8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH H& NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 'Published evenings except Sunday by TBS TELEGIUI'U PRINTING CO. Tslcsrapb Building, Fcd-ral Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager oua M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICIIENER, Circulation Manager t Executive Board P. McCULLOUGH, 1 — BOYD M. OGLESBY. F, R. OYSTER, GUa M. STEINMETZ. (Csinbers of the Associated Press—Ths Associated Press is exclusively en titled to tho 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. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Fenn s^l^ a jJ a il Assoc la- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office", Story. Brooks & Gas' Building 8 I Chicago, 111. JSntered at the Post Office in Harris burg, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a wSw year In advance. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1910 Whom the heart of man shuts out. Sometimes the heart of God takes In. —Lowell. JOHN MITCHELL GOVERNOR SPROUL'S tribute to John .Mitchell, on the occa sion of the noted labor leader's funeral In Scranton yesterday, was well deserved. Mitchell was one of the country's really great leaders. He was not only a skilled organizer, nn able executive and an ardent be liever in the rights of labor, but he was a man of sound judgment, tem perate thought and conservative ac tion. He made his reputation dur ing the greatest anthracite strike In the history of the country, but he was a greater peacemaker than he was a strike leader. People, regard less of their sympathies or station in life, believe In his honesty of pur pose and trusted him. Nothing better has been written of his character, his life and the affec tion and respect in which he was held than the following by his fel lows of tho New York State Indus trial Commission, of which he was chairman: In his death the members of the commission have lost not only a faithful friend but also an inspir ing leader, wise counsellor and an energetic administrator. Not only the people of the State but the people of the whole nation have suffered a great loss in his death. In his labors for the wel fare of his fellows he was un tiring. Sincerity of purpose and sympathetic motive were the guiding elements of his public work. Essentially a man of peace, he was a sturdy fighter in any cause which he believed to be right. He always sought to do jus tice, and the rights of all were scrupulously regarded by him. THE ORGANIZATION WILLIAM M. HARGEST, Dep uty Attorney General of Pennsylvania and vice-presi dent of tho American Bar As sociation, made tho following re marks before a meeting at Middle towa Thursday evening as to why ho is urging tho nomination of Re publican candidates supported by tho Republican organization: The issue to be determined at the primary elections next Tues day, aside from the personnel of the respective candidates and their fitness for the positions to which they aspire, seems to be whether the Republican voters of this county will approve of the present Republican organization. No party can succeed without an organization, and. therefore, I am an Organization Republican. I believe in supporting the organi zation until it has shown by mis management or otherwise that it is not entitled to support. So far ' as I am advised, the Republican organization of Dauphin county has been conducting the Republi can politics of this county fairly, honestly and capably, and, there fore. for my part I see no reason why I should not support that or ganization. provided the candi dates recommended by it are cap able pf filling the positions to which they aspire, Mr, Hargest's remarks are of more than passing con sideration. Always, about election tlmo, there are efforts to discredit gny candidate who has "organiza tion" support, whether he be Re publican or Democrat, A studied attempt is made to mako the voter believe that there is some stigma, pomething dishonest, attached to po litical organization, Yet a political party can no more exist without or ganization than can a business con- Cam, op a baseball team, or an Ktmy, Imagine, for example, the America,; Army in France meeting the Germans without the most thor ough organization possible, Apply tSg th# truth a little differently. It ROt until American organization yesehe4 perfection and the German Organization showed signs of falling that the Allies began to wip de cisively, Nobgdy can deny that or ptPteation is a prime essential to peiitieal pqccess, which leads to an other interesting observation made My MF: Harseet in the address quot ed, Re gupport§ the organization's candidates, he gays, not alono ttreugh party loyalty, but because e$ their eharaeter and fitness, Her# we have a reason why many •ther Republleana are worhing for the fieminatiea of the regular or ti£k£t, When a political SATURDAY EVENING, organization sponsors such men as James E. Lentz, the best recorder Dauphin county ever had, who has not only filled his office to the satis faction of the voters, but has given generously of his services In all manner of war work; when It sup ports such men as Dr. Henry M. Stine and Charles C. Cumbler and others like them for public office, it commands the respect and confi dence of the public. Take Dr. Stine and