8 fIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOMB Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Squrt. E.J. STACK POLK. Pres't <s• Editor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS X. STEINMETZ, Manapng Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of •11 news oredlted 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 Eastern office, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. 15.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 6 Be who would ripen and perfect the eternal element in his being will do this ly attending to the religious uses of his daily task, recognizing the t in seen in its seen. —HETTBY DHFAIMOITO. AWAY WITH THE GARBAGE IT is Dot pleasant to refer so fre quently to the garbage and ash T.roblc-ms of Harrlsburg, but the time is rapidly approaching when the city authorities must reach a de cision. and it Is the hope of all house holders that some real improvement will be made in the situation. There is universal complaint from all parts of the city, and whatever is donerat the approaching confer ence ought to be with a definite idea of permanent solution of the question. Already there is complaint of the dumping of garbage and ashes on vacant lots and even upon private premises in some neighborhoods, So long as nothing practical is ac complished this sort of thing will continue and it is highly important that the municipal authorities take steps to end the trouble. PATRIOTS ALT; NOTHING more convincing as to the real attitude of the people }f the United States in the mat ter of a vigorous prosecution of the war has been revealed recently than the voluntary tender of their per sonal services by distinguished rail road executives and engineers for ' the railroad needs of Prance and 1 tho other allies. 1 Reference has been made, to the going abroad of Vice-President W. TV. Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and now Presi dent M. C. Kennedy, of the Cumber land A alley lines, has been given an indefinite leave of absence to Join his colleague .on French soil. These men arc the highest type of prac tical railroad administrators. Their skill comes from personal knowledge obtained through years of experi ence with the difficult and intricate problems confronting railroad cor porations in the development of the great transportation systems of the United States. Not only are these railroad chiefs tendering their own personal serv ices; they are sending to the front their sons in a patriotic devotion to the country which cannot fall to have general recognition. For years the people have been regaled with demagogic recitals regarding these awful vipers of capitalistic control, but so much has happened since the outbreak of the war tending to show the high character of public service of these railroad and com mercial and financial leaders that the public is coming to a proper appre ciation of their real worth. President Kennedy is not only giv- Jng of his own service to the country, but two sons have likewise donned the uniform of Uncle Sam and are enlisted under the Stars and Stripes. One of these h*a preceded his fa ther to France. The sacrifices entailed by the war are having the effect of overturning preconceived and false notions of the relation of the man of affairs to his own community and the coun try at large. Misrepresentation and abuse for ulterior purposes have been largely discounted in these lat ter days and men are now disposed to demand real evidence before con demning those who may happen to be the objects of attack by dema gogues and the malcontents of so ciety. Pennsylvania has made an un usual showing Svith respect to the number and character of men of influence who have patriotically and unselfishly given themselves to the service of their country. If the war shall drive away the class hatred and suspicion and mistrust that have characterized the attitude of too many people in the past, some good will come out of the titanic struggle V PLANT A THEE I T is encouraging to note the widespread interest throughout Harrlsburg in tree planting, and some real effort should bo made by . the various civic organizations to EiVe the movement cohesive form so that the activities of our citizens may not be wasted through im- SATURDAY EVENING, proper selection and Improper plant ing. There aro thousands of trees In the municipal nursery which ought to be set out tills fall. Let us make October 25 the great est Arbor Day the city has ever known. To do this will require prepa ration now so that the trees and the planting may be worth while. Incidentally, the State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings will probably grade the Capitol Park atea sufficiently to permit of a start in the planting of the addition to the park this fall. Age and storms have reduced the number of shade trees in Harrlsburg to an alarming extent and unless the people of this generation do something to restore the shade of the city those who shall come after us wilf have mighty little reason to think well of those who passed along ahead of them. 51TST INVERT IN the first Liberty Loan campaign it developed that two classes of investors came forward most liberally. Wage earners subscribed In large number