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MONDAY, Al'ifUL 22, 1918
Xert to a sound rule of faith, there
is nothing of so much consequence as
a sober standard of feeling in the
matters o f practical religion. —John
KEBLE.
IN AUSTRIA
MAY DAY' in Austria will indi
cate more or less accurately
what may be expected of that
country In the next year of the war.
The report has leaked out through
Switzerland that leaders of labor or
ganizations and Socialist societies
have ordered a general strike for
that date, in the interest of imme-j
diate peace.
Strenuous efforts, it is said, are he-1
ing made by the unions to induce!
e\ery wage earner to lay down his j
tools at that time as a protest against!
continuance of the war, and if this!
bo true it may also be believed that j
the government is taking just as en- j
crgetic steps to keep the men at
work. If the walkout is general and
covers a protracted period we may
conclude that the Austrian masses
are not only tired of the war, but de
termined to stop it if public protest
can be made to count in that direc
tion.
On the other hand, if the strike
is a failure or lasts only for a day
or two, we may conclude that while
there is much unrest and a very real
desire for peace in Austria, the peo
ple are not aroused to the extent of
making it impossible for the govern
ment to run counter to their wishes.
There is very good reason for the
desire of the Austrians to get out
of war at this time. They have
made a showing—with German help
—against Italy and their western
borders are not seriously threatened
and will not be until the coming of
America into the conflict requires
the full attention of Germany to
the western front and gives the Ital
ians fresh men and munitions to
throw into the struggle. On the east,
also, the Russian menace has been
removed and if Austria can get out
of the conflict now the allies may
be expected to look more kindly upon
her claims than if she waits until
the general peace conferences are
begun.. If Austria remains a true
and constant ally of Germany she
tan hope for nothing at the hands
of the allies, and, even though Ger
many should win, Austria would be
no more than a vassal state subser
vient to Berlin.
These facts, together with a great
weariness of war and exhaustion
from hardship, are having their ef
fect on the Austrian mind and the
Socialist leaders, always on the look
out for a vehicle with which to ride
into power, have joined with the la
bor element in the May Day strike
call as a means of impressing their
views upon the government and
gaining new prestige in their long,
hard fight against autocracy and
German influence in the empire.
The fellow who goes fishing these
days has something more in mind
than food conservation.
BETTER UNDERSTANDING
JUST now the public utilities, in
cluding the street railway cor
porations, are having a hard
time maintaining their efficiency
through difficulty in securing neces
sary equipment. The Harrisburg Rail
ways Company has properly taken
the people into its #bnfldence in
a. series of public statements and this
is the only way for semi-public con
cerns to retain the support of the
people. The day has passed when
utilities which hold franchises
granted by the people can disregard
the wishes of the public and it is a
good sign when they submit their
problems for popular consideration.
In an opinion recently handed
down by the New York Public Ser
vice Commission there appears this
r f statement: "Driving private cap
ital from the work of extending and
improving the transit facilities our
people now enjoy would be deplor
uble."
It is obvious, of course, that car
riders are given more for their nick
i* els and the company gets less By
treason of war conditions and the
■ enormous increase of operating ex
pense. Many public utilities are
MONDAY EVENING,
earning not even their fixed charges.
It is explained that It takes nearly
twice as many nickels to pay the
street railways' supply bills as It did
three years ago.
Harrisburg realizes that the elec
tric street railway lines made the
growth of the city possible and while
some things have bepn done con
trary to what is agreed to have been
public policy, upon the whole the
street railway systerh has been a real
benefit to the people. It Is reason
able to hope that out of the war con
ditions will come a better relation
ship between the public utilities and
the people. It must be a mutual in
terest We are going to see things
differently after the war.
The superintendent of the schools
of Philadelphia, responding to the ap
peal of Harry Lauder that mothers
write a protest against the further
teaching of German, declared that
German will be dropped from the pub
lic schools Judt as soon as the pupils
elect to drop it. This is going to
rapidly become the attitude of the stu
dents all over the country. Those
who do not want to study German will
not be forced to do so. and as It looks
now the number who will want to
/include German among their studies
will become less and still less. It ap
pears that the most serious opposition
to German text books is the fact that
through these books there has been
carried on for years the propaganda
that is now responsible in a large
measure for an attitude in this coun
try that is widely condemned.
