8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A \EHSPAPEK FOR THE HOME Found* J ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEL.EC;IIAPH TRIN'TIXG CO, Telegraph Building* Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE. Prtst Sr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manaftr. GVS M. STEINMJ3TZ. Managtni Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en- j 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. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub -IS§§| Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn -9 sylvanla Assocl a ted Dailies. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second rlass matter. By carriers, ten cents a "week; by mall. J5.00 a year in advancs, g I WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918 j 37 \e earth is the Lord's and the ful ness thereof; The world and they that dwell j therein. Ps. 24:1. A GOOD EXAMPLE THE Knights of Columbus in. State convention here yesterday, | by crowding three days' busi- j ness into one and doing away with j the usual social functions, set a good j example for other organizations, j This is no time for frivolity and it is i a time for concentration of effort, j The Knights of Columbus have dis played their patriotism in many ways; since the war began. They have j raised hundreds of thousands of dol lars among their members for the care of soldiers in the field and the centers of social activities they have established in the camps have been j a relief to the crowded Y. M. C. A. | "huts," as well as greatly extending; the war work of which the associa-! tion was the pioneer. The breadth and spirit of their effort is to be judged by the fact that their camp centers aire not for members only, but are open to all soldiers. Lithuania, no doubt, will be happy to hear that the Kaiser has chosen hr to bear part of Germany's war burdens. WHAT THE BRIDGE NEEDS THE Mulberry street bridge is as ; good as when it was built, ex-! pert engineers who have in-j spected it say. That was to have ibeen expected. It would have been a great disappointment if any de fects of construction had been found , in the handsome structure. But with all its strength and beauty the bridge j needs some attention. A curb twelve to sixteen inches high at least should i be built between the roadways and the sidewalks. Several fatalities have occurred because of the failure of the designers to provide this form of protection and at its earliest oppor tunity council should furnish money I for the improvement. This fault has I been pointed out so repeatedly that some day the city will be saddled with a suit for heavy damages if It is not corrected. i Lots of color in last evening's meet ing—the Blue Devils working for the i Red Cross to give a black eye to the I Kaiser. PEDESTAL FOR P. M. G. THE espionage bill having passed let us recall that declaration' of the repudiated Patron Saint of the Democratic party, whose political teachings, apparently, have become heresies in these <tnys of the "New Freedom's" enlightenment: "Error! of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." j (Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Ad-! dress). With the passage of the' espionage bill, the pedestal of Lib-1 erty has been reserved for Postmas ter General Burleson, and the torch' of enlightenment has given way to j the spiked club. Those Harrisburg high school boys who went off the other day to join the Boys' Working Reserve will come home stronger, better and richer— which is a pretty fair return for a patriotic service. BISHOP BERRY'S JOLT IF there is one weakness in the 1 campaign for the ratification of the proposed constitutional 1 amendment prohibiting the manu facture and sale of intoxicating j rJsuorß, it is the see-sawing and lack of co-operation on the part of assa-i ciations and individuals who ought! to stand together as a solid unit in favor of the amendment. Many of the leaders of these various organi zations are responsible for these con ditions. They are the blind leading the blind. Notwithstanding the oft-repeated injunction against a misdirected campaign, these are still foolishly advising their followers on the gu bernatorial Issue—which has noth ing whatever to do with the fight for prohibition, inasmuch as all the can didates have declared in favor of the amendment—instead of concen trating their efforts on the election V „ WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRJSBURG tifuMfrl TELEGRAPH MAY 15, 1918. of members of the Senate and Housej pledged to the support of the amend-j ment. I Bishop Berry, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who is foremost in the leadership movement for the election of dry candidates for the Legislature, realizes the danger of wasting ammunition. In a recent speech he said: The sober citizens of Pennsyl- vania have their opportunity now. Public sentiment is overwhelm ingly with them. They have the votes. They can elect a sufficient number of Senators and Assem blymen to give John Barleycorn his deathblow. But it cannot be done if we persist in waging war among ourselves. The chances now are .that we are about to throw away the most strategic opportunity which has ever come to our Keystone State by miser able little factional bickerings that are wholly unworthy ot Americans and Christians. The eloquent Bishop has a clear conception of the situation. It is regrettable that the busybodies who are opening themselves to the sus picion of being interested in prolong ing the fight against the liquor traffic by this bone-headed and arbitrary course do not appear to see the dan ger as presented by Bishop Berry. He is quoted as having admitted there is doubt that the "drys ' will elect enough members to control the Legislature and to have urged all in terested in the fight against John Barleycorn to disregard factional lines and support Republican candi dates pledged to the prohibition amendment, regardless whether they are Penrose or Vare men. He point ed out it was no time for the old personal fued between leaders and declared Pennsylvania would not elect a Legislature that will ratify the prohibition amendment unless "a lot of citizens who believe that the rum power should be dethroned, shall rise above the petty partisanship which seems now to sway them. "Our one paramount objective," he continued, "is to get a dry Legisla ture. We must get that Legislature from the Republican party." Bishop Berry did not mince words In advising against the waste of ef forts through factionalism. "Why allow ourselves to be so small," said he, "when a great economic and moral issue is trembling in the bal ance? How can men claim to bo patriotic in these tremendous days and fail to recognize the fact that rum is the arch enemy of our man power, our industrial efficiency and our nation-wide program of war pre parations? Why cannot the good citizens of Pennsylvania be large enough just once to forget the little bickerings of political bosses and stand unitedly for men and meas ures representing the highest pa triotism?" Next Tuesday the voters of Penn sylvania will go to the polls and nominate candidates of the several parties for governor and other im portant offices. Those who favor the ratification of the prohibition amendment will endeavor, If they are really in earnest, to nominate men favorable to the amendment. Of course, there will be busy little men who will continue to muddle the situation by talking about this or that candidate for governor who fa vors the issue, when they should know that all of the prominent can didates for governor who have any hope of nomination, have already pledged themselves to favor the amendment. This in face of the fact that the next governor will have nothing whatever to do with the amendment —not even to approve or disapprove it. The whole matter rests with the Legislature, which must either reject or ratify, and that is all there is to it. American shipyards having turned out eight steel ships in seven days. Admiral Sims knows whereof he speaks when he says the U-boat peril is on the wane. HOPE DEFERRED THE new German electoral re form bill is one which keeps the word of promise to the ear while breaking it to the heart. Manhood suffrage is nominally proposed in the measure which the Kaiser's ministers are trying to push through the Reichstag, but as a mat ter of fact it is so hedged about with provisos that the Junker element will be able ,to retain substantially all of the advantage which they have through the existing system of plural voting. The one thing which all stu dents of German politics know is that genuine electoral reform in the Empire means the overthrow of all the tendencies in the government which led to this war. The present ruling group know this better than anyone else; ani they will delay and falter to the last minute. They will seek, as in the present instance, to make use of half-way measures. But at the last they must succumb. The one sure thing in all the nel ter in which Germany now finds it self is that a new Germany will one day be born. The death of James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New Tork Herald, leaves only Colonel Henry Watterson of the old school of editors, whose names were linked closely with the newspapers they edited, and here's hoping the Colonel may have many more birthdays. OUTLAWING OUTLAWS THE Senate having passed a bill for the suppression of the I. W. W., it is to be hoped the House will do likewise and the Pres ident lose no time In signing the measure. The bill outlaws a parcel of scoun drels who have conspired for the ruin of the