14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 I A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, PreSt & Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMLTZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of 1 all news dispatches credited to It or 1 not otherwise credited in this paper ; and also the local news published ] herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. • Member American / Newspaper Tub _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg", Pa., as second class matter. „ B y carriers, ten cnt a jf-irjloyK' 1 > "week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance,. * r" FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1918 Nor knoxccst thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has Tent. — EMERSON. BAKER IN A HURRY THE man "who suggested to Sec retary Baker that he go to i Europe rendered the country an immeasurable service. Mr. Baker arrived in France about the time the Germans opened their drive. Ho was in Paris while the big gun of the "Germans was peppering away at that city. He at last awoke from his dream of "all's well and the war going fine" to a realization that if | the conflict is to bo fought out on European soil we in America must hurry, and hurry greatly. So he comes home, firm in the conviction that the Allies will win, but con vinced that wc are not doing what we should bo doing toward that end, and very, very anxious to speed up our preparations. Would that the Secretary had gone to Europe a year ago. Perhaps then we should have been farther along now toward the end of the war. But that aside, since Mr. Baker is now determined to face facts instead of entertaining fancies, Is ready to ad mit mistakes and remedy them, and is going to do his level best to speed ''up the whole war machine, he will find the country behind him, ready to do its utmost in support of that pro gram. But there is only one way in which he can succeed —and that is to cut out politics and bcaurocratic red tape and give the men of the country in every line unrestricted authority to do the big jobs. We are face to face with the most gigantic task in his tory. We have done much despite our errors, very much, but we must do more, infinitely more, if we arc to succeed, and succeed wo will if It takes the last man and the last dol lar. Not an American but would rather die than live under the Prus sian yoke. "We as a people are ready for any necessary sacrifice, but we want to make no needless sacrifice. Haste is the watchword of the hour and we have been in a hurry to get at this job effectively for months. At last, thank heaven, Secretary Baker has caught up with the procession and indicates both desire and ability to take his place at the head of the line. One of the good signs at Washing ton is that Secretary Baker has noti fied Senator Chamberlain that he is ready to report to the Senate Military Committee on his trip abroad. A PATRIOTIC SERVICE THE Harrisburg Real Estate Board having been called upon to do its part for the country by making appraisals of the property near Middletown which is to be used for aviation and ordnance purposes, has agreed to perform the work free of cost. Ordinarily the fees for *uch valuations would amount,. probably, to several thousands of dollars, but the appraisal committee has pa triotically decided to forego pay and will give a week or two of hard work for the good of the cause. It is such service as this that creates public confidence and makes for the betterment of the real estate business. The Harrisburg board has been organized only a short time, but already it has made Itself felt as the most potent force in Central Penn sylvania real estate circles. It Is quite certain that the next Legislature will have a few things heside the prohibition of the liquor * traffic to deal with. l-'or instance, the elimination of German philosophy ' and propaganda under the guise of text books in our schools and colleges. , THE WEBSTER SPIRIT it|-* he most inspiring story of pa fjL ' I triotic devotion on the part of BE" young Americans that has ap m ' pared in Harrisburg in many a day was that published by the Telegraph last evening relating the splendid work of the Webster school children in Liberty Bond, War Stamps and Red Cross work. Probably other schools in Harris burg might also appear on the honor roll and this newspaper would be happy to tell what they are doing, FRIDAY EVENING, but the work of the Webster build- Ins is so remarkable that it can < asily stand as an example of what Harrisburg boys and girls, inspired by devoted teachers and enthusiastic home folks, can do to back up the boys in the Army and Navy if they try. The