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Brooks & || M Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harrts burg, Pa., as second class matter. _ rnITV-n By carriers, ten cent* a week; by mall. 16.00 a year In advance, MONDAY, JCLY 1, 1918 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any mate rial force; that thoughts rule the world. E MERSOX. ========================= / GET AFTER THEM THE Federal Trade Commission's charges of profiteering reveals what msny people who have watched the constant ascendency of prices have believed. The commis sion provides proof of what the country at large has suspected. Now that the facts are known, what are we going to do about it? That is the question in which the people are interested. If they are being robbed, k who is going to stop the crime and ■ punish the criminals? The admin istration 1 has before it now an op- B portunity for public service second H to none since the election of Presi- P dent Wilson. It is to be hoped that it will lose no time in taking such measures as will bring the profiteers to their senses and prices down to a living level. MR. HAYS OX FORD NATIONAL CHAIRMAN HATS advises the Republicans of Michigan to make a fight against the election of Henry Ford to the United States Senate. Mr. Ford is a good citizen and a | Republican, but his candidacy is not his own. He is the hand-picked candidate of President 'Wilson, who knew that there is no chance of electing a Democrat in Michigan this Fall and so tried to maintain ' control of the seat in the Sedate by nominating and electing a Repub lican of his own choosing. The country has never witnessed a bolder political play from the White House than this and Repub licans, who certainly are entitled to choose their own candidates, are right in resenting interference by the President. Mr. Hays' attitude is very similar to that of Senator Penrose in his in terview of last week, In which he maintained that politics is not "ad journed;" that while the President has so decreed, the Democrats themselves are doing everything In their power to control the political machinery of the country and that by the very nature of our government, which is founded on the idea of party preferences, it Is impossible to eliminate political differences. As Senator Penrose has said, no other country in the war has been able or even has attempted to set aside politics. The whole question hinges not on party poll k ties, but loyalty to the country. V Where two loyal citizens are c&ndl ■ dates for the same office, party poli ■ tics may be injected into the con-1 ■ test without harm. Michigan is a f loyal State and there is no question I of sustaining the government there; any senatorial candidate who may come forward. Republican or Dem- L ocrat, can be relied upon to do that. Fi Therefore, the State may indulge in f its party preferences to suit the will of a majority of its voters, and neither President Wilson nor any other citizen has any right to at tempt to dictate to the voters. Senator Penrose pointed out in the Interview quoted that the war is not the President's war, nor the Demo cratic party's war, but the war, of all the people and all of them should have a part in choosing candidates who will be best able to carry out the will of the majority. This Is so evident that the wonder is anybody has contested it, much less the learned and able resident of tho White House. The people want to stand back of the President and they do it in every proper measure, they will not have him or any man tell them who shall be elected to the .House and Senate. That Is their business and they mean to attend to it. GERMAN FEARS GERMANY has overshot the mark in her frequent declara tions as to peace terms ac ceptable to the Hun gang. Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann's formula is so preposterous as to have excited only ridiculs where he hoped to be MJem ■wrtoilrty. His hluiylftng MONDAY EYEING, statement has not even plaMert the Junkers of Germany, who are now expressing disgust with hte conclu sion that the war cannot be won with force of arms, but would have to be settled by negotiations. This Is so radically different from any previous declaration that it exposes the present worries and uncertainty of the rulers of Germany. Too many cooks spoil the broth, and It Is evident that there Is trouble at Berlfn. The German pocket is being hurt and the industrial and commercial leaders of the empire are manifestly out of joint with the military bosses. Their tricky efforts to deceive the world have failed in every direction and they are now re turning to the propaganda Idea as the only escape from their present difficulties. , I Americans have been warned against listening to the pacifist talk of Germans and their sympathizers and anything "made in Germany" is now regarded with suspicion. Von Kuehlmann complains that all their alleged efforts for peace excite only distrust, overlooking