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MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1918
1 would have you be like a fire
well kindled, which catches at every
thing you throw in, and turns it into
flame and brightness. — Mabcus Auhe-
Lius.
GIVING FREELY
IF the number of men who have
gone into the regular army, the
nuvy or th§ marine corps, either
by enlistment or through the Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania or the
Naval Reserve, were to be added to
the 83,716 stated by State draft head
. quarters to have been furnished for
" national defense under the selective
service law it would show that the
Keystone State has given about 2 00,-
000 of its choicest manhood to the
i , cause of Liberty. It stands ready to
furnish thousands more. It may
happen that before the year is out
Pennsylvania may have in the armed
.service more than the total of the
whole American force in the seven
long years of the struggle for inde
pendence. It now has as many men
as were In the combined armies of
Meade and Lee at Gettysburg.
However, It is no more than due
that Pennsylvania, ever faithful, ever
generous, should'be given credit for
'lie voluntary enlistments which
have (been so marked a part of the
contribution of its youth since the
United States entered the world war.
If there are to be credits under the
second draft let them be worked out.
Harrisburg is proud of its record of
• volunteers who saved the city from
, contribution to the tirst draft call.
It has no desire to shirk any more
than has any of the other districts
of Pennsylvania whose enlistments
entitled them to the starry record
of exemption. This city, Lancaster
and other districts which were not
summoned under the tirst draft are
I to send in their sons beside
the men from Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and other communities. But
i if there are to be credits there
should be announced upon what
basis. If there are to be none, let us
Know so that we can get our young
I men ready and readjust business and
occupations which will have to give
them up, because we want to win this
war with as tew distractions as
possible while we are lighting.
The Donato statuary appears to
have turned over for another long
nap.
THE OLEO LICENSE
DAlßli and Food Commissioner
James Foust is right, perhaps,
in his opposition to the move
i-j reduce the SIOO license fee for
the sale of oleomargerine in Penn
sylvania, but It is eminently proper
L to inquire whether the time is not
coming when the dairy cow will no
longer bo entitled to protection from
other animals and the tropical nut
trees as producer of a "spread."
Mr. Foust says that the oleomarge
rine business is now well regulated
and that the scandals which attend
ed It for years have now been
stamped out and that the product Is
handled by responsible firms, in a
sanitary manner and satisfactorily to
the supervisory officials and the pub
lic. He contends that if the license
were to be lowered it would mean
1 hat the business would get into the
hands of people who would not
grasp responsibility under the law,
who might not be cleanly, who might
cheat and who might make
for the police.
[ At the risk of being considered
revolutionary and disloyal to an
1895 propaganda, we might rise to
Inquire why oleomargerine should be
licensed at all. There are a lot of
people who can not tell it from but
ter and a lot who do not care. It
is an established business. Imita
tion or substitute butter is now sold
as legitimately and as openly as the
9 best Elgin product; but oh. what a
difference in the price. The laws of
Pennsylvania contain some statutes
put on to meet, conditions which
have passed. Oleomargerine threat
ened the butter-making industry and
was hobbled with a license. Now
butter is threatening our pocket
K hooka. The demand for oleomarge-
MONDAY EVENING,
rlne has grown tremendously in
spite of the license and Still butter
goes up In price.
Farmers say It does not pay to
keep cattle with feed selling for
what it is noyadays. Perhaps® that
is why butter is-high. But that is
no reason for keeping oleomargerine
licensed. "We could put the amount
we really pay for license for oleo
margerine into Thrift Stamps very
handily, just as the dairymen could
put some of the profits made on but
ter into Liberty Bonds.
Have you applied for your war gar
den?. It not, why not?
KEEP IT UP
THE Liberty Loan drive will con
tinue in the Harrisburg district
all of the coming week. It is not
a question of having subscribed the
minimum asked of us; we must do
more. We must do the maximum.
