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FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1018
1 i 1
There is no solitude into which the
.Living Christ cannot enter and make
it a society. —A. C. HILL.
TIME TO KILL
WHEN it is known that spies in
one of the aeroplane factor
ies of the United States filled vital
parts of planes with lead where
steel should have been used, and
when it is proved that I. W. W.
■workers are delaying the produc
tion of spruce in the forests of the
west, while the aeroplane builders
are short of this necessary material,
the time has come for some shoot
ing or hanging.
Every day our aeroplane program
is delayed sees some of our soldiers
needlessly sacrificed in France. The
men who hold up the manufacture
of machines are responsible for the
deaths of American soldiers. They
are not only spies; they are murder
ers.
In the name of God, how long is
this thing to be permitted?
If the government does not net
soon and vigorously patriotic citi
zens may be expected to take the
law into their own hands.
It was Ambassador Gerard who
told the Kaiser that there were
"400,001 lamp posts in the United
States for 400,000 traitorous Ger
mans," and loyal Americans may be
relied upon to put his threat into
execution. They have reached the
end of their patience.
"Ix>ng trains of wounded stream
>tmck to Germany." Another side of
'the Kaiser's "glorious victory."
NEGRO LEADERS
NO meeting of recent years has
been more Important In Its
aim and scope than the con
ference held at the Technical High
School auditorium on Wednesday
tvening. At this meeting there was
presented the pressing need of negro
education, owing to the influx of
thousands of laborers from the
south. It was shown that the great
est need is the preparation of teach
ers that there may be efficiency in
the organization of the schools for
colored girls and boys.
Governor Brumbaugh indicated in
a forceful address the importance
of preparing now for an enlarge
ment of the educational facilities
for a race that has been too long
neglected in this matter. Dr.
Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, also
dwelt upon this need and pointed
out that the State should provide
more largely for the education < f
the colored population of Pennsyl
vania, which is so rapidly increasing
owing to the changed industrial con
ditions.
Plnckney Hill, principal of
the Training School for Teachers at
Oheyney, showed In a most convinc
ing way how much can be accom
plished through the raising of the
standards of the teaching force of
'the colored population. He made a
:etrong and eloquent plea for the sup
port of the Institution he represents,
,and the wider work that must be
done In the education of his people.
It was his thought that the State
•would be rendering a fundamental
public service by training teachers
for colored schools.
It' Is an encouraging sign that so
many of the representative colored
men of Harrisburg are taking an
active interest in the things that are
important regarding the develop
ment of the negro race here and
elsewhere. It is only through such
FRIDAY EVENING,
leadership that the great problem
will be solved and the Increasing in
terest in the maintenance of an un
dented negro race further empha
sizes the Importance of the Cheyney
and other institutions.
This is the time for every red
blooded American to grit his teeth
and determine in his heart to see this
thing through in such a way that
never again can any organized gang
of murderers and cut-throats upset
the world. If you can't fight, you can
at least cheer the boys who are fight
ing.
A SOLDIER TREE
Governor Brumbaugh's
proclamation designating April
12 and April 26 as Arbor Days
this spring, makes an appeal for the
planting of fruit and nut trees about
public places and as shelters for the
bird-life which we are all too late
making efforts to encourage.
It is a proclamation which should
be heeded in every community in
Pennsylvania, especially in those
sections where tree planting has
been so seriously neglected.
It would seem to be an appro
priate time to include tree planting
in the patriotic activities of the pub
lic. Why would it not also be a good
thjng to have the schools and the
officials and the people generally, on
these two arbor days, plant trees of
the right kind and dedicate them to
the boys who are fighting for us at
the front? There could be no finer
compliment paid our soldiers in the
service than the planting and nam
ing of trees in their honor.
If every family would plant one or
more trees for the boys who re
sponded to the call to the colors,
there would be thousands of trees
set out this year.
The Telegraph makes this sug
gestion in the hope that the school
programs will include some patriotic
reference to tree planting and
public service, but let us have real
trees—living monuments to the boys
over there and over here—planted
all over Pennsylvania next month.
Drop a line to the Telegraph as
to what you think of the suggestion.
Plenty of grit has been shown by
the contractors of the Penn-Harris
Hotel. No big undertaking was ever
forced through as rapidly as the
structure at Third and Walnut streets
under more discouraging conditions.
