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To sit .'till and contemplate,— to re
member the faces of women without tie
sire, to he pleased by the great deeds of
men without envy, to be everything and
everywhere in sympathy, and yet content
to remain where and what you are—is
not this to know both wisdom and vir
tue, and to dwell" with happinessf—
STEVENSON.
.IOFJKE AND LAFAYETTE
HARRISBURG will entertain
General Joffre next Tuesday
and his reception promises to
Vic even more enthusiastic than that
which marked the coming of General
to this city January 30,
ISJS. .
Lafayette and Itis suite rode into
Harrisburg about 5 o'clock in the
evening, horseback from W asliing
ton. after a pause at Middletown for
luncheon. Joffre will come by spe
cial train of Pullman cars from the
National Capital. Lafayette was es
corted to the Governor's Mansion by
the Dauphin cavalry. Joffre will be
met by the Governor's Troop. La
fayette remained the guest of the
city for three days; Joffre. in these
times of rush and hurry, will find it
possible to remain perhaps less than
three hours Lafayette visited Per
severance Lodge of Masons while it
was in session and sat beside the
president of the Senate in the old
brick Capitol. It is to be hoped
Joffre. too, may be able to visit our
magnificent Capitol and catch a
glimpse of its splendid proportions
and its works of art.
La Payette came to claim that
meed of admiration and homage
which America owed him for his
patriotic and valiant services in be
half of the colonies during the war
of the Revolution. Joffre comes to
remind us that Lafayette and an
nrmy of brave Frenchmen made it j
possible for America to try out on a I
gigantic scale the principle of demo- j
cratic government, for which;
Frenchmen are now dying by the J
hundred thousand and to arouse us
to the debt which we owe to France I
and to our heroic ancestors whose j
efforts on the field of battle were j
brought to a victorious conclusion !
only because Frenchmen chose to |
fight by their sides.
Again tlie importance of the farmer j
to mankind is made evident.
GERMAN PEACE TERMS
LKT nobody be deceived or enter
tain false hopes concerning
the latest German proposed
offer of peace, "the generosity of the
terms of which will surprise the
world," according to Berlin dis
patches.
Germany is not sincere; the Ger
man government is playing politics.
Germany is confronted by a great
internal crisis. The Hohenzollerns
are in danger of losing the support
of the people. The masses are be
ginningtomistrust their government,
Something must be done to convince
the doubters that the Kaiser is desir
ous of peace. The most natural
thing in the world for the crown, un
der the circumstances, is to present
to the United States and our allies
terms of peace which the imperial
government knows before hand the
entente will not be able to accept,
at the same time impressing upon
the folks at home their "generosity,"
thus placing the burden of refusal
■upon the fit the central
powers and tending to quiet growing
discontent in the empire.
How much this political plotting
is diluted by sincerity will be evident
only when the "terms" are presented
by the chancellor in the Kelchstag.
His decision to postpone the speech,
which was to have been made to
morrow, indicates that It is designed
for effect more than for any other
purpose.
HAKRISBIItG AND THK WAR
IT Is Interesting and inspiring to
delve Into the files of the TEL.-
EGRAPII and find how In every
war this community has proven Its
loyalty to the government and the
patriotism of Its people. In tho Rev
olution It had its important and
creditable part. In the second war
with England It was promptly on
the firing line and in every war
since our people have demonstrated
their love of country and loyalty to
the constituted authorities. Now. in
the great international struggle upo/i
which we have entered this city has
again placed itself in the honorable
kcosltlon of a very leader in the re-
WEDNESDAY EVENING, .
j crating of her manhood and her
I womanhood for the conflict which Is
I ahead.
Our quota in the army which Is
now being organized will be largely
exceeded through the units of the
various branches of the service rep
resented by the National Guard com
panies and tlie volunteers who are
already serving in the regular es
tablishment. Central Pennsylvania
boys are not waiting l'or any con
scription act to force them into the
service of their country. They are
clamoring daily for admission to the
various training camps and for en
listment in the several branches of
the army and navy.