Webster building is certainly entitled to some distinctive flag or mark of merit, and its teachers share Quite as much in the credit as do its pupils, for no school is more efficient or energetic than its teaching corps. Bully for City Commissioner Lynch! When ho starts to put the streets in first class condition he is doing just what all our officials ought to do in maintaining the city in first class shape "until the boys come back." Commissioner Gross is pursuing the same policy with respect to the parks, and Mayor Keister is very properly starting a crusade against disorderly practices'and the other things which militate against a well conducted city. THAT EXTRA HOUR WHAT are you doing with that extra hour of daylight each day? Are you using it for the good of yourself or your country, or are you frittering it away wastefully? The Philadelphia North American recommends that a part of the hour, least, be devoted to physical exer cises that will fit the body for the grueling tasks the war has brought to most of us, and quotes Walter Camp, the famous trainer, as fol lows: Examination of our national physical condition has brought to the surface many unpleasant facts. The revelations of the draft have been most disquieting. In some districts only one man out of five proved fit to enter mili tary service—a shocking comment ary on the national health, or lack of it. We have been found defective in physical organs or flabby in general condition, and our n.a tional health has sunk to prob ably its lowest level in the his tory of this new and potentially vigorous nation. Our business and professional men are old at 20, fat at 40 and at 50 refusing to walk a mile and insisting on rid ing in motors or trolleys. Oil- average factory man is anemic, thin, hollow chested, poorly muscled and full of physical de fects. All this the war has pointed out to us, presenting the lesson clearly and plainly, and now we are face to face with the ques tion: What are we going to do about it? Shall we at once undertake the task of making the whole nation fit, or shall we—when finally we have stemmed the great peril of the Ilun—heave a sigh, and with in a decade grow fat and flabby again? Our athletes and trainers have failed to give us anything perma nent in condition or fitness. They have struggled to build up sys tems, but in each instance these have not proved attractive and have not been followed by those who studied them. Such systems, as a rule, have required a large amount of time and have proved uninteresting, despite their htgh aim. In the midst of these revelations of unsound physiques, we are given an extra hour of daylight. Anil surely no better use can be made of some part of this added time than to apply it to improve ment of the national health. It ought to require no nrging by tho especially created committee of the National Security League to pro mote this use of fifteen minutes a day, but unless some means of exer- cise other than those usually em ployed by busy men is devised the quarter-hour is likely to slip by with- out the bodily discipline recomihend- i ed. But for the man who loves the! outdoors and who will take up war ( gardening, or golf, or rowing, or | canoeing, or tennis, or any one of the dozens of forms of healthful i exercises that present of themselves, an inducement to muscular effort,] there is hope. Indeed, the growth j of golf and tennis, the popularity of the long hike, the increasing use of, the canoe, the renewed interest in! fishing, particularly in the casting and fly branches of the sport, indicate , nothing more than that men are I coming to understand that 100 per cent, efficiency cannot be solely by concentration at the desk,! but that healthy exercise in the open air is an essential. It is likely that tho slowly falling interest in Bigj League baseball, while the amateur branch of the sport is growing, is in part at least the result of this de sire of men to participate in sport In dividually instead of sitting on the sidelines watching a few others hav ing all the fun. At all events, the man who is giv ing at least fifteen minutes *a day to proper exercise is investing his new ly-acquired span of additional day light, and will draw his interest in improved health later, while the other fellow is simply spending it and getting nothing for his expenditure. Fellow-employes of an unpatriotic irftilder in a foundry In New York, who said the United States Army was going to France only to play ball, made him kneel in the center of one of the plant's big molding rooms and kiss the American flag three times. Their foreman persuaded them to de sist from marching to a neighboring plant for the purpose of giving a chap who stated the Kaiser would rule the world in three years a coat of tar and feathers. These incidents illustrate the rising wave of patriot ism in this country. There have been happenings right here in Harrisburg which show that patience has ceased to be a virtue among industrial work ers. The American worklngman has much at stake in this war, and he is determined to back the boys at the front by his labor and his earnings. Major-General George W. Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal and or ganizer extraordinary, is too big to be acting quartermaster. So he is given tho more Important job of getting troops and supplies to France. It is stated with a show of authority that already the speed with which troops are being dispatched abroad is five times as great as the average main tained during the first ten months the United States was at war with the German Government. The U. S. A. Ifoys are getting thicker and thicker on the other side, thank God! Liberty Bond signal: "Stop, look and loosen." \ Food will win the war—produce it. . i ■. i . ! TolCUcc- IK By the Ex-Committer man Senator K. K. Heklleman said to- j day that he is receiving promises of support in his oontest for the Lieutenant Governorship nomina tion from many parts of the state. Not long since a number of labor 1 leaders in Philadelphia tendered him an impromptu reception at Philadelphia and promised him the friendly consideration of labor. Throughout the mining regions the Senator's friends expect he will run strong, due to his long record of beneficial mine legislation in tha years he ha 3 served in the House and Senate. The Senator's friends in Philadel phia are numbered by the thousand and among those who have signed the many nominating petitions re ceived from that city are the signa tures of a large number of the most I influential Republicans of that city. I Allegheny county is also lining up strong for him and he will get a big vote there, his friends say. particu larly from the laboring unions. ( —The straight Republican ticket committee has been organized in Pittsburgh. It will work for the nom ination of Senator William C. Sproul lor Governor; Senator E. E. Beidle man for Lieutenant Governor, and i James F. Woodward for Secretary of Internal Affairs. The meeting was attended by Mayor Babeock and a number of city and county afflcials and men prominent in Republican politics. Senator Charles H. Kline was chosen chairman and R. F. Big ham secretary of the committee. Headquarters will be opened shortly and an active campaign made fori these three state candidates. —State Highway Commissioner O'Neil, candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, who left to-dny for a tour of Carbon and Wayne counties, and will arrive in Philadelphia Saturday noou, for a three-day stay, made a statement be- > fore leaving Harrisburg in which he ! said: "I am taking my campaign di-1 rect to the people of Pennsylvania, j There is not a thing in my life or my ; public record on which 1 am not will- j ing to stand or on which I am un- | willing to face the citizenship of this Commonwealth. I have told the peo ple of Pennsylvania that 1 am oppos ed to Penroseism and the German Alliance domination of Pennsylvania politics, and I, in turn, am being opposed by these two political agen cies, which are now circulating all sorts of slanderous and poisonous stories concerning me. They are un able to prove one. My opponent has let it be known that he will not be seen much on the stump. 1 take this occasion to tell the people of Penn sylvania that he is afraid to go on the stump." The Franklin Repository says: "It is very amusing to see a few people around here oppose the can didacy of Senator Sproul on moral grounds when such well-known Phil adelphians as James Dobson, Alba B. Johnson, C. Stuart Patterson, John Gribbel, Nathan Folwell, Dimner Beeber, Howell Cummings, Effing ham •B. Morris, Hampton L. Car son, Howard B. French, George Wharton Pepper, William M. Coates, Morris L. Clothier, A. Lincoln Acker," Dr. Edward Martin, R. K. Cassatt, Joseph E. Widencr, M. Hampton Todd, George W. Elkins, James Crosby Brown, Joseph Wayne, Jr., J. 11. Mc A lister, Francis B. ! Reeves, Samuel B. Stinson, J. Bar ton Townsend, and eighty Qthers equally as prominent, affix their sig natures to a call to the Republicans of Pennsylvania to support Senator Sproul at the primary on account of his superior qualifications, his emi nent litness and capability, his in tegrity and experience, his judgment and strength, a man who will meas ure up to the demands of the day and lead all Pennsylvania to meet fully the requirements of the iirst state of the Union." Labor