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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918
He vrho reforms himself has done
more to reform the public than a
crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.—
LATATEB.
WHAT S YOUR IDEA? I
THE Syracuse Post-Standard be-'
lieves it has found a name for
the Kaiser by which he should
be known in history.
William the Frightful is the Post-
Standard's recommendation.
William the Frightful is good, but
the fault with it is that it is too good
for the wretch who cares no more
for the lives of his countrymen than 1
he does for those against whom he
mukes war.
The Telegraph, therefore, would
amend tha motion with a suggestion,
of its own. Here it is:
Butcher Bill!
Butcher Bill, who is going to be;
gored to death in his own slaughter r
pen!
If you have your own pet name
for Wilhelm send It along, avoiding
profanity, if possible.
With Secretary Baker in Europe. 1
we are at least relieved of the an- :
lioyance of his excuses for the fall
down of the Signal Corps and the j
army aircraft program. Or would he
insist on telling us that everything |
is going well?
TRAITORS TO THE REAR
ALL disloyalty to the government
at this time should be sup
pressed without regard to any
thing save the good of the nation.
We have done enough pussy-footin\j t
in this matter and the time has come
when all patriotic citizens must show,
their colors, especially when the
ugly head of the pro-German pro-;
pagandists shows Itself.
We must be careful, however, in
our attitude to avoid any appearance
of disregard for constituted authority
or law. Ample provision is at last,
being made for the proper treat
ment of disloyal persons and under
the new sedition act of Congress l
there will be provision for the \
punishment of those who think more i
of our enemies than they do of our|
soldiers and the welfare of the
United States.
Ex-President Taft has sounded a
proper note in his recent statement
that our citizens of German origin
are to be divided into two classes.
He says, "the Pennsylvania Germans,
who came over before the Revolution j
and settled in this State still re
tain German traditions in their mode;
of life, but, driven from home in ai
search for religious freedom, they
never have had particular affection j
for the Fatherland. They are loyal'
to the backbone."
Mr. Taft points out further that
the Germans who came over in 1848,,
"led by Carl Schurz and other coura
geous liberty-loving leaders of high
ideals, came to avoid militarism and
despotism. They loved freedom and 1
hated slavery. They enlisted in the
Civil War in great numbers and
every battlefield was wet with their!
blood. There was a considerable 1
German immigration after our Civil j
War of those who sought the ma
terial advantages this country of
fered. but who recognized Schurz as'
their leader. Since Germany's ma
rial progress began, after the
Franco-Prussian War, the immigra
tion has been small. Our present;
generation of citizens of German ori- 1
gin are generally valuable members
of the community and are descend
ants in large measure of those who
came over between 1848 and 1870."
It is a remarkable fact, however,
that the sons of these original Gor
man settlers are the worst offenders
at the present time. Time after time
reports reach the public of the cl
■ most inconceivable attitude of many
of these persons. They seem to have
forgotten all that this country has
meant to them and their families and
to have absorbed In some fashion an
idea that their first duty is to Ger
many and not to the United States.
It is a favorable sign, however, that
since the destruction of the Lusl
tanla and the outrages on the battle
fields of Europe those who were dis
posed to applaud German effort at
■the outbreak of the war have been
turning back in patriotic devotion
FRIDAY EVENING,
Ito the country of their adoption.
| Thousands of German boys are in
| our army, true and loyal, and we
I must be careful In anything ancl
everything that we do not to hurt the
! innocent, while we strike hard the
| guilty. These patriotic citizens of
German ancestry are bearing a
| double load, and as Mr. Taft suggests,
, "We must be considerate of them
and not add to their embarrassment
by unjust and hysterical suspicion."
Above and beyond all else we must
i maintain law and order, and even :n
I the punishment of these traitors to
| the Stars and Stripes there must be
| exercised the greatest care that no
innocent person shall be harmed.
