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TUESDAY, MAY 28. 1918
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad
supper. — FRANCIS BACON.
FAKE REFORMERS
AT last the secret Is out!
. The self-appointed reform
bosses of the Democratic party
are reformers inly when it is con
venient.
How often have we heard from the
lips of A. Mitchell Palmer or Na
tional Chairman Vance C. McCor
mick the charge that the strong
hold of rym in Pennsylvania is in
the Republican party. How often
have the subsidized newspaper
mouthpieces of the National Chair
man made the same false accusa
tion.
And now what? Why, Judge
Bonniwell, an out-and-out rum can
didate, has been nominated by the
Democrats, and Palmer, speaking
for the machine, says: "Bonniweli's
nomination simply means that the |
Democratic party :n Pennsylvania is
'wet.' • • • 1 shall support
Bonniwell."
There you have it.
The Palmer-McCormick organiza- :
tion is going to urge the election of
a "wet" candidate whom it has
charged with being anything but
good grubernatoriai material.
The public is now getting a glimpse
of these pure and saintly, holier than
thou reformers in their true light,
and the cloven hoof is showing from
beneath the monk's cloak.
1
If you have flowers to spare, take
them on Memorial Day to one of the
Grand Army post rooms in time for
use by the veterans.
I
PROHIBITION SOON
PRESIDENT Wilson has signed 1
the Hiwaiian prohibition bill. (
Gradually he is* approaching ]
the point when he must issue a de- ;
cree against the manufacture and <
sale of all intoxicating liquors in the •
United States. ,
Thank heaven, the days are past '■
when It was considered the proper 1
thing to celebrate Memorial Day by ,
two games of baseball at Island Park. ,
"ASK HARRY BAKER!" i
It the conduct of a military or '
I political campaign it frequently 1
happens that those largely re- '
sponsible for successful results ate
so modest that their names seldom ]
a?.pear in print In the recent im
portant primary election W. Harry 1
Baker, of this city, secretary of the :
Republican State Committee, had a 1
large part in the burdensome plan- *
ning necessary for the launching and '
conduct of the campaign. Only those '
familiar with political organizations (
can understand the tremendous de- '
tail which must be looked after by '
tho secretary of the State organiza- !
tlon.
Mr. Baker is a master of detail. He 1
has been thoroughly schooled !
through years of experience in dis- '
posing of the thousand and one 1
things that arise during a campaign '
and which demand a cool head and
wide knowledge of the working '
forces of the party. 1
"Ask Harry Baker," is the invari- '
able response of leaders and workers
when some perplexing problem bobs 1
up in any parliamentary session, a '
conference of party leaders, or the '
general management of the cam- 1
palgn. His services to the party have :
been invaluable and his personal 1
popularity keeps pace with his ef
ficiency. 1
i
And now, Mr. Director General Mc- '
Adoo. having asked for Increases of :
railroad tariffs to a surprising de
gree. won't you please tell us aside !
from wage advances what you are 1
going to do with the money?: 1
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
PRESIDENT WILSON voices the '
expressed conviction of the lead- !
ership of the Republican party,
and doubtless of a majority of Dem- 1
ocrats in Congress when he asks for 1
immediate consideration of 1919 war
revenue legislation. His address
yesterday reflected the sentiment of
Senatorial debate that preceded It
and was to a large degree an ampll- ,
Bcatlon of the views of most of the j
TUESDAY EVENING,
I far-sighted Senators and members
I of both parties.
The President takes the correct
| view. The war must be fought to a
successful finish and money is as
necessary to that end as men. The
people are as one in their deter
mination to continue on, no matter
wfiat the cost In blood or treasure,
until the German beast has been
slain. As the President says, they
know they must pay the bill and
they are ready for the sacrifice, pro
viding the taxation is Just and
equitable. But they ought to be told
thus year how much they must pay
in taxes next year, in order that
they may prepare to meet their
obligations, as*wrell as to guide their
investments in Liberty Bonds in the
meantime.