THAT CENTRAL PARADE
WHEN a single industry can
turn out 1,000 strong, each
man a holder of one or more
Liberty Bonds, and thirty nationali
ties represented, in support of the
war, who shall say that the great
bulk of our foreign population is not
doing its part?
The Central Iron and Steel Com
pany's demonstration Saturday after
noon to advertise the sale of bonds
and celebrate the company's 100 per
cent, record, was a great credit to the
whole organization, from president
down to water boy.
The parade was all the more re
markable because there marched in
the ranks men of Germany and Aus
tria, who could scarcely speak the
English language, so imbued with
the principles of democracy that they
are willing to take up weapons
against the troops of their homelands
in an effort to help the people of the
Central Empires to throw off the
autocratic yoke they now wear and
will wear until the rulers who now
drive them at will to the shambles
are beaten and dethroned.
When little Dauphin comes across
with $23,000 in Liberty Loan pledges,
there ought to be no trouble for Har
risburg to go over the top.
GERMANY'S DEFEAT
WITH utter disregard for the
lives of their soldiers, the
German High Command has
been endeavoring for a month to
force a decision in the awful theater
of war in Europe. The great drive
that has been going on since the 21st
of March has been little less than
a massacre for the German troops,
but saving their own precious hides
was the real motive of the unexam
pled ferocity of the attack on the
western front by the Berlin gang.
These brutes in human form care
nothing for the lives of the unfor
tunates they are using as pawns in
their game of world power.
But that they have lost must be
evident to the most hopeful of the
group. Gaining a few miles of ter
ritory and losing hundreds of thou
sands of men can with no stretch of
the imagination be construed as a
victory and now that the drive has
been checked the finish of their
game is in sight. For months the
German people were assured that
this was to be the last great battle
and that victory was sure to result.
What they will do when they real
ize how grievously they have been
deceived remains to be seen, but it
is hard to believe that even the
hoodwinked populace will much
longer submit to the horrible cruel
ties which have been imposed upon
them by their autocratic masters. It
may be possible—that even the army
will refuse to longer become a hu
man sacrifice for the Moloch of Ger
many.
As Gettysburg was the decisive
battle of the Civil "War, so is the
present struggle on the western front
the decisive engagement of the world
war. There may be other battles of
importance, but never again will the
German army be able to strike with
anything like the force of the pres
ent drive. With the increasing Amer
ican strength on the fighting front,
the balance of man power is going
to pass to the Allies and then will
come the beginning of the end.
Having staked all on the last throw
and lost, the German government
must realize the truth and it is only
a question of a short time until
their dupes at home understand the
situation. The inevitable disillusion
ment will be the tragedy of ages.
This week the third loan drive will
reach into the homes of Harrisburg,
and the work of the committee ought
to be made easy with the preparation
that has been going forward since the
beginning of the campaign. Our peo
ple should be ready to subscribe to
the limit of their ability and it ought
to be understood that the size of the
loan and the response of the people
will have a tremendous effect upon
the predatory Pottsdam gang.
Senator Beidleman is naturally much
gratified over the spontaneous en
dorsement of his candidacy for Lieu
tenant Governor by the labor and
mining forces of the State. These me*
have a keen appreciation of the con
sistent friendship of the Senator
throughout his public career and are
now showing it In practical support
of his campaign. As has been fre
quently indicated in these columns,
the people are giving more attention
to the war than to political activi
ties, but it doea not follow that In
telligent study of the campaign is
neglected by the average citlsen.
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By the Rx-Oonimltteemaa
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil took his campaign for the
Governorship of Pennsylvania into
four churches of Philadelphia yester
j day and made an attack of unusual
vigor, even for him, upon the liquor
i interests which have dominated the
! politics of the Keystone State for a
| quarter of a century. The Highway
I Commissioner's tour of Philadelphia,
j which began on Saturday when he
: spoke at several meetings and ha-d a
J conference with Attorney General
j Brown, closed last night when the
j McKeesport man had spoken to sev
eral thousand persons. He said that
: he wanted to be Governor to make
• the state "drv."
Senator 'William C. Sproul. who
j has been arranging for a tour of the
I state, will go to the western counties
| the latter part of this week, accora
] ing to plans made for him.
j Senator Penrose in a statement is
i sued Saturday declared that he had
; no doubt whatever of the nomination
| of Senator Edward E. Beldleman for
Lieutenant Governor and James F.
