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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918
i greater man than is the sceptered
• king
And greater than the richest I shall
be
If I can learn to do some honest
thing
So well no man may come replac
ing me.
—S. E. KISER.
PRIMARY ALIGNMENTS
THE lining up of J. Denny O'Neil,
candidate for Governor, with
John R. K. Scott, candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, by the very
nature of things tends to merge the
campaign interests of Senator
Sproul for Governor and Senator
Beidleman for Lieutenant Governor.
Neither Senator Sproul nor Senator
Beidleman will lose by that. As be
tween Mr. Scott and Senator Beidle
man for second place on the ticket
there should be no hesitancy in the
selection of the Dauphin county
Senator. Senator Beidleman repre
sents the State-at-large. Scott is a
Philadelphia politician, associated
with those largely responsible for
the factional differences and party
bickerings that have been spread
from Philadelphia to all parts of the
State, and himself doing much to
keep animosity alive within the
party.
Scott has been using the cus
tomary Philadelphia tactics of mud
throwing at previous incumbents —
alleging that Lieutenant Governors
Reynolds and McClain did not fulfill
their duties of presiding over the
Senato as they should, regardless of
the fact that both made records for
faithful performances of that duty,
and notwithstanding that he—Scott
himself —was at that very moment
an absentee member of Congress
out making a political canvass while
important national questions were
under debate. Senator Beidleman
was prompt to take up the challenge
and his dignified reply is in marked
contrast to the outbreak of his op
ponent.
So much of hypocrisy and disap
pointed ambition are Involved in the
fight against Senator Sproul and
Senator Beidleman that a formid
able revolt among those once favor
able to State Highway Commissioner
O'Neil is entirely proibable, es
pecially in view of the Commission
er's failure to declare his purpose to
accept the result and support the
Republican nominee in the event of
his own defeat in the primary con
test.
Republicans generally are not go
ing to give support to any aspirant
for public office who enters a pri
mary contest and trifles with the
voters on a matter of party prin
ciple. Central Pennsylvania Repub
licans have very definite convictions
with respect to party rules, and they
will not be induced in any great
number to support a candidate who
sidesteps so important a matter as
an open declaration on primary de
cision.
Senator Beidleman Is right in con
< eluding that the people do not want
to hear one candidate make charges
against another and he will win far
more votes by an outline of his own
platform, as he Is doing, than by
following Scott's example and call
ing his opponent hard names. Sena
tor Sproul also is to be congratulated
upon his manly attitude in face of
those arrayed against him. He will
not fall to gain in popular esteem
by ignoring personalities and devot
ing himself to constructive policies.
As he has declared repeatedly, the
people are more interested in win
ning the war than in political con
v-oversy, and ha might have added
•liut tlie washing of soiled political
-tfnen does not appeal to them in the
least. It is rather to be suspected
that the superheated denunciation
of Senator Sproul Is a significant de
velopment of the week. Indicating
the realization of his opponents of
their own blundering in the prelim
inary round of the contest.
The War Department has reached
the opinion that everybody else enter
tained. long ago, which I* that the list
Ol addresses oi killed and wounded
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FRIDAY EVENING. HAKRISBURG Hffijftj TELEGRXPHI MAY 3, 1918.
American soldiers shall be made pub
lic with their names. No good and
much harm is caused by withholding
Information which may cause friends
at home needless worry>
The "dry" campaigners are going
about the thing in a proper way. They
are planning a whirlwind campaign
In favor of the nomination of legisla
tive candidates who are pledged to
vote for the prohibition amendment.
NOT ONE-SIDED
NEWS from the allied front In
France may not be of the best,
but think not that It Is one
sided. At all events, the allied armies
do not have a foe In front and a
threatened revolution In the rear. It
becomes more and more apparent
that the German command is willing
to sacrifice tremendously to gain a
really decisive victory only because
by so doing It hopes to calm the
rising tide of dissatisfaction and
growing discontent in Germany. This
is no longer mere conjecture. There
are leaks In the German wall that
are letting through whispers of the
true state of affairs In Germany and
Austria that cannot be other than
most threatening to the militaristic
aims of the ruling classes, If not to
the dynasty Itself.
When & former director of the
great Krupp steel and munition
works of Germany turns upon his
one-time Imperial masters and bids
the people of the country throw them
out if they hope ever to regain the
respect and confidence of the world
at large, matters have reached' a
stage when anything may happen.