and to a substantial amount in the aggregate. So did very large Interests. But the aver age Investor—the man who can command from SI,OOO to $ 10,000 in ready cash—did not respond as he should. These men and women must respond now. They must put money Into Liberty Bonds or stand convicted as slackers. The wage earner and the capitalist both have put them to shame. [ SOCIAL PROGRESS DURING WAR THE Bureau of Municipal Re search, which is doing a wonder ful work in the promotion of ef ficient and scientific management of municipal business, has just issued a leaflet urging the people not to per mit tho clouds of war to obscure their vision as to the needs and happenings of their own home com munities. Among other things the Bureau says: It used to be taught in school histories that kings and emper ors and potentates usually met de mands for sc.cial reforms at home by provoking foreign wars. In the excitement of battle, abuses at home were lost sight of and for a while the attention of the peo ple was distracted by the more thrilling contests between na tional groups. We were led to be lieve that this sort of coup was part of the stoek in trade of the European politician. There are now few people in this country who would care to connect this idea with the events of tho last few years, and it is probable that the subjects of the kings and emperors were also unconscious of any such motive on tho part of their rulers; otherwise they would hardly have lent them selves so freely to carrying out the scheme. This raises the question of how we can be sure that our high motives and ideal ism may not. in the light of later times, appear as sordid and selfish as do those of the warmakers of other days. There is apparently but one way to make sure that history will not fall into that er ror. and that is by making a real demonstration during the war era of better government, more real service, more social justice, more local democracy, more humanity, more decency, more skill in pub lic administration. If we fail in doing that, we run grave risks of confirming the theory that a for eign war arrests social progress, and instead of making the world safe for democracy, we may snread the fiellef that war makes the world safe for bad govern ment. Coming on the eve of a municipal election in ITarrisburg, this advice is timely, indeed, and of much local In terest. Never has there been so quiet a campaign for local offices. Since the primaries it has been almost im possible to precipitate a "political argument." The war, the going away of the soldiers, the high cost of liv ing, the Red Cross. Liberty Bonds and a thousand matters of nattanal and international moment, coupled with the beginning of the very real and severe personal hardships the war is bringing to each of us, occupy our attention and shut out of our minds to very large extent what may be transpiring of local public interest right here under our very noses. Un der such conditions the will of the people is often not clearly registered at an election. They are not inter ested, and the result sometimes is that unfit men get into office. If we are good citizens we will not let democracy, in its best sense, suf fer at home while our sons and brothers are risking their lives for its preservation abroad. We will see to it that while we are insisting that Germany clean house, our own home is in order. In short, we must strive as earn estly at home for the best that a democratic form of government can give us as our soldiers in France will be doing shortly in behalf of democracy as a world-force. As Dr. Bagnell and Otto Kahn told Harris burg audiences last week, each un consciously voicing the thought of the other —"Democracy must be made safe for the world, as well as the world safe for democracy." A BIG EVENT THE coming of Secretary of War Baker to Harrisburg to address the Chamber of Commerce Monday evening Is an event of more than ordinary importance. The Sec retary is the man upon whom the nation depends to lead in the great work of successfully prosecuting the war. He in large measure is re sponsible for the welfare of countless soldiers now in France or in train ing for America's part in the war. He ought to have a message of in terest to the people of a community that has sent more than two thousand volunteers into the service since the war begatj. The Chamber of Commerce has been extraordinarily successful in bringing men of national prominence to Harrisburg. When Otto Kahn, the great banker, spoke here re cently his remarks were flashed Into the office of every Associated Press newspaper in the United States, and doubtless the same will be true of the speech of Secretary of War Baker. It is an enviable privilege for any city to be permitted to pro vide the stage from which dis tinguished spokesmen deliver their addrMs to the nation. "PtKKOH&KUua By the Ex-Commit tee man In addition to completing the plan for taking of the soldiers' votes in November next week Governor Brumbaugh is planning to name the members of several of the com missions created by the General Assembly of 1917. There are sev eral of these commissions in which the presiding officers of the two branches of the Legislature will have power to name members and