I Woodward for Secretary of Internal
! Affairs. The Philadelphia Press in a
j review of the Lieutenant Governor
j tight to-day says that it is only a
question of a short time until John
R. K. Scott, the only real rival Sen
ator Beidleman has for the nomina
tion, comes out for J. Denny O'Neil
for Governor. The Public Ledger in
an article by James S. Chambers says
that the reason why the Vares are
working so hard for Scott is so that
they can control the State Senate.
This is taken in Harrisburg to mean
that they want to see Governor
Brumbaugh's recess appointments,
upheld by the Supreme Court recent
ly, confirmed next winter.
—The action of the United States
Navy Department in virtually taking
the control of the Philadelphia police
department out of the hands of
Mayor Smith has created a state
wide Sensation and it is possible that
it may have a grave political effect.
As yet the full effect of the move has
not developed. The North American
to-day says that the Smith adminis
tration is trying to camouflage the
situation and denounces Director-
William H. Wilson as an "obstruc
tor."
—Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell
opened his campaign with a "per
sonal Liberty" speech in Philadel
phia on Saturday and arrangements
are being made for an energetic
campaign in his behalf. The Judge
is given considerable publicity in the
Philadelphia Record.
—According to the newspapers
yesterday Senator Penrose declared
for Anderson 11. Walters, the Johns
town progressive, for Republican
nomination for Congress-at-Large.
He is out for renomination of Con
gressman McLaughlin, Crago and
Garland with Walters as the fourth
man.
—The Philadelphia Record is
charging that the Vares are holding
back the report of the registration
in Philadelphia because it means the
"puncturing of the Scott boom." It
also says that the Vares may have
to line up behind O'Neil to save Scott.
—Pittsburgh Republicans have re
vived the "Straight Republican"
committee to work for the nomina
tion of Sproul. Senator Charles H.
Kline is in charge. The Northwest
ern Republican League, of Reading,
one of the big Republican clubs of
that county, has endorsed Sproul.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer makes
the charge in a dispatch from
Wilkes-Barre that "there Is to-day
more political activity attached to
the office of the mine chief than ati
any time in the past decade." It
recalls that Chief Button said on tak
ing office that he would not use It
for political purposes and asserts he
has been travel'""? about extensively
and "his trail i; plainly marked by
political effort."
—Friends of Representative Harry
Zanders, the omega of the House
roll, are making a hard fight for him
for renomination, against Fred
Brenckman who has declared "dry."
Brenekman is planning a tour of the
county.
—Reading people may unite to op
pose Representative James H.
Maurer for renomination as they did
to block the Socialist move to gain
control of city council. Maurer has
always been able to win because
of division of the older parties.
—An organization meeting for Al
legheny county' officials to back the
Sproul ticket was perfected at a
meeting in the office of District At
torney H. H. Rowand and attended,
among others, by County Treasurer
E. B. Friebertshauser, Clerk of
Courts W. R. Bailey, Sheriff W. S.
Haddock, Register of Wills William
Conner, Recorder John D. Graham,
Coroner Samuel Jamison and Mr.
Rowand. It showed county officials
united for Sproul. Monday evening
a meeting to perfect an organization
of the chairmen of the ward com
mittees of Pittsburgh will be held
at which Mayor E. V. Babcock and
city department heads will launch a
city campaign.
—The Dry Federation opened its
fight for "dry" legislators at Bethle
hem on Saturday and in Delaware
county Sproul speakers attacked the
McClure liquor ring.
—An Altoona dispatch in the
Philadelphia Ledger says: "Union
labor is opposing Plymouth W. Sny
der, of Hollldaysburg, for State Sen
ator. T..J. Forbes, of this city, Is a
candidate for nomination on both
the Republican and Democratic
tickets. He is president of United
Lodge, No. 17*, Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen."
