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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ft, 1917
Absorption in trifles, attention
nly to the meaner aspects of life, is
illinff more faith than is killed by
ggressive unbelief. — GEORGE ADAM
mith.
rill-: KREISLER CANCELLATION
rvKOMPT cancellation of the
Fritz KreiS<ler concert when it
became known that Kreisler is
in officer in the Austrian army will '
>e approved by patriotic Harrisburg
teople, who feel that they should j
■efrain from patronizing one whoj
las taken ijp arms - against their j
lilies, and may do so again. Art
nay be above international dissen- !
ion, and il should be generally so
egarded, but there is a difference
letween art and artists. Kreisler is
'ro-Teuton. His sympathies na- j
urally lie with his former comrades j
n arms, lie is in America only be- ;
a use there are dollars to be gar
lered here. It is not his fault that j
ic is not in the United States lie- j
lind a German general, for that is J
he direction in which he was headed
Fhen he was in the Teutonic armies, j
But in approving the cancellation '
lo harsh criticism should be offered !
he Keystone Concert Company for!
jerking him. This organization has
>rought many world-famous musi-1
sal artists to this city and when i
t signed up Kreisler the 'country
as not at war and the management |
lid not know Kreisler was an Aus- !
rian officer. It has called off the!
:oncert at a cost of hundreds of,
loilars. It is to be commended for !
■edifying promptly the error into!
rhlch it had unwittingly stumbled. !
THE NEW ASYLUM HEAD
rHE board of trustees of the State)
Lunatic Asylum in Harrisburg:
lias done well in choosing o
nan of countrywide fame to succeed I
)r. H. L. Orth as superintendent'
f that institution. Dr. E. M. Green'
omes with the highest recommenda
ions of leaders of the medical pro
ession.
Dr. Green must be a man of more
han ordinary ability if he is to till
ropcrly the shoes of the men who
iave been superintendents of the lo
al hospital for the insane. Dr. Orth's
ervice of of twenty-seven years has
>een marked by wonderful improve
aents and developments. The plant
as been almost reconstructed and
reatly enlarged under his adminis
ration. The old white dome and the
ntiquated administration building it
heltered are gone and in their place
tands a group of buildings of the
lost modern construction.
To be sure, the trustees have had
heir part in these changes, but it
as been the superintendent who has
tood as the directing and inspiring
orce. This big institution on the out
kirts of the city is managed so
uietly and efficiently that the peo
le scarcely realize't is there. Never
heless, the city is jealous of its good
ame and it is pleased that the re-
Iring executive, who leaves active
luty as the ruling factor in more
han 3,000 lives for a well-earned
est, is to be followed by a man well
ualifled to take up the work where
le lays its down and to continue it
n the same high plane.
FOR THE SAKE OF THESE
DURING the early (lays of the ti
tanic world-struggle, conditions
that were unspeakable existed
1 tho prison caii ps of Europe. In
lany instances thousands of men
rere herded like cattle into a space
apable of accommodating decently a
ew hundred at the best. The men
rere poorly clothed and badly fed.
"ew opportunities for the practice of
lersonal cleanliness were afforded,
md English-speaking: prisoners who
rere fortunate enough to secure a
ook published In a language they
ould understand would separate the
olume into parts and pass the sec
lons or pages around the camp In
rder that everyone might have an
opportunity to "kill" a few of the
lever-ending hours of hopeless walt-
g.
With the organization of the "Prls
lers of War Work" department of
ie Young Men's Christtan Assocla
i>n, all this was changed. Prisoners
! every tongue will* owe a lasting
ibt of gratitude to the unselfish la-
FRIDAY EVENING,
bors of this great Christian organ
ization. In describing conditions ex
isting in a German camp which con
tained thousands of Englishmen, Dr.
• T olin R. Mott tells what happened
when a consignment of books was
received late one afternoon:
"Every book was taken within a
few moments. Everything else was
forgotten. Men gathered in little
companies, a member of each knot
reading aloud to those who did not
secure books.
