8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VBWSPAPER FOR THB HOMB Pounded Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PIUNTING CO„ Telegraph Building, Federal Square. J. STACK POLE, &■ Editor-in-Chief JP. R. OYSTER, Business Manater. QUS M. STEINMKTZ, M ana tint Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. iin rights of republication of special > dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub- llshers' Assocla- Eastern Avenue Building, Flnl'ey, Entered at the Post Office in Harris ! burg. Pa., as second class matter. -4jjJOSSS. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1918 <flino in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Jting out the darkness of the land. Ring in the Christ that is to be! ■— TENNYSON. V.T 1 ' LOYALTY OF A PARTY FACTIONISM here and there, personal resentment, bitter con troversies and other political barnacles which invariably attach themselves to the main structure of a great organization have not de etroyed its usefulness, but have se riously retarded the progress of the Republican party in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The present national administration is directly the result of differences among Republicans, and whatever of shortcoming or failure is chargeable to those now in authority must in some measure go back to the foolishness of a house divided. With this fAct constantly before them it is not conceivable that the Republicans of a State, which Gov ernor Brumbaugh eloquently por trays as the splendid Common wealth that provides one-tenth of all the man-power and resources for- the war, will deliberately per sist in a course that must end In ■utter rout. Whatever the result of the pending primary the party should unanimously accept the de cision and unitedly press forward in the development of great govern mental policies. There will be disappointments and political hopes are certain to be shattered, but the great mission of the Republican party must ever be kept in mind. The war for all that the world and humanity holds of value is going to be won by the standing together of the American people and their brave allies. There is no doubt on that point. But in this achievement the Republican party will have Its full part only if and when those who believe In its principles cast aside all that is puerile and unimportant and devote themselves whole-heartedly to the great task of maintaining unim paired the institutions of a free people. In the supreme crisis through ■which the nation is now passing the party of Lincoln and Grant and Mc- Klnley and the other great states men and soldiers who gave force and effect to Its teachings has up held, through its honored leaders at "Washington and elsewhere, the hands of the President and all en trusted with the stupendous tasks of the hour. There has been no flinching. Patriotism has been con stantly placed above partisanship and the Republican party will emerge from the titanic struggle ■with a record of service that shall further enhance the glory of the past. And in proportion as it develops Its full strength now In these years of testing the party will be-prepared for tha tremendous reconstruction problems which are already dis cerned by those who are endowed ■with the seeing eye and the hearing ear. "Senate hits hard at I. W. W.," says a Washington bulletin. Let's hope It's a knockout. SAVING AND BUYING IT is very gratifying to see by Banking Commissioner Daniel F. Lefean's summary of the reports of the banking institutions under the eye of the State that Pennsylva nia Is adding-milllons to its savings fund deposits when it Is sending •very one of its counties "over the top" with subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan. , This State Is lust trough with a wonderful campaign \r the sale of bonds to back up the fighters "over • there" and is chock full of Justi fiable pride over what it did. And in a short time it will begin to ■work out some system whereby it cap buy War Savings Stamps on a schedule. Judging from Mr. Lafean's fig ures the industrial State of Pennsyl vania, notwithstanding the drafts on her manhood and her resources nnd flier products, for which Uncle Sam I WEDNESDAY EVENING, la not always a prompt payer be cause of the red tape of his system, Is a pretty thrifty Commonwealth. Bully for Mayor Kelster! His clean-up proclamation is exactly in harmony with the best thought of this community. We must keep this good old town in prime condition for the home-coming of the boys when they shall have licked the Hun to a frazzle. Kvery attractive yard, front and back, every strip of green along the sidewalk, every well-trimmed tree will represent the sustained love and memories of the boys we honor. Mayor Keister might well enlarge his constructive program by requir ing the police force to report all trees along the sidewalks which sweep the heads of pedestrians. This could and should be remedied by the creation of a real shade-tree commission. Unless some such action is taken without de lay Harrisburg will be a treeless city in a few years. Park