Even though Dr. Wilhelm Muhlon, i
the former Krupp expert quoted, has'
thrown in his lot with the revolu
tionary element he would not have
dared go the length to which he did
in the following statement given out
at Berne, Switzerland, had the feel
ing in Germany against the military
party not reached an acute stage: I
Since the first days of 1917 I
have abandoned all hope as re
gards the present directors of
Germany. Our offer of peace
without indication of our war
aims, the accentuation of the sub
marine war, the deportations of
Belgians, the systematic destruc
tion in France and the torpedoing
of English hospital ships have so
degraded the governors of the
German Empire that I am pro
foundly convinced that they are
disqualified forever for the ela-bor
ration and conclusion of a sincere
and just agreement. The person
alities may change, but they can
not remain the representatives of
the German cause.
The German people will not be
able to repair the grievous crimes
committed against its own pres
ent and future, and against that
of Europe and the whole human
race until it is represented by dif
ferent men with a different men
tality. To tell the truth. It is
mere justice that its reputation
throughout the whole world is as
bad as it is. The triumph of its
methods —the methods by which it
has hitherto conducted the war,
both militarily and politically—
would constitute a defeat for the
ideas and the supreme hopes of
mankind. One has only to im
agine that a people exhausted, de
moralized, or hating violence,
should consent to a peace with a
Government which has conducted
such a war, in order to understand
how the general level and the
chances of life of the peoples
would remain black and deceptive.
As a man and as a German who
desires nothing but the welfare of
the deceived and tortured German,
people. I turn away definitely
from the present representatives
of the German regime. And I
have only one wish—that all In
dependent men may do the same,
and that many Germans may un
derstand and act.
It may even be that the loss of
the channel ports by the British,
severe a blow as that would be to
allied communication, would be a
blessing in disguise. "Give us the
channel ports or Paris and the war is
won; then will come peace," Hinden
burg told the Socialist leaders before
the present drive started.
But peace won't come even
though Paris and the channel ports
should both fall. Such an event
would merely result in speeding up
America's war program and as Lord
George has said: "No matter what
may happen, we shall continue to
prosecute th war with utmost
vigor."
Then what? 'Will the Germans and
the Austrians continue to permit
themselves to be driven to the
slaughter? Perhaps, for a time, but
scarcely after Americans have got
ten to France in numbers sufficient
to make themselves felt and have
achieved a number of successes
against German arms, as unquestion
ably they will do within the year. It
would not be surprising if a great
American victory in France —and
who can believe we shall not achieve
it?—will be followed by revolution
in Germany and the end of the war
from within and without at the same
time. It is a large, hard game we are
facing, but one fjill of hope for the
future of democracy in the world.
The proposed Moose band of 100
pieces ought to prove a great suc
cess. The Moose have done many
worthy things in Harrisburg and the
organisation of a band would help
to promote the musical Intersets of
the community, a subject that is Just
now occupying the attention of many
people.
When the Hun fails to beat his ad
versaries by the sword he tries the
pen; thereby admitting that the pen
really is mightier than the sword. But
the sword has not been cast nor the
pen made that will make a German
peace while an America lives.
With wages, materials and taxes all
advanced, rents are bound to go up,
but there Is no reason for increasing
rents four or five dollars a month to
cover expenditures of half that
amount.
"Plr#.e your coal order now" is a
very commendable bit of advice,.but
to induce the dealer to induce the
railroad to induce the mine operator
to fill it is quite another matter.
The Government plans to "put a
curb on hide hoarders," and then why
not hide the hoarders?
Our idea of the Pope's peace proffers
Is that they will be "politely but
firmly declined."
The best rent regulator Harrisburg
could devise is a larger number of
houses built at reasonable figures.
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""PIKKOIFTAAXXA
By the Ex-Committee man
While It will take a couple of days
to complete the official figures it
looks as though tne third class cities
of the state had much the same ex
perience in the May 1 registration as
Harrlsburg. For weeks and weeks
the people of Pennsylvania have
ibeen hearing about an army of un
registered men, sufficient in force of
numbers to decide f.he Governorship
and from what has been said about
some headquarters and by some can
didates these people were just burn
ing to be registered. Harrlsburg,
which was reported as having 6,000
unregistered men eager to get on the
rolls, registered about 1,425, and
went on with its business on regis
tration day as though such an official
time had not been reached on the
calendar.
