8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded ISJI • Published evenings excipt Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. "E. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager. CVS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. • - Member American Newspaper Pub j*. lishers" Assocla-\ tion, the Audit Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn 'HS |M|i| sylvania Associ -161 Si*9M' ated Dallies. ififl BBS e! Finley. r °°F?ftta jsi 51S§ am Avenue Building, .office, Chicago, HI. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mail. $5.00 lv a year in advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917 Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. — SHAKESPEARE. I THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH PRESIDENT WILSON'S address before the American Federa tion of Labor convention yes. terday teemed with wise sugges tion and common sense. His plea to labor to stand by the government was made on the ground that this is labor's own war. a propostion so 6elf-apparent that little demonstra tion should be necessary. . It must be self-evident that there can be no freedom of labor if Prus slanism's foot is to be left on the neck of the world. Labor wants peace. So does the President, and the wisest labor leaders of the country agree with the President that the only way to achieve lasting peace is by fighting for it. To the end that the war may bo brought to its earliest victorious con clusion, all Americans must stand together. The lives of bur soldlom and the safety of our country alike demand this. No labor dispute should be permitted to reach the stage of lockout or strike. Capital and labor both must think beyond themselves. They are prime factors in the success of American arms In France. That Oils Is not a "rich man's war" everybody knows. A glance at the war tax tabulations will show that the rich are paying. A moment's study of the manner In which stocks have fallen the past week will reaillly convince the doubter that the wealthy are poorer now than when the war started and that their out look for high profits during the war is extremely small. On the other hand, labor Is earning higher pay now than ever before, although to offset this prices are higher, too. As the President says, this is at once a war for the rich and poor— in short for all Americans —and It is going to go ill with any man or set of men, rich or poor, putting ob stacles In the way of the govern ment. HAS ARMY OFFICERS' SUPPORT OFFICERS of tho United States army who have commanded regiments in the Philippines, China and the Canal Zone are hop ing that the Army T. M. C. A. will be given the funds which are re quired to establish at the camps and cantonments places for the soldiers to gather and to keep out of mis chief. Testimony as to the value of the establishments which the War Council is providing for the enlisted men in their free hours at camps such as was given a few days ago by General John J. Pershing is backed up by statements of experi enced officers of the army. They contend that now is tho time to pro vide the places so that the men un dergoing training may get accus tomed to wholesome amusement when off duty and that money to be contributed can not be better spent than In looking after the welfare of the soldiers and lq furnishing rest places for mothers and sisters and wives who may visit the camps. The Joint drive this week in be half of the funds for the War Coun cil, in which the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. are participating, will en able Immediate extension of work at the camps of the drafted men, where thousands of young men, Just taken from home life, are seeking relief from the monotony of drill, Just as when they get to the front they will need some place for rest after the depression <sf duty In the trenches. General Samuel W. Miller, who was the first commandant at Fort Niagara, and who commanded posts in the Philippines and the Canal Zone, and who was with the Nation al Guard when mobilized for Mex ican border service, Is one of the officers who believes iq keeping men fit to fight. General Miller's com mands have always been noted for discipline and good health. "There is no question but what looking after the men on and off duty brings results. Good healthful amusement, a place to go, good Influences, kind ness and consideration are invalu able," is the way he puts the propo sition of keeping soldiers out .of mis chief, as wU as providing a place TUESDAY EVENING, for them to read or write letters or enjoy themselves inside Instead of outside the camp. TREAT THEM KINDLY DURING the next few