Lifet other loans take care of them
selves; we must pile up such an
over-subscription this time as will
leave the Kaiser in no doubt as to
wh£re the American people stand'on
the war question. He is watching us,
hoping that we will weaken. The
more wo over-subscribe the more he
will be discouraged. Let's give him
the sickening knowledge that Amer
ica is In this war both to the last
man and the last dollar. If you
have not benight a bond go to any
bank and make a subscription. And
if you want to do your paying on the
instalment plan the • bank will be
glad to help you. Only don't fail to l
foe the possessor of a Liberty Loan
button next Saturday evening.
A Northumberland man who pulled
a Liberty Loan button from a com
panion's coat and insulted the Ameri
can Hag, was ducked in the river and
taken to jail, which goes to show how
lenient a Pennsylvania mob can be.
TAKE COURAGE .
TAKE courage from the letters
from the soldi#rs in France.
Their messages home breathe
good cheer and confidence. They are
having a lot of good, wholesome fun
out of even the serious business in
which they are engaged. They are
happy, hopeful and Intensely alive
to the strange experiences that *re
falling to their lot.
It is our business here at home to
write the kind of letters to them
they write to us. They are smiling,
smiling, smiling over there, and their
smiles do not always conceal a
lonesome heart, at that. They are,
all told, having a pretty good time of
it, even though they know there is
mighty serious business ahead. And
in that mood they would not like
to think of the folks they left as
morose, sad-faced or tearful.
They want more than anything
else to hear the news of home, but
they do not want their letters soak
ed in tears or filled with sighs.
Be of as good cheer at home as
the boys are in France and we shall
not have to worry concerning the
morale either of our soldiers or of
the second line of defense on this
side of the Atlantic.
Register on Wednesday, if you did
not do so last fall, and be in position
to vote for "dry" candidates at the
primaries.
SPROUL'S SANE ATTITUDE
IN his Lancaster speech, which
again demonstrated his grasp
and appreciation of the larger
issues of the campaign in Pennsyl
vania, Senator Sproul made no per
sonal appeal in his own behalf, but
in a dirgct and forceful way em
phasized the importance of patriotic
devotion to the things which are vi
tal in the present great national
crisis. "The people of Pennsylvania,"
he said, "are too much engaged now
with the patriotic duties of the hour
to pay any serious attention to those
who would endeavor to divert them
by parading up and down the State
airing their petty factional griev
ances and trying to win sympathy
for miserable political squabbles."
Senator Sproul referred to the
great usefulness of the Republican
party and rejoiced in the fact that
many former Progressives are once
more aligned with it in giving force
and expression to the principles for
which the party has stood through
out its history and which have been
largely instrumental in the develop
ment ?nd prosperity of the country.
He declared that no "political party
in any country at any time in the
world's history has thrown aside
partisanship so readily and unreserv
edly and has supported a ruling op
position party so patriotically and
devotedly as has the Republican
party in this great crisis."
Those who criticize the uniform
primary and refuse to abide by its
results were also given attention In
the course of the Senator's remarks.
On this point he said:
The candidate who, when de
feated by the votes of ithe people,
attempts to defeat his successful
opponent and defeat his party,
mv only bes compared with a
boxer wh, having been knocked
out in a fair fight and according
to thf> rules, gets up and plunges
a knife In the winner's back. We
cannot have party success oa de
serve success unless we can play
the game fairly.
As the campaign progresses men
of all parties are expressing their ap
proval of Senator Sproul's sane at
titude and his strength with the peo
ple is increasing in all parts of the
State.
WHO IS ABOVE CRITICISM
IT remained for Senator Cummins,
of lowa, to say the clinching worl
in behalf of Congress as a co
ordinate branch of the government.
Speaking on the Overman bill, he
deolared that It is no more disloyal
for Congress to criticize the Presi
dent than it is for the President and
his supporters to criticise Congress
for the manner in which it performs
its duties.
Here is the cuse in a nutshell.
