16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjt Published evenings except Punrtay br THE TELFMinAPH PHISTINfI (OH TeleKi-npH Building, Square. "E. J, ST ACKPOLE, Prrs t C- Ed9r-in-Chiif P. R. OYSTER, Business Managir i OUS M. STEINMETSS, Managing Editor, Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of t ell news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper a-nd also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American 8H 8155 M Eastern office, gyill A venue Building, <;a" ICy> Bull<flns, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, r H as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER lft, 1917 Don't surrender your individuality, which is your greatest agert of power, to the customs and conven tionalities that have gotten their life from the great mass of those who haven't enough force to pre serve their individualities.—R. V\ TRI>-E. , THE RESERVE MILITIA HARRISBURG- has fared very well in being designated as one of the cities where a unit of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia is to be located and as soon as Gover nor Brumbaugh appoints the officers there should be no time lost in or ganizing the company of sfxty-two men wanted for the infantry. Under the scheme outlined in the McKee law, providing for the establishment of an armed State force of three regiments of infantry and a squad ron of cavalry, the units were to be located where the State owned armories. Harrisburg does not have an armory which is the property of the State, but its position is so im portant that an exception has been made. This is all the more reason for the city taking a pride in the new unit. The Reserve Militia will replace the National Guard and be ready to respond to a call from the Governor to go to any part ot the State where trouble may occur- and get beyond the control of local authorities r.nd State police. The equipment i 3 in sight and good men will be available for training. Under the plan of the Militia the various home defense organizations throughout the State can continue their work of training young men for war service and affording the older men opportunity for drilling, and at the same time being prepared for any call should the Reserve Militia be summoned elsewhere. GOI,T> KXPORTS WHEN gold goes out—whether it is going out of your pock ets, out of bank or out of the country—it goes because someone has a right to demand it. Except in the case of charity, no one gives up gold except in exchange for some thing else that he prefers. When the purchaser gets the other man's com modity, the seller has a right to de mand the gold. This is a very simple statement which it is well to keep in mind in connection with the gov ernment's embargo recently placed upon shipments of gold out of she United States. No one can take gold out of the country unless he has a right to demland It, and if he has a righ to demand it, we cannot refuse with out impairing our credit, though the impairment may be to only an im perceptible degree in the ease of small amounts. When we began selling Great Britain large quanti ties of war supplies, in 1915, she sent us gold. Her gold did not last longr, so she dumped American se curities on our markets or used them as a means of raising golij. She issued bonds to get gold or its equivalent and when she was near the end of her resources we issued bonds and loaned her the money or credit—the equivalent of gold. To the extent that she is now in debted to us, have the right to demand now or at some future time a payment in gold. We have been buying large quan tities of goods in Japan, China and South America. The sellers had a right to demand gold and they have exercised the right. An embargo may temporarily check such movement of (old, but it cannot check it long. Whenever we buy in excess of our sales, we must pay in gold or ac cumulate a debt which the seller is willing to carry as a credit When an embargo was placed on exports of gold, some of the creditors with drew gold from the banks and had it "earmarked" for them —placed in the security vaults in their names, as trust funds which the banks could not use. So far as that trans action affected American finance, it was no different from shipping the gold out of the country. Republicans have always recog nized the desirability of maintain in* a balaiu o of trade as a means FRIDAY EVENING, of keeping money in tills country. I In order to discourage Americans from buying abroad and thus send ing gold abroad, we maintained a protective tariff: It Is true that un der a protective tariff we sent gold out of the countryt for wo had to pay the expenses of our