Foolish people who utter disloyal
| sentiments through ignorance or
] bravado must understand that they
| are treading on dangerous ground
i and when they get Into trouble they
! should realize that they have brought
I it largely upon themselves.
Every patriotic citizen will do his
| utmost to suppress disloyalty. Of
! fenders through Ignorance or care
lessness should first be warned, and
| persistence in their course ought
then subject them to the prompt and
proper attention of those in author
! ity. Disloyalty and the dangerous
| prbpaganda of pro-Germanism v.'ill
j no longer be endured In this coun
; try. A patient people are ready to
! strike the foes in front as well as the
foes in the rear, but by lawful means,
and only by lawful measures. •
Think of giving an American soi- !
dier in France a Creel pamphlet on
: the virtues of the administration, in
| stead of a slice of bread or a piece 1
j of meat.
COAL FOR NEXT WINTER
HE Telegraph has received com-
I plaints from a number of Har- j
risburg people on the ground !
that the retail prices for coal fixed
by the local committee are higher j
than those of some other cities and ;
therefore unfair. The Telegraph has
attempted no comparison of figures !
here and elsewhere, but Fuel Com- i
missioner Hickok, has the data upon j
which the retail prices were fixed j
and he and the committee, repre- j
senting the Chamber of Commerce, ;
the Rotary Club and the Municipal !
League presidents, believe that the ;
retail coal dealers are not getting j
more than a fair profit. Indeed, the,
committee of consumers would have j
been willing to allow the dealers !
more than the fuel administrator j
proposed.
But the coal question goes deeper
than price. It is already a question
of coal at any price. There is in
prospect for next winter a more ser
ious shortage than that which caus
ed such widespread hardship during
January and February of the pres
ent year.
"The Coal Age," an authority on
the national fuel situation, says
that:
The production of coal so far
this year has been more than a
million tons less each week than
the output estimated as necessary
to prevent another fuel famine
next winter.
It adds what the newspaper dis
patches have been carrying the past
week or two—the reports of serious
labor disturbance and threats of a
strike in the anthracite fields of this
State. Nor does "The Coal Age,"
place the blame on the mine work
ers, who are said to be discouraged
by the fact that Secretary McAdoo
has offered certain favored mines all
the cars they want if they will sell
coal at slightly reduced prices to the
government for the railroads. Says
the publication quoted:
The direct result is dissatis
faction and discouragement on the
part of the miners at the idle
plant and an increased cost of
production for the less favored
companies.
Men can't live even on high
wages when they can work but
two or three days each week, and
the companies cannot mine at low
cost under such conditions. Presto,
up go coal prices and wages, and
the public pays what the railroads
save!
With no desire to pass snap-judg
ment on Mr. McAdoo's methods, it
would appear that anything which
tends to reduce the general produc
tion of coal is poor business. It is
too much to hope that coal will
either be cheaper or more plentiful
next fall. The thing to do now is
to forget the price increases and buy
as much as the pocketbook will per- ]
mit, the dealer will sell or the bins
hold. Last winter there were times
when many of us would have pur- i
chased coal at any price, and could ;
not. That condition will be repeated
next winter, in aggravated form.
Information concerning the progress
of the war is all right, but when it
comes down to tons of it being
shipped in steamer holds that could
be used for supplies and food, we are
getting too much of a good thing.
HATS OFF TO SML'TS
OUR hat is off to General Smuts,
the veteran Boer warrior, who
put the slinking, plotting Aus
trian diplomats to rout in three
minutes.
"Is it true you wish to make a
separate peace?" asks Smuts, point
blank of the Austrian delegate who
wanted to trap England into nego
tiations that would cause distrust on
the part of her allies.
"Yes-or no?" reiterated the Boer
general, and when the Austrian be
gan to hedge and evade, he added:
"Then —good night."
That's the kind of diplomacy the
world heeds—the "yes or no" kind.
There never would have been a war
if diplomats had been frank, fail' und
truthful.