But this is not all. More than
5,000 men, women and children have
joined the Red Cross. For weeks pa
triotic women and girls have been
preparing bandages and doing the
hundred and one things which only
they can do for the relief of the
wounded and the suffering in the
armies of the coun.ry and for our
Allies abroad.
The impressive spectacle present
ed by the great patriotic demonstra
tion on the streets of the city a few
days ago was of itself an expression
of the spirit of our people in this
crisis. Not even a violent rainstorm
could check the enthusiasm and
earnestness of that great patriotic
pageant. So it is that in all emer
gencies this community has shown
the stuff of which It Is made and
because of this fact a responsibility
rests upon every man, woman and
child to maintain the splendid repu
tation of a patriotic city under all
circumstances.
In our municipal life and in the
discharge of the civic duties entailed
in the public service we must see
to it that in every way the best tra
ditions of Harrisburg shall be up
held.
National prohibition is inevitable.
From all quarters come urgent ap
peals for the prohibition of the manu
facture of liquor from grain during
the war.
LET CHILDREN HELP
WITHIN the next forty days prac
tically all the educational in
stitutions of the country will
close for their summer vacations. All
those children who are old enough
• work will be released from their
studies and be free to go on the
farms and into the gardens to help
in the cultivation and gathering of
crops. In most communities schools
begin their fall sessions from the
first the third Mondays in Sep
tember. In many States, however,
the harvest work is not completed
until the middle of October or later,
A\ onld it not he a good plan, in view
of the scarcity of labor and the
probable difficulty in gathering crops,
to make the announcement now that
high schools and colleges, and per
haps even the seventh and eighth
grades, will not begin their autumn
sessions until all harvest work is
completed.
This assurance, given early in the
season, would enable city families
and farmers to make arrangements
which would enable them to utilize
the labor of those children who are
old enough to help in the harvest.
It may be safely asserted that the
practical experience and the physical
training which the boys would get
while so employed would be no less
valuable in their future careers than
the knowledge they would get if they
spent the additional four or six
weeks at their l>6oks. If the'opening
of all schools of the higher grades
were postponed, those young people
who feel compelled to work in the
harvest would have assurance that
they would not get behind their
classes. Moreover, the announcement
that the opening of schools would be
postponed as ahyaid to war prepared
ness would have a valuable psycho
logical effect in impressing upon the
minds of the young their share in
the responsibilities of citizenship,
and would create in them through
out the remainder of their lives a
higher appreciation of their obliga
tions to their country.
Unreasonable censorship of matters
of public concern during the war will
result only in public distrust and lack
of interest among the people. Of
course, everything which will be of
service to the enemy ought to be sup
pressed, but there is a growing im
pression that the mistakes of Eng
land in this regard are to be dupli
cated at Washington. Now is the
time to avoid errors. The newspapers
of the United States have manifested
the most patriotic attitude since the
breaking of relations with Germany.
They may be trusted to co-operate
with the Government in every pos
sible way, but any disposition to
hamper their legitimate activities will
inevitably result in lack of co-opera
tion and serious detriment to the pub
lic welfare.
Senator Knox has an eminently
practical mind. He cuts across lots
in getting rid of red tape and the sur
plusage of legislative restriction in
the work of preparation for oui part
in the great war. As a result of his
forceful presentation of the matter we
shall at once make use of the interned
enemy vessels now tied up in the har
bors of the Cnited States. These ships
will take the place of those which are
being sunk with great frequency by
the German submarines.
Two of the most distinguished
speakers of the United States will ad
dress the Chamber of Commerce and
its guests this evening. The Rev. Dr.
Hillis and ex-Congressman James
Francis Burke are real orators, who
will have something to say worth
while.
Manifestly the Legislature is not
going to adjourn until it gets good
and ready. Perhaps continuous ses
sions from day to day would facilitate
the legislative program. It Is the old
story of dilatory proceedings for
months and a grand rush at the finish.
There is no mincing of words by the
French commissioners. They are not
concealing the facts. In their judg
ment there should be an American
army in France as soon as it is pos
sible to transport the troops. We must
get ' awake. Whatever complacency
has heretofore existed in our consid-
eration of the part which we must
I take in the war is certain to give way
I before the cold, hard fact* of the
situation.