Mr. Cumbler, for example. The war and patriotic service record are too well known to re count. Both, as county commis sioners, have been businesslike, hon est and progressive. They have re duced the county debt by more than $10,000; they have rebuilt bridges, fathered good roads and other im provements and have placed new valuations on the upper end coal lands. They have conducted them selves worthily in office and have won the right to a second term. Other county offices manned by or ganization men have been equally well managed. So, when the organization now places the stamp of its approval on a candidate there are many who ac cept it as the guarantee of a good man. Mr. Hargest is right in be lieving that an organization is neces sary for political success and that an organization that puts good men into office is sure to have the support of a majority of the voters. RECORD HUMOR ORDINARILY the Congressional Record is as dry as a Colorado barroom, but occasionally it bubbles like a fount in the desert and offers the reader a quip or a retort that ought to have wider publication than the extent of its rather limited circulation permits. Take, for example, this bit of dia logue between Senator Norris and Senator Harrison, when the latter interrupted the former in his criti cism of the President's expenditures at the Paris Peace Conference; Mr. Harrison: The Senator has criticized expenditures of this character as extravagant. Will the Senator point out wherein he would have had the President act diftor,ently and where he could have saved? Mr. Norris: T would not have given Barney Baruch $150,000. I would not have built a glass roof on the George Washington when 1 went to Europe. I would not have gone to New York and taken the musicians out of the great Biltmore Hotel to play while I was eating on my way or the chefs to prepare the food. I would not have had an extra ship go in advance with automobiles so that they could be there to re ceive me when I landed, and so on. Mr. Thomas: Mr. President— Mr. Norris: I would not have taken 1.500 or 1,600 people with me to advise me unless I expected to consider their advice when it was given. I yield to the Sen ator from Colorado. Mr. Thomas: I do not wish to interrupt the Senator. Many of his comments and criticisms may be very applicable. I do not know whether the President followed the advise of his retinue or not. I imagine, however, that ho did, and I know that he did in the case of Mr. Baruch. My purpose— Mr. Norris. That is perhaps the reason why he paid him so much money, because he followed his advice. Did this quiet the doughty Sen ator Harrison? It did not, and he was reinforced by others who shed tears over the generosity of the uforement'oned Barney Baruch, who worked during the wai* for a dollar a year and paid the way of his bu reau employes home after the war was over. To which Senator Nor ris replied: I had no intention of making any charge against Barney Ba ruch. I did not make any. i am willing to admit that all that is said about him is true. I do not know those things about him. I accept the Senator's word. I re member Barney Baruch more par ticularly as the most successful man in the country in collecting Democratic campaign funds dur ing the last Presidential cam paign. a AVall Street man who was able to bring the money into the committee that helped to elect AVoodrow Wilson President of the United States. It is probably nat ural that the President should feel kindly toward him. I re member him also as the man who, on Wall Street, made. I think, $470,000, as disclosed in the leak investigation. Which, we submit, is right lively reading, not to mention being en tertaining and highly instructive. It also proves that it is not polite to interrupt a gentleman's speech, and that doing so is sometimes equiva lent to starting something one can not finish, especially when the per son interrupted is well equipped with wit, vocabulary and an embar rassing array of disagreeable facts. Come again, Senator Harrison, and help lighten up another dull page of the Record. "KILL A RAT" WE HAVE had all kindß of rally ing cries for public service since the war began, but the latest is by long odds the most startling. Here it is: "Kill a rat for your country's sake." It is promulgated In all earnestness by the United States Health Service, which has figured out that the rats eat $180,000,000 worth of foodstuffs every year, which would go a long way toward freeing us of the bur dens of war taxes if applied to that purpose. There are three kinds of rats In the country, according to a little booklet on the subject just issued by the Government—the Norway, or common brown rat, the common black" rat and the Alexandrian rat, which is the Bolshevist of Its spe cies, a nasty, dirty creature with whiskers and a temper that would turn a wildcat green with envy. But you can kill them all the same way, and this Is how: By starving him, through tho use of rat proof receptacles for food and covered metal garbage cans. By depriving him of breeding places, through the abolition of planked yards and passageways. By refusing him admission to the comfort of your buildings, through rat proof construction and screened basement openings. By killing him at every oppor tunity. By demanding city anti-rat or dinances and State