tourists in Europe, had to pay for transporta tion of our commodities In foreign owned ships, and had to pay the Interest and dividends on American securities held by European Invest ors-. But we reduced to a minimum shipments of gold to pay for for eign goods. Democrats changed the practice In 1913, Without In any. way cut ting off our other expenditures in Europe, they opened our markets BO that Europe and Asia began selling us more goods and thus took larger quantities of. our gold. Industrial depression was the result. Recently the administration has been alarmed over the exports of gold, and the embargo was the re sult, But there are only two ef fective ways to stop exports o< the best kind of money—one Is to re duce excess purchases from other countries and the other Is to ar range for the accumulation of a debt. If we can Induce those other coun tries to buy our bonds, they will take the bonds instead of gold, but tlio bonds will afford them the means of demanding the gold any day they choose to send the bonds back. If we erect a protective tariff we shall discourage . purchase* abroad and in that wa; keep our money at home. The arbitrary declaration that gold shall not be exported is in violation of the laws of trade and we can make it effective only by the adoption of some plan other than the mere Ipse dixit of govern ment. GOOD SCHEME IV GOOD HANDS IT ig now said that Treasury Bills or Savings Certificates or some thing of that kind will play a larger part in our program of war finance. This is wise. The certificates, issued, as they will be, in small sums, will enable hun dreds of thousands of people to buy them who could not see their way clear to subscribing to Liberty Bonds, even under the most advantageous of banking terms. Many a man or woman can buy a treasury certifi cate for five dollars, or perhaps more, knowing that the transaction is then ended, who would hesitate to pay that much as an initial instal ment oil a Liberty Bond, knowing that a like payment would have, to be made each month for a long time in a future none too clear. The disposition of these securities is to be the work of Mr. Vanderlip, who has been at Washington for some time serving the government without compensation; and his trained perceptions of the absorbent capacity of the American people in a financial sense will enable him to make a glowing success of the en deavor without hysterical advertising or other three-ring-circus methods. FAVORS RATE INCREASE WHEN shippers themselves join in the petition that a higher freight rate be established, the rate question assumes a new aspect. That such a situation has been reached is indicated by the public declaration of Walter S. Dickey, of Kansas City, that immediate and material increases are, in his opinion, desirable. Dickey manufactures clay products in ten different states and ships some 50,000 carloads per year, so his at titude is manifestly dictated by care fully formed judgment that an in creased rate is necessary in order to enable the roads to handle the traf fic as the shippers want it handled. A SORRY LESSON CERTAIN" Democratic candidates who lost out at the recent elec tions in Harrisburg are sore over the manner in which they were de serted by those who are responsible for the party leadership locally. Ap parently they have very good reason for their indignation, for a careful study of the returns makes It appear that with anything like proper news paper support and intelligent direc tion the returns might not have been so overwhelmingly Republican. But the lesson these candidates have learned was coming to them. Year after year they have stood by and seen others go down to defeat through the same tactics, and have not taken pains to see to it that methods of which they are complain ing were changed. They are now get ting a dose of this same bitter med icine and naturally they are making wry faces. The, day has gone in Harrisburg and Dauphin county when scandal mongerlng wins votes. The people do not want to know how bad this or that candidate is, but how good the other fellow is. Constructive criti cism makes for efficiency in office; destructive criticism merely breaks down efficiency and offers no substi tute. Personal abuse often makes martyrs of the men attacked. Worse than that, it discourages good men from running for office. If any "un desirables" have crept into office In recent years It was largely because many good men declined to run, for the reason that they did not care to offer themselves as targets for the volleys of mud that are always pre pared for candidates who do not happen to be willing to bow the l:nce to certain