Nothing has more aroused the peo
ple with respect to the situation in
France than the intimation of Gen
eral Joffre that the man-power of
Lafayette's land is almost spent and
that help of a substantial kind in the
lighting force must come from the
United States.
"Politic*
"~Ptn.Hoif6aa.KUi. s
By the Rx-Coniiiitttecman
The question of a date of adjourn
ment for the Pennsylvania Legisla
ture, which is the highest point of
interest in the politics of the Key
stone State Just at present, will prob
ably he settled within a few days.
Members of the rules committee of
the House of Representatives, to
whom was committed the resolution
fixing May 31. as the date to quit,
have been sounding out the senti
ment of the members of the lower
branch and discussing the situation
with leading senators. The senti
ment of the hulk of the members of
the House, notwithstanding the way
they \oted the other evening, is to
adjourn as soon as possible and ad
ministration senators are enthusias
tically ii favor of winding up busi
ness with the utmost speed. Demo
crats. who are hoping to fish up
something of value for campaign
material, have not' been heard from.
Secretly the Democrats hope the ses
sion may be prolonged and that is
why there are no shrieks about ex
cuse from the minority scats.
There were several suggestions
heard to-day. One was that the
Legislature adjourn June " to 14,
when it starts to get real hot in Har
risburg. Another was that the Legis
lature, following the example of that
in Maryland, recess about June 1.
—Supporters of the latter plan,
who included several men prominent
in the Senate, pointed out that no
one could foretell what might turn up
and that if the Legislature recessed
it would be in a position to come
back on short notice and would not
put the state to the big expense that
an extra session would require.
—This idea was suggested in one
of the speeches on Monday night and
vigorously "booed" by the adminis
tration forces in the House. Never
theless. it is being seriously consid
ered to-day. The action of other
States may have considerable force,
although the state administration,
which wants to get the Legislature
off its hands at the earliest possible
moment, will insist that the governor
and the military and revenue boards
can handle any emergency, as was
done in 1898, without further assist
ance of the Legislature other than
voting of money.
The revenue-raising measures are
attracting much attention now as a
cause for holding the Legislature in
session, but if anything gets by it
would be a surprise. Auditor Gen
eral Snyder wiH doubtless find that
the business of the corporations in
the last year was tremendous and
that big gains in state taxes can nat
urally be anticipated under present
laws." Hence, the bills to tax coal,
manufacturing capital and other
things may languish unless some real
great emergency arises. The fact
that the federal government is about
to make great increases in taxes be
cause of the war is being heard
about the Legislative halls as a reason
for not increasing taxes under au
thority granted by the state constitu
tion.
—The new highway and school
needs are put down at $10,000,000,
which means $5,000,000 more a year.
Some of this money may be found by
effecting rigorous economies in the
state government and knowing per
sons are waiting to see the general
appropriation bill when it comes out
of committee.
—Notwithstanding reports to the
contrary printed to-day. the resig
nation of Gilbert F. Endsley as coun
ty road superintendent of Somerset
lias been accepted by Highway Com
missioner Black. The commissioner
vesterday in the HARRISBURG
TELEGRAPH announced the ap
pointment of his successor, who hap
pens to be R. E. Myers, of Somerset,
promoted from foreman in accord
ance with the policy of the depart
ment to advance worthy men. Mr.
Endsley's resignation was not asked
by Commissioner Black, as alleged
to-day. He resigned to take charge
of some coal developments of his
family. Mr. Endsley is a son of Sen
ator James M. Endsley, of Somerset.
It may be added that Governor
Brumbaugh did not even know
Endsley was going to resign, and that
the story that he asked him to re
tire looks like another May-day tale.
—Democratic State Chairman Mc-
Lean was here yesterday on road
business for his county. Mr. Mc-
Lean expects to be in active service
with the Third artillery in a few days
and Acting Chairman Guffey will
run the windmill in Market Square.