News item—"Paul Jones suspected
of disloyalty." After all, Shakespeare
knew what he was talking about
when he Intimated that there is noth
ing in a name.
Where is the fellow who was boast
ing last week that he had all his gar
den made?
The Germans learned a fresh les
son on tbe American front yesterday.
but even at that they are merely in
the primary grade of American In
struction.
The early spring suit crop has been
seriously damaged by the storm.
It looks as though Emperor Charles
admitted the truth before he had re
ceived Instructions from the Kaiser
as to the kind of lie he was to t-ell.
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Time limits for filing nominating
petitions for the May primary ex
| pired at midnight, about 900 papers
; being entered by candidates on tho
I final day, the last filed within ono
: minute of twelve o'clock. The Re
; publican and Democratic parties
j have contests for nominations i'or
| governor and lieutenant governor,
j while the Republicans have rivals
for honors for secretary of internal
affairs and for the four nominations
| for Congressmen-at-Large. In many
j districts there are battles looming
lup for nominations for Congress,
i state senator and members of the
i House, the prohibition amendment
I being an issue. The Prohibition and
! Socialist parties have filed complete
tickets for legislative nominations.
Philadelphia has many legislative
candidates of different parties.
While it will take several days to
i enter all the petitions on the records
1 to-day is the last day under the law
for candidates to withdraw papers.
It is believed that there are approxi
j mately 2,500 petitions on file for ill
I of the nominations.
To-day attorneys and candidates
j were busy examining petitions filed
i by rivals with a view to instituting
; contests to get lines on the names
signed for rivals.
The petitions will be re-examined
and the lists made up next week and
certified to county commissioners
for printing of the ballots.
—Closing of the time for filing,
nomination petitions for the -May
primary was marked by three moves
on the part of state administration
forces to nose out opponents from j
the advantage of position on the'
ballot because of spelling of names
These petitions, which were said to
have been about the Capitol all day, j
were filed within five minutes of
midnight and chances are that theyi
will be attacked. Petitions werej
filed for George P. Aarons, 1909 j
North Park avenue, Philadelphia,!
and Joseph R. Bateson, 9 Maurice
street, Pittsburgh, for the Republican |
nomination, of lieutenant governor,!
which gives them places above Sen
ator Edward E. Beidleman, of this:
city, who filed for the same office. |
There were reports that a petition j
for James Scott, to beat out Johni
R. K. Scott was in hand, but Beidle-1
man declared they would not en
gage in that kind of game. The third ;
petition to be filed was for James j
Woodward, "gentleman," Ashland,
for secretary of internal affairs,!
which gives him the edge on James j
F. Woodward. Ashland is in Schuyl- j
kill county, the home of Secretary of 1
Internal Affairs Paul W. Houck. j
One of the petitions was signed inj
the Lost Creek district of Schuyl
kill.
—Outside of these eleventh hour
petitions there were no surpris?s in
the late filing, although the Capitol
was filled with rumors. State admin
istration officials were numerous
about the offices until the hour ex
pired and among those who remain
ed were O'N'eil headquarters men
and Select Councilman William E.
Finley. of Philadelphia, and W. S.
Leib, resident clerk of the House.
William P. Gallagher, chief clerk of
the Senate, looked after the Repub
lican state committee end and War
ren YanDdke, secretary of the Dem
ocratic state committee, and David
L. Lawrence, friend of Joseph F.
Guffey, were also on hand until the
finish.
Attached to the nominating peti
tion filed by Dr. Moses Stearn, of
Philadelphia, for Congressional nom
inations in the Third district, which
is in Philadelphia, was a letter from
the candidate who suggested to Chief
I'lerk Thorn that the paper be dis
infected immediately as it had been
circulated through a district of that
city where smallpox had been pre
valent. The doctor said that the pa
per represented backing of people
who desired to have bathhouses,
open summer and winter.