—The Philadelphia Press gives
some figures on enrollment in var
ious counties and says the registra
tion in the third class cities should
be interesting on May 1. Lancaster
county enrollment is given as nor
mal. The Republican list is 12,000
and Democratic only 5,000. In Mif
flin county the list is Republican,
3,701; Democratic, 2,119; in Potter
county. Republican, 2,136; Demo
cratic, 1,189, and in Northumberland
county, Republican, 12,057; Demo
cratic. 10,759.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
REPEAT THE PARADE
To the' Editor of the Tdezraph:
Sir—Why not have the "Honor
March", again. The rain yesterday
spoiled, what would have been one of
the most impressive demonstrations
ever held in Harrisburg. As it was, It
was an inspiration. My suggestion is
that Harrisburg observe Flag Day,
June 14, with a procession of service
flags and that it take place at 6.30 in
the evening. We have an extra hour
of daylight. Please call this to the at
tention of the committee in charge
and let everyone join in.
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THE STATE PRESS
By landing marines at Vladivostok
the United States has given assur
ance to Russia that the fear of
Japanese invasion is nothing more
than a chimera aroused by the Ger
man influences in the distraught re
public. As soon as American and
British soldiers landed at the Rus
sian port and divided with the Jap
anese the work of guarding the vast
.stores and munitions that are piled
high on the wharves and along the
railroad, dange # r of permanent oc
cupation by the* Mikado faded away.
—Pittsburgh Sun.
The contrast between the way the
presence of the German Crown
Prince on the battlefield was herald
ed and the modest announcement
that the Prince of Wales had return
to# to the front was not lost upon
people who think. A line or so was
sufficient to let the public know the
heir to the British throne was back
with the fighters byt the usual ful
some ,praise and flattery was neces
sary in the German dispatches to
proclaim that the Kaiser's eldest was
again ready to lead the armies of
the empire to victory. "Again" in
proper deference to his stupendous
achievement at Verdun! This dif
ference in attitude toward the
hereditary process is one of the rea
sons why it would not be safe to al
low Germans the fruits of conquest.
They are dynasty worshipers, the
willing tools of the greatest crim
inals of all. time. They seem to be
without desire for popular sov
ereignty or even * reasonable control
over the Kaiser through constitu*
tional limitation. Their constitution
is a mere sham; it fetters the mon
arch no more now than if it never
had been granted.—Pittsburgh Ga
zette.
Americans Excel
[New Orleans Times-Picayune]
Although French bomb throwing
experts consider sixty yards a good
distance to hurl a hand grenade with
accuracy, large numbers of American
soldiers in the trenches have dem
onstrated their ability to throw
them ninety yards and hit the ob
jective three times out of five. Shot
putting and throwing the discus ma
terially aids soldiers in hurling gren
ades and these two field events prob
ably will be given prominence on the
athletic programs in the various
training camps in the United States
during the spring and summer.
YOU CAN'T REFUSE
(By Strickland Gillilan, the man who
wrote "Oft agin', On agin', Finnigin")
TheSammee came in from the trench,
and says he:
"There's too many calls on the cour-
age of me.
I answered the call when they ask-
Ed me to come
To fight that my countrymen might:
have a home.
I've fought ever since we've been
quartered in France;
I've gone every time I was told to
advance,
This order you give, to go over the
top
To-day, is too much —I am going to
stop.
There's a limit to what I can rightly
afford
To give to my country with cheerful
accord."
The officer's eyes stuck a foot from I
his face
To hear this subaltern who courted
disgrace.
And the private was sent where all
mutineers go>
To be shot the next sunrise he
hadn't a show.
I think that with me you will
promptly agree
That a firing squad's right for such
quitters as he,
But hasn't he just as much right to
declare
His whole duty done and fyis job to
forswear
As you in your home that he fight 3 to
protect.
When you're told that there still Is
some coin to collect?
He's sworn to obey every call that is
given;
To risk his existence without being
driven.
You, safe at home, take advantage of
this,
And claim no disgrace when a duty
you miss.
You seem to believe you've a right to
refuse
To lend of your hoard for the Allies
to use
In saving your land and the land of
all others
Who claim human rights for them
selves and their brothers.
You have no such right! In stern
duty you're bound
To GIVE while a coin In your cof
fer a U found
The Colonel
Mushy Sentimentalists
[From Courier-Journal.]
THE official bulletin issued by the
Creel Committee on Public In
formation recently published
conspicuously a letter by P. P. Clax
ton, United States Commissioner of
Education, to the president of a west
ern college protesting against the
discontinuance of teaching German
in our schools.
The argument against that, which
is sufficiently strong, is not strength
ened by Dr. Claxton's appeal that
we love the Germans instead of hate
them.
