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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917
To travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive, and the true
success is to labor. — STEVENSON.
WHEN" THE LEAGUE COMES
HARRISBURG will put on its
best bib and tucker when the
Third Class City Leaguers
come to town, August 28, for a
three days' visit.
We have some things here of
which we are so proud that we will
be glad to show them to the visitors.
For example, we will point with
usual pride to our river front and the
rip-rapping and planting now being
done there. We will conduct the dele
gates to Wildwood. to the Reservoir
park, the island nursery and play
grounds, and we shall not hesitate
to point out the assemblage of the
Sons of Rest, self-appointed Inspec
tors of the Pcnn-Harrls million dol
lar hotel enterprise. We will point
with pride to the work being done on
the Capitol Park Extension and to
numerous other things worthy of
note and civic conceit.
But we hope nobody will ask how
we are getting along with Hard
scrabble or what we have done with
the Donato statuary, or why we
haven't municipal bathing beaches.
We trust that our visitors will be dis
creetly silent about our poor old sub
stitute for a police station and it
would be a tragedy, indeed, if any
body asked his way to city hall.
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR
IX his strong and forceful speech
at Pittsburgh yesterday Colonel
Roosevelt stated the whole truth
in one paragraph, when he said:
Make no mistake. We are fight
ing for humanity; but we are also,
primarily, fighting for our own
vital interests. Our army in
France will fight for France and
Belgium; but most of all it will be
fighting- for America Until we
make the world safe for America
fand incidentally until we make
democracy safe in America'*, it is
empty rhetoric to talk of making
the world safe for democracy; and
no one of these object? can be ob
tained merely by high-sounding
words, or by anything else save
by exercise of hard. grim, com
mon sense in advance prepara
tion. and then by unflinching
courage in the use of the hard
ened strength which has thus
been prepared.
There has been entirely too much
talk of making the world safe for
democracy and too little of the rights
of the American people involved in
this gigantic struggle. The United
States is in this war for the defense
of rights which have been Invaded
and our own people must get awake
to the fact that while we also are
in the war for humanity, we are pri
marily defending principles which in
volve the very life and future of
the Republic.
THE XEW Y. M. C. A. SPIRIT
WHAT a delightful thing it is to
observe the new spirit that is
being developed by the Har
rlsburg Y. M. C. A. The offer of free
service during tho vacation months
to the Boy Scouts of Harrlsburg is
both a step forward for the associa
tion and a recognition of the enlarged
scope of the Scout movement in Har
rlsburg since the Rotary Club cam
paign.
Both the Y. M. C. A. and the
Scout organization in Harrlsburg are
in good hands. This means much, for
both have to do with the boys and
the young men of the city, who are
to be our future citizens. The time is
fast coming when for Boy Scouts
and old "scouts," too, "meet me at
the Y. M. C. A." will be as common
place as it has been heretofore un
usual.
THE GASOLIXE SHORTAGE
TUDY the figures of the State
Highway Department for the
first half of the present year as
they relate to automobile licenses and
you win understand why there is a
shortage of gasoline In the country
and why the government has Issued
warnings against the use of large
amounts of this form of fuel in auto
mobile pleasure-riding.
In the period named automobile
lienses to the total of 368,275 have
been issued and this number has
been greatly increased since July l
by the half-year license period going
into effect. These figures represent
a total increase of forty-two per
cent, over the same figures last year.
It is fair to assume that other
States have kept pace with Pennsyl
vania, which means that in the coun
try at large the increase of automo
biles, and consequently of gasoline
consumption, too, has been 42 per
cent In other words the country Is
FRIDAY EVENING,
[ using approximately 42 per cent,
more gasoline than It did during the
first six months of 1916.
This, with the automobile produc
tion increasing constantly and the
intention of the government to throw
22,000 aeroplanes Into the war with
in the next year, brings us face to
face with a serious situation. Not
only must we save gasoline so that
the war may be properly conducted,
but we must redouble our efforts to
find a substitute for the petroleum
derivitive now universally used as
automobile fuel.
PARK APPROPRIATION
ALL Harrlsburg will rejoice that
Governor Brumbaugh has
found It possible to approve in
total the full $350,000 appropriated
by the Legislature for the develop
ment of the Capitol Park extension
area. This insures prompt beginning
of work upon the grading and beau
tificatlon of the zone.