days 200 men and women will go about In Ilarrisburg collecting funds for Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. war work. It is not necessary to repeat the purposes to which this money will be devoted. You know them. These solicitors are working In a good cause. Before they started on their rounds each of them made a contribution to the cause. They are giving of their time and their en ergies as well as of their money. They are "doing their bit." See to it that you do yours. It is not pleasant work in which these campaigners are engaged. They get nothing out of it save the satis faction of a work well done—of a duty fulfilled. They do not call upon you because they enjoy doing so. It is part and parcel of their day's work. So, whether you have little or much to give, treat them kindly and courteously and send them on their way with a bit of sunshine to bright en their paths and your good wishes for a successful day. For "the Lord loveth a cheerful giver," and it is just as true now as in Biblical days it is "more blessed to give than to re ceive." Also, bread, you know, cast upon the waters shall return unto you. MAKING THE BALLOT SIMPLE ENPERIENCES of people in Philadelphia and other cities of the State with the ballot at the election a week ago are adding to the demand for a simpler method of voting to which the Ilarrisburg Telegraph has been calling attention for some time. The last legislature took a big step in advance when it gathered the laws relative to hunt ing and put them into one code jind those relating to fishing and put them in another and those regarding dogs and put them into a third. And not only did It gl-oup these laws, but in many cases simplified them so that the sportsmen and fishermen of Pennsylvania did not need to have the telephone numbers of their law yers in their pockets when they went out for a day's sport. Just why Pennsylvania can not have a code of election laws is' rather hard to say. If we have codes dealing with the school system and the mining of soft coal and the reg ulation of public service companies, as well as hunting and fishing, it does seem to be rather singular that we have not been able to tnake up an election code. Voting affects something like a million and a half men and, judging from the activity of the women, it may not be many years before the number of individ uals having to use the ballot may be doubled. Mang things in government and many things in law have bean sim plified in Pennsylvania except the ballot. If you mark a cross In the party square and then try to com pliment some friend in another party you invalidate the whole ballot. A man desiring to split a ticket has to mark every candidate. The day for a ballot like that has gone by, we believe. The day when the way is made simple for a man to hunt or fish, or complain about a freight rate, and even to die, seems to have been brought in by the recent general as sembly. Just why the way to vote can not be made easier is hard to understand. KERENSKY, MAN OF THE HOUR KERENSKY has been hailed since the overthrow of the Czar as "the man of the hour in Russia," and, apparently, he is again justifying the appellation. Just at the moment when the world in sorrow had concluded that his sun had set, the brilliant young leader swings back into power at the "head of a powerful army and marches to oust his rival from the nation' 3 capital: Kerensky stands in Russia for all that America Is fighting for In this war for the world at large. That he is able to command huge forces to march at his command and that he has been able to hold out so long and so valiantly is at once a tribute to his wonderful personality and abil ity and to the innate good sense of the Russian people. Kerensky is the hope of the allies In Russia, but not the hope of the allies alone, of Rus sia itself as well, and that so many Russians recognize the wisdom of his course and endorse the policies for which he stands is the best evidence that Russians understand far bet ter than tho world imagines just what they want and where they are headed. NOT MUCH MIGHT IN A MITE THE story of the widow's mite is recalled every time the sub ject of giving is discussed. Many folks use it as an excuse for giving $1 when they should hive given $lO. The widow's mite is so small that it is frequently over worked. Just remember when the war work council camnalgners visit you, Mr. Businessman, that you are no widow and that there is not much might In a mite. If the widow had been earning from |4 to sl2 a day her's would have been shame instead of fame had aha offered her mite when the contribution plate came her way. dive as the