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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1917
And, having thus chosen our
course, let us renew our trust in
Qod and go foricardAcitliout fear and
icith manly hearts. — ABRAHAM LIN
COLN.
THE STATE'S SCHOOL FCND
WHEN the School Code Com
mission presented its monu
mental compilation of the
school laws of Pennsylvania a few
years ago there were students of
public affairs, and some legislators,
too. who were inclined to be skep
. tical about the plan of establishing
a permanent school fund. There
were some who thought that Penn
sylvania was too late in providing
such a fund and that having allowed
tlie coal and oil and timber to be
taken without levying a tithe for
education it should provide a special
tax to create an endowment. The
Stale had the example of Texas,
Minnesota and other commonwealths
which made provision for schools
out of natural resources, and the
frnmers of the school code deter
mined to provide against tho day
when the great corporations and the
little corporations which give this
State its "princely revenues would no
longer be paying because of exhaus-
Hon of what nature has given so
lavishly.
The State's forest domain of a
million acres, escheated estates and
public property sold were designated
as the chief sources for the per
manent fund. Thanks to the man
agement of the forests, they are an
nually turning In a fine income to
the permanent fund and when the
kinks are straightened out of the
escheat law the wealth of unclaimed
estates will go to the cause of edu
cation in the future.
In half a decade the State of
Pennsylvania, without knowing it,
has amassed over $300,000 in a per
manent school tund and if the ex
ample of the State Fire Insurance
Fund, which has grown to be a
third of a million In two years, is
anything to go by it will not be
many years until the School Fund of
the Keystone State will be something
to brag of. if undertaken rather late.
DRAFT ALIENS FOR THE HOE
BY the time comes to plant po
tatoes next spring the ranks of
the farm laborers of Pennsylva
nia may be so depleted by the de
mands of military service and the
pressure for labor in industries and
transportation eo severe that we
may be confronted with the alterna
tive of drafting men to use the hoe.
There have been many volunteers
who have been benefited in health
by farm labor and while farmers
have out" the high school
boy like Greeley used to denounce
the college graduate in the newspa
per office, the students will be a
mighty help when the pinch comes.
However, if an emergency arises
and food instead of mill products
becomes paramount, there are within
this State thousands of men who are
getting out or military service by
pleading allegiance to a foreign
power. Mills and factories and rail
roads can afford to give up such
men for work in the fields and while
we may bo inffinging upon treaty
parchments, yet the Allied countries
are so bound up with us that they
can afford to disregard lacerations
of their sovereign dignity and even
urge their nationals to bend their
backs in the field.
OCR BOYS IN FRANCE
SOLDIERS who go from this
country to fight democracy's
battle in Franco will not find
immense cantonments similar to tho
great camps maintained in this coun
try. On the contrary, our soldiers
upon their arrival in France are di
vided into groups of from 600 to
2,000 persons. Most of these groups
are located in small villages. Hero
the French mothers, many of whom
have given sons, a husband or a
brother in defense of their sunny
homeland, literally adopt the Ameri
can boys into their homes.
While this plan of locating our
boys in small units possesses obvious
advantages, it also has its drawbacks.
The center of interest in every
camp, large or small, is the Young
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
Men's Christian Association hut—as
suredly the "llvest men's club" in
town! For the Y. M. C. A., in keep
ing with its policy to place "zonea s>f
safety" where most needed, is plan
ning to provide a trained secretary
and a suitable building for every
camp which has 500 or more men.
This costs money.
The place these "zones of safety"
occupy in the affections of American
soldiers is indicated by letters which
are being received here. The boys
seldom fail to mention the Y. M. C.
A. and its activities In their behalf.
War, even when presented in its
most favorable aspects, is far from
beautiful. It has remained for this
great Christian organization, world
wide in its scope, to bear aloft the
torch of humanity. Through this
organization, war has been robbed of
many of its terrors.