In various, other cities the regis
tration was even less and in some of
them no effort was made to register
men, it being assumed that if voters
are sufficiently Interested in politics
this year of war they would go and
put down their names without being
urged. In Allentown, for instance,
less than 400 registered. In Lancas
ter about 300 and in Erie about 500.
—Senator Sproul left Williamsport
yesterday afternoon following an
impromptu reception and arrived
last night at Pittsburgh where In
spite of the lateness of the hour, he
was given a warm greeting by many
of his friends. The Senator will swing
about the Pittsburgh district for the
next few days. He remarked on leav
ing Williamsport that he had enjoy
ed his visit and felt much encourag
ed. About the time the Senator was
j arriving in Pittsburgh J. Denny
i O'Neil was leaving for the tour of the
anthracite region which he will
make to-day and to-morrow and
gave utterance to charges that his
opponents were endeavoring to de
ceive the puiblic in the make-up of
the Sproul committee for Allegheny
county. Said Mr. O'Neil: "More than
50 per cent, of the names included in
the committee announced by Sprout's
lieutenants are my friends and are
working in my interests. They did
not know that their names were to
be used in this connection, and it was
all a piece of trickery." Mr. O'Neil
added: "Since the Penrose leaders
held their meeting here and found
it necessary to deceive the voters by
naming my friends as members of
their committee, I predict that I will
carry Allegheny. county by at least
40,000 votes, instead of my original
estimate of 20,000."
—O'Neil partisans and state ad
ministration men attach much im
portance to the vfsit to be paid to
Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and other
coal region cities the next two days
by Mr. O'Neil, Governor Brum
baugh, Attorney General Brown and
Congressman John R. K. Scott. It is
announced that they will all flay
Senator Penrose and the Governor
and Mr. Brown are expected to at
tack Senator Sproul. The style of
campaign will be materially different
from that of Senator Sproul in that
section and there are some folks sit
ting back and waiting to see whether
the people are going to get stirred
up- over political history in a year
ot war.
—The Philadelphia Record ap
pears to be getting considerable en
tertainment out of the linking up of
the candidacies of John R. K. Scott
and J. Denny O'Neil and does not
attach much importance to it as in
dicating what the Vares will do. The
Record says: "Now that he has
linked his political fortunes with
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil. candidate for Governor, who
is vigorous in his support for the
prohibition amendment, what will
be the stand of Congressman John
R. K. Scott, candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Lieutenant
Governor, on the liquor issue?"
—The Democratic organ also says:
"While supporters of Scott are busy
claiming his nomination, Senator
Edward E. Beidleman is conducting
a still-hunt for votes through the
state. Independent Republicans are
confident Beidleman will be return
ed the winner and that the Dau
phin county Senator will poll a big
vote even in this city. Steott will
accompany the Governor, Attorney
General Brown and O'Neil to Lu
zerne county to-day, and the open
ing gun of the unique political alli
ance will be fired. Later the party
will split, but Scott and O'Neil will
pair together in the drive for votes.
—Things are getting into a tur
moil again in Philadelphia and Di
rector Wilson and Superintendent
Mills are at odds over police ap
pointments and transfers. It looks
as though the Federal government
would make another move because
of speakeasies.
—Ferdinand Baumgartel, a Vare
leader, yesterday went over to the
anti-Vare forces, saying he could
no longer work with them.
—Scranton is having quite a time
over the efforts of Mayor Connell to
clean up the city because Army of
ficers want things bettered. Wilkes-
Barre is looking on with interest as
it has been experiencing some clean
ups.
—Democratic state headquarters
yesterday denounced the story from
Pittsburgh that "Jim" Wakefield
had charge of the Bonnlwell head
quarters. It declared that he was
for Guffey.
—Senator Sproul's visit to Pitts
burgh will likely be extended to Erie
as there has been a request that he
go to that city.
—Mayor Connell will preside at
tho O'Nell meeting In Scranton to
morrow. Next week Mr. O'Neil will
tour Chester and Northumberland
county.
—Reading registered only 625 vot
ers, less than half the number in
Harrisburg. And yet there are men
who insist that the people are inter
ested in what one candidate' thinks
of another.
—Senator Sproul yesterday told
Williamsport men that they would
have work to do after the war n
readjustment as well as in helping
to win the war.
