12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. "E. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't & Ediior-in-Cliief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS 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- Bureau of Clrcu- Eastern office, — _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a drußif'rsKioumrt week; by mail, $5.00 '■•tongfeg'-" a year in advance. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917 But noble souls, through dust and lieat Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger. — LONGFELLOW. TOO LITTLE FOR THE J®B ISN'T it about time we got rid of General Crozier as chief of the ordnance bureau? We are 'talking of "sending a million men to Prance" next spring pnd due to Crozier's backwar3nf.ps and his personal antagonisms even if we do have the men we will not have the machine guns with which to equip them and without which they cannot fight. Worse than that, it may be spring of 1919 before the American Army has sufficient guns of the kind to make It an efficient military force—unless we borro-v more weapons from poor, hard pressed France. And even so they ■will go into the trenches with weapons that never have had a live : minute test in actual battle and j concerning the effectiveness of which 110 Army man can testify from actual experience. The story of Crozier's inefficiency is a s,ad one, for it is going to cost thousands of American lives before hia stupidity has been overcome. The allies are to-day using 7<T",f>oo Lewis machine guns, on every one of ■which the inventor, Colonel Lewis, a retired United States Army officer, receives profit. Colonel Lewis first offered this gun free to the United States Army and Crozier, his per sonal enemy, declined it without a trial. Afterward the Germans, un der the guise of Belgians, almost got it, but Colonel Lewis withdrew when he discovered the ruse and in 4 8 hours after he had landed in Lon don the English government had adopted it and given him an enor mous contract. He is now turning out 8,000 a week in English fac tories and all the allies are using them, having demonstrated that they arc the highest type weapon in the Now comes Colonel Lewis to offer 2,000 a month to the United States, he to turn all his profits from the manufacture back to the govern ment and to give his own services Absolutely free, to which Crozier turns a deaf ear, and goes forward with plans to make what is known as the Browning gun, which he and others say is superior to the Lewis gun. That may or may not be true, but it cannot be manufactured be fore the tools are made with which to turn it out and the government is only now advertising for the tool makers. That means months and months before a Browning gun can l>e made, and even then it will be very much of an experiment. Mean while, our boys in the camps are drilling with wooden models and our boys abroad are at the meroy of the French government and ab surdity of all absurdities —are u:4ng the very kind of guns which Crozier declines to give them, although he might have 2,000 every month if he desired. Now if the Germans only will wait politely until we can turn out suffi cient Browning guns, and the Browning gun proves the success claimed tor it, why everything will be all right. But how about men like Crozier in the government service? How about continuing in office a man who will let our armies go unarmed to France when he might have equipped them with a very superior type of weapon ? How about an offi cer who puts personal antagonisms hefcre patriotism? What is 10 be dene with such as he? TO SHOW WHAT IT MEANS SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE A. SHREINER's request to the distinguished planners of the Capitol Park extension and beauti flcation to advance the studies for that part of the great undertaking which will demonstrate the advisa bility of locating the bridge at State Street Is important for Harrlsburg. The city Is vitally Interested in the relation of the proposed park to its rapidly developing Hill section. The State calls upon the municipality to relocate the structure authorized by vote of the people to be built at Walnut street, and the opinion of the experts, to say nothing of a great many people who are not ex perts, is that the bridge should be so located that it will be In harmony with the wonderful plan for a beauty spot In the center of Harris burg and at the same time facilitate communication with the highland part of town. When these plans are received there will be opportunity for the ! people to study them. They will be shown for the benefit of Council and explained for information of the people who will vote on the ques tion. It is hard to believe that there will be much opposition to the change. But at the same