14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAI'II I'KISTIXCi CO., Telegrraph Hllll (U11 K, Keiiernl Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prcs't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other ; wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American M Newspaper Pub .-j,™ Ushers' Assocla lßg§®S|jjijjjfa tlon, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn tßSHßTttUT' W sylvania . Associ ated Dailies. fulfil a. <251! £9 BBS M Eastern office, lfil9IB9&l Story, Brooks'& £ BaS Mat Finley, Fifth uSSSSSfffIK Avenue Building, £jg~. |WiS§ jg New York City; Cias' ty ' Building, - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier!!, ten cents a tweek; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5 It fortifies my soul to know That though 1 perish, truth is so; That howso'cr I stray, and range, W'hate'er 1 do, thou dost not change; I steadier step when I recall That if I slip thou dost not fall. —CI.OUGH. THE NEW ADJUTANT GENERAL PROMOTION of Colonel Frank D. j Beary, deputy adjutant general j since 1912, to be the adminis-i trative head of the military establish • ment of Pennsylvania as successor to the late Thomas J. Stewart, not only recognizes efficiency in office, but re wards that hard work and self-sac riflce which make for the best in the public service. Almost from the time that he entered the office the man from AUentown was tho right hand of General Stewart and in the days when the General was worn with the weight of duties it was Colonel Beary who relieved him and tool: over much of the burden of an office filled with detail. Colonel Beary has to-day the advantage of a score of years in the Guard. He began as a private and rose through the grades to be a major of the lino, varying his service by working in the important departments that go to make an army, but which are not in the limelight. In handling the official matters which come to the Capitol he has had to spend many a night at his desk and many an hour upon trains. But it has all been to his benefit, for he takes his new office splendidly informed, well sup ported and vigorous in health. In selecting the officer upon whom will devolve the task of organizing the Reserve Militia first of all, so that the Commonwealth may have a new line of defense, Governor Brumbaugh w;.s able to follow the recommenda tions of the Army heads, who showed that among the officers coming un der national inspection Colonel Beary ranked among the very first for effi ciency and general knowledge of tho duties of an officer. • The appointment of Colonel Beary is a good choice viewed from any angle. "Pea coal reduced sixty cents a ton lr. Philadelphia." Therefore, we are told, Harlsburg people should feel grateful to the President's fuel ad ministration. "IIARDSCRABBLE" CITY SOLICITOR FOX is to be congratulated upon his en ergetic handling of the "Hardscrabble" matter. This should no longer be a subject of adverse comment in public places. Every reasonable thing has been done to safeguard the interests of the property owners in the district affected and there can be no charge of inconsiderate action against the city. From the standpoint of the municipality great consideration has been shown all in interest and the City Solicitor may be trusted to bring the matter to a proper conclusion without further unnecessary delay. Veterans of the Philippines will be lieve that 8010 was well named. HOW ABOUT COTTON? COTTON growers and others in terested are meeting in New Orleans to consider the advis ability of holding all cotton for a minimum of thirty cents a pound. This ought to bo a signal for ac tion by the Federal Government. Steelmakers, coal operators and east ern and western growers of wheat have been called to Washington and told solemnly that prices have been fixed for \heir products, that to at tempt to get more would bo punish able by prison term or fine, and that any move toward price juggling •would be regarded as next door to treason. Why this price fixing by the ad ministration? To help win the war, to keep down the living expenses of the people, we are told. All very well, but how about cot ton? Isn't cotton a household necessity? Isn't a plentiful supply of cotton es sential to a proper conduct of the (wnr? Won't the government save ipiSUlona .of dollars if the price of FRIDAY EVENING, KOUtSBURG TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 5, 1917. cotton Is kept down to a reasonable figure? Says the New York Sun, dis cussing cotton prices: The cost of cotton production Is as disputable as the actual price it costs to produce a ton of steel or a pound of copper. It ranges, according to conditions, between eight and fifteen emits a pound. If the Government can say to the farmers of the Middle West that $2.20 shall be the price received for wheat, why cannot it say to the farmers .of the South that a price fixed after thorough inves tigation shall be received for cot ton? Talk of holding cotton for a minimum of thirty cents