nation. They are op posed to all law except their own wills, and wherever they have been active they have left a trail of ruin and blood. They are the enemies of everybody, even themselves, and they must be eliminated even If the only way should prove to be the nooae or tha tiring squad. ""PotlttC* tK nPtKKO^taanXa By the Kx-Committee man j| —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times has completed a poll of candidates for Senatorial anil legislative nom inations in Western Pennsylvania in which 105 of 119 men addressed pledge themselves to vote for the prohibition amendment if nominat ed and elected, seven candidates are against it and seven are evasive. Ninety-five aspirants refused to make answers. The newspaper says: "There were 214 inquiries sent out, 2t> going to the candidates of 12 Sen atorial districts and 188 to candidates running in representative districts which will this fall elect 78 members of the House. With the exception of Greene county and Senator W. W. Hindmap ,of Clarion, the letters were addressed to candidates who are seeking Republican nominations in the primaries of May 21. There are no Republican representative candi dates in Greene county and Senator Hiodman was included in the list because the Twenty-sixth district has been Democratic for many years. Tne two Republicans from the dis trict, as well as Mr. Hindman, have declared in favor of the amendment." —The way Congressman A. G. De walt is tearing up the sod in the Berks-Lehigh district is worth no ting. Mr. Dewalt i 3 not paying much attention to Charles B. Spatz, the Boyei'town sage, as a rival for the Democratic nomination, but he is at tacking W. M. Croll, the Palmer-Mc- Cormick machine boss, who was forced to resign a presidential office to enter politics. Dewalt's friends say that he is going to "trim" Croll, who is worried over the strenuous char acter of the Sight he has been forced to make. —Judge William D. Porter, of the j Pennsylvania Supeiior Court, be comes unopposed candidate for that tribunal by ihe withdrawal of Stephen H. Huselton. of Pittsburgh, last night. Judge Porter was en dorsed for renomination and re election by the bars of almost every county of the state and there was a genera'ly-expressed hope '.hat the re-elec'iot. of a juris*, of the type of the Pittsburgher would not be dragged into a contest. There are similar hopes now being heard re garding the election of tw6 Supreme Court just'ees this fall. Governor 3iumbaugh left last night for Pittsburgh, where he will appear with Highway Commissioner O'N'eil in a final appeal to the Re publicans of that end of tne state lor Mr. O'Neil's nomination, and to morrow will speak with him at Reading. There is general curiosity to see if John R. K. Scott speaks with O'Neil to any extent the re mainder of the campaign. Before leaving, the Goveinor again declined to discuss the Supreme Coutt va cancies or his probable course, but it is known that he is indignant at the action of the court in adjourning until he makes appointments, and his friends are chagrined at the re fusal of the court to come here for the usual May session when the Governor had issued invitations for a dinner. There is much talk about the va cancies and it is believed that if the Governor's faction loses at the primary that he will name men whom he bel ; eves can he elected in November without a contest. Other wise he may name men who will be carried along by an O'Neil wave. —Mr. Huselton's action was con tained in the following letter: "To the Voters of Pennsylvania: "This is to advise you that to be consistent with the laws regulating nonpartisan nominations as well as custom, it is not my desire to fur ther contest for supremacy at the May primaries. 1918, for the office of Judge of the Superior Court. , (Signed) "STEPHEN H. HUSELTON." —The retirement of Mr. Huselton doeg not relieve the situation as to that office in respect to tne names on the ballot, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. The last day to officially withdiaw having passed, under the law. Mr. Huselton's name must still appear upon the nonpartisan ballot, with the result that many, no doubt, will mistakenly vote for him, as though he had not withdrawn. In a statement issued by the Judge Por ter's headquarters here, the friends of Judge Porter are especially urged to be active in securing fo" him as ir.rge a vote as possible, so a3 to avoid any doubt as to the result They hope to have him receive enough votes at the primaries to insure his election. —Senator William C. Sproul, who toured Lebanon county yesterday afternoon and last night, was well satisfied with the prospects and the welcome be received. The Senator met '.be workers and there are pie dictious that he will casry in spue of the Weimer candidacy utid the activity of the staie