President Wilson never sensed the
state of the public mind more ac
curately nor interpreted it more
clearly than when he said to Con
gress yesterday:
Have you not felt the spirit of
the nation rise and its thought
become a single and common
thought since these eventful days
same in which we have been send-
i n * boys to the other side?
I think you must read that
thought, as I do. to mean this,
that the people of this country are
not only united in the resolute
purpose to win this war. but are
ready and willing to bear any
burden and undergo any sacrifice
that it may be necessary for them
to bear in order to win it. We
need not be afraid to tax them,
if we lay taxes justly. They know
that the war must be paid for
and that it is they who must pay
for it, and if the burden is justly
distributed and the sacrifice made
a common sacrifice from which
none escapes who can bear it at
all, they will carry it cheerfully
and with a sort of solemn pride.
I have always been proud to be
an American, and was never more
proud than now. when all that we
have foreseen about our people is
coming true. The great days
have come when the only thing
that they ask for or admire is
duty. greatly and adequately
done; when their only wish for
America is that she may share the
freedom she enjoys: when a great,
compelling sympathy wells up in
their hesrts for men everywhere
who suffer and are oppressed
and when they see at last the
high uses for which their wealth
has been piled up and their
mighty power accumulated and.
counting neither blood nor treas
ure now that their final day of
opportunity has come, rejoice to
spend and to be spent through
a long night of suffering and ter
ror in order that they and men
everywhere may see the dawn of a
day of righteousness and Justice
and peace.
The people are ready. They ask
only to be told in ample time the
extent of the support required of
them. It will be the duty of Con
gress to remain in session until t.h£
financial program for the coming
year has been decided upon.
The nature of the taxation, as the
President intimates, should be such
as to appeal to the popular sense of
fair play. The burden must be
placed where it can be most easily
borne, but the levy must touch the
pocketbook of even the humblest to
some extent. This is everybody's war
and everybody must help pay for it.
"Politics adjourned." says the
President- "We hope he's right, but
we doubt it.
LIVING MEMORIALS •
SEVERAL times the Telegraph
has suggested the dedication of
trees throughout the city as
living memorials to our soldiers. It
is gratifying to note that a consider
able number of trees already have
been planted as a result of this sug
gestion.
A current magazine refers to a
similar memorial p'an now In vogue
at Newburgh, N. Y., where citizens,
combining with the city government,
have arranged for the purchasing,
planting and labeling of a tree for
every Newburgh man who has re
sponded or who does respond to the
call to the colors. The city buys
the trees, mostly of the ornamental
shade variety, and individuals or or
ganizations do the planting and the
marking, providing silver or other
metal name-plates for the latter.
More than 1,100 trees have already
been planted in this way. In some
cases fraternal organizations have
provided these living memorials for
their drafted or enlisted members.
If the Harrisburg City Council
would create immediately a Shade
Tree Commission, as should have
been done long ago. such an organi
zation could put into effect the tree
planting suggestion outlined here
and there would be Wide-spread co
operation on the part of the people
of Harrisburg. Recent storms have
emphasized the importance and the
absolute need of something being;
done to protect the trees we have
and to increase their number.
It is creditable to the owner of
the property at State and Second
streets, where a large tree was re
cently blown down, that immediately
two fine young trees were planted
to fill the gap.
Many thousands of trees woyld be
set out in Harrisburg should this me
morial plan be adopted and the hun
dreds of Harrisburg boys in the ser
vice would feel that in addition to
all the other things that are being
done to support them at the front,
the folks back home were also main
taining a beautiful city to which
they may return after the victorious
peace shall have come.
Will not Park Commissioner Gross
take the lead in this work and be
assured that the community get
back of him and make the tree plan
a great success?
As the annual Memorial Day will
be observed during the present week
now would be an appropriate time to
start the tree planting movement
Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady will
doubtless be greeted by a great audi
ence at the Chestnut Street Audi
torium this evening. As an author,
soldier, sailor and clergyman and a
student of international affairs he is
peculiarly equal to discuss the sub
ject "Why God Doesn't Stop the
War."
Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Taft have
shaken hands and are good friends
again. And both are bigger, better
, men for the reconciliation.
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It commences to look as though
the Democratic party in Pennsylva
nia was getting ready for anothor
I of its periodical changes of bosses
and this time the men who rode in
to power on a demand for purifica
tion of their party would furnish the
reorganizing material. It is seven
years since A. Mitchell Palmer and
the coterie lined up with him got
control of the party machinery on
representation from a group of Dem
ocratic congressmen who were afraid
of getting defeated when the n&xt
election came around and the meth
ods they adopted furnished talk
among the party leaders for many a
: day. And now the same leaders
have been repudiated at a primary
election by the methods which aro
recognized as final the world over.
Prom all accounts partisans of
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell are Just
waiting until the returns are all tn
on the nomination for lieutenant
governor to start something and ail
signs are that National Committee
man Palmer, who "swore in" for
Bonniwell on Sunday, is trying io
head off something. The situation
is that the reorganization bosses have
control of the party machinery, Ihe
state committee and the headquar
ters, all of the things of which tliey
dispossessed the old Guffey-Dewalt
regime in 1911 anil to which they
got title in the last Democratic state
convention in 1912, but Judge Bon
niwell is the party standard-bearer
by virtue of a thorough trouncing
by the Democratic rank and file of
the candidate of the reorganizers, Jo
seph F. GufTey. Under such condi
tions a man chosen by the people na
turally may insist upon the pavtj
machinery being handled by men in
sympathy with him.
The Democratic state committee
meets in June and it will be interest
ing to see who follows Palmer into
the Bonniwell triumphal procession.
—The signs are that Judge Bonni
well will inaugurate, his campaign
tor purification of the Democracy
by throwing out the present Phila
delphia Democratic city committee
bosses. He will probably ask that
B. Gordon Bromley,, the old city
chairman, who was so distasteful to
the Palmer-McCormick regime, be
put in charge of the organization
again. The Philadelphia Record; the
big Democratic organ of the state,
has this to say about the matter:
"The city situation, from a Democra
tic point of view, is strikingly similar
to the predicament in which the sc
calied state leaders tind themselves.
Xo effort was made to wrest control
of the state committee from the Pul
mer-McCormick outfit, but already
Judge Bonniwell has been urged to
also take up the Pennsylvania lead
ership and procure the selection of
an active state chairman who could
lead a united party. Disgusted over
the miserable 'showing made by the
Palmer-McCormiek candidate, the
rank and file of the party favors a
Bonniwell man to succeed Joseph F.
Guitey, acting chairman of the state
committee. It is planned to open a
state headquarters branch in this
city and an active Democrat will be
placed in charge. It is regarded as
highly significant that hundreds of
Democrats who supported Guffey last
Tuesday are /low working in the
interest of complete reorganizations
of the city and state committees."
The Democratic bosses are meet-
I ing at Washington this week on a
hunt for a convenient place to alight
after soaring around with many
promises to the President and much
work by the Market Square wind
mill calling attention to the wonder
ful nature of their exploits—before
the recent primary. The Philadel
phia committee will meet next week.
—°n the other hand the results
of the Republican primary were so
decisive in the majority of cases that
very little is being heard. Senator
Sproul is going away for a rest and
the O'Neil committee is paying its
bills. The Governor has not spoken
and men aligned with his faction arc
lining up for the ticket.
—Sheriff H. C. Ransley will hea l
the Republican committee in Phil
adelphia again.
—Fores', county went "dry" yes
terday, making fourteen "dry" coun
ties.
—Representative "Bill" Davis, of
Cambria county, one of the 'wet'*|
leaders, not only srot Republican re-'
nomination, but took a Democratic
nomination as well.
