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. .TUESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1917
There are people tcho do not knoto
how to waste their time alone, and
hence become the scourge of busy
people. — DE BONALD.
AX IMPRESSIVE GATHERING
THE dinner of the Chamber of
Commerce last evening was an
impressive event. Secretary Baker
brought to the assembled business
men the wonderful story of the 're
sponse of American business to the
needs of the nation, and Governor
Brumbaugh tendered the Secretary,
in the name of the Commonwealth,
Pennsylvania's mighty aid in the gi
gantic task now confronting the
country. The speeches were marked
by red-blooded Americanism and an
entire absence of political feeling or
reference. The spirit manifest was
"one for all and all for one."
A clftiraeteristic of the Secretary's
address was entire absence of doubt
In the outcome and wholehearted
confidence in the ability of the coun
try to carry out successfully the
work so well begun, and the response
of the Governor was in full accord
with the patriotic impulse of a State
that has given to the country "the
best National Guard in the world,"
which is sending the flower of its
young manhood into the training
camps, which has cheerfully shoul
dered the great responsibility of pro
viding one-tenth of the resources
necessary to carry on the war and
which must provide the bulk ot-arms
and other supplies required by our
armies and those of our Allies.
Tho Chamber of Commerce has
done an excellent thing in affording
this opportunity for Harrisburgers
to acquire first-hand information as
to just what the government has
done and is doing in the way of
putting the country on a war footing,
&nci to get a reflection of the spirit
manifest in the undertaking.
In presenting Spencer C. Gilbert as
toastmaster of the banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce last night,
David E. Tracy, the president, took
occasion to compliment Mr. Gilbert
upon his service to Harrlsburg. It
was a fine tribute to a citizen who
stands out pre-eminently as the type
of man who serves his fellow-men
without hope 'or thought of reward
other than the satisfaction which
comes from doing that which is help
ful and unselfish. All present approved
the deserved compliment, and a storm
of applause emphasized Mr. Tracy's
sentiment.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
THERE are very distinct indica
tions that the period of pell
mell business and tremendous
profits for some lines of manufac
ture and trade is nearing its end, if
indeed it is not already there. How
ever, this need cause no alarm, for
all lines are assured of a steady run
of orders with plants running to
capacity for an indefinite period.
Only they will havo to operate a lit
tle more conservatively. All lines of
expense must be curtailed. Expen
ditures that may have been justified
under former conditions cannot be
tolerated this side of ruin with the
-cost and selling price difference
growing constantly less.
These are consequences of the
heavy taxes levied by the govern
ment. and the fixing of prices by fed
eral order. In the end the effect will
be steadying and very likely highly
beneficial during the readjustments
following the war.
THE WAR REVENUE ACT
SINCE the adjournment of Con
-gress the business community
and the people generally are be
ginning to find out more about tltc
great war revenue act than they were
permitted to learn during the con
sideration of that measure.
One of the things which is arous
ing widespread criticism is the para
graph taxing salaries and earnings of
professional and business men eight
per cent, over and above $6,000 a
year. Next to the outrageous Im
position upon the newspaper Indus
try this paragraph is about the limit.
It Is understood that Claude Kit
chin. the southern gentleman who
happened to be chairman of the
Jiquse committee on ways and means
was responsible for Inserting this
"excessive profits" tax, and as ho has
maintained throughout his whole
course in the House a spirit of an
tagonism to the Industry at tho
TUESDAY EVENING,
United States, It Is not surprising that
he managed to slip In a final sting
through the medium of the confer
ence report. Mr. Kltchln, however,
saw to It that the salaries of con
gressmen were not included In this
tax.
THE SEASON' FAST CLOSING
THE falling leaves and the frost
on the pumpkin most admonish
our city officials of the Import
ance of completing as rapidly as pos
sible all outside work. There is no
time to be lost In putting the streets
In first-class shape, doing all the
planting necessary in the park areas,
and giving attention in every way
to the things which are important
from tho standpoint of protection
and conservation. It should Vlso be
remembered that any additional fa
cilities for the water department
ought to be supplied without any
delay.