—Commissioner of Labor and In
dustry has had approximately 300
factory inspectors in his department
in four years, that is taking the total
number eaoh year and adding them
together. In that time 24 men have
been dismissed and 12 have re
signed.
—Auditor General Snyder is ex
pected to name several men dropped
by A. W. Powell to places in the au
ditor general's department. He says
that he wants to have men who
know their business.
—Ex-Auditor General Powell is
mentioned in the reports that are
wafted about the Capitol as likely to
bfc given an appointment by the state
administration as a "vindication."
Mr. Powell was deefated as a presi
dential delegate-at-large and has
been an administration man. How
ever. the reports could not be con
tinued at the south wing of the build
ing to-day. There have also been
reports that Mr. Powell would run
for judge in Allegheny county this
fall. Senator Charles H. Kline, of
Pittsburgh, will also be a candidate
for the ermine.
—Montgomery county people to
day aired their opinions on the third
judge proposition. Lawyers In the
county want another judge. The
judges do not. Administration men
are willing to see the bill pass be
cause it would give the governor an
other appointment, but the State or
ganization is not cheering over the
Hill.
Charles M. Schwab says:—
"Theie is not a man in power at our
Bethlehem steel works to-day who did
not begin at the bottom and work his
way up, round by round, simply by
using his head and his hands a little
more freely and a little more effec
tively than the men beside him. Eu
gene Grace, president of Bethlehem,
worked in the yard when I first knew
him. Mr. Snyder was a stenographer,
Mr. Mathews a draftsman. The fifteen
men in direct charge of the plants
were selected not because of some
startling stroke of genius, but be
cause, flay in and day out, they were
doing little unusual thi"f —thinking
beyond their Job®
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EDITORIAL COMriENT
Germany is in greater need of home
rule than Ireland.—New York Morn
ing: Telegraph.
Maybe this now justly celebrated
von Hindenburg line is a bee-line for
Berlin.—New York Morning; Tele
graph.
It should not be a difficult task to
arouse patriotic farmers to the im
portance of raising all the I- wheat
they can.—lndianapolis Star.
Go to it, Ilaig! You have the en
tire summer and the whole of Ger
many before you.—Savannah News.
You can't escape fighting by marry
ing. a recruiting officer declares. Just
what does he mean?— Philadelphia
North American.
The Russian people, however, will
soon find out that it takes more than
a little thing like a revolution to rid
the country of grafters.—Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
The Kreuzzeitung says it is a case
of 1 :500,000,000 against 70,000.000 Ger
mans. This, of course, is intended to
Hatter Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey.
—Newark News.
Repaying Germany
[Kansas City Times]
It ought to be a gratifying reflec
tion to patriotic Americans that
events are rapidly demonstrating
that as a peopie we are not too
proud to learn, even from Germany.
In fact, we are coming to realize
that Germany has been one of our
most helpful allies in preparing for |
wfir.
We know we have been a waste
ful people heretofore and one reason
has been that we have not had to
economize. If we now turn over a
new leaf in this respect it is because
we have learned from Germany that
we cannot fight Germany effectively
while wasting our substance in ex
travagant living. If we go into this
war with trained armies recruited on
a basis of universal service, with
ample reserves with stores of am
munition, food and clothing and
with officers who have proved their
ability by other means than their
dexterity in politics we can thank
Germany for the lesson.
Nor should we overlook the help
Germany has been to us in restoring
the American merchant marine to
the sea. We had permitted our car
rying trade to dwindle almost to
nothing and were sending our goods
abroad in foreign ships. But now our
friend the enemy has indu'.ed us to
make the sea our own element again
as it w-as in our earlier history, and
our shipyards are ringing with the
hammer and saw of the ship build
-61 Previous to attending the school
of German efficiency we never
thought of going elsewhere for
nitrates than to Chile, but our
teacher soon showed us by sending
out commerce raiders lhat our sup
ply might easily be cut of in time
of war. ,So we decided the govern
ment should go into the business of
making its own nitrates. In the same
way our manufacturers have learned
to make dyes for our own markets
and many other things that used to
be "made in Germany" now are be
ing supplied at home.