"When it was quite dark, we quiet
ly made our way to a low narrow
loft under the eaves. Here, in a cor
ner, one hundred and fifty men lis
tened with rapt attention, while the
reader, with his volume close by a
mean flickering lamp with one wick,
unfolded the mysteries of the printed
page." ,
When the prisoners draw books,
concluded Dr. Mott, the procession
resembles a bread line in time of
famine.
When you give to the War Work
Council fund, to be raised in this
country next week, you will give to
relieve such conditions as this.
WATCH ALTOONA
TT EEP your eyes on Altoona.
They are about to try the ex
periment there of applying the
city manager plan to the adminis
tration of municipal government un
der the Clark act, and Harrisburg is
mightily interested.
No city in the State has been so
beset by religious bigotry and class
antagonism as has Altoona in the
past ten years. The new Chamber of
Commerce inherited, rather unjustly,
we imagine, the antagonisms of the
old merchants' associations which
the shopmen accused of interfering
with their railroad pass privileges,
and the result has been a political
jumble in local politics that brought
all good thinking people of the town
to the point of despair of ever pro
curing efficiency in city offices. At
least that is what one gathers of the
situation from a distance.
Last summer a few of the leaders
of the discordant factions got their
heads together, with the result that
there was nominated a ticket for
city council which anybody could
support wholeheartedly, with perfect
assurance of fair, play and honest
government, and these four candi
dates for council one and all pledged
$2,000 a year each of their salaries
for the employment of a high-class
businessman to be city manager,
they to hire him for two years and
he to be subordinate only to their au
thority. They were all elected by de
cisive votes. The agreement is that
they shall go about performing their
usual duties and devoting, no more
time to the city than would be re
quired of directors on the board of a
Ic.rge corporation which employed a
manager to do the active work of
operating the enterprise. Thus, while
placing the city on a business basis,
they yield nothing of the authority
vested in them or the responsibility
required of them by the Clark act.
Harrisburg will watch with keen
interest the development of this plan
in Altoona. If It works well perhaps
it may be possible to inaugurate a
similar scheme of government here.
Altoona is to be congratulated upon
having the courage of her convictions
and the hardihood to try the experi
ment.
DIG OUT THE SPIES
AN Italian diplomat declares
bluntly that treachery in the
ranks of his army, treachery in
duced by German money, was re
sponsible for a large share in von
Mackensen's drive upon the Isonzo.
There Is no doubt that the German
spy system penetrates everywhere.
Well informed people at Washington
believe that the executive depart
ments and every branch of our serv
ice are infested with German agents.
If there is any substantial basis for
this belief, it is the duty of the secret
service to be getting busy in antici
pation of furnishing employment for
a few firing squads.
AN UNENVIED DISTINCTION
BRAZIL'S declaration of war
against Germany was made by
unanimous vote of the Senate
and by a vote of 149 to 1 In the
Chamber of Deputies. The one man
who made up the minority was
doubtless for a day or two the most
talked of man in the Republic of
Brazil; but his fame will hardly be
alluring.
Up in New England there was a
man who was known to the end of
his days as "the man who had the
fight with the minister." When the
whole story was told, it developed
that the minister walloped him good
and plenty—but his title remained.
By the Ex-Committeeman
T>oezuc
'pe.KKOtjfcccutZa
While it will take a week to ana- i
lyze the results of Tuesday's elec
tion because of the soldier vote and
the close contests in almost every
place where a mayor was to be elect
ed on a nonpartisan ticket and there
were two candidates, the figures in
hand indicate pretty plainly that
most of the Democratic bosses were
given jolts from which they will
not recover. Except in Philadelphia
where the Democratic organization is
dominated by the Old Guard and
where it joined forces with the re
formers and Penrose Republicans in
locking the Town Meeting ticket, the
chiefs of the Democratic machine
seem to have been trimmed.
In Pittsburgh Acting State Chair
man Joe Guffey espoused the cause
of William A. Magee for mayor and
Magee was defeated; in Scranton the
Democratic organization made a
game fight, but went down; in Har
risburg the Democracy was not a
factor; in Lehigh county the Re
publicans captured county offices and
in that other Democratic citadel of
Berks they won scattering offices,
making breaches in places where
Democrats have held place for years.