The attempt has been mude to show
that all the privilege of criticism is
on the side of the President—per
haps because he is also the Com
mander-in-chief and as such might
utilize military force to maintain his
prerogatives; but Senator Cummins
has opportunely shown that Con
gress has some rights, aIW
foliUc* U
By the Ex-Committee man
President Judge George Kunkel's
decision in the Philadelphia nomi
nating petition contest on Saturday
in which he held that Republicans
who had registered as Republicans,
but who had voted Town Meeting in
the Philadelphia battle last Novem
ber, but had not changed registra
tion could vote at the Republican
primaries, has become a matter of
state-wide importance. The judge
lays down the distinction between
registration and enrollment and
clarifies the provisions relative to
challenge. It affects the fljfst, second
and third class cities and will stand
as a precedent.
The decision caused much jubila
tion among the Penrose and Town
Meeting people, but was distasteful
to the Vares. Senator Penrose issued
a statement saying that it could have
been nothing else under the Uw and
George W. Coles, the Town Meeting
chairman, declared that it meant
the end of the Vares and the defeat
of John R. K. Scott for Lieutenant
Governor in Philadelphia, his strong
hold, which drew the retort from
Vare leaders that Coles would be
found as wrong as he was in Novem
ber. ,
Thp Philadelphia Ledger says
editorially: "A mighty jolt has been
given the impudent assumption by
the Vares of the right to read out
of the Republican party those citi
zens whose conscience and patriotism
prevented them, at the last munici
pal election, from submitting to the
Vare dictation in municipal affairs.
The Dauphin county court ruling
that voters who supported the Town
Meeting party candidates In Novem
ber are not to be debarred from par
ticipating as Republicans at the
coming primaries is based on Justice
and common sense and ought to be
explicitly embodied In the statutes."
—J. Denny O'Neil, who spent the
weekend at Pittsburgh and received
many assurances of support in his
campaign, will be here part of the
week, but plan; to continue his
campaign generally in the eastern
counties.
—John R. K. Scott's visit to Pitts
burgh has resulted in a close com
bination between Scott and Magee,
which it is hoped will leave to Magee
finally lining up for O'Neil. Scott
will speak with O'Neil and the Gov--
ernor at several places. Judge Bon
niwell's Democratic campaign in
Pittsburgh ran up against Guffey
snags in several places, but the
"wet'TJemocrats seemed to be nu
merous about his headfluarters.
Guffey says he does not care and as
he has the federal and state ma
chines he does not need to very
much.
—Third class city registration day
is Wednesday and tremendous efforts
to get out an impressive registration
are bng made. It is claimed that
thousands of men will enroll. The
"wets" are making drives to get big
Democratic registration and so are
the O'Neil men. No matter how the
registration goes it will be claimed
by every candidate.
—James S. Chambers, writing in
the Philadelphia Ledger, says that
the Governor is in a dilemma be
cause unless he names men to the
Supreme Court who can be accepted
by the Penrose people he may see
them defeated.
—Senator Sproul. who received a
notable greeting at Lancaster on
Saturday, will be here to-rhorrow for
a short time on his way to Wllliams
port, where he will speak Wednes
day and Thursday he goes to Pitts
burgh. On May 8, the Senator will
be in Blair county, where he will
spend two days on a tour.
—Montgomery County enrollment
is 28,803 Republicans, a gain of 5,000,
and 9,416 Democratic. Just what is
going to happen in that county will
be worth watching.
—The Philadelphia Press says the
Brumbaugh forces are now backing
Edmund Carpenter for Congress in
Luzerne. County and says the county
has a bitter factional fight on.
—The Allegheny County Republi
can organization in common with
many others throughout the state is
supporting Anderson H.
president and editor of the Johns
town Tribune, for one of the Repub
lican nominations for Congressman
at-Large says the Pittsburgh Gazette-
Times. On the ticket with him are
Congressman-at-Large M, M. Gar
and, Allegheny; Thomas S. Crago,
Greene, and Joseph McLaughlin,
Philadelphia.