Commissioner Gross should take the initiative in this matter. These are the things which do not Involve large outlays, but they mean much for the city and all the people. CARRY^ON! THE authorities of Steelton have concluded, in view of war-time demands for labor and high price of materials, not to trim or spray the shade trees of that town this spring. Doubtless Steelton knows what it is about, for the borough of- j ficials have taken better care of the borough's trees than is the case in most towns. Very likely the trees will not be damaged by lack of usual attention at this season. But the in cident points a warning which mu nicipal officials here and elsewhere cannot afford to ignore. However much we may desire to concentrate on purely war activities there are other public duties to which we must attend if the very thing for which we are fighting is to be kept untarnished and undefiled. We must not. among other things, neglect our own homes and their surroundings. The plane of living which we are fighting to elevate abroad must not be permitted to retrograde at home. Our city gov ernments must be maintained In a high state of efficiency. Regardless of cost or effort or the ease with which public affairs may be allowed to slip Into easy going -ways under v the excuse of "war necessity we must "carry-on" quite as vigorously In our own communities as our boys abroad "carry-on" In the war against the intolerable Hun. The cities to which these boys come back when the war is over must be better cities than those which they left when the cheering crowds bade them god-speed on their mission of war. It must not be said of us that we let ourselves fall Into slovenly ways, that we countenanced deterioration of pub lic works or failed to provide for public needs. There are signs all over the coun try that councllmanlc bodies —not maliciously or carelessly, but under the mistaken impression that they are acting in accord with the needs of the moment —are putting aside or ignoring altogether those commun ity functions and improvements without which city progress is Im possible and living conditions cer tain to sink to those lower levels from which it has been the effort of thousands of patriotic citizens to ralte them. Our campaigning es pecially during the past two decades must not be permitted to have been in vain. We must go on In our work of civic betterment whatever the cost. We need not neglect our war work to do this; our civic activities must be in addition. Somebody has said It will not be so much & question of what we are going to do with the soldiers when they return as It will be what the soldiers, who have been fighting for a great principle, are going to do with us, and certainly we could not expect much sympathy from the home-coming millions If they found that we had neglected our com munity duties while they were away risking their lives for the things which they had leftwlth us In trust. United States Senator Philander C. Knox is neither partisan nor hysteri cal when the great Issues of the war are at stake. He never rails for the sake of railing, and his patriotism is solid to the core. Therefore, his sug gestion that civil as well as criminal responsibility should be fixed for the failure of the Government's collossal billion-dollar aircraft program will have nation-wide attention. Demo crats and Republicans at Washington have Joined forces in demanding a showdown at once. Platitudinous dis cussion of the aims of the war in high places, especially in that particular department charged with the conduct of the war, is exasperating beyond measure in face of this discouraging disclosure. Ifottttc* in, "PuutoijCiKuiXa By the Ex-Commit ley man II —According to the Philadelphia North American, which is generally pretty well informed on the plans of the Yare organization in that city, there will be no endorsement given to any candidates tor the Republican nomination for governor until after the primary is held. Similar posi tions have been taken by Allegheny, Lackawanna and other county Re publican organizations. —This position is taken to mean that the Vares are going to be busy at home and that they do not care in the face of a drive by ♦.he Town Meeting people, the reformers and the independents to be at odds with any of the big ward leaders, although it is said that Congressman Vare would like to endorse O'Neil for the sake of the Governor and Attorney General Brown. —The North American says to day: "Indorsement of candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of ipternal affairs and con gressmen-at-large by the Republican city committee, controlled by ihe Vares, the subject of much discussion by Senator Vare during the earlier part of the primary campaign, will not be given, according to an intima tion yesterday of Congressman Vare. When asked whether a meet ing of the city committee and mu niclpal officials fs to be held beforo the primaries to determine to whom the Vare support for governor and other state offices will go, Congress man Vare said: 'I take the same position on such a matter as the chairman of the Republican national committee. The city committee does not indorse candidates to be voted on at a primary. 