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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1018
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The love of the beautiful is becom
ing not only the possession of the
rich, but the desire and possession of
the very poor. — JOHN BURNS.
THE FOURTH OF JULY
MAYOR KEISTER should havo
the support of the entire com
munity In his purpose to ar
range for the city a proper Fourth
of July celebration. If ever In the
History of the United States the
spirit of the nation should find ex
pression in a fitting observance of
its birthday it is now, when we are
fighting desperately against a pow
erful and unscrupulous foe for the
vtry existence of those principles
upon which the country Is founded.
In 1776 our forefathers took up
the sword against a German mon
arch sitting on the British throne,
who forced them to fight or pay
tribute to a government in which
they had no voice. Our old school
histories gave us very little light on
how this war was regarded in Eng
land, but if they had told the full
truth, more Americans would know
what more careful readers have
ltarned —which is, that the course
qt King George was almost aa un
popular in his own country as It
in America. And so our fight
then, as now, was against an un
scrupulous German robber, and as
our first war was won under great
handicap we may take heart from
the hardihood and war-like quali
ties of our ancestors and look for
ward to the complete downfall of
this archetype of the villainous and
tyrannous old reprobate who was
responsible for our first break with
a European power.
With this in mind, we may very
appropriately twine the Union Jack
with the Stars and Stripes, and the
standards of France and of Italy
on the coming Fourth of July, and
our prayer for success may be ad
' dressed to the God of Battles In be
half of all our allies as well as for
■ Ourselves, marred by no harsh mem
ories of the past. England and the
United States stand to-day where
the colonies of America stood on
that fateful day in 1776, and the
God who guided our sturdy little
armies to victory on those early
fields of contest will bless and guide
the great hosts that now fight in
His name and for His cause on the
far-flung battle lines of the world.
Divine invocation, services of prayer
.end praise, should be part of the
, celebration which the Mayor con
templates. Washington prayed at
Valley Forge, Lincoln sought heav
enly intervention and guidance in
the dark days of the Sixties, and we
cart well profit by their .examples.
A nation on its knees is a winning
nation.
> Mrs. O'Leary's son appears to be
|l almost as inflammatory as Mrs.
1 O'Leary's cow.
A MUNICIPAL LEADER
DENVER has lost its guiding
spirit through the death of
Robert W. Speer, the master
builder of the wonderful Rocky
Mountain metropolis. Forty years
ago he went to Denver from Penn
sylvania to regain his health and he
remained to devote his recovered
energies to the upbuilding of. the city
which he loved. Three tlfnes mayor
of his city, Mr. Speer developed an
I j aptitude for municipal detail and
management which was the marvel
j of all with whom he came into con
- tact. His return to the executive
chair after retirement to private life
j a year or two ago was said to have
I been the political triumph of his life.
Like many another public official,
he was cartooned and abused and
criticised without limit by his po
litical and personal enemies, but
nothing ever swerved Mayor Speer
from the objectives toward which
h was constantly moving. Denver
Is a living monument of his remark
able vision and ability to accomplish
.big things.
■ -After a "reform" administration
which lasted one year, although It
■tad been elected for four, the people
Hkanged the charter and installed
■pmmlsaion government. This lasted
SATURDAY EVENING, BABIUBBURG TELEGRXPH
three years, when the people signified !
unmistakably that they had had !
enough. Influential business men |
urged Mr. Speer to again become a '
candidate for mayor, and through his I
desire to see certain of his construe- >
tlve plans carried out he consented ;
to do so, provided the people would
accept him on a charter amendment
of his own making. He believed in
a highly centralized form of govern
ment as more efficient than diffused
responsibility.
Mayor Speer was an eminently
practical man and combined rare
qualities of vision with hard business
sense. He knew his community In
timately and gave to the service of
the people the best that was In him.