—The Johnstown Tribune, owned '
by Congressman Anderson H. Wal- !
ters eays editorially: "Mr. Walters
was, directly and personally, offered
a place on the slate of the Brum
baugh-O'Nell forces, conditioned up
on his support of Mr. O'Neil for Gov
ernor. Having had at least a small
part in the events which honestly
sought for an agreement which
would make fol- party harmony,
both as to the candidate for gover
nor and the platform upon which
he would stand, and which resulted
in the condidacy of Senator William
S. Sproul on a platform admirable in
every detail, in keeping with every
profession of progressiveiem and ex
actly right on present pressing is
sues, notably that of the liquor ques
tion, the offer was refused."
■ —The Philadelphia Inquirer in a
York dispatch says: "A sharp con
test is on for the Republican nomi
nation for State Representative from
the York city district. The Vare-
Brumbaugh-Lafean faction is mak
ing a desperate effort to defeat Rob
ert C. Spangler, who has served sev
eral terms in the House at Harris
burg. A Statement Issued in sup
port of Spangler gives some Interest
ing sidelights on the situation."
O'Neil men claim Clearfield c6un
ty as a result of the Commissioner's
Dußois visit.
—Those in charge of the cam
paign of Senator Sproul for Gover
nor have opened headquarters in
Reading in the same rooms that
were bcoupied by the American Par
ty In its successful fusion cam
paign for City Council last fall
against the Socialists. Former
Judge Robert, Gray Rushong, Re
publican county chairman, is at the
head of the local Sproul workers.
They gained a number of new fol
lowers it Is said, during the past
week as a result of the sensational
testimony brought out at the hear
ing before the Dauphin County
court relative to the alleged conduct
of some of the Reading O'Neil lead
ers in obtaining signers to the,peti
for the nomination of Secretary of
tion of James Woodward of Ashland,
Internal Affairs.
HARRIBBURG frfUftj TEUEGR3LPH
I Postal Service Demoralization
It is doubtful If there ever was a
time in recent yqgxs when complaints
against the postal service were as
general as they are to-day. And ap
parently there is less excuse for bad
I conditions than there ever was be
fore. The government now has a
wider control, complete control, of
all the agencies of distribution- Yet
delays in delivering mail matter are
so great that the condition has
been described as "terrible" by so
conservative an authority as the Dl-,
rector of Research of the Merchants'
Association of New York, who made
an investigation. Not only second
class mail, but first class, letters, has
become altogether uncertain as to
delivery. Public confidence in the
Postofflce Department is badly shak
en. What is at.the bottom of the
condition it is idie for the cltizAi to
inquire. But it is important that
the causes be discovered and re
moved.
A congressional investigation of
delays In handling mall for the
American Expeditionary Forces is
contemplated. It should be thorough
and expeditiously made. But the
investigation should not be limited.
The trouble extends throughout the
country. It is harmful. "The en
tire Postofflce Department is disor
ganized and demoralized," is the
declaration of the Merchants' Asso
ciation's investigator. It would seem
that such a state could arise only If
the evil begins at the fountain head
of the organization. For long there
have been complaints in Congress
against- the activities of the Post
master General outside his office. If
Mr. Burleson could be put to
work at the country's business, to
conduct which he was appointed,
there might be a speedy clearing
away of the congestion all along
the line of mail distribution. Con
gress should give attention to this
matter. If the trouble is not cured
business, war business- included,
will become as demoralized aS is the
Postofflce Department.—Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
FARMERS BUY BOND&
It is hoped that records in the
present Liberty Loan drive will lie
kept in such a way as to show ap
proximately, at least, the proportion
of bonds taken by farmers. There
is much loose talk on how this or
that class of citizens is responding
to the calls of the government.
Most of this is without foundation,
and in the absence of reliable figures
cannot be contradicted. Occasion
ally the statement of some irrespon
sible individual gets into the nubile
prints making ugly assettions to the
effect that farmers are not doing
their full share. These assertions
are passed along they can
not be disproved, and are Anally
accepted by people whose opinions
and influence are worth while. Let
ters coming to us, from farmers in
dicate that they are taking Liberty
Bonds as freely as any other class
of citizens. Their financial condi
tion may not permit them to show
as large aggregate subscriptions, but
we are convinced that they are buy
ing to a point of personal sacrifice
that is exceeded by none and equaled
by few. —Pennsylvania Farmer.