In Schuylkill. Delaware, Carbon and
Lancaster counties, the homes of
men who hold Federal jobs of prom
inence, the Republicans got most of
the things they went after and Demo
crats were deposed from places long
possessed. The Democratic county
and city organizations seemed to
be wandering around hunting a place
to go in most parts of the state.
—Things are growing strenuous in
the Philadelphia contest and Sena
tor Penrose's remarks here yesterday
that the fight has only begun may
have much meaning soon. The In
quirer to-day says; "A gigantic jug
glery of the ballots cast at the elec
tion on Tuesday with a city-wide con
spiracy to block the will of the in
dependent voters in favor of the
Vare-Smith combine has been un
covered. When the evidence which
is being gathered in every ward
shall be submitted to the court and
a recount shall be ordered Town
Meeting party leaders predict the en
tire Town Meeting party city ticket
will be declared elected. Unquestion
ed proof that thousands of ballots
were not counted upon the score that
they were improperly marked, it
is declared, will be presented upon
oath of reliable citizens."
—The Philadelphia Ledger says
pre-emution ofc the Town Meeting
name for the state election is "taken
by politicians to mean that a state
wide battle between the Penrose-
MeNichol-independent forces and the
Vares will surely develop next year
over the nomination and election of
a governor to succeed Governor
Brumbaugh. Necessarily it was be
lieved the Penrose and independent
leaders will pay no attention to any I
harmony understanding, more or j
less, reached in the past as to the'
Republican nomination for gover- 1
nor, just as the "fifty-fifty" ticket
agreed upon at the mayor's shore
conferences was ignored in the pres
ent municipal campaign. And, by the
way, looking forward the year fol
lowing, when the Philadelphia ma
yoralty will come up for considera
tion, it was likewise agreed that there
also a factional fight would break
cut. Vare leaders looked yesterday
upon W. Freeland Kendrick, re
ceiver of taxes, as a logical candi
date of the Vares for the mayoralty,
because of the fact that he ran ahead
of the rest of the Vare-Smith ticket."
—A typical case wherein the sol
dier vote turns things upside down is
furnished by Lebanon. A dispatch
says: "George F. Krause, superin
tendent of the Department of City
Highways, won his fight for re-elec
tion for a third term in Council, the
soldier vote received from Camp
Hancock and Camp Meade determin
ing the result in his favor after he
was seemingly defeated on the face
of the local returns. The soldier
vote elects Krause by a majority of
thirty-two over C. J. Baiy and keeps
intact the present makeup of Council,
J. Herbert Manbeck, James E. Fish
er and C. Dorsey Mish having been
re-elected by good margins. It is
not thought that the official compu
tation of the soldier vote November
23 will change the result. The same
soldier vote apparently wrests from
John H. Hurst, Republican, the $!,-
400-a-year job of tax collector in
North Lebanon township. The vote
here gave Hurst a majority of two
over E. E. Rohland, his Democratic
opponent, but Rohland received three
votes at Camp Meade, while Hurst
failed to Improve his showing. Here,
too, the official computation of the
soldier vote will decide the out
come."
—The Philadelphia newspapers
Rive much prominence to charges by
Robert S. Bright, Philadelphia Dem
ocratic lawyer, that commissioners
to take soldier votes electioneered at
camps. Similar charges have been
made on a number of occasions. W.
\V. Roper, of Philadelphia, has made
out an affidavit charging the com
missioners appointed by Governor
Brumbaugh to take the Camp Han
cock figures with illegal activity in*
taking the vote. Mr. Roper said that
of 2,000 votes cast in Camp Han
cock the Town Meeting party had a
majority of from 300 to 500. "The
commissioners with the exception of
General Coryell and General Good
and possibly one other were extreme
partisans of the Republican organ
ization ticket and did everything pos
sible to elect their candidates. Their
actions were so partial that many
officers and enlisted men commented
on and protested against their con
duct," said he.
—Under conditions unprecedented
in the history of Scrantoiv politics.