time the people should know exactly what the State plans to do and how the bridge will fit into the general scheme which everyone knows will mean much to Harrisburg. Food conservationists are now using turkey hash as a medium. THE WATER SUPPLY OUBTLESS Harrisburg people will readily comply with the request of Mayor Kelster that they use les3 water until the supply can be increased, but that is not the important point. The necessity never should have arisen. Harris burg is now suffering for the mis taken economies practiced some years ago when upon recommenda tion of the then superintendent Council agreed to reductions of rates, that left the department ham pered for funds for the purchase of much needed equipment. Back of all this is another fail ure of the poor old' Clark act. Be fore they were howled out by the passage of the small council law, trained and efficient commissioners had charge of the water depart ment. They had made a close and lengthy study of the situation. There never was a time when the city was in peril of no water. Water rates were among the lowest in the United States and the supply was pure and abundant at all times. The men in active charge had been in their respective positions for years and they knew their jobs. Then came the Clark act, with its change in office every few years, its dropping from the service of the city of practically every man who. had been responsible for the growth and development of the water plant and the substitution of others who had to learn from experience what the former commissioners and employes already knew. Political expedient demanded a reduction of the water rates, and it was done. Came an other campaign, and another cut. And now, with the city larger than ever, with munition plants running over with urgent Government war orders, all requiring an ample sup ply of water, what do we find? The supply insufficient and the pumping equipment little better than a wreck and working overtime every day of the week. Under the old form of government this * would not have happened. Council must, as the Mayor has outlined, back up the present su perintendent in an effort to correct the condition as soon as possible. The matter already has been too long postponed. When Commission er Dunkle retired he left with Coun cil a complete outline of the condition and needs of the department, but, notwithstanding this, little or noth ing was done, other than to include appropriations for improvements in the annual budget. The water de partment head should have known that the city was on the verge of a disastrous water famine and should have taken whatever radical steps he found necessary. Instead, he waited to be prodded. Quick action is nec essary. Harrisburg must have wa ter, whatever the cost. We are pay ing the piper for ill-considered ex periments in municipal government and for inefficiency and political jugglery in office. Some of these days when American soldiers get machine guns, and rifles, and uniforms and other things of the sort, Germany may be prompted to make a real peace offer. The Mt. Carmel man who lost ten toes in a blizzard has the consolation of knowing he will never have his toes frozen again. The only man who ever broke a New Year's resolution Is the chap who never made any. The German "shock" battalions usu ally get just what their name im plies. "~P.K)vO By the Ei-Commltteeman Governor Brumbaugh's declaration that candidates for the Legislature pledged to ratification of the "dry" amendment should be supported by the people of the state without re gard to party affiliations, and Chair man W. D. B. Alney's remarks in his Tunkhannock speech that the time had come to bury factional differ ences were big topics among men ac tive In politics in Pennsylvania to day. The Governor in his Philadel phia speech amplified what he had already said in an Interview here. The chairman, who has been talked of as a possible guberrtatorial candi date, expressed an opinion which is general In the Keystone State and re garded as highly Important at Wash ington where a number of congress men insist that differences shall be harmonized so that the elections next year shall not be a Donnybrook fair. The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the Ainey speech looks like "the first bid from the Brumbaugh camp for cessation of factional fighting." The North American views It very cautiously and says It is a call for service for the state, while the Ledg er says, among various speculations, that it is "an indication that the ad ministration is willing to discuss har mony." The Ledger also remarks that the administration has not de clared for O'Neil, Ainey or any one else. The Press says it is an appeal for an undivided state. —Prominent Republicans are gathering in Philadelphia for the week-end. Prominent Democrats are gathering at Washington. The Dem ocratic slate will be made up on the banks of the Potomac. —Governor Brumbaugh gave no indication of when he will make ap pointments while in Philadelphia yesterday. —Magee men have started a con test of the Babcock expense account in Pittsburgh. Dreadful things are alleged. —Lackawanna county clerks have asked for an increase in salary. —Ex-Representative Mahlon H. Shaaber, of Reading, who died yes terday, was noted as the tallest man in the Legislature in years. He was long active in Grand Army circles. ■ —Ex-Congressman John J. Casey, who is a Federal mediator, is having a chance to show his qualities in set tling a strike of 4,000 men in his home county of Luzerne. —Colonel Harry C. Trexler's elec tion as chairman of the Allentown Chamber of Commerce yesterday is taken to mean that he intends to be very much 011 the map when guber natorial candidates are considered. The colonel would like to round out his career as a pre-eminent business man by giving the state a business administration. —The pre-emption of the names Liberty, American and National in dicates that there is going to be quite a patriotic campaign in Penn sylvania next year. However, there is a suspicion that some things are being headed off. —"ln attempting to put through Councils indefinite riders to the 1918 budget ordinance for payment of $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 1917 defici ency bills without a two-thirds vote, Smith-Vare forces yesterday ditched the entire ordinance carrying $26,- 668,458 for eleven departments, ac cording to independent members of Councils," says the Philadelphia In quirer to-day. "The opinion of the Town Meeting Party leaders that the whole ordinance falls for want of two-thirds vote of the members-elect was unofficially confirmed by Deputy Controller Major Charles H. Wor man. —Ex-Representative V. Gilpin Robinson, of Clifton Heights, has filed a petition in Delaware county court asking that the election ex pense account of Judge William B. Breomall be audited, and that the Court appoint an auditor. The re cent judiciary election was one of the bitterest in the history of Dela ware county. Albert Dutton Mac- Dado was Judge Broomall's oppo nent, and it was charged that a "slush" fund of $30,000 or more had been raised by the liquor dealers in Judge Broomalls behalf, and this argument was used in some quar ters by Judge Broomall's opponents but denied. Recently Judge Broom all and the William B. Broomall Ju dicial Campaign Committee filed their election accounts, and these showed that close to $9,000 was spent at the general election. —Mayor-elect H. W. Heidenreich announced last night that he had se lected Hazleton's new chief of police, but would not divulge his name un til it is submitted at the reorganiza tion of Council. The city has been without a chief the past eighteen months. While considerable pressure has been brought to bear on Mr. Heidenreich for the naming of a sealer of weights and measures, at a salary of $1,500 a year, he will not fill this office, but will combine its duties with some other department. —Ruling that the objections made by the Town Meeting party in the Fortieth ward contest case should harve been filed with the court of common pleas before election day, Judge Ferguson, in Philadelphia quarter sessions court yesterday, quashed the petition to contest the election of Joseph Louderbaek as a member of Common Council from the Fortieth ward and sets a state precedent. Judge Ferguson ruled that the court has no jurisdiction tl> act in the matter now, and points out that the complaints in the case re fer to the regularity of the nomina ting papers and do not suggest fraud or irregularity in the count of the votes. —Wilkes-Barre policemen award ed a substantial increase in wages by the City Commissioners on Christmas now threaten to strike unless they are given a higher wage. At this time the salaries of the patrolmen are SI,OOO a year, but the increase the other day gives them $l,lOO. Now they want SIOO a month, and the commissioners are willing to stand pat against the latest demand. Com missioner Nelson Bennett, superin tendent of finance, says the city's taxes are too high now. —The Philadelphia Record says the Vares will use the ax in Phila delphia county offices. The iirst im portant victim is James F. Herron, holding a deputy collectorship, at $2,500 a year, in the branch tax of fice at Germantown avenue and Tioga street. Herron was called into the office of Receiver of Taxes Ken drick yesterday and requested to hand In his resignation. He did so at once, and will retire on January 1. Four other employes, all clerks at $l,lOO a year, felt the ax wielded by Mr. Kendrick, who is selected as the chief headsman to start the job of ridding City Hall of all the men who were loyal to United States Senator Penrose and to the late State Sen ator McNichoL hirhisburo TELEGKSPH! AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? .... BY BRIGGS —————————i —— i wmem you HAwe h*o And had it peeßeD - anjd kj A CinJPer which reeus AT t3V aw amateur. art Ju-st sTart/kJ£ AS LARGE A£l*A heiO'S poR A Doctor To E66 l*J VoOR EYE. - /HtoO p —" v. tAKE ,T OUT" YoUVEL JOBBED T | | CAJO'T 1 POKET> AT IT WITH A I SEE. A J > , * You wiwk furiously OH— Boy !!!! WHEw - SOMEMO(W To MAkKe SURE IT S Ajm'-T IT A You vaj.wk Vouß TRUE- AwD 10 .