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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1918
Solitude is as needful for the im
agination as society is wholesome for
the character. — LOWELL.
ONE MORAL EQUIVALENT
IT has been said by some one that
the American people needed this
war. It is rather hard to think
of wa£ bringing any advantages.
Rather it Is a welter of woe. But
possibly we can find some good
points after nil. Men are quickened
aplrltually; their love .of country is
aroused; a sense of discipline is in- 1
culcated generally; a desire to work
and work hard to back up the men !
in the armies and in the navy is I
noticed and we are seeing signs ofj
a turn from that condition which an I
eminent foreign observer has called !
"wasteful unto reproach."
I But if we shall have learned to
I eat sparingly and to clean our plates j
I it will be something gained. If we !
r shall have been tried by ttie de
r mands to finance the war to save the
' money will be a compensation. When
the war ends we will be a united,
etrong and enterprising nation. In
deed, it looks as though we would
almost be a military nation and
only the religious fervor which has
come from the trials of war will
_ prevent us from being an-aggressive j
nation.
We are now being asked to save
our money. We have wasted what
nature has given us; we have scarce
ly learned to economize in food and
W6 scatter dimes and quarters where I
a few yeara ago we were throwing'
away nickles and forgetting the days
when our forefathers saved the pen
nies. The government is asking for
money to win the war. It has pro
vided bonds for those who can In
vest SSO; "baby" bonds for the $4
investors who can get $5 in five
years by adding twelve cents to the
four dollars, and twenty-five* cent
thrift stamps for tho dimes and
nicklea and coppers. What we need
to do Is to go back to the days when
we let the dollars take care of them
selves by saving the pennies.
If wo can learn to abhor waste,
to savo and to be thrifty again it
will bo one compensation out of
dreadful war.
Reports from the West Shore say
that the "school boards are embar
rassed by lack of fuel," but wo can as
si e the. directors that It's all right
so lar as the pupils are concerned.
FOOLEb WITH FUEL
THE inquiry into the coal short
age which the Senate is carry
ing on may get back to the
fundamentals of the situation.
It was Secretary Baker who led
eff most vehemently in denuncia
tion of tho agreement made between
Secretary Lane and Mr. Peabody, of
the Council of National Defense.
This agreement, made last spring,
was amply in season to provide for
an adequate supply of fuel for the
whole country and at prices which
no one could deem exorbitant In
view of the conditions In the coal
industry and throughout the country
generally.
Mr. Baker dissented so promptly
and so vigorously from the arrange
ment which his colleague had made
that the War Department was, of
necessity, excluded from its scope;
and, in consequence, the whole plan
fell through. Whereupon the coal
operators were left groping in the
dark, they tould foresee fiothing of
the future for their Industry, pro
duction slackened, distribution be
fame muddled, and the present con
"""" dition of suffering In many quarters
Was the result.
j If Mr. Baker had left the coal
L/ problenT alone and had devoted more
r of his time to the gun question, may
be we should have more coal now—
and more guns.
Things are looking up in Germany
when the Independent Socialists throw
the members of the Fatherland party
out of a meeting.
HOME NOT LIKE THIS
THE British government plans to
make of Palestine—lf it contin
ues to hold the Holy I^and —a
home for the Jews. The administra
tion at Washington is reported to
have riven an Informal assent to the
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
plan. Jt is a good idea—one that the
Zionists have had in mind for a long
time and which they have thought
to accomplish through diplomatic
means, perhaps ( by purchase. But
it is by no means certain how the
Jews will respond.
The Zionist movement has never
had the undivided support of the
Hebrew race. In fact, the move
ment "back home" carries no spe
cial appeal to Jews who live in
countries where liberal Institutions
prevail and wherfe there is oppor
tunity for advancement.
Nor are tho 'Jews* alone in this.
The Irish in America, for instance,
have never shown any overweening
desire to go back to the Little Green
Isle. They have tried to get Home
Rule, to be sure; but they are well
satisfied to stay here. So, we think,
it will be with the Jews. The war
is bound to bring large ameliora
tions to the Jewish as to every other
race held In subjugation; and while
Palestine will attract some of them,
the great majority of them will stay
where they are.
