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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,