they will notify the Governor of their selections. The commissions to be named will include several which will pre pare codifications of laws, among them the statutes relative to insur ance and banking. Another com mission will arrange for acquisition of land where Washington crossed the Delaware for purposes of a stale park. Commissions will also be named to Investigate accidents and sickness, old ago pension systems and health compensation, to revise the penal code and to study prisons. These commissions are to report to the next Legislature. I * —lmmediate steps are to be taken to issue the commissions for the first of the volunteer police to be named for emergency service dur ing the present war. The act es tablishing the police was signed July 20 and provides that commis sions shall end with the war wit?l Germany. The men will be sent com missions from the Capitol signed by the Governor empowering them to make arrests and preserve the peace when called upon. These men are to be organized through the State Com mittee of Public Safety which re commended them. The men are to be provided with a badge, club and whistle and will be formed Into county units for service when called upon* —Frank M. Eastman, attorney of i this city and for years connected I with the Auditor General's Depart- I ment as a state taxation expert, has | been named, by Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown to have charge of escheat cases arising in the At torney General's Department. No formal announcement of the selec tion of Mr. Eastman has been made, but it is understood that Mr. Brown consulted with Auditor General Charles A. Snyder and informed him of the choice and the duties. Mr. Eastman, who has not been con nected with the state government for years, is the author of books on tax ation and an authority on taxation procedure. Several years ago he took up escheat cases and made a study of the problem in the state and is engaged in working out a system to bo applied under recent acts. —The Auditor General has not been losing any sleep over discussion of his right to name attorneys and clerks under the inheritance tax laws and says that they will be chos en and assigned to duty as occasion arises. Thus far there has been no .disposition at the capitol to question any of his acts in the matter. —Mr. Snyder is arranging for a conference of prominent publishers here next Tuesday to take up the whole subject of advertising of pro posed amendments to the state con stitution over which A. W. Powell, his predecessor, fussed for months. —Judging from comments made this week by visitors from various sections of the state here on business ot the State Capitol and for meetings the revelations regarding conditions in Philadelphia as brought out by the hearing in the conspiracy cases are the topic of talk in their home communities and are bound to have their effect on the November elec tions. Some administration parti sans frankly admitted while here that if the factional fight went on they would have their own troubles next month. —The Penroso people are await ing developments in Philadelphia, but at the same time lining up their forces throughout the state to make the most of the discomfiture which they think will fall upon candidates known as state administration or Ynre men. Penrose leaders are nearly all at the national capital to-day to talk over the situation and to plan for the next move. That the Pen rose people intend to be conserva tive is a foregone conclusion. —While the Penrose men are in Washington the state administration leaders are at Philadelphia except for men who have fights of their own at home, like those in Pittsburgh and Scrnton. —The Town Meeting Committee is going ahead with the making up of a ticket for Philadelphia and it is expected that an announcement will be made soon. The organiza tion or ward committees is in pro gress. —Senator James P. McNichol's condition is reported to be of such a character that if he recovers his strength- in a month he will be lucky. The Senator was examined by three noted doctors who reported that his presence on the witness stand might have serious consequenecs. —Thomas D. Shea spent $2620 in his judicial campaign in Luzerne and then sot defeated. —S. S. Lewis, of the Auditor Gen eral's Department, has been asked to serve as one of the York city civil service commissioners. —The Philadelphia Record in a Soranton special says: "Ever since Mayor E. B. Jermyn spent $30,000 to be elected, the cost of politics has been going up in this city, and the expense accounts tiled this week show that political office is a lux ury. Candidates Connell, Vosburg and Durkan spent $14,000 between them in the fight for the Mayoralty nomination, while District Attorney Maxey and his opponent, Mayor Kabatchnick, spent $19,000 between them. The sum of S9OOO was spent on the Treasurership fight, and the Shrievalty candidates loosened up for about the same, while candidates for lesser nominations spent about ? 