The one absolutely certain thing in
the German-Russian negotiations ap
pears to be that if peace negotiations
cannot be successfully concluded the
war is going to go on.
CHANGES AT STEELTON
THE promotion of Quincy Bent
to be vice president of the Beth
lehem Steel Company in charge
of operations removes from Steelton
the most popular general manager
the big plant has had in all its his
tory. one who has thoroughly under
stood the community and who has
been as efficient and as energetic in
public work as in the service of the
great corporation which has so hon
ored him. He has been keenly ap
preciated by all Steelton and Harris
burg as well. He and Mrs. Bent
have been unceasing in their labors
for community betterment and in all
of tho various war activities have
taken a leading part. Their leaving
will be received with no surprise by
those who heard Charles M. Schwab's
high praise of Mr. Bent when he
addressed the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce soon after the trans
fer of the Pennsylvania Steol prop-
erties here some two years ago, and
predlctea for him a brilliant future
irt the steel business.
Mr. Bent's removal from Steelton
will be keenly regretted both here
and in that town, but there is one
point of gratification in the transfer
which will be approved by every one
of the thousands of employes of the
great plants, and that is the eleva
tion of Mr. Bent's chief assistant,
Frank A. Robbins, to be general
manager of the Steelton properties.
This Is in line with the policies laid
down by Mr. Schwab and President
Grace when they took over the
plants, which was to the effect that
merit would be recognized at Steel
ton and that no outsiders would be
brought into the local organization
so long as men were developed with
in it competent to fill vaeaftcles as
they occur.
The elevation of Mr. Robbins to
the general managership will be a
mighty incentive to other men who
have labored for years in the ser
vice'of the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany and now under tlie Schwab
management at Steelton. Mr. Rob
bins entered tho employ of the plant
in a very humble capacity and work
ed his way to the top through thir
teen years of constant effort. Ills
promotion means that the Bethlehem
Steel Company management plays
no favorites and that the mantle of
preferment falls upon the shoulders
only of those who have proved them
selves most fit. As a result of these
changes many other men will step
each a rung up the ladder and the
service will be all the better for pro
motions of the kjjnd.
Mr. Bent will take with him from
Steelton the best wishes of a host of
friends and admirers, who will hope
to see him one day the head of all
the great Schwab interests, a senti
ment which will have an echo in
Harrisburg where his successor, as
in Steelton, will find the heartiest
kind of co-operation in the direction
of the big Industry and its multitude
of allied activities.
Uncle Sam Is thinking of closing
"non-essential industries," but he
musn't forget that he'll be wanting
'em to be able to buy Liberty Bonds
tho coming spring.
A PROPER DECISION
COUNCIL took a correct position
lh determining that Ed. C. First,
William S. Tunis and Harry
F. Oves be given opportunity to face
City Commissioner E. Z. Gross before
all the Councllmen In open session to
repeat Just what they told Mr. Gross,
who accuses them of having "gone
too far" In soliciting his support for
the City Treasursliip.
Either these men have said some
thing that truly disqualifies them, or
Mr. Gross has placed them in a false
position before the public. In either
case the conversayons, which the
three say were harmless and without
evil intent, and which the Commis
sioner himself declines to repeat,
should be given widest publicity. The
men In question express willingness
to face Mr. Gross and council has
very properly agreed that they shall
have this opportunity of clearing
themselves. All the more Is this to be
desired from the fact that Mr. Gross
has said that he believed none of
t&em .had any "criminal Intent."
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By tlie Kx-Committeeman
Suggestions of the name of Ex-
Judge James Gay Gordon, of Phila
delphia, as a Democratic guberna
torial candidate who could end the
subsurface strife in the Democracy
of Pennsylvania because of the rec
ognition that it would give to an
element that has been more or less
ignored by the reorganization clique,
do not appear to have been any bet
ter received around the Democratic
state windmill tHfcn the idea of the
Harrisburg Democratic Association
that the old-time "unboßsed and
free" Democratic state convention
be revived as a means of adopting a
party platform and for discussion
of merits of aspirants for nomina
tions "in advance of the primaries."