admin istration. Senator Beidleman was in Lackawanna county after a day in the Hacleton district and found that section of the state entnusiastic for him m spite of Scott activities. —Mr. O'Neil was in Fayette coun ty, where he addressed some meet ings and indulged in some predic tions. while John R. K. Scott con tinued tl\e output of his publicity mill. —The gubernatorial situation was summed up last r.ight in Philadel phia by Congressman B. K. Focht. Sproul and Beidleman will be nomi nited for governor and lieutenant governor respectively by majorities ranging from 150,000 to 200,000, was Mr. Focht's prediction. Whiie deeply engrossed as the consequence of war business. continued Congressman Focht, the people are fully alive to the importance of the nomlnatioii of candidates for governor and lieu tenant governor whose experience and broad-mindedness will ade quately Supply the demand which will fall upon them lo their respec tive positions. As the primary elec tion day approaches. I find evidence of rapid crystallization of sentiment strongly favoring the candidacies of Sproul and Beidleman. —Gifford Pinchot, who is making O'Neil speeches rays that O'Neil will go to Philadelphia with a majority and that if he only breaks even in that city he will be nominated. He says that Sproul will not carry Phil adelphia. —More Vare ward leaders have come out for Sproul and there are signs that men active in politics in that city are getting ready to line up for the Delaware man. —Congressman Stephen G. Porter has sued a Pittsburgh minister vf.no attacked his loyalty. Porter is fac ing a strenuous contest for renomina tion. —The Fifth ward cases in Phila delphia will he tried in West Chester in August. Meanwhile the battle for local strategic advantages in Phila delphia is going merrily on. Sad and Solemn Fact So far our air program seems to have been of the hot variety.— Brooklyn Eagle. THE SUNSET TOURNAMENT BYBRIGGS . * HARRY YoU ■ . KVJOV/U VA/C \ j()lJ , . 1 B&LIEV6 r'NC PvH- TIPED HAv/5 AM CM6MiEMEMT \ "" H-; HeAO. OUT- RIGHT MOME ANIO-6ET VA/ITH THC I NOTHJMFI /V\Y DINNER AWD THCO TO<-ITTCR "TO ~*BROD€E"TE>W(6WTJ /,TO X A:SICK"IMAisi OUP BEE>DO- ME FOR * TME HAY I ~ FF VJON'T HOME, R^"" .I'VE HAX> A H |KJ 1 S><s JDAY.3 ' LU J H.OMB AMD " BUT MO\M VT'-S HKG THI-S ~ Over tfa 'Toja IK ""pwuuu They are telling the story of an old negro named Zeno, who lost his savings in a bank failure, "The fust bank that evah busted right squah in mah face." The receiver an nounced that depositors would be paid in alphabetical order, but the money gave out before Zena was reached. Not entirely disheartened he started an account in another bank some months later. "Alright, Zeno, we'll be glad to open <m ac count with you," welcomed the cashier. "Zeno nuthin'" was the protest. "Mah name aint Zeno no moh; mah name's Aaron." ** * V A north county paper has a society reporter who must be popular. Of a recent wedding he says: "The bride and groom, presented a regal spectacle, never equaled since the proud Cleopatra sailed down the perfumed, lotus-bearing Nile. To de scribe the bride's costume beggars the English language and imagina tion falls faint and feeble before the Herculean task." Out in Colorado they make it worth while for a man to enlist by giving him a thoroughbred cow and calf, and a wealthy rancher has agreed to care for the animals until the soldier owner returns. The Blair county committee of public s;tfety has gone on record as opposed to the teaching of German in the High schools of the county. One Stump Speech Too Many [From the New York World] When Speaker Clark In his speech at Fort Wayne appealed for the elec tion of a Democratic Congress next November, he d'd what he could vo make party the foremost issue of the campaign. Ke did this, furthermore, in face o! his own statement that "ln the House there has been little evidence of part'san politics since the beginning of the war. Democrats, Republicans and independents fra ternize so thoroughly on war meas ures that strangers sitting in the gal lery find it difficult to distinguish be tween them." Having testified in this way to the j harmony existing in the present House of Representatives, in which the two great parties are so evenly balanced as to offer the greatest temptation to political manipulation, Mr. Clark seems to have given the best possible refutation of his own argument, but it is to be feared, nevertheless, that his challenge will be only too readily accepted on both sides of the party line. In that c#se the distinguished Democrat who j points out the evils of discord and the ! vital importance in war-time of j teamwork can hardly escape respon-! sibility for promoting the one and j endangering the other. So far as the mighty task now con- I fronting the people of the United j States is