1 have never talked about the matter.' "Senator Penrose declared the in dorsement of candidates by the city committee to be 'highly irregular.' 'Neither the city committee nor the state committee ought to be called uptm to indorse candidates of £.ny kind,' said Senator Penrose.' —Both Senator Sproul and Com missioner O'Neil campaigned yester day in rural counties. The Senator was west of the mountains and the Commissioner in Chester county. Mr. Sproul will be in Blair county to morrow for a big tour of the county and Mr. O'Neil will bo in Northum berland. Joseph F. Guffey went Into York and Lancaster to line up the machine Democrats, having started his campaign tour here. Guffey is very confident that he will "trim" Judge Bonniwell and the Judge is busy building fences in an effort to head him off. —One of the interesting thing's about the campaign yesterday was that Mr. O'Neil declared that Senator Sproul should remain in the Senate and not run for Governor. After clos ing his Chester tour he said: "Sen ator Sproul's neighbors take a view of his recent declaration for pro hibition which appeals to me as quite logical and sensible. It was pointed out to me yesterday that by remain ing in the Senate, Senator Sproul can be of real value to prohibition through his vote, but should he re sign his Senate seat the choice of his successor would be vested not in the Republican voters of Delaware coun ty, but in the political committee controlled by the McClure liquor ring." —Senator Sproul has declined to take any personal slants in his speeches. —Governor Brumbaugh has told friends that he is very well pleased with prospects for O'Neil as a result of the tour which the Governor and the campaign party made in the an thracite region. —Senator Penrose yesterday took a fling at the Vare proposition to have the Philadelphia city commit tee and city hall officeholders decide whom the city organization would support. Appearance yesterday of placards and posters In the Vare political clubs of Philadelphia Nine teenth and Twentieth wards of Sen ator William C. Sproul for the Re publican nomination for Governor, and activity of Vare workers in the Forty-sixth and other West Phila delphia wards for Sproul, indicated that, while Congressman John R. K. Scott is touring the state with High way Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, the combined Vare forces in this city are not by any means turning in for the choice of Governor Brum baugh. —The announcement by the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times that Mr. O'Neil has declined to make a positive statement as to what he will do if defeated in the Republican primary appears to have taken the edge off the declaration 6f William A. Ma gee for the highway commissioner. Whila Magee and the highway com missioner have been at swords' points ever since the last Pittsburgh may oralty election a declaration by Ma gee was not unexpected. It attracted more attention by its assertion that while Magee did not approve of the O'Neil position on the liquor question he found other grounds on which he could support him. Support of O'Neil by Scott and Magee forces is one of the things which puzzles many peo ple not used to Perfnsylvania fac tional politics. Speaking at Pitts burgh yesterday Councilman W. Y. English made this statement: "Brumbaugh is an honored man to day because he would not listen to the orders of Penrose, and O'Neil will go along in the same path if elect ed." —Claims are made by Pottsvillo Republicans that Sproul will carry that county.' —lf the farmers of the Juniata Valley do much voting on May 21 it will be a surprise. Every farmer appears to be extremely busy and even women are working in the fields. From the way they talk the polling boxes will have to be brought around for them. —Luzerne county's latest muss Is ended. It Is now held that the council of Swoyersvllle was legally elected. —Addressing a patriotic meeting in Pittsburgh, William S. Bigger, candidate for the Republican nomi nation for Congress in the Twenty ninth Congressional district, threw new light on the record of his oppon ent, Congressman Stephen G. Porter. The Gazette-Times says he showed that since the United States entered the war Mr. Porter had been absent from the House on 100 rollcalls and 'present on but 53. During his ab sence many questions of mighty con sequences to the government were being settled by the lawmakers. HAOTISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! BYBRJGGS * NOW FOR OWE OF IT'S A BUSV TiMC OP KKJOOJ ' CHfRUiG- 1 /ITXL^TAKB TNOAE BIS FIWE EXTRA THC DAY SO ILL HAOB > { OME OT= THOSC UOOETE / 1 _ NLLSLUTE E STeAKS- I'fW a UTTLE WA'T A U/HtUC POR I STCftKS - WELL. i \ / PRESSED FOR TIME- BUT * WAITER —OH VWEUC \>DOWE- TAKE YOOR* J Be- NEVE ME. IT'LL IVE SOT A PAPCR LB IT ANO / PAY To UJ FOR A IT "lb Re AD • <SOOP UP y /1 :><W I RAFTER A HALF HOUR WHY HENRV,,J BOY CHARUeT] /DlKiNEftv CAOY , RIADY^AMV"} * , C ZS —* Ice Regulation