And every Harrisburger is interested
| in the hotel as a great civic enter
| prise.
WHY REPUBLICANS ONLY?
WE thank Vice-President Mar
shall for this unusual' tribute
from a Democratic source to
the patriotism of the Republicans of
Congress and the nation at large:
I have no prejudice against the
Republican party. Except for it
errors I would not now be enjoy
ing the languorous ease of Vice
President of the United States. I
have great personal regard for
many Republican leaders and for
the rank and file of the party
everywhere. I should be ashamed
of myself if I made any whole
sale charges of disloyalty against
the party as an institution, or
against individual members there
of, not based upon specific state
ments of fact.
But, when addressing an audi
ence in Wisconsin the other night,
he said: "It is up to you, Mr. Loyal
Republican, whether you are for the
party or for the State," and then
followed with the plea that to be
patriotic Republicans must all sacri
fice their candidate and their party
for the success of the Democratic
candidate, adding that no Wisconsin
voter can be truly American unless
he does vote the Democratic ticket,
we must differ with him and con
clude that Mr. Marshall, after a fair
beginning, has descended to the tom
foolery of speech that has been his
chief characteristic in office.
Always it is the Republican who
is called upon to lay his party upon
the altar of patriotism. Always it
is the Democrat who makes virtue
of building up his political machine
and "standing by the country" at
one and the same time. Republicans
have supported the President in Con
gress when his own weak-kneed
party members were ranting because
he had been elected on a platform
of "he kcpt,us out of war," and then
straight away headed into it. Rock
ribbed Republican Pennsylvania has
contributed a tenth of all the men
and money and about one-half of all
the materials that have gone into
the war. Republicans In this State
are tired of listening to piffle of the
Marshall type and they are prepar
ing to give It the rebuke it deserves.
Nobody can talk in Pennsylvania the
way Marshall did in Wisconsin.
Prepare to plant a tree In honor of
your soldier boy, and at the same time
do a great community service.
KEEP CITY BEAUTIFUL
AS the spring rapidly approaches
would it not be well for City
Council to consider finally
whether this Is not the time to es
tablish a real Shade Tree Commis
sion. Many of the shade trees are
in need of attention and there should
be a general trimming of the low
hanging limbs on many of our city
streets. Let us go right ahead keep
ing Harrisburg beautiful for the boys
when they come back from the war.
They will not excuse any Indiffer
ence or letting down of real public
spirit on one pretense or another.
At all events, Secretary Baker got
to France in time ,to understand the
importance of hurrying America's
part in the war.
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'PtttjuOiffotuUa
By the Ex-Committeeman
Democratic machine leaders are
evidently counting upon pressure
from Washington to flatten out Unit
ed States District Attorney E. Lowry
Humes' boom for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination before it
dangereously complicates their plans
to run Acting State Chairman Joseph
P. Guffey. They have deilnitely told
ex-State Treasurer William H. Berry
he is to cease from troubling himself
and the party and they are not con
cerned about the activities of the
friends of ex-Judge William E. Por
ter, president of the Dry Federation.
Guffey went to Philadelphia yes
terday and spent the day meeting
Democratic leaders. With him was
Warren VanDyke, secretary of the
Democratic State Committee, which
is rather signiilcant, as the State
Committee chiefs do not bother with
a man unless he is properly marked.
Whether Guffey made much head
way or not is unknown, but it is of
interest that the announcement that
he planned for this week has been
deferred until next week.
The Philadelphia Record says
'hat Guffey gave his boom "an air
ing and then says: "Another con
ference to discuss the gubernatorial
situation is expected to be held
shortly, either here or in Harrisburg.
The Guffey boom has not met with
much enthusiasm over the state and
some of the leaders are still hoping
against hope that Vance C. McCor
mick may be induced to enter the
race and avert the threatened fight
between Humes and Guffey over the
Governorship."