concerned, it matters little | what political label a Congress may wear if there are no sinister streaks in his Americanism. With a Congress made up of depend able men, party would conn*, for no more in Washington tliah it does when Oeneral Pershing's army is or dered into action in France. Except for a few mischiefmakers in both Houses, that is the situation to-day, end on no plea should it be disturb ed unless for betterment. Instead of asking the election of Democrats and Republicans as such, the only rivalry between candidates should be in devotion to the cause and the promise of helpfulness in ! the national.service. There are Dem ocratic as well as Republican, mem bers of the present Congress who would make a poor showing in a [ competition of that kind, and every one of them should be left at home. ! Aside from all such obstructionists land selfseekers. who deserve the fiercest wrath of their constituents, | the leaders of both parties have no higher duty than, by united action in the few districts where pro-Ger man and pacifist elements are pow erful, to make impossible the elec tion of a single representative of those interests. If the Speaker's ad vice is to be followed, there will be no hope of such combinations, and many a blatant partisan, perhaps even some notorious public enemies, will displace patriotic members. Although Mr. Clark has fittingly recognized the value of nonpartisan ship. his program is thoroushiy and shockingly partisan. There not to be another stump speech like his while the war is in progress. Why German Drives Don't Alarm Us THE optimistic tone of the French and English papers in the face of the terrific and at first sight successful drives of the Germans requires, say the American correspondents at the front, some explanation to be intelligible to Americans at home. They tell us that as long as the allied line holds it does not matter, from a purely military point of view, how far it hends. It can even bend back into Western France, Paris and the Chan nel ports can be given up, and all are agreed that if at the end of these tremendous and costly opera tions the Germans are still faced by an unbroken line, then they will have suffered, in effect, a crushing defeat. They tell us that the only thing we have to fear during the present operation is a break in the line, for it is only through a break that the Germans can obtain their object. This object, we learn. Is not the capture of Paris, nor the occu pation of the Channel ports, but a "military decision" which will end the war. In fact, the Germans themselves tell us auite frankly that this is their aim, and incidentally General Von Ardenne admits in the Berliner Tageblatt that a speedy decision is imperative, as the Ger man soldiers in the trenches are at last getting restive. He writes: "The necessity for fighting it out was absolute. The unbroken battle •wtll of England," which had prom ised France its own and America's help for the attainment of unmeas ured war- ends, compelled us to enter upon a decisive bout against the prolongers of the war. Peace is only attainable if England is made to feel the superiority of German arms, and so sees that she cannot conquer Germany. The sooner this p;oof could be produced, the better. Moreover, we were urged to this by the impatience of our own army, which rightly felt that we can see i the road to peace only in a decision i by arms." The Frankfurter Zeltung, too, in sists that, the Germans must break through if they wish to claim any complete success. It points out that no decision can ever be arrived at in trench warfare, and one side or the other must be forced into open bat tle before the final and victorious thrust can be given. It says: "Hindenburg and Ludendorff are I now epgaged in breaking the chains to open up an area of operations for open warfare. Not by alerrific on slaught for months on end and of an army of millions against the steel wall of the enemy, not in a long j and searching battle in which the strength of the enemy is gradually exhausted, but the decision is to be sought in open fighting by the forces released from trench operations. "This of course presupposes a local break-through. "We all feel that this will be ob tained, and that the real task of German strategy will only begin at the point which the enemy have oc casionally reached but have never succeeded in passing. . . . "It Is not the attainment of this or that sensational objective that decides success or failtfre, or the capture of some booty, but only the destruction of the enemy's will to fight." How much chance they have of that is clear when we turn to the English papers, where we find a note of cheery optimism pervading the en tire press. Notwithstanding the re treats before the Germans, complete confidence reigns, and all are sure that the