10,000 between them." NEGATION In negation—in complete and uni versal negation—there is no salva tion to be found. Deny everything and you will easily pass for a man of ability; it's a well-known trick. Simple-hearted people are quite ready to conclude that you are worth more than what you deny. And. that's often an error. In the first place, you can pick holes in any thing; and secondly, even if you are right in what you say, it's worse for you; your intellect, directed by simple negation, grows colorless and withers up. While you gratify your vanity, you are deprived of the true consolations of thought; life —the essence of life—evades your petty and Jaundiced criticism, and you end by scolding and becoming ridiculous. Only one who loves has the right to censure and find fault. —From the Ohio State Journal. HA3t*>ISBURO TETJEX3RAPH LABOR NOTES Spain plans extensive labor reform. Phone girls at Tacoma. Wash., have organized. York, Pa., has a new labor paper, the Labor Advocate. Colored chauffeurs at Portsmouth, Va.. have formed a union. Washington (state) Supreme Court has declared picketing Illegal. _ Labor unions at Mount Vernon, N. Y., will build a lu,bor temple. City employes at Concord, N. H., have secured a flfty-hour week. Twelve hundred oil field workers in Louisiana have organized. Seattle, Wash., has more than 1,000 organized laundry workers. A HUGE FLYING FORCE [From the Galveston News.] Life in an aviation camp has many ! fascinating and thrilling feature*. C. C. Hard, athletic director of Camp ; Kelly at San Antonio, said while vla | iting here recently. There are now eighteen thousand young aviators at the camp now, Mr. Hard said, and in a few weeks two thousand more will be added. Camp Kelly will be the largest aviation camp in the world. There Is no looee machinery at the camp to hinder its efficient oper ation, Mr. Hard declared. "Precis ion becomes second nature to one there," he said. "Every hour has its place in the cycle of the day. And the government is taking care of ev ery side of the young men's lives. Reading rooms are furnished by the Young Men's Christian Association. Picture shows are given three nights lof each week. On other nights we have boxing and wrestling. "To live in the camp gives one a new idea of life and its value. It stimulates a man to give the best in him. By mixing with these young men one comes to see the honor it is to serve one's country with them. There are eight or nine French classes, in which the aviators are preparing for their experiences in France. Classes in mathematics are also being-conducted." There are one thousand flying craft at the camp, Mr. Hard said. They include almost every type known. Not over twenty-two are ever seen in the air at once. There are ten thousand acres of level land about tli# camp, which makes It an ideal aviation site. The first is the ground flying school, in which the students merely learn to drive the,machines and to learn the mechanism. The second school is for non-flying offi cers. The third school is for the most advanced students. It is known as the cadet school. Most of the students are college men, Mr. Hard said, and they are far above the average in intelligence. Their physical perfection is marvel ous. Only the perfect can pass the examination to the camp, he ex plained. WHO GETS IT? Recently an Indiana woman was peeling some potatoes, and in a hollow in one she found the follow ing note from the Southern farmer who had raised the potatoes: "I got 69c a bushel for these po tatoes. How much did you pay for them? She wrote back: "I paid $4 per bushel." The farmer sent her one more letter. It said: "I got 69c for those potatoes. It could not have cost more than 31c to carry them to you. Who got the other $3? I am going to try to llnd out." In THE FOES OF OUR OWN HOUSEHOLD, which George H. Doran Company publishes this week, , Theodore Roosevelt quotes this letter to point out the disease at the heart of our agricultural life. Mr. Roosevelt believes that farm movement is an issue more basic than the relations of capital ist and working man; that we have allowed this tremendous industry to drift along haphazard, that we have retained methods of produc tion and marketing so primitive that the soil and the tillers of the soil have alike been impoverished. DISCRIMINATORY TAXES The Secretary of War, through the columns of the Editor and Publisher, has extended the thanks of the Government to the newspa pers for their co-operation in pub lishing the selective draft lists. Without this service on the part of the newspapers performed at great labor and expense, the organization of the new national army would now be in a state of utter chaos. The newspapers did work that had to be done in the national interest— they did it without urging, and with signal success. The Government, through its legislative department, recognizes this example of conspicu ous service by proposing that the newspapers shall be hampered by discriminatory tax legislation. The spectacle of a democracy in action is often grimly amusing—but democ racy carries within itself the toxins which finally purge from its body politic the disorders and distempers which. in autocracies, become chronic. From Editor and Pub lisher. KINGDOMS The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.