"The President has tried to make
it plain to all the people," he writes,
"that we are not at war with the
people of Germany as a people—
that we have in our hearts no hatred
or bitterness toward them. For our
own sake and for the sake of the
future of the world, let us hope that
we may finish this task for the es
tablishment of freedom and the
safety of democracy without learn
ing to chant any hymn of hate. * *
We cannot as a people afford to put
ourselves in the attitude of regard
ing as evil everything about any
people with whom we may happen
to be at war. We cannot afford to
assume this attitude toward the Ger
man people simply because thy
happen now to be under the control
of an autocratic, militaristic govern
ment with purposes and aims that
have brought us into conflict with it.
The fewer hatreds and antagonisms
that get themselves embodied in in
stitutions and policies, the better it
will be for us when the days of peace
return."
This sort of mush at this stage of
the war is nauseating. Claxton con
cludes his screed with the assurance
that "I have reason to believe that
the views and sentiment expressed In
this letter are fully in harmony with
those of the administration at Wash
ington." and the fact that the letter
is given publicity through the Offi
cial Bulletin confirms that assurance.
The President in earlier stages of the
war has several times drawn this dis
tinction between the German peopje
and the German government. The l
Courier- Journal has done the same j
thing. It long held out that we had
no quarrel with the German people
—only with their imperial masters.
But it Is too late now to cling to that>
illusion. The masters of the Ger
man people started the war; they
inaugurated the policies of brutality,
of piracy, of "frightfulness," of mur
der, of bestiality, rapine and vandal
Died As He Had Lived
[New York Times]
In his death 8010 Pasha did not
show even the courage which the
majority of criminals can summon
up and display when they confront
the executioner. To have saved his
(orfeiteS life he was eager to betray
the other members of his sordid
conspiracies, and it is more than
likely that he would have been will
ing to Implicate the innocent, too,
in his revelations, if thereby he could
have lengthened his worthless days.
Of the honor supposed to exist
among thieves 8010 Pasha showed
not a trace, but even in the agonies
of his fear he could still give thought
to the careful dressing that had
served as his disguise and permitted
him to pass as a gentleman of sorts.
In his new suit and white gloves
he might have attracted something
of the admiration that fed his vanity,
but even traitors and criminals have
scorn for one of their class who
must be tied to a post in order that
the firing squad might do its task.
Pity that might have been earned
by the man's hard fate his weakness
transfers to the soldiers who had
to shoot him and to the Lieutenant
whom duty and old custom com
pelled to give with a revolver what
may or may not have been the "blow
of mercy."
He is well out of the way. It is as
a warning to other traitors that he
renders his one service. They will be
wise to heed it.
Rouse a Fighting Spirit
The Trenton Republican offers this
proof that thrift stamps rouse light
ing spirit: One Trenton kid had 13
cents, another 12 cents. They bought
a thrift stamp together and then
fought to see in which one's book
it should be pasted.—Kansas City
Times.
ism with which they have made the
very word "German"- odious and in
famous, but they could not have kept
up those policies all these four years
if the German people had not been
with them; had not been blood of
their blood, bone of their bone, muck
of their muck.
The war would have ended long
ago if it had been a war only of the
masters of the German people. No
body who is lighting the Germans
face to face has any such illusion as
obsesses the visionary Commissioner
of Education. The French know the
German people and hate them; the
British in France know the German
people and hate them; the Ameri
cans who have seen the German peo
ple in the war zone know them and
hate them. Everybody who comes
from that war zone to America—■
everybody who is not himself a Ger
man partisan, spy or propagandist
—knows the Germans and hates
them.
And right here in our own coun
try do not we who have never been
in the war zorie know something of
the Germans? Do we not know
something of the sneaks who are de
stroying our factories; who fire kill
ing our stock; who are poisoning
our food; who are plying their devil
ish arts in the plants which must
supply our ships, our airplanes, our
munitions; who are stealthily alert
and active whenever there may be a
chance to obstruct or cripple our
preparations for the war, and who
are everywhere on our own soil
seeking to undermine our national
efficiency and morale by every man
ner of sinister intrigue and lying
propaganda? Are these Germans
German people or merely the impe
rial masters of the dear German
people?
And these are among the people
whom the mushy Claxtons would
have us hedge about with our dis
criminating tenderness —these among
the people whom It would be a hor
ror to hate!