a pound will hasten such a price fixing. Thirty-cent cotton would be profit-grabbing in its worst form. The answer to the government's failure to fix cotton prices lies in the fact that the cotton crop is grown in the South and that Southern Demo crats are in control at Washington. But there is a worse side to the cotton question even than that of price. Its export is not under gov ernment control. Thousands of bales are finding their way from this coun try to the Central Powers, where the cotton is being turned into ammuni tion for German and Austrian can non and rifles. An embargo on cot ton would be a serious blow to the Prusssian arms, just a govern ment fixed price an cotton would tend to keep down family expenses and government outlay at this time. But Democratic Washington is silent concerning Democratic cotton. Theodore Roosevelt stands out be fore his countrymen to-day as the very Impersonation of American spirit. He has no patience with the blathering pacificists or the other slackers, wiio would promote the cause of the Kaiser through direct or indirect interference with the prepa rations of the Government for a suc cessful assault upon the entrenched foes of humanity and liberty. PROFIT FROM GARBAGE IF Baltimore is offered SIOO,OOO for its garbage and other waste materials by a responsible con cern and if cities , like Springfield, Mass., and elsewhere are likewise receiving thousands of dollars for their waste, then it ought not to be a difficult matter for the officials of Harrisburg to find a source of revenue in the garbage, instead of an item of expense. Since much time has been taken already in consideration of this matter no mistake ought to be made in the final conclusion. No city has suffered more from the system or the lack of system in garbage disposal than Harrisburg. It is due our citizens that the unsanitary conditions which have prevailed here shall cease. There can. be no excuse for prolonging the careless, indifferent and incompetent garbage arrangement which has been a seri ous joke for several years. No consideration ought to be shown those who would protect their own interests at the expense of the taxpayers- It is not a question of easing the financial burden of those responsible for our present plight. The duty of the municipal author ities is as clear as the sun. They should provide a definite and satis factory and efficient disposal sys tem, and no attempt at justification on the score of a few dollars more or less will satisfy the people for failure to remove the waste of the city promptly and with regard to sanitary regulations. The people are watching this mat ter more closely than ever before and if the city can be saved money instead of increasing the cost of operation *the City Council should see to it that this is done. Let's have no more temporizing. To-day's fire is an argument for fireproof garages. WHERE IS THE "NEW BLOOD?" FOLLOWING the President's cruise to New England in the Mayflower, we were told, a great shake-up was to take place among the bureaucrats in the departments at Washington. Red tape was to be cut. new blood was to be Infused. Well, the cruise is long since ended. The only shake-up that has taken place is one caused by the operations of age and the law. General Scott )ias Reached the age of retirement and has quit the post of chief of the general staff. His successor will have to step down and out for the same reason in three months' time. The infusion of new blood will be delayed that long, at least. "Food and fuel will win war," says Potter. In which case is the credit to go entirely to the sappers and miners? SCRUTINI ZING N EEDED SENATOR MARTIN, of Virginia, the Democratic leader in the upper branch of Congress, warns the Senate that "the govern ment's finances aro in a perilous sit uation." He declares that the duty of the Senate "to scrutinize these es timates grows every hour." The Senator describes as "extrava gant and almost reckless" the esti mates which are pouring in on Con gress from the administrative de partments. These strong words are Justified; and we hope that Senator Martin will not content himself with words alone. There is a splendid opportunity for him to turn to action to make his words effective by co-operating with the Republican Senators who, as a whole, and the Democratic Senators who, to the number of fifteen, have gone on record as favoring a joint committee of Congress to scrutinize the financial operations of the war. "Bryn-Mawr girls in fistfight on street." —Newspaper headline. Quali fying for the ballot in Philadelphia, we suppose. NO EXCUSE FOR DELAY SELECTION of a site for the new high school should be postponed for po litical or other reasons. Ade quate facilities must be provided for the increasing school population and we trust that the directors will lo3e no time in getting the whole build ing program under way. Too often 1 Important municipal improvement^ and the development of the school facilities are dependent upon poli tical