We ought to try to repay Germany
in some way for the valuable lessons
thus given us, and perhaps the
thing we can best teach her is, after
all, the thing she most needs. She
seems to be well equipped to do most
anything in the world except to live
In peace and' prosperity with her
neighbors, and so perhaps It should
!be our part tp introduce her gov
ernment and people to the advan
tages of democracy. Tf Germany
could just get a democratic attach
ment on its machine it would cure
its present tendency to fly off the
track without sacrificing anything of
its speed and endurance.
This Must Be Our War
Mary Roberta Rlnehart's eldest
son, though still In college, has al
ready enlisted for service. In "The
Altar of Freedom," just published
by Houghton Mifflin Company, Mrs.
Rinehart says:
"I would not have my son do
other than he is doing. He is still in
his teens, but he is a man, and this
is his country. I have not raised
him to be a shirker. Only—this is
a matter for everybody. It is not
my war, or his, or the war of those
other college boys who are always
the first to go. Just as we all bene
fit by the country, so must we share
—and slmre alike—lts dangers.
"Unless It is your war, this is not
a democracy. If, as In the past, we
have allowed the few to do our po
litical thinking for us; If In this war
we allow the few to light for us.'
then as a nation we have died and
our ideals have died with us. Though
we win. If all have not borne this
L alike, then do we lose."
THE PEOPLE'S
Curb and Corner Loafing
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Your paper is always looking out
for the comfort of the people and
and for that reason I make bold to
write a line or two about a great;
public nuisance which the police j
department seems to have overlook- |
ed. I refer to the loafers on the cor- j
ners and curb lines of the streets in i
the central business district. We!
women are constantly subject to in
sult when we are not menaced with
streams of tobacco. Day and night
crowds of loafers monopolize the
sidewalks, much as one might expect
to see in a small town where the
population goes in a body to the!
post office or the railroad station of
an evening; but contrary to all ordi
nary police regulations in the mod
ern city. Surely our police officials 1
could remedy the nuisance if they'
would. Please ask them for the sake j
of the women to break up the prac- i
tice.
A HAKRISBURG WOMAN.
. The TELEGRAPH Flag .
To tjje lidiior of the Telegraph:
The Telegraph always leads. Your 1
supplement to the Telegraph on 1
Flag Day was certainly character
istic of your paper. Passenger trains
coming in from the West on the :
Philadelphia railroad on many of the \
windows was pasted the Telegraph's
supplement and to-day you can see i
Democratic Deserters
[Wilkes-Barre Record]
Fortunately, President Wilson has
liad staunch Republican supporters
for what he considers- the most vital
policies of war administration. The
Democratic desertions are notable
and at another time would call forth
the wrath of the White House, but
in the assurance of a safe majority
the defections from the President's
own party have been passed over as
lightly as possible.
Speaker Champ Clark's denuncia
tion of the conscription plan as on
a par with the convict system is but
a part of the rankling antagonism
that Jir. Clark has shown toward
the war attitude of the administra
tion. The novel spectacle has been
presented of a Republican member
of the House Committee on Military
Affairs taking the place of the Dem
ocratic chairman of the committee.
Representative Dent, in champion
ing the President's plan for raising
an army, because the latter was un
relentingly opposed to it. There is
the leader of the Democratic major
ity in the House, Mr. Kitchen, who
has been so seldom in accord with the
administration that he has remained
for the most part in the background.
In the Senate the chairman of the
important Foreign Relations Com
mittee. Mr. Stone, deserted the Pres
ident In tne decision of the most
momentous problem of half a cen
tury. And we cannot overlook Mr.
Bryan, who, although not at present
a member of the official family, left
the Presidenttin the lurch at a most
critical time and by his radical dis
agreement wilh the President and
inopportune resignation as Secretary
of State, decidedly embarrassed the
President in his dealings with Ger
many.