political bosses. There Is hope for better 'days in Dauphin county politics when the rank and file of the opposing party awake to the error of a course that not only often discourages Repub licans of high standing from taking part in local municipal campaigns, but which quite as often reacts to the defeat of candidates who are a real credit to the Democratic party and who. If elected, would give good ac count of themselves in office. ""PotttcCC- tK By the Ex-Committeeman Nothing could be more Indicative | of the political situation in Penn- j sylvanfa than the fact that not-1 withstanding Senator James P. Mc- Nlchol has not bpen dead two days there is already talk of his succes sor In politics and discussion of the changes that are to follow. Phila delphia newspapers give prominence to City Solicitor John P. Connolly as the man who will succeed the senator, who was his political spon sor, but there Is a disposition among up-state newspapers to point out that Republican success depends on getting the conditions which have made the Quaker City anything but peaceful in politics out of the public mind for a while at least. Demo cratic organizations appear deter mined to make what capital they can out of the situation. The funeral of the senator to morrow will attract to Philadelphia men prominent In politics from all parts of the state. The whole sen ate will attend the funeral as will many state officials. The death of the senator means that five senators will be elected in Philadelphia next year. William Wallace Smith died 111 August. Three are to be chosen under term expiration. An interesting sidelight on the McNichol death is that he told one of his clerical friends a short time ago that he was about ready to quit the political my bit" was the way he put It. Senator Bois Penrose, who was absent from Philadelphia on a gun ning trip on Barnegat Bav when Senator .Tames P. McNichol died, in a statement yesterday said: "The death of Senator McNichol is to me a personal loss. For many years we had been intimately associated in public affairs, but it is his passing as a friend that is uppermost in my mind. He brought to the service of Philadelphia and of this Com monwealth a fine mind, clear vision, firmness of will and the noblest courage. His public conduct was unmoved by consideration of selfish motives. He was no time server and i he had a consuming scorn for eva sion and hypocrisy—a man of the highest purposes, of nobility of character and a loyal friend." -—The Press, on the other hand, mentions Thomas W. Cunningham, court clerk as the man who will suc ceed McNichol. No one has taken up Harry J. Trainer since the day after McNichol died The Press says: "From declarations made yesterday b.v McNichol lieutenants in the city anil state, it is apparent that Thomas W. Cunningham, clerk of the courts will be chosen to rally the McNichol followers in Philadelphia, and that Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsville, will be selected as the leader of the Penrose forces in the state Immediate action is made necessary in both city and state be cause of the activity of the Vare forces yesterday. Reports poured in upon the newly organized Republi can Alliance that councilmen elected by the Town Meeting party and the McNichol element were deserting to the Yares and that there was grave danger that the Vares would have the needed two-thirds vote in coun cils for the passage of any legisla tion they might desire. —The North American says in its review of McNichol to-day: "Worry over the treatment accorded his friend, and supporter, James A. Carey* mercantile appraiser, was one of tHe contributory causes to the death of State Senator James P. Mc- Xicliol. Close friends of Senator McNichol said yesterday that it was the treachery of Mayor Smith, who turned against tlie man who had made him politically, that had really caused the condition." —Additional interest in the prob able appointment by Governor Brumbaugh to a place on the bench of the Philadelphia Orphans' Court, rendered vacant by the death sev eral months ago, through the death of Judge Morris Dallett, was revived yesterday, when it was found that interests representing four possible choices were busily at. work pulling strings for their favorite candidates. Assistant City Solicitor Joseph S. Magee is said to have first call for the place, but William C. Wilson, also an assistant in the office of City Solicitor Connelly, looms up as a possible choice. Although lie was considered several weeks ago as favorite in the race, the tide turned and it was rumored he was elimi nated. Joseph I<\ Cullen, prominent attorney with powerful