Mr. Hoover declares his purpose to protect the .American people against profiteering in ice. He asks, however, that an effort be first made at agreement between dealers and municipal authorities, and adds in his instructions to state food admin istrators: If such settlement cannot be made by the local authorities in cases where there is an attempt to unrea sonably increase prices we suggest that you investigate and in the first instance endeavor to arbitrate. Mr. Hoover well says that ice fit reasonable prices is necessary for the preservation of perishable foods. National necessity Is therefore back of this reasonable order from the food administration, and there should be ready and patriotic co-op eration everywhere between dealers, local governments and the officials of the food administration. —From -the Spokane Review. Honorable Men and Others [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] Highly creditable to the personal honor of the gentlemen responding are the answers published in the Ga zette-Times yesterday to the simple question propounded by this news paper to candidates before the Re publican primary election for nomi nations to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Congressman-at- Large and district congressmen from Allegheny county: "Will you accept the decision of the Republican primary and support the party nominees in the November election?" The Gazette-Times would rejoice could it conscientiously advise Re publicans in the case of the eleven candidates who did not reply to its Inquiry that as "silence gives con sent," according to the respectable adage, they also may be regarded as faithful to the American principle of majority rule. Unfortunately, as to some at least of them, any such con clusion is precluded by the revealed attitude of the candidates. J. Denny O'Neil, for example, has declined to commit himself, declared that he would be guided by the decision of his campaign committee, thus leav ing the presumption that he is more concerned for his personal political advancement than for his personal honor: is more solicitous to secure a lucrative office than to uphold the principles of the party to which, by his candidacy, he professes to ad here. For this question of accepting the decision of the party primary is simply one of good faith in support of the principles for which the Re publican party stands. Paul W. Houck, .a candidate for the nomination for Secretary of In ternal Affairs, and associated on the O'Neil-Scott ticket, declaring he will support the nominee, puts the case in a nutshell in these words: "To do otherwise would betray the prin ciples of the good old party." This is irrefutable, for parties represent principles: the principles they advo cate are the only reason for their ex istence. If a Republican candidate does not stand for that party's prin ciples he has no business to be a candidate in its primary election. If he does not propose to support the nominees of a majority of the party voters, how can he honorably ask their support? If he refuses to make known his intentions he is justly sus pect of contemplating a "bolt" if de feated. His position can make no ap peal to honorable men. Someone is bound to be cheated, whichever course he may follow after the primary election if he falls of nom ination. William S. Bigger, a candi date for the Republican nomination to Congress in the Twenty-ninth dis trict, makes a contuibution to under standing of the implications when he says that the primary gives the party voters the opportunity to select their candidates (all presumably advocat ing the same party principles), while the election gives all the people their opportunity to make a choice of policy, that is, to declare themselves on the question of what party prin ciples they prefer shall prevail. It is to be observed that most of the Republicans who replied to The Gasette-Times' inquiry agree with this newspaper in certain reserva tions as to the general rule that a man entering the Republican pri maries is in honor bound to accept the decision .thereof and support the nominees. If a candidate has secur ed his nomination by palpable fraud, or, if a nominee is manifestly unfit for office, he should not be sup ported in the election. To support such a man would be a betrayal of party and public. There being no fraud and the nominee being fit, every consideration of honor and fairness requires that he be loyally supported in the election by all the party voters and by the candidates I whom he defeated in the primary. RECRUITING FOR THE IF OUR MEN can die fighting for us, surely then in God's name we can die working for them." These were Harry Lauder's words at the Metropolitan opera house, on April 21, when occurred one of the largest patriotic rallies held in New York since the United States entered the war. The National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Association brought forth Mr. Lauder and Governor Whitman to urge the recruiting of men, and the furthering of the gen eral war wark of the association. One thousand workers a month are asked