—Friends of Judge W. D. Porter
say that he will have opposition on
the Superior Court ticket unless Ste
phen H. Huselton files a formal with
drawal. Huselton\s vote in spite of
his retirement from the race is so
large due to failure to properly In
form the people that he had quit,
that Judge Porter may not be the
sole nominee. In Perry county, for
instance, Huselton carried the coun
ty.
Some nervousness is being mani
fested on Capitol Hill over reports
'.hat Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr.,
may be opposed for election to the
Supreme Court for the full term in
Xovember and this may cause Gov
ernor Brumbaugh to find out how
Democrats feel in regard to the suc
cessor to Justice Mestrezat instead of
naming a Western Pennsylvania Re
publican. There have been reports
persistent here that Judge George
Kunkel, of Harrisburg, C. Laßue
Munson, of Williamsport, and Judge
Gustave A. Endlish, of Reading, are
being urged by friends to run and
Munson nomination papers are rum
ored in circulation. What is also dis
turbing the state administration men
is the report that Superior Court
Judge John W. Kephart will be a
candidate. The Judge is keeping his
own counsel and worrying Capitol
Hill by doing it
The hiladelphia Ledger to-day
says: "olitical circles were eagerly
debating yesterday a report that Wil
liam J. McNichol, who was named at
the primary election to succeed his
father, the late Senator James P.
McNichol, would withdraw and that
Representative John R. K. Scott
would be substituted to give the
Vares a floor leader in the Senate.
The nominee denied there was any
thing to the story. He said he had
heard nothing about it, and added:
'Mr. Vare has never spoken to me
about anything of the sort. I don't
think he will.' Senator Vare, when
asked pointblank if the story was
true, replied as follows: 'Say, why
don't you newspaper fellows give us
news any more. Here It is almost a
week since the primaries and you
haven't even found out who is nom
inated for Congressma-at-Large.' "
' A GOOD APPOINTMENT
The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
says: "Political circles were eagerly
vacancy In the Orphans' Court. The
Governor Is to be congratulated upon
his wise selectton.
Mr. Henderson does not wear the
tag of any politician. He owes hi 3
appointment to none of them. In
every way he is hU own master. A
most commendable and satisfactory
choice.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The city council of Ellsworth set
aside a "Dandelion Day," and paid
the boys and girls twenty-five cents
a bushel. One boy dug twenty
seven bushels.
A Keystone farmer writing to
complain to the State Board of
Agriculture about the war-girl farm
hand sent him claims that she asked
the first day what kind of scented
soap to use in washing lettuce, and
that her board does not pay for her
help.
Says a meditative Pennsylvania ed
itor: "They'll keep on using the word
' 'morale' until pretty nearly every
body will know what it means."
The Conviction of Mrs. Stokes
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
The conviction of Rose Pastor
Stokes for violating the espionage
act is a salutary act that will meet
with widespread approval. Mrs.
Stokes is not a newly arrived alien
of German birth or sympathies, but,
on the contrary, is a young woman
for whom America has done every-1
thing, as in the case of Mary Antin,
one of her compatriots. She by mar- 1
riage acquired the responsibility that;
comes from wealth, and also, by rea-;
son of her opportunities and her
public activities, was quite familiar!
with the obligations of citizenship in]
the land of her adoption. Instead of
meeting the situation created by thel
war with that nobility and humanity
to which she and her fellow extreni-!
ists are forever paying lip-service, inj
a willful, perverse, fanatical and ,
wholly irresponsible manner shej
threw over all the sub tance of social:
and political life tor the shadow of [
a certain kind of socialistic govern-1
ment in preparation for which she i
attacked all existing government;
here, expecting through chaos to;
realize all her social ideals. And;
these ideals vaguely held, seldom |
clearly stated, were promoted with a;
bitterness and an untruthfulness bij
the matter of the United States being;
at war that quite rtghtly brought her;
within the terms of the espionage acti
and so led to her conviction.
Disappearance of Shad ,
[Philadelphia Evening Telegraph]
The transition of Gloucester's fa
mous fishing shore into a shipbuild
ing plant can hardly be considered
in the light of a sacrificed industry,
for the shad that cnce came so plen
tifully come no more. Duilng the
past two or three years only a few
have been caught. A fine shad that
formerly could be had in its entirety
for tw'enty-five cents now costs five
time that.
Numerous are the causes given for
the disappearance of shad from the
Delaware. Some contend they have
been driven away by the refuse of
chemical plants dumped into the
river; others say the young are de- j
stroyed by German carp, while each
town along the stream has its local
oracle who gives everything from
changed zodiac conditions to the
noisy explosions cf motorboat
gines as the real reason.
None of them suggests an exhaust
ed supply. For many years the. Dela
ware has been fished over its entire
length with mile-long nets and les*.
and notwithstanding the efforts
of the government to increase
shad propagation, the extermination
seems to be almost complete.
Men Who Write Success Ads
H. C. Witwer, the humorist, says
in a funny story printed in the June
American Magazine:
"The nation is beln' flooded these
days with advertisements clalmin'
that any white man which works
for less than forty thousand bucks
a year is a hick. The best of 'em
is wrote by a friend of mine, Joe
Higgins, who gets all of twenty bucks
every Saturday at six—one-thirty In
July, August and September.
"The ads that Joe tears off deal
with inventions. He shows that
Edison prob'ly wouldn't of made, a
nickel over a million li he hadn't
discovered everything but America
and that Bell, Marconi, Fulton and
that gang wouldn't of been any bet
ter known to-day than ham and
eggs if they hadn't used their brains
for purposes of thinkln' and in
vented somethln'. 'There's fortunes
which would make the Vanderfciits
and Astors look like public charges.'
explains Joe. 'awa'.ttn' the bird which
will quit piny in' Kelly pool some
night and invent a new way to do
anything.' "
THE KAISER CONFRONTED
BY CHRIST A
CHRIST was offered all the king,
doms of the world if he would
fall down and worship. In
this episode of his life, as The Com
mercial and Financial Chronicle
(New York) interprets, there was
| offered him "the gift of physical
i force which would promptly con
j quer them all." This, then, "was
lin line of temptations common to
us all, to pay high for physical
! well-being and material advan
j tage." But Jesus rejected the
j temptation and gave the tempter
his name in saying, "Get thee be
hind me, Satan." The writer in this
Wall street paper shows that the God
of the Kaiser is the one who tempt
ed Jesus, for "when any king or any
state in the proud possession of
conscious power to conquer another
state claims divine suoport in the at
tempt, the God he invokes is the
'God of this world." who tempted
the Saviour, and only when finally
defeated left him at the cross."
This, it is shown, is the enemy "em
bodied in those who claim that
might makes right," against whom
"the democracy of the world has to
day to wage relentless war." The
writer continues:
"The Kingdom of God is at stake,
for that is 'not of this world'; and
civilization, which is the sum of
man's attainments in his long strug
gle toward his goal, is attacked, and,
if defeated, is sure to be destroyed.
"To secure the casting out by
the nations, as an utter fallacy, of I
the floctrine that might, either in i
the man or in the state, makes
right, and the rejection of the pur- I
pose to conquer others that their
property may be posssessed, and thus
to open the way that peace as the
Rift of God to 'men of good-wil"
may be obtained, the nations are
united to-day at any sacrifice or cost
Stories of "Charlie" Schwab
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
Yesterday and to-day we find illus
trated at Bethlehem another phase
of Mr. Schwab's versatility, In llie
music of the Bach choir of which
he is patron saint.
Opportunely there comes to me
from various sources another crop
of Schwab anecdotes
While the steel magnate was tak
ing a wheel-chair ride on the Board
walk at Atlantic City he noticed a
penny, which the negro lad who was
propelling htm saw also.
'Why don't you pick it up?" asked
Mr. Schwab.
"Well, I didn't think it was worth
while —it was only a penny."
"You must never talk that way,"
answered the man of millions. "I
saw it, too. and wondered why you
passed It by. Always look out for
the pennies aid the dollars will come]
of themselves."
He made the boy pick up and
pocket the despise-l coin.
When Schwab was a boy In the
village of Loretto, Pa., the school
master —an enthusiast for geology—•
told each child to bring him a speci
men t<s describe.
When the pile was collected the
teacher picked up the stones one by
one and told the pupils about them.
Young Schwab's contribution hap
pened to be a jagged piece of brick.
"Thts," said the schoolmaster,
I holding up the first stone, "is a piece
| of feldspar from the cros§ roads.
"This," he added, "is a piece of
marl from the meadow.
"Here," he continued, "we have a
piece of argillaceous sandstone from
the quarry."
Then, coming to Mr. Schwab's
contribution, the bit of a brick, he
said in tones of black anger, "And
this is a piece of Impudence from
Charlie Schwab!"
No Kitchin Tax Bill This Time
(New York Times.)
The chairman of the ways and
means committor talks as though he
were the House of Representatives.
Also, he talks us though he wished
to punish the entire country for the
defects of the legislation which he
was allowed to impose upon It. Fur
thermore, he talks like a contortion
ist who walks ahead and looks back
ward. On Thursday he Was sure
that there would be no difficulty
about passing a tax bill between the
holidays and the 4th of March. On
Friday he is sure that no tax bill ever
has been or can be passed in leas
than half a year. What he may have
said on Saturday, or may say here
after, is not yet known, but it is sure
that there will be no such tax bill
as he talks about.
to defeat Germany and destroy her
power of aggression. The lives that
are declared to this cause are offer
ed both to God and to humanity in
a service that is above all.
"When this is accomplished it
may well be said that 'it was more
stupid than criminal to imagine at
the opening of the twentieth century
that a nation has for its mission th
subjection of another people, and,
if they do not submit, to put them
to the edge of the sword. When they
discovered that violence and false
hood are forces, it was sheer stu
pidity to believe that these forces
dominate men, and that one can by
a blow from the shoulder lift hu
manity to the level of Christ and of
Cain. Cain was stronger than Abel,
since he killed him; it is, however,
the race of Abel which has civilized
the earth. The Pharisees were
stronger than Christ, since they
crucified Him. It is, however, the
Galilean who has conquered. It is
he who is to conquer on our fields
of battle. The soldiers of the Re
public are the soldiers of God. for
God is above all.' That, for to-mor
row. To-day we may say with the
young soldier, Rupert Brooke, giv
ing his life before Gallipoll:
Honor has come back as a King to
to earth.
And paid Mis subjects with a royal
wage;
And nobleness walks in our ways
again.
And we have come into our heritage.
"The \ictory is already won in
the sacrifice; and the men and the
women of the years to come will
have the peace."
Two of the principles for which
al! of Germany's enemies are now
fighting are the right of the weak
to exist Independent of the strong,
and the denial of the right, of pos
session as a reward of conque#.
GENERAL TO HIS SON
Discipline, like charity, begins at
home, and you must see that you
yourself possess what you try to In
culcate. If you, consider that you
have been unjustly treated, and that
another, less competent than you,
has received the promotion which
you yourself expected, keep your
feelings to yourself. Refuse to be
embittered and do your duty as
cheerily as ever. This war is not
being fought in order that you may
get advancement. . . . No man is
infallible, and it may well happen
that your immediate superior has
not tackled the problem in front of
him in the best manner, but what
ever his orders are, back him up
heart and soul and remember that
a fairly sound plan energetically
carried out will generally succeed,
but that a perfect one is doomed to
failure if not properly supported."
This is the advice which one of "A
General's Letters to his Son"
(Houghton Miffln Company) gives
and which might well be taken by
every young officer.
GOOD-BY, GERMAN
(From the Evening Ledger.)
The Board of Public Education has
responded to an undoubted public
demand in ordering that the teach
ing of German in the schools be
stopped.
There is a feeling that the lan
guage cannot be studied without sub
jecting the pupils to some subtle
sort of German propaganda. And
there is also a feeling that even If
there were no danger of misleading
the young people, the. language of
the Germans does not deserve the at
tention of free-born Americans. The
school board evidently believes that
this feeling is entertained by a ma
jority of the people In the city or it
would not have acted.
We assume, however, that the War
Department will not /eject office!s
who understand the German lan
guage, nor discharge fiom the army
soldiers who can talk with German
prisoners and can understand what
Is said in the trenches of the enemy
when they approach them through
No Man's Land. While German may
not be necessary here. It is of the
first importance that there be In our
army in France a generous number
of men who understand tha lan
guage.
Judah Takes Jerusalem
Now the chi'-'ren of Judah had
! fought against .lerusalem, and had
| taken It, and smitten it with the
! edge of the sword, and set fire to the I
fiity.—Judges, i, 8.
MAY 28, 1918. '
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"
The lepers of Molokai bought $5,-
000 worth of Liberty Bonds, wishing:
to guard against the possibility of
having to associate with Germans.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
German army is frantically eager
to get out of the low, damp valley it
is in—you see, the German soldiers
are now wearing paper pants.—Chi
cago Daily New'j.
An American newspaper man in
France has been made a Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor. The office car
ries no salary.—Dallas News.
Some idea of how Finland's "in
dependence" is turning out may be
formed from the information that a
Prussian duke ia running for king
on the Hohenzollern ticket. —Kan-
sas City Star.
If Messrs. Willard and Fulton
can't find any place to fight in this
country, they might be reminded
that there are no laws restricting
fighting in Flanders and Picardy.—
Nashville Southern Lumberlan.
Professor William Herbert Hobbs
blames the intellectuals of allied
countries for not having duly waraed
the people of the German menace.
As a matter of fact such warnings
were sounded, but coming from the
intellectuals no one paid any at
tention to, them. San Francisco
Chronicle.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HABIT.
"Why <ii<J your wife leave you?"
"Force of 'haibiit, I guess. She was
a cook before I married her."
THE ONLY WAT.
Disgusted Boy Doll (in back
ground)— Gee, I guess if I want to
popular with those girls I'll have
LOOKED THE PART.
Bat —Ha, ha, those fool buffs thlni
I'm thfc uevil'
BY THE SAD SEA WAVES.
"Hey, Whait's the idea Polly?"
"Oh, juat balancing myself on my
[ petchl"
iEbpttittg GMfat
Every tlnrfe any one of the older
residents wants to make any ex
pression Indicative of high prices,
reference Is made to the figures
whlcn had to be paid "during the
war." This reference is to the Civil
War, of course, and the prices for
wheat, potatoes and fruits as well
as materials have long been con
sidered the last word la altitude.
Yet, if things keep on In this war
the Civil War economic situation will
look like a mere flurry. We are eJK
familiar with prices for coal ana
potatoes last winter and how prices
have gone up and down, mainly up,
this spring. Now we face raises In
| railroad fares, probably to keep
people from traveling as much as
anything else. Just for the sake of
keeping the record straight and in
order to make mention of some of
the sources of complaint it may be
said that the prices of certain fruits
can be taken as indicative of what
prices really are. These prices are
quoted on fruits which are not es
sential except in cases of sickness
and then occasionally, but they are
commonly used and are fair samples.
Grape fruit cost fifteen to twenty
five cents, according to into what
Philistine's hands you fall. Oranges
have previous prices beaten a mile
and now here comes a chance when
bananas may cost a nickel apiece.
They sell for from forty to fifty cents
a dozen and are going up. Of course,
this is not a good season for such
fruits and transportation is limited,
but the prices are something to talk
about.
• • •
All litigation for properties In the
Capitol park extension zone was
ended yesterday in the Supreme
Court when settlements were affected
without presentation to the bench of
th& appeals in the cases of Helen M.
Lee and the Cooper Foundry In
terests and the Commonwealth will
now proceed to take possession of
the last of the 542 properties in the
district. There is only one parcel
in which an agreement has not been
reached and It is that of H. Homer
Matter, who owned a place called
the Matterhorn, a concrete struc
ture, and who refuses to take the
money allowed him by the courts.
The building is vacant and it will
disappear before many days whether
Matter accepts the money or not.
The settlements were effected In the
case of the Lee properties in Walnui
street, in which a question of eject
ment arose, the upshot being that
the state will remove the buildings
at once. In the Cooper case, wherein
a $55,000 verdict was given against
the state settlement was effected
for almost that sum. This building
has been removed. To-day men be
gan removing the last of the build
ings remaining in Fourth street ex
cept that occupied by the state and
the old Kesher Israel Synagogue,
which will be vacated in a fortnight.
The state removed the first building
in 1912 under purchase made ac
cording to the act of 1911 and se
cured about twenty-seven acres of
ground of which the cKfc' gave four
acres as highways.
• • •
F. R. Stevens, the agricultural di
rector of the State Chamber of Com
merce. was to-day drafted by the
Pennsylvania Public Safety Com
mittee to, as he put it last night "to
see that men who know how to farm
and don't need to are induced to
help out the men who have to farm
and who need help." Mr. Stevens
was long agricultural expert for
Lehigh Valley railroad and will be
assistant state director of the Fed
eral Public Service Reserve in charge
of the agricultural labor division.
"The proposition will be to get
Tim Leahy, who lives a short dis
tance from "Tom" Kline, in the Lau
rel Hill section of Bradford county
and who is fat and well-to-do and
■forty and knows how to work on-a
farm to go and help out Kline who
only has his wife," said Mr. Stevens.
"It will be good for both and for
Uncle Sam. The idea is to obtain the
unoccupied hours of businessmen and
vacation periods for farm work and
to secure the labor which may be
released from non-essential indus
tries. It is the ,idea to have meet
ings of Chambers of Commerce and
business associations all over Penn
sylvania to get this help for the
farmer organized."
* • •
The session of the Supreme Court
held here yesterday was not only
the shortest on record here in years,
but the first in a long time during
which some decisions were not hand
ed down. As a rule the court hands
down a couple of dozens of opinions
and the decision to hold the session
In Philadelphia for the May deliv
erances was a surprise to many law
yers who had expected announce
ments here.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—The Rev. Dr. R. E. Johnson has
pledged the support of the Dry Fed
eration of Philadelphia to Senator
William C. Sproul.
—Judge F. M. Trexler was among
.the speakers at the big naturaliza
tion meeting at the Army camp at
Allentown.
—The Rev. C. M. Nicholas, who
comes from this section, preached
the Memorial Day sermon to Potts
ville Spanish War veterans.
—Bishop Rhinelander, of Phila
delphia. is delivering sermons at the
series of meetings on the parkway.
—Congressman W. W. Griest, of
Lancaster, is at Atlantic City.
—Stephen B. Luce, of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania Museum, has
been made a lieutenant in the Navy.
He is a grandson of an admiral.
—L. Saylor Zimmerman will be
Memorial Day speaker at Schaeffers
town. He Is one of the legislative
candidates.
DO YOU KNOW
—That H&rrisburg tin plate Is
boing nswi for much govern
ment work Just as arc our steel
plates?
Hisrroßrc HARRISBURG
Early Harrisburgers used to go to
Paxton and Coxestown for church)
services. \
"WE KNOW A JUST CAUSE"
"Although you raised us to be too
proud to fight, we know a Just cause
when we see it, and if you could
the French women as I see them
you would be proud that you had
two boys to give."
"If I die I want to know that I
have died as every man ought to die,
fighting for what is right. I do not
feel that I am fighting for France
alone, but for the cause of all
humanity, which is the gt-eatest of
all causes."
Extracts from the letters of Kiffln
Rockwell, Amoricau aviator, to hi*
i mother.