anti-rat laws. The Norway rat, ig tfie iftigept Mid meet ftrqwqug at rodents. He'll eat anything, not stopping at a very small child if particularly hungry. He has been pretty well killed oft and the Gov ernment adjures all of us who see him to attack at once and crush him. The black rat and the Alex andrian have been confined by vari ous household and barnyard traps, poisons and other exterminators to the water fronts of sea ports. They are all aliens, their ancestors hav ing come from Egypt, Norway and other old world countries as far back as the days of John Smith and Salem witchcraft. The United States Public Health Service doesn't limit rat killing to any stated methods, but says that rat proofing one's home and barns and granaries is more effective than trusting to rat catchers—mechani cal or animal traps or poisons. First rat proof your buildings, then go out after the rat in the open. ZK By the Ex-Oommlttccman More candidates for judicial elec tions, county and municipal officers, including aldermen and justices of the peace, ward and township and precinct officers, will be nominated in Pennsylvania next Tuesday than in almost any year since the consti tutional amendments of 1909 became effective. In a number of cities and counties there are contests of un usual character under way, some of them attracting State wido atten tion. Judge William H. Keller, of the superior court, is not opposed for nomination for that tribunal. Candidates for common pleas judges will be nominated in Alle gheny, Philadelphia, Luzerne, Lan caster, Berks, Lackawanna, Juniata- Perry, Monroe-Pike, Somerset, Washington, AVestmoreland and Le high counties, the latter being a newly created additional judgeship; for orphans courts in Philadelphia, Allegheny, Schuylkill, Cambria and AVasliington, the two latter counties nominating candidates for such of fice for the first time; two for muni cipal court in Philadelphia and one for county court in Allegheny, with associate judge candidates to be nominated in Bedford, Cameron, Columbia, Elk, Fulton, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Monroe, Pike, Snyder, Sulli van, AVarren and Wyoming. Hunt ingdon will nominate two. All of these nominations will be nonparti san. County tickets will be nominated in every county, most of them nomi nating county commissioners. All will be on party tickets. Candidates for mayor will DO nominated on party tickets in twenty-four cities, including Phila delphia and these third class cities which latter have just returned to the partisan nominations: Allentown, Altoona, Bradford, Carbondale, Chester, Coatesville, Dußois, Easton, Erie, Harrisburg, Johnstown, Lan caster, Lebanon, Lock Haven, Mon ongahela, New Castle, Oil City, Reading, Titusville, Uniontown, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport and York. The second class cities and eleven third class cities will elect mayors two years hence. —The State Capitol shows that a primary election is close at hand. Most of the departments of the State Government closed last even ing until Wednesday morning and only a few will be open for business on Monday owing to the fact that many attaches of the Government reside in distant counties and every one seems to be anxious to take a hand in local contests this year. Ir some of the offices there was not a corporal's guard left to-day and clerks who had been unable to get away were working up their busi ness in advance. —lt has been seldom that as much interest has been taken in a primary in a so-called "off year" as at pres ent and the general impression? among the men who follow politics is that there* will be heavy votes polled in the cities. In a number of the judicial contests it will take some time to finish the votes. Pre parations are being made at the Capitol to list the primary elec tion returns as soon as received. —Governor William O, Sproul will I return? to Harrisburg on Tuesday | and will probably begin the work of filling various commissions which the Legislature authorized him to name. The new Board of Architects is also to be appointed shortly. It is believed that the Governor will name the committee to study revi sion of the constitution before many weeks go by. This committee will be called to meet in Harrisburg dur ing the fall and will be at work throughout the winter as it has to complete a report for the General Assembly of 1921. Owing to the Governor's great personal interest in tho question of constitutional revi sion he is giving very close atten tion to the personnel of the com mission?. —Representative T. J. Heffernan, of Philadelphia, has decided not to be a candidate for council in that city. Representative Theodore Campbell also withdrew. —Charges that Philadelphia liquor dealers are being lined up for the Bonniwell candidate for the Demo cratic mayoralty nomination ira that city have created some excitement, enough at least to let know that the Democrats of that city have a fight for the mayoralty nomina tion, although as in Harrisburg their candidate has no earthly show of being elected. —The Scranton Republican is tak ing a great interest In the civil ser vice row In Washington. It says editorially: "In the House Congress man Stevenson, chairmqn of tho Postoffice Committee, has introduced a resolution to prevent the Civil Service from