Proud of Our Troops
The' American people, who know
that our men overseas are not all
coming out of the war unscathed,
have a right to be proud of the
bearing of the Yankees in this, their
first terrific action. They have also
a right to be curious as to the rea
sons why the official report of the
battle—a document which is neither
discouraging nor depressing was
held overnight in the War Depart
ment while Wolff's Bureau was send
ing oufithe semi-official and mislead
ing German version of the fight.—
From the New York Sun.
In ihe Manner of Nelson
The attack on Zeebrugge has a
suggestion of romance about it. It
recalls the cutting out expeditions,
with muffled oars and all the thrills
of dead-of-the-night surprises, in
which the old naval historians and
novelists revelled. It will thrill
Britain because Britain is still essen
tially a seafaring nation. Its pride
is in the greatest fleet which guards
its shores and which has carried war
into every nook and corner of the
Seven Oceans. When the navy is in
action Britons never think that they
are lighting with their backs to the
wall. —From the New York Tribune.
Holland's Difficult Position
Holland's position is most danger
ous and difficult. She may be forc
ed to take up arms against any at
tempt to enforce Germany's de
mands. That would,expose her to
conquest and subjugation, for the
time being. In view of the certainty
of her deliverance when Germany is
overthrown, that would be hers
should she be persuaded or by any
means induced to join Germany in
the war. Then the vast and rich
Dutch colonies would become prizes
of the powers that control the seas.
—From the New York Times.
Stains Hard to Wash
[Prom the Brooklyn Eagle.]
In Manhattan a woman arrested
for hanging a German flag in her
Lexington avenue front window
pleaded that she had washed it and
hung it out to dry. She goes to
prison, as is proper. Nobody can
wash the German flag until a free
Germany goes into the laundry busi
ness.
Allies' Status Is Ours
Tf the British Army is at bay, so
are we. If the men to whom Haig
addressed his eloquent appeal have
their backs to the wall, so have we.
It is our battle they are fighting.—
Savanah News.
Jugs Empty in Maine
It is said that there are no new
tin cans for the new maple syrup.
Well, there are quite a lot tff jugs
in this state which aren't' working
just yow.—Portland Press.
Ain't It Fine Today?
What's the use of always weepln',
Makin' trouble last?
What'# the use of always keepin'
Thinkin' of the past?
Each must have his tribulation.
Water with his wine.
Life it ain't no celebratibn
Trouble? I've had nine—
But to-day is fine.
Sure, this world is full o trouble
I ain't said it ain't.
Lord; I've had enough, and double,
Reason for complaint.
Rab an' storm have come to fret re>e,
Skies were often gray;
Thorns and brambles have beset me
• On the road—but, say,
Ain't it fine to-day!
It's to-day that I am livin'
Not a month ago.
Havin', losin', talkin', Kivin',
An time wills it so
j Yesterday a cloud of sorrow
Fell across thfc way
I It may rain again to-morrow,
j It may rain—but, say,
Ain't it tine to-day!
I —Douglas Malloch.
I - Hotv Long Before Sands Will Run Out?
_ —■■
MAN IT'6 STILL"
_ Q V V' R , TOUGHER THAN
BOL^ ED OWL
AXI> IF Tin-: <;oosi: is NOT COOKKD HY THAT TIME— -DCNNER-WETTKR:
For the Downfall
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
OF suggestive interest in the
mid§t of the prosecution of the
Geripan purpose of rule the
world are passages in a speech by
Lord Macaulay, delivered at Edin
burgh in 1852, on liis return to Par
liament after an absence of five
years. That period had covered the
French Revolution of 1848 an4_all
that it involved of European over
turn, and to those turbulent happen
ings he did not fail to refer. Here
is a striking passage in Macaulay's
reference:
"For myself, I stood again; and
though naturaHy of a sanguine dis
position, I did not for one moment
doubt whether the progress of so
ciety was not about to be arrested,
nay, whether we were not doomed
to pass in one generation from the
civilization of the Nineteenth Cen
tury to the barbarism of the Fifth.
