
many splendid pilots out of men who
otherwise would have been useless.
It was discovered that a large per-
centage of men only use one eye at a
time, and in the early days pilots
were not tested for eye balance.
Many men we're then passed into the
air service who could never land cor
rectly. When these deficiencies were
discovered a school was formed and
under an. eye specialist twice a day
airmen undergoing the cure were pa
raded for eye drill and taught how to
use both their eyes at the same time.
The result was that 95 per cent.
of the men who would have been bad
pilots became good ones in a little
while.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. Daniel wentz, who had
charge of fuel for the American
Army in France. is a prominent
Philadelphia and one of the best
posted men in the State on coal
matters.
-E. ]. CatteIl, the Philadelphia
city statistician. says he has been
making a speech a day so far this
spring and summer and varying 1t
by two and three day.
Judge ]. McF. Carpenter, OF
Pittsburgh. who refused to charter
q national antitobacco corporation,
is one of the oldest members of the
Allegheny bench.
Secretary of Agriculture Ras-
mussen has been attending the spe-
ciaI exercises at State College.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-21
SUCCESS

TIVE NO longer define success in
w terms of dollars accumu-
w lated, but dollars accumu-
lated honestly are mark of sue
cess. That is one reason-and the
main reason-why so many men
continue to pile up money beyond
their needs. They like to succeed,
and in most cases success brings
money along with it as a badge
of accomplishment. Would you sue
ceed? Would you acquire money?
Well, here is a San Diego mans re-
ceipt:
The father of Success is Work.
The mother of Success is Ambi-
The oldest son is Common
some of the other boys are Per-
severance Honesty, Thorough
ness. Foresight Enthusiasm and
The Oldest daughter is Char
some of her sisters are Cheer
fulness, Loyalty, Courtesy, Care,
Economy, Sincerity and Har-
mony
TIE Baby is Opportunity.
Get acquainted with the "old
man" and you will be able to get
along pretty well with all the rest
of the family.
And there are many of us who
wonder why we don't get along who
can't claim even distant relationship
with any member of this distin-
guished family and have scarcely a
speaking acquaintanceship with the
"old man" Put them all on your
calling list if you want to get along
we'll and prosper.