backing, now has forged ahead in the situa tion. —City Solicitor John P. Connelly has been suggested as a compromise or "harmony" candidate for the state senatorship in the district which the late Senator James P. McNichol rep resented in Harrisburg since his elec tion to succeed the late John C, Grady in November, 1904, says the Inquirer. Mr. Connelly yesterday declared that he was not a candidate for that or any other office. Con tinues the Inquirer: "Nothwith standing this fact, however, it )s known that steps are being taken by admirers of Mr. Connelly, both among the close friends of tha late Senator McNichol and among others who have recently, at least, been allied with the Smith-Vare combina tion to bring about an agreement up on Mr. Connelly's nomination. Mr. Connelly, in the appointments made in the office of city solicitor, recog nized both factions and did not in any way, his friends declare, inter fere with any of his subordinates as to how they should vote at the re cent election." —The I.edger in discussing Con nelly and the .situation nays: "Stat ed concisely, the situation, which has developed as suddenly as the Mc- Nichol death, is that Senator Pen rose now represents certain and powerful political influence in the state at large and the Vares repre sent certain and powerful influence in the city. Virtually,' it is being pointed out, neither can get along us organization leaders without the other. That is the attitude John P. Connelly has adopted and which he is working out in connection with the mayor and the Vares. And it is be ing pointed out to the Vares, further more, that they, or at least Senator Vare, is the only big contractor now in city politics. ' So long as Senator MeNlcliol lived much of the criticism of Senator Vare, as a political con tractor, was heavily discounted for the reason that Senator McNlctaol was just as much of a political con tractor as was Senator Vare. Now, however, the criticism would be lev eled straight at Senator Vare." —Director Datesman, of the De partment of Public Works, in Phila delphia-yesterday awarded to the Ed win H. Vare Contracting Company two street-cleaning contracts for 1918, at large increases over the con tract prices of this year. At the same time he rejected flvo other HARRISBUWO OJKSSI TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE ... BY BRIGGS „ . , . . . ■ J — S I —\ ' . WELL UJCLL: THAT - SAY | STOCK OF MIK/E MR, JOM63 OJAKIT I WAMT To PAY YOU I / .|S ORJ RNE TO TELL YOU THAT THAT 1*26 E -° I'VE ,KI APPREC.ARROW OF/ Y FOR R 66RVACES WE X/ HAVE 3JECIDEO TO / 1 GIVE YOU A •BOMJSY V -"~ —I / ( _ /S . AMD A RAISE 'M , \ MR OBM ES _ * THR©U<3M\ ' H'-S HAS CERTAIWLY MJAN'T RUM J A MISTAKE OF OURS 1 CSEEM A. (3REAT / THE- HOUSE ON> MV Z W S: R £ I ALLOWANCE AW MORS -00 ~ ^ L/JMAT proffers, saying that unless those making them see fit to reduce their totals within three days he will re idvertise for bidders. —The Town Meeting party scored its first real victory in court at Phil adelphia yesterday, in its effort to substantiate charges of many lost votes through frauds and irregu larities by Republican-controlled election boards, when'the ballotbox of the Nineteenth division of the Eighteenth ward was opened by Judges Martin and Finletter in the election court. A recount of the bal lots showed that the election officers had failed to accept or reject twenty eight ballots because of their ina bility to decide whether they were valid or not, and disclosed other irregularities in connection with the rest -of the count. —Judge Isaac Johnson sitting at Media has refused to open Chester ballotboxes as asked by William Ward, Jr., defeated candidate for council. —ln spite of his defeat for judge, E. C. Bonniwell is out again making speeches and it is suspected that the genial Gene will be a Democratic candidate for something next year. —An attack by.some defeated liti gants upon Judge Sando, of Lacka wanna county, in the form of a news- \ is being very generally -on demned throughout tliut section. —Ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer is continuing his efforts to get harmony in his old congressional district, notwithstanding he got a ter riiic jolt when his lifelong enemy was elevated to the bench of Monroe county. The appointment has Inst been announced of J. Davis Broadhead, Palmer's rival for Con gress some years ago, as chief of the banking division of the alien prop erty bureau, of which Palmer is chief. Mr. Broadhead is a former judge of Northampton and succeeded Vance C. McCormick as a member of (lie Fcdfetsl ReS6fv Bank So,iVtl. Palmer's new job is one of the big gest in the country and Broadhead