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FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 23
The habit of viewing things cheer
fully, and of thinking about life
hopefully, may be made to grow up
in us like any other habit.
GET TOGETHER
THERE is no subject in which the
Republicans of Pennsylvania
are more interested at present
than the restoration of complete
harmony within the party organiza
tion throughout the State. There
already has been enough of faction
al controversy to satisfy the aver
age trouble-maker for some years to
come. But notwithstanding the gen
eral party sentiment in favor of
peace, there are those who persist
In elimination of this or that group,
Instead of concentration of all groups
end a harmonious conduct of party
affairs.
If the two wings of the party, as
represented by the remotest feathers
of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, will
not flap together, then it might be
well for the organization as a whole
to cut both wings. In other words,
get rid of factionalism wherever it
exists and promote a more sensible
and steady party alignment.
It is perfectly obvious that Repub
lican success depends upon the
breaking down of the differences
which have aroused antagonism
throughout the Commonwealth. Of
course, Democratic bosses are de
lighted with the prospects. At
every turn they are encouraging Re
publican dissension for their own
selfish purposes and unless Repub
lican leaders, big and little, stop
their foolish factionalism there is
likely to be a result next year which
will not enhance the prestige ot the
party.
Instead of conferences here and
there to further factional ends, it
might he better to have a general
conference of disinterested Repub
lican leaders who are looking more
to the success of the party as a whole
than to the particular fortunes of
any special group or groups. It
should be understood now, while
there is still time to adjust what
ever differences are splitting the
party, that a compact, harmonious
and aggressive Republican party
will be necessary next year to defeat
the plans, preparations and personal
scheming of those who are now
manipulating the Democratic ma
chine for their own particular pur
poses and the promotion of their
own individual ambitions. There is
no use mincing about the sit
uation. It requires direct and spe
cific treatment. It admits of no
trifling.
Byng! Just like that!
SUPPORT IN EVERY WAY
NOT only did organized labor
of Pennsylvania, through two
of its leading spokesmen, go
on record yesterday at the Fifth
State Welfare and Efficiency con
ference as unqualifiedly behind the
government in the prosecution of the
war for democracy until victory
comes, but it made announcement
of its enlistment in behalf of safety
of life and limb. It goes without
saying that organized labor of the
Keystone State is patriotically deter
mined to maintain American ideals
and that it will give not only its
efforts, but its men to win, and the
declaration by speakers yesterday
that they will turn men who foment
strikes to embarrass the government
over to the tender mercies of United
States marshals was to be expected.
The treatment accorded pro-German
roaches in Industrial plants when
they become obnoxious Is Indicative
of what labor will do.
But the significant thing about
the statements made at the con-
ference yesterday was that labor In
tends to cut down the accidents by
education. For years the attitude
of labor In regard to safety cam
paigns was unsettled, and only the
far-thinking men saw the import
ance of lining up with manufactur
ers In efforts to reduce accidents.
Thanks to the intelligent work of the
National Safety Council and the co
operation of the State government,
employers and employes have been
brought together and when organis
ed labor determines to demonstrate
to it* people that accident* not only
Interfere with efficiency, and there-
FRIDAY EVENING.
fore earnings, but hamper the na
tion in time of need. It Is giving sup
port In every way.
A good many of the German
U-boats are becoming permanently
submarine.
AMERICANS FIRST
WE are thorough Americans
first and railroadmen after
ward, was in subst&nce what the
Brotherhood leaders told President
"Wilson yesterday in presenting to
him a statement of their willingness
to enter ino any reasonable negotia
tions looking toward a proper and
patriotic adjustment of their wage
grievances.
The Brotherhood officials in this
instance unquestionably reflect the
sentiment of the great rank and file
of railroadmen, thousands of whom
have enlisted in the service of their
country and many others of whom
already are In France introducing
American methods on French rail
roads, thereby helping as much to
win the war as though they were
in the trenches. Thousands of other
railroad men, as witness the pictures
in the Telegraph during the last |
campaign, are owners of Liberty
Bonds Nearly all of them have
subscribed to the Red Cross fund
and hundreds of dollars came from
railroad circles in the recent cam
paign to raise money for Y. M. C.