The Democratic windmill appears
to be open for the receiving of cash,
r.ot ideas. All that need be In the
way of thinking is now being or
will be done on the banks of the Po
tomac and in due season the slate
will be made up for the Democrats
of Pennsylvania without any of them
being called upon to journey to the
national capital for consultation.
All they will be expected to do wijl
be to voft and contribute.
The Gordon Idea, however. Is said
to be fixed deep in the minds of a
number of up-state Democrats as
well as in the Old Guard remnants
in Philadelphia and Allegheny coun
ties.
It has also been suggested that If
Judge Gordon will not be a candi
date or the bosses are too hostile to
him because of his übillty and
brains that Mn up-state Democrat be
picked, such as Senator Charles W.
Sones, of Willlamsport; General
Richard Coulter, Jr., Joseph H.
O'Brien, the Scranton lawyer; John
S. Rilling, the public Bervlce com
missioner; William A. Glasgow, Jr.,
the Philadelphia lawyer, or some
one not allied with the bunch that
lias monopolized all the honors,
nominations, positions and most of
the salaried places in the gift of the
President that are worth while.
—Judging from t\ie way he is
making statements every day with
out committing himself Senator Ed
win H. Vare is enjoying himself to
the utmost and also keeping the rest
of the Republican leaders in the
state guessing. The Senator, who
was quoted yesterday as saying that
he had mot put himself or his or
ganization behind any aspirant for
gubernatorial honors, last night'
came out in favor of conferences to
ascertain sentiment of leaders In re
gard to Governor. The Senator meant
Philadelphia primarily, but it is un
derstood that he is perfectly satis
fled to have the idea spread to the
various counties.
—The Philadelphia Ledger, which
gives a long statement' by Senator
Varo prefaces it by the following:
"Senator Vare announced yesterday
that he would not declare for or
against any candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Governor
until he had consulted with his
friends. Accordingly, meetings of
his lieutenants from all wards in
the city will be held and a thorough
canvass made of the sentiment as to
candidates for the state ticket. Pol
lowers of Senator Penrose will not
be invited to these conferences. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh and his frieurßs,
however, will be consulted. Senator
Sproul, who has already announced
his candidacy for tho gubernatorial
nomination, said that he felt Senator
Vare was pursuing a most demo
cratic and popular course. It is in
teresting in this connection .-.hat Sen
ator Vare made it clear that he had
always maintained friendly relations
with Senator Sproul. He added,
however, that he was friendly to
others who had been mentioned for
the honor, but that the whole mat
ter was one for his friends to de
cide."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer,
which brought out Senator Sproul,
writes about him as though he had
made a formal announcement. It
deos not devote much space to Sen
ator Vare's interesting remarks, but
has this to say of the developments
of yesterday: "Senator William C.
Sproul, who was yesterday the cen
tral figure at the largest gathering of
up-stato Republicans that has been
witnessed in this city for many
months, was greeted enthusiastically
as 'Our next governor' by prominent
men regardless of party affiliations.
Senator Sproul went to the Belle
vuo-Stratford to keep a business
engagement. As soon as he entered
the lobby of the hotel he was sur
rounded by represfentative men from
practically every tlfo state.
He held an informal reception for
half an hour and during that period
bo less than two hundred well-known
citizens from interior counties grasp
ed his hand and assured him of their
friendly interest in his candidacy."
—Highway Commissioner J. Den
ny O'Neil came here this morning
from Pittsburgh and left for Leba
non where he will confer during the
day with representatives of Dau
phin, Lebanon and Berks county
commissioners regarding improve
ment of the William Penn highway.
Mr. O'Neil is suffering from a severe
cold.