The amended charter vested in him
wide powers, but he exercised these
with regard only for the benefit of
the people. Under the present sys
tem of government in Denver there
is a combination of the old mayor
form, the commission form and the
manager form, but, after all, the real
success of the Speer~admlnlstratlon
was due to the executive force and
steadfast purpose of the mayor him
self. The people showed their con
fidence in his Integrity and ability
by entrusting him with this extra
ordinary power, and he conducted
the administration on a purely non
partisan basis, appointing Repub
licans and Democrats according to
their fitness to serve.
Mayor Speer was a lover of chil
dren and on a trip through Europe
he was so impressed with the fa
mous "Children's Fountain" In a
park at Dusseldorf that he obtained
the consent of the sculptor at Paris
to reproduce a similar fountain at
Denver.
It would be a good thing for all
American citizens could they have
the genius and devotion to the pub
lis service which were the strong
points in Mayor Speer's public
career. He demonstrated beyond any
question that it Is not so much the
form of government which counts as
it is ability and vision and con
secration to the interests of the peo
ple by the chosen public servant.
While he has passed on. Mayor
Speer has left his impress upon the
municipal life of the United States
and his example will be followed by
scores of cities which are now grop
ing along in the hope of finding the
light.
Necessity for trimming aiyl other
wise protecting the shade trees of the
city is" obvious in nearly every street.
Low-hanffing branches frequently
knock oft the hats of pedestrians and
there Is danger to occupants of pass
ing automobiles. In order to escape
the ravages of the "tree butcher" the
City Council ought to make some pro
vision for* the care and treatment of
our trees. Let's do it NOW.
DEFYING GERMANY
PRESIDENT WILSON, speaking
through Secretary Lansing, has
taken a bold and very commend
able stand in defying Germany to
proceed with reprisals against Amer
ican prisoners in Germany as a re
sult of the President's very proper
refusal to release the notorious and
murderous Captain-Lieutenant Fritz
von Rintelen, who spent millions of
dollars in this country in fomenting
bomb plots which were responsible
for the loss of much property and
many lives.
Von Rintelen came to the United
States a's the personal representative
of the Kaiser and he is being pun
ished —very mildly, we think —for
the frightful crimes of which he was
guilty. The judge who sentenced him
voiced American sentiment when he
said that prison for life or death was
more deserved than the meager
prison term prescribed by the law.
To the insolent demand of Ger
many, doubtless prompted by the
personal interest of the Emperor, the
American government has replied
that if the few American prisoners
held by Germany are mistreated, the
responsibility of reprisals upon Ger
man subjects in the United States
must rest entirely upon the heads of
the German government, and the in
ference is clearly made that, -while
such a course would be extremely
disagreeable to the people of this
country, it will be adopted without
hesitancy should Germany make
good her threat. We in America
have been lenient in the extreme
with German subjects. They have
had more freedom than many of
them deserve. We have in prison
here far more Germans than there
are Americans in Germany. If the
Kaiser harps one American he will
by so doing seal the death-warrant
of von Rintelen and start a series of
bloody incidents that would result in
a number of other Germans in the
United States getting their just
deserts. A dozen Germans for every
American is not too big a price.
The spirit and thought of the
American people are behind Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary
in this decision. It may cost us
precious American lives, but it will
cost Germany far more dearly and
would give the Kaiser a lesson in
frightfulness that may hang crepe
on the doors of the imperial house
hold itself. Let Wilhelm start that
sort of thing with America and
America will take the last toll when
it hangs this imperial murderer on
the final day of his reckoning with
us. The price of ne American life
in a war of reprisals must be that
of the Kaiser himself, if not those
of all his fellow conspirators in ad
dition. America has no desire to in
stitute reprisals, but we are a
through-going people and we may be
expected to have the last word in
anything we undertake.
The O'Nell declaration for Sproul Is
the final note in the new Republican
harmony chorus.
Our answer to the U-boat raid is
that we launched seventy-one ships
during May.
If \Mr. Burbank desires real fame,
let him develop a vegetable that will
grow faster than a weed.