Because of the Y. M. C. A., the
home-tie will always be present to
help our boys preserve the ideals of
American manhood and clean living
which they take with them to the
"other side."
ANYTHING FOR RELIEF
people of the city, long suf
-®- ferlng and impatient for relief,
will back up Council solidly on any
thing It may do to relieve the almost
intolerable ash and garbage condi
tions in Harrisburg. Anything that
offers permanent relief at reasonable
cost will bo acceptable.
Commissioner Dunkle should,- have
the thanks of the voters for his reso
lution of yesterday, turning over the
ash and garbage collections to Dr.
J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer,
and charging the expense to the
bondsman of the contracting com
pany, which has fallen down lament
ably on Its job. It is a step In the
right direction.
Beyond question, the company is
having troubles of its own, as all em
ployers of labor are at this time, but
it has been so long neglectful of the
work It Is under contract to per
form that the public will have small
sympathy with it In Its present diffi
culties. What the taxpayers want and
must have, is prompt and efficient
collection of refuse. Just now the
householder who Is not burdened
with an accumulation of ashes and
garbage has paid to have it carted
away by small boys, or others, who
arc none too careful as to how they
dispose of it, and this with the city
paying thousands of dollars each
year to the contracving company to
do the work. Paying twice for a
service Is irksome at anytime, but it
is doubly objectionable at a time like
this, when living costs are tre
mendously high and there is need
for every spare penny for aid in one
or another of the many branches
of war work.
Eventually, it must be apparent to
all, we must do what we now pro
pose as a temporary expedient—col
lect both ashes and garbage through
the city's own agency, or bureau. The
health bureau may do this work
very well, for the emergency, but It
would be against the welfare of the
people to divide its energies in this
manner. It is undermanned at best,
and In case of epidemic has more
work than it can woll perform. A
separate bureau Is desirable, if not
actually necessary, to a proper con
duct of any system that the city
must adopt.
However, the people at this time
are ready to support any move
Council may make in the direction
of relief during the winter months,
and if those In authority work out
a plan that will result in prompt and
efficient collections during the win
ter. when ashes especially accumu
late very rapidly, the people will ac
cept It without much question as to
rr f.thods.
REFORMATION ANNIVERSARY*
ONLY the thorough student of
history appreciates fully the
significance of the Luther Ref
ormation, the qundrlcentennlal of
which will be observed In Chestnut
Street hall to-night.
The devastating thirty years' war,
on of the bloodiest and bitterest
ever fought, is a mere chapter in the
long chronicle of the great move
ment of which it was a part. But
that conflict marked the assurance
ot religious liberty in Central Europe
and paved the way for the freedom
of religion which now prevails and
which every man, of any faith what
soever, regards as his unquestion
able right.
The vigor with which both sides
in the controversy held to their be
liefs and contended for them is evi
dence ot the sincerity of each. The
re'lgtcus devotee of to-day can look
back calmly and dispassionately
upon the events of those early times
and rejoice without bitterness over I
the religious liberty which Is one of
the keystones upon which the nation
is founded, willing to grant to his
neighbor the same rights and priv
ileges he demands for himself.
"Politic* Ck
IVIVKQi^CCUCta
By the Ex-Committee man.
Commissioners to take the votes of
Pennsylvania soldiers in the various
camps will receive their election sup
plies from Secretary of the Com
monwealth Woods *the latter part of
j the week. The supplies will Include
1 the ballots, lists of candidates, poll
1 books and other paraphernalia, in-
I eluding considerable material which
, was not required last year, but which
has been provided this year because
of the different conditions. As each
of the commissioners who took the
oath yesterday is personally respon
sible for the supplies, the Secretary
has arranged to hold them until the
vote takers are ready to start.
Mr. Woods said to-day that all
questions seemed to have been dis
posed of and that the commissioners
would all be at their camps at least a
day before election day.