The Philadelphia Press takes
quite an opposite view and says that
Democrats are "approaching a show
(Town." It says in part: "Tli# best
information obtainable is to the ef
fect that Joseph S. Guffey, of Pitts
burgh, will be the candidate for Gov
ernor. He is said to be the choice of
A. Mitchell Palmer and Vance C.
McCormick, leaders of the party in
the state. One story is to the oqect
that Mr. McCormick will remove
himself as a possible gubernatorial
endidate by coming out in endorse
ment of Mr. Guffey. The hitch seems
to be over Guffey's sponsors delaying
a decision as to whether he will run
on a dry platform."
—The North American raps Guf
fey for his disposition to sidestep
and the bosses who are not forcing
him to make a declaration.
—Much attention is being given by
Philadelphia newspapers to the fights
which are starting over lieutenant
Governor honors and other nomina
tions in Allegheny, Schuylkill. Mont
gomery and other counties and the
impression is given that the strug
gle over Republican supremacy is to
be waged on second place on the
ticket, leaving Sproul and O'Neil to
fight it out themselves. The Leib-
Houck forces are declared in Phila
delphia to have started open war on
Auditor General Snyder.
—Senator Beidleman's candidacy
received a strong endorsement yes
terday in the editorial columns of
the Progressive I-abor World, a
publication in the i nterest of
organized labor. It referred to
Beidleman's long legislative ac
tivity in behalf of measures
favored by organized labor and de
clared that as he had proved beyond
the shadow of a doubt his loyalty
to labor, labor now "has an oppor
tunity to prove its loyalty to Senator
Beidleman." The article stamped
Beidleman as "labor's candidate for
Lieutenant Governor."
—The whole thing is that the
Democrats are up in the air over the
"dry" amendment and even the na
tional leaders are wary of mak
ing- a declaration. They appear to
be subordinating everything to the
chance of winning. The fact that
Guffey and Van Dyke saw Charles
P. Donnelly, Old Guard leader, and
that Representative John M. Flynn,
of Elk, Democratic floor leader, was
in Philadelphia, is interesting many.
—Senator William C. Sproul was
endorsed for governor by the Pike
county Republican committee yes
terday and will start out next week
to make some speeches. The sena
tor's headquarters are commencing
to show signs of much activity. High
way Commissioner O'Xeil, who will
speak in McKeesport Sunday and
tour Washington county Monday, is
planning a big meeting at his home
towp late in the week at which Gov
ernor Brumbaugh and others are to
speak.
—Philadelphia newspapers are
filled with stories of the launching of
the campaign of the Independents
and the Republican Alliance to con
tinue the battle against the Vares
in Philadelphia. It is calculated by
independents that Vare will be so
busy at home that he will not have
much chance to do a great deal in
the state. Town Meeting headquar
ters will be opened Monday.
—Mayor K. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, says he will support Senator
William C. Sproul, of Delaware, for'
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor. "I favor his candidacy," said
Mr. Babcock, "because I consider
him unusually well equipped to ad
minister the office. His wonderful
grasp of the big problems demand-,
Ing the attention of the next Gov
ernor is shown in his masterful plat
form upon which he Is submitting
his candidacy to the electors of the
state. I have known him for a num
ber of yeafs and have had an op
portunity to study -his capacity for
the handling of large enterprises
through my association with him in
business. It will be a great pleas
ure for me to assist in his nomina
tion and election." Mr. Babcock
declined to commit himself concern
ing the candidacy of men for other
places on the Republican state ticket.
—Representative Robert P. Hab
good, of Bradford, a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor, said to the Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times that he intends to make
a vigorous campaign throughout the
state and reports that he is receiv
ing much encouragement. He says
he finds a strong sentiment against a
factional warfare being carried into
every voting precinct of Pennsylva
nia.
—The boom of General C. M.
Clement, for the Republican nom
ination for congress at large appears
to be gathering headway. The gen
eral was regarded as a state admin
istration man, but his endorsement
of Sproul has added considerable to
the Interest in him. Sproul men in
timate that other men closely iden
tified with the Governor in political
matters in the past will be for
Sproul.
Would Close Theaters
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
If all amusement places could
have been closed one day each week
for many weeks to save fuel and
save our country, why couldn't all
places of pleasure have been closed
one day in the whole year, Good Fri
day, In reverence to Our Ixird, who
died to save all men of all nations.
CHURCHGOER,
TOCRRJSBTTRG tP&t&jl TELEGRAPH!