"pO&ttC* CK
By <be Kx- Coram!tteemam I
The fact that the Democratic state'
committee has been called for about
the latest time that It can legally
meet under the primary act regulat
ing election of members of state com
mittees is taken 'to mean that the
clique which was unhorsed by the
Democratic voters of Pennsylvania
on May 21, proposes to hold on as
long as possible and to use the time
to gain all the advantage obtainable.
The Palmer-McCormick leaders find
that they are in even a worse position
i than their opponents were in the
warring days of 1911 when the old
Guffey-Dewalt-Donnelley organiza
tion was separated with the utmost
rudeness from control of the Demo
cratic state machine. On that historic
occasion the reorganizers won the
legal title to the state committee
management by a couple of votes in
a meeting of the committeemen
which was always more or less ques
tioned by their rivals. A year later
the Democratic voters of the state
gave the Palmer-McCormick faction
i their approval. This was the basis of
the much advertised control of the
state organization based upon right,
justice and morality. It has been
dinned into the ears of everyone that
the title of the Palmer-McCormick
leadership rested on the votes of the
party. Now the Palmer-McCormick
candidate for Governor has been de
feated by thousands in an open pri
mary and the voters have given their
approval to a candidate who has al
ways been openly hostile to the re
organizers. There is nothing left for
the reorganized to do but fight aginst
what they have always contended was
right or else get out. And the chances
are that will be thrown out.
Ex-Congressman J. Washington
Logue, successful candidate for the
Democratic nomination for lieuten
ant governor, declared yesterday he
would soon issue a statement defin
ing his position. Mr. Logue cam
paigned as a "dry" Candidate, and, as
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the Dem
ocratic gubernatorial nominee, won
on a \yet platform, there has been
considerable speculation over the pe
culiar forntation of the ticket. "I
have nothing to say at this time,"
Mr. Logue said yesterday. "Things
will develop very quickly now and I
will soon have something to say .J'
—The Philadelphia Record says:
"It is believed that Mr. Logue will
withdraw and permit Judge Bonni
well to select his own running mate.
In this event, it is believed, a promi
nent Democrat from the western end
of the state will be' chosen as a can
didate for lieutenant governor. It
was said yesterday that there is also
a strong possibility of Asher R. John
son, Democratic nominee for secre
tary of internal affairs, withdrawing
from the fight. All vacancies on the
ticket will be filled at a meeting of
the Democratic state committee to
be held in Harrisburg on June V>.
Prominent Democrats living in all
parts of the state have already an
nounced that a state chairman
should be selected who is accepta
ble to the gubernatorial nominee.
Judge Bonniwell has announced that
either Jonathan Frederick or Mal
colm R. Gross, both of Lehigh coun
ty, would meet his requirements for
the position."
—The meeting of the Republican
state committee will be a love feast
from all accounts. Men allied with
all factions will attend and unite
with Sproul. *
—Members of the Prohibition
state committee are commencing to
find out that they were elected as
the late returns are coming.
—No change of any consequence
occurred in the Porter-Huselton
vote to-day. The comment of
newspapers about the voters of the
state casting ballots by thousands
for a man who withdrew will prob
ably have some effect "on the next
Legislature, because the non-parti
san act is not considered perfect.
—From all accounts meetings of
Republican ward committees in
Pittsburgh were a bit rough. The
city administration and the "out"
faction had some differences which
required police.
Senator Frank P. Graff, who will
be buried to-morrow from his home
in Worthington, Armstrong county,
is the third member of the State
senate ol 1917 to die during his term
and there will be three special elec
tions of senators to fill vacancies
caused by deaths. These elections
will be for the terms of Senators
James P. McNichol, Philadelphia,
and Charles J. Magee, Allegheny,
and Senator Graff. In addition a
fourth special election has been
called because of the resignation of
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder,
Schuylkill. They will form the
largest number of such elections to
be known at one time in years. In
the event that Senator William C.
Sproul is elected governor and Sena
tor Edward E. Beidleman, lieuten
ant-governor, special elections to
select their successors will be held
next winter after inauguration day
in all probability. This is the first
time the-two leading candidates on
a. Republican ticket have been sen
ators and it is also interesting that
the nominee for secretary of in
ternal affairs on the same ticket Is
also a legislator, being James F.