the fact that the whole course of German intrigue has been marked with insincerity, hyprocrisy and downright lying. It Is hardly reasonable to expect In telligent people to continue listening to peace talk that means nothing save the absolute supremacy of the German highwaymen. Showing that the Germans are fearful of the situation after the war one of their rulers says: "For peace will come, yet bate * will remain in the hearts of those who have conjured up this bloodv struggle, and who are inferior in it. morally, physically and eco nomically." And these pitiable inferiors will do their >itle wnrt to undermine German industry by attacking, even at the expense of their own personal discomfort. Germany's export trade: for that is in some measure exposed to their blows. Driven by their despicable hate, they may go to the extent of stopping all pur chases of German supplies, "by denying themselves, at least for the time being, even the most indispensable articles." And if finally they must have such ar ticles. they will order what they must have, "even perhaps at ruinl - prices, from any other pro ducer except the German." This war will be won by hard blows and in no other way. -We shall talk terms when the Hun is licked—good. The owners of the Tacoma Tribune have just purchased the News and ledger of that and combined the News with the tribune, thus consoli dating the two evening papers and eliminating, through the absorption of the Ledger, one Sunday paper. We trust this creation of another "mo nopoly" will not disturb the rest of the subsidized organs of the repudi ated Democratic machine. Here is a fine chance to drop another quarter million. NEWSPAPERS HELP WITH the progress of the war and the importance of bring ing to the attention of the peo ple important activities having to do with a victorious triumph of Ameri can ideals, the newspaper is coming to be more and more recognized as as absolutely necessary medium for the transmission of information and the building up of the morale of the people. In a recent speech by James Wright Brown before the Interna tional Association of Circulation Managers at Washington he de scribed the newspaper as "the ser vant of all." He told of. Its great service to the government In further ing the aims of the nation through the selling of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, the furthering of Red Cross and T. M. C. A. activ ities and other lines of co-operation with the government. Mr. Brown referred to the old theories of newspaper publication which have been largely discarded in these latter days and suggested that "the newspaper which has adopted the proper policies finds the local water muddied and the minds of the people upset by the policies of a com petitor who is buying experience at a high price." He mentioned also the waste Involved in methods which have long since been eliminated in many places and predicted that the government would reach out Its long arm and strong hand to stop this sort of thing wherever it still ex ists. On this point he said: The fires of war, my friends, will refine the dross of this old generation. This will be found true in business and in society, as well as in newspaper publish ing, and in the reconstruction period this rare jewel, co-opera tion. will be polished and en shrined. Co-operation will solve many of our business office problems, if not all. Co-operation will be employed because of necessity, my friends, and not because of any real change of heart on the part of mankind; but there will be that, too. Necessity will prove to be the mother of invention. I firmly believe that the wastes of to-day. in our field, will represent the profits of to-morrow. Don't you hear the tramp of thousands, brother helping brother, each holding out a help ing hand to the other? This is the spirit of the men in Flanders and Picardy: and this is the spirit, men, that will dominate our lives in the very near future, and in that day we will come to realize that great fundamental truth— the truth that shall last through all time —the truth uttered by the Saviour of mankind when he said: "He who would be greatest amongst yon must be the servant of air- Mr. Brown has sensed the situa tion and hi vision of the readjust ment period which must follow the war Is so clear and no vital that it must Impress all who realize the Importance of getting together and building up Instead of tearfag down. WHAT IS THE ANSWER? POSTPONEMENT of the dvii senrica examinations for city policemen because only four applications have been made for seven vacancies on the force shows a surprising change of viewpoint on the part of scores of Harrlsburgers who used to contend for appointment as patrolmen. It is within the mem ory of the when a Mayor of Harrisburg sat up all night the day before hla inauguration trying to pick a force of fort\™ght men from ' among more than candidates for four-year terms. Ana now, with life