• The amT^ eve - voo G.ue C'WDER s Gome Gr-R-^^AnU A START AMD Gjy~L-LOR lOUS ovir tfa IK Mrs. Fred Bowman, of Red Lion, said to be the heaviest woman in ] York county, was pitched into a| snow bank when her sleigh upset and according to the local papers, would have frozen to death, as she landed head down and could not move, if a neighbor had not spied her predicament. Volunteers came to first aid and with the help of .a chair she was returned to the sleigh, apparently not having lost one ounce of her 400 pounds. • • * "How is the soil on your farm?" "The richest ever. I raised onions as large as squashes and cucumbers as large as watermelons. I don't dare plant any pumpkins." • * * Fairy stories up-to-date: Miss Flossie Starhaven rose from her double feather bed this morning with the mercury dancing below zero, chopped a lot of wood and made the kitchen fire; warmed up her old mother's slippers and dressing gown, got breakfast for the whole family, washed the dishes and cleaned up the house all before ten o'clock. * * * Germany is doing its laughing at the United States while the laugh-1 ing is good. * • • The cleverest camouflage artist we know is the clothing store sales man who can make you believe the coat collar tits until you get outside 1 and find everybody grinning. STRIVE NOT Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. —Proverbs iii, 30. A BAVARIAN HATE SONG What kind of songs the German sings in his trenches we shall riot know to any extent until we make peace with him. He'd hate song, of course, he has taken pains to apprise us of; but another song, not exactly of brotherly love, comes over by the roundabout way of a dead man's kit. The London Times prints a "Dig ging Song," so it was called, which was found written in the diary of a Bavarian corporal named Sanktus, and was collected with other letters and papers in German trenches be fore Verdun. The following is a rough translation of the poem: Come on, all you fellows, let each take his spade. For the trench work that we must be plying, An underground dugout must also be made, As a place for the Prussian to lie in; . Wherever the fighting is done under earth, Bavarians are wanted and have, too, their worth. (Repeat.) The gallant Bavarians —this is their fate: , „ . At everyone's pipe to be jigging; While the lazy bone Prussian reposes in state. The Bavarian's delving and dig firing; He's kept at it still —with no chance of escape; For there must be commands, and there must be red tape. The Prussian is fed like an ox in a stall, , ..... Or his gullet would split with his gaping, ... But the hungry Bavarian gets noth ing at all. 'Tis the veriest fast that he s keeping; Bavarian, then, what will happen to you, "With nothing but digging and dog s work to do? The Frenchman, he doth the Bavar ian dread, He takes good care not to attack him; But seeing the skunk of a Prussian instead. He's ready to go in and whack him; Out of the trenches the Prussian must clear — Why didn't they put us Bavarians there ? So long iive the gallant Bavarian corps, To them be a coat of arms given: Two shovels laid crosswise, a pick ax before, And, as a supporter, a bavin — The best of all badges for each com mon man, Who digs when he's got to, and digs when he can. —From the Literary Digest. ( TO THE BOTTOM J) [New York Times.] THE story told on the witness stand by Colonel Isaac N. Lewis makes it the duty of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs to conduct a thorough and exhaustive investigation of whatever it is that is the matter with the Ordnance Bureau. It should go to the bot tom. It should dissipate the fog of doubt that now hangs heavily over that bureau and bring up what is under it. In time of peace it is not well that important army improve ments should be delayed or stopped because of personal feeling, but in time of war, and above all at this moment, such a state of affairs would be criminal. We can put up with it in time of peace, in fact we have put up with it; but if one man's prejudices stand in the way of our equipping our soldiers with weapons for perhaps a year to come, then prejudice and personal