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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918
Too late ice learn a man must hold
his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the
end.
—JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY. |
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"IT'S THE YANKEES"
IT'S the Americans."
"It's the Yankees."
Thus the British naval forces
were greeted by the Germans as they
fled from the guns of SCeebrugge
mole before the landing parties that '
swept down upon them from the >
attacking ships.
There is a bit of psychology here j
that corresponds very closely with a I
recent display of "nerves" on the |
part of the German populace when.!
3 particularly daring party of British •
aviators swept far toward BerHn!
Hid began the bombardment of Ger- '
man munition works. "It's the i
Americans. I told you it would be j
Duly a question of time until the
Yankees came," was the cry Dutch
observers told newspaper corre
spondents the Germans set up as
they took hurriedly to cellars and
oiHe .' places of shelter. These two
incHfents, along with other hints
that have crept *ut of Germany, in
dicate that Germans in general
have a wholesome and abiding re
•pect for the and courage of
American fighters, despite all that
the government has done to min
imize America as a military force
in the eyes of the people.
The wonderfully executed and j
highly successful raid on the refuges'
of the U-boats on the Belgian
coast was so characteristically J
American in plan and operation, and I
so at variance with British naval j
methods since the outbreak of the
war, that it was little wonder the 1
Germans thought the Yankees were j
at their old Santiago game.
This German belief in American
superiority must be encouraged. We
can understand better now the pain
ful efforts of the Kaiser to turn
German reverses against the Amer
ican forces in France into German
"victories." A few exploits of the
Heebrugge type by our own forces
would be wonderfully helpful In
spreading this very desirable propa
ganda of the invincible Yankee.
The Government having taken over
ill raw wool, we have a ready-made
explanation as to why we intend to
wear our last year's overcoat next
winter-.
THE TEXAS COLONEL
THE biography of Col. House
which some newspapers are
publishing contains many aston
ishing things about its hero. The
Colonel has thus far been shown
to be the man who .foresaw the
European war, who discerned our
entrance into it, who read aright
the minds of all European pub
licists, who planned the campaign
which re-elected Wilson; and we
daily expect to be told that he also
knows who struck Billy Patterson.
In one instalment of this biograph
ical thriller we are told that it was
"Col. House's evenly balanced mind''
which counseled Wilson to maintain
partisanship in the conduct of the
war; his argument being that "the
voters had elected a Democratic
President after four years of trial
of him • • and that it was
for this same President and this
tame Cabinet to steer the country
through the mazes of war."
Yet, if Col. House really planned
llie campaign which produced this
flection of Wilson "after four years
uf trial of him," he must have known
lhat Mr. Wilson was elected upon the
theory that he had "kepit us out
cl' war" and that he was going to
rontlue to do so. And nobody knows
better than Col. House that right
now, If the country should be permit
lcil to name, by popular vote, the
Cabinet which it would prefer "to
•teer the country through the mazes
of war" a very small percentage of
the present group which gathers so
Infrequently at Mr. Wilson's council
table would be at all in the run
ning.
The Colonel may have counseled
Wilson to keep the Cabinet as it
THURSDAY EVENING
f was and isi but lie could never have
: done so upon the theory which his
| biographer here advances,
1
J "Are you going to buy bonds or
j wear them?"
LIBERTY DAY
TO-MORROW, by proclamation of
the President and the Governor,
j
i is to be observed as Liberty Day—
' celebrating the first anniversary of
| our entry into the war.
The holiday—at least from noon
; until evening—will be marked by the
closing of stores and business pfaces
in general, but the occasion is not
designed to be one for individual
jollification. The plan is to utilize tlio
time for the sale of Liberty Bonds.
We are too busy, all of us, with pre
parations for the war and in keeping
industry running full tide, to waste a
whole half-day in useless occupation.
It was not the President's thought
nor yet the Governor's that we should
this year celebrate Liberty Day as
we do the Fourth of July, each in his
own way, but that we should con
centrate on the sale of bonds, each of
which bought is a blow in the face
of the Kaiser, and thus each of us
"do our bit" for the cause.
Very likely by noon trf-morrow
Harrisburg will go over the top, so
far as OUB own subscriptions are con
cerned, but we are only a part of the
district as a whole, and we must help
this county and surrounding coun-
from which, no doubt, quite a
considerable amount of the subscrip-1
tlons credited to the city itself have I
come. We must not stop until the end I
of the campaign, May 4, however
much we may subscribe in Harris
burg.