The German people who have
abandoned the German empire and
the German system for our own Re
public and who are loyal to the land
of their adoption command our
highest respect, confidence and ad
miration, but other German people
we hate, and we shall express that
hate with all the power that we can
put into the men and guns that we
send to our brothers in France. As
George Harvey forcibly expressed it
the other night at the dinner to
BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
Beat! beat! drums! Blow! bugles!
blow!
Through the windows through
doors —burst like a ruthless
force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter
the congregation;
Into the school where the scholar is
studying;
Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no
happiness must he have with his
bride;
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace,
plowing his field or gathering his
grain;
So fierce you whirr and pound, you
drums—so shrill you bugles
blow.
Beat! beat! drums! Blow! bugles!
blow!
Over the traffic ff cities—over the
rumble of wheels in the street.
Are beds prepared for sleepers at
night in the houses.
No sleepers must sleep in those
beds;
No bargainers' bargains by day—no
brokers or spectators. Would
they continue?
Would the talkers be talking? Would
the singer attempt to sing?
Would the lawyer rise in the court
to state his case before the
judge?
Then rattle quicker, heavier —you
bugles wilder blow.
Beat! beat! drums! Blow! bugles!
blow!
Make no parley—stop for no expos
tulation;
Mind not the timid—mind not the
weeper or prayer;
Mind not the old man beseeching the
young man:
Let not the child's voice be heard,
nor the mother's entries:
Make even the treaties to shake the
dead, where they lie awaiting
the hearses,
So strong you thump, O terrible
drums —so loud you bugles
blow.
—Walt Whitman.
APRIL 22, 1918.
Lord Reading:, "Let us tnako.no more I
futile attempts to differentiate be
tween Huns who command and Huns
who murder. Let us put aside every
compassionate thought and crush
under heel every kindly sentiment.
Let ur one and only motto be:—Kill
Germans; kill them in the greatest
numbers possible and by every con
ceivable honorable means, not as fel
low beings, but as mad dogs who
must be made to realize that they
who take the sword must perish by
the sword. It is the only way."
LABORWnTES
Over 5,000 union musicians are
serving in the Army.
Winnipeg, Can., street car men
have received increased pay.
Canada's new parliament has 39
farmer members.
The American Red Cross wants
30,000 women nurses for France.
The average wage earned in New
York State is J17.66 a week.
Bricklayers at Memphis, rTenn.,
get J7 for an 8-hour day.
, Portland. Maine, painters have in
creased wages from 41 to 55 cents
an hour.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
IN UNIFORM ALL RIGHT.
"You say you are In the army.
Chen -why aren't you dressed as *
loldier?"
"It's de army of de unemployed,
ady, an' dis is me fatigue uniform.**
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JUST THE THING.
Bu( Salesman —There Is a. beau
tlJ ruf —Just tb thing for a den!
IN LUCK.
"Have any luck with your gar
den?"
"Oure thing, we got two or thrs#
tomatoes the neighbor's cbickeM
Wouldn't quite reach."
SOMETHING LEARNED EVERY
DAY.
Frank—Poor Jones! He has lost
'ill Ms money in a' wild-cat mining
•ompany.
Ethel—Mercy! I didn't know you
*ul to mine for wild c&U,
£btttittg Ctjat
It only takes a few trips about
the city, and Harrisburg has ex
panded a good bit both as to length
and breadth in the last few years,
to surprise the average dweller here
with the numerous fruit trees in
town. The development of the "war
gardens" last year amazed many
Harrisburgers, but the cultivation of
vacant plots such as is to be seen
on the outlying portions of Cameron.
Derry, Second, Third, Sixth and
other streets this year, is really noth
ing compared to the gardens that
have been planted in backyards and
it is only when the fruit trees are In
bloom that some idea is gained as
to the number that survive the-early
days. Many of these trees are ten.
twelve, fifteen, maybe more yearsf
old. Some of them started from
slips from still older trees which
were set out a long time ago in Har
risburg because fifty years ago when
Harrisburg was a rather overgrown
village every house had its yard and
competition In fruit raised, especially
■cherries and peaches, was as keen as
is now the rivalry for the largest
ear of corn or the biggest tomato
raised in a block or in a parcel of
land devoted to "war gardening."