—Governor Brumbaugh, who Is
speaking at Carlisle to-day, leaves
late to-day for New York and will go
thence to Philadelphia, remaining in
that vicinity until after election day.
The plans for the Governor are for
him to leave Philadelphia the day
following election to visit in the
camps in the South. Members of
the Governor's staff will accompany
him.
—Officials and attaches of the
State Capitol departments began to
start for their homes yesterday and
to-day to take part In the election,
although some of the Phiiadelphians
left earlier in the week. The Capitol
departments will practically close!
Friday until after election in ac
cordance with custom.
—Philadelphia and Harrisburg are
not the only .places on the Pennsyl
vania political map where there are
lively lights and where the state ad
ministratibn is taking a hand. In
Pittsburgh the lines are closely
drawn and the battle between Bab
cock and Magee is raging fiercely
with friends of the Governor aiding
Magee, although one or two men
high up in the state administration
have refused to help. In Scranton
there is a battle royal on for mayor
between Connell and Durkan which
has developed into a straight party
fight. Altoona is in the thick of the
hottest light in years with city man
agership as the burning issue. Erie,
Johnstown and York have strenu
ous councilmanic battles, too.
—ln Pittsburgh Magee has been
.assailing Babcock's business plans
and his supporters have been attack
ing Babcock with a virulence that Is
attracting national attention. In a
speech City Solicitor Charles A.
O'Brien called attention to some ex
travagant statements Magee has been
making and gave the public correct
information, says the Gazette-Times
He also reminded the taxpayers of
Pittsburgh that if Mr. Magee is elect
ed mayor he will try to put through
a big bond issue for his Lake Erie
ship canal.
—Senator Charles H. Kline has
withdrawn as a candidate for Com
mon Pleas Court judge, In Allegheny.
This leaves the live sitting Judges
with but three opponents, James B.
Drew, W. A. Griffith and N, R.
Daugherty, as Joliu N. Dunn, the
other nominee, took himself out of
the contest some time ago and Is
working hard for the re-election of
the present judges. Mr. Kline last
night issued this statement: "After
canvassing the political situation
since the primaries, I have decided to
discontinue my campaign for judge.
I desire to thank my mny thousands
of friends who have supported and
assisted me up to the present time.
I keenly appreciate their confidence
in me, and in the future shall con
tinue to serve them as I have in the
past." There were fifteen candi
dates in the primaries for the ten
nominations for Common Pleas
Court judge. The aspirants elimi
nated in the primaries were James
H. Harrison, Stephen H. Huselton,
Charles P. Lang, Albert T. Morgan
and* Edwin J. Smail. With- the ex
ception of Mr. Morgan, these men
have declared In favor of the elec
tion of the live sitting judges.
—The election fight in Philadel
phia, which Is ot state-wiuc import
ance. is being fought in th<s courts
and In the wards. The Vare organ
ization was never doing better work,
declare men who have observed the
wav the division workers are at it
and the Town Meeting party has its
job cut out to win. The Town Meet
ing leaders, on the other hand, say
that public sentiment was n.evtr no
aroused as by recent events and
that the attempt to strike down the
Hew party's ticket will cost the
Vares thousands of votes. Phila
delphia newspapers are still standing
together against the Vare organiza
tion, whose speakers continue to at
tack the papers as strenuously aa
they Vvooed them some months ago.
—Amendments to nomination pa
pers for Town Meeting county can
didates were sufficiently completed
last night to assure the ticket of a
place on the official ballot. An
nouncement to this effect was made
by Robert 8. Bright, a member of
the committee of twelve.