Probably you know of somebody
who can buy a bond and has not.
Make a list of your friends who do
not wear Liberty Bond buttons and I
I
to-morrow afternoon constitute your
self a volunteer worker to call upon
all such and ask them to subscribe.
Tell them that if they have not suf
ficient money now you can make ar
rangements with any bank to pay
for the bond vn the instalment plan,
at the rate of $1 or more a week.
Then take your subscriptions to Lib
erty Bond headquarters in the Cham
ber of Commerce rooms in the old
Commonwealth Hotel building, Mar-'
ket Square and Market street, and
get buttons and flags for those you '
|
have induced to buy bonds. i
I
After that you will be entitled to
spend the remainder of the holiday
as you please, and will go tp bed i
with the consciousness of having;
done something to help win the war. j
THE BOARDOF DELAY
LOOKING back over the record!
one might very reasonably con- |
elude that the Shipping Board
should have been designated the i
"Board of Delay."
The act creating the Board and I
authorizing the President to appoint !
its members was passed by Congress !
September 7, 1916.
The President appointed the mem- j
bers of the Board December 22. 1916, ;
after a delay of 106 days.
The Board organized January 31,
191.7, after a delay of 40 days.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation
was organized April 17, 1917, or 76
days after the Shipping Board was
organized.
During the year following April
17, 1917, the Emergeney Fleet cor
poration had four managers. Goe
thals, Capps, Harris and Piez, and a
fifth, Schwab, was then named, after
a delay of a year from the date of
the creation of the corporation.
Altogether, this makes a total of
586 days delay in getting the right
man at the head of the ship-bulding
job.
The Weatherly, Pa.. Choral Society
is going to burn all of its German
songs next week, but that's not the
only way Americans are making it
hot for the Kaiser. Most of them are
buying Liberty Bonds.
AFTER THE WAR
THE President has told Colonel
House to prepare data for
America's part in the peace
parleys % that shall follow the .war,
and it is to be hoped that business
as well as politics will enter into the
Colonel's calculations. Two things he
should bear in mind: Europe must
recoup herself through the sale of
her manufactures, selling at the
smallest possible margin of profit In
order to keep her vast army of la
borers employed, and to pay even
the interest on her debts, and except
for raw and structural materials
Europe will not be a very good cus
tomer for us.
Second, If the Dars are down to
European competition In this coun
try, it will result in such a crippling
of our mills us greatly to Increase the
J unit cost of production, which re
quires full time at maximum pro
duction to reduce to a minimum.
if, added to our high wage scale,
we have production costs Increased
by curtailed operation, how can we
develop foreign markets in compe
tion with Europe? The best assur
ance of post-war prosperity is the
simplest one—a protective tariff
which will preserve to us our own
markets from which we can extend
into the other fields.
ftKKOifitfaTua
By the Ex-Committee man
.
Joseph F. Guffey, candidate of
the Democratic state machine for
the gubernatorial nomination, and
his colleagues on the Washington
made slate will make no active cam
paign for the honors of the Penn
sylvania Democracy until after the
Liberty Loan campaign is ended, re
gardless of what may be done by
Judge Kugene C. Bonniwell and his
"personal liberty" backers, and as
to the future of the Guffey cam
paign, it was stated this morning,
that will depend upon whether the
people of the state are much con
cerned with politics this spring. The
Democratic aspirants went home
last night after arranging for bring
ing the question of finances for the
campaign to the attention of the
Federal jobholders in a thorough
manner. The naming of A. Mitchell
Palmer to be chairman of a fac
tional campaign committee is to
be notice that the national admin
istration is behind Guffey and the
rest of the machine slate, and that
if necessary the President may take
a hand.
In the face of this move by Guffey
and his people. Judge Bonniwell will
spend the latter part of this week
in Pittsburgh. Arrangements have
been made for a gathering of west
ern Pennsylvanians interested in the
cause of "personal liberty," or
whatever else the movement of the
liquor men inside of the Democracy
may be termed, to be held in Pitts
burgh, along the lines of that in
Philadelphia last Saturday.
Tlie row inside the Democracy is
on, but the Guffev people seem to
be so confident that they are not
going to get any more excited than
the general public.