campaigns. It ought to be ob vious to the average public official that the best recommendation he can have for the public favor Is iinsel fish public service and efficient ad ministration of the business of the people. HPe&ttea ov 'PTKKOIFCTFUUA By the Ex-Commtttceman Decisions in regard to details of the method whereby the votes of the Pennsylvania soldiers will be taken in November will be reached early next week by state officials and the general plan will be submitted to Governor Brumbaugh for approval. The Governor said to-day that he hoped to be able to name the com missioners within the next ten days. It has been determined that com missioners will be sent to the camps where there are organizations of the National Guard, the mobilization camps of the drafted men and the various training camps where there are ten men or more, but another problem has entered into the case because when election day comes Pennsylvania soldiers may be on the high seas. While there is ho information when any of the men will sail, ar rangements will be made with the Federal Government whereby com missioners will go on shipboard if it is found that any units will be on the ocean on election day. —Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods has telegraphed to the com missioners of a number of the coun ties asking that they forward imme diately lists of the nominees for of fices to be voted for by or cities. In a number of instances the lists have been sent in without the address of the candidate being given so that they could be identified. The idea is to gather all of such nomina tions in a pamphlet and furnish them to soldiers, who can also be given the local nominees by committees which send them. The department has pre pared a form of skeleton ballot which will be sent to county officers for their guidance. Soldiers will have the right to write in any name they please. —The time for paying taxes, which is a requisite for soldiei-s to vote, ex pires to-morrow. —Governor Brumbaugh, who has been getting numerous letters and telegrams of protest against the dis memberment of the 18th, 13th, Bth and other regiments, will likely send a personal representative to Wash ington to call the attention of Sec retary of War Baker to the situa tion which has arisen as a result of the reorganization , at Camp Han cock. The Governor informed visitors yesterday that General C. M. Clem ent was the officer In charge and that all he could do would b$ to pro test. The reorganization has caused so much objection that the Governor will likely issue a statement about it. Secretary Paker will be in Harris burg next Monday and the matter may be brought informally to his at tention as this city is the headquar ters of one of the dismembered regi ments. —The Philadelphia Record to-day says: "Under the name of the Town Meeting Party, the committee author ized to put an independent ticket in the field at Philadelphia at the Town Meeting in the Academy of Music last Thursday night began its campaign against "Government by Murder" and against the election of the contractor bosses' ticket for Councils and county offices. The title for the new party was pre-empted yesterday when papers covering every waril in the city were filed in the office of the Prothonotary of the Common Pleas Court. At the same time a duplicate set of pre-emption papers were filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, for the purpose of pre-empting the party title for the state at large. Through this measure of precaution the new party will be enabled to put a state ticket in the field at the Gubernatorial election in November, 1918, when the successor of Govern or Brumbaugh is to be elected. Should politicjj.l conditions at that time justify the move the new party might put a Gubernatorial candi date up .'V —Half a dozen of the big counties liave failed to file the official returns of their primary on judgship nomi nations and there Is unusual interest in them because upon what is found may depend the test of the sole nom ination clause. —From all that can be learned all is not lovely in regard to the Pitts burg mayoralty situation because some men connected with the state government have declined to espouse the cause of William A. Magee for mayor with the vigor hoped on Cap itol Hill. Some Pittsburgh papers say that the Philadelphia upheavel is having its effect in that city, while it is an open secret that administra tion friends In Scranton are not pleased with the situation in that city at all. —Harrisburg people read with considerable interest the clash be tween Congressman John R. K. Scott and District Attorney Kotan, asi Mr. Scott, who is well known here be cause of his legislative service, said he represented the Department of Public Safety of which William H. Wilson, his former legislative col league, is chief. —Governor Brumbaugh is being besieged by men with booms for various appointments, but it is not likely that he will name any one to big places for some time. —Senator