"I do not know whether I will
have anything to say this week or
not," said the Commissioner when
inquiry was made whether he was
poing to annotmce his candidacy for
governor. "I have been laid up for
a few days and not had opportunity
to talk to friends. I will be back
in Harrisburg to-night and will re
main heTe for some days. Maybe
there will be something doing then;
maybe not."
—Mayor Connell, of Scranton, is
said to be planning to drop a num
ber of placeholders allied with men
who did not support him for econ
omy's sake, much as Mayor Smith
lias boeVi doing with Penrose men In
the Philadelphia city government.
—Senator Vare says that he is
perfecting his plan whereby men who
voted the Town Meeting party ticket
at the primary can not vote at the
Republican primary.
—Stanley Anders, son of the late
treasurer of Montgomery county, will
be named to his father's place, it is
said at Norristown.
—II. A. Haldeman, Philadelphia's
city planning expert, haß resigned in
proteHt against tho way the re
trenchment policy In working out.
—DeWitt C. DeWitt, prominent
Bradford county Democrat and a
figure in old state conventions, is
dead at Towanda, Pa. He was well
known nil over the state as a vigor
our Democrat of the old type.
—l>ast night at Shenandoah, Paul
W. Houclc, Secretary of Internal Af
fairs, was the honor guest at a re
ception and luncheon by the citizens.
Elks and prominent men of the coun
ty at tho Elks Home. The affair was
one of the most important ever held
in Shenandoah, Mr. Houck's home
town, state, county and judicial of
ficials attending. During - the lunch
eon Mr. Houck's name was mention
ed as the next Republican candidate
for Governor and the announcement
was greeted with cheering.
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"LEST WE FORGET' *
"Tho shouting and the tumult dies—
The captains and the kings depart—
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget."
Ijest we forget the innumerable
dead who have nobly died, and the
host of the living who with a Just
and common sense and love of hon
or have sent them torth to die. i.est
wo forget that we and our Allies
have not been above reproach; (.hat
there were signs of decadence among
us—in the growing love of ease and
Idleness, in the tango dance of lit
erature and lust, in the exaltation
of pleasure, in a very definite degen
eration of our moral liber.
Lest we forget that our spirit is
being purified in the furnace of war
and the shadow of death. Do you
remember the protest of those poilus
when some unclean plays were sent
to the battle front for their enter
tainmept
"We .are not pigs"—that wan the
message they sent back.
Lest we forget that the spirit of
man lias been lifted up out of tho
mud and dust of the battle lines, out
of the body tortured with pain and
weariness and vermin; out of tho
close companionship of the dead in
to high association on the bloody
altar of liberty and sacrifice.
Best we forget that tlie spirit of
our own boys shall be thus lifted up,
and our duty to put our house in
order and make it a lit place for
them to live in when they shall have
returned to it from battle. fields
swept, as a soldier has written, by
the cleansing winds of God. —Irving
Bachelor in the Outlook.
POET FINDS FRIENDS
The little fun making of last Sun
day in the Register at the expense of
a Greenville, Fla., paper that seem
ed disposed to endow the poet Gray
with a Florida habitation, went over
the heads of some of our readers;
for no fewer than four have writ
ten to tell us that Gray (spelled
"Grey" by one of the correspond
ents) was a famous British writer
who died some time since, after as
tonishing the world by composing
the "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard" (one correspondent
writes it "Eligy"). The four letters
hail from Crichton and Vinegar
Bend, Ala., Puscagoula, Miss., and
Port Arthur, Tex., respectively.—
From the New York Evening Post.
Lead Dollars in St. Paul
The St. Paul police have issued a
general warning to buslnesiiniace* to
guard against the taking of lead dol
lars, which* they say, are being cir
culated numerously In the city,
whether a band of counterfeiters is
at work in St. Paul or whether the
lead money Is being circulated from
outside sources the police hope to
ascertain In an investigation now un
der way. From the St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
lUIB
J thing we hope In you to find,
A year be 0, devoid of hate;
May victories of a J drous kind
Make all our foes capltul g
—Life.