and Beidleman [From Progressive Labor World] "We support our friends and op pose our enemies." This is the political platform of the American Federation of Labor. That this platform works was ! perhaps never more conclusively demonstrated than last Saturday, when representatives of organized | labor in Philadelphia tendered Sen | ator Edward E. Beidleman a sur prise party at the Bellevue-Strat ford and pledged him their support ; in his campaign to win the Repub- I lican nomination for Lieutenant ! Governor. Labor's tribute to Senator Beidle j man came spontaneously immedi |atoly after he had announced him , self as a candidate. It was not a long-planned, artificially-stimulated affair. It had not been worked up. j it was done on the spur of the I moment. j And still it was a well-considered, i extremely deliberate action. It was fortified and prompted by a record I of fourteen long years, j Senator Beidleman was not pro claimed a "friend of labor" by any campaign manager. He was not sud denly hoisted on the shoulder of per sonal labor friends. He did" not even I have to declare himself a friend of labor. He was proclaimed a friend of labor and a staunch, consistent friend by the legislative journals of the state during the last fourteen years. These official records in cold black type, proclaim Edward E. Beidle man a friend of labor in louder tones than a thousand stump speak ers could do it. The records speak for themselves and show that for fourteen years, in season and out of season, in the House and in the Sen ate, Edward E. Beidleman stood for everything and anything labor wanted. Pennsylvania labor knows this record of Beidleman's and therefore required no persuasion in rallying to his support. On a moment's notice, as soon as Senator Beidleman announced him self a candidate for Lieutenant Gov ernor, labor demonstrated that it "stands by its friends and opposes its enemies," true to the .political principles of the American Federa tion of Labor. Labor did not question whether Senator Beidleman favored one or the other political faction. Labor did not care what particular brand of Republicanism Senator Beidle man represents. Labor did not care whether Senator Beidleman is a lawyer or a bricklayer, a civil or a criminal barrister, an orator or a plodder, a fraternity man or a home body. All labor cared about was that for fourteen years Senator' Beidle man had consistently supported labor in every demand it had made, and that therefore labor was duty bound, in accordance with its prin ciples and political platform, to sup port him for anything he now wants. I,ahor "supports Its friends and opposes Its enemies" as candidates for Lieutenant Governor or any thing else. And that goes. Senator Beidleman, bet your life. HARRISBURG {£s£& TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? .... . : . . : ..... Z ZHZ 1 - ■■■ IS THIS THE CLUB 7 J u" ' 1/ N I WCLL OEND The TOMIGMT- I vajamt L m \ HOST Tmis ) - J steward To the coweßs laid for -si* VOM \\ ©iwd cm y / I R'Ght i PHOMC - Ye EM I -OH SAY ABOUT SGVPM Can, T)V __L M S\J*J OCLOCK- NlGfc STEAK- BfA> / ( V ■ ■ . y r- - You H-IVJoou V "** / S / / ' r\ . . "l WHY PIPN'T ','o J'' Am'O got to corvve our to , sfcsk. —-"" fZT?) 1 forGoT v met l: My - WHftT'i The I ,-Jfc Th . TmaX ■ Tuc , 1 VOOrJ '" r 7^ K^-„ MO MAe L T .?.^ K J. 1 IHEN for AN AWSWER-jm -TT,- r lOOT-i?—*/ Tr ' \'i / WOT q p --err . _ / ASCOMIW<| Thc ttt" 1 * 1£ r QU D C 1 ' r ' K ' r ' ________________ _ S S^j- SCHOOL VICTIMS [From the Saturday Evening Post] Looking at it from the material side—which is the side from which so many of us do look at our occu pations—school teaching is the most beggarly profession in the United States. No other calling that is presumed to require anything like the same amount of training and ability is so illpaid. No other call ing that is presumed to require a considerable mental discipline and development is held in such low re gard or is so little supported by public admiration. No other learn ed calling except the ministry is pursued under conditions that in volve so much humiliation, and the minister's trials with his vestrymen or trustees are somewhat amelior ated by the fact that in very many cases he is free to take an appeal over their heads, whereas the local board of education is generally a sunreme court for the teacher. These are not flattering things to say of a nation that has been de claring for a hundred years that its hope lay in public education. But they are true. Just now the teacher is in an ex ceptionally unpleasant situation. His or lier cost of living has gone bal looning, like everybody else's. But on the whole there has been only a feeble response on the