Lord hath prospered thee. "Pottttc* CK 'PtKKCljfccCUaa Bj the Kx-Committeeman First signs of the series of contests expected to take place at the May primary for tlio selection of the Re publican state ticket have appeared here. Friends of Representative James F. Woodward, of McKeesport, _chairman of appropriation com mittee in the last two Houses of Representatives, expect a formal an nouncement of his candidacy for Sec retary of Internal Affairs very soon. Woodward's backing of the success ful city ticket in McjKeesport is un derstood to have given him consid eration in high places. / Secretary of Internal Affairs Paul W. Houck, of Shenandoah, Schuyl kill county. Governor Brumbaugh's appointee for the place, is understood to have decided to become a candi date for the nomination for a full term. If he enters, the fight it will be as the Brumbaugh candidate. More cards favoring Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil for Governor have appeared, but he says •he does not know where they come from and is more concerned about his tour of roads in twenty-two coun ties which starts to-morrow than state nominations. —State Republican leaders from a dozen or more counties are in Phil adelphia and will go over the situa tion with Senator Penrose the next few days. State Chairman Crow is at Philadelphia, and it is probable that a course will be mapped out for ascertaining sentiment while the results rfjf Tuesday's election are be ing studied microscopically. —The plan of the Penrose people is to wait until the Governor names the two Public Service Commisson ers and the judges in Philadelphia and Washington and officials in other counties which he is expected to do soon. —The first pre-emptions of the name of the Town Meeting party for outside of the county of Philadel phia were recorded here to-day from the Fourth legislative. Twentieth sen atorial and Eleventh congressional, all Luzerne county districts. The name was also' pre-empted for the Fourth, Twelfth and Fourteenth Philadelphia legislative districts. —Ben Branch, of Carbon county, the commissioner named to take the vote of the PennsylVanians in the "Rainbow division," filed his dupli cate returns and poll books at the Capitol to-day. The books were labeled Fort Totten. but Mr. Branch did not file any expense account. He had poll books representing nineteen counties. State officials have not yet decided what they will do about poll books filed by commissioners without any statements of results of votes cast by soldiers. There are two such in hand, but the commissioners ex plain that the results are in the seal ed envelopes. —No charges have been filed at the State Capitol that commissioners en gaged in electioneering while taking votes at the camps, but some of the admissions and reports are that thev were pretty busy in some instances. The Philadelphia North American prints a story to-daj' to the effect that Lack'awanna county may have an explosion over the soldier vote. —Affidavits are said to have been received at Scranton that activity of election commissioners faaConnell cost Durkan many votes. Charges of irregularities are also made. —William Ward, Jr., former Mayor of Chester and "former legislator, charges fraud in the election of councilman in that city. —Philadelphia judges are having a hard time to handle the count of the vote in that city. The opening of the ballot boxes and recounting means a long and tedious process. —E. Vinton Phillips, of Downing town. has been appointed to a place in the State Treasury. He Was for merly deputy controller of Chester county. —Edwin Wolf was yesterday chosen as president of the Philadel phia School Board. —The Scranton Republican calls at tention to, the fact that Massachu setts has just enacted a law forbid ding state aid to religious institu tions, colleges, hospitals, schools and educational and charitable organiza tions of a private nature. Only such as are under exclusive control of the commonwealth or publicly owned can get state money. —A Chester county political re view in the Philadelphia ledger says: "For County Controller George S. Dewoes, Republican, had little worry over defeating Thomas L. Hoskins, the Democratic nominee. The present Controller, Robert G. Kay, appointed to till the unexpired term of I. Y. Ash, received nearly 200 votes as token of appreciation of his work during the last few months in saving the funds of the county. For the firfct time in many years the Chief Burgess of West Chester succeeds himself, the incumbent, James Paul MacElree, Republican, having a walkover in his contest with Joseph B. Marr, Democrat. —Some interesting comments are made by "The Insider" in the Phila delphia Press, on the recent battle. He writes: "It is probable that the Town Meeting party will turn over o the recently formed Republican Alliance its organization in its en tirety. Then the campaign will be prosecuted under the surface with the ever present intent of wiping the Vures oft' the political map. But the Vares, while they are undoubtedly worried over the syry showing they made last Tuesday, seem to have en larged on their ambitions. A few years ago they were content to re main the masters of their home sec tion, Sputh Philadelphia. Then they reached out for city control. They accepted the responsibility which went with this control, and after securing it have managed to retain it in face of the opposition which took definite form after a policeman was murdered and citizens were as saulted in the Fifth Ward on Sep tember ID. They fought Penrose, McNichol, the Democrats and the independent e.lement. It may still be that they have lost the fight, for there remains the possibility of cour* action resulting disastrously for them, and the slight chance that the soldier vote may be affected in such a manner that they will eventually lose. But on the surface they have a majority which must stand until legal action wipes It out. And so they have blandly announced that they are not satisfied with the poli tical domination of Philadelphia, but want the Slate." lnvestigation by the grievance committee of the Allegheny Ciunty Har Association Af the charges made accinst l.tistrict Attorney R. H. Jucit son failed to disclose sufficient ovl ('ence of wrongdoing on the of the district attorney to warrant otnsure, according to the repot t of the committee made at a meeting H ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! OH, MAN! .... . ... ... BY BRIGGS George i hatel \ She (Tas cot TJovajto 1 &jD GEortGG - listem- ) To wag BUT MEAT a**> GROCERY &V t°J I'v/e Got scme b,ll , F,F 7 y , peR CEN L ?r T h-- The > l w,- ZlJUhoot) " WICW - 0 bettcr ——, ,-=r —: —r—■n i —- — 1 — — r-i Try—r\ SHE l-S PoTTikJ6 / IHA ~ MONer IM the -\ £ A some lady- But i'm go.mg , t> 0(0 - t fcenevA- I BANK-- ACTUALLY p R * T 0 \SOMe LADY J To . THE •* L SAV,M6 - , v° ,r L™Eic \ - . Suffrage - Yo RE)sD , for , t . \ WrJOUJ VAJHERE ft) /I . APfE Too -EH . \ |T MUST Gouefr'JeD/ J IF US cf the association. Although there was a suggestion in the majority re port of the committee that the mat ter be referred to some other tribu nal, the association did not moke tJ.T.t suggestion a part of the motion acting on the report. This latter was the recommendation of the minority report of the committee. —D. C. Braden, of Heaver Falls, who was elected jury commissioner of Beaver on an independent ticket, found the fact that he had qnly one arm of value to him in ilia canvass. EMPEY AND THE Y. M. C. A. "Then," he went on. with a change of tone, and with admiration in his voice that showed how he felt be fore he had got to the end of his sen tence, "there is the Y. M. C. A. You people in America ought to do every thing you can to help the Y. M. C. A. It is the real home of the American soldier in Prance. It can't give him his loved ones, but it gives him the comforts and interests and pleasures of home. It brings home to him there in the mud of the trenches. And those Association men aren't drawing any wonderful salaries, either; they are volunteers, and they are in tjie midst of the mud and the firing, as the soldiers are, to make the soldier comfortable and help him maintain the religion and the manlt ness that he had when he went into the war. The Y. M. C. A. doesn't make any distinction in any way— Protestant, Catholic, Jew, atheist, every one is welcome. "Show me the soldier who makes a disparaging remark apout the Y. M. C. A. or its work, and I'll show you a soldier who is a detriment to the Army, who is constantly in' trou ble, and who has lost the respect of officers and mates. It's up to you people here at home to help the Y. M. C. A. "I'd like to tell every mother in America," he added, "that, no matter | what her boy is when he goes into l the war, he'll be a manlier man when he comes out of it. He will be more self-reliant, more courageous; a great Quality of justice and fair play will have been instilled into him. And the Army is a great leveler; the highbrow, tl,e roughneck, the wise and the otherwise are all on the same plane, fighting for the same cause, and all fighting for you. The coal heaver's son and the million aire's son, marching side by side, sharing the same life, and in just the same danger together: o German bullet is no respecter of social posi tion." —From an interview