W. M. Lynch, of Lacka wanna, said last night before going home, that he did not think he would have much trouble being re-elected superintendent of Farview state in stitution. —According to the expense ac counts filed in court at Scranton, Alex T. Connell, one of the success ful candidates for the nomination of Mayor of Scranton, spent $6,- 263.68, while A. A. Vosburg, defeat ed for the nomination, expended $6,513. J. U. Schlager, successful candidate for the Republican nom ination as sheriff spent $5,296. —Charles E. Jefferies, who ob tained the Democratic nomination for county controller at. the Blair county primary election, filed a unique ex pense account. In a letter to the Pro thonotary, he said: "to secure 2,336 votes and the Democratic nomina tion for county controller in Blair county, cost me just twenty-five cents." TOUGH LUCK Tough luck, indeed. The United States Is converting an unusually IAH onbbage crop into kraut, and yet Sweden will not get to send any of it to her German friends.--Kansas CUy JournaJ THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT J H.CKRICS FOR) |\AH K? &>% * ' W,.;.. HARVEST- MARITIME SUPREMACY It is surely one of the most sig nificant developments of this war that, in all pxesent likelihood, the United States will emerge the lead ing maritime nation of the world, displacing Great Britain, which has for so many generations been su premo on tho seas. Figures just published in Washington reveal that within two years more than 15,000,- 000 tons of seagoing shipping will be flying the American flag, less, of course, such damage as may be done by time and the German submarines. Such a shifting of maritime leadership cannot help but carry with it very important changes 111 the relationships between this country and all of the older nations of the world. Great Britain, for in stance, has always looked upon her dominion of the seas not alone by war vessels, but by ships of peaoe as well, as essential to her trade Posi tion, and there can be no doubt that her mighty fleets have had much to do with forming and strengthening this island people. With a predominant merchant marine has always gone, as an ap parently necessary adjunct, a pre dominant navy. Are we as a people on the threshold of a development along such lines, wherein it is to be considered necessary that we com pete with England for naval supre macy?— Detroit Free Press. GOT TO HURRY There is an expression coming out in Germany that is getting to be fashionable. It is this: "The little loved Prussian." Each day brings out a new fash ion; some new expression explodes; and, boys, believe me, it's coining to an end. These little-loved human locusts, the Prussians, are taking their va cations in Bavaria. And they are taking their Teuton vacuum tum mies with them. They are paying twelve to fifteen cents apiece for eggs, taking these eggs from the poor; and the poor are taking 1 it>Z eral draughts of water. You know, water is one of the few staple articles of diet in Ger many of which there is no great shortage. Water for baths In .homes is taboo, but there is plenty for drink ing purposes. Germans said, "We will show England, with our scheme of under sea murder, what's what." I ask you, "Will they accomplish this starv ing scheme ahead of their own de feat? With over twenty-four million in habitants eating at mass-feeding, with practically little butter, 110 other fats, no sausage or pork, and with millions eating qoup, I tell you the food jugglers of Germany have got to hurry.—The Silent Partner. THE FLAG OF FREEDOM O flag of freedom! 'Neath thy folds A nation great its sway still holds! We greet thy Stars and Stripes to day— Thy Stars that shine with un dimmed ray In mighty constellation bright; Thy Stripes of crimson and of white That guard thy starry fields of blue And bind our hearts to thee anew! Old Flag, you tell of storm and strife Of Freedom won, of peaceful life That ever broadened 'neath thy sway, As o'er a continent your way You held in march of Destiny O'er lands that stretch from sea to sea! And then the seas themselves you spanned And Freedom brought to Orient land! # To-day we greet you, Flag of Right, For now beneath your folds >inite Once more, with purpose true and stern, Heroic hearts that glow and burn! While gathering hosts, armed for the fray. Gladly follow where you lead the way; For still you float in Freedom's van, The symbol of the hopes of man! Across the sea a challenge came With roar of guns and flash of flame! 