Miss Mary K. Fay and Mrs. Walter
L. Hill have been elected members
of the Scranton school board, both
by safe pluralities. In a field of six
candidates. Miss Fay led all with a
total of 9.317. and Mrs. Hill was
third, with 9,2 25. George B. Carson,
president of the board, is re-elected
by a vote of 9,273. Virgil Crisman,
John T. Davis and P. M. Messett
were the losing candidates. The elec
tion of Miss Fay and sirs. Hill is re
garded as remarkable in the light
of the handicaps they faced. Run
ning as nonpartisan candidates on. a
partisan ticket, the Democratic, their
election required a general cutting
of the Republican ticket.
AMERICA HAS WAR GAS
In all this remarkable develop
ment of our chemical industries since
the war it has been necessary to
overcome numerous obstacles. In
sidious diseases may develop from
handling chemicals. Intensive study
of occupational diseases in the chem
ical trades has resulted in discover
ing some sad instances, but numer
ous life-saving devices have been
worked out to the welfare of em.
ploye and employer.
The information gained has been
of value in solving the problems, of
fensive and defensive, in connection
with the iniquitous gas warfare in
augurated by the Germans. We must
wait until the end of the war before
makinr public, what has been done
in this direction, but it will not be
long before the results will speak,
and in no small voice.—Charles
Baskerville in the American Review
of Reviews.
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Republican Congressmen complain
that if they praise tbe Government
they are thought to l>e praising the
Democrats and If they criticize it
they are called pro-German.—Chi
cago Daily News.
Aside from the patriotic side of
the case, where could a man secure
a better business proposition than
getting paid 4 per cent Interest an
nually for utilizing his money to pro
tect himself.—Marion Star.
Germany has not won a solitary
victory on land when met man for
man and gun for gun since "this war
began, and anybody not a mental de
fective knows by this time she never
will.—New York Telegraph.
Nicholas Romanoff, in his pleas
ant, steam-heated Tobolsk flat, looks
out over that comparatively peace
able town.and murmurs, "Poor Ker
ensky!"—Chicago Daily News.
GARFIELD A MISFIT
The government's fuel administra
tion has been badly bungled. In the
summer when people normally put in
coal for the next winter the govern
ment advised them not to stock up
because prices would be lower. Now
winter finds them without coal and
unable to get it.
Early in September Doctor Gar
field, fuel administrator, gave out a
statement which was published in
The Star, in which he N said:
"Don't stock up on the fresent
high priced coal more than you ac
tually need • • the upward
trend in prices that always comes
with war and which has been in pro
gress and still is in progress in this
country in coal up until the present
time will be stopped. I will be tre
mendously disappointed if the meas
ures we put into effect October 1 do
not bring a positive reduction from
present prices of coal in practically
every American city."
The immediate and direct effect of
this was to cause people in Kansas
City and elsewhere to put oft buying
their coal in the expectation of get
ting a better price. Dr. Garfield re
enforced his statement by his an
nouncement on September 30 that
the government had taken complete
control of the fuel situation "limiting
the profits of retail coal and coke
dealers throughout the country to a
basis that is expected to bring about
a reduction in prices to the consum
er." "The consumer in every com
munity," the statement continued,
"should be able to get coal of any de
scription at approximately the price
he paid in 1915."
People took the fuel administra
tor's advice, with the consequence of
being out of coal and unable to set
any now that cold weather has come.
The outcome has made it evident
that Doctor Garfield was lacking in
information and in judgment. lie
undertook to advise the people of the
I'nited States and now they are suf
fering for following his advice. He
has been an excellent college presi
dent. But he has proved himself a
misfit as a fuel administrator.
This is not his fault. The fault was
in selecting him for a position for
which he was not qualified. For fuel
administrator there was need of a
man of wide business experience and
great executive capacity. The presi
dent of Williams College did not hap
pen to have those qualifications.
Under the circumstances there
should be no hesitation in asking him
to give way to a man adapted to the
job.—Kansas City Times.