other side of the ledger. The result is deple tion of the profession. Under pres ent conditions especially when nearly every other field of activity is bidding eagerly for labor of near ly every sort —teaching looks less attractive than ever. The less attractive it looks the more inferior the teaching force will become —inevitably. Already oper ating the system upon which we say the hope of the nation depends has become, for a portion of those engaged in it, a mere incidental, pin-money, stop-gap between grad uation and getting married. There is danger of its becoming an accepted notion that upholding the hope of the nation is something any fairly intelligent girl can do between dances. But of course the real victims are not the teachers. The real victims are millions of prospective citizens, particularly in the country, on whom we are palming off a niggardly swindle. LABOR NOTES Vancouver, B. C., is to have a munipally owned fish market. Probably 2.500 women are now acting as bellhops In the various hotels throughout the United States. the War Department and is directed by Miss Mary van Kleeck. Seventy-five students at Johns Hopkins University pledged them selves to work in the shipyards throughout the country during their vacations this summer. London, Optario, Can., Trades and Da,bor Council declares that there is danger of the labor market being glutted by a raft of men suddenly Initiated into certain fields by mili tary authorities. At Cincinnati a wage increase of $2 a week has been secured by Car riage Drivers' and Chauffeurs' Union. Extensive experimenting has dem onstrated that South Africa can es tablish a profitable industry in the manufacture of vegetable oils and soap. Hoboken, N. J., Typographical Union has secured a two-year agree ment with wage increase for mem bers employed in commercial shops. A department for the maintenance and housing of women workers in munition plants has been created in MULES AND MEN [From the Zenda Citizen.] "That gosh dern mule Is an ornery brute," Said the farmer, "he's meaner than sin, I'll take him to town and I'll sell him And see just how much he'll fetch In." "That dog gone mule Is an ornery brute," Said the mule buyer to his pard, "But I guess he'll do for a year or two If they don't work him too hard." "The dern shaved tall," said the gun ner's mate. "The blasted old ornery roan. He's tough, I know, but better than folks Who won't help the Liberty Loan." The Cross of Neuve Chapelle. Thomas Tiplady in the Atlantic Monthly. FOR three long years our front line trenches have run through what was once a village called Neuve Chapelle. There is nothing left of it now. But there is some thing there which is treihendously impressive. It is a crucifix. It stands out above everything, for the land is quite flat around it. The cross is immediately behind our firing trench, and within two or three hundred yards of the German front trench. The .figure of Christ is looking across the waste of No Man's Land. Under his right arm and un der his left are British soldiers hold ing the line. Two "dud" shells lie at the foot; one is even touching the wood; but though hundreds of shells must have swept by, and'millions of machine gun bullets, it remains un damaged. Trenches form a laby rinth all around it. When our men awake and "stand to" at dawn the first, sight they see is the Cross, and when at night they lie down in the side of the trench, or turn into their dugouts, their last sight is the Cross. It stands clear in the noonday sun and in the moonlight it takes on a solemn grandeur. I first saw it on a November after noon. when the sun was sinking un der heavy banks of cloud, and it bent my mind back to the scene as it must have been on the first Good Friday, when the sun died with its dying Lord, and darkness crept up the hill MR. SPROUL'S PLATFORM (Wilkes-Barre Record.) When William C. Sproul, of Ches ter, made preliminary announce ment of his candidacy for Governor his opponents in the Republican ranks assumed that because he Was etyled the Organization candidate he would ingeniously contrive to straddle certain subjects that were expected to figure prominently in the campaign, and in this belief the op position began sailing into Mr. Sproul. But he has already given "the enemy" to understand that he" is going to be de'finite and explicit and energetic, and in the so-called progressive subjects is not going to be on the defensive. When Mr. Sproul astonished the' Brumbaugh-O'Neil forces by de claring in favor of the federal pro hibition amendment he was accused of making a grandstand play with out moral backing. In his speech at Swarthmore he took up the chal lenge by stating that he is