'Twixt Might and Right the line was drawn And Freedom's last great fight was on! America that challenge heard; Her answer all the world has stirred! See! Streaming? on the winds of France Her flag and Allied flags advance! Nor will those Allied flags be furled Till Freedom triumphs-through the world. —H. T. Suddrith in the New York i World. Potash From Sargasso Sea [ From the Engineering News] Obtaining potash from seaweed in the Sargasso Sea is a project which is to be undertaken by W. S. Warner of Tampa, Fla. Mr. Warner was for merly a sea captain, and has also done work in the development of the Florida phosphate deposits. He plans to build an 8,000-ton vessel of re-enforced concrete, 300 feet In length, 50-foot beam and 24-foot depth of hold. The vessel is to be subdivided by bulkheads into water tight compartments, and is to be equipped with machinery for hoist ing the seaweed from the ocean and reducing it to ashes. As the seaweed is raised from the water, it wilt be run through three successive sets of heavy rolls which will remove 85 per cent, of the sur plus water which it contains. After passing through rotary drying kilns, the seaweed will be bprned and tho ashes, in which the potash content is concentrated, will be discharged into the hold of the vessel. The equip ment is planned to be capable of hoisting, drying and burning enough seaweed to produce 200 tons of ashes per day. Captain Warner claims that the Sargasso Sea is a region of such con tinuous calm, with freedom from both wind and wave, that the work can be carried on continuously with out interruption, and there will be no LOVE OF DEMOCRACY During the early period of our country's history the necessity for facing such foes as fire, flood anel Indians bound whole communities together for common self-preserva tion, and to this elay in rural elis tricts a burning barn or a prairie fire brings every neighbor to the rescue. That disaster always stirs the American heart to the very core was never better proved than during the San Francisco earthquako when those who had saved food or cloth ing or money gave freely to those who had not, while the whole nation responded quickly and generously to the city's cry for help. We are threatened now by an ene my more savage and relentless than the Indian, more dangerous than fire, flood or earthquake, and it is to be hoped that the old-time pioneer spirit, which is the very heart anel soul of Democracy, will assert itself now as in the past. Men and women responded gallantly and unselfishly to the urgent call from Held and hos pital and now our most pressing need is for money. The second Liberty Loan is offered to investors and our people must see to it that every penny of the three billions of dollars is raised at once so that the govern ment may carry on its costly work of preparation with ample funds at its disposal.—From the Porcupine, New York. A WAR LIBRARY Bet those who wish to understand the hideous evil wrought by the foes who at the moment are the moat dangerous of those outside our own household, and the even greater menace to our future wellbeing pre sented by those who at the moment are the most dangerous of the foes within our own household, read such books as Owen Wister's "Pentecost of Calamity," Gustavus Olilinger's "Their True Faith and Allegiance," James Beck's "Evidence In the Case" and "The War and Humanity," Ar thur Gleason's "Golden Lads," and "Our Part in the Great War," Fred erick Palmer's "With Our Faces To wards the Light," Vernon Kellogg's "Headquarters' Nights," and the various documents, including poems, sketches, brief essays issued by that capital organization, the Vigilantes— among the writers being Herman Hagedorn, Porter Emerson Browne, Julian Street, Edwin Carty Kanck and William H. Fischer. If any man still honestly wishes to know "why we are at war," these writings will enlighten him. He can well ask why we did not go to war immediately after the Lusltania horror —and to this there never can be any satisfac tory answer —but no brave and pa triotic man or woman has the right to ask why we are at war now.— From Theodore Roosevelt's "The Foes of Our Own Household." FORGETFUL KAISER, If the Kaiser is disappointed that only 85 were killed and Injured In the night raid on London, it Is his own fault.. He should remember that little children are tn bed. not on the streets at that hour.—Phila delphia North American. difficulty in transferring the accumu lated ashes from the seaweed gath ering barge to the steamers which will visit it regularly to transport the ashes to shore. The amount of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea is so vast as to be beyond estimation. Steamers, however, can navigate the sea, and the patches of seaweed in it are not continuous. Sargassum bacciferum, according to the Americana, is the famous gulf weed, which forms rafts of islands floating together on vast areas of the various ocea'ns, and called "sargasso seas." The one lying in the North Atlantic ocean, between the Azores and the Antilles, its exact position being determined by the central whirl of the Gulf stream, is so dense as to be often a-- hindrance to navi gation. It coversV a territory nearly equal to the European continent, and was discovered by Columbus on his first voyage, he and the succeeding Spanish navigators calling it the Mar de Sargaco; it is connected by a smaller belt with a smaller sea— between the Bermudas and the Baha mas. There is still another sea in the Pacific, and one in