—Revelations xi, 15. SECOND LIBERTY LOAN "Help Liberty!" What's that X hear In plaintive tone? — The call Is clear; Is she alone — In need — and crleS— For help? Is none At hand —nor tries To her enthrone? "Help Liberty!" Again I hear That mournful word. Is still none near Nor aught has heard? What means her cry— Unanswered yet; And must 'she die While men forget? "Help Liberty!" Will ne'er men heed Nor heed that cry? For gain, for greed Would sjee her lie Enchained, unthroned, Yet pleading still. With blood atoned Though done no 111? "Help Liberty!" . Shall heartless lord. In secret, scheme To draw his sword, That some dire dream For lust, for power Be. realized While freedom's hour Is thus despised? "Help Liberty!" What! Calling still?— Perhaps It be It is God's will She's calling me. Though long the way And wide the sea I'll fight, I'll pay, For Liberty. —Charles A. Heath In the Boston Advertiser. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND 1 By Brigg, • / "HOOVERIZED" \ f y 11A ~ m m \W I National Guard in the Melting Pot [From the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.] IT IS much easier, of course, to criticise the General Staff, at Washington, than it is to do the things that the General Staff is called upon in this war to do; therefore, one should hesitate, particularly if he he a layman, to comment on the acts of the General Staff, or upon Army matters in general. And this spirit of caution has held good, so far as the Chronicle Is concerned, in every particular save one: and that is in connection with the War Depart ment's general attitude toward what was formerly tfco National Guard. For some ro*son or other—and they may be good asons, for all we know —the attitude of the military powers that-be at Washington toward the National Guard has been anything but cordial and encouraging; in fact, the definite policy* of the War Depart ment, for a long time past, seems to have been to destroy the identity of the National Guard as rapidly as pos sible—a thing now aln.ost completely accomplished. Step by step, the identity of the National Guard has been destroyed; piece by piece it has been broken up; one after another of its units have been thrown into the military "melt ing pot", until to-day almost all local and Btutc prido in these respective organizations—many of them bound together by almost social ties and strengthened and in*pired by noble traditions—is about to be obliterated. But whether tltis is going to make for better military service, whether it is going to better bring out the fighting qualities of our soldiers — however it may please the "several chair warriors" to thus nationalize our Army—may be quite another matter; indeed, it is a matter upon which many of the best military men of this country, and of the worlj, distinctly disagree. • Great Britain, for instance, has for ages pursued the policy of recogniz ing and encouraging distinctive mili tary unitb, by name as well as by a distinctive uniform. Many of these English and Scotch regiments are famed in history and it is considered a privilege and honor to belong to them. Their men seem to feel, quite naturally, that, in addition to the loy alty they owe to their eountry, they owe a sort of special devotion to the organization ti> which they belong and are especially charged with up holding its proud traditions. This system prevails, also, in a greater or less extent, in the German army and in the other military estab lishments of Continental Europe. It is difficult to see how it can, in any way, lessen the efficiency of a na tion's fighting men. It so happens that in this country we had—or did have, until the War Department started In to blot them out—military units famed in history, with proud traditions to stimulate and inspire them; companies and reg iments that have made history In all the wars in which this cpuntry was ever engaged, from Butfker Hill to Monterey and from Bull Run to San Juan Hill. They are naturally made up to-day—as they have been through generations past—of men from the same cities and sections, with more or less close personal ties and held together by local pride, as well as a sort of special love for the particular unit to which they belong, many of these men being the sons and grand sons of men who fought with these same units in other wars and whose names have been identified with these organizations, for generations past, in peace as well as in war. But now comes the order to disor ganize and disband many of these units; to change their time-honored names, to reassign their officers and to rearrange their rank and file. Is it any wonder that this order is con sldered revolutionary by many men in the service, or that It Is discourag " * OCTOBER 6, 1917. ing and even disheartening to some? The Pennsylvania troops now en camped at Augusta—once the Penn sylvania National Guard; now the Twenty-eighth Division—offer a strik ing case in point. Here is, admit tedly, the most efficient and best equipped military unit In the United States; made so, largely if npt al most entirely, by the individual and collective efforts of Pennsylvanians plone; recruited from the very flower of the young manhood of that State, officered by many of its leading men. who have made urfctold sacrifices, not only now but for years past, to serve their State and Nation and the great military organization which they love with a passion