being made the football of politics. He makes special refer ence to the Galloway case. It has become a matter of great aggrava tion to many Democrats that the President backs Mr. Burleson so strongly despite the fact that the latter is probably the most disliked of all men in public life to-day." —The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph says: "I am glad to get out to see the real folks," said Presi dent Wilson to citizens of Mandan, N. D. Didn't he ever see any "real folks" back here in the eastern Com monwealths? —ln urgir.'g tho nomination of business men as the Republican candidates for county commissioner in Luzerne county the Wilk6s-Barre Record says: "During the past year the present Democratic board of County Commissioners spent $325,- 000 in road "improvement," but who can find $325,000 worth of improve ment? During the past four years, A read iefe has b<jeu ft notorious \ea£ FTOTRIBBTTRO TS?SK TEEEGKXPH! AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? .... ByBRIGCS APTCR_ YOO'VE FINISHEO _AND YBO GO HOME: AND -AMD YOO INFORM VOO \ A RO I <6M SAMT °F <SOLF TE : LL FRIEND WTFS YOU BUSINESS ASSOCIATES OP AMP CG THE NEVJER EXPECT TO PLAY YOUR TERBLBLE DECISION GAME FOREVLR GOLF AGAIN NEVER! /AND SHE DOESN'T >SEEM PARTICULARLY GR£VCD) *ANO THEN- ONE DAY A ~AMD YOU P&CLDC TO CJIVE "-AMD THE VERY PIRST CRACK BOY HANDS You THE CLUB A "TRY-OUT" ON YOU TAKE WITH IT YOU <3GT , A GO LF CLUB SENT BY ACCOUNT OF THIS. THRILL IT A RECORD CARRY- OH~H SOY.' YOUR OLD FRIEND <3IUES You -JUST TO HANDLE AIN'T IT A GR-R-RAND AND OM..C 7 H£ &5> UHKT ST=M T ° VOR-B-R.QUS FE6UH ? ing job. Ask any farmer in the re gions in which work has been done his opinion about this item of negli gence and extravagance. Snow shovelcrs in Summer and gardeners in Winter add to the cost of the Democratic gang's pay roll." No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station During the last few months of the war the Allied reserves were built up rapidly, due to the constant shortening of the lines as the Ger mans were driven back. The re sult was that in addition to the great offensives already going on from Verdun to the sea, General Foch was planning two further great offensives which would have result ed in the fall of Metz. The lirst was the attack of the 2nd American Army on tif.; front between .the rivers Meuse and Moselle. It was in this region that for four years the St. Mihiel salient had thrust its nose deep into the French lines and which the Ist American Army pinched off in September. On No vember 11 the newly-formed 2nd Army was to drive in towards Metz, taking the fortress of Longwy and the invaluable Bricy iron fields. The Ist Army was to continue Its drive towards the Dutch border to the west of Metz, thus enveloping that great fortress on two sides with American troops. Of course, the armistice stopped the attack of the 2nd Army. The other great attack wus to take place on November 14 and was to be made mainly by the French with a few American divi sions helping out. This attack was to be made through the Vosges Mountains in an area where there had never been a major offensive during the entire war. From St. Die—where there had been great activity in 1914 and 1915—up over the high Vosjfes, down across the rolling country to the Swiss border where the original French drive of August, 1911, was made and repulsed, was to bo the field for a really great drive. At two or three points in the Vosges there had been great local activity at different times, at the Tote de Faux, lteichakerkopf, and Hartmannsweilerkopf partic ularly, but over most of that front it was generally believed that a major offensive was impractical. However, the average person did not have the vision of Marschalls Foch and Petain. They had thirty French divisions available for this attack which was to be a complete surprise. For two months guns and troops were moving towards the Vosges, relieving Americans who were sent to the vicinity of Verdun for the Meuse-Argonne and the projected Meuse-Moselle offensives. Of course, the Boche knew the French were planning an attack and naturally assumed that it was to come in on the east side of Metz, thus practically completing the in vestment of that place. But that is where the Boche were wrong. Some few troops would make a feint to wards Metz, but the main attack was to be straight towards the Rhine and across it. Do you realize that along part of the Vosges fro.nt the Rhino was only 18 miles away and in plain sight from the mountain tops. Eighteen miles to go, then throw bridges over the river and push across even if only for two or three miles. Think of the effect, the wild excitement, the panic it would cause in Germany to suddenly wake up one fine morn ing to find that the Allies had crossed the Rhine, to find that the Watch on the Rhine was a thing of the past, Germany itself had been invaded. Then what would happen? All the Boche reserves were used up, so they must swing troops from in front of the Americans to stop the French, and due to the mountains that was a long and difficult trip. If their lines in front of the Ameri cans weakened, the d—d Yanks would come pouring through in stead of fighting through. If they weakened the lino farther west in front of the British and Belgians they would come through