in the New York Times. I Fraud Encouraged by the Bal lot Law Fraud is encouraged by the ex isting ballot law in Pennsylvania. It works to the advantage of Sec tion crooks, who have been extreme ly bold in their conspiracies and probably never more so than on Tuesday last, when they started out to steal the election. The law was manipulated through the Legislature to make straight par ty voting easy and independent vot ing difficult. If a citizen places a' single cross opposite a party title when the party column carries a complete ticket, he cannot make a cross in any other column, save In the non-partisan Judicial column. If he does so, his is thrown out. The law should and must be changed in the Interests, not of bal lot thieves, but of the honest voter. Ther'e is a very much better plan, one used in New York, we believe. It permits a single cross to carry an entire ticket, which is all right. But at the same time it permits the voter, should he wish to support a candi date of another party, to cross the name of that candidate. It is tajcen for granted that the citizen wishes to support the party ticket in general, but to make an exception in favor of a candidate for a certain office on another ticket. Here a voter, it he wishes to split a ticket, must !_ross each Individual name of candidates voted for. Independent voting is thus made hard and subject to mis takes and the crooked work of elec tion judges. By the other plan a citizen may mark his party ticket and thfn mark the names of a can didate, two or three, condidatcs. for that matter, under other party desig nations, ' and these independent marks are counted together with regular candidates for other offices. Independent voting is thus made easy and the ballot crook is virtu ally eliminated. That is the. spr.t of law wo ought to have here. And while we are about the work of changing it, <that other resort ot crcoks, forcing "assistance" on vot ers, should he abolished. —Phllade - phla Inquirer. WELL-KEPT SECRET The best-kept secret of the past ten years Is the fact that the Colo nel can see with only one eye. Springfield Republican. Some Army Yarns Herbert Cory Has Collected the Tales Soldiers Tell War isn't all horror and slaugh ter. If it were the men couldn't stand it. There are interludes when humor |its ip quite properly and there are stories which go the rounds of the camjs and trenches just as after-dinner anecdotes are circulated in civil life in times of peace. Hei*bert Corey, war correspondent for the Associated Newspapers, after writing of the activities at the front, has set down some of these army stories and sent them by mail to America. Here they are: ONE gathers that the recent visit of their majesties to the British front was not appreciated by tbeir loving subjects. The loving subjects had to stop fighting or get ting ready to fight in order to enter tain their nfajesties. Which may ac count for this yarn: "We had to fire off one of each sort of shell to show Queen Mary," said a British officer. "Jolly bore. What? One of the shells fired was a 'tracer.' That is, it threw out a shower of sparks behind it, designed to aid the observation officers in registering the fire. " 'Why does that shell . throw off those sparks?" asked Queen Mary. "The officer in charge was a bit of a humorist—what? He was a bit tired, anyhow. So he said: " 'That is to burn the Germans, your majesty.' "'Ah!' said Queen Mary, 'isn't this a cruel war!'" "He came to me in the midst of a storm off Vera Cruz." said the Marine Corps major whose name everyone knows anyhow, so that the censor ship rules do not irritate. "His eyes were rolling and his blubber lips were trembling. " 'Ah want to go home,' said he. ■Ah's sick.' " Sick?' " 'Yes, sah, sick,' saye he. 'Ah'rn homesick and Ah'ni seasick and Ah'm lovesick—and dat shuahly is some sick.' " A party of Australians went out to see the town. They insisted on deck ing thdr taxis with British flags. "Won't go unless we get the flags," was the ultimatum. "Tired of being taken for Americans." That is a sore subject. "Who's been doing the lighting in this war," they. asked, "we or the Americans? All right, then. But there isn't a British flag to be seen In Paris and the town is perfectly covered with American flags. Wherever we go some fool Frenchman throws up I.is hat: ' " 'Ooray, 1 he says, "for the brave Americans. Vive l'Amerique!" Find a Canadian in town on per mission and the chances are you will find him jingling with souvenirs. The men of Canada have almost a mania for gathering momentos of war. It vas a Canadian who is responsible for the following witticism: "The English." naid he. "fight for