for by the war personnel board for service in the American, French and Italian armies. England with her own Y. M. C. A. provides for herself. Already, it is pointed out, the Y. M. C. A. has 2,000 work ers, whose labors are distributed over our camps at home and abroad. The Governor is reported as saying: "The members of the Y. M. C. A. are not slackers, nor are they paci fists. They are as militant Christians as ever went forth to fight in a Chris tian cause. All the aid we at home can give them we must give as part of the great obligation which we owe to the cause for which they and the soldiers at the front are fighting. Others are giving their lives, and we must give our money. We will give to the last dollar rather than that this cause should fail. Our army at the present time is a little army. But if the struggle is prolonged, it will be a great and mighty army, fighting under a holy banner which has never known defeat." The recruiting organization of the war personnel board will be extend ed to every important center in the country. Only by a draft, so its news service put it, "can the enormous number of big and capable men re quired be obtained for service with the fighting forces." A bulletin states: "Results obtained in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St Louis, Chicago and Minneapolis indicate that the extension of the direct ap peal campaign throughout the New England states, the South and the Far West will produce the one thou and men a month called for by the April budget. As the number of American fighting men abroad in- EDITORIAL COMMENT So far outf air program seems to have been of the hot variety.— Brooklyn Eagle. When your true Hun leaves the Fatherland he doesn't emigrate; he hyphenates.—Brooklyn Eagle. The only point I can see to the Irish question is the Interrogation point.—New York Morning Tele graph. Anyho'w, the Kaiser's six sons can never say that their father didn't take good care of them.—Detroit Free Press. Now that 8010 Pasha has ceased to breathe, some of his surviving ac quaintances will breathe easier.— New York Morning Telegraph. The Kaiser will find that there is one bit of history he cannot change. It is, that the United States has never been defeated. —Savannah Press. Germany expects to collect two billon dollars from Rumania. This is the first time Roumania ever sus pected she had that much money.— Washington Star. Count Czernln will make his next peace speech from the balcony of the Ananias Club, and Emperor Charles write his future letters on the club stationery.—Brooklyn Eagle. "Passive resistance" is urged upon Irishmen who are opposed to con scription. The Irishman who could play that role would be the greatest curiosity the world ever saw.—Roch ester Democrat and Chronicle. New German law that any person wishing to leave the empire must pay five years' taxes in advance is like the one-ring circus which charged nothing to get in but a dollar to get out. It may be worth the price.—Wall Street Journal. Holland Criminal One of Holland's crimes in Ger man eyes is in possessing the mouth of the Rhine. It is a dangerous as set for the Dutch, and what will be come of it if Germany wins this war and dominates the continent is no secret. —Springfield Republican. MAY 8, 1918> creases, and the increasing requests from Premier Clemenceau, General Petain, and the Italian high com mand mount rapidly, the Y. M. C. A. will be called upon to supply even greater forces. "Recruiting has been stimulated all along the line. Several cities are really aroused to the necessity of obtaining the biggest and most call able men for the service which the government has entrusted to the Y. M. C. A. "In Baltimore Mayor Preston in vited to his home one hundred and twenty-five representative buslness and professional men, who gave the tour a rousing sendoft. Pittsburgh was the banner city of the itinerary, no less than three enthusiastic meet ings being held there. The Chamber of Commerce arranged a meeting which was attended by one hundred and fifty men, and later a volunteer recruiting committee promised to enlist one hundred men in thirty days. When the traveling recruiters left for Rochester this committee had thirty-five men in sight. The biggest meeting of all in Pittsburgh attracted three hundred and fifty men from the important cities of Western Pennsylvania. At the re quest of the combined forces a man has been sent from the New York office of the War Work Council to direct the campaign. "The Chamber of Commerce start ed the ball rolling in Rochester and appointed a recruiting committee of fourteen men. The Rotary Club and other organizations, Including a men's Bible class of six hundred members, have offered to co-operate with this committee. Several prom inent lawyers and businessmen en listed at the first call, and the chair man of the board of education said there was an excellent prospect when we started for Cleveland. "Three hundred and seventy-five men were waiting for us at the Hol lenden Hotel, in Cleveland, about one-fourth of them from adjacent Ohio'cities. Many of