known only to the true soldier. When the call came, a year and a half ago, to go to Mexico and it was necessary to recruit these Pennsylva nia regiments up to war strength, the persuasive plea was made—'Enlist for service with your friends, the men from your own home." And thou sands of patrioti# youths, not only in Pennsylvania, but here in Georgia and in all the other states of the Union, accepted this invitation to .stand by their'state organizations. It is con ceivable that some of these men might not have been so quick to enlist had they known what was to happen to their state organizations later on. To say the least, they were not frankly dealt with. Just why it should be considered necessary, or even desirable, to break up a great military unit, like the Pennsylvania—numerically larger and tetter equipped than was the entire standing Army of the United States at the time of the Bplinish-Amerlcan War—is extremely difficult to under stand. Cut it is not at all difficult to understand the feeling of disap pointment, not to say discouragement, that it has aroused in the division, as well as throughout the Stater of Penn sylvania. It is just possible that all the wis dom in connection with this matter is not centered in Washington. It is equally possible that some of the men who have devoted a large part of their lives—and that, too, at great sacrifice, with little or no compensa tion—to the upbuilding of the Penn sylvania Olvislon and of its separate historic units, might have been able to give even the all-powerful General Staff advice on these points that would have been well worth taking. At any rate, the shake-up that has come about has been received with anything but favor by men and offi cers alike; although, for obvious rea sons. their lips are, more or less, sealed. As good soldiers, they must obey orders; but, as human beings, they cannot fail to bo moved by those laudable emotions which have ever made a virtue of local pride and tra ditions as well as love of country. It may be necessary to pour the National Guard into the "melting pot" in order to forge for the country a National Army, but will that make for better fiber in our fighting men —or, merely, for co-ordination of au thority and, possibly, more rigid dis cipline? HIS OPINION A Welshmatl visiting London saw "Please ring the bell" written on a door. He did so. and In a moment a powdered little footman appeared and inquired: "Well, what do you want?" "I want nothing," said the Welsh man. "I only rang the bell because It says so here." "Oh! I suppose you've come from the land whore nannygoata grow on gooseberry bushes?" "Yes," said the Welshman; "but In London I see stranger sights still, for you've only to press a button and a'monkey pops out!"— Chicago Her ald. LIGHT IN DARKNESS O God! our way thro' darkness leads, But thine is living light; Teach us to feci that Day succeeds To each slow wearing Night; Make us to know, tho' pain and woe Beset our mortal lives, That 111 at last in death lies low And only Good survives. Too long the oppressor's iron heel The saintly brow has pressed; Too oft the tyrant's murderous steel Has pierced the guiltless breast; I'et in our souls the seed shall lie Till thou shalt bid it thrive; Of steadfast faith that Wrong shall die And only Right survive. We walk in shadow; thickest walls Do man from man divide, Our brothers spurn our tenderest culls, Our holiest aims deride; Yet though fell Craft with fiendish thought Its subtle web contrives, Still falsehood's textures sliriftk to naught , . And only Truth survives. Wrath clouds our sky, War lifts on hig>h His tlag of crimson stain, Each monstrous birth o'erspreads the earth In Battle's go'-y train; Yet still we trust in God the Just, Still keep our faith alive, That 'neath thine eye all Hate shall die And only Love survive. —Horace Greeley, (1863). OUR DAILY LAUGH jjp| HEADLESS. "i am getting bald fast." "Well, you don't need hair; you lave nothing to protect." A BIG INDUCEMENT. "Do you intend to enlist?" "Yes, for my o\yn happiness. My wife hag threatened to get a divorce If I do." CAN'T GET BACK AT IIIM. "ROW€U is a nuisance." "I should s.\y so; ho Is always .ratling an .original poem when you iaven't a noiseless gun." Ehwttag fflljai Decision by War Department oflU cers that requests for reopenln* ofl cases of drafted men refused ex emption by local or district board* s ould be fnade by governors and, adjutant generals only where therfl are legal errors or whero ignoranc* that Is not blamable is displayed bjf men summoned under the draft, will probably head oft a good many let* ters and visits to thb State Capitol, U w . na an "ounced that the Qov power to J " tnnt General had the hnZ, reopen cases there hava ofhßr^ any ! nothers and wives and other dependants of men within the Beechlnn^th'B'i" th ° c aPtol and be! Itclii s Thu Intervention of state of "o pre Jn,r tw ftt,on ,lnally becai " i g that a new ruling wan lty given So® 1 ® f ° rth that thc ity given to governors and adjutant *trn it ° nly to be exercised In extraordinary cases. As a result w y ci , ls S f ! which haveh)een coming thimr? e tn depende ney and other things to secure exemption will be with r r ° l< ?? al or district boards with requests that they go into them card tin Pcndin K a decision in re gard to aliens, the state draft head quarters is directing that aliens whether Italians, Chinese or men of other nationalities, be sent to tliA mobilisation camps, where the,r status can bo later determined. • • • Who w s f tho ElKhth regiment tl t,„v active in the effort •.nri and nottorn to pieces to make up hi fn.