honor, the French for glory and the Canadians for souvenirs." A little Canadian came to town the ether day to enjoy his leave, granted because of a particularly gallant ac tion. But he wasn't happy. "I fought for twenty-four cussed hours straight on end," said he, "and then a poche shell put me out. When I woke up the battle was all over— and I hadn't got a single souvenir." Charles .Omessa, who recently re turned from Russia, believes the cri sis in which Kerensky recently re signed only to have his resignation refused, was of greater importance than- the world now realizes. When he said good-by to Kerensky the lat ter said these highly significant words: " "If you learn some day of my res ignation or of my fall from power, tell yourself that the day of my death and that of my country is near." Omessa's admiration for Kerensky is unbounded. On one occasion two of the latter's most trusted aids, worn out by the constant fight, and feeling themselves unable to con tinue as witnesses of the spectacle of their chief's powerlessness and of his declining health and influence, begged permission to go to France to enter the military service there. "Go," said Kerensky, without bit terness. "You are not equal to the task of'fighting the enemies within and without simultaneously. For me, I remain here." "I went Into a restaurant on the boulevard with a girl," said a sol dier. "Picked her up on the street — I know, I was a fool—but she talked English and I was frantic to look at a pretty woman and hear of some tiling besides war. We had an ome let and two bottles of beer. What do you think they charged me?" The answer might have been any thing. "Two hundred francs," said the boy. "It took all my money except a few francs. I've cabled home to tny father in Canada. If he doesn't come through I've got to go back to the trenches before my leave is up." His was not an isolated experience. The men come here unwarned and as trustful as children. They so want to have a good time —a clean time, free of mud and Boche shells and the fear of death. They do not know the lan guage and they do not ask the prices, and they listen to plausible strangers. One English women tries to protect thain. She statjons herself at the ranway station and talks to them when they come out. She is the only one that I know of. No" one else seems to care. "Do you want to go to a quiet and clean hotel?" they are asked when they walk out of the railway station on arrival. That is what they want above everything: else. They want quiet and cleanliness and rest. Most of them go to bed at 9 o'clock at night and do not get up until 9 o'clock in the morning. Because the tout who addresses them is seemingly respecta ble and can talk English go with him. The hotel is dean and quit—and they wake up In the morn ing without a sou. Only the man who has gone through this experience can realize what &. tragedy it iS. It may mean that he must cut short the cherished leave to which he had been looking torwani with z'JCh anttcintion through so many weary months. To job a soldier on leave is the crudest thing in war. OUR DAILY LAUGH REVERSE /- — ENGLISH. fppgjyj Are you get ting behind the government *ln /! Xjvl our war -i / 0 > I didn't have ( •/j to—the govern roent got behind V \\ me. I'm draft- I I \ \ ed In the Na- II \\ j tional Army. fHIS ECCEN TRICITY. George, dear, did you makr, one of those freakish election No. I slir.ply bet S6O and lost That was ' worse than > freakish, . George. That <• '.7"**"- Msi was foolish. SARCASTIC. Dobbs knows /T\jr nk human nature all W Yeaterday he said to me: Has your wife planned your vacation //a, ■- y. !££•/>$ Agm no llm GROUI<t>S y IH| Since Reggy i * ' was run over by thAt auto his v IfS! mind has been {^ov-/ Wj a perfect blank. lVv\ JM Why dldn,t |\\ v\\ mM A he sue for dam fwi\ IM Kh * dM ' but glfjjMeJ he couldn't' J j—"" prove that h l\ )) had been dam- Jln i"H iLf ***' NOVEMBER 13, 1917. I \ Owr tfwc tJv * pC*7V)V& That must have been some battle over in Plainfield, N. J. where the drys won over the wets by just one vote. It is said the saloon keepers would have pensioned for life the deciding voter, could they have nail ed him before he dropped in his ballot. They have clever horses down in the vicinity of Middletown. Local paper tells how Jake f Miller was "kicked on the back part of his neck by a horse and knocked across the stable with such force as to throw his face against a stone wall." AVe trust this unfortunate gentleman re covered Friend Face. The recent election in Heading of four American party candidates to common council is taken there in that German stronghold as a bitter rebuke to the