I remembered that Adam Smith and
Gibbon had told us that the Dark
Ages were gone, nevermore to return,
that modern Europe was in no dan-,
ger of the fate which had befallen
the Roman empire. The flood, they
said, would return no more to cover
the earth, and they seemed to rea
son Justly, for they compared the
immense strength of the enlightened
part of the world with the weakness
of the part which remained savage;
and they asked whence would come
the Huns and Vandals who should
again destroy civilization?
"It had not occurred to them that
civilization itself might engender the
barbarians who should destroy it. It
had not occurred to them that in the
I very heart .of great capitals, in the
neighborhood of splendid palaces
and churches and theaters and li
braries and museums, vice and ignor
ance might produce a race of Huns
THE STATE PRESS
The way to get peace is to make
war so terrifying that the Germans
will cry for it. —Johnstown Tribune.
In tens of thousands of German
homes the brief of bereavement is
present, but the Kaiser's six sons are
yet hale and hearty.—Exchange.
We laughed at Henry Ford's peace
ship and his "getting the boys out of
the trenches by Christmas." But by
the time the Kaiser has to call quits
we may yet give Henry credit for
being instrumental in getting the
beys out of the trenches —'by the far
better peace propaganda of building
airplane motors and subdestroyers on
the same scale that he built his little
automobile. —Lebanon Daily N>ws.
The time for leniency with German
spies is past. "I have the honor to
inform you tha.t I have caught one
of your command within the Amer
ican lines," wrote Israel Putnam to a
British commander. "He was ar
rested as a spy, he will be tried as a
spy, and, if convicted, he will be
hanged as a sfry." P. S.—"He was
hanged at 4 o'clock to-day." We
need a Putnam on the job.—Amster
dam (N. Y.) Recorder.
Of course, the German fleet may
come out, but what bothers the All-
Highest, alias Gyp the Blood, is the
tnought it may never come back in
again.—Macon Telegraph.
One of the German hopes regard-j
ing the submarines was that they
wpuld scare America out of sending
troops to France, and if yye ventur
ed to send them, the transport would
be sunk. We are pouring men into
France at a great rate, and npt a
transport eastwardbound has been
sunk. One of the deputies says
mournfully: "America is not show
ing the least inclination # to yielrf."
That Is one of the comparatively few
true things that have come out of
Germany. The submarine is having
no effect whatever upon the courso
iof the war.—Phldadelphia Record.
fiercer than those who marched un
der Attila and of Vandals more bent
on destruction than those who fol.
lowed Genserlc.
Such possibility was not detected
by Adam Smith and Gibbon, or oth
er historians and statesmen, but how
far easier the projection of what
came in that time than the realiza
tion in our day .that the kultur of
Germany would produce what we
have seen and are seeing. Macaulay
rooted the peril of his time in vice
and ignorance; we have found it in
perverted education and arrogance
that is not of Christ. The disorders
whereat Macaulay stood aghast are
less revolting and more in the na
tural order of things than the brutal
excesses and ordered cruelty that ac
company and mark with savagery
and slaughter unsurpassed the
scheme of conquest in which Em
peror William glories and for which
he seeks partnership with his God.
"Whence were to come the Huns
and the Vandals who should again
destroy civilization?" They have
come to us out of Germany and
threaten to reach the United States.
What a staggering chapter of his
tory is being made before our eyes!
Again the challenging question has
come. Is( civilization to be saved?
"A war between Odin and Christ,"
Elihu Root says this is, and as "by
their works ye ehall know them,"
so it is. "It is a struggle for the
overthrow of the maintenance of all
the progress that the civilization of
a century has made toward Chris
tianity." In the light of what has
happened in this war, there is pos
sible to the fair-minded no otfcer
'conclusion than that. In this situa
tion, infinitely more disturbing than
that which Macaulay reviewed, the
United States has taken its (dace
with Christ for the downfall of Odin.