—This is the way the Philadel
phia Inquirer, rock-ribbed Republi
can discusses the latest at
tack !n the courts on the Town
Meeting party ticket: "'Determined
to stop at nothing in their efforts to
prevent the Town Meeting party
ticket from appearing on the ballot,
the Smith-Vare machine yesterday
attempted to steam-roller the legal
decision handed down by Judge
Davis permitting sixty-eight nomina
tion* petitions to be amended. The
intimidation, which began with the
Ware controlled police and detective
bureaus, by their midnight visits to
the homes of signers, yesterday con
tinued in the office of the County
Commissioners, where, according to
the ruling of Judge Davis, the peti
tions were to be amended before
three notaries commissioned by the
court. Two of these, Louis Trefz
and I. H. Schofleld, are-clerks in the
ofTico of the Prothonotary, while the
third Is John L. Burns, clerk in,
Court No. 1. These men no sooner
started work yesterday afternoon,
than they began to receive instruc
tions as to the manner in which they
were to take the affidavits of the
affiants, given them by the Frog Hol
low attorneys, lea by John T. Connor
and assisted by John It. K. Scott."
• —The North American, which
represents the very opposite !n Re
publican matters and which has
been more or loss - friendly to the
Varos, assails the Senator to-day in
this language: "Just how Stato
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Senator Edwin H. Vare has profited
by having his friend, Thomas B.
Smith, in the mayor's office, is
shown by a list of the contracts for
city work which he has performed.
In the last sixteen years 'the little
fellow* has taken more than $20,-
000,000 out of the city treasury, and
more than one-fifth of that cum in
contracts was awarded to him dur
ing the first nine months of this
year."
—While the Philadelphia Ledger
and the Evening Bulletin are
editorially pounding the Vare organ
ization the Philadelphia Record,
Democratic newspaper, is devoting
its attention to observing conditions
in the wards. It says that men and
women are aroused and that if meet
ings count the Town Meeting party
is in good shape. The newspapers
all give much space to the attacks
made by A. Merritt Taylor and
others on the Smith 'administration,
while the Philadelphia Press simply
flays the mayor and his director of
public safety.
—The Scranton Republican and
Scranton Times are having a ham
mer and tongs fight over the mayor,
the Republican being behind Con
nell, while the Times is making a
drive for Durkan.
—Deputy Auditor General Harry
S. McDevitt, who returned from
Easton to-day, said that people In
that city want the Governor to be
prompt about naming a registrar of
wills. Mr. McDevitt. who went to
Easton to examine the accounts of
the late Asher V. Stauffer. register
of wills, issued a statement in which
he denied that politics was at the
bottom of the investigation. Mr. Mc-
Devitt asserts neither he nor his col
leagues knew that Stauffer was a
candidate for re-election and that
the answer to Stauffer's guilt is his
own act. It has been-learned that
Stauffer's estate is valued at about
$30,000.
RIGHT-ABOUT FACE
We do not know that the Presi
dent of the United States finally has
had the cat of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and has urged the
co-operation of that body in secur
ing the highest possible degree of
efficiency in the operation of the
railroads, but there is a tone of ap
preciation in the announcement of a
rehearing on the rate increase plea
of the Eastern railroads that implies
a marked change from the attitude
which has characterized the mem
bers of the commission and their
predecessors for several years past.
There is frank acknowledgment
that since the outbreak of the war
carriers and shippers alike have co
operated with "praiseworthy alac
rity," and there is a renewal of
promises previously made to deal
justly with the railroads in the mat
ter of rates and their adjustment to
increasing costs of operation. But
the main point deserving commenda
tion is the declared purpose to expe
dite consideration of the case and to
make the? relief which it is within
the power of the commission to
grant, effective when it is needed.—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
THE RAINBOW DIVISION
The boys are now In fighting trim.
Their hearts are filled with cheer;
The llrsh of health is on their
cheeks.
Their eyes are bright and clear;
The# onlr 1 'wait the bugle call
To send them b'er the line;
Then loud and high will be their
cry—
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
Then loud and high will be their
cry—
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
They leave behind their loving ones,
Their sweethearts and their wives;
They heard their country's clarion
call
And answered with their lives:
Their task to aid that noble land
Of blighted home and shrine
Till time shall show a vanquished
foe
The Rainbow on the Rhine.