Included in the rush of papers
entered were many supplemental
petitions for candidates, some of
whom desired to be on the safe side
in events of attacks. At least a dozen
men failed to become candidates be
cause the papers presented for them
on the last day were short of the re
quired number of names or did not
contain affidavits and the defects
could not be remedied in time.
—Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell
seems to have flashed like a comet
across the gaze of the workers at the
Democratic state windmill who make
no effort to hide their chagrin at the
cracking of the slate. According to
what was received here last night
from Philadelphia the judge means
to be a candidate and a row such as
occurred after Vance C. McCormick
was slated in 1914, seems certain.
The machine bosses are now saying
that McCormick and Palmer knew
what they were doing when they re
fused to run.
—The platform enunciated at Mc-
Keesport by J. Denny O'Neil will be
subjected to acid testing in the next
few days and the candidate will be
asked whether he intends to abide
by the decision of the Republican
primary. The fact that Mr. O'Neil
did not make a specific declaration
such as was made by Senator Sproul
was much commented upon here to
day.
—Many people regard it as doubt
ful whether Senator Sproul will re
ply to the attack made upon him by
Governor Brumbaugh last night.
The Governor's remarks were ex
pected and it it said that the Chester
Senator has been advised not to get
into a controversy, although there
are some who say that if the Gov
ernor persists in his attacks there
will be counterassaults.
—Robert P. Habgood attended the I
closing of the petition filing and re
marked that in his travels he had
found that the people of the state
were getting tired of Philadelphia
and Allegheny county political domi
nation and wanted an up-state can
didate. Mr. Habgood professed the
greatest confidence and talked har
mony.
—Joseph N. Mackrell, secretary of
the O'Neil committee, says that there
are more than 125,000 signers on
O'NeU's petitions. The Sproul people
claim over 200.000.
—The fact that some of the big
gest newspapers in the state to-day
declined to get heated up over the
O'Neil platform, the plans of the
Philadelphia reformers against Vare
and the filing of nominating petitions
and played up the war. Congress and
the Liberty Loan was not lost on the
politicians to-day.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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It is our opinion that the only way
Kaiser Bill will ever reach Paris is by
riding in on one of those 75-mile
shells.
Read about this man and then sayi
a prayer for Dr. Isler. An Altoona
paper tells: "One of the most re-!
markable instances of pluck and de
termination to triumph over ad- -
verse conditions and win an educa-j
tion is shown by the case of Thomas j
Reilly, of this city. At the age of 50
years he will be graduated this
spring from Grove City College, in
the western part of the state.
"In his youth he was terribly burn- !
ed in the iron works at Holiidays- j
burg. Later he taught school in the :
country districts, and a few years ago;
lost a remunerative position because
he was not a college graduate."
Cyril Harcourt, who wrote a very
clever book and play called "A Pair
of Silk Stockings," is the author of
"A Pair of Petticoats," now showing
in a New York playhouse. Cyril is
getting very close to the deadline.
Elimination of the German lan
guage is having its battles in Penn
sylvania. At Reading a split in St.
Paul's United Evangelical Church is
in prospect as a result of a walkout
at a German service following a re
cent congregational decision to hold
alternate English and German serv
ices. The pastor, the Rev. H. H.
Kreidler, and most of the membsrs
favor the abolition of all services in
German while the war lasts, deeming
them unpatriotic, but a German
speaking minority, chiefly elderly
members, has thus far been in con
trol. All can speak English. The
members who walked out when they
found the service was to be In Ger
man are trying to force the issue
and say they will demand satisfac
tory action.
THE COMING PROBLEM
[Ohio State Journal]
The war is going to change the
labor problem in a marked degree.
Labor is undoubtedly to enjoy a defi
nite share of what it produces and It
will depend upon that share as to the
extent capital will employ Itself.