jobs In sight for those who qualify, the examining board is not able to get much more than half as many applicants as there are places to All. i What Is the answer? [fotiKc* U '] > iioi6i{taaiua The Philadelphia Press, comment ing on the nonpartisan judicial law. to-day says: "The Pennsylvania Bar Association La disgusted with the working of the nonpartisan primary act and it asks for the re-establish ment of the former system of nomi nating judicial candidates by con ventions. Why nominate judges by conventions and leave every other candidate to be nominated by di rect primary? "Whether conventions or the di rect vote Is the better way of nomi nating candidates for office is still a moot question. It is not. however, the direct primary for party candi dates that is complained of so much as the nonpartisan ticket. In this the voter is without the guidance cither of a convention or a party classification so in his blindness he votes alphabetically. As a result the state narrowly escaped two years ago electing an humble notary public to be a justice of the Supreme Court and in the last election a Mr. Huselton was nominated against his will and intent for the Superior bench and might have been elected at the primary for no other reason than that his name preceded that of Judge Porter on the ticket and there fore received the cross mark of a great multitude of undiscriminating voters. "The Constitution contemplates that at the election next year a Re publican and a Democrat shall be elected to the Supreme bench under the rule that where there aro two vacancies on that bench to be filed each voter shall vote for onlv one candidate. It is expected that Judges Simpson and Fox will be candidates, but as they cannot be classified on the ticket by party and an Adams or a Baker may precede them on the list it is quite possible that the nominations may go wild and two quite incompetent men be candidates to choose from in November because alphabetically their names lead all the rest. "The so-called intelligent voter needs some guidance when he votes and the nonpartisan ballot gives him none." —ln discussing the congressional chances of Edward S. Brooks, who was elected a member of the Re publican State Committee in 1916 from York county, the Philadel phia Inquirer says: "Mr. Brooks Is making plans for his campaign, and has received the assurances of hun dreds of friends throughout the dis trict, both Republicans and Demo crats, of their active support at the polls. With the Democratic party split over the factional fight which developed at the primaries for the Congressional nomination. Mr. Brooks and his friends feel confident of the ultimate successful outcome of his campaign." •—Democrats all over Pennsylvania are interested in the meeting next Saturday of the Lehigh Democratic County Standing Committee. There is no doubt about the re-election of County Chairman Jonathan E. Fred erick. and it is also probable that Secretary Arthur R. Berlin and Treasurer Arthur J. D. Koenlg will be re-elected. On account of the prohibition bill before Congress and the mlxed-up result among the Dem ocratic state nominees, the meeting may be one of the most interesting in years. The idol of the committee is Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt, and the support of the organization will be given to Judge Bonnlwell, for governor. —The Philadelphia Press says of the supreme court situation: "Judge John W. Kephart, of the superior court, will be the candidate of the Republican state organization for election to the supreme court next November, and will receive its un divided support. This will mean that the organization "turns down" Jus tice Alexander Simpson, Jr., of Phila delphia. whom Governor Brumbaugh recently appointed to one of the two unexpired terms existing as the re sult of the deaths of Justices Mes trezat and Potter. It has been said by friends of Justice Simpson that he would be a candidate next fall for the full term and newspaper dispatches from Harrisburg Friday said he had stopped in Harrisburg on his way back from the State Bar Association meeting to look into the question of getting out nomination papers." —The Mifflin County Republican Committee, with the entire twenty six districts represented, Saturday went on record at Lewistown as in dorsing the Republican candidates nominated at the recent primaries and requesting the state committee to use all honorable efforts to have the next session of the Legislature ratify the national prohibition amendment. S. Frank Fisher, chair man; H. S. Lantz, secretary, and Henry J. Sherman, treasurer, were re-elected. —Republican leaders of North ampton county are planning a cam paign that will bring to the polls in November a big vote for Senator ■William C. Sproul and his associates on the state ticket and for Professor Francis A. March for Congress. Harry G. Seip, who has Just been re elected county chairman, daily is meeting active