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
The Rainbow on the Rhine!
Till time shall show a van
quished foe
The Rainbow on the Rhine.
And how they long to see their flag
Triumphant in the fray, ,
For memories of the Huns' misdeeds
Are in their hearts to-day;
When Belgian orphans greet them
soon
Their tearwet eyes shall shine
And hearts that bleed shall say
"Godspeed
The Rainbow on the Rhine."
The Rainbow on the Rhine,
The Rainbow on the Rhine.
And hearts that bleed shall say
"Godspeed
The Rainbow on the Rhine."
—James W. McGeo in New York
1 Herald,
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
WHAT THB Y. M. C. A. DID
T> the Ed.lor of the Telegraph:
I appreciate the assistance of the
Army Y. M. C. A. Without it we
would be lost.
I know through experience. I
took Jesus into my heart through
the means of the Army Y. M. C. A.
As I have beejn a gambler for a year
or two and sold my shoes and shirts
for money to gamble, and most of
the time broke; and when the boys
would see me coming they would cay,
"Here comes the Gambler now."
The first day when I picked a
Bible up the boys laughed and hissed
for they said, "Another fool he is
and he will not keep it; he onlv
wants a job in the Y. M. C. A. And
I told them I shall keep it until I
see my mother's darling face in
Heaven, where we can sit and talk
together face to face. My mother
sang three songs before she passed
the worldly things aside and went
into Glory. One of the songs was
"Where Is My Wandering Boy To
night," and I, guess at that time he
was in a game, but from that time
on something seemed to say I must
quit it and live to meet my mother.
I used to go out of town and gamble
AGAINST GERMANY
Both the Mexican Senate and
Chamber of Deputies manifest the
purpose of committing the govern
ment to a declaration of benevolent
neutrality toward the United States
and its Allies. Before a decision is
reached they may even go further
and urge a complete break in the
relations of' Mexico with Germany.
The pending legislative measure,
of which the text in part has been
transmitted by the World correspond
ent in Mexico- City, is a terrillc in
dictment of the German autocracy.
It is an appeal to the heart and
conscience of the new Mexico not to
stand by in an attitude of indiffer
ence in the face of the "gigantic
tragedy that stirs all civilization."
German guile and German gold
have been called into play to keep
alive old animosities in certain quar
ters in Mexico against the United
States. German propagandists are
desperately active to-day in the hope
of defeating the move to enlist Mex
ico in sympathy on the side of the
Entente Allies. They are stupidly
forced to make it appear that the
United States is the enemy of the
Latin-American republics and plans
to reduce them to the position of
subject nations. It is not in that
belief that the leading powers of
South America have pronounced
judgment upon Germany in tills war,
and smaller republics of Central
America have anticipated Mexico.—
Xew York World.
OUR ACCOUNT
To whatever extent Germany may
belittle the military power of tlijc
United States, it musj soon recog
nize our resourcesas a custodian.'
We found many fine German ships
in our harbors and we have put them
In warpaint and will use them as
naval auxiliaries. On taking account
of stock, we also discover hundreds
ot millions of German property here,
of which we are to take possession.
Every ship once German will carry
troops and munitions to Europe and
every dollar that can be raised on
property or credits once German will
be put in Liberty bonds. In this we
exhibit almost Teutonic efficiency in
adapting means to ends.
We are not a military nation and
it will take us quite a while to land
5,000,000 men in Europe, but even
the most doubtful member of the
general staff in Berlin will appre
ciate the celerity with which we have
put to the best possible military em
ployment such German property as
was within our reach. If the U-boats
do not sink the ships they will be
faithfully returned, somewhat the
worse for wear, at the end of the
war, and If the fight ends as we
think it will, the other property, in
vested in the safest of all securities,
will be honestly carried on our books
to the credit of a nation against
which we already have a big debit
balance.