LABOR NOTES
On June 4, at New York city,
Amalgamated Lace Operatives of
America will convene.
It costs New York state $282.60
to maintain a criminal in a correc
tional institution for one year.
Nova Scotia steel workers have se
cured a membership of 3,200 in less
than live months.
In 1909 of the 47,231 erpployes in
the "cotton industry in North Caro
lina over eighteen per cent, were
under 16 years of age.
Girl pupils of the Cleveland schools
will be taught the same trades as the
boys in the trade and technical
schools If they desire.
More small towns in Norway use
electricity than in any other country,
owi-ng to the abundance of water
power. ,
An increase of ten per cent, in
wages has ben granted the workers
by the Dominion Textile Works of
Kingston, Canada.
< A reasonable supply of farm help
at $65 per month 1s being looked for
by Alberta (Canada) Department of
Agriculture.
Oakland (Cal.) branch of the
Boilermakers' Union has decided to
expel'any member found to be slack
ing on war work. •
A girl cannot live on less than
$11.70 a week in New York, accord
ing to figures furnished by the State
Factory Investigating Commission.
A chain of 100 small municipal
stores to sell butter, eggs and pota
j totfs at cost to New York's poor
[planned by * the market commis
sioner.
London City an<* Midland Bank
has on its staff throughout England
and In Lohdon 3,600 women who are
doing clerical work.
APRIL 29, I9TB.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Germany rejects , Mr. Wilson's
league of Peace proposition as
fantastic." It certainly would be
fantastic, if Germany were to be ad
mitted in her present govermental
garb. But that riot Mr. Wilson's
color scheme.—Kansas City Star.
The enemies of the Germans in
this countrjl knew that the Germans
would be given the credit for the dis
loyal Socialist votes in Wisconsin and
elsewhere, so they went and voted
the Socialist ticket, and thus brought
dishonor on the thoroughly loyal
Germans.—Chicago Abendpost.
Any person who ever tried to cross
an American street in the rush hour
will know immediately how useless it
will be to attempt to operate German
submarines on'the sea after Mr.
Ford's destroyers are there in force.
—Kansas City Star.
Our mathematical artist has fig
ured out that every discharge of that
seventy-flve-mile gun, at a cost of
$5,000, kills on an average one
French mother and child by shell
fire and a dozen German mothers
and children by starvation. New
York Evening Post.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
JUST SO. Vv
Adam was 1 y
first.
And men have
been waiting
for their wives
ever since.
y a < i llL,^:sTloN •
QgjK/ Professor Bug
says there are
VT over 10,000,000
/ germs on a dol-
I• W W lar t>ul - That
sounds lmaginar
| ! It does. Where
gAilgaj did the pro
i fessor get a dol
lar bill.
ADVICE TO 4.
I don't blame V •
a girl for mass-
ing a -wad of glp
j hair over each m/\W / 2T
oar, if she has ■ 1 f r *V. 'J*'
plenty of hair.
But I wouldn't
leave the back
of my head as H TOT 17
bare as a cocoa- f J
nut, if I were a 3^^
t EXPERIENCE.
How long
have you been
Long enough
to know that
whenever any
thing goes
Wrong at our
house it's my
Abetting Qlljat
Quite gratifying In the statement
made by many members of teams I
which canvassed the city last week
for *he Third Liberty Loan that
they found the people waiting 1 for
them. It had been said for a month I
in advance of the time set for be- 1
ginning the drive for this loan that ]
it was going to be the hardest of all. J
Men who had experienced no difTi- fl
culty in obtaining subscriptions in M
the first two loans had misgivings fl
übout the success of the third cam- ■
palgn and while there was no falter
ing at the start some of the can-fl
vassers went out with their
made up to win a struggle. It
to have been the general rule
they were agreeably surprised.
trlotic Harrisburg that does
shout its sentiments in the
section or discuss its financial
fairs-in Third or Market streets
pears to have been "just layiniH
back" to show what it could do.
it did it. The folks up town,
town, out on .the llill, in the
streets and on the narrow
fares have just put over the flnrfl
little surprise party some of
young men active in business
here have ever run up against.