A. war worlt at the front. The rail
roadmen know that a strike at this
time would be a blow at the country
and a great help to Germany. It
would be a direct slap at their own
fellow members in the services and
would result unquestionably in
governmental control of the roads.
The average railroad man doesn't
want to strike. Indeed, it would be
mighty difficult to find one who
■would willingly walk out at this
time, and the decision of the leaders
to submit their grievances to reason
able adjustment will meet with
popular approval both within snd
without Brotherhood circles.
A sorely burdened public will
sympathize with the railroad men
In their efforts to increase their
earnings. Living costs have ad
vanced tremendously as a result of
the war, more than keeping pace
with wage advances, and the ex
pressed intention of the Brother
hoods to ask for no more than fifty
per cent, of the increased expense of
living will strike the ordinary citi
zen as reasonable. The railroader's
argument appears to be that he will
shoulder willingly half the added
war costs If the railroads will raise
his wages to cover the remainder.
But the President and those who
will consider the proposed new wage
scale should not forget that the rail
road companies must have their
chance, too. It would be hardly
fair to advance wages unless the
railroads are also permitted to raise
rates, in order to provide the addi
tional $112,000,000 which the men
would be paid. The public will not
frown upon a rate increase. It is
willing that the roads and the men
both should be dealt with fairly. It
is more Interested just now In get
ting freight over the roads than in
what the cost of transportation Is
or may be in the Immediate future,
and at the conclusion of the war. If
a readjustment is necessary It will
be time enough for consideration
then.
The Brotherhood leaders have be
gun their negotiations In a spirit of
patriotism worthy the best traditions
of American labor and it is to he
hoped that this temper wjll pervade
the whole situation until a mutually
satisfactory conclusion la reached.
Altoopa Is getting ready to Intro
duce the city manager form of gov
ernment and the experiment will be
awaited with much Interest by other
third cla* eltle, Including Harrla
burg.' Bethlehem, with Its new mu
nicipal toggery, will alio try out the
manager plan. Many who have
watched the progress ot our own city
and who have had some part In its
development are likewise looking
hopefully to some such change here.
IK
ICCLKUI.
Jly the Ex-Committecman
Predictions that contests against
the legality of the vote of the Penn
sylvania soldiers will be launched in
half a dozen counties and that some
of the commissioners who supervised
the elections may be dragged into
the inquiry were rife all over the
state to-day and discussion of the
effect such proceedings in court
might have upon various close elec
tion battles dwarfed the interesting
moves now being .made in state poli
tics. The manueverlng in advance of
the spring primary at which a state
ticket will be nominated has begun
much earlier than usual and there
are half a dozen men whose activi
ties indicate that they are going into
the preliminary campaign in earn
est.
The state administration leaders
have been endeavoring to soft pedal
political talk until the Philadelphia
situation clears up, but the fact is
that there are three or four men so
ardently backed by partisans f the
governmental leaders that keeping
quiet is the last thing possible about
the Capitol. The Penrose people are
also endeavoring to maintain silence.
As they have most to gain from de
velopments they are more successful
about discouraging activities than
the other factions.
—There are several points upon
which contests of the soldier vote
might be made. In the first place
many persons in Pennsylvania have
never been quite clear that soldiers
had a right to vote for local officers.
These people have Insisted that the
Intention of the framers of the act
of 186 4, which governs such elec
tions, contemplated national and I
state elections and not local con
tests. Then, it is contended that the
tax situation also barred soldiers
from voting, although this may be
far fetched and due more or less to
local animosities. Just what effect
the charges of undue activity on the
part of some commissioners may
have is problematical.
—The issue will likely be raised In
Philadelphia, where every .vote will
count in the city election results not
so much as in determining who was
elected, but as to how much the
Republican majority was cut down.
In others words the effect on next
spring's primary election will be the
big thing.
—The Philadelphia Press to-day
says: "A three-cornered fight for
the Governorship between State Sen
ator William C. Sproul, of Dela
ware county; State Highway Com
missioner J. Denny O'Neil and United
States Secretary of Labor William B.
Wilson, who hails from Blossburg, is
being anticipated as more than a
possibility by political leaders in the
state, it was learned yesterday. Sec
retary Wilson, a member of Presi
dent Wilson's Cabinet, has been put
forward as a likely candidate by the
labor leaders of the state who are
insisting that he is named as the
candidate to oppose Senator Sproul.