There are still some patriarchs
among fruit trees about the older
part of Harrisburg, trees whose
choicest yields were won't to be
shown with pride and even put in
the window of the grocery store. But
that was a long time ago when we
knew who had the prize fruit trees
up in the big part of town we used
to know as the Sixth ward or out
on the "Hill" when Nineteenth street
was away out. Fortunately, Harris
burg people are commencing to real
ize that the men who twelve years
ago were urging that houses be built
with a little ground to the sides anil
to the back of them, and a little in
front, too, would be better for health
and appearances, knew what they
were talking about and some of the
"yard" is being used for gardening
when ,it conies in mighty handy,
while fruit trees are being planted
more than ever? The fruit tree is
certainly not showing any signs of
dying out in Harrisburg.
• • a
But if we still have fruit trees
that yield res' old-time fruit we do
not have those fire big shad that
' used to adorn every table about this
time of the year. Ed Halbert, wlio
is a Fifth warder still, was talking
the other day about the old shad
days. "Nowadays you pay for one
roe what we used to pay for a whole
fish," said he. And then he recalled
the days when the boys, who were
always good buyers, used to be sent
out with a half dollar and told to
make a bargain for a fine roe shad.
As it was part of the that all
left above the purchase, provided the
fish filled the bill, was to be com
mission. the bargains were generally
good. Until the McCall's Ferry dam
spread its bulk across the Susque
hanna and did what experts testified
in court that it would never do. shad
fishing used to be a big matter
around here. For a long time the
Columbia dam kept the fish down
the river and we used to go to the
cars down along the old canal for the
fish* but'when the dam went away
shad began to come up and there
were fine batteries around- McCor
mick's Hess' and other .islands.
Some shad were even caught up
around Independence Island, hut
they did not like the drainage from
the city and kept mainly to the Cum
berland side of the stream.
■ .%
"I do not think that the signifi
cance of the patriotic services held in
every house of worship in Harris
burg yesterday struck the average
resident of this city, but I think it
is one of the signs of an awakening
that is going to leave an impress
upon our life here," said a man ac
tive in religious movements yester
day. "When you consider that prac
tically every church in Harrisburg
gave over its services yesterday to
services in which Christian patriot
ism was the paramount thought It
is remarkable. The prayers, the
sermons and the singing were all
elevating. This is a patriotic com
munity, but it needs to be aroused.
The • churches are going to do it I
think."
• • •
Hardly a day passes hut what
strings of automoViler pass through
Harrisburg on their way to some
eastern city. Tnese cars Are run in
bunches of anywhere from six to
thirty-six and the sight of car after
car speeding along all of the same
pattern, all mud spattered and all
giving an air of having no time to
linger is an interesting one. If Har
risburg only stirred itself it could
get some of the trains of Army trucks
that pass over tbe Lincoln highway
and through Chambersburg to come
down the William Penn highway ami
give us a sight of the means by which
the Army is to be supplied.
[_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—David Barry, Johnstown banker,
is directing the Liberty Loan cam
paign in Cambria county.
—J. W. Gardiner, Pittsburgh coal
man, is naming men to inspect coal
at mines to be sure people get what
they buy.
C. B. Pritchard, Pittsburgh di
rector of safety, makes personal in
vestigations of charges against po
licemen.
—James M. Beck, former assistant
attorney general, Is making £peeche.
i for the Liberty Loan and says he
will do so all month, if necessary-
Dr. J. D. Erdman, the head' ol
the Allentown school board, Is actina
to have German taken from the ctt>
schools.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg can make
better use of Its sclioolhouscs
for community purposes, espe
cially in war times?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—A century ago swimming con
tests in the Susquehanna ranked
next to shooting matches and hors
races as forms of amusement here
according to the Harrisburg news
papers.
THE WORD
The fairest page in history
Will hold a single word,
A word inscribed by Uncle Sam, *
Too deep e'er to be blurred- v
In all the ages yet to come
That page will shine supreme:
Its single word's the sesame
Whence all our blessings stream.
Then forward, onward, Uncle Sam!
The battleficld's the page
Whereon that mighty word you'll
write
The woes of man to assuage.
Your bayonet Is the gleaming pen;
Oh, let its work not cease,
Until with Teuton blood for ink
YoU've written the word "Peace."
—lrving R. Bacon.