GIRARD AND THE LOAN
ELSEWHERE In the Telegraph
to-day appears one of Herman
L. Collins' (Girardt excellent
Liberty Loan primer. This primer
Is of special value to the hundreds
of Harrlsburg school children who
are Interested in tho forthcoming
contest in which winners in a short
essay contest will be given cash
prizes. Prospective entrants should
clip Mr. Collins' primer. And the
fathers and mothers of these en
trants should read it, too. So should
the small investor.
ALL SIGNS AGREE
ALL the time-honored signs point
to a long, hard winter. The
wild geese are flying south
much earlier than usual, the leaves
are falling from tho trees In that
occult manner which portends cold
weather, the squirrels are hoarding
nuts more greedily than ever. The
goose's wishbone has not yet been
uncovered—but it doubtless will tell
the same story. In addition, tho ad
ministration has fixed a price for
coal which Ms higher than that of
last year, the food conservators tell
us to cut down on tho eats, Mr. Mc-
Adoo warns us to get ready fo?
higher taxation. Thus man rein
forces tho precepts of nature.
NO REWARD FOR HALE
MATTHEW HALE, of Boston,
who poses ns the national
head of the Progressive party
and who sponsored the abortive con
ference at St. Louis last spring when
the only tangible result was a de
cision to flirt with the Prohibition
ists, has been nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor by the Democrats
of Massachusetts. He will not be
elected, of course, and his nomina
tion has put him beyond being re
warded, as Victor Murdock and
Balnbrldge Colby have been, through
appointment as a minority member
of a government commission.
MR. HERSHEY'S GIFT
THE presence of M. S. Hershey at
the Chamber of Commerce din
ner last night serves as a re
minder of the shameful manner in
which the city of Harrisburg has
treated his gift of the Donato statu
ary. Isn't it about time that Council
gives some attention to the placing
of this work of art? Or is it to con
fess that it cares nothing for the
beautiful and would rather pay stor
age on the fountain than have It on
free exhibition in one of our public
places?
THE RAILROAD'S PART
SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER
testified In his Chamber of Com
merce address last evening to
the efficiency of the American rail
roads In handling the vast quantities
of supplies and materials loaded
upon them by the government in the
preparation of the great canton
ments for the National Army, and
those who know the facts will agree
that the tribute was well deserved.
But the Secretary did not tell the
whole story.
Figures Issued by the Railroad's
War Board recently show that about
2,500 carloads of food and other
necessities are being delivered dally
by the railroads at these canton
ments and the camps where the Na
tional Guard is being trained for
service abroad, according to reports
Just received by the Board.
Accurate - figures ns to the extent
to which the supplying of food and
necessities for the soldiers at the
training camps will Intensify the
transportation problem will not be
available until all of the camps have
received their full quota of men.
As the Secretary Intimated, the
task which the railroads have been
asked to perform Is difficult. It In
volves the supplying of all the
necessities of life for sixteen nqp-pro
ductlve cities of a population of 40,-
000 each, and fifty-six smaller cities
ranging In population from 300 to
3,000. Altogether, more than a mil
lion men gathered at the various
cantonments must have their dally
necessities brought to them by the
railroads. As It takes at least five
pounds of food per day for each sol
dier, in addition tcC the food, cloth
ing, fuel and other supplies that are
constantly needed, the railroads have
their work cut out for them.
Our railroad men. from the Atter
burys and the Kennedys, who have
gone to France, down to the hum
blest trackhand, all have their parts
to play In the successful prosecu
tion of the war. and they are quite
as Important In the general scheme
of things as the men In uniform who
carry the guns and get the cheers.
The superintendents, the trainmas
ters, the engineers, the firemen, the
conductors and the trainmen who
get tho freight over the road In the
least possible time and without ac
cident, are mighty big factors In the
war preparations now under way.
Never was there a time when the
railroads of the country were oper
ated under suoh difficulties or so
efficiently.