The Governor's signature to the
appropriation Is the climax of a
long and arduous campaign for the
enlargement of Capitol Park. Many
men have striven whole-heartedly for
the success of the enterprise, among
the pioneers being former Senator
John E. Fox, Senator E. E. Beidle
man, and former Representatives
Tunis and Kelster. The Capitol Park
Extension Commission also comes In
for a share of praise, for no public
enterprise of the magnitude Involved
In these property purchases was ever
more economically or fairly conduct
ed.
In the present Legislature, Repre
sentative Woodward and Senator
Buckman, chairmen of the House
and Senate appropriations commit
tees, gave sympathetic ear to the urg.
ings of the entire Dauphin county
delegation in the Legislature, which
was unanimous In Its advocacy of the
$350,000 appropriation Item, and it
is largely to their efforts that the
sum went Into the budget in the
amount which the Governor approv
ed. Just how fortunate Harrlsburg
is In this respect and how much it
owes to those who guide the finan
cial affairs of the Commonwealth
may be Judged from the that
have been made in many other very
worthy appropriation measures.
The city may feel grateful also
that the future of the Capitol Park
development is to be in such com
petent and friendly hands as the
men who make up the new Board of
Public Buildings and Grounds, the
Governor, Auditor General Snyder
and State Treasurer Kephart. Both
Mr. Snyder and Mr. Kephart have
determined to make the Capitol im
provement a monument to their ad
ministrations, feeling the same way
about it as did Robert K. Young,
who has Just retired as State Treas
urer, and at whose bedside news
that the park appropriation has been
approved will be welcome tidings.
Harrlsburg people will be happy to
entrust the future of the park to
three such enthusiasts, and will take
pride in the thought that the actual
working out of the plan will be un
der the supervision of Superintend
ent Shreiner, himself a well-known
Harrisburger.
With respect to the Camp Curtln
Memorial, It Is to be regretted that
the Governor found It necessary to
reduce Its appropriation from $25,-
000 to $13,000, but that sum at least
will start the work and another Leg
isalture may be expected to com
plete it. Senator Beidleman, who in
troduced the measure, will have the
satisfaction of knowing that by his
efforts the famous old Civil War
camp site is not to be lost in a mass
of buildings and thereby blotted
from the memory of coming gen
erations.
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TAKE YOUR PICK
THERE is plenty of variety in
the news Just now.
One day you read that "Russia
faces rum," the next that "the Rus
sian situation is serious but not hope
less." The day following it appears
that the "Hindenburg line is impreg
nable." The morrow brings gladsome
tidings to the effect that it's all a
mistake; the allies can smash Hin
denburg whenever the man and gun
power has been increased to the
amount required by the command
ers. One day Germany Is starving to
death and the next'in the midst of
plenty. To-day the Kaiser turns all
his attention to the making of aero-
planes to combat the thousands of
flying machines America is to throw
into France, and an hour later brings
news that the German warlords do
not take the entrance of America as
a serious factor in the war.
Just about the time you reach the
depths of despair they give you a
fresh Jab in the arm and you soar
into the delightful realms of early
and certain victory. It is powerful
"dope" the foreign correspondents
are using Just now, but most all-flred
hard on the nervous system these hot
days.
IK
By the Ex-Committeeman
Conferences held the last few days
and to be continued to-morrow be
tween Senator Penrose and men
prominent in the Republican state
organization and between state ad
ministration leaders will have con
siderable importance to this fall's
political situation. The leaders have
been waiting until Governor Brum
baugh finishes work on the legisla
tion, which is expected to have con
siderable weight in determining how
things shall be done.
Auditor General Snyder saw Sena,
tor Penrose this week and it is ex
pected that a line of procedure was
agreed upon. Administration men
have been anxious to save some of
their people who are in the fiscal de
partments and the agreement on the
method of bringing the mandamus
suit may bring about some taming
down in other lines.
Tho wlndup of action on legisla
tion has been so dwarfed in the
newspapers and in political comment
by the war, the draft and great na
tional matters that comparatively
few people hare been following the
fate of bills and their possible af
fect on state politics.
—Things are steaming in Philadel
phia and Pittsburgh. In Philadel
phia Mayor Smith has put a Vare
police lieutenant of much influence
on a siding for failing to obey or
ders and is engaged in a controversy
with Secretary Daniels over vice in
which the mayor charges that the
secretary is peeved because Phila
delphia demanded removal of intern
ed sailors.