On Historic Ground
The division headquarters at Camp
Lee is within a stone's throw of the
spot where the house stood that
housed Grant and his staff during tl*e
seige of Petersburg. Last fall there
was a Confederate reunion at Peters
burg, and the old soldiers visited the
cantonment The man who had
served as General Lee's cook during
the siege was there; and In that
camp, so appropriately named for
the gyeat military leader of the
South, he met the grandson of the
famous general, an officer in the
American Army, training Americans
to fight for America.—William Slav
ens McNutt In Collier's Weekly.
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Utah Wants a Gun Factory
Although Utah boasts the greatest
inventor of firearms In the world,
we have no firearms factory in the
state. Why is it that, with the
mightiest of wars in r progress, a
government factory has not been es
tablished here ? The light and
heavy Browning machine guns have
been pronounced by experts far and
away ahead of any similar weapons
in existence. And not only the
Browning machine guns, but other
Browning weapons could be made
in the Utah factory. It is, perhaps,
not. out of place to suggest that the
commercial clubs of Salt Lake and
Ogden, which is Mr. Browning's
home town, should investigate the
feasibility of such a factory. Few
of the machine guns have yet been
made. Let the Commercial clubs
begin an active inquiry, for there
is no time to spare if we are to ob
tain a factory.—From Salt Lake
City Tribune.
WINNING ITS WAY
(From Christian Science Monitor)
Prohibition, like ijny other good
thing, is winning its own way. New
York newspapers have recently pub
lished figures showing the great de
crease in crimes in that city during
the five winter Mondays on which
the saloons were closed; it begins
to look as if Great Britain had at
last partially awakened to the reali
zation, that barley is more needed
for food than for drink; and now
comes news from Yucatan, Mexico,
that the State-Legislature has invit
ed the rest of the Mexican republic
to a congress which is to discuss and
adopt laws "toward the total prohi
bition of the sale of alcoholic and
i intoxicating beverages throughout
the entire country." Yucatan is en
thusiastic over the improvement of
her people since she adopted prohi
bition.
Foolhardy, Anyhow
A Joe Millerism about the dan
ger of long whiskers and lighted
candles in combination has just
come true in England. As a re
spectable stonemason of the London
neighborhood was going upstairs
with a lighted candle, the flame
caught his whiskers and he was
burned to death. The coroner's jury 1
decided that it was an accidental <
death, but we should call it suicide.
—From the Hartford Courant.
A Call to the Hyphenate
When you were poor and friendless
Uncle Sammy took you in.
He met you with a friendly hand,
a broad and genial grin.
He didn't question what you were
out there across the foam.
He simply said, "Come in, old top
just make yourself at home."
You liked that homely greeting.
You likeh its artless style.
You said, "This chap Is warm of
•heart; he's free from cant
and guile."
His land you found productive, his
laws you found were just.
You learned to live his simple life
—to labor, love and trust.
And year by year you prospered and
year by year you grew
To sense the holy meaning of that
banner starry-blue,
You lost that haunted look acquired
where monarchs made com
mand.
And felt your soul begin to glow and
blossom and expand.
You learned the pride a freeman
knows where every man is
king,
You learned the sturdy self-respect,
the freeman's stride and
swing.
You learned to know life's better
side, to ponder, love and
dream,
To lift your eyes to greet the blue
and sense its glow and gleam.
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And now—well, now —the chance Is
yours to show just where you
stand.
The chance is yours to meet the test
—to extend a helping hand.
Your Uncle Sam is battling might in
freedom's name beyond.
He needs your help. He was your
' friend. He asks yau—buy a
bond.
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Oh, ye that sought this land of light
to escape a tyrant's greed,
Can you refuse to do your bit to
crush that odious creed ?
I'll not believe it. It's a He. 'Twould
sear your soul and damn.
Oet out your savings. Show your
faith. Stand true to Uncle
Sam
IRVING DILLON.
Two Boys in
SISTER, what are you going to
do?" Two little boys just home
from school stood in the door
way of their sister's room.
The sister, a beautiful girl with
dark, wavy hair, and deep brown
eyes, knelt before a chest baneath
the window. It was a handsomely
carved chest, with curious figures! all
o"er it. The open lid disclosed a heap
of delicately embroidered linens,
duinty squares and oblongs, filmy
lace work, handsomely colored
pieces of silk—the work and the
saving of many years. The chest it
self had been the girl's great grand
mother's dower chest, used next by
the grandmother and mother and
now ever since the sister of the boys
could sew daintely, had been her
"dower chest" in which she deposit
ed things for her future home as
every girl in Turkey does.