LABOR NOTES
Hundreds of women of the British
Army Auxiliary Corps are working In
France, some in the bases and oth
ers in country quarters near base
towns. For ordinary clerical work
225. to 278. a week is paid; for su
periors and shorthand typist#, 28s.
to 325., with overtime paid 7d. to
yd. an hour. A bonus of £5 is paid
for 12 months' service. Uniforms,
khaki coat-frock, with stockings and
shoes, are provided free. The maxi
mum for board and lodging is Us.
a week.
England and France have gone
even filrther than the restoration
of old labor standards and are plan
ning new systems of continuation
schools and additional opportuni
ties for industrial education. Part
time school attendance of boys and
Klrls now exempt from compulsory
attendance laws will be required.
In England It is recommonded that
the school-leaving age bo raised to
14 years without exemptions and
that all other young people under
18 be enrolled in part-time classes.
France proposes to require part
time attendance of girls under 18
and boys under 20, after they finish
the prescribed number of years of
full attendance.
A new scale and working agree
ment has been negotiated betwoen
the Sacramento (Cal.) Bookbinders'
TTnion and the Franklin Printing
Trades Association, which provides
for a union shop, an eight-hour day
and an increase in wages of $2 per
week for both men and women.
GERMANY'S RACE PROBLEM
IN A NOTABLE article on the rac
problem In Germany, an eminent
English writer has the follow
ing to say:
The view Of the German leaders of
opinion is different. They have been,
and still are, clamoring, not merely
for bigamy, but even for polygamy,
as a means of repairing the ravages
which the war has wrought.
Humors of a movement In that di
rection, encouraged and even insti
gated by the state, have been current
for some time. They seem traceable
to a letter written by a German wom
an, once a governess, to her for
I'ltr English patrons. Bhe had suc
cessfully resisted a pressure'to which
her two sisters had yielded. These
sisters had, under "official" auspices,
contracted unions as the result of
which they expected shortly to be
come mothers, and they would, in due
course, receive a pecuniary reward
for the services they were thus ren
dering to the community.
Another rumor, similar and supple
mentary, mentioned some time ago
in the French press, was to the ef
fect that the German military au
thorities were contriving at unions
between farmers' wives and daugh
ters and the prisoners of wor work
ing on the land. Children, it was
said, had been born as the result of
such unions, and when the mothers,
as generally happened, showed no de
sire to keep the babies they were
"adopted" by the state and carried
away to be brought up in public in
stitutions.
WORRIED DEMOCRATS
Our esteemed contemporary, the
New York World, announces that
the Democratic Party is dead—
meaning the historical organization.
Of course it does not expect that it
will give up business, but simply as
serts that it has forfeited all right
to the name by violating every one
of its traditional policies.
The cause o£ its misery is three
fold: the passage of the Prohibition
Amendment, the passage of the
Equal Suffrage Amendment by the
Hoiiso and the absorption of prac
tically all powers of government by
the administration which it usee des
potically. As this practically elim
inates state rights and personal
privileges and overturns the Consti
tution three-fold government, tho
World is disconsolate. —Philadelphia
Inquirer (Rep.)
The New York World is so over
come by tha favorable action taken
by the House of Representatives on
the prohibition and suffrage consti
tutional amendment that it declares
that "the historical Democratic par
ty is dead." By this It means that
it has abandoned its traditional ad
vocacy of personal liberty and state
rights and has become Indistinguish
able from the G. O. P. There may
be something in this vlty, but It Is
hardly time yet to publish the fu
neral notices. A good many enthu
siastic Democrats thought that the
end of Republicanism had come In
1884, and again in 1892, when Gro
ver Cleveland gave It two stinging
knockouts, but somehow It seemed
to survive those roverse*. Possibly
the Democracy of the future may be
less sternly Jeffersonlan than It was
a century ago, when prohibition anil
the equal franchise were undreamed
of; but It will still have Its mission
in the United States. The next few
yea* are bound to bring" a great
number of important issues to tho
front, and Democracy will have a
great opportunity to show that lib
eralism still animates It. If it does
not rise to the occasion, the voters
will give it the death blow, sure
enough. Philadelphia Record
(Dein.)