them were ap plicants for service who had been attracted by the publicity which pre ceded our arrival. It is a little too early to estimate the results obtained by our subsequent meetings, but all were marked by the enthusiasm of the earlier meetings of the tour." LABOR NOTES Metal shoes, worn like skates, which grip firmly when weight is applied to them, have been invented to en able men to climb steel frames or poles. Since 1870 54,453 men have been killed by accidents while mining coal in this country. Organized stonecutters at Atlanta. Ga.. have Increased wages from 60 to 62H cents an hour. New Jersey State Highway Com mission will employ convicts In the construction of the state highway system. English guild and municipal legis lation of the thirteenth and four teenth centuries determined the prac tice of apprenticeship in the Amer ican colonies. Pennsylvania State Department of Mines and Mining has agreed to is sue orders against girls being em ployed in or around anthracite mines. Toronto Jewelry Workers' Union has now a 100 per cent, organization of the male members of the trade, and has started to organize the women. Japan has more than 12,000 co-op erattve societies. Toronto (Can.) machinists have secured union recognition. Union electrical workers now get 17 a day. Fresno (Cat.) blacksmiths have se cured an eight-hour day. On August 31 Washington (D. C.) sheetmetal workers will get $6 a day. Springfield (111.) painters have raised wages to 82',4 cents an hour. Paperhangers at New London, Conn., now get $4.75 a day. . Union recognition has been grant ed Grand Forks (N. D.) streetcar men. An increase in pay has been granted Japanese lettercarriera. x > • Over tfo LK 'pewuu Clarly, state expert on pelts, who passes on every hide turned in by Pennsylvania hunters to be sure it Is the real thing and not a counterfeit, says that nearly all animals are bet ter swimmers than man. The elk and the reindeer are first-class swimmers. The elk keeps his head above water and crosses directly from bank to bank to avoid turning. The reindeer, on the other hand, turns as often as he likes, keeping his head only a little above the sur face. But of all swimmers of all climes, though not the swiftest. Is the polar hear, who passes half his time in the water swimming and diving. He can swim thirty miles without much effort. Of animals In this neighborhood the squirrel is swiftest A gunner last fall took a captive squirrel out In the center of a lake in Monroe county and chuck ed him overboard. The squirrel turned toward the bank, head and paws above the water, back and tail underneath it, and began to swim sa rapidly that it was with the greatest difficulty that the man re covered it when it reached the shal low water near the land. Farmers coming to Harrisburg markets predict that there will be so much sweet corn on the cob to eat this summer that Pennsylvania will get tired of it. But there are many who like it as much as Uncle Joe Cannon, who was having din ner one day at the old Willard and took three orders of it. "Joe," ask ed his guest, a western Congressman, "how much board do you pay at this tavern?" Joe told him and he ob served after gazing at the stack of corncobs: "Don't you think it would be cheaper for you to board at a livery stable?" Give Him More Pay If every sermon your minister preached was an original master piece. you wouldn't be getting him for S9OO a year, tlie Osborne Farm er bets.—Kansas Citv Star. I OUR DAILY LAUGH PA DESCRIBES HIM. "Pa, what is a slacker?" \ "A slacker, my boy, Is the lowest thing in the scale of man. Don't ever be one." HIS CHOICE. First Mouse—l'm very fond of Dickens! Second Mouse—Well I find these encyclopedias more to my taste! HAPPY THOUGHT. "What did that after-dinner speak er make you think of?" "My good old bed at home.* lEbmttg Ollfat The Rose Show to be held in the Y. M. C. A. next month is destined to become an annual affair in the opinion of those who are interested in rose culture. A very large num ber of men and women in the city and vicinity are taking more than usual interest in roses recently and there are many fine gardens of both hardy and tender bushes hereabouts. By far the biggest and best is that of J. Horace McFarland, who is no ted as one of the authorities on rose growing in the United States. His place at Bellevue Park in the rose season is visited by rose lovers from many parts of Pennsylvania and other states. Not a few culturlsts make a point of stopping off in Har risburg on their way through to see Mr. McFarland's collection. It not infrequently happens tJb&t there to be found growing In the McFar land gardens roses that have not yet been placed on the market, which means that the variety is new and that there are comparatively few plants of the kind in existence- Mr. McFarland is particularly fond of climbing roses and has a number of very rare and beautiful plants of this type. "When the Rev. Robert Bagnell. pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, returns from France it will be with a vast store of very valu able knowledge. He means to