Woodward, member of the House
from Allegheny and chairman of the
appropriations committee for sev
eral sessions.
Expense accounts filed at the
State Capitol by candidates who ran
at the recent primaries have less
than usual of the number of unusual
items. Often the-e are payments
stated which are so out of the or
dinary as to cause comment and
some have furnished amusement.
This year "dissemination of in
formation" appears to be the chief
way of camouflaging expenditures.
In the expense account of Con
gressman John R. K. Scott appears
an item of twenty pounds of tacks,
presumably to' put up the placards of
the candidate for lieutenant gover
nor, although he seems to have been
liberal with payments to advertising
and poster companies. Judge Eu
gene C. Bonniwell has returned the
cost of five padlocks for use at head
quarters and $5 for a dictionary*
—Governor Brumbaugh's curt re
fusal to discuss possible appointees
to the Public Service Commission or
the Supreme bench are taton to
mean here that he has not Settled
on any candidates. The Governor Is
anxious to name men who can bo
confirmed or elected, as the case
may be, and since he has decided
not to consult the Vare leaders there
is much Intefest as to whom ha
will choose as guide. The appoint
ment of William A. Magce a.s pub
lic service commissioner has long
been forecast. There is speculation
as to whether he will be confirmed in
January. The suggestion that the
situation of Brumbaugh appointees
In January, 1919, will be much like
that of the Toner men In January.
191 G. is annoying to people at the
Capitol.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A NEGRO SPEAKS
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Seeing the article from Lieutenant
O. E. McKain in your real Ameri
can paper reminded me of a few
things that procrastination alone is
responsible for the non-communica
tion to you concerning them before;
however, "better late than never."
Flag Raising Day here on the
Government grounds in New Cum
berland was a great day. Sev
eral happenings that day put me
to thinking, as it did mony others, I
hope. '
One and the first, was: How little
do my race as a whole know of the
thorough democracy of the real peo
ple ot this country who stand for
something and are fearless In speech
and action?
The great Major Morava first
spoke with his whole soul of this
country and its actions to free all
classes of people; how in '6l it shed
its own people's blood for the black
man's freedom, and how now not
any power great or small will be
exempted that will further the cause
of a successful termination of the
greatest of struggles to free all man
kind from the tyrranical power of
autocracy.
Next was one of Harrisburg's
prominent men who has been active
in the Liberty Loan drives, J. E. B.
Cunningham. His eloquence was
appreciated by all.
The next was the owner of
paper, whose appearance alone gave
all who know anything of human
nature from personal bearing that
a man faced them who was all that
the name American implies.
Then last but not least came the
Blue Devils. Mr. Editor, I believe
those were great men and real
fighters. They were interesting to
look upon, but did you ever see any
Black Devils? Well, I could hardly
resist asking Major Morava to per
mit me to pick out a few of the men
erasing there upon the Blue Devils.
They would be "Black Devils," but
no devils of any caste whatever
would bring home more bacon "a la
Kaiser" than this brand. Just give
them a show.
Respectfully,
J. I. GREENHOW.
Employe Rates & Rogers Con. Co.
New Cumberland, May 30, 1918.
Mr. O'Neil Supports Sproul
J. Denny O'Neil's public announce
ment that he will support Senator
William C. Sproul, in the election
campaign for Governor of Pennsyl
vania, "and will ask all my friends
to do likewise," fulfills the moral ob
ligation that rested on him to ac
cept the result of the Republican
primary. The Gazette Times is glad
that Mr. O'Neil has made this hon
orable decision, and trusts that, as
the campaign proceeds he will give
emphatic adherence to Republican
principles and politics and the ad
mirable platform of constructive
aims on which Senator Sproul made
his successful appeal to the party
voters. We agree with all that Mr.