The candidate for governor will be
chosen at the primary elections next
spring and the political leaders have
had their lieutenants out in all parts
of the state sounding out sentiment."
"The Democrats apparently have
been busy making hay throughout
the state and figure that they have
every opportunity of electing Secre
tary Wilson as a Democratic gover
nor of the state providing there is a
fight between Senator Sproul and
Commissioner O'Neil after the pri
maries. Incidentally it is said that
Republican leaders regard the con
dition as so disturbing that some of
the up state elements may Intervene
for the sake of their own safety and
in feome way compel a truce between
the warring factions in Philadelphia.
To this end the corners of the state
are being busily combed for likely
candidates who would be so non
partisan and at the same time so
distinguished that the battling ele
ments among the Republicans may
be united upon a single candidate."
—Labor leaders who. have been
Identified with the state adminis
tration and who are here for the
welfare conference were reluctant to
talk about the difference of opinion
among them over Gifford Pinchot
and Major John Price Jackson as
gubernatorial timber. Other labor
leaders who do not wear Brum
baugh colors were insisting that la
bor should unite regardless of Re
publican factions. The sudden ap
pearance of Mr. Pinchot in Harris
burg yesterday startled some of the
partisans of Major Jackson and sent
the scouts of Highway Commissioner
J. Denny O'Neil on a still hunt to
find out what he had said. From
the best Information available Pin
chot has not said whether he will
run or not. He wants to survey the
field.
—Folks at the Capitol expect Com
missioner O'Neil to say something
about his ambitions very soon. Men
who have been talking of Attorney
General Brown are much interested
in what O'Neil. who has been flitting
about the state, may have to say on
the subject.
—The Philadelphia Record re
marks that Registration Commis
sioner Shoyej' does not seem to bo
in a hurry to resign although re
turns indicate he has been elected
city treasurer of that city.
—Glenn C. Meade, well known to
people at the Capitol, has been made
a Philadelphia assistant city solici
tor.
—Just what is going to he thp
■ fate of the State Commission of
Agriculture is an Interesting prob
lem. Its meetings have not attract
ed much attention at the south end
of the Capitol.
—Friends of ex-Mnyor Magee say
that he will likely be chosen to a
place In the Pittsburgh city coun
cil.
—Reports are thrlt Representative
William Davis, of Ebensburg, Is dan
gerously 111 and may not recover.
GOVERNOR'S PRAISE
In speaking to press representa
tives before leaving Camp Hancock,
Governor Brumbaugh said:
"Camp Hancock is undoubtedly
the best tented encampment that I
Vave ever seen. The site is splendid,
the climate excellent and local con
ditions good. I am Indeed pleased
that the soldiers of my state have
been dealt with so generously as t"iey
have here In the Southland.
"As for the men, in all my exper
ience with the manhood of Amer
ica, I have never seen so large a body
of men in such physical trim as the
Pennsylvania soldiers composing
the Twenty-eighth division. I have
inspected the men many times, but
until to-day I have never seen them
so physically fit. They are In better
trim now than when they returned
from the Mexican border."
MOMENTS OF DEPRES
SION
We have our moments of depres
sion, as wo cast a thoughtful eye
around the globe, when we wonder
if the human race in worth saving.
—Ohio State Journal
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Have you seen the "bayonet face?"
'ell, you are likely to be shocked
when you see your cherished boy
from camp. The "bayonet face" is
a real thir\£ and no idle fancy, say
the men at Camp Meade. It is de
ioped from the constant handling
of cold steel in bayonetting. In fol
lowing instructions the soldiers have
to keep their eyes on the point of
the bayonet and assume a look of
grim determination and eagerness.
The pupils of the eygs become en
larged and there is a certain glare
which transmits an expression of
hate to the whole countenance.
How is this for a Pennsylvania rec
ord? Mrs. Lena Hagenmeister, of
Philadelphia, a name which sounds
singularly German, has given her
husband, three sons and two step
sons to the military service of the
nation. A sixth star will soon be
added to her service flag when her
youngest son, joins the other male
members of the family in the artil
lery service.