A DEMOCRACY AT WAR
A Democracy making war is never
an agreeable sight, for it is not in
its normal line of life. And those
who sneer or Jeer because It does not
play the game as well as might be,
pay an unconscious compliment to
the merits of free institutions.
It takes time to accustom men to
the short, hard words of command,
and to the surrender of personal
Judsment. It is not easy, either, for
a nation to turn its back upon the
conception of a world where jus
tico works out its ends by quiet pro
cesses. and in Us stand come to the
Htern belief that the ultimate court
in a battle tield. * So If there is
wrenching and sideslipping and con
fusion there should be no surprise.
The surpriso to mo has been with
what comparative ease the transition
has been made, and how much un
conscious preparation for the new
work had been ulrcady made.
Secretary Lan*. .
On top of these reports we get a
pamphlet, published at Cologne by a
certain Herr Karl Hermann iTorges,
setting the stamp of philosophic ap
proval on these polygamous (or,
rather, polyandrous) proceedings/ The
Secondary Marriage as the Only
Means for the Creation of a New and
Powerful Army and the Purification
of Morals."
It preaches polygamy as a religion
and expounds it as a program for
the rapid regeneration of an empire
weakened by heavy losses in the field
and Impaired vitality at home. The
scheme propounded—to be worked
eout by "the women and the clergy,
assisted by the state"ls, broadly
speaking, is as follows:
It is to be "up to" every German
spinster, on attaining a certain age,
to contract an alliance—to be styled
a "secondary marriage"—with some
married man to whom she feels af
fectionately disposed. In order that
unpleasantness may be avoided It
will be "up to" every legitimate wife
to give her free and amiable consent
to her husband's extra conjugal am
ours.
In order that the secondary wife
may feel quite sure she is an honest
woman, she must wear a secondary
wedding ring of elegant and readily
recognizable design. But tho union
will not be permanent. It will be
dissoluble at any time at the wish
of either party, and if neither of th<
parents has any love for the children
resulting from it, the state will take
charge of them and bring them up to
some useful calling.
GERMAN PEACE TERMS
[Philadelphia Record]
If you can't take candy away from
a child, what is the use of trying to
get his watch away from a man who
Is as strong as you are and even
better armed? That is the reflection
which is occupying many German
minds. It is not only occupying them:
it. is throwing them from a state of
elation bordering upon hilarity into
the most depressing gloom. It seem
ed to Germans that if it were thinly
disguised a "German peace" could
lie imposed upon the simple-minded
Russians. They have found out that
the Russians are not so simple as
they supposed.
• The German people are desper
ately anxious for peace to end their
distress. The German government is
desperately anxious for peace—with
something that can be paraded as
victory—lest its hold upon the im
perial machinery should be shlken
loose. Tho attitude of the Bolsh'jvlkl
seemed most encouraging. Apparent
ly they were ready for peace on any
terms, and if Germany could get
peace with Russia on terms that
Mattered the national pride, and pre
served the imperial and military
prestige, It could then make peace
with the western allies without de
manding territory or money, neither
of which docs Germany expect to
get from America, Great Britain,
France or Italy.
And now the Russians have re
jected th<? terms offered by Germany
as a conqueror. The Kaiser cannot—•
with several thousand miles of Rus
sia in possession—take any terms he
can got from the western allies, and
conceal German humiliation in the
west by parading German acquisition
in the east. The result Is very serious.
How long will the people go on fight
ing? How long can they go on fight
ing? How long will It be possible for
the Chancellor to conceal from Ger
mans the fact that they have been
beaten and must take such terms as
ihe conquerors offer them?
Of course, Germany will make fur
ther efforts to make peace with Rus
sia. It will offer better terms. It will
abate something of its offensive de
mands. But the Bolshevikl have had
their eyes pretty fully opened, and
they understand that Kaiserityn is no
better than Czarlsm. Russia may
fuse again to supply William II with
material for a laurel wreath, and if
he can't get it from Russia, he cer
tainly can't get it from tHe western
allies, and without that laurel
wreath, can he even keep his crown?