—Both Senator William C. Sproul
and Highway Commissioner J. Den
ny O'Neil, the leading rivals for the
Republican nomination for gov
ernor. were in the northeastern sec
tion yesterday. . The Commissioner J
went to Susquehanna and adjoining)
counties to look over his political
fences, and is said to be confident
of a strong vote as the insurgents,
who abound in that section, will
likely be for him. The Senator's
visit was a trip to Scranton. where
he has many friends and where lie
held' a reception. There was no
meet'ng scheduled or anv demon
stration. His visit, like that of
O'Neil to the nprthern tier, was to
meet people.
—Tt is an interesting thing In con
nection with the Sproul visdt to
Scranton. where Mayor A. T. Con f
nell a few days ago declared for
O'Neil. that W. L. Connell, the in
fluential chief of the same family
and twice mayor of Scranton, de
clared that he was with Sproul to
the finish and for Beidleman, too.
—While these two candidates were
husv in oio corner of the state.
Robert P. Habgood -was fixing fences
in the other end and seeding a few
fields where he hopes to make a
harvest.
—Congressman John R. K. Scott
came to town last night on his way
to Pittsburgh where he will consult
with William A Magee and other
friends the rem "ider of the week
and hobnobbed so much with O'Neil
and Magee men who were here that
the idea got abroad that the time
was coming when the Vares would
be out for O'Neil. It is an interest
ing fact that Scott got the dates
for O'Neil's visits and speeches
from O'Neil headquarters men yes
terday and will probably be found
speaking from the same platform
with him soon. Whether Scott
will declare "dry" or not is therefore
the interesting question. The Phila
delphia Press thinks that eventually
the Vares and Magee will be for
O'Neil, but the Philadelphia Record
to-day gives prominence to the much
discussed reports from Philadelphia
that the Vares, who will be busy
enough at home because of the
Smith administration and the vice
and other disclosures, have a divi
sion among their own leaders about
governor. It points out that Lane
and Mackey are classed for Sproul
and that Martin, Kriight, Soger and
other men are for the Delaware
man either openly or because he has
declared he will abide the de'-
cision of the primaries. O'Neil has
not made a positive declaration, but
intimates that his friends will settle
that for him, if he is defeated.
—While Scott was here last night
lie met Mayor Daniel L. Keister, of
this city, an old legislative colleague
who being antagonistic to Senator
Beidleman because of local politics
announced that he was for Scott for
lieutenant governor. The Mayor re
marked upon the cordiality which
always prevailed between himself
and the Congressman.
—ONeil men, and Attorney Gen
eral Brown, too, maintain that Audi
tor General Snyder's inquiry into the
truck purchase for the Highway De
partment is a scheme to annoy and
harass, but the Auditor General list
night said that it did not look that
way when he was continuing the
matter. He said that he did not
tnink he would have all he wanted
with which to go CKI for a month.'
—The North American gives con
siderable space to-day to the asser
tion that Senator David Martin had
served notice on Senator Vare that
he was for SproUl and that othe
men. including Lane, has done the
•same thing. Tt also plays up the cru
sade being made by some upstate
O.'Nell men to get the Governor to
"fire" Samuel T. Spyker, of Hunting
don, as counsel of the Compensation
Bureau. The raid on Spyker has
hsen engineered by some small fry
who are insisting that the Governor
will have to dismiss even his per
sonal appointees.
—ln regard to the movement for
Sproul among Vare leaders the
North American says: "Senator Vare
repeated his much-discussed state
ment that he intends to let members
of the Republican city committee
and the ward leaders upon whom he
depends for support share the re
sponsibility of selecting a candidate
for whom the Vare organization in
Philadelphia will work at the uri
maries. *At the proper time.' Sen
ator Vare said, a meeting of the city
committee will be held, when a can
didate for governor will be indors
ed."
HARRISBURG ftfiipfift TELEGRAPH
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A Pennsylvania corporal at Camp
Wadsworth writes home he will nev
er talk pigeon Chinese to a China
man. Celestials have set up laun
! dries near most of the big camps
, and, by all tokens, they are high
; class. "Very dirty washee; how
' long takee; two weekee?" the sol
dier asked. "I will endeavor to
have It for you then, sir, but you
; know that the shortage of colored
; labor hampers our efficiency consid
erably" was the response that sent
, Sam to the hospital for one week.