O'Neil says about the duty of the
hour being the winning of the war,
and we share his hope that Penn
sylvania shall be one of the 36 states
which will ratify the Federal pro
hibition amendment, but, as none
knows better than he does, it is not
within 'the power of Sproul
and his associates" to bring about
ratification at Harrjsburg. That is
the province of the Legislature, and
of It alone. However, Sehator Sproul
is earnestly In favor of ratification
and Pennsylvanians may be sure he
will do all possible in furtherance
of It. ,
In this connection Mr. O'Neil says
very truly, "to win the war we must
conserve food, fuel, labor, money
and tonnage now used by the liquor
Industry." Pennsylvania legislators
should have no difficulty in reaching
the same conclusion and acting ac
cordingly. Some of them, no doubt,
will seize upon the example of
President Wilson as sufficient excuse
for regarding liquor as a war neces
sity and voting against ratification.
Senator Sheppard, author of the pro
hibition amendment resolution, yes
terday declared the president's ap
position had killed the Randall
amendment to the emergency food
bill, which was designed to prevent
the use of foods in the manufacture
of alcoholic beverages. The coun
try, as usual, must rely upon Repub
licans for the enactment of progres
sive measures of great public bene
fit. Consideration of ' this should
constrain Pennsylvania Republicans
to unite In the coming campaign In
support of ratification.— Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
Allied Conf
From the Literary Digest
GERMAN apathy at home over
the new drive, and the calm
confidence of the Allied peo
ples in the face of this reverse, both
have one explanation. In the race
between Hindenburg and President
Wilson —to use Lloyd George's crisp
characterization of the battle of the
western front—the odds are running
every day increasingly against the
German. When the British premier
adds that "those who know best
what the prospects are feel most con
fident about the results," he can only
mean, notes the Omaha World-1
Herald, that "the United States is
winning the race." Allied shipyards
are launching ships faster than Ger
man U-boats can destroy them; Al
lied navies are sinking U-boats faster
than Germany can build them; Al
lied crops are promising record har
vests in France and England that
will release further tonnage to carry
American men and munitions to the
battlefield. At the same time, for
Germany, many observers believe,
another year of war will spell bank-1
ruptcy alike as to her food supply, >
her finances and her man-power.
Hence the German thrust against the I
Aisne front is interpreted in Wash
ington as another attempt to smash'
through the Allied armies to victory I
before American troops arrive in
such force as to make a German vic
tory impossible.
When, after a comparative lull of
nearly a month, the CJermans on May
27 launched another major drive in
their great spring offensive on the
western front, they duplicated on a
smaller scale much of the success
that crowned the early days of their
thrust in Picardy. Striking toward
Paris between Soissons and Reims,
the armies of the German crown
prince drove a third great wedge
into the Allied line, its point pene
trating to the Marne in four days, a
depth of over twenty miles. By hurl
ing into this -attack upon a strong
but thinly held position some
400,000 men supported by artillery,
tanks and machine guns, the Ger
mans captured the famous ridge of
the Chemin des Dames, crossed the
Aisne and Vesle rivers in force and
occupied Soissons before the Allied
reinfprcements could impede their
furious onrush. During these first
four days, according to Berlin re
ports, the Germans took 35,000
prisoners, and "tremendous" booty
in war materials, including "guns of
every description, up to railway guns
of the heaviest caliber." The kaiser,
after watching a section of the battle
from a neighboring hill, telegraphed
the empress the blasphemous mes
sage that "God has granted us a
LABOR NOTES
As long ago as 1858 a farmers'
convention at Centralla, 111., advo
cated wholesale buying and selling
agencies for farmers.
Memphis (Tenn.) contractors have
accepted the new wage scale of Elec
trical Workers' Union, which raises
rates 50 cents a day.
In one of the largest British mu
nition factories where 35,000 work
ers are employed more than 33,000
are women.
Th Seamen's International Union
of America is again advocating gov
ernment operation of all shipyards.
Herts (England) War Agricultural
Committee has started a library of
fiction for girls working on the
farms.
Half a million dollars is being
spent on a scheme for employing dis
abled soldiers and sailors in the Brit
ish diamond cutting industry.