SHOOT AND SHOUT
Theodore Roosevelt has long been I
Vnown as an apt phrasemaker— I
"speak softly, but carry a big stick,"
"malefactors of great wealth," "race
suicide," and many others come to
mind as his contribution to the ver- j
natular strength of what we may'
perhaps be permitted to call the
American language. At a recent
meeting in New York he coined an
other epigrammatic sentence which
should be added to the list. A great
audience gathered in Madison Square
Garden at a public meeting under
the auspices or the mayor's commit
tee on national defense. The crowd
shouted its approval of the patriotic
speeches to which it listened. The
speech of a captain in the Australian
army who has been wounded twenty
times in the war was received with
especial enthusiasm. When Mr.
Roosevelt's turn came he referred to
this Australian soldier's speech as
the best address of the evening, and
said to the audience that they did
well to applaud him, but added: "I
want to see you shoot the way you
6hout."
The country must realize this
more fully than perhaps It does now
if the United States and its Allies
are to be victorious in the war.
"Shoot the way you shout" is a =rood
motto for these war times. —From
the Outlook.
Y. M. C. A. WAR WORK
ILewistown Gazette!
It is the nearest thing possible to
the home and actually becomes such
to the boy who has been called to
defend his country and were it lack
ing he would be largely without com
fort and a place for recreation when
not on duty. But for this institution
many would be deprived of even a
place to write a letter or opportunity
to read a paper and the people at
home whether they have a boy in
the service or not may well pon-ler
the result were not such a place pro
vided for our soldiers. It not only
looks after the boys In a material way
but many are being converted
through its efforts at the front, where
the heart, if guided in the right chan
nel is susceptible to better influence,
whert if left to seek unquestionable
recreation there would be shipwreck
of both character and life.
The sum allotted to county
is ten thousand dollars. This is one
of the sections of our land which
has prospered largely through the
present war prosperity. Already
over three hundred of our young men
are In the service and surely our
people will not consider it too much
to provide about thirty cents per
capita of our population for their
comfort and the possible salvation
of their souls. We ought to provide
double the sum asked of us and we
will be disappointed if "'e do not
speedily secure at least the amount
that is asked.
TRUE DOCTRINE PURITY
Perverse dlsputings of men of cor
rupt minds, and destitute of the
truth, supposing that gain is godli
ness; from such withdraw thyself.
But godliness with contentment is
great gain. For wo brought noth
ing into this world, and it is cer
tain we can carry nothing out.—l
Timothy VI, 5-7.
SOME SPRINTER
It Is a happy husband whose earn
intr rapaeitv can keep Dace with his
wife's yearning' capacity.—From the
Birmingham Age-Herald.
VIGOROUS BUTTER
The only butter obtainable! in Ber
lin is canned, and it Is one of the
few German institutions that is still
very strong.—From the St. Louis
Star.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND
\I ALWAYS LIKET) HIS PAPA WANTS
\ OR To CALL HIM OILL
I VKINJF / ORJIF S/ >~'BUT THOSE
\ " J ARE SUCH ROUGH
~ NAMES- I THIN*
V ' PeRCIV/AL SEPTUS
, AFTER HIS GREAT
1 * UNJCL E IS SUCH A
I THINK CLIFFORD I NOBLE SOUNDI^J
OR CLARFWCE _J <RF\\ RV/AME J
THE PEOPLE'S
MR. HAND'S COURSE
1 o the Ei/.tqr of the Telegraph:
I regretted to see the name of
Fred C. Hand mentioned yesterday
in connection with the Fritz Kreisler
concert and rejoiced that Mr. Hand
had taken time by the forelock and
had canceled the Kreisler engage
ment. Mr. Hand has brought many
world famous artists to this city and
1 know he is a man of patriotic prin
ciples as well as of artistic tastes.
The Keystone Concert Course it was
which brought Madame Schumann-
Heink to this city and introduced her
to the people at the big patriotic
meeting which she addressed. Mr.
Hand's course in Harrisburg has al
ways been one of good faith with the
public.
MUSIC LOVER.
PRAYER FOR OI K NATION'
To the Ui'itor of the Telegraph:
On October 21 the New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company held its
annual meeting. At its opening Di
rector Harry Leigh raised the point
of order that all large bodies hold
ing meetings customarily open with
prayer, adding: "I believe that the
New Haven and Hartford road meet
ings need to be opened with prayer."