These men declare that they are
animated by conscientious scruples,
but their attitude is far from that
taken by such eminent Republicans
as Messrs. Taft, Root, Roosevelt and
Lodge, who on every occasion have
admonished tlie statesmen and the
people to "stand by the President"
through thick and thin. The deser
tion of the President by so many in
fluential officials of his own party
will be regarded with amazement by
another generation.
Turkey's Folly
[Washington Herald]
The Porte has seen fit to submit to
Berlin pressure and break with the
United States. It will repent at leis
ure. The long delay In taking the
step betokens its half-heartedness.
Turkey's stutus in the central
power group is as insecure as Bul
garia's. She has everything to lose,
and nothing to gain in the war. Ger
man victory meafis German absorp
tion of her empire. German defeat
spells the loss of Constantinople. It
in a miserable part that Turkey lias
been forced to play,
I the Telegraph's idea In all sections
of the State.
Signed,
A READER.
Free Bridge to Island
j To the Editor of the Telegraph:
A few weeks ago there appeared
| an editorial in the Telegraph about
! a large hall that the city should
| build on Island Park for holding
large gatherings. 1 certainly do think
that the Telegraph is right about
that hall idea. A hall built on Island
! Park could be used for many pur
poses and I think, like the Tele
: graph, that we should not allow
' any other city to get ahead of us
and I betieve that Island Park
Should be 1 larrisburg's real play
ground because it is close to the
business section of the city and it
would have it's many advantages to
! fhe people. But there is one thing
fliat I think should be done first,
and that is a tree bridge across the
river as far as the Island and to
i day I believe there is a great oppor
tunity for out city council to have
a free bridge as far as the island.
' The valley Railways is asking City
| Council for additional franchise and
' privileges for the building of a ter
minal, and for those privileges I
think City Council should demand
i from the Railway Company a free
i bridge as far as Island Park.
Signed,
A TAX PAYER.
Labor Notes
Eighteen thousand people are em
ployed in the salmon canning in
dustry in Washington.
Measures for the temporary assist
ance of farmers who have suffered
loss of crops and live stock on ac
count of the drought and locusts
have recently been proposed by the
Argentine Minister of Finance.
An order-in-Council has been pass
ed extending for anothe* six months
the embargo on the entry into
British Columbia from the United
States. China or Japan of any im
migrants classed as .skilled or un
skilled laborers.
The protection of women employ
ed in danger zones Is now being per
fected by scientific experts in Eng
land. Many safeguards are already
in force, such as ample washing
facilities (including hot baths and
douches), fireproof overalls, veils and
respirators, gloves, face ointment or
lotion.
As a first result of Government
control of the coal mines, miners
In England and North Wales are to
receive a substantial increase in the
war bonus paid them. The bonus,
which has heretofore stood at 13.8
per cent., will hereafter be 18 per
cent. The, increase effects 350,000
workmen, and means an increase of
$10,000,000 a year to the wage bill.
The activities of the Jewish Agri
cultural and Industrial Aid Society
extend to 36 States and to Canada.
Its main object is the fostering and
encouragement of agriculture among
Jewish immigrants. It conducts a
farm-loan department which In 17
years has made 4100 loans aggre
gating $2,330,092, and a farm labor
bureau which in nine .years secured
positions for 6998 men. Various
educational activities and co-operat
ive enterprises £#e conducted by the
Society. %
1,000 Doctors For the Front
The American army of mercy is
always mobilized. There is never
lack of physicians, ambulance
drivers, nurses, whenever and
wherever needed. Our surgeons in
particular, whether specializing in
Inventive surgery, like Dr. Carrel, or
in base-work, like Dr. Blake, or aid
ing a nation stricken with disease
and an army in retreat, like Dr.
Ryan in Serbia, have won golden
opinions in the field.
The General Medical Board of the
Council of National Defense has ar
ranged to send 1,000 surgeons to
the front within the next three
months, anticipating the consent of
the Government, which may be as
sumed. It has been difficult for
France and Great Britain to sup
ply enough physicians for Held hos
pitals without neglecting the con
stant needs of the home population.
At this distance from operations and
while waiting the departure of a
substantial field force of our own,
the United States can spare that
number of devoted men.—New York
World.
MAY 2, 1917.
The Sword of Lafayette
(Inscribed to Raymond Poincare,
• President of the French Republic.)
It was the time of our despair.
When lion-hearted Washington—
That man of patience and of pray
er—
Looked sadly at each rising sun,
the freedom breeding air.
Of hope and rescue there was
none^
When lo!—as down from Heaven let,
There came the sword of Lafayette!
Our harbors—how they danced with
light!
Our tireless bells —how they did
ring!
Again we girded up to fight
Not England, but her Prussian
king.
For here was succor, and the might
Of one great soul's imagining
What wonder If our eyes be wet
To see the sword of Lafayette!
Upon the walls where Justice keeps
The swords she doth most gladly
save,
Not one of all so deeply sleeps
Within the scabbard's honored
grave
But, listening for her call, it leaps,
To live again among the brave.
Thank Heaven our naked blade is set
Beside the sword of Lafayette!
Not his, not ours, the brutuft strife,
The vulgar greed of soil or dross;
The feet that follow drum and fife
Shall tread to nobler gain or loss.
'Tis for the holiness of life
The Spirit, calls us to the Cross
Forget us, God, if we forget
The sacred sword of Lafayette.
■ —Robert Underwood Johnson,read
at France Day celebration in New
York.
The Oregon's Flag Unfurled
TFrom the Portland Oregonian]
Eugene, Ore.—With one and a
l)alf stripes missing, shot away in
the Spanish-American war, and with
its field of Stars and Stripes bullet
pierced, the flag that flew from the
masthead of the battleship Oregon
when the record run was made
around Cape Horn was unfurled at
Ihe University of Oregon the other
day.
The banner is twenty-four by
twelve feet and was presented to
the university in 1911.
[ OUR DAILY LAUGH
REASONS FOR IT.
"That friend of yours is very pol
ished." .
"Yes, you see he has rubbed up
against the best people."
ONCE BITTEN, ETC.
"Why did that 'brilliant' woman
marry such a stupid man."
"Because her first husband wns a
genius."
NO DISLOYALTY ALLOWED.
."Is Grace Jealous of her hus
band?"
"Jealous? Why, on their wedding
trip she wouldn't even let him ad
mire U>s scenaou"
Stoning (Etjal
Whether it was because of sym
pathy or because of the value of an
express wagon load of potatoes spill
ed by a boy at the intersection of
i a moron and Market streets yester
day half a dozen street railway men
braved a "calling; down" and joined
with the traffic policeman In helping
the youngster out. The boy had been
sent to get some potatoes and his ex
press wagon was loaded to the brim.
In crossing the numerous rails at that
busy crossing the wheels caught in
a groove and the potatoes were scat
tered. A big suburban car came
along and was stopped. The car be
,, stopped. Then some cars in
Market street stopped and before
one could realize it half a dozen cars
were standing still and people were
sticking their heads out of the win
dows to see what was the matter.
The trolleymen turned in and had
the boy's wagon reloaded and push
ed to safety on the pavement in
Quick time. And not a passenger
kicked and if the cars were late no
one cared at the railway otlice.
It seems to be the rule, rather than
the exception, that the Auditor Gen
erals elected under the present con
stitution should be taken from the
Legislature. Just call the roll of
those who have served since 1874:
Harrison Allen, Republican, former
Senator from Warren county; Jus
tus F. Temple, Democrat, Senator
from Greene; William P. Schell.
Democrat, former Senator from Bed
ford; John A. Demon, Republican.
Senator from Blair, who served his
term as Auditor General and was
again elected Senator, dying in of
fice; Jerome B. Niles, Republican,
member of the Douse from Tioga; A.
Wilson Norris, Republican, Senator
I rom Philadelphia, who died in of
fice and was succeeded by appoint
ment by Thomas McCamant, Re
publican, of Blair, who did not serve
in the Legislature; David M. Gregg.