The United Club, with 600 mem*-
bera, all self-supporting girls, hus
opened a fine big clubhouse in New
York.
A retirement law for superannu
ated Federal employes ( seepis to be
reasonably within Bight.
The largest .garage In Washington,
D. C., has replaced its male cleaners
of automobiles with colored women
help.
Women of England virtually have
assumed charge of public utilities
and have invaded the police arid fire
department.
A threatened strike of miners and
steel workers of the Nova Scotia
Steel and Coal Company has been
averted.
splendid victory and will help fur
ther."
But the damage inflicted by Ger
man arms on the Allied Hire has not
dented the Allied morale, according
to all the evidence available; nor is
the rejoicing of the German press, if
Amsterdam dispatches report cor
rectly, as exuberant as after the
March advance in Picardy. In the
British papers, correspondents tell
us, there is no note of despondency,
but everywhere calm faith in Gen
eral Foch. And In France, says a
dispatch to the New York Times, the
confident watchword la, "We must
hold on until the Americans come."
British and French papers alike see
a hapy omen in the American vic
tory at Cantigny, west of Montdidler
on the Picardy front, where our
troops with the dash and precision
of veterans flattened out a small
German salient, took over 200 pris
oners, inflicted heavy losses in killed
and wounded, and consolidated and
held their gains against many vio
lent counter-attacks. German gen
erals £.nd statesmen know the sig
nificance of this as well as do Amer
ica's allies, remarks the London
Times, which goes on to say:
"It means that the last great fac
tor between autocracy and freedom
is coming into effective play on the
battlefield. It means that they have
hut to hold the gap a little longer be
fore their comrades from across the
ocean come in armies pledged never
to sheathe the sword until it has
swept Prussian militarism from the
earth and established the reign of
justice and peace. There could be
no reflection more heartening for the
Allies or more dismaying to their ad
versaries."
"We must hold on until October
and stand up under other hard blows
which we still have to face until
then," writes Marcel Hutin, military
critic of the Echo de Paris and one
of tTx few French writers who fore
told the possibility of the Alsne at
tack. And he adds: . "
"Next October the Americans will
have more than a million and a half
men on the western front, from flow
until then, as Clemenceau has verv
frankly explained, we and our allies
must stand up to all the Germaji at
tacks. To economize our men "until
then and to keep the enemy is check,
even at the price of yielding ground
—we must resign ourselves to that."
Meanwhile Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, in a Decoration Day speech
in Wilkes-Barre, announces that our
movement of troops to Europe will
reach the . million mark in a few
weeks; that in a few months the two
million mark will have been reached,
and that ten million or more men
will be sent, if need be.
Make Ballot Foolproof
The working of the non-partisan
ballot reveals it as a source of dan
ger Instead of safety. It has a ca
pacity for defeating the wishes of
the people who have any intelligent
wishes on the subject by giving the
nomination and perhaps election to
some one wholly unfit who revives
votes not because the voters want
him but because of the tendency of
voters to mark a cross opposed the
first candidate on the list.
In this way the alphabet and not
the will of the people determine the
result. Ben Adhem's name will leacf
all the rest not because he has been
blest but by the accident of nomen
clature his name stands first on the
alphabetical list of candidates. Two
years agfe we almost elected in this
way an abseure atiorney to the Su
preme bench for no other reason
than the initial letter of his name
placed it on the ballot before bis
highly competent competitor. This
year a man named Huselton whose
name was on the judiciary ticket
against his wishes received 117,463
votes for Superior* Court Judge be
cause his name preceded that of
Judge Porter whom, every rational
voter wished to have re-elected.
The lack of attention, observation
and reflection of so many thousand
voters is a strong argument against
the direct primary and particularly
the non-partisan ballot. Voters need
guidance else they flounder and blun
der in seeking to record their will in
a matter for which they care little.
Party lines when maintained on the
ballot offer some guidance. Conven
tions at least gave us candidates
whose character and antecedents
were known and whose election or
non-election was not left to chance.