Republicans of the county at his headquarters and the candidacy of Professor March has strongly appealed to the people. —The accounts filed at Scranton by executors show there is $143,775 of the estate of the late Frederick W. Felitz to be set aside for the bene ficiaries. The property originally in ventoried at $153,326 and the in come has been more than <41,000. Expenditures have amounted to over $47,000. A SMILE FROM YOU A smile from you is all I ask To glorify my dally task. The skies may weep, the winds mav I wall. All outward founts of joy may fail, All costlier graces be denied— The morn for me Is beautified. For Just a smile from you may bring The birds and blossoms of the spring Within my heart to sing and bloom; May scatter sunbeams round my room; May touch the fringes of the mist And turn Its gray to amethyst Throughout the hours, It well may be. Tour thoughts not oft will stray to me. Not many words I ask of you' From mornlngshine till evening dew. But as you pass me on your way. Give me a sunny smile to-day. —Lillian Leveridge, in "Over tho Hills of Home." HAHJUBBURO; TELEQRXPH! WHEN A SELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BYBRIGGS " ' —■—— —— i——. in i ■ i.,tf The Prayer Of The Bell | HOW ONE SOUTHERN TOWN ADOPTED TUT: TWO-MINUTES FOR-PRAYER MOVEMENT THERE'S a little town about sixty miles south of Birmingham on the Louisville and Nashville railroad called Verbena. The town is well named. It lb redolent of the old-fashioned southern flower. It is peopled hy simple farmer folk. Some substantial citizens of Montgomery keep summer homes there. There are few sounds about the place. An occasional mule team rattles down a red clay road drawing an empty wagon to the general stores, or bumps pleasantly back toward the Chilton county hills. Occasionally a gentle wind causes the leaves of the oak trees that shade the town to sigh one of those sighs of content that ben breathe after a good meal, or a good sermon, or a well-reedered piece of music. It's a peaceful place as can be found In Alabama or anv other part of the world. It seems modeled after Goldsmith's "Pweet Auburn." LABOR NOTES Clarksburg (W. Va.) has a labor union mayor. Toronto (Can.) building laborers! ask 40 cents an hour. Policemen at Ottawa, Can., have dissolved their union. Jewelry workers at Toronto have secured an eight-hour day. Vancouver (B. C.) bricklayers ask an Increase in pay. Painters at Rock Island, 111., have securgd 65 cents an hour. Twenty-five women are delivering mail In Detroit Wages In Bordeaux, France, have increased 43 per cent, since 1913. There are approximately 725,000 wage-earners in Massachusetts. A STEADYING HAND The ex-soldier is now free of all supervision and with his handicap offset only by schooling In a new occupation, he must face the com petition and drive of life and sink or swim by his own efforts. Then of all times he needs a steadying hand on his shoulder, an encouraging word in his hour of depression. To overdo this help, on the other hand, to weaken his moral fiber by ill considered kindness is to do him the worst of injury. To help truly and constructively at this time Is a task calling for the clearest common sense, the utmost devotion, the great est fund of practical experience in the delicate work of social adjust ment which can be mustered and applied. Here is the crowning opportunity for Home service. With its trained workers, already in touch with the family needs and problems and its long-established relation of neighborly assistance, the Red Cross stands ready to take up the after care of disabled soldiers and sailors at the point where the government returns them to their homes.—From Carry On. Flight of Two Crows Immediately after being joined in marriage Mr. and Mrs. Crow flew from the church and haven't bee* seen since. It is believed they will go to Lynchburg. Va„ Mrs. Crow's former home. Merceyvllle (Iowa) Banner. . There's a new sound there now. It is the Angelus of Strife. It calls the peoj-lc of Verbena not only to worship, but to deeds. Every after noon at six o'clock the bell of the Verbena church rings. It continues to ring for two minutes, and while its brazen song is lifted the people of Verbena *>tand and pr&y. When the sound begins th observance of Its call Is universal. Men halt in the street. Wagons are pulled up on the road. Women rise from their knit ting or pause in their cookery—for they have early suppers In Verbena. The plowman halts his work and each repeats the prayer. Verbena calls it "The. Prayer of the Bell," and it is said that men who have never been known to pray before, answer its call dutifully With heads un covered and bowed, each man, each woman, each child, each saint and each sinner repeat these words: God bless our President, our sol diers, our nation and guide them to victory." WHERE ARE THE ALLIES? [N. *y. Times] "It is nonsense to talk about the Russians not wanting the Allies to intervene. They would