• • •
Did you ever stop to watch THE
i CRANE MAN, that chap who drifts
| about 400 feet in the air, hanging on
j to a cob-web, his nerves steady, his
brain clear? One of these hardy fel
-1 lows has sung a little song in the
American Machinist, like this:
j I'm the "man way up" at the very
top
| Where a wise guy ought to be,
I'm tV• ' >• that's over the bloomln'
■hop
An' . ,jttu look up to me;
For 1 rides in my carriage to an' fro
Like a millionaire's private train,
An' we sure looks down on the gang
below,
—Me an' my trav'lin' crane!
There ain't no burdens too large for
us.
Me an' this crane of mine,
We lifts the biggest without no fuss
For that is th§ way we shine;
We takes 'em any old shape or size
An' juggles 'em through the air,
An' lowers 'em careful, easywise—
When it comes to the job—we're
there!
Old Hercules is an also ran
An' Samson's a piker, too.
They was pretty good on a small
sized plan.
But to-day they'd never do;
We've got 'em faded, we've got 'em
stung,
They never could stand the strain
Of the stunts we do an* the loads
we've swung— .
—Me an' my trav'ln' crane!
BEIDLEMAN AND LABOR
Whenever labor during the last
fourteen years had occasion to BO to
Harrisburg for legislative redress or
relief for working men, women or
children, there was one man whom
• labor always could rely upon as a
friend.
That one man is Senator Edward
E. Beidleman, of Dauphin county.
From the day Senator Beidleman
was first elected as a member of the
House of Representatives in 1904, he
has worked unceasingly in the inter
est of labor.
In his first session, the legislative
session of 1905, Senator Beidleman
introduced a bill regulating the em
ployment of women and children in
manufacturing establishments and
fixing a minimum age for child la- i
bor.
This was the beginning of Senator
Beidleman's long, consistent and un
deviating record as a lawmaker for
labor.
Any workingman in Pennsylvania
may readily learn to what extent
Senator Beidleman has been his
friend during the last fourteen years.
He can learn the facts from any of
ficial of any labor organization any
where in the state or from any mem
ber of any committee which went to
Harrisburg during the last fourteen
years for the purpose of improving
the working conditions of Pennsyl
vania labor.
All of them, every representative
of labor, every pleader that labor
ever sent to Harrisburg for redress
of relief can testify to the same fact
that all of them at all times found
Senator Beidleman ready, willing
and anxious to serve labor and se
cure for it any legislation it wanted.
It was so when labor opposed con
tract prison labor. Senator Beidle
man introduced a bill to stop it.
It was so every time the mine
workers of the state sought legisla
tive protection for their hazardous
trade. Senator Beidleman took up
one miners' grievance after another
and introduced legislative bills for
the relief of the miners.
It was so when the electric railway
employes of the state sought relief
from their exposure to wind and
weather. They petitioned the rail
way corporations in vain for proper
protection against exposure. Senator
Beidleman prepared a bill compelling
the railways to enclose the trolley
car platforms and the trolley car
crews then were protected.
It was so when the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen wanted to
compel the railroads to pay them
semi-monthly Instead of monthly.
One of Senator Beidleman's many
labor bilts fixed it.
It was so when the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen wanted an em
ployers' liability bill for their pro
tection. Senator Beidleman prompt
ly prepared and introduced the re
quired liability bill.
It was so when the combined rail
road brotherhoods wanted a full
crew law. Senator Beidleman pre
pared the full crew bill and saw to
it that it became lav*.
The labor record of Senator Beldle-
I man is almost endless. When he was
elected to the Senate in 1912, it made
no difference in his labor attitude.
He was as active in the Interests of
labor in the Senate as he had been
in the House. When he was elected
president pro tempore of the Senate
in 1915, he remained as loyal to la
bor in the president's chair as he
had been on the flopr of the Senate.
His loyalty to labor is, indeed, the
outstanding feature of Senator' Bei
dleman's record as a state lawmaker
during the last fourteen years.
Now labor has an opportunity to
prove its loyalty to Senator Beidle
man.
In the Republican primaries this
year. Senator Beidleman will be a
candidate for the nomination of
Lieutenant Governor.