The 'boys had never seen inside
the chest before and now they stood
in the doorway, awe stricken as tney
saw their sister lift the things out
end by one, and sorting out six, wrap
them in a paper parcel.
It was the sister's first sale —the
beginning of the raids upon the
dower chest that shortly left it
empty.
The two little boys who watched
her, tiptoed into the next room
where the mother lay ill, then down
stairs for something to satisfy their
appetites before they went out into
the yard to play ball.
As yet the pressing need at home
meant little to them. They knew that
a message had come for their father
weeks before and that he had closed
his office and bid • them a solemn
good-by, with many admonitions to
care for their mother who was ill.
What had happened to the father
they never knew. Tw6 weeks after
the day in which the sister sold her
trousseau the iboys came home from
school another afternoon to find the
streets full of many people, hastily
tied bundles of clothing, women with
little children in their arms, and in
the doorway of their own home they
found their mother, leaning on their
sister's arm.
ZEEBRUGGE AND AMIENS
Behind the British attempt
against Zeebrugge and Ostend lie
considerations, military and moral,
which relate themselves intimately
to the war in its latest and broadest
aspect. For the attainment of a
decision on the western front it has
now become a race of re-enforce
ments. Germany is piling in divi
sions from the eastern front and
from her new classes, and in case of
need will borrow men from her al
lies. The Entente is looking, prin
cipally to America. Vital as the
command of the sea has at all times
been to the Allies, today every de
gree of improvement in the security
of the ocean link with America will
count on the western battlefield.
It is not enough now to think of
the U-boat problem as being ulti
mately mastered. Every U-boat put
out of commission today means so
many foot-pounds of additional Al
lied force in front of Amiens or
Ypres. The permanent blockading of
a U-boat harbor by such means as
were employed in the Zeebrugge en
terprise may not be attainable, but
even a fortnight's handicap on sub
marine operations may be translat
ed into tens of thousands of tonnage
rendered more secure for the trans
portation of our troops. This Is the
point to be kept in mind when we
read of the heavy losses suffered
by the British raiders against the
Belgian ports. British tonnage sunk
in Zeebrugge harbor and British
lives lost may be more than com
pensated by tonnage and lives saved
on the Atlantic —From the New
York Eevening Post.
Our Help Is Needed
We must help. England has call
ed to arms her last men. Men of
the age of 50 are now being con
scripted. This tells the truth of
what the need of Europe is today.
Why try console ourselves with
fragments of hope that because a
German drive is repulsed or because
the Germans rest a day or two that
the tide has changed and at last we
are on the eve of the great offensive
that will decide this war in the in
terest of humanity. Such hopes
are false. The grim faofc remains.
We are not winning. We are doing
miraculously well to keep our enemy
at bay and wo must lose and will
lose unless we send the timely aid
for which England and France are
praying.—From Memphis Appeal.
All of the people—the boys, their
mother and sister and neighbors,
were driven out of the city along the
country road. The mother too weak
to walk far, soon fainted in her
daughter's arms and the little fam
ily group stopped, drooping behind
the others.
"Move on," came the immediate
order from an officer in charge.
"We cannot. The mother is too
weak," the sister answered.
"Leave her behind. She won't live
long," the man responded harshly,
"and you come with me," he added,
coming up closer.
The sister jerked away from him
and lifted the mother's head upon
her lap again. "Run, brothers, do
not wait for us. Go with the others
and make your escape as soon as you
can. Flee to the north and into Rus
sia. It is a long way. God bless you.
Go now!"
The two little boys of ten and
twelve .did as their sister bid them,
running with the crowd until night
fell. Then in the darkness they crept
away from the others, hiding be
hind a rock the next day, and run
ning again by night.
They kept this up for many days
living upon roots and berries and
even dried grasses, sleeping at night
under the stUrs with a rock for a
pillow.
The weather grew colder as they
climbed up through the Caucasus
Mountains. All danger from pursuit
was now passed. The boys did not
know where they were going. Two
missionaries found the fooys one day
living in a dug-out on the mountain
side where they had lived alone for
many weeks.. Both of them were
badly hurt and torn from their
rough journey, and neither bf them
had touched cooked food since they
left home. They were taken to the
mission station and then sent to an
orphanage to join five hundred other
refugees.