allied armies will stand —to use the words of the Germans—like "a wall of steel." and that the much hoped-for decision, whm it comes, will be through a counter-attack by i General Foch which will tear a gap ing hole in an exhausted German line. In an article entitled "What the Germans Are After," the London Daily Mail says: "In the fresh blow which the | Germans are now preparing with so j much effort it Is safe to conclude I that their aim is the same. It is !to break through the allied line I German strategy proceeds on com- I monsense lines. It does not aim at j the capture of towns, such as I Amiens, except in so far as their | capture may serve some further I purpose. Its object is the destruc | tion of the armed forces Of the I enemy. "The break-through has been dis cussed very thoroughly by German military writers, and especially by the late Major Morahi. His conclu sion Is that a break-through is very difficult to effect against good-troops, if these are backed by good material und in anything like equal numbers. "Now the allied troops in France are certainly not Inferior to the Germans in spirit and fighting pow er. They are known to be about equal in numbers, even now when Russia has abandoned the fight and the United States armies have not arrived in any force. They are not inferior in material, for there is practically nothing to choose be tween the allied and the German artillery and equipment, though here again the American Army has not appeared on the field in any force. "One element Major Moraht omit ted in his past studies—namely, the air service. This is of great im portance to-day. Here, before the late battle, the allies were markedly superior, despite the disastrous strikes in the winter which affected our program, as Mr. Lloyd George stated some time ago. With the loss of so many aerodromes, owing to the distance the allies retreated, the Germans have recovered some ground. They are able to fly over our lines, photograph, bomb, and use the machine gun against our men, much as we do, though we do all this to a greater degree." Even in unexpected circles the quiet confidence of the nation is re flected. For example, that brilliant and normally pessimistic London weekly, the Nation, which has many a time during the war come out with what its enemies have called "rank pacifism," has these very lucid re>- marks on the present series of Ger man offensives: "We can sea with perfect clear ness that out of the struggle a fun damentally changed situation will emerge. It is ncc land or cities which are the German objective, but simply a decision; and either the enemy will succeed in his immediate military purpose or ho will be so weakened that the end of the war will he fina'ly sure. The plans cf the military who urged and planned Ibis offensive are ambitious enough. Tliey set for each day's advance a depth of penetration which would have entailed such enormous losses that, in fact, the German infantry, .n spite of their extraordinary num bers. courage and persistence, were unable to achieve it. The staff knew how terribie would be the price of any appreciable advance in the present stage of defensive war fare. But minds like there are lit tle troubled with scruples. They must, however, be liberally burdened with apprehensions. If they should not secure a decision, if they should not wreck our 'means of continuing the war,' the very plans which should have brought them success will prove their ruin. Thev will not abandon the hope of a decision while they still possess any mass of re serves. They will throw into the struggle all the men they can dis pose of; but in the end, failing vio tory, they will have shot their bolt." So confident are some of the ob servers that they believe that this series °f offensives is Germany's last throw, and that one craKhinir counter-offensive by General Foch will mean the end of things, and that peace, a victorious allied peace, is now in sight. For example, the i.ondon Morning Post draws atten h. or t 1° the significant statement offensives are confessedly .i®^t' 3e < ba ' f,e " and that the A,l-Highest has &'aked It's dynasty upon the result. The,efo?e, a.rgues the Post, the Kaiser will g0 on until h>s moil aie completely exhausted, when they wi'l fa.,] an easy prey to counter-attack. It says: failure does not mean simply as you were. It means luin. And par ticularly does it mean the disappear ance of tns HohenvoUetoH. That the German Emperor and his gene.als now clearly pe>ce!ve that they may be defeated ts obvious. Pen:e the Kaiser s battle,' and a reckless de teminatlon to win it unexampled in history. It is somet.'mes glibly re peated that Germany 'mus' have peace.' What Germany, which is the German Emperor and his army, must have Is victory. For If they do not win they may, from the dynastic point