And it is probable that capital will
be ruled out entirely and labor will
have to take care of itself. This sit
uation may seem to encourage a
class interest, but it will act the oth
er way. There will be no labor class 1
In the future, no class whose Inter
ests are in any way in conflict with
the general welfare. The fight
against capital will have gained
much ground, and then it will be
discovered whether labor is more
necessary to bapltal than capital is
to labor. These questions are to be
threshed out within a few years aft
er the war closes. Already the gov
ernment is taking steps in this direc
tion—in the government control of j
the railroads and in the nation's '
agreement with the federated labor.
Anyhow, the old labor situation will
disappear and we will have another
if not a better one.
EASTWARD
[Philadelphia Public Ledger]
Oh! to be In France
Where the flags of freedom dance
And the charging lines go forward at
the dawn,
Where the men of every land,
Clean of heart and strong of hand.
Stand together 'gainst the devil and
his pawn.
There the roaring guns
Fill the circling of the suns
With an awful aching agony of
sound;
And the bravest and the best.
Who have met their last great test,
Lie uneasy in the quivering, echoing
ground.
Back with half their strength,
Lone battalions pass at length,
And the young, fresh troops go ever
rolling by;
Passing where the rest have passed
But each further than the last,
Toward the victory that only blood
can buy.
Heart and soul would be
In that land of agony.
For there the fire of sacrifice is
bright.
There truth stands victorious.
There honor shines glorious,
Both glowing in the luster of that
light;
There life Is worth the living,
In the fullness of the giving
Soul and body to the undying cause
of right.
Poisoning German Children
With Hatred
[A remarkable contrast between
the sublime and spiritual tones of
the letters of the maidens of France
to the maidens of America is found
in this letter from a German school
girl to a friend in Switzerland which
was published in The Princeton
Alumni Weekly a few weeks ago—]
Frankfort-on-Oder, 20, July, 1916
My Dear Louise:
The contents of your last letter
would have hurt me had I not known
that your thoughts of our glorious
war resulted from sheer ignorance.
It is evident that you, a Swiss
gill, with your French sympathies,
cannot understand how my heart,
the heart of a young German girl,
passionately desired this war.
Speaking of it some years ago, my
father said to us: 'Children, Ger
many is getting too small for us: we
shall have to go to France again in
order to find more room.' Is it our
fault if France will not understand
that more money and land is neces
sary for us?
And you reproach us that our
soldiers have been very cruel to the
Belgian rabble, and you speak also
of the destruction of Rheims, and
of the burning of villages and towns.
Well, that is war. As in every other
undertaking, we are past masters of
war.
You have a great deal to learn
before you can come up to our
standards, and I assure you that
what has been done so far is a mere
bagatelle compared with what will
follow.
Close to Armageddon
[Ne wYork Times]
The British Premier's speech
makes it clear that this battle is as
close to Armageddon as it is possible
to get; that the two contestants are
engaged in a death grapple, and that
all that has gone before, in Russia
for instance, has been mere prelimi
nary play. Equally matched, and
with no tricks in reserve, no cards
up their sleeves, the battle is simply
a brutal test of strength. It calls
for every ounce of it. This is so well
recognized in England that the
Ministry has apparently been blamed
for wasting armies in Mesopotamia
and Palestine; but the Premier an
swers that triumphantly. "In Meso
potamia there is only one white divi
sion in all, and in Egypt and Pale
stine together there are only two
white divisions, and the rest are
either Indians or mixed with a very
small proportion of British troops."
With these forces the British have
destroyed two Turkish armies and
kept the Turks out of the battleline
in France.
The world will be eager to hear
more of Brigadier General Carey,
who improvised a force of "engin
eers, laborers, signalers, and any
body else who could hold a rifle" and
held the gap the Germans had open
ed on the way to Amiens. But for
him and his scratch corps, the Pre
mier broadly intimates, the Germans
might have got to Paris. We shall
know more of Carey before long, and
of this astounding fight of his; and
it appears certain that it will be
years before the world ceases to hear
of him.
The Booster Spirit
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you
don't.
If you'd like to win, but you think
you can't.