not only In favor of ratification of the amend ment by the Pennsylvania legisla ture but he believes it to be his duty to aid in securing ratification. He does not stop there. Referring to the fact that the amendment as it reads leaves to Congress and the states, by "concurrent" legislation, the carrying out of the will of the people, he asserts that, "in full ac cord with the purpose of the amendment, I shall, if I am Gov ernor, gladly approve and fully en force such laws upon the subject as the people, through their Legisla ture, may enact." This means that if the amendment is made part of the federal Constitution Mr. Sproul promises to exert himself to the" end that the laws looking toward its strict enforcement in this Com monwealth will be rigidly upheld and prosecuted by him. On the question of woman suf frage Mr. Sproul is equally explicit. He says: "I am in full sympathy with the cause of equal suffrage and hope I may have the privilege of assisting in putting this amend ment also into effect in our state." There is no straddling on this sub ject. As to Teaching German As for the teaching of German in public schools—it is Interesting to note some forceful remarks from Hall Caine in the London Observer. He says "No!" most emphatically. "Community of language is almost the closest tie between race and race," he declares. "We cannot wish to strengthen that bond with the German people until the years have taught us the certainty of a change of the German heart. " 'Beasts that spring upon us we can'only treat as beasts." There_ is no reason to imitate their growlings. "Outside the study of the student, the council chamber of the diplo matist, the bureau of the civil serv ant and perhaps the office of the edi tor, let us leave the German lan guage alone for the present. Neither the British soul nor the British body , can need it for many days to some." of Calvary and covered him with his funeral pall to hide his dying agon ies from the curious eyes of unbe lieving men. 1 had had tea in a dug out and it was dark when I left. Machine guns were sweeping No Man's Land to brush back enemies who might be creeping towards UB through the long grass; and the air was filled with a million clear, crack ing sounds. Star shells rose and fell and their brilliant lights lit up the silent form on the Cross. For three years, night and day, Christ has been standing there in the midst of our soldiers, with arms out stretched in blessing. They have looked up at him through the clear starlight of a frosty night, and they have seen his pale face by the silver rays of the moon as she sailed licr course through the heavens. In the gloom of a stormy night they have seen the dark outline and caught a passing glimpse of Christ's efHgy by the flare of the star shells. I have seen the "attitude of our soldiers toward the Cross at Neuve Chapelle and toward that for which it stands; and I find more comfort in their reverence for Christ and Christianity thnn in all their guns and impediments of war. The Cross of Christ towers above the wrecks of time, and those na tions will survive which stand be neath its protecting arms in the trenches of righteousness, liberty and truth. STATE PRESS Von Hindenburg has informed the Kaisei* it will take time to win. This was after he had fixed his dinner party }n Paris for April 1. —Balti- more Sun. • * • If every family of the country should waste just one slice of bread a day, that would mean the waste of twenty million slices, or at the rate of sixteen slices to the loaf, a million and a quarter loaves. At ten cents a loaf this would amount to $125,000 a day, or over $45,000,000 for a year. That would be enough to feed all the starving people of Belgium, Ar menia and Syria. AH from the wast ing of one slice of bread a day by a family. Be saving; help win the war.—Carlisle Sentinel. • • Religion is hardly religion, if it does not tend to express itself cre atively. And religion always does express itself creatively at those points where men are stirred by some great social Ideal. The man who has a religious message, what ever may be his creed, whatever his theology, has something which the world needs, and which by God's grace at the present time It will get. Religion has become international. Religion has ceased to be a matter of merely saving a man's soul from something which may happen in the futur'e. Religion wants to look out for dead people, but it has much more Interest in live people.