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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
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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
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[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.
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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*,