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will—
It's all In the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you
are
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself
before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
—From S. W. McGlll, Nashville.
GIVE ~
Give until you feel that you
Cannot give another sou!
Give until you're broke, and then
Make some coin to give again!
What is all you give away?
There in Flanders yesterday
Was a soldier, fine and true.
Who gave up his life for you.
—Detroit Free Press.
As R matter of fact there is but
one race worthy of ruling the world
and which has already attained the
highest degree of civilization. That
race is ours: the Prussians are un
doubtedly the lords par excellence
among the Germans.
All other nations and among
them, unfortunately, the Swiss, are
degenerate and of inferior worth.
That is why I have always been so
proud of being a true Prussian.
Yesterday, again, our pastor ex
plained to us convincingly that our
first parents, Adam and Kve, were
also Prussians. That is quite easy
to understand, because the Bible
tells us that the German God cre
ated all after his own image. If
then, all men are descended from
Adam and his wife, it follows that
only Prussians, or at least Germans,
ought to exist in the world, and that
all who push on and prosper ought
to belong to us. You must admit
that that is logic and that is why
our motto is, 'God with us, Ger
many above everything.'
You know now why we wished
this war. Is it not shameful that
other nations, who have no right to
existence on the earth, wish to di
minish our heritage! We are the
divine fruit, and the others are only
weeds. That is why our great Em
peror has decided to put an end to
all these injustices and to extirpate
the weeds. Do you understand now?
I remain your school friend,
KATIE HAMEL,
(Daughter of the State Councilor of
Architecture).
Mr. Creel
[N'ew York Times]
Actual or inferential responsibility
for the doings and utterances of Mr.
George Creel cannot any longer, con
sistently with the public welfare and
comfort, be borne by the Adminis
tration. It is the general impression
that when he speaks he speaks for
the President, an impression he has
not very energetically sought to dis
pel. His declaration that he should
be proud to his dying day ' that
there was no rush of preparation in
this country prior to the day the
President went before Congress"
could not have been made at a
more inopportune time, but that is
not the worst of it. It is an avowal
never to be made by anybody at any
time. It has aroused public indigna
tion to a degree which is only faint
ly reflected by the denunciation • di
rected against it in Congress.
The usefulness of the Bureau of
Public Information has never been
satisfactorily demonstrated, but the
demonstration that, if the bureau is
to be continued, it should have a new
head is complete and conclusive.
LABOR NOTES
Professor Baldwin of the Michigan
Agricultural College is of the opinion
that women can assist production by
relieving men in cities rather than
themselves working on farms.
Urgent calls have been sent out by
the anthracite coal operators for
more mine workers in an effort to in
crease the present army of 2 53,000
men up to the normal force of 1915,
when there were 177,000 mine work
ers in the regions.
Organized labor in legislative cam
paigns of 1918 in several states is
urging the extension of the exclusive
state fund plan of workmen's com
pensation as a result of years of ex
perience under various systems of
administration.
Madagascar fishermen sprinkle a
poisonous substance on rivers and
lakes which paralyzes the fish and
causes their bodies to rise, when ihey
are caught by hand and eaten with
out harming their captors.
With the consent of the union con
cerned, a small number of Chinese
seamen who were temporarily unable
to follow their usual vocation were
employed mending roads in Berk
shire. England, and were paid the
full trade union rates.
East St. Louis (III.) organized mer
chants have accepted an arbitration
suggestion of the Retail Clerks"
Union, which has been on strike
since last June to enforce a 20 per
cent, wage Increase and 9 o'clock
closing on Saturday nights.
Nine states have adopted consti
tutional amendments for the state
wide recall and are in the order of
adoption as follows: Oregon. Colo
rado. Arizona. California, Nevada.
Washington, Michigan, Kansas and
Louisiana.
APRIL 12, 1918
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Rupert Hughes' newest book,
"Long Ever Ago," was published last
week by Harper and Brothers. His
other books are: "Clipped Wings,"
"Empty Pockets," "In a Little
Town," "The Last Rose of Summer,"
"The Thirteenth Commandment."