of view, as well per ish in the endeavor. And that '.s exactly what Is "happening. Tha dynasty is -lesperato and the Ger man Emperor is per;°sctly prepared to sacriPce. and will sacrifice, his entire army in the las>t effort to achieve victory in 'his' battle." • Much the same point of view is taken by the military critic of the Zuricher Post, one of the Swiss pa pers which has been up to the pres ent consistently pro-German. He considers that after the failure of the first two attacks. General Foch is in a position where he can choose his own time to strike: "The German attackers are un able to hinder the carefully planned deployment of enemy reserves. The first two violent attacks of the Gert man army in the west have exhaust jed themselves, and their continu ance on the present lines demands immense sacrifices. "General Foch can repeat his famous counter-offensive with great er forces, but might just, as well wait the new attacks. General Foch will employ his reserves when a particular campaign has begun against one or both of the entente armies."—From the Literary Digest. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ] TEACHERS' SALARIES To the Editor of the Telegraph: We are hearing a great deal, and properly so. about "making the world safe for democracy," and in that task we each must take a proper ■ share if we wish to be worthy sons of our sires. But there is anpther and equally la r se task looming up in the near future and that is "to make democracy safe for the world." The bulwark of democracy, and our free institutions, is our public school system. Without schools democracy would be a dire failure. Without good schools the same would be true. vVithout good teachers we cannot have good schools. If the teachers' salaries are not raised commensurately with the in creased cost of living, we will lose : the best of our teachers. That can not be a matter tor argument. Men and women with the training of our public school teachers can get em ployment now, without trouble, at decidedly increased salaries as com pared with those which they are now getting. In many cases nothing but loyalty to their profession and their work is holding them in their posi tions. At such a time as this we can not risk weakening our public school system and the necessity of prevent ing such weakening, by the loss of high class teachers because of low I salaries, is evident. Teachers' salaries j ought to be raised to meet the in creased cost of living. As I have said before we cannot I have good schools without good teachers and we cannot keep good teachers if they are not well paid. I am writing this for the ( eachers as a profession, for whom and for which, I have the highest esteem and re gard. Signed, (DK.) C. R. PHILLIPS. In Mass Formation We've never had time yet to go up and ask that eminent biologist at Ohio S'a'.e University how often un der natural laws neighbors' cats are supposed to have kittens and can only say in a. general way that they spem to be coming In mass forma tion.—Ohio Sta'e Journal. [OUR DAILY LAUGH AN OB | BTRUCTED | VIEW. Bur Tourist—* l/C*. aim The view from I iff iy A the to P of thls 'ft mountain wciiM A were not for A/ i > those heavy AmW r 1 clouds. IFS jSP Do you" lm- ' \£/ ' agine she is I t j> > m marrying me for .'A • i\ I §f, my money? • \f>A jjßj If anybody is thinking at all \ q of marrying you fa a It must be for WHIM I your money. | J&v * IMPAIRED VOCALLY. / Fro * : Ooid /L ness! I can't / k' * in s a not to * • H day- I must x * have-a man ln / v] my throat! lEbettfttg (Eljat Men connected with the state AJM* township maintenance forces declare 'that it is a greater effort to get the roads which radiate from the State Capital like the spokes of a wheel put into good shape this year than ever known bfore. Repairmen are at work on the highways in Dauphin county, but not much progress has been made either by state or town ship authorities because of the scarcity of materials, the difficulties of transportation and the lack of labor. The same condition prevails in Cumberland and Perry counties and old men and youths hardly | more than boys can get jobs on the roads where a year ago only the most able-bodied men could land. Naturally the progress made has not been startling and there are places on roads which show that the men have not reached that section. In some sections of the county it is not difficult to obtain teams to haul stone, but in the Harrisburg dis trict with all of the military con struction under way trucks and wagohs are as hard to get as stone. The roads to the two big military operations are In poor condition, in townships as well as boroughs. Tt commences to look as though the maintenance was going to be an arduous task this year. Many of the roads were subjected to unusual strain during the winter by