A Chester County paper takes
some trouble 'to tell us that there
are twenty-eight operations neces
sary in laundering a collar in these
critical days. We cannot think of
that many. Only ones we ever heard
of were, chewing up the edges,
macerating the corners, forgetting
the starch, anointing with fly spects,
maltreating the buttonhole and
finally delivering the collar to the
wrong man.
LETTERS TO SOLDIERS
One of the interesting sights in
cnmp life is the arrival of the ser
geant with the mail. As soon as his
presence is announced, a crowd of
men assemble around the first ser
geant's tent as if by magic, all with
the same hope—that of receiving a
letter from the loved ones back home
or some friend.
Some fellows receive more than
others. We have seen some young
men, popular at home, receive no less
than six letters besides packages con
taining comforts and delicacies.
Other men have stood by hopefully,
waiting patiently until the last let
ter had been given out, hoping al
most against hope, that a letter
would come for them. These men
have gone away disappointed, and
to many of them it has been a keen,
a bitter disappointment.
Do you want the soldier lads to
keep the home fires burning? Do
you want them to retain the home
contact? Do you want them to keep
up their interest in the old town?
Write to them. In New Zealand,
clubs have been formed to secure
the names of soldiers for correspond
ence purposes and many a soldier's
heart has been stirred by a kindly
and cheering message from some
unknown friend back home.
The soldiers themselves can be of
greatest value in this work. If a sol
dier knows of a man in his squad
who has been neglected, who looks
for a letter day after day—the let
ter that seldom if ever comes—send
his name to some friend and suggest
that a letter be sent to the neglected
comrade.
Here is an opportunity for defin
ite Christian service. Get on the Job!
—Camp and TJrench.
THE FIGURES TELL
The favorite statement of the soap
box raclttst stride the entry of the
aite States Into the war has been
that tiiis is u rich man's war and that
America was forced into it by wealthy
men desirous of conserving and in
creasing their war profits. The sac
rifices made by the rich men of the
country already; the enormous bur
dens laid upon them in the way of
war taxes and a scope of other things
have made it plain to every intelli
gent mindithat if they had brought
about the war they were, to say the
leasi, much shorter sighted than
their business success would Indicate.
But if any further proof is needed
by any one we suggest a perusal of
the stock market reports. The best
securities of the country, after de
clining steadily for ifiany months,
reached a new low level a few days
o, this figure in some instances
being lower than it was in the panic
times of 1907.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
THE HIGHER COST
Howell—l feel like BO cents.
Powell—You mean like 80 cents.
"No; everything haa been mrfrked
up."—From Lif
*
The Kaiser's Dream
\L JI
[New York Herald]
There's a story I'm told, though strange it may seem,
How the Great Kaiser Bill had a wonderful dream,
He was dreaming of Allies as he lay in his bed,
When his dream switched about and he dreamed he was dead
In a very fine coffin he was lying in state,
And thousands were there though none mourned his fato.
His soul buzzed about and found to his cost
That he and his soldiers were doomed to be lost;
He wouldn't believe it, so to Heaven went straight,
And, arrived at the portals, knocked loud at the gate;
"Hey, Peter, get busy, quick open the door.
See who's here. It's the Kaiser. Make everything roar.
Beat the drums, blow the horns, have a swell banquet made,
Tell Gott I have come and we'll have a parade."
Saint Peter looked out. Then in voice loud and clear.
Said, "Try down below, Bill, you can't get in' here."
"Tut, tut," said the Kaiser, "you're very uncivil,
Don't probably know I'm a friend of the Devil,
And I'm going with pleasure." So he started to go.
A-whistling like blazes, to make a big show.
When he came to Hell's door he was filled with dismay.
For while waiting outside he o'erheard Satan say—
•"Look here, boys, take nfltice, I give you all warning,
I'm expecting the Kaiser down here in the morning;
But don't let him in, he'll start mussing about;
So give him the ha! ha! and kick him right out."
"Oh, Satan, dear friend," the Kaiser then cried,
"Excuse me for listening while waiting outside,
But please let me in, for where else can I go?"
"Indeed," said the Devil, "I'm damned if I know."
"Ach, please let me in, for I'm feeling quite cold,
And if you want money I've plenty of gold;
Let me sit in a corner, no matter how hot."
'Nix, nein," said the Devil, "most certainly not. "
You can't gain admittance by your offer of pelf.