- $ - the A ny which could be formed of drafted men have heard t eres of tho w ay Pittsburgh nnH + liave gone after the national CT 1,, ! authorities to have tho Eighteenth maintained. The Eighth is close to this community and it i natural to ex 'pect those in high places to interest themselves to save it. This is the way Pittsburgh newspapers and people who protest f, against the dismemberment of " le Eighteenth were answered bv Mr. Baker: "In reply to your tele gram September 9, about organiza tion of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania infantry Regiment, I have directed consideration to bo given to this n\ at 'er by tho commanding general of the Pennsylvania division and nope that it may be adjusted satis factorily to all concerned. I am awaiting his report. The reorgani zation of the division is a military necessity to enable it to participate actively in the war, but it is my announced policy that regiments of long service and historic traditions shall have their identity preserved unless a compelling military neces sity prevents." • • • While the Pennsylvania State so ciety, composed of the heads of Uio various departments and commis sioners of the state government, has given up its annual dinner this fall because of the war, its monthly luncheons will be continued. Thcv will be held on the first Wednesd iv of each month in this eitv and a number of state officials and promi nent men will be tho speakers at the functions. Considerable atten tion is to be given to the historical features of the state government and the early legislative days. Secretary of War Baker will be one of the first notable visitors to Har risburg in a long time to come t< this city by automobile. It is under stood that he will motor lioro from Washington, probablv stopping :i| Gettysburg. This city has had many prominent visitors in recent years, but most of them have traveled hj trains. The Secretary will return til Washington by train. Years ago du tinguished visitors came to Harris* burg by stage and cavalcades went out to meet them. A good story about a man who tried to fool Uncle Sam and ovado the draft has been brought down the Susquehanna by Deputy Attorney General Emerson Collins. It appears that a man was sore distressed about going to v r and to prevent it had some teeth, more than necessary, ex tracted. Then he went around to be examined for the draft. When he had been put through the test one of the doctors said: "What are you hanging around here for? We don't want you. You've got flat feet." An unusual number of crank vis itors appears to have been making the rounds of the State Capitol de partments since the draft law camo into operation. Some of them have come hero to file protests and others to declare that they have ways to search out every man who is evad ing the draft. The number of per sons who have such important in formation that they can only di vulge it to the Governor or some high official has been rather strik ing. These people have mysterious tips and generally demand pay for their information. Nine-tenths of the visitors call at the Executive De partment, but seldom get beyond the door. Decision of the State Compensa tion Board to advance compensation cases in which aliens are involved has resulted in numerous calls at the principal office of the board in this city to have cases disposed of at once. There are not many appeals pending in which aliens are involved and the great difficulty appears to be that tho claimants want castes passed upon witliin a week after filing of a claim. A. Coleman Sheets, Assistant State Librarian, has won the honors for bass fishing on Capitol Hill. He went fishing a few days ago for the first time in months and near Aqueduct, a short distance above this city, hooked a bass weighing four and a half pounds and measuring twenty one and a half inches long. Curator Boyd P. Both rock, of the State Mu seum, who was in tho boat, did the measu ring. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE^ —Joseph E. Balph, who retires as head of the bureau of engraving, will become head of a large printing conwr'n at more salary. —Francis B. Beeves, active in the Town Meeting party, has been figur ing in many reform movements. He is active In mercantile affairs in Philadelphia. —Prothonotary Harry F. Walton, who is chairman of the Farview pris on board, makes semimonthly visits to the establishment, in which he has been interested from its start. —Dr. Baymond F. Bacon, head oty Mellon Institute at Pittsburgh, and fourteen of his students quit In a day to enlist. | DO YOU KNOW | Tliat Harrtsburg will bo called upon to considerably extend Its street paving because of expan sion of tlie city? i HTSTOKTC iTAßiusnrnG When Lafayette visited here half the men of the town rode out on horseback to meet him.
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