Thus .our military power, before
as well as after the decision at arms,
will have been materially reinforced
by our short-sighted friend the
enemy. —New York World.
WOULD BE SAFER
Having given the matter consider
ation for something like three years,
It's just possible that our enemies
now regret that they didn't keep on
preparing for another forty years.—
Marion Star.
OCTOBER 31, 1917.
with the boys ju&t so that my mother
did not find it out. Mother found it
out in the end, but I am going to
stick to our Lord Jesus and walk
those Golden street in Heaven and
from now on will be a soldier of
.lesus Christ our Mighty Teacher,
the One we can take wherever we
go. He is with us all the time. I
will close this, from a friend of
Christ. J. E. H.
Private in Co. G, 112 th U. S. Inf.,
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.
Telegraph Quoted Abroad
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I was reading the Havana Post
and came across an editorial that
was clipped from your paper. It
certainly made me feel good to see
something from your paper and I
felt that I had to write and tell you
about it. I am here in Havana,
Cuba. Have been sent by the Bald
win Locomotive Works to design and
install oil burning equipment on a
number of locomotives for the Cuba
Cane Sugar Company. They have
about 20 plantations all over the is
land. I will try to send you the pa
per that I spoke about. Sincerely
yours, EDWARD C. SILK.
DRAFT LAW UPHELD
Pending a hearing before the Su
preme Court, which has or will soon
have the question pf the constitution
ality of the Selective Draft Act be
fore it, courts In different parts of
the country continue to affirm it. A
New York case, carried to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, now
•results satisfactorily, Justice Henry
Wade Rogers reading the opinion in
which all his associates concur. It
appears that, in this instance, the
appellant of record is an Austrian
subject, and so would be entitled to
exemption. Nevertheless, he has
sought to have a draft board en
joined from certifying him for mili
tary service on the ground that the
law violates the Constitution.
The opinion reviews precedents
bearing on the matter—though they
are few they are effective—and de
clares that pertinent constitutional
clauses confer in "plain and distinct
terms" the authority which Congress
has used. It in pointed out that if
the petitioner is an alien, as he
claims to lie. he could and should
seek exemption in some other man
ner than by attacking tlio founda
tio" of the stntut**.
The favorable decision, of course,
was to have been expected. Up to
this lime the courts have invariably
sustained the law, without the slight
est reservation. —Providence Jour
nal. i
BEFORE THE GATE
They gave the whole long day to Idle
laughter.
To fitful song and jest,
To moods of soberness as idle, after,
And silences, as idle a.'s the rest.
But when at last upon their way
returning,
Taciturn, late and loth.
Through the broad meadow in the
sunset burning,
They reached the gate, one sweet
spell hindereth both.
Her heart was troubled with a subtle
anguish,
Such as but women know
That wait, and lest love speak or
speak not languish,
And what they would, would rath
er they would not so.
Till he said—man-like nothing com
prehending
Of all the wondrous guile
That women soon win themselves
with, and bending
Eyes of relentless asking on her
the while.
"Ah, if beyond this ga'te the path
united
Our steps as far as death,
And I might open it!" —his voice af
frighted
At his own daring, faltered under
his breath.
Then she—whom both his faith and
fear enchanted
Far beyond words to tell.
Feeding, her woman's wit and wanted
The art he had that knew to blun
der so well, —
Shyly drew near a little step, and
mocking
"Shall we not be too late
For tea'.'" she said. "I'm quite worn
out with walking.
Yes, thanks—your arm. And will
you open the gate?"
—William Dean Howells.
LABOR NOTES
Unskilled workers In some factor
ies in Kngland are earning from SSO
to S9O a week.
The cost of ' living in Winnipeg,
Canada, is from 20 to 30 per cent,
higher than it was a year ago.
A minister in the'Buchan district,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is earning
16 cents an hour as a peat caster
in a moss.