Here are sulphur and matches, make a Hell for yoiirsclf.
Don't skimp, use them freely, for, by donner and blitz!
I have plenty more left for the Sultan and Frits."
From his troublous sleep Bill awoke in a sweat
And said. "That's a dream I shall never forget.
That I won't get to Heaven I know very well,
But I never believed I'd be kicked out of Hell!
FEWER NEWSPAPERS
For twenty years the number of
newspapers and periodicals In the
United States has been steadily de
clining, relatively to population. In
the last decade or so the number of
daily newspapers has notably de
creased. A corttemporary# reports
that, though the population of the
fourteen largest cities in Michigan
has doubled, the number of dally
papers has fallen from forty-two to
twenty-three.
No doubt like causes have pro
duced a like effect elsewhere. Quite |
recently consolidations of dailies in
first-class cities have attracted at
tention. The number of considera
ble cities with no morning paper ap
pears to increase. Within our rec
ollection, five morning papers have
disappeared from Chicago, though
the population of the city has much
more than doubled.
The cause, of course, is the stead
ily increasing cost of establishing
and publishing a newspaper. The
investment which formerly would
have launched a daily paper in Chi
cago or New York now hardly suf
fices for Kalamazoo, and operating
costs are so high that a paper must
win a very substantial support or lose
a lot of money.
War has greatly increased operat
ing costs by raising the price of pa
per, other materials and labor.
Probably these war costs have been
a governing motive in some recent
consolidations. The new revenue
law, which not only Increases postal
charges enormously but provides for
a zone system, falls heavily on news
paper profits, and will presumably
accelerate the movement toward
consolidation, sectionalism and elim
ination.
We should not be surprised if two
dally papers in a city with anything
less than a hundred thousand in
habitants became the exception
rather than the rule. That would
give the surviving publisher a lot
of political influence, but would tend
to a one-sided discussion of public
affairs. —Saturday Evening Post.
GOD AND H. G. WELLS
[From the New York Independent]
Whether God made H. O. Wells or
H. G.' Wells has recently made Ood
and pronounced him good, we shall
not attempt to say. If any sensitive
leader hesitates to hold Ood respon
sible for Wells, he may think one
way. If any reader equally but dif
ferently sensitive shrinks from owing
to Mr. Wells his vision of Ood, he
may think the other way. Speaking
only for ourselves, we enfess con
servatism In these matters, and. In
spite of occasional doubts, probably
shall go on believing that God made
Wells.
PREMIERS OF ENGLAND
Lloyd George lias every reason to
hasten to Italy; it was the similar
defeat of Romania that put him into
the ofllco in "place of fttr. Asquith.—
Springfield Republican
Braved Kaiser's Wrath
[From the New York Tribune]
More than ten years ago Prince
Alexander zu Hohenlohe son of a for
mer German chancellor, whose re
cent article in the Neue Zeitung of
Zurich, Switzerland, rredicting a
German revolution asserted that the
Kaiser was out of touch with his
people and surrounded by synco
phants, who dared not tell him the
truth.
"J, know the emperor well," he told,
a friend nt that time. "He speaks
to me In the intimate 'thou' when ad
dressing me. But I tell you he is
capricious. None of the men about
him, not excepting myself dares tell
him the truth about political condi
tions. It would be as much as our
political lives are worth, at the least
We must tell him only what we know
he wants to hear."
Despite his knowledge of the Kai
ser's temperament, however, Prince
Hohenlohe a little later overstepped
the bounds. His father. Prince
Chlodwlg zu Hohenlohe, former
chancellor of the empire, had left
his memoirs In the hands of his son.
They were racy memoirs. lie ridi
culed many prominent Germi|t\ per
sonages. But the young prince de
cided to print them.
When the book came out It made
a tremendous sensation. The Kaiser
was furious. Following the accepted
German method, he jumped first not
cn the young prince, but on the head
of the Hohenlohe family, an elder
brother. That availed nothing. Sp
he seized on the culprit and caused
him to be dismissed as prefect of Col
mar .
But Prince Hohenlohe was a spir
ited man, as his recent article in the
Swiss newspaper asserting the Ger
man people were losing faith In their
rulers and speaking often of "revo
lution" will prove. He was demoted,
disgraced, dismissed. But he would
have his revenge. He sold his pre
fect's uniform, sword and all, to the
director of the Municipal Theater at
Colmar.