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRIGGS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
THE STATE PRESS
Congress should lose no time in
passing a law permitting our boys
who have won decorations from
Allied governments to wear their
medals. What our fathers desired
to prevent was the ancient custom
of bribery in the shape of douceurs
or decorations, which potentates or
statesmen save to foreigners to se
cure their interest. They never
thought the Constitutional provision
would be raised to prevent a brave
man getting a medal for doing more
than his bit.—Columbia Spy.
Meanwhile the supreme war coun
cil of the allies, refusing to accept
the German-Russian treaties as
binding, has proclaimed: "We are
fighting and mean to continue fight
ing in order to finish once for all
with this policy of plunder and
establish in its place the peaceful
reign of organized justice." That is
the way to talk—the only way that
any man with the slightest love for
humanity In his breast ought to talk.
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
LABOR NOTES
Dominion Coal Company of Nova
Scotia and its miners have reached
an agreement upon a wage increase
of about 17 per cent.
The Chicago Vacant Lot Associa
tion hopes to see a quarter of a mil
lion food-producing gardens in the
Windy City this year.
Over $10,000,000 has been distri
buted among workmen under the
bonus plan of the Du Pont Powder
Company in the last ten years.
State Supreme Court decision
handed down at Boston denies a la
bor union the right to say how many
men shall be utilized on any job.
An Englishman has invented a
periscope to be mounted in a loco
motive cab to enable an engineer to
see the track ahead of him or the
whole of his train.
Because of their knowledge of
French and English, four Montreal.
Can., telephone operators have been
engaged by the United States govern
ment to go to France to run mili
tary exchanges.
For workers about electric rail
roads, a shovel has been invented
with an insulated handle to protect
them should the blade touch a charg
ed wire or rail
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, wants
a law passed fixing rents. He blames
much of the existing unrest on profit
eering of this character.
WHAT WE FIGHT
Reams of rhetoric have been spent
on descriptions of the German peril.
The resources of the English lang
uage have been exhausted in denun
ciations of Teutonic greed and
cruelty.
If one should wish, however, to
put the case in a few words, he
might simply cite the story told by a
Norwegian woman, a stewardess on
a merchant ship that encountered
one of the Kaiser's submarines:
"The stewardess and her husband
were invited to go on board the sub
marine, apparently through cour
tesy, and after they were on the deck
of the craft a few minutes the offi
cers of the U-boat went below, clos
ed the hatches and submerged the
craft, leaving both struggling for
their lives in the sea. After a short
struggle the man sank. Those in the
life-boats saw what had happened
and rescued the woman Just as she
had lost hope of being saved."
This is no isolated instapce. It is
typical of German practice through
out the war. And a nation that pro
duces these submarine brutes and
applauds their brutality must be
beaten into submission for the fu
ture safety and happiness of the
world.—Providence Journal.
Children of Consolation
By the red road of storm and stress,
Their fathers' footsteps trod,
They come, a cloud of witnesses.
The messengers of God.
Cradled upon some radiant gleam,
Like living hopes they lie.
The rainbow beauty of a dream
Against a stormy sky.
Before the tears of love were dried,
Or anguish comfort knew,
The; gates of home were opened wide
To let the pilgrims through.
Pledges of faith, divinely fair,
From peaceful worlds above.
Against the onslaught of despair
They hold the fort of love.
—Punch.
The Great Illusion About Germany
lsy F. V. KEYS, in NortU American Review
OP ALL. the features of the
Great War that make it a war
without precedent and with-
out parallel in history, none is so
fraught with incalculable consequen
ces to the future of civilization as the
fact that this Is literally a war not of
armies, nor of governments, but of
entire peoples. There Is no other
feature of the struggle which It is
of such supreme and present im
portance for all who hope for a
stable peace to bear In mind and at
tempt to understand. For at this
hour the Power that precipitated
war at the moment of her own
choosing Is attempting to precipitate
peace, also at the moment of her
choice.
Now this Power is the very one
that is responsible for the fact that
this is a war of whole nations—this
Power which, at the very outset of
hostilities, mobilized not only every
human and every material resource
of her people, but also every In
herited Ideal and loyalty, every fu
ture hope and aspiration, of the na
tion; which deliberately, for the first
time in history, has made a by-word
of culture, by betraying it into the
service of ferocious military aggres
sion.