whole city is full of stories about
ing after liberty Bond subscript
that are pleasant to listen to.
number of Incidents in which
men from the volunteer teams,
gave up business and pleasure
even sleep to make the Capital
"go over the top," were turned -
or "bumped," to use the slang
was small and they have been
ported for consideration this
by the "persuaders" or the
ing squad," as may be
It is not the intention of any
the men who so loyally worked
week to make the loar) a
force anyone who honestly can
afford to buy this time
a bond, but the man who has
in the bank or in his sock or
has "It" out at eight per cent.
does.not want to disturb "it" or
will not go to a bank to get
when his credit is glittering on
surface and solid all the way
is going to get attention. As for
men who seem disloyal their
will be studied. This commutH
has not shown any dispositional
take matters into its own handsel
has been done in various
Pennsylvania towns. It Is
and it has been long suffering, i fl
it wants colors shown. \IH
* * * fl
Speaking about the Loan
men's experiences they may be
med up in the story told by one
"I had a street up town, a
had never been on but once
in my life," said he. "I went to
house and while I was there a
came out of the next house and ;isl
if I was not going to stop there
As a matter of fact, I did not
that house on my card. I had
one else, but there had been a
I said I would be there
'But,' said the girl, 'Can't you
this subscription now. We've
waiting for you.' In the next
I was asked 'if the neighbors
taken bonds and when I said
they all wanted to know how
so as to go a few better."
• • •
"I had a little house on my
and I wondered what in the
of sense they ever gave it to me
said another man. "It was outH
bletown way. I was going to
it up, but I saw the old woman
lived there eyeing me across
street. It was the second trip I
made in that street. I went
and she handed me ten
notes with her subscription.
hat's hard to get off, but I took
subscription with my hat under
arm. A. subscription coming
that home beat some of the
sands I heard about." '
• • •
A friend of mine who works
a vengeance at anything ho
takes said he signed up a man
the back of a trowel for a
write a name. "I just went to
they were building and asked
about bonds?' and they all
They were waiting," was the
ho put it. Another man went
with a check from almost
'bank in Harrisburg in his pocke*
"expedite matters" as he put it.
man gave a particularly cranky
on his list a ride to Rockville
car and landed him.
* * •
The stories that are being
about the bond subscriptions
well worth getting together. I
experience gained by the men
were on the teams will be Iramerß
valuable, but best of all is the
zatiort by everyone that
is patriotic with its money just
is with its voice. This war is <!(■
a good many things for
and not the least is that the ■
ward and the Fourth and
enth have been lining up
when necessary to send men or
fl
I * * *
The. posters which have
adorning the city, public buUH
and residence, street corner aucH
cant lot, stfffe window and bllllH
the last week have stimulated*
lection of them for the future.
are some collectlcfns in
which number dozens and
be a very interesting illustrations
the way this city felt in war ■
The recent display at the HarrljM
Public Library was an eye
for many people.
WELLJCNOWN PEOPLM
—Walter George Smith, pres®
of the American Bar
was speaker at-the big
Day celebration at Carnegie
tute, Pittsburgh.
—Lieutenant Colonel
Crum, head of the
plants at Rock Island, is a I
town man.
—Mayor Louis Franke, of
town, has taken personal
alien registration In his city.
—Dr. Joseph P. Hutchinson™
Philadelphia, hija been decoraft e <M
the- French government for
in France.
—The Rev. Dr. John R. DavH
Presbyterian pastor of
has returned from Florida.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg's newer resi
dential sections arc giving mnch
attention to trees, while the
older ones are letting thcui die? .
_ *
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG |
Many Harrisburg lirpis used to
have their own cars to haul mer
chandise" from Philadelphia and
New York in the early days of the
two railroads.
No Body For Absorption
Mr. Hoover does noi approve of
doughnuts because they soak up so
much fat. So far as has been ob
served here, the very large hole of
the contemporary doughnut is not
tak)ng uu muyh fat.—Newark Ad
i vocato.