spend time in the front line trenches with the American soldiers under fire, to get first hand information as to T. M. C. A. and Red Cross work at the front, to make himself familiar with the war sentiments of the peo ple and then to come back to tell what he has observed. Dr. Bagnell has rendered valuable service in all the war work campaigns. He is an interesting and eloquent speaker, a keen student of human nature, an insatiable reader and an observer who has the faculty of telling what he has seen in a graphic and easily understood manner. He is intensely patriotic, a thorough believer in the principle that right is bound to tri umph in the war p.nd that America is fighting on the side of God in this great conflict. He is in every sense a "man's man." He has a magnetic personality and has no fear of low ering the dignity of his calling by taking oft his coat and going at any job which presents itself in vigor ous, shirtsleeve fashion. Howevcfr, he is at all times the polished schol ar, the historian, the philosopher, the preacher—a high type American and a credit to his calling. • • • A good story is told of a Judge In a nearby district, well known to Harrisburg where he has frequently graced the Dauphin county bench with Judges Kunkel and McCarrell, but whose name for obvious reasons need not be mentioned. The judge, who has a reputation for getting over the roads in his automobile at a speed which takes him from one point to another in the briefest con venient space, was bowling along a certain highway where the speed of motor vehicles is strictly regulated, when he spied a constable with whom he had an acquaintance and picked him up for a ride. He threw open the throttle and was again stirring up a lot of dust when a mo torcyclist went by the car going like the wind. "I got that fellow's number," remarked the constable, "and X mean to make complaint against him for speeding, he was go ing 45 miles an hour." "How do you know he was going 45 miles an hour?" queried one of the occupants of the car. "Well," said the crafty constable, "the Judge here Is going 35 miles by his own speedometer and that other machine passed us like a streak; 4 0 miles easy." The judge said nothing then but after the party reached town he . went around to the constable's house and said: "John I don't think you'd better' report that motorcyclist. You see, you and I might be placed in rather ah embarrassing position as witnesses. The speed limit down there was 20 miles and it wouldn't sound exactly right If you told the court you knew the motorcyclist was going 45 miles an hour because ho passed us while we were going 35. Now would it?" The constable agreed that it wouldn't. • • • One of the Interesting characters of Pennsylvania is Edwin Charles, register and recorder of Snyder coun ty, who lives at Middleburgh. Charles Is an ardent historian and a nature lover. He was one of the first mem bers of the Pennsylvania Alpine Club which climbed Mt. Parnell, Saturday. Charles always searches for a germ inated acorn on every mountain climo. He takes it home and plans to h&ve a grove of oaks as trophies ot his cl : mbs. The grove, by the way, has thv<ie young oaks as its first oc cupants. • • • Alarm clocks and telephones have their distinguishing characteristics, It is true, but a story Is told of a McConnellsburg boy who couldn't tell the difference. Several weeks ago his alarm clock began to buzz with that intermittent clanging which dis turbs the heaviest sleeper. "Hello, this is John," shouted the sleeper, half-awake, thinking the telephone was ringing. After continued shout ing, with Just a wee bit of expletive, the boy awakened to the fact that he was talking to a "Big Ben," and not to a transmitter of a telephone. • * • Liverpool borough may be added to the list of towns in the Harris burg district which could, with prof it, invite the aid of the State High way Department in Improving high ways which connect with the' state system. Liverpool Is not quite as bad as Paxtang, but It is far from having perfect highways. And neither is the state highway through New Buffalo of the kind to cheer over. | WaL KNOWN PEOPLE —Bishop J. F. Berry will look af ter Methodist affairs In Pittsburgh, in addition to his work in Philadel phia, following the death of Bishop Franklin Hamilton. —Chaplain Paul Bloomhart of the army, who comes from Blair coun ty, has a record of crossing the ocean fourteen times since the war began. —Congressman Henry W. Temple, Washington, who favored the Over man bill, says he believes it to he necessary. —Dr. W. H. Crawford, president of Allegheny College, was honored by many of the state's noted men on his quarter century at the col lege. v| —Mayor E. V. Babcock of Pitts bush, has vetoed an ordinance tor the state to take care of cows in that city. He thinks Pittsburgh should do It. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg "war gar dens" are attracting much at tention ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris helped equip Arnold's Quebec expedition.
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