It an impeachment of a system
that gives to Mr. Aaron a decided
advantage over Mr. Zigler in secur
ing a majority of the votes. The bal
lot should be short, simple and fool
proof. At present It is none of these,
i—Philadelphia Press.
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Over tfwc
IK *~pe-)v)uu
"We do not need the German lan
guage in America to-day, and to
morrow, by the grace of God, it
will be a dead language," declared
Dr. Robert McElroy, head of the
department of history at Princeton,
in his recent address at Philadelphia
before the League to Enforce Peace.
"The great task of the civilian in
this war is to flefeat German propa
n^ a if nd , Jt of its intended
prey, the soul of this nation. For
forty years the mind of every Ger
man child, through a well thought
r.rV kU, £ Ul * Planned scheme
i*"'. , M been concentrated
upon the destiny of Germany to rule
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When, grandma was young, with her
beauty in bloom,
A damsel was taught how to enter
a room;
It pains her to-day when a girl
with a grin, '
Says: "Here I am, folks; I thought
I d blow in?"
Any comfortable place where
there are free seats and I cai enjov
the society of my fellow human
d °'" says Mr ' Buck
Whiffington, as a result of closins
poolrooms and bars in a western
Pennsylvania town. "Lately. I had
to RO home before midnight.*'
OUR DAILY LAUCH
PUZZLE GAME. l|s-
My wife gives
mo a section of E&L "<
her mind now and jjfwgrt
Well? '' <
And It Is as in- _Ja|-7 ■
terestlng as a pic- . ffl/\ V N
ture puzzle trying
to put them to-
A REBELLIOUS
i £% ANOEL -
But 1 can ' l
-// >' | spare SSO for an
other new sum-
I mcr £° wn > J ust
I WSftlSrffililS® now ' my angel,
i ni jij I'm tired of be
llT ln S an angel and
-j \£j ■mi I demand a new
JwJ IJHB gown now. The
JBJI 'V styles in halos
never change.
THE IMPOSSI- <L^
He: To look at .
me you would /r'' rv) ML.I ■
never think I \ E|KK£ ! , : j
took a prize at a '
beauty contest
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T3U TRIALS OF A
FATHER.
(J BMI Hello, old man,
!p lIM 11 IL taking your
J pL daughter out for
: \PliW' 7 Tired Father—
li fl * J "°' ° **
CAN AVOID IT. I
They talk of con- Hit
crete furnl-jsj|l
Poured with
Well, in the dark ti
you may be !}:!} jj ""
Exactly where
A DEFINITION.
endurance con-
Hi \ Tlle average ar "
lEtettmg (Elfal
Father Penn evidently does not In
tend to be caught shivering thto win
ter, at least as far as the State Capi
tol Is concerned, because fully 2,000 .
tons of coal dredged from the Sus
quehanna river are being piled on
land from which buildings have been
removed for Capitol Park extension.
Taking coal from the river, which
brings it down from the Luzerne,
Shamokin and Lykens regions, is ft
big industry *here and keeps many
steam dredges busy. Last year Su
perintendent G. A. Shreiner, of the
Department of Public Grounds and
.ouiidings, stored an immense amount
of coal, which came In very handy
during the very cold winter. The
Legislature will sit during the com
ing winter and the space to be heated
will be somewhat inereased, and the
state is now taking the entire output
of a couple of fleets and will store
the coal during the summer. The
huge pits underneath the courtyards
of the Capitol are filled to the top
and the coal is now being delivered
on lots which will be converted to
park some day when the war ends
and the project can go ahead. It is
the intention of the state govern
ment to begin work on the outskirts
of the park this year and to begin
the preliminary work on the exten
sion, but the main work will depend
on the continuance of the war.
,F e /! rs that some of the state's in
stitutions will scrape the bottom of
their cash boxes before the close of
tne year are being expressed at the
Capitol, where various departments
nave been ordered to reduce their ex
penditures for contingent expenses
and on postage and expressage to a
minimum in order to avoid deficien
cies. The postage increase has
caused a demand for heavy expendi
tures for that purpose in the Capitol.