No consideration of the German
nation that fails to face the enor
mous gulf that separates them from
modern democracies in the only
province that counts here, the prov
ince of political thinking, will serve
any purposes save those of the mod
ern scientific feudalism entrenched
less strongly in the soil of its oppo
nents than in the brain and the very
blood of its own people, whether they
belong to the class that isstles or the
mass that takes orders. It is in the
interest of these latter, as it is in the
interest, finally, of even the former,
that we who have evolved another
philosophy and another practice of
government, should see the German
people as they really are politically
—not as our ignorance, or a shallow
idealism, or self-delusion, would
wish them to be.
Every appeal to the German peo
ple over the heads of its leaders, ev
ery attempt to impress it with the
good faith and disinterestedness of
its opponents in this war, every as
surance that we are fighting, not for
the extermination of the German
people but for their right to develop
their great virtues and manifest
genius in the humane forms ensured
alone under the influence of free
institutions, pre-supposes in Germany
the existence of at least a kernel of
the sort of thought which we de
scribe by the phase "public opinion."
But no one who has been long and
intimately familiar with the inside
of German institutions, with the
ways of thinking in typical German
circles, whether liberal or conserva
tive so-called, with the whole po
litical atmosphere breathed by rad
ical or reactionary within the bor
ders of the German empire, can hes
itate to say that there never has
been in Germany any such thing as
public opinion. *'
Why is it so impossible for the
German mind to apprehend and un
derstand that which we mean by
"public opinion?" For the reason
that the German nation has always
been, psychologically, on a war foot
ing. Her mentality has been, in a
quite literal sense, the mentality of
an army. And an army is the one
place where there can be no public
opinion. An army, indeed, is allow
ed its recreation, when off duty. Nor
is the censorship strict in regard to
the range and license permitted to
those who furnish its recreation,
provided these do not infringe upon
the authority of the army discipline.
Many foreigners, especially Anglo-
Saxons, were misled into believing
in the emancipated political state of
German opinion by the extreme
freedom with which the German
novel and particularly the German
stage treated all social traditions
and conventions, especially those per
taining to sex. The grossness of the
extremely clever German caricatur
ists was indicative of a public grad
uated, In the highest as in the mean-
THE INCOME TAX
The Doctor's Case
A physician may claim as deductions the cost of medicines and
medical supplies used by him In the practice of his profession,
expenses paid in the operation and repair of an automobile used
in making professional calls, dues to medical societies and sub
scriptions to medical Journals, the expenses i * attending medical
conventions, the rent paid for office rooms an the hire of office
assistance, the cost of fuel, light, water, telephone etc., 'used in such
office rooms. Amounts expended for books, medical supplies and
surgical instruments of a permanent character are not. allowable
as deductions.
est of its members, from the bar
racks. Not alone the military bar
racks, but the educational ones,
where during a long and rigidly en
forced attendance the German mind
was trained in the two essentials of
an army, absolute reliance on the
officers and unremitting apprehen
sion of the near presence and treach
ery of the foe. The discipline of the
classroom was in no way behind
that of the army, for which it pre
pared and shaped the whole youth
of the country. And from the au
thority of the schoolmaster there
was as little appeal as from the au
thority of the commanding officer.
Nothing speaks so eloquently of
the intolerable interlocking of par
ental and school authority In Ger
many as the steadily rising toll of
child suicide, expected and occurring
yearly with the return of the Eas
ter promotions in the schools. Where
the results of an examination were
responsible for making or unmaking
a career, the burden upon the pupil
was beyond the strength of all those
not capable of assimilating an army
drill, and caught between the school
and a parent trained to know bet
ter than to connive by sympathy at
the undermining of authority. The
German, gymnasiast. of an age cor
responding to that of our high school
boys, presented a compound of solid
learning and extraordinary academic
maturity, with a feudal political
mentality that could be described in
telliglby to an Anglo-Saxon only by
the term "arrested political develop
ment." But the same youth might
show, if living in one of the larger
centers, a literary and dramatic and
artistic taste formed on the best
classics and the most advanced mod
ern works in these provinces. And
for that side of him. too. the govern
ment was responsible, tightening its
grip on his loyalty by its insistence
in every domain, and never letting
him stray for a moment beyond its
watchful attentlveness to his needs.