"We Can't Have Everything," "What
AVill People Say?" In a recent in
terview, Mr, Hughes said: "Forty
seems to be a good time for a wo
man to ask herself if she will under
take romance as a livelihood. It. is
by no means too late either for a
man or a woman.
"In writing fiction I always say
that a person who can tell a good
story well can write one if he will
only take the trouble to learn how
to spell, punctuate and paragraph
and net himself pen-broken."
"The Roardman Family," by Mary
S. Watts. Many novels are written
about people of senilis or talent who
rise to fame from poverty and priva
tion. In this novel Mrs. Watts be
gins at the other end of the scale.
Her heroine is a young woman who
was brought up in the most rigid
traditions of gentility; a woman who
might have stayed at home and been
taken care of had she so chosen—
but who did not so choose. It is
with her emancipation that Mrs.
Watts is principally concerned; an
emancipation that is wrought by her
work and art and native common
sense. The narrative occupies a
period of about fifteen years, begin
ning with the first year of the pres
ent century. In its central figure it
adds another outstanding character
to the notable list of creations which
its author has already given to liter
ature. The MacMiilan Company,
publishers, New York, $1.50.
[OUR DAILY LAUGH
SUMMED UP
"Of what does a shad consist?"
"A backbone, a wishbone, a funnj
bone and then SOIBV 1
GREAT AT THAT.
"In case of war I know a lot of
electricians who will go to the front."
"They would bo good at charging
batteries." ,
PROBABLY NOT.
"The circus has cut out thrillers."
"Couldn't compete with the movies,
I s'pose." ,
UNDISTURBED POSSESSION.
"Every man is entitled to his opin
ions."
"Quite true; and in many cases
they don't appear to be of the slight
est use to aaybody but tho owner."
lEhettij Glf|al
"Beating tl pycar to It" is quite*
a habit witlPensylvania railroad*
employes heii There are all sorts
of ways to <j i. Not a few me>v
employed at h<a, and who reside 1
i there, go aftj eir cash in auto-i
j mobiles. Jhf f them own cars,
I and they lit i> three and four
| deep along !e Iding east of the
j Market strei sjway on payday.
The paycar ins n a schedule p.nd<
is due at Eno|oicertain days, twice
each month, fertwho work at night'
hurry to this l t>and-catch the pay
car before it Ms for Enola. Those
who have aioiobiles make good
time and arellwys on hand before
j the cashier sflvn. Roadmen have
| another wayo tet paid ahead of'
time. especifV hose on the Mid-
I die division. If hey happen to be
| in Harrisbifi rid the paycar is
; somewhere bven this city and Al
toona, they lean early passenger
train to the ir where the paycar
is sldetrackei Itey frequently savo
a whole day.lTh Enola bunch with
their autos,hox>ver, have it all
over their who use
j trolley cars flTrains.
I • *
! Some of t; lol.itieal lights who
came here trday with nicely
written skeUs of themselves to
| hand out tofxwpapers on the oc
| casion of their papers found
that a comljiton of an unprece
! dented rushif nominating papers
I on the last diarn a big battle made
I individual ;bitns rather below
J par in the n*k>'lue. Some of the
j men had gojto considerable trou
ble to set li facts about them
selves and tj qualifications for of
fices and tljmportance of their
nominationsjhit they were thank
ed for theirlflness and given back
their data. Ind none seemed to
understand 0 it is bad business to
wait until tlast day.
One candle for a nomination
for the Housjom an up-state coun
ty had fllek petition with 250
names and I|\ 250-word statement
to give out Th it. When he was
told there It a chance that 110
might get heme and nothing else
on the wires was quite vexed.
"But, mypople want to read
about me," 1 he.
"So do tlpeople of 500 other
candidateft."jjt in an/ unfeeling
| newspaperml
I "Say, I nil get this in."
| "Why did you come down a
I week ago ait void the rush?" was
asked.