feeling cease to be merely censurable. Of course it will be denied, it is denied, that the failure to adopt the Lewis gun is due to personal feeling. But the circumstantial evidence does not favor the denial. Merely to se lect one incident, it is extraordi nary that when Colonel Lewis sent two checks for $17,500 to the War Department, representing royalties he had received on guns made for the British government and divert ied to the United States, the War Department deposited the checks, but would not even write him a let ter of acknowledgment of this fine action.' Besides, General Crozier's previous denials do not inspire faith in future ones. Why did he deny, as he did, that Lewis had offered the gun to this government free of roy alty? The question is whether we are to send a million men to France when, according to Lewis' testimony, they cannot be properly armed foT a year. There Is no doubt that they could be armed if his gun were ac cepted. The British and French are using it now; they used 70,000 in the last drive. The Ordnance Bu reau. that is to say. General Crozier, maintains that it is not good enough. It is good enough for the LABOR NOTES Girl bus drivers in London receive $2 per day, with an additional war bonus of $1.25 weekly. International Machinists' Union in six years increased its membership from 60,000 to 200,000. Two Labor party candidates will run for the Middlesborough (Eng land) electoral districts. A retirement law for superannu ated Government employes is fav ored by the A. F. of L. Twickenham, England, has row five horse butcheries, owing to the influx of Belgians to that district. About 90 per cent, of the German masons and their helpers are in the military service. Thirty women wearing khaki trousers are working- as pipefitters in a large New Jersey chemical plant. The Texas Court of Criminal Ap peals has upheld the El Paso anti picketing ordinance. Fngland is sending from 8,000 to 10,(500 women workers to France every month. Policemen in Dallas, Tex., have won their long fight for the eight hour day. The five Plasterers' unions in St. Paul and Minneapolis have amalga mated. Baltimore garment workers will secure a 10 per cent increase on Jan uary 1. Tacoma (Wash.) nurses, through their association, have raised their rate $5 per week. Hugh U Frayne, labor representa tive on the war industries board has been entrusted with the duty of look ing after the welfare of men and women employed in war work. Two hundred women recently ap plied at the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy-yard for the 100 positions now open for women in the electrical ehop. British and French. It was good enough for the Germans, too; they were trying to get hold of it after Crozier's hostility had driven Lewis to a European market, and it was a providential accident that the Colonel discovered his Belgian com pany to be a German one in dis guise. Of course we want our men to have the best; but what is the best if not the Lewis gun? Accord ing to General Crozier, it is the Browning gun. The Browning gun is a perfectly good gun on paper, but nobody knows from experience in batttle how it would work. Every body knows how the Lewis gun works, for it is working now over in France. Granted, however, that the Browning gun is not only a good gun on paper, but the proved su perior of the Lewis gun in action— which it is not—it remains true that it will be absolutely worthless if it cannot be made in time to put in the hands of our men. On this point Colonel Lewis said: "I say that there Is no such thing as a Browning gun, and it will not be developed in ten months. They will not turn out a Browning gun from any factory in America in ten months from to-day." But Colonel Lewis is an interest ed witness, a rival inventor, embit tered too by a long course of jlter- Eecution, insolence and bureaucratic mightiness. Very well; we do not have to take his word. Investigate it: but investigate it to the very bottom. There is no excuse and there will be no tolerance for half measures. The American people have been stirred by the suspicion that a disaster in war has been in vited through bureaucratic pride of opinion and dilatoriness of method. Until that suspicion is laid there will be no patience with perfunc tory inquiry. We do not have to take Lewis' word; but he has point ed to enough strange and unex plained things, to enough mysteries, to enough suspicious circumstances, not only to warrant but to compel the most searching inquiry that can be made. The digging should be done not with a trowel but with a spade. BISMARCK AND CAVOUR At nearly the same date the world beheld an empire of Germany and a kingdom of Italy reviving the old glories of a distant past and giving a national character and a national spirit to