will have much to do. —-George Bateman, of West Ches ter, has been appointed deputy con troller o,f Chester county and John J. Morris is the new high constable of Phoenixville and West Chester plans a new sewer tax. Things are interesting in the old county. SERVING DOUBLY They are still laughing at Camp Meade over the case of a youth named Knight who led a double life at rollcall. Somehow he was entered under the cognomen of "Mac Knight" also; and he always answered for both names. But at drill and on the march his squad was always one man shy, of >urse. At. last a mystified sergeant called, "Private Knight, step to the front!" The rookie obeyed. Then came tl*s command, "Private Mac Knight, step to the front!" Then and there the original and his alter 'ego parted, company. The amazing discovery was then made that the muddled private had thought lie was only faithful to his oath of allegiance in answering to both names at every rollcall. —Phila- delphia Public Dedger. NOT MUCH HOPE One suspects that the German gov ernment will not overexert itself in an effort to capture the 10 Ameri can congressmen about to go to Eu rope.—Columbia (S. C.) State. THE TELEGRAPH POLES Chained a miraculous way, Hounding tho world In. their flight— Prophets of death in the day. Warning of life in the night— Na.lied, fettered trees, Miles over field, over fen. Swift beside rails to the seas, They motionless move among men Sometimes the file on Its march Waits with a beggared look For the touch of a leafy arch. For tho breath of the turn of a brook. The rain with freshening sound Falls on the marshes—but now Moistens no root underground. Misses tho glistening bough. And birds, to renew their wings Come as of old—ljut tile wires Have none of the joy of the strings Trembling in leafy-hung lyres. * Stripped of their verdure by men, As men have been stripped of their souls, Prophets arc wandering again— See them?—the telegraph poles! Witte Bynner, "Greenstone Poems." (Stokes.) White Bread vs. Whole Wheat The white flour advocate as sumes that extreme lightness is the primary essential of good bread. Vet such extreme lighaiess of bread has very little hygienic sigw.icanco and none whatever for o.<e man who properly masticates his food. It is a trick that pleases the eye and pleases also Jhe baker for thereby he is enabled to make a pound of bread fluff up and look like a big ger loa.f. So much for the first halt of 'his seemingly scientific white Hour ar gument, for it is merely an argument for selling air and could be as well used to sell beer that would ra■ sn a high "collar" if the foam were a bit more enduring. But the tVidoly pro claimed facts upon which tho vhlte Hour interests have rested their case for. the last fifteen years is upon the digestive tests that prove white flour to be six per cent, more digestible than bread made from the genuine whole ground wheat. These tests were originally made by Professor Snyder at the University of Minne sota and were endorsed and pub lished by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. The advocates of whole wheat bread do not dispute the facts as presented. What they do dispute is the conclusions from these facts. The facts are as fol lows: If one hundred pounds of whole wheat be ground and inado into bread and fed <o' men (with milk to round out the diet), about eighty-seven per cent, of the energy yielding substance of the bread is digested. If now this same one Hun dred pounds of whole wheat be milled by patent process, seventy pounds will be made into white Hour and thirty pounds be rejected as bi an, nlioiU anJ germs and sold as cattle feed. Bread made from the white flour will-be ninety-three per cent, digestible or six per cent, more digestible than the whole wheat bread—this six per cent, of increased digestibility being the corner-stone of the white Hour argument. But of our one hundred pounds of wheat only seventy pounds were made into white Hour bread. Of this seventy pounds, ninety-three per cent., or sixty-live pounds, is diges tible. Hence with the rope of his ovyn argument the white Hour chem FREEING WOMEN Feminine costumes are largely the product of prudery. Those who cre ated this apparel were impressed with the idea that we were so much above the lower animals that our physical bodies were of no impor tance. That to move about grace fully and easily was not necessary. That a woman could encase her legs in a skirt that hampered her every movement without serious harm. For generations feminity has struggled Against this terrible handi cap. Tho hour-glass waist has dis appeared. The woman of to-day real izes that her vital organs need room fo' their activities, and tight lacing nas been abandoned except by those who are still in the bonds of t'.ie ignorance of tho past. But the skirt, the badge of servitude, the token of physical slavery, the jail that curbs the physical instincts still refnalns. But now even the dressmakers are being converted. To be sure, the excuse is that economy in cloth is necessary, but nevertheless the edict lias gone forth from the great High Moguls who tell tho Women what to wear, that the skirt must be short ened. > > • . And that women can wear trous ers! Right'out before the people! The skirt is no longer a necessary badge of femininity. A great light has dawned for womankind. The light Is coming in the form of the knowledge that strength is neces sary to womankind, just as neces sary as it is to manhood; that weak, woirianhood is a disgrace; that strong womanhood Is Ideal. That a strong woman makes a fine, splen did mother. That a weak womai\ is defective, that her progeny can be nothing more than weaklings. her weakness Is a disgrace to her self and a handicap to all with whom she associates. The woman who fails to realize this and who neglects the very founda tion of her existence—the physical body—ls to be pitied. She has missed the Joy that comes to women as well as to men from a superbly developed physique. —Bernarf Macfudden In November Physical Culture. ist hangs himself, when he sets out to prove the economy of white flour bread as a war bread. By the facts which he himself presents us we find that by the white Hour route but sixty-five pounds of the one hundred pounds of wheat is utilized to pro duce human energy; whereas if the wheat be ground as Graham flour and made into bread, eighty-seven pounds of the wheat substance is turned into human energy. White bread is six per cent, more digestible, but the use of white bread means a loss to the Nation of twenty-two per cent, of the Nation's wheat crop. But saving the Na tion's wheat crop is only one aspect of the problem. The mere state ment that white bread is six per cent, more digestible than the whole wheat bread seems a very effective argument in its favor, and one. in deed, which would be a very real ar gument if the ideal human food was one that would be completely diges tible. Unfortunately for the white bread interests the human digestive tract is not built with a view to utilizing completely digestible foods. There are certain physiological waste products that must be excreted byway of the intestines or self poisoning and death would speedily ensue. With the natural primitive diet of man there was added to these poisonous physiological wastes a cer tain residue of indigestible liber and the combination of both substances gave a sufficient bulk to permit of the mechanical functioning of excretion. If now with our denatured and su per-civilized food products, of which white flour is the chief offender, the total bulk of this intestinal residue be reduced until the bowels function improperly the result is constipation, which in very properly described as the mother of diseases. White flour bread is six per cent, more digestible than the whole wheat variety and by mixing it most plentifully with other foods, and by overeating of all foods and with the more or less habitual use of salts and pills, man manages to live upon it. But its six per cent, of increased digestibility is not a virtu- and often proves a most serious fault. —From "White Bread the Best War Bread"? by Milo Hastings, in No vember Physical Culture. BRITISH FUR COATS The laughable truth is out con cerning the fur coats which were supplied to the British soldiers two winters ago in France. Lan Hay in his new book, "All In It," the con tinuation of "The First Hundred Thousand," just published by Hough ton Mifflin Company, describes these coats and the way in which they were received by the men.* "There has been an issue of so called fur jackets, in which the Prac tical Joke Department (otlicially the Army Ordnance Department) has plainly taken a hand. Most of the garments appear to have been con tributed by animals unknown to zoology, or a syndicate thereof. Cor poral Mucklemawe's costume gives him the appearance of a St. Bernard dog with Astrakhan fore legs. Ser ! geant Carfrae is attired in what looks like the skin of Nana, the dog-nurse in 'Peter Pan.' Private Nigg, the undersized youth of bashful disposi tion, creeps forlornly about his du ties disguised as an imitation leop ard. As he passes by, facetious per sons pull what is left of his tail. Pri vate Tosh, on being confronted with his winter trousseau, observed bit terly — " 'I jined the Airmy for tae be a j sojer, but I doot they must have pit me doon as a mountain goat!" LABOR NOTES Organization has been of mater ial beneiit to Canadian telegraphers. During the last year, through the ef forts of their officers, the wages of operators have Increased near!