welcome them gladly. The people expect it and hope for it. A few divisions of lied troops arriving in Russia this summer would bring the nation to gether again and make her an im portant factor in winning the war. • • "The question asked everywhere I wont in Russia was: Where are the Allies. Why don't they come here i to help us?" Herman Bernstein, who arrives from Russia with these words in his mouth, went there favorably dis posed, we believe, toward the nom inal government; at any rate, he was and had been for years a sincere supporter of the Russian revolution ary movement. What he says is what all the genuihe revolutionists are saying. Afthat has become of those genuine revolutionists? They are in prison or in exile. Where are Peter Kropotkin, Vladimir Bourtsev, Grandmother Breshkovskaya? Where are all the real revolutionists, the men and women who made the rev olution? They were hurried aside by the horde of Trotzkys and Lenlners who came pouring in from New York, London, Paris, and Switzer land, as soon as the revolution Was over and the Czar disposed of; and this horde seized the reins of gov ernment and Bquatted on the neck of the Russian people and delivered them over to Germany. WHEN I'LL BE BACK When the Huns have finished run ning From our bayonets and gunning I'll be back. When we teach that bunch a lesson. And they make a peace confession. I'll be back. When we fill them full of shell. And the sensible rebel. And the others run like hell. I'll be back. When we push that pack of awlne. Back against the river Rhine, I'll be back. When the Kaiser does the trick. And he joins old ex-Czar Nick. I'll be back. When he learns the fituation And he gets his abdication. And there's peace throughout the nation. I'll be back. —Corporal Harry Phillips. "The Stars and Stripea." EDITORIAL COMMENT King George announces that he is not having any new clothes made this summer. That gives us Some distinguished company. Detroit Free Press. Speaking of reactionaries how about Professor Sprague, who pro poses taxing pajamas and exempting the old-fashioned night-shirts? Newark News. "We kings must stick together." the Austrian Emperor is said to have written to the King of Roumanla. The moral is that the people must stick together, too.— Springfield Republican. The submarines off our coast are so welcome that we are making every effort to keep them here per manently.—St. Louis Star. OUR DAILY LAUGH I TERRIFYING. Aunt Rose W / (horrified) Good /> r / gracious, Harry, what would - v/ ~- you r mother f U say if she saw J* % you smoking \ Harry (calm- / ly): She'd have HgSffijja 'w _{ a fit They're her cigarettes. BM7 mWHAT HB What did your unci* A lot of dls. . . gusted relatives and a jubilant //* young widow *24 9 we'd never N*, | heard of before AHW FOR WINTER Once in a while the styles take a piaotical _ 'VL turn. Take Jf these wads of hair the women . \ mass over their \\Tjt What about WBOWJ i They male pretty good eo- f\ fcf Wf muffs; eh, V?- A WORKS TWO WATB. ItV Algernon isajs * > he never knew 'M'M \I 1 I J what haippinees \.. KAt was until ha married m •. ) /V\\\llf Now, 'What doe* i - / / Til I h# "nean by SjSJ Jw All depends, * ifUt IDmi he say '.I I with a smile ®r | with a grunt. JULY 1, 1918. M AMERICA'S GIFT Oyr Country has called to that Boy of min. And haa carried him over the sea: To where mother's boys of other lands Are fighting the Powers that be. Deal gently, O. War with that Boy of mine He will march with you many a mile; But O. treat htm kindly, that Boy of mine If I lend him to you for a while. He Is gay and gladsome, that Boy of mine. And has lived far from war and strife, So hide your sorrows, O, War, I ask— And spoil not his fair young life. His heart will be touched, that Boy of mine. By the things he will see and hear: But, O, do not crush him, that Boy of mine. Let him follow the flag without fear. And should you claim him, that Boy of mine. O, War—with your visage grim, May someone be near to that Boy of mine To soften death's terrors for hltxi. But I pray to the God of that Boy of mine Whose child lips I taught to say— "Our Father," your Father, O, Boy of mine. Bring you safely back some day. God of all Boys and Boy of Mine— I pray that this War shall cease And that Boy of mine and all other Boys Shall lay down their arms for peace. —lsabel Naysmith Newmyer. FOOD FOR HEROES [New York Sun] The New York apple crop of 1918 will be six times as large as the yield of 1917. The fruit promises to be of fine quality. What is to be done with it? Usually a heavy crop means that thousands of barrels of apples will go waste for want of pickers, packers, storage toom, becauso a glutted mar ket reduces the price to a point at which the grower can make no profit, or transportation facilities are inade quate to carry the apples from the orchards to those who long to be their ultimate consumers. Is this to be the case this year? Our New York State apples are the finest In the