(From stories told to the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief, No. 1, Madison avenue, by a
missionary who has just returned
from tha field).
O'NEIL'S DUTY
[Pittsburgh Gazette-Times]
Times.)
J. Denny O'Neil, a candidate for
the Republican nomination for
governor, should consider carefully
the implications of his hesitancy to
declare whether or not he will abide
by the decision of the party voters
in the May Primaries. They are sin
ister. He should not be content to
rest under them. Republican voters
assuredly will not be satisfied with
a state of uncertainty as to ' the
intentions of one who asks for their
suffrages in so Important a connec
tion as the election of an executive
of Pennsylvania.
The personal honor of the candi
date is Involved. There can be no
questioning that a man who submits
his candidacy to a party primary is
in honor bound to abide by the de
cision there made. Tha* is not de
batable at all. It is a matter of per
sonal honor, not something to be de
termined by a campaign committee,
despite Mr. O'Neil's statement to
the contrary. But, If it were, who
constitute this committee which is
tne keeper of the conscience of Can
didate O'Neil? And are the gov
ernmental policies which he has an
nounced the campaign committee's
or his own ? Further, if Mr- O'Neil
Is nominated and elected will his
campaign committee be governor or
will he ? These are fair questions.
Republican voters have a right to
straightforward answers. They have
a right to inquire If a candidate is
equally as honorable as themselves.
For practically every man who has
enrolled as a Republican assumes
the obligation of supporting U>' the
election the party choice as deter
mined in the primary. It is a point
of honor with them. They need no
coaching on so elemental a question
of honesty. They would disdain to
take orders from a committee. Nat
urally they expect the candidate of
their selection to be as sorupulous as
themselves. And they are absolute
ly right in that attitude.
Tf Mr. O'Nell does not propose to
abide by the result of the primary
election, should he fall of nomina
tion, he should not have becbme a
candidate. He owes it to the party
and to himself to make his posi
tion clear without delay.
STATE POLICE MODELS
While there is a fair presumption
that the State police had full legal
justification for shooting the mur
derer whom they had very efficient
ly hunted to his hiding place in
Warren county, this week, such an
ending of their chase hardly comes
up to the high standards set by the
members of the like force in Penn
sylvania, and, though not a basis for
criticism, this killing will cause
something like disappointment
among their friends.
For it is the expectation that the
State Constabulary shall rise to
heights of skill and prowess unat
tainable by common, or even by un
common, policemen—that in deal
ing with the criminal classes they
shall overcome all odds as a matter
of course and custom, and that al
ways, when they go after an offend
er of any grade, they shall scorn
to do anything else or less than to
get him and turn him over to the
courts, alive—not to the undertak
er, dead. That the culprit resists
arrest or attempts to escape when
cornered is a good excuse for shoot
ing, but not one quite good enough
for State Police.
Perhaps these expectations are
unreasonable —perhaps they are
founded on too faithful reading of
magazine chronicles of exploits
achieved by the Pennsylvania mar
vels of perfection. Nevertheless,
they exist and are firmly fixed in
most minds, and it will be hard to
give them up. It will be necessary
at least to mitigate them if our
constables fail to cow even the most
desperate villain by a glance of the
eye and a few quietly spoken words.
Their mission in life is to arrest,
not to kill or even to wound, in any
case.—From the New York Times.
They Face Interment
Internment of all the alieh ene
mies may become necessary to their
own safety.—From the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH
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ways threaten
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to her mother. . f
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serious. s
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mother lives In
a flat across the )
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dead.
lEbemng (Eljat
Establishment of the big ordnance
and quartermasters' depots along
the Susquehanna below Harrisburg
Is a boon to the Jitneys that throng
the streets of Harrisburg, but they
do not seem to realize it The ord
nance work along the east bank of
the Susquehanna, between Highspire
and Middletown, is served by train
and trolley, but the number of men
employed is increasing daily and
there are also many sightseers who
have been hoping for jitneys to turn
up, but there have been very few.
On the West Shore, the work on
the quartermasters' depot, which
will be one of the largest in the
state, is located betwen New Cum
berland and Marsh Run, and it is
without trolley service and the\
trains only hesitate there once in *
a whole. But somehow or other,
declare the Army officers and the
men in charge of the contract work,
the jitneys do not seem to want to
go there, either. The jitneys are
just as numerous as ever on the
Harrisburg streets, but they do not
seem to go beyond the "asphalt zone.