—Shaller Matthews. "Good Bye, I'm Going Over" Frank Hall, deputy chief of the State Department of Mines, has pre sented. to the Harrlsburg Chapter of the Red Cross his new song and music, "Good Bye, I'm Going Over." It is to be sold for the soldiers' chocolate fund. The words of the song are as follows: Good-by, I'm going over • To the battlefields of sunny France. I'm glad to know I'm helping, I'm glad for a soldier's chance. I'll do my part with honor. When the warlike bugle calls. But my • thoughts will turn back homeward, When the twilight falls. REFRAIN: Good-by, I'm going over, S Good-by, dear U. S. A. I'm off to fight for freedom, I'm off to join the fray. The Stars and Stripes will guide me, When the warlike bugle calls, But my thoughts will turn back homeward, When the twilight falls. Good-by, I'm going over Where the Sammy boys will do and dare. That right may be triumphant. And victory be our share. The cry to arms will thrill me. When the warlike bugle calls, But my thoughts will turn back homeward, When the twilight falls. APRIL 19, 1918. t > Otfer tta *^Jojo uv "I am lirrnly convinced that a few years of self-government in Ire land would make Ireland a very rich and prosperous country," says Samuel Young, East Cavan, Ireland, oldest member of the British par liament. He is 97 years of age, and is on the job every day. Asked the best way to live long he replied. "Bring yourself into harmony with your surroundings." It is agreeable to know technically just when one may kiss his best girl. Ix>ve Editor in Berks county was asked: "I am a young lady, 19 years old, and keep company with a young gentleman of 22. He is all my heart desires and wishes to mar ry me, but my parents object. Tell me which to obey, heart or parents, and as we have been going together so'long is it proper to accept a kiss from him?" The Berks county ex pert is of opinion that "so long", is long enough to permit kissing. , Private William Gompher, of Rockville, Md., with 312 th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Meade, wor ries no more about "the day when the white horse comes down the road," soldier language for pay day. Formerly a bellhop he just in herited SIOO,OOO. "I want a wife now to look after the coin when I'm abroad and keep it if I never come back." Since then Camp Meade has added three more mailbags to its quota. fOUR DAILY LAUGH ANOTHER 1 SLAP AT | I&JSg What's weigh trig on your K® mind, Cholly? jfj| \ " J Do you think my mind Is a MM I pair of scales. ; fIHH Well, no, If I I JBmR I | you want to be I j precise about it I I I evenly balanced. B JJ \ CAUSE FOR w y ' * opo tluit y\ JLJ old country dick /Ami /\ from up Mate /wwa yij// don't blow out ' thC B * S! THE FAN. . . . fSfoFr I'm going to vcf move into tha j city next sum mer. ' <7? J 'h 6 Clty? you'd want to liP be in the coun- tftjjj y if— mias all the ball pantos? Not on •our life, \__Jl, B ■Bin X \j|;M Woodman, ou we all fri— '' For conserva- Itt tlon now. Ebentng Olljal Karly in January the State Bu ■ roau of Kmployment and the Di vision of Hygiene and Engineering ;of the State Department of L<abor and Industry sent out a question j naire to the manufacturers and em | ployers of labor throughout Penn sylvania with a view to obtaining the number of positions that they could | probably give to any soldier, sailor ;or marine injured in the European i war. The responses to this Inquiry j exceeded the expectations of those In charge of the work and a num ber of good openings were promis ! Ed to those who had suffered the losa I of limbs, or who would be otherwise : handicapped. ; I Several of the larger corporations 'in the vicinity of Harrisburg an swered by saying that while they 1 1 did not feel that they were In a 4 11 position to tell definitely how many !! disabled men they could employ yet, ; 1 they would co-operate with the j! movement to the fullest extent j One Harrisburg corporation re li plied that it could use men who had | lost both feet, both legs, or who j were deaf, at such work as grinding I castings. Another, that it could use j men who were partially disabled in 11 the finger joints, the wrists, or the ! elbow, or who were suffering from I stiffness of one leg or who had lost I hearing in one ear. Another replied | that it could use on the drillpress or ! punch machines, several men who ] had suffered a partial loss of one i foot, or total loss of foot at the I ankle, the loss of the leg below the I knee, or at the knee, and also that ' they could use men who had suffered a total loss of speech. Another con cern, engaged in a commercial line, could use as collectors or salesmen, men who had suffered various in juries about the hahds, arms and legs. Another, that it could use a man with one foot for light labor work, or a man who was blind in one eye or deaf in one ear for the same purpose. Another concern, that it could use five men with par tial loss of