—Governor Brumbaugh will leave
either to-night or to-morrow for a
vacation trip, but the place and time
of departure is withheld at his offlce.
—G. S. DeWes may succeed Coun
ty Controller Isaac Y. Ash, of Ches
ter, who died yesterday. An appoint
ment may not be made.
' —Considerable speculation is be
ing indulged in as to a number of
appointments which Governor
Brumbaugh is due to make. They
will about clean up the list and it
is said to be the plan of the Gov
ernor to finish them within a few
weeks. When the Governor returns
from his vacation he will not have
many such matters to bother about.
—Considerable interest has been
aroused by the restoration to the
State force of factory inspectors of
Albert Karhan. of Sabinsville. Tioga
county, who was dismissed last year
because of the strenuous nature of
the legislative contests in the Tioga-
Potter-McKean district. Karhan
was an experienced man. but "got
in bad" and was let go. Recently he
appeared befora the State Industrial
Board and took an examination for
inspector, which resulted in his re
appointment.
—Commissioner of Banking Dan
iel F. Lafean, who is the man who
will probably figure as the complain
ant in the mandamus proceeding to
compel Auditor General Snyder to
recognize the Governor's appoint
ments, was ready for whatever might
turn up early this week. He was
not sure what would be done about
the payrolls and when he went home
to York Tuesday he arranged for
$22,000 to be loaned him to pay the
salaries of everyone in the depart
ment in the event that the contest
resulted in a holdup of pay. Mr.
Lafean said that he did not propose
to have any one inconvenienced. For
tunately the acceptance of Auditor
General Snyder's suggestion that
deputies sign pay rolls pending the
decision avoided any trouble. Mr.
Lafean was ready, however.
—Wires coming into Harrisburg
have been pretty hot the last twenty
four hours to ascertain something
about the appropriation bills. The
legislators have been turning toward
Harrisburg more now than at any
time since the General Assembly
went home.
Drill
In the camps where officers are
being trained and in the huge can
tonments where presently half a mil
lion men will be undergoing the in
tensive work to make soldiers of
them in the quickest possible time
many a man feels and will feel re
sentful toward his superiors who are
doing the training and think them
unduly severe, captious and exacting.
They should read the sketch entitled
•■Drill" in Boyd Cable's "Action
Front," which tells about the grilling
and grinding to which an instructor
sergeant in a certain artillery regi
ment of the British army subjected
his detachment. Mr. Cable describes
how he sears them with sarcasm and
chastises them with his tongue be
cause they are not quick enough.
Hours on end he keeps them at it,
and, says Mr. Cable, "at the end of
it he spent another five minutes
pointing out the manifold faults and
failings of each individual in the de
tachment." Dismissed, the men went
away grumbling to one another, call
ing him "Old Sergeant Cut-the-
Time," and complaining because he
would give them no credit for
achievement. "The better we does
it," says one of them, "and the faster,
the better and the faster he wants
it done. It's my belief that if he
had a gun detachment picked from
the angels above he'd tell 'em their
buttons and their gold crowns was a
disgrace to heaven and that they
was too slow to catch ~vorms or
catch a cold." But in the meantime
their instructor is saying to a fellow
sergeant: "They're good lads. We
cut three this morning
from oft the time we have been
lng to get the gun into action ..nd
a second a round oft the firing of ten
rounds." "Three seconds is good
enough," said the other mildly. "It
isn't good enough." said the in
structor, "if they can make it four,
and four's not good enough if they
can make it five. They won't be
blessing me for it now, but come the
day maybe they will." And after
ward, in a hard-fought battle, the
battery obeys signals so quickly and
perfectly that it misses destruction
by a few seconds. Then Gunner
Donovan, who had complained most
bitterly when they were under train
ing, leaned ovep to Mick as the bat
tery lumbered and skiddled along
and shouted in his ear: "Gawd bless
old Cut-the-Time!" Boyd Cable's
three books. "Action Front," "Be
tween the Lines" and "Grapes of
Wrath," are composed of graphic
sketches of the war as the author
himself saw It, while his "Doing
Their Bits" describes all England mo
bilized at home to sustain the fight
ing men at the front. The books are
all published by E, P. Dutton & Co.
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH!
AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'? By BRIGGS
AFTER You Pot onj a Aioo You -Anjd Vou ha ue
PAIR HAVIE T "TO
Liberty Bonds and Farmer
It has been repeatedly pointed out
that in purchasing- Liberty Loan
bonds the farmers of the United
States were furnishing the means to
their best customers to purchase the
products of their farms. Much of
the proceeds of the Liberty Loan,
both that used by the United States
government and the amount loaned
to the Allies, is to be expended in
purchasing food and supplies for
their armies from the farmers of tiie
country. There are other reasons,
however, that make the Liberty Loan
bonds especially desirable invest
ments for farmers.
A safe investment is particularly
suited to a farmer because he is in
most instances at a distance from
bond markets and not in position
either to know of or immediately act
upon information of matters affecting
the value of bonds. The Liberty Loan
bonds are invincibly safe, backed as
they are by the resources of the rich
est nation In the world and the faitn
and credit of a people who have al
ways respected their obligations, and
they are of stable value and liable
to little or no fluctuations in market
value.
The farmer is a busy man and
often has neither the time nor the
opportunity to study the questions of
finance and bond values. The Liberty
Loan bond being a bond about which
there can be no question, he can rest
assured always that he has made no
error in judgment.
The farmer often feels the need of
ready cash before the harvesting of
his crops. The Liberty Loan bond
puts in his hand a security on which
he can always borrow money and at
a rate as low or lower than he could
borrow on any other security and
with less trouble.
There is another aspect of this in
vestment in Liberty Loan bonds that
will appeal to every true Amercan.
He is supporting the government, he
is supporting our soldiers in France
and he is doing his duty as a citizen
when he invests in Liberty Loan
bonds.—Exchange.
Public Opinion
Says the Saturday Evening Post.:
•The man who chooses to live in the
United States because he finds it
offers him attractions and opportuni
ties superior to those in his own
country, and yet rejects its offers of
citizenship, is always in the rather
dubious position of the passenger
who insists on keeping his seat in
the boat but declines either to bail
or row. If he did not find superior
opportunities here he would not bo
here, yet he refuses to acknowledge
his obligation to the community that
makes him the opportunities."
In some parts of the country there
are a good many just such men as
as one here described. Have they
any right to remain here? If so,
upon what is it based? The truth is
the United States is too generous
along l some lines. Why should we
throw our doors wide open and ex
tend to such an Invitation to come
in?
The war in which the country* is
now engaged is likely to teach the
American people some lessons that
would not have been learned in any
other way. Among other things it
may teach us not to be so generous
in extending invitations to the people
of other countries, and who have no
intention to become Americans, to
come in and sit at the head of the
table feasting upon the best we have
in the shop.—Knoxville Journal and
Tribune.
Surrender to Reprisals
Coincidence, not connecUon, ruled
that on the day our aviation bill was
sent to the President for his sig
nature the British cabinet made
known its surrender to the policy of
reprisals.
We are appropriating $640,000,000
with a praiseworthy celerity unusual
in Washington; we are planning a
Hying fleet of 22,000 sail; we are
drafting 100,000 picked youth to the
perilous air, to beat down by force
of arms the mightiest efforts German
autocracy can make to grasp the
mastery—not to rain death upon
women and children.
In that honorable restraint we are
confident that allied airmen will sym
pathize. pehapb join, whatever in
dignities cabinets may promise under
pressure of growing civilian anger.
The British government long held to
the view that the proper reprisal for
women and children murdered was
to show new daring and resolution
in military acts like the recent suc
cessful air raid on Zeebrugge. And
that is still the truth.
It takes immense energy, it taps
vast resources, it incurs heavy losses
of men and machines for Berlin to
wreak upon British noncombatants
its futile policy of frlghtfulness. Such
resources and such energy Britain
might better devote, uch losses bet
CLIP AS WELL AS KNIT
V. y
"Clip as well as Knit for the Sailor i
and Marine!" is now the slogan of
the Comforts Committee of the Navy
League of the United States.
The League is going to keep the |
sailor and marine, sent over the seas \
to battle for civilization, in touch
with his "own hometown," or at
least as far as possible in touch with
events in the U. S. A., by sending
him regularly clippings of every sort \
and description from magazines and \
newspapers. Everything from Mutt j
and Jeff to editorials will be in- j
eluded in the Jackies' literary menu.!
This work was initiated by and is
now under the direct supervision of
Captain C. H. Harlow, U. S. N„ who
has his office with the Comforts!
Committee headquarters of the Ifavy t
League of the United States, in this
city. His idea is to supplement the
comfort outfits knit by patriotic J
women of the country, through the
Comforts Committee of the Navy
League, with clippings from newspa
pers and magazines, arranged in
booklet form, which would be of in- >
terest to the men on board ship.
To reduce postage costs, and be
cause space in shipment is at a pre
mium. it has been recommended that
the stories be cut out separately from
the book, stitched together with
heavy thread, and, if possible, bound
with brown paper to further protect
it. The idea of this is to divide a sin-!
gle magazine, which may contain
several stories, among all the men on
board a destroyer, so that while one
man is reading a story several of
his shipmates may be doing the same
thing from the same book. In this
way a man can easily thrust such a !
booklet into his pocket, when sud
denly called to quarters, or it can
be passed around the ship in a short \
time, while a more bulky magazine \
would have to be thrown aside. As j
these torpedoboats and destroyers
ter endure —and in practice we may
hope British soldiers will so decide—
than in acts which degrade to the
Prussian level of brutality.—New
York World.
The Volunteer's Mother
[From the New York Times.]
He was so beautiful —my baby son!
His sun-kissed curls clung close
around his head.
His deep blue eyes looked trusting-
ly in mine.
I did my best to keep his beauty fair
And fresh and clear and dainty, for
I knew.
I never could be satisfied with less.
He was so strong and well, my little
son!
I gave my days and nights to keep
him so—
Called in fresh air and sunlight to
my aid
Good food and play, all healthful
things of life.
I wanted physical perfection, for
I never could be satisfied with less.
He was so bright and clever, my big
son!
I sent him to the very best of
schools,
Denying self that he might know no
lack
Of opportunity to do his best.
Or feel no door of progress closed to
him.
I never could be satisfied with less.
And yet—but now—my well-beloved
son.
For your perfection can I pay the
price?
Or would I have you play the cow
ard's part
With selfish, shriveled soul too small
to dwell
Within so fair a frame? Is that my
choice?
I sought the be>t: Shall I be satis
fied with less?
Nay, I would have you honorable,
my son—
Just, loyal, brave and truthful,
scorning fear
And lies and meanness—ready to de
fend
Your home, your mother and your
country's flag.
He's gone! Dear God! With bleed
ing heart I know
I still could not be satisfied with less!
SARAH BENTON DUNN.
A Graveyard For Germans
General Von Falkenhausen, the
successor of the notorious Biss:ng, is
now Reported seriously ill. Belgium
seems to be a/ graveyard for gover
nors-general a 9 well as for their rep
utations. Springfield Republican.
are so numerous there is naturally a
scarcity of magazines for distribu
tion when one considers that each
small boat may contain from eighty
to one hundred men in Its crew.
A glimpse into the shop of the
Comforts Committee headquarters of
the Navy League finds several girls
hard at work, clipping articles on
current topics, religious, scientific
and sporting subjects, as well as
pictures from comic sheets which
they paste to a sheet of heavy paper
and place into an envelope in a file
arranged according to these subjects.
Others are busy separating the bind
ings from magazines and stitching
the stories together for the folders.
Attractive pictures cut from maga
zine covers and illustrations of
stories to add to the appearance ot
the cover are cut out and pasted on
these folders. These little booklets
are then placed carefully in enve
lopes which arc sent to the various
destroyers, torpedoboats and cruisers
of the United States to be distribut
ed amongst their respective crews.
As a naval officer, Captain Harlow
thoroughly understands the need for
this form of entertainment for the
men. "It is surprising," says Captain
Harlow, "how the people of the
country are taking hold of this work
and the great amount of enthusiasm
manifested. It is so encouraging, in
fact, that the Navy League hopes
that enough material may be prepar
ed to furnish not only the torpedo
boats and destroyers of the navy but
also the battleships with their crews
of 1,000 men."
Clubs for this kind of work are
being formed throughout the coun
try to work in co-operation with the
headquarters of the Comforts Com
mittee in Washington, the work be
ing sent there when completed for
distribution by the Navy League to
the postmaster at New York City,
who is advised by the Navy Depart
ment as to what ships can be reach
ed and their whereabouts.
Labor Notes
paid in perquisites, which always
amount to much more than the wages
paid in modest households.
Stationary engineers employed at
ice plants in Dayton, Ohio, have se
cured the eight-hour day and raised
wages $2 a week. The former work
day was 10 and 12 hours.
When anthracite coal companies n
--crease the size of their mine car
they must pay miners a proportion
ately higher rate or reduce what is
known as "topping".
Local Consumers Leagues through
out the United States are investi
gating plants where women are em
ployed on war work to see that best
welfare conditions are being main
tained. •
Organized women bindery workers
in Philadelphia have asked
to raise wages beginning Septem
ber 4. The request includes a 48-hour
week, time and one-half for overtime
and double time for Sundays and holi
days.
An arbitration board has conceaeu
two-thirds of the wage demands of
Louisville. Ky., Typographical Union.
Day men on newspapers are Increased
from $24 to $26 a week and night
men receive $28.80, an increase 052.40.
$2.40.
Winnipeg. Can., Trades and Labor
Council recently adopted a mown
calling upon the Dominion Govern
ment to provide a pension of SIOO per
month to soldiers who have been to
tally or permanently disabled in tne
war. and war widows with dependent
children.
Tips received by a waiter, porter or
cabdriver should be considered part
of his wages in computing the amount
of compensation due him or his sur
vivors under the workmen's compen
sation law. the Appellate Division of
the Supreme Court of New York state
held in an opinion made public re
cently.
PROSPERITY BULLETIN
"America is on the eve of the
biggest business she ever had,
and we are going to advertise
and make hay while the sun
shines."
GATES A. HALFIN, MISSOURI
POULTRY & SQUAB CO..
St. Louis, Mo.
JULY 27, 1917.
House of Windsor
Henceforth the royal house of
England wil be known as the House
of Windsor instead of the House of
Saxe-Coourg. No more Hanoverian
or Brunswickian or other German
nomenclature will millinery the Brit
ish royal title. But this act of ex
-1 purgation of the English royalty
from German family names will not
| change one iota the fact of the Ger
man derivity of that reigning house,
although King George, the reigning
monarch, is English in thought and
habit and in intense animosity to
ward the foes of his country.
To Americans the occasion is rem
iniscent of the George whom the col
onists fought in their successful en
deavor to gain their independence.
Germans have been fond of citing
the historic friendship of Frederick
| the Great for the young American
republic. But they have forgotten to
point to the German king on the
English throne who sought to stifle
their rights and their liberties. And
they forget to cite the fact that it
was the German troops, the Hessian
mercenaries, that committed most of
the atrocities during the War of the
Revolution. So that in the present
war with Germany there Is more
than a flavor of retribution for the
chapter of the nation's early strug
gle for liberty and freedom against a
German king and his German troops.
—Baltimore American.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HARD BUT PLEASANT.
She: What Is the most difficult
task you do?
Ho: Trying to sleep while the
Marin clock is going oft.
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UNLUCKY.
Bug Autoist—Drat it, who said •
horse shoe was good luck a&yway?
SO IT IS.
"Why do they say that speech la
silver, but silence is golden?"
"Well, for one reason, silence ia
very much rarer than speech."
NOT MUCH,
"How popular is he?"
'"Oh, about as popular as •
pacifist at a recruiting stand."
Hmttng (Cljttl
That the people of Augusta mean
to bo right on the Job both as re
gards welcome and business with the
soldiers of the Pennsylvania division
of the National Guard is well illus
trated by the letters that have been
coming to Harrlsburg asking for in
formation. Some of these letters have
been received by State officials ao<
others by businessmen. One letter
asks for a list of the officers of the
Guard so that the people of the city
would be able to know them and
newspapers have been seeking infor
mation as to the home stations of (
the various organizations which will
comprise the big assemble of troops.
Other letters have been from busi
nessmen asking for lists and infor
mation about the units and what
they would be most likely to want to
buy in the shops. It is a combination
of southern hospitality and business
which is revealed by the inquiries
coming from Georgia. Augusta, an
has been stated in this column befor#
has entertained Pennsylvania troops
before, as our own Eighth infantry
and other regiments were camped
right outside of that city in the win
ter of 1898-99. Apparently the Au
gusta people look for a prolonged
stay of the Pennsylvanians and also
some good business to be done
while they are in the southern State.
The commercial and fraternal or
ganizations are already taking steps
• o get into touch with their breth
ren in the Keystone State." From all
accounts the campsite is being pre
pared and construction work on
cantonments will begin before many
days. This is taken to mean that the
chances of the whole Guard going to
1 it. Gretna for a while before being
sent to Georgia are diminishing.
Patriotism and jitneys sometimes
bump into each other. One of the
signs adopted by the jltneymen to
designate their cars is a display of
nags. Naturally, American flags are
used. They seem to pretty gener
ally understood as the sign, too. The
other day a man driving a fine big
car, almost new, came along. He
had silk flags at each fender and he
was moving north, slowly. Suddenly
two men stepped to the curb. They
were workingmen with pails and
they signaled the man to stop. The
man with the handsome car stopped
and looked Inquiringly.
"We want to go up to Broad," said
one man moving to get in.
"Well, I'm not stopping you. Why
don't you take a car?" asked the
owner of the automobile.
"Ain't you runnin' a jit?" asked
j one of the men.
"What the thunder's wrong with
| you. I certainly am not."
"Well, what you got them flags on
the car for?"
• * •
Adjutant General Stewart and
State Treasurer Kephart would like
to get hold of the men who started
the story that the State was going
jto pay a ten-dollar bonus for all
Pennsylvanians enlisting for the war.
■ The story has been roaming up and
down the mountains and along the
rivers and moving beside the coast
lines of the United States and its in
sular possessions for six months. And
the letters are coming here from Cali
fornia and from Louisana, from the
Rio Grande and the Yukon, from
Ponce, Cavite, Tientsin and Guanta
namo to say nothing of Colon. They
all want the ten. There is no such act,
there is no such bonus, there is no
such appropriation. General Stewart
says he never heard of it until the
avalanche of letters struck him and
State Treasurer Kephart says he
wishes he never had.
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With the retirement of Professor
Zach. T. Meixel, of the Central High
school faculty, the services of one of
the best teachers of mathematics in
this section of the State will be lost
to the Harrisburg school district. To
I replace him will be a difficult task
I for the school board because of his
' lifetime study of all mathematical
1 subjects from plain arithmetic to tha
; advanced problems of trigonometry.
A teacher in the High school for
twenty-two years., his record is al
most unequaled. At school Prof.
Meixel was commonly known as
"Zac," as he invariably signed all
notes and other minor papers. He did
not consider it discourteous if ha
overheard pupils using his nickname,
although at rare times he did pre
tend to be annoyed. His expression
"make a picture." which he used in
addressing students in geometry
when he wanted a diagram of a
problem, was the source of much
fun in the upper classes. To those
who grow to know him intimatelv.
Prof. Meixel was one of the most
penial and friendly teachers Central
High ever had. He was always will
ing to help any student who showed
that he or she wanted to learn, and
often spent hours after the regular
sessions going over difficult parts of
the school work. His systematic
method of doing all work and his de
termination to have each pupil mas
ter subjects he taught, often proved
inspirations to the students who re
cited to him. His forty-nine years of
service in the schoolroom, almost
half of which was spent in Harris
burg, gave him a broad experience.
As he steps now from public school
work to a retired life ho will take
with him the memories of many
years of both faithful and fruitful
service.
• •
Among visitors to the city yester
day was Lieutenant Colonel Frank
M. Vandling, of Scranton, for yeara
prominent in National Guard affairs
and a former Harrisburger. The Col
onel came here on business at the
Capitol and was welcomed by many;
friends.
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE""
—Senator James P. McNichol ia
planning to go to see his fast horse
race next month.
—Captain J. Clyde Miller, of the
State military police, was formerly
in the quartermaster's branch of the
National Guard.
—General C. M. Clement headed
the war parade at Sunbury, which
has been his home for many years.
—Judge Aaron S. Swartz, of Mont
gomery. who will run again, is finish
ing thirty years on the bench.
—George W. Ochs, former publish
er of the Philadelphia Ledger, wants
the courts to change his name to
Oakes because Ochs is too Germanic.
—Dr. Richard Harte, Philadelphia
physician with American hospitals in
France, has cabled that the hospital
Is getting down to work.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg's Red Cross
organization is noted throughout
the State for efficiency?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG v
Indians were enlisted here for ser
vice in the War of 1812 and in the
Civil War and many times since.
The Square Deal
Political pullers are notified that
in a war for liberty the principles of
the square deal will- be applied at
the very outset. Exemption Is to be
j a matter of fact and not of favor.—i
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