/ $250,000. British Columbia should have no reason to complain of hard times. The mineral production of that Prov ince has increased in value from $30,296,398 in 1913 to $42,290,462 in 19X6. In California in 1916 the cot of living for a wage-earner with a wife and three children was $57.75 per month, whereas the corresponding cost for 1917 is $72.50 per month. Building laborers in Portland, Ore., have secured an eight-hour work day and their wages $3.50 per day, while hod carriers received $4.50 per day. Two years ago their wages were $2.60 pqr day. NOVEMBER 16, 1917. Otfer tkc CK *~p&)uvcu "I never saw an intoxicated man until I was 19 years old and have seen more drunkenness during two weeks in Pennsylvania than in all my life before," declared Dr. C. A. Miles, of Southern Kansas, to an audience in the First M. E. Church, of Juniata. The Kansan scored the Keystone state heavily for permitting liquor traffic to exist. "To llnd a man in possession of whisky in my state means a tine of SIOO and thirty days in jail. A second offense opens the way to the penitentiary." "Take an apple and a piece of steak," said the eminent vegetarian expert, Dr. C. Decker, at a meeting recently over in the I,ehigh Valley, "and set them aside for a week in a fairly warm temperature and note what happens. The steak will smell to heaven; the apple not so. Place the steak under a microscope and you will find it swarming with hor rors." Can't scare us. Doc! Give us that old hunk of porterhouse and you can keep your York Imperial. Xo, on second thought, give us both. o • Automobile thieves have been reaping a harvest in and about Lew istown, so that a veterinarian, Dr. Marry Ulsh, from the nearby town of Alfarata. took no chances the other day. His trusty Ford was seen outside the drugstone fastened with a big chain and padlock. Private Claude Foltz, of Lancas ter, now with Ambulance Company No. 3 at Camp Hancock, Ga., will have a letter shortly that will enter tain him for a week. It is a folding teer, Uyelve I'eet. three inches long, written by his "friends in 4he draft ing room of the Armstrong Cork Company, in Lancaster. WHY TURN TO BONDAGE? When ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage.— Galatians, iv. 8-9. OUR DAILY LAUGH ; Tf® RECKLESS. Bug Watch man Hey yTf there, you fool j bug, don't you //T' . •know any better L than to smoke v over a powder <° I M ' . SHIRKING RESPONSIBIIr- Did the 'doctor leave this baby JIJIrwIF Little Ethel—l . s'pose he got A 1 tired taking care of it himself and , that's why he put it off onto ua. BIJ IT ouiw. The tramp and the magnate /W£, both feel Woes common One worries X\~— about his. jSK V(p\ next meal, \O/\\ The other CZ3* |) about h J a next million. *V PRACTICED IT. I yOU be " ev ® ln pr4 i >ared ~ MWm Sure. I never ® *° home late ' ij | without having \1 1 I - -"M I * " excu,e *■ l 1 framed up. iEtaeittng (Hlfat Steps to round up between 40,000 I and 50,000 men who have not com- ! plied with draft regulations un/.' some of whom are classed by peoptv at state draft headquarters as out and out slackers are about to be taken by the officials in charge of the enforcement of the draft !r. Pennsylvania. Ever since the last consignment of men was forwarded to the mobilization camps efforts have been under way to obtain hand information about the number of men who have been sent and those who have evaded the draft. The number required has been fur nished by a number of the 282 local boards, but there are some who are considerably shy of the quota. Prac tically every board has reported men who dodged service or who could not be reached. It Is estimated that some of the boards have 200 or 300 men who have not responded. In vestigations arc under way and it has been found that there is a fair proportion of slackers who evaded service either by failing to register or to appear when summoned; aotrw who were either too ignorant or who did not understand what was meant when they were summoned to re port for examination; others who did not get notices because of mis directions or other reasons; men ivho were absent or who are in the Army or who were away from the district when called, while there are likewise some who avoided getting mail. This latter class is said to have been rath er larger than suspected because tlio oflicial envelope probably made them suspicious and who declined accept ance. These names will