foot, or partial loss of leg at drill pressing or bolt tap ping. - It is the purpose of the national government to equip these disabled 1 veterans to perform the services I which these companies need. It will readily be seen that the providing of these openings is a duty which ; employers owe to such men as may be injured in the great war. Har rlsburg's industrial and commercial establishments have patriotically responded to the questionnaire to aid in making self'reliant .workers of men who might otherwise be re garded as hopeless handicaps. They are telling a story of the embarrassment of a college young man who found himself without change when the collection plate was passed around in a prominent church in the central part of the cit{\ With him was a companion who happened to be ready for the offering. The young man without change whispered to Viis companion of his plight, but he apparently failed to pay attention. As the man with the -plate drew nearer the per spiration stood out on the youns man's face. He never had failed to respond with his offering. His com panion sat immovable, his fac j giv ing no sign he would come to tVie rescue. Finally, when the good dea con appeared at the pew the youth with the money placed a quartor in the basket and quietly held up two fingers, indicating that he meant the offering to represent himself anil friend. The deacon smiled and passed on, but the story was too good to keep, and was quietly told as an unusual incident, and one that might very easily occur. • * More people have been vaccinated in Harrisburg and Steelton and the West Shore boroughs in the last two weeks than probably in any other similar period in years due to the appearance of smallpox in Harris burg. Whole schools and the entire forces of some factories have had arms "scratched" with the vaccine points. The following out of the vaccination programs has enabled many establishments to keep open and there have been many instances where people who objected to being vaccinated had to come out and sub mit. In Steelton vaccination has been the rule among the foreigners and the newly-arrived negro popula tion, some of whom appeared to takn it as a joke. • • * Numerous engineering parties have been sent out by the State Highway Department on surveys of sections of road which local authorities have asked improved and estimates will be submitted in the next two months. There are probably more surveying parties out now making up prelimi nary data than ever known before. High prices, however, are deterring a number of counties and theit townships from embarking on ex tensive road improvements and only the vital sections of bad roads arc being marked for rebuilding, tho rest being left to the future. • • • Farmers in Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry counties are reporting finding numerous dead bluebirds and robins along roads as the result ol the cold and the snows of last week. The storm covered the fields to the depth of several inches in some sec tions and as these birds are inseel eaters they were prevented from get ing food with the result that mans died. Reports on quail and Rami birds arc that they came through th snows well as they are acclimated, but the bluebirds and robins havinj recently come from the southere states suffered heavily. Stop Propaganda of "Hate" (Richard Washburn Child in Col lier's Weekly.) It Is a fact reported from secret sources and over and over again thai the German officials watch the al lied newspapers and magazines day in and day out to find a "hata speech" to reprint and circulate in Germany. 8010, convicted in Paris for act ing for Germany in spreading prop aganda, corrupted certain news papers. The State Department has analyzed the effect of this German money. Was it to spread pro-Ger man propaganda? It was not 11 hired these newspapers to emit a febrile eruption of hate, spite, threats and hysterical abuse of all Germans. That was the commod ity which the German secret servics bought and paid for, and having ob tained took home and spread broad cast to rally the people around th military ring. Says the German censor In con fidential orders: "It Is much de sired that the press Interpret in German interests events such as Ribot's speech" (a "bitter end" pro nouncement). The same kind of order went ont so that the German people might all have the famous Llo?*ti Georg "knockout" speech of last year. "The hate propaganda" within Germany—the "Gott Strafe Eng land" propaganda which the Ger man autocracy once fostered —was abandoned because It served mors ( to unite the people of the Allies unite the people of Germany*'
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers