8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A SBH'SPAPBR FOR THB HOMB Founded 1131 published evenings except Sunday by the telecraph PRINTING CO, Tclerraph Building. Federal Square. SC-J. ST A CK POLE, Prest Sr Bditr-n-C hirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMI'TZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press — The Associated Press Is exclusively en ■t 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- Ushers' Assocla- BlSlasS Eastern office. SlllS |SH g? Story. chfcgo B iVi. d ' ner ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg". Pa., as second flass matter. _ . By carriers, ten cent* a week; by mall. 15.00 a year in advance, MONDAY, MAY 20* 1918 I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. —Whittter. • • i THE RED CROSS PARADE ' THE Red Cross parade of Har risburg was one of the most j beautiful and impressive spec tacles Harrisburg has ever en joyed. From first to last it was well arranged, moved with promptness and precision.* an! was a marvel of spirit and enthusiasm. It was a striking, living example of the democracy of America, of the Amer ican will to service and to sacrifice. The paraders were all volunteers. Not one of those who marched was in line for any ether reason than that she wanted to be there. The parade represented women from every walk of life, and the mistress of the mansion walked shoulder to shoulder with the girl from her own kitchen, and both were proud to be , identified with the movement. Class distinction was an unknown quan tity. Only patriotism counted. These are some of the benefits and blessings the war. with all its sor row and its horror, are bringing to us. Not all the victories are being won on the bloody fields of France. 1 But. oig as the parade was. it ought to have been bigger. The Red ! Cross needs more workers and Sat urday's procession should be In the nature of a great recruiting demon-1 stration. Some of the auxiliary; branches, we are told, are sadly In ; need of workers. The boys at the front are jiroing into action in ever increasing numbers. They, and our allies, need the surgical dressings, j the bandages, the blankets, the pil low cases, the sheets and the thou sand and one other things which the Red Cross alone can provide. Shall it be said that our Red Cros3 workers' corps is smaller than it should be? Shall it be said that the spirit of Harrisburg's women is not equal to that of its men, who vol unteered in such numbers that the operations of the draft law twice left the city free? We think not. The thousands of women who marche 1 on Saturday give refutation to such a thought.- Witnessing what these devoted workers have done and are doing doubtless will spur others who may be lagging to a fuller sense of their duties. The Red Cross corps should be greatly augmented as a result of the wonderful demon stration of Saturday. Chicago, it is reported, acquits one woman every two weeks on the charge of murder, the male jurors evidently, in their wisdom, concluding that to kill some men is merely justifiable homicide. HOUSING PRORLEMS H3USING problems are confront ing every city of importance in the United States, especially In those districts where great industrial developments has followed the ex pansion of war projects. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo evidently real izes the conditions and has made clear that the Government does not desire to interfere with needed building operations. By reason of the emphasis placed upon conserv ing labor and materials for war work the pendulum V the building Industry has swing clear to the other side and as a result the housing problem becomes more acute. What Is to be done In Harrisburg and elsewhere to provide homes for the people Is becoming more and more a grave question. Workmen are entitled to comfort and what was once regarded as satisfactory for the housing of In dustrial workers In congested com : munlties is no longer acceptable. . The better class of workmen will not live In houses that are little bet ter than shacks— unsanitary, uncom fortable and wholly unfit as homes. It Is regarded as an industrial axiom that the better the hopie the bettei ■ the workman. It Is quite as neces sary to conserve manpower as to do many of the other things which are i MONDAY EVENING, ' HARRISBURG.GAM? TELEGRAPH MAY 20, 1918. | now discussed as necessary in this ! war period. Right here In Harrisburg there should be to-day hundreds of homes constructed with a view to comfort and convenience and with as low a rental as is consistent with the building conditions. This city is de lightfully located for home purposes and care must be exercised to avoid slum .districts. Did you see Saturday's parade? Well, that's one of the reasons why we are going to fight this war to a victorious finish. TURN OUT THE Dauphin County Ratifica tion Committee, devoted to the nomination by all parties of ""dry" candidates for the Legislature, will t hold Its final demonstration this evenlrtg. It asks all friends of the National Prohibition Amendment to turn out in the big parade that is to mark the close of the campaign. Do not hold back because you I may not like to appear in a "political parade."- This Is not a political demonstration in the ordinary mean ing of the term. Party has nothing to do with it. Republicans and Democrats will march shoulder to shoulder, each in behalf of the men of his own party who are running j for the Legislature on the "dry" side. The Ratification Committee has j taken the proper view of the situc- j tion. Its members realize that the fate of the prohibition amendment lies with the Legislature end the Legislature alone, and are devoting their energies to the election of men who will jote in favor of the meas- 1 ure. They present a list of candi- j dates on another page to-day, from - which it becomes the Jut}- of fhe friends of temperance to elect their favorites at the polls to-morrow. If you favor national prohibition.' turn out in the parade to-niglit and do not fail to vote at the primaries, i Say, you Republicans and Demo crats —make it a "dry" State after i to-morrow. PAYING FOR WATER THE price for water for domes- j tic use is so small as a matter of fact that we do not think : much about it except when we come to pay the quarterly water rent. The average person insists upon pure wa ter as a matter of course and about j the surest way to start something is to jockey the water supply. We have | had some instances of public tem ! per when the water system of our i own city has failed to size up. But when we are asked to pay about ten cents a gallon for water, in milk or cream we are apt to see j red. And yet lhat is the very game j that reports of State Dairy and Food j agents show is being put over on us. The results of numerous analyses in- j dicate that water is being liberally used in some sections of the State and that an unusual crop of prosecu- 1 tions for sale* of watered milk may |be looked for. The State has set a [ standard of butter fats in milk and | there are instances known where | there has been more water in milk I than the law allows from entirely 1 natural causes, but human experi ence has been that the pump has I been used. It does seem regrettable when the [ price of milk is up and likely to go | on that dealers or producers should j water the milk. But when we realize j that we are being made to pay about ; ten cents a gallon for water it is | worse. The State chased the men who used embalming fluid to pre t serve milk out of business and into jail. Things are costing entirely too much now to stand any nonsense from men who try to sell us milk in which the cow and the pump have be&i unwilling partners. We don't believe that Hindenburg i is dead, but we are certain that it's 1 not going to be many months before I he is a "dead one." VOTE "DRY" TOMORROW WITH the parade to-night of the ratification forces the pri i mary campaign for the prohi | bition amendment yill have reach ed Its end so far as the preliminaries are concerned. To-morrow the real test of the interest of the people in wiping out the liquor traffic will be made through the casting of the bal lots. For months the matter has been squarely presented and it now depends upon the voters themselves whether the proposed amendment shall be approved or disapproved by the next Legislature. Time and again attention has been called to the Importance of electing members of the Senate and House favorable to ratification. Notwith standing these frequent warnings, there have been blundering tem j perance leaders who threw dust Into the eyes of their followers In an ef fort to promote the interests of this or that gubernatorial candidate when they knew, if they khew any thing at all about the situation, that the next Governor'will have nothing whatever to do with the amendment It is solely a matter for the Legis lature. It is evident that the interest in the prohibition amendment Is In creasing in intensity as the war goes on, but unless the voter casts an In telligent ballot to-morrow the "wet" candidates ar* likely to be nomin ated. Partisanship has been prac tically eliminated In the contest. Those candidates who have chosen to align themselves with the liquor end of the campaign can hardly ex pect friends of prohibition to give them any consideration. But It must be remembered, as a final word, that the Legislature and not the Governor will determine the ques tion. "When I was In the West I In spected half of the devasted section of France." said Emperor. William. Needless to say It was the half farthest from the firing- line. Mr. Creel says he is ready to accept advice. Heaven knows he has been ready enough to give It. fottCc* Ck 1"~P t)wvo By the Ex-Oommltttemu i Leadership In the two older parties |in Pennsylvania depends in great measure upon the result of the pri maries tomorrow, although the Dem ocrats about the Market Square wind mill insist that their party is united and harmonious. Complete state tickets will be nominated in all ! parlies and the Republicans and I Democrats will have contests over every place. The only state-wide can t didate sure of no opposition is Judge | W. D. Porter, of the superior court, | whose opponent has withdrawn, but jthe judge's friends are urged to vote for him to make his election at the primary. The candidates, their managers and their-partisans are all making i claims to-day and if the majorities claimed were aggregated they would probably exceed the voting strength of any party. The newspapers to-day indicate very clearly that notwith standing the claims of candidates the politicians fear a light vote. It is in teresting to note that tho Philadel phia Ledger, which had refrained from any editorial announcement on the Republican Governorship al though most of the newspapers in that city are for Jjproul, comes out J to-day for the Delaware Senator, but does it grudgingly. It says: "O'Neil's open alliance with Scott, the espousal of his cause by the Brumbaugh ad ministration wt<h its flagrant abuse! of its power to coerce state employes ', into partisan political activity, plainly! makes the nomination of Sproul the i lesser evil." —lntiminations are given in Phila delphia that Governor Brumbaugh and the Yares have spilt because the Vans refuse to endorse O'Neil and that the Governor and his friends are consequently keeping quiet about John R. K. Scott. The fact is the bulk of the Yare leaders are openly for Soroul. —Senator Penrose Is out in a cir cular in which he urges Sproul, Beidleman and Woodward with Crago. Garland. McLaughlin and Walters for Consress-at-Large. —The Town Meeting people last night gave a terrific farewell blast to John R. K. Scott and called for his defeat. —The Philadelphia Record has fun with a circular sent out from Democratic state headquarters sign ed by A. Mitchell Palmer in which he announces his tour for votes for Gov ernor. It seems that some one used the wrong rubber stamp on Guffey's printed thunder. —Machine Democrats had a great banquet in Pittsburgh on Saturday at which Palmer lined up the place holders for Guffey. While he was do ing it Judge Bonniwell was speaking in Erie. —The Yare registration board in Philadelphia has lost a court decision and names must be restored to the rolls. —Philadelphia newspapers charge that politics was behind the removal of Bank Examiner A. L. Taber. —The Philadelphia Press in its is sue of yesterday devoted many col umns to a review of the situation in the Republican party and prints a map showing Sproul sure of twenty seven counties, including Philadel phia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Erie, Fayette. Cambria, York and Lancas ter and O'Neil sure of twenty-one. including Allegheny. In the eighteen doubtful are included Berks, Clear field. Schuylkill, Perry, Washington, Montgomery, Franklin, Bradford, Westmoreland and Crawford. Dau phin is also made doubtful. In its review by The Insider, The Press says: "In the Republican contest there are three important forces. We have the state administration, headed by the Governor and the Attorney General, fighting a battle for control of the party with the state organiza tion, led by Senator Penrose, and, hanging on the outskirts of the fight, in the part allied with one force, and in part with the other, stands the city organization of Philadelphia, led by the Yares. The uncertainty of just where this organization stands and what it really will do complicates still further the already complicated situation between the Brumbaugh- Brown and the Penrose elements. In the gubernatorial fight. Senator Sproul represents the hopes of the state organization and Highways Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil the ambitions of the Governor's group. There are two other candidates, Rob ert P. Habgood and Asa R. Weimer, but they have long since been rele gated to the background by political observers. Conflicting claims are made by the campaign managers of Senator Sproul and Mr. O'Neil; as will be seen by* reference to other sections of this newspaper. But the indications are that Senator Sproul will be the victor." —Other Philadelphia newspapers content themselves with printing conflicting claims and some com ment upon the apathy of the people. Most of them consider that Guffey will defeat Bonniwell. Much inter est is shown in the leadership con tests among Republicans such as the fights between Johnson and Ambler In Montgomery and Long and Pome roy in Franklin, the drives against Lafean in York, Seidel in Reading and the state administration leaders in Luzerne and Lackawanna. The Allegheny outcome Is also being awaited with interest. —Senator Charles H. Kline, of Pittsburgh, former president pro tem of the Senate, takes Mr. O'Neil to task for his remarks about oppo nents, especially for comparing Sen ator Penrose to the kaiser. Senator Kline says: "When a candidate for office finds himself so hard pressed that he has to elevate the German kaiser over a United States Senator in order to get votes, It is clearly evident that he Is desperate and is facing defeat. Mr. O'Neil has placed himself on record to the effect that the American citizen who does not agree with him in politics la worse than the beast of Berlin. When he does this, Mr. O'Neil wounds every American, because there Is not a citizen of this republic, I care not what his station in life may be, who is not superior to the German kai ser." —The McKean County Bar Asso ciation on Saturday afternoon launched a campaign advocating the appointment of Joseph W. Bou- ton. Republican, to fill'one of the vacancies now existing on the bench of the Supreme Court. Judgo Bou ton, whose home Is at Smethport, was elected presiding judge of the , McKean county bench on a non partisan ticket and his present term expires January 1, 1924. He has been mentioned for both appellate courts. —Benator Sproul's candidate for tax co.lector was elected in Chester, defeating the McClure candidate. Ex-Seuator V. F. Gable, a Phila delphia reformer, in a speech at Philadelphia recently, tore up the condition of the Lincoln Highway between Philadelphia and Trenton, which is a state highway, and aald: "If J. Denny O'Neil can present to the citizens of this section of Penn sylvania no better argument for his nomination for the governorship than his accomplishments for use while Highway Commissioner, then he should be fcefeated, and lie will be. The record of Senator Sproul shines by comparison.- He was the father of the Good Roads bill, and he has done everything possible by legislation to improve the highways of Pennsylvania. Logically he Is the man to administer those laws and put that legislation into effect, as the Chief Executivo of the Com monwealth. EDITORIAL COMMENT Germany might have got away with the swag if it had not awak ened civilization when it stepped on Belgium.—Chicago Daily News. Russia's Heart Is Still With the Allies.—Headline. Unfortunately, It's her supplies that are with Germany. —Philadelphia North American. It must be very difficult to be a German cartoonist and not be al lowed to call attention to the fact that the Crown Prince looks exactly Jike a dachshund.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "A shell fired by the' German long range gun has struck a foundling asylum in Paris." And yet some ob servers say the monster weapon can't be fired accurately.—Savannah News. The German people are waiting for the result of the Flanders opera tions to make up their minds wheth er they are lifelong liberals or dyed in-the-wool robbers and imperialists. —Chicago Herald. RED CROSS DRIVE [From the Living Church] We must look ahead to the next Red Cross war fund drive, which occurs through the week of May 20. A fund for 100 million dollars was raised last spring for the purpose and at least an equal amount must be raised again. Last year the impelling motive was largely to make provision for the care of allied soldiers and their fam ilies and for comforts of our own boys in American camps. For the coming year it is rot difficult to see that the fund will be chiefly for the care of our own boys in service at the front. We have given them, but we intend that everything possible be done for their protection w"hile they are fighting our buttles. We can fol low them only through those organ ized efforts of the American people of which the Red Cross stands first. It is our arm, extended for their care and protection. It is the expres sion of the spirit of the American people upholding the soldiers and caring for their families. Whatever the Red Cross asks of the American people, in money and in service, must be given. Let every community, however small, overrun its quota with the greatest cheerful ness. Must Settle It Now [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] The question of prohibition, so Jar as Pennsylvania is concerned, must be settled by the Republican voters in the primary election one week from to-day. It is the people's chance to vote as directly as is possible un der our constitutional form under this subject, and probably the only chance they will :iave. No candidate should deny them the privilege of making their wishes known through his failure to take a stand squarely on the subject. The seven candidates who made evasive answers to The Gazette-Times' question conceal their real intentions and leave the people whose votes they solicit in doubt as to what they will do if elected. They are guilty of tergiversation as un worthy as that practiced by J. Denny O'Neil, in his declination to tell whether or not he will abide by the result of the Republican primaries in the contest for the gubernatorial nomination. They hold out a prospect to the "wets" that they will oppose ratification, and to the "drys" that they will support it. One or the other group will be cheated if the evaders are nominated and defeated. The same may be said of those candidates who failed to make any answer. As we have said before, ratification is to be assured only by the nomination and election of Republican legisla tors pledged in advance of the pri maries to support the amendment. BRAVE.ONES AT HOME Captain John W. Morrison. Dep uty State Banking Commissioner, sends the following: "The following beautiful poem by Thomas Buchanan Read is worthy of being reprinted at this time. The heroes and patriots are not all found on the battle-line. It will appeal to the wives, mothers and maidens who, these days, are saying their sad good-bys and tearful farewells to their loyal ones who are going, or have gone, to follow the flag. The maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dis sembles. The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles. Though Heaven alone records the tear. And Fame shall never know her story. Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field of giory! The wife who girds her husband's sword, 'Mid little ones who weep or won der. And bravely speaks the cheering word. What though her heart be rent asunder. Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle. Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of bat tle! The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief. Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod , Received on Freedom's field of j honor! WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND ' BY BRIGGS MO'IHER'S, ' HAIR CUT • Copyright, 1918, by The Tribune Association (New York Tribune) " THE PEOPLE'S „ , A FIXE PARADE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Wasn't that a fine parade of '.he Red Cross hosts? It seems every body was surprised and you wouli hear exclamations, "Where did an the women como from" and "They look businesslike enough to lick the Kaiser themselves," and "Who is going to get to-night's supper?" Fine marchers, fine lookers, well or ganized, and well trained, certainly mean lots of efficient work and thought. The first thing I look for in a parade is the keeping step and the position of the feet, whether in going south tlve feet are pointed south or southeast or southwest. There was very little criticism on these points. I saw the procession at its start and wir.dup and the same spirit and swing characterized both places. The bands took their turns in playing for their sections in front of the reviewing stand. Some times the music in the substituting would change its tune, to the con fusing of the step, but the leaders were on the job and immediately you would hear the "left," "left" all along the line and .In a few seconds the rhythm would bt restored. At one time in the changing of the bands both stopped playing, while the Yerbeke contingent was passing. Miss Ryan with her voice and mega phone started her well-trained girls to singing with the result of restor ing the step instantly. But, Mr. Editor do you remember the talk not so long ago about'he United States authorities request ing that our national hymn should never be u%ed in a medley? I think in Baltimore and other places there is a fine and imprisonment for this desecration. No band at any Army post would thing of doing such a thing. Yet it seemed to me that the different bands tried to outdo each other in the hash they made with other tunes and variations in tune. If the faid request has been with drawn or modified will you please let me know. If, on the other hand, It Is true that the Star Spangled Ban ner should be played as a sacred piece commanding our thoughtful attention, won't you please take a baseball club and forcibly interview the leaders, so that in the next pa rade when wo hear the opening notes of the national hymn and sa lute we won't find ourselves doing THE STATE PRESS From an humble country lawyer to the custody of $280,000,000 in a few short years is a considerable rise in life for A. Mitchell Pal mer. If it were his own money he would rank as one of the rich men of the world. As a fact it belongs to enemy aliens, and the custodian has a good deal of responsibility and small pay in caring for It. By the time peace comes around Uncle Sam will have a nice lot of German property In his possession, and if Germany shows a disposition to be nasty about settling for Amer ican losses in that country Uncle Sam can pay off our citizens—Phila delphia Bulletin. Two-thirds of the • Republican membership of the United States Senate will vote for the submission of the Federal Equal Suffrage amendment, but only one-half of the Democratic Senators favor submis sion. The managers of the Equal Suffrage Congressional campaign are delaying a vote on the resolution, hoping to secure the additional votes necessary to adopt it, President Wil son reversed himself at the last min ute before the House voted on the resolution, but the records do not show that he succeeded in changing a single vote. His advice is unheed ed by the Democratic Senators. Looking forward to the campaign of 1920, Democratic party leaders are urging the adoption of the resolution, u as its defeat at the hands of the homagre to "Yankee Doodle" or "Ke>ep the Home Fires Burning" or most of all, looking solemn at the "Old Gray Mare." I have never seen one of our policemen salute Ihe flag or the national hymn. They re flect the Mayor and other officers; seventy-flve per cent, or more of the men never salute, caused -by ignor ance or dislike to do something first.. We had no difficulty In our crowd. There was a soldier from iCamp Up ton with us and he had the snap. When the colors passed or the hymn was played conversation ceased, lip went his hand to a salute and he stood rigid as stone till the flag or band was well passed. I believe if everyone of us would have the courage of our convictions and do our duty promptly under the circumstances, we would hearten and teach many. J. H. FAGER, SR. PRIMARY ADVICE Tc the Editor of the Telegraph: It occurs to me that very often i the question of "What might havo t been" comes to the politician as well as to the businessman, or the old girl who was left. If the Bull Moose party had not defeated the Republican party in 1912, President Taft would have gotten the honor of a second term, whfch the people of the- United i States so justly owed him for his j intelligent patriotic administration. It was his wise and careful control , of affairs that brought the country ] back from a most turbulent and lin- I restful condition to a sane constitu | tional administration. If a second I term had been given him, §it its close iin 1916. there would have been ' a united Republican party, and to ! day the Presidential chair would i lie occupied by a noted enthusiastic Republican citizen. Who might this most likely be? Will our hot-headed Republican "party busters" continue this un patriotic selfish condition in cur state elections. Let us hope not? If the primary vote gives a decided majority it may end this insane is sue. Let every pood, genuine- Repub lican vote for the very best man who Represents an undivided Repub lican party. REPUBLICAN. Democratic party may mean no votes for a Democratic candidate for President from the Equal Suffrage States of the West. —Johnstown Trib une. • • • Eddie Rickenbacher, Ohio athlete, and Captain Norman Hall, famous American flying men, by their united efforts brought down a Roche plane behind the German lines, "each modestly 'giving the other entire credit for Jhe feat." After the war, the flying game will bo the great world sport. It must thrill the heart of every American lover of fair play to know that American aviators, like Hall and Rickenbacher, are already fixing the standards of the sport to accord with the finest traditions of English-speaking people. Sharon Telegraph. • • • An American soldier, who was In the of Seicheprey, asked by a reporter If he was frightened, made this reply: "I didn't have time—l was too busy fighting. I.had two green men with me, so I had to set them an example. They were scared at first, but I saw them watching me. Soon they were fighting like veterans. We stuck until we were all wounded." The terse sentences of this un named soldier form the best,defini tion of the word morale we have seen. They ought to be passed along to every young officer, every squad leader, in the training camps.— Bradford Star. LABOR NOTES The Canadian government has passed an order in council reducing the pay of civil servants serving overseas to their military pay. The cost of maintaining a family in this country has doubled since 1900, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. To popularize paper clothing is the object of a national exhibition just opened in Berlin under the pat ronage of the Imperial Clothing Office. The grand total of Canadian trade unionists who have volunteered and been accepted for overseas service since the outbreak of the war is 26,416. OUR DAILY LAUGH IT PAYS SOMETIMES. "I've fallen In love with my wife." "What, again?" "Yes, her family's estate has just Hpttied uu." LUCKY. "Johnny Green's a lucky kid." "Why?" "He's got parents that don't car* iiow often he goes swlmmlnY' GOING AFTER THE REWARD.' The Boss—Be careful there, you'll un over that smull car ahead of usl Chauffeur —That's all right—it's a oad louse—there's a bounty on "em. "Money talks." "How about bush money." Abetting (Eljat It would be making a very Inter esting record for the future for some one to take photographs of the streets and buildings of Harrlsburg this year. We all know how Inter ested we are In seeing pictures of what the state's capital looked like during the Civil War and photo graphs of our city during the Span ish War now attract attention. Boys and girls who were kicking up thel heels In baby carnages when Dewey sailed into Manila Ray and Cervera sailed out of Santiago Ray will b shouldering guns or taking up Cross work very soon. Timo fries and Harrlsburg has changed much in the last few years. So it will be a very Interesting thing some thirty years hence to see some pictures of the way this town set out to help win the war. The men and women who recall the days of the Civil War say there was much stir and much doing, - but the use of advertising was some thing that did not occur to the folks In charge of affairs then. All prece dent was shattered when the stat put up billboards in Capitol Park to call upon the people to buy Liberty Bonds and while Uncle Sam has been rather active in recruiting advertise ments the big sign on the hitherto sacrosanct lawn of the Federal Building is an object which will be of more than passing interest in 1936. And when such staid institutions as the Dauphin Deposit Bank blossom out with "Food Will Win the War" signs and plaster pillars with War Savings ads and the Harrlsburg Na tional puts placards in Its windows it is a matter of local record. Similarly the sight of our churches flying na tional flags and service flags will be something to cherish in the years to come and the sight of the Pennsyl vania railroad yards fluttering with flags, from end to end and every mill building sporting an emblem of unity is something wo do not want to for get and which we would like those coming on after us to know about. We hung our banners on the walls in 1898, but now we are displaying flags everywhere and ns for signs they are making their calls now where such things would never have heen toler ated a minute In times of peaceful business. And so, too, is the most commendable spirit of business Arms in giving up windows to displays that will awaken patriotism and in con tributing for advertising space- in newspapers to summon for national service. Pictures and papers of 1918 will be worth while in two decades more, although in the swift rush of things we scarcely realize it now. In the language of one of the city's veteran policemen, "It's going to take the automobile owners to keep the automobiles oft the streets where parades are to march," to bring about an Improvement in a condition which at times was fraught with danger on Saturday. This city has had so many parades, during and since the days of "Tom" Moran that one would have thought that owners of cars would have kept away from the route of the procession or at least refrained from traversing streets In which formations were be ing made. But the truth is that notwithstanding the fact that the paraders on Saturday were women, the vast majority of them never in a parade in their lives before; that the day was hot and that the task of organizing and starting a proces sion of that character was fraught with hard work. Front street and the side streets where the parade was to form were literally overrun with automobiles, some of whose drivers resented requests for them to slow up. As for keeping clear of cars the streets over which the parade was to march clear for the paraders and for the thousands of people who were eager to see the procession and to contribute to the patriotic spirit of the day it was next to impossible. On some highways women marchers had to thread their way through cars to get places in line and to make detours in streets given to the line. It was ungallant, to say the least. One of the reasons for the conges tion of cars along the parade and for the interference in the forming fberiod was explained by an automo bile owner to-day as due to lack of system. "Last week when the "Blue Devils' were here Captain Thompson said that automobiles would not be permitted in streets where the pa rade was to pass, but the police let them stay," said this man. "And there were not enough policemen along the route of the preliminary marching to turn people off," chimed in another. "If the police depart ment had detailed enough men or given people in charge of the parade authority to designate men to pro tect the formation area some of the narrow escapes on Saturday |youid not have occurred. It's unfair to jump the motorist when there is no one to flag him." • • • The military depots being estab lished in the vicinity of Harrisburg are commencing to loom up as Sun day attractions and weekly there are hundreds of automobile parties to visit the construction. Unfortunately, the road conditions are not what they will be after the state and Uncle Sam get their heads together. The permanent character of the buildings is what attracts much attention. Many men here for the weekend and between trains have been going to see the plants, although a pretty close watch on anyone getting near the establishments is maintained. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George S. Oliver, son of the former senator and head of the com pany publishing two big Pittsburgh papers, has been elected head of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. —E. T. Stotesbury, the Philadel phia banker, has been out making Red Cross speeches. —B. F. Jones. Jr.. big Pittsburgh manufacturer, presided at the big Red Cross demonstration in that city. —The Rev. F. B. McAUuster, New Castle clergyman, just home from service as a chaplain, will preach to New Castle students. —Congressman H. W. Temple, of Washington, Pa., may become mod erator of the United Presbyterians. —Theodore Eichhorn, one of the vice-presidents of the State Federa tion of Labor, is a city commissioner of Erie. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrigburg'B Y. M. C. A. was among the first in the coun try to have dormitories? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city made iron Tor govern ment supplies in the Mexican War. A Good Beginning In all schools where elementary svtf)ffects are taught they should bo taught In the English language. Substitute for "should" "must."' I There Is the beginning of Ainerl- I c&niam. —New York Times.
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