millions who had long cher ished a common language and com mon habits of life. Two great statesment were fore most in the achievement of that splendid historical result. BismaVck in Germany, Cavour in Italy. Both were men of the highest genius, of wide insight, of profound diplomat ic skill and of indisputable patriot ism. But their aims were totally different. Bismarck had no faith in the people and sought to make an absolute empire on the medieval model of fixed classes, each werking in its sphere for the good of the state, and the whole culminating in a God appointed, God supported monarchy. Cavour, although he be lieved it beit to retain the monarch ial form, worked from the begin ning to establish a thoroughly mod ern democracy; a government that should be essentially of the people, by the people and for the people. Bismarck summed up his theory of government in the celebrated phrase that power must be sustained "by blood and iron." Cavour said of himself in a phrase far more deserv ing of celebrity, "I am the child of liberty, and to liberty I owe all that I am." The hearts of modern Ger many and modern Italy are distilled in those two sayings of their great est sons, and we can see today what different results are produced by different teachings.—From the Youth's Companion. "BLOW TO PROHIBITION" The latest clip sheet of the pub licity department of the National Association of Distillers and Whole sale Dealers, just received at this office, flies a streaming line across the page; "Four Dry Massachusetts Cities go Wet—Blow to National Prohibition." Between the time of publication of the clip sheet and its receipt in Kan sas City Congress had voted to sub mit the prohibition amendment. That '.'blow to National prohibition" somehow didn't fall so heavily that anybody would notice it. —Kansas City Times. TTECEMBER 28, "1917.' EDITORIAL COMMENT The Kaiser seems determined to have so many of his fighting men killed off that there will not be enough left after the war to start a revolution. —New York Morning Telegraph. It is said that "Bolsheviki" is in no standard dictionary, which is not strange when it is considered that the Bolsheviki are not up to standard in any other way, either. —Philadelphia Inquirer. If Lloyd George's latest proposal, free medical attendance for every body. goes through Parliament, good health will not longer be the dis tinguishing characteristic of the poor.—New York Evening Ppst, Why not a synthetic substitute for Kaisers?— Wall Street Journal. Mount Lassen has quit. There was too much competition.—Chic ago Daily News. The German idea of an armis tice is that the other fellow stops fighting.—New York World. On the instant that Mr. Kerensky said he was tired, he disappeared. No man can afford to be tired in a revolution. —St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. OUR DAILY LAUGH GOT A FEED. Lady—l said "No," didn't I? Why don't you go away? Hobo —Ah, lady, a beautiful wom an's no so often means yes. wLw A PARLIAMENTARIAN. "Has Diggs kept the resolutions be made on January 1 ?" "Yes. But he has tacked on sev eral amendments and discovered a few Jokers." IN BUGVTLLE. Bug Driver —Hanson cab, tab. air? jm'&s, L SOMETHING MORE. "The staff of life is all very well." "Well?" "But most of us want a swacfOT •tick now-a-days." futpttnuj viitjai Harrlßburpr*s war-time Christmas has three or four features about it that are rather impressive. In the business section of the city there arc some store windows which have hardly recovered from the Inroads made by Christmas shoppers and it is significant of the conditions here that the merchants say that they had a big trade, which in some cases seriously depleted stocks hard to re place, and that their cash sales were very gratifying. Charging at Christ mas time is bad business, but there were not very many folks who did !t. The bank people say that the day after Christmas they spent most of the morning taking in the money from the stores. Some of the stores sent their cash to the vaults Monday night, but others locked it lip In safes and started it to the banks Wednesday. Out in the residential parts of town it i surprising the number of homes In which servico flags are flying and tlie fact that the flags and the Red Cross emblems have completely taken the place of wreaths as window decorations. Night time show's that Harrisburg has lost none of its old fondness for well decorated Christmtts trees and the number of trees which sparkle with electric lights and are resplen dent with gilt toys shows that tht. observance about the hearthstone is as great as ever. But the thing which must' impress one most or all m the manner In whlen ... J city has taken hold of the Red Cross mem bership campaign. There are block* on which every house displays tha emblem which shows that dollars have been paid to aid the men "Over There." The spirit of liberality and self sacrifice which was shown in the drive for the Y. M- C. A. work funds has appeared stronger than ever in response to the appeal from the Red Cross. Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart la celebrating his birthday in Philadel phia today and somo of his Harris, burg friends remembered him with best wishes for many happy returns. Wilmer Johnson, the able penman who fixes up judges and state offi cials so that they can serve Father Penn, is rejoicing in a fine meer schaum cigarholder which was sent to him by his nephew Leßoy Dona hoe, now in France with Uncle Sam's flyers. Mr. Donahoe was in the State Police for a little training be fore he went to the lirst aviation training camp at Ithaca, where he passed a line examination and was next heard of "Over There." Somehow or other men of draft age and in doubt make a bee line for the office of Prothonotary Henry P. Hollar. They pass by the sheriff and the recorder and head for the prothonotary's office. And the ques tions they ask are enough to make one dizzy. Mr. Hollar tried to oblige at first, but he soon learned that the safest way was to direct the anx ious ones to the main courtroom where the lawyers are working over time. • • • There are a lot of men In Har risburg who are grateful to Judge George Kunkel and the members of the Dauphin County Bar as well as men of experience with Government documents for helping them out with their questionnaires the last week. The Courthouse was a place of interest for everyone who has been following the operations of the draft law and the manner in which the puzzled draftees had their doubts cleared away was well worth noting. More than one lawyer who felt somewhat disgusted when told by Judge Kunkel to take oft his coat and help a man in need was glad that he had responded and tacklea his own work with renewed vigor. Incidentally, there can be no excuse for any Dauphin county man'submit ting to any charges for making out his questionnaire. The members of the Bar of this county have made it plain to every person applying that they are giving their services for the Government and that any one stand ing for a charge for guidance is be ing imposed upon. * • • Tonight's memorial meeetlng at the convei tion of the State Educa tional Association in Johnstown will be for Dr. Henry Houck. It was a year ago that the Secretary of In ternal Affairs, one of the former presidents of the organization and one of its moat loved members, de livered an address to the association at tt e Technical high school in this city. Dr. Houck had his own way on the stage and the teachers al ways sat hack and had a good time when he talked. Governor Brum baugh, who will be one of the speak ers tonight, remarked a few days ago that he was never certair whether the teachers or Dr. Houcl had the most pleasure out of the ad dress. Half a dozen men with whon the secretary was long associated wll be speakers tonight. • • John P. Dohoney, Investigator o accidents for the Public Service Com mission, was forced by the exigencie of bis work to spend Christmas Da; in Pittsburgh. He had to eat din ner in that city. When he went fc one of the big cafes he ordered wha he would have gotten at home. "Meatless day, sah," said the wait er. "But I want turkey," persis* - * Mr. Dohoney . Sorry, sah, dat's meat. We gc fish, sah," replied the man with th tray. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Speaker R. J. Baldwin is se ting up pins to run again in Dels ware county. —John C. Bell, former attorne general, says it is a mistake to dii continue instruction in German b< cause some one has got to know th language to spot those who use for unpatriotic ends. —H. H. Uowand. the new dli trict attorney of Allegheny count was assistant district attorney f( seven years. —Dr.' R. H. Harte, prominent Phi adelphia surgeon, was seriously hu In an accident in Prance. —Calvin Pardee, Jr., the Hazletc coal operator, is arranging for a pi rade for the drafted men of his dl trict. | DO YOU KNOW Tliat Hnrrlsburg steel is inuvt for gun carriages for tlie Army? HISTORIC HARKISIUTRG Signal corps men were establish in the dome of the Capitol duri the Gettysburg campaign. THE SILVER LINING The Army .investigation I brought out some depressing thin and if we thought they were ine Itable accompaniments of big tae —like war—when undertaken by democracy we should be In a hoi less state of mind by this tin But we know they are not. 1 know they are the result, the ni ural and unescapable result, of wrong system. The system is part of democracy, it is merely growth upon democracy and can cut away.—Kansas City Time*,
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