Every schoolboy in Germany was
made to feel himself the future de-
I fender of not only the boundaries
I but of the genius of his country
against an obviously Inferior and
covertly jealous world. How deeply
the German nature took the mould
thus imposed, the world has seen.
To every German the army is the
tool of his idea, the instrument of
his mission. "The function of the
German is to impose organization
ion mankind," said Ostwald, as a
justification of German aggression.
As for the temper of the whole Ger
! man people, it had become such that
no possible war that the imperialists
could declare but must be regarded
by them as a war of defense.
Whether there is any other means
of breaking up this war-complex
than by breaking up the German
army, it is for the German people it
self, and for it alone, to say and
prove. On them, .and on them alone,
lies the burden of proof. We must
accept the word of no one else for
them. We have done /o once, and
that once too often. The United
States has spoken at last the word
that* History has been waiting for
ever since the first volley was fired:
"We can have no dealings with the
present Government of the German
Empire." In that word the "Neces
sity knows no law" of the German
Chancellor got its final and logical
reply. To act on that word, never
to recant it, is the duty of the Re
public to mankind, and to Germany.
The Original Baptist
[From the Christian Register]
A negro minister of the Baptist
Church, in order to strengthen and
confirm the faith of his congrega
tion, took as his text: "In those <}ays
came Jolin the Baptist, preaching
in the wilderness of Judea." "Oh,"
said he, "how I like to read these
precious words in the blessed Bible!
You don't read anywhere about John
the Presbyterian, or John the Meth
odist. or John the Episcopalian. No,
brethren, it is John the Baptist."—
From the Christian Register.
"MARCH 29. 1918.
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v.— ,
A woman who returned recently
from Camp Meade, told a true story
ot an Incident which she witnessed
while visiting her son there. The
custom of pretending that one is a
close relative as excuse to bo ad
mitted to the camp is getting so
common that military men are de
vising some way of keeping out un
desirables. A very good looking
young girl, said this lady, appeared
at the hospital and said she was the
sister of the patient, a young lieu
tenant. On being admitted the lieu
tenant s mother, acting as nurse,
again asked for her identitv. "I'm
his sister," she repeated. "Is that
so," was the answer that quite
floored her. "Well, I'm his mother."
The young lady retired in torrid con
fusion.
Cats are not so quite popular in
Shippensburg since Mrs. David Han
cock, of Stone Point, was brought in
for treatment of hydrophobia. A
mad cat attacked her when she tried
to step past it, biting and scratching
her leg. Immediate Pasteur treat
ment alone saved her life. The cat
had rabbles.
Missouri Record
Missouri led at the first of March
in the amount of War Savings
Stamps sold. Trust a Missourian,
after he has been shown!— From the
New York World.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH I
1 JUST A CLAIM,
i "Why uo they call mining property
a claim?"
"Too often you find out that is al!
TOO GOOD A SHOT.
"Why didn't you invite younir
Frown to your wedding?"
"He's Just had a month's practice
in camp throwinr hand grenades."
AND ACCOMPLISHED AT THAT.
"Are you saving your money?"
"Saving money? Great Scott,
man, I'm doing well not to owe any
body."
IUFFEHENCE OF APPLICATION.
'•Mr. Suave fcaii a very iijjht
touch."
"Ib he a musician?"
"No, a pick-pockeu"
lEbenutg (Etjul I
Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery,
the State Librarian, whose Interest
ing "find" among letters at the Cap
itol of one written In 1826 relative
to tile admiration bestowed upon the
Dauphin county courthouse, is re
called by readers of this column, re
marked this morning, that the cam
paign for attentuated skirts did not
begin day before yesterday and ti>M
equal rights for women were agi
tated in this community a century
and a quarter ago. A friend re
marked to the librarian that wo
man's rights had been upheld by
Senator Sproul in his declaration and
that a great many men were coming
round to that way of thinking. "It>
not new," remarked the librarian,
"Why women's styles and rights
were discussed right here more than
100 years ago," and then he pro
duced the following, which had been
copied literally from an effusion
which gained much publicity here
abouts in 1794, although he care
fully refrained from giving the name
of the author, who is assumed to,
have been a well-known wit of that
day:
Fashions For Spring? '94
The Aera for Women putting on the
Breeches
Motto, "Liberty & Equality or the
Rights of Women."