to the Rhine down there. They were be tween the devile and the deep blue sea. With the Americans attacking in the vicinity of Sedan, about to start an attack between the Meuse and Moselle rivers, and a French at tack coming in on the cast of Metz, there was only one thing to do from a military point of view and that was evacuate Metz, all of Belgium and Luxemburg, and perhaps all of Ger many south of the Rhine. If they tried that they would lose hundreds of thousands of men and thousands of guns and would be fighting on j their own soil. Metz was ordered I evacuated days before the armistice , came, in preparation for this retire ment if the armistice was delayed, but fortunately they had had enough and signed up without our. having to LESS INUPYR IAUU<JA W BKMI* ' EACH WAR A WORSE ONE MAJ. ROBERT C. COTTON, U. S. A., the editor/ of the Infantry Journal, the official organ of the United States Infantry Association, in an article written for the association compares the casu alties and cost of the Civil War with those of the recent war, and as a re sult of these comparisons reaches the conclusion that "one has but to compare one war with a preceding one and the necessity for prepared ness is foreboding and ominous." "In 1860 the population of the United States was 31,443,321," says Major Cotton. "The military popu lation of the Northern States was 3,769,020. The military population of the Southern States was 1,064,193. The military population of the border States, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, was 616,085. "Deducting the men who entered the Northern Army from the Southern States and the Southern Union men who did not take up arms, leaves the Southern States a military population of 898,184. The enlisted strength of the Confederacy probably did not exceed 600,000 to ( 700,000, as its maximum in 1863, of | which only about 400,000 were avail able in the field. In March, 1865, the field force is stated to have been about 200,000 men. t "The mortality records in the Con federate Army are incomplete, but figures based upon these incomplete data show: Killed, 62,954; died of wounds, 21,570, and died of disease, 59,297. | A tablo prepared by the surgeon general of the Confederate Army I shows that one-third of the Confed erate Army was killed on the field of battle or died of wounds or dis- I ease, and that a third was captured and held as prisoners of war. The military age of the Confederate Army was 17 to 50. "In all during the Civil War the North called to arms 2,320,272 men. The report of the provost marshal general for 1866 gives the total cas ualties of the Civil War at 912,083. Of these 96,135 were killed or died of wounds. This aggregate of 912,- 083 includes killed, died of wounds, of disease, accidentally killed, put to death, honorably discharged, dis missed, resigned, and all other causes which produce discharge from the service. "The loans raised in the North were $2,800,000,000. When the final and total cost is considered, pen sions, interest on war debt, and all other charges incident to the war are included, the Civil War is esti mated to have cost the United States in round numbers $15,500,000,000 to the year 1900. "Little' attention was paid to cen sorship in the Civil War, and the conservation of food, fuel and num erous other commodities was a matter of purely individual or fam ily concern and regulation. How different in many respects has been the war of 1917. At the date of the signing of the armistice i Punishing the Dollar [From New Haven Register] In the session of the American Bar Association marked by an un usual number of able and thought ful addresses, the discourse of Judge Gary will commend itself as preg nant with common sense. At a mo ment in the country's industrial ca reer when the need of an amicable and sympathetic understanding be tween capital and labor is more keen ly to be desired than at any other period, the situation is complicated by an extraordinary coolness. And while labor is being supported from many quarters in demands and poli cies that aro threatening the ef ficiency of our industries, capital is being marked with the mark of the outlaw. Laws and regulations are being proposed to hamper and shackle it. The inevitable result, as Judge Gary points out, will bo that it will finally bo unable to func tion. And when capital ceases to function our business and commer cial enterprises by which we ail live will perish. Now the point in all this toward which Judge Gary's reasoning tended is the error of failing to distinguish between the dollar and those who wield it, between capital and the capitalist. There can be no objection by any honest business man to the restraining of any capitalist in the use of illegitimate business methods or of predatory schemes. But in re straining the capitalist It is import ant that capital be not impeded. The dollar, as Judge Gary points out is an absolutely innocent factor in busi ness. Yet laws and rules of business conduct are proposed and are being seriously considered in Congress which have for the purposes not the punishment of the vicious capitalist but WljpUng Qt QagiUl, more than 25 per cent, of the entire male population between the ages of 18 and 31 were in the military serv ice. This represents a growth in the size of the Army in 19 months of nearly twenty-fold; namely, from 189,674 in March, 1917, to 3,664,000 in November, 1918. On April 1, 1917, the strength of the Army was 190,000, and on November 1, 1918, it was 1,672.000 In the United States and foreign possessions and 1,99 3,- 000 in the American Expeditionary Forces. Yet in a brief 19 months more than 3,500,000 men were mo bilized, housed, fully equipped with munitions and supplies, and the ma jor part of them given a military training that enabled them to op pose successfully the soldiers of the most warlike of the European na tions. "The total American casualties to November 11, 1918, when hostilities ceased in France, were given out by the chief of staff on November 23 as follows: Killed and died of wounds 36,154 Died of disease 14,811 Deaths unclassified .... 2,204 Wounded 179,625 Missing 1,160 Total 326,117 "On October 10, 1918, American troops held their greatest amount of front line, holding 23 per cent, or 162.3 kilometers of front, the Allied total that time being 712 kilometers, or about 425 miles. 1 "Before the war the United States had a very small Army, spending a few hundrd millions of dollars. In the war the Army had to spend $14,000,000, and these sums were ex pended in such a way thsre there was no graft, very little waste and almost no delay in payment. Nearly half of this amount was spent to pay, clothe and feed the Army. The re mainder was spent to purchase equipment, munitions, transportation and services for prosecuting the war. "America's total war expenses to taled $23,363,000,000. Wo could have, for the cost of this war, car ried on the Revolutionary War for 1,000 years. "Of this, $2,069,000,000 repre sented normal Government expen ditures and $21,294,000,000 repre sented extra war costs. Of this sum $14,000,000,000 was spent by the Army of the United States. These figures, of course, do not represent any future payments, such as in surance, claims or benefits, which will add large sums to the above. "On May 16, 1919, the Treasury Department announced that our to tal credits to all Allies was $9,370,- 219,000. "As this goes on wars become more terrific, more awful to contem plate. Everything seems to be In a more concentrated form than pre viously. Each war is the forerunner of a worse war to follow, and yet we seem to hesitate In formulating i a military policy of preparedness." The Spirit of Waste [From New Haven Register] In his address before the Ameri can Bar Association, Elihu Root put his finger on the crux of the situation by saying that in spite of all condi tions calling for thrift, extravagance ' was never greater than now. Benjamin Franklin might have made the speech. It contains wis dom as old as Solomon and some of it consolidates accumulations of ex ' perience dating back to the Stono age. Under our theory of life every , man should earn his own living and provide for his future obligations. Some few have provision made for them by others, but unless they are incompetent they are not fortunate. No able bodied person deserves a living which in one way or another is not earned by his own contribu tions. If the peoplo keep on selling ten millions of Liberty and Victory bonds daily to buy luxuries, the time will come when thoy will repent. Peo ple act as if there had been no de vastating war or as if the time for thrift, economy and self sacrifice has passed. Unless we aro careful our .troubles will become worse. This is not a Jeremiad but merely the commonest sort of common gpnse. A Challenge [From Printer's. Ink.] Can you imagine national or> in ternational existence without the daily newspaper? Eliminate the newspaper from your world and see how utterly iso lated you will be. Nutionul life, international co operation depends upon community of Interest,, unity of expression, L SEPTEMBER multaneous and timely exchange of ideas. This is the challenge—what other advertising medium is such an abso lute necessity to the public as the daily newspaper? What other medium can even ap proach the daily newspaper in point of influence, of dominating circula tion in any territory, of flexibility— covering exactly every territory (and only those) in which an advertiser is interested? 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History of the World War, 800 pages, 200 illustrations, bound In full Kraft leather, (4, lEttntf ttg (Mjat Notwithstanding the fact that vir tually all of the Pennßylvaniana who entered the war through the opera tion of the draft have been mustered out and returned to pursuits of peace there la a continuous stream of let ters coming to the Capitol regarding military service. Many of these let ters are written with the object of straightening out military records, some men wishing to have additional data to support their records, while others are to overcome seme diffi culty which arose over failure to re spond at once to a call through ab sence from reported place of resi dence. A number of the letters are addressed to the Governor's office and others to the Adjutant General. Major W. G. Murdock, who was the executive officer of the draft in this State, who has an office here clear ing up the final details of the draft, gets many of the letters and the volume of his correspondence is in creasing. This development, which was unexpected by State officials, bids fair to bring much mail to Har risburg. Some of the letters come from relatives of men in the serv ice who are seeking to locate them and occasional requests require half a dozen letters to trace the man in question. It has been discovered in some instances that men did not return to this country, but remained abroad, while in other cases there is no record after muster out. A number of communities, seeking to complete the records of the men who enlisted or were drafted have been sending here for information. State officials say that such inquiries will probably keep up for years to come. Captain Douglas E. Dlsmukes, commander of the great transport U. S. S. Mt. Vernon, will bring his big ship home on its last voyage as a transport next week and will then rejoin his family in Harrisburg on a merited leave. Fr more than four years he has been on sea duty and the record of his service in the great war constitutes a brilliant page in the history of the United States Navy. This particular ship, which is known in naval circles as "The Queen of the Transport Fleet," transported to Franco 35,000 sol diers while steaming 60,000 miles. After it was torpedoed and the great vessel had been repaired it made eight additional crossings and brought home 24,000 soldiers while steaming 2 5,000 miles. The Mt. Ver non was the first vessel to establish the record of 16 days 17 hours. On the twelfth trip the ship arrived at Brest at 8 o'clock in the morning, embarked 6,000 troops and left for New \ ork at 4.30 the same after noon. "This record, according to the Log of the Mt. Vernon, was the materialization of what appeared to bo a dream indulged in by the lead ing authorities of the Army and Navy who were experienced in the transport game. The American sailor under such officers as Cap tain Dismukes made this possible. Harrisburg has sent into the serv ice of the seas many lino officers, among those whose names will im mediately occur to the average citi zen as Captain Dismukes, Captain Ned Kaibfus, Captain Harry Brin ser. Thero are many others of les ser grade who have given their country devoted and distinguished service. Officials of the State Game Com mission who have been getting re ports from game wardens through out the State estimate that the change in the game code, permit ting shooting of blackbirds during August, enacted by the recent Legis lature, was the means of ridding farming districts of hundreds of birds which had been cause of com plaint by farmers and fruit growers. According to what observers of wild life have reported, there has been an increase in the number of black birds spending the summer in Penn sylvania in recent years and in the rapidly expanding market garden ing districts near the cities and in sections where oats are extensively grown the birds have been a nuis ance. The change was recommended by the iate Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, for years secretary of the Game Com mission, after a first hand survey of the conditions and results reported' during the month just closed Justify the advance of the season, Game Commission officials say. Many hunters from cities went out toi shoot blackbirds as a preliminary to. the opening of the hunting season, while in rural districts farmer* cleared their fields of swarms of the birds. • The Capitol also lias its funny* side. The other morning a man ap proached the plaza In a flivver. The. flivver had been going long and hardl and it was hot in the collar or radiator or somewhere else. But the man was resourceful. Ho saw it needed water and he called to. one of the gardeners who was ma nipulating a hose with a languid: air, unscrewed the top and used a couple of quarts of good Susque hanna from the hose to cool the gizzard of his machine. • • • Governor William C. Sproul will celebrate his forty-ninth birthday Tuesday by voting at his .home elec tion place in Chester and then com ing to Harrisburg for a series of meetings. It will bo the Governor's first birthday as chief executive of Pennsylvania and he "has already re ceived congratulations from friends at the Capitol who called on him or wrote before going home for the pri mary election. The Governor has been getting into the walking habit here lately and while he is not in the class with Attorney General William I. Schaf fer, who walks a couple of miles along the river front every morning, and Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods and Banking Com missioner John S. Fisher, also miiers, he has been developing into a walker. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Harry W. Chamberlain, Milton attorney, was here on a Capitol busi ness trip yesterday. —F. W. Bobbins, head of Will-. iamsport schools, is proud of the fact that his city-will start two new school buildings this month. —Dr. Wilmer Krusen is personal charge of medical Inspec tion in Philadelphia schools. —F. A. Davles, head of the- Sus quehanna county fair, says It is one. of the best ever held in the county. "r DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg; nuulo- steel which was. used! (or- manufac ture- of gun parts during the war?- HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Early military companies u Mf|| to drill on the south side of Murkett e^uai*,
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