pro-German element. The four men elected are pronounc ed in their antagonism for all Ger man sympathizers, and made no ef fort to conceal their sentiments; nevertheless they won out handily. A pathetic war story comes from Cumberland, Md., where Mrs. Agnes Turnbull sucumed to a long illness, but not until she heard from her son in the Army. At point of death, the doctors declare that she was only kept alive by hoping to receive a letter from her son in a cavalry regi ment. A few moments after this longed for missive arrived the moth er passed away, a prayer on her lips. Here is probably a record for con tinues term of employment. Thomas Hungerford died in Reading recently at the age of eighty-one, and after working fifty-eight years for one firm as a molder. He was the last of his family. The 1,800 members of the United States Ambulance Corps camped at Allentown, many of whom are from this neighborhood, have the right idea about preparation. No soft tent life for them. No, indeed. They take turns at regular trench life,'living in a damp ditch day and night; eat ing and sleeping there. Some of the boys use sod for roofs, while others scout about for tar paper. They make their own fires and do their own cooking. And they hike all over the country for firewood. This is the life. CITY MANAGERS Two cities of the United States, one in Pennsylvania, adopted the city manager plan of municipal gov ernment at last Tuesday's election. They were Altoona, this state and Waltham, Massachusetts. The plan Is under discussion In Pittsburgh, but has not yet been put up to the peo ple. There are, perhaps, a dozen cities In the country that are now work ing under the city manager plan of conducting their affairs. While it has not beelT tested in any large cen ter It is noteworthy that no city that has given It a trial has returned to the old method. It is a form of com mission rule, the central thought of which is a purely business adminis tration of municipal affairs.' Under the city manager plan all political considerations are put aside in the affairs of cities. Councils, or commissioners, whichever they are called, delegate their authority to a manager, specially chosen, who Is expected to be a trained expert, fre quently an engineer, who gives all of his time to the city's business, its finances as well as its departments of public works, public safety and public health. These are times when the good of the country requires economies In city management. The burdens of the people are extraordinary. Sav ing In public expenditures can be made to effect minimum tax rates. Whether such a saving can be pro moted by city 'managers is a question that is engrossing attention in many sections of the country.—Scranton Republican. Profited Not By Gospel For unto us was the gospel preach ed, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith In them that heard It—Hebrews Iv, 2. A LOVE POEM Now Autumn's here Each long, chill night, Wo yearn for thee, Oh, Ann Thraclte. [ —Boston Transcript. lEimttng ©ljat "Speaking of the excavations tot the foundation for the new Penn- Harris hotel, and the great interest evinced in the progress of making the hole manifested by the Sons of Best, as duly chronicled in the Har risburg Telegraph," said an old re tired cx-prlnter, "it was nothing to the interest shown in the digging for the foundation of the old Grand Opera House by the printers on the Telegraph forty-flve ®ars ago. The Telegraph was at that time pub lished in the building the site of which is now occupied by the Secu' ity Trust Company, and from the very first the printers on the com posing room floor took much inter- _ est in the work, to the great neglect 1 of the Retting out of the paper, and much to the disgust of 'Uncle Joe' Meek and 'TTncle John' Ferguson, who had charge of the room. The big hole was excavated by hand, a large force of Corkonians and Far- Downs from the Emerald Isle doing the digging under the supervision of Patrick McNiff, contractor. And the hauling was all done by one-mule carts. There was no steam excava tor, and there were no motor ve hicles to carry off the dirt. Day after day the force digged the pit and day after day the loud and rau cous tones of the mule drivers float ed up to the Telegraph composing room as they ordered the mules to 'gee' and 'haw' and 'giddap,' dis tracting the attention of the com positors so much tltat they paused frequently and long to take it all in, while the two guardian angels of the room were almost distracted. There were some "devils' in the compos ing room in those days. There are yet, but I venture to say that for outright mischief those In the com posing room of the Telegraph of that day could not be surpassed any where. Here was one of their tricks which furnished unlimited fun for the printers and almost set Contractor McNiff wild until the late George Bergner, the proprietor of the paper, got onto it and put a stop to the fun: A cart would bp backed up to the edge of the excavation and the shafts propped up by the stick used for that purpose, and the mule would stand quiescent while the cart was being filled. Peaceful scene. Suddenly a two-em brevier quad hurled by one of the "devils" from the second story window of the Tel egraph would catch the mule on the flank, stinging like the bite of a horse-fly, the mule would gasp, Jump, kick and in a second all was confusion, as, of course everybody would stop work to see what the trouble was. Shouts of laughter from the printing office convinced Contractor McNiff that the source lay in that direction. One morning he came into the Telegraph office and exhibited a two-em brevier quad, which had been found beside a fractious mule, and made com plaint, vigorous, vociferous and loaded with threats. Orders went forth to close the windows of the composing room. Then Contractor McNiff went back to the scene of operations and, looking up to the windows, where the "devils" were watching him. gave orders: "Back up thim_ ca-a-r-ts. There'll be no more shenanigan here." And there wasn't. When the cornerstone of the opera house was placed in posi tion by the Masons, all of the Tele graph printers participated in the ceremony, (from the second-story windows) £nd the paper was an hour late getting to press that day." * • • Speaking of that old Grand Opera House, when it burned down one of the Harrisburg newspapers, in re cording the history of tho building said the first performance given m it was by Lotta, or "Our Little * Lotta," as she was known In the hey-day of her stardom as a sou brette, but that is not correct. The first entertainment in the new place of amusement was a concert by home talent, and the prima donna of the occasion was Miss Sara E. Mather, of this city, now Mrs. J. N. Deeter. This much to set history ac curate. In this connection it is interesting to state that the Harrisburg Patriot was published half a block from the Telegraph. The Patriot was then owned by B. F. Meyers, who had it over from the flrin in which Messrs. Singerly and Brown had been members and the force used to stop about the excavations for the new theater on their way to work in the plant which occupied the Dock propery at Third and Strawberry streets. The Patriot printers had to turn up in the afternoon to "throw in" their type in those days and they had lots of fun with the workers in the pit, chaffing the diggers and eliciting much native wit. The old printers especially were fond of clustering about the place after the mid-afternoon dallying with "cans of half and half" and one day there was a thunderstorm coming up. Much excitement went on in the pit to get ready for the rain, "Say, Mr. McNiff." called out one of the printers. "It's gohi'-to rain." "Well," fired back Mr. McNiff, never stopping in his bustling about the place. "I can't prevint it. Now you try." Another interesting thing about this concentration of Harrisburg journalism in the early seventies was that in the Dock building there was the Patriot business office and a barber shop and telegraph office on the first floor; the editorial and composing room on the second, a job plant on the third and on the top floor Col. Kipper's Staats Zelt unp which was written, edited und set up under the roof and printed in the cellar. The German printers specialized in throwing quads to or gan grinders who thought they were cash until they hit. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —John Wanamaker is still mags ing Sunday addresses at churches K* Philadelphia In spite of his apjj. which he says spurs him on tw greater efforts. —Bishop McCort, who is rector of the church of which the late Bishop Shanahan was long rector, dedicated the new church at vern, one of the finest In Philadelphia. \ —Senator E. F. Warner has been' made fuel administrator for Car bon county. —Penrose Robinson, - burgess of Hatboro and well known here, been made secretary of the Ablng..* ton Memorial hospital. DO YOU KNOW i———————————____ ( Tliat Harrisburg was one of tlio cities whk'ta offered hospitals to the nation In 1808 and cared for men taken sick In camps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first outbreak of serious disease In Harrisburg was yellow fever in 1790 and it killed a num* ber of prominent citizens.
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