T>o(a4 u
By the
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Steps to Inaugurate a new test of
the judicial nonpartisan election law
so that the clause relative to what
shall be necessary to make a candi
date the sole nominee may be re
viewed again will be taken before
to-day Is over in opinion of people
at the State Capitol. Resting upon
the decision of Judge S. J. M. Mc-
Carrell in the Drake case from Phil
adelphia, decided four years ago. Sec
retary of the Commonwealth Woods
last night ordered certified to the
commissioners of Philadelphia and
Schuylkill counties the ntv#nes of the
candidates receiving the four high
est votes for the judicial nomina
tions in the courts for which there
are contests.
"I am of the opinion that tho mat
ter is ruled by the decision in the
Drake case and If I am wrong the
matter can be further tested in tho
courts" said Mr. Woods.
The Secretary's decision was reach
ed after a prolonged discussion last
night with Attorney General Brown
and his deputies. Mr. Woods there
upon sent word to the four highest
men in each of the Philadelphia
court contests and to the four candi
dates in Schuylkill county. This de
cision was not to the liking of friends
of some candidates, but represented
Mr. Woods' opinio*! and he stood on
ft to-day. Under the law no mention
will be made of the vote received.
The names will be merely certified.
It Is believed that either one of the
Schtiylkill or Philadelphia candidates
will file the papers in the test <and
ask ,for an Immediate argument
This will be necessary as the elec
tion is on November 6.
—Auditor General Charles A.
Snyder to- day made a tart rejoinder
to the men who have been criticising
him lor appointing clerks to assist
in the collection of inheritance taxes.
The Auditor General said that he
would not have named clerks if he
had not been satisfied that he had
authority to do so and that he was
prepared to name them where he
deemed it necessary. "There have
been places where I have thought it
essential; one instance being where
I found a county official away late in
getting in his taxes. The state needs
that money and it is my duty to get
it," said Mr. Snyder.
—Telegralhs and telephone calls
are being used by the Department of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
to get correct lists of candidates for
city and county offices so that they
can be printed in the pamphlet to be
sent to the soldiers' camps. About
ten counties have failed to file what
was asked, some of them sending
only names without home Addresses.
About half of the lists have been
sent to the printers and hurry up
orders will be given on the rest.
—Practically no more appoint
ments will be made in Capitol Hill
departments by Governor Brum
baugh before election. Even soma
clerkships will not be filled by heads
of departments nor any change in
the Mines, Agriculture or other de
partments.
—The movement for selection of a
ticket for the Town Meeting party in
Philadelphia progressed yesterday
when many names were suggested
and the Democratic city committer
named a subcommittee on fusion
with the independents. The Town
Meeting committee issued a blister
ing statement on the Vare-Sniith po
litical regime in Philadelphia. The
Democratic attitude in indicated by
a sharp editorial in the Philadelphia
Record in which it calls Vare "the
brazen boss." The Public Ledger,
which is boosting ex-Mayor Blankcn
burg for city treasurer, also takes a
whang at Senator Vare, while the
"Press demands the impeachment of
Mayor Smith and Director Wilson
as the first steps The Philadelphia
situation is remarkable in that all
the newspapers appear to be hitting
at the city administration and the
Vares for the first time.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer says
of the plan for the new tlc'-et:
"While there was a general discus
sion of candidates at the meeting
of the committee of twelve yesterday
afternoon, and the whole field of
prospective Independent and antiad
ministration candidates for county,
magisterial and councllmanic nomi
nations was canvassed, only tentative
selections were made. 'There will be
no fifty-fifty about the Town Meeting
nominations,' declared Chairman
Armstrong, 'but rather each and
every one will represent a guaran
teed one hundred per cent, for the
public.' All are agraed that Samuel
P. Rotan must be re-elected district
attorney. For city treasurer, for
mer Judge Dlmner Beeber's name
was yesterday added to the list with
Howard R. Sheppard also seriously
considered, along with several oth
ers of like prominence. Walter
George iSmfth, who was recently
elected president of the American
Bar Association, is the first choice
of the majority of the members of
the committee for register of wills,
but there is doubt that he will con
sent to be a candidate.