be made up in lists and the men sent for. The slackers will be sent to a designated camp and kept together for Inten sive training to make up for lost time, in the opinion of men here, while those who were ignorant or tor other causes did not appear will bo sent to camps to fill up units. The examinations will start before very long. It Is an interesting commentary on the draft to note that very few Chinese or Japanese out of the hun dreds called in this state have asked to be exempted. Many Italians, in spite of the fact that their county is at* war and allied with the United States, which is bending efforts to help, have asked for exemptions, some of them even after setting into training at camps, while Creeks, Spaniards and Utissians have also tiled many claims for relief. The filing by the Russians is probably the largest in number and a regular in dustry in that line appears to be op erating in Philadelphia. But as for the Orientals they have lined right tip and every camp has Chinese or Japanese wearing the uniforms and stepping as smartly as the sons of Pennsylvania hills. William H. Ball, secretary to thu Governor, has brought back a good story from one of the camps which were visited by the Governor and his party. At one of the canton ments the officers were more or less perplexed in handling the drafted men from Pennsylvania because of the large percentage of foreign names. There were some excellent young Americans in the companies but they had the names given to them by their parents. This condition was ilustrated by a remark by one or the officers, who said In speaking of the difficulties, "The rolls of the companies are fearful and wonderful things. In calling the roll the other day the first sergeant of a company sneezed." Mr. Ball says he inquired what happened then. "Why," said the officer, "Twenty two men answered 'present.' " Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings Shreiner is proceed ing with all due caution in the re moval of the trees in Capitol Park which have been marked for taking out. either because of their condition or because they are in the lino of improvements. • When the plan of taking out trees was broached it was decided to do it gradually. The treo sharks say that the park is over crowded and that it has more trees than the soil of the hill, which is a hard shale, can support. In any event, it was determined that the trees should be taken out one by one and it was thought that the worst should be first. The other day a man stopped some workers and asked why the old trees along Wal nut street which had been damaged when the Grand Opera Mouse burned in 1907 had not been taken out, and a resident of Third street put up a strenuous kick because an old tree with one limb hanging oyer the Third street pavement was not cut down right away. Senator James P. McNichol, who I will be buried in Philadelphia to morrow, was one of the advocate* ,of a new hotel in Harrisburg and took a big interest in the projects for construction. He said that a new hotel would make hundreds of peo ple stop here every week to see the Capitol. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge G. A. Endlich. of Read ing, has just celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his admission to the bar. —Captain W. B. Page, former col lege athlete, hns gone to Russia with American engineers. —Col. J. Howell Cummings, ln charge . of hat purchases for the United States Army, is a member of Governor Brumbaugh's staff. —General W. G. Price, who is a big Chester real estate man, has turned his business over to his sons because he expects long war service. - —Wallace H. Rowe, Pittsburgh steel man, is ill at his home. —General A. J. Logan Is returning from Camp Hancock for a brief visit to his home in Western Pennsylva nia. DO YOU KNOW —T hat Ha rr i s burg made shells liavc been llrctl against U-boats? HISTORIC HARRISBURG George Washington crossed Susquehanna here in John Harris' ferry. ALLIED ARTILLERY Time has been given for the Allies to develop not only military strength but a great superiority in artillery that is to-day contributing so much to successful advances. A recent French writer has published a state ment showing that, while France produced twelve thousand shells a day for the 75-millimeter at the beginning of the war, she is turning out now a quarter of a million a day for the same guns. In 1914 France possessed only 300 heavy field and siege guns that were organized into regiments. To-day she has more than 6,000 and has loaned 800 to her allies. —Military Expert of th I Scientific American.
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