He will pre-eminently be labor's
candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
His long and honorable legislative
j 1 areer has branded him as a friend
! and'champlon of labor.
If he wins or he loses, he wins
or loses as the champion of labor
and no champion of labor must lose.
Labor owes it not only to Its leg
islative champion but far more to
itself to demonstrate it conclusively
by an overwhelming majority in the
Republican primaries for Edward B.
Beidleman that no champion of la
bor can lose.
The call Is out. the challenge to
labor's loyalty to its champion is
there. From the mills and thn mines,
f*om the two-story homes and the
steel mills, from the railroad bhops
j and the brickvards, from the
wharves and from the coke ovens,
Ihe farms and the cities, labor must
j pour out on the. day of the Repub
i iican primaries and flood the ballot
boxes with loyal labor votes for la-
I bor's loyal champion, Edward E.
! Beidleman for Lieutenant Governor.
I--From the Progressive World.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND - BY BRICCS
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The Silent Call
OUT yonder on the misty waters
oft the Irish Coast, the spirits
of the Lusitania's dead are call
ing for justice. The Sussex victims
are making their silent appeal.
Edith Cavell is calling. Captain Fry
att is silently pleading for justice.
The crucified women and children of
Belgium are calling. The dead of
Armenia are calling. The many,
many plain wooden crosses in tor
tured France are calling. The still,
gray, upturned face, the sightless
eyes, the mutilated body lying out
yonder in No Man's Land is calling.
The dead speak to us more startllng
ly than the living. The great spirit
army is growing larger daily. Its
call is eloquent, definite and impera
tive.
In justice to the dead; in justice
to the living. GERMANY—the Red
Light District of Europe, the Under
world of Europe, where campaigns
ANOTHER BELGIUM?
(From the New York World)
When Germany seeks a pretext
for war it always finds one. It can
forge a telegram, as In 1870 when
tt wanted war with France, or dis
cover a conspiracy justifying it in
making a scrap of paper of a treaty,
as in Belgium in 1914, or see in local
disorders a reason for new conquests
after peace is proclaimed, as in Rus
sia in 1918.
If Holland has now been selected
as the next victim of imperial ag
gression we may be sure that a
weighty excuse will be forthcoming.
Holland happens to be first on the
list of small nations no longer use
ful to Germany as neutrals. It is
near England. It has spacious har
bors suitable for naval and especial
ly for submarine bases. What right
has such a state that cannot be
swept aside by a German indictment
of some kind ?
Holland's crime against Germany
is its present helplessness to assist
autocracy. Until the United States
entered the war, Holland was a kind
of a clearing house for German com
merce. Its neutrality, supported by
our own, made it a thoroughfare for
supplies sorely needed in Germany.
Xow that this traffic has been stop
ped by ourselves and the Allies, why
should not imperialism discover In
the little kingdom some outrageous
imposition upon the elect of the
Prussian war god—some almost In
conceivable villainy, justifying. If
need be, the desolation of another
Belgium ?
GERMAN ETHICS
"One of our men escaped from the
Germans nd returned to our lines.
He had been shot through the
hand," says R. D. In La
d'es From Hell. "This, In itself, is
an inconsiderable wound, and on
pliowlng it to the German surgeon
he had expected nothing more than
a casual bandage. The German,
however, told him that an opera
tion would be necessary, and they
lifted him upon the operating table
without further do,
" 'Ton will give me an anesthetic,
pf course, won't you?' said my
friend.
" 'What!' replied the German sur
geon. "An anesthetic for a schweln
hund?' and forthwith the operation
continued, while mv friend was held
down by a group of grinning Teuton
soldiers.
"What do you suppose that Ger
man surgeon did for a simple nhot
through the hand? Tn the first
nlice he cut all the tendons of my
friend's hnnd. Then he removed
the bone from the middle finger In
such a manner that the entire hand
been me absolutely useless and might
as well have been entirely removed."
of lust, deceit, thievery and murder
are planned; where paganism flour
ishes, and Christian doctrines are de
fied; GERMANY—ruIed by one who
is trying to be the world's pagan
schoolmaster, has, instead, become
the world's most notorious grave
digger, must be surrounded, subdued
and cleansed. A new curriculum
must be injected and firmly estab
lished. Our weapons of offense at
homo are Liberty Bonds. Liberty
Bonds mean the last of the Bodies.