—Senator Penrose is back in Phil
adelphia after the adjournment of
Congress, but refuses to talk and
will return to Washington to handle
work awaiting him.
—Pittsburgh mayoralty and coun
cilmanic candidates have taken to
the stump and things seem to be
warming up.
—Altoona is having one of the
grandest fights in ' years over the
city managership issue. The state
ment was made yesterday that four
years of commission government rule
had saved the city $196,000.
—Judge H. A. Denny, of Susque
hanna, spent $1,832 in his campaign
and A. B. Smith, his opponent, spent
s2,4Bfi.
—County Solicitor Chidsey de
cided that the names of Dr. Charles
Collman and Dr. B. Rush Field,
Democrats, should head the coun
cilmanic list in Easton because they
polled more than 50 per cent, of the
primary vote and are therefore vir
tually elected. I
—"This court will not deal fur
ther with violations of the liquor
laws," said Mayor A. L. Relchen
bach In the mayor's court at Allen
town. He added: "Heretofore we
have classed such violations as mis
demeanors and sentenced offenders
accordingly. Since the national au
thorities seem to have taken over the
administration of these laws, and did
not deem it. necessary to pay the
courtesy even of a call to the local
authorities, the oqurt does not feel it
should deal with these matters any
further. The prohibitory law Is a
very excellent one, but I hold that
the aot as administered Is drastic,
and In this Secretary of War Baker
concurred when T called on him at
Washington on Thursday."
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AMERICANISMS!
God grant that we soon may have
this tranquilizing peace of which
philosophers have dreamed and poets
have sung, hut peace when it comes
must mean the crushing of militar
ism for all time to come. —Samuel
Gompers.
AVe will stand with the world
against militarism. We are not in
this fight because we love war. We
aro fighting because we love peace.
We know that this world is not big
enough for place and Prussian
militarism. Militarism, all militar
ism, must be destroyed no matter
what the cost.—Clarence Darrow.
This war is the supreme struggle
of democracy against autocracy. Do
away with democracy and achieve
ment ends. Take whatsoever you
will in securing better conditions,
better hours, better pay, in emanci
pation of labor, better division of
world's wealth for labor —how will
you secure any one of these things
except through democracy?— Charles
Edward Russell.
We cannot acquiesce in a cow
ardly peace. We cannot fail to strug
gle against despotism and militarism
that would dominate the world. We
cannot surrender that democracy we
have inherited after so great a strug
gle.—John Spargo.
The true meaning of democracy .
It is something that links the last
the least man with the throne or
the eternal meaning of existence and
gives that humblest itian the divine
enfranchisement. —J. Stitt Wilson.
I see in the American Labor move
ment the greatest champion of an
industrial democracy of a free state
and of a happy and contented peo
ple.—Frank P. Walsh.
SAVE THE FODDER
There is one product of most farms
that is not conserved as it should be
and that is the corn fodder. Tne
purt of the cow. crop which is not
put into silos would provide more,
valuable feed lf)an it does If farmers
would endeavor store and use the
fodder of the huskeH corn more care
,l'ully. Analyses show rsat dry, well
preserved corn fodder contains only
slightly less protein and kat, and
more carbohydrates than afces tim
othy hay. Practical experience
shows that such roughage, i when
shredded and fed, produces Ijetter
results with milk cows than titfnothy
hay. * „
In order to have fodder of great
est food value, the corn must .|e cut
before it is dead ripe, or whlire the
stalk and leaves are quite p,r,-en. I
cut at this stage, v/ell shocked
promptly husked, and the foduer put
under shelter or well "ricked , the
nutritive elements may be nearly all
retained. If, however, it is left ex
posed to the weather for any length
of time the loss is great, The ele
ments of nutrition in corn stover are
very soluble and it has heen found
that it depreciates rapidly, the loss
amounting to 60 per cent or more,
when subjected to alternate rains and
dl When shredded at the proper time
it will futnish a great deal of val
uable feed, and the refuse, or the
part not eaten, makes the best kind
of bedding and absorbent. —Pennsyl-
vania Farmer.