Thereafter one could see an actor
strut on the stage In the trousers of
the Hohenlohe. It was terrible—
fqr the Kaiser. Think of seeing the
trousers of a prince of the blood,
even one who hud been disgraced,
worn by a mere actor an I in a farce!
By his action Prince Hohenlohe
struck a blow at the fair name of
autocracy.
HOPE OF HIS PEOPLE
The sun and the moon shall be
darkened, and the stars shall with
draw their shining. But the Bord
will be the hope of his people.—Jool
ill. 15 and 16.
THREE'S A CROWD
In the parlor there were three,
She. the parlor lamp and he;
Two is company, no doubt, •
So the little lamp went out!
—From the Cqmp Dodger, Camp
>Pedgw
NOVEMBER 23, 1917.
GLIMPSE OF A "TANK"
"From the depths of the wood op
posite came a crackling, crunching
sound, as if some prehistoric beast
forcing its way through tropical un
dergrowth. And then, suddenly, out
from the thinning edge there loomed
a monster—amonstrosity. It did not
glide, it did not walk. It wallowed.
It lurched, with now and then a la
borious heave of its shoulders. It
fumbled its way over a low bank
matted with scrub. It crossed a
ditch by the simphe expedient of roll
ing the ditch out flat, and waddled
forward. In its path stood a young
tree. The monster arrived at the
tree, and laid its chin lovingly
against the stem. The tree leaned
back, crackled, and assumed a hor
izontal position. In the middle of
the clearing, twenty yards further
on, gaped an enormous shell crater,
a present from the Kaiser. Into this
the creature plunged blindly, to
emerge, panting and puffing, on the
farther side. Then it stopped. A
magic opening appeared in its stom
ach, from which emerged, grinning,
a British subaltern and his grimy
associates." From "All In It," by
Major lan Hay Beith.
BEGINNING TO TELL
Coal is scarce, but not high. Su
gar is scarce, but price does not ad
vance as stocks decline. Govern
ment regulation amounts to some
thing.—From the Syracuse Post-
Standard.
[OUR DAILY LAUGH 1
WORSE YET.
"The spiteful old cat! She tells
people that I make up my face."
"Never mind, dear; nobody be
• lieves it. They know if you did
i you'd make a better Job of It."
INDIRECT TESTIMONY.
Judge—What's the charge?
Officer—Rocking his wife to sleep,
•er honor.
•That's no case.
Oh, but yer honor, yer should h#v
een the solze of the rock, '
GRASP OF HUMAN NATURE.
Manager—But this play is too
high-brow, it will never be a success.
Author —That's where .you ar
mistaken, people always pralst
things they don't understand.
VERY FORTUNATE.
"Mrs. Apj>ls> Worm —Yes, we are
fortunate indeed, our house provides
both shelter and food for u|
Etaetrttuj (M|at
"Automobile thieves, the kind who
make a business of stealing moto*
vehicles will receive scant sympathy
and certainly prompt action by the
State Board of Pardons" remarked
Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Mo
Clain here today in discussing the
action of the State Board in refusing
pardon to two applicants for clem
ency after having been sentenced
to stiff terms for theft of cars. "It is
high time that the public realize the
extent of these thefts. X have heard
of cities where there have been val
uable cars taken and 110 trace ever
found. Now we are being asked to
recommend pardon for men wo have fc,
been convicted of just such thefts.
Unless they can advance very good
reasons, as far as I am concerned,
there will be nothing doing. We
have not only cases of this kind pre
sented to us, but many in which mis
placed sympathy directs people to
act. This Board is not to be fooled
by the plans of men who should suf
fer just deserts for their offensea
or by appeals to our feelings. We
can not do all we would like to do.
But we are not going to allow adroit
picas for motor thieves or any of
that kind of prisoners to mislead
us."
Harrisburg residents who ir*
natives of Sunny Italy are watching
closely the outcome of conditions at
the battle front. If there is an/
doubt as to their anxiety and inter
est, visit the Pennsylvania railroad
station mornings and evenings at the
time the newspapers arrive. All
pages are scanned closely, not only
for the news, but for pictures. The
latter are really attracting the at
tention of local Italians, especially
the cartoons. The other day a New
\ork paper printed a cartoon, tho
heading of which was, "Catching the
Bismarck Herring." It showed a
Venetian boat, named "Italy" In
which was an Italian lisherman.