Liberty Bonds will dry the tears of
the world. Every Liberty Bond in
creases the power of the great hu
man dynamo that will dissipate the
sickening war cloud in Europe, and
replace it with liberty and justice
emblazoned across the sky. There
can be no peace without justice. The
mighty, silent army of the dead aj-e
listening for our response. They are
I waiting. They have been calling
and calling. Are they calling in
I vain? JOHN W. PHILLIPS.
ONWARD BOYS, GO
(Dedicated to the Selective Col
ored Boys of the Great World war.
Composed by Mrs. Susan Tinsley.)
Bravo deeds are often recorded
Brave hearts doth always beat true,
So onward to battle my brothers
And cherish the red, white and blue.
Our race has always.been loyal
In aiding the country's cause;
We have never been found wanting
And never did we pause.
Many are our heroes
Nick Biddle of '6l
Shed the first blood for the Union
On the Capitol floor 'twas done.
If history could remind us
Of the noble deeds we have wrought.
Our hearts would swell with joy
For the battles our fathers fought.
Press onward to battle my brothers
Raise high the American flag
With courage, will, and honor
Ever let her wave—not drag.
Our hearts will ever be with you
When you have crossed the sea;
Let victory be your motto,
For sweet peace and liberty.
Unpatriotic Discrimination
The problem of employment for
the young men of the draft age who
have not yet been called to the col
ors is one of increasing importance.
Many advertisements of situations
wanted carry the statement that the
applicants must not be included in
the draft. Gradually there has
come about discrimination against
the man of conscription age. And
this is the kind of young man who,
sooner or later. Is going to be called
upon to fight to make the world safe
for the men who now refuse to give
him a job.—lndianapolis News.
The Scout Drive
The Scouts are soon. to have 4
"drive"
On the 27th Inst, they will arrive.
When approached by one—don't
pause and say,
I just bought a bond the other day
Suppose you bought one, two and
three,
You must give lots more for liber
ty. N
This bond will go right after the
other
It may save a friend —perhaps a
brother.
So dig deep down—if your heart Is
right
You'll be able to give with all your
might.
When your boy comes back some fu
ture day.
You'll look him straight In the
face and say—
My Son, I waa with you all the way !
E. M.
APRTL 25. 1918.
Anti-Sabotage Law
Minnesota was the first state to
enact a law against syndicalism and
sabotage. The Supreme Court of the
state has decided, in a test case, that
•penalties prescribed arc not exces
sive or unjust. Under this law the
preaching or practice of syndicalism
and sabotage are prohibited and
drastic penalties are provided for
violators of the act. The measure
is broad enough in its scope to pre
vent the seditious preachings of the
I. W. W. agitators and the distri
bution of their anti-American . lit
erature. Minneapolis for nearly
: two years has been a headquarters
of these open enemies of law and a
distribution center for their publi
cations. —Minneapolis Tribune.
!l OUR DAILY LAUGH
TOO BRAVE.
Walter—What's the matter witl
| the omelet?
Customer —The eggs didn't knon
j when they were beaten.
BY MACHINERY.
"Those jatfk* are pretty handy for
aoisting a car."
"You bet."
i "Too bad you can't lift a mortgage
I with one of^'em."
HIS CHOICE.
"What do you like best about
going to school. Johnny?"
"The coming home."
RUINED THAT.
"Tom makes a success of anything
! he touches."
| "That so! He didn't seem to lm l
prove the fresh paint on our wood*
work any."
iEbpning d|at
Men connected with state, city and
county governments have "passed
up" the question whether it Is an
offense against the statutes to work
in a "war garden." Most of them
are of the opinion that a "war
garden" is something that everyone
who has a piece of land in fee, by
lease or on' loan should have and
work at, "iut when it cornet down
to passing upon the question of
whether one can work in them on
the Sabbath in a state which i 3
noted for a set of "Blue law" statutes
they are inclined to comment upon
the war. This city has scores of
I "war gardens," some of them of ex#
i tensive character, but some are sma!'
backyard ones, \VSile others are in
vacant plots. They are being in
dustriously cultivated, especially dur
ing the extra hours of daylight which
are given in the evening. A short
time ago a Harrisburg citizen who
was doing a little spading, one Sun
day afternoon was asked by a police
man who was passing whether he
thought he was offending against
the law. The policeman merely asked
for information. He was not sure
himself. So the two of them referred
it to the police station. The police
station passed it on up. The city
authorities ignored the proposition
and the policemen have been passing
by on the other side when rakes or
hoes show the sunlight of Sundays.