HERE IS A PUNCH
The most reliable authorities deny
that France is "bled Svhlte." France
has had a ghastly ordeal, but she is
stronger in national energy than
<% ln 1914 her shots, for all field
guns, averaged 1,300 a day. She now
sends into the enemy s face 350,000
shots a day. In the beginning of the
war she had 300 guns of heavy ar
tillery. To-day she has 6,000 pieces.
Her casualties at the Battle of the
Marno were 5.41 per cent. To-day
they average 1.28 per cent.
France has a million more men
in the field than she had at the be
ginning.
And hore Is a punch: Germany
was whipped at the Battle of the
Marne. but the square-necks don t
know it, and it Is this stubborn, bull
necked ignoranco that is putting the
finishing touch on the Teutons.
—The Silent Partner.
JOHN BULL'S WAY
In Great Britain live men run the
war. There the stolidity of con
servatism and of caste has been
melted In the crucible of all-compell
ing time and need. The energies of
Great Britain have been fused Into
one great and single effort, that of
projecting its fighting armies fed and
equipped into France. !• jch a fu
sion and concentration of spirit must
be the experience of America. Thus
only will It "exert all its power and
employ all Its resources to bring tne
Government of the German empire
to terms and end the war.—Phila
delphia Ledger,
Soldier Boy's Brave Farewell
As an illustration of the lofty
sentiments possessed by men who
die on the Kuropean battlefield in
the war for democracy, and a re
minder for Americans who may he
backward in contributing to the Sec
ond Liberty Loan for the same great
cause the Liberty Loan Committee
has made public the last letter by
Captain V. G. Tupper, of the Cana
dian Scottish Sixteenth Battalion, to
his father. Sir Charles Hibbert Tup
per, before his death at the battle of
Vimy Kidge last April. The soldier
wrote:
"My Dear Father —I am writing
one of these "in case' letters for the
third time, and, of course, I hope
you will never have to read it. If
you are reading it now, you will
know that your youngest son 'went
under' as proud as Punch on the
most glorious day of his life. I am
taking my company 'over the top'
for a mile in the biggest push that
has ever been launched in the world,
and I trust that it is going to be
the greatest factor toward peace.
"Dad, you can't imagine the won
derful feeling; a man thinks some
thing like this: Well, if 1 am going
THE CHOSEN ONES
Why not call It the "chosen"
army?
Why not call its members the
"chosen" soldiers?
There seems to be a general de
sire to get away from the word
"drafted," and this is justified.
' What term could better describe
this great new army of men who
have been selected to help make the
world safe for democracy than
"chosen?"
Literally, they are chosen men.
Chosen from their fellows to fight
for freedom in the greatest struggle
of the ages.
Chosen to measure the strength of
their ideals against the brute force
(of might.
Chosen for a really sacred purpose.
Aod in a true way carrying out tJte
Master's words, "For many j
called but few are chosen.
If you will turn to the book from
wMch these words are quoted you
wf.l find in the gospel of John other
wcrds from the same lips—words
wtych seem marvelously fitted to the
rj./feing up of this chosen army:
I have chosen you and or
dained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit, and that
your fruit should remain.
No better or truer statement of
the situation could be made.
They are chosen to bring forth the
fruit of victory. In this instance
the fruit of victory is freedom. And
they are offering themselves in order
that this freedom shall remain.—
Eeigh Mitchell Hoopes in the Phila
delphia North American.
BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS
The deportations occurred near
fhe end of Ihe period of our stay in
Belgium. They were the final and
the fully sufficient exhibit, prepared
by the great German machine, .to
convince absolutely any one of us
who might still have been clinging
to his original desperately main
tained attitude of neutrality that it
was high time that we were some
where else —on the other side of the
trench line, by preference. There
could be no neutrality in the face
of the deportations; you are for that
kind of thing or you are against it.