One of the surprising things
about the estate's registration of au
tomobiles is the number of new cars
being licensed. The tofal receipts
of 1917 were matched and passed
before the first four months of the
year were over and it is 'believed
that the aggregate of the licenses
for 1918 may be three and three
quarter millions. Tags are being
shipped at the rate of a couple hun
dred a day from the offices of the
automobile division in this city. The
number of new trucks being licensed
is greater than ever known before.
This year's increase in trucks is de
clared remarkable.
Harrisburg people who have fol
lowed with pleasure the rise of Colo
nel Frank R. McCoy in the United
States army from the davs that ha
graduated from West Point, which
was around 1897, we think, will be
interested to know that he is now
a colonel on the staff of General
John J. Pershing, the American
commander-in-chief in France. A3
a matter of fact he is the executive
officer of the staff of the com-i
mander of the American Expedition
ary Force as he is the secretary of
the staff. Frank McCoy, as he is
still known to manv, comes from
Lewistown and is a member of one
of the families that helped make the
Juniata Valley notable in state his
tory. He was barely out of Acad
emy a year when he went into tha
Spanish-American War with tha
Tenth Cavalry and took part in the
Santiago campaign. Then he was
made aid to General Leonard Wood
and served eight years with that
indefatigable officer, his work being
in Cuba, the Philippines and other
parts of the country's domains and
after that he was one of the mili
tary aids to President Roosevelt.
When things looked squally on tha
Mexican border he was chief of staff
to General Parker and had a part
in the Pershing expedition into
Mexico. It was while he was in
Mexico that he became a member of
General Pershing's staff and the
then captain was promoted to be
major. In a short time he was ad
vanced and went to France with
Pershing, becoming a full-fledged
colonel. He is one of the youngest
men to hold that, rank and is every
where recognized for his ability and
military knowledge.
• • •
There is just about one question
asked when anyone walks down tha
old "boardwalk" in Capitol park nt
passes Third and Walnut streets.
And that is "When is the new hotel
to be finished?"
Yesterday an automobile party
came up Third street and bailed a ~
man at George Harry's: "What is
that?'
"New hotel."
"When?"
"August."
That was all there was to It.
• • •
Early this week, the State Game
Commission headquarters had an in
quiry from a northwestern county
justice of the peace as to how soon
it was proposed to start the issuance
of hunters' licenses for 1918. He
wrote that he had received a number
of inquiries on the subject and that
he was ready to start business. Lists
of scores of arrests made by state
game wardens or state policemen
during the first quarter of 1918 have
been compiled at the game commis
sion offices, the number of foreign
ers arrested for having firearms or
dogs or shooting out of season being
rather large. In some instances the
officers have reported the arrest
again of men who had been prose
cuted a year ago for having guns or
dogs and in others where they have
had fights with persistent lawbreak
ers and found bad conditions. En
forcement of the dog law, which
will be facilitated 'by the new state
dog code, has been taken up ac
tively and many worthless animals
have been shot, although in some
counties wardens were threatened
with shooting themselves.
r WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Attorney General Brown, who
is going to make some political
speeches, is looking for tHe day
when he can go back to his law
practice.
—Senator William C. Sproul Is to
be given a degree by Gettysburg Col
lege.
—Col. Harry C. Trexler, the Na
tional Guard quartermaster general,
who retired the other day, says he
has to get used to the title of gen
eral.
—General W. G. Price, Jr., who is
in command of the Pennsylvania di
vision at present, used to command
the company of infantry at Chester.
—General Willis J. Hulings, who
served in the Porto Rican campaign
and then in the Senate, wants to go
back to Congress and is making a
strenuous fight.
—John R. K. Scott, candidate fop
lieutenant governor, owns a farm
in Montgomery county, and says ha
likes to work on it. Scott comes
from Columbia county.
—Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, has been visiting the "War
gardens,' in his city.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsbiirg is going to
Have a huge crop of potatoes
tilts year judging from the
planting in the "war gardens."'
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city had a big quarter
master's depot in the Civil War.
Probably Munchausen
The Lewistown (Me.) Journal
tells of a farmer of that section who
"has had the points of his lightning
rods on the roof of his barn boxed
In so the crows won't get hurt on
them when they are out of exer
cise." From which we surmise
Maine has had an awful snow or
has an awful liar.—From the Macon
Daily Telegraph.