Republican, of Berks, who was never
a legislator; Amos H. Mylin, Re
publican, Senator from Lancaster
county, farming now in the Red
Rose district; Levi B. McCauley, Re
publican, Chester, not a legislator;
Edmund M. Hardenbergh, Republic
an, Senator from Wayne, now con
fidential agent (or the New York
Central Railway Company; William
P. Snyder, Republican Senator from
Chester, living retired; Robert K.
Young, Republican, member of the
Mouse from Tioga, now State Treas
urer: A. E. Sisson, Republican,
Senator from Erie, now engaged in
law practice at his home, and Arch
W. Powell, Republican and Wash
ington, Senator from Allegheny, re
tired this week. And now comes
Charles A. Snyder, Republican, Sen
ator from Schuylkill. Thus out of
sixteen Auditor Generals in the
State in the past forty-three years
thirteen were either ex-legislators or
In the Legislature at the time of
their election.
Representative Clem Chestnut, of
Fulton county, comes from the rural
part of Pennsylvania, where they
have no railroads or electric lines,
but whether they observe and study
as their grandfathers did before
them. Mr. Chestnut was discussing
political affairs with Walter Darling
ton, of the Philadelphia North
American yesterday morning and
informed him that the House was
made up of "Republicans, like Mr.
Wallace, of Lawrence; Penrose Re
publicans, Socialists, who are very
harmonious, and some Democrats."
• • •
Representative Joshua W. Swartz,
of this city, who is in charge of the -
bills to codify the laws of the State
relative to decedents estates, was on
the firing line yesterday in the House
and winged Representative John,
Reynolds, of Philadelphia. Mr. Rey
nolds, who is one of the most digni
tield' and careful of the lawyer mem
bers of the House, rose when the
decedents bills were being considered
on third reading and suggested that
he would like to interrogate the spon
sor for the bills.
"Certainly," said Mr. Swartz.
"Would it not be well to see
whether these bills conflict with
those of the State Commission to
Codify the Laws Relative to Dece
dents' Estates?" asked Mr. Rey
nolds.
"These bills are the bills of the
Decedents' Commission," replied the
Harrlsburg man.
* * * •
John H. Fertig. who will become
Deputy Auditor General shortly, is
one of the best-posted men on the
laws of the State at the Capitol. He
is a member of the Schuylkill county
bar and has done the bulk of the
work on the last half dozen codes
which have been before the Legis
lature. He worked out the tremen
dous amount of data required for the
repealers now in the Senate and
helped prepare- the township law
code. He is equally well posted on
corporation and taxation laws.
♦
Among visitors to the Capitol yes
terday was Robert P. llapgood,
former member from McKean and
prominent In the associations of
Pennsylvania publishers. Ho stopped
off to see the legislators at work.
• • *
Ex-Mayor Alexander T. Connell,
of Scranton, was here yesterday. He
is a former member of the House
and looked in on old scenes. He is
one of the Scranton registration com
missioners.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—W. M. Donaldson, of Harrlsburg,
has shown to the publishers of the
Lock Haven Dispatch an old news
paper, the Lock Haven Press, dated
July 24, 1862, which was found in
an did bureau drawer by Mr. Don
aldson. The Press was published by
the nestor of the Clinton county bar,
W. C. Kress. ♦
—Fred C. Hanyon, of Scranton,
has been elected for the third time
as grand treasurer of the I. O. O. F.
of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Richard H. Harte, the noted
in Philadelphia, Is a native of that
to France, will have tho rank of
ilia jor.
Bishop J. I'. McCloskey, conse
crated for a Philippine see yesterday
in Philadelphia, is a native of that
(,t —J. Lord Rlgby, the new chief of
corporations under Auditor General
Snyder, used to be recorder of deeds
of Delaware county.
—John F. Casey, big Pittsburgh
contractor, was here yesterday visit
ing the Legislature.
—Attorney Philip V. Mattis, of
Scranton. who was here yesterday,
cume to discuss the proposition for a
law for a new station in Scranton.
DO YOU KNOW |
That plans for Capitol I*ark
Extension, arc Httractiiig State
wide attention ?
HISTORIC LLARRIKBVRG
If the first railroad station had re
mained Unia station would have
been down around Dock street
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