He had just hooked the Kaiser
through the ear, and his son
through the lip. No sooner had
this cartoon been noticed than every
paper in which it was printed was
soon exhausted. Since then from
twenty to thirty wait patiently for
the arrival of later editions of that
particular paper. "The Italians are
among the best buyers I have for
evening editions of newspapers," said
the dealer."
It is probable that it will be deter
mined within a week whether the
state is to go on with its Capitol
Park Extension development or ta
put it aside because of the war. In
timations have been given that th
War Department wants the use ol
the twenty-eight acres for storage
of war material which it can not
provide for at Middletown and High
spire and the state authorities will
likely give the use of the place it
asked. However, the two landscape
architects are at work on plans and
if the operations are to be post
poned because of the war the Board
will probably take such steps as will
stop work on the plans and the pay.
Mont of expensive experts until the
war ends, and the program can lie
resumed.
Interesting letters are being re
ceived at the State Library from two
of its officials who are in the service
at the big camps in the south
where their experience is proving
valuable to the government and to
the soldiers. Both plan to spend
some months yet organizing tin
work assigned to them. Robert P
Bliss, chief of the Traveling Librar
ies, is in charge of the Camp Li.
brary at Camp Hancock where the
Pennsylvania division is encamped
and where he has formed one of th%
best libraries in any camp. Mr 7
BHss had much to do with the cam
paign for the library funds in Penn
sylvania. Prof. H. H. Shenk, chief ot
the bureau of records, is in charge
of the organization of the Y. M. C. A.
work in the big eamp at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas. He has ten build
ings under his care and will remain
unt'l the work is in full operation.
• • •
Harrisburg people who have been
connnected with thie State Govern
ment and who thave played goll
around here in recent years will be
interested to know that George W.
Muse has been elected district attor
ney of Lawrence county. Mr. Muss
was for a time connected with the
Department of Internal Affairs and
left here to take up the practice ot
his profession at New Castle. He
was some golfer and more than one
man who plays the game recalls the
trimmings Muse used to hand out.
Harrisbuig people will be consid
erably interested in the trials oi
some Berks county municipalitiei
who were about to celebrate th<
coming of Are apparatus and had
everything all ready when UncU
Sam stepped in. This city had a
similar experience, fire engines or.
dered from the West having been di.
verted because the government
needed the pumping apparatus. Onlj
in our case the celebrations did nol
have to be postponed.
• ♦ •
Referee G. Scott Smith, of th
Warren-McKean district of the stat
compensation system, who was her
for the welfare conference, is well
known to many Harrisburgers as h
was connected with newspapers in
the State for years. Mr. Smith has
been complimented by state ofllciaU
for thg manner in which he has kepi
his work right up to date.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—J. Henry Scattergood, well
known in Philadelphia affairs, hai
returned from a visit to Franc*
where he observed the troops.
—The Rev. C. W. Hogg, of Wii
llamsport, has been visiting th
camps of the soldiers and has somi
ideas on the subject.
—Adjutant General Frank XI
Beary has been visiting for a fefl
days in southern bounties.
—Dr'. J. H. Raymond, student ol
European affairs, says that no mat.
ter how the war turns out it meani
th end of the Austrian empire.
—Judge John M. Carman will pre.
side at the Knights of Columbus Wai
Fund meeting in Hazleton Sunday.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Tlarrlsbursr Is sending
many boxes to tlic soldiers in
the ramps and across the seas
for Christmas?
HISTORIC HAHRISBURG
Early revivals used to bo held stm
meetings along the Hlver Front
summer time.
CLAIMS FOR EXEMPTION
He* dcesn't want to do hla bit
Nor run a risk of. dying;
Ho has a wife and seven chicks
On his support relying.
Ho urges he is under woight, * .
, A skeleton condition:
Opposing molars, too, he ays.
Are lacking for dentition.
An* yet despite his many claim®
Urpatriotic sinner,
Tli4 board pronouncas Gobbler nt
To grace Thanksgiving dinner
McLANDBURQH WlLaOlf