world. The best speci mens of this splendid fruit grown here have all the beauty of those that come from remote sections of the country, and in flavor excel the prod ucts of all other soils. The sweet cider made from them is a beverage fit for the gods; brought to the prop er degree of hardness, none but the hardest headed should tackle it. Dried apples have suffered from the attentions of the humorists. In those days, wherein progress is re corded by giving high sounding names to familiar things and pro cesses, they are disguised as dehy drated. Dried or dehydrated, they are a worthy, palatable, wholesome food. They are not attractive to tlje sight when they come to the cook's hand, hut when that most Important of all artists has finished with them they form the pie that is the food of physical and Intellectual giants, the prop of statesmanship, the solace of despondent lovers, the boon of sol dier and sailor. We must conserve the apples of our daddies' farms, dry them out, save them against the cold and bar ren days of winter, Let #o dis couraged horticulturist waste an apple: poke up the Commissioner of Agriculture for help In the orchard, In the packing shed and in the dry ing kitchen. We need those apples. PENNSYLVANIA Frank A Hall, of the State Depart ment of Mines, has written a patrio tic song entitled, "Pennsylvania." It has been set to music and promises to become one of the inspiring songs of the war. It is as follows! We love thee Pennsylvania Thy rocks and hills and dells. The smiling verdant valleys, Where sweet contentment dwelts. We breathe the air of freedom. And prav God_ it may last. And nothing mar the greatness Or the glory of the past. Chorus Dear Pennsylvania. Grand old Keystone State Steadfast and loyal to all that's truly great When duty calls thee thou hast led the way We love thee and we'd die for thee Dear old Pennsylvania. We love thee, Pennsylvania We gladly sing thy praise, We pledge to thee devotion, Through all the coming days. Thy fame we proudly cherish Tliy honor we'll uphold. We'll play our part with courage As our fathers did of old. Not Ashamed of His Religion The woolly-headed Uncle Rasmus was accused of disturbing the peace. Officer Mort Rudolph explained it as follows: "Your Honor, this man wus run ning up and down the Mill River road, waving his arms and yelling at I the top of his voice, and otherwise raising the mischief, at half-past one in the morning. The people of that district complained, and they had a perfect right to." The Judge frowned at Rasmus, who didn't seem to be particularly worried. "What do you mean by such un becoming conduct?" his Honor de manded. "Religion, Jedge," was the re sponse. "Religion! Are you a Holy Roller, or something like that? I have re ligion Rasmus, but I don't get up at midnight and tell everybody about It." "Dat's des' de diffunce, Jedge. I ain't ershamed ob mine." —Case and Comment. MORE PROCRASTINATION [N. Y. Tribune] Secretary Baker's conversion to the "fight or work" theory was short lived. He was,quickly reconverted. And his reconversion has s.et back for months all plans for putting the country on a genuine war basis. Mr. Baker could not overcome his temperament. To a super-ingenious and sophisticated mind like his fixed and far-reaching programs are irk some. They leave no play for im provisation. They exclude the color ful element of dramatic suspense. Our greatest military need to-day is a thorough mobilization of our man power for service in the armies and In the war Industries. Such a mob. filiation is impossible so lonnr as the present age limits of conscription are retained. With exemption for every man over thirty-one years of age. the nation cannot lygin to live up to the war-time injunction: "Fight or work," I Etonittg Qtyat According to what men connected with the state government, the State Council of National Defense and the State Chamber Of Commerce say the movement Inaugurated last winter to get men who came from the farm to devote some of their spare time or vacation periods to going back to the soil and helping the farmers was well founded and there are men, and women, too, who are helping with the harvest. This railroad and manufacturing community probably does not seo as much of It as some 'owns, but it is a fact in half a dozen counties in the southern sec ? S the "tate merchants, doctors and dentists and even lawyers in some cases are pitching hay, run ning cultivators and doing other 'he fields with benefit to their health and Interference to wu i ß 4 ! 