Now word is coming from state In
sane and other hospitals that the
advancing cost of provisions will
make serious inroads on their ap
propriations and that they will need
more long before the close of the ap
propriation year next June.
According: to some things that the
birds In Capitol Park say the tact
Ini' State of Pennsylvania was
? 4 sllort in lts appropriation to
meet the cost of purchasing proper
ties in Capitol Park extension was
clue in part to the high cost of liv
ing. The commission which bought
the properties won the name of be
ing hard hearted, stony eyed and iron
eared because it drove such bargains
for the state. The people who ap
pealed cases to court were some
what inclined to think that public
service was being given a new stand
ard. And then along came the ad
vance in prices for everything and
the tendency was so skyward about
the time came for trials that lawyers
made settlements. And the appro
priation could not be made to reach.
How important is the Americani
zation of the foreign-born peoples
who have come to the United States
is illustrated by an incident or two
of the last Liberty Loan campaign
in this city. In one of the public
schools there are many children of
foreign birth and their loyalty to
the United States has been remark
able. In this school a little Russian
boy, who heard that the solicitors
would visit the school for subscrip
tions; asked his teacher for a loan
of two dollars for the first instal
ment. He said he would earn enough
to pay for one bond and return the
loan. Outside of school hours ho
soon earned enough to repay the
loan and is now regularly meeting the
instalment of one dollar a week
doing errands and odd chores. An
other boy, an Austrian, brought his
sayings to school and paid cash for
a bond of fifty dollars. Still other
children of the foreign colonies took
a great interest in the loan and in
the war giving stamps.
Officials connected with the State
Workmen's Compensation Bureau's
work in this section of the state are
looking for an early decision from
the compensation commission in re
gard to the hundreds of claims filed
by dependants of Austrlans and other
foreigners killed or injured in Penn
sylvania industries and who are resi
dents of enemy countries. Thou
sands of dollars are involved in
claims arising in this section of
Pennsylvania and the subject has
been heard by the board. A Mitchell
Palmer, custodian of alien property,
having intervened. In the event that
the decision is that the cases should
bo tolled until the end of the war it
will mean much money to be set
aside. The decision is being awaited
with great interest in the Susque
hanna valley counties because of the
many subjects of the Austro-Hun
uarian empire who are working in
mills, mines and other industries.
• •
The other day a horse killed
by one of the Harrlsburg Railway
Company's cars. When the usual
steps were taken to ascertain the
value with a view to settlement the
owner asked SI,OOO.
This figure stunned the man In
charge and he reported it to Presi
dent Musser.
"No," said the president in reply,'
"That's a mistake. All of the SI,OOO
horses were killed last year."
• • •
Col. Lewis E. Peltier, former dep
uty secretary of the Commonwealth,
who is now the secretary of the State
Committee of Public Safety, was here
yesterday with a new crop of stories.
The color%l said that in the vicinity
of Philadelphia, the people have
come to realize that the committee
means something and to bring in
their troubles. Often the offices are
failed on the telephone and given
complaints which ought to go to
police. Sometimes the complaints
are the kind that should Just he filed.
For Instance, complaint that women
were working in fields and attired
In bloomers.
t WELLjerOTN PEOPLE
—William Potter, the state fuel
administrator, in a statement issued
at Philadelphia, says householders
shall have first call on coal.
—Congressman E. E. Robbins, who
will speak here next week, is one of
the active spirits in the move to
have Bushy Run battlefield marked
by a memorial. •
v —Professor J. S. I* KHllus, of
Johnstown schools, has been put in
charge of the farm labor work in
Cambria county.
—T. F. Orostwaite, of Hafiover, re
elected chairman of the State Asso
ciation of Boroughs, was one of the
prime movers In the organization of
that body.
,| DO YOU KNOW
—(That Harrlsburg men are serv
ing: In every Important war work
In France?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The people of this city gave use of
four buildings to the state when the
Capitol was removed here.