the Antarctic ocean. It is a disputed question whether the weeds have been torn from the shore and blown to their final resting place, or whether they live and propagate themselves on the high seas. "LAUDER'S LOGIC" Tho natural inclination is to laugh at "Harry Lauder's Bogie" as the latest patter book from a profes sional funny man, just as, years ago, the audience at Drury Bane burst into f.ts of laughter at the contor tions of the clown, unaware that they were the agonized efforts of Grimaldi, tortured with rheumatism, to reach the shelter of the wings. In our day the typical Scottish comedian has been called upon to sacrifice the life of his son, anel there is a more than ordinary pathos in the cry which he utters from be hind the paint and tinsel of the stage, "Rob a lioness of her young and beware of her. And shall we, who have been robbeel of our young, lick the lianels of the murderers? These lads died for Britain. Shall Britain betray them? Shall we make terms with hell and balance our gains with those whose hands aro red with the blood of our sons?" ro THE KAISER IN HELL Kaiser, Kaiser, ere you fell To the lowest pit of Hell, Ere' your guilty hands were red ■ With the blood of millions dead. Ere your wretched soul wus damned, And hell's gates behind you slammed, Kuiser-Koenig Wilhetm, tell, Did you ever dream of Hell .' Kaiser, Kaiser, doomed to Hell, Evermore to burn In Hell; • Though we seem to'see you here, Ruling still by force and fear, Sitting In your state alone, Crowneel and sceptered on a throne. Your tormented soul coulel tell, Even now, you burn inrilell. Kaiser, in the flames of Hell, Doomed forevermore to Hell, Where the lire forever burns. And the conscience writhes and turns, Deft with all your crimes alone, Damnable and monstrous grown; Kaiser, howling down in Hall, Burn!—and think of Nurse Cavell. Kaiser, Kaiser, down in Hell, Burning evermore in Hell; You shall see, as on a scroll, All the murders on your soul. See the Dusitania's name Written on the sheets of flame. Watch the little babies drown, As twelve hundred souls go down. Kaiser-Koenig Wilhelm, tell. Can you hear their cries in Hell? Kaiser, Kaiser, down in Hell, Burning in eternal Hell; By your pledge and broken word, By the Justice of the I-iord, By your treacherous plots and spies, By your robberies and lies, By the lands you've trampled down, By each sacked and ruined town. By the fields of slaughter red, Sanguine with ten million dead. By the terror and the pain Of the little children slain, By the murdered women's cries, Heard in the avenging skies. By their blood upon your soul, Evermore in torment roll! Amen! BERTRA.ND SHADWEDD, LABOR NOTES England employs 150,000 women as clerks in government offices. International Union of Mainte nance of Way has 5,14 5 Canadian members. One British munition plant em ploys over 20,000 women. The membership of the United Mine Workers exceeds 350,000. . I.ast year 2,941 railroad employes were killed and 176,923 injured. Farm laborers at Donegal, Ireland, struck for increased pay. London (England) post office em ploys over 40,000 women. V Every woman in Cologne, Ger many, is forced to work. Practically every shipyard in Brit ish Columbia has been unionized. Over 3,000 Breton (France) women earn their living as sailors. Stockton (Cal.) printers ask an increase of 50 cents a day. Women are fast replacing men in the British printing trade. Child labor on farms is denounced in Connecticut. Toledo (Ohio) garment, cutters have secured a minimum of s2# a week. The cost of living in Frisco has Increased one-third in two years. | OUR DAILY LAUGH I TRUE. "Pa, what Is efflcionci - ?" "A much overworked word, iaj boy." JAWING. Mr. Pee wee: X suppose you're very much annoyed by me. Ills Wife: I never allow myself to be annoyed by trifles. A PIE FIEND. "Don't patronize that restaurant: they charge ten cents for pie." "What of It 7 I'm a piece-at-an?* pric6 man." mmm ij| DISAPPOINTED. Miss Caterpillar: If\> hoo! Tr.at'f •v picture of my Ji'.amma, an<? 3 Jon't look ft Ul iJUkt sfett lEtontng Qlljai TT Tl1 ? , mos t pathetic pile of mall In llarrisburg does not reach the may or s office, the police station, the courthouse offices or even the Asso ciated Aid Society. It is sent to the Mate draft registration headquar ters at Locust and Court streets. I Here is received every day a col lection of letters that can produce almost any emotion—sorrow, regret, amusement, suspicion and indigna nt" J* lank cowardice or stupidity, the draft headquarters gets all of the mail that is sent to any one at the capitol about the draft, all that the local and district boards pass along, all that Washington consid ers belongs here and what is sent direct to the headquarters. There trL^ ap, if al ? fron i women against taking husbands or sons who are their support, even letters from chil dren objecting to fathers going away, some appeals from aged par ents, kicks from employers, objec tions from drafted men and some statements of scruples against