We are against It; America is against
it; most of the civilized nations are
against it. That is the hope of the
world. —Vernon Kellogg In the At
lantic Monthly.
WANTED—FACTS
Navy officials were quoted by the
Associated Press yesterday as depre
cating the publication of report#
that the submarines have been beat
en. While they have confidence In
the final outcome, they say that the
drain on the Allied shipping re
sources Is heavy.
This sort of frankness Is far bet
ter than any attempt to lull the pub
lic Into a false sense of security.
Tho nation wants to know the facts,
no matter how discouraging they
may be. A country that can't stand
up under discouragement has no
business trying to maintain its po
sition In the world.—Kansas City
Journal.
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
They are of the world; therefore
speak they of the world and the
world heareth them. We are of
God; he that knoweth Ood heareth
us; he that Is not of God heareth
UB not. Hereby know we the eplrlt
of truth, and the spirit of error.—
I John IV, 16 and 6,
to die, this is worth it a thousand
times.
"I have 'been over' two or three
times before, but never with a com
pany of my own. Think of it —a hun
dred and fifty officers and men who
will follow you to Hell, if need be!
"I don't want any of you dear peo
ple to be sorry for me, although, of
course, you will, in a way. You will
miss me. but you will be proud of
me. Mind you, I know what I am up
against and that the odds are against
me. 1 am not going in the way I dtd
the first time, just for sheer devil
ment and curiosity. I have seen this
game for two years, and I still like
it and feel that my place Is here.
"So much for that. I want to thank
you from the bottom of my heart for
all your loving kindness to me. This
war has done wonders to me and
makes me realize lots of things I
would not have done' otherwise. I
could write a book about It, but you
know what I mean.
"Good-by, dear father and mother,
and all of you. Again I say that I
am proud to be where I am now.
"(Signed),
"GORDIE."
NO FAVORS FOR RICH
Camp Dix, Wrlghtstown, N. J.—
There will be no tailormade uniforms
for wealthy rookies at Camp Dix.
This announcement was made fol
lowing the call of a fashionable Phil
adelphia tailor upon Kingdon Gould,
millionaire recruit from Lakewood,
now a private in the Three Hundred
and Eleventh Infantry.
The tailor, with an assistant, lo
cated Gould at his barracks and an
nounced to that surprised young sol-,
dier that he had called to measure
him for his uniform. It happened
that Uncle Sam. in the guise of a
supply sergeant, had issued a com
plete private s uniform to Gould a
few minutes earlier. Gould told the
tailor that one uniform was about
all he could wear, but the tailor in
sisted that lie must measure the
young millionaire for two expensive I
suits, and said that a relative of
Gould's had placed the order. Pri
vate Gould replied that the govern
ment was looking out for all his
needs. He fairly had to shoo awav
the much chagrined tailor and his as
sistant.
There are reports that Gould is to
have a commission in an engineering
regiment. At the headquarters of
the Three Hundred and Eleventh
Regiment it was declared that the
personnel board had not considered
Gould's qualifications for promotion.
"Wealth or social position cuts no
Ice with the modern army," said an
officer. "Uncle Sam gives commis
sions only for services that can be
rendered."—From the Philadelphia
Record. •
KNITTING
This war has brought a custom back
that seems to be most fitting.
It was the vogue in grandma's time;
it is the art of knitting.
Our women spend most of their
time
At knitting socks; they say it's fine
They meet in groups of eight or
nine.
Knitting,
Knitting,
Knitting.
This knitting game was something
new to nearly every girl;
She had to learn to cast a stitch, to
make a seam and nurl.
But now they say It's simply rich,
It isn't hard to cast a stitch,
The work goes on without a hitch,
Knitting,
Knitting,
Knitting.
Our women are a loyal crowd, their
work Is not for show;
Our soldier boys will sing their
praise, wherever they may go.
This knitting's made an awful hltj
For everybody's doing; It;
You can't persuade the girls to quit
Knitting.
Knitting,
Knitting.
Our soldier boys will wear the socks
our girls so kindly knit.