Some one then plunged the law
library at the courthouse into dis
cussion, but the lawyers smiled and
refused to say anything. Finally it
got up to the Capitol, unofficially,
but when the learned counselors in
the attorney general's office were
given it, they suggested that possibly
the moral law might be invoked,
but that no one would like to hark
back to "Blue Laws" in days of
food conservation and race for pro
duction.
• • *
A good story is told about Fred
eric A. Godcharles, deputy secretary
of the commonwealth, when he went
up for his examination for a com
mission. It happens that he is a
philatelic expert, which means that
he knows more about stamps than
999 out of every 1,000 persons and
that colors are easy for him. When
he was given his examination he
was shown about 100 hanks of yarn
of all colors. Then they told him to
pick out red. He picked out one. and
called it red. The officer in charge
looked puzzled and asked why he
had not picked another which he
indicated.
"Oh, that's magenta," said God
charles.
"But isn't red?"
"No, not true red. That's magenta,
that's Vermillion, that's cerise, that's
scarlet, that's crimson, that's mar
oon, that's carmine, that's "said God
charles.
"Hey, stop. Tou know more than
I do about that. Try the greens."
Godcharles suggested that he di
vide the colors and promptly pro
ceeded to pick out the primary
colors, violet, indigo, blue, green,
yellow, orange and red. Then he
started: "Green, grass green, sea
green—"
"All right; don't do any more''
said the officer.
A contract made for the sale of
the material in the old brick ware
house of the Paxton Flour and Feed
Co., in Capitol Park extension is the
cause of an order being given for
demolition of the big brick struc
ture. The thought was to maintain
the warehouse for military purposes
in event that It would be needed as
much of the equipment of the Nv
tional Guard was stored there until
the men mobilized for war last
summer., Since that time the ware
house has been utilized for storage
of automobile tags and similar ar
ticles and it was thought that it
would be kept indefinitely. How
ever the advance in the price of
building materials and the heavy de
mand for all kinds of building ac
cessories caused numerous inquiries
to be made of the wrecking firm
which had bought the building for
the material it contained last year
before the war began and it sent
word to the state authorities that
it desired to carry out the contract.,
As the government had not com
mandeered the building the contract
was good and the wreckers have be
gun to remove the top floors, the
bricks and other parts being sold be
fore they reach the ground.
Formation of members of the
Harrisburg Reserves, both of the ac
tive and associate classes, into a
general vigilance committee which
is to have charge of running down
complaints of disloyalty and inter
ference with Liberty Bond, War Sav
ings or any other movements for the
nation is to be undertaken at once.
Many of the mornbers not on the
active list have expressed a desire
to serve and the committee will be
divided according to sections o#*the
city. As soon as >the Liberty Loan
drive ends active drilling on the big
island playground will be started. A
preliminary drill to outdoor woTk
will be held Friday night at the City
Grays Armory with some street work
if the weather permits.
• • •
The importance of the prelimina
ries to the primary campaign is evi
denced by the numerous newspaper
men who have been visiting here
this week. There have been half a
dozen of the keenest on politics.
And they have all be'en more inter
ested in what Dauphin county
thinks about Senatpr Beidleman
than in the heads of the ticket con
tests.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—W. J. Richards, prominent coal
man of Schuylkill county, is urging
war gardens, offering land for them.
—Congressman L. T. McFadden,
of Bradford county, has been re
elected a trustee of State College by
the alumni.
—Secretary of Internal Affairs
ITouck will celebrate his fifty-second
birthday next month.
—State Treasurer Kephart. who
has been ill for some weeks, says It
Is no fun being penned up
—J. D. Callery, one of the receiv
ers of the Pittsburgh Railways Co
has been president of that company
for some years.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg Is rapidly be
coming a center fop assembling
of supplies for Army cainps?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city furnished a company to
fill up a regiment at Camp Curtin.
A Hint For Creel
Director General McAdoo hns
, served notice that railroad folders
In the near future must be "purely
informative." Why not apply the
same rule, too, to Mr. Creel's literary
' efforts ?—Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.