mili tary service that are inspired bv anything but religion. The other uay in the same mail came a vigor ously worded protest from a man against being called to do military duty on the ground that he had in formation invaluable to his employ er, who ran a broom factory, and Another from tlio friend of a man recently sent to camp and whose wife was worrying herself into a state bordering on insanity. As in sanity ran in the family of the wom an it was hoped that a way could be round to have the drafted man re turned. The wide ramifications of the draft, the manner in which it I touches almost every home, the se riousness of the call to national de fense must impress themselves upon every one who notes that pile of mail, which arrives with the regu larity of the hours, morning, noon and night. > WilUamstown, according to re ports received from that borough tiyi members of the Dauphin county! committee, is setting a record for Liberty Loan enthusiasm. There nr.. approximately 3,000 residents of WilUamstown. Of this number 200 have volunteered for service on the Liberty Loan committee. That means WilUamstown and the sur rounding country will be covered like the dew covers Dixie. From Carlisle similar reports have beer coming to Donald McCormick ant others of the local committee Farmers were a little backward ii the first sale of Liberty 3'/.s, but in dications are that they will make 111 for it in the present loan. Agricul turists of the United Slates this fa total their receipts by $2,000,000.00 more than ihey did last fall. Thu is to say, they divide among 1 the! additional profits of two billion do lars. Considering the fact that tli government seeks to sell only $3 000,000,000 of bonds at this tini there is every reason to believe tin the agriculturists will own not M ,than half the total issue when tl flag falls October 27. Joseph B. LeCompte, assista cashier of the Stato Treasury, wl started on a trip to Oklahoma t day, remarked to a friend that 1 was going to visit a town large] settled by folks from his home tod of Bradford. This calls attentii to the fact that all through the nc| er portions of the western States a towns in which people from Pen sylvania counties are numerous, other words there are communiti of Keystoners transplanted to whe the buffaloes and Indians used roam. Word has Just been received he that Samuel A. Kephart, brother the State Treasurer and the Superil Court Judge, has been promoted he a colonel of coast artillery. 1! has been a lieutenant colonel ai stationed at Panama. M. O. Brown, the Crawford ooun lawyer, who died a few days afi was the man who drew the Clai third class city commission gover ment act. Mr. Rrown, who had ben a student of Pennsylvania law an of municipal government for yeap. drew the law in an arrangennfit with A. M. Jollier, Mayor of Mel ville, wX> one of the leamr: for a change in governmental null) ods. Men of the old Fourth PennsyU nia Infantry have been sending th congratulations to Adjutant Gene lieary on his appointment. The g eral is pretty close to the Foir as lie spent almost thirty year* that organization and was in clif of their subsistence when the c" tnand was in Porto llieo. In • the good care taken of Col. C s command on the island was di° the energy and system of the" lentown captain, as he was in 30 days. The effort of the members ) ' l ° Ilarrisburg Reserves to obtair*J >s to drill young men of draft in the rudiments of military wor ftv ® been ably seconded by a nun " r residents who have loaned prized ICrags which they had 1,10 Spanish War and which the?® rifle ranges. It is hoped u'tam enough guns for the drillln- t,le young men next week. There is a good bit of T r -f n ' the Country Club of 11 s these days to get low seq Th e course is difficult, one of t sP°'°t lest" in a long distance • 11 ' s some battle to beat old (Bogey, who roosts around 82. Thi r . ert McCreath has come s . '° beating par, which is 72. l ot ,3- WELL KNOWN pPLE —Highway Commlsf )r O Nell is commenciriß to reap l harvest, lie Is grcttins more >atlonn to speak than he can (111 —Banking Commi. ir Lafean has been taking: a c<® °* days oft to attend the Yorlc- . —Col. H. C. TrexleJartermas ter general of the N na ' "Jf 11 ™ 1 is likely to lie put ln ir ß® "" *'J® quartermaster end of °' tno nig camps, according to ors - , . —Forestry Commit' Conklin likes to "reminisce" J"° day a when he worked in j>ntinfc olflce. —Deputy Attorn? cne ™ Co '" iins has taken to • Attorney General Brown say unt '" K anc * canoeing will do hin' a while. DO YOtTIQW —That irarrlslm sc "s tons and tons of saito nearby towns for bnllilinirposcs? HISTORIC William Maclay 1 to entertain marty State ofJlclathH® here on trips about the Staiter the Revo iution. His first ie stood neat the mansion wbirte erected al Front and Soutl*ets. DECEIVE THYSELF I,et no man live himself. If any man amoKl seemeth to b wise in this wiritt him become a fool, that he nay wise.—l Corln
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