That thought Is causing him some
anxiety. There are Bolshevikl In Ger-
And with It all there Is the funda
mental problem: How long will Ger
many go on fighting after losing all
hope of Indemnities and territorial
booty? *
Indians Buy Bonds
A number of Hopl Indians, living
in Keamd, Canyon, Navajo County,
Arizona. bought $8.700 of the sec
ond Liberty Loan. Wapa, a very old
and very poor warrior, cut the coin
buttons from his coat to makq tho
first payment. The young men of
this tribe also arc enlisting for the
war. Forty Joined the cavalry re
cently, and twelv* the navy.—Protn
the Earth.
JANUARY 16, 1918.
Otfer tfwe
Ik *"pe>v>uu
—.
Her pale face pressed against the
pane.
Dire anguish in her eye;
"O, will he ever come!" she
moaned;
"If not, fain would I die!"
' If lie be false, gone are my joys
I'd ca-st away my soul.
O, rapture, peace, I see my love—'
"Say, lady's this your coal?"
Altoona has discovered a rar<%'—
a nonfighting German, by name
Xavler Pflug, aged 28, employed in
an enginehouse. Admitting him
self an alien enemy, Xavier declared
that ho had no desire to plug for
anybody but himself. "I have two
brothers in the German army and
a third was killed on the French
iront. I am not a citizen of this
country and I only want to be left
alone." His case is being investi
gated.
If Charles Thompson, a tailor, had
not tried to kiss pretty Miss Doro
thy Murphy he would not be b ick
of the bars now in Jersey City, on
a charge of being a sli-kev. Miss
Murray screamed at the warm kiss,
had Thompson arrested and then the
authorities,found he had no rosisti.u
llon card.
OUR DAILY LAUGH I
FEMININE AMMUNITION.
He (in khaki)—l love tho sjneli
of powder.
She—Do you really? And don't
VOll think Hie vi<\!Mt is the host. !
TRY SOCKS, THEN.
"Why don't you give him the mit
ten ?"
"It isn't cold hands he has, lt'
cold feet."
THE USTTATj WAT.
"What became of that friend ol
fours who was always looking for •
Bght? Did he enlist?"
"No, and when the draft came h
claimed exemption."
JOKES.
"Casey Is me pertickeler frlenr",
j oi have ye know."
I "O'wan! If he was pertickeler,
be wouldn't be yer frlnd."
Ctaamtng <lH}at
This winter la rich lfl thingra to
write about. Between the changed
conditions In business and work, In
fact, In Slfe Itself the winter ia un
like anything known for a long, long
time. To begin with, that prize
fakir, the oldest inhabitant, has no
ar \y reputation for veracity
beat this one. No one living can re
th B,tuati °n was any
thing like what it is today and Drob
ably nothing like it was ever known
J2"! .P °' rt ' luya people could cut
. 11 " P Und fUel a(1 "
were not dreamed of.
V va Baries of heat, trol
ley, mail and railroad services were
not at; aggravating as they are thesr
n,n y „ laß for foo<l the stories
that we are told about the wnv
prices soared in the Civil war dav'
. mterestinfr attempts on tile
parts or men who remember other
aays to make us forget our hard lot.
And now we rise in the morning and
find a foot of snow and not once
does the door bell ring to a colored
boy or an able-bodied man "tem
porarily out of work- desiring to
shovel off your pavement for a quar
i ".u ,i bell rln K ers arc engaged
in other lines and if they did conn
around as profusely as they used to
in old days they would demand a
halt and probably insist on one of
the 1917 variety, the kind that has
the trousered eagle. And jpst thinft
of the men employed by the state
and by other agencies of government
to shovel snow getting thirty-five
cents an hour. And then when you
get weary of that wonder why it is
that most of the sleighs do no 4 have
hells, but slide along silently while
automobiles have to show lights and
honk horns at every cross street. *
In this connection it may be said
that if people do not atop walkinpr
in the middle of Third. Sixth and
Derry streets there are going to bo
seme folks hurt. The condition of
the pavements is so bad that peo
ple have to take to the streets. The
policemen say that it is a physical
impossibility for householders to
keep their pavements clean. Tho
weather man works too fast at the
snow and ice machine. Hence the
pedestrians take to the car tracks.