Here's hoping, girls, that you will
try to make a perfect fit.
An awful thing 'twould be, you see,
A misfit sock is misery;
The soldiers all, we fear, would be
Quitting,
Quitting,
Quitting.
■ —Frank L. Armstrong in the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times. ,
OCTOBER 9, 1917.
PICKS BLOND BABIES
Blond children are most suscept
ible to attacks of infantile paralysis,
the Chicago Public Health Associa
tion declares.
Tho baby malady, which is engag
ing the attention of the health au
thorities at the present time, eleven
new cases being reported in one re
cent day, was discussed by Dr. Arch
ibald L,. Hoyne, of the city health
department.
"Blond children appear to be es
pecially susceptible," l3r. Hoyne said,
"more than 90 per cent, of the Chi
cago cases having been of fair com
plexion. Negro children are rarely
attacked.
"While it is not common to find
more than one child in a family of
several, a victim of this disease, still
second and even third cases ilo oc
cur. In Chicago in recent months
there have been two instances whAre
more than one child in a family has
been afflicted.
"The mortality for infantile pa
ralysis in Chicago last year was about
15 per cent. This year it is a little
m6re than doubled, being approxi
mately 3 2 1-3 per cent, for the
month of (September. Out of twelve
cases at home eight died, a mortality
rate of 66 2-3 per cent. Of 172 cases
treated at the Cook County Hospital
from July to September there were
thirty-five deaths or a mortality rate
of 20 per cent."—From the Chicago
Herald.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
SOMETHING SHORT.
Wlfey—X Just can't And words to
dc-scrlbe my new bathing suit.
Hubby—TUn wy not try soma
bbro"jatlrns f
A MERE YOUNGSTER.
Duck: You say you're over flffc,
/ears old. chl "Why you're not cut
of your shell yet I „
A JUNGLE JOKE.
Ist Monk: My brother went to
America and secured a position &3
a cashier!
2nd Monk: A cashier to whatT
Ist Monk: To an organ grinder.
THE NATIONAL, GAME.
"I see in the paper that somebody
found a fan four old."
"I didn't know they played base
ball to long ago."-
ichnttnq fflljat
To what base uses a red and gold
patrol wagon can come with the
march of years. The first patro
wagon that Harrlsburg ever had, old
Xo - that used to dash along the
street with a bang-up clatter not ap
proached by either a brewery wagoft
or a fire engine, is now an object of
street repairing l utility. Seeing it
standing in Court street not fal
from the prison where it was wont
to be a frequent caller o' nights
one ha* to stop and think of the
time when the glory of the "cop
pers" and "de wagon" to which Sib
letown, Castle Garden, Cinder .Row
and the Hob Nail drunks and braw
lers aspired as the proper ending to
their debauches or their fights. Th<
wagon came to town back In 1891
and John Carberry, later \ith the
\\ ater Department and the man who
Insisted in putting the Water Depart
ment wagon into tho first "movie"
*e\er taken of tho Harrisburg fire de
partment at full gallop, was the tlrsl
driver so tradition says. Later on
Charlie Yowler, the ex-Regular Armj
soldier who was the heavy weight ot
rear of C thi a V on iV rl^ cn U was ln the
the relnJ# %£° Chlel ,10tc1 ' handled
of drivers' nn 'tk® Was a succ<J ssion
or ari\ ers and tlioy all had their ex.
there" wero 'n"' 1 U ,I,ay bc nd<!o<l thilt
which tho n?<?" y Ktlrrl, 'K scenes in
which the old wagon figured whet
SthM? u l ' CCann nnrt c,llG >' ani
other old-timers use,l to send in the
Kautz nr qU w 1° r ( ' ,llrfs -Anderson,
™ tz Weston started out on a
nol,„ „ S. W w KO " hn - s l,e<?n known to
If it ovlr. If \ as twenty Persons and
If it ever had a cash register in Its
ll at miiM V Ol11,1 have shown traltlc
that would have needed regulating.