trucks and the effort to relieve railroad transportation and the damage done by such vehicles In addition to the effec's of winter will combine to moke the repairs not only extensive, but cojjtly. It is interesting to recall that the lust French soldiers here was about 225 years ago. English were by no means the first white men the banks of the Susquehanna. Years before John Harris ever saw thu ford where he later established his ferry and dreamed of a city there were French traders in this section and more than cnce French soldiers moved up and down the river to the great annoyance of the English at Upland and Philadelphia. One of the most noted French traders, Peter Chartler, who later became active about Fort Duquesne, had a settle ment on the hills near New Cumber land and French soldiers went with him to straighten out some Indians. Presence of the French soldiers caused many an argument in Har risburg yesterday. One colored man was liiinly of the opinion that the "Blue Devils" were Hungarians and got his ethnology and war stuff all mixed up. F.ut that did not prevent him from cheering the visitors. He said he saw "Cap" Stine at the head and knew it was all right. It will not be long until the school children of the city will insist on parading again. With true Harris burg spirit the youngsters, instead of passing up the parade idea be cause of the terrible storm through which they marched, have been talking about having that parade over again. There is a keen rivalry between the schools for best ap pearance and it is not going to be satistied with the memories of what things were like before the storm came along. • • • The painting of the Susquehanna Water Gap and the upper end of Harrisburg in 1881 painted by the late J. Aug. Beck and presented by his children to the Harrisburg Pub lic Library haa attracted consid erable attention. It portrays one of -A the finest views along the river and ™ will form a nucleus for old Harrls iburg views which it is hoped to se cure for the Library. The Philadelphia North American contains this interesting note in one of its Cumberland Valley life re views: "The Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Princeton's noted teacher and poet and former minister to Holland, was able to whip Franklin county's trout streams last week for the first time in several years. Doctor Van Dyke, Dr. William Mann Irvine and a party of friends tried their luck, with but fair results, this year, in the headwaters of the east branch of the Conococheasue. In former years Doctor Van Dyke has fished in the streams forming the west branch of the creek, and one of his poems is dedicated to the Conococheague." • • The controversy over the appoint ments to the Supreme Court and the fact no May session will be held here calls to mind the history of the court, which used to have its head quarters in Harrisburg. In early days the cour.t was pre-eminently a branch of the state government, but for years It has been sitting about two days in Harrisburg, the Superior Court occasionally meeting here for three or four days. The arrange ments for the court here are the most elaborate in the state and tho least used. It was interesting yesterday to see how the drafted men on leave took to the French soldiers here for the demonstration. The men who have just left civilian pursuits to take up arms for the nation were pretty keen about the veterans of war, especially as they had been "shock" troops, and more than one man in khaki regretted that he had not studied French so that he might talk about things in general and fighting in particular. [_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE C. C. Green, new head of Clarion State Normal School, used to be superintendent of schools in Beaver and Westmoreland towns. —Bishop Berry is to preside at the sessions of the Clarion Methodist Conference next week. Dr. w. E. Matthews, Cambria medical officer, shut up a whole hos pital when he found a nurse had smallpox. Dr. E. P. Davis, of Philadelphia, heads the board to secure medical reserve officers. ... --The Rev. Dr. Maltland Alex ander, Pittsburgh clergyman, Is giv ing a series of addresses on news papers and the war. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg furnishes val uable purts for the machinery for making munitions? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The Supreme Court used to meet in the Courthouse here during tho building of the first Capitol. Exchanging Bonds "We accept Liberty Bonds at their full value for goods." Thus reads a placard in the win dow of a wholesale liquor house. We \ have often wondered what the height, of damphoolishness might be, having tried various things, but there it is: Exchanging a Liberty Bond for booze.—Detroit Times.
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