If the proposed fusion of the Brit
ish Trades Union Congress and the
British Co-Operattve Movement takes
place, the greatest combination of
workers in the world, involving 6,-
000,000 workers, will come into ex
istence.
The United States Government will
conscript labor to handle ships in
port if the dock strike on the At
lantic coast assumes serious propor
tions.
Two hundred farm laborers in the
Raphoe (Ireland) district went on
strike when their demand for 2 5
shillings a week was not acceded to.
Two million farmers will me
morialize President Wilson, asking
him to secure a more perfect opera
tion of the selective draft act, which
they claim is depriving them of nec
essary labor.
Officers and seamen of British
merchant ships who, by reason of
wounds or illness due to the war, are
compelled to give up-their employ
ment are to receive the silver war
badge.
At Vancouver a conference of la
bor organizations affiliated with the
British Columbia Federation of La
bor voted that power to call a gen
eral strike be placed in the hands
of the executive of the B. C. Federa
tion of Labor.
foOiT dailylaughl
DIDN'T FIG- jXSp ) 4" 'fa
UKE ON COST. Cpy'
Before we f \ \
were married Sx * /& V X
you used to say r~Sj\ / *) i4B
i should never
• now the cost fl
•)f living was —(f j J
kyscraping act. vNjF
is! ■
I I f , THE LAST
I WORD.
U|[y 1 Old Mrs. Gay
I lost part of her
camouflage
while dancing
Lost what.
| Her wig! ITer
wl s! of course.
No' DOUBT.
I see Mr. // TIA
Smith is out of \ i f \//
Jail,'how did he AVI Lo/
manage It? *
Oh, ho put up 11 — 4
Must have /TJ T \
been Liberty ft |\ I
,3onds. " |
fA RARE CASE.
You remem
ber Johnny
Jones, the bad
boy everybody
said would sure
ly come to a
Yes; what of
Nothing, ex
cept that in his
case for once
everybody wag
l&nttng fflljai
Less treating is being done at thi
bars of Harrisburg hotels and sa-<
loons and, If one may write it with
out breaking: confidences, in tha'
clubs of this city now than ever. It
is one result of the war prohibition.
Ihe amount of foodstuffs used foil
intoxicants, the economic loss re
sulting from continued used of stim
ulants and the effect upon producn
tlon, business and life of the abnor
mal indulgence which comes from
Joysome gatherings, added to tha
military and industrial policy against
liquor have caused many people who
used to "call 'em up" to buy for
themselves. It Is becoming increas
ingly noticeable in Harrisburg. IPhia
city being a transportation, commer
-0 1.. ® overnmen ta.l and more or lesa
military center has been noted for
conviviality for many years. Ijiko
Washington, which becomes "dry'*
to-night at midnight, Harrisburg has
been a capital a long time and has
its festive landmarks. There are
many places where hilarity has
reigned amid music and song and
libations poured from tin mugs and
champagne glasses and which are re
called by people all over Pennsylva
nia. Indeed, it Is often the Harris
burger at a national convention
some place where he runs Into peo
ple from around the state hears
about the Jovial time that marked
the last visit to the capital of tha
Commonwealth. It is nice to hail
from a city of cheer, but when the
recollection is of bibulous times like
everything with which liquor is con
nected it has a "kick." Hence, if
what the white-aproned men behind
the bars, very few of whom ever take
a drink themselves, have observed In
regard to treating it is the beginning
of a realiza' ion of what every stu
dent of Aro'Slcan life, even in indus
trial Pennsylvania, well knows,* that
it is only a question of time until
alcohol will be medicinal or mechani
cal in its use. It was not so many
years ago that the man at the lunch
counter who did not drink had to
fight with the waiter because ho
refused to partake of liquor when
some one was burning money and
wanted to buy drinks for the whola
house and the man who declined to
accept a Jovial hail to "hit one" wa-s
counted "a quitter." Wholesale
treating is now a rarity and the man
"who drinks alone," anything but
popular not so long ago, is more or
less the rule even among wassailing
groups.
Similarly, it may be said, upon
the authority of a couple of former
bartenders, who have been watching
the trend of things in their former
business, that there is a marked
change in-the treatment accorded
people who go into saloons to sell
tracts or even to talk temperance.
These two former bar experts, one
of whom won a great reputation in
his day for "tossing" the fancy mix
tures which still have the call in
some places and whose skill with the
gin fizz would be recalled with feel
ing by many Harrisburgers if his
name were mentioned, both agree
that there is less treating. They say
that the man who "buys his own" is
no longer an object of sneers and epi
thets. If there is such a thing a.-; a
moral atmosphere about a place
where drinks are sold, it has advanc
ed of very recent years, according
to these men. One man recalled how
Salvation Army lassies used to be in
sulted when they went into beer sa
loons to sell "the War Cry" and how
a man who formerly ran a gin mill
in the central part of this city woke
up after ho had hustled "a temper
ance talker" into the street when ho
endeavored to "disturb trade" in liis
bar. Now the "army worker" can
sell to her heart's content and dis
tribution of prohibition tracts and
cards beside steins is no longer a
signal for the bouncer. The whole
point of these observations is (hat
rum Is on the sliding board in Har
rlsburg and the fact that beverages
low in alcoholic content are being
pushed and that some of the alert
wholesalers carry big stocks qf lin
ger ale an.d the like and even grapo
juice as well as more mineral wa
ters than ever before shows it.
J. Herman Knisely, Chief of the
Bureau of Municipalities in the De
partment of Labor and Industry, is
home from St- Louis where ho at
i tended the convention of the Amori
'can Civic Association. Mr. Knisely
was the solo representative of his
kind at the important gathering. No
other state in the Union has recog
nized the importance ot the munici
pality as a factor in the Common
wealth. Pennsylvania alone, of all
the Union, stands out as the one
state in which town planning has
reached the dignity of a state institu
tion. Not only that, but Pennsyl
vania alone has a town planning en
gineer who ia at the disposal of
towns and cities who desire to plan
intelligently for their future or to
oytline public improvements.
"The representatives of Texas at
the convention were so well pleased
with what we are doing in Pennsyl
vania," said Mr. Knisely, "that they
procured from mo copies of our
laws, an outline of our working
plans and started back home to be
gin a rainpaign tor such a bureau in
Texas."
Mr. Knisfcly met at the convention
many of the leaders of civic thought
in America and said that it is the
consensus of opinion registered there
that one of the important duties of
those in authority is to see to it that
the spirit of municipal development
is not allowed to be eclipsed entirely
by war activities.
By the time Weather Observer De
main adds up the various brands of
weather that have come upon Har
risburg in October he will have a
list that will be remarkable indeed.
Thunderstorms in the last half dozen
days of the month, some on the same
day as snow squalls. Rains and
sunshine of intensity within an hour.
White frosts and high temperature
on the same morning are only a few
of the varieties.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—David Barry, who was chairman
of the Liberty Loan committee in
Cambria estimates that 15,000 in
dividuals in that county took bonds.
—Thomas F. Hodges. editor of tha
Pennsylvania Elk, will deliver tha
address at Meadville on Memorial
Day.
—Dr. A. R. Wentz, of Gettysbuog,
In an address at Pittsburgh, said that
there was danger of religion get
ting more into the social uplift class
—John V. Cullincy, formerly con
nected with Iron and steol mills al
Reading and Lebanon, has gone ta
Cleveland to become connected witD
—Noah Swayne, 2d. who will b
representative of soft coal
comes of a family long prominent In
iron business up the state
(
DO YOU KNOW
Hint Harrlsburs silk is being
used fop Army purposes?
HISTORIC HARRISBXJRG
Two of the early public librariel
were in Market Square.