And by the same token there are
ramparts of snow and ice known as
snowbanks which automobiles and
trucks c?an not cut down and the
motor vehicles have to take to tho
car tracks. And the cars must use
the rails, too. So you have a triple
combination of traffic whero onlv
trolley cars are supposed to have
the right of way. Narrow escapes
arc frequent and the clang of bells,
honk of horns and glare of lights
confuses many a person, especially
if advanced in years or very young.
"Gimme a 'frit* stamp," was the
command shot at one of the clerks
at the post office yesterday after
noon when a colored youngster ap
peared with one nickle, one dime
and ten pennies. His hand was
grimy, the money was dirtv, but ho
had a grin. And he shoved in his
money and took the stmp ol"f to
a corner. He had three stamps on
his card and how that little imp.
who was not more than twelve,
gldated over the bright green stick
ers. Here's hoping he gets his five
dollar stamp before February comes
In.
Some Harrisburg hunters who
have been accustomed to go to
southern states for some hunting
during the latter part of January
arid early part of February say that
old Field Marshal Winter is respon
sible for losH of much pleasure for
them this winter. "I have been go
ing south for years, but I have Just
gotten word that some places where
I shoot are frozen over. I never
knew it before und the people who
write say the same thing. QThis is
some winter," said onq man.
• •
"Do you realize," said another
man talking about tho all absorbing
topic of weather, "that it was just a
month ago that we began having
cold weather and snows, and we
have been having what the army
officers call a Sustained' bombard
ment ever since. The winter began
about December 13, just about the
time that the deer season was clos
ing and celebrated by a snow storm
that was a corker. It has been fol
lowed by a series of alternate bliz
zards touchdowns."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—Henry K. Boyers, former state
treasurer, is helping the food ad
ministrator by acting in Montgom
ery county.
—The Rev. Dr. George W. Shel
tc>ii, Pittsburgh minister, wants the
government fuel heads to shut down
the breweries.
—Heed B." Keek, Clarion fuel ad
ministrator, is meetlnig his emer
gency by getting owners of small
mines to start mining again.
—William T. Griffith, prominent
I-ock Haven man, has been named
food administrator for Clinton
county.
—Brua C. Keefer, Dycoming food
administrator, personally conducted
the sale of a car of lake fish and he
made a big hit because of bargain
prices.
• —Food Director Howard Heinz
says he is too busy to make
speeches.
—Edward G. Strickler, elected
Jury commissioner of Franklin
county while in the army,, has re
signed as he is too busy with Uncle
Sam's work.
DO YOU KNOW
—That T.ykens Valley's coal
output last your \vu one of the
best in a long time? llift none
of it worth speaking of stopped
here.
HISTORIC HARRISBUURG
In years gone by Harrisburg peo
ple used to send teams to the moun
tains above Rockvllle and gather
fuel for winter.
ARE YOU READY?
[From Autocar Co's. Ad.]
If in the operation of your busi
ness during the first five and a hall
months of 1918 you should lose the
profits you made in 1917, you will
pay your taxes due the government
out of your capital.
Get busy now. Do more business
and then more business. Make more
profits and more profits each month.
The President of the United states
took over tho railroads not only to
assure the stockholders the safety
of their investment and tho income
thereon, but for the great big broad
purpose of making it possible that
the railroads be operated in such a
way that no legitimate business b
hampered Tor lack of transportation,
either over the railroads themselvea;
or over the waterways and highwayi
as adjuncts.
Haii 7 and Hague
The Germans wouldn't have any
thing to do with The Hague in Hol
land, so now they have to deal wit*
a Halg in Flanders—From the Sai
Antonio Express.,.