1 ncs - "Are the businessmen and others who came from the farm actually giving up vacations and spare time to working in the fields or is it all talk?" was the question fired at a man who has been in J°H ch with theBituation in this state. They arc." he replied, "and I want at , up the s 'ate they are turning out In numbers that you do , J* 1 ' a, ' ound here - It is a fine, thing for them from a phvsicali ft helps tho farm cr and ; It helps the food supply, and believe " c '", a I re Ko'nK to need it. but best! ift .u getting people into touch! with the country again. The bulk] .I f i m ?" huve gonc t0 th c farinl without being asked. They read inl the newspapers that it was desirable . appealed to them and went ? hc| P- Tll is is shown by tlio ract that so many have cone bark to their old home neighborhoods or to help relatives who are farming." Here Is a good story told about working on the farm. Two men met on a farm in Lebanon county where they had gone to work. Both canto fiom the farm and they went back because they were "on the bum" as one put It in telling me the story. One day they got talking about their last lobs. Neither one had been much on that line of conversation One man had tended bar in Harris burg and the other in Heading. A splendid patriotism Is shown In the letters of Harrisburg young men In the service to their families and friends, but one of the loftiest is contained in one which Commander Ned Kalbfus, who is In command of a ship engaged in very dangerous work, has written to his mother, Mrs. Joseph Kalbfus. He urges that prayer be not so much that he re turn, but that if he must go it shall be in the line of the duty given to him in upholding national honor. It is the unconquerable spirit which has always been shown by men from this community in every war of the republic that prompts sons of Har risburg now. This city has given many young men to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, but should be proud not of the number. It is tho spirit that they show that makes us glad. • • • Harry A. Boyer is putting in a good many busy days just now. He is not only the county inspector of weights and measures, but chairman 1 of an important school board com mittee and chairman of the music ; committee of the big Fourth of July parade. The latter job is enough , for four men, but it is a safe bet thatJ there will be music to go aroun.d aiJM Thursday in spite of the demand ffrfl bands in every part of the state. Ortel band that was netded had an en- 1 gagement at home. Mr. Boyer found out that it was an afternoon dato and by judicious application of time tables got it for Harrisburg in the morning. Securing bands from Wll liamsport, York, Altpona and other places where the Fourth is going to be celebrated, too, is some task. j * * * Many Pennsylvanians have read with interest of the promotion of Col. George Van Horn Moseley to bo a brigadier general. The new gen eral was the man who was chief of staff of the Pennsylvania division at "the Border." He assumed his du ties at Mt. Gretna just about tw years ago and outlined the training the Pennsylvania National Guards men got at the Border. He is a West Point graduate and was connected with the general staff. He Is re garded as a soldier of unusual capac ity and most unassuming. He made many friends among the Pennsyl vanians and while here on brief visits. • • Brigadier General F. S. Foltz, who i is a Lancaster countian by birth and l\ a Harrisburger by marriage. Is now in command of one of the army 1 camps on the Pacific coast. He grad- i uated from West Point near the head j of his class in 1879 and served on .1 the frontier and in the Philippines. ] In 1908 he was one of the United States cavalry officers sent to take part in the horsemanship contests at the Olympic games in London and in 1912 he had charge of the United States cavalry teams at the Olympic games in Stockholm. On reaching the rank of colonel he was given command of his old regiment, the First cavalry, stationed on the Paci fic coast. During the recent Mexi can troubles he was stationed with his regiment on the western Mexi can frontier with headquarters at Douglas, Ariz., but some months ago' was transferred to Fort D. A. Russel, ■ Wyoming, where additional regular regiments are being organized. His wife was Miss Mary F. Keefer, daughter of the late Major Keefer, of Harrisburg. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Public Service Commissioner! John S. Rilling and James Alcorn have birthdays two days apart thii | month. t ■—Harry Burns, active In th hygiene work of the Pittsburgh school district, will be a speaker at the National Educational Associa tion convention. k —James I. Blakslee, assistant postmaster general, is at the session of concrete engineers at City to discuss the improvement poßt roads. —Walter Goodenough, promlnenj* In the shipbuilding, has been a vice-president of the corporation. He la well known herH —President E. E. Sparks Is ing for establishment of a bigger of ficers training camp at State Colleg* than ever. ' | DO YOU KNOW H —nat Harrltburg hM young men studying to be officers in | Arc training qamps? HISTORIC I HARRISBURG i Fifty-flve yeah ago all of Harris - burg's schools tkre turned into hos pitala for woulded men from thi battles attendlr* Lee's invasion,
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