Sfteaklng of the old patrol wagon
there are few of the newspapermen
10 ro aetlve twenty years age
who did not have their own exper
iences in that vehicle. The city edi
tor of a defunct morning paper was
once knocked out of the wagon by
a drunken lady whom he was assist
lng to arrest and another newspapet
man, still active, tells of the time
Jowler llirted with death at the olri
Market street grade crossing while
going to a fire that was eating up a
nig warehouse near where Uic
Graupner bakery stands. As it was
an aggressive shifter banged th<
brass handles on the rear of th<
car and owler made the frightenet
scribe climb down olt the back ol
his neck when it was all over. Al
the time of the big blizzard in 18!)!
Amos Drabenstadt, now a police
sergeant, drove to a fire down Walnu
street with a man now high in one
of the llarrisburg newspapers, wip
ing the snow out of his eyes so thai
he could see to steer the tearing
horses. Howard Molstein once un
dertook to go to a lire at the Centra
Iron and Steel works byway ol
Shanois street and got there although
a.railroad trestle and the top of the
wagon did not lit and some of the
top was left behind, while the late
John A. Hocker drove the wagon
through Puxton creek at flood stage
to rescue some people at Sibletowr
back In days when there was no in
terceptor or regulating dam when
after a hard rain the residents ol
that classic locality moved to tlx
roofs. But oddest of all was th<
time one of the officers on an up
town beat, insisted that TTncle Jn<
Van Camp arrest and "take down'
two sheep be had foynd wandering
around about near where the Cam
eron school stands.
People who are giving loving cup?
and those who win them by prowess
on various fields are not the only
ones who can make a splash wher
it comes down to the decorative fea
tures. Hearken unto the story o
the man who got the cords of hi:
back Jangling by trying to break the
record on the new course and the
man's wife who won the pretty cujj
in the second (light. The wife was
proud and justly so. And so by the
same token were the friends of the
family. And the man who had tried
and got the unmugical feeling in the
cords of his back sat back and
thought. Then he went out and
rummaged around and found the
heirloom sugar bowl that looked like
a soup tureen. He likewise founc
a base of basest ebony and then hid
the cover of the old-time sugar bow
and had the cook shine the bowl un
til it shown like Justice emerging
from a political lawsuit. And wher
the shining was done he mounted tin
bowl upon the ebony and called id
his friends and showed them what lu
had won. Selah.
Charles R. Michael, of the Wash
ington bureau of the Phlladelphir
Public Ledger, a newspaperman wel
known to many residents of Harris
burg because of service here as f
legislative correspondent and elurinj
the Capitol cases, is understood to b<
about to go to France. He has lef
the service of the Ledger and will be
connected with the war, service ol
one of the big New York dailies
Mr. Michael always had a predelic
tion for proximity to the flghtine
line.
John H. Reitinger. of the PhilaJ
delphia office of The Associated
Press, was in a terrible state to-da>l
Mr. Reitinger has reported every onfl
of the big world's series baseball
games for years, with a score or so
of intercollegiate football games
thrown In and thousands of Harris
burgers have read his stories without
knowing that the well-known news
paperman who comes here to "cov
er" the State Senate when in sessior
was the field expert. Rut it happen;
that Mr. Reitinger has also beer
handling the news reports of the
sensational Philadelphia politica
hearing.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Chairman Alney, of the Publii
Service commission, lias been invitee
to deliver an address at Scranton or
American diplomacy in the East.
—Senator William E. Crow, th<
State Chairman, has been spendinj
several days visiting eastern citlei
and declaring that he will let poli
tics drift for awhile.
—Secretary of Internal Affairi
Houck was at the seashore over th<
week-end.
—Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgl
is out making Liberty Loan speeches
—Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis
son, of Erie, is taking a big
in organizing the Erie homo dofens
league.
—Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chair
man of the State Game commission
is going hunting this fall in spit
of his recent Injury to his leg.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrlsburg Is rolling
steol plates for Pacific coast
shipltu-nta?
HISTORIC HARRISntTRO.
Harrlsburg forges made munition
for the American Army in the Wa
of 1812.