"I couldngive my candidacy
away."
"Well, D<f O'Neil is getting
about threehes and Sproul the
same so I £s you will have to
get along M one," was the re
joinder.
"Give me? article back" de
manded the jte candidate.
• *
One man \j Came here from the
ends of the * had the other idea,
j He did not v! his candidacy to get
into the papt lie said that there
. were peculianditions in his coun
■ ty and wheie was told that his
. name might Jin one line if the war
did not croWt out he was much
peeved.
• *
As an evice of wartime pros
perity, hunds of people, who in
ordinary tin never dreamed of
riding in ansit day coaches, now
purchase Pi|an reservations for
every trip tr make, provided a
Pullman is nched to the train.
The tendency Cms to be to go into
I the PullnianSleeping-car conduc
tors say thale rush tor reserva
tions is unpnlented. Experienced
travelers ma their reservations a
week in adv.-p. They have learn
ed that they apt to be left in the
cold if they dt get the early reser
vations.
"Being a 'tible man' these days
is not what ii cracked up to be in
spite of the:-e things you news
papermen sa|>out us," remarked a
big lineman I night. "Just to show
you I have li on duty for thirty
hours and Wiave run up against
some of thaery worst tangles I
have struck, i one place we had a
dozen poles fn and wires in trees
and in roads..nd then we have had
this snow onp of it."
* *
Some of Irisburg's "war gard
eners" were, the dumps- yester
day and tlunqulries they made
were rather Rising. One man who
had spent sojmoney getting a plot
plowed askefliat he should do as
he had founie ground all covered
with snow. :
"Planted f seed?" was asked.
"No." I
"Well, thqgive thanks and wait
a while," withe advice he got.
Another cjn who had spaded a
plot was alsfistressed because the
snow fell dfche nicely arranged
garden, all jfdy for seeding. He
was told to mature work a while.
V •
Isaac It. Imvpacker, the histor
ian, who is ijsuMhority on the bat
tle of OettysrKind on lives of tho
Pennsylvani;i(on*ianderß, has writ
ten a letter i oft of the Philadel
phia newspaj4*swhieh gives an in
teresting sidlgt on General Han
pock. It aI.H dais with a subject
nv ii discuAd by Harrisburgers.
He says: "Tl coice of concentrat
or at GettyMir; was not Hancock's
at all. He \|s ot given the deter
mination ofth question, whether
to tight or ripe Meade's orders to
concentrate T Vettysburg were giv
en before hnh*rd from Hancock,
and natural lj ancock would not
have undertiijbto decide, as he did
not. in factjlfertake to decide, a
.luestion bel./iwg to the army com
mander. TK Sund at Gettysburg
did not keel Hicock from rising to
the comniartk/Vhe Army of the Po
tomac. Hancoß recommendations
to Meade to idult after Pickett's
repulse was bid on the fact that
a nail from ncock's saddle was
driven by a tfet into his wound,
and at the mrfnt he assumed that
the ConfedenS were out of am
munition and >re shooting nails."
1 WELL KOWN PEOPLE
WEIJ>(OW PEOPLE
—J. DennO'Neil, who opened
his campaigyesterday, has been
living in Mfcport for thirty-three
years.
—Fire Mllial Chal Port, who
has been in orida for his health,
will be homi a short time.
—Augustuif. Oliver will direct
Pittsburgh's d Cross campaign.
—Major MH. Davis, Pittsburgh
health dire** says that the pneu
monia outbik in that city is one
of the woriknown.
—Uvlngst Seltzer, Schuylkill
superintend* has been re-elected
for his foui term.
DdTOU KNOW
—That er cities arc watch
ing howßrrisburg la handling
Its sclKxproblcm?
HISTtIO HARRIsnURG
For hal<century Harrisburg used
to be th<j*ng up place of hundreds
of rails try April.