President Pearson replied, "We will
follow the order of business." In
spite of persistent urging on the part
of Mr. Leigh that "this is a time
when the company needs the assist
ance of Almighty God," and his sug
gestion that President Hadley, who
had just come in, would offer grayer.
President Pearson again said, "Pray
er is not on the order of business,"
and then proceeded to read the state
ment of the physical and financial
needs of the road.
There is significance ii\ this action.
Our Supreme Court has asserted that
this is a Christian nation. Has God
in Christ Jesus anything to do with
us as a people? Does he concern
Himself with our business affairs as
individuals, as business concerns, as
a nation'.' If He does, then prayer
ought to be on "the order of busi
ness" all along the line; and will He
not look upon this action 'of Presi
dent Pearson as defiance of Him
self?
In this clay of world-wide war, |
when only a very smaff fraction of
the earth is not occupied by nations'
that have declared war, and when no
part of the earth is exempt from the!
horrors of war, the nations are turn- 1
ing in prayer to the God of nations.!
In those nations feeling most heavily;
the horrors of actual warfare, wei
learn that the tide of the populace
has turned to His house as not be
fore for many years. This represents
the innate longing of the human
heart in time of stress for the deliv
erance which it realizes that only
an Almighty Hand can bring. It Is
a repetition of the turning of Israel to;
God for deliverance when He was
chastising them through their ene
mies.
On October 4 the House concur
ring with the Senate of the United
States passed a resolution asking Ihe
President to issue a proclamation |
for a day of prayer for victory for
American arms. This resolution did
not in any way recognize the sins of
our nation nor call for humiliation,
confession, and repentance toward
God on the part of the people, r.s a
necessary antecedent to acceptable
approach to God. T_<ong ago the
Psalmist wrote, "If I regard iniquity
in my part, the I,ord will not hear
me." Speaking to the Jewish nation,
Isaiah said. "The Lord's hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neith
er His ear heavy, that it cannot
hear: but your iniquities have sepa
rated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid His face from
you, that He will not hear." Since
God is the unchangeable God these
are solemn words.
For more than fifty years our na
tion has been in wicked partnership
with the iniquitous liquor traffic, con
senting to it and protecting It in its
onslaught upon the body politic. We
have trampled upon God's holy day,
our Congress using its hours for leg
islation and then validating this leg
islation by the fiction of a "Saturday
legislative Pay." Our government
has carried its mails on the Sabbnt'n,
compelling its employes to serve dur
inc Its sacred hours. And in this
time of trials lie has compelled "our
boys" to entrain oftentimes and start
on their journeys to the training
camps on that day, when another day
would have done just as well. In
many ways we live as if there were
no God.
We have now entered upon "a
righteour war" while we ourselves
have not yet sought to "get right |
with God." Our President has given
utterance to lofty sentiments,in great
state papers that will live through |
the years. In compliance with ha j
Senate's request he issued the call
for "concerted prayer to' Almighty
God for His devine aid in the succes.i
of our arms." The churches all over
our land observed the day and earn
est supplication went up to God. But,
oh, why can we not learn, as a na
tion, that the heavens above As must'
be brass if we do not remove from J
between us and our God the things
which will hide His face from us and I
hinder His hearing our prayer? In
many cases the prayers offered con
tained confession, but the nation
through its rirfers must confess for
the nation, and why did this call not
embrace a call for humiliation and
confession according to God's ap
pointed way? Why did it not openly
confess that God must bo approach
ed through Christ to Whom He has
given all power? Is religion after nil
only a sentimental thing? and is the
call to prayer only a concession to a
religious superstition more or less
widely prevalent? We do not for a
moment make such a charge, but we
do feel that a grave error has been
made by failure to call for humilia
tion and confession as well as prayer
for success for our arms.
It was not so with the Senate of]
18G3. The resolution offered by Sen
ator Harlan, of lowa, in that time
of stress, and unanimously adopted
reads:
"Resolved, That devoutly recog
| nizing the supreme authority and
just government of Almighty God in
the affairs of men and nations, and
! sincerely tielieving that no people,
} however great in numbers and re
sources or however strong in the
justice of their cause, can prosper
without His favor, and at the same
time deploring the national offenses
which provoked His righteous judg
ment. yet encouraged, in this day of
trouble, by the assurance of His
word to seek Him for succor accord
ing to His appointed way. through
i Jesus Christ, the Senate of the United
| States do hereby request the Presi
; dent of the United States by his
I proclamation to designate and set
I apart a day for national prayer and
I humiliation, requesting all the peo
• pie of the land to suspend their secu
' lar pursuits and unite In keeping the
day in solemn communion with the
Lord of Hosts, supplicating Him to
enlighten the counsels and direct the
policies of the rulers of the nations
and to support the soldiers, sailors,
and marines and whole people in the
I firm discharge of duty, until the ex
isting rebellion shall be overthrown
and the blessing of peace be restored
to our bleeding fcountry."
Have we, as a nation, not entered
too boastfully upon this war? and
are we not relying too much upon
our own strength and resources? God
heard this cry of the '6os. May He
grant that we may not wait so long
I at this time before we shall "be obe
j dlent to the divine teachings" con
! cerning the way of access to the
Throne.
B. E. P. PRUGH,
Harrisburg, Pa.,
Nov. 5, 1917.
ANOTHER HITCH
What if the Italian defeat proves a
complete disaster? What if the worst
should happen and Italy should be
put out of the war?
Well, then It would be up to us to
take another hitch In our belt and go
to it harder than ever. For Britain,
France and the United States can
win this war—and will win it, if need
be—without help from any other na
tion —-Kansas City Times,
BEGIN RIGHT—SMILE
. If you are a fellow-worker It is
your human duty to begin the day
with a smile. If you are an em
ployer it is ten times mftre your duty
to smile —In your own interest as
well as in the Interest of those whom
you employ. Begin the day right.
Smile. —Buffalo News.
ttCrVT-MBKR 9, T9T7. '
LABOR NOTES
The Brotherhood of Carpenters has
255.675 members.
County councils in the Midlands
and West of Ireland released their
employes to help save the harvest.
Women employed in restaurants in
Nexv York are not allowed by law to
work more than fifty-four hours a
week.
Russian radicals demand complete
and supreme responsibility of em
ployers for any violation of the law
governing labor.
As the result of the shortage of
boys the United States Government
at Washington Is now employing
messenger girls.
The secretary of the Irish Railway
Clerks' Association has applied to the
Board of Trade for a further advance
on the war bonus.
It is estimated that 20.000 women
have been employed in the Wall
Street district of New York since the
beginning of the war.
New Haven (Conn.) Corset Workers
Union is conducting a vigorous or
ganizing campaign among women
employed in this industry.
About sixty men of the electrical
department of the Belfast, Ireland,
tramway went on strike over the
question of rates of pay.
Striking telegraphers employed by
the Great Northwestern Telegraph
Company have forced this concern to
accept an arbitration award rendered
under the Canadian industrial dis
putes investigation act.
The Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators has increased a member
ship of 85.221 on August 1, last year,
to 93.320 on August i.vthis year.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
CREDIT.
"It's fine to have credit."
"Yes, but it's better never to have
to ask for it."
TRUE.
"I believe charity should begin at
home."
"Yes, and I believe that's the
weakest excuse ever thought of for
not giving."
()NE MORE SCALP
*
He —I've a motion to propose to
rou.
She—Please do. I'm trying for
l record.
fcirratng (ttlfal
Elk appear to have become aa
much of a nuisance in some parts
of Pennsylvania as deer are to the
farmers of the southern counties and
the bear to the people of the northern
tier according to reports which have
been coming here from central
counties. The State Game Com
mission has dispatched wardens to
Blair county to investigate damage
done to fields and reports that as
high as thirty elk are in one h"d.
Report of damage done to fields and
orchards in Snyder, Center and Hunt
ingdon counties have also been re
ceived, while there have been stor
ies brought here of orchards in
southern counties wrecked by deer
rubbing their horns against young
trees. These reports are being In
vestigated by the state authorities.
The increase of elk has been rather
a surprise to sportsmen and the re
ports on file show that the animals
have traveled long distances in the
mountain counties. The deer have
multiplied rapidly since the killing
of does and young deer without horns
has been forbidden, but it was not
thought that elk would become so
plentiful as reports indicate. They
have been traveling in herds and in
summer have been seen in the north
ern tier, while in the winter they
have been clear down to Mason and
Dixon's line. They have become
fairly common in the upper Susque
hanna valley. It is believed that
there are over 300 in the state at
present.
The most elaborate plana ever
made by the State Forestry depart
ment to prevent spread of forest
fires have been worked out by the
fire service bureau and telephones
and wigwag signals will be employ
ed to give notice of blazes which
may occur in the woods. In addi
tion to companies owning large tracts
of forest land the state is now co
operating witli an organization of
the anthracite coal companies in
Schuylkill, Carbon and other coun
ties which have extensive woodland
properties. The plans call for mob
ilization of forces to light fires on
a system of alarms.
Operation of the draft law in Penn
sylvania has resulted in so many
letters in which the writers threat
en to do all kinds of things that a
special file has been established at
the state draft headquarters to keep
such communications for study. Thus
far only wrath and no deep seated
intention to grow destructive lias
been discovered. Most of the let
ters are regarded as more in na
ture of desire to Hpeak minds plainly.
Some of them are frankly profane
and others threaten to take the
national government into the courts.
The draft officers come in for a pret
ty large share of the blame. Many
of the letters are pitiful and as far
as possible where cases of actual
distress are indicated the situation
has been brought to the attention
of the local boards. Thus far com
paratively few. cases have been re
opened and then only where it has
been shown that dependency was a
serious matter.
Payment of state corporation cap
ital stock and loan taxes is com
mencing to show the approach of the
close of the fiscal year of the com
monwealth and there is a big in
crease in the number of checks
reaching the Capitol. The checks
range all the way from $5 or $lO
up to SIOO,OOO. Generally the lasl
two weeks in November the state
revenue jumps into the millions and
there are signs that it is going to
be something impress again.
With the departure of the Signal
corps contingent to-night Harrisburg
will have sent men to practically
every branch of the United States
military service. It is already rep
resented in tlie 'navy and marine
corps quite extensively and It has
men in the cavalry, infantry, artil
lery, the medical , quartermasters
ordnance, signal, aviation, engineers,
railway, forestry gas and flame, elec
trical and every other branch. The
number of Dauphin county men is
shown by the places wl|pre they
turned up to vote" on Tuesday
throughout the country's camps.
The closeness of the contest for
the mayoralty recalls some days
when there were fights which hinged
on & score of votes, but no one seems
to remember when the chief magis
tracy of the city hung in the balance
so long as it has this year. Of course,
the country has never been up
against the same situation in regard
to the voting of its men as at pres
ent and llarrisburg suffers along
with the rest in uncertainty. Yes
terday afternoon a man long familial
with elections here remarked us he
looked out over the cleared part ol
the Eighth ward so soon to be a
park: "Well, maybe the uncertainty
would not have been so prolonged
If the houses wero still standing ovei
there."
• * •
Senator Boies Penrose, who Was
here yesterday on his way to Penn's
Creek to be guest of Judge Witmei
on a hunting trip, sajifi that he will
hardly get a chance to go west tc
hunt in the RocKies, but that he has
found Pennsylvania to be a prett.v
good hunting state. The Senator is
anxious to get a bear.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—H. E. Bodine, manager of the
Altoona Chamber of Commerce, who
formerly lived here, was one of the
prime movers for the city managei
campaign in that city.
—Judge H. C. Qulgley. of Belle
fonte, Is enjoying his annual hunt
ing trip.
—John H. Dailey, re-elected te
Pittsburgh Council, is a formel
newspaper editor.
—Stephen Sousley, elected Bur
gess of Hamburg, is the first Repub.
lican to hold that office in the Berki
county town in many years.
—W. H. Tomlmve. State College
professor, is conducting a series ol
addresses to tell farmers how to
butcher cattle properly.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrlsburg's eliancefl
of becoming a cattle distribut
ing center arc not ptoperly
realized?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
One hundred years ago they used
to celebrate elections by publli
dinners at which each man paid liii
own plate charge