Whilst man is so busy asserting his
rights
Shall women lie by without gaining
new lights?
Our sex have been surely restrained
long enough
To stiff prudish dress & such old
fashioned stuff.
Too long have been fettered & tram
melled, I wot
With cumbersome trains & the
Strait Petticot.
Whilst thus we lay bound In this
pitiful Plight
Men claimed to the Breeches an ex
clusive right,
Yet should a Poor Wife dare her
Tyrant to chide.
Oh! she wears the Breeches, they
tauntingly cried.
But now we're enlightened they'll
find to their Shame,
We'll have the reality not the bare
name.
No longer will Woman to Satire be
Dupe
For she Is determined to figure sans
Jupe.
And once she is roused she will not
. be out done
Nor stop at this one reformation
alone
For Mark Me. Proud Man, she'll not
yield thee a jot.
But soon' will become e'en a true
sans culotte
And flourish away ere the ending of
Spring.
Sans jupe, sans culotte—in short,
sans anything.
It may be- remarked In passing,
that Frank M. Eastman, expert on
state taxation, has been spending
considerable time going over the new
golf course of the Country Club of
Harrisburg. Provided, that Mr.
Eastman takes up the game, Harris
burg golfers may as well be prepar
ed for a thorough mastering of that,
game, quite in the manner of the
writer of that authority, Eastman on
Taxation.
April 1 will have a new meaning
for people of quite a section of
Lancaster county next Monday. The
first day of the month of showers Is
"settling up" day when people pay
bills, close up transactions, transfer
property and attend to other busi
ness matters and Lancaster is the
county, where the custom prevails
more than any other. Monday the
gates will come down after a cen
tuvy on the Elizabethtown pike and
on the Williamstown pike. It will
interest Harrisburgers, becanse one
will be able to ride from Harrisburg
into Lancaster city without paying
toll, for the first time since about
1815.
"Jimmy" Cametto, the superin
tendent of the grounds of the new
Country Club of Harrisburg, will
shoulder a ride instead of a rake,
next week. "Jimmy" who is well
known to many people in this city,
who play golf, and tennis, came here
with the people who built the new
club and was annexed by the offi
cers. It transpired this week that
"Jimmy" registered last June un
der the draft in New Jersey. And
they have sent for him.
• V *
Captain Hex Flinn, of Pittsburgh,
a son of Ex-Senator William Flinn,
of Pittsburgh, stopped off here yes
terday on his way back to Camp
Meade. He was called home by the
birth of William Flinn, Jh, who will
bear the name of a grandfather
noted in Keystone State political af
fairs for years. It happens that
Senator Flinn has three sons in the
Army. Captain Flinn went in first.
The others are in France and he
is still held in this country, which
must be rather arduous in view of
the fighting proclivities of the fam
ily.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ...
—William J. McCaig, Pittsburgh
legislator, who was here yesterday,
owns to some ambitions for re-elec
tion.
—John D. W. Snowden, Cambria
steel man, has been ordered to
Brazil as representative of a big ex
port company.
—C. W. Price, field secretary of
the National Safety organization, is
making a series of addresses in the
western part of the state.
—D. Lloyd Claycomb. former leg.
islator, will be marshal of Altoona's
patriotic parade on War Declaration
Day.
—A. Merritt Taylor, former Phila
delphia transit expert, has been ap
pointed director of eastern trans
portation for the Emergency Fleet
| Corporation.
—Congressman Edgar R. Kless,
of the Willlamsport district, has sent
word to friends here that he pro
poses to be in the race for Congress
very much.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That some or tile steel fop
Japan will be made here?
HISTORIC HAKHISRURO
When the canal boats first began
to run here, trips to Columbia were
great week-end affairs.
Elusive Moths
"Do yez remember thim moth
balls yez sold me to kill moths wid?"
said Casey to the druggist.
"Yes, I do," replied the man of
drugs.
'.'Well, I'm tellln' yez they're no
good. Oi broke tin dollars' worth of
ehiny and winders throwin' thim lit
tle balls at the plaguey things and
niver killed wan!" Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph,